skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Euclid and Pythagoras are not, and cannot, be patented. So it seems somewhat illogical to argue against patents with the hypothetical of those algorithms being patented.
Quite a similar thing exists on the Canary Islands in Spain, where I grew up [1]. It was even taught in school, though I joined in too late and never managed to get the basic whistling parts, which made the rest quite impossible to learn :/

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero
There can be very real bandwidth limitations at the government regulatory agencies, however.
Three ways to travel at (nearly) the speed of light
Apple Is Finally Discontinuing iTunes After 18 Years
Patents on algorithms are bad because any sane person would feel revulsion at the though of them? Is that the content of your argument?

If Euclid's algorithm was patented in a system similar to our modern one, he would have... cornered the marked in ancient Greek cryptographic protocols for 20 years or so before other ancient mathematicians were allowed join in?
A misdemeanour may net you a maximum 3 years imprisonment? That's harsh.

Of course, the salient part is …unreasonable time without making reasonable provision… Is there precedent on what "unreasonable time" might constitute? In general, of course, it depends entirely on the child and their mental and emotional maturity.
Browsers require it. If you're establishing connection from JavaScript that was loaded on HTTPS website, you can't establish connection to HTTP.

I've heard recently about some movement to allow HTTP connections to localhost, but I did not investigate that thoroughly. TLS should not be needed for localhost, that's true.
Funny, I never thought that that would be the hill one of my plans would die on. Writing well - and reasonably quick - is rare, when you take the intersection of people that have that skill with people that are technically inclined the resulting set is super small.
So this is what you’re going to have to tell users to do to enable them in Windows 10.

https://windowsreport.com/enable-libraries-windows-10-file-e...

And another how to article.

https://windowsreport.com/enable-libraries-windows-10-file-e...

This is why geeks end up designing Homermobile type solutions and wonder why the common person is confused.
i don’t understand how Apple is an “abusive monopoly” when their iphone market share is 15.8%, while samsung is at 17.3%.

was your characterisation related to their app store by any chance?
What about bootstrapping by writing an interpreter for language X and then implement a compiler in X? That used to be common practice and has many advantages, such as easy targeting of new systems.

Maybe with tools like LLVM it has become a bit less common to do all that on your own, but not everybody wants to use LLVM and spitting out your own machine code directly, without even having a bytecode interpreter, still seems like a rather bad idea. Besides loss of retargetability, the generated machine code will never be fast without an IR, because it will basically just allow for peephole optimizations. I know one or two ingenious people who compiled to x86 assembler, because it was considered the fastest option then, and now regret that choice.
"What does 'validating emotions' even mean?"

To an empathic person, that should be pretty obvious...
As a friend of mine said: "When you write something down you think you are changing the contents of the paper but really it changes you."
its more complex than the article covers..

Let me explain(my bias I am in NW Indiana and grew up working on my Uncles Farms). The herbicides used for corn mess-up other crops that have shorter periods of growth that could be used to replace corn due to late planting.

That means for example they cannot switch ot Soybeans due to herbicides used for corn from the previous years crop.

Late planting of corn affects price as most farmers sell corn on the options market per a contract and late planting will adjust that future contract price downward
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>if it turns out people can know what WoW does to your studies, and they still end up doing this, how should we think about this? Easy answer is that their real desire is to play WoW all day, but that doesn't seem very satisfying.

It's also wrong, as it makes people unhappy. The whole idea of a real free will breaks down if we are looking at substance abuse at the latest. The underlying machinery of our brains limits the rationality of our decisions, and ultimately the freedom of our will.

I am afflicted with ADHD and know this first-hand. I still managed to get an education and a qualified job in software, but for years I hated myself for not being able to simply do tasks at hand. Libertarians would say I value goof-off time on reddit more than a steady job, but that's not true, in fact I would be a happier person if the internet just vanished or I finally got my procrastination under control.
"Algorithms can be extremely hard to discover"

Can be, most aren't. Most are specializations of a well known thing, applied to a new area. Page rank is (maybe) a good example of this. Not quite old enough to transfer myself back to the time, but diffusion on graphs and power methods have been around for a while.
As always, it depends on who your enemy is. For the ultra vast majority of people, and in the continuity of the "public place" metaphor, it's more than enough.
Whistled Turkish is interesting indeed, since is an example of a language where both sides of the brain are involved [1]:

"Whistled Turkish is clearly fascinating in its own right, but Güntürkün and his colleagues also realized that it presented a perfect opportunity to test the notion that language is predominantly a left-brained activity, no matter the physical structure that it takes. That's because auditory processing of features, including frequency, pitch, and melody—the stuff that whistles are made of—is a job for the right brain."

[1] https://phys.org/news/2015-08-turkish-notions-language-brain...
I made a very similar project: https://cardtables.online

It also offers chat communication and webcam over webrtc!
In spite of differences China and USA agree on AI ethics
I did a lot of research into the state of Ultra Wideband (UWB) during the early 00s. It utilized time of flight and a wide band of frequencies to do similar things. There were 2-3 major, well funded companies pursuing the tech at the time.

Interestingly those companies never made it commercially, I suppose because the cost of computation was prohibitive and they required special antenna.

It is very exciting that the technology can now be done in a cost effective manner.

Most interesting though is how easily and effective ML was in adding functionality to this implementation. Very cool.
Ugh, I don't understand why people keep recommend the Pinker book about writing well. Pinker has the most formal god awful style I could imagine. There are so many better writers to learn from. Don't fall for mimetics guys.
There are nation wide policies in Norway promoting green energy for example, they give incentives to electricity cars. There are policies in other cities too which is adding tolls and expensive parking etc. to discourage use of cars.

Which is great but that is nothing compared to all the oil that is exported. I get that they can’t immediately stop producing oil. but they are also not slowing and also exploring new deposits.
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Ask HN: Do you write papers directly in LaTeX?
Hello,

what is your workflow for creating scientifical papers?

Do you write your research/results directly in LaTeX or do you have a different approach,
e.g. creating paper notes before putting it into your word processor etc.

Thank you for replies.
Jurassic Park advisor runs crowdfunding to build a dinosaur from a chicken
I've found that often it's pocket fluff at the bottom of the connector on phones. I've used a needle (something made of plastic would be better) to get rid of it and the connector then can hold the cable in place.
Make your voice heard over the roar
War is peace, freedom is slavery, Serverless is actually servers.

https://darkscience.net/quotes/#209
Cue all the whiteboard interviewers: “implement the page rank algorithm, please.”
With Eric Schmidt leaving, the hanging sword has finally came down. He knew how to play lobbyist network in DC even with unfavorable administration if you had almost unlimited money supply. Breitbart publishing recent video leaks on Google execs in tears on election results meant this was inevitable.

Google has LOT to lose from this. They had previously made absurd the argument that they are not monopoly and Amazon is their biggest competition. Somehow lobby money made this argument magically acceptable and everybody moved on. Now they would have charges from Yelp, funding services like gmail using search business to bankrupt other players, making arbitrary decisions for advertisers, youtube piracy, website takedowns and de-rankings, Chrome defaults, AMP...

However, I wonder what could be the end game here for the government? Google is still very monolithic as far as revenues are concerned, so how do you even break it up in any viable way? My guess is that they would probably impose some fine and settlement agreement.
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It's not a matter of "not allowed", the medical devices directives were more concerned with reliability than specific solders. 10 years ago the state of lead-free solders raised concerns whether they should be used in anything but low risk medical electronics. So the following provision was used:

> To avoid conflicts between the RoHS Directive and the medical devices Directives, it is essential to ensure that adequate field data is available to validate the laboratory data from accelerated testing

So they keep testing and periodically reevaluate all exemptions from the lead-free directive. The plan was to go full lead-free in every medical device class right about now, or next year.
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> I now trust Microsoft more than Google

What's so good about Microsoft? They filled their OS with spyware and adware and they seem to be incompetent as a tech company - remember their recent Windows update that deleted user data even though early testers have reported the issue.
I really don't see how it's a personal attack.
Garotas de programa de luxo em Bh Belle BH
Which tools to replace Docker with and why
Whenever I hear 'cluster' I think of scientific computing applications and wondering how these fit in there. The author addresses a nice use case in another post:

https://blog.alexellis.io/build-your-own-bare-metal-arm-clus...
After SpaceX Launch, a Fear of Satellites That Outnumber All Visible Stars
It still amazes me that Slack, with its infinite resources, hasn’t built native clients. One code base is nice and all, but man I loathe the Electron app.
Abstract machine doesn't necessarily means that your code will be interpreted. An intermediate representation can just be a practical way to reason about low level code (well, the fact itself that is called "intermediate" gives an hint that it is not necessarily the "final" representation).

Many lisps in fact generate native code, in Common Lisp you can even use "disassemble" to get the native code generated for a function
One aspect of electricity I think is useful to emphasize is that electrons in a conductor move more like the steel balls Newton's cradle (that toy you may have seen where a ball strikes one end of a line of balls, and nothing moves except the end ball, or you can pull back two balls and then only two balls will move, and so on). This can help with intuition about the distinction between "holes" and electrons, and how energy can flow with holes (which is quite counter-intuitive, I think). In terms of mental model, the ratio of holes to ambient electrons is sometimes useful to think about, as this is fundamental to computing current limits of conductors.

There is a diagram (an animated GIF) about half-way down that sort of implies the newton's cradle method of moving charge, but I don't like it because it's not clear enough. Also, I see current as more of a fixed cloud of valence electrons with holes moving through it - which is a very different intuition than what this diagram implies.
Land use seems to have doubled in the last few decades, at least in West Africa https://eros.usgs.gov/westafrica/land-cover/land-use-and-lan...

Didn't find a perfect source. But it doesn't seem to support the thesis that less land is required by humans.

Are you saying farmers would work their fields covered in Mosquito nets, while most people live in Malaria free cities?
Growing the Cookbook's “Broken” Function
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I'm curious to know what gives you confidence that it will be over soon?
You can actually do that right now by putting unused cards aside, but it is a little bit cumbersome, because shuffle will put it back.
He also gave an interesting ted talk about this several years ago https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_fr....

It's exciting that now with tools like CRISPR it is finally possible to make this into reality
This is one of those comments that the remark "not sure if serious..." was made for. You do know that C has an abstract machine, too? The C standard tells you all about it. Please don't troll or flame bait so blatantly, it's against the commenting guidelines here.
I've dealt with many Vultr instances on behalf of my clients, and I've had nothing but negative experiences with them. Unstable performance even on top-tier plans. Internal network issues that support keeps trying to blame their customer for. Nowadays when I find that a new or prospective client has been using Vultr, the first thing I recommend is to move off of Vultr.

When there's an issue with Linode's platform, they discover it before I do and open a ticket to let me know they're working on it. When there's an issue with Vultr, the burden of proof seems to be on me to convince them that it's their problem not mine.
It makes you long for a dependently typed language where you really and truly can switch on decidable relations like "compare".

For example, I have some Agda code (totally unreadable to anyone who didn't write it, i.e. anyone who isn't me) where I switch on whether a+1 is less than, equal to, or greater than x+1, as part of the inductive step in an implementation of the division algorithm, rendering a number into a quotient and a remainder on division by another number. The type system guarantees that I haven't missed any cases. (https://github.com/Smaug123/agdaproofs/blob/9e22ba78f5446ce7...)
Falsehoods programmers believe about flags
Childhood adversity and abuse has been linked to decreased trust, low impulse control, violence, learning problems, promiscuous sexual behaviour etc. before.

One way to look at this is damage caused by stress and stress hormones.

Some of the traits above may be evolutionary adaption strategy. Growing in chronic stress environment requires different traits. The limbic system may have plan B when it's flooded with stress hormones constantly. Long term thinking and planning is less valuable when the life expectancy is low.
lack of porn causes crimes ? frustration based ?
I have tried every variation of new laptops/phones/etc I have come to the conclusion that anything which doesn't have a full physical keyboard is a consumption device. That is not necessarily a bad thing (you can consume excellent learning material, for example) but it will preclude it from ever being useful for work.

You can certainly attach a bluetooth keyboard to an iPad (I did so yesterday) and then they are pretty good for writting emails, but they are annoying to carry and a thin laptop is much better.
2016 is calling :)
That's an awesome domain name! I've tried house.of.cards and it redirects to deck.of.cards ;-)
To a degree, I can forgive the use of slim ethernet ports. Now that dual-band wifi and widely compatible (USB-C) docking stations are common, it's not essential to have one at all, for the majority of users
Years back, graph dbs bragged about implementing PR in a few lines and ecologists using PR on species.

https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-algorithms/current/algorithms/p...

https://phys.org/news/2009-09-web-page-algorithm-critical-sp...
So I am not the only one that get pretty bad search results compared to the ones I used to get. What caused this shift?
Well, we could change that. I've subscribed for a monthly donation to Mozilla after learning about that.

I've also been giving through Flattr as an alternative to ads for micro-funding on the Web - anyone knows why their plugin/extension/addon isn't listed on addons.mozilla.org anymore ? (You can still install it from their official website.)
Might it be due to a conflict of interest between Google and Eyeo ?
>Chemical addiction is a physiological phenomenon. Behavior addictions are psychological.

Doubtful, they all work via the same underlying hardware and excitation of the Limbic system doesn't care for the causes.
Haha yeah, I was lucky to get that
Scio 0.7: A Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow
Defence spending 2018 is $700 billion, which happens to be almost exactly the deficit for that year ($780 billion).

Cut defence spending to the level of other western countries (i. e. about half), reverse the tax cuts for corporations and you're back to a balanced budget.

The debt of $22 trillion is still there, but inflation and economic growth cut it in half in about a decade in real terms.
Cool wow, yeah! I’ve thought about chat feature..
That nobody would do that is contradicted by the fact that Google did it for years, for instance. But Google ended up doing what most for-profit corporations would do. I'm not saying it's particularly immoral. It's pretty normal, for better or worse. What I am saying is that the narrative that Google created Chrome only to further the Web does not add up.

Also, I was not ignoring that IE had 60% market share. That's perfectly in line with what I said, as that market share was in fact shrinking without Chrome.
I'm not sure how you characterize Kaczynski as far-right. He was an anarchist.
+1 for (b). It is also my understanding that copyright holders can re-license their work for specific vendor, if they can reach an agreement.

This re-licensing, if my understanding is correct, will require that all copyright holders to come to an agreement, which again is a challenging task. Any idea how the dev. community tackle this problem ?
> The US is one of the easiest countries to immigrate to and we only have 14.4% of our population having changes countries

Just to follow this tangent briefly - I'd be surprised if that first statement is true by most definitions (I'd almost say the opposite), and the implication that 14.4% of the population is therefore a high level certainly isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d... has some detailed numbers. In short, although the US has the most immigrants in the world in total, many major nations have double or much higher percentages of foreign-born residents compared to the US. E.g. Singapore (43%), Switzerland (29%), Australia (33%), and that's ignoring the tiny countries with 50+%, or the middle eastern states with large migrant worker/refugee populations, like UAE at 84%, Qatar at 74%, Jordan at 40%, etc etc.

I don't really disagree with your main point - changing countries isn't _that_ hard as a US software developer, but changing jobs is certainly easier - but I keep seeing the US portrayed like this, and it's not really true.
I wonder if some real algorithms were ever patented? I mean, just read Knuth, there are brilliant algorithms there that I would never invent myself. Various sorting algorithms, graph algorithms and so on. They are a foundation for our computing. But I never heard that quick sort was ever patented. Why is that?
Maybe Stanford University no longer gets any license fees from Google for this patent. not sure
> consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product

By "product", I take it you mean their advertising services? Most of the other products are not paid for. In fact, critics are often fond of pointing out that the consumer is the product in this case.

Whether this action is right or not, parallels can be drawn with the Microsoft investigation: Microsoft allegedly used its position within the desktop to "push" their browser; Google is allegedly using its position within search to "push" their browser.

On a personal note, I'm not convinced that this is grounds enough for antitrust action. There could be a personal data related angle to this, but then again that would not come under antitrust.
In many cities of Europe, and Greece, where I live we have apps like Beat that are basically Uber for actual taxis. That way you get good drivers, ratings, they have an incentive to be good or get booted off the platform and lose customers, etc, without the indentured servitude of Uber.
I will add possibility to create more decks and jokers..

The old version actually gives you jokers when you click all kings in a row (easier to do if you click ”by suit” first)
I will make shuffle to only shuffle the deck and add ”Collect” button this evening..
And him on how you may help the strandbeests reproduce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02qqB-2nbs&feature=youtu.be...
Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python
TBF for cases which are not overly complex like your case you just need the right enums and functions e.g. https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
IIRC speed played a huge role too in part because of the cleaner page, but also in part because of whatever voodoo they used to deliver results.
Behaviour, especially widespread behaviour, is rarely irrational. Despite its reputation Sweden has become surprisingly unpragmatic in recent years. It is very easy to end up in a situation where you can't continue your studies, but you can't also enter the job market effectively.

I absolutely think things like loot boxes, sugar and gasoline should be regulated or taxed to decrease their potential to do damage. But at the end of the day you have to provide positive opportunities for people to do the productive thing.
Partially in jest, once/if Chinese companies start to hold more patents than American companies (as in "value", not numbers) you will see the US attitude versus patents to be different.
Found the groupthinker. Joking aside, what is the alternative you propose? Especially in view of human nature
I would argue that's exactly what the expectation of privacy is. Malicious actors on the other hand are the reality of privacy.
But if Facebook (as they do) offer you a service that allowed you to share the photos with a selected set of individuals would you not have the reasonable expectation that Facebook would not share them further?

What I'm parsing out of your comments is that no matter what Facebook says we should expect it to act without regards to privacy?