skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more than that it is believed by many. The idea being humans evolved to enjoy sweet for the reasons you pointed out - it means carbohydrates which are dense in calories. Humans evolved to enjoy a certain amount of salt as it is essential to our survival; bitterness tends to be found in toxic things and is generally not palatable as a last warning to avoid ingesting bad food; Sour can be enjoyable but it also signals under ripe fruit and rotten meats as well as dangerous acid levels in some instances. Umami is thought to encourage the consumption of important amino acids.

It makes sense that earlier ancestors who maybe found bitter very enjoyable and sweetness not so enjoyable died off from a lack of calories or eating poisonous things before reproducing. And it makes sense that while across cultures people eat very different foods, you see the same patterns in terms of umami and sweet being considered desirable and bitterness often rejected.

In fact the human tongue is considerably more complex than traditionally assumed. For example, besides the umami taste receptors recently proven to exist there are also studies looking to see if we have taste receptors for "fat", "starch" and even "metallic" flavors, among other things.

The chemical reaction between molecules and how the brain decodes the signals produced by them is fascinating when it comes to the flavor of things.
I'd like to see something that seamlessly ties a voting system (thumbs up/thumbs down) with a payment system and a social media aspect. Charge a dollar per thumbs up on a video, if a video has lots of thumbs ups than that means lots of people paid to say "this content is good" increasing the likelihood that it is actually good. All of the money can go to the content creator and the aggregator can make it's money with advertising.
The changelog covers 16 years, and is 1500 lines long
From the Ars technica comments: (ArcSyc) -->

Fortunately, they put pricing right up on their website.
https://prismic-io.s3.amazonaws.com/axo ... +plans.pdf

$15/user/month for basic access to their server and 10GB of storage per user.

$39/user/month for pro and 30GB/user.

$55/u/m for ultimate which includes a new camera every 2.5yrs and 40GB/u.

$79/u/m for unlimited which includes all of the above plus unlimited storage and HD quality storage.

Also, aren't these videos privileged information in the sense that access to them requires court / legal process to allow access?

As long as there the PDs have ability to retrieve the data, can migrate out of the service when they choose to, and there are sufficient, declared tech standards that ensure tracebility & (digital) chain of custody for the recordings, I don't know that this is a bad idea (excluding privacy / data mining concerns, which again needs a legislative / policy solution).

I think as a business solution, this is possibly a win-win for the company as well as the PDs - the devil is in how the contracts are drawn up, and how policies are established to prevent abuse. But that's going to be an issue with almost any such video recording service, unless the PD manages the IT infrastructure on its own --> which is expensive, inefficient, and has its own risks.
Natural commodities like cabbage, potatoes, beans, peppers, etc are barely advertised. Generally, if it's something anyone can make and there's no good way to differentiate it, there's not much point doing much marketing. Can't speak for the OP but maybe this is what they meant?
From your tone, it sounds like this is a known controversy in India. Could you elaborate?

I know nothing about the Tatas' origin, although it's hard to miss the importance of the modern Tata Group. Wikipedia says that the family fortune was founded by Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, who had some wealth from his father Nusserwanji and parleyed it, through trade, into enough capital to recondition a cotton mill.

Are you saying that Jamsetji's trading company dealt in opium? That his father's business was involved in it? Or even both? If so, looking at things from a United States perspective, I'd find that a little heartening. I'd always seen the opium trade as a matter of pumping money from undeveloped China to already-rich London and Boston; if there was going to be an opium-for-silver trade regardless, at least some of the silver went to somewhere else in need of capital.
That's disappointing to hear. I was considering attending some hackathons locally and was looking forward to the technical aspect of it all. I suppose the prize money incentivizes people who are more focused on "playing the game" for a profit.
2012 15inch Macbook pro (retina) i7(2.3GHz quad-core) 256g SSD.

The battery died after 2 years, but since I had that extended warranty it was covered. The bill would have been $500 otherwise becz it's glued to the screen (or some such nonsense). Now I'm super paranoid about the battery and leave it plugged in 90% of the time. Wish I could upgrade the SSD.

Not super impressed by the new mac laptops (really not that big of a difference for me).

Now thinking of taking the hit and getting a Windows10/Ubuntu desktop (with maybe 32G/64G memory) with an AMD Ryzen7 and a Nvidia1080. Wish I could get a mac desktop like that, but given up hope that Apple can pull their finger out.
I believe it should also be a 17-year beta test, since 1.06 was released in 2000.
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I used to spend a good deal of my time looking for patterns in prime numbers - and similarly re-discovered many older theorems. It is an addictive activity for certain :)
Having never tried any hard drugs or the mentioned concoctions, pardon my basic question -- what effects does consuming opium have? Is it like consuming modern day heroin? Does it imitate what people feel after smoking pot? Just trying to understand why people consumed it -- the article mentions pain relieving uses as well as 'taking the edge off' uses.
Possible content duplicities for same product in different configurations
Fair, I've only been doing this a year, my older colleagues laugh strangely whenever I complain about browser inconsistencies. I'm of the understanding I live in a quite different world :P
I am using an MSI Ghost Pro gs63vr for a few reasons:

- My Macbook Pro (late 2014) was getting just an hour or two of battery life when running Windows in Fusion. I work in Windows and Linux mostly. I use the OS X laptop for browsing and iTunes.

- I needed a good video card for Counter-Strike:GO. I recently started playing again and the MBP couldn't cut it. It has a 1060 GTX.

- It has a quad core processor and 16gb of RAM.

- It is about 4.1lbs and slim.

- At $1300, it's not a bad deal.

Cons:

- The screen is washed out since I bought it from Best Buy who apparently uses a lower quality screen in their build (hence the price).

- I had to reinstall Windows because the standard installed software was causing the fans to spin to the point of a high whine. I was getting 1 hour of battery life out of the box. I now get at least 4.

- I am not a keyboard geek, but the keys feel smaller or more compressed. Likely due to the fact that it has a number pad. I wish it didn't have that and that the keyboard were more spacious. I am still getting used to it, a month later.
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The browser would know if it had a content hash proxy configured and then could use it for all content hashed data. The issue becomes getting people to use one, but partial uptake is better than nothing. You could at least get most corporate and education environments with some equivalent to WPAD[1], and maybe even some consumer-level ISPs the same way if they want to reduce the traffic over their network.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Auto-Discovery_Proto...
Here's a paper they published a little while ago about limited numerical precision and deep learning:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02551
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How odd, maybe I'm just quite lucky then. To be fair I'm not doing any sort of dual-monitor setup. I just forgo my laptop screen entirely (close the lid) because I've found the one 4k to be plenty. Maybe if I started getting more complicated than that, things would get weird.
Does a tiling window manager like i3 not fit that use case?
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I guess it depends what you mean. Places like CartoDB have all their stuff as F/OSS but still make money on support and hosting.
Insertion of runtime alias checks still appears like magic to me. Maybe there is still work to be done, reducing # of runtime checks with FSM or something alike might be one.
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That would be interesting. I like the idea of keeping a fixed monthly amount so you don't have to worry about upvoting things often, you just do what you always have done, and your preferences support creators accordingly.
> has always enjoyed the reputation of being the most bulletproof distro if you could afford it.

I've always heard that said about Debian more than about Red Hat (though Red Hat certainly is pretty stable).

Red Hat has a lot more success in businesses though because you can get contractual support; which may not only be useful if you don't want to get the skills in-house but also because your own customer may contractually require it.
The last beta "release" (which AFAIK everybody has been using) was 1.06.95, in 2006
>they are in a google drive folder

OOOOooooh this is fucking smart. How have I not thought of this?!
You can already do that quite well by recording two different holograms on the same plate with different reference beam incident angles. You select the image by varying the angle of the replay light. You can fit at least 4 images on a plate that way (left, right, up down).

This technology is very cool, but sadly like many holographic research projects it's a) impractical and b) not in demand.
sorry to use this forum, but i don't know how to send a message to you directly. two days ago a discussion appeared [0] that quoted your JJ thomson quote from a previous comment [1], but the poster didn't know where the original quote comes from. I'm also curious about the source of the wonderful quote. Would you mind responding to the comment [2] with the attribution if you have time?

Thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12803770
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14021885
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14022158
Of course not, seeing copy and paste; let me search and share the right one.
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Kudos to Samsung for the amazing efforts but DeX is far from open.
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> It's a very secure chain.

But this guy said that a single miner has 65% of the hashing power:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043038
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A better reference for Stallman's view here is probably https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html, which shows why Red Hat's business is probably reasonably described as a free software business (particularly since "the differences in extension of the category [open source] are small").
As the Wikipedia article points out, that problem as stated is ambiguous. You need to know under what circumstances the host would have opened that door. The standard assumption is that the host always reveals a door with a goat behind it.

However, another possibility is that: (i) if both of the remaining doors contain goats then the host reveals one of them; but (ii) if one of the remaining doors contains the car then the host doesn't open a door at all.
Ideally I am making something beautiful. This means languages and tools that are well designed and easy to use, enough time to make the program beautiful, and little or no bureaucratic paperwork to suck away energy.

It is required that I make something I believe in, that I think is actually helping people. Note that this can be different from making something that people ask for or something that tickles their fancy in the short term but causes damage in some way long term.

I would like to be paid the industry average for what I do. If I am paid a lot less, it had better be because I work for a nonprofit or something (see above about helping people). It's also dangerous to be paid a lot more than average, because I don't want to be a target for layoffs.

I work with a laptop in my lap. I am low maintenance. I don't really want free soda, ping pong tables, company picnics, free tickets to the game. I just want a company network that doesn't flake out, high-quality open-source software wherever possible, and minimal management.
I don't completely agree with your assertion. A toxic narcissist person will create a toxic environment and if the person is not dealt with immediately then the consequence is an environment that incentivizes toxic behavior which results in other people being or appearing to also be toxic. The narcissist wants/needs the appearance of other people being toxic so they can hide among them and keep people from pointing at them.
I don't care whether you move comments about, but if this story ("Ubuntu to Abandon Unity 8, Switch Back to Gnome") had been marked as a dupe a little earlier, then I would probably have passed over a story titled "Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence" even though I consider Ubuntu's abandonment of Unity to be big news.
Hopefully this means that Wayland is now the unified future for the Linux desktop.

I don't think it would be too hard for Canonical to create some installed by default extensions and themes to make Unity users feel more at home in Gnome. The global menu is the only thing I can think of that would maybe be a little too tricky to be worth the effort.
Bummer dude. I'm having that problem in Fallout 4 lately. It just... isn't.. hard... :/ I try multiplayer games to get that fix but they're all so arbitrary. BF4 I get rammed by a jet halfway through my 20 minute run to a point. CSGO I get blown to pieces by fifteen Russian hackers on a 5v5 server. Overwatch has been pretty good about scratching the itch, though.
I don't think that is true: the list includes telemetry from the Windows Store, which while a bundled part of Windows 10 I would be hugely surprised if its telemetry (which includes marketing concerns) is anywhere a part of the same "telemetry team" as say crash/error reporting telemetry.

The impression I get is that this information took so long to produce because they did have to sit down with all of the various teams involved.

They also don't seem to be attempting any Orwellian use of the word "telemetry", though it is technically explicit. They start the document by establishing the definition, if you care to question it more directly: https://technet.microsoft.com/itpro/windows/configure/config...
Check this http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/01/31/work-from-h...
> If I were interviewing someone and they claimed to know C++, and then used "sizeof(A) / sizeof(A[0])" to get the size of an array, I'd question how much C++ they actually knew.

Or they've spent a lot of time in embedded systems development. Many of us write rather C-ish C++ because of the limitations of older compilers and the age of the code bases.
These are more than likely narcissists.

And they are extremely toxic and dangerous. It is best to avoid them, keep them away, or leave if you can't make them leave.
Agreed - what they like is "legibility" as defined here:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

ZeroNet does appear to take an important step in that direction with decentralization.
This is awesome. When that "What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?" post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 was up recently, I wanted to say "Get rid of the abomination that is Unity" but figured it'd just be flamebait. Little did I know how close my dreams were to coming true!
Come on guys. Everyone knows real h4ck3rs are using apcalc: http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-mirror.html
Agreed, the market for these chips is pretty small at the moment. What other platforms would need these other than cloud? Cars? Phones .... maybe?
Snaps have very real advantages for both users and developers. I'm in favour of them!
If you are targeting ios you are already paying Apple for a developer account, so paying Qt basically just doubles the license cost. Everything else is fairly exclusively corporate, where Qt licenses are a non-issue.
When do they start their investigation of the committee that hired the principal?
If you see this problem as a special case of another problem the answer becomes pretty intuitive.

Suppose there are N (let's pick 1000) doors:
Behind one door is a car; behind the others N-1 (999), goats.
You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens N-2 (998) doors, excluding No. 1, which have have goats.

Now there are only two doors closed, the one you picked No. 1, and one that was part of N-1 (999) doors.
He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 1 or the other one?"
Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
GPUs I would guess. Great floating point speed.
Right, I see.
I am not sure I understand what you mean by could whine? I did have to replace my AC adapter because the one in the box would not work any more. Dell shipped another one out next day.
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Have you tried using that? Android without Google play is still an exercise in frustration. And Google is purposely designing it that way more and more as time goes on. I don't think the Ubuntu phone is a great phone, but if I have problems, I can usually fix them myself. Good luck doing that with any android that I've tried on.
If they are going to integrate gnome with snaps and snaps having an actual market, I doubt flatpak can compete against them. BUT, it would be easier for Canonical if they do something with their CAL, that'd be the real game changer.
Eh, "we hate your competitor" is neither imaginative nor compelling.
I built a similar system for marketing codes recently, but I wanted to encode a combination of the user ID and some of the details of the mailing so the relevant information could be determined without having to check a database. I just removed letters that could create certain four-letter forms of profanity, and then broke up the code into four-letter blocks using hyphens so I didn't have to worry about obscenities longer than that.

I don't doubt you could still find an obscenity if you were really looking, but I feel comfortable with that level of obscenity prevention. If someone honestly finds a way to be offended by whatever obscenity possibilities are left over, then they could probably find a reason to be offended by almost anything.
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For sure. I know a lot of Twitch streamers, and that is a full-time goddamn job. Wanting to be able to pay rent off of something that a lot of people like (and some of the streamers I know are north of 10,000 viewers when they're on, so while they're not huge they're not small either) is not a big ask. Yeah, there are alternatives--but if you like what you're watching and you're not hurting for cash, throw a buck a month in the hat.
It's called Blockly. Google developed it, it's open source and free to use for everybody!
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Should it be "move the robot to the chest" or something instead of "the metal block?"
I think the big difference can be seen across two types of hackathons: ones that are corporate-sponsered, with corporations offering massive prizes and startup funding for people with "fresh, hip disruptive ideas leveraging their cool web tech", versus small ones that are about creating something neat and showing it to others. Of course, this is a gradient, and things are not black-and-white here.

A lot of small local game jams fall closer to the second category there. I think you are right that financial stakes affects the attitude of the hackathon.
The new CEO's aren't elected. They're all hired by the same people. The same people who did it before.
Maybe akin to the "typing the letters A-E-S" in https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...?
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Using approaches like OpenAI's recent evolution strategies paper would remove the need for backprop, likely allowing these TPUs to be using for training without any changes.
It's typically systems and corporate structures that are the problem not individuals.
I heard a bit about this on NPR the other day. They had a desalination expert on to discuss it. He seemed mildly optimistic about this technology for certain niche applications, but did not seem blown away by it.

More graphene hype?
It only needs logind, IIRC. I run GNOME 3 without systemd.
We did two classes with about 20 students each. In both our offered courses we had balanced proportions of gender. Age ranged between 16 and 20 years.

We did a questionnaire at the end and got pretty good feedback! About every student enjoyed having been there. A couple of students said that they would have liked to get to know more about the internals of the game and also about how to program in general. We also raised interest in our course of studies.
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And yet any time i ever have a bad hangover, my body cries out for Lucozade.
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I'll take the take-home project. Though I communicate fine otherwise, I stutter miserably when an interviewer is staring at me while I'm trying to whiteboard.

Be a little flexible; not everyone finds the same things "insulting".
I think the point is, there is no more dependency hell.
This one is uniquely impressive in that often when first described to someone they will be all but certain it doesn't matter.

Many I told were just about ready to argue their view to death and asserted the switch your choice conclusion is wrong despite them having no formal learning on the subject.

This and the birthday problem effectively illustrate how intuitively bad we are at probability and statistics in general.
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Ask HN: What were your most unexpected failures?
How did it turn out? How did you deal with it? In general, what is a sane way to challenge the assumptions you have about your own competence?

Here's one from me I'll always remember: during my first year of high school, we had this line-following robot competition, using LEGO MINDSTORMs. I was already fond of computers, and I implemented a PID controller in order to make the robot follow the line. This robot easily outperformed many of its opponents, but during one of the final encouters, it just behaved abnormally wrong all of a sudden. It was really a traumatic experience at the time, because of all the hard work I invested. The fact that I still don't know why it stopped working, when it ran so smoothly at first, is the hardest to deal with.

Now I'm dealing with this kind of confidence-destroying experience again. I scored unexpectedly low on a english comprehension skills test. I don't have any feedback to understand what went wrong, but I do have all kinds of little clues that tell me I should have scored higher.

Or maybe, did you realize that you were full of sh.. about your own abilities, and the humility allowed you to improve? Anyway, I'd like to hear about your stories!