skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The time of publishing may have been a factor - in 1950 Britain was still recovering from the second world war, and rationing was still in force, so there would have been nowhere near the abundance of sweet foods available that there are now. In that context even some Turkish delight could be an exciting treat.
This is a good point. Sometimes the market has already approximated grades-of-doctors - for example, it's possible to spend a lot of time and money with a podiatrist, and still end up not solving stance/arch/ankle problems with your feet. But a competent ski bootfitter will do a better job of sorting you out, for less money and without waiting rooms, for most non-surgical issues.
I tried it with a single account, the UI is nice but I kind of prefer a more dense UI for email. I'm probably just really used to Airmail's UI, it's similar to what Sparrow used to be and I felt that was approaching perfection at the time.

Also the memory footprint was a little large but that's understandable since it's built on Chrome/Node. Web browsers and development related processes (mostly Ruby) are my top memory consumers right now, I'd rather not have my email client join their ranks.
speaking as a Ritchie, I wholeheartedly approve.
I don't know, I think it's unrealistic to expect a president or a message to make massive changes in a short amont of time, given that other political institutions are far more important in regards to making laws, but that does not mean it's not important. Politics move slowly.
I've been drinking alcohol if not every day then three-four times a week for more than a decade and only stopped half a year ago to loose some stubborn weight; and while my wine collection might not be 'extensive' it's still a collection. So no, I wouldn't consider myself 'inexperienced'.

It must be sample bias, but literally nobody in my (quite diverse, both culturally/ethnically as well as geographically) circle of social contacts would consider somebody who drank two beers before driving anything but a hillbilly Cletus (or their countries' local equivalent). The notion that 'virtually every alcohol consuming adult does this' is nonsense.
Lagrange orbits aren't that great in the long run, and come with their own unique set of challenges (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#Mathematical_details):

"Although the L1, L2, and L3 points are nominally unstable, it turns out that it is possible to find (unstable) periodic orbits around these points, at least in the restricted three-body problem. These periodic orbits, referred to as "halo" orbits, do not exist in a full n-body dynamical system such as the Solar System. However, quasi-periodic (i.e. bounded but not precisely repeating) orbits following Lissajous-curve trajectories do exist in the n-body system. These quasi-periodic Lissajous orbits are what most of Lagrangian-point missions to date have used. Although they are not perfectly stable, a relatively modest effort at station keeping can allow a spacecraft to stay in a desired Lissajous orbit for an extended period of time. It also turns out that, at least in the case of Sun–Earth-L1 missions, it is actually preferable to place the spacecraft in a large-amplitude (100,000–200,000 km or 62,000–124,000 mi) Lissajous orbit, instead of having it sit at the Lagrangian point, because this keeps the spacecraft off the direct line between Sun and Earth, thereby reducing the impact of solar interference on Earth–spacecraft communications. Similarly, a large-amplitude Lissajous orbit around L2 can keep a probe out of Earth's shadow and therefore ensures a better illumination of its solar panels."
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The most powerful NUC ever
> Reducing emissions will have a strong effect on our societies and people's lives

Let's be a bit more concrete about this. In the near term, reducing emissions is going to reduce economic output. That is literally going to kill people. (The stress of poverty kills people. Lack of money to pay for food and healthcare kills people. So unless you've got a redistribution scheme that you can make actually happen in the real world, reducing economic output means killing people.)

That's the other side of this "Pascal's Wager". If we run off and cut emissions before we know how to do it without reducing economic output, more people that we would like are going to die. They're not going to make headlines, because they're going to be marginal people in marginal places... oh, yeah, the same kind of people who are going to die (first) from climate change.

It may be a net win to fight climate change. But don't act like it's completely one-sided.
An open letter about open data to Audi, BMW, and Daimler
There are serious skeptics. Like you say nobody really disagrees with 1) humans release more c02 and 2) more c02 = warming via greenhouse.

But that isn't the entire global warming theory.

There are many feedback effects that occur. Like warming -> melting ice -> water vapor from condensation -> water vapor is a greenhouse gas -> more heat

But there are negative feedback effects too. Like warming -> melting ice -> less reflection of sun -> less heat

So many people are pushing theories with high feedback multiples. Some people are pushing theories with high negative feedback.

Depending on how you model the feedbacks--Climate change can either be a small issue with a degrees or two warming or a mass extinction event with 5 degree C warming.

The problem is it is very hard to test the models.
Kickstarter projects have 'reasonable' 9 percent failure rate, study finds
Playing with the Swift Package Manager – A Tutorial
I am sceptical about the ability of this software to grow.
I am currently developing a 3d engine in Emscripten, and to deal with the debugging problem I've developed from the beginning for Windows. The project links with ANGLE to expose GLES2 APIs, and it has both Windows and Emscripten versions of the platform-dependent systems like file access and input. With all this, I spend most of my time in Visual Studio.

Also, for the sake of avoiding complexity, I made a point from the start to never use the STL, and compilation times have stayed nearly instant because of that. Code size is also really tiny when there aren't a million template types floating around.

This comes with the caveat that I'm more comfortable developing without the STL; for other developers or other projects, abandoning the STL may be a tradeoff not worth taking.
If you cheat the definition, you could say Apple has opened some code, therefore they are an open source company.

But, clearly that's not what's in play here. It's difficult to be an open source startup because it's easy to get a big ego and start doing software wrong. You don't get people to use your software by saying "LOOK! We have VCs. Trust us. Buy our support contracts!"

You get people to use your software by making good features, growing by word of mouth, then you're entrenched and can start milking the support cow. Your word-of-mouth features don't even have to work (coughmongocough), they just have to be easy to brag about so developers get ego boosts by telling others "hey, look, i found this thing and you should think I'm cool because I'm telling you about it."

Another really important point: open source companies aren't proven. The current crop of open source startup VC funded happy towns are all experiments. It's very possible you can't create sustainable open source software companies (support contracts aren't zero margin software products, and nobody buys software anymore because lol "it's free!!!"). There's no natural "supernormal profit" engine if you make a good, clean, understandable open source product. In fact, it's actually the opposite: open source companies get big when the product is garbage (or too complex) because then everybody needs support to CYA against higher management.

(I've been thinking about writing a few articles about all this in January. Stay tuned.)
You can blind one of the things with a laser pointer at the right IR frequency. But the device can easily detect this, locate it, and use a camera to take a picture of the jammer. For directional devices, jammers are targets; you get direction, but not range.
Yes. It's not as far out of the historical norms as CO2 levels, but the gradient on it is astounding. It's taken us about 100 years for temperatures to rise beyond their last peak, which occurred about 7000 years ago [1]. Note that this is precisely coincident with the rise in CO2.

It's true that there's a historical feedback loop between CO2 and temperature, which operates in cycles. But we are now operating far beyond the usual range of that system, whatever it is, and nobody knows exactly what will happen next.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/inline_al...
The message might be "things aren't better yet, but we're done sweeping the issue under the rug". That's not paradise, but it's at least a step.
That's also fallacious logic. It assumes that if Brin hadn't 'invented Google', then no one else would have come up with something similar, at about the same time. For all we know, we might have had something better.

Recall too that we live in a world where 'Asiatics' (first Chinese, then Japanese, then much of Asia and the Pacific Islands) were barred for decades from immigrating to the US. Using the same logic, think of all the things we are missing, and how much better things might have been, had we not done that.

Don't misunderstand me. I want freedom of movement to extend to moving across international borders. I want us to treat it more as a human right [0]. But the argument concerning Google is a retrospective economic one that sounds more like post-hoc justification, rather than one based on ethical or moral principles. [1]

[0] I don't consider it a human right. I agree with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution". I place that human right of asylum above the right to move for family, economic, or personal reasons.

[1] As an example of the post-hoc, almost Panglossian basis for the argument, what if we hadn't had the Japanese internment camps. Then how would we have had George Takei as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, and his later influence in LGBT rights?
UK research network Janet under ongoing and persistent DDoS attack
My benchmarks of speed at this point are basically:

- fast enough to run Netflix and have a work VPN going at the same time

- fast enough to run Netflix, download something on Steam, and have a work VPN going at the same time

- fast enough to run Netflix, download something on Steam, have Dropbox sync multiple GB to a new computer, and have a work VPN going at the same time
If you want an expansion of the "clear, simple and wrong" argument it's pretty easy.

Which is to say using the term Muslim in that context lumps in a huge number of diverse cultural and religious groups. It's like saying 'Christian' which lumps in everyone from members of the Coptic Christian Church, Catholics, Japanese Catholicism (leftovers from the Portuguese circa 1700) Unitarians, Quakers, Baptists, and some weird sect hiding out in Montana waiting for Alien Jesus.

Mostly it ignores that the vast majority of the faithful practice their religion in the breach. And the majority of sects strongly oppose the idea of people going out in a blaze of violence.
Google Code-in: may the source be with you
> There always will be a debate on global warming

As long as the denialists are well-funded:

Unearthing America's Deep Network of Climate Change Deniers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-30/unearthing...
How many eyes do you want on your code?
List of the best places to submit your startup
Do you live in a concrete bunker? I have one dual band AP for my entire house.
Which goes to show my dad was right: nothing in life is free. Certainly not information.
I have trouble taking either statement that seriously. We do not have a baseline to compare against as there is no spare earth available that is untouched by human hands.

The question has to be considered primarily from a qualitative point of view. The only reason people discuss the science so much is because they lack good instincts about the environment. It is so easy to believe that humans are an insignificant part of the environment when you entire world is made by man.
Yes. More than one. And then the ranting and raving of one for another four years.

Where have all the grownups gone?
Yes, that's exactly what the article says. >:/
I don't disagree with you at all, but the idea I want to work on isn't going to make me wealthy. I just need enough money in the bank so that basic needs are met, rent is taken care of, and I can go work on fixing homelessness, dysfunctional healthcare systems, etc.
> it was a deeply flawed concept from the start

And the reason it was a deeply flawed concept was...politics. The Shuttle that the politicians would allow NASA to build was not the Shuttle that the NASA engineers originally wanted to build.
Along similar lines I always imagined a middle eastern variation on General Tso's chicken. Candy never entered my mind, I always assumed it was an entrée of some type.
I have been following this technology since FCC first call for response. Here is the other side of the story:
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001104452

EDIT:
For all I know, the result used by Google is mostly simulation based (NOT TRUE).

Qualcomm did their due diligence on simulations AND lab trials to show different results. IMHO, Qualcomm clearly has a better arguments.

Note that the link provided in the top comment by rupellohn is old. The latest one, referred in the news link, is probably (there are multiple filings) this one: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001331188

Full list of recent filing here:
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view;ECFSSESSION=Xp4PVvB...

TL;DR:
1. LTE-U has been proven to be a better neighbor to a WF AP than another WiFi AP. In other words, two WiFi APs in the same room perform worse than One WiFi AP and One LTE-U station.

2. Fairness: 2 WiFi APs should each share each have 5% airtime according to the standard, right? Wrong. Lab trials show one AP could take up to 80% +. Refer to http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001104452 "Wi-Fi/LTE-U Airtime Fairness". LTE-U always gives 50% Air time to its WiFi neighbor.

3. It is more of a political argument than a technological argument now. Note that at this point LTE-U spec does not violate the regulation on unlicensed spectrum.

DISCLAIMER: I don't work for Qualcomm. But it is easy to see who has a better argument.
A plugin hybrid minivan would be perfect for you.
This isn't Wikipedia. I'm sorry I offended your worldview of what a person on the left's representatives believe, but that's my observation and experience. The ND Tribal Gaming Compact is probably as good as an example as possible, or maybe the paradox you can buy a burrito at a gas station with EBT but not use the microwave to cook it.

I once thought it was fun to put in footnotes and huge lists of references[1], but that's just work, and frankly, just stopped being joyful. Hell, after getting down voted for actually showing the reference + quote on why a certain religion has the name it does and what one of the words mean, I realized it was for the best. In another thread, I thought about doing the work last night because I cannot believe someone would actually think a particular way[2].

1) I think my best was 12 in a thread with someone who was putting an equal amount of effort - that was fun, informative, and respectful

2) living on a rez will give a nice overview of all the ways the US government tried to kill the Native Americans
They're being flagged because users are flagging them. Users are correct to flag them because they break the HN guidelines.

Political horse race stories, which this is, are off topic for Hacker News, and doubly so when they're inflammatory. If you want to have a thoughtful discussion about startup immigration, you could not find worse starting material.
IBM get criticized by a bunch of SJW because they tried to sell STEM to women in a way that hurt their feelings. In a day in age where people are just looking to be offended by something this saddens me.

Even if 1 women became more interested in STEM it would have been a net positive.

I am not sure why making math pink is mutually exclusive with removing the stigma. By being effective it may naturally remove the stigma.

My fiancee would never be interested in making Google, it is just too dry for a lot of people. But she would love to work on more feminine products like jewelry and definitely hair dryers. That is just who she is and appealing to that seems like a logical choice to me.

It sounds like they are marginalizing her interests because they are more feminine.
Canonical, MySQL (now Oracle), Zimbra (now VMware), Zend, Gluster (also acquired, I forgot by who) and a whole bunch of others are or were at some point open source companies.

Pure open source software companies are relatively few in number but companies that contribute to open source and profit from that open source in that they have a lot more people working on the code and taking care of bug spotting and bug fixing is considerable.

One nice example of that is Basecamp.

Open source companies that are successful are acquired at a relatively high rate so they don't usually last as such independently.
too late to edit, s/whey/why/
Bleve: full-text search and indexing for Go
You're greatly overestimating the willingness of the white US population to try new foods.
The following are three of his less partisan articles and their top-voted comment, plucked from Brooks' most recent articles [1]

Communities of Character

"Pop sociologist Professor Brooks is at it again...."

Tales of the Super Survivors

"It certainly does, Lord Brooks..."

The Evolution of Simplicity

"If only excessive materialism and manifold opportunities were the problem in this country. I think Mr. Brooks tends to project his own affluent angst on society at large..."

This is the force, imposed by readers, to homogenize ideologically. The deluge of criticism is to be expected when a high delta exists between a columnist's ideology and their platform's. In an ideological battleground, where vilification trumps truth, I think the burden of assessing quality lies on the reader.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/column/david-brooks
From that chart it appears a large reason for that is they charge Commercial customers the same rates as Residential ones, unlike most states.

Also worth considering is economic activity per unit energy, where California is placed third in efficiency, so it looks like those energy prices are doing fine.

http://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/state/analysis/pdf/...
Show HN: NSMTP Monolith – Full-stack email-compatible communication
It's terrible sci-fi but the sci-fi bit is only there to draw moralistic parallels between aliens and the Chinese. Some gruelling stories about China's culturual revolution that were pretty interesting but otherwise it's pretty bad. I'm sure the quality of the writing is lost in translation so I'm not complaining about that - just talking about the story.
They've had this in Sweden for like 10 years. It's all pretty clunky, even though you can now use an app instead. You generally have to have your card, then some plug-in, then the host have to implement the whole thing. Usually signing things isn't the whole story either, so you still have to deal with e.g. payments.

The Estonian system is probably better, since it's newer, but the challenge isn't really in handing out cards. It's standardizing authentication on the Internet and connecting that to whatever else matters.
Is it me or this looks like an article taken from Phrack magazine or SET journal or any hacking related magazine from late 80s/early 90s?
A quick hack would be to render the outlines to a bitmap. Apply a suitable edge detector that handles filled and unfilled geometry the same and then count active pixels for a ballpark estimate.

With vectors imported into a common data structure you just need to convert curves to line segments with enough segments to maintain a reasonable approximation and then add up their lengths. Cairo and Anti-grain geometry can do the heavy lifting for you there. Anti-grain has example code for doing this adaptively.
The Smart State
Hello world! I've been reading HN frequently for the past few years, and a recurring theme I noticed was frustration regarding email (intriguingly, it's only the people on HN who seem to dislike email; everyone else seems to universally adore it). So at the start of this year I decided to fix email by creating a new protocol that overcomes some of email's shortcomings while remaining backwards-compatible with email. Anything short of a new protocol struck me as lipstick on a pig, and anything that failed to maintain compatibility with email struck me as Google Wave.

This repository contains a full-stack implementation of the new protocol, so you can clone the repository, start up a vagrant machine and immediately connect via your web browser to try it out (though if you actually want to use it for sending and receiving emails, you won't get far by running it on a network with port 22 blocked). At the moment I don't have instructions for setting it up outside of Vagrant, but I'm also not sure how many people would actually be interested in running it themselves in a production environment. It's still quite rough around the edges, so it's not quite production-ready anyway, but most of the roughness is in the UI and edge cases in protocol handling which I've worked out logically but haven't yet implemented.

Protocol ambitions aside, I wanted to learn a lot from this experience--previously I had done some PHP and WordPress development, and I just wanted to try using Node and React to mash a Trello-like app together with email somehow, and things started happening so fast... Mainly I wanted to see how far I could go with one of my "crazy" ideas, because up until now I had always assumed that there would have to be something besides running out of time and money that would fundamentally stop me. Among the many things I learned, I discovered that it really does just boil down to the time and money! :) So now I'm looking for work.

That said, I am planning to continue development on this for my personal use (and possible work use later), so I'm open to suggestions, feedback, pull requests.... I know an open demo would be the bees knees. I'm planning to make such a demo in the near future, but for announcing this I did not want to. If you're interested in trying it out in a live environment rather than in Vagrant, I'm running this stack on zombition.com, and you can contact me at "tom" at the aforementioned domain for an invitation. Assuming nothing blows up :)
The deal was stock and cash, so it is pretty much impossible to judge how good a deal this was for Dropbox[1]. Stock is a very cheap way for a company to acquire another.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/mailbox-cost-dropbox-around...
Probably you had a rough Monday and wanted to take it out on HN. If you're being serious, why do you think such trivialities merit discussion? or even a second of your attention? it boggles my mind.

We all have intrusive thoughts from time to time, but it is extremely bad form to voice them.
> How easily could that attitude be shifted towards any arbitrary group with just one or two tragic events?

It will be much easier with more unchecked authoritarian law in place.
I think that's a terrible idea.

For hundreds of years, people thought stress and food caused ulcers. It was scientific fact and if you doubted it, you'd likely be labelled a crackpot. Until a scientist in Australia proved ulcers were caused by bacteria.

So consensus was wrong. Very wrong.

I'd prefer it if people kept questioning everything. How else do we push forward our knowledge?
Mixmax. Unrollme. Sanemail. Zapier mail parser. There is more innovation taking olace than many realize.