skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costs for retrieval from Glacier are insanely complex and can be shockingly high.

It's best not to use Glacier as a price comparison because it's really misleading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412886
Farms and villages just get abandoned, decay, and are lost to time.
Dying+Star+Reveals+Star+Making+‘Dust+Factory’
If you're asking yourself the question "Why Should I Start a Startup?" than you sholdn't start a startup.
> Let me guess... another hard fork to undo this.

Nah, Vitalik is not affected by the bug this time. You only hard fork, when your money are stolen.
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Overall, one of the simultaneously amazing and depressing things about modern medicine is that treatments that were the gold standard only a generation or two ago now look as barbaric as leeches and bloodletting (leeches are back in vogue, anyway).

Considering that by some measures we have made hardly a dent with our 40-year war on cancer (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/sorry-but-s...), I feel confident that this is but the start down the road of immunotherapy.
Cops arresting and charging people with a crime for selling Bitcoin in the U.S
>A shorter way to say this is "If a person feels like X because people assume he's X every day, then he feels like a X for a superficial reason", which is almost directly self-contradictory. If people treat you like X every day, that's likely going to make you feel like X.

I think where we disagree is that I think that this is not an absolute, but depends on a) what people, and b) under what circumstances and for what reasons they assume you're X.

If it's only strangers that assume that, and because it's more or less statistically sound to assume it (that has nothing to do with you specifically) then

E.g. if people assume I'm a jerk for wearing some t-shirt message, but only because they don't know me and don't know I wear it ironically, then it wouldn't make me feel like perhaps I'm a jerk -- just that they don't know me and/or they don't get the joke. If on the other hand people I know imply that I'm a jerk, that would actually hurt me.

But maybe all this is over-analysing (well, not maybe, it is).

In a sense, someone living in Japan who is not Japanese, it is indeed a foreigner. Unlike the US or UK, etc, Japan is an ethnically cohesive society -- most of them are not just born there AND raised there, but also of Japanese ethnicity for millennia. So it makes sense not to consider a caucasian who lives there even 20 or 30 years as Japanese. But the key is probably whether they feel welcome.
Being obsessed with metrics is the exact reason something like this would go through.

All companies that design to metrics instead of vision always ship the worst UI/UX crimes. This is the ideology we have to thank for things like the lightbox sign up forms that block or lock out content if you try to browse without an account on FB/Pintrest etc.

You're assuming the metric Google is designing for is still how fast a user gets what they want off site. What if the metric they're designing for is how long someone spends in the Google ecosystem?
> Ask the clickbait mills and the sheep who retweet them...

Surely the irony must be intentional.
Or, in other words, (at least some part of) the medical industry is driven by the neoliberal ideal that it's never anything else that's the problem, only yourself, and you're meant to deal with it with minimal impact on anyone around you?

Work must never be an issue, or we might have to treat workers well. Society and societal structures must never be an issue, or we might have to care about each other on a more than skin-deep level and drop this whole "we are all independent beings who are completely unaffected by external factors" madness.

At least some part of mental healthcare is essentially a system designed to help people cope with a society which does horrific things to them, and then gaslights them into believing it's their fault for not coping with it.
Partial sync, or whatever you'd call it. You can't add or edit the desktop bookmarks and bookmarks added in Firefox for iOS won't show up on the desktop.
Medical Researchers Reverse Brain Damage in Drowning Victim
A meta observation around the reaction to the word "exceptional" based on some posters' comments:

- lomnakkus: "It's not very likely that you or your family are that 0.01%[1], but it is very likely that you think you are exceptional."

- deepGem: ", being frustrated with day to day life doesn't make one exceptional."

I think the problem here is that Mz's chosen word of "exceptional" makes it look like a superior attribute and self-aggrandizement. (This triggers a reaction: https://i.redd.it/1sd91qydx16z.gif)

So it seems like the word "exceptional" has too much positive connotation and that in turn triggers some to "knock the poster down a few pegs".

Can we find an alternative word that doesn't trigger that reflex? For whatever reason(s), a lot of entrepreneurs can't seem to conform to the typical 9-to-5 job. Maybe it is:

- ADD/ADHD

- DRD2 "thrill seeking" gene[1]

- mild sociopathic disorder[2]

- rule-maker or rule-breaker personality instead of rule-follower

- <some other dominant attribute>

Whatever the cause is, don't label it "exceptional" because it will lead to replies correcting you that "you're not exceptional".

How about another word such as "misfits"? If you're a person that sees no compatibility for careers such as programmer for BigCo, or doctor, or accountant, or teacher, etc, you'd self-diagnose yourself as a "misfit".
Those careers are all noble endeavors -- but they also all feel "wrong" to the misfit. In a conformist-economy, the paths for the misfit earning a living is very different: If you're a "creative misfit", you can write novels or be in a rock band and people overlook your eccentricities. If you're not artistic but see business opportunities, you become an entrepreneur.

Is there a better word than "misfit" that captures the spirit above but is also sufficiently self-effacing to not make people think one has a superiority complex?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=drd2+gene+entrepreneur

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2162-6057.1987....
It’s Time for Humans to Start Looking at Other Planets to Live On
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tl;dr pretty fucking bad.

This article use the presence of particles associated with mining found in ice cores of European glaciers to conclude that mining basically collapsed and that it was in fact "pretty fucking bad".
It works pretty well on my side, but I get stuck dices that never land
Mkosi – A Tool for Generating OS Images
Is the Cloud Ready for Speech APIs?
What specifically are you thinking of wrt performance evaluation and Algebra?

I do a lot of that and the statistics requirements are obvious. I'm having less success identifying the algebra.
But she didn't understand

She just smiled and held my hand

Rent a flat above a shop

Cut your hair and get a job

Smoke some fags and play some pool

Pretend you never went to school

But still you'll never get it right

'Cause when you're laid in bed at night

Watching roaches climb the wall

If you called your Dad he could stop it all
Subtle Sexism
What a great illustration of the one of the problems with math education:

Q: If I am driving at 20 miles per hour, it takes my vehicle 20 feet to stop. If I am driving at 40 miles per hour, how much distance will it take my vehicle to stop?

A: This can only be answered experimentally for a given car, tire condition & road condition, but a rough estimate would be to apply the square law naively, giving an answer of 80 feet, but of course that's very approximate. The only correct answer that can be given is "more than 40 feet".
The disruption of the Model 3 (or any Tesla car so far) has never been about being cheap, but just more appealing than the crappy electric cars from before while being, on average, marginally cheaper when you consider the costs of fuel+maintenance. For this only reason the entire premise of this article is already crap. This whole article sounds a lot like a Koch Bros funded piece (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicles_u...).
Most people will just use Chrome instead.
Doesn't take much to connect a mechanical keyboard (assuming you meant keyboard not keyword) to an iPad. And the keyboard shortcuts on the iPad are becoming much more powerful.

You can of course connect an external monitor to an iPad, but not a lot of applications are taking advantage of this ability yet (for extended screen space).

But realistically, iPad won't be ready until they support the mouse due to "gorilla arm" as it's called. Getting the iPad to eye level for proper ergonomics require a lot more effort to raise your arm to interact with the screen.
Operation: neutrino
Seriously, "the Blockstream faction"? Jesus. Nearly everyone in the bitcoin ecosystem, myself included, want to get segwit activated for the technical improvements it brings to the table. This has nothing to do with Blockstream.
The paper this is based on is open access: https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2017.6
QWERTZ also has Q next to W.
Super Phantom Cat 2 to Release on iOS and Android in August
Zec is the company that runs zcash. Zcash does not has full privacy and is not enforced by default.
I think it is, that's the "free market" key value, going as back as Adam Smith (e.g. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.").
This transforming drone can fly like an airplane and spin like a seed
What rock have you been living under? You could put one TV on MSNBC and one on Fox News in 1997 and 2017 and it would be about the same result.

I'd also like to remind you, it's not just quality of coverage that matters, it's what you cover.
The Black Death killed almost everyone settled (ie not a bedouin) in Palestine. This is important because no one can claim their ancestors lived on the land for a really long time. The region which supported million (perhaps even millions) two thousand years ago had less than 150K people around 1400. It won't even double by 1800 and for a good reason: given how arid the region is/was, not tending it constantly made almost all of Palestine into a barren wasteland except a few places like the Valley of Jezreel. It was just a (very) dusty backwater of the Damascus Eyalet of practically zero political importance. That has, of course, changed in more recent history.
The layout of this page is strange. My browser window isn't wide enough to display four boxes in a row, so it displays three in one row, and then a fourth in its own row but at full width. At first glance I thought there was something different about the fourth box, but it should be with the other three.
I would recommend transferring your BTC to a wallet that let's you manage your own private key such as https://strongcoin.com
Object-Oriented Java Primitives, 0.11.5 released
Parinfer – no more separate modes?
Dog API
Content Marketing in Popular Online Media: 5 Mistakes of Startups to Avoid
I think that's the opposite, Renault was making consumer market electric cars before Tesla (and more accessible as well).
Ask HN: What's the safest programming language at the moment?
I've looked at Rust and it loks pretty good, I'm getting type safety and compile time help with memory management.

Is there another language that I'm not aware of that has even more safety features?
I expected it to be a strategic push towards their more interactive content aggregation feature built into Google+.
Apple on Collision Course with Governments Seeking Access to Encrypted Messages
.. and there are 10's of thousands of people out there who can just roll their own drones. Doesn't mean DJI isn't going to succeed - just that this is where they'll get their competition from.
If you are interested in a really good counter example to your assertion you should look at Judge Alsup https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170325/23492137003/judge...
It looks like the development of that extension stopped in 2014 but it's still bundled with Firefox in Ubuntu https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xul-ext-ubufox

That could explain why it doesn't support multiprocessing. I disabled it because it doesn't do much. This is a list of its functionality from https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/what-are-the-ubuntu-firefox-...

* Enable searching for missing plugins from Ubuntu software catalog

* Add the following options to the Help menu

Get help on-line

Help translating Firefox

Ubuntu Release Notes

* Set homepage to Ubuntu Start Page

* Display a restart notification after upgrading Firefox

* Add ask.com to the search engines. You can uninstall this if you prefer to use a pristine Firefox install.
In the west, you don't bribe the cop, you let them do his job. "Problems" like this are being "solved" in another way.
Brother, you disappoint me. This doesn't help anyone. Helping does. We can't always find a way to do that for someone. But we can trust that God will. And when we focus on what God has done for us, we all too easily ignore the inspiration God sends us at those times when there is something worthwhile we can do.
Trying to make processed crap seem like a high end product.
> I need pretty basic setup (a db server, a redis one, one for the rails app and a CDN). I am not a sys ops expert but with some work I can set these servers up.

> I would like to receive advice for people who can understand my position as a solo developer (with a basic European wage) and who can't afford to spend 100/more euros/month for a project until it pays for itself alone.

Heroku is $7 a month (not counting 1000 hours free) for a dyno, $9 a month for a 10M rows Postgresql database and Cloudflare is free so it's very affordable to start with in my opinion. How much is your time worth? You can make it a bit cheaper with AWS probably but you'll pay for it with your own time and it'll probably be less robust unless you know what you're doing (e.g. coping with server failure, backups, rollbacks, security, deployment process, scaling, logging).

I like Heroku because it's simple. You can mostly just focus on your code, leaving server and infrastructure configuration to the defaults and know it's going to be robust and secure. AWS and even Digital Ocean have a lot of customisation and complexity which just means more things can go wrong which will eat up your time when you could be coding.
Anatomy of Ransomware, Part 1: Chimera – Hackers-Arise
When it’s convenient to carry a family’s worth of groceries on a skateboard, perhaps your argument might make sense.

Regarding a skateboard.. seriously? Effective isn’t just about energy consumption, it’s about time as well. A five mile trip on a skateboard doesn’t sound very “effective” and it’s pretty much impossible in a place like India. Riding a bicycle in India (or a motorcycle) is also rather ineffective unless you want to be scorched by the unrelenting sun and covered with the ubiquitous dirt and dust. If you have a child, it becomes even more ridiculous.

For a single person going from point A to B with zero cargo, a bike or motorcycle might be effective, but as a primary means for family transportation, it’s ludicrous.

“Effective” means safe, reliable and multipurpose, not “smallest possible footprint.”
Traditional contracts aren't immutable in the same sense though, right? They can be appealed, annulled, ignored...
I'm not an Apple person by a long shot (full-time Linux desktop / Android user) but I'm struggling to think of an outright bad product that they've put out in the past 15 years or so... I guess the Watch had its shortcomings and the specs on their computers are falling behind the competition but everything they put out seems very well designed and engineered.
Context. They're not so wide-spread in some countries (perhaps the America-centric countries) and yet still quite extant throughout the rest of the world. Local context is everything.
If you can't prove the correctness of your program, you shouldn't run it. Why are you concerned with proving the correctness of arbitrary programs? Can you give an example of an Ethereum-like program that can't be proven correct?

Here's how reasonable Ethereum contract development should happen. You construct the contract, either in some high level language or in bytecode. Then you prove, using some reasonable formalism (TLA+, Isabelle, paper, symbolic execution, or whatever), that the contract does what it should do. Then people who want to trust the contract look at this proof.

This is not at all hindered by the EVM being quasi Turing complete, because at no point do you have the question "How can I mechanically verify halting of an arbitrary program?"
or summon nasal daemons http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html
How many of you or people you know would run away from new treatment trials ? I've been surprised to see a few people getting more than annoyed at suggesting it. "I'm not a guinea pig" was the recurrent answer.
Line of sight in code
Yet another homegrown PHP-sque language. The Fractal Of Bad Design is actually a pattern.

My bet they never took any PL course, and have very vague understanding of what consequences certain design decisions would produce. "20 years of PHP coding" or something like that.

Any decent PL course would emphasize the first-class-everything (procedures , obviously), lexical scooping for proper closures, strong but dynamic typing (no implicit coersions) etc. No matter which sect one belongs to - ML or Scheme - these are universal fundamentals, the well-researched foundation.

PHP/Javascript coders usually do not understand the principles and implications behind languages they use. Otherwise they would develop a healthy aversion, like to a tasteless, vulgar porn.

Sane people with PL background would use a dialect of Scheme as a DSL (the numerical tower and all the nice things) or at least Lua (because packers are afraid of parenthesis and see nothing behind of them).

Actually, Scheme (or a simplified dialect such as the one inside Julia - flisp) would be almost ideal choice for financial DSLs.

For those who are cosplaying a PL expert (with 20 years of PHP and Javascript coding under their belt) there is a good read:
http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT3/
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I disagree, Solidity is really not easy to learn. It is easy to screw up, though.
Makes you wonder if countries with good quality newspapers and media outlets are the exception rather than the rule.

Maybe the US just kind of lucked out there.
> the West's obsession with malaria is patronising

It is and it is also a consequence of history: Malaria was the unexpected enemy western cultures had to fight in their colonies. The one thing a bullet to the head or chopping off slaves' hands[0] won't fix. We are afraid of malaria and therefore try to eradicate it. Problem is: People who live in malaria-infested places usually have more important things to worry about. Imagine, you are a hungry African and some humanitarian aid workers come by in air-conditioned 4WDs to help you: With fscking mosquito nets![1]
What do you say? "Thank you, the 0.82 kids I can statistically expect to die from malaria[2] will survive. Now all my 7 kids can starve to death! Thank you!"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#Economy_durin...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/africa/mosquito-net...

[2] I made up that number.
Hmm, what if a government agency with warrant / hacker can force a specific consumer of this service to be fed with known "random" values?
The secret life of USC med school dean
A simple bacteria reveals how stress drives evolution
Ola driver kidnaps doctor for ransom, arrested after shootout
It seems to me like Firefox has a lot of tiny delays everywhere, and they're just long enough to be distracting. It's like going back to a hard disk after having used an SSD.

On the other hand, Firefox Focus on mobile seems to run pretty fast and comes with enough ad blocking to make the web bearable.

If it had either tabs or a way to open multiple processes then I would probably ditch the other mobile browsers.
You might like The Master of Go - humans, but a similar arc of the master in fading health facing an opponent for whom the game means something quite different.
Thank you for succinctly summarizing all my frustrations with Solidity. I am developing a fairly complex smart contract (i.e. not a crowdsale) and it's fucking painful. Trivial computations that would take less than an hour to do in any other language take days to implement correctly.

Debugging is also a nightmare. There's no way to step through function calls or set break points, even though it's basically just Javascript. Multiple classes of bugs will generate the same "invalid opcode" error that is only visible at run-time with no indication of what line even triggered the error.

This is why I invested in the Tezos crowdsale. Smart contracts are a great idea but there's gotta be a better way.
Researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot
I don't understand how decentralizing file storage and storing my files on people's laptops / desktops can come even close to efficiency and performance of a centralized storage service with powerful servers on fast network with 99.99 uptime.

Can somebody explain to me how in theory could this decentralized storage beat something like AWS in efficiency, performance and uptime? I just think big beefy servers in dedicated data centers with fast and robust uplinks/downlinks should be better than consumer hardware on unreliable slow networks with shaky uptime?
I think NIST implemented the random beacon when they announced the WTC towers report?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAv-114bwM
Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It?
The thread is about if they allowed updates over 4G, so not a solution.
There's nothing unique to Christianity here. It's just very easy for someone who's found what he needed to imagine that that's what everyone else needs, too. It's also a lot easier, I think especially for Christians but by no means only for us, to go that way, than to realize - and live up to - the fact that what we're truly called to do is not merely to speak easy words, but to take difficult actions; not to profess an answer to someone's problems, but as best we can to be that answer, even if only for a minute.

Our faith, in short, requires that we live for others. That's hard to do, and most of us are not good at it. My brother errs. I'm sorry for that.
The thing is, cryprocurrency people usually think of themselves as smarter and better programmers than the rest of us. They even co-opted the term "crypto" to mean their toy currencies instead of actual real life, useful cryptography.

But yeah I admit, cryprocurrencies are good toy projects on which to learn real crypto, that's true. But then it's time to move on. And not to pour millions of dollars into that
IEEE Spectrum 2017 Top Programming Languages
I got a new landing page + docs.
If you have any feedback/opinion is super welcome. Especially about the docs.

Thanks
The Man with the 150 Year Old Camera
I didn't switch from Firefox to Chromium because Google puts the "Chrome" name all over the place. I did the switch because Chrome is 2x faster than Firefox.
Web standards are supposed to work everywhere the same. The result of having a vast majority with a single rendering engine is having pages use quirks of this engine and not following standards. (edit: also a security risk when a vulnerability affects most people)

The average user does not care but it should care. People like us should inform them since we can.
They mention in the article that the skin cancer appeared to be a metastasis from his bones. I expect that all of these cancers stemmed from a single source in his bone marrow.
Get rich quick on hacker news?