skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We do not know and cannot show any viable means of creating the full sequence of pre-biotic chemicals needed for the first organism to exist. When one of the top organic chemists in the world puts out that challenge and nobody responds, one can then say that all of these experts know full well that they do not have a clue and are just deluding everyone else as to how life even came to be.

There are many more stars than chemsists, and the universe has had much more time to get lucky than our chemists have had. The universe has gone through more chemical permutations than our scientists can dream of.
In 2012, about 3.3 million net deaths, or 5.9% of all global deaths, were attributable to alcohol consumption.

http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/facts/alcohol/en/

Legalizing drugs without more thought may actually make the problem worse. If drugs were 100% fully legal no restrictions why wouldn't corporations start advertising and pushing them as much as they do alcohol today?

I'm actually for legalizing drugs but heard these arguments on an Intelligence Squared debate.

BTW: Heroin isn't legal in Portugal, it's just decriminalized. You can still go to prison for selling heroin in Portugal and using, while not a criminal offense will still get you sent in to the authorities for "dissuasion"
On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
"Catching up" by decreasing salaries because you like to underpay your workers, as you basically implied in the original post? That's a bold statement.
The issue is that "xrange" does the right thing, but the seemingly-more-correct (unless you happen to know about "xrange") "range" does the wrong thing (create a list rather than a generator, which is inefficient). Same thing with "raw_input" doing the right thing, but "input" being completely wrong (and an attack vector because it's just a glorified "exec").
We actually implemented exactly this in our demo: https://demo.convergence.io/code-editor/

Even as the author, I think web-based IDEs have pretty limited utility, but it is a great showcase for the power of our API. We (my co-founder and I) built this in about 10 days.
> If you don't produce it directly or demand it as taxes, you can't guarantee that it gets produced at all.

How the heck does that work? Demanding bottled water as taxes is ridiculous. Either producing the bottles water is cheaper than paying equivalent taxes, and every company will do it or it is more expensive and nobody will do it.

Add that to the fact that you are trying to mandate the production of 4x the bottled water that the US currently uses per capita. This means there will be NO market for bottled water and thus you will have no idea the of the value of the bottled water that is being used to pay taxes.

Why mandate the production of 8x10x8.5 rooms for every citizen when most people won't want that? Why waste large amounts of energy and petrochemicals producing enough bottled water to hydrate the population? Why waste everyone's time by forcing them to engage in secondary markets to resell the goods they don't need?

> The same calculation problem exists with the cash-only vision of UBI. Someone has to decide how much is enough.

Yes, but this is a far simpler problem. We can use measures of inflation, economic growth and employment to determine the level of UBI that we can afford and that will optimize economic output.
This is great. Companies will now have to deal with this, along with the General Data Protection Regulation (which is a huge fine if in non-compliance)

It's a lot of friction and hoops to go through, especially for smaller companies, to do business that reaches into the EU (directly or indirectly) with these regulations.
>I know that'll make me unpopular with a certain vocal minority but those folks haven't ever bought me so much as a cup of coffee so I think I'll live.

Great attitude, sir. But who will build the roads? ;)
It is pretty common amongst System/Network engineers though. Modify a few switch configurations and setup a sniffer.

There are quite a few ways to do it.
Yeah, fair enough. TI has a very effective racket going, and a lot of people and institutions have bought into it wholesale, and the main marks are uninformed and easily pressured students and parents who think it will help lead to success.

Sorry to hear about your tough financial situation in the past. It’s a tragedy that kids go hungry in such a rich country. If an expensive calculator is going to be mandated in school, there should be financial aid available for it.
Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?
noob question, I wonder the reasons people are spending 100m+ on paintings.

is it possible that buying art is actually a great way of storing wealth? Like buying real estate but less flashy, easier to store, and easier to transport. I assume there aren't too many ways you can safely store 400m cash?
Your argument is essentially "sites that need JS as a core requirement to the UX need JS" and "now that everyone uses JS no one shouldn't."
Sounds about right, I've found shipping to my location a bit higher than that.

I've also found that some suppliers are better than others. I've had suppliers not print silk on 50% of the boards in batches for example (this was when order a batch of 100).
>I don't see a rational reason why such tax havens should exist in the first place.

From Wikipedia:

An oasis (/oʊˈeɪsɪs/; plural: oases /oʊˈeɪsiːz/) is an isolated area in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source, such as a pond or small lake.
I worked through a previous version of this series and it’s a great way to get started on the platform!
> We've played with Jupyter/Python. My son is learning solid modeling using some free app.

Have you seen OpenSCAD? It's open source constructive solid geometry modeling software, and I use it in my math classes. If your son enjoys Python, he might really enjoy this approach to modeling.

http://www.openscad.org/
If someone was going to deploy a version of the Linux kernel with SoftBound (which is among other things what this paper suggests), they would have done so by now. It hasn't happened, because (a) contrary to what that paper suggests, performance really is a concern; (b) the entire ecosystem of C is what makes it so popular, not the language itself. Replacing the runtime is a huge amount of work.
TechShop to declare bankruptcy [pdf]
google/puffs: Parsing Untrusted File Formats Safely
Well, we have this whole problem with free-market speculation and its fairly dramatic impact on peoples' ability to buy a home.
I don't understand why Apple removed iTunes U from the Mac iTunes Store. Not everybody has an iPad to use alongside their Mac while working through this series.
> and let's be honest here - safety is probably at the bottom of the priorities, both for manufacturers and airline operators

The bottom, really? That's a pretty bold statement to make, and a disservice to the work those have done to ensure we have thousands of safe flights every single day. I'm certainly not arguing against airline regulation, but I don't believe that's the only thing holding them back from crashing planes on the regular.
Can you elaborate as to how to prevent use-after-free statically in C without forbidding dynamic memory allocation?
A Disappointing Debut for Google’s Pixel Buds
As did various offerings from Apple, IBM, and several others, once upon a time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Google updates Assistant with new features and languages
Freedom of the Net 2017 – Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
30 Under 30 in Enterprise Tech:Reinventing Business with Artificial Intelligence
Google Maps has gotten an updated look
> I'm not sure it could work for IoT, though, because a lot of IoT devices are made by new companies that probably will not be around long.

If we regulate insurance so that a product needs to be backed by a 10-year liability insurance, it might have 2 good outcomes to fix this:

1) the insurance company might ask a lot of hard questions and require audits, plans, etc
2) the insurance company might require escrow to the iot device's update mechanism in case of bankruptcy, so they can remote-brick the devices

It's unlikely that the reality would be so rosy though - mainly the claims against the insurance would likely be too small in many cases. It might help in 10 years against the biggest ddos botnets. Not nearly as good as direct regulation.
Vis – A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
I love Floobits also. Works great in those I've tested: IntelliJ, Atom, and Emacs. But what is still missing in many of these peer programming solutions is the ability to leave for a few moments (or a few days) then return and do a playback of what your peer(s) did while you were gone.
I know this is a blog post and not a research paper, but I see two big flaws in it that may mislead the reader:

(i) failing to acknowledge that this same task (semantic role labelling / semantic graph generation) is performed by many existing NLP tools and not even hinting at some comparison results. One would think Semantic Graphs (c) are a novel thing invented at Google (TM).

(ii) Presenting the fact that all the intermediate features are magically computed inside a black box as an improvement. This is, to me, a huge loss. There is great value in this classical NLP pipeline they so much criticise, especially in terms of explainability: "Why is mail an agent in the semantic graph? Because the tagger wrongly tagged it as a noun". I can (easily enough) correct the above in a classical pipeline, while I'm wondering how should I stir those neurons in Google's implementation to fix it.

Anyway, this ended up a bit more ranty than I expected. I actually am looking forward to try this out and see how well it works. I think it's very positive that google open sources their research projects, as I find this is surprisingly uncommon in academia.
Food ordering or table booking mobile application screens [Dribbble]
Radio announcements of hurricane warnings and other natural disasters for example.
Right App Marketing Strategy Is the Key to Success for Gaming Apps
> What exactly makes Python 3.6 a "decent step up" from 2.7?

Proper handling of Unicode, and more sensible distinction between bytes and characters.

Seriously, Python 3 has done that _so well_ that I wish other languages would take notice.
Would be good to see some non-batch inference benchmarks for this. I couldn't find any numbers online.
I don't see any case where 8 years feels like due process though.

The pipeline is based on plea bargains. Wanting a trial shouldn't take 8 years, ever.
There exists interesting interactive technical software (not just glorified flash cards). For instance I can remember playing some puzzle game about optics circa 2000, and another about mechanical devices. I’ve never heard of such software being used in a math class though.

The one bit of very nice software that does get used some places is interactive constructive geometry tools like Geometer’s Sketchpad (1995), Geogebra, or the like, though we didn’t know about those in my high school geometry class (also circa 2000).
Well, I thought we were discussing “any non-violent drug crime”. Obviously i’m for rehabilitaion for users; what would the downside be? Could you educate me?
I know the Dragonfly 2020 printer (developed by the Israeli company Nano Dimension) has been in development for quite a few years which (seems) to use the same method as described in the link.

The method itself isn't even that novel since it's the same the as Stratasys' polyjet printers, only with specially formulated inks. There's probably prior art to that as well, but I know Stratasys has had polyjet printers for quite a while now.
This is possibly true; i have no clue what these laws entailed. So imagine trying to convince the rest of the country.
"Progressives" (whatever you think that label means) aren't the only people who support those causes. It seems like you're getting caught up on some private subtext assigned to the word "progressive."

Just curious, do you consider progressives the identity politics fanatics and staunch neoliberals? I'd spend some time arguing they're not progressively oriented at all.
TechShop declares bankruptcy
Your property rights are secured by the government you live under. The government you live in doesn't exist without the consent of the governed (unless you live in one of the many autocracies/despotisms/theocracies/etc. in the world). "Allowing" is the correct word.
Another one you can check out is Codebook - https://www.zetetic.net/codebook/

No Linux support though
Well, there is already high tax on real estate in Switzerland and it doesn't stop wealthy foreigners from buying condos/houses and keeping them empty. Not if the place is nice enough.
Or, most likely, a plea bargain. Which is an entire other can of worms.
Machiavelli is massively misunderstood. 'It is better to be feared than loved' is not the real message to be taken from that chapter.

A different phrasing would be "you are better to have a promise from another for which you can compel fulfilment, than a promise for which you can't compel fulfilment".

If someone promises you something out of love, and they do not deliver, you have no power to compel them to fulfil their obligation, and so you are left with an empty promise.

If someone promises you something out of fear, and they don't deliver, you can use the thing they fear to compel fulfilment, and receive that which was promised.

It's by no means saying that in all circumstances you should aim to be feared - and it explicitly distinguishes being feared from being hated.

"Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I come to the conclusion that, men loving according to their own will and fearing according to that of the prince, a wise prince should establish himself on that which is in his own control and not in that of others; he must endeavour only to avoid hatred, as is noted."
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I expect my android phone exchanges encrypted information with google for updates and other purposes. How would I know if it slipped some other information into one of the encrypted transmissions?
It's just a content blocker + private browsing. Can get same functionality on desktop with private browsing and some ad blocker
Presumably they meant in the way that it was being used in the situation being considered?
It's not too much work, it's too costly. Boycotts themselves are almost never successful or effective at all. The only way for any boycott to fully work is if a critical mass of people join the boycott, and that critical mass is almost never reached. For individuals to boycott without the critical mass accomplishes nothing.

For those people where leaving FB is just individually positive, absolutely they should do it. For those doing, e.g. political organizing where most of their audience is on FB, they are stuck in a terrible conundrum.

Personally, I think FB should be used where effective to reach people on FB, and everyone should try to make at least 70% of their posts be specifically discussions of what's wrong with Facebook. As much as possible, every comment and discussion should include a side reference criticizing the platform. If enough people get the problem, maybe some day we'll have critical mass for a boycott that might work.
Any way to access this without an iPad or iPhone?
Only in Tanzania: All About the Ethnic Tribes of Tanzania -
Chuwi CoreBook tablet with Core M3-7Y30 hits Indiegogo for $459 and up
How long does it take to encrypt a database?
Interactive infographics for cryptocurrencies
Zoombinis (1996) was neat to play through with the first 2–5 loads of Zoombinis, maybe a few hours of gameplay, but the puzzles topped out at a very easy level, so continuing to play the game to get more of the little creatures to their destination (out of a possible 40 trips or something) quickly became a time-wasting grind.

I think kids would ultimately have more fun with one or more Smullyan books.
Have you tried TeXmacs for math-heavy notes? Thanks to copy/paste, I find I'm quicker in it than on paper, as long as the work isn't too diagram heavy. For simple diagrams, there's a vector image editor built in.
Twine: the smarter way to save and invest, together
Language is pretty unique. You can be interested in, marry into, befriend, worship in, born from, work in, read in, watch in, move to, befriend, and be moved to a new language.

As humanity requires language, learning a new one can happen at any stage of life. Rarely do people spend casual time learning what is typically taught in youth. Yes there are always people interested in TED talks but that’s effectively TV. Yes people go back to school but that’s focused structured time.
Language is better if learned interactively, in both casual and formal settings. I can read a history book and feel accomplished. Reading a French textbook without application won’t work as well. Language requires active learning, where as many other subjects do not. Language apps such as duolingo are well suited accordingly (even better would be a really great conversational bot that could help you better pronounce your words).

I’m not saying there aren’t other markets, but I am positing it’s def not evenly distributed across subject matter.
> A liquid secondary market is what enables the company to go public in the first place.

Dividends enable the company to go public. The secondary market makes the stock liquid, which is convenient but not mandatory.
> those using Facebook agreed to let Facebook apply its algorithms and designs.

Nonsense! EVERYONE clicks "I agree to the ToS" WITHOUT agreeing to the ToS. They don't read it, they don't understand it, they aren't agreeing to it. The suggestion that users actually agree is completely dishonest.
I wouldn't want to personally decide or have a government which decides limits on wealth. I just hope one day American culture will be driven more by compassion, kindness and duty to common a good, rather than endless accumulation of material goods. At some point maybe cultural shame could embarrass the super rich to become more philanthropic. But that is quite wishful thinking.
thank you for suggestion in this unexpected place. i wish i knew of this uBO feature before!
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This could be because someone flagged the comment. If you believe there’s been a mistake you can vouch for a comment from comment’s page. I did vouch for x14 already—being able to shorten parent’s method calls into super().methodname() minor syntax sugar though it may be is one of the things I’m really looking forward to when I switch to Python 3 at my agency.
That right there is the problem that regulation is meant to solve. The manufacturer is the one in position to enable ease of _secure_ updates. Right now the manufacturers are not doing that.

Try walking into Home Depot and asking the salesperson how to update the firmware on the lightbulbs he is selling. You will get your sanity questioned, especially once you explain _why_ it is important to update.
Both will be used to deprive people of their rights.
You can try umatrix - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
If you sell a house for $2M cash and have to pay capital gains taxes, and then buy a house for $1.6M, you do not have $400k in cash afterward.
Are you gonna have any sort of extensibility apis. Would love to build something like coderpad, which saves/plays history of edits.

I hope this is just a another open source vscode plugin so other developers can contribute. I don’t trust Microsoft enough to build a closed collaboration system. We all know how abusive they were with good ol’ MSN messenger.
Patreon will never be as large as Facebook. Your concerns about Patreon acting against the public good are VALID as are your concerns about them becoming a monopoly (although they are not that right now).

Get this straight: I'm not AT ALL defending Patreon. But to compare them to Facebook is to fail to realize how deeply horrible Facebook is. I'm not saying Patreon is better than you say they are. I'm saying Facebook is far WORSE than you suggest.
I found the first 4 lectures on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9IXfYHhKYI&list=PL_l7vS8VbN...
Jail time as in, this feature is illegal? Or the journo would be in breach of some kind of NDA?

Personally, I'm hoping for a driver-comfort feature that is so amazing that it's actually illegal. That just sounds great.
SOLID Deconstruction – Kevlin Henney [video]
Is there a config manager based on shell scripts?
So, I stumbled upon "fucking shell scripts" from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401952

From the major config managers, I'm only familiar with Ansible.
There, I feel like I'm fighting its syntax and quirky errors more than it really helps me.
Maybe that would change if I had more than 100 servers to change but I don't.

As it is, the idea behind "fucking shell scripts" looks pretty good to me.
However, the project requires ruby (on my local machine only, I believe) and it is has been marked unmaintained.

I'm wondering if there's an alternative with a similar approach?
Has anyone tried using Ansible exclusively with the shell module?
That might do exactly what I'm looking for, no?
This is truly an article that makes you reflect on the stereotypes and assumptions you have about people.

For instance, before reading this I had this unexamined generalization that Canadians are all kind and empathetic, but after seeing Prof. Heath's attitude towards his colleagues...
Embedded components could definitely be a benefit. This sort of thing is already somewhat possible (e.g. PCB cavities) but has limitations.

Another interesting possibility would be designing complex surfaces that components can attach to rather than the traditional top/bottom of a PCB. Again this is already somewhat possible with techniques like 3D-MIDs (molded interconnect devices). 3D printing would make this sort of thing far more feasible though as MIDs are inherently limited to traces on the surface, meaning you're limited to a single layer.

Pick and place machines would need to get rather advanced for this to work as well. I know there are a few out there to handle MID orientations, solder paste extrusion, and laser soldering, but from what I've seen they're quite slow.

Of course heat dissipation and electromagnetic effects could become interesting design challenges (or design patterns) if the geometries are complex enough.
World Energy Outlook 2017
"free market" is the most efficient land use for capitalism (value). There are precedents that suggests the free market might maximize value while minimizing human life.
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Thanks for the paper, but having skimmed through I don't think the word research is appropriate for this, it's more of a compilation of autrian propaganda than anything else.

Gold standard failed, no matter what libertarians like to fantasize about it.
I'm a researcher and have used exclusively Python 2.7 and NumPy for many years. Originally I ported my codebase from Matlab to NumPy because I wanted to go open source. But it's a very nice thing in science if your code runs perfectly for many years. You don't want to do rewrites. So I feel like I should have stayed with Matlab.

Now that I'm soon forced to do another rewrite, I think I'll just switch to a different language with better future prospects on backwards compatibility. I don't feel that I can trust Python anymore in such things. Any ideas?
The link given above was wrong. There's no final slash. It's just: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro

Anyway, it would be better to get a not so bad not-found page. Also, better intro stuff for Snowdrift.coop is planned to be published soon.