skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit weirded out by the way this article alternates between talking about trends and demographics, and admitting it has no evidence whatsoever.

For instance:

> Young developers and engineers, most of them male, seem to be particularly keen on his form of bio-hacking

> Although data on the number of people microdosing are non-existent, since drug surveys do not ask about it

Anecdotally, I had the sense that the weirder, more drug-friendly side of the Valley was probably more gender-neutral than the rest. I could be wrong about that, but certainly nothing in this article counts as evidence on that point.

Similarly:

> "The quest for spiritual enlightenment – as with much else in San Francisco – is fuelled by the desire to increase productivity."

That's a baffling claim. Microdosing isn't a road to spiritual enlightenment - it's intentionally non-hallucinatory - and the most vocal drug advocates tend to view productivity as a route to spiritual change rather than the reverse.

This is an interesting historical take, but it seems to have hidden a shortage of data behind vague platitudes about Valley culture.
> How did they control it? Even amongst Europeans, I imagine French people are just more likely to have French friends.

This study is in the US. By "people of european descent", they are referring to white americans rather than actual europeans.

Also french is a linguist/national/ethnic classification rather than a genetic one.
This is HP Enterprise. Their target audience is people who have been to a datacenter at least once (or at least seen images of one on slides).
The part when he flies to heaven would also need a pretty impressive explanation.
I suffer from "nicest shit syndrome" (read: sucker) which means if you offer me a Mercedes with a few options to upgrade I'll just do it.

When I priced out and test drove an S it was over 100k.

Edit: Just repriced, 107k w/o the speedracer package (just the 100 kWh)
The problem isn't that a particular library is AMD or NVIDIA only in terms of computation, but NVIDIA or AMD only in terms of performance. GPU implementations are usually optimised for a specific architecture, which is then the "supported" architecture.

On occasion, such implementations do use vendor specific tools (such as CUDA), but there are a plethora of tools such as OpenCL, SyCL etc that provide portability - but not always performance portability, meaning that they will still be tuned to a specific architecture.

For performance portability, the LIFT project (http://www.lift-project.org/) provides a partial solution. Our approach relies on a high level model of computation (think or something like a functional, or pattern based programming language) coupled with a rewrite-based compiler that explores the space of OpenCL programs with which to implement a computation.

That lets us "optimise" a given implementation to a specific architecture, entirely automatically, in a way that many other low level approaches simply aren't able to, as they contain too many implementation (rather than computation) details.
I think that's the very thesis to the free & open source software movement.
> People are getting relatively poorer in comparison to their health care costs.

That's not really true; total expenditures have increased, but that's largely because the treatments and care that people are choosing are different (and more expensive) than previous ones.

Put another way: today you can still get the same type and quality of care that was available in the 1960s, and it'll be cheaper than it was in the 1960s (measured in 2017 dollars). You just probably don't want it, because it's nowhere near the current expectations and standards of quality of care.
Thanks! I built this for Keynote presentations specifically. I wanted to be able to write code samples as snippet files, then generate a batch of images I can drop into my presentations.

If you're posting code on a website, you're right – you should prefer <pre><code> and prism.js or highlight.js :)
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You're comparing Gates with his poor quality virusware to RMS who has written incomparably important parts of the Unix operating system and made it free for all. Then you decide to act like RMS is the one that doesn't belong in the list. LOL

The core code of Unix will live on long past the current incarnation of Windows.

Gates is a ruthless business man and thats the only reason his name is larger in your mind. His most striking quote was about how you give Windows licenses for free to Africa so they get addicted and have to keep buying it even though they can't afford it and Unix is free due to familiarity. Meanwhile RMS labored quietly to build a better world.
I spent 30 years coding full-time, then switched to full-time management. AMA
And even the whiteboard questions themselves are often taken straight from a site like Leetcode or TopCoder. Unless you're interviewing at a big five company, you're essentially performing a standardized test.
I would bet money (maybe not a lot of money, but money) that the only outcome of this is that Comodo ends up within a month being the CA that most reliably checks CAA records. It would be shocking if Google penalized them for this.

As you say, that's based in part on how they handle it.
I wasn't saying they should employ them for moral reasons, I was saying that they absolutely could afford to do so.

Side note; I do hold stock in the company, and because I'm not an asshole, I do think they should rely less on temp labor and they should improve working conditions for their existing warehouse workers. Even if it reduces my capital gains by some fraction of a percent.
I've tried the paddle shifters but they work poorly. Half the time it doesn't even register them. I'll be revving high, press the + paddle, and nothing changes.

Edit: so, I went to try sport mode and... turns out I've been driving around in sport mode all weekend already. Tried out "comfort" mode just to compare and couldn't see any difference. I'm sure a better driver could, but both are far away from instant response.
Isn't the reason for stuff like NativeScript and React-Native that stuff like PWAs and PhoneGap weren't good enough?
Well, with the increasing rents in German cities I think it makes a difference. For me it certainly does. I know at least one company in Berlin that already offers 120k.
This is unfortunately too close to the truth. While there are still many who enjoy teaching and guiding undergraduates, a Professors life is consumed by first, the pursuit of tenure and then the pursuit of more and more research funding for projects (not to mention doing the actual research). In that context, issues with undergraduate administration seem like an unsavory part of their jobs: often, offering very little in returns.
Yeah I agree the results would be interesting as well as hard to collect.

If I were to volunteer for this study, all of my 'enemies' (more just people I don't care for) would either be people who I haven't seen in forever because I don't want to associate with them or people that I see too often that I wouldn't want to bluntly declare as my enemy and deal with the consequences.
Ask HN: Source code release upon death
I've always wondered: have any developers ever made arrangements to release source code of their previously closed-source works upon their deaths?

What makes me wonder is that there's a lot of great closed-source software out there, a lot of which has become abandonware (while remaining closed) after their developers move on or disappear. Some closed-source developers may want to keep their work closed while they're alive to control the direction of development or for personal profit -- both reasons which would obviously no longer hold once their author has passed away. Some of them may want to release their source after their deaths, and I'm just wondering if that's ever happened or if anyone has plans to do so.
YAS! I personally use the PWA to view HN as i find it more responsive and more visually pleasing.

https://angular2-hn.firebaseapp.com/
Looks nice. The only thing I'd change is put a bit more space between the application logos and the wordmarks, esp. for Jira and Statuspage.
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Watched this the other day, good layman's introduction to what computers actually do. Feynman has a serious skill at explaining complex topics in simple terms that anyone can understand.

love to watch Feynman's lectures even if I have a fairly good understanding of the topic, such an entertaining lecturer.
> The uncomfortable questions are whether people are genetically predisposed to, or naturally have a greater aptitude for, some particular interest, particularly on racial or gender lines.

The answer is obvious here: yes. The only question is the size of the effect.
Not only that, their divergence date (cca 175kya-200kya), combined with the fact that they have language, culture and art disproves the 'behavioral modernity' theory which posits that human brains evolved to use language and produce culture and art relatively recently (30kya) based on the oldest currently available archeological finds of expressions of culture/art.
Is there a major difference between lithium and deep cycle lead acid batteries with respect to battery life versus amount of discharge per usage or is it a wash?
In a "free" market, a natural monopoly business will fluctuate between periods where zero companies exist, where one company exists as an incumbent monopolist, and where one or more challenger companies exist that are all frantically trying to unseat the incumbent before going out of business.

Monopolies will develop, but they will also occasionally fail and exit.

The reason why governments elevate single companies in a natural monopoly line of business to de jure monopolies is that those periods where zero companies exist could be disastrous to the functioning of other businesses. If all the local water companies go bust, the toilets stop flushing.

In a free market, if Comcast is the local ISP monopolist, it cannot stop anyone from investing in an entirely new fiber network. If you have the money to do so, you can walk into town, lay fiber, undercut Comcast on monthly service costs, and drive them to either try to compete or lose all customers. If they compete, it is a war of attrition, and the company that runs out of money first loses (if the local telecoms business is indeed a natural monopoly, which is debatable). If they lose all customers, you are the new monopoly, and you now have the option to reduce service quality and raise prices. As long as the threat of potential competition exists, a monopolist has to operate by monopolistic competition instead of secure monopoly. It is a completely different microeconomics calculation for determining price and output. Generally speaking, the price is lower and output higher than for secure monopoly, but still higher price and lower output than the market-clearing price of perfect competition.

In short, rather than charging as much as you can for as little as you can produce, you have to produce as much as is necessary so that no competitor can establish a competitive foothold by targeting your unserved or under-served customers, and set prices accordingly.

So there are real differences between the monopolies produced by the free market, and those protected by government.
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Machinery looks great !
That's LGPL, not GPL.
Which wouldn't come as a surprise on any other community that wasn't as obsessed with Tesla as HN is.

Mercedes (or other German manufacturers) aren't doing this lip service because of Tesla (not everything revolves around them) but because of the situation in Germany. It's a broader topic, but in short the big manufacturers are working together with the government, and making some concessions in exchange for no diesel bans of any kind.
Is it? My impression is that this is quite common, where "real story" is some reductionistic account of something biblical (e.g., Reza Aslan's "Zealot").
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Isn't that Panasonic, who have been making batteries for decades? I love Tesla as much as the rest, though I feel that Panasonic's expertise may be understated in the Tesla partnership. Though I may be very ignorant.
Counterpoint: Here we are, talking about it openly. Even Mr. Damore who previously was employed at Google was and is able to talk about it openly.
Yeah lets move everyone to McCormick where all the suicides happen. Oh wait...
I'm interested to know how you survived for 5 days with $7 to your name.
Nope someone should get on that. Like an amendment to the EULA its a great idea we need to think more about digital assets after death possibly a digital will.
Where have all the people gone?
What if they did expect a response, and then simply answered violence with violence?

Typically the person considered to be at fault is the initiator of violence.
Oops, I misread the license header. Fixed. You still can't relicense LGPL as MS-PL, though.
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Just curious why you'd want to use code screenshots vs text in a presentation. Did it have to do with missing fonts or something like that?
>The market is more than willing to put up with a gross inefficiency if it reinforces the dominant narrative and market participants have shown themselves ready to collectively make less if it means that members of disfavored groups make much, much less.

I read your post as pinning it on the selling-side, but I'm not sure thats true; it seems more reasonable to me that the market would naturally stamp out discrimination on the seller-side unless its being enforced by consumers; ie if the population in general distrusts women leading a firm, and thus gives them less business as a result, then their market value is actually lower, because they can't fairly compete. So the market is being efficient given the nature of the environment. It might be better off in a different environment.
It should be noted that a not-insignificant amount of a vehicle's emissions come from idling. Simply reducing the time a car idles can reduce its emissions by 9%[1].

[1] http://www.urbanemissions.info/wp-content/uploads/docs/SIM-1...
If I'm understanding you correctly, what you've asked for is already there. Follow the "Sample Apps" link to here https://github.com/yue/yue-sample-apps and then click on one of the sample app directories and there are screenshots.
Look at it this way. Average solar capacity factor usually about 10% in the UK. Average electricity output is about 38GW. So you already need about 380GW of solar before taking into account variation from cloud days and seasonal variation. Add in cloudy winter days, you need at least 5 times overbuild, so you need to build about 1900GW of solar. Even with low, $2 per watt utility scale solar, you're looking about about $3.5-4 trillion to go full solar not counting batteries for night time. For nuclear, on the other hand, you got a really high capacity factor like 90.9% (in the US recently). So a 3.2GW Hinkley C gets you about 3GW on average. So you need about 13 of them to power the whole of UK on average. Even at $26 billion each, that's only $340 billion, a tenth the cost of 100% solar not counting batteries (nuclear may want batteries for smoothing loads anyway). Even at $1/Watt, solar still not attractive in UK for 100% scenario... But if mixed with some amount of nuclear, then solar does look good again.

Note that in countries closer to the equator, you can get like 20-25% capacity factor with solar... You also have less seasonal variation (so need less over-build) and install costs may be lower due to cheaper labor and lower land prices (so, 25/10%, 2.5x overbuild vs 5x overbuild, half the install costs... could be factor of ~10 cheaper in 100% PV install scenario). So I think solar is going to be a huge boon to the "global south" even if they rely on it 100%. But high latitude countries like the UK and Germany would be out of their minds to shut down nuclear.
Depends. I am not a crazy audiophile so I am happy with the DAC in the iPhone 6s.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-6s-plus-audio-qualit...
And we are all miserably part of your existence. Which does not imply that we should not be viewed as separate entities with different beliefs, desires and ways of reacting/interacting to the noise around us.
They mention a swamp cooler in the article, which is surprising. I would expect those to have a big power hungry fan motor that's too much for the panel.

They do say it's a DC based swamp cooler. Looks home made though...more detail on it would be interesting.
The gospel of John 19:31-34 says:

"Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water."

Breaking the person leg, the the person cruxcified will die asphyxiated (without the legs to sustain, the body will be sustained by the arms, turning hard/impossible breathe). But the soldier saw Jesus dead, and dont break the legs, (its harder break bones), just piercing with the spear is easier and it will die via bleeding anyway.
So, here we got a testimony from a Roman Soldier (in theory a neutral watcher) about the dead of Jesus.
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It sounds like you're not a daily bus rider. The printed bus schedules are useless due to delays. I take transit into work everyday and you need to know when the next bus is coming or you risk waiting at a station for twenty minutes.
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I'm using GPU.js for a nbody gravity simulation in three.js. So far I'm liking GPU.js but it has it's limitations. only being able to return a single float from any function causes a lot of redundancy. For example, in order to get the 3d acceleration vector for one body I have to call the function once for each dimension, recomputing all of the temporary variables each pass. Then I have to make another pass for collision detection so it ends up being about 4n^2 vs just n^2

nonetheless it's still about an order of magnitude faster than the pure CPU implementation I have.

In the future they plan to add webGL 2.0 and OpenCL support which should improve the flexibility of the library.

http://thedagda.co:9000/?stars=true&bodyCount=1000

you can toggle CPU nbody computation with:

?CPU=true in the url. remove it for GPU computation.

you can toggle the number of planets with the bodyCount variable. default is 1000

if you have a beefy computer try bodyCount=4000

gamepad=true works if you have a xbox controller hooked up.

on gitHub:

https://github.com/ubernaut/spaceSim
Tall friends could be explained from sports which are useful to be tall like basketball or volleyball teams.
>Your statements read like a Telsa marketing pamphlet.

You asked a question and they directly answered it for you.

You probably also have a similar opinion of Apple then because they were not the first company in the world selling an MP3 player?
In Missoula, Montana, where I live, the Mountain Line app shows you where every individual bus on a given route is, and computes ETA to a selected bus stop.

I'm pretty sure that's common functionality.

(To be honest, the Mountain Line is very punctual, so I could likely do just fine with just a printed schedule.)
I heard about Zello through this article a couple days ago. I installed it and to be honest it's been kind of interesting to listen to, reminded me of the old days when I wold listen in on my CB radio to the random chatter. I'm not sure how useful it is for actual communication though, it seems like SMS or similar apps are more efficient and let me know I didn't miss anything if I'm away from my phone for a while.
No. They clearly had reasons to remove the headphone jack. I'm only addressing the mistaken assumption that there was just "extra" space left in the phone. If you're removing the altimeter/barometer conduit, you're essentially removing the capability for the altimeter/barometer to remove air and balance pressure. Since the original phone was waterproof, this was a necessary piece.

The "new phone" no longer has a working altimeter, is not waterproof, and has major structural issues now. Anyone saying that there was just extra space there is being ignorant of the facts shown or is being intentionally disingenuous for some reason.
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The only service logo, that >looks< unchanged is the Trello one.

One more time I would like to say how great is the Trello team of being able to deliver a logo that survived a redesign of it's new owner.
Of course Polish companies have to increase the salaries too. Seems a lot of developers in Poland are considerable underpaid ... or they really like to work in Berlin :)
This product genre exists: check out GoalZero Yeti, Anker PowerHouse, etc.
In my opinion, the solution to people being mistreated shouldn't be to take their life.
Reminds me of this: http://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/15/When-the-Actors-in-Plane...

Humans are still amazingly tribal creatures.
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> what is less commonly pointed out is that both are copies of something proposed by the insurance industry and embraced by the Republican Party as a desirable national reform direction shortly after Clinton's reform effort failed

It's less-commonly pointed out because it's not really true.

It's true that there was one bill, in 1993, that was proposed by a Republican and which happened to somewhat resemble the Affordable Care Act at a very high level. However:

a) It was proposed by a Republican senator from a very blue state (Rhode Island)

b) That Republican senator lost his next re-election bid

c) The bill never received a vote

e) The bill was only one of many GOP-sponsored healthcare bills that year

f) Conservative and moderate Republicans strongly criticized the bill

g) While it bore some resemblance to the ACA at a very high level, it was a very different bill in details and implementation, so it's misleading to suggest that supporting one and not the other would be hypocritical. There were a lot of things Democrats like about the ACA that weren't in Chafee's bill, and there are a lot of things that Republicans might like in Chafee's bill (or the ANHRA in the House) that were not present in the ACA.
There are indeed several major differences. The first one that comes to mind is to get the most cycles out of a lead acid battery, they recommend not discharging it below 50% capacity. Lithium ion batteries are usually good to 85% - 90% discharge.
Can't it be both? I don't want the wires if they don't have to be there and I don't need them for anything. Apparently, most people agree with that sentiment.
Another example would be with Vulkan I guess.

NVidia has lots of models with DX 12 level support that don't have Vulkan drivers.
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Just curious -- why specifically? I personally never used the app.
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But I'm more likely to believe I can make a dent in the universe if I believe that Einstein was just one of many possible great men (or women) who could have done what he did. I don't believe that I, personally, am a "great man" on the order of Einstein, so a "great man" theory like presented would convince me to not even try.
I think some of this might be that selection bias. Closure compiler is popular, plenty of not-so-sexy projects have used it since its inception to a great degree of success. I seem to see it with some consistency in the enterprise world. It's never been popular with the HN / startup crowd.