skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar fate befell Raleigh in the UK. They were the stalwart of the British cycle industry, the fond childhood memory of several generations. Like Schwinn, it was a combination of poor industrial relations, overseas competition and management complacency that brought them down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Bicycle_Company
I see them using not one but 2 myo sensors on the arm at 1:08 which is amazing because those act like an implant but theyre very inaccurate and even then theyre getting ok movement for the fingers etc.

I made an arm which moves in a a similar way but i didnt make fingers which is the hardest part actually. Human fingers are an amazing boon from nature to us. Theyre incredibly accurate and sensitive tools with so many sensors on them which is what makes them so hard to replicate.
Well, good for Steve. I'm happy just rambling along and it would be nice if I had more time to do it. Maybe I wouldn't be as worried about status, money, pride or achievement if I didn't feel like I was in a race against time.
Trans-Neptunian object discovered in the outer solar system
You could come up with a better ironic hell than that.

They walk outside, get assaulted by an angry mob of people opposed to the rich paying to live forever, and end up with locked-in syndrome for the next thousand years from the head trauma.
I worry that since they haven't been updated in awhile, they may have fallen out of date.
Here is another reason for the decriminalization of Marijuana: I'm pretty sure there would be a lot more research into genuine medical benefits of marijuana if it wasn't dissociated with breaking the law.

I'm curios if Federal research grants can be allowed to study the medical benefits of Marijuana? I know states have made medical marijuana legal but most funding in research comes from Federal agencies.
Kind of... the tools themselves were never really illegal. It was primarily the distribution of copyright protected content instead. You can still download and run napster clients however. Just like torrent clients will still be alive, even if specific services like popcorn time go down.

Adblockers do not distribute copyrighted software. It's a different issue. While blocking ads could be challenged legally, it has not happened yet.
That seems unlikely. It's true that Flash is overwhelmingly popular among browser game devs, but there's been efforts to encourage them to move to HTML5 for years, because Flash is terrible for users.
Great article.

One minor nit, though: If there is a new force, there is no requirement that the electron not interact with it - only that the electron interact less than the muon.

And a direction to pursue: What if you use a tau, rather than a muon? Or can't you do the experiment, because the tau decays so quickly?
It didn't last long, but for a time they more or less had a license to print money.

My impression, perhaps wrong, is that most people won't build large, fixed infrastructure in Russia for fear of it being seized by the state or someone with state backing (see e.g. http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/3427198/banking...).
One reason to upgrade from XP to something newer is to be able to use WiFi, my one remaining XP laptop won't do WPA.
Natural numbers are easy to write: 1, 2, 3

You can even write a set of them: {1, 2, 3, 4}

You cannot write the set of real numbers.
Let's ignore that your operating system is probably written in c.
And it's the strict scheduling, the intimation tactics with doctors, that causes people to resort to buying street opiates instead of certified, regulated, opiates like OxyContin (or cheaper alternatives).
Could you build one that had a tilt sensor and would start counting up whenever it when off? If so I would buy it.
From reading (ok, skimming) the paper, it seems that the sensor is powered by an external ultrasonic transducer and, I think, returns data by modulating that signal (a bit like RFID).
That means that you lose power when the ultrasonic is removed.

It seems that you could do a lot more with it if you added a battery and some memory so that it can record signals when the ultrasonic is not present? I am thinking of things like the Michigan Mote which was also about a cubic millimetre. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2015/Worlds-Sm...
"timeless" is a very good word for describing all phenomena that could be connected to the experience of a "soul".
There is no evidence, nor really even clues to the soul being infinite, continuously going on to eternity.

However, if one studies the experience itself, it would be very accurate to say that the soul is timeless. It is simply that there is no information about time in the feeling of a soul. It's not connected to any time-based experience.

It's like there is an object in the mind's processor that described the "soul". And in that object there is no field with the type "Datetime". It's not needed. The object can very well function without it. It is also very compatible (or rather accessible from) with any other experience, whether it has a Datetime field or not. One can think about the past, the present, the future, the Abstract - and one can feel the "soul" in any of them.

Since the experiences connected to the soul are really the only ones that seem to "matter", (being in this regard different from any practical life problems or circumstances), it behooves a lot to understand this timeless nature of it.
The problem isn't marketing. It's culture. While there are many benefits to free and open source software it encourages a take-it-or-leave-it attitude where software is released that's user unfriendly, full of bugs, and has little to no documentation. If someone dare ask about a problem they are having, often the closest thing to help they receive is "Why didn't you just use [esoteric Linux command]? Are you an idiot?"
Yes, I think so too. I just want to make sure the semantics are clear. I think your summary here is excellent.
True.

It seems likely to me that companies like Facebook will spend alot of money fighting adblockers. Not just in court but in Washington with lobbyists. The politicians know which side their bread is buttered on - laws will come into effect banning adblockers sooner or later.
Instructions for getting and building the code are here:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/manifest/+/master/README.md

It runs on arm, arm64, and x64.
Vinay Gupta (Ethereum, Hexayurt) is starting a new VC that cares for founders
Assignation markets would probably be an overall societal good, especially if combined with decriminalization.
It is weird that given how much in the way of tools and self-help that AWS gives you, that prewarming involves this manual process involving a dozen questions, some of which are unanswerable, and there's no 'pre-warming' form to fill out - the service rep gives them to you in free text.
> ... I would like to see async/await style syntactic sugar over futures down the road to make it easier to write code that looks blocking but actually isn't....

Would a Scala-style 'for' comprehension achieve the same thing while also being more generally applicable? Scala achieves this by using instance methods 'map', 'flatMap' and 'withFilter'. Personally I think Rust should just lift the sugar wholesale :-)
A $150K salary leaves around $8K a month income. Spending $5K of that on a mortgage payment doesn't leave much for anything else.
> If a website excludes adblockers, then any commercial company associated with an adblocker is legally exposed is it not?

This is not true in any country at the moment as far as I know. There's some initial stupidness in the US like https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... , but in practice that's going to be disputed in courts many times before they agree on some final version.

Especially since there's a related recent ruling (can't find the article now) which basically said - if your ToS are too complex and people are unlikely to understand all the details, they're not bound by it.
>Personally, I think its a very good thing that the market is so sensitive to the demands of consumers. AFAIK these kinds of fads come and go all the time. It seems a good thing that people who wanted to just try out bicycling could do so cheaply

It was ultimately self-destructive, because the poor quality of those products harmed the reputation of the whole industry. A generation of people came to believe that bicycles were inherently heavy, dangerous and unreliable.

Companies like Oculus and Tesla have wisely chosen the opposite strategy, producing a premium product that gives the best possible experience. They understand that you don't get a second chance at a first impression. They know that it's easier to start with a prestigious product and move downmarket than vice-versa.

In the bicycle industry, the most successful companies have doggedly stuck to producing high-quality products and refused to compete solely on price - the likes of Trek, Specialized and Cannondale. They refuse to tarnish their brand with cheap crap. They have built strong relationships with good retailers who can educate customers on the merits of a quality product.
A long but a fascinating read. I'm old enough to remember dreaming of owning a Schwinn 10-speed as a kid. The dream never materialized as by the time I had the means it was a whole new world. A plethora of options and bike types ruled the roost and I had completely forgotten about Schwinn as a brand. Perhaps the best TL;DR for the article is the line credited to the Specialized founder(s): "Innovate or die".
Maybe nothing, but it's just kind of a weird, nonstandard way of doing things. Also it's not immediately obvious to me that your method meets modern security definitions like IND-CCA2.
> And Go has a... Less than exellent track record for being easily ported

I'm not sure what you are talking about with this, but I thought Go had great cross platform support. Can you point me to a resource documenting your "Less than excellent track record"?
CO2 scrubbers in spacecraft don't generate oxygen either. They only absorb CO2.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-CDRA-and-Vozdukh-systems-sc...
You're thinking of the Gimli Glider, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Boeing had just transitioned their FQIS from lbs to kgs (aircraft fuel is always weighed, volume changes with temperature). The flight crew hadn't had enough familiarisation and miscalculated.

All aircraft now calculate fuel usage in SI units.
I thought it was a killer feature right up until I actually tried to play a five-year-old Flash game on my brand-new, cutting-edge Galaxy Nexus and got like 3FPS.

All that left was Flash video (very easy to replace server-side, just switch to an HTML5 player and all the videos on your site are good to go) and sites with Flash-only interfaces (good riddance, for the most part).

I guess it would be nice to watch Homestar videos on my phone browser instead of having to find them on YouTube, but that's literally the only other use case I had.
Heroin can be a useful medication. Street opiates are bad because there's no regulation. It's not inherent in the medication. Take _anything_ and vary the strength/purity by 50x and see how many people die. A 50x dose of Tylenol will kill you just as well (more painful, actually).
Ask HN: Getting over which personal problem made a better you?
This essay has been on HN a few times before, but I'm upvoting this anyways. It's one of the greatest essays ever written. It will change how you write, and how you perceive the writing of others.
You may enjoy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism

...and "Set Theory, Should You Believe?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20110616020815/http://web.maths....
Researchers orbit a muon around an atom, confirm physics is broken
Re: adding to ELB, I haven't had that experience - for me it's been pretty reliably in line with the healthcheck config (2 healthchecks x 30 sec apart = 60ish seconds to add). Or are you including instance spin-up time in that number?
Society will inevitably change as technology changes. I see no reason to avoid thinking about the problems that technology might cause.
Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkMnk_eCDQU
But what can you do if locked into AWS?
Yes, your math is off. At 3% the annual interest on a $1M loan would be $30-$40K (depending on how the interest is calculated), per year. Monthly, that would only be around $2500-$3500. Principal repayment be +/- $833/month.
what is "on spec"?
what are the benefit
Oh yeah, true.. I just meant to be less sensitive to outliers but you make a good point.
Marijuana has been consumed in India forever. It was smoked just like tobacco is today. By a lot of people in society (including high and low status women).

Never was a problem. Probably led to some of the spirituality and mathematics of ancient India.

However, it was the natural variety. Not the genetically optimized powder keg stuff available today.
Court Affirms $25m Piracy Verdict Against Cox, Rejects Spying Request
And they're back. Although they seem to be struggling with heavy traffic.

Edit: Actually it seems it's only partially up, most user information is still unavailable.
> Would people argue over the proper treatment for cancer as prescribed by physicians and oncologists?

of course they would. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin
I'm genuinely interested in knowing what the problem is with an event loop using epoll and a threadpool for IO that blocks but epoll can't poll. I've used proprietary event loops at 2 giant companies, libuv with C, asio with cpp and nodes async, and the async IO was never the problem in terms of performance or complexity. What is the problem that's trying to be solved?
> Why would a flood of cheap bicycles affect the business of higher-end bikes, when their customers were oh so knowledgeable?

One possible scenario: suppose retail display space for bikes could not expand proportionally to fad-driven demand, and stores started featuring cheap bikes more prominently in that limited space to meet the changing customer demographics. As a result, high-quality, expensive bikes would have a smaller total number of eyeballs looking at them, bringing about an absolute decrease in sales (not just in market share).
Sex toy blabs your secrets to manufacturer
System call context switching is cheaper than and different from thread/scheduler context switching.
Well, I chose Zwave because at the time Wifi lights were nonexistent and Hue wasn't available yet.

However, Zwave is pretty nice because it doesn't tie up my Wifi bandwidth, is quick to set up, and it forms a mesh network. Plus the devices are a fraction of the cost of the Wifi connected one.

All the improvements have been minor but they add up to large lifestyle improvements. Some examples:

- I never have to worry if I left the garage door open or the lights on.

- I can set my alarm (the intrusion detection kind not wake up kind) without leaving bed if I forget to set it.

- Controlling all my entertainment devices is now one click instead of messing with 5 different remotes. It's also easier for guests to understand.

- My sprinkler system adjusts watering based on the moisture level and the last time it rained. Which conserves water.

- My thermostat knows when I'm not home which also conserves energy and saves money.

- My exercise equipment turns on when I need it on schedule, which helps me to stay motivated. The TV with the workout DVD in it also turns on on schedule.

- Holliday lights turn on at dusk and turn off at 1 AM. Or when I tell them to with my phone.

- I can get woken up at the right time so I'm less tired throughout the day.

- If I have someone coming over to say, fix the plumbing, I can give them a temporary code that is only good during the time they are supposed to be there. Or they can call me and I can unlock the house from my office. And I can see them on video while they are there. Plus the alarm can set when they leave.

As I said, little things that add up.

The health and quantified self type stuff has helped me spend less time on stuff I shouldn't be doing and more time being healthy.

One of my favorite devices in terms of effect on my life, as weird as this sounds, is my Sonos system. I have speakers in every room in the house and I can use them to play music that sets the right mood whether I'm working out or eating. It's also nice to be able to pipe the TV audio to other rooms during, say, the presidential debates.

Have I considered machine learning? Yes. I actually use some to automate email. It deletes email I don't want to read and nags me about email I really should reply to (hence my previous post that mentions IMAP). But I'd love to find more uses of it.

One use I've been toying with is learning when I need to go places (like the grocery store) and alerting me when I'm driving near it so I can save an extra trip. Example: the milk will be gone in two days and you're right next to the store, you should get more now so you don't have to make a trip later.

None of this is important on its own and some of it is downright silly, but in aggregate it adds up.
Arianna Huffington to Leave Huffington Post for Startup Thrive
The reason to demand articles which push the limits of public understanding in discourse of complex topics is because that's the only way you get a more informed public, and more informed discussion.

It comes down to basic communications theory -- Claude Shannon stuff (though this may be a comparison made by others, I need to check sources). An informative communication is based on both and established common understanding and new material. The common understanding provides the basis for contextualising the issue, the novel material, for extending the receiver's understanding.

A communication which is completely novel simply won't be understood. A communication which is completely known conveys no new information. You need a balance.

I think I first encountered this concept in Grammatical Man, a 1980s-ish book by Jeremy Campbell on information and chaos theory, exceptionally well written, and highly recommended.

More recently, recalling as I write this, I've seen a plot of the level of understanding of an audience by different types of lecturers. Most start high and proceed low, though it's the specific plots they follow which provide the amusement value.

Here we are: The Nine Kinds of Physics Seminar https://manyworldstheory.com/2013/10/03/the-9-kinds-of-physi...
While I agree with you on Windows versions later than XP being markedly worse from a technical guy's usability perspective (actually Windows Server 2003 + nlite/ xplite was the best client OS setup I ever used ), you are denying yourself a very significant amount of security patches and I would define this behaviour as a bit irresponsible of your PC only contains your own data, and possibly illegal if you have any customer personal data or payment information.
I hate the newer Microsoft OSes as much as you but run Windows 10 (plus a healthy amount of Non-Microsoft OSes).
At least upgrade your browser because that's the main entry vector for malware nowadays, you will find that recent versions of Firefox are quite enjoyable - latest one even started running some tasks in dedicated processes (just experimentally for now) resulting in a more responsive interface.
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wtf is neé?
Thanks. Have bookmarked this post in case I ever need to refer it again.

Is Benzocaine usually available (in the USA) without a prescription?
The try! macro should be used much more often than .unwrap(). And there is a feature that has been implemented to make a ? operator that is roughly equivalent to the try macro. It's currently hidden behind a feature gate named question_mark and it's unclear if or when it will be part of the language.
It does actually. The alcohols are mainly made from the carbon in CO2 and the hydrogen in H2O. Isobutanol is (CH3)2CHCH2OH, and isopropanol is C3H8O. So that's a lot of O left over.

Roughly speaking, energy + CO2 = carbon + oxygen. Left to right is photosynthesis. Right to left is fire.

[edit: do be careful when applying this equation in practice! Often, hitting CO2 with a big hammer just yields CO, or carbon monoxide. It's poisonous!]
> I think one of the biggest problems with many free and open source projects is that they don't have viable business plans. This is fine if what you are hoping to get out of your project is a hobby. But it's not fine when taken in the context that I think you are using it in (wrt to getting nothing).

Especially true with widely used but rarely noticed "infrastructure" projects which provide a high value to many organizations and there should be a high incentive to ensure their continued development and maintenance but not at lot of money or outside contributions reaches them.
Looks like it's back! https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/763887002462760960
Why did he move to Heroin? Was it because it was cheaper/easier due to artificial restriction on regulated, proper, opiates?

Why didn't he move to OxyContin, morphine, methadone, oxymorphone, etc.?

"Krokodil" is also an alright medication on its own. Just another morphine-related molecule. The big complaint with it is, once again, unregulated producers making incredibly unsanity products. Which, if you shove it into your arm, will cause all sorts of infections.

If we had to buy vaccines from some guy making them in a barn, we'd probably see a huge incidence in infections from vaccinations.

I'd also disagree that no one wants to inject heroin. I've been on IV morphine once, due to an injury, and it was _fantastic_. Unbelievably great. I fail to see why someone wouldn't want that, if they could afford it, have proper healthcare and equipment, etc. It's just a weak form of wireheading.

Doctors aren't the problem. The legal penalties for seeking medication are. The social views that addicts are inherently a problem -- that's a problem. The high cost of medications due to gatekeeping is a problem.

Allow people to buy the medications they want (if only on personal liberty grounds!). Then engage in adverts, education, sell help, etc. if it's really a problem. Opiates are so cheap that even a part time job can easily afford to be high all the time -- if they were in a proper competitive market.
I have no access to, interest in, use for, or patience with WiFi. My computer is a desktop. My Internet connection is via a cable modem via my cable TV vendor. I have nothing that is wireless, not even a cell phone. For my desktop computer, I don't want to do the outrageous, absurd, vague, risky, mud wrestling of struggling to understand what the security risks are for wireless.

For a while, I tried a wireless mouse, but it seemed to eat through a lot of batteries and otherwise didn't work very well. I returned to a wired mouse connected via USB.

My laser printer? Connects via USB. My old daisy wheel printer (great for envelopes) connects via async serial.

I just don't have any wireless. So, that's a lot of system management, monitoring, maintenance, security, etc. surface I don't have to worry about.

Apparently a lot of the interest in wireless is having computing devices growing around the home or office like weeds for a lot of toys. I have no interest in such things and am concentrating on my startup.

Gee, a lot of HNers got really, really, really totally off the top of the charts PISSED OFF at me. Strange.

WPA stands for what, the old Great Depression Works Progress Administration? I know; I know; in computer land supposed to use TLAs (three letter acronyms) as much as possible.
"20% of all companies stuck to Helvetica for their font face"

I'm really curious about the lesser known fonts people really like since Helvetica and Arial are so common.