skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to how "zipper organs" work in AK Dewdney's The Planiverse, they keep 2D creatures from being separated by their digestive system. The passage that covers this concept is on page 44 which is unfortunately out of the range allowed by the publisher -> http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Planiverse.html?id=w...
Rooftop soccer at Shibuya Station
Well 404 people starred this github repo that does it... https://github.com/maxme/bitcoin-arbitrage I added campbx support to a pull I did and tried it out a while back. It was kinda cool. So yeah, you can do it. The problem is, unless you have limitless liquid $$$ at both exchanges you're probably going to hit bottom on one of them sooner or later. At that point you're talking time and fees before you can get more cash in.
Genetics and education: Nurturing nature
For any dietary scheme built on avoiding certain foods (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, keto, paelo etc), there is a thriving cottage industry of substitutes.

Some folk have an ethical objection to milk but want something that vaguely resembles it. For such people, whitened liquid cardboard -- soy juice -- is a popular alternative. Other people drink almond juice or rice juice.

Edit: and some people have allergies or intolerance to things in milk. I'm lactose intolerant, so I'm covered by lactose-free milk. But some people are genuinely intolerant of milk proteins etc.
China's one child policy comes to mind. You could approach this in the west without force by tying tax thresholds to number of children.
Yes, but not the genetics of humans. My guess would be that the genetics of the soybean plants would be a more likely culprit for any strange hormonal reactions in men:

HT soybeans went from 17 percent of U.S. soybean acreage in 1997 to 68 percent in 2001 and 93 percent in 2013

source: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-geneticall...

The reality is that soybeans aren't genetically modified for nutritional reasons; they are modified for economic reasons, and GE foods haven't been around long enough for us to really know what kind of side-effects come from optimizing for the herbicide-tolerant "economics" side of GE.
Did he check that all the websites he linked were fully open source? Just asking.
It is interesting that usually kids don't get a good diet because parents don't care enough about nutrition, just eat whatever is cheaper or faster. In this case it is the opposite, a soy diet is usually associated with being very conscious of what the child eats. Soy is usually associated with "healthy" eating. But it ended up having an opposite effects.

"Healthy" eating is a huge market. There is of course Whole Foods, whole isles devoted to it in regular stores. It is a good of course. But there is a lot of irrationality and guesswork going on. What is interesting is that it is often people who are considered "intelligent" that end up believing various fads and strange ideas about health and nutrition. Like say I know a smart guy, a good programmer, believed in Acai thing and was drinking that. Someone else is into colon cleansing. Another one is eating super-doses of vitamins. These are supposedly educated people, good logic, math and programming skills yet they believe these strange ideas. And because of their intelligence they are harder to convince, as they are a lot better at rationalizing things away.
>I thought we were talking about now.

Ah well, I was talking about the future. You're correct about the above you mention, and regarding sockets I was of course referring to TCP/IP. I'm keeping an eye on the Jolla/ChromeOS/FireFox OS types, more than iOS as I think there will be significant changes to allow the above and more.
It's important to remember that the ads you're shown on Youtube videos are controlled by the channel owner, not by Google. Youtube itself doesn't have much control over how many ads you see.
I'm astonished that this "collection" exists at all, apparently as a 25-copy print run, which no one anywhere seems to have known about previously.

But even more surprising is that the eBay UK seller who sold this copy, presumably to the file-sharer, has sold at least two other copies of the same collection over the past 8 months.

Most astonishing of all: each of them sold for ~$100.

That's about the usual naïf price for obviously-fake art on eBay, and I suspect that when it all comes out, we will learn that these are fakes -- phonies, if you will -- rough cuts or early versions, or at best scribed copies out of Texas and Princeton.

Still, I'm surprised that Salinger fans wouldn't pay more for even the most cloudy-provenanced versions of these stories.
You can easily buy at BTC-E and sell at Coinbase for a profit. The spread between the two is routinely high enough to limit the price fluctuation risk to acceptable levels these days.
I have an idea for The Other Half: an Xbee 802.15.4 module that could facilitate a distributed telecommunications network between mobile handsets. I have my eye on David Rowe's open source codec2 to support voice calls because it can achieve telephone quality at 1400 bits-per-second, and I think that at this bandwidth multiple calls can be relayed efficiently, (and _securely_), though a mesh network. If a handset has WiFi access then calls can then route through the internet and path around the world. If we want to continue to use the antiquated practice of telephone numbers as identifiers, then we can use cryptographic primatives and a blockchain, (like bitcoin), to prove telephone number-handset authenticity on the new peer-to-peer network.

Combine this with a Jolla phone for a connection to a conventional cellular network and perhaps a handset could move seamlessly through peer-to-peer calling, handset-to-VoIP calling, and the PTSN.

Then the day may come where we can finally do away with these telecommunications companies, and have a decentralized and secure-by-design phone system once and for all.
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Yeah, even those can vary, but if you generally try to err on the side of local, organic, humanely raised, non GMO foods, you can be reasonably confident in the food you eat. Obviously you're never going to hit those all at once, and avoiding extremism in those areas can be good too; for example, sometimes people using organic pesticides can do more damage as they have to use much more pesticides than those using IPM with synthetic pesticides.

My approach is generally to err on the side of what's good, healthy, sustainable, and tasty rather than than what's cheap and convenient, but not to be an extremist about anything. I eat a mostly, but not entirely vegetarian diet; I get most of my produce locally when it's in season, but more shelf-friendly foods like flour I don't worry about getting locally.
When everyone are talking about bitcoin, it's the time the bubble will burst
Ask HN: A hacker's git commit which a ton of people commenting on
this is a long shot, but i remember a while ago there was a post about someone's site getting hacked, and the source code for the index page (i think) was on github, which lead to a ton of developers leaving hilarious comments about how terrible the code was. if anyone remembers that particular post/git commit - would love to get a link to it!
Based on communities with multi-generational welfarism, I'd suggest that idleness comes with pretty serious social problems. Employment imposes minimum pro-social requirements on the employee.
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It would kinda suck to end up as one of the poor schlubs who has to be one of the "few" who works while everybody else kicks back and screws around all day.
Don't you know it's your solemn duty to brainwash yourself so that others can get paid?
I find it interesting that though the use of machines and the like we are rapidly approaching what occurred in ancient cultures through the use of slaves, which is many having a great deal of time to devote to leisure.

What do we do we currently do with leisure? Watch TV unwind... but assuming you didn't need to unwind from work (because there was none) what would you be doing? Personally I would be studying random topics (sculpture, latin and dance), working on my own projects (software and community) and generally improving myself and hopefully society.

I would imagine that the absence of work would be a net gain for society as people could devote their time to helping others or doing something for pure merit.

Interestingly enough that's what the ancients did. The ancient greek word for leisure "schole" means learning or self improvement.
Agreed, "Adblock Edge" is the way to go. Original "Adbock Plus" gets money from Google to not filter their ads:

Google has tried to fight back against Adblock, partly by paying Adblock to whitelist some of their ads.
Google’s business model is all about ads but as awareness of Adblock grows it’s increasingly difficult to get ads in front of online users.

src: http://socialtimes.com/youtube-pre-roll-ads-drive-users-inst...

Also: https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-by-the-numbers
I would much rather wait five seconds than have the video ruined by an interruption. Yt videos are short. You don't have a 10 minute warm up.
whitened liquid cardboard

I object to that characterization. I rather like the taste of plain, unsweetened soymilk. It fills a very different niche than milk, however; milk is thicker and heavier (unless it's skim crap), and I'll have it with dessert, while soymilk is lighter and more refreshing. But I don't drink either on a regular basis.
No kidding:

"The device works by using a spoked, rimless wheel that allows cables to pass through as it rotates. The ends of the spokes are widened, and the cable is held together by a short curved sleeve through which these spoke ends slide."
Maybe Google is being non-evil, only accepting payment for ads users accept.
I don't see how there is any relationship at all between current implementations of welfare and a putative work-free society given that welfare is associated with low social position and limited access to resources for self betterment.
surely this would be technically feasible with a mechanism similar to a bearing [1] but with teeth on the inner and outer and cogs in place of the bearings (through which the shaft would pass)? the difficulty of course would be to tune the teeth so the outer turns at the same rpm as the inner..

..though i get the implication of design vs engineering

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Bal... )
Is it different to ending up as one of the "many" who work, while the few kick back and screw around all day?
Do paid videos (like GoT and BrBa) have these ads?
Our unrealistic views of death, through a thunderstorm
"Vegan diets do not result in heart disease. Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity, coronary heart disease (which causes heart attack), high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and some forms of cancer." (http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter...). There are plenty of other of legitimate articles if you look for them.

You may have some kind of soy allergy. Your gas and breast experience is neither universal nor typical.

I won't question your unusually strong feelings towards PETA, but please don't confuse what they do with animal welfare. Also, your bad feelings towards your father will do you no good in life, and you should try to get on decent terms with him before he dies (considering his advanced heart disease).
Is it? I don't know how to look for whether a photo is in the public domain, but I did just Google with the image. https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZisuyc26lmhJ...
Hmm. It seems like my plugins give me away.
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Are the ads higher bandwidth than the content?
And wait 6 months? No thanks.
If you fly regularly, you will realize that a substantial portion of all luggage brought on a plane technically does not pass the size dimension requirements. However, overhead compartments can still handle these "oversized" bags, and the flight attendants do not care as long as your bag is not blatantly breaking the rules. So storing a guitar on a plane? No problem. A lot of the other luggage shouldn't even be there.
Well how did YT make their money before Google acquired the-- oh. They didn't.
FF/RW problems may be your ISP and not YT. TWC is notorious for routing YT through its own servers and it's terrible; others may be just as bad. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5276772
Growing up near a major U.S. city with a very high percentage of multi-generational welfare recipients. The rampant idleness is one of the visible signs that actually makes me feel really upset. Driving to meetings and seeing a couple dozen very healthy guys in the middle of any given workday hanging around and harassing people because they're bored or, drinking themselves into a stupor just to kill another day where they do nothing and nothing happens, is a very serious problem. The parts of town where this happens are inevitably high crime, run down and dangerous.

None of these people have to work as all of their basic needs are met. Any extra money they come across (usually by panhandling) doesn't get reported and is almost always used for either bullshit like "bling", drugs/booze or gambling.

Very few have more than a cursory education and most dropped out of school as soon as they could stop getting truancy officers to stop sending them back. There's simply no reason to learn anything. Interacting with these folks is difficult even on basic conversational levels.

There's an old saying, "the devil makes use of idle hands" and it has a lot of wisdom in it on many levels.

I'm a very big proponent of large government work programs. Every one of these guys who I see every day would be better off earning their way by fixing up infrastructure in the U.S. or doing migrant farm work or something marginally productive for society. But instead they drag down entire sections of cities into such a state that even driving through their areas is a test of patience and risking your own safety.
Work is necessary to get a whole lot of stuff that needs to be done done. That does not mean that we should not have a basic income, reverse income tax, or generous welfare system with few strings attached.

However, it is annoying that proponents of basic income tax act as if the only reason for opposing basic income as a policy, is the idea that "work is necessary". The three policies I described are actually very similar, (well basic income is really a subset of negative income tax) but to choose between them is a subtle issue. Unfortunately the people who tend to get attached to political movements (or wannabe political movements) are rarely subtle. They prefer easy to identify bad guys, like people who believe in work as an ethical principal.
There was Facebook's front page source code posted on HN awhile ago. (https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406)

I don't think your talking about this one but still pretty interesting.
Yes. Because being one of the few layabouts on either end of the bell curve is a blessing, while being one of the few who works for everybody else is easily viewed as a punishment.
You should probably scroll all the way to the bottom
> Remember, you are also screwing the other passengers on the plane that can no longer fit their bag in overhead (on full flights). Their bag is now at risk because it will need to be gate-checked.

That isn't my problem, that is the airline and security's problem. After seeing "rules" applied unequally to passengers (I had to check an identical computer bag to someone else forcing me to purchase another computer bag in the duty free shops or to actually check my laptop) I no longer care about other passengers. When the airlines and airport security apply the rules equally, then I'll care about morals and ethics on airplanes.

Right now, if I have to check my bag because some dude carried on his guitar, I failed myself to get on early enough and I'll let the airlines know I don't like it. But I won't blame the guy who carried on his guitar.
I think these social problem comes from idleness without opportunity. Also they are placed low in society in terms of possessions so feel an underclass. If these people cant afford to follow their interests or even travel across town because they don't have bus fare yes it's going to create problems.

But what if all people have a similar base and while being on welfare have a reasonable level of disposable income to pursue hobbies? I don't know the answer but I suspect there would be a big outlook difference of US welfare recipients vs. Kuwait where welfare recipients have disposable income.

Further it's easy to say there will be people causing social issues. This will always exist to a degree. We have to consider if this would be relatively better or worse for society, not just would there be problems.
check out subbable.com , they sure trying to make content the same way npr does. thru donations and funding drives.
Get your start-up endorsed by Richard Branson
Denemo has better Lilypond output than Musescore and is not merely a specialized text editor like Frescobaldi.
500,000,000?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
By the way, just this evening I formatted the accepted papers in a nicer way: (okay, I'm biased)

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/nips2013/

The page allows you to toggle LDA topics and off to browse the papers, or (my personal favorite) find a paper you like and sort the other papers according to tf-idf similarity, which tends to reveal exceptionally relevant papers.﻿
It's not fully open. See http://piratepad.net/JollaSoftwareState

However Jolla said that long term plans about opening things up aren't finalized.
Nothing makes a place feel like a hive of groupthink like n-grams.
This didn't apply to me -- I'm not in the Bay Area and I had a house full of friends -- but I wanted to say how very kind it was for you to do this.

I'm thankful there are people like you in the world.
There might be other levers that can be used to encourage pro-social behavior than the current one, of chaining those not on welfare to the struggle for their existence. In my own view, financial autonomy is a basic right. We should seek out other, more dignified ways to discourage people from hanging out on street corners harassing people.
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The quote from "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" explains it better. This Wikipedia article is pretty bad.

One mechanical engineer at Frankfort was always trying to
design things and could never get everything right. One
time he designed a box full of gears, one of which was a
big, eight-inch- diameter gear wheel that had six spokes.
The fella says excitedly "Well, boss, how is it? How is it?"

"Just fine!" the boss replies. "All you have to do is
specify a shaft passer on each of the spokes, so the gear
wheel can turn!" The guy had designed a shaft that went
right between the spokes!

The boss went on to tell us that there was such a thing as
a shaft passer (I thought he must have been joking). It was
invented by the Germans during the war to keep the British
minesweepers from catching the cables that held the German
mines floating under water at a certain depth. With these
shaft passers, the German cables could allow the British
cables to pass through as if they were going through a
revolving door. So it was possible to put shaft passers on
all the spokes, but the boss didn't mean that the machinists
should go to all that trouble; the guy should instead just
redesign it and put the shaft somewhere else.

So, a shaft passer really does exist, and really has been used. But for this example, of someone designing a machine that has one axle going through another wheel, the better solution is just to move that axle, rather than trying to actually build a wheel with a shaft passer on each spoke.
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Tools to automatically search and utilize that data were somewhat limited. There were classes of people who could suppress their listing. And you could (generally) hide behind an initial and no-address listing as well (phone books listed _both_ phone number _and_ street address by default).

It was a very, very different age in many ways.

What ubiquitous cheap computing and fast connectivity creates is the possibility for thousands to millions of systems to attack a given person simultaneously (DDoS, distributed brute force attacks), or for a very small number of actors (as few as one) to attack from one to billions of people simultaneously.

The phone book vector was, by contrast, limited in that:

⚫ It only listed your name, phone number, and street address. Not reams of additional information.

⚫ Utilizing it required a phone call (toll calls, remember those), postage, or a street visit. Attacks, in other words, cost real money (at least for most players).

⚫ There was limited additional data readily linked by those data. Again, not the mebabytes to gigabytes of information in a typical social networking profile.

Yes, some players had access to more powerful tools -- but even marketing databases and the like were vastly more primitive than they are now, and hugely less available. Depending on when exactly you're talking about (1930s to 1980s), there might have been some computer capacity, but you'd likely have had to have spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, even as late as the 1980s, to effectively utilize the data in an automated fashion.

And yes, there were people who complained and concealed their listings, but the risks were very, very different in magnitude then.
Stallman is an idiot.

When you post to your blog you tell the NSA what you know. When you attend a conference where Stallman speaks and paid with your credit card the NSA knows you support his ludicrous ideas.

Stallman thinks information should be free, but apparently that doesn't include information about where you shop. Sure I get it. Information should be free unless he can charge you to hear him speak, or it is his information.

You can't have it both ways.

Also, is CSS bad in some way? Do themes support the Evil too? Cause for a famous guy that is one ugly website.
Unfortunately the answer for this is for every country in the world to go through the phases of economic development until they have a vibrant middle class. The only humane cure for overpopulation is economic wealth. Middle class people have fewer children.
Ask HN: Cloud computing as a gift
I'd like to buy some friends cloud computing power for the holidays. Something like $50-60 of credit to start a new idea. Are there companies like AWS and digital ocean that allow gifting of resources?
Cats recognise their owners' voices but never evolved to care
If you intend to watch content in 360p the ad may be 480p. Either way you have to wait for the ad to finish before the video would begin to buffer. And one in 5 ads didn't forward to the video because of some bug, so you have to refresh the page, watch the ad again.

On fast connections youtube often doesn't switch quality to 720p fast enough, so if you switch it yourself it will often stall. Then you have to refresh the page, watch an ad, then see updated quality.

YouTube center fixes this.
I don't like this idea for two reasons: first, tax incentives for having children help to make sure the children are taken care of - socio-economic status is negatively correlated with number of children, and lots of kids are born into big families that can't afford to take care of them properly. Giving these families additional money seems like enabling them, but the kid didn't do anything and deserves to have a reasonable standard of living.

Second, financial penalties for having children give the wealthy more freedom to reproduce. And couldn't tax penalties be considered a form of government force? Not that we don't already use incentives and penalties to shape behavior.

Education, access to birth control, and improving the standard of living of the poor all seem to result in lower birth rates with no force necessary.