skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh. This is just the beginning. Finishing up something tonight to reply to one of your tweets with Cthulu.
Has Unwind.Me silently shut down?
> This should answer the question of whether it's the genetics at play or the diet itself

How exactly? Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese have both similar diets and similar genetics.
Make your own Boot Planter
This is cool. It reminds me of 3D printers, but just in two dimensions and with a paintbrush and paint instead of a hot-end/nozzle/filament.

You could look at the firmware used to control the stepper motors/end stops that much of the reprap community is using at https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin. This uses GCODE as well, and deals with acceleration around turns.
bit late for April Fools, isn't it?
The Holocaust epigenetics study was over-interpreted
I've also heard that while foreign strawberries are "suturaberi", Japanese strawberries, despite being the same species, are "ichigo".
Yes, it is a bit sexist. However, in reality, people are sexist and most IT or security people are male, so she could distract some of them.

Using distraction and misdirection is a useful tool, something male hackers would find harder - all the more reason to add more diversity to your pen testing team.
? This is a real project, with working code.
AMD K7 is a DEC Alpha with x86 decoder glued in front.
Transmeta lives on somewhere inside intel chips.
Yup - 'blaming the victim of a crime' would have been sufficient to make the OP's point, though I know media conversations on the topic are the likely reason why the analogy he chose came to mind.
Yep looked into Grbl. Hadn't seen Marlin. I didn't use this for Live mode since they weren't really built for that, but they'll be used for the photo to painting part.
Do you know if there's been experimentation with tungsten alloying of aluminum in the past? The thing that surprises me here is that if Apple did create an entirely new alloy with novel properties, why weren't those metallurgical characteristics already known? It's not like metallurgy is a new field.
For those unfamiliar with the term, a family office is (from my understanding speaking with a friend who manages one) a coordinated effort to manage wealth, ideally for current and future generations. At their more basic level they might passively invest in the share market and property, but they can be more active and pursue higher-touch investments in particular businesses, etc.
Because Dr. Drang (his pseudonym) has a PhD in civil engineering, and is a practicing Professional Engineer specializing in failure analysis, making him uniquely qualified to comment on such a video's technical shortcomings.

If you follow him, he often includes a delightful amount of sarcasm and snark, enjoyably so.
> The market is going to collapse my friend ....

Put your $ where your mouth is.
Monads, Mo' Problems
Backwards hats go back to at least the mid-80s. By that regard, they should now be a sign of middle-aged wisdom, not of youth.
Life lessons from villains, crooks and gangsters
I'm a big fan of processing for learning. It does just the sort of things you want out of the box, it comes with lots of examples, there are books available on it, the time to get set up and running your own programs is practically nil, and it runs the same way regardless of the platform you put it on. All great stuff for a "toy."
HILARIOUS Ghost Boy Prank
Mainstream hardware is decently supported, if you don't have special claims. Ubuntu live cd/usb?
The most profitable source of income for banks? Overdraft fees
It's arguable that most industrial organic chemicals are degraded in the environment in one way or another. But some aren't. And others have environmentally stable degradation products. So there are probably at least tens of thousands of persistent, anthropogenic, organic chemicals.

The lipophilic ones are most hazardous, because they bioaccumulate through the food chain. Also, the more volatile ones tend to get trapped in polar regions. So lipid levels for Eskimos and penguins are higher than those for more equatorial populations. I wonder if body mass has increased more in recent decades among polar populations than among equatorial populations.
> Anyone know about any good unix distros that wont be too much of a culture shock to someone who has used windows his entire life?

Try openSUSE:

* UI is designed to be very familiar to Windows users, with a Windows-looking taskbar complete with start menu and system tray (if you pick KDE, Xfce, or LXDE for your desktop environment; GNOME is a bit... well, out there).

* openSUSE ships with YaST, which provides rather extensive graphical system-wide configuration. It's arguably the closest thing to a proper and fully-featured Windows-style Control Panel you'll find in the GNU/Linux world. Thanks to YaST, it's pretty rare that you'll ever need to touch the command line for the vast majority of tasks.

* If you're running in an Active Directory environment, openSUSE's builtin support for joining AD domains is abso-fucking-lutely phenomenal; the YaST-based configuration blows even Windows out of the water, let alone other GNU/Linux distros.

* Pretty stable (openSUSE is the testbed for SUSE Enterprise) without being totally behind the times like Debian Stable tends to be.

I've set it up on the formerly-XP-running machines of multiple elderly, computer-illiterate people with effectively zero issues (other than one user complaining about the default desktop background; I showed him how to change it, and he since managed to figure out how to set up his own without further intervention on my part). If computer-illiterate old people can figure it out, I'm confident that someone who knows that Hacker News even exists can figure it out ;)
Is this only for hosted, web app projects?
> Single-use plastic bags pose outsized problems in the form of visual pollution on the landscape -- South Africans joke that plastic bags are their "national flower," due to their propensity to hang on branches -- and damage and delays at high-tech recycling centers. (Reusable bags usually aren't eligible for recycling, but when they end up at centers by mistake, they often wrap around and jam moving equipment.) Single-use bags can also pose health hazards to wildlife and livestock -- during a recent trip to Dubai, I heard a plastic recycler lament that ranched camels frequently die from ingesting the plastic bags that are constantly catching flight in the desert wind -- and even when they do wind up at landfills, they take centuries to decompose.

If the desirable outcome is to reduce overall usage of plastic bags then banning them is absolutely the right decision.

The evidence shows that people don't value reusable bags highly enough. Which is understandable because stores only charge 10 cents for them (at least in the Bay Area). The solution isn't to repeal the ban: it's to raise the mandated price of reusable bags to something like $5. Tax undesirable behavior and it will go down.
Sorry, I only know some XRF, I don't know metallurgy.
As someone who almost exclusively uses Julia for their day-to-day work (and side projects), I think most of the author's thoughts about Julia are correct. I think the language is great, and using it makes my life better. There are some packages that are actually better than any of their equivalents in other languages, in my opinion.

On the other hand, I've also got a higher tolerance for things not being perfect, I can figure things out for myself (and luckily have the time do so), and I'm willing to code it up if it doesn't already exist (to a point). Naturally, that is not true for most people, and thats fine.

The author isn't willing to take the risk that Julia won't "survive", which is fair. Its definitely not complete yet, but its getting there. I am confident that it will survive (and thrive) though, and continue growing the not-insubstantial community. I have a feeling the author will find their way to Julia-land eventually, in a couple of years or so.
Unfortunately, having a college degree doesn't help Black and Hispanic grads
I'm with Ubuntu/Gnome3 and it's pretty fine. It took some plugin installing (very easy btw), but it feels pretty good. Time to switch?
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, you've obviously researched this.

I think there are two challenges with your approaches.

1. The expertise needed to bring a drug to market doesn't currently exist within NIH funded entities. They are trying to create it, but have been having a hell of a time. Discovering new science and bringing a drug to market are two very different things.

2. The prize system has it's own challenges. First off, the prizes would have to be huge. Lipitor sales were over $100B during the 10+ years it was on the market. A $2B prize won't mean much.

3. The biggest challenge with the prize system is how do you judge whether or not someone deserves the prize? For example, if we offer a prize for a new antibiotic for multi-drug resistant bacteria, how do you judge whether or not the new drug met the goals? Evaluating a new drug is not black and white at all. What if it kills the bacteria, but is really toxic? What if it works, but not for everyone? Do they still get the prize?
I like how every office has a cork board instead of a whiteboard.
Ah, the good old days, when interacting with a computer often meant printing out 20 pounds of paper and then laboriously going through said printouts.
That's a good point. As a second suggestion, I think I liked Dive Into Python's example of a mp3-file metadata parser, from way back when I learned python

http://www.diveintopython.net/object_oriented_framework/inde...
So much paper.
It is? I've personally seen better performance with Wine + Linux than with Windows.

Now, this isn't to say that Wine is totally up to par with Windows in terms of compatibility, but performance hasn't been a significant issue for quite some time.
Strangely, the article omits mention of paper bags, which, in the context of checkout bags, doesn't signal a thorough standard of journalism.

Anyhow, I guess the problem is people are disposing of the re-usable bags too quickly? Well look at Austin's legislation: they're missing the nominal mandatory per-bag fee that San Francisco imposed (10 cents). It's not about the money, it's just how people think: if they must pay for something, they assign it higher value, and are less liable to throw it away [0] [1]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/13/t...

[1] (HN comments on [0]) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602502
What's really annoying is that there are quite a few sites that have flash-based video players and so run afoul of flash-blockers (on by default!) on the desktop, but then play just fine when viewed from something like an ipad that doesn't support flash. ><
> it's to raise the mandated price of reusable bags to something like $5. Tax undesirable behavior and it will go down.

No it won't. Just throwing a tax on something doesn't magically make it go away, see also "tobacco".
Depends where he is. I started at 10 Z80 assembly programming. I still needed to know C# to get a job in Australia.
Just edit your host file to block the telemetry and botnet sites windows reports to if it bothers ya. Much easier solution.
No, it's the first one. He's a pretty big bigot and racist. He's also been diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia, so take that for what it's worth.
Mozilla CEO threatens to fire person responsible for anonymous hate speech
Klick and Wright have claimed that the San Francisco plastic bag ban leads to an additional 5.5 deaths in the city annually, the mechanism being food-borne diseases growing in unwashed reusable bags [1]. I understand that there have been objections to the research [2], but has it been definitively followed up on?

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2196481

[2] http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/S-F-s-plastic...
I do not need to know how many people agree with something to know whether I agree or disagree with it.

There's no need to show upvote points; just order it so I'm more likely to read the things that other people think are worth reading. I can judge it myself without seeing N "this" comments or upvote points beside it.
Chet Faker released a cover of No Diggity a few years ago, which is responsible for all of my plays of the original on Spotify.

A popular cover can probably drive a lot of popularity for an older song on Spotify.
Why I have no faith in NYC Doing CS Ed right
What brand steppers do you have?
You can block the sites microsoft reports to in your host file, problem solved.
That's why I said "go down", not "go away".

Funny you should mention tobacco because raising taxes on it has been shown to reduce tobacco usage.
Whatsapp is just barely becoming popular in the U.S, and WeChat, Line, and Kakao are basically non-existent. I hadn't even heard of the last 4 messenger programs you mentioned.

The reasons are pretty complicated, but I'd wager that it's largely because Apple, Google, Facebook, and SnapChat are all U.S. companies, and so iMessage, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and SnapChat are all perfectly adequate communication tools in the U.S. All of my friends use Hangouts, for example, because they're Google employees (except one who uses iMessage because he was the tech lead for iMessage). The only reason I'd even heard of Whatsapp is because a number of my wife's business school friends are from India.

Social software tends to be very regional, like how LiveJournal is huge in Russia, Orkut was big in Brazil in India but virtually unknown in the U.S, and the majority of Chinese are on some social network that most Americans have never heard of. It's not surprising that most Americans would use software developed by U.S. companies.
My take on the article is that it was the encouraging the use of recyclable plastic bags that's the problem. Various towns and retailers around Australia followed the same approach in banning plastic bags, replacing them with 'environmentally friendly' bags [1] which appear less disposable than plastic bags, so people don't get in the mindset that they should throw them out.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/GreenBag.jpg
>If you thought we were already in a bubble, hang on to your seats, it's about to get much worse.

"Worse" for whom? It may be worse for investors because valuations may increase, but overall having more money in the startup ecosystem, funding companies that may make the world a better place, isn't the worst possible thing to have.
So living in austin, I can tell you that the source of these "highly durable reusable bags" is the local supermarket, HEB. They charge you $.25 per bag every time you ask for one. $.25 on a single bag isn't a big deal for most shoppers so, generally, I don't see too many people brining their reusable bags back in. The upside to this is that you actually have more people walking out with their groceries in their hands. But I bet that if you were to tell HEB to start using paper bags like everyone else you would see more paper bags in the recycler than plastic. Because I literally have not been to a single other store that sells plastic bags instead of paper ones.
The "worse" value judgement is debatable. LPs are high risk and have deep pockets, so I'm not worried about them.

As far as retail investors go, I am a bit concerned there but on the other hand anyone can blow money on lotto tickets or casinos and with those you're statistically guaranteed to lose.

I would like to see some requirement that retail investors are presented with a big fat warning that reminds them that this is a high risk investment and that they could lose all their capital. Granted they should know that, but people are biased and often forget.

Of course lotto tickets don't come with such warnings, so hey maybe it's fair.

My biggest concern isn't so much with the investor side but with what effect this might have on the signal/noise ratio in the startup world. I fully expect to see a ton of scammy shallow "companies" trolling for funds, and it'll make it harder on those with more substance than flash.
You should say what you mean, then.

In which case, I should voice my opposition to the suggestion that we non-USians (eg. I'm an Australian in China) should communicate (even in our own language) with hat tipped to US popular culture because (inertia of Colosseum-fawning masses).

Here's a contrary view: I believe that intelligent people tend to respect and encourage diversity because it's both more interesting for them ("are we nought but latter-day curios for the coming AI overlord?") and because many fields of science (chiefly biology) show us strength in heterogeneity. The parent's comment was, I believe, offered in this spirit.
There's an argument to be made that trying to tax undesirable behaviors is a form of corruption.

If you want to change other peoples behavior I have trouble supporting something that unfairly penalizes the poor.
Seriously recommend anyone to try out racket. Especially if frustrated by Haskell people.
Last I checked, F# works perfectly fine on non-Windows platforms with Mono.
Tomahawk+resolver
Is there somewhere I can read about the Molecule Engine as a whole? I'm struggling to dig up information on what it is from this website. A game engine of some sort?
Safari and Chrome on OS X Yosemite
Wikipedia is blacklisted in Russia
That doesn't really solve the problem, and has several deficiencies. A split stream might seem complicated, but IMHO it's an amazingly clean way of simplifying the problem.

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The problem is not figuring out what sizes things are, but the routing. When you have 30+ instructions a cycle, you need to route a lot to a lot of different places. You also can't do a parallel read since the size of previous instructions affects the placement of the next instruction - you will eventually fix this with routing but it's not easy.

Consider a 30-wide instruction. Decoding it involves knowing where in the instruction stream it starts. This can only be known once the prior instruction is partially parsed.

Consider its later half - this can only be read after the first half is read. In your case, you actually only need to read the 2-bit prefixes but the difficulty remains.

With a split instruction stream, since there are two independent (at least until a branch) program counters so you have twice the contextual information. You already know where the second half starts from the prior instruction.

One more great thing about this is that the contextual information is preserved in jumps, without increasing the size of jump instructions. Even if prior instructions had metadata about splitting the next instruction for parsing (at yet more space wastage), this would be lost across jumps. That would worsen jump latency, which is a common bottleneck.

The above point is way more important if you expect a flow instruction almost every bundle, due to the massive ILP the Mill has.

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> With instruction sizes of 1-4 bytes, you could store instruction sizes in 2 bits per instruction.

However, the Mill does not constrain its instruction sizes to multiples of 8 bits. This means either you'd lose that bonus or you'd need even more bits.

The Mill also splits which instructions are allowed in each half. Not only does this give you a free implicit bit, it again halves the amount of work for each decoder. This could probably happen with interleaved halves like you describe, but not without difficulty.

> For example, you could use 0x01 both for INC and ADD IMMEDIATE VALUE, where it means the former if the instruction length is 1, the latter if it is longer, with the size of the immediate determined by the size of the instruction. Would that be a net win?

The answer is no. The instructions codes are generated to be space optimal. I'm not sure how this is done, but it has been stated. They also leave it open for metadata like you mention to be included in each instruction stream, and in fact their blocks do have headers.

> creating those two streams that somehow must work together to do what a single statement sequence in the source code does

Given the instructions are disjoint and they only need synchronization at jumps, I would be very surprised if this was problematic.
Worse because unsophisticated investors ("family offices" and "moms and pops") will have unrealistic expectations.

Those expectations will have to meet reality sooner or later, and when that happens:

* Life savings will be wiped out
* Liquidity will snap back for startups
* Many otherwise healthy companies will die

It will be the sub-prime equity crisis.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's doing the same thing (more microcontroller stuff), made the same observation and got the same image.
"...This could explain why well-educated, intelligent people, all across the political spectrum, so often make the unspoken assumption that good intentions and well-crafted words are sufficient for making good public policy"

http://jaltcoh.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-are-we-doing-when-w...
I had one of those "I must be getting old!" moments (I'm not that old, but still!). My niece is four and she's had iPads pretty much forever, so it was funny watching her sit at my desktop machine and immediately start swiping at the screen trying to drag things around and having the most puzzled look on her face of "why isn't this doing anything?".

Keyboard.... how quaint! :)
I thought LaGuardia is getting a massive update the next years, which I'd assume only is worthwhile if it continues to exist, so why "instead of closing LaGuardia"?
Approx. 30% of Russian internet providers will block Wikipedia.org entirely, because Wikipedia.org use HTTPS (and Deep Package Inspection is too damn costly).

Runet, as usual, is full of tragedy jokes: [lang=ru] https://tjournal.ru/p/rkn-wikipedia-block-bloggers
It's like the debate has settled. Lebron James equals Michael Jordan. Practically interchangeable...
Also at which and do you start pealing a banana?
You sure that's because she's Japanese? I'm not Japanese and my body temp is lower on average.
The 50-something coach said Michael Jordan, meaning the best. The writer just updated it to the best basketball player right now, same meaning.
It feels like a 'Mad Men' episode
What I learned from a 9 week coding bootcamp
"Synthetic concoctions". Oooo, that's almost as bad as "chemicals".

There's no short-cut to figuring out whether food is healthful. Some processed food is quite healthful, some is not. Some fresh food is healthful, some is not. Some food your great-grandmother ate you should absolutely never put in your mouth, and idealizing her diet is not a smart thing to do.
Yeah, TurboTax does. I've done my taxes several times now entirely from Firefox+Linux. TurboTax will nag you about using an unsupported browser/OS combo, but you can just click the link saying "yeah, whatever, I know what I'm doing, sod off and let me do my bloody taxes" and it'll work perfectly fine.
> There's an argument to be made that trying to tax undesirable behaviors is a form of corruption.

Yes there certainly can. I won't make it though; I like looking at a plastic-free environment myself.

> If you want to change other peoples behavior I have trouble supporting something that unfairly penalizes the poor.

How exactly does a plastic bag ban unfairly penalize the poor?

I could make the argument that by reducing city trash and recycling costs, street sweeping costs and the store's costs in providing the bags, the poor actually benefit overall. Not to mention it's poor neighborhoods, which typically have more littering, that potentially stand to benefit more from less waste. Rich neighborhoods can afford to pay for street cleaning out of pocket if the city doesn't come through; poor ones can't.

EDIT:
When you get to the bottom of it, plastic bags impose a negative externality on taxpayers (in the form of higher city trash costs), businesses (more littering makes the city less visually appealing) and animals (which get trapped in plastic bags). People are free to use plastic bags, but there should be a cost associated with all the negative consequences of this behavior to everyone else.
I like how every office is an office.