skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For your update (edit). To be fairly honest it sounds good too. I think I should have a break and work on it again.

I chose the hairdressing domain because many women around me always speak about beauty and hair style. But from your update maybe I should consider other domains and see if they fit better the concept.

Again a big thanks.
Does anyone have any idea what the usage rates are for mobile Netflix vs. desktop/console/set-top Netflix? Skype has been moving away from a p2p architecture because of a surge in the number of mobile users.
Those are tactical considerations and have nothing to do with the general liberal attempt to make the entire line of consideration verboten. Liberals would have it that we should pretend that such considerations don't even exist, which is transparently stupid.
You seem to miss the article's points entirely.

It's not just in America. Samsung has been caught with the same shenanigans in China and in Taiwan. The author is right about Samsung - it is the world's most dirty, unethical, and corrupt corporation, by far.
Bloodhound – Elasticsearch client and DSL for Haskell
Both look healthy to me ;) The problem is that since we do not have the means to conduct the scientific experiments ourselves we rely on experts and public agencies. Hard to tell if either is working unbiased. So, in lack of certainty and trust, I rather just eat as my grandparents did. So far so good!
I'd be interested in using the data that came out of it as a result. If there was an easy way for me to contribute back I would be interested in doing that.
Is Counting Steps (or Calories) a Waste of Time?
Yep, so?
The main reason I use gvim is for better looking fonts and more colors.
Well, it was 16 years since I wrote most of this so my memory is a bit fuzzy...

The stack and heap are both stored in an external 32kB SRAM. The stack is accessed simply by pushing and popping using the JVMPush and JVMPop routines around line 4553. The CPU is 8-bit, bit the JVM is 16-bit, so everything takes two operations to write both bytes. You can see the stack frame format at line 48.

Java objects and arrays are allocated on another stack that acts as the heap. Objects are allocate only - they are never freed. This isn't as big a deal as you might think since in embedded applications the code tends to just repeat the same operations over and over so you write your code to reuse the same instances instead of allocating new objects (which is slow anyway).

_do_new on line 2044 allocates a new object. Arrays are allocated at line 1991 in _l_j_newarray.

The nice thing about the JVM (at least version 1 which this implements) is that there are not many variations on operations - and if you statically link you can reduce some of the variations to common cases too.
> The same thing that prevents dishonest bitcoin miners from rigging the blockchain to say that coin X went from A->M instead of A->B.

Oh, so it has a built-in mining subsidy that miners are rewarded with? Because without that bitcoin suffers from an even worse version of the exact same problem and is not incentive compatible.

> As long as there are more nodes who would not benefit from this particular rigging as there are nodes who would, everyone can act in their own self-interest and the outcome would be correct.

What counts as a node? Can I spin up a million or a billion nodes on AWS and influence the vote that way?
As far as I can see, every single one of the examples on the Wikipedia page you linked suffers from some form of the Nebraska problem. Which makes sense, given the original author's comments in the "Why Such Abundant Failure?" section of the original article.
I've been told the same thing by people who do Jazz, that they just sit down and go with it because everyone there is talented enough to run with it.
Yes, potentially. There are strong research efforts underway for all of them.
Did you mean to throw raw power at a problem?
Ask HN: How to start an open source project/organization
I'm thinking of starting an open source project. The project would entail creating and maintaing numerical models used in process engineering. Users of this would either be researchers or engineers in industry.

Currently there is a single commercial library of these models (even though the models are written out in research papers). Since I work in this industry, I know that there would be interest among companies to move towards open source. This means that companies maybe willing to sponsor the development in one way or another (engineers contributing during work hours, supply data, potentially funds).

What would be the best way to start this? The obvious way would be to just setup a public repository and go at it, but I think that some sort of (non-profit) organization behind the entire thing may give it more traction.

Does anyone have experience with this and can offer any advice?
> "That scientists cherry-picked data, had inadequate controls?"

The type of people who end up (or even aim for) in government regulatory bodies, are usually not the cream of the cream of scientists.
A single transistor can't do the job of a neuron and 500 synapses.
Sure -- assuming you mean personally:

Any meat, any vegetables, decent amount of fruit, any kind of potatoes, butter, some nuts. It's a bit of a deviation from the by-the-book version (whatever that actually is -- it varies depending on who you talk to) because of potatoes and butter.

People will make "Paleo Cookies" and other baked goods usually with a combination of nut-flours, potato starch/flour and honey for sweetener (among other things). They tend to look ugly and taste pretty bad. Not to mention contain lots of sugar (which, even if it's honey, ends up defeating the purpose proportional to how cookie-like you want it to taste). I have made things like that though -- cookie cravings happen.

If you mean in Fitsme:

We have something fairly close to what's probably mentioned by Crossfit -- but it's 100% configurable, so it can have whatever you want it to.
I find it fascinating that:

The very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations..."

...is being challenged because:

Critics have pointed out that Dr. Keys violated several basic scientific norms in his study.

It's a cautionary tale worth telling no matter the discipline. Studies are often accepted without much challenge because we assume that rigorous controls were in place. But the adage of "Garbage in, garbage out" remains a fundamental truth. I think that is what is relevant and interesting to HN readers.
What is the consensus mechanism? There seems to be some code here but absolutely no description of what it is doing.

Is it a vote mechanism? Then how do you protect against sybil attacks?

Is it a proof of work system? Then how do you align incentives of the miners with accuracy of the prediction market?
How is it bias if all the allegations are true?

Samsung does this shit in China, and in Taiwan. If the author was biased, it's that he completely left out all the Samsung shenanigans in China's and Taiwan's smart phone market. The author only mentioned U.S. and Europe. But Samsung, the sick assholes they are, do the same things in Asia as well.
May cause sensory shock and temporary blindness/insanity. Do not use while driving.
Correct, sorry. I had forgotten that, although they are potent greenhouse gasses, that was not the reason they were originally banned.

Still a valid point in the "don't be rash" sense", but not in the "don't be rash regarding global warming" sense.
For what it's worth, one of my most trusted, intelligent and mature friends is black. It frustrates me when stereotypical liberals tell me I just have a "token black friend". I didn't know I had to have at least two black friends to not be racist.

Most "racism" is a problem with culture and politics, not with skin color, which is not racism.
This is a canard. There was certainly some thought given to the idea of global cooling but there was never anything even close to the modern consensus about climate change (a term which recognizes the non-uniform effects of warming). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

I get where you're coming from, but I do think you're being a touch disingenuous with questions like 'has anyone crunched the numbers?' Of course people have considered that higher CO2 concentrations could come with benefits as well as costs. Here's an optimistic crunching of the numbers, finding a $3.5 trillion benefit over the last 50 years, although I thinkt he methodology is severely flawed: http://www.co2science.org/education/reports/co2benefits/Mone...

And here are some explanations for why the relationship between CO2 availability and agricultural productivity is non-linear: https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm

I have to say that if you are as concerned about your descendants' future as you say, then I think it's time you did more of your own homework.

As for CFCs, the main problem I've been aware of resulting from the ban that might have resulted in deaths was due to the increased cost of asthma medication. Do you have any data to quanity how many deaths this has supposedly caused? Would you say that this is more or less than the lives that would otherwise be lost to skin cancer?
At the time I wrote this code there was a lot of talk about Java specific processors. Ultimately that was a mistake because Moore's law meant the x86 architecture (and JIT technology) got faster more quickly that anyone could get chips to market.

These days I am about as far from embedded systems as you can get. I write Ruby on Rails code for aha.io. There is a lot of satisfaction in seeing the perfect waveform on your oscilloscope when the assembly code finally works - but these days I think there is much more satisfaction in being able to crank out a complex algorithm with some elegant Ruby and have it being used by customers before going home for dinner.
IFlix – like popcorntime but better
I have, perhaps, a different perspective. I have been spending a lot of my income on computer hardware and power for the last decade or so; and being involved in spending other people's money on same for another half-decade back.

My take? When Intel thinks they are ahead, compute doesn't get cheaper.

In the DDR2 days, If you were on Intel, you had the choice between the stunningly inefficient and expensive rambus ram, or a stunningly shitty memory buss with (not very many) low-power ddr2 modules.

At the time, the AMD HyperTransport system was absolutely beautiful. Even on cheap boards, you could get more than 2x the low-power ddr2 ram modules per CPU that intel could. (at the time, lower-density modules were dramatically cheaper, per gigabyte, than higher-density modules) It worked way better when you had multiple CPUs, too.

Then ddr3 came, and Intel came up with their QPI systems, which were awesome. AMD came back with a competently built ddr3 platform, too; the G34 systems were a huge upgrade from the mcp55 chipset socket F platform.

But the benchmarks came out in Intel's favor, even when AMD had twice the cores. I mean, you could argue that the AMD systems had advantages in some limited situations, but they had lost the dramatic advantage.

As far as I can tell, intel has been largely resting on their laurels, price-wise. The E5-2620 is better than, but really not radically better than the E5520. Now, some of the higher-end E5s are pretty nice, but they are priced accordingly.

Until Intel gets some real competition again, we have to pay for our performance gains.

So yeah, really, until AMD gets their legs back under them, and I hope the A1100[1] will do it, I don't expect dramatic performance per dollar gains from Intel.

[1]http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-to-acceler...
That's not true. There is absolutely no reason why you can't do this sort of stuff on margin, by issuing IOUs. You can even use smart property contracts to collateralize the loan.

However collecting on a non-collateralized loan when things go bad is difficult if you also maintain pseudo-anonymity. But with some sort of KYC procedure in place it could work.
Why? Are you a Samsung employee? They've been caught and fined lying about other companies in Asia. Samsung is by far the sickest, more unethical, corrupt, and disgusting greedy assholes on the planet.
Mercurial may be easier to use than git, but Github is easier to use than Mercurial. Switching to a workflow where all commits are made to forks and all updates to master come through pull requests largely solves the problems with using bare git.

Which is kinda the problem we're discussing here. Git is far less usable without Github and yet all the workflow niceties that we've come to rely upon are locked up in Github's proprietary implementation. The more developers come to rely upon Github features, the more locked into Github we are and the more difficult it would be if Github were to go away or become obnoxious.
Yeah, so worthless that it created an entire industry.
Amazing what a single person can accomplish with the right focus.
So this relies on an identity system?
A pretty good intro for typeface selection, but I disagree with one of the suggested arrangements:

> All in all, there are 4 fonts from 3 typefaces being used here, and they all pull together into a cohesive design.

4 fonts in a setting that's only 300px tall don't really pull together cohesively. It's something I'd personally recommend avoiding unless absolutely necessary.
It's been two years. Health is great, stress is largely non-existent. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
Assessing the talent is hard. People who have the ability to assess that talent (which is different from the talent itself, also uncommon) are rare, people who have the money or organizational position necessary to pay significant numbers of programmer salaries are rare, and the intersection of those two sets, even in a world with almost 7 billion people, is vanishingly small.

The talent is rarer than the capital, and the capital often isn't owned by the decision-makers (VC) but the people who control the capital are the ones who get more arrogant. Why? Because capital is easy to demonstrate, and talent is hard to prove. It's especially hard to prove talent without breaking social protocol, which is the real advantage of pedigree. Everyone knows that there are plenty of sharp people without pedigree, but proving you're one of them requires being extremely assertive. Professionally, it's often better to be presumed intelligent and thereby be able to optimize for social polish alone.
The idea is admirable, but it's a really bad alternative to having unique, random passwords for each site. With this, it's trivial to recover all other passwords if you know just one of them.
Right, but GPUs are something that the BigData crowd don't really know how to leverage yet.
I talked about that in a webpage I made years ago (http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/fragment...) but unfortunately today, it also shows just how fragile links are on the web.
Thanks, though I'll note you weren't who I was asking the question of ;-)

I figured the format was likely "academic articles, mostly prepared with LaTeX, published as PDFs", but the commenter was being less than clear, even on reiteration.
If you don't want to be in commuting hell, then it costs about $4k+/month for a house to raise a family in. To buy a house close to your work will also cost over $1.3 million.

If you willing to go over the bridge, then your paying $2k/month
I like this idea a lot.

What about an SO-esque network that encouraged maintaining a relatively even "trade balance"?

Anyway, for me:

1. Offering programming, FP, Haskell, Elasticsearch (possibly other, ask if you're interested) expertise

2. Requesting input/patches for my recently released Elasticsearch client for Haskell: https://github.com/bitemyapp/bloodhound/
Foursquare Splits Into 2 Apps, Targets Yelp
You know what words don't appear in that article: emotion, character, soul, attitude, or even communication.

Legible does appear.

"Don't confuse legibility with communication" - David Carson.

He might have another take on how you can combine typefaces.

http://zee.com.br/extranet/abduzeedo/posts/david_carson/img7...

http://kingydesignhistory2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/ca...

David Carson's _The End of Print_ was one of my muses in the later 90's (that and The Designer Republic's work, especially Wipeout XL).

http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Print-Grafik-Design/dp/B00FIBF...
Real Reading, Fake Reading
> But that is not a valid response: in any decade we know more than in decades before that.

Why does the inevitable increase in accumulated knowledge imply that it doesn't make sense to base decisions on the current state of that knowledge? It sounds like you haven't thought this argument through.

Repeated, rapid fluctuations in the scientific opinion or lack of broad consensus would be warning signs, but neither of those are present.

> So: has anyone crunched the numbers?

Yes! That's what scientists do for a living. They publish detailed records of their data-->conclusion inference process, high-level scientific summaries of those individual results (reviews), and higher-level nonscientific summaries of their cause/impact/mitigation conclusions (IPCC reports). Thousands of them sign statements saying that their individual contributions weren't misrepresented in the high level reports, and then individual members of the community go forth and represent that consensus to the media and to politicians.

And then people like you notice that their soundbytes don't constitute a formal inference process and use this fact to argue that the scientists don't know what they're talking about. Of course, you're too damn lazy to dig through their painstakingly constructed pyramid of results and see for yourself, so you have to keep your feet firmly planted in "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge" territory to keep up the argument. This should tell you something.

> Plants grow better in higher CO2 concentrations.

Do you really think this escaped the notice of thousands of specialists with millenia of accumulated experience?

Answer: it didn't. Here's the latest report I've seen addressing this issue. There have been plenty of other reports answering permutations of this question, but they weren't published last week in Science, so I'd have to use google scholar to find them.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/508.abstract

> I'd like to make rather sure that we know what we're doing.

"Doing nothing" is doing something -- something that the only people in a position to make credible predictions regarding the effects of what we're doing are awfully worried about.

> dropping a nuke to trigger a volcano would lower global temperatures. We know this.

You seem far more confident in your ability to predict the climactic effects of a nuke in a volcano than in the scientific community's ability to predict what happens when we dump an insane amount of CO2 into the atmosphere. Why?

A child could tell you why the volcano would be a bad idea. I'm quite certain you've not given this nearly as much honest thought as you think you have.
As _delirium said, the singular "they" has been making a comeback and will likely earn its place in academic writing in a generation.
Spotify doesn't do that anymore because while it makes sense technically it did not make business sense. Most users would not appreciate this even if it had no appreciable affect on their bandwidth.
you cherry picked the most successful languages, and also ignored how much they changed. you also doubled the amount of time c++ was actually used. 30 years ago COBOL was all the rage I'm sure. And lets face it, knowing just those is not going to get you very many jobs, maybe for a few hundred people in the entire united states.

and people have to look ahead and see the trend. newer stuff is coming out faster and faster. The 'hard' stuff is paying more and more and requires less and less people to do it, while the easy stuff is consistently either being outsourced or made so easy 'anyone' can do it.

and unemployed beyond 40 dead in the industry? are you kidding me? we have less IT/programming jobs today than we had in the late 1990s. Where do you think those people went, they just up and died? they had to pick a new industry
And it won't work for some of sites that require periodical password changes... (It's annoying and ineffective, but I encounter some in my line of work...)
PostgreSQL partitioning explained
Just this week there was an article in Science about plants/soil as a CO2 buffer:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/508.abstract
"This application will be able to read and write all public and private repo data. This includes the following:

Code, Issues, Pull requests, Wikis, Settings, Webhooks and services, Deploy keys"

...nope!
As opposed to a password manager, where it's trivial to know every password within if you know the master password?
A few comments are saying that the author is too harsh on Samsung, but I get the impression that he actually admires Samsung's unscrupulous, unethical though ultimately canny business practices - in a similar way that one would admire a drug dealer's ultra-efficient distribution system.

After all, the Samsung presented in this article enters into new markets via wholesale IP theft. It then uses a suite of legal instruments to stall for time in order to build internal technical capabilities and intellectual capital. Samsung could stop here, but chooses instead to actually innovate and improve on the products using the knowledge and experience base it has accrued copying the product in the first place. It's a pretty shrewd, albeit completely unethical business strategy.
From C# to D
Hi, OP here.

>> We live under structured societies and under a specific set of rules we call LAW.

We don't, you do. I packed my backpack and moved to the 3rd world at 22 and haven't ever been back because I need chaos. There is practically no law where I am, and that was one of many reasons for abandoning your structured societies.

>> Read Game of Thrones, you might understand that

Amazing insult. "Read a book, you idiot! A really stupid one!" Thanks for the smile. :-)

>> So I suggest you to get out of that imaginary world of yours and live life (I don't say change your ideas), but if you really want to blame someone - BLAME YOURSELF, for voting for the politicians in your country and for not being able to force them into taking your opinion and stop spying on you.

I live in the jungle, life is great here! You should try it. I never voted for any politician. I will never blame myself for something that I didn't create.

>> Noone forced you to use google search or gmail or whatever it is that google has included in their adSense algorythm

Agree, but on the other hand the general public is uninformed about these matters. I consider customer unawareness to be quite a problem in general. How can we fix it? I don't think asking those that you disagree with to change is a good approach.
Machine translation is no where near solved.

Machine translation is still one of the most funded areas in NLP, and the quality is still incredibly bad for many language pairs. DARPA has been running one machine translation grant program or another for more than a decade.

It is true that some of the best systems take a long time to translate sentences (on the order of 1 cpu-minute or more). But their quality is still not anywhere near human level for most languages.
Devops Against Humanity
Rust has memory safety without garbage collection; D requires garbage collection for safety. That's the biggest difference, I think.
When the event occurs (the one that people are predicting), the users themselves declare which outcome actually happened. The outcome that was voted most as being true is the one considered to be true. To stop people from gaming this system, your outcome-declaring vote is also tied to a weight based on previous outcome-declaring votes and how they relate to what was considered the true outcome.