skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first year accommodation at the University of York was somewhat similar to this, having been built in the 60s from prefabricated concrete panels. I lived in Derwent college, which is some of the cheapest accommodation due to it being in this old part of the campus, a lot of the other accommodation is newly built hotel-standard stuff with en-suites. While a lot of people find it unattractive and an eyesore, I thought it had a certain unique appeal. Despite the concrete there's a lot of greenery, and the covered walkways were very convenient in the rain. It's possible to walk between most points in the campus without ever leaving a covered walkway, you probably wouldn't see that level of pragmatism in a modern build.

Here's a (fairly large) image as an example:
http://www.york.ac.uk/media/abouttheuniversity/supportservic...
A qanat can be little more than a shaded pond. It doesn't have to be underground. Air around it is cooled, then drawn by the wind tower through the house.
>Plenty of technologists were gamers, but not all gamers become technologists. It's just that the former dominate here.

I was a gamer, and didn't become a technologist. I had no idea what a computer program was!

(If that sounds silly, consider all the things you see every day without understanding)

Mostly, my gaming experience was a write-off. It stunted my social development, blocked me from doing more interesting activities, and contributed very little to my well-being.

I may have learned some strategic thinking from games like Starcraft, which I think has carried over to entrepreneurship. But oh, how I wish I could get that time back.

Or, I wish someone had shown me a terminal and what it could do. One glimpse would have been enough.
Can you explain why? A large app will not likely make a far greater number of http calls at the same time. If you must have up to date data then I don't see an alternative in something like angular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies
They do something similar. And they're both wrong. Why bring Google into this?
I generally don't eat apples at all because I'm not a fan of Red Delicious. Although I have had other apples on occasion, in my mind all apples = not my fruit of choice. Reading this though maybe I need to go buy some varieties and try them out.
Actually, yes. I paid for Sketchup and for extra storage space on gmail / drive. I also paid for Google Apps for Business for two of my startups. My disgruntlement isn't because I'm upset that I didn't get what I paid for, but because Google's practices have become primarily damaging to themselves: I don't think it is helping them win eyeballs.

Personally, I date this to the announcement that they would be putting "more wood behind fewer arrows".[1] Prior to that, Google's product offerings had been comprehensive but scattershot -- but most of their individual products were lean, elegant, and very effective at what they did. By putting "more wood" into those products, they've somehow fallen into a very old-world fallacy of software development: the idea that quality scales with manpower. But overloading a team with software engineers doesn't produce better software -- just bloated software. As somebody who is generally an admirer of Google's, I find this unfortunate.

1: http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fe...
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The issue is that plenty of people come in spouting complete nonsense that they "know" about their health, and they're usually wrong. It creates a default reaction. Imagine someone coming in and saying they can't send emails more than 500 miles. If you'd never heard [that story][1] before, you'd probably think they were being ridiculous. They may be absolutely right, but it sounds so different from what you know that you default to saying "Email really doesn't work that way, generally." It doesn't help that you're used to people coming in and saying that a virus put porn in their browser history.

[1]: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Apple Pay and Bitcoin were made for each other…they just don’t know it yet
I'm not attempting to call your friends death "sensationalist bullshit", let's be clear on that. I'm calling the overall trend of people picking some new technology/activity and portraying it as the end-all sensationalist bullshit. I'm not trying to protect video games, I've long since stopped playing them. I'm just trying to approach this from a more realistic angle.

If you want to be in denial and not recognize a friend's addiction and mental health issues, that is understandable but a bad path to choose. I've seen addiction time and time again. I don't know your friend, it's possible he was addicted to video games and just drank a Heineken here and there and that the alcohol was purely incidental to his demise. However, I've seen this type of thing happen on several occasions. Someone has an addiction, be it alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. They lock themselves away from everyone and indulge in their habit. As a side-effect of that, they wind up doing something fairly low-energy like watching TV, surfing the internet, or playing video games. Ultimately, their organs start to fail and they wind up dead or near-death in the ER.

I've been to the funerals, I've seen the jaundiced, malnourished bodies, I've had to help clean up the aftermath, both emotional and physical. I'm sure your friend was a good guy who couldn't shake his problems, and I don't mean to make light of anything. I've seen too many otherwise good people die of substance abuse, and I know several members of my family will likely still die in a similar manner. Saying someone died "as a result of playing video games" is a cop-out for not wanting to admit someone had an addiction to other substances, whatever the reason may be. Your liver doesn't fail because you played too much Halo. It's sad, but it's the truth.
I don't think it's a designed to be a ringing endorsement of Jobs as a parent or person; rather his views on one aspect of parenting that could surprise many people.
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Lol at monkey picture, full rambo style :p
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> Google's strategy of driving down handset costs continues. They don't make money on the hardware or software but rather on the data collection and advertising from android devices. Apple, on the other hand, makes their money from the devices.

But Google isn't making the devices.

> Why pay $600 to Apple when I can pay $170 to X.

How much does X make on that $170 device, compared to how much Apple makes on their $600 device?

> But they can essentially give it away and make money on the users…

Google can, yes. But their device manufacturers can't. And that's where a lot of Windows PC developers ended up—they raced to lots of low margin sales, and made less and less on each sale. It hasn't gone well for them.
CuDNN: GPU Accelerated Deep Neural Network Library
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That makes no sense to me. If that were the issue, they wouldn't use the larger frame buffer internally, which (AFAIK) is what dictates graphics performance insofar as it depends on display resolution.
Is Apple Pay really safer than using your credit card?
Drop-in GPU Acceleration of GNU Octave
I just realized I've used the same Linux installation for the better part of ten years. It has survived many in-place upgrades and two hardware changes (where I just move everything over, no need for a reinstall).

Since Linux users for the most part doesn't need to mess with drivers, it just keeps working. (And thank you everyone out there who keeps making this possible.)
There are an infinite number of things that you can do that are not buying Apple.
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Huge fan of the Pink Lady/Cripps Pink, not crazy about Jazz, Fuji are borderline tasteless IMO.
The best dating advice I've heard is "become the person you want to marry." It's a way of thinking about what makes someone a good partner and addressing personal weaknesses at the same time.
Also, by that definition, "wipe everything on both trees" counts as syncing.
Smartwatch UI Design: A Battle of Circles and Squares
Actually Apple has just accomplished what privacy advocates around the world couldn't have done: Getting people concerned about the issue (by hitting them where it actually hurts: music taste).
I think it's a great and mostly innocent example (the music is really, really shitty though) of the problems that 'the cloud' poses.
Steve Jobs is a terrible example. He gets a lot of love for being a Buddhist (which is, of the world religions, the one I am closest to) and having, for a businessman, a 99th-percentile design sense. In actuality, he was a huge dickhead. I could overlook his personal issues (you'll never get to the bottom of a stranger's personal life, to try is useless gossip) but the collusion with Eric Schmidt cemented my contempt for the man, co-religionist or no. I wish he had lived two years more to see that his legacy would be a great crime, not the iPhone.

When you're 13, tech is fun. Dragon Warrior! Final Fantasy! Tales of Phantasia! I'm sure that anyone born before 1965 or after 1990 is going to be taking me on faith, but these games were awesome.

When you're 19, tech is even more fun because you actually learn how things work and discover mind-bending ways of solving problems. Assembly code! C! Lisps! Machine learning! Haskell!

When you're 25, tech is important because it holds the power to solve some of humanity's most pressing issues. We may get to a point where we can prolong life as long as people wish at 1/100 the cost of the current expense-sink we call "health care". We may avert a global warming catastrophe with clean nuclear power (thorium fission? fusion?) We might escape this disgusting arrangement in which one nation being rich requires others to be poor, and arrive at a post-scarcity world in the next few decades. If any of this happens, technology will play a key role.

After 30, you realize that while technology still can be fun and holds promise and importance, the tech industry is run by megalomaniac 21st-century robber barons with the ethical fibre of Zombie Hitler's taint sweat. Technology becomes just work, for most people.

When they see their kids addicted to lit screens and possibly falling into the in-app purchase suckholes that they spent months of their life optimizing for addictiveness and "whale" recruiting, well... they have reasons to be concerned. Stay away from that shit! I helped cook it!
Already dockerized!

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes#with-docker
I guess that's not an unreasonable thing for a driving instructor to say, since even if it's not quite true, it does no harm to believe it and may well help someone err on the side of safety.

I had a similar misunderstanding myself until recently. I'd read the wording in the driver handbook and thought that the bit about "if you can stop safely" was the actual law rather than safety advice. It was much later that I got curious and looked into it a little further.
A Patek Phillipe 3940g costs around 40k-50k. With several more zeros that is what, 4 million? You gave up a 4 million dollar watch for a Pebble Steel? I mean, the point of a 4million dollar watch isn't even to tell time. It is to say "I can wear your life savings on my wrist"
Very strange:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.google.com/s...

I got some searches like:

www.google.com/search@q=tetris+sorry+henk

https://www.google.com/search=pupuk+cair+alami

www.google.com/search&q=strobe+trigger+schematic

www.google.com/search@q=transvestites+used+in+rituals (!!!!)

Edit: roland-s found it first :) , and yes, the last pages of results are pretty weird.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8298239
After reading the article, I still don't get what he was proving by scratching his initials into them in front of a grocery store manager.
You're just being racist against him.
This is nonsense. First a point the article pretty much glosses over, this happened back in 2011. The reason they acquired Beeologics was to create products to fight CCD. Monsanto knows a good source of money when they see it, so they pounced.

Here's[1] a more balanced article on the relationship between the two companies and the bee-keeping community.

1. http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682672/what-really-happened-at-m...
Here in Canada, we have "contactless" payments on the major credit and debit cards. When it's time to pay, you just tap your card on the reader and it's done().

NFC payments using a phone would add a few more steps, so I think that the wallet and card is going to win out for me. It would be very hard to get it much simpler than it is right now.

() There are limits. My MasterCard, for example, will let me make contactless payments up to a total of $50. At that point it will require me to make a Chip&Pin transaction in order to reset the $50. When this happens the reader will just say "Insert Chip" or something.
Show HN: Playlistful – Collaborative playlists for parties
> Fred Wilson ended up being right, in that, the smartphone market turned out to be similar to PC market where a dominant ~90% Android will be next to a single digit Apple.

How are the major Windows PC manufacturers doing these days?
This comment really shouldn't be at the top. The author appears to have read only the headline, and has taken the opportunity to turn the thread into a discussion of Steve Jobs.

The topic of the article was screen time for children. It quoted examples of many technologists who limit screen time. Steve Jobs was just "click bait".

At HN, we should be beyond merely commenting on headlines. I would far prefer the top comment to be a discussion of the merits of the article and the issues raised.
I don't think the problem is that using "race" as a component in any decision is considered immoral. The problem is that the net effect of all those independent "preferences", which we know are shaped by society, hurts actual people.

We can't just say "be attracted to different people", because people like what they like, but it is certainly valuable to know how our preferences are likely to be biased. The least we can do is acknowledge the aggregate hurt our individual preferences may contribute to.
I've noticed this, even at older ages. My early teen son turns into a downright asshole if he's online and then told (with ample warning) that it's time for dinner. Without the device, he's extremely pleasant.
I've got to say, this picture makes it look pretty good:

http://static.squarespace.com/static/4fa14d3ce4b08a53fa26468...

I think as with most watches, it's a piece of your outfit. It doesn't look good on its own, and it's not supposed to.
The one thing that sticks with me in all of these automated driving demonstrations is the lack of operation in adverse environmental conditions such Rain, Fog, Snow/Ice. I would expect that any one of those conditions would post extraordinary challenges to an automated driving system.
WMP didn't download those samples surreptitiously from the internet. Many media players come with a sample track or album, that's not really a big deal.
pictures don't go through iTunes, they do pop iPhoto for me
I assume you don't copy music to your phone? Or is there another way to do that now?
Hello, I made Playlistful because I like hosting parties where everyone gets to contribute to the music, but hated people skipping each others songs, accidentally deleting the whole playlist, and queuing up 3000 songs so that no one else gets a turn.

This is the first web app I have ever made, and my first time using any of the languages/tools involved.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot
Bewdly coffee makes delicious flavored coffee
This is rely nice, its unfortunate that it doesn't work on gradients though...

One way to fix that would be to pass the screen shot of the page (what I believe it is doing) though a edge detection filter first before measuring between colour thresholds?
Reading between the lines – How we designed Annotations' interface
Germany: Court imposed the first prohibition against Uber-driver
Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
Came here to say this. The "pure" version of each digit should come in the middle, rather than at the beginning, of its interval.
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(1) Right now they do but it's only a matter of time before Samsung or HTC partner up with Prada, Rolex, Omega or any other major brand and come out with a line of watches that appeal. The point is that we might get one or two apple watches a year if we're lucky and in the same time frame we'll be getting around 30-50 different android wear devices. Android wear will be available in a ton of different shapes and sizes, and there's no way that the top watch brands won't want to get in on the action.

(2) Data is everything in machine learning and google has the whole web. Google knows me better than my mother, girlfriend and brother combined. Android, youtube, search, gmail, drive, maps, calendar, hangouts and shopping express are enough to tell them who I talk to, where I live, what I eat, where I'm going and what I read.

A couple of percentage points is huge when your accuracy is above 90%. Apple doesn't have anyone as good as Geoff Hinton, Peter Norvig, nor Jeff Dean. There's no way they'll be able compete on AI with google.
> I don't understand why every time I read an article that has something to do with apples the writer bashes on red delicious apples

Well, clearly you like Red Delicious apples. And that's fine, I'm not knocking you for that. But I don't think that's a majority opinion. As a result, most articles about apples are written by people who really dislike Red Delicious apples.
Just find other SaaS products that look successful, and email them. They've been through the validation stage too, and probably not long ago - you'll be surprised at how many people would be happy to help. Maybe offer an extended free trial or lifetime Early Adopter discount or something, but only if you find it really difficult to get responses. I've had a lot of success just using companies' contact forms and sending cold emails.
By this definition, "unison" isn't sync. It's also possible to handle not reinstantiating deleted items, although it takes more bookkeeping (usually "tombstone" records).
I'm not sure, but it's a line in Processing.js that breaks everything if removed. Not something easily fixable.
The State of ZFS on Linux
I'm genuinely curious. Is there any evidence that dieticians are more than just cargo-cultists?

Talking to them usually results in "more of this and less of that and exercise and being thorough and blah blah blah". That sounds a lot like "I have no real idea of what's going on, but something in this broad spectrum of measures is bound to eventually pay off". That's very different from an answer that one would expect from a true professional, which would be more along the lines of "In this long and complex chain of events, this point here is the one that you need to affect in order to experience the effect you're looking for".
For the record, I don't believe this impacts custom domains. I did a few searches on some of my custom domains and they return things like the following response message:

We haven't information about @yourdomain.com
Somewhat haphazardly:

* You don't have the C# baggage

* You have a modern module system, which is only paralleled in Standard ML. This is very important for large developments where the need to split your code base into manageble chunks is extremely important.

* The sequential code generator is very good.

* Compilation times are fast. Not Go-fast, but reasonably fast. Building OCaml itself with OCaml can be done in around 1 minute on a fast machine.

* The language is strict! This makes some gotchas w.r.t memory behaviour much easier to reason about, and is a definining distinction towards Haskell

* The language is rather small in the core. In contrast to Scala.

* The Garbage Collector is state of the art. It is fast. It has small pause times. It doesn't overuse memory.

* The language is mature, which Rust isnt'. When Janes Street started, Rust did not even exist.
The efficacy of bibliotherapy should not be readily dismissed. Words, written or spoken, images, still or moving, or sounds can create or alleviate illness in the mind. Idleness will deteriorate mind and body as surely as abuse or neglect.

That having been said:

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem
be sure that you are not first, in fact, surrounded by a**holes."
- William Gibson
>It's 2014, I thought the sillyness about being addicted to video games and computer was over. Apparently not.

What makes you say computers are not addictive? Or video games?

If we define addiction as being able to stop despite wanting to, then I've been addicted to both. I went cold turkey on video games.

The computer I need for business, research and connecting to people so I've had to devise ways to minimize it's compulsive powers while still getting the upside of using them.

I run an internet business. I am not a luddite. Computers are wonderfully useful machines, and I'm glad we have them.

But just because something is good doesn't mean it's also bad. You can't dismiss the experience of millions with a trite statement. I once wrote an article on going without internet for a month on my personal blog, and it's by far the most popular. It even hit the top of Hacker News.

From talking with friends, some seem immune to this distraction. Others clearly suffer from it. Perhaps you are one of the fortunate ones who can use computers and the internet without compulsion. That doesn't mean you can blithely ignore the testimony of others.

If computers aren't compulsive, then why was this XKCD popular: http://xkcd.com/1411/

And why did Paul Graham write these essays?

http://paulgraham.com/distraction.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
How  the Internet of Things Could Change Our Lives
Not only that, but the trend is to pay users for adoption. When all the apps in a sector (e.g. taxi-hailing) are free, there can't be competition on price so they give customers cash back. Sometimes the payback can be more than the taxi fare if you include the rewards your friends get. For online auctions, Taobao set the trend of free auctions for both buyer and seller (including free payment processing through Alipay). All of the competition followed suit and now Taobao offers cash back. I believe they make money through featured listings and seller registration on their premium platform, TMall.
This seems like such an obvious solution and, with the advent of things like MOOCs, something that needn't be particularly costly. (Setting aside the fact that even 'costly' but effective rehabilitation is demonstrably cheaper in the long-run.)

As well as the obvious benefits of equipping offenders with skills that will make them more employable upon release it seems intuitively true that the struggle for self-improvement would make them all-round 'better people'. For those who argue that self-study isn't enough, another component could be pairing up inmates of differing attainment levels and having effectively having them teach one another -- again, the act of teaching and helping a stranger has got to be a positive experience.

Is there a big problem with any of this? Have studies been conducted that indicate my intuitions are incorrect? Have I massively underestimated the difficulties and costs associated with such a scheme? ...Or is it simply a combination of lack of imagination on the side of the administration, coupled with a strong urge for punitive justice on the side of the electorate?
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