skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose the definition matters in this case. While house parties used to mean "probable strangers in a house" when I was in my teens, for me it's now more like the UK experience described below by another HNer in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247096
Botched health IT projects aren't new The UK has had some horrifically overspent and underdelivering health IT projects. It's a shame that people don't appear to learn from other people's earlier mistakes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/8780566/Disastro...

£11.4bn !
The real 20th century greatest spy? :)
> I wonder if it is a problem that a private or public venture could address in an innovative way.

Yeah that would be meetup.com
You'll want something that an unsophisticated civilization can make copies of. Might be interesting to have a stylized form of a modern language with layout that incorporates simple integrity checks. The monks who copied documents in the middle ages made a lot of errors.
You created an account to say this?
Thanks for posting this Ohad :) Glad you liked it!
Interesting idea, although it has the same failings as classic sci fi and much of the modern left when it comes to economic illiteracy (in particular agricultural efficiency being mandated by law instead of left to the market).

The law does mandate efficiency in a lot of areas currently, like in car mileage. It's not outlandish to imagine that future governments will mandate efficiency in agriculture, even if you consider that those will be redundant or misguided.
Had the pleasure of being taught by Ahron Bregman (the lecturer mentioned in the piece) in King's College.

I always thought there was something about the death and investigation that didn't fit well. That area is covered in London by CCTV etc, the fact that the investigation didn't really go anywhere is strange.

On the face of it, I and many other Bregman students thought Israel was the most likely immediate candidate for the killing - but doing it in London and in such a high-profile way didn't really seem like their modus operandi (plus the description of "Middle Eastern looking men" on the balcony wouldn't really fit with a "kidon" team sent to kill him). Also his actions had been known for years by Israel, so why do it now?

Marwan was clearly playing so many sides and involved with so much intrique that there were many who might have wanted him dead.

Also, i'm sure there are probably many other people who might be deemed worthy of a the "20th Century's greatest spy"
What's the difference between market dysfunction and market disruption?

It seems to me that home battery packs make things like wind power much more attractive because of their ability to smooth out the difference between supply and demand.

I'm not sure why that is dysfunctional. It seems to me like it is compensating for a technical issue?
I actually called the IRS and asked them. They told me to treat it just as securities, which has all these rules attached to them.
Ask HN: Hacker houses in SF/Bay Area for 1 week?
Because I am a bit crazy I booked a flight to SF last minute. I also checked with Airbnb for some accommodation but their servers seem down as I write these lines.
I was wondering if anyone could point me some hacker houses where i could stay, hack and share the techy techy spirit for 1 week?

Thanks!
“My vehicle can drive itself” was the default state until Ford, Panhard, Bugatti and Rolls-Royce came with horse-less carriages. It wasn’t ideal: horse, oxen and asses got mad and rumbled into crowd regularly so it was far from ideal, but dandies needn’t no permission to get drawn by a new animal, be it a camel, and ostrich or tortoise.

Then, with mechanisation drive-through lattes and texting, a little too many kids were crushed to death, with their severed limbs thrown in the air into their parents’ faces — so we had to change that state of affairs. We ask people to prove they realised they were sitting in armoured tanks, and make sure those tanks acted like expected. When the expectation is “you can go back to texting and sipping your latte, your tank will swerve when needed” that bar is, expectedly, incredibly high.

You are more welcome to introduce any self-driving vehicle that is not independently powered with so much energy that it can kill on impact: clubs who make recumbent bikes are a good example of where to look for hackers in that area.
Previous discussion of the original paper (It's quite readable without an specialization): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244999 (67 points, 17 hours ago, 5 comments)

I'll copy partially the first comment by lambda:

> Here's a browser for the actual tree: https://tree.opentreeoflife.org. [...]

> For those of you, like me, who may not be very familiar with modern phylogeny and taxonomy, here's the path I charted down to "Homo Sapiens".

> Check out under Eukaryota then Opisthokonta. [...] to Homininae, Homo, and finally Homo Sapiens.
On an observational basis, the public parks in LA are almost always filled with people having fun, having picnics, holding parties, et al. Drive by them on any weekend and they're full.

BBQ is a massive industry in the US for a reason. It has gotten bigger, not smaller. More people today BBQ, not less.

Potlucks are extremely common in the US as well.

I think your criticism is unfounded. It's trivially easy to hold group get-togethers in public parks in the US and only be out $15.
Paper's pretty good. Not sure it's 100K years good, but you're definitely better with paper than almost anything else in the modern world. People underestimate paper.

It's vulnerable to moisture, mold and insects, though.

If you can solve problems with breakage, very little is going to compete with glass or ceramic. So, something it's hard to apply breaking force to: Maybe etch glass balls, add some impurities for visibility, then re-coat with more glass for protection. A handful of beads will survive nearly anything.
Yes, NT was much more stable than Windows 95/98/98SE, and technically superior. Unfortunately it wouldn't run quite a lot of Windows programs, and one of them was whatever we used for AOL access, which was quite important at the time.

I dual-booted the two types of Windows way back then, and it was just too hard to stay on the NT side....

To some extent (possibly a large extent), OSF/1 was a push against the AT&T/Sun effort to unify Unix with SVR4. It just ended up more fractured than ever, which was a shame.

There was a brief window when Unix could perhaps have been more successful. That was between DOS and the Windows vs OS/2 war, when Microsoft Xenix was relatively successful. However, IBM was dead against Unix at the time, and OS/2 EE was meant to be the IBM-owned cornerstone of its Systems Application Architecture.

Unix could run on everything from PCs to Amdahl mainframes and supercomputers, whereas IBM had two major mainframe operating systems, at least five on minicomputers, plus workstations and desktops. No wonder IBM saw Unix as a massive threat to its account control.
Which is not present in the icon, the menu bar, the about dialog or the help file.

http://imgur.com/v4jH7Yf

At least they've managed to be consistent with the rename. Compare this to Packages, which is called "packages", or "software", or "software install" or "packagekit".

http://imgur.com/dFidCWL
> that is bad for power efficiency since L1 cache needs to run at full core speed and in modern CPUs there's vastly more transistor area in the cache than the decoder

It's not that simple. Dynamic power depends on the toggle rate of the flip-flops and the electrical capacitance of the fan-out wires and gates, not on the number of transistors. In a cache, very few storage elements change their state in every cycle, while the decoder performs a lot of work in every cycle.
Uh, sure... a field on your tax form... that you can't even be bothered to give the form and line number of. Sounds trustworthy.
But if we're moving on to "industrial-strength devices" on a "city-scale", then we might as well mandate their installation near the producers of the unclean air that we're trying to clean.

I.e. Make an industrial-strength version of this, and stick it on say a coal power plant's cooling tower. I'd imagine you'd get far more bang for your buck due to the efficiency gains of not having to "clean" almost-clean air.
Could this be used as a new type of battery? It seems to hold way more energy than a typical capacitor.
Yeah I did actually create a throwaway to save personal attacks.

Often on HN there's some discussion and people feel that they can tell other people what they should be doing about some subjective thing.

One example is this thread. Some people don't like to party. The commenter said that we should go and party. Even if we don't like it. We should all like what they like and we should all do what they want to do. That's a brilliant example of the kind of pushy asshole I don't like to meet at parties. It's like those people that try to force you to dance at weddings. I don't like to dance - that's my decision.

Another recent example was mother's day. I don't like my mother. She seriously neglected me as a child until I was removed by the state, which still causes me medical problems to this day. But everyone feels entitled to say that I should call my mother to say hi. Why should I? Because they have a good relationship with their mother? Good for them. But don't tell me what I should or shouldn't do.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10243101 (302 points, 1 day ago, 143 comments)
:) I'm working with Steli on the content. Just sent you an email - would super appreciate if you find the time to answer. It's the critical feedback like yours that helps us improve and create more valuable content.
3D printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury
> is there a similar notation for
> human movement or dance ...

And for dance there's "Dance Notation"[0], most specifically Labanotation[1], but there are others, such as Benesh notation[2].

For juggling[3] there is SiteSwap[4] for vanilla flavored juggling, and now it's been extended in different directions, perhaps most completely by BeatMap[5].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_notation

[1] http://dancenotation.org/lnbasics/frame0.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benesh_Movement_Notation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_notation

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap

[5] http://juggle.wikia.com/wiki/Beatmap
I suppose in Hawaii the "issues" are the whole "predictable and plentiful sunlight for about 12 hours a day all year" combined with the whole "Pacific Ocean" thing. Solar could easily and cheaply provide all of Hawaii's electricity needs if there were a good way to store the energy for overnight usage. Tesla's home battery packs are actually a great interim solution for such a market, until some larger scale instant-on grid-wide solar energy storage solution is available.
There is no such thing as common core math. The common core only specifies skill goals for students. How those skills are taught or in this case the method for solving math problems are not part of the common core.

It is up to each school district to implement curriculum which teaches the common core goals. Most school districts have abdicated this responsibility to publishers and purchase curriculum. It is this purchased curriculum which teaches math in a manner which some parents object to, so their real issue should be with their local school district and the publisher.
medium.com is back now... seemed to be an AWS issue...
Heroku Status
> "models are to be used but not to be believed."

Data scientists, please take note.
I think rust people wants to proove repeatedly the addded value of their language : "no cost abstraction over bare metal" because it is the thing that will win the heart of their audience. Still, in practice, it will likely play as you say, but not now.
Also, synthetically scaling an i7 down to 1GHz, assuming the performance will be proportional, is not very fair - because of how much faster its core runs compared to memory, (contrast this with the ARMs which are closer) with decreasing core speed the performance decrease will be sublinear, whereas power consumption is more like exponential in frequency:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/daciI.png

I'd expect actually running an i7 at 1GHz vs 3GHz to be far more power efficient than their scaling indicates.

There's some past HN discussion about that paper/an article related to it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8235120
I have a hard time believing that a company stuck on Java 1.5 or SVN is like that because the developers want it that way.
Australian here (Sydney) - House parties are alive and well in my local area. Last night my neighbors were going 'til about 4AM (I'm in Newtown, which is renowned for being a bit different [1], so this is probably a terrible data point).

Age seems to have nothing to do with it. My said neighbors are uni students, I'm in my late 30's, my other neighbors are in their late 50's, and we've all been known to keep the block awake all night. No one complains, especially considering that friendly pre-party warnings / invitations are usually letter-box-dropped, and the late parties are usually confined to Friday / Saturday nights.

I personally love the house party vibe where I live. We may not all share the same music tastes, but it does my soul good to hear people having a good time pretty much every weekend!

It's possible that the reasons given in other comments (increased rent prices, social media redefining relationships etc.) are valid in Sydney as a whole, but thankfully they're having little effect in my surrounding area!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown,_New_South_Wales#Cultu...
I am also looking for that but later in the year! Could you please report if you find something?? Booking a ticket to SF feels so good right? haha
In a sushi restaurant? Of course there are lots of 鮭 dishes in izakayas and such, but I've never seen any in a sushi restaurant.

See also: http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q114...
I'm not sure how long it would last but how about something like a bubblegram [1] (laser crystal)... You could use a flatter plastic block and create a 2D image inside. Also, maybe other materials can be used.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegram
US gov has been doing software projects for as long as there has been software. So it's not like there _should_ be new lessons. They could just look at the vast number of previous catastrophes, and the few that went reasonbly well.

I've been involved in a few myself as an employee of a government contractor. The gov people overseeing the projects were always in over their heads. I think that's a common issue.
Parties used to be mostly full of strangers? And have no food and no alcohol? So... what did people do at a party?
Just spoke to AWS Premium Support around 4:35 AM. They don't have any more information than what's on the status page, basically. I was hoping to get an ETA for a resolution, but no such luck.
Yeah, and Duke University is a investment firm as well, except that it has a hospital attached to it that happens to have a university attached to IT.

I'm sure pretty much all large, big-name universities are playing with money. US ones at least.
In this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519994
I said this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9520124

(25 points)
Regarding ethics, my position is that authors should have the choice to monetize their content with ads if that's their best option.

When this happens, others can make the choice to hack the system and access the content bypassing the ad delivery system, but in that case they should at least be aware that they're getting value from the author's effort without compensating him or her, the ethics of which I'll leave for you to judge case by case.
I use hn.premii.com, as well as hckrnews.com with a bookmarklet that turns all the links into hn.premii.com links.

I generally prefer the reading experience on my iPad because of this, actually. The only reason I go back to the normal site on my mac is if I want to comment, or if I want to make use of the 'new comments since last visit' feature (via a chrome plugin).

If the hn.premii.com developer is reading this: any chance you could add a visual indicator for new comments? would make my experience perfect.
I guess it's better to upload TrueCrypt container somewhere in the cloud and transfer just password/URL. Password/URL may be derived from the first letters of each sentence in the U.S. Constitution or other similar public source of static random data.
The content author should consider moving his videos to Vimeo it has a Cleaner Layout and no distracting banners or 30-second commercials before your video starts.
$20-40 per person actually sounds reasonable, considering prices you'd normally pay for drinks in a bar. Hell, even just being at home having a party one could easily spend that on drinks and snacks. Plus, you're in a bar with non-strangers, which is something i'd also gladly pay for. Sounds like a right good idea to me!
As pointed out in the hover-text, AI research has been trying to do this since the 60's and it has only been possible recently. That's a lot more than one researcher and a month!
It does, I said 'a lot less' not 'zero dollar mistake'. Recursively defined lists take care about nil, and since it's one of the most used ways to program in lisp it makes a lot of logic nullproof.
I used to sit down with a client and change elements of the design right from the developer tools. In theory, it's a nice approach.

In practice, it meant that clients started to have unrealistic expectations of 1) how many changes they could ask me to make over time, and 2) how much time it would take to make a change.

So nowadays I only do this with designers that I work with, at set times, or with clients that I know I can trust.
The story of writing reliable real-time kernel
The status page says build and api errors, but I have multiple apps in the free tier (EU) which are completely offline.

It seems to be caused by an AWS outage in US East http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Facebook credits for sale
Hi HN community, We are an AI startup based in Palo Alto, and have a bunch of credits on Facebook platform (Parse, FB ad credits etc) that we are not going to use. Ideally we would like just give it out for free, but considering that we are on a ramen diet and are in process to raise our round. We can give like a 30-40% discount if anyone's interested. If you are an investor, we could also let you in on "preferred" terms ;)if you buy these.
Wrote a simple script to hide all the green statuses https://gist.github.com/vijaydev/c0a670e79dcf7657cb2e
Quick anecdote: I always demoed Quest by running it in a loop testing GCC on an Apple laptop and it would always find a compiler bug. No longer, it seems. I've tried it on OS X 10.10.5 today and so far couldn't find a bug in GCC or Clang.
Oh yesss it feels good! Yes I hope I'll be able to find something soon! I'll report there any findings
I wouldn't lay blame at the government over this. I have seen countless large implementations fail within enterprise companies i.e. massive overrun in budgets, not meeting requirements.

And unfortunately waterfall is really the only approach for projects like this i.e. you are having to select different third party vendor products up front and integrate them with custom applications. You can't iterate in sprints when you don't control the software.

And if only hiring competent people was so easy. Really talented IT professionals are very hard to find and keep. The Digital Service you mentioned really is a great step towards retaining talent and long overdue.
So what happens to the particulates after they're collected? Is this a matter of "let's take these molecules and use them somewhere", or is it like we have a shit-ton of solid waste full of sulfur and hydrogen and we have to bury it?
At what expense/frequency, though? If it's just to cover the ocassional (unmodified) car that can't be made to report as "Ready and OK" per OBD2, it's just easier to use the existing repair exemptions process. (Spend a certain amount on repairs and get another cycle of inspection passage.)

If it's to cover modified cars, those are a trickier situation. It's easy for some to game the system so that it "passes" on the magic day and then fails the other 364 or 729 days in the cycle when it's actually being driven.

In either case, it seems like the expense of operating and staffing gas sensing stations, rolling road dynos, etc. Probably better to just turn a blind eye to that case as well.
This reminds me of a 1970's Boy Scout visit to the local power plant. It had a coal and a gas fired boiler, and the tour guide mentioned that that night, the gas company had asked them to preferentially use gas, as I recall the guy said the pressure in the pipelines was getting high.
I've downloaded the PDF for the paper linked on the page (http://faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/pubs/uist-07.01.pdf) and some of the images are not showing. Is this a problem with OS X Preview.app or a general problem?
I don't see what your issue is with syncthing. syncthing is meant to be cross platform, so using inotify was an obvious problem.

Plus syncthing is an entirely different use case from glusterfs. Think Dropbox, not one-filesystem-across-many-machines.
I updated what I wrote, thanks for pointing that out.
forgot to mention https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961438 but the site is down and I don't think they are active
Classic example of ignoring the std deviation and using mean instead of median as if it holds any significance given a very unusual distribution curve. Its truly a textbook example.

Selectivity in lower socioeconomic class jobs is hardly limited to great paying jobs; there are similar stories about McDonalds being more selective in hiring than the Harvard acceptance rate.

There's also a cause/effect malfunction in that kids going to Harvard is an effect of getting rich, but getting rich is an effect of being a prison guard in CA, two entirely different concepts.
I agree wholeheartedly on the public drinking aspect. I lived in Virginia for 30 years and if you are walking around on the street with a beer, you're essentially asking to spend 4 hours in the "drunk tank" for public intoxication. This will be followed by offering some welfare ($) to the local legal profession to get the charge dismissed or pled down so you won't have a criminal conviction for your future employers to ask you about. There are similar laws in many other states and it definitely puts the kibosh on any potential block party you may wish to have. Since moving to Europe I find it pretty awesome to be able to enjoy a beer while I stroll and not worry about being run in so I can fund some lawyer's BMW lease.
If you own your own Illumina, you can arguably get everything done for ~$1200-1400 with current chemistry, which gets better and cheaper with each iteration. We've also tested Oxford Nanopore's minION, which has probably the best chances of truly cheap sequencing bit that comes at the expense of accuracy.
No, even vanilla ARM. x86-64 instructions are 3-5 bytes in size and compilers don't use complex instructions effectively.
I am learning Python and Django.