skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I have a chip on my shoulder abot this because up to about 15 years ago SA used to be incredibly good- a solid digest of non-specialist science education for about $100 year. I would happily have paid more, I considered the time and dollar cost involved well worth it for the intellectual exercise it provided.

Then they went downmarket in search of a circulation boost and it's been in decline ever since. I stopped reading the month I noticed that I had consumed the new issue in 3 hours rather than the usual 6, and took out an issue from a few months earlier to compare - turned out that they increased the font size and line spacing to produce a magazine with the same number of pages and the same price but about 30% less text. I hope an asteroid lands on their offices and reduces them to a smoking crater in the ground.
Could you go into a little more detail on how the process is for adding sounds and sprites to the game?

I am very interested in this type of work and have been hacking at trying to build a game for the SNES. All I've been able to do so far is to collect all relevant documentation for developing it: https://github.com/bttf/snes_dev
I recommend the book "The Now Habit" to anyone interested in fixing procrastination. It's a decent read, and you'll learn a thing or two about how to deal with procrastination.
I think what you're identifying is mostly the baby boom.
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They claim several times that it does not require cell phone coverage, but from the screen shots on http://www.play-tag.com/info/#about it appears that you have to log into the app before you can use it?
The chart is a timeline, the letters are worthy news articles. This is me mousing over "F". You can adjust the dates too = start to finish.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipzgu3k45vx9cii/Screenshot%202014-...
The cool thing about this too is the user (dog owner) can set a reward for the finder, with this non-dog owners will get on board with the app too!
I really wish that these things were easily transcribed. It'd be so much easier to read this presentation with pictures than to watch it on youtube.
What's to stop Netflix from later on asking the ISPs to pay for the cost of OpenConnect? The way that satellite TV networks charge a subscriber fee to the cable operators. Netflix has stated that they want to become like HBO. I don't imagine they're unfamiliar with how HBO become so successful.
Seems kind of annoying and inefficient to me. If I took someone out on a date and started talking about tumors I'd rather they say to talk about something else than just be polite like he did. Then I could integrate the suggestion and maybe we'd have a good time. He had to wait for years for another chance at something that could have been fixed with thirty seconds of honestly.
Awesome! Thank you for the extra tips!
You know that the Chinese government can buy secrets from native-born citizens, too, right?

Workers in foreign countries and spying in those countries are not necessarily related in any way, aside from the occasional discount windfall that states get from assets with the right sense of patriotism, personal weakness, or political alignment.

There isn't really a trade happening there. The Chinese spying hurts everyone who is not a state-owned copycat company, regardless of their country of origin. The American spying hurts everyone who conducts business over the Internet or travels internationally. The ordinary Chinese people and American people get screwed both ways, because they're unimportant nobodies to the superpower state actors. So let's not get all defensive and start pointing fingers at each other, ok?
Here's a project that was on HN a while ago you may be interested in: http://jsonresume.org/
While proprietary and not very open to (or usable at all by...) hobbyists, ARMs Jazelle[1] is listed there at the bottom:

> The most prominent use of Jazelle DBX is by manufacturers of mobile phones to increase the execution speed of Java ME games and applications. A Jazelle-aware Java Virtual Machine (JVM) will attempt to run Java bytecodes in hardware, while returning to the software for more complicated, or lesser-used bytecode operations. ARM claims that approximately 95% of bytecode in typical program usage ends up being directly processed in the hardware.

Jazelle seems to be "old news" now though, replaced by something else.

While not the same thing as a hardware Java implementation, JavaCard[2] is pretty interesting. It's quite a bit different from "big" Java (especially the language features available), but it's very widely adopted in mobile phone SIM cards and traditional smart cards. I've got a yubikey neo here which is a JavaCard smartcard intentionally left very open to experimentation (the keys needed to manage the card and upload new applets aren't secret). I've uploaded applets to it on my own, both the OpenPGP applet and some simple stuff I wrote to play around.

[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

[2]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
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Presumably because they can then increase revenue by charging for the peering.

And as other have noted, the issues with defacto colocation.
Because they don't have the choice to leave, and they usually don't get given the full details before they arrive.
A good example of the debate and tactics I'm describing. :)

If you agree that women are not somehow less mentally capable than men, then the fact that technical jobs are 85% dominated by men should be a concern. Not just for "normative" reasons or "statistical equity", but simply that there are a lot of talented people being excluded for one reason or another. If not, you should explain WHY not. Anomalies demand explanation.

You dismiss the numbers because of an assumed equality of treatment and saying, well, I don't see anything therefore it's not a problem... and if it is, it's somebody else's problem. That's exactly the mismatch of rigor I'm talking about. You put the burden on others to "prove" that something is amiss, then when they do, demand more.
You see I didn't even know about that feature, definitely something I 'd like to look into using.
I was trying to be nice. I'm a strong environmentalist via academics (BS/MS in environmental science), and currently a research analyst in renewable energy economics, so I have very strong feelings (and I like to think a well-grounded sense) about how fucked the environment and incentives around it are.

I was giving a (very) charitable reading of the occasional claim that Uber will change the way everything works via its framework. A more tempered tone normally does better on HN, but to be totally honest, I don't think any of those companies I mentioned could even come near what Helion would achieve if successful.
I hear ya but check out the crowd sourcing feature where other app users can pick up the location of you dog & get a monetary reward. If you're a dog owner, I would love to get more of your input - maggie@play-tag.com
Net neutrality was NEVER about making all content equally available to every consumer regardless of geography and network topology. If you're European or American serve customers in Australia, you should put a server there at your own cost, or your Australian users will suffer, net neutrality or not.

Netflix OpenConnect is just doing that on a much larger scale.
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First point, Hope so., I have decided to put on some additional features once if this base concept is fine.

Second point, I thing you are right.. My mistake, Irony is doing this right after reading this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177997
Placebos can work on cancer, it's just very rare. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/1/19.full It's common for drug responses to depend on genetics. Remember the BiDil drug which works for a much higher percentage of black people than white people? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/health/24drugs.html
Very informative. Another tax haven many people are unaware of is the City of London. George Monbiot puts it this way: The Corporation of the City of London is the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely powerful, equally unaccountable. (See http://www.monbiot.com/2011/10/31/wealth-destroyers/
and http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporati... )
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So why JavaScript for the assembler? Was it familiarity with the language, did the dynamic nature of the language help out...?
If folks want to try it on a real Gameboy without all the wires, the Drag'n'Derp works pretty well. It's a Gameboy cart with a USB port for easy writing: http://derpcart.com/
it probably means it doesn't use the cellular network, so it's doesn't require a SIM. To connect you can use wifi.
Troubleshooting the issue similar to (1) was one of my interview questions for a while - though with HTTP. It's a treasure trove of discussion at very different levels.

Another "fun" (and hard to debug for the first time) is the problems triggered by duplex mismatch - though the asymmetric ~1/10 difference in performance quickly becomes a signature once you met it once or twice. Also good anchor where you can go into many types of discussions.

The very similar to (3) I've seen manifested in IPv6 - due to Neighbor Discovery working over multicast, and potentially asymmetric ways of multicast propagating within the L2 segment (different L2 switches on two sides, etc.)

But very interesting to learn this asymmetricity in Solaris stack, thanks!
So pricey though, and there is a subscription fee. Not to mention the hassle of recharging for 24+ hrs.
My mother was an RN in the US, she said she'd never heard of anything like it.
> Problem is, it's not obvious this can be done without compromising privacy of location.

That's a problem for Free Software running on local machines!
I'll never understand being able to kill someone in a humane way(through acts of war). You're killing someone.
Energy Harvesting: A Snapshot in Time
Which is a very good point indeed.
The S&P 500 is up about 7% annually over the last 5 years, with inflation never exceeding 3% over that period. That leaves a calm 4% real return on one of the less risky investment options.
I've done this once, in one of the tanks with a latch described. It's interesting, sure, but its also really uncomfortable in there. The air is super humid and thick, it's almost difficult to breathe. I'm not ever claustrophobic, but I had fleeting nervous thoughts of being stuck in there. Overall I'm happy I did it once, but I don't think I'm willing to pay the price to do that to myself very often.
One account has been submitting exclusively from this site. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges.

In general, though, Nautil.us produces good articles and most of the submissions have been from users with solid histories. We'd be lucky if the median story quality on HN were as high as the current post.
What's to stop Netflix from later on asking the ISPs to pay for the cost of OpenConnect?

The fact that ISPs will unplug it five seconds later.

The way that satellite TV networks charge a subscriber fee to the cable operators.

HBO only charges each customer once (via the cable company). If Netflix tried to double-dip by charging the customer directly and also charging the ISP they'd get rightly flamed.
EDIT: This comment is a little fuzzy in places on the distinction between a culture, and a member of a culture, vs a species, and a member of a species. (Evolution always acts individually, and an adaption always works to increase the fitness of an individual organism) I'd clean it up, but this is a comment thread on a submission with 3 votes, so approximately nobody will ever see it...

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Alrighty, let's formalize this a little.

A successful culture is one that increases the frequency of its memes in the population. (Precisely analogous to biological organisms, genes, and the genepool) A society wants the frequency of its memes to hit 100% of the population. (To the extent a society "wants" anything, sins of teleology, etc)

Ok. To accomplish this goal, we have three strategies.

1.) Produce children, and inculcate them with the culture's memes.
2.) Instead of having children, infect other organisms
with your culture's memes. (The Hollywood model)
3.) Instead of having children or making movies, increase
the frequency of your memes by *reducing* the frequ-
ency of competing memes, by killing their carriers.
(The genocide model)

Any given culture is pursuing all three strategies simultaneously, of course, but with differing priority for each.

It's quite possible for a vigorous new culture/species to arise, have a population boom, and "evolve to extinction". (http://lesswrong.com/lw/l5/evolving_to_extinction/) A series of adaptations, each of which increase the individual fitness of each individual member/organism, but inevitably lead to the population declining, and the culture/species ceasing to exist. The canonical example are the Shakers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers) who were quite active during the 19th century, but whose memes required celibacy of its members, and so the entire culture lasted for only one lifetime.

Evolution doesn't care. Nothing requires that an entire culture/species abruptly switch memes/genes when an omniscient observer notices they're they're climbing a local maxima.
I'm not really sure I understand the marketing. For lost pets, bluetooth really isn't a reliable or great solution. If you could pair the tag with a smart dog bowl, or treat dispenser then you may be on to something interesting.

If you want a iBeacon for your dog, you can just pick up a TI SensorTag and it includes 6 sensors, and code ready to go for using with iOS and Android. All for $25 / half the price.

http://www.ti.com/ww/en/wireless_connectivity/sensortag/inde...
He could be kicked out of day care for having no home address.

What the FUCK is that about? How can anyone justify that? "Oh, I see you're spiralling downward. Here's a fucking boot on your kid's head to make sure he gets right down to the bottom with you." That's a fucking disgrace.
> The risk of #3 is that they don't create fusion but they do develop a machine that can emit streams of hot plasma which is then turned into the Navy's weapon of choice for close weapons support on carrier battle groups.

The possibility of pivoting your business model to "building plasma cannons for the Navy" is less of a risk and more of an awesome opportunity. I mean, defense contracting is a bit of a drag and there's tons of red tape, but if there's anything as cool as building fusion reactors small enough to replace diesel generators, it's building plasma cannons for the Navy.
I'm not sure that I like this. I know it's not really like Adblock or whatever it's called.

I never notice advertisements, and I am surprised more people aren't the same. You've been doing the same thing for years -- it's so easy to tell what's content and who's not.

I so occasionally get caught by the very clever ones - and so what? If you're big on privacy, I guess you would care more tun I would

As I'm growing older I don't mind donating small amounts of monies to good websites and projects. I just wish more people were like me in that regards -- it'd definitely be more profitable IMO. Has anyone got any experience in this (a/b testing maybe?!). I think this behaviour came from the ease of buying from Google Play or the App store... It's almost like, "I just spent $35 on apps last night?"

Some corporate advertisements really are stupid. I just imagine someone's crated the perfect advert and the client goes, "make it pop!!!". Those are the ones I would not mind vanishing - but if it's helping the website then I'm all for it -- my continued visits are purely based on their content and ease of use.
Also the only feature that requires this is for the health info of the dog which is stored on the cloud - all other features do not require cell phone service.
On the contrary, how many children one has is ultimately
selected by evolution. For a given species in a given
environment, there is an optimal number of offspring. Too
few or too many, and the trait is selected against.

No adaptation ever selects for zero children.

(Edit: replace gene with adaptation)
They already are paying. These servers require power and space.
Nobody (sane) is trying to force ISPs to accept the boxes. But if an ISP refuses the boxes and they refuse to peer and they refuse to have uncongested transit... people start talking about regulation.

Also, a "negotiation" with a monopoly is often indistinguishable from extortion.
I don't think I need a browser extension to tell me that the bulk of content on the example sites they show (especially Forbes and Buzzfeed) is sponsored.

I'm more interested to see how it performs on less obvious sites that at least maintain an air of journalistic integrity.
I love this question because it helps illustrate just how different fusion is from other energy sources. If it works, a 50 MW Fusion Engine would run for 5-10 years on a single 55 gallon drum of heavy water.
The subconscious mind is a very powerful thing. Even if you say you don't respect those people more than others, it doesn't mean that you don't.
Wow. "Who are you working for" is very unproductive. No argument on HN has ever been made stronger by the suggestion that its opponent is a shill.
My parents love to lecture me about the dangers of living in the city, so I added up homicide and traffic deaths (per 100k):

Chicago: 3.3 homicides (north side) + 5.2 traffic = 8.5

Fairfax County: 1.4 homicides + 7 traffic deaths = 8.4

If you're white or asian and don't drive in Chicago:

Chicago: 2.5 homicides + 1.1 pedestrian deaths = 3.6

From the yuppie perspective, the scary thing about traffic deaths is that you can't buy your way out of that risk the way you can buy your way out of crime risk. Your middle class teenage kids are highly unlikely to be the victims of violent crime, but are a major portion of the body count of driving deaths.
Hemp Fibres Better than Graphene for Supercapacitors
Sony switched over from Linux (ps3) to kfreebsd (ps4) due to licensing. Sure they (netflix) contribute back to FreeBSD, I don't doubt it, but don't act like licensing doesn't have anything to do with it.
They are afraid of people yelling, holding signs, and putting up graffiti, to kill a cop, kill all cops. Afraid of people kicking, hitting them. Turning over their police cars. Burning down, destroying, and looting businesses, even when customers and employs are there. They're scared of the bricks being thrown at them. Glass bottles flying at their heads. The children in the homes behind their barricade. The citizens who can't get through the area and home to their children. The parents who can go to work to support their families, because their job isn't there anymore or the roads are blocked. The cops have all been theatened with death - what would you do? I personally don't care what color or class the protesters are, If I was a cop, I'd be at the same point. Let's not forget, the cops aren't all in town officers, they've been brought in because the department needed help, so if it wasn't cops dressed/armed this way, it would be the national guard. When the national guard comes in, it will look much worse.
He3 is never added? How long can a reactor run without supplying He3?

(This thread is having a hard time settling on a single isotope notation.)
Is there a reason why the scan results require committer access?

Coverity says that only "project members" can get access to the full bug reports. IIRC there's also a rule about not posting verbatim Coverity reports anywhere publicly visible.

I assume this is "stop the competition from seeing what we're doing", but I've never asked.
That's really pretty impressive work. Will be interesting to see the fruits of their labours at smaller (and larger) scales.
Is this an aggregator of real-time news, or a curator of old news?
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There is actually an excellent coverage in this week's LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/608426/

The article is behind a paywall this week, it'll be available for free next week. I'd give you an access link that subscribers can dole out, but I really think LWN deserves subscriber income for being the best Linux and FOSS original content news source out there, and they (mostly the amazing Jonathan Corbet) are in a lot of financial strain already (because you know, having cancer in the american healthcare system)
It's a risk to the investment firms because it would deplete an upside they get from this investment: the halo effect.
The stat I find easiest to get is the death toll on US roads each month is the same as 9/11. Trillions of dollars were spent on the latter, while as you noted the monthly road death toll doesn't merit even a peep.
This story made me tear up. Awesome project for your grandfather!
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Buena Gabriel! Much better than your z80 emulator ;)
Network effects are great...when you have them. But in the beginning you won't. That's why if you can provide value to an individual user without requiring network effects, it will make your life a lot easier.

In this case, if you get bloggers using your product, logging their trips, etc, you'll slowly build up your content. Once it's comprehensive enough for travellers to get value from it, you'll be able to build network effects from a much stronger position.
As they say: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast"
It is interesting to find out how other people play your games. I had one where I knew to just touch and hold, but when other people swiped repeatedly it showed a problem that I would have never seen on my own.
Why FreeBSD - 18:30

Why no ZFS - 21:30
The only major ISP I know that definitively is part of OpenConnect is Optimum (Cablevision). That's why they have the fastest Netflix speeds (only after Google Fiber, and even then it is close) on the ISP Index Netflix publishes each month.

As an Optimum subscriber, I can say there is a massive difference between the Netflix experience at my apartment in Brooklyn compared to Netflix at my office in Manhattan.
Following a script to start a conversation can help if you lack social confidence. But it shouldn't be a means of manipulating people. That seems a bit too much like being a Pick-Up-Artist.
Politeness serves as a buffer. It gives you time to evaluate the situation and gain more information while keeping you from making a rash judgement - both positive and negative. Later on, it keeps you from unnecessarily making enemies of the people you don't respect but must nevertheless deal with. It works hand in hand with patience, which I see as being in very short supply these days. In my experience, it is an extremely valuable trait.
Gov't contractors with YW clearances. Some people talk about it but don't name the software. The idea has been out there for a long time. The issue is in the public sector is the legality of it -- you'd technically get hit hard with a CFAA probably.
> The fact that ISPs will unplug it five seconds later.

At the risk of angering the many people who watch Netflix.

I don't get the double-dipping argument either. We already have that with television, newspapers, and radio being paid by advertisers yet still charging a subscription to viewers.