skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As annoying as the approximation can be, I'd like a citation for "to drive ad views". It seems much more likely that it was added for the obvious reason - to improve search results, on average, for most people, because relevant results don't always contain the exact search term you put in. In my case, as many times as it's burned me, there have also been a few where I remember it presenting exactly the results I wanted, and it's probably done so many more times without my noticing. YMMV, and it would certainly be nice if Google were better able to distinguish queries that should not be rewritten from ones that probably should, but that's no reason to assign nefarious motives.

As has been mentioned, you should probably set your default search to verbatim mode.
The $400 figure was the last time I checked--it's a very illiquid market and I remember publicly accessible prices being delayed by months. But rhenium is extracted as a molybdenum impurity, itself an impurity in copper. Most (90%) of it comes from Chile, and the price reflects supply and demand, really. I don't know what the supply elasticity is like, but I suppose suppliers could buy back old copper or molybdenum to purify it if the price warranted it. And because it's an exotic metal, none of the production is artisanal. Gold, on the other hand, has about 25% artisanal production, because mankind has been mining it for thousands of years and the extraction process is simple and well known.
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Should really watch out when eating MEAT ONLY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
Very cool. You must be a great brother.
and completely insane costs

A very large component of this is a policy choice (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face...). I've posted the link before and will probably post it again.

Any time valley cities want to make cheaper housing, they can. The technology necessary to do so is a hundred years old and well understood.

Many people treat very high costs of living like a fact of life, but they're not.
It's only open for debate if you're being extremely pedantic. There is even an illustration demonstrating exactly what the cuts look like!

Yes, if you want to be very nit-picky the question is undefined, but this is a third grade math test and the only reasonable answer is 20min. The student was absolutely correct.
Would you compile once a week?
I have no idea what I was just playing with but I spend way more time on it than I care to admit.
Yes, because Zoepfil on Hacker News can accurately predict the cost of an 85kWh battery pack for a Model S in 5-10 years.

Forgive me if I lose my balance due to how hard I rolled my eyes.
True, but I think that maybe 1/3 or more of the students would have answered this correctly. At some point during the grading process, you would think the teacher would begin to wonder why all of these students would have answered such a seemingly simple question "incorrectly" and take a second look.
If you use your browser to initiate searches (and aren't using Safari), it's just a matter of changing the search URL to add &tbs=li:1.
He may have noticed this in himself first, then applied it to others. In fact, he may consider it a limitation of genius and part of the current human condition.
I agree. I really dislike the fact that copyrights can be "transferred" to another person or entity.

But you agree (I assume) that people should have copyrights over their books or music. So, I wrote this wonderful song but now I need upfront money to buy a house /pay for cancer treatment /daughter's college. Why shouldn't I be able to sell it? It's mine, isn't it?
while Wolfram said that the bottom-up approach is the new kind of science
I don't see how that proves anything. They're using an old first generation instance type and benchmarking it alongside a much more powerful i7 processor. If you want a faster instance get a second generation instance or a larger one.
You support the USA forcing extradition of foreigners, and you've said that extraordinary rendition isn't a crime, so really it's your turn.

I don't support this at all, but I'd let you be taken because you do. That'd end this sooner than your double standard.
God says...

12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of
the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 12:44 But every
man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised
him, then shall he eat thereof.

12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought
of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
thereof.

12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let
him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the
land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger
that sojourneth among you.

----

God says...

applicable abroad persistence rapture distilled unlike wiser
take_the_day_off Abraham heretics throng hoar Orestes
engage glorying resend honesty Creusa's stilled sweeten

-----

God's upset cause I din do a more formal offering. I'm special :-)
https://github.com/ericdrowell/BigOCheatSheet/blob/master/Ta...
There are very few things more frustrating then doing a search, opening the resulting page, then search for one of your search terms and find none.
I am. I don't own a lot of TSLA, but its definitely in the high five figures. I'm extremely satisfied with out Musk has been handling all of this.
If you have a modern browser, it's your OS color picker- the tool uses <input type="color" />.

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#new-form-types
Is it just me, or does Ray Kurzweil seem to be getting younger? I remember seeing a speech of his a few years ago, he had a nervous tick where he was blinking his eyes constantly. He also looked a lot older. Now, he doesn't have that tick, seems to have more hair, etc.

I know he takes like 100 pills every day
why is FORTRAN "terrible for other things" given that it has a lot of useful features for technical programming that more modern languages lack.

You could always look at ratfor if you need to do a lot of character based stuff.

Back in the day I even wrote billing systems and a device driver for PDP's using fortran.
There is a picture of that illustrates the cut that is being made well enough to infer.

Some inferences have to be made, this is a human taking the test not a robot, and it's a 3rd grade test.

Even if the size of the pieces were specified, she could be cutting a different kind of wood or using a different saw or the humidity level could be different, but she's still "working just as fast".

3rd graders would be confused if you attempted to be completely unambiguous with this time of question.
Anybody talking about how this problem is ambiguous or under-specified are of course technically correct. By making that claim though, you are ignoring the context of the problem!

This is a 3rd grade math test that even includes an illustration of how the cuts are made! Within that context, the answer is unambiguously 20 minutes.
No, it doesn't. My mistake.
More like if she works just as slow, geez, 10 min to cut a board.
I use Fortran every day for fluid dynamics research. Fortran is the abusive partner you keep going back to. If C had array operations and aliasing restrictions I would switch in a heartbeat. As it is the syntax "a=b" is a lot better than four nested for loops and hence 4 opportunities to fuck up the indices.
Is not the fault of Americans if other countries are willing to do whatever they are told.
It seems to be using the native color picker. More info here: http://www.cssjockey.com/tips-tricks/native-color-picker-sup...
I'm American and like to use Brit slang from time to time, so not impossible. Especially for a cypherpunk intending to mislead.
Does anybody really use them as workstation operating systems? Also, they don't run anything desktop-oriented that you can't run on Linux.

I love some of the lower-level tech that came out of Solaris, but NeXt was about desktop user experience rather than server stuff.
sounded like teachers were scaling performance to meet standards instead of adjusting teaching quality
In reality, it probably was not open for debate. This is third grade math, remember. The student probably spent the last three problems working similar questions covering ratios/fractions. And the student probably spent at least a few weeks of school working similar types of problems on homework. After so long taking these types of classes and tests, if a student answers a question without using knowledge gained from the class and gets the question wrong, well...what did they expect?

(Not saying I like it, but it's the way it is many places.)
I like the idea of getting feedback on competitors apps. :)
> I'd agree compared to many places, but Boston is hardly cheaper than the Valley! It's cheaper than SF, but more expensive than Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara, etc. At least as far as apartment rentals go; I haven't looked at how purchasing a house would compare.

The costs drop precipitously when you aren't trying to live in Cambridge or in downtown Boston. I live fifteen minutes by train from downtown and 30 by train from Cambridge. I pay $1550 a month for a 1300-sq-ft 2-bedroom--I WFH so I needed an office, otherwise it'd be $1200 for a 1-bedroom.

Plus there's Allston/Brighton, which are part of Boston but priced pretty reasonably.
Seconded its bloody obvious what the meaning is from context
Yes, please. I like the concept, but found using the dials really fiddly and unintuitive. They don't seem to "turn" like one would expect, working only off the height of the mouse cursor after starting interaction.
Just like in the real world, it wouldn't be hard to pretend to be a seller to catch a few buyers - not hard, but also not worth doing - whereas by pretending to be a buyer you aren't going to find out the address of a seller.
This is an interesting point.

One thing about good ideas - is not so much the novelty, but more-so ideas that are far enough out there that they are semi-novel, but based on an extrapolation of the current state of things such that a path to getting the idea implementable is possible.

Sometimes, this means that you're able to foresee the trajectory of industries and technology that others miss or can't.

However - its also important to have the resources avaialble to be able to implement/execute/foster that which is needed to make those ideas become reality.

In this case, he has immense resources which can make the ratio between rubbish and great ideas shift significantly.

Its easy to simply be a daydreamer - even if a greatly informed day dreamer - when you have no resources.
It's only drastically slower because the micro instance gets very heavily throttled when you put it under sustained load. If you use it for what it's designed for the performance is much better as you don't get throttled with light usage. The benchmark is of the slowest ec2 instance type while being heavily throttled due to the benchmark generating too much load.
Any android developer spare some time for me .
Hi Guys I am 13 now and my uncle and w3schools helped me to learn php . I have created a small cms for technews and i need an android widget for my users to alert when something new happened . Will you help me to create an android widget which query my web api which return data in json . So will you help me ?
On one hand, I get what he's trying to say. On the other hand, I remember basically the whole industry was against the iPhone when it first launched - "it's too expensive", "it has poor battery life", "people like buttons", and on and on.

So I guess that in the end I don't really know how this will end for Google. I also don't think BusinessInsider's opinion counts that much, when they tend to write "why this product sucks/why this product" is awesome versions of an article for many other products.
Unless a business in that position attempts to enforce its position, what's the problem? If he is making something easier for others he should be rewarded or he'll stop.

It's like saying a road has no value because stuff isn't created on the road, just moved.

As for ethics, you could sleep better after buying a kilo of coke on silk road than paying your taxes.
Support Only the Minimum
Why not write tests inline with code?
Morals of being a drug market aside, in what way is SilkRoad a "rent-seeking enterprise" any more than any other transaction facilitating entity? Every transaction has friction and facilitators provide the service of matching buyers and sellers. Maybe not the highest ideal of productivity but hardly deserves to be described as rent-seeking.
Shiny PyPI shields for downloads and latest version (like Travis/Coveralls)
As an ex-COBOL programmer, I did some research in this area and I uncovered the following (from a 2009 blog post of mine).

--

Do a little research into COBOL and a few interesting things jump out at you. Some of this information is from Gartner Group and the rest can easily be verified by doing even a brief survey of the field. Taking the following bits of information:

* 75% of the world's business data passes through COBOL (Gartner Group estimate)

* There is possibly up to a fifth of a trillion lines of COBOL code out there (Gartner again)

* People are still writing COBOL constantly, but usually on existing systems.

* The industry is struggling to find new COBOL programmers because few young programmers love the thought of maintaining decades-old enterprise systems where all data is global and GOTO is often the first choice in flow control.

* Many companies want to move from COBOL, but can't do so easily because too much code is written in COBOL (and the source is often lost).

People really, really underestimate these problems. For example, I've seen several companies express a desire to move away from Perl but find out they can't because they don't realize quite how reliant on the language they are.

Now imagine a multi-national corporation with several million lines of COBOL code. What are they going to do?

COBOL salaries, from what I've seen, are trending upwards. Older programmers are sometimes being enticed out of retirement to maintain legacy systems (this is rather hit or miss as there appears to still be some age discrimination here). There are companies out there offering software to allow COBOL programmers to write NetBeans, integrate with .NET code or simply translate the COBOL into other languages (the latter appears to have mostly been a disaster, but I don't have enough hard data on this).

So let's summarize the above:

* Trillions of dollars flow through COBOL.
* Trillions of dollars flow through systems that businesses want to replace.
* Current mitigation strategies involve supplementing COBOL, not replacing it.

You come up with a strategy to allow COBOL systems to naturally migrate to a new language and you stand to make millions of dollars. By the way, I said "naturally". There are things like COBOL to Java translators (e.g., http://opencobol2java.sourceforge.net/), but COBOL is procedural and all variables are global. It doesn't even come close to mapping to an object-oriented paradigm (and any experienced OO programmer will understand why).

I actually have what I think is a decent migration strategy for COBOL, but that's a story for another day.
What's so special about Medium?
Everyday I see one ore more posts on Hacker News coming from the medium.com domain. Somebody enlighten me, what's so newsworthy about it to hear every day from it? The ranking algorithm of HN should take into account how likely it is that something great comes out of a single source every day.
My first programming experience was with FORTRAN (for a task that did not require any sort of high performance computing), and this scared me away from programming for six years. I realize the language isn't really to blame, but I'm definitely a little bitter.
I would agree that certain aspects of programming is quite similar to writing. Both require a certain command of the raw materials and good taste and judgement in how to assemble those
materials into finished form. The analogy works because these are general statements that could apply to many kinds of creative endeavors. However, as soon as one gets so specific as to map the roles of "product guys" and "engineers" and "editors" and "authors", the analogy has long since left the room.

Though I don't think that this analogy fits well, I applaud the OP for it; this kind of analogical thinking is, after all, thinking about what he does and how it relates to other other aspects of life.
Answer: 1, 2 and 2 cuts.
So if I take you into a small room and return with your wallet, its a defense that you, ultimately broken and bleeding, handed it to me to make the pain stop?
> 6) Why do you, and so many who think like you, believe that email should always be the bastard step-child of the web? Honest question.

Bastard step-child? This suggests an ignorance of history. Email came long before the Web.
Rockin' on without Microsoft (2003)
SafeSleeve: The All-in-One Radiation Blocking Laptop Case
I would like to see the same type of complexity cheat sheet for algorithms for common math problems: addition, multiplication, division, subtraction, factorization, solving linear systems, solving eigen systems, matrix inversion, etc.
To me, what made what he was doing appealing was that he wasn't directly soliciting people. He made the arrow and the sign. He wasn't harassing anyone in line. I think that makes all the difference.
Agreed, but explain that to a regular consumer in the Verizon store.
You're correct, every business that profits from easing transactional friction is to a greater or lesser extent, rent seeking.
My god, this looks more like a 4chan troll post than stackexchange. I'm not convinced this really happened. Is this the only kid in the class that got it right? Did the teacher not then notice when the brighter kids were coming up with 20 min that there may be something to it, and reconsider the question himself/herself? So much fail in so little space. Ugh.
Draggabilly - JS library to make elements draggable
Whatever the reason. It has changed recently and is annoying.

Search for "vertx play framework" and the last two search results don't have the term vertx despite pages and pages of results with the term. I don't understand how dropping search terms can make the results more relevant.

Also you can't set the default search to verbatim. You can only hack the query parameters in specific browsers.
Lumber has three dimensions.
My writing style would easily give me away.

If I wanted to anonymize my writing, I'd use translation services. Perhaps French -> English -> Pirate.
Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault
This may be a reason why email marketers don't like having to target desktop email clients. But does it have any bearing on why users choose webmail?
I think biggest benefit from this kind of specification would be for data (partly) distributed and (partly) shared between different hosts, as there would be at least some common ground for both clients and server how to communicate. IDs are very abstract and does not necessarily tie data under particular host. Of course for some data domains ID could be URL, but that is decision made by data provider. Spec decision would be crippling for overall use.
Actually I'd prefer to have you lay out exactly what it'd take to convince you in a post I can link to. That way if I do find the data, I can point to this post when you shift your goalposts.
UK move copying design from a civil offense to a criminal offense
In contrast to the article posted, others are trying to learn from tech startups and bring their lessons into the design world. Ben Van Berkel of UNStudio who have designed the BMW Museum as well as hundreds of other awesome projects are closing down their design office and relaunching it open-source. He is also teaching at GSD(Harvard) on the same topic. Will be interesting to see what comes of these changes, but it reminds me of the music industry in more ways than one...
Roads are a public good, not a business (despite what libertarian rhetoric would have you believe). All business seek to enforce their position, by the way.
Yea, it's simple once you figure out it's only using the y axis, but a bit dissonant that it's visually encoded on a circle/knob.

That said, really awesome demo!
"Thinking fast" Brain Module Predicts Preschoolers' Math Performance
Agree, buy a good book (for example Cormen), learn the algorithms and implement them to get a good understanding.

Try to use the table to answer a following question: what is a time complexity for finding a next item (according to a key) to a given one in a hash table? Memorizing such stuff does not make much sense, but if you understand basic concepts, you will figure it out quickly.

There are basic errors in the table:

BFS, DFS are for graphs, not just trees, and their complexity is not b^d (what is b and d anyway?).

Quick sort expected complexity is nlogn and this is different than average complexity. You can also make quicksort worst-case complexity to be nlogn.

You can't sort anything with space smaller than number of items you are sorting.

You can use buble and insertion sort not only for arrays but also for lists and time complexity does not suffer.
Isn't this just the NetPC or Network PC from the 90's repackaged? Wasn't it Java based technologies that were suppose to usher in "thin client" platforms that everyone would give up their desktop boxes for? The technology is better for something like this to occur these days, and maybe it's time. However, it took us quite awhile to go from something like the Newton to where we are today with the iPhone 5. There was quite a bit of iterating and consumer experimentation going on between then and now. The only consumer oriented success stories for cloud or network computing are remote desktop and backup services, which are more business oriented and certainly aren't threatening standard PCs.

Edit: I guess the main gist of this product is that it's remote desktop in your browser, without any plugins, and it can provide you with a full desktop experience, while boasting a light bandwidth footprint even with HD video applications. It also seems to allow you to tap in to cloud based computing infrastructure at the same time. While neat, it seems niche, and unlikely to rule the desktop. It also doesn't seem efficient to have an office full of computers streaming a remote desktop of MS Office, instead of just running it natively.
But the analogy is bad because in cases like this no force is used. Rather, they are willing to do the USA a favor because they are expecting some other type of favor. So still, the countries' fault for doing whatever the USA wants. If they negotiated bad terms is not the USA's fault.
...because 'trick' questions are (at least, were) part of math. The justification is to make sure people read, and understand, the question.