skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And the general conspiratorial narrative is that the US is trying to blame a blameless North Korea to achieve...something. Not sure what."

To assume the US Government's PR team won't use anything/everything to reinforce, reiterate or bolster it's own agenda is just idiocy. There are far too many examples throughout history where it has.

Whether or not that means that this investigation is a farce, is another question.
Evolution has no "purpose". That's not what scientists believe about it.
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Usually I would agree, but this is a website built by the team behind the framework. When you're making a tool for people to use you really need to put your best foot forward.
Krebs on FBI implication of North Korea in Sony hack
A lot for the DayJob, unfortunately little more than nothing for side projects.
You think the movie never existed? So the whole thing is a conspiracy by Sony and the US government? So Sony intentionally leaked all their own financial data? Sony leaked all their own private compromising emails?
> I don't know when we would stop classifying a species as Homo Erectus and start calling it Homo Sapien

Unlike other animals where the key factor is morphology (horse -> giraffe) for humans it is the ability to operate as a group and ultimately as a society.

30kya sees hominids adapt to most areas of the world (northern asia, americas) and 10kya civizaltion starts. Although not the traditional biological definition, I would say that's the most salient factor.
I am not sure if I get the reference or the story. Are you saying that Google leaked those emails somehow?
Thanks! No intention to compete, as it says on the page it's not meant for professional purposes (of course, success might change that). It's mostly a pet project to monitor pet projects.
Or cut it's oxygen supply / blood flow.
It seems like they use less Indian plants, and more EU plants, based on some quick searches. But I didn't find a comprehensive list.

But additionally, it's part of corporate culture. In fact, the article I linked to says that Ranbuxy had a manufacturing plant in the US, and that plant ended up making pills containing glass fragments. So it seems more of who is "in charge". That said, I'd trust stuff manufactured by a EU company in a EU location more than manufactured in a less controlled location.

I have noticed that local companies of a global corp will misbehave in incredible ways. And some US companies might not realise just how bad it can get on-site, in country. They are big on deferring things to their local subsidiaries, figuring they know best. For instance, MS has had huge problems with local companies in Latin America. From misrepresenting the success and adoption, to pure outright theft. It's unlikely you'd see the same thing happening on the same scale at MS's North Carolina or Toronto office, for instance -- just because there's a higher chance of someone speaking up.

I'm not saying the US or EU are infallible or better, just that people might not be acutely aware of how "flexible" other countries can be at breaking laws. (And not that I blame "the locals" entirely, the risk/reward is so excellent, in addition to a generally poor background situation, that I'm not sure I'd necessarily do better put in the same position. (Same for crime: If I could pull a gun on someone with low risk of being caught, and make off with several months' salary, it'd be a large temptation if I didn't have steady housing/food/etc.))

Of course, this might be selection bias plus some personal biases I have just poking through.
Pro tip, if you equate trolls with neo-Nazis and trolling with hate speech, you are not qualified to speak about either.
We're still thinking through how to approach this, but it's definitely on our radar. Honestly, in my old role in clinical medicine, I'd counsel parents only to treat symptoms if their child seemed uncomfortable or fussy. If they're playing and eating and acting normally, leave em alone. If they seem uncomfortable, children's motrin or ibuprofen is enough to relieve much of their discomfort.

Of course here's my disclaimer that this is not medical advice, and you should talk to a pediatrician. :)
Update - we've updated the extension to support Gmail Right-Side Chat. To get the new version immediately, you'll need to force an update to the extension.

More info: https://twitter.com/FullContactApp/status/545982407137329152
If anyone is curious about what it looks like to build with Meteor, I've been working on a site that shows off building day-to-day features with the platform: http://themeteorchef.com/.
A film is usually completed many months before release; photography generally wraps more than a year in advance of release. The script can float about for years before release. Scripts aren't secret, with rare exceptions (eg a big franchise film like the new Star Wars) - they're shred around freely, because any script worth its salt is registered with the Writer's Guild for copyright establishment purposes, so there's no big advantage to keeping it secret. Only film buffs enjoy reading film scripts, the general public does not.

Details about who's attached to a project as a star/director, or senior technician are easily available through trade newspapers and industry newsletters. The 'packaging' of a film ('Seth Rogen to star in The Interview') is the first stage of the marketing, taking place as long as 2-3 years before release, sometimes longer. Basically the way you get a film made is this: Write the script; find some famous actors who like it; get them to sign (largely) non-binding 'letters of intent' to act in it if it manages to attract financing; call up investors (including studios) and say 'do you want to put up the money for this? It's a great script, and I've got letters of intent from Seth and James!'; proceed to the stage of writing more binding contracts once you have money in the bank.

Long story short, there has been plenty of time for NK to become aware of the film and get offended about it. By some accounts the idea was in development since the last decade but got shelved when Kim Jong-Il died.
Given that reproducibility is the standard by which scientific publications are usually judged, what would be the reason for only making the code available upon special request rather than simply making it available as part of the publication? This feels like publishing a paper about an experiment and saying "methodology available by special request".
I think this is the better approach.

My Cell provider charges me overages, I can't upgrade to a better plan - there is none (honestly, how?) - so they charge me. The result? Last time my contract ended I changed provider.

If a customer is >X% over their limits, you should be selling them something better. If they don't want to upgrade their plan then it's time to start penalizing them for abusing the boundaries of the agreement.

If my cell provider had emailed me with "Your usage has been over your bandwidth limit by >5% we have Plan X for $$$ more that gives you XX% more bandwidth if you're interested, or overage charges will start being charged if plan overage continue."

Heck, I changed internet provider to one that offered sizeable bandwidth caps when I got Netflix, and I purposefully opt to pay extra for unlimited. I've only gone over their highest cap twice in two years, but I've often skirted near the limits. I'd rather pay a little more and be a happy customer, than be price gouged on overages.
Devil is in the details, but the source actually talks against you here:

This happens because your router or firewall is trying to clean up dead connections. It's seeing that no data has been transmitted in N seconds and falsely assumes that the connection is no longer in use.
To rectify this you can add a Keep-Alive. This will ensure that your connection stays open to the server and the firewall doesn't close it.

In other words: What keep-alive does is that it prevents routers/middle-ware-boxes to forget that the connection exists in the first place. This is not needed on a clean internet connection where everything is treated as stateless and simple routing is everything that is done.
Yeah, the relevant snippit is here:

However, we never observe collapse to a single eigenstate of
a continuous-spectrum operator (e.g. position, momentum, or
a scattering Hamiltonian), because such eigenfunctions are
non-normalizable. In these cases, the wave function will
partially collapse to a linear combination of "close"
eigenstates (necessarily involving a spread in eigenvalues)
that embodies the imprecision of the measurement apparatus.

I suppose I just took away that the particle 'point' idea is likely just an asymptotic approximation of what the thing could be modeled as, but in reality - deep down at the atomic scales - it's really a 'linear combination of "close" eigenstates'.
Sure, but IMO enough many systems use NTP only in a sntp manner to mention it.
You are confusing authentication and encryption. Authenticated time protects against MITM attacks. You can obtain authenticated time synch from many national labs, such as NIST[1] or CRC[2].

I do not understand the need for confidentiality.

[1]: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/auth-ntp.cfm

[2]: https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/solutions/advisory/calibratio...
I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST, but liver damage is more often caused by acetaminophen, it is quite rare with ibuprofen which tends to be associated with gastrointestinal bleeding or in extreme cases kidney damage (however ibuprofen is not as likely as other NSAIDs like Naproxen to cause kidney damage or failure)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibuprofen#Adverse_effects

Update: 1G pills mentioned by parent may be children's dosage of acetaminophen http://www.drugs.com/imprints/1g-17321.html
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Besides the price is there anything different between the US and International editions? There must be a trick here... ?
All of that may be true, but it doesn't mitigate the fundamental problem: it's a CO2-releasing fossil fuel. Alternative energy sources don't just magically drop out of the sky through the inexorable march of utopian technology - they get developed through effort. The more expensive and inconvenient a fuel is, the higher the incentive to work on alternatives. Again, why widen the gap by improving extraction efficiency? In the short term, it will increase use by lowering the price, and in the long term it will slow the development of clean fuels. Neither of these is good for the environment.

Incidentally, we already have an alternative large-scale energy source - nuclear. It has problems (mainly red tape and waste-disposal), but the worst-case scenario for nuclear doesn't involve the mass-destruction of ecosystems and coastal towns across the globe.
A lot of work really can be boiled down to CRUD though.

For more advanced stuff, it's great for prototyping ideas, in fact I think that's where it really excels. It's a super simple language with a massive ecosystem, you can very easily play with ideas or start the basis of an application. Then once you've solved the business logic problems it's generally simple to move to a higher performance language.
btw, the ping engine is a Go app that pings each hosts in a separate goroutine. I might open source it in the future once the code has more tests and less shame.
Not really. Trying to explain your code to someone else helps you understand better as much as it helps someone else to understand it. You only explain it at a high level unless there is a complicated part that you might then go through line by line.
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For implementing Python, you have at least five options:

- Naive interpreter (CPython). Everything is a dict. Slow.
- Transliterate to some hard-compiled language, but all data is still one kind of dynamically typed object (Nuitka). A little faster, and compatible, but has limited optimization potential.
- Infer types and try to create appropriate code in a faster language (Shed Skin). Hard to do, but promising. (Shed Skin has one implementor.)
- Restrict the language (RPython) Potentially much faster, but incompatible.
- Build a JIT compiler/interpreter combo and handle all the hard cases that require recompiling during execution (PyPy). Hard to do, and results in a huge system, but almost compatible. After 10 years of work, it's finally happening.

If you're willing to restrict the language, it's much easier. RPython was written only to help build PyPy, but the concept could be extended to allow most of Python. Both Shed Skin and RPython insist that type inference succeed at disambiguating types. If you're willing to accept using an "any" type when type inference fails, you can handle more of the language.

The big boat-anchor feature of Python is "setattr", combined with the ability to examine and change most of the program and its objects. This isn't just reflection; it's insinuation; you can get at things which should be private to other objects or threads and mess with them. By string name, no less. This invalidates almost all compiler optimizations. It's not a particularly useful feature. It just happens to be easy to implement given CPython's internal dictionary-based model. If "setattr" were limited to a class of objects derived from a "dynamic object" class, most of the real use cases (like HTML/XML parsers where the tags appear as Python attributes) would still work, while the rest of the code could be compiled with hard offsets for object fields.

The other big problem with Python is that its threading model is no better than C's. Everything is implicitly shared. To make this work, the infamous Global Interpreter Lock is needed. Some implementations split this into many locks, but because the language has no idea of which thread owns what, there's lots of unnecessary locking.

Python is a very pleasant language in which to program. If it ever gets rid of the less useful parts of the "extremely dynamic semantics", sometimes called the Guido von Rossum Memorial Boat Anchor, it could be much more widely useful.
I am happy to give you information (your rough quote) in exchange for information (learning about your need). That is a fair trade because while I can scale my product or service, I cannot scale my time. If I misallocate my time on customers who are not qualified, I starve. You are uncomfortable with this because you are not serious. When you are serious, when there is a real need and real value, this isn't an issue for you.
Ubuntu accepts arbitrary time jumps, the attack was presented live at BH with an Ubuntu System.
So you mean they use it to create an application that allows them to... talk about lisp.
I don't think inbox is meant to replace Gmail's current UI. It's meant to be a simple interface for a specific workflow. That will probably be fine for the average gmail user, but I can't see it replacing Gmail.
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@rglover, I'm actually about to do a side project for a family friend. I'd really like it to be something I could do quickly. Basic crud dealing with a lot of inputs, but I want to use Postgres.

What's meteor got for me?

I am honestly interested, as much as the marketing edge of Meteor annoys me I'd like to believe there is some truth to some of the hype.
Ask HN: Where do you find remote work?
Hi,

You might remember me from my last post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644822

I'm still trying to find remote work and I still couldn't find anything.

At this point I'm considering to switch career and become a mechanic, carpenter, chef, or something else.

Because 1) I can't find any work locally. 2) I can't find any remote work.

Why have jobs become so scarce? It didn't used to be like this, at least in our area of expertise.

Rails programmer here.

Suggestions welcome. I'm open to work on more things than just Rails work.
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Recovered from a traumatic brain injury from a motorcycle accident.
Moved from Melbourne to Seattle.
Got a job at Amazon.
Most importantly though, understood myself, the people around me and the world much better. :)
The batteries have a 200+ mile range, which should be more than enough for a standard commute to and from work in a single day.
as a study of one, how do you know it isn't the placebo effect?
Heh, yeah, that's a silly argument. But in that case I'm very glad for him that linux doesn't have a command called "hypolimnion"! Just type it in to see what I mean.

(Heh. I just realised that I never even bothered to change the 'hjkl' keys, in vim, as navigation keys, on the dvorak layout. It took about no time at all to get it into my system. I just stopped thinking about it.)
Case 1: Not sure what country you live in, but intelligence isn't the deciding criteria for selecting leaders in ANY of the few countries I have lived in.

Case 2: Though it's very true that all of the companies you have mentioned are working on AI systems, none of those systems need to be as intelligent as a human to be very good at the job they are intended for. Take Google Car for instance. Will Google some day soon have a car that will be possibly even safer at driving a car than a highly skilled human driver? YES! Does the AI in the car need to be even 1/2 as intelligent as my dog to do that task? No. Specialized AI is the future, general purpose AI is simply not necessary, and also, not really achievable any time soon.

> Yes, quite a bit actually. I certainly don't know anyone who wishes they were less intelligent.

Again, it's the motivations you have to pay attention to. Why do people want to be smarter? So they can have a better startup? So they can invent X, code X, build X? So, they don't want intelligence for intelligence sake, they want a tool. They don't want intelligence for it's own sake. Some people are smart, and as a result, very proud of the fact that they are smart. However, would they be as proud of their intelligence if they knew that at least part of it is augmented by an IBM chip. Again, there is no motivation to develop intelligence for intelligence sake. There are motivations to develop information syntheses "AI", but that would hardly supplant humans any time soon.
"Why make caps lock into backspace?"

Because you use it that often. Or at least, I do. Maybe you're a much better typer than I am, and for that matter, much better at correctly typing what I want in the first place, but I consider it an important key.

One issue with using statistics to layout your keyboard is that you if you analyze your layout via text corpus, you'll come up with a usage of 0 on the backspace key. This is inaccurate. You really ought to do an analysis based on actual key usage, but that data is much harder to come by. (You'll probably just have to take your lumps on the possibility that changing the layout would itself change key usage.)

Oh, and per other comments on the difficulty of trying out new keyboard layouts... rewriting how you do all the letters is very challenging. But if you are interested merely in trading Caps Lock for backspace, you can literally try this at any time; adjustment will take on the order of 5 minutes, tops, as long as you unmap the original backspace key. And it's about a minute to switch back if you don't like it. Professional keyboard users really ought to be people who have tweaked at least a key or two, if not tried entire layout switches. It's so fast and easy to run the experiments.
s/static/void/
We are talking at cross points. My, and I believe others, issue with the source you posted is that after stating that the actual central-valley land is cheap, it ignores the rights-of-way costs, which is where many believe a lot of the cost savings really are. It's hard to be definitive with the sources I've seen so far, because while they are all happy to post numbers for costs, few seem willing to break those down into what the cost is for, and since we are talking about different types of structures, it's hard to say whether the comparisons apply well.

As an example, your source states that the tube weight (for the larger plan) would be up to twice a train weight and thus would not cost less to build, and links to his own listing of train weights which are, as he states "To the best of my ability, I've tried to give dry weights, without passengers." That seems to imply that this is also without cargo. To my knowledge, most rail in the Western U.S. is built to handle cargo, and I imagine that's much heavier than commuter trains, and that could greatly affect building cost (to be clear the hyperloop could move cargo as well, but the relative dynamic weight of the cars to the static tube weight is much lower, yielding a smaller weight range). That leaves me without enough information to assess whether this is even a fair and valid comparison to make. There are other important factors as well, such as the weight of the hyperloop cars traveling through the tube that would need to be addressed if the tube weight was more favorable to train weight.

What this comes down to is that with respect to building cost, your source leaves me less that assured that it has done more that a cursory review of the information and applied possibly inaccurate numbers and assumptions. There's just too many details that are left out to know. At the same time, the original hyperloop proposal was lean on specifics as well. I guess the difference is that I don't see this situation as painting either stance as "fantastical," there's just not enough concrete information presented for me to know either way.

1: http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/table...
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I haven't yet read the actual papers linked to be article, but I'm confused what the big breakthrough is here, the article is very light on specifics.

The generalized uncertainty principle is nothing but an application of the 'Schwartz Inequality' to two non-commuting operators. Specifically, if the commutator [A,B] = iC for operators A and B (C can be an operator or scalar, i is sqrt(-1) to preserve Hermitian-ness), then the product of uncertainties Delta A x Delta B >= <C>/2. Where Delta A = sqrt(<A^2> - <A>^2) and <A> is the expectation value of A for a given wave function, and [A,B] = AB - BA.

The wave function itself is the fundamental driver behind the wave-particle duality. And the generalized uncertainty principle just follows downstream from mathematical application. I don't see why the article (not the papers though) is saying they're two unrelated things.

FYI, this brings back annoying memories from one of my midterm exams in grad level quantum mechanics. Five questions to solve in one hour. And one question alone was to derive the generalized uncertainty relation from first principles.
Especially if your distributed database relies on clocks, as some do.
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"what your body should be capable of handling with proper ... rest"

Which sets up a glorious chicken and egg where due to the peculiar anatomy of my sinuses or whatever, I find it nearly impossible to rest without some form of cold medicine. By the end of a simple cold, I'm really looking forward to finally getting a decent nights sleep and not feeling miserable when I'm sitting around.
Adrian Chen article? No thanks.

Wouldn't trust a word he writes.
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How to remove alerts?

BTW, +1 to HTTP support, a must-have.
After a hardware failure, the Kepler spacecraft finds a second life
There's no pricing on the site, what's the price after Beta?
That equivalence was explicitly stated on the book I learned QM. The article reads too much like "uninformed journalist writing about physics", but the paper title suggests the journalist isn't misreporting it.

Anyway, I get an error when I click on the paper. I still expect it to contain something else, besides this article's contents.
Moved to a new job, finished a degree, found love and lost it as well