skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study: Wild Sri Lankan elephants retreat from the sound of disturbed Asian honey bees

Citation: King, Lucy; Pardo, Michael; Weerathunga, Sameera; Kumara, T.V; Jayasena, Nilimini; Soltis, Joseph; de Silva, Shermin; Cell Current Biology Vol 28, Issue 2 January 2018.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.018

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.018

Summary: Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are threatened primarily by habitat loss and human–elephant conflict. In addition to establishing protected areas and corridors for wildlife, empowering farmers to protect their crops is crucial for Asian elephant conservation. Elephants can habituate to artificial deterrents, hence natural biological alternatives are of great interest. African elephants (Loxodonta africana) avoid African honey bees (Apis mellifera scutellata), inspiring ‘beehive fences’ as a successful means of small-scale crop protection. Here, we used a recording of a disturbed hive of cavity-dwelling Asian honey bees (Apis cerana indica) and conducted sound playbacks to 120 wild elephants in 28 different groups resting under trees in Uda Walawe National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants responded by moving significantly further away from their resting site in bee playback trials compared to controls. Elephants also increased vocalization rates, as well as investigative and reassurance behaviours in response to bee sounds, but did not display dusting or headshaking behaviour.
I'm the initial bug reporter. This machine is on 10.13.3.
I really miss using cPanel. Now I just roll with an FTP client (FileZilla) and use phpMyAdmin for my MySQL server.
Cough. Equifax.
As it says on the site, it’s the US-Korea Institute at John Hopkins.

So no, not DPRK propaganda, but also not the US propaganda you may be attuned to. AFAIK it’s one of the most respected and non-partisan sources for information on the peninsula.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_North
Lovely! That's going up as a poster on my wall.
It lets content creators put their content on the web without fear of everybody ripping it off? Why don't you explain wow it prevents an open web for anyone at all?

Regardless of your answer, I'm super glad that things didn't go the way that your crowd wanted them to. I got what I wanted and I'm so glad I can watch Netflix in my browser. :)
Not only that, the hardware is already on, so it's only a matter of the cost difference between an idle GPU and a busy one. It's not inconceivable that if enough paying customers showed up with K80 workloads, these freebie users might have to wait longer.
That is the part that is most disturbing. The more people think that way the more marginal each caller becomes. We need crowds to call, raise issues.

Part of why things got bad wrt housing, for example, only the people that had houses raised their opinion in city halls, which led to these people trying to protect their investments, which eventually lead to nimbysm.

I am not a citizen, yet, so i am going through the route of donating an amount i am comfortable with, but in 2.5 years, i will be one, and raise my voice through other channels too.
If you make money by getting groups together to sell Beanie Babies falsely claiming that you have insider info that the fad is going to make a comeback, that is fraud, and you can go to prison for it.
You are looking for the « DAI token » maybe?
> I'd still rather not have that line if it were my house.

Why? It indicates someone lives in the house. Pretty safe assumption without Strava.

The problem created by Strava (and other apps) is that people list their very expensive bike in their profile, then ride that bike to and from their house. Supposedly, thieves target users that way[1]. But the heat map does not provide that info, or link back to the rider/runner.

[1] - http://road.cc/content/news/136239-police-warning-thieves-us... -- I'm not sure I buy the connection to using an app is causal.
I'm 29 years old, and the biggest blocker in my recent life has been the regret of wasted time. I left my job in late 2013 to travel and work on my own projects, but the project-making has been very slow and sporadic at best. In aggregate, I feel like I've literally wasted about 4 years of my life — just dumped into the trash — and I don't know how to deal with that fact. (At least people with failed startups have "the journey" to learn from. Not the case when you literally can't get any work done.) Part of me feels that I should go get a real job at this point, but a) I'm pretty sure I'm now behind engineers in my age group by half a decade, and b) it will feel like giving up on my ambitions. These thoughts keeps me up at night.

I wish there was some magic phrase that would convince me it's not too late to catch up. If we have aspirations, how do we stop comparing ourselves to other people?
Here is a draft of a book: https://cryptofrenzy.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/wolong-writes-...

The author is allegedly the guy behind the Dogecoin pump 2013.
Funny story: I did this a lot when I had Android, but offloaded the APKs to my computer for storage purposes. This became a lot buggier and irritating when Android switched USB handling from mass storage (like a flash drive) to MTP (like a digital camera). I once tried to talk to Dianne Hackborn about this difficulty at Google I/O, and the moment I mentioned 'APK file', she said Google 'didn't support piracy' and walked off.

That day I learned backing up your own apps was 'piracy'.
I've found UI testing to be very brittle esp on Android but that probably also applies to other platforms, UI tests are hard work to maintain when the designs change in small ways - it's so easy to get false negatives. We try and mitigate that a little by trying to get as much of our code out of the view layer as possible so that nearly everything can be unit tested. What's left should (almost) not need testing - we still run some high level espresso tests, but it's not part of our CI at the moment, so not ideal
I imagine it has something to do with sparse tracking. The final ascent / decent is I think the better part of an entire day. You can't have full high accuracy GPS on for that long and have the battery last. So you may put the device away for a while, and get it back out when you finally summit to track that you were there. And lower on the mountain you might have extra ridges in the way, like in a city with lots of tall buildings, where you just can't get the best signal. And on Everest there is no WiFi or cell signal to cheat with. I would also think that personal device GPS may get a bit confused at that altitude. That is not really the expected working conditions.
What other kinds of fraud that has occurred in the past (stock market, real estate, etc) are people going to try with crypto? So far we've seen some big ones (pump-and-dump, and pyramid scheme).
Sound waves don't add up linearly. However, it is a good enough idealization for many uses.

Fourier analysis is also approachable from the discrete setting of finite vectors instead of functions, where the fourier analysis is just an orthogonal (orthonomal when sanely defined) linear function, i.e. it acts by matrix multiplication and is represented as that matrix.

This appropriately extended to the continous setting leads to the fourier transform on functions, and also gives intuition why the fourier transform uses integrals.
Your question is whether running a pump-and-dump scam on an unregistered, unlawful security is legally safer than doing so with a registered, legal security?
I was just offering one of many examples of something online which is more valuable than online communities. I’m sorry that my comment seems to have been taken as, “here’s the one thing I value online.”
These bloody people, always looking for ways to avoid taxes. They should be hanged by their necks and quartered, same as the likes of the corporations hiding their profits in Ireland or tax heavens, leaving the kings and modern kings (elected presidents) without money to spend on their favorite hobbies.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I recently saw an IKEA lamp selling for £10 in a second hand furniture store. The same lamp sells for £6 new in IKEA!
on twitter she noted it was 10.13.x
>It is creating a reality that all the haters of cryptocurrency have been talking about for a while.

Or you might have it backwards: it's reality crashing against the near-religious fantasies that crypto boosters held for ideological and other reasons.
The best job I’ve ever had (most satisfying and interesting, and also good compensation) was a company where everyone in the digital department (a mix of about 150 engineers, QA, designers) were given the same fixed salary.

Additionally, people were pretty much free to set their own work hours (I worked with a great designer who typically left at 4pm, but was never an issue because he always did what was needed - and often went above).

The only possible downside I can think of is that we didn’t really hire a lot of young people (no graduates) so potential for stagnation of ideas (??) however I never saw that have a noticeable effect, and actually at the time the company was quite progressive in its approach to technology.

Our highest ‘executive’ was an interesting mix of someone who could understand and communicate to business, technology and design people.

I’ve often wondered what the secret sauce to this culture was, and how to replicate it...
Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms
Completely off topic, but ehat model/years are you talking about?

I’ve never heard anyone say that about a porsche.

Genuinely curious, not being facetious.
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Wow, I found quite a few very obvious ones in Syria. Are these locations supposed to be entirely secret?
Doesn't the UCMJ already cover "information being transmitted out of a combat zone?"
My Ubuntu 16.04 LTS X-Windows just froze today multiple times, not even changing to virtual terminals was possible, only hard reboot.
I remember when people were generally more tolerant of people who were different. If you were weird you kept the majority of your unpopular beliefs or behaviorsr to yourself and hung out with people with different interests.

Today, people seem to only want to hang out with people who are like themselves, who completely accept them. If someone has a different opinion or a different interest, they’re a predator trying to eat your herd.
There's no "application" of blockchain. You'd be rather thanking thoses schemes because they are feeding the hype of what would be seems as a useless techno otherwise.

I mean come on, anything can be done without it and using blockchain just bring unessential minor improvements like decentralization that no one cares about. Prove me wrong ...
Or they were burned as witches, or outcast, or were hermits? I truly don’t know. Maybe those traits were simply crushed out of most people, or those people suffered and died? Maybe they ended up like Newton... brilliant, successful, but nutty as a squirrel?
Fitbit Ionic is the spiritual successor to the Pebble, and has a five day battery life. Has been as low as $229 on sale. Not enough apps for it yet though.
Painting the tape.
Regular users see a full distro experience as Linux, they don't dissociate kernel and userland.
I'm not sure if you're being pedantic in that most 'satellite' photos are actually aerial or not.

The more obvious sources would be Bing Maps and Google Maps/Google Earth, and they likely aggregate multiple sources. I know I've seen Digital Globe[2], USGS[4], and Pictometry[5] cited as sources.

A quick Google search[1] brings up Digital Globe[2] and a list[3] as the first two non-sponsored results.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Satellite+photo+providers

[2] https://www.digitalglobe.com

[3] http://gisgeography.com/free-satellite-imagery-data-list/

[4] http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

[5] https://www.eagleview.com/product/pictometry-imagery/
Since the military don't care about soldiers constantly broadcasting their locations, why would anyone HN post matter?
I agree about Kessler. Why would she write an essay about Yegge? Slow news day? Writers block? Who cares about Yegge's blog post? How did she even find it? Still, QZ has a big audience. QZ is popular in Silicon Valley. I feel like once something is up on QZ, people are going to respond to it.
https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/12/28/programming-doesnt-belong-to...
CSEP 517: NLP (for professional M.S. students) – Noah A. Smith
I have it turned on, but honestly it's not very hard to figure out where I live... it's in the middle of that circle where my runs oddly seem to stop
To be fair, the whole story about signals and threads on UNIX OSes is not that clean.
Wash trading: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/wash-trading-bitcoin-how-bitf...

Allegedly unbacked reserve currencies (tether): https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito...

I'm sure there are more, any scheme/scam that gives someone an edge will be tried in an unregulated market.
What is being destroyed exactly? Almost all art in galleries are privately owned.

The article itself says nothing stops you from copying the digital art either. But that's not dissimilar from those factories in China pumping out cloned replicas of famous art:

> Just as you can share reproductions of the Mona Lisa, someone could still copy and paste the image, but the provenance and price history of the original are accessible to all. The original of these works is identifiable and cannot be replicated, which is why they are called “provably rare.”

It's just an alternative form of property rights, ownership claims, and selling art. A decentralized version of something that already exists. That's arguably value-add here in the crypto aspect depending on your worldview, or at a minimum the perpetuation of what already exists. Nothing is being destroyed.

Most of our complaints against copyrights are typically regarding the arbitrary (US) congressional laws around it and the anti-competitive anti-progress behaviour that the movie/music industry is notorious for. Where consumers just want to get easy access to full libraries of high-quality content. This development does nothing to help these companies achieve that easier and it also takes congress/centralized law out of the picture.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist - because it wonderfully describes the journey of an entrepreneur
In my opinion the best thing about the Internet is it enables everyone to reach anyone, anywhere and share anything. It's a great levelling force, or it potentially could be. It's rather worrisome that in recent years the same kind of top-heavy power structures out in the real world seem to have taken control on the Internet too. It would be a pity were it to become just a glitzed up version of our world.

To reach its potential the most important single technology remains decentralisation. The average netizen should be able to serve and control his own data, even if he/she didn't create much of it in the first place.

I wouldn't want to live in a world where all real functionality moves to the Cloud and all our devices just become I/O thin clients. Saying that the average user won't care is frankly self-fulfilling and defeatist. How would they care if they are not provided alternatives to centralised services that are usable and compelling?
Why do deployed soldiers need personal fitness trackers (or what did you mean by a Garmin). Surely anything with a GPS or other wireless network abilities is an affront to opsec I'd imagine?
I only responded to the final comment. Sorry, I thought that was clear.

I agree with you for the rest. I did think stevenh's comment had a needlessly militant vibe to it, which is what I responded to. The rest of the thread lacks that vibe, which is good.
Watching tech talks from language conferences can be pretty enlightening - Python and Golang for example both have a lot of great videos kicking about on YouTube about lesser known or more cutting edge topics. Check out the Pycon 2017 YouTube channel for example: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg/vid.... There are lots of channels like this.

For Python, I've found watching Raymond Hettinger's and Dave Beazley's videos especially interesting, even though some of the topics they talk about are pretty esoteric. If you find someone who is better than average at presenting tech talks, you can binge-watched their most popular stuff on YouTube (or only the stuff that is relevant to you).

Pluralsight (https://www.pluralsight.com) is decent for structured video courses - the quality is generally high but content gets outdated fast, and my impression was videos can seem drawn out (I think authors get paid by the minute of video watched). Still worth starting a trial if you haven't done so yet.
GPS spoofing? Device can't track on the way up? I'd like to know too.
Yeah it feels like a real-time experiment on the necessity of regulation and oversight.
> IndexedDb is a key/value store with indexing and transaction capabilities (essentially the bare minimum on which a relational database could be built, the irony).

It's not ironic at all, it's just a good application of the extensible web manifesto : the browser support minimum necessary building blocs and then libraires can enhance the developer experience.

In that case, you have this https://google.github.io/lovefield/
Testing mutable object-oriented code tends to be a lot more tedious than testing immutable functional code. Clojure's REPL-driven development style in particular makes testing a breeze. Often you're just playing around with the code live and saving the results but there's also Midje for writing more formal test suites.
They already exists. An enterprises user can configure a custom app store and ban the consumer app store.
IIRC, it's just "place," singular; it only lets you set "close to home," not arbitrary locations.
What Just Happened in San Francisco?
Introduction to Recommendation Systems with Deep Autoencoders
Audible? These days, pretty much all the reading I do is in audiobook form.
> I can easily unplug them and insert my own, if you don't glue them in place.

Correct. If you're doing it right, you've blocked all unused ports, and you've glued in all used ports. Ideally having testing that the devices you're plugging in aren't already compromised first.

USB device fails and needs replacing? One place I worked disposed of the whole unit and bought a new computer to replace it, rather than dealing with glue removal. It's difficult to distinguish between legit and illegit tampering, so better to have no signs of tampering.
I'm 16 and here I share lessons I learned from making my first app
Ensuring Patient Access to Healthcare Records Act of 2017
This former Pebble owner is quite happy with his Garmin Fenix and it’s week-long battery life. You’ll pay through the nose for it (US$500), but Garmin might have less expensive options with good battery life. I paid the money because I actually use the stuff that makes it cost $500, but something like a 620 might suit you for less dosh.
It allows you to opt out of the monetary system that's been imposed on you by your govt. This might be less of a big deal if you live in a developed country but it's a big deal if you live in an unstable country.
Could you elaborate on the difference between adopted and created meaning? Are these terms that you created, or adopted? :-)
The drive might not be a drive but actually a program presenting as a keyboard that waits for a sufficient period of inactivity before performing a series of keypresses that runs arbitrary code and exfiltrates data off the back of that.

Not to mention lower level exploits that exist for USB.
No UGD (data) companies want to make it easy to reduce the amount of data they offer.
> defraud the devs

I seriously don't understand game culture these days. The rhetoric seems to hint at things I don't understand.

I herald from the relatively pastoral times of doom, mortal kombat, x-com, worms.

Reading discussions between gamers and about games these these days feels like a postmodernist imbroglio involving Derrida and lacan.
Instead you can put your money into a pyramid scheme run by gangsters.
Arguably they are one of the leading large companies with regard to sustainability. Most of their wood is fast growing pine, and they switched their entire lighting range over to LEDs way back in 2011
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/IKEA_pulls_the...
I’m not affiliated with Netflix, but the negative tone of some of the comments here is hilarious. Would the critics care to share how their traffic/uptime ratio compares to Netflix’s? On weekends, Netflix is responsible for about 50% of the packets on the Internet. On Earth. Netflix is down how often? But please, do share how you once replicated a MySQL database from prod to a staging environment.
The Internet is part of the real world. Whatever you dislike about the real world, you will probably eventually dislike about the Internet. And to save what you like about the Internet, you have to go into the real world and fight for it. Thomas Anderson has to leave the Matrix and go into the real world to save all the people who think they are living normal lives in the Matrix.
Yeah, crypto hype in fake technological improvements is part of this mess. People actually think there is intrinsic value in a public ledger (there isn't).
All I can think of is the classic Oprah bees meme:

https://media.giphy.com/media/dcubXtnbck0RG/200w.gif
This is what an SLA is for, no?

If you have otherwise upheld your targets, you can use the remaining slack at the end of the period to run larger experiments such as these, for a long term benefit.
If it suits your palate better, collective bargaining can also be thought of as trade group negotiations, or lobbying collectives.
Mirrors my sentiment except written more elegantly. Although I spelled it out more clearly that a nuclearly armed north korea is something we simple have to learn to live with.

https://medium.com/p/ebf86a16ebee?source=linkShare-c2fa2c34f...
On the contrary, it shows how the market responds and evolves on its own without top-down enforcement.

These pump and dumps will eventually stop being effective, because in a situation where information flows freely, and there are no backstops or gatekeepers to protect investors from their own gullibility, natural selection and other bottom-up adaptive processes go to work.

You can even see the growing 'immunity' that investors have to these pump-and-dump schemes on cryptocurrency forums. People on the forums are much quicker to see through attempts at coordinated pumps now than even a few months ago. Letting things play out results in a more robust configuration than trying to guide the market from the top-down through the creation of powerful gatekeepers and laws that rob people of their agency.
Ethereum smart contracts should let you put loyalty cards on the blockchain, right?
Japan-based digital exchange #Coincheck to refund to customers after cyberheist
Just a week ago I saw a guy pump and dump a random altcoin live on Twitter just to prove his "haters" that he doesn't leave his followers holding a bag when he does his scheduled PnDs. The level of arrogance is really astounding. Hell, all of the biggest bitconnect scammers with a following on YouTube have already moved on to shilling other lending platforms instead of just disappearing. Interesting to see this unravel and how long it can continue.
Other than Kim's direct threats to do so?

Did he actually [relatively recently] state something along that line that was not conditioned on the violation of North Korea's sovereignty or something similar, i.e. an offensive attack?
So does foreign currency
Why not just hold most of your savings in dollars, euros, swiss franks, or whatever? Doesn't that just as effectively opt you opt?