skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>yeah lets give them more legs, perfect idea

Nature already had that idea with the centipedes and millipedes, the issue is that they won't be classified as an arachnid, since one of the "key" features is having exactly eight legs (actually four pairs):

http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-eight-legs-always-means....
It looks nice, but is the annoying loader really necessary? I don't see why the page can't just load instantly.
The future value of NNs for creative media is in human productivity enhancement, not in replacement. Speedier asset generation, probably new procedural content, new image filter techniques. Personally I'm very excited to see what humans will be able to do with all of our new tools.
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> like the ability to judge whether a sentence like this is true: “There is no non-vanishing continuous tangent vector field on even dimensional spheres.”

That's the statement of the Hairy ball theorem, by the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
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To be fair telegram is probably better than snapchat as a messenger.
I dislike this line of thinking. There's plenty we can do to reduce our impact on the Earth. Things like eating less beef, walking/bicycling when traveling short distances, reducing single-use plastic consumption, etc. go a long way. In the U.S., we think plastic takeout containers, driving 1/2 mi to the convenience store, eating meat every meal are normal. They're not; these are all absurd things the future will look back at with contempt.

If the world's population lived more like an average Indian, the human population could still roughly double without issue. If the world's population lived like an average American, we'd need 3.1 additional Earths to sustain us. [1] We're kind of jerks.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712
Whoa, did not know he invested in Coinbase.
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Another possible illustration of this correlation is the overwhelming displacement of nuance in public discourse over the last decade (eg: absolutist clickbait headlines targeting niche internet audiences), and the growing atmosphere of desperation. It's difficult to pick a definite causal direction, as it seems that each one amplifies the other in turn--a vicious cycle.
Yea that title is just absurd. DHS wants to release an inert gas to see how it flows through the environment and how it is absorbed into things around the town.
The process which baffles you is

1. Make a playlist in iTunes
2. Sync the playlist to your phone
3. Sync it to any other phones you may have.

How is that baffling?
I have no problem with protesting pay walls, I hate them too.

However, correct me if I'm wrong, reprinting wholesale a journal's article is a copyright crime in the USA, is it not? Or I guess it constitutes fair use somehow?
What is the monetary effect of a beautiful sunset and the warmth of a lover's embrace?
> Maybe this is a great device which allows open access, but it's very difficult to figure this out from their website.

Isn't that par for the course for esoteric information only useful to highly advanced users in the consumer electronics[1] space? I'm yet to see an Android device that touts unlockable bootloaders on their websites.

1. Being "open" isn't the ReMarkable's tablet schtick/selling point. It's a consumer product that happens to be open. The minority users who want to take advantage of that know where to look/can find that out on HN.
Self-Driving, Electric Cars Are Going to Have Tons of Strange Effects on Society
What about enabling humans who can't draw pictures or animate to still put their ideas into an attractive-enough visual form to tell a story? How many amazing stories are there out there right now that never get made because of the enormous cost in finding and retaining talented animators?
This is a very well understood phenomenon and is probably not implemented by counting [0, 1].

0. http://www2.oberlin.edu/faculty/psimen/Site_2/Interval_timin...
1. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis...
Yes, but there are two ways to approach that: cautiously explore apparently barren planets and eventually, maybe, find evidence of primitive life life, either ongoing or ancient; or explore as widely and as prolifically as possible.
Blendid and Hugo: Build large-scale sites at the speed of light
Barton Miller (one of the authors of the linked pdf) coined the term (though I'm sure the practice predates him.)
Oftentimes when you buy local cloth you find out that they are comfortable for the weather. Long light jeans looking pants can protect you from sun and it is not more hot in them then in shorts. I have jeans for winter and jeans for summer and while they look very similar, their warmth is much different.
The video doesn't really explain what they're doing though. Can anyone explain how they're visualizing the EM fields here?
I think that absolutist thinking has something to do with social signalling and interpretation thereof.

Someone who thinks in an absolutist manner might be more likely to jump to conclusions based on vague evidence instead of collecting more observations before passing judgement. Today with social media, instant communication and expectation to be answered immediately the absence of a like from a friend has the potential to be devastating.

It's as if the observer is doing bayesian inference where his prior is: "everything is either good or evil". With that prior they can never assign probability mass to hypotheses/explanations which lie somewhere in-between. Furthermore, by reacting to their interpretation I suspect that they are more likely to create the circumstances that lead them later to confirm that they where right which then might further sharpen their prior (if it wasn't already extreme in one way or another).
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Using it on iOS without issues.
serious question... are you thinking about ever open sourcing this?
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the other thing is you're looking at max distance with full recovery of all cores (despite the failure to recover the middle core). If you went fully expendable on all cores you'd get a LOT more payload a LOT further.
You are right. Also, the wall of text can be a little annoying. So I recommend accessing this article via https://t.co/GVSZAdt6EV (the link from Ohanian's Twitter post), which doesn't paywall it.

As a submitter doing a workaround, I'd much rather find a legit link to a non-paywalled version of the article, instead of copying content.
Here is a nice detail about their process:

We launched an extremely early alpha of Chicisimo with one key functionality. We launched under another name and in another country. You couldn’t even upload photos… but it allowed us to iterate with real data and get a lot of qualitative input. At some point, we launched the real Chicisimo, and removed this alpha from the App Store.

Just yesterday I was wondering where to begin searching for clothing related apps to see what is available in this space. Glad to see this article.
> Childless millennial software developers (or otherwise generally technical) are in a better position to understand puberty in the modern internet driven landscape than someone who went through it 30 years ago, though. That's a relevant perspective here. . .no?

I'm a millennial software developer who went through this exact thing 15 years ago. So we're in the same boat, the only difference being I have kids. And poker is a whole different game when you're not playing for keeps.
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Check out HOX genes if you want to learn more about this - feel free to message my_username OT cerebralinguist DOT net if you want some more sources!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hox_gene
I think your summary is wrong in at least three points.

#1: Not a gas. There are two types of inert solid particles in that proposal, to be released as an aerosol:

> Alternative Inert Particle 1 would utilize titanium dioxide (TiO2), a white odorless powder that is chemically insoluble in water, nonreactive, nonflammable, and nonhazardous. This material is not regulated or defined as a toxic or hazardous material. Alternative Inert Particle 2 is a 90:10% mixture of urea powder with CL Fluorescent Brightener 220. Urea serves an important role in the metabolism of nitrogen-containing compounds by animals and is the main nitrogen-containing substance in the urine of mammals. CL Fluorescent Brightener 220 is a finishing reagent in textiles, and up to 2% by weight in laundry detergents

and then there's the active biologic material:

> Alternative Biological Particulate 1 would employ the use of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp kurstaki (Btk) barcoded spores ..

> Alternative Biological Particulate 2 would utilize
native Btk, without barcoding ...

> Alternative Biological Particulate 3 would employ a
tagged, inert, fluorescent particle known as DNATrax. The safety of DNATrax particles cannot be assumed, therefore, its use presented unknown risks not conducive to testing objectives.

#2: "Around a town" should be "around an abandoned town." Without that adjective, it sounds like it will be done in an inhabited area.

> The proposed project location is the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, which is located adjacent to the intersection of U.S. Highway 77 and EOO18 Road, approximately 7 miles north of the town of Newkirk, OK and approximately 6 miles south of Arkansas City, KS. ... a unique infrastructure that includes an abandoned town (Chilocco Campus: with over 30 buildings)
... The nearest residential home is located more than 0.6-mile (1km) north of the closest potential release area. The nearest public buildings are a casino and a gas station located 1.4 mile (2.3km) south east of the closest release area.

#3: They will not be testing how things are absorbed in materials. The goal is to detect those particles, using devices like: "portable real time particle counters (RTPs), dry filter cassettes, (DFUs), personnel cascade impactors, biological impactors, high volume aerosol samplers (HVAS), and real time fluorescent particle counters, Instantaneous Bioaerosol Analyzer and Collector (IBAC) units."
> The hint text is generated based on password if you did not fill it yourself.

That... is a problem.
I've used this little guy to run experiments with the PicoRV32:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Mini-System-Development-...

The board is less than $15. Add a JTAG cable clone for another $10, and you're all set!
Good idea. I do want to get more themes in, and a pure LinkedIn theme would be good to have. I'll work on it!
What if you had in your terms that the website had to utilize your proprietary javascript injected analytics package until the balance was paid in full? That way you could inject a "didn't pay" popup similar to NYT when you run out of articles.

The client could always edit the code to remove it themselves, of course, but they may not have the skills and if they hire another web developer they'll know they didn't pay the previous one.
I honestly regularly flag articles where the OP or somneone else does not put the full text in the comments. This is a community and there has been a huge uptick in news articles posted. While HN doesn't require "tech" articles I have noticed a big uptick in paywalled news articles hitting the FP and on mobile it is really a hassle when >10-20% of the front page is either not-accessible or requires a large amount of clicking.

While I understand your argument and why you make it I disagree vehemently and therefore I downvoted you. I believe that either HNers should circumvent the paywall and the content owners will likely benefit from the upvote in exposure for this who can afford/want to pay for it, or otherwise WSJ, NYT and others should be banned from HN.
Do you have a link to this paper?

Life got going on Earth very early on, now perhaps it was a lucky fluke, but it happened early.

When you consider that there are perhaps 100 Billion stars in a typical galaxy, and in the observable universe there are perhaps 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies, for me personally, I can only conclude that the universe is teeming with life.

Lets say Earth was a 1 in a million, that still means there are perhaps 1000 planets in our galaxy which contain life. Now if you multiply that by the number of galaxies you end up with billions.

Now intelligent life is a whole different beast, it could be that within a single galaxy civilisations come and go at different periods and never exist at the same time. Civilisations which are in different galaxies will find it extremely hard to contact each other.
I read somewhere about an EU regulations coming which would force platforms to provide a way for their users to get their data back. Reimplementing the XML export would be a good way to (partially) comply ahead of time.
Are these actually subcultures that refused to die or just instances of retro-fashion? Most of the models look young. How much continuity do they have with the original members of the subcultures, beyond historical photographs, etc.?
My bank in NL requires 2 factor using a handheld chip reader that you have to feed your PIN number followed by a random number from the website.

It then calculates a second number that you send back to the bank. No SMS at all!
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> There are many languages today that offer better ergonomics than Python/C

Including Cython. I mean, if you've got a C library, sure, interface it with Python; but unless you want something to be called from something else in addition to Python, dropping to C for performance needn't be the default choice in Python; that's the whole reason Cython exists.

> and a few (like Go) which offer better ergonomics than Python by itself

I find Go’s ergonomics to be worse than Python but better, mostly, than Java.

> all while besting it in performance by one or more orders of magnitude.

And, still, including Cython.
It would, but there's a bunch of other celestial bodies that offer at least as much potential, eg Europa. I share your interest, but not to degree of stopping all other activity while you indulge your curiosity, because other people would like to go and explore directly. I'm not saying just ignore the issue and barrel ahead, but would-be exobiologists should make ambitious and timely proposals of what they intend to sample, what they expect to find, and how long they need to check, in order to give other people a chance to pursue their interests.
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Sorry, to curb your optimism. The limitation on humans, does not correlate with reduced ressource consumption. That flatline is multiplied with the ideal of a western lifestyle, which results in a ecological footprint as if everyone was his own large third world family.

My personal optimism regarding the wildlife comes from nature having assault weapons too- allergic substances, poisonous plants and multi-resistant vegies and bacterias and plagues. Ebola is the protector of monkeys- so if to carry ebola means your tribe is safe - that is a sickness that is a bonus point for continued existance. Same goes for nearly every human negative trait.

Mother earth takes a long time to recover, but when she does, boy will she beat us to pulp. My assumption is, that even if global warming is not wipe us of the planet, we will be living in domed communitys by the end of the century, simply because every sentient and non-sentient beeing is profiting from beeing resistant to all we got and effective at killing us.
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Very cool idea Chris & Hamish
A friend of mine runs "what happened last week?" (http://whathappenedlastweek.com/). She's got a journalism and economics background, and has a subscriber list of about 2,800 people, but has been struggling to find a way to monetize it. Would something like that be a good fit for your platform?
Try to get a client to agree to such a clause, especially when they've probably already decided the likelihood of not paying the developer at the time they are hiring them.
I have one of these. The writing surface is much better than I expected. The battery life is surprisingly poor though - not as good as an iPad, say. The interface has a few rough edges - you are limited to the size the pages presented to you and cannot scroll down for more real estate.

On balance, I would say that I am broadly content with the device - I use it to replace the write-once notes, noodles and workings-out that I used to slay forests for. I did get it for the Kickstarter price, however. I would not pay a near iPad price for it.
Google's working on a streaming game platform called 'Yeti'
https://github.com/open-xml-templating/docxtemplater
I think that one of the explanations for this is that clothing purchases are often driven by in-person retail shopping, usually at malls and department stores - both of which are becoming barren, lifeless wastes.

When I was a kid, we'd kill time hanging out at the mall. My parents did too. You know what would happen when we went to the mall? We'd wind up shopping, sometimes buying stuff, often clothes.
Some people like low effort repetitive content. I don't think its good, but there is a market for that type of entertainment.
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We are, and there is even some supporting evidence [1]. The evidence is not quite conclusive, however.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reports_of_Streptococcus_mitis...
I'm reminded of that scene in Rain Man where Dustin Hoffman's character instantly counts exactly how many toothpicks a waitress drops. No idea how realistic that was, but perhaps some humans are able to use those circuits dedicated toward counting that have long gone dormant in our species.
Interesting that he named his daughter after himself. I guess having a unisex name had its benefits.

More importantly,I agree that reddit's public perception had changed a lot in the last year, it went from seeming like a boys club where others were tolerated to being totally nondinominational. Obviously there are still some subs that are pretty insular but for the most part as they've grown they've gotten nicer.
Why are you taking it upon yourself to say such a thing? You're doing free work for the legal industry.

Fighting copyright monopolies is hard enough without adding Stockholm syndrome to the mix.
Many of us also despair, but the world at large thunders on. Humanity seems to be collectively determined to march full speed ahead and face any problems as they happen. Sadly this means the planet is going to lose a majority of its genetic and ecological diversity, and that is going to be a great loss to us from several angles, but modern society and our economic structures are simply not placing value in such intangibles.
https://hashnode.com/ claims to be that. Not sure how friendly they are in practice, but worth checking out.
Isn’t it misleading to say Reddit is backed by YC now?

> reddit has had a long and complex history, starting as one of the first Y Combinator companies, then as a division of Conde Nast, and three years ago spun out as an independent entity.

Then they raised 50M in 2014.
You can generate Open Xml documents with the SDK. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa982683(v=office.1...
This craft will need some (stubby) lift surfaces to keep up with the competition.
I mainly use org as my daily agenda. Inside my agenda I keep my projects. I note when I've worked on them, what problems I encountered etc. Then I schedule tasks to certain days. I always make sure that I leave enough free time inbetween and if I'm feeling tired I reschedule the items.

This workflow works for my side projects.

For more serious work I open up a seperate org file. I quickly note what parts need to be done, capture my thoughts on them, make a plan and start. If my plan doesn't work I note why it hasn't worked, my current thoughts then I alter the plan.

The most important thing IMHO is to be able to capture what you're thinking honestly. Over a time you can analyze the logs and make better decisions.

In the past I've tried GTD, no plan and just Pomodoro, kanban etc. and they all worked miraclously at the start but my productivity suffered as time passed by. Because with these constructs I was forcing myself to work all the time.

My new method is to treat my org-agenda as sacred, I try not to schedule many items for a day. I give an honest effort to make them happen, but if I can't or psychologically don't want to I reschedule/cancel them without feeling any guilt.

Org-mode is fairly simple if you stick to the basics. You need to devise something that will work for you. Be that a giant file where you keep everything with tags. Or be that a Readme.org for every project. What matters is that you plan ahead and actually stick to it.
This is more a question of replacing some expenses than a real expansion in wages. For example, dining out is a necessity in the modern family because women are required to work in order to survive. This was not the case up to the 70s and even into the 80s. And online purchases are just replacing previous purchases like CDs, DVDs, movie theaters, cable, fixed phone line, etc., that have been eliminated by technology or made expensive for current budgets.
Reddit bans /r/deepfakes
IDK I used reddit for ~3 years and then took about 2 years off; really been on and off reddit for longer. I just recently started using it again. I really dislike how they have decimated free speech but, and as Kevin Rose notes, the long-tail of content and the subreddit approach allow it to bridge a lot of gaps. You have to deal less with over-arching admin and also rich but niche subreddits. I really quit around the Ellen Pao fiasco but I participate in a few communities again. It is certainly different than it was and I am by no means one of the oldest accounts...
OTOH, if you go for a lattice ICE40 based board, you can use a fully open source toolchain.

I have a icoboard connected to a raspberry Pi 3 -- it's my little self-contained FOSS FPGA development station. Quite convenient :)
"I didn't realize "fuzzing" as a term was 30 years old."

When you read papers from the 60s, 70s and 80s it's amazing how many things we think are new today have already been discussed back then.
A friend of mine who works at Tesla says the reason they put the roadster on top of the Falcon Heavy is they wanted to test how well the self-driving system works in outer space.

It looks like it still needs some tweaks.
I interpreted it as equivalent to “Fair Trade” or “Free Range” labels you sometimes see on groceries.
Generally, both zero. Some exceptions:

To someone suffering depression or similar mental troubles, both may be worth potentially the entirety of possible future lifetime earnings, potentially zero ... or potentially some trivial amount in between due to, say, reduced frequency of making mistakes.

What is the extent that (a) you value passing your assets to a child/descendant upon death, (b) you don't have a (living) child, and (c) you expect to have a legitimate child with that lover in the future? That is precisely the extent to which the warmth of a lover's embrace is valuable to you.

But I expect that item "(a)" is zero for most people, including myself, so generally the value is still zero.

(I consider death to be an ultimate loss of everything, no matter what kind of other-person, descendant or otherwise, ends up in possession of what I owned whilst I lived. ... Of course, if one's balance sheet were negative and one had no expectation of being able to remedy that situation, then death would not seem so bad...)