skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is oddly poignant to me. I just (literally a few hours ago) submitted my PhD thesis on (broadly) the biophysics of emergent phenomena. People don't usually read theses cover to cover, with good reason, but I included one short paragraph in the preface to be the true "take home" message:

We wish to understand mechanism through the elucidation of design principles, yet evolution does not select for principles, it selects for fitness, an epistatic and emergent property. If similar outcomes can be achieved in different but equivalently fit ways, then given the stochastic nature of evolution this is almost guaranteed to happen. We have specific examples where every statement in the preceding paragraph is true [ed: a collection of proposed mechanisms]. We do not need one person to be right or wrong; our nascent understanding of complex biological systems is that the space of information-processing solutions is astronomical. Think of the diversity observed in structural biology - the repertoire of tertiary structures is enormous. There are countless examples of nearly identical functions being performed by proteins with radically different structure.

This divergence, this variety in structure and function, is what makes evolution robust. It is an inherent bet-hedging mechanism woven into the fabric of statistical physics. On the contrary, the desire to categories and abstract complexity into distinct groups is an inherently human endeavour. Much as we may wish and as convenient as it would be, Nature does not have a plan.
“So, What Do You Do?”
never would have thought they expanded into that.
Well said, but note that this assumes partial solutions aren't possible, that brute force is the only way in. For example, it assumes that you can't guess a single prime and then successfully test for more uniformity in the resulting (failed) test decryption. Maybe that's a great and true assumption. Maybe it ain't.
Yes, Xamarin produces a compiled executable, as you would get in Swift or Objective-C. It is not a web view hybrid.

I work for Microsoft
The 16 colors are the color table - these are the actual colors you want to change.

The selected box (of the 16) has it's values displayed on the right. Change those numbers to change the color's value.

The radio buttons select which of the 16 colors is the "default" for that setting. So you probably want to leave "Screen background" on black (the first color table entry) and you'd likely want to move "Screen Text" to white, the 16th entry. The popup colors are only really relevant for cmd.exe.

Yes, we're aware that dialog is garbage. I hate it to death. It's high on the backlog.
churches spend aid money/donations very, very ineffectively, when they do spend it on non-evangelical causes.
Yes, because one part of the demographics uses its fingers, we got to piss of the other part of the demographic who doesen't.
Man, i wish i could be that lazy as a coder.
Yes, boss - we kicked the ethernet support. Focus test shows a near majority of our customers comes in via WiFi.

I would be so ashamed on this inability to combine form and function.
I had previously been using sortd but now I am in with Drag, I couldn't do without it!
I'm not suggesting anything, I'm fully aware of the spec. I'm just pointing out that you can't represent NaN and Inf in JSON. Strings don't count.
I have not! Seems to be on HBO, currently. I'll check it out.
It is more prevalent. People in tech also work long hours, have "side projects" aka somewhat expected unpaid work, are unhealthy, seem to not exercise, play video games too much, watch too much tv...

the list goes on
Hey everyone! I'm Gautam and I tech-lead this project. Happy to answer any questions/give insights on how we approached this
The main issue is that the wolves are on public land and the ranchers feel they have the right to any perceived threat to their cattle.

In my opinion, ranchers should have no more input that anyone else on public land issues.
This is a very good point, unless they're assuming they're as easy to break as tile; which I think is a bad assumption considering the plastics/glue used in solar panels; When they break they barely shatter and most stand up to intense hail storms just fine.
You can use Conemu, ConsoleZ or a number of other console applications for Windows with it.

As a network engineer it's almost useless to me, ping, traceroute, mtr etc don't work. Neither does ssh tunneling. No ssh server.

Still using Cygwin for those reasons.
Who still uses traditional shared hosting for a tech related project when there are dozens of alternatives with either dedicated or semi-dedicated hardware without the overly intrusive bandwidth caps.

I front paged on HN 3 times with a blog running on a $5/mo dropplet and out of the box wordpress without any CDN. I only had to give up one cheeseburger per month to cover that cost!

Digital Ocean: Switch today, your doctor will thank you!
For a short overview read:

> http://preshing.com/20120930/weak-vs-strong-memory-models/

If you want more details of memory models of some CPU architectures, read

> http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/scalability/paper/whymb.2...

Note that "x86 OOStore" is not a model that you should be concerned about (according to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/2dBrSeI... it was only used on IDT WinChip)

For a perspective on memory barriers for different memory models with a focus on the Linux kernel look at

> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

If you are specifically interested in some subtile details of the x86 memory model, have a look at

> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/index3.html

Best begin with

> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/cacm.pdf

---

I hope this should give you enough information to start reading up on the subject.
You are wrong.
Most interfaces in non-functional languages are stateful.

Take the JDBC-interface: It's certainly not possible to call setTransactionIsolation(), executeQuery(), commit(), rollback() etc. in any order.

Or list: add, remove, set, clear etc.

It's still an interface.
They're definitely going in the direction of the walled garden strategy, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. For the vast majority of users, computers are safer with walled gardens. For the more advanced users, developers can always offer their apps through a different distribution channel.

In the case of Windows in particular, it's a chance to leave the installation wizards, the registry and the DLL hell behind and use the packaged model that macOS adopted from the get go.
I don't understand why it didn't learn to fly; using a flight simulator.
I'm not an expert, but I remember getting an impression of a very principled approach to biometrics from John Daugman. This article is about iris recognition and I'm pretty sure it is worth posting in this context: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/csvt.pdf
> Although this is somewhat of the reverse in architectures, going from CISCy to RISCy.

Apple did the same when they moved from 68K to PPC. The PPC would run the 68K code in emulation or, if it was a "fat binary" with both 68K and PPC code, it would just load the functionally equivalent PPC binary and run it.

There were utilities to compress executables that deleted the versions not for the current CPU - very handy in low-power 68Ks
Your effort at being pedantic falls rather flat, as the "new breed" was described as "combines both a law firm and intellectual property rights holder into a single entity". The description did not specify patents.

Clearly, the Prenda-Structure patent reads on this infringing Blackbird organization.

(Also, it was a joke.)
I read "mov a,b" as "Move a into b".
Well Patent trolls prey on all those dieing startups, researching the patents they hold to find ones they can buy up and use to sue as many others as they can.
I am not a super user of AWS and have light demands as far as the console. I find the documentation and dashboard pretty decent; burnrate monitor and basic services(vm, ip, storage) easy enough. The naming and requirements-- and also the split up of resources v. Classic is pretty annoying.

On AWS I was through a sea of services I don't need w/ poor docs, clunky configs and a lot of security tiers. Their pricing is baffling and I really just think it looks terrible. Azure has similar issues; but I can navigate it better and feel more comfortable w) it
An onboarding experience you'll soon want to forget
Each day:

* Get 80% of your calories from fat.

* Eat less than 25 grams of net carbs (total carbs - fiber content).

Last 4 years experimenting with sustainable weight loss diets, this (ketosis) has been the most effortless and enjoyable method I've found. I feel satieted, I don't have after-meal drowsiness and most importantly, after a few months it's become part my lifestyle, so maintaining it is a breeze.

Happy side effect: I prefer home-cooked food to eating out because restaurant food isn't usually fat heavy.

One resource:
http://eatingacademy.com
Imagine if Google taught their self-driving cars that way: 10,000 crashes. I think self-driving was completely procedural back when it started 15 years ago. But now with faster and better understood neural nets, some parts like recognizing objects have been replaced by deep learning.
Why renters shouldn't bid on apartments
"This post is meaningless", sounds about right...
You'd probably want to performance test your app with a full MacOS compile, but the whole UI implementation, function and experience testing can be done without a Mac. And you need a Mac for deploying to the store.
https://www.xkcd.com/1744/

I initially lost over 30 pounds at the age of 20 (gained a lot of weight in college) by cutting soda and processed sugar completely out of my diet. the effect was dramatic.
I'm sympathetic to the ranchers as its costly to lose animals, but in a lot of ways I still think a simple economic solution would have kept this from getting that far. If the wolves are technically owned by the federal government, then they could have paid for each animal the wolves eat (at final market price). Frankly, a Fish & Wildlife person driving out with a check would have solved quite a lot of this at a much cheaper price.

The North American wolves are not their European brethren in body count (far from it).
Resource Limit Is Reached is typically when a startup does fold up shop.
Wilhelm Voigt
The wolves don't stay on public land.
"data never leaves it" reference please?
"Your fingerprint is your username, not your password"
Clickable links:

iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keybase-crypto-for-everyone/... (original link in post was: https://keybase.io/_/download/keybase-for-ios)

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.keybase.oss...
Startup that helps you sell your photos to companies like 20th Century Fox
MISP Taxonomies – Flexible Classification for Information Sharing
Eat the same thing every day and just stick to it. No deviations. You should construct a healthy meal that contains everything you need and adjust the amount so you're on a calorie deficit.

Not for everyone but has worked wonders for me. Really easy as well.
It also:

- Doesn't need a phone number

- Has good multi-device support

There's also other fun stuff like Kbfs: https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs
Yep, probably this is Gixy bug :(
Can you show your http section? Maybe better via email: buglloc@yandex.ru :)
If this bothers you, one thing you could try is searching "great lakes wolf patrol" and send some of your developer salary their way.
Can someone explain how they are achieving high execution speed? I would have expected the speeds (or at least the start-up times, if we have dynamic recompilation) for x86 on ARM to be outright abysmal.
If all are assumed to be powered, then I think an assumed failure rate is acceptable to the warranty.

Are they going to have an interface that "reports" bad shingles on your roof? Hell no!

But if you're roof is generating whatever the acceptable range is for the area, then you're good.
It is canonical in Intel syntax that the parameter order is always "destination, source" (in AT&T syntax it is "source,destination").
Some essays have refuted this hypothesis. Some people have natural talent, i.e. prodigies, which may become proficient in far shorter time.
It is HIPAA, not HIPPA. It stands for "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act."

I get your basic point and I don't disagree that we need more privacy protection. But, no, we do not "need HIPPA" for all personal information.
Wow, just had a look and the tool looks really amazing!
Here you go...
The link wont fit... so I tinyurl'd it.
https://tinyurl.com/o5ms55o
For keto in particular I'll agree out of ignorance. I was speaking broadly of "dieting makes social occasions hard" which is a common excuse to avoid certain diets. However, even with slower progress, I contend that slowed progress is still an improvement over no progress.
Does no one ever get sued over stuff like this?
I've lost track of how many times I've said this on HN:

We need HIPPA for all personal information, not just medical. We have an expectation of privacy in being "lost in the crowd" when we're out and about. Our physical & online whereabouts, who we're physically with, who we're communicating with, our personal contact information, and obviously payment information is private information that can be harmful if not kept private (false positives in automated legal systems, identity theft, and including all the defenses of securing medical information).

Anybody who chooses to hold such information must regard it with a high level of respect and privacy. Since nobody is doing so, and there are no penalties for violating privacy, and this gets into fundamental rights and proper functioning of society, it seems applicable to federal law.
How small do you want it? The Linx tablets do this but the smallest is 7".
It's also probably because it's a lot easier to use an off-the-shelf commercial drone than to build/modify one (from a researcher's perspective), and commercial drones typically already have cameras than can be accessed through their SDKs.

Also, off-the-shelf depth sensors can add a lot of weight to the drone. It might still be possible to fly with the extra weight, but now the drone will be more sluggish and fragile. It would be great if commercial drones had a built-in depth sensor.

Distance sensors such as sonar and proximity sensors are usually very noisy and they are susceptible to interference (if you use more than one).
I think of Keybase more as a cryptographic platform which can bundle devices and identities into a single package, see my "tree" for an example https://keybase.io/azag0/graph

It also provides crypto for files, both signing (public sharing, https://keybase.pub/azag0/) and encrypting (private sharing).

EDIT: And this short description doesn't really make Keybase justice. The whole project is much grander.
Thousands? I thought it was more like a dozen or two at most. Any link on that?
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I addressed this when this study was discussed last week, but it's worth reminding that minutiae comparing is not the only technique used for fingerprint matching. [1]

(possible corporate bias)
[1] https://corporate.fingerprints.com/en/newsroom/faq-regarding...
They will claim that they didn't know. Intent matters in most legal cases.
Is it more prevalent because we have hard data showing it is, or do we think it is more prevalent because we typically speak with more people in tech because we're in tech and have more experience with them?

I am now a few years post-divorce and in a relationship with a wonderful future wife v2.0, and I will be the first to tell you that my perspective on others', careers, and behavior patterns has changed significantly because I'm exposed to a very different slice of American culture than I was with wife v1.0. You'll find similarities where you didn't expect to find them. The same is true of differences.
I think many people would disagree. It might be legal, but that doesn't mean it's not unethical.

If a stranger on the street started following me, taking pictures without permission, and taking notes about my appearance of actions and storing it in their database, I would say he was behaving unethically.

Ask street photographers - it's a delicate balance. Many people really dislike having their pictures taken without their permission.
It is emissive.

Feel free to reference the original Porter Duff paper regarding "luminescent pixels" or Alvy Smith's opinion on the matter as relayed by Zap Andersson in the legendary Adobe thread.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/369637

Here is a sample of the candle referenced by Zap:

https://i.imgur.com/bnXyAl1_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f...

Remember that a ray tracing engine uses associated alpha as that is the sole format it can generate. Only associated alpha models emission and occlusion.

Further reading:

http://lists.openimageio.org/pipermail/oiio-dev-openimageio....

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/ocio-dev/ZehKhUFqh...
By default the Python binary will try to load a file called "python27.zip" at startup. What if python27.zip was a "zip bomb"?
No pics of a finished ship? Or even a partially completed one? Is is just vaporware at this point?
> exists on all 5 platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows)

Last night I was pleasantly surprised to discover it is in the FreeBSD repository as well. I really like what you all are doing.
CivisML: scikit-learn at Scale
I think, based on experience and reading, that "being ready to scale up" is nice but you'd be surprised at how much you can do with email.
Good news! Conventional roofs are 100% compatible with conventional solar panels.
Unfortunately, not true anymore.
Really usefull, I don't know how anyone wasn't thinking about that before.
also http://ncomputers.org/news if it is related :D
I like Bunnie Huang as much as anyone here. Your publication chose to quote him in a manner suggesting that people should be adopting RSA-4096 because of NSA supercomputers. I think it's fair to criticize you for doing that.

I'm not sure why I'm meant to care about the work you've done to educate people about cryptography, or how that's germane to the discussion. I assume The Intercept is broadly supportive of cryptography. That doesn't mean you can't write a bad story about it, or even that your incentives will tend to keep you from doing that --- those incentives, after all, are mostly about growing a readership, just like any other publication.
Why should someone use this instead of Stripe?
Fewer shingles => less solar power being generated by the solar roof you bought to generate enough power.
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Magic Leap CEO tweets out a call to developers for secret program
This is amazing - thank you for posting about it!

BTW - how old were you (if you care to tell the world!) when you created this machine?

What made you take pictures of it? Did you keep any part of it, or was it all relegated to the "junk bin"?

I have found that it is extremely rare that these machines like yours ever have pictures, much less the writeup like you have created. It doesn't appear many people created such computers back then, and I don't know of any who published how they created them. For instance, I have yet to see any old "Popular Mechanix" style article from the 1960s on "Build Your Own Electronic Brain" (as I would imagine it would be titled) - but such an electro-mechanical project would certainly fit those kind of pulp magazines.

Which I find odd. I don't know why these machines - few as they were - were never publicized; perhaps there wasn't an audience, or because there were so few, those with the ability to write such an article were fewer? I do know there was some interest in computing at a "lay-person's" level, because there were several books on contemporary forms of computing and programming available in the 1960s (most had enough information to allow a person with sufficient skills and knowledge to design and build a simple machine - perhaps you got inspiration from such a source for yours?).

These early "hobbyist" computers, along with early hobbyist robots - represent the very earliest dawn building toward the microcomputer revolution of the later 1970s - but the vast majority, if not all of them, are lost to time, unfortunately.
Or, incentivize membership by having the group own a bunch of patents, and then sue people who don't pay their membership!

The ultimate protection racket! "You've got a nice product here, shame if a lawsuit happened to it..."

Wouldn't you know, it already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA
I have to +1 this. Not only is it easier to navigate, AWS always manages to run pretty smoothly, while Azure's website makes my 2014 Macbook Pro slow to a crawl. It often takes up to a second for a CSS :hover effect to appear!
When I first heard about this a few months ago, I was excited. I don't know why. Microsoft is cursed with terrible design and always will be. If they ever designed something nice I'm pretty sure the universe would have to unbalance itself to compensate.
Except associated alpha models emission and occlusion via the operation. You don't need zero alpha either, as any ratio can occlude partially and emit partially as well.

No hacking needed.
That kind of solution could create a Cobra Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect) where ranchers feed wolves with their stock.

I'm surprised that livestock guarding dogs were not mentioned in the article. Some breeds are known to prevent attacks by merely displaying aggressive behavior toward predators without actually harming neither the wolves nor themselves.
Fear not Windows Phone is just about dead.
>My guess is you're being ripped off because you're tourists.

This does not make it OK. If Uber solves this problem alone it will help lift the local economy.

I'm enough of HN comment reader to know you mean well, but I honestly don't think you are thinking this through clearly because of your personal experience. Keep in mind, I live in a small town in fly-over-country-USA, so I have no use for Uber.
I believe this is the kind of thing I've heard Seth Godin refer to to as "failure porn".

I actually find it rather tasteless and unenlightening.
https://tip4commit.com/

Donate bitcoins to open source projects or make commits and get tips for it.

--

BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS. | https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/

the owner of every merged pull request is paid 2% of our total balance at the time of the merge

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/BitHub...
WT is the default storage engine and it locks at document level ("row")
I was "afraid" that they were hosting the recipes but they are linking to the original websites.

Fun thing: nobody has the same definition of "world cuisine" :)
That is really clever. The Ur-fingerprint, developed using simple machine learning. Well, that's the end of using "minutiae" for recognition. Recognition has to use something that requires the features have the proper positional relationship to each other, such as a whole fingerprint.
Google is developing a mysterious new mobile operating system called Fuchsia
Unconditional friendship is shit.

Your friends who are unconditional friends are not good friends. If you value your temporary happiness over personal growth, and friends who will help you become a better person, then you are chasing a false sense of self worth. Do you really want to feel artificially good about yourself by surrounding yourself with `yes men`?

Sometimes your friends will make you feel bad, and that's okay. Sometimes you should feel bad.