skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The computer industry has been stuck on 8GB for what seems like far too long, but a 16GB standard reality is imminent, if not inevitable."

Uh... 4 GB is the prevailing standard for the average user PC.
The US generally has clean water. The third world, and India in particular, frequently do not.

That said, the other immune boosts are interesting here. And what would be doubly interesting is to figure out probiotics that prevent allergies.

We've known for years that a child who is exposed to real illnesses in a dirty environment may die from that, but won't generally go on to develop asthma. In the developed world we have a lot of health problems coming from the immune system looking so hard for threats that it starts attacking your own body.

There is very, very good reason to believe that the right probiotics would solve this problem. However discovering what those probiotics are is not so simple...
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Actually I prefer it a lot more to something scripted. It's normally hard to stay focused watching a guy talking for 1 hour on a youtube video. But with your presentations, I find myself looking for more at the end of the hour!
Only slightly related- but is there research into genetic modified wood growth? As in - directly from a cell culture in a tank?
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That's not necessarily true. More density could allow people to live closer to work and reduce the amount of traffic.
>Let's see some citations. Who are these beacons of civil rights? China? India? Colonel England?

The United Kingdom and France for starters, two countries that were relatively egalitarian while the US was still busy enslaving its African-American population. Of course while free speech was already a thing in the United States.
^ Same question! I love Google Fi, but am considering rolling off if I can't get a decent phone on-network (without doing the iPhone hack).
The one I'm considering is orangePi, for example, their 2plus is available with 2gb.

Everything bellow that is probably going to be headless and then the only meaningful differentiator for me is physical ethernet.
No, it isn't. Scotch whisky can only be aged in barrels that have already been used to age liquor. Conveniently, bourbon must be aged in NEW barrels, so used bourbon barrels are the primary source used for scotch. So, the barrels are sourced for the US and thus not charred with peat.

Other barrels used for scotch are typically fortified wine products, like sherry or port. Occasionally limited releases will be aged in things like ex-rum or ex-brandy casks.
Not just scheduling — the ability to forcibly terminate processes itself is a key part of why Erlang can be resilient to failures.

It's a key area where I think Go went wrong. Without the ability to kill a goroutine, you can't implement caller-enforced timeouts and canceling — anything that should be able to be canceled has to explicitly check for some signal sent by the controlling party. This is why Go ended up with Context, which infects everything it touched.

And you also can't create Erlang-style supervisor trees; you can't create self-repairing hiearchies of control. And you can't do things like use a debugger to attach to a process and terminate runaway goroutines.
Finding good approximation heuristics is not easier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpr_KaaRjW0
You know it occurred to me while on a trail run the other day, that TouchID is actually a very interesting feature in my case. I bring my phone for three reasons:

1. Music. But I can get that from a much much smaller device.

2. GPS. I use RunKeeper. But I could totally use a GPS watch, or even a pedometer for this. I run the same trails after all and know the distances.

3. For emergencies. This is the big one. If I trip and break or sprain something, I want to be able to call for help. Even scarier, if I pass out suddenly and someone finds me, I want them to call for help.

It occurred to me that in that third category, if I pass out and someone finds me with my phone (and if they don't just rob me blind and leave me), they can use my thumb to unlock my phone, then call or text one of my contacts. I don't need to be conscious for that.

P.S.: How great would have Pebble Core been? And why hasn't anyone else tried it? Come on Apple, give us a cell-network connected, GPS equipped iPod Nano!
A major hole I see in this plan is any sort of gaming beyond simple apps. Good luck with that.
wow! didn't expect to see this - same reaction I and my gf had moving to Cleveland (here since July!). Surprisingly fun and plenty to do, not to mention the abundance of restaurants. Coming from a bigger city I didn't know what to expect, but this has been a great summer so far!
Peopleware is great. Should be on anyone's list that is in engineering management, a VP or CTO.
Im wondering what are the use cases here. Why someone would keep different functions in different providers while she requires the communication between them.
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Phenomenology points out important truths, but do not do so in a technically interesting way, and sometimes in language that is consistent with materialism which also doesn't help resolve anything, at least within my brief exposure to the field such as Dreyfus.
less parentheses, but not less bracket-like characters. If you count parens and curlies, it is exactly the same. Yours has 4 parens and 2 curlies (not including the format string), and the original lisp code has 6 parens.
Dynamic library loading (at runtime, hey the Client needs X library) was also a thing from the xBase databases of times bygone.
Why didn't you just click the link before adding this comment? It's a Sketch template.
PEX and GLX were really quite cool, and only recently matched by WebGL. Native 3D apps really could be opened remotely, then download display lists to the local store, and use local 3D rendering hardware.

There just wasn't very much PEX interoperability between different manufacturers, because of all the different extensions. Only a rare vanilla app could be remoted in a heterogeneous environment.

Some vendors, like E&S, had PEX as the native graphics API. You could not write a purely local app that couldn't be opened remotely, including stereo displays (CrystalEyes) and use of dialbox or spaceball input devices.
wow, glad you are ok. could you please elaborate? Do you live in the States? Would you mind talking about why you were kidnapped and what preventative measures you will take going forward? I am involved in cryptocurrency and worry about this quite a bit but luckily I live where citizens can concealed carry so that at gives me a fighting chance.
I've been thinking about it for years, I think it would be a killer product. Even just a $100 self hosted mail server in a black box would be great.
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Depends. Equality of opportunity, equality of the vote, equal in the eyes of the law, those are largely uncontested. Income/outcome equality is certainly a hot button issue.
I'm still holding out for Ocean Depths.
Get in touch with archive.org. They're probably interested in hosting, would know about the legal side, and likely can also advice about scanning and preservation.
It is not so easy to decide if the watermark covers an important aspect of the photo.
I don't fully accept the premise of the statement you quote, as I think there are things that humans use intelligence for, but which do not necessarily require intelligence - for example, beating grand masters at chess. I suspect your examples fall into that category, at least if you are referring to deciding specific cases for which the issue is decidable.
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I don't dispute that Bay Area housing is very expensive, and there are plenty of issue it needs to address, but this person seems so have made a personal choice to have that commute, which I commend if thats the lifestyle she wants.

Perhaps her personal circumstances didn't allow for it (Or she chose not to, which is fine too), but a home can be purchased for as little as 3.5% down (FHA) + closing costs. For someone with an 81K salary, their borrowing limit is around ~460k (@43% FHA DTI Limit [1]), and in 2014 (When the person in the article was evicted) there were plenty of homes in that price range in the East Bay. That DTI won't be easy, but neither is a 6-8hr daily commute.

In fact, there are homes/condos right now [2] still in that price range. The crisis is for those making the median household income of say, 52.9K in Oakland, thats the income where one is basically shut out of the housing market.

[1] https://www.fha.com/fha_requirements_debt
[2] https://www.redfin.com/city/13654/CA/Oakland/filter/property...
I was told about this by some kind strangers at a pub while traveling in Scotland and never looked back. It specially improves the flavoring in very tarry/peaty whisky.
I lived there for several years. Nothing negative, you just run out of things to do/see rather quickly. Only so many times you can hit the same restaurants in Tremont, Ohio City, E. 4th, Coventry, etc.

Nothing negative to add, it's absolutely not a bad town and we enjoyed our time there, but at the end became VERY bored.
Not even sure this would fall under the net neutrality umbrella. Comcast and Verizon weren't specifically discriminating or shaping Netflix traffic. Netflix was buying and over saturating the cheapest bandwidth they could. The question became who pays to upgrade to accommodate it. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the current Net Neutrality rules don't address this situation.
It depends very much on the whiskey! Most whiskeys are somewhere in the 40-48 ABV band (they're definitely not all diluted to exactly 40%), but "cask strength" whiskeys go all the way up to the mid-60s (the idea of cask strength whiskey is that you're supposed to dilute it yourself; it's sold undiluted so that more of your money is going towards ethanol than water).
> but you can build and run your own apps outside of the store with a free developer account as of a couple years ago.

That doesn’t really help when you want to use the apps with a few friends. Honestly, Apple and Google can have whatever they requirements they want for their stores, but they should be forced by law to allow alternative stores.

And you’re right, the cheapest MacBook at 1499 EUR is around 1800 USD. That’s not nearly 3000 bucks, but an entirely different story than the 600€ I paid for my thinkpad or the 700€ I paid for my desktop. And I don’t want it anyway, I’d only use it for Apple development. And I’d already have to pay extra for the iPhone.
I suppose that responsible disclosure would look like a detailed and formal equivalent of "Hey guys, your firmware decryption key is XYZ and I got it in the following manner".
Yes a Duress code is a very old and well known concept and I am unsure why it's not already built into phones. Either opening a separate version of the phone with different apps, or silently notifying people/authorities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress_code
If they move to a less-crowded city, and offer good jobs there, that city will become crowded, especially when former employees leave to start other companies in the same area.

That's how Silicon Valley became what it is. If a lot of tech companies moved to other cities, it would probably happen there, too.
For many, like the person in the article, they were the same population until recently.
The main intractable problem is recognizing and solving the tractable instances. If computers could do this in the general case as well as humans, then we'd not need humans.
Very severe peanut allergy here - honestly go away with this crap of comparing your gluten allergy. I have to carry an epipen and worry about risking my life when I so much as eat food that was on the same table as baked goods that MIGHT have traces of peanut butter.
Blind, partially sighted, and arthritic folks can all benefit from physical keyboards. Blind and partially sighted might be a smaller niche, but older folks with arthritic hands are a huge population. It's hard to be exact on a virtual keyboard when your eyes and fingers don't work the same as younger, able-bodied person.
It is already a thing on Android.
In the alarm industry this is known as the "under duress code" and it's a feature I've wanted for a long time on my phone. Aka, being asked to decrypt/unlock my phone against my will, would trigger a wipe or launch some sort of vanilla/pared down O/S with little access to my personal data/info.
>we would prefer to deal with the problems caused by insufficient housing than by the problems caused by overly dense population.

From the outside it looks like you've created the worst of both worlds.
So, what are they going to do about it?
Anyone else remember that magnetic accessory connection port? Seems like a killer feature if done correctly. Or just another "Moto Mod" style feature that went wrong...
> But we can't build free and open source tools that protect journalists, human rights activists, and ordinary people around the world if we also control who uses those tools. Tor is designed to defend human rights and privacy by preventing anyone from censoring things, even us.

I feel like this is what cloudflare should have said. I understand they changed their mind after TDS claimed CloudFlare supported them - but based on the internal memos it seemed to be more of a "I was grumpy and they're jerks" decision.

The major problem with that being that once you make one decision like that - even if you're well-intentioned, the next person that comes after you might do it to the wrong people.

Maybe letting racists have a platform isn't great, but it's better than hand-by-hand justification of what is and isn't "appropriate" to host.
Give me software updates for 7+ years, then we'll talk about buying your $700 phone. Lasting hardware means nothing without lasting software.

In the meanwhile, I'll keep buying $120 phones (Moto G4 with Amazon Ads FTW) and keeping them for ~2 years until they break or software updates stop. Even though as a Catholic (Laudato Si, Rerum Novarum) it kills me to waste all those materials every couple of years and be part of the environmental degradation of our planet.
It's a good question, but much (in a lot of cases maybe most?) of the flavor of a whiskey comes from the cask, not the mash bill, and guaiacol is a component of the wood flavor as well.
i would agree here. both of my parents and the wife have just as much time logged on their full-updated 5s' as well and, save for foreseeable decrements in battery performance, they think their system performance is generally indistinguishable from new.
First of all, Elixir's relationship to Ruby is only skin deep.
The languages aren't as similar as some like to suggest, in my opinion.

Personally, I like Elixir better than Clojure because memory in the BEAM VM is isolated. The JVM uses shared memory, which has caused me issues before. I also like the tooling and build tools for Elixir a lot better. Clojure is weak in this area, I think. I like Elixir's syntax much better too. For me, it feels a lot cleaner and easier to type, but that is subjective.

Regarding Rails vs. Phoenix, I cannot really speak to that. I don't do monolithic apps anymore, so I don't use Rails or Phoenix. Elixir has a library called Plug built into it that lets me easily make REST APIs for micro-services, so that is what I typically use. For me, this eliminates a lot of the issues I had with Rails.
This is extremely time-consuming. It's enough to put smaller operations out of business. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/one-mans-endless...
But "the army you have" could also be the dev team you have..
This is a brilliant response. We must value Privacy and Security above all else. Once we open the door to oppress a group's voice we unanimously despise: we allow our own voices to be oppresssd in the future.
> See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38800977

I don't see anything in the article about Lactobacillus plantarum, and there's quite a few strains of Lactobacillus out there.
That applies for niche audience laptops-- for example the gluglug laptop serves a small free-software fanbase but doesn't have decent specs.

But for cellphones, lots of values of "niche audience" end up with, "pick zero." Here are some examples:

1. Hook up a keyboard to ssh into the device.
2. Hardware switch to turn off the baseband OS.
3. Software toggle to turn off the baseband OS.
4. Sandboxed baseband OS that isn't proof-of-concept or impossible to buy and use in the U.S.
5. Free software baseband OS.
6. Open source "tivo-ized" baseband OS. I.e., user can read the source but cannot run modified version.
7. Just glue together a damned RPI with a baseband OS and ship it to me in working order.

Those are just the niches that interest me. Only #8 looks feasible in the near future and its apparently still in the planning stage:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/arsenijs/zerophone

So I think your "niche audience" needs an asterisk that says, "most niches not yet supported."
Unless you live completely off the grid, and are totally self-sufficient, growing your own food, making your own tools, etc. you're a consumer (in the economic sense) in some way or another.
Anecdotal: I recently started taking Milk Kefir and it has been a life changer. I never thought I had any problems till they were resolved by Kefir. Seen great improvements in energy levels and anxiety. It even fixed the minor IBS I had.
Thanks for the comments/viewpoint. This is definitely something that we are looking to address as you mentioned by keeping the same reviewers on the project over time.

Although for teams that have a great reviewer like you mention with context, we think that PullRequest offers an extra set of eyes instead of a full replacement. We hope that we can hopefully save you time and add value by catching all of the mistakes possible up front and leave the architecture up to you.
I really hope red-lang[1] or something like it takes off. We really need a quick (to develop), performant, aesthetically pleasing cross-platform GUI story. I hope Red accomplishes that.

[1] http://www.red-lang.org/
For some people, yes.
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Why would you expect them to do anything? Racism is one of the least vile things of the vile things that Tor makes possible, and it isn't even illegal.

(Edit: Wording slightly changed to reflect point raised below.)
Exactly the comment I was about to make. Cannot agree more.
I am not an expert, but I find this proposition highly compelling because the white paper describing it was drafted in LaTeX.
Not all machine learning is "deep neural networks". I think that's why your comment is being downvoted. The video shows specific model parameters that are learned for each watermark.
No. My adaptations are definitely intentional. All that sandbox-world gaming is training, for when I will be stuck inside a ~70 m^3 volume with several other people, simultaneously mining for vital resources and additional living volume using a remotely-operated robot that is not quite ready for fully autonomous operation yet.

It will totally be worth lifting 250kg of human adipose tissue into LEO, I swear. If the food supply fails, you'll need someone that can survive without it until the next available harvest. Not that I weigh that much now, but with some intensively sedentary neckbearding, I can probably get that high by the time we're ready to launch.
What is the draw of a tiny physical keyboard? I can type much faster on an iPhone than with any similarly-sized physical keyboard. The only advantage I can think of is the ability to touch type without paying attention to the screen as closely, but for a phone that doesn't seem like a very big deal.
They addressed that in the article. They can't do anything.
cool - downvotes for asking a question. Real nice guys.

I didn't downvote you, but I suspect at this point people are a bit fed up of the constant suggestions of using the Blockchain for everything.
List of all the strains:
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But I insist I'm not like that, and I'm perfectly rational, therefore nobody else is either...

... wait a minute... DOH!
What a ridiculous question.
I wonder what motivated the move, considering that Russia generally likes things that make America look bad. Plus, both the Russian govt and the daily stormer have a few things in common: they hate the LGBT community and advocate violence against people they don't agree with.
Thanks! plenty of similar ideas out there. The proof is in the pudding :) as the saying goes.
i mean to remove the watermark on that specific image
I found it off-putting that on the home page, the 2nd section about the phone was an interview with the founder with exposition on his intentions.

Seems unnecessarily narcissistic--tell me about the phone and it's features first and sell me on your product.
Good point, I think this is important to highlight, and might appeal to people reluctant to support net neutrality.

If one supports competition and free markets, recognize that the ISP business is not free and open to competition, and used regulation to gain monopoly or duopoly status. We need some regulation to either try and create competition, or at least prevent abuse of their current monopoly/duopoly status.
Previous discussion, last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962663
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No, Facebook’s AI wasn’t shut down because it got out of hand
Physics? Trains can do a lot better than 80 miles in three hours.
Presumably if 10 managers got together to form a company they wouldn't hire a manager.
Heh good point, let me clarify:

Private internet companies should operate with scalable, predictable rules. They should be required to operate without discrimination against legally protected classes, but otherwise are free to deny service to anyone.

Courts should punish people and organizations that produce violence, discrimination against protected classes, and/or libel. This production may be direct or indirect; Judges draw the line. When those people/organizations are punished, all their outlets should be effected.

Mostly I just want these actions to be super credible and super effective. The fascists are crying unjust censorship left and right... I want social decency enforced in a way that undermines that argument.

For example, I wish the Charlottesville counter protest was 10,000 people standing together, in silence, holding signs saying "SHAME" and "Liberty and Justice for ALL." Then the Nazis would have no grounds to claim their speech was suppressed, and also no grounds to claim that they represent anything but an angry, alienated minority.
> I have, and quite liked it. The problem seems to be that Elixir has much more momentum and better tooling (from a web-dev perspective). Am I wrong about that?

No, you're not wrong. Elixir also supports meta-programming, whereas Erlang does not. I like both languages though, primarily due to the BEAM VM. You can't go wrong with either one.
> Maybe letting racists have a platform [is] better than hand-by-hand justification of what is and isn't "appropriate" to host.

Or, maybe it's not? I don't see that that follows. Yes, there's the slippery slope argument that someday a host could make a decision we don't agree with. But (1) hosts do that anyway, all the time, and (2) if fucking white power racism isn't on solid, level ground above the slope, then what else could be?

The solution to private sector choice about hosting and distribution of controversial content can't be a blanket protection for all speech. The first amendment is about public law, because of the reach of the government and the potential damage from abuse.

The solution in the end really can only be a case-by-case determination, individually by every host, as to what they are comfortable seeing on their systems. Which is exactly what we have here, even if CloudFlare's internal process was exposed as messier than we'd like to see.