skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aluminium cans have plastic lining. The difference that you notice could be smell from the outside of the can as your nose is in close proximity to it. Do a blind test with the drinks poured into glassware.
What the "customer" wants is unfortunately very good luck. And that is something you cannot give to them.

Unless you can prove Billy's performance in the playoffs is heavily dependent on skill. I look forward to your analysis. (You may want to note that no one else has been able to do this, and many have tried.)
I believe so: to keep a thing at negative temperature while it's in thermal contact with us, you'd need to keep supplying power, just as you need to power a lightbulb. I didn't read the OP, but a familiar example of negative temperature is the population inversion in a laser.
> CJK users want the Latin to be rendered using the same font used for CJK.

Not true. Latin characters in CJK fonts are ugly beyond belief. I think most CJK users either just don't know what they're missing, or don't care enough to make a lot of noise.

If you're leading a text rendering project, please, for the love of humanity, allow CJK users to use a Latin font for Latin characters!
I have been saying similar things for years. Apply this to modern psychology. We live in weird feedback times.
Protons are made of Quarks. They are potentially divisible.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

[2]http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/particles/proton....

[3]http://physics.knoji.com/can-protons-or-neutrons-be-split/
It would be great if advertisers tried to not get their content classified as advertisement.

If all advertising were of the subliminal/product placement variety, I might stop trying to block all of it.
I'm confused. Protons are "splittable" in the sense that they are not elementary particles, but are instead comprised of multiple quarks. The Large Hadron Collider [0] "splits" protons. In fact this is how they claim to have observed the Higgs boson. See the image caption:

Simulated Large Hadron Collider CMS particle
detector data depicting a Higgs boson produced
by colliding protons decaying into hadron jets
and electrons

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
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I wasn't aware of CSW but from the size I guess it's similar to SOWPODS.

An Sqlite db sounds like the sweet spot of performance and easy of use.

Couldn't you automate the in-game download? I.e.: If the user selects another language download it on the spot with a little popup telling the reason for the delay?
If human kind ever developed virtually unlimited source of energy, ability to store it and channel it in to desired work on demand then there will be no poverty, no scarcity of virtually anything and there would be no concept of money itself anymore.

With unlimited energy you can move mountains, convert Sahara in to green farmland, build giant spaceships of the size of cities, colonize pretty much all planets and so on.

There would no shortage of material because you can mine entire solar system and even with current technologies you can pretty much automate making everything. That means there will be no employment because most people would not need to work to meet their basic needs. People would work on things if they felt like so. There won't be shortage of fuel and transportation because material become ultra cheap and making copies of vehicles would be done by automated factories. Robots would run almost entire operations, they themselves can be mass produced like soap because building them is cheaper and they would have lot of energy available to themselves to virtually do anything.

There won't be wars on tiny land disputes because you can virtually fly anywhere and settle yourself with most modern amnesties in your giant mention built mostly by robots anywhere you like, including in the Antartica or in depth of seas or middle of Neveda.

I know you are already raising your eyebrows over this because one can argue that we can also easily vaporize our own planet and robots can take over the world. Yes, sure. My theory is that there is certain kind of maturity required for species before it can attain "unlimited energy" prize from the nature. We have became more and more civilized over the centuries as we have gotten more and more power starting from rocks to swords to guns to basic atomic energy. We now have recognition for sovereign countries and aggressors gets punished by mutual boycotts. There will be no more Chengiz Khan or Alekzanders - they are all simply artifacts of our history where we consider their acts as unnecessarily barbaric.

So there will be a day when human kind would be culturally ready and I think that day will align with invention of unlimited energy source - may even just direct conversion of mass to energy (fusion is really not that efficient).
Given the hair-raising misogyny, racism, and general terribleness for which reddit’s core users are known, you’d think the company might worry less about alienating them.
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For up to four squares (npi) I thought a simple mapping A S D F would do. Pressing A pushes Square A in its current direction. Squares would have the letter tagged on them subtly.
Looks like they closed it :-/

window.Uber.pingData.client.firstName, lastName, email all work, but rating is now "undefined".
Such as? Do you mean the Go standard libraries for Go code?

Yacc clones exit for almost every language out there, and there are better ways to do parsing than yacc with its stone age error reporting.
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All options are being considered. I like that idea in theory but it just adds to the complexity:

- More technical debt
- More points of failure
- Need to host the data somewhere (plus pay for it... the App Store is basically a free CDN)

Off the top of my head, it may be possible to do a Free IAP where Apple hosts the content, but I may be totally wrong on that.
Man I love AskHistorians. I am proud to have provided a few top-voted answers there on the subject of animation history.
"Control over" maybe, but the thing is on rails. And some dilution: there are five years since 1992 where CPI ( which has a reputation for overstating inflation ) is over 3%:
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/community_education/teacher/ca...
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I just remembered that there's an excellent Star Trek that deals with essentially this problem. [1]

Data gets amnesia and exposes a whole society to nuclear material, and as the audience you watch helplessly as the villagers fail to recognize the terror associated with the nuclear hazard symbol.

1: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thine_Own_Self
Baidu would give you links to illegal downloads in the search results. Thus, everybody would use Baidu instead of Google.
I wonder if this reverse-rating system is only for US. Even though I'm from US, I had only get the chance to use it abroad (Jakarta). And when I check it, my rating is null. Is it something to do with the fact that Uber driver in Jakarta are actually professional car-rental driver?
What things did you do to be "the perfect passenger"?
"Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations".

I always took that as an estimate of the lifespan of a firm. If that firm lasts beyond that, it's been reengineered to be relevant.
Reddit was briefly a pretty cool place when a bunch of people discovered it from one of PG's essays. He'd post from time to time, as would a bunch of other people who were basically "the HN set". My guess is that if you looked at the early users of HN and of reddit, you'd find a significant number in common.

A lot of hackers have a libertarian bent, and that really started to come out in Reddit's political discussions, which started attracting more people interested mostly in politics and some of the various 'outrage' stories being posted about police abuse and things of that ilk.

IIRC, that was the trigger for PG to create HN, which is much more focused in its approach.

Yet another reason why I loathe politics on this site.
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Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HWiWEU_...
There's a lot of useful data in window.Uber.pingData.client. For instance, I can see that my credit card profile is on braintree.
I'm not sure fusion tech == free energy, but with cheap enough energy you could synthesize petroleum-type fuels pretty cheaply. This would be a good stop-gap until EV battery tech caught up, assuming fusion tech was mature tomorrow. As it stands, though, by the time we are likely to have really cheap power from fusion EV tech will be pretty good.
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The truth is, we don't know who the richest family is. It was revealed that Egypt's ousted dictator had about $100 billion in assets stashed away. That would make him the world's richest man. How many others are out there and how much are they hiding, who knows?
It looks like this isn't available yet, so it shouldn't be a Show HN yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Also, please don't delete and repost the same submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
ML languages are way better, specially given sum types and pattern matching.
I'm not sure I'm as big of a fan of advertising firms as the author, and some quotes stood out.

“People on Reddit want to be anonymous, and at some point these brands want to have a real relationship with their customers"

I find it hard to take an article seriously when it includes quotes like this in a non-critical context. Advertisement is about bullshit, not about "relationships with customers". The job of advertisers is to trick you into think you need whatever they are being paid to sell. They and the companies they work only care about their customers in regards to how much money they can wring out of them.

And the parallel is that advertisers don't give a shit about Reddit as well. They are just looking for a way to maximize their ability to wring every cent out of Reddit's userbase regardless of whether the advertising completely destroyed the community.
Yup, it smells to much like, "oh, woe are we advertisers for not being able to exploit users for more money, Reddit needs to change, hmmpf"
anycast does not route to the geographically nearest datacenter but the topologically nearest. anycast is great, but it isn't magic.

I get it: you have marketing folks that probably specifically told you not to delve into the details but let's face it..."anycast routes it to the nearest datacenter automatically!" isn't completely true.
Having the ability to respond to a review would be helpful. (TripAdvisor allows this.)

We currently have reviews implying that our dictionary is missing basic words when in fact I think many people would think there are simply too many words that are valid in English and will surprise people.

Review replies would at least improve context even if it didn't change the ratings themselves.
This is what is great about competition. You can pick the service that you like the most, as opposed to taxis that are all the same.

What you don't like about Lyft, is what I love about them. Their drivers seem to consider me a human being rather than a fare. So I always take Lyft as a default and fall back to Uber if they're not available, and taxis as a last resort.
Check:
Uber.Ping.attributes.client.rating

That's where I was able to find it.
The posts you've been making are not appropriate for Hacker News. Please stop.
I'm personally a die-hard fan of HIT. I've never been able to keep up cardio regiments like jogging or biking simply because it takes too much time in my schedule and I get extremely bored 20+ minutes into either of those activities.

Not to brag, but HIT has kept me in very good shape. As a software engineer who cares about efficiency, 15-20 minutes of HIT versus 60-90 minutes of jogging/biking just makes more sense to me. Throw on joint pain from jogging on concrete and the perils of high-speed biking, HIT on a machine is a no-brainer.
Basically, because technocracy.
The fact you have to ask tells me no.
Mine still worked, just tried it. Maybe you don't have a rating?
We're actually looking for some more sales help at DataKin and have been toying with training software developers, as we have a fairly technical product. I'd be interested in talking. Send me some info on yourself and what you're looking for: a@dewdrops.net
Really? Wow.

As an Australian who didn't go to university, I had the warnings growing up that getting a piece of paper doesn't guarantee you a job but I didn't know things were that hard for someone holding a masters.
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Clever (YC S12) is hiring full-stack engineers to hack education
Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (YC S12 - https://clever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

We're a small, highly technical team of 30 (12 engineers) with deep experience in education. In under two years, 1 in 6 schools in America has begun using our APIs, meaning that Clever moves data for eight million students every day.

Our newest project is essentially Facebook Connect for education: one identity to tie together all of a student’s learning applications into a cohesive experience. We’re making that happen with our Instant Login service, which allows students to log in once and immediately get access to all their apps: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-05-14-no-more-passwords-cleve...

And while we have all the startup perks (a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, unlimited Amazon credits for learning..) – hands down the best part of the job are the calls and emails from schools describing how much Clever helps them.

As an education company, we’re all about learning personally too – it’s practically a prerequisite to work here. In the past few weeks we’ve done tech talks on things like exoplanets, set theory, and kitesurfing. (We also love a good round of bughouse chess – just ask Magnus Carlsen http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo)

We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
@fiveogit: Love the idea. Need to be prettified though. How would I see comments on mobile devices or non chrome browsers? Can I inject with JS into my website?
That was some of my first thoughts :)
Prune your subscriptions brutally.

I recently logged into Reddit for the first time in over half a year. My personalized frontpage was filled with garbage- in the 8 or 9 months since I'd stopped using the site, a bunch of small, awesome communities had grown past critical mass into Low Effort Content Zone.

Then I remembered why I stopped using the site- this is all it is. You just watch good communities burn when they get too big, or fizzle out and die when they're too small. One must prune one's subscriptions brutally, and then search for new communities that haven't descended into the Eternal September. But the effort is Sisyphean and I despair of it.
Yep. Everything about Aerospike so far have been filled with buzzwords. There was a flash talk by an employee of theirs recently at a conference in Bangalore and it was just marketing BS. I'm still skeptical.
> at my school, SJSU, there are several math professors from Stanford and Princeton teaching there

You were bashing on schools like, "USC, UCSC, UCSB, UC Davis, UCI, UCR, and, god, I must be missing some. Oh yeah, UC San Diego." and calling the mediocre? HA!

You go to SJSU and are calling those UC's mediocre?? I don't know how you got to the top of HN, but you need a HUGE perspective change dude...
Especially related to optical networking.
I just use google calendar. That is the easiest for me
If you work in an environment where you get to pick your own browser, yeah it is. Work in many an enterprise setting and IE9 could be more like the latest thing.
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This depends on the level of moderation and rules of a particular sub. The best subs tend to be the ones that just ban meme posting etc.
Does anyone know why Uber doesn't easily just give you your own rating? If I know my rating is low then I know I should work on improving it if I want to continue using Uber...

Seems kind of like a win-win-win for all three parties (Uber, driver, myself)
Why not have advertisers partner directly with mods and allow some sort of revenue sharing?

The concern seems to be offensive/weird user created content might be displayed near an advertisement. Well, the mods have control over the content.

Mods could chose whether or not to enable advertising and could chose whether to curate content to maximize click-throughs or not.

Ads could be programmatically targeted towards subreddits and individual comment threads rather than users.
>adults, with brains, and who aren't too busy to see news

Do you mean new submissions, or the media news? If it's the media news, are you trying to say that the "smart" thing to do is to follow the news?
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For solar and wind to make sense it is all about the storage in the short term and global interconnects in the long term, rather than the current system of trying to balance against a baseload.

And nuclear is great in many ways, but you cannot have a global energy solution that you couldn't happily give to your enemies, whatever the price per watt is.
Uber's user rating system 2 sides
I see two valuable things for the end user at reddiit:
a. Finding good sub reddits (out of 500k am sure that is a pain)
b. Getting their content some sort of traction in the community which is ofcourse mod configured & rev shared with the mod maybe.

Do you think users would pay for this? besides, do you think the 2nd point has a scope of creeping in poop?
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My client argus media sells this data via product called fundalytics. Get in touch with sales.

We scrape power and gas data from various sources - we are also working on to get fertlizers , bio fuels and other data from across globe.
Uber policy dictated, at least at one point, to ask customers if they "had a prefered route"
Well, these were both very public forums. And the fact remains that Linus' behavior on his mailing list (i.e., in the comfort of his own lair) was rather silly and childish. I don't think anyone with his level of experience with large complex systems of software should have a hard time imagining how a bug such as this could be introduced in what has to at this point be considered a program with a life of its own (not that much unlike a machine-generated proof or some other reserve of Big Data(TM)). Yet, instead of jumping to this [obvious] conclusion, he rather chose the vastly more unlikely explanation of incompetence/ willful ignorance/ etc and went on a childish profanity-laced tirade so all of his [equally adolescent] hero-worshippers could get a [cheap] laugh. Also, the fact that there were in fact two very different presentations here from Linus is further proof of the fact that one of them was uncalled for.
I mean content.
What about dressing up for the jog and afterwards showering and dressing up again? Also most people don't have a park in a 5 minute walking distance. I would say for most people they take 10-30 minutes to get to the training place, train at least 20 minutes and then 10-30 minutes back again and then 5-10 minutes of shower. Now that is quite a large part of the day.
Can you recommend a good way to get GUI for gdb on Linux? I played a bit with xgdb, but it was very primitive in my experience. Thank you.
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Should be far easier to create a heuristic search solution. Very naively you could probably get good results by exploring nodes in order by sum of distances from blocks to colour points if blocks could move in any direction. You'll eliminate most of the move away and out of screen behaviours naturally and by preventing the exploration of a previously explored state. You could explore better heuristics but given that the branching factor is only n where n is the number of blocks, most puzzles are solved in under 50 moves and most solutions get pruned quickly both position duplication or bad solutions quickly mangling the heuristic. The hard problems for this program are ones where you have to make a whole sequences of moves away from the objective in order to get a key directional move that accomplishes it.
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When looking at these graphs, it pays to take a peek at who exactly is behind them. Modeling the costs and benefits of different forms of energy (especially environmental costs) is extremely easy to fudge. There are all sorts of assumptions you have to plug in to the model where you could covertly insert a policy bias. If the 'measurer' had an agenda, it wouldn't be hard for them to push the figures one way or another and still keep the model looking clean-ish from the outset.

Bearing that in mind, it's worth pointing out that Exxon-Mobil is a major donor to the brookings institute - they're also part of the group ALEC that has been leading a massive attack on rooftop solar in the last 18 months.

One of those attacks, for instance, has been to increase the price by slapping up to 35% tariffs on Chinese panels through (mostly false) accusations of dumping. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this were counted in the cost model, but subsidies were discounted.

Another thing they've been doing recently is to try to 'greenwash' natural gas - to make it look like the cleaner alternative to coal to capitalize on the fracking boom. One of the assumptions I can virtually guarantee that they've made here, for instance, is that global warming effect of methane leakage (which is very significant) has been entirely discounted.
I've seen these for water pipes who have minerals build up in them over years, effectively reducing the pipes diameter.
I was under the impression that Wall St loves Physics PhDs for quant roles. Is that not true?
Or get fresh coconuts delivered to your place - 2 for a dollar - Bangalore.
Anyone else think it's odd that the control group had a mean BMI of 24 (i.e: high end of normal range) and the HIT group had a mean of 29 (high end of overweight, almost obese)?
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Drivers don't know what you rated them.
I wonder ... given the guy is claiming he needs $8k for a minimum purchase of components that clearly can't & don't exist, has he been scammed by a dodgy supplier?
I can't think of a single reason the user rating is hidden from the user. If anything, knowing your score is low would help explain why rides are often unavailable.
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