skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can someone post a screenshot of what happens once you click all the red boxes? I have too many of them and dont want to do it ...
I hope to clean up the code and post it to GitHub tomorrow.
Yes, this sounds great. I would love to literally be clothed in a powerful supercapacitor. What could go wrong.
Looks like nobody else is gonna do it, so I'll be the bad guy: this post is nearly impossible to read: tiny, white (and sometimes black) text on a dark gray background. Judging by the other comments, it's a great piece, I just wish it were easier to read :)
Links appear multiple times if they are relevant to multiple interests. Clicks are only counted once.
I think it depends on the org. My wife attended training in an organization to try to work as a volunteer, and for some reason (can't recall exact details right now), they were asking her for work permit in order to be a volunteer.
That is very true, i need to give it a go sometime. Thank you very much for the encouraging words!
but scala is killing it compared to go:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=golang%2C%20%2Fm%2F0...
I use coffee shop WiFi when I access useless sites such as Drudge Report. However, it's not hard to either

a) switch to cellular on a phone before accessing something important like a banking site

or b) use something like Personal Hotspot together with a phone switched to cellular to allow a laptop to access something important like a banking site

That's what I do. I certainly don't trust random WiFi for sensitive communications.

IMO you're much safer relying on AT&T or Verizon to connect you to key sites via cellular service rather than thru WiFi. OTOH I know that in the past AT&T has automatically switched my iPad from cellular to WiFi when I was at a coffee shop that had service from them. So this may be a little tricky in practice.
It's a complete joy to use. I use abcm2ps, which adds a few extensions and is pretty powerful.

I mainly use it for single melody lines (albeit with complex ornamentation), but have done a few multi-part pieces. I can send you a sample when I'm not on my phone. The only downside is that it's hard to see the relationship between hhe parts--afaik you can't interleave them. But the actual typesetting works great.

It's definitely worth a try, especially if you have a technical background. (Oh! Another cool feature: it has its own version of cascading style sheets, which provides a really nice separation between content and piesentation.)
What I get down-voted because this was posted on HN 6 months ago and I was just letting everyone know?

Maybe I should start posting news stories that Steve Jobs has just passed away.

C'mon HN.
I had opened link in Private (incognito) window. #fail
Google Trends also tracks "Go" (Programming Language) as a topic: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F09gbxjr

For which the order of regional interest is different and somewhat less lopsided, though China remains an outlier at the top.

I'm not too sure what the results mean, though. For example, if Google Trends is to be believed, RWBY (an American-made anime-esque web series) is massively popular in Taiwan: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0vsrh7z

and Mongolians are incredibly fascinated with Elon Musk: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F03nzf1

But I'm at a loss to explain how that could be the case.
> if Netflix is really the sole driver of Network upgrades, why does Verizon have to subsidize their costs of business?

Verizon is paying to provide its own customers with what they want (speed that enables access to Netflix and other entertainment), not to subsidize Netflix.

Netflix pays its for its own high-speed internet access already. Verizon offers high-speed access and then doesn't pay for it. Therein lies the conflict.
I can understand why not IRC, but it looks like a lot of topics are technical. If you want to attract a technical crowd, it would be nice to see an IRC bridge.
I don't see how Scala is "killing it" in China[1]. China is even not in top 10 in terms of contribution for Scala's search traffic.

[1]: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F09gbxjr%2C%20...
How many of our photos from today will be view able in 100 years? I worry we are entering into the start of a digital black hole as far as our history. We've done a wonderful job in ensuring that we can digitize everything, but not so good with reformatting it all as the march of technology moves on. Film and Silver prints, are quite durable comparatively.
> smart boys and girls go and do a quantitative finance degree instead of Solve The World's Problems degree

No, they go and do a Solve The World's Problems degree and then end up in quantitative finance because they can't get rich solving the world's problems.

> The social cost of _not_ providing other, better alternatives to our youth (downsizing NASA, underfunding research and scientific endeavors), lack of patent reform, lack of bandwidth and unified cross-country 3G/4G has much worse costs

I think we're in violent agreement. This is exactly the social cost I was talking about. Our society is run by people who can't be bothered to compensate someone properly for curing cancer, but who will throw millions of dollars a year at someone for shaving a few microseconds off an HFT algorithm. That makes no sense to me.

Why are things this way? Lots of reasons, of course, but one of them is that, whenever anyone suggests that maybe it would be better if smart people were directed into more productive endeavors, the financial people have kittens and say it's going to wreck the world's economy if we don't shave those few microseconds off the HFT algorithm, because there won't be enough liquidity or something like that.

And that is bullshit. Sure, if we were at a point where all the big problems were solved, then yes, making tiny incremental improvements in the price of liquidity might be near the top of the priority list. But as things are, it should be somewhere around 56,732nd place. The problem to be solved is that there is huge, huge value to be captured by things like curing cancer, much, much more value than there is to be captured by shaving microseconds off HFT algorithms, but nobody knows how to capture it. How is making stock trading a fraction of a percent more efficient going to fix that?
Great. Thanks for the link.
Hence why I said "I know it's not really realistic". To answer your question though, I have no idea. Do you? I'd love to know what an ISP builds to expect in the terms of constant traffic..
I'm not sure if "not being able to understand Chinese therefore all their communication looks like secret" is the reason for me to get downvotes. FWIW, I'm native Chinese speaker living in US and have been closely following the Go's usage in both places
As someone who did well on the SAT precisely because I knew all those obscure synonyms, this is a good move.

Prior changes to make the test more fair for speakers of dialects other than Standard American English were also good, even if they were "political".
You can try to recontextualize it to suit some internal need of yours to feel OK or good about something being bent to suit another purpose. That doesn't change the copyright in spirit or in law.

It's not a public API meant for human consumption. It's a viewstate object, which is meant for currying data back and forth inside controls, etc. in an ASP.Net application. It's not an API. He had to hack that format which is feasibly a DMCA violation as well.

Weev would be a horrible example to bring up.

I'm not sure we're going to close a gap here if you feel all copyright is stripped the moment data can be presented in an anonymous user's browser.
Limiting the course to mobile, and to iOS in particular, allows the course to focus on fundamentals (design choices, architecture choices, playtesting, etc) while still getting raw technical experience and a real app done.

As another commenter mentioned, porting is easy with Cocos2D, and also learning a new platform is simple when the rest of the software development process is better prepared.

I'm an Android developer myself, I think this course sounds like a wonderful way to breed technically competent game designers even though it just focuses on iOS.
> the small number of intelligent people in HFT

I don't actually have a sense of how big or small the number is as a percentage of intelligent people. Particularly when you observe that, as you say, HFT is just a tiny part of the finance industry. There are many other parts of that industry that are also sucking up smart people to do things that, to me, have very little value compared to the other things those people could be doing.

> how else should we allocate people's output

Sorry to redirect again, but see my response to pas upthread. :-)
There's also the signaling theory of higher education: the point of selective colleges is to show that you could get into them; the actual classes don't matter, so they might as well let everyone graduate and with honors (eg Harvard).
It's funny that Verizon thinks Netflix is damaging the Verizon brand. As if there's anything more they could do to lower people's opinions of Verizon.
Does google disambiguate the scala from the PL very well?
> a) has this study been reproduced (i.e. the Dashboard business)

Nope. Did you notice the part of the article where they declared victory and extended the program to all students?

> A rise of four percentage points might not seem like much of a revolution. And Yeager and Walton are certainly not declaring victory yet. But if the effect of the intervention persists over the next three years (as it did in the elite-college study), it could mean hundreds of first-generation students graduating from U.T. in 2016 who otherwise wouldn’t have graduated on time, if ever. It would go a long way toward helping David Laude meet his goals. And all from a one-time intervention that took 45 minutes to complete. The U.T. administration was encouraged; beginning this month, the “U.T. Mindset” intervention will be part of the pre-orientation for all 7,200 members of the incoming class of 2018.

How nice of them. Besides helping out the student body, this also spares them the risk of having to falsify a cherished idea.
But then again, things like the restrict keyword don't matter that much, except when using specialised compilers (e.g. for DSP chips).
NTSB Issues Recommendations On Certification Of Li-On Batteries
From: https://tickets.alinearestaurant.com/website/faq

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Can I give my ticket away or sell it?
Yes. The ticket is completely transferable. However, selling tickets for greater than face value may be illegal in your area. Anyone who purchases a ticket from another patron should take care to be sure that the ticket and times are as claimed by requesting both an email confirmation from us as well as a printed ticket from the seller. Any tickets purchased on the secondary market are at the purchaser's risk. We will not be held responsible for forgeries or misrepresentations.

Can I just give my ticket away instead of transferring it on this site?
Because we are calling all ticket holders before they dine with us we request that the tickets are formally transferred through our site. Log in and navigate to Manage Account ---> Transfer a Ticket.

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I don't know exactly what laws govern (i.e. where you purchase or always Chicago) but at least on the face of it I don't see why there couldn't be a secondary market. The terms of service seems to reserve the right to shut down an abusive operation, but there's nothing clearly stating they would.

P.S. nkokonas: on http://website.alinearestaurant.com/site/reservations-contac... the FAQ link on the bottom right points to the wrong place, it 404s. And thanks for the write up, it's fantastic, I hope one day to eat there.
> Patents are like trademarks, you have to protect them after you get them (by collecting licensing fees, even if it’s a small one.)

Unfuckingbelievable indeed. He needs to fire his lawyer.
It's hard to find someone to talk to calmly about these things.

It is even harder to find people who will write politically incorrect opinions under their real name. Frankly, I would advise against it. The internet is written in permanent ink.
So we should expect that poor Asian kids in Alabama (where Asians are few) don't graduate, correct? Why is that not the case?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/education/inte...

Asians in Alabama graduate at higher rates than whites do.
And then there's the question of what compiler flags you used. Furthermore, one of the compilers could be really good at profile-guided optimisation (PGO), beating the others.
I think the community as a whole realizes that lots of good posts never make it past /new and don't particularly mind "old" news that is interesting making it up to the front page 6 months later.
Anyone know if this has any impact on AWS Load Balancer?
Maybe this doesn't count under your definition of "viewable" but I'm sure one would be able to recover a very high number of photos. If not from the remains of a single hard drive, than from the remains of many hard drives that had once saved or cached that photo. (again, technically and physically challenging, I know)
Hmm, we'll take a look at that. We're using iScroll here, so maybe there's a mouse wheel issue with Firefox/Windows.
So more of these coins can't be minted? Who controls/creates the initial money supply? What happens when bandwidth exceeds what the money supply can usefully measure?
Sorry this perfectly valid and relevant quote is being down voted. Disagreeing with the hive mind on HN has consequences now days unfortunately.
not sure, but the search term is specified as programming language so its supposed to ... i just don't know if it does that very well
Ok, so a new approach for making nanostructured supercaps, great. So what's the energy density they saw? Breakdown voltage? What's the whisker manufacturing process?

There's lots of work on devices like this, and this article doesn't answer any of the points that you need to see where this tech stands relative to its competitors. The nature article is better, as well as the actual paper:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7502/full/509568a...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201400440/pd... (Paywall?)

TLDR:
Whiskers grow by heat-treatment - seems pretty scalable to me.

0.55 mWh cm^−3 and 413 mW cm^−3 energy and power densities. LiPos hit 300 mWh cm^-3, for reference, so it's pretty pointless to put this in clothing. Power density is decent, as it's a super cap. It might be interesting to consider electrical grids built with the stuff, but for the moment it looks like the only real applications are for so called "dual-use" applications where you're putting in a boatload of cable anyway. PV solar farms perhaps? IDK if even that's enough to be worthwhile.
Having programmed in the language (inside Mathematica) for about ten years, I do not find it surprising that it is very concise. However, I was surprised to see it allegedly better than Haskell too in this regard. (Note: I do not know Haskell, just have read about it on HN a bit.)

I was hoping it would perform better on speed than what is shown here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855455
Dr. Dobb's did a write-up on just this aspect [1], which seems under-discussed for all the discussions of Heartbleed.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/the-conflict-at-the-heart...
Basics of SWIFT
Why I picked AngularJS?
I plan on giving it a try late this weekend, so we'll see how it goes if I can get to it.
I could probably post a similar gizmo on HN with a results static page that says

Your interests are:
(some subset of)
Programming
Science
Technology
Games
<random other thing: Sports, TV, childcare, etc>

With literally no scripting, and everyone would find it "reasonably accurate" :D
Wealth is also, to a degree, hereditary...
The topics are more technical at this time, because we first noted Chapp in venues like HN. (During closed testing, there were more design-related channels, as we first asked a few of my friends to try it--and most of them are designers.)

That said, with time we figure the audience will shift to include groups with more varied interests. That's where we think this could become interesting. Perhaps with folks watching Game of Thrones and chatting on Chapp about the story as it unfolds. (Or the Stanley Cup playoffs, if that's your thing.)

Of course, it will take time for the community to diversify. And with each day, and another few users, the tone of the community shifts a little. That said, it's kind of fun watching how it changes.
$2/GB

That's a ridiculously high price. You'd pay $2 for every hour of streaming-quality HD video watched, quite a bit more for download-quality HD.
whoa you're so damn right actually ... the trends weren't specific to china ... i assumed they were since i edited the OP's link

actually it seems Go is seriously killing it in China:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Go%2C%20Scala&geo=CN...

but otherwise Scala has been doing better with Go making a case for itself
Digital data is easy to copy around as long as you keep up with it, but people don't realize that most media will definitely not last 100 years stuck in a closet. Especially those CD backups you burned in 2005. You might have trouble getting even 10 years out of those. Even your hard drives will crap out sooner or later. Keeping data in a name-brand cloud service might be the best low-maintenance solution for now, as long as you move it if they ever go out of business. But what if the person with the password gets hit by a bus?

When I die, all my pictures and thoughts and work will be lost on my personal laptop. It isn't encrypted, but my family wouldn't know how to get past the OS password. The age of perusing the belongings of dead people is past, for better or worse.

And how about letters? We have tons of letters from famous people pre-2000, but now their thoughts and communications will be lost locked up on email servers unless either party goes out of their way to save them. Privacy is good, but losing data of historical value is unfortunate.
What if Comcast's network is built around the idea that traffic is exchanged relatively equally? They put in gigabit switches everywhere, a nice fair balanced network.

Consumer ISPs have never expected symmetric bandwidth. If they had, they would sell us 50/50 connections instead of 50/10 or 50/2.
If the primary effect was "smart kid hits wall when natural smarts aren't enough," then we would see drop-out rates consistent across socioeconomic status.

Many kids in college have those moments. What the data tells us is that the ones with the social and economic infrastructure in place to see it for what it is - a minor setback - tend to graduate more. That indicates to me that it is inaccurate to elevate this phenomenon higher than the social and economic support structures.
No love for Canadian universities? I tried emails from McMaster and the University of Ottawa, and it tells me to use a university address.
Can't be bothered to read the article, indeed.

When you read about those gaps, you might assume that they mostly have to do with ability. Rich kids do better on the SAT, so of course they do better in college. But ability turns out to be a relatively minor factor behind this divide. If you compare college students with the same standardized-test scores who come from different family backgrounds, you find that their educational outcomes reflect their parents’ income, not their test scores.
I can't see it happening even in a far future except maybe for some artificial microbenchmarks. Java programs use a lot of memory, and since everything is allocated on the heap garbage collection is an issue, impacting real-world programs.

In terms of raw CPU speed, access to vector instructions directly can be game changer in various applications. Also C/C++ compilers are also getting better each day.
This... I got kicked out of the post 4 times when scrolling. The first time I did not even knew why, I thought it was a stupid JavaScript redirect.
Yap one could put a watchdog. And then a status reporting and monitoring system to log the log system failures. At some point in that complexity just reverting to rsyslog would seem like a breath of fresh air. Even with its shortcomings.

I have been there, over-designed myself into a hole and then looking back at what was started as a simple 3 step idea now turning into exponentially growing number of branches and corner cases that have to be handled..

Sometimes it is easier to just say "ok this was not a good design" and just throw it away. I have done that and looking back it was a good decision.
Now I have to go to Spain to see this great exposition in Toledo. This post costed me a lot of money!
The article says she's getting A's and B's in her freshman chemistry course at UT. What else does she have to do to meet your criteria for "smart?"
Name collision?
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Growing whiskers on copper wires to use as capacitors is a very interesting idea. A few thoughts:

(1) Is avoiding shorts in the insulating dielectric difficult? It seems like you'd need a very thin dielectric if you want benefits from the whiskers/nanowires, but a very thin layer could be hard from a reliability or voltage breakdown perspective.

(2) If you wanted to use these for power lines, would the capacitance be an issue? I remember from my electrical engineering classes that the transmission line propagation is strongly affected by the balance between capacitance and inductance. Would you need much higher current to voltage ratios? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_line

(3) Even if this was built into power lines, I don't know if the capacitance boost would be very useful in terms of storing energy or smoothing out solar/wind power generation. You can only store power if you're willing to let your voltage vary significantly.
Just to add to the discussion: you're likely correct, based on this SO question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processin...

It will likely get faster the more duplicates you have, as it allows the CPU to predict a branch more reliably several times before being wrong and having to re-do some of its prediction stuff. (note that I'm not experienced with optimizing stuff, dealing with cache optimizations, etc., but I have read a decent amount, and I did take a class about CPU architecture) I would also suspect that hashing might end up messing with memory all over the place, causing the cache to be partly useless.
Is there any proper information on this issue? The patches do not apply cleanly against the latest stable kernel (3.14.5) and there's no indication I can find as to what version they're intended to be applied to.
The only possible way to change a government is from the inside. Even if you have a violent revolution, what happens next? The leaders of the revolt become the leaders on the inside of the new government.

Government is not like a company you can boycott; it is an unavoidable attribute of human society. The operative questions are how are you participating in it to achieve your aims, and how effectively.
This was probably more of a case of 3.

Fortran compilers have been making quite some progress (particularly ifort, but gfortran isn't bad recently).

And due to the way multidimentional arrays are built into the language, aliasing isn't nearly as much of an issue for aggressive optimizations.
Not quite. See discussion above. You gave it your history by clicking the red dots and not clicking the others.
Instead of a simple down-vote, I would appreciate an argument. After all, I am not claiming to be an expert on the subject and I am completely open to being educated about how this measure could work out.
Same here...

I may even take a stab at rewriting it myself if I get some time.