skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you know, it's ultra-leathal in that it kills a larger percentage of targets more efficiently (e.g they are not talking about it being "more lethal" for a single person).
This is a good idea. I could see this changing C development for the better.
You're pointing out the asymmetry of the value, rather than disputing it.

The information the insiders are trading on is relevant to the stock price (i.e. valuable to stockholders), the poker card info is valuable to the other players (or cheats wouldn't be after it), and the target of the blackmail has something important to hide or they wouldn't pay up.
2048+Chess
As someone who used to do "brosplits" and recently switched to heavy compound movements, I can definitely attest to the benefits of the latter. If I had to choose one, I would go with the compound exercises (squats, deadlifts, overhead press, barbell rows, bench press, etc.), but I think the best routines incorporate both types of exercises. That's why I like routines like ICF 5x5[1], which is centered around heavy compound lifts but also includes smaller isolation lifts as accessories.

[1] http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/jason-blaha-ice-cr...
It's a completely different situation. Programming leads to some serious concentrated rewards, while science leads only to dispersed rewards. As a result, there are plenty of people wanting to invest in programming, but mostly governments want to touch sciences.

That of course does not mean that the job market for programmers will always be good, only that when it stops being, it will be for very different reasons.
That is why i said some.
Agreed. Just want to point it out to those that jump in head first without understanding the consequences of that action. You might get fired from your job for doing this or severly reprimanded. You might unwittingly cause a production data breach for some reason you never even imagined. So it's a message of be careful and understand fully what you are doing.
MySQL Partitioning: A Stopgap Measure? 
Interesting post brought to you by my colleague.. asking is DB partitioning is the mean for a scalable Database? we believe it is not.. will be great to hear your thoughts.
Context is the binary implementation of the Number type. Crockford believes it should be more akin to a fast decimal implementation.
I'm guessing massive oversupply will be the reason, as it is here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7763663
Where did I say anything about bankers sitting around with a copy of Zone Alarm? That comes entirely from your own imagination, as did your ad hominem attack.

The only thing I mentioned was the verifiable fact that some banks limit passwords to 6-8 characters, also detailed in a multitude of HN threads.
Google is Breaking the Internet
Whoops, I wrote this in haste but now it's too late to edit. The last sentence referred to an analogy that I decided didn't work. I would say: just because I've seen people litter all the time in public places doesn't have much to do with the badness (or non-badness) of economically inefficient/opaque methods for correcting other bad externalities.
> there's nothing wrong with explosive movement.
Actually there is, explosive movements cause injuries and decrease the effectiveness of any exercise because the momentum they create reduces the load on muscles throughout the range of motion.

Explosive movement are pretty much the only way you can injure yourself when keeping good form. You should never do explosive movements unless there is some sport-specific application for it that you need. Moving weights slowly is a great way to get the ability to move fast when you don't have any weights on.
I Google Maps even capable of routing when offline? I don't see why having the height data would be useful if it can't start routing anyway.
I've started logging calories recently and since I am short (160cms) and am only looking to lose 5-6 kilos, online calorie calculators advised me to go on a 1100 calories/day diet. I upped that to 1200 calories, because it would have been unhealthy otherwise, apparently and I feel like if I consume the right foods, then I can stay on 1200 calories a day somewhat comfortably. Eating out is almost always out of the question, though.
I'm curious -- does one need to consult these papers when using algorithms from libraries such as SciKit (Python)?

I ask because the field seems so broad, and having completed Andrew Ng's original ML course, I'm not sure which way to go...

thanks.
Obviously the article was not written by a cyclist! The feature is really great for us with limited time.
From experience with most providers, Heroku has been the fastest and easiest to deploy to. It's interesting to hear an alternative experience. What would you say got in the way for you?
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7643902.
I too argued "It's not that bad" as a reason for keeping it two weeks ago. On the other hand I was not arguing with you at all today since we are in agreement that it's YC's football and it would be absurd to assume that you would argue that I don't hold the beliefs that I had asserted that I hold.

My opinion regarding what beliefs`dang holds is that the 'Idea Sunday' was consistently earning karma disproportionately to it's contribution to the quality of HN and that this was creating a genre of similar high reward high noise threads [e.g. Screenshot Saturday, Tweet Tuesday etc].

My guess is that he looked at the threads closely before pulling the plug, not only because his post implies it but because it was allowed to run for several weeks before he stepped in and moderated. By the time action was taken a fairly detailed picture of who was looking at and participating in the threads was available.

Is it the call I would have made? I don't know because I'm not charged with that, (though I did flag this thread because of its poor quality) and I haven't seen all the facts.
The term you're looking for is "contracts of adhesion," and yes, courts do acknowledge the potential for unfair treatment there. (That isn't to say that they'd strike this particular clause — just that they do recognize and account for the power inequality inherent in this kind of contract.)
Yeah, fish is kinda big across the whole country. In fact, Italians tend to be surprised by how fish is not particularly valued in a lot of other countries. There are geographic and historic factors in play, obviously: Pisa was one of the "Maritime Republics" city-states at one point ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_republics ) so they clearly know their sea; nearby Tuscan cities tend to be more meat-oriented.

Among other factors, I'd say that a lot of "pasta sauces" are entirely based on vegetables and prepared from fresh ingredients, something very different from processed stuff you buy in jars.

I don't think portions are a factor -- they might be smaller, but even the smallest meal will have several different types of food (pasta, meat or fish, vegetables and then fruit). Single-portion meals are very rare.
While this is cool, it's probably decades away. People should note that low-speed maglevs have arrived.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/860672.shtml

http://english.cri.cn/6909/2014/05/16/2702s826842.htm

A few of these would be nice in NY or LA. JFK to Manhattan in 20 minutes. Cross the width of Manhattan in 4 minutes.
We have plenty of evidence the rest of the solar system exists. Why bother exploring it?
Extensive discussion from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122106

Scott Aaronson's reply: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=312

That was submitted[0] six years ago, but got no discussion at all.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123584

There have been many, many more occasions when this was submitted,
The linked colour pictures are also pretty neat.

http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/09/idea_color_photos_with_the...
Do you consider "imaginary numbers" somehow derogatory as well? Because that was the inspiration for the term.

The term merely calls attention to the point of dispute.
What's neat here is how clean their elevation data seems to be. Having spent a long time trying to work with various dataset like the NASA SRTM and USGS files, I quickly came to realize how hard it is to clean up this data. Looking at this feature I tried out a couple of things that would have tripped up a naive implementation and Google Maps seems to have dodged the most obvious pitfalls. For example a bike route that crosses a freeway in a trench correctly shows the route without discontinuities. It also seems like Google are getting around some of the problems just by being intentionally vague and blurry. If you make a route short enough it will just say "mostly flat" instead of trying to draw a misleadingly detailed profile.
My self-themed OS X 10.10 Mac
Novena, The Crowdsourced, Fully-Open Laptop, Is Shipping This Winter
Redhat may be stacking the deck against Openstack rivals
I’ve been using Finch for quite a while now, and I absolutely love it. As a lot of people have pointed out, there are several alternatives and/or competitors. But, as @lachgr points out, Finch is very user-friendly, which—to a designery type like me—is invaluable.
Yep, Gentoo FTW!!
If I were an experienced train driver, I'd be opposed to a minimum wage hike that would cause my country to invest in driverless trains.

You seem to be arguing that raising wages requires lower profits. I take the opposing point of view that lowering potential profits requires (read: causes) less demand for employment in the aggregate.

(Unsurprisingly, I'm against minimum wage laws). An investor or entrepreneur is going to look at the potential profit vs risk of his new venture or indeed even against hiring his next employee. If the market-clearing wage for a position is 10 units and legislation forces that to 20 units, it's reasonable to conclude that some ventures will never get started and that others will employ fewer people, will employ them for less than a full workweek, or will contract for them in such a way as to make the minimum wage law someone else's problem (maybe using off-shore labor for remotable work, maybe by contracting with a company with few enough employees [perhaps zero non-founders] that minimum wage doesn't apply).
How sure are you? What kinds of matter? What exceptions are there on the process? Is this a more effective form of 3d printing? Can pizza be created from light, and if so, how? Can we turn the matter back into light? Can we turn organic material into light?
Why is it "fundamentally wrong"? I created the work, I'm free to do with it as I please. I can give it away for free. I can charge $10 a copy. I can come to an arrangement that someone else has the right to set the price, in return for something else I want. That many musicians choose to sell their creations to distributors is entirely their choice. It obviously didn't "devalue" it to them at the point of sale, else they wouldn't have sold it. That many patents are owned by companies is because they were created by employees whose creative output was owned by the company in exchange for a salary.

If creative output has a value, then people should be free to exchange their creations for anything they like. To create restrictions that prevent people from writing a book then making an arrangement with a publisher, is just to prevent people from actually being able to do anything with their creations.
I'm in Amsterdam and I train outside with The Bootcamp Club (https://thebootcampclub.nl/nl/), have you tried that? Almost all the trainings are outside, and mostly focus on endurance and bodyweight exercises.
Sorry, I wasn't arguing with you, I didn't mean to give that impression.
I think the reason moderation was done in private was due to lack of time, not a decision against transparency.
Letter with color avatars like Gmail based on CSS
Yes, the hand brake is your friend when starting on hills, but it's tough when you're starting out because it means you have to coordinate three things at once :)
Disclaimer: I'm talking about Olympic lifts and sprints when I say "explosive movements." Clean and jerk and snatch are the primary ones. Secondary movements are things like kettlebell swings and Turkish get-ups.

While they can be risky, I think that these exercises have benefits that outweigh the risk of injury, especially if you're using proper form. The biggest thing to remember is to lift what you're capable of and not to lift with your ego. No reason to risk yourself to get another 10kg unless you're a powerlifter.
BADA55: safe curves for elliptic-curve cryptography
People need to understand exactly what Portugal has done. "Decriminalization" of use is very different than ceasing enforcement. They stopped sending users to prison, they did not stop enforcement.

You still need to enforce against the people who deal addictive drugs, and Portugal still does.

Also, if you are caught with personal use quantities in Portugal it is usually confiscated and you are obligated to some interactions with the state aimed at treatment.
>I created the work, I'm free to do with it as I please.

Under the current law: NO!

That is just a dream from the people that are pro-IP -- they know, that is a dream, but they want you to dream it.

If you are working for a company and have an idea, the company gets the patent and you get (if you are lucky) a fixed amount (~$500 is a typical amount in my country) and the patent belongs to the company -- you don't even have the right to use the stuff for yourself.

IP means, in its conclusion, that the creators are disowned and the "owners" own your ideas. You created it, you are busted!
I would be curious to know what is the advantage of using maglev technology if you only reach speeds of 120 km/h. "Firstly, there is no friction, and little noise or vibration; secondly, it eliminates the risk of derailment; and lastly, it is an eco-friendly method of transportation without emissions" looks like nothing special to me.
When the photons collide, the researchers believe that a significant number of them will turn from light to matter — more specifically, into an electron and a positron.

So we could use this within our warp core to power our warp field generators?

How much energy would we have to expend to separate the positron from the electron and keep them separated? What does that give us in terms of energy storage efficiency, compared to storing electrical charge within a lithium battery?
I think it's more subtle than this in the case of dieting though. Is there even such a thing as a diet that can actually work for everyone?

I think there's certain axioms one has to accept when it comes to weight loss. First of which is to lose weight, you will feel hungry. There is no diet that can avoid this. Billions of years of evolution have worked to ensure that we feel hungry when we're losing weight.

Diets fail because humans are supposed to feel hungry when they're dieting. No matter what the constraints of the diet are, no matter how much they advertise "you can feel satisfied as long you stick with foods X, Y, and Z", your body cannot be tricked into thinking it's satiated when it's not.

At some point, trying to think of this from an engineering standpoint breaks down, because you're solving an intractable problem. Humans really are the issue here.

I think we need to redefine diets as not a list of foods to eat or rules to follow, but instead a state of mind you have to have. An acceptance that you'll feel hungry, but it's worth it to be healthy or look good. It's actually kind of obvious when you think about it.
I mean the following to be helpful, not hurtful:

More people will understand your ideas if you organize your thoughts, use proper grammar and spelling, and reread your comment before posting it.
Is the remark which currently comprises the title of this post purely about bignum support? If so, this is the most egregiously linkbaity titling i have ever seen on HN.

And yes, i know, that's the quote that John Cook leads with in his G+ post. That it's a technically correct titling of an indirection to the real content compounds the sin, in my book.
I like how somebody downvoted this, but didn't bother to correct the mistake the presumably believed they saw in my reasoning.

That is anti-intellectualism.
Yes, it is. If you start the route when you're still online, you can proceed offline the rest of your trip.
"Well see here, lance corporal, I know that you're in great shape and have 40+ points on my PFT score, but this Crossfit workout is gonna take you to the next level. Plus, I went to college. I know what I'm doing."

That being said, I've also worked with a lieutenant who could do a 14-minute 3-mile. Dude probably couldn't do 135 on the bench press, but he could definitely run.
I have a PhD in chemistry and now I drive for Lyft. It pays 20% better than a postdoc.

I'm seeking to start up my own research program outside of traditional academia to gt away from the broken system.
I also lost 50 pounds with simple calorie counting after being inspired by John Walker's book "The Hacker's Diet" (freely available online).
There's a great book called Refactoring to Patterns which I would suggest after GoF (and just overviewing the Refactoring book)

http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Patterns-Joshua-Kerievsky/...
What is Onarbor?
Jeremy Palmer is a SEO marketer, who also appears to be doing some scammy affiliate thing. Google considers his links low quality because they are low quality.
or I could have been being sarcastic
Heh, Google is catching up. I want to highly recommend https://www.komoot.de/plan for hike or bike planning. It's fundamentally based on OSM and very very nice.
> All "property" is imaginary.

I don't think this is right. The ownership may be imaginary, but most of my property is real and tangible. If my computer here were imaginary, you would never see this. So if you do read this, rest assured that at least some of my property is real.

This is different from intellectual property. In that arena, not only the ownership, but the property itself is purely a construct of the mind.
"while eating", I do like them from time to time as a treat. I find that they just ruin the taste of food, making everything a sweet mix.

Really, there are pretty much two things that I can manage to drink while eating, water and beer. And the second one usually only with pizza.
I love Taptalk and use it around 50 times a day. Super fast and intimate asynchronous communication with close friends.
High taxes, high social welfare and a stagnant economy are recipes for disaster - see Greece, Italy, Portugal....
An unanswered question in the G+ discussion is how libraries not in the default config can be added. Can I "pip install" into a NaCl IPython kernel?
I understand the point.

But you could be friendly and agree to remove the links in questions since they seem to believe it will harm their business. Not doing so "out of principal" may effect others as Google believes your links are low quality.(although it sounds like their SEO company is mostly to blame for their problems).
The whole Guitar Hero thing is pretty buried now that you have Rocksmith.
The main reason people fail in dieting is they go too low in calories or protein, which drops the metabolic rate. This makes the diet seem futile because fat loss pretty much stops, and also you tend to feel lousy with a lower metabolism.

You have to constrain calories somewhat while making sure not to lower the metabolic rate. You can do this by tracking resting body temperature and pulse rate. If you wake up in the morning and have a body temperature much below 98F, you need to eat more. You also want to maintain a resting pulse rate over 70 bpm. If these measures dip, you are probably going too low in carbs or protein.

The fact is, only quite slow fat loss is safe and sustainable. All the more reason to not get fat in the first place.
I don't want to be "that guy" but is publishing notation and tabs for copyrighted songs OK? I thought many "Guitar Tab" websites disappeared from the internet exactly because it isn't.
Starting a PhD – Top and Bottom 3 Reasons.
If you do

stty stop ""

you can use Ctrl-S to search forward too.
will it be possible to have an email when it's ready ?
While it would be very nice if one of the existing language package managers stepped up their game by supporting multiple languages and cross-language dependencies, one still has to remember that these fulfill a need - namely to make it easy to share code within a coding community. This is something distro package systems have failed to achieve - their systems have too much bureucratic overhead to make a package available for all and require that a library to be packaged multiple times to be used in more than one distro.
Its interesting to think how we would react if we encounter a superior alien race. It completely changes everything.

Frankly, I don't think it would end well at all (even if they are benign). We are too smart/proud to let someone set the rules for us, not after being at the top of the food chain for so long.
Extremely infeasible.
Point your NNTP client at: nntp.olduse.net
or one of those new-fangled "Web" browser things at:
http://olduse.net/

olduse.net is not an archive, as such, but more of a repeat
performance - "updated in real time as it was thirty years ago" -
the bang!path email addresses are not hidden,
and work-arounds to the "line eater bug" abound.

The Google archive at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!browse
seems useful to me, with, for instance,
with 400+ results for "The Devouring Fungus".

The Google interface has a "Show Original" function under the "More
messages actions" pulldown, and a "Show unmasked email addresses"
function behind a Captcha. Perhaps I'm missing something?
TIL I'm a low-information consumer.
Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
-- Hilaire Belloc

A basic assumption with drones is they are great because the US has them, but that's not always going to be the case. What worries me is what will happen when drones become widespread. Sooner or later someone will make the AK-47 of drones, and there will be millions of lethal drones around. I don't know what that will do for warfare, but it can't be good. World War I showed the difficulty of adapting to widespread machine guns, and the adjustment to widespread drones could be just as bad.
I'd do this, but the lack of indication of the editing mode you're in destroys how useful this'd be to me (I'd have to paranoidly hit Esc all the time).
To be successful in science, as in most other professions, requires a combination of direct skills (ability, knowledge, industriousness, perseverance, etc.), indirect skills (e.g. connections, political ability, salesmanship) and luck.

As a field gets more overcrowded, the job itself becomes less attractive (lower pay, more hours, less interesting work) and the relative importance of the indirect skills and luck becomes much greater, leading to a lower average quality of practitioners.

Presumably, the demand to enter the profession should subsequently decrease and eventually lead to some sort of equilibrium.
You would normally have to explicitly unfirewall any service; I run my ipv6 as inbound ssh only. Although crawling ipv6 is pretty hard compared to ipv4.
I'm under the impression that it has only gotten worse.

Anecdote: A super smart friend of mine from physics grad school finished in 2008 and went on to post-docs at Caltech and Harvard. He was unable to get a tenure track job, primarily because in that 4 year timespan only 1 faculty position opened up in the entire US for his (tiny) field. He now works at Google.

In fact I'm not sure that anyone from my cohort is still in academia. Other students used to come ask me questions all of the time, because I had worked in industry before going to grad school. Their questions were always some variation of "what are my options if I get out of physics?".

Edit: I'll also add that most grad students I knew gave little thought to their post-grad job prospects before starting grad school. It seems now that the message has trickled along a little better that the outlook is very poor.