skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall, HN is quite good. However, there is a considerable amount of groupthink here, an avoidance of many legitimate sources of information. Kind of like Gollum covering his ears and saying "I'm not listening".

For example, submissions from many sites are silently banned. E.g. not long ago I tried to submit something from breitbart.com, but that's impossible to do. It just gets quietly blackholed.

Still, it's not like there's a shortage of stories (or comments) on HN. So, "it's all good".
Why I'm against E-Voting
Fleck is going to TechCrunch Disrupt 2015
Roundabouts are unfair. They don't balance traffic loads symmetrically.

Here is what I have observed at one near my house: as you approach the yield line, you can't enter the circle if someone has just entered it on your left. So, if you have lots of cars approaching northbound, and lots of cars approaching westbound, the northbound cars will be on the left of the westbound ones, and will block their entry. You end up with a huge queue on the westbound lane.

This is exactly what happens every day at the evening rush hour (and of course the southbounders block the eastbounders in the morning).

A traffic light would be much better, because its red/green intervals can be tuned to observed traffic tendencies for the time of day.
Couldn't this same rationale be applied to high-school level math? It's one of the biggest excuses made about learning anything beyond arithmetic -- unless I'm pursuing engineering or some computation-heavy career, when will I need to care about calculus? Or for that matter, why ever learn about cell biology in elementary school? Not everyone is going to be a geneticist, and most pharma patents are completely off limits, so why bother?

Yet it's important that we learn all these pieces because we expect a fundamental level of understanding about the world we live in, including how that world and what we know about it is changing. Without an informed electorate and a labor force primed with the skillset necessary for the current job market, not one that's passed, we suffer collectively. Thirty years ago, it wouldn't have made sense to make something like computer literacy or computer science a compulsory subject, but considering just how much it touches every aspect of the world and our lives today, it seems remiss to not empower students with the knowledge and skills to interact with and change that world for themselves.
This looks really cool, I look forward to following the project.

I'm curious, if you wanted your unikernel to be running in a JS VM (I'm not sure what the primary motivation would be[deployment?]) why not take the approach of just compiling the type-safe MirageOS into JavaScript (possible because MirageOS/OCaml can also compile into JS). Unikernels are attractive because of, among other reasons, increased security. It's pretty well understood that a powerful type system (such as Mirage's use of OCaml) would be useful in reducing accidental security vulnerabilities as well. Come to think of it, I'd much rather trust mission critical server infrastructure to OCaml that compiled to JavaScript, over JavaScript. At the end of the day, you'd still be able to use it from within js via `require('OS')`, but its implementation would have had more bugs/vulnerabilities prevented by the type system.
The FDA really seems to have a bad rep. See, for instance, Ranbaxy: http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/

They were faking results and running terrible QC, to the point of shipping glass in pills. The FDA was very slow to fine them, and then only closed specific sites. It's obvious this company was rotten to the core, and is now part of Sun Pharma. FDA's done a bit more since then, but they should have issued a full ban and then started to whitelist things bit by bit. Local health inspectors come down harder.

It creates other effects, too. By looking bad in some cases, people stop trusting the FDA. They then decide that things like sucralose are harmful "because you can't trust the FDA", and instead consume large amounts of sugar (it's natural!).
Gopnick does mention European contact with Chinese philosophy and theology in the paper that hownottowrite linked, however this is dismissed as a contact point for Buddhism: "European scholars in the Chinese court focused on the elite Confucian and Taoist traditions."
It is my understanding that Leibniz was mostly exposed to the Confucian tradition, his correspondences with Joachim Bouvet on this topic are mentioned in the paper.
You can use "boost/operators.hpp" for operators generation.
Algorithms for determining wins are highly regulated by the gaming commission and the source code must be certified before being deployed. You can't get away with the juicing of stats in IRL gambling that you can with online F2P games.
The style of the layout of this article is intriguing.
Everyone should be a surgeon and be able to perform surgical operations on their family and friends.

Everyone should be an auto mechanic and be able to assemble new vehicles out of an engine and other parts.

Everyone should be an electronics engineer and be able to construct their own novel devices out of raw circuits.

Everyone should be a chemical engineer and be able to formulate their own novel chemicals.

Everyone should be a biologist and be able to construct their own novel DNA and RNA sequences, splice multiple organisms together to create new life.

Everyone should be a physicist and be able to explain the practical and theoretical principles underlying all the above principles.

Everyone should be an advanced mathematician and be able to derive from first principles the laws governing everything in the universe.

... or you can just do your own thing, grok how to use the things other people have dedicated their lives to understanding and building, and focus on mastering your own profession.
Oakland doesn't need more parking
Check out Pluto's icy mountains and heart in this new video
> Except its entirely unclear that $5/month is sustainable, much less $1/mo.

Right now, how many people are going to subscribe to a site? You have to trust them with your real info and credit card details, and maintain your login and card expiration. Cancellation's probably a hassle, too. You figure, probably one in ten thousand visitors are going to subscribe.

Have some sort of service, let's call it "Subscrybe", with a fancy button that sites put on their page. You click the button, agree to pay $1/mo, and you're back on the site ... ad-free, tracking-free, and with premium features (say, extra articles, rights to post comments on stories, etc.) No account hassles, no management hassles, no personal information given out. Maybe even better, have $1/mo be the "suggested" amount, and let people specify what they want. That sort of model has worked well for indie band/game downloads before.

My guess is the 1:10,000 figure changes to 1:1,000. Now you're making at least twice as much, even though each person is paying less. I can't prove this will be the case, but I feel it's an idea at least worth trying out. Just need a really big player to handle the subscription backend, and get some major sites onboard.

Your alternative right now, is that you get absolutely nothing, and they block your ads.

And if you still can't sustain a site with a few tech articles a day, then you'll have to fold. It's probably a sign the market's too saturated. As sources for quality news drop, they'll also have an increased paid viewership, until they're once again sustainable.

> I interested to see if Netflix can even think about raising their prices while more and more studios pull their content off Netflix and Netflix has to continue relying on in house programming.

I definitely fear this as well. Already, I'm up to Netflix+Hulu+Amazon Prime+Crunchyroll. CBS, Funimation, HBO, Showtime et al also want their own money, which I'm not going to do.

Even still, with just those four at around $30 a month (and no ads!), it feels too good to be true.

But if they keep forking, well ... I didn't ditch cable so I could split my $150/mo bill into 15 x $8-20 a month bills.
Show HN: GoGITiT - GitHub Usage Statistics of JS Frameworks
A cool example: http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2015/04/28/cuekeeper-gitting-t...
When was the time that communion was traditionally had? Easter? What were the four other times? mapping to the seasons?
What you're describing basically already exists, it's Rust.
It's actually a reasonable app deployment mechanism for systems where you only have regular-user access. You can bundle up a compiled app, dependencies, and settings, and have a single, repeatable, easy to deploy build.

if the system has a tmpfs/ramdisk mount, it can also extract itself there, and have a no HDD deployment, which can dramatically speed things up too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiMapia

Creative Commons, they have an API if you want to consume the data.
Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock and Ourselves
The process of scholarly search is interesting. In the future, how will we discover such connections? Just think if Hume was alive today and some future scholar wanted to know if he was influenced by Buddhism. Easy enough to find out: check his Google search history at the time he wrote his treatise :-) More seriously, I suspect something like Hume's Treatise, as it is printed, would not be taken seriously today due to it's woeful lack of proper citations.

It makes me wonder about the history of citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_citation

Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature: http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/342
Actually, there are situations where this approach is very useful, and there /is/ a need for additional complexity
unless I'm pursuing engineering or some computation-heavy career, when will I need to care about calculus? Or for that matter, why ever learn about cell biology in elementary school? Not everyone is going to be a geneticist, and most pharma patents are completely off limits, so why bother?

Agreed. Why bother? In fact, forcing children to learn these topics often harms them so irreparably that they not only don't retain the knowledge, but can't bring themselves to be interested later in life.

Make it optional. Make the topics available for children who want to know. Make it self-selected, just like every other aspect in life.
"I discovered that at least one person in Europe in the 1730s not only knew about Buddhism but had studied Buddhist philosophy for years. His name was Ippolito Desideri, and he had been a Jesuit missionary in Tibet. In 1728, just before Hume began the Treatise, Desideri finished his book, the most complete and accurate European account of Buddhist philosophy to be written until the 20th century. The catch was that it wasn’t published. No Catholic missionary could publish anything without the approval of the Vatican—and officials there had declared that Desideri’s book could not be printed. The manuscript disappeared into the Church’s archives...Desideri accepted the challenge. He spent the next five years in the Buddhist monasteries tucked away in the mountains around Lhasa. The monasteries were among the largest academic institutions in the world at the time. Desideri embarked on their 12-year-long curriculum in theology and philosophy. He composed a series of Christian tracts in Tibetan verse, which he presented to the king. They were beautifully written on the scrolls used by the great Tibetan libraries, with elegant lettering and carved wooden cases...He also translated the work of the great Buddhist philosopher Tsongkhapa into Italian. In his book, Desideri describes Tibetan Buddhism in great and accurate detail, especially in one volume titled “Of the False and Peculiar Religion Observed in Tibet.” He explains emptiness, karma, reincarnation, and meditation, and he talks about the Buddhist denial of the self...Desideri overcame Himalayan blizzards, mountain torrents, and war. But bureaucratic infighting got him in the end. Rival missionaries, the Capuchins, were struggling bitterly with the Jesuits over evangelical turf, and they claimed Tibet for themselves. Michelangelo Tamburini, the head of the Jesuits, ordered Desideri to return to Europe immediately, until the territory dispute was settled. The letter took two years to reach Tibet, but once it arrived, in 1721, Desideri had no choice. He had to leave. He spent the next 11 years writing and rewriting his book and appealing desperately to the Vatican to let him return to Tibet. It had clearly become the only place where he really felt that he was himself. In 1732 the authorities finally ruled—in favor of the Capuchins. His book would not be published and he could never return. He died four months later."

How truly awful. He mastered Tibetan, spent decades studying the profoundest and subtlest Buddhist philosophy with great success, wrote it all up for the Europeans back home whose understanding was de minimis, and from reading old books I could well credit that his work was superior to anything published until 1900 (or perhaps later) - implying the Catholic Church singlehandedly set back understanding by over 179 years, for reasons that strike one as either incompetent or psychopathicly malicious.

And this is just the summary by Gopnik, who is trying to paint the Catholic Church in as positive, tolerant, and globalizing a way as possible!
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013)
> I don't get the point of the article?

The point -- as is often the case -- is precisely stated at the end of the article: "What this boils down to is that when we approach any of these server dynamic languages to optimize, we can't employ the same tried-and-true techniques we have used for decades (literally) in C, C++ and Java. We need creativity mixed with discipline to make a difference here."

Its not making a point of bad or good. Its discussing the features of the languages that make optimizing them challenging.
Engineers like to use lines like "long chain of numbers", but that doesn't really hold weight. Stolen credit card numbers, digitized child porn, and terrorist communications all also qualify as "just a bunch of numbers". So does the majority of NSA surveillance, which most HN'ers oppose.

The government is pretty good at figuring out justifications for banning things. I wouldn't rely on reasoning as flimsy as "it's just numbers" for why it couldn't happen. (I'm not saying I expect them to, just that if they did, it'd most likely take the form of a merchant ban, "just numbers" would not be an adequate justification, and all the big retailers would comply because none of them want to risk a big legal fight.)
Supersonic aircraft wouldn't be used on shorter domestic routes. As you say, the time savings are insignificant. More importantly, sonic booms prohibit most over-land flights.

But supersonic transport could win for long-haul flights over ocean. Depending on the direction, SFO-TPE takes 11-14 hours. Going at mach 3 would cut that down to 4 or 5 hours. Airlines could charge significantly more for such speed. Faster trips also mean that each plane can make more trips per day. For a trans-pacific route, a 777 takes over 24 hours to go back-and-forth once. 300 passengers go west, 300 passengers go east. A mach 3 transport, even if it had half the capacity, could ferry more people in the same time period. If fuel costs were low enough (unlikely, I know), the supersonic craft could actually be more profitable than the 777.
This years winner was a very well engineered 3D printed design for a prosphetic hand iirc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34044453
I've met guys like Billy.

His goal is not to get customers with this code. His goal is to get investors. And, I wouldn't be surprised if he succeeds. He helped the team win Startup Weekend with a seemingly effective presentation, after all. Further, I wouldn't be surprised if his plan now (that it's become clear his developer team wants nothing to do with him) is to raise money with the prototype built at Startup Weekend, and then trash it and start over, so he believes he is free of the obligations he agreed to in order to get the code (that 0.4% stake everyone agreed to). Investors always ask who else you have equity and economic obligations to...and I'll wager he neglects to mention the situation with 8 devs owning a total of 3.2% of his company.

Regardless, dude's a douche hat, and I would hope nobody would fund him. Nobody smart would, since he's not gonna be able to deliver a product worth selling.
A lot of high school math is pretty pointless for most people, though. It doesn't even help people understand the world, because they don't understand the math, they just do it by rote. I think we'd be a lot better off if we taught high schoolers some basic statistics and finance rather than fourteen different ways to solve a quadratic equation.
keeping a national currency has advantages in running the country's monetary policy
What about electric cars? At this point most of the wealthy get all the tax breaks from owning these cars. And they don't contribute to the upkeep of the roads since no gas tax.
Yeah, she writes a sentence about this theme. That actually instead of thinking person A could only learn about topic X if they were in situation S - that historians are now thinking that, like today, information and ideas were exchanged across the continents much more fluidly.

Trade, knowledge, farmers, ideas, technology - we've been exchanging ideas since we have been able to move about. I find the idea really exciting in a way - almost as if Internet is completely human and a natural extension of what people have been doing since cave times - communicating!
A command line used to be the primary UI, and thank God we don't have to do that anymore. The iOS UI makes computing way more accessible to everyone.

Programming is certainly going to be an increasingly valuable skill. But it is not the same as reading and writing -- those skills are about communicating with other humans. Programming is about giving instructions with machines. Only one is critical in order to contribute to society.

Programming is a valuable skill, but it does not make one an ubermensch, and many people will continue to live their lives without being one of the few who can design software. They will definitely operate software, and it's the job of the engineer to let them do that without any special skills.

We always talk about more programming education -- which is fantastic, because more kids need an opportunity to get started in a valuable skill with which they can do great things for society. But it isn't reading. Not everyone wants to do it, and it's not as if 25 years from now a law degree is going to require coding. It isn't. Maybe, just maybe, it will require operating a new intelligent software system that can do legal analysis. But if operating that software requires programming, we've screwed up.
Google said "random stalls" were kind of endemic to Ducatis. :P Didn't know it was related to the fuel mapping! I had a 1098 which would occasionally (maybe once per month) randomly stall at 0% throttle when braking to a stop. I had a full Termignoni system + race ECU, though. California doesn't do emissions testing on bikes, surprisingly!

I had to put a Power Commander on my R1 because of the aforementioned lean spot. The engine would "chug" at about 37mph (5.2k rpm in 1st gear), which unfortunately happened to be a very common cruising speed. Google showed lots of complaints for other years as well.
Before computers and software, we had technology already. People used tube radios without being able to read schematics. They watched TV without understanding how the YUV signal got hacked in as a sub-carrier of the black and white signal, and drove cars without being able to tune a carburetor. Being able to grok engineering specifications or blueprints, let alone produce them (software or otherwise), isn't really analogous to basic literacy.
I'm getting massive layout breakage on Chrome 45 (OSX).
Arment pulls Peace iOS ad blocker from App Store
Then use reproducible builds. You inspect the source code, and if it does what it's supposed to, compile it reproducibly, and compare the binary with the official one which has a signature. If they match, then everything is kosher.
THIS. ZING.

fuck sake.
I feel like the best use case is international flights. Being able to cut down the time significantly would be a huge improvement.

Honestly though I think shaving off an hour or two is worth quite a lot. There are many people who have conditions, like claustrophobia, people with knee and back issues or hell just regular people get uncomfortable when you're flying for hours and hours. My last two flights were both almost 6 hours each way and I was incredibly sore and ready to get off. It's anecdotal, sure, but I don't know a person who doesn't feel the same way.

Anything that improves the quality of life is good and when these types of planes are more ubiquitous the prices will drop and they will become normal. See Concorde Mark 2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/eng...
The unreasonable behaviour is this not being an error.
The d&d fan in me thiks falling is a free action. A human powered plane doing a dive would go faster I'd bet. Not prepared to rules lawyer that case though.
Go outside. Seriously. Get some sunlight.

Happiness is a state of mind, which does not rest much on actual physical haves or haves not.

Of course, it's easier to be happy if you're young, rich and healthy than poor, sick and dying, but it's amazing how people of comparable situations have a very different outlook on life.

The key to happiness is this: you get to decide if you're happy or not.
.tar.xz preferrably
Because then you would be bringing additional stored energy into the competition (beyond what's in your body)?
That study was specifically in the USA, whose signalized intersections are not really pedestrian-friendly to begin with. For example right-on-red is permitted almost everywhere (except NYC). In that context, I could believe that roundabouts are less bad. I would be interested to see how the comparison generalizes, for example a study of roundabout vs. signalized intersections in Denmark or Germany. It's still of course possible my feeling of more safety at signalized intersections in Denmark is wrong.

Sweden takes an interesting approach in combining both. There are a lot of roundabouts, but most of them also have a signal at the entrance. This makes it easy to cross as a pedestrian, because your crosswalk at the roundabout entrance is protected with an exclusive signal cycle. That forces a gap in traffic instead of you having to force the gap by trying to step out. Possibly even safer than either option alone?
I'm reminded of a TED talk I went to that proclaimed all code is art and everyone should code. I'm just not convinced. When you are coding I get it, coding is awesome and it can be an art, but I don't always see coding to be an integral part of every day life for most people in the same way that reading and writing is.

Most people do use a computer every day however, so there is an argument to be made that people should learn it at some point to unlock the potential of their machines. But the problem you run into here is that coding is not the same today as it was 10 years ago, and much different than it was 20 years ago. I'm still reading and writing and typing pretty much the same way that I was after learning it for the first time (with minor improvements in speed and legibility). In 10 years though, I'm pretty sure I'll be coding in something else entirely different and in a totally different style. And I also have many devices that I don't bother to code on or interact with in an advanced way, such as my smartphone.

We should teach kids code at an early age, agreed, but we also shouldn't expect them to stick with it for the rest of their lives like they would reading and writing.