skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ~320 kbps (only available to Premium subscribers)

Yeah if it were up to me they should get rid of the free tier altogether. It's basically people living off the back of paid users, which I am one of, and not wanting to compensate artists. They might as well be using the pirate bay.
I had a feeling Trump was going to win due to the viewpoints I was seeing on Facebook... but I trusted the polls, which were in their own bubble that I didn't recognize.
It's not clear how much of these improvements are from reductions in pricing rather than algorithms and design decisions. They've documented things like using Netty for network latency, avoiding GC, and getting better with Spark, but it'd be interesting if the team could go back and run the benchmark using the same infrastructure as their 2014 benchmark for a code-vs-code comparison to separate engineering improvements from economies of scale.
HP Mac Mini.
This is actually interesting, when Apple switched to max 16 Gb of ram on their PRO line, HP throws something with PRO graphics and Xeon.
> View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac)

Took them bloody long enough. Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...
This leads to the who watches the watchers problem. Also, what is the source of truth. What if the truth comes from Wikileaks? China can do this with tens of thousands of people aided by machine learning and other advanced technology, but they have a much more simple and unambiguous task that is largely guided by ideology. If there is a truth that contradicts the ruling ideology, it is also censored. If there is a small falsehood that confirms it, they let it pass.
By that measure, almost all cars aren't for the masses because they don't compete with used car prices.
Let Death Code Die
If there were a finite set of all primes, none of them would evenly divide the number after its product, so you'd have a prime that's not in the set. So there ain't no such thing.

Fits on one line if the font is small enough.
Understanding LSTM and its diagrams
Music and Health Technology Startups Promoted by MIT
It really comes down to what the management at NASA JSC wants to do about it. As a non-research oriented center, they don't seem to care very much. At the research centers, I suspect it would be a different story.
I wonder how the game and its impact would be different if they refused to make RadAway part of the game.
Right. Interstate was to me a very clear signpost towards what games could become - I used to imagine some sort of huge, open-world descendant of it. I remember very distinctly, probably about 8 years later, being blown away by GTA San Andreas, thinking this is the game I've been waiting all this time for someone to make.
As an aside, buying a print reference book frequently feels counterproductive.

Even if I'm going to get a formal reference text, instead of online resources, I probably want a digital copy. Otherwise, I find myself going "I wish I could do text search for this thing..." and wondering why I didn't get the version that actually allows that. When I read for pleasure I enjoy the physicality of books; when I read for technical reference I demand the interface of a computer.
Cray’s new XC50 supercomputer hits one petaflop of computing in a single cabinet
Walmart tells workers: don't download labor group chat app
https://unshorten.link

I work in security and have a paranoia of shortened links (bit.ly, t.co). I got frustrated with the options out there that forced me to right click every shortened link or paste it into a site so I made this Chrome extension / web app. It is pretty simple and keeps a list of 300+ shortened link services to check against. If your browser ever visits one it redirects you to the site to expand the link. It will also hit the Google Safebrowsing API to see if it is known to be malware plus will strip out tracking cookies.

It's been fun and rewarding watching my little extension grow to global use of over 4k users.
Looks like San Francisco will drop to 0 degrees on the 18th!!
http://www.averageweather.io/averages/San%20Francisco/Califo...
so what? twitter is a private company who owes you nothing.
A Closer Look at 2016 Top 500 Supercomputer Rankings
Uhhhh...no. Take a look at Dedekind cuts.
https://mailgroup.io - Free online mailing list manager

https://crond.net - Free web cron

https://ipaddr.dk - what's my IP?

https://ent.re - URL shortener that generates mobile type friendly URLs
Is OnePlus a good phone? Been wanting an Android phone but can't seem to settle on one
Can you make a version of this that just texts my mom that "I'm okay". That'd be perfect.

P.S: Yes I'm thirty. Y'all don't know Indian moms.
I just put a complex image with shadows/light sources and it did an amazing job. It was fun to watch and eventually stop. It was even cooler to open in sketch and see all the shapes and the way the image was formed. A++
I wish there were laws for H1B visa holders to work on side projects. I had a chat with an immigration attorney and she said I can't even work on a side project because its still "work" outside of my H1B petition.

Going with an LLC is a far dream. I work on side projects but forced to not build something where I can charge for the service because it will be illegal for USCIS.

I know many people who do this (work on side projects, help startups for equity) and then create shell companies to move the money. Now that's really illegal and I don't feel comfortable doing that.
Part of the world has entered the post-truth age, the spirit of the times likes a good story better than the facts, and if you speak facts you'll be damned by them.

Just look at the article itself, doesn't actually say anything about the paper beyond confirming it's going to be publicated, the rest is just retelling the story up to now like there's much debate going on.

As far as I know, there are some extremely questionable measurements showing there is something there, theory to explain it that is for sure completely wrong, and now this paper that might be alright that is not totally ruling it out. And based of this people go "why must momentum be conserved???!"; It ain't pretty, but that's the world we live in.
http://selfcontrolapp.com/

SelfControl - a free Mac focus app that helps users block their own access to distracting websites
Microsoft signs deal to power data center entirely by wind power
http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/ is a good demonstration of this effect. Quite eyeopening.
CockroachDB Stability Post-Mortem: From 1 Node to 100 Nodes
Is there a reason you couldn't use a second set of actuators?
An obnoxious user can create another account but it takes work and the new account won't have the same reach as the old one. Of course there are strategies to circumvent this, but the economic costs for the troll steadily increase. Once the costs exceed the propaganda benefit, it drains resources from the propaganda effort.
Also to note: Firefox can now upload directories.

Granted, it's done by mimicking Webkit APIs, but that has the advantage that existing sites work without changes.
> For your legislative elections, a system of proportional representation would be better than IRV, Kemeny-Young or any other single-winner system.

that is a much harder battle. Changing the election system is easier than change the representation system.

So I agree that IRV is simpler - but I'm still looking for a tabular format that will allow count-once-but-execute-multiple-reassignment-round mechanism.

Sorry - I'm really interested in these things for the electoral system in India... which is far more complicated than the two party systems in the US.
Wolfram alpha has that functionality if you type in a place and a date. Example: "Vancouver BC, december 2, 2016"
Against is pretty simple

Argument #1: it violates Newton's Third Law of Motion.

Argument #2: every time they improve the test apparatus, the measured force declines and is "coincidentally" close to the measurement limits of the apparatus.

Argument #3: It was originally designed based on a misunderstanding certain principles of Physics. Now they are trying to find a new explanation for why it works. What are the odds that you misunderstand physics, design something based on that misunderstanding, and that it then works in a barely-detectable way due to "unknown mechanism"?
I'm using historio.us for three years now, it's great. Thanks for that :)
In the comments, they explain that Sendgrid gets notified of spam marks, and Sendgrid gives SO a webhook whenever someone marks as spam. So they then unsubscribe that user.
A fun thing to do is to watch the CNBC personnel that do Nightly Business Report on PBS.

They are obviously incredibly talented people, switching their editorial focus and delivery for the different audience. Not just the hosts, everybody.
hackernews is for news, not the self-promotion of your website.
From the outside it looks like your running a fairly intensive Wordpress install on an Apache webserver with no page caching.

Also seems there's no minification or combining of stylesheets/js and there are query strings on those static assets which is going to discourage caching.

No wonder you need a datacenter to handle that kind of resource punishment!

There are plenty of reasons to stick with Wordpress in a decent sized corporation but if not switching to a static site at least stick W3TC on there so you're minimising your server load and serving out static html and minified/combined resources.

You could then consider using Varnish in front of Apache or maybe nginx with a FastCGI cache.

I"m sure you've got some folks in the team who could whip up a W3TC install in 10 minutes.
There's a claim that it's just basic physics of microwaves bouncing around. That one's nonsense; from the article, "Woodward likened explaining the results seen at NASA purely in terms of microwave pressure to arguing that you can accelerate a car by getting in the driver’s seat and pushing on the windshield."

As that suggests, the drive would violate conservation of momentum as we currently understand it. It would also violate conservation of energy. Because of relativity, there's no such thing as absolute velocity, so the thrust can't vary by velocity. Since kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the velocity, but the acceleration is constant for a constant energy input, there's some velocity at which you're gaining more energy than you're putting in.

So if it does work, it'd be radically new physics. But there are various ideas for how it might work, like Woodward's, which is derived from general relativity and involves an explanation of inertia; he's been working for decades on reactionless drive experiments based on that idea. We don't currently have a generally-accepted explanation of inertia, so who knows.
Thank you Hacker News for being a place to notice this stuff
A question that came to mind for me from this: is there any sequence k such that all 0<kₓ<1 and the product of all kₓ converges to something greater than 0? While each partial product must be smaller than the preceding one, is it possible to make k grow fast enough toward 1 that the rate of diminution of the partial products slows enough that they converge to a positive limit?

I'm pretty sure that the answer is yes, but not certain!
Samsung Patent Describes Holographic TV Technology
https://api.microfabrik.com/user

One of the auto generated microservices backend/documentation/playground/sample code all in one sweet pa(cka)ge.

I'm proud of it because it's completely scripted, I can generate/deploy any CRUD Restful microservice in under a minute, it's Lambda powered and multi-tenant cloud-hosted. A mouthful of buzzwords :)
I seem to recall that the initial plan for the OLPC was that everything was done in python, because they wanted the kids to explore and modify.

BTW, i recall Intel showing off a variant of the python interpreter being run directly from GRUB. Would have been interesting to see that ported to RPi. Also, i think there was someone working on a Python CLI that could replace bash etc.
/r/politics is a really bad example because it was completely taken over by pro-Hillary sentiment during the campaign. Then it all flipped back to neutral after the campaign.
Packet Launches On-Demand ARM64 Bare Metal Server
Because Google has no incentive to fix the issue.
Better go after hydro power, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
I hear the sarcasm. But I wonder what the total environmental cost of the connectors and separate manufacturing is, for a replaceable part that is rarely (I'm guessing+) replaced?

+No need to tell me you replaced yours. So did I. I still bet >90% of units are not replaced.
Demo Open Source Products with a Live Code Editor
Intel Details Goldmont CPU Architecture at the Heart of Apollo Lake
Loved this, just registered to the forum and send email :)
I'm all in on repressing fake or made up news (when represented as news). But I can't help but think this sudden newfound religion has a lot to do with not being satisfied with election results, primarily and not necessarily a consequence of simply wanting unbiased news.

If the election had gone the other way, I'm somewhat confident this introspection would not be happening so urgently with such dismay.

People would likely be reveling in the oppositions implosion.

My main issue, is this reaction simply dismisses the concern expressed by the votes. People think his winning was an aberration and that his voters were wrong and to some degree illegitimate (not my president, not my country, etc.)

They fail to see the other side to their own detriment.
Example: you can create your very own $10 FUCK TRUMP T-shirt
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http://juicycanvas.com/anonymous/gallery/products/fucktrump/...

use coupon: "FUCKTRUMP" to get $25 off.
WhatsApp introduces video calling for everyone
The US military stopped carrying nukes in planes because of ICBMs.
You can include a header in your email message where, if a user marks a message as spam, Gmail / Hotmail / whatever will let you know.
Hi leafac, thanks for the response. I don't plan to use your service that way myself but thought I'd mention it so you are aware.

I think its a great service for the original purpose though and I'll start using it for that.
Show HN: Jstrong – convert JSON object keys/values to AES256 encrypted strings
I think I read that practical MSR are about 20 years away. China has invested about a billion dollars [1] for research in this area and is headed by none other than Jiang Mianheng, the son of China's former president Jiang Zemin [2]

I dont these reactors are practical immediately. Which changes the whole argument IMHO.
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/542526/china-details-next...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/son-of-chinas-ex-president-thor...
Yes, exactly. Why is anyone in favor of fake news?
HAUNTED – Horror Short Film
The whole sine and product business just encodes and obfuscates the claim that "there exists a prime p, such that (1+2product_of_primes) is divisible by p". And the two sides of the equation just show how both the claim and its negation can be derived if one assumes a finite set of primes. It's true since any natural number > 1 (including 1+2*product_of_primes) has a prime divisor, and it's false because for any prime p, 2product_of_primes is divisible by p but 1 is not, so the sum cannot be divisible by p.

It's actually the classic proof at its core, just with some obfuscation.
Having been arrested for possession on more than one occasion, no, that is total crap.

As for the rest of your comment; yeah, it sucks, but that's the price you pay to be a part of a civilization. We all benefit from a healthy and happy population, so don't pretend like helping those at the bottom doesn't also benefit you.
well but it's funny enough not to cause much harm on a false alarm, while still triggering research in to the doggie/death situation :)
Perhaps not proud, but written in no-time and got quite popular:

https://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
No you're absolutely right. This is more a holy crap paper from Nasa, this actually might work.
FFS Google.

That developers mode thingy is starting to look more and more like some kind of fig leaf towards the FOSS world.
Ahhh, didn't even think about that. That seems like it could be a definite possibility.
So can I sync the reading list and use it later offline, both on desktop or mobile? I've looked for the reading list in about:about but I can't seem to find it.
Should startups have pay to pitch their business?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1567546/is-the-perl-plx-f...

It's not a rule I can remember encountering anybody actually following, but it's still theoretically a thing at least up to about a decade ago, which is very definitely perl5 era.

It's not where I thought it was in the perldoc though, so either it isn't in there at all or I screwed up looking for it.

So, roughly, "I think it turns out we're both sort-of wrong" :)
Very nice, pity it's extremely invasive. Now, if there was a way to protect email privacy...
Google's new PhotoScan app makes it easy to digitize old prints
Great tool! Made it much easier for me to get started with puppet & vagrant
Duplicity and B2 works well on both Linux and OpenBSD servers.
Having skimmed the final paper and without being aware of Judith Curry or her reputation, my initial reaction while reading was "This seems to be a white paper in the school of 'here's something you can cite to justify why nothing should be done about climate change/global warming/CO2 emissions/etc.'"

Looking her up afterwards, it seems to me that this may also be her push for a significant position in the Trump administration. Seems that Judith Curry is the scientist who says "Well, they've revised the likely range so clearly they don't know what's likely and maybe it's too expensive to do anything right now."

I won't bother linking, a simple search based on her name will turn up a wide variety of links to her history, people bemoaning her stances, and people refuting some of the arguments she uses.
http://www.seeyourvisitors.com/
What's a turbo Z drive? Can I swap it for a Samsung 860 Pro M.2? Can I have two M.2 devices to raid it? I don't want to lose my work.

Edit: Liliputing says "There’s a 2.5 inch drive bay for a hard drive or SSD and an M.2 SATA SSD slot." (https://liliputing.com/2016/11/msi-trident-compact-vr-ready-...)
If you want to avoid GTK3 and you're on Arch, there's a firefox-gtk2 [0] AUR package that compiles Firefox against GTK2 only.

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-gtk2
Cisco Study: Cloud Migration Will Be Big
Just out of curiosity - who do you think should be deciding that? Certainly not the individual, given the immense resource advantage of the organizations putting out false information.
I have been working on a version of the cron thing as well! Good to know there are more people who know this problem exists.
I feel this is more expensive then some of the apple products.
I also got a job off a Who's Hiring post! Thanks HN!
Machine learning: The deplorable state of deployment
Breaks NoScript on launch day. That was an unpleasant surprise this morning...
That being said, they are more common with DDR4 now.

Trivia: I think the pinout for DDR3 ECC SO-DIMMs are incompatible with the non-ECC ones!
Can you give a brief rundown of what this does? Also, do you plan to support amazon SES in the future?
This is an anecdotal story from a Daring Fireball reader, but the claim is it was initially to help locate servers?

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09/hp-license-plate...
Codepen !== live code editor
"I'd love to actually see tags on facebook posts. "Extremely conservative", "Mostly Neutral", "Mostly liked by liberals" etc etc. At least make people think about why they're seeing these sources"

I'd love to see that and a lot more. "Read by your neighbor twenty minutes ago.", "Shared by 40 people within 1 mile of you", "Most liked by self-identified christian conservatives between 42-59 that make 70-90K in combined household income"

But really, your suggestion will just allow people to self-filter even more. BreitBart readers aren't avoiding articles from Daily Kos because they think they are just copies of each other.
How to Make a Successful YouTube Video
My chrome extension that overlays Reddit comments when you go to XKCD.com

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd%20r/kjfdpkjdj...

Not my most impressive feat but I love it :D
I'd prefer to work 20 to 30 a week.

40 is ok if work is stimulating and there is no commute
Most sites do this already, at least they should if they want to make sure more of their emails don't end up in junk folders. Deliverability is really important to both businesses and email service providers, so a lot of the time, bounce unsubscribes and spam unsubscribes are baked in and easing off subscribers who don't open or click emails is a best practice for deliverability purposes.
October Images from HiRise Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Aren't new physics drawn from violations of old laws?
A notion that has gone 180 since then. Even the big FOSS projects seems to operate under the mentality that there are two groups, the developers (aka the people involved with the project) and the users (aka sheeple).
The bottom of the page says "Congrats! You’re using the latest version of Firefox.", but Firefox's About Firefox box says 49.0.2...
That's great visualization! Thank you!
Not much for users but devs can expect lots of changes https://developer.mozilla.org/sv-SE/Firefox/Releases/50#Chan...
This is a concept I wrote (quickly) to start testing the idea of storing data in Elasticsearch. I first wrote siphr[1] to handle the translation then this (jstrong) for convenience.

We need something encrypted at rest or some translation layer around application-level security (HIPAA reasons).

Your thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, bugs, breaking of things are always welcomed!

1. https://github.com/davidpaulhunt/siphr
Interesting way to work on things. Effectively, I think the author is trying to get people to spend a lot of time self-studying in an organized fashion and then ask for help.
If you have 6 displays on your desk, why does it matter that your computer is tiny?
Maybe this is a nice portable gaming box...
Create a Zettelkasten for Your Notes to Improve Thinking and Writing (2013)
There's kinda not enough space: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Sa...

You could probably do it if the platter diameter were reduced, which would then accordingly reduce capacity as well. At that point you could just as well use two drives and also get lower overall failure probability. Or you use SSD caches, or memory caches, ...
Randomness is contextual.

Two popular contexts for which this works are (a) I am attempting to predict an event and cannot do so deterministically using information I and resources R or (b) I am attempting to characterize a sequence of events in an efficient way. Thus, randomness is thus always determined against a resource constraint.

For instance, the digits of pi are random in the context where you aren't aware that the digits are arising from a deterministic process and don't have the resources to discover this.

Another interesting example concerns the randomness of a PRNG. Given knowledge of the algorithm and the hidden state it is obvious that this is deterministically predictable, but eliminating the hidden state information destroys the predictability of the PRNG events.

For the sequence of events modality, efficiency is important since we've lost the context of discovery/prediction. For instance, any finite sequence can obviously be perfectly described by itself, but we're often interested in compression. One can imagine an optimization problem where we want to achieve a representation of the sequence which has the simplest model and the lowest cumulative "error". Error and model can be defined in many ways, but oftentimes models have a "random" nature to them. It's an efficient shorthand in situations where the deterministic explanation for a sequence is difficult or impossible to describe.