skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is interesting:

It's not just the harsh environs of outer space that
tardigrades can survive in. The little critters seem adept
at living in some of the harshest regions of Earth. They
have been discovered 5546m (18,196ft) up a mountain in the
Himalayas, in Japanese hot springs, at the bottom of the
ocean and in Antarctica. They can withstand huge amounts
of radiation, being heated to 150 °C, and being frozen
almost to absolute zero.

I'm having a hard time seeing how the ability to survive in such high and low temperatures arose via natural selection, especially the ability to survive at near absolute zero while in the tun state. Such a condition obviously does not exist on Earth, so this feature could not have arisen via environmental pressures, at least not directly.
> although DemocracyOS.org seems to have married the idea with political consultation software

Agree, as long as the legislatives have not a legal commitment with a system, it is just a very sophisticated poll.

> 2. If there is a need/desire for direct democracy to be more widespread, why not just bring about true direct democracy? It might take years or decades for the approach of The Net Party to spread to a wider number of jurisdictions. Why not put the same efforts into the wider adoption of true direct democracy, which will probably take the same amount of time.

I'm a member of the Pirate Party of Argentina, and we're trying to do just what you're saying. We've got a direct democracy platform[1] and we use our processes to collaborate with different social movements and government institutions.

For instance, the previous year we participated in several actions and discussions about national bills using our transparent and open process[2]. In our experience, direct democracy works very well as a bridge between real people problems and the representative system. It encourage people participation and it provides real engagement within the organization.

Thanks for pointing out these points!

[1] https://wiki.partidopirata.com.ar/Carta_Orgánica/en
[2] Here is an article about what we done the last year: https://piratetimes.net/a-report-from-the-argentinian-pirate...
Lower selectivity? That may have been true a decade or two ago but their accept rate is under 10% now.
Yea, i'm heavily debating a highend Thinkpad as a replacement for my Macbook Pro.

Mostly, i want Macbook Pro "quality", in a system that has good Linux support - mainly for containers, i'm sick of running a Linux VM on my OSX machine.
To answer your first question: "Hey, new doctors (or fed up old doctors, are you sick of pulling long hours? Shitty bosses? Political bullshit? Come work here."

Having nurses pull double or triple shifts, having doctors answering their phones at all hours--just because they do it now doesn't mean that that is a good state of affairs. In fact, that's a sign of really shitty management.

To answer your implied second question:

Do you have any idea how many patients are harmed or lost every year because of operational errors? Bad procedures, bad diagnoses, bad drug administrations? All under the existing system?

You realize that, in many cases, hospitals can't even tell you what bed a particular patient is in with a high degree of certainty? Or when, exactly, medications were administered?

"Those policies may lead to patient deaths" is FUD, coming from a place ignorant of operational issues in hospitals today.
I Dream of Wires gives a fascinating glimpse into the history of the analog synthesizer and the current state of the scene:
http://www.idreamofwires.org/
The English word you're looking for is probably "denying".

> Still, negating the existence of measles or viruses in general doesn't cost a cent in Germany.

It shouldn't. Truth can't be found by forcing others to believe in your version of it. The acceptance of any given fact will naturally follow a normal distribution, and those on one side or the other of that curve aren't defective. They're actually necessary for intelligent and critical discourse.

Even this fool provided an opportunity for the public to learn how wrong he was.
I've used Cygwin a lot in the past; it's great provided you don't have to stray outside the Cygwin world. If you need to interact with standard Windows executables it gets very hairy. In order to maintain Unix-ish semantics, it needs to do some rather odd things --- IIRC stderr is passed via a Windows named pipe rather than via the Windows file descriptor 2?

And heaven help you if you need to run a Cygwin binary on a system with a different version of Cygwin installed on it...

We found ourselves switching to MSYS whereever possible simply because it was less clever, and therefore more predictable.

(Also the Cygwin package manager makes me sad.)
That's what google cache is for:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BJedQ1n...
It is, if upon written request, the terms are confirmed by the one offering the bounty. This has happened here. The originally reporting newspaper has this to say (translation by me):

"[...] The doctor had noted the biologist's 100.000-Euro-Offer on the internet. At the start of the trial, he stated that he had requested (and received) written confirmation of the bet. He sent the documents to the biologist - together with his account number. Still, he did not receive the money and proceeded to sue. [...]"

Original article here:
http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.kurioser-masern...
I had a go.

Alexis: Hey, I’m Alexis. I’m here with the answers you need to level up your lifestyle.
Send me questions anytime about dating, style, food/wine, entertainment… all of it.
I’m your secret weapon! 08:42
Me: I'm stuck in the cockpit of the fighter jet I was flying. I've crashed on the border
between Hungary and Slovakia. I only speak English. How should I proceed? 08:46
Alexis: Okay, this is a new one. 08:46
Alexis: Give me a couple minutes to think about that. By the way, you can call me Lexi,
what can I call you? 08:46
Me: You can call me James. 08:56
Me: I would ask you to send for help, but my mission is secret. I have rations for a
couple of days, but it's hard to drink while hanging upside down by straps. 09:00
Alexis: Bummer. 09:01
Alexis: Undo the straps. 09:02
Me: Also I don't want to ruin my tuxedo. 09:02
Me: The mechanism seems to have jammed. 09:03
Alexis: Sweet, you have a tux too? Your life is exciting. 09:05
Alexis: Er, was up until now. 09:05
Alexis: Have you tried your pen? It's also a scaffolding hook and ultra high powered
laser. 09:06
Me: I've tried using the laser in my watch to cut the straps, but it seems to have
been broken in the crash. 09:08
Alexis: James how did you get this far with such bad luck? 09:08
Me: Ah, the pen... Great, the straps are cut. I can hear footsteps. I'll have to be
quiet for a minute. 09:09
Alexis: Should I stop texting you? It might ding. 09:09
Alexis: Oops 09:09
Alexis: Are you dead? 09:10
Me: They must have heard me tumbling out of the straps onto the cockpit roof.
I've been apprehended and am in the back of a van. 09:10
Alexis: It's weird that they didn't take your phone away. 09:11
Me: I distracted them with my bonhomie. 09:11
Alexis: Use one of your gadgets. 09:12
Me: It sounds like Hungarian they're speaking. I think they said they're taking me
to 'the palace'. Is there a palace near here? 09:12
Alexis: Idk. Where are you? 09:13
Me: Somewhere on the border between Hungary and Slovakia. 09:13
Alexis: You're in luck! They're taking you to the Four Seasons
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Four+Seasons+Hotel+Gresham+Palace+Budapest
Me: Will I be in time for dinner, and if so, what wine should I order? 09:17
Alexis: How much are you looking to spend? Red? 09:20
Me: Red, of course, I'm sure they're not savages! I'm sure cost won't be an issue. 09:25
Alexis: Chateau Haut-Bailly Pessac-Leognan 2004 09:27
Alexis: classic aromas of scorched earth, sweet black currants, cherries, and a hint
of pain grille. Light on its feet, but substantially flavored 09:27
Me: Thank you, I knocked on the cab and (in my best Hungarian) asked the driver to
telephone ahead and check it's in the cellar. You've been a great help! 09:30
Alexis: You got it. Don't forget to explode something and walk away from it slowly
without looking back. 09:31
Me: Yippee ki yay, good sir, as I believe you say over the pond. 09:39
Dear CMU : We'll get there someday, but I'm not holding my breath. - NCSU
This. This more than anything. Amazon is now in a position not to need reviews from people that currently own that book. Or better still, there is a point where there is a verified purchases threshold that triggers the hiding of unverified votes.

Yes it still means a person can buy the book, then give it a bad review, then return it, however the effort to do this would be higher AND there would be a purchase pattern that begins to show itself.
It's dangerously close to a passive-agressive pitchfork mob, but I propose that many people start tweeting to greek banks regarding their SSL configurations. The National Greek Bank, for example, scores an F on the SSL Labs Test because they are using TLS 1.0 and are vulnerable to POODLE:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=nbg.gr

their twitter account is: https://twitter.com/ibanknbg

EDIT: The most effective outreach will be friendly and respectful, if anyone chooses to do this. Also, all the other major greek banks score poorly:

Piraeus Bank
Score: F! https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.piraeusba...
twitter:https://twitter.com/skepsouprasina

Alpha Bank: B https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.alpha.gr&...
twitter: https://twitter.com/alpha_bank

Eurobank:
Score: F! https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=eurobank.gr
twitter:https://twitter.com/Eurobank_Group
Given the population change going on in Sweden, that's actually quite likely. A factor of 2 might be too small.
there are tshirts and posters. also you can donate directly to the project.
With the cloud-based systems, it seems they made them from the perspective of their mobile devices, then ported the APIs to the desktop experience. The idea they are trying to put across is that it costs less energy on the phone to fire up the radio and send it to The Cloud--waiting a whole second just for network and processing queue latency--than it is to process locally. I don't think that is actually the case and it's just a sell to get all data to go through their systems.

There aren't more popular client-side APIs because there aren't more popular client-only applications, and there aren't more popular client-only applications because developing the user experience is hard. I think, if you used one of these systems to figure out a good UX, then it would give you the impetus to chase down a good client-side solution for speech recognition.
For those who weren't on the internet ten years ago, this is basically a smaller copy of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ which sold off 1 million pixels at $1 each.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

By the way, the current title "Back to the 90s Earning a $10,000 Apple Watch Edition, one pixel at a time" is off by 10 years, since the original was in 2005, not the 90s.
Unless I'm very confused, there wasn't any kickstarter for Spacebase DF-9. Just the initial investment and then the early access sales. The first two weeks of the early access sales recouped the $400k investment from Indie Fund and others which makes more sense (it would have been very hard to defend them had they used kickstarter to raise money and give it back to investors).

There was a kickstarter for Massive Chalice but that's a different game.
Evolution is indeed just a theory - the one every scientist sees as the most likely - but still a theory.

Edit (reply-limit):
Thanks readerrr and cremno, valid points, will consider it in the future.

What I meant was, there have been theories before the current theory of evolution. For example Lamarck's one, which is long considered false but lately some aspects of it are reintroduced. If we would punish everyone for denying evolution we would be unable to advance it.

And of course this has nothing to do with teaching children biology. Of course children need to be taught evolution there.
Define 'attack'.

Setting up vulnerable software on your VPS and then exploiting vulnerabilities on that software to allow you, the owner of the VPS, to get root access in a method you would otherwise be unable to, is fine.

Exploiting the VPS itself to exercise a bug in Xen/whatever to gain access to the hypervisor, access you would not originally be granted, is much less clear cut. Amazon has a bug-bounty program for EC2, and would very much like to hear about bugs you find in this space though.

https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/
Get Fit or Be Hacking: Brooklyn coding contest, fitness competition and fundraiser
Thank you, that makes it credible.
Well the cost for the user of fixing it is to move to a new address.

So google hasn't even paid 1/100 of 1 % of the true cost.
Microsoft's HoloLens Live Demonstration
Note that "mental health" doesn't just refer to chemical inbalances or miswiring or whatever else - in a more general sense, it refers to literally what it says, the health of your mind. If you're suffering from burnout or exhaustion, that is not a healthy state to be in.

(I'll note that the DSM-V apparently does not contain burnout because it's problematically close to depressive disorders, and exhaustion is a symptom of a lot of things.)

If you can help yourself, that's awesome, but for a lot of people, a professional who has experience helping people in dealing with these problems might be able to help them too.
Usefully Wrong
I wish we had PointerEvents as well!
You are using an incorrect definition of the word. Theory used in science[0] means:

a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena

and not:

a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact

We have a separate word for the latter: a hypothesis.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
If you're looking for recent games with good stories, check out the stuff from Spiderweb software:

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/products.html

The Banner Saga also has an excellent story as well, http://stoicstudio.com/
> Firefox suggests some security concerns in the firefox console on both sites. Especially about how weak is sha1 algorithm. Both sites have a 2048 public cert, the one use TLS1.2 but the other TLS1.0 and one of them have a 128bit private key size. You all understand that from a security point of view, these things arent best practices. Especially if you are a bank !

128 bits for symmetric key ciphers is actually fine. Especially with AES.

TLS1.0 and SHA1 certificates? I'd expect better.

> The second bank has also a cross site javascript script and that’s for sure not a best practice. Again that’s not a security hole. They just pull a javascript from their official web page (although a different url/domain from their web banking).

Yay, watering hole attack vectors.
The first sentence: "Mental health problems range from the worries we all experience as part of everyday life to serious long-term conditions."

EDIT: http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/mental-healt...

> All sorts of situations can cause stress. The most common involve work, money matters and relationships with partners, children or other family members. Stress may be caused either by major upheavals and life events such as divorce, unemployment, moving house and bereavement, or by a series of minor irritations such as feeling undervalued at work or dealing with difficult children. Sometimes there are no obvious causes.

> Stressful events that are outside the range of normal human experience, for example being abused or tortured, may lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

> Some stress can be positive. Research shows that a moderate level of stress makes us perform better. It also makes us more alert and can help us perform better in situations such as job interviews or public speaking. Stressful situations can also be exhilarating and some people actually thrive on the excitement that comes with dangerous sports or other high-risk activities.

> But stress is only healthy if it is short-lived. Excessive or prolonged stress can lead to illness and physical and emotional exhaustion. Taken to extremes, stress can be a killer.
You could have predefined gates 0V-1V= 0 1V-2V= 1 2V-3V= 2 / -1

Do negative voltages exist?

Positive voltage, negative voltage, no voltage

Ternary allows for measurements of relativity at the pin level whereas binary is a yes/no...
If there's the potential for multiples then I'll have a CameraManager (TheCameraManager) that finds out what's connected to the system and provides enumeration and access. I'll generally try to make the cameras look like a singleton and hide the Camera class. Sort of like a factory, except you'll only ever get N instances of your Camera class for N cameras.
> Such a condition obviously does not exist on Earth, so this feature could not have arisen via environmental pressures, at least not directly.

Doesn't need to arise directly, it may be that the adaptations that allow you to survive -50C are the same ones that allow you to survive -200C.

Also there is Exaptation where one trait for one set of circumstances later adapts to serve another set of circumstances - the classic been feathers, they evolved as a method of keeping warm and later where later co-opted for flight.
Clock skew is notoriously difficult to actually fix, especially with a network partition.
That seems like a bad idea - the last people I want in charge of The Official Story is newspapers, and of these the BBC in particular.
Well this makes sense because women are strange alien creatures that are impossible to understand.

But how can I know that I will have my question answered by an actual woman? If a guy responds to my question it might seem reasonable to me but I would risk causing the woman to become angry or confused...
You're misunderstanding the relevance here. Water the molecule is common throughout the solar system, typically as ice. It makes up a significant fraction of the mass of many of the moons of outer planets. It's a common component of comets and other minor planetary bodies. Titan, for example, is about half water ice, but it is so cold there that it is effectively a rock.

What we've been learning is that there is water ice in some places we didn't necessarily expect it before (such as in the form of permafrost underlying much of the Martian surface) and most importantly that liquid water is not as uncommon as we once thought. Liquid water is what's most interesting from the point of view of looking for environments that can support life forms. Previously we thought that the presence of liquid water required not only the presence of water as a material but also overall planetary temperatures in a temperate range, the so called "habitable zone". Which, as it turns out, is a fairly narrow zone. But we've learned that there seem to be numerous circumstances that allow the existence of substantial quantities of liquid water in conditions that otherwise would not support it. Europa, for example, has frigid surface temperatures (150 to 200 degrees C below freezing) but it has a sub-surface ocean due to tidal interactions with its neighbors. That sort of thing seems to be much more common than we knew previously.
Java's JIT compiler optimises string concatenation by substituting a StringBuilder and has been doing so for a while.

As to using the wrong data type, that's really the programmer's fault. If you don't allocate enough capacity or use another data type (e.g. LinkedList) if you don't know the required capacity, you are doing a bad job.
Anything with less than a real critical mass of reviews (less than hundreds) is way too easy to entirely game on Amazon. I wrote a book quite a few years ago on a niche tech topic. To be entirely honest, very few people read it. The positive reviews of the book were almost all from people I knew personally. Then the 1-star reviews started coming in. Each 1-star review had no actual content in the review. It was clear that the writers of these BS reviews hadn't read the book at all, since they didn't mention anything specific whatsoever. However, each of the 1-star reviews DID manage to mention a competing book that was "better". And all the bad reviews mentioned the same exact competing book. It was ridiculously obvious that someone was bashing my book to push a competing book instead, without any actual substance. At first I cared, and asked Amazon to remove the reviews, which they did. Then more BS reviews came back, I had them removed, they came back again, and eventually I just got tired and stopped caring.
http://www.notjustatheory.com/
As rostigerpudel stated, the biologist confirmed the bounty in writing.

Anyhow, while IANAL, bounties are regulated by German law in (among others) BGB §657-661a. Mostly §661 and §661a. You can find a translation of those paragraphs here: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb....
The Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Getting Poorer
Traditional unions only work when they're negotiating with monopolistic industries, because the company then has to hire the majority of the available labor pool itself and has no substitute workers to replace them if the union makes significant demands.

Any kind of operation that only needs a dozen developers is never going to need union workers. As soon as the union makes some nontrivial demand the employer can just let them walk out and hire other people. This is why modern unions are disappearing.

Moreover, the issue in question is about politics. The idea that unions have any real political power is a joke; the only exception is public sector unions and that isn't because they're a union, it's because government employees are a large bloc of single-issue voters and public sector unions are their de facto lobby group. Which, because the public sector unions are providing votes in favor of spending other peoples' money, has led to corruption and pandering much more than it has to the union keeping the government honest.

Exercising political power in the same way can be achieved with a lobby group that isn't a union but which lobbies Congress with the support of members willing to vote the way of the group consensus. Tech workers could certainly use that.
I've worked with -ms-scroll-snap-points. It's very limited and an anti-pattern for separation of concerns. You're putting logic of how scrolling should behave in CSS. It's becoming very difficult to do more than just simple logic with this. I've tried updating -ms-scroll-snap-points property on the fly but it didn't work that well.

We need better scroll APIs for sure, but in DOM JavaScript API not in CSS
I'm not anywhere informed enough to disagree, but all I can think about is Al Capone. He was ultimately taken down for tax evasion, but his crimes were widely known to be much worse. He merely took great care to have enough plausible deniability that he couldn't be charged for his worse crimes.
VIDEO: Android Vulnerability and Windows' Failed Patch
Create virtual Legos with LDraw
They come to the surface, then get a gps fix (err) and then is picked up by the boat then the data uploaded..... Ok its going to need some minor modifications.
for vpn server, there is the streisand project, it includes dead-easy HOWTOs for each connection method.
Photoshop experts using Photoshop 1.0
USB-C vs. USB 3.1: What’s the difference?
I feel kind of bad mentioning it since everyone's bound to pile on, but evolution is a readily observed fact (e.g. breeding of dogs), while it's natural selection that's the theory...