skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool. Can the concurrency guru's out there tell me what is the difference between the "Go Concurrency Pattern" and the Java SingleThreadExecutor? (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurren...)

ExecutorService pipeline = ExecutorService.newSingleThreadExecutor();

FutureTask<String> step1 =
new FutureTask<String>(new Callable<String>() {
public String call() {
return "step1";
}});

executor.execute(step1); // execute single-step pipeline

step1.cancel(true); // interrupt the task
wow, I really like this idea. Going to dig a bit deeper into it.
This is a stupid amount of petty intolerance. What other people eat is their own damn business, and if you don't like it keep quiet and don't try to push your personal preferences on other people.
> There's no thought that some human is actually going to put this thing in his mouth, what effects its going to have on his health and well-being.

What do you mean? That is the whole point of the discussion.
They are citing studies and talking about what effect the various ingredients in the formula will have on the body.
I've often wondered about this. Instead of just having a single thin metal skin that deforms, wouldn't it be even better to have multiple skins sandwiching a kind of honeycomb structure? That way you have even more stuff to deform and absorb the impact.
Murder? No.

Negligent homicide? Yes.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
For mobile a good app is https://popapp.in/
Google Drive has an API but it's certainly not meant for S3 use-cases serving content on websites :)

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/

When you talk about Glacier, you must remember there's no instant access to files and there's bandwidth costs associated with downloading your files. The price for storage may be the same but the overall costs of Glacier are much higher.
GeekDesk and Embody and I have never felt better. Going on a year now.
Soylent threads also get a lot of snarky and rude comments directed at the people who love the concept. The others you listed (with the exception of Apple) don't get that so much. I don't think I've ever read an Uber or Airbnb thread where the people against it were so rude to the people for it.
Having tried out various of the recent speed reading sites and apps, I honestly don't think they are useful for any dense or difficult material requiring thought to comprehend. I almost always find that challenging text requires nonlinear reading to really get, something not possible with these tools. Perhaps they are useful for fluffy news articles, but not much more.

Does anyone know of any good techniques for improving time to comprehension when reading technical work? I feel like I am very inefficient at getting through math or computer science papers, which obviously resist any kind of normal speed reading.
Until the same attention is placed on traffic deaths as on deaths by other causes, it's hardly "overheated".
I have two invites to give away as well.

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In 1885 Karl Benz construct the first automobile.
It had three wheels, like an invalid car,
And ran on alcohol, like many drivers.
Since then about seventeen million people have been killed by them
In an undeclared war;
And the whole of the rest of the world is in danger of being run over
Due to squabbles about their oil.
-Heathcote Williams (Autogeddon extract).
If there's a way to increase safety, I am sure that they had thought of it.
Also, cars are not killing people. Drivers are. Unless we're talking about self-driving cars that spontaneously turn themselves on, back down the driveway, and mow down pedestrians on their own.
I'm not making comments, I'm asking a legitimate question. If you have the means, the time, and the ability to make a meal for yourself then what provides the motivation to say "Nah, I'd rather eat this." For example, most folks on HN have the means, the time, and the ability to build their own custom computer rig. Some choose it, and some choose not to and for various reasons such as they simply don't need a custom rig, or they aren't sure that their craftsmanship will yield a better result than a store bought product and so forth and so on. So, when it comes to food (which is infinitely more important than what computer system you're using) what is the motivation for drinking a paste of dubious origin vs. eating solid food that you build yourself?
This is an awesome idea! I like thinking of arguments/debates as almost like a logical/mathematical argument (thanks to a lot of people, but most recently Day9 of Starcraft community fame) and this would make that explicit and therefore quite cool, in my opinion.
The jargon and acronyms in this interview are intense. It's pretty clearly an industry interview so it's my fault that I don't know the phrases, but I'm a little surprised by how impenetrable it is to me (a software engineer who has worked in large corp environments).

Anyway care to expand on some of the less Googleable acronyms?

- MDM/MAM

- NAC

- EDW (synonymous with ETL?)
Absolutely.

And for this reason, an app has to be significantly better for it to be worth the bother to switch.
Yes, capacity is intimately tied to VC dimension; in particular, VC dimension is one way to measure capacity. See the Wikipedia article for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vc_dimension

I'm not an expert on deep learning (although I generally understand how they work on vision problems), so I'm not sure if you can precisely measure the capacity of deep networks. Informally, the primary number that seems to matter is the number of parameters in the network that have to be learned. This paper quotes that at "more than 120 million".

SVMs, in contrast, typically work with feature dimensionalities (i.e., # of parameters) that are on the order of 1,000 - 100,000. You can't directly compare these numbers because there are various non-linearities involved, but this deep learning network is definitely much higher capacity than an SVM would be with normal feature dimensionalities.
Probably easier in Europe, is my guess. Few first-world countries are worse than the US. Note that the EU is not a uniform place, so you need to do a bit of research on which country you want. As noted previously, the Scandinavian countries are good places to start. They all speak English as well, knowledge of the relevant Scandinavian language is not required for basically anything.

I would assume the same is true for Switzerland and The Netherlands. Think twice before going for Germany (a popular choice for many good reasons not including bureaucracy) and don't even consider the southern countries.
Sorry, you've got the wrong number. Hello, Tmobile??
Ask HN: Most ergonomic setup (chair and computer)?
What is your preferred chair at home/office? PLease share photo if possible or details that others can find helpful. The purpose of this ASK HN is to get a nice chair to avoid back pain and wrist problems.
That makes me happy. Sounds like you came into it just as I was stepping away. I pretty much stayed through the name change and then split. :)
I love this game, though I haven't completed it for all of the endings. I love the idea and the design, that is...first of all, Lucas Pope is the developer I aspire to be...able to singlehandedly dream up a concept and execute it, and be totally personable on Twitter to the mass of fans he deservedly generated.

I fell in love with the game ever since I saw the YouTube trailer and read some of his game dev diaries...It's hard to think of a modern game that has such limitations -- the color palette, the clunkiness of the interface, the unforgivingness of the scoring system -- for such artistic intent.

But what I think is particularly noteworthy and inspiring was how Pope didn't make the game as a political statement. He (from what I remember in his early podcasts) thought about the idea while waiting in customs, and wondered if a game could be made of the drudgery of this work. His commitment to making a game that excelled as a game resulted in a game that was actually fun, while being an artistic achievement and politically engaging, for sympathizers of both the state and the refugee.

(As counter-examples, I think "Cart Life" is also an amazing achievement in art, but not a very good game because of unintentional bugs. Also, most artistic games in which you mostly just walk around until the game ends).

David Simon, who created "The Wire", complains quite bitterly that his intent was to make a show that raged against institution and bureaucracies, and yet people only talked about Omar and all of his other characters...Simon did such a great job of plot and characterization that it overshadowed his political aims. I kind of see "Papers, Please" as the opposite of that...Pope just wanted to make a great game, and he did such a great job of it that it turned out to have a compelling political message.

Anyway, it has my vote for being included in the MoMA's video game collection. And it's inspired me to go back into games programming, at least as a hobby.
> Can we climb down from the overheated rhetoric? It smells like propaganda.

And your comment smells like shilling. If we're making baseless accusations.
The intersection of bitcoin and business and tax is an interesting place to be. Governments will, I think, want to reach out and smother Bitcoin with a pillow. How you prepare for that is an interesting question. He said. :-)

In choosing where to form a corporation you have to think about the protection that the country offers you.

My prediction is that after the USA has beaten Swiss banks into a pulp they will start marching through the Carribean. What is a tiny country going to do when Uncle Sam's minions land with a thud?
Yeah, our tax/employment/visa system sucks, although European rumors of our impending demise are greatly exaggerated. If you're not from the USA it is understandable that you may not be aware of the nightmare that is our state legislation. Our states are like grumpy siblings in the big dysfunctional family we call our nation. They each have their own method of handling taxation and employment and each have their own irrational set of processes. As a nation we could certainly improve the way we handle such matters.
>1) outside of a really small group of people (unless I'm mistaken?)

You are mistaken. Haven't you seen commercials for those "breakfast drinks"? That's what this is pretty much.
NASA's R2 Linux bot to receive legs via SpaceX
Show HN: a web app to track when your food will go bad
http://wasteless.io

A web app to keep track of when your food expires. Grew out of a CLI program I made for myself.

It was also an experiment with writing a webapp purely in Common Lisp. It comes with the full source code [0] as well as source code from some CL libraries that I spun off on the way.

libs:

cl-config: library for managing configuration settings loosely based on the BSD model. [1]

cl-init: library for integrating your common lisp program into an OS's init system. Manages starting and stopping the services as well as setting up a swank/slime interface. [2]

pg-sessions: a library that sits on top of hunchentoot and the postgres library postmodern to store and manage sessions in a postgres database. [3]

[0] https://bitbucket.org/thomashintz/wasteless/src

[1] https://bitbucket.org/thomashintz/cl-config/src

[2] https://bitbucket.org/thomashintz/cl-init/src

[3] https://bitbucket.org/thomashintz/pg-sessions/src
Here is various photos from Google Search? Which one do you guys prefer?: https://www.google.com/search?q=ergonomic+chair+and+computer...
Thanks for tip. These are now expanded in interview text :)
A Walk in the Sun (1991)
So delightfully Web 2.0.

To see how the average aesthetic of the web has changed, compare jyte, http://web.archive.org/web/20070622000055/http://janrain.com... and http://web.archive.org/web/20070620031338/https://pibb.com/ to http://janrain.com
Have they published a bulk cost breakdown? From what I've read the price seems too high but I'd like to see the data.

It's impact on poverty world wide could be like the potato was to Europe and the Islands. On second thought...
> And yes, there are some parents who do a great job homeschooling; I'm sure of it. I've just never met them, and I was extensively involved in local homeschooling programs back in my home town, so I interacted with dozens of homeschooling families, hundreds of homeschooled kids, and visited some of the organized conventions and programs that involved thousands more.

If you have interacted with this many homeschoolers and never met any you thought were doing a great job, this might indicate something about homeschooling. Or, it might indicate something about you.
> Frankly, if you are not reading something with %100 comprehension, you are not reading it.

This is too dogmatic to be (IMO) a useful definition for the unadorned word “reading”.

After all, what does it even mean to comprehend something 100%? Without being inside the author’s head (and perhaps not even then) it’s impossible to know all of the ideas associated with every word and phrase by the author at that particular moment, or the precise rhythm and intonation the author would use in saying the words aloud, or the precise feelings the author was trying to evoke.

Or for that matter, is it possible to comprehend something 100% without deeply thinking about what it means to the reader, all the ideas and feelings the words (in context with the rest of the world at the moment of reading) dredge up. For instance, I personally can’t read something in a truly deep way, and really know what I think about it, without writing (often lengthy) comments of my own. But I wouldn’t say that shallower types of reading aren’t still “reading”.

Language inherently distorts thoughts, which are impossible to perfectly package and unpackage in a serial format.
MDM/MAM = mobile device management/mobile application management (managing and provisioning mobile devices and their applications, generally automatically)

NAC = network access control

EDW = enterprise data warehouse (archiving old information while preserving access)
It doesn't take hours to eat an apple on your way to work in the morning. And it doesn't take careful planning nor constant vigilance to grill a salmon steak and prepare a small salad. It takes about 40 minutes to do that and costs maybe $10, for two meals for two people and with about 5 ingredients (salmon, lettuce, olives, red pepper, olive oil).
It seems likely that a lot of people bought it, like I did, for a novel experience regardless of whether or not the experience is actually fun.

We're living in quite the renaissance of game exploration. I wonder if the indie game genre will continue to flourish or if this is a temporary moment of history. Regardless it is probably as strong as it has ever been right now.

Gone Home is another recent and interesting "game" to check out:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232430/
We are not special. Money has been very unpredictable entity in history. In the past, economic thinking was not that developed. There were no alternatives.

Historical fluctuations in inflation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflation_A...

Historical interest rates: http://i.imgur.com/i0xit0K.png

More important than store, is predictability. If you know it's going to be 1-5% inflation next 20 years with high probability, life is much easier to plan than if there is high change of huge deflations or inflations.
Right now, you have multiple skins sandwiching air.
Weak attempt to grab some karma.
So you're saying we're at the theoretical optimum of car safety and that there are no possible improvements?
Tearing down language barriers through technology – a startup story
And this is one of the reasons why i'm shocked they aren't used. Its seems like a clear win. Cut down on bandwidth use by your employees for relatively little/practically no effort + employees would be happier.

And when have we known a big corporation/government to care about a moral grey area that is legal and in their interests? Hell, that describes half of their operations and even some companies!
It's because it's hard to do right, and securely. With IPv4, it's been around so long that all the secure issues are well understood, and software just expects it to be there.

IPv6 has a bunch of possible security issues, and breaks in all sorts of unknown ways.

It's not impossible to do, but it's a lot harder then just installing some software. As an example, libvirt comes with all sorts of network filters that will prevent IPv4 guests from doing all sorts of bad things (IP spoofing, ARP poisoning, etc). In contrast, it comes with exactly zero similar filters for IPv6.

You need to explicitly ask for this from providers. While you might not get it right away, having the demand there is the only thing that's going to encourage companies to spend time on it.
Angular seems not to have much of actual models (not view models), it's all about the view components and syncing them with their view models. Backbone doesn't have much support for the views, it's all about models and collections and syncing them to the server.

Yet people don't seem to be too eager to use both together. Why do you think that is?
I have friends who disagree (they come out of Palestine/Isreal) but I think most people are really about the Yankees vs. the Red Sox and putting things head to head leads to real user engagement.
High performance aircraft and cars already do this. They thought of it - and it's expensive.
i think flask-sqlalchemy does something similar
People don't intentionally mow down pedestrians. Our current system, which includes both cars and drivers acting with the best of intentions, kills huge numbers of people each year. Instead of trying to assign blame to a particular actor in the system, we should be thinking about ways to change the system as a whole so it kills fewer people.
The Problem with Smartwatches
This is a complete aside, but am I the only one who finds it impossible to read this piece and not be completely distracted by a sudden acute awareness of how I'm reading it?
I agree that we should pay the attention to traffic deaths that the death toll warrants.

But don't call accidental deaths murder. That's the "overheated" part. Murder has a definition, and traffic deaths aren't it.

Even if you are a fervent advocate of traffic safety, this kind of manipulative rhetoric does you no favors. It makes people tune you out as a demagogue.

(Why do I call this "manipulative"? Because it tries to play on peoples' view of the horror of murder to make people realize the horror of traffic deaths. Traffic deaths are horrible, but the technique is still manipulative.)
I got some invites too. Email me if you want them:

nino at miletich dot me
It's not like Google is just going to cancel Drive and delete all of your files. If Drive goes away all you need to do is signup for Drop Box...
There is no "Go Concurrency Pattern" (singular). The article demonstrates some ways to use Go's concurrency primitives.

Obviously there is a massive syntactic difference between your Java example and the equivalent Go code, but the other major difference that jumps out at me is that cancellation is baked into the Java library, whereas in Go the programmer determines how each of their pipeline stages should be shut down.
I read the original article and was quite intrigued at the premise (a game about document inspecting, how novel), so I shelled out the $10 and bought the game.

Gotta say, after only playing the game for about 20 minutes your review was entirely accurate and I can't wait to make my girlfriend play the game...
Sorry. Usually legitimate questions don't involve reducing people interested in Soylent to various negative buckets like: Lazy, no foresight, poor time management skills. I mistook your comments for condescending snark. Still not sure I am wrong but since I'm not a mind reader I'm not going to argue about what you were thinking. I can just go off of what I read.
Its based on the idea of an artist in residence (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist-in-residence ). Another odd travel related residency is Heathrow's writer-in-residence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14371775 .

The idea of the artist in residence is to get away from one's daily routines and environment into a new and enriching environment for the artist. Its not a "get from point A to point B" that they're giving away its a "experience riding around the US on the railway and talk with the people who are on the train or see the scenery so that you can become a better writer." The start and end of the trip are purely coincidental.

As to if its less expensive than tickets: section 10 of the official terms shows what will be given: a travel voucher for 1 person on a sleeper train for between 2 to 5 days that would be worth about $900. The key here is given - free is much less than the cost of tickets.
Setting aside your pompous overall tone - which is probably not helping you to win any arguments - the best I've been able to parse from what you've said so far is this: if somebody already accepts a slew of Marxist assertions, then this new Marxist assertion seems ordinary and reasonable.

And I agree, it probably does.

But since I'm not already a Marxist, I don't have any existing framework wherein it makes sense to say things like "concentrated capital exploits labor" much less to discuss how this allegedly happens and how that goes on to create what "Marxist analysts" mean by "anxiety". (I'm not convinced the word "exploit" is even a useful term in this context.)

I would prefer instead frame employment in terms of ordinary economics and say that when any two parties agree on any sort of contract there is likely to be both a producer surplus and a consumer surplus; both sides profit by the exchange. If it made sense to call one of those surpluses "exploitation", you'd have to call the other one that too. It's not one-sided.

Sadly, pseudo-marxists have been spouting this sort of stuff for so long that by now they've polluted the terms "capitalism" and "capitalist"; it might be easier for free-market advocates to give up and start over with a new term (like, say, "free-market advocates") for what economists used to mean by "capitalism" than to keep fighting over it. I'm probably never going to convince you that "capitalism" doesn't "exploit workers" because to you, "exploiting workers" is part of the definition of "capitalism".

When I say something is an extraordinary claim, I merely mean it's a claim that seems intuitively false to me. Since the claim was phrased in a way that didn't seem to exclude my own subjective sense of the world as a source of evidence, I consulted that sense, and found the claim wanting.

In the end, it seems like the title claim of the article - "you are a Marxist" - probably just doesn't apply to me. Maybe it applies to you. Which is fine.
Didn't exactly shut it down like they did with reader or others though. It was replaced by another product, Google Wallet. Reader received no replacement from Google.