skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To handle HTML overlays, I basically need to add read back capabilities to find the final on-screen positions of points, so I can sync with CSS 3D matrices. GL text is a rabbit hole I'd prefer to avoid, especially since I often need math notation. It would turn into HTML/CSS-for-GL right away.
After the recent posts about RISC-V I'm more interested in that architecture.

LowRISC: Open-source RISC-V SoC (9 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137521

RISC-V: An Open Standard for SoCs (7 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149658
I stopped bothering with it ever since they cut the amateur scientist column.

I remember they used to cover stuff like sonoluminescence in there - http://techmind.org/sl/ - it was awesome.

Let me know if you ever want help working out candidate asteroids and how to achieve the required trajectory adjustments.

just found this though :) - https://archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist
Oh no Walnut Creek, the humanity of it all! It's a whole half hour on the yellow line to downtown SF.

All jokes aside, this is probably pretty smart, although maybe give more involvement to the customer. The first thing anyone does when the hotel tells them its overbooked is take to their smartphone. If a customer can say, "can I stay here instead?" it might help nudge the process along.
Posts without URLs are penalized anyway, so you'd be better off reposting this whole thing with a link to the project, and adding your text above as a first comment to the thread. Good luck. Email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you have any trouble.
... but it's still more efficient than pure JavaScript, asm or not. And so much faster than MathBox 1.
And here I am, learning to do 2d visualizations with d3.js.
> your best guess why they are underrepresented?

Christina Hoff Sommers' guesses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-6usiN4uoA, http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/what-lean-i...
This (and sister comments to mine) are super interesting, we're working on this problem space - with a professional focus - and there are a bunch of folks in the consumer side too. Happy to chat to anyone interested in solving this sort of problem.
> I think part of the point is that we already think that as consumers.

Exactly. We've burned ourselves on this too many times on too many different occasions.

Instead of full transparency, I'd wish to see a publisher going full-blown, overdrive, in-your-face transparency. Don't wait for a browser extension like this. Put the big sign at the top of an article that says "yes, this content was paid for by XYZ", or "company XYZ paid to be on all banner ads in this article, but didn't have any say about the content". Publishers, be honest with us, and slowly, you may regain our trust.
Amazing. Seems to work great in IE11 also.
Ask HN: What is “Federation” in the Stellar account settings?
So now when the government requests a gag order they will also request a court order requiring SpiderOak to update the 'warrant canary' page.
TeVido BioDevices 3D-Prints Skin And Fat Grafts For Breast Cancer Survivors
that an old trick by bouncing laser of the objects near the source of the sound.
> so I can't imagine it's all coming from the car itself.

There's also high-definition imagery from each car, I guess that some of it is generated in the car and the other imagery is supplied by the TV cameras.

I don't know though if these run on UHD, but given the boatloads of cash behind F1 I'd assume so.
Hmm, a kind of double opt-in? (Or possibly triple if you count handing out the card in the first place.)

Interesting idea, at the same time there are ways to replicate this today in terms of 'send me a blind message on Facebook/LinkedIn and I'll maybe reply' and it doesn't seem to work well, at least not in my experience. It's about the power dynamic, fundamentally.
The Third Smartphone Ecosystem Is Ending With A Whimper
It's a long, tiring haul for Silicon Valley bus drivers
Did you guys consider hooking this up with llvm since it provides call graph generation for the supported languages? If so what was the conclusion? If not I might look into it, no promises though.
That would explain the rise of PR industry. Indirect effect - a subtle, but effective strategy. Relevant: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html.
If pot becomes legal it would be bad news for Corrections Corp of America and GEO group. They are already sweating the prospect of Obama legalizing a whole bunch of immigrants.

http://www.ibtimes.com/top-private-prison-operators-geo-corr...
I would love to write GB/GBC/GBA games using something like Ruby (or JavaScript!). Is this possible? Have any higher-level languages been used to write games for these platforms?
Zenossians rejoice The Beginner's Guide to Zenoss Event Enrichment is here
Good finds! Feel free to drop me a line via (same name) at gmail - nice to find a fellow spirit.
> Is email our last success in popularizing an open and federated standard?

If you mean one with a distinct and separate S2S/federation protocol (SMTP) from the main C2S protocol(s) (POP/IMAP), probably.

OTOH, it could just be that separate S2S protocols are less favored in the first place -- the web is newer than email, open, and federated (in that web servers -- but doesn't have a separate S2S protocol. A web server that needs information from another web server to do its job uses HTTP just like any other client.
Hemp is marijuana as they are different names for the same plant, but industrial hemp has extremely low levels of psychoactive compounds.

Edit - apparently I may be wrong and marijuana plants are only the drug producing strains of the cannabis plant, but hemp and cannabis are more interchangeable as cannabis is the genus.
Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
For a tool which is all about being language agnostic, I'm curious why you went with Go struct definitions to define the formats instead of something like JSON Schema[0].

[0] http://json-schema.org/
Here's a good course on NNs: https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
Need a foursquare for volunteer projects: Check-in that youre here doing X (with GPS checkin, as needed)
What kind of money would make such an attempt worthwhile? I'd imagine we're talking sums well above your average Kickstarter.
the UI is a bit off, but doesn't Google+ circles provide this functionality?

Or the "Notes" section in the Contacts app on iPhone?

Or LinkedIn even?

What is missing or wrong with the current social network/address book things?
There is a LOT more that can be said about the Company of London (and the its incorporated subsidiary, the Federal US Government)
You've been Gladwelled man.

http://neoacademic.com/2011/10/05/gladwell-was-wrong-high-an...
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/10/1336

The nature of the relationship between ability and performance is of critical importance for admission decisions in the context of higher education and for personnel selection. Although previous research has supported the more-is-better hypothesis by documenting linearity of ability-performance relationships, such research has not been sensitive enough to detect deviations at the top ends of the score distributions. An alternative position receiving considerable attention is the good-enough hypothesis, which suggests that although higher levels of ability may result in better performance up to a threshold, above this threshold greater ability does not translate to better performance. In this study, the nature of the relationship between cognitive ability and performance was examined throughout the score range in four large-scale data sets. Monotonicity was maintained in all instances. Contrary to the good-enough hypothesis, the ability-performance relationship was commonly stronger at the top end of the score distribution than at the bottom end.
While getting "walked" is the short story, you could flatten this out to other overbooked rentals like automobiles. If you can set up a system that is efficient enough to allow a company to overbook without worrying about hurting customer satisfaction I imagine there is a lot of money to be made.
The environmental history of this stuff is really interesting - Elinor Melville wrote a good book about the "ungulate eruptions" following the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica: http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_Plague_of_Sheep.html...
I think that's perfectly fair. As a reader, I've read print magazines like Wired and am constantly looking for the "This is an advertisement" text, because yeah, I have felt tricked by it in the past. I think it's is completely reasonable to want to be able to know when you're reading something that was written by an advertising agency versus something written by a journalist. What I take issue with is the misconception that "native advertising" is "advertiser paid to publish their PR copy disguised as an article". To that end, I quite agree - the culprit are the bad apples who have tried to pull a fast one on the reader, but I've seen this growing sentiment that "native advertising = companies trying to trick you!!1", and don't feel that it's at all accurate.

I like the idea of the plugin - where it isn't clear that content is sponsored, make it clear. Sponsorship information should always be disclosed, plain and simple. I am not sure that I like the implementation - the banner says "This article is an advertisement", which is bluntly inaccurate in the cases of most native advertising, and may lead the reader into drawing incorrect conclusions about the content and who wrote it.
Can you tell more about that application? Is it going to be open source? Is there any way I could contribute?
That interest rate is because on average, rupee inflation has been at over 9% in the last two years, and was over 11% at the beginning of the year.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/india/inflation-cpi

If I'd opened a bank account last time I visited India, converted sterling to rupees, to saved in an Indian bank account at 12%, I'd end up less pounds than I started with.

Putting money in consumer banks in India really only makes sense if you live there.
exactly, which is why they'd need to build it in a way that cannot be backdoored.

However, if the government comes to Yahoo/Google, and says: give us a backdoor.. how can we be sure it doesn't happen?
You need to find a set of people who are connected and connectors, and who have this kind of problem in spades. Then build in sufficient virality so they all start using it, and as you point out, multi-platform presence. Many folks have tried to replace the business card and failed, but I've seen cards with custom URLs rather than contact details on them; maybe that's one way to go. (QR codes require too much friction.)
Woo! More logistics techies for me to meet in my new city! I just emailed you guys.
Driving in the United States is a means of converting gasoline into square feet of living space.

We have close to taxation of Ricardian land rents, but probably not enough. Even if it's not absolutely true, Georgist land rents taxation is very interesting nonetheless.
Thanks for that encouraging data point.

We need a neutral, replicable client-side data store with standardized interfaces for automated analysis/filtering/reading. This could be an offline archive of docs, web browser history or online/cloud bookmarks, along with _private_ annotations about content and authors (e.g. killfiles, quality ratings).

If the datastore is open (standard & source), there could be healthy competition among proprietary apps to use the datastore, but not control it. NNTP could predictively replicate (via home wifi) a subset of this cache to mobile based on personal calendar, reducing public network usage.

What's good about this approach is that it would surpass the usability of mobile apps + public cloud, thanks to the private cache reducing the impact of public network latency. With neverending hijinks on net neutrality and web standards, it may be worth exploring NNTP pub/sub between home server/laptop and mobile devices.
I can't believe how bad Square PR is especially with such a media darling at the top. How did it manage to lose so many large PR episodes such as Rabois, Starbucks, IPO, it's general health, as a workplace, etc (all the myths, I guess)?

It's on track for $30b+ in payment volume which blows away all other payments startups. It's one of the fastest growing payments companies ever. It's opened up a whole new merchant category.

And this blog post is so defensive.

Weird.
The Pressures of Success in Undergraduate Computer Science Programs
Beacon (YC W14) Is Crowdfunding Journalism In Ferguson, Missouri
> XMPP, IRC

I actually think these guys are interesting exceptions. Yes, they are still around, but they've largely been eclipsed by proprietary solutions. Why? Why did Twitter storm to success XMPP was ostensibly the same thing but with all of these good qualities (open, federated, decentralised, etc.). Still to this day messaging is a battleground for new entrants touting completely opaque solutions. It seems like there's something more to success than just being open, federated and decentralised.
The reason for banning it is more about stuff like flying over a field with detection equipment looking for marijuana, it's not because hemp will get you high.
At least they didn't have the obligatory "Can everyone hear me?" "I hope you can all see this" "Oops that's not working", etc.

I agree. I'd much rather read it and, no, "slides from the talk" aren't good enough.
I would think of it as more code that generates code, or functions that get called at compile time rather than run time.
I've had code that I copied and pasted, and changed, but couldn't factor out into a separate function easily. In those cases, a macro to write the code would have worked nicely.
I haven't been Gladwelled as I avoid the guy and this is my own opinion formed from being around a fair number of very smart people over the course of my life. In my opinion, IQ matters to a point, "good-enough" if you want to call it that, and then other personality factors or strengths and weaknesses take over.
CopyCat: Protocol-agnostic implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm
Besides those already mentioned, there's Dylan, which was originally S-expression based before switching to it's Wirth-style syntax.
More like the original CPU/microprocessor. The man behind the Z80 was also the main contributor to Intel's 8080 as well as the 4004, which is arguably the foundation of a general purpose computer (calculator + memory) on an integrated circuit (microprocessor). I wouldn't say so much simple as it is ingenious.
See Boston Review (Mar 2014) editorial on pseudonyms, with responses by Frank Pasquale, Bruce Schneier,
Richard Stallman, Evgeny Morozov & others, http://bostonreview.net/forum/reed-hundt-saving-privacy
Well, I figure the zipper would have built-in Bluetooth so it would alert me when I start to travel some distance while down.
> The buyer, an Italian, was in town for a week, with a million or so dollars to spend. We met one Sunday morning at 20 Pine, a Financial District condo building. She wore a red scarf, jangly jewelry, and a pair of lime-green sunglasses perched atop her curly hair, and she told me she would prefer to remain anonymous. Working through a shell company, she was looking to anchor some of her wealth in an advantageous port: New York City.

Article is a fascinating read: http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-y...
Simplicity and lack of time. :) We'd love to move to something more language-agnostic for the schema definitions. If you're interested, we'd definitely accept a patch.
Bitcoin is better IMO.

But I agree that email is a great thing. I hope someone creates a sick email client that turns back the flow from Facebook to the email. I'm fine with Thunderbird + Enigmail, but I don't see the average person using it any time soon (or ever if unchanged).
Obfuscation is a really exciting field that's blown up in the last year or so. Hopefully advancements will bring down some of the parameters so that we can see small-scale obfuscation in the real world.
Looks really awesome! Love the Github and Sublime plugins.

Unfortunately I can't try it out as there doesn't seem to be a Windows version. Any plans for one?
Thanks, and that's my great contribution to humanity folks.
Now I'm going to retire to the rocking chair on the porch and reminisce about the good-ole-days when I first conceived of the Bluetooth fly-zipper.
We haven't looked at llvm yet. None of the tools for the existing languages we've targeted so far (Python, JavaScript, Go, and Ruby) had llvm-based tools that we chose to use. It would be AWESOME to hook it up to llvm. We'll help however we can, if you are interested. I'm sqs@sourcegraph.com.
In what way are you contradicting Tharkun? I can't figure it out.

"Please don't make the assumption that other's experience of the man-made world around us is in any way similar to yours, that's just not true." Where did s/he? I'm genuinely stumped.

Learning to drive a car IS inherently hard (as in complex), just as "e-mail encryption and identity management", and that is a fact. If you for some reason are more or less adept than the average person at either of these things, I don't see what difference that makes to the reality of the situation. Like driverdan said, if you simply can't do something, you'll have to find a workaround.
You would have to first port the ruby interpreter to the Zilog Z80 which could be a challenge because it is only an 8bit CPU!

The GBA actually has a 32 bit ARM CPU, although a very slow one (16 Mhz) so perhaps it would be possible to build a very minimal Ruby VM for that. I wonder if it would be possible to optimize by building a JIT compiler and JITing on an emulator before installing on the cartridge?
I do exactly the same thing. As long as the lyrics are completely mundane/meaningless they don't screw up my internal monologue.
Haskell's "Template Haskell" system is pretty sophisticated... And challenging enough to be some deep black magic.

You end up being able to reify the entire Haskell syntax tree from "quoted" fragments, manipulate and generate a modified tree, and then "print" it back into program flow.

Totally capable, but not terrifically fun. It also has some compilation restrictions which are annoying if necessary.
FFS! The solution to the problem is simple, ISPs (and mobile providers) should be competing to deliver the fattest pipe for the lowest cost, with no extra "value add". All this stuff about "not all bits are equal" shouldn't even be something we need to consider, if the bandwidth is abundant then any potential issue here goes away.

As for the pacemakers vs. Netflix argument, decent web routers have something called QoS that allow you to prioritise web content, that's at the level that such decisions should be made, not made by ISPs and mobile providers.
Well, based on the thread I created a quick mockup of the app I envisioned: http://invis.io/9K181IPES

If anyone cares to contribute (or develop), feel free.
Before creating an app or web application you need to identify which need or problem you are trying to solve and for who, after knowing this, you need to create something that adds value to these people, and not only create something just to create.
Remember that the people you target your project, are the one that are going to spend their time and maybe their money using your product, so it is important that you consider their opinions in the different circumstances that appear during the project development. So when your product is ready, it is an awesome product for your users, and this users can communicate (recommend)to their friends to use your app. Remember the most powerful way to let you know as a new app, business, service, etc. It's by recommendations, because as humans we trust more in what our friends and family say to us than what a blog can say. So remember to be recommended you need to add value to your early users.
Plasma cannons don't kill people, people kill people, and we've already invented those.
Looking at the history of it, the reason for banning it seems to be largely down to pressure from the cotton industry. So, the fact that some strains could get you high was the method used to outlaw it, not the reason why it was outlawed.
That still has lots of noise, arguably. Angular brackets somehow feel more noisy to me than the other brackets/braces, they work better as arrows and inequality operators. A single colon would also look better, I think, and the underscore could be dropped...
> Is email our last success in popularizing an open and federated standard?

Isn't the Web younger?
what if we limit email to 140 characters and make it the ultimate decentralized push notification system?
In particular, you can't access (read or write) off either end of an allocated block. Well, if the block is of (nominal) length 0, there is nowhere to access safely.
Actually the D + D reaction has two equally probable branches (and one very improbable one that makes an alpha particle and a gamma ray, which is mostly ignored), one makes Tritium and a Proton and the other makes D + He3. So the D + D reaction will breed He3 fuel, along with Tritium. The resulting proton from the Tritium branch can also combine with Deuterium and create Helium 3 as well in the right conditions. Under carefully control, the right conditions, and with some engineering work I would wager you could bias the reactions and side reactions towards creating more Helium 3.
Hmm...

Worst compression algorithm ever:

1) make a URL containing the data to compress (perhaps base-38 encoded or something)
2) Send it to a URL shortening service
3) store the returned link
4) use it every so often to ensure the link doesn't go dead
5) profit!
Probably, but it's unlikely to be from convolutional neural networks.
Atos’ ‘zero email initiative’ succeeding (2013)
> I'm actually afraid that the internet is moving to this model, specifically with Facebook. How many times have you seen an ad that, instead of a URL, asks you to go to their Facebook page?

No more often than I used to see the same thing with an AOL Keyword instead of a URL. I don't think the internet is "moving to this model" so much as it is a model which periodically emerges when a particular portal is dominant enough with the commercially-relevant audience, and fades as the dominance of that single portal.
Great. The main page looks exactly like gmane, but all was explained by http://gwene.org/about.php.

Sample web interface to NNTP messages, http://read.gwene.org/group/gwene.com.nytimes.nyt.rss.books

I wonder how long they keep articles? Could be useful for podcasts.