skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry to be so blunt but I must correct this dangerous misinformation. Feeding a cat a vegan diet will kill him. Period. They are carnivores and cannot live without animal-derived nutrition.

Any vet can tell you about cases of malnourished cats whose irresponsible owners failed to provide enough meat.
"and there are more jobs created than destroyed"

Why? Well, I know its tradition to say it, but there appears to be no causal relationship, just occasional coincidence. The mathematical model would be interesting to see.
Do you have a gh repo? I really am interested in the story telling and ML aspects of the post.
Forgive the downvoters Father, they know not what they do.

I'm right there with you on the edge of my seat. There might be no visible rocket explosion, but this will have a similar explosive impact on humanity.

Major congrats to the Ethereum team!
Feeding your (naturally carnivorous) dog or cat only plants is in my mind nothing short of animal abuse. Feel free to harbor whatever nutritional or moral beliefs you please, but when you force them on creatures with no voice of their own, you are suddenly less innocent. There is no way a dog or cat can get a complete diet from eating only plants.
A modern love/porn story, told thru emoji
You write as if there aren't slaves trapped in farm fields and factories as well.

Perhaps we should also kill all of the apex predators in the world because the facts of life make you uncomfortable.
I completely agree with the point on contextual interactions.

I completely disagree with the point on "productive interruptions". This is an ideal but the fact is that just as many interruptions are unproductive in most office environments.

That said, there is no dispute that it's more efficient and effective for teams to work with some degree of physical proximity. The debate lies in the tradeoff between the ability to recruit (and retain) the best talent in a narrow geographical area vs. the loss of efficiency in working remotely. This listicle unfortunately oversimplifies that debate.
The number of active G+ accounts -- publicly posting in any given month -- is less than that. I and Eric Enge, he of Stone Temple Consulting, have independently estimated this based on G+ sitemap sampling. I pulled about 50k profiles off a single sitemap, Enge 500k from multiple. My pull was based on strong evidence that the profiles are randomly distributed through sitemaps. Both of us found ~6-12m publicly active profiles.

Among my thoughts: the group of people really discussing things online just isn't that big.

Reader was far more significant than Google realised.

https://www.stonetemple.com/real-numbers-for-the-activity-on...
Yee-ouch. That's a worrying thought. It's the holocaust on steroids. I'd rather be facing a nuclear armed foe than one that can eradicate my race.
After much moronic searching, these two tutorials seem to somewhat demystify the idea:

https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1634/tutorial-1-your-f...

https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1635/tutorial-2-rainbo...
If the system was namespaced, it'd be even better -- essentially make Meshtag just the translation layer (drawing to id), and then pass that identifier into any backend you like.
Maybe a slightly weaker variant:

I agree not to develop autonomous weapons that can harm humans or other living beings.

The idea being that it's ok to develop an autonomous weapon that would cripple the enemy's production capabilities without harming people. Or one that would guard against other autonomous weapons. If you can build them, so can your enemies and you shouldn't presume they won't.

Edit:

Or imagine swarms of tiny robots that destroy firearms, or disable fire systems, etc. These should be fine to develop.
Edit: sorry I was looking at the airhopper paper, doh

Yeah in the paper it mentions about cable shielding,
"The effective distance is the maximal distance between the transmitter and the receiver, at which the transmission quality is still acceptable. As can be seen in
Figure 5, the effective distance when using the
receiver antenna is significantly larger with unshielded cable (extended VGA)"
Hey, just a heads up. On your landing page the text in your Hero didn't render properly. I'm using Firefox version 39.0 on Windows 7
Ether is a "computational currency." You earn it by running computations on your computer. You spend it by purchasing processing power on other people's computers. The computation is software defined, so that customized "distributed apps" are possible.

This is my outsiders understanding. I think there are potentially a lot of things that could be gotten wrong here - from the specific implementation and security measures to the economic plan. But it's one of several such experiments with using the blockchain, so I'm looking forward to see what they can do - that said I have no expectations for financial gain.
They shouldn't use tools like this one, though. This is purely a research project and not industrially usable. In any case, the purpose is to specify what Javascript is supposed to do, and not what Javascript engines actually do.

The interpreter was as easily as not an afternoon project; they probably got one for free.

There's been some interesting discussion about this for the C language - useful yet undefined behaviours that are relied upon by many pieces of software, where a formal semantics such as this project may fall flat and lead to being overly restrictive.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/notes50-2015-05-24-...
Yes - the lack of G+ API was a big mistake not just for consumption but also for publication.

However, both Twitter and FB had lists long before G+ was even a thing. Twitter has done little/nothing to promote the list functionality other than to increase the 500 member limit on lists. FB went head to head with G+ Circles by enhancing the FB list functionality to include standard lists and school/workplace lists.
What does that even mean? If I were to add up every single transaction involving USD, what percentage do you think would be HFT and other Wall St speculation?
That's perfectly fine if you're still using VGA.

It's analog and does leak quite a bit of data. But what about DVI-D and HDMI?

Surely they leak less power and even less signal.
Well, yeah, I'm interested in what mechanism people think will make going to $100/h or $30/h fail, and what makes it not apply for $15/h.
Also, to more appropriately answer your question, there exists a notion for separating "document" and "UI widget" fonts. Documents often have content to be read at long lengths. UI widgets don't have the "long length" constraint in their design context. As one example, the system font may be lighter in weight to achieve an elegant looking aesthetic. However, while the lighter weight font is acceptable for the UI widgets, it isn't nearly as acceptable for readability of document text. It's a nice to be able to have that design/usability context distinction. The default context for the web is that of the document, not the UI, the default CSS sans serif font should be the "document font".
I find it very hard to find fault with the bank here. It appears that a single loan officer made illegal moves and upon first discovery the bank did what they could to both contain the issue and notify the authorities.

The malfeasant employee seems to have joined the prosecution against the bank only to relieve the pressure on himself and to distract attention (when in my opinion he should have been the one charged and the bank should have been commended on their handling of the case).

The other employees may have been negligent but do not appear to be malicious, if it wasn't for the alert eye of the director this could have gone on for a lot longer.

All in all this case seems to be a net loss for everybody.

What HSBC did went - as far as we can see from the outside - right to the top and required a lot more than a rogue employee.
How on earth do they rank talent? I can't think of any reasonable measure where the rankings would look remotely like they are. Don't tell me they're basing talent on something like crunchbase listings.
It looks like a decent site with a nice layout, but lacks personality. Could use more user engagement in my opinion.
Why not use non-lethal force in these guns that are used in public places? Sure, nobody wants their child hit with a rubber pellets or knocked out with a tranq because they held up a water gun (just random thoughts, could be many possibilities), but if the miss rate was small enough and the consequences for missing were small (non-lethal, non-life-threatening), they could definitely be used to save lives.
Speaking as an MD, the evidence for medical marijuana is, uh, pretty thin. In fact, most people would decry the mismatch of research to marketing if it were a traditionally prescribed drug.

The barriers to meaningful research are coming down, but the research just isn't there yet. I suspect that therapeutic targets will emerge, but no amount of enthusiasm changes the fact that high-quality research hasn't happened yet. On the other hand, there are real problems associated with use, such as an increased risk of psychotic disorders, problems with concentration, etc.

I consider it part of my job to look at the evidence and remain free of bias, because most marketing is put together by those who stand to make a lot of money off of what they are selling. If I apply those same criteria I use for other drugs I prescribe to marijuana, the outlook is not so good.

Recreation marijuana, on the other hand, suffers from no such pretense. People use it to get high, and understand the risk. This, to me, seems like a much more honest system for the use most people want.
I actually learned on an Xbox 360 controller originally, not nearly as good as a real transmitter, but much better than a keyboard.

Both Phoenix and RealFlight come in packages either with a controller, or a cable to plug in your RC controller.
Tus (Resumable file upload) Protocol v1.0.0 Prerelease
Because moderate social pressure can be a good way to change habits? If you regularly see people drinking soda on a daily basis and hear nothing against it, it's a lot easier to fall into the habit. If you hear about people who stopped drinking soda and don't miss it, it might inspire you to do the same.

I'm not saying that no one should ever drink soda; just that more moderation should be encouraged, people should start treating it as a choice that you should make as a responsible adult and use in moderation, like caffeine or alcohol, rather than a default that everyone does starting as a kid and continues doing whenever they feel like.
Is it normal to have 2000+ lines class?

Looks like an instant code smell to me.
Meh, it's an acquired taste, like tea without sugar. Takes a week of getting used to and then you don't want to go back. Try Coke Zero for a week.
Maybe so, but it makes it meaningless to compare the measured forces and claim that they've decreased in later tests.
The decision tree model was generated from http://scikit-learn.org in Python. The JS is a complete mess, but I'll try to write up how it works in the next couple days.
Yeah that's a good point
Both Facebook and YouTube comments support threaded replies, but people tend not to use them. Either just a UI issue (the reply button is not highlighted) or a deeper structural issue (people know that top-level comments won't be reordered, so they think the conversation will still be readable) or a prestige issue (both YouTube and Facebook collapse all replies to top-level comments by default, making it MUCH less likely that your comment will be read as a reply.
> But on 9-11, US air defense got caught with their pants down. I wouldn't expect much.

I'm not sure it's US air defense who got caught with their pants down, the entire notion of the 9/11 attack would have been to get around the effectiveness of US air defense at keeping foreign aircraft out of US airspace.

The time needed to scramble F-16s is not based on a jet flying from Boston to DC or whatever. That's already the end zone.
This is not a good post. It's saying that AK's are poorly designed because, obviously, one of the core axioms of good design is that you're not supposed to design weapons.

Design is an amoral tool to use as you see fit. If you think all wars are bad, blah blah, then whatever. But if you're trying to justify that by poorly linking it to whatever unrelated field you specialize in, then you better explain it using the language and concepts of the field, not because you simply don't like it.

EDIT: also, it's saying everyone who designs guns are bad people, and are responsible for every death? What? I understand that there are complexities with guns being used by civilians, but surely there are reasonable uses? Yes, hunters and farmers who provide sustenance for the country are evil people. So are all the French soldiers who used guns when Germany invaded. All weapons are bad and killing people is never justified! What a ridiculous view.
Won't the modulating/transmitting malware increase the system cpu load (run queue, or whatever)? This could be a detection vector for it.

I have noticed when running a program that does nothing but work the memory bus, Memtest86+, the computer gets hot and draws a lot of power.
> You can sign up with your own email address if you like.

Yep, but you can't move from Gmail back to your own email address any more.
I've been incorporating turmeric in my diet for the past few months. I enjoy the taste and the placebo effect, so why not?) I'm curious if others here have done the same.

I wouldn't go as far as to make claims regarding it's effectiveness.

One tip I've heard is to take it with black pepper to increase bioavailability. I don't understand the mechanism, but the active ingredient is apparently piperine.
If you click on "Time Comparison" you can see images from older datasets.

One interesting thing is that the California Coastal Project isn't funded by the state (as far as I know.) Just one guy, his wife, and his passion project. I like the fact that Washington State seems to be funding its own project.
Oh I should be careful what I'm saying, my problems are limited to intermittent screen craziness (flickering of the top half of the screen), GPU switching is a non issue because I have a program I use that forces discrete GPU.

And most importantly no crashes recently.
AFAICT the video interface is irrelevant. It exploits the data transfer between the CPU and RAM.

> When data moves between the CPU and RAM of a computer, radio waves get emitted as a matter of course. Normally the amplitude of these waves wouldn’t be sufficient to transmit messages to a phone, but the researchers found that by generating a continuous stream of data over the multi-channel memory buses on a computer, they could increase the amplitude and use the generated waves to carry binary messages to a receiver.
meat supplements and plants fortified with meat?
This article is base pandering at best. Even as someone such as myself who has quite strong pro gun control views can make the intellectual distinction between a well designed weapon vs the morality of creating one. Viewed from the lens of weaponry, the AK-47 usually is well regarded.

This is no different than how One can appreciate a well engineered computer malware attack in the same regard. Even things that are destructive can be enhanced by the rigors of design.
Ha, you got me for a second. The bits aren't "stored" inside the vertex, but in the segments: It would be like saying that the space between bits "{0,1} {0,1}" contains 2 bits of information, and that we could encode more compactly by disposing bits around a circle, hence maximizing the number of bits in the center space. So given a triangular/square grid, the number of traceable segments is what matters (and that's where the ink goes too.)

I agree that triangles look a lot better than squares (to the point that the "swastika effect" is indeed a problem, even though the drawings are generated by a human, and not randomly.) However, they are also very hard to draw properly.

To recover the QR code decentralization, have you tried to encode data inside your triangular grid? You would loose the "drawable" property (due to the size), but the result would still look more interesting than the pixel junk of QR codes (and you could enforce "connectivity" for aesthetic and error correction.)
Space and Time
Try to see how it organically grows on social media. Create a Twitter page for your company. If you make a blog for the product, you can post your blog posts on your companies social medias. On the blog you can post product update, talk about where the company originated from and more! It helps you build a "voice" and "personality" for your brand.

Reach out to your friends, family and people in your various networks and have them use the product to get honest feedback. If you have people whose feedback you respect, add them into a Trello board and ask them to give you feedback on Trello, so you can track and actually utilize their comments.

Definitely post the website on your LinkedIn as a blog post, so people in your LinkedIn network can see it.

Try to get onto cool podcasts to talk about your product like this one: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/06/pitch-your-startup-in-the-t...

Best of luck!!
These sorts of scenarios are the most far-fetched to me. The idea that we will accidentally create a situation in which a logic loophole results in the deaths of billions just sounds ridiculous. It's just a doomsday tale that begins and ends in human imagination.
Eventual consistency... errr, eventual non-evilness.
The Bloomberg article relies a lot on quotes from the DA, but many of the underlying facts do not seem seriously disputed. For example:

> The Abacus clients whose aborted closing sparked Ken Yu’s termination lost their deposit on the property when the loan fell through. They went to the police and filed a complaint, mentioning that Yu had falsified their mortgage application. The police referred the matter to the DA.

> its loans wouldn’t have met Fannie Mae’s income requirements, and the bank depended on Fannie’s money for a significant chunk of its profit.

> In April 2011, Yu pled guilty to grand larceny, fraud, and falsifying business records, and is cooperating with the investigation

> The accused employees include Yiu Wah Wong, the bank’s chief credit officer, who reported directly to Jill Sung; and Wai Hung “Raymond” Tam, the loan origination supervisor, who trained the bank’s loan officers and processors

The NYT article in contrast spins this whole utterly irrelevant narrative about an immigrant-founded bank.

Note also that there are two separable questions: 1) why was the bank prosecuted; 2) was the bank guilty. The two questions are related, but distinct. The NYT article is about (1) not (2). What's relevant to (1) is what facts and testimony the prosecutor has available when he decides to prosecute. There was plenty of facts and testimony to justify this prosecution. If this were HSBC instead of a small bank people on HN would be furious if the prosecutor didn't go after the bank with the kind of evidence he had.

The fact that the prosecution ultimately lost does not mean, as the article suggests, that the prosecutor was wrong to bring the case in the first place. If prosecutors could predict what evidence juries would credit at the end of the day, there would be no need for trials.
I am not 100% positive on this, but if I remember correctly, the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act (I believe that is what is called) has strict regulations on who can access what information based off a license plate number. In most cases you will, at minimum, need a private investigator license in each state you want access to that state's database. Even then many states have even stricter laws that limit the amount of information that is available directly to a individual. And even still many states do not offer direct access, meaning that you would have to go down to the DMV office in person, fill out an information request form, and get the information direct from them.

Many of the databases you see online, while saying they provide complete information, offer limited information as well. You may check with a company like Checkr.com or GoodHire for more information. Both offer API access to their databases at a cost. But again, you have to have a valid and legal reason for accessing their API.
OT On snarky and negative comments: you haven't seen habrahabr.ru, a site that fills the niche of HN for Russian speakers almost exactly and is sort of most respected here in tech. It has good articles and often publishes Russian translations of top HN items with about a week's delay. AND it feels like you're walking into a prison cell full of uncivilized criminals cursing at each other when you get to the comments.

The HN culture is very very good.
Are you an engineer? Most of my programmer buds rarely use LinkedIn. However, I'm a business guy and use it at least once a day.
It's sad how little attention contemporary slavery gets versus historical examples of slavery. It would be great if Hollywood made a movie about this (or slavery in the middle east committed by Western allies).
OP here. Good point on interruptions. In any setting, constant interruptions hurt productivity. But, I'd rather be interrupted with a question about a software feature than interrupted by a screaming child.
18F Open Source Policy
Same, except for Youtube.
A couple of years ago. Not quite "recent". But yes.
Another study that shows the awesome properties of this spice. I included it in my weekly diet few years ago (along with walnuts and red wine) as meat/fish seasoning and salad dressing. Ideal replacement for things like ketchup or mustard. Mix turmeric with olive oil and/or vinaigrette and you get a tasty and healthy sauce.
> Now would be a good time for Apple to spread word of this disaster far and wide and to offer a free iPhone to anyone who brings in an Android phone for recycling.

an opportunity for Microsoft too.

Clearly this plus the web-view exploit fiasco will damage the android plate-form for the long run.

Hundreds of millions of devices are affected by this exploit and most of them will never be patched. I'm sorry to say but i'll have to pressure my IT department to ban android devices, period. The problem isn't the MMS tech, the problem is android's lousy security model. And the fact that Google think it can wash its hands off all this and shift the blame on manufacturers... outrageous.

While some manufacturers actually opensource their android 'implementation' (like Alcatel, you can actually download some source code for a specific device and patch it yourself) , most don't even bother doing that.

This stuff is a disaster.
Hmmm. In hindsight, maybe a better policy would have been to make Real Name a shareable piece of information like any other - decide if you want it public, or only visible to some of your circles, etc.

And then they could have done really cool shit like displaying references to you with your real name only to people authorized to know it, and with your handle to others.
We changed the title to be less misleading.
Are you talking about the wall in the center/right portion? I'd assume it was built a long time ago as a safety measure to keep people from getting stranding in the beach/cave and they haven't taken it down. Just a guess though.
This can already be done. This doesn't make things any "worse" than they already are in that regard.

Cf. http://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/papers/fc15-fonts.pdf & http://pet-portal.eu/files/articles/2011/fingerprinting/cros...