skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toxoplasmosis is an extremely interesting parasite. I wouldn't be surprised if it is recognized as an important public health issue in the coming decade.

Is has been linked to all sorts of disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Prof. Jaroslav Flegr contributed many important studies, especially in the early stages of toxoplasmosis research [1]. He was also featured by an Atlantic article, which was one of the first to bring public attention to the field of research [2].

One particularly interesting finding is how it interacts with the RH factor. It might explain the relative stability of the distribution of the two types in the population even though one of them should have a serious disadvantage (birth complications) [3].

The hard question is how to prevent it. Due to how many different infection vectors there are, the only sound pieces of advice are "eat your meat well done" and "avoid getting in contact with garden soil". Development of a vaccine for cats is a promising solution since the parasite can only be transmitted by cats.

[1]: https://web.natur.cuni.cz/flegr/publ.php

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-you...

[3]: https://web.natur.cuni.cz/flegr/pdf/rhWho.pdf
What I don't understand is this: if the supply of bitcoin is controlled by a monotonically rate decreasing algorithm which "approximates the rate at which commodities like gold are mined"[0], how is it going to avoid the mismatch between the cyclical and random nature of economic output and the currency to properly represent it, ie, what central banks are fundamentally designed to do?

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
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This [0] will help you in deciphering.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3491.The_Dictionary_of_C...
> There isn't an easy solution for this type of thing.

Clearly there is since there's only one "civilised" country that experiences anywhere near this order of magnitude of mass shootings.
That's not throttling a specific service though. That's generic traffic shaping that would apply regardless of what you're connecting to.
Emergency vehicles usually are usually inconvenienced by them. I also imagine they might cause problems with snow plows.
I bet Goatse man could do a Samsung Note no problem.
What you say is fair, I wasn't saying Musk is 100% altruistic. I think the push for solar and electric cars are good for the planet though even if they are good for his checkbook too. I was using him as an example of someone who is actively working on the projects not simply funding others to do good work. (Incidentally, I don't think self-driving cars is something that I'd call altruistic)
Back when I first (and last) had to write my own text editor, 30 years ago, memory was at a premium, so I did what everybody else in the old Commodore days did: use the screen buffer, a paltry 40*25=1000 bytes, as additional memory.

When you first loaded a file, it would go straight to the screen buffer, B. Well, almost straight: you had to move to a new line when a CR character was seen. The rest of the file would go into buffer C, the region at the end of the free memory space.

As you scrolled down, the first line would go into buffer A, the region at the beginning of the heap, minus trailing whitespace. And so on.

In hindsight, this is a variant of gap buffers. If you edit the first line in a file, changes stay within the current paragraph on screen, until the paragraph needs to take up an extra line. Even then, though, the line at the bottom that scrolls off the screen only needs to be prepended to C, which, again, is at the end of the memory map and thus grows backwards.
If you want to work in a memory-unsafe superset, you can; that's what unsafe is.
No they left Autodesk and are running a company called Our Machinery.

http://ourmachinery.com
VICE.com unique voice is strong in this article. Their writing style guide was recently leaked: https://youtu.be/C-q4bEULG64?t=4
Prisoners already have communication mediums that guards can monitor and if they want to talk to someone with no prying ears or eyes, they can talk to a lawyer. Prisoners should have no need for cell phones or access to unrestricted communications. Yes, there are some young people in prison that really shouldn't be but there are plenty of dangerous gang members in there that should be totally removed from their "business responsibilities".
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The speed of production was definitely a consideration. The idea was to start with communities that read same/similar content. So that a lot of people would be requesting same articles for narration. Certainly, when the article is requested for the very first time — it could take up to 24 hours. At scale, even with human narrators, the gap could be minimized to an hour or less.

When an already recorded article is being requested — it's instant obviously.

Also, considering use-case, most users should be fine with audio not being available right away. Imagine: you request an article to get narrated, and by the time you hit the gym, start driving home/to work — the audio will be ready!
You can replace the text after the `=` with whatver you like:

http://www.andrewdavidson.com/gibberish/?companyname=BitCoin
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I can't decide whether I should upvote or flag this.
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My reading of the man page[0] is the opposite; your changes won't be reflected to the file, but "It is unspecified whether changes made to the file after the mmap() call are visible in the mapped region."

I'd love to see the other direction. One approach that I think is worth exploring is when the file contents correspond to a git hash that the editor has access to. In fact, there is a pretty relationship between "deltas" and git commits, and this could possibly be exploited usefully.

[0]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html
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Share less, find your strongest point, stick with it. Less is more here:

"Google will use AMP to implement a revenue-sharing system with publishers."

That seems like a plausible step for Google to use to counter ad blocking.
Fucking amazing, huh... "Web 2.0" was supposed to be the democratisation of the web, that any user (not just big corps) can publish anything and be seen, but it seems to have morphed to a few bulletin boards controlled by corporations, where only mainstream opinions are welcome, and the rest gets taken down and the poster muted...

To use the cliched Matrix quote, "What good is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?".
Which Note? Although I don't think it makes much odds - he has an astonishing capacity for insertion (he's done much more than the goatse image and it was relatively easy to find his content a while back.)
Back in the mid 90s I created a shareware text editor that ran on Windows 3.1 (on a 80386 machine) and was written in C++ using pure Win16.

At that time I used a double link list like structure with a line cursor to help with list traversal.

While this was not one of the formal text editor design patterns, I found that pattern very worked well.
If there's a functioning market, then there will be exactly as many miners as needed to make the value proposition slightly positive or even.

Early miners took great risk in holding on to BTC to see if it would become more valuable. Many did not (my hand goes up) hold on to their BTC, thinking that it was a fad that would pass and didn't want to get left holding the bag.

It's easy to underestimate the allure of being able to buy 2 pizzas with CPU power. That purchase made 10k BTC feel enormously valuable (as compared to anything else you could passively do with a home PC).

(FWIW, I would've bought pizzas if I'd had the BTC at the time, instead I gave some away and forgot about the rest and formatted the hard drive.)
We need to fall to this matter yarely, else we are unraveld. Such acts of terror are not bound by: “ type of weapon”, “nationality”, “circumstances”, etc. Instead of aiming our efforts and resources at the “wrong solutions”, I belive we need to ask first the right questions. We need to boil things down to its most fundamental truths, and reason up from there.
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Still has lenslets, but really fricking cool! Thanks for the link.
They mention Dandelion in there as having a blended bar with the hybrids - if they can replicate criollo, then hopefully the terroir subtleties will come out more in the final product.

There are so many variables at the moment, and due to small sizes and wild differences from batch-to-batch, artisans struggle to maintain consistency as it is. [0]

Vietnam is good for cacao in Asia. Try Marou.

[0] Source: amateur chocolatier and bean-to-bar experimenter.
Sure thing, you can improve in many areas, having Brazil being less corrupt would work wonders, but this won't change overnight.

But policies and agendas, imposed from countries abroad, changes the mindset of everybody very fast.

Funny thing. 8%. completely comparable to the amount of land in Brazil is owned by the government, or is regulated and so on.

It's no wonder that regulation and enforcement has improved things lately(in Brazil!), but why the fuck do we need to follow agendas from abroad, just like I've said before, getting shitty trade deals? :-)
If people aren't within weapons range of each other they can't shoot each other. So force everyone to stay a mile away from everyone else, and increase the range until the problem goes away.
I'd add Blazer to your list too. Used it with great success and it meets your 4 criteria.

https://github.com/ankane/blazer
I am careful about Galileo. You see a lot of Catholics trying to rewrite history by presenting the Galileo trial as a simple scientific debate where Galileo lacked proofs of his hypothesis.

Actually I find it very suspicious that the author of this article skips the trial altogether.

We have the minutes. We have the judgement. Even if Galileo was an ambitious asshole Ith political afterthoughts, one important fact remains: The Church used the literal interpretation of the Bible to contradict a scientific theory.

This is the main point and the main problem of the Galileo trial and why it is significant. Galileo deserved opposition in a debate, not condemnation in a religious tribunal. It happened and the blame is solely on the dogmatism of the church. From this point, science diverged more and more from religious teaching and stopped seeing the church as an ally.
In plickers, you still get to see responses on the cards and since you know the students in most cases, you can identify and if you want to single out a student (which I'm sure most teachers don't do), you can do it. "piCards: Anonymous Polling App" is a truly anonymous feedback system where you cannot know the students' response unless you read their cards. This will also give more confidence to students to freely answer without worrying about getting it right.
If the author had left it at that, it would have been a better series.
Another thing you can do is just use 'logger' and the syslog. You kinda have to be comfortable with viewing system logging, though; it's not for everyone - for example, I'm using sudo below just because I haven't set my user to view systemd's journal yet.

$ logger hello
$ logger <<EOF
> this is a multiline
> logging message
> EOF
$ sudo journalctl -t vacri
-- Logs begin at Fri 2017-09-29 10:40:49 AEST, end at Mon 2017-10-02 23:44:13 AEDT
Oct 02 23:40:24 myhost vacri[12320]: hello
Oct 02 23:48:48 myhost vacri[12460]: this is a multiline
Oct 02 23:48:48 myhost vacri[12460]: logging message

syslog is good for some use-cases (eg centralisation), and not so good for others. I imagine most people would prefer your directory-of-easily-findable-history.
This just in, our reporter has learned that telling people "secrets" make them share articles with their friends. More to come in our next clickbait article.

Using the data to optimise advertising (and ad pricing) is pretty obvious. Nobody seems to be annoyed that there's advertising in the first place, this is a non-issue.
> everything is configurable

Arguably that's it's own trap. Convention over configuration has saved millions of man hours in e.g. Rails projects, but a lot of JS land involves sinking a lot of time into the opposite.
how about flutter or is it just a dream at this point?
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This package is only the animation.

The spinners are in https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spinners / https://github.com/ManrajGrover/py-spinners

Which is a port of https://github.com/sindresorhus/cli-spinners
Right, I was overly simplifying. I meant to say a 120 sh ton MLC-calculated weight, not a vehicle that's exactly 120 tons since as the article goes into the class needs to take into account axle count etc.

What I don't understand is your claim that "you could just as well consider them metric tons". These are short tons with caveats, i.e. the eventual number depends on more than just the raw weight, but the raw weight is one aspect of the calculation.

So if you were to make that calculation on the basis of metric instead of lbs how aren't you going to introduce something like a 10% error in the MLC you come up with?
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Thanks for the awesome question :) you can get in touch with me over email as well - abhinavtripathi@22bate7.com
Would love to listen to any feedback you or your fellow teachers might have.
Thanks again!
Cute work.
Well done.
And also Well done for choosing a beatles'tune.

Here in action:
https://sequential.js.org/live.html#DYewhgJgFA5AFgFwQBwM4C4D...
This seems like a great candidate to add to HNPWA. :)
What a monster ! 4 tera SSD, 18 Giga RAM, 18 cores...
Thanks for the links! Here's a recent related discussion of another product:

Franchise – An Open-Source SQL Notebook | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303833 (Sep 2017, 63 comments)

https://github.com/hvf/franchise

Also mentioned there:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset
I agree that the etymology of words is interesting and useful, but Feynmann's point (at least the way I saw it) wasn't that names are useless. It's that knowing just the name of something doesn't tell you much about the thing. It's far more useful to know properties of said thing.

You've given an example of an indigenous language being very descriptive. But there are equally many examples of them not being descriptive or being confusing. The same applies for all languages in fact (even German I would argue).

Words in English have a long etymology too (and since it is far more widely spoken than most other languages, it has a far more complicated etymological history). Not to mention that all words are effectively by function labels, even in the language you mention. Just because the label has some logic behind it doesn't make it not a label.

Also, is there a reason that you feel the need to deride "white men" or English? Seems quite out-of-place to me. Most invaders don't listen to the advice of indigenous inhabitants after invading a country, regardless of their skin colour.
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I've added my email to my HN profile. :-)
When in doubt,

grep -r -- 'main[ ]*(' .
In my opinion the secret is that the algorithm can be changed anytime. In fact there was a debate recently to amend bitcoin, which in the end resulted in bitcoin cash. So as long as the central bank controls the algorithm (i.e. can force by law or regulations miners to switch to a different algorithm), they have full control on the supply of money.

That defeats the original purpose of bitcoin, but that could be their intention. The settlement of the currency could be decentralised but the supply of the currency could be controlled.

In my opinion that leaves many other challenges, some fundamental like the concept of public ledger, incompatible with the secrecy of banking (i.e. the payments you make is not public information).
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If they manage to get the 18 core processor without thermal throttling it will be a real feat of engineering, but I doubt it's possible.

Throttling or not, I wish I was rich enough (we're probably talking about a 6 to 8k machine here !).
Early miners took great risk

This is verifiability untrue, as early miners used the lowest amount of energy to produce and acquire the largest percentage of the total supply ever produced.

Any rational "investor" trading capital or computational energy into BTC or similar minting algorithms would be deterred by this model as the losses increase while the network grows older.
I'm not suggesting we replicate, but that we at least do whatever we want and need, instead of having needing to bend to the needs of what other agendas tells us to.

My point isn't only with forests, but also with everything else. And I'm not being populist, or nationalist, left-wing or right-wing... just being real. Once I've moved abroad and stopped living in Brazil, I started to understand how other countries and cultures, from the first world, are pretty much immune to this kind of debate, or are the ones setting up standards on how everybody else should behave and do things.

And how this feeds poverty and confusion... and in the very end, as counter-intuitive as it seems, damages the environment.

We need no fucking agendas to follow, if they aren't of our interest, it's not like we've got 50k+ dollars an year per capita in a very egalitarian society to start caring about this, at least to the degree that those who doesn't have any fucking forests anymore, cares. In the Capitalist world we live in today, managing a country it's about picking up the right battles, there isn't an infinite overflow of money coming in so we can both educate 200mi of brazilians, feed them, give them the good life and in the end, still be 100% green.
I would think it would require a faraday cage around the prison.
What she doesn't state is that central bankers are going to be the biggest supporters of cryptocurrency once they get to endorse one that is fully trackable (BTC fits the bill pretty well on that front).

It's one of the unexpected paradoxes that cryptocurrency is going to be the greatest threat to privacy since the cell phone and not many people see it coming.

This is the reason I agree with her -- it will further consolidate power.
> You can contact more people, and you can convince a few percent more people to buy your product.

This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how sales works.
What a beautiful article this is. I hope it helps the school find a new music teacher.
Not as simple but well worth the extra weight would be org-mode. I personally find the vim-orgmode a balance between the full power of org vs my reliance on vim for day-to-day operations but I must admit I'm sometimes jealous of the power I see in emacs for this.
Absent a deep COCOM-like exports ban things like these are bound to happen. It's naïve to expect the shareholder-value maximizing enterprises to keep national security interests at heart.
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I don't see what you said as a counter to the part where you quoted me. I never argued anything to the contrary of your sources.

Your answer is an actual good faith counter to Peterson's assertions but the part where you quoted me is where I simply state what he's claimed in interviews.

I do this because people usually start out by straw-manning him, claiming he's said he's anti-this or that, whereas I'm claiming he's mainly said that his stance is against speech being compelled by law (which is fair game to argue against, as you did, if you think he's wrong).

I don't have to agree with his arguments to point out when people straw-man them
Depending where the prison is some laws would need to be changed before cell-phone jammers are allowed. That leaves converting the prison into a faraday cage, which is pretty expensive and difficult to do.

If you want to track prisoner communication you give them free access to landline phones which you record, and crack down on cellphones which are hard to monitor.
The Zen of Python just says that there is one and preferably only one obvious way to do it. It doesn't say anything about whether that way is right or wrong.
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You got it the wrong way around - Filecoin will be built on top of IPFS, but IPFS itself works fine without Filecoin.
I don't have much faith in them, the thermals have been questionable on all of their other products.
You cannot take a piece of paper (of any size) and wrap it around part of a donut.
I wonder if solution to `PR commentary is lost.` would be simply to dump all the information created during code-review into some metadata in the commit itself. We also have this problem at RhodeCode that basically code-review in pull request puts lots of valuable information into the code review tool rather then the source code itself.

Interesting idea to try out for us
It hasn't changed much. But new OLAP features have come up such as parallel queries and for those, the existing cache architecture doesn't make sense since OLAP is full of sequential scans.

You can read the doc for the same - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/when-can-parallel-...
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I think a deeper question to ask is whether the monetary controls of which you speak are designed to serve the masses or to maintain current power and wealth distribution?

The world functioned without those things for much longer than we've had them. In the past, the only controls were whether new precious metal or other resource deposits were found.

I think the cryptocurrency approach affirmatively rejects the notion that a central bank's controls are a net positive.
I'm more interested in what he will use for the UI. The popular option nowadays seems to embed WebKit, but that has obvious drawbacks. On the other hand, having scouted the grounds myself a year ago, it is one of the easiest option to set up, and it looks the best.
Ends on a bit of a fizzer. "Cool stuff, cool stuff, cool stuff, and the keyboard is gray and has a numpad now".
Microsoft never planned to support C99 in the C compiler, they have been pretty clear about that for more than 15 years.

GCC and Visual have a slightly different release cycle. GCC can move the minor version whenever they please and they do. Microsoft only add language changes in a new major releases, and sometimes port it back in a visual studio update pack, which are more spaced in time.

In both cases, the new release breaks the C++ ABI so updating is not something to be taken lightly.

There is also the debate of what "implemented" means. GCC can be obtained in alpha and beta, so you can test new features early long before they are finished or included in a regular release. All things considered, MSVC is maybe one year later on the latest cool thing. Not much.
So how's this going to perform for Deep Learning?
This is the same parasite that supposedly causes mice to become permanently unafraid of cats and attracted to cat urine.
I think flat rates encourage consolidation, while micropayments encourage competition.
argumentum ad hominem!

Her analysis is actually pretty unbiased and well balanced. I never expected such a open statement from the head of the IMF.
It was in my own pursuit.
What's more: with a 3.5 mm headphone jack!
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Demo website: https://reiinakano.github.io/fast-style-transfer-deeplearnjs

Deeplearn.JS library doesn't work on mobile yet, sorry to folks on the go!
MAC do not contain enough entropy to be usefully one-way hashed.

MAC address is 48 bits of which 22 bits is vendor.