skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do have significant experience in this area. I am looking to see if there are any in current use, ones that I haven't heard of.

I have worked directly with two of these. Three of us wrote a compiler for a PL/M derivative in Bliss 36 running on the DEC PDP-10. And we tinkered briefly with PL32 on the vax. The team that brought XPL to the Sigma 5/7/9 series also wrote a low-level PL/S style language. I'm trying to locate the paper for that, so far with no luck. I'm familiar with the Burroughs low-level algol efforts, and am fascinated by the B 1700, which had an machine word size that was set on a per-program basis.

Fundamental to this is that they are machine specific, and I am seeing that there are some possible advantages to that.

Thanks for the references. As a result, I ran across http://143.95.72.211/ebooks/history_of_programming_languages... which connects with many of my memories. And the Belt architecture is quite fascinating, but it doesn't seem to be moving very fast. I now add to the list one called PL-11 for the PDP-11.

I was first exposed to the chicken and egg problem in A Compiler Generator which launched my career in another direction.

Thanks much for the rich references which are directly useful to my search.

(montana expat here)
I agree, especially when you use the recent Shkreli case as a point of comparison. You have Shkreli who has been put away for 7 years for a hypothetical 10mil, yet Holmes commits "massive fraud", possibly losing 100's of millions of investors' money, and most likely gets away with a 600,000 fine and no jail time.
The article is muddled.

> To better understand the genetic dynamics of each twin, Mason and his team focused on chemical changes in RNA and DNA. Whole-genome sequencing revealed that each twin has more than expected unique mutations in his genome -- in fact, hundreds.

So both experienced hundreds more unique mutations? But OK, let's say that it was Scott Kelly who experienced more mutations. But which tissues did they sample? Sperm?

> Preliminary results from NASA's Twins Study reveal that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly's genes did not return to normal after his return to Earth two years ago.

This is about gene expression, not necessarily mutations. And it's the key take home. Given that we've known for some decades that radiation causes mutations.
Not always, but often. And I agree, it's usually wise to listen to someone if they warn you about themselves.
D'oh. Meant to say 22/7. Still somewhat Amerocentric.
Genes are the data, epigenetics talks about the program instructions, notably proteins called transcription factors. The latter are of course also encoded for in genes.

The similarities to Von Neumann architecture are .. unsettling.
Hmm, so would a flat tax rate actually be progressive? ;)
They’d probably prefer to think the first, but the second is more likely given all the folks under employed these days.
Sorry about the uses of the term 'fake news' I guess.

But I was just making the point that it's definitely at least Alpha software.
More likely aliens have replaced him with a pod person to infiltrate NASA.
Massive MIMO Has Unlimited Capacity
I consider Digg Reader a perfect web app. It's simple, free, featureful and has a stark beauty to it

Like everyone else, I had to find a replacement for Google Reader, so I tried a lot of them (even paid ones). Digg Reader was the only one that exactly matched how I used Google Reader — and in fact, I like it even better now.

Not looking forward to finding a replacement.
Here's a video of Japan's warning system giving someone 30+ seconds of notice before the 2011 earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-FMpNBfna8 (and notice how significant the shaking was, even at that distance)

Here's another example of what you can do with ten seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB6-nU2nJqM
Are you sure you don't have malware on your system? I haven't experienced a redirect ad in basically forever.
Agreed its illegal and could have gone to zero. His investors could easily have lost all their money, but they didn't. Theranos investors did.

I guess its like Bernie Madoff's investors got most of their money back, but Citigroup investors lost 90%.
Journal Reference:

Emil Bjornson, Jakob Hoydis, Luca Sanguinetti. Massive MIMO Has Unlimited Capacity. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2018; 17 (1): 574 DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2768423

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8094949/
Orin Hatch:
Nothing more needs be said
An Overview of Cryptocurrency Consensus Algorithms
SRI confirms nuclear fusion startup's reactors are producing excess energy
But why use webasm for that when llvm already does it better?
I get these frequently too, especially on IOS devices. If you wipe your browser history it stops happening, so I assume they are doing some checks against Ad Network filters.
As an aside, I don't think "the most predatory thing" about student loans is the fixed cost regardless of profit. The same could be said of any business or real estate loan. The most predatory thing about student loans is that there's barely any rational qualification of the loan recipient.
> but we also lower to floor of possible vehicle occupancy to 0

That's a great point that I hadn't yet considered. In terms of finite energy resource demand it's not as big of a deal when the average car both smaller and electric. But in terms of traffic and related resource utilization this will ultimately become a far more common phenomenon, even possibly in the top 1-2 most frequent scenarios as driverless cars attempt to reach a new client or drive to the closest automated charging port.

I'd be curious to see the traffic/resource impact of such a hypothetical scenario. Although I anticipate some smarter people than me are already calculating these costs. At least I hope so!
Maciej beat Elon to the idea of using tunnels instead: http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
Sorry, I Don't Speak Complexity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16580364
These Twins, One Black and One White, Will Make You Rethink Race
Family Tree of Dogs and Wolves Is Found to Split Earlier Than Thought (2015)
> it's the equivalent of government breaking roads so they can create jobs fixing those roads

Indeed. Perhaps you're familiar with our habit of picking a random country to blow up and then flood with contractors every couple years.
Yeah, the difference between lowercase p and capital P seems pretty important. Most places show capital P, so that's part of the confusion.

There's more though. Lowercase p(B|A) seems to really mean p_B(h(a)), and that's not obvious. Hell, I might still have it wrong.

And most everyone says to ignore p(B) in the denominator, but that's really sloppy hand waiving. The notation means something, and there should be a well defined set of substitutions, but in each of the four terms, they do something radically different. I can't see a pattern to follow.
Ask HN: Are there many Australians well known for their open source work?
It seems like a poorly constructed argument to suppose that creativity is a required element to be the party responsible for creating a copy. Its very nearly the opposite of real. It is 100% unambiguously the customer who is creating the copy. Else bic and xerox will be sued out of existence shortly.

Essentially the act of copying is totally without creative merit however the buyer of the game arguably has a fair use right to make use of the work in a different context not terribly dissimilar from format shifting.

The only argument that could be made in this universe is that the customer is responsible for copyright infringement and that the modder is acting to enable copyright infringement. While its clear that say exist only to facilitate obvious piracy could be found to be enabling piracy its not obvious or even reasonable in this case.

EULA's are of questionable utility not because they are legally invalid although I think they are trash but mostly because people don't care and its difficult to persecute your customers without losing them.
It's super rare in Chrome for me, but I've seen it happen the first day on a new iPad / Safari just a few weeks ago.
Kitty Hawk begins certifying its self-flying taxis for service in New Zealand
> Maybe that means JS is a superior language in the context of the problem is was made to address. Holy shit! Who would have thought that "it depends" applies to development?!

Only in terms of access/availability but that was his point...
This reminds me of Holberton school (https://holbertonschool.com) which has the same "free until hired" business model. I'm very interested to see how both of these pan out.
Canadian Amateurs Discovered a New Type of Aurora
Congratulations to the GNOME project, now in it's 19th year!

Full release notes here: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.28/
It's going to be one expensive pizza, of course. That is the target market. Think gated communities, high property-tax areas, etc..
​Linus Torvalds slams CTS Labs over AMD vulnerability report
A much better source for those with an interest in the science is Chris Mason's slides from his recent talk[1] at genetics conference (AGBT) about this that he shared on twitter[2].

He's a great speaker, and a cool guy and tackles some of the most interesting (at least to hear about) science in genomics

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfg6rdmgxjwdpil/Mason_NEB_talk_AGB...
[2] https://twitter.com/mason_lab/status/964151387687972864
Yes, and virtually all software job postings/interviews are tests for experience with specific fittings (abstractions/frameworks)
Bench.co
Also, regarding the Shrekli case, didn’t everyone end up financially better off than they started?
Yes, when I was in college.
Interestingly, the article about Hawking's death is now the most upvoted article ever on HN, beating Steve Jobs' obit by quite a wide margin:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...
I agree about both. What I liked about Coders at Work are some of the questions he asked the folks. 1) Do you like/program in C++ 2) Have you read TAoCP?

Knuth (interviewed last) claimed that he hadn't really read it. And only one person interviewed did. Oh, also, there seemed to be a general disdain for IDEs.
> That's where we come in; we're the bookkeeper, but we also have the ability to write software when it's appropriate for solving the problem.

How is that a great leap forwards over double-entry accounting (which, by all accounts, was an actual great leap forward)?
Technical report is here: http://brillouinenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SRI_Te...
This feels like old news, given:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-13/drone-delivery-syst...
Because its challenging to discuss the merits of different thought processes regarding IP and fair use with people without boring them to death I recommend responding by just telling people that Bethesda makes buggy games and not to buy them.
Ah, but think of what you are missing!
Way before the Apple Watch came out I had a bulky Garmin GPS watch. I thought it was the greatest thing not to have to fumble with my phone to check my running stats.

If I were still a runner, I would buy an Apple Watch in a heartbeat especially now that it has cellular. Heck I would buy it if I still went to the gym (as opposed to having my home gym) just so I could leave my phone in the car.
Why did you feel so uncomfortable? I read it as simple, direct feedback.
It's a niche area, but Simon Newton of ola (Open Lighting Architecture) - https://github.com/nomis52
Why do you suppose she props the door open with the chair? Because building shifts could jame it closed via the door frame?
Apparently the particles need to be relativistic, maybe the Sun doesn't generate enough acceleration compared to the central galactic supermassive black hole?
This has to be Not the most important news of the 21st century
i have AMZ shares. and i am still waiting when amazon business goes down the drain so i can take amazon private and sell off its assets and make profit. one helluva business plan and intrinsic value.
this is a strong claim. what is your source for this? I'm legitimately curious.
can't understand why they must shut down.
AlphaGo Explained Simply
This I think was poorly communicated. I found it out by accident, prior to that it seemed like Siri had taken a nosedive. "Hey Siri...." waiting.... followed by the cancel tone or sometimes "Yes?" - then the cancelled tone.
I have a story:

My cofounder was more Salesy than me, so he did most of the relationship management with our clients and gatekeepers.
To grease these relationships, he was always ... I tried typing a few euphemisms for "LYING" there. Overpromising, for sure.

This worked really well because it was SALES LYING, and I was in the back working my ass off the make those sales lies come true. I delivered, no one was the wiser. I'm proud of the work I did. Things were going well, people were impressed, we were gaining customers, and new lines of business.

Then he decided that if he could lie to others, he could lie to me. Lie after lie after lie until I didn't even know if the company numbers were true. They weren't, as our wiser readers probably already guessed.

I made the mistake of accepting this behaviour in the name of success. HUGE mistake.

Eventually I was forced to confront him when his lies created serious safety issues for our clients. He blew up and became extremely angry, and our relationship ended that day.
This is like the old "I don't even own a TV, do people still watch TV?"

Sales are showing someone likes it.
Just need to open up an actual power plant now. I hope that doesn't take another half a century.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Windows have a proper terminal emulator?
Putty, cmdr, etc, all lack behind. Even standard stuff like running `top` (let alone `htop`) gives weird results or flat out crashes the app. I've tried them all and most simply crash or exhibit weird reflow errors when running Vim with a theme over SSH. What am I missing here?
Actual title: "How Fortnite Streamer Ninja Suddenly Took Over Twitch"
I absolutely loved rust and it is very easy to use
I've been making an arpg as a solo project for ages (https://streamable.com/b9hae) and using the GameplayAbilities plugin that comes with the engine. I do the abilities (which tend to be heavy on delegates, so visual scripting is perfect for it), the UI, and the animation blueprints in BP, while everything else is cpp. I follow the model of creating all base classes in cpp, then having the final implementation as a data-only blueprint. This lets me rapidly change the values of things in BP in the editor when I'm fine tuning things, without having to deal with BP otherwise. So if I have a fireball spell for example, the fireball actor will have all its logic in cpp but the visuals, sounds, base damage, explosion radius etc. are all set in the editor in the bp, but the ability that lets me cast the fireball will be in pure bp.
Haigh's association with Legalist is mentioned in the second paragraph of this article, and they go on to talk about them funding other Equifax litigants, so I don't think that point has been lost at all.

(Also, I believe Legalist aren't funding Equifax litigants anymore)
LENRs have been under study for years. Toyota sunk two years into research and many universities can reproduce these studies .. some of the times. Consistency is key to figuring out how/why these reactions work.

For a somewhat outdated, yet still interesting, documentary on the matter, I suggest watching Fire from Water.
'Striking weaknesses' in adult financial skills
I thought all we needed was the short "Git for Computer Scientists" [0], which consists mostly of images and which had me saying "oh, that wasn't so hard after all".

[0] http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
Enable WSL and install whatever terminal you want inside the distro. I like tilix. Then run an xserver and start the terminal emulator. Works great.

I also have had good luck with hyper.js if you want something that actually runs on windows
Is upgrading to php 7 worth the pain? I need it for xDebug
Client is React Native
Server I'm using php 5.4, because thats what I'm using on my wordpress server.

I'm not exactly sure how an upgrade to php 7 will change my currently working mysql database, my worpress install, every application's plugins, my older android and web apps.

I also dont want to mess around with a virtual machine, IMO more hassle than its worth, I use my personal website to reduce rewriting code.

Problem is, I'm using Netbeans for PHP and it seems every guide is based on xDebug, who I learned last time, DO NOT use older versions. Only pain and misery.

Half thinking of using error_reporting(E_ALL) and skipping the whole debugging process, but I know thats bad form.

Solo project, but goal is a venmo style app. I have lots of old code from previous apps that copy paste well. It would be nice to save it,.
If you'd like a guide to git that explains the basic concepts first and explains the data model only after it's shown it's useful, give Git Magic a look.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/
If you guys have not watched HBO's westworld, you should. It goes so much further on this situation.
I bought a Garmin GPS watch years ago that was larger, less battery life, and you had to have a chest strap to measure heart rate. I loved it for tracking my time and my pace.

The thought of having a watch that is better in all dimensions and is smaller is amazing. On top of that it has cellular.

I also tried running with just my phone using Nike+ GPS back in the day and quickly went back to my Garmin watch.
My guess...they use quickbooks in the background, which allows you to upload receipts. If the description of your amazon receipt looks like furniture, then they'll mark it as such...if it looks like office supplies...office supplies.

I use Wave, which lets you upload receipts and it will perform OCR to extract vendor info, date, total cost. It's not much of a leap to go 1 step further and look at the line items and categorize...again just a guess.
Every gene can have a tag attached to it which prevents the gene from being used to create RNA (the tag is a methyl group, so this is called "methylation"). Since the RNA would then be used as instructions for creating a protein molecule, inactivating a gene by tagging it generally causes the cell to stop producing particular proteins. Since each protein has one or more specific jobs to do in the cell, this causes the behavior of the cell to change. There are a huge number of known proteins (millions maybe? I don't actually know), and a vast potential number of proteins (if you just consider all possible ways of arranging the 20 amino acids into a chain), so there are a vast number of ways that cell behavior can change over time. Indeed, this is how we manage to have different types of tissues at all, including our very complicated immune system with cells that act autonomously to protect against disease.

Also, it's well established that there are plenty of feedback loops here. An active gene can code for the production of a protein that activates or inactivates other genes. There are numerous pathways by which external stimuli can amplify or inhibit all of these feedback loops, so external conditions often result in changes to which genes are tagged.

As you can imagine, the state-space of all of this is immense; far larger than just the number and type of genes that you have. Mapping it all is a vast project that might easily take thousands of years.
If it were real, someone from C-Systems would have already shown up and everyone at Brilloune would be running from the FBI
> This is true of basically all problem domains: "Why isn't X easy? Can't you just do Y?" And it usually just indicates that the person asking the question doesn't appreciate how difficult and nuanced a real solution to X is.

Upvoted because this is so true, yet it is also only half the story -- let's call it the ignorant or lazy users half. The other half is the ignorant or lazy developer side: that is, developers who don't properly prioritize the 90% use case, and who don't appreciate or understand the natural mental models they should be accommodating and treating as problem constraints.
I always wonder who actually validates the money when somebody says they raised $20 mil in a private ICO. What keeps people from just claiming that to make other investors more willing and give an appearance of legitimacy?
I've seen studies showing dendrites following electric fields. (20 years ago, no links sadly).
I can’t find any mention of this report from SRI, only on Brillouin’s site, and other cold fusion pages. Given the insanely high bar of reasonable skepticism any claim of cold fusion has to meet, this is suspicious.

I mean, it’s no more suspicious than any claim of “over-unity” from people raising millions to follow in the footsteps of Pons and Fleischman. Meanwhile I’m shocked that an essentially unsupported pseudo report on cold fusion of all things is the top post on the front page here!

What gives?
I couldn't use my shuffle to track my pace in real time, stream millions of songs over the internet, track my heart rate or take phone calls.
Reading the reports, it looks like the outstanding fact here is that they’ve been consistently able to reproduce the same results with different setups, in different reactors, in different configurations. In every case with Q > 1.

If there isn’t a major measurement error or fraud that occurred here, this looks like the best result yet for LENR.

I’ll still bet on the Stellerator design, though.
What happened next??
I see that pilot includes Quickbooks essentials. Wouldn't pilot just reference their customers to use quickbooks to handle the invoicing? And maybe some hand holding if needed...but otherwise it's DIY?
If you ever get the urge to go into gaming, take a rock and thrust it into your eye. When games are canceled hundreds of people have wasted thousands of hours on: programming, ai, economy adjusting, art (raster + vector). Games are canceled all the time for frivolous reasons. Wasting your 20s at a game company re-writing madden football 19 with low pay and harsh hours isn't 'cool' -- it is just wasting your 20s'.
It happens a lot in the modding scene, that the project team is strong in landscaping, but not so much in everything else that needs to be ported.

Often they don't have software guys to code the custom tool for that, and they end up doing a lot of it manually.

In case of porting F3 to F4, you have to deal with a different scripting language.

So blaming it all on copyright of voice acting is a convenient excuse to sunset the project.
>True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain.

As always with these claims (that, as noted below, have not actually been implemented and so can only be speculated on), the question isn't whether this could be done with the blockchain, but rather whether this requires the blockchain to be done.

All too often the claimed magical things the blockchain will allow can be implemented far more easily with other, existing technology. So far it's a solution in search of a problem.
A lot of git tutorials go into detail about how the data model works as part of or even before explaining basic usage. This guide is different in that it explains how to use git in the simplest possible way - conceptually just as a system to make save points - and then covers the data model later after it's shown the merits of the system.

If you need to explain git to someone who has the option of not using it or isn't sold on the whole idea in the first place, this is the absolute best place to start.
> Importantly the results presented here, although modeled in a way to account for all input and output powers, do not use all of the heater power necessary to maintain temperature and the losses in the pulse generator, to calculate the COP. Brillouin engineers are confident that these power losses can be minimized or eliminated in future designs.

This pretty much negates the wow factor here IMHO. Or am I missing the point?
Chatalytics.co does this already and integrates with Zendesk.