skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this possibly true? I've increased my vertical jump by nearly two entire feet through years of training in volleyball. Everyone can increase their vertical just like they can increase their squat. It's a full body compound movement.
Would you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for a better quality of discussion here.
Earlier discussion of the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810041
The messy world of JavaScript package managers and their scripts
OpenBazaar is a completely p2p network. Since there's no middleman, there's no infrastructure to pay to maintain. People buy and sell stuff directly with each other, so it really is truly free.
Neuromancer, but of course.
> It's interesting that the article starts with the line "True bilingualism is a relatively rare thing". That's probably the case in the US or English-speaking world, but definitely not the case in many other areas.

"True bilingualism is a relatively rare thing" is a truly bizarre statement for most of the world, I should think. FTR, I was raised "truly bilingual" -- I would go to kindergarten with kinds who spoke X, speak Y with my parents and immediate family, try to speak Y with the butcher until he told me he didn't understand X, then speak X, and be understood. (I think I was 5-7ish, so this is obviously from recollection by my parents.) I'm still fluent in X and Y, although one has suffered in pronunciation terms, but that's mostly through general atrophy from disuse, not because I can't do it, somehow.

I think the exception may be exactly those countries who have some-sort-of-English as their native language (UK/Canada/America/etc.) They can usually afford to not bother with the others.

... though I do think it's a massive shame in terms of general cultural deveolpment. Again, English-speakers don't have this, but the whole "grammtical gender" thing is a massive eye-opener[1], especially is you manage to learn several different languages that not only have different geners for specific things, but also have different numbers of genders. (E.g. Danish, outside of specific persons, has two genders. German and French have three genders -- which, tellingly, don't actually agree across various nouns.)

[1] Not to anything fundamental, just to how absurd language is as a construct.
Ideological flamewars are definitely not wanted here, and incivility (which you both cross into) doubly not wanted here. Would you please not do these things on Hacker News again?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820286 and marked it off-topic.
iGem always produces some fascinating projects, amazing high school kids! : http://igem.org/Main_Page

There's also this BioHacker Space in SF that seems to have interesting meetups: http://biocurious.org/projects/

Although it's not auto-biohacking, some group created yeast that produces thc, allowing for marijuana infused beer
Temer corta Fies dos mais pobres e bancos selecionam beneficiários
The high-end MIFARE-based systems would be - there's actual crypto happening between the reader and card, no way to bruteforce that.

However most keycard systems in the real world use a dumb unencrypted card that broadcasts an ID. This is vulnerable to sniffing, cloning as well as bruteforce (as this project demonstrates).
Something I've always wanted to do (16 bit as well, even) but never got around to. Thanks for the writeup!
This thread was full of generic ideological comments but you and another user took it into ideological flamewar, which is something we definitely don't want on HN. Please don't do this again, and especially please don't cross into being uncivil, as you both did.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820194 and marked it off-topic.
My wife is truly trilingual in Arabic, English and French. Coming from a 80s Lebanon childhood. I.e. you wouldn't know that she isn't native in each language. It's probably less rare outside of UK/US/etc.
Are there any Niantic employees active here on HN? As an engineer, I would be very interested in hearing some first hand accounts of some of the technical problems Niantic's engineers have had to deal with, not necessarily just for the Go Fest, but for the game in general. To the extent that they're allowed to talk about it, it would be very interesting to get an AMA style take on some of the challenges.
I've said for years that using an ORM is ultimately a piece of tech debt.

Same point, far less inflammatory.
Better runtime and tooling plus lower entry bar hopefully.
Sounds like a decent chunk of the population could deal with living on a Mars colony :)
Using neural network to automatically solve captchas
I'm honestly surprised no one has said it yet, but you shouldn't be thinking about tools at this stage. You should start on Monday and see what they are using, identify where it's not working and propose a solution.

It's simply to early to think about the solution at this stage.

(With that said I manage a remote team and we use kanban on trello, heroku and slack. We only meet as needed)
A classic, the information about Vietnam isn't really relevant but I still find it interesting. Ran into this post back when I was busy implementing ORM's in umpteen different languages myself, and I remember that it motivated me to keep looking for better ways. Lately, I got the chance to sidestep the whole issue and implement my own persistence from the ground up in Snackis (https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/tree/master/src...). It is still based on tables and records, but having them available as first class objects helps bridge the gap considerably.
I had a colleague who did the same. Size 10 on a 27" 1440p monitor. Whenever I had to pair with him I always had to ask him to increase the font size.

I also have myopia and astigmatism, but if I use a smaller font eventually my eyes get tired and I get headaches. My optician suggested I wear slightly weaker than my prescription glasses for computer work which helped a bit, but still I find it more comfortable to stick to my size 14 at 1.75x scaling :-)
I understand it is not a documentary. :-) lol. I just love that movie.
Fast MySQL Backup and Restore Using Mydumper and Myloader
The Ingress events have worked as long as players are distributed around a city. When everybody was in a single location (for example a shard), stuff would fail
Pretty trivial. Also pretty expensive.
Seems interesting but I couldn't get pass the language setup on Mac.
Share what you typed in this Ask with her. What you have written is pretty open and reasonably stated.
That seems like an extraordinary claim. If the bears were eating moths for 10 hours straight, they'd have to catch and consume more than one moth every second to hit that number... I must be vastly underestimating the amount of moths in these caves or the amount they move around.
Bash-Snippets:  a collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users
> fluid system

Reminds me of the P-51 radiator. One tiny leak, the slightest battle damage, and the engine was toast. I have to admire the badass mofo's that flew them over long stretches of the Pacific. The P-48 (air cooled) would keep running with a lot of engine damage.

My truck sprung a leak in the heater hose last week (the fan belt ground a hole in it), and I was able to limp it the mile home before all the coolant was gone and the engine melted, but it wouldn't have gone any further.
That's in the 2.0 version (about to launch), but the current version doesn't support Tor.
"I think trying to classify languages or code as strictly OOP, procedural, functional, etc. and shunning "hybrids" or even basic common-sense pragmatism for dogmatic purity has had the greatest negative effect on productivity."

That's it. Rigid ideology is the real problem. In software engineering and other areas too, eg politics.
Depends on the need. For attracting mates (or warding off challengers) it's the former. For survival, it's the latter.
I suspect they find the moth's hiding places and eat them at will by the mouth fulls.
What are the practical differences between special vars in Lisp and dynamic vars in Clojure? The obvious ones are that `def ^:dynamic` can't be local to a function, and that Clojure uses a separate form, `binding`, rather than `let`, to set their values.
I feel that if I do weight training that involved the squats or dead lifts I would crave for food insanely. I don't have that crave after a run or rowing. That's the reason I'm staying away from weight training. Does anybody experience the same?
IPFS is smart enough to handle changes per-object (maybe per-block even?), so you don't need to change everything, unchanged things still get seeded by the people who already had them.
How stable is 2.0? Could I start playing with it now if I'm only taking a look around?
I've got to call out the false information in the article: "While fat in the diet is not the best thing for humans".

When will the anti-fat brigade stop?

Still an insightful look into possible environmental cycles we've missed because we have devastated the North American bear populations for centuries.
> System for Cleansing Organisms from Water[5]

Oh great, another new age "cleanse." /jk
> While fat in the diet is not the best thing for humans

Why does the article say this?
I work in aging research. A very nice set of notes you have there. The field is not really thinking in this direction. By "picking" mutations, I suppose you mean gene therapy.

As you probably know, NIA does not consider aging a disease, just a risk factor for other diseases. So we cannot possibly test anything remotely risky in humans for the treatment of aging, and that certainly includes both transplants and gene therapy. We have to backdoor our way in via stuff like Alzheimer's, dementia, sarcopenia, etc, and it seems unlikely that most gene therapy interventions that target aging per se would have enough efficacy on that kind of disease to justify the risk. They are too advanced already.

Even so, this is the kind of thing I think about while driving to work, frustrated at the slow pace that occurs while working within the system :)

I am inclined to agree that the problems with transplantation, both biological and mechanical, are mostly solvable though. I think the kinks will have to be worked out in other fields where prosthetics, surgery, and gene therapy have a better perceived risk/reward ratio than aging.
Understanding of Computers and Procrastination: A Philosophical Approach
Most 11yos don't have access to hard drugs. This significantly lowers the barriers to access for a tech savvy child or teenager, who is not equipped to properly evaluate the various risks in either the transaction or the drug itself. Many parents will not understand these markets and their kids will. It is obviously not directly responsible for anyone's actions but it changes the landscape considerably, and puts a finger on the scale of underage drug use.
Maybe a better phrase would be "project to a string", similar to how taking a picture is projecting something from 3D to 2D?
Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf]
> Energy is abundant now.

Good luck paying for energy equivalent to ten times your food budget, and the time taken to charge.
Looks that way. Rather, it's missing from the stretch distribution altogether because of the bugs filed against it [1].

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=anki
Wouldn't some simple search heuristics solve this?

EDIT: there surely is a library with good search algortihms to utilize for the search-box, please share =)
"Adult bilinguals mix their languages all the time; it’s a sign of language ability"

I have to agree with one of the Indian commentator that this does not signal language abillity but rather the lack of vocabulary.

Me and my wife are doing our best trying to raise our children multilingual (three mother tongues).
The use of drop in words only means to us that we dont know the right word in the current speaking language.

That aside, I think that you are truly bi/multi-lingual when you can express feelings effortless in any of your languages equally.
Entropy man. You think that a whole bunch of neatly aligned atoms would stay that way over time?
Fourth paragraph.
The development pace is pretty feverish, so no guarantees, but you should be able to play around with these week-old test builds:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases/ta...

Edit: Note that this uses Testnet Bitcoin, not real bitcoin yet. Also, purchasing might not work since we're still making breaking changes somewhat often.

We're about to enter the alpha testing phase so if people want an invite let me know.
Since you seem confident that your understanding of OOP is better than that of "misinformed" people like me who don't think that coupling state and function is completely orthoganal OOP, can you explain what isn't completely orthoganal?

A succinct definition of OOP would be nice to combat the misinformation you're complaining about.

The description of OOP provided in the Wikipedia article on programming paradigms [1] matches my current understanding of OOP.

> object-oriented which groups code together with the state the code modifies,

Maybe that's a little too succinct, because I think it's also worth noting how [2]

> In OOP, computer programs are designed by making them out of objects that interact with one another.

I certainly wouldn't consider coupling state and function completely orthogonal to OOP though. I doubt most other programmers would either.

I guess this might demonstrate the inertia of the so-called misinformation, but when the majority disagree with your definition of a term, you might want to step back and consider whether you're the one who's misinformed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming
Of the options below, select the most common mistakes you've come across?
At one time, I was in that object, relational, etc. stuff. Some people wanted all that stuff combined into some one, unified thingy.

My conclusion: The whole was a mess. Better just to leave the separate pieces separate.

One
of the pieces was, sure, relational data base.

Then there was the international work on CMIS/P -- IIRC common management informaiton system/protocol. This work seemed to want to model the world and everything in it, but really the goal was how do define and specify data for real time computer and network system management.

This work was object oriented and, thereby, open to a lot of confusion: Really, what the work was talking about was just some data, say, describing a printer. So, there be fields with data -- character strings, numbers, arrays, etc. All it was was just data; that is, there was no associated code; no subroutines or functions to call; no applications programmer interfaces (API). The object part was that the definition of data from/for printer A could draw from, inherit from, the definition from printer B, etc.

The next part was something we called Resource Object Data Model (RODM). So, the idea was that in real time management of server farms and networks, there could be several different programs trying to manage different aspects of the work, communicating with the same computer or network node, and causing conflicts. So the idea was to have a system, RODM, to present to all the programs trying to manage a single view of the servers and networks to be managed, a single view that would handle locking, exclusive access, cache data from the servers and networks, etc. So, RODM was a hierarchy, say, something like a file system hierarchy. At the leaves were objects that described parts of the servers or networks. The objects were active in the sense that they could run their own, if you will threads of execution, set timers, respond to timers, send and receive messages with other objects, the servers, the networks, programs doing the management, etc. All the hierarchy and objects were dynamic in the sense, much like in a file system, they could be created, changed, and deleted all during real time operations. RODM had some curious, tricky stuff: Could reserve an address space just for data. An address space for code could jump into another address space for code and execute code there. Etc.

One role for RODM was for programs to do system management based on AI (expert systems) to have RODM to talk to as model of the servers and networks being managed.

It flopped.

I contributed a little: Part of such management is detecting and correcting problems in real time. Some of the problems are ones never seen before. So, I worked up how to detect those problems, with known, adjustable false alarm rate, etc. So, that was to be a much better approach to anomaly and early problem detection than we could expect
just from the usually intended uses of expert systems.

But, really, as for the OP, it was all too complicated.
I think I have the same thing. I really like mine, but without the PC mode the picture would be terrible.

It's really an awesome hidden feature that turns this TV into a really good monitor for the money. Especially for coding and productivity apps.
> “There is certainly no research to suggest that children need to have languages lined up with speakers or they get confused.”

This goes against the mantra that each parent should speak to their child in their native language, which I hear all the time but I've always thought was complete bs. As parents we're both fairly proficient in each other's language and speak to our children in both languages depending on context.

I find the "rule" that you speak to your child in your native language to actually be very bad because it artificially splits conversations across languages, and also gives the kid the impression that you should speak your native language, whereas the whole point is that they should be comfortable speaking any language.
Why would assume they would be eating them one by one?
I can't stand 2560x1400 -- I swear by my 30" 2560x1600 (16:10) displays at home and at the office. The 16:9 ratio is just too skinny for anything but movies.
What you're describing is an anxiety disorder.
Findings like this is why I find it very unpleasant when people start talking about destroying whole species because they are pests to humans.

The latest one I've read about is the idea that we need to get rid of all mosquitos. They are pests to us but I wonder how many other species depend on them for food and how will the mosquito's extermination affect the web of life.
I was born in Poland then at age 11 I moved to Germany and later at age 27 I moved to Sweden. My sister is two years younger, she had it easier to learn German but she doesn't want to speak Polish if sho doesn't need to. I don't have that. I had also big problems learning English at school, because I had to learn English in German which I didn't understand in the beginning, and later I was always behind.

I was really bad in English when I moved to Sweden which helped me to learn Swidish faster because people wouldn't use English to communicate with me, which swedes do all the time if you speak English but not Swedish.

I learned English later by mostly watching TV, which is only subtitled in Sweden, because I wasn't able to read that fast in Swedish, I started listening to the English original. Later most of the studies here at university were in English (at least in Computer Science), so I was forced to use my English and improve it. And later at work the office language was English too.

Anyway, I do even have an anegdote from my Grandfather who was captured by the Russians during WW2. He was in the Wehrmacht, but because he was from Silecia he spoke some polish too, which helped him during his time in captivity in Siberia. Because he could translate, they gave him bigger portions of food, so he always said: "You never know where life leads you and every language you speak is like an extra hand."
the moths hide under rocks during the day because it is too hot
Slight correction, as far as I know they were using OSM, not Google Maps.
>Well under 4GB usage.

I idle at 3GB by just having Spotify, chrome, Discord and a number of other communication applications. Perhaps on a new install of windows, you'd be under 4, but over time usage always increases well over 4GB. Even 8GB is not really good anymore.
there was a good issue of National Geographic dedicated to Yellowstone that covered this last year:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowsto...

Basically, the grizzlies there build up on moths and nuts. The moths are 65% body fat.
Watch what modern JS/WebAssembly can do, it's mindblowing
Hmmm, on one hand Golang/generics seems to be a fairly popular discussion issue on (at least) HN.

On the other hand, it's weird (to me) that people seem to seriously be considering Golang 2.0, when the current (1.0) doesn't even have debugging working 100%.

Debugging on Linux with non-CGO seems ok. All other situations though have various levels of breakage. :(
> He learned the language primarily from us parents, there are almost no Russian friends around, so his language is very adult, I'd even say academic. For instance, he normally does not use the word "круто", Russian equivalent for "cool", he'd rather say "remarkable".

As a Greek-American who grew up speaking both, I agree with this, although in my case I'd characterize it to some extent as more "old-fashioned" than "academic". I learned Greek primarily from my mother, but it was especially reinforced by my grandparents (because they didn't speak English, so I had to speak Greek with them). As a result my level of fluency with Greek of the 1930s-70s is better than with contemporary Greek, especially when it comes to colloquial terms and nuances like intonation, pauses, implications, gestures, etc.

I think the first time this really became clear to me is a few years ago when I was on a bus in Crete full of elderly people (mainly 80+), and I realized that listening to their conversations, I felt really 100% fluent in Greek down to the last nuance. Usually, when surrounded by Greeks who are younger, I think of myself as more like 80% fluent and miss many nuances, so being on this bus full of grandparents felt like some kind of fog was lifted and my comprehension went up to near-perfect.
Does this version still require the vendor to keep their PC online 24/7?
In what way do you suppose we've lost "color identification"?
"bottom dollar" probably means the cheapest price. When resellers come, then the prospective customer can gain more knowledge through the bargaining and negotiation process. This is bad for Twilio salespeople because they can't push for a higher price.
We've gotten a few reports of this now, we're looking into it.
If you don't feel like watching the whole thing, watch part #2, it's incredible (starts at 20:10).
They use Google for the base map everywhere except South Korea, where they do use OpenStreetMap.

There are rumors that some game features (biomes and such) are influenced by features in OpenStreetMap, but no clear statement from Niantic, just a bunch of weak correlations (like OSM having a path where a bunch of people go and try to play the game...).
Would love to see an actual speed version of this... what's the hurry?
I did not notice this and I tend to be a fairly heavy user.