skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former neuroscientist who studied perceptual awareness, there's lots of little things wrong with this article.

1) The RGB palette used in monitors most certainly does not span the whole gamut of human vision. Not even the wide-gamut monitors used professionally can do that yet.

2) The diagram showing each cone type's peak spectral sensitivity is a bit misleading, too. The M- and L-cones are colored red and green, but if you notice carefully, their peaks lie in the green/yellow area, so characterizing them as red/green is misleading. And "each of our cones seeing a primary colour (blue, green, or red)" is flat-out wrong. Every cone fires in proportion to its overlap. The author clarifies this later, but it's best to tell people the caveats up front. Continually referring to "primary" colors is adding to the confusion here.

3) WhIle they did cite an article pointing out that ratio-computing cells exist in the retina, it does NOT follow that "it is the main source of information that the brain has to help it identify the wavelengths of light". The paper itself only talks about spectral separation in retinal cells pre-brain. I don't know where the author got the idea that ratios are the main source of info sent to the brain. Amplitude information is sent, as well.
The Game Boy, a Hardware Autopsy – Part 1: The CPU
As part of the UK civil service I’m not allowed to keep airmiles accrued during business flights: they have to be declared and donated back to the government.
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> And $250 for lounge access + precheck + Boingo + SPG/HHonors Gold is worth it to me.

I guess that's the crux. Its becoming a very niche card. You have to fit a very specific profile for the fee to be worth it.
Nothing wrong with that, I'm fairly minimal in the stuff I own but I have a tonne of cycling stuff (all of which is used, UK climate means you have to change up gear a lot) and tools since it's just not practical to buy those when I need them.
By the way, why does Google NOT provide this link when I search for "Untied"?

Because Google has (reasonably) understood that it was likely a incorrectly spelled request for united.com, which is clearly evident from just looking at Google Trends[0]. Note that they do offer a "did you really mean" link which will force the search for untied.com and then it's the number 1 hit.

[0] - https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=untied.com%2C%20unit...
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Ugh. Relies on mathematical assumptions that may not be correct in other realities.
That is awesome! I can't believe I haven't seen it before.

The API is undocumented and restricted it seems, but I did manage to get the first 5000 or so color palettes before my browser crashed:

http://pasted.co/38096f65
I have to ask where you live in Denver. I smell smoke occasionally, typically walking down Colfax at night, or in LoDo, or at a concert.

What I do notice is the smell from the big dispensary/grow house on I-70 & Grape. That's not smoke, that's just the plants. I'd find that a little annoying if I lived downwind. But on the other hand, the smell from the Purina plant or the Suncor refinery or the feedlots in Greeley is way more obnoxious.
With great comedy, you never know if they're being serious...
Yet they (the Germans I've known) don't seem to give a second thought to handing out their bank account numbers to businesses for electronic payment purposes. Discount card use seemed to be widespread as well despite all the tracking that inevitably comes with it. I never once got through the check-out stampede at Rewe without being asked if I had a card. I met some wantrepreneurs in Berlin who were hatching discount/reward card schemes of their own, not something that would attract much investor attention here in the States, unless of course it was "the Uber of discount cards". No, stop, that's not an Idea.
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You could also read this is as 7 ways to lose an election ;)
The author is Rich Felker (the musl developer).
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The usual shell game when pegging a new tax to education is that whatever old funds for education get pulled, and simply replaced with the new tax money.

So, if the schools were getting $3 million in subsidy before, they peg the pot taxes to schools, pull the previous $3 million to go to different pet projects, and the schools see (at best) a 0% change.

Tying marijuana taxes to education does somewhat lock the education budget in, so there's maybe an advantage, but generally speaking, it's a political move, because then you can paste anyone voting against whatever law as someone who is voting against education.
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Does that actually work?
> perhaps it could have been put more diplomatically

As mentioned in my other comment I was relating a phrase that was quite common "back in the day" for editorial purposes. This is what I don't like about the current world. There is no difference between saying someone yourself and relating either history or what someone else might say.
Now that you mention that, does anyone else find it incredibly scummy that Google shows ads for a company, leading to the company's website, above the first result, which is also the company's website when I search for something like the company name?

The ad is minimally distinguished from the content, and most users don't care anyway, they'll click the top result and cost the company money that they could have saved if Google didn't present that ad there.

I guess, however, that the alternative is an ad for Bar, Inc appearing above Foo, Inc when you search for "foo, inc". In that case, it feels like extortion ("if you want us to show your website first when users search for you, buy the ad").
Every time I have a birthday I am terribly worried about receiving some gift that I won't like from people who don't know me good enough but want to give me some present. Receiving a gift that I don't like and having to avoid showing that I don't really like it is worse than receiving nothing. In fact I have enough money to buy anything I want myself, so there is really nothing I would like to receive as a gift.
The beginning of what looks to be a pretty interesting series on the Game Boy. The video does an excellent job of explaining how things work right down to the CPU registers. It also gives a nice explanation and comparison of assembly programming. For a somewhat difficult subject I thought they did a fantastic job of explaining the basics. A very well done video.

If you are a native French speaker you might be interested in their French version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGOh1_cVG8
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/OSX/unicode_apple_logo.html
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I live in Denver (80219 / Mar Lee) and I haven't noticed it, and I'm incredibly sensitive to smoke of all kinds.

What neighborhood are you in? What sort of building? Do you have particularly inconsiderate neighbors? How much did it change for you relative to prior to the recreational legalization, or prior to the medicinal legalization?
Way cool! You should get this in high schools!

https://www.getstructure.io/get-the-kit/instructions
I thought about a similar thing - principles should be more abstract then company goals or mission statements. In the event of crisis or conflicts, the principles can be called upon to guide the decisions.
Terrorism is ineffective when ignored.

OTOH, when in response, governments spend trillions invading other countries, killing 10's of thousands of innocent civilians, spending 100's of billions spying on its own citizens, and passing totalitarian laws to peek into the most private of peoples possessions, and bodies, then yes, terrorism is effective.
I agree that it tends to be a "I'll know it when I see it" type thing, but if the title is as long or longer than it would be by "spoiling the surprise", then it's a good sign that it's clickbait. In this case, the article's title could have included "Me(/my)" and avoided dancing around the issue, so I think it definitely qualifies.

It's along similar lines to "Blah blah blah, and you won't believe what happens next."
What makes them not useful services you would want to purchase and what would be your ideal search results?

The companies that advertise on that query for me are Vistaprint, Moo, Staples, Uprinting and a few others. I've used both Moo (business cards) and Uprinting (Christmas cards) and found them to be great.
Painters don't stick to just three pigments, but all the pigments they use CAN be created by mixing three primaries in different proportions. I'm quite sure that's the whole basis for Thomas Young's colour mixing experiments performed in the 1800s, finding that every colour we see can be made with mixtures of three lights. Any more than that is redundant. Similarly, while an RGB pixel on your monitor may not emit all single-wavelength light, it doesn't negate the validity of the statement that three single wavelengths can be used to recreate all colours visible to the human eye. I'm quite sure that some RGB pixels are indeed single wavelength, though I would love to hear from those of you who know better about this because I don't know for sure...
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Oh good. Another Data X that we can debate the meaning of for the next couple years.
> I am 1.88m tall, long legs and all, and have absolutely no issue travelling in tourist class around the world.

I too am 6'2 and find travelling any distance extremely uncomfortable, and if the person in front reclines they're literally laying on my knees, bouncing up and down. International travel in economy is extremely uncomfortable as a result, and I routinely take painkillers before flying economy.

I pay (often 50% more) where I can to upgrade to "Premium Economy" (or exit rows, or anything to provide more legroom without bankrupting me).
I love it when people put a modern twist on a ubiquitous game like this. I'm reminded of http://bombermine.com (no longer up?), a massively multiplayer Bomberman clone. Personally, I've tried to modernize Solitare with http://solitaire.gg , but haven't figured out a way to make it massively multiplayer yet...
This is even worse. While with Java you have to install one JRE instance, Electron duplicates whole browser for each app.
A couple of points.

(1) I work with the lead author of the study you mention (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6274/699.full). It is absurd to say that the timing of his work has to do with the election cycle. He's been working on establishing the size of the groundwater component of hydrological mass balance for at least the past year. I believe the take-away from that article is that groundwater storage has to be taken into account in the next IPCC report, or else we will see missing water and we won't know why.

(2) The study you cite found that some water, that would have otherwise appeared as a sea level rise, is being sequestered as groundwater. The study in the OP said that sea level rise is higher than expected, apparently due to anthropogenic warming. These do not conflict, it's just further information about what's going on. Note also that the OP vs. the article you cite have vastly different time scales (millennia vs. decade) and consequently different precision (cm vs mm).

(3) These studies show we're learning more, because we have a lot of new observational capabilities now (like GRACE, which for the first time measures groundwater mass by its effect on Earth's gravity field). We'll continue to see new studies that establish the sizes of the dominant mass flows as we're able to learn more.
To me it seems like Human history. European countries (and their various incantations from the past) spent hundreds upon hundreds of years competing and fighting with each other other everything imaginable. They even spent large chunks of that fighting themselves in the numerous civil wars each country had. But if you look into Middle East or Asia history, they went through approximatively similar periods.

Perhaps more of European history was recorded/found?
Off topic, but I'm hoping there are some Lambda-heads in the room. I want to write a system that basically rebroadcasts a message sent over SNS, to different HTTP endpoints. (I don't have control over these endpoints so can't use SNS itself as I can't confirm subscriptions).

How many HTTP requests can Lambda do concurrently? Is my best approach to fire all these requests inside one worker, or should/could I have it spin up subsequent lambadas whose only function is to run the HTTP request then close? I'm imagining that would be a lot more expensive.
Being drunk in the presence of your kids is worse than not being drunk, especially when your kids are not allowed to drink with you.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but the CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability covered code that fell into "libresolv"--at least under Ubuntu. This is a smaller subset of glibc that would take far less effort than a re-implemtation of the glibc in its entirety.
Your concern is really more about irresponsible adults, and those have sadly been legal since time immemorial.
Arguably that's one of the underlying themes of the entire article. In particular point #5 seems to address this, and especially the article's quote of Daniel Bell:

Ideology makes it unnecessary for people to confront individual issues on their own merits.
One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out come the prepared formulae.

I particularly like the "ideological vending machine" metaphor, and I think it describes exactly what you're talking about.
> different people have different opinions on what clickbait is.

Not really, there are just people who haven't seen a specific type of trick not used ad nauseam, while others have seen it a thousand times already.

"I'll know it when I see it" is sufficient here, since there's a wide variety of them and with enough experience they can be easily recognized.

In case you would like to have an easier way to learn it though:

Typically clickbait is when the article communicates something (anything, really) that could easily fit in the title itself, but refuses to do so. Advanced users compose titles that specifically pique curiosity in the average person.
"Well then that depends on the relationship that you have as well as who you are married to, doesn't it? "

Absolutely true. But it doesn't make other peoples choices in this wrong or inferior.

I don't need to ask either, but I find the idea that someone would be considered "pussy whipped" if they have a different arrangement to be, well, moronic.
> at least mention it and give the other person a chance to raise objections

You are not considering the downside of all of this. (Since I get paid for negotiation let me give you my thoughts.) By "giving the other person a chance" you are giving them power over you. Which they could use to extract something from you in exchange for your agreement. Now this may or may not matter depending on the person you are with, but I will point it out so you know that in some cases there could be a downside by "running something by the other party". And yes, there is negotiation in relationships as there is in business.
On the other hand, how many languages use libraries that are written in C? Especially in the higher level scripting language ecosystems(JS, Python, Lua) a lot of libraries interface with C/C++ libraries. If instead they used Rust, would that not result in a gain for those languages(even if there was a small C wrapper around it)?
My family has taken to giving "expereiences" rather than "stuff" because we prefer to live with less stuff.

So we'll get each other cooking classes, surfing lessons, bungee jumping, skydiving, etc. etc.
I would agree with you if we were talking about more complicated features like monad transformers or monoids or something like that, but list operations like this are very high-leverage, not that complicated under the hood, and becoming part of the standard required knowledge for most programming ideologies. (Eg. Java has recently embraced them in Java 8, Python has them, etc)

Your logic about an abstraction being "legitimately obfuscated" "until you grok" it could apply to nearly every advancement in programming, and needs to be qualified with some notion of why you've decided to apply it to the layer of abstraction that you have.
Unfortunately the word "free" has lost all coherent meaning in modern usage.

Amazon Prime has "free" shipping, costs $100/year. Your cellphone plan has "free" text messaging, costs $79/month. Your postage has "free" tracking, costs $11.

Why, in particular in American, has the word "included" seemingly been vanished from the popular vocabulary to be replaced with "free?" Now what word do we use when something is ACTUALLY free?
Remember Government vs. MS case, where MS ultimately got what many people called a "slap on the wrist" [1]

I have nothing but a conjectures here, however, I always believed MS made a deal with the Government to give them a backdoor in exchange for far lesser settlement [2]

So I'm not surprised for Gates position here. It's mainly to justify his and MS earlier decision to give into the government's requests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

[2] http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html
If I recall, most if not all the money was tagged for schools. Doing a quick search, it looks like CO made $76 million off MJ taxes in 2014. The new high school in Northfield I believe has a construction budget of around $50 million. That's one high school in a state with 644 high schools, not to mention all the middle and elementary schools. And that's not counting the schools that just need major work done. Denver in particular has many aging schools that need things like new boilers or central air or capital investments like a STEM/STEAM lab.

It seems like a lot of money, but when you look at what costs they're trying to cover, it doesn't go very far.
Systems programming does not preclude a language from having a good type system or higher level abstractions.

A good example is Phil's OS. http://os.phil-opp.com/. He's designing an operating system in Rust, and it has surprisingly few "unsafe" parts. The rest of it is made safe using some neat zero-cost abstractions.

Higher kinded types isn't going to happen anytime soon. It's something that crops up often in discussions when people want to model something complicated with the type system; but it's a very nontrivial feature that would probably need to wait for Rust 2.0, if ever. Even if it would exist, you can just not use it. Like most of the other features being added.
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I mostly fly between Hong Kong and London.

Return flights are usually something like:

* economy 900USD

* premium 2000USD

* business 6,000USD

* first 10,000USD

So, I always go economy.

Not sure it's ever worth a month's wages (after tax) to have a bit of free champagne.
An advantage of using the most general signature possible is it restricts the things you can actually do with the values involved, which can make it easier to provide correct implementations.
In fact I have enough money to buy anything I want myself, so there is really nothing I would like to receive as a gift.

That sounds like a closed mentality to me, you never know really, someone might just surprise you.
HN should just ban medium.com links.
Has anyone successful linked to a Rust library from another language (ie Python). I know Rust offers FFI and will apparently make its data representations C like if annotated and I think has some ABI.

This is the second post I have seen in the last couple of days of "glibc is bad lets rewrite it in Rust". However the problem is not that glibc is just bad but rather everything links to it. If other languages can't talk to Rust easy this would be a nicer problem to focus on first (before rewriting glibc).

I guess this is sort of how its done: http://siciarz.net/24-days-of-rust-calling-rust-from-other-l...

Rust -> C <- Other language. You have to create the C header files (I'm surprised Rust compiler or something similar doesn't automate this).
It's funny, I recall people saying that about Microsoft 'letting Google exist' at one point...
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I sense a little bit of a condescending attitude in such posts, and that does not help 'non-fp' progs to want to join the super world of fp elite programming. Personnally I've started learning Haskell and I love it. But having a denigrating attitude towards OOP-ish programming is simply polarizing and does not help the 'cause' ...
If you have breathing problems, getting out of Denver would probably be a good start. Air quality is pretty good for a city, but you're still surrounded by motor vehicle pollution pretty much all the time.

The wildfires are probably the biggest issue with living in Colorado period though - as with many of the western states. Getting just beyond the state boundaries won't help there - you'll want to move somewhere less arid.
> It's amazing how you can tell so much about a person just by reading one short article.

I take it you never heard of Brian McKenna before?
h-bar[0]:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant
There is also GNU specific functions and macros in glibc. Is musl implementing _GNU_SOURCE? I know that my own project use TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY macro quite heavily, among with asprintf.
Completely disagree. Lots of sponsored search results are already what I'm looking for in the first place.
i've been meditating for 6 yrs now and i'm interested in your meditation experience. do u have a blog or social media account or something publicly available about it?
The Tunguska+Tesla event is quite fascinating (the whole life of Tesla is actually).

People love to make up a lot of theories and conspiracies, it's nothing new.

What is particularly worrisome is that Tesla was a very brillant man and that he believed himself to have caused this. From the information that we have, it wasn't a marketing stunt by his entourage. The guy himself was working on this particle-beam for some time and claimed to have triggered it that night. He tried to sell the technology for more almost 3 decades.

Was this made up, was this a coincidence, or did it actually happen?

It's been over 100 years and no one is certain.