skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somewhat agree with this. The IPCC book looks like it's got all the information I'm looking for (maybe a little long for my level of interest), but it's from a non-objective organization so it could be as biased as the book I've got, just in the other direction.
I feel like no-one has managed to build a small-business CRM (like his Shoebox CRM) effectively yet. I run a one-person business and I'm still using a colour-coded Excel sheet to try and figure out when I should bug sales prospects.
You may also be interested in aluminum-air batteries, which have better than 10 times the specific energy density compared to lithium ion chemistries. The downside is that they aren't rechargable, but that may not matter for flights (they are recyclable though).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery
Those acronyms mean different things in the US.
USPS = United States Postal Service, the official one.
UPS = United Parcel Service, a different company
Man, people will get defensive over the strangest things when it comes to their in-group.

edit: to be less specific about any particular group.
Huh, didn't know that. I never use Messenger.
Wait, is he serious? Is he really making the argument that they assemble in China because the schools there teach children how to assemble iphones? Even if you generalize it to any manufacturing assembly job, it still sounds ridiculous.
It still matters for transmission, construction and maintenance costs, as well as resources like land and labor.

You may not need scaled installations, but they will still beat out the alternatives in any industry shakeout over the long term. We build large scale factories, farms, ports, airports, roads and retail outlets. These happen because they work. Even if the energy production at scale gave no advantage, all the other advantages of scale means that it wins out in the end.
A possible explanation to this could be that AliExpress is simply trying to attract people to their platform by any means possible.

This means subsidizing purchases to draw users in.

I just considered buying that 3c button just because of how cheap it was, and this would have required me to register with them, and enter my cc number. This means that purchasing stuff from them in the future would be easier and I would be more likely to do it.

This could explain the free shipping on the China leg, and then as was mentioned there is a treaty that allows for nearly free shipping in the US by Chinese companies.
All I've seen indicates that hunter gatherer populations were more likely to be taller than most historical peasant populations. As a consequence of a peasant's diet being less nourishing.
Co-founder Jack Conte after raising $15M in 2014 [1]:

> Conte said his main concern in raising the round was pissing off the Patreon community. “Because we’re so cognizant of how venture capital can also be a dangerous thing, we do want to make sure our creators know how thoughtful this round was,” he said. “We spent a long time meeting a lot of folks.”

I wonder how creators feel about Patreon raising $30M today?

[1] http://recode.net/2014/06/23/creative-patronage-startup-patr...
The "It was warm 1000 years ago, so climate change is a lie" bit. Choice quote from the link:

> "Even if the world were incontrovertibly warmer 1,000 years ago, it would not change the fact that the recent rapid rise in CO2 explains the current episode of warming more credibly than any natural factor does—and that no natural factor seems poised to offset further warming in the years ahead."
Those brands are big, and had a very strong upward trajectory at one time, but are they amazing? They remind me of sugar water. Especially 7/11. https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2813-do-you-want-to-sell-suga...
Sleep Tech Will Widen the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor
The Promise and Confusion of USB Type-C
An Ancient, Brutal Massacre May Be the Earliest Evidence of War
One thing has changed though: Backbone ISPs are throttling UDP traffic.
Impressive! One thing that caught my eye was:

> In the process, we also optimized our XML parser, released now as Fast XML, a high-performance, memory efficient Expat-based Erlang and Elixir XML parser

The shout out to Elixir is interesting. I glanced through the linked GitHub code and as far as I can tell nothing is written in Elixir, although it's still a trivially true statement since Elixir can easily use Erlang libraries. I guess Elixir is a big enough force in the Erlang community now that they want to highlight that their software works fine for Elixir users as well!
> I would like to get a perspective from people who are doing the funding.

Funding in general, or funding in those specific cases? I fund an Indie band that despite what the OP claims writes their own music and tours. I support them because I enjoy their music, they are nice people, I've met them in person, and want them to know that I value their efforts and this is a way for me to encourage them to continue.

Not sure if this answers your question, or if it was even what you were looking for.
Seems that I've got my facts misaligned.

Thank you for the clarification.
GM didnt exactly do nothing - what they did was fix the part on later models but keep the part number exactly the same so that no body would suspect that the original part had an issue and they wouldnt have to do a recall.
I was hit hard by the cognitive dissonance at the start of section 2.

Just after waxing in section 1 on how Rails is designed to his own happiness (including adding quirky methods like 'fifth'), he says "One of the early productivity mottos of Rails went: “You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake”"
Thanks!

Indeed, there have been a bunch of promising capability research projects that never quite made it to production. Sandstorm's Cap'n Proto is based on Mark Miller's E language and CapTP protocol, while the Powerbox concept derives from Marc Stiegler's CapDesk (although of course many production systems contain narrow-purpose powerboxes "by accident"). Both MarkM and MarcS are friends of the project and have provided review and advice.

Sandstorm, though, is not a research system. I like to think we have been able to make capabilities practical by being willing to step away from the purist philosophy when it makes sense. E.g. CapDesk required software to be written in E (IIRC), meaning the world had to be rewritten from scratch, which simply wasn't going to happen. Sandstorm compromises by allowing legacy native code to run in fine-grained containers. As a result we are able to deliver real, useful applications to thousands of users today. :)
Hey! Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely consider that route, it's been something I've been looking at in a variety of forms.

If you happen to know anyone specific that you'd recommend, I'm all ears!
Liability shift does not apply to NFC payments, and only impacts generally if chip processing is available but not used. (And since CC issuers are pushing out Chip cards, this is becoming a concern for merchants)

More info: http://www.emv-connection.com/downloads/2015/05/EMF-Liabilit...

The linked NYTimes article suggests a different justification for the blocking of NFC payments by CVS.
Yeah honestly it's amazing. I've ordered some stuff from there and at that cost I can't believe it makes it to me. Though the post office does require a signature on a lot of these and then holds it hostage and it's not worth me making a trip to the post office to retrieve my $1 item.
I'll take this as a complement. I've collected these "ideas" for the last 5-6 years, mostly out of complaints of stupid things I have had to do for my job. So there is a "market" even though the market may only be me. I agree on your second point too, these ideas are sitting in front of everyone's monitors right now "gratis" because most likely have no business value and are better suited for side-projects/hobbies.
I do disagree. It was less technically advanced, but I don't think that's the same as "primitive".
Ask HN: What obscure encryption laws does your nation have?
I'm curious about what other deal with in different countries. TIL that in the US, apparently it's illegal to do things as simple as selling access to foreign servers that uses SSL or SSH if there are more than some arbitrary number of concurrent connections (250, according to Section 740.17).

Just out of curiousity, does anyone know of any other useless, annoying laws like that? Am I breaking bone-headed Bosnian biils? (I don't hate Bosnians, I just love alliteration :))
This concept is not new. Jolt gum has existed for years. Do these people do any sort of market research??
Every book you read is biased one way or the other, because the issue has created pathways to power. Given that they are all biased, it's safe to ignore the ones created by governments, which can reap the most benefit.

The ipcc reports are two things - a bundling of scientific literature, and a policy statement. There is always a gap between the two, and the policy report comes out before the scientific statement, and is developed with the type of diplomatic horse trading that comes with any type of government report, only more so because it is international diplomacy.
Their homepage header: "Work with the best designers and developers". This is at least exaggeration. It's the first time that I see the OP, so don't know a lot.

In marketing there are these all the time. A company I worked for had this "style test" which new customers completed, and we suggested them a "personalised, designer-curated" items list via mail. It was not even ML, we splat them into three profiles based on the test, and made three different mails, sent each of them to the members respective profile. Each mail started with a title like "Your personalised style guide, tailored for you by our designers"... It's not a big blatant lie like saying "USA is a democracy", but still, it's a lie.
I think this is very interesting content, and this is represented in the volume of dialogue it has generated.

I found that Neo really resonated with my residential use, but not so much for my work.

From the Author's referenced blog post 'The Desktop is Outdated': "We interact with a lot of different content today, and a large part is outside of files". Not in my work environment where the majority of content is inside of files. But sitting at home - yeah, this is true for me.

It appears to me that the mobile interface cart is trying to drive the productivity desktop horse here. I don't know to what extent I buy it, but I like the way Neo challenges current desktop design.

I'm going to go back and read it again.
How's the eugenics study group?
www.contactually.com has tried pretty hard, but even their UI is too complex. I just need one person to be reminded to reach out to today. And by the way, can you do it for me, Software?
Apache Ant + Ivy vs Apache Maven vs Apache Buildr
Apache Tapestry vs Apache Wicket vs Apache MyFaces

those jump to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty of other overlaps in the Apache sphere. They certainly embrace it.
Note how the creator of Apache Crunch is on the Dataflow committer list.
First-generation college students are not succeeding in college
It describes the vast majority of everything. The key point to realize is that it's a different vast majority for everybody.
China's Government subsidies logistics to increase exports.
Navy, Agriculture Secretaries Launch Great Green Fleet
>but brand awareness (what you define as knowing a motto or brand name) is absolutely a form of manipulation.

You're argument isn't shaky, its incomplete. How is this a bad thing? If my friend tells me "Intel makes good SSDs", I now have a brand and a reason to buy from them. Am I being "manipulated"? By your definition yes, I'm probably not going to buy a Samsung SSD, now knowing Intel is reliable. Is this bad? I don't know, I generally consider having information about a product I wish to purchase a good thing.
I once worked with an ACH system where the transactions were in a txt file on a Windows box that was, IIRC, copied over ZMODEM after a dialup modem connection was opened to whatever the other party was (bank? processor? I don't know). Obviously, given the liability involved, I never messed around with it. But I always wondered what would happen if some amount was different than expected. One would hope there's all kinds of verification going on, but I kind of doubt it.

This was only 10 years ago.
I'd be happy to live near a nuclear plant and waste disposal. Why not? It sure would beat living downwind of a coal power plant like many of us do now.
>You don’t need to “prepare” to apply to YC in any way.

While you don't need to, I would think the chances of being accepted are considerably better if you are prepared. Especially if you have factors working against you that YC doesn't like.

Obviously joining an accelerator prior to YC doesn't count as preparation (more like making your startup radioactive), but it does seem prudent to have a solid YC application while being ready to nail the interviews if it gets that far.
Perhaps you already know this, in which case I'm sorry for being pedantic.

There are portions of the academy that also care about constant factors. They would write what, I think, you mean by O(kN) as k * N.

If you need more precision, such as: "There's an order N term with constant factor k and some lower order terms whose constants I don't know (or don't care to calculate)", you could write that as: k * N + o(N). The little o means terms that grow strictly slower than N.

Edit: formatting

Edit2: I should have conceded that I'm not aware of anyone who attempts to use O-notation to talk about cache goodness. That certainly is swept under the covers of "Assume a perfect RAM machine" :P
> what is a climate change denier? Someone who denies that the climate has and will change?

Clearly in this context someone who denies the impact man is having on the climate.

> In this I am intellectually honest.

And monstrously short sighted. American, I assume?

> Of course stopping all production will stop changing the makeup of the atmosphere as far as humans go.

Who said anything about stopping all production? That's obviously not going to happen. What should happen is a rapid reduction in the emission of gasses like CO2 through whatever means necessary. If that means you can't buy more cheap crap from China, or have to actually think about your fuel consumption so you can't drive down the block to buy a burger that's been frozen and flown in from thousands of miles away then so be it.
Personally, software that "anticipates my needs" drives me nuts. Just do what I say, or don't do anything. :-/
Quality technical content is written by people who enjoy it for free. This is not generally true for other quality content.

Quality content that requires you to go to Afghanistan to actually understand and report the situation on the ground is not written by people who write as a hobby. In depth political analysis generally isn't either. That's because going to Afghanistan, or understanding the internal structure of politics are full time jobs.

Unless we find a way to pay people to do these jobs, we'll be eating the writings of people hired by those with money and vested interests. The PR agencies hired to sell us war, or political talking points.
In the last twelve months I have stopped using Twitter. It used to be fun but it just became a mess of marketing and moral posturing and bullying. It wasn't a conscious decision, it just happened.

It's like the photos of the woman scorned - the guy with his car trashed and clothes thrown out, he's probably getting back together with her after an apology. The guy with his stuff neatly folded and packed on the front is gone for good because she moved on.

It's one thing to think of a Twitter boycott over some issue like this, but when it fails to meet the standard of providing value so you just move on, well that's a lot worse for Twitter.
You might be able to detect if downsampling is done incorrectly, since many programs just average the pixel values instead of the actual light intensity.
Because if I want to ship a birthday gift to my uncle in Indonesia, and I show up at the post office wanting to do that -- how are the people at the post office supposed to figure out how to much to charge me, where the 'incoming drop-off point' in Indonesia is, and how much it would cost at that moment in time to ship from the 'incoming drop-off point' to my uncle in Indonesia? For every possible location on the planet?

That's the idea of the treaty anyway, an idea that pre-dates internet and computers of course, which do make it at least theoretically possible for my local post office to figure this out.
So ... why not just upload and additional 60GB / 0.05 and then download the entire 60GB which is now 5% of the total storage for free ?
It's a shame folks have downvoted this. It's a very useful and good point. Much of the free content is vastly better than paid content, and most of the free content also does not contain ads. There are remarkably few sources of paid content that justify their cost, even when that cost is as low as simply paying some of my attention to an ad.
Not all cameras use the Bayer pattern (there are alternatives) and Canon (and I believe Nikon) are looking at ditching it entirely

http://petapixel.com/2015/10/29/canon-120mp-sensor-reportedl...
> 200 years of uranium

As other people have mentioned, that's known 235U.

We have enough domestic 232Th to satisfy our energy needs for a very long time. If we use breeder reactors that can utilize 238U, we also have sufficient availability for well-beyond any reasonably foreseeable future ("many millenia").

Besides, that gives us plenty of time to actually develop other methods of providing energy. Right now every day we fail to deploy nuclear is another day of coal/gas. Even if we used your silly figure of 200 years, it shouldn't take that long to develop a proper solar+batteries replacement (heck, we should have fusion before the 200 years is up).

> mining

There are rare earth mines that we aren't operating right now because it's too expensive to dispose of the Th. In any serious nuclear deployment, the fuel itself would be free (or nearly free).

> far fewer

Comparing U or Th mining to coal mining is silly when you only need to do over 2,000,000x more coal mining.
The same could be said of people today. Many people have the option to move somewhere with better work/lifestyle options but where we are at holds us for reasons like family or simple inertia.

Also likely there would be pre-existing tribes that would have some territorial ownership to good hunting/farming grounds, even if only used nomadically.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939306 (609 points, 7 hours ago, 115 comments)
Ask HN: How did you evaluate your cofounder?
The EU solution to a very similar problem that we had earlier was essentially a single item in legislation (the payment services directive) that states that if a consumers payment is not credited to the beneficiary within a specific time limit, then the consumer is entitled to compensation from their (sending) institution. The industry had a couple of years before it came into force, by that time everybody implemented it.

I believe that a similar approach is the only way that can be effective in achieving a similar result in USA - unless some regulator draws a line and says "your product must meet a certain quality level or it's not fit to be sold" the current market has no reason to change, it's more profitable as it is now.
Lars Rasmussen on Inventing Google Maps (2009)
David G. Hartwell (1941-2016)
@ksherlock @japhyr Tony Hawk was just an example. Think of any person with influence or who wants influence in this scenario. Why would they want to? It's a fun and engaging network for both them and their fans. People with influence are always looking for new ways of connecting with fans, admirers, followers. If either of you are interested in love to connect to see if we would work well together. Please reach out to me privately. robby@sibipix.com

Also @japhyr, I'm really jealous you live in Alaska, I would love to go heli skiing there!
It's always weird when people ask this kind of question. Isn't the answer obvious?
The reports of REST's death are greatly exaggerated.
AttackIQ emerges from stealth mode
Why is this a bad thing even if it were the case?
Chrome 48 brings custom notification buttons and removes RC4 encryption
Well, we've not yet found it. There is just a very good case for it's existence.

Also, it's arguably easier to find planets in other solar systems because from our vantage point we can observe the stars and measures the dips in light as the planet transits the star (from our perspective). We can't do that without our own solar system given we too are orbiting the same star as the planet we would want to detect.

Also, remember this planet has an orbital period of about 10,000 - 20,000 years, according to the article. It would have just barely completed one orbit since humans started farming.
Some info here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22090229/how-did-whatsapp...
In many ways, Bose failed to promote his work. Admirably, he had no desire to get rich from his inventions (or patent them). But in some regards, his failure to promote his achievements (eg. in semiconductors) was an epic failure -- the semiconductor revolution could (should?) have happened decades earlier than it did. Genius is admirable, but communication and promotion are just as key for academics -- Bose is a great example of this!
I thought that his being frustrated with the fact that independent research and development could independently come up with the same idea as someone else was very related to the topic? :(
There are Native American legends about the volcanic eruptions about 7,700 years ago that formed Crater Lake. [0,1]

[0] http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/05/09/the-surprisingly-accurat...

[1] http://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/online-library/historic-r...
For comparison, TI's MSP432 series is specified at 90 uA/MHz running, 850nA sleep with RTC enabled - and that's a Cortex M4 part with hardware FPU, not even an M0. I think Atmel's newest low-power M0 parts are even more impressive. Plus the Internet of Things means companies are wanting to run increasingly demanding code on low-power embedded devices. 8-bit chips are getting squeezed hard by ARM.
Google’s James Kuffner Leaves to Pursue Robotics and A.I. At Toyota
I'd rather you skip the micropayments, if you can, and don't get distracted by zealots. Anti-advertising is anti-business IMO. What you're doing is extremely valuable. The free-for-all of tracking on the web is bad and it should be fixed directly. It doesn't need to be conflated with a niche cause.
You're ignoring subconscious ad effects, which largely are the main effects that advertisers are seeking to use. You scan quickly over some innocuous-seeming ad for Product-X-that-of-course-you'd-never-ever-buy, and now you are psychologically primed -- the shade of blue in the ad was chosen because it tested best for users who also viewed page Y and whose IP addresses place them in your area -- the ad contained a human face with features, expression, grooming, all chosen to resonate with you in a millisecond as your eye saccade glosses over it. Any text or pricing information was chosen carefully to explicitly prime you.

Then, months or years later when you're on the market for something like Product-X, you absolutely do not even ever remember scanning your eyes over the ad, and yet your eyes are just simply drawn to the product, or when it is mentioned by word of mouth, there is some priming memory to be reinforced, and somehow you just happen to choose Product-X to purchase.
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