skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue is that I struggle to trust the pharmaceutical industry as all corporations when reaching a certain size turn corrupt. When corporations are in the business of health shady their concern is about making money rather than human health.

It's like trusting oil companies to help humanity when everyone well knows they lobby the government to get their way to access more oil in foreign lands, even if it means to engage in warfare.

My issue with putting trust behind the studies saying vaccinations are perfectly fine is that corporations once again are known to fund mislead research to protect their interests. Forgive me to use cannabis as an example, but it's broad enough to show how much effort they put into making false claims that it's extremely unhealthy to both physical and mental health. Today the research has done a 180 because the government is slowly but surely easing up on the research which was once heavily restricted.
politics are not as easy as technologies
This is like the 3rd time a similar question get posted on HN this week. BTW for mainstream news I use my own app: http://newspo.st

It's a iPhone news aggregator that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news stories based on how much they are shared in real-time, laying them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices.

It's really interesting because it lets you find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and it puts you in a whole different point of view.

The bare bone MVP is currently available in US, UK and Italy. I'll soon release a new version with categorization and custom topics.
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Well that's just awesome. We're being geoblocked in Australia but the joke is that we live in a monarchy? More like greedy corporate interests want to gouge as much money out of Australians as possible! Something I thought the Colbert Report was meant to highlight.

Hypocrites.
When I was ~5 years old we did set theory in school. Venn diagrams made with hula hoops. Sorting dolls and blocks.
If your resource is read-mostly you'll probably still get better performances out of an array and clever/partial locking. That being said you can get correct performances out of linked lists using explicit prefetching while iterating.
Then the insurance have an incentive to pick for you a lawyer who loses fast.
Yeah giving internet to people who barely have running water and electricity is REALLY going to help uplift the poor. Solve health issues so people can work rather than spread disease. Introduce agriculture and self sustaining society. Then maybe you can introduce technology...
wow.

So because you'll never see it, it isn't a problem. You getting cheap/free internet is more important than millions of people dying [1]...

[1] http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/
for places that observe DST, move the clocks 30 minutes in between and call it quits.
I think it's about service that are stream-centered and sectioned.

HN, Reddit, Upbeatapp, Quora (?), are stream-centered. Information come and go, which make it very easy accessible.

Reddit, Upbeatapp, Quora are also sectioned ; There are sub-reddit, there are subgenres in Upbeatapp and in Quora, you can follow topics/interests/questions.
HN is not sectioned but is already very specific.
That point make an access to your pre-targeted audience.

The two factor combines make an easy accessible access to a large interested audience.

( Note that is not the case in twitter, youtube, soundcloud, tumblr...)
I don't know Medium enough to be sure, but I think they are trying to do the same (sections + stream).

I'm trying to find online services that use this pattern for other type of market (Movie, Food recipes, ect.)
I'm an electrical engineer and the first project I worked in my professional life was a Power Quality Meter, used by the power company at my city, in Brazil.

In our specific case, DST was pretty good at shifting the two main power demands we had at night: lighting and the effect of people going home (taking a heated shower, using elevators...)

I had access to oscillographies at all power stations in my state (which is not small, here is located the biggest hydroelectrical dam in the World, by annual production). It happened that during DST the quality of the power being provided increased.

I'm not arguing here that this is a solid proof that DST is good, but the effect of concentrated demand and the subtle implications that this has on the actual efficiency of the power grid seem to be all too often neglected.

Well, it's a good discussion, and my main point here is that things are not as simple as they may appear at a first glance :)
The funniest thing about this is that he got confused between Peter Singer, the ethicist, and Paul Singer, a venture capitalist and philanthropist. It gets even funnier when you find out that Paul Singer's philanthropic activity is mostly lobbying at similar activities which the argument he's quoted as making would dismiss.
Even if the Bitcoin protocol adopted WebSockets, the browser wouldn't be able to initiate the connections between peers. They would only be able to receive them from regular Bitcoin clients that can initiate connections [1].

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4118272/do-websockets-all...
googles. Apparently I had Win8RT confused with WinPhone. WIn8RT allows you to sideload freely. WinPhone requires you get a (free) developer's a account, but still has tight restrictions.

... now I want to see phones running Win8RT.
Heck, your cellphone processor supports gradual underflow (though it's likely turned off in the default fp state).
IIRC, Fireworks would do code generation. I'm pretty sure that was the big selling point for some colleagues back in ... 1999? They were so awestruck that it would generate code for anything they threw at it. I was dumbstruck by 1) how bad the generated code was (a la FrontPage) and 2) how backwards some of the stuff they were trying to design was (making the code that much worse).

I know in the right hands, 'design first' in visual tools can lead to great web sites. Especially back in those days, however, visual artists were almost exclusively just visual/photoshop/paper oriented, and regardless of what they did, you were just expected to hack it up in to HTML, regardless of whether it was even possible or not. I far prefer working with graphic design folks who can at least do the basics of HTML/CSS, so they understand what's possible (and optimal) vs what Photoshop from 2000 is capable of letting them draw on the screen :)
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It's a mindset or preference to the same degree that homosexuality is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype
Well, there are solutions that you described, for example:
http://carbonwallet.com

No required plugins, no mess related to p2p network connection, and just as secure/safe from government as anything.

Darkwallet - meh. A case of overcomplicating a simple thing.
Yeah the type cover is quite decent but actually using the Surface with the type cover on my lap feels quite unstable at times which is why I couldn't get on with it. I love the idea of a detachable keyboard though and hope to see more innovation like this from Microsoft in the future. A type cover with a physical connection catch/lock would be great. Maybe next generation :)
Not seen any with SATA3, mine is PCIe and it is fast as hell but apparently the new MBP PCIe models are a little faster.
If you're unlucky, it prints "bang". If you're really unlucky it uploads your personal files to his server.
That's the biggest WTF about the whole story.

I understand leaks and breaches happen, but we've had two decades of them and learned a few things that make DB leaks pretty useless.
The problem it's that you don't know where the next Newton will come from. Better to give everyone the chance because, as you say, he was so influential.
I might add that as a level, but before the one that rm -rf's your homedir ;).
If they had used different salts for every account, and that salt was published in this dump it would have been much more difficult to find identical passwords compared to the current situation.

I'm not sure how you can keep the salt random and secret, and still use it when users log in?
http://www.quora.com/Working-at-Google-1/Whats-the-worst-par...

Bypass the sign-up gate.
And your waiting shall be worth it. The develpers (me included) are working very hard on this ;)
This is directly relevant to a popular discussion[1] on HN less than 2 weeks ago. Even ignoring that there is almost nothing more important than power usage in computer hardware engineering, so improvements are always interesting.

Finally, it is hardly shilling when the linked article shows it still has worse battery life than the iPad 4 or Nexus 7 (and worse than the Surface 2 on Video Playback?!).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6584683
Pepper is the more common term I've seen for a global salt - although I've never seen it implemented independently of a salt.
The two situations where time zones are relevant is a very good observation, but I still think we should optimize for the more common case, which is communicating across timezones.
Pro-tip for programmers: never, ever try to build your own library to handle DST. You will get something wrong. Lots of frameworks and system libraries handle this for you, and do it pretty well.
Building the structure is the least of the Hyperloop's problem.

How about supporting near-vacuum on such a large scale?

How about dealing with earthquakes, erosion, landshifts, where even a small shift in a section of a tunnel would mean instant death for the travelers.

How about obtaining the land rights to build it between SF and LA?
I won't even bother to get into the other countries.

I support a single use device application (running on Palm E2s!) that requires constant fiddling to keep up with DST changes around the globe. In the past, some countries have changed their DST observance mere weeks before it was supposed to happen.
Directed rounding as a thread-local state (or global state), which is what the first 25 years of IEEE-754 processors supported, turns out to be not a very useful model (except for debugging tricks like estimating stability, which is dear to Kahan); that's a big part of why directed rounding isn't widely used or supported.

Several newer hardware designs have added per-instruction stateless directed rounding (the rounding direction is part of the opcode); this is a much more useful model (and its presence makes dynamic rounding modes more usable as well!). This feature was added to ieee-754 in the 2008 revision, too late for language bindings to be added to c[++]11, but there's already language support in OpenCL and other compute languages, and bindings have been proposed to the C committee.

So, progress is being made, slowly but surely.
How did this Arab startup made one million USD in revenues in less than a year
Just some honest constructive feedback here.

Kinda just seems like an excuse to me...I don't have kids, so I can't empathize, however, it couldn't take THAT much time to work on monetization strategies. 6 million uniques on a consistent basis is pretty substantial attention, and attention = power, nowadays. Plus, why would an investor want to throw any more money at you when you've already somehow dropped well over a million bucks? I think if you just put some elbow grease in, you'd make it work.
That is a really good idea. But I wonder if carbon fiber wouldn't be very expensive for a static structure like that.
Why not use much less expensive glass fiber? Compared to steel it would still be much stronger, lighter and be manufactured in one piece, without welds.
I get your point. I see it as a pain in the backside from a programming point of view. Managing arbitrary dst changes which keep changing at the whims of political powers is exhausting at best.
To be fair, Surface Pro is the only non-ARM tablet in those charts. It is impressively going neck to neck with a 10-inch Galaxy tab which is an ARM tab.
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"Please refrain from feeding RT students. We are NOT monkeys." The sign on the real-time lab's window used to read.
I'm all for having less humans around, but actually, educating women, eradicating poverty, and lowering death rates has shown to be the best way to reduce a country's birth rate. It just takes a generation or two. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
I only clicked to see the comments because it said Doom 3.

Thanks for posting the article and thanks for pointing out the section on linked lists.
I agree that that section is really interesting. In what sense do you mean lockless applications - applications built around compare and swap primitives or something else?

I can't really follow what:

"byte otherMembers[64]" is used for.

What useful data is stored in there? If pointers are 32bit and cache lines are 64bit, the comment:

"// over a cache line worth of other members"

doesn't really make sense because you can only fit two full addresses per cache line.

It's a shame that the idList type he is suggesting in favour of the other types, a resizeable heap array, is not declared in the body of the pdf. Might be worth looking it up.

The distinction between non-intrusive and intrusive linked lists is new to me, I didn't know there was a word for that!

This is the best "link" I've found on them:

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/06/intrusive-lists/
A lot of things in linux are faster than in the various bsd kernels, some of this owing to having a few optional codepaths rather than just one.

Also, kdbus basically means there is in fact /less/ code made necessary by using the dbus protocol, since you don't need the daemon anymore, it also means lower latency.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I run a large gaming website. For tournaments, two or more players have to agree on a time to meet and play.

A dialog goes something like this: Player A: I live in X time zone and 3pm works for me. Player B: OK, I'm in EST, let me see what time that is for me. ... OK, that works!

And then Player A and Player B miss each other, because Player B wasn't aware that his current time zone was EDT, not EST.

Even if both players convert to UTC first it doesn't work, because EST -> UTC and EDT -> UTC yield different times. And it's difficult to help them out with site-mandated time tools, because players like to coordinate over IRC, Twitter, GChat, ...

I'm sure there's a good way to fix this problem, I just feel like I shouldn't have to.

EDIT: I just saw the Eve online comment. Unfortunately that doesn't work quite as well for us, as the game isn't a program that's always running on the player's computers. It's more in the spirit of trying to coordinate chess matches.
That does not invalidate the subject matter though, which is written by Anand Shimpi, one of most reputed bloggers. Besides, the submitter did not edit the title. It should be ok for the employees to submit content and comment (they should be tell about the company connection) as it brings out inner perspective to the table. Let's not be close minded in this community please. I enjoy Matt Cutts posts on here, then there is tptacek, along with lots of valuable posters. It's all good mate.
Natural light is nicer than electric lights. (For me, at least.)
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Connectivity goes both ways - go check the fireband anti vaccine movements in the US.
Even if all the basic operations were fully specified and implemented identically on all architectures, you would still have a noticeable performance vs. reproducibility tradeoff across architectures for "real computation". For example, different architectures have different numbers of registers and different cache hierarchies, which favors different access patterns in a fast matrix multiplication; thus linear algebra routines that attempt to be as fast as possible will necessarily group the arithmetic operations differently, which leads to different results even if individual arithmetic operations are guaranteed to be identical.

It's not insurmountable, but it's a thornier problem than it looks at first.
I get your point :)
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I think you need to add some information. Who you are, why you are doing this, where you are, what you will be sending a customer, how you will be sending it, the ingredients used and so on. Presumably anyone who is willing to pay $30 a month is already interested in salsa so play up to that.
http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/2007/07...

> While at the conference, the young Malawian saw the internet for the first time and within hours began Google-searching for "windmill" and "solar energy" and was amazed with how many hits were returned for each search.

> Kamkwamba was particularly impressed with the speed at which he could achieve things using the internet. "I was very excited when I saw the internet for the first time," he said. "The internet makes transfer of information very instant."

Now imagine a billion people with the same access to information on useful things like good sanitation and building windmills.
This is why programmers should stop trying to write their own password systems.
Exactly.

The current use of timezones seems primarily designed to ease adjustment for those traveling between them. Work starts at 9 AM in region-X, you move to region-Y, adjust your time and work starts at the "same" time.

Today I think however there are a lot more cases of cross-timezone communications, and a lot of people are telecommuting to work and various events. It may be time to move on and adjust to better support distance communication and telecommuting.
I never had a problem with it when I was young and carefree but now married with kids.. man DST is annoying. The kids seem to take a good week to adjust and I'm finding I'm still feeling tired an hour earlier than I should 6 days on.
754 arithmetic is not really hellish; it's quite easy to use correctly if one can be bothered to learn how it works. The trouble that most programmers run into is that they can't be bothered, and assume that it works just like arithmetic over the reals (which they typically don't really understand either).
Salts aren't secret. The point of salting a password is to prevent the password (like "alskdjfalsdf") from always hashing to the same result (like "j9p+HwtWWT86aMjgZFLzYg=="). That prevents rainbow table attacks (among others) and it doesn't require the salt be secret.
Hopefully that means that Google throws some developers at giving LLVM better GC support, so the rest of us benefit.
What you want is to give the best user experience, not a generic webview or cross/plateform framework. And to get the best user experience one needs to go native period. There is no debate , web based app performances are low on anything more than a basic CRUD app...
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Regarding ground changes, we can look to current bullet-train rail systems. Nobody has ever died on a bullet train in Japan due to earthquakes. I saw on a documentary that Japan feed seismic sensor data into train control centers where any dangerous seismic event would trigger automatic stopping of the trains.
He got his phd from UW, just not that UW. It's in the wiki page also. University of Washington is one of the best state schools in the world, and routinely ranks in the top ten with its computer science department.
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Articles that debate DST always seem to have some strange anecdotal comment that doesn't make any sense. This article has a couple, but I would love to see the source for: "Many farmers still don't like DST, including some dairy farmers, who find that cows' natural milking schedules don't adapt easily to a sudden shift."

Farmers aren't stupid and cows can't tell time. Do you really think they adjust the actual time they milk cows in order to observe DST? A schedule on a farm has far more to do with actual daylight hours regardless of the official "time".

However, they did get the sentiment correct. Farmers have always opposed to changing the time twice a year and largely think the whole idea is ridiculous. Case in point, Saskatchewan does not change their time, but permanently maintain the equivalent of DST year round. Tellingly, there is no debate about adopting time changes either.
There's also http://brainwallet.org/ for a similar concept.
Tariffs definitely do penalize foreign countries/products/companies. Not to say they're a bad idea for Brazil and other emerging countries with large markets, but if everyone had such harsh tariffs, free trade and progress in general would suffer.
I recommend the type cover as well. I've been able to get 80-90wpm on it where as with an apple keypad I can get 100-120wpm, so its not horrible. The response is pretty good, the trackpad is atrocious, then again, I'm coming from Apple's trackpad. The type cover trackpad reminds me a bit of a netbook's trackpad, but hey, at least its functional.

I would definitely not recommend the touch cover as there's a very noticeable typing lag.
This is very interesting to me, I live in KY and we have our own exchange. Do to not having all my data (my fault not theirs) on hand the process of submitting an application has spanned a few days and their interface is really bad. I'd like to play with raw data and throw something together to allow for quick and easy searching. Who did you contact in CA for the data? I'd like to find the KY equivalent and reach out. Thanks and great job on the site!
Amazon Mechanical Turk could help with this.
> The Surface Pro 2 is a really nice machine if you are looking for a tablet/laptop hybrid

Is there a similar convertible that comes with a real, physical keyboard that tucks behind the screen when not in use? I remember a few being announced but am unsure if any come recommended.
Fair enough. I'm also the type of person who has a single inbox, and just searches for everything. No Tags/Folders.
> What's with all these Microsoft shills lately?

Says the troll account set up just 22 days ago
"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything"

Which is a funny statement coming from Jobs, since he didn't invent anything either. Ripping off is fine when you add value, like the original Mac which borrowed a lot from Xerox labs prototypes.
I don’t understand why anyone would like it to get darker earlier?
Whoa, I didn't know that was a thing. Now I've got a handy little reference available when the girlfriend complains that I "stay up too late" (past 10pm!).
I Brazil, at least, Nokias are being heavily subsidized. Not only to the carriers, but salespeople are getting commissions straight from Nokia in order to push as many as they can.

Apple, Samsung and LG are not doing this.
This will not happen in the real world. There is simply no incentive big enough to make the whole world agree on this. Hell, we can't even agree to slightly reduce CO2 emissions.

Interestingly, though, China works on a single time zone. So for a small-scale case study in how this would work, go live in different parts of China for a year.
Googling for "antbot" returns a variety of seemingly unrelated projects. Could you possibly be more specific? But more curious to know the mechanism behind it that causes mosquitos to stop flying.

Though I have to say, robotics doesn't seem like the cheapest way to go about killing malaria - though it would be awesome if it turns out to be.