skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a very affluent school district in Texas, and I still had to deal with being harassed for being an atheist and having my biology teacher preface her lessons on evolution with "Now, this is not what I personally believe, but...".

That said, even with those little unpleasantnesses, I did get an excellent education.
Why not have a submission look like this:

[Submitters reader-enticing paraphrase title]

{Original title, in smaller text/diff font}
Was /is an engineer that tries to fool people into clicking ads is irrelevant. Apparently Alan Eustace and Amit Singhal are engineers that engineered this marvelous piece of scam http://i.imgur.com/KAZ6zuq.jpg

Larry the engineer also had to be saved by a $500 million payment from jail for illegal drug ads http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Googles-Page-Knew-of...
Google: World domination starts today
Guess it's time for me to redo mine: http://me.morgante.net/about
That is very cool. I've never solved a Rubik's Cube (though I've never tried particularly hard) and this is making me feel stupid.
Even if all some AI system did was take a list of symptoms, anonymize them, suggest a diagnosis, and then take the MD's actual diagnosis, track outcomes, and compare results over time, it would be a huge advancement.

Right now, unless I misunderstand something structural about our medical system, most of the data gathered by MDs are wasted, because there is no digital record of much of it and patient privacy legalities prevent wholesale entering of symptoms and case outcomes in to any sort of freely available (inter)national database.
As someone who escaped a tech job in Winston-Salem in the 90's, and now lives in Marin county, I'm curious about how things have improved. What VCs are making life better for startups? Or is it just a cheaper spot with decent internet?
Yes, the caption is "Miami after Hurricane Wilma in 2005".
Pretty much the same here. I purchased Borland TP5 in high school which was the first version with "OOP" but I think we were using versions 3 & 4 at school which were also nice.

The equivalent of WordPress back then was Telegard which was written in Pascal. The sourcecode got loose which resulted in several spin-off "Telegard hacks" and many of the "elite" BBS where essentially themed versions of that original Telegard.

Then I heard Pascal morphed into Delphi? I never made it to Delphi. By 1994 I was into Javascript, Java, Rexx and best of all the opposite sex ;-)
is it functionally different from the Google prediction APIs?
I didn't take biology in Texas, I took it in California before I moved and my bio teacher in CA espoused a similar attitude.
That double meaning has been milked to no end by politicians and PR companies. They're parenthetically saying, "I feel sooo bad for you that you are feeling inappropriately wronged by my proper actions."
10 people for a year is $1m.

And they used digital Assets from Valve, and a lot of voice work and music work that they had to buy.
in my experience, you need to set flush to SYNC for it to work on chrome without manually flushing
Don't let it make you feel stupid -- once you get the hang of an "algo" it's actually quite easy.

Approach it very methodically. Learn the algos. Practise. And that's really all. Here're two videos to get started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvhKNXHQqyM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaltgJGz-dU

Give yourself about 20 hours to learn and play around, by then you'll have gotten the hang of it and will probably be able to solve most arrangements with ease.
All the time. Not because there aren't people around, but because few people I meet in RL really get what it means to be an entrepreneur and what drives one. I just don't relate to most people's motivations and most people don't relate to mine.

Fake account because here's my secret to curing any and all loneliness: LSD. Not at all joking.
It's pretty common to use the main airport name as a synecdoche referring to the city. I regularly see CPH used instead of Copenhagen, OSL instead of Oslo, BCN for Barcelona, etc. Doesn't work for all cities, of course.
If you're interested in the subject, see Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Hurley, Dennett, and someone else. They critique Bergson (and many others) and conclude something interesting but which I can't remember because I'm traveling and don't have the book handy.
here's a streams2 library for streaming to the client as an array: https://github.com/stream-utils/streaming-json-stringify
Quitting the military to make significantly less money doing something I loved.
carmack sells middleware to other studios. id hasn't had a good game since quake 3 which is largely just a technology update of quake -- a game romero was integral to. he's a gifted programmer and i admire his work with armadillo aerospace but his post-quake accomplishments aren't much better than romero's. his biggest edge over romero is his humility. if romero had quietly released daiktana instead of endlessly promising how great it would be his reputation would be much the same as carmack's
I definitely sympathize with the tax burden component. Here in New York, I only end up taking home half what I'm paid which is especially frustrating for a contractor who could theoretically be working remotely.
I got a similar message because I had a commit against the scala project :(
He said November to March. Fall to Spring. Not Spring to Fall. Huge difference.
On the other hand, we have twitter, and youtube, and stories do tend to get around the media more often than, perhaps, they would have in Vietnam or even the first Iraq war.
There are plenty of great places to build your startup. I don't think SF is one of them, but I'd live on the street in SF before living in Miami (again).
Probably not illegal, but whoever does it would be muddying up a term with a clear, established definition.
There is no single point of ownership behind the Postgres project, no profit margins or sales goals. Thus there is no need to eliminate other platforms, but simply to be the best project the contributors can create.
Here is Miami in April: http://instagram.com/p/X7ufLBQWkI/

Miami in May: http://instagram.com/p/ZFur0VQWkM/

June: http://instagram.com/p/aBqCq_QWhp/

Yes it's hot (& most definitely humid) but bad weather is not really that common (at least for me in the last 2 years) & I think the sky & sunsets are flippin' beautiful!
supposedly - "HiAlgoBoost changes the resolution on the fly in order to increase frame rate (FPS). "
Could you elaborate a bit more on this? Genuinely interested.
always can do:
google.com/search?q=cache:<url here>
so in this case:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.rleonardi.com/in...
We miss you Ry <3
Tech Is Crushing Finance
All they have done is raise the standards

Disagree. What they have done is reduced the amount of effort that needs to be invested in the technical aspect, thus increasing the amount of time that can be invested in the creative aspect. In other words, they have changed the field on which contenders compete.
The problem is that if the low quality render differs in any appreciable way from the high quality one, there will be flickering. So the low quality renders have to be extremely similar to the high quality ones, in which case why not just use the low-quality ones all the time?

Though come to think of it, there is one example that almost does what you describe. Dynamic resolution scaling has some artifacts, but is being used in some games (and is notably used in Dead Rising 3). Though one has to decide before the frame is rendered what resolution to use, so you still get frames that take longer than 16.7ms or whatever your target is.

One could do something similar with render quality, but it has the same drawback that you have to decide beforehand what quality you want to use. One would also have to ramp up and down the quality slowly, which is difficult as the complexity of a given scene can vary wildly over the space of a single second. It also wouldn't help with spikes in rendering time.
I believe it will be important in the architectural and 3D design fields, particularly when interacting with lay people. In the architecture industry, for example, the most common refrain I hear is that clients, who might be spending hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of dollars on a building, can't understand the plans they're looking at; can't visualize their unbuilt structures. This technology changes that; enables them to walk through and fully immerse themselves in their building before it's ever built. It's a visualization game changer.

One might further theorize that the design profession itself might be fundamentally changed by it. When you think about it, the mouse and keyboard isn't an ideal medium for this type of design; it's a crude interaction. Why look at a scaled wireframe of a structure when you might be able to virtually build a structure while being inside it - using your hands and eyes, like clay. You could use your arms to gesture, saying "I want this wall here, and to be this high"; "I want a 3'x5' window on this wall, here", etc. You could mold structures with your hands with this type of virtual reality and some type of motion tracking. It would be ground-breaking.
When you head to Raleigh, be sure to stop by Royal India on Capital Blvd. It's Indian, not Pakistani, but they excellent dishes including a saag gosht.
The History of Apple Mice in Pure CSS
Agreed, however it would be nice to test and reinforce those steps at a time like this when they're not as crucially important.
"loneliness is not a function of solitude" — David Foster Wallace
It is much easier than you might imagine but it's not very "fun". To be able to dependably solve a cube you'll need to know a few algorithms for swapping key pieces around without effecting the rest of the cube. If you can remember those algorithms then you can solve any cube.

http://www.wikihow.com/Solve-a-Rubik%27s-Cube-%28Easy-Move-N...
Yeah, but how many people know where ORD is without having to think about it for a minute.
Other thoughts: A good example of the sort an ideal end-result would be how something like the Humble Bundle handles payments.
Why is the count of solutions for distance 19 and 20 lower than for 17 and 18?
I missed the fact that you were referring to "GCU". That was a little too subtle for my simple mind. :)
Ryan you never technically lived in Miami...
People who might want to understand the code and make changes in order to take advantage of it will care about form. It matters. I often pick tools based not only on function, but on how easy it will be for me to make changes or maintain the code base if necessary, and I doubt I'm the only one.
Vacation pics mined for vital data
The render pipeline is more or less, compute a bunch of geometry on the cpu, send it to the gpu with some textures and other things, tell it to render, and once the gpu has rendered the frame, you can tell it when to switch.

There's no point at which you have a usable partial frame to display, and it doesn't make sense to compute every other pixel, and if there's time come back and get the rest, because computing a pixel's neighbor will need a lot of the same intermediate work, and you probably don't have the resources to keep that. Parallel rendering generally divides the rendering tasks into different regions of the screen for each unit, not interleaved pixels.

To answer your question regarding why not just use 40fps, instead of going up and down; If you cap framerate at 40fps and your monitor doesn't refresh at an even multiple of 40, you're going to end up with consistent judder which is probably worse than occasional framerate dropping.

If you look at it from the other side, look at all the extra buffers that are needed to support fixed framerate monitors when frame generation really doesn't need to be fixed. At the desktop, if nothing on the screen moves, there's no need to transmit the buffer 60x per second, except for legacy reasons, in a graphics intensive application, the time to generate a buffer may vary. Video usually was recorded at fixed frequency, but it often doesn't match the frequency of the monitor. CRTs absolutely required that the electron beam trace every pixel several times a second, but LCDs don't.
It's not just v0.10.21. There's also an update for v0.8.x too (0.8.26): http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/
I live in the Midwest, and one of the regional hacker conventions in the area is called Grrcon, after the airport code GRR for Grand Rapids, MI.
All restaurants should copy the Goldman Sachs cafeteria’s genius pricing plan
The “shocking” secret behind why you don’t feel like working
Happy? ;-)
im new to emacs. can someone pls tell me, how will i update as and when new features have been made available to this package?
there are so many variables in that anecdote that there is nothing that can be gleaned from it.
Super fun and looks amazing!
Likewise, how does the voting structure and people's votes differ from their norm when voting result is near break-even. E.g. 7/6 split. I feel there's a lot of media and public perception management going on, agreed upon by parties or those in who have majority playing games OR worse those who are playing double-agent, mostly voting for "their" side, but when it matters, switching over to their real team / beliefs / friends / money-buddies (lobbyists wants). Would too be interesting to match up the data with who all received money, and how votes look based on industry, and specific companies, etc..
The last sentence of the quote is what he was referencing.
How low is the latency on measuring muscle movements like the Myo does? Is it competitive with the 250 Hz position sensors?
This is old news, I have the app on iOS since quite some time now. The article also is dated Aug 27.

The app itself is not bad, very simple, just pay attention to your Cellular Data settings, much like any other sync apps out there.
Do you find the opposite happens? Are you more calculated in snowy environs?
Where does most of the delay come from? Is there a way to take a "cockroach" nervous system approach where certain sensors have as direct a connection as possible to the code that updates the view of the user?
You'll need to make sure you set boundaries for your full time job otherwise they tend to claim all of your personal time, which is no easy task.

If you area really lucky and if your side project/startup involves open source code you might be able to work on the code (at least, part time) at your full time job. It's not always possible though because some companies might not even let you open source your code.
Implementing what I wrote in comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6575348 would give great insight too. I'm sure a lot is blatantly obvious, but visualizing data is always helpful to reenforce it in someone's mind.
It's not at all an issue of agency. It's an issue of responsibility: just because there's someone else with the agency to solve the problem, and even someone whose job it is to solve the problem, doesn't mean you're absolved of responsibility if you could have solved the problem and failed to do so.

Obviously that can quickly lead to insanity if you're not also willing to prioritize problems: "there was something more important" is a completely valid excuse for not solving a problem, but "that's someone else's job and it's not my fault if they didn't do it" isn't.
That other comment was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek :)

I wrote the "fractal of bad design" article, though, so your biting commentary isn't misdirected. But I stress that I rag on PHP in particular because I feel it does a unique disservice to my field. There are plenty of languages I don't like or otherwise wish to avoid that I haven't felt the need to write a scathing deconstruction of.

Deployment is hard. I deliberately said mod_php seems easy because it still has caveats, and most of the reasons it works have significant downsides in the language. But this is something I think about regularly and am trying to find a solution to.

I mention photography exactly because that snootiness is a double-edged sword: perhaps there are now many more bad photos, but there are also many more photographers, and with that ultimately comes more good photos as well. The road to improvement across the board is always more accessible education + finding a way to marry the convenience of the new easy tools with the power and finesse of the old ones.

In that vein, you may notice that phone camera hardware has been getting increasingly respectable lately, and that people tend to (rightly) gripe when a new phone comes out with a really crappy camera. That's how I feel about PHP: I don't begrudge anyone for using it, but the rest of the field has improved considerably and it's a shame that cruftier equipment is still popular.

I don't know how you can be a good craftsperson without being able to judge the tools at your disposal, for good or for bad. I know why I like Python, and I know what Python lacks that I keep an eye out for in other languages. If you don't like Python, that's fascinating and I would love to know what about your perspective is so radically different, how it could be fixed, how it could be addressed in a similar language, or even what language does it better entirely. The intricate personal attachment to our tools is ridiculous, and discouraging criticism of them will only make us all worse at avoiding the bad ones and designing better ones.
Could this be a bits versus bytes issue? a 256MB ram chip typically is 256 megabits (and a typical memory module would have some multiple of 8 of them). 3x256Megabits is 96 Megabytes, which still seems like a lot, but might (1920 x 1080 x 32-bit = a little less than 8 megabytes, unless my math is way wrong)
Can I completely opt out of (LinkedIn) endorsements?
I was asking myself the same thing.. intuitively I feel like it's right but I'm no expert.
How about this one from the typescript blog? The domain is not enough to provide the context here.

*Announcing 0.9.1* (blogs.msdn.com)
Show HN: AudioBox for iOS7 - Stream from any Cloud service
A lot of people understand money today.
The Chinese certainly do.

Unfortunately, most of HN doesn't seem to.
Moldbuggery is a good introduction.
I want to bring health and wellness to the world. I'm working my way towards that. It's pretty ambitious. Learning how to not always feel the weight on my shoulders and chest though.
Thanks for clarification. I am a little slow sometimes :)
The answer is: "Currently, there is no way to completely opt out of endorsements."

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I made the decision a long time ago that people come first. Comparing the people of San Francisco to those of Miami, well, in this case you get what you pay for. I feel like a rock star wild man anywhere else. In San Francisco I feel like I'm surrounded by people smarter, more creative, and better at life than me. That's worth every penny.

I'll take a hovel in SF over a mansion in Miami any day.

Besides, the defense of Miami in this article stinks of all that is wrong with America - that it's filled with great places to consume. Don't get me wrong, I love my fancy hipster bars, restaurants, and shops - but those aren't what makes SF the best city for me.
Hmm, bad news. I'll work on polishing the new proxy support that is almost done in another branch, so we'll be able to use more reliable services for now.

And then, when I have some time, I'll write the full thing on lisp! Thanks for the heads up!
see the Florida tag on Fark

http://www.fark.com/topic/florida

"Have you ever been to Florida? It's basically a criminal population. It's America's Australia." - Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
Wake Forest class of 2005 here, now working in the Valley. I can't help but be jealous of my college friends when I go back home and see their humane cost of living. Everybody I know in NC owns a home that would cost seven figures in Mountain View, CA. Everybody I know in California rents and lives dorm-style with roommates.

Making a Silicon Valley salary remotely in Winston-Salem would let you live like a king.

Besides, the Carolina skies are just breathtaking, and not available at any price. I recently visited Winston with my California native girlfriend, and we were both charmed by the beauty and open space of Carolina.
We ( http://samuru.com ) limit our crawling, and we honor robots.txt We also use Google Infrastructure, so we come from the same IP's as Google Bot.

We probably crawl 50 pages for every visitor we deliver. There are a lot more pages on the web than people on the planet. So the ratios will always favor the bots.
Gravitational Waves Reveal How Supermassive Black Holes Gain Weight
yeah, that religious part was a bit far-fetched. (As a hindu/brahmin I LOL'd).

I've read several different theories of money and I don't find the debt vs coincidence-of-wants bifurcation that Graeber alludes to such a big difference in practice.

He pretty much hangs his whole approach off of that, but the two can be reconciled quite easily in my mind.

I wish everyone would read David Graeber (first) and then Detlev Schlichter.
Taxes here in the states are overall disgusting, though you don't realize it until your salary inches upwards. When your making 40K to 55K here in the states the amount of taxes taken seems like a fair share. Though when you almost double that you wonder what's the point of making more money on paper as in your pocket you only make 60 to 65 percent of of your earnings - WTH?
OkTrends (the awesome blog from OkCupid) showed data that suggests that using the word "sorry" in your initial message dramatically increases your odds of getting a response.

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/online-dating-advice-exact...
At no point in this thread - or anywhere else for that matter - have I advocated anarchy, feudalism, feudal anarchism, or anything of the sort. Centralisation is inevitable to an extent. However to say that our options are binary - the status quo vs feudalism - is absurd. There exists a whole set of improvements and new solutions. Parliamentary democracy is intrinsically flawed for many reasons, and I have given some, but fundamentally it's a machine whose original raison d'etre was to be a solution to an information problem. The views, concerns, and opinions of the uneducated, illiterate population were to be distilled into a smaller, more manageable, representative subset who held the power to affect change as per popular will.

One thing we - especially us on HN - have excelled at these past decades is the manipulation of information. This system was designed when paper was a luxury and literacy a specialist skill; we solved democratic decision-making the day we cracked UIDs and radio buttons.

Governance is like software: it takes information (capital, data, views, problem definitions, etc) in, transforms it, and spits information out (capital allocations, laws, etc) out. Tasked with rewriting the current, proprietary, overly ceremonious, deeply coupled, trillion line leviathan that only runs on a single ancient hardware architecture and has a man page that is not only out of date but is purposely deceptive...would we declare it perfect and go home? Would we dare be so arrogant as to keep it closed source and prescribe our opinions on the world?

Or would we open source it, and see what amazing shit starts to happen?
Can someone explain to my why its an advantage to live in a state with zero income tax? Does it really matter how the state makes its money. If it does not come from your paycheck directly they get it other ways.

For instance in Florida you pay ~2% property tax on your assessed value and in california you pay ~1% on your purchased value. If you bought property at 500k and its appreciated to 1 million in CA you pay 5k in FL you pay 20k.
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. " -- Nathaniel Borenstein