skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ultimately I´d hope that we raise kids that can listen to themselves as much as others, so they have some hope of guarding themselves from whatever neuroses the adults around them have picked up.

Yes, but these inside voices don't just appear out of nowhere. They are shaped by how children are raised from the time they are toddlers.

We want kids who know right from wrong and are not afraid to act rightly instead of wrongly, even in the face of peer pressure. Most of these qualities are teachable.
Carl Icahn’s Letter to Tim Cook of Apple: Complete Text
Just gonna drop this link here: http://www.tofugu.com/2012/07/24/namba-aruki-samurai-walk/
by moving both sides at the same time, it keeps twisting the torso to a minimum, you don't tire out as fast.
It also helps keep your balance centered.
Out of curiosity, how would you propose taking a random sample of all possible questions?
Except GIFV isn't a file format then, it's a presentation profile.

GIF, MP4, JPG - these are all formats. Trying to call "GIFV" a format is just marketing fluff.
WebMs are truly impressive. Too bad the adoption rate is quite low.
I think there paying far more than 6cents per gallon.

Still, you forget generators are less than 100% efficient. At 30% that 30kW/hr = 9kW/hr for 6 cent. = 1.5 cents per kW/hr + cost of generator which is far from free.

Anyway, your far better off just selling the gas.
Where were you driving taxis? I was reading your comment expecting "I quit because I moved on to another profession" or anything else that wasn't taxi drivers getting killed.
I disagree for a couple of things, unfortunately.

For 'apps' I might (mostly) agree, but some apps provide services. And that experience is quite bad so far. Think IM (and even the email client is not there yet => IDLE/Notifications/Server Side Search)
The original version of the paper was what Yoav was criticizing. It's worth noting that the authors made nontrivial changes to address most of Yoav's comments (and as a result, ended up with a much higher quality paper).

I specialize in word representations and using them for various tasks. Word Similarity prediction has been used as a basic first evaluation for many years now, with analogies becoming an additional standard task in the past couple of years. But it's worth noting that word representations have a LOT of open parameters (which model? how many dimensions? do I remove stopwords and low frequency words prior? do I use a bag-of-words context or a syntactic context?).

The optimal parameter choices for one task are very frequently not the optimal parameters for another. While there are usually "reasonable defaults" for when you don't want to optimize everything, a solid standardized approach risks vastly overfitting to one task, possibly at the expense of more useful tasks.
The problem being solved at the high level is one of how to entertain. These problems tend to be solved by the game designers themselves.

Every solution involving software has many many layers of software inside it, and every single one of those layers is solving a problem of some sort.

Some layer somewhere in that expenses report is solving the problem of how to save and load data, for example. It has nothing to do with the business problem being solved, but it's still a technical problem that needs to be solved.

It's the same for games.
They work for me, Firefox 32.0.3 on Arch Linux. You'll likely need some gstreamer packages installed (I think the package on Arch is gst-plugins-good for h264), same as for watching YouTube videos in HTML5 mode rather than Flash.

There's also an about:config option "media.gstreamer.enabled" which needs to be set to true, but I don't remember ever having to set this myself.
Carlos Slim: The 3-day work week will happen
>Caroline Criado Perez was not complaining about one or two people sending a few dozens of messages that were a bit mean.

Yeah she was:

https://twitter.com/CCriadoPerez/statuses/375689920742182912

If you dig, you find that she's an aggressive jerk, and that's why she's a hate magnet. In a different political context, she'd be the "troll." Same for the person she's arguing with. I don't lump Kathy Sierra in this category, but there's a reason some people always find themselves in the middle of a shitstorm.

>I find it fucking baffling that you chose to defend those people, the people saying stuff like that, at the cost of their victims.

See, this is the thing. You see very, very few people defending that. But everybody who doesn't agree with banning vehement disagreement gets attributed that opinion. Every time. The same thing is happening with the so-called gamergate.
One in Three U.K. Children Now Owns a Tablet
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I can't see their new format. I can't see mp4's. I'm using firefox.

This is the future? great.
I have an Open C and I recently manually updated the phone from 1.3 to 2.1. You can most definitely compile and install a new version of Firefox OS yourself regardless of what ZTE chooses to do. The only catch is that you need root access, and this is not enabled on the Open C by default, but ZTE provides a tool for rooting your phone with a single button press.

My understanding is that all aspects of the OS under the control of Mozilla are completely open, but manufacturers like ZTE include proprietary components and of course their hardware isn't 100% open, but Mozilla isn't responsible for that. Mozilla certainly needs to find other partners however, because my experiences with ZTE have been pretty poor thus far, and I've read a lot of negative things about Alcatel's Firefox OS devices as well.

As an aside, Mozilla needs to start targeting higher end devices since I believe that hardware experience will largely factor into the success of the OS, and the current official Firefox OS devices are pretty awful. I've also been following bugs concerning core features for YEARS now, and Mozilla has yet to address any of these. 2.1 has some improvements over 1.3 for sure, but it's missing very basic functionality like some group messaging features and a calendar application that's actually useful. A lot of the noticeable changes from 1.3 to 2.1 are purely cosmetic, and it's incredibly frustrating to see essential features get completely overlooked time and time again. The marketplace is also starting to seem completely devoid of useful applications - a lot of them are very low quality, some of them are simply shortcuts to the mobile versions of websites, and games seem to make up the majority of the applications.
When was this published? I see the approval for release date, but not the author's publish date.
From what I understand, there are two types of systems really (in terms of CAP): those that do async replication and those that do sync replication.

Async replicated systems can be (but are not necessarily) AP: each system can process requests independently of the other, and they'll get consistent eventually (how they arrive at this consistency is different between systems, and is not always "correct" for the general use case).

Sync replicated systems can be (but are not necessarily) CA: as long as replication is not broken they are available and consistent. These systems have the upside in that they allow you to serve read-only data during partitions, but have slow writes because of the sync replication.

Both types can have features removed, for whatever reason. For example, you could have a sync replicated system that doesn't serve any requests when the replication is broken. Or you could have an async system that doesn't provide a mechanism to correct inconsistencies (a la MySQL async replication). What you describe sounds like an imperfect version of the async system: not highly available, not consistent, and not partition tolerant. Given that better AP systems exist, ones that actually provide things like availability during partitions and eventual consistency mechanisms/guarantees, will Redis Cluster eventually support these features?

Edit: please don't take any of this as criticism. Redis is an awesome product that I use and rely on often. Thanks for all the great work.
I can't wait to move off of Heroku. They've had far too many issues in the past few months and we haven't been happy with the performance. If only I had the time to setup our environment elsewhere.
Why don't you google it and find out?
That's true, I've heard that methane is much worse than CO2. I wonder if methane can be pull out of the air?
This is called the "Take the First" heuristic. If you want to learn more about "fast and frugal" heuristics (which work surprisingly well in a lot of cases), read "Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart". It explains how to get programs to give good answers when time and processing power are limited (similar to your case).

http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Heuristics-That-Make-Smart/dp/0...
Is there any way to have this auto-hide in some way?
Because we can't collect pressure readings in the background (apple doesn't allow a background mode for pressure), so it would just be a waste of the user's battery to be constantly taking their location.
Mozilla to Ad World: Start Respecting the User
Gunther, Christine and Otto: A love story over 844,000kms
Seriously? It's my main phone. It has drawbacks, clearly, but it's quite sufficient for my needs.
The 10th amendment has no independent significance. It says:

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

If an exercise of power can be justified by reference to some Constitutional provision, then it is by definition delegated and the 10th amendment does not apply. If an exercise of power cannot be justified by reference to some Constitutional provision, then the 10th amendment is irrelevant because the federal government can't exercise a non-enumerated power anyway. In other words, there cannot be a situation where one provision of the Constitution says something is okay, but the 10th amendment says it isn't.

As far as "power grabs"--the government has always exercised plenary power over what comes into and out of the U.S. Establishing the Customs service was one of the very first things the First Congress did. Moreover, one of the founding purposes of the federal government was national security, and the federal government was always conceived of as having broad power in that area. Which is precisely why it's tautological.
I wrote the book on financial card fraud (figuratively, but I may as well have) - I also was "in the scene" at one point.

I'm in the middle of writing a detailed post on my findings and will comment back when complete :)
I think this actually in response to Gyfcat, who have been doing this exact same thing for a while, and eating up quite a lot of imgur's redditshare: https://gfycat.com/
Try not moving the torso at all, and keep your hands in front of your thighs. Simply flip your palm up and slightly forwards when you want that leg to move forwards, It's called Namba Aruki in japan.
Move on to what? The annihilation of firefox through a cheap licensing move?
Mozilla can't provide base images without licensing proprietary software (for the RIL primarily, although there may be others depending on the hardware).

Also the focus for Mozilla right now is on providing new low-end hardware and optimizing for that. It's possible to build and flash onto your own hardware, people on the XDA forums have done it.

Testing web apps in the simulator (or just with the responsive design tool) is totally doable right now, but it's hard to get an idea of performance without actually testing on a target device.
Year later and people still misquote that, you should look up the reality of your quote.
I admit I haven't searched very hard, but I am yet to see a 128 Mb Android phone that I would consider usable.
There is a persistent scholastic "achievement gap" between races in the US, which jives with fiatmoney's comment: a sufficiently unscrupulous (racist!) employer could use standardized testing as a proxy for racial discrimination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achievement_gap_in_the_United_...

(FWIW, I recently heard the term "opportunity gap" as an alternative to "achievement gap," and I quite like it: it puts the burden on society to improve education, rather than blaming students for "failing" to surmount inequity.)
How to do your PR in the age of information overload
I don't see a date either, however given some of the dates in the document, it seems sometime between 1997 and 2000.

Relevant lines:

"Representatives from the Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD) backed the concept of key recovery systems during a January 1997 conference."

"The software industry estimated that, if export controls were removed, US companies could sell as much as $60 billion a year in encryption hardware and software by 2000."
Go to your local Leclerc or Darty, or by at LDLC, CDiscount, etc :)
That was the first question I had after I read the article. What's the need of calling it 'gifv' when it's really mp4? Does imgur want to take credit for creating a new format when it really hasn't? Conversions happen all the time behind the scenes.
I'd be interested to know if cancelling the card number actually cancels recurring payments. Last time I tried this, my bank told me the recurring payments would still continue even if the card was cancelled. And I needed to contact the vendor and raise a depute before they would consider cancelling the recurring payment. This was however for a debit card, rather than credit.

In general, the way recurring payments are setup seems really bad.
This is why it's a shame the US doesn't have a Constitutional Court with its sole purpose of filtering out unconstitutional bills signed by the president before they become actual laws.

Then bills like the Patriot Act in its current form would have a much smaller chance of becoming laws, and then having the government abuse them for two decades before they are challenged at the Supreme Court.
>It's an irrelevant question. They don't have to consider it acceptable--they do it because they can.

There are many things that states can do but don't. Why states don't do those things can be for self-interested, ideological, social, culture, ethical or constitution/legal reasons.

>And the major powers don't do it, in turn, because they have more to gain from trade than from piracy.

I think there is a good argument to be made that destroying the internet via proxy conflicts for limited intelligence gain is not in any of the big players long term interest (although it may be in the interests of state security organisations as it expands their mission/importance). Schmidt seems to agree with me.
All systems that attempt to implement justice are ultimately built upon the monstrously unjust platform of "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".
Do we still have to lie in answering the "have you ever been a gunrunner" question on the form you fill in on entry to the US ?
Have you tried Googling various combinations of these phrases? How early childhood stress affects later development has been a hot area of research for at least a decade now. One quick example I found:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/9955892/A...
I think the distinction is between "Fear of being surveilled" and "Fear of the NSA surveillance program"
Hasn't 4chan been doing this with webm for a while?
“Once capturing carbon from the air is profitable, people acting in their own self-interest will make it happen,” says Chichilnisky.

This is the key to the entire article.

The conversation shouldn't be around the practicality of capturing carbon from the air, the conversation should be what is the most profitable way to reduce carbon in our air either through not putting it in the air in the first place or removing it cheaply after the fact.

This demands a more robust marketplace beyond CO2 for soda and oil wells.

"The idea is to first sell carbon dioxide to niche markets, such as oil-well recovery, to eventually create bigger ones, like using catalysts to make fuels in processes that are driven by solar energy."
The definition of states as entities that exercise a monopoly of legitimate violence is fairly mainstream in political science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

That definition isn't only used by libertarians, though it's possible that libertarians are more likely to use the "violence" formulation rather than the "physical force" formulation.

International recognition is possibly a separate issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state

According to some theorists, there are states that aren't recognized as states, but may still be states. They may actually rule territory (perhaps quite a stable way) but other states still may not recognize them -- most often because other states support a different claim to rule the territory that the unrecognized state rules. A familiar example in Europe is Northern Cyprus, where there is a state-like entity that has ruled a particular territory with no practical physical challenge for a long time, but almost all other states in the world support a different entity's claims to that territory and wish that the existing ruling entity would dissolve or be absorbed into the other entity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus

And there are a lot of other situations like that, often with positions on the claims determined by other political considerations.
But it seems people capable of modern way of thinking start to emerge, e.g. Tim Sweeney of Epic Games:

"– Will gladly sacrifice 10% of our performance
for 10% higher productivity"

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/popl/06/Tim-POPL.ppt
Oh does my iPhone have a VP9 chip in it?

Not so superior...
You said you couldn't see how the code was more relevant, which I interpreted in another context; ultimately gamers won't care as long as it's a good game. However, I don't see any value in following that line of reasoning, as it halts all further discussion.

The truth is game code often needs to be performant first, and the pursuit of that goal usually comes at the cost of maintainability and readability (and programmers' sanity), so I think further discussion is warranted.
>>> He spoke more about the erosion of international trust because of American surveillance activities.

The irony here is that the US is one of the most hacked countries on the planet. And where do you think those attacks originate? Yup, you guessed it. . . Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

One should not give trust when one has not earned it.
Downgrade iOS 8.1 to iOS 7.1.2 step-by-step
Plant more trees?
The heavier use of CPU allows the files to be smaller while retaining quality (or vice-versa).

As all current platforms, including mobile because of dedicated hardware, have absolutely no problem with playing H.264 video while bandwidth is still a scarce resource I think it is logical and wise that H.264 won over MPEG-2 or other older codecs.

Don't forget that larger file size also might mean more power consumption (storage and radio need to be active longer) even if less CPU is consumed.
Awesome. Hope you can find one or more full-time ones! (If that's the way you're hoping to go.)
The decline of Tumblr: Losing the picture wars
Move Fast, Don't Break Your API
It isn't a high enough proportion of the atmosphere to be an effective strategy (also, you mean precipitate out of the air; sublimation is the process where a solid becomes a gas).

We talked about it before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174246

I linked this article, which discusses somebody actually testing the partial pressure explanation in a lab freezer capable of maintaining those low temperatures:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/13/results-lab-experiment...
a) Show HNs are for products in which a use could try right now, not for products which don't exist yet. If you want to show off the demo apps, link to the demo apps.

b) This submission has 12 points in 14 minutes, which is highly-indicitave of vote rigging, which is against HN rules, and doesn't work.
I will never understand the tendency, especially in the web community, to consider complicated, ambiguous, inconsistent, and difficult to parse syntaxes as "friendly".

It might seem like a good idea at first, but over time it just results in a culture that publishes horrifically broken markup, and increasingly baroque implementations that try to work around every possible screw-up instead of simply flagging errors. This is, in my opinion, the biggest screw-up of the web: if early browsers simply flagged errors and pointed out where and what they are clearly, the web would be a much nicer place. Instead, actually writing a parser for web markup is a nearly impossible task, and not the weekend hack it should be.

One of the, if not the, great thing(s) about JSON is its beautifully simple syntax. 5 images on json.org precisely explain what it is, and that's that. You can write a parser for it in basically any language without any fancy libraries or frameworks in a few hours. That is a good thing, regardless of whether you personally would ever have to do such a thing, because it keeps the barrier of entry low and trickles through the ecosystem in positive ways.

Missing the point of JSON? Yes, but missing much more, including lessons that should have been learned.

That said, a few of the ideas are good ones (comments and such), but the bad ones (making crucial delimiters optional) are so bad they more than outweigh the benefits.
As communities become more and more siloed, people will increasingly assume that their social bubble's opinions are the opinions and will of the majority. They will then look to the behavior of legislators and see "the will of the majority" being disregarded. This bodes ill for representative democracy, especially in a two-party system like the US.
> Is Capturing Carbon from the Air Practical?

You mean like... trees?
"but who cares, apart from the so-called cultural connotations?"

About 8 billion people, culture is everything to people compared to file format specifications.

Acts like a GIF, talks like a GIFs, it's a GIF(V)!
I think this is a much better url as it has the actual letter that the article is based on.

http://www.businessinsider.com/carl-icahn-apple-letter-2014-...

To be fair to him, he's not the only person who thinks apple should be doing more with their cash:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/21/hedge-fund-manager...

I'm sure most people have heard about Icahn. But if not check out his Wikipedia page to see a list of investments he's gone activist on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Icahn

The guy is an interesting man. His most recent endeavor was to prop up the company herbalife.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-22/icahn-makes-234-mil...

He sure isn't the kind of hedge fund manager that sits behind a desk and stares at his Bloomberg terminal all day:)

The man is 78, and worth 23 billion and he's still picking fights, I hope I have that kind of energy when I get that old, maybe not the fight picking part:)

EDIT to be clear, I'm not making a judgement on his character or if he's a net positive to the market. You may see him as good or bad.
Washington Post (or is it Jeff Bezos himself?) seems to really take the government's side lately.
Finance follows information lag. If everyone had perfect information or speedy funds transfer ability then there would be no stock market.
You should read this as "Carl Icahn wants to pump and dump Apple Stock."
'#PoorKidsofTehran' takes on Iran's elite
Yup, most video code has serious bug smell.
This is the standard applied to treating people differently on characteristics not part of a protected class:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review