skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"By the time (...) in 1846, it was well known that light had a finite speed. Ole Rømer, a Danish scientist working in Paris, had proved as much more than a century and a half earlier."

I found this intriguing, how did he measure it? Well it turns out Romer wanted to create an absolute clock that could be used in navigation -- the clock being the orbit of Io around Jupiter, whose orbital period is a bit less than 2 days. They figured that if they had exact tables into the future, you could get the absolute time anywhere on earth, and thus estimate your longitude. Romer found that during the seasons, the orbit moved 11 minutes ahead, then 11 minutes behind relative to the mean predicted orbit. He figured that this is due to the finite speed of light; and if you know the measure of an AU you get that c = 2*AU/22min.

source: http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/c...
This chart shows how zoning has gone wrong with the US housing market
OT, the top rated comment on the above article published on googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com is :

Google just made public their latest version of the Quality Raters Guidelines (PDF linked from the blog post)﻿

Which is just summarizing what the blog post is about (probably a G+ share that got plus'd a lot). Nothing against the commentator, it's rather their ranking/voting system that needs to be fixed.
The pensions seem great because they are too good to be true. [1] Many of the public pensions put people in the top quarter of household incomes. So at a time in your life when you aren’t working, your kids are through college, and your house should be paid off, you get a paycheck larger than most Americans. We can’t all be in the top 25% of incomes, nor should we when we aren’t working and the money comes from the government, but that’s the problem with the public pension system. I agree the majority of us are getting screwed, but there are multiple factors: runaway defense spending, never ending bank bailouts, etc, which also include public pensions.

http://calcoastnews.com/2014/12/slo-countys-six-figure-pensi...
You're right, of course, but the article was talking about a specific woman there. It's very possible that women care about men's height, on average, but that particular woman does not.
New Harry Potter Coming Soon
here you go.
Variance explained by Martin Odersky in his coursera course https://class.coursera.org/progfun-005/lecture/83 (you need to login to watch it). Or the Scala doc http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/tour/variances.html
Depends on what type of organisms are we talking about. We do have enough understanding to target bacteria with a "compiler" approach. That's the gist of synthetic biology and the stuff that's being done around iGEM competition.

Bacteria are "simple" enough that we can just append some DNA sequences and have them develop stuff we want. It's predictable enough that people already created "standard library" of DNA blocks - so people can work with bacteria in a kind of dataflow environment, with underlying DNA representation hidden. You connect a "molecule sensor" block with an "amplifier" block, an "inverter" block and a "light up" block, and you get bacteria that start to glow in presence of some metal, etc.

But of course, once we move to the level of multicellular organisms, the complexity explodes. Here, as you say, we basically know that something in an unaltered system sorta correlates with a particular phenotype and if we change it then maybe it won't blow up.
I'm really, really longing for one of these "modular" phones where I can exchange and upgrade components at will...
The Case for Prefetching and Prevalidating TLS Server Certificates [pdf]
By living and behaving as a normal human being.
DUATYADU, please.
Tinder actually had a female cofounder. And it wouldn't work if women wouldn't use it. What a silly article.
Your anecdotal remarks would appear more credible if you skipped out on the "air quotes"

http://frivolousquotationmarks.tumblr.com/
When the article refers to 'graphics-arts cameras', what do they mean?

Is there a spectral notch filter applied to the CCD, or is the article a troll?

"Scanning in black-and-white makes it possible for the non-photo blue still to serve its original purpose, as notes and rough sketching lines can be placed throughout the image being scanned and remain undetected by the scan head."

Any black-and-white scanner should have a spectrally-flat response, picking up blue just as black and white photographs see the sky as darker than white.

It's entirely possible that older lithographic film didn't have much response in the blue, but there's really no way that a modern imaging system won't pick it up.

What am I missing?

Edit: Experiment is the arbiter of truth: I took a picture of the screen with my digital SLR. As expected, every color swatch in the article is blue. Desaturated the RAW image. Looks grey.
F.D.A. Takes Issue with the Term ‘Non-G.M.O.’
The MTV Problem with Product Managment
Bumble is pretty lolworthy, ostensibly built on a fundamental misunderstanding of male/female dynamics. Good job raising money from naive investors though, uh, I guess.
Back while I was looking into full stack Haskell web app tech (we ended up sticking with Clojure), Elm and PureScript both seemed incredibly powerful and beautiful. But that was a few years ago. Is there a modern comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of each in relation to each other? Like, when would we want one vs. the other?
Maybe dang can replace the link to the actual announcement and remove the blog spam.
What's your feelings about cedar stack being over 1.5GB in size after building a docker image?

I came across your guys' stuff about a month ago and was intrigued by the cedar stack of heroku being dockerized and started playing with it.

Immediately stopped when my simple hello world node app was 1.5GB in size.
One should also note that the x86 platform has taken on some SoC like structures over the years, with AMD as a driving force.

For example they lumped the memory controller onto the CPU die with the Athlon 64, and then a GPU on their A series.
10K in money orders is easier to conceal than $10K in cash.
In fact, I'd argue it's a little harder for licensed professionals to not stay current with their fields due to the requirement for continuing education credits. Nevertheless, I don't see how any professional can be competitive in their field without keeping current, especially as the world continues to flatten.

The idea that people in tech are "unusually well prepared to study law" through apprenticeship as framed by the GP is strikes me as arrogant and nescient to what other professionals do. Actually… it reminds me of an Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/
Another “IQ gene”: new methods, old flaws (2012)
Fairphone 2 is shipping now, iirc.
If the compiler is the bar, the machine code would be the supreme court. You launch an appeal by looking the assembly produced by the compiler, finding errors, and run it by the SCOTCPU, and see if it agrees with you, or the compiler.
MT only fails LinearComp systematically. It is not a bad generator, it is a very good generator. The biggest problem is the "escape from zero-land" stuff where it's biased towards zero for a while if its seed is mostly zeros, but other generators have the same problem (though not to the same extent) and it's still statistically very unlikely to be a problem and it self corrects as the sequence runs.

Comparing to ChaCha20, which is a CSPRNG, is a little apples/oranges.
this bumble app is getting so much pr, but it seems like only the journalists are using it
"In statistics, regression toward (or to) the mean is the phenomenon that if a variable is extreme on its first measurement, it will tend to be closer to the average on its second measurement..." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
fair enough. the benefits of having a strong democratic government are so ridiculous that even if a massive chunk of it goes to waste you're still better off living in the country with a strong government than living in Somalia. and a shockingly large percentage of people in the US act as if the government is the enemy and cause of everything that's messed up. and a lot of time it's the same folks who think the government should be doing more surveillance, cops aren't using their authority enough, US should be world's policeman and invade/bomb more countries. go figure. everybody thinks the government should keep the other guy in line, tax the other guy, and give them the benefits and the services.
That's kind of how news works. It does whatever it can to grab our attention and keep us as long as possible. So it shouldn't be surprising when we read a news article and feel the way the article intended for us to feel. The way I work around this is by just not reading news articles unless they have to do with some programming concept I'm interested in learning more about. Hence my being at HN more often than reddit.
Somewhat related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue

Also I fondly remember Hubertus Bigend's IKB suit…
In Defense of Theranos
Yeah, and the integrated GPUs, at least the entry level ones, do suck. My Acer netbook is barely able to play 360p videos, 720p if you're lucky and 1080p - no hope. My cheap smartphone can play 1080p without a single dropped frame.
No More Twitter Social Shares – Twitter’s Further Restriction of API
Sorry, it's short for basepair (bp) of DNA (eg a, c, t, or g). Currently it costs about ten cents a bp to synthesize a particular stretch of sequence from one of the companies in the article (dime a base). An average protein can be encoded by 1 kilo basepair, a small bacterial genome by 1 mega basepair, and a human genome by 6 giga basepair.
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If we're looking to figure out who should and should not be allowed to reproduce, I would start with the people who actually believe they're superior, and should be privileged by law in some way, just because they might have more money in their bank account.

Those are the kinds of traits (whether genetic or not) that we should be trying to expunge from the population.
We use UI Bootstrap heavily on roadster.com and have been very happy, albeit with some customization. I hear your pain about outside contributors to OSS but am excited you're keeping up the great work.
Puppy Linux!
DNA seems to be strongly compressed code that's also used as data. But we're not even sure if it encodes everything there is about an organism. Keep in mind that organisms aren't made in a single factory, they build child organisms, which then build further organisms, etc., creating a chain. You can imagine it as being a single runtime, accumulating state. It is possible that, e.g. replication machinery gets altered in such a way that it builds altered copies - the information about this alteration may had disappeared from DNA or never be there in the first place, and yet the alteration propagates.

TL;DR: read "Reflections on Trusting Trust", the same phenomena applies to biology.
UIPageViewController like Snapchat/Tinder/iOS Main Pages
Presumably, this is the reason that most phones can't be upgraded to the later Android releases?
Gradient boosting lecture
Sorry, I was mistaken on the bootstrap comment - UI Bootstrap is separate from Angular and has little affiliation with Google other than the creator of the project being a part of the core Angular team.

I can't speak to the online interactions as to the comments, but I do recall the comments being outdated and not useful in a bunch of cases.

The Angular team is very professional and pleasant to interact with in my experience though. Igor once told me that open source is hard - I was skeptical at first, but being in charge of a major project myself now, I wholeheartedly agree. It is challenging to keep development going at a good clip, manage the team, and satisfy developers using the product, who are a ruthless bunch.
The fundamental question is: if neutrinos provide a better signal because they overall interact much less than photons (a visible photon coming from the farthest corner of the universe will stop running as soon as it meets my eye; a neutrino can cross a star without noticing), how will you get them to interact with your telescope?
That's a big problem for direction detection, too: with a telescope, it's easy to determine which direction the light comes from, as it can cross the front glass but not the surrounding casing. When a neutrino (out of several billions crossing your detector) finally gives a signal, you can't even know whether it's coming from the sky or out of the Earth!
A way to handle sequences of events - which is really powerful abstraction. Look at this (shameless self-promotion) presentation https://slides.com/bahmutov/javascript-journey-boston-code-c... and the companion blog post http://glebbahmutov.com/blog/journey-from-procedural-to-reac... plus repo of the code that shows every style of JS, including Redux and Reactive https://github.com/bahmutov/javascript-journey
Totally agree with you. Hacker news is pretty satisfying for me, but I have many other interests. I think there is tons of potential for news outlets that don't just dredge the horror...

Open to non tech suggestions (ars, crunch i can find myself thanks)...
I think right now, your best approach to growing bamboo bed frames would be to a) first make a frame-shaped template, and b) make bamboo cells grow according to the template. Encoding it in just cell DNA is beyond our current state of knowledge and probably insanely tricky - Fourier-transforming a square and encoding it into chemical feedback loops and encoding that into DNA kind of tricky.
DOES it put a "lot on her shoulders"? Does it really? At a company as large as Facebook, is there ever really so much riding on any particular person in management? I doubt it.
Unreal.js: V8-Powered JavaScript in UnrealEngine 4
Ask HN: Could we add social features (e.g. likes) to the email standard?
I think, it would also be great to have groups, "thank you" messages, votes, tools for meeting coordination, location/time meta data, hash tags, inline videos, strong crypto. So many possibilities…
I generally trust peer reviewed formal mathematical proofs that show something won't "fail" in a particular, relevant, way. If you don't then you probably shouldn't be on a computer. The code I'm relying on makes the same sorts of assumptions that keep your data secure. It is inconsistent to trust it in one place but not in another.

I don't see the need for belt-and-suspenders here and there are legit reasons not to add host/time to an identifier. That's why we have UUID1 and UUID4.
OOH, I have been slowly moving towards vegetarianism for similar reasons (I don't like conscious beings being raised in poor conditions).

OTOH, plants may feel pain [1] so picking what I eat to minimize pain feels like a race to the bottom.

[1] http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-int...
Which aspect of the documentation do you feel needs work?
TIFU by using Math.random() in V8
Couldn't help but notice this. The next page down, in the image, they get it right. And are similarly loose with their terminology throughout the article.
Yes, I think it really does come down to the parents. It is clear that many of these parents put inordinate pressure on their kids. Glad to see that there are exceptions. Thanks for posting your experience.
I wonder how long it'll be before C++ loses its performance advantages. It used to be low level enough that just using it meant you probably got a pretty good performance boost. But if they keep adding features like variants and reflection, and if people actually start using them, it seems like performance will necessarily decline.

Or, if not, other languages will look at C++ to see how they handle these features and keep performance, and improve their compilers.
I wasn't talking about "people".

I was talking about you. Personally. Frondo.
As I recall the original engineering estimate was a 2% catastrophic failure rate - i.e. loss of orbiter - on the Shuttle [1]. Columbia was STS 107. The estimate was spot on. You have to respect the level of engineering involved here.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Development-Shuttle-1972-1981-History-...
I believe they are referring to a technology of the ancients where they made thin films of photosensitive chemicals, exposed them to light, then processed them to make images. The chemicals varied in which wavelengths would activate them.

For instance, red would not activate the paper commonly used for black and white prints, hence the red lights in dark rooms.

It is also possible the cameras illuminated the artwork with a light to which the non photo blue ink was transparent.
It's a real thing: in ancient times when I worked on a yearbook staff, we used non-photo blue markers to mark up the physical pages we sent to the publisher.

I don't know how these pre-digital reproduction systems excluded the blue, nor to I know if this system is still in use in the digital era.
Can you elaborate on or source your claim about ERIS?

I'm genuinely interested in the historical and scientific question of the viability of ABM at scale. I enjoyed a course perhaps 15 years ago with a professor who asserted that the challenge was intractable due to the limits of physics. Yet, I have also heard from a former aerospace engineer on the Patriot system that such objections are poppycock.

ERIS was not in the matters we studied, though THAAD and the then-recent midcourse interceptor tests were.
What does "success" in this context mean?

- An entity that drives resources towards solving a particular problem?

- An entity that does the above and is self-sustaining?

- An entity which reduces the size/scope/people impacted by a particular problem?

- An entity which solves the particular problem once and for all? (And then dissolves after, I assume.)
Saying that surveillance doesn't stop all terrorist attacks so we should stop all surveillance, is like saying police don't stop all violent crime so we should fire all the police.
Wow! This could be super useful.
Great question! I'm assuming that if AI and genetic engineering hit their stride at the same time, copyright is the least of our concerns.

We engineer machine intelligence just enough for it to spark (tipping point, runaway, whatever you want to call it), and then it'll engineer us "better". Is "better" what we consider better? Or what it considers better? Interesting times.
I didn’t want the developer to declare his routes by writing C++ code

...in a web framework in C++, where presumably the developer would need to write C++ anyway to make use of it?

This article is quite long and complex

No kidding. And to me, all that complexity just screams "you're doing it wrong."

I read this article all the way to the end, and was disappointed to find that, after all that code, it ends with a single macro call --- in C++ --- and leaves the reader wondering about the original goal of using JSON.

Years ago I spent a brief amount of time maintaining Java code that was written in this reflection-heavy, everything-configurable (XML and even some ad-hoc text formats, but similar idea) style, and it was not at all enjoyable to get everything set up correctly nor debug the monstrosity. On a somewhat related note, http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
I've been planning on doing a javascript port of Io when I have time but other projects keep coming up ( https://voluntary.net/bitmarkets/ ). Anyone interested in helping with a JS port?
Missionary vs Mercenary.

And surprisingly, the missionary ends up making more money.
Social Forex Project by German Trader Leon Lotz. Invest from $10 Without Skills
I suspect that could be a driver/software issue.
Wouldn't that all be transmitted in the clear? I see a lot of risk of privacy leakage.
Dropbox Is Down (status page down too)
There is already a Clasp in Debian, but its something else: https://packages.debian.org/sid/clasp
Right on! Smart TVs are dumb!

Smart stereos are even dumber!
What I REALLY want is a 21st century sound system.
Why do I need 5 hdmi ports on my TV and 5 on my stereo.
Why do all stereos have to be fricking huge.
Why all the connections in the back? put them on side!!

I don't need a gui on the stereo, a plain black box is perfect. Just have a decent smartphone app and listen for the remote controls volume with a system that does not take hours to config (hours of frustration trying to get these to work).
It should support apps like spotify and pandora
It should support streaming from your phone.
Does anyone actually use USB anymore?
120 watts per channel.
Any good audio engineers what to cooperate to make one?

edit:Spelling
Consider how we went from nothing to cell phones in a century; this is not that far away.
Leaking the MAC address of the user's machine is also inconsequential.
Thanks for this video!
Did you miss the by and large if you have a string of accomplishments all doors are open to you part?
Vulnerabilities don't "magically appear". They're there from the beginning and the goal of the game is to find them and fix them before the bad guys find them and exploit them.

If you use a software which isn't maintained, it's insecure not because of its vulnerabilities, but because of its environment, which is ready to attack the vulnerabilities. From a general point of view, it's not risky to use a software from 2005. It's just risky to use it in 2015.

Try installing a Flash version from 2005 and open a web browser with it in 2015. That's basically killing your computer, and yet we were all using this Flash version in 2005 without a problem (or almost).
Video of the talk https://m.youtube.com/watch?index=8&list=PLrbAIdPI69Pgvh-iqK...
Not sure; but health care has been one of the main avenues of wealth transfer in the US. Health costs grow faster than inflation, outcomes barely budge or worsen. The fact that people are being given more in health benefits means little if they are also paying their doctor twice as much for the same result.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried to fix it up a bit. What do you think?
The "graphics arts cameras" they are referring to are pre-digital. They looked like this: http://www.forgottenartsupplies.com/?what=artifacts&image_id...

The goal was to compose a layout into a single image.

You created a layout by literally cutting and pasting things onto a board. Then you placed that board in the area at the bottom and took a picture of it that was transferred to film loaded in the top.

You're right that the film was special; but it's the other way around from how you were thinking. The film was not sensitive to red light. To this film, red is "black" and cyan or blue is "white".

Why this was useful:

- You could open the box of film (it came in sheets) in a room that was darkened except for a red bulb, without exposing it.

- You could use overlays of transparent red material (rubylith) to mask things precisely. Even though you could see through to the layer below, the camera would see it as all black.

- And, as the article mentioned you can add notes to the layout with blue pencil and it would be invisible to the transfer. We always called this "non-repro blue" though, as in, the camera wouldn't reproduce it.
"Information has been including (sic) to help you better understood (sic)..."

Seriously? From a teacher?

I hope this is a hoax.
Vladimir Putin’s massive, triple-decker war room revealed
MLConf:The Machine Learning Conference
And my engineering notebooks from the EurekaLabNotebook company use this color for the grid which is a bit disconcerting if you make a copy of the page and the grid disappears and you have only your writing and diagrams.
Thanks. Which subpages and which parts do you feel should have which colors?
If this affects only the most distant observations, I wonder if this can already be detected in our observations of the CMB.