skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how to interpret the "more keywords" comment. Words do have the advantage that they force people to put a space around them (usually), though, rather than jamming a bunch of operators together, "C/Unix Hoax" style.

for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html
Joel didn't say that. You're probably thinking of this piece by Steve Yegge: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.ht...

But I wouldn't exactly characterize that as advice Steve Yegge wants people to follow, either.

> Back when I was in the Navy, just out of boot camp, an otherwise entirely forgettable petty officer first class instructor of ours offered us, unasked and free of charge, his sage advice on how to pick up women at a bar: "Go ugly early." With this declaration, he had made it clear that he and I thought rather differently about certain things in life.

> If you want to spare yourself a lot of angst in deciding which programming language to use, then I recommend this simple rule: Go ugly early. C++ will go out with you in a heartbeat.

> For my part, I want to encourage people to make their own languages
Lucky Charms has 110 calories per 3/4ths a cup.
Honey Nut Cheerios has 110 calories per 3/4ths a cup.

They both have 22g of carbs of which Lucky Charms has 10g of sugar while Cheerios has 9. Don't confuse branding with health. If your cereal doesn't taste like cardboard, it's probably bad for you.
Pro tip: If you are ever trying to report on a high-profile court case and there is an overflow room where they pipe in CCTV, go to that room because the camera angles will be much more conducive to getting a good view of the defendant.
No, actually resistive touchscreen is not 3D touch at all. You cannot do multi touch with resistive touchscreens; they don't respond to slight touches. They are just 2 dimensional screens activated by pressure. I agree that 3D touch is not the best name but this is because everybody tends to name everything 3D. In this case, it is very good name because it adds the 3rd dimension to the devices with 2 dimensional screens. Swipe actions are all in 2 dimension (x and y-axis) and 3D touch adds the z-axis (only positive or negative, though).
> and heavy engineering backup

Has the cost of that come down to where it's feasible at smaller scale?
If you can work in London I'm sure you can find something through an agency/jobserve/linkedin without having to work for free!
Yoav is one of the smartest guys in this space. He and Omer Levy also wrote a great explanation of word2vec:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3722v1.pdf
https://levyomer.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/word2vec-explained...
My two cents:

The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins - makes you look at living beings as software, and at the world as an immense optimization algorithm.

Permutation City by Greg Egan - the perfectly rational idea that the mind is computable is rife with apparently unsolvable paradoxes.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. Maths, logic, patterns, artificial intelligence, beauty, art and self-referentiality.
I don't mean to sound devoid of compassion; I'm not.

Most military contractors make very good money.

Even if, in your hypothetical, he has starving children, I don't see any compassion in telling him to murder other people's children. This just seems like insanity to me.
Is Glass a Liquid? [video]
My kids like it ... a fun way to solve math problems.
I think a better interpretation is that they were able to convince themselves that bringing nuclear weaponry into the world was the lesser of two evils.
>> There are a couple judges who are just too handsome or too pretty. It's a challenge going in to draw them.

There are no beautiful people in courtrooms. Everyone is under some sort of stress. Lawyers and defendants can win or loose, jurors don't want to be there, the court officers are busy moving prisoners around and acting authoritatively. Even the galleries are full of unhappy family members. It's no surprise that this artist mentions the judges. They are in charge. They know that no matter what happens they will still be in charge come the end of the day. Confident people always look better than those under stress.
Rise of the Synthesizer
For those interested, there is also a japanese translation of the first issue: http://sectordub.itch.io/pico-8-fanzine-1-japanese I'm sure the second will be translated in soon as well.
I'd like to call out your casual mentioning of someone's race being responsible for them going to jail. That's not really what happens - rather that someone breaks the law and goes to jail.

I'm not aware of law-abiding members of any race going to jail (while the article demonstrates that Asians who do everything same as whites or blacks have no chance of getting into Harvard).
Not an expert for face perception but I think faces are believed to be stored in memory in terms of their deviation from the standard face (the average face in your environment). Since beautiful faces happen to be precisely the faces that are close to the average, it's completely unsurprising that they are hard to capture because their deviations from the standard face are really subtle. Storage of faces as differences from the standard face also explains why white people find it hard to distinguish Asian faces (and the reverse): they all deviate from a white standard face in a similar way. Caricatures can also explain by this because a caricature is what you get when you amplify someone's deviations from the standard face.
Recently I found this non-place on Google Maps: Lake Fail, Texas.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3844594,-97.7345006,17z
In my experience an extremely small proportion of people are aware of unmarked intersections. Even if it's law, we don't teach it to people.
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See also CISC vs RISC.
Try regular Cheerios: http://www.caloriecount.com/calories-general-mills-cheerios-...

110 calories in 1 cup serving. 1.2 grams of sugar, 3 grams of fiber.

I started eating these plain in the morning when I got to the office and after less than 10 months of eating it, my cholesterol dropped another 5 points. I already had healthy levels, and this dropped it even more.
Not when the data is like this.

"Richard, Martin", "23 NS, North Coast, NY"

Comma frequently occurs inside texts, and then awk fails.
Sure. I'm just saying it's not completely ruled out.
Maybe, but I'm a current iOS user and I've tried the new Macbook's Force Touch, which AFAIK has the same basic concept of pressure-sensitive actions. What nuances of 3D Touch do you think aren't easy to anticipate without actually trying it on a new iPhone?
Well, to be fair I can see the point of a dividend tax

Corporate profits usually become either investments or dividends.

It could be said that by removing corporate taxes you would increase corporate investments or more dividends payment (which would be taxed more, but probably would still be smaller than the tax you would have gotten with corporate taxation)

Also see dilthomas and charlesdm comments
Ask HN: How to block marketing trackers in Gmail
In the good old days (before 2013), Gmail would not load external images unless you clicked the "load images" link. This way, tracking images from marketing emails like MailChimp and others would not be able to track you. Now with Gmail now caching the images, the marketers somehow have that data again (including if I opened the email, and how many times ... maybe more?). Is there any way to go back to blocking this?

(see here for more background http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/technology/personaltech/ways-to-avoid-email-tracking.html)
I really like the presentation in one of Lev Landau's books. He calls it a fictitious 4-dimensional space. That's the correct way to look at it, spacetime is just a mental model, a tool for describing physical laws. So depending on the mental model or framework we decide to use, time can be a dimension or something completely different.
The London Underground uses 630 VDC traction power. Power distribution is 11KV/22KV 50Hz, converted to DC at substations every few stations along the right of way.[1] 630V is too low a voltage for long distance transmission without big losses, so distribution is at a higher voltage. AC to DC conversion is with rectifiers, which are one-way; they can't make AC from DC. With inverters, that's possible. Inverters are basically big switching power supplies. This is just an inverter installation at a substation. It's probably bi-directional, converting AC to DC or DC to AC as required.

The whole transit system isn't one big DC circuit; it's in sections of a mile or so. Regenerative braking can only power trains in the same section, unless traction power can be up-converted back into the AC system. If more trains in a section are braking than accelerating, the excess power has to be dumped somewhere, usually into big iron resistance grids that waste it as heat. Using inverters eliminates that energy dump.

[1] http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/tractioncurr.htm
A red light means the same thing as a stop sign in this case. I would expect people to treat them equally.

I'm sure in both cases the traffic ticket would be the same - failure to stop.
Another day, another article filled with twenty something single professionals who don't own cars because they live in a 600 square foot apartment in a dense downtown core for $4000 a month saying "Why can't everybody be more like me?"
5 unbiased reasons why Quirky failed
I have been traveling outside the US recently and I notice that this already exists in many places.

Something to consider though is that in these places the common man had no economic power to begin with but now with globalization the difference is becoming more visible.

We need to help get these people plugged in to the internet and this will open them up to advancement and opportunities. Instead of paying a middleman (a corporate retail store) to buy handcrafted goods we might could purchase directly from the producer with bitcoin or some other form of electronic payment.

There should be a tech equivalent of doctors without borders..
They're used in lots of smartcards and embedded designs going way back. I designed, but didn't implement, similar extensions because virtual memory model was a complex mess I couldn't secure. Segments were simple and had been used for effective security before combined with isolation aspect of MMU's. MPU's were the logical step from that. Easy to implement with highly assured methods, too, due to simplicity. Not sure how far back they go but here's an analysis of issues done in 2004 that reference MPU advantages:

http://www.control.lth.se/documents/2004/5737.pdf

The documents from Gemalto, Infineon, etc for their EAL5+ or EAL6+ smartcards give details on how they do the high security variants of MPU's. Rockwell-Collins ACL2-based method can also be used given they built a whole processor (AAMP7G) with it.
Sugar-wise, the can of coke is about 70% worse.

12-oz caramel macchiato = 23 grams of sugar
http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/espresso/caramel-macchi...

12-oz can of coke = 39 grams of sugar
http://www.coca-colaproductfacts.com/en/coca-cola-products/c...
Happy birthday, this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500217
What Makes Containers at Scale So Difficult
> no evidence that time is an extra dimension (like the spatial dimensions) in anything but a mathematical sense

What do you mean by time being an extra dimension in non-mathematical sense? Dimensions and space are mathematical concepts.
Pretty slick. What's the stack behind it?
I like the headline! I was initially intrigued because I just started a side project, bought the domain, and set up Google Apps for email. Then I'll probably set up a Medium blog for the project. I thought "oh neat, it's all contained in here, and a free domain that's cool!" Then I saw the price point: $8/mo. Yeah sorry, you need to be more competitive for groups that only want a few services. Google Apps is $5/mo and Medium is free...is it worth an extra $3/mo for me to decentralize project/business type emails and documents? Not really, because I don't have any sensitive documents that I don't care for Google to have access to. Maybe if I were a journalist starting a secretive blog and needing to communicate between journalists over sensitive information - yeah, I could see that.

I think those are the kinds of people you're going to want to market to. Reasonably priced for sensitive documents and files, but more than conventional app solutions who don't really need the extra decentralized security.
I am not sure that this evacuate Earth angle is going to work as a funding motive, even if there was a catastrophic asteroid it is far more realistic to build domes here than on Mars.
What is it called when in Japan patrons (mostly Japanese men) of the pink industry pay more for Eastern Europeans versus locals or other East Asians? Is it a fetish or is it racist of them? Or is it simply "exotic"?
>Congress is wholly empowered to pass any budget it likes.

Yes, and the international community is wholly empowered to consider Congress a risk to the financial stability of the United States if it takes decisions that look like they're risking the financial stability of the United States. Congress has no power to dictate how other people view them; quite the opposite, they're supposed to be held accountable to others' view of them!

>As a community heavier in skeptics and rationalists than the general public, I would hope HN and the tech community to be good examples in promoting understanding and finding compromise.

Skepticism and rationality are about arriving to correct conclusions, not about pouring on the Fallacy of the Golden Mean until suddenly "compromising" on a policy that annual government shutdowns are a "reasonable" way to maintain currency values.
> There's a fight to stop providing public funds for abortion-providers, especially given recent discoveries about, to put it charitably, gaffes and ethical lapses on the part of Planned Parenthood, an organization that exists, both in philosophy and financially, due to the abortions it provides.

3% of the services Planned Parenthood provides are abortion-related: https://twitter.com/emschuch/status/649690759453646848

Also, Planned Parenthood has been found to be doing nothing wrong by offering fetal tissue from abortions at cost, with the permission of the patient:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0928/Planned-Paren...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-planned-parenth...

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/investigations-turn-...

Planned Parenthood exists to provide healthcare services to women, full stop. Abortions are only a very small part of those services, legal services I might add.

Progress, as usual, occurs one funeral at a time (old people dying with their no-longer-relevant views).
Android started out with a long-press gesture being prominent throughout the platform but it was eventually deprecated because designers felt that it wasn't very discoverable by users. It's interesting to see Apple going in the other direction, but I'm not sure discoverability will be much better. One of the problems is that even if the majority of apps implement the gesture action consistently it's still very annoying when you come across the random app that doesn't implement it and your 3d-touches are ignored. That forces the user to memorize which apps in which situations obey the gesture which increases the cognitive load.
If you want to bump up the number of traffic fatalities, encouraging cycling is a pretty good way to do it.

Every major injury I've ever had has come from cycling and before you blame cars -- none involved a collision with a car.
Because they're made out of corn.
The sad thing is you can do this for pretty much anything but water.

15.2 oz Minute Maid orange juice: 45g of sugar: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/subway-minute-maid...

12 oz Welchs grape juice? 63g of sugar: http://i2.wp.com/afterthekidsleave.files.wordpress.com/2014/...

Something healthier like Vitamin Water - right?

Vitamin Water - 8oz 13g: http://www.betteroffwell.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/vita...

it also contains that pesky thing called "crystalline fructose" which apparently is a mild form of arsenic: http://www.fearlessfatloss.com/food/what-is-crystalline-fruc...

Pick anything other than water, and you're going to be consuming sugar, HFCS or some derivative of fructose which is horrible for your body. The simple solution is to drink these in moderation and balance it with lots of water.
It is controversial for those people who hang their hat on the concept that America was in some sort of race to build and use the bomb before the enemy used it against America. No serious historian thinks that was ever a factor once the logistics were apparent, but the History channel still pumps out constant "documentaries" about Nazi superweapons about be deployed had the war lasted another week or two.
>murder, surveillance, and debt slavery built on the backs of the unborn

None of these things are unique to fiat currency, as distinct from capitalism as a whole.
An interesting quirk of history, it was the reconstituted German rocket program in the U.S. which finally gave global delivery capability to American nukes.
htop is one of my favorite UNIX tools in existence!

Check out htop running my laptop while I had an "ssh-multi" tmux session opened up on an Apache Spark cluster, doing computation 32 cores x 25 nodes = 800 cluster cores! It's so fun to watch all of those cores light up green while doing a big batch job.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/amontalenti/21512617686/in/dat...

We are big fans of htop at Parse.ly. We install it on every one of our nodes.
While I'm inclined to agree with you, do you have any supporting evidence?
I don't think the OC was referring to multitouch, but rather how resistive touchscreens can measure different levels of pressure applied to them. For example, I have a Nokia N900 with a resistive touchscreen that I can draw with, pressing harder for a thick stroke and lightly for a thin one.
Cordova and bit of other goodness. I'll write up a blog post on it and link to it.
Nice explanation. Is there any literature that explains how faces are stored in memory? Fascinating.
Long-press has existed on iOS for a long time as well (deleting apps from your homescreen is an example).

"3d touch" works and feels different because of the feedback you get via vibrations and the fact that it feels like you're actually pushing the whole screen down. It's hard to explain but feels natural when you use it.
Pphubbing can harm your relationship
The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming
Seems like there are much more intuitive ways to show these differences, something like the plot on Dr. Moran's blog:

http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-difference-betwee...

Although the 3D plots are neat, they kind of feel like 3D barcharts: they add very little over a more straightforward representation (like a heatmap instead).
Technically it's no longer just reserved in ES6, it has an actual use. But starting with ES5 it's generally not a problem to use keywords as property names.
All currencies are fiat currencies. There is literally no other kind of currency.

So, yes, it is that radical... and the suggestion betrays an immature understanding of what currency is.
Soda sales are down but obesity is still up

Because it's not just about calories in but calories out too. People spending all day sitting in front of screens replacing all other forms of both work and play...
Which is precisely why some of us are opposed to socialised healthcare. Once you have it, every little decision you make becomes everyone else's business.
It's amazing how many people seem to think drugs should be legalised but sugar should be banned.
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This is the same way in China for clubs and restaurants and such, but I think it's just for marketing.
Thank you! I'd be nice if the mods could change the link.
Links to make your life easier

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/requate-math-addicted-love/i...

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blakgeek.g...
Why would an AI care what moneyed interests care about? All the intelligences we know about have this boredom state. Some smart people just sort of stop caring about what they're paid to care about, and retire. Others love it and keep at it until they die.

AI is even harder to predict. There's been no selection bias, yet. It's not at all clear if they'll have "survival instinct" or desire or even need to reproduce. They'll be different.

Tangentially, I think human cultures are AI, at least in some sense. We've created this environment that's driving down the cost of computation dramatically and that's been driven by "emergent" behavior. Emergent behavior is a really hard term to define. In most cases you can replace it with "magic" and you'll get the same information back. We're like the dog packs in Verner Vinge's deepness in the sky, but at a larger scale. It's such a vast intelligence, i can't really get a handle on the scope, any more than a single neuron knows it's helping me to type this.
the only goal private enterprises have is MAKING MONEY. Pretending to predict weather is not a goal in itself.
Idea: Why are the resistors on the train? Why not make them stationary? Regulator-resistors attached to the rails could be used in fixed locations to heat water. Perhaps they could dump energy into capacitors to feed back onto the rail when needed. The trains would dump energy into the rail, raising the voltage and triggering the stationary regulators. They might not need to be anywhere near the busy stations.
Use tildes. Tilde Separated Values are relatively robust and nobody uses tildes by themselves for anything I've ever seen. Most tools that let you set a delimiter will accept tildes also.
Rust is hardly groundbreaking. It's a mix of imperative/functional styles that are well known, thrown in with pointer ownership which has been researched and toyed with in various forms for years before. It's a small improvement on C and C++. Making a practical implementation is praisworthy, but I'd say this hardly counts as an invention in open source, and it's particulaly unrepresentitive of the FOSS community anyway because it's backed by a big company with a big research pot.

The kind of game changers Kay is talking about are not that easily approachable. You won't be able to take your existing knowledge of language X and suddenly see how they mostly apply to Y too. If that were the case then you've not really changed the paradigm, only given a glimpse of how it could look from the existing one.

And the reason you don't see many of these kinds of innovations in the FOSS world (although they definitely exist), is because they don't gain traction. If something is clearly new and takes significant effort to learn, very few people are going to take the time to investigate it. Meanwhile, solutions which fit well into the existing paradigm are easily accessible by masses of developers, and they flourish. This is probably one of the main reasons that real invention is rare: people are after fame, and adoption rates aren't going to go up quickly if you challenge existing conventions.
I was aware of that. That's why I didn't flag the duplicates.

My purpose in providing back links on each duplicate to the earlier posts was to try to avoid fragmenting the comments. When there are two submissions 18 minutes apart, there is a decent chance comments will be split between them.

> If we see a good-by-HN's-standard story that fell through the cracks, we've been emailing the submitters and inviting them to repost it. We invited coloneltcb to repost this one

That seems pretty inelegant for a site named "Hacker News". Why can't you diddle the database to give the original another shot? The "invite a resubmission" approach makes the submitter have to figure out a different URL, and increases the risk of comment fragmentation.