skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that the grooves pointing towards the centre of the platform make for an unnatural walking gait. At the start of a step, the foot will move inwards towards the line of travel. As the foot crosses the torso, it will move outwards again.

Whereas in a natural gait, each foot moves parallel to the line of travel.

See 2:10 of the video for how the shoes fit into the grooves using plunger pins, and how they move on the platform.
This is not just a matter of resembling psychosis.

Haloperidol and olanzapine, two common prescriptions for schizophrenia, have been demonstrated to reduce the effects of LSD.

There is a connection between the psychoactive properties of LSD and the neurological etiology of schizophrenia, though the connection needs to be studied further.

Yes, research should not be taken as gospel, but it is foolish to think that there is no reason at all for alarm.

Another more recent source: Marona-Lewicka, D., Nichols, C. D., & Nichols, D. E. (2011). An animal model of schizophrenia
based on chronic {LSD} administration: Old idea, new results. Neuropharmacology, 61(3), 503 – 512. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.02.006
Changing Threats to Privacy — Moxie Marlinspike's talk at Blackhat 2010
http://sharrre.com/
Doesn't it push your feet towards the middle since grooves in are radial?
That practice was legal in the US up until 2009 and while that one is now gone, there are plenty of other whacky practices used in its place.

As a replacement the next wacky idea was to feed cows with chicken manure mixed in hay.

The only problem is cows can still be fed to chickens and the cows then eat the chicken crap, so exactly has changed?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-greger-md/mad-cow-dise...
IndieGoGo: Bring Aid to Vietnam
The problem is not allowing or disallowing GM food, but the strict labeling requirements in the EU. If there's GM involved it must be labeled accordingly. Unrelated to if oppposing GM food is a "knee-jerk" reaction or not, the labeling requirement is a good thing, as it gives the consumer the choice which type of food he prefers. The trade agreement would weaken those labeling requirements, which is the main source for concerns here.
Indeed, having been offered an academic job at Imperial, I'm partial to thinking of it as a place of high prestige.

The thing about intellectual dishonesty is that it's not provable, and in fact usually isn't even noticed by people who agree with the conclusion. If you read the link, you'll see that these allegations are hardly the kind that would lead a university to remove a professor.
I'm not disputing that there may be very little to modern AltaVista. But that's not really what I was originally referring to, either.

I'm not sure about Yahoo!'s policies, but most other large companies or organizations with custom software have processes in place to ensure the archival of old source code.

In these kinds of organizations, it's quite typical to have source code going back many years, if not many decades, for each release of a given software product.

This has gotten even easier as source control has become more widely used, especially during the 1980s and later, and as storage space has gotten far cheaper and larger. Many development groups have put great effort into ensuring that entire histories have been preserved when moving between version control systems, even when several such transitions have taken place. It can sometimes be possible to see change sets committed back in the 1980s, for instance.

Again, while I don't have any first-hand experience there, I'd be very surprised if Yahoo! did not have at least some of the early AltaVista source code archived in some way.
I would love to hear a medical professional opinion on contusion probability with extensive use of this thing.

Also they didn't show if it's comfortable to run backwards - a critical move in any first person game.
And probably just added yourself to all sorts of watchlists.
The infographic linked in the article is amazing: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention

For those who don't want to read it, it's six months of the author's metadata gathered by T-Mobile being displayed on a map.
Agreed. I guess I'm just one of those curmudgeons who finds piggybacking on other brands distasteful.

But life isn't a tastefulness contest. I suck at it. (And I'd suck if it was).
Actually no.

Most of the problems associated with running come from the unforgiving impact of your foot on the ground (often a hard surface). Devices like this and other treadmills are much better if you have joint problems.
Hey Engineers — Your Product Manager Needs a Hug
Your confusion is predicated on your conflating "the tech community" with "makers." The tech community definitely has an idealistic streak. But it a small subset of the larger engineering world, which really does not. To the extent that you can ascribe an ideology to a profession, all those chemical engineers and civil engineers are not "hackers" or "painters" but rather "pyramid builders."
I don't really think people should be promoting auto translated pieces like this. It doesn't provide much content other than "Somebody writing in spanish is introducing bitcoins".
The whole essay is rife with upper class Panglossian obliviousness. Right before he talks about economic inequality he says "When I graduated from college in 1986, there were essentially two options: get a job or go to grad school". Only 8% of over-25 Americans have a graduate degree today, and that percentage was even lower 27 years ago. From this view of the world, people going to night school to get their Bachelors don't exist, because these people didn't go to the $40k a year college you went to. For most people in the world, someone at 21 with Bachelors in hand deciding on either grad school or a professional career, is already someone who is living the life of Riley.

There's nothing incorrect in his statement, although it does give an idea of the bubble of the world he lives in. Income inequality clearly all is at the level of VCs and founders in his world - even the upper middle class programming minions don't come into consideration. Income inequality connections clearly do not come to mind in the case of, say, the US army marching into Los Angeles in 1992 to restore order among the poor and working poor there. It's a kind of solipsism you can read about in the unofficial minutes of the councils of the Czar's ministers in 1916. The earthquake in class relations coming is not in minor percentage differences between enormously wealthy VC limited partners and upper middle class founders. It's what happens when the world economy comes to a stop like it did in the late 1920s. We got a small preview of it in 2007 and 2008. In the years and decades ahead, financial shenanigans on Wall Street will eventually lead to an economy that will not start up again, no matter how much priming. THEN is when we will start seeing real shifts in the relations of production.
but that doesn't pass the "smell test" as far as I'm concerned.

So it's gone from a 'given' to 'in your opinion'.

It's easy to explain the 0.03 figure if there are a large number of routine boilerplate small scale requests. It seems highly plausible that this is the case.

The fact that the figure is plausible doesn't rule out the possibility that abuses might be being rubberstamped, but the truth is that we don't know, not that it's a 'given'.
Reply A:

What you describe will happen no matter what, so it would likely be more interesting for everyone involved if your posts were not just talking for talk's sake :)

Reply B:

Why are you posting at all then?
I'm referring to acrylamide.
This is about the way I see it these days. Pulling 2, 3, up to 5 outside scripts via sharing widgets is just too much. Much snappier to skip and just link out as the example shows.
After spending 15 years as a product manager, reading this really resonated.
Masters/minions also would have worked.
There's no definitive rules for stuff like that. Some seed funding happens pre-revenue and other founders are more than willing to share revenue figures with potential seed investors. We are in the seed funding stage and are starting a bi-monthly email update to our advisors, potential investors ect that will definitely mention revenue numbers.
> Fine, then don't buy them

If they have a monopoly you no longer have that choice.

The 'big four' biotech seed companies—Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences own 80% of the US corn market and 70% of the soybean business.

They are looking to achieve similar results in the rest of thw world.

The US government went after Microsoft because it was seen as a monopoly in the PC market.

Why doesn't the US government step in to stop this GOM monopoly?
I'm a decent coder but don't know about anything near the metal.

Is there a good introductory resource for learning about low-level details like the ones discussed in the post?
What is one thing would you want Clojure and Compoujure to add next?
I was trying to think of an alternative myself and didn't strike on one.
A pyramid is a lousy model. It fights gravity. A better model with a similar shape is a funnel. With seives. Gravity does most of the sorting, though sometimes the apparatus needs a shake to keep things flowing.

YC doesn't select stones to set on top of other stones. It filters a stream. It amplifies what makes it past the interviews. It reduces friction to help companies keep moving.

There's less statefullness than in pyramid construction. HN is a scouting network, not a quarry. The process doesn't chisel companies to the desired batter. It develops talent and sells it on. Like Ajax.

A pyramid is an anti-pattern for disruption.
Give us all a break.

It's so easy to make that choice when you and your family aren't literally starving to death.
> As the transactional cost of coordinating between firms falls

To be pedantic, it has to fall faster than the transactional cost of coordinating within a firm. Your point stands though.
Former ID thief here. Those books are all outdated or garbage. There are three ways of changing your ID: your parents creating a second ID when you were born, stealing someone else's, or bribes. If you already had the first you wouldn't be looking at these books.

Bribes are unlikely to succeed and will probably get you arrested. Even if they do work the person you bribed knows about your new ID. If they get arrested you'll also be caught.

That leaves stealing someone else's ID. It's not that hard but can be time consuming and of course it's illegal with a mandatory minimum federal sentence in the US. You'll need to know how to forge various documents, among other skills I won't go into. Most documents are easy to forge including many state IDs. If you don't need to travel out of the country it's totally doable. Getting a passport is much harder since you'll need to get the real thing. There are ways to do it but you'd have to be pretty serious and the risks are fairly high.
In other words it's not buttons in and if themselves that should be avoided (according to the author) but pulling in the widgets from FB, Twitter and G+. You can host the same buttons on your end (really just a picture with a link)
We did a short documentary on Bitcoins in Argentina not to long ago which should give an idea the situation in Argentina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__m-w4N7NI
This. If your company clears one million in yearly sales and spends $980,000 to make that happen--you are running a $20,000 per year company. There is nothing wrong with this, but I hate when these metrics get thrown around without context. There are $1M companies that make less profit than a hot dog cart (which subsequently, in the right location is a damn good business).
You downvoters are so uptight! Are attempts are humor against HN guidelines? Surely (or maybe not!) you can appreciate a good joke? Unless it hit too close to home, pun intended? (Disclaimer: I do not advocate taking a severe beating, Perl-inflicted or otherwise.)
Where are you getting this?? Plenty of recent college grads are more than happy working for large companies and have plenty of opportunities to do so. From my experience, only a a minority even consider going into the startup world, as employee or founder. Source: A majority of my friends, my sister, and my girlfriend all graduated in the past two years.
Being in charge of the EU Intelligence Analysis Centre[1] (EEAS's intelligence unit) must be an outrageously complicated and frustrating job.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Situation_Centre
MONSTER - The Devil's Prince, Prince Charming
I better check again, but the ARM build of btsync was very unstable, even to the level of causing a kernel panic on one of my Pi boards.
Why is this simple piece of logic so difficult for anti-GMO extremists to understand? These technologies literally have the potential, without even being hyperbolic, to save Billions of lives. And these clowns are worried about the providers making an extra buck.
This is a great solution to the problem, and I'm really excited about it.

But there's one very important catch: The "special shoes" are not an option for people with unusual orthotics requirements (e.g. me), because they're not going to be able to make shoes suitable for everybody.

They have to create soles that can be strapped on to our existing shoes.
If you're that paranoid, it probably wouldn't be hard to set up a simple cron job that downloads the CDN's copy and compares its hash against a known local copy on a regular interval.
I'm not sure what you wanted to accomplish with this post. There's very little you can repair on the Pi, so unless there's an obvious broken solder joint, probably.

That said, there are alternatives to the Pi around if you require more power.
Cases of industrial espionage unrelated or tenuously related to national security. Industrial espionage of the sort that the US government regularly gets bent out of shape accusing China of.
Well said. However the grandparent comment speaks as though this is unique to the US, rather than something that most governments are doing or would like to do.

How do we get to a state where an actual value is ever given serious political weight? Ending slavery took a major war.
This will never happen. There's no way in hell Germany jeopardizes their relationship with the US over Snowden. Not a chance.
Q: What's the difference between "better" and "worse" Perl code? A: http://www.matthewsdiehl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/rock...

(I submit these slides in support of the previous rhetorical question: http://www.oualline.com/talks/perl.pdf)
Indeed. I wonder how you strafe.
Of course what people don't really understand is that religion today is government of yesterday (give or take a millenium ... well probably give). Some religions, one in particular, still sees it that way.
How will people in those communities pay their taxes?
In his profile - minimaxir.com
Agreed. Both using encryption and pushing for better privacy protections are important and complementary.
If you still like the idea of buttons, but don't want to give up using the vendor-supplied buttons themselves, you can use the "two clicks for more privacy" jQuery plugin[0], which only loads the actual button when the user enables it by clicking a greyed-out placeholder.

[0] http://panzi.github.io/SocialSharePrivacy/
Drug altering minds have trouble with coherence.
I'm genuinely surprised by the wherewithal entrepreneurs have at hiring domestic talent. Anyone know why outsourcing isn't more popular- particularly among B2B startups?

I'm a developer myself, but if I was an entrepreneur with no coding skills, I'd hire some guys in India to crank out my lo-fi MVP and use that to find a product/market fit and then raise money. I suppose it's not that easy though, is it?
Reading a single 32-integer from the L1 cache takes 4 cycles. The L2 cache takes 12 cycles, the same amount of time it would take to calculate the square root of a number. The L3 cache takes more than twice as long, 26 bytes. Reading from memory takes far, far longer.

I guess this is true, but it's sort of misleading. Adding some details as I understand them:

1) On Sandy Bridge, a read from cache takes the same amount of time whether you are reading a single byte or a 32 byte AVX vector. That said, it is often faster though to read integers individually than to read them as a vector and split them.

2) While the L2 latency is comparable to taking a single square root, if using an XMM register, you can also take 4 square roots in the same number of cycles. Viewed this way, if you can use SIMD, you could consider each square root to be comparable to an L1 hit.

3) For DDR3-1600 10-10-10 (current fast standard) a read from main memory will take 12.5 ns to start returning data. At 4GHz, this is 50 CPU cycles. DDR3-1333 10-10-10 is 15 ns --- about 60 cycles. This is about twice as long as a read from L3: longer, but not "far, far longer".

[Note to author: s/26 bytes/26 cycles/]
> So I bet this disgusting essay will cause a bunch of kids to try LSD and a percentage of them will be completely fucked because of it.

Even assuming that's true - which it probably is even just based on the fact that some people already have fragile mental states - a certain percentage of people who go motorcycling get creamed by bad drivers. Life is risk. What the percentage is matters.

Without number it's just hand-waving - and the longer the hand-waving goes on the less dangerous it seems because scary correlates are being given adequate time to show up.
Judging by their prototypes (and assuming it does catch on) that should be pretty easy for them or someone else to offer. They're already letting people build the support band themselves based on drawings, I don't see why they couldn't (or someone else) release drawings and a bill of materials for the soles, esp. if some of it could be printed.
Not just the Germans.
That reminded me of a famous libertarian quote: "If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action." - Mises

If humans are full of logical fallacies and poor decision making, just making a collection of humans and giving them unlimited power does not make the logical fallacies and poor decision making go away. It can often makes it much more harmful.

But then it comes down to who has the better information (individuals/organizations or politicians) and who is more capable of acting on that information in humanities best interest.
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See ~3:30 in the video for strafing.
If I got it correctly, I wondered the same. Why not an investor would pay me to me and the other co-founder our salary for X months (12 months?) for the Y% of the company? I think it would be good and non-risky for both parts.
The claim that GMO has been responsible for gains in modern food production are most likely false and are more likely the result of traditional breeding techniques:

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/27/study_monsanto_gmo_food_clai...
Per Micawber's Principle:

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.
Nice. thanks.
The 3.10 kernel is out
Thanks, you're right. I smooshed two different costs into an aggregate when they ought to be considered independently as well.
RE: file sharing/local NAS

Do any of you guys experience a bottleneck on the RPi's 100Mbps nic?
> Why is this simple piece of logic so difficult for anti-GMO extremists to understand? These technologies literally have the potential, without even being hyperbolic, to save Billions of lives.

Any description of technology "saving" lives is hyperbolic. Technology can extend lives, or make more lives possible to start, but we haven't yet found any technologies that will actually save lives.
It's hard to believe today but one innovation in the google home page was that you didn't actually have to click into the text box to begin typing. For some reason every other search engine at the time required you to do this one little extra step.
"elephant in the room"

Heh.

Context: https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/thumb/a/a4/PostgreSQL_log...
Try Drepper's (of GNU library fame) What every programmer should know about memory.

http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

Slightly dated but still excellent introduction.
You made me realise that what Graham wants is an institution that has the risk appetite of a VC and the operational behaviour of retail banking.
While it's true that religion generally had a lot more influence over politics and policy in the past (the recent past moreso than the present, and the distant past moreso than the recent past, at least in the USA), saying that "once upon a time, religion and government were one and the same" ranges between, at best, a gross oversimplification of complex sociopolitical circumstances, and at worst, a factually incorrect misrepresentation. Exactly where your statement falls on that scale depends on the exact places and times you're talking about.

Disclaimer: Everything I know about medieval European history, I learned from Crusader Kings 2.
I think the problem is that we are scouring the radio waves while every really advanced society uses quantum entanglement for communication.
Yes, I think it's best read as an advocacy piece.
Both University of Illinois and Florida State University have online BS degrees in CS.
Legal? AL-LAD

Safe, reliable... no such thing.
> it strikes me as odd that he just assumes she's going to go ahead and try all sorts of things.

Given how pragmatic Sam is about drug-taking, it would be fair to assume that his daughter will grow up with similar views and consider experimenting. My dad's experiences with/thoughts on psychedelic drugs were what paved the way for me to experiment. And because of my family's attitude towards mind-altering substances, I was able to experiment safely which was an encouraging factor.
Real estate is a good way for lay people to gain wealth with not much effort. You don't need to be a handy man to get into the game, but it helps if you can do the repair work if needed. At the very least know what it takes to get things done and repaired so that when you hire people to do the work, you know the ballpark figure and the amount of work involved.

Real estate investment is good to get into because its cycle is long and very predictable. Just follow the trend. Once the housing price goes one way, it takes huge amount of effort for the market to turn it around. We are just bottoming out and starting on a upward trend now.

Read up on the topics and take some classes if needed. Community colleges have night classes that cover lots of topics. You don't need to agent related topics, just the economics and investment parts.

Real estate investment is a leverage game and as such, it's advisable to be well capitalized so that you can weather the up and down of the market. A down market can last 6 to 8 years.
PG discussed this a bit over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5464451
If one person out of a every thousand who tries it becomes a super-genius and the others end up drooling morons, then it's probably not a good bet. Anecdotes of selected inspirational people shouldn't be a major basis of your decision to tinker with your nogin.

It is something in favour of it, I don't think it's productive to pretend otherwise. But good decisions don't result purely from paying attention to what's in favour of a decision. If you want to know whether something's going to potentially mess your life up, the best way I've heard of is to honestly set out to prove that it is going to mess your life up before you actually do it - and if you fail to prove it then you've exercised due diligence.

If you have someone saying they had a really good time and on the other hand you have a bunch of drug users who are completely messed up, then you might want to exercise a bit of caution - you know?