skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Olimex boards have a direct SATA connection.
This is on a Lime-A10 with a cheap 2.5" 1TB drive, about 70% full so some fragmentation etc:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=6G bs=1M count=6144

6144+0 records in

6144+0 records out

6442450944 bytes (6.4 GB) copied, 136.176 s, 47.3 MB/s

# dd if=6G of=/dev/null bs=1M

6144+0 records in

6144+0 records out

6442450944 bytes (6.4 GB) copied, 93.6363 s, 68.8 MB/s

Also they have a nice battery connector, they'll keep the battery charged and switch to it if main power fails (and even keep the SATA drive powered (not sure if you plug a 3.5" one, though)).
Data from these studies are publicly accessible. The CLOSER project is working on documenting all the data and questionnaires that are part of the eight major UK cohort studies:

Main: http://www.closer.ac.uk/

Data: http://www.closer.ac.uk/data-resources/access-data/

Edit: link more directly to data access page.
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That makes a lot of sense.

I've done pretty extensive writing on an IBM Selectric III typewriter because I love the mechanical sound of the machine. A lot of the fun comes from having a great pace and firing off letters and words to make a percussive noise. That said, I still often 'space out' when trying to collect my thoughts, sort of like in a trance while the machine hums at my fingertips. I like being able to take breaks to consider phrasing a word choice, which this app doesn't allow for at its root, which makes sense based on the type of 'push' the setup is more useful for in general.
There's a not very well know software that's written by one guy what's been around for 10 year so which can do this for moving images with an amazing amount of flexibility. It's a lot of fun: http://synthetik.com/
Take a walk. Ride a dirt bike. Camp. Fish. Build the coolest tree fort ever.
That's precisely the sort of distraction that this app forces you to ignore. Just insert something like <another word for crap that starts with e> and keep writing.
The project seems dead to me. Is there at least a GH repo or something so we can see the code?
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If someone is not publicly notable, why should they have their own Wikipedia page? And if all 7 billion of us get our own page, that's going to create a shitload of name collisions. There's only one entity called Dexter Jettster, but there are a hell of a lot of John Smiths out there. Likewise, despite my own surname being pretty rare and my first name being somewhat unpopular, there are still (at least) four of us in my country alone.

If someone isn't publicly notable, then you have the above issue of name collision causing chaff, plus not having public sources to describe them appropriately (if they did, they'd be publicly notable).

Perhaps turn your question on it's head: Why not make the Pokemon wiki a general wiki? If 'pages are free' and you're not forced to look at the content, why shouldn't specialist wikis all work as general wikis? So what if Pokemon wiki is half about the Premier League and knitting, as the Pokemon information is still there?

> This reflects how the people related to this topics are just more knowledgeable (about the topic) and willing to cooperate to the Wikipedia than other groups.

Wikipedia is a general interest encyclopaedia, others are niche interest encyclopaedias. A general interest encyclopaedia is usually better off with smaller, easy-to-digest articles, leaving detailed treatises to the specialists. In a general wiki, having [minor] characters grouped together makes a lot more sense, whereas in a specialist wiki, the separate-page-per-character model is better.

I also think that many Wikipedia detractors simply assume that Every Wiki That Is Not Wikipedia does not have rabid editors. Likewise, there are plenty of wikis out there that don't even allow public edits.
I have a 1200 sqft house with a nice yard in a cool neighborhood midway betwen Berkeley and downtown Oakland that we got for under $350k (including some largish repairs & upgrades) around that time. Admittedly we timed it well and property values around here have practically doubled since we bought it, but I think that was partly due to a lack of investment in new construction for a few years following the recession.
Preparing for the Oscars 2016 on Twitter (Dataflow)
The biggest thing is that people drive when they shouldn't. Sometimes your car just isn't going to do it. All season tires, 2WD, ice storm. Yeah that's when you see people sliding down hills. There's no traction and no automation is going to fix that. The best thing it will do, no joke, is just not start the car in those conditions.

You do see a spike of people who don't do well to adjust to winter driving. They don't give longer gaps, make sure they have more time before crossing intersections than they do. Computers will do that much better, eventually. I can't wait to go to work or drive around the city and not have to worry about someone texting, doing makeup or making poor driving decisions. Have a nap on long trips, watch a movie, finish up some work.

I can see computers having an amazing reaction time to some kid running into the street to catch a ball. An animal running in front of you at night. It's going to take awhile though. I wouldn't trust it right now to safely take me anywhere. There are just so many variables that the engineers have to account for. Weather conditions, people conditions, car conditions and on and on. It's nuts.
To steal something I saw over the weekend: "Your [Sweeney's] position is like a penguin, different, cute, and interesting... but it ain't gonna fly."
> He is sub 20 years. I'm thinking more like 40-50 mark.

Perspective:

* 60 years ago, we didn't have highways.

* 45 years ago, seat belts weren't required.

* 40 years ago, we expected engines to last 10s of thousands of miles. We didn't really understand crumple zones. Open containers and even drinking while driving.

* 30 years, we added fuel injection, computers, and airbags.

* 20 years ago, the hybrid car, better fuel efficiency, and side airbags

Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.
Then I think you missed the point of libertarianism.
oh come on. You are reading too much into a commercial made by a marketing department.

Slack is a tool, and a good one. It is up to you (and your team), on what to do with it.
An alternate version would only run the clock while keystrokes are being input. Sort of like watching a professional sports game. The time on the clock doesn't actually reflect the time spent on task (though the setup of this one does correlate, save for the 5 second timer leeway). It probably takes quite a bit more 'clock time' to actually walk away with five minutes of 'writing time' so to speak.
That's not true at all. Vancouver housing prices aren't that far off from SF and the mean salary is about 1/3rd lower than SF.
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Do you mean East Palo Alto?
> And I'm not talking about just Pi development - developing anything on Windows is a huge pain without a Bash prompt and proper coreutils support.

You haven't used Windows in a very very long time I take it? Powershell is likely a better shell than Bash and Microsoft freely provides compilers for C/C++/.Net and you can trivially get compilers for most other major languages on the platform.

All I am reading from your complaints is that you're scared of learning something new.
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We desperately need public interest groups like the EFF to take their own position and to stop parroting the Apple line.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/48a61j/eff_to_appl...
The win condition is slightly meh. I want to see end stats, words mispelled, maybe a leaderboard.
I am of course, making the assumption that OP knows what the software does -- but not how it goes about doing it.
Why filter your cousin's world view when you could show him all available options and let him make an informed decision himself?

Microsoft isn't so "bad" any more with their shift towards open source.
thanks Chuck, Feed Rehab was my first iOS project and I'm still really fond of it. I found some interesting tweets using it that I didn't even remember writing.
Ask HN: Is it possible to live off technical writing?
I co-authored a book on Python last year and it was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. Does anyone have experience with writing part time or full time on technical topics? How would one get started?
Thanks for the great tool. I'm still a big fan of using Log2Console as I can filter quickly based on what I'm looking for. This is a great addition that's more request focused. One question I have is how to solve issues where the XML serializer can't be found. I see lots of errors like these:

Caught System.IO.FileNotFoundException
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'XXXXXXXXX.XmlSerializers, Version=1.0.5902.37667, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName
at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load
at System.Xml.Serialization.TempAssembly.LoadGeneratedAssembly

and

Caught System.IO.FileNotFoundException
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'XXXXXXXXX.XmlSerializers' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.LoadWithPartialNameInternal

If this is normal behavior [1], then I suggest there be a way to filter these out so there aren't false positives on the exceptions.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1177040
Author here: This Comment made me seriously LOL.
Did anyone claim the same about jQuery a few years ago? First people claim about js library fatigue, now we are complaining about there only being "one employable js library."
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That seems counter to other professions. You typically have to pay people more to live in the less desirable areas. Everyone wants to live in <insert cool city here>, so you can pay them less.
If your mindset is $$$ first it doesn't matter where you live. We have a ton of valley expats here in Portland. The ones who are really artists and creatives at heart and work to subsidize their outside lives tend to thrive here. The ones who just want to live more cheaply end up miserable because this is not California North.

Wanna move to Portland? By all means come on up! But leave your dot-com privilege and your "live to impress VC's" mentality back home. Come to Oregon and be an Oregonian.

Also- if you're attached to your car, Portland is not for you. The commutes from the 'burbs are as nasty as the Bay Area, and the inner city is made for biking and walking. Your car is good for the weekends- getting to the Coast and the Mountains- but not for your work week. Change your perspective on commuting. This ain't CAr-ifornia

Note- I said "weekends", meaning Saturday and Sunday when you are not working. If that is a foreign concept to you, Oregon is not for you.
The positional tracking tech valve is using seems like the most elegant, robust solution I've seen yet, so I certainly hope it becomes a standard. The best part about it is that the cost per device is so low to implement it (the tracking components on the objects are dead simple and very cheap to make) so there's a good case to be made for using this standard, because you could proliferate all sorts of low cost tracking controllers to use with it.
Have they ever tried coding for 18 hours straight? When your brain turns into porridge and feels like leaking through your ears...
Deciding to be a Product Manager
As someone else pointed out in this thread, you would have made a lot more money dumping $70,000 into S&P index funds in 1975 than buying a $70,000 bay area house at the same time and holding it empty to 2016.

So I disagree with your premise, no rational investor purchases houses and leaves them empty. And the ones who don't are providing a valuable economic service by assuming all capital loss risk, interest rate risk, maintenance, opportunity costs, etc. involved in owning property in exchange for a tenant's cash.
I have 0 believe in hordes of burger flippers became software developers. We should just face it- to become one you need at least 85+ IQ as starting point.
There is no excesses for anyone who lives in first world country. You CAN get access to computing and education, it just your lazy arse stopping you, not evil capitalistic white technocrats.
thank you. The value for the users is to be able to discuss the episode with other fans. Early uses so far have been to post links mentioned by the host, background bios and photos of guests, and some off-beat GIFs (of course).
What is a platform? (2013)
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The money you spend on your mortgage (minus interest) is still yours, in the form of equity. If/when you sell, you get that money back, modulo market fluctuations. Or your kids get it via inheritance.

When you rent, you might as well be lighting that money on fire.

There are a few other terms in the equation (property taxes in particular) but that's it in a nutshell.
I've loaded up Windows 10 IoT for RPI 2 previously. It is a Windows kernel, but otherwise massively cut down. It limits the system to a single running "foreground" application at a time, plus some system services.
If you wished to dedicate the device to a single purpose, it's fine, but don't expect a robust shell environment like you would see on a bare bones linux box. It certainly won't support a user using it as a desktop environment. Think of it more as embedded Windows offering, great for being a single app server, robotics platform or kiosk.
Yeah, I wrote out ~4000 words longhand and filled a whole small notebook for a personal project earlier this month...but it took me a couple of days and a lot of long pauses to think about what I was writing.
But how can you ever "regulate" people seeing what happens outdoors, in public? At best, you'll force honest companies not to do it, and dishonest ones to pretend they don't.

I know that this argument applies to many things, but this one in particular seems utterly un-regulatable to me.
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jQuery and React are DOM manipulation libraries. jQuery packaged a bunch of other stuff in it but at its core it is all about DOM manipulation.
Let me rephrase that for you: "While fresh food might be a factor, conventionally grown food would be approximately as nutritious as organic."
Congratulations! Those advantages you list are too big to ignore.

I think the biggest stumbling block to SOA is that failure states have to be considered up-front, and the responsibility of concerns have to be designed into the system up-front. Degrees don't train you how to do this, so engineers stick with what they know will never fail (function calls).

We've been experimenting with plugin-based architecture on some work projects, which force us to address separation of concerns (at least) while still keeping things in the same process.
I just have a lower risk tolerance than a lot of people. I am totally down with creating something new, I just refuse to leave a job that pays the bills to do it. If you work 40-50 hours a week at your real job, that still leaves 10-50 hours per week to work on your own thing, depending on how driven you are, how much stuff you scheduled that week, etc. Startups are so risky that it's way better to reduce your risk any way possible.

Of course, if you go the VC funded route and want to be huge, then go for glory and quit your job. But if you want to build a smaller, steadier side business that you grow over a longer time, don't quit your day job.
This post completely resonated with me as a former Googler making the leap into startup founder. It's been drinking from a firehose learning what it takes to get a product off the ground. What I've found is that the entrepreneur community is extremely supportive of each other.

For other Xoogler Entrepreneurs out there, a couple of us have started a Xooglerpreneur community with over 600+ Xoogler/Googler entrepreneurs. The group has been hosting monthly tech talks, founders lunches, and other networking events. We have active local chapters in LA and NYC with additional groups growing in Chicago and London.

There is an active Slack channel and the group is organizing an Xooglerpreneur Demo Day later this year as well as setting up an Xoogler Angel Fund.

Sign up here: http://www.xooglerpreneur.com
I heard a well known neuroscientist suggest that studies should be required to be replicated by at least another lab before being published/ established. That may sound impractical for some fields, but especially in biology/neuroscience most projects are small enough to make this feasible. Is it worth the money? I would say absolutely, not only for the validation of the science, but for the shift in culture, to finally stop designing studies chasing minute (but statistically significant) effects just to make another publication.

I think its also about time we have post-publication peer review and about time scientists get off their high horses and start responding to it.
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> Which area has nice stores with a wide variety of organic fruits and veggies, and which area has stores where they can't afford to replace the floor tiles when they pop out?

It's interesting that you bring this up. In the case of food, at least, lower COL areas (which are typically more rural) have access to something far better than any store - farmer's markets and actual farms.
ATMs are good comparison. They are left unattended but photo document themselves and their environment. If you attack an ATM it will provide the evidence for a prosecutor to charge you.
I really don't see me losing anything to any generation (older or younger) but I also don't have feeling of entitlement. It is "normal" to blame everything else for one's perceived misfortune/lack of opportunity but in most cases it is yourself. I don't prevent young people to vote for any type of change they want but if voting doesn't go your way it is not really fair to complain about it.
Yup = Built in Bluetooth and WIFI is great ... really would love SATA and USB3 in a future version..
Austin is a great city. I went to school there, lived there for 10 years, and went through Techstars there 10 years later.

But the cynic in me wants to point out that Indeed.com is based in Austin has a vested interest in bringing more talent to town.
U.S. incomes are finally growing
We've used Blazegraph at work for a project, and we have used a number of other graph databases.

Blazegraph is a very niche product and requires a lot of time for setting it up and adjusting it for your workload.

If Blazegraph peaks your interest then you should also look into Yarc platform by Cray.

Should you want to look more into graphs, but don't want to spend endless nights just trying to load your data then I would recommend Stardog, which has just been a pleasure to work with.
what? So you're in favor of only abusinglawful drivers then, by letting unlawful drivers get away just because they're "poor"? Comments like this make it seem like every car with damage or "appearing" to be driven by the poor are going to get pulled over EVERY time you go out. Is it not also INSULTING to lawful drivers that people drive around in polluting beaters that aren't inspected, unlicensed, where the driver has no insurance. Not only insulting but constantly causing financial havoc on lawful drivers by fleeing accident liability.

Question, ever drive with the police in any area where there's low income or income variance? Because it turns out that beater cars with visible problems like trunk lock punched out, broken lights actually will yield a good bust QUITE often. Even my few times riding with police, the people had existing warrants for things like abuse, robbery etc. Not just the cops wanting to get money off them. ALSO you'll find the police can be quite lenient in neighborhoods with warnings and such when they don't need to. AND another surprise. Many tickets you can actually get your paperwork between the ticket and court date, and present that you're lawful and the ticket will be dropped. That's quite lenient too, don't you think? I did that some years back with expired plates, and it had nothing to do with the cop either.

The extra insult is that these same poor drivers, not only get away with not being responsible drivers, they also collect gov't (your tax) funded entitlements. Bottom line, a lot of poor people really just scoff any kind of rules, blame others, blame the police, flee accidents and are in the "poverty" line on paper because their income comes from nefarious sources, so they don't contribute back to the community. Maybe just maybe people complaining about abuse of poor should start some organizations to help inform people how to obey the minimum essentials like paying for licenses before buying lottery tickets. This is basic stuff that people ignore and if you want to help them, actually help them instead of blaming "the system" all the time
The same thing could be said about US news sources.
This should be re-titled as "Majestic Monolith RENDERING"

Reason being, it's only the rendering engine that is a monolithic basecamp app that renders both web and mobile.

But a variety of 3rd party services are used to make basecamp work, such as

- Queen Bee is an external rails app for billing

- CloudFront for CDN

- S3 for customer doc storage

Etc

All of which use services (micro services) stitched together to make basecamp work
Sure it does on a sustaining basis, but you still have to save enough for the initial down payment.
That looks like lisp?
I left California (L.A.) for Raleigh three and half years ago and my quality of life skyrocketed. The pay is the same, the worst N.C. commute is half of the best California commute, and my mortgage is the same cost as my 650 sq ft apartment was.
12 years ago we moved from Silly Valley (where I worked for 20 years at places you've definitely heard of, and some start-ups) to the Seattle area. Great move, would do it again. With the exception of a little weather and geography (the motorcycling is definitely poorer up here), I don't miss SV at all.

I definitely don't miss California. Never going back there.
I thought it was only going to track time you actually spent typing- so 5 minutes of actual words written. You can break all you want, but when you come back you see that you only have actually typed 3 minutes worth today.
Just tested it and didn't find it super bad, but I am honestly (negatively) surprised. It does indeed lag quite a bit and feels very unnatural. Chrome here as well. I use React quite a bit myself and haven't experienced this in my own apps. Odd!

There's also a slightly annoying flicker when you type the last bit and it keeps returning the same movies.
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I mean schools need funded somehow.. many states fund them almost all through property taxes.

A lot of places I have lived capped property tax at 2% of market value. In Ohio are their taxes significantly higher than 2% of property value? I wonder if they have tax missing somewhere else, like no local income tax or something... Ohio doesn't strike me as a high tax zone.
I live in a 3400 sqft ranch on a lake with hundreds of square feet of frontage 20 minutes from downtown Charlotte without traffic and 1.3 acres of land for 600k. The weather is nice and it appreciated ~80k in a little over a year.

Are market prices even remotely comparable to affording that kind of luxury in SV? Hell no.

It's beyond comprehension for me to justify the cost of living out there. I'd be trading in for a postage stamp in an overly populated area.
I live and work in Manchester UK and we dream of 7-8 months of rainy weather (rather than the actual 11 months).
Aye, developing C# is a breeze and perhaps the best development experience I've ever had.
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