skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that the resistant bacteria didn't suddenly evolve the resistance because the antibiotics were placed in the tray, they were already resistant to begin with. Therefore they didn't "struggle" to become anything, they already had the fit attributes for the situation. Hence why I say survival is a poor word choice as it implies struggle. Death of the non-fit on the other hand, has no such implication.

Obviously this is all very black and white edge cases and most of the time we're not talking about absolute death or survival, but decline or success of certain attributes within a given environment.

And yes, it probably is a terrible way of phrasing evolution from a PR standpoint ;)
I'm 22 and I'm a software developer/university student.
To be sure, we also typically throw away imaginary roots when factoring polynomials, since they'd represent nonphysical solutions. But the imaginary bits do come in handy for, well, nonphysical solutions, like measuring phase angle.

So while I tend to side with you that the philosophy bit is probably unnecessary, I would contend that there may be surprising usefulness in the nonsense solutions (or they're just nonsense; it's hard to tell looking at the future work that hasn't been done yet).
I think the idea is that the components are simple enough in the case that it can be reviewed visually by inspecting the circuit board and comparing it to a signed/verified reference.

The last bit that is missing then is the chip's firmware, but apparently it is possible to get a dump of the firmware, so you can at least ensure it is what you expect.

It will be a pretty interesting problem for cases. How can you both make a case that is practical and lets you inspect components? Maybe encasing the circuit board in transparent resin would work, but then you can't reprogram it anymore (which might be a feature).

EDIT: Oh, that username rang a bell. Hi Chris :) Keybase.io FTW!
Try my app voicepolls.com, we are very much based on the theory of crowds. If you intend to pursue this further you should give us a call and try our API. We do predictive analysis and have a very large active community!
Use the time to learn whats needed in a role rather than giving time away. Start a personal project, get the code on github and use that to showcase yourself.

Don't give your time away to other companies for free.
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Yep, everything I need to know is bookmarked and synced to my google account. If something is interesting enough I'll bookmark it, if not I'll close the tab.

Really the only time I'll have more than 5-6 tabs open is when I'm trying to read through an API documentation and I want to be able to reference multiple points quickly.
I think you mean "that y is far larger than x"
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http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-does-...

"Calorie estimation is used when no activities are logged or data is synced." If that's accurate, then it only "broke" calorie burn estimation on days when you didn't wear your Fitbit.
Please point this at the kernel.org mailing lists. Thank you.
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We will be releasing a .json endpoint for each question with all the meta data and results. Stay tuned!
Your pictures hold importance to you for obvious reason, but your impression that they are the result of some sort of technical perfection of hardware is absurd. I see very similar photos, by the dozens if not hundreds, every day on Facebook. By people taking the photos with their iPhone, GS5, or whatever else they happen to have. Those "fleeting moments" when, exactly because they are fleeting moments, they grabbed what they have on their body 100% of the day.

I feel like this is a debate from 2008, discussing the camera on your new Blackberry.
Posted this a few months back, it never got the attention the 'hoax' got.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
So all the reasons stated for this post apply to this earlier one, yet some HN posts get 'flushed' down as soon as they appear ... why? How?
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Yes, thank you. I corrected it.
Perhaps he means "I don't run windows, can I run I.E. on anything else, like it used to run on Solaris or under Wine"

Some people do exist that have Linux desktop / Android smart device as the only computers we can change.
Met Office granted £97m to build supercomputer
Maybe not 1000, but they had to put them in charge:

http://xkcd.com/984
If they can raise their prices to pass on the costs, why haven't they done so before, increasing their profits? If they can't, how is that passing on the costs?
It would be awesome if this was fast enough to run on every user. That way, you could make some sort of leaderboard for Haters.
This isn't anything new. It's long been accepted in the Catholic church. The problem is that catholics get lumped in with american fundamentalists. There's a good video on YouTube with Richard Dawkins debating/interviewing a bishop/scientist which gives a good overview of what catholics actually believe.
qBittorrent and Clementine also fit the bill.
I think OP was asking if you perhaps collapsed because you fell asleep on your feet. Or not.
None of the images show the other side of the board, but unless every trace is visible, it will be difficult to non-destructively inspect. If its only a 2 layer board then this just means scratching off the white silkscreen, which wouldn't be too bad. If its more than 2 layers, you would have to have access to an X-ray machine.
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"Suppose I stand up, twirl around a few times, and stop. Then I have the overwhelming impression that the entire universe is rotating. I feel it to be rotating—of course I know it’s not."

According to relativity, isn't the view that the universe is rotating just as valid as the view that you are rotating? It all depends on your perspective, and there is no privileged (absolute) vantage point or perspective.

Isn't that so? And if it is so, how can this physicist be ignorant of this?

[Update: Oops. I missed the "and stop" bit. That's what I get for reading HN while I'm half asleep. Sorry!]
> The libor scandal cost the U.S. at least $6 billion in interest charges (y) and another $4 billion just to unwind their positions.

Got a reference for that? Not being a dick just interested to read more. For that amount of damage to have occured in < 10 years it would require borrowingin the hundreds of billions wouldn't it?

Libor is an interesting and important concept. An open way to show its calculation should exist.
Glad you asked - we have a book [1][2] for this, at least up to 405.5 KiB.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_10...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/...
What's the use of a longer life if you can't have coffee the way you enjoy it?
What's so evil about Google?
If you think that's impossible to do now a days see this: a Modernd day Hoax of a 20 y/o disguissed as a powerful politician, for months. http://elpais.com/m/elpais/2014/10/23/inenglish/1414066819_4...

This was discovered this October.
really i dnt see people should panic abt it
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And indeed the converse happens often enough; Credit Suisse, RBS, Barclays and UBS have paid large fines (multi billion) to the US over the last few years.
I can't quite get a feel for the background and slant of some of these new web-only publications. I'm thinking of nautil.us and aeon.co in particular. They are science-focused, but lean toward philosophical topics.

I can't figure out if they are reputable sources that dabble in more abstract concepts, or if they are some kind of pseudo-science platform for crazy founders.
Second that, create a small portfolio of personal projects on github or contribute something back to opensource..

Show that you can code :)
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the most important thing for me is the team, the people I'm surrounded with, also like everybody else, autonomy, mastery, purpose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzHgN7_Hs8
I notice he cited Seralini (who claims GMOs cause cancer in rats). That's not a reliable reference.
There are a lot of comments along the lines of "why are the fines so low" or "why is nobody doing jail time?" And the answer to both those questions is: stiffer punishment would require stronger proof. Cartel activity, like much white collar crime in general, is extremely difficult to prosecute, because the difference between totally legal conduct and illegal conduct comes down to what people are thinking. Instead of being able to point to a huge stash of drugs, cases come down to the fine points of "who knew what when" and "who talked to who and about what."

To impose punitive fines or jail time, you need to bring criminal actions where you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt cases where the proof is in peoples' heads. Civil fines, on the other hand, have a much lower burden of proof: more likely than not.[1] That's why civil penalties and deferred prosecution agreements,[2] have become the tool of choice for regulators.

Frankly, you don't really want to live in a world where the government can impose criminal penalties on businesses for such loose facts as these. Understandably, banks aren't the most sympathetic defendants, but extrapolate this reasoning to the tech industry. Should Bill Gates be in jail for his role in the Microsoft antitrust activity? Should Eric Schmidt be in jail for his role in the employee wage suppression collusion?

[1] This description is America centric but the operative law is roughly similar in Europe.

[2] A deferred prosecution agreement is a settlement where a company pays a fine, agrees not to do whatever bad thing it did, usually agrees to some number of years of monitoring, in return for which the government defers charges and eventually drops them if the monitoring period ends without incident.
Author, here.

I updated this to show how to

1. Add a new user
2. Set up the config/flask project/git hooks/etc. with that new user
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As noted in the article, it is new in that it us seen as a return to the position of John Paul II from which Benedict XVI was seen to retreat.
So because of non-standard DRMed content, you decided that the best way of preventing that to be a problem in the future is to install the only non-standard browser which renders this non-standard DRMed content from the same provider?

Would you even considered that if that one provider was anyone but Google? No? If so, why do you give Google a free pass?
> use Google in an incognito window.

I've been doing that for a few years now. I only need to log in for GMail, basically. At once or twice a day max, it's not a big hassle at all.

In particular, I find that YouTube is much more useful if you're logged out. At least then the sidebar contains related or similar videos, instead of the stuff I watched last week.
Relativity doesn't apply to acceleration. If there were two bodies in the universe, and one accelerated away from the other, it doesn't depend on perspective. Each body is capable of independently determining whether it was the one accelerating, and both would come to the same conclusion.

The same applies to rotation. Accelerometers placed on my floor and on my body will detect the difference, and both will agree.
How do we verify the internal microcode and switch fabric of the TI CC2531?

IMO it seems like simply trusting the large block diagram that says "USB PHY" is a very weak point in the design.
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Precisely I think that it shows you in a funny way, how far talking to people can take you.
Does time exist outside of space/matter?

Isn't time (like darkness) merely a description of a state of space / matter?

It was/wasn't here, now it's here?
My interpretation of that quote is that he is referring to his impression after he stops. That's why he specifically references the stopping. You may be familiar with the experience - twirl around for a little bit then stop, and you will feel like the world ("entire universe"?) is still spinning. Even though it's not.

Of course, I may be ignorant of his actual intent.
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"Of course events in the world follow a directional sequence. Drop an egg on the floor and it breaks. You don’t see eggs assembling themselves."

The operative phrase here being "you don't see". Of course, seeing is a matter of perception and perspective. It could very well be that time is flowing "backwards" and eggs are in fact reassembling themselves, but we are just perceiving time in reverse.

You know, when I hear physicists try to tackle philosophical problems, it's usually kind of embarrassing. These guys are rarely trained in philosophy and are out of their depth.

As Feinman famously said to his own students, "Shut up and calculate."

I wish more physicists would follow his advice, and leave philosophy to philosophers.
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"JPMorgan received a 40 percent reduction in its fine for cooperating with the investigation, as well as a 10 percent reduction for agreeing to settle the case."

Not only is it only fines but now we are discounting the fines for cooperating.
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Special relativity says that there is no privileged perspective with respect to linear velocity, but general relativity showed that rotating reference frames are different, since one frame sees a centripetal forces while the other frames sees a centrifugal/gravitational force.

To put it differently, if I pass someone on the train moving at constant velocity, there's no experiment that I can perform which proves that I'm moving while the other person is standing still, or vice versa.

However, if I'm in a centrifuge, instead of on a train, then I can figure out which one of us is moving by measuring who is pressed up against the wall and making funny faces.
> If you're not out of your depth at least a little bit in your role, then it's probably time to be looking for a promotion. If you're a pure developer (and want to stay that way) it's time to find some harder problems, and if you've segued in to management, it's time to start thinking about how to do your boss's role.

Very well said, I think complacency is killer and thinking about how much you need to challenge yourself to move up the ranks is always a good think to reflect on.
This is not really a new idea.

If you take this a bit broader, you could not just link other crypto currencies to Bitcoin, but can use it to timestamp any types of data. For example, in mid-2013 I created a "public ledger" service based on Bitcoin: https://vog.github.io/bitcoinproof/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796935).

And even that wasn't really new. It dates back to forum entries and similar projects from 2011 and possibly earlier.

So while I like the basic idea of Sidechains, I don't like their presentation in the article as something totally new, without giving any credit to the history they build upon.
Interestingly, Simutronics tried to get on the graphical MMO bandwagon, but their product, Hero's Journey, never got finished.

The engine itself, HeroEngine, was somewhat successful, though. It was licensed for some successful titles (like Star Wars: The Old Republic).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeroEngine
Do you have a way of measuring? One of the companies I worked for was completely sunk by the "chief technical architect", who to the end was convinced he was making the right choices.
Thanks! I'm not really sure if a photo blog would be the best use for this tool. What I had more in mind is trying to get a text written in markdown as a printable book - the HTML output would be simply an online representation of that printable book.

Here's something in the way of an example:

Say you've got an image which is 1299x901 pixels, called "foo.png". It's pretty big because we want it to be a certain size when viewed at 300dpi (ie print quality).

Before the build, it'll be stored at a folder called "images/" at the root of your project folder. In your markdown text you reference its with its filename only. So you reference it as "![alt text](foo.png)".

If you build with the "--output html" option, the image will be copied over to the output folder, and it'll be referenced in the HTML as "<img width='415' height='288' src='images/foo.png'/>".

Note the width and height in the markup are reduced - this is so the image will keep its relative size with the text when viewed at 96dpi, but if you print the page it'll still look crisp and nice. (This is what happens when you create a print-ready PDF, too.)

If you build with the "--lo-res" option, the image will still be referenced in the HTML as "<img width='415' height='288' src='images/foo.png'/>", but the file will be reduced to that size when copied. So on one hand it'll take up less space, and on the other hand it won't be good to print.

Hope that clears things up a bit.
Every TRNG I've seen so far that uses "zener noise" is actually using the reverse breakdown voltage across the emitter-base junction of a cheap NPN transistor. This is a zener diode! The reason this form of zener is used is simply because the fab does not bother to put in any effort to reduce the avalanche noise. Noise like that makes zeners sold as zeners unpopular.

Zener avalanche noise is unpredictable. How is an attacker supposed to guess when the next electron/hole pair is going to be created in the depletion region? Physically, what happens is the emitter-base junction is reverse biased, turning it into a diode that is blocking current from flowing from the emitter to the base. Every once in a while, due to thermal noise and likely quantum effects, an electron jumps up a valence level, creating an electron/hole pair in the middle of the reversed-biased N/P junction, where there is a strong electric field. This launches the electron in one direction and the hole in the other, where they gain speed rapidly. The electron has higher mobility and will gain enough speed to bang into other electron/hole pairs, creating an avalanche of electrons.

There is no known way for anyone to guess when the next avalanche will occur, or how large it will be, so long as there is no outside signal controlling this effect. Implemented poorly, it can just put out power supply noise, and not true unpredictable entropy. Implemented well, it is a solid, reliable, cheap, and fast entropy source. It is absolutely critical that a zener noise TRNG has an open auditable design!

As for "quantum" effects, I consider that marketing fluff. What we need is provable, reliable unpredictability, not some radioactive decay or photon emission. We don't need 100% unbiased unpredictability either, just a signal that cannot be predicted with much accuracy.
Once upon a time, you could come across a post like this and confidently respond to it by pointing out that, no, Google's position as the default search engine in Firefox is not for sale to the highest bidder. So that even if, e.g.:

a) the "deal" with Google had never happened, and

b) Microsoft came out of nowhere and began offering to pay what Google is actually presently paying (or, let's say, just for fun, even double or triple that), all while

c) Google were making no offer to start paying

... then Google would still be the default search engine in Firefox, regardless.

The same almost definitely cannot be said today.
It definitely is a risk, but how big and how common? I mean, yes, you know where I was (and probably where I'll go if you get a hold of my home address, but it'll be stupid to put that online), stuff like that, but how many people would actually use that info to harm you? Even more, how will they use it? It's more our responsibility to make sure we don't put critical info online rather than watch out for hackers. Nothing to lose, nothing to worry.
No, I think the point is that your mind interprets the universe as spinning when you stop twirling. This is just an interpretation, as is the flow of time.
Attempting to control the consumer market by choosing a lesser chip does sound like something IBM would do. They were all about protecting their turf (as400 and mainframes).
It doesn't matter.

(disclaimer: googler)

I see it as a hubris against the idea that Google claimed to not be evil, and the fact that evil is such a poorly defined concept, and whether or not Google meets the bar depends entirely on the values of the perceiver. Many perceivers, for instance, miss the distinction between "Don't be evil." and "Don't do evil.". The former is a mindset, strategy, and intention, while the latter is impossible for a corporation with 50k employees.

Then, the only logical conclusion for someone who hasn't grasped all of the above is that Google is becoming more and more evil every day.
In Firefox, opening a browser with 200 tabs doesn’t mean that 200 tabs are immediately loaded. The browser will retain your tab state without loading the contents (apart from the tab you previously had open and any pinned tabs). If you click on an unloaded tab it’ll load the contents dynamically.
> Pretty much no sorting algorithm requires mathematical knowledge to work through, nor do many data structure algorithms. Concurrency resolution issues neither.

None of those requires _calculus_. I disagree about them not requiring maths.
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I think you're right, that makes much more sense. Haha. Revised answer.
I don't know the exact levels, but I was diagnosed with low iron in my teen years. The same span of time where I was obsessing over MMOs and mountain dew / red bull. I consume maybe one energy drink per month now, and have stable iron levels, so I also wonder if those are related.
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Exactly where my brain went, and, as a former Wired subscriber back in my teens, I feel like either my memory of them is fuzzy, or they've become more of a click-bait BuzzFeed-y kind of publication as time has progressed. Probably just fuzzy memory. ;)
There is a difference between the USPS tracking mail to ensure it does not get lost and the USPS giving that information to the FBI or other law enforcement agencies.
> Notice how convenient it is that ISIS showed up and suddenly we need to go to war with them just as Al Qaeda and that war were winding down?

Take off the tinfoil hat. It's not "convenient", it's what happens when a superpower withdraws from a region creating a huge power vacuum. What are you suggesting, that ISIS is a shadowy plot by Halliburton and the Illuminati?

Quite apart from which, the US does need to sort shit out in Iraq, seeing as the current mess is their fault.
Semantics makes that idea meaningless. "Interpreting" implies time flowing, so its circular.
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Get thee an Aeropress. Cheap, paper filters, 5 second cleanup, silly delicious output.

The phrase "I can't go back to drip, french press is so smooth" will seem laughable. :)
Advertisement is getting so much uglier nowadays. Worst part is that instead of exposing the company and give it good name, it only makes people like us disgusted at the fact that they're supporting this. Unfortunately, most people will never find out and maybe even the companies that are being advertised.
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