skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm not understanding your proposal with the cylinder, but IIRC, it takes about a cubic foot of helium at standard temperature and pressure to lift an ounce. Let's call it 3.5 cubic meters per kilogram in Euros. That means your cylinder has an inner volume of 7 cubic meters, which is silly, so it sounds like you're talking about a normal sized cylinder with compressed helium in it, which is heavier than air and which you'll be able to weigh on a scale just like anything else. (More or less.)
Are you sure that he's not a troll?
I knew I should've fact-checked that, but I hope my point is clear anyway.
Living in SF is a choice, for technologists. In addition to the absurd rent, there is also the lifestyle nominally associated with the choice to live in SF. The bars, the restaurants, the nightlife, the shows, etc.
Settle down. You seem to be taking some heat in the comments, so I'll recuse myself from this discussion, as I feel we are no longer making progress in an intellectual context.
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I'm actually a fan of rabbitMQ generally, but I'm not sure I'd put it in the category of notoriously reliable software. It can throw away acknowledged writes (afaik https://aphyr.com/posts/315-jepsen-rabbitmq has still not been fully fixed).

50k messages/day is pretty low throughout and under that load it should plod through just fine.

Under much higher loads than that (10's - 100's millions of messages day) I've seen it die in a pretty ungraceful manner. At that scale, Kafka is a good candidate.
Visual Studio. I can't get much of anything done unless I have Intellisense and GUI debugging/monitoring tools.
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>"the idea being that safer, higher-yielding loans would be more attractive to investors"

Who would have thought that the basic laws of lending apply to fintech startups?
"Constraint layout systems are O(n^2) algorithms, while a procedural layout algo can be O(1) or O(n)."

Those are the upper bounded constraints, but not reality.

Pragmatically, there's no reason 'constraint bounded' algs can't - in practice - approach procedural layouts.

Second, is the fact that layout is becoming less and less of an issue re: performance, to the point that in a few years, the argument may be moot.

Third, I'd argue that 'performance' is only one factor.

But good point.
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Is it possible kids maintain a higher rate of metabolic activity just by growing thus offsetting some of the activity you don't see in children with above average intelligence?
Good to hear... we repeatedly ran into this issue with them over the course of several years. I can't tell you how many times we argued with them over this. But it sounds like they may have reformed their ways!
Those aren't updated clientside (have to ask the server for the new chart instead of just the data), which is a different architecture that does not scale.
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what to make of it. Everything else I track is up 3-4% today, so that's why I view 7% as a positive outlook. But as you point out, it's a pretty volatile stock, so it may just be riding the rest of the market and got a little extra bump from volatility.

But personally, I don't try to read tea leaves. Set my stop limits so I don't have to watch it like a hawk, set an alert for the upper limit, and watch LC news strictly for entertainment value. Because thought the story is somewhat interesting, it's not anything we haven't seen before with companies like Tyco and Adelphi.
Cough cough Khmer Rouge cough cough
The entire market is bouncing back from brexit.
This question was in one of quizzes. Expected answer: compress first.
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It's a perfectly valid choice to take advantage of that when you don't have a family and all the associated responsibilities yet.
Probably because you're talking about academic success which is only loosely correlated to intelligence, and almost entirely not correlated to "brain health."

"Brain health," as it's used in this article, would also contribute to coordination, muscle control, and various other things that would benefit athletes in ways that are totally opaque to you or me.

The article doesn't say exercise makes you smarter, and even if it did, "smarter" is an awfully vague term.
You care so little that you have to point how stupid they are for living there.
As far as calories go, exercise doesn't have much impact. And maybe the Hunter/Gatherers are more efficient in their metabolisms.

As far as exercise goes, maybe one standard deviation is enough to produce a brain effect. And maybe there is a lot of variation within modern populations, with many far enough below the average to have a significant effect.

I find it really hard to believe that any healthy Hunter/Gatherers sit around all day like so many moderns do.
Why didn't they name it D4
I have been able to pick up a phone and call the cab company for decades.
Just wanted to point out that the author is also behind the excellent password manager pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/.

Congratulations.
> Well, certainly there is a difference if one wishes to compute, say, `\sum_{n \in \mathbb N} 1/n!`.

Certainly. To be clear, I don't mean to argue against anything you said. I just find it to be an interesting observation that statements quite often are true for both versions of ℕ.

Specifically, I suppose, the two versions work the same when one is concerned with only the most fundamental essence of the natural numbers, as captured by the Peano axioms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms#Formulation
Every person I know, young to old use airbnb now

Not really much of a surprise as you're a young, white male working and living in the SF bubble.
> Repair enzymes from one part of they also effecting another

That's an even more fascinating idea; so what other things could create the conditions for other repair systems to be activated. Maybe meditation, maybe different drugs, plants, ketosis etc...
Do they ignore you once you start talking? If their attention is going to slack at some point, the best time for that is probably while you're thinking silently.
This does not imply that, for example, a daily or weekly peak of energy expenditure was the same. As training once per week for 15 minutes with weights is enough to grow muscles, it could be that hunter/gatheres needed to release energy at the max level like running away from a lion much more often than we do nowdays and during those releases the brain also had to work hardest.
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You just reminded me of this ZH article on the Zombification of Millennials I read the other day

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-21/zombification-ameri...

I am hoping there will be a luddite type revolt against this trend of phones.
This could also be a chance to figuratively reboot computing tech, and start anew from different fundamentals: quaternary, biological, photonic...

What may have been hard to implement 30-40 years ago may be easier now with current technology. Some of these could definitely supplement existing binary/boolean silicon in certain domains if not replace it, like using actual brains in AI-as-a-Service, for image recognition and so on,
But that doesn't really matter, because those frameworks have mindshare. If I have a specific issue that I don't know how to solve in Angular or Flask or whatever, I can search online, and chances are good that someone has run into the exact same issue and solved it. If I'm using someone else's custom-built framework, I have to either consult the original author, which may not be practical, or figure it out myself by digging through the code. For anything that needs to be maintained in the long run, I'd take something written using a popular framework, with all its flaws, over something written from scratch any day.
Quiver is also a good noteapp for programmers on macOS

http://happenapps.com/#quiver
Maybe that works for you, but you'll never be strong/look strong weight training weekly. If you're "overtraining" from one weight training session per week, there's something very wrong. The average human only takes 48-72 hours to fully recover for most muscle groups in the body.

It's also been proven that HIIT is much more beneficial for your system than LISS.

It might "seem" more beneficial to you, but likely is not more beneficial than the alternatives. However, something is definitely better than nothing, and do what works for you and makes you happy.
Nice, really appreciate you listing us.

Down with the fax machines! :)
You say "because humans choose it" as if it counters the author's point, but in your last paragraph you perfectly describe how we don't freely choose it; instead, some happily choose it and others must later surrender to it as a condition of normal participation in modern life. This is "choice" only in a meaninglessly narrow sense.

Maciej's point is that we blithely build these systems because TECHNOLOGY--we lionize the builders of these systems--that we later complain about being forced to participate in because they've been successful. This is the circumstance that our refusal to engage in politics creates for us and everyone else, and we bear responsibility for that.
It sounds like people are forgetting that most users were on dial up during the 90s.
What is Logic? I'm having trouble performing a websearch on that one...
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It´s really the draft of an idea but I´d be curious hearing opinions and feedback. Let me know :-)
If you've any latex pointers I'd appreciate it :)

I used latex to write a paper for the first time last week, and while i thoroughly enjoyed it, i'm fairly confident there were lots of things I could've done better.
I suspect many are already familiar with this:

Sketch (https://www.sketchapp.com/)

It's hard to imagine what life was like before Sketch. You'd work with a UX designer, who would pass you PNGs and PSDs. There would be designs, and then there would be a whole 'nother set of files for specifying dimensions, colors, typefaces, sizing, kerning, and a whole slew of other stuff.

You'd also have to get asset packs from your designer - for mobile devs you'd get a large set of assets of different resolutions and sizes specced for different device types.

Need a design change? Be prepared for another mega-sized download from Dropbox, not to mention the labor intensive task of the designer re-exporting all of these bits.

Then comes Sketch - good for anything from wireframing to pixel-perfect designs. All measurements can be taken directly from the app, so you send the working project file to the engineer and the engineer can take all the measurements they need. Automatically accounts for dp/px translation. Automatically exports all relevant sizes/resolutions for assets into their expected native formats. Color palettes embedded, type parameters embedded.

It's saved us mobile devs so much time.
Maybe we need encryption that also plays with the length of the message / or randomly pad our date before encryption ? I am however no expert, so I have no clue how feasible, or full of holes this method would be .
No, making cars was never outright illegal. Operating a cap company, (or rather an illegal one), without proper licensing was. Operating a hotel out of your house was. Nice strawman.
what, what is fuzzy logic model? From parent post, it seems to be a like data learning, but manually?
> The fact that we would be able to move some of this dynamic behaviour from a general purpose language where optimizing redraw is difficult, to a domain-specific language where optimizing redraw is loads easier would yield performance improvements, not regressions.

No, it wouldn't. "Optimizing redraw" isn't difficult, and to the extent that it is it has nothing to do with the expressiveness of CSS.
It isn't so annoyingly stupid like Spotlight. For months, I open a single file called TODO.TXT via Spotlight. I enter T..O..D.. and select TODO.TXT from the list. I don't search for anything else with Spotlight that begins with TOD or even TO. But Spotlight for whatever reason decides that for every second or third search attempt, it must show me an entirely different file than the one I opened a thousand times by pressing exactly these letters.

It is hard for me to grasp how in 2016 a piece of software can be so ignorant to such a simple behavior.

But: It took me a few attempts to start using Alfred. I personally only use it to open files and programs and to search in files. The default behavior with pressing space twice is very annoying if you want to open text files. So I tweaked the settings a bit and now it works for me:

Default Results:

Essentials: - all unchecked but *Applications*.
Extras: only check: Folders, Text Files, Documents, Images.

Search within files by starting your search with the word in like "in FOOBAR".

That's what works for me and replaced Spotlight.
No you can't. Was there ever a law explicitly saying coding an OS was illegal? Versus operating a cab company without registering with the government to prove compliance with laws already in place to deal with those? Or similarly running an illegal hotel out of your house?
For all the entrepreneurs wanting to bottle Cathepsin B (the "Brain-Healthy Protein"), unfortunately it has also been linked with tumour invasion and metastasis[1]. Further study is needed to know if the increase in Cathepsin B is a factor or simply correlation.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14587299
What do you think of XD in comparison to Fireworks?
Yes, but it's called designing for the most damaging worst case. Both ultra-dense urban and houses like yours are corner cases, but on opposite ends of the spectrum.

For you, I'd suggest looking into Unifi AC APs (the lowest end ones are $99 each, the Pros are extremely nice), and then put them everywhere you want signal.
The other website posted on HN yesterday was much more accurate in that it had very large error circle and I was within the circle. This one tries to be way to specific which you simply can't do with this technique.
You can also add a line like this to your .vimrc:

au FileType make setlocal ts=4 sts=4 sw=4 noet

and have vim automatically use "hard" tabs when it detects that you're editing a Makefile. Of course, you can s/4/2/g or whatever your preferred tab width is.
Coke and Pepsi exclusive agreements with restaurants and other venues are like the oldest ones in the book.
Because D3 is the actual name of the library. The full name is "Data-Driven Documents v4.0.0". Shorten that and you get "D3 v4.0.0".
> Oh yeah, and because they wouldn't be worth $30 billion if they were publicly traded. They're raising money far beyond what their business is going to be worth at any point in the next five years

Indeed. And therin lie the seeds of a problem that could literally destroy the company, or at least incinerate the stake of the current founders and major shareholders. Hence the question.
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>during those releases the brain also had to work hardest

That is speculation, and is unintuitive. Why would the brain "work hardest" when running? Why would modern humans not exert the same forces during sport? Why would humans, the top group-oriented predator, run from a lion?

The data linked above shows that observed Physical Activity Levels and caloric use are comparable to modern day. Stop inserting your own assumptions into the data.
If you're looking for innovative motorcycling, gotta look at a sportbike. HDs are for people who love cruisers, a genre defined by rat bikes and self-made bikes, but for people with money. (Not knocking on rat bikes, though, those things are awesome)
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on demand car hailing = taxis?
Visio before Microsoft[1]

It was super simple and something OmniGraffle never really got right. In fact, it was so easy and nice (particularly boolean shape operations and object properties), it made using OmniGraffle painful. Of all the Microsoft software, that was the one I wished had been ported to the Mac.

1) to be fair, haven't used it after the buyout since I went full time OS X
Nah, that's 'growth hacking' /s.

Really, yes obviously that's fraud but apparently it's perfectly normal as long as you don't get caught.

Artificially inflating the numbers whilst shopping for investments is definitely not acceptable. Pumping money around is an old trick to inflate the visible size of a company, some of these schemes are surprisingly hard to detect (the one here definitely isn't).

I'm somewhat surprised that there was no oversight in place that would have stopped this, that's serious money.
I know you meant that as a joke, but when has "free Wifi" ever resulted in something better 1-2 mbit? I live in an extremely bad cell phone signal area, and not a single "free Wifi" area around here is usable, and I'd still rather use my cell phone signal for data given how bad the "free Wifi" is.
I presume you're inquiring about non-traditional pathways? I bet you know you could attend a University apply for a research job with a lab or professor and go from there?

You could always ask an important question, design several experiments[after researching experimental design], conduct the experiments, collect the data, see wether it confirms your hypothesis and what else it tells you, share that with the world in a meaningful(ideally machine parseable) good-looking way.

Sure, most experiments in the categories you named may be infeasible do to costs and other constraints, but I bet a bunch aren't . . .
I'm using Flot for https://podium.live, 10-20 charts with upwards of 1k points/chart updating at 10hz. It can work, but you need to do a few things like wrapping things in requestAnimationframe and not redrawing axes.
I've written two papers in it now, so I'm not a grandmaster yet either. If you managed what you wanted to do and enjoyed it, you probably know as much as me.

I'm not sure there is really a wrong way to use it. If you google every little thing to find a good solution (not manually inserting and formatting references for example), I don't think there is too much to be done better. At least, to my beginner's eyes it doesn't seem like it.
RF travels very well over line of sight. If you can punch through 1ft walls then you're also probably going to be saying "Hi!" to the neighbors.

Lots of people did this with CB back in the day, sending out 100W which started an escalation of noise floor and in part contributed to it's decline.
Ah, only runs on Apple OS's, not Windows. bummer.
It lists the objective C SDKs in the "community SDKs" section. However both of them appear to require a certain amount of rework. I just want an updated DBRestClient that I can just slot in. Is that too much to ask?

Your users won't get warnings if you sign in and click the "I confirm that I'm aware of the deprecation" button.
git, SQLite and vim immediately comes into my mind.

And maybe Redis too.
Thunderbird mail client. Just works.
All that 'yak shaving' makes me feel like Windows and OS X are poised to become legacy desktop operating systems. Every other popular consumer operating system today avoids that stuff somewhat successfully and none of us wish devops would disappear so we can manually do that stuff again. Security around traditional desktop operating systems is getting unfunny very fast too.

Some of the software we like is so wasteful too. I think we have a duty at this point to not be environmentally callous when we write software - manual updates are a good example, a minute wasted here and there might go unnoticed but something like Alfred nominated elsewhere in this submission probably adds up to millions of minutes of computers on and the operators devoted to watching a few megabytes download for a minute or two every time they update, probably actual tons of coal frivolously consumed.

I nominate Chrome OS. It has a lot of warts but it removes all of that stuff and dev mode = Ubuntu alongside Chrome OS. Once the Play Store is integrated Android apps will fill in some more of the functionality holes.
Yea, a lot of it is more comparable to doing dancing, gymnastics or exercise for fun, but I wouldn't call it 100% pointless.

There's good evidence that there is usefulness in karate for self defense. Lyoto Machida is an MMA fighter who at one point was #1 in the world in his weight class, and he uses a lot from karate (he has a lot of karate heritage as well as training). He won a fight a fight via crane kick, which is a technique from vs a former #1 LHW and HW fighter, I found it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSGQ_FRs3k

For self defense it's also probably useful to do routine exercise, stretches, etc., so in that sense it's also probably helpful.

Boxing, wrestling, and submission-style training such as jiu jitsu are the most effective hand to hand combat techniques, but even then it's still not entirely practical. Humans are evolved to fight with weapons, so it's all kind of pointless anyways. I once saw a little girl quickly dispatch a scary-looking guy with pepper spray.

I don't do any martial arts stuff, but I those going to the MMA gym that talk shit to those that do karate is just the pot calling the kettle black, aside from being immature.
> capital punishment for companies

That's the second time today I see this, is this some kind of meme?
Comparing comments here to the comments on, say, first Alpha Go post, reveals the amazing amount of AI bias on this website.

When an expert system beats some human in a complex real-life problem the comments are about how it is narrow, boring, not sufficiently tested and ultimately doesn't matter.

When a neural network (with the help of MCTS and an entire data-center full of servers) beats some human in a board game the comments here hype it through the roof and jump to conclusions about the coming dawn AGI.
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There are so many great SaaS microservices out there it can seem overwhelming and scary to think your idea is a good idea -- a solid plan is to create something that focus on a niche, initially. Gain traction with the 2% -- expand and market to the 98% when able.
Looks comparable. Moc's interface may be simpler. Moc starts in server mode so you can quit the interface and keep listening, though frankly I don't think that's as big a deal as it used to be.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less

"descriptive grammarians (who describe language as actually used) point out that this rule does not correctly describe the most common usage of today or the past and in fact arose as an incorrect generalization of a personal preference expressed by a grammarian in 1770."
If anyone missed it, there's a discussion with Robert Raisch, the developer who made the first stylesheet proposal, in the article's comments.
yeah, but unless you're in a city like New York (possibly a handful of others) the wait is FOREVER. In Phoenix it was routine to have to wait half an hour or more. Same in SLC. It's awful. Uber and Lyft reduced the wait to a fraction of the time with better, quicker and cheaper service.
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Vim departs from the reliability camp once you start adding a bunch of plugins. But as a raw editor, yes -- it's solid.
Part 2 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkUf3V7XjMU