skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I am surprised I am losing karma for this. For what? An opposing view?"

As I said above, here on HN, mere truth is not enough to make us consider a comment to be a positive contribution. We select for interesting and directly relevant comments. Your comment is honest, but doesn't particularly add value to the discussion; you might consider it relevant, but I find it tangential and uninteresting.

Downvotes are the HN community's way of signaling that this is not the sort of comment we'd like you to make on this story.
3-yr-old recalls past life murder, identifies killer and locates his body
I would change ''italic'' to italic. It is easier to remember how to create a bold and an italic word if you only have to remember one sign. Besides the ' sign is not very common in some countries.
The calculator of course takes this into account. Both contributions to principle and the appreciated value of the home.
The Witcher2 now available on Linux
Just a heads up, !m also leads you to Google Maps
I think there's more of an overlap between eBay and Amazon than mentioned in the article. I sometimes go to eBay if I want something for a lower price than on Amazon (often direct from China) and don't mind waiting for slower delivery times.

He also doesn't mention the new style specialist market sites like tindie and etsy which I think is a new category of retailer. They allow specialist suppliers come together and sell to a captive audience.
I am sorry, the Space Shuttle is no metaphor it was a real life White Elephant!
Funny how those links are all gray already. I didn't mention it in my first post, but there does seem to be an additional problem in finding a way to efficiently formulate QM simulations for a QM computer. I'm not sure if much work has been done on this. I would also be interested in a blog post or two by Scott Aaronson on this topic though.
I'm a big fan of tigertonic. The others seemed like they had too much 'magic'
Newegg has always been against paying out even way back in the day when I worked there. In the early days of patent trolling, someone sued us in a printer-related lawsuit and they offered to settle for a small sum (VERY small). Basically, the in-house lawyer said that it would cost more money to fight it given his hourly wage but that the CEO was not going to pay if it was a frivolous lawsuit. I see that the same principle has persisted now, a decade later.
Skrivdown? :)

You'd have to switch to Skriv's syntax for headers since Markdown's headers and Skriv's ordered lists use the same syntax. Another thing I'd change about Markdown would be to remove multiple syntaxes for writing the same element. For example, with Markdown you can use *, -, or + to create unordered lists. That might exist for some reason I don't know about but I don't like it.
Till science catches up, we should believe in statistics. Shun cosmetics. Many cinema celebrities have died of cancer.
And it's on sale on Steam and available for 4 dollars right now so it's the right time for Linux users to pick it up. One of the best RPGs in recent history ! On a side note, Metro 2033 will be available on Linux shortly too (for now only Last Night was available). Seems like the conversions of older games are happening on Linux at a faster pace than expected.
If you read the article, then you failed at reading comprehension. The drop in efficiency on recycling is mentioned twice.
Another example of exertable group force would be a Rugby Union scrum where at the top levels they generate around 16.5kN of force(1). The ARU coaching manuals recommend only selecting players with short, thick necks for the front row and drilling players how to react instantly when there is a "mayday" call.

(1) http://opus.bath.ac.uk/32592/
Finally, we can both agree that jquery dom manipulation is a great way to find yourself in a mess of unmaintainable code.

If you're a fan of backbone views though - why not React? IMO it's very similar to backbone but with sane structure and an incredibly powerful render loop.
The Blub concept is completely misguided and arrogant. It assumes that those who use more powerful tools are clever and superiour and those who use simpler tools are idiots too stupid to understand their betters programming away in Lisp.

It ignores the fact that an enlightened software engineer can make the decision NOT to use the most powerful language and find value in simplicity, ubiquity or community.
Does anyone have an idea of how fragile these 100lb satellites are? What is the potential negative environmentally of having thousands more of these satellites orbiting the earth?
Pretty bold move by Newegg.
Downvote

Look at how funny I am.
The fact that these shell companies don't actually do anything besides sue people is also a problem. It's difficult to find grounds to sue a business that doesn't have any business activities. (Except countersuits as in Newegg's case, so good on them.)
For reference, a ninja 250 has 27 kW, weighs 350 lb, and costs only $4500. (And if driven carefully apparently can get 80mpg.)
>> And the troll companies are always shell companies with nothing but the patents. So, even if you win, the shell company will declare bankruptcy.

I think you've hit on it. Anyone who proclaims patents are bad overall are not considering that the real problem is the shell companies, "patent trolls", who are taking advantage of a system that was intended to encourage good faith between businesses; these shell companies are the real problem. The law needs to go after them with the "pierce the corporate veil" mantra.
Building a Graph-based Analytics Platform
Has anyone compared this to the Trulia buy versus rent calculator? http://www.trulia.com/rent_vs_buy/
Show HN: Minimalist JS object eventing library
I don't think there's any other choice. You can only write javascript in the browser (anyone who writes in Go has to be fundamentally opposed to hacks like coffeescript).

I write Go on the server to serve pages, and write rich front ends using simple javascript and jQuery. Being able to do nice quick page fetches means I don't get into massive complexity on the front end with a bloated single-page app, and not trying to deal with front-end complexity on the server means my server routes stay nice and simple.

I use Gocraft/web on the server because it's a useful library not an opinionated framework, and IMHO the most Go-idiomatic of the options (I tried them all and it was a toss-up between Gorilla and Gocraft/web, which won because of the really simple, useful context and middleware paradigm).

Creating API endpoints and page routes is simple and easy, and then writing the javascript to call endpoints when needed is simple (once I'd learned to stop jQuery from appending my data to the url and put it in the request body!).

My only gripe about the mix is that GoConvey doesn't integrate with Jasmine so I have to run two test suites.
Not that I blame them for it at all, but I'm sure the potential for thisresponse isn't overlooked by Newegg when they decide to fight these suits. That said, good on them. Far better to spend money building their brand by fighting back against patent trolls than on run of the mill advertising. (And in the best case scenario, like this one, fighting might not even cost them at all.)
This was quite interesting, but it's so annoying to see multiple 1 line comments from new accounts, and accounts that have very little history. Even more annoying, the older "spammy" accounts all seem to be linked to accredible, the site hosting the game. Over half the contributions on this page are from those accounts; niveshi, lateguy, aheppenstall, ambitionvc, amarsaurabh, rachana318.

Apart from all that, this looks like it would be fun to turn into a pure javascript clone. The network connection seems completely unnecessary, and it would be fun to create competing AIs.
Impressive of Docker to gain Google's attention. I think this is a win-win for everyone involved.
I've yet to find any markup language that has the power and flexibility of org-mode.

It makes for exceptionally tidy source files, with neat folding of headers. Tables are a breeze. You can easily run the code in your code blocks. Adding css styling is a piece of cake.

All this an only a couple of hundred key combinations to memorise.
Especially when combined with really good acute medical care and reductions in infections. Of course, how much of the infection reduction is a result of washing with soap is an open question.
Why is it more expensive to run a case in East Texas with some junior lawyer than anywhere else?
>and that you should change your password in event of compromise.

This doesn't follow. If you estimate that the cost of cracking your password is infeasibly high, there is no reason to change your password.
Steve Reeding, one of the creators of IPv6, shares his crucial insight on how some networks adapt, survive, and impose themselves [1]:

"I have a different take on that. Yes, a lot of people were dissing tunnels yesterday. I'm actually a big fan of tunnels. I think the way the IPv4 Internet was built originally was basically by tunneling over the phone system. Ignore, you know, getting leased lines, putting computers on the end, building a network with no cooperation at all from the phone company. In fact, I once saw a phone company memo that referred to the Internet as a 'hostile overlay'. You know, and we basically, you know, demolished their billing plans and everything, and built this network in spite of the desires of the carriers. And, as I see the IPv4 Internet getting more and more like the phone company, I thought one way to deploy IPv6 is basically tunnel over all that junk. Iterate the same thing again. And I gather, you know, some people, you know, who are concerned about this are looking at other ways of sort evolving the Internet, where you, you know, tunnel over HTTP or whatever you have to do to basically get over all that cruft and build a new network on top of it. So that, to me, was one possible way, you know, as the IPv4 Internet rotted the underneath. We would tunnel over it and then we would throw away the rotted bits and replace them with wires."

[1] "Internet as a 'Hostile Overlay'" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRVNwa6nJc#t=11m07s
> "How come you're not lecturing that commentator?"

joshjdr indicated that he wanted to understand the negative response his comment was generating. I provided him with an explanation; this is a service many HN commenters have expressed appreciation for in the past. The other guy made no such indication, so I gave him a downvote without explanation.

> "I've never had the impression that every comment was directly relevant to the posted link."

Perhaps my explanation was less clear than I hoped.

The HN community has certain expectations for comment quality. Generally speaking, the less directly relevant a comment is, the more of some other positive quality it needs to have in order to be well-received. "Newegg really screwed up something unrelated to patent trolling" is both tangential and unenlightening.
Introducing the app.json Application Manifest
I think what that means is the advertisers don't know your identity as a target. Facebook shows them filters for whom the advertisers want to serve their ads. If you click on an ad, then probably your identity is shared, not otherwise.

This is based on my limited knowledge of display advertising, so please correct me.
Even so, I wasn't considering or discussing enraged_camel's character or person. I merely pointed why people might have downvoted. "Your other comment was off-putting" is not an ad hominem in the context of the reasons for community disapproval.
Samsung building its own virtual reality headset
Samsung may make a jump into the virtual reality business.
Some more history on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_(company)
I compared the speed (plain text extraction) of xpdf, poppler and mupdf on 100k PDFs. mupdf is in 95% cases the fastest, then comes xpdf and then poppler (the latter two crashed on a few files). SumatraPDF viewer went from poppler-only to two engines (poppler & mupdf) to mupdf+patches. At the moment from my experience SumatraPDF has the fastest and most reliable PDF engine, that is open source. So it will be interesting how this Chrome PDF open source engine (based on Foxit?) performs outside of Chrome as standalone library/commandline tool.
This is kind of how I feel as well.

Google figured out how to monetize links. Good for them. Now they get to deal with the consequences of monetized links.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
>They still need to change the password everywhere they used it even if eBay used a state-of-the-art password hashing

I don't see why you keep saying this. These sorts of one-size-fits-all responses to security is why the state of security to day is so bad. A salted hash in itself is useless if you can't decrypt it. If their hashing technique was properly implemented then a good password will be impossible to decrypt. In this scenario there is no reason to change your password.

Personally, the value of an easy to remember password is higher than the miniscule risk of it being decrypted and used for nefarious purposes (which is limited by the fact that nothing of importance is linked to this particular password). I probably won't be changing my ebay password.
Businesses in local have two-sided network effects. The most famous two-sided network effect is eBay, where the buyers attract the sellers and the sellers attract the buyers. Here you have local businesses and consumers as the two sides. Ideally, you would have long-term, exclusive relationships with the local businesses and offer some loyalty rewards to the consumers.

There are also some interesting scale economics unique to logistics. It doesn't cost much more to deliver to two houses on the same street vs. one house. So as the density of your userbase goes up, your cost per delivery drops. That being said, scale advantages of local delivery do not approach the scale advantages of a wider network like UPS/FedEx. If delivery were the only aspect of the business, I agree that it would be very competitive

Although I do believe local delivery companies are defensible, they are not necessarily a winner-take-all business in every market like eBay or craigslist. Multiple delivery companies can coexist in a local market, each serving a distinct set of restaurants
If any Pythonista's out there want to do some simulation, [Sympy](https://github.com/sympy/sympy) offers some simple quantum gates to work on.
The surface line of products were actually a pleasure to use for me. I would say that the reason that they are not catching on is that Ms has utterly terrible marketing for it.

Honestly, whoever though that viewers want to see a commercial with a bunch of college kids clicking and clacking the stand on a table in unison instead of showing the actual strengths of the surface being used needs to be fired.
But is bathing with soap "good sanitation" or are we doing more harm than good, harm that happens to be masked by improvements in e.g. good sanitation?
> We have reached out to Apple to understand the storage characteristics of this component and the role it plays in overall device operation.

I spit out my beverage when I read that. They reached out to Apple to understand the 'storage characteristics' and 'role' of a DC regulator...
Python code written in Chinese
Most of Fab's growth was actually driven by high spending on marketing and positioning.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230081

Search for "what went wrong"
Instead of writing your "plainfunction" in FHE operations, you write some type of interpreter in FHE operations. This interpreter can then operate on encrypted data that has your actual function encoded in it. Thus an attacker would know that you are running some type of interpreter, but not what your function is.
It looks like discovery is the cause - quoting from [0] "After all, the great struggle in every patent litigation is balancing the fact that discovery is by far the most expensive part of the process...".

It would seem that basically patent trolling is really discovery trolling - pay us or else we will make you go through discovery.

[0] http://patentlawcenter.pli.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Di...
I like the syntax, but it bugs me that the behaviour goes into the HTML. I really like keeping my event mapping in the javascript so I keep a clean separation between structure in the HTML and behaviour in the JS.
You can break a lease whenever you want. Generally the most you can lose is the deposit plus rent until the unit can be filled. Compared to the transaction costs of selling a house it's negligible.

The concern about the place being damaged/destroyed by an earthquake is a big one in California. Unlike fires, earthquakes are not covered by standard home insurance. And standalone earthquake insurance is prohibitively expensive for many (less than 1/5th of CA homeowners have it). Add to that the fact that (again, unlike a fire) an earthquake is likely to damage many homes in the same area at the same time which will inflate the cost to rebuild in a timely manner and you start to see the large amount of risk many owners are exposed to here.
It's important to understand these prices in context of how much it costs to take a drug through FDA trials (~$1 billion), and the likelihood of success (~10%), combined with drugs that are recalled after they've gone through the whole process and are on the market. Given the costs, how much does a drug have to earn to have it make sense financially?
Patent trolls are definitely a distinct problem, although the problem is exacerbated by, if not created by, the profusion of bad software patents.

So if you reduced the number of bad patents you might fix that particular problem but, for me, software patents are a problem in and of themselves.
"In this case, the theory is way ahead of the practice, and it would seem wise to go ahead and begin offering CS courses now in quantum programming and quantum algorithms so by the time these computers are built, we're all ready to hit the ground running."

Aren't you a little bit too excited about quantum computing. I'm quite sure that when it becomes practical we'll be able to catch up quickly in terms of programming it.

Doing a CS course in a programming model that has zero application today is not different in terms of sanity that teaching a programming model that stopped being useful years ago.
How writing for the TV show Community cured me
No it's not. And if you think it is go ahead and copy it here.
>The sun can also be an energy source to make syn-gas (to make synthetic gasoline for cars), or charge a battery, or make hydrogen, or pump water uphill. What does that have to do with silicon as a carrier?

It has to do with using the sun to produce the energy that the "carrier" will carry.

Nobody said the Sun only has this particular application -- just that is one more application of Solar energy (on sand, and with using silicon as a carrier).

>Just because it's in an article doesn't make it correct. This article is really bad. It has just enough truth to make it seem plausible.

Seems like someone didn't read it.
Hopefully they just have a really big click target and clicking on the address would have worked too, although I admit some clear verbage or a button would probably be better. It is good practice to link images and areas around actions in general, because users do tend to click on them.
Same in secure operating environments in Australia, too.

And by secure I mean environments which may, or may not, have access to (or even information about) classified networks.
Just water. And I only do that once a week. I use my hands to wash myself, nothing else.

I went through a phase of bad Eczema where my hands would bleed. This put an end to it.

I use shampoo soap bars from Lush to wash my hands before eating - that is it.
It's an odd theory. Humans have very little free ammonia in their bodies. There are enzymes that quickly catabolize it to urea.

Second, nitrides seems like an odd product of ammonia metabolism. I've only ever heard of metal nitrides, nothing organic.

It's pretty well understood that bacteria on the skin metabolize the fatty acids in our sweat to short chain aliphatic acids (propionic acid, butyric acid, etc). If you've ever smelled those chemicals you'd see the resemblance.
Thanks for pointing out YALML (lightweight markup language) for my collection! With regard to my comment below, I note that Org does support a Centered mode for paragraphs and a Verse mode in which line breaks are preserved, although it does not appear to allow control of the indention of those lines.
Yep, it is super expensive. I wonder why didn't they go route of free personal access and paid organization plans.
the satellite design is definitely not open sourced. The camera objective size and number of satellites is not mentioned anywhere.
Planet labs is doing the same thing with hundreds of 3kg satellites.

Yes having thousands of these satellites in LEO is going to make it crowded up there, especially as they break up over the years.
> Can you construct an artificial consciousness if this theory is true?

Yes, very easily! The linked blogpost describes how. :)
Docker Tutorial-A significant Docker component:Docker Registry.
Prisma: Extending Photoshop's Color Management With Meteor – Discover Meteor
>I find the disagreement among professionals to be intriguing.

Any professional that doesn't think you should do deadlifts is one that you should be weary of. I think CrossFit is ridiculous as well, but when I saw the OP listing deadlifts as a low reward for high risk, it instantly throws into question their knowledge of the subject at hand.

A deadlift done with proper form is one of the safest exercises you can do with free weights, because there's no chance of failure resulting in the bar and weight falling on you like could happen with a squat or press.

They're dangerous with poor form, but anyone doing any sort of exercise should make sure they're doing it properly. Deadlift form is pretty simple, as well. The problem is if you're not focused, things can go poorly, as others have commented. Stay focused, stay safe.

And as for the reward part, there's probably not any other single exercise that provides so much potential gain in strength and muscle mass. Squats, presses, and rows fall shortly behind. Compound lifts are excellent in general and minimize your risk of injury compared to simple lifts that do not strengthen stabilizer muscles, etc.
> and if their everyday low prices are available to the entire country via a mechanical turk algorithm which is guaranteed to beat you, how do you compete?

...i think this is an incorrect usage of "mechanical turk". this would imply a person behind the 'algorithm' making it go, and, chuckling to myself as i write this, the answer to the question on how to compete might be to make an algorithm that does not i fact work like a mechanical turk!
You don't need multi year leases. If anything that would be bad. If I rent and the city I am in goes bankrupt and has to cut public services which in turn affect my quality of life and local property values, I can pick up and move and let the owner of the property deal with the double digit hit on his property value. Meanwhile I can move in to the town next door that doesn't have those problems. The costs are not passed down to me.
No offense, but you're not talking about their use of the word "reduction" are you?