skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Let's say we have a whiteboard and we have to count how many individuals visit our home. If our neighbor visits 5 times, they count as one unique visitor. If a friend comes over once, that's another unique visitor. So far, we have 2 unique visitors."

They may not specifically use the word "distinct" (opting for phrases like "unique visitor" instead), but they certainly make the concept clear.
> Google wants developers to write the logic once in Java, transpile it to other platforms, and then make the UI natively using the SDK for each platform. That way the apps look and feel native to the platform they're on, and the UI should run a lot more smoothly.

The article seems to suggest that GWT is being (should be?) used for logic only. If the Web UI is sluggish, it probably isn't GWT's fault (disclaimer: I'm not a Googler & I have never looked at the Inbox code)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

I wanted my friends and myself to learn this in college, to have a quasi-secret language that also allows a stepping stone to native languages like Spanish and Italian.
CNN: Online comments are on the way out
"Casein has been documented to break down in the stomach to produce the peptide "casomorphin", an opioid."

So amping up the protein (casein) content makes the milk more addictive? :)
IMHO for the most part, programming with classes in JS is just waiting for pain. If you use generic objects for state, then compose your applications by using generic functions passing in state, and any other arguments that function needs to operate, it goes much smoother than OOP.

You can create wrappers by binding independent methods against said state for composite objects with encapsulation... It tends to keep code cleaner and more modular. Sometimes just thinking about the problem differently will lead to a more elegant solution...

var Promise = require('i-promise')
,getDealerPendingStream = require('./process-get-dealer-pending-stream')
,transformDealerPending = require('./process-transform-dealer-pending-stream')
,calculatePayment = require('./process-payment-calculation')
,logTransaction = require('./process-log-transaction')
,updateSalesforce = require('./process-update-salesforce')
,runPayment = require('./process-payment')
,logItemOutput = require('./process-log-item-output')
;

module.exports = function(){
return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
getDealerPendingStream()
.pipe(transformDealerPending())
.pipe(calculatePayment())
.pipe(runPayment())
.pipe(logTransaction())
.pipe(updateSalesforce())
.pipe(logItemOutput()) //email notifications for processing errors (dataObject.error)
.on('error', reject) //should never happen
.on('end', resolve)
.resume() // needed so last stream can process data
;
});
}
I've always called them "demo widgets." They are also just called "applets" in some contexts.
I am fairly certain this is correct. Mail search, spotlight search, all are due for some improvements.
Hate, really?
yes the price is mostly around $10 - which is my point

Ok.. thanks.. that was my point. The FBI estimate might be off by an order of magnitude, but the amount you made up was off by TWO orders of magnitude. At least the FBI estimate had some tie to reality (the value at the time he was arrested).
Anyone who is not sure of 100% homeschooling can check with your local school district to see if they allow part time students. I'm officially a homeschooler by state law but my kids go to a local public school a few hours a day, four days a week. They call it "fun school". They go to lunch, recess, and all the specials (art, music, PE, technology, Spanish), and an extra conversational Spanish class. They go on all the class trips, school concerts, fundraiser parties, etc. They each have loads of "school friends" and get invited to tons of birthday parties, etc. The public school kids in their classes (an extremely diverse group)seem to love and accept them.

The "no schooling" concerns are valid and I think it is like running a business - when you homeschool you might like some objective advisers outside of your family to keep you on your toes. This "educational advisory panel" can take many forms. For example, we use the Kumon private tutoring center to make sure we don't miss any holes with English and the Mathnasium center and Khan Academy to cover all the broad topics in math. These are private programs and they are expensive but worth it - kids who go through them ace standardized tests. It's very "tiger mom" and a good balance to the "unschooling" philosophy. They are still way cheaper than private school for a big family and they don't take much time out of the week. This leaves room for all those "creative class, student led inquiry based projects" and family/friend/socializing time pursuits.

It works for us :-)
None of the information was able to be traced to real-life people...

Doesn't that say to you that FriendlyChemist was sharp enough to fake his identity? Which is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from a guy working on a black market website who later goes on to steal secrets.
It could be app search, pretty much everything about discovery on the App Store sucks right now.
If you ever have the opportunity, you should try to go to the Waffle House museum in Atlanta. Incredibly fascinating for at least two reasons: one is that the original looks pretty much the same as a brand new Waffle House, and the other is that there's been a ton of industrial engineering applied to Waffle House courtesy of numerous Georgia Tech alumni.
A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL
Both companies have a lot of enterprise software that exposes either Java or .NET APIs, and lots of companies pay them for support and troubleshooting, and licensing those other products.
Here?

https://www.google.com/search?q=processed+food+health+issues
I love the symbolism, where the mountain of cameras obscures the original purpose of having a clearly visible exit sign for safety.

Beautiful.
Soylent (YC S12) Is Hiring Front-end Engineers
Let's be completely honest, writing stuff on minor internet forums is not real activism. Real activism is engaging with voters outside of your safe space, presenting policy papers, working with leaders, etc. Perhaps he used his money to lobby for different laws? I never heard of him doing that.

I won't weigh in on whether or not he should be lobbying. Activism is hard, and it's a lot easier to get approval in an internet community dedicated to your fringe views than to spend time trying to convince people to register to vote with maybe 1 success per 2 hours.
Can we say compulsion is completely different from intent though? Or are we just arguing over semantics? Can we place an arbitrary intelligence threshold on when compulsion can be inferred as intent?

For instance, most spiders build webs, and it would seem they do it by no other mechanism than pure genetic instinct. However, there don't seem to be any external 'cues' as to when the web is finished (in contrast to the water falling cue we assume beavers use). The spider builds the web until it's done building the web. Did the spider intend to build a web, or was it compelled to?
Remember, everyone with disposable income is now lactose intolerant and gluten sensitive, even if they weren't ten years ago. Because spontaneous biological changes afflicting people based on their income level are a thing.
I tend to use at least three different devices through out the day: my laptop, my phone and my work computer. I'm constantly switching between them. This coupled with the fact my memory is utterly atrocious means that I really really need to have conversation history synced across all my devices, otherwise I tend to ramble on about the same thing again and again.

Multiple device support is definitely a second class citizen in XMPP, and is just plain Hard (if not impossible) in a P2P world.
Half of young people believe gender exists on a spectrum
>I'm half-convinced that it's "unnatural" for human consumption

Its not like a large portion of the Earth's human population has evolved the ability to process lactose after childhood or anything--
I stopped reading when I saw the word "SOAP".
For once we're in agreement.
> So apparently Keiser was caught committing perjury and walked away scott free?

Also, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
Show HN: Konva.js – html5 2d canvas framework
The story of Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht will make for a great movie.
There is so much garb... ahem nutrition research, that it's possible to support any possible opinion.

I can't speak for the specific case, but on a general guideline, the great majority of people can reap huge benefits simply by doing sports and dropping junk/processed food. In this perspective, choosing one food [group] over another, is nothing else than bikeshedding (in other words, the bottleneck is somewhere else).
Ask HN: Which metrics are most important to your business?
Are you tracking them manually or pay for a web service to help? Which services are you using or wish existed?
I have to agree - The path helpers are very opaque. It would probably do Rails well to generate a app/helpers/path_helper.rb file with the actual implementations in them.
> while trying to brush away the fact that he paid for people to be murdered

Allegedly, there's not actual evidence this actually happened... nor did the prosecution attempt to go after those charges... nor has anyone traced the actual people who were supposedly murdered (their identities don't exist -- they aren't real people), nor has anyone validated the bitcoin transactions that supposedly transferred $750,000
Everyone assumed that DPR, whoever he was, must have superlative operational security to keep pulling the stuff he did.

When it turns out he didn't at all, he just had a near-invincible shield of narcissism.

(Journal of his crimes on the same laptop he was running the site from. Bugger me sideways. That tidbit's the cherry on top of this ludicrous case.)
That's both flimsy and a perversion of my logic, which is a direct rebuttal of the logic of the article itself.

The article gives an example of a woman who tried 7 times to have children and failed because she is genetically defective in terms of her ability to have children.

The government, however, has made special allowances to a 1990 law prohibiting egg and embryonic re-engineering so that this woman can.

The Prime Minister's stated rationale: "We're not playing god here, we're just making sure that two parents who want a healthy baby can have one."

So clearly - the state is paying for people who can't have children to be able to have them - under the pretense that doing so is beneficial to society.

To be able to select this procedure, the prospective mother must already know about her condition. If she knows about her condition, she should be educated to abstain from having children instead of receiving public funds to have her defective DNA altered to facilitate the process of reproduction.
Milk has been taking a beating for decades, as the article hints. One way to look at it is to analyze all the different occasions for which people might drink milk, and/or the different types of consumers who might consume milk. Then look at the substitutes that have replaced it for those occasions or those people. Here, without any data to support my thinking, are some hypothetical segments:

1) Health nuts. As another poster mentions, many of the fad diets that have swept the country over the past 30-odd years have taken an anti-dairy stance. Milk loses. (Ancillary: breakfast cereal has been taking a big, big hit among health-conscious consumers, and as breakfast cereal goes, so too does the milk that goes with it.)

2) Crunchies. These people have various reasons (health, the environment, etc.), but regardless, they're against processed foods, industrial farms, GMOs, non-organic anything, and so forth. As the various horrors of factory farms have come to light, these people have turned away from milk.

3) Convenience drinkers. Water and soft drinks have edged out milk as a "snack" choice. They keep better, travel better, and to many people, taste better.

4) Kids. Kids have pretty much never liked milk, despite parents' best attempts to force it on them. This is because milk, as a standalone beverage, is revolting. As parents begin to question the purported health benefits of milk, they stop subjecting their children to it.

5) Trend takers. Not health-conscious eaters per se, but rather, the kinds of eaters who just know they can't touch gluten, despite never having been tested for celiac disease. These people take their cues from the health nuts and the crunchies. If you're looking at a food trend from a Crossing the Chasm perspective, the health nuts are the early adopters, and these folks are the followers. They don't set trends, but they'll never pass up the chance to hop on a new bandwagon. CNN said something about dairy, or paleo, or gluten, or whatever, and these people are now religiously opposed to those things. It's half identity politics, and half inchoate desire to make healthier lifestyle choices. In either case, it's half hearted.

6) Ron Burgundy. It's too damned hot. Milk was a bad choice.
> Can we please stop trying to make this a "GOP is evil and hates America" and "DEM is right and loves America" thing?

Whether or not the GOP is generally evil, it certainly seems to be true that their position on net neutrality has been consistently bad and if they're allowed set policy on it, they'll do it in a way that will let carriers interpose themselves as gatekeepers.

>The GOP standpoint is to put policy in place that naturally overtime encourages small business to bring competition to the bigger guys.

That's the rhetoric, anyway. It's less clear how that's likely to fall out of any of their proposed policies.
Being in the unique position of protecting hundreds of innocent people from destruction by one extortionist, eh, what choice did he have?

I believe your difference with me and others on this point is that you do not see the turning over of hundreds of unlicensed medicine merchants to the hands of the USG to be destruction of innocent lives or, indeed, in any way unethical. You'd phrase it like "These HNers are literally saying murdering someone is better than turning over information on drug dealers to the authorities".

If the extortionist was going to expose the operating covers of US agents worldwide, the execution of the extortionist would be accepted by many. I fail to see much of a defensible distinction in this particular instance.

Edit: I should add I'm only referring to the kill-the-extortionist deal, none of the others (now it's up to 5??). And Ross certainly deserves blame for running stuff so poorly that he could end up blackmailed or endangering his customers in the first place. If true, it's as bad or worse than Telegram or Cryptocat, in terms of putting people in danger.
Why? Most modern tools are pretty good at Json, but SOAP is still everywhere, especially health care. And, current support for SOAP in modern tools could be better (outside of.Net land).
Ryan Bates' Railscasts are great. Unfortunately he stopped producing new ones, but they are still a great resource:

http://railscasts.com/
Tablet sales fall for first time
What did you do to take care of your sleep apnea? Just curious, as a sufferer of OSA as well.
Don't forget amateur radio and amateur television. Giving the general public parts of the spectrum to broadcast freely is hardly "shunning".
I accidentally left some throwing knives (I am a martial artist and have an interesting these types of things) in my backpack and ran into a similar situation. I was appalled when TSA found the knives, as this was just a few years after 9/11, and pretty earnest in my rapid apology. Well, unfortunately for me, not only was the TSA having a "bad day", but the police officer they called over was having a worse one.

I could waste a lot of space with details, ultimately he made threats my way and I responded poorly as I do not care much for authority of any kind. The end result was me spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer and travel fees only to have the judge immediately dismiss the case when it went to court, as the whole situation was ludicrous when looked at from the outside. It seriously hurt my finances to defend myself, I was no architect and I was pretty much outraged over the entire ordeal.

My point is these TSA / LE type positions know they can wreck your world with essentially the wave of a wand. Stories like this poor guy sicken me. I would personally like to see private agencies running the show again, the TSA has too much power and situations like mine and this poor guy are really just inexcusable.
Great source.

The growth rate is slowing as the population is increasing.

Stop a moment to consider how that observation is irrelevant.
The perjury seems pretty clear cut. What's the process of reporting that crime in the US, and has anyone made those reports?
You realise a 500 ml Coca Cola has 210 calories, right? So calling 150 calories a bargain is a little strange. That's a high calorie drink.

It has more calories than a 500 ml coffee with cream and sugar, and much more than a black coffee or a double-black/green tea (0 calories).

Honestly milk's health effects are highly exaggerated. I don't love this article[0] and won't stand behind everything in it, however it begins to get the point across that the adverts for milk are just that: adverts.

[0] http://saveourbones.com/osteoporosis-milk-myth/
My impression from your comment is that there's still a chain of command, but different terminologies and durations. My prediction from this arrangement would be that - in time - you see the same people becoming 'decsion-makers' or 'lead-links' over and over again. In fact, one incentive might be to ensure that your own 'circle' continues to expand.

The main benefit I see is that incompetent links/managers wont last long, but it doesn't hinder the machiavellians (it's just another system to game).

Of course, this is the first time I've come across the concept of Holocracy so maybe something else mitigates the above.
Anti-forensics seem like a good idea if you're running a transnational drug empire. A simple electronic leash would have gone a long way; some level of compartmented logins, such that when you're sitting in a cafe you're not always logged in with all of your credentials (probably separated by VMs), would be the next step after that.

Using online tools correctly to becoming a subject of in-person investigation would have been of course great, too, but there should be strong backstops before "convicted" as well.

(Or you could just not do the crime.)
Scientists successfully slow ageing increase lifespan mice
"Very different from a hardened and callus mob boss."

I don't understand ideas like this. Do you think mob bosses don't love their children? As in, that somebody who is capable of love is somehow... I don't know... less culpable? If anything, one should argue that it's the psychopaths who are truly incapable of empathy are the ones who are 'ill' !
Hipchat.com is down
They might be updating their security.
That's exactly how bail hearings work. Just because something isn't yet proven in the eyes of the law doesn't mean it shouldn't factor into bail.
Docker and the Future of Containers in Production
As Einstein said:

>If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!
Amber, a new tool to prevent linkrot on websites, is out in beta
Valve to show off Khronos glNext at GDC next month
and just create another.
You can't just look at the individual bits of evidence in isolation to determine whether there was probable cause, you have to look at it all together.
Also, for rookies and veterans alike, when you are learning something new (especially tech stuff) and it's getting progressively more difficult, remember to take it easy on yourself and to relax. Those stress induced tension headaches from squinting, furrowing your brow and getting overwhelmed from the unavoidable and apparent decrease in your progress are productivity killers.

Relax, and remember that at some time, everyone is a neophyte.
Rather.

As I've already argued, kidnapping applies here.
Just because you perceive something makes the world "more fair" doesn't mean it should EVER be implemented exclusively on that basis.
I really love C# but it seems like a poor fit for doing what you really want to do ("get more involved in machine learning, data analytics, scientific computing"). It seems like a detour and not a step toward your goal.
Flash 0-Day CVE-2015-0313 fix going live – you should update Flash
Under Armour Snatches Up Health and Fitness Trackers Endomondo and MyFitnessPal
TAKE THE FIRST OFFER.

What you could do is tell the "Code Challenge" company that you will be accepting another offer and wanted to know if they would make "an exception" by letting you skip the challenge. Then if the "code challenge" company doesn't offer a substantial increase...go with the first company. If it's close, make sure to go with the company WITHOUT the challenge.
Matrix is basically an eventually consistent object database with open federation and pubsub. It's optimised for messaging at the moment - you can use it for group chat, or WebRTC signalling, or M2M/IOT stuff, or anywhere else you want to pubsub data and keep a history. The similarity with Tox is that Matrix can implement a chat system that looks like Tox. The architectures are completely different though: Tox is a big distributed hashtable smeared over lots of peers; Matrix is client/server with synchronisation between te servers. (disclaimer: Matrix is my fault)
Link to the project homepage: http://amberlink.org/

GitHub repos: https://github.com/berkmancenter?query=amber
The Google Nexus 9 Review
Chairman Wheeler Proposes New Rules for Protecting the Open Internet [pdf]
caching and database indexing
This calculation is looking at the amount of genetic material in a cell by (essentially) weight. Let's take that as the right way to compare these for a moment.

----

Nuclear genome (no sex chromosones): 2,881,033,286 base pairs

Sex chromosones (avg): 262,592,623 base pairs (310,541,120 women, 214,644,126 men)

Nuclear genome (avg): 3,143,625,909 base pairs

Mitochondrion genome: 16,569 base pairs

mtDNA in a cell: 500

----

The proportion of genetic material in a cell that comes from mtDNA is thus:

(total mtDNA) / ((nDNA no sex) * 2 + (nDNA sex) + (total mtDNA))

(16,569 * 500) / (2,881,033,286 * 2 + 262,592,623 + 16,569 * 500)

which is 0.00137, or 0.137%

If we look at just the amount of information encoded, we get:

(mtDNA) / (nDNA + mtDNA)

(16,569) / (3,143,625,909 + 16,569)

which is 5.2710^-6 or 0.000527%
Agreed. And to do this "local" search you could imagine it being much better using signal from the web (who is linking to what content in iTunes, etc).
I'm pretty sure the only "sugar" in milk is lactose, so how removing the lactose only took the sugar down by 30% is beyond me.

My cynical guess is that they took out all the lactose, then replaced 70% of it with table sugar or HFCS. The irony there would be that, while the carton can still say 30% less sugar, they removed all of the sugar that acts nothing like fructose in humans (many people can't digest it, and those who can do so about as fast as they do protein) and replaced it with a bunch of fructose that was never there in the first place.
Thanks!

What about Fx for Android prevents you from switching? It would be great to have that data.