skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sony launches dual USB flash drive geared towards Android smartphones
No, I've never heard of a funding round with performance targets.
lots of people are already using it to buy drugs and do online gambling.

it can also be used by people in countries that restrict internet access to buy vpn services.
It's been and gone a few times over the years on that route. At times immigration but no baggage claim, at times transit lounge (actually I'm not sure I ever did go through when that was in force, I think it came and went in-between trips for me), at times full re-check-in... anyway, I think the setup was different every time. And every time they found a way to make it a PITA. I eventually got fed up with it, and don't travel that way any more.

I prefer via Dubai, Hong Kong, or Shanghai. Border control officers there, while still clearly doing their job meticulously, manage to be polite as well.
Worth noting: keyword "therapeutic". Plumpynut is specifically addressing refeeding syndrome. It is not necessarily formulated for long term use.
You can. I even qualified that in the next line. ;-)

Even easier, you could just say "Scale it up, we're demoing this to 3,000 users at PyCon", and do that proactively as well -- that said, it's likely done at the expense of efficiency or cost.
Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal
Confirmed: http://www.obj.ca/Real-Estate/Non-residential/2013-12-12/art...
The Cognitive Distortions of Founders [Harrison Metal]
Australia's bad broadband punchline
Data gives a perception only when there is a problem to solve and you need support from the data. Problem solving is more about the knowledge in the vertical, the approach to the problem and your capability to think from multiple angles, which does not have to do about science.

Good article, nevertheless.
Worse raffle prize ever Mini Maxwell
The raffle started. I continue talking to a friend ignoring the remote possibility of me winning anything. Then I hear "$2000" and I continue to ignore... Suddenly the unthinkable happened: My name got called. My heart started racing and I walked towards the stage, pride rising through my chest, huge smile on my face thinking christmas came early. And there she was holding the white box... She looked at me and said: "Let's shake hands and look good for the camera." Shocked I smiled even more, took the box and went back to my friend. We opened it and found this (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23898/2013-12-12%2019.59.31.jpg).

What can it be? Can I use it? Is it really worth 2k?
While I was trying to answer all these questions iPad airs, wireless speaker and other mundane things were being given away, but I had the Mini Maxwell.
The only reference I found was on the generous donor's website: http://iwl.com/ full of lovely sentences like "Desktop OS Faiures" and other little gems that I'm not going to go into.

Amazon is out of it
http://www.amazon.com/InterWorking-Labs-Inc-MMXX-Emulator/dp/B004V9U542

Ebay and craigslist do not have anything like it until this http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ele/4241751555.html.

The electronics recycling store would not even come pick it up as it's too small.

I didn't even get the joy of playing with the bubble wrap as the bubbles had already been deflated (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23898/2013-12-12%2021.05.23.jpg).

And I'm asking you HN reader who gives away their junky hardware at a Year-end Cocktail Party? Why not just give... nothing? Where is the pride of gifting something truly cool? Who could possibly want a Mini Maxwell as a gift?

Happy Holidays and may your boxes be filled with something better than Mini Maxwells!
So food is "simple", yet obviously depending on the type and quantity of food eaten, we consume a different assortment and balance of nutrients. I don't think anyone can argue that there isn't a huge percentage of the population that does a bad job of managing that balance. If that's the case, then Soylent could help those people - more power to them.

If, on the other hand, the body is resilient, and we don't have to be that precise about what we eat (as in, just eat "reasonably healthy" foods and you'll be fine), then soylent should be a reasonable substitute, even if it isn't without flaws.

Either way, they should keep going with their plan - I wish them well.
Carmack has been talking about working on it for for well over a year now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-DlWwlXHo.
When I saw that last year, I thought it was already his company.
First time I came here, I was so out of it (through being tired) by the time I got to Auckland that when the dog came up and started wagging at my bag I found myself bending down to pet it before thinking "What's this dog doing in an airport?..."
Response "Er, that's a drug dog mate, any idea why he's so interested in your bag?"
Can't remember exactly what I said then; I guess having had a dopehead flatmate a short while previously probably had something to do with it, and I think I mentioned that.
"Your Programmers", I find it a bit, you know, old times.
Authenticity doesn't mean broadcasting every little thought that enters your head.
> to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot with exorbitant bills

As a matter of fact this is why new EC2 instances don't get swap -- running into swap can cost a pretty penny.
Official Blog: Remembering Nelson Mandela
Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA
… There are still browsers that use backspace for navigation?

(I'm a little surprised by this because I've seen so many complaints about it leading to data loss.)
For the last 2 days i have a script that is trying to allocate a c3 instance with no luck. AWS is having crazy capacity problems in us-east (all zones).
Oh, how exciting. I work down the street from there.
Oh - nice. As they should. Thanks.
One month of Soylent is currently $255; the maximum SNAP benefit for a single person is $189. If he makes his $5/day target, maybe, but the SNAP benefit for the Nth person in an N person household decreases to $142.
Chrome and Firefox. Probably IE too.
Can this please just go away? What a load of horse shit.
Apparently he read Gates' fictional biography...
Photons On Demand Now Possible On Hairs Width Optical Chip
So, I recently read Pride and Prejudice at the behest of my girlfriend (it's her favorite book) and I just could not get into it. I don't know if it was the Regency-era prose or what, but I could not get into a flow of reading it - some books I'll effortlessly ingest 100+ pages at a time, but nothing like that happened with P&P. It always felt like a struggle. I enjoyed some of the characters - Mrs. Bennet is ridiculous, and Mr. Collins is one of the funniest characters I've encountered in fiction, but overall I'd have a hard time recommending it to anyone.

Now, I know that many critics and authors I admire consider P&P to be one of the finest English-language novels ever written, so I have to ask: what am I missing?
The next level from solo
Crowds are so funny. I swear there was one HN thread recently where the majority of comments declared the Oculus a mere substitute for ipecac syrup. In this thread, it's the coming of the New Earth. As someone who luckily doesn't experience motion sickness at all, is greatly looking forward to the hi-res Oculus, and frankly to a time when I can spend more time in VR than not, the optimism in this thread makes me happy.
One cup of orange juice = 500mg potassium, one potato = 900mg; greens, yoghurt, beans, fruit, almost everything has good amounts of it. It shouldn't be hard to reach the recommended intake if you're eating a healthy diet.
It's a shame they used the cheap, synthetic (and less bioavailable) forms for quite a few of the ingredients. For instance:

Cyanocobalamin vs Methylcobalamin

D2 vs D3 (ergocalciferol is D2)

Folic Acid vs MethylFolate or at the least Folinic Acid

Sodium Selenite vs Yeast based Selenium or Selenomethionine

Why not just eat a bowl of total cereal? Or, eat a bowl of oatmeal and pop a centrum?
Ebay's CEO John Donahoe Claims Amazon PrimeAir To Be A Fantasy
I'm annoyed that NaCl's SFI is being repurposed so blatantly uselessly. The overhead isn't that much, but when seccomp provides equal or better security without any expense, it really seems like reinventing the wheel.
I hate this attitude that 'If you're using it, you have no right to complain'. Sure, you can always vote with your feet, but there are often times when I really like a service, but a certain feature, or a certain decision really irks me. In this case, using google shopping increases OP's revenue, which is great, but the "don't watermark your images" rule means losing out on one part of their competitive advantage (i.e. having the best product pictures which show exactly what the customer wants/needs to see).

The answer isn't to stop using Google Shopping, and the answer isn't to 'put up or shut up'. I would hope that someone at Google Shopping might be able to figure out a resolution with OP that is the best for everyone involved - i.e. doesn't break google's TOS, and doesn't leave OP paying to produce high-quality photos that his competition will steal.
Google play devices no longer ship with Gallery - must use Photos & Google+)
If it's the case that there are other existing solutions that are simultaneously as {cheap, nutritious, tasty, storable} as Soylent, then the problem is marketing. I don't know about them.

If, however, the existing solutions have a major downside (I would assume cost or taste, but could be wrong), then that's the reason. I wouldn't be surprised if there were existing solutions that just aren't catering to the audience of "silicon valley hipster" and therefore simply getting ignored.

According to your link on Plumpy nut, it's only $60 for 2 months for a child. Even though a 280lb. man certainly needs much more than whatever the amount is for starving children, it still sounds like it would be cheaper than I would normally spend on food even if I just bought groceries and never ate out. So... could I eat that food for 2 months straight and be perfectly healthy (assuming I have the willpower)? Could I reasonably use it as a meal replacement whenever I wanted and not have any negative consequences?
This may be true, and while I am no archeologist, the summer I spent digging up Roman stuff disagrees. Their style of bricks, more like tiles, is very strong. I'd guess it relates to the ratio of tile to mortar.
> some of the theories in Snow Crash were incredible, and way before their time.

The namshubs from Snow Crash are pretty heavily inspired by ideas from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. It's a very interesting book. Richard Dawkins said of it "It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets."
Err I think I meant preferred shares? FOO buys in at $X valuation. If a liquidity event happens that doesn't meet price target $Y, FOO gets paid out before the previous holders altogether or at some higher percentage.
Not good; are we creating more revenge terrorists than we are killing with these drone strikes?
That is simply because no one desires an inexperienced pilot (ATP requires 1500 hours). I went to Embry Riddle and many of my friends are pilots. I understand how rough it is.
Exam grades 'more nature than nurture'
nice but `backspace` then I returned to > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899072
I use Vim for everything, this is great!
same here, cool idea though.
What is a fan? Someone who gave your music a thumbs up? Or something willing to pay for the music you produced because they desire it so much? I have a feeling if you have hundreds of thousands of the latter you'd be in good shape.
Good for Dart, good for web developers, browser manufacturers, and users.

Everyone benefits from choice. Will IE implement a Dart VM in their browser? Perhaps not, but perhaps so. Maybe Firefox will. Opera will probably get a VM for free. Developers will be able to choose to target different platforms for different reasons. Dart as an complement, or an alternative to JS. If you choose, write your code in Dart, and cross-compile to JS for browsers that don't support the native Dart.

To all those who have said (here and elsewhere) they would never adopt Dart because they fear it will be swept up in one of Google's famous spring cleaning barrages, moving Dart from a Google-only project to a formal standard with a test suite and backing outside of Mountain View should eliminate that complaint. The community (that's all of us) will soon own Dart.
Why are you ignoring Mono?
i doubt its really designed for non stop use. It might not weigh much, but for hours on end it will strain your neck and eyes i would think.
Pre 1940s brickwork is all pretty great in my opinion. I have way too many recycled bricks, for paths and gardens. Some are in place, others waiting to be used. They look great and often have names, places etc stamped into them. The brickwork on Edwardian houses, above doors and windows for example, is great. All the angles and precise corners. And all done with hand tools. The best bit is that they wear in. A bit of grime and weather and they look even better. Compared to modern bricks which fall apart when the surface fails or turn out to be made of concrete, old bricks are fantastic. Bricks are another of my strange obsessions. I'll go back to my corner now...
Here's a little puzzle for you:

A-F are 3/8ths (6 of 16) of the hex digit set, yet only 1/6th (3 of 18) bytes in 'America Can Code ' have A-F. Why the large discrepancy?
I think the problem with such a credentialing body is that within 5 years, the regulatory capture it would experience would make it perverse and useless.

Just because you have a technical, or ex-technical, person in charge of your team doesn't mean it's going to be well managed. I'm sure that's something we've all seen. Every reason that is true will apply to the guild, in addition to the usual ugly prejudice, artificial supply constriction, and self-destructive conservatism that all real guilds, associations, and unions display.
I can't see it ever happening, but a government forcing everyone to distribute the sources and rights to redistribute/modify along with their works pretty clearly abolishes intellectual property.
Two minutes of Googling and it already shows hypocrisy on Ruppersberger's side. This dirtbag will brag how we need to push forward with Cispa [1] blaming China on hacking US while at the same time the company he takes money/bribes from (Northrop Grumman) is known, on record (and currently in legal dispute with Government) to be heavily working and serve Chinese government [2].

[1] http://ruppersberger.house.gov/cispa

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman#International_...
If you're not using the AT&T SIM, you're also not putting any load on their network, and they can oversell it more without spending any money on network upgrades.
Yes, but with who? I think it's a declaration of intent to share with the person specified in the "to:", "cc:" and "bcc:" fields, but not with Google.
News is bad for you. Unless its Hacker News. No Really
Personally, I think soylent, as a daily meal replacement, is a horrible idea but, like a lot of things, it will find it's place.

I'm not sure I understand what point you are trying to make above. The argument (as I read it) is that we studied nutrition 70 years ago, Rob isn't a nutritionist, and there is something else you prefer to soylent so it's irrational and no one should use it? That may be an esoteric argument against soylent and Rob but not the idea of soylent.

If you could theoretically develop a solution that you only needed to drink once a day to get all of the nutrients your body needs and feel satiated, why wouldn't you drink that? You could then spend your time doing other things that are more important to you. While for some people they may prefer preparing and cooking food, which is fine, it's not a substantive argument against soylent for those who view eating differently.

The value people get from eating seems a lot fuzzier and humanistic than soylent, which, to me, seems incredibly robotic and rational.
No. Of course not. Plumpy'nut is just an example. But there are formulations for people with digestive ailments, military rations, and so on.

Alternatively, it's perfectly possible to design your own "Soylent style" diet, optimising for cost and convenience. I knew of someone (friend of a friend -- a rather eccentric math teacher) who did that many years ago. A large part of his diet was spaghetti and vitamin pills ... not so different from Soylent, really.
> “416d65726963612043616e20436f646520” is the hexadecimal code translation of “America Can Code.”

Ooh, so close.
The site www.lisa2.com is often served from an actual Lisa 2, which was released with the Mac in 1984.

(Edit: Removed a bit about the Amiga being a knockoff, as mobile reading led me to conflate this article with the one about the Amiga emulator.)
> I think musicians, for example, are better at math because at the heart of music and at the heart of math

Is this true? My personal anecdotal evidence suggests the opposite -- do you have any real research to back this up?
I am confused. I have absolutely zero biology background so please, bear with me.

So genes only code how to make proteins? That's IT? What about all the other stuff like what you look like, what diseases you may or may not get, some special functions of your body, your biological strengths and weaknesses, etc etc. Or defining protein generation actually defines all of that? (that would be so fascinating).

And 90% of the DNA is labeled as "non-coding?" ?!?!? Seriously? well it can't be "junk" can it? Or maybe its like a long bitcoin chain with only the latest commit relevant....
I'm interested to see how Soylent works out in the long run. I've read the articles and blog posts about people going on it for a month at a time and doctors telling them they're perfectly healthy. But how does their health look after 6 months? A year? Several years? That's what I'm interested in hearing about.

So for a couple years I'll still have my suspicions. I hope it works out, though.
so... what exactly am i supposed to do with no file system?
Generation AD
_I_ use backspace for navigation. What's the alternative? Use a mouse?
A thousand times this. Markets automatically value knowledge and discoveries at nothing because you typically have to possess knowledge (sometimes for 100 years) before you can estimate its value. If the development of a new industry goes through stages "A B C D ... X Y Z," where A-M are academic discoveries, the market awards 100% of the profit to N-Z and maybe a percent or two to M if they got lucky with patents, even though A-M required significant capital expenditure to carry out.

Everything we care about has been touched by uncompensated academics in some way (uncompensated = rewarded with <1% of the produced value for the purposes of argument). Much of the Nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber process. The air you breathe has benefited from emission reduction chemistry figured out by academics. The basis for the chemistry that produced the plastics around you was all figured out by academics (albeit tested, refined, and implemented by better paid engineers). Academic physicists made semiconductor models that formed the basis of simulations that made the industry practical. If you're not on Windows, academics wrote a healthy chunk of the OS on your computer. Physicists figured out the details of nuclear energy (in the US, 20% of the energy you are using right now) and built models that are used to a significant degree in the engineering of all of the others. Scientists are going to be responsible for pulling our collective asses out of the fire wrt global warming. The more I write the more I realize (and hopefully you realize) just how silly this train of thought is. As for mathematics, where would engineers be without linear algebra or calculus? How much less efficient would industry be without linear programming (programming = schedule making in this context)? It's impossible to even formulate these thoughts correctly because everything is interrelated.

I challenge you (great?-grandparent libertarian) to find an industry that does not inextricably depend upon some kind of model or fact produced by uncompensated academics (as defined above -- use any threshold for value capture you deem appropriate).

Whatever the market rewards people for, it is not value creation. It is value creation multiplied by a long list of factors which often go to 0 for arbitrary reasons (your customers are too poor, your product is not excludable, etc.)

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Fortunately, people are not rational actors wrt accumulating money. Here's what future career paths very roughly look like for new grads (based on my own perceptions, not glassdoor):

Helping the poor: $0 (maybe $12k if you count a fellowship)

Trying to Cure Cancer: $25k/yr, bump to $40k after 6 years

Engineering Medical Devices, Airplanes, etc: $60k/yr

Trying to Build the Next Twitter: $100k/yr-$150k/yr

Helping Rich People Game the System to Get Richer: $150k/yr, $300k/yr after a few years if successful

What disturbs me is that if I were to prioritize this list based on benefit to humanity, it would take the exact opposite ordering. There was <1% chance of that happening randomly.
The new C3.Large is cheaper than M1.Large (and only marginally more expensive than the old M1.Medium), but its CPU performance is roughly twice as good. Swapping over made a notable difference for our web nodes (perhaps 30-40% reduction in server time for the web-facing tier).

C3's instance-level SSD drives are a very nice touch as well.
Contributing To GitHub Projects is Easy
Wordpress 3.8 is out - Includes new admin and frontend themes
Wordpress 3.8 is out - Includes new admin and frontend themes
Well, I have started embracing both my masculine and feminine side. I like watching "How It's Made", "Build It Bigger", "Extreme Engineering", "Ninja Warrior", and "America's Next Top Model". I'm not familiar with Netgear though.
Alt-Left.