skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Having first hand experience with ALS, it's fucking horrible and devastating for most people. The 'grease' (myelination) between your neurons is attacked by your own body and eventually your brain stops being able to transmit impulses to muscles. That's why the article mentions breathing/swallowing. As this applies to all muscles your life quality goes to nothing.

That he's reached some kind of stability is amazing, but apparently no one knows why. I guess his body just stopped attacking itself? It somehow it can repair at the same rate it attacks?

Really:
How Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with ALS decades ago, is still alive

should be
How is Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with ALS decades ago, still alive?
It's the same as people who voluntarily use Windows. It says something about them, that's all.
I wonder if this is based on OpenCV or if it's a proprietary system. Looking at the demo it could be using CAMShift with Kalman control?

My experience with OpenCV is that object tracking depends heavily on hue differences between the tracked object and the background - eg. I start out tracking my face, and wave my hand in front of my face, the tracker then starts to track my hand instead. Have you found a good way to mitigate this issue?
Woukd you mind explaining a bit more why locking is a requirement? It sounds more like an organisational issue rather than something required in SCM.

Taking the game studio example, why would two developers/artists/whatever need to work on the same asset at the same time? Locking stops them from stepping on each other's toes, but it also means one has to wait for the other to finish their task before they can do anything.
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The World Is Going Nuts Over a Smartwatch. It Isn’t Apple’s
Don't get used to it. This winter has been historically dry and warm in PDX. Snowpack in the Cascades is ~11% of normal this year.
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If the FCC ruling-majority can 'reclassify' (on their own discretion) and 'forbear' (on their own discretion) then these same commissioners, or a future set, could similarly and unilaterally keep adding more of Title II to the mix.
What about sports drinks vs pure water for endurance activities exceeding 2 hours? I used to only drink water, but switched to diluted Gatorade and found it to hydrate much better (less urination) and reduce soreness the next day.
so can XSS start/stop/install/uninstall toothless apps?
Yes, but not unless:

1. there are full-featured native clients for computers that aren't smartphones

2. it works with anonymous accounts, without needing a phone number

3. federation is open

Right now, TextSecure can't even fully replace OTR (for secure IMs), let alone GPG (for email <- real work).
The problem with php's password_hash()
The community is having a great discussion around “remote work”. You see the dichotomy of companies such as Slack who build products that happen to enable better remote communication, but who hire people to co-located buildings.

As soon as you get beyond a few people, you are working “remotely”. If you aren’t in the same room you will have your main workflow happening through tooling. Yes, you can get together to meet face to face on topics, but that isn’t your general workflow.

Never heard such glory come from anything associated with Walmart before.

Remote working is what you do everyday even if you are 'co-located in the same building', or same company different building. To top it off all your customers are remote, get your communication and systems in check to also do remote, it gives an external view like no other on your product, and gives all your product engineers a lab to work in.
The use of these sorting functions is already orders of magnitude more than random testing would cover. This is a very rare failure, only affecting huge arrays, arrays so large that quickcheck would not even test it.
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Hey, thanks for submitting our (upcoming) tool. I'm 1/3rd of the team behind Superpowers, some of you might recognize me from CraftStudio. If you have any technical questions or otherwise, I'll be happy to answer :)

The devlog on TIGSource is worth checking out, too: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=46317
> The FCC has a 332 page plan to regulate the Internet (which the public does not have a chance to even look over before it is passed)

No, the FCC does not have a 332 page plan to regulate the internet. Tom Wheeler has a plan, although it is much much shorter to 332. The 300+ pages is for a document that includes his plan, a long explanation of the reasons and the authorities for each part, and a long look at the large number of comments that were received after last years FCC plan.

The FCC will have a plan if the Commissioners vote in a couple day to make adopt Wheeler's plan, at which point it will then be available for public comment so that we can all see it and comment. After that, the FCC decides to adopt it or not.

> Even if the current administration doesn't use the power they will now be given, whose to say it won't happen in the future? Doesn't this bother anybody?

Adopting Title II with forbearance now does not really make it significantly easier for a future FCC to use the powers that this FCC is forbearing. If this FCC does not adopt Title II, all that changes is that future FCC would have to adopt Title II.
I know it's unpopular to stick up for physicians but...

> Medicine is mostly a guessing game

Can you be more specific with that sweeping generalization?

> and will stay that way until we have genome-specific-personalized-medicine with real-time biofeedback mechanisms from sensors in the body.

And why do you think that? Again, by what study, authority, knowledge or reasoning?

> you may be part of the problem.

Actually no, it's the other way around. You are part of the problem. I'm so tired of people who have zero training or background in medicine or science half-haphazardly proselytizing without any data or evidence to them up.

Please stop pretending like you know the answer to something this important if you aren't in the position to do so.
Google also apparently entirely eliminated the verbatim search mode (some time after making double quotes no longer perform a verbatim search). People now complain that there is no documented way to perform verbatim searches with Google.
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Android has offline speech recognition.

I'm not sure if it'll use it anytime there's a data connection, though.

I've also noticed it has a couple of flaws, like you can't use "newline" with it.
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How do you handle professional liability for these expert opinions? Medical malpractice is a very real thing.
Lenovo's Chief Technology Officer Discusses the Superfish Adware Fiasco
The headline of this article is a lie, click-bait-and-switch. It promises to tell you how this happened but then the article says that no one knows. An honest headline would be "No one knows why Stephen Hawking is still alive."
As far as I know, the only serious proponents of SBM are the authors of the sciencebasedmedicine.org blog. There don't seem to be any scholarly articles on the subject, and the only books that exist are just compilations of the blog posts.
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It says in the blog post that it's 1% faster than CPython (which means that it's as fast as CPython really) on their benchmarks, while PyPy is much faster than that on the same benchmarks.

Check speed.pypy.org and speed.pyston.org
How is that any different than running to the McDonalds for every meal?
There are a couple alternatives to GPG being developed right now.

One is reop (https://github.com/tedu/reop). The cryptography is done by libsodium and it is well-written.

Another is NetPGP (http://www.netpgp.com/). The cryptography is done by the OpenPGP SDK. The NetPGP code is well-written but the OpenPGP SDK code looks like OpenSSL.

Both are promising and deserve everyone's support.
Is it common for one of the switch terminals to be electrically connected to the switch's container? That seems like a dangerous idea?
Bullet Boy looks amazing.

Regarding Unity vs. Unreal, it looks to me like Unity is better for targeting mobile devices, at least if you're planning to deploy this year. Last time I played Tappy Chicken, it devastates my batter and makes my phone hot enough to cook on. Unreal has amazing advantages for the desktop, but it doesn't look to me to be a good way to make mobile games.

If I'm wrong about this, someone please tell me, because I'd rather use Unreal, but I need to deploy mobile, so I'm using Unity.
Great writeup. Why is it on the MIT admissions website?
Basically you feel the city should only be for the very rich. Got it.
Sure. But I guess my point was that money, on either side, doesn't matter when one side has white-hot mass passion.
The platform is very intuitive and flexible: to create a Yoyo, all you have to do is copy and paste the URL of a GIF, a Vine, or even a Tumblr post that contains a GIF. The resulting screen will show you the possible Yoyos based on that content and ask you to pick which you'd like to create. The rest of the platform functions much like Vine—you can follow other Yoyo users, like their posts, and share any Yoyos they create on your own timeline.

Source: Fast Company - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042742/this-new-app-turns-gifs-...
How about:

There's no relationship between fluid intake and hydration versus the incidence of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

Just use a different conjunction.
will google be regulated into this license buying aspect of net neutrality through the FCC?
> The FCC's traditional role as broadcast obscenity-and-violence censor provides evidence that its powers will be used that way

Congress has explicitly made broadcasting obscene material illegal. This is completely irrelevant to Title II regulation of the internet.
Back in the 90's I tried to use GPG, and I tried to pay for digital music. They both went roughly the same way.

Arguably it was easier to use GPG back then than it is now. Pine was my MUA and I had an easy to find public key. Now I have an iPhone, don't use Linux on my laptop anymore, and make heavy use of messaging products.

Here's what I have now that I didn't have then, 2FA. There's an app on my phone that makes it super easy so I use it. If I had to still carry around a separate RSA code generator I probably wouldn't.

Surely we can figure out a way to make encrypted email nearly transparently easy with the major mail providers, and the default mail apps on our laptops and and phones. Surely we can figure out a way to make a trustworthy distributed keystore.

Perhaps this will all change because before Snowden we were blissfully unaware and GPG was a cool toy unless your life was in real danger, post Snowden we're residents of a vast internet police state and my Mom knows how Target was hacked.

I have a strong suspicion we will figure this out, and soon. I wonder, are VC's are looking into funding easy to use consumer encryption?
found it to hydrate much better (less urination)

Usually less urination is a sign of less hydration(?). There are studies that show that some people find it easier to drink the correct amount with a sports drink than with pure water.

reduce soreness the next day

Depending on which Gatorade drink you were using, you may have found some benefit from the carb content that some sports drinks have. There are some theories that easy-to-digest nutrition (which diluted sports drinks can be) help avoid hitting your fat or protein stores. Using fat or protein may cause muscle soreness in some people. I haven't seen any studies investigating this though.
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I was addicted to dating apps, so I quit cold turkey
5% only applies after $3000 per month per title. Per Tim Sweeney himself.

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/15056/need-some-c...
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> Python 2 is DEAD to me. It should be dead to you

You mean the kind of DEAD that has thousands of tested libraries supporting it and that runs and makes money in the bank. I like that kind of DEAD. Sign me up.

> Python 2 only code is nuclear waste grade technical debt.

It is nuclear fusion kind of code for me that just keeps making me money.

> I now use Python 2 vs 3 as an interview question.

What could you meangingfully interview about it? "Show me how to read this unicode file"?

> I run my tests on 3.4.x, 3.5-dev, and versions of HEAD that pass the Python test suite.

I run my tests on my code base and make sure they pass and have decent coverage.

> Why does Guido working on Pyston do anything but hurt the future of Python by legitimising the position that it's ok as a community of Python programmers, to keep accruing this technical debt ?

What technical debt. My code is clean and nice looking. There is no technical debt.

But pray tell what are these great features you are using in Python 3 that Python 2 doesn't have and that just call for all this great excitement?

I like me some fancy tuple unpacking and binary literals but not enough to go around yelling Python 2 is DEAD at anyone or to destabilize nice working code for it.
An amusing factoid is that most of the Cremonese Master violins in concert use have been substantially reworked since they were made. As I understand it, they now have longer necks, shorter ribs, and steel or nylon cored strings. In addition, bow design has changed pretty dramatically since that time.

Stradivarius could not have known how his fiddles would sound today.
It is in use for undergraduate courses in the universities that develop it, and I used it too. It ships with small training problems. What would you like to know? There are many documents on JML. The prover works for you, you just left click logic expressions in KeY and you can prove large parts by point-and-click. It can also finish proofs for you if it's trivial. Often, you only need to specify the loop invariants.

I'd recommend opening up KeY, loading one of the trivial examples first: Contraposition. This will be a quick reminder on the logic concepts like implication, but you pretty much cannot screw it up. Try to understand why the proof tree branches when you choose certain steps.

Afterwards, try something else from "Getting started" like the examples that the proof searcher can prove (for example SumAndMax) and exploring the proof tree, and trying out yourself from scratch. The automatic proofs are not always pretty, so it's more for to do the manual work first. KeY will only let you do valid proof steps, so you learn quickly how proofs work.
Browser-based crypto in general. It makes a great deal of sense to provide encryption APIs for plugins, and there's a case to be made for providing some APIs to site scripts, but in general browser crypto is just scarily insecure.
Why would that be safe to assume? Most of us don't use use usd, just a small, vocal minority.
> go with what your eyes tell you,

but your eyes are also part of the map…
Does the C extension API remain the same? ie can I take an existing extension and just recompile it, or does the code have to support a different API.

I ported my main extension to PyPy but had to leave bits of functionality out because of missing parts of the API that CPython had that they didn't.
Right, because you wouldn't spend the whole day browsing reddit if you had ALS...
Typical usage is an inverted index for full text search. You have search token as a key, and doc_id as columns.
Well, I'd never trust the server (and TLS certs are only a step or two above pure snake oil security), but if the server is willing to trust me, then I don't in principle mind decrypting data on its behalf.
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/0a8b3b67715a/secu... shows that http://accounts.firefox.com cert is pinned. Only Mozilla has the power to attack you.

Also, if you think there's a security issue, maybe file it on Bugzilla before HN. Probably a better place to put it.

(Password stuff in JS is truly sketchy though. That much I can agree with.)
Mike Ash covered the idea of using virtual memory tricks to handle ring buffers 3 years ago, written up as https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-02-03-ring-buffers....

Unlike the OP's article, Mike Ash's version uses vm_remap() to remap memory around instead of hitting the filesystem and relying on tempfs to keep the data in-memory. vm_remap() is an OS X API, and I don't know offhand if there is any equivalent on Linux (though I would be surprised if there isn't some way to do the same thing).
Excellent point. A well-chosen set of some primitives makes sense for site scripts, but the general case of encryption/decryption almost certainly doesn't in most cases.
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And after a hard day of movie making, what better way to relax than to sit barefoot on the spire that tops the building!

http://www.tomcruise.com/blog/2013/06/13/tom-cruise-sitting-...

I can't say I've ever been a real Tom Cruise fan, but man, I have to admire his guts.
Noticing grammatical errors well after the fact here but I'm glad you guys like the story and have some of your own. That's what I love about electronics that stick with us!
>Urine frequency or color has nothing to do with hydration or kidney function.

That is not strictly true. They should have said "don't base your water intake on urine/urination".

Decreased urine volume and abnormally dark urine are both signs of dehydration (early and later stages respectively). They are also both associated with decreased kidney function. But a symptom alone never makes a diagnosis.

In other words, you can't assume you are dehydrated/your kidneys aren't working right based on those signs by themselves. As more an more signs/symptoms become apparent (esp. neuro/GI) then dehydration is likely.
More than 1M WordPress websites imperiled by critical plugin bug
previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9094029
They do a nice job of representing why stacks remote / on site policy works. Sometimes being remote is very isolated.
Just using a ".ai" domain doesn't mean that the company is claiming the product is true AI.

I don't see any such claim on the marketing site or the App Store page.

Not sure where the title here on HN came from.

Edit: typo, mention of HN title
Don't you think the time is right to build such a system?

Public awareness of privacy especially wrt mass government surveillance, identity theft and high profile corporate breaches seems that such an thing is ripe.

I am naively optimistic given the right implementation a consortium of stakeholders could do something meaningful.
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What evidence of browser fingerprinting would you expect to see?
Reop looks exciting, perhaps as being exactly what a "fresh start" should look like.

I see the section on not supporting key revocation at all and it worries me, because it seems to me there should be some way to do so. But perhaps the key here is that this particular tool is not trying to solve the key distribution problem, which is a whole other kettle of fish? It is possible that PGP fails partly because it tries to do both.

But that does mean that a solution still needs to be found for that problem, even if you switch to reop.
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Do you have any specific criticisms of GPG other than "it's old and it's not popular"?

What's your ideal vision of what end-to-end encryption for the common (wo)man should look like other than "not GPG"?

Two questions whose answers are nonexistent in your article.
Could you further ID "Green"? Do not know who that is.

Edit. Matthew Green?
In regards to "circumstances", I was specifically referring to the gridlock in Congress (since we're posting links, here's one: http://blog.oup.com/2013/10/federalist-papers-government-gri...), not gerrymandering; which is prevalent in heavily GOP and heavily Dem states. I think gerrymandering is a little off-topic here, so I'll defer for now :-)

The truth is, I think we might agree more than you think. The problem with the last thirty or so years in politics is that politicians (and by default, those they appoint) and special interest groups (corporations, labor unions, etc.) have created together what's we often referred to as "crony capitalism." Do you really think that the FCC and the current administration are doing this "for the people?" No, they're pandering to the tech block (Google, Facebook, eBay, etc.). I don't see that is being too much different than pandering to the big ISP's.

Capitalism without a sense of morality will itself turn into an oligarchy, as we see now. Thus, people seek more government regulation, which then just breeds more interference in individual freedoms.
Not a lawyer, but..As far as using Origami for prototyping? No, I don't think there is any issue. Using and shipping Origami framework along with your own product, yes. Im pretty sure they are only saying "If you implement Origami into your own framework, you must provide attribution".
Great work!
And IMHO its ok that you started in centralized way. But do you have any plans for decentralization? I feel huge demand from crypto community for decentralized trust platform.
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Doesn't he receive care from the British NHS, making it not a question of affordability?
Hi nedrocks,

Currently, there are some limitations on frame number. We are trying to use resources efficiently. However, a Vine video can be converted without any problems.
This is from October 2014, so some of it may be outdated:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?48463-HTML5-C...

>5. My Game doesn't run.

That section outlines the memory concerns that I failed to articulate earlier.

Assuming it's still true, then it seems half a gigabyte is the upper bound. This would then preclude precomputed lighting in most cases, but it seems like a moot point since you'd have to send the (baked) textures over the network anyways.

---

As an aside to my earlier questions about rendering (past the edit window on my other post):

>HTML5 builds uses the Mobile OpenGL ES 2 rendering code path and use WebGL internally and should be at feature parity with Android/IOS as a thumb rule.

Given that, the following seems to give a good idea of what the WebGL compile target is capable of as far as rendering features:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Platforms/Mobile/in...

I'd say there still remains some ambiguity in certain areas, though. While mobile and WebGL compile targets both share the OpenGL ES 2.0 limitation, mobile seems far more performance-bound and that appears to influence its feature set accordingly.
Thank you. DDG should be the default in Firefox and iOS.
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Similar with cycling.

I did a 120 mile charity ride and was so worried about hitting the wall I over ate and felt nauseous for the last 20 miles.
Funny how that works. :(
Very cool stuff. I like the trick.

Mmap areas can be tricky sometimes if you directly cast their areas to a struct, depending on compiler optimization you might have make some things "volatile". I remember hitting a bug along those lines.

You'll also get SIGBUS errors on Linux. Was kind of suprised first time by those as well.
> The FCC fines people for broadcast obscenity.

So? Congress mandated these fines. One of the FCC's jobs is to enforce them. That has no relevance to the net neutrality regulation discussion

> It requires the 'v-chip' censorship technology in televisions.

So? Congress specifically said that the FCC had to require that TV's be equipped with a feature to allow viewers to block programs by rating. Completely irrelevant to the net neutrality regulation discussion.
One of the biggest things for enterprise deals is that it is highly likely that your software will be a part of a pre-existing workflow, and you've got to integrate into that somehow. This could entail custom software development, training, or formal integration with existing software. It could also be something as simple as "Give me a way to upload reports which I download from Salesforce."