skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a side note, does anyone who has updated know if this adds 1080p mirroring yet or is it still ridiculously restricted to 720p?
I have always found my taste in music shifted in a way that almost seeks out an external reflection of my internal feelings and dialog. A "like looking for like" type of situation that provides me comfort through similarity and external validation. I do not, normally, seek out "happy" music to become happy.

The researchers in the study talk about the disconnect between perceived and felt emotion, and how listening to sad music induces ambivalent or pleasant emotions, but leave out the consideration that the listeners were given the music to judge, instead of seeking out music they wanted. I would argue, the emotions felt, by the listeners, were a result of successfully identifying and differentiating the music's "feelings" from their own. (That music is sad, but I am not. Success.)
Play with iOS 7 stop watch, and learn how fast is your fingers & phone touch
Open clock start stop watch now start pressing lap button as fast as you can and see how short lap times you can achieve, my maximum is 8 milli seconds ;)

(Thought to share this fun as saw a post regarding the iOS touch is 2.5 faster than android)
Simple suggestion: Perhaps they heard that PhD's make 1.5X, and haven't yet realized that the PhD's making 1.5X are solving the hard problems, not working as code monkeys? Thus they assume that the degree simply merits 1.5X for the same work.
CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
HN: Looking to set up zipcar-like non-profit service for the poor.
I'm working with an post exit software entrepreneur(who's backing financially) to try to figure out a way to get transportation solution for the poor. Rather than just giving them a car, we're considering a free or significantly discounted zipcar like service. However to figure out feasibility we need to figure out what type of costs are involved.

Anyone on HN have any ideas on how something like this could be insured/infrastructure set up, or pitfalls to look out for?

We've got some donated cars, which have been fixed and "guaranteed" by the local Toyota dealership for free (great people). Now we just have to figure out the best possible way to expand such a program
Some of the steps look like they're checking that various warning lights and systems work correctly, which needs a human in the loop. I guess there are other bits which require human decisions - e.g. you can't start the engines without visually checking that no-one is standing near them. Finally, any automation is another possible system that could fail, so it needs more examination and testing.
I wonder how much error is introduced by the use of the headphone jack to drive the printer - you've gotta deal with line noise from the computer's sound card, mixing latency/glitches from the OS, and the device sampling rate, along with any noise introduced on the audio cable.

Does a 3D printer like this not actually require high-precision data to work correctly?
To all those who state that it's irrational to be non-banked, remember two things:

1) Just as all the world is not a Vax, all the world is not you and your circumstances and acquaintances and anecdotes.

2) as the article briefly touches on, many people simply cannot get a traditional or even minimal/basic bank account because of entries in ChexSystems. These entries may be correct and current, or they may be old, or inaccurate, or not reflective of current circumstances. And banks are only too happy to outsource the expensive process of judgment and "knowing their customer." No banker ever got fired for following ChexSystems' recommendations (I assume).
Kickstarter link @ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-pri...

This is such a cool concept -- I backed it! I do not want to highjack the conversation, but I think it is worth mentioning, that this is kind of a "grinds my gears" [1, 2] moment when someone links to a summery, which borrows the video and images of a Kickstarter campaign, you are essentially diverting the campaigns traffic, why not just link to the campaign? This article was kind enough to at least link to it in the last paragraph. This summery is currently #1 on HN, which it likely driving tens of thousands of people to this suboptimal page [3, 4].

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grinds%20my%2...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHtRnOXXZ0w

[3] http://aberrant.me/front-page-of-hacker-news/

[4] http://www.backwardcompatible.net/179-traffic-hacker-news-ef...
Fair points in general on short-term solutions, but citation seriously needed on where you get 12 meters higher sea levels and 100 degrees C from.

In fact those two would essentially climax hilariously, because at 100 degrees the sea will be in the atmosphere, thousands of metres high.
I've done this too (on http://ssz.fr/ker/ for example) and I've noticed if indeed, HTML DOM was slightly faster than SVG up to a couple Firefox versions ago, I have found it to be consistently slower on Chromium, and about the same in the latest Firefox versions.

And 40k elements is a no way with any method other than canvas on Firefox, though it can sometimes stay somewhat usable with SVG on Chromium.
Not here (and I tried it with my sandboxed adblock-free honeyypot browser). Maybe an ad?
Just don't forget to turn off itunes file organization or it will relocate every file in your library (assuming you store it album artist -> album like most rippers default to creating).

Still recovering from this one, b/c I didn't know that it would do that...
Smart comment. Adaptive optics have rearranged the fundamental drivers for visible-light astronomy.

And a lot of physics experts who were working on high-resolution space-based telescopes, telescopes that are in many cases are now replaceable by ground telescopes, have paid a heavy price for this fact. Technology can be a tough field sometimes.

If you want to see what is likely to be built in the next decade, you can start at:

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/bpa/BPA_049810

Go to the last report on the web page ("2020 Vision") and go to page 17 of the PDF. It's all there.
NIH and NASA get a Google's worth of funding from the federal government. With employees in DC, that funnels a ton of cash into the local economy. But why DC? It has no top medical school. Shouldn't NIH be in Baltimore near Hopkins? Why isn't NASA in a city with a university with a top aerospace program, or closer to aerospace equipment manufacturers?
Facebook is doomed
Last year, to attend a tradeshow I opened a sales tax account and Wisconsin. As I was engaged in extended travels afterwards, and made no sales taxable sales at the show, I did not file any returns with them. If course, they expect you to file each quarter even if to report zero sales.

When I returned it to my house nine months later, I found a wide variety of letters from them culminating in lien on my bank account for about $1500.

Why they decided that I would have $10,000 in sales that were taxable, given on my history of never having reported anything ever on a brand-new account, I have no idea. Strangely, others at the show who also failed to ever file did not receive liens.
I got them in the same place the GP got their 50°C from, I presume - my ass.

The point is: there is no predictable upper limit, period.
Please don’t bring your parents to work with you
I only ever ASKED one poor person why they didn't have a bank account. A young mother of a student at a middle school I do work with. She has three kids and one month she was hit with fees for a) having less than a prescribed amount in her bank account. and b) writing a bad check. (Ironically, a check that was bad because of the fee taken for 'a').

Now for her, going to Walmart every month and putting her earnings on a prepaid card gives her everything she needs with little of the risk. And so that's what she does. It's not a "check cashing place" or "payday loan" place, but it is one of the places siphoning the poor from the banks. (My guess is that it's probably siphoning a lot of them too).

I think sometimes it's a little easy to lose sight of that single mother with three kids working a low end job. She really can't afford fees like that... though the fees may sound trivial to the middle class. When she gets home, she HAS to have food for her children. And among a lot of what you might term the "responsible single mothers", anything that would put their ability to do that at risk is, rightfully, eliminated.

Bank accounts, in their current form, are on the list of things that can put that at risk. And so, bank accounts are eliminated.

After that conversation, it was not clear to me that she had made a bad decision. I couldn't really question her priorities. A bank account was good for me... but maybe not for her. This is why I think that these sorts of decisions will be made more and more often by the poor. Because they only care about the ends, (feeding her kids). Not the means, (the bank account).

I guess I'm just saying that...

It wasn't clear to me that it was an... "...effing bad decision."
This isn't an article naming-and-shaming; it's an information dump so people can sort through it and find the right people to actually name-and-shame.
Uh, do you not see the high rises right across the river in Arlington?
You could interpret it as saying he is highly specialized in a color industry isn't interested in, so his remaining marketable skill is his chameleon nature, which is not valued as much as he thought it would be.
Some of us think that contributing to human knowledge is worth five years of our life, even if we might not be able to continue contributing.
Starting my DA20 is much less involved and you get to shout "clear the prop" which is satisfying. :)
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"their underlying value is going up as well"

How can you tell? These are illiquid bonds that have no market. The Fed could say they're worth anything and there's no way to prove or disprove it. The only way to know is to offer them for sale and obviously that's the opposite to what the Fed is doing.
Think of it more as extra energy being imparted to the global weather system. This will have all sorts of fun and exciting effects, and as I understand the warming will be greatest at the poles. Alaska has warmed by about 1.6[0] in the last 60 years, and the interior of Alaska by 1.4° C in the last 100[1], compared to a global temperature rise of .8° C over the same period. This has resulted in the melting of thousands of cubic kilometers of glacial ice, with this study[2] suggesting that this is the largest glaciological factor in rising sea levels.

To the eyes of the native inhabitant, the glacial retreat is shocking, with the lower altitude glaciers most affected. We've built glacier overlooks in some places, where once the glacier was a stone's throw away, and now it's barely visible, and in another few decades the only thing they'll be able to show anyone there are photos. I've seen photos from the early 1900s of glacial termini which towered over the masts of a sail-rigged steamer. Today there is a fjord there, and the glacier is more than 13km away.

And you want to know what that feels like?

How about instead you imagine how it feels to watch the Arctic melting around you, while an endless circus of millions deny that it's even happening.

[0] http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/ClimTrends/Change/TempChange.ht...
[1] http://oldclimate.gi.alaska.edu/papers/Arctic62-3-295.pdf
[2] http://glaciers.gi.alaska.edu/material/arendt_phd.pdf
My friend had $150k in his bank account that was taken by the IRS while they were still in negotiations on a huge tax bill. No notification, no nothing. He only found out after he was trying to buy groceries and his card was declined.

After it was all said and done he ended up owing the IRS ~$14k and they gave him a check for the difference, but it took months to get it all sorted out.

I lent him some money to get him through it, but what if he didn't have a friend to do that? He'd be kicked out of his apartment and starving.

Now he doesn't trust banks (not that it's the necessarily the banks fault). He keeps around a thousand in his bank for emergencies, and keeps the rest in cash (at an undisclosed location :)).

It goes to show that even people with a reasonable amount of money have reasons to keep their money out of banks.
You need to have students to help you in your research, and you won't have students if you have a reputation for never ever awarding a PhD. It's a give-and-take relationship.
General usability is important in pretty much all interfaces, but discoverability isn't. There's a big difference between designing an interface a user will be instantly familiar with, and one that's optimally suited to the task at hand.
Possible, but I'd imagine unlikely. Why would a PhD apply for a code monkey job? Most don't do so intentionally, certainly they didn't get a PhD to become a code monkey. So if they are willingly doing so, they probably exhausted all alternative career options or think they have. In which case, while they may ask for more money, I don't think they would actually turn down the job if denied.
The analogy about the Porsche is really telling. This guy isn't a Porsche. This guys is a Kia that costs as much as a Porsche and so therefore is convinced it's a Porsche. A Porsche doesn't need to tell you how fast it can go, how well it's engineered, how beautiful it is. A Porsche can speak for itself. A Kia can't - it needs to be proven, and the only way it'll get a chance to prove itself is if it's cheap and the risk of it sucking is mitigated. John Carmack is a Porsche. Donald Knuth is a Porsche. This guy is not.
The Fed can hold them to term. They are under no pressure to sell.
No...the NSA killed the USA centric internet...Snowden just revealed the reason why it shouldn't be trusted.
Ask HN: The book you always wanted to read but never had time or motivation for?
What is the book you always wanted to read but never had time or motivation for?

Three answers are allowed, one is to look smart (eg: "The Count of Monte Cristo"), one is for the title you are a little ashamed of (eg: "The Neuromancer"), one is for a tech book (eg: "Lions' Commentary on Unix").

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Paint some bees on the containers, replace ALW with Madrigal GmbH, Hamburg with Hannover, and you get another eposide of...
Swelling waistlines may make people live longer, but sicker
Then combat the lobbying or other anti-competitive antics. The last time we tried to force business to operate in the wrong market, we told banks to lower their lending criteria and look where that got us.
I came here to make this very same comment; glad to see it had already been posted.

The pirate industry was light years ahead of anything the corporates were doing. All Apple did was convince the music labels to allow them to distribute their music digitally.

The digital download market has succeeded in spite of iTunes, not because of it.
Yes, credit unions are an excellent middle ground between mega banks and local small branch banks. Just use one that's part of a co-op and most people won't have any problem at all. YMMV.
You can watch them online for free

http://www.cnbc.com/live-tv/show/The%20Profit
This is a bit too good to believe, but at $100 i'll bite. I've been into 3d printing for years now, and my main concern is material. If this resin is durable, and doesn't get soft in the car on a warm day, this design could be really groundbreaking. If not, it'll be a waste of everyone's time. The quality looks pretty decent given how awful low end 3d printers can be without a ton of tinkering. My current printer cost me about 2K and ABS/PLA at $40ish/kg actually adds up when prototyping. I'd love to have something really cheap like this to test out prints before finalizing them in ABS.
When I was in grad. school, I thought the idea of doing a PhD was to train for a lifetime of contributing to human knowledge. Not a lot of PhD theses end up as a contribution to human knowledge. Sure, there are the 1% that do, those people don't typically have the problem of not being "able to continue contributing."
"Around and about zero" means that 1 in 20 people is in poverty, at least to the author.

That means in the average classroom, you'd have 1.5 kids in poverty (if classroom population reflected the general population; there are reasons to think it doesn't).

I'm glad that kid-per-class is a non-issue to the author.
You mentioned "poor coding skill under pressure". Did you assess that during interviews? Because in my experience, the pressure during an interview is not at all like the pressure while developing software. At an interview, you may have to come up with a solution in, say, half an hour. At work, you can usually sleep on a problem, and come back with a solution the next day, even if you are under pressure to ship a new feature. In other words, nothing like the pressure during an interview.
> I've never in my life been charged an overdraft fee because it doesn't take much to just track the payments you make and never go over.

That's easy to do if you're not poor. It's a problem you've never encountered, so don't pretend your virtue protects you.

Obviously 'punishing' those with no money does nothing. It certainly doesn't prevent overdrafts. The only sane response to this (correctly identified) cycle of poverty: "inability to plan is probably why they're poor in the first place..." is education and help.

Your attitude is the pinnacle of intellectual void and laziness.
That's the "Woz-est" engineering I've seen in some time.
Audio output of modern computers is high precision. 16 bit resolution is pretty damned precise...even once converted to analog. I'm certain the mechanical parts being driven by it is a much, much, larger source of errors than any decent computer output would be.

That said, there is measurable and audible differences between a stock audio output and a high end (or even prosumer) audio output. A nice 24 bit audio box could, possibly, be a useful upgrade in the future...when the mechanics finally catch up. But, I suspect it'll be years before the mechanical side of this design is precise enough to even show the errors in a 16 bit output. If ever...
No, a better way is to do outreach to the people who have the resources to contribute. I can think of an important group, represented by HN: web site consultants and web companies that may have excess hosting resources at the end of the month, every month.

Essentially Tor could be that thing you run on your servers before you launch; and if you launched, then before you get big. Think of it as a kind of load test for your young, under-used infrastructure.

ADD: How to install tor server:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en

I'm doing it right now...But I'm realizing that I really need better bandwidth constraints. I want to be able to tell Tor to limit itself by connection count, bandwidth, and memory consumption.

ADD: Holy cow, they really want you to lock down your Tor box:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OperationalSecurity

Anyone know why they expect a box running a tor relay to be locked down so tightly?
Great insight, you should turn this into a "Lessons Learned" post!
The Fed has no choice but to hold them to term. The Fed's whole game is to continue keeping rates at zero by buying everything under the sun to the tune of $85 billion! per month. Selling, or even slowing the rate of purchasing, would do the opposite and raise rates.
certainly they didn't get a PhD to become a code monkey

Well, what did they get it to become? I bet most of them don't even know. I know I contemplated a graduate degree, and if I had done it, it would have been for love of the material and love of learning, not because I knew precisely what I was going to do with it.
A high pressure hose, accurately directed, works wonders. Though some paper to wipe afterwards helps. They're common enough in Asia to make me wonder why Europe hasn't caught on - at least in hotels and public bathrooms.

(I can't believe the level of discussion around toilet paper is more sophisticated than the discussion on the associated socioeconomic issues...)
I would love to see the score distribution and the particular zones where color discrimination is low for the whole population. In my case it seems blue is slightly problematic. Is there anything like this in the webpage besides individual scores?
Yeah, it's the same on LinkedIn and Google+ lately (on LinkedIn you get it reduced to those extra ridiculous endorsements...just a binary "do you think person X is skilled at typing using a keyboard?"). They've learned that if you ask single questions people actually answer them, while many people find an entire empty profile daunting and so don't get far (or never even start).

Completely off topic, but the Facebook movie thing is weird. They no longer ask for your favorite movies in your profile, which at least somewhat lines up with a "profile" of a person, as your favorites say something about you (true or not). Now your profile just asks for "movies you've watched", which is bizarre. Most people have seen a lot of movies; what helpful information does that communicate to Facebook or to your Facebook friends, which is supposed to be the point? Certainly it's unlikely that you'll be able to fill that out comprehensively, or with a sampling good enough that some ML algorithm can make something of it. I guess it is self selected, which says something about what movies you've seen, can recall, and are willing to disclose, but it still seems to be setting about the lowest bar possible. Is it going to ask for "sports you've watched" next? "Celebrities you've heard of"?

Edit: maybe it's just another user psychology thing. "Favorite movies" might make people worry too much about what to put, while "movies you've watched" is meant to be a super low bar, and people will still tend to put their favorite movies in anyway? Those people who love updating their profiles will dilute that signal by adding every new movie they see going forward, but that's just a different, still useful signal.
to look smart: The Count of Monte Cristo, A. Dumas

ashamed of: The Neuromancer, W. Gibson

Tech: Lions' Commentary on Unix, J. Lions
No need for a throwaway account, seems to me - discussing hygiene shouldn't be a sensitive matter.

> If you had fecal matter on your hand, would you wash it, or just wipe it with some paper and call it good?
Yep, never understood this myself.

Then I discovered disposable wet wipes followed by a bit of TP to dry off. The equivalent of wiping with a clean soapy cloth. Next best thing to a full cleaning in the shower and uses less paper-like material by far.
I've never heard of mdn before this thread somehow. But w3schools is perfect for looking up the things I tend to look up (mostly CSS or HTML attributes) and it's really easy to parse. Plus it's always the first google result for me.
The hipster comment was related to the fact that the article is complaining about ASP, "tight layout" and "icky". I don't use ASP myself, but it really doesn't have any bearing on the content. I don't mind the ads myself (they're fairly unobtrusive), and the layout is acceptable.

I like nice designs myself (I'm currently building a new site and I'm getting inspiration from roon.io and other beautifully designed sites), but I'm also quite content using sites that have less-than-ideal designs if they do the job that I'm looking for.
Agreed. That's where you start heading into things that should be illegal in a free market.
Show HN: Your daily SMS reminder to git commit
Being an artist, I'm curious as how PG will score on this.