skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What he's referring to is a transfer function.

The marching cubes are not just evaluated to find the surface where Voxel(xyz)=value

But rather F(Voxel(xyz))=value

What gets interesting is that both pre-interpolated, and post-interpolated versions are interesting.
Yeah, the only reason I can see to keep this invite-only is to try to create artifical cachet about being in a community of "smart people".
>Plenty of people, especially those who are younger and don't have families, spend their evenings and weekends working on side projects after work. I don't really see a compelling argument in your point...

You haven't really responded to the argument. The question is not whether people spend time on side projects when working.

Instead, the question is, would MORE people spend time on side projects with more school, and would they spend MORE time doing so?

I had so much more free time in school. Though on the other hand I had no idea where to direct it.
>Fridays are half days as long as you get in your 40 hours by noon on Friday

You keep track of hours? Aren't you salaried professionals? Who cares how long you work if you get your work done.
Ah, I smell the sort of thing where the only answer you'll accept, and the only answer I can give is, "Go ahead and try it."

You'll find out why it's hard in a way that no amount of explaining will do, and you'll find reality less amenable to argumentation than comment boxes.

(If you do try it, make sure you've got two different devices, ideally two different types, and be sure to be streaming from somewhere at least 50ms away on the network, ideally with at least a few ms in variance between requests. Though odds are pretty good that even trying to stream the same song to two identical devices over a local Wifi network would only work most of the time, you'd find...)
What if there are other (and better) ways of achieving the same thing, but without state and taxation? Would you consider them?
At my job we've been doing 4x10 schedule and it works pretty well for the most part, but there are downsides. A 3 day weekend is great, but less great if your spouse/family is not around that extra day. Also, the extra day tends to get filled up with chores or other stuff. It becomes everyone else's "catch all" kind of day.

I have noticed that 10 hour days tend to grind on a team and it can make a bad situation potentially worse than it actually is as people get stressed out or tired during a compressd time period.

I think a better solution doesn't lie in rearranging the 40 hour week. I think it lies in a 20 hour week. Work two days, "rest" 5 days. Work becomes the exception, not the rule.

We absolutely right now have enough productivity at our fingertips that the average person could work 20 hour weeks and probably get about the same amount of stuff done, just with less time spent "working" while on twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. throughout the day. There would be less time spent emailing and frankly, I'm not sure people would notice the difference in output, but they'd probably notice the difference in their life.

For most people, the problem is pay and it's not because there isn't enough money to make this work, it's because people attach salaries to the notion of the 40 hour week and how things traditionally are run. For many businesses, a 20 hour week would be plenty if people accepted this reality and worked around it.

The fact is, all the gains in productivity from automation and technology for the most part have gone to the bottom line profits, not to the employees pocketbooks.

If we are going to start negotiating for better work life balance and working conditions, don't just shuffle hours around, eliminate the nonessential busy work that fills the day and work towards a dramatic improvement, not just an incremental change.
Very nicely done. It relies on MathJax, which makes the equations look great. A joy to behold.

Not to be a spoilsport, but where's the PDF version? I know this isn't likely, given that they're offering a downloadable version for a fee, but it would be nice.
One example of this I've used in the past is a maternity ward. This is very clearly a health facility with a high level of gender bias. It is not sexist in the least though.

I haven't figured out a good example of something that is sexist that doesn't display gender bias though...
Weird, my Spotify kept playing while the map was mapping... I had to manually hit pause in the Spotify client...
Can't tell if you are trolling or being serious.
>Your long memory is, IMO, working against you here.

What you wrote and what I wrote I don't think conflict at all, so I don't know why you'd say it is working against me. Also I have found references to what I wrote in writing[0] so I'm not completely crazy.

Now, an anecdote that I might screw up because my memory is fuzzy about it, is that the founder of Instacart was given a copy of Webvan's business plan on a floppy as a sort of "Good luck!" token.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-By-Step...
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I'm responding to one reductio ad absurdum with another reductio ad absurdum.
I covered that in the original comment, immediately after the part you quote.

>> As you adjust the rules of society to favor having children and not working at the expense of those who work and delay their children, you'll find that the demographics of society adjust to the new rules.

What's more, it's already happening right now, so a better question might be "why do you think making this lifestyle more attractive would make the problem worse"
"Much publicity has been given to the good effects of carrots on night vision and some newspapers have even begun to use the vegetable as a nickname for certain ace pilots. Actually, night-fighter pilots don't eat anymore carrots than day fighters do..." —LIFE June 23, 1941

(Not quite the same, but in a similar vein)
And where would we get our fruits and vegetables? And at what cost?
This is great, but had a hard time getting attention because posts without URLs get penalized.

I suggest that you post the API page using the URL you mentioned, then add your question as a first comment in that thread. Good luck!
What if we just stopped caring about weeks and employers required 20 days of work per month?

If you wanted an extra long vacation, you could work 40 days in a row and take 20 days off.

This, in addition, to the 13-month, 28-day calendar would be interesting time innovations to me.

I also find 100-second minutes and 10-hour days intriguing. But we would have to redefine the second.
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If by doing "bad things" (uh), we prevent more bad things or worse things from happening, then I'm going to advocate for "bad things".

As a thought experiment, why don't you think of what would happen if healthcare wasn't heavily subsidized by Governments?

I'll even make it easier for you...just compare various quality of life statistics between countries where there is quality healthcare provided to citizens by the Government (no, US doesn't qualify...Scandinavian countries do) and a country where the Government doesn't do that (US states that chose to participate in ACA Medicaid expansion qualify).
In the form I think you mean this, it's nonsense, but it's worth pointing out that you can get free continuing education in most fields right now through the internet.
I agree -- this is a terrific book, very rewarding read. A subsequent work on the same general topic, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, is also an excellent book:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/19/specials/rhodes-dark.h...
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I wonder if there's a hardware fix. A familiar way to make a system more tolerant of blackout is to detect and use the grace period between when incoming power goes down and the internal power supply loses regulation. When this condition is detected, it triggers a process to gracefully square things away. Noncritical peripherals, such as graphics display, are allowed to simply capsize.

Does the Pi already monitor its supply voltages? If not, something could be hung on the GPIO to monitor +5 V. More elaborate circuitry can be used to extend the duration of the grace period if needed. (Diodes and capacitors, nothing exotic).
> Because we don't want to support a permanent underclass of parasites?

Of course we do! Compare the crime rates (or worthy index of your choice) between countries that actively try to provide these things to everyone versus those that don't.

> As you adjust the rules of society to favor having children and not working at the expense of those who work and delay their children, you'll find that the demographics of society adjust to the new rules.

Compare the birth rates between the countries that provide all of these things and those that don't.

For reference, Finland's birth rate is 1.80 per woman (and dropping), below the replacement rate of 2.1, and has been that way since 1969.

Your theories and sayings may have some credibility, but data and evidence trumps.
It's not odd... it's traditional touch-typing.
It should be your ring-finger for ( and your pinky for ).

Many people seem to type it the way you have just suggested (middle/ring) - myself included. I'm currently re-training myself to do that properly.. it feels weird at first, but I'm starting to get the feeling it will actually be faster.

Your touch typing can always be better, right?
Forgive my ignorance but why would it scale geometrically? I tried to quickly think of a complexity analysis and I don't see where you are coming from.
The spotify app 'Soundrop' does this. You can create rooms with a shared queue where music plays simulataneously.
The Japanese by contrast never developed truly effective airborne radar during WW2, so actually did select the pilots with the best night vision to fly their night fighters.
Not really. Different hardware constraints can make serious differences in performance metrics. Some systems perform better on high memory systems and low hd speed, others are the opposite.
You seem to view cheap year round access to fresh vegetables of all varieties as some kind of basic right. We are used to that luxury now, but a mere fifty years ago...
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Saying something is absurd doesn't make it so. I'm usually willing to explain my position and to back it up with both logic and evidence. I think when you say "taxation is theft" people have a knee jerk reaction. But I don't think it's wise to disregard an argument simply because it doesn't comply with your worldview. I personally am always willing to change my opinion given that someone provides enough logic and evidence and I'd expect the same from other people. But nobody ever convinced anybody else their ideas are good by applying force and threats. If taxes were a good idea, you wouldn't need IRS.
userbinator explained how this is possible above:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210453
yes, it is a big deal
MarkLogic does this too (I think they have been doing it since '03 or something like that)(

http://www.marklogic.com/blog/acid-transactions-check/
Yikes, approximately the Pi's specs at 3 times the cost. Might make sense for a business, but not for me. :(
This is highly dependent on jobs that don't require "coverage". Lots of jobs do not fit into that category but could still benefit from a reduced work week.
I wonder how much additional strain this puts on the fault lines that riddle the area.
> [1] I'm less concerned about this, because it's a fraud.

A fraud of what? It may not be the cloth in which Jesus was wrapped, but it's still very old nonetheless and certainly not a painting from the Middle Ages as some charlatans tried to portray it.
LLVM?
An iOS version already exists.
That's actually a very weak part of the article. Finnish state unemployment benefits, even for the people refusing to seek employment, are bigger than students' grants. You are uneligible for unemployment benefits as long as you are eligible for students' grants. So while the grants may sound high to some, they are actually a scheme to discourage you from taking too much time studying.
I understand "free of charge" to not mean "free", but rather no charge to the consumer at the point of service/care. It doesn't preclude some other funding model.

I'd argue that "access" refers to availability, free of charge or not. In other words, access to health care is quite possibly the highest in the USA. For $$$ I could get virtually any borderline necessary procedure available performed tomorrow, a level of access not available in most of the rest of the world.
I'm skeptical that this has no implications for humans. (Not to say that I think it has implications; rather, I feel the claim that it has none isn't obviously substantiated.) IIRC, undersea earthquakes can be more common at low tide, because the reduced water mass sitting atop a fault line can allow it to slip more easily.

I'd be tremendously surprised if a reduction in water weight equivalent to a year's losses from the Greenland Ice Sheet doesn't change the strain pattern on some of the incredibly overdue fault lines in California. Enough to facilitate or even induce a slip? I have no idea. But absent better information, I have to be skeptical of a claim that there are "no implications".
Brilliant stuff!

I wish there was a history of the pairs. I really liked some song snippets but before I could hit space to continue playing, it disappeared...
I didn't downvote you for pointing out it's standard text on job listings. I downvoted you because of the "Were you two born yesterday?" question which is rude and unnecessary.
Then you are much like the overwhelming majority of other university students, which I think makes my point for me.

Torvalds is the exception, not the rule. He had an idea and the motivation and knowledge to turn it into life. Could he have done this if he'd had to pay for school? Could he have done it in 4 years, instead of 8? Could he have done it after work instead of after class? With the possible caveat that it may have taken a little longer, I'm willing to bet the answer is "yes" to all three.

More importantly, to me at least, how many people do we let goof off for 8 years in the hopes of getting a fraction of a percent who are a Torvalds or a Bill Gates? Who, I'd like to remind everyone, dropped out of Harvard to start a company instead of sitting around doing it after class for the better part of a decade.
We'd pay more. And? Out of season access to fresh fruits and veg is even more recent a development than dense human settlement in LA.
the clips are spotify's preview mp3s, which are selected at random from the song. i know at least one very clever person at spotify who is trying to extract the 'hook' or 'recognisable part', and it worked really well last time i listened.
> Yeah but in all fairness that's only a couple years and is where most of your learning will occur.

Oh, well that makes sense then. People learn best when they're depressed and sleep-deprived, right?
What you just described is pretty much universally handled by editor integration.... I can't imagine anyone actually develops lisp without this.

The editor is hooked directly up to a running image.. a keypress (or two) causes an expression to be executed in the running image... you can flip to the REPL and goof around directly and/or at the same time work from one or more editor buffers and selectively execute code as you desire.
You can bust into the debugger whenever you feel like it, etc etc.

Someone else described it better above I think - but this image-based interaction is one of the most attractive things for many - it goes well beyond just having a REPL where you can evaluate code... lisp was basically designed around the idea of interactive development.

If you think this through to a large, complex project - you can have a giant running application, working in production, and still attach to it with an editor/environment and debug it live... that's hard to do with anything else.
One weeks worth of plate tectonic tension apparently
It can't be "fixed", per se, but there is an argument that a market price for water would at least be a better system for allocation.

Of course, this is easy to say from Toronto.
Christ, people like you are the reason the US is still doesn't have national free healthcare. I would gladly let the government take 40% of my paycheck if it meant any and all illnesses were covered 100% free of charge for every american citizen.
You're forgetting that Accept headers vary among clients — each non-bit-for-bit identical version will be cached separately. Vary:User-Agent takes that problem and raises it exponentially. You can play games trying to normalize things but that makes life hard using a CDN and increases the risk of buggy proxies creating very hard to diagnose problems.

The alternative of creating unique URLs is incredibly simple and has worked perfectly since the start of the web. Content negotiation is an interesting idea but it's just not worth the support cost.
Tradition, hazing, survivorship bias, and the fact that the people who are in charge of the system are only starting to think of quality-control statistics as something that could apply to the practice of general medicine.
And this is why we landed on the moon.

Seriously. The Manhattan project involved 130,000 people at its peak and lasted four years, and it leaked.

The Apollo program involved 400,000 people at its peak and lasted eleven years.
thanks! all credit goes to the developers of d3.js though, i wouldn't have considered these projections if not for the example here http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3763057
More specifically any addition of color values generates the problem, not just averaging. If you add two linear values and gamma-correct the result, you get a different answer than if you added the gamma-corrected values directly. Multiplication doesn't have the same problem. I.E. a^x+b^x != (a+b)^x, while a^xb^x == (ab)^x. P.S. it has nothing to do with Nyquist limits.
I would not consider them. The system of taxation has worked for centuries and will continue to work. The potential benefits of the 'other and better ways' are outweighed by the cost of experimenting. Let us not re-invent the wheel.
Well, that's one ghastly website you pointed to. I have a physical edition of the Harvard Classics, and it's mostly boring stuff and speeches and political documents that are sufficiently summarized in other contexts (history books, Bartlett's, etc). One book that is worth reading is this (free):

http://www.amazon.com/Years-Before-Mast-Richard-Henry-ebook/...
"At this point I asked myself, 'is it really that easy?' I then thought about the two newly discovered vulnerabilities and realized both were in the administrative interface after authenticating as the administrative user. I needed to have the same preconditions as the attacker. So I tried to find vulnerabilities without using any of my access credentials."
Fully agreed that citation is needed here, but I thought the Torah was first written down during the exiles (though, to be sure, based on oral tradition that was much older); the given "some have speculated" would be more or less consistent with that.
Every song selected was in English. I'm not sure if this is because it's built so only English songs show up or because English has become the defacto global language for music.
"These ancient creatures also get cancer, therefore there is no cure for cancer". What nonsense. Naked mole rats do not get cancer, what about that? This only points out that cancer has been around for a long while - which I don't think is a contentious issue anyway - not that cancer can't be eradicated.
Thanks. Snopes has this:

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp

"While carrots are a good source of vitamin A (which is important for healthy eyesight, skin, growth, and resisting infection), eating them won't improve vision.
The purported link between carrots and markedly acute vision is a matter of lore, not of science. And it's lore of the deliberately manufactured type.

"In World War II, Britain's air ministry spread the word that a diet of these vegetables helped pilots see Nazi bombers attacking at night. That was a lie intended to cover the real matter of what was underpinning the Royal Air Force's successes: Airborne Interception Radar, also known as AI. The secret new system pinpointed some enemy bombers before they reached the English Channel.

"British Intelligence didn't want the Germans to find out about the superior new technology helping protect the nation, so they created a rumor to afford a somewhat plausible-sounding explanation for the sudden increase in bombers being shot down. News stories began appearing in the British press about extraordinary personnel manning the defenses, including Flight Lieutenant John Cunningham, an RAF pilot dubbed "Cats Eyes" on the basis of his exceptional night vision that allowed him to spot his prey in the dark. Cunningham's abilities were chalked up to his love of carrots. Further stories claimed RAF pilots were being fed goodly amounts of this root vegetable to foster similar abilities in them...."

That's an interesting form of disinformation. I've been known to employ somewhat similar tactics myself.
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Unless you believe that the Torah was handed down intact on Mount Sinai, it was written between 600 and 400 BCE. Anything before that is, er, hearsay.
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> If taxes were a good idea, you wouldn't need IRS.

This is less logic than a catchphrase without real meaning. Turn it around: "if property rights were a good idea, you wouldn't need fences, locks, laws, police..."

Taxes, in many places today, are not created by force and threats. They're created through legal process with the consent of the population. One could argue that the need for a threat of force to make sure the entire population complies reflects a fundamental flaw in the chosen fundraising method... however, requiring unanimity will get you nowhere in terms of having a functioning society. Some decisions are hard but necessary.
Did something like this myself, a few years ago:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/remote-whiteboard/id52213886...

Except all you need to follow along is a browser.
In freelance hourly-rate estimates, I factor in 37% for taxes... So the combined US and state governments already take 40% of my paycheck.
But they did compare to JPEG as a baseline...?

> On average, our customers have seen images that are
> half of their JPEG equivalent file size using these
> formats! The same quality image, half of the size.

Other than this textual statement, I don't see any comparisons. I only see absolute file sizes.
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>Then you are much like the overwhelming majority of other university students, which I think makes my point for me.

I'd say it's also true of the overwhelming majority of office workers too.

I didn't start side projects when I had jobs. Everything flipped for me when I discovered entrepreneurship, and I just did it full time once that happened.

We'd really need a study to settle this. Does the Finnish system lead to more tinkering on average?
Salaries and prices have not doubled since 2000.
$90 billion dollars since 1971 doesn't sound like much. The interest on the US national debt is a couple hundred billion a year, for example.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/04/news/economy/budget-outlook-...
Ditto for all conspiracy theories that require massive numbers of people to be involved. Notably many 9/11 conspiracy theories.