skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could go further with the experiment to check if a material of which the battery content is composed matters or if the stiffness of the content is the only important factor.

They could for example check how bounciness changes when a battery is filled with a gel-like substance which could then be frozen.
Watching porn or scary movies also provide distractions for your mind, in a way that walking doesn't. Intensive exercise is also quite painful which in itself is distracting in a way that a brisk walk or cycling at a moderate pace isn't.
Its not just about tracking and collecting information on your habits that makes their searches relevant to you? You really think so? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzZzf6PoyC4
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"How to feed yourself" is kind of the king of all real problems.

Currently this is being marketed at people with money, but research into indoor / vertical farming is definitely attacking a real problem.
Personally, I wouldn't say it's 'innoavative.' The whole point of designing a UI is not to make things fancy and bounce around and look pretty. The point is to make something that's easy to use and clear. I don't think this site fits either.

It's nice looking though!
All waking hours are not that fungible, 20 minutes at $150/hour are likely more intense, focused or mentally demanding, than putting trashes in the bin. (Unless your roommate is a garbage collector!)

I used to regret the time I have spent playing, reading, or browsing mindlessly at night, but there is no way that after a full day of demanding work, I would have enough mental energy left to learn a new framework, or foreign language...
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There was no scroll bar for the text in the right hand frame, although arrow keys seemed to work. Also my back button was broken and I couldn't return to Hacker News. (I'm using Opera on a Mac.)
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If you have multiple threads accessing a shared (mutable) variable in your program, even a shared volatile variable, then you need to guard every access to that variable (which, in this case, includes every function call through memset_ptr) with proper thread synchronisation primitives. Marking a variable "volatile" is not enough to prevent data races in a multi-threaded environment.

If you've put a semaphore, or mutex lock, or whatever around your calls through memset_ptr(), the transformations will all take place inside the lock, and data races should not be an issue.
One would think, if this evolution nonsense was true, that people would have evolved bigger hands by now.

And this is why I'm very happy more and more schools here in good ol' Texas are teaching Intelligent Design.
At $2500 a pop now, I doubt they would use this for another couple of years. Perhaps better to go with a UHD display now and deal with the the non-whole number multiple.
Is it an iframe-like website with a css3 for menu ?
We’re big fans of open source and have already released one of the components on GitHub (https://github.com/rainbirdai). We have plans to release more things over the coming weeks and months.
Username "stonith" commenting on a post about Raft? I laughed out loud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STONITH
This is very likely - Apple has been using the same panel as Dell for their 27" 1440p Thunderbolt/Cinema displays.
Pryv is one of the first internal partners of Misfit Shine wearables
https://twitter.com/pryv/status/507822445030408193
"but what's this about Samsung?"

It is called "the screen". Samsumg manufactures(mass produces) the best screens in the world. Their OLED screens are the best quality, simple, lightweight and extremely fast response.

Oculus needs Samsung screens. Samsumg needs oculus talent, so they are partners.
Since you asked, something wonky is going on in Chrome on Nexus 7. Your site seems to fall back to almost no CSS, with plain links where a menu should presumably be. No tooltip functionality. It also disables any zoom and defaults to a really awkward level where I can see one side of the clothes images and about half the main picture at a time.

I took a couple of screenshots:
http://imgur.com/LFulxvD
http://imgur.com/eTgyjwV
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Maybe they'll use two connectors and present it as two 2560x2880 monitors?
One little problem: Gruber didn't call his thing "Common Lisp" or something. He called it "Lisp". Which is only natural, since he was the first. My point is, he claimed the shortest name. There are few ways around that.

And since this new standard differs so little, compared to the other flavours who do call themselves "FooBar Markdown" without much reaction from Gruber, I think it's only reasonable they call themselves "Markdown" as well.

I don't recall, John McCarthy complaining about Common Lisp taking a name claiming they were now the new and official Lisp. And this Lisp differs quite considerably from his original, with lexical scope and all. Even Scheme and Clojure, who don't bear the name, say all over that they're a Lisp.

So, I can't be sympathetic to Gruber's reaction. He abandoned ship. He forfeited the right to steer it.
I find no validation of that: http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp...
In that case I'll stick with the Pebble for the moment. That manages several days with the watch face constantly on.
You say that, but the people are taking these loans because they need them and no one else is giving them a better offer.
"The third route is to simplify the workflow required to get to the final realization of creation but that tends to be a magnitude more difficult than the typical act of creation."

As someone who has been working on just that in a parallel field (animated filmmaking) for a couple of decades now, can confirm. :)
30 Hz is bad for most PC content, but it should be fine for movies, which are mostly shot and distributed at 24 frames per second.
What would the inside of a recharged battery look like I wonder.
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So, here's something I've been wondering about smart watches, maybe someone here can answer.

It seems like the big dealbreaker for these is battery life. But a cheap watch with quartz timekeeping and digital lcd display can last a year or more on a single small battery.

Would it be possible to sandwich two lcd displays into the face of the watch, one that is cheap and one that is high-res full-color? Always display the time in the common janky digits, and then when touched, hand off to the nice display? You could even get them to quickly crossfade as the backlight turns on.

That way your $300 watch is at least as good as a $10 watch. Would that be possible?
straw man..
It's a bladeless fan, not a fanless fan. It works using an impeller in the base and it feeds the air through a thin gap in an annulus shaped aerofoil.
Strictly speaking you could argue that impellers have blades and all they've done is conceal them inside the base rather than remove them entirely. A truly bladeless fan would use something like an electrostatic fluid accelerator to accelerate particles with an electric field - but that's probably a little too sci-fi for a consumer electronics company!
> What matters is whether he did or didn't give specific written permission that they could use the name Markdown. It's set in stone on the license.

If you're going to paste the very same argument multiple times all over this discussion, you should at least first make sure it is correct.

It's been explained several times now that this is not how that license works. It doesn't work (not binding) to specify trademark-related things in a copyright license. And anyway a copyright license only affects those bound by the copyright on the work: The work, being the code of Gruber's perl markdown parser. Which this group hasn't used at all. Usage of the name "Markdown" is something which has nothing to do with copyright but trademark law. Trademark law works very differently, definitely not by just writing up a license (like copyright) and simply said: The name Markdown is not trademarked (currently, and given its usage, also probably not in the future).
Honestly, pretty much only small good phone right now seems to be Z3 Compact.
I would certainly agree that the name was clearly generated by the mechanical application of some naming rule without the application of much judgement... :-)
Cheap casio watches are used as bomb timers because they are ubiquitous. Any market stall selling watches in almost any country in the world will have a Casio F-91W or a clone of it. If you wore a cheap Casio watch in an Arab country nobody would think anything of it because everyone else is also wearing them.

Terrorists often wear boots, but wearing boots does not make one a terrorist.
Yes, that's a story eagerly pushed by none other than the incumbent black cab industry.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qqmy7sldbax6xk/20140426_232545.jp...

And here's the article belonging to the headline: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/exclusive-i-fought-off-...

She was in an unlicensed minicab.
The interesting concepts were overshadowed by my back button being disabled, which REALLY winds me up.
The intelligent way around it is to recognise that John Gruber's rights and license, and chose a path that both respects the limitations he puts in place and allows a community to coalesce around a standardised form of a text format derived from John Gruber's spec.

So the intelligent action is to not call it Markdown, since that requires Gruber's written permission, which is currently a time-sensitive issue, and may be a show stopper later as his format slips more and more out of his control.

Pick a new name, document that it's derived from Markdown (and respects John Gruber's wishes), and create a community around the better specified and test-case based approach to standardisation.

Product prefer using derivative libraries, rather than Gruber's own Markdown implementation. (With or without Gruber's written permission). Pandoc, for example, is a common library for Markdown support, I guess GitHub, Reddit, stack overflow are using their own custom implementations, or implementations that started or during their lifetime became custom implementations.
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But then you wouldn't get a daily awesome watch face. Nor cards without waking it up. As it is, cards will appear even on dimmed screens.
Agreed. There are people doing good work in this area, but if we've learnt one lesson, its that the economic gravity tends to win out. In the drug war (not a perfect analogy by any means), as long as US consumer demand exists, people will find a way to provide it. In China, unless you can shape the underlying demand for poached materials in some form (and be more successful than the US has been on drugs), it's going to persist, especially as that country continues to grow richer.
24 not 32 bpp - the alpha layer is not sent to the display.
That and "digital motors".
I see your points, but I disagree with highlighting being provided externally. The text rendering surface ought to be able to do it -- there are plenty of libraries that do a decent job of language auto-detection, for instance, all the more so in the JavaScript space.

My curiosity stems mostly from the fact that things like CodeMirror and ACE have been available in the JavaScript universe for a while (and LightTable, Atom, etc. leverage those kinds of "surfaces") and yet nobody seems to have tried to get, say, node-webkit to run something like acme.

So 1) all that's really necessary is the smart surface, 2) there are known instances of said surfaces (and plenty of people using them for a new generation of editors) and yet 3) nobody seems to have thought of reimplementing acme atop them.
Teachers are often accused of mistreating children.

Healthcare workers are often accused of mistreating patients, too. For example, I know someone who works with many elderly patients who often get confused and make accusations of mistreatment. Many of her coworkers have been benched until cleared by investigation.

Like police officers, they can be viewed as being authority figures. Perhaps they will begin wearing these soon, too?
How would "Common Markdown" be any better than "Standard Markdown"? Doesn't it sort of imply the same thing?

(btw I'm in the camp that thinks "Standard Markdown" is just fine, though I do hope they get the formal specs nailed down a bit more solidly on the ambiguities discussed upthreads, preferably with some kind of formal grammar)
From what I gather, it is always on. Do you have a citation to the contrary?

"Like both already-released Android Wear watches, Moto 360 will feature an always-on screen, which is a power-saving dimmed display that still tells the time like a traditional watch." - http://www.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/moto-360-rele...
Ask HN: How do you induct new employees?
I work for a small (but long term established) software company. We are expecting fairly significant growth over the coming 5-10 years based on government contracts, and will undoubtedly need many new staff to handle the workload.

I am trying to put together an induction program that introduces staff to all areas of the organisation, and is able to properly align people to our values, goals and mission.

Does anyone have experience on how to develop an induction program, or any guidance for someone trying to develop one?

We have a HR staff of one, and I think we will need a solid program to grow in a sustainable way.

Edit: I should add, we already have a program that covers the standard policies, procedures, housekeeping. I am more interested in ideas or examples that people have experiences with that have made them think 'this is so much more valuable than where I used to work', etc.
Mostly, yes, but the trend (set by the Hobbit movies) is heading towards higher frame rates (60 and beyond). I can imagine the connectors and graphics cards are racing to get that kind of performance at those resolutions again.
Yes, but I don't think comparing Internet adoption with IPv6 adoption is terribly valid.

The first was a radically new technology and it took years for people to figure out how to best make use of it.

IPv6 was supposed to be a purely technical improvement to deal with some deficiencies of IPv4, notably address space limitations. It should mostly concern only network and systems administrators and systems software developers and be largely transparent to end users.

It's interesting that the two seem to have similar growth curves, but given the very different audiences involved I'm not sure what to make of that observation.

Certainly if you asked knowledgeable people in 1996 how long it would take to achieve near 100% IPv6 adoption I doubt many would have predicted 20 years.

On the other hand in 1981 I suspect few would have predicted that a technology developed by DARPA would be used by people in 2000 to buy books and manage their bank accounts.
The DuckDuckGo extension is to provide duckduckgo searches using chrome, DDG's ads on 'their' site doesn't track you while your browsing the search results or when you click, however once you reach the page of the link you click on, then and only then are you probably catalogued and or recorded. But thats the independent site you visited not DDG. DDG can't force the websites you visit that you found using their service to not record or track you once you get there. In otherwords, ads can and do track, but the ads displayed on DDG do not...

"We do not use any third parties to do the code insertion, and we do not work with any sites that share personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, etc.) via their affiliate programs. This means that no information is shared from DuckDuckGo to the sites, and the only information that is collected from this process is product information, which is not tied to any particular user and which we do not save or store on our end. It is completely analogous to the search result case from the previous paragraph--we can see anonymous product info such that we cannot tie them to any particular person (or even tie multiple purchases together). This whole affiliate process is an attempt to keep advertising to a minimal level on DuckDuckGo."
> and has more hard data than you do.

They probably have more than I do because I have none, but I've seen very big companies being completely clueless at market research as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case as well. Seeing Dyson himself on Japanese TV yesterday saying "Hey, we come first to Japan because Japanese consumers love robots" sounded like he has no idea what he is talking about, seriously. But that wouldn't be the first for a CEO.
Well, I'm sorry, but in my book if you make something Open Source, stay as the maintainer for a long time yet fix no bugs or make no improvements, don't register the trademark AND publicly complain when people try to improve the situation, you're like a parent who doesn't treat his child well. And in most societies I know of, that's a valid reason to lose your rights as a parent.

Harsh comparison, but I feel it reflect the current situation well.
Whats wrong with HTTP? How would you improve it?

Its a Text Transfer Protocol, you can even build applications with text only clients and servers. One only needs echo, bash and netcat to make a server and client.
> To give an example, say I have n machines in datacenter A, and n*.99 in datacenter B. datacenter A gets destroyed, permanently. Does datacenter B now reject all (EDIT: where reject = not commit) requests until a human comes along to tell it that datacenter A isn't coming back?

Of CAP, you are now choosing CP with Raft. So yes, the system is unavailable until an external agent fixes it. In other words, the system needs to have a majority of nodes online to be "available".
Motorola G has not the best specs but it's handy, small, clean and has a good value/price ratio.
Put me down as the 8th.

My take is that 100% of advanced users have a problem.
As an industry, it's not. Most industries aren't.

Nor are many online discussion sites, as a bonus ProTip.
It does look very impressive and I'm sure it picks up more dust and dirt than the Roomba, but my Roomba neatly fits under every piece of furniture I have.

The extra height of the Dyson means it wont make it under our sofa, the TV stand, into the gap between the kitchen floor and the cupboards (well, perhaps Roomba doesn't fit there either, but the side brush does), under the chest of drawers in the bedroom etc etc..

I'll have to wait for the next iteration (and hope I'm rich by then).
To be honest, I'm sure that in those cases the camera view would be 'obscured' for a moment so that in a court case it cannot be proved that your boss did indeed use his turn signal.
I was referring to an outdoor greenhouse, set up on a plot of land where a large garden was mentioned. Oriented in a north-south direction natural light is still plentiful even in winter, and supplementing with artificial light can be effective.

You are right though, even a large south-facing window doesn't provide as much illumination as a proper greenhouse, sharply limiting what can be grown.

BTW if you get 6 hours of daylight at 60 deg latitude, that's impressive. My location is ~46 deg, but because of surrounding hills, and frequent thick cloud cover, we effectively get barely 6 hours of daylight at the start of winter, maybe less.

In the off season, we're relegated to getting what produce we can from the grocery store, taste-free as it may be...
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And did anyone actually call it "Web Applications 1.0"?
It probably means they're iPhone owners, and that they swear they won't get the bigger of the two iPhone 6 models. That is, until they discover that they can, in fact, adapt to a slightly larger phone, as everyone in Asia has already realized.

I thought allegory's comment that 4.5-4.7" is the limit was particularly funny. Was that limit chosen specifically so that the smaller of the iPhone 6 models won't break that limit, but pretty much all high-end android phones do? I don't know, but it's awfully convenient.
"The lack of a standard helps keep people honest by making them follow the spirit of the law, not the letter, as you see happening with things like HTML and CSS."

I recognise that line of reasoning from the RSS 2.0 days. And how RSS feeds were okay for years until Dave Winer decided one day that they were funky. Having a deterministic standard is a quality metric.

On Gruber's podcast: he notes that writers should check whether something is valid Markdown by rendering it and seeing the output ( https://overcast.fm/podcasts/episode/344902019595#t=4527 ). paraphrasing his logic: If the output is wrong, that means the input needs fixing. That is an assertion that the code implementation is the specification. And we've been down that road before ( bugwards compatible implementations of Internet Explorer, for example )

Ambiguity is not a good basis for a data structure specification. An undefined behaviour means that all possible behaviours are correct.
Two others are Google Spanner [1] and FoundationDB [2].

[1] see http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-mo...

[2] https://foundationdb.com/acid-claims
Hydroponics, a great way to grow weed!
Yeah this - unless an officer can prove he was right by showing the camera footage, unfair cases can go right out the window. A lot of evidence in smaller cases (like speeding tickets) are based on 'because the officer saw it', which IMO is no longer valid - since a lot of police officers are falsely handing out tickets and whatnot.
I'm pretty sure the "Dude's stance" is pretty explicit, and public. tl/dr: do want you want, don't use the word markdown.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license
Is the proposed solution really the best approach? It seems complicated to me and relies on obscure parts of the language. Maybe the problem (compiler optimizes away function call because the result is no longer needed) could be solved like this:

memset(key, 0, sizeof(key));
if (key[0]) // we are using key, so you can't skip memset()
dropDead();

Unless the compilers "understand" memset and still optimize away the last two lines? I would hope not... Does anyone know how aggressive the C optimizers are these days?
"HTML is a document language which is intended to be consumed by machines, whereas Markdown is designed to be good for humans to read directly."

AND intended to be consumed by machines.

For example. John Gruber's markdown perl script transforms his Markdown into HTML.
Blue and red light are best for photosynthesis, so if efficiencies are/were high enough, it could make sense to build a roof with solar panels over your plants, and then use red and blue LEDs for lighting the plants.

Google "blue light in greenhouses" for research in that area; an image search gives several examples. And yes, they do look weird, for example the alien world on page 3 in http://www.lemnislighting.com/pdf/65259%20Lemnis%20Folder%20...
News flash: "western culture" is still dynamiting endangered sturgeons (and other roe-producing species passing their roe as caviar[0])

[0] https://medium.com/full-belly-reports/every-spring-game-ward...
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