skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, been here for nearly two years now :). And no spoilers!
Technically, it was introduced in 5.5, but off by default :)

5.7 is going to be amazing for observability. Memory, transactions, stored procedures, replication, meta data locking and prepared statements are all instrumented in P_S.
Seems ripe for some mischief. Order from every seller you can, file fake complaints, let Amazon sort it out. Although it sounded more like he was taken down due to an actual lawsuit, not just a customer complaint.
The perfect In-n-Out meal:

- Protein style double double (lettuce wrapped)

- Well done fries

- Root beer float
Wonderful comparisons; I might have to steal them from you at some point. Thanks!
Whoa, I never thought about that. The colorblindness thing is exactly why we haven't tried to remove the +s and -s, but if there are indeed colors that we could attempt to use, that'd be awesome.
> I want to have basic control over my iPhone while it sits in my pocket or bag. This is huge to me. Squeezing my hand into my pocket (1), pulling out my phone (2), turning it on (3). Three steps just to check the time or notification. Slide the lock (4) and enter my password (5), open an app (6+). Six or more steps just to check the weather, read an email, look at a web page, check my todo list, look at my calendar, read or reply to a message, look at a photo, etc. Without having to enter my password I can turn on/off wifi or bluetooth, use the flashlight, timer, calculator and camera, but it's still five or more steps. When I'm done, I turn it off (7+) and put it back in my pocket (8+). Every time. This is insane.

Ah, the pain of these wretched, insane first world problems. I wonder what Louis C.K. would say in response?

Wait, he already has some cell phone commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk

"Everybody has a phone in their pocket" ... "(back in the day) The phone was a thing. In a room. In your house, and you had to dial the f-ing thing, it had this rotor thing..." "Now we have this (shows his phone) which is amazing" ... "The shttest cell phone in the world is a miracle!" ... "Your life sucks around the phone, why are you so mad at it?"

But in the spirit of problem-solving, here are some potential solutions or reframings:

* Don't put the phone in your pocket in the first place. (Minimize unnecessary movement, like the lean manufacturing people teach.)

* Pull the phone out of your pocket while pressing your phone on the fingerprint scanner in one graceful motion. (for a recent iPhone)

Better yet, take a gander at this and consider worrying about a problem with a tad more impact:
http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/
Those really abstract covers are quite Identicon-like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon ).

This also reminds me of the autogenerated covers on the (ridiculously overpriced) books containing only Wikipedia articles, which were equally generic-looking but still somewhat relevant (e.g. https://images.our-assets.com/fullcover/2000x/9786131724619.... , http://www.amazon.com/Aisle-Frederic-P-Miller/dp/B009CKDZII/ )

Of course, I think the saying "Don't judge an eBook by its cover" also applies...
The reason why I ask is because this CS major peer had said that it would be _less_ useful to learn x86. Our class used IBM System/360

I assumed he was just trying to be a smart ass because I thought for sure it would best to learn x64 especially because it is modern and what my machine runs on / everything else.
(Disclaimer, msft employee) The surface is legitimately useful as a complete replacement for paper & pen. I never even touched looseleaf during my last semester at university. Plus the pro 3 has a large enough screen to make it useful for coding.
Meh... when did we first hear of the company? A year ago? How much more do we know now than then?

I guess my comment is referring to not staying out of the press, but more keeping the details under wrap.
Well, part of the thought was provide a no-internet-required embedded box, just wifi with no app to load, for the many restaurants that don't want to mess with more complexity.
Sure, but you'd need more internal states to deal with the overhead of that simulation. On a 2D grid "up" is a primitive op; in your 1D spiral, "up" is some complicated function that probably needs unbounded memory of its own to compute (i.e., an explicit pair of grid coordinates, stored as an integer).

(There's a textbook example where you can add auxiliary memory to a (1D) Turing machine, called a "multi-tape" Turing machine. And you can reduce that to a single-tape Turing machine, but at the cost of blowing up the number of states in the finite automaton).
Korean restaurants typically have a service button per table that you can press to call the waitress.
Also, don't we mostly vaccinate against viruses, whereas antibiotics are to be used against bacterial infections?
IEEE Predicts Top Technologies of 2022
That's not quite what happens. Based on your description information about an object could travel faster than light.

You send light from cristal A to the object and then on to cristal B. You then construct the image using light from both cristals. The specific spookiness is only apparent when you try and track an individual photon.
I agree. The only thing preventing the Surface Pro from becoming wildly popular is the price. Its definitely worth the price, and I may end up with one myself, but most people simply won't spent that much on a computer.

P.S. You guys should really make a legit keyboard dock like the clam case or the transformer. People looking for laptop replacements don't like balancing shit on their laps.
Bloomberg returns to media company as CEO leaves
I would say there are 10 states. Any square can be empty or have an ant, and if the ant is there its direction is known. That gives 5 states of ant presence and direction, and since a square has 2 color states, that's 10 total states.
If you sell land below market value to someone who already has a place to live they will probably just sell it and pocket the difference.

If you sell land below market value to someone who has no other place to live, they will live on it and use the money to buy books, healthcare, tools, nutritious food and cooking utensils.

Thus stands my statement that landowners squeeze the poor.
I don't get the economics of this.
For example if you send more than 20 a month you get free pickup.
In this scenario, with the example tshirt I would be paying $2.85 for you to pick it up, pack it with your own materials and cover shipping?
Even if you got the shipping for half of that, won't the pickup and packing materials/ labour cost way more than a couple of dollars?
I suspect you would have to flash your own baseband firmware.
Most government briefings are given without the intent of educating someone on a subject with which they are completely unfamiliar.

Most of them are more like status updates for ongoing projects and operations. Its supposed to help leadership make better decisions.
Indeed, flu viruses do react to selection pressures, but we deal with it by making a new vaccine each year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_drift

Which is not to say that we could not benefit from further research into the process.
Right, but the context of the article was using them as examples of security experts. When you give examples to support a statement, you should give the best examples you can come up with.
It definitely does! However, if one of these did go uncontrolled and break up, it's a kinetic impactor. The Uranium core should act like a DU penetrator if the craft disintegrated, meaning it should penetrate ~6 times its length.

The New Horizons craft had the largest space based RTG at about 50kg. The dimensions roughly 0.5m in diameter and over 1.1m long. This means it would end up roughly 6.6m underground, or about 20ft deep. As long as the craft are kept above abandoned land, I honestly don't see a problem with it.

As far as I see they'll be an inevitable choice in areas above 40 degrees latitude. If winter nights are too long to recharge batteries they'll never happen in those areas. I mean by their current proposal the whole UK is out of their market as well as Canada, Alaska and all of northern Europe.
I think there is one person on my team of 10 who has a car. These people all have the income to get one.

The issue for me is that I don't need one. I've considered it, but I can get most stuff in the city by walking/bus/zipcar/uber. Larger stuff I just buy online anyway.

Considering I pay high enough rent without the cost of a parking spot, insurance, and probably a car payment, it doesn't make sense financially. Parking is also a pain.

Now i could potentially break even/better by moving out of the city but then I just spend 30 minutes or more each way getting to work. I have to put up with traffic. I'm not in the city when it comes to fun stuff in the city.

I'd buy a car if I was going to start a family, but at this point there is no need. It's a luxury I just don't really care about.
I'm counting "states" as the term's used in (tape) Turing machines, where you distinguish the internal states of the finite automaton (tape head) from the memory states of the unbounded tape (symbols or colors). So this ant would be analogous to a 4-state, 2-color Turing machine. The ant has four possible states; each cell of the grid has two.
It's on BBC and In-N-Out is famously only in the western US. Why In-N-Out doesn't expand is the truly inexplicable thing.
Ask HN: Where can I learn about the online/mobile ad industry?
So, I have an idea for a mobile ad startup. I have an MVP. I'm going to put it into some of my own apps. I just know nothing about the ad world.

Some initial research indicates that the adtech world has many moving parts. I'm looking a list of "hot adtech companies" [0] and I can't tell what half of them do.

So where to start? What's an exchange vs a marketplace? How does a small startup get involved?

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-pre-ipo-adtech-startups-2014-3?op=1
"Cool" is the word to describe it, especially in the middle of all that snow.

There's an example of that kind of rail-clearing engine in Skagway, Alaska. I saw it there just over a month ago. That snow machine isn't used anymore--an historic museum piece on exhibit--but close up it is impressive.
'Beep' documentary celebrates the history of sound in video games
Doctor turns to 3D printers in a race to save a toddler's mind
I wish someone would write "how to read an IETF specification" or "how to read an ECMA standard."
This was most likely a missed trade from earlier in the day that was recorded after the trading day closed.
Well, the story is ten years old but scanning Google, I think the scientist who did this is still at it. Still, it may have gone as far as its going by itself.

However, one thing that occurs to me is that one of the main arguments against full brain simulation is that a brain too many parts that are too complex. It seems to be that a construct like this might be much simpler and so might be something that the European Brain Project and similar efforts might target to understand braincell computation.
Well taking something someone else created and rereleasing it using relatively the same name while insinuating it's the official or standard version is what's known in the industry as a dick move.

Imagine if you forked GTK and named it "Official GTK" and then blamed GTK for not doing what you wanted them to, so its obviously their fault that you needed to steal their name.
I actually like it. Finally a flexible layout that utilizes my screen estate.
I find it annoying. I had an aggressive solicitation occur on twitter recently. The person had exploited a new feature of twitter advertisements where you can "click to subscribe". I wasn't aware that they would give my email out via a click, but apparently so. The person would not stop trying to follow up with it. I ended up muting the entity (or person)
Books on Compiler Construction and Scheme
Ultimately, their sustainability will depend on the cost at which they can raise funds. Banks can raise funds cheaply through deposits (and many other sources like wholesale funding which may be at a higher cost), which they lend out at slightly higher interest rates than they pay their depositors. Given that LC is not a depository institution, the only way I see them providing lower interest rates is they have figured out a cheaper source of funding - or burning investor money to do this which is not sustainable and the big banks will defeat them eventually. The moment you start taking deposits, you will be regulated like any other institution and they need to compete with other banks on the same terms. Another aspect is that banks are in the business of risk management, so it is probable that LC has figured out a better way to manage their risks than existing institutions - again, this is something where existing institutions have enough resources to catch up easily.
Right, so the best picture, best reputation but same crappy interface as every other tv is not enough of a selling point?
We're actually testing bitcoin payments at the moment. If you want to take the time to contact support, we can tell you how to use it.
So..uh...this was a thing. And nobody wanted it. So it was deprecated and killed. See the "Prior Art" section at the bottom of the page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML

Brendan Eich was quoted as saying something along the lines of "E4X is crazyland". Parsing it is hard as hell to do right. Think of all the tooling that's out there for JavaScript right now that will either a.) not support JSX code or b.) bloat up beyond belief as it takes into account the suddenly absurd requirements necessary to deal with a similar-but-not-quite-XML-or-even-HTML-for-that-matter syntax. Oh, you want to lint that JavaScript? Bless your heart! You want to add syntax highlighting? Love will find a way. You want to use other static analysis tools, sweet.js macros, or anything else non-trivial? How cute!

So essentially, it's a great way for Facebook to push React.js without making React.js a standard.
Personal loans and personal lines of credit have been around

https://www.wellsfargo.com/personal_credit/

http://www.eloan.com/personal-loans

https://www.discover.com/personal-loans/

My guess is that they constitute such a small revenue stream for the banks, that banks skip on marketing and execution.
On Hiring and Years of Experience
The K760 is awesome for typing, and solar powered. The K480 switches between devices and can mount a mobile device. The K810 has a backlight.

Can these three things be conveniently combined? Make it the size of the k760, but with the backlit keys and a longer mobile device mount. The result might not be pretty, but would definitely be something I'd use for my multiple mobile devices + development use case.

Edit: typo
The original hack. I remember getting one 14 years ago.
Oh well, I thought people might appreciate the info. But I understand.
> Signed integers are signed binary numbers held as unsigned in a byte, word and etc... The sign bit is set for negative integers and cleared for positive integers and zero.

That sounds like a description of sign-and-magnitude.
> Originally Calico was sold as a "fighting old age" company. That's vastly different than "fighting diseases associated with old age".

The difference isn't really clear to me. Could you elaborate?
That's very well written, I enjoyed that. I would read your blog/twitter if you had one :)
That's an argument in favor of them making a spec, not an argument in favor of them using the name "Standard Markdown."

They could have called it any number of other things that don't make the same claims that "Standard Markdown" does. Off the top of my head; Common Markdown, Clean Markdown, or better yet don't actually use the Markdown name, simply imply it such as Forkdown or Sporkdown.
Use BTCJam and Lending Club. LC is amazing and I am happy with my returns. BTC seems like a scam as the reputation of borrowers means very little in their willingness to repay. I've seen many people build their reputation in order to borrow more and then bounce.
I second this! I've been doing some FE work lately and they're my goto now.
They raise money from institutional and private buyers

https://www.lendingclub.com/public/steady-returns.action

I'm a private buyer on Lending Club, their automated investing feature breaks up your deposit into chunks of $25, so a $1,000 gets allocated into 40 loans. Expected returns are listed on that page.
Then they should call it Big Site Markdown. Calling this a standard takes regular, varied, simple, use-case-specific, optimal Markdown away from the rest of us.
"Photon number is conjugate to phase' - I'd like to understand that better, is it the same as saying photon counting destroys phase information? Would it also hold true for gated counting?
There is a newer(2013) version here: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y2...
Interesting "art" can be generated by running the algorithm against a random initial map.

Edit: adjusting the density of the initial map seems to result in different patterns appearing in the output

http://jsfiddle.net/2yxyno52/4/
Looks like an interesting read.

How big is the audio download? (I'm on a quota here in the jungle)

Can you name an Android pod app to use with it?

Thanks
Maybe they can call it "Standardized Markdown" which would be both more descriptive and accurate.
> 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?

Very much this— I've been a lending club 'lender' for a number of years now, and for the last 9 months or so have had a very hard time obtaining practically any notes.

People are hyper eagerly funding notes which my models suggest have very poor risk adjusted performance. (And, if anything, I'm concerned that my models are too conservative— since they're based on historic LC data and lending club has been reaching out to less and less credit worthy lendees).

As a result I'm slowly reducing my amount in lending club as notes return funds and I'm unable to invest it effectively. It was neat in the beginning, but it's a pain to report taxes on, and the decreasing risk adjusted returns make it much less attractive than it used to be.
Tesla could have used the factory as a leverage to remove those laws.
> Given that LC is not a depository institution, the only way I see them providing lower interest rates is they have figured out a cheaper source of funding...

Yes, the source of funding is private investors, both retail and institutional, many of whom are chasing yield.

When the market shifts and investors are forced to reprice risk, lending $10,000 at 13% to someone who has a credit score of 660-665, 55% revolving credit utilization and a gross income of under $2,000/month might be a lot less appealing.
Inside Andrew Ng's Plans To Transform Baidu
I don't see large touchscreens being suited for anything other than whiteboard replacements and maybe exercise games - the amount of effort needed to interact with one that's much larger than a typical tablet (~12") becomes tiring quite quickly. In comparison, traversing a large screen with a mouse requires not much more than a small wrist movement.
> There was an obvious, demonstrable need out there for implementation consistency.

I hear this sentiment a lot but I just find it unconvincing.

Over the past decade, Markdown became the lingua franca for transforming plain text to HTML. It did this entirely on the back of Gruber's spec, implementation, and the community that developed around the project. It hasn't had a formal spec this entire time and it's done just fine.

Are there some undefined behaviors in the original spec? Sure. But it was just designed to handle the most common situations, not everything.
Almost sounds like a reality TV program without the cameras. Good on him.
How about Web Markup Language? WML?
When I read "split diffs" I think about splitting up a diff into different two or more diffs (like in "git add -p"). "Side by side" or perhaps "parallel" view would be more descriptive here. Still, a very useful and overdue feature.
Yes, no antibiotics residues are present in the chicken, because of the long periods ... but nobody can guarantee, that the same is true for resistant bacteria ...
All September's Planned Space Launches
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For the uninitiated in quantum computing requirements - this jumped out at me:

Martinis makes his qubits from aluminum circuits built on sapphire wafers and chills them to 20 millikelvin

I wasn't even aware that "millikelvin" was a thing.
The old people 20 years from now will not be the same as the ones today. Rampant tech consumption among the newer generations will purge the need.
I remember reading some pamphlet they had 20-some years ago about this, they had one (or two?) distribution centers for all their stores and wanted to keep the quality at a very high level. I assume they feel they can't expand and keep things the same. Then again, maybe the owners are just content with the way things have been going and see no reason to expand.
That doesn't really address the main objection to the name "Standard Markdown" unless you already know what the problem with the name is (and thus the implications of the slight difference.)

It would be best if the team would just go another route entirely.

To be honest, I think this industry wide devotion to Markdown is hilarious, since to me it's a pretty garbage way of solving an easily solved problem. The main/only thing in its favor is its ubiquity.
When there are no authorities, there are no compliance issues :)
The roll of controllers and link functions isn't to hold logic, it's to wire things together between the scope and services/models. For example, having a userStatus.getUserCall() is a step in the right direction. Now have the service check the response code and use the user data to create a single user object that can be returned/resolved. So your controller becomes userStatus.getUserCall().then(function(user) { $scope.user = user; }) or since angular templates are promise aware, you can reduce it to $scope.user = userStatus.getUserCall(). Now the NavbarCtrl and the MenuCtrl only need to share that one line rather than ~10!
I've been waiting for Shyp to launch an API. There are plenty of apps out there that can use an experience like the one Shyp provides.
Show HN: My bro and I are a highshool dev duo, we’d love input on our game
I've landed on the guy's markdown pages (he refers to this in the podcast) several times, trying to figure out how to do stuff in markdown. I find the page hard to read (the font is tiny; I always resize it), and the examples rarely seem to describe what I am trying to achieve.
three SpaceX flights this month alone..
Building Sites for Live TV
The Founding of the Japan Social Game Association
This sounds like a great idea in theory, but the execution seems to be a little scratchy.

It sounds as though this is very much a unilateral decision from one of the many sites that use Markdown to standardise it, masked by what seems to be a call for other companies with an interest in Markdown to join.

It seems a little questionable to me for John Gruber to have been ignored in this process. Afterall, he made Markdown and it probably would have been a better idea to take his rather ambiguous spec, develop it into a proper standard, and then call that version 1.0.

No doubt Jeff Atwood deserves some credit for trying to initiate a standards process for Markdown, but I think he's doing it the wrong way.
I definitely see your point of view. Design by committee is enough to wear down the most passionate person. However, maybe they could have said a simple "We're actually working on a spec and two portable implementations (JS, C) based on the original article," and that might have gone a long way to prevent people from wasting their time.
I'll see what I can put together. If/When I get something worth showing, I'll do a Show HN to enlist support.