skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you serious? Most of the plant substitutes for meat are based off nutrient-devoid grains, soy, and corn. It's also not at all an inefficient way to get calories; fat packs the most calories per gram, and fat (especially saturated fat) is not easily available in plants unless you're making a concerted effort to eat avocados, olives, and coconuts. I'd rather eat a fatty steak and be satiated for hours, than have the same calories from quinoa (or some other 'healthy' grain) and be ravenous 2 hours later when my insulin levels drop.
Some similarities, but different in that EDN has a tagging approach for some types, and a more limited set of literal value formats.
Retail and Data Science Weekly – October 20th, 2017
I don't think I trust foreign intelligence agencies enough to install their software on my devices.

Sure, they probably also release stuff not under their name and not open, but still.
What would that have to do with consciousness?
The main reason i move from c# to “typescript js” because c# not working on client side web. I love c#, maybe if dotNetAnywhere is ready for production, i start using c# again. Keep the good work. Maybe someday aspcore, xamarin and dotNetAnywhere. It would be awesome
Smart pointers are not at all useless and not at all deprecated (you are thinking of auto_ptr; there are still unique_ptr and shared_ptr).

They don't try to address the check for null problem at all; that isn't their intent. All they mean to do is eliminate several classes of common, easy to make mistakes such as not zero initializing or not freeing the resource.
That's cool, may I ask how you persuaded them to bring the FreeBSD port up to date?
Taxes don't solve the problem, they increase it. If costs are too high, adding taxes only increases the cost more.

One can argue that taxation in all its forms, including inflation, is the singular cause of all poverty in the USA-- it is the largest most massive wealth transfer fro the masses to the rich ever. And I don't mean "rich don't pay enough taxes" I mean taxes are stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.
I set up a Mastodon instance last weekend. It took me about 3-4h, mostly because I made some mistakes and restarted from scratch - if setting up Docker containers is old hat to you, it'll take two hours out of your life at most.

I haven't gotten outgoing email working yet, so it's effectively a single-user instance. And it works fine. I can follow people on other instances, they can follow me, conversations can happen.

Everyone is pretty much ready to federate with any new server until such time as said server starts being a problem; if you don't start acting like a 4channer then I doubt you're gonna get blocked.
I'd call him mostly bald.

He's welcome to style what hair he has left.
You say that like nothing ever comes of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
It's unpredictable to say it will be worth more in 10 years when it fluctuates rapidly and is not even 10 years old to begin with.
people that willingly choose those positions. I didn't go to college. I go a job out of high school. I did what I had to do, to be able to do what I want to do. People today think a degree entitles them to $100k/yr and a new Porsche. That's not this works. That's not how any of this works...
That photo is a sharp (and fascinating) reinforcement of the grazing sheep point. Is there any other reason those trees would grow clustered right there and nowhere else? Was that area not accessible by sheep?
Please don't? If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
> I wonder what kinds of communities will replace religious communities.

Why do you assume that there will be a replacement? Could not community be declining as well?
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
Ahh, neat! That sounds like it results in some nice patterns. In that case, this paper might be more relevant http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/pad/pad.html. Its related work section should also have some good references to other things like this. For the most part they'll likely be too complex to make them worth implementing, but it might still be interesting or give you some inspiration for new ideas.
Stillwell is a great author. Naive Lie Theory is a great read, with a big section on quaternions.
Type Checking Without Types (2012) [pdf]
“Why Speculate?” – A Talk by Michael Crichton
Whats xbox one?.. :)
Mir running on Fedora
The reaction gifs were a bit too distracting for me to finish the article.
Today my officers spent hours talking to a victim of rape, looking after her children and dealing with the aftermath.

I'm sure she'd love that on YouTube for all to see.
It also doesn't help that they're specializing an interpreter generated by a compiler. General-purpose compilers generate pretty bad code for interpreters. If the interpreter was written by hand and had some associated metadata, I think there would be a slightly higher chance of success here.
Your argument is based on an opinion - "praying is irrational (because it clearly cannot work)" - that religious people do not hold! If they were to share your opinion I guess most would abandon the practice.

In this context one can see why they choose to raise their children in such a way. It would be irrational not to teach them how to pray if this is such an important part of their lives. Would you wait for your kids to grow up before teaching them personal hygiene because it is ultimately their choice?
Medium's glorified stack ranking for engineers
Actually there are studies demonstrating that pomegranate improves blood circulation - and for me that's the main reason to use it. Antioxidants etc. is just bullshit.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4146683/
Sadly DotNetAnywhere definitely isn't ready for production, and by the sounds of it Blazor is not either (I'm not involved in Blazor).

It's possible some of the other DNA forks mentioned here may be more suitable for production, I'm not sure.
> last-ditch effort to get ahead of the shit storm

This raises an interesting question. If you know a shit storm is coming is it more advantageous to do:

a) Get ahead of the storm (as you say) or

b) Wait until it hits and then apologize profusely and say and do all the right things?

Seat of the pants I say 'b' is better. First under the 'better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt' (there is a chance the storm won't hit) and second because most people will think you came out upfront because of the obvious reason of 'get head of the storm' and so it won't mean anything anyway.
Bitcoin $6000
on a side note, what brokers provide trading apis to make use of the data?
"Fitness" (in the survival of the fittest sense) i guess is the overall theme.

And confusingly, the choice of "bad" men may change depending on how close to ovulation the lady is.
Ask HN: What do you use for time tracking?
extra info if you have time:
how many projects do you track? how large are the teams? how much do you pay?
They seem to be making strangely isolated measurements that have little to do with the claimed benefits of the alleged superfoods.

For starters I think most people agree there is no need to replace electrolytes during endurance activities that do not exceed 1 hour, oddly the length of time in this study. I’m not sure anyone claims coconut water hydrates better than water, but certainly it’s going to be more beneficial for replacing lost electrolytes. Personally, I’d like to see a study regarding coconut milk vs water and the hydration effects on the intestines themselves, my hypothesis would be intestines hydrated with coconut milk more readily absorb vitamins and nutrients from other foods than intestines hydrated with just water, either way it would be an interesting experiment.

As to chia seeds being compared to salmon, that alone should probably confirm their status as a food rich in omega 3 fatty acids, as salmon is one of the best sources of omega 3 fatty acids. But what’s the use case? As a runner I am more inclined to drink water or coconut milk with a teaspoon of soaked chia seeds rather than run with a belly full of salmon, but for dinner I’d rather have a plate of salmon than a teaspoon of chia seed. And omega 3s are not the sole benefit of chia seeds, As natures form of time release capsules they will provide some degree of continued hydration during long runs from the liquid they were soaked in that salmon will not. It seems they could have measured the hydrating effects of the chia seed vs the salmon, but instead they only seem to focus on the percent of omega 3 obsorption of chia vs salmon, but as I said these were oddly isolated measurements.
I find this idea very toxic. If the state can send an agent somewhere, then that place and the goings-on that were witnessed are a matter of public record.

If that isn't so, and isn't sacred, then we're saying that secrecy in policing is normal, and that goes against hundreds of years of progress in the common-law tradition.

In order for people to enjoy the kind of privacy you discuss, we need to have non-state support services that are completely disconnected from the matter of enforcement of th e law.
What Happened After Three Developers Pirated Their Own Games
Speaking of NUMA, I'm glad that AMD Threadrypper will force more developers to get familiar with it, since it's the first mainstream single-socket system that uses it. It will bring it to the attention of more developers than just those who tested regularly on multi-socket machines of their employers.
I’ve actually done something similar before - using stripe and Sendgrid to make a small (and unremarkable) email service.

I had a very basic management app in rails but nothing else. In the end, I spent maybe 40 hours of dev and less than $100 to make it (domain name and ssl cert). It was a proof of concept for myself.

The drawback was assembling the elements to make it resulted in little to no unique value in the product itself. It had no compelling value prop and as such I never released it.

So, you can do this but you’ll probably have to do some dev work and make sure the end product is both compelling, solves a real need and can deliver continuous value.

As an aside, a product that I did enjoy a while ago (the name escapes me) was really just a single person sending a newsletter with a curated list of web dev/design contracts. He used gum road to charge $40/month for it. While I used it, it was totally a valuable offering - and involved zero dev work.

Value can be created in other ways too :)
Git at Scale – Visual Studio
A cryptocurrency raised $400M to avoid Bitcoin’s “civil war” has its own
Shipping an entire Java/ruby/python/whatever VM with your code doesn't make much sense (not to mention, wasm doesn't have a good GC story). Then there's the DOM API issue.

If you aren't making games or crunching big numbers, wasm isn't for you yet.

Even so, let's assume wasm added all those features today. History shows it would still be a decade before you could ship to all your users. That may not matter for fancy startup X, but it certainly matters for the biggest and most important businesses.

I love the potential of wasm, but I think it's way too soon to be preaching about it being the end-all be-all of the web.
The entire superfood craze is about packaging, processing and marketing. Fresh isn't an ingredient, it's subjective.
To me the biggest problem isn't 'evil' AI (SkyNet/Matrix scenarios) since I don't think it is possible to predict the intrinsic motivations of non-biological intelligence (no evolved neurochemical dependencies like we have/infinite capacity to grow beyond our limitations). That makes way too many assumptions about AI continuing to remain like us (curious, jealous, afraid, etc.) when all our behaviors evolved in us and are limited by biology. I'm more worried about something emerging unintentionally that does harm (as in the overused 'paperclip maximizer'). In that instance, not about being on 'our side'.
I think it boils down to one thing: How enthusiastic an old engineer is about technology in general and whether they are proactive on keeping themselves up to date on the latest things (vs reactively learning something when a project requires it).

I worked at a startup for the last 4.5 years which had a lot of older (40-50 yr) people (the founders were in their late 40s). I also interviewed a lot of older people (both with positive and negative feedback). What I noticed is two clear groups:

One set of older devs have been in the tech industry just because they needed a job and have somehow kept up with the technologies in a reactive manner. This set of people have mentality of "this is how we used to do this back in 19xx/20xx". It doesn't always work out.

The other set of people are genuinely interested in technology and proactively seek new things, present papers, blog about stuff, and are always on the look out for the next improvement and the next thing. This set of people tend to learn from their own experiences and improve on things while providing guidance to devs in their 20s/early 30s. This set of people never have trouble finding jobs.

The bottom line is that the tech industry requires you to do continuous learning and be enthusiastic about stuff. If you can't do that you'll have trouble finding jobs when you're older.

Edit: I’m seeing the same pattern at my current job even though the percentage of older devs is lower here.
Companies optimize for future cashflow, because that’s how value is created.
Somehow I'm not surprised. Incidents are now caught on camera and spread around the news & social media. Yet, in a large portion of the cases where the cops are clearly in the wrong they get a slap on the wrist if that.

There is no real incentive to change their behavior camera or not.
Intel Invests $4.6M into Eye-Tracking Company AdHawk, Competition Heats Up
every human can be a psychopath with the right incentive / motivation
This reminds me of the time I wanted to build a URL shortener that handles lists and even hierarchies, and I bought the domain urls.cat (URLs `cat`). I realised then how close it was to "URL scat", so it's probably a good thing I abandoned the idea.
>"I remember a few years back when I was trying to play with MINIX. Tanenbaum got several million EUR and hired some grad students to work on the thing."

This piqued my interest, what was this project exactly? Can you elaborate on this anecdote?
Surprised to see this downvoted - it was my initial thought as well. If most cops are decent and doing what they think is right, then that wouldn't change just because they're wearing bodycams.

That said, I still think bodycams are a great idea. I hadn't heard justification of them based on improving some aggregate statistics before. Instead, I've always thought they were good for those particularly difficult "he said / she said" cases that capture public attention.
Make Your Pseudocode Your Real Code
Facebook open sources concurrent programming debugger
Ask HN: How to filter Bitcoin, ico, blockchain
Hi,

This may just be a general question, but in my case I would like to know what method I can use to filter out the bitcoin, distributed ledger, ico, digital currency, satoshi etc...threads on HN.
Personally, I prefer Google Buzz
Its been flagged.

Which is a shame, because the only real non-productive comment came from fourfaces which is a rarely used novelty account with -4 karma and the topic is interesting to discuss.
Ageism is the one -ism everybody suffers from.

It doesn't matter how privileged you are. You might think "hey, I'm a straight cis white male, I'll never have to worry about discrimination!". And then 20 years later, you're middle-aged. Hello age discrimination!
Yikes! Maybe this is legal, in the same sense that I can go to the bodega and buy a newspaper of local mugshots... but how unfortunate for the people who have the worst 15 minutes of their life faithfully captured and posted on Youtube.
I don't think this is a compelling argument.

What is the connection between enforcement of statutory code and medical aid / emergency response? Why do these social services need to be delivered by LEOs?

At my college, one of the best things my student government did was first response in cases of rape and sexual assault. We had a phone number that people were able to call and get a response from a peer who had been trained in the next steps of response, allowing the victim to gain composure and support before dealing with the law enforcement apparatus.

We had a similar service for cases of mental health / psychedelic emergency.

There is no reason that law enforcement need to be first responders in cases of medical emergency.

Unless we're talking about walking back the Peelian principles (and arguably all that is good about western notions of liberty), it is a continuing imperative to ensure that police officers can strictly enforce the law and do so in full public view.
All the little Harveys
PLEASE let this godforsaken phase of gifs after every other paragraph come to an end already. It makes yet another fascinating article basically unreadable.
Right, when the stories on the front page are older that time factor dilutes their high scores, giving lower-score but newer posts an advantage.
open the link in anonymous mode and it works.
bingads python library.

Someone’s getting their line count up.
I'm interested to know if anyone's using Mastodon for discussing research / scholarly publications. Equivalent of people sharing / discussing articles on Twitter.
It is a shame that you dont get into details technically. The article now is basically the same as looking at the recommendations of google page speed itself.
Naw, the homebrew/piracy groups have been around since the birth of the console industry. It’s been an ongoing cat and mouse game for over 30 years at least.
Eventually someone or me should make a firewall 'fs' with fuse, it would map nicely and would be much less of a pain in the ass to work with.
Reader view works, but I agree that it’s a terrible way to structure an article anyway.
Safari "Show Reader View" gets rid of all those annoying gifs and makes the formatting nice. Now I practically use it to read all web-based content.
New robot-powered ETF beating the market so far
"This programming tutorial is great, but it could really use some giant meme images," said no one ever.
Tldr; The creator of curl awarded the Polhem prize, arguably the most prestigious award for technical innovation in Sweden.

The prize includes a medal from the king, a healthy chunk of cash and minor fame.

Congratulations Daniel! And good on the committee for recognizing solid open source work.
You really believe that's zero secular communities? This is, of course, not at all true. There's even atheist and skeptic communities.
My mistake, I thought it was a vaccine for the deer.
An electric mattress pad is one of my favorite things. Getting into a nice warm bed on a cold winter night is so wonderful. :)
> making it easy to bury stories you don't like

I don't believe that's true and have reason to doubt it. But if you (or anyone) think you're seeing a case of this, please send a link to hn@ycombinator.com. We'll look into it.
> But is it at least more understandable when it is done in the name of trying to rid the world of a dangerous and destructive ideology

This is factually wrong, the cold war was about imperialism and spheres of influence. The US was tearing down democracies and propping up dictators left and right to counter the Soviet Union.
The use of "plain" is slightly confusing. At first I thought you were referring to text/plain MIME type (i.e. truly only unformatted text) but based on your A/B image's hyperlinks it looks like you're still using text/html, just without styling.

Only mentioning it since based on other comments, seems like I wasn't the only one temporarily confused.
If you count freighters, the DC-8 is still in commercial service. Not too many of them, though.
Firefox's Reader view does the same.
Awesome! Great to hear. Feel free to ping me if you have questions.
Agreed, I even went into this article after reading your comment thinking "Hmm, I'll just scroll through quickly and block all of the images then take my time reading without the distractions"...I had to give up after 5 or 6, didn't even bother reading the article.

EDIT: Saw the Safari reader view comment below and ended up using Edge's reading view for this. That makes it tolerable but I really shouldn't have to do this.
Well, of course they are not in the best interest of faculty. The point is at least some of the faculty is perfectly human enough to advocate policy that is not necessarily in their own best interest, for the betterment of others they care about.
Because it isn't a problem with planting. That's very easy, and people volunteer to do it. When I was a kid (I'm Icelandic) we'd go on field trips and plant hundreds.

The problem is keeping the growth alive.
I never understood why people insist of having a single language for all parts of development. Most developers already (should) speak a few languages, so one extra is fine, I guess.
I strongly believe in DSLs.
It's not a simple solution, because it's not very effective. In areas with limited open space, hunting is very much an exclusionary activity. In Staten Island, the NYC Parks Department is performing an experiment in deer sterilization: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/nyregion/deer-vasectomies...
Not to add to the complaints but can somebody extract the text and post it vanilla elsewhere without the gifs? Seems like a very interesting article otherwise.
I grew up in Vermont and the woods are full of old stone walls put up by farmers and cellar holes where their buildings used to be. Not just on the edge of the woods, but deep within them too. I'm not a student of farming but I don't think that New England is a particularly good place to do it. Lots of hills and mountains and rocky soil. As for real estate developers, there's a lot more money to be made in heavily populated areas of the country. Taking VT as an example, the state contains fewer residents than the Boise, ID metropolitan area does, and the largest city has fewer than 45K people.

edit: removed link to an article that has been posted several times.
Let’s Build a Gmail API
"BaronVonSteuben"? Are you some sort of Utican?
Morphick to Be Part of Booz Allen Hamilton
Or maybe on a dedicated reality cable TV channel? Cops 24/7. I'll never be able to get that bad boys song out of my head. Surely there would still be a lot of curation.
The original version of this story was posted by Jek Hyde on twitter:

https://twitter.com/HydeNS33k/status/920323236176556037

Her exact story with the same gifs was posted on the 17th.

Update: Thanks internet peeps for letting me know this is the same person.
This explains too much, since there have been other depts that did see a likely effect (like Rialto). I found this part more compelling:

> Finally, cameras may have had less impact in Washington, D.C., because the police department there has already had to confront excessive-force problems. After a devastating 1998 Washington Post series revealed that the city’s police department had shot and killed more people per resident in the 1990s than any other police force in a large American city, the Department of Justice entered into a memorandum of agreement with D.C. to reform its policing.

I do think people overstate the extent to which police violence in the US is a problem of evil cops committing wanton abuse as opposed to deeper systemic issues, but I think it's possible that bodycams end up being a useful piece of that puzzle.
> Police officers are almost entirely decent people

should perhaps be

> Police officers are almost entirely almost decent people

The fact that the "few" (so we're told) bad apples aren't rooted out by their fellow honest, law-abiding officers suggests they're not as squeaky clean as some might think.
I always block images by default on new sites. If I care enough, I'll reload with images.