skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money quote: "Rather than ordering Tickets through the TM System, customers purchased Tickets to the Attractions in person at the Facility Box Office to avoid the prohibitive Convenience Charge. The effect on the Debtor of the increase in the Convenience Charge has resulted in a reduction in the Royalties that it receives due to a decrease in the number of Tickets sold through the TM System."

Apparently they were selling tickets at not quite break even, and depending on their cut of ticket master fees to turn a profit.

Aligns with my experience trying to avoid fees by buying in person. Usually there ends up being a "box office window" fee.
I suspect Amazon is in the space for the long haul and the Fire Phone is an open beta. They got phones out into the world; they found out to whom their brand on a phone is appealing (0.2% of mobile use is still a lot of people in terms of raw numbers); Amazon is able to collect live data on real use; and they can correlate all of this against the Kindle and Fire and their sales of physical goods.

To put it another way, they couldn't get this data any other way. It's not dissimilar to Microsoft and the Pre - real field testing is expensive but the only realistic way to come up with a long term strategy. And like Microsoft mobile phones are an important space for Amazon, but not necessarily core critical.

Apple doesn't have warehouses full of shoes and appliance parts and used books and neither does Google. Amazon's core is selling things that aren't on the cloud.
A friend of mine lost the left side of his brain ... And he's all right now!
Want an education in life? Then drop out of university
We were limited to 36 hours for the hackathon we made this at. It is an actual browser. We will continue developing it to make it fully functional.
REVERTS!
I don't know why we need an english name for every keyword in programming languages!
Cloud consolidation? Wouldn't that be condensation?
Thanks for the reply.

Regarding #2: On OpenIndiana, we first started with concurrent zfs commands and ruin, I think, the whole pool (maybe it wasn't that drastic, but was still a disaster scenario where key data would be lost). I couldn't believe it.

I was asking anyone who knew anything... 'so if two admins were logged in at the same time and made two zvols, they could basically ruin their filesystem'? No one knew for sure. Crazy stuff.

Anyway, I'm quite glad that's safe now.
While it's true humans are the only species inventing the internet, science is also finding out other species have greater problem-solving abilities than previously understood.

The course of evolution is predictable only to the extent that the environment and its attributes are known, and that the adaptation to that environment is possible for the organism.

We might postulate evolutionary trajectory is toward adapting well enough to the environment, or only as good as it has to be for the purpose of survival and reproduction.

There's also a factor of limits of adaptation, or maxima for given evolutionary paths. A bacterium will not evolve to be an astronaut in a billion bacterial lifetimes. If it's good enough to live in my gut, or another gut, it's evolved sufficiently.

We know that environments have not been static, creating evolutionary pressure, and novel mutations then have a chance of producing increased adaptation in the changed environment. We can only assume humans evolved the brain necessary to adapt to the existing environment.

The question arising out of these ideas is our brain evolved sufficiently that no further evolution is necessary. If we are able to adapt to changing environments using the brain we have, it wouldn't need to evolve.

In a way global warming and all that it implies are a kind of natural experiment of the hypothesis. We must figure out a way to repair the damage to the planet, or adapt to it, otherwise we would predict disaster for current lifeforms including humans, and evolutionary processes will shape the successor species of the future.
Seems like there is a lot of room for improvement?

Reducing the sheer number of casings on individual cells would radically reduce weight/volume.

Then with less groups of cells you could actually have the BMS monitor them like my lifepo lithium battery for bicycle.
All nvidia did was make an API compatible BLAS library with automatic GPU offloading. Other programs using BLAS functions then get automatically GPU accelerated. Nobody altered octave. They just LD_PRELOAD it in place. The same thing works with R too.

The goal is "have software that works," not "have software that retains ideological purity at the cost of advancement."
“The Lying Pen of the Scribes”: A Nineteenth-Century Dead Sea Scroll
or just like - now
Well, I'm sure this was a nice achievement, and no offense intended, but that doesn't make sense. You were limited to 36 hours, and therefore, instead of simply writing a driver, you wrote a driver and and entire web browser sitting on top of it?
Eleanor Saitta ‏@Dymaxion 6m

Let's be clear in talking about that scary fine: Yahoo could pay $250k a day for a decade with cash on hand.

Sorry, make that 300 years, if they wanted to push it.
Something tells me that going to your family doctor and saying 'I'm concerned that my son is missing some of his brain' isn't going to get you a referral to radiology, but who knows. If he hit his forehead really hard I'd probably take him in in case of a concussion, and that would probably tell you in some detail.
So the moral amount of consumption is the amount you do and no more.
I was surprised that a lot of my friends still have Shazam on their phones - but it's the kind of app they only need once in a blue moon.
They just released support for android with Instant video a few days ago.
The artifact in question, to clarify, is almost certainly a 19th century forgery. But there's an element of doubt that persists, particularly because the 20th century Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the same region, and under similar circumstances.
Stripping down webpages for mobile is an old idea -- google used to do it by default when you clicked a link from the search page on your phone.
Just look at the diagonal lines on the 2 and 5.

http://thestandardsmanual.com/images/large/nycta_gsm_068.jpg

Gives me goosebumps.

Whitespace. Love it. Embrace it.
Not to mention the many incidents of media "borrowing" incorrect wikipedia information, then wikipedia then using said media article as justification for keeping it that way.
Poland's already paying for this though. I doubt they will pull a stunt like this again any time soon.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29154335
You actually think Google stores passwords in clear text and someone hacked them and grabbed 5M of them?!
Boys will be boys. I fell out of my bed at the age of 8! As far as I can tell, I am perfectly normal with excellent sense of balance now at the age of 30. As long as your son eats well, sleeps well, and is otherwise healthy, give it a few more years before you really start to worry.
Woah that went political real quick like.

Ironically, the people in the West, surrounded by the most land and wilderness, have the most liberal political leanings.

Being connected to the wilderness means you realize how insignificant our tiny wants and needs are compared to the whole.
> psychotic

Choose - mental illness is either real or it isn't.

Seek help.
From the article:

"It led to Oberon, a language derived from Modula-2 by eliminating less essential features (like subrange and enumeration types) in addition to features known to be unsafe (like type transfer functions and variant records)."

Does anybody know what the argument about the safety of variant records is?
Woman in her twenties discovers that she was born without a cerebellum
That almost looks like it was built by a mechanical engineer, not an electrical engineer. All the effort seems to be focused on building a sturdy case for the batteries, and the actual electrical connections are all steel screw terminals and crimping, without any spot welding anywhere.

I'd be worried about the electrical resistance of all those contacts, and the heat it produces. Tesla's battery pack seems like a more intelligent electrical design, with a barebones mechanical design to back it up.
Do you run RAID5/6? I had that running for half year, and it crashed often.

Now on ZFS (raidz) and it works flawless
They have a Kickstarter to get a paper version printed, which I was very enthused about until I saw the price ($118.)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thestandardsmanual/full...
I'm not familiar with Haskell, but can someone provide some insight into how this compares to PyMC or OpenBUGS?
Actually 71/40 and "these new iPhone 6 internal aspect ratios" are just the same thing.

So, it all boils down to: 4:3 (all iPads) and 1.177 (5, 5S, 5C, 6, 6+).

3:2 is just a legacy ratio that will go away going forward as the 4S gets older. It's not a ratio they have produced iPhones with for several years now.
I have rather fond memories of using this while I was in high school (in the mid-to-late 90's). Considering that I didn't have a Mac at the time, it was one of the only ways I could play around with a real Mac (albeit a black and white one with an old version of the Mac OS).

The other options at the time were:

1) Shapeshifter, which ran on top of UAE (an Amiga emulator). It was basically unusable on a 486.

2) Executor, which was a clean room implementation of a 68K Mac. I probably spent the most time with this because it supported some reasonably recent programs and wasn't terribly slow.
FTFY. FTFY.
This article has a thorough overview of the history (and present) of race relations in the US: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case...
data over voice=dialup

Yeap, except voice is now carried over a digital channel, so it'd be digital-over-voice-over-digital :)
Autoscope – Third Person Perspective (Oculus Rift + Parrot Drone)
Autoscope is a hack created at MHacks by Logan Allen, Chén Yé, Henry Boldiszar, and Max Price that allows a person to view their life in third person. It was implemented using a parrot drone that streams video to a Rift while the person wearing the Rift is tracked and followed using optical flow tracking.

Autoscope was written entirely in WebGL and other open web technologies, and won the Best Under 20 Prize presented by the Thiel Foundation.
This is already #1 on HN right now.
> They hand him his racket, and tell him that at his next French Open (played on slow clay instead of fast grass), he will serve and volley and play left handed.

This is essentially what happened with Rafael Nadal, who's uncle/coach made him play left-handed despite being naturally right-handed. He's won the French Open 9 of the 10 times he's played it.

That's where I disagree with the "No B Players" argument. I agree that people need to be put in situations where they can succeed. But there are certain people for which that set of situations where then can excel is significantly larger than normal. And there's a lot of people who are only able to be successful in a very narrow set of circumstances. As a business, it's very rare that you can design a role around a candidate. But you can choose to hire the most adaptable employees you can find. Those are the A players.

And, for me, those A players share one simple trait...the love to learn and pursue it outside of work. Whether it's an engineer experimenting with new technologies in side projects or someone learning a new language/skill outside of work, that need to continually grow as a person leads to employees who can almost always fit themselves into whatever role comes along. Those are the A players that I look for when hiring employees and when interviewing with a potential employer and that's the type of employee I try to be.
"It's also the same reason why many startups don't train people for jobs and instead expect them to be already experienced."

Most A players don't have experience with your specific stack. The A players who do can contract for 3-4x what a startup can offer (and 1% equity offers won't change their mind). Which is why startups end up hiring mainly B players.

Nothing wrong with a solid B player btw.
I'm going to be pedantic:

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Probably just the familiarity with the tools. They knew how to write an Android app, but not a driver.
Surely they've reused a browser component rather than writing one from scratch. And they do more on the server than just pipe the full HTTP responses back, they strip CSS, images, JS etc. and minify the HTML. I think it's pretty cool!
Android apps start coming to Google Chrome OS
A medication that I take daily costs about $35 per month after insurance covers part of it. I get a years supply from India for ~ $11. The identical pill.
Interesting that you compare Wikipedia with HN. I think it would be great if Wikipedia embraced a voting model to moderate contributions. On HN you only get to be on the frontpage if enough others support a submission with votes. On Wikipedia each and every edit is immediately bombarded into the version that the whole world sees, which is what leads to edit wars I think.
Generating Fast and Correct Code with SymPy
By and large, "organic" in the US is regulated and has a specific meaning. It's probably the only term that actually is, though. How heavily enforced this is, I don't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification#United_St...
InstaFilter, a brainstorm photo editing app for Android (iOS coming soon)
Maybe people are also downvoting you for being too cool to capitalize?
Couldn't law enforcement flood the market with (fake) sellers, using lots of sockpuppets, and thereby entrap buyers, who have to give their real addresses? This would be enough to severely reduce confidence in the market.

I guess that somehow reputation protects against this, but also it's possible to have a circle of buyers and sellers giving each other false reputation.
We really should have a lower limit for housing. Meaning if you're "homeless" you get given something about the size of this to live in that will at least keep you alive until you can find something else.

Currently we have people building "homes" literally within the suspension beams of bridges, in shop doorways, and we have hundreds of people freezing to death out of the streets yearly. When we could build a basic "home" for under $150, it seems completely avoidable.

I think, counter-intuitively, the biggest roadblock to doing something like that might be regulations (e.g. building codes). They define what a "home" should and shouldn't be, but ultimately set the bar very high (and we wind up with the current situation).

Maybe there should be a new set of regulations for "emergency accommodation." Nobody should be literally homeless in 2014 in the Western world, particularly as it would cost less than an iPhone to house them for a year (assuming only a roof and basic electric space heater, nothing else).
The MOOC Revolution That Wasn’t
We could end up with a house under $10,000 that could be placed anywhere in the world.

Average U.S. construction prices per square foot for apartment buildings start at $130 per square foot, depending on location and material/fixture quality. New York is the most expensive at $230 per square foot.

So at 36 square feet, this dumpster home would end up at what... $270 per square foot? That's way more expensive than an actual apartment building, and that's before appliances and shared spaces such as bathrooms/laundry rooms/kitchens, not to mention the shipment costs which have got to be significant.
That's fine. I'm not in top form either. You didn't call me stupid, just what I said...and it may or may not actually be stupid.

We can agree I suppose to disagree on legal interpretations.
To expand on that... it also solves the problem of technical terms evolving new nomenclature (or new meanings for old nomenclature!) over time.
Most markets have a sizeable fee to set up a merchant account. It is doable but it would be expensive.
I think this approach is probably a little too rigid for something like that, where there would be significant pitch, amplitude, and timing differences each time you say your passphrase.
Rethinking Prolog [pdf]
Where are the documents?
I think the glasses-free 3D through gaze tracking is what they expected to be the selling point... I also think that Bezos made a big mistake with this, and that he's such a hard-nosed jerk that he'll do a lot of damage to Amazon trying to force this to succeed before he will admit he was wrong. The phone market is totally saturated, why even bother with it?
Depends very much on the algorithm. Some are sensitive to rounding precision, others are not.
> This is probably one of the reasons why I am not allowed to perform surgery without a license...

Indeed :) A damaged cerebellum at birth might still be useful because it can fulfill some, if not all of the tasks it is supposed to. We don't know enough about this yet to really make any kind of call about it. For all we know, many people are borne with malformed cerebellums but never experience any problems, thus we just don't know about them.
As someone who can Haskell, I can reassure you that the example is indeed simple. But I understand your concern.
Actually Google is now competing with them: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
I can confirm, this works fine. You can probably turn it into a bookmarklet, too.
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I'm a big fan of living modestly and I'd love to see more progress towards modest homes, in terms of both new technologies and new cultural norms (try to find a well-constructed 750 sq. ft. home for sale in a safe neighborhood).

On the other hand, I didn't see anything in the article about how this scales to relationships, marriages, and children. Considering how commonplace (and even economical!) various forms of cohabitation are, I wonder if this isn't another spherical cow experiment. Or am I missing the point?
I don't know any polish, but this seems to be the name of his company rather than his actual name, which would be just 'Dariusz Jakubowski'. I concluded this because the entry that contains the bobby tables reference is called 'Firma', which means 'Company', and the website seems to be a registry of polish companies too (at least that's what I got out of it with Google Translate :D)
The OP was not talking about the magnitude of the differences, but the nature of them.

Do you believe that neuroplasticity remains constant throughout a person's lifetime? Unless you believe that, your statement is incoherent.

Lesions and scars are acute changes in the brain that happen after birth. That's different from starting out missing massive chunk of your brain.

OP: "Look at that person who was born with no arms due to a birth defect. They're able to live a fairly normal, happy life. Maybe arms aren't essential to human happiness."

You: "So you're saying if you got your hand mutilated in a garbage disposal, that wouldn't make you unhappy? A hand is much less than a whole arm."

(I'll leave what this makes you a demonstration of as an exercise for the reader.)
Coming up with new ways of compressing data to travel down legacy or fundamentally anti-functional data channels (i.e. low bandwidth, low quality of data, high latency, preprocessing that destroys the majority of the experiencial data) is always a fun hack, but is never a marketable strategy for a few reasons.

- It bets on technology going backwards rather than forwards (i.e. will have cheap android phones with cheap data plans before you can scale it)

- It doesn't provide much more than novelty self promotion. "Hey i made a webpage deliver via SMS"

- Its usually more expensive and time-consuming to produce what almost always becomes an inherently inferior product.
I've never heard of someone using ZFS with a single disk. You're probably better off with ext4.

The compression and deduplication features of ZFS is terrific on network filers. Compression could possibly improve performance slightly on a single disk system.

With two disks, I'd say you'd probably be better off with running RAID0 (or no RAID at all) and having a great backup plan. Using another SSD to cache writes to another SSD doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
New rule: If a place doesn't have a toilet, you can't say you're "living in it". This guy is living partially in a dumpster AND partially in a gym (where he uses the bathroom.)
It's unclear whether the circuitry of the cerebral cortex has the ability to implement the function of the cerebellum (whatever that may be, which we don't really understand). I think we're a long ways off from answering that question.
Like "hashing", I don't think "locality sensitive hashing" is a specific technique, but more like a type of algorithm.
Here is the spec sheet for the main square chip on that board.
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq76pl536a-q1.pdf
You're right. It does have a cell balancing feature.
Make a server-to-server call using the token to check its validity.

There's more comments on this subject here https://github.com/MrSwitch/hello.js/issues/22
lynx --dump

Would be an optimal way of encoding the return.
You're confusing the healthcare industry with government in general. As soon as you get a government contract it's a license to print money.
Yeah, I would be terrified of driving around in a car that's basically a metal box around a bomb ready to go, those batteries are deadly.

I think what needs to be done is to build a car around many gallons of highly flammable liquid.
Likewise for earning income. It's a good thing that people want to keep regulators away from kids' lemonade stands, but what about an adult? Isn't it also a barrier to pulling yourself up by your bootstraps if you can't legally sell things like lemonade, childcare, and plain white Ts?
I would probably have used tar|tar for this, or rsync.
Last line of the article states: "The company said it was now working to make the documents available to the public."
Location: Pensacola, fl

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Java, Objective C, Matlab, UX design, few years of xperience in web technologies 6 years ago in LAMP, Html,css

Resume:https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lecoutre/20/47a/a1b

I'm a Software and cognitive engineer. I have strong skills in Java and User experience design. Experienced on a variety of technical and creative projects including tactile feedback, surgery simulator, and an iOS 3D interface. Looking for a challenging and fast-paced environment and an opportunity to have a positive impact.

My research include Sensory substitution and augmentation.
Interested in mobile platform, web technologies, IoE

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Another lesson: routinely scrub your RAID arrays.
The later replies regarding the size of the data structures cp is using are also worth reading. This is a case where pushing the command farther can make you think harder about the computations being done.
Who said anything about plaintext?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
I think he might be talking about C-style unions instead of ML-style algebraic data types.
That's your goal. In my opinion our goal as society should absolutely be software that everyone can "run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve".
I feel like the title should include a warning.
I know jargon looks unsurmountable at first, but if you pay close attention to definitions, they are usually extremely simple. To wit, the example you quote is just the set of strings on X.
Did you read the linked page?