skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that Malthus may have identified the major first-order reason for the anthopocene. Even though he, like the Luddites, were too early in their predictions.

David Harvey speaks about us being able to stave off the inequality wreaked by automation and outsourcing of work by the expansion of consumer credit in the 80s. Now, household debt AND public debt are at all-time highs, the borrowing spree has ended.

Similarly we have been able to stave off the malthusian trap for decades, we've been destroying biodiversity and turning the world into monoculture and farms. We've had a population explosion and have been releasing entropy and heat on the earth even faster than that.

Will the bill come due? Or will we find ways to capture the carbon and put it underground?

This is one of the scariest reads:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
That paragraphs seems to be a (somewhat mangled) summation of a lot of systems dynamics thinking. By trying to solve the symptoms of a problem, you might turn a knob in exactly the wrong direction it needs to be turned, which would exacerbate rather than relieve the root cause.
In-house recruiters are a lot different. I've met some very persistent ones that even after you say not interested they keep calling you (I'm glad one did because he broke me down and i finally interviewed and had great success at the company).

To find new external recruiters i look at the job listings (Indeed, LinkedIn, etc) and see if i notice the same recruiting firm listed at jobs i find interesting. Then i get in touch with the recruiter directly and have a discussion with him. So i kind of look for recruiters more than i look for jobs.
Do you watch baseball? Because I would be surprised if you hadn't heard it there.
Huge loads like Aluminium smelters are already "smart" and cooperate with the electricity providers, so there is not as much left to gain there.
The article states that she had a recipe for artificially ripening the olives. I don't think the olives are picked ripe.
Can Amazon Be the Next Apple?
I don't see a link to this actual study, only the TEDS study (was it actually parts of the TEDS study, or just using the same data?) But my first question is if they've considered if really the correlation is coming from closely related variables other than just age:

- Father's who start a family later vs father's who start a family early but have additional children later.

- Children who are more likely to have multiple older siblings.
Here is the thing though

It is not just Internet access that the country has to stop.

The country has to permanently block off all INFORMATION.

This is because if anyone is able to transit the current block chain, in any way, even by smuggling it in through "sneaker net" then that block chain wins.

In practice, this means that you will no longer be able to trust 10 minute confirmation times. But, maybe you can trust month long confirmation times instead, as people slowly smuggle in blockchain information.
By taking investor money and living on it. Have yet to hear about them making anymuch significant money except for seemingly staged "success stories"
Reddit hosting is noticeably slower, and sometimes WAY slower.
No, we get mad at those too. Trust me, if I could I would shred the IRS Tax Code and simplify it.

I also canvassed in Des Moines, Iowa in 2008 for a presidential candidate who was _not_ in favor of farm subsidies, and was especially against corn-ethanol subsidies. It, surprisingly, didn't come up that much?
This is a common rebuttal but it seems to only make sense in a human timescale with assumptions of a lack of partitioning.

The miners are very fast, but have the same network as the rest of us for the most part. Disrupting that network renders the current system quite vulnerable to partitioning and if you can carefully partition the miners such that they're arguing among themselves, bitcoin effectively grinds to a halt and requires human intervention and negotiation to fix.

This is a statement not intended to be damning criticism btw. The proper failure mode for a distributed ledger IS to fail as a quorum takes place. Ultimately, bitcoin exists so long as it is more profitable for it to exist than for it to be destroyed. This is the case for most distributed systems.
Sure seems like correlation to me.

Older fathers are more likely to have established careers, establishing higher socioeconomic status, affording a lifestyle that engenders "geekiness".
I applied for a Walmart job years ago, when they told me the rate of pay (below what I was making back then) I declined and they asked a few demographic questions and printed out a sheet with all the "benefits they can offer me". It was a list of all the welfare programs in my state. It's part of the sales pitch for the job, they will also keep you part time just below the threshold of where you lose benefits at your request. As a capitalist I'm tired of subsidizing Walmart and businesses like it they simply aren't acting in good faith.
For anyone wondering, their speed claims aren't inaccurate. I ran a quick iperf test on a server in Hurricane Electric Fremont 2 with a gigabit port and it did ~500Mbit/s. DSLReports backs it up: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/17167172

This was to their us-07 server in SF.
> unless your entire business runs on an AS400

Even there you got support for C, C++, Java amung others as well as the whole IBM family (RPG/ILE, CL, REXX, ...) With somewhat decent bindings in RPG.
Another option that comes to mind is a keyless SSL configuration, similar to what Cloudflare does:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/keyless-ssl-the-nitty-gritty-tec...
Ask HN: What personal FINANCE advice would you give your 25yo self ?
But is someone really hungry or starving if they're overweight or obese?

They may be feeling hungry, or have cravings, or have some other side effect of destroying a bodies ability to handle insulin, much like a drug addict feels cravings for their drug, but is that hunger? Or just a side effect of abusing food like any other vice or intoxicant?

I'd imagine where hunger is real elsewhere in the world, and people are genuinely starving, lacking food, and otherwise malnourished, they'd find this type of discussion in the fattest country on earth to be offensive.
I don't entirely follow what you're saying in your first sentence, but I'm going to try to respond to what I think you're saying. If I'm off base please let me know!

1. Memory-safe languages are about making sure that the programmer's intended behavior matches the actual behavior, that is, eliminating a class of bugs related to memory unsafety. They are a security scheme insofar as these bugs are security bugs, but they're not an interprocess security scheme. In particular, you can write a memory-safe debugger that goes and makes arbitrary modifications to other processes the OS gives it access to. You can even write a memory-safe program in Rust that goes and edits /proc/self/mem. But in these cases, the programmer is intending to mess with process memory directly, so the language isn't obligated to stop the programmer. It is obligated to stop the programmer from, say, overflowing a string and overwriting the return address.

2. It is certainly possible to design a memory-safe language that is usable for interprocess memory protection. Microsoft had a research OS called Singularity that did exactly this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... But it's another step on top of memory safety.

3. Preemptive multitasking and protected memory aren't inherently related (although, yes, in the market, most cooperatively multitasked OSes lacked memory protection, and most OSes with memory protections were preemptively multitasked). You can have a preemptively multitasked system with no MMU at all; you just need to respond to timer interrupts and switch tasks.
IMHO PG still states that written and spoken language are different.
I think the lesson to be drawn from the essay is simple: be honest.

Don't try to trick your readers by trying to use fancy words and then fail.

Brutal honesty written in an understandable manner has a real weight not to be underestimated.

You don't need to write like you're talking to a child at all, but you shouldn't reach out for words and expressions just because they sound fancier.

This may be my personal opinion, but I have no stomach for literature that is written with dishonest intentions.
The non-profit should be lauded for attempting to save lives.

The Border Patrol, unlikely to be lauded for anything these days due to their politicized function, is still performing the duties with which they are assigned: to patrol the boundary of their sovereign country and apprehend individuals who have crossed said boundary without permission from said country. It is hardly an American endeavor: the Mexican Border Patrol engages in the same activity ( http://www.msnbc.com/specials/migrant-crisis/mexico ) though under less public scrutiny.

According to this article (which desperately tries to avoid the "without permission" issue by calling these individuals migrants), four such individuals were apprehended. Which would imply that the "raid" was not simply harassment but part and parcel of the Border Patrol doing its job.

The article's rather inflammatory title and tone attempts to paint the Border Patrol as villains here, though beyond quoting the non-profit's statement, fails to present a compelling case nor provides any suggestion for how the Border Patrol should conduct its duty.
I'm really interested in trying this but nervous with how much a cloud service will cost. Is there a free option for a cloud hosting service that I can start with?
This is precisely why infrastructure companies and FIs build dedicated lines. They're much more resilient. Doing so for a network as large as bitcoin could be difficult though.
No upfront costs and 10-20% off is a pretty hefty discount.
> If one ISP did some weird stuff that upset customers, the market had actually worked and they lost profits, making them reconsider

The problem in the US is the telecoms are divided across neighborhoods in a way that you don't get a choice. I only have the option of Comcast at my apartment building, it's that or no internet / use a 4G hotspot / satellite maybe? My parents house is similar, AT&T offers internet, Comcast only offers it as a package with cable tv. Both just began offering maximum rates of 30Mbps down / 6Mbps up this year! And this is in the suburb of a major city.

So when my ISP pulls crap, raises prices, or does something else I disagree with, I can't just change providers without also making several lifestyle changes.
Sending out a link to what? I mean... maybe I'm too young to know what you're referring to, but if I have my local computer, sitting behind a NAT, sitting behind a firewall, sitting behind a personal router, on another NAT, and you're on the other side of the country, what am I sending you a link to? Did every machine have a domain name? Was your local DNS somehow broadcast publicly?

Did you just send a link for "C:\documents\public_html\picture.jpg" (or /home/ryan/public_html) and somehow it worked? I'm in need of a history lesson because I cannot fathom how that would have worked.
They sell an enterprise version of Julia for $1500 per year. The main things you get are support, MS Excel integration, and a non-GPL license. They also offer consulting, training, and a few other flavors of Julia (large scale server based gets its own edition).

I'm sure the main draw will be companies that don't want to be stuck with a GPL license in their product.
You're just refusing to acknowledge how lucky you are for having the energy to get annoyed at such trivialities.
OH you are right, I read it wrong. The seller has to pay for the return shipping only if the item is faulty.
Rust just needs to add extern(C++) like D has and then they can communicate.
Could you elaborate a bit on what you offer that out-of-the-box Jupyter does not?

From my admittedly limited experience with Jupyter, it is already an interactive coding and visualization tool which can be exported to HTML.

Can you not include Plotly plots in vanilla Jupyter?

The kyso homepage says that you beautifully render the notebooks? Given that they're already html, does that mean custom style sheets? Something more?

Or is the main value add just a wrapper over git to make versioning and sharing easier?

Thanks.
They have a pretty good reputation for FFI to most complements, IIRC. eg;

https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/calling-c-and-fo...

https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl
Look, again, it's just an example of a small scale use of Bancor's token issuance. Not a how-to-guide for all SMB owners.

Using Bancor does not mean that the SMB is doing this all from scratch. After all, how many restaurants do you see implementing their own POS system with in-house engineers? And to be honest, how airtight do you think a mom and pop shop's MS Access DB backup strategy would be? I would trust "food with blockchain" over "food with please-don't-die-on-me production DB."
Disallowing spaces isn't an option, you can't align code using tabs. You have to both disallow spaces and enforce a no-alignment (leading-indent-only) formatting style.

Just use spaces! You can't mess it up. ;)
We work primarily with fashion retailers. Our customers have fairly high margins even though their clothes range from low end to high end.

Wear and return is certainly prevalent though our customers see it more often in occasion-wear (for example bridesmaid dresses). Their average customer values (even their highest returning customers) far exceed $0.01. I'd be really interested in learning why things are so different at your organisation (not that I doubt you but it would make for a really interesting dataset!)

We generally try to help clients integrate returns prediction into their business rules. For example if you've got scarcity of stock, perhaps prioritise customers who are most likely to keep items. Or if you're handling customer calls at the contact centre, prioritise customers who are returns sensitive (those who probably won't shop with you ever again if they have a poor returns experience).
Fine, can they leave out the other half?
Reddit's builtin images always seem very slow compared to imgur's. They would have done better to integrate imgur instead of rolling their own, I think.
My Though About You
This is incorrect. Even the spinal nerve bundle processes orders of magnitude more information just in keeping you balanced on your feet or chair.

Perhaps you meant we only commit a few hundred bits of information to long term memory per second under uninteresting conditions?

*Sorry for piling on! I didn't see the other two replies and went to get coffee before finishing my reply.
Just got some feedback there that the command line app is only working for node.js v8.0 and above!

Will be releasing a node v6.0 compatible version in the next 2 days, and an node independent version very soon!!
Chrome on your mobile device?
I submitted this not for the kind of click baitish title, but it is a really interesting systems interaction piece. Two different systems with a common protocol that just failed.
I used to say this too, but then I realized I didn't actually believe it. In order for that to be true I'd have to believe that we could remove SNAP and Walmart workers would be unaffected because they'd just be able to demand higher wages. Since I don't believe Walmart workers would be able to demand higher wages, then SNAP must not be subsidizing Walmart's payroll.

I do agree with the last sentence of your first paragraph though. Walmart benefits MUCH more from non-employee SNAP beneficiaries than it could ever save in employee wages. And it's not just the SNAP dollars it redeems. Every earned dollar not spent on food (because of SNAP) is a dollar that same person could spend on clothing or other goods sold at Walmart.

>Yet another argument for raising the minimum wage

Raising the minimum wage harms the lowest skilled and most poorly educated workers. If your productivity warrants $10/hr but the minimum wage is $15/hr, you're simply unemployed. First we provide poor people with abhorrent schooling in our failing public school system, denying them the skills they need to get a decent job, and then we require employers prejudice against these same vulnerable workers. Sure, the workers on the margins of being worth $15/hr get a boost, but everyone under them on the economic ladder is harmed until inflation catches up and washes out the raise.
Headphones that control computer and smartphone apps with head movements
Everyone is hating on Imgur as a community but I personally think that's the best part of it. It's the only "front page" I visit daily apart from HN.
But the game changer is the 10-20% off your purchase. That's a pretty big deal. Not only that, but no upfront costs.

Amazon already had free shipping and returns before for Prime users. This however is a completely different psychology to online shopping.
Nobody said anything about actual workweeks yet. I'm a developer working 4 days a week, earning a very decent 5 figure salary, no complains :)

Now I can imagine if a company pays you >100k you have to work 40+ hours a week. So annual salary should be corrected for actual working hours
My life savings are more likely to gone because of bank goes bankrupt or country seizing my money or corrupted bank clerk stealing my money or hundred other reasons which is not my failure at all. I prefer to be responsible for important things in my live and not trust others if possible.
The first one is directly addressed in this article. Others that hint at correlation are also discussed.
Perhaps related: the Latin words for left and right are sinister and dexter, which obviously have connotations...
Plus the tendency towards later parenthood for those focused on achieving a higher education and/or advanced career.

If someone has a "geekier" career path or educational background, they're almost certainly more likely to have geekier children.
Google doesn't tell you what they know about me, just what the rest of the internet knows and chooses to publicize about me.

Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile, and I bet that's true of a lot of others.
We host Jupyter notebooks online! We don't in anyway replace Jupyter.

So normally when you publish a notebook online - you'd use Github or http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/

Github doesn't allow the interactive graphs, and nbviewer wont actually host the notebooks for you (you need to link from somewhere else).

Let you just type `kyso create "new-study"` and `kyso push "new version"` and your notebook is live online

edit for spelling
Isn't Julia licensed under the MIT license? They advertise being MIT licensed on their website, and their Github repository is also under the MIT license.
It still does, but that doesn't mean you aren't able to create garbage. There is effort to both improve the GC and to make it easier to avoid allocating GC managed memory.
Yes except that any code that looks good with spaces can look equally good with tabs (or tabs-for-indentation, spaces-for-alignment).

I can't see any reason why git would work better with spaces than tabs so that seems like a weak argument too.
Unless it's themselves
Socialism wasn't very economically successful. But, well, we had our (imported) bread aplenty and butter was rationed equally.
Ask HN: Approached by BD guy who wants to help - what next?
Hi HN-ers,

Hoping to hear your thoughts - we've been approached by a BD guy who wants to help us commercialize our technology in the hotel space. He claims that he has relationships/friendships to the top guys in the hotel chain industry. In exchange, he's looking for equity.

Has anyone ever had experience dealing with BD folks? Our challenge has been trying to get into the hotels and we could see how he could be useful but we're also wondering if it's better for us to do it ourselves?
It's true, many republicans run on spite: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html

>But the Obama administration’s plan to expand coverage relies in part on savings from Medicare. And since the G.O.P. opposes anything that might be good for Mr. Obama, it has become the passionate defender of ineffective medical procedures and overpayments to insurance companies.

It's also worth noting that Obamacare was originally a republican idea but since it was associated with Obama, they hate it.
Seems obvious that geekier men start families and have children later.

Example: Bill Gates.
I don't want to put you out, but tomorrow will be the best day I have to indulge in seeing the computing sites.
This seems a little premature when considering that Julia is only up to v0.6, and the language is still making breaking changes.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.6/NEWS.md
> superiority

I'd say it is "oppression".
More improvements to the Logwise logfile analyser
I would encourage "a man", especially when "he" is "a young man" to get educated in a skill that is in demand by the marketplace.
Makes sense, older fathers would be more aware of how technology changes the word and how necessary having at least an understanding of tech is to their offspring's future success.
>Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile.

Why is that? What is it that google knows about you that the rest of the world couldn't somewhat easily find out?

I'm mildly surprised, because I can't think of anything google knows about me that would prevent me from being hired. The only thing is maybe my porn history, which is all in incognito mode anyway, and really not even that shocking in terms of content.
So if I send a patch to Julia, do I have to give them the rights to GPL and a non-GPL version?
The final chapter is a lengthy stream-of-consciousness with almost no punctuation. Other parts of the novel are structured more traditionally.
Yes, it is in your brain. But if you think that your visual cortex receives anything akin to a high fidelity "picture", then you are mistaken. Regarding lossy image compression, you're free to look at something briefly and try to redraw it from scratch. Even if your drawing skills are perfect, you will find that your picture will be filled with confabulations and stereotypes.

> Because of a limited number of axons in the optic nerves (approximately 1 million axons in each) only ~6x10^6 bits/sec leave the retina and only 10^4 make it to layer IV of V1 [22,23]. These data clearly leave the impression that visual cortex receives an impoverished representation of the world, a subject of more than passing interest to those interested in the processing of visual information [24]. Parenthetically, it should be noted that estimates of the bandwidth of conscious awareness itself (i.e. what we ‘see’) are in the range of 100 bits/sec or less [22,23]

Estimates of quantified human sensory system throughput. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Estimates_of_quantified_hu... [accessed Jun 20, 2017].
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Some obviously do.
Is that true? I always assumed it's because on a map and in general, south is associated with down. So "going south" is basically like "going downhill", etc.
Games console and mysterious - never a good combo
But the dryer knowing that it, and most of your possessions, are about to cease to exist isn't really useful information. It doesn't remove the obligation that it be supervised. Dryer fires start quickly, often due to lint build-up, and can start when the dryer is operating in its normal temperature regime. Thus the sensors would often only be helpful in identifying that a fire has started, not in preventing it. Thus, unless the dryer has some way of intervening in the fire (like my admittedly sarcastic halon system), its "smart"ness isn't valuable for this failure mode.