skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacker
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Ronald Reagan, sure. Obama? What kind of celebrity did he have before his presidential election?
The homo genus needs a new species: Homo Sapiens Corpulentus
Hmm, let's see. Beautiful Japanese woman(en) in form fitting outfits holding product, smiling. 940% bump I'd bet.
Let me suggest you stop counting calories and start looking at your various health issues through a lens of nutritional deficiency and try treating them with supplements and nutrient dense foods. Keep a journal that both records what you eat and any details of physical health.

That is a big part of what I have done. I am not thin, but I am a lot smaller than I used to be. I had no goal of losing weight. I just wanted to get healthier.

Best.
Introducing Exploratory Desktop – UI for R
Hackers are the new lawyers
how else would you describe pop culture?
You're referring to the Mail app on the Mac, correct? I have two email accounts, gmail and icloud. Mail seems to handle them both very well in OS X, except for Search on the gmail server.
Ask HN: Create full backup of Android device and store it on cloud
I’ve organized music files into various album folders on my Android device. I tried few backup apps, they did backup well, but dumped all my music files into one backup folder on Dropbox. Now, I’m unable to browse my album folders in that backup folder. I desperately need an app that maintains my albums in the backup folder as it’s organized on my device. Also, it should backup my new music automatically when I put them on the device.
Looking to join a London based productivity startup?
Hey guys, is there anyone here eager about productivity apps & looking to join a pre product startup with a functional prototype in place? (don't necessarily need to be based in the UK)
When calling someone insult-face, it's not the face part that makes it sound insulting
One byte per mutex sounds a bit suspicious given that atomic operations typically work on a word or cache line granularity. If you have two mutexes in the same cache line, false sharing occurs and the CPU interconnect gets busy. Locking two uncontended mutexes in same cache line on different cores ends up executing serially because the cores need to snoop each other's caches.

Some benchmarks might be useful to see how this affects performance and CPU perf counters.
Sell me: I am a crusty old C++ programmer who started numerical and geometric programming on an SGI machine at the turn of the century. I have seen many academic and commercial 3D libraries come, go or perform poorly (vcollide, RAPID, CGAL and many proprietary ones).

It looks interesting but what makes this library any better than what's come before? Why should I learn Rust to use it or really for any computational geometry problem?
It's a neat project, but ultimately I don't think I'll be replacing my own collision library any time soon. I should write a blog post about this, but basically it boils down to not having enough support for accurate toa collisions for capsules. You can have exact toa collisions for essentially any exact toa collision you can have with spheres, one of the reasons capsules are such a great tool for making hitboxes. As far as I can tell this library does not support that.
Trigglypuff jumps to mind.
Oh yes. Political scientist have extensively studied the issue.

Those who vote in primaries represent different demographics than Americans in general. There are differences in age, race and ethnicity, education, income, religious and political views.
Physicians Now Allowed to Text Message Orders [pdf]
I doubt that you have used the SLF4J bridge in any realsitic situation, else you would not say that it works.
Black Americans have highlighted what and where is safe for them during traveling for a long time now. I'd say there needs to be a 21 century version of the Negro Motorist Green Book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
I too have similar requirement. I manually connect device to laptop via USB and copy files to it. Would be better if there is an app that reliably sync to my cloud account.
So it would be the RRS David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA?
I often think like this, then I'm reminded how infomercials are so obnoxious and yet they still work. So the conundrum of personal taste and a good gut instinct vs what works with a lot of people.

was the old box that blue plain box? It's not intimate to me. Compared to the new one, it looks kind of homely
Pop culture can and does change cultural norms and expectations. A famous example is All in the Family changing the conversation around race relations by showing a representative of the "old guard" having his mind slowly changed on the show. It was one factor that made relating to people from other races seem more "normal" than it had before.
Personally I'm fine with "Boatface" being derogatory toward boats. They're inanimate objects; I think they'll be okay.
Rumor is (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3b0stk/falcon_9_wha...) that the barge does not communicate any information to the booster. Instead, it uses GPS and some ingenious motors to maintain position and orientation, and the Falcon booster uses a radar altimeter to judge accurate vertical distance.
Homeless alone
Nicotine is deadly in high doses, and a "high dose" of nicotine is pretty small. If you extracted all the nicotine from an average cigarette and took it intravenously, I imagine that would be enough to kill an average person.

But the dose makes the poison and nobody consumes nicotine in such high doses, and you can't accidentally overdose through any of the ways that people intentionally consume it, because it makes you extremely nauseous before it gets dangerous.

I don't consume any nicotine containing products, though, and I have never had a nicotine addiction. That's just an assumption you jumped to.
> will cause a "Peak Lithium" like "Peak Oil".

So a pointless hype bubble?

As long as there's demand and money to back up that demand, we'll find a way to make more of whatever you want.
I also enjoyed the article but the entire thesis is incorrect, though. Anonymous has had far more of a cultural impact on society and technology than Cult of the Dead Cow, lopht etc did.
You conflate the quoted "test the hypothesis" with your "prove the hypothesis".
It still happens today, but perhaps more rarely. For physical copies I'd bet a large part of the problem is simply availability, and by the 2000s most labels had gotten better at a solid distribution flow. If you sell out 10k albums in your first week, but have no more ready to go next week, you're going to drop pretty hard.
I use passwordcard too and when I get a site that clashes with my algorithm, I give them one of 4-5 passwords that I used to reuse everywhere before I implemented the scheme. I have a 6-symbol password, a 10-symbol password with special characters, sure they've also been used on a dozen other sites but if their super special requirements make me extra secure who am I to blame them, I'll use my super special passwords that fit :^)

I could use a password manager but I don't want to be dependent on one piece of software, there's too many failure modes. It's already bad enough that all my accounts share a limited set of email addresses.

The main issue I have with schemes like this is that there's no repository of global identifiers for websites and services. I can build a password for blizzard.com, starting from say "bl", then I forget about it and five years later their website is now activision.com, and I wonder why I can't log in with a password built from "ac". It's a minor issue since password resets are a thing and rebrands are rare but still..
This is really cool to see! I have had this type of thing on a back burner for a long time. Glad to see someone wrote it.

I wonder if the author considered AWS SimpleDB instead of dynamo. Costs are a bit cheaper.

https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
Open source multimodal transit routing
That would have been Planet Wars. Other 'Google' challenges open for public were Tron and Ants.

I think a good search term for these things is "ai challenges" or "ai competitions".

I really like these competitions for learning (new) languages.
> Lithium occurs throughout the US in ores like Lepidolite, but it's never been considered cost-effective to extract it. I've found a way.

That's an unusual claim. Lithium is actively being extracted by Albemarle in the US, in Nevada. They essentially have a monopoly on US lithium production via the Silver Peak mine. About 3.4% of the world's Lithium production comes out of that one mine. They're likely going to be able to expand their US production significantly without requiring any big breakthroughs.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/29/lithium-tesla-mine-nevada/

Further, Tesla has already agreed to purchase lithium supply from another Nevada mining project underway:

http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/tesla-lithium-gigafactory-neva...
I didn't realize of 15% of the building is done.That is crazy lol
Yes, if you created a framework, that will call your code, yes, it can log. It can also provide a logger implementation, or request one from you, whatever it deems better, and your code must comply.

But a library, that your code will call, must not log. Ever. That includes any portion of a framework that you have to call, but it using services upper on the stack can make this rule hard to see. It must not include a logger implementation, and not call any global logger supplied from you.

It seems we are arguing over the definition of those two cases.
This doesn't even account for the emergence of crypto-law which drives the point home.
Looks like I wrote it up already about 2 years ago on Reddit, at least from the 1920s thru the 1950s. 1960s and later is easier for most people on this board: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qtvav/iama_professio...

First post has a lot of good recommendations from the 20s that I stand by. I'd rewrite most of the second post, though. I'll just do an overview here of what I'm familiar with:

30s -- swing/big band, western swing, acoustic/country/delta blues

40s -- western swing (cont), electric blues, honky-tonk, bop, vocal groups (less familiar)

50s -- bluegrass, rockabilly/rock & roll, honky-tonk (cont), folk revival, post-bop

60s and onward is a lot harder to follow, but...

60s -- folk, folk-rock, psych rock, psych folk, PLUS all sorts of jazz (bossa nova, modal) and country (Bakersfield Sound)

70s (note country drops off the map here) -- jazz-fusion, free jazz, disco, soul, singer-songwriter (less familiar), prog (less familiar)

80s -- post-disco, smooth jazz (yes, it can actually be good), punk, detroit techno, proto-house, rap (less familiar), new wave (less familiar)

90s -- house and beyond (my knowledge outside of dance music drops off pretty hard after the mid 80s)
Why not allow the customer to choose the box type and default to the plain box. Add $1 for the designer box, see what people choose?
This statement is very interesting, it is very well written and researched, and it uses less common words. I wonder if there was some level of editing/embellishment done to it.

Might as well be a non-native speaker. It also seems to me that the author might have had some personal reasons to target MF

But to be honest, I don't think Income Inequality is one of the most defining issues of our time, through human history, inequality, not only monetary, but cultural and intellectual has usually been higher.
Rx.Net for collections
Everyone: let's go with the most boring name possible. it's who we are!
Spinning in locks are always tricky business.

The sharpest thorn, to me, is: what happens when you are running inside the critical section and your thread gets preempted?

Well, now the next thread which tries to acquire the lock is stuck waiting. But waiting for what? Waiting for the original thread to get scheduled.

Now, the OS has no idea that the original thread should get scheduled again and is free to continue scheduling more and more work items.

Fortunately for the lock in this article, and most other locks which spin, it is adaptive and will not spin for too long. But how long is long enough? If the spin is timed for a few loads and stores, then all is probably well as spins will not be attempted for very long.

I wonder how these locks figure out how long they should spin? In the nasty case I previously mentioned, you'd want to spin for a very short while to avoid large amounts of waste. But spins which are too short lead to higher lock/unlock latency if the lock was held for any appreciable amount of time.

This leads me to the following conclusion: spinning inevitable leads to _some_ number of wasted CPU cycles and therefore increased latency.

I'm curious as to how the amount of spinning was chosen.
[I've removed this comment since I guess I can't delete it altogether, see my edit below.]
I would be happy to know of any App that easily meets this need.

If there were an App that just backs up to cloud everything on the phone automatically, it would be very helpful.
I won't need to do much, the app automatically takes a backup of all the files to cloud. Even if I loose my phone I have the data on the cloud.
I'm gonna do this right away!
There are so many discarded batteries from old electronic devices. Even chemical separation must be more effective than digging it out of the earth, right?
You probably missed the orbital stations programs. :)
If P is illegal, is “add 1 to (P-1)” also illegal?
GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa
>You've got a lot of HN Karma, but you haven't yet learned that people here prefer evidence-backed arguments to ad-hominem attacks?

Your evidence is:

>I was peripherally involved in that scene during the 1990s and had many people at NASA and LockMart tell me personally, quite explicitly, that specific impulse was very nearly the sole determinant of rocketry... Feel free to look at the kind of arguments cited during the fuel-density wars on sci.space.policy if you want a feeling for the kind of vehemence with which this opinion was expressed.

Your entire point is based on bulletin board discussions and anecdotal evidence from being peripherally involved with rocketry in the 90s (which given context, I'm taking to mean "I hung out in space forums and bulletin boards and talked with people who claimed to be rocket engineers.")

I enjoyed reading both of your posts about this (with a grain of salt), but it's a bit silly to call someone out for lack of evidence after writing several hundred words without a single piece of hard evidence supporting it.
The Origins of the Concept of Openness in Science (1986) [pdf]
Is there a way to get it in an RSS feed?
In shocking other news: car, utility companies currently absorbing entire global fossil fuel production, a state of affairs which is set to continue
Fuck off with the discrimination articles. I'm not sure how people are actually voting this tripe up to the front page. Can't you get your justice/enrage news article porn somewhere else?
Well, stories like these sure don't help: https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/04/28/police-searchi...
Ask HN: IS there a complete free data set available for android fragmentation?
Opensignal report
http://opensignal.com/assets/pdf/reports/2015_08_fragmentation_report.pdf
Consultants have been making a big push for the block chain. SWIFT announced last month it is working with Accenture to develop a distributed ledger with block chain technology[0].

[0] https://www.swift.com/insights/press-releases/swift-and-acce...
TL;DR:
"With your help, we will run a long-term, universal basic income and study it rigorously to find out.

We think the whole thing will cost roughly $30M, of which around 90% of the funds will go directly to very poor households."
Downward trends for interest in privacy and encryption
The only reasonable answer is "yes."
Assuming 50 kg of lithium carbonate per car (most sources I can find are somewhere in the 500-700g/kWh for lithium carbonate), and a price of $5/kg, you're looking at $250 in lithium per car. Even if you take the high end estimates I found (1.3kg LCE/kWh and $6/kg for LCE), you're still well under $1,000 in lithium costs.

I'm sure a reduction in lithium costs would be welcomed by everyone involved, but it certainly wouldn't cause price to plummet.
Ask HN: How exactly apart from taxes, can  income inequality be reduced?
I have dropbox app, and I manually upload all files. I understand it's painfully hard. But I had bad experience with Backup apps, and you're right - they flattened my folder structure, and hard to see the data if I want to selectively restore.
"In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see the pure state." - Richard Hamming
Wooden Radial Engine
Awesome. I first started reading Phrack back in the early 90s along with hex40 and Cult of the Dead Cow. Those were the days.
Coffee in, coffee out.
Foldersync let's you sync all the folders on your Android to Cloud (Google Drive etc). Maybe you can setup folder sync to sync all of the folders to Google Drive or other cloud storage.
I find this an interesting argument. Shouldn't it be the governments responsibility to make proper laws? If you want ethics to matter when it comes to tax law (something to do with paying a "fair share") then they should make laws that account for that.
I'm not in the wind industry and am not a ME, but rather a EE, but why couldn't you build a big vertical-axis wind turbine and then couple that to multiple generators, a big one and a small one, with gearing that lets the windmill drive either one? Then in low winds, you can drive the small generator at its optimal speed range, and then in high winds, you can switch over to the big generator and drive it at its optimal speed range (the small generator is decoupled in this mode).

Obviously, this would be much more costly because of the additional big generator and the complication of the drivetrain. But it'd let you harvest a bunch of energy when it's really windy. And with a vertical-axis mill, not only would this be better for wildlife (lower overall speeds), the generators would be on the ground, not way up in the air, and driven by a shaft from the mill through its tower, so servicing would be easier and the weight and size of the generators and the drivetrain wouldn't be an issue.
Why do you think this isn't pertinent?
Often these "loopholes" are there by design, i.e. through lobbying. Governments should make proper laws, and adjust where necessary.
It's worth pointing out that "cost-effective" in a competitive market is actually a pretty high bar. For context, lithium can be reliably extracted from seawater, with more available than humans could dream of using. To do so costs about $30/lb, which certainly isn't breaking the bank if you're using it for a car battery.

Trouble is, the market price for lithium is closer to $5/lb, so good luck selling any.

(Prices in this post are examples, and from memory)
I'm not that dogmatic. But complexity should loosely correspond to time, I would think. A deeply complex task is going to entail more work than a simple one.

That said, there's a good reason to say it measures the complexity, and not the time. You want to keep distance between your estimates and time, or else the business people are likely to come to you and say "You said this will take 6 hours, so I expect it tomorrow". Nevermind that it requires another task to be done first, that it's blocked on getting something from another department, that you only ever committed to delivering it at the end of the sprint, and that you underestimated how long it would take anyway (but it doesn't matter because you overestimated something else so it comes out in the wash), -you- said it would only take 6 hours!
> My cell phone consumes more power and stays on longer than my first phone is that not progress?

Why do you think your cell phone consumes more power now? I remember my iPhone 3G getting really physically hot while web browsing.

We measure battery tech progress in energy density, not how long your device will last (since a ton of other tech goes into your device using less power, like transistor shrinking for example. Or a javascript jit).
It could be a lot of things... there is no compelling motivation for SpaceX to get involved in asteroid mining (aside from providing rides).
Wow drugs were invented in 1990?
Oh, wow, did no one read the article?
The cute name wasn't suitably distinguished so instead they named it after a television personality..
The problem is that time isn't something you can chop up neatly.

For ease of use, let's say that a story point represents 8 hours of actual work. That gives us 168/8 points a week, or 21 points. Of course, we lose 7 of those to sleep, 4 to the weekend and another 5 to the evenings during the week, leaving us with 5 points per week. You probably lose a point to lunch, coffee, bathroom breaks and mingling with coworkers and another point to meetings and interruptions.

That leaves you with 3 points out of 21 potential points in a week, and you aren't getting 3/5 done per day. Using story points instead of hours tries to get people to treat the sprint as a unit instead of time as a unit, since time can be split up to a very fine degree. Just because you work 40 hours a week doesn't mean you can complete 20 2 hour tasks.
Function pointers are not barriers to inlining in any modern compiler optimization pipeline. In fact, function pointer inlining simply falls out of constant propagation.
Compared to NASA, around a 10x cost reduction. That's before reusability.

>And well, can the "materials" really be recycled without loss of security/quality?

They aren't going to recycle rockets, they're going to refly them. They are aiming for around 100 flights per airframe.

>Is the metal more expensive than the carburant/comburant?

The cost of the metal isn't the major concern, it's the cost of shaping the metal into a working rocket. But yes, fuel costs are a couple hundred thousand, rockets are tens of millions.
This would be extremely helpful. We work with local governments and they have a cornucopia of geo-boundaries to query across. PostGIS works really well, but providing a cache-layer on top via Redis for simple counts would be amazing.
Musk would probably be offended by that comment -- Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were bitter rivals and enemies.
Microsoft is cutting free OneDrive storage from 15 to 5 GB
Am I just wrong in thinking that it's a relatively new phenomenon to name things after living people?
Can I ask a question about your question? What conclusions are you looking to draw from the answer? How is this ratio relevant seeing as majority skill-sets of HN regulars neither favours one gender or another?
Please do write that blog post and, if possible, release your code :)

I struggled so long and basically put my hobby game on ice after failing to sort out capsule plane collisions! :(

What language is your own library in?