skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just evolution doing gradient boosting. I like it.
Paper Envelope Making Without Glue or Tape
I'm glad they chose to support warchild. It will not stop Russian and Syrian governments from murdering and maiming ~50-100 children daily these days, while trying to replay Grozny scenario in Ghouta, but anything that helps at least those that manage to run away south to Jordan and not freeze to death on their way is great.
I find Amazon’s response to being informed about this “incident” particularly shocking.

Based on the information presented on Krebs’ blog, it should be obvious to Amazon that this is not just a case of a client dispute, but a situation involving a number of serious crimes. Considering how Amazon’s own platform facilitates these crimes, should their reluctance to assist this particular victim not open them up for a liability claims, maybe even for complicity in illegal conduct?

Taking it one step further, Amazon appears to have gained, and still gain a significant percentage from each of these transaction. In plain words: Amazon itself gained profits from criminal proceeds. It also appears to not be bothered all that much with structurally eliminating this practice. Doesn't that make Amazon itself a criminal organization, by definition?

Unless Amazon puts an immediate stop to all this, and distance itself from all profits so far made on it, why would it not be branded a criminal organization? Because they provide jobs? Because they provide innovative new business opportunities? Because they also gain profits though legal ways? Those same things can be argued for many criminal organizations, even including the Italian mafia.
A very elaborate top 5 List of ICO funding project
I both pay my mortgage and keep ethics in the house. I'm not sure this company or dev was so desperate to make money that this seemed like the last hope.
You can use the Apple News Format, but you can also use it to subscribe to standard RSS feeds.

iTunes has been selling non DRM music for a decade and you can transfer most purchased movies to other services using Movies Anywhere. The podcast directory is just that - a directory to podcast feeds. They don't host any of the podcast and provide an API.

Messages interoperare with standard SMS, MMS. You don't get all of the non standard features.
Where are these $3/year certs? Cheapest I've found is about $9.
>What a disgusting thing for the government to be doing.

There is a significant association between bed-sharing and infant death. An adult bed presents far more hazards of entrapment, suffocation and strangulation than a properly-designed crib or bassinet. I haven't seen the advert in question and can't comment on how accurately it conveys the evidence, but I think that it's absolutely right to strongly warn parents about the risks of bed-sharing.

If you think that it's disgusting for a government agency to try and save the lives of babies, that's your prerogative.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2016/10/...
What you're talking about is addiction. It has nothing to do with food. People who tend towards addiction will be addicted to all kinds of things. Fighting addiction is very difficult, no doubt. If you recognize it as addiction instead of pretending that it's something else, that makes it easier.
On some level humans are the pinacle of the solution to survivability. We live in every biome on the planet, and are actively researching giving ourselves immortality.

We're so successful that the best strategy for a lot of other animals has been to be food or company. Cows are doing pretty well because of us.
Hi - HN community. WSO2's leadership would be happy to discuss the philosophy behind our approach to recruiting and performance reviews discussed in the article. Feel free to ask questions here.
The peninsula isn't really walkable.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile, then, to speak in ways which require a less exceptional effort of charity on the part of your audience. I mean, I have no idea what point you were trying to make by that, but I totally get why people reacted badly to it. It seems on balance to be adding much more heat than light, and I think there might be an interesting conversation here which is not yet being had as a result.

(eta: I see in my first reading of the thread parent that I missed a negation, which rather changes the sense of the thing. Prior statement stands, but I no longer feel the need to eye you suspiciously sidewise as I say it.)
36, recently moved to London and struggling to find friends, especially other techies.

I know people often recommend meetups, and I have attended a variety of those over the last year. The pattern I've noticed, especially on tech meetups, is that people show up in small groups with their existing friends or colleagues. If you come up and start a conversation, they mostly don't engage (bring up new topics, respond at length) - they just respond in a passive way to keep the minimum level of politeness, and wait until you realise they want to go back to talking with their friends. Starting a conversation with a stranger seems to be a rude thing to do, since you're making them uncomfortable.

The ones that do engage turn out to be non-tech (recruiters, marketers, people who want to start a tech career but don't know how), or people desperately looking for a job and thus checking if you can get them into anything.

What success I've had was:

- making friends at work (but for some reason it's always non-tech people - probably for the competition reason mentioned in the article - and it falls apart because they already have better friends they prioritise)

- starting a gaming group (but that had no followup - if I don't run a game, people don't invite me to their other things)

- making friends with a neighbour (an old lady open to friendship with anyone, that seems to have held up since she's retired and has lots of time)

At this point, I'm lost for ideas.

Google "London friends" or something, and you'll find people talking about how they're lonely and they'd like more friends. Seriously, where do those mythical lonely people exist?
That some extreme outliers exist, doesn't change the fundamental fact. And the idea that you can somehow graft parts of the DNA of aspen groves, hydra or similar into humans to make them live longer is grotesque (to me, I should add. I accept that I might be a relative lone voice in the science-optimistic desert here)
https://imgur.com/a/DNpw3

Running the following code.

https://play.golang.org/p/k_rRxNAyb0i

I can assure you that go runs across all processors by default.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1At2Ls5_fhJQ59kDK2DFVhFu3...
Alzheimer’s reversed in mouse model
True but you can buy a 7y commercial wildcard cert. That also offers some peace of mind. You still have to worry about renewing it in many years but on the other side you are not exposed to a job breaking or an api changing.
In case anyone else was wondering: "Shipyard" is a mothballed Docker compose project https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard
My main problem with this study is that it's only in the Bay Area. I live in Ohio, and I've actually found Waze to be MUCH better. I tend to be at my destination before my estimated time, unlike what this article describes. This may have to do with several factors though: Less traffic density, less people using Waze, etc.
I know it's from fantasy's series, but what I'd like to see is that as soon as a company (or rights holder) shut down official servers or make game unplayable in other ways, such act counts as the rights abandon and game goes to public domain. I'm not against companies making money from old games, but I still want to play HoMM3 released in 1999 and probably will want to play it 30 years in future (it's like chess for me), so just make it possible.
Brown note? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9mB0OGWkYE)
You may disagree with the author's political beliefs, but you also aren't the subject of the author's critique.

If you help design or write a portion of a product, you are a crucial part of bringing the system into reality. If you support and believe in the mission and ends of a product, there's no issue there.

The problem occurs when you work on a system that is designed to fulfill an outcome that you don't agree with, or one that you believe is bad for society. The author's thesis is clear: If you choose to contribute to the development of such a system, you cannot divorce yourself from the consequences that will follow when your work product is turned on.

[edit: I'm not arguing for moral relativism; I'm trying to separate the argument from the concrete examples given in the piece.]
I like the fact (that I didn't know before) that you can use refutable patterns in the way shown here, as filters in a list comprehension. That feels almost like logic programming.
Meet the ‘data thugs’ out to expose shoddy and questionable research
> Would "the hum" not be noticed in a lot more areas if it were caused by jet engines?

Yes, I agree hence the way I worded the starting of the comment. It was more an observation that there is a lot more noise going on than is immediately obvious and noticeable.

Regarding these hums some people are reporting, given that they say ear plugs if anything increase the effect I think it is likely internally generated like the various causes of tinnitus. Possibly some infra-sound/vibration is directly detectable by some people in a similar way to magmatism is by some animals and supposedly some people. A second thought is it could be triggering / resonating something in the ear so you are physically hearing the sounds, like when you rub your eyes you see flashes. Thirdly perhaps it is purely psychological.

I've not read much about the hum phenomena and not knowingly personally experienced it my thoughts are just that, thoughts.
I'd be worried you'd never fill the retail on the ground level. The small neighborhoods that have the retail/residential buildings have a ton of vacancies even now due to high rents.
RIP Bookmarklet (1995–2014)
Literally planned obsolescence. Now I know how my smart phone feels.
Cool effort, but for me, I think this is the kind of software that needs to be F/OSS - I don't want commercial freeware peeking at my windows!

I use Spectacle: https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle It's okay, but glad there is a competitor now.

Good luck! Please open your source code up!
I don't think humour as such is frowned upon on HN - if I was to attempt to write down the unwritten, I would say that posts that are just jokes tend to go down badly, but jokes that make a point or serious posts that are written with some wit are generally accepted.
A bit unrelated, but to all CS people who may get a chance to go to Dagstuhl, do yourselves a favor and go! It's, by far, the best environment I've ever encountered to discuss science with top-level (and also younger) researchers. The place itself is amazing, and the format of the seminars too. Also, you never know who you might meet there (I got lucky the last time I was there, and ended up having breakfast with Tony Hoare).
“Warm-blooded” doesn’t mean that the organism’s blood is literally warm. Warm-blooded means that the organism actively maintains its body temperature to facilitate a consistent rate of chemical reactions within their body. Cold-blooded organisms rely on external sources of heat; sometimes their body temperatures are lower than their warm-blooded counterparts, sometimes it’s much higher. E.g. crustaceans living in underwater hot springs.
No JS = blank page? Tab closed.
Haskell kind of qualifies. You can't have race conditions when everything is immutable.

Of course this makes some other things a bit more difficult.
California Millennial Assembly-Member Pushes Bill to Recognize Blockchain
> For battling decay. It can be easier to grow a new body from a single cell, than to keep patching up a running one.

And we do the same in IT. Sometimes the old system has piled on so many hotfixes and customizations that in order to upgrade, you can only build up a new system next to it and transfer your data to it. Then you shutdown the new system. That's procreation, learning, and death.
Well yeah - if you 'compress' an organism down to a single cell, then it has far less entropy, far fewer degrees of freedom in which to go wrong, and a much more pass/fail manner of doing so. Changes are much more likely to cause a 'checksum failure' and terminate the offspring early before it's used a lot of resources rather than allow mutant offspring to grow. Things like cancer, where a small group of cells decides to go off the script, are trivially eliminated.
I'm really surprise how many users see Debian's packing as being so great.

I've contributed to several projects upstream, and, as devs, Debian's packaging is a PITA.

We constantly get bug reports for _very old_ major versions, because Debian is way out of date. We don't support these versions, but bug reports from Debian users keep coming because it's the latest in debian.

But there's actually a worse scenario: bug reports we can't reproduce. Because Debian packagers consistently patch applications in their packages. A lot. So we get bug reports that aren't from our actual code, but rather a "Debian-forked-version".

Clearly, the end-user interests are completely different from the upstream devs'. But the issues are pretty evident from the other side.
I bought my house as a place to live. (My only "mistake" was that it's a bit larger than I need.) It was a cheaper option than renting, as apartments 50%-60% smaller were significantly more than my mortgage payment. Buying a house to live in, with the idea it's an investment just doesn't seem to be guaranteed to me. That's especially true if it comes to making any modifications -- I want to do them to suit me, not trying to consider if a future buyer wants them.

If it appreciates? Great. If the value stays the same? Fine. If I move and can only make what's outstanding on the mortgage? That's good, too. If it's worth less? Then I will look into renting it out.
If you are motivated, as in you show up, but then you waste time, it's a sign that you are mentally tired. It's like you are a motivated runner with a broken leg. You need to heal the leg first. Recovery after intense mental effort is part of the job.
This is not my experience. Trello has continued to work just fine after its acquisition by Atlassian.
Sure, but let's start moving towards parallelism first. May be a few decades from now we would be close to breaking those limits.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16426585
Facebook might develop a suite of blockchain technologies to sell/lease without integrating them into its social network product in the way suggested in your question. Thinking about Facebook as a software company is not entirely unreasonable.
As much as I love these apps, I do worry about municipalities fighting back. For example, https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/25/new-jersey-town-will-clo... describes the efforts a town in NJ made to force these apps to not send cars into their streets to avoid jams.
> memory be cleared without zeroes

In some specific cases, such as when the Linux kernel maps memory into your process, this is exactly what happens. When you write the page, it faults and clears it on demand; but I don't think there would be a considerable benefit to doing this at a finer granularity.
Sedgewick also has some great books.
Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide following, dies at 99
This is the "I am so special so you should understand that I am late" (and wait for me), an analogy to "I am so special, so you should understand why I am overweight" (and I am taking your space in the plane, or your health tax later)
Show HN: Global Real-Time UV Index Forecast API – OpenUV.io
Cycling Is the Majority Mode of Transport in City of London in Peak Hours
Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month
True, benchmarking is really not trivial. Thanks for pointing us to the bug in our benchmark suite and sorry for our mistake. We fixed it https://github.com/weinberger/nosql-tests/pull/24 and reran the benchmark. We will publish an update soon and also fix the stats in the original post. Indeed, Neo4j with connection pooling improved stats in a few test cases but the overall ranking is not really affected.

Thanks again for helping us to improve the benchmark and creating fair conditions for all products tested!
That's if you take a very narrow view of individual selection. A group of organisms collectively may have favorable selection characteristics compared to another group that dies younger, even if the death is post-reproductive age.

Bees, for example, have evolved to have very strong but non-reproducing organisms in a community. There's still selection pressure on a hive to produce stronger and longer lived workers.

As I understand it, the general mechanism involved here is usually called kin selection, and has been discussed as far back as Darwin, both as a potential problem with the theory and as a fatal defect in the Lamarckian view.
Microsoft, Apple and Google (among others) all offer cloud-based hosting.
New paper links ancient drawings and the origins of language
Spanish rapper sentenced to prison for criticizing, threatening royal family
Looks like evolution has decided that death is the winning strategy for long-term survival.

All species that didn't die of old age (if there were any) have disappeared regardless.
Why learning a framework would be the first step in building an ad server? I would actually go against frameworks when building ad server and focus on a custom solution from the ground up.
Why ICOs Probably Aren't the Future of Early Stage Financing (At Least, Not Yet)
This is just the definition of simplicity

Awesome
> Ideas aren't more valid due to votes in a millenial's echo chamber.

Whenever a new iOS was announced I'd search the docs to find out whether it allowed Pebble to get more interesting functionality on the OS. Usually the result would be that no interesting API's were added. People would downvote my summaries because they didn't want to know the truth...
I'm the founder of endswapper and the creator of the Internet of Materials (IoM). Materials markets are complicated, and affected by technology, informational, political and relationship frictions, all of which result in negative economic, social and environmental impact. You can see this in Apple's latest announcement about cobalt. We work to eliminate market frictions and manage/mitigate other priorities mentioned in comments here.

We are currently building prototypes for the largest chemical/material companies in the world.

You can learn more here: https://endswapper.com

And a detailed discussion is available here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-materials-master-pla...
Why is the Halting Problem so important?
Presumably they get paid to put them in regardless of whether they are used; and enough people accidentally click it that it stays in use.
Context helps, thanks. Your other post felt more like you were throwing your knowledge in my face and calling me wrong.
I think you're correct. So my nasty little hack wouldn't work. That's probably a good thing.
We didn't set out to replace Prometheus, our Metrics UI was designed to give Wallaroo users insight into several parts of the system to spot bottlenecks while developing applications.

What we did do from scratch was write the instrumenting of Wallaroo in order to collect the metrics that could be used by our Metrics UI or Prometheus.

We thought it'd create a better user experience to provide a tool that provides the metrics information in a meaningful way as opposed to letting our users pick from Prometheus, Grafana, etc off the bat and having them set it up themselves.

In the end, if a user wants to use a tool like Prometheus they can write an adapter to convert our Metrics Protocol into a format suitable for Prometheus.
I use Discord heavily. I'd love to hear why you think IRC is better for voice and text chat than Discord.
Well, you can always get better friends, and if you cannot have a serious, honest talk with your spouse about these issues, you might want to reconsider your relationship.

Kids are the deal breaker, I guess.
I never dared to ask- but- do cancer cells age? How does a tumor behave if he gets to live longer then its own behaviour would allow to expect?
> new individuals, with perhaps better characteristics in the face of new circumstances, have access to more resources.

Another way to interpret this would be “increased diversity.” Which is a selection advantage in an environment that experiences change. While organisms don’t have “clocks” they do have different rates of aging, implying a biological control. And species that live longer tend to hold on to longer genomes. This tends to mean that short lived species hold diversity in their population while Long lived species hold diversity in every genome. Both operate as fitness advantages, and seem to imply that aging is a biological quality.
Sorry but this is completely ridiculous and disingenuously undermines the OP's very good point.

First, even if some Americans don't support universal healthcare, that doesn't mean that all Americans don't support it. Even if they do, there are arguments to be made both for and against universal healthcare. I happen to fall on the pro-universal healthcare side, but it's certainly not without drawbacks.

Second, the OP wasn't suggesting that we should have privately funded militaries and private roads, but that one possible government outcome is the government paying for such things while leaving other items (maybe donations to scientific foundations as an example) up to private sector interests. If you're Dropbox, and you strongly believe in a cause and you want to support that cause, it makes far more sense to withhold taxes (so far as it is legal to do so) that you have no control over and set up a foundation to pursue the cause that you're aiming for. Not only can you ensure that money goes toward that cause, but you're nearly guaranteed to do a better job than the government which is, by it's very nature, subject to the whims and opinions of people who may not share your view on the use of your money and less efficient in the handling of your money.

I have a big problem with American companies not paying their fair share of taxes, and even more so with the obscene wealth inequality that has come to dominate the last few decades, but your post here is a drive-by at a reasonable discussion point, followed by a trite comment about Americans for no reason other than to stir up trouble.
Seems to be both identity theft and money laundering going on. Identity theft is a crime, but idk how much liability Amazon has. At least, I don't think there are specific/explicit rules about how this works. There probably is some case, referencing general laws about assisting or not preventing crimes or whatnot. ...I think.

Money laundering, OTOH... There is lots of legislation, regulation, enforcement... 99% of what falls under these is not money laundering, the plain English kind. It's measures to prevent tax avoidance, funding unsavouries and such. I imagine that bonafide laundering would be treated very seriously by authorities, but also banks and financial institutions Amazon work with.
If you leave out the repair mechanisms you save a lot of resources.
Does anyone outside the US and maybe the UK find any maps comparable to Google Maps? They are (Waze, Apple Maps, OpenStreet Maps) a step behind Google Maps, maybe with only exception being Yandex Maps.
>Please point out where somebody genuinely puts an effort to found math on category theory?

What about the following:
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/foundation+of+mathematics#CFM

Even if the meat of the math is not in the categorical aspects of a theory, the categorical input can be useful - if nothing else, then as a convenient language.
Much appreciated thanks!

For some reason it's taking me about 4-5 minutes for the transfer, but the code now runs and the rest of the runtime is only a few seconds.
Billy Graham, 'America's Pastor' and Noted Evangelist, Dead at 99
Good reasons to choose a refurbished phone over new