skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the founder of Impact That www.impactthat.org. It's a reader engagement tool for news media. We weren't accepted this time. Watching and reading the examples I realized we're probably too early in our development, but I decided to apply anyway. Just going through the process was good experience. We're still going full steam ahead, and are going to apply again after we have our pilot project with our first customer up and running.
It sounds like that machine gets one page every 11 seconds -- maybe 360 per hour? We're getting more like 8,000 per hour.

The rule of thumb apparently is, best case, books you can't cut the binding off cost 5-8x as much to scan as books you can.
The JVM Immune System
At the trajectory we are going, there are too many people. Rather than simply assuming a solution would appear, China took action.
National Novel Generation Month 2015
I was a little skeptical about Gobble, but I used it when my wife was out of town at a conference a few weeks ago. It was pretty easy to do. Prep work is definitely the most time consuming part of cooking.

My only gripe is the amount of waste it generates. I definitely have a feeling of guilt with how much of the packaging gets thrown into the garbage. Gobble really needs to address this.
This is why I use server side analytics almost exclusively. You just can't rely on every browser running all your javascript.
The thing is, homemade bread ends up being a lot tastier than store bought if your only store bought options are big mass produced soft breads. The crust especially suffers on packaged breads.

You don't even need fancypants flour. Just an oven and a few minutes to prepare it (plus rise time and bake time of course). I prefer to do a half and half mix of wheat and bread flour, but everybody is free to do what they like.

You can get good bread at bakeries, but I find that they tend to way overcharge for it.
Interesting that Google Play Music subscribers get this for free. IMO it's a huge mistake on Google's part to make them separate yet somehow intertwined memberships - Google Music is the same price as Spotify, but this is a huge extra that many people won't realise they have.

EDIT: I'm not saying that tying them together is bad - quite the opposite - that having them as separate subscriptions that are also the same subscription is weird.
Is it me or does it look like some countries / states are moving towards abolishing daylight savings? I hate to revisit this topic but I would love to see this horribly archaic system abolished ad infinitum.
Apparently, the fabled "Joomla Jackal" is alive and well.

I wouldn't touch that software with a 10-foot pole.
Great attitude! That's our attitude too. Best of luck!
Rust has Frank McSherry (formerly working on Naiad for Microsoft Research) and his work on timely dataflow and differential dataflow: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog
I did not look into the links. I wasn't dis/agreeing, though, just saying something related to your comment.
Is that an actual quote within your quotation marks? Or are you creating your own straw man and attributing it to them?
I'm guessing you have that browser extension that converts the word "cloud" to "butt"?
It does sftp too, which is a very nice filetransfer lingua franca kind of. Samba etc. are a pain to deal with so I tend to just use sftp for everything, even within the office.

Cyberduck also does S3 and the cloudy stuff.
this is new to me, how do you make money to give to the streamers? You put ads on their streams? I just registered as my son plays a lot of video games, maybe he can make some money playing ;)
It's somewhat of rhetorical, indeed. But it does give at least additional checks in the place. (Also potentially helps to prevent a certain class of vulnerability with hidden service, whether they are caused by a bug or attacks.)
Really enjoyed this. I hate to say it but I get more sentimental looking at these than I do most family pictures. The old Netscape logo really hit me hard.

One reason I am now going to start screenshting things from now on and archiving them :)
Because most people are happy enough to either use the frozen food isle or actually cook.
Popular incorrect use of a word doesn't make it acceptable usage, especially when it occludes an important distinction.
Can a single scientist transform biology--and our lives?
They're supposed to last ~100 days and are pretty large. The time was one of the big points they had to address to get the economics right. The balloons had to last much longer than a normal balloon would.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1EOC6WWfgA8/UbvU_yFNsKI/A...
DST's not really all that useful at either latitudes where the day length is relatively uniform throughout the year nor at latitudes that vary between more light than you know what to do with and dark in morning and evening no matter what.

It's really primarily useful when you have enough light for long summer evenings and winter days that are short but are still long enough that it makes sense to fine-tune sunrise and sunset relative to normal work and school times.
The Scientist – What's Elon's Move After Tesla Removed from Consumer Reports
> But I found it a little bit weird that they used the term "reactive" in the title

"Reactive" is the new cool term that replaced "async" and "non-blocking" from a few years ago.

For maximum impact it is advised to combine it with microservices (or even unikernels) in the same sentence.
New technique can weld “un-weldable” metals
> The one-child policy worked.

If you ignore the invasive health monitoring, gender selective abortions, forced abortions, and other human rights violations, sure.

But I'm not sure this cure wasn't worse than the disease. Especially, as you point out, since fertility rates seem to regulate themselves in developed countries.

I guess if you're a pure utilitarian, you could try to make the case that it all was a net benefit, but I don't see many utilitarians around these days.
I'm not a librarian, but as I understand it, ebook pricing is ridiculously high right now. We need a revolution equivalent to the one brought by the paperback book to make the ebook market relevant for institutions like libraries (whether that's brought about by a change in production costs, distribution, copyright, business model, or something else).

Also, I'd love to see some innovation in book discovery. Even if/when a "paperless library" does exist, I can't imagine having to "browse" through a search-box like some kind of autonomous pigeon-holed drone.

> Libraries are screwed because we are invested in the codex, and the codex has become outmoded.

So, adapt! If this is how librarians think, then they really are screwed. But from my experience, most aren't as averse to change and doomy-and-gloomy as this guy. There are some very creative and open-minded folks out there in charge of librarians doing some creative things. Time will tell what will work.
"YouTube Red is not currently available in your country."
Ha, I know that - I'm talking about these boxes of fresh & fancy ingredients with recipe cards that are all the rage with these startups
> I am saying that they can't be reconciled philosophically

I know that's what you're saying. I'm saying you're wrong about that. They can be and have been reconciled both mathematically and philosophically.

> The evolution and climate change remark is just arrogant and uncalled for not sure whats up with the attitude.

It's because your argument has the same form as their arguments. You have made a bald assertion of impossibility with no supporting evidence ("They can't be reconciled philosophically", c.f. "Evolution can't explain X" for some value of X.) Moreover, you have apparently not even bothered to look at the references I provided to support my position because you have made no substantive comments regarding them. You are arguing from manifest ignorance.

> I have read enough and followed enough discussions to know that not everyone agrees with your memo characterization

Sure. You can also find extensive literature supporting the creationist and climate-change-denialist positions too. They are all demonstrably wrong, notwithstanding that many people remain in denial about it.
There's a bakery near us that makes some amazing Bavarian sunflower wheat bread. They sell it pre-sliced in a few local grocery stores as well, but it definitely doesn't keep very long. Most store-bought bread is shelf-stable for weeks, and this stuff is only a few days. We've found that freezing it and then using a toaster to thaw it works great - almost as good as fresh.
I think genetic diseases (aka "runs in the familiy") will stay as a selection factor. Would you prefer to have offspring with someone who has a family history of severe cancer or some autoimmune disease? I wouldn't.

So once genetic desease reaches a problematic threshold (where medicine can not offset it), I'm pretty sure people will begin to talk about their families health history earlier in the mating ritual.

Or test (and select) their embryos if the bad trait was passed on. Or at some point modify them. Which both will lower the spread of bad genes.
Am I missing something, or we have had a TB vaccine for almost a century?
Wouldn't that be a "trivial" solution to the problem?
Moto X Force takes the crushing experience out of dropping your phone
The transition from cellphones to smartphones has been a rude awakening for everyone. That Nokia cellphone that lived in a back pocket and sustained regular drops was replaced by a fragile device that relies on a piece of glass. Everyone has shared the pain because everyone has dropped and shattered at least one smartphone since the first iPhone was introduced eight years ago.
Instructions to attach a Space Shuttle to the 747 carrier aircraft
What's the best way to find a local farm to buy whole kernels from? I'm assuming I won't find anything on Yelp...I'm also assuming there's bound to be something within a 1-2 hour drive in Southern California.
Ah, the tainted legacy of PHP applications originally built in the early 2000's. I doubt anything has been responsible for more exploits than the lack of the ability to do parameter binding in PHP's original MySQL driver.
YouTube Red is not currently available in Canada.
I though one-child policy wasn't enforced for quite awhile, but after reading comments it appears if still was until today.
Agriculture was terrible for our health - even before sugar became a part of our diet.

http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in...
Maybe instead of building camps and fighting between A and B consider option C? I am not saying its OK by my standards but it seems that this was only way for China to properly handle this issue at the time when they made this move.

Your assumption is a stretch. You are putting words in my mouth and that's just below level of conversation one should expect from HN community.
> There are too many people on the planet to start with

The issue isn't whether that's true. The issue is who gets to decide what the right number is and what we all do about it. To most of us, the moral hazards (and realities!) of coercive birth control are severe.
Here at Google, we're independent, free-thinkers, and we're
definitely not influenced by the militant leftist crowd
that plagues the Bay Area

Stopped reading here. You might have had a good argument had you not just completely trangented off in an unnecessary political jab.
I believe a friend with no subscription queuing a video will display ads, as that friend is now the one logged in.
Ha, an exmh sighting! I used MH for years before I finally crumpled.
YouTube Red is not currently available in Sweden.
Why did you bid $499 for what is clearly more than $499 of work?
While it wouldn't exactly follow the lunar cycle as the parent mentions, there are already proposed calendars similar to what you mention[1]. Of course, with any calendar readjustment come just as many drawbacks, as the wiki entry mentions some.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
If you're in Canada even all-purpose flour will work OK, since Canadian flour has a higher gluten content.
is there a map of planned coverage? i find it incredibly difficult to find reliable coverage map for any Indonesian internet provider
Busybox: remove systemd support
> Google's process is so bad from the applicant standpoint

That's an artifact of a time when Google believed that working for them is a privilege, and qualitatively better than working for any other company, so you should be willing to eat shit for the chance to do it. Well, they probably still believe it.
Another thing to consider beyond which subgroup is reproducing more is to what extent the subgroups are inter-mating. Who is to say we don't diverge into different species completely in the distant future?
Can someone sell me on this?

Why would I want it when I already download all YT videos without ads before watching them already?
Some parts of the world are not grown up to handle democracy or make social decisions. Those worlds usually have only three options, forced dictator, forced democracy or domestic war.

We could go in to the detail but I assumed my point was clear on this one.
What interfaces akin to Google Analytics read web server logs?
Maybe it's an attempt for the YouTube Red developers to boost their out of the gate numbers?
Basic methods of audio steganography and spectrograms
Decoding an MPEG1 video is of course much more taxing on the CPU than scrolling through a large image, but low-res videos shouldn't be a problem even on older mobile devices. jsmpeg uses WebGL to speed up the decoding process a bit. On an iPhone5S, it can decode 720p video in realtime[1].

jsmpeg only unpacks the current frame into memory instead of decoding the whole video at once, so it's memory footprint should be much lower. MPEG1 files are also much smaller than storing individual JPEG frames.

[1] http://phoboslab.org/files/jsmpeg/benchmark-720p.html
Have we lost the true meaning and purpose of Business Intelligence?
Earth doesn't have too many people. The people inhabiting it are just, currently, quite wasteful with resources.

What's the goal here? We could have many more people each living in misery, crowding, and poverty. Or we could have fewer people with each one being rich and free and having access to parks and open space to breathe and relax.

More people isn't somehow good in itself. Children are great but one or two is enough.
Not available in India
Still not spending a lot of time there due to proper fragment caching.
Using DNA to authenticate art
These guys do though: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:xod...
The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (1999)
The price goes down the more meals you order their service is intended for people that would want to have "ready to cook" meals rather than an unplanned take-away.

They can offer more verity in their menus over time and some people actually enjoy cooking even if the majority of the work was already been done.

Their kits are also intended to be able to stored up to 5 days in refrigeration and up to 2 weeks if frozen which means you can use them on your own schedule which you can't do that easily with take-away or order-in.

Another important fact is that when you are cooking you can adjust the recipe yourself add or remove ingredients, over cook or under cook the veggies depending on how you like them, add or replace seasoning etc.

Oddly enough I don't understand why these types of kits aren't available in grocery stores I can go down to Marks and Spencer or Waitrose and get pre-cut veggies, meats, pre-cooked pasta/noodles and rice or whole premade meals including ready to cook steaks, fish, poultry, pasta dishes, pies, soups even deserts...
imo you are not including the fact that Chinese culture is quite different to other parts of the world. It would be better to compare them to India and Vietnam rather than world statistics.
Pivotal Tracker is down
aside from the ELK stack, you can also send views/events from your server to GA (this is what I do). Staccato[0] is my go to gem for this

[0]: https://github.com/tpitale/staccato
You are missing the point. This is not an experimental fact because we have no empty universe at hand to do it. Two cylinders spinning relative to each other around a common axis in otherwise empty three-dimensional Euclidean space are totally symmetric. Or how would you tell which one is spinning? It is as meaningless to speak about the rotation of one of the cylinders as it is meaningless to speak about the velocity of a single object.
The service is a stupid waste of money right now.
Space Shuttle embedded controllers firmware

... I'll say a bit more ... I think it's sad that it's not practical anymore to write really high quality code. And most computer security researchers aren't interested in that anymore either, because it's not possible to force all other developers to write high quality code (and if you do you're called "mean" "alienating" etc.) So all they/we try to do is find new layers to contain all the bad code that has been and will be written.

Can we really be surprised when those layers, particularly if they are popular because they came out first and have lots of features, are also low-quality code? Is there anywhere a foot can be put down?

Also, openbsd is another good example of a project with code with a very very low bug density.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11279076/why-does-the-lea...

One second can be a big deal.
You are a very atypical user if that is the case. So maybe Youtube Red isn't for you.
And this, folks, is the real kicker: Developed nations naturally begin to level off at a certain 2.x children per couple growth rate. This is a token policy, if anything.
Oh! That's what that is... Thanks for the link Rob.
Not available in Finland.
It is absolutely not MPD, it has a partial implementation of the MPD protocol.
The challenges of remote working and how to overcome them
Amsterdam plans an eco-friendly hotel that doubles as its own air conditioner
Except it can be irritating.

I'm a google play music subscriber.

Previously, I could open any youtube link and expect it to play, often with adverts but that's not a big deal.

Now, I open a youtube link and if it's a music video I get told, "You cannot view this video because you are playing music". So I have to stop my music playing to be able to watch the music video.

With youtube red, will it now mean that any video I watch I'll have to stop playing google music, dare I use my subscription in more than one browser at once?
robhunter has pointed out that ABC is something entirely different, and explained here: http://bankruptcy.cooley.com/2008/03/articles/business-bankr...
I don't know how it works in other countries, but here in Germany you basically have two fees: First there is the "connection fee", so you pay around 5 to 10 dollars monthly just to be connected to the grid even if you use no power. On top of that is the actual usage fee per kWh.

I guess when more and more people generate their own power the connection fee will eventually increase while the usage fee decreases. So even if you have an average usage of 0 kWh per month because of solar panels you'll pay the grid just to be your battery to buffer the peaks and give back power at night. And I think that's actually fair. If you don't want that high connection fee you'll need to buy your down battery and disconnect completely.
Note that the key issue in this story is not the blocking of analytics tools, but that they had a legitimate URL in their app of /api/analytics and it was getting blocked. That's quite a problem, especially as I see things like /js/dart.js also in that list which could destroy an app's functionality if you knew no better.
Thanks for the answer and the link; didn't know that (May 2015: it's recent...)

Surprised by the downvotes, wasn't the question legitimate? Or is it obvious and old news for anyone but me...?
Eh, they could send out an email and add a banner to the site.

Tying them together makes sense to me in a way. A lot of people (myself included!) use YouTube to listen to music and watch YouTube videos.
XML isn't even really in the same field as TeX. TeX is for typesetting, that's all it does. XML is for encoding general data. It's like saying PDFs are way better than protocol buffers.

TeX is incredibly powerful, but it's also incredibly idiosyncratic. I also personally think Computer Modern is an ugly font.
There is also cssvid (https://github.com/AndyTheGiant/cssVid). It does the same but with background positioning instead of drawing on a canvas.
A highly biased sample of less than 300 is supposed to really say anything of any significance for the general population? I think not.
I feel pretty lucky to have access to whole-grain rye bread[1] here in Finland.

1. http://www.linkosuo.fi/uploads/images/tuotekuvat/240%20musta...
QED? quod erat demonstrandum?
Show HN: Daruma – Discover Japanese Emoticons on a Mac
That's the equivalent of "Why pay for TV when you have BitTorrent?"
I think the Chromecast uses whatever account the person casting is logged in with, things casted to other people's chromecasts show up in your history, so I'd expect to see ads if the person casting doesn't have Youtube Red. Also I don't see or recall associating the Chromecast with any Google accounts during setup so I'm not sure they have that information to make the link to allowing all videos played through a particular Chromecast to use the Red of the owner.

Mostly guessing though until someone tries it.
Those are societal/cultural things, which is a separate issue from genetic evolution. Those groups may still be selecting healthy (physically, mentally, economically) mates from the pool, even if they're not a culture that you think is desirable.
I'm tracking this Pivotal Tracker outage and sending automated alerts over on my site StatusGator, as usual: https://statusgator.io

There's a bunch of other SaaS products experiencing problems, I'm guessing all related to the Blue Box outage: https://blueboxstatus.com/
Newest disruption is the home chef movement in France
How do you filter out crawlers, bots, pre-fetchers, etc.?

I've personally never even tried using server-side analytics because I assumed there would be so much noise it wouldn't be worth the trouble.
Ride Lyft with Bicoin Builder
Greece here, the same. Thank God there are proxies.
Not available in Austria
How We Got to Now
there is a lot of frustration that it launched only in some countries and not in others. i see why that would be a bummer, but is it reasonable to expect that they should (in some vaguely moral sense) launch everywhere in the world at once?
It's hard to complain about others reusing a title when the title is a simply a common English word.

Rework
: to make changes to (something, such as a piece of writing or music) in order to improve it[1]

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rework
It is super frustrating that they hold out on being able to continue playing music while the screen is locked, etc. so that they can monetize it like this.
It was in the airport, so I wouldn't be surprised. They looked about the same price as coffeeshops in downtown Indy, so I think it's more reflective of the cost per square footage than it is about the inputs to the sandwich. I would've hoped given Starbucks' "artisanal" bent for most pastries that their sandwiches would've been the best option given a layover, but it still didn't compare very favorably to gas-station sandwiches in Europe.
> the current china is more of a pragmatic autocracy

Has there ever been a nominally communist state that wasn't a pragmatic autocracy? That seems to be the main criticism of communism... that it's impossible without immoral coercion of some sort.
Only hearsay sadly.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by adding another one. That just makes the thread worse for everybody.
If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense.
Jpeg is massive

The world is in trouble

Ah what we tell dem murdera
Interesting nugget: $9.99 a month unless you buy it through the iOS app and then you'll pay $12.99 a month. Google is making that Apple Tax quite clear.