skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it make sense to build out massive supermarket chains in triplicate?
People do hunt and eat swans. I'm from North Carolina and have a lifetime sportsman license there. Each year I can apply for two swan tags, I believe the cost is something like $5-$15 for the tags.

What this article doesn't explain is that swan meat isn't actually very good. Goose is better, but duck is the best (in my opinion). Goose is more gamey, tough, and has less meat than a duck. Swan is even more gamey than goose.

I suspect if the author spent more time investigating the "old boys network" he would have realized that hunting and consumption of swan does exist in the US today. Even a simple "hunting swan in america" google search turns up a useful information. Have a look at the aptly named swanhunting.com if you want more info.
In some jurisdictions - yes, that absolutely happens.
What is this? GET?
Yeah, I like that, would be cool. Thanks!
I see, thanks. Yes, if that happens it could certainly upset OpenGL's position. What, though, is the likelihood of that happening? Have there been signs of cross-vendor Mantle adoption, and of support by the OS vendors Google and Apple?
Rather than have a tiny band for each company you could select a protocol for each band and let companies freely compete based on which has the lowest cost and a clear signal to each cellphone. Thus making it reasonable for 3rd party's to for example add a few towers near a convention center.
The most polished I'm aware of off the top of my head is Spring (http://springrts.com/), which started off as a Total Annihilation clone, but grew into a pretty solid engine in its own right.
Almost none.
In Australia if you had an aortic aneurism such that it was highly likely for you to die anyway it is highly unlikely for you have any claims in the tort of negligence as it requires a gross negligence on the part of the doctor such that it has a substantial link to the causation of the death. There also defences of necessity - that is the person is dying therefore it is necessary for the doctors to take all measures to save the patient. Thus it is probably significantly difficult for a person to be successful in medical malpractice unless it was blatantly largely caused by the doctor alone.

I also would guess that the US would have a similar legal system, which allows for such defences from such claims.

It seems that if courts are paying out too much this is not an issue to do with people making frivolous claims and cashing in but with the way the judiciary is deciding on the claims. If it was more difficult for claims to be successful in court this would stamp out such claims instead of imposing monetary caps which don't allow for the flexibility to compensate each individual case.

I find it strange that the legislature is getting involved in an area which is really up to the judiciary to perform its function...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli's_principle
Where velocity increases, pressure decreases.
Are you sure it's unambiguous? Four way stops have both a "whoever was here first goes" rule and a "we arrived at approximately the same time so the person on the right goes" rule. That alone adds ambiguity, as they're not well defined.

But it gets worse than that, as pedestrians have priority and can break up the established order. If it's "my" turn, but a pedestrian blocks only my way, someone else can rightly cross out of turn, but then once the pedestrian is clear when does it become my turn again?
"I certainly suffered under that monopoly (as did the entire industry) but couldn't the argument be made that market forces took care of it without government intervention?"

YMMV vary, but my conclusion is this: The government successfully prevented Microsoft from crushing the rest of the browsers. They really were trying, really did damage Netscape, and really were well on their way to more dominance in that field than they had a "right" too. And they were on their way, too; Netscape was faltering and IE was a better browser for a good long time. As it is they still had enough dominance to end up causing web tech to stagnate badly for a few years.

However, recall why Microsoft was so scared of the browser, which is that it threatened to become its own OS and make it so you could run a computer without Windows that could do everything you needed. Broadly speaking (bear with me here), this still has not happened. Here in 2014, you could run a small business out of a browser, and you can do a lot with a Chromebook, but Windows is still around, still powerful, and still pretty full of legacy software that doesn't exist in a browser and businesses are not having an easy time disposing of... witness the continuing lurching life of Windows XP, which Microsoft wants to be rid of and can't be.

I think it was a good decision and still correct, even if ultimately it really only served as a very large shot across Microsoft's bow (even if it was aimed at the hull) due to the fact that the browsers of the time weren't going to be able to manifest the promise of displacing Windows. We'll never know, but the secondary effects of chastising Microsoft may have been worth more than the primary effects ever could be. And I do think the secondary effects were more important; the direct impact pales in comparison to the fact that they'd just been notified they couldn't proceed down that path any farther than they'd already gone without the costs exceeding the benefits.

Of course, what truly displaced Microsoft turned out to be more Apple, via the MacOSX and mobile, which Microsoft continues to struggle with. But so may years ago, who'da thunk it? And it would have been silly for the government to count on that.
It is time to re-classify ISPs as common carriers.
Firstly, it's not 'my point'; I was presenting that argument as an answer to the parent post's question of how else interference could be prevented. Secondly, the ownership of entire cellphone bands isn't the only kind of property right over spectrum that could exist.

Ownership of entire cellphone bands would actually be somewhat unlikely. For a court following 'Tribune Co. v. Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station' to consider an entire spectrum across the entire nation as property in court, the transmitting organisation would have to show that it was and had been using that entire spectrum to transmit content across every part of the nation. Such a situation would be unlikely, as the organisation would likely have faced competition for spectrum use before it could expand its own spectrum use over the entire country.
One more good example is NetStorm 2 [0] that is a Unity3D-based remake of little-known, but still good classic RTS game NetStorm [1].

[0] http://netstorm2hq.com/page.php?7

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetStorm:_Islands_At_War
I am a mathematician, but it suggests that as a practical realist I might want to be a construction engineer. Or a medical scientist, except epidemiologist. Or a physicist. I kind of do string theory, but I don't think that makes me a practical realist.
Robots are taking our jobs, so what...
It looks like the only change is that the FCC is promising to keep the ISPs in check so ISPs don't abuse their proposed ability to charge companies for access to their customers. No thanks; I'd much prefer actual ISP regulation over empty promises.
> Google Privacy Enhancer performs random searches at
> random intervals while you are (optionally) logged into
> your Google account. This "fuzzes" your search history,
> making it difficult for Google [..] to gather
> information about you.

I am reminded of the classic MIT AI koan:

> In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came
> to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
> "What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
> "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play
> Tic-Tac-Toe" Sussman replied.
> "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
> "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how
> to play", Sussman said.
> Minsky then shut his eyes.
> "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher.
> "So that the room will be empty."
> At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

If you generate random searches, then all you're doing is causing the derived profile contain inaccurate data. You'll still see Adsense ads and Amazon recommendations, but now they'll be timeshares in somalia or horse dildoes instead of anything you might be interested in.

If you trust the search provider to not lie, then a better option is to use their history opt-out (e.g. Google's is at https://history.google.com/history/). If you don't trust them, use Tor with either Incognito Mode (for Chrome and Chromium) or Private Browsing (for Firefox). The OP's link provides a false sense of security, which is worse than no security.

> making it difficult for [..] other parties --
> such as anyone monitoring your web traffic over the
> wire -- to gather information about you

Google uses https, so if some third party has access to your search traffic then they've already solved a much more difficult problem than filtering out fake searches.
Blizzard turned them down because iirc they were working on Starcraft 2 which the devs were very elitist against Dota. I'm sure they now regret it now since Dota 2 has some insane number of hours racked up on steam (more than any steam game).
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

On the off chance that you're not, though: you can buy hydrochloric acid and pour it in your eyes if you really want to, but you should also have an expectation that ordinary hair care products won't have surprise deadly acid in them. Similarly, you can pour boiling water in your lap on purpose if that turns you on, but no one should be handing you a cup of flesh-melting liquid and telling you that it's fit for immediate consumption.
I have already found a differentiator: mkdown supports private gists, which is a boon for me.
Oh wow, that is expensive. Here in the UK on prepay Three offer 25GB/30 days (marketed as "unlimited") for $25 (£15). Bonus: You get LTE where available for no extra charge.
It looks like he just fed it a plain python gist, no Markdown, no nothing. On the site it says the service can be used "to elegantly share gists written in Markdown", so I don't know why he would expect that to work.

I guess a clear error message would be helpful, but then you would either have to rely on everyone using standard file endings, or do some pretty fancy (and unreliable) parsing to determine if it's actually Markdown.
Ahh, thanks, that makes so much more sense! It seems that 5kW inverters have efficiencies around 97% which is pretty good. I wonder if they could print the micro-inverters as part of the panel manufacture and then just add the caps and inductors they need during packaging.

This might also be a good opportunity to add features like distributed power generation, so that for remote locations, a power grid could be setup with residential panels, but no central power station.
Here is the project page: http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/

If you scroll to the bottom you can see the "facts" this program has most recently learned along with its confidence in them. To me these facts don't look very impressive, since many are wrong or at least show a very stretched approximation of the truth. (Edit: actually I refreshed the list and the content got a lot better, so I might have just hit on a particularly bad set of data)
How does that help exactly?

Here's an example of Microsoft suing TomTom over components of the off-the-shelf Linux kernel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._TomTom_Inc.
Here's a guy who wanted to change his karvt skin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmFvghXZHZI#t=3m30s
The capital costs of supermarkets are much, much lower relative to their operating costs.

However, using that context: contrast supermarkets with the roads that are used by both their suppliers and their consumers, and you have another good example of a capital-intesive infrastructure where redundancy is inefficient and therefore is better supplied by government.
Information (noise) inundation is a very old tactic. TrackMeNot has been around since 2006 and does the same thing, over multiple search engines, and with various customizations: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/

There's probably much older tools that do the same thing, as well.

Worth noting is that Schneier is critical of the efficacy of this approach: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/trackmenot_1....
A Flat Lens That Thinks It's Curved
Perhaps it shocks your moral sensibility to generalize across humans, but it is perfectly legitimate for anyone who is seeking the truth to do these things. For them, the primary question must be "to what degree is a generalization meaningful?".

When we say things like, "The African American population in the US is materially disadvantaged.", that statement does generalize across many individuals. But it's also potentially very useful or actionable.

Also, anyone who says they judge people as individuals is probably bullshitting to the max. It sounds cognitively overburdening and wasteful.
I can't help but think of the movie Scarface when I see this title.
A hydrogel that knows when to go
Colored Coins coming soon
> I got burned on the thigh very close to my genitals, it hurt, it blistered. I got over it. They didn't charge me for the coffee. Life went on.

I'm glad to hear that you made a full recovery from your minor-but-painful burn. I doubt you would be so cheery about it if the clumsy waitress had maimed you and left you on the hook for $10,000 in medical bills.

This is why the Liebeck case always causes such controversy: there's a substantial group of people who are absolutely determined to argue with a made-up strawman instead of the actual facts. I genuinely don't understand why.
DarkUI for OS X ColorPicker
Thanks for the reply! Saw you guys have a facebook group - is this the best way to follow the progress?
I've seen this talk in person last week and there are some new developments, in particular the coming up paper by EA Platanios and Mitchell 2014 where they describe a new way to reconcile consistency with correctness, i.e. how do you resolve conflicts between internally consistent but factually incorrect beliefs, and train the machine to learn from its mistakes (currently they just delete incorrect beliefs unlike human learners who incorporate their history of "fails" into making new decisions). Besides other things, they work on introducing time scale into learning and integrating NEIL (Never ending image learner).
> Until officials provide more information, the claim that Flight 370 went south rests not on the weight of mathematics but on faith in authority.

Public claims and statements do not matter much in these sorts of investigations. All that matters is the quality of the work inside the investigation.

The public does not have access to most of the data, including crucial radar traces from a variety of militaries, which could exclude a northern route for MH370.

There's a lot of math in this article but no new data, just a lot of guesses. It is fundamentally just a cry for greater transparency.
OpenCL is actually much worse. it requires way more querying of what the hardware does to use it rather than abstracting it away like other GPGPU libraries.

While OpenGL can be full of extensions, if you ignore the extensions and stick to the base it's pretty easy to write a program that doesn't have to care what system it's on
That's part of the reason those power lines are steel-cored with copper jackets; the other reason being strength, of course.
You can't really have it both ways. If you expected the studio to have failed due to Travis Knight's leadership, then you have to credit him with it not failing. You can't set up predictions in which one result confirms you but the opposite result means you don't have to update your assumptions. That would be the equivalent of a free lunch and/or perpetual motion machine.
The enumerators seem to be missing on Firefox and IE. Working correctly on Safari and Chrome.

Edit: IE8, did not test with a more recent version.
Don’t Go to Work: The Results-Only Work Environment
Anyone else saddened by how high the "history" channel ranks? Last time I tuned in there was a show about Nazi's and Aliens and then a whodunnit about Jesus. All rather sad really, on a channel ostensibly about history.
Gambo: a Game Boy emulator
It's security advantage to not have a shell or anything that someone can log in to. Perhaps export instrumentation data or provide instrumentation via an interface or something.
For any pedants who cringed reading "octopuses" instead of "octopi", here's the wiki section to reassure that this is actually correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluraliza...

Other sources through Google also confirm this.
Here's the actual white paper, which is fairly readable:
http://www.rearden.com/DIDO/DIDO_White_Paper_110727.pdf
> Getting all of your nice special effects and post-processing implemented while still running at a smooth 60fps is very difficult

And has very little to do with CPU speed. There are some games where CPU speed is important but there's a large subset (I'd be willing to bet 95%) of AAA games where only GPU speed is important and they run just fine on low end CPUs.
What is the quickest way to learn practical industrial design?
I'd like to design physical products that can be mass produced. I know nothing about this field, except that it's called "industrial design".

For an absolute beginner, what is the quickest way to learn enough to be productive in industrial design? Any websites, articles, or resources are greatly appreciated.

Also, any insight into what the process is would be great too. Like what kind of tools are used, what are the industry standards, what kind of file format factories accept, etc.

Thank you!
That would not be efficient. Yes you could also store the energy by pumping water up hill and letter it turn a turbine later, but you'd lose a LOT of power.

You could store the energy in springs ala the da Vinci cart, but again not efficient.

All of these methods require a conversion, where as a Battery, Capacitor, or Leyden Jar will store DC as DC.
> Cellular plans in the U.S. with 500MB of data cost about $85.

I highly doubt that. The piece links to [1] which in turn cites [2].

In [2] "Mobile-broadband prices are collected from the operator with the largest market share in the country", "prices applying to the largest city (in terms of population) or to the capital city are used", and a the 500MB plans are ones that include voice and text.

Moreover, the reported prices include taxes; while including taxes is necessary to accurately reflect the cost to consumers, it does not give insight into weather or not carriers are "gouging" consumers, which is what the RWW piece alleges.

AT&T charges $65 for unlimited talk and text and 2GB of data [3], Verizon $60 with 1GB [4], T-Mobile $40 with 500MB [5], Sprint $55 with 1GB [6].

I won't get into prepaid plans and/or MVNOs exhaustively, but for instance, Aio (AT&T's own MVNO) charges $35 for unlimited talk and text with 500MB of unthrottled data if you enable auto-pay [7].

According to a 2011 report [8], the average tax rate is 16.26%, which would still only bring the most expensive plan I mentioned (AT&T's) to $75.57.

Based on that, unless there is a very large number of consumers on old plans that have not been brought down to current prices (and I'm not sure if that even happens), I highly doubt that $85 figure.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/10/daily-c...
[2] http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/publication... (page 112)
[3] https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html
[4] https://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/shop/shop-data...
[5] http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/individual.html
[6] https://www.sprint.com/landings/framily/?INTNAV=ATG:HE:Frami...
[7] https://www.aiowireless.com/shop/plans.html
[8] http://taxfoundation.org/article/states-target-cell-phones-s...
Interesting. Makes sense, though many such emails only attempt to bait the recipient into following a link, whereby malware would be installed via drive-by, or otherwise the user would be prompted to enter sensitive info.

In these cases, it seems that crafting a more professional email to cast the net as wide as possible would be prudent.
Yeah, I got it. Machines can't verify the documentation that humans write. It's not a subtle point.

Now, if the code were good enough to substitute for human-written documentation, you'd actually be addressing my argument. The people who argue that code is self-documenting tend to produce only badly documented code.

The way that comments stay in sync with code is that the developer keeps the comments up to date. It isn't that hard.
thats interesting! since Consul / Serf are written in Go.. have you considered using boltdb? https://github.com/boltdb/bolt it's an LMDB implementation in Go, really clean code.
I believe you have it backwards, Dart is a switched mode power supply (SMPS) which is sometimes called a converter, and things which take DC and return 90-240VAC are called inverters. (not to be confused with logic inverters)

A typical inverter uses MOSFET or IGBT transistors to switch a DC voltage which is then fed through a capacitor as a form of isolation. Typical inverters are use on Solar panel systems to convert PV cells energy into AC, battery backup to AC (Uniinterruptible power supplies), or single phase to multiphase AC to drive AC motors efficiently.

One of the reasons they are "big" is because typically they operate at 60 or 50 hz, and at those frequencies if you are using magnetic fields for isolation (like you would if you drove one side of a transformer) the transformers are annoyingly large and hard to make efficient. [1] Many modern inverter start with 280 - 480v DC and use a series of transistors to create an approximation of a sine wave (this is how the cheesy plug into your car lighter inverters usually work). Once you get above a 100W it starts to get a bit more difficult to do cheaply and with reasonable efficiency.

Efficiency drains are also present in the upscaling the voltage (whether your using a boost switching circuit or a simple diode/capacitor pump). So getting these things to be efficient is hard, and they are of course generally fairly large per watt.

I suspect Google is looking for something to invert PV solar arrays, but high density power conversion is always valuable.

[1] That said, a lot of people made high voltage supplies out of using a 555 to switch a transistor on and off which fed the 'low' side of a power supply transformer. I had a Xenon Strobe circuit that did that, made a nice little 600V supply.
Lotteries have been tried, and yes, it did lead to all kinds of work being done to be able to enter the lottery multiple times, for people to enter the lottery just to resell, and other similar shenanigans. More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/business/in-wireless-spect...

So a lottery quickly becomes a special kind of auction where lower bidders still have some chance to win.
One way would be to have the infrastructure financed by both the government and the actors, and all actors using the same infrastructure, and therefore competing on prices and services instead of each of them having a separate monopoly on their band. That's exactly how it works for phone lines, and that's where competition worked the best to bring the prices down.