skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody is unique and they are capable of understanding the environment around us in a better way. Having "faster" access to knowledge via Libraries in the past, Internet these days is really amazing -- when individual tries to understand things and improvise on it.

Rather, one behavioural change that occurs is "why remember, when i have can select from the list of other answers" -- is what is going to degrade (shortcircuit) the thinking process and is not going to contribute back in any different way.
Being student is the phase where there is lot of reasoning, getting answers, improvising on existing like qualities needs to be developed. In such a phase, getting into "why remember" might not be good for an individual growth.
There is no surprise that in future when the intellect of an individual becomes that of "few intelligent folks who are on internet." -- this is going to be really bad. (Remember wall-e movie ?)
Technology is just one part of life, there are so many things that our senses are capable of processing, understanding, experiencing. All that happens when we put the correct "student" hat.

Nobody is "stupid". If you don't go in the right path, even after so many clues you will remain stupid.

People who are "smart" should guide these so called "stupid" people. Why are we here for else ? Lets encourage students to rely more on their acquired intellect and build upon it. Its really good for the socieity as the newer generations can look at things in a rapidly different way.
Here is project which gets you from relays to assembly language. With careful design (one cycle per instruction), you do not need much control and sequencing logic:

http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/
please no more DECs or COMPAQs. They were both failed businesses that deserve to be dead and buried. Failed businesses run by some pretty poor managers and executives. At least HP is a survivor....remember, they bought COMPAQ, not the other way around.....
I get the feeling that what Square is doing now is just a glimpse of their greater plan. They have a proven ability to execute and release polished products that are enjoyable to use.

Nearly everyone I every need to pay is on Square Cash (and those who aren't soon are, the barrier to signup is very low) and the app is just a pleasure to use compared to the competition. It's second nature at this point.
Most people I know are on Venmo - is square cash better?
Ask HN: How do you improve Soylent's flavor/texture?
Soylent noob here. Just placed my order a few days back and expect to receive v1.1 in a few weeks. However I read that Soylent tastes really bad. Any suggestions/tricks about how to make it taste better while not ruining it's nutritional balance completely ?
> "Square, a six-year-old start-up, spent much of its early years bringing small, square-shaped credit card readers to small and medium-sized businesses."

6 years old, just raised $150mn...yeah, that's not a startup anymore. It seems some people consider tech companies and startups to be equivalent, but startup is a term for business stage not business type.
While watching the video, I kept hoping he'd look down at the cubes and "jump down" to them. Like, enable gravity and jump down onto the cubes as a player. That'd have been awesome.
With this particular legislation, it is very clear to me why it is bad. I am able to articulate to people that regardless of who proposed or supported the idea, it is not a good idea to keep information on my family and friends, such as where they move, who is in their social networks, what topics they search the web for in the privacy of their own home. I feel that it is empowering to explain why it is not a necessary or proportionate response to place the entire country under surveillance on the off chance one of us was to plan a terrorist related offence. I can also explain clearly why this is something which will result in all lay people being monitored, but none of the technical savvy people who actively try and circumvent the retention scheme using a mix of offshore VPS + VPN + tor + whatever other technology helps them.

As beefsac said, this is a policy which will likely have support from the two major parties. I encourage all people who oppose this particular legislation to explain to their friends, families, co-workers, etc the ramifications of mandatory data retention - without mentioning a particular party. I'm aware that discussions about legislation such as this often end up in name slanging and partisan comments. However I think it is very important to debate these things with a clear head. As much as possible when discussing politics and legislation, I try to refrain from referring to any specific party or politician. I fear that if I do, I'm allowing people to attack my argument by saying "of course you'd say that, you leftist greenie" or "of course you'd say that, you right winged conservatist". Lets play the ball, not the man.

FYI - I've already contacted my local MP - the first time I've felt the need to do so. I await his reply.

Edit: grammar
I can't remember or spell some of the things I've learned with google but I've learned a lot. Several programming languages, Electronics, Calculus, Robotics, RC Helicopter mechanics, aerodynamics, ditto for multicopters, flight control algos, Survival, etc., etc. Hard for me to think that it has made me dumber.
It's not just Watts. It was fashionable back then.
I'd like to know if the self-destruct mechanism still functions at very low temperatures. Given that one known attack on data in RAM is to flash freeze it (Cold Boot Attack) it is natural to think about lowering the device temperature to the point where chemical reactions wouldn't and mechanical devices would jam.
I prefer it a lot more. Maybe it's just my circle of friends, but we laugh at how stupid Venmo's Facebook spam is and generally prefer how easy Square Cash is to use. Since the money ends up right back on your debit card, it's a lot easier than maintaining a Venmo balance and having to deal with that.

I signed up for Venmo a while back to try their API at a hackathon. They then decided to freeze my account and send me a barrage of questioning. I didn't bother.
Shortwave https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shortwave-short-range-anonym...
>> "...(maybe under direct protection by Beijing or Moscow)."

This argument is bolstered by the fact that Snowden (hardly an ignorant party) sought precisely the protection you mention.
I used grafana and tessera and I prefer tessera. I like the different data types it can support. Its not as user friendly as grafana
Bitcoin trader floods market with $300 orders, causing price to flatline
I think for companies that still do this, they acknowledge that the impetus for buying a CD is more for collection/novelty purpose than actual usefulness. My question is whether there are any more effective ways of generating some kind of profit that actually involves giving something extra to the user, whether physically or digitally.
Eating these 3 fruits and lose more weight? At last, good news for everyone
"Since publishers aren’t putting money into first novels anymore, and since the magazines have died, and since television isn’t buying from young freelancers anymore, and since the foundations give grants only to old poops like me, young writers are going to have to support themselves as shameless hacks."
> because they are all in the FB ecosystem

Ya dozens of app's to make them install or I could let them know about a feature on an app that every single person I am friends with uses.
I'm going to throw out a different idea. Google (and WP) is a cognitive aid to humans. Instead of trying to jam all this information into a couple/three pounds of neurons bouncing around in our head. Why not just store the mnemonics/semantic pointers for accessing that information wherever it might be. In our brain pans, out on the web, in a book, wherever.

Human civilization underwent a radical transformation because we learned how to put what's in our heads into long-term storage (writing), why isn't a massive, immediately accessible global knowledge base of all knowledge just the next step in this?

Perhaps it's stupid to try to cram an encyclopedia+ into the volume of our skulls, and maybe it's smarter to try to cram it all into a globally accessible information store instead?

full disclosure, I looked up the average weight of a human brain and synonyms for skull on Google while writing this
Square will also be releasing an update to cash with invoicing, reporting, etc. Can't wait :)
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The subheading of the question was never addressed—"how do we get all of that information compacted onto that ever shrinking chip?"

That's always been the biggest mystery to me: what are chip manufacturers doing differently with each of these "process nodes" that makes them able to do photolithography at slightly smaller scales, but with the scale only shrinking a little bit per five-year-interval?

Naively, I'd expect a process like photolithography to be mostly scale-invariant (you can lens a mask down to whatever size you like) down to a size where it hits a wall due to quantum effects. So when photolithography was invented, why didn't chips suddenly jump from 100um to 100nm scale?
Vision was one of the last senses to evolve in animals. And yet it's the most useful sense, significantly reducing our reliance on other senses. As a result, if I were to lose my vision, I might well be at a much larger disadvantage than if I'd never been able to see in the first place.

Instead of intentionally walking around blindfolded in preparation for a loss of vision that will hopefully never occur, I could thank my lucky stars that my eyes work and focus on using them to the fullest.
Being able to individually step wheels is also a big win -- if a given wheel starts to lose traction, it's much easier to cut electrical power than mechanical. Steel-wheel-on-steel-rail has fairly low static friction (which is why you find electrically-powered trains with many powered wheelsets, and virtually _all_ trains with track-sanding capabilities to increase traction).
The bomb had a parachute to retard it's decent in order to give them time to get away.
Apple Pay is certainly a threat to Square, but I'm sure Apple doesn't care about POS terminals and that's a pretty huge market on its own.

On top of that, Square Cash is right now the absolute easiest way to send somebody money. Just a moment ago I sent a friend $45 in less than 60 seconds with a single email. Instantly I'm emailed back with a confirmation that the cash will be in his account in 1 or 2 days. In my experience he'll have the cash tomorrow.
That's not "truth" though, that's "reality" or "the physical world" and the two notions are quite different.
Sounds like they are discharging Compaq.
I disagree, firstly on your call to stop complaints. Anyone should be able to question the status quo. Secondly, I disagree on treating paywalled links the same way "normal" links are treated because this breaks functions of the web. I dislike sites that allow indexing but hide the content from users of indexing sites, like scribd, which contents can be found on a search, but is behind a paywall when you try to access it. This breaks search engines, and this breaks HN. This practice breaks other sites and uses them as advertising spots.
Depends on your context and problem you are solving (size, complexity) but I think the default became Grafana.
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements.

(CEO Morgan)
A look at the Apple ‘Skankphone’, built before the original iPhone release
I hope this is still around Monday. I would like to buy a small piece of the lot for sale via my local ATM. As of Sunday evening Austin time, there is still 19878 BTC for sale at $300.00 on Bitstamp.
HP bought Compaq presumably because they couldn't just beat Compaq in the market.
You have to hope there's a greater plan, because the one right now is "somehow contrive to lose piles of money at being a financial intermediary".
P(startup) = c * P(pivot), for some constant c
I've noticed Paul graham and others redefine startup to refer to companies with large growth rates.

In this case, if the company is still growing quickly 6 years in, maybe its still a startup?
Make the emoji easier to use for Rails
It's actually a term for businesses that are designed to grow fast and still experience a high growth rate:

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Lee Hutchinson of Ars Technica added vanilla extract (and purple food coloring) to his Soylent. If you're interested, here's the rest of the article: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/ars-does-soylent-the-...
Interesting project, but projectors always have the issues that they project shadows as well and unless you have every area filled in a redundant way, you will end up breaking the illusion when you enter the room and project your own shadow. On top of that, I am not sure if there's much to do, game-wise, in such an environment.

EDIT: I'd be more excited with Full Room VR experience, using Kinect devices everywhere to detect your movements, hands and so on.
Ah well. Too late anyway. Entrepreneurship bug can't keep me pinned down! Got out of software dev as a primary business.
You may be interested in GraphX, which describes itself as a hybrid between the "data-parallel" approach of MapReduce and core Spark, and the "graph-parallel" approach of Giraph, Graphlab, etc. See http://spark.apache.org/graphx/. It allows you to do graph processing in Spark, and I quite like its approach.
Let's not forget the new terror laws that have cleared the Senate, "enabling entire Australian web to be monitored and whistleblowers to be jailed" [1]

Even as network administrators it is not clear that if we patch our systems or report breaches, we could end up in jail if the attacks were orchestrated by the spy agency [2]

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/terror-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srk9c4rOgZ4
Relevant:
https://twitter.com/jack/status/509413534862544896

Our millions of sellers will be able to accept any form of payment that comes across the counter, including Apple Pay!
Kind of unrelated, but...I feel like some places (especially the South) are completely out of touch with services like Venmo and Square. It is crazy how college-aged students in Boston (and in cities on the West Coast) all use these types of services, but if you go down South barely anyone has even heard of them.
That's Paul Graham's definition. There are lots of others, which is one reason people get confused when arguing the topic.
Right but I just mean, their bread and butter has been a card reader. I personally am looking forward to abandoning card swiping as much as possible.
I thought Labor opposed it ...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/bill-shorte...
Try Dokan, you might like it. It's not perfect, but free and might just work for you.
> why didn't chips suddenly jump from 100um to 100nm scale?

Manufacturing processes. As you go to smaller scales, the investment required to do so increases, and the error rate as well. When you produce millions of units you want to have a low reject rate, and your process needs to be fully controlled. That's why there's always a gap between what's technically possible and what makes sense in a industrial context.
> I actually liked when they had Compaq as their low-end brand and HP as their high-end.

Maybe that only applied to consumer hardware? The used the Compaq name for their business hardware, including servers, for a long time IIRC.
why didn't chips suddenly jump from 100um to 100nm scale?

Many things, among them the precision of the available machinery of the time - aligning the masks accurately is very important, for example.

The newest 1Xnm processes require special techniques involving diffraction, as the wavelength of light becomes much greater than the feature size.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning
Arduino factory + production tour in Turin, Italy
> Diligent, thoughtful journalism doesn't happen for free

A free to use website (with ads) doesn't mean the journalists aren't payed. Most of the time, they are.

Generally, there's nothing wrong with payed websites, but it makes it a bit frustrating for people at a discussion board for web articles. Especially when there are users who really can't afford them (from countries with less income than North America or Europe) and the same information is available on free to use websites.
> I bought into the notion that the backend should just be a client-agnostic API

There can be more than one backend -- your API is a microservice and you can have another backend that proxies this service and renders templates server-side. This also means you can define SEO-friendly URIs as opposed to your presumably RESTful API endpoints.
The scalability of Spark is certainly not as established as that of Hadoop. It's entirely anecdotal as I'm not in a position to share verifiable details, but I know of several installations that run Spark on several-hundred-node clusters. They're certainly well into terabytes, if not in the neighborhood of petabytes.
So basically a solenoid held open by a battery?
Looks like they blew past their valuation projections from 2011:

http://www.pitchenvy.com/gallery/square-pitch-deck/
As an Australian, I wonder if anyone could recommend a good VPN service? Or would Tor with Obfsproxy be a better option?
Square Cash, Square Capital, Square Market, Square Stand, Square Register, Square Reader. Add the recent Caviar acquisition to the spaghetti on the wall.
How feminism helped me solve one of file systems’ oldest conundrums
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FireChat: what it is, what it’s not
That did not work it says you have to subscribe or log in
> moved on to big iron F5 and Cisco gear.

Just pointing out that this is a perspective thing. PFsense and similar can very-much-so be just as "big iron" as Cisco et al.
> Either way, I would much rather buy used games for $5 rather than rent them for any length of time.

That goes without saying. Renting Digital Goods is just nonsense, because you can create a perfect digital copy for such a marginal bandwidth cost in the first place. The "added value" of renting is an extra layer of DRMs. I'm very glad Steam did not introduce any of this renting nonsense in their store.
Is this a stop-loss thing or am I missing some other motive to sell this cheap? I feel like the price would be rebounding if this wasn't happening.
I've tried eating Soylent 1.0 almost exclusively for two weeks and I really enjoyed it. I wish I could have access to more Soylent, but I live in Canada and Soylent is very rare. I used a blender to mix the Soylent and I added frozen strawberries and sometimes mangos, peaches or bananas. I also sometimes added soy milk. I am also open to try adding other ingredients to Soylent, but I would need more Soylent.

Frankly, I would easily eat it for 90%-100% of my meals. They said in a recent email that they are going to ship to Canada in March 2015...

What I like the most about it is that it's easy to prepare and when I prepare one pouch, I have enough to drink/eat for almost two days. Also, I think it tastes really good. And I love the vision of the company.
None of those solve the "somehow contrive to lose piles of money at being a financial intermediary" problem.
For a fun NLP experiment, count the language usage of "When I was at <insert school>" vs. "When I was at College".

You'll find that the schools people casually drop in with that phrase are by and large tier-1 schools. While most people who went to school to learn just use the latter phrase. The lesson is that when you go to Harvard of Princeton or wherever, you didn't go to College, you went to some place that transcends mere college, you went to someplace with an important name, and because of that name, you too are important.

Hell: here it is off of the USNews list using google

"When I was at Princeton" - 16.3 million
"...Harvard" - 5.93m
Yale - 2.58m
Columbia - 3.53m
Stanford - 2.44m
University of Chicago - 6
MIT - 18.5m
Duke - 1.37m
University of Pennsylvania - 1.81m (without "the" - 2 results, "Upenn" 201,000, "Penn" - 13.3m)
California Institute of Technology - 1 ("CIT" - 6, "Caltech" 887,000)
Dartmouth - 691,000
Johns Hopkins - 6.14m
Northwestern - 6.64m

For reference:
"When I was at College" - 9.46 million results
"in college" (exact) - 29.4m
"at college" (exact) - 7.88m
"at university" - 31.4m
"in university" - 7.050m

Here's the Tier-2

Ashland - 860,000
Barry - 843,000
Benedictine - 95,300
Bowie State - 2 (Just "Bowie" - 249k)
Cardinal Stritch - 4
Clark Atlanta - 6
Cleveland State - 6
East Carolina - 1.62m
East Tennessee State - 3 ("East Tennessee" - 3)
Florida A&M - 3
Florida Atlantic - 3
Florida International - 3
Georgia Southern - 877,000
Georgia State - 1.65m
Indiana State - 1.28m
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - 2 (Indiana University - 5.07m)
Jackson State - 466k
Lamar University - 0 ("Lamar" - 441,000)

edit, words, Penn and tier-2
So, you have no idea what you are talking about, but you want to tell me both what I actually do, and what I should do? Gee, that's really compelling.
iOS code: EBCardCollectionViewLayout (cards layout for UICollectionView)
I ordered several months ago and still waiting so I wouldn't expect to receive it in a few weeks unless you get lucky. It's actually already past the initial estimate they gave me and emailing got me a response of not being able to estimate a date of when I'll receive my order
It won't last much longer. The trader started by putting 30k Bitcoin in orders and it's now down to 19k. You can follow along by watching the red line in this chart:

https://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD
Haha well we made the shirts for developers that write sexy code. Sexy code is the backbone of all great web and mobile applications we reason that those developers will enjoy sexy shirts. Our bad math says: Sexy code + Sexy shirts on developers => Successful Applications ?
Yep. Pixel art guys don't clearly understand that all png, gif and jpg and countless other bitmap images are all pixel based. I'm just saying this ad guy who used to program games in 90s. It's just low resolution art with possibly restricted palette. These images did not use ega or vga palette. And of course dithering is basic stuff. Notice real cga colors in this wonderful game.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFpuUJhP2Q

These images are really nice. I just dislike pixel art newbie thing.
You should enable zip file uploading.
In fact piling on more products that lose money accelerates that plan!
We're playing with that right now. We'd like to keep the CTA at the top so visitors quickly get an idea of what ShirtJS. We'll run an A/B test to see which performs better
Thanks!
>(Java and Scala), Ocaml,

Except scala and ocaml are both slower than haskell.

>The docs you linked to are a 3'rd party package marked "experimental".

No it is not. What is the point of just outright lying?

>I'll also suggest that you are glossing over most of the difficulties in using them

I'll suggest that if you want people to believe your claim, then you should back it up. Show me the difficulty. Because my week 1 students have no trouble with it at all.

>It's not so easy to wrap your operations in the appropriate monad

You are literally saying "it is not easy to write code". That is like saying "printf" is hard in C because you have to write code. It makes absolutely no sense. Have you actually ever tried learning haskell much less using it?

>apply all the necessary strictness annotations to avoid thunks

All one of them? Which goes in the exact same place it always does? And which is not necessary at all?

>and properly weave this monad with all the others you've got floating around.

Ah, trolled me softly. Well done.