skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be a DDoS:

>tracert quora.com

Tracing route to quora.com [54.210.178.68]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms x.x.x.x
3 9 ms 9 ms 11 ms 192.0.2.100
4 12 ms 25 ms 15 ms 12.83.105.37
5 53 ms 58 ms 77 ms 12.122.149.42
6 53 ms 53 ms 51 ms cr2.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.3.70]
7 59 ms 55 ms 60 ms cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.31.133]
8 53 ms 55 ms 58 ms cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.2.81]
9 50 ms 53 ms 52 ms 12.123.235.105
10 54 ms 51 ms 49 ms 206.121.72.34
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 107 ms 84 ms 107 ms 54.239.43.174
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 88 ms 82 ms 86 ms 54.239.110.251
17 84 ms 85 ms 85 ms 54.239.111.107
18 85 ms 86 ms 85 ms 52.93.24.224
19 83 ms 82 ms 82 ms 52.93.24.217
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
I'm not a fan of this. I like HN because we're all shown equally (unless you actively click on a profile link that is).

The only thing I'd like, as others have said is my own ability to highlight the names of users I think are interesting (to me) - much in the same way new users are green, maybe have my own personal list of users who are in, say, red.
I'm on dailies with astigmatism and it has gone well. Ask your eye doctor about your options.
you know, something like thumbs as a correlation
I can honestly say that Xcode is the worst piece of software I have ever used.

It's incredibly slow, it has always been riddled with bugs, it has crashed on me more often than any other software, and it is lacking so much functionality that it doesn't deserve to be called an IDE at all.

For instance, it can't even rename a Swift function years after Swift's introduction.
No car? A world where you could walk to the things you need because they're close?

Cheap, safe, non-polluting, no maintenance car?

Self-driving, self-cleaning car?

Automated horse with roof and luggage compartment - no need for paved roads, muscles are quieter than engines?
> Is injecting/intercepting brain signals directly really the way forward? Do we really want to create monster human species?

It will happen, whatever is your personal point of view (or fears) on that subject. In 20y or 200y (or maybe later), but that will happen. Technology is going forward no matter what you think and vote, because there will always be that kind of people that can't stand living a 'standard' life. Go check the Myers–Briggs on personnality types: not everybody is a mainstream xFxJ ('earnest traditionalists who enjoy keeping their lives and environments well-regulated' as wikipedia says).

The real questions are: what pourcentage of humanity will go that way, and how well will humans/neohumans cohabitate.
Don't know why this was marked as dead, so I vouched for it.

If it is inaccurate, please provide counter arguments and documentation indicating otherwise.
Yeah, but my kid knows cyber.
Either of you have sources on these frequencies?
The one and only java tool which you copy (you don't jar it)
Anthropogenic Climate Change Impact on Planetary Wave Resonance, Extreme Weather
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Is it still possible to do this kind of thing on the most recent macOS? I recall the issue with the 'git' binary not being modifiable, even with sudo, unless you mounted the macOS filesystem under Linux and made the changes from there.
On my white iBook, it was possible to see what's on the screen, even when backlight was turned off, through the translucent apple logo, if the display was lit from the back, by the sun or a lamp.

I always wished there was a display that could be lit by an external lightsource, e.g. a library lamp.
"Currently, there's nothing stopping other countries from using taxpayer money to fund drug development locally. Except, by and large, they don't - as mentioned in the article"

Come on!! Hasn't anybody actually read the article?? Unless the economist is showing different articles to different people the only phrase that mentions research implies that is an argument made by the industry and not clear at all. The "the US subsidizes drug research for the rest of the world" is a huge lie that cannot die soon enough.
Why is it that the patent holder doesn't have to make a case with proof of infringment? Would it not make sense that if you want to defend a patent, you should show you've made the effort of documenting how someone is infringing?
This repos should be on developer code to read. I used it as a way to see how people implement a LISP. Having a reference for all languages allow me to know strong/weak point of each of them.
I don't think parent meant it quite like that ...
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How much damage to surrounding brain cells would (could) occur from injecting this into someone's brain?
Buddha face.
Sell bigcommerce store product on walmart.com
$3,000+ of raw materials is not the same thing as $3,000+ of lithium. The batteries are already recycled to recover the cobalt and manganese, which are valuable. The numbers I've heard suggest that less than 1% of the material cost is lithium, but that number sounds a bit low—maybe less than 1% of the total cost is the cost of lithium, perhaps. Battery grade lithium is around $5/kg.
This was a KDE thing. I'm unsure if it still has the option now.
Thank you for pointing this out. I was not thinking about it at the time and I will remember it for next time.
I am waiting for a swift->js compiler and a new explosion of hipster wave of how it is the greatest thing ever, even better than the last weeks hot tech.
> Apparently The Mirror was not ready for the sudden influx of readers...

Spiegel online is huge, that extra bit of traffic shouldn't bother them, see http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiegel.de

Right now the site is down supposedly because of a power outage in a data center. Can't remember the last time spiegel online was offline, the outage is so high profile that #spiegelonline is trending in .de

Right now Spiegel is resorting to publishing on https://www.facebook.com/spiegelonline/
You jest, but after my company was put out of business by a legal threat from a Fortune 100, I really do wish I had taken advantage of the ability to run it anonymously (collecting payment via something like bitcoin). Doing it above board didn't really get me anything valuable, and it made it easy for my enemies to locate and shut me down.

These threats are regularly frivolous and unfair, but big companies have a habit of bullying smaller players with legal force. There is no way to win; either you spend millions on something with no value (a legal defense), or you comply/settle and get the aggressor to agree to back off. If you try to fight, you end up doing both when you go bankrupt 5 years into the proceedings.

I only caught snippets of Judge Gorsuch's confirmation hearing, but it was awesome to hear him decry the evils of law school and the "ethics rules" that lawyers have installed for themselves, which he explicitly calls out as a money-making scheme responsible for over $10B+ in excess legal spending each year (somewhere around the 2.5 hour mark on the second day).
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That could easily backfire if the problem is a matter of nature, rather than nurture. Cycles of vengeance wouldn't burn themselves out.

> "How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors."

-- Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
I remember visiting the Gran Sasso Laboratories during a high school trip (my high school physics teacher had practiced particle physics for a bit before teaching). It was really one of the defining moments as a student, one of the things that led (no pun intended) me to study physics later.
Tesla refutes claims in racial harassment lawsuit filed by one of its workers
What's interesting is ignoring his audience that identifies his sense of humor and understands the context of 'Death to all Jews'.

He wants what most people want, to make a living and Disney withdrawing as sponsor will likely not hurt. A bigger issue is WSJ and co efforts to have his ads pulled altogether.
Any investment into this kind of technology is bound to have positive returns because it'll make neuroscience more effective.

Right now computational neuroscience is using a lot of blunt instruments such as electrode arrays which are implanted into mice for the duration of a few experiments before the animal is put down for ethical reasons. Safe, minimally invasive brain implants would make long term experiments a lot simpler and more ethical.
This has been submitted now because Hackaday posted an article today about low background steel, and it mentioned the use of ancient Roman lead:

http://hackaday.com/2017/03/27/low-background-steel-so-hot-r...
I become ill at the smell of alcohol.

I sit out the usual Friday bar nights and have to turn down the occasional offers of alcohol from coworkers that don't interact with me frequently (and thus either don't know or have forgotten that I don't drink)

They get to go get wasted at the local bar. I get to enjoy my Friday night playing video games alone. Win-win. If they do something like GoKarting I get dragged into something I'd rather not be doing since I feel obliged to attend since I sit out of the many alcohol-related events.

I'm agreeing with Chris2048 here. Sounds like a chip. They can enjoy their alcohol without me being a downer about it or forcing the majority of the company to comply with my wishes of non-alcoholic expenditures.

If they have fun drinking, let them have fun I say. I'll go home and play some video games.
I think AI is accurate, but it's actually short for "aggregated intelligence". Most AI algorithms can't actually generate "intelligence" as we know it. Rather, they aggregate the intelligence of the humans who contributed to their training data, and then generalize it to situations where those humans are not present. If the humans are stupid (as we saw with Microsoft's Tay chatbot), the AI is going to be pretty stupid as well. If the humans are racist, the AI is going to be racist as well.
Mice lived with us 15000 years ago even before farming took off
File processing and string processing are not the same. If you have a file that has a specific data format outside of the encoding, and that format includes NUL bytes as part of the data, then obviously process the file based on that format.

That's separate from string handling.

UTF-8 was originally designed to be compatible with NUL terminated strings and keep NULs out of well formed text.

In fact it was the first point in the 'Criteria for the Transformation Format', mentioned in the initial proposal for utf8.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
> not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor

I never found a technical explanation of why you shouldn't reuse dailies after overnight cleaning. I looked at papers, manufacturers' websites, and spoke to two ophthalmologists.

Though not a safety issue, my own experience is that dailies are more fragile than long-term lenses. (Could this be deliberate?) They fit less comfortably after a week of reuse. Also, they sometimes develop a very tiny nick at the periphery after many days; when that happens you feel it the moment you put it in.

My rule of thumb is that I reuse dailies for 5 days--disinfecting each day of course--and throw them out. The ophthalmologists, who are friends and can speak freely with me, agree that my regimen is fine.
kdb is great, basically it combines an APL like language and a database, which is very cool as you can easily push your calculations to where your data lives:

http://www.timestored.com/kdb-guides/kdb-database-intro

If you want to dive in and try it, I've also made a video tutorial here:

http://www.timestored.com/kdb-guides/getting-started-kdb

Even if you don't use it, it's an interesting language to study as it's significantly different to the common java/python etc. The one drawback is that for commercial use it's very expensive. Other "modern" APL like languages that are available free include J and kona (open source K).
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> At least it doesn't force any casing on you, as some languages do.

I'm not convinced that is actually a good thing. It really annoys me when two libraries for the same language use different naming conventions, and so far I haven't had any trouble with the strict casing rules in Haskell, or the casing conventions in Rust where the compiler emits warnings when you don't follow them (that you can disable with an annotation if you really need to).
I would be a bit difficult to give source on my personal friends and my dad, it's an anecdote :P Treat it like everything on the internet said by a random person - with caution. Just because everyone I know who got LASIK done has halos doesn't mean it's commonplace - could be just a coincidence.
Hi! Algolia employee here, thanks for the mention, did you encounter any issue using our widget based libraries or where you only willing to use the raw JavaScript client?

Thanks!
There are so many fundamental philosophy of the brain type questions that need to be answered first before we can assume there will be a workable way to get this tech to enhance our thinking or brain power.
Posted earlier in the day, 12+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965249
(rant)

I'm not saying you're wrong and I agree that these companies will use the info for their personal gain.

But I do have a question for anyone watching: why are Americans so paranoid about falling under a authoritarian regime? Europeans aren't as afraid of it and every European country has at one point or another been ruled by a dictator. The US has never been yet the vast majority of comments by Americans seems to indicate a deep distrust of their own government, to the point where half the country would almost get rid of it (Republicans).

There's a very thick line between a slightly abusive and malfunctioning government and full blown dictatorship. And that line is not that easy to cross as it may seem if the country's citizens don't want it. Heck, my country, Romania, who had a very fragile democracy across the years, only succumbed to dictatorship under massive external pressure - including military pressure - from the Nazis and the Communists.

If little ol' Romania, with a very uneducated populace yet willing to fight for its democracy sort of held on for 100 years out of the 160 since its formation, surely the US would be more resilient, without half its citizens becoming paranoid?

(end-of-rant)
Description of the transgression begins in the 7th paragraph.
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I can carve a human face in a watermelon that rocks.
with legalization, the smelly guy could just pop a marihuana pill 1-2 hours before the movie and have a blast without annoying anybody. but you can't find this kind of quality 'special' products on the market that is completely illegal
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Took a course with a few classes that touched AI.

First thing the prof wrote on the board:

"Artificial Intelligence = Human Stupidity"

Spent a few hours analysing all aspects of that statement. Was entertaining.
>Why not just require your predicate function to be able to process any element?

Because the predicate would then have to swallow any exceptions thrown downstream. What would it return in that case? True or false?
Why not make Google non-profit?
it's a fairly universal ice breaker too, if you happen upon a stranger in close proximity whereby it would be impolite not to say something, commenting on how it is hotter/colder/windier/calmer than expected/yesterday/forecast/this time last year is a good start, their response is the key to whether they would like to exchange small talk, 'yes, it is isn't it, well, yesterday I was in Golant and ....' vs 'Yes.'
I agree with that. It is tempting to top it by saying C wasn't designed to do anything well and that has complicated things over the last 45 years. On the other hand it's not like there has been a traditional wealth of wonderful ready-made IRs with cross-architecture backends for your high level language to chose from either, so I'm still not convinced that compiling to C is harder than to do compile to machine code yourself, especially in the common case where you don't have to get the last ounce of possible performance out.
Based on his writing, I assume by "catered" he also meant to include ordering food to be delivered from a restaurant. In typical American usage, that's "takeout" or "delivery" but not "catered".

That point aside, I think his representation is also very narrow to the crowd that mostly combines business networking with socializing. That's a small minority. In my social circles (20's, middle class, highly educated tech workers), small dinner gatherings almost always follow one of three formats: the host cooks, the host asks everyone to contribute a dish, or we all go to a restaurant.

Restaurant delivery is usually reserved for large groups or when the food is a secondary consideration, such as when it's a board game night and we order a pizza.
And that's why I wear glasses.
I am blown away to see how frequently APL seems to come up on HN these days, a language I used professionally for over ten years.

As much as I love it I have to say one of the issues with APL is that it was way ahead of it's time. Because of that it struggled to run on computers of that era.

I was introduced to the language in 1982~ish. Like I said, I used it extensively, attended and presented at APL conferences and even have a picture of my younger and dorkier self with Ken Iverson (creator of APL).

This struggle to run on hardware that could not handle the huge expansions and contractions of memory utilization inherent in the way APL works multidimensional data sets like putty meant it could not compete where other languages had no issues at all. On PC's you were limited to 640K of RAM. It would be years before you could have enough memory to almost not care about utilization.

As the language didn't really catch the attention of the CS masses it failed to evolve as it could have over the years. And this is the reason I would suggest today it is not much more than a curiosity.

I'm sure there are some out there using it professionally. If I were to guess i'd say it must be mostly companies with a significant installed based of APL software they don't dare try to rewrite.

I firmly believe that the future of computing has to be in an APL-like language. By this I mean that we need to evolve to a notation for computing, rather than text for computing. Iverson himself wrote an excellent paper titled "Notation as a Tool for Thought".

The issue is that in order to evolve APL one has to have a deep understanding of APL. And, frankly, there are but a few of us around who have that understanding. Not sure how many of this group would embark on the mission to create a true next-generation APL worthy of it's lineage.

I read and I smile every time I see the language come up on HN. I taught my kids some APL and they are always blown away by it. Not sure where to go from here.
Congress is no longer an organ capable of representing the people. The only interests capable of being heard in Congress are those represented by lobbyists. Every time I hear someone who is directly involved discuss a grossly unfair legal issue like this, the answer always seems to be "We gave up on Congress a long time ago". These aren't necessarily interests with no money, they're just not interests with the most money.

The only hope for fixing laws that aren't upsetting publicly-listed companies is that the case will get an activist judge who will take an extremely broad reading of the statute and establish that interpretation as precedent. From a strictly legal perspective, in many such cases, it's quite clear that the law forbids the activity, which is what leads to a lot of unsatisfactory rulings.

I like the Constitution as much as the next guy, but we have to be honest with ourselves here and admit that the legislative arm is really not functioning anymore; they cannot fix the major problems that threaten innovation and small business. That whole branch needs to be rethought.

Maybe it is just a matter of dividing into 300 states so that there can be more local representation (fewer constituents per rep).
In hindsight, I could have bought most of these games for cheaper afterwards, so they weren't good deals for me personally.

On the other hand, without Kickstarter a lot of those games would not have been made.
I guess GitHub got mindshare early and then became the entrenched option. So its less about technical merits than not, although anecdotally, while GitHub has its flaws, in many ways I prefer its UX to that of GitLab and Bitbucket. For example, Bitbucket's overview page isn't very useful to me at all and yet its the default repo page.
Ah man. Well I hope that the new show is good.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

Especially one episode, and if you've read the book, you probably can guess, which one.

(The rest of the books were already mentioned above.)
Well for one thing, around 2000 we completed our first human genome sequencing effort of Craig Venter's genome at a cost of $3 billion over 10 years. Today we can sequence an entire human genome for about $1000 in a few days, and we've sequenced thousands of genomes including all kinds of cells and organisms that affect human health. We're generating craploads of very valuable data just waiting to be explored.

We can now take data from a computer and synthesise DNA for a cell from basically nothing, load that DNA into a 'blank' cell and start it up, making it grow and replicate - almost like making life!

We can use CRISPR/Cas9 to accurately cut and paste active DNA anywhere we want with high precision.

All these tools are ready, we just have to work out how to use them
Jeez, the obvious optimization would have been to load some of the features first and then load the rest, but to not load them at all? That's not very useful.
I would love and use this if it was using Riot instead of React.
You are personally responsible and liable for anything that happens. I've nearly gone to jail over this and so has another member here.
Can't yet, much as I'd like. :-( I require torics, and for some reason the many dailies we tried wouldn't stay in their "up" orientation. My optometrist said that in a year or two, he thinks some of the newer dailies in the development pipeline might address my experience, and we'll try dailies again at that time. Has something to do with the weighting of the lenses, I gathered from overhearing his conversation with one of his assistants, but the sudden, unpredictable blurring after blinking being a safety hazard was all the explanation I needed at the time.
There's a variant with a moonwalking bear which is rather well known: https://youtu.be/Ahg6qcgoay4
I'd say you can build real "ML-driven apps"using only APIs - I disagree that you have to build it all from scratch
Reminds me of the time we almost got inexpensive milk, until some pet congresscritters intervened to keep the milk trust intact.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12...
Alain Ducasse recommends allowing a hot take fresh off the pan to cool for half as long as it's been cooked, so I guess I'll open this back up in about two and a half minutes.
I don't know why you got downvoted, but your assumption isn't really true. In the Nordics many of the Members of Parliament have a working-class background, such as a nurse or a sawyer, with little personal wealth.

I don't have any data to back this up, but I have a feeling people tend to vote the same class as they are, with a hope that a similar candidate is better suited to understand their concerns. A working-class member would be very, very wary of voting anyone with wealth.

This is of course made possible with a true multi-party system. A businessman is a rare sight indeed within the ranks of (true) left-wing party.