skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A three-day search by foot, on four-wheel-drives and from the air ruled out death by misadventure. To date, the police have found no trace of Mr. Moriarty or his dog.

I'm kinda surprised that this ruled out something. Particularly in a rural area. I grew up in rural areas and there are often stories of massive searches, and the body didn't turn up until it was stumbled upon surprisingly close to civilization.
It's something that everybody gets to decide for themselves. And then judge others accordingly.
A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)
I tried to get my static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from Comcast the other day. The customer rep asked me what I meant by "static IP address." And I'm like--wait, how much do I actually explain about what a static IP is? I might as well have been talking to the cat that hangs out on my porch, but that cat was the only one who could kick me up to someone who knew what she was talking about...
A very bold statement, no blog post commenting on which technique, hard to sell out.

> The world's most advanced Speech-to-Text, customized for your application.
The passage is misleading but I think your interpretation is too literal as well. We don't know if she's still live but she's still well within the survival rate (according to Wikipedia). It most definitely improved her quality of life and perhaps that gave her system a boost. We do know that the mind might not be able to cure terminal diseases but it can be a powerful force in making life more manageable (placebo, etc.).
1997, yo. Massive corporations rule everything, people are getting wet-wired into cyberspace, pollution and overpopulation and climate change have thrown everyone but the super-wealthy into a desperate struggle for survival... and Hanson's "MMMbop" is playing on the radio.

Just the concept made me smile.
AFAIK appeal to authority is only a fallacy when the authority is an expert in an unrelated field. It is not an appeal to authority to reference the opinion of a well-established astrophysicist when discussing astrophysics.
Exactly! and with all those physics and math phds in finance Im sure we can make sure that loan to a middle aged unemployed man mathematically seem rigorous and there is no way that a bailout will ever be required.
These US corporate elites are selling out US and the rest of the democratic free world in order to meet shareholder's expectations (and of course, MONEY!). And giving into a dictatorship and giving that dictatorship jobs, money, capital, knowledge, and power. That dictatorship now has imprisoned close to 1 million people in Xinjiang.

Shame on you, Sundar Pichai. At least when Google was lead by Erich Schmidt, Google pulled out of China, and didn't bend to the whims of Chinese government.

Shame on you, Tim Cook. Apple has 4.8 million jobs in China, more than double the jobs in US. https://247wallst.com/jobs/2017/03/17/apple-supports-4-8-mil.... . Shame on you for not bringing jobs back when news broke out that Foxconn has created a slave labor like working condition.

Shame on you, Mark Zuckerberg, for continuing to appease the dictator in China, so that Facebook may gain a foothold there.

Shame on you, Satya Nadella, for continuing to supply censored search results in Bing. and for not taking a stand against censorship. But I guess the microsoft borgship has a lot in common with China.

Shame on you, Jeff Bezos. You become the richest man on earth, by allowing pirated, stolen, IP infriged goods from China to be sold on your platform without care, destroying small US businesses. You also partnered with Foxconn for Amazon Echo, tablet, and other hardwares. Amazon is a showcase for trade imbalance. disgusting.
The appeal of Coors was so great that the 2nd highest grossing film of 1977, behind only Star Wars, was about a smuggling run to bring Coors to Georgia. It's kind of shocking that was big enough to be the premise of a film.
I think you're creating a false dichotomy between "a real disease" and "a limitation of the body." Even for diseases that entirely result from external sources, our ability to survive them is a limitation of our body (e.g. some people will survive the same flu that other people die from). And cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder, making it quite literally a limitation of your body as well as a real disease.
“If Ivan weren’t my son perhaps I’d be dating him”

Loved the examples, can’t wait to try it!
"I finished this Lego set in six months, which is really good because the box says 6 - 8 years."
Did they give you static addresses? I would love one, but figure it would be a no.
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Local Sheriff reveals if sites leak personal information with third-parties
You can view the entire original series with English subtitles here: https://www.dailymotion.com/skamenglishsubs

The American remake, which isn't shit - as American remakes usually are - can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/SKAMaustin
Exactly! This reporter should have explained the details of comparative advantage to these recently unemployed individuals to help them see how much better they are off economically.
>The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Is this not the plot of Neuromancer?
> Thunderbolt* is customized by each system manufacturer differently on their platforms. For this reason, our recommendation is that you can contact your system manufacturer to receive accurate information about their products the Thunderbolt* 3 implementation.

This means ask your system manufacturer to give the bad news.
Ah, I see the point. In that respect it would have been better if they had illustrated the trick with a hypothetical widgets produced by a factory scenario than jump straight into climate change.
If you lived east of the Rockies, and anywhere near Canada, you did what any discerning beer-lover would do ... drive north and drink Labatt's.
Thanks! Unfortunately Dat doesn't provide any anonymity.
I watched a few episodes of Midsomer Murders today. It's a classic.
The center of mass of a massless object makes as much as "everywhere" being a location of anything.
> That's probably untrue from the face of it, just from the amount of products and goods that are produced in whole or in part in China.

That’s the same way that clothing brands deal with the problem of having their products made in sweat shops. Brand X makes their clothes in sweat shops, there’s an exposé, brand X does an investigation, finds that contractor Y hired subcontractor Z without the right controls in place, and then fires subcontractor Z. But subcontractor Z was just doing business with the actual sweatshop W, and after subcontractor Z is fired, contractor Y hires a new subcontractor Z', which then later rehires W because they’re the cheapest (after the media attention cools down).

Round and round it goes. Because there’s such a large chain, from brand X to contractor Y to subcontractor Z and finally sweat shop W, brand X has very weak and indirect control over the conditions in sweat shop W. This is by design, and it’s encouraged by the way our legal system works. Each link is an isolated domain with limited liability, than can be destroyed and replaced separately from the rest. On top of that, jurisdictional issues prevent the arm of the law from effectively addressing sweat shop W from the country where brand X exists, especially since contractors Y and Z might also be in completely separate countries. The economic pressure to be the cheapest encourages people to take ethical and legal shortcuts, to keep plausible deniability you make the supply chain long enough, and then whenever it blows up the blast radius is only as large as a single, replaceable link in the chain.

And so we get back to the idea that you can simply satisfy yourself by not personally doing business with China or Russia. The entire system is set up to pander to people who want to do things “ethically” by hiding all of the unethical behavior far away at the other end of the supply chain.

You can pat yourself on the back for not buying Kathy Lee Gifford or Nike, but you turn around and buy clothing at prices so low they can only be reliably sourced from workshops with the same terrible conditions.

I’m not arguing that the alternative is to turn a blind eye, but I don’t think outrage at individual companies that do business with the wrong countries is a meaningful choice that we can make. I’m not talking about companies like Nestlé, yes, let’s be plenty pissed off at Nestlé. But if we’re going to change this, the reach of the law should be longer. If brand X were liable for conditions in sweatshop W, financially, then that kind of hazard would be priced into all of the contracts all the way down the chain.

This is called “extraterritorial jurisdiction” and it has precedent, like Australia’s Crimes (Child Sex Tourism) Amendment Act 1994.
Vicarious Calibration of Satellite Sensors
World class AI experts share what their favorite algorithm is
What do you like so far? I used to listen to X Minus One and shows like that. I really enjoyed them and would love to listen to more scifi.
Be sure to scroll down to the following part, where the author attempts to validate a fart joke using Frink: https://frinklang.org/#FartJokes
Veggies and fruit are carbs. I replaced pasta and white rice with oatmeal, cabbage and apples. All of above are all carbs. Not all carbs are equal. I feel fully satisfied with less calories now. I can eat 4 cups of rice in one sitting without realizing it, but not 4 apples. Saying replace pasta with eggs and bacon is not better than suggesting more veggies and fruits.

Regarding the approach, I found it easiest to know my goal weight has a maintenance calories of 2,100 calories - an objective, hard number. Hit that, then adjust diet for the very subjective goal of being feeling satisfied after that. I can't imagine an effective public health policy based on subjective "do you feel full?"
In that case, wouldn't "a fully functional human body model" mean an artificial human, which is even harder to develop than a computational model?

Or they do exist, already. All humans are a fully functional human body model.
>isn't designed for the purpose of making money

It saves taxpayers and sellers a boatload of money compared to paying for proper employees with health insurance, mileage reimbursement, etc. to clean up their streets / source their raw material / deal with their waste.

Parks and community centers aren't designed for the purpose of making money, either, but we generally expect the people cleaning their toilets to have solid benefits.

>It's like a metaphorical form of picking up loose change that others have dropped and deemed not worth their time to pick up.

How is that different from the gig economy?
+1 for SpaceChem being stupid-hard. In spite of that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I guess it'd lower the starting torque which might let them use a smaller starter motor? You'd spin the engine for a couple of revolutions, then use the stored kinetic energy to kick start the engine.
Deep Learning ND: Face Generator
How do you know if something is down voted?
Show HN: IPFS Encrypted Share
I've also been there. I love camping in the U.P., and "discovered" the rocket range about 15 years ago. I didn't drive out there though, I walked. No one I talked to knew what condition the road "out to the very end of the peninsula" was in, so I decided not to risk it. It wasn't a bad walk, really. Good boots, and as mentioned, industrial-strength mosquito spray, are necessary. No one mentioned the old rocket range, so that was just a happy bonus.

I've not been back for 8 or so years, but I can't imagine the road has gotten any better, but I'd make the hike again.

On your way up to Copper Harbor, stop just north of Houghton at the Quincy Copper Mine. Even if you don't take the underground tour, take the tour of the hoist house; it was (still is?) the world largest steam hoist, and it is in remarkable condition as a relic of the steam age.
It's rather sad that customer support for an ISP would not know what a static IP is. Then again, they're probably usually telling more "average" users to reset their modems and asking if things are turned on and plugged in...
The database has Unicode support but apparently my normalization and tokenization does not. I will have a look at that ASAP. Thanks!
I'm not quite sure what this means, but your profile proves you're not a spam bot, so I guess I won't flag it... did you submit this in the wrong tab or am I missing something?
I think the dev's goal has been towards balancing the difficulty not so much towards making difficult puzzles that are rewarding to beat, but towards making reasonably challenging puzzles that become rewarding to revisit and optimize as you get better at the game. In a way it sort of mirrors when you've just started learning programming, when every task takes large amounts of thinking "how am I even going to solve this?", implementing a solution that is sure to not be very optimal or even well written, vs. being an experience programming, when "how do I solve this?" is only the first step towards "how do I make my solution _better_?".

I hope we keep getting more Zachtronics games for a while; there really aren't too many games out there that are comparable to them.
Social Inequality, as Seen from the Sky
I have some very big concerns about this.

1. It appears to be sponsored by seedbox hosting companies -plus- a google ad. This is misleading (no, it is -not- directly sponsored nor endorsed by Salesforce, which is the Google Ad I see).

2. Many higher education institutions will block BitTorrent on their firewalls to prevent/reduce copyright infringement.

3. How legitimate is the data? Is there any vetting of the content to ensure that it doesn't violate copyright or that the data was legally obtained eg, the site scrapes? A DMCA takedown is too late if we've already accidentally seeded infringing information and could harm our reputation.

4. The site claims to be "used by" a group of very big names (Stanford, MIT, UT Austin etc). Did they ask/give permission to be cited? Do they endorse the use of this service?

5. HTTPS. Please?

It's a great idea but it needs a bit more polish before I could even suggest this to my management.
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I suppose it depends on the terrain, but I'd agree. Another possibility is that something in the behavior of the townsfolk during questioning does not suggest, to the police, actual ignorance of what happened. Which wouldn't mean the police are necessarily correct, of course.
Great job, overcoming depression is much harder than what most normal people think
Downvotes coming from people who lack cognizance. The whole fact that we suffer from tragedy of commons shows a general lack of high level cognizance in humans, no? Sure, we're a little brighter than birds, but it's all relative.
Hi HN!

I made an encrypted uploader for IPFS. This will be useful when you want to put private files in IPFS, and I hope it would be even more useful when Filecoin launches.

You can try the latest version at https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYQLkWNYwXmqjTaP15kbfwzPGWEcBejAfAJMnm... . If you set the daemon address to https://ipfs.infura.io:5001 then you can upload even without local IPFS daemon (although the pinning duration is not guaranteed).

Make sure to pin both the interface and your files when uploaded, as the file format is not guaranteed to be stable.

You can download a test file at https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYQLkWNYwXmqjTaP15kbfwzPGWEcBejAfAJMnm...
Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells
Haha yeah that’s the solution - bring the banana to your desk.
Great. Musicians. I'm sure they will come up with the new iPhone.

John D. Rockefeller started out dirt poor, and with no handouts, he saved the whales.

You think taxing the rich and subsidizing the future Beatles wannabees might to the same?

I can not think of, off the top of my head, a single entrepreneurial success that came from subsidising lack of ambition. Can you?
I'm not surprised it's getting banned. Lots of the sidewalks around the trains can be pretty narrow and with snow on the ground, it was pretty bad. As for the $30k, that's what someone told me, obviously they were wrong.

That said, licenses are still a good alternative for those that want to colonize public space because it gives people a method to apply and potentially start something new like the dog house. It also gives a municipality the opportunity to manage issues by only distributing n per period of time or provide a caveat.
I'm getting 502 right now. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O9c79dJ...

Or archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20180813020050/http://didyougogo....
Why the name? As far as I can tell, there is no mention of how to use this from Asm.

The polling loop in the example screenshot doesn't seem a very nice thing to do to their servers either.
SpaceChem wasn’t their first, they had a few prior with long names, the only one of which I remember is Codex of Alchemical Engineering. There was a steam mecha one, and an IC design one.
Is that sarcasm? GDPR is a law benefiting users against corporations, China is an authoritarian dictatorship censoring their local internet...
The US has basically done this with Cuba and North Korea. Unfortunately whether everyone is better off or not presents a non-falsifiable hypothesis.

I think there certainly should be a distinction between what is being traded. Medicine & building materials is one thing, weapons & censorship tools is another.

Google's problem here is that they are going to have a much more difficult time explaining why x,y, and z are not censored on the search engines of countries that supposedly are democratic. If they are removing nuanced items for China's regime they are going to find themselves being required, legally, to remove all kinds of things in just about everywhere. That will be a net negative to the free world.

My suspicion is that Google expects Chinese compliant censorship is much more feasible now, without an army of workers, due to machine learning. That is very concerning and if true, I think it presents a case that those involved should resign or be removed immediately.
The whole gender issue has been very well covered and is now overrated.

Much more important is to get people (especially typical parochial Americans) to realize that there exist other human beings in other countries. Even the most sexist American male is aware of gender issues (even if he doesn't agree with them). But even "liberal", "soft-hearted" Americans don't much care or know about the life of someone in say Bangladesh or Indonesia.

So maybe you could also think of changing nationalities. E.g. change Anglo-American names to Bangladeshi or Indonesian ones.
You probably didn't get on Comcast forums and start being a passive aggressive all-caps jerk about it, though.
Talking to a Man Named Mr. Cotton About Slavery and Confederate Monuments
The features aren't random. They're usually related to other features. They might be variations on a feature. For example, what if the user doesn't like the apps fonts and colors? Let's let them customize the look and feel to whatever they want. Or we've made this app that let's you send text messages to people, but what if it needs to be sent to an international number? Suppose this feature is right now unnecessary because the app is just for sending text messages among employees at a company that is situated in Wichita.

These aren't crazy features, but they're unnecessary and may never be necessary. As to "why do their managers and technical leaders allow it," often they are the very people who spearhead it. Or in my case, our team was embedded in a non-software company, and our leaders didn't understand exactly what we did, so they were hands-off.
That's because the town is on the Stuart Highway [1], the main road connecting Darwin with the rest of Australia. There's also very little other habitation in these parts, meaning any pitstop will get some passing traffic.

Also, it's worth noting that in Australia, a "hotel" is a bar/pub that may or may not have accommodation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Highway
It (whataboutism) is a favorite tactic of the "50 cent army." It's more to distract and sidetrack the topic.
Bitmain wins and everybody loses.
"I think it’s problematic to have random people submit to the index with no incentive."

"There might be a way to gamify"

I hear you. First of all, you guys aren't random people to me. You're my favorite internet people.

There are already some hundred entries in the index, all from you guys. If I analyzed the contents right now it would probably tell me something about us, as a group.

One of the entries is pornhub.com. We have at least one male in the group.

Maybe organic growth of the index has already started. And once I teach you how to use the public HTTP API and not just the web GUI, perhaps you will all start to see how useful this service already is. And it will grow even more.

We'll see.

Someone just donated 5 huge servers, big ones. Didyougogo will be around a while at least.
I actually do, especially on my OLED laptop screen and phone. The backgrounds are often these dark but not black grays that just lower the contrast of the content for no reason. Chrome and Firefox have these reader modes that don't give a true black background, it's just so wasteful.

I still prefer those themes to black-on-light but I do not love them.
I've always loved poker. I played for a year or so online for funsies and watched a lot of videos of the pro.

Then one day I went to a casino and tried my luck there. I did very well, cleaned up two guys. I went home way richer than I entered, and I felt sick to my guts.

Never went back and stopped playing.
The uncensored one is also censoring the so called "fake news".

You don't need to China to find Google's ethical violations - US-made censorship is great again.
He has only 3 or 4 games. I recommend Solium Infernum http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/SI/Solium_Infernum.html, it is a TBS game, it is actually a computer table game, if such thing makes sense. If you have time, you can read here an epic AAR series https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/03/solium-infernum-...
Middle managers don't usually make those decisions, not product wide as far as I know.
I feel like this is the most valuable comment on this thread. Imagine the impact if everyone on HN committed today to follow this principle...
> In general you will see massive innovation as soon as a patent expires.

As tofof said, that’s absolutely the entire point of the patent system. The original inventor (Watt?) patented his invention. For a period of time, he could use it exclusively. And then the patent expires and everyone gets to use it. Everyone wins.
I'd love to read a book on the subject. What did it take for various scientific fields to become truly mature? Are their key ways to measure how far along we are?

Concrete, predictive theories would be great but I get that we're far from them in fields like nutrition short of, like, scurvy I guess? I wonder how much of this is due to the natural variation among individuals and how much is just because of ethical limits on scientific inquiry. Not that I'm advocating for human experiments but one has to wonder what we could discover.
Zima came out two years later...
Unless you add salt!
I've been lazier in recent years. I keep my Stack Overflow Developer Story updated and send that as a link for something résumé-like in emails. This is usually good enough, if not better because of hyperlinks and a chronological order, for a lead dev or director to get the interview. Usually after everything went well already, HR wants a PDF for whatever bookkeeping reason and I just hit the print button since the design and layout is irrelevant at this point.
Ruby yes, but not in Python right?