skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reason that contributes to garlic-infused olive oil's danger is that the garlic tends to kill off other microorganisms that could compete with botulism, but it doesn't kill botulism itself.
How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate
> There is a huge pro-vegetarian bias is nutrition studies. That's because there are a lot of people who want the world to switch to a vegetarian diet because it is more ecologically sustainable or they are intensely devoted to animal welfare and not necessarily because it is the most healthy.

This is the first time I've heard people charge nutrition studies are pro-vegetarian. Usually I hear people claiming food industry pressure causes the opposite bias.
The point is more along the lines that the money was grossly misspent in this particular case, not that it being spent on entertainment is necessarily bad. Had the Expo been a massive success, it would still have arguably been a waste, but not a tragic one.

Here the failure is especially glaring since the secondary goal of the event is to make the nation look dynamic and well managed.
I think putting the memchr() in the same if would cause unnecessary calling of the memch() function (and scanning of 2000 bytes) even when any of the other conditions is false! It will work great on a language like ruby, not C.
I supervise the car and pay attention. I am very aware of what the car is doing. It may be a big difference between v1 and v2 though.
For a great, down-to-earth discussion on another great minimalist piece, check-out this great episode of Classical Classroom where they discuss Steve Reich's "Piano Phase"[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-iIHUBpYTc
> "There are no girls on the Internet"

Pretty sure that's actually 4Chan originally.
No need to overcomplicate this: if the photo is obviously different from the person the document is not valid for its purpose

Feel free to submit a photo that confuses the biometric requirements, hope you like the automated border gates rejecting your passport
Storytelling for medievalists – a proposal
Susan Fowler says Uber’s apology to former riders is ‘all optics’
It would have been harder for corrupt officials to get a cut of that pie as opposed to the empty stands.
The historical markers database
> Yes, this is correct. And that's exactly what this opens the door to.

I don't quite understand what you mean. I get that it's technically illegal to swap pixels, but I don't think anybody can tell/would care if that happened. Only if a digitally altered picture can pass both a visual clerk test and facial recognition software will this be considered a problem.

Also, everything is still pointing towards having the passport office make the photograph. Right now post offices do have picture taking facilities - I think that if you just prevented people from taking their own to the post office, or made them take the picture at a place that never let you take possession of the photograph, that would be roughly equivalent. Hardly anybody takes a passport pic at home now, in my experience.
I really want to see one of these put on the road in India and see how it works. That's the real litmus test for me.
SciHub is still technically illegal.
Despite claiming to promote high contrast text, this website is medium contrast at best. Their "black" text is #191919, not #000000 as it should be. Printer toner and carbon black based inks are frequently darker than #000000 on a typical screen, and nobody complains about them being too dark.

In the case of white being darker than #ffffff, you can at least argue that most users have their monitors configured too bright (it's too bright by default because that looks better for a short term comparison, and most people don't change the defaults), so darker whites are compensating for that. There's no good reason to make black text gray.
Yeah, this is pure semantics.

We attached certain names to certain frequencies in western culture and made rules about 'proper music'. It is quite fascinating how culturally influenced we are on what is beautiful sound. Other cultures will have different frequencies and composition rules they consider good or artistic. Seven different D notes is how you say 7 unique frequencies, not one.
> memchr() returns the first occurrence of the byte 0 (your second argument), or NULL.

...What if the first byte is 0? That would cause the if condition to fail, and the output would be treated as plain text.
That's a very clever way of phrasing it, using arr instead of mrr.

Sorry to say, but I think your project is dead. You completely failed to capitalise on the 1k upvotes on your Show hn post.

As a developer, the opacity of the process and the people behind the (ridiculous) low ball offers is a buzz kill. How do I know people will actually pay up?

If my guesstimate is correct, you gained in the low hundreds in mailing list subscribers which is low for such a successful post. Reason? The opacity.

Now I think we can expect the daily spamming of your posts on hn. Sorry to say, none of them will be successful.

Sorry to be brutal, it's what I feel and hopefully it helps you.
I should say, all Teslas currently being made.
Yeah, It's a single pitch class if you want to be pedantic.

As regards to one-ness, I'd be curious to know what proportion of people don't hear the relationship. Cause I guess I'd call not hearing octaves on a piano something like tone deaf, but maybe it's more learned and less innate than I think.
... then what.

I tried to click "Join the Rebellion!"

Nothing happened.

maybe they should start the “Unclickable link revolution”
Maybe this is a feature rather than a bug. Hypothetically you could create a representation of yourself that works for humans to recognize you, but not for facial recognition systems.
Ironically,i find that website slightly unreadable because of very small text font.
Yes. What they are saying. Please. Also, print and physical media that's low contrast and/or tiny in size is stupid.

Most internet-of-things devices, most BD players, TVs, monitors, etc, I'm looking at you, or at least trying to.

Lots of hipster-era print pieces, I'm trying to look at you too.

Also, let me throw in the point that blue-on-black, or yellow-on-white, contrast is hostile to the human visual system, especially in low light. The human eyes' lenses have a smaller circle of confusion (optical jargon) for longer wavelength light. Blue emergency lights on cop cars: couldn't be worse for visibility and dark adaption if they tried. Red please!
Can you point me to a culture whose music doesn't acknowledge octaves? It sounds interesting.
Most antidepressants don't work on kids, teens, study finds
If you wish to understand the negative experiences in your own practice better, I recommend "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha". The author is super-geeky about this stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Core-Teachings-Buddha-Unusu...
This assumes they want to fix the issue, or have a credible incentive to do so.
Not only does disabling CSS styles fix bad design, it often fixes websites that refuse to render when JavaScript is disabled. I also use "No Style" frequently.
Prosthaphaeresis
Snortable Chocolate Arrives in U.S. Stores
Performing studies with low N makes it more likely for spurious effects to pass the various statistical effects. Therefore, it makes it more likely to obtain a result that can be published (despite being wrong).
I must admit, the Atmos looks like something straight out of Neuromancer.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Oric_Atm...
Just a note: it's possible to identify encrypted information by its entropy signature. Forensic tools exist that can scan a filesystem (or a raw block device) and highlight likely locations of encrypted data.
My general feeling is the consensus is that dropping objective-c support is a decade or more away at the earliest. IIRC Latner has said in the past deprecating objective-c was never really a primary goal, one of the reasons for the effort in adding new features to objective-c in recent years to fully support Swift/Objective-c interop.

Apple have so much objective-c code in production, probably more than other firm. Their engineers are still going to need IDE and tooling support for their giant objective-c code bases for many years to come.

As with previous transitions in Apple's software ecosystem, it will also probably depend on what the big bears in the third party software market tell Apple they need - as big as Apple now are, third party applications like photoshop, office etc are still arguably hugely important to the overall health of MacOS especially as a platform.
Wanderers – A Short Film by Erik Wernquist [video]
Tanzanian here and i am surprised find my country in the front page of hacker news.

Summary of what is going on.

17 years ago, Tanzania signed a "bad" contract with acacia mining company[1].

The person who signed the contract on Tanzania side is Jakawa Mrisho Kikwete when he was a minister for energy, water and minerals and Benjamin William Mkapa was Tanzania's president at that time. Mr. Kikwete became Tanzania's president after Mkapa finished his second term.

The currently president is running an investigation and is completely side stepping these two individuals who are at the center of it and does not want them to even be mentioned and thats what is going on.

If he chooses not to talk about them then thats his prerogative but, the citizens of Tanzania should be allowed to and there is plenty of stuff to talk about.

[1] http://www.acaciamining.com/
US Navy destroyer collides with merchant ship – thread on r/navy
This makes me worry a bit about the mental health of the sander, much as I've enjoyed and respected his posts over the years. And I'm not saying that my worrying is justified; I'm not a professional, and I don't know the man. Nevertheless ...

But mutilating your body (I know, tattoos, earrings, gages), especially a functional part of your body, strikes me as somewhat unreasonable, if not unstable, especially in an age and part of the world where the government would have no trouble otherwise figuring out who you are anyway (like, you said who you are when you presented your passport).

And as for that, wouldn't each person's efforts (assuming anyone else would do this) be unique and easily differentiated?
In what way is it insensitive or irrelevant? This article is from 2013. It's an interesting article about botulism.

Is no one allowed to discuss botulism now because someone may have contracted a case in North Korea?
First thing I thought of when I read this was of the two people who thought it would be fun to play with cocoa powder. They died.

http://1000waystodie.wikia.com/wiki/Choke-A-Lot
The security examples were weak. Far more influential were the Ware or Anderson reports, MULTICS security evaluation, anything describing Orange Book-style systematic assurance of whole systems, at least one on capability-security or by Butler Lampson (did access control too), something on monitoring/logging, something on static analysis, CompCert or Coq, and so on.

Things that had a major impact on the problems they focused on which many other papers doing something similar built on or constantly referenced. I'm skeptical of citations in general since those who chase them usually do a high number of quotable papers in whatever fad is popular instead of hard, deep, and critical work. Those I listed are the latter with who knows what citations. The collection is probably still nice for finding neat ideas or just learning in general.
DOOM on the Commodore 64 [2016]
Seconded. I've carried a laptop to China upwards of 20 times by now. The bag has been opened exactly once--by airport security as I was leaving, they wanted to run my assorted electronics through separately.

Only once has customs had the slightest look at our bags and that was when the airline left them behind and we had to pick them up later. I was wheeling out a cart with 4 checked bags, no carryons and that drew the interest of the customs guy. The entry stamp two days earlier also drew his interest. He started running the bags through his x-ray, at that point my wife caught up and explained what had happened (she's a native speaker, I figured it was easier to leave any discussion to her) and that was the end of it. Nothing was ever opened.

Even the day my wife set off a nuke alarm at customs produced no response. (She had set off a previous alarm also, which was resolved with a short discussion. They never checked what the actual radiation source was and the card from the lab that explained why she was hot was sitting at home in the pocket of the jacket she didn't wear.)

Now, if my employer was some big company I would be concerned with espionage but that's all. Since my employer doesn't do anything remotely of interest to the Chinese I don't worry about it. Besides, we stay with relatives, my laptop has never seen a Chinese hotel room.
“Strangeness Minus Three”- R. Feynman discusses progress in physics
The Ask HN thing is so bizarre. For the longest time I thought everyone just hated Ask HNs and so immediately downvoted them.
Christ. Grind out two drably mediocre bits of three-chord moon-June-soon pop for no greater purpose than to fill out an album, and they will be better than that piece.
I really want to see how cars deal with the massive code explosion as they have to account for things like tak tak gangs.

I posit now: "as the problems with automated cars become evident, solutions provided will tend towards Skynet as t increases."
There's some evidence that perception of consonance and dissonance is innate:

http://www.brainmusic.org/MBB91%20Webpage/Evolution_Zentner....

Restricting your notes to octave intervals makes dissonance impossible, assuming you're using timbres made with vibrating strings or columns of air, or simulations of them.
I think it's because tabloids harped on that it was going to be awful for 2 years and the swirled on ANY info after the fact that could criticize it.

Obviously it was not a sensible financial investment but it was a significant cultural touchstone (and the space is still in use as well as being iconic)
Scientists urge U.N. to ban nuclear weapons
I developed a medium-sized cross-platform strategy/roguelike game in 100% Scheme
You didn't address anything the GP said.

The more variables you test for, the more likely you'll get a low p-value by pure chance.
He was probably referring to the 1848 revolution.
The attack looks like a layer 7 flood of HTTP requests with random but normal looking user agents. It is being mitigated using the firewall IP block in my specific case as the person is using a single specific dedicated machine.

I was also pretty surprised to hear that these requests also count towards bandwidth billing.
In landmark case, woman found guilty of manslaughter for her texts
Should be easy. Just look for ALGOL, LISP, Pascal (or Wirth), BCPL/C, ML, Haskell, Prolog, and META II. They should all be there since tons of CompSci work and many commercial products came from these. About six also establish a new or altered paradigm of programming, too. If it doesn't have most of them, then the list is bullshit. If it does, then it's solid.

Note: They all came way before 2006, too. Should've been easy for authors to find. :)
It's been hard to measure since turning on Argo coincided with a larger rewrite of the backend. Overall performance is up but the real culprit might have been more of the optimizations on the origin.
Yes. I would strongly recommending using something like hired. It's dead simple takes maybe 20 mins to sign up. Then once they approve you, you'll get a few inquiries from companies and if you're not interested you lose nothing and if something interesting comes along then you've got your out it should take a few weeks and you should know whether or not you want to stay with SC by then.
What kind of hardware supports all this signal processing? FPGAs? GPUs?
You've got to be able to understand it, though, to make sense of market capitalism. Basically if the stock went up the price of that acquisition plus two billion dollars, that is a very powerful price signaling and a difficult command to disobey.

It means there's an opportunity cost: all other things being equal, it would cost Amazon two billion dollars in market capitalization to NOT do whatever the hell Wall Street THINKS they're going to do with Whole Foods.

Maybe the market thinks they're going to use them as bases for grocery distribution: reward, the cost of acquisition plus a bonus two billion. Maybe the market thinks they're going to gut the company, fire everybody, and then there's one less competitor for what Amazon means to do with groceries! Maybe the market thinks they'll take the existing Amazon grocery stuff and rebrand it Whole Foods and the rabble will buy into that for a time.

The point is that this money really isn't free: it's conditional on whether Amazon does what the investors think they're gonna do, with the acquisition. If Amazon fails to do that, the market capitalization can evaporate.

My own hunch is that the market thinks Amazon is super efficient and acquisitive, and that Whole Foods is weak and inefficient and misguided. As such, the expectation of greedy and amoral investors is that Amazon will take over and whip Whole Foods into shape, maybe even fire everybody and replace 'em with Amazonians, and that will make Whole Foods 'better' and justify the exercise. They certainly aren't buying into Whole Foods' 'enlightened' memes: that has no place on Wall Street.

So I'm guessing it's BECAUSE Whole Foods has been 'enlightened' that the prospect of wrecking that so motivates investors. They figure that the Amazon way is clearly the winning way, and they figure there will be a BIG difference in how things are done, and it's a difference they characterize as 'good for capital', so there's a synergistic effect that makes it 'free' for Amazon plus a bonus. And then Amazon is obligated to do what's expected of them, which I think is probably kinda predictable.
It really depends.

If your origin has poor upstream connectivity then it might.

We're on our second Argo experiment. So far it's actually made little difference for some locations and significantly decreased performance in others. Definitely not worth paying for... for us.

You can just enable it, test your performance metrics and disable it.
There was also Acorn and their contract with BBC for the Micro.

Never mind Amstrad.

As it stands i get the impression the Oric-1 at least was pretty much a Spectrum clone. And likely not completely compatible.
The firewall logs for the blocked traffic show it is all being stopped from a single PoP in France. I think this is just a billing limitation but one that might have been put in place on purpose. I honestly hope they change this soon as others are bound to experience similar scenarios.
The 'inelastic' fees aren't the result of overt price fixing, but the professional rules imposed by the bars. At some point, lawyers don't take on the duties for less than $x00.

Lawyers on the internet will tell you a lot for free, and look at all the documents you want for $20/hr, as long as you don't hold them responsible for putting it in front of a judge. And no matter how many excess lawyers come out of law schools, fees don't go below $x00 for most lawyers.

In litigation, those rules are probably necessary for the benefit of the system. In transactions, there should be fewer.
My long-standing theory on why this started is because the default brightness/contrast on monitors is usually far too high for the average environment --- they may look great sitting on the (often also brightly-lit) store shelf, but are eye-wateringly unbearable in the typical office or home. Thus designers started reducing contrast in a sort of software workaround to what is actually a hardware problem, and those of us who adjust our displays for more comfortable viewing get unreadably low contrast.

My monitors are set to only 12% contrast/10% brightness on one and 20/30 on the (slightly older) other to compensate for wear, and it's plenty enough. It's also probably better for longevity to not be driving the backlight at full intensity.
Of the ones you've been through.

I've been in most of the Iron Curtain countries--most of which searched us in far more detail than anything I've gotten from the US.

And I've been subject to some fairly through searches in Africa looking for anything that carried those forbidden words "Product of South Africa". Never mind all the stuff written in Afrikaans with the forbidden words blacked out.
Google is roughly 19 years old, right? In 10 years Reddit will be 22. That's a pretty high bar you're setting.
> I get that it's technically illegal to swap pixels, but I don't think anybody can tell/would care if that happened.

This was an extremely important part of the workflow we set up long ago, to ensure integrity. Even compression artifacts were 'out', this posed some very interesting challenges in controlling the laser printers available at the time to output grayshades (which they really did not want to do), early attempts at dithering did not meet the required standards.

> Hardly anybody takes a passport pic at home now, in my experience.

Interestingly enough, my partner at the company that I worked for in the 80's (and who is technically retired) has just started up a new company to make those pictures with your smartphone.

http://www.photo4id.com/
Also with the minor but fun benefit of paying $5 each time you toggle the on/off switch.
Free Wi-Fi for South Africans on World Wi-Fi Day
Yeah, it killed my Chrome on iOS; there was no way to click the "close ad" button, and then it crashed my Chrome session. I restarted the browser and went back, but probably will just skip foreignpolicy.com links in the future.
Whether an algorithm is AI essentially depends on whether the objective is 1) human level difficult and/or 2) heuristic.

It should probably be both to avoid moving goal posts. That would make even chess algorithms still AI.

Self driving cars and image recognition are both definitely still AI.

"AI" does not typically mean strong or general AI.
> This may or may not be true, but it does not matter since the approach WL takes is to release materials in full without editorial discretion/bias.

Where's your proof of this? The DNC leaks certainly had a lot of missing emails that may have served to provide context for conversations that were used as "evidence" of misdoings.
I could see 3-year degrees, but that's it.

Having gone through an engineering program, the first two years were prerequisites which were entirely required before anything useful was learned starting in year three.

And it wasn't just extensive knowledge gained, that was the least important part. It was learning how to think. There was quite a lot of mindset change. It just isn't feasible for many kinds of engineering to babysit high schoolers for 5 years before they become useful. (undergrad graduates aren't useful when they start either).
Utterly mediocre. As expected.
this is actually an interesting subject and one should not jump on quick/easy answers.

- is a photography really a snapshot of what something looks like? seems to be an easy one until you look closely at the history of technology behind photography

- if photography is a faithful representation of something, does it mean there's not "creation" involved? how can photography be considered art if it's not creation?

- "a passport photo is supposed to depict a snapshot of your face" and "all photos are fiction" are not mutually exclusive statements

- and so on