skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to ignore where your power's coming from when your vehicle's not burning fuel-- in the US, ~40% from coal and ~30% natural gas.

Morality fades away when the results occur at a distance. Compare plugging into a socket to pumping gas, or buying cuts of meat to slaughtering an animal.
... Seriously? I never thought I'd see an instance of Godwin's Law on HN...
> we’d be forced to oppose the bill

Did IBM become a legislator? Who cares if they oppose the bill or not if that's the right bill to make?
You can see the outlines of the camps on google maps. They are fairly huge. Surrounding them is a strip of short grass between two fences, which is very visible on satellite photos.

You can see similar strips in the west around secure areas, for instance nuclear power plants or particular buildings in secure sites. Sometimes these are dog areas, or contain mines.

I suspect the inmates don't have android phones though.
Seems like they would alienate enterprise clients but free certainly sounds appealing for small shops.
I've worn headphones at work for years. I started when I worked in bullpens in the middle of cubicle farms, and continued when I shared offices next to break rooms or conference rooms.

I've gone with fairly cheap, over-the-ear solutions. I'm not an audiophile, though I can detect poor quality encoding and have had my share of "wow" moments when I've heard something subtle in a good recording. In short, I consider myself an "average" consumer in this regard.

Currently, I have a pair of Sony MDR-XD100s which you can get at Amazon for about $33. They're quite comfortable, the sound quality is decent, and the cord is nice and long if you need to roll back from your desk to get something. If you're looking for at least a starter set of headphones, I would recommend these. If they don't meet your expectations, you can always move up to the more expensive solutions.
Well, as research goes, $ does not guarantee to reach a specific outcome (it does help tremendously, though).

But there is a lot work done nowadays when it comes to batteries, fuel cell membranes and solar cells - so let us hope something will come out of it.
> The site is 500 million lines of code—an astonishing size for a web service, let alone a new one.

I wish people would stop repeating this.
It reads better than "underjobbed".
Yeah,that's why US businesses spend their time outsourcing engineering positions or recruting foreigners or demanding immigration reforms... because US citizens are over educated...yeah right.
Gartner: OpenStack Lacks Clarity
>> The clarity of your subject is as much about how much it is in focus as how much irrelevant things are out of focus.

If you actually look at the sample output of the library, there's nothing out of focus, at least from the perspective of depth of field. In my opinion (and it is just an opinion), calling all de-emphasized data bokeh is a stretch at best. Blurring and de-emphasis using color and size are two different things.

>> Portrait photos are often beautiful when the lens has good bokeh characteristics.

Let's be clear -- while bokeh can enhance the beauty of a portrait, it doesn't make a portrait beautiful. Most people don't know the difference between good bokeh and bad bokeh (pwang's definition of bokeh in his response to me is very good), but they can usually identify a blurred background vs. a sharp background.

Many people tend to prefer a sharp subject against a blurred background, and that's usually enough for most people to consider a portrait beautiful even if the bokeh is quite ugly. Without getting into a long drawn out discussion of bokeh, you have to remember that there's also more to a beautiful portrait than the novelty of a blurred background.
Why are comments here focussing on Tesla so much. Isn't it time to acknowledge that the media are actively damaging society with misinformation and fear mongering, often in support of entrenched corporate interests?
I jumped ship from Microsoft when Vista came out, switching to Ubuntu in 2008. It was good enough for mainstream production use then, albeit with some warts - but it was already a hell of a lot more polished, functional and user-respecting than Vista.

Ubuntu has continues to improve in polish, stability and usability since then. There's no reason for you not to start making the jump now.

My recommendation is to start by replacing the applications on your Windows machine with cross-platform FOSS equivalents, if you haven't already. That way, the OS transition will be a lot easier because you will already be familiar with the software.
Have you tried LaTeX? Or GNU Texinfo, perhaps?
> Microsoft, never mind IBM...these are old dying giants who will never budge in the name of innovation.

Not sure if naive or ignorant.
"if I didn’t join a well-known startup by the time I was 30, I would never be successful. I was 31 at the time. ouch"

what an insult!
I dunno, he asked a question and I answered it. I'm making no point.
Based on your comment, I feel like you value tangible things as much more innovative.
Possibly, but the Communist Party is perhaps the only one of its kind that uses tax money to protect its stability, not necessarily the stability of the nation. I think that's exactly what the author is trying to say with this statement:

> For us Chinese, this question is slightly different: How much privacy do we have to give up for the sake of the government’s security?
Do you think Sony is any better?
I assume this will be less of a problem in Go, because rapid compilation for large projects with complicated dependencies is one of the main design goals of Go.
My take is that it's all a continuum. more capitalist is probably better in fast growing/developing areas (note: not just countries) with a move toward more socialist as things equilibrate. The end-state of capitalism, barring major disruptions, is monopoly, which is essentially the economic equivalent of dictatorship. Also, things that didn't exist 3 decades ago might start to become more like a utility (internet), which to me indicates it should be treated more like a social good.
The problem far predates capitalism. At various times wannabe elites in elite-saturated societies used to very often die in duels, or very stupid little wars for glory.
From an achievement point of view, are there are any challenges after this?
Wikipedia wants PR firm to stop paid editing services, hints at lawsuit
The real risk that I see is less malice on the part of anybody at Intel, but that some third party could inject some nasty binary into the nice binary and we would have no way of knowing.

Web servers get hacked every day. If somebody gets in and quietly replaces one binary blob with another binary blob, good luck detecting it. Malicious source code is way easier to detect.

This is much in the same vein as basically EVERY piece of software on Windows. We have no recourse in auditing the safety of our own systems.

Yeah 99% of the time the software is benign, but then again so are the police. Personally, I have no reason to mistrust US police. Nonetheless, free states the world over demand recourse against them should they cause harm intentionally or through negligence; I demand the same from my software.
I didn't downvote you, but you directed a lot of loosely-connected negative assertions at a single target without really backing any of them up.

Whatever you intended, it came across as a bit of a rant.
This really reminded me of an older post, "Never say wordpress when selling a web design project". And, that's because it's the same author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570679
The free database on Heroku is limited to 10K rows and $9/month gets you 10 million rows.
While this might sound not so appropriate at first but I too would like to have the dump. Can result in some interesting password research.
over-entitled, maybe
I may be wrong but I think the author specifically referred to an overproduction of Law Degrees? Not seeing too many of those being outsourced..
It's odd though that there is no market effect here to drive prices down at the high end. You could imagine a vendor selling a device with 64 gb storage where competitors ship just 16 gb at the same price level. Why isn't anyone doing that?
There's no reason they should -- its either poor application planning or lazy development. Javascript-heavy web apps that use hash fragments or pushState can (and should) use fallbacks to allow navigation without javascript enabled (especially important for search engines). At this stage of web app development, many just don't, but expect this to change as the JS framework world matures (hopefully)!
This is probably one of the clearest examples of Poe's law I've seen in a long time.
Could domain names become redundant?
He is apparently involved with Intellectual Ventures, so while probably not directly involved in killing the reform, this isn't the most noble of positions.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/bill-gates-still-...
These have existed for 13 years on the web or as long as I can remember. This is not very interesting.
That's exactly my point.

As the Contribute question stands, I might put Symphony X and Johnny Cash on my list of favorites, which would make the site more likely to recommend one in response to the other. But in real life, if someone asked me what I'd recommend to a Johnny Cash fan, there's no way I'd answer Symphony X.

And I propose that the way to address this is to not ask the user "what are your [unrelated] favorites", but rather, "pick a recent moment, and tell us what music you would have most enjoyed hearing at that time". That implies a stronger link than simply that the listed artists share a spot on my list of unrelated favorites.
It's money more than status. In the early 1990s, programming was still white collar but paid about the same as accounting, and nobody cared how few women were doing it.
Yes, these senators and congressmen are literally so impressionable that the very fact that IBM and Microsoft and other companies are objecting cause these political leaders to become nervous and kill the bills (to put it kindly). It seems to me that America is now on the same page as most other nations: your laws are also bought-and-paid-for by special interest groups in many cases, just like our more corrupt nations and especially mine. Very sad.

edit: grammar
So I'm not responsible for all the gasoline I burn while driving, I get to blame it all on companies saleing it?

Sweet deal.
Harvest looks very interesting! I'm a computational biologist in the field working on a startup called SolveBio (https://www.solvebio.com/). We're working on making the worlds biomedical data easily accessible to programmers and scientists. You might find it interesting and useful, especially to plug into Harvest.
In that case, the grandparent-comment is not actually asking anything and just pointing out that a word for defining such events exists.
Or open your web inspector and delete the node.
Are you sure? The linked page is thin on information but it does list this as one of the cons:

Companies may start LLCs elsewhere, reducing revenue for New York state.
David Cameron's Twitter account followed 'high-class escorts'
The title makes it sound amazing in a bunch of different and misleading ways, but all the demos look like cheap toys and video games.
Not only that, but the range for a battery-powered helicopter is going to be severely limited.
Yeah, but at least at Microsoft, no one is eating whales.

My point, is you can find something to hate about every company or group of people.

Why so much hate?
Socialism and free market capitalism are extremes on a scale. Most Western societies these days include significant elements of both socialism and market-shaping forces.

In terms of organising a society the extreme forms of socialism imply very strong central planning. Which run into significant problems because the central planners are never going to know the needs of the people as well as the people themselves, nor are they going to have the information available on all the industries that they're trying to oversee.
I did... the point with people learning to code is precisely not that they're going to get hired to write code (that's what we professionals do).

The current craze for teaching people to code that he references has (in my experience at least) got nothing to do with creating a horde of junior devs, but is to do with people waking up to the fact that they're effectively illiterate.

I agree entirely that 9 women can't produce a baby in one month, and that hiring 20 random junior devs is not going to make a development task go faster than 5 experienced devs in a decently managed development team.
Not really telling from the photo that they missed the initial setting was new york
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
I see. I reckon it doesn't work either way. Think of how wonderful would have been to run a flawless presidential conference call with $9.99, instead of, for instance, procuring a custom-made IBM+Cisco contract for $200k.

Maybe there's a number in the middle, but I think it's hard to draw a line. At the end of the day, if I were a US citizen, I would prefer my government to attempt with a $9.99 service that went almost flawlessly, rather than ditch it just because "it's cheap, it can't work, we must pay at least $X".
Likely facing significant load, but I am not able to get the R console to do anything (print values, plot, etc).

Cool idea. RStudio is nice but it lacks the collaboration/pair coding opportunities that this could provide.

Sourcing data and package functionality are essential if anyone is going to use this.
This and other music recommendation services tend to have a problem where if you try a popular artist, it will only return popular artists. I'd really like a service that you input popular artists and then it returns more obscure artists with similar influences.
Meanwhile, even though we’re not US voters, our hats are off to the President and his team for being agile, using third party web services and trying to be as engaged as possible with his constituents. We love that he’s done an AMA on Reddit, that his team uses Twitter, Facebook and Instagram regularly, and we’re seriously proud they now use Mixlr too.

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Hardly.

They do maintain some sort of vain presence, so as to appease the college crowd that make use of large amounts of social media, but no actual debate or interesting conversation has been inspired by it.

The AMA on Reddit in particular was one of the most pathetic PR stunts I've witnessed in a while. A few generic responses to mundane and chauvinistic questions. But, since his campaign team ended up referencing the "NOT BAD" meme, Reddit swallowed it all up with gusto.

It was sad to watch.
It's not trying to recommend similar artists - it's recommending artists that you will like!

I think Mogwai and Aphex Twin are pretty good recommendations for someone who likes the math rock/post rock that Don Cab play.
The Alpha Product Manager
So what do we do? It's all good and well that we've made this observation, but what do we do about it?
that one requires registration as well.
BTC aren't quite tulips, but the criticism is well founded that it isn't yet a good currency. A perfect currency would possess the following qualities:

Perfectly Fungible

Perfect Liquidity

Perfect Stability

Right now bitcoins are commodities. Any bitcoin is equally valuable as any other bitcoin; bitcoin's value derives from its purchasing power and from its exchange rate to other mediums of exchange. It has great liquidity and fungibility. However it has inherent stability problems as well as ambient ones:

Currently it experiences volatility by virtue of transactions not being demoninated in BTC, and of its exchange rate to other mediums of exchange. A large part of this is because it is consistently attracting large pools of people who wish to acquire it. The recent price spike appears to be a consequence of Chinese interest in acquiring bitcoin rapidly increasing. Eventually the number of people who want to possess bitcoins will grow as a function of the population on the planet, rather than as a function of new groups of people deciding it has become appealing. This will introduce some stability.

However, there's a fundamental flaw in that the pool of bitcoins is fixed, and that possessors know the finite size of the pool of bitcoins a priori. This exerts deflationary pressure on BTC, and as others have noted, discourages its spending. BTC is vastly more liquid than gold is, for example, but the stability of its value will always be an impediment to its usefulness as a currency.

This doesn't spell the doom of Bitcoin; it doesn't need to be a perfect currency, just a better currency than other currencies. It is already the most liquid commodity on the planet. It is at least as fungible as USD; attempts by coinvalidation to ruin this notwithstanding. Should the deflationary pressure of bitcoin compared to its circulation become sufficiently small, it will have inherent qualities to make it the best currency available, which can lead to it becoming more widespread.

A currency with lower transaction costs in time, and which has growth characteristics which trend toward following the value of productive output of the human race will certainly be better. USD are inherently worse.
Joanna Lumley
Turn "show deleted" on in your profile setting.
Where are you at?

In Columbia and/or Charleston, I have never missed mail on a delivery day because the carrier was sick.

I have, however, had them not deliver the slip for a signature-required package, then try to blame it on me. (I still try to figure out how that one is my fault...)
Yep, it turns out that post Obama's use of Moderator (and then hangouts with moderator) we realized that this was only a taste of what can happen when you have a really popular person using your systems. Yes, I'm talking about Lady Gaga. Made Obama look downright pedestrian.
Code is more than just apps
I've personally used it in a few hairy situations, but I haven't had to in a long time.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/425294/sql-database-views... is how you would do direct SQL without GORM, which you would use if you wanted to avoid hibernate entirely. The rest is just command objects - http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/theWebLayer.html#commandO... - and more importantly, @Validatable. http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/validation.html#validatio...

(Technically, command objects are a specific function within the controller, but what we're really looking to do is leverage the validation framework.)

It's extra work, but no less so than avoiding an ORM in any framework. But if you can do it in Hibernate, you probably don't need to bother with this most of the time. (When I had to do it, it was to interface with stored procedures.)

http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/hibernate.html is there if you want to bolt GORM on to legacy classes.
Nothing grows forever: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/05/peter-victor-def... and http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...

I agree with you, I think capitalism is a transitional phase and the end-game will be something that can be sustained in perpetuity and with more humanity than capitalism.
I'm not comparing him to hitler. just pointing out how silly that persons comment/train of thought was.
The end-state of capitalism is monopoly?
I think he's saying it was written by a rich, overeducated elite.
Reversible Computing: How to regain lost power usage
"For comparison, a space shuttle"

What is a space shuttle? Do they mean a space shuttle cargo bay full of backup tapes or microsd cards, which at orbit speed is pretty good bandwidth? Do they mean the PASS implementation, or the separately developed BFS implementation, or both added together, or which ever is larger (probably PASS?)? I can assume they don't even know the main computer doesn't run the engines directly, they have their own dedicated controllers. Along with pretty much every other system and payload that hooks up to electrical power. Does he mean the original mechanical avionics or the 90s glass cockpit upgrade? Oh wait, I bet I know, he pulled out a random number that sounded nice. That's the ticket.

And obviously 'bamacare was implemented in HAL/S just like the shuttle computers, so that's a Very meaningful direct comparison.

(Edited to add, I think I figured out how he came up with 400Kloc for the shuttle. PASS ran in quadruplicate on 4 of 5 processors (he's probably ignoring the BFS implementation) so to someone who doesn't know anything about computers, that means 4 computers each with 100Kloc. Now HAL/S has a strange source format where you can specify sub/super scripts on separate lines, so each "line of code" takes up 3 lines of text (superscript, text, and subscript) so thats 33K or so what we'd call LOC. Now each AP-101 has a general processor which does the work and an IO processor. The IO processor, critically, has about 25K words of ram, which is suspiciously rounding error compatible with the 33K or so lines of code we're hearing about. It is of course bogus and meaningless numerology, which means its perfect for the article.)
Teaching is a low-paying job with too many working hours. Women work at places like Target, Wal Mart, and McDonalds which are not exactly known for how intellectually stimulating and high-paying they are. This is a weak argument. People who are uneducated and/or have life circumstances that force them into low paying crappy jobs are the people who end up with those...women, men, white people, black people, asian people...people in general.
> If you actually look at the sample output of the library, there's nothing out of focus,

We are working on the semantic downsampling and perceptual integration aspects of visualizing large data. This currently lives in its own repo: https://github.com/JosephCottam/AbstractRendering

> calling all de-emphasized data bokeh is a stretch at best

It's really just meant to be an evocative metaphor... :-)
They actually gave you an extra 2020 RXP if you star their repository (like I did).

From the 3975 RXP I could send, it turned to ~85 USD the other day.

Multiply that by 1698 and you get $167k. Pretty sure it was a win for them.
This is awesome. Typed in one of my favorite bands, found new bands I actually like so far. When I do that on Spotify, I get a bunch of crap that every service counts as "similar", but I hate, or bands I've already heard of a million times.
Microsoft Beat Apple to the Apple TV