skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. If grand scale and unimaginable heat are what make stars impressive, then this must be the least impressive star. In fact, we might never find a star less impressive than this one, because this is close to the least impressive star that's physically possible. At least we got it out of the way.
Its interesting but I just don't find it satisfying. At an emotional level, science doesn't satisfy me when it comes to questions of existence. And I feel tempted to run towards a theory such as the ones Sheldrake puts forwards but I don't find it very satisfying either.
If somebody actually made something like that it'd make debugging even funner than it already is.
A friend of mine has been in a wheelchair since his 17th (moped accident, he drove into a little divider post and ended up paralyzed from the waist down because of it). He's never let it slow him down though, to the point where I tend to forget about his situation. This leads to me doing stupid things like proposing we go for a beach walk (he'll just sit there grinning at me until I figure it out).

He's an absolutely awesome character, runs his own electronics company and does whatever the rest of us do. The one thing that really bothers him about interacting with others is that for some reason people will automatically assume that because there is something wrong with his legs that there is also something wrong with his head.
Pretend he wrote bzuiutil_pause_backup(); and the rest of the advice holds up.
The code examples are all C++, but from what I understand the rules apply to C as well.
Your brain handles ingroup/outgroup behavior automatically. These are not conscious behavioral choices. As far as your brain is concerned, we're not on the same team.

How you choose to act given that understanding of your biology is of course up to you.
Sweet! was playing around with it @ runnable
http://runnable.com/U5wIq8VhhNkI6vb2/basic-mprpc-example-for...
Running a game on this thing means that the gpu has to work that much harder to render those extra pixels. I'd rather have a higher framerate than more pixels.
I don't think "theoretically" is the right word to use here -- it is literally the theory of Communism that it is without a state.

Semantic quibbling aside, there are, as stated in my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7887756), plenty of decidedly non-"theoretical" cultures which have very Communist features and no entity which fits most conceptions of a state (certainly not your original stated concept of a state as something with a "crap-ton of government bureaucracy, rules and regulations to tell people exactly how to live")

Additionally, there is plenty of theory about how one would have a system that has the features of Communism without a state:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism being the most direct and pure version. Frankly, asserting flippantly to the contrary makes your whole line of reasoning in these threads very hard to take seriously. There are piles upon piles of books, research, etc. about the intersection of the market and the state, and none of them really try to say, as you have, that without a state there must be private property. Indeed, most works in the space (including the original Locke, etc.) assert precisely the contrary -- that one of the main reasons the state exists is to enforce private property.

More broadly, of course, it really depends on how you define "state". Are all systems of non-interpersonal power a "state"? Is even organized interpersonal power a state? Is it even at all possible for there to be no state? etc.
Sure thing, but by constantly parity-checking your rash decisions you can overcome most learned behaviour in time.
Why does this have any votes? The talk clearly isn't banned or unavailable - that's a ridiculous and hyperbolic claim. It's a TEDx talk, which are independent events where speakers are not in fact vetted by TED. Meanwhile TED can and does have a say on the content hosted under its own banner.

They made the decision not to do so with this talk because the Sheldrake's talk is premised on a number of false assumptions about the way science operates, and for the factual errors relied upon in the talk.

They did so openly and transparently, inviting public contributions to the discussion before making their decision -http://www.ted.com/conversations/16894/rupert_sheldrake_s_te...
These type of "top 10" lists are usually meaningless. You can argue string search, binary search, hash tables, heaps, BFS/DFS, Monte Carlo methods, compression algorithms etc etc are important enough that modern world won't exist without it.
>Founders need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves why they're doing what they're doing and whether their depression is truly a function of their free cash flow or if there's a deeper dissonance between the founder's feelings and the expectations of society, i.e. the heroic mythology of the founder that Silicon Valley has been inculcating in susceptible teenagers for the last 20 years.

No, I think depression is a function of free cash flow for most "founders." The heroic mythology is mostly about getting really rich.

And how else do you justify highly intelligent people caring so much about laundry? Because I seriously doubt solving laundry or food delivery or ridesharing has anything to do with any social mission.

These boring things have everything to do with making lots of money.
> For example, I used to be addicted to reddit. While I consciously knew it wasn't good to be going to reddit so much, my emotional brain didn't mind. But after discovering a process that uses these principles, I quit "cold-turkey" by imagining a lot of bad stuff in relation to reddit.

Reddit is merely a gateway drug to HN.
Which part of "up to" you don't understand?

I think ISP should sell "25 Mbps" connection and "Up to 25 Mbps" connection, priced differently. Then customers will (I predict) choose "Up to 25 Mbps" connection.
Raspberry Pi pioneer honoured in Birthday list
typo: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lambdaops
If the battery will last long enough for me to get from my 3 metre charge cable in the kitchen to the charger in the car to the charger at work, it'll do.
There's no way getting contacted by recruiters (most of whom aren't reputable if they've got to resort to cold contacting via Linked In) is humblebragging. It's a total pain in the ass and I shouldn't have to delete my linked in account just to prevent it happening. In fact, recruiters that abuse Linked in like this should have their accounts deleted.
Oh, how I do not care about autism, and all of it's nuanced spectral variants.

Sometime's it's like everyone stuck in their shitty, repetitive, humdrum rat-race routines suddenly looks up one day and realizes how stunted their social life has become, once the restrictive lid of middle class economics slams down on their once youthful lives, and suffers fleeting a moment of Medical Student Syndrome, while reading up on some pop-psych blogspam du jour, and wonders: Am I autistic? Is autism genetic? Are my children as doomed to be autistic, as much as they are to be bald?

Oh look, a handy checklist, next to this facial scrub ad in Cosmo... Hmm, let's see...

Social awkwardness? Well, sometimes I feel like everyone at work secretly hates me, and they're all plotting against me, and now that you mention it, I do have trouble finding a date...

DIAGNOSIS: MENTAL ILLNESS. AUTISM.

Repetitive behavior? Oh, well, every day, I find myself getting a morning cup of coffee, then I work 'til 5PM at my job, which involves sifting through lots of tiny boxes filled with numbers and reading stark walls of what sometimes feels like the same text over and over again, and then I make my way home, wishing I could quit, but fearful of getting fired, then dinner, depressing obnoxious TV and finally bed, and more of the same tomorrow...

DIAGNOSIS: MENTAL ILLNESS. AUTISM.

Restricted interests? I mean, I just don't know anymore, I feel like I've kind of lost my zesty love for new things. Like I try reading books, but who has the time? I feel like my life is dominated by constantly typing pointless text into fields and saving useless data for all eternity, but I just can't stop myself anymore. What has become of my life?

DIAGNOSIS: MENTAL ILLNESS. AUTISM.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
> The most salient finding from this analysis is that women whose intimate premarital relationships are limited to their husbands—either premarital sex alone or premarital cohabitation—do not experience an increased risk of divorce. It is only women who have more than one intimate premarital relationship who have an elevated risk of marital disruption.

As far as I can see this suggests that believing in cohabitation is not a strong factor when it comes to divorce.
If you use Python 2.x and need to talk to servers that use SNI (Server Name Indication) you need to install some additional dependencies:

$ pip install --upgrade pyopenssl pyasn1 ndg-httpsclient
If the above comment makes anything clear, it's just how urgently we need a universal sarcasm symbol.
Battery life on the G3 is better than most other smartphones.

I'll be purchasing a G3 as battery life is becoming a nuisance on my Samsung Galaxy 4.
Cheap Air Max Shoes, Air Max Shoes for Sale,
Great intro to writing a kernel for newbies
Yes, everything can be questioned including this theory. I'm saying that focusing our efforts on all the different ways we could be wrong doesn't really help us move forward. So it would be "silly" to spend our time on that endeavor instead of trying to apply the theory to as many scenarios as possible to see if it works.

But, yeah, maybe using the word "silly" was a bit harsh. I could have written "not productive" instead.

Besides, the article is not a scientific one it's a philosophical one. In science you arrive at a conclusion using theories and observations while in philosophy you arrive at conclusions by theories and consensus.
Reposts are fine when an item hasn't had significant attention within about the last year. The previous post had 10 points, but 0 comments, so this repost probably doesn't count as a dupe.
This is amazing! Will definitely be switching away from using curl.
I put a the basic examples here to easily play with httpie
http://runnable.com/U5wOrMxHLYsVkYbX/basic-httpie-examples-f...
Car sharing is not always convenient. what if nobody wants to drive where you want right now? Buses have schedule where you can be fairly sure it will show up.

(If it doesn't, just raise your hand, gets you ad-hoc car sharihg :)
Debugging starts with having an accurate representation of what is going on.
13 aircraft mysteriously disappear from radars in heart of Europe
Parents who truly loved their children would let their children pick others as parent figures if it's what would make them happy. I think there's a difference between that love and romantic love.
Undocumented built-in functions in the Swift standard library (complete list)
There's something to this argument, and I'm sympathetic towards it. I just wish Rupert had said it better.

Science is cruel and rife with incompetence and fraudulence, but the issue needs to be attacked with hard facts.
The classic version of it:

http://lug.wsu.edu/node/414
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mum+on+surveillance#!/story/foreve...
DragonBox ( http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ ) is fantastic. I have literally seen elementary school kids argue over who gets to be the next one to solve equations playing it.

If you have an iOS or Android tablet, they also have a new game called DragonBox Elements up that teaches geometry. After playing it for a while, I'd see triangles everywhere.

If DragonBox gets them hooked on algebra, another fun algebra game is Algeburst (currently only available for iOS platforms AFAIK), which employs a basic get-three-of-the-same-color-in-a-row mechanic, but requiring you to interpret simple algebraic expressions in order to figure out which tiles are of which color. E.g. if there's a tile called 3X + 2X, you can recognize it as being a 5X tile and give it whatever color 5X tiles happen to have on that particular level. (I was only going to try this game to see whether it was any good, but then ended up losing several hours to it.) They also have a "topics in arithmetic" version which doesn't have algebra but rather focuses on basic arithmetic.

10 might be getting a little old for it, and it teaches the basics of programming not math, but in general I would also recommend the Robot Turtles board game. On the topic of games teaching programming, I've also heard good things about the CodeSpells computer game, in which you're exploring a world and can cast spells by writing Java code, but I haven't tried it myself.
Internet Of Things in 10 Minutes: Hands-On with The Device Cloud
I thought that, too, when I saw that example, clearly in C++, after about 100 mentions of 'C'.

I've encountered programmers that habitually refer to C++ and ObjectiveC as C. I suspect he has that habit.
Hang on: why is your psychiatrist leaking identifiable information to anyone?

The problem there is the (criminal?) failings of the psychiatrist, not of the scummy behaviour of LinkedIn.
can you someone edit it and make it better?
http://runnable.com/U5wQt8xHLYsVkYc_/wilson%E2%80%99s-algori...
Thanks for pointing that out - I donated and got the pack, its chock full of useful things for me to use. Great resource!
Yeah, I know. That's what 410 means. 404 means that the server couldn't find what you are looking for but says nothing about why.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

Not a big deal. I just found it funny that the first change they make is technically wrong.
Glitch: Art & Code from the Game Released into Public Domain

http://www.glitchthegame.com/public-domain-game-art/
Seems to work pretty well. I also found this one this one: http://sync-video.com/
From a rough estimate, a 2x increase in resolution reduces the battery life by 30 percent overall, if everything else is equal. But they usually increase battery size and get a more powerful (therefore more efficient with high resolutions) GPU, to mask that. That's how a 1440p phone can get the same, or almost the same battery life as a phone with 720p screen and a significantly smaller battery.

Now the question that most OEMs don't seem to ask themselves is - how much better would the battery life be, if they kept the old "standard" resolution, and increase the battery life and used a new GPU, too? It could be up to 50 percent longer.

Not to mention that focusing on resolution, and making the screen more expensive that way, takes away from them focusing on other aspects of the screen, such as viewing angles (there was a comparison around between LG G3 and Galaxy S5 viewing angles, which I can't find now, but LG G3 viewing angles were pretty bad).

Focusing on needlessly expensive higher resolution screens also takes component money away from investing in even better cameras, more storage, and so on. For example, instead of paying $70 for a 1440p display, they could be paying $50 for a 1080p one (which are pretty abundant now), and get a $40 camera sensor instead of a $20 one. I, for one, would appreciate such a component choice much more.
That won't help when it has been deleted :)
There is the bookmarklet.

(See bottom of page). Any other mechanisms to automate submissions would most surely lead to being banned and having the domains submitted banned as well.
Not due to land use concerns, because Mao said golf was a decadent sport of millionaires, and China was not to have those.
(pi^4+pi^5)^(1/6)
Time, There's Never Enough – There's An App For That
It's pretty scary what that amount of power can do when released quickly. On the other hand realize that a watt hour is slightly less than a single food calorie. That battery has 10 calories. A bar of chocolate has 150-250.
Fluksometer Update
The protocol is hardly the issue with setting up your own movie-search db - it's data.

I guess Freebase might be a way to go, once you've resolved the initial dataset with wikipedia, update incrimentally with just the changes.

Or, you know, you have to license the material from somewhere.
Equivalently:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%28pi^4%2Bpi^5%29^%28-1%2F6%...

Or:

https://www.google.com/search?q=e^6%2F%28pi^4%2Bpi^5%29

The point being, of course, that pi^4 + pi^5 is very, very nearly e^6.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892430

The idea is that there are only so many small numbers, and there are lots of ways of combining things together. The Pigeonhole Principle then says that if you stuff too many things into a small enough space, some of them will be close together. Although apparently obvious, this is more widely applicable than people generally realize. It's used, for example, in one of the proofs that that every prime of the form 4k+1 is expressible as the sum of two squares (Examples: 29=4x7+1=5^2+2^2, 181=4x45+1=10^2+9^2, 193=4x48+1=12^2+7^2).

Combine this with the birthday problem/paradox[0][1], and you end up with more coincidences than you might expect.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312636

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4753014
> With cross-architecture you must ensure the code is not abusing ints for storing pointers or assuming sizes of primitives.

You should ensure that anyway, even when you're working on a single architecture. Those are very bad habits to form.
Would you mind sharing what that alias would look like and do? I can only imagine it appending the string "| tmenu" to the current line, eventually pressing Return for the user as well.
moreflicks.com not on that list
Vanadium: The metal that may soon be powering your neighbourhood
Mathematical coincidence
I don't think the issue is political correctness... I think it is more about creating an inclusive, gender-neutral curriculum that doesn't marginalise girls. I agree that this game looks amazing, but would not be engaging to 100% of students, in the same way that a football game wouldn't be.

As for complaints, I think it's important to respect some parents' wishes for their kids not to play games that include killing. Although most parents wouldn't complain.
Regarding Emacs: git ships with Emacs integration <https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/emacs>.

Note that most likely git.el is not on your load-path. After it is loaded, you can use M-x git-status to interactively stage, diff and commit files. In the git-status buffer you can checkout a branch with C-c C-o. If helm is installed, you'll get something similar to percol right in Emacs.
This script has been previously sold on codecanyon for 20 dollars maybe.... Nice try
Creeped Out by Couchsurfing
Am I missing something on mobile? I only see the result is 2.x and then google results that don't seem relevant.
I'd rather recommend the original, 'The Wave', from 1981.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/

I saw this in school as a 17 year old and it has never left me, I keep recommending this movie to people. Especially with the re-surgence of the nationalist movement in Europe (and elsewhere) this is as relevant as it ever was.
"is on-line low latency storage - in particular Flash and in-memory." "As distinct from a document oriented, or key value store, Apollo is about modifications to data structures, allowing you to represent maps, queues, trees and so on, as well as key values. "

Sounds like Redis?
Could wireless replace wearables?
Also, http://xkcd.com/1047/ .
The only reason I can think of is licensing. Maybe it's necessary for licensing some of the content they want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28mathematical_constant%29
& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_coincidence
> You see this with a lot of their ardent fans, they talk up the specs, as if we are back in the old days.

Depends upon which fans. Ardent Android fans are, well, fragmented into at least two groups:

Those who are all about the specs of the latest flagship phone from the various high-end phone manufacturers (Samsung, HTC, LG, etc) and those who wouldn't touch a non-Nexus Android phone with a ten foot pole. The second group generally doesn't care about specs as long as they are reasonably decent for a modern phone.
Yes, you're missing something. The "2.xxx..." is remarkably close to the mathematical constant e. See my comment[0] for more.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892425
LimitState Promove Sessão Gratuita de Modelação de Pontes de Alvenaria em Arco
What!? That's completely the opposite to my experience! Essentially, after setting up ZNC to your liking, all you have to do in your client is change the irc server from say, irc.freenode.net to znc.yourserver.com:port and add a password for the server, username/freenode:password, done!

I thought it'd be annoying having to add servers through the ZNC interface (either web or SSH) but it automatically adds/removes them when you join/leave.

In terms of buffers, I generally don't have it set to 2000+, normally around 100 max. I'll just go through the logs if I really need to catch up.
Encrypting a file using a GitHub user's public key
Reminds me a lot about http://game.notch.net/drowning/ - or is this the inspiration for that?
For that reason alone it's a small wonder that we haven't seen miniature fuel cell technology take off in recent years. If only those membranes wouldn't foul up.

It keeps getting close to being accepted and then vanishes again, for instance:

http://www.iec.ch/etech/2013/etech_0113/tech-1.htm
It is somewhat outdated, but yes, most of the points apply today.

Some things changed. Qt is pretty solid today. We use it as native Linux platform. We use native Windows and Mac front ends too.

Using Qt solves lots of issues very easy, like OpenGL drawing capabilities.

So in Windows and Mac we have two versions of our own software, one with native widgets, one with Qt ones. The Windows version using Qt is much faster and efficient, albeit a little ugly, because of OpenGL issues(instead of official DirectX) and font sizes or colors a little different from Windows and so on.
That doesnt really solve all those problems in itself does it?
Braben is one of my 'childhood heros', reverse engineering Elite was one of the best schools I ever had.
I was thinking more of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi story.

> We lost everything in the Big War. Luckily our last supplies of Bash built-ins were left intact. If we pool our resources and use our remaining executable bits wisely, we might just last through the nuclear winter.
Unless we hard fork...
Ok, so this tool is only for all the situations in which you don't care about header order.
Announcing Scala.js 0.5.0
Interesting comparison with food calories, though I don't know how much intuitive help we can get from that - how do I imagine a bar of chocolate "going off" (exploding)?

If we put the bar into a person (to use as food calories), a person can punch someone violently and repeatedly for a while or do other extremely damaging things with very few calories, so again, not much help intuitively. You have to do a lot of work to burn 200 calories.
The tech industry’s God complex is getting out of control
oh my, I'm old I remember Nokia's 3310 battery lasting for a whole week :)
I say, something from 2008 or 2011 (I can't read American dates) is remarkably old?