skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's try looking at birthrates another way: Japan might be one of the few rational countries in the world.

If the economy is not growing in a way that supports having 3-5 kids per family, with a high quality of life (very important detail)...

...then perhaps the rational response is for birthrates to drop so the population can reach a natural size where quality of life is acceptable for the kids that are born.

Countries that continue to grow their population over everything else wind up being pretty miserable places to live over time.
I deleted my comment with the same complaint. He means if someone from another company's corp dev is talking to you it's because they may want to buy your company. This was unexpectedly unclear coming from PG.
If you truly lived in the moment, I'd assume your behavior would be like a random walk. The truth of the matter is that your behavior is conditioned on the past.

Maybe take a course on stochastic processes to clear your mind. (I'm joking, for the record. But hopefully the point has been made.)
Yeah I know I've used such a setup for a couple of years. I got a special SSH user "git" with key only login.

Later on I wanted to track what repositories I had on that machine and get some stats. I found out about GitLab so I decided to take a spin. Two months after the install I found out I was hacked, because of gitlab-shell binary that I didn't patch :(.

Then I decided not to mess with this if I can use it for free.

:)

Anyway thanks for your comment. I think people that think GitHub is "magic" should run their own repo to see actually where "Git" ends and "Hub" starts.
What drives me absolutely crazy about the story is this:

"Duke officials admitted that mistakes were made, but didn’t respond to specific questions."

Note the passive tone. These are not junior people we are dealing with. These are very senior deans and professors that will face absolutely no accountability whatsoever for trying to cover up a case of serious misconduct - and the incredibly brave student that spoke out was threatened into silence.

It reminds me of the Schon scandal at Bell Labs. Again, someone faked a huge amount of data, and bosses were all too happy to put their names at the end of all the high impact papers he produced... yet again, when the fraud came to light, none of the bosses suffered absolutely any repercussion.
I would like to purchase these in high resolution too.
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The mainstream is fragmenting now that people can get access to music without it, per Steve Albini's recent update to "The Problem With Music": http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-k...

Per the article, the "mainstream" is literally music for people who don't like music.
how is this different from pocket?
There is no general altitude limit in the U.S., but you must not present a risk of collision with manned aircraft. Certain areas have additional restrictions (e.g. near airports, large sporting events or in the vicinity of Washington, DC).

The "400 ft" limit for model aircraft is purely advisory and is not part of any binding FAA rule.

Additional discussion here: http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2012/03/08/your-ques...
I don't understand. Why would a collapse in population cause wars over resources? If there are less people, shouldn't that mean that there will be more resources to go around for everyone?
I'm so god damn sick of this. An attack happens, and politicians line up with pre-written, draconian and/or rushed and reactive legislation to further infringe upon our rights. It's been particularly noticeable since 2001.

I'm so glad HN exists because I sometimes I feel I'm the only one who notices it.
:-D

Loudness wars is the sound of the genre, to be fair. But not everything is ear-bashing techno.
I'm not sure why you're so convinced that this is an inferior means of farming. It's generally accepted that modern day commercial practices are sub optimal.

Fertilizer is one of the largest costs, it will absolutely be minimized in a closed environment.

Water is a largely externalized cost but I'm sure that will change over time and that too will be minimized in a closed system.

Land is another significant factor and this is designed specifically to optimize yield per acre.

Running irrigation systems should be cheaper because of the condensed space and lack of waste.

Labor should be cheaper because of the condensed space and more controllable environment although perhaps the need for more specialized labor will offset that benefit.

Transportation is another huge cost to modern agriculture and an approach like this makes it much easier to grow food closer to its point of consumption.

Is there something I'm missing as far as where its clearly deficient to a standard large scale farm? There's some infrastructure for shelving and the upfront cost / electrical cost for the artificial lighting but considering their figure on power consumption, it seems like the latter isn't an issue.
> ... before, if I wanted to know if `x` is defined, i could write `typeof x !== "undefined"`. In all cases. And the result of that statement would never be a throw. Now, if I want to know if x is defined, there are at least two kinds of "undefined", one that will be returned by `typeof x` as "undefined", and another where I am not allowed to mention `x` at all, including to do `typeof x`.

You can still write 'typeof x !=== "undefined"' and not worry about an exception being thrown. There are pretty much no situations where you're going to write legitimate code and 'typeof x !=== "undefined"' is going to throw. Any situations where it will would also break if you used var, but in much less obvious ways.

"Is this variable reference before its variable declaration" is never a question that you would ever want to ask at runtime.

I really don't think we'd be having this discussion if it had started with any statement other than "typeof x", but the function/operator (as we've tediously established) has no bearing on the behaviour exhibited.

You have variables. It's illegal to refer to a variable before its been declared in it's lexical scope. Once declared, variables start with the value "undefined" until you assign them a value. I don't see what's massively complicated about that. Its the same as in many other languages, just replace "undefined" with "null".

I have seen exactly zero blog posts about people being confused that they can't reference a variable before its been declared in other languages. I have seen dozens about people being confused by "variable hoisting". When looked at along with how it interacts with other language features, 'let' is definately less confusing than 'var'.
First of all, intermittent fasting is different from calorie restriction is different from prolonged fasting. Prolonged fasting is much more dangerous than the other two.

And second, what applies to healthy people, metabolically speaking, usually does not apply to people with diabetes. I did a Pubmed search before I posted my comment, and wasn't able to find a single example of prolonged fasting having even been tried in T2DM patients.

As someone with T1DM (the kind caused by autoimmunity, not the kind caused by obesity), my expectation is that a T2DM who tried this in an ICU would probably experience hypoglycemia and abort, while someone who tried it outside an ICU would probably die.
Or have more same-sex relationships. Or the men are overemphasizing on the lack of romance in the relationship. Or the unmarried women are seeing married men. Or the statistics are flawed.

I think sharing is actually the most likely if you consider the "herbivore men" trend. If more men are unwilling to have a sexual relationship than women, it would figure that the left over "carnivore men" would need to pick up the slack, resulting in sharing.

Poor carnivores.
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If you're interested in those details, Victor Eijkhout's TeX by Topic is very instructive as well: http://www.eijkhout.net/texbytopic/texbytopic.html
>> "In a very few years, we’ll have 1 terabyte iPods, easily capable of handling thousands of recordings in their original high-definition form."

I doubt it. I think we'll be lucky if Apple has increased the maximum configuration to 256GB in a few years. The other issue is that people have moved to streaming and the connections aren't good enough to stream high-quality audio. I signed up for Tidal (lossless Spotify) and even on a decent internet connection it had to buffer and the experience wasn't good enough for me to stick around.
Great essay. I'm at an earlier stage than PG's target audience for this -- still bootstrapping but experiencing 20-30% month/month growth and getting ready to go that next step (probably seed).

At this stage I've gotten what after reading this essay sounds like the baby brother of this: the oddly aggressive hire attempt. These companies have been not necessarily direct competitors but people in related spaces who might want to add what I'm doing to their tech portfolio or use its techniques in their products.

The interactions have been quite different from any other "job interview" I've ever had. I've said no three times so far to some version of: "your project is awesome," followed by some interesting discussion, followed by a hiring offer. The hiring offers have been decent but not outstanding, and they've included nothing for the project -- no "acquisition" to go with the hire. When I bring this up, the response is that my baby isn't "worth very much on its own," etc. In one case the response was oddly condescending even in its wording, which was discouraging until I went and read all the users raving about my stuff and then looked at my rather nice looking metrics again. In another case it was explained to me that while my product was interesting, I obviously wasn't... "business" enough? That's not how they put it but that was kind of the implication. I interpreted it as "you're not coming off as alpha male enough to run a business" or some version of that.

In retrospect I saw these as negotiating tactics to shake my confidence in moving forward myself. These folks are trying to get me plus a lot (3 years) of code, users, and momentum without actually paying anything for the latter two things. Looks a lot like the kind of hardball PG is talking about-- I assume "corp dev" offers come in when you're at a bit of a later stage.

Now I've got another one in the pipeline. I've decided the best way to deal with them is to go ahead and chat but otherwise to change nothing about what I am doing, to not spend much time on them, and to constantly remind myself that I am the one interviewing them and deciding whether to accept their offer. At this point given the metrics I'm seeing, the offer would have to be very good.

I'd say that the advice in this essay is probably good advice. If you do have the internal discipline/experience to put these sorts of things in a "maybe but probably not" folder, it might not hurt to chat about it with them, but if you have any doubt or if you're too busy just say no and move on. If my current discussion turns out like the previous ones I will probably do the same moving forward.
I should have been clear, I'm talking about Intel and AMD's monster desktop and server-class CPUs here, not mobile. For that matter, mobile GPUs are very different from desktop/console/HPC-class GPUs as well.
Some states view these types of crimes as crimes of 'moral turpitude' and it doesn't matter if it is a felony or misdemeanor. It will definitely effect your ability to get a security clearance or job in the security space.
Pretty interesting! Besides static code analysis, do you use any tool to manage manual code review, functional testing and integrations with deployment and task/issues management tools?
Model gliders soaring in thermals can exceed 2,000 ft. Since the energy is supplied by the rising air, altitude is limited only by the pilot's ability to perceive the aircraft's orientation at that distance!
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Please don't go back to mDNSResponder for reasons mentioned in the article, like missing security updates and future update problems.

If you are hit by the renumbering issue, you can reconfigure discoveryd with:

$ sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :ProgramArguments: string --no-namechange" /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
This is really Horrible.

Probably, why 80% of the 10 countries with the lowest literacy rates in the WORLD among adults are in francophone Africa.

Namely: Benin (40%), Burkina Faso (26%), Chad (34%), Côte d’Ivoire (49%), Guinea (29%), Mali (23%), Niger (29%), and Senegal (42%).
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/932/

I will say it still is a fairly effective attack from the point of view of propaganda, and I'd be interested to know which was the chain of events that allowed this particular hack. But I am neither particularly scared, nor particularly surprised that this is possible, nor should anyone with any sort of computer security background.
I'm on a phone so didn't fig into the differences which must be huge but china has built a few large projects using prefab techniques and keep breaking time to complete records. Example http://inhabitat.com/200-chinese-workers-erect-a-30-storey-p...
> If you have a unique key embedded in each keyboard/dongle pair, you would lose the ability to do this. In addition, if you lost the dongle, you would be SOL.

I'm not sure I understand why? If public/private key cryptography were used then each dongle & keyboard would contain a private key. The dongle then contains a store for up to X public keys.

The pairing procedure starts due to a physical button press on the two devices, they find each other and exchange public keys. All future communication is then encrypted & signed using the private keys these devices hold. The attack described in venaoy's edit still applies though, an active attacker present during pairing may pretend to be an access point & keyboard, overpowering the original access point and acting as a sort of relay. The link would however break if this relay were to leave the vicinity.
I think anyones answer to "Do I want to sell my company right now?" is mostly going to be "It depends, what's the offer?"

There are of course circumstances where people absolutely do not want to sell their company, but for the rest of us... it depends.
I find it a sad reflection on the "thirty years of programming" that we are a long way from making anything as a) stable, b) bug free, c) fast, or d) readable as TeX.

The entire pedagogical point of this exercise seems to have completely missed its goal, but then a hand is waved and we all learned something valuable anyway. But what? That for an industry that hates "technological debt," we are highly indebted into those that wrote our platforms for all of the points listed above.
The irony is that digital audio has much more dynamic range than vinyl, and yet modern productions use much less of it in order to psychologically sound better / louder.
> RPi A+ is quite light, so RPi+Navio weighs as the normal autopilot

Not to detract from the novelty value of an RPi based flight controller, but if you were involved in the design, you must know that's just not true:

RPi A+: 23g, Navio: 24g, Total: 47g

APM Mini: 7g

That's a significant difference in a situation where every gram counts towards flight time.

The Navio also costs 6X an APM mini, and that's before you add the RPi and power module, which brings it to 8X.

I get why someone might develop this as a hobby project, but I can't think why anyone would buy one.
It is a wonderful distraction considering the massive budget cuts in the police force. The Met are facing 1.4bn budget cuts. The Border Agency had to cut its budget by 23%. The military are under constant pressure to cut staff and spend less money. Maybe he gives away civil liberties because it doesn't cost him anything.
I find it hard to consider the abstractions "better" when they are so far behind the performance of the ones that were used. Higher level? Certainly. Better?
I was looking forward to an article about a 3-D printer that created objects out of tungsten.
Go to hell Duke
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It'll never get any traction, the porn filters got through because pretty much no voting adults were bothered by it.

Very different scenario when it's something that people actually use, especially with elections coming up.
Stanford professors urge withdrawal from fossil fuel investments
I like music, really like music, but haven't
been able to listen to pop music since
I discovered Beethoven late one night
on a radio while going to sleep.

Now I like, say

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Cello+Suite+No+1+Bach/3seBIM?src...
Snapchat at least is already known to be vulnerable to simple attacks, so I wouldn't put too much weight behind this list.

He is likely just using common examples that people recognize, and the law will be applied broadly to apps like RedPhone and SilentText.
It seems there was a licensing problem using ZFS on OSX:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-on-m...
We have built an entire society of people who cannot see farther than their own noses.

And then we put them in positions of power.
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I would be curious to know if the woven sources were used over the tangled ones. As probably the only program I own in printed form, the source is much more readable than I would have ever thought possible.
Excellent collection of references. As with most things batteries are more than just chemistry. I will be interesting to see if they can mass produce cathodes using this technique.
I once worked for a company that was acquired - the founder wanted to cash in on his success and retire early. In the first all-company meeting after the closing, the CEO gloated over how cheaply he was able to get us. That was really grating.

The advice about watching for unsavory tactics is spot on.
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You might've missed Linus' second comment on the page, wherein he talks about case-insensitivity and NFD normalization.
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This after attending the march in France for liberty and freedom of speech. Hypocrite.

It's also worth mentioning the Mayor of London's thoughts on this:

"I'm not particularly interested in this civil liberties stuff when it comes to these people's emails and mobile phone conversations. If they are a threat to our society then I want them properly listened to."
I really want graphics hardware that does path tracing. Like if I could feed that material test json into some graphics card or something and get realtime results. That would be bad ass.

The reason I know something like this is doable with enough engineering is the Brigade Engine demos.
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It's really nothing sexual, rather economical. If you plot marriage rate by their income level, you'll see it's impacting heavily for lower income group.

For women at least some good chunk of "cannot meet a suitable partner" is pretty much "can't find a suitable partner making good money" and it got to the point, that it's common things people joke about these days. :-) But here's some relevant data[1] about it from the post in the past.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579574
ZFS works a lot better if you dedicate lots of memory to it, yes.

Apple sells far more iOS devices than Macs these days, and the iOS filesystem is case-sensitive HFS+. It's hard to imagine Apple doing something new in filesystems that doesn't improve the platform they make the most money from.

In a way, the same logic applies to Macs. The number of Macs that support multiple internal disks will soon be zero if it isn't already, so some of the best features of ZFS are irrelevant on new Apple computers.
Imagine what it would do to you if at mile 20 of a marathon, someone ran up beside you and said "You must feel really tired. Would you like to stop and take a rest?"

I wonder if PG knows about The Wall that occurs at ~mile 20 in a marathon, or if it was a lucky coincidence? http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outdoor-activities/runnin...
3 Tesla Magnetic field MRI's are now common and I have heard rumors of up to 7T machines in the works: http://www.healthdiagnostics.com/svc_hi_field.php
First commit on fizx/parsley was in 2008. The library was open-sourced in 2009. This predates all of the name conflicts so far mentioned, though no doubt someone used the name before in some capacity.
I think that's where the "and (b) you're sufficiently likely to get an offer at an acceptable price." comes into play.
David Cameron wasn't just arguing against encrypted messaging apps; he would like to ban secret online communication in general. It will be interesting to see how he squares this with bolstering cybersecurity, which he'll be discussing with Barak Obama later this week.

How can we explain to politicians the extent to which modernity is built upon tools like encryption? How can we explain the brute fact of the possibility of secret communication, whether they approve or not? And can we guess how much damage they'll inflict in these Canutian escapades?
This actually a huge issue for space travel, all of the random electronics and possibly magnetic radiation shielding may be serious.
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/westover_rad...
Imagine a world where genetic sequencing is free, like Gmail
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Ya when skydiving we always exited between 12 and 14k. Only at 15k did you need a mask on the ride up.
Spotify is really sort of a separate internet for music. Anywhere you are, if you hear about a new genre, you can immerse yourself in it within seconds. Imagine doing that back in the days of Tower Records? Even the Tokyo location, or Amoeba Music can't cover the territory like Spotify can. I've tried.
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It's that "it depends" that initiates the chain of events that PG is cautioning against. Judiciously reining in curiosity when history has demonstrated it to be a fruitless endeavor and a distraction is the message of this essay.
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Dark Sky has been letting me down in some pretty grandiose ways over the last few months, to the point where my wife sees my unbroken faith in it as a kind of running joke.

The "Are they going to fuck things up?" section at the bottom of their post certainly sheds some light on why the reliability has dropped off of late.

For whatever reason where I live in Brooklyn is completely unreliable. If the problem is scaling, I guess it would makes sense that they're choking on the volume of users in the NYC region

Glad to see that instead of selling to the weather channel or something they're continuing to put engineering muscle behind it. Dark Sky & Forecast.io are just awesome and I really want to see these guys succeed.
Interesting: ... "scientific research can provide some measure of confidence that short-term, acute exposures up to about 1-2 T [1000-2000 milliT] should be safe... However, it is not possible to determine whether there are any long-term health consequences even from exposure in the milliT range because, to date, there are no well-conducted epidemiological studies with sufficient power to be able to come to any conclusion on this, and there are no good long-term animal studies."

http://www1.mcw.edu/radiationoncology/ourdepartment/radiatio...
Supply and demand. Much like the various ecological simulations of predator/prey or food/consumer.

So if you have an economy that only has space for 90M people as participants yet have 100M population, you've got a very big problem. Immigration, starvation, revolution, they'll find something to do. Or if they're mellow they'll just sit out the supposed societal mandates, after all, what else could they do?