skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't bacteriophages have to respond to some stimuli in order to attach itself to a host cell and inject genetic material?
I feel like part of the story is missing because I have trouble imagining that UC couldn't easily find someone to head the institute. I would think that getting to head a well-endowed institute for a top-3 university would be one of the few steps up a Harvard professor could make--and then to have trouble even filling other tenured professorships?

Are the Pearsons notoriously difficult people? Was there a perception or whisper campaign that the institute wouldn't be as academically free or rigorous as advertised? Was Diermeier maneuvering behind the scenes to torpedo the institute? I get the sense that a lot of the story is still hidden.
I would be interested in an economy that incentivized repair rather than replacement. Maybe make repairs tax-free or even a tax credit.
re: "Supreme Court Update: New Standard for Willful Patent Infringement and Enhanced Damages Under 35 U.S.C. §284" (2016 "Halo")
https://www.omm.com/resources/alerts-and-publications/alerts...

> Though the Court’s unanimous opinion gives district courts wider latitude to apply enhanced damages under the abuse-of-discretion standard, a concurrence by Justice Breyer, joined by Justices Kennedy and Alito, suggests at least two judicial limitations to that discretion: (1) mere knowledge of the patent is insufficient to support enhanced damages; and (2) “enhanced damages may not serve to compensate patentees for infringement-related costs or litigation expenses.”

There should be no IP reason to stop using Bitcoin HD Wallets for handling multiple Bitcoin accounts due to the linked patent filing because Bitcoin HD Wallets existed four (4) years prior to what seems to be described in the patent abstract copied to this thread.
"lack of crowds at theaters" > I am also not a crowd lover, i too love it when visiting not so popular theaters where i could stretch myself in between the movie, but sad thing is it won't last long isn't it.. either the theatre closes down or the maintenance goes really low it starts to stink..
Did you ever get the novel published?
makes a noticeable impact here in India, we had CGPA (out of 10).. many companies coming for placements have a cut-off to even be allowed to sit for tests.. some allow to bypass the test if you've got higher CGPA..

I topped my class and got the job I wanted.. however looking back, I could see issues with this - I was good at memorizing stuff and motivated enough to get good grades even for subjects I didn't like.. there's just too many subjects and students that the college life was mostly about mugging up and not oriented towards practical aspects of engineering.. even implementing open-book tests would help to improve our way of thinking..

and during my time, most students got placed in IT despite studying ECE/EEE/Mech/etc
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There's a link in the article here, but sadly it sounds like they've abandoned Clang/C2. I guess they got normal MSVC up to speed on the C++1y/z they wanted to support, and Clang/LLVM was always better than both at complex numbers, inline assembly, and other C features.
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On a much smaller scale but country singer Garth Brooks donated $500k to his hometown hospital and then got his money back after they didn't follow through.

No written agreement but he still won a lawsuit and was awarded damages.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/giving/when-a-donation-st...
>Assuming you live on one of the coasts, you’ll get yours. Just wait until the underfunded pension systems finally blow.

Do you think people on the coast will be more hurt than people inland by social security getting defunded?
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Entirely possible it's just a roll of the dice. My friend and I both had Comcast at our places only .5 miles from one another and the experiences were polar opposite.

She never got the information for logging into the website to pay and missed bills (I was at the set up so it wasn't that she just forgot, neither of us knew then about it), at my setup the tech made sure I could login before they left.

When she had a bum modem Comcast sent several folk out to investigate by turning the modem off and on; when I had an issue, I spent 30 minutes on chat and they sent a new one next day delivery.

When she returned both our modems for us when we left the area, they lost hers and tried to charge her saying she never turned it in, never an issue with mine.

Even leaving Comcast was a world of difference as she was sent to customer retention despite leaving the state to one without Comcast, but I was just allowed to cancel peacefully. (granted I told them I was moving abroad...)

So more anecdata, but ymmv and will always vary imo with Comcast. I would not call their support good. Just never too bad.

(The local isp, however, had fantastic service, both network and human)

Edit: fixed Android's "awesome" autocorrect which changed were to we're
See also: syntax-baked reified arrays, slices, maps, and channels in go (but "no generics" right?)
Exactly. I had to deal with this due to Chrome 45 blocking flash[0]. While that might not seem like something worth targeting specific browsers, Chrome's implementation of blocking flash was an advertiser's worst nightmare. In order to render the page properly, the page would load with flash enabled on all content. It would then pause the flash runtime on all content not deemed "important". This had the wonderful effect of giving a video ad enough time to start playing a few frames and to fire the impression that results in the advertiser getting billed for showing the ad. This would be flat out fraud on our part (a major video ad exchange), so we had to aggressively avoid allowing flash ads to buy spots from chrome 45 and later.

We used ua-parser and everything went very smoothly.

[0] https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/chrome-45-flash
A "Bitcoin hodler" is a Bitcoin holder, just intentionally misspelled for reasons of style and social signaling, such as 'teh' rather than 'the' and 'pwned' rather than 'owned'. It is something that people take pride in identifying as because they have a long-term investment thesis. When the price crashes, this identity gives them strength.
No. What a ridiculous article. Anyone who wants to go on a shooting spree is going to learn how to shoot a real gun. Anyone who for some reason really wants to use VR to train will just use VR with corrected physics. This has got to be the silliest thing I've heard so far this year.
One of the comments mentions bitcoin, it will be interesting to see what happens when someone first get a hold of a computer powerful enough to essentiall win at bitcoin. Since it'll likely be google, microsoft, ibm, possibly intel (or another "big player") who has no real interest in the bitcoin market, but who will still have enough power to erase all trust in bitcoin. I hope something more interesting happens, though.
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There's a Philips LED (one of the weird looking three-lobed ones) that has been burning continuously in the entryway of my inlaws' house for over seven years. It's a 60W equivalent. I bought it for them because a) the light burns all the time (even in daylight that area is dark) and b) it's a pain in the butt to change.

I think it was about $45 when I bought it. A similar model is down to $21 for a 100W equivalent now.

I've got several other Philips bulbs of that type that have been in use for a long time, though not quite that long.

I've never had one go out.

As with you, I've had numerous cheapies go out over the same interval.
We need a standard, here. Perhaps the introduction of EpochKit and an accompanying SunDial app.
The writing is so awful. “Some ppl will get overexcited & start...”? “2fold”? Are we teenagers texting each other?
That and Google is really bad at removing dead code from OSS projects. Looking through projects like Omaha is a pain.
I guess my main point was what you're saying: exercise will not cure depression.

I think it's a behavior of people who are struggling with depression to constantly seek out a single answer to their problems. In that sense, I believe anything, no matter how beneficial on paper, can eventually be used as a fixation which feeds the depressive cycle. This has been my experience as I've struggled with depression in my life. Exercise is no exception to this pattern.
So your cognitive abilities and inclination to do hard things is increased by a performance enhancing stimulant? Tell me more about how great narcotics are because they have desirable effects. Narcotics aren't bad lifestyle choices because of their desired effects. Its the side effects, physical and mental dependence, learned habitual reliance on a chemical crutch that makes them bad or worse choices than natural self improvement. Motivation isnt some mystical beast that some people are born with and others aren't. It takes continual trials to gain the endurance necessary to do hard, unmotivated work.
Didn't Uber used to do this to Lyft et al whenever they show up in a new town?
I didn't have to go thru it
What is your point? Are you arguing that the article is exaggerating the role of the international standards body by calling it a cartel? I think one of the main points of the article is that if companies were acting in consumers' interest you'd see the lifespan of bulbs increase while brightness remained relatively steady or also increased (due to advances in bulb tech). As far as light bulbs go, as a consumer, I'd much rather pay more (and do) for a longer lasting bulb in the 27-35k temp range than perpetually need to replace bulbs that burn up at 45k+. If you're arguing consumers prefer brighter shorter bulbs and that that drove the market, you're directly contradicting the article which has plenty of citations and makes a very compelling argument. Care to share yours?
No. Uber didn't use to have lone rogue sales people that were immediately fired when the company learned about it.
Wow, GTA V IRL.
>To be clear, midwesterners weren’t voting based on tax policy as you suggest, this was about trust, betrayal and vengeance.

That's consistent... but I don't really see how it's actionable. There's a lot of talk on the left about what we can do to help the midwest financially, but as you say, it's not about money.

If you had the ear of someone who mattered in the 'blue state' establishment, what would you tell them if they asked "What can the blue states do to help?"
That's a very large difference. Interesting.
Wow, maglevs in vaccuum tunnels cost less than bullet trains?

That would mean maglev costs less than bullet trains themselves to build?
YES YES what prefs changes were these? Please share!
First, that "magic" is pure luck. Either through helpful people that guided your interest to a useful place, or just pure chance. What is giving you satisfaction could have easily have ended up a curse.

Second,those aren't the two options. You're gaining the ability to focus on uninteresting things, something people without ADHD have and don't use constantly. All the traits mentioned in your last post don't disappear when you add the ability to focus.
I love new editors, but i have to ask every time - what is this one doing new?

I'd kill for new editors trying new and interesting methods of text (or code) navigation and editing, but so often i don't feel like i see... anything, new. The only one i can recall offhand is Kakoune, which is basically Vim-like but changes the verb order a bit. It's a nice attempt, i like it.

Yet with things like Atom, Xi, Xray, i don't get what they're doing special?

I totally get that focusing on easy plugins could be a major selling point. I'm not disputing that or ignoring it. I'm merely trying to.. well, i guess understand, why so many new editors pop up but don't try anything new. They just try.. speed, generally.

Am i alone here? I want more Kakounes of the world.
If true, I don't see the equivalence. If we take OT's response as credible, then it'd be the product of one rogue employee whereas you're claiming Uber did this as company strategy. Time will tell if this was one OT employee's doing or if it was a don't tell and we won't ask policy that accounted for these actions.
Good progress, while in Kenya a national roll-out was postponed because of high global demand for the vaccine.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Demand-for-cervical-cancer-vac...
Mi note 5 और  mi note 5 pro  के सभी वेरिएंट की फ्लॉस सेल्ल 7 मार्च को
Show HN: React4s – straightforward, component based webapps with Scala
Forgetting about “official” rankings for now, Iirc uchicago has had more nobel prize winners passing through in some capacity than anywhere else, and its graduate programs have been among, or the best for a long, long time. It may not have had “kitchen table” renown but it was well known in academics.

For example, several years ago a couple friends I knew withdrew their undergrad applications to Harvard when they were granted acceptance to uchicago because of the mathematics curriculum (it wasn’t an objective choice necessarily, but it was a well thought out one that was academically motivated).

It was a little odd that its graduate programs were almost universally held at the pinnacle of academics, while most people didn’t think the undergrad was that good. That changed when uchicago accepted the common app (looks more selective) even though the rest didn’t change as much. Suddenly it skyrocketed in the rankings. It was always that good, though.
AFAIU, Ripple handles escrow without transaction fees for multiple transactions (2016 "SusPay"); and maintains the transaction history within the distributed ledger:
https://ripple.com/build/escrow/

I included links to Bitcoin BIP32 Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets (2012) and a description in another thread here. Is this HD Wallets with different terminology? Are they talking about transferring wallets keys instead of balances? If so, do they update the AML information with the exchange? You should never share your private key(s).
> Wesner and Reserve CEO Greg Hong said this was the only time they’ve ever tracked such behavior, which they don’t believe is criminal in nature.

Isn't this a reasonably straightforward CFAA violation?

(I'd agree with "we don't believe it ought to be criminal.")
This is potentially BIG news. At my last company Postgres bloat was a gigantic problem. We did a lot of data updates and sometimes customer databases (we sharded by schema) would be bloated by as much as 300%. This really hurts when some customers are 50+ GB. Not only does bloat take up more space but it slows down queries.

We would occasionally resort to taking the customer offline for scheduled maintenance to do a pg_dump/pg_restore to get their DB back in shape.

I'm very curious to hear when this might become available for production use cases.

EDIT: Article states this has been proposed for Postgres 12
> I get the impression from these arguments that people are trying to do serious software development on 5 year old budget hardware.

Mac Mini 2012 here, what's the problem? I just don't use bloated text editors or chat apps and it works fine.
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I'm from the UK, and I'm all too familiar with the two-types of bulbs.

But a couple of years ago I moved to Finland, and it seems here that the Edison-screw won. I've not seen a single bayonet mount since I've moved here. (And I've moved flat a few times. When you rent a flat they are typically unfurnished, and the Finns take this to an extreme, removing all their light-bulbs along with the furniture.)
Zagat... Wow. There's a name that was once synonymous with the PalmPilot.
Sounds great. How did you manage to switch industries without domain knowledge? Im sure others applying with you get an edge if they've worked in the relevant industry before.

Here in India, people don't believe in taking risks and the usual people always get thru.
Did you guys ever reverse-spec the name mangling?
Scott retired in 2015; I don't know if Scott is still active in terms of lectures/presentations:

http://www.aristeia.com/
Yes, it is the kind of move Uber has been alleged to do. I give OpenTable props for just firing the person responsible.
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Did Microsoft ever fix their kernel bug with process creation you wrote about?
Hi guys, I made a number of comments on that piece. Please let me know if there are any that you would like to be revised/looked more closely at.

Also you can find me on Twitter where I have over 150 tweets about this from the weekend. Would love to hear your POV.

http://Twitter.com/DaveCraige
That’s been my experience with Charter. Near perfect service from them yet I see other friends in my area who complain about them constantly.

One somehow managed to turn a free upgrade from 60gb to 100gb internet service into a complaint because he had to call to ask...
Was it an old version of Postgres? I'm just curious to know why VACUUM couldn't help. Did you try VACUUM FULL?
UChicago to me has always been a better program than NYU and at least on par with Columbia, depending on the academic discipline. It's Tier S in academia, though it's not always reflected that way in general conversation.
Because management can't manage.

We are engineers. So we think in terms of what you'd need to do, to achieve effectively statistical certainty that you'll be able to send a plane on it's way in almost all cases, while minimizing costs.

Such a process would involve a set of actions that you'd have to execute, as a management team, using a set of employees, so that everyone is in the correct place at the correct time, and the odds of anyone getting into trouble is minimal, and this gets planned out over time, optimized by a scheduling algorithm.

Then, if things go wrong, you simply re-run your algorithm to deal with the new situation and you do the best that can possibly be done. Of course, such a program is very hard to write.

The stories I've heard about management actually doing this are VERY few and VERY far between, and even then only about very specific things (and only things that would apply to multiple airlines, e.g. optimizing flight plans and fuel tanking). Instead, management layers simply threaten the layer below them into perfect attendance (which works for a while when employees are desperate for jobs) and when things inevitably go wrong they go into full panic mode and spend 50x what is really necessary to fix things. During such panics, even basic events seem to come as total surprises to management. For instance, there was a news message about a problem in Amsterdam Schiphol due to the weather. The problem was understandable, a re-frozen ice layer on the tarmac prevented safely taking off. 10 or so flights got canceled for one airline, for close to 2000 passengers, and there were 2 customer service representatives that, obviously, had a rather hard time dealing with this (there were 20+ doing ticketing for flights that weren't going to happen ... but using those ... nope). Management eventually provided hotel rooms for about 800 of those passengers and put beds in a terminal at around 6am for the rest. Lots of court cases are underway, and are unlikely to go well for the airline).
Yeah, but this could break some restaraunts. OpenTable should be compensating those restaraunts affected, at the very least. And this is different in that it didn’t just affect OpenTable’s rivals, affected the third party business directly.
>>Viruses are more like robots.

A virus is just a computer program that needs a Von Neumann machine (CPU) to run on. Following this analogy we could define alive by saying that the combination of a program and a Von Neumann machine makes the entity alive.
HN is no place for political battle, and this thread is full of violations of the site rules. It's not ok to do that, regardless of how right you are or how wrong your enemies. Maybe you don't owe them better, but you owe the community better if you want to post here. We all have an interest in not destroying the container.

If this sort of thing is where we're all headed as the world polarizes further, Hacker News is doomed. But perhaps we can stave doom off for a while longer. I'm going to ban the accounts that behaved the worst below and then shut down this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Great, now can you fix the Python Cassandra Driver to work in a multi-threaded application environment without the connection pooling bugs and default synchronous app-blocking (vs lazy-init) connection setup?

https://github.com/datastax/python-driver
I've seen it... Honestly though, I see it more in specific developer communities than others.

The "headphones on all day, don't speak to me, no meetings, no I won't explain my code review/feature request/JIRA ticket/etc" folks are specifically who I'm referring to.

I've found it pretty rare at non-Rails Ruby jobs -- they're generally very collaborative teams. I'd probably start a flame war if I mentioned where I have seen it fairly consistently though.
Please refrain from telling people with different opinions that you eagerly await their publications. Ive noticed it in many of your recent comments. It is in poor taste to end your comments with personal smarter-than-thow one-off slants - written as if discussion was a rap battle and you dropped the mic.
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Why do people always believe the story that there was a solo perpetrator who acted alone and without the consent of the organization? Most likely they were nothing more than a sacrificial pawn in this scheme.
Well, tell me what the big risk or concern of a Google employee sitting down and actually reading your e-mail is?

Them indexing it, correlating it with all that other data they already have on you, storing and actively working with this data, including allowing 3rd parties to run near-arbitrary JavaScript on your client, based on near-arbitrary criteria they can specify, is in my opinion much worse.

Opens you up for this data being stolen off of Google's servers and for all kinds of attacks:

- Spear phishing

- Narrowing down the criteria, so that it only targets you, then reading out the IP that you're connecting from. If you're travelling from public WiFi to public WiFi, this can describe your path extremely precisely.

- Malware distribution in those ads. As the ads can be targetted to relatively small groups, they aren't going to be as thoroughly vetted and malware can go unnoticed for quite a while.

As for the GDPR killing Gmail, that's not what I meant. They'll have to make a good few adjustments, but they'll be able to continue operating it.

What I meant is killing Google's practise of having every question of consent being ticked off with one global ToS. That is something where the GDPR is quite clear that it's not legal. You have to ask for consent for each piece of information individually (exempt is information that you actually need to operate the service) and you're in general not allowed to bury questions of consent in ToS.
The link is full of live demos. Feedback appreciated!
These prescriptive writing tips do more harm than good. The crucial question is not whether you have adhered to all the tips but if what you wrote sounds good. Following writing advice without critically analyzing it often leads to writing which feels overdone.
At first I though feature detection as in Sobel, LoG, &c, which made me really confused when reading the replies.
I wrote much of this (in collaboration with YC partners and alumni for the YC-specific bits), and am happy to answer questions if you have them.
VAT, GST, etc - yes that is what I meant by sales tax. Let entities charge any tax they like at time of purchase; it is there prerogative; it's a completely non-invasive tax that encourages competition (ie- little or no sales tax entities will be favored) and savings (ie- your not punished for simply earning money).