skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you wan't to understand something you need to understand it through things that are related to it not the things themselves.

If I do not understand 'x,' then how would I know what is related to 'x'?
I had a heavily impacted wisdom tooth removed from my lower mandible.

Local anesthetic only, was a lot of work and as the surgeon got his leg up to get leverage I could feel my front teeth moving a little from the pressure.
Why would you need a 4k video when your only display is 1080P?
Same thing goes for audio. Your ears are only capable of hearing a subset of what is reproducible with 16 bit audio, no need for 24 bit.

It is all well explained in this article:
https://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

The only time you'd ever need more than 16 bits is if you're going to do more than just listen to the music.
If you're mixing/mastering that is another story.
So instead the previous owners of those plates get a bunch of tickets and or credit collections sent after them..? For $3/day. But I guess it isn't your problem...
OK, cool. EDIT: I forgot to say this is a cool submission!

There are people who submit about 5 items per day, so I'd be mildly interested to see how many people submit eg more than one article per day.
As John Carmack said: "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
>He claimed that there may be some treatments with Vitamin C, not that if you take a little a day you'll be immortal.

Well, he was a little too enthusiastic and quite close to claiming that.
I don't have any citations, I just remember reading about Newmark getting sued for something related to profits and him going on record as saying profits weren't the main motivating factor for craigslist.

I could be misremembering some of the details, however.
9 years ago, separation of presentation and content was already considered a good practice. Yet here we are with application frameworks and component-based designs that throw it all out the window...

To expect any consistent design principles on a development medium as ad-hoc and devoid of principles as the web, is wishful thinking.
My first thought when reading the docs was: this is a game changer for the efficiency of applied ML (nlp, vision, speech) phd students. Coming from a school where there's a bit of a libertarian "write it all yourself, from scratch!" ethos, I always marveled at how much mileage other students got from research groups that built off a common codebase. Exciting to start to see glimmers of that possibility across the entire field.
> many cultures use marriage to describe the legal union of old people, infertile people

And in fact some cultures has "weird" forms of marriage that deviates from the man + woman norm explicitly over things like fertility.

E.g. in some parts of Africa, two women marrying (but not, at least in principle, lesbian marriages, though I'm sure this institution have been conveniently used to obscure lesbian relationships) have centuries of history as a means for infertile women to gain heirs by taking a fertile wife who will find a man to get her pregnant, who will have no rights to any children. In these cultures, one of the women will generally be considered a husband, and take on many traditionally male roles (to the extent that in some places such a "female husband" gain access to e.g. take political offices not available to women etc.) [1]

African cultures are full of still extant examples where marriage is treated as a pragmatic means to secure economy, social stability and inheritance to the point where bending gender norms too is seen as a perfectly sensible hack if it furthers those goals.

Given the long history of such varied forms of marriage (including e.g. polygamy too), it would be much more reasonable to claim that marriage historically is about securing a family units financial situation and inheritance, and furthering social stability than having anything to do with "a man and a woman procreating"...

[1] http://www.osisa.org/buwa/regional/female-husbands-without-m...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10534571
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continen...

I learned at school the 6 continent model presented there :)
Before the Internet, Librarians Would 'Answer Everything' – And Still Do
Read the "comprehensive article" linked to from the main story. It is worth the read.
Systemd.conf
But it is broke, and needs fixed. The site is nigh unusable on a mobile browser, for instance.
For some reason I can't edit that comment. But I'd like to add that I still upvoted that article. Not because of that article itself, but because of comments here. A decent conversation starter.
> The burden of proof that there has been a degradation of information quality remains on your side of the court

The USA fell 13 places in Reporters Without Borders' 2014 annual ranking of press freedom:

"Countries that pride themselves on being democracies and respecting the rule of law have not set an example, far from it. Freedom of information is too often sacrificed to an overly broad and abusive interpretation of national security needs, marking a disturbing retreat from democratic practices. Investigative journalism often suffers as a result.

This has been the case in the United States (46th), which fell 13 places, one of the most significant declines, amid increased efforts to track down whistleblowers and the sources of leaks. The trial and conviction of Private Bradley Manning and the pursuit of NSA analyst Edward Snowden were warnings to all those thinking of assisting in the disclosure of sensitive information that would clearly be in the public interest.

US journalists were stunned by the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records without warning in order to identify the source of a CIA leak. It served as a reminder of the urgent need for a “shield law” to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources at the federal level. The revival of the legislative process is little consolation for James Risen of The New York Times, who is subject to a court order to testify against a former CIA employee accused of leaking classified information. And less still for Barrett Brown, a young freelance journalist facing 105 years in prison in connection with the posting of information that hackers obtained from Statfor, a private intelligence company with close ties to the federal government."

http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php
Your car does have a parking pass displayed, you just use a different one to exit.
Anyone remember when students seemed to be actually fighting for freedom of speech, and universities were about challenging people's ideas and assumptions? What went wrong all those years ago?

Seriously though, this sort of thing worries me more than any government activity or corporatism. Who needs authoritarian politics where (what seems like) a decent amount of the next generation wants to shut down anything they deem 'offensive' or 'uncomfortable'?
Oh thanks for that. I can now pass the test with 10/10 correctness. There's a noticeably louder noise floor in the 8bit sample that is really clear between the samples.
That's not really a citation to backup the idea that most non-believers miss a community.
slides: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-UWEwsUY5PJZXQ2emds...
Like the 'shatterproof' Droid Turbo 2, Motorola's Maxx 2 survives shatter tests
On the one hand, I'm really strongly in favor of this, but there's one thing that makes me question the 100% test coverage paradigm: what happens when a kit is collected, but police use other methods (victim testimony, security footage, eyewitness accounts, etc.) to apprehend the perpetrator? That doesn't seem like an instance where a kit necessarily must be tested.
"Quick Checkups" are less profitable. However, Scaling and root planing (periodontal treatment) is super profitable which is just a more time intensive version of a checkup. I do know of some dentists that tell their hygienists to not do a good job so they can get the periodontal treatment and charge $400 a quarter instead of $150 every 6 months.

Source: Wife was a hygienist before she burned out from contortionist body pain and having to make commission.
This looks to be a big risk for the contracted delivery people since they're only getting paid the delivery fee plus the tip. Even working pizza delivery, you are still an employee and must make at least minimum wage. If you work for DoorDash you're absolutely dependent on tips.

This leads me to a further line of thought- if DoorDash is classifying all of their delivery people as contractors do they have a robust vetting system for people who deliver for them? Heck, even with a robust vetting system I can see there being potential for serious altercations between a DoorDash contractor who just spent an hour taking a big order to a far-flung delivery address and the person who made the order who completely stiffs them on the tip.
Thanks for the amazing advice Leo!
The Google Nexus 5X Review
> It's funny, we have all these NFC credit card terminals, but Apple Pay still hasn't launched here.

I mean, "it can do the same thing your free debit card could two years ago" is kind of a weak marketing pitch, so maybe that's why they're not prioritizing it...
NRRD: Nearly Raw Raster Data Format
You mean including the many millions who live in cultures where polygamy is normal? And where "female husbands" are well established (there are millions of women living as "female husbands" with wives - sometimes more than one - in Africa).
Thanks for the tip brudgers! :D
If you're going to use Jekyll or some other self-hosted-ish service (as opposed to Medium or Tumblr or so on), why not just deploy to your own webspace rather than GitHub Pages?
Accelerating Through Success: Start Local, Scale Global
You should give some more concrete examples of domains where you think fixed point is more appropriate than floating point, but floats are currently used.

As it is, your comment can’t really be discussed or disputed, because it’s just an abstract complaint with no substantive evidence/analysis presented.

Here are some areas where I think floats are more appropriate than fixed point, given the availability of CPUs and GPUs with native floating point support: computer game physics, any kind of 3d rendering, 2d vector graphics including e.g. map rendering, high dynamic range image/video editing, most types of statistical analysis, ...

I’m having trouble thinking of any applications where I think fixed point numbers seem more appropriate than floats or integers, except code running on embedded devices without native floating point. Audio maybe? Image/video decoding for immediate playback?
Show HN: Planoji – New project/task management
People like to say that "learning is fun," but I find that with the internet this is often not true.
b.agilob.net/browsers-addons-reference/
Or when both people accept that sex happened, but one says it was consensual while the other says it wasn't.
WhatsApp Free Download for BlackBerry
Why Simple Brands Win
Thanks for the advice buddy!
We were actually also considering a web version since we do have the resources to pull it off.
On the graph of total posts over the days of the week, do you know what time and timezone are the peaks? it seems very regular, like if only one/a few timezones where concerned. Do we have such a little posting power in Europe ... ?
The basic concept of least-squares modelling
It's hard to maintain or add new features if good design/development practices aren't followed.

You sound like my managers.
They didn't quite solve the cooling problem though ;)
No of course not. It does mean that this particular pathway is very different in the mouse model, and studies of vitamin C and mice should be taken with an extra grain of salt.
'According to the Washington Post, “several students in Silliman said they cannot bear to live in the college anymore.”'

Great. Tell them to get the fuck out. That's the only reasonable response to this. What a bunch of fucking children. If you act like a spoiled child, then you should be treated like one.

EDIT: And no refunds either.
> Torture is the extreme end of the "harm" spectrum, but when we vote in favor of government benefits or taxes

Or exclusive monopolies in the form of "property rights", for that matter. A big part of the some moral theories of benefits and taxation is that they should be aligned, so far as possible, to, taken into consideration with property rights, be a mitigator of the harms due to property rights, while reducing the benefits of those who benefit the most from those rights (without making a net harm for any, and leaving the whole system as net gain for everyone, because its not zero sum.)
I am surprised by this line, Alternatively, the treaty can also take effect if it’s ratified by half the countries representing 85 per cent of the zone’s economy. Is this something that the negotiators really had the power to agree and bind their countries to???

The US constitution is very clear that the negotiators lack that power. However the question can't come up because the USA is about 16% of the world economy, so you can't get to the 85% of the economy figure without the USA.

But Canadian law is not entirely dissimilar. Specifically Canada may have signed it, but according to http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/2008-..., Canada is not bound by the agreement until it is ratified. And even then it does not have any force in Canadian domestic law until Parliament has passed specific bills to implement it. So Canada shouldn't be bound by this, and the negotiators were in the wrong to promise what they had no authority to promise.

I'm sure that the US and Canada are not the only two countries where the negotiators did not rightly have power to bind their countries to that term. So why is this term considered binding rather than being pointed to as a clear example of overreach??
They did. Ancient Rome and contemporary Japan are two examples relying heavily on adoption to pass on property to the next generation. The biological reality of genitors is only partly relevant to determine family ties.
Because it's free and there is nothing to do. I just create a repo that is my blog, it kills 2 birds with one stone: I keep the content under source control and it is made available as a website.

If I had another webspace I would have to keep my git repo, and in addition I would have to push the generated content to my host. Effectively, when I commit to my repo it's doing the publish automatically.
Solving Connection Problems in Bower and Git
Running this query:

SELECT
author,
COUNT(1) AS c
FROM
[fh-bigquery:hackernews.stories]
WHERE
author IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY
1
ORDER BY
2 DESC
LIMIT
1000

and armed with the knowledge that HN has been in existence for 3158 days, there are 11 people who post strictly more than once a day. They are:
1	cwan	7077
2	shawndumas	6602
3	evo_9	5659
4	nickb	4322
5	iProject	4266
6	bootload	4212
7	edw519	3844
8	ColinWright	3766
9	nreece	3724
10	tokenadult	3659
11	Garbage	3538
Just under 1 a day:	robg	3121
Do you think either culture can make a case for itself being superior? I have witnessed firsthand the abuse and corruption that stems from Asian "family-first, materialistic" approach and honestly believe the American way stands a far better chance of creating someone who has self respect while still being able to function in groups.
> without being put under

Local anesthetic is more than sufficient.
Thats hard to explain. But for instance I realized how few problems Denmark have.

I understood why americans was considered superficial while in reality it was just the danes who were shy because they didn't have to establish their own social networks outside of their childhood.

Lots of little things that are hard to explain.
And in fact female-female marriages (though at least in theory not sexual) have a long history in some cultures as a means for infertile women to gain heirs...

It'd be inaccurate to call those gay marriages as some of the cultures they are practised in at the same time have been very oppressive when it comes to homosexuality (though presumably such marriages have been used as a means to hide lesbian relationships), but the fact remains women have been able to marry women with the explicit intent of having shared children for hundreds of years... [1]. And they're not few:

" Kevane (2004) estimates that approximately 5–10 percent of the women in Africa are involved in woman-to-woman marriages. "

[1] http://www.osisa.org/buwa/regional/female-husbands-without-m...
I don't think that article discussed voting rings? Also, not all the info there is accurate, and things have changed a lot since then.

It's pretty important to HN that "tricks for getting stories bumped up" end up costing more than they benefit. Since I'm one of the people who've worked on this, the engineer in me is eager to see counterexamples, so everybody please email us if you think you see one.
> I am surprised by this line, Alternatively, the treaty can also take effect if it’s ratified by half the countries representing 85 per cent of the zone’s economy. Is this something that the negotiators really had the power to agree and bind their countries to???

Of course the negotiators don't, only the ratifying authorities have the power to bind, but that's true of all of the rest of the treaty (and every treaty) as well: note that, in that case, in comes into effect between those who ratified it. So, only for those for whom those with the power to bind the country did so (including agreeing to that condition for it going into effect.)

NOTE: This type of minimum threshold clause is common in agreements (many multilateral treaties have something like it.) The idea being that the prospective parties don't think that the restrictions are worthwhile unless there is a sufficiently-large group joining the arrangement.
I think we agree overall, just some nuances and me being a pompous jerk.

The people that make node.js, ES, Cassandra, Clojure, etc. are not in these areas so much - plenty of users of technology all over the world (pretty sure South Africa has RoR users and Arduino hackers). Compared to the relative population sizes of these metro areas to, say, just SF and NY (let's exclude Seattle and even Boston) there is a clear and obvious lack of comparable companies like those making OSes, databases, compilers, etc. in the Southeast (the Northwest is overweight considering how few people live there compared to the rest of the country). Integration is pretty common, and that's one of the areas of software that is kind of plug and chug and mostly innovative in a business sense rather than technology. For relative population sizes counting, we should have one company in the Southeast like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. But there just isn't. Heck, Zappos is in Vegas but they were moved there last I remember (but is Zappos a tech company? I dunno actually).

But I must insist on distinguishing between companies that make revenue from tech and companies that use tech to make revenue, and that this business driver creates major differences in the distribution and attractiveness of job opportunities available for tech folks. It's the difference between the very typical non-tech companies that outsource all their software development for key products to the South for cost reasons while their sales folks and executives' families stay in the Bay Area and those that are paying $400k+ in comp packages for world-class Javascript developers they scour from all over the world.

I'd like to pull some hard numbers, but laziness prevails here. Searching through jobs before in the past before I moved between the West and Southeast, your boring J2EE job is 80% of the software jobs in software in the Southeast, but it's maybe only 30% of the jobs in the Bay Area. The mere presence of good software jobs (and middle class jobs) is not what I'm debating though but the relative number, and that (the real questionable assertion to me) that this spills over to lack of other middle-class jobs in comparison that are also related to the capitalist value chain.
Can you share more around how that map was generated?
A brief and partial review of Haskell in the browser
Where I live in Europe dentists are pretty effective, I got 2 wisdom teeth pulled out under local anesthesia and truly did not feel a thing. Was even able to eat a light meal a few hours after.
When we drop tested Motorola's shatterproof Droid Turbo 2 we needed another phone to demo how devastating a four foot drop onto granite is. We chose the non-shatterproof Droid Maxx 2 believing that on the first drop it would shatter and the screen would explode a spider web of cracks

Try as we did, the Maxx 2 screen didn't shatter. See the video of the Maxx 2 bouncing down concrete stairs.
To save water, an underground movement to bank El Niño's rainfall
It is certainly a misguided and disproportionate tactic, but it is not a violent one.
List vs. Grid View: When to Use Which on Mobile
Yes it's loud. Since my father is a dentist, and he was keen to encourage my sister to follow in his footsteps, he had her "assist" during the procedure. (She was in high school at the time. She's now a very good dentist.) My clearest memory of the procedure is the comment, "hey let's see if he can get by with less lidocaine than usual."
Previous discussion (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774254
> That's not really a citation to backup the idea that most non-believers miss a community.

What was claimed upthread was "One thing non-believers report missing the most is a community."

That's a very different claim from what you ask to be defended, "most non-believers miss a community."
React Native Material Kit
Finding Your Career Economy
And sad that the improvement won't become common practice because the practitioner doesn't feel the need to publish it...
As much as I'm sure many of us feel this in our hearts, let's not.
101 Tips for Faster WordPress
Isn't it dangerous for a human to take that much in a day? What about for a month every day?
Apple Inc’s Chief Designer, John Ive Opens Up About Working at Apple
We collected John Ive, the CDO of Apple, Inc. Q&A's: http://www.askmeanything.me/influencers/johnive
Here they are:

Q: When did it happen that you could send out something so complex like the iPhone without instructions?

A: That's what we try to do. I think for a lot of us, a large display that you can directly touch, seemed obvious and natural. It wasn't the case 9 years ago when we were first working on it.If it was inevitable and obvious we would've done it years ago.There wasn't one person who wasn't completely captivated with using a touchscreen phone. For years before, buttons and displays were too small. But that was because they had to share the same space. We found we didn't have to compromise both. With a larger display we could have buttons that were contextual.

Q: What was the first Apple product you used before joining Apple?

A: In art school. The computers colleges had were terrible. I assumed the problems were with me. When you eat something that's bad, you assume the food is bad. But when you use a bad product, you assume it's you. In art school I used the Mac. There were some shocking things. For the first time in my life, I had a very clear sense of the people who had gotten together to design and make that product. I realized there are stuff that we do that attest to our values. From that point, I developed a real interest about these group of guys in California that made a computer that you could change the noises. I was absolutely intrigued by that. I wanted to find out who did this.
You can read more of his interesting Q&A’s at AskmeAnything.Me: http://www.askmeanything.me/influencers/johnive
I've wondered about how hard it would be to fool those. Presumably it's a simple induction loop, so a suitably calibrated electromagnet should do it.
Bluesmart Selected for the MoMA Design Store Collection – Bluesmart Blog
Have you ever seen an enterprise software company do badly because its software was an ugly mess and alternatives were cheap or free?