skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An agora was a public space in ancient greek cities where commerce and forum took place.
This doesn't detract from your point, but it's worth noting that that's probably not an ice cube in the photograph -- more likely, its plastic (in the same vein that photographers use glue instead of milk for cereal).

One of my favorite blogs, Alcademics, has a great set of experiments on how to capture the glory of clear ice at home:

http://www.alcademics.com/2010/08/a-homemade-giant-crystal-c...
Just wait until they add VR support!
You can even use a silicone molded ice tray to make crystal clear ice in interesting shapes. I recall seeing Death Star shaped ice somewhere out there on the Internet.
What about making the free subdomains expire after 24 hours?
Very cool! Can you implement a reverse button to store the last few sets? I notice that sometimes there is a mutation that shows up in all the offspring at once.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and doing this work for the community. It's greatly appreciated.
Feel free to steal it if you are serious. :)

I'm not brave enough to sell overpriced goods.
And if two commands get stored in quick succession, such that the first results in a state that renders the second impossible? Particularly if some of the balance updates in the first command, are contingent on others ( credit line backing checking account updated if deposit balance < 0, for example )?

Financial transactions are pretty much the poster child for atomic, multi update transactions and pessimistic locking.
For those of you who prefer to use a different DNS server from of the one provided by your ISP, thanks to the work of Chris Hill you can make good use of this resolv.conf:

http://www.chaz6.com/files/resolv.conf

WARNING: Not to be used as is, be smart and only activate a handful of those DNS servers.
You do know that Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind, while Celsius was designed with water in mind. The average person really doesn't care at what point water boils or freezes. They care about hot and cold, something F does better for humans than C.
Reminds me of this enjoyable quote:

> Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. - Yogi Bera
Internet Trends 2014 – code conference
Being around 7-8 year olds pretty frequently, and having a 5 year old myself, I would have been surprised if they didn't recognize it and get excited.
Oh, you could. I'm sure you could.

Could it be profitable and have me sell it with a straight face?

No way in hell :P
Oh, wow. Full account access? If I checked that it would violate all the NDAs. I can't imagine how anybody that's ever signed an employment contract in the Bay Area could do that without violating their employment agreement. That's just a non-starter. Why do you need full access anyways?
Linkbait

> Teleportation is possible today! If you're smaller than a particle and traveling only a few feet.

> * Right now, Hanson's team has been able only to teleport information about the state of a particle 10 feet, [...]*

The important detail is that they are “teleporting” some information from one electron to another electron. Not “teleporting” the electron.

Apparently, the important new is that they have a improved method to do the “teleportation” in a reliable way. Not that the new method is closer to the “Start Trek” method.
Thanks for the link!

Now I know I can DIY these.
> The main appeal of a SSG to me is that you can focus solely on the content

Can't upvote this enough. I want my blogging tools to just get out of my way. (I ended up writing my own for that reason, because none of the ones I tried did it well enough: https://github.com/pdonis/simpleblog3 .)
Find a Google Glass and kick it from the network
The reason it feels inverted is because it's not "click and drag" in the normal sense (like Google Maps) where clicking and holding sets an anchor point, and moving the cursor moves the anchor point.

This is more like a virtual joystick. Clicking and holding establishes the neutral point of the joystick, and the cursor position relative to the neutral point is the velocity vector of camera movement. It behaves the same as the right hand joystick in a console FPS like Halo with a traditional (non-inverted) control scheme.
And then there's Theo de Raadt :D
Yes, it feels inverted to me too.

You know who's responsible for that? Google Maps (specifically Street View). There used to be a bunch of different 360° Java applets and QuickTime VR embeds that did it this way; now they all feel backwards.
You need to tweak the phrasing to avoid regulatory scrutiny by FDA but beneficial properties of oxygen of different plants would sell.

I don't know how depressed I am by this.
Again, the bits are either there or they are not (corruption).

I don't see your point, because it seems to back my earlier point.
My company will soon
I had a few problems with the circuit-board-in-credit-card-slot part of it. Why would an ATM designer allow more than a few discreet signals (card inserted, card withdrawn, magsstripe data ready) and the magstripe data itself from the card reader into the ATM computer? It would cost a lot of money to make a card reader that can do more than that, wouldn't it? You'd also have to spend money on the device driver software to do more fancy stuff.
Right. If you want something not entirely dissimilar, and available right now for your photos, visit http://vsco.co or look for the VSCO Cam app on the app store.

It doesn't do based-on-image-X matchy-matching but it does good film emulation.
My guess before reading the article was that the ice cubes were made with heavy water.

I'd pay $8 an ice cube that sinks[1].

1. http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2006-07/ice-capades
Having tried the Oculus Rift, the potential to experience this would be incredible. Although there's nothing quite like just sitting on a worn stone bench alone in a cathedral, just the chill air around you.

It often makes me wish for a non-religious religion -- just a refuge of tranquility.
I assume that 'hard gold' is some sort of alloy, as gold itself is known for being soft (hence the idea of someone biting down on a gold coin to test if it's really gold).
Very cool. This got me thinking: there are many tourist sites where people aren't allowed to go anymore because of safety/security issues. It would be awesome if the site coordinators (or whoever makes executive decisions on such things) would make pages like this one available on their websites for their respective tourist attractions. And in more POVs.
> haven't makefiles had the same feature since the late 1970s?

Sure, if you're willing to use make as your SSG. :-)
If you read the Title II text [0], it was in no way written with the Internet in mind (okay so maybe that's obvious).

Why do people want the Internet to be governed this way? I'd rather the FCC come up with new regulation, designed specifically for the Internet, which also happened to provide net neutrality protection which prevented the horror stories (pay-per-view websites, etc.) while still allowing the ISPs to perform route optimizations (peering agreements).

That said, it seems like Google is making a heavy investment into fiber, while supporting the concept of net neutrality, (or "dumb pipes" as you call them), so the argument that no one will invest is provably false.

[0] http://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/tcom1996.txt
Excerpt from "When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel" by Michelangelo:

My painting is dead.
Defend it for me, Giovanni, protect my honor.
I am not in the right place—I am not a painter

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2010/01/labor_pains....
If you look straight down "Copyright Musei Vaticani". Is that really on the floor at the Sistine Chapel or just for this web version?
Use other DNS servers than your ISP's
Personally, I prefer the taiwanese recycling symbol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recycle_symbol_Taiwan.svg
You'd be surprised. The $150 hdmi cable is likely manufactured alongside the $5 cables in the same factory, then just sold to different brands (Monster vs. Store-brand).

It's fairly common... Samsung makes almost all the parts of the Best Buy store-brand TV's... they're essentially a slightly lower-grade samsung tv with the store-brand slapped on and sold cheaper.
I think the price inflation even at the mass-produced 15 year single malt is bad enough. If the picture in the article were a Port Ellen instead of the Macallan I would have been hellbanned for my response.
The ghost in the machine
There's a line from a great Robin Williams movie where he talks about life to a gifted kid "I bet you can tell me every little detail about the Sistine Chapel, but you can't tell me what it smells like."

It smells like sweaty humans being herded through like cattle as quickly as possible.
WARNING: This config file is not to be used as is. Read it attentively and only activate a handful of servers from the list.
I've gotten that feeling at the San Fran Aquarium. There are some benches where big fish can swim over head. Unbelievably peaceful and cool when there aren't a ton of kids running around(ie: get there early)
Facebook Messenger Gets LGBT-Themed Sticker Set For Pride Month
Haha, although beats the purpose, I don't believe you're someone else ;-)

tracked
It's 100% better than being there. They keep it dark (presumably to preserve the paint), they lead you through a long gallery of mostly-similar art of mostly-similar vintages, and then you're surrounded by a hundred other tourists, all trying to squint upwards and catch a glimpse of the famous artwork.

If you love history and art, then sure, it's 100% worth it. Otherwise, I'd skip it. (caveat: if you do, you will have to deal with everyone you ever meet chastising you for skipping it.)
He wouldn't have drafted this without consulting party leadership, I wouldn't think.
Mankind has made the most incredible art inspired by religion. Along the same lines, Bach's Chorales and in fact quite a bit of his other work.

Try this, if you feel like some really nice classical music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3Upv8DuRQ
We developed our own tool, based on https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder that uses Javascript and d3 to draw charts.
Hmm. They recently made a philosophical shift towards single function extensions, but I haven't encountered any indication that they are moving away from or downplaying extensions as a whole. If you wouldn't mind sharing info on this, that would be super great. Mobile apps, and even a packaged app are in Agora's future. This stage of a browser extension targeting technical users is primarily serving the function of building a savvy userbase that we intend to empower and co-create value with for the benefit of a larger audience. We're attempting to lay a foundation.
if similar devices became available with support for "super wi-fi", it might become possible to make it work in smaller cities or even villages...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi
No true Scotsman drinks his whisky without a little water.
I have a bamboo floor in my home office, and generally like things made out of bamboo. Not even knowing the actual oxygen-producing properties of bamboo, I can imagine myself trying some bamboo oxygen. And I usually don't like seemingly overpriced stunts like this. I seriously think it could sell big. Oxygen made by your favorite plants! Amazing idea.
But you don't control how it's published:

"However, by posting or transferring content to Medium, you give us permission to use your content solely to do the things we need to do to provide Medium Services, including, without limitation, storing, displaying, reproducing, and distributing your content. This may include promoting your content with partner companies or services for broader broadcast, distribution, or publication."

(They do say they won't sell your content to third parties without your consent, which is good.)

And you don't control if and when the terms of service change.
There is a link in the article to metric interstate highway of Arizona. I-19 from Tucson to Nogales is signed in metric. When you enter the freeway there is a sign that says "This highway signed in metric" Every sign on the freeway is in metric, EXCEPT for the speed limit sign. I realize they did that so people wouldn't be doing 100+ MPH but I always wanted to drive it at 60KPH, and explain to the judge "the sign was in metric"
Well, the RDD is initially partitioned using a RangePartitioner over a dense key space of Longs. Each element is then expanded ~100x (each object is significantly smaller than the original value). So the total memory footprint and skew of the expanded RDD shouldn't, theoretically, be a problem.
I'm not arguing for or against, but the list seems to use language as a basis for cultural diversity. While language might have a correlation with cultural diversity, it doesn't seem fair to use that as an argument for what countries are more culturally diverse. Also, how countries report their numbers greatly impact these sorts of assessments. Lastly, comparing more tribal-based countries with modern countries also makes it tricky.
I stopped reading after the venn diagram showed that the windows phone was good for experience and customisation, are you joking?
What's the acceptable female analogue of "Guys"? Is there one?

I agree that infantilizing language shouldn't be used, but the company wasn't looking for "Girls" and filtering out "Men", it was looking for "Girls" and filtering out "Guys". So in context, it seems more casual than infantile.
The point which really drives this home is actually a comment on the article itself, which slams the author (like you and others here have) for using the dreaded term "girls", and then turns right around and says "Attend Women 2.0 events and check out Girls Who Code", with no hint of ironic awareness.

Words convey a lot, but so does context and tone. Unless you can point to something specific in the article which infantilizes women and indicates that "girls" is being used in the child sense and not the casual sense, I think your ire could be better pointed somewhere else.
I remember this link being posted recently and since I have some interest in looking into this area as well, it stuck with me (and a browser tab ;)
While it's not a tutorial or anything, the article addresses the question "where do I start?" and mentions (not only in the title) "modern OpenGL" specifically.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/771225/Learning-Modern-O...
I have zero problem with this.

The day doctors sold out and started accepting bribes from pharma reps is the day that I stopped trusting them, and I certainly don't care what they think as it relates to steroids, pain killers, and antibiotics.

These are drug dealers complaining that they are being circumvented. Boo hoo.
Note that "illegal" is always relative - there are many drugs that are prescription-only in some countries but available freely in others, illegal in some and not in others, etc.
They probably replaced the camera tripod with that.
Also your neck is not meant to really look up for very long periods of time.
Having never visited, I did not realize until how high the density of nudity per square meter was.
Given that most of the comments are merely about the name, and that the author has implied that the software doesn't work [1], it seems there's little to discuss here. We're going to demote this submission [2].

1. https://twitter.com/andybons/status/472458545154494465. The answer to that question, btw, is yes. Reposts of stories that have had significant attention are treated as dupes for about a year.

2. That's not a criticism of the submitter. We want to see original work on HN. But there ought to be some substance to it, as well as to the resulting discussion.
Just FYI the keyboard controls are much easier to use (arrow keys + shift/control to zoom).
And without the guards yelling "NO PHOTO!!!" every 10-20 seconds at people who dare to try to get a photo of the chapel that's not nearly as nice as this.

Copyright is maddening sometimes. [1]

1 - http://mentalfloss.com/article/54641/reason-why-no-photograp...
until someone dies because of a drug sold through their website and the surviving family members feed the media a horror story with which they can create the black sheep, amazon, which profits from the deaths of its customers
I dunno, those toasts look pretty big. Compare to something like ice cream or latte, which retails for about the same price. (Or maybe a little less.)
I have the same, with one addition (that would be running at the end of your 'publish' step): a 47-line bash script that will spider the whole site to find any internal 404 links.

https://github.com/ojilles/jilles.net/blob/master/_bin/wget-...

(Poorly implemented but works for me)
So you think the error margin of executing the death penalty (and justice in general) can be overlooked with impunity? When one man is being murdered for a purported crime of murder—the gravest crime of the land—doesn't a mistake lead to another crime for which the criminal (this time the judges) should be equally held accountable? But the judge is allowed to prescribe death for all sorts of persons, and goes unpunished (by death) if they made a wicked mistake.

It is for this probable mistake in enacting justice that makes the death penalty really spurious. You could kill an innocent man for no reason at all.
I have quite a bit of a problem with people ordering antibiotics, and breeding antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains both inside their bodies, and in our sewers once they feel better and flush the rest of the pills.
So? What does that have to do with anything? It's illegal in the United States to import these drugs into the United States. Amazon is based in the United States. What does it matter if they're legal or not in any other country? This story is all about importing these drugs into the United States.
Remind me again how sending a credential in plain text by email is secure.
GitHub accounts are a virtual pre-requisite for a developer at any startup nowadays. Many developers are working on things in private repos and maybe don't have a ton of public activity to display. We offer them the option to connect their full account so that we can parse their activities to show that they are, in fact, active and building things.

Note that we also offer the ability to connect to what is already publicly visible via GitHub if you don't want to grant us full access.
Using statistical controls is far more likely to lead to error because you controlled for three relevant variables when there were three thousand. This is drastically exacerbated by the political consequences of social science. Nobody can really gain any political advantage in publishing experimental results that show an erroneous gravity constant and are immediately disproven by contrary experiments (cf. climate change, the papers denying which are taken seriously by no mainstream scientists), whereas papers purporting to show that racism is or is not still prevalent are the sort of things that get bills passed and politicians elected. The consequence is that publishing a paper in social science that provides support for a politically unpopular conclusion tend to be Very Bad for the careers of the scientists, with political opponents tearing apart anything they might have missed (because papers supporting popular opinion miss nothing?) and otherwise making every effort to discredit them.
It's probably connected with a standard interface like USB. It costs a lot less money to use a mass-produced connection than something custom, and you don't have to write any drivers.
I feel SSGs solved exactly the correct problem: enabling storing posts in version control, using whatever editor you prefer to write them, and a very quick feedback loop through a live preview. This enables much more elaborate posts to be written. I recently wrote a long article on JavaScript promises[1] that I can't even imagine trying to tackle in say WordPress. I use Wintersmith[2] for my blog and it was a key factor in creating such a long post

[1]http://mattgreer.org/articles/promises-in-wicked-detail/

[2]http://wintersmith.io/
I was an intern at Sun in menlo park in 2002 for a year. One of the oddest memories was going to a town hall and listening to Jonathan Schwartz (then CTO) answering the question "but how will this make the company any money?"

His answer was that engineers shouldn't concern themselves with how any of their work would make money - that was the job of other people. Even then, it seemed like a recipe for making cool stuff no one would buy.
RIP my Ultrasparc workstation from back in the day (early 00's) running RF and Microwave design software. Computer labs back in EE school in the 90's were 5s and IPC/IPX, with a few 20 with 64MB of RAM for serious electromagnetic computations. I thought it was the cat's meow when I had my own IPX at home I bought for only $200. Now everything is win blows.

Wasn't the stealth bomber's radar cross section optimized on a Sparc 1?
That's two reasons, not just copyright, and the millions of flashbulbs discharging there over the course of a short timespan would for sure have an effect on the lifespan of the work.

So that's a good thing for a bad reason and I totally sympathize with the position of the stewards of this amazing work.

I have a super nice story about this but I'm actually somewhat hesitant to tell it in detail in public, but I once discharged about a few 10's MW/m^2 of light concentrated on a very small part of a very famous painting.

How I got away with that will have to remain an untold story, but let's just say that my consultancy endeavours take me to interesting places and allow me to do interesting things.
Would love that. I have been asking for it for a while now (email in the profile)
> Someone could come in and sell a perfect ice maker for $200 and crush the pre-made high end ice market completely.

Doubtful. What customers are buying is a feeling, not a specification.

Such people would not buy an Acme watch just because it looks as good as and keeps better time than a Rolex, because the brand and its image is the product.

Surely nothing makes that more apparent than luxury ice.
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I believe "bright hard gold" (as it's referred to) contains about 0.2% cobalt and/or nickel.
I have this idea too. I call it WriteWeb and I am focusing on git to s3.

My thought is to write a book and sell that. It would be aimed at those who want to create content-rich websites (less blogs, more lasting and organized). So the middle man server is just a bit of quick glue and easily replaced/localized.

The goal is to help people get their stories out there without a lot of irrelevant technical choices. Just start writing content and the system gets it out there.

I also like the idea of version control, issues, and wiki planning the github gives. And with prose.io, editing markdown files directly in a github repo is very pleasant.
Human Rights Advocate Recounts How Iran Tried To Hack Her Email
Doesn't have the Swiss Privacy Foundation servers. http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html 77.109.138.45, 77.109.139.29

Rough translation of the reason some of it is crossed-out: Due to a software error, DNSSEC validation is currently disabled. The DNS server with the IP address 87.118.85.241 is (currently) no longer available. In the future, there will certainly be three servers again.
What is it like to be a successful technical leader?
For more renaissance goodness check out this site on the Ghent Altarpiece - zooms so far in that you can see between the paint cracks:

http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/#home/sub=altarpiece
Similar process, but for USB drives: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2946
it may be nitpicking, yet - the projection seems strange at the borders of the viewport. And there are a lot of 3d TVs/monitors out there - could have done a 3d version :)
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The moneyshot: http://imgur.com/aiBLxXD

Absolutely breathtaking!
The browser smartly won't execute scripts added through innerHTML, but it probably should be noted that jquery's html() method will[0]. There's always a way to shoot yourself in the foot. :)

[0] http://api.jquery.com/html/