skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly not. I'd rather see taxes lowered, so people can make their own decisions about how they want to spend their own money.

I'm perfectly happy to live my life on Earth. If they suddenly colonise Mars, and it's fantastic, and it makes you live twice as long and have superpowers, I would still rather stay here. I'm simply not interested in it.

People often cite the technological advances - "velcro" etc but I don't think you're getting value for money if that's your aim, and again, I think it should be done in the private sector rather than forcing people who have absolutely no interest in space, to pay for it.
about encrypting the card data, can't you encrypt with an RSA public key and store the private key off-site? I thought it also worked backwards like that.
This is how your likes on Facebook Help fight hunger and disease
Show HN: AMail – Email that doesn't read your email
Our goal is to mirror as much as possible the collaboration process that open source uses to build better libraries then proprietary ones. Each product has a core team that will help lead the direction. You can read more about it on the FAQ:

https://assemblymade.com/help/general#general-6
Exchange rates are important because they indicate a bigger design flaw than the fixed supply: there's no entity with the ability to prop up demand. By contrast, responsible governments with effective tax collecting powers can generally exert a large degree of control over the purchasing power of their currency. The dollar is backed by all taxable economic activity in the United States. Stocks, which often end up worthless after promising starts, are at least backed by assets that can generate future cashflows. Bitcoin is backed by faith.

Even if BTC is better to transact with in every conceivable way, businesses will still need hard currency to pay their taxes, which makes exchange rate and liquidity risk a very real concern if you're trading real assets for BTC.
CentOS is just a rebranding of RHEL, which uses Fedora as upstream source. Basically when they start a new version of RHEL, they pick some Fedora version as a starting point, freeze things and make everything enterprise ready.

So, yes, this likely means some future version of RHEL (and thus derivatives like CentOS and Scientific Linux) will also make the "switch" over to python3. Considering the turnaround time for RHEL versions (and how Fedora is still slow on the uptake of python3), I wouldn't expect this to happen anytime soon though.
The TLA+ spec is now in the git repository. Thanks for the suggestion!
Metro UI would have been brilliant had it been the replacement for wallpaper on your Windows desktop. I still can't believe that there isn't a single modern operating system that I can natively add HTML5 components to my bottom-most layer.
YouTube to launch 'Spotify-like subscription music service'
Doing an entrepreneur boot camp style event for younger people over 4 weeks with a number of awesome entrepreneurs. When I originally put it out I got a lot of applications and most were older and "traditional business" owners so we decided to restructure the event and I'm going to limit it to younger entrepreneurs which is what I was hoping for initially and who the content was most geared towards.
The Consistency Alphabet Soup: How the C in CAP, ACID, & App Consistency Differ
With all the guide from tonymac, I enjoy building my own hackintosh with cheaper and better hardwares :P
I can not believe no one has posted this yet, so here it goes

“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – Family, Health, Friends and Spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.

Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends and have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued.”

- Bryan Dyson – Former CEO of Coca Cola
Multi-column (SQL-like) sorting in Redis
> 4GB is plenty of RAM for a web browser with many tabs,

I always up-to-date Firefox, so hopefully the memory leaks are minimal. I reboot my Linux machine every month-ish and don't exit Firefox unless necessary. I always keep a few "app" tabs pinned, only a couple of them are heavy. I have 4GB of RAM and turned swap off for an experiment. Sure enough, after a couple weeks of browsing and keeping about 25 tabs open, Firefox's memory consumption would creep up and up and eventually it would crash.

I can only guess/hope that there are memory leaks involved.
I think you're a little too taken with fads and don't pay enough attention to trends. Your list of "next big things" reads like the pop science articles on Wired and doesn't have any data from the real world to support it.
It becomes problematic when these companies get control over the content of a brand search. There are ramifications for consumer advocacy. What happens when I start searching for "apple sec ruling" and I am given a full page sponsored ad courtesy of apple? I see that as giving companies a chance to bury insightful or informative content that may not be positive.
It's basically a video of people looking busy in front of CADs and a woman coming straight from a catwalk trying to use the machine without breaking her nails.
This proposal more or less codifies the status quo. It's not at all a "patent troll-killing bill".
So make the icons bigger and call it a day. In fact Gnome (at least used to) allow you to make icons as big or as small as you want. Want that project you are working on to remind you to click it and not something else? Make it take up half the screen!
If only Paul let me vote twice.
Exactly my thoughts. As long as these don't start showing up on a more general search and only for what's obviously a search for only that specific company, I'd consider it an enhancement.
What a Rube-Goldberg contraption! Here's what: make it simple, put a one-can version in the arm of my La-Z-Boy recliner and I'm in!
Hippos are possibly the most secretly dangerous animal on the planet. They look harmless because most representations of them focus on making them look fat and jolly, but their hide is as tough as a rhino, they have alligator-level power in their jaws, and they are mean. It's one of my favorite bar trivia bits to throw out: asking people what the most dangerous African animal is.
“Solipsistic Startups” and the Downside of User-Centric Innovation
http://zenimot.nl/
What?
The person who posted that comment is behind the times re audio on Android.

Android can deliver very low audio latency and do it consistently, but the OEM has to test that their CPU power management and other kernel configurations have not screwed it up, and those tests are not baked into ACS.

The OEM should, at least, correctly use the feature flag for low-latency audio, leaving is off if they don't actually know. But specifying that flag in your manifest means your app loses access to devices where good enough is good enough.

Here is a low-latency polyphonic synth: https://code.google.com/p/music-synthesizer-for-android/

This synth was the test case for development of low-latency audio.
Am I missing something or is this begging the question?

For any function that is not a combination of polynomials, you need to have its Taylor expansion up to the desired order of derivatives, so you can't just take an "arbitrary" function and use this method to compute its derivative in exact arithmetic.

So for anything other than polynomials, you just reword the problem of finding exact derivatives to finding exact Taylor series, and in order to find Taylor series in most cases, you have to differentiate or express your function in terms of the Taylor series of known functions.

Edit: Indeed, take the only non-polynomial example here, a rational function (division by a polynomial). In order to make this work, you have to know the geometric series expansion of 1/(1-x). For each function that you want to differentiate this way, you have to keep adding more such pre-computed Taylor expansions.
I added the references later so that's the cause for down voting.

I didn't really dismiss the book: I read it attentively in it's entirety and, as anyone who has read it knows, that is a big book. But in the end I found nothing new or thought-provoking. Entertaining, yes; enlightening, no. "Where's the beef?" came to mind over and over as I moved through the text.

Hofstadter is certainly bright, has a voluminous memory and can be an entertaining writer but GEB is not IMO a contribution to AI. My expectations were undoubtedly too high.
Yes, it does. Newer CPUs have cheaper thermal paste.
I have the same laptop running debian. Even runs small VMs ok and has survived multiple liquid accidents and dropping
There are a number of alarming studies (as some other poster said, take a look at N. Carr's book) that show that screen time, especially in our formative years can have dramatically negative effects on brain development. So it's possible that some people who ended up zombified by the internet could actually have had significant lives. There are plenty of people whose otherwise adjusted lives have spiralled into failure due to drugs, so why couldn't the same thing happen with other dopamine releasing activities? I think the fact that people have literally died from screen overuse lends credence to the idea that there is some danger to integrating computers in every part of our lives and it's not necessarily our fault if we fall into the depths of online time-wasting.

In any case, I don't really like the idea that those people would been useless anyway as if it were in their nature to be unmotivated. Maybe I'm a bit naive but I believe good nurture can offset much of the problems of nature.
The part that's wrong is the part I quoted.
Ask HN: Would these laptops sell?
I've owned a laptop repair shop for 6 years now and my customers always keep asking me the same two questions:

1) What kind of laptop do you recommend? I only need it for reading my e-mails, browsing some websites and saving my photos.

2) Can you make my laptop faster?

I am wondering if I could sell laptops that come with a clean copy of Windows? This way they don't contain any bloatware, which makes them faster. To avoid confusing when choosing a laptop (hence the recommendation part), I would offer my customers 3 versions of them.

Basic version (cheap):
- E-mail
- Browsing
- Photos and videos
- Word processing

Advanced version (expensive):
- All the above
- Discrete graphics (Gaming, video editing, image editing, ...)
- Bigger screen
- Faster processor
- ...

Traveler version:
- Light-weight
- Long-lasting battery
- ...

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
Silent PC Review ( http://www.silentpcreview.com ) occasionally reviews complete systems. Last year they measured an i7 machine from Puget Systems at 11dB in their anechoic room ( http://www.silentpcreview.com/Puget_Serenity_Pro ) which is the best I've seen for an off-the-shelf PC.

I haven't used a Puget machine myself, but I've relied on Silent PC Review's component recommendations for nearly a decade, and never been disappointed.
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Wouldn't it be simpler to just have beer that doesn't taste so bad you need to chill it to make it drinkable? :)
I have one, from http://www.quietpc.com/

It's completely silent, you can only tell that it's on by looking at LEDs.
> they are almost never used in any real automatic differentiation system

They're efficient enough for first-order derivatives. For example they are used in Ceres, Google's library for non-linear least-squares optimization

https://ceres-solver.googlesource.com/ceres-solver/+/master/...
CocoaPods 0.27 and improved installation UX
As for me, I'd much rather have my personal chauffeur carry around my full kitchen and always fresh ingredients so I can eat in luxury any time I wish.

Thank goodness for tablets with full XWindows support to my desktop and the university supercomputer. I like broken metaphors.
Tesla Motors hires Apple VP Doug Field to lead vehicle programs
>I hope DuckDuckGo does really well.

I hope they change their name to something that people can take seriously.
Very interesting, it had never occurred to me that there were probably python libraries for mapping. My ArcMap license expires in less than two weeks, perhaps I will give this a shot before I re-up.
9 things you never knew about Uruguay
>Dual numbers cannot, because they use plain old floating point math in the derivative equations.

There's nothing stopping you from switching out the floating point for rationals or something like that.

For example, the Haskell `ad` package has its functions parameterized over all instances of Num: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ad-3.4/docs/Numeric-AD.ht...
I think most people on HN are familiar with both microwaves and microwave ovens. It's not really hard to see which one the author was going for.
25 Options for A/B Testing Email Campaigns
To be clear, I don't think bitcoin that good a currency either. I wanted to point out that the deflationary aspect is an arbitrary (and I think stupid) restriction.

You are right, modern fiat currencies can adapt and that is the main thing bitcoin lacks. My understanding was that happened mainly as a result of central banks who can adjust all kinds of parameters. This is antithetical to Bitcoin's entire design principles, let alone the underlying technology (which could me modified to accept some parameters modifications from a board of governors).

Normal banks can't do that. To the extent that they do cause things to happen, can't they do that with Bitcoins. I.e. issue loans and collect payments with them.
I also had the distinct feeling that the advertisement director gave the order to make as unnecessarily large gestures as possible. "OK honey, now show an unprecedented amount of enthusiasm while you open this machines beer can hatch."
>AMD E1-1500
>Bought a computer _and monitor_

Did he buy a notebook? I've never even heard of the AMD E1-1500 before today. Everything I see says that its a notebook processor, and a pretty terrible one at that. (2cores/2threads, and only 512kb of L2 cache!?)

What's worse is that it's a BGA package, meaning it can never be upgraded. If that's really a desktop machine (and not some form of "all in one") that's vendor lock-in at its absolute worst. They've ensured that instead of buying a $99 processor he has to go out and buy a brand new machine.

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That's just awful. In 2013 you shouldn't be able to buy a computer that can't stream 1080p movies with ease.
Neat idea, elegantly executed. Exceeds the design standards typical of Android apps.

I've never liked Android's implementation of home/app screens (widgets + some apps, tap to reveal all your apps).

I guess if you want a lot of clocks, Android is great.

This adds another app/button layer...
The Amazon Mystery: What America's Strangest Tech Company Is Really Up To
I voted you up for truth.

But... don't discount the profound disappointment that a headline like that generates in those of us who do know how a microwave works. We were teased with the idea of learning something we thought would alter our understanding of the universe -- some sort of microwave version of the peltier effect[1] -- only to find out it was something as pedestrian as poetic license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
I fear the ergonomics of mobile computers do more damage than desktops. Source: own experience
Student trip in the valley
Hi,

I'm a teaching assistant in an innovation/design course of a French university in partnership with Stanford. We are currently visiting Stanford for the official kickoff of the course and I really would like to find amazing startups that we could visit (We are a group of 15 people) in order to immerse our students in your amazing atmosphere.

We already have some visits scheduled but we are still looking for people who could invite us in Google/Facebook/Twitter/... (I'm not going to list all the amazing startups around :) )

So if anyone can help it will be very nice.

Thanks in advance.
Sorry about the delay, I didn't see your reply until now. I assume you went see mine.

If you do a search for "websockets cross origin" every result says they are allowed. I currently have something running that is doing cross domain websockets and it works perfectly fine on FF and Chrome without any special effort.
That's not interesting idea, but I'm not sure any browser is designed to be able to fully restore the state of a tab that it's swapped out.
Resolution dropped

High-end for 4:3 was 2048x1536 (3 megapixels)

High-end for 16:10 was 1920x1200 (2.2 megapixels)

High-end for 16:9 was until very recently 1920x1080 (2 megapixels)
If I remember correctly, the most efficient algorithms have a ridiculously large constant factor, to the point where you don't have enough RAM to even store the matrix, let alone do anything with it.
But if you're searching for Southwest Airlines then why do you want to get an ad for Southwest Airlines instead of just a neutral link to their homepage?

I understand ads for terms like "cheap tickets", but why would I want an ad for the term "Southwest Airlines"?
I'm impressed that the quota was lifted so readily. I've hit quota limit issues with other Google API services and hit brick walls regarding raising them.
That's amazing work. Well done to the author.
At least Microsoft is helping the PC industry.

Microsoft and its SharePoint platform will keep SharePoint developers upgrading their desktops upon every release.
I like the image of results from 2005. I had totally forgotten about "Froogle".
php.net allows users to post answers and examples of code throughout the website. Likely, one of the submission forms has/had a hole that allowed someone to submit or alter actual JS code.
Yes the reason the Internet is different is this: back in the day, older people might have worried that youngster were spending too much time listening to gramophone records instead of doing their chores, but the youngsters themselves loved it. But we - supposedly the biggest fans of the Internet and all it promised - are worrying about ourselves.
The switch isn't making python3 available; both python2 and python3 have been available for users for a long time. The switch means having the system tools rely on python3 rather than on python2, such that you can successfully install, boot, and configure a Fedora install without python2. This involved porting all the system code that uses python.

I suspect Archlinux's job was easy, because they had fewer system tools that utilized python. For example, Pacman (Arch's package manager) is written in C, whereas Yum (Fedora's package manager) is written in Python. Fedora also has other components that use python (the firewall frontend, some build/install/setup scripts), and "switching" to python3 involves porting over all of that.
Wow, downandout, your post truly has it all:

- Genuine loathing for the blog post OP

- Smarmy "I'm better than you" attitude

- Examples of how you aren't like OP

- Call out to historic reasons why OP's mindset is terrible

- Multiple over-the-top statements ("If everyone adopted the attitude of the author..." is my favorite!)

Jeez.
You're granting us an exclusive commercial license (not assigning your IP). We ask for that license so we can ensure that the other contributors who have worked on a project get paid.

We've decided to distribute the code with a modified-BSD license. We're open to discussing using different licenses but we've erred on the site of safety (for now). It'll be an easy change to make in the future when the risk/reward tradeoff of doing so is better known.

BTW, all our legal stuff is on on GitHub: https://github.com/assemblymade/legal It's a work in progress :)
I've upgraded it with a T61 motherboard, 8gb RAM, a tweaked BIOS and an SSD. It runs not-so-small VMs now. I try not to drop it or spill things in it, but the spill-resistant keyboard is good peace of mind.
3D printed, open source Ray-Bans for Google Glass
a 'Rankine vortex' is a fancy name for a very simple theoretical model.

It's just a circular vortex in which u~1/r and there may or may not be a solid body core. A lot of spinny vortices are like this.

I'm not sure where they think their rankine vortex is - whether in the bottle or round the outside - or whether they are accounting for friction when calling it that.
Interesting to read the (linked) article on how they actually built the support: http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/10/22/new-relic-node-js-apps/

Since node's native support won't land until 0.12, does anyone know what the downsides of the polyfill are? Is there a much larger performance hit?
I worked with Next Fab Studio in Philadelphia to develop 'Sunshade' a 3D Printed Prism Cover for Google Glass.
I open sourced the code and it's available for anyone here to download and print: http://prserve.com/sunshade/Sunshade1.0.zip
I do all of those things from a phone. It must be a little easier from a tablet.
Is the best reason to use Node.js really just that it supports asynchrony? I'm sure Go also has that and Erlang has existed for a long time. There are many other options, so why Node?
That is like calling ice a reverse fire. If the technology doesn't have anything to do with microwaves, I don't see how the "reverse microwave" adds anything but confusion. It's not as though "chills beer in 45 seconds" is so vague as to require a strained microwave analogy.
Why is TEPCO still in charge of this operation? How many times do they have to botch things before the people of Tokyo (and other cities in the way of the radiation spill) start rioting to prevent TEPCO from spilling yet more radiation onto them?