skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>in a natural environment, the weak and the disabled are left aside and die quickly

This simply isn't true[1]. Humans evolved feelings like compassion because such cooperation and caring was beneficial to our survival. These emotions exist outside of any deliberate human decision making or social planning. Even monkeys have evolved forms of altruistic behaviour[2]. 'Ethics' in the sense of empathy and compassionate behaviour is hence just as much a part of the 'law of nature' as the more violent behaviours associated with it.

1.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2864937/

2. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/6-amazing-way...
Thanks so much for sharing these. I subscribed and have been listening since Friday.

I noticed yesterday that some of my favorites are no longer there. Have some pieces been removed since Friday?

Some of the pieces from AllOfBach.com were there, as well as the concertos "after vivaldi". Can't find them now. Thanks so much!
Good article.

Ben Franklin's schedule shot was interesting. 8-6 workday with a two hour lunch (so 8 hours of work). For some reason I always assumed people toiled very long hours back in those day.
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Not necessarily. It depends on the institution. Some loans ARE made out of deposits. Those that aren't need to be funded in the money markets - you borrow from another financial institution to cover the amount lent out. Not sure the BoE paper makes that clear.
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I imagine cases will just have more clear portions, like otterbox cases and the like have. It'll definitely make it harder to produce a sufficiently rugged case, though.
> It's not your data, just because it's about you.

sure, I agree.

In this case I think the mistake was made by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs who didn't understand the consequences of publishing one person's sensitive information on the internet. In my utopia though, the newspaper would have asked (and forcefully obtained in this case thanks to the Ministry authority) permission to Mr Gonzalez to access his sensitive information, only for the amount of time required by the bidding process.
Indeed! It's a bit of an homage to one of the greatest video games of all time, applying it literally to our own bright orange cloud kit in a box ;-)
1) Firstly, [citation needed]. The voice of a hivemind on particular forums is not any kind of data point given that the vast majority of developers don't post anywhere. Further, note that most people on these forums live in a very specific bubble, and seem to suffer a type of Dunning-Kreuger effect regarding either 1) IP, 2) law, 3) programming, or any combination of these.

2) Doesn't matter; a passage like this destroys all his credibility:

> Rather, Google said two separate things: (a) they did not copy any material (other than rangeCheck), and (b) admitted that the names and declarations are the same, not because Google copied those names and declarations from Oracle's own work, but because they perform the same functions. In other words, Google makes various arguments of why those names and declarations look the same, but for reasons other than “mundane cut-and-paste copying from Oracle's copyrighted works”.

Riiiight.
Might want to link to https://www.jins-jp.com/jinsmeme/en/ as that is the english version of the site.

Also, unlike GG this seems just like a bunch of sensors that communicate with a smartphone app(like a Nike Move), not really in the same league.
I share a first name with my father, so to save confusion, they called me by my middle name. If it were strictly a matter of social convenience, that would be fine. But you can't do anything in the modern world without submitting some kind of form, and the form is what gives me trouble. I can put my first initial in the First Name field, but then some people think that means I want to be called R.

Some people, confronted with a single letter in the First Name field, might look at the Middle Name field, but often the Middle Name field is actually a Middle Initial field. So now they have no idea what to call me, and usually default back to R.

I could take the daring step of "lying," and putting my middle name in the First Name field, and my first initial in the Middle Initial field, but if they ever try to compare that record to, say, my drivers license or passport, there will be a mismatch, and some uncomfortable questions being asked. This is especially troublesome if the form is something that is likely to be coordinated with other forms in different offices.

Ironically, the first time I ever got any pushback for being an Initial-Name-Name instead of a Name-Initial-Name was when the HR department at Burroughs was processing my new-hire paperwork. Burroughs was chaired, at the time, by one W. Michael Blumenthal.
> laws of physics were the same then itself rests on the assumption that the laws of physics were the same then

No, that's definitely not true. Here's a good (somewhat technical) overview of these kinds of scientific investigations:

http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2011-2/

The pdf should be free to download and there's an entire section on the Oklo reactor.
Search-based applications called "intelligent assistants"
The Next Silicon Valley Will Be On The Internet
As 'dublinben points out, the granting of exclusive cable franchises has been illegal under federal law since 1992.

So why is there so little competition? Because municipalities make it unattractive for companies to compete. American cities are totally dysfunctional when it comes to socioeconomic conflict, and it plays out in a way where building infrastructure becomes a huge political battle: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140219/TECHNOLOGY/140.... If you want to bill fiber in New York City, you can't just operate like a regular business, targeting the most profitable customers. You have to play in this insane socioeconomic battleground with a civil rights lawyer breathing down your neck turning a simple business into an economic justice issue. Or you go into San Francisco, and your fiber upgrade gets stymied because people don't like how the boxes look: http://www.fiercecable.com/story/judge-orders-att-halt-u-ver....
I'm not sure if this is applicable to French/European law.

Nevertheless: If somebody doesn't want you to scrape, don't do it.
Hero of open web calls techies to action
He hid the benchmarks at the bottom. And after all that care and effort, he's still only getting 500MB/sec writes (excluding cached data, which is the spiky area of the graph). That's nothing special.

I personally wouldn't have bothered with the RAID card or the battery backup. That's a lot of effort and engineering to solve a problem space which typically ends up being irrelevant compared to other more salient problems. Also, in my experience, RAID cards and battery backups fail in
production use, usually at the most inconvenient time.
We started out with cameras because they are pretty rich devices, and we wanted to start with just one device. We are currently working on an open source plugin system with the intention that anyone will be able to add IP devices to Crowsnest. We're aiming to have this out in about a month.

When we release the plugin system, we're also going to release a handful of integrations made using it, including things like the Wemo outlets / switches, Philips Hue, Nest Thermostat, and Libelium's air quality / water quality / smart agriculture sensors. We want to build things that the community and our customers need, so if there are things that would be particularly useful or interesting, we'd love to work on those first. We're always looking for feedback and ideas.
Do not try this in Germany. There is the term kevinism or chantalism [1]. If you name your child in such a way, it is most likely to decrease his or her chances in life. I guess, most middle class parents in America will not name their "Heaven" or something like that, but in Germany it is even stricter.

Germans seem to pay close attention to names and assign you to a social class, based on it. For example, if you get a phd, become a professor or member of a parliament, you are allowed to put a special token in front of your name (Dr., Prof., MdB, MdL), even in official documents like your driving license.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012/02/01/does-...
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Apparently - there's certainly been a few instances where a phone was already a release or two back at launch and never got upgraded.

The copy is borderline deceptive tho; the footnote clarifies "guaranteed upgrade" with "The device will receive at least one software update to bring it up to date with the current KitKat 4.4.3 operating system". So the "upgrade" isn't to the next, not-yet-released Android version but only to the next point release...
Given the use of that name and "Free Man" in the title, I suspect they're already aware of it and that it's an intentional reference.
The style works because she's going on an adventure of discovery and taking us along for the ride.

Loose guesses that you hope are good enough are more fun than exact calculations. It's fun watching Indiana Jones guessing how much sand he needs to equal the weight of the statue, and it makes him seem more heroic. In that case he might have been better taking his time to do it properly, though.

Our minds are programmed to learn in a particular way:

- Try stuff

- See what happens

- Try to guess at a rule that would explain why it happened

- Test your guess by trying other stuff

... repeat until you know everything

It's fun sharing that process with another person, and a pretty good way to learn too -- especially where precision is not important. Technical writers should use it more.
Under the requirements, they have "speak in English". That isn't very European. May as well be called "Talk to fellow silicon roundabout startups".

Also, am i the only one who can't wait to get out of the office and into a pub on a friday? Maybe I work in too much a corporate culture than startup one.
Oh ok, but that's not how it would operate, right? So, say it was just me working on a project using a psd. If I committed it a couple of times a day, I'd end up with all the old copies in the local object store. Maybe it's possible to clear those out, somehow? Either way, you'll find that you have to jump through hoops to get reasonable behaviour with git in this use case.

I see I've been downvoted for my previous comment. I'd appreciate a justification from the downvoter as this is actually an area in which I have some experience.
Too Fast, Too Megamorphic: what influences method call performance in Java?
So widgy could by used with Pyramid via sqlalchemy?
I thought it was on purpose, esp. with the main character of the main game is 'Freeman'
I am talking about the layers below SDL. The layers that give rise to questions like will the graphics card be supported on my favorite OS if I buy this new computer?. These layers are responsible for detecting and configuring your adapters & monitors, setting the resolution, colour depth, interrupts for vsync, dma for fast frame copying, etc. If these things do not work right, you are in for a sad sad desktop experience, even if your CPU were fast enough to do all the 3D magic you want.

Hilariously, using software SDL for your framebuffer (at least on X.org) will be much slower than using OpenGL PBOs. Don't talk about hardware acceleration here -- all we're doing is transferring a finished frame to the display. At this point, we already need much more than the "small" amount of code to implement KMS. Can it break? Yes it can. Does it break? Yes it does. Graphics driver issues are still among the most common problems I witness people struggle with, as far as getting their OS to run smoothly goes.
As an Anarcho-Capitalist who formerly considered himself an Objectivist, I agree.

Rand's Objectivism pretty much says that government is a necessary evil, then goes out of its way to try to put together a system that is minimally invasive. Rand herself hated self-described libertarians and anarchists.
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I get a db error with the query string referrer

http://www.alexpcoleman.com/productivity/get-stuff-done/ works for me
I got your point - I just don't understand how anyone can not find that device slippery! :)
True. But let's not get off topic. The point is: it's trashy to use someone's name as a generic insult on HN.
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Seriously, someone should take TempleOS (if it's open source) or else make something similar and market it in some form of really high-speed server, I'm sure there'd be demand. Of course, that's assuming it would be possible to achieve decent security on the software level to ensure safe operation without memory protection.
It is actually possible! If you choose to not add a video/soundclip you can embed images with regular <img> html tags. Although, I agree, a user-friendly search/url entry for images would be a great addition.
I'm not defending the practice, just explaining.
Interestingly, my understanding is that Somalia also has a fairly ubiqutious mobile payments system, which operates over SMS.

It's not perfect - it seems to rely on individual companies to remain honest, for instance - but one can go to a local market and add funds to their account with cash, then send those funds to others via a text message.

Seeing that such a system has still yet to take off in many industrialized countries, I find that pretty amazing :)
Really brilliant idea and I can definitely see this taking off. We built something like this at Cisco for physical security purposes so there's definitely a use case but I can see many more use cases for this.

My only gripe is that this service sounds more geared towards businesses as the pricing model for consumers seems expensive. Nonetheless, I'm rooting for you guys and can't wait to see what happens.
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I tried to use git annex assistant: I can get files to be backed-up on a server, but when doing sync between 2 different machines it has never worked (I've been doing the xmpp-setup dance multiple times, and it's especially painful due to having 2factor auth enabled on google)

I'll have to try using plain git annex from the commandline to try to understand what is going wrong (I already used it to clean some repositories that the assistant was refusing to delete)

PS: I tried it with 2 machines in the same LAN (both linux... though one of the 2 distros had a slightly older version of the git-annex package)
Reading Zorbist's paper on computer Go sparked my interest in Go playing programs. It would be great to have his old code, papers, etc. on something like github for a historical record.
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This is why I'm in favor of client-side compilation.

Devs compile to an intermediate language or bytecode of some sort, which then gets compiled on installation / first use / update of the client runtime client-side. Kind of like Java, but instead of being JITted (which causes inconsistent performance) it's compiled and cached.

That way things can be optimized for your specific architecture / computer.

Of course, you can actually do this at the kernel level.
We love to through around the words "alternative" and " replacement" it is neither until it is as easy to use/deploy as X for the average Joe. You know 90% of people out there who would't be able to out the words 'git', 'deploy' and 'heroku' in the right order as their eyes glaze over in confusion.
Gonna encourage one of the kids to name their firstborn L'eaughanne!

(Don't worry--they don't do any of the things I tell 'em to do, no matter much amusement it would give me.)
Otherwise why on earth would how someone wants to spend their free time have anything to do with their job performance?

This is exactly the conversation they don't want to get into.

Coming off another job hunting cycle, I think it completely and totally sucks how little feedback candidates get. But this attempt to argue that the company's reasons for not hiring you are wrong is exactly what the companies want to avoid. Even though the benefit to you is probably greater than the cost to them (which means there must be some Coasian solution), it's still something that can only have downside for the company. And people are very risk-averse to lawsuits.
I gave up reading before I got to what it was he did to improve the development rate - TL;DR anyone? :-)
Indeed, that would be a short-term spiked cost. Best case scenario is your product or service page is ready, tested and optimized so it has the impact on viewers that you want. And if your bandwidth persists in being higher then that's a good problem to have.
I do see the problem. You think the books they assigned you in high school were meant to be a representative sample of high literature or (worse!) of reading for fun. They're not.

For the sake of your soul, go get yourself some pulpy science-fiction this very instant!
Again: read the claims. From a quick glance, it seems a single flexible screen is used within a case, and the same screen presents the main display as well as the side display through a window in the side of the case (presumably the flexible display is bent at the sides.) That seems like an interesting approach I have not seen discussed before, and I can see some advantages (fewer components at the cost of potentially wasted screen real estate.)

Also, that should make moot the discussions so far on this thread about fragility of the design and validity of this patent.
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I was just listing what I assumed were the top 3 most popular non-Java languages on the JVM. But perhaps it's already been overtaken by Kotlin or Ceylon.
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Problem is that most employers are hiring for something very specific, something they haven't put on paper or maybe even deliberately decided in their head. It's not "we need a Java developer," it's "I need someone who somehow reminds me of that great guy I knew at my last job, even though it's unrelated to job performance."

edit to add:

You can interview the same way at 5 different places and get 5 extremely different responses based on the various personalities involved. You can't even go for "finding the strategy that works most often." If 4 places hate you and 1 place loves you, that sounds like an 80% rejection rate, but, like finding a buyer for your house or a partner in romance, you only need 1 person to love you. That's a success. It's a better result than having 2 places hate you and 3 places feeling lukewarm about you.
"What do we do when fundamental right X of person A conflicts with fundamental right Y of person B" is a question courts have been asking and answering for a very long time. There's a hell of a lot of ECtHR and CJEU case law on how to balance competing rights. I don't imagine it's any different in the US.

The US may draw the line a little further towards the direction of freedom of the press and away from privacy etc. than Europe does, but it's not like it's an unqualified right on either side of the pond.
This link seems to be breaking the HN comments for this page. :)
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Implementing “map” with “reduce”, in Ruby and Python
Great post. If you want to dig in even deeper you can learn certain nuances of underlying assembly language like loop unrolling, reducing the number of memory accesses, number of branch instructions per iteration of any loops by rewriting the loop, rearranging instructions or register usage to reduce the dependencies between instructions.

I took a CPSC course last year and for one of the labs we improved the performance of fread and fwrite C library calls by playing with the underlying assembly. We maintained a leader board with the fastest times achieved and it was a lot of fun to gain insight into the low level mechanics of system calls.

I digged up the link to the lab description - http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs261/2013w2/labs/lab4.html
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I realize that this may not be exactly what is being requested, but in the mean-time, you can get nice results via search. Here are some non-exhaustive examples:

1. "Show HN:" in the last 24 hours

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22Show+HN%3A%22#!/story/last_24h/...

2. "Show HN:" in the past week

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22Show+HN%3A%22#!/story/past_week...

3. "Show HN:" in the past month

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22Show+HN%3A%22#!/story/past_mont...

4. "Show HN:" in forever

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22Show+HN%3A%22#!/story/forever/0...

5. "Show HN:" points>1000 in forever

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22Show+HN%3A%22#!/story/forever/0...

* * *

Finally, there are "Advanced search syntax" options:

Use " to match a particular sequence of terms "search engine"

Use - to ensure a word won't appear in the result set 'search -optimization'

Use author:USERNAME or by:USERNAME to filter by author

Use story:ID to filter by story

Use points>NUMBER or points<NUMBER to filter by points

Use date>TIMESTAMP or date<TIMESTAMP to filter by date
Thanks. That looks like a good fit, and the paid plans are probably less than I would spend on a set of external drives anyway. I will give it a try.
Have you checked Hive2Hive? Something similar but not yet there. https://github.com/Hive2Hive/Hive2Hive
is clearly something to say when they realizes that in the world of android phones it is not always guaranteed by the manufacturers
Crazy. I heard an NPR interview with him a year or two ago, before he passed. This article was written in 1937.
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Holy god, this comment is awful.

Instead of encouraging an open source project, it punches the developers in the stomach.
"Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the popularity of HTML emails."

The question should be with whom are they popular. I think people who get emails don't care if they are HTML or plain text. Text savvy people might be very opposed to HTML mails.

The best way to achieve responsive design is to not use a design at all. Plain text especially with format=floated is responsive. If you use HTML, use only to highlight things you want to highlight and avoid huge graphics or graphics at all.

The idea of using more then one column, which I have seen sometimes, is beyond weird for me.
>>edit: Do people generally still turn off their home computers?

Yeah. My desktop computer eats up a lot of power even when idle. I do want the convenience of never turning it off, but I'd rather be environmentally friendly.
Very nice. I like the idea of this "HDK" as the post mentions. It would be useful in case that you want to conduct an experiment and use this HDK as your platform, and provide an easy way for others to fully understand your environment and test your results, eliminating any other factors.
In the same spirit, recently I found LittleFe [1]. I think it is now abandoned (based on the fact the the copyright message is still 2012 and the latest item in news was posted in March 2012), but it seems to be a good project.

[1] http://littlefe.net
> Note though, I'm not necessarily for or against this bill.

What bill are you referring to? If you mean the EU data protection directive that this decision's interpreting, it's been law since 1995.
This tiny startup thinks it can challenge Costco and Walmart
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What 4xx/5xx rejection codes mean at various stages of an SMTP transaction
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