skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Study Suggests Male red squirrels kill offspring of their rivals
No, protectionism is not associated exclusively or even primarily with emerging or developing countries. The GP’s comment talks about 19th and 20th century history, during which time Europe and America industrialized and protectionism was practically the default.
Flexibility is a main feature of the dark matter explanation, so it is relevant. It amounts to putting otherwise undetectable halos of mass wherever is needed to explain deviations from the model. There are further constraints people put on it for now, but none are crucial and will be quickly discarded (or more dark matter added) if required.

>"I'm not sure I see how your second point is relevant. You seem to imply that I think that academics are infallible in all areas not even related to their expertise. Do you truly see no difference between non-statistics researchers incorrectly calculating statistical values and dozens of unrelated experiments all leading to the same result?"

This is series of strawmen... I'm saying widespread confusion can, and currently does, exist on a topic even amongst the experts. Therefore it is not unbelievable that it does on other topics as well.

Also, dark matter is an interpretation of a result, not a result itself, so an experiment cannot lead to it directly. Finally, I don't think there are any actual experiments that have supported dark matter, only astronomical observations. Correct me if wrong but I found this after a quick search: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/results-slew...
Just to put that "colossal waste of resources" in perspective... allegedly we're wasting 60 TWh/year 'mining' Bitcoin, and this is considered (maybe rightly) an environmental catastrophe.

We also use around (again allegedly) 220 TWh/year mining Gold.
Usability improvements in GCC 8
We bought in hard into this myth that the service-based economy is the next evolutionary step above the manufacturing economy. So we sold our industries to Asia for cheap cash and cheap consumables, completely kicking out our foundation from under us. Meanwhile, the moat around Silicon Valley is proving to be much less wide and deep than believed, and, for instance, easily defeated by Chinese policies (see Zuckerberg's pathetic grovelling at the feet of Xi).

I mostly blame the growing popularity of "MBA wisdom" where short-term extraction of value is sold as growth and fundamentals are almost completely ignored. Companies focused on producing good quality products and careful innovation can't even survive in our market. The worst thing I think is how much "oral tradition" of institutional knowledge we've had to have lost in the past several decades.
We mostly do rails apps but one of our 4 projects use elixir/phoenix on the backend and react on the frontend.

We are really pleased with the performance of BEAM and the functional flavor of elixir clearly leads to code that is easier do read and to test.

We have been toying with Elm lately.
The second part (not finished yet) shows you how to build a VM and compile Lox (the toy language used in the book) too run on it.
What's interesting to me about the videos vs. the blog posts (I like both) is that only the video shows me the way you work. I'd love to see a video where you recreate finding a bug, how you worked to go from issue to repro to fix, just to see more of how you work.
Of course that’s a problem with all of Google, not just VR. The last major top-down strategic direction they had was social, and that didn’t go very well.
Tesla caused accident because “it didn't do what the driver requested”
Sometimes, though distressed investments are not their primary focus.

Also, they often buy and hold. So it's not like they go about gutting every company they acquire.
The article basically states an accident happened with a Tesla, another car, bicyclist & scooter involved. The Tesla didn't respond to the driver and "went wild" because of a technical malfunction.

In general I'm curious how this plays out in the coming years when self driving vehicles cause accidents due to 'bugs'. The promise of self driving cars is much less accidents, but who can people blame if something goes wrong? Will these sort of accidents - as they build up in the coming years - lead to a slower adoption rate of the technology, thus potentially causing more accidents to keep happening than would have been the case if we would have adopted it faster? Or does it make sense to wait longer with allowing self-driving technology if it still causes unneeded accidents, regardless of the potential?

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A runaway Tesla has caused havoc in Wormerveer. In the accident with the electric car, another car, a cyclist and a scooter driver were involved. According to the police, it was a technical defect.

The car crashed this afternoon at a schoolyard in a primary school, reports NH News. Due to a technical problem, the car did not do what the driver wanted anymore, the police say. It has not been announced whether the Tesla was on autopilot.

A wounded person fell in the accident. The victim has been treated by ambulance staff. Nothing is known yet about the nature of the injuries.
I kinda balked at that too, but I think what the author was getting at is their scarcity is "real", in the sense that unlike fiat currency, there's nobody who can just print more whenever they see fit. I don't really agree with equating scarcity by itself with value, but when comparing to fiat currency, it makes some sense.
Just downloaded this a few days ago and it's really cool.

Would love to see this all in one for Clojure (incl. self contained standalone emacs)
latitude,longitude up to the 5th decimal point is easier to remember. and more intuitive.
> For some people, if the grocery bill is higher than expected, you just shrug and try to do better next time.

I knew I had crossed some class boundary when I found myself not paying close attention to the running total at checkout. There is a difference in mindset for people whose budgets are rounded to the nearest $1, $10 or $100 respectively.
Show HN: Notchy – add the notch back to your iPhone X screenshots
Notchy is a simple iOS app that adds the notch back to your iPhone X screenshots. A few friends and I thought that iPhone X screenshots looked weird, given that they have sharp corners, and no notch. The iPhone X doesn't look like a rectangle...so why should the screenshots?

So, after 8 rejections from App Review, countless icon redesigns, and lots more work than you'd expect for an app this simple, it's finally out.

Notchy was built to be speedy and efficient. Just take a screenshot on your iPhone X, use the share extension, and then share your screenshot via iMessage, Twitter, etc.

There's also no tracking or analytics. It feels weird to have to call that out but it was a deliberate decision. There's a $2 In-App Purchase to remove the watermark from screenshots and add the ability to add the iPhone X frame.

If you have any comments, the team will be checking HN, so please post any ideas or thoughts about the product. Cheers!

Link: https://www.notchyapp.com
I think the real value is the absence (non-necessity) of trust in the transfer.

I need to think about this some more...
I get why IT contracts can balloon in some cases, but I can't even fathom $1B for setting up PeopleSoft.
One of my favorites: http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introdu...
I mean it's a pretty difficult path to take. You have to find a foreign government willing to make this treaty and take the same steps, you have to have control of the State department to negotiate, have to have the President sign off on the treaty, and get a 2/3rds super majority vote from the Senate. And the treaty has to be self-executing, meaning it doesn't require the nation to create additional legislation. The state's local laws would also have to directly contradict the treaty. Also, the next President could pull us out of the treaty unilaterally at any time.

Sources:

Introduction in https://harvardlawreview.org/2014/01/limits-on-the-treaty-po...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Edison_Co._v._Mon...

Honestly, if the federal government wanted to usurp state's rights, there are much easier ways than this. The commerce clause gives a lot of power to Congress, and the federal government can often encourage the states to adopt legislation by making some federal funding to the states conditional on the exaction of certain regulations, though there are limits to that.
> everyone does not consider it a different currency, you consider it a different currency.

Um ok we're spreading lies now. Do you have evidence that the vast majority of people consider Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin to be the same currency and I'm alone in considering these 2 blockchains 2 different currencies?
I haven't taken a DNA test but I would be very excited to learn I am 99% European. My family doesn't have a lot of historic records as to our origins. We know we technically started in Russia (on my mother's side), and my father is pure Italian, but other than that we don't know jack shit. If my genetic line came from just one region, I would have hope for piecing together my family's ancestry. As it stands, I feel disconnected from my roots.
I like that FOSSA scans FOSSA. Here's the link from the "license scan" badge on github: https://app.fossa.io/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Ffossas%2Ffo...
Yup, actually planning to take a break after finishing part 1 to do something else, currently leaning towards getting more serious with Rust (to then use on part 2 or another similar style of tutorial)
I am not a biologist, so my answer may have a mistake ...

Radiation and cosmic rays produce random mutations, where one of the bases of the DNA is changed by another base. (IIRC the radiation breaks the old base, and when the copy or correction enzymes see the mess, they may make a mistake and use the wrong base.)

Methylation is on purpose. Some part of the cell "decides" to enable or disable a gen, and send the correct enzymes to add or remove the methyles in the bases of the specific part of the gene.

(There are also some arm races between bacteria and virus that attack bacteria. The bacteria has an enzyme that split the DNA at points with some specific patterns, to try to kill the virus that enter the cell. The parts of the DNA of the bacteria with this pattern are methylated, so the enzyme doesn't attack the DNA of the owner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_modification_syste... )
Kodak T-MAX P3200 has officially arrived
Perhaps if a government wants to police illegal content they should have, say, the police or a court do it instead of an algorithm or an offshore cubicle farm. If "what is illegal offline is also illegal online" shouldn't the mechanisms be the same, too?
Mules are mostly sterile, but not 100%. Wikipedia reports some cases where female mules have produced offspring.
Has anyone been in one of these? I'm curious about what kinds of mistakes they tend to make, if any, because I assume that's where the learning happens.
No, he's saying that you don't seem to understand the technology, because you only are talking about the names of the coins, which is of little importance compared to the implementation.
Did Apple provide feedback why the app got rejected?
Exclusive New Google AdWords Interface Features 2018
Ashley Graham poses in risqué bikini on the Miami beach AngryGIF
IBM has sold off most of their divisions - hardware to Lenovo, storage to Hitachi, etc. They no longer actually produce anything. So 'buying' IBM is no longer a real concept - they're pure consultants now, and consultants never 'sell' a product, just help you implement someone else's. A lovely legal distinction that they seem all too happy to abuse.
never tried Digg, quite liked Feedly, and now i'm using something i built, aktu (http://aktu.io).
Yes it's a shameless plug :-) but i would really love to have some feedback if you have some time to spare. Thanks!
In 2014 eu news publishers tried to use recent eu copyright laws to get google to pay for snippets used in their news and search products. Google said that publishers can opt in to having their snippets shown for free, and the publishers refused. About two weeks later they voluntarily opted in. [1]

So I'm curious to see what would happen if many tech companies refused service to europe. I believe twitter was seeing around 6,000 tweets per second, a few years back. 6,000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 = ~189.2 billion tweets per year. Say 1 minute to analyze them, you would need 3.15 billion man hours. 8 hours a day * 40 hours a week, * 50 weeks per year = 16,000 hours per employee, per year. So thats 197,100 employees, not counting management. The last time I checked, they had 3,600 employees, and lost about $.5 billion per year. Automated analysis works, but not perfectly. What happens when you AI filter misses something? So refusing service might have to be an option?

[1] "The law went into effect last August and, while some details still need to be ironed out in court, the controversial heart of it — whether search engines will pay money to publishers — has an uncertain future. Google has refused to pay fees to publish snippets from news sites, and instead asked German publishers last year to opt in if they want to be included in Google News search results, waiving their right to cash in on the use of their content according to the new law. To avoid paying the collection agency, VG Media, which represents the publishers that chose not to opt in, Google stopped showing snippets from their news articles on Oct. 23. Shortly after that, the publishers in VG Media gave Google a license to restore snippets to their search results — for free. Berlin-based Axel Springer, one of Europe’s largest publishers, announced on Nov. 5 that it had caved to Google’s pressure after traffic to its websites from Google dropped by 40 percent and from Google News by 80 percent when snippets were left out of search results."

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/the-fight-to-get-google-to-...
AMD Flaws: Technical Summary
I read his book, and it seems like his wife should take most of the credit for his survival. Too bad she doesn't seem to get recognition for what she had to go through to help him.
That was faster than I expected.
> You do know that not every dev is C dev?

C libraries are often transitive dependencies of higher-level language libraries, e.g. for Haskell or Python. Using language-specific package managers often fails to properly handle such transitive dependencies.

> look up OS usage among developers

This doesn't indicate personal preference. My whole team is forced to develop on Windows at work, we would all rather use Linux, as we deploy to Linux and our tools, e.g. Git, work better on Linux. But such are the constraints of working in a corporate environment.

I use a Linux development environment for my personal projects.
How Quickbooks Onboards New Users
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494387 (327 comments)
Edited the description. Thanks for pointing this out and posting it here.
Then again, it's Oracle. I'm sure their licensing department is attempting to track how many neurons in the brain are actively engaged when using their products and billing the customer accordingly.
I use Evernote, and I love it. I write notes and its searchable and editable and that's pretty much all I need.

I'm curious to what sort of process you're using for notes that isn't solved in the most basic way? Meaning, you write notes, you edit notes, and you can search through them or tag them?
Do I Need to Be GDPR Compliant?
While that specific application of that strategy is illegal in the US, manufacturers get around it by setting a MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) limit with their distributors. The most common example of this being used in practice is when you see an item on Amazon or Newegg with the price listed as "See Price in Cart". It's obviously easy to work around that legal loophole as a consumer (it's just 1-2 more clicks) but it's much harder for corporate customers who typically have to solicit a quote or multiple competitive quotes before making any significant purchase.
Mempad - It is a tree-style text outliner that I use to hold my text-only notes, the same kinds of ones that used to be in the sticky note app or the 'random notes.txt' file.

OneNote is great for multimedia and freeform stuff, but not always reliable - I once 'lost' a notebook that had my draft novel in it and had to go pull off a (thankfully recently) cached copy of it from a computer that had just been decommissioned and stuck in storage.
Writing a full-featured multi-tenant web app from scratch: https://medium.com/@ashokgelal/writing-a-full-featured-multi...
It's a bit pretentious to think that any being would bother to spend precious free energy to torture a bunch of lowly humans don't you think. Hence not worried.
The systemic problem is not your discretionary spending much of the time. You can easily adjust that up or down as the need arises. It's the lifestyle inflation - buying a bigger house, nicer car, etc.

Those aren't easy to ratchet down quickly.
My reply would be "around five dollars, and if you want more let me whip out my phone's calculator". :D

Now that I use a calculator, the tea adds up to just under $14, lower than my estimate of 15, but the taxes we non-Oregonians pay end up bringing it to a bit over $15. `sum(ceiling(price))` seems to be a useful way to estimate when the prices are small.
> Moreover if it turns to be toxic we can immediately revert it with a new law.

I take it you don't have referenda on major issues in your country?

Much easier to campaign against a dubious clause of marginal relevance - before and especially after - when political figures have to justify a series of specific votes on specific amendments, and not just pick sides in extended public campaigns based on the headline intent of bills. Especially because of the absolute outrage that follows when anyone suggests any revisions after "the people have spoken."
Mt. Gox Cold Wallet Monitor [120K BTC]
What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America
The original rail network was on par with airplanes in terms of relative improvement of speed of travel. The highway network did the same for travel to areas unlikely to ever get a rail connection. (There aren't that many sparsely populated countries with a rail connection to every town; even fairly dense countries don't manage this.)

In today's world, HSR fills a very specific market niche; planes are much faster for long distances due to higher speed and small requirements for land acquisition, and cars are just as competitive for short distances due to the last-mile problem. So I don't think it's reasonable to connect every possible city pair in the US with HSR, but rather it's much better to just build strong regional networks of HSR that work on their own. There's no reason to build a continent-spanning HSR network.
Till date, we have deployed the solution in 38 government hospitals across India.
I bought Tracy's "Hello Web Design" book and it's fantastic! I would assume the Hello Web App book is also quite good.
They also have a long history of running companies into the ground via LBOs.

Just look at Guitar Center. Unfortunately when they explode, they're going to take companies like Gibson and probably also Korg with them. Gibson is already in the process of unraveling right now. Their impending bankruptcy was obvious when they didn't have a booth at NAMM this year.

It's absolutely predatory behavior what they did.
> They no longer actually produce anything

This is not true. IBM produces a ton of software (spanning a range from terrible to excellent, quality-wise). This is where much of their profit comes from now. They still produce a bunch of hardware, mostly at the higher (and legacy) end.
Clearly too many people remember. Shows the power of branding. IBM has largely moved out of the consumer space, and occasionally their research labs come out with some cool new tech (Watson and such). In the common consciousness they were the Apple of their day who then ascended out of the market to bigger, cooler things. As a result most people, including non-technical business execs who make purchasing decisions, don't have a good current frame of reference. IBM rode that facade for a while, it's only recently that their blunders have started hurting their reputation within the industry.
Nothing I guess, but its opt-in...
Even if it wasn’t the initial goal of the company, it certainly would be a potential path forward, if the SaaS offerings ended up being unprofitable and the company was winding down.

It’s a very real risk of using the service.
This is an excellent high level description.

Lightning network allows for an arbitrary high number of tx, but can only tx on value that has specifically been locked to do so. Essentially you end up creating a bidirectional link for each on-chain tx, the weight of each link is the amount of value that can flow in that direction. Joining a bunch of these links together potentially allows for just locking up funds with some larger node in the LN and having near instant and extremely cheap payment to node that is traversable from your link.

One of the really cool things about this architecture is that as long as two blockchains offer atomic x-chain txs then the same principal should work for LN. (e.g. send litecoin down a LN payment channel the business gets bitcoin on the other end)

Unfortunately this does have security implications, LN's security model relies on monitoring the blockchain to ensure that the other side of the channel doesn't attempt to close the channel to their benefit, if they do there is remediation you can do, but you have to be monitoring the channel. Also an inability to close the payment channel (tx on the blockchain) within a certain # of blocks could result in the history of the payment channel getting cleared.

Basically if the bitcoin network experiences a huge tx backlog like we saw a couple months ago (tx fees exceeding 15-20 USD) and we see third party routers with high dependency/volume we could see a double spend attack that would be cost prohibitive to stop.
Musk's opinion is that passive image recognition (ie just cameras) is a requirement for full L5 autonomy. If you have to build that, then LIDAR isn't necessary.

You may get a significant boost in ability with LIDAR, but it's possible that over-reliance on it will hamper those companies' ability to develop passive image recognition and they will end up stuck.

That opinion certainly seems possible, and Musk does seem to have a track record of being very intelligent and perceptive, and is known to develop his opinions from first principles. So... I'm generally inclined to believe he's correct.
Neither, nor. The loading bar or what that is called that appears after the text is recognized but it’s waiting for a response just never finishes. And yes, I’m online.
I still can't get over the `.google` TLD.
Its chicken and egg though. No company will make VR games unless the market is large enough. Its up to the little guys who can take risk, to prove the market before the big guys come in and take over.
Yep, they did. We had a mini notch in some of the original app icons, and according to Apple, they had "patented the notch", so were bringing the hammer down hard on anyone that designed anything that looked like it. Of course, I can send you links to 50+ other apps on the App Store that have an app icon with a notch in it, so who knows.

To me, it seemed like a pretty silly thing to reject us for, but Apple is ultimately the gatekeeper, so we just gave up on the fun icons we'd designed. So now, we have a more boring one that Apple was satisfied with (the current black background with a solid white N).