skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes. The one stop shop to a happy life.

We are quite a finnicky species and trying to shoehorn everyone into the same mold is probably not a recipe for great happiness.

Just accept that people are different, you won't find happiness following someone else's rulebook and do the things that matter to you. Accept those things as your source of happiness.

If your sources of happiness are not compatible with society in general do them where you can enjoy them on your own or with a group of likeminded peers.

Do not be concerned about how unique you are. Embrace it.

If you are not unique embrace that too.

Focus on what it is that you really want to do.

Life will be over soon enough.

Stop chasing your happiness and live life. Happiness will follow :)
This is a great point - and was the primary idea behind charging for sending email by the message to combat spam. Someone years ago proposed that if we just charged 5 cents per message sent, most people would pay less than $5 a month while spammers would have to pay millions of dollars of the course of a year, making the business unprofitable.
I thought filsystems popularised document stores ;-)
Being gifted is being gifted, yes, the area is important but secondary. And there is no more luck involved. It's probably the same mechanism, too (low mutational load).
Do a lot of down syndrome children end up having children of their own?

Otherwise if down syndrome was spread by a single gene, it would have died out pretty naturally on its own, right?

(disclaimer) I admittedly don't know much about genetics.
It depends where you live. There are many places in the world where you study for free, have free health coverage and don't need to be a millionaire to live well.
How and when to use JSON Web Tokens for your services
Photons carry no charge, so normally they don't interact with each other. However, at high enough energies they do. The explanation given by the best available theory is that there is enough energy that a virtual electron and virtual anti-electron form, and since those have charges, they interact, and from the outside it appears that the photons interacted.

This is totally impossible in the classical view, but is fine in the quantum electrodynamic (QED) view.
You can opt out, which makes them illegal, but they're not going to prosecute an India-based company.
The Democratic vice-mayor of Charlottesville has publicly said he hates white people. Racism goes both ways and some people in both parties are guilty of it.
Yes, the explosive fuses at $1 a pop. It could be improved to use resetable fuses but those are slower. There is a safety trade-off here.
Although if you Google Philip Budeikin you are linked to stories about his imprisonment in Russia on charges related to this app/game.
> I used to work for Smartjog who did the same. In fact I wrote the software (RBC, Reliable Bit Cast) used to send the actual satellite data packets through our provider Intelsat.

I really loved Smartjog for a while and even commissioned a couple of devices in the UK. It was a real shame the likes of Aspera and Signiant won that space.

I seem to recall the RBC library was open source. Is that still available somewhere?
That's bad for you, but good for everyone else - it's tying up their lines, and hopefully wasting human time.
No one seems to have much idea what their business model could be.

It's not such a mystery, really. One of their investors, Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder, sits on Blockstream's board of directors) laid it out pretty clearly:

> In this instance, the first objective is to increase the public good by strengthening the overall openness and functionality of the Bitcoin ecosystem through “sidechains” technology. Delivering returns to investors is an objective as well – but it’s a secondary objective. ...

> And that’s why I’m participating in this first-round financing as an individual investor, and why Blockstream itself will function similarly to the Mozilla Corporation. Here, our first interest is maintaining and enhancing Bitcoin’s strong open ecosystem. And the structure we’ve chosen will give us the freedom and flexibility to prioritize public good over returns to investors.

> Over time, I believe this ecosystem-first approach will ultimately create massive economic value – for everyone in the Bitcoin universe, including individual users, businesses of all types, developers, entrepreneurs, and investors.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141117154558-1213-the-futur...

quite involved with bitcoin core development

There's a common misconception that Blockstream showed up and started hiring bitcoin developers. That is not the case: Blockstream was founded by developers that contributed to bitcoin for many years before starting a company together.
So basically the apparently at least partially nonsense CBS report says, of things that can actually be confirmed, "Iceland has less Down Syndrome babies born", and then tries to tie it to abortion, and THEN tries to insinuate abortion is morally wrong and then the Icelandic are bad people.

Wtf.
Not so much self-taught as i was after 2nd year of CS. But i've landed my internship and ultimately first full time job with a game written in c++ and opengl. It was guitar hero style music game with much simpler graphics. Job was at small game studio. It ultimately led to drop out from uni so I never got my degree.
If I wanted to read Snopes, I'd hang out on /r/politics.
I'm not condoning it as a cure, but you can absorb large amounts of vitamin C orally if you combine it with a lecithin. It's called liposomal Vitamin C.
Using the Blockchain to Clean Up the Niger Delta
So you read the title on HN and decided to post this comment which basically has no relation with the actual article?

Though to address your comment:

Keep in mind, some are happy to be the working class, know what they have to do between 9-5 because somebody told them to do that.

Some enjoy being a student, think their student years are the best years of their life. Why is that not worth a loan?

Some people could be happy exploiting others, some actually like it when they get exploited. (there are freaky people ont his planet; don't judge).

Some people are happy when others care for them, others are happy when they can care for others.

Happiness one can only decide for themselves; and the grass is always greener at the house next-door....
Microsoft Teaches Autonomous Gliders to Make Decisions on the Fly
But with a higher carbon footprint
Sigh. We went through this 70 years ago with literal nazis, are we going to have to live through it again, this time from the far left? Didn't they learn this poem in school?

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

To be clear, I don't agree with what nazi's say, but like voltaire I support their right to be able to say it.
Probably because Bangladesh sits at, or near, the bottom of the corruption index.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Bangladesh
The moon's phases are referred to as waxing and waning, wax being the same meaning in both cases: to grow.
> Just make sure you have some sunscreen on

in the thickness equivalent to 1cm lead sheet for a gamma-ray-screen factor of 2
I doubt that is the case. As the article nores photon-photon scattering has been a predicted for a long time by QED. Even if it wasn't detected before it's impact on redshift could be calculated.

If you look at the abstract on the linked nature page the interaction has a cross-section of 70nb, which corresponds to a circle of radius 1.5e-9 nanometer[1]. It might occur a few times near a supernova or the swirl of a an accretion disk but I doubt it has a meaningful effect in deep-space.

A more exciting result would have been if they wouldn't have seen this effect. That would mean the theory was wrong and we had a new datapoint to look at.

[1]: these measurements are only for a specific energy range, they might vary dramatically with different energy levels but the key point is that this result agrees with theoretical predictions meaning that is should also be possible to calculate the contribution to redshift due to photon-photon scattering.
Nope, plently of people do heavy computing with FPGAs.

The speedup between FPGA -> ASIC is not that dramatic. Their real advantage is power draw and ammortized cost. FPGAs also have to initialize when powering up.
Partnerships with companies are normally specified/thanked in the film's end credits.
You know why heavy gloves are used? Work clothing? Why there are safety rules and mandatory training? Why there are emergency stops?

See, there are other ways to provide safety in this situation. And you cannot make anything really idiot proof. World will find a better idiot.

This automated solution has a major drawback when sawing through anything too capacitive, wet wood, wood with nails etc.

The company pushing the legislation has a major agenda that is not safety - patent licensing.
I know when my wife and I found out we were having a baby. The first appointment we had with a doctor (in the U.S.) was a screening for literally anything we were at risk for.

We ended up telling some people we we're doing that and they freaked out (my parents included). We really don't understand why everyone doesn't get these tests. We're both Libertarians, but even agree the government should probably offer these tests free to reduce the burden on society (as the test we did cost around $250 - checking for downs).

More importantly though, we didn't understand why people freak out. The sociatial pressures not to get test(s) like this done are insane. Even one (of our several) doctors / nurses were trying to convince us from doing it... Sure I understand some people think abortion can be bad, but isn't bringing a troubled human being in the world just as bad (rhetorical question)?
I'd like to work where you work. My experience with management has been "barely hanging on" to "actively damaging the company" with a few "adequate" and 1 or 2 "inspiring" thrown in the mix.
Ask HN: What app do you use to store highlighted web pages or research papers?
I am thinking of making a Chrome extension which can store highlighted web pages (with images, CSS everything) to the cloud.

I want to do lots of highlighting on web pages so that I can quickly recap of previous stored content? Is such an extension worthwhile? Does something like this already exist?
Asynchronous communication reinvented for Maker teams
This is really cool. Yet, somehow, as cool as it is, I find it terribly depressing. In comparison to other "look what I can do" projects -- such code golf, or demo programming, or quines -- which achieve impressive results in a constrained environment because it's challenging, thousands of programmers have HAD to do silly things in CSS because there's no other choice. These amazing-yet-hacky solutions get copy-pasted down through the generations and what should be simple becomes enshrined in the arcane. I look at this and become exhausted in empathy.

So in contrast to the opening line of the article, CSS is not amazing: people's talent for threading camels through the eyes of needles is amazing. Props to this guy for this. May I never have to recreate it.
It's not a genetic disease
It isn't perfect and it works inside of OpenFL but Haxe has a svg render in OpenFL that makes it much smaller in size to import and is more stream lined.

https://github.com/openfl/svg
You should check calcium, vitamine D. and parathyroid hormone levels and consult a physician. Brain fog is typical for elevated levels of calcium.
I had a thyroid cancer which affected parathyroid glands (rare) and had a brain fog for like a couple of years before being properly diagnosed. It is nasty because it affects your emotional and intellectual abilities but it is difficult to self-observe.
Bosch system is cheaper in comparison: You have to replace the cartridges (~$156) which can fire twice (so 78 per activation). With SawStop you have to buy both the break ($69) and the saw (15-100? depends on the saw).

Prices taken from amazon.com (so I don't know how realistic they are, the cartridge may actually be much cheaper, I don't know where to look at the official price)
I think a simple way to fix it would be to charge someone an extra fee the first time they dial a number, and transfer most of that money as a debit on the callees bill. It wouldn't take much to make robocalls unprofitable.
Are you kidding me?

That poem is literally about the Nazis, and how you have to fight them before they exterminate you.
Just to give the counter-argument, he has also created a lot of (technical, well paid) jobs for a lot of people all over the world over the years.
1. There is more than one way to measure 'price,' and

2. 'willing to buy' and trades executed are two different things.

If you are measuring the price of bitcoin by looking at the price of the last trade that occurred, then you are right: trades need to happen for you to get price information.

But there is also the order book. In [1], thousands of 'intents to trade'/outstanding orders are displayed but no trades are listed.

When I looked at the page, the highest anyone was willing to buy (in this specific order book at this time) was $4076, and the lowest anyone would sell was $4086.

This is a good indicator of the current consensus on Bitcoin price but isn't actually trade data.

Now, let's say the market gets just a little more bullish on Bitcoin and someone places an order to buy at $4080. Has the price of Bitcoin changed? One could argue yes if you judge price from the order book: from ~$4081 to ~$4083 or so. But no trades have occurred.

So back to the original question: in the absence of trade data, the price of bitcoin can be seen from what everyone decides it is, via an order book.

[1] https://www.bitstamp.net/market/order_book/
Ask HN: Is it usual for first investors share to dilute down upon next rounds
When an early (seed) investor puts $100k for 15% of the company; in future rounds of fund raising, should that early investor's shares dilute down?
Startup Handmedowns is pretty cool

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startup-handmedowns
Prayas team, supported the RobinHood Army’s ‘Mission 1M’
Isn't sawing through wood with nails really dangerous?
In computer science, but not in general language.
When I last participated to ATLAS, working in the Trigger & Data Acquisition group, ATLAS had 3 levels of trigger: the first was hardware, the others were software.
Regarding the first level, software was not an option due to the extremely high bunch-crossing frequency (40 million times per second).
The difference between the 2nd and 3rd levels consisted of data availability (region-of-interest only for 2nd, full detector for 3rd) and algorithms permitted (light algorithms for 2nd, full reconstruction and advanced analysis for 3rd).
The maximum allowed output were, IIRC, 100 kHz for 1st level, 3 kHz for 2nd level and 100 Hz for 3rd level.
Thanks. Would subthemes almost/always fall under the context of the overarching theme?
I'd love to see the creation of more trusts, such as the one that funds The Guardian, the one that funds The Economist, etc.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's a legit question for someone who does not know, as I did not before looking it up.

From the mayoclinic:

Most of the time, Down syndrome isn't inherited. It's caused by a mistake in cell division during early development of the fetus.

Translocation Down syndrome can be passed from parent to child. However, only about 3 to 4 percent of children with Down syndrome have translocation and only some of them inherited it from one of their parents.
> I'm keeping my money on expansion and dark matter being hooey brought about by incomplete of incorrect understanding of light.

That's a very interesting hypothesis. Unfortunately, it's easy to verify that photon-photon scattering doesn't explain the expansion of the universe.

1) photon-photon scattering is elastic, so no energy is lost, and no redshift is occuring

2) if it isn't elastic, the scattering is a random process. So different photons will lose a different amount of energy, which means that measured spectra are going to be blurred.

3) rather than seeing redshift, due to photon-photon scattering, you'd see fog, which gets cloudier and cloudier with distance.
I've been very pleased with this feature. I used to use TrueCall, but giving my call data to yet another third party felt wrong.
JuliaCon 2017 videos from Berkeley
"The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
I didn't think it'd be so interesting as to publish it separately, thanks! It's built on top of my own Picnic CSS (in above comment) but with many px/em/cm-specific adjustments as seen in https://francisco.io/resume/cv.css

Feel free to reuse any of the code under the MIT.
Show HN: YNTBS – Kind of a TV channel but with quality YouTube videos
If you use it once in a blue moon, rental is smarter.
Suppose there are 5,000 women and 20,000 men with CS degrees who are seeking new employment right now. 500 women and 2000 men are above the 90th percentile, 500 women and 2000 men are between the 80th and 90th percentiles, etc.

Google has 2000 job openings. If they hired without gender preference they would end up with 1600 men and 400 women, but they make an effort to seek out women specifically and instead they hire 1200 men and 800 women. They've now hired all of the women above the 90th percentile and 300/500 between the 80th and 90th.

The gender ratio below the original 80th percentile is still 4:1, but above the 80th percentile it's 14:1 and above the 90th percentile there are no remaining female job seekers. People notice things like this -- that none of the available top engineers are women, even though there are still less talented or experienced female applicants. It creates stereotypes. It deprives the women below the 80th percentile of their role models and mentors. People start expecting women to be worse on average, because of those available to hire, Google has actually caused that to be the case.

And things go downhill from there very quickly if more large companies do the same as Google.
> women _working at Google as engineers_ are less interested in tech than their male colleagues

I wonder if this argument could be made? Stats show that men work more hours than women whereas women prefer a more of a work-life-family balance. So given that, you could say that the women in tech there are less interested. At least, in terms of hours and dedication to the job. I don't think it holds too much water. You can be interested in the subject matter but not work as much. But there is some truth to it in a way.
I should probably admit that I really like XSLT (perhaps I'm insane too), but it was really unsuited to the task we were using it for. I've since done quite a bit of XSLT and it's definitely the main tool I'd use if I wanted to screen scrape some HTML, for instance. But can you imagine someone saying "We want you to draw paths between points and they can't cross. And we want you to do it in XSLT"? I mean, you can do it... but... "not fun" doesn't begin to describe the pain.
Anyone else here is having a hard time seeing what could be applied usage of light-by-light scattering?
(ie new computers? new internet? new telescopes?)

Can someone here give us some insights?
do you mean interaction between high energy gamma rays from distant quasars? That could change background radiation density, right?
packer has a name collision, too.
Down syndrome IS a genetic disorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/down-syndrome/...
And how many women had "conquered" the field of law 50 years ago?! Because had they a representation in higher education 1 percentage point lower than their proportion in society 50 years ago?! Were even 6% working in the field fifty years ago? And what if only 30% left for family reasons?! What percentage of women would you expect to see at state judge level based on how many women studied law, how many used that to get into the bar, how many of those stuck it out long enough (and with enough full time equivalent experience to make it as a judge?! Would that be more, or less, than 30%?!

In the UK feminists are whinging that "only" around an eighth of senior lawyers are women and "only" around a quarter of judges are female.

That in itself should be lighting up a bulb in a logical brain, but the fact is that when judges were going to university only about 1% of law students were female here, and most of those dropped out to raise families, and yet an eighth of "senior" barristers (QCs) are women and a whole quarter of judges are?!

Are they making women judges straight out of law school?!?!?!
Gavin Wilson – Missing Since 2006 – The Blogging Musician
Not true. Oracle's P/E is 22, Apple's is 18, MSFT's is 27. Oracle is doing just fine.
But if you want personal development then gaming isn't an issue (why lie to yourself?), and even if you do - changing the metric isn't going to stop you.

And grading in absolute values is still more useful to asses your performance than deltas anyway: "you can lift X kg today" is more useful than "you can lift 2 kg more today"?
Yes, but sometimes necessary if you cannot extract the nail. It is mostly risking damage to equipment.

(Oh, forgot safety glasses.)
That could just as easily be interpreted that he's stuck with this spelling mistake (as he said in the other quote) and now asks us to play along ("that's, uh, just how they talked!").
I was just poking around in the settings for my new Android phone and found Settings > Applications > Phone > Call blocking > Block list > Block anonymous calls. Would that be helpful at all? I haven't tested it myself.
but I doubt it has a meaningful effect in deep-space.

Don't underestimate how often unlikely events can happen in a big enough space...

As to photon-photon scattering, I might be wrong, but I don't believe it's considered in any models for expansion - similarly, if you do build light momentum transfer into your model, then expansion goes away - but because we "know" expansion to be true, those results aren't considered or published.

I think our givens are wrong. It'd hardly be the first time. I think I might be wrong. That'd hardly be the first time either.

But, as a betting physicist, my money is on expansion (at the very least acceleration) being bunkum.
We'd all be much better off if they just donated it to the United States Treasury, wouldn't we?
Ask HN: Bitcoin || Ether?
please write or upvote your choice for which best to buy as an investment.
Considering the popularity of APIs, has anybody felt the need for a Accept-Version header?
Migrating 1200 databases from MySQL to Postgres