skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is available in hundreds of countries. Are they obligated to restrict trade based on the rules of each of those countries or just the US? At what point does a company that provides a platform for others to do things (e-commerce, content distribution, etc.) become responsible for policing how that platform is used? I suspect the answer is generally "at the point they are forced to do so".
Funny - I just got back from Rome 2 days ago and was in the Vatican - imagine the surprise when I saw this on top of of Hacker News.

The experience of being in the sistine chapel is nice but a bit spoiled by the fact that there are hundreds of tourists in the chapel as well and Italian guards are pushing you to move and be in the center (Often yelling at tourist who aren't moving fast enough and throwing out of the chapel anyone trying to take a picture).
Many ISPs hijack DNS NXDOMAIN results to serve ads to their customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...
I should start a company selling $9 ice spheres.
I've probably gotten off base here by wanting to perform arbitrary actions against services I may or may not control in the course of satisfying a command, and worrying too much about made up corner cases.

If this DB is the sole record of The Money, and I can move some quantity from X to Y in a transaction, then that's fine by me.
I can't figure out if this is meant to inspire or to depress.
I suspect that if I ise google.com/ncr (no country redirect) that I'll get the unfiltered results, and if I use google.com which redirects to google.co.uk I'll get the filtered results.
Can't you just switch on the Wifi-hotspot on your iPhone and connect together that way?
There was in those days significant opposition to the way the work was executed, which led the artist to pull some pranks on some of his most active detractors.
It's probably worth looking at optimism across multiple independent processes.

As a proportion of human interaction, I would wager that processes which are percievably stationary (or stationary enough), and that a human will interact with over and over again is actually relatively small.

I would hypothesize that had this task been set up with 'moving parts', then optimists could rationalize away their expectations as 'this time it's different'.

I think ultimately, optimism 'works' not because it influences the probability of events happening, but because it influences the distribution of 'payoffs'.
There are no gold plated connectors in a typical studio (exceptions for amateur home studios purchased from Guitar Center).

Most cabling in a studio is bulk copper wire from a giant spool, permanently soldered in place for reliability.

The only plugging happens at dedicated patch panels, which in my experience are old repurposed analog telephone patch bays that look as old and corroded as they are.

Gold connectors are for home enthusiasts with money to burn. The practical effect of the platings are so far below the noise floor (vs ground loops, EMF, amp noise) that it's irrelevant for audio work.

I've never seen a gold-plated XLR cable, which is usually the first link in every studio recording chain.
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This would be really great for Wikipedia articles on algorithms. Many articles contain very technical specifications and few examples, which does not work well for conveying understanding.
OpenDNS will block known adware, spyware, and malware sites at the expense of serving up custom pages when addresses don't resolve. Some ISPs do this at no additional benefit to the customer.

Caching and speed are the other most likely reasons.
I'm assuming you wrote that comment before your morning coffee...
I always wondered why there's a no photography rule. Is it because of copyright or because it's a sacred site? (Although the mere fact that we're watching a 360 photo on the site means that it's probably copyright).
I don't know... I recall the interior being very quiet, with a really good atmosphere. I remember being amazed by the geometry of the ceiling, which you can't really see from this site. It's very much 'over-hyped' in some sense though, If you're not really a fan of great art I can see it being a 'meh' moment.

P.S. Tourists are worse at Pisa.
Nothing prevents you from using make (or rake) to invoke an SSG... :-)
I see that Level 3 is on the list. Please don't use Level 3 DNS[0].

They have no obligation to provide DNS services except to Level 3 customers[1], they don't like providing those services, and they have been known to hijack DNS requests to inject ads and other services[2] for unauthorized users.

[0] http://www.tummy.com/articles/famous-dns-server/

[2] And if you're a Level 3 customer, you're probably not using this list

[2] http://james.bertelson.me/blog/2014/01/level-3-are-now-hijac...
Copyright was a good chunk of the reason, but there is a much better one: lots of flashing from cameras will fade the pigments just like sunlight fades outdoor advertising.
Meet Zack Matere, the potato farmer Google made famous
Why is this post separate from the Boing Boing blog with no ability to comment?
Gold plated XLR. By Neutrik which is a reasonable brand. Your point still stands though - no one actually uses these.

http://www.neutrik.com/en/xlr/xx-14-series/nc3mxx-14-b-d
The driver vendors (AMD, Intel, Nvidia) are the implementers of the standards. That's basically the only thing I know about this that you don't, I think.
I've been there twice, once long ago and once more recently, the last time was terrible.
I couldn't agree more. That's my only real complaint with what could otherwise be a great service.

It probably doesn't help that GitHub's OAuth scopes seem to be rather shotgun: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes . It seems you can't just ask for read-only access to, say, a list of commit hashes that would prove you've been working on a project without disclosing what you've actually been doing.

Still, I think that button's deserving of a red flashing "only click this if you're sure you won't be fired and sued into bankruptcy" banner.
I dislike your casual dismissal of medical expertise, it smacks of ignorance.

No offense, but "i don't trust doctors for arbitrary subjective reason X" is, to me, the exact kind of garbage I hear from non-scientific "global warming skeptics".

They find some arbitrary, subjective reason to validate their distrust of experts in a field they are a laymen in.

I don't see how you're not doing the same thing. Vilify an industry, smear doctors because of your subjective vilification, and then apparently come online and promote your false "skepticism" rooted wholly in what sounds like a laypersons understanding of their work and industry.
That's exactly what I was thinking. In fact, IIRC the only other DX implementation you might consider is the DX version that comes with wine, which I think currently supports DX 9 (Depending on your definition of support). The irony is of course that the wine version is written in OpenGL.
This is one of those cases where (having not used one) I sincerely hope the Oculus Rift can bring something more to the experience compared to what we have now.

What you can't get from your computer screen is the scale of it all. You can intellectually get it by looking around at reference points in the image, but you can't feel it the way you can when you are there.

This would be especially true if one had a similar view of St. Peter's. There's almost no way to convey the sheer enormity of it without actually physically being there. That's one of the things I remember the most from my visit: that feeling of being so tiny inside this massive, ornate indoor space that is so big, there's a haze when you look from end to end.
I have no problem with this either. I don't believe it's a proper role for government to regulate what substances people can buy and ingest. I would happily shut down the FDA altogether. If you're stupid enough to buy and ingest something poisonous, well... so be it.

Note that none of this is mean to say that sellers should not be held liable for fraud if they ship something other than what they claim to be shipping. But that's a separate issue.
> "OpenGL is broken" refers to the market adoption of the standard, because when you're developing graphics software for consumers that's the aspect you care about.

(This isn't the only point the OP is arguing about, but anyway.)
What exactly would be the alternative? It's either there's a standard, and adherents must follow its core features to get the compliancy stamp, or there are no standards, and each go its merry way, up to third parties to follow up on all the completely different API resulting from that. As someone else said, there are core levels in the standard, which give garantees to third parties. It hasn't always been like that, but now we do have them.

As for support of the latest features on my old Geforce 7600, I guess I should accept the fact that they cannot be implemented efficiently, and if I want to play the latest installment of Wolfenstein, I'll have to grab a new card. Or I could try getting a more modest game. There is clearly a commercial aspect to this whole upgrade mechanism too, but since upgrades are necessary for technical reasons, it's difficult to argue against the mercantile part.
Oh come on. I know HN hates humor but this was obviously said in jest. Not only is it on the Vatican website, but the entire room was obviously cleared out to get this shot.
> Come on, we all know that if you have insurance and see your doctor with the sniffles, you can leave with a antibiotic prescription if you want.

It really depends on the doctor, which is quite a bit better than arbitrarily ordering off Amazon.
If we are to respect the law for legitimate public health reasons like antibiotic resistance, then its administrators shouldn't rot it from the top for misguided moral, economic, and bureaucratic reasons.

Until eminently self-prescribable things like Adderall and cocaine are retailed at the corner store, I'll cheer on any "illicit" package that gets through CBP.
hUMA is brand new and no actual support but in order to work properly the CPU has to stall waiting for the GPU.

GPU should be interruptible the same way the CPU is, so if the GC decides to move the memory it can actually do so. The memory can be pinned instead, though. The latter poses some side effects with the GC.
If the GPU is not on the same die it will have to virtually copy the array as the L1/L2 caches won't be accessible.

Arrays.sort(somePrimitive[]) would be too much of an edge case to optimize for. Overall hard nut to crack. Java8 streams and direct buffers, however, could be a good starting point to perform various operations via the GPU.

Disclaimer: I am really not well versed in the GPU tech.
Sent you one as I have a couple.
You don't actually believe a product marketing photo matches reality? Any piece of ice will crack as it melts, so it won't look like this. Yes, you can avoid the bubbles, but you can hardly see the bubbles behind the cracks that will form anyway.

Look at a marketing photo of a cheap McDonalds burger, and compare it with the real thing.
You are in the vast minority then. In the bad old days, nothing was certain because there was no standard. Look at China for a modern example of the endemic fraud in food and drugs.

The FDA was invented to solve a real problem. Its nothing to do with stupidity - its to do with accountability.
I also don't like that they extended their thesis of "I don't trust doctors" to "I, and everyone else, should be able to buy any medication I choose."
Doctors throw antibiotics at viral infections as a placebo cure _all_ the time. Neither that activity nor these Amazon resellers make a dent in antibiotic use when compared to factory farms and traditional cattle operations. Like it or not, antibiotics are a staple in the diets of a large majority of this country's mammalian population
Internal docs from Beats shows a disaster business
Only if the SSG can operate at the single-file level. Most SSGs operate at the entire-site level; there's no way to invoke them and tell them "just rebuild this one page", which is what you'd have to do to use make or rake as your change-detector.

Also, I'm not sure how well make or rake would work with version control, since make/rake, AFAIK, look at file modification times to detect changes, and DVCS pulls clobber those. In other words, suppose I make a change on machine A, re-generate the site, then push; then I pull from machine B. Make on machine B may not be able to tell that the site was re-generated, because the file timestamps are not preserved by the push/pull, so machine B is seeing different ones than machine A did.
You're quite right, but there is something strangely amusing to me about the idea of art inspired by religion in a thread about the Sistine chapel. It's almost more like science trumping religion. There are quite a few theories on just what some images are of - sections of brain, cross section of a penis, brain stem, eye, shoulder etc.
I, for one, welcome our new Socialbot Overlords.
Interesting, crowded market place though
I believe if its "art" they don't need to censor it.

See: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/will-michelangelos-david...

At the very least, they don't do any close ups.
I don't know where you live, but actually yes, you can just change your name.
"In return for funding the renovation, Nippon TV received the exclusive rights to photography and video of the restored art, as well as photos and recordings of the restoration process"
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54641/reason-why-no-photograp...
You mean something that would allow "access [to] selected statistics about your Congressional district"? With a informative name like "My Congressional District"? Easily found by navigating to the tools and data section of the government entity that collects statistics about the population?

My Congressional District: https://www.census.gov/mycd/

Other tools from census.gov: https://www.census.gov/data/data-tools.html
I'd hesitate to drink heavy water. Probably won't do much to you, but why find out.
is it bad that i was hoping this was a link to amazon?
Right now, if you make a free account on the OpenDNS website, you can configure it to give you normal NXDOMAIN records instead of ads. And they just announced that they're going to do away with all ads, since they never really liked having them and they're getting enough money from paying customers now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819150
Sent! (Just a heads up, email takes a few clicks from your profile).
Those are bunk.

The cooling power of ice comes from the phase change from solid to liquid, which absorbs a ton of heat. The temperature change from 25 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit is minor in comparison.

Whiskey stones do not change phase, and so they have a much smaller amount of heat they can absorb, and I haven't found them to be very effective for chilling a drink to 32 degrees and keeping it there. There's no dilution, but that doesn't matter to me as much as the temperature.
Synthesizing DNA 10000 time cheaper (February 14, 2013)
Its just making a complex technology 10000x more complex. Nature doesn't use toxic chemicals, beads, lasers and sequencers to make DNA, nor does a real next generation DNA synthesis method.
And thank goodness for that. Can you imagine if farmers could just buy antibiotics by the truckload and feed them to healthy livestock as a growth enhancer?
It might help, actually. It would certainly demonstrate his confidence in the system.

Reminds me of the bulletproof-vest company who shoots every employee at least once, point blank, while wearing one ... certainly shows their confidence in their product (and instills in every team member the desire to get it right).
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/02/22/ballistic-vest...
FreedomBox already exists; it's a similar project: https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

The majority of games have always been crap. Nothing is new. Rose tinted glasses mean we only remember the good games.
There was a point in my life, having grown up in north-east England, when I thought this Sun-SGI strip sounded like the most wonderful otherworldly place you could possibly be. Sun workstations were the first machines I'd used that had seemed to be really limitless. And while wasting time at work in 1993 or so, I'd read Usenet posts by people like CJ Silverio at SGI that (though often seriously dissatisfied) had a mood that seemed to highlight how far away that world was from the one I'd grown up in.

I pictured Silicon Valley as a real valley, with low orange sunlight picking out the slabs and flat roofs of the research centres, roads winding to the valley floor below, the sea at the end of the valley.

How disappointed I was when I finally visited the place and found an extended grid-plan office park on flat reclaimed land with the odd hill in the distance.
Pocket works well.
20 years Pretty Home Pages
Whale Tendencies
I'd like to add the rest of the museum seemed really good and very relaxing since most people just wanted to see this famous fresco. It's quite big (thus tiring) though.
Even if that's all true, the real issue here is that products are being sold to people who aren't informed about what they are ingesting. The article leads with the author's wife wanting to buy a cream for moderate acne, not severe acne. The cream they sent has potential serious side effects which I doubt are made very clear to the purchaser.

People often act on good faith, that is, they buy something assuming it's been tested and is safe. Yes, it's true, we could all spend all day long reading every ingredient on every label and reading all the scholarly research on it, but it's cognitive overload.

Having medications evaluated by a trusted source is something many people actually do want, the FDA does serve that role and while it means there are restrictions, I think most people are OK with that. Of course, nothing is true for all people, and there are plenty of places you can go where you can buy any drug you want.
Oh, sorry for that.
I see it in my profile, thought it was accessible to everyone.

Thanks for the invite, I do appreciate!
Really awesome stuff. I wonder why they chose this level of maximum resolution -- from the Gigapixel images it's clear that they could support zooming into the individual paint cracks, although with the publicity that this is getting, that might have incurred extreme bandwidth costs.
In this case I should have probably used 'funded', but in those days not having a religion was not really an option.

Michelangelo was at continuous odds with his employers during his lifetime, he dissected corpses illegally at first, later with tacit approval of some of the church bigwigs in order to improve his skills as an artist. It was a continuous give-and-take to see who got the most out of the arrangement.

In the end I think we, the future dwellers able to see his work no matter what caused them to come into being are the real winners.

Not bad for a man who declared himself unfit to execute the work because he was a sculptor, not a painter...

There is a very good book about him that I forgot the title of (I read it ages ago).
People that like to try new things are certainly more likely than others to try a language created as late as the 90's that never had a marketing budget.
I think he forgot the most important rule of all in the Kingdom of Apple, which is that Apple makes the rules. Apple isn't interested in hearing advice, so if you have your own ideas and want to make them happen, the Kingdom of Apple is not for you.
I'm more interested in the tech-stack you're using - if willing to share!
"Copyediting != editing" Sort of; see http://kriswrites.com/2013/01/30/the-business-rusch-hiring-e... and http://kriswrites.com/2013/01/23/the-business-rusch-editoria... .
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Software design tutorial for a drink mixing robot
Does anyone have any idea how long you could run, say, the TP-LINK WR703N for on battery? It'd be neat to set one of these up at a small summer festival in a couple of months.
Sharebox?
Eh I don't like the list. IMO only Terraria and Starbound should be in the same category. Throw Cubeworld in there too, even though the dev wasn't capable of handling the demands of modern indie games and the project fell from popularity. There's some space ones like Space Engineers and StarMade.

Games like torchlight are ARPG's played on rails, with zero emergent gameplay. Same with BoI when I played it, it's a rougelike not an emergent game. It wasn't a world to explore but levels to complete in order. KSP can be emergent but requires you to play very specifically to experience the content. FTL is cool but it's linear by design, no exploration, no freedom, no building, no game world destruction etc, just running from and attacking things on a mostly linear random path. But FTL is a game to play and finish, Minecraft is an emergent experience, a world to work on until you abandon your world.
The project I am most excited about is the citation extractor: https://github.com/unitedstates/citation
Most galleries I have been to lately have this policy now (obvious joke: 'but photos taken with rubbish cameras are fine...'), given the invention of cameras in everyone's phone its generally a lost battle to expect people won't take photos.

> I suppose some people don't know how to turn it off

I would argue that a majority of people either wilfully ignore this instruction or don't know how to do it.
You could have a label "not FDA approved" but require it to be very large and ominous.
There is way too much hyper paranoia about glass... it makes little sense.

"Public event, but someone might be recording, so I'm nervous" . . .
... and i thought I heard him say something about it landing on Earth, "or other places".

Did I hear that right? Does he believe this craft could land elsewhere? A subsequent version, sure, especially if purpose-built, but this version ... that would be pretty special.
The article indicates that this is an end-consumer product. If I were an amateur craft cocktail maker, I might consider buying a small amount versus a commercial machine.
Silicon Valley Guy Handbook
> The FDA was invented to solve a real problem.

No doubt. But that still leaves open a number of questions:

1. Is it a proper role for government to solve that particular problem?

2. Is the FDA (as we know it) the only possible way to solve that problem?

3. Does solving that problem outweigh the unintended consequences that result from the "solution"?

It's easy to say "Oh hey, there's this problem, let's just pass a law to fix it", but the Real World is often times more complicated than that.
Like I said, though, "different strokes" ;) I've used an Android Phone with Google Keyboard and Swype as my daily driver for months at a time this year and was insanely relieved to use the iOS keyboard again. I found its predictions and the accuracy of the keyboard itself far more accurate, and the screen responsiveness in another league...
> I don't believe it's a proper role for government to
> regulate what substances people can buy and ingest

Your free-thinkin' Wild-West Libertarian views directly impinge on my right to use antibiotics that work.
Because warning labels do such a good job of deterring people in other cases.