skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, no. Amino acids seem to happen no matter what they try in the lab. Nucleotides have happened many times, starting in the '60s, as have polypeptides. Complex organics are nearly inevitable. There have even been RNA oligomers formed on a mineral substrate under conditions that probably existed in the Hadean[1] - so basically lab-grown prebiotics. An awful lot has happened since the Miller-Urey experiment. That doesn't mean that life as we define it is inevitable, or that it will survive all of the various attempts the Universe makes at eliminating it, what with all of the huge rocks and snowballs being thrown around and oozing and exploding lava and such.

The most basic building blacks just happen. The minor assemblies seem to be easy. The smallest key pieces seem to involve a bit of luck in the beginning - it may take a handy bit of inorganic scaffolding, some weather and something like tides to build the first self-replicators, but one you have them, the scaffolding isn't needed anymore. Getting from there to proper cells - replicating, metabolizing and homeostatic - takes a considerably bigger collection of chance meetings of chemistry and environment, which may take just a bit longer than we've been trying so far, and a much bigger lab. Even if replicators are common, "real" life might not be.

And then there was a little more than a three-billion-year wait for cells to stay stuck together and cooperating in the only successful experiment we know of. Multicellular life may be rare, even if life is common. Tool-using, highly intelligent life that has harnessed fire to its will doesn't necessarily follow, and that's pretty much a sine qua non of a civilisation capable of interstellar communication, let alone interstellar travel.

No matter how easy the first 500 million years or so of the formation of life on Earth may be, the assumption that what happened over the next 4 billion years is somehow a straight shot is one hell of an assumption. Almost nothing happened for about three billion of those years, and the catalyst for multicellularity may have been an exceedingly rare, even unique, set of circumstances.

The universe, the galaxy, may indeed be teeming with life, but it's much, much more likely to be little green slime-covered mud mounds than little green men.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1664692/
Training RL agents in the real world is expensive and thus not parallelizable. The current focus on games and VR simulations of robots is exactly because of this reason. The RL agents are much more "sample inefficient" than humans, meaning they need more experiences to learn a skill.

And we, humans (and animals) have a huge environment with billions of agents and millions of years of evolution behind us which allows us to come preloaded with good instincts, they are trying to replicate this process in a few months.
Australian prices:

Aberlour A'bunadh $140 (Dan Murphy's, so pretty much everywhere)

Bunnahabhain 18 $199.00 (Nicks, mail order only)

Glenmorangie Original $80 (Dan Murphy)

It's actually not that much higher that US prices, which is surprising
Even if she lived to 150, a skeptic would just say it's a fluke and we have to wait 110 years for a large cohort double blind placebo controlled multi-center study of 40 year olds to finish at $800,000 a procedure before we can say that the intervention worked. It wouldn't get past the IRB either.

Longevity science, even if it works, will be impossible to prove to skeptics for purely practical reasons.
> I would particularly advise the "cry it out" technique.

If you can't stomach cry it out, you can try the pick up-put down method. Let them cry for 5-10 minutes, then soothe them, then put them back down when they're done crying.

Raw cry it out can be a little hardcore depending upon the kid too, I have one friend who tried it and their kid cried for an hour straight and started vomiting.
Screen Sketch Update Fixes Blurry Screenshots for Insiders
Pledge (previously `tame`) did use bitmasks in its earlier iterations. See Ted Unangst's post about it: https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/string-interfaces
I'm going through HackTheBox to prepare for taking the OSCP course. https://www.hackthebox.eu/
But but hundreds of top websites and now even unity uses js, definitely not script kiddie
In a way the whole point of making todo lists is mindfulness -- to pay attention to a task when needed. The point of automation is exactly opposite -- you don't want to pay attention to something!

A todo list is more effective if you do regular reviews (daily/weekly/month/yearly). Similarly mindfulness at the time of deleting a someday task may provide useful feedback.
> Google wasn't considered a bad actor until then they were.

The alternative (where they are considered a bad actor before they were) seems a lot worse ;-)

I think EU might even have cut them a good slack here based on their previous status as good guys.

> and less "suspiciously convenient transfer of large sums of money."

In a EU perspective I think we'll find this doesn't matter much to them.
Which Plantation rum?
Do we know why Delta exited? Maybe China pressured them too.
Unlikely:

https://academic.oup.com/idpl/article/7/2/76/3860948
Actually, the prediction accuracy here is more like "may go off any time". Likewise, for Betelgeuse (the brightest star of Orion), which would also be visible in daylight.
Punk's not dead

It just deserves to die

When it becomes another stale cartoon...

-Chickenshit Conformist, DK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KX8OMVXyVo
This is extremely interesting, but couldn't it be that in 10.000 our technology has advanced so much that we are able to "refill" dying stars for example? I mean, look at how much we have achieved in the past 1000 years, exponential technology growth over a timefrime 10x that can be unimaginable now.

These are cool predictions but they need not be true
Ooh I wonder what Vipul is up to next...
I read it somewhere that Elon Musk was since the beginning very demanding of aesthetics, in his rockets as well as cars. This has resulted in some beautiful looking rockets and cars.

Having said that I believe it's primary for rockets to be safe and efficient rather than beautiful.
Still has the advantage of simultaneously observing thousands of game variables from the API at a glance.
I saw skyscraper with "the rock" and it was absolutely perfect. It completely blew my low expectations out of the water. Sometimes you really acjt judge a book by its cover
This design is so thoughtful. Thanks to fork, you can easily sandbox a child process to a specific subtree of the filesystem: fork, unveil(0, 0), run untrusted user code.

I wish OS X and windows had this.
The linked article doesn’t in fact draw a conclusion - it is simply drawing attention to the correlation - which is quite striking. And while it would have been equally correct (if not drawing a conclusion) to state that the “trend” (poor choice of word) indicates that states with fewer shooting deaths enact more gun laws (ie. not assuming cause and effect), to do so would have been disingenuous. IF the effect is not the obvious one, then there is possibly a hidden variable driving fewer gun deaths that is associated with populations that prefer more gun laws (even if the laws themselves don’t drive the reduction).

At the very least it’s worth further study. And yet here we are discussing the corporate control of emojis on freedom of speech. And while that’s worthy of discussion- we are all still free to use English (or <insert your language here>) instead of a language that is unfree.

To the best of my knowledge no one has yet died as a result of misinterpretation of the gun emoji.
Via streaming, I can watch most of the best films made at any time in almost any country. At the theater, I can watch the best film, almost always domestic, that happens to be showing at the local theater. The screen is bigger and the sound is better, but the local theater can't compete; almost everything I watch now is streaming.

If someone would provide a streaming service that cared about video quality, even basic things like compression artifacts, I'd pay more for it.
Yes. But you’re free.
I've never figured out why people think technological growth would be exponential indefinitely.
If you believe people learn from history, or learn from mistakes, then you must recognize that any attempt to diminish, reduce, suppress, discredit history is not mere misinformation. It's planned deception with a purpose that not well intentioned.

Perhaps innocently ignorant is "I've never heard of the holocaust, tell me more." Or even, "I've heard of the holocaust, but I have no concrete reasons to believe it happened, it seems incredible."

Malevolent, willfully destructive to civil discourse, bordering on fighting words, is "The holocaust did not happen. People who claim it did are liars."

But all of that is orthogonal to what Facebook's policy should be. No matter what they're going to run into trouble. The U.S. and E.U. have rather different ideas about the limits of free speech. And even greater differences exist around the world. And in that sense I think it doesn't matter what policy they go with as long as it's consistent, and the CEO doesn't say absurd things like holocaust deniers aren't intentionally getting it wrong, let alone try to give deniers a psychological evaluation. He needs to stick to policy decisions, not evaluate people's intent and end up sugar coating it.
> eBay is worth $37 billion today

> extremely profitable corporation

Yup, layoffs look like a classic pump and dump to fiddle with the numbers for a sale.
Oh, you have to be careful. You can't just go anywhere and call it a bap. That's because it's a barm.

We joke about regional differences in names with mock defensiveness. In Manchester, my area at least, it's a barm and that's that. Even if it isn't technically a barm (not made with barm and is actually sold as a bap).

Oven bottoms are awesome. Those are called barms too. A cob, roll generally means the crusty variety, freshly baked.

A teacake to us is always a barm with currants toasted.

Funny that. I'll need to explore - I didn't realise!
Comcast. 270Mbps down, 30 up. Cancel and reconnect under a different name every year.
See London in One Day – Hugecount
The Alaska King at 9ft x 9ft beats them all.
https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/delta-end-flights-sa...
Weird side effect: I found Scottish whiskeys were cheaper in Japan for the past 5 years compared to the US. That and buying in a spirit's native country saves me a chunk of change. I'm almost out of good rum, so I might need to plan my next vacation to the Caribbean..
on an exponential scale 10000 years is just one step ahead.
Volga and CargoLogicAir sign agreement with Liege to strengthen their position
Can you link to some information on that?
This seems like an obvious troll account.
Yes, and editors with tab completion and validation based on XML schemas.
Maybe from a developer standpoint, but from a deployment standpoint I absolutely disagree. I've never been a huge Perl fan (except for oneliners) and I still insist I would've had a happier life in my ops role if Puppet had been written in Perl. Mind you, I hardly ever dug into the source code, only used it, but I'm pretty sure a lot of the packaging/deployment/speed/memory problems could have been alleviated by using a language runtime that was available on every host system and in a usable version as well. All the omnibus packaging wasn't good and Puppet on low-memory hosts has always been terrible.

I do think Python would've been an even worse choice at the time because distros were shipping ancient version of it for ages (e.g. 2.4) and nobody was really using that, whereas Perl modules have traditionally been shipped as distro packages in a rock-solid state forever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy#History
Thanks for the link. Excerpted:

In a statement, Hiroko Okada from the corporate communications department of Delta Air Lines attributed this decision to “unsustainable pressure,” including lower demand, in the Micronesia market.

and

The shrinking Japanese market that travels to the Pacific and Micronesia was prevalent and the service flights cuts were inevitably foreseen.

Concepcion said that MVA saw it with Delta’s pullout in Guam, United Airlines’ nearly 50-percent reduction in flights between Japan and Guam, and now with Delta’s flight suspension for Saipan and Palau.

At least, there's plenty of support for Leary's claim.
It depends. If you're looking for a project car or a very specialized kind of car, then searching by state is okay. If you're like me and looking for a car to drive around, I'm probably not going to go more than an hour away from where I live to find one.
glenrothes used to be a pretty cheap and easy to drink for people who haven't done alot of scotch. not much complexity.
you could ban all political donations. Period.

Have a political fund, for each election. Every person gets the exact same amount. They cannot use own money or donations. They must use the money given. Whoever wins off that level playing field deserves to be the winner.
https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Dowd-Art...
Requisite features for success with Online marketplace software – Fantacy
Fantacy is online shopping site, users will be looking for multiple products from the multiple vendors where they won't get this flexibility when they try shopping in offline to places and have an option sharing it in social media for the better shopping experience.
Also from Manchester/North Derbyshire. Nobody is going to complain if you call it a barm, a bap, a roll or even a cob - people will know what you mean.

Teacake has your definition unless you're from Burnley, in which case what you're describing is a fruit teacake. Without the fruit it's what I call a bap or a barm. Look at the study cited in the article.
I'm a father of two and a startup founder. I like Detroit techno, and all relevant events _begin_ at 1 AM. The solution isn't a startup, the solution is techno parties that start at 9 PM.
banning holocaust denial == “total control of information”
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This often goes overlooked on a forum full of coders, but not everyone who reads HN or wants into infosec is proficient with a major scripting language.

I'd bet being solid in python/bash/powershell would come in handy, and that having no skills in any of them may be a dealbreaker.
We're not currently witnessing a near-extinction.
I think we found a solution to our garbage problem abd at the same time solve the energy question as well.
Now we just need a tiny black hole!
Good content isn't the issue.

"Not only do we have to play it for four weeks straight, we have to play it four times a day," said Roper, adding that with only one screen available, it would be "very difficult" to play a single movie for a month without losing money due to lack of audience.

Sounds to me like the kind of business practices that is getting Google sued by the EU, and despite their necessarily being different rules for monopoly, the above is a case of applying blanket rules for a 50-screen cinema complex as for a single-screen independent cinema because Disney doesn't need to zoom in to that level of detail. Fine lines. The law is an ass.

Similar situation for a Disney-exclusive streaming service. That'd be similar to Disney buying up a chain of cinemas and only showing their 
films
 movies in those cinemas.

The flipside is that independent cinema's should make these sorts of anti-competitive behaviours known to their customers: "Sorry, we can't show Star Wars: The Last Jedi because Disney has enforced conditions that we, as a small, independent cinema, can't comply with whilst remaining profitable. We do, however, recommend the following great movies that we have the freedom to screen at our discretion..."
You can't. It was changed around this year.

Courier isn't that important. It's being phased out across the recant patches. And there is a popular Dota mod with 5 fast invulnerable couriers.
This is a good intro to pen testing: https://www.sgsgroup.com.hk/en/news/2014/02/general-requirem...
> Taiwan is not going to revert voluntarily.

Russia proved that it's quite possible to manipulate public opinion quite easily these days. Turning an enemy into an ally isn't all that hard with sustained propaganda and by supporting friendly politicians.
I think adding rule for /search* to your robot is easier way to block google bot
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Ask HN: What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?
Oral History of John Backus (2006) [pdf]
Spare a thought for those of us in developing countries. I can now watch the latest Marvel or Star Wars blockbuster in 3D as soon as it is available in western markets, but little else. Many of the films you mention never saw the light of day in my neck of the woods and the Disney et al titles seem to stay forever, where I live Infinity War is still being screened.
I'm quite familiar with the study they cite in the article - http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-v... - because:

1. I know the guy at Manchester University who runs the infrastructure for that site

2. That same individual and I had a multi-year argument about the nature of a "teacake", which to me always has raisins in it. To him that's a fruit teacake. This settled the argument: it's just regional variation.

The study did not just look at names for bread. Favourite other highlights:

1. Evening meal names: http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-v...

2. The game where you knock on a door and run away http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-v...

3. The (Irish descended) whether "book" and "spook" rhyme: http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/phonologi...

4. Whether "class" and "farce" rhyme (also likely indicates pronunciation of bath, garage, grass, etc.): http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/phonologi...

5. How acceptable sentences that break the rules of grammar are: http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/syntactic...

Definitely encourage people to have a look through some of the menus.
That's Dota equivalent of the "man of culture".
Follow anyone from SpecterOps and the content they put out.
I grew up in the UK (Midlands and South) and have heard of all of these except blaa and scufflers.

It took longer (late teens / early twenties) to come across the northern words, since my family hardly ever visited the North.
Wait, no, I just actually look at the blog and the article. And ultimately, the article is saying more or less the same as the GP but with more detailed math. And blog essentially admits this.

The blog kind of references a situation where you'd have a high variance distribution but doesn't really describe it. There isn't any argument against the claim that the chance of a civilization on a given planet is independent of the chance of life on all the other planets in a given galaxy (modified by star-type but not by whether there's life nearby).
Contextually, I’m not sure how well the lessons of Crimea would apply to Taiwan. Taiwan is often considered to be the most fiercely democratic country in the world.

Edit: ahh - I understand - US sentiment in ‘16 election was your example, not the Crimea.
> And yet I know words such as

anyone who had to do their SAT or GRE would have probably crammed these 500 or 1000 word lists. it's much less common to have to learn words for bread or bread rolls. if you complicate things by putting stuff between bread or bread rolls then you have yet another massive list of words like baps, cobs, rolls, subs, butties, sarnies, sangers, sliders, stotties, or and other names for sammies. these words are so region-specific that English speakers around the world don't see 99% of these words.
Thanks. Have updated our application accordingly.
What is wrong with white blood cells [0] and T cells [1] and the already existing immune system?

This is the equivalent of "roll your own encryption" in the computer security world.

The number of real world cases where people have no or little immune system is likely minuscule (real numbers?) compared to the number of people that destroy their immune system through poor life and health choices. (obviously high number)

Eat better, exercise some (any?) and let your immune system take care of this stuff. That is what it's there for. Introducing _another_ foreign substance that will need to be fought off later is a recipe for disaster.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_cell

[2] https://www.amazon.com/King-Mice-Cheese-Nancy-Gurney/dp/0394...
As I recall, there's a lot of sketchiness surrounding mattress sales, with manufacturers paying for fake reviews. Do you think The Mattress Underground is a good resource, considering this?
No hahaha. It's a common joke. Often see things like this making the rounds on social media:

https://images1.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED18/5089de622790...

If I post that, I can guarantee there'll be mock debate along with a few Americans scratching their heads. It is, for better or worse, a joke.

For such light hearted jest - it's bread - I wouldn't have expected so much seriousness for an equally light hearted regional perspective.
Start a subreddit. I mean if you want to build business, don't start with building a product if it isn't completely necessary (it isn't).
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Can anyone answer a related question: Are you penalized for not running Google Analytics and/or Google Webmaster tools? In other words, if you have a clean website with no analytics whatsoever, is your ranking likely to be worse?
Lawsuit for that is on its way. Filed by NOYB in the night that the GDPR took effect.
I'm curious. To me, unveil means reveal information, while the intended purpose for this tool is to hide it. Why do you think it's such a descriptive name?
It depends.

If it's a 1st-fill cask you can get a lot of flavour imparted from bourbon. A lot of my favourite "tropical fruit" flavour whiskies come from 1st fill bourbon casks.
> so one of the factors in the Drake equation (or one we should have put in) is responsible

The paper exactly explains why this is not the case. This is demonstrated using undergraduate level Bayesian probability.

This response is one of many when this work comes up on HN that would benefit from a basic understanding of multivariate probability.
If we're going out in the world of genre-spanning punk, Husker Dü, Hot Snakes/Drive Like Jehu, Wire, and (possibly if you count them) Shellac deserve a strong recommendation. The creativity and diversity in the world of post-punk is remarkable.
We have a similar approach at JotForm. 5 small cross-functional product teams work pretty autonomously. They can use the libraries and tools they prefer. Things happen like how fish or birds decide where to go. There is sometimes chaos but once someone finds something good and starts leading others, one by one everyone starts using that idea, technology or tool. Decisions are more likely to be from bottom as oppose to top down this way.

How about what to work on? The biggest problem can be focus. We found an approach that works well. Every year, our user researchers interview customers to find the biggest constraint (ToC) in our product. Then we ask these teams to attack that constraint for a year.
...you are aware that infectious diseases sometimes defeat your immune system, yes?
Seems to be a few other companies too. I bet it was more the price was way too high for OP.

Another option: https://www.selectabed.com/oversized-king-ultrabed-mattress/
If you are just building an MVP, you'd want to spend very little time on actually building the product. Here are some choices:

* Discourse forum: https://www.discourse.org/

* Slack channel

* Google Docs spreadsheet
http://security-and-privacy-reference-architecture.readthedo... with Only open resources
Yeah, that was my thought too. This is more like “veil_except”.

That said, “unveil” is good enough.