skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wyoming has a population of ~576,000

To put that number in perspective, I live on the border of Cobb County, Georgia, whose population as of 2012 is 707,442. This is one county outside the city limits of Atlanta (but not by much). While Cobb County is a metro Atlanta suburban county, it also has a large portion of semi-rural area. It blows my mind that more than an entire state's populace fits in a tiny (geographically speaking) county in a largely rural state.
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If you pay in cash it gets rounded up or down e.g. $1.03 becomes $1.05 if it's $1.02 it's $1.00 but if you pay via debit card or credit card it doesn't change.

Here is the government's explanation http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/gncy/lmntnpnny/menu-eng.html
I knew you had the sun on your side but I figured the lack of a Home Despot within snowshoe distance was going to be a killer. I know from experience that having to recycle/repurpose materials can triple the length of time it takes to complete any project and on top of that you have to factor in the working solo 50% time tax. I am impressed.

Was the door rehanging due to some sort of winterizing or bear-proofing?
Also:

People switching car insurance providers saved money. Those who would have spent more money probably chose not to switch.
The website is down so I have no idea what his argument is, but when I studied the concept I found it alarming they just handwave away the issue that it depends what Turing machine you use. There's no reason the constant can't be arbitrarily huge.
Not trying to tell you what you should think about your own free will, but here's what I think about mine:

What I consider as me, my consciousness, is getting fooled in so many ways to think it made decisions it pretty much just observered... that particles making up my grey matter can go this way or that way, randomly, without "me" actually taking any conscious influence on them, doesn't really make a difference to me. It's like the difference between a truly random random number generator, and one that just spits out a pre-determined list; "I" don't get to pick the numbers either way.

When I was younger, I tried to "see where my thoughts come from", and it always seems like they come around some corner, out of some blind spot. I never meditated but I, but I always liked the phrase "watching thoughts arise", because that's how it seems, they come into view of my inner eye so to speak, but the inner eye does not make them, not originally. I can add 2+2, but I can't make me get the idea to add 2+2. Well, actually, I can make myself get the idea to add 2+2, but I can't make myself get the idea to make myself get the idea to add 2+2... and so on. Is it possible to talk about these things without it sounding like esoteric gibberish?

Anyway, I kinda don't think we have free will, not to the degree we like to believe, anyway - but I can't help treating myself and others as if we did. I think life would seem kind of pointless otherwise, certainly anything beyond bacteria and plants, so it might be a necessary illusion for us "higher" life forms.
Why Investors In Tesla, Netflix, And Amazon Have A Rough Five Years Ahead
Yea, partly, but also because PowerPC shellcode is more difficult:

http://uninformed.org/?v=1&a=1&t=pdf
Looking Through Google Glass
You're assuming there was no ask. We don't know. I'm also wondering if advisor shares would've been possible.
For those wondering, os/fsnotify was pushed back to 1.4
Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated'
Yes, I could've read the documentation more carefully, but it's also easy to get sucked down a rabbit hole building stuff from scratch for the sake of exploration. Sometimes building at a lower level helps you appreciate and understand the higher level and why you shouldn't always reinvent the wheel :)

But that's what's fun about what we do.
Interesting. Wine and ... Darling?
$400 is relatively expensive. You can get a 1100 watt Polyscience circulator for that much.

No circulator or water bath I know of requires vacuum sealers; all of them work fine with zips.

Also, not to nitpick, but duck confit only takes 8 hours or so; it's one of the easiest things to do with a water bath.

It looks neat, though. It'll be interesting to see if the cooling feature is useful, or more of a gimmick. That cooling system doesn't look powerful enough to chill down a low-temp cook (you're supposed to ice down anything you don't serve immediately); I assume you use it to delay the start of cooking?
The problem with the semi-competent IT staff is that they are not immune to Microsoft's BS^H^H PR. They will really believe what the account manager told the CIO over dinner.
The way you word your comment implies that this statement is patently false. Can you explain further?

Are you saying that low earners do not choose to work less, and if so, can you explain why this is the case?
For some definition of robotic... I guess networked crockpot doesn't have the same ring.
Know nothing about this but among other concerns this feels really vaporwarey.

Did I miss something?
What's this cost? The pre-order button doesn't actually bring up a pre-order screen for me.
Idaho has over 9 million acres of inventoried roadless areas. The largest of which is the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, which together with adjacent wilderness and forest service land constitutes the largest roadless area in the lower 48 at 3.3 million acres. If you love the great outdoors, I can't recommend this area enough. It is a real treasure.
How does this compare to cryptsy?
So I tried installing this on a debian box, did anyone else have issues compiling? I apt-got sbcl, flex, but make failed with "asdf-linguist" not found until I swapped lines 46/47 in the Makefile. Now it looks okay

[saving current Lisp image into cmc:
writing 5952 bytes from the read-only space at 0x20000000
writing 4000 bytes from the static space at 0x20100000
writing 49545216 bytes from the dynamic space at 0x1000000000
done]
Did I ever indicate I felt otherwise?
$400 is what pops up in mine.
I've always been fascinated by the philosophical divide among the nations with the best educational systems. Some (i.e. Finland) deemphasize tests, while others such as India and South Korea place strong emphasis on them. The issue is not black and white enough for us to categorically embrace or condemn tests. Different cultural and environmental factors are obviously in play.
One Man's Quest for the Perfect Hand: 39 Years and a 3D Printer
Yep, I grew up in ND, and my nearest non family neighbor was 7 miles away. This was pretty common. So if you parcel things up smaller than say 5 miles you'll miss people there pretty easily.
Hmm. I wonder if one of Facebook's competitors would be interested in funding the professor that invented this tech to start a competing company? Or is it that the implemented tech, team and market awareness are the thing that's valuable?
AirChat
I'm glad I applied to college before ubiquitous digital storage was a thing...I vaguely remember trying to come up with contrived ways to sound like an interesting person. I think I even mentioned listening to country music.

In terms of measurements of character, has there been much thought given to looking at longitudinal data of a student's career? An easy one would be improvement on standardized tests over time. I qualified for the National Merit Award because I happened to be doing prep work for SATs...I didn't even know the PSATs meant anything, but just because I performed well on one test, I was the beneficiary of all those schools who use "Number of National Merit Scholars in freshman class" as some kind of quality metric...My SAT performance afterward was only middling-good. I don't think that should've put me in a higher bracket than someone who struggled at first, but rather than giving up, did what it took to reach a higher percentile.

But what about students who go from being a flop, say, in their sophomore year, to really growing in terms of performance and accomplishments by their senior years? A student who, over 4 years, has a C average, but by senior year, is acing AP classes...that takes a considerable amount of grit. And the student is on the upswing. Hell, even a student who did no sports until senior year, but manages to letter on a high-performing team in a sport new to him/her...that to me is about as outstanding as a state champion who competed since the age of 5.
Maybe it isn't quite time for this question to be asked, but I'm damn well sure that the day is soon.

Why are students being admitted into undergraduate programs any more?

There are no admissions for the Khan Academy, and a huge chunk of undergraduate college education could be done in exactly that format.

Donate to have units created very well (and a few different versions just because) copyleft. Pay Universities for thorough certification of knowledge for particular subjects, and finally join Universities for capstone activities which will grant degrees upon completion. Keep graduate-level education as is.

Why do there have to be tens of thousands of Calculus I courses every year when one or two online would do? The technology and market exists for this, but the inertia of an antiquated undergrad education system gets in the way.
Only if they're clipped after raising the level, which is often unavoidable but also often not noticeable for the brief transients that end up getting clipped.

In the end, digital volume leveling can't be lossless. So you don't have to use it. But for mixed playlists, it's very nice.
Well, they already decided to kill the penny. Might as well resell the raw metal rather than putting it in a landfill.
Maybe the article re-frames a cutback of full time jobs and their related benefits. Isn't there an increase in the number of lower wage jobs in North America?
Mayor of Peoria has police raid the home of Twitter parodist
The real question is how many of Walmart's employees are on food stamps because they don't get paid much.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/11/18/walmart-sto...

Walmart's produce section is actually pretty good and their efforts to supply Organic food is real. Yes, it's industrial -scale organic, but given their logistics prowess, they do try to buy closer to where they sell when they can.
Layoffs ... "firing" sounds like they did something they shouldn't have for some reason.
From TFA:

> The flaws in standardized testing are well-documented at this point.... their predictive powers only forecast a student’s progress as far as the first semester of their freshman year.

Let's be honest. Raise your hand if you needed markedly
more than your first semester of freshman year to figure
out which of your friends at college were going to cut it
in some traditional academic sense.

Not saying that's the only sense, but as far as the
college should be able to measure, academics for 4(+) years are the only fair initial barometer. Of course, academics can't say anything about who can write a 7+
figure donation to the college 30 years after graduation...
Idk if the Indian educational system is considered the best (I'm actually pretty sure that it's not). As for the South Korean educational system, idk if it should be considered a model to follow considering kids there spend like 16 hours a day in school but perform comparatively well as kids in Finland who spend maybe less than half of that time in school.
Here's a small list of problems found from a quick test.

1. It's monolingual.

2. It's mono-currency.

3. It has a hidden schedule of fees like ripoff domain name registration with unwanted extra features, support for requisite features like SSL support (duh!) and shipping calculations.

4. It's not clear for which jurisdictions/product types you support tax calculations, or whether multi-party split revenue models are supported (eg. for dropship scenarios, digital product retailing eg. online content). Dynamic pricing also looks like it's not supported .. common digital retailing operations might use this, eg. for Hollywood content.

5. It's unclear to me based in China whether or not I can receive payments through your system.

6. It has no support for communities (eg. hosted forums) which despite not being Web2.0 are actually pretty cool for building customers for ecommerce operations.

7. The actual build bit seems almost completely disconnected from the plan bit, which mostly talks in gross generalities about the build bit without making you do it. The link between the two could be improved.

8. Dogecoin support?

Congrats on getting rich.
I've been debating trying to make a sous vide machine that can chill and uses a smartphone/tablet for control for two years. I ultimately decided it just wasn't worth it because the only application I could think of for the chilling was egg poaching, and even sous vide I prefer to gradient poach rather than equilibrium. (75C for 12 mins gets a firmer white with a runny yolk than I could at equilibrium).

But I can't wait to see what they and their community come up with. The UI on a smartphone at least has to be better than the current state of the art. And I'd love to hear how they're cooling the water.
oh hi Don Hopkins.
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!
welcome to whatever is left of Hacker News.
Wreq: a Haskell web client library
It's a funny sort of "buying" when you can print money. Be careful not to confuse the value of a coin with value of the metal the physical token contains.
It specifically says in the FAQ that it can't do cook-chill. I was debating trying to work on one that could awhile back but man is it hard to get that kinda cooling power economically, at least given my cursory exploration.

Also, I've never done duck confit sous vide. Maybe I'll try that next. I made some the good old fashioned way a couple months ago and wow.
Does anyone know how/where one might get access to a data set like the one he uses in this paper? (1993 student demographic data, high school GPAs, SAT scores, and freshman GPAs)
The argument of whether it would be noticeable is a valid one, but it also weakens the strict dynamic range argument. All you can do is use a limiter, which is a special case of a compressor, which is so named precisely because it limits the dynamic range of a signal.
Not all educations are equal. Not all university educations are equal. And (the quality of an) education isn't strictly a function of one's character.
#myNYPD Backfires As Twitter Users Share Photos of Police Brutalit
As someone who got to experience CS education at Columbia and Queens College I think the main reason for this is the fact that CUNYs are commuter schools. Most people at Queens College grew up in Queens, have plenty of family and friends in the area and only step on campus when they have class.

On the other hand, at Columbia most freshmen come in not knowing anyone and have no option but to go out and meet other students, join clubs and get involved in their departments. Now you have a bunch of brilliant CS majors, some of whom have been programming since the age of 5, spending most of their time together and learning from each other. The ones who are not up to speed usually catch up in a semester or 2. I've seen plenty of new student come into the Fall hackNY not knowing what Git is and then using node.js and angular few months later at the Spring hackathon.

I'd bet most CS students at Queens College, like a good portion of incoming freshmen at Columbia, don't even know what a hackathon is. There's no ADI at QC, no workshops, no info sessions from top companies, no hackathons and in most cases not even research positions.
I don't think it can go back to refrigerator once it's cooked as it's too hard to recool that volume of warm water.
This can backfire. I recently wasted the better part of a day on an interview and at the end of it found out they were looking to pay around %50 of what I'm currently making. Things got to that point because I did step one of what the article suggests.
You can deposit/withdraw fiat.
Seems like, one of the lettered agency was involved in this!
Already posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7622369

Edit: I always love when people get offended by facts.
You also have to do it very quickly due to anaerobic pathogens like Clostridium botulinum and Listeria monocytogenes. I don't think it's possible for something that fits comfortably in a kitchen and runs on a 120v line.
Can Any1 Beat Me On This Simple But Hard Ass Fishing Game? 78Pts
Seems like you guys kinda just threw in the towel and said "fuck it, its for philanthropy"

Here's a better answer - Lending Club and Prosper both lost their shirts when they first entered the market, and now they are both making their investors money. It just takes time and, more importantly, data.
I think your selling a security. and because they're not on the property as lien holder or on title. you could go get a mortgage spend all the money file bankruptcy and they're screwed.
"There's actually been a bit of research on the error rates you need to beat for OCR to be cost-effective vs. having people re-type."

Doesn't that depend entirely on what you're using the text for and how accurate it needs to be?
Founder/designer/actor here, glad to see HN pick Mellow up! I tried to post it myself to little success earlier. Let me know if I can clarify anything.
Apparently not hilarious.
I am curious since I have never cooked sous-vide. I see pieces of meat being cooked in the video, so does that mean I would have to come home and prepare the side dishes?
For the central bank, it doesn't matter what the face value is relative to the scrap value. If they take back a coin, they get both the face currency value _and_ the scrap value - in contrast to all other participants in the system who can only get one of those out of the coin (assuming melting it down was legal).

When you return a cent coin to the central bank, you are simply depositing money in your account with the central bank - you give them one cent of cash, they give you one cent of account balance - and taking deposits does not somehow cost the bank the money that they take as a deposit. Now, the central bank is in the special position that it can create coins and bank notes, which is why they don't necessarily lose any money when they melt down the coin you gave them, as they can just mint a new one, presumably a cheaper one, and the amount of money they have won't change, except by the difference between the scrap value of the old coin and the cost of producing the new coin.
Let's ignore all of the arguments around Khan Academy (pretend it's a foregone, rational conclusion that it is superior) and focus on people:

Humans are irrational by default (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDAzsZLvfPw). This is more or less proven in many behavioral experiments (Too lazy right now to source them) when people will do the obviously wrong thing based on internal logics.

Because of this, we can look to the irrational beliefs of people that influence the schools. Namely, social and physical proof. And the social proof has a major benefit: it's less likely that someone is bullshiting credentials if they have an actual degree to back it. http://xkcd.com/451/

Still, it will be a while before irrational opinions catch up (or are leapfrogged by locations like Ghana that embrace the new medium) and that there are ways to catch cheaters.
Cyclist crashes into a car hard
Loads of controversy surrounding this one as to who's at fault! Insurance blamed the cyclist for some reason, Id say 50/50.
Alas, I have resorted to using VLC, which really isn't that bad.
Yes, I am, but there's a 2% "compliance" fee for money orders. Now (via the API), they have something like recharge codes - similar to the Chinese exchanges, so, it seems you can move assets between accounts.
Corporate Acquisitions Of Startups – Why Do They Fail?
Must have run into the guy who made it. Three innocuous comments downvoted at once :)
This seems like a great addition to my side project (amazd.com)
Ah... I think your point is similar to paulgb's: "So if the metal in 100 pennies is worth more than the metal in a loonie they make a profit."

Is that what you mean?
Why do you ask police officers "What's the colour of a 2 cent piece?"
I am not getting why they are doing it at all? Why not let existing pennies to exist?

They mentioned it costs 1.6c to create 1p coin, but it costs 0.0c to keep existing 1p coins...
My money doesn't disappear like it did with Craptsy.
Yes he's borrowing the type notation from haskell to make his intentions clear, but of course this is only conceptual, and comments can be wrong - you'd need something like TypeScript to actually get feedback on types.
I agree. Clementine is similar to older versions of Amarok. It's clean and fast, with just the right amount of features.

I didn't realize that it was multi-platform. Anyone on KDE should definitely install it, but apparently it's more widely available than that.
I think Steve Blank has laid out a perfect rule set for corporations acquiring a startup. The only question is whether corporations realize the gift he's handed them.
Low-temp water baths are like duck confit dispensing machines. In particular, you can get by with much, much less fat.

I'm not sure I understand the utility of being able to throw all the ingredients for my dishes into a water bath days ahead of time, since I need to bag the ingredients anyways; why not just keep them in the fridge and dunk them the morning of the cook? Also: it's a little misleading? to suggest that you'll be able to cook lots of different ingredients in a single bath, since the veg will need much higher cooking temps than the proteins.

edit to tone down slightly
Hey tptacek,

A lot of our copy is directed at people who're not that familiar with sous-vide and might have very basic questions when browsing. Let me clarify further:

-$400 is expensive, you're right. And we're not making that much of a margin on these right now. That's because Mellow does so much more than just warming water. Whether those features are valuable is another question.

-On the bags, we're probably the only device out there that can routinely cook using open, unsealed bags. Due to the tall, skinny geometric, you can plop food in non-ziploc bags and use those to cook you Mellow. Huge cost saving in the long run, no floating bags, and a much quicker operation all-in-all.

-You're right on the confit (though I like mine cook at 70c@24h), it's just an easy example. A chicken breast or large fillet steak would be a better example of something you wouldn't be able to cook for 8-12 hours with regular sous-vide.

-Well-supposed on the cooling.

Ultimately, Mellow's the product of almost a decade of frustration with sous-vide non-pragmatism. It won't be optimal for everyone, some people will do better with their Polysci's, but for busy home cooks like us, I think it's a hell of a help. Thank you for the chance to debate.
Picturing Pythagorean Theorem
We'll do, thanks for the advice :)
Nope, I'm up voting these, they're helpful. Yours, too.
Taming the Digital Wild West
Supreme Court justices appear conflicted over Aereo copyright case
They could just make it so everyone that has a child gets "fixed". Then within a few thousand years no more humans. And everyone is allowed to live out their lives and have kids. well except the last person.
I assume the census data doesn't have enough information to divide it up into equal size areas?
The Science of Derailing Trains (WWII video)
For the most part, yes. Vegetable cookery tends to happen at temps north of 175, and protein cookery tends to happen at temps south of 140 or so, so you can't really use the same unattended water bath for both.
I REALLY want to believe this isn't vaporware.
[My original comment was "Are you sure about that?" which I deleted after a few seconds.]

So it looks like you can deposit fiat, but only via bank wire, money order, or a couple strange services. Which is still cool, but not really the more user-friendly/intuitive ach/credit card idea my mind leaps to when I hear "deposit fiat".