skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitrogen is also inert enough for such use, it's easily contained and it doesn't require such measures.

>>>Having a pressurized enclosure might make the drive more expensive as stronger materials need to be used, and it would also make it more dangerous in case of mishandling<<<

Actually containing He at all would require these measures anyway, as He diffuses through solids much faster than air and as such cannot be easily contained. To quote the wikipedia article;

>>>One industrial application for helium is leak detection. Because helium diffuses through solids three times faster than air, it is used as a tracer gas to detect leaks in high-vacuum equipment (such as cryogenic tanks) and high-pressure containers. The tested object is placed in a chamber, which is then evacuated and filled with helium. The helium that escapes through the leaks is detected by a sensitive device (helium mass spectrometer), even at the leak rates as small as 10−9 mbar·L/s (10−10 Pa·m3/s). The measurement procedure is normally automatic and is called helium integral test. A simpler procedure is to fill the tested object with helium and to manually search for leaks with a hand-held device.

Helium leaks through cracks should not be confused with gas permeation through a bulk material. While helium has documented permeation constants (thus a calculable permeation rate) through glasses, ceramics, and synthetic materials, inert gases such as helium will not permeate most bulk metals.<<<

Further, high pressure containers are dangerous as they might have an outward failure. That is unlikely to be the case with a drive that is at say .5 atm as the pressure is directed inwards, so the worst case over is most probably a drive filled with air or a slightly crumpled drive. (as a thought experiment think about how submarines implode instead of exploding when the hull encounters pressures beyond what it can handle)
That's an interesting way to go about it. Any reason for using shell scripts to coordinate the flow instead of things like Cython and RPy? (I don't shell script a lot, so this may be a silly question)

These days, I mostly seem to be able to get away with using single languages for applied machine learning, like a Python webserver that runs background machine learning tasks, or an Android app in Java that connects to a webserver written in Python. But back when I was doing less applied side stuff, I was similar to you in that things were spread across R and Python.
I meant successful at being English like in use, rather than successful as a language for interacting with computers: I think COBOL is less succesful than SQL at the former, mostly for the reasons that its harder to do when you have a less-specific domain.

Of course, it is subjective, and there is plenty of room for disagreement.
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All that tech glitter is not gold
> No matter how large a value you put in for px, you'll not be able to reach 180 degrees.

actually I only had to put in 10 9s to get 180...
Exactly. I remember, once a friend wanted to create a tool for designers to use for creating HTML+CSS visually, without having to know actual CSS properties and such.

Then I explained, the hard part of laying out webpages is not the basic layout -- it's how layout reflows when text overflows, when the browser window is too narrow, when image sizes change, what things maintain alignment and what things don't -- and that by the time you've added all these options to your visual tool, the visual tool is now equally complicated as CSS, so you've defeated the whole purpose.

At its heart, it's the fact that the specification of the program is the program. The devil is always in the details. (Which, incidentally, is why it's so hard to estimate development time accurately.)
...see how long and when they was online

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This is a great example of why I hate 'word problems' in math. The person writing the problem is probably trying to demonstrate a nice mathematical property and engage the reader, but what they are doing is confusing the hell out of people and providing a frustrating experience.

Almost every piece of information you get from this hypothetical scenario is useless. Everything you know about ants, rubber, gravity, energy etc is suddenly a distraction from the extremely narrow set of ideas which the author allows to be relevant to the problem.

As someone who really really likes knowing material properties, insect physiology, and basic physics, while caring little for abstract mathematical properties, this kind of problem seems perfectly designed to tweak my nose.
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Theoretically we're running out of Helium, just like we're theoretically running out of oil, but actually we've still got plenty left. Because of the US dumping their stocks the price has been artificially low making it unprofitable to extract from natural gas which contains a lot, and it has been just released in the atmosphere because of that instead of contained. As soon as prices start to reflect the extraction price there won't be a problem anymore.
That's true. But what this means is that I actively try to hold back from talking about work to avoid being a bore... but I still want to! The people I know that actively avoid it, often avoid because they just don't care for their job.
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Post a Photo of others on Facebook & get 6 month the prison in UAE
I wonder if this is what Google Wave would have ended up like
It's interesting when you consider extending this trend further into medical device creation. Would you print an artificial bone? Artificial body parts?

At what point does the law have to step in and make it illegal to create things that are not protected by the layers of research, testing, and regulation.
Ionic, open source framework for developing native mobile apps in HTML5
We're not running out of Helium, that's a common misconception. The price just doesn't reflect the extraction cost at the moment and it's not being extracted from the natural gas resources it is found in.
The guy who maimed that tourist is back on the road, so if you don't lose your license by running over someone on the sidewalk, you're not going to lose your license by not taking someone to Brooklyn.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/10/02/with-no-charges-from-c...
Nice project, I think this was very much needed for windows. Having a proper shell is pretty much mandatory for web development these days and I think this will help great deal for developers who would prefer windows.

Completely unrelated but you might want to silence the parts where you type your passwords in the video, some one can easily predict your password by keyboard's click sounds. For example your github password is 7 characters long and contains `w` or `n` in first 3 letters.
> One day, it's.....The next, it's....

You're right. The person who currently does the blogging for the Internet is clearly inconsistent and hypocritical. Perhaps we should get someone else to do it? :)
And just as they merge, so must the ways in which we connect to that information. Type > touch/voice > intuitive/AI/chipped. 'Resistance is futile' ;)
The main reason (for me) is Ctrl+P. Working on a project with lots of files (like Rails) without that is a huge pain.
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You Don't Need Permission to be Great
Why wouldn't I just use Vim (or better yet, Emacs) in the first place?
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Brilliant. But does it just work for English?
For what is worth, we're breathing more N than O - so toxicity is not an issue when comparing He to N.
https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
It's what I wanted to use it for. That, and basic communication.

I just think Google bungled the beta process, trying to treat it like GMail when the same beta model isn't gonna work for anything but e-mail or XMPP.

However, I'm definitely going to recommend this product to my team, as right now we're using Github wikis, which is fine for us developers, but for real business use(as in, the rest of the team), this could be just so much better.
It's a tough one. I've got a feeling Blackberry is another "Kodak". File for bankruptcy protection, sell different divisions/assets to different buyers, sell off patents and wait for it to emerge from bankruptcy.
Yep, same here, "I noticed that you are engaged in Meteor on github".
It doesn't apply to Latvia specifically, but I recommend James Michener's "Poland", for an idea of how middle-european countries were occupied by one side or the other. It is a very engaging novel, of course fictionalized, but it's much more readable than "dry" history :)

The result being "who owns what" can be very muddy indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_(novel)

http://www.amazon.com/Poland-James-A-Michener/dp/0394531892
It seems to me like they should switch to Android with their own launcher and compete on hardware. The big fat margins of the past are long gone but I think there is a healthy niche here that they could sit in for quite some time.
New hetzner server line: SSD and 128 gb ram for 139 eur/mo
try https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

they don't block Google's SERP referer
Not only does Vim have a Ctrl+P plugin, but the Ctrl+P feature of Sublime originated from the Vim plugin.
Double so because OP has been out of the loop for 6 years, which tells me that they are probably a bit rusty and not prepared to absorb a new language on short notice.
Hi, a similar idea was hacked together a few weeks ago at the Hack4Good Hackathon in London. I could put you in touch with the team that made it if you're interested. pic.twitter.com/pAc37R31Ei
Durability isn't so much of a problem.

At $10 each for materials, I can buy a new one for every single day for the next 5 years and it will still only cost about a quarter of what the fancy prosthetic costs.
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I also received an email about this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/40aqdk5hjdm0i4y/Screenshot%202013-...

While I'm not a huge fan of people spamming email address they grabbed from Github (Yes I know I can hide my email) I have been contacted because of my GitHub account (because of activity/repos/etc) in the past and had no problem with it. I just don't like mindless spamming which this appears to be. That said where do you draw the line (and do you think this email crosses said line)? (I'm genuinely curious)
I'm a little sad it doesn't include the Proto-language root.
This looks great - hopefully wouldn't be too hard to implement Markdown as well. I really want to be writing my academic papers in Markdown or some other simple markup (my papers usually have a surprisingly simple structure), and still have them look nice. Making it _much_ easier to create nice-looking templates would be great (maybe even a GUI editor for templates).

However, I would also love to see more movement towards more flexible, semantic document formats for for example academic papers... I want to be able to read papers in my preferred style, whether on my iPad, Kindle or Mac. But still good support for citations, highlighting etc. Maybe epub is the way to go, not sure.

Anyway very exciting project, and good luck!
Michael Dell has some work to do.
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I don't think this is going to happen, even if someone invents direct mind-computer interface. Our thoughts are not precise enough. Everyone who has transcribed a mathematical equation realizes that context free grammar is just the most efficient way to express exactly what we want.
I get the point about getting to work with the best people in the world, I personally think that for the beginning of a company is better to be all in the same room. Remote working is fine for bigger companies imho.
I was considering replying to the email until I saw this comment and realized that it was not even tailored spam.
Can someone explain why Elop did a bad job? No one was buying Nokia phones anymore... they are now.
I wants to know about the CBomb
that if u do not get their consent
Since the article doesn't include the relevant link - http://www.thingiverse.com/robohand/designs
Depending on where the company resides it's actually illegal do this.[1]

[1] - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/guides/permission/spam/
The Unix Shell is basically an IPC language. It's sole purpose is to be able to combine programs, and allow them to communicate. Instead of trying to make a package in one language work with another, it is a lot simpler to use Shell to connect together programs in any language.
This makes me wonder if these new hard drives will have a limited shelf life. I know they have spent so much research on keeping the He in, but it's more likely that they have just slowed down the leaking, so will this hard drive still be spinning in ten years? Some hard drives are expected to keep running for at least that long.

Also, I worry about air pressure changes. If a particularly nasty weather system came along with a very low pressure centre, and the hard drive is completely sealed, then it will have to either flex to accommodate the He expansion or be very rigid indeed. If it flexes, does that de-calibrate the head alignment? Is the case strong enough to deal with 200N force pulling it apart?
I hope not. BB10 is a very nice operating system. I'd hate to see it go to waste.

I find it much more responsive and snappy than Android.
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I've had two separate people tell me about forth and green arrays this past week. My interest in piqued. Someone please point me in the direction of a good introduction to the language and its merits.
Everybody I know that was one of those fans is in the process of switching to Android or iPhone.
Ask HN: Extending the Segway Vertically 
The question: What do / can I do with this now?
It’s a lift device unlike anything now available. I call it the Scorrendo.
I’m begging, but only for comments. Thanks in advance.

If anyone is more than merely curious, I can email a link for a second Drive doc that provides considerable detail concerning how this thing works. Please see my profile. (BTW: The second file has more detailed drawings.)

I’m a land development engineering tech that lost everything post-crash. As the last page in the link says, I’m still sleeping in my truck. The Scorrendo was developed over McDee’s and friend’s WiFi; the drawings were done on a piece of Masonite in my lap. I’m NOT whining, but rather saying that even the down and out are potentially resourceful and perhaps even useful.

The link explains my idea [PDF, but can be read without download].
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6CeyVxyZP2bVk9IdFlNSGtZaGs/edit?usp=sharing
Got it, I misinterpreted it, and humbly retract my statement.
Oops, I meant in the US, not the planet. Also, AAPL is at 467.25B.
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Google Wave was nothing more than over-engineered email-like wiki.

disclaimer: I love Google Wave
This is an amazing suggestion. I hadn't thought of using shell scripts to modularize cross-language. Thank you.
From Microsoft: Windows 8.1, more Windows fail
Long video but pretty cool. We were excited to see it.

Git repo is here: https://github.com/angular-leap/angular-leap-goinstant-revea...
Alex North writes: "For a long time, GUI builders were crap. GUI builders are still crap: they often provide a poor representation of what the rendered interface will look like, are not powerful enough for developers to achieve exactly what they want, and are too complicated and laden with programming concepts for non-programmers to use them."

Beginning about 1995, Borland's Delphi (now CodeGear / Embarcadero) seemed to me to have a pretty nice IDE for making GUIs on Microsoft Windows.

Any opinions on Delphi or information on anything similar for Linux or Mac?
> The Soviet Union had the most democratic constitution ever — and it meant nothing.

That's a popular statement, but its not really all that true. The Soviet Union had a Constitution with a very broad and progressive set of basic guarantees -- but also a very authoritarian set of limitations to those guarantees written directly into it.

E.g., in the 1977 Constitution, Article 39 states, in relevant part, "Enjoyment by citizens of their rights and freedoms must not be to the detriment of the interests of society or the state, or infringe the rights of other citizens" while Article 59 states, in full:

Citizens' exercise of their rights and freedoms is inseparable from the performance of their duties and obligations.

Citizens of the USSR are obliged to observe the Constitution of the USSR and Soviet laws, comply with the standards of socialist conduct, and uphold the honour and dignity of Soviet citizenship.

And Articles 60 through 69 detail Constitutional duties, of citizens starting with, in Article 60:

It is the duty of, and matter of honour for, every able-bodied citizen of the USSR to work conscientiously in his chosen, socially useful occupation, and strictly to observe labour discipline. Evasion of socially useful work is incompatible with the principles of socialist society.

People who say that the Soviet Union had a model Constitution that was just ignored in practice probably haven't actually read the Constitution they are talking about. Or at least, I hope they haven't.
Sweetie: Terres des Hommes uses CGI to bait pedophiles [video]
Oh, the irony: http://i.imgur.com/2qyeEjT.png
Right now it only tracks the actual string "fuck", if you check out the code on gh, https://github.com/mgingras/fBomb , by changing line 67 of coffeeApp.coffee, "stream = Twitter.stream 'statuses/filter', {track:'fuck'}" , you could track anything you wanted.
Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks (RFC 3924, 2004)
The price you charge for your services says a lot about your company's competitive ways. While obviously more complex than traditional pricing models, strategic pricing is the only pricing model that allows you to truly realize your profit potential.
How we test fake sites on live traffic
It looks interesting, but since we are on the topic of usability - the colour contrast needs some work and the font looks blurry. The site also just loads with an 'undefined' header and then after a second or two shows the page - I'm not sure if this is because it's a JS app. I'll revisit the website in a while.
#MotoG(Motorola' event is on 11/13)
also, http://gigaom.com/2013/11/04/moto-g-teased-as-a-global-phone-debuting-on-november-13/
Improve the contrast! The site is not very legible. At first I thought this was some kind of bad joke.

The site title overlaps with "Signup/Signin" when the browser window is too small.

The webfont in use looks horrible on Windows.

Edit: I recommend reading up on WCAG 2.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/), this is a helpful tool: http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/
The project looks good, however I got this same e-mail, I was planning to test the PHP-SDK and the Python-SDK and test the product, however now I see, I was just the target of a github SPAM. =/
I know. But it doesn't work the way I want it to. It needs to fuzzy search the directory that I've opened, prioritizing first by reverse chronological order of when they were opened. It's been a while, but I played with the settings for both the CtrlP and the Command-T plug-in, but neither worked like in Sublime.
The Trouble With Types
Blog Post - Setting up Opsview with Amazon RDS
Show HN: My weekend project. Quickly use different Vagrant setups
Because vim is broken. I gave up vim after 7 years because of all the segfaults, in-extensibility and just horrible code. Some of the files in the vim code base are over 20,000 lines with hundreds of ifdefs, and littered with unsafe pointer use. The code is a horrible experience to just look at, pre 1989 C style functions, mixed tabs and spaces everywhere, and the files aren't even a valid encoding of any kind whatsoever, instead it has this broken mbyte that will ruin your day if you touch a vim source file in anything but vim.

If you use vim as is you may not notice much, but vim will forever be limited to responding only to user interaction with no hope of ever getting any kind of timers, async actions or event loop.

Try making a simple clock for your status line that updates every second. You can't. And it will never be possible. Because vim is broken.
Huh, do the syntax checkers for those languages actually do type checking too?
Yup, it's kind of tedious seeing these types of article / blog post. As anyone that works as a programmer knows, it's not the grammar of programming that is hard. It's understanding the hardware and what it can do that is hard. It's encoding nebulous and sometimes conflicting business requirements into something a computer can understand that is hard. It's taking into account all of the different error states that a process can get into that is hard. Learning the syntax of a programming language? Not hard.

We as programmers have weird brains, compared to most of the population. You give a programmer the list of road rules, and they will probably immediately identify, instinctively, several rules that are mutually exclusive / in conflict with each other. You're able to understand how a home entertainment system needs to be set up, even though that's really not what most programmers do. You identify loopholes in legal frameworks / contracts, because the lawyers that wrote them aren't used to thinking about what has to happen for edge cases.
This argument is faulty, implying that Gates' time is more valuable than others'. We need both time and money to survive, when you need not worry about the later, logically you can approach other pursuits with more dedication.
Syntastic is great for flagging syntax errors, but I don't think it provides for type checking like DannoHung is after.
Same, asking about suggestions in terms of best practice to integrate PredictionIO in some PHP frameworks.

If I like the product, I may open-source some plugin or wrapper around their SDK for specifics product or framework, but asking will not make it happens faster.
This is a rough MVP of my weekend project of making it easier to use different vagrant setups without having to reconfigure everything yourself. You can create packages for others to use by sending them off to the packages repo, Then when someone uses kapow, they can use the same setup as you by specifying the package in their kapow.json file. It also hooks into pow.cx for quickly giving a yourproject.dev url for each kapow project you make.
Yeah, I think photography is a good analogy for capturing (no pun intended) this trend. And maybe I'm just being overly sentimental, but I feel like because it's so easy to do things with our devices now without knowing how they work, that they're often under-appreciated.

For example, there's this popular interview that Louis C.K did on Conan, where he said "Everything's awesome, and nobody's happy". Sure, most of that frustration can be attributed to the human condition, but ignorance also plays a big role. If people knew (and I don't) how planes actually worked (at at basic level, of course), it's harder to get frustrated about spotty Wifi.