skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please let us know what you think! We're trying to objectively find the themes that are trending around the world and then the least biased place to read about the theme. So there's four stages - we collect the stories from around 10 top new sources from around the world, collect trending data from sites including Wikipedia and twitter, process them to find the trends and biases and then output it into trending stories. It's for a project we've been working on and all the code is open sourced so we would love any contributions.
Pretty advanced WebGL demo from HelloEnjoy worth checking out (in Chrome)
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Show HN: 3 line news
With "The Baroque Cycle", you can combine the experiences.

(I'm mostly kidding, I enjoyed it, but some parts do go on)
This definition is a double-edged sword. What happens when non-secular state defines certain Westernisms/Americanisms as an existential threat to social moralities derived from the religion that gives a government legitimacy among its populace? In the case of non-secular governments, existential threats to religious mores are basically also threats to security. The criminals who blew up the Twin Towers on September 11th viewed their actions as aligned with their right to kill people in other sovereign nations in pursuit of their own security.

"The U.S. just gets the brunt of the blame for these sorts
of accidents because it bankrolls geopolitical stability
for the rest of the world."

Many would argue that we reduce geopolitical stability by greatly distorting geopolitics through far too many policies to enumerate here.
I'm not sure how you're disagreeing with the post you replied to.
I did a random sampling of 3 and it seems to be 100% of the US recommended intake, although I recall them mentioning that even if you only consumed 1/3rd (or 2/3rds?) of the Soylent packet for a day you'd reach your recommended levels, which seems at odds with these figures.
I don't think there's any question about that, actually. Women tend to cluster in government, academia, and health care, which have been the most resilient sectors in this recession.
This is likely due to the CRTC releasing a new wireless code back in June, where they specified that "[c]arriers must offer consumers the ability to unlock unsubsidized devices (ie. devices purchased at full price) at any time." [1]

I'm not sure why you paid specifically $50 (as the cost should be specified at the time of contract), as the policy was supposed to be 100% in effect as of December 3rd. Unless of course I'm mistaken and Fido changed their policies before this was introduced. Thankfully though, you can get your device unlocked in Canada after up to 90 days, at your carrier's discretion [1]. (Though really, forcing a 90 day wait won't really affect much in the long run if consumers start using this clause, so I expect most will just be willing to unlock the phone fairly quickly as time goes on)

[1] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6862/125/
A friend of mine was an early Kickstarter backer and brought his Rift around to my place try out with a few friends. We tried out Half-Life 2 and as soon as I put the Visor + headphones on I was blown away. My brain's "location neurons" were 100% fooled into thinking I was in the HL2 world. Within a few seconds I had lost the "background" feeling of being in a small room, and accepted I was in a large, open-aired train station (HL2 intro). Unbelievable.

The early Oculus DevKit certainly has some issues: no translational tracking gives me strong motion sickness, high persistence display makes the scene blur as I move my head, low resolution produces screen door effect. Regardless of these downsides, after 10-15 seconds of use I accepted that VR will be the "next big thing."
Because the government making your life miserable by freezing your account is just as common as someone stealing your credit card, right?
Almost none of these valuations are the result of investments after Demo Day. These are later rounds, and later rounds converge on an ultimate valuation.
Is $60/month enough for such a service?

No. Not even close. $60 a month is cheap for best effort support via email 24 business hours later, rather than on-demand phone support 7 days a week.

Consider from the store's perspective. "My database is corrupt." means "We can't process transactions and are losing $15+ per minute", right? That sounds like it's worth closer to "What you pay for insurance every month" rather than "What you pay for toilet paper every month."

I'd be inclined to price this in the hundreds per month for virtual intervention. After you get a few clients under your belt, I suspect that while it might be priced monthly it will be sold yearly. (i.e. It's $500 a month, you want to buy it, OK, I'll invoice you for $6,000 for your first year of service and if you want to continue it 11 months from now I'll invoice you for another $6,000.")

Local hands-on assistance available "at preferential rates."

So if I hire a $35,000 a year help desk employee - I've got approximately $6K a month left in revenue to work with.

I'm not aware of your location, which makes it difficult to calculate this with specificity, but you should know that a $35k a year employee will likely cost you closer to $50k all in. You will be responsible for payroll taxes, contributions on unemployment insurance and worker's compensation, etc etc. I also think you're underestimating your staffing needs by at least 0.5 FTEs. (Consider: your employee gets a standard offering for holidays/sick days/vacation, right? Do databases just agree to not corrupt themselves when she's on vacation or do you need to plan for availability then?)
You can tell the same thing to the fathers, then.
Given some of the comments that have come out of the the Stratfor emails, I don't even think you would need to be a cynical person. There are many in Washington D.C. (and probably in every capital) that are more than eager to fan flames because it keeps their pipelines full.
Macronutrient breakdown:

http://blog.soylent.me/post/68180382810/soylent-1-0-macronut...
related: check out CLJS in Qt (via QmL) on YouTube
I don't think the NaCl port will do ARM code generation.

I'll write more about Go's NaCl support once it's actually in the tree. :-)
If anyone's interested, https://coderpad.io has this exact feature as well - you can give an interview candidate a problem in Go, and watch them solve it in realtime. As you go, you can execute any of the code written so far.

My sandboxing uses Docker instead of NaCl.
They don't normally get bounce requests, though -- a tracking image is easier.

You've probably noticed that most spam comes from "borrowed" email addresses, not ones the spammer actually controls. If anyone ever sends a ton of spam with your email address on it (this has happened to me) it really drives the point home.
Nope, YC's equity gets diluted like everyone else's. In fact, while many investors will buy more shares (at the new price) to keep their % ownership, YC does not, so their ownership % when the company exits is probably 3% or less, down from the original 6%.
Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come for Tech.
We get diluted. Every investor gets diluted. They may have the right to buy more stock in later rounds to maintain their percentage, but they do have to buy it, at the price of that round.
In one sense this is true, non-fiction works are much richer in factoids; conversely, however, fiction is richer in certain other facts:

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.

This doesn't mean that non-fiction works cannot pertain to the reader/viewer that kind of knowledge, e.g. the iconic image of Phan Thi Kim Phuc burn by napalm in Vietnam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc) "speaks volumes" as they say.

As for dating, here's some good advice (assuming you're a man): grab a copy or Pride and Prejudice and read it to get a grasp of the female psyche. And if you don't read it at least carry it around where she will see.
used to go mammoth hunting with my bros but it wuz too much dangerous work so i thot about how to catch lots of smaller critters instead. then i dug holes with stakes in them and set big tree branches to fall down and kill critters. that was hard work too, but not so dangerous as poking mammoth over and over until it falls down. now my female calls me lazy because i stay at cave more often and only go outside to chek these things i call traps. guess i'll leave cave at old times but instead go to urgz place he has this stuff he calls beer and it tastes kinda bad but after a few i don't care.
Usually that's called shared source.
Nor Wufoo, sold for 35 million.
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Baldur's Gate 2 is still my all-time favorite. It is more than just a game. One of humanities greatest works of art.
Your first paragraph sounds quite defeatist. In my experience, the way you deal with "minor details" is to write them down in a style guide. It'll take away a lot of the quibbling about small things. Some will find it limiting, others will find it liberating.

I've worked at several jobs that had decade old code in production. Some cared about the little things, some didn't. I know which code was the best to work with. In my experience, the broken windows theory is true when it comes to code. The little things matter in the long run.
Are they saying I should download the copies of all the games asap?
A book I actually finished? I'd say One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt. It's not the whole story though. Bezos is portrayed in a favorable light throughout.
curious about this too. guessing they will not work...
Would be enlightening to see CPI_n variations, eg:

(1) adj: Housing | Urban vs Rural or Index[a]

(2) adj: Schooling | Univesity Tuition (state or private)[b]

_________

[a] http://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/uspricemon.pdf

[b] http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/24/pf/college/public-college-tu...
How does this help user privacy? Currently your open action is not not tracked via images, since they're disabled by default. With this, anyone can find out when you displayed their email. That seems rather crappy.

Nothing stops Gmail from doing the loading on their side (to hide UA, IP, etc.) but only when you ask for it.

What's Google's motivation for this? Do they do emails that need to be tracked? Are they doing this for themselves to avoid having to special-case their own emails?

Wouldn't it be better to work on a standardized way to embed images in email, so that recipients can get nicely-rendered emails without exposing themselves to action tracking?
First metal 3D printed gun produced and successfully tested
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2306120/first-metal-3d-printed-gun-produced-and-successfully-tested
This is possibly the most misguided comment I've read on HN.
And here's a compact version: http://pastebin.com/WNZnF1N7

Extracted via command line, of course:

curl http://blog.soylent.me/post/69835344439/soylent-micronutrient-breakdown | grep -o "<strong>.*</strong>" | sed "s/<strong>\(.*\)<\/strong>/\1/"
Oregon signs up just 44 people for Obamacare despite spending $300 million
Mine:

Good books teach you about the world and about yourself.
Eh. When they fetch GUID_2.jpg to check its content, it's already too late at that point; the marketer has been notified that this particular user has opened the email.

Google might save themselves some storage space, but not anyone's privacy.

If Google changed their policy to fetch all images when the email is delivered, that basically delivers a false positive to all marketers/spammers/etc. -- which is better than more accurate info, but it's still worse than just not loading the images.

It's still a confirmation that the email address is valid, plus... who wants to give spammers (or marketers, for that matter) a false positive? The unsophisticated ones won't realize that it's a Google change; they'll just put you on the "interested" list and move on.
According to this[1] the pressure on Europa is "one hundred billionth that of the Earth". Your graph uses a log scale, so maybe I'm measuring this wrong, but I'm pretty sure under so little pressure, water can be vapor at -50ºC. So the pressure is hardly negligible in this case.

[1]http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/12/te...
Weird question, but, did you possibly, by chance, develop/debug this in part in a café in Berkeley on Saturday with a copy of Think Bayes on the table? 'Cause I may have been sitting at the next table if so.
Thoughts on Instagram Direct
Well worth looking at the rest of the site. Loads of great projects worth a look at.
John Carmack coming in as CTO probably added $25M to that figure.

Regardless, Oculus's concept is the future of gaming -- anything that can trick the brain so substantially is going to be a winner.
You could also sell back to the grid. I've known people to do this if they live near streams / rivers in WA
Good point about an outsider potentially poking at internal.corporate.com. Though you could only trick support@example.com into making a GET request in this manner, right? Which ideally doesn't change data, but obviously exposes bigger attack area for vulnerabilities like the rails one.
What about any kind of exercise video that's filmed as if someone is virtually in the class? I can't believe this kind of thing can be patentable AT ALL, but the next worst thing is substituting [Yoga] for [X] a hundred times and also patenting those. Frivolous, bullshit patents.
He's XQ2FOD
As a 3D-fan and owner of so many different displays since the VR-32, this one really makes me excited. They got that the studios are not the king of content, but the games engines are. Field of view trumps resolution when it comes to immersion and most other companies always tried to go for something that was focused on movies. I hope that this investment leads many companies to create true immersive experiences and lets 3D games break out of the 1st person shooter trap.
What are some books you deem as good based on that criteria?
Still not sure how this varies from a basic bulk vitamin and mineral powder (besides the übernerd ego "this one weird nutritional trick" loyalty marketing): http://www.gnc.com/graphics/product_images/pGNC1-9331188_gnc...
Oculus Rift is a paradigm shift not just for computer gaming but for a host of other industrial and technical services. I for one can't wait to incorporate the oculus rift when preforming invasive experiments on animals using an endoscope.
There's an associated danger with fiction: though it reflects how the author sees the world, it may not match how the world really is. Fiction can intentionally or unintentionally invite readers to draw universal lessons which are misleading.

I'd even suggest that some authors, particularly those with strong political views, may be motivated to write fiction in order to give support to their own ideas. It's a blank canvas onto which to project an idealized world, and to fulfill wishes. (If that's the case, it can serve as a mildly negative Bayesian signal about whether the ideas are really true. If there were so many real-world examples illustrating the beliefs, why would the author be moved to write fiction to promote them?)

Apart from politics, plots are more interesting when they're surprising, but almost by definition, surprising plots are less likely to be generalizable to the world.

(Of course, non-fiction can really be fiction in disguise, but at least non-fiction can be fact-checked. To cite a recent Hollywood example, wherever the movie Argo is suspenseful, it's simply made up. Minor spoiler: If you drew a lesson about how going directly against the instructions of both the President and your CIA boss can be a useful tool to cause your boss to suddenly rally around you and later commend your success, you would be gravely misled. Interesting plots thrive on such unrealistic conflict.)
But you can't do that without requesting both images from the host.
And he specifically uses qualifier "Paradise". I mean, can permits exist in a paradise?
That's exactly what I'm saying; open source misses the point. This is a free software issue.
Mine:

- Jules Michelet, History of France (pg suggested somewhere to read books about history. I now fully agree, it is a way to get the best possible understanding of today's world. As much as we have to understand how a cell has grown from nothing to its current state to really understand what it is, we also have to understand how a country has been built in the long history to understand it's current issues)

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (read it again).
No, you can just add the games for free to your GoG account in de coming hours. From then on you can download the games anytime you want.
I see he mentioned Catcher in the Rye. I read it after hearing so many people say how it was such an influential book for them. John Lennon was even killed by a guy supposedly inspired by this book, and it's been often banned (some of the scenes might be unsuitable for a conservative school, I suppose).

Can any technical-types here explain if they found it particularly impressive? It's well written but I didn't think it very notable. Do I need to read it with a specific mindset?
- The Hero's Journey
I was really skeptical about Oculus, but I had a chance to try out a demo by Amir Hirsh that combined an Oculus with simple Kinect-based limb tracking. I could look down and see my own hands and they really felt like my hands. I have no idea how this is going to work in practice (are we going to have to play games in large empty warehouses) but it is magical in a way that is hard to describe if you haven't had a chance to try it.
It always struck me as odd that one of the original defining features of AWS never had a web interface. Maybe they were making it API-only to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot with exorbitant bills. Regardless through I'm really glad to see this finally!
am I the only one that just have thunderbird on plain text mode with gmail and never display images?
Your reasoning is flawed. If managers thought that difficulty was constant, they would reward people who put in the least effort, since they must be the highest skilled people.
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I know a few, but perhaps they're not close enough to New York?

Sounds like you're complaining about style over substance... I suppose I'd find it annoying as well.
Not bitcoin puts, dollar puts. You have a tuple for each option position (buy or sell, call or put, usd or btc). You wanted to buy btc puts (buy, put, btc). You can create a similar position by reversing any two of those. I suggested, after the correction, (sell, put, usd). Another possibility is (buy, call, usd). Or (sell, call, btc).

Unfortunately any position you buy is going to have counterparty risk, that's why I suggested selling. Well, it's not a real suggestion, just a thought.
I'm with you there. Although it does play out a tad differently, considering only one parent actually carries the child.
Schools Use Web Tools, and Data Is Seen at Risk
Though, generally the US RDA is around the minimal needed level.
omg! yeah, i was. small world. do you go to Berkeley?
To be honest, neither am I - although part of it seems to be the idea of this as a complete diet replacement rather than a supplement (although I suspect the existing products are marketed as a supplement for legal reasons more than anything else and Soylent may have to use the same language)
Remember this next time you hear the "77 cents to the dollar" lament by young feminists in college with a degree in "women's studies". They are not likely to be disadvantaged, just more likely than men to want to have babies and/or a more flexible job when they turn 30+.

Also, interestingly enough, white women have been typically been better off than black or Hispanic men as regards wage gap with respect to white men (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0882775.html) -- something that is often conveniently swept under the carpet by white feminists.
No, he got it exactly right. Evolution is not an algorithm, it doesn't optimize anything, changes are not improvements, it doesn't seek opportunities to improve efficiency.
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I really love the adaptation of the format in lobste.rs. Adding tags I think helps especially the smaller and not-as-quickly moving communities.

http://lobste.rs
Indeed. It's a commentary on the "me to" nature of the cryptocurrency scene. Anybody can clone bitcoin-qt and change the strings to "MyCoin" or "GiveMeBucksPls". BBQCoin is in the same vein.

What's absurd is that these meta-joke coins can still speedily acquire value. The price of Dogecoin has doubled or tripled in the last 2 days on this exchange (volume is tiny) https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=DOGE&base=BTC

Is it still a joke then? Yes, but some people clearly don't think so. If you extrapolated the final market capitalization from the current price, it would already have reached over $10m

wow

such lol
As a european this is what I wonder about most, I'm toying with the idea of ordering Soylent but I'd prefer to get the UK RDA... but it seems that mixing vitamin supplements with Soylent runs the risk of an excess of a number of vitamins (and I'm too lazy to mix my own... maybe I should stick to cooking!)
Pushing pixels to a high resolution display, under tight latency constraints, is going to stress even today's high-end systems. If they succeed at appealing to the mass market, I bet there will be a significant effect on the rate of system upgrades.
Easily is a bit of a stretch, because most users are on NAT setups and they would need to go into their router settings and know how to set them up to allow the external request to get through. So, yeah easily if (a big if) you know how to do that, or if (another big if) you are on a machine that is directly visible on teh interwebs.
Exactly. If I'm allowed to smash the phone with a hammer than I should be allowed to twiddle the electronic bits inside. Anyway, it sounds like the carriers finally agree.
I was in a similar situation once. A manager with zero development experience was overruling our decisions on how to architect the application and the workflow.

I was young and needed money badly at the time so I went along with it, but if I ever found myself in a similar scenario again - where some chest beating bozo is telling me how to do my job - I would explain that I'm not the best fit for their work culture and promptly give my resignation notice.

Unless you're desperate for cash or something, don't ever subject yourself to such blatant disrespect. It's a truly soul crushing experience.