skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think that a device that captured the spirit of Amiga could be a success. Not only amongst ex Amiga users, but amongst other users as well.

What was the "magic" of the Amiga in the 80s and early 90s and what could be something similar today?

In the 80s and 90s:

- Really good graphics and sound (when most PC users got EGA graphics and PC speaker sound, if anything besides ASCII at all)

- Easy to use (you could do everything with your mouse)

- A device for games, fun AND serious stuff

- Relatively affordable

What could this be today? Maybe an affordable "ready to use" device that drives forward Virtual Reality for games and other use cases? A smartphone that is also your PC and you can easily combine it with monitor, keyboard and mouse?

Any ideas?
What Marissa Mayer's maternity leave decision means for working parents at Yahoo
But can the police do anything with this SSID?
I miss .info magazine. Still annoyed that it caved when I was still owed six issues on my subscription.
Would you like to know more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat...
Once you have more than 50MB of JSON, maybe it's time to switch to a streaming parser. While that's not going to give you more parsing speed, it will solve all your memory issues and if you are getting that data from a slow source (like the network) then you can even parse as you are reading it, which then would give you a considerable speed advantage.
I'd trust Maersk to do this; they're the largest shipping company in the world, and are very forward environmentally. Get the cost of those Thorium reactors down.
Kim Jong Un has a personal girl band, and it’s giving ‘performances’ in China
Over the years I have realized that a scalable, successful business is not only about technology - I think that technology is ~50% of the equation. There is so much more to a successful company - marketing, customer service, distribution etc... And what if they use off-the-shelf technology? - it doesn't mean ithey are not a worthy company...
"Wondering what will enter the public domain through copyright expiration in the U.S.? Like last year, and the year before…Nothing."

So wonderful to see new works enter the public domain, and then there's the gutpunch. So depressing.
Elon Musk says specifics about plan to colonize Mars likely coming in early 2016
I was in a 3DIC research group for ~2 years. We were mainly trying to build heat models for stacked chip designs to investigate this issue.

Another group that was looking at architecture was primarily relying on placing low power density devices on the lower levels of the chip (with worse heat dissipation) and the high-power devices at the top (with better heat dissipation), though I never saw the results of their finished design.

Ultimately though, heat is the primary issue with 3DIC. Assuaging the memory bottleneck by drastically increasing bandwidth at the cost of significantly more heat.
I know security by obscurity doesn't work in the real world, but what if some of those honeypots are actual ICS systems made to look like a poorly configured honeypot? One could host a mock service (representing a poorly configured ICS) on the cloud that acts as a wall to turn away those who don't dig deeper, but the required services are redirected to a legitimate ICS on the ground.
SEC Approves S-3 Filing to Issue Shares Using Bitcoin Blockchain
The companion made clear something that the (abstract of) the original post didn't; this sort of system can't be used to physically perform "hypercomputation," since encoding an undecidable problem requires an infinite lattice. Ah well.
I copied my technique from this BBC doc: http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/eat-fast-and-live-long...

On my fast days (Tues/Thur/Sun) I eat a decent breakfast, but I don't pig out. Then I just don't worry about food until breakfast the next day (when breakfast tastes particularly delicious btw).

To be honest, the biggest factor tied to failure for me is mood. If I'm in a poor mood, I'm 1000% more likely to feel like I can give in and grab lunch on a fast day. And then once I've had lunch...

The next biggest challenge is other people, especially on Sundays. I might eat fruit salad at brunch, b/c it's both hard and weird to not eat in the company of eating friends.

One thing I try to keep front-of-mind is how awesome it feels to wake up in the morning after a fast day with a sense of accomplishment. And how satisfying it was to need to take 2-inches off the waist of the suit I got married in. Success is addictive.

Edit: I allow myself as much coffee/tea with milk as I feel I need. Yeah, it's not fasting, but it's not eating either.
None that are known or expected, although I don't believe effect of high field and high field gradients are really well understood.

For what its worth there are people who have been in for far more than 20 hours (e.g. hundreds of cumulative hours).
What disinformation? Perl 5 is supported when using Perl 6. The comment I replied to states:

"Perl6 is such a different language that someone moving from Perl5->Perl6 will likely be mostly/completely a rewrite."

Rewriting is not always necessary due to Perl5 support.

The comment further states:

"I guess maaayybbeee they could translate across. But it would be touching ever single line, in a transformation that would be on par with switching to Ruby (or Python I suppose)."

Touching every single line is technically not necessary due to Perl 5 support.

To your comment:

"But claiming that there is a special soft spot for the Perl5 interpreter is factually wrong."

Nowhere in my comments did I make any such claim. I was simply refuting the statement that people with Perl 5 code will have such a difficult time with Perl 6 that it would be just as painful as dropping all their Perl code and switching languages.
Yeah, I have no intention of doing the Light until I know my condition won't be a problem or I won't be a hindrance to the rest of my team.

Thanks for the link! I'll check it out.
There's a huge difference: CGI is the ultimate backend in the HTTP stack, while this allows you to run scripts as middleware (ie modifying the response headers/body based on previous processing)
Seriously, the FCC might still ban your operating system
It appears to be a redirect URL from some sort of 3rd party RSS feed syndication
I drive a Vauxhall Insignia with a 2 litre 160ps engine. Also in band C. Also smug. ;-)
Ask HN: Standing Desk Folks – What shoes do you wear?
I've been using a standing desk for about 6 months now, I'm inside of the standard BMI healthy range for height/weight as a male, and have a CumulusPRO Commmercial grade pad.

Not EVERY week, but many times towards the end of the week or some particularly bad standing days where I am not moving around enough I am starting to get some aches and pains in the heel and ball of my foot.

I typically wear your standard Vans brand shoe with some Dr Scholl's full foot inserts.

Today I experimented with wearing some fitness shoes to the office instead since it's casual Friday. The difference in comfort is night and day already. I can't wear them on a daily basis because they don't fit the dress code -- but I am curious what other alternatives I might have M-Th that other people have found success with.

Are there any good business casual appropriate shoes that have great support like a fitness shoe?

Cheers!
Direct link to the table which is kind of cool: http://sea31.user.srcf.net/periodictable/
>>the probability that out obesity epidemic isn't 100% due to diet is zero.

Don't be so sure. Stress also causes the body to start hoarding more calories. And if you think about it, people have been working longer and longer hours, and have a lot less job security than they used to in the past. So it is possible that all that extra stress is contributing to the rising obesity rates.
> Molecular targets are getting harder to find.

Is this because we've already harvested the low-hanging fruit? Are there any new paradigms on the horizon that could change this?

> If you want more cancer cures, make it easier to become very rich by selling them.

It's an odd thing about Americans, though. They really don't seem to mind if Jobs or Zuckerberg get insanely rich (although there was some grumbling about Gates back in the day), but they loose their collective fecal matter if an evil capitalist with a cure for cancer even tried to recoup the capital invested in its development.

"People are dying because it is not free!", they would screech. And the (US) government would cap the price because by that time they will be the sole domestic channel for any new therapy's delivery and done and done. Big pharma knows this, and if they don't, their investors do. Better off improving female viagra or something.
Awesome, thanks!

Any idea on how long a failover takes? Seems to be about 30 seconds for First generation cloud SQL, is it the same-ish for 2nd generation?

Only thing I don't love about the Cloud SQL is the failover time, but I guess if it stays at 30 seconds and doesn't fail too much - it is still way better than trying to run my own SQL server.
Happy to answer any questions
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> if the market rate is $1k/mo

(I'm ignoring racial and otherwise illegal practices in this post, which are also a serious problem. Redlining and related issues are huge problems that need to be addressed if we want to have healthy cities.)

The problems (gentrification) start when the market rate is actually something like $2k/mo or even higher due to popularity and limited space.

It would probably be fine if that rate was due to simple inflation, as the ability to afford rents at these higher rates would have similarly increased. This could even be an acceptable local effect if local wages kept up with local cost of living.

However, in popular big cities, wages have not kept up, so if rents are allowed to rise to the market rate everywhere in the city, the entire poorer end of the population - who are necessary for any city to function properly - tend to end up displaced.

In theory this could probably be addressed by proper zoning. Allowing some high-end expensive housing is fine; it just needs to be balanced with an appropriate[1] amount zoning for lower-income housing. I fear this could be another area that is easily abused for both social class or racial purposes, but that's probably a problem regardless.

Other areas have addressed these problems with very strong rent control laws.

As cities grow and the population become more dense, these issues will become more common. The answer obviously isn't a pure free market, though I doubt we have invented the best way to regulate these problems. Maybe someone here can direct some innovation to the topic of local government and finding a better way to guarantee the wide variety of people that are needed to run a city are actually able to live in that same city.

[1] I have no idea what amount is "appropriate".
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What UX designer and construction worker have in common?
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To some extent, you probably have heard of them, under the rubric 'direct transfers' or cash payments. Direct transfers of valuable assets (cows or cash) to the very poor have done very well when evaluated in randomized experiments, and I suspect you've seen at least one article on them in the past (albeit it might have been on GiveDirectly or one of the other programs rather than BRAC itself).
Your comment reminded me that I have a Delicious account, which I haven't used for years. I logged in and just for fun went straight to my oldest link (saved in September 2006), and it still works!

http://www.ali-hassan.net/2005/10/31/isync-and-the-motorola-...

But here's one saved the same day that doesn't:

http://www.astronaut.net.au/v325/
Thank you for posting this. I am fan of alchemy and really enjoy it's view on the world.
> It's actually only happening in three cities...

The article does seem to be trying to imply that, but I don't think the census data they cite support such a strong conclusion.

"just three cities—New York, Chicago, and Washington—accounted for one-third of all census tracts that saw poverty rates decline from above 30 percent in 1970 to below 15 percent in 2010"

The criteria and timing seem to suggest that we're looking at neighborhoods that were done gentrifying by 2010. Neighborhoods currently undergoing gentrification could be much more widespread.

And because of their size and demographics, those three cities would account for a large chunk of gentrification even if every single impoverished neighborhood in the US were to gentrify. https://xkcd.com/1138/
Can I just mail you postage instead of heavy quarters? I think that would be nicer to the USPS.
What about the robotics IP Uber obtained from CMU?
You don't need sum types, Result / Optional etc can be implemented in a language without them.

I can implement those in TypeScript too. Its a fast compiler, has a type system, and it supports generics.
oh, free burgers every Friday :-)
Does that mean MySQL patching and updates without downtime?
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To "DIY" without going through a broker, just find a friend who owns stock certificates and have them sell it to you. I believe there would be follow-on paperwork where you inform the company of who the new stockholder is so you can receive communications.

Absolutely NOBODY does it this way.

The closest that exists is that a few companies (often utility companies) still have programs from many decades ago where they will sell stock directly to the public.

Finally, you could (theoretically) become a broker yourself and purchase stock directly on the exchanges.
If you really ended up thinking like that I think that is more reflective of your personality/mind than Yudkowsky's writings. Like, I don't mean this to be insulting, but normal people don't end up paranoid and anxious and worrying about what levels people are playing at and thinking that super intelligent beings are the nature of the world, after reading LW. Normal people say "Huh thats cool" and it makes for fun dinner table talks and at best comes up in real life if you are a contestant on a game show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8

Yudkowsky isn't some devious mastermind trying to brainwash people into thinking wrong so he can. So he can what? Even if he was a devious mastermind who created a polemic work so as to get people to think wrong... what would his goal be?
This is not very constructive. I can tell you're being sarcastic, but if you disagree with the parent comment, then perhaps you could enlighten us why?
I wonder, if based on Lovecraft's premise, one could make the argument that writing, or any work of art, rooted in fear is easier than writing from other mental states, because of its universality.
The moral bias behind your search results
Did you read the article?

> It’s got 25 public methods. Two of those return further interfaces that
> have a combined total of 12 public methods. That’s a total of 37 public
> methods for which you have to build and test in an implementation.

I don't think implementing 37 methods in 30 minutes is particularly reasonable.
> Although for a simple task like this demo, I stand by simple conventional neuroevolution as they would work best and are easy to train as the nets are quite small.

They may be easy to train but I'm not sure about 'work best'. Watching your final trained agents, I see a lot of dumb obvious mistakes where the agent runs right into a line; and I see little higher-level strategic planning like trying to maximize free space around one or run away from a incoming line.
It's ok to use to the Community edition if your company is under a certain size, revenue etc
The linked http://oldweb.today/ is a nice piece of hackage.
You got that "cheek" impression towards the end, and it was the USSR bit that did it? Meaning that the first paragraph, states always caring for their citizens, sounds sensible? Now that scares the shit out of me.
The original report that caused this whole thing presented evidence for 9 companies.

9.

VW is not the only one in this whole situation.
The point is, this does not include the design for any of those components. It would be open source hardware design if it included the design of a monitor, mouse, keyboard, computer data storage, hard disk drive (HDD), graphic card, sound card, memory, motherboard. Open source design of any of those components would be open source hardware design. As it is, what they provided uses closed source hardware components. The hardware parts? They're nvidia cards and intel processors -- not open source. In this case it is the build specification that is open source. I guess there is a blurred line between the two. I would call circuit board designs that include a closed source chip or two as open source hardware. I just think the line should be lower level for it to be called "hardware design" as opposed to "build specification".
The studies the author cites seem to be asking the wrong question.

Rather than asking, "at what rate do poor people leave a neighborhood?", the question should be, "at what rate to poor people come to a neighborhood?".

The former question above simply does not support the conclusion that gentrification does not force poor people out. Sure, the rate at which poor people leave can fall, but if NO poor people are moving into a neighborhood, they are essentially being forced out.
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In some defense of vinyl purists, there's a lot of signal intensity above audible human hearing range in sibilants and especially percussions. http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~boyk/spectra/spectra.htm

However, similar to how we perceive ultra low frequency more as a physical vibration than as sound, these harmonics above 20 kHz are probably merely annoying and subtly felt and impact one major issue of enjoyability - listening fatigue. So maybe we don't want those frequencies from a musical perspective anyway.

Regardless, there's hardly any equipment in use by even "audiophiles" on full-blown analog setups that can faithfully reproduce sounds beyond 30 kHz because of electronics design limitations in themselves rather than an analog-digital end user recording format distinction. In fact, a lot of vinyl historically had to be mastered with a low-pass filter cutting off a lot of the high frequencies because historically with sufficiently high enough energy in high frequencies, the needle would be tougher to control and fly right off the track sometimes (one explanation I read from an audio engineer - really not sure about that logic, but there's definitely low AND high pass filtering on vinyl that makes it lower fidelity in many respects than the master).

Heck, most vinyl produced since the 70s comes from digital masters in the first place.
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)#Myt...

Bugs the crap out of me to see people claim vinyl is superior on technical merits rather than aesthetic ones (sound preference / taste is real). You'd think they're climate change deniers with their insistence and rhetoric. But this is what I meant by purists about the "original" - higher fidelity and clarity is oftentimes not what people desire.
I didn't realize the sync engine was available and possible to use for a 100% self-host solution -- but evidently it is :-)
That way you can't know for sure what is happening all the times you aren't watching (maybe the client is coded with "use shitty encryption [when client receives message X from server / the year is 2016 / your message includes a word on a blacklist]").

In theory you could reverse engineer the binary (which is compiled code), this is how security firms try to understand malware (like stuxnet). But this is pretty hard to do.
It is a little unfair to imply there is no effort to upstream support for Allwinner SoCs:

https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
3D sketching company uMake raises $5.2m
> I'm skeptical how effective that is. Smells like planned obsolescence.

I'm not sure why it smells like that to you. Perhaps the word "absorb" is insufficiently precise. The correct term is perhaps "counterbalance", and it's purely mechanical. Some modern parts have fluid chambers and flexible rubber components to damp oscillation, but that's not "planned obsolescence" because the parts will very likely outlast the rest of the car.
That's not really correct.

There are high field research magnets, but most of the stuff over 7T are small animal magnets anyway (it is very much easier to maintain homogeneity in the main field over a smaller bore. So you're well into "research only" territory here.

There are other trade offs with field strength also, so it really isn't a matter of just "bigger is better".
What makes it harder to prove than any other kind of insurance fraud?
> They (and his earlier co-author Robin Hanson) also like to reduce things to signaling, basically saying that education is just to show off and raise one's status by acquiring pieces of paper, but if you really want to get things done, it's more efficient to self-study and concentrate on the really important things, skipping all this mess that is education.

You say it like it's not true. Traditional education is a mess. A lot of it is smoke and mirrors and signaling. Which is why online education is huge and growing.
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Things have really turned around. The sky line has been transformed and we have a lot of more businesses in center city and a full entertainment center.

I moved here 8 years ago and I love this city and feel like everything is so close to me.
Whenever I think of profit motives being a good thing I'm reminded of the Steve Job biography where it speaks of his time at a commune. He would sleep under the kitchen table and watch people sneak in at night to take food from the fridge which was supposed to be shared. People want as much as they can get for their work, and not a single apple less.
Proactive measures in digital certificate security