skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was class warfare as well as the war told by the movies.

This was on both sides, so you had things like how none of the German bombs ever managed to hit a 'royal' palace, e.g. the one that German lady lives in with postcode SW1A 1AA.

Meanwhile, the train tracks that led to the concentration camps were miraculously spared from the Allied bombing campaigns.

From the perspective of the arms companies, why bomb something like a power plant when you could expend far more ordnance wiping out working class populations?

Churchill was first and foremost an oil man, despite the war time heroics he had his eye on the pie, carving up the oil wealth of the Middle East between BP and the Americans. WW2 was just a chapter in mechanised warfare that started in 1914 and goes on to this day, the war never stopped, certainly not in 1945. Things were only getting started then. Laos is a case in point - a secret war when more ordnance was dropped on the country than everything dropped in WW2.

We try to rationalise the behaviour of psychopaths, as if they were thinking in any type of common sense way.

I don't believe the dambusters thing was a shoe-string operation, although not quite Manhattan Project in cost, it certainly was not cheap. It was also 'standard' Lancaster bombers - the de-facto 'heavy bomber' of the time, albeit 'a small plane made of things like wood' in comparison to whatever we have today.
That's an incredibly narrow-minded view, and I'm not a religious person either.
The thing I've become hooked on and am desperately trying to find a replacement for (just in case) is the functionality that adds a checkbox to a text file which can then be searched for with the todo: search parameter. For example "notebook:Pdcast todo:unfinished" will show me notes with things I still need to do (any unchecked todo checkbox will mean the note appears in that search)

I realise there's a billion and one todo apps out there, but being able to combine my ramblings and 3am thoughts with an in-line todo system is the killer feature for me. I think the next notes app that supports this will have to be a self-hosted option
I give you everything, except efficiency. As an example, I did a view source of the blog entry linked in this submission. The instance of the page that I got was 22914 characters long, of which 2172 characters were actual article text - roughly 10%. If I as a user wanted to view more entries from that blog, I think I'd be very grateful if I only needed to download the remaining 90% once and not again for each blog entry.
"The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat (http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html or various PDFs floating around the web)

Times change, people do not
Which language does he use primarily? Just curious.
I doubt scientists know that much on how brain works.
Great link. Just ran Ilya's first query--median time to first render--against September Pages:

"median": "2389",
"seventy_fifth": "3543",
"ninetieth": "5191"

How did the Internet page renders get slower since 2013?

2.2s median, 3.3s for 75th percentile, and 4.7s for 90th percentile in httparchive:runs.2013_06_01_pages]
Really? How do you know this? I thought that our knowledge about how things are stored in the brain was extremely poor.

It seems that we do have some pretty specialised mechanisms in our heads for dealing with human faces, given how good we are at recognising them compared to other things. Even tiny changes in face shape (ie expression) are instantly recognisable and can cause major emotional responses.
If you haven't tried it, check out the csvkit tools: https://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.1/. `csvlook` and `csvcut` are awesome.

I'm also a huge fan of Ruby's `csv` package in the standard library, particularly http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/csv/rdoc/CSV.html#me....

All that only works for properly quoted CSV though... for companies who can't generate quoted csv files pipes or tabs are the unfortunate way to go.
Another issue is size. In Europe or at least at many of the places I've been lately the sizes they have at Starbucks USA do not exist.

A latte for example in Paris or Barcelona is no more than ~6oz or so, maybe less whereas Starbucks USA they start at 8oz and go up to 24oz. I have not visited a Starbucks here to see the sizes. Every coke I've ordered has come in a 8oz bottle as well unlike the unlimited refills and or big-gulp sizes seen in the USA.
> Freedom is expensive.

I'm willing to pay that price for owning something that I know cannot spy on me, does not have remote kill switches I can't control, and is completely serviceable from bottom to top by any third party.

It really is sad that these requirements are now expensive. They used to be taken for granted.
The story it references was big in California. Run Tutor's company was involved in a scandal with the San Francisco Airport paying $19M to settle fraud charges. In 2013, his company was awarded an $840M contract for a SF subwary project. Tutor is worth hundreds of millions and is legitimate I think.

However Tutor's partner, David Bergstein, wasn't and he destroyed Capitol Films, ThinkFilm and Intermedia -- which was huge. I can't remember how large Intermedia's library is but I believe it is rather massive with various subsidies, however, Bergstein-Tutor only bought part of Intermedia's libraries and provided a $150M line of credit to them.
Here's a small bit of irony.

Synth Brittania starts with the excitement from musicians listening to "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. (They say something along the lines of "Wow! It made me feel that I could music too. To play punk you needed to know three chords, but to play a synth you only needed to know one chord.")

There's another BBC documentary about Funk music, which predated the synth movement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dXS8UMrxE

Funk has a very distinctive beat, with an emphasis on the downbeat (one), and the use of many different instruments in percussive ways. That documentary ends with the rise of disco, which had a four-to-the-floor style beat, and was more generically palatable to a broader whitew audience. The song "I Feel Love" is played towards the end of the Funk documentary, as music heralding to imminent decline of funk's popularity.
New evidence suggests we can learn while we sleep, but do we really want to?
Note that kx software was never "libre" not "open source"; The binary was free for non-commercial use since forever with a built in expiration, which meant you had to download it again every three months and hope that they'll keep putting versions out; and at some point they removed the expiration and made it ok for commercial use.

The recent announcement, if I understand it correctly, is that the "commercial use" clause is no longer part of the license for newer releases. (but, unlike the old days, versions do not expire every 3 months).
It's easy enough to try, why don't you give it a go and see for yourself.
How Can We Make Learning Social?
Which still fails if the values contain escaped quotes:

Name, Age, Address
"James aka ""Jim"", ""licensed"" attorney", 42, "New York"

That's three values:

James aka "Jim", "licensed" attorney
42
New York

And there are other possible irregularities: zero or N spaces after the comma separators; unquoted values when they're not needed; backslash-escaped special characters; escaping newlines.
For those who would like a glimpse of synth sounds in their hands, for the Nintendo 3DS:
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/EsVE_ldkt5IaTlJYN7iqans...
Nice paper. I especially like how he has equations, pseudo-code, and Python code snippets. He could turn this paper into a book, adding full Python examples, and I would buy a copy.
I'm really surprised how many pro statists there are arguing against you. Feel sorry for their children.
They are selling you a standard laptop, with standard hardware, commercial bios and firmware for a huge premium on price.

The only difference is that it comes with Linux, but a Dell XPS Dev edition with Ubuntu for nearly half the price and you're set.
What goal is there in life other than living a happy, a good life?

Why do you condemn people that find something different to help them with that than you?

There is a difference in having a spiritual experience and merely following a ritual for the sake of the ritual.

It anything, more widespread LSD usage would make people less religious by your definition.
Just curious, what do you need a native app for? I ask because I'm usually suspicious of any company that has a native app when one isn't needed. I usually suspect they have some ulterior motive, spy ware, malware. Etc. Plus even if they don't have an ulterior motive installing a native app is one more vector for having my machine owned whereas a web site is not. (the browser might be a vector but it's a given I'm going to have one)
From stage left, enter euthanasia.
Does AtalasDB need to run on the same instances as the datastore, or can it run external to the store and, for example, connect to a managed cloud service such as Google's new Cloud Bigtable (https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/)?
I think you meant this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g
> Are you publishing this research somewhere for all of us who will neither find nor read Punched Cards, vol 17?

That's a really hard thing to answer. First off, there is a huge amount of literature on the topic. I just recently came across "Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945", which is the generation before what I'm really interested in. So what will I be able to contribute, and why might what what I do stand out from the rest of the wealth of information already there?

Even in my small field, there is decades of publication history by some very clever people - and some in German. I've got an overview now, and am fleshing out the details.

That publication history includes many tellings or summarizing of the history. Of which quite a few are wrong in the details. For example, I yesterday read some papers from the early 1990s which said that the "connection table" (a graph theoretical model of a molecule) comes from the 1970s. When I can point to papers from the early 1960s which use the term, and people in the 1950s who were implementing the concept on a computer - the concept often comes before the name.

Which means most of the history I want to publish will be deathly boring to someone like you who isn't in the field. I'm hoping for something a bit TAOCP-like, as nothing like that exists in my field.
To get back to the point of the article, is 130MM rows past the point where you should start reaching for "big data" tools? I recently did an ad-hoc analysis of a 50MM row, 3GB dataset and saw similar performance to the OP with a local postgres database. Is it worth using specialized analysis tools for exploring these types of datasets? I ended up writing a script to slice the data, but with `wc -l` taking 2 minutes on my SSD, it wasn't a great interactive experience. What do other people use for this stuff?
I want freedom from ugly stickers on new laptops! I currently have to take a blow-dryer to remove them.
Down-vote me if this is inappropriate, but I'm actually working with a start-up at the moment that's attempting to make managing diabetes a bit less of a headache and possibly even an enjoyable and enlightening task:

http://onedrop.today/

It's a tough challenge and we hear all sorts of stories about problems that arise when people stop properly self-managing for whatever reason.

And I've worked on other healthcare projects and it really does seem like simple compliance -- getting people to do what they've been medically advised to do -- is a huge problem. Like, there are diseases and medical issues that are mostly solved. Except for patient compliance.
Are you sure? law suits over likeness imitations are quite common, this is pretty much removing the stickers and reselling it as a different product.

I think the only thing that works for the favor atm, is that it's not in production anymore, if this was still being sold on the market they would get an S&D for sure.
So is this just the k-nearest neighbour approach with the Wasserstein distance as the measure? Is it the efficient implementation of the Wasserstein distance that makes this outcome interesting? Or is it the use of a non-parametric model in image classification?
Apple+iOS+9.0.2+download+to+Bug+fixes+and+imporvemants
Not in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and probably Colombia. People there massively drink boiled tap water.
Sure, a simple example is the derivative of Riemann zeta for Re s < 1. Granted, usually you work with the logarithmic derivative which is a lot more tractable, but if for whatever reason you need the actual derivative, you're gonna have a lot of trouble with automatic differentiation, as the typical analytic continuation formulas involve some complicated improper integrals.

There are also functions that you only know by sampling (e.g. ocean temperatures) for which you assume smoothness. You need to pick an interpolation method, but sometimes you do not interpolate beyond the sampling points, because that's just making up numbers. When you're limited by your original sampling step size, you have little recurse but to compute derivatives by some finite differencing scheme.
This is a good read.
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Poor comparison. It's illegal to deprive a living person of their future by murder. Showing a copyrighted work of which nobody claims the rights only deprives the copyright owner of their rights, and (assuming they even still exist) if they have failed to recognize the existence of their rights to the property then in my opinion no wrong was done. A movie's rights are not a living, feeling and breathing being that can be murdered.
A related question: What happens when IP maximalists succeed in changing this from civil law to criminal law?

Someone might be willing to risk damages -- all the more so if they were actually limited to direct demonstrable loss rather than absurd... "presumed / possible / theoretical knock-on" loss amounts. But criminal prosecution?

Along with IP rights should come responsibilities, especially with items that have become part of common culture and dialog. If you don't fairly represent those rights to the culture/society, you should lose them.

In the patent world, IIRC, you can't simply use a patent to take a technology "off the market" / out of use altogether. (I'm no lawyer, and maybe I'm wrong, but isn't there language in the legislation mandating licensure under various scenarios?)

Neither should that apply to published works.
But does it matter?
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
I wonder if people absorbing this fact would also start recognizing that basing yourself in SF is a pretty good way to shoot yourself in the foot cost-wise.

You could probably open 3 different offices in 3 other metropolitan areas for the same cost as your SF office.
Vint Cerf: The Headline I Fear Is '100,000 Fridges Hack Bank of America'
For me, this is exactly what I've been waiting for. Every time there is a free software laptop (and it's not aimed at really poor people or at weighing only 20 grams) it's hugely expensive because of small scale with high end hardware. And usually it doesn't ship to the Netherlands either. This one, or at least a variant they link to, actually fixes all of this. Choosing the 240gb ssd option, the price is still quite reasonable (and SSDs are just fast, almost regardless of the rest of your setup).
I was objecting to the suggestion that the complex finite differencing scheme was worthless ("legacy") and automatic differentiation is all we should ever do from now on.
'Spiegel' isn't a Portuguese paper though. Are you suggesting this is an instance of willfully bad reporting, or just bad reporting?

Also, do you have a better source for those numbers?
Don't know about we learn much about the difficulty of drawing beautiful faces, however the images of the artist's work were impressive.

The traditional boundary between "art" and "illustration" isn't hard and fast. The latter is valued for its utility, but there's always a possibility that mere workman's duty will be exceeded, with the result carrying a sensibility well above its intended purpose.

I think that may be the case for this particular sketch artist. The drawings seem to capture not only how individuals look, but also portray something of their emotional states, contrasts among them obvious, interesting and surprising. The relational elements are echoed in the subtleties of spacing, angles and proportion, factors that begin to delineate "art" from the prosaic.

The article shows the artist to be quite a character himself. In a way reminiscent of 1940's newspaper photographer "Weegee" (Arthur Fellig), who similarly transcended the common utilitarian aspects of his job, ranking among the best photographers of the 20th century.

It's refreshing to know there are inspired souls putting forth such noteworthy effort and contributing more than we could expect.
Here are a few points worth considering:

1. Technology is objective. Technology is incapable of being good or evil.

2. Backers, Builders and Designers of technology, like many others, are likely driven by money, power, or ego.

3. Building technology that can "think" is inevitable and needed in today's age to improve countless industries, one of which is Education.

4. Technology will never be able to think like humans. Simply because humanity itself hasn't fully understood how our own brain truly works.

5. The solution to "evil" technology isn't the removal of AI, rather a requirement for positive ideology from the intelligent peeps working on it.
Perhaps, you are looking too hard? You don't know where to start because you feel the stupid apps are making money hence the need for you to also make some money right?. Is that a fair assessment based on your post? Don't let that be your only motivation for wanting to build or create an app.

A good starting point is to brainstorm whatever you are thinking off and go from there..
Ask HN: Why are there so few solar panels in San Francisco?
As a New Jerseyan who moved to San Francisco, I am surprised to see so few solar panels installed in this "progressive" and "tech" city.

I can imagine there are several key issues which are interconnected and a variety of determining factors. But from your knowledge, what's going on? Why aren't there more solar panels?

Originally posted this question on my blog: http://jmarbach.com/why-so-few-solar-panels-in-san-francisco
I was giving an example of law-breaking that's still law-breaking even if nobody reports a violation. I don't know if it's specifically true for copyright infringement, but your question could have been construed more generally, and the fact that there are actions that are illegal even though nobody wants to report the violation shows that there is precedent.
Not a bad idea. Eat up Evernote and send it over to the Docs gland in the google body.
All for Pale Moon (and Firefox, duh).

Down Them All - quick, grab before it disappears due to Mozilla's horrible plans for extensions. Useful for downloading a bunch of links or media from one or multiple pages. Also useful for downloading executables and not have Windows bitch about where it came from.

ReloadEvery - Reloads a page at a set interval. Occasionally useful, mostly when waiting for something.

Resurrect Pages - Alters the error page and adds to the right-click menu to provide a few online cache options for viewing missing content. I would love to add a new option to use archive.is

How did I first discover these? I don't really remember, they've been here so long. Usually by being recommended on some forum.

A smattering of common and somewhat uncommon privacy ones -- BetterPrivacy, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, RefControl, RequestPolicy, Self-Destructing Cookies, uBlock Origin
Is scleroplasty still practiced outside of Eastern Europe?
I am not sysadmin, so, thinking out loud here: why not build software services in a way that does not require this large and sprawling infrastructure? The future could be simple binaries that run in user space and cache everything in simple data structures all in RAM. 64GB is cheap and will handle C1M easily.

I want my future server to abstract the hardware (memory, socket too), provide a few simple API calls, run my runtime (C++, rust, .NET, etc.), and then I'll build my application business logic to handle all my customers waiting on the other end of the socket.

Perhaps it the open source way where you have 40+ dependencies. I recently built my own webserver and found it very liberating.

Think outside the container.
The paper described in the article: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05439v1.pdf
WPF in 4.6 and beyond
This seems pretty cool. I'm curious about the viability of such a product in the marketplace, it seems like even at full scale production it would be radically expensive for an average consumer.
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Pardon me but I don't know about this one. How exactly do you make money? Why did you come up with this idea?

And reading the manifesto, "finding out if they are good in bed or plain boring"? So a quick romp is also thrown in there?

Also, if you say loveroom is like Airbnb for dating then why does this blog post by you guys say loveroom is safer than Airbnb? See where I am going with this?
https://medium.com/@teamloveroom/why-loveroom-is-safer-than-...

I am interested in seeing the facts/stats. that back that blog post.
He might get his eyes back. Stem cell treatments are coming.

http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/42863/eye-stem-cell-...
Right. And if you want to see into the future of any 'luxury' that becomes available to the well off middle classes look to what the really rich are doing now. They are driving cars that are too big for every day needs. They have people who open the doors for them. They have people who make sure there will be enough room to get in. And so on.
weird, i wonder how that happened. thank you.
Well that's a more nuanced philosophical discussion for which murder is a poor example. A better one would be something like stealing a candy bar from a grocery store. A found body, or a reported missing person, would yield a response from local law enforcement if the perpetrator could be linked in any way. An example of a stolen candy bar the grocer never noticed missing more directly targets the question of 'if I don't get caught, does it matter'?

Anyway, the question here isn't whether you get caught. The question is whether it's actually illegal if there is no copyright holder that anyone knows of, and one doesn't come forward with a legitimate claim. Will law enforcement charge you with a crime?

I'm not a lawyer and have no experience with law, but I do love free (and legally so) movies, so I'm genuinely curious about this.
My first line is sarcasm in response to:

> Most consumers aren't idiots. But they're aren't scientists or academic researchers for the most part either. Bring them relevant, accurate information and they are capable of making rational choices.

In the US, cigarettes have had warning labels for almost 50 years and still ~20% of the population smokes.
Yeah, everything is driven by implementing (or not, as appropriate) Send and Sync for types.
Why Jet Is Betting on Old-School Ads
Crawlers indexing is a different problem, and not the one the OP was talking about -- the OP's problem is specifically speed of first page display, and even more specifically speed of first page display due to having to make AJAX requests for data to display the first page.

But crawlers and "single-page" Javascript apps are another potential problem, sure, although not the one the OP discussed.

But wanting actual HTML in the original non-JS delivery for crawlers is I guess why people have followed the 'universal JS' approach instead of what we're talking about here.

Other comments in this post suggest that Google, at least, does fine with Javascript-generated pages these days. I have no idea myself.