skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Help reduce heart attacks, which is what really matters.

Some studies for plaque reduction:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3872716/
http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/19/8/1956.short
http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/15/7/827.short

There were also studies that show better diet stabilizes the plaque, preventing it from causing problems.

If you want to find more studies: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=plaque+regression
> Of those, here's 32,768 of npm's most downloaded packages.

It's on “Registry Growth”. Pressing next 4 times from the beginning.
And TC = Technical Committee.
B..b.but! The communists that the Y-Combinator Echo Chamber favors believes that Corporations are all _evil_ and no person and no company should be able to make money.
Serious OS X and iOS flaws let hackers steal keychain, 1Password contents
> The independent driver is allowed to quit driving if Uber sets the prices too low.

But then the driver loses the ability to see when the price goes back up.

If you are "ON" the Uber app, you are required to accept the Uber price, or you get penalized. At no point can you say, "I am willing to accept this price which is lower than Uber." nor can you say "I am not willing to accept a fare below this price for this distance."
Hardly. The only way you can possibly launch something like Uber is to adopt the "Act first, apologize later" model.

Companies like Uber face problems most of us can't even imagine, such as regulatory capture by the incumbent taxi industry. Yes, Uber plays dirty, but to some extent I think they have to, because it's a dirty game.
You are, of course, free to set up your own public source code repository. Many have done so:

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=live555
I want to be able to use it for RSS feeds as well. Even native Pocket or Evernote integration would be great.
Titles and excerpts are actually different colors. The titles are #333 (Gray20) and the excerpts below are the lighter #666 (Gray40).
GitHub-backup by Joey Hess. It grabs issues, wiki, everthing
> 1. Does it have the S3/Swift/etc. semantics that you will always get the bits first stored or an error but never a corrupt or truncated file?

Yes you are right the behavior is exactly similar to how an S3 API would behave for Get/Put().

> Does it have the S3 and (IIRC) Swift feature that allows you to provide an expected hash so data corrupted in transit will be detected and an error will be returned instead of storing the object?

Yes, just like how Content-MD5 is set through a client request for per uploads in S3, Minio honors that as well.

Minio provides three modes of operation

-- memory (in memory object storage)

-- filesystem (point to any directory or disk, all files are contigous and not erasure coded)

-- donut (experimental, distributed erasure coded on disk format)

In Donut individual parts or chunks are separately sha256 summed along with erasure coding on top of these individual parts.

https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/pkg/storage/donut

Donut also implements rubberband erasure which is a dynamic erasure coding style where in cumulative parities are created for all objects depending on the available disks, total usage etc.

> How does it verify data integrity? Only on access, background scrubs, via API request, etc.

Donut also does data integrity checks on a regular basis as an operational process, where even silent data corruption is fixed automatically without the need for any user intervention.

We are in early stage of our project, as of today Donut is experimental - currently runs on a single node, does sha256 sums for erasured chunks and erasure codes your data on disk.

Much of the operational process and distributed donut is a work in progress, we are planning to get them ready by end of this year.

> Which strong hashes are used for all of the above? Are they configurable / selectable so e.g. if I wanted something strong than S3's Content-MD5 header for uploads can I use SHA-256 instead?

Yes while Content-MD5 is what we do now, along with erasure coding and sha256 summing individual chunks. We can provide the similar semantics of ``x-amz-content-sha256`` from client side. We would be happy to implement it feel free to open a bug - https://github.com/minio/minio/issues

> The classic easy-to-ask, hard-to-answer one: what level of testing backs up all of the previous answers?

I agree with hard-to-answer :-). Minio is written in Golang, which largely drives us to "write tests first" style and we have rightfully followed it on a day to day basis. Not being limited to that we are also working towards building a continous integration testing framework which would be baked into the product, which would help any user perform self diagnostics of his/her setup. In-turn generating reports for quality of their setup, any unknown parameters which might show up etc.

Also testing is an ongoing process, so we are striving to be better everyday :-)

Thanks for the questions, feel free to hop on to - gitter.im/minio/minio and find us there.
The internet is eating the world. People perhaps aren't realising that yet. Everything has changed.

Just a Google search can reveal plagiarism (by accident even).

A bot can find issues with made up numbers (Benford's law for starters)

It's all pretty cool stuff for science.
Is it acceptable to repost a recent (15 days ago) Show HN post in hopes of getting Kevin's feedback?
The FAQ at https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md has an item about that. The WebAssembly has a view source implementation that translates the bytecode into a textual representation that is easier to read than asm.js
This would make an interesting podcast. A couple of technologists from YC (or anywhere, really...) discussing the Show HN projects of the week.
Greece and Bitcoin – The Behavioral Science Behind a Greek Tragedy
But there's a good reason for that convention in any language with first class functions. Otherwise you would have something inconsistent like "no parens required if the call is on a line by itself, but they are required in any other expression" (i.e. assignment or another function call).
Collecting that much ride data is not trivial.

Actually it pretty much is, if you're willing to snoop on handshaking data from peoples' cell phones.
The thinking is that if you own the directory you own the ability to remove things from it.

It gets reported as a bug quite often though.
> not supposed to be available to anyone but the police... to abuse that for crime is huge

So it sounds like an illogical configuration on its face then.
As a library that would ideally tie into the compiler to implement a real, tracing, copying GC. Something close to that is already done with Servo's Spidermonkey GC integration.

With WebAssembly, it sounds like they want the same sort of thing- let manual/Rust-style/etc. memory management work, but still allow the necessary integration into the runtime for a GC.
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It's inferior because we aren't adapted to it. Our bodies are highly adapted for millions of years to thrive on the food that comes out of our biosphere more or less directly. This is why super-hybridized dwarf wheat (not even GMO!), for example, which was developed in the 1960s, has been linked to all kinds health problems, including obesity. Our bodies have not had time to adapt to it, but if we look at dwarf wheat purely through the lens of economics, it's a "great" product as it has twice the calories of ordinary einkorn wheat that we've been eating for more than 10,000 years.
I think you've got my core idea down.

Upvoted.
What most people want is a car to arrive very quickly (perhaps in seconds) of predictable quality for the best fee. The largest operators with the best software and economy of scale will win this game. You won't be able to automate a single car and compete, not the least of the reason being users aren't going to jump through 15 apps to request a car, and big players will not hand you their customers.

If Uber can operate 100,000 robo-cars in San Fran you can walk up to the sidewalk and press Hail and presto you have your ride. They can dynamically balance load between nearby cities on a day-by-day even hourly basis dispatching streams of robo-cars from their garages when the surges hit. Large events which drive demand are pre-scheduled and automatically reflected in both car distribution and the number of gasoline futures they trade on the options board for the upcoming week, etc. etc.

You can bet these robo-cars will be getting robo-tire-rotations and any other effeciencies they can squeeze out. (Imagine a line of them going through Uber's robo-washers)

5? 10? 15 years out? Doesn't really matter but I'm convinced it will eventually happen. It will be awesome and terrible all at once.
> Meals are made in an operationally efficient facility allowing each all-organic meal to be priced at $7.99

Is this US$7.99 per meal?

Is this considered expensive for the markets you are serving?

$8 does seem expensive (in some parts of the world) for food, but if it is highly nutritious, organic and affordable for the markets you serve, it sounds interesting.
Just curious, what do you think of Stellar's consensus system?

https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-...
Would you care to address the specific question posed? Like, why Golden Rice is inferior to the rice varietal from which it is derived? Just because it doesn't come with a "100% Natural!" stamp doesn't make it bad. Neither, I should think, is the converse true. As you illustrate, there are plenty of problems with "natural" non-GMO plant breeding.

Is the position that you mean to stake out perhaps that it's possible for GMOs to be inferior, rather than that they are necessarily so?
> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link.

&c.

It's a blog post announcing they're going to be presenting some new information on their network topologies at a conference this week, so not sure what you'd expected that's getting you so bent out of shape. Moreover it's a post with some impressive-sounding numbers and links to some legitimately interesting (albeit year or more old) publications. Seems like that puts it easily above 1/3 of front page submissions just right there.
Thanks.

Here's Tim Sweeney on diff between "bytecode" and wasm:

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/611237145857138688
Optimizing compilers.
That sounds a lot like you're still creating each one yourself. Just because Chrome is suggesting that you might want to create a search shortcut, doesn't mean you're still making individual shortcuts by hand.

I can directly search Audible.com (a site I've never used before) with an intuitive !audible. Then I never have to think about this shortcut ever again, because it isn't saved in my browser somewhere.
Most (all?) cryogenic systems can be closed circuit. The only reason they don't is because He is cheap.
> I thought the = signs denoted mathematical equality (equations).

I had the same confusion! My very first roadblock in programming was when the teacher told me to write `x = x + 1` on the blackboard, which didn't make any sense, mathematically.
> Mathematics has no separate truth from the physical world - it's just a field of epistemological methods.

I don't think that can be right. First of all, there are many mathematical things that don't correspond to anything in the physical world. Second, I'm not sure that "epistemological methods" correspond very well to the physical world, either. (I mean, yes, in one sense it's something humans do in their heads, so it's part of biology, so it's part of the physical world, but that seems like a bit more than what we usually mean by "the physical world".)

More that that, though, we don't think of everything as physics. Biology, and even chemistry, we think of as separate disciplines. Thinking of mathematics as also a separate discipline seems perfectly reasonable.
If you want organizations to be merit-based, you need the larger social context to be merit based, so as to provide a 'background of fairness' to establish what is right or wrong for an organization. To do this, you have to take actions that drive wider social change, not simply optimize your organization.

(If you optimize at the organization level, you end up taking advantage of existing social biases, which is why those subcultures are heavily dominated by the male majority.)To fix this, organizations must not optimize within the existing social biases, but attempt to shift the social biases to that their optimizations are aligned with a merit based-society.

In other words, if you want to hit your target, you have to account for gravity and aim up a little.
Nice. If he says it, it must be true, he's infallible ;-)

Can we also get pro vaccination and evolution statements, please?
I ran the math on that once: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2922

Spoiler: No.
> ...providing the common law grounds for a class-action lawsuit.

This will be fun.

Most (all?) ATT customers have undoubtedly agreed to an updated terms of service contract that contains the "In order to use our Services, you agree to waive your right to trial by jury and class action suit, and agree to use only binding arbitration to settle your disputes with us." language[0] that every company was adding to their contracts after AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion.

[0] AKA: A binding arbitration clause.
Would using Bayesian statistics fix that? If the prior for a coin being defective to produce only heads is more than one in a million, then 54 is probably defective. If it's less than that, then your analysis doesn't conclude it's defective anyways.

Bayes can be hacked by ommitting info, but not by things like this, I believe.
I am employed at MSFT. This post (currently the top post) is factually incorrect on basically every level, both on subjects that look good for the company, and on subjects that don't. I'm stepping in to correct this because it's better that people understand honestly where we are and aren't doing well, then it is to have ridiculous rumors spread by people who shouldn't talk about what they don't understand.

Bing is under Qi Lu, full stop. Lu is very senior VP who reports directly to Satya Nadella. Bing is NOT split among Qi and 4 of his VP peers. It IS true that Lu has split the responsibilities of managing Bing up among SOME of his direct reports, almost all of whom are themselves VPs. But the idea that there is no real "Bing org" anymore is just completely and totally wrong. They all answer to Lu, and they've split responsibilities along sensible boundaries, so that things like UX are under one VP and infrastructure is under another VP.

Second, Bing does not have 20% market share "plus" Yahoo's market share. Bing and MSFT properties like MSN have 20% market share. Yahoo has 12%. You can't just credit Bing with Yahoo's market share. That's a search experience they work hard on, and the fact that Bing powers Yahoo is largely immaterial to their consumers, who come to Yahoo for the Yahoo experience. They could switch to Google tomorrow and the vast majority of consumers would not notice or care. Truthfully, the biggest (and arguably only real) benefit for Bing is the increased ad revenue.

Third, Bing IS profitable. This is well-known and reported on.

Fourth, it is basically completely untrue that "nobody" buys Bing ads. Obviously it would not be profitable if that were true. Furthermore, the supposition that you should buy ads based on market share of the search engine is hilariously wrong. You should purchase ads on the platform where they will be more successful. A lot of times this is Google; sometimes this is Bing. The fact that the parent got this wrong basically indicates that they are not to be trusted on this subject, at all. If the poster doesn't know what they're talking about here, it's better to just stop talking then it is to provide information that is wrong or harmful to people listening in.
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How many books did this guy plug in his piece? I really lost count at 10 or so ...
How Geeks Spend Their Summer Vacation: Playing with Old Storage
Hi, I'm an engineer from Google responsible for the hotword module.

I understand the concern that a proprietary component may be performing unknown instructions, and indeed Chromium does download hotword-x86-64.nexe on startup, but it has been carefully designed as an opt-in feature. If you do not turn on "Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search" (in chrome://settings), Chromium will not run the plugin. You do not need to trust Google engineers to tell you this; the open source Chromium code has the logic to decide whether to run the plugin.

I have posted a detailed response (including the link to the place in the Chromium source code where the module gets run) on our bug tracker at http://crbug.com/500922#c6.
Introducing the Maker Channel on IFTTT
English is my... third language, and I do have trouble understanding certain accents over the phone, natives or not.

I usually ask them to repeat their statement a second time. If that doesn't work I politely blame the line/sound quality and suggest to them to bear with me and slow down for the remaining of the call. Then repeat what they say as I understand it, to ensure I'm getting it right (active listening).

If it still doesn't work out, I suggest that perhaps an email follow up or some other method would be best (e.g. Skype).
Show HN: A Password app that can self-destruct if your phone is lost or stolen
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Yep, saw that. I don't think it's enough of an issue to not use Babel (my team uses it and we all think it's great), but it is suboptimal.
If you dig through my comment history, you might be able to find a comment I wrote on my first exposure to this term maybe ~2 years ago. I was utterly befuddled because I thought it was a graphics rendering algorithm (setting pixels in a framebuffer corresponding to the interior of a polygon specified as an edge list), and was horribly confused about why an article discussing some web technology would suddenly transition into a geometric problem utterly disconnected from the original topic.
Show HN: A crime map using open data and user reported data
When I was freelancing before I owned my consultancy, my basic rules to keep it clear:

1. I set my hours.

2. I don't work on-site but may on occasion for deployments or times where it would be of benefit.

3. I use my own equipment (computer etc).

4. I pushed hard to have work carved out and I self managed my schedule and deliverables. So I didn't "report" to their PM/dev lead for direction, but only to help coordinate work and make sure we were on track and aware of any changes that might affect either side etc.

I never had any issues doing it this way, but I had a few employers that refused to work with me because of it. They said I had to use their equipment and be integrated to their team. Which at that point I knew I wouldn't be independent, so I refused for personal reasons, mostly because I wanted to control my schedule. But it also benefited me since it could have "defined" me as an employee and then I would have been way overpaying taxes.

From what I understand it is fairly low risk for the "contractor", even if they get reclassified other than overpaying taxes. From what I understand it is more an issue for the employer, any information to the contrary?
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/01/08/260782518/thi...

This is a case of GMOs to preserve freshness, rather than nutrition.
Why Some Teen Brains May Be Hardwired to Make Risky Choices
This is covered quite well (multiple times) by the article. The categories are not the same as last year.
The first immediate thing I would recommend is moving all of your files into AWS S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

Storage is super cheap, and you can get rid of the clutter on your laptop. I wouldn't recommend moving to a database yet, especially if you don't have any experience working with them before. S3 has great connector libraries and good integrations with things like Spark and Hadoop and other 'big data' analysis tools. I would start to go down that path and see which tools might be best for analyzing text files from S3!
What social science?

You shouldn't be generating the text in advance and then processing it. You should be dynamically generating the text in memory, so you basically only have to worry about the memory for one text file at a time.

As for visualizations, R and ggplot2 may work (R can handle text and data munging, as well as sentiment analysis etc.) It may be worth using it as a social scientist.

ggplot2 has a python port.

That said, you are probably using nltk, right? There are some tools in nltk.draw. There is probably also a user's mailing list for whatever package or tool you are using, consider asking this there.
interesting, on mobile google is faster than ddg for me
You don't find that a gmail address on a business card conveys that it's a 1-2 person operation or very loosely organized? Given the low barrier to entry for setting up hosted email (google apps being $5/mo/user) I personally get the impression the person doesn't take their business seriously, on par with business cards with perforated edges from home printing.

I know my gut reaction when I get a (semi-)professional email from a gmail account is "ok.. what's the scam angle on this one?"
Why do you need to unconditionally download a binary blob? Can't you just download it when "Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search" is turned on? And also, it's not really open source anymore even though you delay downloading the non-open parts until runtime.
It took me a couple of times to believe this wasn't actually an attempt at humor (it may be still but the Post seems to be taking it somewhat seriously). Is this stuff playing well, and by that I mean making the government look better or more effective, in Russia itself? I realize a reader outside the US who was reading stories that show up in the gossip newspapers in supermarkets (my favorite the government's secret agreement with Aliens they met at Roswell NM) as if they were serious would have a pretty dim view of our government's sanity.
Aereo is a really bad example to cite since it looks very much like they were simply lying through their teeth rather than riding the tech edge.
w00t w00t. This is pretty great overall.
Relevant:

https://xkcd.com/882/
YubiKey – Making secure login easy
That's another great example, and I think that industry and thousands more just like it are all 1099 today and are impossible to run as W2. This is a really crucially important distinction which drives a significant percentage of GDP. That's why I think ultimately they are throwing the baby out with the bath water and it won't stand.
https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
Seems to me like an argument for sustainable manufacturing, rather than anti-consumption

Curbing consumption is immediately damaging to the economy. The better solution would be to heavily tax unsustainable business practices, rather than try to curb consumption. If you go after consumption you give more power to the super rich, while simultaneously doing nothing to discourage environmentally unsound business practices.

Why is it better to continue producing products in an environmentally unfriendly way with lower consumption of goods, rather than lowering the production of environmentally damaging products, while raising consumption rates of sustainable products?

Go after the supply not the demand.
This was written about 5-6 months before the sexual harassment claims, lawsuit, investigation, and the later departure of one of the cofounders.

My take on this is that lack of 'management' might seem like fun but there's a reason most grown-up companies have more process.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/04/21/github-found...
Not even definition, but "assignment". Definitions do not change.