skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on what evidence? I would posit that it there was an intelligent life-form, it would have descended into war and eventually extinction. Self-interest isn't exclusive to Earth.

Edit: I've said that self-interest isn't exclusive to Earth, without providing evidence and I don't have any; I should have said that self-interest isn't exclusive to humans, the simplest forms of life (bacteria, as an example) make war also.
> They also suggest that these projects look like a Ponzi scheme: A project's loss is paid by doing even crazier projects.

This seems to me to be the most interesting finding: the company was not doing all this illegal shit in a diabolical scheme to make the owners or management super rich (though they probably got some fat unwarranted bonuses over the years), but in desperate attempts to stave off bankruptcy.

A bit like Nick Leeson's Barings Bank shenanigans, just with less leverage, so it took a whole company to do half the damage a single person could do in finance...
No one finds or makes time to edit their photo library. Either the process is overwhelming or the tools are not available where the user might have time.
Wow, well done! So much better than psql, thanks!
> Many long-term meditators who have previous experience with psychedelics would disagree with you.

See, the problem here is that you are debating an argument you haven't bothered to fully read.

Terence McKenna has literally volumes to say about this argument. So now that we've moved beyond this simpleton back-and-forth, what say you about his position vis a vis meditation?

Specifically, what do you say about his argument that, without being willing to ingest a drug, you haven't humbled yourself to the basic notion that your brain is physical and its operations electrical and chemical?
Could you explain what you mean? I'm not following. I apologise for being tiresome.
And such a good one!
I'd be pretty salty about having to use the VCS if it wasn't so well integrated with the work items. Definite improvement over GitHub in that regard. (I've still entertained the thought of writing some sort of git translation layer, but I don't know either well enough to translate some of the crazier edge cases.)
> I'm not following... you're getting emails from LinkedIn even though you haven't signed up? You mean those 'I accidentally clicked a button without reading it and it spammed all my contacts' emails from current members?

As with many others, I get these constantly: "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn." with seemingly no way to disable them. You can stop them for that one person's 'invitation', but invariably someone else will start the process over again. I have a filter set up that sends all LI email to trash

> Ironically, LinkedIn is the only site I've encountered where non-members get more access than (free-tier) signed in users.

I can't even imagine how this is defensible. This kind of behavior doesn't give me any reason to want to make an account.
I suppose it's at least problematic according to Microsoft's own guidelines: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/t...

Gleaning from that I'd say that it would be alright to name a product "Analytics Panel for Excel" but with "Excel Panel" they might run into problems.

At the very least they probably should mention Microsoft trademark ownership somewhere on their site.
Interesting that indels are not considered. We found that with RNA/DNA hybridisation that the probes with indels bind with high efficiency [1].

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20649647
IBM is not a company, it's a collection of fiefdoms. Depending on who your contacts are and a whole bunch of Game of Thrones like machinations within the company, they can be wonderful or absolutely abhorrent.
I like the way Kim-Mai Cutler ties them together: techcrunch.com/2015/07/22/uber-airbnb-and-the-conflict-between-policys-ratchet-effect-and-techs-accelerating-speed/ -- the connection being the strain they both put on public infrastructure, and the extent to which they test existing regulations which were designed for another era
ROFLMAO I got it, I got it... so I think I'm TCP? :P
I was following the design philosophy of fish shell http://fishshell.com/docs/current/design.html#design-overvie...

Especially these two:

* Configurability is the root of all evil

* The law of discoverability
Kepler Mission Overview
> I remember that crowd. They wanted to have self-reproducing machines on the moon by 2000. I asked, "how soon can you do it in New Mexico". They didn't like that.

To be fair, I'm not entirely fond of the idea of self-reproducing machines in New Mexico either. ;)
Can anyone show me where Kepler-452b is on a star chart?
Traditional cooking of rice depends on the strain, basmatic / jasmin rice is and was never rinsed.

Traditionally only rinse rice strains that have a very high concentration of starch, e.g. Thai white rice or most Japanese rice varieties.

If you don't rinse those types of rice you'll get something similar to porridge or boiled flour in texture.
The spouses weren't involved.
Less than 1%. For every star Kepler has detected a planet around, there's a hundred more stars in its field of view with planets it can't see.
Yep. And then you need to multiply that by the fact that most of their business undoubtedly comes from major metro areas, in which almost all have laws which make AirBnB illegal.
Yes, all in good fun.

Wadler likely has better things to do than fixing stale links on his site; just found it amusing regardless.
Not at all sure what you're saying here, nor what RSO means to you.
That's what a debugger (or a stack trace) is for. Who debugs just by line numbers anymore?
A Lego Simulation of the Kepler Mission
I've been really trying to go FOSS (or even OSS) with .NET. But the community does not seem to be very open to it. They do upvote, star or otherwise applaud the effor. Yet nobody uses it. Or even makes the effort to try. My experience with the Python community is quite different. People not only accept the work provided, they actually try and use it and give feedback. It feels good to get a pull request improving something you did. The issue might be that .NET has been promoted as closed source by MS for so long. It might take years before the user base warms up to these new changes.
When incumbents have invested capital specifically to comply with regulations, it makes sense that the incumbents will demand that the regulations are applied equitably.

Regulators tend to be held highly accountable to the community they regulate.
I love that there's 150,000 defects, 80,000 of them considered serious.
(author of the post here)

There are issues on a number of levels. One is "public safety" which is essentially the licensing issue. Another is externalities like traffic, which aren't about licensing for safety but more about regulating for other impacts. Then, there are the economic / labor issues, which deserve their own consideration.
His main argument seems to center around a "reactive socket server middleware" being absent in the .NET ecosystem.

I frankly:

1) don't know what that is, and

2) can't even imagine what it could consist of other than a few lines of code exercising System.Net.Sockets.
Hey - author here. I'm not wanting to learn industry practices, it's a hobby project. May look into things like that later, though. The other article parts have the disclaimer that says I have no idea what I'm doing ;) Cheers for the feedback :)
User testing in Slack
Recruiter emails are basically spam built from templates. They'll include jobs for which I'm obviously not qualified for if the recruiter knew anything about me. I've received emails that still had the template variables in them or had wrong names.

Having followed up on recruiter emails a couple of times I have to also state that it is a less pleasant experience than going through the employer directly. All your communication is through the recruiter and you get no feedback at all. In the case you have done an on site interview and you got to meet people, having be the recruiter telling you that the employer wasn't looking to move forward, with no explanation whatsoever, makes a bad experience even worse.

In other words, these aren't lists that I think anyone would want to be on. I agree that some areas are better for jobs than others which is why I live where I do.
> I suspect that's unlikely, even if there were advanced life there for 2 billion years.

Why do you think so? "Continuity" doesn't have to be having the same government or the same political structure, or even the same physical form (the article itself talks about uploads and nanomachines). It just means continuity of technological development. It doesn't have to mean steady progress either; our civilization hasn't had that, yet in ten millennia or so we have progressed from basic agriculture to space travel. For this planet, we're talking about two million millennia, or 200,000 times the time we've had. All the variables we've observed in our civilization's history become rounding error on that timescale.
I was responding to the person responding to you mostly, but thanks for clarifying, I'd not taken your issue seriously in my reply.

Having just a deprecated macro seems very narrow and special case to me.

Something like FF's getSource would work.

var deprecated = function(fn) {
console.warn("Function "+fn.name+" deprecated (at "+fn.getSource()+")");
fn.apply(this, arguments);
};

but obv. isn't useful in real code at the moment because it is FF-only (afaik).

I'm generally quite nervous of 'special forms' in languages that don't allow you to define them yourself. Part of why scheme is so powerful is that most of it can be implemented in the same tools it gives you. I'd like to see that approach.
The trick to releasing data is to provide the right incentives.

For example, relaxing the traditional regulation in exchange for data.

Or, releasing the platforms for some types of intermediary liability in exchange for the data

Agree that absent of a proper incentive there's no way this could come about
Haha I generally try to colour my terminals differently to get around this same issue.
GitLab 7.13 is out
It is an interesting point, but it really shouldn't matter what order you accept the change sets in as long as you accept them all, correct? Was it something specific to your project that caused there to be issues?
Understandable, but still a little disappointing. If this OSS initiative is worth anything, the platforms need to be at parity for features and release.
Even there I think it depends on how you value your time.

If I take the train to visit my mother it's about a 3 hour trip, door to door, and costs about 50% more. But I have all that time available to work on other things that matter to me: homework, hobby projects, even pleasure reading. The net cost to me in terms of time I couldn't spend doing anything else is relatively small, and mostly consists of walking which isn't all bad since it counts toward the ol' daily 10,000.

If I drive it's only 2 hours' transit time, but in terms of actually getting stuff done with my precious time that's 2 hours of complete uselessness. From my perspective it's easily worth a measly 20 bucks to avoid that. Heck, I pay more than that just to get out of having to spend time cooking dinner more often than I care to admit.
(author of the post here)

Sure, that's true

But what's also true is that we will continue to see things -- things that are perfectly acceptable to society, or at least will come to be that way -- that are out of sync with current laws and regulations. So the question is how do we get there. Clearly every innovation is not positive, but many are, and we want to give ourselves the opportunity to try things and learn from them.
That seems like a silly thing to get greatly irritated about.
Why we chose to integrate with Slack
Lens.io seems to be a new competitor. https://www.lens.io/
Sorry You Can't Have Any More Sex Toys Because of This Patent
Show HN: Camo, a class-based ES6 ODM for Mongo-like databases
This post made me listen to erasure. Thank you.

Also, sorry for the OT.
> There is so much opportunity out there, there are so many brilliant minds, eager innovators, and great startups. Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot with patent nonsense that hasn't been significantly rethought since (in the US) its 18th-century English law origins?

Greed.
I'd really love to see a MongoDB provider in between Compose.io and MMS.

We were on Compose for 1.5 years, but recently switched off to MMS after we started running in to scaling issues.

Compose is a bit limiting if you need to tweak / monitor resources for scaling, but running reliably on MMS means really understanding how your deployment works (which might be the best long-term position to be in, but a bit distracting for a ~5 person team).

It'd be great if Compose could offer a managed MongoDB service that ran off instances in my ec2 account (so I'd pay base ec2 rates, plus a $50-150 per-server fee for managing the deployment)
That 'convoluted cognitive path' is a qualitative assessment of what the presenter is describing in the seminar. You don't need some measure of convolutedness to see it touches a number of different cognitive aspects.

But if it's robust testing you're after, then you should be railing against the seminar altogether. A self-selected, self-reported study done on the internet, with zero way to identify demographic accuracy? An assumption that puerility like 'anus@anus.anus' are only done by teenagers? An assumption that "it's really easy to tell when someone's messing with you", which just means you can't detect the subtler trolls? This isn't experimentation, it's a survey, and it's been interpreted with a lot of cognitive bias, with the researcher projecting a lot of assumed meaning. It's certainly better than nothing, but it's not robust at all.
Do you still have access to the source? Sounds a really interesting tool even if just partly completed.
What about worker exploitation? Not considering employees as employees, refusing to pay benefits, skirting around labor laws?
What 2 Years Publishing a 77,000-Word Book Taught Me about Shipping Products
MIT Media Lab Knotty Objects: Phone [video]
Take a look at Boomerang programming language: https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/ and its documentation, they have a bit of explanation of lenses there. Also, on the frontend/in JS we also have some implementations of lenses, most notably in Bilby.js: http://bilby.brianmckenna.org/#lenses
How-to build Docker from source
(Not directly addressing what you're saying.) A few MMOs have been written using .NET.

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/10247/mmos-based...
A lot of these are actually pretty easy to spot with tools like gcov. To determine false positives, we can just look at how many times each "if" statement was hit, and compare those to the final count.
NASA+finds+an+Earth-like+planet+which+may+support+life
I would argue that the job markets are incredibly sticky. With HFT, dollars are fungible and shares usually don't have a regional preference for their buyers. There also isn't a resource cost of acquiring, training, and integrating a new share into your portfolio.

Recruiters typically work for for-profit businesses, that maximize returns on sales, meaning they are going to try to charge organizations slightly less than it would cost the organization to do it in house.

The increased liquidity in job markets drops the amount of time it takes to match a job opening with a job seeker, which eliminates inefficiencies. You're not factoring in the income difference someone makes by being placed in the ideal job sooner.
Fascinating chart.

Any particular explanation for the dramatic increase in unicorns within San Francisco starting around 2011? Think this trend will continue for the next 10 years?
I've always thought that washing rice removed some of the starch which caused it to become sticky.

Guess there was a side benefit to all that!
In theory #1 could be answered by looking for an atmosphere temperature that are similar to Earth’s despite being in an orbit that should make the planet cooler. If there is no plate tectonics then all the CO2 gets locked up in carbonates and the temperature falls (e.g. Mars) or you get a run away greenhouse like Venus. It is plate tectonics that have kept earth in the habitable zone. In theory we should be able to detect such a temp delta.
Deploytron – Feature flags and safer deployment for any platform
I came to comment the same thing. A few months ago I revisited photo storage for my professional photographer spouse and without competitive raw storage smugmug isn't a replacement for our current multivendor storage stack.
I hadn't heard of Bluemix prior to this thread. It does indeed look awesome; the free tiers are pretty impressive, and going beyond that is surprisingly affordable. Definitely a stark contrast from a lot of other PaaS providers (in particular, Heroku). I'll have to check it out for some of my own pet projects.
It does, but chances are Broadcom won't sell you the SoC either so it matters less than you think. I expect it's mostly just aimed at anyone who attempts to re-purpose existing hardware based on the same Broadcom SoC.
One in three servers have outdated software
For a sense of perspective, it's about the signal to noise ratio. Recruiter spam can be as bad as any other kind of spam if it gets to a high enough volume to overwhelm your inbox, especially when you aren't looking, or when they're way off base. For instance, if you're an architect who designs buildings and the recruiters are trying to offer you software architect positions. Not sure why these recruiters think they're adding value here.

Personally, I set up gmail filters to auto-archive all emails from LinkedIn.
We use Julia (running in IJulia) with D3 using either iframe communication, window.postMessage or hooking directly onto the websocket to communicate between the D3 viz and the Julia backend.

We decided to use D3 because of the interactivity. There are performance problems with the default SVG examples when the number of visualized nodes grows so I wrote a hybrid CANVAS + SVG rendering layer. We use CANVAS for the bulk of the drawing, SVG for text nodes or a few nodes that need mouse interaction, and event delegation on the document to determine if the mouse has interacted with anything else.
Agreed. Even when I was actively looking for a job, LinkedIn was no help. I deleted my account years ago and have never missed it, even a little.
I think there will be some eventual movement in remote working, virtual offices, etc. The hard part of telepresence is contact, but physical contact isn't something that is an issue in a typical office environment - it's facial expressions, screen sharing, etc. Once the resolution can handle virtual screens and facial tracking can handle some level of expressive avatars, we'll see some movement.

Bosses will be more comfortable with remote workers when they can keep track of them like other workers in what feels like a real office.

Businesses will start to reconsider leasing an expensive physical office and instead leave their workers in home offices, while having them interact in a virtual space. Virtual desktops, virtual screens, look sideways or behind you in the room to see virtual colleagues.

In a small web business, I can spend $xk on goggles, have everyone work from home, and save $x0k on rent. Then imagine game chat from consoles applied to an office. A whisper goes to your team, a shout to everyone. Employees could set their status to leave-me-alone to be left off everything but the most crucial announcement - that's an improvement on current open plan offices where you only option is headphones. A toggled HUD could show what the rest of the team is working on, etc.

Before avatars have expressions, I can imagine people working in a virtual office full of helmeted Daft Punk colleagues.
Also for people who never heard about Continuum:

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/22/python-distribution-vendor...
They run too slow because they're background processes. Table partitioning, maintenance_work_mem tuning along with table-specific vacuum and autovacuum settings will get you a long way.
For me, there's only one question: will it make me motion sick?

Only if they can fix that issue will it become something even worth thinking about for those of us who suffer from motion sickness. I hope it can be addressed.
I think it may be the preferred nomenclature in the Muslim world since all the people who were conquered are now Muslim - so they should have an easier time accepting the fact of being Islamicized as that's their culture now (whereas bringing up the fact that they were conquered by a foreign people might stir up tensions).

I agree with you about the second point. I guess it's due to the fact that they wrote in Arabic and many of the people they actually belonged to no longer exist (for example al-Khwārizm was from a Persian family but born in what is today Uzbekistan - I actually visited his hometown :)
Recruiters have a serious "market for lemons" problem. Some are good, a lot are terrible spammy bucket shops. Dealing with the bad ones just increases your transaction costs.
Pretty much every Amtrak line outside of the Northeast or the West Coast is a "ghost route" in the sense the article describes. I took the Sunset Limited as a kid once from New Orleans to Mobile. Aside from my dad and my brother, there was one other passenger on the train. That leg of the route was cancelled after Katrina washed out the rail bridges in 2005; they've since been restored, but the train service hasn't.
And quinoa ain't so cheap in comparison to rice.
Looks like it's closely related to homomorphic encryption.
Well yes and no. That is a very complex question and one that might be better for an actual conversation. Youtube and Vimeo want to make money. They don't take kindly to you hitting their revenue streams which are, generally, ads. However, they do work with people very well, though it is slow and bureaucratic. So to give you the simple answers:

Was it possible for you to monetize the videos as you saw fit? Hell no. But it was possible for us to monetize the videos.

Were you allowed to place your own ads with them? Yes

Or strip Youtube's ads and place your own in the metadata? We worked with them to accomplish something like this yes.

Or did you have another way to monetize? Yes, this too :)

We made a bit of money on this system we built and it was more or less self sustaining. The issue was that it actually wasn't that profitable. We had another product which was almost like a little helper we made internally for ourselves that turned out to be a TON more lucrative so we gave up on the video and image network and eventually shut it down. Sometimes you have to just know when to fold them.
The following comment is quite thought provoking and stayed with me for quite a while:

intelligence is a kind of lethal mutation

Video snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBqPiSpgVA
Ask HN: How to create a “How it works” video?
I would like to create a video that would show how my tool works. I am not technical. How do I wrap my mind around it?
Isn't the solution obvious?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Googly.j...
I just had a quick look as a videographer - looks interesting.

Any idea if/when you'll be supporting 4k video? I could do with somewhere good to store my videos, but I'm mostly shooting in 4k these days...
Reddit redesign concept
Dismantling Russian Typhoon class submarine (47 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhxGgQ-Cd4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine
Nutritionally, it seems pretty good.

But agriculturally, it's hard to grow and has led to a lot of economic damage. So I've had a hard time justifying a switch.
It's a little weird you didn't correct that unlimited is only on compressed image formats; not RAW and there are video length restrictions, though generous.