skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or you could use Brynhildr and get sweet 60fps for free
http://blog.x-row.net/?p=2455

Obviously Im not the target market. I expect my VNC program to tell me things like port numbers, bandwidth utilisation and codec used, not treat me like an idiot.
Interesting - so Lending Club does not actually work like BTCJam. I did not know that.
Community density and population migration is a large factor in vaccine effectiveness. What most vaccines provide is really herd immunity. That is a disease, if it spreads, will be limited to a select few who aren't able to vaccinate or have compromised immune systems, preventing an outbreak of wide proportions among an otherwise healthy population.

It's a bit more complex than the widespread and largely unnecessary antibiotic abuse happening in livestock farms. Unnecessary because more sanitary and efficient methods exist for raising them that obviate their need. Disease can be contained by quarantine and preventative measures which isn't possible among a migratory population like humans.
Cool stufft, I just thinking that if you using topic modeling algorithm like LDA, then generate more informative covers :)
Madden 2015 glitch
Awesome! Just sent in my application.

Curious how you found a house, is it an Airbnb rental? Thinking about organizing a getaway myself this winter.
In a sense it really has four "states", since the ant remembers which direction it had previously moved. That's implicit in the clockwise/counterclockwise rule.
That's an excellent reason why the city or state should fund it.

For a private charity, net gain is one person helped and 70k / year spent with average efficiency by the government on something else (or spent by taxpayers if it's returned). That's somewhat hard to judge versus alternatives.
i'm more confused about this:

>Popular secret menu items: Burger King: The Rodeo Burger (a cheeseburger topped with onion rings and BBQ sauce)

It's not secret at all, they are publicly advertised: http://mms.businesswire.com/media/20131230005187/en/397069/5...
Life outside the lab: The ones who got away
On proof and progress in mathematics (1993) [pdf]
There was an obvious, demonstrable need out there for implementation consistency. Gruber didn't step up to help resolve confusions, so he has no right to complain when other people do the hard work.
Capital One 360 (formerly ING Direct) does nearly all of this.

Anecdotally, I do much of what you describe and such a system is nearly my most valuable financial asset.
You might be confusing growth hormone with antibiotics.
Recipes based on the content of your pantry/fridge. The ideal solution would provide a db based on sensors/user input to know what ingredients and amount of those ingredients you have. Additionally, you can hook it into some calorie counter or diet tracking/fitness apps and it will make decisions based off of that.

Then you simply specify: "I want to make dinner, what can I cook?" The app links you to the recipe and any videos for making that recipe right to your device.
The last I heard about this 'hack' was a fast food employee claiming that it's stupid, because (1) the fries turn over so fast that they're basically just as fresh anyway, (2) you're stalling the line and creating headaches for everyone, and (3) the salt doesn't stick properly if you apply it yourself after the fries have cooled, so your fries will taste bad.
Check out http://www.grandpad.net/

Some awesome friends of mine at Chapman University have been building exactly that: a tablet for seniors.
One of the goals of vaccination is to deprive pathogens of an environment faster than selection pressure allows the pathogen to evade the vaccine. That's how we drove smallpox to extinction in the wild.
Last time I went they asked me if I wanted my burger animal style so I don't think it's really a hack. Now a quesarito is true hack.
What the hell. Some good PR is all I can say here. MOre free advertising for " CryptoPhone 500".
Indeed, there are many who can't distinguish these colors easily, especially males (~5%).

Better off using reddish-purple and bluish-green, and also different fonts to indicate changes. That would be a kindness.

See http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/#assign
Have you looked at scsh (AKA the Scheme shell)?
How does your work compare with it? It seems like your goals are similar,
except that you're working in Lua.
Antibiotics are, by and large, reactive. Vaccines are, by and large, prophylactic.

I am the furthest thing from an expert in this field, but the herd immunity from vaccines provides an entirely different protection than a 'toolset' of working antibiotics.

My naive understanding is that if you have 100% vaccine coverage, it's simply way more unlikely that a virus or bacterium can catch a foothold of reproduction that would even make possible the mutations that result in resistance. And then you have viruses like influenza that are so widespread and elusive that they change annually. But we've gotten really good at responding to that rapid change as well.
Nearly All U.S. Home Depot Stores Hit By Credit Card Theft
I think your reply just encapsulated what I wrote in a much more eloquent way. :-)
Are there any software companies making major consumer products like TVs yet?
Starbucks: there's a "short" cup available.

If "tall" is more than you actually want (remember, one standard serving of coffee is about 5 fl oz), ask for a "short". It's cheaper, about half the stores have the cups, and those that don't may offer you a "tall" at the "short" price.
Something that pipelines charitable donations through micro-financing. Say someone needs a payday loan, and Bill Gates is going to donate a billion dollars to some charity. Instead, that person gets the loan with no interest or penalties and sets up a payment plan with that charity for the amount. Should create more efficient spending patterns for low-income families, particular those that encounter short-term deficits, while still getting the charities the same amount of money in the long run.
I can't find this from a reputable source, but a FB friend shared a Buzzfeed story about the advancement in egg selection. Apparently Unilever has developed a technique to sex the eggs before they hatch and therefore can prevent the males from being born. As you may know, males are killed on day 1 since they serve no financial benefit to chicken farmers. Therefore, they can stop the practice of sending the male chickens to the macerator.
Hmm, I'm not convinced that there should be a difference between 1d grids and 2d grids, since 2d grids are countable and can be represented as 1d grids (just spiral out from any tile on the 2d grid and you'll get a 1d grid. The rules for the ant would have to take this into account, but I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be able to).

That's mostly just my intuition though; it is very possible that I am wrong.
Vaccines have actually caused the extinction of two specific pathogens in the wild though herd immunity. With several rappidly approaching that. Antibiotics are less effective leading to resistance.

Polio is down to 385 recorded cases in 2011 from 400,000 estimated and 52,552 recorded in 1980.

There is even some progress with Malaria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_disea...
Doesn't look like it, per http://www.google.com/registry/ only .みんな and .soy are up for registrations.
I'm not arguing that JavaScript cannot be used for UI expression. It just seems that JSX disregards organizational sanity (logic & UI all in one place) to pick up React's slack.

Maybe I'm missing the point here (I come from a background in AngularJS).

Edit: I'm reading up on React and can see the arguments against strictly templating. Makes sense now!
The React website specifically addresses this:

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/displaying-data.html#js...

We strongly believe that components are the right way to separate concerns rather than "templates" and "display logic."
Introducing the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition Powered by Oculus
It does work at McDonald's.

You can pretty much request anything as "no salt" and they will have to cook it from scratch for you. Most of the burgers and fried objects are salted when removed from the grill/fryer before being placed into the holding cabinet.

If you comb reddit you'll find previous discussions on this[1], but note that some crew members have mentioned that they premake "no salt" fries during rush periods, so you might actually be getting older fries than the ones being made continuously during that rush.

Also don't try this in the drive-thru, especially late at night, where you can't really see what's being made. Sometimes you're getting fries just re-dunked in the shortening to wash off the salt. Or worse.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s376a/my_uncle_or...
The example used to demonstrate template literal "syntax noise" in this proposal is an unfair exaggeration, in my opinion.

JSX is handy because it allows authors to think about the hierarchical relationship of components in terms of how they would be laid out in something like HTML. Template literals may not be ideally suited to the JSX case, but they represent a promising "native" solution to the problem JSX tries to solve. I'm always happier when I can leverage something that is native to the language I'm using to solve a problem.
Thanks for the reading. Looks like I fell right into their trap! (With my recent response in this thread: "logic & UI")
It breaks headings with '###'
OK, so let's expand the analogy a bit....

I don't smash your window with a hammer, but I hire a guy to do it for me. Afterwards, I claim it was a mixup, and that I meant to hire him to smash my window. After a long history of attempting to pay my neighbor to replace his window, and complaining about how much I dislike his window, and how I really really want it gone, would this not be sufficiently clear that this wasn't an accident?

Is "revenge by contractor" really a viable, punishment-free approach available to me? Can I break people's stuff with no consequences beyond paying for the items if I hire a professional to do it for me? I don't think it would work.
I always wondered why big banks didn't get into the business that Lending Club started. I figured that it was due to inefficiencies in the consumer credit model that made it such that "high risk" borrowers were ineligible for secured loans and that LC found a better way to accurately measure that risk. Who knew it came down to accounting?
Is there an online demo? Would love to play with this! (And I swear it's not just because I currently have an eBook without a cover....)
How a quarter of the cow genome came from snakes
I've taken out two loans with Lending Club over the last 3 or 4 years. Each time I've compared the rate with my bank (Citi) and others, and each time LC has been competitively cheaper.

Citi advertises "Get a fixed rate ranging from 8.99% APR to 20.74% APR." and my rate with LC has been typically 7.86% APR (forget exact decimal place figure). The 8.99% rate with Citi assumes they give me the best rate - not guaranteed.

Its fast, friendly, and I can repay early at no penalty.

Extremely satisfied.
Why a Tennessee town has the fastest internet
The Pentagon gave local cops nearly 12,000 bayonets over the past 8 years
I'm pretty intrigued by this. Martinis is very good, and I already thought it was interesting when I saw earlier today that Google had picked him up. That he will be trying to improve D-Wave style designs (by dropping in transmons, from the sound of this article) is not at all what I would have guessed.

I think that will be fairly tough. It's been a while since I looked at D-Wave, but aside from the whole "is it quantum" question about their stuff, their fabrication always seemed like a real strength. They had tons of on-chip circuits for addressing all of the qubits, and building devices with that many Josephson junctions that work is not easy. The comment that some of their material choices are probably limiting coherence is almost certainly true (this was one of Martinis's big contributions from ~10 years ago). But translating processes of that complexity to cleaner setups seems like it's going to require some real fabrication fu. I certainly wouldn't put it past Martinis, but it's ambitious for sure.
Not ARM64, but "Tonc: Whirlwind Tour of ARM Assembly" [1] is what I'm repeatedly referring to while learning ARM. Pretty confusing coming from x86, but it's starting to make sense and my ARM is getting slightly less awful.

[1] http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/asm.htm
The thing about old people is that they're making more of them every day.
Not quite related, but if you haven't seen how emacs and org-mode handle ascii tables, it's pretty amazing! It will reflow automatically, and tabbing works just like you would expect in a spreadsheet application.
So are fenced code blocks.
Jonathan Ive on the iWatch: Switzerland is in trouble
> Lending Club is not a bank. So it's not subject to banking regulation, which means that it can do a core function of banking much more efficiently than an actual bank can.

Are the various banking regulatory agencies in agreement with that? (FDIC, Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, Thrift Supervision, as well as the various and sundry states)
No mention of the "broke Mac": McDouble plus Mac sauce.

Pushes a two McDouble meal past the 1000-calorie mark. Used to be free, but they wised up and started charging thirty cents per.

Not really a hack, I guess, but one of the best menu mods ever.
All we need is comments on ?w=1 mode, and Github will be truly complete.
not sure but one thing i have noticed that recently, recruiters stop replying to you if they aren't interested. I don't want to discourage you but thats what happened to me by Amazon & Google recruiters.

Not to mention, they did inform me about rejection when i got first interviewed back in 2010.
You don't in normal circumstance have to "apply" for a warranty, at least in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_...
I will say that Wendys does not put burgers in any sort of holding pan. I know Burger King used to, not sure if they do any more. I've kept an eye on McDonalds and I'm pretty sure it all comes straight from the grill.

But definitely this works for the fries - when the place is slow. If it's slow, the fries have probably been sitting. If it's busy, then all those fries probably came out within the last 5 minutes, if they're not actually behind.
His tweet on the @markdown twitter account:

> “Standard Markdown” is neither.

Just look at the @markdown timeline, though. That is one of two tweets ever made. The last one was "23 May 2011". It is a bit passive agressive, IMO, to not stay in the conversation and then all of the sudden express your opinion. Not that he doesn't have a right to, but this project is at least a step forward. If he has specific vision for the project he is responsible for leading it.
Jonathan Ive allegedly said iWatch will hit Switzerland
According to a designer who works at Apple, Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, in bragging about how cool he thought the iWatch was shaping up to be, gleefully said Switzerland is in trouble — though he chose a much bolder term for “trouble” to express how he thought the watchmaking nation might be in a tough predicament when Apple’s watch comes out.
actually you could just add dir="auto" and let the browser do the detection.
That's an excellent response. In one of the comments on it, there is a link to a paper[1] by Thurston that is well worth your time. I found it an inspiring read.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236
You really didn't read it.
>Balanced named tags is a critical syntactic feature of the XML-style notation.

I guess there's an argument for everything. But I thought in general, people usually found XML's verbose endings to be noisy and useless. It could always be opt-in, so you only need to add them where needed.

<start><item>something</>...</start>

Or you could just add a comment.
I was mostly thinking more in terms of getting people together in the "real world", rather than just an another online community for mountain biking, triathlon, etc.

Possibly a week-long summer camp, weekend hackathons/fitness outside major cities, weekly runs or bicycle rides.
The largest impact in the history of humankind will be made by those companies that work to extend human lifespan. Good to see how this whole race to increase lifespan can change Silicon Valley, moving it once again toward true innovation, truly changing the world, while other companies like Craig Ventor's http://humanlongevity.com http://genopharmix.com http://www.sens.org and http://buckinstitute.org come into to play.
To the people voting down, please explain why you disagree. I am genuinely interested.
That's because "everyone" uses the same basic Bootstrap themes. If you use Bootstrap for layout and responsive UI you'll be fine, it is just when you are the nth site to use the default theme with the same damn default navigation that it gets a little cringe.

So in my opinion you're asking the wrong question, the right question is: "How do I make my Bootstrap site not FEEL like every single other Bootstrap site on the internet?"

If you're willing to pay for high quality third party themes it is definitely possible to get something that nobody would call a Bootstrap powered site unless they happened to look at the raw code.

Just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater when all you really want is to look fresh, original, and on-point. It can be done with Bootstrap.
So antibiotics in animal feed aren't usually for protection from infection. They promote growth and bulk via mechanisms that aren't really well understood and were discovered somewhat by accident when someone started feeding waste from antibiotic production to chickens.

Really:
http://amrls.cvm.msu.edu/pharmacology/antimicrobial-usage-in...

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/swine_extension/healthyhogs/book...
Here's the real secret: they'll make whatever you order. Want your Wendys fries placed in a potato boat with cheese sauce poured over them? Just ask.

New employees may be confused or not sure how to ring it up, but most will know how to ring up individual items.
Read it again. He didn't say that.

Look I know I'm getting downmodded, but I've read these types of things before and people always spin things to their benefit, but it's usually possible to see thought it. And here it's easier than usual.

Amazon clearly said: "No commingling." His response? Amazon must be in cahoots with the studio. No, there is a much simpler explanation: He messed up and sold a counterfeit item.

It was clearly a mistake and he should have apologized for the error and pledged to check even better instead of claiming no error.
I'm a 3 yr PPL, and have 1 question for any CFI's out there:
Would this, or something like it, be useful for you?

I've been working on this app for a few weeks now with a couple friends who are CFI's. It's still in it's infancy but we really want to make it a simple, powerful, and useful tool for all CFI's and their students.

http://www.hiflyte.com
courtroom--nothing
trial--nothing
judge--nothing.

Pretty thin offerings.
Looking cool in movies and in corporate and university lobbies is not enough. Microsoft really needs to cut the shit and start focusing on producing a product that's actually desirable to a wide market--something they've only gotten worse at in the last few years, outside of their programming languages.
Ask HN: Technologies to use for a pet project
I have been out of side projects for a while and been only working at Java (server side). Hence I have no idea what new technology is out. So to learn new technology + build a pet project I need your suggestion.

The project I want to build requires

- A neat UI (I like Vaadin but not sure how good it is)
- Cross platform UI compatibility
- Server Side to do transactions, printing on different machines, Roles management etc

Thanks.
> But all of the things that make banks scary don't apply. A run on Lending Club is not possible; nobody can pull their money out of notes or certificates. And if a lot of loans go bad, that will hurt the investors in those notes, but Lending Club as an entity won't be insolvent or even have any losses at all.

This is true, but one should recognize that for Lending Club to sustain itself over time, it must be able to acquire borrowers and sell notes. There are a number of events that could put a dent in both supply and demand.

On the demand side, if and when there is a recession, defaults will almost certainly rise and it's likely fewer investors (retail and institutional) will be eager to take on new credit risk. If and when interest rates rise, funding these loans may become a lot less appealing. One must also assume that at least some borrowers, particularly those who are heavily indebted, are themselves vulnerable to interest rate increases, so I wouldn't be surprised to see rising rates negatively affect the repayment performance of certain types of portfolios.

> There's another point that's a flip side of this one, which is: Equity-funded banks are great at lending. Lending Club is perfectly able to make loans, and apparently at cheaper rates than banks.

Lending Club is perfectly able to make loans, and apparently at cheaper rates than banks, because yield-chasing investors are currently willing to misprice risk. What happens when the music stops?
>C11 hasn't received anywhere near the same amount of fanfare as C++11

Well did C11 add lambdas? Didn't think so.
To an interested outsider the appearance of MacFarlane's name in the list gave this instant gravitas. As the builder of pandoc he has to have the widest, most detailed knowledge of markup syntaxes of about anyone.

Given that, the lack of a formal definition is even more surprising: why did they not spec it in Haskell? Formal, unambiguous, and as a side benefit, executable.
> But it could be possible, given unlimited time.

Just because time is infinite, does not mean that all things are possible.

My understanding is that the universe is in a bounded random walk. As space-time moves, the unexplored potential state space increases more quickly than can be explored.

If there are multiple universes, then each universe could explore one of these states. So if there are more states than universes, not all things are possible. But if there are more universes than states, all things would be possible.

Though there are infinite potential states and infinite universes, I feel like the potential states expand faster than the number of universes. This means that our likelihood of living in a universe where something like like time travel is possible, is incredibly low.
Wendys uses a staging grill, a lower-temperature grill that holds the burgers at serving temperature for a set amount of time. Burgers not used in that time period are turned into chili.

McDs uses heated holding cabinets that are also sealed to keep most of the product moisture in place. This was a change from the original system where burgers were fully assembled in the kitchen, wrapped, and held in an open-air heated cabinet for 10 minutes and then trashed if not served in that time.
An on-demand "Uber for babysitters" ... most of you shot it down but I still think it's a good idea

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7356497
Good job at keeping out of the press? For an age research facility, it's been in the press a prodigious amount! You probably don't even know about other age research!
New Galactic Supercluster Map Shows Milky Way's 'Heavenly' Home
Well, LC doesn't do deposits, so it is not doing partial reserve banking. I suppose there could be extra regulation attached to what they do, but I don't think it is much different than a message board that connects buyers and lenders at its core.
Why would I use this instead of another service like Lending Club? It looks like this gives me a lower return (Lending Club's lowest rate of interest seems to be 6%) with significantly higher risk (it looks like your site does not offer any assistance with borrowers who default and use Facebook to verify their identities).