skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunate that, in science, if it isn't written down, it doesn't exist.

Having been bitten by the 'but we already know how to do that' comments, I find this particular aspect of industry to be very irritating. There are 3 possibilities:

The unpublished solution is brilliant.

The solution fits for very limited constraints applicable only to that situation.

The solution is a half-assed hack that only looks like it works.

In only one of those situations is the 'naive' comment valid.
This appeal to the morality of empathy is actually not relevant to either the discussion or your comment.

>This kind of empathy with others will make you much more effective when you're creating for people who are not like you.

What you are describing is the action of gaining knowledge of other's likes/dislikes. This can be done entirely robotically i.e. completely without emotion. Knowing about others is only a part of empathy. The other part is actually exercising this emotion in your actions, choices, and interactions with other people.

I don't think not understanding snapchat (and not wanting to understand snapchat) is a display of a lack of empathy. There are many things that each of us choose not to spend time learning about. That is just a basic facet of life.

And, I find it extremely disingenuous to start blaming people of being "bad human beings" because they do not care to entertain themselves with a currently popular social application. Like really? Is this what we have lowered our discussion standards too?

This jump to appealing to some sort of moral high-ground to establish your point is logically fallacious at best. Especially when morality/ethics plays zero part in people's personal views/choices in regards to a topic e.g. this topic.

>make an effort to talk to people outside of your normal social circles once in a while.

You do realize that the majority of Snapchat's users are most likely using it to participate in THEIR social circles, right? To each their own. It's perfectly fine to NOT be in some social circles.

I am seriously amused that the top comment is an appeal to ethical standards in regards to people's personal opinions about an app. Very amused! :D
So is SVG! Hell even docx is just XML!
Why would grandma want a desktop instead of a chromebook?
And why would a poweruser or a gamer want an underpowered PC?

This might be good for intermediate/casual/netbook users though or those who do computing on some remote machine.
It wouldn't need to necessarily be an exception, but it could be, as suggested elsewhere in the thread, an appropriate property tax... If this stuff is indeed "intellectual property" then it should have property taxes.

People who don't pay the tax can involuntarily donate to the public domain after the previous reasonable term of say, 56 years after creation.
Interesting paper. It sounds good until you look for the actual work. With a possibly limited amount of testing, you can't be sure of anything. In verification, you can never just trust the tools. With no code coverage numbers, how do I know how thorough the existing tests are? The tests themselves have no docs.

The torture test page said it still needed support for floating point instructions. That kinda says, they did no torture tests of floating point instructions. I wouldn't be happy with that. Same goes for loops. Etc.

You have to think about physical failures as well: the paper mentions various RAMs in the 45 nm processor. You should have BIST for those and Design For Test module/s. Otherwise you have no way to test for defects.
Ack... yes. Thank you.
Some of these kinds of stories are overblown, but surely this is either sexism or a complete misunderstanding of the movies. And/or, I guess. If you're going to include four characters, and three are Luke, Vader, and Renn, the fourth should clearly be Rey. Vader:Luke = Renn:Rey
Censored internet access though (Korean Porn-Blocker)

[ec2-user@ec2 ~]$ curl youporn.com
<html><script>
var arg = "http://warning.or.kr";
var str = new Array();
str = arg.split("&", 1);
var a = new Array();
a = str[0].split("=");
var b = Math.floor(a[1] / 100);
var c = new Array();
if(b == 10){location.replace("http://www.naver.com");}
else if(b == 20){location.replace("http://www.daum.net");}
else if(b == 30){location.replace("http://www.paran.com");}
else{ c = a[0].split("?");
location.replace(c[0]);}
</script></html>
From the linked "Segway" Patent:

FIG. 12 shows an alternate embodiment of a balancing vehicle with a single wheel central to the support platform of the vehicle and no handle in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

Take a look at figure 12: http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US6302230B1/US063...
Not very surprising that some form of education makes you more likely to be successful, but does it necessarily have to be the institutional form of school?
Reconsidering Booker T. Washington in the Age of Amazon
Are there any other good sources for open source Android apps?

I love F-Droid, but they plan to drop Firefox, and Chromium will never make it on there.
Nix is probably the optimal package manager, but it still is a package manager, and so still encodes particular ontological choices that get made differently by different distros at different times.

In other words: I don't just want my game from ten years ago to run; I want my game from ten years ago that was built for a RHEL-alike to run on the Debian-alike I've got today (or maybe even using FreeBSD's Linux-binary support.) Nix can't give me that, except by just being the particular tool that ends up putting together the packages that go into a container-image.

Nix can be used to exactly re-instantiate the same set of files ten years later, presuming the original Nix repo you found the software on was still alive ten years later. In that way, it is similar to creating a container-image. But for this use-case, it doesn't give you anything that the container-image doesn't, while the container-image does give you an assurance that a stable (sandbox-based) interaction model was defined at the time of the image's creation, which can still be used today.

Something that intersected the Nix package-management model with the Mac App Store "only self-sandboxed apps will be accepted" model would be strictly equivalent to containers, though.
"federal funding for cancer research is at the lowest point in decades..."

http://www.asco.org/sites/www.asco.org/files/cancer_resarch_...
> both (self-described) verbal and visual learners seem to learn better visually

Though I'm guessing verbal learners and visual learners both learn better when doing a task utilizing both visual and verbal senses, than they would doing either a visual only or a verbal only task. The verbal-visual distinction could be a distinction between 60% verbal / 40% visual on the one hand and 40% verbal / 60% visual on the other. I'd also guess that if students are forced to make some body movements (kinesthetic learning) at the same time as speaking/listening (verbal) and watching/diagramming (visual), retention of material is even greater for virtually all of them.
Snapchat is the most important social network right now among my friends. I'm 27 (so not core Snapchat demo but close) and very few of my friends work in tech. It's massive.

Instagram and Facebook are both close, but if something is happening there's a 5x better chance someone is going to Snap it than Insta it and 50x chance they'll Snap it than do anything with it on FB.
ZypMedia Is Hiring Lead Engineer for Low Latency C++ Role
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I'm not some kind of libertarian free-market solves all problems person. I think markets have many short comings. However, this is a case where I think people genuinely prefer the closed platforms for all kinds of reasons. They are better user experiences, they are easier to understand for a busy layperson, etc.
Sounds very cool.

Could they just float themselves on some sort of bitcoin stock market so as a retail investor, I can throw some BTC their way and get a small % of their company?

It's so frustrating seeing ideas I know will become big and not being able to put my money there. I understand the startup world pretty well but as I'm not a VC I have no way of getting skin in the game. Instead putting my money into blue-chips and YOLOing on IPOs from companies that are already huge.
Jide replied that the kernel is untouched, so if you want the kernel source for Remix OS just grab AOSP: https://forum.jide.com/index.php?p=/discussion/563/source-co...
Null terminated is going to be nice in most instruction sets, you don't need to keep track of a count, so you save a register, and you have one less thing to increment (or decrement). Loop condition is basically free too, loading the next byte into a register is going to set the status register, so you don't need a compare, you can just branch if the zero flag is set.

As long as you are handling good data, it's clearly more efficient.
There's much less overhead (simple setup, easy posting, chronological display). I'll also be building out a set of features that help customers provide feedback.
South Korea Punishes Kim Jong Un with K-Pop for Nuclear Test
MSDN and TechNet are different things.
That gives me an idea for a copyright scheme.

By default any work is protected by copyright for 30 years.

After this point the copyright can be renewed for 10 year periods, with the cost increasing each time. Maybe the first extension costs $100, the second $10,000 the third $10,000,000 and so on. Put a cap at 7 extensions for a total of 100 years. Inflation makes all of this tricky, but if its all based off of a base price which is pegged to inflation and then the extensions are multiples of that it would work fine.

I'd argue that a longer monopoly on a work is more burdensome on society so it makes sense that it would cost more. Maybe they can reinvest the fees into the patent office or something.
Meanwhile the European Commission dropped plans to regulate endocrine-disrupting substances after corporate pressure.
Could this be considered an example of Facebook commoditizing their complement? In other words, if Facebook can encourage cross-platform or multi-platform software in general, does it make it harder for hardware companies to differentiate themselves with platform-specific features that compete with Facebook (e.g. iMessage or Xbox Live)?

I suppose this would also go for Flux/React/GraphQL and, to a lesser extent, Open Compute.
This company filed a provisional patent long before they contacted their first manufacturer. It's a pretty common (and some may say racist) claim to assume chinese company can't invent anything, and that white company never steals anything. But evidence showing either of these claims is lacking. Do you have such evidence? Does anyone?
Greece still has an olympic stadium they haven't been using much recently.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/aug/13/abandon...
I waited 6 hours in line for Sushi Dai. Food was amazing.
You should reread the comment. It doesn't say everyone needs to use Snapchat, just don't insist it's stupid merely because you don't understand it.
To clarify, because it may not be clear without looking at the accompanying graphic in the article, 1800s in this case refers to the decade, not the century.

That is, more books in the years 1800-1809 than 1990-1999.
I thought the limited 255 byte strings were a nuisance in Turbo Pascal. It was one of the many reasons switching to C/C++ felt like getting out of jail.
> All they got were 300% gdp/debt ratio and badly constructed roads/buildings.

This is too hyperbolic. They got airports and a large network of trains and high-speed trains. They also got the internet, electricity and smart phones all of which are still relatively new to China. The impression I got when I lived there was that the past decade has been all about developing infrastructure. Now there is a young generation growing up with more education, more technology and more opportunity than ever. China is a huge, complex country early in its development and it is hard to generalize about it.
Thanks for that datapoint which shows that a customer received a working chinese onewheel board before the american company's patent application was even first published, and long before that american company had a working product based on those principles for sale.
All true.

It's pretty typical rhetoric in libertarian circles to call anything that is done by or with the help of government as "violence."

Kind of falls apart at a certain point, but I see where they are coming from.
an interesting point about pgsql is that the team wrote the documentation first and coded it after. when it's finished they didn't need to write docs.
In Japan at least a large fraction of the compensation comes in non-monetary "perks". Ex: Company car, use of company plane, etc. Similar things happen in Europe.

Though I'm sure it isn't as insane as it is in the US.
$43 is for a VIP type experience - smaller number of big reclining arm chairs, food and drinks delivered to your seat throughout the movie, etc. Similar to the difference between an economy and business class seat on an airline.

At the big-chain theatre that I saw Star Wars, the "standard" price for a non-3D movie is $19.50. However it's very easy to get discounted prices for any movie. I paid $12.50 for my ticket, booked it online a few minutes before I left home.

I'm quite sure that the extra dollars paid for the $43 movie ticket was going to the movie theatre, not Hollywood.
.bind(NYTimes)
Techcrunch: AmpMe Syncs Multiple Devices to Become a Portable Speaker System
Many people majoring in a second language learn better aurally/orally, whereas those at a coding bootcamp perhaps learn better visually. Perhaps the obvious existence of these two primary learning styles has been expanded on and exaggerated so much that it has now become largely bogus, e.g. those explained on Wikipedia's learning_styles page.
Indeed. It's the job of a good regulatory environment to make the two coincide as much as possible. (Including a tax system that internalizes externalities. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax)
where is your productmap?
I liked idea personally but I would like to see your own productmap first.
I ate at Sushi Dai the morning after Fukushima.

A group from the hostel I was staying at spent the night at a manga cafe near Tsukiji that night. No line that morning.
So I think our pal Sonic the Hedgehog's famous quote applies, although the context is slightly different: http://i.imgur.com/wi1QIgG.jpg*

Well that certainly wasn't expected, but was good for an absurdist chuckle. Why would someone put this together with Sonic? Purely for the absurdity?
The title of this piece does not reflect its contents. So far, according to the article, DuPont has been forced to pay less than $100 million in damages for a chemical that resulted in $1 billion plus annual profits. Personal injury suits are ongoing, but "At the rate of four trials a year, DuPont would continue to fight PFOA cases until the year 2890."

The lawyer sounds incredibly and understandably frustrated with the situation:

"The thought that DuPont could get away with this for this long," Bilott says, his tone landing halfway between wonder and rage, "that they could keep making a profit off it, then get the agreement of the governmental agencies to slowly phase it out, only to replace it with an alternative with unknown human effects — we told the agencies about this in 2001, and they’ve essentially done nothing."

A better title would be: "Through effective legal strategy, DuPont delays outlays for pollution effects"
Recall the LIBOR rate was fudged for a cup of coffee [1]. Life is more about politics then wealth in capital.

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/interest-rates-were-fixed-f...
Used gimp since v0.54 back in the 90's. It's sure come a long way since then. I've been using v2.9.x on Linux and lately trying it on Windows 10. Not so good on Windows, but the Linux version seems pretty solid.

IOW for most users, including me, gimp 2.9 will be good enough for most anything we're likely to throw at it. And BTW I think xfce works well, reasonably complete (except for controlling Wacom drawing tablets). To me KDE/Gnome, might as well be using Windows...
I don't argue with that. Poisoning the environment and ourselves in nothing new. And it is not limited to humans. You can get sick from drinking stream water for a number of reasons, some of them "natrual." But people think animals are somehow immune. Wrong, they die from bad water or random infections also. The world has never been safe or pure.

But we are actively making it worse, and are not improving anytime soon. It may seem like only greedy people do these kind of things, but we are all causing it. Everyone lauds solar polar for being green, but completely gloss over the environmental costs.
Show HN: Wiplo, beautiful project management, built with Meteor
Asmodee becomes board gaming’s new monster, acquires English rights to Catan
There needs to be more information about how it's better and why. Because there's nothing about it now. Even just a paragraph explaining how it's different would be nice.
Funny thing is that now it's no good for dark markets because it doesn't work over Tor.
funny, mine was first...
Right, high frequency con artistry.
I did a quick Google but Zathura is a popular name. Do you mean Zathura the document viewer? Just asking because I've been looking for one.
The Journey to a Secure Internet of Things Starts Here
Chinese parliament holds 83 Billionaires (2013)
Because the protections afforded by trademark are far more limited and targeted. Trademark law is the scalpel that cuts out the fakes using your logo or companies trying to pass themselves off as you. Copyright is the blunt instrument (especially with the corporate insistence that fair use doesn't exist) that you can browbeat people with. There is nothing like the DMCA for trademark.
> 1. The Dev environment is basically superior to everyone else's now.

That seems to be subjective. I like the debugger in Visual Studio but I much prefer emacs and Makefiles. Even if emacs is often slow to highlight large C files.

To each their own.

> 2. Microsoft is very open about the stats and rules they collect. Apple does many of the same things (don't believe me? Proxy your apple machine and use it for a day. Start typing in spotlight, too) and it's straightforward to disable them.

The article is fairly light on comments regarding retention policy.

> 3. The hardware is nicer. Especially now that the rev0 bugs are mostly worked out.

The surface book is intriguing to me due to having the built-in pen support. I love my Wacom but I hate lugging it around.

Otherwise, meh. Apple has the better hardware design that fits my preferences.

> 4. The ecosystem is more open by design. You can bring in an iPhone or Android Phone without trouble. Heck, many of the interesting bits even run on OSX.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of this. When I can hand off calls from my iPhone and get the same level of integration you get in the Apple ecosystem the deal will be sealed.

> 5. There is an MIT license over most of the core dev tools (some other projects use the Apache license) Microsoft has released, and their libraries and APIs. This means that unlike Oracle's java, the Mono project has a great deal of future proofing against these absurd lawsuits.

This is an interesting turn of events. It's also the new black it seems: Apple with Swift, CLR.

I mainly want it because hardware vendors support it. You most likely can't get better than OpenGL 4.1 until the next major update to OSX even if your hardware supports 4.5!
Not arguing for or against anything. Armed men taking property and prisoners is violence regardless if it is sanctioned by the state or not. Civilized society wants that sort of violence if it is applied to violent crime. The same society might debate if that sort of violence is appropriate for other activities.
I think it's even more dramatic than that. Wealth conveys the ability to explore alternate experiences with more efficiency.

What I mean by that is the ability to either fund "vicarious" experiences. ("If I worked on this project, I'd do about the same thing as that person, so I'll hire them to do it.") As well as the more conventional kinds of acceleration like finding it easier to more frequently have more peak and different experiences like travel.
FXP 2x inverse leveraged ETF of 50 of the largest and most liquid Chinese stocks listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Index goes down 7%, the ETF goes up 14% (roughly). If you love more risk, YANG for 3x inverse leveraged ETF.
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Completely agree; interesting remark. I was recently traveling with someone that spent probably a good 25% of her time on Snapchat. It was kinda (read: thoroughly) offputting
Hmm. I wonder if they designed this without knowledge of who the main characters were and just assumed the female lead of the new Star Wars would be relegated to the same place as Leia. Obvious mistake.
Feature Flags for Product Managers – The New Agile
If a civil judgement is severe enough, it is an effective death penalty for the corporation.
Don't know if I'm missing a link somewhere but I really can't find anything that explains what your product/service is.
Sign up for Stanford's Bitcoin course and they'll make a MOOC
That's what bundlers are for -- it's amazing how many corporate employees are willing to ante up to the maximum limit amount. Sometimes even folk making fifteen bucks an hour. Very civic-minded, they are.

Less cynically, most contributions aren't about bribery for legislation (superPACs looking increasingly like an exception), but about simple access, ensuring that your calls get returned and your point of view is at least heard. It's still quite arguably a corrupt system, but the corruption is slightly abstracted from the simple act of giving money.
ROOT has been making progress with regards to one of the points addressed in the post. Regarding needing a special program to view an HDF5 file, root has developed a JavaScript viewer which can display data and stored plots and graphs. It's pretty cool, HDF5 could do something similar if it doesn't already exist.
https://root.cern.ch/js/
Don't kill Tumblr please. It is my go to source for porn.
What you look like may determine where you are seated in a restaurant
Really nice animations!
I used to be an academic so I would go on sabbatical. I now work for myself so can basically live where I like (or more importantly where ever my wife wants to live). This is one of the nice perks of being the boss of a business with a small team that is all remote.

I would not like to move every 6 months either. I basically go years without a break, then move somewhere for a while. The last place I lived for 6 months was NYC - a totally different lifestyle to Australia and one we really enjoyed.
That's a bit reductionist on something that is inherently non-reductionist: how do you define a good problem worth solving.

I believe you presented a logical leap between having all the tools one could ever dream of <-> delivering scientific impact.

Here's a citation: "scientific impact is a decelerating function of grant funding size".

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
A Blade Runner Replicant was conceived today
Massive civil unrest because Apple is kicked out of China? Ummm, there wouldn't be massive civil unrest in Palo Alto if Apple was kicked out town. People buying Apple products just don't do massive civil unrest. They'd bitch on Twitter (or Weibo/etc), but riots in the streets because you can't buy an iPhone? I'm as big an Apple fan as the next guy, but that just isn't credible.