skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you on all fronts and agree (don't be surprised). In London, walking is frequently faster than driving. I've jumped off a bus more than once to just walk the rest of the way since it was faster.

I posted this elsewhere as an example of the kind of nonsense I'm frequently dealing with where I live.

http://imgur.com/q1xM217

This is not my area and I didn't take the picture, but it's near enough looking to quite a few roads near my area that it may as well be. Even if it was just one of these guys, I guarantee you he'd be in the middle of the road impeding traffic. I see it weekly and it's unbelievably irritating and dangerous.
in south america there is no "banana". if you ask someone to buy bananas you get a very puzzled look.

there are tons of types of banana. and none have this sweet, tutti frutty flavour the banana imported into the US has.

so, your wild banana is just one kind of a hundred.

south asia is the the same as south america, but with a whole lot of other kinds of bananas.... so there is plenty of variety other than cavendish and wild. most of the wild ones around brazil have almost invisible seeds. and are very easy to peel. and they go from huge (nanica... ironically means tiny) to very small ones (prata, ouro)
Hey what do you have against a bunch of cranks dedicated to "Uniting Lightworkers, starseeds, crystals, indigos and healers in a New Age"? Hater.
Was the battery life announced? Cannot find a reference anywhere which makes me wonder...
What's the difference? You spend a miserable few months as a contract employee vs a miserable few months as a salaried employee?
Why do you think NPM is "the most unreliable package manager"? I don't use Node, but I thought the general consensus was that it's one of the best out there. I'm genuinely curious.
I just looked up the ride I took this morning and it doesn't seem to include any add-on charges, like the toll I was charged, the Uber Safety Fee or the Seattle Accessible Driving Fund.

edit: oh yea, it says that in small print at the bottom of the page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid

Only 9 of the 22 "standard" amino acids can't be synthesized de novo by the human body.
Competition spurs innovation. Samsung copies from Apple whatever is successful there, Apple copies from Samsung/Google whatever is successful there. Would Apple have created a phablet if Samsung hadn't innovated and proved the market? Probably not. Samsung doesn't have the fingerprint reader, but it's probably coming. And then they'll have to think of something new to differentiate themselves.
> Just like work is a place for pants.

Maybe on the east coast.
I'm the first person in the thread. I think that lets me choose the terms of the thread? Or is that no loner part of netiquette?
Definitely an interesting idea. I wonder if haptic feedback for GPS navigation could somehow be integrated into cars. The steering wheel might work.. except people are often pretty bad at keeping both hands on the wheel. Maybe in the seat.
It shows 60 and 40 fps but the movement's are slow for me and have a strange pulsing effect.
I posted a question about where to meet people in SF. You have not answered this question and are not contributing in any meaningful way to the discussion I am interested in having.

Furthermore, I was downvoted for putting an honest reply as to why I named this account as I did. I doubt it would've raised any eyebrows if I named this account "new_to_sf" which is functionally equivalent.

THIS is why I lurk on HN and want to meet people in the real world instead. Ridiculous.
The Last Mile at San Quentin seems interesting. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/bringi...
I mean the alternatives (standing and lying down) in excess are already known to be bad.
In the U.S. It's true for most of the landmass outside of a few specific cities.
white guy here. over 7 feet tall. Not having an easy time.
Lenses are a lot closer to setf! This copattern stuff and definition by observation is really different.
I for one am impressed by your categorisation of the 1957 Speedmaster and Patek 3940G as "random watches that do not look nice". You're probably not the target audience for Hodinkee.

The article acknowledges some of the shortcomings of the watch, but one thing should be obvious: this author is someone that understands the little differences in quality that differentiate a $350 watch from a $35,000 one. When it comes to the points he makes about build quality, I believe him. I'm also quite impressed by what I've seen of the bracelets, especially the ultra-thin deployant. If you've ever worn a deployant strap you'll understand what a big deal that is.

I do not think Apple has got everything right with this, but I'm increasingly realising they've done again what they always do well: completely ignore conventional wisdom about what makes a good product and focus on the "ownership experience".

As with other new Apple products, the first gen isn't very good. By the time it hits 3rd gen, all the initial complaints will have been resolved. They just need to find a market in the meantime, which is neither the Casio owner nor the Rolex owner, but I have confidence the market exists and this will do well enough to survive and evolve.
iPhone 6 and Android value
If I was going to pick one Frances Fitzgerald book it would be "Cities on a Hill"[1] not "Fire in the Lake".

One explains why our foreign policy fails and the other explains who we believe ourselves to be and how that shapes who we are. McPhee's "Encounter with the Archdruid"[2] and Reisner's "Cadillac Desert"[3] have similar elements...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Hill-Brilliant-Exploration-Comm...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=encounter%20w...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=encounter%20w...
Perhaps a decade ago, I was roped into maintaining Palm apps written in VB and deployed with AppForge (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/appforge-palm-developmen...).

In a sense, tools like these were the precursors of today's mobile cross-compilers and cross-platform development environments (e.g. Unity).
We had this exact same thing happen when we bought funeral services for my (late) older brother. They asked us for a bunch of pictures of him and some of his favorite music to use in a slideshow they were preparing as part of the funeral package.

We have everyone at the service, in the pews and settled in. The lights dim, a projector screen rolls down and music starts to play. His music. Their slideshow was not exactly a slideshow, but an automatically generated remembrance DVD. It started with a flyover of some nature/rambling rivers and then rose into the air into parting clouds.

So far so good.

The DVD was an interspersing of stock nature footage and pictures of my brother. Face recognition algorithms were used to find where he was in each picture and slowly 'zoom' into them, or pan over to center on him. I think basically so that there was some sort of movement to the pictures.

But their software (or more likely the software they had licensed) hadn't gotten his face right. Instead it kept zooming in on family members and (tragically) cutting him out. Instead it zoomed in constantly on my sister. It was obvious that either the software didn't have a way to correct such errors, or that the funeral home hadn't bothered to preview the DVD before making it a part of the service.
Keeping weight low is the primary metric that people currently track and associate with their health, but that doesn't mean weight is the primary problem, just that people think it is.
I had the same problem, and Soylent told me this:

I think you might be having a reaction to the high soluble fiber content of Soylent. The best thing you can do is restrict yourself to 12 oz (which you drink slowly, sipping every few minutes) of Soylent for a meal, and intermingle with other foods throughout the day (use Soylent for no more than 1-2 meals per day).

If that helps, you can probably ease into more after your digestion is stable for a couple of weeks.

We're working on our next formulation of Soylent which will hopefully address people like yourself that are experiencing more severe effects, at least in part, so I hope that you'll stay tuned. I can't guarantee that the product will be 100% gluten-free at that time (we won't know until it passes certification), though that is something we are aiming for.
It'd be good if there were a canonical "Why npm sucks" article, like the "fractal of bad design" one for PHP.

This one seems like a fairly reasonable candidate: http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html (though the "nested dependencies" bit needs much more swearing, and I disagree with the last paragraph suggesting things in Ruby and Python land are just as bad).
Agreed. However, it's still viable to go that route if you have a document-generating tool like doxygen that will pull all of this data out and make a (rather hideous, but usable) bunch of html documentation.

This is not an example of that.
Maybe? But the neat thing about romance is that you just need one to work.

I once complained to a friend that my failure rate is going to be 95% if the normal failure rate is 80%. She replied, "Good then you'll succeed." because a 95% failure rate means there will still be 5 women out of 100 who won't reject me and that number increases the more women I meet.

Another good friend of mine who can be best described as a womanizer told me that it's a huge numbers game. He confided to me that he gets rejected all the time and for all sorts of reasons, most of it has nothing to do with him. His word of advice to me was "You got ten fingers, ten toes. There is nothing wrong with you."

Sure, some women prefer one thing over another but you don't need all the women to like you. You just need one. I am sure in the universe of women there is at least one who likes Asian men who read Hacker News and you have a better chance of finding her(or them) with online dating.
I meant the politicizing of space aspect. After Putin annexed Crimea, it was NASA that basically said "hey, we don't like what you're doing with Ukraine, so from now on, we're not going to space together". It's only after that Russia decided not to sell rocket engines to US anymore.

Personally, I suspect that some politician pushed NASA to do this as a cheap popularity shot. But regardless, it's the US that escalated Ukraine into spaceflight business, so it's not fair to accuse Putin of politicizing space.

Heck, I learned about that NASA stunt here, on HN. People seem to have a really, really short memory.

EDIT: for a simple proof and a reminder, just HN-search for "NASA Russia" and "Russia engines".

- 5 months ago NASA suspends work with Russia over involvement in Ukraine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7517679)

- 4 months ago Russia Bans Rocket Engine Sales to U.S. Military (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7740033)
September 11th Fast Facts
Check if your gmail account was compromised
This ad just seems like its saying that bigger screens are common sense?
nah.. its still Linux.. much like Android or Firefox OS
The control mechanism that's lasted over 100 years obviously works well. We are not too far into the touchscreen era, and when the thing is only 1 inch on each side the touchscreen isn't going to work especially well.

Someone made a mockup a week or two ago that used the ring around normal watch face as an input mechanism. I actually thought that was kind of a neat idea. I'd kind of like to see one of the Android watchmakers give it a try. But it was more of a 'watch with some interaction' (like the old Timex Datalink) than a 'smartwatch'.
Thanks for the advice. Your app sounds perfect! I'm going to sign up for the email notifications.
No offense, but where on earth did you get that impression from? I have a feeling whoever told you that has either never used npm with a non-trivial project or was messing with you.

I've had more issues with npm in the last month than I've had with pip, gem, and apt combined over the last two years. "most unreliable package manager" is an apt descriptor.
In anticipation of dismissive criticism, I assert that from a cyclist's perspective, this is an honest and meaningful comparison, not an over-the-top exaggeration.

And I assert that this is a lazy, hyperbolic comparison that tries to compare a ridiculously complex issue involving race, socioeconomic divides, police brutality, and then some, to a fairly simple issue involving cyclists who flaunt the rules of the road, and drivers who ignore cyclists.

I'm a consummate pedestrian in SF who is somewhat afraid of becoming a cyclist, and who drives once or twice a month (mostly to get out of the city). Even I have some close calls with cyclists who think it's cool to ride on the sidewalk when there's a perfectly good (and not even particularly heavily-trafficked) road sitting next to them.

I witness a lot of crap: cyclists running red lights and stop signs, cyclists weaving around stopped traffic at lights in order to get ahead, cyclists riding the wrong way on one-way streets (sometimes on the sidewalk because "that doesn't count" apparently), cyclists riding side-by-side blocking traffic lanes.

Maybe it's not a majority of cyclists who do this stuff, but it is a very large minority.

And then there's my favorite: Critical Mass, a monthly event where a ton of cyclists get together (a bunch of them clearly drunk) and ride around SF en masse, blocking streets and taunting cars. And they wonder why drivers hate them? Seriously?

Having said all that, I do know some cyclists who are awesome and obey the law, and always put safety and vigilance first. I wish everyone was like that.
Fair enough, but the article isn't about weight loss and a lot of research is done on how X food affects the chances of getting Y chronic condition later in life or how to best feed your children so they grow up to their full potential. It's pretty uninteresting to reduce nutrition science to simple dieting.
> Keeping weight low is the primary metric that people currently track and associate with their health, but that doesn't mean weight is the primary problem, just that people think it is.

It absolutely is the primary problem for most people concerned with nutritional issues in developed nations. Obesity (which is quickly becoming the epidemic it's made out to be) carries all sorts of nasty side-effects that are well documented.
Benefits of Implementing Machine Learning Algorithms from Scratch
How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test
"Share the road? Then share the rules!"(tm)
45 dBm is crazy! Do you know the FCC limitations for that frequency? For the ISM bands its +36 dBm EIRP maximum. I'm not familiar with the rules for the higher GHz frequencies.
Don't worry. They will abandon it in a few weeks because they rewrote a new one that works better.
No, but the keynote made a mention of how easy it is to charge every night. Rumor is that it's about a day and Apple is trying to optimize it before release.
Oxygen is bad for us. It oxidizes and damages all kinds of organic chemicals in our bodies that are required for use to live. Oxidization, however, is exactly what provides us with the energy that supports life.

Salts are electrolytes. (Electrolytes are salts?) You need them in your body so that your nervous system can conduct signals and keep things going - like your heart.

We live. We grow. We hurt. We heal. We get sick. We recover. We age. We wear out. We die.

Rather that avoiding "omg sugar" or "omg salt" or "omg fat," we should just be eating well-rounded diets. Have some beef today. And some pork tomorrow. And some fish after that. Have some fruit. And veggies. And a bit of dessert. And a spoonful of honey. And some powdered sugar on that syrup'd French toast. Just don't eat large piles of stuff for a meal. And don't eat the same thing every day.

Life's gonna kill you. Just don't clog up your body with excessive amounts of the same thing and you probably won't die early.
As a future college graduate going to work at a startup, what should I expect?
Basically, I don't want to get screwed over when it comes down to negotiating my salary, being ill-treated, etc. I am going to be in software development (if that helps). I have interned at many companies before, but none have been startups.
It is interesting that there is no non-fiction in the top 100.

Godel Escher Bach

Plagues and People by McNeil

Something by Jared Diamond

Braudel's Capitalism series

The Worldly Philosophers by Heilbronner
etc
etc

Maybe nonfiction is more dispersed but it is still interesting to have none in the top 100.
The wikipedia page says nothing about minimum speeds.

21202 and 21654 explicitly list restrictions that must be followed when traveling at "less than the normal speed of traffic". This suggests to me that doing so is legal. By the way, 21202 is exactly what I quoted to you, so it's kind of funny that you would repeat it back to me.

22400 deals with impeding traffic, "unless it's necessary for the safe operation" of the vehicle. I don't know who determines what is necessary for safe operation, but travelling at a speed achievable by humans is certainly necessary for the operation of bicycles, and bicycles are explicitly granted permission to use roads.

I certainly don't see any clear legal requirements in general to maintain any specific minimum speed limit.
The answer is Kungfu. I know a Vietnamese guy who is like 5"5 but practices Wing-chun with hot girls all the time.
"An Asian Man who can't fight is like a Black Man who can't dance or a White Man who doesn't own an acoustic guitar, shameful display!"
its a bit like saying hearing-impaired people can't take the ride if they bring their hearing aid along.
And when you go on a trip, you have to take one more charger...
Well Uber has been cheaper than any other service in all of my searches so it seems to be in their best interest.
How's the quality of your provider? I've been using MegaVOIP (also fed up with Skype) and it's getting terrible.
Is the issue just that npmjs.org is frequently unavailable? Surely any serious project will have their own mirror of NPM, PyPI, apt, yum, etc so they are not relying on third party servers they don't control to be able to do a build/deploy/whatever.
10~25% boost for Asian males.

You can thank Kpop for that boost. It's quite amazing what popular media catering to the female demographic can create a totally different image of the Asian male, unlike the American perspective which tends to degrade and emasculate Asian males through stereotypes. Even positive stereotypes are ridiculed (Good at math, plays classical piano).

In my experience, I had more positive experience with young non-Asian women (around 18~22) and don't think I ended up dating anyone around my age or older (unfortunately :D).

It's funny that most of my Asian friends also lie about being Korean when they are not. Even more insane is that they are able to get Asian women by getting past the filter which seems to favor Korean men.

Thank you Korean popular culture machine! Thank you Kpop!
Scientists Use Gold Substrate to Grow Graphene's Cousin, Germanene
http://cs.umd.edu/~miyyer/qblearn/qanta.tar.gz
Why top sport stars might have 'more time' on the ball
How could they make it iOS compatible ? They won't have the ability to integrate with third party applications which is really the killer feature of the device.
No Google Account has been hacked. They're just aggregated leaks from random compromised websites.

If you don't re-use passwords, no action needs to be taken.
Limiting the spread of contagious and lethal diseases is not purely humanitarian. He's not donating dollars to Liberia, he's donating them to MSF.
I love the way my Nexus 5 runs. I use it just as much as my iPhone 5 and although it doesn't have the same UX niceties, it's still plenty smooth and fast.

What really frustrates me is the camera. Some photos are great, others look like the image has been made deliberately bad. I don't think the Nexus phones will deliver a great camera experience any time soon, and there's only so much compensation that G+ can make to a dull, blurry photo.
I think this is the big area big data analysis will end up revolutionising. The only problem is really getting reliable data into the system. Sensors in your mouth (probably in the teeth) are more obvious - sensors at the other end might be a harder sell.

And what goes for nutrition will work for drug interaction monitoring too.
I've read about this before. In Minneapolis there are some drivers with doctors' notes and you are supposed to tell the dispatcher that you have a dog so that they can be sure to not send one of those drivers. In Cincinnati there was a lawsuit filed over this and the city decided that unless the driver could prove that their allergy was so severe that it rose to the level of itself being an ADA disability, they could not use it as a reason to refuse fare.

http://www.nagdu.org/taxis.html

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29312754.html

In one case it is explicitly mentioned, and in another tangentially, that some people have refused rides to people with dogs on religious grounds as Islam considers contact with dogs to be very objectionable, using allergies as an excuse. I read the recent filing and it didn't mention anything specifically about that though. Included below for completeness:

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/ca/NationalFederationoftheBlindvU...
I think npm gets praised by proponents based on how it integrates with the language and handles dependencies rather than on the reliability of the server.