skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And yet, somehow Humans are in a completely different category than all other life.

Lol no we are not. We share 98 percent of our DNA with various simians. We share 97 percent of our DNA with mice.

Are we the only species to communicate? No. Are we the only species to communicate symbolically? No. Great Apes use hand gestures.

Are we the only species to recognize themselves? No. Plenty of animals do. In fact, even wasps can perform facial recognition on members of their species.

Are we the only species to use technology? No. Corvids and apes use tools all the time.

Are we the only species to develop culture? No. Simians teach their young various customs, some of which (such as the washing of food by macaques in Japan [http://alfre.dk/monkeys-washing-potatoes/]) are local to the group.

Are we the smartest species? Monkeys have been able to naturally memorize a sequence of numbers after looking at it for fractions of a second. It took dedicated teams of research scientists several practice sessions to even come close to the performance of a so-called "lesser animal".

Humans are exceptional (I honestly would just say lucky), but are we truly in a different category? Highly recommend the book "Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?" by Frans de Waal.
Show HN: Go Remote Jobs – Go Remote Today
Is it more feasible to find an original NES controller and swap out the connector?
All happened within one week in science
DU is used in warheads >> DU releases radiation >>> radiation causes cancer. Therefore, you could link the bombs that use DU to cancer.

In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area (not to mention the 10s of thousands of smaller bombs being dropped throughout that country and other war zones).
Someone pulled my chair at the restaurant, how rude -> What a day, I'm just lunching and a random prick pulls my chair, how crazy!
Have you thought about explaining depression in terms of a state of being that's in the same realm of those that cause so many east Asians to commit suicide?
Gut Driven Development is oftentimes confused with First Solution Encountered Driven Development or Familiarity Driven Development. Depending upon the circumstances, none of them are necessarily bad.
Fully asynchronous designs that send a local activity pulse along with their data, perhaps.
The thing is, Nintendo consoles are so unique in the experience and quality they provide, nobody really cares that they don't have ALL THE GIGS. They're just a lot more fun.
In Space, No One Complains About the Documentation
Solar-Powered Device Pulls Water Out of Thin (And Pretty Dry) Air
So just lav out the "e"? The human brain would b prfctly capabl of undrstanding it.
>What's moral about saying that you should get the works of others without paying their asking price? //

Art, which copyright protects, has a unique place in culture. Cultural works owe much to their use, an anthem becomes an anthem after it is penned because it is adopted by the culture and used as an anthem. It doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Yes, when a creator, such as myself, creates a work they deserve to get recompense for it if it adds value to society - just as any other worker deserves recompense for their value generating work. But creators operating in the cultural space demand something from the demos, they demand protection, through the creation of laws, in order to ensure they can exploit their works for financial gain.

There is nothing wrong with any of this so far. And use of copyright to stimulate creation in the field of the useful arts is noble, it is right to ensure those adding worth to society get recompense.

But copyright has been corrupted far beyond that aim, it has been used as a rod to beat the demos with until it both accepts not being able to access culturally significant works and having to pay many times over for the work of the creators - often not even too the creators.

There's no reason that we, the demos, should support legislation that stops us using works where the artists/singer/composer has received many 10s of years of average wages already. That's not a fair deal. And we certainly shouldn't be paying for completely unrelated executives to mint it because their predecessors bought the rights 70 years ago; that doesn't stimulate artistic creation.

We're being ripped off and those who suppose to represent the demos instead represent the interests of media corps and their own retirement opportunities.

The copyright lobby needs to go first in demonstrating they have a moral high ground because the default is no copyright. Copyright is supposed to be a contract with society, where we gift them a limited term monopoly, without that gift the creators of copyrightable works have no recourse in law to ensure their works aren't duplicated ad liberandum. That may be morally void, but that's the default - a strong case needs to be made to maintain the status quo without returning to that default.
We currently do the same thing Jest does: no hooks, but we offer it as `npm run prettier`, and we also run the comparison on CI (so if the prettier output is different, the PR fails). This means the code is always checked in formatted, but people need to remember to run `npm run prettier` or CI will fail.
Artificial Intelligence Companies Likely Approaching a Funding Round
Because despite being thorough, there's no way this write-up could be completed slower than building the actual thing they're describing.
Populations are not so small in reddit terms. Sweden probably has an equal population to Italy or even more, on reddit.
CMU Decision Analysis & Decision Support Systems - Midterm Grading Procedure [pdf]
Will Stripe discuss their choice to selectively enforce their own TOS? I'm sure many start-up business would like to know how to pick and choose when they enforce their own TOS
Here are some recent ones that have been popular:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/4/20/how-twitter-handle...

https://redditblog.com/2017/1/17/caching-at-reddit/

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twit...

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/16/smashing-magazine-ju...

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/03/stack-overflow-a-tech...

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/10/instant-messag...

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/building-fastcom.html

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a...

Or a recent writeup on a challenge building IMDB's forums in 2001(!) https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/internet/imdb-boards-no-more .. fun and scary in equal measures.

(I'm plucking these from things were popular recently in our http://webopsweekly.com/ :-))
What's the posterior distribution over numbers of life forms in the universe under some conservative prior and after finding that this moon has life, too? (Plus assuming that these events are independent, which they are probably not.)
How about the things we would have left in extreme environments: Internet cables at the bottom of the sea, rubbish (or dead people with clothes) high in the mountains, or remnants of polar expeditions in the South pole?
Hi there! Thanks for the correction. It basically only works on desktop, but looking at Google Analytics I can see mostly Android. Is Windows Phone fairly widespread?

The whole iOS app endeavour is an interesting story on it's own, but I just want to clarify that I'm not hoping for gold and riches from that (I initially thought it would, but that was almost 6 years ago and I didn't know how business worked :).
A collection of academic papers related to cats
Agreed. I think he is a hackernews user as well
Google’s AI has learned how to draw by looking at your doodles
What you're describing is Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder [0] or Non-24 Hour Sleep cycles [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wa...
I haven't used openSUSE in awhile but I think I'll have to try it again now haha
Yes. "War is progressive," he wrote. He meant that technological progress changed war. Grant used railroads and telegraphs well, which was advanced thinking for the time.
It might fit better into their existing line to make a developer-focused offering like Ubuntu Studio[1] which ships with a bunch of multimedia apps.

1: http://ubuntustudio.org/
When did the transition occur from success and profit mattering to $$ raised being the most important metric? So many startups today brag about $ raised before they even mention what they do. Is this really the new norm?
Well geologists think our impact can already be measured enough to leave a trace and are calling the era of man the 'Anthropocene'. Climate change and mass extinction are two of these features, but there will also be radiation from nuclear tests, plastic waste and impact of domestication on animal fossils. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-...
I really don't think you're following the point.

Lawyers and doctors deal in interacting complex systems of rules. So do information security people.

If you can make a certification that works for one expert in dealing with interacting complex systems of rules, you absolutely can make a certification for another expert in dealing with interacting complex systems of rules.

The details of what you test are different, but the fact that it's been done for law, medicine, medical specialties, dentistry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, and many other fact and rule based fields means it can most likely be done in general for people looking at how different systems of rules intersect.
>> Going from a string of RNA to another string of RNA is no easy task. Additionally, going from RNA to a protein requires more than just energy. It requires a molecular factory which can commence protein synthesis.

If you're starting from something simple that already works, you can imagine how it might evolve into something more complex in small increments, with the new stuff gradually replacing the old stuff until the old stuff is completely gone.

The important thing is that you start with something that already works.

That's why I'm proposing that you start with some kind of self-sustaining chemical reaction, i.e. a metabolism. If you start with a dead strand of RNA, it's hard to imagine how a metabolism springs up spontaneously around it and suddenly starts doing anything at all, much less anything useful like making proteins.
> Who else today is like them?

> PARC still exists, but Google advanced technology projects is probably the closest. Neither of these is that close to the old Xerox PARC since they tent to focus on near term commercializable projects.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-most-similar-thing-to-Xerox-...

...

While I can see how Google is an engine of scientific progress, Silicon Valley is bigger than Google. Stanford deserves a lot of credit.

Without diving into "what makes Silicon Valley Silicon Valley," I think I should point out that Stanford has consistently produced disruptions since at least Xerox PARC's founding.

(Obligatory: I have only ever visited Stanford, long after graduating from a different university.)
Susan Fowler to lead Stripe’s new engineering tips publication
Five Inmates Built Two PCs and Hacked a Prison from Within
The question is, are those realms being sold as part of the game or part of the Amiibo? Where the code and assets are stored is, after all, an implementation detail.
My favorite youtube channel out in the wild! His videos are such a treat every week.
Yep sorry about that - I've corrected the mistake in the blog post.
I suppose the ones on Ebay prices tripled on this news.
Step four is the point of the experiment, which is to show that some non-human animals get it. No assumption is made about what animals that do not self-examine know.
Edit: Just updated to Ubunut 16.04 and as promised by MS all my node network problems are gone.
In what encoding does "0x65" represent "e" ?
That isn't why this is a thing. It's a way to be more fruitful with words.
I dunno man, the galaxy alone is pretty darn big.
The bad faith I was referring to was the multiple-paragraph long rant that takes place entirely in your perception of the internal thought process of the people that disagree with you. Let them speak for themselves, they're perfectly capable of it.

I agree journalism is dying and I agree it is relevant to this discussion tangentially: journalism is dying purely because capitalism cannot sustain it anymore. It needs to be propped up by government funding or charity or it will die.

The market is a horribly ineffective as a funding source for quality journalism.

The market is also a horribly ineffective as a funding source for any kind of art that isn't completely mainstream.

If you ask a Libertarian, that means that good journalism and art aren't worth anything and deserve to wither away.

In my view, they both need to be propped up by the government to survive. The record industry has found a way to get the government to force people to give them money with IP laws, etc. Journalism hasn't found a way to do that yet so it's just charity for now.

Government subsidies for art and journalism is probably where we should be heading, instead of a punishment regime that requires DRM and surveillance and ruins lives all to benefit the tiny group of ultrawealthy capitalist IP rightsholders who give crumbs to the people who create their content.

Everyone thinks content creators should get paid. It is so universally accepted that saying it is almost like saying nothing at all. But which content creators? How much? By what mechanism? What about the people who hold the copyrights, who are often not content creators at all? Under our current scheme, they are the ones who get paid, and content creators by default get nothing; content rightsholders get paid. It is a happy coincidence that sometimes rightsholders and creators coincide.
So I'm going to be honest. Your resume is not very compelling. The impression I get is that you've got perhaps an internship or two worth of actual experience on there. The short stints are not helping your case and are in stark contrast to how you started this post: "I'm an experienced web developer". Just based on reading your resume, I just don't see that statement being qualified.

Even the details of the short stints are not compelling. Things like "Documented over a hundred logical and syntax errors for the storefront's legacy PHP framework" or "Assisted in improving UX workflow for a new storefront design, collaborating with a QA tester" just feels like empty experience.

So I think you need to lower your targets a bit and get real, consistent experience. You need to prioritize career growth over all else in your new job search. That means you need a position where you can make significant contributions over a long period of time (~2 years or so). That will allow you to have some meaty experience to go off of for future job search and hopefully get you out of the career rut that you're in now.

Others here have offered some good advice. Reach out to them and take them up on their offers to chat. It's going to be a grind but you also need to be honest with yourself about where you are and realize it's going to take some work to get to where you want to be. Just cold applying with that resume isn't going to cut it.

Also FYI, a link to your github is in your resume which links to your full name. I believe you were trying to obfuscate that so you should rip that out.
What are you running the VM on?
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Which browser/os are you using?
"Care to explain how" has a nasty tone where I come from. I'm from the Midwest and it's a common way to start a passive aggressive argument.

I apologize if I over reacted to the parent. At the same time while I understand some of the negativity towards Walmart there were a lot of positives that came out of it's growth also.
Morally, sure, you paid the money, they gave you the code and then you used it as you saw fit.

Legally, meh, probably not so much.
To make the next one better, what kind of questions would you like to see?
Search worked pretty reliably up until 7-8 months ago for me
Thanks for the feedback. How can we improve it for next time?
It's not just counterfeits as in IP violations, but useless goods. It's not at all rare to be burned.
Well, Israel had done it for quite some time thanks to terrorists hijacking their planes. Plane hijackings have been going on for other countries for some time.

Also, IIRC, El-Al has an air martial (again former military in every case) on each flight.
here too - same thing.. this is ridiculous what a HUGE blunder on unpkg.com part
I've been on a team that was absolutely paralyzed by over analyzing every choice to death. We spent months arguing about chef va ansible, for example. Sometimes you have to just say: 'Fuck it, we're using chef' (or go, or aws) because the time you waste spinning wheels is more expensive than the loss of efficiency from making the less than ideal choice. And those are the times when gut instincts matter.
It's hard to say, but what this definitely does not show is that "starting university classes at 11am or later would improve learning." Rather it shows that, on average students, who have classes at 8 or 9 are most alert and receptive to learning by 11.

Unless student habits have changed a lot since my time, many of them are stumbling out of bed at 7:45 to make that 8am class and haven't had anything to eat or drink yet. They consider themselves “evening people” rather than “morning people" because that's when the most interesting parts of their lives are happening.
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley (MSR-SVC) used to be like PARC of old. Too bad it was shut down a few years ago. I don't know if any place comes close. To be fair, there are pockets of awesomeness at places like IBM T.J. Watson and MSR Redmond .. you need to be lucky enough to work with the right group of people.

Edit: I should point out that while it is awesome to work in such a storied place, there is some stress associated with it. Read about the weekly "Dealer" meetings at PARC.
I'm not a developer. I'm actually an ex security engineer, but thanks.

Restrictions on what people want to do are always a bad idea. Removing history where people actually use it means that you'll get shadow IT. That means snippets of commands in home directories, "manual" history equivalents, and expect scripts with passwords embedded shared between teams.

Instead of trying to restrict what people want, you can make it easier - spend time automating tasks, providing simple interface to need information, and make sure you can take hosts out of live system for debugging (and then rebuild instead of returning). If there's important stuff in the history file, that means there's a need for history access. Working on solving that will give you more benefits than killing history files.
>Those are generally low skill, low pay, seasonal employees meant for short term stints - of which there is a near infinite supply.

Low skill, yes, low pay, God yes, seasonal - not usually. At least where I am, they aggressively hire for full time positions, and clearly intend for non-temporary employees to consider it as a career. Retention is poor because of the environment and the workload.

And theft. Apparently there's a lot of theft. But that's bound to happen when you surround people with expensive merchandise, work them like dogs and refuse to pay them a decent wage.
It stops when you delete your LinkedIn account. Seriously - I get no headhunter spam anymore. Recruiters only call when someone I know makes an internal referral, and I don't mind that.
Wouldn't that have O(n*logn) time at worst: sorting [O(nlogn)] + traversal [O(n)] ?

If space complexity is not a requirement, wouldn't it be better to iterate over each list and keep track of the occurrences of a digit in a dictionary (whichever keys have 3 occurrences are thus shared)?

That way you could get the value in O(n) time. Or is there something I'm missing?
Y dn’t vn prtclrl nd vwls n gnrl, bcs cnsnnts hld mr smntc nfrmtn.
In my experience, you can almost always examine your opinions
and find some objective advantage. If you can’t, your opinion
probably isn’t very solid. Recognising your gut feelings and
examining them can be eye opening, and can make you a better
developer.

This sort of introspection is useful for more than just developers.

Once you recognise biases like this it will become clear to
you that people often start with a biased opinion and then
reason backwards from there to support it. You’ll do it too,
and it’s OK to do that as long as you can examine it and put
forward a solid argument. Never think biases don’t apply to
you.

To help counteract this, you have to put yourself in the position of questioning your views/feelings/beliefs, and putting them in the context of the opposing views. If you think X is right, find those that think ¬X, or a variant of X, and consider why they believe it. Genuinely questioning and not just seeking out confirmation to your positions, or counterarguments to theirs. Usually the correct views are somewhere in between, or will be revealed to be subjective (that is, no right or wrong, either irrelevant because it's unprovable or a matter of tradeoffs and what's considered more important by the different parties).
Used cartridge trading keeps the market value of those games above zero
Looks like there was indeed an issue with a bad nameserver update:

https://twitter.com/unpkg/status/852660203275276289
Multicellular? Most organisms on earth are unicellular[1] even now. My impression is that multicellular organisms evolved because the 'easy' evolutionary niches were already occupied by single-celled species, and it took new tricks to compete for new niches.

1:https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-biomass-of-bacteria-What-i...
New Google Earth launching April 18, likely VR focus
Sorry, I'm confused. Which part of this bad performance was a bug in chrome? The peaking up to 100% usage for a few hours? The shockingly bad performance rendering GIFs? The super high idle CPU usage? The high download size and ram usage?

I used the desktop slack client all of last year, and these kind of problems were present the whole time. This isn't some "oh, yeah there was some particularly egregious bug we shipped accidentally in October" thing. Whatever is making the slack client a bloated ball of crap is much worse than a simple, quickly fixed chrome bug. Its endemic.
Podcast: Training an AI to Play Mario Kart 64
I'm also trying to get quotes for a logo design for one of my open source projects, but I can't find logo design in the dropdown. What category do I choose?

Edit: URLS not allowed so I can't do my brief properly...
https://cl.ly/0C0K3z2n372c
Thank you so much for all the info! I really appreciate the help.
>I'll note that from my experience as a programmer and a manager the best coders (and best code) was done by the people who "just felt this is the right way".

I'll note that from my experience as a programmer, the worst code was done by people who "just felt this is the right way".

Note that I'm not disagreeing with you. This is a classic case of confirmation bias. Looking at what is common amongst great coders/code is the first step. But that step is incomplete unless you test against crappy code. Is that feature you found in great code often present in crappy code? Then it likely has little to do with code quality...

Coding from the gut is the thing to do if you're a great coder. Not the other way round.
Mind sharing idea or who got pre-interview?
The article describes solutions that use Redis so that multiple app servers can share rate limits. The article's second solution is basically what you're describing, except adapted to work with Redis.

Also, what do you mean by "fixed" memory? Sure, the memory doesn't grow over time, but neither does the memory of the other solutions. Of the solutions listed in the article, this is the most memory-hungry.