skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about London Black Cab drivers who learn "The Knowledge"? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16086233

"Earlier studies of the brain of the cabbie had already noted the increase in "grey matter" in the hippocampus, an area found at the base of the brain."
I don't think that's so certain. My parents did limit the amount of time we could spend playing video games (IIRC two hours a day) and I still ended up here.
Maybe it is, but CRISPR (as a method of genetic engineering) is like... 3 years old? These things take time. Also, there's crazy-level opposition among general population for anything that puts genetic engineering and food in the same sentence, so this is probably a big reason why it isn't going to happen (at least not until most bananas die off, and the price goes through the roof).
I would love to read your blog post. Thanks in advance.
Here I come,
In the sand,
holding your hand,
where no time remains.
He's not saying it's financially better to play the lottery than to invest in stocks. I interpreted it more as 'poor people play the lottery because it gives them hope that things will change'. A lottery ticket is more of an emotional choice because when you buy one, you get to imagine yourself in a life where you win.

Meanwhile, investing $250 in stocks once a year won't do much to change that person's life. Even if the total value of those stocks double in value in 10 years, that's 10 years of the person's life gone and they've managed to save only $5,000. That's pretty grim
Crazy Robot That Transforms into a Bowling Ball for Locomotion
I remember when I was in Australia a few years back, a friend told me the government was running an entire campaign to destroy banana plans because they got this thing that led to spots on the banana. But my friend said it didn't hurt the plant or reduce the lifespan of the banana.

But the government started slashing people's plants on their own property to eradicate it. The whole thing was funded by banana farms and forced people to buy from farms rather than grown their own.

I don't think that's what the article is referring to, but do any Australians here remember that campaign? What was that specific disease?
Who's Occam, and why is he an authority on guessing the truth again?

Yes, I'm kidding about the first part.
All ethical thoughts aside for a moment (most of this article actually made me sad), is there any remaining strain of the Gros Michel?

Seems to me from the articles’ tone like the Cavendish was more of an inferior stopgap solution. If we start genetic fixing bananas, doesn‘t it make sense to start on the „better model“?
There are multiple definitions of "value" and not all are financial.
Kids encouraged to smoke in Portugal at Epiphany
If this wasn’t hashed out in a much cheaper lawsuit with a smaller target (e.g., someone suing a remote-controlled toy car manufacturer for inability to update firmware on consumer end), chances of this being fought for precedent sake against Intel ($200+ billion market cap, $17 billion in the bank account alone), which hires lawyers by the dozen, are pretty slim.
CES 18: The wrist band that lets you hear phone calls through your fingers
For cooperate intranets Google is not a possibility. There xapian, elasticsearch or lucene are the best, with xapian dominating the backend and the Java stuff the frontends.

For the others SEO optimizations are a real problem, yes. You can only try alternatives, like searx.to, bing or asking around.
Please don't break the HN guidelines by going on about voting in comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's hard to draw vast conclusions from a few anecdotes.

My parents limited video game time, and I think they were right to do so. I still managed to become a (fairly skilled, I hope) software developer.
Rope Hero City Crime
Everyone dream about to be a superhero like Bat hero, Spider hero, Captain hero or Ninja hero to save the city, being a rebel Rope hero is seem different. Rope Hero City Crime simulation is especially designed for the rope hero games lovers. In this Rope hero game you have to fight against the corrupt police officers of the grand city. Don’t caught by the city police and attack on them really hard with your amazing power like heavy rope, as well as by your amazing martial art combos.
What have you done, or what change have you made to keep posture in mind?
Same here. One of the most disturbing scenes I'm witnessing like every night is couple of homeless people sleeping in front of the church while each morning there are these noble ignorants walking around them who even call them selves Christians..

Anxiety is just another term for caring too much in some cases (This was mentioned here on HN last time I was reading similar discussion).
The money has to come from somewhere! And all the wealth generation attributed to government practices goes by far into pockets of the rich. Reducing income inequality is the only trickle-down economics that works.
> and you're not going to get ten years of 7% net growth without extraordinary good luck.

Typically, I would agree, however in the cited time period I would not. From the middle of 2009 to now the DJI is up 180%. Significantly more than the 7%.

From Peak 2007, that money is up 90% since 2007.

By simply holding and not selling broad index funds, you would have been fine.
Formal languages are just the vernacular of far away or long ago. They're not invented for the purpose, they're preserved.
This is only tangentially related, but I've been practicing intermittent fasting for the past year, and I cannot recommend it enough -- it honestly changed my life. I feel better, I sleep more regularly, I have more energy, and my mind is more alert. I only eat from 12PM to 8PM. IF is also supposed to have an impact on your microbiome, reduce inflammation, and encourage autophagy (especially in the brain).

PS: Please talk to your doctor before you make any major dietary changes. I'm just some guy on the internet. And I'm most definitely not a doctor.
That quality of a language is known as agglutination, and I wonder if other such languages would confer similar benefits?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination
Big difference. VCRs aren't portable. Tablets allow a kid watching a low quality YouTube video at full volume while eating at a restaurant(!) - I've seen this multiple times. You can't pull a VCR out of your pocket mid conversation.
to be honest, this happened to me and i don’t blame my parents at all.

looking back on it, how were they to understand the difference between wow and everything else i played? it’s all the same to them.

we had frequent fights about how long i spent playing, when they’d ask me to do things in the middle of a raid (multi player coop thing; up to 40 players back then). in my head, it was incredibly important to me. now, i realise how stupid that was.

most people i think don’t realise how games can effect people mentally. to his day, 10 years later i still have dreams about my character sitting in a void, alone, asking me to come and play.

this is serious addiction, and you can’t blame parents for not understanding it.
Most corporate information isn't accessible via http. Even SMB is being deprecated, in favour of proprietary document databases, where companies are locked into to extremely expensive but feebly engineered "solutions".
For each project I have a trello board.

So 3 main lists. Backlog, Doing, Done.

The done part is by month so each month I create an new done list i.e. January 2018 - Done

I can then easily switch between boards.
> Well if they were selling "burst" speeds, then why are the bandwidth limits so low? My cable modem is locked at >600Mbits of bandwidth of which I get a tiny fraction, against a small subset of the channels available (totaling a few Gb/sec), and the node is split about two blocks away. The upstream numbers are even uglier.

Because the medium is shared with hundreds of other houses? Because regardless of the amount of bandwidth on the medium, users are sharing a limited number of ports on upstream routers? Because the ISP wants to price discriminate, and make more money from people who want faster speeds?

> In fact if someone were to actually put real regulation down, I would expect that the plans were sold with a minimum guaranteed/sustained bandwidth (up and down, because I can't tell you how many advertisements I've seen that never mention the connection is asymmetric) and an "up to" burst metric.

Regulation has to have some sort of economic point. What's the economic point of preventing ISPs from practicing price discrimination, which is generally beneficial to less intensive users?

> What it would do though is guarantee that the company isn't selling 1000000x oversubscribed plans because they haven't upgraded the infrastructure in 20 years.

The factual premise of this is false. There's been massive upgrades over the past decade to support newer DOCSIS versions: http://www.lightreading.com/cable/ccap-next-gen-nets/cable-n.... Your desktop CPU is maybe 2-3x as fast today than it was in 2008 (quad core Nehalem to quad core Coffee Lake). Less than 2x for single-threaded workloads. Your internet connection is probably 20-50x faster, at least in a large-ish metro area.
Thanks! Right now -- only direct sales via niche Facebook groups (SaaS lifetime discounts is an example), which was a great way to understand if our value proposition was interesting for our target market. This resulted in about ~$5k MRR.

We also did a little bit of content marketing (Reddit, Indiehackers) which resulted in ~$2k MRR. We should normally hit $10k MRR and will launch a v2 of the site pretty site (right now it is just a landing page that I created in 5 hours to launch ASAP & let the market decide if our productized service was worth it!)
May be, but there might be enough differences between castes as opposed to within a caste. The control should be as close to the experimental group as possible. Finding a control group from the same caste is inexpensive.
But some will. And not all those that play with them creatively will become engineers. Also, some kids who just consume iPad content will become programmers, but not because of the device. Some kid who never saw a computer before will also be men one.

That’s just how statistics work.
Nuke it from orbit.
I have 16GB of RAM. Although I normally don't use more than 2GB. But as you said, it's sometimes very useful. Especially in the case of running multiple VMs. I too like the breathing room.

> Also, as you might be unaware of that: you're being a bit of an ass.

If you are offended that your favorite text editor uses as much RAM as an entire web browser, then shooting the messenger isn't going to help.
CloudFront Pre-rendering with LambdaEdge
> Curve does not mean "slope". I feel like it's the "learning theory" folks that aught to change their terminology for this one.

Their terminology conforms to the standard usage in mathematics, in which any graphed line is called a "curve".
Could you describe this in more detail? When do you stop eating, and for how long?
It would be a surprise to find any toilet paper in a public toilet, so someone who needs it will already have their own. Remember, the alternative to this is not unlimited toilet paper but no toilet paper, so it's an improvement for everyone.
Regarding your first point, would a website written in C and compiled to JavaScript have the same security issues? I'm wondering whether a middle layer can fix the problems you have with C, or if they're inherent to any use of the language.
As someone who read some of these scriptures mentioned here , they are always cited from memory. When we were taught , it is usually the teacher reciting once and the students reciting again with 2 repeats. Usually it starts with one word at a time , then by joining 2 together , then entire sentences and then entire chapters.An example here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCO1FIQzbQk)
It is quite incidental that , many of these stick in memory quite a lot. When i chant these after a few years , i am quite surprised that i can recall this without much effort.
P.S. Not glorifying, just stating the facts
I dropped all forms of sugar and corn syrup a few months ago. I was never a health nut. Quite the opposite.

It's incredible how much your physiology alters just from that. Water tastes good now. I used to drink water with crystal light, because it was so bland.

Shed 20lbs without even exercising.

I eat bananas, apples, peanut butter and chicken. Learned to cook a few things. You sort of have to, if you want to avoid sugar and corn syrup.

Any ingredients with dex-, wheat, corn starch, -ose, dairy, added sweetener, agave, artificial sweeteners, etc – you can drop it, if you try. No pasta, no bread. No white potatoes.

I wonder how much the input to our body affects us vs exercise? It seems substantial.

And it's crazy how much more you have to spend on food just to make it work. Easily 2x or 3x.

EDIT: To clarify, the interesting part is that I'm never hungry. I eat as many bananas and apples as I want. When I want some variety, my go-to is Nathan's hotdogs with no additives (no dextrose/corn starch), or throwing coconut milk into chicken with spices and garlic. For whatever reason, the weight keeps coming off, for months now.

Grain and dairy seem worth avoiding. I don't know why.

FWIW I drank diet soda before this, but it was easy to eat sugar: chocolate covered pretzels were my feel-good food. It's easy to dupe yourself into thinking you're eating healthy by doing one thing in one area, but totally the wrong thing in a different area but "in moderation." My only solution was quitting it cold turkey.
DeDevelopers Big Sale Is Now On
Save Up to 30% off at Web Development, Web Maintenance, SEO Services, Quality Assurance & MObile Apps with DeDevelopers in Premium Quality.
Visit for more: http://www.dedevelopers.com/ or Get a Quote: http://www.dedevelopers.com/get-a-quote
Garbage-sorting violators in China are now punished with a junk credit rating
For me it was/is the same thing- bored fingers go cmd-t + faceb... + enter out of habit
This comment made me smile, because it's so true :)

After my college days using LaTeX, support for ligatures arrived in browsers and I would spot those (fi, ff, ij, ft, and perhaps others) and post them on Facebook.
$5000 is about $7500 ahead of losing $2500 in the lottery. At $15/hr wages, that puts you 500 hours of your life ahead.
When I first heard about it, thought the person was making stuff up. Then I got directed here - http://gemini3.spacelog.org/00:01:52:26/#log-line-6746. Also learnt that there was questioning about the incident by appropriations committee.
Thanks for the interest!

Turnaround is 1 to 3 working days depending on complexity of the landing page. So you can expect 7 to 20 landing pages per month. If you want to complete a full website with the same design guidelines that might be done quicker (for example if you want a Home, Pricing, About us page, this will be done much quicker than doing 3 different homepages). We also often have clients requesting us to work on separate design styles in parallel (they can decide to pick the landing page they love the most).

Here is a work in progress we're currently doing for a popular SaaS (like Buffer) so you can gauge the quality of our work: https://invis.io/ZXF811CP2
Bananas and apples have plenty of sugar in them FYI. Depending on the brand, same with peanut butter.
What about private cameras, dashcams, cellphones? I can imagine a possibility for a popular app to link them all together and generate a huge private database of images of everyone. What would you smash then?
I stop eating at 8PM and don't eat until the next day at 12PM (so my "breakfast" is actually at lunch). My fast lasts ~16 hours daily, giving me an 8-hour feeding window (my friends always make fun of that term).

We're already used to an 8-hour fast (sleeping), so it's really not a huge lifestyle change. I don't do anything fancy with calories or macronutrients, anymore. I did when I was going to the gym more regularly, but it's really time-consuming measuring everything, so I just eat basically whatever. I do, however, try to limit my intake of processed foods and red meat.
Panini covered both the grammar in the regular sense as well as the phonology of the language. "Optimality theory" attempts to model phonology as a collection of violable constraints operating with a least violation principle. It is supposed to be more generally applicable to what we normally know as grammar (dealings at the words/phrases level), but has seen most success with phonology.
I rather like your haiku as well. In particular I enjoy how the second and third line can be read together and apart. It seems to reinforce the disappointment of finding your laundry in such a state.
Buy Kanger Tech KBOX Mini Platinum –  Justchillglass
The new Kanger KBOX Mini Platinum is crafted beautifully with a stainless steel exterior instead of the regular aluminum chassis.
Yikes, I hadn't read that yet, but I have to say (I'm sure it's been debated a lot already) that their arguments are specious.

What Snowden did was just shine a light into a world that had been growing ever more powerful and yet darker and less transparent while still operating under the letter of the law.

I think that there is a need for a fundamental distrust of government in these cases, and as a Republican, it makes me insanely sad that my party has been on the wrong side of this issue for so long.

So yeah, WaPo should own up to the inconsistency (even if that's just too attribute it to being contributed to by a dynamic and different set of voices).
It is human nature. We all grow up and regret mistakes. Most often in public for the sake of showing how we have grown.
Implementing Machine Learning Undersampling Technique in Spark
Verdana was exquisitely well designed for the special problem of on-screen readability on the kind of screens that dominated in the mid-1990s, but, yeah, it's not 1996 any more.

On most screens these days, you are probably better off, if using a font of Verdana’s vintage or older, using one optimized for print legibility.
OK. For anyone else reading, the idea is a matrix "access(row, column)" where 'row' names an agent and 'column' names a resource, telling us whether the agent has permission to access the resource. A cap system breaks it out by rows: an agent has a list of capabilities; while an ACL system groups by columns: a file has a list of who can access it. This point of view seems to stand above either approach and make them look complementary.

The most important things left out of that view I think are the way an agent expresses its intent (vs. ambient authority) and the way the whole system changes over time. I started writing some more, but it's late and http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/pubs/SRL2003-02.pdf goes into this at length, so I'll just leave that here.
The Gros Michel isn't extinct AFAIK so... yes, there are existing strains.

I guess the better question is what does "better" mean to the consumer? Tastes "better"? Looks "better?" These are subjective traits and consumers are so used to the Cavendish now that if the look, feel and taste isn't similar enough you might have a problem.
Fintech UX: How Revolut Won 180K Users in 90 Days by Banking on Trustworthiness
I've never understood why these get recommended so heavily. A "target retirement date" fund seems conceptually much like a reverse mortgage - a way to liquidate everything you might have accidentally built up so you can make sure to piss it away just before you die and let your family inherit nothing.

What are you investing for? The targetless fund has higher expected earnings; the whole point of the targeted fund is to get less money in expectation than the normal fund will.
I had a friend who had a whole list of dozens of banned sites configured for his google searches, which made Google way more useful. And then one day, Google decided to cut that feature out, as part of their drive to remove power user features across their products.
how come they're not all on the list?
Moonlight Sonata has a special place in my heart. Early 2000s I was listening to an Internet radio called Gotham Radio - The Dark Side of Metal, it kind of matched my music interests. And then Sirenia - Seven sirens and a silver tear comes up and it's totally not metal and it's the best music I have ever heard. And I have been looking for similar music ever since, more than fifteen years now. And then Reddit tells me all of them are derivatives, sort of, of Midnight Sonata and they are right. Mind blown!

If you are curious, the collection is at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL3SharHGKut2spUcOB0...
I think it's mostly a trust issue.

Even when you "have all the facts generated from sophisticated algorithms giving you an unequivocal 'correct' answer", how do you know it's not pulling a fast one on you? Do you trust whoever gave you the algorithm? Especially that it's usually not some diverse group of open-source developers, but a particular financial institution with a product to sell you.

I feel that the desire for human interaction in matters involving money has a lot to do with having someone you can look in the eyes and see yourself if they're trying to defraud you.
I've always been a fan of the Limerick. There's just something about a well-written Limerick, it's like a Haiku, except funny and (usually) crass.

Asimov (the very same sci fi writer) compiled several books of them. Example below:

There was a sweet girl of Decatur

Who went to sea on a freighter.

She was screwed by the master

-An utter disaster-

But the crew all made up for it later.
All red herrings.

I heard of the toilet paper issue yesterday in a radio programme. It was in context of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. They combine facial recognition, voice recognition and old fashioned human policemen to instantly stop dissidents. They boast when someone starts shouting "Long live Dalai Llama ! Freedom to Tibet(...)" they shut him down within 60-70 seconds.

There are guard posts all over the place. Temples bigger than a phone booth have a police station inside.

When they arrested 4 wealthiest inhabitants, it took people months to realize that. The information net is so tight.

Surveillance is the goal, not the means. Savings on toilet paper is just a bonus and a convenient excuse. Granted, Lhasa is a hotspot and gets special treatment, but China is all too happy to export these measures to various dictators to promote The China Way.

Native chinese blog poster gets a sentence for criticizing the government for sending army patrols to (some other) unruly region. He was saying it alienates the population and is overkill.

Your questions would earn you a fine at the very least.
"Nice startup you have there. We have found that users like what you do, so we've added your algorithm as an option on our search engine. Your business case just vapourized." --Google
Good Vibrations: The Viberate ICO Indicates a Bright Future [Review]
Awesome story! I'm curious though why the branch predictor was running the xdcbt instruction if "The symptoms were identical. Except that the game was no longer using the xdcbt instruction".

Was the game no longer "using the xdcbt instruction", but the branch predictor caused issues, because they put a jmp instruction in front of it instead of removing the instruction entirely?
Great advice, BUT: apart from the laziness and the poor written communication skills, often the real reason for the vagueness is that these pesky details are simply unavailable to the coders who throw that exception or issue that message. It is buried somewhere deep in the bowels of inner components.

Better error messages start with better architecture.