skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the school that's gathering and releasing these statistics, it's just a graduating student. It's not hard to imagine why he'd be interested in it.
I think, this is a relevant comment as its a very direct way of achieving the same result - avoiding Facebook (or the way it affects us).

I got rid of my account few years back. Best thing I did. And I'd recommend that to most people.

PS: Also, why would you ruin a good meal (HN) by having it in the toilet (FB)?
I think the current system actually meets your criteria for fairness quite well.

First, at this point it's reasonable to expect passengers in the US to know that their booking is subject to availability in some limited number of edge cases. It's not particularly common but it's also very public knowledge that it sometime does happen.

Second, both parties have a cost to rebook - passengers pay a rebooking fee, airlines pay a bump fee (in a voucher if the passenger is foolish enough to accept that). Additionally, the rebooking fee for a passenger is significantly lower as a % of ticket cost than it is for the airline.
this was already discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755429

AND is currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14760375

Please help keep down the noise and check for previous posts before submitting!
It's true. Those instructors were all amazing, but Kaplan started asking them for their college transcripts to determine their pay scale (lol), and they realized the fight has already been lost.
L2ARC and the ZIL can be great in many storage situations, but not all.

We have a TrueNAS appliance with a 480GB L2ARC and a small 120GB ZIL (never fully used) used for image/document storage by our ECM suite. Our metadata usage on the filesystem is astronomical due to having billions of small (<16KB) files, the L2ARC may not do a whole lot for actual data (since most of it isn't hit frequently enough to be eligible to be stored in the ARC/L2ARC) but it's instrumental in maintaining performance with such massive amounts of filesystem metadata.
If by "fails" you mean goes into liquidation then, essentially, yes. Uber's JV stakes, like its other assets, would be used to make creditors while (under the supervision of a bankruptcy judge).
The Great Lakes megalopolis has more people in it than the Boston-to-DC Northeast megalopolis.
And if all my purchases are to unique vendors, I gain nothing?
What if the major blood donation organizations like Red Cross and United Blood Services are actually run by vampires that secretly use the youngest donated blood for themselves, while giving the older blood to hospitals??
Strong work! CloudFlare may be on their tail with Apps. https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/
I feel like monthly is too much cognitive overhead. Why not $25-$30/year? Or have a free version with ads + the paid version without ads. Paid subscribers could also get extra content or access to you.

Also, if you're getting started the priority (after good content) is to get lots of subscribers. Maybe give free premium for X referrals.
The significant thing about CAR-T cell therapy is that it's not very specific to the type of cancer - all cancer cells have damaged DNA that leads to the productions of antigens. Leukemia is the low-hanging fruit because it's easy to inject the T-cells back into the body right where the cancers cells are. It's hard to tell whether you could get enough T-cells to diffuse out of the bloodstream to have an effect on something like prostate cancer. It would be a real breakthrough if you could overcome that hurdle, because then you would have a treatment that works on many different cancers without much modification.
A Falcon Heavy has close to the capacity of the first SLS version, and about half the later versions. But you can launch 20 Falcon Heavies for the cost of one SLS.
The inventions did not arise merely from the minds of the engineers but of the problem constraints placed upon them. Space research has been beneficial for technological development because of the exotic problems which have created solutions with wide applicability.

This is not to say they would have not arisen through land based research but invention needs inspiration as well, not just financial incentives.
i feel like an ai capable of assembling a team of humans for tackling a task will have better things to do than assembling teams of humans for tackling tasks
What you're saying reminds me of http://www.timewellspent.io/
> f no such law exists, and everyone refuses up to like a million dollars, than what, the plane just sits there and nobody leaves?

Or maybe, the plane leaves because it's full, and everyone has boarded?

It's beyond me why anything thinks it's a good idea to hold up a full plane because someone else wants to board.
For the base system or for everything? I doubt they moved the ports to compiling to LLVM.
"All "important animal life" (whatever that means) in the oceans being extinct by 1980."

The 'all' was an exaggeration, but if herring fishing in the North Sea wasn't completely stopped from 1977 to 1983, herring likely would have become extinct there, fishermen would have moved to other species, and things likely would have ended disastrously.

Also, to this day, the EU limits the amount of fish caught in its waters because, unregulated, the North Sea would have long been effectively empty of cod, herring, etc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Fisheries_Policy)
And on the other hand, old people's poor decisions are often blamed on their age as well. The elderly are prime targets for most scams because they are perceived as more likely to fall for them.
Energy map of Westeros shows who is the strongest
>All the other details for Mars can be done with variants of what already exists or will fly shortly (commercial crew vehicles or even Soyuz, ISS modules for a transfer craft, launch vehicles like the EELVs used by the military or Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy, in-orbit docking and propellant transfer which is commonly used on the Space Station, etc).

I'll grant you a lot of that, but do you really think re-using ISS modules for transfer craft would be remotely feasible? The vastly different radiation regimes between LEO and interplanetary space make me doubt that this would work.
If you don't change the rate of block creation - then the rate of blockchain growth is proportional to the block size. If you increase blocks - then the blockchain will grow faster. This is kind of obvious.

But yeah - the size of the blocks does depend on the number and size of transactions and if you don't have transactions to fill up the block in full (i.e. so that its size is just under the maximal block size) - then the transactions will be the limiting factor.
Compare what you can get today: an Intel CPU without a hyperthreading problem (fixed in a microcode update months back) or an AMD CPU with a hyperthreading problem (being investigated by AMD for 3 months).

Edit: thanks, s/unacknowledged/being investigated/
> perfectly clean sensors

I saw thin layer of ice appear on parking sensors after few minutes of driving in snowy conditions, triggering "close object" warnings. And cars get dirty all the time, I wonder if cars will end up with separate wiper for each sensor.
>I gloriously await from teenage hackers 10 years from now release CRISPR viruses/worms

You're going to be waiting awhile.

The hard part about biology is that it often doesn't work. To get things working even semi-reliably you need tens of thousands of dollars of sensitive equipment and reagents. Equipment and reagents that would catch the attention of interested authorities if you bought it as an independent.

Computer viruses are the result of a tractable ecosystem and a low cost to participation. Biology is largely untractable, with a tremendous cost of entry.

Yes, CRISPR helps us insert DNA, but it doesn't change all the sensitive steps up to the point of transformation. Even then, CRISPR is limited to the cells being treated.

A custom biological virus is what you are imagining, with the ability to both insert DNA/RNA and with a capsule that protect it during transmission. Unfortunately we are likely centuries away from being able to code a completely custom life form, and even then, the cost and training needed to create such life forms will be cost prohibitive, leaving only corporations and governments the ability to do so.
Oh I know - I tried so hard not to read it because I hate opinion so much. But I couldn't! I just kept reading and reading. Then I thought, Damnit! fuck you politics. Thats it, I'm never reading again
I doubt the ITS will cost remotely that much, because it won't be a source of grift for the citizens of Alabama.
> I regularly see 8 cores over 50% utilization.

What happens if you close background browser tabs? :b
Vaccine, Not Killswitch, Found for Petya (NotPetya) Ransomware Outbreak
>they eliminated the need to visit the ride area to get the pass, which is part of what made the system fair

The time spent walking to the ride can be considered part of the time you spend in line. So they shortened that.

That's something my dad taught me once, by putting popular rides far from each other in a park, you should realize your "time spent waiting for the ride" is not just time in the line, but the time it takes for you to get to the line also.
Yes, definitely! We wanted to make sure the first set was highly curated and effective, but we do plan on releasing engineering kits in the near future.
Landing humans on other planets is the wrong way to go, at least at this stage of technological development. You combine tele-present robots with upcoming quantum teleportation of photons and you have instant communication between the drone on Mars and the human operator on Earth. Its going to cost even more to terraform Mars to make it even remotely do-able for human habitation.
No. I'm OK with real news being unpleasant as that's the real world we live in.
We already outsourced it to Alabama, and they stole 90% of the money.
It was more next door to horse country than actual horse country. The big rallying point was that it was going to encroach on the civil war battlefield nearby. Disney actually had a large buffer between the park and the battlefield. Now what would have been a preserved forest buffer is either a housing development or is planned to be one. In fact almost all the land that was going to be Disney America is all housing developments which have brought more people and traffic than Disney America would have and less jobs and tax revenue.

Years before Disney America the same people that led the opposition to it blocked Legoland from opening in the eastern half of the same county. Again the area is now all housing developments and shopping centers.
I hear what your saying, taken individually you'd think a "lost art" would literally be an art no one remembers how to do. But like a lot of compound words and phrases in English, its actual meaning as used is different. In my experience, its pretty much always used in the sense of the article.

(SNL had a whole bit on this back in the 90's: "a chickpea is neither a chick nor a pea, discuss")
Congratulations! The Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) deployed here is very much unlike the standard 'small molecule' drug that 'disrupts a bad thing', and much more like a rationally engineered tool using the body's very own technologies to overcome a particular limitation. In this case, it gives the patient's own immune system a notion of what the cancer looks like.

If you want to build your own 'living drugs' we've built a digital infrastructure to allow you. Though we just made public our generic protein design software (thanks ShowHN! [1]), we're employing the same underlying digital infrastructure to build, evaluate, and manage CAR designs in high throughput [2]. The drug approved here was painstakingly designed by hand, while we think the technology now exists to permit many more such advances to be created at a much more rapid pace.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446679

[2] https://serotiny.bio/notes/applications/car

Design your own 'living' protein drugs here right now: https://serotiny.bio/pinecone/
(and let us know what you think, and how we can make it better!)
Okay great, but how did the scientists pronounce it?
If everyone took that approach, the increased business would vanish and they'd all be leaving money on the table.
Yangshuo has more westerners than other places. If you find yourself in gunagxi again, definitely check out liuzhou, it's Guilin's grittier twin.

I'd like to visit Kashgar someday. Northern xinjiang was really nice to tour around also, except they didn't let me out of the van when we reached the khazakistan border (no foreigners allowed).
more portability, and some of the santiziers that clang has (ubsan, asan). They have gcc equivalents or ports but being able to use more of these kinds of tools is a good thing in the end since it'll allow more bugs to be found without an exploit.
I have seen this with other types of organizations like when bands go on tour (such as Radiohead) they created an organization to manage their tour in addition to their album release. I have also seen this in Anime where a company is formed to produce anime. On the other hand a bunch of movies have production companies that are tied with the Director and that company is not transient.
Low precision ML is less than 8 bits. 32-bit floating point is the highest precision used.
It is very frequently used as a derogatory term on conservative radio and television shows.
I wonder who's loss it is that you don't visit due to a potential minor inconvenience.
Drivers now considered employees of Uber in South Africa
TBH this is pretty much how most freelance work is these days. However tying the end of a contract to the delivery deadline is usually hard to achieve.

My last contract was an initial 2 months that eventually lasted 7 months but I agreed in the last month to leave the moment the work was complete.

If it wasn't for the 18 UI improvements the product manager came up with in the last two weeks, I would have had a nice break between contracts. :/

What I have noticed that there seems to be a skeleton dev/architect skill set within these organisations with a focus on sales/marketing. In effect us freelancers facilitate fast delivery of a product, but do leave the resident dev to hold the fort while we head off onto pastures new.
What a terrible chart. By overlaying rather than stacking the areas it looks like almost all federal expenditures are now "entitlements"! Here's a stacked area graph since 1962, which makes clear that we've basically traded military spending for health care for old and disabled people:

http://www.painting-with-numbers.com/download/document/184/1...
>The 20 year thing mentioned by the above comment only applies to very specific government jobs.

No you are completely incorrect. For public sector jobs the loan forgiveness happens after 10 years. Under the income based repayment plan anyone who makes payments for 20 years will have the remainder cancelled.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
Nope. In fact, I distinctly remember one of my earlier frustrations of high school was asking the teacher how to do square roots. She said "with a calculator." "Yeah yeah, but how to do you do them by hand?" "You don't, you just need to use the calculator."

I've never heard of anyone below the age of 30 learning in school how to do them manually.
I don't think we've proven that quantum mechanics will allow for FTL information transmission.
I guess I'm not the only one having a problem with development on our low/slow core portable computers (MBP in my case).

Just the other day a friend of mine voiced his dismay over the fact that "there was a point in time - a sweet spot seemingly - not too long ago, where we could work effortlessly on an (underpowered) Macbook Air / Macbook".

I'd have to echo that as the compounding tax on single / multi core CPU resources has grown substantially over the last couple of years - both through a "renaissance" of more compilation heavy toolchains on one side as well as the (dare I say it?) "microservices as a monolith" effect through explosive adoption of container based "architectures" on the other (docker-compose anyone?).

After more than a dozen very happy years on almost as many Macs I'll seriously get back to developing on a powerful Linux workstation – looking forward to less computational overhead over Docker on both wetware/hardware alone.. I'm really just waiting for Threadripper to make that happen.

My new iPad Pro will be there for administrivia / communication / ideas (very much looking forward to the highly pencil informed iOS 11) – of course I'll also keep my MBP to get it out of the drawer for the occasional asset manipulation with Affinity Designer (the 2 core Broadwell with 16GB RAM should last for many years for those kinds of tasks).
What country?

And is the scenario you described available everywhere in the country? I'm imagining that the cities must manage whatever infrastructure there is that connects your wall outlets to the various ISPs – is that right?
What are usually the goals for getting an MBA in the first place? Until now I only heard bad things about MBA. But HN is also a start-up related site. I'm curious about other points of views.
9 Priorities on the Road to Digital Transformation
Your approach is equivalent to the one described in the article, the only difference is that they use base 10 instead of base 2.
Ask HN: How to make convertibles more attractive for seed funding in India?
One of my friends is raising seed funding of $300k via Compulsory Convertible Debentures (CCDs) in India under the following terms:

Share class for seed-stage investors: Series A preferred stock
Liquidation preference: Yes
Pro-rata rights: Yes
Valuation Cap: $5m
Discount rate: 1% per month until Series A or 18 months, whichever is earlier
Maturity Date: 18 months
ESOPs: 10%
Equity Dilution at seed funding: ZERO

Please suggest modifications.
It's iconic photography!
If I remember the story right it took Intel ~8months to accept that it was an issue and fix it.
> hire a bunch of the smartest engineers away from private companies

There would be no hiring away. That's not how the government works. They'd contract the private companies the engineers already work at.
Nature paper say 2.5 kilobytes of data, and I guessimate a few Kilobases of sequence.
Yea, their research will now actually ship.
Not having the kernel locked into a compiler monoculture for one.
I don't understand your objection.

The title of the press release is "Scientists Design Solar Cell That Captures Nearly All Energy of Solar Spectrum". That title is not "Scientists develop new multijunction cell", but instead implies they've designed something novel.

First paragraph: "Scientists have designed and constructed a prototype for a new solar cell that integrates multiple cells stacked into a single device capable of capturing nearly all of the energy in the solar spectrum. The new design converts direct sunlight to electricity with 44.5 percent efficiency, giving it the potential to become the most efficient solar cell in the world."

That describes a multijunction cell, without mentioning that the idea is decades old. They describe an efficiency of 44.5%, without mentioning that other multijunction cells beat that efficiency years ago.

I think you need to reread the article. Mentioning multijunction cells in the fourth paragraph is not a sufficient description of prior art.
As you can see from my sibling comments, people who make too much money to qualify for income based repayment (because they'd be paying more than the standard plan), people who went to college years ago, and the generally uninformed just don't know about income based repayment plans.
> No, CRISPR will not be used be teenage hackers in the future to infect humans and keep them hostage. CRISPR can’t be “spread” or “transmitted” and is a local technique to introduce DNA snippets into the main genome of the organism

I think most people, if not everyone, already got this.

> viruses have already had DNA editing machinery for millennia

But humans never had it. That's probably what creeps everyone out.
Work is doing cupcakes! I can't participate because I will be at a funeral though. :(
3...2..1.. Prion disease!

Seriously though, how would you prevent such automated designing from having unintended side effects?
> Clearly there is some sort of profit motive for the airlines, but how can this be legal.

Because no one has done anything about it. There are any number of scummy beahviors which are still legal.

In this case, if (say) 1% of people never show up for flights, that's incentive for airlines to over-sell by 1%. Because the case where everyone does show up is the 1% of the 1%.

i.e. it's more cost effective to fudge things and deal with problems later.

The issue is that they have shitty procedures for dealing with that 1% of 1% situation. They still want to screw the customer out of every penny, where they could be telling themselves "We made our money on the other 99%, If we give this guy his money back and some more for inconvenience, we'll still come out ahead".

The insistence on screwing the customer no matter what is deeply ingrained in corporate culture. Money and bad marketing be damned...
That would explain the Fermi paradox
This is one of the answers to the Fermi paradox.
aaa All hail the expansion of the servant proletariat here to serve my Ayn Randian self-actualization in silicon valley, which will soon have a hidden force field to hide it from the lazy government who just want to live off of our holy, valiant, idealistic capitalistic labors.
I've heard about some hedge fund trying to work on something along these lines. I don't know enough about the program to discuss its technical merit, but it's broad goal is to systematize management, and build really detailed profiles of employee strengths and weaknesses in all kinds of disciplines, specifically for the purpose of team formation and management.
Thank you very much for that information. I was wondering what one can do if the email address is actually spoofed and not coming from the domain it seems to.
The acronym for directed acylic graphs is DAG, not DAO. That's also an incredibly vague thing to be "based on" and seems more like an appeal to "impressive technical sounding name that actually happens to be extremely trivial and something people learn about in a first year undergraduate mathematics course".
Browsers have a long backwards compatibility story to deal with and the interplay of synchronous errors and the synchronous error event is a part of that. Just because you don't see a need to introduce a new event doesn't mean bright minds didn't think about it.
Google’s new “Backup and Sync” app lets you back up your desktop to Drive
appreciate that you go so directly after evaluating a business idea, but it's a bad one. if you were hellbent on making this work, you'd have to approach it from a different angle: Instead of "paying" for a "newsletter" (nobody gets excited about those things), you'd offer "membership" in a "community of uplifting individuals" or something along those lines. Personally, this kind of marketing newspeak turns me off massively, but I still remember a time when some flat design, sans-serif font and copy of this sort would get me excited. Since it's practiced by pretty much every startup, presumably somebody still likes to hear it.

also, i sell a jekyll theme that you can buy here: https://qwtel.com/hydejack/
> But until we have that, we need Network Neutrality

"We have X, which is bad, so we need Y to counteract X, though Y is also bad" is how these things proliferate. Net Neutrality is - as you state above - a lipstick on a pig to hide the fact that ISPs are granted local monopolies in the US.