skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sticks with me is the notion that whereas a posteriori we may think of notable inventors of yesteryear as being bolts from the blue, they themselves invariably laboured under the paranoiac fear that somebody would trump them: Bell, Marconi, Eckert, Astastof (sp?): they all feared somebody would scoop them and scrambled over themselves to get patents for their creations. That alone should dispel the myth.
I am immediately suspect of anyone who flippantly dismisses any popular language. Languages are popular for a reason, and you can learn new things from all of them.
I've experienced a traumatic event recently. After being rejected by hundreds of women, I'm still a virgin at 24. Recently, I saw a video in weird corners of the internet of a very cute girl copulating with some dog. Dog can get laid easily while for me it's impossible at this point. Women are telling me that I'm BENEATH a dog. They'd rather be copulating with a dog, cucumber, dildo or stay single than be with me :(
I had a look at this review on bipolar disorder, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e8508 . According to a study referenced in it, 68 randomized trials where used to determine the effect of different drugs compared to placebo. Again the sample size is low and the statistical significance is also small, unless I'm missing something.

You are correct in saying that we don't actually know how much we know about the brain. But the brain is s much more complex than e.g. planets orbiting the sun. There are many components that can get affected by chemical compounds in the short term, but more importantly in the long term. I agree though that only through testing can we get a better understanding. It is just the way it's currently done that I disagree. I would gladly read some research you think is good and does not have the shortcomings I describe.
No credibility to those going off grid or those slandering them.
There will be idiots wanting things to be black or white with nothing in between - while it's the scale that creates the ability to differentiate right from wrong and what is what.

Fluoride has been linked as detrimental to IQ by Harvard - search and you'll find the study (and afaik not only by Harvard, one example should be enough).

Regarding tap water it will soon be the organisation of it through the state that stands between a massive "outbreak" of cancer in the population and keepign up the current rates of it. -Fracking has created holes inbetween water sources and oil/gas pockets - these are filled in by pumping down gravel and cement. That mixture to begin with isn't even as "qualitative" as you might think as pokects of other materials are created and as the layers of rock, dirth etc shifts the material is ground down. Within 30 years there is a really high risk of failure and over time the vast majority will fail - resulting in a poisioned watertable. Do you really think the people who have ownership of gas, oil and fracking companies will be held accountable by the legal system? Or by corrupt politicians - many who surely had a hand in the allowance to drill in the manner which has been done...

Tap water is the way to assure massive amounts of clean water to a population - that however does not mean that it does not come without a cost (if it is fluoride and a lowering of IQ to create a docile people or not) and that tradeoff should be known - both the positive and the negative of it.

Transparency drives technological evolution, if the tradeoff is known and can be argued to be problematic there is an incentive to come up with a better solution.
I think it's not so much about donating in and of itself, as it is about this "it runs Netflix!" argument.

I do donate to FreeBSD regularly - in fact, I have a matching paycheck donation set up. But that's because I personally use it in my projects. When it comes to Netflix, I already pay for Netflix, so the notion that I should also pay to FreeBSD because it makes Netflix possible is kinda ridiculous.
The problem I see with tech like this is that it muddies the water for everyone. I find it very strange that technologies like the internet appear to have created a
world with more ambiguity and less transparency than we've had before - mostly because people now can find support for any kind of belief online. Some people are either willing to learn or have learned how to get information from reputation based systems and some will just go rogue and create their own reality. I hope democracy survives this shift: Because not only will we have to discuss the facts, now we will also have to discuss: What are the facts?
#MeToo
If you use Docker post version 1.11 (like many people do) you already use containerd (and runC)

https://medium.com/@tiffanyfayj/docker-1-11-et-plus-engine-i...
That's fascinating!

There was also a livestream in which he supposedly gave a "proof of life" by reading out a bitcoin block hash, among other things.

Do you think that one was faked too?
>you can’t beat the C language for intrinsic simplicity.

I like begriffs for his Haskell work, but I disagree with him on C. Simplicity is a good reason to prefer Wirth languages. They are similarly low-level, but beat C on safety and don't have C's abundance of undefined behavior. I suggest Free Pascal. It is similarly easy to write, compiles faster, helps you catch more bugs early and even has genetics. As I see it, there are only two major downsides to using Free Pascal: the syntax is more verbose and you have to generate and store bindings for C headers.
No, that video is real. Those are morph cuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6wPUtKg-Ac
I can imagine watermarking at the light sensor level. It would need some very special provisions for compression, though.
> Corporations can't 'wield the code' because by copying it and using it it doesn't take it away from other people.

The relevance of the original code can be taken away, for example by hijacking a standard or through control of APIs and/or hardware.
Will anyone be able to buy hardware in 10 years time that will not be under the full control of a corporation?
Ummm but if it’s not you the uploader thru a verified ID system (block chain maybe) is held liable immediately. Also by the time such a system is out in place the public will be even more suspect of believing what they see on the net as truth. Such is already happening with those 40 and below in terms of finally waking up to all the fakery on the web. Just saw on FB a video where a girl crosses her eyes and they get stuck. Majority of commenters below 40 notes it’s fake. Above 40 commented otherwise.

Either we instate an ID system or the web becomes a joke no one believes. The latter I guess wouldn’t be a bad thing.
> 2 years ago

Would be worth updating the title to (2015) or (2016)
I find it far more likely that Linux has better drivers made by companies because it has much better marketshare, not because it's GPL.
Serious question. Anyone willing to give a summary of their usage of Docker EE and a review ?
In general that is an inaccurate and naive criticism of a vast area of work. I also think you are confusing statistics with its application by scientists.

However, there is some truth in this regarding the application by scientists. I did my PhD in the field of computational statistics applied to population genetics. There you are usually trying to infer past history, and therefore have no hope of experimental verification. Although some important advances in computational statistics originate in that field, there were also lots of papers just throwing increasingly fancy Bayesian MCMC software at datasets without the honesty of experimental physics about what is knowable and what sadly might not be.

Also, many scientists, away from physics, simply do not have the mathematical maturity to understand most of statistics.
I'm not so sure to be honest. I've been super surprised at just how few high profile hacks there have been against cryptocurrency protocols so far even when you've got clients implemented in C++. I wish I could explain why as well because you'd think all you'd need is a small flaw to attack the whole network when most nodes are running the same software.
That isn't true man, I was 23 before I had a GF and anything up until that was when I was ruined on ale and so was the girl and in a way didn't really count.

At the end of the day, if you really want to just have sex just pay for it like everything else in modern society and get it off your chest. Done.
That's 4 more students dying in school shootings more than in Europe for example.
Brilliant!

I had heard of the work about using X-ray microtomography to read old scrolls. In retrospect it seems obvious that it could be applied to recover old film, but that's a step I never would have come up with.

It helps that the people who enjoyed Morecambe and Wise many years ago are now senior enough to dedicate time to this project. I had never heard of them. The first YouTube clip I looked at is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgdhZGLJrY . It made me smile.
A basic income experiment in Kenya
Ah ah ah! You didn't say the magic word!
Questions I Say People Always Ask Me That Truthfully No One Has Ever Asked Me
It's surely possible, but would it be a good thing?

When I first starting posting things online, the general advice was "don't use your real name", "don't say anything that will reveal where you live", etc.

Now we're not only using our real names but advocating for identity verification of all commenters? How did this go so wrong so fast?
Ok, I found out that what I heard about was the balance insurance premium, which adjusted from 4.25% to 4.55% to 5.17%. But I also think I heard that it affects things like years to work to pay off student debt, and retirement. So I think there's more to it. As I remember, it sounded like a parallel currency where doctors fees are tightly regulated, and these "exchange rates" determine their actual salary. But maybe this is my financial ignorance showing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405348/
I don't know how you're defining "capable"; I'd take the view that Haskell/Scala/... are immensely more effective than anything that was comparably mainstream in 1990 (and that Haskell/Scala/... development in practice today is a lot more effective than Haskell in the '90s, even if a language that's notionally the same was available), and that the interesting research languages of today have made similar progress beyond the interesting research languages of 1990. It takes a frustratingly long time for things to percolate into the mainstream, so it's easy to think that, say, ML existed in 1970, and forget that ML is still a long long way ahead of what were commonly used industrial languages even as late as 1990.
I’ve seen statements like this before, and they are often based on misunderstandings of what either monitors (synchronisation) or ThreadLocal give you. Could you maybe expand your comment to describe what problem with synchronised you would suggest fixing using ThreadLocal?
Reading some of these emails it's apparent it's not a person responding. This is simply two bots email each other.

https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/aatajahd/

Looks like for some spammers, the game is already up.
Well, but then you'd have to trust the light sensor manufacturer to provide secure keys. Remember when the NSA hacked into Gemalto and had a chance to steal its SIM card keys?

However, that's still interesting; isn't it possible that each light sensor has certain watermark-like characteristics arising from the manufacturing process?
>To me this also seems intentional, like someone is trying to hide the lack of real content.

You are half correct. Something is intentionally hidden, but it's not the lack of real content.

The real stuff is called 'Mathematical Statistics' and what you learn in school is 'Statistic's for Scientists and Engineers' or 'Applied Statistics'.

Statistics loos to you random because it's useful everywhere and it must be taught to so many people in other fields. You get a basic set of per-selected tools that are useful and the real stuff is hidden.

If you really want to spend the time and effort to see it as fundamental from ground up, you have to learn mathematic background like set theory, Borel sets, Lebesque measures and integrals, Fourier integrals, etc. Then you start working up from fundamental axioms of random variables. The payday for practically oriented mind comes later and learning it may not be as motivating.
Firefox on iPad: needed to scroll right to left
Masturbation?
Thinking too hard can strain your brains (2011)
I'd blame work and stress. Your average person is working longer hours for less financial benefit, while the cost of basics (housing and health care) has gone way up.

Longer working hours for less money makes people tired and stressed...two instant mood killers; and a condition that is likely chronic among many.

"Netflix and chill" is the modern term for hooking up, but for many it probably simply means what it means...to sit and relax.

I don't blame Netflix or phones or anything other than the fact that simply getting by in the USA has become a chore for many, and Netflix and phones are the salve, not the root cause.
How Humans Might Outlive Earth, the Sun, and Even the Universe Itself
I wonder if the world-wide trend on high blood pressure is aligned with that of vitamin D?:

- https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/17956/PDF

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396645/

- http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/691683

- http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/4/1080S.full

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5356990/
This is correct. Sample size should be dependent on the strength of the effect. As a rule of thumb though, a sample of 50 people is very little. If physics used these kind of sample sizes and confidence levels, we would have discovered multitudes of new particles.
Facebook made the transition plausible; a formal social network, then slowly, the creep began, where it's now acceptable to use your real name online.

I still heed the advice of the 90's: NEVER use your real name. We still have that choice thankfully.
The One Product You Should Buy Online: Eyeglasses
Honesty (right or wrong) is black and white.
It's the context versus standpoint that lets you decide what is good and bad in any given situation.

Semantically correcting you: Society converged onto the idea that there is right and wrong in divulging different degrees of honesty.
Show HN: Wordmove 2.4 acts as a command runner, tight to your WP deploy flow
Wasn't there research that showed that pretty means "more average"? Wait, I found a link:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/18/why-we-...
Zero Mass is prepping, it’s quite unlike so-called “raw water”

secure, totally disconnected from all infrastructure
Please can someone give a brief summary of the conclusions of this talk for those of use that don't have the time and/or bandwidth to watch this? Thanks.
Indeed, the twin towers alone were capable of accomodating Google and Apple who currently exist as gigantic suburban sprawl

Imagine all of that replaced by public transportation and two buildings

NYC is no wonderland with its antiquated infrastructure but get it together Cali
The transactions aren’t immediate, they are really behind. Like 16,000+ transactions behind.

It’s not viable for confirming quick transactions.

See: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
Technology and the Weapons of the First World War, 1914-1918
Children's ice cream, Mandrake?
If only you could give those two pennies directly and literally to the site, as otherwise classy has apparent no chance at profit.
This lecture course appears to attempt to cover way, way too much material in each lecture.
Western sexual revolution can be said to have happened little more than 50 years ago. Culture takes a lot of time to revert.
Searching, Hoping, for New Physics
We're talking about the UK, so probably "hate speech" aka wrongthink
Well, for one thing, you know exactly what you're getting into when fucking a dildo. It doesn't come with feelings or emotions or a sense of inferiority. There's no social baggage attached to the arrangement. It's also always available to fuck. It's not gonna tell its friends nor yours. You just fuck it and clean it.

So don't take it personally.

Same reason why men and women watch porn even when they are in a fulfilling relationship. Most people aren't in a relationship with a sexual object constantly available at the snap of a finger. Masturbation helps bridge asymmetries in libido and availability. It's not personal.

Anyways, I agree with the other commenter. If you're feeling that virginity is winding around your self-identity, then I think the healthiest thing to do is pay for some sex. You'll be in a better mental place.

If you've actually approached hundreds of women without any success, that's pretty concerning. But I have a hard time believing you've actually directly approached that many women without any results. For example, people more likely err on the side of being too indirect and then assuming it's rejection when the other person doesn't do the escalation for them.
>Integration tests are much more brittle in my experience.

In my experience brittleness in tests is caused by bugs in tests or bugs in code.

Most of these things can be fixed, e.g.

* Add an order by to select statements that otherwise returns data in an indeterminate order.

* Fix the interpreter/database version you are using to run your code rather than relying upon the version the package manager has installed.

* Stub out code that gets date/time/random numbers.

* Stubbing out external APIs which go down on Tuesdays.

* Fixing the bugs in your code.

* Abandoning the code you rely upon which is buggy (I'm just sayin', angular might not be the ideal framework).

Avoiding writing these tests because you know that "they'll be too buggy" doesn't exactly send out a great signal.

>Such tests are great for detecting that something is wrong, but it can be very hard to figure out what's wrong and where things went wrong.

This is alleviated by integrating debugging tools into your test environments.
Color of Wine – free wine-themed digital coloring book for iOS
Usual disclaimer of profile your code to identify areas for improvement and try to quantify changes as far as possible -- it's no good doing things just because you think it'll make the program faster.

Specifically on the Java side of things, while not quite as low-level as what the post is talking about, I've seen situations where proper use of logging libraries has given perf increases. It's as simple as log.info("Foo: {}", "bar") instead of log.info(String.format("Foo: %s", "bar")) -- reducing the number of string operations dependant on your chosen logging level. Simple but I've seen it happen.

Shoutout to Brandon Gregg's blog [0] with some interesting stuff on performance, some of which is Java-specific.

[0] http://www.brendangregg.com/
Run arbitrary commands locally or on the remote stage, before and/or after push and/or pull actions.

Test, build, do environmental checks, clean-up, send chat messages, add-your-flow-step-here, all withing your favorite WordPress deploy command line tool.
Capitalism needs all kind of patches/bandaids in order to function, and even then it won't function for all. The Kuznets Curve (as mentioned in this article [1] about the doughnut economy) shows the vast amount of inequality in rich countries. Not so much for the general readership of HN (ie. I am arguing the readership is biased).

I fundamentally disagree with a left-right x-axis; we're missing out on authoritative-liberty. Hence politicalcompass.org provides a better framework.

Some of these bandaids are authoritarian, some are liberal. For example, trademarks, patents, copyright each grant power to one or more individuals (ie. a minority) over a vast majority. Here, the free market is being regulated by the government. We consider it part of capitalism.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/the-new-economic-mode...
So why not compare the US to the EU or parts of it?
I mean, there are all kinds of ways to bound uncertainty. You’re right, you could film another camera, but that could be addressed separately. Digital signing would only prove that a video came directly from a particular camera’s sensors. To assert the veracity of a video, you’d then have to prove that particular camera was at the scene, and the light coming into the lens was authentic. Most court footage is incidental, not intentional, so the sort of doctoring you describe is unlikely in a majority of cases. Where it is likely, different measures could be taken to bound uncertainty.

Separately, generating false images or videos for libel purposes would become more difficult; if a camera that has never been owned by a person is used to produce a signed video that is pornographic in nature, the authenticity of that video is immediately suspect. It would take a much more sophisticated attack to produce a mathematically convincing fake video.
It only takes one amazing idea to move the needle.
Jerusalem might be not publicly acknowledged but no one claims TLV is the capital of Israel.

All International agreements are under signed as Jerusalem, anytime there is a foreign visit they go to Jerusalem, even Sadat when he came to visit Israel during the peace process went to the Knesset in Jerusalem to give his speech.

The US embassy and many others in the Netherlands are in The Hague it doesn’t make it the capital of the Netherlands. International recognition isn’t what defines a capital city so while most nations won’t publicaly say its Jerusalem not a single one would say it’s Tel Aviv they would simply refuse to answer.
Unreal Engine 4 uses Embree in its lightmass static lighting builds. They got a big speedup from moving to it.
> It occurred to me that, really, I had more or less picked up all of it by word of mouth and experience, and there just aren't any good reference sources on the topic. So… here's my word of mouth.

Can someone provide some reference on how JVM optimisation works, or maybe JVM generally?
And I witnessed a suicidal guy walking around Portland at 5am holding a gun to his head. The police surrounded him on three sides, wearing bullet-proof armor and hiding behind large armored vehicles and even had snipers in the parking lot across the street. They seemed pretty secure in their positions and decked out with heavy weaponry from a safe distance. He had a small 6-shooter and was walking in circles. They called out to him to drop his gun, to which he replied that he needed help (they wouldn't admit him to the hospital for mental care because he couldn't afford it). He pointed the gun towards the ground and fired, upon which they shot him multiple times from multiple positions. Don't they have people trained in psychology to deescalate such situations? Or is that just a movie trope? Even if wanted to shoot a cop, from my vantage point, there was no way he would have hit any of them.

In the end it was labeled a police-assisted suicide i.e. he still shot himself and the police have 0% responsibility. The irony is that at the same time across town, the police chief of Portland was giving a conference about how the police will use less deadly force in such encounters in the future (because this wasn't the first time).
Paparazzi spying an ailing Senator, for example. BTLE is also used for more sensitive medical sensors.
What happened in 2017
Makes you wonder how many fossils were destroyed if they didn’t notice or just wanted to get on with Work.
Linux has more CVEs than the BSDs. Ilja wanted to know if that's because they have less bugs/better code or because more people have read the Linux code.

Turns out the BSDs have just as many bugs as Linux. (He found dozens over the course of 3 months.) OpenBSD has less bugs than FreeBSD (presumably because they have removed a lot of old code) and FreeBSD has less bugs than NetBSD.

After reporting the bugs he noticed that OpenBSD handles bugs really well, NetBSD less well and FreeBSD in many cases not at all. (By handling the bugs I mean fixing them in current and providing patches/advisories for the latest release.)