skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It solves the problem in Japan. Japan just isn't like other countries; they have citizens who actually care about their society and don't want to be seen as leeches on it.

It's no wonder they don't want to import a bunch of foreigners. I can just imagine how their society would be completely ruined if they allowed millions of Americans to move in. Bike theft would be the least of their problems.
> only elements we know about exist

The interesting thing with elements is that they describe almost all conventional matter in a very predictable pattern and we can pretty much enumerate them. Some scientists are even trying to make the next elements (Ununennium for instance), even though there are incredibly unlikely to occur in nature.

Granted, elements only describe a fraction of all matter, but we do not really expect anything complex to last long as plasma (stars), and we do not know much of dark matter anyway.

> no matter what conditions might be carbon is an absolute must for life

GP was answering this exact point. In short, it's just that the other elements do not look as promising as carbon for building complex molecules (whether we know them or not).
Well, there's the law, and then there's what actually happens. At the very least, you need evidence in the hands of authorities and willingness (of a number of people) to "prosecute", so to speak, before action is taken. I'm guessing both of those are rare.
There's a philosophical reason for a cumbersome UI, and it revolves around the idea that comment volume should overall remain somewhat low.

It should be hard to manage tons of comments on a story, because it lowers the overall comment count.

I'd love to see some A/B testing on this.
Ask HN: Is intuition something good or bad?
It doesn't assume it, but it does imply a low likelihood of it being the case seeing as we are not living on a Dyson sphere or small moon.
It isn't but it is a hedge. You put that down payment in some other asset class (stocks?), pay about half of what a mortgage would be currently and then profit when the RE asset bubble pops and buy when it's cheaper. And while your waiting the stocks themselves will probably have a gain of some sort.
I'm quite fond of what Blizzard is doing with Hearthstone (it is a take on the freemium model) but companies like that are the exception nowadays, not the rule.
and the scrolling behavior. my goodness.
Hacking kickstarter to raise $1.9M for a winter coat project
A bit of neuroscience can help you develop software better
OneRent Raises $4m Series A to Expand Property Management and Rental Platform
And this is why HN became my goto after ditching my basket of reddits. I can find a takeaway from nearly every one of the links that make the front page.
OT and just my opinion: it seems to exists an unfortunate trend in the promotion of new ideas where, instead of simply exposing the virtues of the idea on its own, it first needs to knock down the (proven and world adopted) predecessor as something unpolished, unplanned, untested and, in general, a bad idea from the start.

Compare this trend, for instance, with the first Linux announcement by Linus Torvalds [1] below.

It is an unfortunate trend because it ends up polarizing and creating unnecessary division among the early adopters of the new idea and the current userbase of the old one.

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)

Newsgroups: comp.os.minix

Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?

Summary: small poll for my new operating system

Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>

Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT

Organization: University of Helsinki

Hello everybody out there using minix –

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them :-)

Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.

[1] http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/the-first-linux-announc...
>But isn't this kind of the point? This gives you a programmatic way to specify to your media player just what content you don't want to watch

Only if the filters are accurate. Which is impossible since severity will differ from person to person. Eventually someone will have to make the calls on what gets cut and if so, at what severity. At which point individuals are trusting someone else to "censor properly".

For this to work with a large community - severity needs a strict definition. An example as to why:

Nemo's mother's implied death in Finding Nemo { Category: Death, Severity: High }

Inappropriate/misogynistic humor in Finding Nemo (every single scene with Doroth in particular) { Category: Langage, Severity: High }

Shark chase scene in Finding Nemo { Category: Violence, Severity: High }

I'm sure I could find some more problematic scenes in Finding Nemo. There are enough scenes to remove to turn it from PG to G, and honestly "lower than G" if that were even such a thing.

And since the severity is "high" it would be censored uniformly across all thresholds, making the different thresholds meaningless.
Note that it refers to gamblers who are big losers. Casinos have other terms to refer to players who regularly leave with more than they brought in.
Have you tried watching at a faster speed? I typically watch stuff at 1.2-1.3x, and 1.5x+ if it's animated (where the sped-up movements don't seem unnatural). It can be odd at first, but your mind quickly gets used to it. If you go back to normal speed, dialog seems to draaaaaag onnnnn foreverrrr.
That's not an assumption, it's a fact. There are a finite number of arrangements of protons and neutrons which can yield atoms. Each sequentially increasing count of protons is a new element. Adding neutrons to a given count of protons makes an isotope. We know which of these can exist in nature, and which can't due to their short half-lives / instability.
That certainly reads to me as an attempt to be colloquially amicable. Certainly it would have put a better foot forward if he had started with something more like "We are trying to do the right thing and...", but minor self-effacing obscenities are something we Americans tend to use in a colloquial, "buddy buddy" way to suggest that we are aware of the complexities of the situation and empathize with the other person's plight and how they must see us. It certainly read amicably to me, but I can also see why it may not read that way to others, especially with out vocal pattern contextual information, and that it may in fact only add to the confusion of the resulting conversation.

(Thinking about it, I wonder if this is something of an l10n/i18n issue... Oh the wonders of global communications and how it can break down.)
I originally had something a little more accusatory about the Cowboys before I edited it. In light of Jones' attitude, it seems likely that he obstructed it out of self-interest.
Seconded, that does sound useful.
There's a fairly low ceiling in terms of walkability within cities though. Once you exceed a certain distance, no amount of walkability is going to convince people to walk, and rent/housing prices within the walking distance tend to be much higher than those outside, thus exacerbating the issue of public transportation.
no, i disagree strongly.

i despise reddit's collapsible / half-loading comments. on large threads it loads the same 10% every single time and hides a lot of the good responses.

just give me all the comments in one shot. i'm a big boy, i can handle reading.
Yes, but Citus can also parallelize on multiple cores when used on a single machine ("If you’re running Citus on a single machine, this will scale queries across multiple CPU cores. and create the impression of sharding across databases."). Will this functionality becomes obsolete with the 9.6 ?
This kind of makes me want to brush off POI and attach it to Scala to develop a git-able way to create spreadsheets.

Create your spreadsheet, import it to an IDE, and create a way to intelligently create reports that can be connected to business intelligence suites... Someone must have done this.
Alternatively, perhaps it's worthwhile to suggest an idea that might be relevant to a topic, even if one doesn't currently have the time or inclination to explore it in depth. I mean, you're interested in the truth right? Not just the rhetoric necessary to argue a position you already hold.

But sure, go for it. Why would you want someone to suggest an alternative way to explore or think about a problem when you can respond with snark instead?

You might find life more fulfilling if you don't treat new information as inherently antagonistic.
I was complaining to coworkers yesterday about what counts for "rigor" in a lot of important scientific research is actually sloppy.

Case in point I suppose.
> is so reliant on a few hardcore users for revenue

I might replace 'hardcore users' with 'children who don't know what real games are'
Well, somebody had to do this. Straight liquidation might be better than just letting Yahoo throw away their cash.
Not to hijack this post, but I'm saddened every time I see anything monte carlo related referred to as the metropolis algorithm. When you're the boss, what you say goes.

http://andrewgelman.com/2014/06/30/invented-metropolis-algor...
Yea it is rather frustrating when the top comment spawns an enormous tangential discussion and you have to scroll through it; it doesn't help that there are no indent guides to at least make it easier to tell when you've finally scrolled to the next top level comment. And all this is doubly annoying on mobile.
Live in downtown Minneapolis, can confirm walk-ability and presence of seasonal glacier.
Iteration on spreadsheets is great, and there's opportunity for tons of innovation in this space. But this suffers from the same problems that most spreadsheets have. Errors like not averaging over the right set of data (which you pointed out) don't come up because the code can't be diffed in git. They come up because there's not enough clarity in whether a set of cells are consistent or not. Making this text-based doesn't add clarity because ultimately there will be too much text to read.

Here's a test for the most common kind of error. If I add data in A5 and B5, will that data be represented in the chart? How about in the averages? Will I be able to even see that?

Here's the pivot: Break your data into regions, where regions have repeated elements. Something like this:

A1 = 'Height
B1 = 'Width
C1 = 'Area
A2:C2 = Region {
C1 = =A1*B1
}{
A1 = 2
B1 = 3
A2 = 4
B2 = 5
}
B3 = 'Average
C3 = =sum(C2)/count(C2)

This could be used to generate:

Height Width Area
2 3 6
4 5 20
Average 13

The dataset associated with that sub-block can be clearly annotated to an editing user as such, with simple tools for adding a row to that dataset, or sorting it without effecting the rest of the sheet. Within the dataset, there's no corruption of the formulas (the third row's C cant be different than the second's), you've still got your diffing (probably better because it's clear that data changed but formulas different) and it's extremely hard to make the calculated average come out wrong.

Yeah, that exact representation isn't great. Maybe a "view" metaphor, so that headers and footers can be attached to the dataset instead of floating outside it. But once you've gone this direction, there's all sorts of amazing things possible by sharing datasets, linking them, transforming them, etc.
We have proof that life exists here, so we know it's physically possible. It appears that physics works more or less the same everywhere, and the universe is really big.
FWIW, this is not "lately". It was the same talk 10 years ago in GPS, etc.
> There are people who will spend well over $10,000 a year to fulfill their compulsion for their "chosen" game

Undoubtedly the free marketeers will downvote, but to my mind it's simply not ethical to make money feeding off someone's addiction in that manner. At least drinking, gambling and other compulsions have heavy (but inadequate) regulation. Freemium needs some regulation too.

Buying a monthly sub, at $15 to compare with WoW, or buying the game outright is at least a fair trade. You still get addicted but your business no longer depends on bleeding people dry.
Oracle Public Cloud at Customer
This book is dated - there was the kernel 2.4 and a lot of system calls were changed or removed - but I think it is one of the best book available on GNU/Linux system programming.

I love "UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads", it is simply great.
Well, computers beat humans at Go, and now that: it's clear that they have outbrained humans. We have to bow before such AI.
Ns-3.25 released
From the horse:

The build-time environment variables were not designed to handle secrets.
By lack of other options, people are planning to use them for this.
To prevent giving the impression that they are suitable for secrets,
it's been decided to deliberately not encrypt those variables in the process.
They have been building, a lot actually. Condo prices as a result have been staying pretty stable until recently as a result. They need to build large condos that can take families although, something in the range of 1300-2000 sq ft and 3-5 bedrooms. And can handle kids jumping up and down and screaming/crying like they always do. Vast majority of condos are 1 or 2 bedroom places.
Not everyone wants to live downtown, though. In fact, most people don't. More often than not schools in suburbs and rural areas are head and shoulders above their urban counterparts.

I used to live in a downtown area and it was nice being able to walk 6 blocks to work. But I would never want to raise a family in an apartment or with those terrible schools.
It's not a straightforwardly positive UX decision. Allowing people to hide conversation trees they are not interested in has other effects. It would reduce discussion. the current setup promotes constructive disagreements.

We already hide things if our collective mind thinks it's a bad idea, but I'm not sure it's beneficial to let this occur on an individual basis.

If everyone thinks what I am saying is wrong, then this comment will get whited out and sent to the bottom, but if only you think it's dumb, maybe you should still have to read it.

I kinda like the current way.
If you don't like the content in movies you don't have to watch them.

And now we have a tool to do just that. But even better we can choose not to watch just the bits we don't want to.

That means I'll be able to set the toddlers off watching Star Wars without having to spring into action at minute seventeen to fast forward past the smouldering corpses of Luke's aunt and uncle.

Apologies for the damage this caused you.
Let's pretend video games on console/PC are music albums. Let's pretend board games are live music. Let's pretend mobile games are ringtones.

They're all "music", but they're all very different products.

Ringtones are cheap, disposable, mostly looked down upon, but still popular at the same time somehow.

Live music is seen as requiring a greater level of commitment; perhaps a little more exerting or rough around the edges, strangely pricey, but generally worth the above-and-beyond effort you have to make.

Music albums are ubiquitous, real effort went into many of them and they are not really disposable. There are a lot of sad "me too" attempts to capitalize on other trends created by first-movers. Most people have at least a couple they are into, and connoisseurs can dive into a pile of esoterica to unearth unappreciated artistic gems. Every once in a while, a major production turns out to actually be artistically important too, and people freak out.

What's my point? The "game" in "mobile game" seems pretty weighty, implying a closer kinship with other kinds of games, but, really they're as distant in kinship as ringtones are from "music". They're another product altogether. And ephemeral. And dangerous to tie your long-term longevity to as a content producer.

[edit: typos]
There's a "Cinematic Recap" of all 5 seasons of Breaking Bad, which compresses the main story down to about 2 hours. It's quite hard to find though, due to the inherent copyright issues.

Edit: Some links here: https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/3jt531/does_an...
Spreadsheets can be a pain, but be careful what you ask for to replace them...

Having contracted at two big american banks (cough jp, cough boa) that decided to build their own proprietary technology sinking ship solutions (cough athena, quartz ), it is a horrible experience.

The business get sold on the idea of the "benefits" of this new "solution" so they pay lots for it. Lots and lots. Then all tech projects are guided towards it, otherwise it becomes a "political" problem if you don't use it, even if you can present a technical case.

Basically, it works, just about, if you are building the equivalent of a simple option spreadsheet pricer. Even then, the effort required should ring alarm bells. Still, job for life for those that maintain it...
It's a thought experiment.

For practical things: I won't. But I bet some people would.
> 'mainland Chinese' are a reference class much larger than 'Chinese buyers of Vancouver properties', as they are buying globally.

And 9/77 of mainland Chinese are buying properties in Vancouver, so you multiply that by total number of people in mainland China (that are high net worth and affluent) and then multiply that by the average property value bought by them. That gets (a rough approximation of) the property value bought by Chinese mainlanders in Vancouver, now divide that by the total property market in Vancouver to get the percent of Vancouver being bought by Chinese mainlanders.

I don't know where you're getting anything else than this. The top level parent only described this as "some more mathematical shenanigans" yet you assume that therefore it has to be this nonesense of swapping P(A|B) with P(B|A). The article makes it clear that that's not the case, so I don't know who you're arguing with.

> Which is still wrong, since there are lots of Somalis not in Minnesota.

Yes, 67% of them in this hypothetical, as accounted for in the first factor. This process isn't inherently wrong, the debate is whether the small sample size makes the uncertainty too large to be useful.
Dear HN: Please don't. Your design is perfect.
Coastal areas are becoming more and more walkable... Minus the lack of density - Santa Monica is the prime example, ask people about walkability and everyone is excited, then talk about making it happen for more people and you get crucified.

In the valleys, walkability runs into the heat problems in the summer. Walking in 100F+ is no fun and can be dangerous to some.
(Part 2) Now comes the storage engine, and cstore_fdw as it relates to PostgreSQL. Built by the Citus Data team, cstore_fdw is entirely a separate component from the Citus product above. It enables columnar storage for your vanilla, single-node PostgreSQL to provide data compression for faster analytics. As such, cstore_fdw does not come with any of the parallelism I've described above that Citus (or Redshift, Vertica etc.) provides.

Precisely because cstore_fdw is built for PostgreSQL, and Citus is PostgreSQL (see Part 3), however, you can still choose to use cstore_fdw as the storage engine for your Citus cluster. Citus will still parallelize the queries as you'd expect it to, but instead of hitting row- based tables, they will hit columnar ones. cstore_fdw has certain limitations, importantly it is not updatable; so we don't consider it as an alternative to a data warehouse. Rather, it is useful if you are archiving your quickly growing timeseries / event data on PostgreSQL or Citus.
This is a great Chrome add-on that lets you collapse comments:

http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/
Consider that malinens might the weird one for being confused by the concept. Regardless, one comment doesn't make it "considered weird."
Not everybody wants to be entertained the same way that you do. In fact I think the market has shown us that most people like simple games that they can play for a few minutes at time, that don't involve much strategy or twitch skill that we would associate with previous video games. They've also voted with their wallets for the freemium model.
Has it? Still there for me,

does come with this warning though:

This project is discontinued, better compilers (i.e. gulp.js for instance) are around and should be used. Use at your own risk.
Very instructive, thank you!
I think he's just talking about the ability to collapse something after you've read it, which is a great feature on reddit - particularly on mobile.

I use it all the time. I read as much of the comment tree as i'm interested in, then collapse the root node to move on to the next one. It makes it easier than having to scan down and do visual indentation tracking.
it does suck. but that doesn't mean a majority of mobile games are a costly addiction. And even granting you that, it sounds a lot like the text-message-addiction commentary in the early 00s.
You're disagreeing with a different request, then. I'd just like to collapse comment trees. That's all. I don't want to only partial load them. (I can see why you'd infer that from the post, because it references reddit)

It's an embarassingly-simple feature to add, and it would provide a huge value to all of us that browse this site on our phones.
I agree, but why not keep the loading structure, with just an option to collapse individual threads, having them opened by default. So, the experience doesn't change for users that wish to avoid collapsable trees, but gives the option to users that do want it.
Stevens is dead many years ago. The second and the third editions were written by Rago. He is a good author but he is not Stevens.
This.

I've been at top 20 banks in the world that run 14 hour jobs in Excel that import data from web services, run analysis, and FTP result sets elsewhere. They were used to analyze risk on tens of billions of dollars worth of securities.

They were riddled with bugs, but it let the front-line traders iterate quickly and prototype something that the backend team (my team) could turn into a "real" reporting process.
article is written in absolutes (talking about public transit and traffic in general) but happily ignores the fact that there is a world outside of america. maybe looking at places that are better commute-wise than sf despite being a lot poorer would be a start?
While we're talking about the Google Cloud Vision API I'll take the opportunity to plug the Chrome extension I wrote that adds a right-click menu item to detect text, labels and faces in images in your browser:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-vision/nblmo...

Try it out, let me know what you think. File issues at github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-vision/
> Meanwhile pissing off everyone who knows them with the Candy Crush "I want to get a level unlock"
Why do you get piss off when a friend is asking you for help in a game they like?

I used to play MMORPGs and stayed connected - without playing - just to help people in my clan with questions on quests and similar things, as I knew quite a lot about the games. It was time consuming, but it felt rewarding to help other people.

What makes so specially bad the Facebook requests?
A guide to convolution arithmetic for deep learning