skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great quote: Recently it has been shown that in particular Moraxellaceae get significantly enriched on cotton laundry during a domestic washing process. I guess laundry detergents aren't so great at lysing bacteria!

This paper didn't specifically mention how sponges were microwave sterilized, but one of the linked references specified 1 minute on "high". (~1500W, 100% duty cycle, you'd guess) Presumably that wouldn't get any higher than 100C. Would pressure cooker autoclaving work better? There are, of course, bacteria that can survive autoclaves, but I don't know of any that are also pathogenic or coliform.
The keywords were reserved in the latest spec for just this purpose.

I don't think the rationale for their inclusion is a good one. The inclusion of such keywords in languages like C++, Java, etc was well-meaning but a mistake in retrospect. In the presence of global variables and direct assignment these keywords are the PHB approach to information hiding. They require ceremony and diligence to achieve true encapsulation. It's a murky situation at best.

See Bob Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuno5RZNeE&t=2325 and Bertrand Meyer on Eiffel: http://se.inf.ethz.ch/old/teaching/ss2007/0050/slides/03_sof... (Bertrand Meyer coined the Open/Closed Principle and is the developer behind Eiffel).

At this point though I see their inclusion in JS being almost inevitable. Just another feature to ignore.

It'd be nicer if they would look to add syntax for higher-order operators like compose to the language instead of this.
Yea it can be. But really depends on both the book and the reader. And what you're trying to get out of it.

Some readers are excruciatingly slow, so 1.25 just makes them sound normal. Other readers speed along, so 1x is like 1.5x on other books.

Some books need to be played at 1x if you're gonna follow the intricacies. Others with neither dense logical argument or thick, nuanced soul, like bestseller nonfictions where you have a sequence of little stories to illustrate "what studies have shown", can profitably be listened to quite fast, especially when also allaying their boringness with a Geometry Wars or Kingdom Rush addiction. (You might say, why read them then? Personally: as an excuse to play Kingdom Rush.)

If I'm not too into a part I'll even go faster than 2x to pick up the gist unto it catches my interest again.

Really, it's just like normal reading. Any displined reader has different speeds depending on the how much time the material is worth (Adler's How to Read a Book gives a nice model).
It's sort of how evolution works. It might not be intelligent but it can be a very successful strategy.
Universal Basic Robot is a reference to the concept that we can provide everyone a service robot that can perform all the actions necessary to ensure their housing, food and healthcare needs. This is a new idea - the prospect of creating such a versatile helperbot is not new however. Just the concept of giving everyone one instead of giving everyone a stipend.
The day I hacked Troy Hunt's website to delete my data
Do they ever choose any radical literature to test their beliefs? Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread would be a good choice.
Same reason lock picking is a hobby, because people enjoy solving "puzzles."

The author got permissions of the target.
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And the Alibaba stage was bigger back then.

It's sad Yahoo chose to throw in the towel and spin itself off as an internet company rather than use the Alibaba stake to resuscitate.
Great feedback. Adding editing permissions for other meeting participants outside the owner is definitely something we can do. We're also working on integrations with conferencing tools like Zoom, UberConference etc. We know how important it is to work well with the tools you're already using.
Maybe this is the reason he did not appreciate people revealing his identity online (basically DOXing him for fun, some journalist did it if I recall correctly). It really sucks when somebody that is trying to do well (stopping the WannaCry Ransomware as he did) is detained, even though we don't know more details at this points, this hits him rather personally and probably not for the good, I am very sorry for him and I hope he gets out soon and that all is well.
> The Dems are a center right party shifting rightward over the last few decades in line with the general rightward shift in most national officeholders.

That's not entirely true; the Democratic rightward shift pretty much stopped around 2008, plus or minus a little bit. It's dominated by a center-right faction, but it has a substantial (and resurgent over the past ~decade, after having been in retreat since the late 1980s) faction that is somewhere between center-left and left (but not hard left.)
Yes, agreed. A community that says it wants to be about equality and "meritocracy" would welcome the tough critique. Just like an elite athlete or an accomplished artist would welcome true feedback. Those who want to improve and ultimately excel in certain areas welcome vigorous crit., so they can incorporate that into their training and become better for it. We can't have a meritocracy without equality of opportunity; opportunity includes opportunity in every level of education, and yes within the hiring process. We can have the argument about "affirmative action" and how it might disadvantage a deserving white male who might not make it into the top 100 students at a med school because spaces were made for women and people of color, but then we would have to really think about the society we ultimately want to have. At some point, the rampant inequality needs to be aggressively tackled (with joy) and the knowledge that we are improving the system by promoting diversity and equality of opportunity at every level. I can't think of anything less tedious, as a previous commenter had mentioned. If one is actually interested in leveling the playing field, one would find a wealth of information (with a simple internet search)to support the idea that there is such sexism, racism, and ageism in tech. But the interest has to be there. Maybe more productively, one could examine one's own insecurities about why one would not want to support drastic measures that would help us all get closer to equality of opportunity. Because when people don't support rigorous and thoughtful critique in a discussion format, it really makes one wonder why they are so afraid that these ideas might be true.

And to the person who mentioned that my tone might be aggressive or somehow unpleasant: people have been saying that to the marginalized when they yelp in pain for centuries. Of course, no one wants to hear about how and whom they are actually hurting. They would rather those people play nice and exhibit a welcoming tone. I don't recall anyone worrying about their tone with respect to marginalized groups in tech. They rudely shoot them down, for the most part. That is why women leave tech in droves. And it ain't enough for us to shake our tiny fists by "not buying products" or whatever from these companies. (although, feel free to so) I'd rather the community know that there are actual people within their ranks who call bullshit. I'm sure there are the formerly incarcerated (remember Aaron Swartz would have been among these, as would Snowden, and Assange- so let's not forget about those people being considered "criminals" as well- just a reality check) women, people of color, veterans, and people over 35 in tech who read these threads and don't feel comfortable jumping in. I write here for them, hoping that one day, they will feel supported and comfortable speaking out.
I believe all of them have won either a Hugo or Nebula.
As a member of both communities I can tell you that I perceive a genuine difference in attitudes. The crypto community says, "Don't write your own crypto." The aviation community says something more analogous to, "Absolutely, write your own crypto! Just don't use the results of your first effort for anything mission-critical until it has been checked out by someone who knows what they are doing. And oh by the way, here's a list of people you can contact who will be more than happy to help you." (In fact, the aviation community literally encourages people to build their own airplanes!)
> moderate personal behaviors to tune macro results between social harmony and everyone being a low level sociopath.

I guess I'm not sure what you mean by that. examples maybe?
There are solutions, but people want a syntax solution for it. Personally, I think that private instance properties should be a separate proposal from static and instance properties. That way, people could decide if they want some of it, or all of it.
This is good advice, but if you think you may be arrested, you should not visit at all.
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Is it possible for aliens millions light years away to see dinosaurs on Earth?
My defense against adding new UDIDs was that each voting station is reporting their total # of people who voted, and you have the station associated with the UDID.

If you add new UDIDs, you'll throw off those numbers.
> She was arrested for participation in this act of protest and then Patreon made the claim that her activities could have caused loss of life (which is ridiculous).

You don't get to go into other countries, break their laws, and expect private corporations to back you to the hilt. They are under no obligation to put themselves at risk for your beliefs.

That isn't a reasonable expectation by any stretch of the imagination. Using the logic you are applying, you believe Patreon should be compelled to support the sales of "software" in the US even if its malware on the basis of free speech.
They also have their own electric grid, separate from other major interstate grids.
I guess it should be pointed out that voting computers have effectively been banned by the constutional court in Germany in 2009, probably in part as a result of that framing.
Probably even better advice :) .
My favorite isn't an approximation, it's Euler's formula for calculating pi: pi/4 = arctan(1/2) + arctan(1/3). Use the Taylor series expansion for arctan(x): sum for n=0 to infinity of ((-1)^n)(x^(2n+1))/(2n+1). ie x^1/1 + x^3/3 - x^5/5 + x^7/7 - ...

Not hard to memorize either part. Slow to calculate, but the accuracy is only limited by how far you expand the Taylor series.
I would say that the burden of proof is on me to prove that Binary AST is a significant real-world performance win and that it will not cause undue burden on JS engine implementors.

I don't think the "burden of proof" philosophy requires me to disprove every other possible approach, right?

I explained my reasoning for my statements in the comment itself. If you believe WASM could address this use case better, and are so inclined to build a toy proof-of-concept JS-to-WASM compiler, I'd be very interested in seeing it.
I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously. I tend to binge read, but I probably average 4 books a month.
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Huion tablets are way cheaper than Wacom of course ;-)
Relatively small video game channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ManyATrueNerd

https://www.reddit.com/r/ManyATrueNerd/

He puts out 2 videos a day, most averaging 45 min. Lots of good series plus frequent new game previews.
If I may recommend a book that really will make most people change their perspectives it's "The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy"

Rarely have I read a book which made me think about a subject I thought I had a pretty good understanding of completely different. And if that is not enough it's probably one of the few books which doesn't have a moral/ethical agenda but merely seeks to inform about how the crisis happened (and what money really is)

For me it's one now on my list of books about important fundamentals in this world.

https://www.amazon.com/End-Alchemy-Banking-Future-Economy/dp...
As you know, election administration is more than tabulation. Maps, candidate filings, voter guides, voting records, designing ballots (artwork), poll books, canvasing reports, etc.

I traveled my state advocating open source software. I called it "citizen owned software). It's a slum dunk with voters (tax payers). And it's how things used to be.

The gatekeepers (blockers) are the election admins who outsource to their cronies. They even invent make-work just to have more cheddar for their cronies. Like signature verification and ballot tracking.
I tried to send a zipped archive of some code on Google the other week (old project), it rejected it, so I zipped it again with a password, it still rejected it.

In the end I had to throw it up on the web with a strong password.

Not sure if they the prior attempt unpassworded set a flat for the subsequent attempt but Google though is almost superhuman when it comes to blocking malicious stuff I do wonder what the false positive rate is like.
> It requires remembering 6 digits

If you remember it with denominator first, then it's 113-355, which is relatively easy to remember. :)

> and it is just a little bit more accurate than directly remembering 6 digits of pi.

It's accurate up to one digit more than that, which is why I called it surprisingly accurate.

But I agree that there is hardly a practical purpose to such numerology.
AT&T has already gotten approval in Illinois to disconnect the remaining 10% of households on POTS, pending final FCC approval.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-att-landline-end-i...
> 1.5x - 2x speed

Since I mostly read non-fiction I find 1.5 a bit too fast if I want to really comprehend stuff without hitting replay all the time, so I just hear all books at 1.25 and it works well for me.
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Does this scale in a large code base? What's the effect on memory and performance of hiding most of your fields by closures?
Patreon is starting to take off for open source, too, which is great. I set one up and it offsets a good deal of the infrastructure costs for my projects. Many FOSS Patreons have pretty low figures - please go looking for them and support your tools!
WannaCry Researcher MalwareTech Indicted for Allegedly Creating Banking Malware
Not on Windows 7+ it isn't.
That's a great tip. Thank you.
Yes, and this is kind of the point I'm trying to make. "Don't write your own crypto" is the wrong message IMHO. The message should be something more like, "Absolutely, write your own crypto, because that's the best way to learn, and here's a pointer to how to get started. Just don't use the results of your early efforts for anything mission critical, and if you want to know why, read this..."

And, taking my own advice, here's the link everyone should be pointing to:

https://cryptopals.com
Where in the US do you find a single line unlimited plan for $30/mo?

I'm not emigrating to save money on my phone bill.
First, she was just reporting on it. Second, she states that she hasn't given any Patreon money to Defend Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtImwK5TI4g
A closer look at Ripple, the 3rd largest cryptocurrency
Why are private properties so sorely needed? Ruby is an OOP language, and gets along just fine without it.
> 100% mail-in paper ballots, like Oregon

Except that mail-in ballots mean that some generally significant chunk of the electorate can't react to new news in a dynamic election.

I don't like mail-in ballots. I do think that Election Day should be a holiday.
Look at the harsh responses that we can already see on HN and you will understand why I usually prefer to remain silent on such topic. A lot JS devs seem to feel very strongly about any kind of change.
Personally I'm not against classes, if someone prefers to use classes instead of prototype it's fine by me.

What I don't understand is why the TC39 is pushing for classes and classic OOP instead of other more pressing issues. You can accomplish OOP with prototypes.

IMO the lack of type checking is much more problematic. Flow and TypeScript are just adding a new layer of problems to an already convoluted workflow.
I have to say, that definitively wouldn't work for me. I take breaks when I need to de-focus from the problem and let my mind work on it unattended, so I can't do anything mentally demanding during them.
Haha, the ones that actually attended sessions are serious. The other guys just visit casinos and the pool and their boss pays for the trip.
I understand your point of view, but I don't share it.
First, asking questions doesn't require to detain people.
Second, that person is not an American citizen. Unless he committed crimes on the American soil, which might be the case, handling foreign visitors like that is puzzling to say the least.
Indictment against WannaCry preventor
And not very likely to get significantly cheaper than Patreon. Bitcoins etc still require a backbone of infrastructure to process payments through mining. Those people still need to be paid, and the computational overhead with bitcoins/alternatives is billions of times higher than raw financial transactions. The cost will never go to zero.

Even if it was as low as patreon dollars would be superior for 99% of people. When you need dinner on the table, dollars getting direct deposited into your account > worrying about bitcoin prices and selling coins. The only people who have any reason to switch are those who are producing content that is seen as intolerable, people trying to avoid taxes or the law, and people making moral stands.
Especially now that (more often than not) you can attach Audible books to your Kindle books for a fairly trivial price, and whispersync for voice means you can hop back and forth between reading and listening. Now, any time I'm using my eyes and hands, but not my ears and mind, I'm listening to books--increased my reading rate by a lot.
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Yeesh. That article is toxic from top to bottom.
Same. Had to resort to using the arrow keys since I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with my trackpad. Like trying to run through a muddy field.
The blurb did its job -- I can assure you that you wouldn't have enjoyed the rest of the post. It's not really about cutting-edge social engineering. It's just a funny story.
There's a cute use of WeakMap to do private fields in a GC-friendly way

let ages = new WeakMap()

export class Person {
constructor(name, age) {
this.name = name
ages.set(this, age)
}

// ages.get(this)
}
Who says we can trust digital money?

The "trust" of the digital money system is because we can have humans unwind any transactions we deem to be "incorrect".

Unfortunately, we can't "unwind" an electoral transaction without giving up anonymity.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishi...

It looks like the best place to verify reputable open access journals is through the Directory of Open Access Journals: https://doaj.org/oainfo. I don't see any of the journals mentioned in the article listed.
Dunno if it is just Firefox, but at least for me having the urls in block quotes makes them unclickable.
I know this is a technical site, but for all of these I always get a little sad with how few fictional books are listed on these types of posts. Going over it, seems like there's just one, "The Nix" (may be more where I just missed them).

I like seeing fictional books since I can relate to the people writing them. If I enjoyed some of the fictional books that people talk about, then I'll go along with their non-fiction recommendations. Also, reading fiction shouldn't be treated like time wasted! I see that comment a lot by people who only read the non-fiction books, but I highly disagree with that thought. For another comment I guess.

One way to do that is to have different sections, one for fiction and one non-fiction. I'd love to see that here.

On that note, I've actually experienced that here, with some of the book recommendation threads, finding comments with books I also like and then reading the others. Always fun to talk to people who read the same as you.
I'm happy not to be your friend.
The Chaos Communication Congress is already held annually in Germany, and is well-attended. There is absolutely an appetite for annual hacker/security conferences in the United States (and indeed we already have dozens that are held annually, of all sizes: DEF CON, BlackHat, B-Sides, SchmooCon, etc).
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> EVs are only significantly better for the environment when most power is generated from renewable sources

Not true if you're talking about air quality rather than greenhouse gases.
compiled in a Goodreads list (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/114264.YC_s_2017_Summer_...) like you were going to actually read those ;)
Doesn't Portugal have widespread corruption, especially in regards to political parties and parliament?
You can declare visibility in Ruby: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Classe...

It can usually (always?) be gotten around though.
1-2 a week when the mood strikes. Last year, the goal was to read 52 books - fell well short at a shade under 40 but it brought back my reading mojo. I'm back for round two in 2017.

https://ramachandr.in/2017/01/08/52in52-2/
The sessions were all pretty much full. There were many, many people who were taking it seriously. I can't speak to how many people just goofed around the whole trip, as I wouldn't've seen them, but it seemed to be a minority.
http://xkcd949.com/ popped up around that time
"tabs are automatically controverted to spaces"

I don't know if that was a typo or intentional, but I like it!
10-15%!? Even coinbase with it's high fees is %3 + $0.50 round trip, which is pretty much equivalent to paypal. I would also think a crypto solution would probably take barely anything in management fees, unlike kickstarter and patreon. If your smart about it, you can use limit orders on something like GDAX and make it %0-%0.5.

Despite all of that, I don't think you need crypto for this. Patreon dropping people out of distaste is giving money to competitors who don't care. What would stop that is credit card companies refusing processing to these companies.
Oil companies recently raised their projections on EV adoption by 40% [1]. Many countries are setting aggressive EV quotas, targeting 100% EV adoption in the near future [2, 3]. Perhaps counter-intuitively, oil prices have not historically affected EV purchases [4]. Detailed sales trackers have shown consistent year-over-year growth in the EV segment for the past 22 consecutive months [5], a time when oil prices have been relatively low [6]. Even with low gasoline prices, driving an EV is reported to be less expensive per mile [7].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-14/big-oil-j...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/04/30/indias-a...

[3] https://thinkprogress.org/norway-aims-to-end-sales-of-fuel-b...

[4] http://www.fleetcarma.com/buying-ev-low-oil-prices/

[5] http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

[6] http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/crude-oil/5-...

[7] https://www.pluglesspower.com/learn/driving-electricity-chea...
Whether people do understand something is very different from whether people can understand something.

While many people maybe aren't aware of the security mechanisms of a pen and paper election, essentially everyone can actually understand them if they feel the need to, and that is extremely important. You cannot resolve widespread distrust by putting a bunch of mathematicians on TV who tell the population that everything is fine.
Did the site get overloaded? I just get `ERR_CONNECTION_RESET` when attempting to go to it.
Where did they say they wanted to block ships ? All I've seen is that they wanted to film & document the ONG's activities, to see if they are not engaging in human trafficking.
I'm on a 27 foot cape dory, a classic sailboat. it's jussssssst barely enough space for myself. I have a Dickinson marine diesel fireplace affixed to a bulkhead for when it gets cold, it'll run for a whole day on one gallon of fuel but makes the boat way too hot if left on constantly.