skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh good, a few more years until I'm coerced into uploading my brain into bizarre-o-land by someone's deliberately-create-the-singularity-project gone horribly right.
Put several instances of each song into a playlist and hit "shuffle". Try to identify which is which. That's the best way to make sure it's a real difference, not just your head playing tricks.
I'm not musical – I can't play an instrument and I don't analyse the music I listen to. But I like listening to music, and to me, this sounds worse than a normal keyboard/piano. It looks (and sounds) really difficult to produce a precise note with, so I wonder if it will take off at all.
Politicians have a tendency to create issues that only have one side to them. So we have "Mothers Against Drunk Drivers"

'Mothers' against drunk driving' was created by a woman whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver and who was the subject of a TV movie about the death and her subsequent activism. Likewise, there are people who lobby for clean water because their local water supply has become polluted, typically by agricultural or industrial concerns in a 'tragedy of the commons' situation where the externalities of production are not billed to the producer.

I don't understand why you're ascribing the existence of such lobbies to politicians. Nobody campaigns for dirty water, but there are plenty of politicians who speak against the EPA and implicitly support their constituents' wish to pollute for free.
Most charge for incoming but not outgoing, which is what would be used in a DOS attack.
I would say that delta on how people live their daily lives (maybe in time-affected or some other similar metric) is probably close.
I used to view innovation as: making it possible to do something that wasn't possible before (going from 0 to 1). But under that definition alone, SpaceX would not be very innovative. It's just sometimes when you go from 1 to N but the N is so large (like SpaceX case) it's probably a different kind of innovation. And by making the N that large, it's starts to look a lot like 0-1 and new opportunities arise, like the chance of getting to Mars (which is definitely 0-1)
Is Permanent Parasitism Reversible?—Evidence from Evolution of Dust Mites
This article interested me mostly because it doesn't point to any serious solutions. Welfare programs have done little to change the dynamic of income inequality or reduce poverty since LBJ's "Great Society". If the goal of the article was to complain about economic inequality and blame millionaires and billionaires of a particular state or industry as being too callous than I guess it succeeded but aside from that I don't feel it accomplishes much!
It's a good indicator of how reviled TSA is though: Blackwater has changed their name how many times due to how reviled they are, and yet people still compare them favorably to the TSA!
You should post a link that matches your headline. Nothing at that link says "Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues"
I can't believe something so obvious never came into mind. You are right, Welcome to S-crit.com doesn't say anything. and thank you for the subreddit advice, i will definitely check it right now.
It doesn't 'speak' to me. I don't particulary like the layout: there are no images that show what the site is about, just some text which isn't very descriptive.

You need to show me what the site is about, and why I would want to use it. what are my benefits for using the site? How is the site different from greatschools.com or school-data.com? What are my benefits for signing up?

So, layout and the value proposition is one thing. The second problem is content. I realize this is a chicken and egg problem, but if I were to stumble upon the site I'm not inclined to subscribe. The reason: the site is as good as empty! You need to fill it with reviews: rally up classmates, facebook friends, family to subscribe and review their schools. You could use Amazon Mechanical Turk too, and pay people to write a review. You say you're getting traffic, and with your improved site with the initial reviews, your chances of getting actual users have increased.

Building a site is relatively easy. Getting users is much, much harder.
Good luck!
Incredibly impressive. I, like you, began my first endeavor into learning JS by building a GUI. Unlike you, my resulting product was ugly as sin. This is seriously awesome work.
Actually I have to set Chrome to ignore blacklisted gpu:s to get it to run at all. WebGL performance is horrible but other 3d games run decently.
I got circa 17fps on a Nexus 7 tablet running Chrome, in flight mode.

Would love to try with touch control enabled. Great work.
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I have read the book and I am a friend,, so I guess I'm not "qualified" but I did find the book very useful, I have it on my to do to write a full review and it will be very positive, because the material is that good. It has given me some good tips and inspired me to get on with doings some stuff I had just been too lazy to get on with. I too stand by mys stuff and while I have a Pseudonym (dartdog) I can be easily found it is not something I hid behind.
Danny, it is good work, don't let one unknown, unqualified, jerk get you down!
This is something about keeping your abstractions simple.

I had never really thought about the way I was running multiple process mgmt techniques. Interesting.
> Modesty wins

What does this even mean?
Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances'
I thought IvyM said he talking about bitrate; not sampling rate?
The text you copied explicitly states that they would be opening this up to other platforms:

and mobile applications on other platforms

Not that I necessarily agree or disagree with the expansion of these TLDs, but Google is hardly the kind of bad actor I would worry about.
I think there's a lot of low profile software out there written in Delphi which doesn't get mentioned because it's not a reason to buy, and may be a reason not to buy. There's a nice windows installer tool I occasionally use written in Delphi.
Given all the ways you could start a fire on a plane, it's probably better that they're engineered to survive a small fire being started anyways.
Passport ownership in America, by state. Let’s play "Correlations"
Drugs Could Lead to 150+ Yrs of Life
Not discussion that I can see of your rendering techniques. Are your shadows baked?
Really? What do you wish you could do that you can't? Let's make a list of things:

* I wish my body didn't start to break down as I get older.

* Related to that there are a whole host of diseases and disorders that I'll probably get one of and die from one day.

* I wish I didn't have to spend so much money on energy (not just directly on my monthly bill, but as part of the cost of almost everything I buy).

* I wish my internet connection was 100x faster.

* I wish I could travel to California from NY without having it sit on a cramped airplane for 5-6 hours.

* I wish I had a thinking interface to computers instead of having to take my damn phone out of my pocket and peck at it to get it to work.

* I wish my memory could be augmented in some way. I'm forgetting things all the time and that's really annoying.

* I wish that learning new stuff wasn't so hard. Can someone build on of those machines they have in the matrix so I can just download up some knowledge. I want to know Kung Fu!

* I worry about global warming. If everyone was as rich as Americans and lived like we do it seems like we'd have some pretty big problems. Can we do something about that?

* I hate that when I order something from Amazon I have to wait so long for it to show up. Why can't a machine in my apartment just zap it into being instantly? They've got that in Star Trek and it looks pretty awesome.

* Speaking of Star Trek, I'm bored of living on Earth. I want to go to the moon, or mars, or another solar system! How could we possibly do that?

OK. That's just five minutes of random thinking. I'm sure that I (or you!) could come up with many many other Big Problems.
Any feedback would be really cool...
"Anyone boarding an aircraft should feel maybe only a teeny tiny bit safer than if there were no TSA at all."

I feel less safe. Same risk of death, near 100% chance my child is going feel uncomfortable during some process, wonder why it happened, wonder why I let it happen and I'll have no explanation other than "If you wanna go to Legoland, this is what you gotta deal with."
Many people still seriously believe that Medicare would be more efficient in the hands of private profit-seeking companies, so I'm not surprised at all about this.
As has been pointed out before, an explosion in an airport would be bad but the damage would be pretty localized and everyone knows where the airport is, there are lots of emergency facilities in palace because they always have to be prepared for the possibility of crash landings or other accidental disaster.

An explosion in the air, or abuse of the plane as a missile as happened on 9-11, is a much bigger problem because the potential destructive radius is much larger and the area of incidence much less predictable. The costs of that happening in a city center in 2001 were staggering; likewise, consider the economic impact of an airliner plunging into or blowing up over a nuclear power station, which might result in less actual destruction but far more severe public panic and economic disruption.
> Think of how much money they've completely sucked from the economy that can never be returned.

Strictly speaking it's all gone back into the economy anyways, though perhaps to other uses of capital than you might have wanted.
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I was wondering if anyone has a favorite site or place to look for shorter term contract gigs that allow telecommuting. I'm thinking projects that are less 2 years in length, preferably 1 year or less.
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Like all attempts to objectify the subjective, the analysis usually fall short and can be easily gamed. For example, large tech firms such as SAP say they are more innovative because the amount of R&D money they spend. I don't think it's worth putting the term 'innovation' on a measuring stick.
PyQuery seems to always be faster in my experience than BS4 (for ripping the same information). Anyone else have a similar experience?
My favorite thing about Grindr is the way the app itself is community-neutral. You could reskin the app and call it "Bible Study Finder" and it would be a fine way to find nearby Christians who want to have an intimate discussion about Jesus. I'm gay myself and do think there's something special about gay male hookup culture that Grindr is uniquely suited to. But the basic lesson of locative apps has to be reusable in other communities.
As someone who has been a 'Cyberpunk' enthusiast since the mid '80s - I am both in love with and terrified of where Glass is taking us.

Firstly, the Cyberpunk RPG world I was playing in as a teen was set in the year 2020. Where Ono Sendai created the decks used to jack into the net and transport someones conscious online.

While the idea of navigating the internet in a way analogous to physically walking is clumsy - what we have with glass is the reverse. Where you have the immediacy of the internet available to your physical reality.

Banning the first iteration, even before its available, is already a lost cause. By the time we hit 2020 - Google will have done more to bring us to the Neuromancing reality than most, and we will have iteration N of Glass at that time - likely available to either ocular implants of lens overlays.

Having had my first child in 2004, where I saw that she would be 16 in 2020, the same age as I was when I was roleplaying the Cyberpunk character in 2020, I go back and forth on whether I think that the tech level available to her when she is 16 is going to be a good thing or a bad thing.

There are a lot of things that I have let go as they came about and chose not to be an early adopter of, but Glass is one that I can't wait to get my hands on. While I have no idea if I would want to imbue my entire life with Glass - as that sounds like a Bad Thing (TM) - One cannot deny how potentially revolutionary this will be to the world once truly widely available.

Whats more interesting to me, than the banning of Glass, is what the unseen reactionary responses, derivative and evolutionary apps and uses will be.

Iteration one has the small prism screen to the right. I predict this will be one of the first things to be extended by adopters who wish for full visual overlay.

Augmented full field vision is low hanging fruit. Glass will enable a true BIM overlay industry. (People like PlanGrid should be pissing their pants to get access to Glass, and if they are not - then they are far too short-sighted)

One thing I am keenly interested in trying is FPV training for things like martial arts.

Activities such as skiing, snowboarding, skydiving, etc are cool to watch from an FPV standpoint - but viewing an FPV of a long ride, great jump, etc will not necessarily be something a viewer can gain much more instructive value from, I believe.

However, as a martial arts instructor myself, I would like to see how an FPV view of some of the throws and holds I teach would be received.

TL;DR: Banning is a lost battle. in 2020 Glass will be a primary data interface to millions.
Sent it off! Hopefully I guessed right.
It is non trivial to smash a liquor bottle to produce a long shard strong enough to cause mass damage. And it has to be smashed without rousing attention amongst passengers. And even if you did cut someone it would take minutes to bleed to death.

And the knives rely on serration to cut through steak so are very dull.

And given that every country in the world has a TSA and abides by almost identical rules I would guess that there is a lot of people thinking about ways to make us safer. Why isn't the status quo the safest yet reasonable measures we have ?
The appeal of these articles is that they speak our unspoken thoughts. When someone tells you about the snapchat/instagram clone they are building at a startup event, you are socially obligated to smile and say something nice about it. But on the inside you wonder at an economic system that puts people through two decades of training so that they can apply their talents to such activities. Meanwhile, companies doing big things find it tough to hire as they are competing with seed funding for your own cat pictures startup.

When I moved out to Silicon Valley it was right before the Groupon IPO and hundreds of man-years were being spent on Groupon clones. Of course nobody remembers them now.
I'm not generally a huge fan of javascript, but phantomjs/casperjs are far and away the best tools I've used for scraping. Two features that stood out:

1. It's a headless WebKit browser, so it plays well with javascript and (sorta) flash.
2. It's easy to capture screenshots of the pages you're scraping, which is great for sanity checks later on.

Http://phantomjs.org - the main engine
Http://Casperjs.org - syntactic sugar for phantomjs
Calculation of intergalactic distances is massively wrong?
How One Boring Company Pulled Off the Perfect SXSW Troll
"Firstly there are sniffer dogs as well as bomb detection equipment around every airport I've been to."

I have yet to see them at an American airport. Maybe we have been flying to different places.

"Secondly the reason commercial airlines are different from smaller planes and other bombing targets is because you can use one to kill tens of thousands of people"

Tens of thousands? That's funny, because the largest terrorist attack on American soil involved airplanes and killed about 3000 people.

"You can't do that with a car bomb or crashing a small plane into a large one."

I was replying to someone who claimed that the job of the TSA is to prevent an airline bombing. Crashing a private jet into a commercial jet is a perfectly valid counterexample.

"And the fact you have these incidents at all should tell you that airline security is important."

We had one successful attack, which was extremely well planned and extremely well coordinated. We spend billions of dollars each year on the TSA. Billions of dollars because of an event so rare that we can only point to one occurrence.

Meanwhile, millions of people ride urban transit systems in large cities every day, and none of them are subjected to even the most rudimentary security. A subway train in New York has a capacity of over two thousand people, which is around how many would be on a packed rush hour train. A single terrorist could kill a large number of those people by detonating a powerful enough bomb while the train is going over a bridge or through a river tunnel (and probably in many other places). Yet despite that terrifying possibility, there are no body scanners, no bag X-rays, no shoe removal requirements, and no security lines at subway stations.

You can go ahead and cling to the idea that the TSA's airport security program is keeping us safe. The reality is that their program does almost nothing to promote safety or security; it is all the work that you do not see that is keeping you safe. The body scanners are not even a piece of the puzzle, they are a distraction meant to help people like you feel safe.
I know, let's get something computers are actually better at than humans and make it a test of whether someone is a real human!
I used jsoup[1] for java when scraping orbitz.com in search of a cheap flight[2]. It uses jQuery style selectors so I could play with them in the javascript console before writing the code.

1: http://jsoup.org/
2: http://fluffyelephant.com/2012/09/crawling-orbitz-com/
>“Fallacy is what people are selling: that human nature can be reduced to [something] that [a] computer algorithm can run! This is a new church!”

Actually, the "new church" is that human nature is something more than physics. Even if Kurzweil is wrong in his predictions, certainly this neuroscientist is also wrong with his metaphysical beliefs that the brain is something more than a mere "machine".
Your question reminds me of the article yesterday that suggested an "x prize for everything" [0]. I have heard many people say that the really hard part is the goal setting and determining which problems to solve, which you include in your question. Maybe the problem is that there is not a strong enough connection between the academic proof-of-concept ideas and the people who have the power to set the goals. In a perfect world, these proof-of-concept ideas would be the inspiration for an x-prize. The competition itself acts as a map forward which would generate a bunch of competition to tackle something, with a new industry established as the result. It seems the connection you are looking for isn't necessarily between the proof-of-concept ideas and the products, but rather the proof-of-concept ideas and the market-building-of-the-commons which benefits all participants. Once that exists, VC's can do their jobs to exploit the market.

[0](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348677)
This rings true and people always seem to forget that it's much easier to innovate when the cost of living is lower.

The problem, or the balance that must be struck, is that it's hard to innovate without being surrounded by other innovative people. You need a city with a critical mass of innovative, talented people and a low cost-of-living. California in the 1970s had that. I don't know what the 2013 analogue is, or if it's even in the US. The Midwest would qualify, but it's hard to raise any kind of money (VC, bank loans) out there.

When real estate is expensive, money dominates peoples' lives-- even seemingly wealthy people who still don't make enough to raise a family. When it's cheap, people focus on other things and money is just one thing in it.

I'm ideologically against expensive real estate. I think that the government should buy, build and own about 60% of housing and set the prevailing rent per square foot. Rich people will still have the ability to buy property and to rent or own nicer private housing, but the basic prevailing rate will be set. This actually doesn't bring along the negatives of price ceilings (shortage) because the government can also build more housing and transportation infrastructure to increase available supply. I think we should hold the government responsible for that. No one should have to pay more than 1/4 of post-tax income to live within 20 minutes of work.

The reason New York is expensive is that people like me-- ambitious, hard-working, extremely capable-- are able to find jobs here. People like me make the fucking city great. For each person like me, there are 9999 who want to be around (or employ, or exploit) people like me and they drive up the fucking rent. Instead of benefitting from our contribution, however, we get charged for it when we pay these enormous housing costs. We should be rioting in the fucking streets over this.
Time to start caring about quantum computing
The good news is it's just a short matter of time until far more entrepreneurs begin chasing the larger problems you describe. Once these more ambitious ideas have one or two XX billion dollar wins, the leaders of those companies will replace the Zuck and Dorsey as aspirational figures and both funding and talent will spill in. Musk is doing this as we speak, and there is room for another. If you look at the timescale this is all happening, it shouldn't be so depressing. It just feels slow because you're on the inside.
Such solution require much of the page-building logic (loops, conditions) to be moved into the template language, and the state transfer that goes with it.

This means trivial tasks require editing multiple files, e.g. say we introduce pagination: the master template now need to be told by the controller, if it should include the “page n of m” template.

I assume ufo avoids this problem (and the limited capabilities of template languages wrt. logic) by instead using host language libraries to generate the HTML, but IMO that has the downside of limited interoperability, as the templates are then just code written for some library.
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One issue I have not been able to resolve in thinking about the idea of society-funded research has to do with what I'll refer to as "bad" global actors.

It is no secret that China shines for its lack of respect for intellectual property. The same is true for their willingness to steal just about anything from anyone and make it their own.

If we, as an open society, fund programs costing billions of dollars we would, in no uncertain terms, be "giving it away" to the Chinese and other bad world players.

It's the concept of unfairness when on person in a team does absolutely nothing yet benefits greatly from the work of the rest of the team members.

I know I am over-generalizing. Yet, I have to tell you, as an American citizen I despise the idea of investing my tax dollars in something and have it simply given away to other societies who have done nothing to contribute to the cause.

Would I like to invest tax dollars to find the cure for cancer and make it globally available? Absolutely.

Would I like to see the labs and companies we built as part of that process decimated and driven out of business because the Chinese take the work product we funded and drive costs so far down that our companies crumble under the pressure of our pricing models? Nope. Not interested.

Yes, society as a whole would benefit from cheap mass manufacturing of such a drug. And, while that happens, our industry will continue to be shredded by bad players such as China.

I don't have all the answers. I certainly don't know what the solution to this one might be.