skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking about the discovery problem and how this relates to distributed technology now. File storage looks solved but creating content relationships like lists of similar files sounds much harder and still reliant on a authority that curates and filters the spam. Lost data in IPFS will be "buried treasure" in that nobody has the link to it anymore, but it still exists in a literal sense.

Interesting to think about.
>where it could have really made a difference.

Is there a study that shows that the low income population makes better use of high speed bandwidth? Right now it's mainly just a luxury product for HD video streams and the majority of the educational gains of an Internet connection can be had with 5-10mbps.
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So then disable it and connect to ipfs in other ways, instead of lecturing everyone on how 90% of the web you use everyday is broken
Eh, no so sure about that. His work meticulously avoids the things that don't work in VR, which indicates a strong sensitivity to the effects of bad VR.

My guess is that he'll simply stop watching the moment he realizes that whatever he's looking at was made by a clueless developer. It doesn't take a whole lot of experience before you can distinguish the good from the bad within a few seconds.
I'm not so convinced by the value of these big science fairs.

It seems that they're inevitably won by some kid whose parents just happen to be scientists, or who otherwise have a scientist in the family. And what they get that's valuable isn't just the access to the lab, it's the suggestion of a good project that's simple enough to do but which genuinely advances the field of science.

For everyone else, the science fair looks nothing like real science. They wind up spending a month playing music to a statistically insignificant number of plants, getting an inconclusive result which they will nonetheless try to sell as conclusive, and walk away thinking "Well, that was stupid".

I'm all for involving children in the process of doing real science (as opposed to the "experiments" they usually do, which are just demonstrations). But formulating and testing a proper scientific hypothesis that will genuinely advance the field is way beyond the capability of almost every child, and indeed most beginning PhD students, because they don't know where the limits of human knowledge are just yet.
It isn't being terrified of taxes. It is saying "things have a cost. Lets start talking about the cost and asking if we're really willing to pay it."
The author does mention unplugging it before starting a repair. I think the mains voltage isn't the issue unless you are feeling really down about the device breaking, so down in fact that you would leave it plugged in before commencing work.
Or do I not understand some fundamental of electronics repair that has high voltage on a unplugged device? (genuine question, not an electronics repair shop employee)
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I can't wait for the day when car travel for personal transportation in cities is simply forbidden.
how does IPFS compare to bittorrent's project maelstrom?

http://project-maelstrom.bittorrent.com
Anyone else but her or himself, obviously.
Yes I see that. But if IndexedDB were supported on Node I also would not have this problem. So the question is, why can't node just support IndexedDB (which is formally specified in a standards document) instead of inventing an extremely similar but incompatible api?
Eink doesn't work like that - you have to explicitly tell the display which areas you want to refresh, and more importantly, how... Emulating HDMI would be a tonne of work and also it wouldn't work very well.
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With an unlimited gigabit port? How much is a server there with that speed, is there a Romanian Hetzner equivalent?
Advantage over Bootstrap in 5 seconds?
I remember when many people were complaining about PHP - lack of progress, inconsistency etc.

Now look what's happened to Node just in 6 years. And this is just the beginning.
One-point concentration leads to very well-described states called jhana (dhayana). In deeper states, there can arise an orgasmic bliss, probably better than anything you can take.

There's a verse from one of Mitten & Deva Premal's songs that describe some of this bliss well:

I stood alone at the gateless gate
too drunk on love to hesitate
To the winds I cast my fate
and the remnants of my fear.

Concentration is not mindfulness meditation, though.
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Maybe they did both.
Yes, that's what I'm asking about. How do you tell if a site's CSS is good or not? Looked like any other CSS to me but obviously it's not since it was commented on specifically.
@lostinbass I'm not sure why your two comments were marked [dead].

If you're curious about the acceleration techniques, feel free to email me. You might know some of them already.
Thanks. Do you have any good resources on how to organize your CSS?
Wiener, not Weiner.
FWIW, $100/mo is for small businesses, so presumably many users sharing the bandwidth. It is $70/mo for residential.
I wonder how different things would be if these types of business spending were not tax-deductible. Maybe it would permeate into society at large.
I disagree, because robotic transportation is going to make public transportation obsolete long before the debt acquired is paid off.

And by then, robotic construction and material will have advanced so much that it will be much cheaper to build underground in the future than it is now.

But underground is definitely the way to go for transportation, even in earthquake country. The surface should be quiet and safe, our streets converted to bike paths and gardens.

So lets at least make sure that underground construction could also accommodate vehicles other than trains. Because all that track will eventually be ripped out when we are liberated from the tranny of the train schedule.
I've been working for my current company who specializes in HR software for about 6 years now and from what i see both introspectively and from our clients, most communication issues are a result of a poor corporate structure and/or culture. Having a HR person/psychologist will likely only address the symptoms rather than the problem itself.
But i do totally see where you're coming from. I did a bit of side-study into psychology and it seems like business execs could benefit hugely from involving dedicated Psychologists into business decision making (including HR).
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It was quite common, specially in the big studios doing games for multiple home computers.
Do you think the experience was worth putting on a headset for? To chat with someone like that?

I ask because I wonder whether the overhead of using the device is outweighed by its value as a communications tool.
The picture is clearly a photoshop job. Why would they do that.
Let me tell you, plenty of streets are torn up right now building the new Central T subway the article mentions.
That looks an awful lot like a paid article.
It may happen when you eat your own dogfood long enough.
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- So I want to download a file over IPFS today, how do I go about it? What sort of client do I use?

- Now I want to view a whole web page. Is that possible?

- Let's say I have a site that I want to publish through this, along with a bunch of files (images, downloads). I'm serving that site now through Apache. Do I need to 're-publish' each file (using the command in the article) every time a file on there changes? Or is there some automated way to have a distributed version of the latest version of my site? I mean, it's fine and dandy that people can store cached copies, but what I want is that if there's an update to my software, that people actually get the latest version when they click 'download', not that they get an old version because some dude somewhere made a mistake at one point 'hosting' a static version of my site and not updating, and visitors just happening to use that version because that dude is closer to them (in network topology terms) than I am.
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Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you! Those arrows, ever so tiny...
Ok, this article is just weak... Kids are using minecraft to live out their creativity... So how is this changing education? They are not learning how to be creative ( at least i see no prove for that in this read), they just exercise the skills they already have, which of course will train their creative muscles. Maybe you can say minecraft is a superior tool for doing so, as it doesn't enforce phisical limits ( and maybe introduces new challenges like mentioned materials etc. ). I read this because i expected something like the claims they made for second live, while i was in university, which we used for online courses ( also building auditoriums and stuff ) and soon failed to deliver the platform for courses with user-interactions and so on...
In my view Maelstrom instantly disqualifies itself because it's kept closed source. I really don't understand how BitTorrent (the company) can take itself seriously preaching about "truely neutral" networks.

I've worked with IPFS, and it's really amazing. The development on it is very active, and the main developers are easily accessible for questions on Freenode#ipfs. I've been trying to build a tiny consensus protocol on top of it, but its native support for signing is still a little rough around the edges (and of course I've been distracted by a thousand other side-projects).
off-topic, There is a word-by-word translation of this phrase in Turkish.
Our home use has really diverged away from voice calls and towards messaging and FaceTime. Where FaceTime is reserved for special occasions (kids chatting to grandparents, long distance relatives, calling home when on a business trip).

I wonder if VR as a communication tool could supplant video calling? Although it lacks the ability for a family to physically gather around a screen and communicate as a group.
CBT isn't meditation or mindfulness and there's not much similarity.
>For the study, they consider a purely theoretical situation in which people could line up at any time when a facility opens, like boarding an airplane.

>The problem with “first come, first served” is it incentivizes people to arrive early, which researchers say results in people waiting for the longest period of time. When this incentive is removed—under a “last come, first served” system—the queues are more efficient.

Not too hard to see what would happen if this were implemented for actual aircraft boarding. Everyone would stand around in a circle just outside whatever area is officially declared the "queue", waiting for other people to join first.

Actually, now I read the paper it seems that the aircraft is a bad example, the model system is one where the thing you want to minimise is the amount of time you spend waiting, not the order in which you get served. There's no advantage to getting on a plane earlier (spending more time sitting on a plane isn't great) but there's an advantage in getting on a plane before someone else.
Does not render right on my mobile.
Something's gotta go to free up some cash for Intel's $300M diversity initiative.
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There is something similar.
https://github.com/eduardo-costa/shortcutcss
When it comes to STEM, diversity sounds more like the current priority right now.
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Well, I think you can install something to use it without js, and they were just saying js would be for if someone wished to use it by simply using a webpage, with no install?
Couldn't you do group editing through using lisp inspired link lists? See a comment thread? CONS your comment onto the end of the comment thread and push into the ether, and notify about the new list head.

Take other patterns from clojure immutable data structures for various other kinds of group edited time travelling sites
From the article: "As it turns out, there is zero statistically significant gender difference in mental rotation ability after test-takers are asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None. An entire standard deviation of female underperformance is negated on this condition."
I think the article completely missed the trend towards mobile devices. Also it fails to take into account the propietary nature of Flash and the fact it's look and feel doesn't fit the 'web experience' (users like to copy and paste text, etc. and don't want the UX to be different on each site). Oh dear. Looks like UIE are still in business though - you can't predict every trend.

I remember an investment bank in London building their whole trading platform in Adobe Flex. They really thought this was the future and spent literally millions on it. I am not sure what's happening now, but good luck resourcing and maintaining that project. I imagine someone has just asked for a whole lot of cash to rewrite in HTML5, because you know standards, multi-device compatibility, etc. are important!
Will the browser be able to download different parts of the same file from different servers ?
This price is for residential users only. You can't really beat hetzner on price.
To be fair they already cut a lot of their workforce to free up that cash (source : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/10/intel_job_cuts_in_ju... )
It's meant to be used alongside the grid system of bootstrap/foundation/pure/etc...
As a rule of thumb: grid system for the general positioning in the page, flexbox to align the items of the block.
display: table is cool but as far as I remember if you want to do something equivalent to colspan or rowspan you're in for a lot of trouble... :(
I agree regarding influence of parents. I've seen projects that seemed to depend on access to lab equipment from a parent's lab.

Another problem is the competition concept itself, which is myopically focused on the lone genius concept. A lot of real science has to do with noticing others' work and collaborating with them effectively in a complementary way.

Support for Maker fairs may actually make sense for a change.

Here's a good historical summary which I read on HN: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/why-sci...

HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207686
Can you clarify how the alternate location would have benefited the city of Beverly Hills other than not tunneling under their high school?

The alternate location is 0.2 miles away, wouldn't even be in Beverly Hills proper, and there aren't any particular commercial developments that would be of better advantage than the current proposal. Heck, the alternate location is adjacent to a golf course.
Was there any followup to this in the years before his death? Mr. Wilson doesn't sound like the life of the party.
Many large cities all over the world have the same problems. There will be a few public restrooms, but even in cities like London and Oslo business - generally places like McDonalds, Burgerking, and the local fast food places - will have locks on their bathroom doors and you need to ask for a code or key from the cashiers.
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I just wanted to say good on you for bringing this up from another perspective. I would've never thought about this.

My opinion on this whole ordeal: ask the kids. I wonder what a video montage of an interview of every single kid would do to the viewing population. Get a few to cry and I can imagine people getting all riled up...
Why not just leave San Francisco basically as it is? The city works okay right now. You can get around it reasonably well.

Housing and transport are only a problem if you're going to keep trying to cram more people in there. That's silly.

Part of what makes San Francisco one of the USA's most appealing cities is that it hasn't expanded all that much in the last eighty years or so -- due to its unique geography which prevents outward expansion. (The population in 1930 was 634,000, in 2010 it was 805,000.)
This is so much FUD. As a state we spend plenty of money subsidizing infrastructure in places like LA or San Diego suburbs, it just happens that everything is a bit more spread out, so no specific project looks quite as expensive.

Infrastructure spending in cities, even with big projects like bridges and subways, is much more efficient per capita than infrastructure spending in the suburbs.

Compared to the cost of cars, parking spaces, roads of all sizes, deaths and medical bills when cars hit each-other or pedestrians, CO2 emissions from gasoline engines, wasted time on long commutes, immobility in car-centric communities for people unable to drive, health effects of a sedentary lifestyle, etc., subways and other types of mass transit are an incredible bargain.

Beyond transit, consider the additional overhead costs of greater distances to get to schools, hospitals, police and fire departments, government offices, libraries, museums, grocery stores and all sorts of other businesses, or the higher per capita cost for electricity/gas/telecom/water/sewage infastructure, trash collection, street sweeping, etc. etc.
I would take Agnew, Blofeld and co. any day over the Ch.9 commentary. Cake anyone?

If you go to the game it's more about the drinking and general atmosphere. Not many sporting events can match Boxing Day at the G.
I am always amazed that people can't figure out why Google is doing this.

Google is rolling out fiber to neuter Comcast. Period.

Comcast basically blackmailed Google several years back and thought they won. Google, rightfully, now saw Comcast as an existential threat to their business.

Google will keep rolling out until they have Comcast by the balls. Only then will they stop.
Looks great!

Is this theme free for commercial use?
Hi, I'm really interested in your experience. Could you tell me a little bit more about the cognitive load and cross-cutting concerns?
Minecraft - especially modded[1] Minecraft - is not just good for education; I believe it gives first-hand experience in on of the most important lessons for the future, which is the value of automation. In a future where "humans need not apply"[2], knowing how to automate tasks is one of the best skills you can have.

In modded Minecraft, some of the fancier equipment has very high resource costs. Most people figure out very quickly that manually mining for several thousand iron blocks and hundreds of diamonds is a waste of time, so they learn to instead invest in the automated quarry robots. Later on, when their chests are overflowing, the Applied Energitics[3] "(literal) storage area network" becomes a priority. Some of the more recent mods require things like "8x compressed cobblestone" (9:1 compression, requires 9^8 = 43,046,721 cobblestone) which are so expensive they are not actually possible to make without automation.

Learning to say "lets build a machine to do that" when faced with a repetitive task may be one of the few jobs that exists in the future, and I've seen quite a few youtube videos where people of all ages discovered the lesson on their own by playing Minecraft.

[1] An archetypal example might be Jadedcat's "Agrarian Skies" modpacks ( http://ftb.gamepedia.com/Agrarian_Skies:_Hardcore_Quest ), which are empty "skyblock" maps where you start with a minimum set of items (e.g. a dirt block and a sapling) and grow those into silly amounts of automation that can build just about anything in the game.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

[3] http://ae-mod.info/About-Applied-Energistics/

/* and if you want to take this to a silly and frustrating extreme, try GregTech */
My MacBook Air 2012 shuts down at ~50% battery, and my iPhone 5S at 15%.

Meanwhile, my ancient Thinkpad T500 I owned before the MBA is alive and kicking, and when its battery gave out after three years, I could just order another battery to replace it with. On my MBA, everything is glued together, so I have to pay a couple of hundreds for a 1st og 3rd party shop to replace it instead - with no guarantee what the end result will be.

The future really sucks this way, especially since it’s not a secret that batteries do worse over time - it’s in the friggin’ manuals for Apple’s devices.

Apple’s products are a lot more affordable than they used to, when we criticized them for being for the rich, but now they seem to expect us to replace our products far more frequently than we used to.

—

On a lighter note, the remote for my Pioneer remote broke, and I literally can’t adjust some of my speaker settings without it, and Pioneer have taken weeks to respond to my query. It’d be ridiculous if I had to get a new sound system, and surely losing a remote isn’t some obscure scenario to these people.
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Paid by whom, exactly? It's not particularly complimentary towards Google. It's not particularly complimentary towards any incumbents, either. Unless you're suggesting that the less well off population of Kansas City pooled their resources to lobby for an article in the Financial Times, nothing in the article suggests any kind of untoward influence.
You don't appear to understand what Prop 13 means for Californian real estate owners. Either ask Google, or check my comment history for a primer.
That's really surprising, if it's true.

I'd like to see this one replicated before I start believing it.

I wonder whether it could be useful for other things. If I want to be a better public speaker or tennis player, can I spend five minutes visualising myself as a better public speaker or tennis player? (I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is yes for the first since public speaking is so confidence-dependent, but what about the latter?)
We also plan to use Scala.js in our next brand-new UI of ChatWork (https://www.chatwork.com).

Please be noted that we won't use scala-react because Scala.js can communicate with React by postMessage.

disclosure: I work for chatwork as chief front-end engineer.
"Good software is written by programmers."

Well I think that everybody will agree that R is not good software. It's still useful, though.

A couple of idiotic things about R have already been posted in this thread, let me add one of my pet peeves: "how does one get the path of the currently executing script?". Last time I looked, the answer was "there is no way to do so without relying on implementation details that can and have changed between minor releases.". Lol, that's pathetic.

Now that Microsoft has made substantial investments in R, I hope that at least they'll fix the major issues in embedding R through the C api. (and no, Rcpp is substandard - it doesn't even support the msvc compiler).
This is just mentioned as an aside in the article, but is this accurate?

"Even now, the schools in Kansas City, Missouri, are effectively segregated, with almost all white children at private schools. Just nine per cent of pupils in the state system are white. Almost 90 per cent are on free lunches."

That statistic was totally shocking to me. Are there any other places in the U.S. where there's such a dramatic disparity in the race of students in public school relative to the overall population?