skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you watched live webcam footage from the Space Station? From the Eiffel Tower? Cool stuff, but hardly engaging for more than an hour or so. I'm not sure that adding an extra dimension is really going to sell the technology. (I have no doubt that VR will find its use cases and killer app, just doubt that this alone is it.)
In 2012 the FDA was busy doing the science and projecting their risk assessment for arsenic in rice should be published in 2014. Any limits and associated testing would come after that.

I don't see the assessment published or an update. Maybe they are still working, maybe it was canceled.
I can see the rationalization: I've added React and Javascript to my LinkedIn profile, so it's probably nice to publish that to recruiters that I'm connected with, or friends who can endorse them.

Of course, I really don't want to spam them while I am rewriting prose about jobs until it's done, though, so it'd have been nicer if the spamming didn't happen until I pushed some kind of "publish" button.
This page is substantially unchanged since 2004.[1] There are a lot of technologies missing from that list!

But that's the cool part -- when you think of how many modern languages and packages could be on that list, it really drives home how much FP is eating the world.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040604130605/http://homepages....
Serendipitously, I also found something similar this weekend, but specifying one's resume in JSON rather than XML: https://jsonresume.org/
seconds since January 1, 1970 on earth is still a valid strategy : )
Everyone who uses AspectJ for AOP is performing bytecode manipulation. This is probably the main usecase for bytecode manipulation on Android.
Just to add to something I've seen is many places that the Microsoft stack is used open source code is either frowned upon or completely banned. Contributing your (company code) to that is not only against policy but illegal if the company you work for owns the code.

I ran into this when working for the government, CSC, and another company. They developed some cool stuff but just didn't want to share...
> Just because the upper level of the upper level of upper level management (which is a different group of people than engineering) might have been hostile towards it years ago doesn't mean that everyone there agreed with that stance, and it doesn't mean that that management culture has persisted to the present day.

Fallacy of composition?

> Ultimately the only thing that matters are actions

Which were terrible. MAYBE they are better NOW. :P

> not the human personality traits that people project onto anthropomorphized corporations

So corporations are run by computers, I take it?

> anti-OSS

This position is literally irrational UNLESS you are a profit-making entity that considers OSS a threat to your own for-profit business model.
I enjoyed that ! Thank you.
Hmmm https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/tree/master/...
Unlike [DocuSign and Adobe], though, DotLoop solely focuses on real estate and hence offers an experience that is geared toward this single use case.

DocuSign purchased Cartavi in 2013. Cartavi specialized in real estate transactions and document handling.

https://www.docusign.com/press-releases/docusign-acquires-ca...
In fact, 2003: https://web.archive.org/web/20031025102825/http://homepages..... We'll add the year to the title—thanks.
Also proving the importance of making a profit in the mind of shareholders.
Also, sometimes you're trying to get somewhere very reasonable in Manhattan, but you can't hail a cab because of your, say, skin color. Uber solved that.
I'd love to see footage from the Space Station, but you're right I wouldn't watch it for more than a few minutes outside of a particular event.

Events though I can definitely see spending real time inside of a headset just to watch video. Cinema too. Lots of studios (including Oculus's own Story Studio) are getting in on that already.
It IS great news... But it's terrible to see the media here in Brazil going like "We're finally close to discover life in another planet" and things like that... And even worse, people sharing like crazy around the internet, without even reading it or trying to understand what really was discovered.

EDIT: typing error
BITS is nothing like rsync. The purpose of BITS is to allow low-priority downloads/uploads to progress without impacting the real-time network traffic on the machine. (The classic use being to download Windows Updates without annoying the user by slowing down their web surfing.)

Rsync exists to synchronize folders between machines.
"Get Tracker. Install Excel extension." suggests it's a plugin.
I've had one for about 7 or 8 years. It's worked perfectly fine. The original Drobos are slow, but I only use it for archival backup.
IBM actually "cares about the little guy" to an incredible degree these days. The last few years have seen a major shift in buying trends in the enterprise that puts developers in a position of significant influence. We know that if those individual devs have a chance to experiment with technologies as hobbyists and have a positive experience they'll be much more likely to recommend them for the next internal corporate project. Bluemix is the best example of our commitment to this space and the Compose services are a natural complement to that PaaS environment.
The most interesting thing about the USPTO report is the decline in patent applications and hence revenue. They have gone from making profits year to year to making a loss last year. It seems people have realised the lack of value of most patents.

If people stop putting in bogus patents applications the US tax payer is going to have to start paying to support the USPTO. Lets hope with less applications coming in that the staff at the USPTO have more time to stop these dubious patents being issued.
There's an implicit assumption running through most of this thread that if there's a civilization there, it's enjoyed 2 billion years of continuity.

I suspect that's unlikely, even if there were advanced life there for 2 billion years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hEwMMDtFY
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?

Ironically, LinkedIn is the only site I've encountered where non-members get more access than (free-tier) signed in users. I regularly open a profile in a private window via Google search because it won't show me 3rd-degree connections without paying for them, but will happily share those profiles with Googlers...
Thanks for the discussion link.
It's also Apple the yearly OS update is a matter of crossing fingers and hoping for me.
It's an academic webpage so by definition at least a decade since last updated.
That's fine. I've got a great joke about TCP, and I'll just keep telling it to you until you get it. I'll just speak slower each time...
Life could mean anything though. It could be bacterial life or advanced life. This discovery doesn't show otherwise, but it does indicate that there are other places which could harbor earth like life.
I consider myself lucky if I get more than one a month. I understand the problem that you and others have with deluges of crap, but some of us are appreciative of any interest we get. The "hot" market seems to be rather geographically and specialty limited.
That's interesting to know. I suggested it (or at least storing the original MD5 hash) but was stonewalled by Nick from your dev support, saying "I checked with our developers and in the case that we rotate an image, we do not store the original MD5 of the non-rotated image. This is not something that we are going to change at this time.". I've seen fairly recent reports[0] saying this still happens (although, to be fair, your support indicated that it might be a bug).

What about videos though? From looking at the (v1.3) API response, I can't be sure that the original file is preserved.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this, but since you chimed in, I hope to highlight some issues that I saw. Happy to share more from my personal, very limited, experience supporting smugline with you. If you wish to take this offline.

[0] http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1999917
Why go that far? Titan, Saturn's moon, is loaded with far more hydrocarbons than are available on Earth.
Well if you don’t care about the extinction of the human race that is your choice, but other people do care.

No an asteroid stick that wiped out humans on earth would not cause a significant amount debris to hit Mars.
This is wonderful. I have struggled with the lack of real readline compatibility in the PG CLI, this is a huge upgrade.
I thought that was why we come on website like HN, to get above the average kind of discussions. I don't think complaining about normal channels of discussion is really relevant.
While in Germany, I found it cheaper to do a 1-way car rental on a Mercedes, a 2nd driver premium, and pay for gas (not diesel!) than to buy 2 train tickets from Munich to Berlin.
I think this is just carry over from years ago when many Enterprise level company's legal team would not let you touch or use open source software. Granted this was mostly do to Microsoft's FUD campaigns. Secondly Microsoft provided a licence framework for .net and allowed third parties to sale their solutions. Finally many .net users would wait for microsoft to provide a solution because MS would offer a support and maintenance contract.
While I'm always interested to read about effects of MDMA on the brain, I can't help but take issue with the negative, tsk-tsk tone of this article. They make MDMA out to sound like this drug which makes you lose all inhibitions and any real sense of control, yet I've known far more people who have made bad choices (driven recklessly, had unprotected sex, gotten into fistfights, etc) while under the influence of practically every other kind of intoxicant - usually alcohol.

On that note, I think that it's interesting how our societies demonize MDMA (largely, I think because it's not sold legally, like alcohol is.) I see tons of articles published discussing the good and bad sides of MDMA use, but rarely see articles circulating around which discuss why we should or shouldn't drink on the weekends, or the long-term effects of binge drinking. It seems like alcohol is the accepted form of abusing our bodies because we've been doing it for so long, and because it's a larger, more public part of our culture.
I assume you have not read or watched The Road [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road
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Thanks for writing it out, but you've actually illustrated exactly my complaint. When you call oldMethod console.warn will spit out the line number of the wherever in your framework you have the

var deprecated = function(fn) {
console.warn("Deprecated!");
fn.apply(this, arguments);
};

declared... but you (as the user of a framework) still have no real idea where the actual function you shouldn't be calling (the fn) lives in your code (especially since the function can be anonymous)... you just know that the framework is telling you you're using a deprecated function somewhere in the code you wrote.

What I really want, and what can't be achieved with your purely in-language solution (and it really is a great solution considering the constraints), is a special form for things like @deprecated such that it straight-up can capture not only the function it's decorating, but also meta-data about the function (e.g. where it's declared, the caller / callee, etc.)
Self hosting on AWS. The new MMS makes it pretty painless... clustering, backups, alerting etc, better IOPS and about a third of the price of compose.
if you are still using s3cmd, that only tells me how inexperienced you are

Can we have a brief (one or two sentence) summary of what people should be using instead?
Seems to me its more on the people who solve hard problems than on the current crop of .NET developers - if you are writing a complex game/MMO, AI system or what have you, and you choose to do so in Java, C++ or similar when C# might be the better option, the faults on you not the .NET community.

If the whole pool of developers world wide was considered as a big pie, and a certain section of that do these 'hard problems', the solution is to market to them the strengths of .NET. Advocating other parts of the pie who build enterprise apps and who already use .NET that they should suddenly start writing actor systems 'for the good of the framework's OSS cred' seems silly.
Thanks for the correction. I have never used BITS, but at one time I thought the description of "intelligently transfer files over the network" sounded familiar.
> he says the Vietnamese use the English alphabet. That's not quite right

What he says is:

> The written language uses English letters that you can learn to pronounce. So memorizing street names is a bit easier.

He's not trying you say that you already speak it, he's just trying to distinguish it from languages that use thousands of characters that--without actually learning the language--you have no hope of being able to use for the basics like street names. And to that end, it uses an alphabet close enough to English's that, yes, you can learn enough of to pronounce street names.

Here's how you spell Beijing in Chinese: 北京. Or Seoul in Korean: 서울시. Or Tokyo in Japanese: 東京都. Or Bangkok in Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร.

Here's how you say Ho Chi Min City in Vietnamese, in the Vietnamese written alphabet: "Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh". You do indeed have some hope of pronouncing that and explaining it to a cab driver without actually speaking Vietnamese. You can probably learn to do it for any street or city name, in a few hours or less.

You can probably get there with a little more effort in Korean or Thai because they do use alphabets, but you're not already immersed in it like you are English. And no amount of learning how to read the Chinese 北京 will help you in reading 长安街 or 王府井.
> If it's truly a standard, there should be no other options.

That's a bit strong. Most languages come with a standard set of data structures, but that doesn't mean they make it impossible to implement other data structures if it suits you (e.g. few languages include binary trees as a standard data type, but that doesn't mean you can't use them).

C includes standard string algorithms, but that doesn't mean you can't write your own — you can even create your own string type if C strings are problematic for some reason.

Many things in many languages are there to offer a reasonable default that is generally useful. This seems along those lines to me.
It is certainly a good idea to build defences against the Earth being struck by an asteroid, but I should mention that the Earth because it is considerably large is much more likely to be hit by an asteroid than Mars.
Chicks, man.
A Collection of End-Of-World Scenarios
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> internal storage isnt the solution for laptop users
> go and buy a $500 nas + drivers

you know you can buy a cheap desktop for $400 and use it for nas and more? like a backup computer when your laptop is dead?
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How would the physics of those three observations work, and what angular resolution would be required? I can see spectroscopy working for #3 and #2, #1 stumps me.
> My point was simply that Kepler 452b-ians observing Earth would be seeing lots of war and destruction even though we're currently peacefully collaborating among mankind to discover and explore planets.

There's a quite a bit more human energy going into war and destruction right now than into "peacefully collaborating among mankind to discover and explore planets."
The Right Poem: When Pundits Refer to Plato
Will Banks Create Their Own Bitcoin?
The cheap travel sounds nice :)

But 70-hour weeks don't :(
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

;)
Ask HN: Who is hiring weekly?
Are there any specific reasons why Who Is Hiring threads are posted monthly ? What difference does it make if they are posted weekly or say every 1st, 11th or 21st day ?
Magic Leap patent reveals details of their augmented reality system
> She wrote surface-to-surface missile trajectory simulations in octal. She thought it was great when she got an assembler.

Were her colleagues angry at assembler taking their craft away with subpar results ?

> change the instruction set with patch cords.

I guess processors at that time were switchboard hybrids, prototypical FPGA in disguise.
I'm interested to how this applies to Reactive application-UI programming (e.g. React+Flux).

React has a powerful unidirectional data->UI flow model, but I haven't seen an expressive language for the other awy (putback functions), besides UPDATE statements in various db query language, but I figure there's gotta be more symmetry between the languages expressing data->UI and UI->data.

Is there a video of this talk?
Nah, it was Amanda Tapping and MacGyver that did all the hard work.
Quite a few of the Prophet's companions were not Arabs, but yes the majority were. Nonetheless, it is more correct to identify as a Muslim before an Arab.

What irritates me greatly is when historians refer to the Muslim scientists of the Islamic Golden Age as "Arabs", when most of them were not Arabs at all. It's such a simpleminded and sweeping generalisation that clearly shows the thoroughness of the so-called orientalists.
The Terasic DE0-nano (http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=E...) is a great board for soft CPU's. It's cheap, has a decent size FPGA and external SDRAM. The Altera tools are free and run under Windows/OSX/Linux.

I've used this board for my own soft CPU (http://jamieiles.github.io/oldland-cpu/) and it's a rewarding project!
Yes, but a plug in for what? Office? Excel? *?
I'm really curious because I know people who will want to know about this service (and will ask the same question).
Ask U2? (sorry, couldn't resist...)
Or Google can also try to put forth a serious proposal for what they're clearly acknowledging as a problem.
For me it's a desire to change the world and to some extent aesthetic enthusiasm. Wanting to change the world always sounds a bit grandiose but the most significant changes are brought about one step at a time through everyday effort. I try every day to make the world a better place in various, sometimes mundane and often tiny ways.

This doesn't mean I don't care about money. Quite to the contrary. Money up to a certain degree is a more or less accurate gauge of the value you create. It buys you freedom but it is no end to itself. So, making money for buying luxury items? I couldn't care less. Making money for the purpose of being able to do what I care about? Absolutely.
The Story of Carl Pei and OnePlus
Nice to see a clear explanation of this. Always hated trying to learn and re-learn it during my quantum days.
I don't understand your point. You are arguing that working for 21F is the best option, yet you oppose companies opening up sweatshops in developing countries?
That map is so bad because the "spectrum" of colors goes from lighter to darker to lighter to darker. So it's not much of a spectrum.

(Still, thanks for providing the link.)
One optimistic possibility is so that if you leave your LinkedIn account logged in on a computer somewhere, another individual can't immediately export all your contacts, which could have competitive or security implications. It takes multiple days and you get notification of it happening.
And yet most of us developers learn everything we know by sharing knowledge.

So sadly, pathetically ironic.
Free on Windows. And only supported on Windows, despite Rotor. That's a fairly non-trivial "hidden" cost.
Bad Driburg in Westfalen.
I have been using this in production for a few weeks now and I quite like it. A real improvement over most of the CLI interfaces I have even with my expanded and frankly bloated .psqlrc.
Murray and Herrnstein predicted this in The Bell Curve - "a high-tech and more lavish version of the Indian reservation for some substantial minority of the nation's population, while the rest of America tries to go about its business"
Wouldn't be able to tell from the data. The yearly cycle produces a partial eclipse of the parent star. A day comes from the planet spinning on its axis and there isn't an actual image of the planet that we could analyse for varying brightness.
Maybe they tried and failed? Maybe they arrived on a sterile Earth 3.6 billion years ago with supplies and huge tomes of knowledge, promptly died off within a couple hundred years of arrival, tectonic movement subsumed their landing ship and all other physical records of their existence here and we're all just descendants of their gut flora?
No, you aren't alone :) However reading [1] influenced my opinion.

[1] http://qntm.org/abolish
You want to see a weak OSS ecosystem, have a look at Delphi. Truly dire, but not helped by extremely limited modularity and binary incompatibility between versions.
> I see tons of articles published discussing the good and bad sides of MDMA use, but rarely see articles circulating around which discuss why we should or shouldn't drink on the weekends, or the long-term effects of binge drinking.

Strange, I see a vastly more articles getting popular media attention relating the health effects (good or ill) of various usage patterns of alcohol than the same for MDMA. Like, several orders of magnitude more.
w-what?!

So there is a new way to activate strict mode?!
I get what you're saying but your trial subscription example isn't that unusual.

A better example of dark patterns is how they repeatedly try to get you to sync your email contacts by sneaking it in at random points, where you may accidentally click through it.

Their website has also become a minefield of upsell links, some disguised as benign engagement (e.g. "Add a new skill") while others are much more spammy (e.g. "Follow this unrelated business which promotes through us").
It is currently possible to use IFTTT's maker channel with https://webtask.io/. We also have a 'cron' feature on the cli which I think does what you're looking for: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wt-cli

Disclaimer: currently works at Auth0
Buoyancy is actually increased under high G, as the recent SpaceX failure illustrated.
Thanks for bringing up all of these alternatives. We definitely would have preferred to use an existing solution to building our own.

Unfortunately, a lot of the existing software is not intended for the search we're trying to do, or does not perform well under these conditions. We did in fact experiment with some of them before building our own. Bowtie, for example, doesn't allow more than 3 mismatches, and is also intended for alignments where there are very few matches (close to 1).

Since we need to be able to support multiple genomes (see Josh's comment), the amount of RAM we need to run a particular set of alignments is relatively important. Things like BLAT (which seems also intended for > 25 bases) need to keep the entire genome index in memory. This means that we would need to spin up a lot more servers to handle parallel requests, especially with different genomes.

FWIW our search is only a couple hundred lines of C++, and does the search with very little memory requirements.
Nobody said they were the "most astonishing things in the universe" - I'm not sure where you get this stuff. It's another straw man.

McKenna says that neurochemistry, and its material application called "the psychedelic experience," is the most astonishing thing you can personally suppose, or in some cases, even that you can't suppose. But that doesn't say anything about the (real or imagined) notion of a totality of "things in the universe."
I think you've hit the nail on the head, here.