skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that even with billions of years worth of evolution natural viruses have not developed any sort of Hivemind (tm).

Also, now that science has illuminated the human genome we are quickly (on an evolutionary time scale) advancing toward gene therapy treatments that could combat viruses.

Now consider executables. We have the ability quickly inspect AND edit executables, source code..., etc. Not to mention a much better conceptual framework for interpreting assembly instructions (compared to codons). After all they were created by humans for machines that humans built.

Then consider the resources viruses have had at their disposal to evolve. Every single cell [1] of every single living creature that has ever been infected over billions of years [2]. Assuming a conservative average number of 1e31 cells over the course of life's history that means (1e31 * 3.5e9 years) = (3.5e40 cell * years) of computations time. Then consider RNA transcription rates ~6.3e12 nt/year/cell [3]. So all together something like (3.5e40 cellyears) (6.3e12 nt/year/cell) = 2.2e53 nt. Approximation of course but probably with a few orders of magnitude.

Now compare to the number of instructions since the epoch. (1.5e9 s) * (2e18 instructions/s [4]) = ~3e27 instructions since the epoch. Again approximation.

(2.2e53 nt) / (3e27 instructions) = 6.6e26 nt/instruction.

That means we would be seeing the equivalent of viruses that evolved (3.5e9 years since first life) / (6.6e26 nt/instructions) = ~17 nanoseconds after life emerged.

Wow that was quite a tangent.

[1] https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?141294-How-many-...
~5e31 cells currently on earth

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat06.html
life has existed for 3.5 billion years

[3] http://book.bionumbers.org/what-is-faster-transcription-or-t...
In E. coli: (~5000 RNA polymerase molecules) * (~40 nt/s) * (60 s/min) * (60 min/hr) * (24 hr/day) * (364 day/year) = 6.3e12 nt/year/cell

[4] http://www.worldometers.info/computers/
1 billion computers in use in 2008. with say 1 instruction per cycle and one core per computer at 2GHz that's (1e9 computers) * (2e9 inst/computer/s) = 2e18 inst/s
> Uber is the most important and promising company of our generation.

If Uber is the best our generation has to offer, the future is doomed.
In what world is Scott Aaronson, a professor whose primary research area is computational complexity, unrelated to a P=NP solution?
He didn't say much about the resistance gunman who attacked the gop senators or the shooter who shot a republican in the head a few days prior to Charlottesville.

Emotions are running too hot.
Yeah, I remember a plugin in the early days of Firefox that allowed Firefox pretend to be Internet Explorer. It would send request headers that made it appear to be IE.

There were websites at the time that would display just fine in Firefox, but would refuse to display anything if they detected a non-IE browser.
Kim Jung is looking real sad! only 263 miles out of range tho...
> There is an obvious overlap between programming languages and machine learning at Google

This doesn't explain his very brief stint at Tesla as head of AutoPilot.
For the most part there are similar caveats to .Net as anything else... you want to remain as stateless as possible at the request level, and you want to avoid blocking on IO as much as possible. There are async versions of most things, and you just have to use them... It's easy to do things that will sink you.

.Net and .Net Core can do API services very well, and can scale very well. It doesn't mean you can't still shoot yourself in the foot easily.
> does not make America worse than other countries.

It's bullshit that western EU is worse than US.

Even if we consider my country, Italy, where we already had Berlusconi and the granddaughter of Mussolini is in the parliament.

USA don't learn from other countries mistakes.

And when they make their own mistakes (and we in Italy had suffered a lot because of them), they say "we are still better than you"

No, they're not.
From your own link: "On January 16, 2017, Project Veritas uploaded a video showing DC Antifascist Coalition members of Disrupt J20 plotting to use 'stink bombs' at the DeploraBall. After the video's release, Disrupt J20 denied the statements, saying that the members deliberately gave false information to Veritas.[107] The video led to the arrest of one man allegedly involved in the plan,[108] as well as two associates. All three individuals pleaded guilty.[109]"

[107] Bethania Palma (January 18, 2017). "Progressive Group Claims to 'Sting' Sting Video Maker James O'Keefe". Snopes. http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/18/dueling-stings

[108] Peter Hermann (January 25, 2017). "Meetings of activists planning to disrupt inauguration were infiltrated by conservative group". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/meetings-...

[109] Hermann, Peter (March 7, 2017). "Protester pleads guilty to conspiring to disrupt DeploraBall for Trump supporters". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/protester...
I believe that we have a winner in the "Which site packs the most full-motion, obnoxious video ads on one page?" contest.
Would you like Coffee or Tea? Yes.
Take an orbital simulation with our current planet positions and velocities, change the mass of Jupiter and keep momentum the same, and see what happens!

I'd predict not good things though, our solar system is somewhat chaotic / unstable over long time scales so a sudden change would probably eject some planets.
<< Information wants to be free. People should stop fighting it!

That's why you routinely publish your bank account, social insurance, and credit card details online, right?
Yes, that's what I was getting at. Insight, wisdom, etc.

Even so, one can also apply the scientific method to those sorts of knowledge. One can look at performance. Quality of relationships. Success at dealing with hardship. That's part of psychology. But it hasn't received enough attention, I think.
That's $5 once for each GB, not $5 per GB per month. Seems reasonable to me compared to the cost of implementing a DLP solution.
Hm... EU, Great Britain is still in the EU, but will not be soon; are you going to accept from there?
The effect is even more pronounced when you remove the IR filter.
Just received this on a newsletter...

http://imgur.com/jGhKmGy.jpg

It's in Spanish, but these are instructions on how to install Flash on a number of browsers.
Because they won't get the traffic from search engines. Searching for a full name very often leads to a LinkedIn page in top 10 results.
> They collected the data

No they didn't. Users input most of their data.
Should Travis Kalanick Really Be Kicked Off Uber's Board?
And groundhogs... Those damn groundhogs.
Great idea. Great business model. I think the issue will be for the engineers who graduate to get over the bias that software companies have today over hiring from a code bootcamp/code school.
It's not that it's better or worse. Saying that you should kill all Jews is, morally, a horrible statement to make. However, saying it is different from acting on it. While it's a statement that most would (and should) find problems with, that is not enough to silence that person. My belief is that this discussion is not simply "one or the other," i.e. there's no point to weighing two views against one another. The moral outrage against a person calling for a genocide is not enough to justify silencing that person's speech, because the two levels of social misdeeds do not overlap.
If ever you have to deal with large financial institutions, Data Loss Prevention is one of the items that will come up as part of their standard audit on your systems. It can be really hard (and expensive) to put in place and something like this solve it in a flash.
Go for it but if you're burning down innocents in your mad dash to stop nazis.

Don't expect sympathy.
On this page there are their criteria: https://rsf.org/en/detailed-methodology

The thing is, what you say about this kind of law is probably true. But freedom of speech goes further than that and, as you mentioned in your original comment, it's not just a matter of laws.
Sorry, what exactly is causing you to "suffer"? It's an option to warm up the color temperature on your screen.
CastAR bankruptcy claims documents
Edge 820 here. The Bluetooth connection to my iPhone just works every time. I'd basically given up on BT as a useful thing years ago, but now I never have to think about it, and only have to plug the device in to charge after a few rides.

Mini review: the GPS is also super quick to acquire compared to my (now bricked) 800 - but the touchscreen is awful.
That's a strawman. The real issue is that Trump's DOJ is abusing its powers in this case to do a dragnet collection of 1.3 million of its most fervent political opponents.
> If you're offering a service that is public, with the intent to your users that such information will be available publicly, you cannot then police what users of that data you consider to be "public" because it serves your business interest.

I wonder if the same ruling would apply to companies using Twitter's data feed? If so, it would be important in breaking open data silos.
As usual this is the "copyright" debate.

So is your public profile copyrighted by you?

The actual server is controlled by you or gives you a way to take the data down. But by then it could have been republished elsewhere!
END OF WORLD NEXT MONTH STAR GATE HAS OPENED
I did. I think it should ask you upon clean install. Even the UI for changing search engines is cumbersome.
Unless you're leaving the field with 5kg of apples, I doubt they'll care. But, this is coming from someone who plant fruits to eat them. We're not selling anything to grocery stores.
Let me replace the word "re-use" with "re-publish". Does your analysis change at all?
It was a plot point of the show that his branch was the only successful one. The company was literally selling printer paper in an increasingly digital world. He may not have made billions of dollars, but he still succeeded at a seemingly impossible task.
If one person can't imagine any minoroties needing help, does that eliminate the possibility a need can't exist?

I know that's not what you're saying, but should minorities have to meet the burden to satisfy the majority in society for them to validate what they may be experiencing?

In the working world, diversity is something I look for in leadership first, down to management, down to front lines, instead of working up the ranks. Diversity doesn't seem to exist if it's not leadership downwards.

Gender diversity is real. All progress on diversity is good as long as voice and support is lent to all groups affected by a lack of diversity.

I wonder if the current gender diversity conversation indirectly has appropriated the voice of diversity issues groups like our visible minorities may experience.
PL / compilers has a lot to do with logic and formal reasoning, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's interested in applying that to other domains. Merging DL with more traditional reasoning frameworks is an interesting question I know a few people have tried attacking.

Of course, that's just speculation.
I don’t think that Larry and Sergey yet fully grasp the consequences of allowing an echo chamber to form within google. One of the consequences of living in an echo chamber is that we rob ourselves of the feedback that we need to make good decisions. For example, many of us on the left who only listen to those who think like us are blissfully unaware of the severity of the storm that is building on the right and the consequences for the business.

Google’s whole future business model seems to be based on getting deeper into our lives, into our homes, into our vehicles and gathering ever more data about us so they can more effectively help others to market to us. Many of us have been completely okay with that in past because we trust Google. They’ve worked hard to earn that trust. But with the public shaming and firing of James Damore, the blacklisting of “non believers”, the demonetizing and deleting of YouTube videos that violate the “Code of Conduct”, etc. the bonds of trust have been shattered. And once trust has been shattered, it is nearly impossible to re-build.
Yep, I did software development in academia for a biochem lab and they paid less than 1/3 what I make in industry. Not only that: I was lower on the totem pole than a first semester PhD student, there was zero potential for career growth of any sort (the prof I worked for laughed out loud when I asked about it), and my job security was entirely governed by the grant approval/extension whims of the NSF and NIH.

Foreknowledge of all that wasn't enough to keep me from working at the job for a while. It was a super interesting experience, and I learned an enormous amount about biochem, comp bio, synthetic bio, and several other fascinating subjects.

What eventually caused me to leave was the continuous, losing battle for sane software development practices. It wasn't just that lab: everyone I encountered in the techy side of bio - save for the oddball comp bio or synth bio prof/student with a CS background that included industry experience - was completely adverse to treating their software as anything other than a means to an end. In the year and a half I lasted before taking a job in industry, that one lab easily wasted hundreds of work hours navigating easily preventable tech debt, writing the exact same code for the Nth time, fixing the same deployment or revision control mistakes for the Nth time, etc, while any attempt on my part to put in standards and practices to alleviate any of it was dismissed out of hand as a waste of time.

In short, I agree that there's a shortage of software engineering knowledge and skills in the field, but beyond the obvious financial, organizational, and career development hurdles keeping talent away, there's a major attitude adjustment required by the researchers themselves.
Can anyone with a legal background explain whether or not this constitutes a breach of fiduciary duty?

Related: PennState Law Review "A Brief Introduction to the Fiduciary Duties of Directors Under Delaware Law"
http://www.pennstatelawreview.org/116/3/116%20Penn%20St.%20L...
I have learned some strategies for dealing with emotions from Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns. By controlling your thoughts you ultimately control how you feel.
> This is only true for apartment dwellers (for now). People who live in houses typically charge at home.

What about people who only have street parking without a driveway or garage?
Regarding Obama, that's whataboutism.

On not knowing all the facts. That's never stopped Trump before when a brown person was the perpetrator
They should run an ICO, get funded in minutes.
The limited address space combined with fragmentation due to a non-compactable heap allocations (C/C++) can lead to unsatisfiable allocations long before you actually hit the 4GB limit. And many allocations are not fallible, which means the browser has to OOM-crash if they cannot be satisfied.
Actual title: "Is Mindfulness Meditation a Capitalist Tool or a Path to Enlightenment?

Previously posted under its URL title, "The Science and Philosophy of Mindfulness Meditation", here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000669
Transactions are already signed and can't be forged. The only reason for the chain to exist is so that everyone knows about every transaction, to eliminate the double spend problem.
Seriously. This guy talks about mindfulness just before he walks into an open pit. He's really done it! Talking about mindfulness, for him, is a substitute to really paying attention to his environment.
How many were they expecting to sell? This is an incredibly niche product.
By controlling your thoughts, you control the universe. Mind blown.
What happens if I complete the curriculum and then decide to seek employment in a different field? Do I still pay?
Why the Nazis Came to Charlottesville
Computers are also operating with absolute clarity and precision when somebody exploits a flaw in their software to execute arbitrary code. That's why the CFAA has its language around 'exceeding authorized access' (even though it turns out that definition is dangerously vague).
That's a very tactical criticism. It seems like something very important is being lost in these comparisons. The primary criticism of Nazis and white supremacists is not their tactics or their protests, it's that they are fucking Nazis and white supremacists.
"Intersectionalism" is a clever technique being leveraged by the very people who have, for decades, studied how media influences groups of people to do and think particular things. It is a weapon crafted to create a larger group out of disparate smaller ones. Whether or not it is justified is an entirely different argument. To say that people struggle at different levels in life strictly because of their skin color or ethnicity is hilarious to me. All people struggle in all kinds of ways.
Is it about time for health data to migrate to blockchain?
I think the problem is that in this case Bluetooth is just not fast enough to transfer large amounts of video data. What they should do is use BT to negotiate details of an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network and use that larger pipe to send the actual data.
Whiskey or Vodka?
Trump can block people on Twitter if he wants, administration says
Some cryptographic implications on solving the P vs. NP problem or proofing some other stuff on average case complexity: https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~krajicek/ri5svetu.pdf
Google Maps has become much less good for driving, since you frequently have to zoom in quite far to see a street name. I don't know if Apple Maps is better

In the past I've preferred listening to Google Maps while driving, rather than listening to Apple Maps.

I just bought a car that supports Apple Carplay. My first impression is it's pretty damn good. A nice chunk of the display is dedicated to the distance to the next turn, the name of the street to turn onto, an arrow showing the direction of the turn, etc.

Presumably "Android Carplay" or whatever Google calls it is also good. The point is that a smartphone integrated with a display screen on the dash produces a much nicer driving experience than a smartphone by iteslf.

Edit: BTW this only works well if you've entered a destination. The Carplay display of Apple Maps is total crap in terms of street names etc if just randomly driving around. Maybe that's your complaint with Google? You mean while driving around rather than navigating to a specific destination?

Perhaps I just haven't figured out how to make Apple Maps display better without entering a destination.
Not sure if other platforms are different, but it's here at least on Windows:

https://i.imgur.com/7HWJvMb.png
That's cool, but isn't there an inherent ageism in the industry that would prevent someone of that vintage from getting a job? Especially without a broad resume..

I'm all for the idea of older folk getting tech jobs (I'd like to be one myself, someday), but it seems like a larger risk on your part.
The single biggest issue in healthcare IT is that biologists want less than nothing to do with IT. They actively run from it, despise it, ridicule it, anything to avoid dealing with it.

Source: I'm seeing the effects right now in a major EMR rollout. The entire beauracracy is avoidant.
Tulips. Buy tulips.

(This is not intended as investment advice. Please talk to your financial adviser before doing anything.)
How is it extra work if you have to do it anyway? If anything, it's slightly less work to go through it all at once.
Why Personalization Projects Fail
It's not about moral outrage, heh. I guess the US is really a child when it comes to this, once the continent was laid to waste we probably can see eye to eye on this much better. Until then, did you deal with real Nazis before? I did. That guy who wrote a response and then deleted it, probably because they weren't anonymous, did. Anyone else? Anyone coming at this from the street instead of an ivory tower? Ever got chased by a group of Nazis? Stuff like "kill all Jews" is just a mating dance for them, the real talk, and the real weapon collection, happens behind closed doors. So, did anyone at least actually deal with even the TIP of that iceberg, before they're trying to tell me how I can defend myself?
I disagree - there is no "target audience" for shit UX. Their "target audience" uses Snap despite its awful UX, not because of it. Those users wouldn't suddenly run away if the UX did actually improve.
See Meerko's comment on this [1]. The EU has a class of its own freedom of speech violations that America does not. The fact that the US has made mistakes and the EU has made mistakes isn't the deciding factor. The scope of the EU's violations seem broader to me, given differences in the definitions of hate speech [2]. Whereas the U.S. has violated the right of freedom of speech for individuals, its track record is better w.r.t. freedom of speech because the EU chooses to ban a wide portion of speech.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15013897
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-19/free-spee...
Did the antifa protesters drive a car into a crowd of people killing one person and injuring many others? This is total bullshit. There's real violence by nazis, condoned all the way up to the president and now they want to pretend like the two sides are equally responsible? That's some fucking bullshit and quite disrespectful to the victims. But hey, the headline will surely be praised by nazis.
> building out a reasonably large Web API for a game.

How are you hosting this? Can you share any experience? I built a Web API using .Net 4.6.1 and when it came time to host it, Azure DB, Azure Web App became quickly super expensive.

I'd be curious to know if you've find a cost-effective hosting solution for hosting .Net Core APIs in a Production-like environment for a SaaS website (which is what I'm building on the side)
"At some point, there might be nothing left to do except to roll up your sleeves, brew some coffee, and tell your graduate student to read the paper and report back to you."

So there's your real answer.
It's too bad this is US only.
If you have a solution to this problem, I'd be extremely interested.
> One of the more interesting comments in the article is in regards to the social stigma of only consuming water during meals

Wow this is insane. The culture I grew up in is famously health-friendly, so I've never come across this, but it sounds horrible.

I started drinking only water around high school, and the only reaction I ever got was "good for you, I wish I had that habit".

> Because something like this still costs money, it helps convince the purchaser that they aren't appearing to be "cheap" by only ordering water.

Interesting, you think that appearing cheap is behind the stigma? I would've guessed it would be something along the lines of anticipated reproach.
Not sure how this view should be interpreted:

- Websites should not have ToS
- Websites may have ToS, users should be able to violate it without consequences if they don't like it ( = roughly current state of affairs)
- Websites may only have ToS derived from some criminal act
- something else?
The tech stack usually isn't the point of failure.
Hmm... I'm sure this is manageable. Windows Server supports Hot Add/Remove CPU and RAM. If it can do it hot, why not cold? Windows UPnP service is continuously polling hardware and reconfiguring the system.

I have a feeling Microsoft might have a solution in the works for this.
Are you male?