skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From working in a non-commercial radio station for years-- I think applying non-commercial criteria is pretty easy:

1) No mentioning of prices
2) No calls to action
3) No aggrandizement of product. Underwriting can be a neutrally-worded description of product.

I've really come to believe that all media that could be described as public (the outdoors, network television, radio, perhaps much more...) should abide by these rules, insofar as commercial advertising pollutes it horribly.
Cells also dynamically influence neighboring cells in all dimensions, making the highest performance, lowest latency interconnects essential. Interconnect pricing is a significant chunk of these large system costs.

I occasionally hear statements wondering why weather modeling can't simply be distributed to desktop or cloud and can't, for some strange reason, get people to understand that connectivity is almost as important as computation itself for this.
Ethical Obligations in Internet Operations
Your Wikipedia link then continues 'the term has evolved from its original meaning, in common usage, and has assumed other meanings, particularly being used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information."

We no longer use factoid in that meaning. Even your clarification here is not really how Mailer defined it; as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority". (See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=factoid ).

It's on the same path that "computer" (someone who computes), "awesome" ("profoundly reverential") and many other words have been on.
damage to the pancreas and related hormonal systems is cumulative, often not apparent until its too late. people can be pre-diabetic and not obese. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-01-26/more-than-...
Much of this falls under the phenomenon of "internalized racism".

(This generalizes, so women can be sexist against other women; those in poverty can be classist against other poor people. To take a recent interview: "Women are always the first to discredit other women, likely because they’ve personally experienced something worse and didn’t or couldn’t speak up for themselves." https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/interview-with-julie-ann... )

When discussing racism, it's not just about racist emotions. Also about institutional outcomes, which can be impersonal.
Isn't NuBits widely believed to be a scam?
Okay, but I'm pretty sure in Kenya, it's partially about race. There was a story a while back about the wealthy there paying a premium to see white people do the restaurant's dirty work:

http://m.independent.mk//articles/10478/Nairobi's+Latest+Nov...
Yeah, was the same like like you as a kid. Was super skinny. Even as an adult, I'm not nearly as active but I do count my calories. IMO, banning things like cereal is not the answer when the more effective approach is to teach kids how to burn their calories and/or limit their calorie intake per day.
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.

Congress is wholly empowered to pass any budget it likes. If President Obama wants to veto a budget to cater to a special interest group, I suppose that's his right, too. We obviously don't want that, but the White House and Congress aren't exactly looking for joint action on this.

The frustrating thing about this whole controversy is that there are compromises here (like bringing late-term abortion restrictions in line with international norms), but entrenched special interests are pushing nuclear options since nobody can stomach understanding their opponents.

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.
I am anti-car, not anti-city. When you go rural, people become more car dependent as they need transportation to get to the grocery store, etc. A really smart urban planner said once on a forum I blong to that you need at least 10k-15k population in a town to support a grocery store. Port Aransas is less than 4k population and has a grocery store, but that is permanent population and does not count snow birds who spend half the year there nor does it count the weekenders and tourists. According to an article I read, the population can swell to 60k on weekends. A local merchant I spoke to disputed that. He thinks that, on busy weekends, it swells to 60k cars, many with more than one passenger. The weird population dynamics impact the business model of the grocery store. It is an odd little duck, with an unusual mix of goods, heavy on the microwave meals and camp-friendly foods and single serve items (and it seemed like half the store was alcohol). But it did get sufficient traffic to remain open.

In my lifetime, we transitioned from more than half the global population being rural to more tban half being urban. We now have about 7 billion people on the planet. We cannot support that by spreading them out. It works because large modern farms produce enough food to support large populations doing something other than subsistence farming.

Maybe we don't need ever larger cities. Maybe we do need more mid sized cities. But I have had a class on economic geography, and some things simply cannot exist, much less thrive, without certain conditions. And there is a lower limit on some things for which the Internet is no substitute. Your figure of "city of 10,000" is problematic. That is the lower limit for supporting a single grocery store without competition. It gives consumers no other options.

I personally like cities of about 50k-100k or so, but I also like to be no more than about two or three hours travel time from a major city with a serious airport and other big city amenities. There are things you just cannot find in most smaller cities. Fifteen years ago, I had a medical crisis. I lived in part because in the midst of it, we moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. I had access to specialty testing and expertise in Sacramento, San Francisco and at the regional military hospital on Travis AFB. The hospital on Travis is a teaching hospital serving military members in eight western states. One of its hallways is something like a quarter mile long. It has its own gate -- ie guarded entrance onto the base. That blew my mind the first time we went to base to take me to the ER, asked how to get to the hospital and the gate guards said "Oh, best way to get there is to use the hospital gate."

Some of our modern amenities only exist because you have enough people (both overall and gathered in one spot) to support specialty/niche markets -- even if it is something you are disinclined to think of in commercial terms or wish it weren't a commercialized thing, like medical care.
> That, as they say, is the $64,000 question.

You are more right than you think. The initial manufacturing cost of an Alto (adjusted for inflation) was...

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=12000+dollars+from+1973&x...
EKG electrodes seem to be readily available, and cheap, too, in the US. IIRC, even the hypo-allergenic ones I had to get one time were not particularly expensive. I don't know if the rules are different in Finland.

http://www.amazon.com/Kendall-Covidien-200Series-Electrode-F...
When it comes to "Where do children get their food while at home?", I think it's fair to say they get 90+% of it from "Whoever does the grocery shopping".
It's interesting to me that diet soda consumption has dropped from its peak. I would have guessed that sugary soda would have been replaced by diet soda, but it appears that water has replaced sugary soda more frequently. Mind mildly blown.
The first amendment shouldn't really apply to corporations. We already limit the advertising of tobacco, for example. Sugar is as harmful.
Again, kids won't do "whatever they want" if their parents do their job and instill proper discipline, education, and consequences for behavior that they don't want.

If you want the government to do your parenting for you, I don't know what to tell you. Not my idea of good parenting, and I think the results will be disappointing. We can agree to disagree on that.
These are certainly fair questions to ask.

On the other hand, it seems likely that the infrastructure and automation of a new generation of vehicles might end up much more efficient than what we have today. Better co-ordination between vehicles and response to changing conditions is likely to improve the overall efficiency of the system. Reducing the risk of accidents and the resulting congestion and delays could be a big win for efficiency as well.

It seems conceivable that these sorts of effects could more than compensate for, say, the environmental cost of doubling average commute distances, making the overall change a net benefit even with some increase in commuting range. People are still going to want to keep commutes within a limit they personally find tolerable anyway, so there is always going to be some bound on how much extra distance gets covered as a result of automation making commutes more traveller-friendly.

Of course there are also other benefits from things like reducing accidents, but I'm just considering the efficiency of the transport system and its likely environmental impact here.
I've seen this link posted here at least 3 times. It is awesome, and at the same time nobody has noticed it before.
It's no secret that soda and so many other drinks are packed with sugar, but no one seems to care or understand.

Or they do understand, and are willing to make the tradeoff. I'm about to order a pizza. It will be unhealthy, and also delicious.
There's a book about Germany working on the atomic bomb from about 10 years ago. One thing that I always stuck in my mind was that the Nazis had several different programmes, run by different organizations. I remember at least three, Wehrmacht, SS, and Post Ministry (I know, this is kind of WTF). All of these organizations actively competed against each other over a very limited amount of resources, in particular heavy water and fissible material. Of course that won't produce meaningful results if you're being sabotaged by other organizations in your country.
As weird as it is, things are improving in the U.S.

I met an ad exec who ran the Joe Camel campaign. People will do what works. The free market will end up with really effective but unwanted solutions. Marketing to kids is one of those places where simple regulation makes a lot of sense.
We'll have to draw, as in most things, an arbitrary line by consensus. Spinach is on one side, sugar on another, Milk is on spinach's side, tobacco on sugar's, and so on.

This is stuff that we should decide as a society to keep ourselves safe from corporate psychopaths.
I just sold an app. Do I have to pay US taxes?
I understand you guys are not lawyers/accountants - don't worry, I'm going to talk to an accountant before tax season. Just wanted to hear some preliminary thoughts on this. Maybe someone has been in the same situation.

Time line:
- Canadian citizen.
- Started building an app in Canada.
- Moved, and started working in the US.
- My app was acquired (for cash), and I now work for the acquiring company.

What kind of taxes will I have to pay, and who will I be paying this to (Canada or USA)?.

From my research so far, it seems I will paying capital gains on the cash amount (I do not flip apps for a living). But not sure if the taxes should be reported to the US or Canada.

Thanks!
Exactly. They put extra sugar/sweeteners in absolutely everything these days. You have to look at the ingredients and calories on anything you buy.

Even super healthy-eeming things like granola or dried fruit usually have sugar added. Yogurt is still promoted as a healthy snack, but most of them have as much added sugar as a candy bar.
That might be due to culture.
So everything Go already does but in bash.
Against advancing armies, the target can deliver itself.
Well, she's half-right. There is no such thing as reverse racism. It's just plain racism.
Have you looked at XM weather? I believe it'll show lightening strikes. It has a subscription, but is of course broadcast only via the XM satellite.

http://www.xmwxweather.com/marine/
If you're online, it does do free form search with a geolocation API. Offline, you still need to have all of your destinations saved as favorites.
Be careful of assigning too much importance on BMI or weight in general. Eating a lot of sugar increases the risk for diabetes even if you're skinny.
So, the Germans would use early atomic weapons as battlefield tactical weapons? There's a million ways that could go wrong, and wouldn't impact the end of the war in the slightest, other than Germany getting first dibs on being nuked before Japan (and probably an all out Allied air assault on Germany with chemical weapons).
Related to Axis bomb programs, an interesting article on Japan's: https://sites.google.com/site/naziabomb/home/japan-s-a-bomb-...
No one's claiming the current situation is equal or worse, just that it's heading in the same direction. And that, is hard to deny. I have heard many people who lived under communism say that, including myself.
ECMWF charges for their weather forecasts, which are more accurate than the free American ones.

There are lots of small commercial weather forecasting firms who sell to people like securities traders. A single high-temperature day can reduce corn yield by 1%.

Here's a startup that had a $1 billion exit to Monsanto: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/10/4823004/monsanto-bets-the... Their business is a combination of weather and climate.

In short, there's a big market for this stuff.
Elon Musk Clarifies His Plan to “Nuke Mars”
The article does not compare it to today, but to a possible upcoming state of affairs.

> only technology and not humans

I think this is very short-sighted. Technology has much greater potential for censorship and oppression; sentiment analysis and similar techniques are only going to improve over time.

And remember that it is not about making people feel bad, it is about being effective. It always has been. That is what is scary.
Richard Rhodes' "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb" is a pretty thorough account of the whole enterprise, and concludes that the Germans were nowhere near, so I don't think this is a particularly controversial revelation.
> Not the case in the UK, I suspect, which is where I live - most people will be familiar with A3/A4/A5.

Exactly. A4 is for letters and documents, so it's everywhere, people know A5 from their exercise books at school, and will have used A3 for something at school, perhaps art or technical drawing.

Beyond that, flipcharts are A1, and postcards are A6, although i suspect most people don't realise that. You don't see A2 much.

I once came across a giant A0 flipchart pad, and immediately attempted to make a paper aeroplane from it. However, it's too thin relative to its size, so the plane collapsed.
And the same path of "couldn't care less" versus "could care less."
I saw something called "Uncle Sam Original Wheat Berry Flakes" last weekend, and it is surprisingly healthy (http://www.unclesamcereal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Unc...). Only 4 ingredients, too.
This is a point that seems to be overlooked surprisingly often in transport debates: people generally travel for a reason. There are as many reasons to run a safe, efficient transport infrastructure as there are reasons for people to make a journey. Every time we make a change to the infrastructure that deters someone from making a journey, there is almost certainly a consequential loss to someone's business and/or someone's quality of life. We could obviously make the roads much safer and more environmentally friendly overnight by just banning all motor traffic, but the effects on our society wouldn't be pretty.
Well, you may have an increase (no definitive causation) although the chances of developing pancreatic cancer if so is still very unlikely.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65E5H420100615
More flexible machine learning improves image classification
When I was a kid, Halloween was basically a block party. The younger kids went out with a parent early in the evening, then came home and helped give out candy and got to stay up late. The okder kids went where the hell they wanted until midnight. Houses did their best to not merely decorate for the occasion but to really participate in giving visitors the Haunted House experience.

My sons are 28 and 25. They never got to experience that. I took them once and only once to the mamba at the mall. As often as possdible, I arranged to take them to a party on Halloween and then bought them any candy they chose the day after when it was half price. As much as possible, I refused to participate in what Halloween has become -- some commmercial piece of crap unrelated to what I grew up with.

I also ended up homeschooling and have made other choices that helped shield my kids from the watered down version of life that so many kids today get.

Best of luck. Fight the good fight.

Also, if you are intersted, I have a private blog, subrtitled "memoirs of a mom", about raising my two sons. Shoot me an email with a gmail address and I will be happy to send you an invite.
Why Nasdaq is betting on Bitcoin's blockchain technology
What specifically do you think makes this un-Pythonic? It's very readable.
I rather doubt there's a bubble in US bonds. We've had "bond vigilante" cycles before. We're not in one now.

Unlike internet stocks or housing, one big factor in bond prices is confidence in the US as a political regime, which remains high.

My interpretation is that the bond market rolls its eyes at the posturing kerfluffle in our electoral politics and ignores it.
Nice stories will not bring freedom back!
(do you also have arguments, instead of ignoring them?)

Do you want to say, that Snowden, Manning and other Whistle blowers are not oppressed? Have you no eyes?? I guess not!!

(and this is only one small example of oppression, that everybody knows but most just ignore -- to live without disturbance -- very much like the people in former Nazi Germany).

To be clear about it: What happened to Manning alone, is a shame to any civilized society -- if he is guilty or not.

When the so called "Aluhuttraeger" where saying, that the US where spying on us, 10 or 20 years ago, everybody was laughing.

Some of those laughs have already stopped.
Because you immediately run into some madman who wants to separate the columns with four spaces instead.
Kenyan here as well. I too lament how Kenyans always treat foreigners better than they treat their own. Your story reminds me of the time when a Chinese restaurant in Nairobi was denying entry to black Kenyans [1], and this policy had persisted for a very long time, and nobody had the courage to step up and speak about it, up until the constant media exposure embarrassed people into speaking about it. When I travel to other countries I have to deal with prejudice and racism, it is just a major drag that I experience the same in my own country.

Anecdotal contribution as well, but I've noticed that Nigerians and various other West Africans tend to be more comfortable in their own skin than Kenyans, although I'm sure you'd hear similar stories of this type from them as well.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3010690/No-blacks-Ch...
Ha. If only some of my co-workers felt as you do! The other day at a conference, in the middle of a talk, we heard someone's phone ringing. Obtuse.
Even Kelloggs Corn Flakes are packed with sugar. Why?
Premium brand water might be $2/bottle (let's forget luxury brands that might be $4+) but you can get store brands in 24/48 packs for $2.99/$3.99 at large retailers.

Even some brands like Dasani or Deja Blue are 1/$2 at gas stations
Amazing how the 1000Gb can suffice. Kudos!
> Unfortunately, a computer's pool of truly random numbers is very limited; it has to build up by measuring minute temperature changes or internal timing variations. NetHack, especially being played by fifty people on a public server, would keep that pool empty and harm the game's playability.

No, no, no. This is a horrible misconception.

It's easy to generate an effectively infinite stream of random numbers: use a block cipher in CTR mode (i.e., using the seed as the key, encrypt 0, then 1, then 2, then 3 and so on). All you need for this is a single truly-random seed, and from it you'll get 2^128 random numbers—far more than you will ever, ever need.

Now, how do you get that initial random seed? That's where the art comes in, but a basic version would simply hash all those truly-random input events (e.g. those temperature changes or internal timing variations) together. A more complex system, such as Schneier and Ferguson's superb Fortuna, uses a system of 32 pools, where the pools are used to periodically reseed the generator, in a clever fashion which can protect even against generator-state compromise.

And with modern chips, AES-256 in CTR mode is fast, really fast. Fortuna'd be perfectly usable in Nethack.

(As an aside, it'd also be perfectly usable as a replacement for the needlessly-complicated and insufficiently-grounded Linux CSPRNG underlying /dev/random and /dev/urandom).
look at the ARM in the original newton. It had a similar and interesting memory protection unit. The OS was designed to be a single address space.
Right now, we spend far more on satellite data than we do on salaries and computers.
What are restaurants doing to combat the loss of their highest-margin items? Another bonus of drinking water instead of a soft drink is a cheaper bill at lunch.
Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read?
I'm not convinced that cereal as a product is bad. Sure things like Lucky Charms are clearly terrible for kids, but Cheerios or Honey Bunches of Oats? They are the best combination of cheap, easy, and quick that someone can get for breakfast. My biggest worry with an anti-cereal movement would be that people would just start skipping breakfast (even more than they do), leading them to consume MORE calories at lunch and dinner to make up for it.
These colorful sugar-cereals have completely overtaken the cereal market in Estonia. In fact, my neighbourhood supermarkets no longer sell any major brand whole grain cereal at all. They used to, but the number of options kept decreasing, until it reached zero a few years ago. Now I either have to buy generic components and mix the cereal myself, or eat something else.
What we really need is fewer people speculating about what other people need. Follow in the footsteps of your forefathers[0] and mind your own damned business.

[0]: http://rivergrandrapids.com/the-first-official-us-coin-said-...
Maybe get a windows phone or something if you want to surf the web and not have to worry about installing any apps...
Hypersense Complex (2003)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh441725
and possibly the same thing:
https://developer.here.com/rest-apis/documentation/traffic/t...
Like many of the posters here, I realize that much of the food and drink sold is unhealthy. On the other hand, I don't think that nanny state regulations are the answer. Plenty of unhealthy things abound (when overused): chips, candy, pizza, fast food, cookies, ice cream, video games, television, etc. Maybe some of the same marketing tactics used to sell the unhealthy things can also be used to counter them with healthier alternatives.
$0.55 per watt from SolarCity’s record-breaking new solar panel
A nature Band-aid?

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...
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