skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had already recently come up with a list of things to stop doing:

- eating meat and dairy (mostly... I just don't want to contribute to the animal cruelty/factory farming epidemic. I'll still eat fresh caught fish and free-range meat)

- using Facebook, Google, and other stuff that contributes to the surveillance state.

- using non-open source stuff. Starts with transitioning to Linux.

- purchasing stuff that supports IP law or DRM.

- using "herbal supplements" that support violent drug cartels. Still fine with anything produced by other means.

The hardest part is building a habit of not doing stuff that you've been trained to do since birth, such as changing your diet to vegetarian. Decided to use a spreadsheet to keep track. I may still forget and screw it up, but at least every day I have to remind myself whether I did it right or not, which slowly reinforces the correct habits. Has been working pretty well so far.
I leave it as straight up CSS and then add any overrides I need in a separate CSS file. That way when it comes time to upgrade I can just drop in the new Bootstrap CSS without worrying about a thing.
You're not clearly biased, no.
Assuming this project is satire (which I hope it is), it's amazing because it:

- does something rather novel

- does something that, to the sufficiently desperate or inept developer, might seem like a half-decent idea or a cunning shortcut

- does something that is just asking for trouble and that nobody in their right mind should do without expecting terrible, terrible things to happen
It's only life-altering (in a good way) if the analysis 23andMe sent you was accurate, and many professionals in the field of the genetics say that it often is not. You say you haven't had problems with the accuracy of their findings, but unless you've had the test repeated by a research university, I'm not sure how you'd know.

Don't get me wrong - I want all this data for myself - but I don't want to be misled or falsely worried.
This guys got a good sense of humor.
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It's really interesting that Nelson Mandela is a flamewar topic here. Somehow, I'm not surprised.
> Forgiveness is the first step in changing a society

Yes, but sometimes it backfires. Sometimes a Nuremberg is necessary.

However, it has to be quick, but within limits of reason and fairness. It also has to be set in motion immediately after a change of hands. It should be more of a "fair compensation and equalization" than merely about retribution.

Although this will be a controversial comment, to see an example of where (Mujib ur Rahman's) "lets forgive, no harm, no foul" did not go down well is Bangladesh's war of independence.

The little that I know of the SA situation, Mandela chose right. But the right choice is not the same in every situation.
I downloaded my raw data and took screenshots of my results just in case they get shut down. :(
Where on Earth do people learn to write this crap? Someone must be teaching it, because it's extremely prevalent, particularly from people in marketing.

One if the minor joys of my life is that as a native English speaker leaving in France, people often ask me to "correct the English" of press releases. When I run into word salad like your example I just tell my interlocutor that I don't understand what they are trying to say. After many minutes of them explaining, I rewrite the paragraph in plain English :) begone marketing-speak, I hereby banish thee to the low gates of Hell!
We moved back to SA a week after Mandela was released. My thoughts on SA as someone who saw this goal of transformation fail.
Mandela was an incredible humanist, more so than people realise. his government was run on charm, persuasion and super bright people completely unqualified for their roles. The outcome of that was that technocrats (given the failings) and the movement of technocrats took over post (Mbeki).
The vacuum (of burocratic skill and knowledge [i go uggh]) which was running a system that big could not (and never can) be built in a resistance movement.
So arise the technocrats. Technocrats cannot understand/appease the person living in a shack not having any money or future 20 years post apartheid. So now the deal they negotiated in 90+ 96 + 99 (and yes it was a good deal in many ways (Chicago school) bad in so many as well) has only created a greater imbalance. Now we have entered the era of populists. figure that one out yourself.

Mandela's death will do more for SA and a fair bit of southern africa than most occurrences will, and era of memberance, reading reflection, humanism will come about. for a while. My greatest grievence with Mandela simply lies in that he did not break up the tri party alliance early (trade unions, communist party and the anc which is extremely right wing in contrast) allowing them to get 60%+ votes which effectively means it is a new dictatorship. (i am sorry if 80% of the votes are prone to gerrymandering + an extremely uneducated populace i won't call it a true democracy - then again first past the post - hah!).

a great human. the meaning and writing and so indefinitely misused from now.
In about a year of using Campfire, I never saw a single bug fix or new feature. We've since moved to HipChat, and while it's not perfect, it's so refreshing to pay for a service that gets regular updates (not to mention has decent mobile clients).
College is also a really good place to meet and work with people who could eventually become your technical cofounders, the scarcest ingredient for most startups.
tactic yes, but also a great appeal to his humanist intellectual position.
From the terms for embedding the player [1]:

> You agree to place a link (“SEO Link”) to bop.fm’s home page (www.bop.fm) on at least one (1) web page within each Website that is no more than 3 clicks away from the home page of the applicable Website and is indexed by Google with “Page Rank”. Each SEO Link will be displayed using the anchor text “bop.fm” (the “Anchor Text”) and will be accompanied by a generic description of bop.fm (e.g., “bop.fm enables any user to play any song, use any streaming music service, and share with any friend.”) and the bop.fm mark. You will not prevent search engines from crawling any web page containing an SEO Link and crediting bop.fm for such SEO Link, including, without limitation, by using “no follow” designations, placing the SEO Links in an i-frame, or placing the SEO Links in JavaScript.

This seems like a bit of an odd requirement, especially since it's not mentioned anywhere other than the ToS.

[1] http://www.bop.fm/tos-meta
I can imagine sets of negative rights which allow taxation and are logically coherent, but there are none which I can imagine anyone considering useful. Can you give an example of such a set?
There was no push for war. The apartheid government just wanted to finish their plundering and not be liable for the economic position they created.
Are you joking? This project is blatant satire.
I think the technical difficulty of what the module actually does should be a pretty clear indication that this is satire?
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Who said "one step"?

And yes, it more or less does suggest it. It is very far from conclusive or I would be a lot more worried.
Don't tell me you don't know that gluten, along with any form of sugar or anything else outside the paleo diet,, is not hacker-halal. You should be eating strict paleo or keto lest you die early, bloated and tumescent like that kid from Akira after he started mutating.
There are some examples for SIF 3.0 check out: http://kb.nsip.edu.au/display/SATWVC/SIF+REST+-+URL+Structur...
some REST clients here
http://sif.dd.com.au/demos/ Example URL here:http://siftraining.dd.com.au/api/StudentPersonals/
and heaps of training materials
http://kb.nsip.edu.au/display/SATWVC/SIF+AU+Technical+Worksh...
and a github with example clients and endpoints
https://github.com/nsip
and Australia has just signed up to SIF as a country.
https://www.sifassociation.org/AboutUs/Why-Interoperability/...

So open Standards look to be in pretty good shape. Perhaps Clever should support SIF as well? Then it wont be able to be blamed as being so propitiatory.
I have never thought of this, thanks!!
I have ambivalent feelings too but more in a gracious sense. I have long hold the philosophy that data should be treated as a consumer's personal property. Companies have reasonable rights to refuse to serve but they shouldn't be given authority to confiscate consumer's personal property and close their accounts unless warranted by the law of the land.
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Ask HN: I want to build a better content discover platform. 
Tell me what you hate, what you love and if you think i'm crazy.

Appreciate all your feedback on this, it's extremely valuable.
Well, I guess I wouldn't work for the NSA no matter what (well, it depends on the specific job, of course, they might actually have some positions that are not ethically questionable, after all), and there is one important reason why pay cannot compensate for it: The effects are not just on others, but also affect myself, so that's a cost that I have to subtract from the pay. A society with complete surveillance removes everything from life that makes it worth living, for everyone, including myself, and you can not buy that back, so money would be worthless as compensation.

I think a common misconception is that ethics are somehow something that you obey for others to gain from it. A concensus of behaving ethically creates wealth for everyone, including yourself. It's not that we do not commonly mug other people in the street because we don't want to have their money, but because a society where you can expect to not be mugged is just so much nicer to live in, so that is a value in itself. The only problem with that is that society can support some free riders, and so there is some motivation to be the free rider.
Good point albedo, I have met a lot of interesting people.
> This article seems to glorify the idea of people keeping money out of the banking system to avoid banks making money off interest spreads.

The problem with banks is not that they make money off of interest spreads. The problem is that banks are an integral part of the fiat money system that allows the creation of new money too easily. (Banks create money by lending out money held in demand deposits. For example, if I deposit $10 in my checking account and the banks lends out $5 of it, then I still have my full $10 to spend while the borrower has $5 of new money. This is called fractional reserve banking.)

Bitcoin, because it is fixed in quantity, cannot be used in a fractional reserve system.

> But our economy actually relies on capital being available through banks.

Our economy relies on investment which can be defined as resources directed towards creating value in the future rather than in the present. By aggregating the resources of many individual savers and making them available as business loans, banks facilitate investment. They could continue to do this with bitcoin.

> How would people having all their wealth in bitcoin be any different than people keeping cash under the mattress ...?

Banks are better than mattresses because they are more secure and they make transactions easier. You can't wire money from your mattress or write a check against a mattress account.

Bitcoin is more like a bank account than a mattress in this regard.
I feel like this could have been a lot better. It appears laggy displaying the time line. Why does this operate in small increments rather than be analogous? You can easily interpolate the colors between the previous tick data point and the next tick data point. It would appear so much better if you did. On top of that, it was incredibly unintuitive.

I had no idea what the buttons in the bottom left meant. Why is does the "play" button use a fast forward icon? Why doesn't it turn into a stop or pause icon when it's playing? When I first opened it, there's no indication of why I had to select a gender before I could even type a name. Displaying the input field (it doesn't look truly because it matches the color theme) and the gender button doesn't inform the user what to do at all.

Overall, it's pretty neat but it's a pretty good example of something that looks pretty but is the opposite of usable.
Being an undergrad with no prior distributed systems education, I was able to comfortably read the white paper on Raft. The same cannot be said of any of the highly recommended white papers on Paxos. It's pretty awesome how many implementations have popped up since the white paper, too. I think the cool thing about Raft is that it is making consensus widely available and easy for people to plug into their applications, rather than requiring an expert to integrate Paxos into their application.
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Space travel (even to LEO) is pretty bloody expensive. I'm not sure any type of mining will become worthwhile or even feasible without significant breakthroughs in equipment/fuel costs in the next few years. Without them, I don't think any costs of going to the Moon are recoverable by mining - unless, of course, we find out the cheese turns out to be a solid lump of Platinum.

Of course if the visits are purely scientific, then the costs will be worthwhile. As a commercial venture, I don't see the point.
Both of those can be really easy or really hard, depending. What exactly would you like to learn ?

Both things are related to control loops, so how about you make a slightly more complex robot that can detect it's position somehow, and get some pathfinding going ?
Dollar cost averaging is not an effective strategy (buying dips), all capital upfront is your best bet.
I read their paper about 5 months ago - seems like a good idea . Specifically, the redundancy portion of the consensus algorithm seemed like a good idea at the time.

Does anyone know if it's implemented anywhere? Or real-life performance statistics and it's overhead cost?
From what I have read I'm sure MRI machines use liquid helium because the superconducting magnet needs to be very cold and liquid nitrogen isn't cold enough. LN2 was used as a sort of buffer/insulator but has been replaced by cryocooler cooled dewar.

Not that I know much more I just skimmed The Basics of MRI: http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/chap-9/chap-9.htm
What Rare Earths Are Locked in Your Cell Phone?
Just saw CoreOS uses it.
I thought the same - similar to what Paper does with their journals.
I can see how that kind of logic applies to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but to apply it in this case is horrible and racist. Shame on you.
For example, the same political system, we here in Canada have Harper there is no way he is popular but he keeps winning elections.
Sadly that's the trend of late. I unsubscribed from /r/dataisbeautiful for this very reason: tired of seeing pretty-looking but functionally-useless data visualizations.
Reminds me of http://criso.github.io/ChuckNorrisException/
I'm at a loss of words. RIP.
I think you should look more into the origins of this "Intelligent Design" movement or whatever you want to call it. But please don't read anything on the website of the OP.
Agreed! I would love to take trains more often, but when a flight takes 2 hours and a train ride takes 24, it's harder to justify also spending 1.5x as much for the train ride.

Source: Visiting family in California via California Zephyr vs planes.
This is probably OT, but how much is MIX/MMIX still used in the new books coming out? Volume1 had MIX code for everything, and IIRC by Volume3 it wasn't as pervasive.

Does Volume4 have MMIX code for all algorithms presented?
How does one overcome the Peter Principle?
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> US$10000/year

Where you from? That seems VERY low, even for Asia. Have you any portfolio? When you say frontend, do you mean CSS/HTML or photoshop/graphics? Are you familiar with Grid systems / bootstrap / foundation / responsive design?
Do Americans really tuck sheets? How does one sleep with tucked in sheets?
What's successful about 23andMe so far? (I'm asking genuinely, as the company is new, and I wonder what the benchmark for success that you have in mind is.)
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This is awesome. Maybe the successor to C++ will be C++. Another really neat library is libcppa[1], which provides erlang-inspired concurrency with the actor model but also support for general functional features like pattern matching and guards.

[1]http://neverlord.github.io/libcppa/manual/index.html
No justice in the end
Why not just use photos of the dolls and skip turning them into sprites altogether?
IME odesk/elance rates are half what you can get in person...and some of those in person jobs just amount to meeting the client once a week
Legroom? I also value the lack of cavity searches.
There's always someone who takes it seriously. (And I don't mean the parent comment.)
Your comment reminds me of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the brutal dictator of Romania between 1967 and 1989.

In on December 23, 1989 he and his wife were captured while attempting to flee the country. On December 25 they were given a show trial (playing more than a little fast and loose with fairness...), found to be guilty, and shot.

Nearly immediately after the execution, execution was declared to be abolished. This upset some Romanians who thought that more executions were in order, but their new constitution (ratified in 1991) cemented this decision. Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu remain the last people ever executed in Romania.

From wikipedia:

"The manner in which the trial was conducted was widely criticized inside and outside Romania. However, Ion Iliescu, Romania's provisional president, said in 2009 that the trial was "quite shameful, but necessary" in order to end the state of near-anarchy that had gripped the country in the three days since the Ceaușescus fled Bucharest[23] Similarly, Victor Stănculescu, who had been defense minister before going over to the revolution, said in 2009 that the alternative would have been seeing the Ceaușescus lynched on the streets of Bucharest.[24]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu

I am a bit conflicted on the whole affair, but I think my main take-away is that what needs to be done is not always pleasant, but if it must be done, do it fast and make sure it does not happen again. If you are going to do something unpleasant, make sure that you at least do it to break the cycle.
http://www.postpals.co.uk/

http://www.sendkidstheworld.com/index.php/kids-details.html?...

How about these sites?
Except you're not using the sewing machine to design anything. The design is already done; you're just making physical prototypes of something already designed because nobody has time/inclination to learn Blender.

I'm just rather sick of misleading "clickbait" titles on HN.
Bend the mattress.
Hmm. Why do Americans take trains at all, then? Only thing I can think of is "fear of flying", but is that enough demand to make trains worth running? Thanks in advance.
What news of the price are you following?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/05/bitcoin-pr...
I don't recommend this "LW" web site. This way only madness lies.
"I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence." - Malcolm X
Maybe he meant 100k/year? That would be below market in the US for a web dev with 8 years experience. Lack of degree is pretty meaningless if you can actually code. I'd happily hire him full time for a full year just helping with games and fun web projects of my own for $10k/year, lol. On eLance I end up paying more like $5k a month for an active project for a single developer.
Are you thinking of the LLC to hide your identity? I don't think that will work--the LLC is a legal structure that has your name linked to it in the state that is registered in.

It sure sounds like you think the LLC provides more protection against this particular problem than it actually does. Sadly, I don't think it does nearly enough to make your concerns go away. IANAL and AFAIU, the LLC will protect your personal money if you get sued if you are not found by the judge to be personally negligent, and if you are not found by the judge to be merely an alter ego of the LLC (and thus s/he would pierce the corporate veil, i.e., order your personal assets liable), and if you pay your lawyers up to $1 mil in legal fees to defend, etc.

It's really not as protective as any of us would hope.
Embedded test software is developing. Look at http://throwtheswitch.org/ and my (more minimal) "greatest": http://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest
Help me, I can't figure out for the life of me what this is.

It suggests to put in "Rob" as a name. I do, I hit "explore", and it says "Alaska 0" and the map is completely white. I try hitting the down button and the map is still white. I try dragging the slider, and everything's still white, except occasionally some state turns a very light gray. (Chrome on OSX.)

I try putting in multiple names, but it still seems to show only the first one in the map?

This needs some instructions/explanations. And from the HN title, I thought this was going to be something about names most associated with rich people...
Yeah, so income on oDesk for hard workers is brutally disappointing.

euro 20k/8 = 2.5k /month
1200/8 = 150 hours /month ~= 40 hours/week

That's actually not that bad for being a programmer in, say, Eastern Europe, but it's rapidly becoming a rather bad wage even there.
Not needing to drive is a big draw of living in New York City, where my oldest son lives.
For anyone considering paying the $2.99 to read the rest of the story: it's a somewhat interesting read, but really doesn't give any additional insight into the condition itself. It describes the author's rather uneventful series of attempts at finding a pharmaceutical cure, and then him resigning to a life with HPPD.
I think pointer syntax in C, not pointers themselves, is what causes confusion for most beginner programmers. This post explains it well: http://objcsharp.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/the-great-pointer-...
> getting the extra 20% out of the grid is peanuts compared to the ability to move power wherever

It is one and the same improvement. Though you're right the second implication is much more important.
4. There probably won't be too many of them and that means you can go to some pretty serious lengths to ensure that they're highly reliable.

I would envision a single cable from Australia to China to Russia to Europe. A dogleg down through Africa and

You need 2- or 3- way redundancy, or one drunk backhoe operator (or aircraft cargo pilot) could knock out power to half a continent.
> Worst case scenario they sue the company and get all $0 worth of assets from it (assuming no sales).

But worst case has to assume significant sales, or what's the point of the whole discussion? And are you suggesting the OP doesn't defend in court? Because if not, then legal fees will kill OP. If he doesn't defend, then I guess it is cross your fingers and hope the jury in East Texas holds an Opposite Day that day.
I love:

- insightful personal stories

- thoughtful reviews and perspectives

- great visualizations of interesting/compelling concepts

I hate:

- Clickbait ("You're never going to believe THIS! Please, don't do this, it's insulting to the reader. Tell us what it's about.")

I wish:

Things were curated more effectively. Think about all the /top and /gilded sections of subreddits. I would like all the best information about all the interesting topics, curated, analysed, interpreted, centralized, maybe in a wiki-ish model.

Cheers.