skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have a very different opinion about academia compared to the rest of the comments. I've been working in industry for the past 8 years, since my late teens. Now I'm searching a more research oriented life path because I'm tired of working always for shit people need. It seems that knowledge has a value on its own, and it's not always about pleasing the costumer. So I've enrolled in a bachelor degree in computing at the open university which hopefully will lead me to a place where I can work on things that truly interest me but that don't always lend themselves to meeting someone's requirements.
To get this started: In Germany, many local agencies have developed online processes to obtain birth certificates. In some places, i just need to fill an online form and payment and identitiy verification is handled by the postal service. However, these are island solutions, that are often poorly executed. If I live in Hamburg, was born in Berlin, and want to marry in Munich I will have to communicate with all three registration offices regarding my birth certificate, with no automatic information transfer at all.
If there isn't a glyph, you can always use text representation for control codes. Here's an example using Notepad++. http://i60.tinypic.com/nps3d1.png
Walked through Mission Bay near the new UCSF campus, and I saw this in action. Tons of pristine highrises coming up, with upper-mid range retail and dining out options accompanying them.

But as you said, all these units look like they will be in the $2.5k+ range for a 1br, if not more.
If you have to pay for PhD studies instead of being paid for them, then stay out of it, it's a bad deal for everyone.
I haven't heard this word since late 2012. Good times.
Things make me miserable that other people are fine with. I change jobs every two years. It's just life.
I grew up in SV, and there definitely is a generational divide though. Most of us (including my parents) moved to SV at some point in our lives, the only difference being whether this was in the 1970's or the 2010's.

The price of a house in SV has quadrupled (or more) in the last 25 years. Wages have increased,but not nearly as much. Newcomers have it disproportionately harder than the longtimers here.
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SF is actually pretty dense (2nd densest city in the US after NYC).
Do It For Denmark No one has solved Denmark's falling birthrate. Until now.
Aryuably so but the equivalent of entire San Francisco has moved/is moving into London in a decade. It's a very rapidly growing city.

While I'm sure a ridiculous proportion of the v high wealth areas are laying vacant, in areas like Hackney (which are the fastest growing) I very much doubt that is the case. These flats don't make up much of the London housing stock, %age wise.
That open-source web version became a meme around here.
You should try one of their latest prototypes before you write off this technology.
The sense of presence is something that is addicting and doesn't wear off. People will want this over and over again.

Fast first person shooters aren't a good match for VR.

And keyboards - yes they are not well suited for VR either.
I don't think that's a bad idea. However, anyone who has been around here long enough to accumulate 1000 karma (or whatever it is now) should know better than to downvote anodyne comments with which one mildly disagrees.

I think people are getting emotional about certain subjects and lashing out by downvoting any comments that provoke rational discussion on those subjects. In other words, downvoting exactly the kind of comments pg is trying to foster in HN.
I didn't just move to Hawai'i, I've lived here my entire life.

That said, I agree with your comment.

I don't live in a mansion by the beach, I'm 22 miles inland, downhill from one of the world's most effusive volcanoes. Where I can afford to live.
What on earth are you talking about? Firstly, I don't even know this guy. Actions in private life? His actions could have had a real impact on real people if Prop 8 won. And while being murdered or have your loved ones killed is technically worse than being derived of other human (and civil) rights, human rights are human rights, they are here for everyone. The same for civil rights.

It wasn't a "stupid idea" to make his actions public. Actually he didn't, someone had to discover this. He's actually being a coward and won't even admit what his views are.

And while it's not criminal to stomp on other people's human and civil rights -- that is if those people are gay, one day it will be. Taking away (or at least trying to) someone's rights does make you evil.
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>Does cold-starting from the same neural network give you the same consciousness or a copy?

You are making a rather big assumption that consciousness comes about because of brain activity. As far as I am aware this has not been scientifically proven. (I am not denying a relationship between the two).
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April 1 is not celebrated everywhere in the world.

I learned that April 1 jokes on the internet are often taken the wrong way even when there are ample reasons to realize it is a joke.

See http://osdir.com/ml/finance.ledger.smb.devel/2008-04/msg0000...
> Must be annoying to have to press shift to get those symbol chars while you're coding, eh?

Honestly no. It's all muscle memory for me, I don't think about it any more than I think about typing capital letters.
Not sure if this was the exact article on HN, but it briefly discusses the case you describe:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22154552
OVRLY – Overlaying images with CSS
Why wouldn't they put all of that in a Backblaze Storage Pod? 2 months of AWS costs could've built more than 2 pods and stored everything with plenty of space to spare.
Those units will still be ridiculously expensive only because there aren't enough of those units. Because SF has been building practically nothing compared to the amount of wealth that's flowed into SF, for years. The Bay Area's vastly disproportionate economic productivity should have implied a Beijing-like growth spurt. It should have sucked skilled immigrants out of middle America, depopulating those places by some fraction, because this is where the jobs are.

Construction expenses aren't a major part of the equation here, zoning permission and transportation are balanced against a demand that is the highest in the country. Rent, and for that matter land prices, are expressions of those factors.

It is ridiculous that the national economic engine of our times for the last generation looks like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+san+francisco
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Two bed rooms for one person down town in a major city else it's an outrage.

WTF is wrong with western society.

Most of the world lives multiple people to a room.
Yeah, it could be their CI doesn't generate random codes voor javascript code or something...
Folding AT home: What if you could help find a cure?
SomeObjec *getObject(){
if (!theObject) theObject = createObject();

return theObject;
}
Saving dev costs by making your users pay with their data loss is extraordinarily short sighted. If you cant code with an undo feature, perhaps this is not the discipline for you.
"Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer."
If your liver starts filtering toxins on the other end of a two-hour period of clinical death with no metabolic activity, then are simple liver cells really what comprises a liver's function?
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I've learned to be wary of the "Talk about some recent topics in the news" type questions, politics & issues can be surprisingly divisive.
Done. Thanks for your response.
Patches of Disorganization in the Neocortex of Children with Autism

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1307491

doi://10.1056/NEJMoa1307491

Background

Autism involves early brain overgrowth and dysfunction, which is most strongly evident in the prefrontal cortex. As assessed on pathological analysis, an excess of neurons in the prefrontal cortex among children with autism signals a disturbance in prenatal development and may be concomitant with abnormal cell type and laminar development.
Methods

To systematically examine neocortical architecture during the early years after the onset of autism, we used RNA in situ hybridization with a panel of layer- and cell-type–specific molecular markers to phenotype cortical microstructure. We assayed markers for neurons and glia, along with genes that have been implicated in the risk of autism, in prefrontal, temporal, and occipital neocortical tissue from postmortem samples obtained from children with autism and unaffected children between the ages of 2 and 15 years.
Results

We observed focal patches of abnormal laminar cytoarchitecture and cortical disorganization of neurons, but not glia, in prefrontal and temporal cortical tissue from 10 of 11 children with autism and from 1 of 11 unaffected children. We observed heterogeneity between cases with respect to cell types that were most abnormal in the patches and the layers that were most affected by the pathological features. No cortical layer was uniformly spared, with the clearest signs of abnormal expression in layers 4 and 5. Three-dimensional reconstruction of layer markers confirmed the focal geometry and size of patches.
Conclusions

In this small, explorative study, we found focal disruption of cortical laminar architecture in the cortexes of a majority of young children with autism. Our data support a probable dysregulation of layer formation and layer-specific neuronal differentiation at prenatal developmental stages. (Funded by the Simons Foundation and others.)
Downvoting also means "this comment should be this high", however the problem is that there's o indication when a comment is at score of 1, so people would inadvertently push it into gray area.
Thanks for all the suggestions! Others have also recommended Thailand and Vietnam. Thoughts?
This analogy fails, since no one here is claiming liver cells constitute a human's essence or "selfhood".
- Paul Mitchell 'The Conditioner'. It's a great substitute for hair gel _and_ shaving foam. I've been using it for 20 years.

- Pilot GTEC-C4 pens (great paired with Moleskine notebooks)

- An external USB battery pack

- A headphone splitter cable

- Hearos earplugs (the blue ones)
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> Which implies at least two residents.

Like parents and children? It doesn't imply 2 working people.
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It's a fairly precise "rule of thumb", on the theory that you work 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. Parent comment inflates the salary by assuming 45 hours a week 52 weeks a year.
We are in the middle of deracking and throwing out (no kidding) some 3+ year old machines at my work. Care to take a guess at what a 3+ year old machine's specs are? Cause I know you don't have a chance at getting it right.

Dell C1100 1U (almost 4 years old)
2x 6core with HT, 24 active threads
144 GB RAM
10x 300 15k SAS

I think there are very few use cases where Amazon makes sense. Their VMs are very expensive, and under powered for what you pay.
For something fairly modern, you might want to have a look at web2py. It goes to quite great lengths to balance sane-out-of-the-box and developer productivity:

http://www.web2py.com/
It is pushing the the machine model to where it is most appropriate, on the iron. No different from choosing Javascript because it is cross platform, just someone has already done lots of the base work.

Forth has strengths and weaknesses, lack of wide use on modern platforms is definitely a weakness. There is still plenty of Win waiting in there.
I think it's french keyboards that are like that by default. Symbols are the default and you have to press the Shift-key to get numbers.
by which you also miss out on most of the things that make a smartphone worth buying in the first place...
My mother will every so often remark to me how people seem to think rich people should be kept from unfairly buying things with their money. It's all right for them to have money as long as it's never used for any purpose, I guess.
I loathe implicits with the heat of a thousand suns. I mean, I love implicit conversions for easy addition of syntactic sugar, but they should be used very sparingly.

It could just be my indoctrination into Python's more of Explicit Over Implicit, but I hate it when things mysteriously turn into things or get passed as implicit arguments because something was in scope. My most hated form is nested implicit conversions, it kills code readability immediately if you can't figure out what type or object actually got passed in. And I'm using IDEA btw, so about as much tooling on hand to interpret said code as I'm likely to get.

Of course, you don't have to use implicits, but so much idiomatic Scala code (if I can interpret Typesafe's output to indicate idiomatic Scala) uses it, so I guess it's here to stay.

I do love the pattern matching though, especially when it's destructuring.
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Yes.. this is the point
That depends heavily on the user. I love my smartphone (now have a Note 3, last phone was a Note) but large-screen portable web browsing and built-in GPS/Navigation are the draw for me, not hundreds of apps. I have few installed.
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Coming soon:

new evidence that prostate cancer begins in the womb.

new evidence that schizophrenia begins in the womb.

new evidence that Alzheimer's begins in the womb.
It's great to see someone with a lot of enthusiasm, but I submit you think too much like a programmer and not enough like a database administrator.

What problem does your product solve that, for example, PostgreSQL doesn't?
Hmmm.

If they have actually lost three quarters of a million bitcoins, in an unrecoverable way (and nobody stole them), that's a HUGE proportion of all the bitcoins there will ever be that have just disappeared into the ether.
Extensions per se are good and fine. The big problem with Gnome extensions is that the Gnome people aren't really treating them as first class citizens and happily break some of them every update. So each time a new version of Gnome comes out you either have to wait a few month while all your extensions get updated or go a few month without all your favorite extensions.
You can't see the laser dot in sunlight at a distance > 10m and for some measurements keeping the point steady is important but hard to do without a tripod. In both cases the laser can be inaccurate as you can't be confident in what you have measured. Obviously laser theodolites can solve these problems but are about 1000 times more expensive than a reel tape.
KDE apps runs on Windows...
Probably https://www.sideprojectors.com owner will come here and will promote his site ;)
That's not correct. Population growth increased from the 1930s compared to the 1940s, and accelerated during the war (it was eg twice as high in '45 and '46 as '33). The great depression had a much greater impact on population growth than WW2 did. The only negative modern year being 1918 (combination of WW1 + deep recession post war + flu pandemic). Live births also increased during WW2.

http://www.multpl.com/us-population-growth-rate/table/by-yea...

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005067.html
IgorPartola means that it is exactly this "unlimited" policy which chills her. She speculates (or knows) that there is some unspokenen abuse limit and she fears that she might hit it at some point.

I don't think this is relevant for you if you have less than a few Terabytes of data.
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I wondered that too. When I was learning about timing and synchronization in distributed systems, I thought about building an app with a fake "heartbeat" that attempts to sync between everyone viewing the page.

Had a brief moment when seeing this (before I read the description) of "Cool! someone finally made it!"
I find the article lacking the most important piece of information: Is this calculation based on a 4, 20, 40 or 60 hour work week?
Well then I guess Apple knows I come here often!
In barter, both parties believe that the value they walked away with is greater than the value they put into the deal. In principle, that's exactly what the IRS wants to tax. A currency system should generally preclude any barter by assigning reliable values to both parties' goods, such that the one whose stuff is assigned a higher monetary value by the market will be unwilling to make the trade, since they could do better by just selling their stuff and buying the other party's. (A raw trade could still happen where the market value of each party's offering is somewhere within the bid/ask spread of the other's.) But that's independent of what "barter" is. Barter is just trade unmediated by a currency. You can realize taxable gains through barter in just the same way that my uncle once paid his rent for a month by selling an art object he bought at a garage sale for under $100. Despite being mediated by cash, that was a highly uneven trade, and barter is no different.

In a happy coincidence for the IRS, assigning monetary values to everything makes it trivial to assign a value to the trade for the gaining party to pay tax on. Again, not relevant to what barter is.
GPU instances for $0.65 an hour. Wow!
Chromecast, its just awesome and you get quite a bit of change.
That's awesome feedback, thank you very much eswat :) I may well take you up on that offer.
Is this supposedly amusing or are you just venting off because of something, with no intent of contributing to any form of civilized discussion?
Finally listened this morning. Pretty great summary of a few of the different options available, though the presenter was a little bit sceptical :)

Anyway, great listen. Thanks.
What can passengers do if the pilot is flying the wrong way?
Just checked wikipedia. Bungie changed from an RTS to a "third-person action game" before Microsoft came in. Microsoft changed it to an FPS.
Old news, but somehow this art reminded me of this Apple patent:

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6658577
Why are the freemium games so bad?
Spotify engineering culture
I'm Indian, and surprised that this the top suggestion. Slide belts are ubiquitous here.
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My Take On Zuckey and Luckey: VR Goggles Are (Only) For Gamers
'One death every 12 seconds'___I didn't notice it before.
>how long will it take and how many trials will be needed for the FDA to recognize this as a new clinical practice? It will be years - and in this period how many persons who could have been saved by this kind of procedure will die?

what prevents doctors from doing it today? Nothing. Like in that case with brain cooled by groceries, doctors seems to be doing it when they can. Other thing is mass-training of doctors for some procedure - that requires that procedure should be developed to some "packaged" level. This is what FDA approval is part of and seems to be a reasonable part.
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Use workspaces, that is the best way to switch between maximized windows in gnome. Even easier with 'workspaces to dock' extension - just scroll at the right edge of the screen.
To be honest I would just keep clam and carry on. I really doubt you can do anything about it.

Why?

Proof. You say they took your code but whats to say they already had something similar in development. Without actually seeing the code changes you are just making assumptions (although it does sound suspicious).

Personally I would say take the moral high ground. Just forget it and move on. A lawyer will take you money and you will probably be worse off than before.
Which keyboard do you have? The standard aluminium full size one doesn't label it, at least in the uk
If you write ([[]] == false) you compare values of this object. Internally a [[]].toString() is called which gives an empty string (cause the first element is also an empty array) which in turn is considered false in javascript.

Otherwise [[],[]] is true cause cause [[],[]].toString() gives you this string: ",".
What is the hashrate on these? Could'nt imagine it being very high...
Or just mention it in the description and make it low priority using nice (in addition to doing it when plugged in).
Witnessing in this way runs counter to my experience of system management. How can you see (in real time) a query, the encryption, the email and the log deletion? I have run sql monitors and I see queries appear and then disappear... but my brain doesn't allow me to understand what the user is "up to" without lots of investigation and so on.
Karpelès was found guilty of a financial computer crime and of money transfer fraud when he was somewhere between 13 and 18 years old. The court gave him a 3 month suspended sentence and no criminal record.[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s
while interesting, i'd be much more intrigued if they shredded the cd after the tour instead. it would be a pretty poignant statement about the fleeting nature of time and our own experience (or what have you).

not quite as much money in that though.
I'm around 2000 ELO in chess and I'd win every single game vs anyone with 4 pawns or a minor piece handicap. Being a single pawn up is usually decisive in chess. Having said that, this whole discussion is pointless, no one ever gives handicaps in chess, because it completely messes up the initial position. Even lacking one or two pawns at start will make it extremely hard to establish any kind of central presence.

edit: Apparently kasparov gave a ~2200 guy 2 pawn handicap once, ended up winning 2.5-1.5 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317037/Kasparov-make....
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I agree, its theft. If I borrow your bicycle all the time without you knowing it may be innocent enough, but it still causes wear and tear on the bicycle. I am thieving bicycle time from you that you paid for. If I had simply asked for it, you couldn't blame me, but alas I took it without your consent.

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Do either of these apps explicitly state that they will access/use device in this way?
It's not really interesting that a condition which is with you from birth might begin in the womb. The others I listed are also known to be... phrased conservatively... strongly influenced by something in the womb, but at least they all exhibit late-life onset and could conceivably begin at some later point.
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Why Apple’s dream for television keeps falling apart
Somewhat ironic that this detail of how teletypewriters work was not carried over into Unix whereas every intricacy of how video terminals worked still is with us today.
Show HN: Routes – a new kind of travel app
Thailand is definitely great and affordable, so is Vietnam.

Kozhikode and Mangalore in India.

Also coastal cities in Goa, India as well.

Several cities in Sri Lanka might work too.

Also Playa Del Carmen + Cabo San Lucas in Mexico.
The main problem with fedora is that yum sucks so badly. It's absurdly slow and the interface is goofy. What's up with needing a separate tool like repoquery?

Also, why is it necessary to update the kernel twice a week? And why isn't VirtualBox a core package?