skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is incredible. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music completely blew my mind back in the day, and it keeps doing the same when I revisit it every couple of years.

Some feedback which you are free to ignore:

When zoomed in, the map tends to look kind of cluttered, a mess of graph edges. Some genres such as jazz are okay, but the rock/metal and electronic music area is almost comical. It's much better when hovering over a single sub-genre; I'd keep the highlighting in place after clicking on it. For the non-highlighted view, I don't know.

The time reference adds even more horizontal lines, even though the corresponding decade labels almost never visible; I'd drop the lines and make the decade label stick to the edge of the screen. BTW, I love that the user can chose which layers to display.

The left and right side panels cover up two thirds of the map. By default, they both open as you navigate to an item; it felt kind of claustrophobic to me. Maybe the Genre information can be an additional "row" in the right hand panel? I think that could work well. Other ideas: less whitespaces, less opacity?

I closed the left hand panel, and then it took me a long time to figure out how to get it back; I assumed there was a bug because it didn't have the expand button the right side does.

When I dig into an individual genre, I like to read the sub-genre descriptions while listening to the various music samples. Having to switch between description and playlist mode (one replaces the other with a long-ish animation) gets really old.

Maybe clicking on genres/sub-genres should move the map viewport? I just noticed that clicking on the year in the sub-genre description move the viewport to the sub-genre (not the year, per se). So that's good, if non-obvious.

All that said, I'm looking forward to digging into the content; exploring music in this way is such a fun way to broaden your horizon. And I'm really looking forward to what you'll be doing with the Spotify integration! Spotify should pay you a shit-ton of money to integrate this into their apps.
LowRISC's 2016 Google Summer of Code Students
Maybe not now, but this is a move for the future so that .Net can survive in a world dominated by Linux. The second it's actually possible to ditch Windows and run my apps on Linux in production Windows will be banished from my datacenter. .Net is awesome, Windows sucks, I want .Net on Linux.
What distros bundle it without libopus? Debian has it enabled for example.
I always open up my developer tools, find the div containing these warnings and remove them.
At a higher level, one could use Gentoo to learn a lot about Linux internals with at least up-to-date packages and a "usable" distribution.

One can experiment alot with Arch Linux too, if compiling is a burden.
At a higher level, one could use Gentoo to learn a lot about Linux internals with at least up-to-date packages and a "usable" distribution.

One can experiment alot with Arch Linux also, if compiling is a burden.
If you read fiction, you will probably enjoy Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

"Consciousness is the process of simulation of reality" is a starting point. The question is asked "How does the simulation work?" Why are we so good at simulating certain kinds of counterfactual scenarios? Why do we consider some to be plausible (e.g. worrying about a friend moving away) while others we disregard as immediately absurd (e.g. worrying about being attacked by pink nerve-gas-farting dragons)?

Like most of his books, it's a great yarn in an interesting world. The ideas he's exploring are rooted in platonism (how can a theoretical mathematical abstraction affect physical systems?), quantum physics, and the nature of consciousness. It takes a while to really get rolling, and when it does it snowballs fast, but I found it to be very enjoyable from the start.
Easier to script perhaps?
Yeah I do. Sometimes it's easier to just change a project reference in a solution file and reload, rather than do it through VS.
Same with me. I like XML, the automated tooling it allows for and never got the point of the XML hate.

It was made for tools, not to be written by hand.
Broke, Hungry and on Trend: India's new urban poor
With friends who live close by, we don't interact online. Instead we schedule dinner or make plans for weekends.

With friends who don't live nearby, I don't talk to them as often. I still have my FB account but I don't follow anyone on FB, so my News Feed is empty. I keep it alive for FB messenger, which I use to chat with some friends occasionally. Or if I'm traveling nearby, I'll let them know and schedule something. I used the word "offline" in a sense that I don't subscribe to people and I don't broadcast my activities.
Can you tell us more about the "Live Journal" demo app? It looked like a killer app back then.

Video (watch at 14:55): https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Shishir-Mehrotra-...

I tested WinFS beta2 on a high end WinXP PC (back then), WinFS beta was slow and the cool "Live Journal" demo app wasn't included.
Here I am moving emails and stuff out of Yahoo due to it's impending doom. Then, I see a company announce a stronger partnership with them. Hard to say if it's a good thing or bad thing. Maybe good so long as they have backup option they can practically flip a switch on. Thought they were using Yandex. So they're probably fine.
Sending feedback for a tiny usability issue. Your project is very cool, thanks!
It's a combination of geography/density and not being able to easily hop in a car and park (for free) at a grocery store. The delivery equation totally shifts once you have to carry your groceries home or take a cab/Uber.
I don't recall saying it was the whole story. It's a big world. I'm just telling the "OMG discrimination" guy that it's important to understand the history.

But if you'd like to claim those as important exceptions, you'd have to show that those fields are important and well-paying relative to other options available to those women.
Ask HN: How do you find reliable (non-affiliate) reviews when shopping online?
tldr; Googling doesn't yield reliable/honest reviews where/how to find good ones?

If you Google any of the following questions:

- What is the best robotic vacuum cleaner?
- What is the best LCD screen?
- What is the best ...?

On the first page of results you will see several ads and the rest will probably be affiliate marketing sites. The problem is that these websites usually don't even know what they are talking about and are mostly copy-paste[1] of product descriptions to their web page.

Few years ago these searches would probably yield results to different forums where people discussed different products. Today I have to do whole research to decide something that I am sure people researched/discussed before. Isn't "What is the best X" one of the most common and important questions when buying stuff?

How do you find reliable reviews/comparisons these days? Or do you have any other way of filtering out bad/finding best products?

[1] Not really copy-paste, but it's like somebody read the description and then wrote a shorter version of it. Redundant information.
If they make the csproj format package aware and treat files as included by default, I don't actually see any disadvantages over project.json. In fact, I think that a format that doesn't even have comments is terrible for this kind of stuff.
I used to do that on Quora
I fit this description minus a few of the PLs you listed, and added Extempore's xtlang, PicoLisp, and LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang), but I am hacking in CL again this week!

I still think Shen has lots of potential.
There's a word for this, and it's the word MIT used: "Professor of the Practice".

You wouldn't a huge portion of the university's faculty to be untrained in research or teaching -- that would be like running a software company where everyone has great ideas but no one knows how to lay down LOCs. But one person here or there who has something significant to bring to the table can be good for the institution.

> but to now have them share that unique and disorganized philosophy with students trying to learn structurally is unfair to the hard work and sacrifice those students have made to be able to get to MIT in the first place.

The author is not directly involved in leading a research group or in teaching. He's a director -- a vision/leadership role. And if he ever were to take up either teaching or advising research, he'd probably receive support and guidance from people who do have Ph.D.'s and have learned the long way around how to research/teach.

Again, that model obviously doesn't work well if you have a huge number of people like this, but one here or there can be a positive thing.
I think "embedded" may be the wrong word. Perhaps "very low power" is the correct way to differentiate these things (e.g. RPi versus TI MSP430). I think that at this point they are both "embedded" since I would consider "embedded" to be anything without a keyboard and monitor (hence "embedded" inside another thing).
Are you talking specifically about enterprise apps? I like the idea of writing one app and being able to target many platforms.
I could not begin to tell you :)

Far smarter men than me are still debating how much is genes, how much is early childhood influence, how much is the result of what you experience along the way, etc.

I don't suspect we'll have anything remotely close to a conclusive answer anytime soon. My guess is it's something like baking a cake; the batter (biology), how mixed or lumpy it is (childhood), and how it's cooked (life experiences) will all play a role, but aside from the extremes like the eggs missing or being grossly under- or overcooked there's no good way to accurately gauge how everything comes together to produce what it does.
I still remember this from 1999-2000 in the Silicon Valley...I was shocked, fresh products were hard to find and very expensive. In France it never disappeared, we always had fresh sections in supermarkets on top of fresh market at walking distance twice a week.
Can you make one similar for edge?
Show HN: Netrunner Recommendation Engine Using Neo4j+PostgreSQL+Ruby
Authenticating sneakers by blockchain
It was between -13 and -22 degrees Fahrenheit with heavy winds. That is very cold, certainly cold enough to cause hypothermia. My freezer doesn't even get this cold.
I was excited to read this article because I am trying to learn a new language... but I found it quite lacking. What was the advice? Just to sleep more?
Not only power consumption, but also for realtime applications, like those used in industrial and automotive control systems.

In such scenarios, the overhead and unpredictability of the OS scheduler is unacceptable. When you want to say isolate a fault exactly 100us after it takes place, you can't have the OS executing that task at some different delay in a nondeterministic fashion.
This is awesome - I'd love to see more companies do this. Not out of voyeuristic fascination, but because it would represent more folks in the tech industry leading well-balanced lives.
Chew the Fat Off
Do you happen to have any good resources for learning R? I've always put it on the back burner but it looks like it has some amazing libraries for extracting data and now I'm keen to look into it more.
A fair amount of US grocery stores do as well. Our local grocery store has a pick up option as well as a delivery. Another a few miles down the road near a restaurant we enjoy also has a (free) place for us to charge our car why we shop.

I am hesitant to adopt them. I guess we are finicky about how we shop. Fearful of the bad head of lettuce or banana or what have you. Or how will we know they didn't chose the yogurt that expires in two days over the one that has two weeks?

What my girlfriend and I do is use AnyList (there are multiple other apps, but we are liking this one). And start at opposite ends of the store. Checking off the list real time as we shop.
> So it's a little early to call it "next generation."

Please don't ignore words other people write, or at least reread before hitting post. I did say possibly.

> I don't see why it's "impressive that it works at all."

I thought it was implicit from my explanation that the "works at all" includes the fact that the data sizes are reasonable already. If we had the same result, but the intermediary data was 18 gigabytes, then there would be nothing impressive about it. As it is, we're a lot below that, before further compression, so it is.

Remember: Prototype, Proof of Concept. You're looking at the first step, not the last step. You're looking at a motor carriage, not a Tesla.
Did you know Acropolis is VMware Certified
We don't actually pay ourselves anything absurd in salary and we have a lot of retained earnings sitting in the bank. We did try hiring and investing the finances last year (physical office, 6 people) but the inability to find the right people combined with my terrible managerial skills resulted in a pretty ineffective situation.
well in that case you enter a completely different world. Hard RealTime system are not really only "embedded". They also exists for bigger things.

It is just a really different set of way to think. And a really hard one i may add.
I'm keeping it on my radar due to cost differences in AWS. A .net web app using 4 EC2 m3.xlarge instances (2 front ends per AZ) would save over $6000 per year in hosting if using Linux AMI versus Windows.
Mainly the appeal
It's also a pretty big insult to say that Ito doesn't deserve the job solely because he doesn't meet a cookie cutter list of credentials. MITs Media Lab is an amazing position and there is no way in hell they would've given the position to someone that doesn't wholey deserve it. Just look at the appointment of the head researcher for YC basic income project. New PhD student chosen over tenured professors from great institutions. Obviously, not everyone is the exception, but some people have qualities that aren't going to be noticed by someone reading an Internet article.

This sends a signal to students in the same way bill Gates sends a signal to students saying "drop out and you'll become a billionaire." you'd be an idiot to try and exactly replicate the unconventional paths of certain successful individuals. Do you really think just because he didn't follow the same path he can't help students ? Do you really think he doesn't bring things to the table that others don't? Do you really think he will stop students from getting what you mention from, I don't know, everyone else who went through the same path? Give me a break.
There are still clinics in the US that will perform this procedure, despite FDA pressure. I am not an expert in the specifics of why or how, but I do know that this is reducing the number of doctors treating patients with MSCs and increasing the cost.

I don't want to travel to Mexico or Thailand or even Europe to have this simple procedure, and I don't want to wait 10 or 15 years and then have to pay monopolist, proprietary pricing for what would be an inferior technique compared to what a free, open source medical science would inevitably produce.
Webex is having a major disruption, no hint on corporate site
Repository: https://github.com/rminnich/u-root
Yep, I think that's a pretty big part of the learning process. Realizing that you had a successful build but some things weren't stable. Naturally this would pose the question: What went wrong? To solve that problem you have to figure out a way to debug the system, make a decision as to how to rectify it, apply a fix, then figure out how to verify.

Now imagine the effort that has to go into making Debian work or what if the issue was related to sporadic kernel crashes. It's a lot of fun if you're into that sort of thing.
GCC 5.4
One aspect of web ads that nobody seems to mention, especially with click-bait articles, is that people click them. They work, and they work very well.

Within the insular world of tech people, it all seems so absurd that anyone would be interested in following these ads and click-bait articles, but the truth is people enjoy that sort of content. This is why gossip magazines sell like hot cakes.

I am not sure what the solution is. People like all sorts of things that are bad for them.
This is interesting but the fact they list "adchoices" as a site's monetization makes me wonder how much they know about adtech...
I imagine the availability of fresh prepared stuff is also somewhat driven by population density. I've certainly seen more fresh chopped vegetables in stores that serve more people.
The presence of honey attracts bees, the presence of horse shit attracts flies, the presence of sheep attracts wolves, and the presence of manipulable people attracts manipulators.

If these people started visiting another part of the web, "Ad Tech" would immediately re-emerge there too. The tigers just follow the herds of wild buffalos.

So, yes, watch out, if you can see wild buffalos, that means indeed that the tigers cannot be far away.

The article wants to jeopardize the god-given right of some of the manipulators to manipulate the manipulable crowds.

"Ad dollars are being stolen from publishers who actually put in an effort to create original, useful content. This is very wrong."

Ha ha ha hah ha!

Apparently, there are legitimate and illegitimate manipulators. The good and the bad thieves! The good and the bad burglars!

They are in a daggers-drawn contest on who exactly has the right to rip off the idiots!

Yes, good question, who is the one who legitimately "owns" these idiots?
Thanks for great answer!
Title should be "How Affiliate Marketing is Destroying the Web".
If by leadership you mean fire the instigator of the asshattery then I agree with you.
The Outside magazine article "The cold hard facts of freezing to death" [1] gives a good description of the process.

[1]: http://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recoll...
Has anyone done any security analysis of this? I use it but after this TeamViewer debacle I'm a little nervous.

I have a certain amount of trust in Google but their Remote Desktop product feels like something that could plausibly be internally understaffed.
Is Salesforce planning a post-Oracle future?
afaik you can export and download json with your YT history as part of 'everything Google spied on me' thanks to EU privacy recommendation/directive/law
That's why I mentioned that I'm not sure about extradition to other EU countries. Extradition of its own citizens to other non-EU countries is currently not possible.

The law for this is "§ 12 ARHG Verbot der Auslieferung österreichischer Staatsbürger" which is part of the Austrian constitution: http://www.jusline.at/12_Verbot_der_Auslieferung_%C3%B6sterr...

https://books.google.com/books?id=0H5XqvUu3B4C provides an English explanation of that law:

1173. Extradition of Austrian nationals is not admissible pursuant to Article 12, paragraph 1 of the ARHG. The authorities mentioned that this provision has the rank of a constitutional provision and, as such, requires a 2/3 majority of Parliament to be amended. Nevertheless, as of January 1, 2009, Austria will be in a position to extradite its own nationals to other EU-Member States in accordance with Section 5 EU-JZG.

1174. Where extradition for ML is denied on the sole ground of nationality, the Austrian courts are competent under Article 65, paragraph 1, no. 1 of the StGB (jurisdiction over acts committed by Austrians abroad) and must conduct the proceedings in the same way as for any other criminal offense under national law. The Austrian courts also have explicit jurisdiction over terrorist acts and terrorist financing when the perpetrator is Austrian (Article 64, paragraph 1, nos. 9 and 10 of the StGB).
VR has a perception problem for its wide adoption
As of Jan 1, there is a 23% tax on prepaid phone recharges in California
This little tutorial ultimately lead to Peter writing 3 full editions of "The Book of PF", which are absolute must-have books for anyone using pf on BSD/Mac OS X.

https://www.nostarch.com/pf3
> MSC's have been shown to improve COPD

My grandfather died of COPD, and likely so will my Dad. He has COPD. And was diagnosed in his 50s. I am fearful of it myself, but thankfully unlike both of them I've never smoked.

It is a shot in the dark, but do you know anything off hand of having him participate in something like this in the US?
Ok, here's some code for anyone that wants to try it themselves:

https://github.com/tristandeleu/ntm-one-shot

https://github.com/macournoyer/neuralconvo
Good question. I mostly stick to psychedelics and variants of the chems in Tihkal and Pihkal so I can't really comment on nootropics but you can see the patent for it here - https://www.google.com/patents/US7858628?dq=neuralstem+NSI-1... - which might give you some details.
It seems like a reasonable way to experiment. The history of online grocery delivery in the US is littered with companies like Webvan that made huge infrastructure investments up-front on the "if you build it they will come" model. This seems like a really sensible way to find out if there is a market for almost zero investment.
I think you just landed yourself a customer :)

MSC benefits are fantastic at replacing lost or damaged cells, however they are not bio-rejuvenation in the sense of turning back the clock with younger cells, unless one were to bank one's own younger cells?

If that is true, it would be, in a sense, an early SENS hack.

Very interesting. Will contact.
Or when a merge has gone wrong[1] and the project won't even open in VS any more.

[1] The default tortoise-svn merge tool (it's name I can't remember having switched to kdiff) is particularly horrid sometimes.
Hahahaha no. I don't really move weight or sell it on the street - it's more like a therapeutic clinic, I care more about the research, experimentation, and development part of it - the craft of creating a new mental zone. People come to me. So I guess I'm more like Walt ;)
I used it to poke fun at my friends at Microsoft for almost a decade.
Awesome project :)
It has to be noted that on HotSpot the object header is only two words not three words like on J9. Basically Flags and Locks fit into one word on HotSpot whereas they use two words on J9.
> he's a great networker who can help his students get good placements

...and bring in $$$.
...or there's a rational middle ground that you're completely ignoring because this is the Internet and you're trying really hard to push my argument into a corner, where you can then disregard it and continue to be a selective extremist.
1. The app breaks "back" in my Firefox browser.

2. I can see the potential appeal particularly for interests with the characteristics of martial arts practice.

3. I think the UI limits the market segments to which it makes sense because it requires managing multiple pointsof data between Youtube and the app page [e.g. URL's and times] as text.
Thanks! We totally agree. Maybe if people are interested, we'd open source it or build a tool that makes it super easy for other companies to share this data also.
Sure. But failure to fire the people being insubordinate is also a failure of the President's leadership.
Actually bees make honey. It's pollen that attracts them.
FBI is building a tattoo tracking AI to identify criminals
> a damn fine OS until 2020

Can it delete an open file?
>organize

If only there were not an agency dedicated to the disruption of organized opposition.

It's incredibly simple to disrupt emerging organizations in to chaos when you have access to everyone's metadata. You don't have to assassinate anyone, you don't even have to discredit all of the important nodes, although that's a useful tool. Many of the critical nodes won't recognize themselves as such. Divert them to other interests, personal, professional, philosophical/moral or legal... And a movement sputters and scatters in to emephera instead of transitioning in to an effective force for change.

Social judo is vastly more effective than jackboots ever dream of being.
>> memory usage

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/189552/4334
Safeway in the US has home delivery from their own trucks.
Sorry, found them :)

By the way, also missing: afro house, soca