skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a dryer, but I've still had cotton shirts (not t-shirts) shrink in the washing machine. This usually happens the first time (or first few times) they are washed at the temperature recommended on the label: 40°C (104°F). However, at 30°C (86°F) I've never encountered any shrinkage. So this purely anecdotal experience makes me believe that the temperature of water can affect some cotton garments.
I do not see where the parent wanted to "discredit the opponent's position" (citation from the first reference). (S)he just stated the fact.
Most of the Tetris versions since 2001 are theoretically able to go on forever[1]. Even the old NES version which doesn't have the same cyclic bag randomization is able to be played far enough to be considered infinite by some[2].

Your life however, has no such guarantee of fixed randomness and you might be forced into a losing situation.

[1]https://tetris.wiki/Playing_forever
[2]http://meatfighter.com/nintendotetrisai/
thanks, I will! :)
Ridiculous, Canada. The "Language Police" literally exist.
> Why is what the majority thinks an indicator of truth.

I'm not arguing about The Great Objective Truth That Pervades The Universe or whatever. I'm arguing about why HN readers are in favor of one thing but not another.

> You attitude smells like speciesism

Yep, I am explicitly speciesist. I value the lives and experiences of humans more than I value those of non-humans animals.

> kidnap someone...'cause they'll be getting women frequantly with no effort

I assert without evidence that for most people, sexually assaulting someone would be a very unpleasant experience. I certainly find the idea utterly repugnant.

In fact, this point I'm going to say its pretty likely you're just playing with utterly repugnant concepts for either the joy of saying repugnant things on the off-chance that it will result in us finding some interesting and useful way of explaining a part of the world. Just to let you know, I don't think most people here want to join you in this exploration. I certainly don't. Seriously.

Also, examine your gender assumptions.
Alan Kay – The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, OOPSLA 1997
Making more money out of existing money is not a startup. It's an investment. Basically a reverse to startup.
To know if it's statically significant,it's not important if the benchmark use the arithmetic or the geometric mean.

Did they repeat the benchmark? How many times? Is that information available? (Perhaps it's available for the master branch and not for the new commit).
Power of Naming Software Projects
There are plenty of operators handing out dual IPv6+IPv4-adresses on LTE(4G) though!

One of them is Tele2 in Sweden. TeliaSonera... doesn't offer that yet though..
There's already lots of this. That's basically what Twisted is, for example.
I love hacking on LibreOffice because nobody else lets me do static analysis on 10 million lines of code and make it better. Most places just throw up their hands in despair and become too afraid to touch anything.

Also, the people are great!
Things have changed. A lot of states' new and old oil industry experiences a contraction at prices that low.

Alaskan residents used to get cut a check, but that might be going away due to budget shortfalls. Then you have plenty of lost jobs in the shale states.

It also should not be the responsibility of politicians to promise cheap gasoline. It might be a quick political victory when it's easy to promise, but it leads to bad policies when it gets complicated.
> How about smart TVs? Give it a few years and you’ll have hundreds of millions of TVs with a camera on them exposed to the wild.

Without available firmware updates, you forgot to add.
This one just validated that good credentials worked and bad ones didn't. It passed of course. Good to ship.
My thought is that because Target's downfall was really location. Zellers got significantly worse and worse over the years that eventually, people stopped shopping there and took their business elsewhere. As a result, Zellers only existed in dead-end malls with low foot traffic because the majority of people went to Walmart.

Target decided it was a good idea to buy up all the Zellers locations and put their stores in there. But by that time, people's habits changed. Target wasn't going to revive dead malls.
http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html

http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
Is there a "grain" to the fabric or something? Why not turn it 90deg and have the shirts increase in length and decrease in the chest instead? I'd prefer size to stay the same over time, but if I had to choose I think I'd rather have that.
They tend to have better bicycle parking though.
I have a vague question: how can you avoid putting emphasis on memory management, to the extent Rust does, without introducing mandatory garbage collection?
One, HN is not something I expect most media outlets notice.

Two, short of a march held in front of Mattel's doorstep (or the doorstep of whoever refuses to make Rey toys), voting with "cultural ethics" is not going to be noticed by the kind of person who says "no boy will want a toy with a girl on the front".

Three, "cultural ethics" is a vague term in and of itself. Are you referring to the culture of expecting boys to like boys' toys? Or are you talking about taking that culture and replacing it with another? What's the difference between cultural and personal ethics, and if personal ethics exist, then how do cultural ethics have an effect?

Fourth, voting with our wallets beats the corps at their own game. By consciously deciding to only pay for products that fit our ethics, we force companies to follow our ethics (or, at least, the ethics of the masses). If we do not buy, they don't make money, so what we buy directly affects their decisions.

Finally, I don't understand the "toxic" label you keep using. What is toxic about it? An idea can't be poison; ideas do not inherently do anything. Only actions can be harmful--or helpful. Voting with our wallets is only as toxic as the thing we decide to vote for.
Some of the allegations made in this trial border on the comical; although it is somewhat scary it took them so long to throw the case out.

"He continued to contact them, they said, in part through the use of hashtags he knew them to be involved with." Let me get this straight – imagine two people, Alex and Bob, who are both comics fans. Alex doesn't like Bob and has blocked him on Twitter. Now Bob tweets something like "I like Marvel #comics". Can you seriously say that he is "harassing" Alex because Alex is specifically searching for Tweets with that hashtag and sees Bob's Tweet?

In my opinion, people wasting the court's time with such cases should be fined a hefty amount.
What's interesting to me is that in America, which does have pretty strong First Amendment protections, also has statutes for phone harassment:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/telephone-harassment-sta...

> Telephone harassment is defined in many different ways. For example, while most states require some level of intent to harass or annoy, a few require only that the communication in fact harasses or that a reasonable person would expect it to harass...Telephone harassment often includes the following actions: calling repeatedly, anonymously or at inconvenient hours; causing the phone to ring continuously; using obscene language; or failing to hang up the phone. It can also include falsely stating that a family member of the recipient is injured or dead, or threatening to injure the recipient or a family member.

I support the non-guilty verdict here, but would someone be able to allege harassment over Twitter on the basis that it is similar to the statues on phone harassment (at least in America)? The argument is less about the content of the message and more about the annoying nature of repeated "notifications".
Is there a way to search the streaming inventory of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu online from one interface.

Right now I have to go into each app and do a search.
Cyph: Completely Private Voice and Video Chat
Just the list of the countries following China is enough to see that it has nothing to do with how the nation itself is doing.
If rents start to rise, then it also increases the demand for new housing in the area, and eventually supply pushes it back down.
So is there no economic pressure to develop a fabric weave that's both efficient to manufacture and stable over time?
http://www.canistream.it/

Edit: In hindsight, IIRC Netflix shut down it's public API, so I don't know what claims these services are making as far as Netflix's collection's accuracy goes.
But they aren't free and if the file size is sufficiently small, the overhead of the constant overhead of the additional syscalls will dwarf the variable overhead of the extra copy. FreeBSD/OS X's sendfile allows specifying a header and trailer in a single syscall to avoid this limitation.
A couple of reasons this will probably not work.

a) Categorization of interests. I think it is pretty hard to come up to something that really captures this. Example: I bet that maybe 80% of users of a dating app (any dating app) will select "Art" as one of their interests.
It does not matter if it is true or a ploy because the user shares my estimate that 80% of users will select Art anyway... ok, you selected "Art".
What kind of art, now? Note that to offer the right "adventure" the system must also be able to distinguish between a Exhibition of Paintings by Monet, and a play by Chechov. These are both about Art, after all.

b) What about things that you really enjoy (like reading books about programming) but are mostly enjoyed alone?

c) What about stuff you do in groups, but don't really allow you to focus much on the other person (to discover if you actually are interested in each other)? Like going to a Martial Arts seminar, for example, even if you both happen to love the same kind of Martial Art?

I think that the whole idea is based on "I want to date someone which shares at least one of my main hobbies/interests". And makes its job harder because it tries to find out stuff to do together and therefore it has to know about seminars, schools, movies, places, events and any other thing that could serve as a "Dateventure".

I dunno - I suppose that it could possibly work a tad better if the users themselves would be able to create their own Dateventures, as in: "Next weekend I want to go to the Improv Theatre seminar in XXX. I never had any acting training, but I think it could be fun and I always wanted to try it - any takers?"
What happens if more than one answers? What if the other person will be a no show?.
The project page states that "trading off memory for running time, as implemented in tomato_miner.h, incurs at least one order of magnitude extra slowdown"

For instance, to look for a 42 cycle on a billion node graph, the reference algorithm uses 128MB.

If you want to get by with only 32MB, then you can run that alternative algorithm, but it will take about 128/32*25=100 times longer. The penalty factor of about 25 is due to losing the ability to represent edges with a single bit.

You can also parallelize by having more cores share the same memory but this it only takes so many cores to saturate a memory bank.

That paper sadly misrepresent Cuckoo Cycle by focusing on an outdated version from the first half of 2014 (and incorrectly describes it as working on directed graphs).
Before getting into web dev with Clojure, I recommend reading and doing the exercises from Clojure for the Brave and True to learn the language itself. It is one of the most engaging technical books I have come across in some time.
http://www.braveclojure.com/

After that, I would go to the clojure docs to get started with web dev in clojure:
http://clojure-doc.org/articles/tutorials/basic_web_developm...
The luminus framework has a good tutorial to get started as well:
http://www.luminusweb.net/docs

Caveat: I do not code clojure as part of my day job.
Clothes, household goods, furniture, etc are much better at Target, but the real reason is because Target is nicer. It's cleaner, better designed, the employees are drilled into being helpful (I worked there)—it just feels better to be at a Target.

They get fashion designers to do collaborations with their clothing line as well, which helps their image. 3.1 Phillip Lim for Target a couple of years ago sold out instantly. In general their clothing is on par with a real clothing store. I have a cardigan/jacket thing I got there in 2011 that has no holes or damage.

Walmart has a "lower class" reputation, and so do the people that go there often.

Don't get me wrong, they are both big box stores. They aren't that different under the hood, but Target managed to present itself with a cleaned-up image that attracts a lot of middle and upper middle class people who don't want to be seen at or go to Walmart.
Good point. I do believe that some very interesting things will come of IoT, it's the crass amounts of enthusiasm some people have regarding it that grinds my gears.

The joys of being a killjoy and explaining why your toasters web interface won't do much good if you have to get up and insert the toast manually.

Or SmartXthing to introduce the obsolescence cycles of digital electronics to everything else. No sympathy.

I guess I'm just a bitter old person, and a way to young one at that.
I loved my local Canadian Target store while it existed. Probably for some of the reasons it eventually went out of business...

Target was always easy to shop at - nobody else was there - I could walk down any aisle and not have to deal with other people getting in my way.

Fresh food delivered from the local Sobey's distribution centre (at least I'm pretty sure that's where it came from). And nobody else pawing through it before I chose what I wanted.

Somewhat unique stuff - sure they had all the same mass-produced junk that WalMart did - just slightly different. So it was basically the same but just different enough to be say "Ha! I'm unique"

Good prices - I know people were always complaining that WalMart was cheaper but that wasn't necessarily true. Target had some good deals as well. And if you combined your Target shopping with an occasional trip to Costco you were pretty well covered.
In memory of Ed Yourdon
Specific security regulation is not necessary, because the solution is simple: liability.

If a product leaks pictures of your kids to the internet when it is used normally, the product is defective. If the problem was caused by a bad design[1], then the manufacturer should be liable for their negligence.

Yes, this would make entire categories of currently-used software unusable. It would probably require recalling many current and upcoming products. Adding complex network features (or any network connectivity at all) would also add liability risk, so this would also discourage (but not ban) throwing internet connectivity on everything.

As Dan Geer recommended[2], when the product is Free Software (including the build environment), the end user has the ability to defend themselves, liability can probably be limited to a refund. However with proprietary software or embedded devices where changing the software is not practical, the manufacturer should be liable for any damage their products cause.

I'm sure there will be a lot of resistance to this idea, as many products currently rely on bad design (smart TVs, nest), but allowing a security-free internet of things to happen would be a yet another Sword Of Damocles hanging over our head. Liability may be bad, but the problems that will happen if we connect everything to the internet without serious would be much worse.

[1] "bad design" would not include things outside o f the manufacturer's control, such as new way to weaken crypto or a completely new attack method. Buffer overflows, protocol design problems, incorrect configuration or permissions, unauthenticated updates or other downloads, and sending plaintext over a network should count.

[2] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
Fortune favors the bold
it is absolutely unacceptable to you. Should people who believe that anything other than their specific branch of Christianity amounts to Satanism force their view on "the market" as well? What do you mean by "our" cultural aspirations? Are you talking in the royal We, or so you have a mouse in your pocket?

What you're actually saying is that you want some outcome other than what the market, which absolutely is a naturally occurring phenomenon despite your beliefs, has produced. And, like everyone else who wants to force their own outcomes, you propose to do so based on a view of morality that you want imposed on everyone else.

The market is the result of a multitude of people making their own independent judgements and decisions about the value and desirability of goods and services. That's it. Anything that interferes with it to produce specific outcomes isn't "shaping", "influencing", or even "interfering" in the market. It's an attempt to replace the market, and thus the right of other people to act on their own judgement, with something else.

Whatever that something else is, it's not a civilized society.
This is cool. I wonder what the performance is on large streams?

>It doesn't work because we haven't defined interleaveStreams - which, for the sake of brevity, we will now refer to as iStr.

I much prefer `interleaveStreams` to `iStr`. I know Haskellers like to abbreviate things, but I think it just makes things harder to read for most people. What about using `interleave` and allowing the user to infer Streams from the function signature?
If you read the article, the "complexity" refers to the lack of translation from bench to clinic. IP is the fundamental currency to attract investment to get scientific discoveries through the regulatory process. You can still have "open science" in the sense you are using this term and have patents; see CRISPR/Cas9 as a prime example.
A user downmod is when someone pushes the "upside down triangle" next to a person's name and/or point score for a particular post, or, in some other way decrements a person's "karma".
This article does not address trends in health care or pension spend. These are the two largest total (federal, state, and local combined) spend items in our collective budget. 2015 figures:

Total Spend: 6.18tn
Total Revenue: 6.08tn

Healthcare: 1.32tn (21.3%)
Pension: 1.20tn (19.7%)
Education: 0.93tn (14.8%)
Defense: 0.80tn (13.1%)
Welfare: 0.50tn (8.2%)
Other*: 1.43tn (23.1%)

*Other = Protection, Transportation, General Government, Interest

Healthcare expenses lean heavily towards the old but are funded by the working age population. What happens as the birth rate decreases and the average individual lives longer? Expenses increase for the working-age population.

Currently, social security is taking in ~$74bn less in payroll taxes than it pays out in benefits. The $2.83tn fund is invested in federal debt that pays 3.4% interest. So the interest payment (from the Federal government) of $96.2b is enough to cover the deficit.

By 2020, interest will no longer be enough to cover the deficit between revenue in from taxes and expenditures out to retirees. At that point, the SS fund will need to start redeeming treasuries for cash. The federal government will then need to issue new debt and/or raise taxes to cover SS treasury bond redemptions.

If the Federal Reserve follows through in its quest to raise interest rates and inflation, it will be relatively expensive to raise the $2.83tn in debt that we will need to fund SS through 2029, when it is projected to completely deplete its reserves of treasury notes. At this point, SS will only be able to pay out 75% of promised benefits given the current tax rate and demographic trends.

I'm less concerned about spend on education (which is broken) than I am about how we plan to fund our health care and pension systems. The only feasible way I can see is through increased taxation. I just started working last year. Hell of a time to enter the work force!

Overall it seems to me like we are paying an increasing amount of our federal budget on the older population than we anticipated we would need to and that we did not adequately provision for.
Ask HN: Who are some of the most inspiring people/users you've come across on HN
I felt the need to pose this question after discovering @rdlecler1 and doing a bit of background reading about said user’s journey through life. It’s been an inspiring discovery to say the least and I would like to know if there are any more such people on HN.
"someone like Walter Bright will have to jump in, he probably knows GCC inside-out"

FWIW, walter has not contributed a single patch to GCC i can find in the past 10 years (It may be longer, i stopped looking) :)

Not that this makes him bad in any way, mind you, he's just not who i'd go to for gcc expertise. That would be someone like Richard Henderson, who is pretty much never talked about, but has touched pretty much all parts of the compiler and always does great work.

Also note that embedded developers in general do not have a good reputation among compiler people for doing "sound work". Again, not that this is a characterization of their engineering skills - They often have very tight deadlines, so the amount of time they can spend figuring out things instead of applying bandaids tends to be pretty limited. So they patch something, submit it, and move on.
What is CS? Art of the Problem (a collision between math and philosophy)
I've no idea about the specifics either, but I've done a little bit of compiler optimization in the JIT setting. What you say sounds right, and I'm filing it in the same mental bin as "when you're looking at which parts of the state + variables depend on others, you're most of the time better off reasoning from the initial state and input variables, instead of trying to do clever tricks of also reasoning backward from the output variables and combining them, resulting in worse approximations"

Or maybe it's something else that has to do with loops the way they are written.
Because the shirt would not stretch to your chest, making it hard to get on/off. Also it would look like a flaccid tube hanging off your body.
Phones are not a pub-sub system like Twitter is. Once you block someone, there is no way they can contact you directly. You have to go and read their Tweets in some manner to see what they are saying.

Stephanie Guthrie was appears to have been literally trying to sue this guy because he called her mean names (for which she blocked him), and was using a hashtag that she liked to search on. Apparently, Tweets from people you have blocked are still visible if they are using a hashtag that you search on. This could possibly be a technical limitation – it's not like Google gives you an option (apart from SafeSearch) to filter sites you may be offended by. Come to think of it, this is literally like trying to sue someone for putting up a site indexed by Google that may come up for search terms you use.

So I would say the case for being similar to repeated phone calls is invalid.