skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite often it has nothing to do with survival or health, it simply speeds weight-gain.
Which gigantic subsidies did you have in mind?
Show HN: Hacker News in Real Time
Over the past day or so I've been working on a small project called HNLive. Essentially it is just an alternative interface to HN that updates in real time. I thought it'd be interesting to watch the way the front page evolves during the day and how posts make it to the top. It's also convenient when you don't want to constantly reload.

All feedback is appreciated.

http://hnlive.cf
You are mistaken on two counts.

CRT TVs were designed around interlaced broadcast signals, but CRT monitors most certainly supported high resolution progressive scan video. The much vaunted Sony GDM-FW900, for instance, one of the last great CRTs before LCD monitors took over, supported progressive scan resolutions of 1920x1200 at 85hz.

And the NES and most early game consoles really did output a progressive scan signal that CRT TVs could display, through a hack known as "240p". Basically, the device only ever outputs odd fields in an out-of-spec NTSC signal, giving the effect of a progressive scan image with half of the vertical resolution. CRT TVs, being "dumb" analog devices, would just keep redrawing over the odd lines every time, and never ever touch the even lines.

This is the source of the "scanlines" effect of darkened horizontal lines spanning the screen, as these lines were never directly hit by the beam while a 240p game was running. It's also part of why these old games look like crap on modern LCD TVs, as almost all of them have scaling hardware that is ignorant of the 240p hack and incorrectly treats the signal as if it were interlaced, producing tremendously ugly results.
By and large it's not practical to live and work in the same suburb, especially if you're a two-income couple. Which is why in the D.C. area you have crazy traffic with people commuting between random suburbs. It's way more efficient to put all the jobs in a central location and move people in and out with commuter rail. It could easily take you an hour to drive from one D.C. suburb to another. In that same time, I can commute from Connecticut into NYC.
Oh jeez, if I ever needed spaced repetition to be a programmer, I'd find a new profession, stat.
Your alternate hypothesis is interesting. I wonder if that was considered. As far as why it's on HN though, presumably because many of us find it interesting, despite its drawbacks. (Or even because of them, since it encourages interesting comments like the first part of yours!)
>For one thing it assumes a massive collective irrationality where people's expectations are all rendered berserk and plunged into a negative time preference.

One of the more idiotic ideas to come out of neoclassical economics is the assumption that a negative time preference is irrational or impossible, when most of us have one (pension, passing wealth on to one's kids, saving up to buy big ticket items, etc.).

Indeed, what would really be irrational is spending all of your money immediately.
If the development pattern is typical, office buildings near Denver's light rail station are likely to be newer. It is typically significantly more expensive to develop infrastructure among existing high level uses such as an office park. In addition there are typically density incentives for locating near mass transit that attract new development which existing automobile centric development cannot utilize without buying out existing leases, i.e. when the new rail station comes existing parking adjacent to buildings cannot be converted because it is already under lease agreement with existing tenants.

To go further, low occupancy rates of offices further from mass transit [and that's not quite the same thing as being walkable] may be a sign of impending redevelopment as leases are not renewed and older properties undergo less maintenance in preparation for redevelopment. Given the 30 year cycle that mortgages, depreciation schedules and institutional real-estate investors often operate on, things may not be as cut and dry as the article makes out. I wouldn't discount recent zero interest rates and the bottom falling out of the economy as factors either. [1]

Then again, in the big money long time horizon world of real-estate that's usually the case. Stable internal rates of return are the name of the game.

[1]: That transportation infrastructure was a major source of "shovel ready stimulus" projects is less direct but plausibly related to the public investment.
>Working in SF and commuting in from Oakland for example will enable you to change jobs more frequently without uprooting your life.

So, in that example, anywhere outside of SF in the South Bay isn't an option. Beyond highly concentrated cities like Manhattan where there's a huge confluence of jobs in a particular industry, job mobility causes issues in any case (especially once the jobs of partners and kids' schools are involved) in any case. It's rare industries and location where you can generally change jobs without commute being a factor.
Futurama has noted the rising academic bar. From Season 1, Episode 11, "Mars University":

Fry: Good old Coney Island College! Go, Whitefish!

Leela: Don't take this the wrong way, Fry, but you don't seem like the educated type.

Fry: Oh, yeah? [He takes a piece of paper out of his pocket with "Notice of Failure to Graduate" written on it. The CICC logo is a Ferris wheel.] Read it and weep. I'm a certified college dropout.

Leela: Please! Everyone knows 20th century colleges were basically expensive daycare centres.

Farnsworth: That's true. By current academic standards, you're merely a high school dropout.

Fry: What? That's not fair. I deserve the same respect any other college dropout gets. By God, I'm gonna enroll here at Mars University and drop out all over again!

Leela: You won't last two weeks.

Fry: Aww, thanks for believing in me.

http://theinfosphere.org/Transcript:Mars_University
In addition to the already-mentioned type safety and user-defined operator<< /etc overloading, it's very liberating to read into a std::string and not have to do a bunch of memory management and worry about null-termination or buffer overflows.
The main reasons social media is used:

a) You have a career that requires some PR management

b) You're the type who gets pleasure in showing off (the best image of) yourself to others

c) You are bored, and you get a small thrill from the attention

Are there any other reasons to be a regular, active participant on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook? I get 'just having one' as a sort of contact directory, but beyond that...

Would an educated, independent thinker, someone who really tries to engage and understand the world and has discovered interesting opportunities which they pursue, really have any reason to spend significant time on social media?
Right at the moment the current hashrate is 723 Phash/s, so BitFury hashing at 200 Phash/s rate would get ~28% [1] of the newly generated bitcoin in average, i.e. 0.277 * 144 [block/day] * 25 [BTC/block] ~= 996 [BTC/day]. (Assumes that the difficulty approximately keeps up with the hashrate, which seems to be fine to me.) That translates to more than 400,000 USD per day if BitFury manages to sell them at the current price (highly unlikely) without disrupting the market (impossible at all), but yeah, that gives the rough order of magnitude.

[1] This also means that putting 650 Phash/s gigs into the network is not as profitable as it seems, since it will double (55%) the ratio while three times more expensive (if it linearly scales).
What 50K? Are you telling me I could've applied for 50K in government-issued student loans and then turned around and spent that on a free online school and started a business?
Finding and staying connected with old friends easily. That is a big one.
>The left enacts policies to alter the demographics of a nation in ways that will virtually guarantee them electoral success, and then they loudly decry anyone who criticizes these policies as a "racist," "xenophobe," or something similar

Yes... because they are. Because most liberals believe that everyone, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or creed, deserves equal opportunity. And because they believe in diversity, and compassion, and discriminating or restricting immigration flies in the face of these principles.

>and then they even have the nerve to write boastful articles like the ones I linked to above

Yes, how dare they celebrate their successes and growing support. What monsters...

You act like this is some sort of "gotcha" paradox. It's not. It's perfectly consistent.

>to support the mass importation of homophobic, misogynist, and devoutly religious Muslims,

First, you are being racist and xenophobic here. You are stereotyping immigrants and you are supporting discrimination against them based on this.

Second, you are assuming that everyone shares your racist and xenophobic prejudices. Being against gay marriage, or being a devout Muslim are not reasons in my mind to restrict immigration, even though I think opposing gay marriage is discriminatory and that Islam is a dumb religion. Because I know that this country (USA) has opportunities for a better life than most of the world, and we should grant those opportunities to as many people as is sustainable, something which we aren't even close to achieving.

It is called compassion. And defending liberty. It is the foundation of the country, to accept the downtrodden from all over the world. It is the reason that the vast majority of the population is even on this continent in the first place.

You sound exactly like a 50's racist ranting about how segregation is ending solely because of a political plot to gain black votes, or someone from even earlier ranting about "those damn Papist Irish" taking over in a conspiracy for the Pope to rule the US.

Grow up, sometimes the world isn't as disgustingly cynical as you'd like to believe.
The plot thickens: Willem Pinckaers suggested on Twitter that the code as presented doesn't in fact pass Dual_EC's output through the 3DES DRBG at all, but rather (in both versions) directly exposes the output of Dual_EC.

https://twitter.com/_dvorak_/status/679109591708205056
I've been full-time as a software developer for >10 years, and still haven't been able to get a credit card with a $5k limit. Fortunately, I don't need credit for anything.
I'm no economist, but it seems like a lot of things (most, by dollar amount) I buy are simply not things I could feasibly defer for long. Food and rent (shelter) are the obvious examples by necessity, but also plenty of discretionary spending is obviously time-sensitive. I want to see a movie now, go skiing now, fly home for the holidays now, etc. It's unlikely that deflation stop me from making these purchases, unless it was some guaranteed short-term high-percentage deflation.
Yeah.

And conversely, if anyone makes the argument of "How to Solve Spaces vs. Tabs Forever", tell them to just use spaces. Problems solved!

If only we could.
Care to share with the rest of the class?
To me that's the contact directory point... I'm also talking about regularly participating as opposed to just having one, the latter being so people can connect with you when they need to.
As a counterpoint, you should consider Hayek's critique of the Paradox of Savings:

https://mises.org/library/hayek-paradox-saving

The "deflation makes people not spend" is a hand-wavy argument. There is zero empirical evidence for it.
In 1873 it took 80 days, or so I hear.
New genetic map of Britain shows waves of immigration going back 10,000 years
I understand that it's personal the problem with AAA is that it ignores quite a few of the childhood symptoms of what was Asperger assuming that we would grow out of, the test cast very wide net and even have some contradictory evaluation criteria within them (e.g. DSM-4 referenced that people with Asperger have an aversion for fiction and have difficulty relating to non fictional works, however it also says that the exact opposite might be true and that people with Asperger find science fiction and or fantasy very attractive and are fascinated by it. And that's hardly the only internal contradiction in them pretty much most criteria have either internal loopholes or catch anything that strafes to close to one of the poles).

And while this is utterly not a medical opinion Asperger in adult women i now quite commonly falsely diagnosed in place of borderline emotional personality disorder which predominantly affects women (80% of patients) and is has quite common late onset triggers. This is especially common on early cases of BPD or due to short observation period where mood swings and various other tenancies that are not only not indicative or Asperger but outright rule it out cannot be properly observed. Beyond that BPD and Asperger can have quite similar symptoms in terms of case book diagnosis (which often the only thing that most mental health professionals have to go by unless they have been treating the patient for chronically) as BPD often can exhibit similar emotional shortcomings (lack of empathy, being unable to recognize or reflect emotion) and irregular thinking as well as distractedness (which may also be interpreted as inability to properly communicate/hold conversation) and forgetfulness which often again can be attributed to several AAS criteria.

ASD/AAS while I'm sure are unpleasant (not trying to be patronizing just don't have a better word for it) are not life threatening BDP however can be so while it's quite unlikely you'll take an advice from some internet smartass I would definitely get a second and even a third opinion in your case.
Master Algorithm Lets Robots Teach Themselves to Perform Complex Tasks
Likely – add social media buttons declaratively
>Or is it historical? Have well-educated Germans better internalized the lessons of German history under Nazi and communist rule?

I don't think there's any need to play amateur psychologist. From what I can tell it's cultural from before the great "isms" of the 20th century. My (German) relatives, who arrived in the US in the 1920s, were less likely to share their business with non-family. That's how they were raised.
Stokis Daerah Kelantan – LA Genius SDN BHD
It's landing!!!
The abstract is "Exposing subliminal sexualizing content aimed at young children from Hollywood, TV shows, Movies, and the pedophile fashion industry. Disney channel and Disney movies exposed. Young girls being turned into miniature sex kittens. Illuminati brainwashing and destruction of Morality", and the preview image shows a young girl drinking out of a penis-shaped bottle.

Furthermore, there are comments (never read the comments) like "
This truly shows we live in a sick ass perverted world even looking at the scene from a reality show at the 28:00 mark that the fat bitch is telling little girls they should make the audenice think they are naked to that i say sick ass world there would be no way in hell that this type of shit would've been on tv 30 years ago & if it ever did make it on tv back then every tv watchdog group across the country would have called for the networks to take shows like this off the air.....﻿"

Even furthermore, the suggested video page has videos like "Dead babied in Your Food", "Martin Lawrence EXPOSES Illuminati", "Lil Wayne says the Illuminati is changing the world for the Mark of the Beast".

EDIT: One of the suggested videos is of clear importance to the Hacker News community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbldNqL6LOI
Stuck the landing! Congratulations! 10/10. Would land again.
"Nonsense. It's very easy to have that kind of setup fail - remove one from the load balancer"

I'm sorry - you're already missing the point.

There is no load balancer. There's no firewall. There's no services running except for sshd.

I guess I should qualify what I mean by "better", though. What I mean is, "I know exactly how this will fail and it won't be interesting or surprising. Or take any thought or time to fix."

It will be comprehensible. "FreeBSD on a basic AWS setup - four EC2 nodes (multiple AZs), and an ELB" is not. You have no idea (nor do I, nor do probably most folks at Amazon) the different and fascinating ways that will fail.

(disclosure: we use EC2 instances for backup DNS. We are not anti cloud or anti amazon)
They landed it!!
AMAZING THEY DID IT :)

hah! Tears in my eyes here this is absolutely incredible to watch.

I stayed up for this, I hope I didn't wake up the neighbours and it will take days to wipe the grin of my face.
It landed!!
I dont believe there is a 'right answer' and someone is best pursuing what suits them self personally.

For generalists, assuming intelligence and a reasonable affinity for learning there is a heap of benefit. A generalist can become a specialist relatively quickly, especially when doing something day-to-day on a job. And often a generalist has benefit in understanding the big picture which aids in getting the job done.

Specialists have that edge in knowledge and often stay up to date better and general skills can erode quickly in areas of moving technology. This is useful when you need something worked on at the highest level right now and don't have learning runway.

Personally I've avoided specialising as I like the work diversity, plus enjoy the employment opportunity of having a wider skill set. Also in my field of marketing I find specialists rarely amaze me with their topic knowledge, sometimes the opposite. For some of the specialists I wonder if they get limited to specific areas as they dont like learning new things vs actually enjoying taking their knowledge to as far reaches as possible.
thanks!
Here's the archived google code project page containing everything:

https://code.google.com/p/stableorbit/

But I suspect you'd be more interested in the Github branch if you felt like taking a look at how I and a friend butchered some pyopencl example code and got it working:

https://github.com/ubernaut/stableorbit/tree/pyopencl-nbody
Google Pairs with Ford to Build Self-Driving Cars
wow holyshit that booster thing just landed perfectly!
Completely amazing! I'm sure I heard a "holy shit" or two there in the audience. :)

EDIT: One question for the rocket scientists here: exactly how reusable do they expect these returned first stage rockets to be? What is the process of certifying that a returned rocket is fit to fly, and what components are most likely to need repairing/replacing with each launch?
I wondered whether elephants might actually be beneficial to acacias, by maybe spreading seeds or something (I'm not very familiar with the plant).

On the contrary, it seems elephants' relationship with the acacia is sort of mixed: http://www.primitivism.com/elephant-acacia.htm

I love how interesting things like this lead me to discover even more interesting tidbits. Praise be the Internet.
> don't expose Color or Brush properties

Why not? The ViewModel is written specifically for the View, and it does not serve any purpose to make it UI independent. By avoiding Color etc. in this layer you end with two UI independent layers (Model and ViewModel) and that makes no sense. One UI-independent layer is enough.

In MVVM the View knows about the ViewModel but supposedly the ViewModel does not know about the View. But in reality the ViewModel is written specifically for the View, so it might as well know the View.
Yup, congrats to the whole team. Damn amazing achievement!
I find the whole premise of this article a bit weird. It starts with "Good news". Why is it automatically good news that educated people use social media less?

I'm a German living in the United States and find this part of German society pretty annoying: Being super careful about anything that could potentially encroach on your privacy (for example see the fate of Google Street View in Germany).
I have seen 'Janki method' earlier:
- http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html
I encountered a Mexican kid outside my house (I live in the USA) who was asking me if I knew where there was WiFi. It turns out he was new to the USA and had a cheap Android phone. From our conversation I realized that all of his communication was via FB. Like, he didn't use "email" or "phone" technologies--FB or bust. I actually let him use my WiFi to find his friends. I couldn't tell if he was on vacation or planning to stay...
Uber loses at least $470M / year, if not more (unsure if the number is per quarter, half-year, or full year) [1].

Lyft's struggles have nothing to do with their losses, and all to do with the fact that they're losing the market to Uber.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-reportedly-operating-at-...
They landed the first stage!
Jesus, iPhone app development is pretty much as terrible as I always imagined. Not in the actual development itself, but in convention and mindset.
Direct link to paper:

Combining Model-Based Policy Search with Online Model Learning for Control of Physical Humanoids

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~igor.mordatch/darwin/paper.pdf
Falcon 9 stage 1 rocket lands successfully
Congratulations to team at SpaceX! There are going to be a lot of happy people in that building tonight.
The good news was the level of education.
i'm not the big android user, but having used cyanogenmod with fdroid and free apps exclusively for a bit, i'm quite impressed with the free software userland, especially offline maps and puredata-patch runner, pddroidparty.

pity about the drivers though. at a speech in copenhagen stallman was encouraging people to start reverse engineer these.

it's nice that at least some of the phones are somehow open.
>Any payment system requires energy and electricity. With traditional currency, lots of energy is consumed guarding and moving gold bullions around

Whenever the topic of bitcoin's inherent wastefulness is discussed, someone always brings up this point, but it's a fallacious comparison because most of the power consumed by the traditional financial system is spent in its capacity as a ubiquitous pillar of modern society, wherein bitcoin would be completely subsumed were it to become anything more than a technical novelty.

Even when you subtract the common denominator that represents the vast majority of the world's financial intuitions, bitcoin is still the only currency that burns resources as a function of its circulation.
We just witnessed a major moment in history. Unbelievable.

edit: haha, nice downvote, whoever it was. :)
History is made!
Humanity just made progress! Amazing.
Digital Freedom (2013)
Oh yeah, sorry, I missed the part of the text between the 2 images.