skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To within measurement error, all attributes are pre-existing attributes. It's called "natural variation" and is the universally-accepted explanation for why we have sexual reproduction instead of budding. Right now, some people are more radiation-resistant than others.
Rust for C++ programmers – part 2: control flow
There's a lot of talk in this thread about double-edge safety razors and straight razors. They truly are amazing - I switched to using a DE about a year ago and I'm never going back to using those stupid overpriced cartridges.

For anyone who wants to learn more, I highly recommend /r/wicked_edge. It's a great little community that has compiled a lot of resources for people who are keen on learning more about all this. That's where I originally did my research when I was starting out.

http://reddit.com/r/wicked_edge

People who know what they're doing shave this way; people who don't think twice about it use cartridges. I want to encourage everyone to explore this because it's really superior in a lot of ways. It saddens me how many people have the impression that "Mach3Turbo" is the only way one can shave because it's all CVS carries.
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=ktripphahn
I completely agree with your observation, but I'm not sure what is the point that you're trying to make here :-). F# is open-source and has a very active community that is contributing to many core parts - including the tooling (http://fsprojects.github.io/VisualFSharpPowerTools/ and http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/), the compiler now also accepts contributions and there are a few work-in-progress pull requests, as well as building some of the core F# libraries, e.g. for data science (http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/, http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/Deedle/, etc.)

I think the F# community is much more like the "open source" model than the "closed MS model". The change is slowly happening in the rest of .NET, but F# is way ahead here.
Some images formats already come with compression.
Also, zip doesn't work with well with binary data.
Using CSS to "subscript" into the sprite is a better solution.
Also would take a look at SoapUI if you are dealing with multi step flows:

http://www.soapui.org
Atwood's law in action
Thanks :)
Which station are you?

I couldn't find one with a 30 second interval.
But they are the ones having the actual conversation and working the rhetoric to close a deal. They aren't Deciders, but they are Negotiators ("salespeople").
Well, yes. He was just talking about noise performance in the digitization process; he didn't discuss lenses at all.
That article doesn't make your case.

All it provides is an unsourced "American men are also doing less shaving, according to a Euromonitor Inc. analyst, as stubble and facial hair becomes more popular."

Most of the article is focused on _other_ reasons they are seeing declining sale, including competition. In fact, the only reliable source specifically says the low end market is growing while the high end market is shrinking, which doesn't lend itself at all to your fiction-as-fact opinion.
Once again, a hacker news commenter's idea of what in browser javascript performance is like is ridiculously 15 years out of date.

It's 2014 now. Your iphone is 10 times faster than your 1998 pentium 2. Even with the JS vm penalty.

Unless you're zipping 70mb files, there's no chance you're overwhelming anyone's browser.

The usecase for this is the same you'd have for any desktop application: A handy "binary file format" library. Data portability wins.
answered in adam's blog; see the paragraph beginning with

Everyone does soft-fail
I have in fact read them. I have even been very explicit and clear about my reading of them in the hopes that you will either understand what I am saying, or correct my misunderstanding. It is unfortunate that you wish to do neither. I made a very simple point: you do not know rc, and are comparing bash to ruby and then blindly assuming that comparison applies to rc vs ruby. It does not.
App request too: I would like an application that wake me up 5 minutes before my stop.
Postman Launcher is pretty handy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-launcher/i...
That's a lot of die area for video decoding! It's substantially larger than their entire set of CPUs.

I've got a feeling that full-hardware video decoding is going to die off, having worked on it myself. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave so much silicon idle most of the time, when you could just accelerate a more general purpose processor or GPU to have very wide integer paths.
you are not. I'm quite sure this used to be easier.
Only if you're not checking a bag...
Do you use RSS?
Hi,

I'm trying to build a website which its contents is based on RSS, create profiles and categories that organize the information. Also allow users to create their own static profiles and add their websites too.

I don't know if it's better focus on a simple category or niche, for example: bitcoins, or it's better try to add every kind of information.

What do you think about it?

Thanks in advance.
Most homes I know of in Florida don't have electric kettles. I have one, use it with my ap. many homes have stove top kettles here.
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What behavior are you looking for? I noticed that recently (maybe with a Chrome update?) that packaged apps run/show up as independent apps in the OS X task switcher.
Qt has gained some momentum in the EDA industry as well.
It's also great for sharing collections of API calls as a sort of live demo.
Well, you're not actually describing a 'hacker' - you're describing an entrepeneur. But, yes, he was a lot more technically invested than a lot of other auteurs. I recommend the documentary 'Stanley Kubrick: a life in pictures' to anybody interested in living life on their own terms. Very inspiring.

Oh, and I find 'Eyes Wide Shut' to be a woefully mistunderstood and underated gem. I'd rate it second to 'Barry Lyndon' in the Kubrick oeuvr. A lot of his other films (Shining, 2001, Clockwork) I found to be technically marvelous but mishandled in terms of storytelling.
I would feel better if the author actually knew the name of the bug he was talking about...
There is one blockchain. The security of the blockchain requires everyone working very hard to maintain it - while it is made out of many parts it is 1 entity (like an ant colony).

Contrast with something like Convergence, where, while they share a common protocol (maybe...not necessarily) each part is responsible for itself, and not tied to any particular larger whole.
Except that the primary utility of zip is usually not its compression. It's the combining of multiple files into one "file". Basically what tar was invented for, but with actual universal support on every OS.
Here's some evidence: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=beard+styles&geo=US
Upper left just below the Forward and Back buttons is an Apps button.

Most people don't seem to see it as anything more than a bookmark. I searched the menus for it and did not find it. And it was sitting right there.
I been using an Aeropress daily for 2.5 years and even with scratches I haven't noticed a difference to brand new ones (I own several). What colour is your brewer? If it's clear with a blue tint, then it might be due to plastic they used to use. Few years back they switched to more brown coloured plastic as there was some issues with the old plastic they used (I don't know the details).
The main issue is simply availability in stock photos. The young white hipsters taking stock photos of their friends simply don't have that many non-white friends.

I month or so ago, I met a guy who designs the "Opulent 3BHK now available, 1-3 crore" billboards. For those unfamiliar with Indian advertising, such billboards will typically feature a photo of a white lady doing yoga or perhaps in an evening gown. Perhaps a man will be present, admiring her. The actual apartment being advertised is rarely displayed [1].

I asked him why this is the case. The answer is simply availability of photos - shutterstock just doesn't have Indian yoga ladies/dinner party ladies/etc. Of the ones you do find, most are aesthetically unsuitable.

Here is shutterstock: http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?searchterm=yoga+woman&...

Maybe 2 black women, one or two more of questionable ethnicity, and a bunch of white chicks. Searching for "yoga woman indian" gets you a few results, but not exactly a wide selection. A search for "yoga woman desi" gets spelling-corrected to "yoga woman desk".

[1] Most of them are generic unappealing post-Le Corbusier concrete block structures. Think council housing (UK) or housing projects (US). On the rare occasion that the apartments actually have a moderately appealing appearance, you get to see a picture: http://www.phoenixfountainhead.com/
I'd love to see more information on the product. Like my profile says, I worked at an HVAC optimization company a few years back. We played with the idea of adding wireless vents to control flow, but parkrrr mentioned we were concerned about pressure, along with not getting permission from our clients to swap there vents. Most of our clients had anywhere from 2 HVAC units controlling the building (most fast food chains), up to 40 (for a massive office we installed in). Depending on the building size and the number of individual 'zones' a given HVAC unit has to hit, it was almost impossible. We ran into issues where no matter what our system did, it would just not cool the kitchen below 95°F. Granted, the owners of these chains were incredibly frugal, often buying the cheapest option no matter what (plus we'd sold many of the systems on false promises before our original CEO left the company).

What is ecoVent using to manage communication? Long-range bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee or Z-Wave? What kind of communication do you have going on in general? If you're looking into any 'performance' monitoring, but leaving the company I was in charge of developing an "early alert" system that would alert you to when the unit had degraded to the point of repair (before breaking). Since the old company's been defunct for years now, I don't see any conflict sharing the IP.
It would depend on the protection being nearly free in the short term but becoming very expensive in the longer term. This would allow small upstarts to find out if a market existed and then, if true, capitalize on it and use the profits to fund continued protection as far (and only as far) as the market would bear.

If they failed, the patents could not then be acquired by trolls for pennies where they would then pollute the ecosystem for decades.

As far as copyrights go, this would neatly solve the orphaned work problem with the added benefit of Disney having a serious think about paying a billion dollar tax to the public in order to keep "Steamboat Willie" in the "Disney Vault".
You can add a pendrive in the USB and extend the internal memory, search the web there are many tutorials
I grew up there, maybe that explains my kettle ignorance.
I switched back to a French press as well. For half the amount of beans I can get twice the amount of coffee out of the French press.
Ask HN: Is social media a user acquisition strategy? 
I was having an argument with another founder about listing social media as a user acquisition strategy in a pitch deck. I think social channels might be a way of getting users, but to me it doesn't seem like a reliable way to do so unless your target user is best reached through social media.

Or am I just over-thinking what user acquisition strategy means?
i still love RSS feeds. if you just want to display RSS feeds, I think it's better to focus on a niche. If you want to let users manipulate feeds and do complex interactions then I think a wider range of categories is OK.. but try to narrow down a few different niches to target and try to attract to your site.
Hi. Levinux creator here. More modern platforms will always offer developers speed-to-productivity advantage, but the platforms themselves are constantly moving targets. If you invest yourself wholly into them, you're caught in the cycle of what Joel Spolsky calls fire-and-motion. But if you also learn a good terminal-oriented old-skool in a way that will work on most (but not all) embedded systems, you'll always have a fallback plan. The short stack is ideally Unix, C, a ubiquitous text editor, and the compiler tool chain. But we're not in an ideal world and I want it to be approachable by newbies. So, Python comes before C for the sake of positive initial experience and movement towards C, and vim is the text editor choice because of the ubiquity. I know tons of arguments can be made different ways, so I'm making a my flavor of Levinux, then making it as spinnable in different ways as possible. Forth versions should be no problem, and I anticipate a node-oriented version and such. But time and imagination constrained as I am, I'll be focusing my tutorials and server recipes on my idea of an newbie-accessible short stack.
"Just how does one go about stepping up from something like 3D printing (manifold meshes [0] are easy) to something like injection molding?"

Pretty straight forward actually. If you have the solid shape you want and can find a line of symmetry that does not result in any over hangs, a good CAD package will let you slice the shape and create two halves. You use boolean subtraction from a solid block to create the mold profile, now you will add alignment pins (at least 3) and add sprue paths (this will depend on the injector you are using) then send that to a suitably equipped milling machine to mill out of a couple of blocks of alumninum. Assemble to two halves and hold them together (you can use a press or bracket for that) take your thermo plastic under modest pressure and heat, and squirt it into one sprue hold until it squirts out the other. That has to happen reasonably quickly as the plastic starts to harden as soon as it hits the Alumninum.

Pull apart the mold, pop out the part. if you get a machine like this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/140895101602?lpid=82 you can pop out a hundred copies pretty quickly.
Make sure to interview as many people as possible to to ensure that the consensus is generally positive. But expecting 100% approval is a pipe dream.
You can do that with environments: http://www.getpostman.com/docs/environments
I was mixing a number of different criticisms of various technologies in my post...I never meant to confer that Telehash has a blockchain.

I guess, I still don't understand the point of Telehash. Even having read through the documentation. "Establishing private communication channels" is definitely a big problem, one with a huge threat model, and the solution is probably multi-faceted - I don't see where a system like Telehash fits in v.s. something like tor or i2p for example - does anonymity fit into the threat model?

Before dragging this thread off the page I will follow up with an email. :)
You can do this by using the environments feature. Create an environment and add a key to that environment to represent the base URL. Then in the the URL line replace your base URL with the reference to the key. For example http://{{base-url}}/api/
I have used an AeroPress for years. I also own a $1400 domestic espresso machine and a $700 grinder. These days I'm using one of those Hario pour over cones as my espresso alternative.

The AeroPress is good. But it's not close to espresso at all. If you over dose and are prepared to push very slowly for a long time, you can get some espresso like flavours out of it, but this can take a while.

That said the AeroPress is really worth it. The filters are truly reusable. I still have not gone through my original pack of filters that I got with mine several years ago.
I used delphi extensively in the mid 90's, from the 1.0 release until about 2001. Those were probably some of the most enjoyable and productive times of my life.

IMHO, nothing comes close to the syntactic clarity of object Pascal. This has a ton of knock on effects for long term maintainability.

Plus, the early versions of the Delphi component model were insanely clear and well documented. My first delphi program was a reimplementation of a 6 month long (4 programmer) access database/vb application. I completely reimplemented a 2 man year project in about 24 hours with it using little more than the help docs. After a quick demo at work on Monday, everyone pretty much agreed to kick MS Access/vb to the curb and pick up my code base.

The data aware components were a life saver, and to this day programming in a wide range of languages I am constantly reminded how painful doing things that were simple 20 years ago is. It drives a fundamental distaste into my mouth every time I'm hacking an AJAX app to do basic sorting/filtering of a simple result set. Usually doable with delphi in a matter of a few mouse clicks.

Plus, by the late '90s there were a ton of 3rd party component libraries that nailed just about every GUI interaction an average program might need. The integration of reporting components made generating nice paper printouts a snap too.

So, this is probably why its still being used. Reimplementing a delphi application of a hundred thousand lines is probably a thousand man year project with a "modern" web stack. And so, much like the mainframes running in the data centers of banks/insurance/etc companies, delphi is probably still driving a fair number of business logic applications. I know that some of the applications I wrote in the 90's are still in use at government agencies.

BTW: I used BC builder too, and hated it even though I tend to like C++. The C++ syntax was simply to unwieldy vs pascal.

I have periodically tried out more recent version of delphi or lazurus http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and they don't seem to be nearly as elegant as the early versions. Seems all the effort to make it cross platform (kylix) or match up with the .net component models cluttered up the early clarity of implementation.
If a film maker could be described as a hacker, it is Kubrick without a doubt, in my view. There is just a weird multiple layered thing going on that you appreciate after multiple viewings.
And a quarter the quality!
It's perfect, I love RSS too. My idea is create a simple app to manipulate feeds, so you can register with an email, and add your favorite websites. I'm going to think about focus on a niche or categories. Thanks for reply.
If you're looking for a grinder to go along with the AeroPress, the Hario hand grinder[0] is a good choice.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Hario-Coffee-Mill-Slim-Grinder/dp/B001...
This is exactly a project I was about to embark upon to generate ePub files from client-side JS. Thanks!
It's not about saving bandwidth or space by compressing the images - it's about removing the step of combining your images into one big image then using coordinates inside of that image to find your original images.

Sure, you can build the spriting into your build process, but I don't know how to do that (I'm sure there are tools) and you can't exactly use normal css since the coordinates of your images may change within the sprite sheet.

Using the zip method saves you some of that headache/overhead with the tradeoff of having to package your images into a zip and unzip them on the client side.
It depends on your company. Are you geared toward creating shareable content that appeals to your target market? Then social medias is definitely a viable user acquisition strategy. Just look at Upworthy (although lately they've been dinged by Facebook, apparently).

But if your social media strategy is to just create a Twitter/Facebook account and put out a few random blog posts, then don't expect that channel to bring in a consistently large amount of users.
You're right. I guess I'm just a huge sucker for the whole dynamic languages with a REPL thing. I mean, Ruby is just so goddamn neat. The stuff that takes me 2 lines in Ruby can take me 10-15 in Java or C, and the difference only gets bigger as the program gets larger.

Maybe I should try out static languages "done right" (type inference, etc.) before I give up on them.
Borland Pascal 7 (running in MSDOS) had the best IDE I ever had. Debugging and editing was excellent.

Ever since, I've been using prints and command line. :-(

Why was there no linux port of BP7?
Chrome used to take you to the apps page on a new tab by default, which was really convenient. Several releases ago they replaced that default with an utterly redundant search bar on new tab pages for reasons I can't begin to understand. Anyway, you can just go to chrome://apps and bookmark that page.
Aha. I thought environments could only be used for setting additional HTTP headers! Thanks for this.
You could definitely just interpolate between arrival times for stations. Add in a little historical averaging for the same routes (maybe broken out by hour / day of week) and I bet you could get pretty close to accurate.
Why did you meet with this person? Is he a manager/peer or an actual part of your target market? Is your peer-group or managers your target market? Political dynamics can complicate product development. The "not invented here syndrome" is a classic.

People may not want to show the product respect or attention for selfish motives.

Alternatively, consider the 10x better benchmark. Many people will face legitimate costs to switching their routine/existing solutions. So, for a 10% better product, the ROI is still negative for them. This is a more legitimate and yet still common form of 'resistance' that is expressed as general apathy in many contexts. Particularly in enterprise or big-co outside customers.

To try to evaluate if it is the former or the latter, consider approaching a mix of people for feedback. Most importantly, evaluate their credentials and motives as part of your process.
The crazy thing: in this thread, you are all right. The state of sending multiple files sucks. ZIP is the closest thing we have to a universal standard, if only because Windows refuses to ship with support for anything that is meaningful.
It seems the only problem with hard-fail is the risk of DoS attacks by targeting OCSP servers. However, if you include OCSP stapling you won't be affected. So a solution may be to encourage all users to enable revocation checking with hard-fail, and all servers to support OCSP stapling.
Of course, but I'm also counting in the radio stage of the unit. If it's one-way that's cool, if it's two-way then there are other concerns about power usage.