skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days we have an industry that makes DNA "oligo"'s that should be somewhat close to how life would have looked at some point in the distant past. The chemical reactions involved in the entire lifecycle are entirely understandable with university chemistry knowledge. Starting the reactions takes a remarkably small number of chemicals present, and none of these are too far fetched.

You have to keep in mind that, on earth, today, life cannot just exist. It must compete successfully with other very complex lifeforms. This effectively imposes a minimum complexity level that any lifeform must attain to survive in the current environment. But, conceptually, there are many things that would count as life even though they have zero hope to exist on earth (outside of labs). Such simple lifeforms today can only exist in places like the clouds of Venus.
It is leakage from the weird inverted sexual landscape that MRAs and incel swim in - an internet in meme grown too large to contain.

It also serves as a handy handle to insult someone's virility or manliness that fits better in a tweet.
It's not really equivalent to subsidizing (which would imply some transfer of value from Iowa to Apple, or selling something below cost) but rather to a discount.

Iowa was willing to provide their services at a hefty discount, so Apple chose to "buy" them from Iowa and not another state - but in any case Iowa gets money from Apple (just not the listed rate) and the citizens of Iowa are better off than they would have been if Apple wasn't placing that facility there and thus would pay zero taxes to Iowa.
Isn't it a good thing for everyone if Google has Monopoly?
If Google has Monopoly in more areas like

Real Estate

Construction

Healthcare

Wouldn't those industries be more efficient for end customers?
It's not really linked to private vs public. It's more of an organisation size question. I can guarantee that if you were working in a megacorp it would be the same issue
Honest question - should that comma be a colon in:
"Also as an English speaker, you make a good point"?
Not so different from the term ass-kisser in that sense.
It's sort of a linguistic convergence - it began as an in-group term of abuse for those considered not to be hardline enough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckservative
> Because dapps are publicly audit-able [...]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that auditing a Dapp is far from trivial. Only the bytecode is stored in the blockchain, and even if the source code is published, it's hard to see if it corresponds to the published bytecode (and even then, FOSS still have bugs, remember OpenSSH and its latest security bugs). From [1]:

> Q: How can I verify that a contract on the blockchain matches the source code?

> A: AFAIK the best way to do this at the moment is to compile the source code again with the exact same compiler version the author used (so this is something that needs to be disclosed) and to compare the bytecode. (Thomas Bertani @ StackExchange)

In addition, in the source code itself a contract programmer could implement "contractual" backdoors... ahem.. loopholes. And you'll have no recourse.

[1] https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/195/how-can-i-v...
That's up to Romania to disallow that business to operate in that manner.
Seems like a kneejerk reaction.

The reason services are bundled into SVCHOST is that it offers reduced memory footprint and lower startup costs, which is still significant on resource constrained systems (which Windows embedded still targets)[0].

If malware didn't copycat SVCHOST they would just copycat one of a dozen other common Windows processes like conhst, dllhost, csrss, etc.

As an aside, in Task Manager if you go to the details tab, select columns, command line. You'll see exactly what each instance of SVCHOST is running. Process Explorer gives you even more information than that.

Process Explorer allows you to turn on Digital Signature checking. Run it as administrator. Select Columns -> Verified Signer. Options -> Verify Image Signatures. But also check your CA store to make sure no custom CA has been injected into the OS.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030918-00/?p=...
> Do any of them realize it's a common sexual fetish which people knowingly and consensually engage in?

That's precisely the intended meaning, that one literally or figuratively enjoys being taken advantage of.
I know someone who live in subsidized housing. I understand this is not a common situation so it's not representative of a lot. Her rent is literally defined as a percentage of her income. She doesn't work, so income is in part child support payments and who knows what else. I believe the percentage is over 30, so if you handed her UBI over $300 would go straight to her rent.

Prices are like that - hand people (actually loan them beyond their means) money to go to college and tuition skyrockets. Give them heath insurance and those costs go up. Hand them a blank check every month and it will most likely all go to some form of inflation.
https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/

See the huge Oreo cookie there? I honestly don't understand why you made this comment.
How can you tell if a number is really a string
It's not like anyone is going to starve it a few of these places close. Once you factor in the negative health effects and the wasted potential of everyone staffing the place, I think the negative impact a basic income policy would have on the industry could actually be a good thing in the long run.
Blum: “The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is.”
But the wages they pay to workers have gone down.
It may surprise some HN readers that 1984 was in fact not about a lack of pricacy, but about the government's ability to edit the past. Privacy had a minor role next to the ability to redefine the truth. This is a deeply scary thing. I hope the gleefully self-righteous dystopia builders in this thread get to suffer the full pain of the "right to edit other people's memories" world they are building.
Why the [New York Times] tag, seems redundant?
That is a fascinating world to me. I've about 25 years C, rudimentary intel x86 asm and good ability to understand new hardware. Seems to me that at 40+ this is an industry that I could still be of use in. Any pointers?
I would keep working and just save most of the money. 15% would go for new toys and gear.
If you consider top-tier fast food chains have an average gross revenue > ~$2M and profits ~$100K, then that means The vast majority of that $2M is being dumped back into the economy in the form of purchasing supplies, equipment, and labor.

The other benefit for those not employed by or involved in the restaurant's supply chain is cheap and convenient food.
Google is not a non-profit, they can and will do anything to make a profit. If they have a complete monopoly there's no reason to keep prices competitive, because there is no competition.
> I see you are not opposed to government intervention, you just want it in a different form.

That's right - I want it in a reduced, more efficient form.

Personally I don't think the government should bail out property damage of people whose risks go bad and who don't have insurance. But I can accept that maybe this is the minority opinion - but even in this case it's still more efficient for people to be forced to buy private insurance rather than have the government say 'you must pay us $X flood risk premium' or 'you cannot build here'. Private insurance companies (with money on the line) will more accurately assess flood risks than a government official (who has no financial interest in the accuracy of his assessment).
I think you will find that motivated autodidacts are (and have always been) rather thin on the ground. The internet has had less effect than the idea of a public library.
If you genuinely think that then either the guy next to you is smarter than you, or is being a dick about what he knows instead of helping you understand.
It turns out that you're allowed to mail ants, but not ant queens. That is because it is generally illegal to ship ant queens across state lines. (Ants are very good at becoming invasive species.)

This is why if you buy an ant farm for your kids, the ants you get will always die out. :-(

(My son loooves ants.)
Agreed, and you are also forgetting about speed. This robot can produce t-shirts that can be delivered to customers next day. Doesn't matter how cheep bangladesh might be, they can't match that speed. This opens up opportunities for sales that were impossible before. If you need 100 shirts tomorrow you are willing to pay more so it has even larger margins.
I feel like a lot of issues people have with NoSQL or MongoDB is that there trying to fit the Relational Model and SQL way of doing things into MongoDB. MongoDB is a document database. So the things you did in a RDBMS won't work in a document database. Time to think different.

Some of the things I'v seen people complain about.

JOINS - should be done in the application

SQL - one of the big issues I have with RDBMS is that application logic lives in the database and application, causing all kinds of brittle spaghetti code. If you need that code to live outside of the application then its time to build a web-service around it or just have a shared library all the apps use.

Reports - should be done in the application, could also create a view in Mongodb and pull report data from that.

Schemes - RDBMS schemes are a huge pain, the restrictiveness of it causes all kinds of pain when you want a dynamic data-store. The best thing about Mongodb's collections is that every document in a collection can have a totally different schema. If you want to do that in a RDBMS you end up hacking it by shoving json or xml data into fields. Your basically creating a document database but doing a horrible implementation of it.

ORMS - if your using an orm then your already going down the path of using a NoSQL database. ORMs are hacks for RDBMS because mapping your data model to SQL is a pain. With Mongodb this is all built into the driver and database. Thats why Mongodb Inc creates drivers for all major languages. Plus most drivers have attributes you can decorate your modals with that make it flexible when the structure changes. So nothing blows up.
Maybe, I don't know. As long as something is used for delimiting I don't really mind what it is. I only made the comment because I had to read the sentence three times before I figured out what it was saying.
> That's how things work in Windows as well.

GPU drivers are different. Basically, Windows have Direct3D already in the kernel, exposing relatively large API surface for the userland half of the driver.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di...
Its true that there are holes and that UAC isn't a particularly strong security barrier (i.e. If an attacker is at the keyboard it won't do shit). But that's the same for OS x and they have some even worse patterns; e.g. I'm pretty sure half the installers I end up using take your password themselves and pass it on to some waiting sudo under the hood. They at the very least don't use the proper system way of doing things; i can tell because some things trigger touch id and some don't. Similarly, there have been many stories about dropbox circumventing system security. I have no doubt that if dropbox can figure it out, malware writers can, too.
To be fair, at every large company I've ever worked for (mostly major oil companies, not tech companies) it's at least a two to three month process.
Especially considering it's from the The Opinion Pages. The tag makes it look like some sort of official statement from New York Times.
If I recall correctly it was a term popular in other circles (like /r/theredpill on reddit) that make up a lot of the popular online alt-right communities (like /r/the_donald) [1]. The merging of these communities (that generally seem to have hate and/or cynicism as their common thread) resulted in new insults like libcuck (combination of libtard and cuck). It would be fascinating if it wasn't so depressing.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-...
Really nonrigorous study and no mention of the current body of literature saying the opposite. 92 publicly traded companies is a joke of a sample
Are there any little router like this (apparently an TP-Link MR3020 with new case) but with 5 Ghz?
paywall warning, maybe?
Wow. That's a really polite and diplomatic way to describe "completely crazy". I might just re-use that wording myself.
Did I miss the justification somewhere? Some vauge association thing outweighs free speech? The author has utterly failed to even convey his basic message, which seems to be, and please pardon the overused term 'Virtue Signaling' in its literal sense.
Eltima Port Virtualization technology allows to access your serial and USB devices in the cloud PC. By technology integration you may decline costs and increase the revenue.
I work in a megacorp. Can confirm. Have to file tickets, and they have to seek approvals for either delegation of server allotments and subdomains or new dns pointers or worse.

I regularly need to host internal applications accessible by other staff and often just do so from my machine during the daytime and send them updated IP addresses/ports where they can access them... boss didn't even think it was possible...

Yeah. I imagine the government processes are pretty convoluted.
Did that already, everyone ignored that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724732
[ChristianBundy] I agree wholeheartedly.
I was recommended UrBackup[1] recently as a selfhosted backup solution.

However, i haven't tried it so far, so i can't really comment on it yet..

Feature-wise it seems it should fit the bill, however..

[1] http://www.urbackup.org/index.html
We're looking at 600 years back, so are you saying there's 18000 novas to examine (30 per year) across that period?

Their conclusion in the OP was AIUI that _many_ stars produce novae serially. So we should surely be able to match series of novae (along a stars trajectory).

Do you know are English language details of the historic Korean record available (are they in the paper)?

http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/nova_list.html shows very few recorded novae, is this a listing including the dozens per annum you mention?
With OpenSolaris, there was some l10n code in libc that they weren't able to get clearance for some reason.

Windows has ~30 years of legacy. There are probably some bits of Adobe code in font rendering - although at least in this case, Adobe still exists so at least it's possible to call somebody to try to negotiate.

If there's some significant piece of code in some ancient video codec (to pick some silly example) that came from a third party in the late 90s who then went under, it'll be a mess to track down if there's even anybody who needs to be called.

Now, such a codec is well isolated: "Free Windows doesn't support the AncientCrapware4Windows codec. Does anybody care?", but what if some fundamental parts of the shell was licensed back then and dragged forward all those years?

It's the long tail that hurts and just checking _if_ there's anything to do is lots of legal work that scales by lines of code (and OpenSolaris was tiny compared to Windows).
For a product that (as the article claims) approaches a retail value of $0, that's a steep investment.
I wonder what political news story this is trying to take attention away from...
Since cities usually survive much more than one human lifetime, this is not good reasoning.
This is true, to a certain extent. But it doesn't mean that masters for vinyl always have more dynamics left intact.

More often than not these days, the same compressed master is used for the vinyl. To combat the groove-jumping problem, the overall level is simply dropped.
Arts are not meant to have predictive power. Sciences should have predictive power. The study of literature and music is the study of art. If psychology or sociology currently have little predictive power, they should be called arts instead of sciences. Falsifiability is the corner stone of science.
California Senate Committee Votes to Give Telcos $300m for Slower Broadband
As a recent parent I would love it if there was more realistic health information for parents about the benefits of breastfeeding. As best I can tell from metastudies (which I'm totally unqualified to read), the scientific answer right now is: there may be some effect, but if so it's too small to reliably measure and may be swamped by other interventions. (I could be wrong! That's why I want better info.)

(Compare to, say, the advice to have infants sleep on their backs to prevent SIDS, or the HPV vaccine, which have clear and measurable health impacts at a population level.)

This matters because breastfeeding has costs that tend to be ignored. Just from personal experience, it pushes disproportionate work onto my wife in a way that's hard to correct for and detracts from parenting. And given that she's working full time, it's also a huge investment of resources -- if you take her work time into account, we're spending tens or hundreds of dollars a day for this. And many women get injuries and infections, soldiering through months of agony for that health benefit that may or may not exist.

Setting aside the health of the parents (and we shouldn't, that's an easy trap), breastfeeding uses a lot of resources that could go toward other interventions for the child. Maybe it's all worth it? But I wish there was a better conversation about the tradeoffs.
From the article:

"AB 1665 would lower California’s broadband standard from a minimum of 6 Mbps download/1.5 Mbps upload speeds, to 6 Mbps down/1 Mbps up. That’s despite a move by the federal agriculture department to set the minimum acceptable speed for rural areas at 25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up.

The bill would also re-write the rules for the state’s primary broadband construction subsidy program – the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) – in such a way that it will be difficult, if not impossible, for anyone other than AT&T or Frontier Communications to tap into the $300 million allocated for infrastructure grants. It adds further sweeteners for incumbents, such as letting them use CASF grant money to pay for operating costs and, in a nod to the cable industry, allowing them to launder it through individual property owners in order to avoid any direct oversight by the California Public Utilities Commission, which oversees the fund.

Next stop for AB 1665 is the senate appropriations committee. If it gets a green light there, it’ll go to a floor vote by the full senate, and then back to the assembly to reconcile the different versions passed by the two houses."
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Agree. Which is why I have decided to be unhelpful instead of risk spending my life in prison for trying to fix a bug.
coldtea literally never said that WebKit was a twisted mess.

robertwhiuk, responding to you, referenced using "twisted mess"

pizlonator:

I think it would be weird if objects were thread-
restricted by default. Concurrency is most fun when it's
easy for a thread to access an object it wants.

robertwhiuk:

You say fun, but what you mean is twisted mess.

No reference yet to WebKit until your response:

WebKit uses threads. WebKit is not a twisted mess.

coldtea chimed in with this:

WebKit needs tons of extra effort to keep it from being a
twisted mess precisely because it uses threads.

What is that "extra effort"? Discipline, care, good work. coldtea does not call WebKit a twisted mess. In fact, they seem to be saying the opposite. That it is not a twisted mess despite using threads.

You have some good points in this discussion, generally. But you should at least be honest in your characterization of other people's comments.

Maybe some day you will also learn to use threads.

Maybe someday you will also learn reading comprehension.
This isn't another use case for it; you can still use Selenium with Firefox 57+. It's only the extension that allows you to generate Selenium scripts by performing the tasks you want it to execute manually that will no longer work, and no effort is invested in that because there are good enough alternatives.
I really want C#/.NET to gain ground against Java.

I started my career working for a .NET shop a few years ago, and immediately fell into a love/hate relationship with the technology stack.

I loved C#, as it seemed to be a fantastically well-designed language that had learned a lot from Java's mistakes. Visual Studio was great, too.

However, as a longtime Linux and open source supporter, I loathed Windows and Microsoft's software culture. And honestly, the .NET open source culture - even now - is kind of lacking. C# shops typically wait for some canonical solution from MS rather than creating and sharing libraries themselves.

I really, really like the new direction that Microsoft is taking, and I hope that the open source community will embrace C# in a bigger way.
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Hosting files is a feature. The bug is doing so on the same domain as an official government source. The fix is registering a non-gov domain like fccusercontent.com and hosting files from there. (Also they should probably limit the API to only accept pdf's, txt, and other reasonable file types.)
> When a test suite finds a bug, that proves that the program is incorrect for some inputs. When a type system doesn't reject a program, that proves that the program is correct for all inputs.

> Which one to use depends on the impact of an error. In the case of a system that controls lots of money, you'll want a guarantee that all inputs lead to a correct balance. That suggests to use a type system.

When a test suite passes that proves that the program is correct for a subset of all inputs. But I do not see how the same can be said about a type system.

Types do not usually capture semantics - unless we are talking about something a lot more powerful than what I'm used to seeing in real programming languages.

> I think a good compromise would be a language that allows you to annotate your types with arbitrary properties, but doesn't complain if it can't type-check them, so long as you write a test.

But why do I need types for this? Why can't I just assert the properties outright, writing assertions only in terms of the code interface? It's not the types that tell me what arbitrary properties my code should have!
Proof looking at code makes things less fun?
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It's not about people being able to read it. It's about trying to be intellectual. Long sentences are usually prone to interpretation. There is no value in making sentences this long. But that's just my opinion.
Exactly. I already think it's a shame that I can only run Firefox and Chrome in Docker (i.e. CI), but I hope that their differences will compensate enough to cover most potential problems in Edge and Safari.
I think the article is missing something visual to demonstrate the actual scoring at work.

I've made a simple plot in Excel here: http://i.imgur.com/adjaLQ9.png

The number of up-votes remains the same, while down-votes increases linearly. The scoring declining line in grey is the score.
India's JioPhone could be violating net neutrality: Airtel, Idea
You know, I think you said this facetiously.. but you might be on to something.

The Facebook data center in Altoona is on building 4, after all: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/develo...

It’s a much easier choice to expand an existing facility than to create an entirely new one.