skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, just last year:

>We provide evidence that plant compounds pharmacologically alter pollinator behavior by enhancing their memory of reward. Honeybees rewarded with caffeine, which occurs naturally in nectar of Coffea and Citrus species, were three times as likely to remember a learned floral scent as were honeybees rewarded with sucrose alone.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1202.full
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A browser interface for reading can easily be done by exporting to html. There is an option to output in a texinfo-like interface,with prev next and up navigation. Latex equations, charts, images and graphs (if you want to learn a little R) can all be integrated easily. Bibliographies can be handled using BibTex.

There is a learning curve to be sure, but the payoff is incredible since you can then directly build research papers and books that output to LaTex/PDF....
Have you looked at http://www.notebooksapp.com/? It stores data in plain text, supports markdown, will sync with Dropbox & WebDav, and does full text search & tagging. Available for OSX, iOS & Windows.
The difficult thing is that any way to verify the zeroing behavior would change the compiler's decision about whether it could elide the call to memset. So it's possible (well, almost guaranteed) that the test would succeed even though the memory wouldn't actually be zeroed in production.
I'm quite comfortable with the contributions I have made, thanks.
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Very nice! I just placed an order on the watch that Daniel Craig wears [1] (not because he wears them, just because I like them) and noticed that there is no affiliate code in your links to amazon!?

1. http://famousoutfits.com/dress-like-daniel-craig/
Neat. I'm happy to make unique assets for my game but I really, really don't want to spend time modelling the same toilet that thousands of others have made.
Tech debt is like monetary debt -- you still have to pay it back, and quick. When it's security / API related debt, you have to pay it back even quicker, because if you don't, someone inevitably forecloses on your metaphorical house and repossesses your metaphorical car.
"Your ad hominem attack on their credentials and agenda does not change this."

An ad hominem attack assumes that my attack is based on an irrelevant fact about the arguer. That the arguer has no experience in, and cannot articulate a common description of the issue in question is not an ad hominem attack. Just like saying that I have no basis in describing rabbinical law and should therefore not be determining what is and is not kosher, me saying that your source doesn't know what they are talking about when it comes to electronic trading is what is important.

"What was just described is detecting a large institutional order through the use of 'pinging' trades and then effectively taking advantage of that knowledge by trading ahead of it."

What is described in that article is 1 market participant, using a well known and perfectly legal market means to send in orders that they want to trade and then extrapolating from the completion of those orders, information about another participant that is using highly exclusionary, extra-market venues (dark pools) to hide their desire to change the price of an instrument.

That you think the market participant that is most disadvantaged in this relationship should be penalized more says more about your biases than anything else in the market dynamic.
Finally, a startup business that can proudly claim you're full of shit
SGC is useless
I don't remember what happened back then, but I do know that here in Oregon, Intel has received tax breaks from the state and Washington County where the Intel R&D fab is located. OTOH while Intel has fabs in many places, their investment in this region has grown rather steadily over the years.

It's reported that Intel remains the state's single largest employer. As far as Oregon is concerned, and the Portland metro area in particular, the tax break for jobs tradeoff looks like a pretty good deal after all.

Though property owners grouse about Intel avoiding its "fair share" of taxes, our local, regional and state governments aren't likely to complain or change their policies.
Accepting a role in an organization, only to turn around and immediately publicly humiliate and embarass them (for no good reason[1]), is just about the biggest dick move one can make.

I hope this guy finds his 5 seconds in the limelight to be worth sacrificing his common decency to.

[1] Because they appear to be in the process of addressing the issues in a timely manner.
We have had very similar experiences with Evernote, then. I also used Google Notebook before the (in my opinion very efficient) product was discontinued. Google Docs on the other hand forces you to open entire documents. This doesn't work well when the most frequent use case is a quick-and-dirty append.

This may sound like a "solve everything with git" type comment, but honestly, I have found that keeping a set of markdown files in a git repository (frequently pushed to github) works well for me. I can have a quick script that appends a default journal file for thoughts I don't want to spend time organizing immediately. For everything else, I open up the relevant .md file and add a bullet point.

So far it's working better than anything I've experimented with over the last ten years.
This blog post, 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models[1], suggests some alternatives to mixins.

Code Climate is a pretty helpful service by the by.

[1] http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/10/17/7-ways-to-decomp...
C may have pitfalls for "these kinds of applications," but it has some strengths that other languages don't. Since C gives the programmer significant control over memory allocation, it's possible to avoid various kinds of timing attacks related to cache misses (possible is not the same as easy). Many languages don't give the programmer the necessary tools to do that.
Right. We changed it back.

Submitters: please don't editorialize in titles.
"You mentioned Blackrock, whose net income last year was $3 billion.
http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/trading-technology/the-real...?
"TABB Group estimates that annual aggregate profits of low-latency arbitrage strategies exceed $21 billion, spread out among the few hundred firms that deploy them.""

Thanks for using 1 number from now and another number from 5 years ago. Are you willing to concede the rest of your rhetorical high ground?

Even if we discount the market impact numbers that you have to juke, I found a senator in 2009 speaking out against HFT. Can you find one defending it?

"Were this true, dark pools would not exist in the first place. Traders would have stuck to the public exchanges and paid their (lower) fees."

Maybe if the buy side firms didn't engage in fraud to keep their clients out of public exchanges that would be true.
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It comes down to trust, really.
What goes around comes around.
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I think it's reasonable to expect a response or acknowledgement in a week, not necessarily a fix.
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Again, this is a particular application of a long-standing, widely-applicable policy on the part of the state of Nevada. It's very similar to, and just as anti-free-market as, a company with pricing tiers of

$50 / month: bad service
$400 / month: we respond to your emails
$2000 / month: you can page a support engineer at any time

If you need more, call us: XXX-XXX-XXXX

Tesla, like so many other companies, is operating at the "call us" level of service (what you describe as "this exact deal is not open to any other company"). The currency they're spending is voter satisfaction instead of dollars.

Asking local governments for tax breaks is part of the process of siting factories. The terms vary from case to case, which is completely normal in the free market. That's how all major transactions are negotiated. But yes, this is a policy anyone can benefit from, as long as they're siting a factory or doing something similarly exciting to politicians.
It was certainly their decision to do a clean fork or not, and I'm not judging them for wanting to take ownership of a neglected project. I was just commenting on the fact that Atwood had sent an email and expected a response in 24 hours or so. A week or two would perhaps have been sufficient.
> Now certainly basing a game off a technology that isn't ready for prime time is a mistake, but the technology itself is very impressive and the underlying concept will come back when the internet is fast enough that you can realistically expect someone to download a half terabyte game.

Well I agree with your statement, but I'm not sure the tech is worth it in the end. The current tech is advancing faster than the Megatexture one, and by the time the Megatexture becomes a reality again, we won't need it anymore. Look at all games coming out in 1 to 2 years, they look fantastic while still relying on traditional texture concepts.

On a side note, it did not help to sell the technology that Rage was a notoriously bad game (just like Doom3, but hey, it's not a popular opinion apparently not to like having monsters jumping at you right when you open a door).
"If they prioritized liquidity above all else, as you appear to think they should"

No, I think they should prioritize execution costs above all else. It turns out that fees then liquidity costs are the biggest variables in determining execution cost. Public exchanges with low fees and high liquidity provide the lowest execution cost, no matter what the dark pool salesmen claim (fraudulently or not).

"Yes, I'm sure they all left after it was revealed that Barclays was lying to them"

Actually the complaint shows they were leaving before the lying started. This is what you are missing. The lying was a response to the natural market condition that execution costs are lowered in environments with HFT participants. That Barclay's had staked their reputation on that not being true is what led to the fraud.

"The central part of the complaint was that the service was advertised as HFT free when, in fact, it was not."

And that is fraud. The book should be thrown at Barcaly's but that doesn't add any insight into the arguments surrounding HFT, other than in real world conditions, even buy side clients prefer venues with HFT provided liquidity, even in the face of fraudulent marketing claims.
2014 and there are still websites that auto start videos? At the bottom of the page no less? I pretty much ctrl+q out of fear at this point. Autoplaying videos = virus/phishing website in my head.
It doesn't make sense that iPhone 6 will have an NFC chip- thoughts?
1) Sourcing and producing the chips without anything slipping would be hard and we've seen no slips
2) Nothing we've seen in iOs 8 suggests any NFC chip is coming
3) Apple already invested too heavily in iBeacon. Payments at distance in store using iBeacon & iTunes makes more sense than NFC payments.
4) They can expand iTunes payments using ibeacon beyond Apple stores into retail stores and integrate directly into retail purchasing systems. No need for NFC chips or NFC terminals in stores.
5) There simply are not many NFC enabled terminals in retail stores which makes the technology dead on arrival for in store purchases. Apple never releases until the market is ready to sustain the technology. They've seen Google try and fail at this already (several times over) with Google Wallet.
6) It will pit them against AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile (again) who have ISIS mobile wallet already. I doubt they want to start another fight there.
> Colgan 3407 crashed because of a profound and astounding lack of basic airmanship

I agree. I think the New Yorker just picked wrong incident to try to advance their theory. The particular pilot in Colgan 3407 flight FAILED a check ride in another airline. I understand this check ride is after you have already flown hundreds/thousands of flights and he somehow failed it.
Fake pearls are distinguishable, and I don't know much about the state of lab-grown diamonds.
unfortunately i don't have the code for the step sequencer that used both implementations. but i can share some of the libraries i've released that stemmed from it:

MIDI file parsing/writing/manipulation for js: https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.js

MIDI control for js (requires a server component, wrote this prior to the web MIDI API): https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.io

experimental 3d step sequencer (quantized, naturally): https://github.com/kn0ll/phon2

the issue i had with quantizing captured input is the latency between the device input and the time it's read into the program. this is why i said "naive" quantization. but it works fine for 1/8 steps, and 1/16 steps at most tempos.
While I am immensely happy as a Tesla cheerleader of sorts, I am not entirely convinced that these deals are good either.
There are two different things you can mean when you say "C is not suitable to these kinds of applications". One is the more extreme, "You should not be using C, you should be using <other existing language> because it is more suitable." That's a bit of a hard sell; though specific alternatives should be evaluated on their merits. There is also, "there are design choices that have been made in C that make it worse for these applications than C would have been were it not for those choices", which seems an easy case to make.
I have a Pandora and I only need to charge it one a week or something, the battery lasts very long (even though I used it a couple of hours a day). So in the school context it would do just fine.
Change is sorely needed, I agree. And I don't think that the Common Markdown team should be forced to be backwards-compatible (I would prefer they didn't). However, Gruber's request to simply not call it Markdown is fairly reasonable, the same way you wouldn't call Clojure "Common Lisp."
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> The downsides are hypotheticals about the police potentially nabbing you based on an extreme ability to find out what you did, while the upsides involve current, actual, real stories about the police nabbing you by simply making up violations and then getting them to stick.

The problem is having a huge pile of incomplete evidence makes it easier to make up violations and get them to stick.

Illegitimate prosecutions are built on confirmation bias. The amount of false positive evidence against you is proportional to the amount of surveillance you're under. More government cameras only produce more false positive evidence against you. Meanwhile government cameras can't really help you because your public defender doesn't have the resources to look through the footage and regardless any strong evidence of your innocence will have been the victim of a camera malfunction which "isn't suspicious" because it "happens all the time."

The better solution is for citizens to carry cameras and to have strong laws protecting the right of citizens to record the police. That way the footage can't "disappear" as easily and the recordings are decentralized so you aren't making it easier to fabricate an illegitimate prosecution out of the biased selection of false positives from big data.
If there's no conflict of interest, then that CTO is probably not qualified.

I can't imagine a CTO not having worked at any of the big tech companies.
I get the sense it's unintentional. This isn't how you want your launch to go. The impact on this project is large - SE, Reddit and GitHub.

It's not clear whether JA is leading the group's effort, but he's definitely the one speaking the most.

The group shouldn't have been surprised at the continued stonewalling. Perhaps they had a Plan B, perhaps we're seeing it or a hurried Plan C. In any case, I'd agree that the project is getting visibility and attention, but I definitely wouldn't have planned for this. It's too ugly.
140 characters may not contain the full breadth of his view on the topic. Tweets are easy to compose but myopic. All the same, I understand your point. There's definitely stuff we don't know here.
i saw an article mention noah working on this http://pingly.com/
I am working on this in the nyc area if anyone is interested. Definitely need a cofounder
Coming from a JS/Mongo background rather than Rails, I was completely expecting a Collection.find() of some sort. Why should a product know how to find itself?
Lab grown diamonds are superior.

From 11 years ago: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
Looks awesome. You could use the ShopStyle API to monetize product links. http://shopsense.shopstyle.com
I like the "normal", affordable look myself, so please don't deviate too far from that. You got a good thing going.

And I love the site! Nice writing of product descriptions too. If you had an email newsletter I'd definitely subscribe.
the missing B in AirBnB.
I really wish I can finish the work on this idea someday. I have tech MVP but I dont know how to move forward. The idea :
Basically, people can charge for Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner at their places. There are people who like to cook and people who dont. Why not let former earn money and later save money while eating healthy meals and meeting new people.
The state isn't writing Tesla a 1.2B check. It's not like the state is starting out in a -1.2B hole. They're starting from a slightly negative and almost 0 position (some amount of state resources went to negotiate the incentives). They have almost nothing to lose and everything to gain. It's a tax incentive which means in order for Tesla to benefit, they would have to have developed property to pay property taxes on (which is good for the state), and had net income to offset (which again is good for the state). In very rare scenarios, some of the states resources are used and Tesla pays 0. In most cases, the state can only win in a deal like this.

Not to mention, there are now 6500 new jobs, and 6500 additional middle-income wage earners paying taxes that the state never had to begin with.
your comment is... well, less coolaid maybe, or less hero syndrome

Courting investors does not build value. Building a product builds value.

Plenty of people can and do design products.

In the case of an acquihire, founders, unlike employees, often clear a decent chunk of money (say $.5-$1.5mm) plus get an interesting job. (I personally know of several such cases).

There is plenty of unethical behavior by founders, but most of it isn't discussed in public or on HN, but rather privately between peers.
One big issue will be local businesses making fake accounts and pushing ads
> Turning on the camera and keeping it on during the interaction should be as necessary as police officers ID-ing themselves.

Do they ID themselves generally? I've mostly seen them not do this when it was requested.
As long as Murdoch has anything to say about it.
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Then it should be easy enough to provide me with an example? I've only ever seen factories with an indirection of one level in Java's standard libraries, I wouldn't be surprised if that was part of their coding style rules.

I think you would only find such monstrosities in Ecliopse.
Thanks.

I flag submissions with questionable titles. I believe this is the right thing to do, but what about after the title is changed? Does it still show up in a queue? Should I unflag submissions if I notice the title is changed?
“I wish I had known that sensing all the way to machine learning is about approximating the identity”

(link for this isn't loading) does this mean anything?
Tax payers are not paying more, likely they are paying less. Hopefully the $1.2B in tax breaks leads to an overall net gain for Nevada (why else would they do it?)

The other option is Tesla builds elsewhere. At no point was there ever an option for Nevada to get the Tesla factory and NOT give tax breaks.
Every time someone dismisses Gruber's contributions and influence in the tech field, it makes our field look like it's populated by dickheads.

Gruber's consistently had some of the best analysis on Apple (and some other aspects of the tech industry). He's been writing for over 10 years, it has made him successful, and he's been able to cultivate direct access to Apple (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-06/meet-apples-...) and the occasional response from Jobs himself (http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/10/steve-jobs-responds-to-ipho...).

I'm with Atwood on this one, but seeing the peanut gallery make stupid and snarky comments about Gruber himself is starting to piss me off.
I've been using Arena for the last year or two: http://are.na.

It's conceptually based on blocks and channels, where a block is text, pdf, video, audio, image, etc. and a channel is an ordered set of blocks and other channels. Channels can be public, private, or private with collaborators. It's web-based and has a good API(1), which I use as a lightweight CMS for my own website. They plan(2) to eventually charge for a pro version, but for now they are accepting rewarded donations.

(1) http://dev.are.na/documentation/channels
(2) http://future.are.na/
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Url changed from http://lifehacker.com/test-if-your-batteries-are-dead-by-dro..., which points to this.
Understand the intricacies of cloud benefits and cloud computing disadvantages
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We do have an email newsletter. You can sign up on the footer :) Thanks! And we definitely want to keep doing what we are doing with the "affordable" looks.
And a browser interface for recording and linking web pages in your Org files can be found here (although there are other ways to do it):
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-annotation-helper.ht...

Also, because Org files are at heart just some pretty simply formatted plain text, it would be easy enough to write Org entries in any simple text editor and add the file to your main Org repository of Org files at a later time, possibly by using the 'refile' functionality to have each entry in the "scratch" file routed to correct spot in permanent files.

I think Org-mode is probably one of the best knowledgebase solutions, but only for a limited range of users, who must be pretty savvy power users and also willing to devote a bit of time to get setup to their liking so they can then leverage it to their benefit. It's pretty hard to wrap your head around all the different things that Org-mode can do, and then a bit harder to create a workflow that's easy and fast to use. But many have done it, some for the knowledgebase scenario and some for the wide variety of things the very flexible Org-mode app can do.
You don't know what you're talking about. The dash cams in Russia are there for fraud alone, not police abuse.

How many dash cam videos have you seen of Russian cops asking for bribes? Not that many I bet. How many have you seen of someone trying to pull off an insurance scam? More than a few.

It isn't because police aren't asking for bribes - it's because people are probably afraid to publicize the bad things the police do, whereas they are okay publicizing the bad things a random poor scammer/druggie does.
It's time to convert our science to Bayesian data analysis (2010)
I don't buy the "race to the bottom" argument when it comes to tax rates. When there is competition among companies that drives down prices, do you heard people complaining about "the race to the bottom"?

Competition for business between states based on tax rates drives efficiencies. The state that can offer the most for the fewest dollars wins.