skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"most terrible memory"

Yeah, there's a fun one for a first date. Seriously how do you handle that question? Some people have had very bad things happen to them.
I think a balance of both would be good. I am sure these interfaces exist at the moment because they address specific human needs. Everything is evolving. As technology evolves, human needs evolve with it. Who knows what humans would need in the future. It could be more of one than the other
With Microsoft making moves like these for their open source projects, it seems like network effects are alive and well, and working for GitHub. Of course, it did require some change from above to get to the point where Microsoft is willing to open source this stuff in the first point.
The eye gazing alone is incredibly powerful if you know how to do it properly -- you can dissolve through a ton of projections that normally interfere with someone.

I had the experience of eye gazing with a woman this fall, and the moment we saw each other, we both had the experience of "this is my husband/wife" -- we dated for a couple months, though she had a bf so that was sort of tricky and I decided I needed to take space to let her sort that out.

As for the questions, most people have a very low level of intimate conversation -- Level 1 (of 5), where they mostly discuss facts about things, the world, etc. This moves them up into higher level intimate conversations.

Also, a big part of attraction is feeling safe, on a deeper level, so actively moving to deeper levels and being vulnerable together will bond people.

Will this work if you hate the person or have no attraction at all? Maybe not, but it can be a huge catalyst for newly dating people or long term couples.

In my workshops I've had women say they had more sustained eye contact in 3 minutes than they've had in their entire 20 year marriage. Powerful stuff.

Thanks for the feedback!
"Deciding to go on a first date with you." :) I thought that was an intense question. But I also see how, why not? Also, in the context that you've built some trust with this person, you might give people space to communicate things they haven't felt safe experiencing.

I should probably create an accompanying course on how to hold space for someone and to create a safe, empathic environment.
Oh yeah. I'd love to see some indication of how stable these configurations are. A lot of them look pretty wobbly.
Yes, but the point was that it could be done in rust, using rust's language features (type safety and so forth). Making your main inline assembly isn't really using the language very much.
I didn't downvote, but: it seemed alightly off-topic; also it's in the worst possible range of anecdote/bad science (N=1, no blinding, it's a vitamin supplement so I suspect it contains no active ingredients anyway, you claim anti-depressants don't work on you†).

gwern's articles on how they try out drugs is very good at explaining how to do blinding etc. and is actually credible. Do something like that and you'll definitely get upvotes.

† No judgement here, but the burden of proof is quite high when you're claiming a properly tested medicine doesn't work and a supplement does.
You are not staying on the subject of productivity enhancers when you are talking about mood enhancers for treating or managing depression. I think that is my sense why you are down-voted, do not take them personally and if you do, use it as a learning tool. HN uses karma to nudge the reader to write with certain level of quality, substance and style in posts.
Great move for Uber I should say! Looking forward to express services though.
The paper linked from the article goes into this a bit. (Though I just skimmed it.) The authors started by thinking people who had similar answers would be more attracted, but found that wasn't the case. Just the act of opening up seems to provide the effect.

Highlighted in purple on page 367:

"Overall, these data suggest that matching in terms of
not disagreeing on important attitudes or leading subjects
to believe that they and their partners will like each
other probably has little impact on the overall closeness
subjects achieve through this procedure, or even on
their mutual attraction. "

http://www.stafforini.com/txt/Aron%20et%20al%20-%20The%20exp...
If Facebook is the price of giving everyone Internet access, it’s not worth it
Did anyone at YC talk with these founders after investing in them? It sounds like they never understood why they were accepted. Getting accepted into YC should be a confirmation signal, not a signal that you should pivot (yes, YC invests in people, but if that was the case in this case then I would've expected a partner to have helped them find a new idea).
This post only mentions Roslyn, but the F# project will also be moved over. :)
I decided not to eat foie gras. Not because I think its unethical or otherwise. I simply just dont like it.
CISPA Is Being Revived in Wake of Sony Hack
I may be more cynical than you but I'm pretty confident that being in his shoes won't be unpleasant whatever the outcome. The taxpayer will sort it all out.
I thought Uber is trying out the HK market? Does this mean it is banned in HK too?
Oxy
Does your doctor prescribe your caffeine and alcohol? How about your artificial light and your exercise? Or perhaps your intake of B-complex vitamins or various edible oils? The various natural dietary supplements available at every Walgreens and CVS? All of these have known effects on mood and productivity, and pretty much everybody just tries 'em and sees what happens.

Nearly as many people have the experience of going to a doctor, getting diagnosed with something moderately uncommon, and going through a trial-and-error treatment process where they are guiding what happens as much or more than the doctor.

So no, they are not necessarily insane. What is covered by prescription varies a lot from country to country, and the line is at least as much about medical economics as it is about safety. There are plenty of things that aren't available over the counter not because they're more dangerous, but because they were discovered after the FDA was created and because the financial incentives are to keep them as prescription drugs.
The secret racing test tunnel no one wants to talk about
> end-users probably wont care about compiling code.. otherwise a c/c++ compiler is ubiquotous

ghc is pretty ubiquitous these days. Any serious linux distro will have a package so it's one line (apt-get install ghc or similar). Even on e.g. a mac it's no harder than installing ruby or python.

> given the compiler is in haskel i cant access the AST for instance, i cant embed in my binary, but have to call another external binary instead

You could write Haskell. It's a pretty nice language.

More to the point, Haskell does have a C FFI and allows you to build a library that exposes a C interface that C programs can link against. I don't know whether the authors have done that here, but the functionality is available.
So how does this study help these children improve their IQ?
This reminds me of Friendstrap: http://gameovenstudios.com/category/friendstrap/#description
This portable printer works like a Roomba for documents
Is it compulsory that all North Koreans use Red Star 3.0?
Is this for real? It's time to catch up on internet security upgrades really and get those lazy butts off their seats!
Yep, that was a great talk. Minor nitpick, I think he only spent two lots of 3 months there.
Michael Minovitch – Gravity Assist Home Page
I believe it has always been there: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8865818
Friendstrap looks awesome!
http://www.metasploit.com/ ?
> HOW: This will be a simple switch – turn off CodePlex, turn on GitHub. You’ll be able to see our check-ins on GitHub that same day.

It's probably a safe bet that CodePlex's days are numbered. Which is kind of a shame. It was definitely heavily lacking but I can't help but think that some more competition in the space would be a good thing.
It is still rather contraversial but radiation hormesis is interesting to read about. Populations have been exposed to relatively high radiation levels from things like the earth (Iran and some places in the US among others), contaminated steel (Taiwan) and various medical procedures. These groups have not fitted into the linear no threshold model very well at all, and there is an argument that low doses may actually be a health advantage.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664640/

Edit: keep the body scanners and bomb scanner away from me please.
Why isn't this on the front page itself?
That doesn't change the GP's point. One compromise means that password and spacebar code is compromised for all passwords. Other comments have already addressed how wimpy a substitution cipher is. Add to that that you can't reasonably cycle keys here, and you have yourself one pretty terrible password system.
I tried going to a similar algorithm of my own invention some years ago, and ran into this exact problem. Mostly sites that don't allow certain characters (which is asinine). Now I have a few different algorithms that I use that are friendly to common password requirements, and I keep a list of which algorithm I used on each website, rather than just a list of the passwords. Since the algorithms only exist in my head, I think it's secure enough for most purposes.
PolyConf 14: Immutability, or Putting the Dream Machine to Work
Treat Databases as yet Another Network Service
One of the GitHub founders has talked about being offered a job at Microsoft out of college, and deciding to take the risk starting GitHub instead.

Must feel satisfying....

Edit: Ok, not straight out of college. No less satisfying though.
That's actually just a clone of the codeplex project. As mentioned in the README contributions first go (went?) through codeplex.
Wait did they really implement all this OSX cloning in North Korea? Are you sure this isn't subset of some skin developed outside of NK? It must have required a considerable amount of resources and skills. Do they have it?
If you don't want speeding tickets, don't speed.
I was sprinting all day to crank it out! Think I started around 11am and went live 11pm. Thanks for checking it out.
There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.
There is unfortunately no sample code for each chapter, but you can have a look at https://github.com/helino/aenix (the code in the book is based on aenix).
This makes me so sad. I am currently studying Chemistry in a joint undergraduate+postgraduate program. And reading all of this makes me so sad. Here in India, the situation is even worse.
It is also bad in following dependencies, and links the whole libraries. The result is like spaghetti, import on library and half of the standard libraries come with it. Some optimizations have been already done to prevent that, but the work is going to be still in progress for several versions.
Nice idea, however I do not like that it is locked to use Ubuntu as the OS, it would make more sense to me to use Debian w/ Backports enabled, that way it could run on Ubuntu if someone wanted to, but you wouldn't be stuck with Ubuntu's often 'less that perfect' upstream testing and packaging teams.
Except Tom got fired from github (well, forced resignation).
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Now that Shen is BSD it is great opportunity to work with a mix of Prolog and a LISP (and much more).

http://www.shenlanguage.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil#Adverse_effects
Because it's from October 2008.
How to block 'darodar forum' the so called Google Analytics Bot Referral Traffic
I also wrote my own Forth implementation, in 6502asm, back in high school. Was great fun and a great learning experience. I later wrote a Star Trek space battle game in it.
As for aiming for less is hard to reconcile - that's where you and the majority of programmers in the industry go wrong. You should have said "aiming for less is always a valid approach." - full stop.

My LMDB database engine is the world's smallest/fastest/most reliable full ACID transactional data store. The core of the engine is less than 32KB of x86-64 object code - it can execute entirely within a CPU's L1 instruction cache. It blows away other DB engines that are several times bulkier in size. It's only 6kloc of C. It does what it does precisely by following the Forth philosophy - do what you need, throw everything else away. http://symas.com/mdb/

Efficiency always matters, even today with CPUs whose L2 cache is larger than entire computer systems of 30 years ago. Efficiency always matters because all of these compute resources have a cost - electricity isn't free, and time spent is irreplaceable.

I have other ongoing projects in Forth because it can handle some cases easily that are awkward in other languages. (E.g., an ASN.1 parser for dynamically adding new syntaxes to the OpenLDAP server. Forth is the perfect tool for the job because it's inherently a language designed for extension.)
I like Bitbucket and have been using them for some time but their interface is slow and not as intuitive as Github's.
Turn your iOS burst photos into videos, animated GIFs
Pretty cool!

Are all these happening because Satya Nadella is trying to steer MS in new direction?
Not that hard to clone something when the resources are already there, comrade.
> it's highly unscientific to start feeding a large population with foods that haven't passed any testing

It's not unscientific at all. Whether to perform extensive testing on foods is not a function of science but of public opinion.

The science tells us that all plant-derived foods outside a very small group of sources are extremely likely to be safe for the vast majority of people. There are very few exceptions, but there are some, like potatoes and tomatoes, which are both derived from poisonous wild ancestors so new strains need to be checked for reversion to the wild state. I say 'the vast majority of people', because some tiny number of people can have allergic reactions to any food, whether derived from a GMO or not.

We don't perform any testing at all on the majority of new foods introduced. This includes new plant strains bred by various mutagenesis strategies, where vast numbers of mutations are induced by chemicals or with x-rays. By comparison, GMO-derived foods receive extensive testing, but only due to public opinion, not because they are inherently more dangerous. They are in fact inherently more safe. In the process of producing a new strain by genetic modification, very few changes will be made to the genome, and they will tend to be highly predictable, whereas the conventional breeding process is highly unpredictable and introduces lots of unwanted effects. This has been demonstrated in dozens of studies.

> So, if you want to help the hungry, re-engineer the political and the economical system

This can only be said from a position of first-world comfort. It would be wonderful if we could solve the resource distribution problem. But let's not kid ourselves: it would be crazy to only try to fix the economics. What's the timescale on that change? A very long time. How likely is it to work? Not at all likely. Improving agricultural yields through technology is something we definitely can achieve, and the timescale is predictable. Hungry people will choose the technology that allows them to feed themselves now, not the promise that if the entire world economy changes they may one day get some food.
MediSafe Medicine Management app declines $25m acquisition offer and raises $6m
Adding a new sensor to monitor the fuses would not be cheap:first off, you have to have signal conditioners for the a/ds that can handle esd transients, and >60 v load shed events. In addition, the existing design probably just has fuse holders physically mounted to the holder packaging, which means now your paying for microcontroller, can transceiver, and pcb. This doesn't include NRE costs including development and testing.

Suddenly your "inexpensive" adc had become a $200 ecu that merely tells the driver wheat part of the car isn't functioning, right before they check the most common cause of the problem.
On top of this, mechanical circuit breakers would have vibration issues when mounted in a moving vehicle. If it's too vibration-resistant, it might not trigger under overcurrent conditions. If it's not vibration-resistant enough, the car flakily breaks on bumpy roads.

Solid-state circuit breakers do exist, and would solve the vibration problem, but some quick Googling didn't turn up anything that looked at all inexpensive.
The author bemoans overly complex modern web standards, but surely this is an inevitable result of the web's transition from "an easy way to view documents" to "a safe mechanism for remote code execution". I mean sure, in the old days anyone could learn the important HTML tags in a weekend, but they couldn't use those tags to emulate an MS-DOS game. The only way to enable that was to gradually evolve web APIs that safely exposed all the low-level functionality.

Or, the only way apart from plugins, anyway. In comments the author writes:

> In the future, I suspect some group will do it “right” and create a wonderful plugin or default wrap-in for all browsers that will simply function as the native environment all this material needs. At that point, MESS and DOSBOX will be ported to this...

..which is essentially Flash (which has had solid dynamic audio for years, and console emulators built on it with good audio support (see:nesbox)). In a parallel universe where Flash was an open standard, it'd be exactly what the author is asking for. Except in that universe, Flash would presumably share whatever problems the author finds with web standards.

Unless we want to choose One Browser or One Plugin, I'd say we're better off with complicated, slow-moving standards (like Web Audio), even if they are developed and implemented by adversarial companies.
Wow. This is seriously impressive. Rust looks like it actually might be capable as a systems programming tool to match C. I have to learn more about it now! :)
I would describe modafinil as an internal task-switcher disabler. For this reason, I don't use it often.
For example, if I accidentally start reading reddit, on modafinil this will probably end in writing long, thoughtful comments for the whole day. The thought of stopping simply doesn't occur. My stomach will rumble, but I won't feel hunger.
Conversely, changing tasks in response to external input becomes much easier.

This uncontrollable concentration applies to all levels on all tasks, which is why modafinil kills creativity, at least for me. If I have lot of grunt job that doesn't require creativity, sure, modafinil will make me plow through it. However, in today's world valuable grunt work is rare, so it's not that useful. It kills task-related mind wandering, it kills daydreaming, it kills original thought.
Sort of a zombie state really.

Constant use would probably make me a top burger-flipper at McDonald's or similar, but that's it.

Another very big cons is its long half-life, which eventually results in sleep deprivation. Sleep at normal hours becomes next to impossible.

Good for emergency situations when I have to be able to function despite severe sleep deprivation (like not sleeping for one or two nights).
What's better about Bitbucket? I've never used it, just wondering.
I think Microsoft has a much better alternative to CodePlex in Visual Studio Online [1]. It doesn't feel quite the same as GitHub/Bitbucket/CodePlex because it's missing that online community feel. But it's relatively new and has been improving quite quickly [2] and it wouldn't surprise me if they started to coalesce CodePlex into VSO.

[1] http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-st...

[2] http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-dec-17-vso
I'm almost certain that RMS would veto the use of LLVM. He clearly views LLVM as an enemy of 'freedom'.
Electromyography in Robotics
This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Especially because the counter to MSFT buying GitHub was always "but... CodePlex!", and here they are explicitly moving a high-profile project from CodePlex to GitHub. Scary!
Perhaps if NK doesn't possess the technical resources, they would at least have the financial resources to contract with a Chinese developer.
Embedded System-Journey Path
You really should have a look at the rust code this guy wrote. I would not call that last optimization type safe.
Chances of pulling it off eventually are very high - I started my PhD with naive prior of around 0.5, and I'm converging on something like 0.9 now.

The hardest thing is discovering how the system is fundamentally regulated, and we are making rapid progress. Our massively high throughput approach gives us huge lists of candidate genes with probabilities, so we can rank them and process them through a biological testing pipeline quite fast. Using this process we've discovered a whole lot in the last two years - for example we now have a toolbox of genes we can use to precisely time gene expression in the bundle sheath cell (the cell C4 plants concentrate RuBisCO in). Our computational systems are rapidly improving, and I think 2015 will be a big year for us. Final year of my PhD, and I intend to go out with a bang :).

The secondary challenge is building the system in rice, but unless everything we know about molecular biology is wrong, this will work. We've already started by putting the parts we do know about in the right places in separate plants, then breeding them together ('gene stacking'). This happens in parallel with the discovery.

The major uncertainty is in the timescale - 15 years is ambitious, but not unlikely. 20 years is likely. With a colleague at LSE, I did some simulations of what the impact of success would be at various timescales, and 20 years would still be a vast humanitarian win. Every year we can shave off the time to delivery potentially saves tens of thousands of lives and lifts another hundreds thousand or so people out of food scarcity.
It sells in India for about one eighth of online's price. The price of ten 200mg Modalert pills is about $2.5.
Counterfeiting simply doesn't pay, as it would kill any return business for minuscule one-time gain.
In addition to agreeing with the other comments, Github's uptime is also far better
>I'm counting the days until someone notices Phenylethylamine

You can't ban chocolate in the current world.
Dark chocolate can contain up to 0.7% of PEA.
Private buckets for non-free accounts, for starters
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How so? The only unsafe part is the transmute which only saves 7 bytes anyways :P
These days whenever I point out I'm a member of a minority by being Jewish I am practically laughed at.
Are you suggesting the Soviet Union founded covert propaganda to convince the west that exoplanets couldn't exist? Do you have any more information about this? Because on the face of it it sound like the craziest conspiracy theory I've ever heard.
So why are you talking about prepaid solutions? That's not how it worked when I lived in the UK. I had a normal debit card tied to my bank account, just as in the nordic countries. Nothing to do with credit rating either.