skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GA has nothing to do with evolution ?

GA uses evolutionary analogies and metaphors, but that is about as much the similarity between large scale algorithms and models to explore gene and evolution data goes. So really little or no similarity between the two except for use of common words.

To put it differently that academic program is as related to GA as, imaging algorithms to explore FMRI data is related to training artificial neural networks.

However the specific paper that you point to now, and changing GA to follow the nature's model is indeed an interesting idea.
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>Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.

There are quite a few shitty people in the world. As much as many of us hate to admit it, there are also quite a few shitty cultures. Any 36 year-old man, from any culture that has ever existed, that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she's 13 is a piece of shit. Any culture or individual that condones such behavior shouldn't exist anymore.
But again -- 60+ years ago... Close to WWII.

The only ones still keeping the indignation alive from that time period are the Palestinians (because they are refused citizenship by the Arab countries) -- and Iran....? (And some Japanese islands?)

Also see my point about things working very differently, now. Go back and see the extinction of the indians or the Spanish war (I think that is the US name?). The same goes for most every country the further back in history you go; e.g. wimpy Sweden taught the Germans everything they know about atrocities to civilians...

If you have nothing to say in four comments, I doubt you have more in email.

You still haven't touched my original point. I really think you (is there more than one person?) write all this irrelevant text since you are unable to answer -- and a True believer can't change your opinion(s). So you just hide it, by damaging HN with drenching it in text.
The fitness regime I got more out of than anything else has been interval training.

I worked out with weights for years and occasionally would do some cardio. I think the logic was... cardio doesn't make you look good in a swimsuit like lifting weights does, and at the time impressing ladies and intimidating other guys was priority (lets don't lie to ourselves about motive here!).

Then, I got a little older and impressing ladies became less important and general health and a sense of well being more important. I read an article that made me realize many of the same principals of weight training can be applied to inner muscles as well. A knowledgeable person wouldn't go to the gym and lift 5 pound 300 times and expect to get stronger. Instead they would lift 80% of what they could 5 times in sets. This is what builds strength.

The same principal applies to interval training for heart and lungs. Rather than getting on a treadmill for 45 minutes at a slow slog you push yourself to a percent of max heart rate for like 3 minutes in sets (the same as weight training). The workouts don't take that long and I found they greatly improved my feeling of health and general vigor. There are a number of studies on the benefits of improved heart stroke volume etc. from interval training which I can't find at the moment.
The important thing to remember is that while there maybe more specific laws against what happened on Gox in other markets that doesn't mean that what Gox did was some how ok in the eyes of the law. A fraud is a fraud customer money _is_ missing.

On the topic of price manipulation in other markets if you follow financial news at all there have been a rash of cases of banks paying large fines and even pleading guilty to manipulation of at least the libor rate and gold prices and there are supposedly more on going investigations into price manipulation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-06/royal-bank-of-scotl...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/08cafa70-e24f-11e3-a829-00144...
But it is still by far the most readable text data format out there. Which is the reason for its wide adoption. I'll be downvoted, but I really believe in this.
My db engine has also pluggable key-value back ends. It gives great flexibility.
I think that is called quantitative easing.
14 years ago I snowboarded off a cliff into the top of a pine tree, and pulled my arm from its socket. In 2009 I fell ~20ft into the sea whilst kitesurfing, badly dislocating the same shoulder. It resulted in a pretty crazy shoulder operation that needed a lot of work to get back range of motion and strength.

I started with physiotherapy and once the range of motion was back I slowly moved onto weights (using Starting Strength). It went well, but I can't claim to have loved it like I do snowboarding.

A friend suggested going to a Krav Maga[1] class he attends. I haven't looked back since, and do between 2 and three sessions a week. I dropped the weights and Rip's diet advice, and went back to eating like I always do (pretty healthy, good mix of red meat and pasta and potatoes, vegetables).

I've put on weight (always been slim), strength is back to what it was, and I've not been this fit since I was conscripted in 1988.

Whilst I'm sure weights would do more for how I look (secondary for me, I've always been good with girls anyway), Krav Maga does more for how I feel. I guess there's no silver bullet that works for everybody. You try a few things on, and keep what suits.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga, and https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=ce9c6cf4-6b3e-419...
Not a bad article. It is worth noting that TNG was super soft-sci-fi not "real" sci fi and as such reflects its era's social commentary, nothing more, no alternative universe type of effect which is so interesting about hard sci fi.

Don't have to limit consideration solely to Trek series to see a growing pessimism about the future from a cultural perspective. A smooth drift across all cultural properties from utopian to dystopian futures.

If you do want to have a tech talk about Trek, specifically TNG, its fun to recall tech of that era. I had an old XT class PC and watched it on a Sony Japanese made 12 inch SD TV, and for the TNG premiere, they simulcasted the audio on a local FM radio station in stereo, which sounded pretty awesome. Then after an episode I'd dial into a local BBS and discuss, of course a BBS being a BBS that means a good discussion takes about a week, which is just about right... About two years into the series I got access to usenet and eventually a SLIP account on the internet (SLIP being kinda like a static configured by hand networking parameters with out-of-band authentication, but otherwise kinda like PPP, of course in this post-modem era maybe PPP is becoming unknown?).
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Yeah our culture is the best! Everyone else is wrong!
> He decides that culture is the only real reason he shouldn't marry someone who was "about 9 to 12" when he's 36.

This is why I hate cultural relativists. They use it as an excuse to throw morals and common sense out the window.
Umm... here's a passage from a year old Forbes op/ed: "... about half of real health expenditure growth is attributable to medical technology. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation goes on to say that advancing technology may have a particularly large impact on spending in the U.S. because of “few requirements that effectiveness be demonstrated before technologies are used broadly and concern that their application tends to go beyond those patients likely to benefit the most from them.”"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/04/03/whos-to-blam...
And then he just left, so I'm not sure what "marriage" even means in this context. Under our laws it would be something more like "statutory rape" but I do wonder what actually applies here.

This isn't something I've looked into, just something I saw on 20/20 or some similar show once, so you might be right that it only applies to those setting up tours or going on them rather than to conduct that happens overseas.
Most sci-fi shows men kind in good form controlling a few plannets around. I would call it great success.
After 2 comes "many."
To be able to defer the re-encoding of rows (e.g. when ALTER changes column order) the row header must store the version/identifier of the format used to encode it. You can also do it block-at-a-time instead of row-at-a-time, so only each block would store a version/identifier of the format. But any way, deferrable re-encoding means some storage overhead and inconsistent UPDATE performance after ALTER until all rows (or all blocks) have been re-encoded.
+1 for NW EMC, I enjoyed working with them.

What I meant was there's no detail on the modulation they are planning to use and no mention of frequency hopping.

I wonder what they mean by "Ultra Narrow Band", at those bit rates it seems you would need hardly any bandwidth at all anyway.
Why is this downvoted exactly?
Some one should make a series out of Iain M. Banks Culture novels. I find them very optimistic regarding technological advancement, its societal influence and liberal coexistence of minds of very different kinds and power.
Sure, I get that. However, I don't seem to have any viable ideas for a profitable business (or if I do, they don't come to mind when I'm in the mood to build something). :/
As someone who started lifting a year ago: you don't know what you're talking about, but don't let that stop you from giving others advice that could hurt them.

For the rest of people interested in getting strong: get a competent trainer (one easy evaluation metric is, as I mentioned, their deadlift maxes; greater than 500 pounds makes avoiding injury w/o good form very unlikely; or participation in powerlifting events; etc).
One of the MySQL founders is Finnish, but it was in Sweden. (InnoDB was Finnish, iirc.)
How is it that Google doesn't penalize them for this?
I thought it's considered a big no-no to show people something different than what you show the crawler.
This is good advice. It's the philosophy adopted by Papa Parse, http://papaparse.com - try to gracefully handle malformed CSV and report all errors so they're obvious and actually helpful by telling the user where the syntax error is at.

Trying to compensate for bad CSV format will more likely cause headaches and confusion rather than clarity. It can also discourage the need for CSV writers to be rigorous about their output formatting.
That looks kinda neat! Did anyone ever do a port of it to Mac?
If anyone wants to read the Declaration of Independence as linked in the article (or any Sribd document blurred in a similar fashion), here's a bookmarklet that will remove the blur and promo boxes: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f9a222112070b2313b27

It's funny, I actually used a similar trick (text-shadow + transparent font) for an optometrist's website a long time ago. It was just a neat visual effect though, no DRM garbage.
We should be demanding that modern revision control tools are put in place everywhere they're appropriate. This case is a poster child for it, but even more so it should be standard in the legislative process to have commit authors and changelogs. Every citizen should have ridiculously easy access to the current laws and regulations they are bound by, along with who wrote those laws and who lobbied/campaign funded them to write those laws. This is especially true given the fact that ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it.
I own this book and found it rather disappointing. Somewhat chaotic, with poor treatment of many subjects. Lacks consistency.
JSON is arguably more complex than CSV. Though it is at least well-defined (mostly).

However, that doesn't excuse sloppy CSV writers.
I couldn't have said it any better, myself. Not all cultures are good. Quite a few of them are, in fact, terrible, and should no longer exist.
>A friend had his laptop's chipset reballed there

Sounds like he got scammed. Reballing only is a temporary few months at the most fix. Its not the pcb-bga contact that fails, its the silicon-bga package that has the problem. Reballing heats up whole chip and by accident reseals broken solder joints directly under the silicon. Those joints will crack again because NVIDIA used bad glue that gets plastic under heat stress.

The only way to fix bad Nvidia GPU is to replace it with a brand new one from the fixed batch with new glue formula.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjmBv6nvUOM
On the other hand, by the last episode in 1994, I was spending around eight hours a week in transatlantic multi-party video conferences over the Internet using IP multicast. That and this little thing called the web had already taken off. Looking back, a lot changed in the early 1990s.
Holy shit, I thought you were kidding. I am glad you included the screenshot!

For lack of better words, Quora has always struck me as expertsexchange 2.0. There is nothing wrong with being the reincarnate-2.0.-site, but Quora seems to be resurrecting demons and zombies and death we'd rather stay in the ground.

(For comparison, I consider Reddit, with its thousands of subreddits to be a form of usenet 2.0)
So they do something slightly different from Stack* and they're "considered harmful"?

The screenshot I linked should be enough to immediately disprove any accusations of "spam".
There are enough arbitrage bots out there now that major differences between the exchanges flatten out rather quickly.
WikiProject Medicine has come down hard on anything even tangentially medicine-related, including alternative medicine practices. (Although wikiprojects don't "own" content areas, obviously sensible application of the content rules in a manner anyone not stupid would support is likely to pass.)
Definitely. In my opinion, you shouldn't do something you don't like, and I don't like going to gyms, so after multiple years I've now quit and it feels pretty good. I think it's important to find another sport you like though. Now I do climbing and experiment with other things. Much more enjoyable than grinding three days a week.
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I agree that you don't need any new fancy techniques and equipment to get in shape.

However, doing the same week every week just isn't very fun.

Most of the problem with being and staying in shape is the lack of interest in it.

The author enjoyed weightlifting because he had never done it before and he saw himself getting stronger, which is very fun the first time you do it.

The most important part of a fitness program is interest and motivation. A close second should be safety, but generally you can get into decent shape doing almost any sport or activity.

For me, this article's fitness program, Starting Strength, sounds insanely boring, but that is because I have been doing these lifts off and on since I was 15 years old. And I did them a lot in college for football, so, it no longer appeals to me.

I say, find something that is interesting to you and do that thing. It can be yoga, martial arts, soccer, basketball, walking, whatever, as long as you really enjoy it you will do it hard enough to get in shape and improve your health.
(Are you talking about Papa, seeing that your comment is a response to mine?)

That CSV text is malformed. Arguably, the parsing succeeded, but the expected errors were generated and reported.
HIV can "cut and paste" in the human genome
Second best design decision: active, involved and highly visible moderator.

I think dang's efforts have made things a lot better around here. The two biggest visible changes are the title change notices and the reminders that acting like a decent human being is a prerequisite for commenting. I cheer every time I see one of the "we changed the title from X to Y" posts. I wish the reminders were not neccessary but I think they are a lot better for the community in the long run than anonymous downvotes with no explanation. I like to think of the reminders as "sit down and shut up you little twit messages" but of course dang keeps it a lot classier and also finds a way to educate the rest of the community:

> Comments like this are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban people
> for this, especially when they don't have a history as a positive
> contributor here. Please don't do it again.
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Just suggesting that we'll control a lot of real estate isn't much of an optimistic view of the future. Historically, exploration and colonization went hand in hand with subjugation.
Babylon 5's ending had a lot of downs, but it did end in a good place for humanity.
I walk/run every night in order to feel better mentally. I wish I didn't need too, but without exercise everyday I don't feel well mentally. It's been the Only medicine that
has ever worked on my brain. My body still looks like chit, but I don't care anymore.
What exactly is your use-case? Are you trying to host paywalled documents, or just host the docs for internal use?
Been a while since I thought about Scripting.com. It was the first "blog" I really read. I thought I was so cutting edge: had a reader app on my Palm (Sony Clie) that I synced and could read offline. Good times.
Cofounderslab and angelist are great resources. I met my cofounders on angelist, they tracked me down, and I was a little hesitant because they were from Asia, but they had the front end mostly coded and had some big investors interested in the platform and now we're in BoomStartup the 12th ranked accelerator in the world, and you have no idea how awesome it is to be in an accelerator.
Well, considering that Chinese is mostly a linguistic isolate, that doesn't necessarily contradict the thesis. Japanese has a writing system and a lot of vocabulary borrowed from Chinese, and I know less about Korean but I think it also has plenty of vocabulary borrowed from Chinese. Do any of your friends natively speak one of those languages and still consider Mandarin more difficult than, say, English?
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I don't really subscribe to the misinformed view that one has to be perfect in order to recognize a flaw. I criticize my own culture as much as any other, perhaps more.
Don't forget you'll have to re-un-click them every time they add another point to the list!
Stargate was pretty hopeful about the future. Although it is somewhat set in the present it does touch on the future quite a few times.
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The most fantastic aspect of Star Trek isn't warp drive, teleportation, or replicators. It's a competent bureaucracy.

Starfleet seems to be just that: competent, usually very trustworthy, fair, and honest. Almost equally unbelievable is a society that isn't incredibly emotionally dysfunctional. There is little in the way of psychopathy, narcissism, addiction, unhealthy ideological fanaticism, or depression on display among the protagonists.

Cyberpunk has proven to be the most prophetic of the sci-fi genres by far. It's done that by being technologically optimistic and socially pessimistic. So far it seems right on-- technology continues to advance, but globally it looks as if the normal arc of society is from freedom to despotism followed by a decay into syndicated criminality. The mafia state -- almost exactly as depicted in the common cyberpunk setting -- looks like the ascendant future. If there are warp-driven starships in the future they will likely be flown by the various factions of the Russian mob, the American criminal overworld, Los Zetas, Chinese Triads, and of course the Yakuza. If they look like contemporary business and governmental organizations, the captain will be a narcissist/psychopath and his immediate subordinates fawning codependents.
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ocaml-csv can handle anything Excel can throw at it (and throw it back). Worked out well in the real world.

https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/csv/
Have you tried Papa Parse?
As one of the many people who lost money in the Gox implosion, this is nauseating to read.
On a less related note, I heard they recovered 1/5 of the missing bitcoins awhile ago. Anyone know what will happen to that 1/5?
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I completely agree but in this case the title was sensationalist. There is only one sentence mentioning algorithms and it doesn't have any substance.
Awesome to see Turkey showing up big on this map, had no clue that the sport was so popular there.
Sounds like quite a feat considering hair dryer wont produce more than 50-60'C and solder needs >180'C to even start thinking about melting.

Hair dryer in Bunnies case was used to heat up the GLUE between glass and screen.
My theory is that Bitcoin is used by the elite in China as just another way of transferring money out of the country. Buying Bitcoin from a Chinese exchange, and selling it on an American exchange, allows you to transfer money between countries, avoiding foreign exchange regulations.
I think Internet made us not so naive about the future considering how we really are, specially after we get some kind of power. And the present is making us even more pessimistic about it.
The question is how much new cash was really put into Mt. Gox to buy while they were dumping and the price was crashing?
I watched "Star Trek: Into Darkness". At first I was like "Kirk should be fired." Then I was like "Everyone on the Enterprise should be fired." Then I was like "Everyone in Starfleet should be fired." Then I was like, "Wow, I've never wanted to fire an entire civilization before, and this movie has given me a new appreciation for the importance of rules and regulations in real life."
Google Drive, AFAIK, doesn't allow you to monetize/paywall your content, which appears to be the draw of using Scribd - not as a superior hosting/viewing platform, but as a distribution platform.
perhaps examples of each of them, when you load the app would be good. Rather than having people to guess you need 8/9/10 digits to see a barcode would help people here. But it looks pretty sweet !
This is somewhat off topic, but I've always thought of Library Genesis as a modern-day Library of Alexandria. Both contain vast stores of priceless knowledge, and both employ(ed) somewhat less than optimal means of obtaining their books.

I wonder if the individuals who wrote that report can see the similarities too. It's going to be a sad day if they manage to raze LibGen as well.
I rather liked David Brin's take on the Culture:

"...Culture Universe was among the few to confront straight-on the myriad hopes, dangers and raw possibilities that might be faced by a humanity-that-succeeds."

http://davidbrin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/science-fiction-lame...

NB If anyone wants to get a quick taste of the Culture visiting the Earth the BBC Radio 4 version of "The State of the Art" is available on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU
According to they official announcements, these are going to be liquidated to pay some part of the debt to creditors.
You have to give some credit to HP, they are trying really hard.
As a technical fix to the Scribd copy-paste problem you could implement a user script to perform frequency analysis on the text of the document and to correct the text as it is being loaded substituting the DRM font for a regular one. (You can't easily perform the substitution at copy time with JavaScript and put the modified text into the clipboard.)