skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hope this article opens peoples' eyes to the fact that the US-based-or-english-speaking countries are soon going to be a relatively small portion of the world. We need news sources like this to practice the globalization sermon they all preach.

Agreed. It's not just in the tech sector, and not just in the commerce sector either. The US (and many English-speaking countries) tend to be incredibly US-centric and euro-centric in their worldview and news coverage.

For example, right now, the world's largest democracy is holding the largest democratic election in the history of human civilization[0]. In the US, you'd be hard-pressed to find people who even know the names of the candidates[1]. Most people I talk to aren't even aware that it's happening - which is delightfully ironic for a country that has a history of proselytizing the gospel of democracy by using its military to install "democratic" governments abroad[2]!

[0] For those interested in reading up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_general_election,_2014

[1] Sort of a trick question in parliamentary systems (as opposed to the presidential system in the US), but my statement applies whether you ask about the names of the two major parties or the names of their leaders.

[2] Iraq is the example that most people are familiar with, though this tradition goes back a century or more.
Seems like statements can have both verity (truthiness) and falsity in varying quantities. They might sum to 0, 1, or anything at all. Whether a statement has meaning seems important, too. '2020 will be a rainy year.' does not have meaning (yet). Pretty soon, though, the universe will reach a certain point where that statement starts to accumulate verity & falsity. Maybe 2020 will be a peak monsoon season in the Eastern Hemisphere; verity++. Maybe it'll be a record drought in North America, too; falsity++. This is not a 1-dimensional spectrum.

Seems like meaning is some sort of vector norm over || < verity, falsity > ||. It should be easy to imagine scenarios all across this unit square for '2020 will be rainy': (0,0) is now, (1,0) means lots of agreed-to raining everywhere, ( .9, .9) is crazy weather, and ( .2, 1) means it was mostly dry that year.

This seems heavily reliant on human interpretation, but trying to extract "intrinsic truthiness" will always rely upon some global context telling you what the rules are. '2 = 3' is absolutely true, depending on what you think the rules are.

'Correctness' seems to correspond to (verity - falsity), which is why ( .9, .9) is certainly meaningful but doesn't improve on the correctness of saying 2020 is rainy.

I have a haunting feeling GEB talks about this, though I never finished reading yet.
Being quite familiar with some of these projects I'd been saying this for quite a while. I'm glad to see that someone has come out and evidenced it.
That is easy: the grass is always greener.
The Open University offers a Computing & IT BSc degree: http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/qualifications/q62 - this is very close to a CS degree.
This is awesome. I haven't played it in years but UT was one of my favourite games when I was younger. They had a pretty cool level editor I used to spend a lot of time playing with.
> I would take away from this the lesson that the political desire to use states as "laboratories of democracy" is sometimes the completely wrong move;

Well, in this case, since the mandate was essentially "implement this very specific federally-mandated policy monoculture!" there's really not a lot of gain you could hope to have from the Laboratory model. If the states had the freedom to vary health care policy in meaningful ways, it would be a different matter.
It predates reddit and digg. It had more in common with stumbleupon.

I used it for years to store and tag bookmarks so I could share them between machines.

But I deleted my account soon after Yahoo took over.
Wham City Lights – The audience is the lighting
I love the movement mechanics of previous UT games, between always-run, dodging (doubletap a direction), double-jumping, and walljumping (jumptowards a wall, doubletap opposite direction), it was a rather entertaining game to play. Add to that the completely crazy weapons by today's FPS standards, and you have something I haven't seen in a long while.

I wish it would come back.

If it has that, that game has a player.
Wittgenstein would say that the Buddha and Schopenhauer were playing a quite similar language-game.
hmm I use KDE (latest) with indexing disabled, akonadi disabled, 3d desktop effects disabled

it seems very similar to LXQt and the project it replaces when it comes to resource usage and useability, except it is more mature and support a few more things.

Thats basically what keeps me on KDE. I would think KDE should disable akonadi and stuff by default personally - its super useable without all the heavy weight "crap".

Alt-F2, konsole and kwin basically are the reasons I use it.

Here's an example, too: I can tile my windows on any desktop i want with kwin without sacrificing non-tiling windows. I can even mix tiling and non-tiling. I dont have to remember 20 shortcuts for this, it works with the mouse too. Basically, its seamless.

(Thats also why I use it over awesomewm for example)
So...we're down to measuring our penis size? Federal's dick vs State's dick. Who got the biggest penis that can shove up the tax payer's ass?
Plugging my own work here, but I wrote a blogpost about how to do such a system from scratch on iOS.

http://luminescente.com/2014/03/how-to-build-your-own-phoneg...

I'm also writing a book on the subject, there's a link to it at the bottom.

Any feedback appreciated.
The machine seems to start working when you tell the guy to mail you an invoice.
Do you have any thoughts as to why this style has taken off? It's a one-off single page website. I would expect anyone designing it to use the common contemporary design to quickly and cheaply get something out the door. Not sure if a 1 page announcement needs a lot of original creative thought put into it.
Publication under FOSS licence of a multimodal journey planner
Since the actual paper is paywalled, can someone answer this question?

This paper uses d5SICS-dNaM base pair. How does it compare to dZ-dP pair in the following paper? I checked that two pairs are different.

Enzymatic incorporation of a third nucleobase pair. (2007) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17576683
This is amazing! I remember playing mods like Team Fortress on Quake - things people made just because they enjoyed it. The problem with mods lately is that it takes really passionate people to support them for free, and they're either hard to monetize or monetization isn't even an option (SC). There's still plenty of great UGC, but it's generally not commercial grade - time investment is high, and financial reward is 0.

This model is brilliant!! It could keep people playing for years just by trying out new mods, new content, and more. Really excited to see what happens.
This is a brilliant plan and an amazing move by Epic. It'll be great to see this play out.
Right, it's like an extended tutorial/PR campaign for people to start using UE4. That's the core of the initiative it seems.
You didn't miss much, the webpage is more informative than the video.

Youtube link if you feel so inclined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPy-2tqIn4
Does anyone know of a good tool for PDF generation in JavaScript? In Ruby, I use Prawn, which is great. Is there a Prawn-like library for JavaScript?
>> you can probably tell more interesting stories.”

books aren't good example. For today's layman it should have been translated to "probably build Super- and X-men"
You just gotta be big enough to scare the government in court.
Groovy 2.3 Released
Bah. Say what you like about the old model, but you can't really call what the insurance companies have been mandated to do under the ACA "competition" -- you can barely call it insurance anymore.
We we're only talking about gameplay effecting purchases (so not skins and what not) I think it's used to draw the distinction between where you can purchase changes to gameplay that take effect in a mixed population of purchasers and non-purchasers (free to play), and where you can buy into access to segregated gameplay populations (free with mod marketplace).

For example, free to play in a FPS could be purchasing weapons that cannot be accessed in other ways. On the other hand, free + mod marketplace could say... imagine for some reason UT4 ships without a certain game mode... say CTF with Vehicles. Some enterprising fellow can now make a mod with CTF with Vehicles, and sell it on the marketplace. Or maybe a game mode where everyone has bow and arrow and a knife. The point is that there is now a 'different' game that you pay to get access to.

Fundamentally, it would be like say... if Half Life multiplayer was free on release, but someone still went and sold Counter Strike anyways.
the political desire to use states as "laboratories of democracy" is sometimes the completely wrong move

I would upgrade 'sometimes' to 'most of the time.' There's a thin line between responsiveness and political feudalism, with the attendant corruption.
Food futurologist Dr. Morgaine Gaye on how she forecasts grocery-store trends
If you want to check out their current editor, $20/month gets you access to the editor and the full C++ source for the engine. You can even cancel the subscription and keep using it if you don't need updates.

I doubt it'll be included with the new UT (since that's going to be free), but it's a pretty impressive toolset.
The performance is fine but when I have to open PDF files with foreign language neither Adobe or PDF.js can do that well. Adobe will require me to have the font package downloaded. I don't think there is such package for PDF.js which forces me to download the PDF.
how to cheaply serve statics websites with s3
Chrome's bookmarks auto sync to your gmail account, if you sign in to Chrome. I've been using it to replace Delicious for quite a long time, now.
An off topic question; Would it be possible to have an RSS feed on your blog? I see you have Twitter but personally I don't really use that.
Wow, that video told me nothing.
With a set of photos of the same static scene, it's possible to figure out the camera position, angle, and focal length of every camera, sometimes to millimeter accuracy.
You just have to correlate the same features in each frame, then solve it.

3d motion trackers do this. (Blender.org has one. You can solve this same problem using it. Bring in public and street view photos of the area. It's a bit of manual work to put all the images in a movie then go frame by frame and tag features... But you could get much more accurate than the article.)

The power is in having access to large databases of photos of everywhere, and even better if all the photos were taken the same way, like google's street view... and large amounts of computing resources to index and correlate all of the features from all of the images automatically.

I would be surprised if there is not a project in some huge company or lab that can identify features in nearly any public outdoor shot and determine exactly where it was taken. (perhaps for intelligence or forensics)

I believe this paper introduced me to the idea in 2006:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ph...
But then you have to email your friends to let them know you put a new link out there, so...

Edit: Am I wrong?
Bill Gates: Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots
This is a self-signed cert. Pretty normal stuff for pages by hackers for hackers. Do you care who is running that site? Are you going to provide them any personal data? Were your browser hardened by you? If you answered no, no, yes then you are pretty safe.
>"And of course, presumably (hopefully) the cost will continue to be amortized over the next few years -- more money will surely have to spent on it (continually), but the overall cost per enrollment should theoretically go down, as the initial work continues to be used for more and more enrollments. At least theoretically; in reality, who knows."

You'd think that.

Even if the entire population of a given state were enrolled some of these costs remain bizarrely high and highly varied.

DC: $211

Hawaii: $147

California: $28
Sorry, I am not followed. Can you show it instead? Thanks!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7708986
But I don't just use Chrome and I want to access my bookmarks not just on my own browser. I want access on all my browsers and in any setting where I wish to reach them.

If I was always using the same browser then Chrome would work, but there are times I'm working at a client site and don't have the ability to either use Chrome or sign in to my personal account, yet I wish to access a stored bookmark. This is where Delicious comes / came into the picture...

Maybe my use case is different?
I wasn't born knowing C++. I read a couple of books (Effective C++ and TC++PL), kept up with it and I've done fine. Is the real shift that people don't want to read books on programming anymore? Maybe they just want bite-sized tutorials.
I bet it will. The open-source competitive shooters I can think of (Warsaw, Quake3's Challenge Pro Mode mod [in the sense that it was designed by community]) all had interesting and complex movement schemes.

And since we now have Github, all that awesomeness is just a pull request away...
Show HN: PrintToPeer
8 months ago I dropped out of my last year of university for this idea that was ready for the market.

We built PrintToPeer to connect 3D printers to the web to solve the biggest problem in the industry right now, which is the terrible usability and sharing ability of these printers.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/printtopeer-your-3d-printer-on-the-web/

If your users have internet connected 3D printers with a common API, imagine what this could do for your games and websites. Your apps can become tangible. Or you can include your early adopters in the physical product development process (A/B testing, hardware updates, etc).

Let us know what you think!
Yeah, super friendly - unless you're gay!
>> We often engage in debates about whether Javascript/the web stack is fast enough to use for various types of software. Performance improvements are treated as an inevitability; "if it isn't fast enough today it will be tomorrow". Similar attitudes hold for missing APIs and functionality. Most people don't seem to really question what it really means for browsers to become more and more performant and more and more complex. The answer seems to be millions of lines of very complicated and low level C++.

Ironically, not needing to run high performance native code was a part of the original appeal of web apps. Google maps worked well however old your graphics card was. Gmail was secure even when viewed on an old version of IE.

If client side rendering is too slow, then don't render on the client. Cache the rasterized pdf as tiles up in the cloud and only read the actual document if the user selects text or zoom in. That is the only way to make massive pdf's load instantly on a slow machine.
Filesize has nothing to do with speed most of the time ... Try the PDF Reference document [1], it's pretty fast.

The project is very active: in the three month that we investigated it, many of the pdfs that were unusable (e.g. NASAs budget report, one of the worst written PDFs I have seen so far) when we started are now fast enough. Also almost all the effort that Opera puts into the project is about performance.

I suggest you check the file again in PDF.js and report the PDF so somebody can look at it.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdf...
> I use my bookmarks for my own sake - I really don't care about sharing them with others or discovering new links through Delicious.

That's me, I decided to write my own. One day I'll do it too.
Is there a term for Singularity due to runaway evolution of an artificially created species?
Quite, and even without binary, it's those four letters that got him to write, made his laptop, etc.
That's funny. One of the first things I did was turn mine way down.
Is the requirement to setup an health insurance exchange (or grant residents access to the federal exchange) a "monoculture"?

If you're informed about the situation, what parts of the state exchange requirement are "onerous" when compared with the status quo (i.e., what the insurance industry already requires)?
Does it support right-to-left and bi-directional documents?
What to make of Chipotle? They basically took the SF burrito joint from a boutique/local food dive to a viable biz franchise. Hugely successful at scale...
Surprised that Famo.us has not been mentioned in this thread. It looks like a very significant technology to solve this problem.

https://famo.us/about/
http://www.codepen.io/befamous/
So write the terms we have grown to expect, but then give a promise of "do no evil?"
> Maybe you know that there is no default PDF viewer in the Opera Browser, something we would like to change. But how to include one? Buy it from Adobe or Foxit?

If that is the problem being addressed, then I think it does?

One can ask if patching MuPDF vulnerabilities is a bigger hassle than getting PDF.js performant.
This announcement just sold me on an Unreal Engine 4 subscription[1] if for nothing else than to obtain access to early Unreal Tournament builds. Unreal Tournament is one of my favorite video game series, and I love that it is possible that I will be able to contribute to the development of the latest installment.

[1] https://www.unrealengine.com/register
oh so there is a legal term for "peacockin'"
This is preferred!
(It also makes diffs more readable)
Show HN: Goodbits is now open for everyone - build instant newsletters
Ha, it's funny that I don't actually have any idea from this comment who you would put your money on. I would take the vim side of that bet directly against sublime, but perhaps not against something-like-sublime.
But we already know that hasn't happened, with 28% of enrolees being the coveted 'young and healthy' demographic.
I think the market is for groups of people out partying (which in my group averages 4-6) who don't want to split up. Fitting 4 people into a Civic + driver is already uncomfortable so paying a small premium to keep the group moving together makes a lot of sense in urban markets.
So what? How many of their services is under China's regulation and how easy is it for the Western tech companies to get the permission to offer the same service?
No rich text editors I have found are built for lightweight extensibility, especially when it comes to realtime support.

The core value proposition here doesn't require feature-completeness in my opinion; with a great API for modules, table support (for example) could easily be added by a developer. I would encourage the core devs not to build things like that just yet, personally.
Then Java and .NET are considered "interpreted"? And Android under Dalvik is "interpreted", but under ART is "compiled" (using Java as the language, which I'd always thought of as compiled, yet apparently is interpreted under your definition)? What if you embed Clang & LLVM in your application to run C++?

I think this just illustrates the fuzziness of these definitions. A compiler is just a piece of code; you can embed it into another piece of code and run it whenever necessary. Maybe in the world of shrink-wrapped desktop software there was a sharp distinction between AOT compiled languages and interpreted ones, but we haven't lived in that world for a couple decades now.
> I can talk more about this but I got to go for now.

please do...
>We could see an FPS rise in eSports prominence again

Arguably CS:GO has been picking up steam lately hitting the #2 spot on Twitch.tv fairly constantly and spiking greatly during big tournaments.

This announcement couldn't have come at a better time as FPS is once again gaining competitive traction.
Insurance companies are fortunate to even exist under this scheme. There is certainly much I do not know about this industry, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't their primary function one of assessing risk? When the entire populous is forced to pay for some sort of health coverage, where does the insurance company continue to provide value?
Who is "they?" Most of the people in charge of crafting and passing the ACA barely have an understanding of where software comes from, much less anything resembling a best practice for crafting it.
It's similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo.
Depends on the location. Software devs aren't as highly loved in places that aren't The Valley and other tech hubs
The fact that they compiled all that private info must have helped to their crazy valuation.
I'm assuming that you won't be able to buy things in the marketplace and bring them into other people's games. With mods in the previous UTs it's been very much that every player in a game is on exactly the same footing except for player skill.

You start with the same gear, and anything else you can get is sitting around the level to be picked up by everybody.
The interesting thing about the weapons was that most were rather slow-moving and projectile speeds were very important. So motion prediction was far more important than for modern shooters.

Shooting someone out of the air with a rocket launcher was a feat.
Keep in mind that PDF.js is an engine + a viewer. Just a fast engine does not make a nice experience. There are many things in the viewer that one can do to make the experience of using it feel a lot faster.
A Sofware Engineer's Look at the Copy API
I think you miss my point. If I'm Viacom, I want to capture as much of the user revenue as I can. And I hold all the cards--the user is very particular about watching my content, but probably not that attached to Netflix being the distributor. So it's in my incentive to extract as much of Netflix's margin as I can in return of granting an exclusive contract. If they balk, I can always set up my own distribution system, because I already have a huge marketing infrastructure, and because Amazon is renting out the actual hardware/bandwidth wholesale. Or I can license my content to an upstart Netflix competitor that charges (small dollar value) less. If customer's aren't particularly attached to Netflix per se, this competitor will quickly see users switch. Netflix is in a much weaker position. It can't easily replace my content if I pull it.

I guess it works out for Netflix if users place a really high value in being able to get all their content from one place. At least watching my friends, who subscribe to a bunch of streaming services, I don't know if that assumption is a really great one.
Snapchat misled users on disappearing messages
Great job! I'm sure I'll be using this extensively.

For now, I've been backing into this type of information by looking at AngelList's Startups/Companies section (https://angel.co/companies) and searching for patterns with their plethora of filters. I find AngelList to have better curation such as categories like Productivity that don't exist in Crunchbase. Maybe you might have better quality data piggybacking off the AngelList API (https://angel.co/api)
It's intended to be simple though we can definitely use some better documentation in this area. All you need to do is pass in a config. You can take a look at some configs in src/format.coffee. Most are just a few lines (though we need to document what they mean). For example link is just { tag: 'A', attribute: 'href' }.

Realistically though will probably end up adding all of the common formats leaving just custom ones for the user. But even custom ones should be simple. For example all we did to define a custom authors format in the Authorship module was quill.addFormat('editor', { class: 'author-' }).

Better documentation (and more predefined formats) to come!
On magic
Christian philosophy is a monotheistic philosophy. There is only one god. That is why Jesus being god and human is part of the larger paradox of the holy trinity.
It looks like these numbers are roughly consistent with a large, similar fixed cost spread over different population sizes.