skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the proof Aryan Invasion. Note the current research says that ANI (Ancestral North India) and ASI (Ancestral South India) both are ancient genetically divergent (same even older ancestry) that recently went through and admixture a 1400-4000 years ago.

That is in that admixture there is no recent central asian genetics other than the one that was already there in India prior, about 12,000 years ago.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769933/
The best perspective for an inbound marketing blog I got is to simply help people and solve their problems. It doesn't even have to use your app tbh, because you'll start generating the goodwill, trust, and traffic this way.
No. Sorry. They did not cause an accident. It is important that your understand this.

Note that I am not sympathetic to the driver of the car. They probably deserve criticism, but not blame for your slide. I know that you want to blame somebody that is not yourself. That's human. But when any pedestrian, bike, car, airplane, drone, skateboard, etc. runs into a stationary pedestrian, bike, car, airplane, drone, skateboard, house, fence, animal, etc. it is almost certainly the fault of the moving object's operator.

In your case, you failed to change lanes safely. It sounds like you really blame the lane design for having a bevel between lanes. It's interesting to me that the bevel probably has almost zero effect on cars/trucks but a significant effect on bikes. That seems like a bike-hostile design. The fact that it is only two feet wide seems questionable to me. A slow-moving bike would also encourage you to change lanes, navigating the bevel twice.
No, it's worse, they just gave it away for free.

Until 2014 or so an app could request permission to view almost any data a user stores on Facebook. That's not great, but hey, you could argue it's not Facebook's fault that people don't understand permission prompts (I'd disagree with you, but...). But those same prompts allowed users to give away their friend's data, so absolutely anyone you're friends with could take some stupid personality test and give away your information in the process, and there was no way you'd even know.
Yep, if you make a left turn in front of oncoming traffic it's pretty much always your fault even if the robot was driving the other car.

Though, in this case, it's probably cheaper for Uber to fix the other car than pay all the lawyer fees because you know there's going to be lawyers involved.
My layperson's understanding of the furnaces producing silicon ingots is that they can't power down in-process; best case, they take weeks to bring back into service, while the worst case is serious damage to the equipment as the silicon inside recrystallizes.

I wonder if it's even possible to ramp down this single process without a similar hit to productivity as an uncontrolled power loss, never mind the other stages in the fab process. If not, fabs can consume tens of megawatts, so what does it cost to build and maintain the necessary backup generation capacity to weather a 30-minute outage?

One interesting example: USD $1.5 million for 10MW of flywheel-based backup capacity (http://ir.p10industries.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...) - but these will last ~15 seconds under full load.
The book Traction : A Startup Guide to Getting Customers was pretty good at explaining an all encompassing framework for asking and answering this kind of question.
The numbers on e-waste per region but adjusted for population (very rough, with rounding errors):

Region % Pop Adj
---------------------------
Oceania 0.7 0.038 18.4
Europe 12.3 0.741 16.6
Americas 11.3 1.001 11.3
Asia 18.2 4.436 4.1
Africa 2.2 1.216 1.8

Would have been more interesting with the Americas split too.
Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve (2016)
How would you ensure that a company is only using the data for legitimate purposes without resorting to some kind of control mechanism?
There's something about Hopper's paintings. I can usually immediately identify one before I see any caption. I don't know what it is.

But these... Another side altogether. Thanks for the post!
>The same people outraged by Trump's consensual sex advocate every conceivable form of sexual deviance, oppose public exposure to the Ten Commandments, embrace and promote Islam, and they outright despise Middle America, our culture, values, and us as human beings.

>That's why he won. Because of the closed-minded bigotry of supercilious coastal elites incapable of seeing past their self-congratulatory narcissism

My. Given such a reasonable attitude and understanding of liberals and the left, and non-Christians, and non-heterosexuals, and literally anyone not like themselves, I honestly can't imagine why Trump's supporters get treated with disrespect.
This post is so well written. It must have taken a lot of time to do this write-up. Is it written by many people or just a single person?
If you have users in the EU then the laws do apply to you, even if you insist they do not. If you don't then you have nothing to worry about.
I enjoy it and write ok. I reckon I’m pretty slow though. I have this bad habit of re-reading what I have written too often.
Isn't it odd to have:

/* nop */	case 0x0

Rather than #define NOP 0x0? Namespacing? How about vm_NOP?
I disagree. If you remold a square piece of pastry dough into a circle you haven't "circled the square", you have destroyed the square entirely!

I don't quite get the army metaphor, but I don't think the relationship of "citizen" and "soldier" is analogous to that of "rectangle" and "square" or even "rectangle" and "rectangle with different dimensions".
> Not that Kay's OO isn't important - it is. It's just hardly ever relevant to the actual discussion.

Having a debate over inheritance without a consensual definition of OO is gonna lead us nowhere.

The word "OO" has been a selling buzzword for several decades. Which means our best bet in getting a sensible definition is to pick the original one.

This is why we keep bringing up "Kay's OO" (which also is, by the way, Coplien's OO, Reenskaugh's, Dave West's ...)
Is hundreds of acres of solar an option in South Korea?
>These cafés attract in general "alternative" people. I've got no problem with that, but I'm a bit fed up with conspirationists, anti-nuclear, really left-wing people.

Are these cafes in libraries?

As someone who has gone to them a few times, I have a complaint about the other side. Of all the volunteers, there's always at least one who will start chiding the owners that they are not taking proper care of the appliance/tool/etc - and not in a friendly way. One volunteer started lecturing me saying I'm in this mess because I did not maintain it, etc. I told him I had no idea it required maintenance. "Well you should have read the manual!" Well forgive me for buying it for $10 at a Goodwill without a manual! Annoyed, I let him know there was no way I'd pay the $50-100 a new one would cost me just so that I can get a manual.

(I got several years out of that $10 tool, so I'm still happy).
Hawking Radiation [video]
if quaternions, why not octonions?
I'm almost at the same stage that you are. I think that as powerful as traditional desktop operating systems have been, they are clearly less secure than mobile operating systems which sandbox applications. People have sensitive data on their devices, and it is simply far too easy to get harmful malware on your machine. Whether from an external developer becoming compromised, or actual malicious behaviour.

I still download popular 3rd-party programs (i.e. not in the OS repos), especially if they are open-source (i.e. just GitHub), and there is evidence of active maintenance with a significant number of contributors to the project, or if it is from a reputable, popular real-life person.

I think it is a real shame. I should be able to download any program and know that they aren't just going to be trawling through the files on my PC without the OS at least asking me (and so on). It's a tricky balance between sandboxed "useless" apps, and god-mode, but something that I feel desktop OS's need to focus on if their platform is to survive.
A plus code is like a street address for people or places that don't have one
I hadn’t thought of it like this before, but from a political POV everyone’s vote, whether they are a dole bludger or a quantum physiscist, are worth the same. So really, to win an election .. take that as you will. Identifying these people is a very profitable area.

Interesting side note .. in Australia we assign school funding based on the highest education received or wage class of the parent (classes A, B ... E or such).
A stupid person would respond to this comment with "Look into work by Bayro-Corrochano. I can't find a public link."
I'm afraid I completely disagree, especially with "borderline draconian".

When I first heard about it, I was somewhat fearful of the unknown, imagining I was going to have to 'waste' time on 'checkbox compliance' - but after spending some time reading about it, I believe the intent is good, and also that the burden isn't going to be that big.

As a consumer, I absolutely want the GDPR - I believe I do have a right to know how my information will be used, to know exactly what is held, and to have it deleted if desired.

As a founder, I want to be responsible with personal data. And because I am, I'm already compliant with just about everything needed by the GDPR. I hardly expect a deluge of requests from users, so I don't even need to spend any time on automation.
It's basically the same here. You'll often see people with a right signal on coming to turn into a shopping center and then they don't either it's the wrong place or they forgot their signal was on. I wait to be sure they are turning first.
It's not only that the money is sketchy, you'll most likely won't know who you are selling to and how it will be used. Conscience might bite you in the ass.
Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting FB users (2015)
Was there?
I'm ashamed to be calling myself a web developer... What's up with everyone including tons of code from others, code they don't even know.

"Wooah, we need to toggle a class here!"
"We got jQuery for that!"

"We also need to.."
"Oh, we got this for that!"

Take this page as an example. It freaking huge, and the writer seems to think he has done a good job optimizing it now.

The page is really simple, and still a 1.66 MB JS bundle is required to even begin rendering the page.

And still the page doesn't work properly if you just do something as simple as view one external link and press the back button in an attempt to get back.

I know of a JS framework that might fix it, and it's only 7.6 MB. /s

Seriously, people should write about stuff they know.
If hiring one person changes the calculus that much, it's nonetheless easy to afford if profitable companies paid their workers more instead of sending it to shareholders or doing stock buybacks. The proportion of wealth held by the managerial class exceeds the Roman Empire at its height. https://persquaremile.com/2011/12/16/income-inequality-in-th... For reference, the gini coefficient of the united states in 2016 was 0.48. Rome at its population peak was between 0.42-0.44 according to the article. A gini coefficient of 0 is a perfectly equal society and a coefficient of 1 is perfectly unequal.

Small startups also often get the benefit of reduced regulatory burden, which is fitting because they have less overall impact on society. Once they become large, it is fitting that they play by rules that benefit the majority.
Worse nowadays. Every new process shrinks nand cells, on top of that we are on TLC everything now, while 5 years ago huge SLC chips were norm.

Good 2012 drive was Samsung 830 surviving 10 Petabytes, nowadays consumer drives are expected to survive ~100TB.
A Connecticut probate court appointed an independent administrator to manage the assets.

It's likely the only way to remove the individual killing off the business is for the families dispute over the inheritance to be resolved.
This is very impressive, and definitely more elegant than my approach. Getting make -j for free was definitely a major plus; before I started using a Python script to syntax highlight inline code, my site built in under a second... now it takes around 3.

I am honestly surprised to find Python is so slow in terms of start up time. This made me wonder if it was generating / searching for .pyc files, but a quick test revealed this is not the case:

sh-4.3$ ls
nop.py	nop.sh
sh-4.3$ hexdump -C nop.py
sh-4.3$ hexdump -C nop.sh
sh-4.3$ time python3 nop.py

real	0m0.064s
user	0m0.048s
sys	0m0.016s
sh-4.3$ time sh nop.sh

real	0m0.002s
user	0m0.002s
sys	0m0.000s
sh-4.3$ python3 -m compileall .
Listing '.'...
Compiling './nop.py'...
sh-4.3$ time python3 nop.py

real	0m0.062s
user	0m0.057s
sys	0m0.004s

sh-4.3$ python3 __pycache__/nop.cpython-35.pyc
sh-4.3$ time python3 __pycache__/nop.cpython-35.pyc

real	0m0.060s
user	0m0.048s
sys	0m0.012s

I would add that shell can be surprisingly fast for certain tasks when used correctly. It's very easy to write slow (ba)sh code though, so most shell scripts wind up being fairly non-performent.

Edit: formatting.
Hypothesis: Troy existed

Prediction: There's a buried city in Asia Minor

Test: Go there and dig it up
Compiler Construction: The Art of Niklaus Wirth (2000) [pdf]
Azure resetted all VMs because of the early disclosure. Glad to see MSFT acting on this. Are they using hackerone?
Extensive discussion of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, currently on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606924
I personally love writing but don't have the time for a real blog. If you want to add content but not be strapped into regular updates, well written articles added to your site never need to be labeled as such.

For example I decided to write once every 6 weeks to my mailing list this year (I hate more than that, so I'm not sending what I wouldn't accept to receive). Once I have a few built up, I will then add them to my site and not hesitate to rewrite the content if I have feedback to integrate.

I think you need an internal metric for regularity or your content writing will just slip away from you and won't happen.
Your Next Hotel Room Might Have Wine on Tap
Look into work by Bayro-Corrochano. I can't find a public link.
Most people don't die from food safety violations, they just have a really bad day. I would say this is equivalent to the harm done by something like the Equifax breach.
$60k a year in St. Louis dollars translates to $94k a year in Seattle dollars. So that assertion is false.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare...
It is possible for your contribution to be so bad that it is actually harmful that you tried in the first place - but that's a pretty extreme situation.

For the benefit of both the maintainers and the contributors, projects should really have advanced, comprehensive, automated code linting/style-checking/safety/etc. It should be possible to run it locally, and it should also integrate with GitHub's Pull Requests with automated comments (e.g. Travis CI).

This should instil confidence in the contributor, they know they have at least passed the basic checks.
Bug bounties are good but they wouldn't have prevented Spectre-Meltdown. The only way to prevent such a fiasco is for the bugs to never exist in the first place. The only difference bounties make is that hopefully vendors patch the issue before it becomes widely exploited. In the case of S/M, vendors got many months of notice and it was still a fiasco - that is the nature of software bugs.
No.

Don't start certain kinds of businesses without being willing to deal with the reasonable requirements of starting businesses of that kind.

If I start a biotech startup, then I need to make sure I'm keeping all health data I encounter well protected. This _does_ mean it's harder to start a business in this space—but not impossible

If you're not willing to make that tradeoff, then don't start that kind of business.
From Russia with youth: Meet the Puteens
You mean sidegigs / side jobs / side projects?

Here's one where you can buy / sell Side projects. https://www.sideprojectors.com
Postmodernism in a flat world
Easily, for some types of shoes. In dry weather, I don't care. Small holes in the shoes don't really matter much. In wet, though, it is baffling how quickly I can go through shoes.

This was back when I walked about two to five miles a day. Just in the office, the same shoes can last much longer.

For that matter, most of the change has been in the wet season. I wouldn't be surprised to find the shoes flat out wear faster in that environment.
I used to make fb apps, any app gets full access to fb's user graph as long as they request the relevant permissions.

Users don't comprehend what permissions they are giving to apps they run. A quiz site getting full access is not surprising.

Once an app has any amount of access the only thing stopping them from harvesting their own clone of your data is an agreement in the ToS that you won't store PII for more than x hours.

These rules are like the bare minimum to stop good actors. If you're a bad actor fb does not do a single thing to protect users from you. As evident in this report fb is also not above blaming the users for the hostile environment fb created and placed them in.

There must be countless copies of harvested fb data out there. My employer at the time once realized we were accidentally storing some PII permanently in a derived field. If good actors can't even keep above the law what do you think the ecosystem looks like in the shadows?

IMO we aren't having the right conversation with fb over how they mistreat our PII and we should loosen the definition of that term when companies like the one in the article can infer our political preferences from the innocuous bits of our lives we tag on facebook.

We should be asking why even an authorized API that can't stop you from copying the data doesn't count as a systemetized data breach.
The lack of associativity might suck.
I think Microsoft is trying to fill in a meaningful, yet tentative part of the pie. It wouldn't be right for them to put forward the full cost of every cloud company's potential losses.

At the same time it raises the stakes by begging the question for other cloud providers to fill in by asking "why isn't this higher?" So in that light, the number they've chosen may have served its purpose quite well, by encouraging others to think about what another massive 0-day CPU security flaw might cost them.
You can tell it’s legit because it’s in Latin!
NIH Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking
There will be legal fees, but if Uber is confident they can win it, it might be a good investment just to defend the reputation of self-driving cars.

If they settle out of court, it leaves room for people to wonder if they settled because they had to. If they proceed to court and win, then they can say, "Our algorithm didn't cause this crash, and an impartial jury confirmed that."
I used to get people trying to trick me into turning in front of them all the time in the company car for the last company I worked for.

Usually go like;

Me: making right turn out of a parking lot see a car with their blinker on presumably turning into the place I'm leaving so I creep forwards a few feet.

Other car: sees me creeping forwards and think I'm going to turn in front of them so floors it.

Happened so many times I don't even move until they're already halfway turned.

My favorite one;

Me: making a left turn onto a main street
Other car: making a left turn onto the side street I'm on

Other car: waves me out

Me: just looks at him

Other car: backs up a bit and waves me out

Me: just looks at him

Other car: backs up a bit more and waves me out

Me: "I see where this is going..."

Other car: puts it into reverse to continue the dance

Me: floors it as soon as they shift into reverse

Other car: puts it into drive as fast as they can and tries to ram me

A prius is a lot quicker than people think...dude's lucky I was in the company car because I'd have gotten out at the next light and slashed their tires if someone did that to me in my personal vehicle -- can't really do that in a car with the company phone # on the side in big lettering.
Agree, Pelican is easy to use and configure using Python.
I've never seen a C++ codebase without templates in my life.
Minor point of confusion -- this article refers multiple times to a "data breach". ("...one of the largest-ever breaches of Facebook data...", "At the time of the data breach...", "...first reported the breach...")

As far as I can tell, there is no data breach, right? It sounds like CA got facebook data through an app they wrote, thisisyourdigitallife, which did some shady things.

Also, "The New York Times is reporting that copies of the data harvested for Cambridge Analytica could still be found online".

The link is: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-ana...

Anyone know what they're talking about? I haven't heard of any 50-million-profile data dump, and I really like collecting corpora...
> This meme will end up being the last causality in a long line of poorly written narratives extrapolated from either poor data, or poorly interpreted data. That is we completely ignore a lot of factors. For example both South Indians, and North Indians are from a same divergent ancestor tens of thousands of years ago.

But presumably an ancestor shared by lots of other peoples too - I would guess European, North African, Middle Eastern, perhaps as well.

> A more sane, and logical argument would be that at different points in time people have immigrated to India, and emigrated out of India. And not just India, through Eurasia people have traded genetics, linguistics, and culture with each other for at least 80,000 years.

Yes, and in interesting ways. But speaking a language and borrowing words from a language are two different things.

I don't see how any of this argues against the linguistic and sociocultural similarities between subsets of early Europeans and subsets of early Indians which point towards shared ancestry for these two subsets.
I find that the biotech hackerspaces I've gone to don't have this problem. That's because the biotech equipment is not really amenable to back to the land post apocalyptic use and it takes a while to learn how to use it to be able to do anything productive. A lot of kooks think that they can throw some bits together and make an iron man suit. If they actually found out how much work it is to actually make simple things, I think they'd lose interest.

Maybe have people have to take a class or two on how to use the equipment before they can join?
The damage was on the front-right bumper of the left-turning car. The only way I can see the left-turning car being at fault is if the left-turning car was in the leftmost lane, and the right-turning car tried to merge into the leftmost lane as well (rather than the closest lane as required)
Apple 2017 27“ 5k iMac hardware issues
Were you the publisher of this article? If so, great job.
It is worth noting that the fundamentals learned here can also be applied to other projects outside of just PIVX when setting up masternodes.
Another good section to add would be how to spend the coins that are earned on the masternode without disrupting the initial collateral.
Keep up the good work.
This article, and most of the discussion here, appears to be conflating two things.
1. The University of Arizona tries to predict which students are at risk of dropping out using a bunch of data about them, and then offers some extra support to these students. They have been doing this for four years and have improved their retention rate about 3% in the last year.
2. A researcher at the University of Arizona has been experimenting with using location tracking to predict which students will drop out. She has found that using this data allows her to make more accurate predictions than the ones that the university currently uses. She hopes that they will one day start using her data/methods.