skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My writing process starts with things I think about and talk about with other people. I often mentally hash something out while walking well before I sit down to write.

I also try to collect snippets of things I want to develop at some point and create stubs that I come back to later, sometimes months later. It's something of a collage and sometimes it results in something good. (Made the front page of HN a few times this year, so I think it's better than it used to be. In theory.)
That's cool; I just pirate everything anyway. (Don't worry, I live in Australia, where it's morally justifiable and usually the only option.)
Does anyone have a way of bypassing the paywall? I can't read the article.
My condolences for the loss of your loved one.
Dart: The Good Parts
Ask HN: What to do if everything but the .com is available?
I have a startup and am looking to get a domain name, the dot com is available for $3000, I love the name but not the price, should I get the .net or .io? The startup is a hosting company.

Thanks HN!
The author's analogy to fried waffles reminded me of a real-world example from 10 years ago: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/business/23doughnut.html)

In the early 2000s I was living in Minnesota during the much-hyped arrival of Krispy Kreme. There were long lines at new stores and lots of doughnuts in the office every day. The hype prompted new franchises and an overabundance of doughnut shops, but unfortunately the demand dropped as the novelty wore off, and they ended up closing several stores and production facilities in the area.

Obviously Krispy Kreme weathered its over-expansion and is doing well today. I think the question for Groupon and Herbalife is if they have a business plan (and the financial reserves) to make the shift from exponential growth to more measured success.
This looks great!

Is this for OS X only?
I so concur! Thought they were writing “Jmagine” and “Jt” instead of “Imagine” and “It” to look cool or something.
Yep, Transit is super small. Velocity still gets quite small though -- about 7Kb when zipped.

As for Transit's tearing and banding at high element counts -- that is indeed the performance bottleneck of CSS transitions shining through. If you're interested, you can learn the technical reasons behind Velocity's speed increase over CSS and jQuery here: http://davidwalsh.name/css-js-animation
Has there been any research about the prevalence of schizophrenia in communities with strong social bonds (multigenerational families under one roof, closeness with neighbors, etc) versus modern urban communities (nuclear families or singlehood, relative disconnectedness with the physical world, lots more disembodied communication (Internet, phone, SMS) as opposed to traditional face-to-face communication)?

Edit: Turns out there is - http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/184/4/287.long

I was asking because I definitely notice that if I am in a situation where I am living alone, I am just flat out less happy than when my wife is home. And I'm one of those people who is actually even happier when both my wife and mother-in-law are home, basically, the more people living under my roof, the happier I am. I was wondering whether it was the same for others.
One out of 6000 is paying?
If you could only develop schizophrenia young, it wouldn't make much sense to call it "age-unrelated". You can get chicken pox when you're old, too, and in fact it's particularly deadly to the elderly, but there's not much place in aging amelioration for anti-chicken-pox research. It's best addressed elsewhere (also, yes, basically solved already, but I'm trying to make a different point).

23.5% of schizophrenia sufferers is a minuscule quantity. What percentage of people over 40 develop schizophrenia? Over 60? What percentage of people over 60 develop one of "cancer or heart disease"?

> a healthy body and a decayed mind is in some ways little different than a dead body.

I don't disagree at all.

> finding real treatments for mental illness is probably the most important part of longevity research

No, the most important part of longevity research is getting the body to last. A dead body with a "healthy mind" (not clear what that would mean) doesn't qualify as longevous by any standard. Someone who won't go senile for 150 years is pointless if he dies at 82 like a normal person, and while that scenario is admittedly a kind of progress it (a) is undetectable, which makes research difficult, and (b) has no application at all until we can get the guy to live longer. Longer lifespans are more fundamental, are immediately visible, and have immediate application; they can take advantage of natural variation in the onset of mental failure.
Ok, my mistake, I though it was only moderated in exceptional cases. And about the diversity on HN, just this week somebody here was complaining about the good old days of HN when it was only technical stuff, so I thought that's how it was. Thanks for the clarification!
Off topic, but also see gourmet popcorn in the 80s.
"a full network of communicating cars and fail-safes" is a long way away, though. And to get there you have to go through a long period of some self-driving cars, sharing the road with old-fashioned human piloted ones. As a human driver, I spend a lot of my time anticipating the behavior of my fellow road-users. That car coming up from the side street - did they see me? They're on their phone, maybe they didn't see me... they're going to pull out... better brake...; now I'm coming up to an exit; the car in the lane to my left just changed speed, probably going to try to cut across in front of me, better give them some room...; cyclist coming up on the right, am I going to get past him before I need to slow for my right turn, or should I slow up behind him?

Understanding and anticipating all those human behaviors seems to me to be well beyond the capabilities of current AI.
Arthur Anderson was founded in 1913, so they were around for quite some time before they "went up in smoke". Anderson started auditing in the early 90s, and apparently was ignoring serious red flags from the very beginning. I guess auditors can get away with biased/dependent behavior for a long time.
> Degrading multiple routes will exert more pressure on Comcast to improve than just about anything short of Google Fiber moving in next door.

Google Fiber could move in next door and Comcast would still do nothing to improve.
If Betteridge's Law of Headlines doesn't work for you, a review of what constitutes "journalism" these days probably will.
Note that these deals, while potentially objectionable, don't violate net neutrality as it's commonly understood. The key difference is that they involve the transit between Netflix and Verizon/Comcast, rather than within Verizon/Comcast.

It would be violating net neutrality if they were deliberately slowing down Netflix traffic within their networks, rather than offering to peer (provide a more direct or higher-bandwidth connection) with Netflix's transit partner.
Why couldn't Google just offer their own insurance plan? They could bundle the cost with a monthly or yearly service/maintenance fee. If the margins are so high on insurance products, I'm sure they would be more than happy to keep the profits themselves.
ON THE morning of December 23rd 1991 a fire destroyed a home in Corsicana, Texas shared by Cameron Todd Willingham, his wife and their three daughters. The fire killed the girls; Mrs Willingham was at the Salvation Army store shopping for Christmas gifts. Mr Willingham survived. The next year he was convicted of setting the fire. He was sentenced to death and executed in 2004.

His conviction rested on arson investigators’ findings and the testimony of Johnny Webb, a jailhouse informant who claimed that Willingham had confessed to him. Shortly before the execution, Willingham’s lawyers sent the governor and parole board a report from Gerald Hurst, another arson investigator, detailing multiple flaws in the first investigation. He concluded that the fire was caused by a space heater or faulty electrical wiring. Officials appear to have received this report before Willingham’s execution, but did nothing with it. Several independent arson investigators reached similar conclusions.

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The slow death of the death penalty
Irrevocable
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Willingham insisted on his innocence, refusing to plead guilty even to avoid execution. Mr Webb testified that, as he was passing Willingham’s cell, he heard him confess to having done the deed to cover up child abuse committed by his wife. But no bruises or signs of abuse were found on the children’s bodies.

Mr Webb recanted his testimony in 2000. He then recanted his recantation, but admitted to a journalist that “It’s very possible I misunderstood what [Willingham] said.” Mr Webb also testified that he was promised no benefit in exchange for his testimony. In February, however, lawyers working to get Willingham a posthumous pardon revealed a note discovered in Mr Webb’s file with the Navarro County prosecutor promising a reduced charge “based on coop[eration] in Willingham”. On April 3rd Texas denied Willingham a pardon. His lawyers can reapply in April 2016.
Government do and can regulate the mergers. They do it all the time and for last couple of big mergers with Comcast this has been on table but they seem to see Comcast with favorable eyes.
Error-Free Quantum Computing Made Possible in New Experiment
For privately held companies, sure.

For public companies, growth is important, because people who buy a share of stock for $X do so because they think that share of stock will someday be worth an amount more than $X. And growth is seemingly a very clear indicator of such an outcome. So the markets put pressure on public companies to always be growing.
Sure it is. If a theory keeps failing in the real world, it's time to modify or discard the theory.
Well, the author notes that the workplace upgraded to terminals after just a year or two. I know that the high school where my mom taught programming in Chicago still had punch card technology (no terminals) as of the early 1980s, although the upgrade happened around then. Also some of the other mentions (eg IBM clicky keyboards) are consistent with a 1983 date.
Thanks for proving what I long suspected.
I think it's more that anyone can get cancer, or heart disease... But I am never going to get schizophrenia- I'm not crazy!

It's perfectly rational for a disease that can strike anyone to generate more fear (therefore funding) than one which everybody believes they're immune to.
A more in-depth article, which fills in a lot of details: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_...

This case seems to hinge mainly on the fact that a lack of a scientific approach to investigating arson, combined with overzealous prosecutors, may have contributed to what the original headline claims.

Some key paragraphs (though you should go there and read it yourself):

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"With the naked eye, it is impossible to distinguish between the pour patterns and puddle configurations caused by an accelerant and those caused naturally by post-flashover. The only reliable way to tell the difference is to take samples from the burn patterns and test them in a laboratory for the presence of flammable or combustible liquids."

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"On February 13th, four days before Willingham was scheduled to be executed, he got a call from Reaves, his attorney. Reaves told him that the fifteen members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, which reviews an application for clemency and had been sent Hurst’s report, had made their decision.

“What is it?” Willingham asked.

“I’m sorry,” Reaves said. “They denied your petition.”

The vote was unanimous. Reaves could not offer an explanation: the board deliberates in secret, and its members are not bound by any specific criteria. The board members did not even have to review Willingham’s materials, and usually don’t debate a case in person; rather, they cast their votes by fax—a process that has become known as “death by fax.” Between 1976 and 2004, when Willingham filed his petition, the State of Texas had approved only one application for clemency from a prisoner on death row. A Texas appellate judge has called the clemency system “a legal fiction.” Reaves said of the board members, “They never asked me to attend a hearing or answer any questions.”"
That only works if you reverted the commits almost immediately after they are pushed. With a distributed system like Git, Horvath certainly would've noticed, and anyone who pulled before the revert would've known too.
I don't really know how those applications work. The only problem I have with them is if the person being talked about doesn't have the ability to respond, and for that message to be seen by everyone. If someone wants to say something anonymously, fine - that's their character - but I want to see the character of who they're gossiping about, bullying, to see what the other side of the story is.
The biggest reason why you don't "deserve" sexual attention is because you are competing with lots of other males. If you were the only guy on Earth, then you would have endless amounts of it. So you need to be extra personable and nice to compensate for the lack of scarcity.
I disagree strongly. He was using chess as an example of how progress can increase exponentially, not how artificial intelligence is close.

Object recognition is another good example with major breakthroughs in recent years leading to massive improvements. They are already very close to, and in some cases exceeding, human ability.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663582
Not generating model-specific code for a processor that doesn't match your CPUID table is hardly what I'd call "sabotaging."
Entrepreneurs see the future by being optimistic idealists.
They pay for that 40% of traffic that isn't peered, absolutely. Peered traffic isn't free, though, either - the infrastructure build-out and maintenance costs can be substantial. There are economies of scale at play here, though - once you hit a certain point, it's more cost-effective to build and maintain your own network than to rent someone else's.

If deals like the Netflix/Comcast deal were made illegal, this would only tilt things further in favor of the existing big players, because if you have the kind of scale available that you can build out your own peering networks (like Google), then you can deliver your content for pennies on the dollar as compared to your competition. Transit is expensive. Paid peering allows companies like Netflix - miniscule compared to someone like Google - to achieve effective transit rates that are much closer to what Google can achieve than they could otherwise.
So the images were deleted and everything was resolved on my end that same afternoon of the 25th.

Not four days with no response, more like a few hours to resolve the problem with productive back-and-forth communication.

However, DigitalOcean again threatened to shut down the server later that evening of the 25th (automated email) because DigitalOcean support had not closed all the abuse tickets. Somehow it's my job to close the ticking timebomb tickets, apparently these tickets countdown to auto-shutdown of your Droplet if they're not all closed within an unspecified timeframe. Luckily I was online to click delete-refresh delete-refresh delete-refresh on the rest of the tickets or no doubt the server would have been powered off again.

The 26th and 27th, no problems.

Today (28th) DigitalOcean gets a pile more rapid-fire complaints and shuts off the server again, within 30 minutes of receiving the complaints. This time the complaints are bogus because I already deleted everything on the 25th.

What does that tell me? DigitalOcean did not check if the complaints were legit before powering off the server. All the URLs in the complaints are 404. It wasn't until Zach got involved that I was given some assurance the server wouldn't be auto-shutdown again in the event of more bogus complaints.
Netflix previous to this had considerable power to stop the tiered internet but they actually are defining the moment it separates. Netflix's history will include fueling the demise of network neutrality.

Fool me once...

At their stage, they are taking advantage of their place in the short term and this benefits them heavily while playing the PR side against it. But in the end they may have figured their own downfall when they don't own their own network and can't compete with comcast, verizon, cox, etc's own streaming networks which will have all the cable channels as well as other content.

They could have changed law with only lobbying the consumer, now it will cost them and everyone. It might be hard to imagine but the moment someone streams live sports and hbo the game changes dramatically. Would have been nice to have network neutrality last longer than 2 decades on the internet, it is over.
For some additional insight on accept based conneg. The guys who created it, really wish they hadn't.

http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-types/2006-April/001...

"Regarding proactive negotiation in HTTP/2, I'll note that Waka strips all negotiation fields. I find the entire feature revolting, from every architectural perspective, and would take the opportunity of 2.x to remove it entirely."
Roy Fielding
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JanMar/...
...or at least collect email addresses to email when the product is in stock.
http://www.economist.com/node/21601279/print
Market is any set of voluntary exchanges, I just point out that some markets can have no competition despite being free. This can happen even in commodity markets, e.g. if somebody owns a huge chunk of the market. E.g. diamonds & De Beers. For telecom markets, there seem to be no substantial reasons why healthy competition can not exist on a free market.
Some do:

Instacart: https://www.instacart.com/faq#inventory-and-prices-q2

Yes, Instacart prices are our own and vary from the store’s price.

Postmates https://postmates.com/help

Additionally, a 9% service fee is applied to the purchase price of your items.
This seems to be relatively new. It doesn't work on a couple of boxes I tried.

Thanks though, I didn't know about the ?? syntax.
When 50 other cars are nearby actively communicating with each other about the road conditions that they each see, only a representative subset of those cars need to correctly identify road conditions and report them to the entire group as a road-conditions map. Cars in the group validate the observations and risk-factors reported by other cars. Then each car independently makes its driving decisions based on this shared-data based on its relative position in the group.

In this way, being surrounded by hundreds of other cars is a plus, and leads to more data by which to determine safe self-driving behavior.
I wish I could look at this on github.
I would also like to view their shop....
nvm, I can't read.

http://shop.adapteva.com/
Why do you say that? If Google Fiber moved in next door, and your customers could get a better value for their money, Comcast's options would be to compete or to have the vast majority of their business stolen from them.

They may be evil, but they aren't stupid.
Ok I actually have the same usage pattern as you and I have a minivan, which I think optimizes quite well the size.

Also, you say you didn't kill anyone. Great but how much room did cities you crossed have to plan for you? How many other non driving people had to reduce their living space for this? Not counting fossil fuel, materials used, etc.

Safety is probably the mask used by this light to hide their agenda, and it is clever. Buy maybe it is completely made up. Maybe everyone would be much safer in very different cars, maybe our human tastes have been terraformed to fulfill the avidity of some powerful lobby.
The interesting problems are:

- tracking thousands of objects' trajectories to avoid as many threat-weighted collisions as possible. (think NYC times square)

- not going too fast when visibility is blocked

FYI: When I was at Trimble Nav, there were self-driving farm equipment demonstrated c. 2000.
Yes, and I think that he's mistaken.

The meritocrats - the 'beneficiaries of nepotism' in the article - aren't actually where they are (wholly) because of merit. It's because they were born into a social structure where they were already beneficiaries of wealth and privilege, and were able to accrue various 'merit badges' because of this wealth and privilege. But this isn't actually meritocracy.

What I'm saying is that the system that the author claims to be meritocratic actually isn't - if it were, starting with our early childhood education system, it would be promoting people based on talent and aptitude and not keeping them down because they were born into the wrong class.

And this is what I'm saying actually constitutes meritocracy. Do I think we should be advancing people simply because they are poor? I do not. Similarly I do not think we should be advancing people simply because they are already rich. I think we should be giving those who have been historically denied these opportunities the same opportunities to advance as we do to everyone else, elevating them rather than diminishing others. That to me would represent an actual 'meritocracy', not the false version that the coiner of the term is criticizing.
Wreckage of flight MH370 has been found?
This 4% error rate (which doesn't necessarily translate to other kinds of cases, particularly ones with plea bargains) would mean the US had approximately 91,000 people incarcerated who were innocent (using 2011 numbers). If you count in people on probation and parole, the number raises to 290,000 people (using 2008 numbers).

I don't know what the error rate actually is in these cases, but the numbers are staggering if even approximately correct - an entire city of innocent people are tied up in the criminal justice system.
No. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/stephen-morgan-wesl...
Hypothetically, if one was reading this article and had a large number of unprotected private keys around, one could change the password on these keys by issuing

ssh-keygen -f id_rsa -p
Parking structures might become high-security, automated bldgs that people don't enter. Further, local parking spaces may be unnecessary as your car (or the car you rent) will pick you up.
> the 64-core Parallella is still setting the standard in terms of energy efficiency. In fact, it could be argued that it’s the most efficient computer in the world today

I'd be curious if it beats GreenArrays (http://www.greenarraychips.com/) numbers of picojoules per operation. I wonder if those numbers are published for Parallela?
Did you purposefully cut the bottom white space off to prove a point. IE, FF, and Chrome all render the space at the bottom.
For one machines could simply be faster than humans. Transistors are thousands to millions of times faster than neurons. In the time it takes a human to solve a problem, an AI could solve thousands. Not to mention improvements in the algorithm itself, or increasing the size of a brain.
Hi,
how does this parser compare to clearnlp? it's supposed to be also super fast and very accurate to?