skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incidentally, there is a (small) school of modern architectural thought that attributes the longevity and elegance of Roman architects' work to their tendency to design far below the yield stresses of their materials. That approach is very different from contemporary architecture, which often builds far closer to material limits and relies on the very high strength of structural steel.

FWIW I find this argument very persuasive; John Ochsendorf and Christopher Alexander are two guys who are known for taking this position, and they are both huge fans of the Pantheon. See [0] among many others for more.

[0] http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/ingenious-john-ochsendorf
I wonder if it is even legal to use Windows 10 if you have to comply with HIPAA regulated.

I suggest using this incompatibility as leverage against this kind of data exfiltration. The only way a big company will change is when it hurts their pocket book. They might notice if enough businesses such as yours decline to use Windows 10 while complaining about this.

Of course, Linux is always a good choice, regardless of what MS is doing. If big players are already jumping to RHEL, now would definately be the time to switch.
It wont as they dont need it to Google Fiber on the other hand need capital investments so probably will.
Can you ellaborate on what, in specific, made you change your mind about snapchat and the rest of that kind of communication?
Having others forget your more embarrassing moments sounds so reasonable on the the surface.

Yet our profoundly good memories allowing us to remember almost everything we experience is one thing that separates from the rest of the animal kingdom. It makes the prisoners dilemma not a dilemma for us at all, but rather turns the history of decisions we make over time into a single fabric into which can be woven all sorts cooperative behaviour.

Fortunately a world where people can demand things they have done be forgotten has been explored by others in much greater depth than is displayed here. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)" is a good starting point.
Thanks for the kind words. Until I left academia I used to work with matlab a lot, and pyexperiment is probably a result of trying to get that experience while making scripts that can easily be shared along with the data needed to run them.

E.g., the issue with irreversible mutation of data is addressed in pyexperiment with rotating state (and log) files. For example if you store the state of your experiment in one run, and then change it in the next, you will get a backup of the old state with a numerical extension (by default up to 5 backups are rotated). Moreover, pyexperiment by default comes with commands to display stored state and configuration options (though they still need to be improved), and both are stored in formats compatible with a host of other software (including matlab).

Btw., along the same lines, I love ipython notebooks, but the way I use them makes them very hard to share, and compared to plain python scripts, version control is a pain (even with the usual hacks to make diffs readable).
Sorry, but isnt .xyz for nsfw sites?
Japan's CO2 emissions are up 11% relative to 1990, when they are supposedly planning to go down 21% by 2030.

“They’re aware that Japan has fared perfectly well without nuclear power for almost two years.” is not really accurate CO2 into account.
This would be my dream housing arrangement — a permanent little village in some beautiful country filled with self-directed and creative people.

When I was visiting Europe this past year, I saw plenty of gorgeous little hillside villages (pop. ~100) that relied on a larger town below. Some were within sight of major cities, while some were more remote. Even stayed in one for a few days, hiking down and back up whenever I needed groceries. It was really interesting and quite relaxing.

My main issue is that it feels like a rather, um, "colonialist" idea. It would be very important to integrate with the local community and culture.
Google's abc.xyz contains hidden link to Hooli.xyz
This is true.

As a fund owner, you know the magic formula: If your fund customers win, you win, if they loose, they loose.

It's a good position to be in.
Start with The Algorithm Design Manual and understand everything it says. Then try some exercises and re-read the entire book again. Use google to study any math in TADM you don't understand up front.

TAOCP isn't for reading from cover to cover and, arguably, neither is CLRS (especially for "first time through" studies).
Does this reactor have better safeguards and protection than the ones at Fukushima? I think that's the most important point to consider here.
Interesting - thank you for sharing this.
Why Google is renaming itself “Alphabet”
This is only true if you are the only one to follow that rule. Someone whose belief is outlined in Mein Kampf, but nonetheless follows the same rule, will seek other means than the historical of resolving his differences.
So I normally don't comment on downvotes because, you know, whatever, but I'm really looking forward to the posts about how this is a great idea.

"Hey you know how we had this brand that became synonymous with looking up all information ever? Let's abandon that to be associated with, uh, letters."

Seriously it's not like "google" was a damaged brand. I'm not going to "alphabet" shit.
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As if programming in YAML or JSON is any better. And programming in platform-specific SQL, for all non-trivial purposes, ties you to the specific flavor of DBMS.

What I want is a DSL that is a platform-agnostic DSL: terse, typechecked, possibly "compiled" to some IR, with basics of semantic analysis, with support for (or at least awareness of) the quirks of the specific underlying platform.
I'd bet a large sum of money that you're flat out wrong about it ignoring an entry in /etc/hosts. That would take absurd levels of dishonesty to implement.
I really hope that this or something similar sees some uptake... Although I'm not familiar with JMAP I'm relatively familiar with SMTP, POP3 and IMAP and to be honest, they kind of suck and support things not needed, and things that are seem hacky...

A new interface for mail, contacts, calendar has been sorely needed for a while.
Can the JMAP protocol be made easier with HTTP/2? The protocol has its own sort of multiplexing (multiple calls in one HTTP call, worrying about executing things in a certain sequence, etc)

Wouldn't an HTTP/2 transport mechanism remove the need to do all this and greatly simplify it to feel more RESTy, but get all the benefits of multiple calls with near zero overhead?
Nobody should buy the iPhone 6 according to them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99m7lebirE
Which would you prefer floating in our air, CO2 (that plants breathe) or invisible, cancer-causing radioactive particles?
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Yes but also the privacy implications are over exaggerated. This kind of "phoning home", at least for Apple Siri/Spotlight, goes through a session ID which is random, regenerated every 30 minutes, and not bound to Apple ID or other user profile. Moreover, IP addresses are not used, not communicated to third parties (eg: Bing for Siri) and anonymized in logs. So yes, it's a "phoning home", but with different implications compared to eg. inputting a wifi password on a logged-in Android phone.
> mainly the random font size

That's a consequence of the cheats that MS did a long time ago in how they render TrueType. The short version: instead of properly kerning the rendering, each glyph's x-location is rounded up to the next pixel boundary, causing nasty misalignments (some of which accumulate over the line).

The long (but very interesting version: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...
There may be too much paranoia here.

I installed Windows 10. I turned off Cortana web search so it now only searches for stuff on my laptop. Convenient.

I also turned off all camera and microphone use. Easy enough to turn on if I need it.

Search for "privacy settings"' hit the first link and turn off what you want. (I turned off just about everything.)

I think that as long as I use privacy badger in my web browsers, use duck duck go as my default search engine, and make sure to install security updates and scan daily, that my cheap little Windows 10 laptop is reasonably comparably privacy wise to my two Mac laptops, but less private and secure than my three Linux laptops.

Seriously, I think it is a mistake to talk non-tech family and friends out of using Windows 10. Just help them make the right privacy settings.
I disagree. In post 19th century war is there are no civilians. All excess labor capacity goes to the war effort.

And wars are started by civilians, for the most part. Why should young men be the ones to feel all the pain?
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The article is essentially about falling Demographics, its a giant issue looming in not just Spain, but most of the EU, Japan and China. Three generations now where birthrates have been below replacement level. The affects are already seen in Greece and other places like these villages, in ten years time when most of the Boomers are over 65, we have some very serious issues.
I remember brong and friends from FM talking about this on blogs and maybe the Email Forum. And it is finally starting to land!

Very cool. Gotta love FM. Thanks from a paying customer!
my understanding is that the density (and thickness) of the concrete changes as the dome moves inward from the walls to the oculus, and we have no modern method for reproducing such a constant density variance
They matter on desktop vs mobile.
Comments from anyone who has seen this?
nope. I'm not a google fan boy but it's pretty sad watching a once great company do.. whatever this is? It's hard to even have a reaction because it defies reasoning.
Is there an open source alternative/equivalent, preferably runs on Linux?
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Look up Twin Oaks in Virginia, they're probably the most successful commune in the US.
/dev/urandom can also be used as a source of random and unusual input data, as it contains by definition all 256 byte values and 65536 2-byte values, 16M 3-byte values, etc., and should eventually output every possible string.
I also didn't have great experience of team competition as a kid. I've since learnt that kids can be introduced to sport far more inclusively and positively, and now enjoy coaching my kids sports teams. But my own activities remain largely solo, uncompetitive and somewhat introspective - there are plenty of very physical activities that fit this bill, and you don't have to go anywhere near a gymn (which I personally don't like at all). Think surfing, skating, climbing, cycling, hiking, kayaking... You can get a great workout without "working out".
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Thankfully the proliferation of gTLDs is increasing the supply and lowering the value for squatters like you. You screwed up in 1996, and you're screwing up again now, but hey, it's your money.
For a long time Taxi's have had a monopoly on their market. Like any monopoly they under-serve.

Nice that Uber is shaking that up.
The way I read it was: The hamburger menu hides crucial functionality behind an utterly nondescript icon, so people end up not using the functionality and making inefficient use of the application/website. Or they just bail out early when it seems like there is nothing left to do. The discoverability is horrible so most users will never use it.

It probably isn't helped by the superflat UIs that are the current fad that make it impossible to tell what elements are active or what they do.

It's the kind of thing that makes sense on phones because the screen space is so precious (although with modern phones this is becoming less and less true), but only because you're willing to trade off some usability for getting more content on the screen. For a desktop site or application where you are not space constrained it is just bad design.
>Calico

A clean line between Calico and the advertising business can only be a good thing. Hopefully this means they can get on with analyzing every genome they can get their hands on.
The cynic's translation is that the Goog board is cutting off the wackier ventures (sorry - "making them self-financing") and kicking Larry and Sergei upstairs.
"Better safeguards"? 9.0 earthquake. Tsunami. Fire. Complete loss of power to all control systems.

Still didn't kill anybody.

Just how safe do you expect something to be?

By comparison the earthquake and tsunami killed over 18,000 people.
One concern would be connectivity. Maybe you could read Hacker News via an (expensive) satellite hookup but it seems like it would be more difficult to have streaming video. Areas that are depopulating wouldn't seem like good candidates for cell service or wired internet, let alone fiber to the home.

Also, there are definitely people whose ideal living circumstances would be on a farm without restaurants or other city amenities. My paternal grandfather retired from the city to a farm. But he did it after my grandmother died. And his kids were grown - no need for schooling.

Articles here have talked about Japan having the same type of problem. And so do American farming communities in the midwest. For every farmer (or wannabe) there seems to be thousands or tens of thousands who don't want to leave the city. And that's accelerating.
(Unfortunately I can't reply to the parent since it got flagged)

To add to what hluska wrote - Imagine your 5 year old self, thinking that when you are 20 your dream job will be riding on a garbage truck. You will spend every dime of your income on candy and Pokemon figures. You will live in a treehouse in your parents back yard, and girls (or guys) are yucky. Those things may all be awesome. At 20 you might even do some of them for a laugh, but they're certainly not life goals anymore. At 5 years old, you simply couldn't conceive of what would be significant at 20.

Everything that I wanted at 20 I did - to excess. I exceeded every goal that ever occurred to my 20 year old self. I did it to the point where I grew bored. New things became more exciting. I continued to grow. If I was still running with my 20-year-old self's plan - I would honestly consider myself a failure.
Origin
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s207/sh/022f2237-4b4f-4096-87...

In Depth
https://medium.com/@saffadkhan/the-hamburger-paradigm-ebb695...
If you're genuinely interested, France knows a thing or two about that topic:

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries...
> Just how safe do you expect something to be?

Personally, I expect someone to have at least the foresight to put the backup generators on a platform.
.xyz is intended to be generic; you're probably thinking of .xxx.
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"
--Bjarne Stroustrup
It's important to note that the Developers Editions (and the Nightlys) will have a setting for disabling the requirement.

The assumption being that developers need to test as they develop. And are a more informed user.
Can that really happen?
70+ years since the Fountainhead and 33 years since Rand died and yet somehow Rand just won't go away despite decades of smears, misrepresentation, attacks, denouncements, denials, lies and hatchet jobs like this "review" directed at her, her novels and her philosophy of Objectivism. Weird.
This is awesome! I would love to see this span the whole SICP book.

There was a kickstarter campaign for something called SICP Distilled, a while back. However it requires your github login which seemed kind of sketchy and also none of the content works anyway - http://www.sicpdistilled.com/. Maybe someone else knows more?

Anyway I look forward to seeing more chapters on your blog.
If you are into old school and sailing you can also go on a trip with Tres Hombres.

Dont expect any comfort there but it's cheap and a fun.

http://fairtransport.eu/sail-along/
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Microsoft has almost always done this with Windows. Each new version had something new to phone home about. Previous Windows versions told Microsoft what apps you had installed, send in crash data, and other things.

Microsoft is doing the customer is the product thing that others have done for like the past decade. It is how they can give away Windows 10 upgrades for free, even to pirated copies, and still earn money off of it.

If you don't want to be tracked or spied upon:
https://prism-break.org/

You shouldn't be using Windows but one of the free or open source alternatives instead.

HIPPA compliant offices cannot use Windows 10 because of the tracking it does and patient privacy laws.

Even worse is the Wifi sharing with social networks, if even one of your corporate employees has it turned on, their friends can get access to your Corporate Wifi and it is a security breach. You'll have crackers trying to friend employees on social networks of your company just to get the Windows 10 Wifi sharing password to get into your corporate network.

Even with all of the privacy settings turned off, there is most likely more stuff that phones home.

You know that given enough time video gamers will be forced into DirectX12 and have to use Windows 10. That business apps will be written for Windows 10 and force companies to upgrade. Sooner or later most people will have to upgrade to Windows 10 in order to run the software they need.

Woe be to the person who chooses express settings during startup. They will wonder why their Internet is so slow and woe be to them if they have a tablet with a data plan and wonder why they go over it.
And yet countries like Japan have very bad attitude towards immigration. Interesting times ahead.
Uber is serving Oakland CA waaaaaaay more than taxis ever would.
The comment had a positive score when its author deleted it. That's one reason not to post complaints about downvoting—they're usually soon obsolete, and meanwhile you've added noise to the thread.
There was a ten meter sea wall. The tsunami was 13 meters tall. How many 13 meter tall backup generator platforms have you ever seen?
I am not surprised. Last time I was in New York, I wasn't in downtown and it was so hard for me to get a taxi. There are so many taxis in NYC but most of them stay in the same area. As soon as you are not in a populated area, it's close to impossible to grab a taxi. I am pleased that Uber is making things move.
There is a lot of skill in creating visualizations like charts, graphs, infographics, etc. for human consumption. You may not need these skills to build a recommendation engine, for example.
Thankfully revenue streams are more complex than just, "Did we make more money than it cost to produce this unit sold?" in a vacuum.

It's 2015 and companies compete for user timeshare, not dollars.
Alphabet is just a way that Google can control its liabilities. Each subdivision can be closed off or sold if it has trouble. Not take down the other subdivisions when that happens.

Oracle is suing over Android using Java APIs, Alphabet can move Android to its own subdivision if they lose the lawsuit and close it off or sell it off and then develop a new mobile OS to replace it.
Ask HN: 360 Video geospatial awareness
Hi all,

I have been looking at 360 video for VR use, and was wondering if there is any associated geospatial data encoded with the video (to gather where the current field of view is pointing in 3d space, for example). I have been searching online, but have found almost no resources to study more about 360 video. Any resources are welcome!

-T
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The other assumption being that there is a distinction between 'developers' and 'users'.
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This is exciting; I've been looking forward to doing this exact thing myself.

Some more solutions can be found at https://github.com/gregsexton/SICP-Clojure
Wish I could upvote enough.
A hint: upvoting a story creates an entry in the "saved stories" link that is part of your profile.

In general I digest a lot of information partially and much of it slowly. It's addictive, and for a while I used "noprocrast" but that was a long time ago.

Anyway, I read what I read and don't bother worrying that I missed something. The first order value of HN is breadth, and less than everything still broadens my knowledge and understanding. Nobody can read all the good things, never mind read everything.

Good luck.
From TFA: "I should add that we are not intending for this to be a big consumer brand with related products--the whole point is that Alphabet companies should have independence and develop their own brands."
Did they say why beta wouldn't have this setting? If anything beta is closer to release and developer would target that. Developer edition is still nightly if I'm not correct?
While I agree with you that people are overreacting, I think overreaction is to be expected given that MS chose pretty much the most intrusive defaults possible. People have to opt-out of this stuff rather than opt-in which causes people to lose confidence in MS.
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Robots should not be recognized as people. The chess problem comes to mind from the film Ex Machina. ( "... The chess problem, as Caleb puts it, isn’t about whether or not a chess computer is good at chess, but whether it knows what chess is.")

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/ex-machina-artificial-...

The robot would not know what marriage is even if it could define the exact definition and origin of the concept. It would not know it was married or that it was getting married or why it should or should not be married.

The key concept is that artificial intelligence is artificial, faked, an artifice to make you believe you are interacting with a sentient being when you are not. (How many people have thanked Siri?) When we believe that a box with a chip in it that we invented is better a decision maker than our very own selves, then we are in trouble.
"That’s very strange. As an American, would I say Puerto Rico is one of the very last things that ought to ever be cut in the federal budget? Heck no! Puerto Rico has repeatedly decided it’d rather not be a state, but at least it’s still genuinely ruled by the USA; if Puerto Rico decided to switch to full home rule, I think I and the average American would care even less about them."

This is definitely an American point of view. The US is a) a very large country which b) has been growing in power throughout modern history and c) has a cultural aversion to 'empire' (whether they are an empire or not is a different matter, but it seems they don't want to be).

Compare that to many European countries, which are a) very small, b) have lost a lot of power in the last 200 years and c) have a (admittedly not universal) nostalgic streak for the glorious days of empire, when they were world powers.

For Americans to sympathise, imagine if in 2100 various states have seceded and the US has split into multiple nations, with the remnant USA consisting only of the New England states. Then Canada offers to buy Maine, which is otherwise a burden on the treasury. Can you see why you wouldn't want to sell?
Hadn't heard of that. Props!
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