skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this year I've been gradually getting off of the elevator in a lower storey and climbing the rest, and the turns get old really fast.
For one thing, he and I do not mean the same thing when we say anonymous chat :-) - but for a 18 year old it's impressive.
3D Printer Specifications explained
...you completely misunderstand the reasons for those countries to grow their economies so fast.

What is in common between S.Korea, China, post-war Japan and Germany? Democracy?
"My assumption about the big vague spec document is that you currently are asking for {X} and that your end goal is {Y}, therefore I'm planning to do {Z}."
MS Office is a good point. But:

MS Office is available even for Android these days.

Otherwise Wine should work, and ain't there some cloud MS Office these days?
Reading this, I become sure that I lack some vital pieces of background. I'm an adequate musician, and I know a little philosophy, but very nearly every sentence of this piece seems to assume an awful lot of knowledge. (It would seem it's not aimed at people like me.) Does anyone know of a source which explains this background?

For example:

> Very few composers have philosophical gifts, and fewer still attempt to justify their music in philosophical terms – the great exception being Wagner, who, despite his vast literary output, always allowed his instinctive musicianship to prevail when it conflicted with his philosophical theories.

How did Wagner justify his music in philosophical terms? Why did he even feel the need to justify it? What would such a justification look like? What would a competent justification look like? How can I identify a composer who has philosophical gifts?

> But it is precisely the absence of philosophical reflection that has led to the invasion of the musical arena by half-baked ideas.

What half-baked ideas? For me, this also wants a [citation needed]. Has the musical arena been invaded by half-baked ideas? By what mechanism did philosophical reflection keep out those ideas in years past?

I could go on like this through the entire piece: I lack the training to understand it, and I suspect most people on HN do too.
A page for people who get into 3D printing and want to get an overview of what the specs are about.

Pretty much a rough first draft. If you are into 3D Printers and think some section should be extended or changed, let me know.
I've studied lighting tech on and off since getting into planted aquariums in 2006 and remember that some researchers at Philips also lamented the issues with CRI as a metric of light quality and presented their own system which I remember as being a color wheel with a lot of (possibly 100+) marked points. For each point, they'd present a vector as the difference from "actual" (as represented by the appearance in midday sun on a clear day) for a light source, so you could easily see how much a particular light skewed particular colors with fairly fine granularity. I neglected to save the source and haven't been able to find it in subsequent searchings though.
Not great, but at that point they don't get your two factor token at least.
But YAGNI.
Watson Analytics is basically a cloud hosted version of IBM Cognos with a pretty interface and some natural language parsing.

The Watson brandname encompass IBM's Machine Learning and "Big Data" offerings. It doesn't really have a huge amount to do with Watson-the-Jeopardy winner apart from the name.
Many stations still have steps so you're free to walk up and down those.
Yeah, as per my caveat, you had to build the PC with Linux in mind, from best supported components. And the installation process wasn't really the good part. Interestingly this has remained constant in the last 20 years, though the list of good hardware has expanded considerably ;)
The vast majority of people using MS Office would do fine with Libre Office or gnumeric and Abiword.
Dictionaries are embiggened by new words.
Totally agree with you. Multithreaded programming is never easy, neither in Go nor in any other multithreaded language. Erlang is probably the safest because of only immutable data, but you can still deadlock there.

The Observer pattern which is shown here can be especially tricky. Once you register a callback for an event you don't necessarily know from which thread the callback will be called. Some libraries will fire callbacks from a worker thread, other might marshal them to some kind of main thread, etc. If callbacks are fired from multiple threads then event ordering won't be guaranteed and you probably need locking in the receiver (be aware of deadlocks). The next tricky thing is cancellation/unsubscription. In most multithreaded implementations you might still get notifications shortly after unsubscribe during special timing conditions if the thread that fires the notification has not yet processed the unsubscription (or operates on a copied and outdated subscriber list).

A singlethreaded runtime (like node) makes reasoning around this much easier. And you need a lot of less extra safeguarding code to care for these race conditions.
Wine and / or PCI pass through to a windows VM. The second one takes a bit of setup, but it works wonderfully.
Subway Surfers Hack for Android-IOS No Survey
Plenty of people complained about lots of hardware didn't work after that transition. Drivers for dos/9X didn't work on NT / 2K / XP at all.
> And they're so old their body has given up and they spend their days sitting in front of the TV, thinking about all the things they wish they did in their life.

That is very much not necessarily true.
If you're able to structure your "procrastination" time, it's not procrastination, it's just enforced breaks.
Maybe a ski resort style chairlift would work there.
> There are a set of checkboxes under advanced options in the Windows 10 install to "disable spyware" and, it turns out, having those checkboxes didn't stop people from complaining.

Are these the checkboxes that are greyed out in the UI with no way to make them active?
Does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?
From the GitHub page: "This project contains our high performance CPU and CUDA versions of the CTC loss, along with bindings for Torch. The library provides a simple C interface, so that it is easy to integrate into deep learning frameworks."
Most would disregard this as a simplistic, unscientific thought, but the problem is they haven't studied the other side of things with any effort. I feel more and more that reality exists as a fractal, and any direction you focus upon yields its own profound truths. Time exists as a constellation of attention -- and this particular go around it happens to lie within the measurable, observable spectrum.
St. Petersburg has one operator for tri-lane escalators, and two for quad+ - Though maybe I just haven't noticed, it seems to me that people just naturally being the double bunching when capacity is high - usually the operators here just complain too much about people running on the escalator or sitting on the steps.
Audi will land its rover on Moon in 2017
17 years old have no ethics.
Since reading about this gist: https://gist.github.com/cfenollosa/79c22e2ecbb2bdfee15b yesterday, i've gotten interrested in scripting for imap. Great writeup on getting even more information.

"Bobby Tables" got a little laugh from me.
I think the sarcasm was a bit too subtle, at the same time maybe this isn't the time for it?
This essay is written in a stuffy academic style so the author's main idea can get lost in his sea of words. Here's my attempt to understand it:

First the title,

"Why Musicians Need Philosophy"

can be mentally rewritten as

"Why Musicians Need [An Aesthetic] Philosophy [to understand and counteract the Modernist Philosophy]"

Essentially, he's saying that music that is created from emphasizing the "meta" aspect (e.g. modernism or abstraction) rather than composing aural landscapes that please the ear is a form of second rate philosophy.

To support his position, he's claiming that something like the diatonic scales with its divisions is deeply rooted in humanity and not purely arbitrary culture. One can create music that works with this, or one can go "meta" and deliberately avoid it (e.g. atonal for ambiguity's sake). John Cage's "4'33"[1] seems to be the common go-to example of meta music.

This same type of "meta" philosophy argument can be applied to art and literature. Art that "obviously" pleases the eye (such as Michelangelo and da Vinci) isn't all there is to art. The artists can "break the 4th wall" (aka "meta") and push the boundaries of abstractions. The art can draw attention to its medium and materials or try to ignore it. An artist can put a rectangle on the wall with a layer of silver particles covered by a sheet of glass and insist this is art. You as the viewer just see "a ordinary mirror". The artist (and his high-brow allies) then explains that you don't "get it" because there's more to the "reflection". You can see your face in an infinity of Mona Lisas etc. You as a viewer should not be constrained by a "canvas" or "pigments". Other examples might be a plain white canvas with a single dot in the middle. Or it could be a painted line -- and it happens to sell for $44 million[2]. The famous urinal[3] is another piece that invites analysis and commentary. Is all of this "art"? Or "philosophy" packaged as art? You decide.

Discussing avante garde art/music/literature can get really weird and you don't know if people are trolling each other with Poe's Law.[4]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3

[2]http://twentytwowords.com/canvas-painted-blue-with-a-white-l...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Graham Hancock's theories are charitably described as "unconventional" (1) and less charitably as "crank" (2) and "woo" (3)

I don't think it qualifies as a "rebuttal" of anything.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock

2) https://fabulousblueporcupine.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-l...

3) https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/more-woo...
Aren't there apps that do this already? I'm curious as to what makes this more unique than one of the many azan schedule apps out there
You can get all the audio episodes for free at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nrtd2/episodes/downloads....

wget -i <(curl -s http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nrtd2/episodes/downloads.rss | grep -Po 'http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/.*?mp3' | sort | uniq)
I've only toyed with Ada, but it doesn't strike me as particularly verbose?

[ed1: eg: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/N-queens_problem#Ada compares pretty favourably/neutrally in my mind to the C++ version in terms of verbosity (or lack thereof). Unless one gets upset about "end loop" vs "}" ]

[ed3: Hm, I guess looking at:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Balanced_brackets#Ada I could see Ada as being derided as verbose... maybe :-) ]

[ed2: And looking a bit more at rosettacode, I now found:

http://forge.ada-ru.org/matreshka (Quite unrelated to the rest of the discussion here, but anyone else interested in poking at Ada might find it interesting) ]
Full screen apps: Do you mean "modern" UI apps/tools that ship with Windows? Don't use those. You likely don't need any of the built in win8 apps like Mail. And you never ever need to go to the start page or any other part of the modern UI. Everything can be done from desktop (I'm talking about Win8.1 now, not 8). I agree the control panel thing is a fiasco (barely sorted in win10) but have found the classic one to still cover e everything I need.

4K: In Win7 I thought you couldn't even have per-screen scaling settings, so 4K was practically useless unless you were on a single screen or all screens had the same dpi scale? At least in win8 that feature is clearly better than win7.
>>the new deal is the most iconic conservative movement we've ever seen yes?

No. The New Deal is the most liberal policy enacted in American history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority... with its base in liberal ideas, the white South, traditional Democrats, big city machines, and the newly empowered labor unions and ethnic minorities. The Republicans were split, with conservatives opposing the entire New Deal as an enemy of business and growth, and liberals accepting some of it and promising to make it more efficient... By 1936 the term "liberal" typically was used for supporters of the New Deal, and "conservative" for its opponents.
that, and the Adobe Creative Suite.
Yes — it's a business technique whose purpose is the reduction of competitive pressure.
I don't know what you consider high, but FYI Cree has some relatively new bulbs that you can buy for under $10 at Home Depot with a CRI of 93 [1]. I've found Cree bulbs to be excellent in general. Tested a bunch of brands, and my house is full of these now.

[1]: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cree-TW-Series-60W-Equivalent-Sof...
> You can't gather empirical data about 'the mind' because it is a category you made up to describe a set of symptoms but which you are confusing for an entity.

No, I'm not doing that, psychologists are. And psychologists insist that the mind is a suitable topic for scientific investigation. You've managed to confuse me with a group that I spend much of my time criticizing for their scientific pretensions.
Git Svn Clone vs Init and Fetch
I am always opposed to government interfering into private businesses and I don't like think "I will break up big banks" attitude.

I would support a legislation that says no bailout money to any private company ever. If something is too big too fail the investors would shy away from investing into it.
It is not obvious...really.

Azure: 4 cores, 7GB RAM, 120GB Disk + 200GB xfer, Basic Tier: $156.84

AWS: C4.Xlarge, 7.5GB RAM, 80GB SSD, + 200GB xfer: $170.37

Can I make examples where Azure is more expensive...sure. But straight comparisons are hard to do. The product offerings don't line up well.
I suggest using the desktop app with global hotkeys for Search and Vault. I got used to it, and actually prefer how I can now seamlessly access login details from a Terminal window.
Very interesting. Especially regarding the starting a task, e.g. writing a sentence, and stopping midway only to return a day later. It resonates with me.

I think an important distinction in procrastination, that was not explored in this article, is that a task has to be started or at least prepared in order to successfully procrastinate upon it. For example, it won't help to put off finishing a university assignment until the last minute if you haven't read the task description. In that case, the thought processes that were mentioned in the article would never have a chance to start. On the other hand, if you have read a task description, even if you are procrastinating while binge-watching Netflix, a background process is still running and working on the task. The author of this article describes it as "Our first ideas, after all, are usually our most conventional" vs "When you procrastinate, you’re more likely to let your mind wander."

This ties in with a work methodology that works for me very well. Instead of working on a project non-stop as soon as it starts, I prefer to work in small chunks that give me enough time to "background-process" the task at hand while I'm not working on the given task. It is similar to practicing or physical exercise, in that the time that you spend on the activity is as important as the time that you are not spending on the activity. Your brain and muscles need time to regenerate and help strengthen the abilities that you are trying to nurture.
>>How is the idea that variation in productivity leads to a variation in income a "breathtaking misunderstanding of poverty"? It's absolutely true that variation in productivity leads to a variation in income...

No. Productivity has nothing to do with income. You can be the most productive widget-maker in the factory. That doesn't mean you will make a lot of money.

Income inequality exists and has been growing because those at the top have been reaping the increases in productivity of those at the bottom. In fact that's the entire debate: employee productivity has massively increased since the 70s, but wages have not reflected this.
Unfortunately you can't use a heat pump (at least a normal one) below about -8C (17F), so -17F would definitely be out.

I also don't know anything about energy in Minnesota, but here in BC, gas heating is still cheaper than electric, especially if you use an efficient gas furnace (that doesn't exhaust too much heat), but not as much as it used to be. (Technically though it will always be less "efficient" than electric due to that exhaust, but that's really comparing apples to oranges.)
sigh I know this article is a repost but I remember going through the FBI online application process years ago and quitting at that question.
Improved dentistry. "Drill and fill" is so primitive, and it's a shockingly inexact and error-prone discipline.
I actually liked the message in this essay. That said, I've wondered why we put so much stock/interest in PG's essays?

I've casually read some of PG's essays, and came away with a few observations:

1. It doesn't appear he puts a lot of thought into his writing. His thoughts are not new.

2. He's a C- writer. (I'm a horrid writer, but I know it.)

3. He shouldn't dash off an essays while imbibing in any chemical. I'm not saying he does, but some of these essays, and Twitter blurbs--seem to appear on the weekend.

4. It's kinda like saying lets all listen/read everything Donald Trump says because he's wealthy. Actually Trump is probally the last person you would want to listen to if you wanted to be a realestate mogul. Why--because he leaves out the the real truth to his wealth creation; a father with a lot of money, having the money to hire the right people, and monetarily comfortable enough to take chances with money. Buying Realestae, and expecting it to go up on value is kinda a given--right? I could jam an ice pick through my eye socket, and sever my frontal lobes, and still utter, "Buy Realestae--where--people want--to live."

4. I might have missed something in PG's latest essay, but I imagine he's a little rattled, like a lot of middle aged men, over all the male deaths we have had lately.

As to Life is short--that's nothing new. A hospice nurse told me, on more than a few occasions, she never met anyone who wished the worked more in the end, with that opiate drip pumping chemicals into the vein.

Relationships are what's important. I need to work on cultivating mine. I've put up a wall, and should learn to forgive people for being people. If I don't change soon, I'll be that guy with the morphine drip--thinking I wished I lived differently. I'm alwready thinking, I've wasted my life.
FYI I had that happen to one of my Cree bulbs. I didn't want to deal with returning a single bulb to HD, so I emailed Cree, and they just sent me a new bulb, no questions asked.
> Windows update has been disabled since then

That does not seem very smart to me. I think personally that Microsoft is adding telemetry to make Windows more secure and compete with Apple and Google who do the same. But if you don't trust it, it seems better no not use it at all.
Great read! Really well written too. Kudos to you for being so open about everything - I can't imagine many high schoolers would have written with as much candour as you did in the "You ≠ your app" section.
Shameless self promotion: I just wrote a blog post about it yesterday [1] and while this method have been effective for me, I try to stay away from procsatination and do some non-mental activities that make part of my routine, and thus give my brain the opportunity to subconsciously organize its ideas an thoughts to make it a one piece that fits together.

[1]http://blog.kiloreux.info/my-approach-to-problems/
Is there an alternative for those who keep google out of their internet ?
We're getting there. Here's a light bulb with full RGB options and a built-in bluetooth speaker: http://www.playbulb.com/en/playbulb-color.html#meet-playbulb...
Da Vinci's Bridge in Ice
TSspeedbooster Enterprise Edition:Alternative to Windows Terminal Services
I have a linux gaming rig. It's actually a dual-boot setup but I'm in Linux 99% of the time. Depends on the games you want to play, but there is a decent selection of games on Linux, and with frameworks like Unity it's pretty easy for devs to make Linux builds. Most games I play are native Linux builds, and then I have Wine for other games. I do use the windows partition as a last resort but it's rare (since building the computer I've used it once for GTA5)
Michael Jackson's songs Will you be there cover
Codeanywhere is a customizable web-based development environment
Through the Wormhole – Is there a creator? [video]
What you will notice is that the up escalator will always be on the Left hand side.
The project is building a 35 meter long model of a bridge designed by Da Vinci in 1502 using pykrete (ice mixed with 2 % cellulose fibers). It is to be finished by mid February. They have two webcams that show the construction site (currently not much to see there):

http://juuka.fi/web-kamera/pic.cfm

http://juuka.fi/web-kamera2/pic.cfm

Also some photos are available at (including their prior projects from last year, and the year before): https://www.flickr.com/photos/structuralice
Dutch is a language of proverbs. One of them is 'High trees catch a lot of wind'. The further you stick your head out the bigger the chance that someone will try to score points of you, either by picking apart every word you wrote or by mis-interpreting if possible every little turn of phrase. This goes with the territory of being very visible, and Paul is now a fairly high tree in the tech landscape his essays offer easy hand-holds to those that wish to practice their written wrestling skills. This will likely get worse as YC goes on to more and more successes (pretty much un-avoidable with the speed the snowball has been going down-hill).

Since plenty of people reading Paul's essays are more than capable of figuring out the intent rather than taking pot-shots at the form in which that intent was cast I don't think given the choice between playing 'someone's wrong on the internet' and spending time with your kids there should even be a contest. On the other hand, action begets reaction and there isn't an essay that Paul wrote that did not have its share of discussion and picking apart so maybe simply accept that and totally ignore the responses?

Enjoy the time you have while you can, indeed, life is too short and I wished I could spend and had spent much more time with my kids. Before you know it they'll be borrowing your car keys and all those years that feel like they will last forever will have vanished.

Better make them count!
You're making a lot of assumptions here that you haven't a shred of proof for.
It would be interesting to see data to support whether this hypothesis holds up.

I have two gut feelings:

1. Hobbyist Etsy sellers don't dedicate the time and/or lack the business savvy to be running additional sales channels outside of Etsy. Additionally, even setting up a Shopify, etc. store requires some technical ability that you or I take for granted.

2. Semi-professional Etsy sellers, for example, those coming from operating eBay or Amazon Stores, were already using their other channels before Etsy. So they were sophisticated enough that it was cheap/easy to have someone whip up an osCommerce + PayPal site for them. I did this personally for a few clients already successfully selling on forums between 2005-2008.
It's already being done. November update to win10 is the 1511 version...
> the field of Republican candidates they do NOT argue in favor of inequality.

That's because they are, and have been completely fine with inequality. They have done nothing, absolutely nothing which indicates they are concerned with income inequality and propose no solutions. So when you say they do not argue in favor of inequality, you're correct. That's because they completely ignore it. They pretend it doesn't exist.