skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of Kurzweil's predictions also suffer from the idea that technology will have knock-on effects in less silicon-related fields like biology and medicine. For sure technology helps in those areas, but I haven't seen a fundamental change in how science is done or how our understanding of biology will start increasing at exponential rates. Fundamentally if you have to do things in physical space, there's a limit to your iteration speed.

Also, technology is most helpful at solving known unknowns (in which case you're often limited by meat space as described above), but in core basic science, we're often dealing with unknown unknowns, and there technology rarely helps. Luck and creative leaps usually do better.
The absolute best tool i have found for scraping is Visual Web Ripper.

It is not open source, and runs in windows only, but it is one of the easiest to use tools that i have found. I can set up scrapes entirely visually, and it handles complex cases like infinite scroll pages, highly javascript dependent pages and the like. I really wish there were an open source solution that was as good as this one.

I use it with one of my clients professionally. Their support is VERY good btw.

http://visualwebripper.com/
Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras: A Randomized Controlled Trial [pdf]
Does it? As a matter of fact, it's much more similar to MS Edge. With dark theme it's super close in terms of look. Rectangular, beefy tabs.
Yah, agreed. I've used arch for a long time as well, and gentoo before it. I've actually had less breakage with gentoo back in the day.

Their notification system for breaking changes is truly awful (or rather, does not exist). I've been bitten 3 times, each taking a few hours+ and a lot of reading to figure out. I find all of the things you're supposed to "just know" or check before running a `pacman -Syu` to be pretty silly. The official attitude towards these sorts of issues appear to be dismissive, which is what convinced me to finally drop it.
Ask HN: Tips for a cs undergrad interested in applying for Product Manager roles?
I do not believe that for a second.
I hope they don't. It's much easier to kill yourself and others by home distilling than by taking shrooms.
Anki's “Cozmo Lost in Reddit”
What an odd statement. Nobody said it's because they're Hungarian. It's because of the educational system at the time, which affected everyone in said system, regardless of ethnicity or "average IQ".
Because they're fun.
> of the approximate 11 million scientists has signed....

A.) Is there a citation that accompanies your statistic?

B.) Does this number account for the type of scientist? Are you lumping non-Earth scientists (say, fiber optic researchers) in with your assesment that 15K is not a large number?
> I have a hard time seeing how any of that would be preferable.

Not to you. But not everyone cares about the same things. I have used Firefox as my main browser ever since it split off from Mozilla Suite. Personally, I have never, in the whole history of Firefox had a problem with its speed. At various points I might have had some problems with stability, some problems with compatibility and some problems with memory usage. But speed is just not an issue for me. Even in the "slowest" browsers most of the time is spent on network latency anyway. But I have, over the years, customized my Firefox experience to some degree. I do not do anything crazy, I don't have a zillion of extensions, but I am really used to the few I do have. And this release broke those with no sufficient replacement. And the release was distributed as automatic upgrade, so I was not even asked if I want to upgrade. A warning of some sort would be nice before breaking so much functionality. And now that the upgrade happened, there is no clear way on how to revert it. A quick google search tells me that downgrading runs a chance of corrupting my profile. I might have to risk it anyway, since after using FF57 for a day at work, I feel that my productivity and workflow are seriously impaired. At this point I am not sure whether I should stay with the LTR version of FF, switch to an FF derivative like Waterfox or change browsers altogether. The FF57 experience is so vastly different from my pre-57 workflow that I might as well be using a different browser already. There were important features to FF that kept me a loyal user through many years. Those features are gone now.
http://leftycartoons.com/2017/11/14/if-global-warming-were-r...
Just to complete this line of reasoning -- the grandparent comment does not distinguish between good and bad effects of psychedelic mushrooms. It's easy (even reasonable) to skip over that distinction with mushrooms, because their bad effects are few and minor.

Mushrooms and leaded wine both have effects that their users long considered good. The difference between them, for purposes of this argument, is that for leaded wine we've since discovered very bad effects that completely outweigh the good effects, whereas for mushrooms we haven't.
This is the Android FaceID compatible with Qualcomm to stand up to Apple
Although this is rather dated, if you liked that article you may also like Richard Dawkins' talk on the evolution of the eye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1iwLqM2t0

It's pretty cool seeing a much younger energetic Richard Dawkins talk about how the eye evolved multiple times.
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Not as exciting as Solr 7 release.
I find it interesting that your instinctive view of privacy seems to be about restricting add-ons. That's certainly a useful thing to do, as we can see from some of the recent sell-outs that have meant once-trusted extensions silently became privacy loopholes. Even so, personally I'm more worried about the privacy implications of tracking and other covert behaviours by web sites/apps, and that's where the extensions you could run with Firefox really came into their own.

Someone has helpfully made a spreadsheet showing many old extensions and possible 57-compatible replacements, with notes on where things are a full replacement, there is limited functionality, there are known privacy issues, etc. I can't immediately find it again, so apologies for the lack of link, but have been references posted in some of the major online forums today, so perhaps you'll come across it. One of the things that was striking was that a lot of the extensions relating to blocking content or selectively toggling behaviours like running JS seem to have broken and not to have full replacements. I know that NoScript was a big one (though I've seen reports this evening that a 57-friendly version has just been released in that particular case). Quite a few ad-blockers and similar tools also seemed to have been affected, along with extensions like Greasemonkey that allow running customised JS and some analogous stylesheet customisers, and a few aimed at controlling the use of cookies and other data storage mechanisms.

For completeness, let me also say that the internal security improvements are all welcome, as is the continued separation of search from address bar and general lack of trying to spy on everything happening in the browser that seems to be ever-increasing in certain other quarters.
unlike the mantis shrimp can be trained on them

Interesting, IIRC mantis shrimp are considered one of the more intelligent forms of arthropod. Perhaps it's just not the correct sensory system to communicate with them through. Evolution is certainly capable of honing an organ system's acuity independently from the organism's brain/CNS.

On a related note, it's amazing how many times eyes have seemed to independently evolve. And once they do occur in a species, it takes a lot of evolutionary pressure to get rid of them. Troglobites or stygobites generally still have atrophied vestigial eyes, despite being adapted to a purely subterranean environment. It would seem with the relatively stable ecosystem a cave would provide, stabilizing selection over a long while would select for no eyes. However vestigial eyes are still common, which I suspect implies the metabolic cost to fitness ratio of eyes must be strongly in favor of having eyes, even if barely functional.
We're just in the process of looking into ElasticSearch for an analytics use case, most of the queries we will be doing are simple group by aggregations with count/sums etc

A SQL interface would help a lot, even better if it came with a JDBC driver
Hopefully one of them can deal with localstorage? Because my 30 mins of using cookie autodelete, leads me to think it isn't as good as self destructing... It doesn't seem to reliably delete cookies unless I click the "clean" button.
I think the dude deserves a bit of a break- It really doesn't matter if he got 10%, 50% or 90% of his predictions right, all that matters is whether he made better and more relevant predictions than others at the time.

On that measure, I think he scored reasonably well (Though I confess I sold some Google stock when they installed him as Director of Engineering)
Real-time dynamics of CRISPR visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy
Thanks! I've updated the code to only save twice a day giving the EEPROM an estimated lifetime of 137 years. It's a little more inconvenient, but (maybe) less inconvenient than having to buy a new EEPROM (or likely a new Arduino) every couple years.
scrapy has a pretty decent parser too
> because if you need "special syntax" to express the fact that your recursively defined function can technically be evaluated in constant stack space, you probably should be writing it as an iterative function to begin with.

Why? I find recursive functions are often simpler to understand and write than iteration. Why does the compiler need to stop me from doing so? You write "technically" as though it were just an obscure technicality that it's possible to implement a function call without taking up excessive stack space, but to my mind it's a fundamental fact.

> Iteration ain't that hard either folks, and it has the notable advantage of mapping more obviously to the behavior of actual machines we use to execute our code.

In what sense is this true? Recursive function: update these variables (in registers or memory) and jump back up to this instruction. Iteration: update this variable and jump back up to this instruction.
perhaps http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Am I the only person who finds it ironic that a web page about keeping web pages small comes with multiple megabytes of Javascript?

It doesn't need it, folks. It's a static blog page.
ElasticSearch was never really meant for log storage anyway. It’s a full text engine, and just happened to work reasonably well for that purpose at lower volume. ELK ran with it in an attempt to go after Splunk, but it is phenomenally difficult to scale an indexing pipeline like ELK to high volume. There are far better ways to handle log analysis, particularly when your primary query is counting things that happen over T instead of finding log entries that match a query (which it always is) — streaming analysis is a much better fit than indexing, just lesser known.
Publicly available information about Intel ME
Some say that joking is a socially acceptable way to say socially unacceptable ideas.

I think it's a great idea, though many disagree. It's basically ChromeOS but to the next level.
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks by Edgar F. Codd [Turing Award Winner]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98....

This is the seminal paper that laid the foundation for RDBMS systems.

At my university (NUS) the CS program had a research paper reading program, where sophomores were tasked to read and summarize a well known paper and this was one of the most popular.
A lot of us in the dev community feel that some of the web standards that Chrome is pushing does not reflect the will of the community at large. Chrome is also tied to a company known to have a business interest in data collection, while Firefox is maintained by the community with some funding from a nonprofit.
Ow. Can't help with Wayland :(

It does work with X11 for me.
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The transaction fee for Bitcoin Cash is like ten cents. High transaction fees have nothing to do with crypto currencies fundamentally.
I think people on HN drastically overestimate the number of people who switched their search engine after this.
No more Private Tabs.
Thank you for sharing this investigation.

Sometimes when I warn my friends and family about oversharing online, and the "dangers of social media" (on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you're-a-dog 1993 cartoon) they think I'm paranoid.

This is a very good case study for all social media users to understand.
It is OK when you pay upfront.
Variable and Function Hoisting in JavaScript
Anecdata: In a newsfeed-type product at our company, we implemented content placeholders that communicate loading state instead of a traditional loading spinner. This reduced user drop off significantly, and bought us some time to work on the real problem under the hood which was latency.

Aside from my anecdote, there are many blog posts and experiment results out there that suggests that this works, and it works well.
To be honest I have not switched yet, but the changes I have seen in TreeStyleTab make me question why I should stay at firefox with that because I can get the features of the new TST in Chrome as well. Also I won't work with Colorful tabs anymore. Further I think I will miss some of the decapriated features in the Zotero update.

(And I will have to find appropiate replacements for Leechblock and FireGesture)
I meant querying the index from the frontend directly.
Much like the Google spanner database. Was at a presentation earlier this month where they went into more detail. Very interesting product!

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/spanner-google-database-harnes...
I am kinda hoping we're going to see exponential improvements in biology soon: It seems to me the problems with protein folding and simulating cell biology become more approachable when using modern machine learning approaches and that people will find some fruitful methods of attack on that front in the near future.
Would just like to say that the website looks great and that I like that you reuse and repackage existing good solutions rather than reinventing the wheel.

Seems like a good option for an org that want more than Trello but less than JIRA.
ImageMagick is notoriously questionable. It was originally written, I believe, as a local command-line tool for users to work with their own images, so security and untrusted input were not primary concerns.

Additionally, image manipulation is inherently challenging - not even due to the actual manipulation of image pixel data, but due to the proliferation of complex image container formats which require binary data manipulation and byte copying in performance-critical code. This is a minefield for secure programming practices because it puts at direct odds performance and sanity checking, as well as encouraging pointer and memory arithmetic and unsafe access.
Possibly, I don't really follow this stuff.
A subset is currently being rewritten. Which is a surprise because he announced he wanted nothing more to do with Mozilla over this, last year. Wonder what caused the change of heart.
It's [2009], not [2011]. 2011 is when the current host copied the document from the archive.
That's not Electron.NET which is what the parent was referring to.
The cynic in me sees that Kurzweil's predictions align with his unassisted life expectancy. So in some sense it's not surprising that he's being over optimistic. I'm not generally a fan, but we have to give some credit to 'futurologists' who are prepared to make predictions! At least it makes for some interesting discussion.
Typical exchange:

"Climate change is bullshit! I demand to see evidence of it actually occurring!"

<is presented volumes of data>

"I don't recognize these sources! These were payed for by liberal media! I demand to see real data!"

Rinse and repeat.
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TXR: http://www.nongnu.org/txr
depends on the task. For example they have a decent file/image downloading middleware.
Why, because fires? But people who are interested in home distilling are already doing it. I don't believe significantly more people would start distilling at home because it's pretty costly and it's much easier just to buy hard liquor. Admittedly, I don't know the numbers on how many fires are started by distilling every year. Regardless, you can legally distill for fuel purposes, which tells me that the government isn't terribly concerned about potential fires.

If you mean that people are going to go blind, well that doesn't happen unless you adulterate your own moonshine with industrial methanol, which would be idiotic. People don't get methanol poisoning from homemade alcohol; that's very hard to do when ethanol is a methanol antidote.
> At this point I just ask what scientific statistic a person would need to hear in order to consider changing their mind.

None. Your are trying to use reason to influence an emotional behavior. It won't work.

The day geeks understand, accept and practice this simple truth, everything will get easier. For everything. Love. Work. Politics. Raising children. Everything.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they were a bit more intelligent than jumping spiders through it's hard to judge relative intelligence in animals like these. For mantis shrimp color training probably doesn't resemble anything they encounter in the wild. For jumping spiders, they use colors for sexual selection in most species and also color is a major signal for "poisonous" in their prey — i'm not sure that's the case with mantis shrimp.
What tradeoffs did you make compared to the original?
I didn't understand if in reality if it was really your old-time-friend who actually did this, or someone who got control of her account and discovered "conversations gone cold" and tried to "revive the flame". It would be interesting to know who which of these was it.
"While We're gaining some rights back (LGBT, prohibition), but losing others (privacy, free speech)."

I am hopeful that if the decriminalization and legalization of psychedelics continues, and if they ever become anywhere near as popular as they were in the 60's, they will usher in a renaissance of artistic creativity and positive social and political transformation.

It likely won't be a replay of the 60's, but it could still be very positive, as more people begin to see through the bullshit of the current social and political systems, and start to create positive alternatives.

That said, there could be and probably will be some backlashes and regressions as the media start to swarm like flies over sensational drug-related stories and phenomena, much like they did around psychedelic demagogues like Leary, Kesey and Manson (I hate to use Manson in the same sentence as the rest, but they all had a role in fomenting the anti-drug hysteria of the 60's and 70's).

We've been lucky so far that no such demagogues or scandals have emerged in recent years, but as drugs become more popular and socially accepted, I have no doubt that some psychedelic drug-related scandal or expose is going to outrage the public and there will be calls to make these drugs illegal once again.

Legalization advocates have tried to play it safe by pushing the medicinal benefits of these substances, and by running carefully conducted research studies, but once these drugs become more popular, you know that most people aren't going to be using them wisely or carefully, and some will be using them irresponsibly or even destructively.
It was bad enough in the 90's and early 00's when it was just him, but now he has kicked off an entire subculture. Kurzweil, de Grey, Hanson, Bostrom, Yudkowsky... all total cranks, and inexplicably popular among ostensibly intelligent people. It's embarrassing.
> Is this something that the blockchain could help with?

The answer to every problem isn't "blockchain". Sometimes it is "Rust". And, difficult as it may be to believe, sometimes the problem has no technical solution at all.

Hold on for one more day and things will go your way.
That's why I'm interested in Monero. It's fungible and private, so nodes (master or otherwise) wouldn't know which transactions to block.

If fiat evolves to digital-only, Monero will be the only digital currency you can spend without having banks or payment processors know all of your personal, financial details.
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I commented elsewhere in the thread about the latest proposal.
I live in California and this is the first I've heard of this. Legal shrooms not happening this year or any other year soon, imho.
Grit and patience is only required when I leave things up for a year. Which does happen.
to be fair, you could say the same of facebook/google. they're not selling the data (giving it to third parties), but they're making money off it.
Warming seems to be the most pressing issue that is causing the climate changes you mentioned. And, I think we can all agree it's probably too late combined with we don't really know what to do. Unfortunately, reducing our energy consumption is not a realistic option (because universally, humanity will never act accordingly). Which leaves me asking...

When does Mr. Burns' Sun Blocker [1] become the most realistic opportunity for us to actually control warming?

[1] http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Sun_Blocker
The OP addresses that concern with a link to https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/cf-toplas04.pdf
Using FlatBuffers, for one?
> While product pricing is still be worked out, Prince envisions a free product with premium add-ons for the consumer version. Regardless, he said they have an ambitious internal goal of 200 million downloads of the VPN app by a year from now.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/cloudflare-expands-into-mo...
It's annoying when this is discussed, because people assume all there are only three skilled trades; plumber, electrician, or machinist of some kind. Machine Drafting, for example, was absolutely decimated by the rise of cad/cam, as was graphic design with the rise of desktop publishing and decline of print due to the web. We also have hairdressing, which is ok but shows that many trades are not open to women, nor can many areas not support a decent amount of tradespeople.

I went to a vocational high school myself, and many people wound up going to college instead, as maybe half the trades didn't have much of a future. And keep in mind, there were a LOT of tradespeople thrown out of work in the 90s in my area due to military budget cuts, too; many skilled tradesmen tend to piggyback on defense or government spending, which is not sustainable.
I believe it totally - it follows from 'there are many crypto communities with virtually zero people'.
Many thanks for this informative post. I’ve read quite a few of the official Mozilla communications (announcements, blog posts, etc.) and so far, this has been the best explanation I’ve read for the impetus to move from XUL-based add-ons to WebExtensions. I write this from the perspective of a user who will lose almost half of their current extensions when they upgrade to 57.
I've had mixed results with scrapy, probably more based in my inexperience than other thing, but for example retrieving a posting in idealista.com with vanilla scrapy begets an error page whereas a basic wget command retrieves the correct page.

So the learning curve for simple things makes me jump to bash scripts; scrapy might prove more valuable when your project starts to scale.

But also of course: normally the best tool is the one you already know!
gotta data mine the pleebs
Huh, I thought I worked at $COMPANY_NAME, but apparently I work at Riot Games.
I live in provincial NZ and I never use cash. I don't know if being a tech-hub has much to do with it.