skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No I am not - the poster explicitly cited confiscatory taxes and redistribution as his proposed solution to the perceived problems. I don't care about what grows on the outside of his head, but on the inside it's exactly as I described, I didn't invent it - he told it himself by his own words (all while he did strawman the political opponents by falsely claiming Republicans did not oppose raising his taxes, which many of them did).
I think that's the point of the T. There is a bit of irony in buying something that only a select few will understand. I personally would buy this T specifically for this reason.
I could be wrong here, but if Bradshaw's claims were true--that a significant amount of calculation is offloaded on their servers--wouldn't the game be unplayable for people who have shitty internet connections anyway? It's easy for me to imagine SimCity making so many computations to simulate the game, but for those data to be sent back and forth from the gamer's PC to their servers? It has got to strain the player somehow.
Thank you Gravityloss for your correction.

I do find that a brave integration -- using fuel as a coolant.

Not an engineer in this field, but I'd imagine using fuel flow as coolant makes for a lighter-weight engine overall, even as it might complicate control system software, and might place narrower limits on, or complicate stability control of the engine's net available (throttable) range of power.

Just speculating here, but perhaps a single engine's power range limitation becomes another reason (along with graceful system degradation, without mission loss, under single engine loss) for SpaceX's multiple engine designs for their larger rockets? Switch off additional engines as rocket weight decreases (due to fuel and oxidizer usage) during descent? Doubtless there is a great difference in total mass between take-off weight and landing weight, so it would seem to require a lot less fuel & oxidizer to land it than to lift it to orbit.

Also wondering about ablative heat-shield placement and arrangement for re-entry, first and second stage.
> but real motives are hidden

Could you elaborate on this please? Are you referring to the OP's motives of publishing the article? Or of switching to Go?

> Go and Rails are so different that there is almost no point in comparing them.

Except when one solves the same problem better than the other.
Agro produce regulations, probably. I had some produce confiscated once too. This is designed against various pests that could enter from overseas and from which local species have no protection, though I think it is futile because if they would get here they'd get here on cargo ship with thousand tons of apples, not in somebody's one apple.
Assuming there is an active trading of this fund you could look to buy a put option on this fund.
It seems far fetched to me, because the shutdown did little to limit the access to pirated material. I imagine the next stop for someone who found himself unable to use Megaupload was another similar site, not a legitimate download site.
(I'm from Pin Payments).

Yes, foreign currencies (e.g. USD) are a huge problem for small/new businesses here. Way too difficult.
Ion Torrent’s genome sequencer is cheap,fast & poised to revolutionize medicine
Calxeda's ARM Server Tested
Ask HN: Are there any start-ups in Portland I can visit?
I'm visitng Portland from LA to help drum up some business, and was wondering if there were any start-ups in Portland where I might be able to stop by and say hi. I'll be in downtown Portland Wed and Thurs.
'Active Noise Canceling' in an open space isn't a reality. You can do it, in an anechoic chamber, with a massive array of microphones and an equally large number of speakers, and even then, you can often only target a particular area. It is completely irrational for a space like an airplane. His mention of a couple of speakers above your head, is particularly laughable. In an open space the best your going to do is sound masking, which is nothing more than shaped white noise to drown out the other sounds, aircraft engines already do a pretty good job of this with the exception that their frequency spectrum can be a bit annoying.

On the other hand, you can do structural vibration cancellation to reduce outside (engine, air) noise entering the cabin. This would be done using sensors/actuators on the inner structure of the cabin. A proposal was out to do this for the A380 but I don't know if it was actually included in the final design or not.

Additional points that caused a snicker:

> laser / ultrasonic zoning of noise, which I've seen some night clubs use.

I've read some research into creating noise barriers by using extremely focused sound, but in laboratories, certainly not in night clubs. Most notably the goal is to create a focused area of very high pressure using a phased array of sources. This pressure levels needed to create a 'barrier' would likely be damaging to a human ear entering the area. I have no idea where the ultrasonic nor laser idea is coming from.

> Noise suppression of the flush in the bathroom/restroom. I think the volume is too high to be safe.

The SPL level of an airplane toilet flush is a long ways away from being damaging. Annoying? sure. Damaging? not unless you have a condition that results in highly sensitive ear drums.
I've always liked the idea of allowing offline commenting (and card adding, for that matter), but I would be worried that 1) users would be confused why some things can be written offline, but not others, and 2) since so much of Trello is about the synchronization, it might be weird to have that kind of de-sync while the user is offline.
Nope nope nope.

I'm sorry but you are wrong here. Diablo 2, while it had online realms where you could bring your single player character, most people chose to play on the battle.net realms where all character info was stored online.

The servers where you could bring your single player character were just a show off for people who used character / item editing programs to create insanely stacked gear and characters, and like I said no one really played on those.

The reason Blizzard went online only with Diablo 3 and SC2, was because the Diablo 2's battle.net was reverse engineered, and there was an abundance of servers that could be played on with a fake CD Key all over the world. I remember specifically in Eastern Europe, we had quite a few servers and obviously with the average monthly salary being like less than $200, no one could afford to buy a PC game. Even LAN centers had cracked versions of all of the games and hosted their own servers.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

Anyway, my point is that you cannot have locally stored game information that can be imported in an online realm and have a direct impact. People will edit that information to create whatever they want. But if a game requires you to be online, it must be an online game period. If a game can be played offline, there is no reason whatsoever for it to have to force you to use online authentication in order to play in a local environment.
There is precedent for this, it's how the Assassin's Creed II DRM was bypassed. (And simple versions of it were done quickly)
Science and engineering from Bell Labs behind Go is what make this possible. It is not a "different language", it is carefully selected design decisions and ideas behind it.

It relies on a principle of being good-enough, not to stuff everything in, as a "feature sellers" and "buzzword shouters" used to do.

There are also lot of work of great minds behind Lisps or Erlang, and same principles in a foundation.
This is one side of a story of guy that had just been fired and is filing a lawsuit. What exactly is the criticism of the paper since the paper is available? If the only argument is the threshold to consider something a hit or not on the screen, there is a ton of followup in the paper looking at those genes more closely. Am I missing something?
> chc: I do not think Parsec would be better off if "<|>" were renamed to "parsecOR"

> sanderjd: I do think Parsec would be better off if "<|>" were something like "parsecOR"

Do you think perhaps some people think about functions visually while others think about them auditorily?

An IDE could easily render function names however the human reader wants. The option whether to render function names as names or symbols would be customizable, just like the display colors for various element types are.

Within each option, there's further choices. For names, there could be a choice between various natural languages. For symbols, it could be restricted to ASCII e.g. <|>, or full Unicode, e.g. | enclosed by a non-spacing diamond.
That sounds much better -- less like some pseudo information theory or complexity nonsense.

That said, I would put some small calculations on a server if I thought cheating was an issue. This wouldn't necessarily apply to single player games, though.
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I've been waiting for years and i'll wait until the day there is an offline mode or a patch. It's the principle.
Most people are going to prefer Emacs, but lots of people happily use Eclipse. Light Table is also a budding option. Vim is also fine if you're into that. ST2 can suffice with the https://github.com/odyssomay/sublime-lispindent plugin.
Bypass Android encryption and security: Put phone in the freezer
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, the collaborative aspect means that allowing offline write access would end in non-trivial merge conflicts. It might be solvable, but due to the difficulty, it's definitely not a priority.
These claims are just conjecture. I mean if it is ok for a scientific paper to be made up of unproven conjecture then I guess it is fine.
If we only processed the equivalent of that many frames per second, it'd be pointless having 60Hz monitors.
How does Automatic compare to Verizon/Delphi's coming dongle/app that does a lot of the same things? We don't know pricing for the Delphi dongle yet, but it does appear to include unlocking/locking the car for certain models:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avX0YRiXDI0
http://shop.verizonwireless.com/?id=vehicle-diagnostics

Automatic's GUI definitely looks nicer. If Automatic could automatically unlock the door when I come near the car after being away from it from a period of time, that would make this a must buy for me.
Something like RubyMine IDE debugger or Firebug javascript debugger.

If you are a Ruby developer then I highly recommend trying out RubyMine. I promise that you will never debug Ruby code using gdb again!
I've been stuck at that stage of thinking as well, and after many data points that got shunted aside. Currently the most interesting and fun counter point to it I am using is that its not just "mind", but a mind-body issue.

There are many ways in which your body function influences and alters mood and perception, and vice-versa.

Talk therapy goes the other way too, it has the potential to alter the equation, provided other things are done as well.
You're in luck - your guesses are just a bit too pessimistic! It's the method prescribed by my school's curriculum - they take the thing whole from a standards body. You're entirely right, though, to figure that isn't the baseline - there are plenty of "list the Xes" question that pay only lip service to considering an A line of thought versus a B line of thought.

Of course, the subject's so subjectively graded that no one's guaranteed that work is proportional to the resultant grade at the highest levels - so there's remarkably little pressure and far more experimentation done than you'd expect from a high-school programme. It's a strange arrangement, but I'm lucky to have fell into it.
Another account :
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/09/genome-genetics-D...
Tuned correctly means "throw in more RAM as long as there are no swap and then don't change anything"?)
Rust might be your best bet.

I think better advice for you is to just stay away from opinionated languages. I don't think Rust falls into that category, but I'm not sure.
It's funny that they argue that they dumped the JVM derivatives like Scala, but wouldn't exactly tell why, nor support their argument with any sort of data/logs.

I am genuinely curious to know why they chose Go over Scala. If it was the syntax, etc. I can partially agree because it's one of scala's weak points, but then they pitch the main reason citing performance, so I'm genuinely curious to know.
Due to the volatile nature of bitcoins in general, I imagine the premium on those options would be very high (if anyone was willing to offer them in the first place).
If this study found that MU had positive effects on sales most of these comments doubting the voracity of the study wouldn't be posted, they'd be believed without any questions asked.
Probably get directed to the Atherton Train Station last night, only to discover CalTrain doesn't stop there on weekdays. (Apple Maps Pointed me to HopStop, which correctly recognized that Atherton TrainStation was NOT where I wanted to be)

Let's just say I won't be trusting Google Maps to get Transit Directions which involve Caltrain in the near future. Standing out there in the cold at 10:00 at night after a 30 minute walk quickly cured me of that bad habit.
Says the research lab with "unlimited" funds from MPAA. Okay.
It depends on your business model. Mine wasn't a straightforward buy-a-thing-sell-a-thing model and this makes small business banking heads kersplode with great ferocity, it would seem.

"What is it you do again?"

"{{explanatory_statement}}"

"... so, um, what products are you going to sell?"

Annnnnd because my turnover is less than $ferrari, I'm always flicked to a small business banker. If I needed a loan for a commercial deep fryer I'd be talking to the right person.

St George belongs to Westpac now, FWIW.
Apple doesn't sell software or hardware. They sell 'experience'. And for the best experience they design their own hardware that is optimized for their own software. Their competitors on the other hand have different focus. AMZN is all about consuming (or buying) content from any device. GOOG is all about information access regardless of device. Most of MSFT's revenues come from selling software.

Simple analogy would be - MSFT doesn't sell the games that it creates for xbox on other platforms.
It's important to remember the water does NOT actually move in a wiggle like that.

Obviously it's impossible for water to change directions like that without something pushing it.

Instead the end of the hose is shaking, causing some water to flow on the left of the screen, and some on the right.

The water moves straight down! But it's in bursts.

But if you time the camera right you catch the bursts always in the same place, and it looks like a zigzag.

Imagine a piece of paper being pulled, and a pen wiggling back and forth. The paper (i.e. the water) moves exactly straight. But the motion of the pen (i.e. the hose) makes it look like a zigzag, but each portion of the paper only moves straight.
Show HN: Site which searches throught Internet to find full movies from youtube
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This is my first django website, how do you like it? Please give me your feedback :)

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Wiktor
I was quoting the BBC documentary for that claim. I am quite sure that their view represented a position that was defensible according to the state of what was known in 2003.

That said, to fit their "nature documentary format" they have to show things as fact which are in fact unknown and/or actively debated. And it was based on what was thought a decade ago.

So thank you for your information. I'll amend that tidbit that I saw with an appropriate question mark.
Whitehouse Petition to put Manning trial on C-SPAN
"Google’s artificial intelligence app Google Now and its payment app Google Wallet are AWOL on Apple devices. " - ironic how quickly that might (soon?) change...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/12/4096074/google-now-for-ios...
Any lawyers in here, can you help explain the tech gap in law?
I'm a lawyer currently working (as a non-lawyer) for a tech startup. I look to my colleagues in the legal field and notice that there is a pretty obvious tech gap in the legal field (shitty websites, shitty CRM's, shitty law firm management tools). Is it because they are unaware that such tools exist, or because they don't care?
because i'm a programmer rather than a graphic designer, i don't judge beauty by the rendered image; in other words, whether this qualifies as beautiful or not depends in large part on the code that created it--e.g., is the code a reliable and straightforward re-useable template such that the data as well as the data source can change without breaking?

you went to a lot of trouble to prepare a detailed explanation of your creative process; have you made the code available?
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Ask HN: Current examples of beautifully designed apps or sites
Please give examples of your favorites in the comments below. * Please don't link to anything you are involved in (created, own, partner, etc) just to keep it clean.
On the need for more than one founder, I definitely don't 'get it'.

For a minute, let's set aside information technology startups and look at business startups: All across the
US, border to border, from crossroads to the largest cities, the US is just awash in sole proprietorships. They mow grass, run 12 fast food restaurants, repair cars, run 10 gas stations with convenience stores, run Italian red sauce restaurants, are dentists, pediatricians, etc. One owner, zero to a few hundred employees. So, sole founder, one owner works fine, millions of times across the US, in business.

Now, for an information technology startup, that's just an advantage, at least through a business of similar size. If a guy running 10 pizza shops can be a solo founder, then a guy running a Web site or writing an app can also.

Technical knowledge? It takes a lot of technical knowledge to repair, correctly, efficiently any car that drives in to an auto repair shop or auto body shop or be up to date on dentistry, pediatrics, etc. Information technology is not nearly the only field that needs technical knowledge.

For an information technology startup, it stands to help if the founder, CEO actually understands the work. The best way for him to do this is to do the work. There actually doing the work may not take so much time and, instead, getting the background, say, 4000 Web pages of documentation from Microsoft's MSDN, can take more time. But if he is going to understand the work, then he needs the background. So, given the background, go ahead and do the work. Later, when there's plenty of revenue and more work to do, start hiring.

If the project grows well past a 'life style' business to a big thing, fine, but still I see no great reason to have more than one founder.

I can guess why some venture investors want more than one founder.
https://plus.google.com/photos/114453701162851629569/albums/...

The sofa in this photo looks more like a casting couch..just saying xD
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I am concerned that the MPAA, in commissioning the study, provided the researchers with data from two studios who saw a big lift in sales in the period following the shutdown.

I've not read the paper so I've no idea if this is an issue or not, but only using the data of two studios seems to be a low sample size.

Imagine if the week after the shutdown "Lord of the Rings" was released, or "Twilight", or any other blockbuster. Find two studios with big releases in the period after the shutdown and it looks like some significant causation.
Cue is hiring Super Smash Brothers masters (and engineers)
Same topics come up again and again here lately. Hn needs to detect duplicate topics not urls anymore...
What is an "Arabic sentiment engine" :-D? Like textual analysis as to whether a piece of Arabic text is positive or negative?
Look Up: 100 Year Starship Screensaver
The naked eye is subject to persistence of vision but if you wanted to see strobe effects in person either a strobe light or spinning wheel with view gaps could be used.
> Studies on primates have shown that eye size is proportional to the amount of
> brain space devoted to visual processing. So the researchers made the
> assumption that this would be true of Neanderthals.
Or define a function called `printlns`. Then call...

(printlns "Hiya." "How's it " "going?")
Wow, can you share any details of what your startup was?
> Are they also in Haskell as in Erlang pre-emptable by the runtime?

Yes. [1]

[1] - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/C...
Personally, I don't pirate movies/music, but as a CMU (SCS + Heinz) alum, the lack of rigor and potential conflicts of interest displayed in this paper are disheartening. More than that, they cheapen the value of my degrees.

One of my big pet peeves in data analysis is making major inferences and broad, sweeping statements based on a very small sample size. This paper appears to be a prime offender.

Looking at this case, there's a pretty good argument that Netflix and the LoveFilm app launching in the UK, QuickFlix Streaming launching in New Zealand, The Artist (with a French director and star actor) getting a lot of attention and being released to rental, a particularly chilly winter in western Europe, and god knows what else all contributed in whole or part to the observed phenomenon. I'd love to have whatever data the authors of the paper had, to facet the data by movie studio and country - did different countries peak on different weeks, and the like. Alas, the data consists of the sales and rentals of two anonymous major motion picture studios.

That none of these potentially seriously confounding factors were mentioned or explored before reaching for a conclusion is somewhere on the scale between negligence and dishonesty, and the lack of data transparency renders the the paper useful for nothing more than kindling.

Any fellow Tartans here on HN (I know there are a bunch of us) want to sign on to a letter requesting an investigation into the integrity of the paper and IDEA?
However, you do not need to be an expert to be productive. You can write Django web apps perfectly well without knowing about Python's metaclass tricks, for example.

An expert still needs time to become familiar with a large codebase and architecture. I wonder if a competent programmer could simply learn the language in addition during this period.
Well, that actually happens a lot with scientific studies where people are interested in the result but want to point out the limitations of the study so that it doesn't get over-hyped and lost in a backlash. I much prefer a qualified conclusion.
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This is a conflict that I find very interesting. Python is a language very much about readability. You often find examples like this where "good code" is slower than "ugly code". I would imagine, however, that PyPy's JIT makes alot of these problems go away?
It remains to be proved that an university is particularly better at innovation that anything else. At least in Computer Science most major historic breakthroughs happened in army departments and in commercial laboratories (Bell Labs, Xerox Parc) and today they are still strong, for example many of the most cited CS publications come from Microsoft Research. Google faces some of the biggest challenges in Machine Learning and has some of the brightest people in the field, I doubt they will be looking for "ways of making people click on an ad". The advantage of a commercial or military laboratory is the constant flow of new problems needing to be solved that can give everyone huge visible benefits, it is emotionally stimulating, in comparison to the somewhat vacuous atmosphere of an universities thinking for thinkings sake.
"Critics have claimed it is a Ponzi scheme due to its strictly-limited inflation program, which is set to run until 2140."

Anyone who could shed light on this? Why would inflation be a Ponzi scheme?
This is a very good summation of why I'm heading to Google once I finish grad school this academic year.