skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comparison is a bit off. Most of the cars which catch fire are old. The comparison should be to a similarly priced, brand new luxury car. Very few of those catch fire, either.
You presume the assets to be the proceeds of a massive online narcotics market.
But all of the claimed facts are either true or false, right?
I remarked on this above also. I have early morning waking also (not sure if it's insomnia or just my getting older).

I use melatonin when I know I'm stressed and would normally have trouble falling asleep. I try not to use it more than once a week and I am hesitant to habituate myself to it.

It is an interesting idea that my nights with early waking might nevertheless be more restful when taking melatonin, but I haven't noticed this particularly. Presently I am hoping more exercise will get me sleeping more solidly through the night.
Another site that doesn't work with either adblock or ghostery running...
This was an entertaining read :)
Hacker at heart, starting over
Even before streaming, the media publishing industries have been into segmenting the world into different markets for the same product: For example: books separately published in the US and the UK, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks with region codes that prevent playing on the other region players (providing they're players which obey this flag.)
For even more corrupt cases of civil forfeiture, the New Yorker article "Taken" is a good read: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...

Previous HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6161465
3 Perfectly Good Reasons Not to Become a Freelance Web Designer
Journey to User Experience & Front-end Developer
Now if only xcode wasn't a steaming pile of an IDE comparing to visual studio...
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There's always AMD. The open source AMD drivers are great for the 5000 and 6000 series, and support for the 7000 (and by extension 9000) series is getting better.

If you're interested in compute just pick up a 5850 or 5770 from a friend, they're cheap (if you can find them) and they run well with the open source drivers, and have support for at least 3 monitors. My 6850 has 2 DVIs, an HDMI and 2 miniDPs, I can drive 4 monitors at once with it.
4 Things The World’s Best Web/UI Designers Do Differently Than You
This article really rings true for me. I am a software engineer at a then software startup that is now acquired by FIS. When I first started at this small startup it has the makings to be technology based. Then we hired individuals who thought of the business purely from a financial services point of view and slowly killed the culture. It muted it and dulled it's appeal. I wish everyone at standard treasury luck and disrupting this space in a big way.
You've met the "original Siri." Here are the others.
You might want to clear Drupal's cache too. I'm still seeing it, on a different computer too.

At that point, it's probably Drupal's cache. Or perhaps your theme is overriding the favico that is linked or put in your root folder.
Are they scratching the disks to cause the damage- or are they actually wearing the disks out??? (Just curious- I agree 100% that you should have the right to make a backup of a DVD in case it gets destroyed.
> That may be true

We'll never know. That's a binary blob on your machine.
$300 is a little steep for this. One can probably buy a Nexus 5 for a bit more.
Your study focused on newborns to 20 yrs. It didn't consider the 30 to 70 crowd. Children and young adults usually don't have this problem since their bodies are rapidly growing and absorb large amounts of iron/calcium/etc to grow.

Not only that, but your study observed extreme cases: "The majority of patients included in the study had a history of seizures or minor head injury."

I never heard of calcification linked with fluoridation and Alzheimer's. So I wasn't suggesting that.

Apparantly you've never given magnesium citrate to older family members and watched them get the best sleep in a long time. Moreover, an American diet filled with calcium + little magnesium + Americans taking calcium supplements for osteo-porosis + plus deficiency of various nutrients is bound to lead to various problems. Then again, I'm not a doctor. In fact, I don't even have a college degree. So feel free to ignore anything I say.

If people want to be more concerned about vitamins/supplements rather than a diet rich in iron/HFCS + deadly FDA-approved drugs, so be it. I will take my chance with the vitamin fanatics like Linus Pauling (took mega doses of Vitamin C, died of cancer... at the age of 93).

I will grant your wish. I will stop talking about vitamins and supplements on HN. However, for any crackpot vitamin fanatics out there, head over to http://knowledgeofhealth.com That's one of the best sites I know and are very good at spotting mistakes in mediocre research proving that vitamins are deadly, cancer inducing toxins.
Mind the Gap: Understanding Communication with Millenials
> That all said, I already have Solidworks available because my roomate is a professional mechanical designer. It's also readily available at the local hackerspace computer lab.

Is that...legal? I mean, sounds like you're happy to use solidworks for your commercial endeavors as long as you don't actually have to pay for it?
World’s ‘First Smart Restaurant,’ Kitchen-Free and Run by Robots
I never got why .museum was created, it's way too long and obscure to be effective for domain names. Even shortening it to .mus or something would be a big improvement, but it seems like a lot of museums are using the more commonly known .org or .edu anyways.
Could we kill the icon?
Apperantly repo means resiprosity
I think the second paragraph highlights the reason:

yes, open source companies make much less money than closed source alternatives, but in some markets closed source cannot compete with the OS equivalent -- e.g. most servers run on open source operating systems.
From a technical POV. But from a human POV, having 'smithsonian.museum' on their signage or advertising could be a win (assuming it's obvious it's a Web address).
I suspect this would work great even if you don't have direct workmates but know some people with expertise in your area anyway. I'd love to try it!
More semantic domain names.

Chicago.museum
That trick worked even during the Inquisition. The State never changes tactics.
Yep. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.
I would switch back to FireFox if I could figure out how to remove the titlebar so that my tabs properly lined up with the top of my screen. (Running under Linux Mint Cinnamon).
South Carolina House passes bill making ‘Obamacare’ implementation a crime
The proprietary nvidia drivers are actually the best drivers on linux, far better than what AMD has currently. More stable, and better gaming performance. The problem is that they are proprietary, and this causes tension in the Linux community. So, there is also open source nvidia drivers (nouveau), but they don't work very well for 3D applications in my experience. Nvidia has recently made some overtures towards the linux dev community, saying they will provide more information to the open source driver team, but time will tell. To sum up, from my experience gaming on various Linux video drivers so far:

nvidia (closed source) > AMD > nvidia (open source)
No, not really, it's more like a Tea Party Virus hit the server.
Thanks for pointing that out. It answered my question. Thanks also for the links.
Can someone provide an objective comparison?
A Stock Called 'TWTRQ' Was Up 1,500% Because People Thought It Was Twitter
Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee
The carb (depending on your model) tends to get very hot when chain-vaping, so its a slight fix on its own. People just need to be aware of what they are doing, which is on the individual. I do not forses "good" education coming from PSA's or governments on eCigs, much like hookah [1].

[1] We have lovely billboards in SLC on 1 hour of hookah == 100 cigarettes, which is based on a poorly designed study by the CDC which measured volume of vapor in hookah as a comparative to "what if it was the same volume of cigarette smoke", as a paraphrase.

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/tobac...

If I get a response, I'll have more time later to pick this apart.

Note many times the studies are based around "traditional" such as Tombak tobacco, which is placing the coals directly on the Shisha (tobacco), versus more standard practice (especially in US / hookah bars (across to Vietnam, etc.)) of tinfoil or steal as a heat diffuser.
....yet the jack produces 1/5th the amount of force.

Just to put it into explicit perspective.
You are right - I was forgetting about Office. Has this really the full functional office capabilities, especially Excel and PowerPoint?
I would be really curious to see that without search engines in it.

Let's tell the truth here. Nobody goes on google because it's "awesome and so fabulous". We simply use it because it's our homepage. Because it's our browser's default search engine. And even then, we spent only a few seconds on it.
What? No, that's completely untrue. We guarantee 4 nines on some of our services, but they're measured with 2 hours of allowed downtime early Sunday mornings (we usually don't need this, but very occasionally we do).
> Perhaps they'll do a tier system like "Steam Machine Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum"

It would have to be some sort of rolling release I think, because this year's gold hardware will be next year's silver or bronze.

> I'm pretty sure they'll build in the equivalent of the windows performance score that can be sent to Steam's servers, and they'll simply be able to show you the games that will run best on your machine and hide games that simply won't run at all.

You'd need to know before you buy the hardware, though.
What you describe isn't restricted to banking. I've never worked in the banking sector, but every software engineering position I've had at a company that wasn't a technology (and specifically a software-driven technology) company was in "the IT department." And "the IT department", even in places where IT has a huge impact on the orderly operation of the business, in my experience has been treated like a necessary evil (at best). I will never work in such a department again because of the shit-tastic experiences I've had in them.

Also your description of IT management in these places as merely spineless is far too charitable, in my opinion. Words that come to my mind are "incompetent, hypocritical, dishonest, creature of corporate politics."
Which is why we have a Federal Republic.
What did they use to cut the hole in the gas tank with? Just curious.
Simple way to detect ad blocking extensions/addons (and monetizing without ads)
Google launches a new version of their spam algorithm
"ref_send", the ability to create a deliverable value, would be my core linkage on Q and more-so promises (as not an author)
http://waterken.sourceforge.net/ .

The background is interesting, but I'm not sure what value an association with historical context brings. I've tried other promise libraries, but stub my toe on missing capabilities I'm used to, or end up distracted with mechanics. I don't think I've ever found myself saying, gee, would that this be closer to ref_send, but then again almost all implementations happen to tack close to. So, uh, Domenic does have a more useful account of Q. Mostly here to drop some ref_send. ;)
Prices are based on cost at least in part.

That's a fundamental misunderstanding of basic economics. The market always sets the price. If the price that is set by the market is lower than the cost to produce that item, then you just don't have a viable product to sell.

The basic real-world reason that renting of digital media exists is because some people are willing to pay more for the added value of being able to watch it over and over while some people aren't.
Are you proposing a common spelling of "musta" ("woulda", etc)?

I only find "must've" weird as it's not a very commonly seen contraction. Much like "mustn't". They're definitely used in speech, but people rarely type them out, which is how you end up with people using "of" when they mean "have" or "'ve".

I don't think I've come across anyone using "must" and "not" in a contractional form. I shudder to think what the "of" crowd would type for "mustn't".
To the best of my knowledge. It's not an educational version, and only one license is in use at any time. If I didn't have access to a commercially licensed version, I wouldn't use it anymore.
Ruby is not web scale. Period.
Umm, how is me not even being able to see Half-Life 3 when I visit the Steam store on my Steambox supposed to make me feel better when friends with more powerful PC's and newer Steamboxen can enjoy it just fine?

No. And none of this tier stuff either. The point of the Steamboxen is to kill the windows dependency of games, probably why they are future proofing them so much. They'll last 3-5 years in their present iteration and at that point it will be moot.
And what efficiency are they at now? Must be really terrible. University press release doesn't say, and article is paywalled (for science!). Maybe at the scale they're currently at they don't even know.

Good luck to them getting it higher; thin film silicon can get up to 20% cell efficiency, and should eventually be pretty cheap, so they'll have to get it reasonably efficient to be useful.
> As far as I know, it is written in Scala too

Nope, it's all Java. It uses the same stack as our other products.

It shares the standard Atlassian plugin framework, which allows users to write plugins in Scala, but the product itself is all Java.
What information have they not released?
Ruby is not web scale
Don't believe me? Have a look for yourselves. https://www.healthcare.gov/
At $550 out of contract, the 5c is not a serious downmarket move. It may be the illusion of one, though. I paid roughly that for my Nexus One in 2010 and paid $350 for my Nexus 4 almost a year ago.

I'm pretty diehard Android fan, but I don't believe for a second that they've sured up the market for good. I think all companies involved will have to continue competing vigorously and I like that just fine.
Well, how about not thinking of reducing your dependence on conventional energy sources to zero, but to reduce it down to 20%.

If it would cost you $1k to purchase and install, but it would save you $1k in 5 years, wouldn't it be worth it?

I thought of it more in terms of "baby steps" instead of covering my entire yard.
you forgot "disrupt"
> a small minority of republicans are subverting the budget process because they don't like a law

So, not to get into a partisan argument (because I'm not a Republican), but the Supreme Court battle for the individual mandate imposed by the ACA circumvented the House's budgetary authority here, and that's why we're log-jammed at the moment.

The Constitution prescribes that all spending bills must originate in the House. This is called the 'Origination Clause' (Article 1, §7), and states that "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills".

The ACA originally imposed fees, but as the Supreme Court challenge (NFIB v Sebelius) declared imposing fees would be unconstitutional, but that could be easily circumvented by imposing the fees as a tax, for which Congress has authority. In that process though, taxes are at the discretion of the House, and the Senate ignored that -- then neglectfully failed to pass even a single appropriations bill over the past five years that could have headed this off.

Yes, I know that blaming Republicans is cool and all, and fits the current media narrative, but in this particular case, it bluntly ignores the absenteeism of the Senate for the past five years, and both parties, and indeed both wings of Congress are at fault.
Eject, eject
No, it requires the United States' own definition of terrorism to be applied to the US.

Drone strikes in Pakistan alone have killed thousands of civilians.

Many of the opposition groups you mentioned were backed by the US knowing that they committed and intended to commit terrorism and other war crimes.
What fragmentation problem? PC games have graphics that scale. Problem solved.
Presumably it will go up to some degree over time as the average age of tesla's fleet converges with the industry average, as older cars are more likely to experience malfunctions/breakdowns for obvious reasons.

The median car in the US is ~11.6 years old[1], while Tesla's oldest vehicles were released in 2008, and the vast majority of their fleet was sold in the last couple years.

Obviously, the massive differences between electric powered cars and internal combustions engines means that they may never reach parity, but unless Musk has figured out a way to beat entropy, its pretty safe to assume that older cars will break down/suffer leaks/explode more than newer ones.

[1]https://www.polk.com/company/news/polk_finds_average_age_of_...
>I can only assume the rest of the RNC is going along with it because they are stupid or cowards

They are not stupid; they are self-interested.

With gerrymandering making many seats stable in terms of which party will win, the competition then comes from within the party; moderate GOPs face competition from the far right. If they don't tow the line, they risk losing their power. This is the end-game of gerrymandering playing out.

Rubio is the coward of the hour: http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/what-happened-to-marco-...
FYI, I was getting the exact same thing, and called the 800 number, and was told that there were specific issues related to my (ID) exchange and that they had techs working on it.

Sure enough last night I was able to get in with the credentials I signed up with.

I won't be signing up for any plans through it though, similar coverage would cost me about the same as what I pay now. Then again, my employer picks up 50% of my premium, so for some people it may represent a huge savings.
The best way to visualize this I think is with pie chart. I made one here:

http://vida.io/discussion/WgBMc4zDWF7YpqXGR
The conjecture that any developments that are much later discarded for a better approach are a waste of time doesn't really address how one can never know what ultimately will prove most useful for future innovations in the first place. Or that, you know, some people like building stuff just for the pure enjoyment of building. Which IMO is just as important.
Once a symbol has a meaning, it works, and continues to work as long as people know its meaning. This article is akin to complaining that the letters of the alphabet or the spelling of words don't represent their sound or meaning well. True, but what is there to do about it?

There is no need to cleanse the world of symbols away because the metaphor no longer holds.

And no, young people have absolutely no problem figuring out what the symbols are for - they just don't know why. Oh well.
Thanks for the data. Any idea where to get $ of salary not being paid to each department.
> But why would they want to live there?

Because they value different things than you do; whether that's the food, the theaters, the museums, the climate, or the social culture, or something else. Different ones of those for different people.

> It's one of the most depressing place I've been to, it's like those dystopian movies...

Other than in the generic ways that most urban environments are "like those dystopian movies" to someone whose lived most of their life in a suburban environment, I don't really see it.
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What did the government use to buy back treasuries and where did it come from?
I used to do reputation management. I used to to "Press Shaping".

I used to be a cause of fake science. Not quite this same way, but in a lot of ways worse. My fake numbers would end up in WSJ, NYT, Wired, and other places reported as fact.

Say a politician, or a company needs people to believe something is awesome or going to be, they need stats that people believe so I would insert them in to the world.

You make Soy Ice Cream. I would take a study from someone real, and add some non-real stuff too it. The real study on dairy production says dairy production will be down 5% next year. That part is true, but it says the change is because of a reduction in government subsidies . I do a press release for an imaginary company that cites the study but changes the reason to an increased demand for Soy based alternatives to dairy.

Suddenly that is out in the world. The company waits for another story to come out on the topic and the author cites the cause and says it was part of that study they never read because they didn't need to it was cited right?

Now the company cites that high profile author as the source of the data. Their citation is valid even though it is based on incorrect data.

Yes, I was a cold bastard who made people's lives awful.

I reformed. Now I'm a cold bastard who has realized there is more money in exposing the lies of others than there is in helping shape lies to spread.
I've tried various angles, some more successful than others. The 'increased productivity' pitch fails universally. I never even mention that anymore. On average it has a negative impact. Managers are too jaded to that pitch. Their 'I'm being sold something' antenna goes up. It's not that they have some cogent counter argument, it's just that the discussion stops.

If you want to make the hardware situation better. I recommend these two approaches.

1. Loss aversion. Detail what an unplanned outage costs. Lost work, man hours, even lost business if it's bad enough timing. Business guys have a respect for the missing nail that lost the war.

2. Cheapness. Buying a $1000 laptop every two years is better than a $2000 laptop every four. Better average hardware and less paying guys like me to fix broken machines. Business guys are more likely to write small checks. Paradoxically you are spending the same amount of money, but you can sell it to them like you are spending less.

Above all be respectful. They aren't idiots, they may have issues to worry about that you aren't aware of.
I agree the price is a bit steep, but it's not (directly) something you can trade out like that. If you have a smartphone, you can't spend $300 on a nexus 5 and get a wearable device :)
So perhaps someone should enable a layer of plausible deniability in the form of a program which makes it look like your machine(s) has been compromised and controlled for a long time now.
They still HAVE to be replace whereas a 30 year old car can continue to run a Teenagers budget
Yeah, sounds like this is a good time to do that.
...if you're in software you're going to create on your little sister's beater of a laptop with the My Little Pony stickers on it.

One of the truly awe-inspiring things about the early hackers is that many of them worked without benefit of a real humming computer in front of them; they programmed with pencil and paper until the opportunity to buy or bargain for a bit of time on The Computer with which to test what they've written came along. It didn't matter, and nothing could stop them. Hackers gonna hack.
Valve have specs - and perhaps performance - data for their PC users already: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey.

They can do just the same for the Steambox and use it to display the performance for games on similar systems - if they want to.
Looks uncomfortable. A smartring may be better suited for usability down the line.