skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was just me - most (no, All) Mac Users I've mentioned issues like this to have just looked at me like I'm crazy. I've always wanted to like OSX (I'm not deeply technical, but did a lot of playing around with Linux when it wasn't straightforward to install), but always found the UI frustrated me, and whenever I've tried discussing it (particularly as I work in Music Tech) I've just been shut down by Mac-philes.

I think that Windows 10 is similar - there are window-edge issues which don't (to me) appear to be present in W7 that make it more frustrating when resizing, etc.
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Google is testing a payments app that works with your phone in your pocket
This is well written. 100 pages covering the basics for someone with a interest in how to get started.

Ch.4 on "nice to have" vs "need your solution" is especially good because it's where many companies fail.
The large Robot manufactures such as ABB are already working on such solutions: http://new.abb.com/products/robotics/yumi
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On Hills
Indeed. I pivoted that around a bit. I've been pulling my now teenager out of bed for the last 10 years at 5am. It's a lovely time of day for angsty 13 year olds. (:
Write less code, do more. Welcome to the future
Actually the Nazi architecture is close to fascist architecture in Italy, not so much to classicist architecture elsewhere. You can see that in the details, for example that DC building you linked has classical doorways and round columns with greek capitals, while Speer-style Nazi buildings have a brutalistic tone with square columns and avoidance of details that point to a humanistic heritage (see also the stylized eagle). In some way, this is the fascist form of architectural modernism.

edit: yes, both are made to impress, but that's just as true for big glass&steel-buildings that share not much with those two examples other than the massive, larger than human size of everything.
T-Platforms Introduces Tavolga Terminal Computer for Linux
Ehhh... so it's a weather website? What's that got to do with whether I should get up >_<
That's what the balcony is for.
Continuous Integration of a Dockerized Rails Application
Normally against a chess computer, you try to play positionally and avoid tactical situations - i.e. you avoid its strengths and target its (relative) weakness.

It is nice (and also rather uncanny) to be in the opposite situation here. Positionally it looks good, tactically, not so good.

A great project!
JavaScript became the browser language because it was originally intended to do so much less than it did. If the intention had been, from the beginning, to do, in the browser, all we are now doing with JavaScript, a much different language would have been used. And now people learn JavaScript as a first language and use it extensively server-side...

Such a bizarre progression to me.
It just seems to me that using explosives on a structure where collapse is imminent in order to fix it sounds like the most dangerous idea one could possibly have.
Who'd risk Kessler Effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
This question reminds me of this Twitter thread, started by @raymondh:

Programmer survey: Do visualize consecutive memory locations as running left-to-right, right-to-left, top-to-bottom, or bottom-to-top?

https://mobile.twitter.com/raymondh/status/69510373753937510...
Inflation hasn't been 5% in about two decades. 2015 was about 1%, most 2016 estimates are around 2%.

And the $14 million goes into the grant pool, so it's only accessible by those with grants in the first place.
Thanks for the feedback! I have a few ideas for how the clustering could be improved at the higher levels. The re-clustering step I'm doing right now is pretty simplistic.
This article discusses how to run your test suite in the same containers you develop in on CircleCI
China to lay off five to six million workers, earmarks at least $23B
Wonder how this works in relation to the earthquakes we're getting here in Oklahoma due to injection wells.
UK Parliament Petition to fix the Mosul Dam or raise awareness internationally
Save your children's memories in a free family book, safe from the "Public" default setting of Facebook posts.

+ Email notifications help your invitees (e.g. grandparents) follow new photos & stories, or post/comment themselves

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Three Industry Trade Groups to File Briefs Supporting Apple
http://betalyst.com/ - A football betting analysis/predictions website.

Offer the whole service for free. Revenue generated through advertising/sponsorship.

Looking to move into a premium model over the coming months to gain some MRR to allow me to develop it furthur..

Currently earns over £75,000 per year in advertising/sponsorship/affiliate revenue.

Work on it for about 2-3 hours a week.
Nest and Alexa working together
That was really impressive. Other than playing very accurately, I felt it played far more human-like than most computer chess engines.

I've written several chess engines, and have often wondered for some time whether or not there was a chance for a more AI/pattern-driven approach.

Are you using your AI just for evaluation? E.g. do you have a traditional PVS/negascout (or similar) search? Presumably an 'extreme Type C' (no search) would fail to recognise various draws (50 move/repetition)?

Good work :-)
Americans preparing to leave the country if Trump becomes president
I imagine they check but I also imagine you won't be disqualified because you don't have a profile.

Why does the YC application ask for your HN username?
I did a bunch of classes on VHDL in college and have thought about blogging about them as a refresher and a way to introduce digital building blocks to people who come from coding backgrounds. It's one of those subjects where, once you see the basics, you realize that the system as a whole is fundamentally very simple - it just happens to be running really, really fast.

I always felt very behind in college because I didn't know anything about electricity or programming or radio. Digital logic was refreshing because it was one of the areas that pretty much nobody knew about.
There appears to be considerable disagreement as to whether EQ measures any real underlying trait or has any independent utility in predicting/determining outcomes, e.g., in work.
Ask HN: How to Fire a Cofounder
Hi everyone,

1-We're a small startup of two.
2-My cofounder decided she doesn't want to keep working at our company
3-We have a 4 year vesting and 1 year cliff (about 4 months left)
4-We own both 40% each.
5-She is asking for 10% of the company to leave, meanwhile she is not working at all.

Is there any way to deal with this, or is there anyone who've been in a similar position?

Thanks!
All part of the culture of debt forever.
Few questions:

- How does a mirror make the foliage transparent?

- How does transparent foliage absorb energy for photosynthesis?

- How do you boost the energy from the light 16000 times (4000 layers * "lets say 4 times") without destroying the plants (and probably a lot more)?

- What are these <10cm crops we can replace the current unwieldy crops with?
The real billion dollar idea is robots which don't need engineers to instruct them. These robots will simply learn from humans who literally show them e.g. how to pick parts from a conveyor and put them in wire mesh crates.
see also: https://twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/705119281151750144
I'm a bit wary of "giftedness" in intelligence discussions...

I think the author's argument is very weak, analogous to:

"Scientists have identified thousands of parameters influencing the efficiency of petrol-powered cars. Each parameter seems to influence the outcome by a small amount. If we simply chose the best value for each parameter, I predict that we could see cars with efficiency in the range of 500 miles per gallon".

A related argument (I think the one you are making) is that generally optimising one thing is going to trade off other things. So going all-in on fuel efficiency might impact crash resistance, for example.

The author's argument for general intelligence might be true if the basic architecture of our brains has a lot of room for improvement. This might be true, but it seems that evolution should have already exploited any low-hanging fruit.

This whole thing reminds me of the "humans only use 10% of their brains" flavour of reasoning.
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Learn more about the Raspberry Pi 3 in the MagPi 43
I went for Sendgrid. Very happy with it so far, pricing is great as well.

Easy to use, easy to setup, sane configuration for things like domains and DNS.
TDD: How to use Math to get into it
Trader Joe's reminds me of the specialty grocer in the small beach town I went to as a child. They carried no brands and had a few local options for jam and other things you'd buy. The company has been able to recreate that same feel, but stock stores with well-selected generic food items (in non-generic packaging).

I wonder how much of their success is built on the same nostalgia?
These engineers are developing artificially intelligent hackers
>> There's always somebody willing to be paid to do that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1m-AEWMRVo
Do you have any evidence that $50k is an average amount of vested stock held by an employee? If not it might as well be $5k or $500k, doing the math doesn't help much.
CPS to prosecute 'trolls' who use fake online profiles
How to Find a Car Lease Takeover
Orbital mechanics doesn't make that feasible, though. You'd only be able to have something transiently appear in the sky, because satellites can't orbit around in lockstep like that. And it would be freakishly expensive even for that.
A couple days ago, dinner conversation.
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Part of me wonders how little body consciousness future generations will have when there is easily accessibletechnology like this that sucks the focus away from the immediate body you reside in and into a virtual world. On The Positive, I like how you can stand to use this technology, and not be trapped sitting in a chair.

Brave New World Ho!
@lsiunsuex, I absolutely agree! Probably the most over architected page like this ever haha.

In fact, it made it MORE difficult by far to use A2 for this and I knew that was going to be the case going in.

This was purely a demo project to experiment with this new technology and wanted to share the results!
I don't know who has wronged you or how, but all the bloody vengeance in the world won't make you feel any better, nor will it undo what has been done to you.

Punishing the individuals responsible for specific acts is all well and good within reason, but collective punishment is wrong.
Spoken like a true hacker
An article from 2007:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7069109.stm

With a similar conclusion mentions that the water resources minister kept much of the discussions about how to proceed with the dam maintenance out of the public eye to avoid bringing the issues to the attention of insurgents.
Chapter 145 – Wealth,Prosperity and Luck Part–12
Ripple: Cut the cost of international payments by more than 50% [pdf]
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All of those things. With current headsets you'd need to losslessly stream 1200p video at 90fps which is a lot of bandwidth and those numbers are only going to increase. It also has to be very low latency and not skip/stutter to avoid motion sickness. Hopefully we'll see it in consumer headsets in the next 5 years.
Why would you want your grocery store on social media? I don't understand the world anymore.
That is brilliant, top work.

Do you put your money where your mouth is? Place bets that your system pops out?

Edit: Roughly how many visitors do you get, monthly?
Way too much fluff, filler, unimportant (at this stage) information, and latent Salesforce sales pitches. A much better resource without all the bullshit (and it's even on sale): http://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/
The issue is that top of the dam is (way) over 30 feet above the water level behind the dam, which prevents the suction from overcoming gravity. A siphon won't work with that much of a rise in the middle no matter what the difference is between the elevations of the ends of the tube.

Also what you're describing is literally how all siphons must work--you can't siphon to a higher elevation.
Rep. Issa (R-CA) Crushes FBI Re: iPhone on NPR
Correlation-causation. How do you know this is because Trump may become president?
Great, an ideal complement to my 'pickpocket AP'....;)
That's begging the question (in the original and still proper use =) – the OP's claim has become a bit of a platitude on the internet and yet I've seen scant evidence for it. It may well be there, but, admittedly, as I said above, it doesn't seem to be really all that wise.
Faraday Future Earns First US Patent for FF Echelon Inverter
They considered an attack that would have killed ~1M people, presumably mainly civilians? sigh smh
First of all, according to what the experts are saying, the most dangerous idea one could possibly have is your idea of doing nothing - that guarantees the worst-case outcome.

Second, one would normally expect the force required to break the dam to be orders of magnitude larger than that required to open a sluice gate. Obviously this isn't a normal situation, but then, what are the figures? If a stick of dynamite isn't the appropriate tool, exactly what would it take to open the gates?

Third, if you could say 'we are going to try this at such and such a time, everyone be prepared' that would be far better than having it fail at an unknown time.

Fourth, now that I think of it, even deliberately blowing up the dam at a known time would be better than letting it fail at an unknown time.

Fifth, I'm sure there is some relevant idea or consideration I haven't thought of, that someone else could think of if they put their mind to doing so.
The Investigatory Powers Bill Is Junk
Thanks, that's basically what I was looking for. I have apps that are bottlenecked by blake2, so finding a faster cryptographic hash function would be pretty interesting to me.
How Nonprofits Could Use A/B Tests to Raise Money
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So I guess this is what happens when someone learns to program in JavaScript first.

What a terribly misinformed article.
The substances listed in the comment I replied to are stable elements. The timeframe for their eventual decay is speculative. If proton decay is real, then these elements will decay with a half-life related to that. There's a rough lower limit on proton decay from available experimental evidence in the neighborhood of 10^34 years. That would give a half life for these elements of something like 10^32 years. All very rough, but it's something along those lines.

If protons don't decay (proton decay is predicted by some theories but has never been observed), then it's even more speculative. Wikipedia's "timeline of the far future" (a fun article to read for many reasons) gives an estimate of 10^46 to 10^200 years for all atoms in the observable universe to decay through other means. I'll leave converting that to a half life up to the reader.

Incidentally, this means that the popular "launch it into the sun" disposal process actually kicks in automatically, before any appreciable decay occurs. Some billions of years in the future, the sun will expand into a red giant and swallow the Earth, and everything on it. Wikipedia says this happens at 7.59 billion years from now, which is a suspiciously accurate number, but I think for the purposes of this discussion, "billions" is sufficiently precise.
Nice. The educational value of a site like this is enormous. Are there any more out there?
I've never heard this "postcapitalism" term before so I dug around a bit.

It seems that the author, Paul Mason, has recently published a book: Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future. Here's a blurb from a review on Goodreads [1]:

Probably the most critical observation to this theory is that information now forms a huge and growing proportion of the goods and services that make up GDP. Yet it is cannot be priced using standard economic theory, which states that a market is in equilibrium when marginal cost equals marginal benefit. Information has zero marginal cost, as it can be copied infinitely, the only cost involved being the electricity this requires. Moreover, the category of information keeps expanding, to include music, books, films, TV shows, patterns and designs to make or do just about any other thing. Whilst there is obviously a cost to producing this information, that is generally also falling. Only legal structures prevent everyone with an internet connection being able to listen to practically every song, watch practically every film, and read practically every book ever created. Realistically, everyone willing to pirate already does. Business models based on defending copyright are fighting a losing battle, as internet connections get faster, storage cheaper, and files quality better. I have long blamed my comfort with media piracy on A-level economics, which helpfully taught me that a good with zero marginal cost should also be priced at zero. Mason notes that the so-called ‘Internet of Things’ (a concept I am admittedly somewhat dubious of) will expand both the volume and proportion of information in our goods and services. At the moment, the information that we passively create by browsing the web (which certainly feels like a passive activity much of the time) is controlled by state and private monopolies; google and the NSA, broadly. The argument here is all such information should be made more public, in order that it can be used to drive innovation.

Apparently the open sourcing of brewery recipes plays into his thesis and gives him another chance to push a short piece on postcapitalism and the opening up of all data/information as an equal means of production for everyone in the world.

What is not mentioned is the human/physical capital required to produce and distribute something of value with this free information, which will still be just as expensive (if not more expensive) in the future.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24878857-postcapitalism
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Density isn't the only benefit of this system. At these scales, the water requirements alone are significant. This replaces many cubic meters of that water with rock.
Map: http://submarinecablemap.com/
Undecided Voters (2008)
Read his "Inside the Third Reich" many years ago. Had no idea until I read this article that he has been discredited. For anyone who hasn't read it, it can pretty much be summed up as "All I ever wanted to do was architecture, and I just got caught up in a series of events. I was surrounded by brutes and buffoons, and I just did my best with the situation I found myself in." Also some very valuable insights into Hitler's persona, but can you believe anything in that book now?
ohh... "boot" as in "remove"
> That is not a small group, especially as it includes your build environment.

Assuming the build environment is about CLI and daemons as I mentioned.

Anything else isn't guaranteed to work. To pick on your example, Cairo needs more than just POSIX to compile. X11 isn't part of POSIX.

Have you experience with big UNIXes like Aix, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 and DG-UX?

It been awhile since I used most of them (1994 - 2006), but I clearly remember surprises with those scripts (autotools and friends) when running them outside GNU/Linux.

Maybe the situation has improved there, since like many of us, my UNIX like experience is nowadays constrained to GNU/Linux distributions and Mac OS X.
Google testing hands free mobile payment app
havent not worked with it in that matter, however like someone above said.

typically I use wget to download, and curl to troubleshoot http https.

however, if that is capable of keeping everything open I suppose thats a point for wget.
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If there's going to be crazy precipitation... maybe I'll just stay in bed.

Without checking the weather though, anytime it's rainy in the morning I always feel 300% more lethargic, as if some primal instinct is saying "it's raining out there, better just not."
We had a similar thing with security checks, or 'last person in the store', or whatever.

Basically, people are deciding that they are willing to work for sub-minimum wage, and so they accept it.

Ultimately I just left.

I think the way to fix this is to give employees negotiating power. We shouldn't be in a situation where an employer only treats employees well because of fear of reprisal.
Amazing to visually see React in such a short amount of time is nearly as large an ecosystem as Jquery?

Seems so difficult to believe, I question if I'm reading the data correctly!

The pace at which new things happen that you have to know is incredible.
Yeah, I follow the system... It makes it easier for me to build on and improve the algorithms if I am using the service myself..

I am looking to add an extension to the site so it places bets automatically through the Betfair API then I can track the growth of the better balance that way.

I am planning to turn all the learnings from this into a free betting guide/ebook as well in the coming months to educate people on how to pick better bets and manage their bankroll.

The site gets around 25k visitors a month, and has a very good pages per visit rate and visitor duration.
- The bulk of the engagement comes from the Android app which has around 75k users.. I am hoping to actually release the new improved version in the coming months and then launch on iOS as well.
- There is also an email database with just over 20k subscribers, which gets a 30% open-rate and 5-6% click-rate on average per email.

Is all pretty fun... Currently spending more time on the site as I neglected it a bit when focusing on the app and the algorithm. Working hard on SEO to get the traffic levels up. Want to have 100k monthly visits to the site by the end of the year.
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Roofstock launches marketplace for purchasing rented homes
The same similarities apply to services, but we consider labor and capital to be distinct.