skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these are probably the biggest (in terms of $) examples of rent seeking in the US

LOL. You forgot big banks and "too big to fail", military-industrial complex and all the wars.. Your examples are peanuts compared to these.
The disappearing middle class is threatening large American brands
Because the tool may include more information than is needed or wanted. The tool may also not be able to detect (without being told) that some information should be included.
Thanks for the kind words! We don't plan to disappoint. :)

Rob

AgileBits
Companies like Twitter, Facebook have rolled out (Like/Hearts/emotions) button to posts. I think "heart" button is not appropriate categorization for real time contents. Sometimes we just want to express on things if they are relevant. The emotion part "Like, heart, dislike, chill, etc" is just an aftermath to the real intent.

Problem: "heart" can not express emotion that community wants to just share, it may not necessarily be likable. Example, Tweet about violence in Middle east. I want to just not give it a "heart" but some other emotion like "disgrace, shame" etc.

Idea: To solve this problem, I would say the real symbol should be "Star", instead of "heart, like" etc.
"Star" means you want to buzz in with this article but not classify your emotion.
What do you think?
How to Live on $3 a Day – Day One
It is exactly that. For example, imagine if Facebook made a public page listing all the times that you have ever clicked "like" on something. Weird, right? Twitter just made that.
Bummer, more ads, more whitespace, larger text, and harder to navigate. :(

Probably just as well, that blog usually costs me several hours of work.
Solar PV is less than 3 cents and nuclear is at least 15 cents.

A nuclear meltdown is called a "sacrifice zone" and a solar meltdown is called a sunny day.

Make me proud, go solar!
If "the people" cared about LEOs violating the rights of accused criminals and terrorists, they'd stop voting for hard-line authoritarians that promise to be tough on crime/terrorism. Instead, they vote for them at all levels of government. Even Obama gained a lot of popularity in his second campaign for being the guy who put a bullet in the head of Osama bin Laden.
Actually the moment we will finally stop treating computers as glorified typewriters and use paper and desktop metaphors, content will indeed be code. Good web content in the future, I believe, should have interactive visualisations/simulations and a multitude of possible user interactions (see for example http://worrydream.com/Tangle/). Publications like the New York Times are already implementing this, I also expect it to happen for educational content (see Khan Academy for some examples).
Close, it's less about propriety software and more about centralisation of services. I definitely tend towards open-source but it's not a dealbreaker, I just don't want to live in a world where my life is completely tied to Google. As good as a lot of their apps are, I hate the idea of the "ecosystem" that these companies are building.

I just want a messaging app that messages and doesn't imply a bunch of other services from another company. I'm aware that's easier said than done, I just hope the end-game of instant messaging isn't "Apple or Google?". To continue your comparison with mobile phones, you can have a SIM from any network and still communicate with people.

I'm going to try GcmCore that's been posted in this thread, it sounds interesting.

To be completely honest, it's not a die-hard opinion and will no doubt change a bit in the future. Technology is progressing and changing so fast, I don't want to go with the flow without questioning directions it's going in.

I know this is a niche choice, I don't expect anybody to cater to it specifically, I'm just happier putting together smaller apps that do what I want instead of installing an entire ecosystem. Hope that all makes sense.

EDIT: Just realised after pressing send that the difference in my mobile phone analogy is the customer obviously pays to use it, maybe I'd be happier with paying for the network, I don't know. Doubt there's a market for that though!
> The English word "favorite" implies approval every bit as much as "like" does

Personally I don't buy this. I'm used to 'favourites' and 'bookmarks' being used interchangably by browsers, which reduces the approval implication of that term... and the heart symbol doesn't mean 'like' to me, it means 'love', so has a higher level of implied approval than in your comparison.
PureScript by Example
Measure, Release, Measure Again (using data for product decisions)
I think you put words in GP's mouth.

Jobs, a fanatical user? I doubt it. He culled as many useful features as he added.

He was against many things users asked for: iPad minis. Larger iPhones. Styluses. Sounds more fanatical ideologue than a fanatical user.

The only "usage" based feature I specifically remember being attributed to him is Gorilla Glass, after he scratched up a prototype's screen with keys in the same pocket.
The Redmond Reality Distortion Field
https://illumin.usc.edu/assets/media/1067/thorium_reactor04....

I think the main idea behind thorium safety is that the radioactive material can be removed without shutting down the plant, which is not possible with Uranium rods.
Hahaa, look how they considered the cost for nuclear waste storage:

"Because the future cost of safe storage is uncertain, we refrained from including any numbers."

Of course I'm joking. They just didn't mention it.
The Stellar upgraded network is ready
not sure about the others but instagram story is false on some points. Kevin Systrom learned to code really really early (as a kid probably)
Yeah, it proves true over and over. I think his goal was to give it a shot, but more than anything get people talking. I doubt he really thinks he's going to win.
Looks interesting.

I tried to sign up to your email list and it broke. Not sure why but happy to help troubleshoot if you need me to reproduce.
My goal was to make the paper more approachable for people not comfortable with formal mathematics. I think the insight comes from understanding the paper directly.

Do you have an example of a comment, on this or another paper, that you found insightful?
For those downvoting this, please go watch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
I live in souther Germany. Because of the Chernobyl incident almost 30 years ago, it is still not completely safe to eat mushrooms and wild boar from the local forests. Nor is this going to change in my lifetime. This makes me very sad and quit a bit averse to the prospect that this might happen in Europe again.
Irmin: Git-like distributed DB
The paper is a classic.
The annotations are rubbish.
would be nice if it worked in something besides FF.
Ask HN: What's your favorite open source Node project that needs contributors?
So tell me what is your favorite open source Node.js project that needs contributors? I'm looking for something to work on where I can really expand my knowledge of sever side js.
>"so its unlike bowel gas analysis was a high priority in the specs"

Classic :)

After digging through ebay and google images for awhile, I finally found one of the two different units that we used: http://www.equipcoservices.com/sales/rae/multirae_plus.html

That one actually has, at least what sounds like, a built in aquarium pump that actually draws air into the unit.

The other style we used seemed to be completely digital. It made no noise and the main unit was big and bulky. The sensor plugged into it with long wires and the sensor it self was just a big heavy plastic cube. On one side it had a screen and behind the screen was just what looked like metal. As if it could sense gases through metal or something, dunno.

And I don't know which model I was using at the time of my "experiment"
>> write programs the way builders/engineers build physical infrastructure

> Mostly we just haven't been doing it as long.

This is a popular analogy (among non-programmers) but I have more recently been countering it like this:

It's generally predictable how long it will take to build a house, because many have been built, and they're all more or less the same. Sure they have different layouts, number of windows, etc, but essentially it's the same materials, same tools, and same methods.

Most programs written are not similar in the same way two houses are similar. They are more comparable to the way a house is different from an airport terminal, or a water treatment plant is different from a golf course.

Once you've built many different types of programs, you get a bit better at estimating, but each new type of program poses brand new challenges. A builder used to building small houses from wood is going to be pretty bad at estimating how long it will take to build a missile silo from concrete, and even after building both, will still not be able to come up with a very good estimate for the time to build a railway line between two cities.

Also keep in mind that typically, programmers don't build the same (or even similar) program more than once: unlike builders, we have copy+paste.
The electrical grid will be upgraded, it's not static. Heat is easy to switch to electric. Short transport will move to electric. Longer haul transport is more difficult, but liquid fuels can be generated from CO2 in the air or water (at somewhat large expense). However, if there is large amounts of overcapacity, then liquid fuel generation via electricity might become economical.
So, big combined initiative by large brands to pay their workers more?
The thing about H2S is, it's every bit as dangerous as HCN, but it has a better PR agent. If you wouldn't take off your SCBA mask in a room full of HCN, "even for just a sec," then you shouldn't do it in a room suspected of being full of H2S either.

The fire chief would have known that H2S is hazardous, but his training unfortunately (and obviously) didn't communicate just how hazardous it is.
Despite there not being any fees in IrelNd, you have to pay a student contribution fee (which as a grant receiver you were exempt from) which is currently 3.5k/year and set to continue rising. Really the grant gives you more like 7k/yr as you don't have to pay that fee (which had to be paid up front in one lump sun)
Curious as to why you "wouldn't have expected Ireland to be on this forefront".

Not trying to sound accusatory - just genuinely curious on the perception.
Done, you should get no further emails at this point. I apologize on their behalf for the trouble.
The Romans tried, and got close, to actually implementing rule of law. But they failed. It was an idea before its time.

As I said before, it's not hard to dream up the idea and to try to implement it. What makes the difference is follow-through. Now, the Romans implemented a great deal of political reforms aimed at democratizing power and, most impressively, provided for peaceful transfer of power.

But the descent into tyranny renders all that moot. The world just wasn't ready for rule of law anywhere, I think very few citizens actually trusted law even though they were excited by the possibilities. They could pass laws dividing up power, but that doesn't mean that the people holding that power would respect the law just because it was passed.

When the English implemented it, they stuck to it and never went back. The English respect laws in ways that few do today, except perhaps Germany.

Pre-WWII Germany is a great example of what rule of law isn't. If your elected leaders can significantly alter those laws such as to allow a dictatorship to take over, you don't have full rule of law. It's not just the written laws on the books. If they get ignored and nobody can enforce them, it's not rule of law. The whole society has to participate in protecting it.

It's why we say Edison invented the light bulb even though he wasn't the first to come up with the idea. Having an idea isn't enough.

And no, I'm American.
Isn't that why you would want a canary?
> To solve this problem, I would say the real symbol should be "Star"

Are you ... what?
>used H2S detector

gas detectors usually use active element and expire
Something's literally fishy: Study finds fish smell makes us suspicious
It still has it, I use it because I lose my cursor on my dual monitors all the time.
I tried both Hugo and node.js-based Metalsmith[0] for a new version of my personal website that I launched just about a month ago. Ended up choosing Metalsmith because of its super minimalist everything is a package approach, but Hugo looked super nice too.

What I like about Metalsmith is you build you own workflow. A basic installation does nothing but copy files from the source directory to the destination directory.

I'm working on a beginner's guide to Metalsmith right now, in fact!

[0]: http://www.metalsmith.io/
Sapphire crystal [1] is something like transparent aluminum rust. Alumina [2] is too, I think. They might be the same thing, I'm not a chemist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxide
>the syntax is a lot simpler

and the flexibility is less too. The expressions are far from being equivalent. The Objective-C expression specifies what kind of dictionary interface and implementation will be there, where is the Swift's versions says there will be just Swift's map. Ability to manage implementation may for example start to matter once you're off beaten path - like large number of items, high concurrency or some very specific requirements on life cycle, memory or performance or you want/have to exploit very specific type/set of keys. Though in mainstream case general standard implementation is probably just fine. Everybody chooses their own poison.
Stuff like this (2014) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/ireland-woman-f...
Can anyone ELI-5?
Yea, it was a huge problem.

People associate the star icon with "bookmark" or "save for later" ala Chrome/Firefox/etc.

Then when they discover that it means "favorite" they basically don't use it because "favorite" is a singular thing, or at least an extremely strong emotion.
This is awesome - I've long believed that lights could be tailored to align with the body's natural rhythms - now it's here!
China undercounting coal use by nearly 20%
I should add, that's just for the largest US plant.

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa monster in Japan, with seven reactors, was capable of producing nearly 8,000 MW on just ~1,000 acres. Or upwards of 50 to 80 times what the best utility solar installations today can produce at max output on the same amount of land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwazaki-Kariwa_Nuclear_Pow...

The Solar Star installation could end up being the best solar comparison right now (completed in June). At max capacity, it might narrow the ratio such that the Japanese plant is capable of producing 50 to 60 times the power on the same land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Star
They radically (and retrospectively) changed the semantics of one of their main actions. All favs, regardless of their original reason, now are "likes" and hearts. What was a reasonably neutral way to highlight tweets, one which could be used in different ways, now becomes one extremely charged with social meaning.
apparently US safety "regulations" make it cheaper to use workers
The Next Generation of Neural Networks (2007)
its missing a page number / total page and especially what happens on page overflow?
Do the eComstation people still have their distribution license?
On http://myaccount.google.com you can go into search settings and turn off "Private Results" and it will not return GMail search results.

Edit: It is under Your personal info -> Search settings -> Manage settings
#CodingforCharity
#iAmA Co-Founder of a Charity Start-Up in a Pinch!

We’re coding PSD screens in HTML over Ruby and the developer was unable to get the details right.

We need help with front end and a little UI/UX aid.

If interested, email amcaines@gmail.com!
If you have vested options, then you can exercise one of them to officially become a shareholder at which point you will have access to a lot of additional information. As only an options holder, there's no legal requirement for them to share that with you.

However, I would be concerned at a fundamental level because, good or bad, they're not being honest with you about the most basic state of the company. You have to ask yourself if that's even the kind of place where you want to be working.
The OP's point is that decriminalization leaves the market, the money and the tax revenue with the criminals. As a taxpayer, I want a fair proportion of the money to go to the government, and only full legalization and regulation does that.
While it's not quite transparent aluminum, transparent aluminum oxide ceramics like ALON are used for ballistic armor on ships, helicopters, and other military vehicles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnUszxx2pYc
I definitely notice, and it really is awkward, but I read a lot more than I touch, so it's still a huge improvement over my old 4S.

Over time I've discovered that many apps over alternative ways of doing things that don't require you to reach so far.
The reason this argument is so useless it that it is so non-specific. A useful form would be "This company is treating me poorly in way X because they have an incentive to do so." Instead, X is never specified, just implied via FUD.

Companies only interested in short-term profits might be willing to strip mine their users and treat them poorly. Companies that are interested in the long term have an incentive to treat their users well, i.e. as if they were paying customers.
Yes, please. I upvoted it. It doesn't deserve any downvotes.

Fiction becoming reality. I thought "transparent aluminum" was just completely made-up nonsense when I saw the movie. Whodda thunk!
Calculate how much it costs to get your app idea designed and developed
Inside an Artificial Brain (HD)
Amazon.com started off with books, but now they sell everything. I can only imagine what an innocent-looking bookstore from Amazon will eventually become in a decade.
> Christianity does not explicitly regard homosexuality as sinful or detestable.

What do you mean by 'Christianity' in this context? Some denominations consider homosexuality sinful and detestable and some does not. Are you going to argue that the ones you disagree with are not 'True Christians'?
>If a user asks A, you respond B.

A user may never ask A. Or, a user may only ask A once; in which case, did we really need to pre-compute the answer?
Sadly he passed away from bone cancer (osteosarcoma) 2 years ago.

PS I usually say this so I can plead with people to help fund Pediatric Cancer Research. Only 4% of US Federal Grants go to Peds Research. American Cancer Society gives less than $0.02 per dollar for Peds Cancer Research. Adult research has little to no impact for the kids. I 100% support St Baldricks and Children’s Cancer Research Fund. We finally have our first Chemo in over 20 years this year for children because of St Baldrick's funded research!
Oh man, I love Prince Rupert's Drop. As usual, Smarter Every Day has a great video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs
Looking for a few startups to do fre AI SEO research
Vanadium redox flow batteries are shipping, with their manufacturers claiming that they beat Tesla's lithium ion both on cost and geographic density:

http://www.uetechnologies.com

http://www.imergy.com
^

This is why unconscious bias training is so important/effective. We all have biases, and what works is surfacing them from the unconscious to the conscious so we can deal with them.
You assert that an article of this nature needs to be "professional", why is that ? It was written for the great mass of laypeople that (supposedly) holds the power over our nuclear future. It is intended to challenge the ongoing anti-nuclear narrative and re-educate. It achieves those aims admirably.

While your criticisms may be arguably valid for a different audience they are irrelevant here.
I would really have liked to say "replace money with x" but I have no idea what x should be.

Just the fact that you're right though, that we'd have a big problem if we just got rid of money, goes to show we really, really should find a way to get rid of money. Preferably without breaking everything else in the process, of course.
Jogging robot at Tokyo University [video]
patio11 summarized churnbuster pretty well here:

>> [Churnbuster] integrated pretty painlessly and basically gave us an accounts receivable department without having either myself or my sales rep having to spend lots of time calling $29 a month accounts to see if they were soft-canceling or just having transient billing failures.
Top 3 User Metrics That Make a Difference in Google Rankings
What if that's the reason they are downvoting it? The anti fun knob is probably unnecessarily cranked to 11 here, but movie references aren't really that funny.
>"we need so big number of them, that it's futile." I guess my grandchildren will die then.

You can build a lot of PVs and turbines in the same amount of time, and place them closer to where they're being used (reduce transmission loss). You can also place them on top of buildings (reduces AC load by 2%) and on top of parking lots (reduces car heat and urban heat island effect).

You're not going to electrify poor parts of the world with big, expensive, centrally-controlled fission plants.

>You can also cool with seawater.

The video addresses this. Seawater is often near fault lines, but that's not the biggest issue: transmission loss. If your power generation is on the coasts then you lose a lot of electricity powering the interior of the country.

>nuclear is still safe

Even if every nuclear accident was as "safe" as Fukushima, that's still a lot of wasted money. It will cost over $100 BILLION to clean it up. You can buy a lot of safe and renewable energy for that amount of money.
Do wonder how hard it would be to bolt a key exchange on top of existing fax protocols.
Flattery- I mean no ill intent
But first we have to mollify the masses that the decades of War-On-Drugs FUD is untrue. Show them that drug users are fellow humans, and easier access to the tools they use to generate happiness isn't going to cause rioting on the streets.
Haven't reached out, nor do I know how (haven't tried)
Don't know but I like his style.
>We can put solar on everyone's roof and turbines in windy areas and it's completely safe, dumb nuts simple, and decentralized.

...and not enough.

http://www.withouthotair.com/

That's from British perspective. Most of the world population lives at similar population densities. So it's kinda representative. The only major exception is U.S.
So at what point in time do you believe that the English implemented rule of law fully and never went back?

Honestly your argument seem quite hand-wavy. How would you precisely define rule-of-law in such a way that you can decide if a particular system is rule-of-law or not? Why is England rule-of-law and say pre-christian Iceland not?
> I am, at least, philosophically libertarian.

A "philosophical libertarian" is a different animal than a non-activist political libertarian, having to do with whether free will exists. Just FYI. :)
Oddly, I was talking to a man in Amsterdam about half-baked laws such as that. Making as much of the process transparent as possible means there is more likely to be "safe" products, comparatively, and legalisation with controls seems to be the way to go so far.
I do not think you can call Iceland (#184 by population and #106 by area) and Belgium (#76 by population and #136 by area) large countries.

>> Centuries of development aren't necessary to achieve it, it's mostly political will.

While political will is important, it is not enough. It highly depends on geographical properties of the country. For example Iceland produces 85% of its energy from geothermal and hydropower sources and Brazil produces 83% of its electricity from hydropower. Both rely on naturally occurring phenomenons, not all countries are lucky enough to have them.