skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to agree because rail is beautiful. However rail is even more over regulated than trucking. Also it requires massive capital investments, both in the rail system and operators to get economies of scale, which causes problems with monopolistic pricing. Also the trucking industry has huge $$$ influence on politicians.

On the plus side for rail, high speed automated container systems could significantly reduce delays, automate shunting yards, etc. The difference between automated docks like Rotterdam and the manual way trains are loaded is stark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxXZQ7emHC0
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/35955-extreme-engi...

The use of driver-less trains is feasible, but the rail network (especially signalling) in America is so antiquated. Perhaps outsource it to the Netherlands...

Automated rail container system fails:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7I4wa1gpoc
Monsters from the Id: The Making of Doom (2009)
Another argument is on a total mass of carbon basis, diamond and graphite don't exist in nature in large quantities. Most of it is in the form of various boring minerals, coal, CO2, and living material. Refined pyrolytic graphite doesn't exactly wash up on shore and diamonds are very unusual on a tonnage basis.

I'm too lazy to run the exact numbers but its going to work out to something like a trainload of coal per diamond on a total mass of the earth basis.
BTW Aras is a great guy to follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/aras_p
Is there an equivalent tool for ncurses ?

Just curious ...
Uber Drivers Flock to Hamptons to Gain Partygoers’ Fares
They made Messenger its own app and made the separate app required for messaging on iOS first, and later on Android. So it really doesn't make sense if any significant part of the motivation was working around an Android platform issue.
Holy crap Indiana State Food is sick
I think this service is great and I have a question. Have you folks put any thought on allowing custom domains? I am asking because if someone hosts their app with you and, eeris forbid, you go under, they will have a hard time migrating their users to some new domain.

If you had some custom domain mechanism then people would feel safer hosting stuff with you because migrating away would be easier...
Step 0: Do not join Facebook.
> By that logic you could make anything illegal, legal.

I'm not a lawyer but from a technical point of view it's almost impossible to remove any kind of data from a truly distributed network. Be it Bitcoin's Blockchain, BitTorrent or the internet itself. That's just a fact, no judge order will change it, sorry.

And as M4v3R said it'd be very expensive to add a big file like a picture to Blockchain anyway.
I don't think it's telling us what most people would rather hear - I think it's more likely that it shows us exactly who is trying to yell loudest.
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I doubt that all buyers are in a position where they "need office equipment pronto." I'm sure many are, but building out a new office can take months, leaving plenty of time for negotiation with multiple sellers. Some purchasers likely need equipment immediately and others are likely planning several months ahead of time to predict future needs.
I don't have Twitter, but I'm pretty sure "home timeline" means everyone you follow.
Below are some choice quotes from the last time this came up almost 1.5 years ago; interesting how the peanut gallery has mellowed over time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321634

> I can't believe an app requires 8M RAM just for method names! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323153

> They bloated the app so badly, they would have had to monkey patch the OS to let it run at all -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323930

> Basically these engineers decided to be really clever, painted themselves into a corner, smashed a hole in the wall so as to escape from said corner, and then bragged about how great they are. -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5322286

Also, the bug that was filed was also referenced: Dexopt fails with "LinearAlloc exceeded" for deep interface hierarchies https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22586
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Coders at Work Interview: Peter Deutsch
I have been contemplating taking up coding in my spare time, especially after the post about turning the $200 Chromebook into an el cheapo learning machine. This could be the starting block I have been searching for.
From the TFA,

>Also, as I went to bed, I remember thinking “Ah, crap. I have to like something about Gaza,” as I hit the Like button on a post with a pro-Israel message.

>By the next morning, the items in my News Feed had moved very, very far to the right.

[...]

>Rachel Maddow, Raw Story, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and all sort of other leftie stuff was interspersed with items that are so far to the right I’m nearly afraid to like them for fear of ending up on some sort of watch list.

[...]

>While I expected that what I saw might change, what I never expected was the impact my behavior would have on my friends’ feeds.

This article has so much modern anxiety in a nutshell. We have the pervasive surveillance society, and having our behaviour affected by algorithms.

What this really highlights, to me, is the extent to which Facebook exerts editorial control over the news that you're subjected to. This has all sorts of other effects on how media dollars are spent and as a result the shape of discourse - I'm immediately reminded of http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/05/22/facebook_s_mi...

This is not to say that there haven't _always_ been pernicious incentives at work; but before you could at least question those incentives and motivations instead of shrugging, and pointing to there's an unexplainable, mysteriously biased, support vector machine et al pulling strings.
Hey thanks for the feedback! I will try to update the site to clarify the language a little more –– what you described actually is how it works. The user that signs up is the concerned party that we would notify. The app watches all tweets on that user's home timeline. By "home timeline", I was referring to all tweets posted by the user and everyone followed by that users (so, your Twitter feed). That's how it's described in Twitter's API docs, but I can see where that may be a point of confusion.
it's techcrunch.
That's not what the OP was talking about however. The fact that carbon fibers are not present in nature only tells us that we didn't have to evolve anything protecting us from it if it's really dangerous (since it was never a selection criteria). That doesn't mean it's necessarily harmful though.
Generally agree with the ease of contribution sentiment to OSM, but your characterization of Firefox contributors dismisses the valuable work that 9 out of 10 Mozilla contributors do who aren't programmers. You absolutely do not need to be a good programmer, or any kind of programmer at all, to contribute to Firefox. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/
> I'm not even joking, Canada needs a tropical island.

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

Lobby your MP! :)
Sounds like that they were aware of 'Soft Bomb' technology and were worried that an accidental soft bomb could go off via the F-16's fiber/composite materials burning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-114/B_%22Soft-Bomb%22

Interesting, that a plane from 1988 had warnings and concerns for a bomb that wouldn't be used until 1999. I wonder when the US first had one ready to go. What year was your experience?
Thanks for the advice, I'll look into it.
I was in the US military in the late 80s and early 90s and we were told then that carbon fiber used in aircraft may be cancer causing. Nothing new here.
Let's put it like this:

My explanation would be only 1 variable in your system (out of an infinity of others, if you assume that you can always continue to "zoom in").

Now, if that 1 variable does anything to your decisions or not depends on all the other variables as well, i.e.: You may have gotten a very religious education which may lead you to accept beliefs put forth by other as "the truth", without questioning. Since one major point of religion is "free will", I'm not sure "my explanation" would do anything to your decision making.
imgui is kind of catchy.. but alas, there is another project with the same name (which also stands for "immediate mode graphical user interface"), same purpose, written in the same programming language, and also hosted on github!

Differences include that the other imgui is licensed under the zlib license and targets only OpenGL 3.2. Also it appears to be older. And is the first google hit for imgui...

https://github.com/AdrienHerubel/imgui
You are correct although it rapidly turns into a square/cube law scaling problem. I have spent many thousands of working hours fifteen miles downwind of a F1 track but the dilution factor is immense. Also time factors in that the track I work downwind of only races once a year but drivers work all year. (although there are minor races all year, which may involve CF material vehicles)

Mechanics specializing in brake work are likely at very high exposure and "should be" dying at a dramatically higher rate than drivers or anyone else. But I haven't heard of anything like that.
Hey, append-only databases are awesome, but hard to delete from!
> That said, do make the assumption that your AWS instances will be unable to reach each other for 10+ seconds on a frequent basis. Your life will be happier if you've already planned for that.

This was the biggest shock for me when I first moved an Akka cluster into production on EC2. Running with just the default settings we routinely saw our Akka nodes marked as unreachable by the rest of the cluster due to EC2 network noise. We wound up pushing our launch back in order to fix the issue because we just couldn't stay online in a predictable fashion. (The issue was compounded by some other problems though, wasn't all AWS's fault)
Not necessarily. A small company that generates say $1 million per engineer would be in a better position to outbid an Infosys type shop that might be bigger, but generate a lot less revenue per engineer. And indeed, that's the beauty of the auction: it would ensure that the people getting visas are the ones whose positions will generate the most net value to the economy.
The EFF has a service called Panopticlick[1] that gives you a sense of how unique your browser looks to the sites you visit. My result: "Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 886,262 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours."

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org
Colgate Total Ingredient Linked to Hormones, Cancer Spotlights FDA Process
good story, was this the 'famous' Ah Paul guy in HK? seen stories about his place over the years, never heard this homeless bit
Confirmation bias bubbles like a social media feed like this are atrophying the debate muscles of our society. When we don't actively participate in two-sided discussions we lose the empathy and scope of how so few things are really black and white.

I wish there were more discussion venues where the quality of your participation was based on the value to the discussion, not as to whether or not you supported what that person said.
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>Then after a couple of yeara you get a call from the sales guys at MS who want to do a 'soft audit' (which it says they can so in the VL agreement). Then battle commences between MS, yourselves and the disty who handles your VL over how much you owe. This usually starts at £150k-ish for an SME and your ops team will be down for days whilst they work that down.

How can this happen if you already have the software licensed? Shouldn't the result be that you owe them $0?
If there is no free will, then all we do is predetermined and arguing is pointless, because, by definition, it cannot change anything because everything is predetermined.
Thanks for the link, but if anything, it convinced me further that webGL continues to be an inferior alternative, in performance, resource consumption and feature parity, to existing, established 3D APIs like OpenGL/Direct3D/etc.

Also, I do think the author is joking with regards to it being 'the best tested 3D API'. The author backs up this absurd claim with some 'thousands of tests' comment. Hello? Have they never visited shadertoy? Even trivial shaders cause webGL to crash because of the poor implementation quality. I refuse to believe that a person who has had any experience shipping OpenGL ES on multiple platforms could make such a statement.
I hope to not come off as too critical, but there's a ridiculously wide margin between this and what trading firms in the low latency space do.

I don't know of a single firm that's successful in the time horizon that a lot of pseudo-HFT systems operate in. (The 10ms-3s range) And that's assuming an ideal fee situation...

Most of the people ignoring the LL arms race target RV opportunities on the 30s+ range. This involves taking a pretty big step back from microsctructure/toxicity models.
I think this is interesting, so I am sharing my story. I am the first born son, and I have two younger brothers, 2.5 and 7 years apart respectively. My mother said she took extra care in what she ate when she was pregnant with me, but she didn't give up any of the junk food stuff. Soda, coke, fast food like McDonald's, cake, etc.

When she was pregnant with the second one. Realizing she might have made some mistakes with her diet, she cut out soda and coke from her diet and ate less fast food. Especially since she wanted a daughter this time.

With the youngest, she worked part time as well. It's also during that time we moved, and she didn't have much time to watch she ate either.

There is not much size difference between me and the older younger brother. He is taller and leaner than me though. I am 6'1 and 205 lbs, and he is 6'2 and 180 lbs.

The youngest one is supposedly still growing. (Technically males stop at 25 right?) But he has always been smaller comparing to us when we were the same age. He is 5'10 and 185 lbs currently.

I think prenatal definitely play a role in a child's development and later life. And it's not always the case that the first born gets the best.
We also bought a house in '04 and have lived there since; so I would have been renting at the same time period.

People are people; some honest, some dishonest, but geography could have something to do with it as well. We have rented solely in Iowa, and in general I have found that a higher percentage of people (certainly not all) in this region place great value on honesty and personal integrity.
Yet there are systems on which "native look and feel" is not even a thing, because they are not wed to a particular toolkit or theme.

On my laptop, xterms (with my custom colors) are the closest thing to native look, since they're what I look at 80% of the time, and they ship with the OS. I'm happy that applications which need more advanced graphical features do not attempt to look and feel like xterm.
I found Apollo, by Catherine Bly Cox and Charles Murray, quite interesting and entertaining.

http://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Catherine-Bly-Cox-ebook/dp/B003...
Just wanted to say thinks, this hits it perfectly:

>One of the main obstacles I think you are likely to face however is that you are working through a middleman here
The Twitter Sniper and the Collapse of My Empire of Followers
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> They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says.

Be interesting to see if any of the Facebook privacy lawsuits help Facebook to delete that data when they're asked to.
This sounds like a great service but I really don't give a damn that it is written in Go.

Also:

> This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
Framework for Managing a Distributed Team
The only winning move is not to play.

Or in this case like/post.
I did sort of the opposite. I would click on "don't want to see this" for any link to an external site. It took a few days, but now pretty much all I see is updates from friends.
Heh. https://twitter.com/aras_p/status/496027538460651521
I believe ART still uses DEX as an intermediate format, so it's possible the limitations will still exist.
That's not what the page or the Facebook Data Usage Policy says. Quoting from the page:

> In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about a month.

> Even data tagged for deletion can still take 90 days to be deleted.

> "‘It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days.’" — Facebook Data Use Policy.

> Allegations of complicity with US National Security Agency surveillance suggest that your data may never truly be deleted.

the last of which links to the Glenn Greenwald PRISM article:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...

The article says the NSA has "direct access" to Facebook systems, but doesn't mention Facebook deletion policy. If the NSA has a copy of your data, we can't really expect Facebook to be responsible for deleting it.

By my reading of the page, deleting your Facebook account functionally deletes your account immediately (that is, you no longer appear on Facebook) and after the two-week deactivation period, if you don't reactive your account, your data will be deleted within 90 days.

Of course, if any of this is true, I have no idea.
>Define 'exploit'. If people are starving, essentially if you don't feed them for free, you're exploiting them unless you too are starving.

Well, you can either feed them for free, or if you DO want their work, pay them a fair compensation, even if you can get away with paying them a near-substinence BS wage.

Feeling good with yourself with paying a BS amount because "at least I gave them work and they won't starve this way" is the basis of modern exploitation.

Sure, what's "fair" might not be scientifically and mathematically derived value, but it's not like it's totally opaque either. If your company is enjoying large profits, you pay your execs top dollar for their golden parachutes, and you are paying your employess just enough to live hand-to-mouth, then increase that.
EPRIs Board of Directors appears to be dominated by executives from large power monopolies: http://www.epri.com/About-Us/Pages/Board-of-Directors.aspx

Yes, there are other members, but PG&E does not join groups which accelerate the rollout of renewables (especially distributed renewables); it focuses on slowing them. So your "independent" and "unbiased" assertions are quite misleading.
You only say that because you keep reading the news stories about confirmation bias,
Notice how Facebook noticed what she was doing and got a PR person to talk to her. They have algorithms to detect abnormal behavior like that and flag it.

If you want to have any real effect, you'd need to provide a fake but plausible signal, not noise.
Hi - Yes, we already do provide an option for custom domains. Once you've created an app, in your app dashboard, click settings and there's a text box that allows you to provide your custom domain. Thanks for the question.
Does that mean everyone gets stock?

Ah. Thought not.

I have no issue with meditation or mindfulness.

I have huge issues with trying to combine them with for-profit strive-and-drive hit-the-goals success culture. To me, that's a contradictory and frankly crazy-making combination.

The last time I saw something similar was when Lululemon tried to make yoga-culture and positivity obligatory. That was not so successful at making employees treat each other well:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stewart-j-lawrence/when-yogis-...

I don't doubt Asana is a cool place to work. But I don't think it's necessary to use jargon from other cultures and spiritual traditions to make people happy and get stuff done.

I find the approach culty and creepy, and unless rewards are being distributed with the workload, I also question whether it's fully informed at best - or entirely sincere, at worst.
Interesting read. wonder what would happen if they added a dislike button.
When I deleted my account I first unfriended everyone, unliked everything I had liked, deleted all my pictures and posts and changed my name and personal details to fake information. Then I waited a couple of days and went through the official Facebook deletion process. I don't know if any of this worked but it made me feel better and like I did more than just stop logging in or rely on Facebook to stop using my account information once I "deleted" my account.
Washing air-breathing lungs with water sounds problematic, although with fluro-carbons and the prevalence of lung cancer I am not going to say no-one hasn't tried !
XLR?
Cool! I was actually poking around the YOURS wiki. Many of my problems seem to be based around lookup. I found it a little confusing that the YOURS wiki claims to use Namefinder as its indexer, but then the Namefinder wiki page claims it's been obsolete for four years.

Anyway, checking out the actual source would probably clear things up. I might do that when I get home from the office.
Maybe I missed it (sorry!), but is their a GitHub repo for this somewhere?
I do the same. Changed all settings I possibly could and unfollowed (while still remaining friends) a few people, and my news feed is now basically exactly what I want to see. It still hides some news events, like I found out that someone got their driving exam months after everyone else did, but that's the algorithm's fault and it's a lesson that you can't expect all friends to see everything you post.

These modifications might also cause me to spend less time on my news feed because all the garbage is filtered out, so Facebook might at some point decide that it hurts them and disable these modification options, but then I'll probably just stop using Facebook's news feed altogether. I mostly use FB for groups and chats anyway. Just like with Youtube when they started showing what friends liked, I unfriended everyone and kept subscriptions.
Quite impressive. Here is a blog post about the techniques used in this demo: http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/category/compute-shader/
my solution to the H1 Lottery mess

Charge for the H1 but have no quotas

Let market demand and ability to pay tell how many H1s come in

But, with a twist..home country has to have a similar program for US workers wanting to work that country so that the economies of both countries have a chance to rise due to flexibility of worker immigration
I'd be surprised if they didn't flag your second account as just spam and ignored it completely.
I can defintely relate to this :). I use SelfControl (http://selfcontrolapp.com/) to get around this problem
The perfect procrastinator :)
>Valve will have to do lots of work just to try to pull off the same quality of developer support console vendors offer.

Let them. Improving developers' tools around OpenGL was one of their key plans in this effort. So far they look serious about it.
Thank you! I'll look at trying this out, along with the Jupyter webapp.
Hey! Thanks for the heads up. We picked up more traction than I had anticipated, but we should be back online now! And some people may be interested in the Go repo ;)
Reverse engineering has come up a few times in the past few months:

Automated reverse engineering (of DRM) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7989490

Open-source debugger for Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092273