skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now our only source of knowledge is Wikipedia, which is great per se, but
> the vast amount of knowledge it collects is very shallow, there's no real
> depth and passion in it.

I love these personally curated pages. But lets be honest, the wikipedia page has more information about the conveyer belts listed and it has links to references, e.g. the ADB grant for the belt in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt#Long_belt_convey...

One area where the personally curated sites continues to thrive is the time-nuts folks. If you have the slightest interest in all things metrology you can lose hours reading about anything from time measurement gear and GPSDOs to policy decisions regarding deccoupling civil time from the earth's rotation. Definitely worth checking out if you have some spare time:

- http://www.leapSecond.com (Tom Van Baak)
- http://www.niceties.com/time.html (Doug Hogarth)
- http://prc68.com/I/timefreq.shtml (Brooke Clarke)
- http://www.febo.com/time-freq (John Ackermann)
- http://www.rt66.com/~shera (Brooks Shera)
- http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/PRECISION (Murry Greenman)
- http://www.thegleam.com/ke5fx (John Miles)
- http://www.ko4bb.com/Timing (Didier Juges)

In addition to a fondness for Ham Radio call signs time-nuts also keep up with HTML5;) HTML5 graph of US Western Power Grid deviation from 60 HZ: http://wa6rzw.homelinux.net/addon/grid/gauge/hertz.html
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carry out (a task) badly or carelessly.
In Asimov's I Robot books, Earth has a public transport system based on conveyor belts. A 'highway' would have many lanes running next to each other, gradually getting faster as you moved towards the inner lanes.

When I first read that book, I thought it seemed like a lot of wasted space because of the amount of parallel lanes you would need to achieve highway speeds. Then I started driving and noticed how wide our highways already are.
Poetry, real danger, and ASP.NET
I'm a working ASP.NET Developer. I have the usual background in databases, Javascript, 3-tier architecture, AJAX, and so on. But what I want is an applied career working with graphs, networks, morphisms, and functors, where JSON falls away and transitive closure comes into play. I want to use Eigenvectors to tell what's important in data regardless of the data itself. I want to code with self-organizing semantic analysis tools (Microsoft Roslyn) and shortest-path algorithms. I want to model web services and complex systems using force-directed graphs (D3) that are rearranged on the fly to rewire the system. I want to compute system reliability not with Monkeys but with adjacency matrices.

I want bijective and injective, bipartite and clique, functors and connectedness and small world effects.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
I'm against the death penalty, but I dislike many of the arguments made by many who agree with me. My position is straightforward: I assert that the state should not have the power of life and death over its subjects. That's it. No need to address implementation details involving racism and cruelty and deterrence.

Really though, politics is the mindkiller[1] and this article isn't going to change anyone's position. I'm glad it will soon fall off the front page. (Even if it gets upvoted, I trust the moderators to bury it.)

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/
The reason I asked is effectively because your comment and the OP more or less describe the type of company I work for.
> If they didn't they would probably endorse bad products and go out of business.

Keep in mind that "No immediately noticeable harm" is all they have to go for to stay in business. Long term health of your consumers isn't that important if you want to make some money.

I'd far rather have agencies that aren't motivated by making a quick buck keeping track of my food safety.

Especially since there is nothing preventing these hypothetical more rigorous companies from existing today, right now, if people don't trust the FDA.
Check out Scroll Reverser[0], it allows you to reverse just one input.

[0] https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
I heard about this on NPR last week. Apparently a lot of states have been running out of the drug that is used in lethal injection and lawyers are actually able to postpone death sentences because of the fact that new drugs are not approved.

This news will not boast well for future States attorney's.
It's the US government forcing them to do this. how will shaming the bank change the fact that they are probably obligated to do what the government tells them to?
The alternative without the FDA is many many times more scary and only those who have no idea what it looks like would advocate for it.

I don't see how the presence of the FDA alleviates any of the problems you just listed off. But, again, I plain don't trust them. If $MEGACORP wants an FDA rubber-stamp on something, I'm sure they have enough money to buy it.
Not trolling - actually confused - why would you resuscitate a person you're attempting to kill? So you can kill them again later?

So much wrong with this. The death penalty to begin with, the "experimental" method of carrying out the execution, and the attempts to save his life - the whole thing is utterly mind-numbing.
Reading Pain in a Human Face
Ummm so enforce the labelling of foods as containing GMOs. Hence the absence of a label is an indication that foods contain no GM ingredients. I don't think mandatory labelling is undue administrative burden, the only reason manufacturers would object is because it would affect people's purchasing choices, which is the point.
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I think I meant queues. I was looking for the plugin and failing to find it, but it was basically a thing like quilt but an Hg extension. Was not a fan :)
“Superficial Changes”
I expect it is obvious, but why is the ratio of 3/2 called a "fifth"? It's not because 3 + 2 = 5 is it?
I was very happy with the way Firefox was before, and this is definitely an improvement. Gotta say, bravo to Mozilla on this one. I love the changes and customization.. much better UI.
"Zhu, working with Jun Lou at Rice, found that graphene with cracks is 10 times more prone to breakage than steel, and closer in fracture toughness to aluminum oxide or silicon carbide-based ceramics."

How does this compare to fracture toughness in silicon wafers? Does this result mean that graphene-based ICs would be more or less difficult to manufacture than silicon-based ICs?
To me, your argument is simply a restatement of the conclusion. To be a real argument, it needs to add something.
They started out with a ~15% margin. How close is acceptable?

Behind the scenes the mileage estimates are really a central number with error bars. In this case the electronics could definitely have come up with better numbers based on altitude changes. And it definitely could have given guidance on speeds to maintain whatever margin is comfortable.
they could pin the value of the techcash currency to the USD/BTC rate
If that was the argument, why not make it directly? Why does the EFF frame the problem in terms of "feminist porn" while burying the lede on payday loan scams? It seems increasingly clear that nobody at DOJ gives a shit what kind of porn you watch. They're just tired of auto-billing scams.
Oh nice! That's one of my favorite features in Chrome.
Are there any examples of products going viral in the enterprise (B2B) space?
What seems odd to me is that, of all the ways humans know how to kill each other, the government is having a hard time trying to find a reliable way to do so now that they can't get the same drug they used to. There's no reason to have a "botched" execution when killing someone doesn't really take that much effort in the first place. And then calling off the execution after the drugs have been administered? Yeah, something is terribly wrong.
In countries with reasonably effective/trustworthy government agencies

I'm still not convinced that such a thing exists. Of course, my direct experience is limited to the USA, but human nature being what it is, I'm skeptical that "government" in any place is much better than "government" in another place.
Nope. I'm http://github.com/levand.
If you walk up the notes of the major scale starting from your reference pitch, the fifth note in the scale will be the one that has the 3/2 pitch ratio.
I don't disagree with you, and in fact I never said my position was an argument. Most of us use assertions when it comes to human rights. For example, most of us would agree that the state doesn't (or shouldn't) have the power to enslave or torture, no matter what crime one may have committed. There may be very good arguments for doing these things (deterrence, saves more lives than it destroys, punishment proportional to the crime, etc), but we outright reject any system that would allow, let alone engage in, these horrific practices.
I'm not expressing any opinion on the death penalty itself but I found it odd that his execution was "botched." The crime he was convicted of committing 15 years ago was a "botched" murder where the gun malfunctioned, leaving the victim injured and requiring some repair to his gun in order to finish the job.
How the end of net neutrality might look to an ordinary customer
Neither of us ever said all TDD folks are cultist. We are both tired of being told that we are absolutely doing it wrong if we don't practice TDD. For an example of people telling us this please see this talk by bob Martin and jump to the 58 minute mark. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884

Bob is not an obscure figure by any stretch of the imagination. You have admitted to having no real data to back up the claim that writing tests first leads to better code, yet we have bob here telling us we are absolutely wrong if we don't follow his religion.
Of course. I wasn't criticizing, just mentioning, in case anyone found that tidbit interesting.
You could try to find work with your local metro transit provider. Intel, AMD, ARM, or anyone doing Ads. Are you able to work for a startup? You may find the complexity you desire in the mastery of having no time to do any one thing completely.
How to Prevent the next Heartbleed
The purpose of GMO labelling (and all labelling) is to give people the opportunity to make decisions on the basis of their opinion in the absence of any clear answers.

If I decide that I want to stop eating palm oil because I love orang utans, how can I make that decision if all labels just say "vegetable oils" as the ingredient?

If I decide I want to boycott Monsanto because I don't like their logo, by eating only foods that contain no genetically modified ingredients, how can I make that decision unless the food is labelled adequately?

In short, I should be able to decide what ingredients I wish to avoid or prefer for any reason; it's no-one else's business to say that my reasoning is invalid or I am dumb because Monsanto's logo is clearly awesome or orang utans are pests and we should eat more palm oil. Shit, if you hate orang utans or love Monsanto, maybe you want to eat MORE palm oil and GM foods... If they aren't labelled how can you know you're destroying the most lives of farmers and orang utans?? Food labelling is good for everyone.
Why intranet only? The data still comes from the HG server through standard means.

And what kind of data corruption do you see? It tracks files by their SHA1 value and downloads them as needed. Did you report any corruption issues you hit? Or have links to anything specific?
Neither is faster? Each one is slower than the other?

head explodes
The Japanese alphabet is divided up into consonant vowel pairs like

a i u e o
ka ki ku ke ko
ta chi tsu te to etc.

You can see a table on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

The input system plays on this in that each set has a button, which you press and then release or swipe in one of four directions - thus giving the 5 possible inputs for each one. The modifier key changes a few characters - eg a Ha は can become Ba ば or Pa ぱ ..

[ a ][ ka ][ sa ]
[ ta ][ na ][ ha ]
[ ma ][ ya ][ ra ]
[mod ][ wa ][punc]

Then for a single letter you have:

u
i a e
o

So, If I want to input the word for tokyo I'd go:

down on ta - と (to)
up on a - う (u)
left on ka - き (ki)
down on ya - よ (yo)
modifier key - convert よ to combining ょ - thus making きょ (kyo)
up again on a - う (u)

By this point 東京 should appear in the selectable kanji above the keyboard - if not I can press a little chevron to expand the selections.
Hmm, are you sure you aren't thinking of the short story "The Roads Must Roll" by Heinlein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll)? The setup you're describing sounds just like the one in that story.

I don't recall the same setup in the I, Robot stories (but it's been a long time).
It's not entirely misleading if you can imagine a certain government requiring registration of devices before allowing access to networks like the Internet.
"Here's a parallel example: the FDIC exists to insure bank deposit holders up to $100k (formerly $250k, but oh well). Now, with the FDIC, you have every incentive to ignore your bank and assume that your deposits are safe. What about without the FDIC? Maybe you're more concerned with how your bank invests your money. Maybe you ask to see their balance sheet. Maybe you see how disastrously over-leveraged they are and take your money elsewhere. If that happens enough times, look at all the financial crisis you SUDDENLY DON'T HAVE."

On the other hand, recorded history.
well, in the case of the glibertarians, because Ron Paul, one of the so-called leading lights, explicitly advocates for ending the fda.

Reporter: So in that particular case would the reasonable alternative being
no FDA?

Ron Paul: I think so because, I don't think, I think they've done more harm
than good because sometimes it might take them 25 years to allow a good drug
to come onto the marketplace and the rules and regulations inhibits the
options of the physician to use drugs for anything other than not approved
by the FDA, which means it slows up research and the cost goes up and then
when it's approved by the FDA, guess what happens? If you're on the inside
track of that- I'm the FDA- today I approve this drug, tomorrow, their drug
company's value, their stock goes up fifty fold. Just because a bureaucrat
made this decision. So, it's a protection of the corporation is basically
what it is. People weren't dying from bad drugs before we had the FDA. I
mean, it just didn't happen. There'd be other agencies that would do this.
There'd be no reason to assume that all of a sudden, the drug companies have
it in their interest to give you a bad drug.

http://www.naturalnews.com/035519_Ron_Paul_FDA_Big_Pharma.ht...
Couldn't you make the keys transparent and put the IR sensors below them?
Whoo hoo! Let's party like it's 2008 with intercooler.
"In classical music from Western culture, a fifth is the interval from the first to the last of five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale."[1]

CDEFG -> CG is a fifth

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fifth
The further away my keyboard is, the better the code will be when I finally get there and start typing.
Tech Book Face Off: Effective C++ Vs. More Effective C++
We can still talk about why those things are worth rejecting. You don't seem to want that.
For business with a limited sales window and highly perishable inventory (bagel store in the morning), standing in line may be the bottleneck preventing more customer and order throughput. If the store is able to expand their capacity via an order ahead app allowing them to capture new sales they would not have otherwise gotten, 8% seems much more reasonable.

Of course, some existing customers and sales will also move in that direction, so the answer here may be, as is often the case, it depends.

What I find truly fascinating is that Square is(was) a "payments" company. Or, more specifically, a credit card terminal company. But this offering and their recent acquisition of BookFresh makes them more of a back-end for small business. They may be one of the few companies to have figured out how to sell to small business at scale.

Apparently the answer there is, find something small, complicated, and annoying... fix it. Build that toehold into a platform to take on the larger opportunity.
It was sent to me by a colleague, haven't spoke to him personally today but I'll try to find out where he got it first hand.
MailPile – Taking Email Back
On top of what wmf said, with whatever government investment has or has not already been made, the U.S. has the fourth highest* IPv6 adoption by percentage of requests as of Dec 2013 [1]. That is double what it was just six months prior [id].

Moreover, I doubt the US has as pressing a need to stave of address space exhaustion as do developing countries like China with rapidly expanding internet uptake.

*biased by Akamai's usage rates from country to country, of course

[1] http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/ipv6-adoption-her...?
I believe pretty much every single IP stack implementation uses privacy extensions by default now.
Hah, interesting and facetious way to LMGTFYing someone.
I hate injustice. I hate the idea of an innocent person being put to death. I hate strange inventions like the electric chair, which must be an absolutely excruciating death.

But sometimes people do terrible things and incur a debt that they can never repay. In one particular case I remember, the guilty party abducted a child, raped her repeatedly, put her in a trash bag, and buried her alive. There's no doubt he was guilty because he led police to her grave.

The perpetrator could never ever walk among normal people again. What do you propose to do in these situations? Is it somehow useful for these people to languish in prison at the expense of the public? Would that somehow be more correct, helpful, or humane? This is not a fake question where I'm attacking you -- this is a real question I struggle with.
i am not sure why this is downvoted. I also find model to be the easiest to wrap my head around. At one my pervious jobs we took the 'model' out of a desktop app and put a web front on it.
Valerie Aurora has a nicer presentation at http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html with timelines and some humour as to how various groups react.
This actually looks like it's only a few steps removed from a viable human interface device for the 10/GUI concept.
I didn't downvote you, but the article is not some obvious hit job. As a potential future Tesla owner living in a country with a whole lot of empty space (Australia), I found it quite interesting and surprising that getting the Tesla towed even a short distance would be such a problem.
Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (1998)
Their angle is your hands never have to leave the keyboard. It's an attractive proposition particularly for keyboard warriors.
"You’d have to find a phenomenon that definitely doesn’t exist [...]" (emphasis added)

Welp.
PLA Unit 61398 is tired of pivoting through all those pesky NAT firewalls.
Relevant: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
I think Platypus will work for this on modern Macs.

http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus
GMO labelling is of no value though.

Because whether or not something is produced using genetic engineering techniques does not explain whether its safe.

For example, I could genetically engineer corn to produce to tetrodoxin poison, and kill a bunch of people with it. Does that prove GMO food is unsafe? No, it proves tetrodoxin is dangerous.

GMO labelling initiatives set out to inflame and spread fear, because no one ever wants to try and label exactly what has been altered, deleted or added. They just want to stick a big "Genetically modified!" sticker on there because their interest group has their public polling data which they know will make consumers react negatively.
???

You said in your OP "Trusting FDA to police the industry is like trusting the industry to police itself at this point."

Maybe it's something else that keeps companies from selling poison chalk milk as babyfood other than the FDA?
MessageEase[0] is remarkably similar. Instead of phonetic groups, it puts the most used letters in the easiest locations. With practice, I got my typing speed up to about 40 WPM on it, but I ultimately switched back to Google Keyboard due to the lack of a good autocorrect and prediction system.

[0] http://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php
I'm reminded of the history of the measured charge of an electron. The first experiment to measure it was Millikan's oil drop experiment, which got a value smaller than current measurements. As other scientists made their own measurements (with different experiments), the measured value slowly increased. What is interesting in this is that we would not expect to see a gradual increase in the observed value. The explanation for this is that when people find a value that was "to high" they would look harder for sources of error that would increase the value, causing a systemic bias to under-report the charge.

Similarly, with the faster than light neutrino, we spent far more effort looking for mistakes that would make our answer bigger than it should have been, which introduces the same systematic bias.

The solution to this is to realize that science is a time consuming process, and it is okay to take a while to arrive at the right answer. But, if we are aware of these problems, we can get there faster.
There is no decentralized system yet for social networking:

Identity, Authentication, Privacy, Subscriptions, Notifications, Contacts, Invites etc.

That's what we're working on at Qbix
I do see a decent number of people posting they've had issues with cancellations that match what the pastebin describes.

Why aren't you replying to any of them if you're acting as the voice of reason here?
I feel like Mozilla's UIs always look amazing in the high-res vector mockups they post, but at 1x resolution they just look sloppy. Maybe I just need a 2x resolution display!
Going from real development tools to basic web development
China set to become the world's largest economy by the end of the year
Maybe you should do that and write a paper about it. :)

My initial thoughts: 1) is there space underneath the key for such a sensor? 2) would the infrared light bounce off of the plastic on the key? 3) would transparent keys affect chicken-peckers (and other users) adversely?

Not saying it's not possible, although I imagine there will be challenges.
Really cool idea, but I think they have the implementation all wrong. I'm picturing something like a long Leap Motion sensor across the top (far side) of the keyboard. Such a keyboard needs the sensitivity of a trackpad to be much better than simple key commands, no?
> Why do you think so many of us feel that it is an ideology?

Probably because you've run into cargo cult practitioners that treat it that way -- the same as every methodology that's become known outside of a narrow initiating group has -- and human perceptual biases tend to overemphasize and overgeneralize the most extreme examples.
The issue is not that they don't know of any ways to kill a person. The issue is they are required to do it without pain and suffering. And we don't know if this went wrong because of the drugs or because they were administered incorrectly. It is possible that even if the old drug was used here that the same problem could have happened. It might just be a stupid coincidence that the IV was placed improperly during the same execution they used these new drugs for the first time.
2% of all accounts? That's a LOT of email addresses. Also sounds like they don't know how this is happening. I'm impressed that they put this up without having found a solution or stopped the problem, that must be a pretty hard move to make PR-wise.
A CLI is more productive, generally while a GUI is more fun. They each have their own use cases. A CLI has an inherent learning curve no matter how great the API, a GUI requires physical interaction delaying potential working.