skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say work closely with the authors on merchandising.
I see comics as a pretty personal kinda thing, there's a valuable relationship between authors and readers.
> Rent is, essentially, theft from society itself, it leaves everyone poorer when most people rent.

Not necessarily. It depends on whom you're giving the money to. If it's a profit-oriented company or investor or the like, then I'd tend to agree with you.

On the other hand, I'm renting my apartment from a housing cooperative that I'm also a member of. The cooperative releases a yearly financial report detailing that rents are for the most part used for maintaining the buildings owned by the cooperative, and to buy new land and construct new buildings.

I consider that model very sensible; it allows me to delegate all tasks relating to the maintenance of my apartment to people who are more competent in this area, and who can negotiate better rates with craftspeople.

It also gives me much of the social security that people usually associate with self-owned apartments or buildings since my lease contract literally states that the cooperative is not allowed to throw me out of the apartment (given that I obey the rules of the house, of course). But at the same time, I have the flexibility to easily move to a different apartment somewhere else in the city (or somewhere else entirely) without having to deal with selling the apartment and buying a new one.
For those of us not very accustomed with these ideas, are there any papers/resources to read?
Inventory is waste. It is one of the most insidious kinds of waste since it feels productive generating it. In reality it is waste.

It being waste doesn't mean you dont need it - that's how waste builds up: you create stuff in case, or you save things in case, or you build an extra large buffer just in case. It's all done with good intentions. If one of your goals in life is to be effective you need to work to eliminate as much inventory as possible, same as the other types of waste.

Overproduction, Inventory and Overprocessing are the three most insidious types of waste - they seem like good things.

Why not gold plate the thing? Just add these few features in case you need them. Why not make a few extra just in case, why not save that thing that you may need later or maybe you will finish at some point.

The other types of waste are more clearly negative.
I need to give a plug for Toodledo, it doesn't seem to get mentioned much but has great GTD support. That includes fields for Contexts (and support for Locations), associating tasks with Goals (whether short-term or long-term) and assigning a Status (eg Next Action).

The real power though comes from memorized custom searches, that filter out everything except what you're currently interested in.

Their main product is their website and iOS app, but they also have an API & third-party developers making clients. They have an official Android app, but I much prefer Ultimate ToDo List on Android. They have a Mac menu-bar app as well, but I prefer to keep the website pinned in my browser instead. (I would LOVE a native Mac app of the calibre of Things / OmniFocus that fully supported Toodledo & had offline support, though.)

I also found an article with a more indepth look at Toodledo & GTD [2]

[1] http://www.toodledo.com/

[2] http://www.millwardesque.com/getting-things-done-toodledo/
Magma is pretty dense (it's molten rocks, after all), so many things float on magma.
Including plumbing, flooring, electricity, hooking up utilities etc. ? Please cite your sources because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
These look like machine learning cases - does anyone have any other examples - network design? Crypto?
Show HN: 100 Squares
100 Squares is based on a piece of Maths homework.

The idea behind the game is you choose a times table grid, e.g. 10x10, and then you see how quickly you can fill it out

The intention is that the game aids in the learning of mental times tables

The bulk of the site is simple HTML and css, with some JQuery for functionality

It's well worth a checking out and a share ;)
AWS and DO are US - FISA 702 would like to say hello.
A personal favorite good answer:

"I just started my twitter clone yesterday. I built a prototype in rails last night after chugging red bull! Each tweet is just database row with a giant many-to-many relationship. We're at 30 users already! I told my mom about it and she got a bunch of her coworkers to sign up.

We should probably cache or precompute some feeds, but we're fine for another 2,000 users."
A large part of the reason for how hyperloop is structured the way it is, is exactly because of right of way: The proposal calls for pylons and for the route to largely follow the highways in order to be able to take advantage of existing right of way to minimize those issues as much as possible.

It might very well be that they should have spent more effort on that aspect, but they didn't ignore it.

And the PG motto is great if you want to make money as fast as possible with as little risk as possible. It's not nearly so great if your goal is to make a major change to society.
> I'm now convinced you are trolling. Enjoy your evening.

I think @greedo self-outed with the "quit reading the press" comment... posturing some secret source of information more authorititive than the damning reports from test pilots, pentagon office of testing, etc... Lockheed's PR dept maybe.
Humbug! In my day you had to resolve linker dependencies, and god forbid if you mixed debug and release or one of the things you were linking against accidently set your process to single-threaded apartment mode, kids these days have it easy!
My attempt to unify Vagrant and Linux management in a CLI tool
Reads too much like an advertisement piece.

Building a 60 m2 wooden shack have always been cheap compared to a proper house.

Much of the cost of a house lies in the cost of land and the cost of connecting it to water and electricity.

These costs are high because of scarcity and the policies of cities. Policies that ensures that values of houses do not fall and people do not go under water in debt, that areas are filled with proper gentry, that there are nice open spaces, nature, farmland etc.

Even if you could build a house for 0 dollars many places would still have an affordability issue.
I too get find myself getting totally distracted like this, compulsively and frustratingly, and it's very annoying seeing these apps steal my time. Fundamentally it's because they're designed to be addictive: randomly giving you rewards in just the right way to train your brain to want to go again, automatically. It's totally in Twitter/Facebook/HN's interest to keep you uncontrollably craving their hit.

I'm trying to fix this myself at the moment: I've built an app using exactly the same techniques (training your brain with quick feedback and random rewards), but flipped around, to try and addict you to concentrating and getting work done instead.

Without being too spammy, you sound like my perfect target user. Want to try out the alpha? Details at http://www.buildfocus.io

Let me know if you sign up, and I'll make sure you get in on the next batch of invites I put out. Chrome-only for now, but there's Firefox/Safari/Android/iOS coming in the works eventually too (in approximately that order).
There's an interesting subtlety mentioned in the author's explanation http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/underhanded/2015-spo... that doesn't seem to be mentioned here: the preprocessing had to be carefully designed because the squashing also amplifies any residual noise, so if that wasn't thoroughly removed the comparison would fail because it'd mostly be comparing noise rather than signal. While the type confusion is the only suspicious thing, the rest of the code did have to be crafted to make it work, it's just that the other changes are reasonable and non-suspicious.
Quite a few times this week I've seen articles posted from Medium that read like the sort of low content marketing fluff you get on LinkedIn. I used associate articles posted there with quality and depth, this sort of blogspam is helping to dilute this association.
Hockey is like soccer in some ways, with the important difference that they have sane substitution rules. In hockey, you have line changes every couple minutes, so when they are out there on the ice, they are going balls-to-the-wall the majority of the time. None of this jogging around, diving, booting the ball out of bounds, conserving energy that you see in pro soccer, because the players have to play the entire game, barring one or two rare substitutions.

When I played in high school, our soccer league had unlimited substitutions, and, even though the skill level was pretty low, the games were more entertaining to watch than professional soccer, because people were actually trying. You start dogging it, and you'd get the hook.
Newton Network Gateway
Any course on information retrieval will have the basics. Here's an online textbook:

http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/

A quick glance through it made me think there's a lot of tricks that are commonplace at Google but not mentioned in the text, but I'm not sure how many of them are proprietary, so I think it's safer for me not to mention them. TF-IDF, however, has a whole Wikipedia article about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
Just FYI his name is Linus (just like Linus Torvalds). It's a common name for Swedes (Torvalds in from the Swedish minority in Finland).

The Linux name is a play on Linus' name.

The Å in Åkesson can be typed on a US keyboard by hitting alt+a. To make ä & ö you'd hit `alt+u a` and `alt+u o`. To make a ø, which is the Norwegian/Danish way to say ö, you type `alt-o`.

EDIT: the keyboard things are on a US layout on a Mac. For a standard keyboard it might be the same, or not. I don't know...
Te college experience and social life aspect is one of her driving forces for deciding. So far she is getting in the schools she has applied for (1 left to hear from and one that is two step process and step 1 is done). We will be making college visits to 3 of the fourt schools again to get the feel.

She is driven by the desire to change society for the better and thinks she can do this via a mix of engineering and political policy influence. She has experience lobbying at the state and federal level already successfully. S this is what drives her.

All of this is complicated by cost factors and home much grant and loans are offered. The final weeks in April will be stressful as the financial aid award letters come in. Exciting but nervous times.
Are we using words like "thru" in titles now?
C++ developer sees Rustlang for the first time
Some other applications:
https://github.com/aymericdamien/TensorFlow-Examples
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/0.6.0/tutorials/pdes/ind...
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/0.6.0/tutorials/mandelbr...
This is really great!

Reading through the source made me look twice though, as I am used to writing C++ so seeing variables defined but not initialised, non-const array starting points as parameters with a separate length parameter (instead of just a reference to a container or a const reference to enforce read-only nature), memcpy instead of copy constructors or copy assignment operators.

Basically, it made me realise how impossible I would find it to write good C!

Really clever entry though, very impressive. I spotted all the issues I mentioned above, looking for mistakes in them and completely missing the actual problem.
No, it does not set a HSTS header by default. And the out of the box rating is A, not A+. However, with a simple setting you enable the HSTS header, which gives you the A+ rating.
Dude, beautiful site. HN can be a rough place—and I just wanna say your site's really nice.
>"Still another is logistical: Most areas of the U.S. have very few renter protections. If your landlord wants you out and you're not under a current lease, you're out"

This sort of thing happens when you don't have a contract that enumerates what happens if either party wants out.
nicely written - Rust also attracts some interest in embedded development lately.
Wellington, New Zealand.
* I accidentally downvoted you while trying to upvote.
I think part of the issue is that our exposure to other people (and other people's opinions) has increased, but our perception of their importance hasn't decreased.

Pre-massive-interconnectedness, if you do something good, 9 people say nice things, 1 person says mean things. That gives you a good signal that you're doing something right. These days it's 90/10 or 9000/1000. The signal is still the same, it's only the scale that's different.

But we don't – maybe can't – feel that way. 1000 people calling you names feels terrible even if that's a tiny proportion of the whole. To feel otherwise would mean scaling the value of each individual opinion, each person, down to an insignificant level.

Numbers like upvote counts are pretty good for that, it's hard to picture the human life behind each click when all you see is (+200). But messages, even short ones, leave a lot of the human in there.

Of course, even if we could consistently eliminate the human importance of messages we receive, I'm not sure that would leave us better off. It's hard to believe that what internet discourse needs is less humanity.

Maybe a way to do it would be to representatively sample the messages. So you turn the 9000/1000 back into 9/1 by merely deleting 99.9% of messages as they come in. That feels a bit unjust, like your message is arbitrarily thrown away as soon as you write it, but in a de facto way that's probably similar to how messages get filtered now.

Another alternative would be to summarise each kind of message with a number attached to it indicating how many people said a similar thing. It would be possible, though not easy, to do that automatically if you designed your whole system around it. Reddit kinda sorta works this way, and I know political types use a similar process to manage constituents' opinions.

One thing seems obvious to me, though: we want massive connectedness and scale, we want everyone to feel like their individual voice is heard, and we want to not be crushed by impossibly massive waves of human noise.

I don't think we can have all three.
Main thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032542.
when I read "stream" I also think on streams in Node.js - might be nice to mention that they are quite useful too
It's called Google Cloud Dataflow. Your complaint is like saying Google Cloud Platform is hijacking the meaning of Platform.
When a section of society is forced to rent off a richer section of society, then you have a self perpetuating financial inequality - a poverty trap.
For people in poverty, house ownership isn't a financial option. Giving poorer people the option to own or rent, gives people empowerment over their future.
This is really nice. I had to be logged in to the web player for the play button to work, but once I did it's a great experience.

Nice work!
https://www.google.ca/search?q=china+skyscraper+15+days

It's been discussed on HN half a dozen times. "Extraordinary claims" is a context-dependent idea.
Hilarious Donald Trump webapp
Beautiful. I'd just looked up float_t, and realized that typedef'ing it to double was almost certainly a 'tell', but I still failed to spot the failure to include the header.

I presumed it was simply going to try to slip in a 'float' for a 'float_t' and hope it wasn't noticed, although it seemed unlikely to be a winning strategy.

One other thing that seemed odd was the continued use 'double' after the typedef. I wonder if there's a way to make it work where all the usages are replaced by 'float_t'.
"Under the terms of the agreement, both companies would benefit. AOL would take over management and sales for the majority of the advertising on Microsoft’s gaming, mobile, and web products. In exchange, AOL would make Bing their search engine of choice instead of Google—a significant boost for Bing since AOL still has 2.2 million dial-up subscribers alone (yes, even in 2015). AOL would also extend job offers to more than 1,000 Microsoft employees working in the adtech space. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, and Microsoft will continue to have an advertising division with a much smaller portfolio. Additional Microsoft responsibilities were handed over to another adtech firm, New York’s AppNexus." [My itals]

http://www.fastcompany.com/3048150/why-the-aol-and-microsoft...

Microsoft really isn't in the ad business in any significant way nowadays....
When you leave, much of your knowledge about the thing you helped to build will leave with you. They want that to stick around.
Thru's a good old word. But this submission had no need to change the original title, since it isn't misleading or linkbait.

(Submitted title was 'Wearable Sensors That Detect Health Thru Sweat'.)
iirc the designer of that skyscraper admitted that the plumbing was not ideal.
In about 1999, on holiday with my parents in the USA, we had to make a long-distance call from a payphone (somewhere in the Rocky Mountains to Michigan, or something like that). I remember helping my dad to feed in the quarters as fast as possible, as the huge cost of the call — $6 or something — plus the low value of American coins meant the machine rejected the call before we could pay for it.

On about the third or fourth try, an operator came on the line! I guess that's a real "intercept". I don't remember what he did, he spoke to my dad, but the call was made.

(We were on a very long road trip, and there was some problem with the car we'd borrowed from American relatives.)
"which was VERY MUCH NOT a hot CS field"

That's the part that most people call lucky. When the thing you spent a decade working on because you found it personally interesting suddenly becomes the thing everybody else wants.
Awesome machine learning
The winning entry reminds me of Linus (Torvalds)' viewpoint on typedefs: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/typedefs.html

Those for whom the name Linus Åkesson is unfamiliar are highly encouraged to visit his site at http://www.linusakesson.net/ --- he has a lot of other interesting articles on programming and the demoscene.
I like the concept of small and cheap houses, unfortunately in my country, Europe/Germany this would not qualify as a house built to the newest regulations. It's just a shack.
Great walk-through. Though I'm sure there must be a few glitches, Oneops
is fairly solid for an initial release.

>"OneOps was a result of Walmart's fear of over reliance on one
particular cloud-provider or technology."

You are factually incorrect here, but it's an understandable oversight;
normal people would _not_ be normal if they had to think like Walmart.

Walmart has its own staggeringly humongous datacenters, so they actually
have no reliance on third party cloud providers. Their "technical"
reason for supporting nearly every third party could provider is simple;
speedy disaster recovery. If the earth gets mostly destroyed by an
asteroid and any cloud service is still running, then walmart.com would
still be available. Their "business" reason for supporting nearly every
third party cloud provider is also simple; abstracting the differences
between the services to make transition from one provider to another
effortless turns the cloud providers into easily replaced commodities
that must compete with each other. Open sourcing Oneops helps to
commoditize all of the third party cloud providers. --This is basically
the same reasoning and tactics behind Walmart, Facebook, and others
contributing to the OpenCompute project.
Not at first sight. On second thought, it hits you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_...
This seems similar to the idea of a spark file?

http://lifehacker.com/5941997/defrag-your-brain-with-a-spark...

edit Also do you have anything written down about using org-mode for todos and ideas?
Sauna Simulator 2016 Release Gameplay Trailer
.. which I have to make the effort to press, if I'm interested, but I actually lost interest within the first 8 seconds of visiting the site because the cyclomatic complexity is just too darn high. Seriously.
SHOCKING FOOTAGE THE GLORY OF GOD CAPTURED Live ON CAMERA
Now that's true definition of a "wicked problem".
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
The title may be misleading (actually, I remember it is "n-th-priority-things.md"). I've just checked its heading (I keep this file always open) and it's "n-th prority ideas".

I read your comment before posting my own. :)

When it comes to their length and (what is more important) being specified, it varies a lot. From a blog post I have in mind and can write in a few hours, to things that make take months or years.

I was thinking about making it public, but:

- most of them are idiosyncratic and a few words stands for a long idea,

- I am afraid of self-censorship (is it good enough for the public? doesn't it sound offensive?).

When it comes to tasks-ideas separation, it reminds me of http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd073010s.gif (I used to have to do bullets which were there for years - and they were causing so much pain).
If you consider the cost of land (in Ireland) you'll still spend a fortune and end up with a pretty small place. For one / two this could work, imagine having a family in there!
Only if we can have this, but for all candidates.
Sure, given twitter's design it makes perfect sense. That doesn't make it a good or unavoidable problem though; you can imagine easy changes to twitter that would make handling this stuff much easier.

Detecting that you're sending a very similar response to a message to other previous responses and warning you, for example, in the same way stackoverflow does to catch duplicate questions, would solve this exact problem almost totally.

More widely, better handling of abusive content generally would help. Automatic trolling and abuse detection has actually had quite a lot of research done (e.g. http://sentic.net/do-not-feel-the-trolls.pdf), and while it's not perfect you can definitely imagine an approach where you start to reduce notification spam from tweets likely to be needlessly offensive, or generally unlikely to be adding much to the conversation. Obvious repeatedly detected offenders, or people who almost always get their messages flagged, could result in notifications for the target only occasionally (instant notifications for interesting responses, daily/hourly batched notifications for less-interesting responses), or no notifications at all (but potentially still visible if you actively go look at the conversation).

Twitter et al could drastically improve this issue. While being a public figure is difficult, this kind of thing isn't an inevitable aspect of it: there's clear concrete things you could do that would substantially lessen it.
I really can't see how anyone can revolutionize TV though. 99% of the time you are watching the TV there is zero interaction between the user and the TV.

I'm sure apple would make money if they started selling Apple branded TVs (basically a TV with a built in Apple TV box) but it would hardly be a game changer.
> For fusion devices, you hope to produce more energy than the energy you have to inject to heat the plasma for fusion to happen.

Which Wendelstein can't do – for that, you'll need much more radioactive reactions (involving tritium), and Wendelstein isn't (and can't be) sufficiently shielded for those.

Wendelstein is a research reactor: It's covered in sensors in and out, and it can be easily disassembled or opened up for repairs and modifications, which you generally don't want to do if everything's covered in radiation activated materials.

If Wendelstein holds up to its plans, derivative designs can be used to build net-positive reactors involving tritium (and lots of shielding).

> Yesterday's event was not much about science, but rather about engineering. Building that machine was a gigantic work.

Indeed. Most of its design was finalized in the 80s and the project took 25 years to just get the funding, build the (first of a kind) components and build a working reactor out of them.