skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the actual value is known we don't really need to calculate anything, just get those that know to tell us.

I suspect that the distribution is approximately normal and that your calculations are close to the true value. From my perspective the really interesting thing to know is how close the true numbers are to expected. This will tell us something useful about the selection process.
Missing link found between brain, immune system- major disease implications
Some of the older lines such as the Met and District are subsurface rather than deep. I believe some roads can't take truck based cranes because the tube is only 5m below.
I always think this is the exasperated "it's just too hard" response. We want the best athlete with the superior tactical mind to succeed. Not the best scientist.
Performance-enhancing drugs were endemic in Eastern-bloc Olympic competition for decades. From the Outside Magazine piece linked elsewhere in the comment thread[1]:

East Germany's state-supported system of doping, which often began before puberty, left a legacy of Olympic medals—along with deformed offspring, heart attacks, facial disfigurement, and lifelong sexual dysfunction.

If you permit the drugs, they'll be used not just in the elite competitors, but in the entire funnel of hopeful competitors starting from high school. These are serious drugs with serious consequences. I for one don't think entertainment is worth that.

[1] http://www.outsideonline.com/1924306/drug-test
OnePlus One is 179GBP this week
It's missing the opening <HEAD> tag. Is that a thing?
On the other side of the coin they WILL stop making PS4 games, just like all consoles when they reach EOL. Yet you can play new games on a steam machine in decades to come.

You can play 2017 games on lower graphics quality (the same quality you get in 2015 games now) just like the consoles. Even if the games they get on the PS4 in 2017 are new, they are bound to remain the same quality in graphics.
You might also enjoy Andreas ‘Kungi’ Klein explanation of Hiccup in his talk titled "Frameworkless Web Development in Clojure."

Source is from the ClojureD conference in Berlin, Germany and Published on Feb 23, 2015

Highly recommend watching and it is only 32 minutes in duration.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LghX4oDWcY
Same way football matches are still a thing. Just because it doesn't entertain you, doesn't mean it doesn't entertain millions of people who don't share your interests.
Most likely that was the circle/district line. It's only one flight of stairs down from Cannon Street and Mansion House. Not sure how many metres, but it isn't far down at all.
Trust me, misgendering is a big problem in itself due to the violence that often accompanies it. It make rub you the wrong way when people tell jerks to not calling Caitlyn Bruce or to call her a her and not a him. But this is all part of getting through thick heads that gender identity of one person is not theirs to decide.
Retro Pi Arcade
How to Close Investors: Stop Pitching and Start Growing Revenue
If you moved your data off Caasandra to Redis, I am going to assume you must be using a lot of Lua to maintain some relationships in data in Redis. How is the performance? I have been experimenting with Redis and my lua scripts are long and I have been wondering how they will fare under production level loads.
I think the biggest failure here is not tracking the 4 months prior. Each week, given he undertook dedicated training under the guidance of a professional, he would have seen an improvement in his results. I'm sure his measurements and ride data would have looked meaningfully different between week 2 and week 12 of his 4 month run up period. Now some of that would taper but he'd still see performance improvements after 4 months with regular dedicated training in place. So it would be key to have that context. Perhaps the increase due to doping is 3-5% vs the 7%. Still substantial either way.
Ask HN: PGP, what comes next?
It seems we've been hammering on PGP et al for a while without much widespread success. And by that I mean no one in my family is using it, none of my friends, etc.

Are there any relevant developments happening in crypto (besides better encryption algorithms) to make it a commonplace thing? Is it a technology problem?
The importance of ‟flow”
Governments everywhere tend not to do this

I agree, but tendency is not inevitability. Some countries (eg Australia and to an extent the US) have decent systems where instead of promise-pensions you have an actual bank account, with some amount of personal control. This specific is solvable, though moving from one system to another is very hard.
The locations are estimates, but will be between the right stations.
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>Fully permitted-doping would escalate into a bloodsport where athletes would be competing to show how many drugs they could take before keeling over.

Highly recommended reading : https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/money-in-the-bank/

It's already happening albeit in a different sport (or entertainment industry).
Wikipedia is full of hidden messages. A common pattern I have observed is the first letter of a sentence being used to string together a message. You can read more about this tactic here https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Subliminal_Messages
The metric system should be implemented in the U.S
"how about "half", the exact word that 'hafu' is supposed to emulate?"

And in Tokyo Dialect, the 'フ' ('fu') in 'ハーフ' ('haafu') has its 'u' muted to silent or near-silent so the pronunciation is nearly identical to English 'half'.

It's practically an identical borrowing in both meaning and pronunciation; the 'u' is an historical artifact of an obsolete romanization system. Even the glyphs 'フ' and 'ハ' are used -- among other things -- to signify that a word is maintaining its foreign nature and not made Japanese.
Greece Is Hemorrhaging Its Most Talented Workers
Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end
Germans have to put their money somewhere. A significant proportion of the Eurobubble / PIGS mess was German savings leading to German banks funding banks in outer Eurozone that in turn funded bubbles and speculation, and the bigger the bubble, the more they received from German banks.
Knwl.js: Find Dates, Places, Times, and More
A pattern language of invisible structures
I agree there is some truth in what you're saying. However, without programmer's curiosity and desire to create new interesting and beautiful languages, we would still be "focused on business" and writing code in COBOL, Fortran, C, Pascal...
Intel optimized zlib: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/i...

Github:https://github.com/jtkukunas/zlib
This was a bit misleading. It's about date handling, which is a complex scenario well outside 1 + 1.
Also in 2010 there was a file storage system based on Bitly: https://nealpoole.com/blog/2010/12/bit-ly-file-storage-cleve... Super clever idea, except for the part where Bitly now sprinkles links with affiliate codes to make $$$
We are touching on a lot of different concepts here, but evolution speed is proportion to population size not how much it has been studied - on the basis of genetics fruit fly are much better understood than humans.

My original point is that you can't apply evolutionary principles to humans since our massive population expansion and recent change from hunter-gather lifestyles to being farmers make all such assumptions void.
The 500 day war (sales)
Spotify Client 1.x beta for Linux has been released
Maybe worth mentioning: this was a bug that existed for ~2 years before I started on the project. It's easy for this kinda subtlety to slip past review and debugging.
Ask HN: How do you backup your lastpass data?
I have heard about lastpass here on HN a few years back and have been a happy premium customer since. My only concern is that I could not find a automatic way to backup my lastpass data so that I can set it up to run daily/weekly/monthly.

Do any of you who use lastpass set this thing up. Is there any tool/script that does this?
Harnessing the sun with the blackest paint in the world
> That is all changing as of this week. All UFC contract athletes will not be given random Olympic style testing year round.

I think you made a pretty epic typo:)
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> What is really happening here is that a, b and c may themselves have different values depending on the operation - as adding a month here isn't a fixed number of days as month lengths differ.

spot on; very much a human mistake, a false assumption of how things work.
It's interesting that we just accept genetic advantage and even prize it, but man made advantage is called cheating.

Athletes should have handicaps like in horse racing ;-)
Date math, calendars and all that is lumped in there together: my most hated of programming tasks.

Second most hated: anything to do with maps.

Seems like every new client or job I take on, I'm fixing or building a calendar or map.
Apple Pay is literally a win for everyone

* Customers have an easier, securer way to pay than chip & PIN (swipe only will be phased out as it has in Europe)

* VISA/MC/AMEX get a reduction in transaction fraud due to device-linkage (combined with biometrics).

* Retailers can process transactions quicker without them costing more.
I imagine the effect would be 'is this contagion'?

But perhaps a fear of bipolar contagion - will other weaker economies leave (and the Euro become increasing like the Deutschemark - high, stable, low interest rates) or will Germany leave (and the Euro become a currency associated with volatility).
Five Translation Pitfalls to Avoid
HTTPS brings complexity. In lots of cases I dont want that complexity. Sometimes that complexity gives rise to (heartbeat) bugs, problems and stability issues. When it doesn't, it always leads to more work.

I want to be able to setup a website, access that website instantly without having to meddle with getting SSL-certs, or creating my own self-signed certs.

Sometimes you want consumers to be software, components (IoT thingies) which doesn't always have an up to date crypto-stack or have a crypto-stack at all. Getting them to accept the HTTPS website can result in all kinds of issues (ref wget --no-check-certificate, even on modern Linux systems)...

In general, getting HTTPS up and running is about an order of magnitude more work than plain HTTP. And if you don't need it, why should you be forced to put in the effort?

The answer is obvious: You shouldn't. Because you don't need HTTPS everywhere. You don't. That's a purely factual statement. I cannot for the life of me see how anyone has a problem accepting that.
tl;dr

Time.now + 5.days + 1.month == Time.now + 1.month + 5.days

Isn't always true because months have different lengths
It's actually quite useful, because for us human beings thinking in months is natural. Think about a user setting for some kind of web notification service:

How often do you want to be notified:

* Once per month

* Once each quarter of a year

* Twice a year

It's straightforward if you can add the number of months to the sign up date. You simply need to define the edge conditions. Example in C#:

The AddMonths method calculates the resulting month and year,
taking into account leap years and the number of days in a month,
then adjusts the day part of the resulting DateTime object. If the
resulting day is not a valid day in the resulting month, the last
valid day of the resulting month is used.
For example, March 31st + 1 month = April 30th.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.add...

I think ruby does the same.
Maybe We Are in a Tech Bubble and Maybe Is Just Fine
Better Backups for Qbox with Elasticsearch Snapshot/Restore
>where mixed race is the norm

Humanity may well end up there, given the easy transportation beginning only in the last century. Halfs beget quarters, then 1/(2^n) for ever increasing n.
This is just a visual experiment, it has no intention to be used as a service. It is live because it is pulling live data from the TfL prediction summary API, which returns approximate arrival times for the next 30 minutes. The default simulation speed is 5 and it can be adjusted to 1 for an experience as 'live' as http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

As for the Circle line, it is just commented out in the code because it wasn't really adding anything. The prediction summary doesn't return isolated data for the Circle (at least it didn't when I made this experiment) so I had to improvise by merging District, H&C and Metropolitan. It was an approximation of the approximation. It wasn't looking great, so I just left it out.
Your insulting tone is unhelpful and it is disappointing that you didn't get downvotes for it.

> You've got the SJW bug for sure

Clear violation of HN guidelines.
My sister, a retailer, didn't see it that way. It cost her something. Her normal (coffee-shop) transaction is cash. This scheme is a big loss for her.
Ask HN: From HN Url to discussion?
I often finish reading HN links well after the discussion has scrolled away from the main page. Is there a way to find the discussion from the url of the linked HN article? Google does not seem too helpful in this regard. Am I missing something simple?
Sure. Yours are. Are at least so you think. If they weren't, you wouldn't know.

Now try to repeat that trick with a nationalized bank-service.
Not quite true. Genetics isn't just dilution. You can get a grandchild that is very similar to a grandparent and dissimilar to either parent. And so on.
But if anyone was wondering "Can I do Actor Model / Microservices in Haskell" the answer is yes.
FNV hashing utility
> The state of Apple Pay adoption

This is the thing that amuses me - Why is rollout of contactless so slow, and why is it being reported as being specific to Apply Pay?

AFAIK there's nothing for retailers to do to support Apple Pay! As long the reader the EMV contactless standard, it supports Apple Pay (and PayWave and PayPass and other brand names). It's all on issuing bank to support 'issuing' Apple Pay 'cards'.

I added my US credit-card to my iPhone and used it with Apple Pay here in Australia many times. Even small independent cafes support apple pay because they just support contactless payments.

Despite being much smaller, Australia is the largest market in the world in terms of contactless usage[1]. From last year:[2]

More than 58 million Visa PayWave payments were made in July
alone, up from 28 million a year ago and 40 million in
January with average transactions standing at $31.38.

[1]: http://www.mastercard.com.au/_assets/docs/2014-03%20MCW_RBA_...
[2]: http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/contactless-tapandgo-pa...
New Java 9 Early Access Build Ready – Warning: Potential Breakages Ahead
I did not intend to mislead; i was thinking more about objects and ruby than mathmatics with the title
Show HN: Find Any Email – Lead Generation for B2B Sales Leads
I think the right way to move forward with the "payment system of the future" is to build it on top of a federated network where anyone can participate at any level without the need to go through some central entity. I vote for no more walled gardens.
Why would people not use plastic currently and now adopt Apple Pay?
Was hoping for something more surprising. Dates and times are fertile ground.

Rephrased, this problem is that "unit quantity + container quantity yields different results when container quantity varies".

On Feb 26th:

> Time.now + 1.month + 5.days => Mar 31st
> Time.now + 5.days + 1.month => Apr 3rd

...

IIRC, #month is a Rails-ism, not part of Ruby.
What about decompression? Are we already I/O bound? Compression is irrelevant in many cases, where you can precompress static content.
I'll concede that this might be true - but you most certainly can't validate it based on these descriptions. In fact, by definition, you are unable to forget "something" for every other "something" you learn. In fact - if you know you forgot something - is that not a new piece of information? Now that I'm writing it out I think it's definitely nonsense actually - sorry. As a parallel consider music (a "single" domain for simplicity) - you are implying you can hear a new song and forget an old one, AND KNOW that you forgot an old one(?). You're trolling us for sure.
Remember, handling cash has costs associated with it as well. They're just not as direct as credit card processing fees.
Sergey's page is also pretty cool,
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/
I was directly thinking dates when I saw the headline :-)

I too have had my share of problems with date handling. One year is not always 52 weeks, A month is never 30 days, most days have 24 hours (but not all of them) and so on...

Not to mention the famous D/M/Y, M/D/Y, Y-M-D ordering problem...
> "When doing math that deals with time, specifically different units of time, it can lead to unexpected results if you are not careful with the ordering"

Not arguing with you, but with the poster: I think that a deeper lesson might be the important realisation that, unlike 'day' or 'hour', 'month' is not a unit of time! (At least, not any more than 'moment' is. (I know, I know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(time), but you know what I mean.))
Looks 'a bit' like ProductHunt. What is the difference?
Crispy Plotter (2011)
Yes, we're back to the problem of value...

If there is not enough work for everybody, and a lot of tasks are covered by robot, we end up in a sharing economy. How do you assign value in a sharing economy?
CNET Reviews the Weirdest Wearables
Beyond Map Reduce Workshop (March 2015)
From personal experience, even retailers that are participating in Apple Pay (Whole Foods, Home Depot, Walgreens) don't accept Apple Pay. Most of the time only half the machines work. As a result, it has failed to be part of my routine. Apple really needs to get Starbucks on board to see real traction.
Allowing/Not Allowing Tor is more architectural decision than team-building exercise. By which I mean the proposal draws a dependency on a legitimate/illegitimate user service and then depends on its ongoing instrumentation and adds the overhead of another thing to monitor and something else for users to complain about if Tor is turned off again.

So I'm not really talking about "maximizing shareholder value" and anyway, I think YC has partners rather than shareholders as is the case with most organizations optimized for investing [but I'm just speculating and being pedantic]. What I am talking about is market segmentation, and its role on HN. It's not trying to be Facebook and segments out people who want to use it like Facebook...and that's probably why I enjoy it more.

Hope all is well.
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The Coldwell Banker Home of the Week: A Four-Level Treehouse in Hawaii
Its not the word; its the meaning. I'm sure we don't appreciate all the subtlety the label 'hafu' brings to a person in Japan. Remember, here classmate committed suicide over it. I don't think the English 'half' would do that.
This sounds like text annotation, which can be done browser side in JavaScript pretty easily. Just not annotating text, but linking text to a user (and vice versa).

Very nice idea.
Yeah this is how you do it. You can also use feature toggles to help manage this. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureToggle.html
Definitely happens with natural language judgementalistically.
Alternative route map of London Underground
Its another gadget and training and relationship with another billing entity and register programming and ....
On austerity..

I think you are overstating the point about justifications for austerity.

The Greek government's finances were such that they consistently spent more than they took in, that is ho the debt accrued. Austerity/reform got it to the point where it spends what it takes in, without enough left to pay back loans. I doubt that it would have been politically realistic for Greek to do this without EU forcing them (and taking the blame).

This is a terrible thing even if it had ended here. Improving efficiency in this environment is nearly impossible, unless "inefficiency" means big chunks of fraud and theft. So, reform means reducing services, and creating unemployment. Say you have 10 firemen. You can fire 5, halving the firefighting you can do. 5 become unemployed, but unemployment costs are less than fireman salaries so you save the difference.

There is a political catch 22. These reforms are not too bad if done during economic good times, but they are politically impossible without some sort of unbearable pressure like insolvency (IE, can't pay salaries this month).
Arc is a flat theme with transparent elements for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell
To a first approximation, "middle and high school boys from some of the poorest neighborhoods on Chicago’s south and west sides" do not have fathers anymore.
yes your point is? Date math is not the same as arithmetic
I've not read it, but if it's by Robert Harper it's probably a highly reliable source of information.
Wow. Ok so given that this is a hardware flaw and not a software flaw is this kind of disclosure reasonable? In the case of software vulnerabilities, researchers typically inform vendors and allow them time to distribute a patch. Is there anything analogous here for hardware? If yes how does intel (or any hardware vendor) get ahead of this by distributing a fix?
The solitude of open-world games when the story is over
Or, China, Hongkong, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Egypt, Israel, & Dubai.
Grrr! Cash only retailers! You don't get my money.
You will perish in flames!
Lionel Messi is not generally considered a great athlete, with exceptional strength or stamina or anything like that which would be affected by PEDs. His ability is pure skill and intelligence. Cruijff was similar.
Would it? We've been using basically the same electric subway technology for more than 120 years already. We might have something different in another 100 years, or we might not. Note that if anything, the pace of progress in mechanical arts is slower now than it was in the late 19th century.
Why doesn't Apple subsidize the cost of the POS devices that are compatible with Apple Pay? If the big hurdle for businesses, big and small, is the cost of upgrading their POS, then perhaps a company with $200B in cash sitting around could help pay for that. Average POS device is $2000 (1), and there are 10 million POS devices (2) in the US. If Apple covers 50% of everyone's upgrade, that's $10B. About 3 months of profit for Apple.

1 - http://smallbusiness.costhelper.com/point-of-sale.html
2 - http://www.gaoresearch.com/POS/pos.php
It really depends on how you expect '+' to behave.

When seeing '+', I immediately think of a semigroup operation. I would expect it to be associative but not necessarily commutative.
If its an unfixable problem then there's an obligation to disclose. Else only the 'bad guys' know.
Retroshare uses Bittorrent DHT http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
Putting the URL in the search box at the bottom of (almost) every page usually works. Have you tried that? Can you give an example of when it hasn't worked? If so, I might be able to give you better advice.
Not that simple. EMV doesn't automatically mean it will work. In fact, half the time I shop at an Apple Pay retailer, it doesn't work.
Didn't say that. She takes plastic too.
I find it particularly annoying that Apple Pay isn't in the UK yet, although we've had contactless for a few years.
Wouldn't call it a 'sport' per se, but in bodybuilding there's two divisions, 'natural' (which is supposed to be drug free), and ''(no formal name).
Wasn't this one of main reasons that thenNeoVim project was started?
This gives me the hope that with 35 I still have a chance to break the chains, get out of employee role and start my own business, because I feel so ready for it... But then again, there are mouths to feed at home, so... shut up and back to reading this feature requirement...