skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally? I've no idea if it's the correct one. Not subscribing to a school of thought that admits supernatural origin of these stories, I'm not really sure what "the correct one" would mean for me.

I interpreted fleitz (in the bit I quoted) as saying "if knowledge is bad, then we shouldn't be using logic to get us more knowledge, so the whole exercise is absurd." I was pointing out that there's at least one out.
The wikipedia chart covers 450 thousand years on the x-axis, and a 14 degree range on the y-axis. Your chart covers 12 thousand years on x and 2 degrees on y. If your chart was shrunk to the same scale and overlaid on the first chart, it would be lost in the noise, and your astounding gradient would be nothing compared to the rises and falls 20K and 140K years ago, among others.

Very disingenuous of you.
I was wondering whatever happened to the potential for CNG buses. And I found this link http://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/10/electric-buses-beat-cng-... which makes the case that they could be replaced by electric.
> all airborn vehicles should be able to transmit their location to other aircraft

You don't know what you are talking about. That is not feasible. There are large numbers of model aircraft that cannot carry the weight of a GPS unit, let alone the transponder. This would impose a huge and unnecessary burden on existing hobbyists with thousands of hours of safe flight who generally carry 2.5 million in liability insurance.
"shortage of developers"

That's self-induced due to your treatment of the market. Suppose you'll pay SV devs 170k.

Do you have any idea how easy it would be to replace those spots by offering 160k (regardless of location)? And you'll save money.

Most devs, FYI, do not live in SV area. The market for remote work is huge.
And a flock of geese can take down an airliner - but we don't react by jailing hawk or goose owners, we acknowledge the risk and mitigate it where possible and accept the risk where it's not.

Perhaps you've hit upon a decent yardstick by which to evaluate the dangers of consumer "drones", if it's lighter than an ISO-standard hawk or goose, it's something which the aviation people need to be dealing with anyway. If the heli pilot was flying above a highway in a manner where an unfortunately located bird might have caused him to crash - potentially onto a roadway full of bystanders cars - perhaps their behaviour was more reckless than the Phantom pilots...
No.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/24/helicopter.crash.cause/

On January 4, 2009, a dual-engine Sikorsky S-76C helicopter crashed into marshy terrain near Morgan City, Louisiana, about seven minutes after takeoff from Amelie, Louisiana. The copter was on a charter flight to a Gulf of Mexico oil rig. Both pilots were killed, along with six of the seven passengers, according to the NTSB.
Heard on the helicopter's cockpit voice recorder was a "loud bang, followed by sounds consistent with rushing wind and a power reduction on both engines," according to the statement. "The aircraft crashed several seconds later."
Feathers and other debris, identified as belonging to a red-tailed hawk, were collected from the helicopter's canopy and windshield, the NTSB said.
Nothing surprising here. Far and beyond IT, surgeons posses a rare and special type of ignorance... typical of your average over-powered decision maker with not enough time to understand or other incentives to make good IT decisions. This is really, really common in health IT, and not rare at all, but here's it's presented in the form of an over-entitled surgeon. Some people seem to think that brain surgeon is supposed to add gravitas to any conversation, in terms of understanding or something... but your average QA person is 1000x more likely to make a better decision than a surgeon, when it comes to IT.

And the source of the problems in this article? The legal dept. So please don't blame this one on anyone in IT.
> ‘I’m not starting a big meningioma at 4 p.m.,’ she declared, turning towards me. ‘I’ve got no childcare this evening.’

Without knowing what a "big meningioma" involves, I can only imagine it's something like doing a tricky, manual deployment on Friday afternoon. In that case no, this is a completely reasonable response. People have lives outside of work. Yes, "In the pre-modern NHS consultants never counted their hours – you just went on working until the work was done.", but that doesn't mean it's a good thing. In pre-modern factory days people of any age worked there whole day, 6-7 days a week. It doesn't mean that's a good idea to do it now.
As an additional note the news outlets did this with laser pointers when those started becoming popular, and how many aircraft did those also take down? I am going to guess the same amount, which I am assuming to be zero, unless someone else here tells me differently.
bureaucracy AND incompetence

You forgot corruption, the third member of the triad.
Used to fly RC gliders regularly at 2000 feet in the 90's with my dad. Great times, but never near airports.

Of course you couldn't just go on Amazon and buy an RTF easy to fly machine at that time. You had to go to a hobby store and spend 2 - 3 months building it.. from scratch. I'm talking putting the wing together piece by piece. Then you had to know someone who already knew how to fly to teach you, or you crash your expensive glider that you spent the last 2 months building.

As time went on you could then by kits that had the wing and such prebuilt. Then as the internet caught on people's attention spans dwindled. RTF started to be come more a thing.

Then as time went on more, people didn't have the attention span to fly a 4 channel RC plane, let alone a 6 channel collective pitch helicopter.

Then vuala you get quadcopters.
Thanks! I just bought The Star Fraction purely on your recommendation... I find gambling like that pays off big, sometimes.

To return the favor, I recommend you try Blindsight and its sequel Echopraxia, by Peter Watts. Those were two of my favorite books of 2015 (the books are older, but I only found them this year).

Unusual, but awesome, SF.
First of all how is this a hacker news? Second I've seen these shoes and I'm no basketball buff but wtf?! Lebron nike shoes are so "UGLY or SUPER UGLY" they're in no where near the cool designs of those Air Jordan shoes. That Under Armour branded shoes those are cool. Peace out!
Very frustrating, I agree. I have another medical computer system horror story - Did you know that the UK National Health Service spent 12 Billion pounds (18 Billion USD) on a computer system and ended up with....nothing to show for it!!!
It seems your right.

And it deeply saddens me to think that it may cost someone's life before anything will change.
What happens when an online retailer opens a physical store?
> for one line of shoes

There are at least a few new Jordan sneakers released every single week.

http://sneakernews.com/air-jordan-release-dates/
Most working professionals who aren't software developers suffer through this in some way or another. I mean, heck, let me count up all the passwords I need to do my job:

* A password for the account request system

* A password for the internal services system

* My email password

* My password for the local network

* My password for the product management system

* Pass for the old product management system that we still use

* Pass to the online drawing and document retrieval system

* Password to control room computer systems

* Various maintenance laptop user names and passwords

* Various passwords to systems I'd rather not mention, call them about 10 in total

That's 25 to 30 passwords, total, that I need to remember and use on a regular basis. I've given up NOT writing them down. And IT won't give me any kind of secure password manager, so I resort to a password protected Excel spreadsheet. And I'm not alone.
Coffee Machine Maker Keurig to Be Sold for Almost $14B
Yet we don't see them falling out of the sky and killing people at rates that comment would suggest.

A flock of geese dropped an airliner into the Hudson, but we still all buy plane tickets when it suits us, because we acknowledge that while there are risks and immensely tragic consequences - the balance of probabilities makes you seem like a crazy-person if you say you're afraid of flying.
For those that are curious, the AMA (http://www.modelaircraft.org/) provides its members with 2.5M of liability coverage (as long as they are following the AMA safety guidelines, which are more extensive that the FAA's).
The resale market alone is profiting $380M per year on Nike shoes. I'd wager a majority of that is in Jordans. Nike knows this market exists, and they are doing a fine job keeping the streets hungry for their brands. Watch / read more at https://www.ted.com/talks/josh_luber_the_secret_sneaker_mark...
Unlike gun laws?
Great video. Very much in line with Allan Savory's plan to reverse climate change: https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl....

Instead of planting trees and pruning he uses rotating herds of animals. Both techniques respect nature and revitalize soil compared to conventional industrial farming practices. I don't understand why there aren't more startups in this space. Climate change is a worthwhile problem to tackle.
Eh what? It's a reference. The year has no other meaning than to account for when the referenced work was published, which was in 2007.
Sure, the location has value to some companies. And they'll fight each other tooth and nail.

But to a remote company, it's just as irrelevant as a luxury car. It's an artificial segment of the market to them. They don't need to enter the frenzy. There is a equilibrium of global supply and demand that is lower than SV equlibrium. Replace your SV hires with the others at that price, and save money. Capitalize on your remote work, instead of tossing it aside.
Just to mention - you can read 'Sustainable Materials with Both Eyes Open' on the authors' website (although I'm sure they wouldn't mind people buying it on Amazon as well). http://www.withbotheyesopen.com/read.php
New Theory: Income inequality is actually about housing?
Anyone know how much damage a drone (like ones average people buy) could do to a helicopter or plane? Bird strikes are a risk, but don't typically take down a helicopter or plane.

I'm imagining it's a risk, but not like the helicopter is doomed to crash into the ground.
Where are the options? Not trying to be too critical, but paste.debian.net is my go-to. Sent a message to my love interest and to my hackathon team; the first said my messages were cut off (told them to click and drag to see it (they use iOS and are not familiar with pastebins)) and the latter said that the code selector was preventing them from editing the end of their message (Android).
As well as Cam Newton.
Fans of nethack and other roguelikes should try Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS).[1]

You can play or watch games in progress by:

ssh joshua@crawl.akrasiac.org

Use the password "joshua".

It's also available as a standalone program you can run on your own machine.

DCSS has some made some great innovations, such as fantastic use of color and auto-explore, tons of really unique gods and races, it's scriptable(!) in Lua, the list goes on and on...

[1] - http://crawl.develz.org/
No link to GNUstep in the article. That says a lot.
Good hospitals have multiple teams so they can operate 24x7. At any rate scheduling should have figured this out a priori.
This is what happens when people create systems they don't have to use (software or otherwise).
Google Ventures Dials Down Seed Deals, Urges Mature Startups to Go Public
isn't the thing about holographic display that you have to output the data for more than one angle? Meaning, multiple different angles for different eye angles to create stereoscopy. So, 10Mbits * n_vertical_angles * n_horizontal_angles * k_compression_coeffiscient
Okay. Well, here extraordinary is supposed to mean better/more then ordinary.

But if it means talented or praiseworthy or something similar, then I whole-heatedly agree.
RC aircraft have been "drones" since long before anybody in the media cared about the word. Probably the most common use of the word before the current quadcopter craze was in the phrase "target drone," which is typically a large remote-controlled aircraft that military pilots can shoot at for training. I think the word implies some kind of guidance, whether automatic or remote-piloted, so model rockets and such would not qualify. Kites aren't really aircraft.

Does a "drone" need to be autonomous? I see no use, past or present, that implies autonomy. Camera? Again, no. Multirotor? Historically no, current media usage maybe. Size limit? Don't think so.

A large hobby drone is definitely more of a risk than a buzzard or goose. Birds can dodge. They're not always successful, but the instinct for self-preservation usually gets them out of the way, at least for slow aircraft like a typical helicopter. Helicopters make a ton of noise too, which probably helps a lot.

Going 90MPH on the highway is a pretty major offense in many places. Here in Virginia that's an automatic reckless driving misdemeanor charge that's likely to result in jail time. No, they don't punish you the same as they would if you actually kill somebody, but then there's no indication they'll punish this guy as if he killed somebody, so I have no idea why you'd mention that.
Like a commodore 64?
The academic humanities have gone wrong, with scholars beset by inwardness
Systematic, tragic mishandling of mental illness, but it sounds like only a symptom of much deeper psychological issues.

For this claim specifically, it's relatively easy to debunk this myth with double-blind placebo experiments.

0) Place subject in a room with a router which is completely silent and has no indicator lights whatsoever.

1) Record the entire study with the subject, timestamp and status of wifi in the same frame.

2) Ask them "is it on" 50 or other statistically-significant times, while toggling the router randomly.

3) Show them the results.

The subject will either realize it's all in their head or they will continue to deny reality despite overwhelming evidence to maintain their "sickness"... Wi-Fi isn't dangerous unless is 10's of watts at a tissue-resonant frequency, near the body, which would leave a radiation burn.

More often than not, people convince themselves they have an imaginary "illness" to either gain attention, empathy or status.
> As forests took over the former areas where the first peoples of the Americas lived trees sucked up a lot of CO2 causing the mini ice age in Europe.

If you want to account for CO2, should consider native americans (north to south) used the slash-and-burn technique.
They'd sell out of helium balloons instantaneously, for one thing.
Ironic that this came after the DOJ stopped investigating Microsoft for abusing their monopoly on Windows when Bush came into office.

I remember watching the DOJ videos on Bill Gates drinking Pepsi trying to ask questions on what type of Java they are talking about Microsoft competing against.
Eric Scott Raymond

It's Eric Steven Raymond. That Scott fellow has a Wiki entry but it's not who you're talking about.

Here's the ESR guy's Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
No I don't, nor does my argument imply that since I didn't say it applies to everything but to a great many things. Everyone can use logic, but not all topics are matters of logic, climate science is not; it's a matter of evidence and correctly understanding the totality of the evidence requires one to be a climate scientist.
That is a problem that will never go away. You will always have someone spreading incorrect information and "getting in the way" (vaccines cause autism, etc).

If the global warming data is as rock-solid as they, I wouldn't worry to much about it.
PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language
I just don't think that's true, but I'd love to be wrong.

Any given time 1/3rd of the user-base is dead... and it's growing because the data has to remain in the system for 60 months (HIPAA). It's not scary because it's B.S... No single or group of health provider in the world is close to having access to 125 million active patient-users on an annual basis.

Until Epic disclose any numbers in their 10Q/10K, realize that they're probably taking about "rows" in a db table or nonesuch, not actual patients or anything that will get them in trouble with the SEC/FDA.

I'd guess the reality is Nike is much closer in having shoes on half of the US pedestrian population than Epic having HL7/PII data.
No this what happens when people create systems over things they don't have experience in nor understanding of how things work.
Many of the hospitals in Boston have surgeons so specialized that they're literally the only surgeon in the US that does their particular type of surgery.

For appendix removal, and trauma surgery, sure, your statement is correct. For brain surgery your statement is a bit ridiculous.
When I'm in the states I regularly get sweets from a Chinese bakery in Chinatown. I'm often the only white guy there so I think it's reasonably authentic - Chinese friends have confirmed this.

There may be weirder options (any vegetarian suggestions?) out there somewhere, but they don't seem particularly common even in Chinatown. Most folks seem to order similar things to me (albeit carnivorous).
Where did that come from? Please don't try to derail the conversation like this.
Half-Life 3 and more appear in SteamDB list
Indeed. This is useful for picking up a transmission in mid-stream at an arbitrary boundary. Or discovering the start of a sector on a disk, as it spins past the read head, spewing whatever bits it finds.
Reverse-engineering Pinterest's promotional popup notifications
Ah, Nike. The company with worse fanboys than Apple.

Nike managed to conceal the fact that Air Jordans were inflated with sulfur hexafluoride, not air. They needed a big molecule that wouldn't slowly leak through the bladder. It took them 14 years to come up with a bladder lining that would hold nitrogen.
Same. What a shame... I think I'll try to watch it this way but it's so frustrating.

edit: damn, now the video just stops. not buffering (AFAICT), just... stopped. And lastly, I couldn't un-fullscreen the video. What a truly awful user experience.
If that ever comes to pass, they won't be piloted by the passenger.
A friend of mine used to work there but he left last year. When I asked him why he said "because I want to make software that people actually enjoy using."
At a very high level, email is primarily used for discussions. With this view, successful innovation in the e-mail space requires innovation in the nature of discussions themselves. Tinkering around with better usability or feature improvements will not be sufficient to overcome the massive inertia of 'traditional e-mail'.

We are a startup that just launched (https://tmail21.com) that aims to rethink the discussion itself. In our view, one of the major problems of e-mail (and chat for that matter) is that the discussions are not goal-oriented. So, discussions/threads can meander around with no outcome or accountability.

So, we enhance the notion of discussions to be goal-oriented.

Now, once one has the notion of goal-oriented discussions, a natural next step is to evolve a goal-oriented discussion into a Lean Process (which is basically a goal-oriented discussion with more structure) . Examples of a Lean Process might be a Blog Article process, a Product Deployment Process, a Feature Design Process, an Issue Escalation Process etc.

We've done all this in an email-LIKE interface. I guess we'll leave it to others to decide whether this constitutes innovation in the e-mail space :)
Assholes.

Getting sick of big companies buying great small products, and shutting them down after "trying" to make them work out.

Still hadn't had time to get over MS killing Sunrise, and now this.
It converts AmigaE code into C++ code and uses GCC to compile it. Sort of defeats the purpose of the E language that was supposed to replace the C language. But at least it is cross platform between AmigaOS and MophOS versions.
The Wikipedia article mentions other applications than notepad and implies IsTextUnicode was fixed in Vista.

Kaplan's blog post explains the change in Vista was actually in notepad (use a different algorithm) and IsTextUnicode was left broken, so the other applications mentioned in the Wiki page would presumably still be broken on Vista and above.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-notes-photo-annotation...

https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/604231388179648512 gave me the idea when I saw his blog posts.
Knuth has been using C for quite a long time now (he has not
"changed now"), and it's fair to say that he likes it, based on the following:

More than 20 years ago, knuth ported his literate programming system to C, resulting in CWEB.

Here is a 1993 interview with Knuth about CWEB: http://tex.loria.fr/historique/interviews/knuth-clb1993.html

Key quote (on the subject of C):

I think C has a lot of features that are very important. The way C handles pointers, for example, was a brilliant innovation; it solved a lot of problems that we had before in data structuring and made the programs look good afterwards. C isn't the perfect language, no language is, but I think it has a lot of virtues, and you can avoid the parts you don't like. I do like C as a language, especially because it blends in with the operating system (if you're using UNIX, for example).

I can only guess that Knuth doesn't use C in TAOCP because C isn't defined in the kind of way that he thinks is suitable for teaching. Every port of C to some given architecture has different parameters which effectively render it a different dialect, and there are undefined behaviors all over the place.
Oh it absolutely will create more "converts to terrorism". Just look at the results of the mass incarcerations post invasion of Iraq. You put thousands of people in detention centers and prison camps and you give them an unprecedented opportunity to recruit and plan. These camps were the birthplace of the Islamic State. Arrests for anything related to terrorism ruin the life of the accused and put them in close proximity to other "terrorists". Of course all this activity makes Jihad appear all the more justified. Imagine being innocent or guilty of a victimless crime and getting this sort of royal treatment. You can really see how an otherwise mild-mannered person might have a change of heart.

Unfortunately LE agencies across the U.S. are engaged in a perpetual struggle to justify their existence, particularly anything to do with narcotics or terrorism. We've seen plenty of cases where informants fund, encourage, and supply vulnerable people (often of questionable mental states) with anything from drugs, weapons, to explosives. I don't really see what can be done to remedy this when agencies have a magic word to become unbound by the Constitution and get access to seemingly unlimited quantities of fiat money.
They are claiming that amyloids are used for long term memory (ie getting rid of amyloid-beta may be a bad for Alzheimer's patients), but don't really make the connection. The amyloid-beta is protective/compensatory idea has been around for while. "Long term memory" here is a fly not trying to mate 48 hours after being rejected though:

>"In this paradigm, male flies learn to suppress their courtship behavior upon repeated exposure to an unreceptive female. The 201Y-Gal4:UAS-CG4612RNAi flies developed normally, and when tested, they did not display a deficit in shortterm memory or memory up to a day. However, when tested 48 hr after training, there was significant impairment in learned suppression of male courtship"