skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also hidden, a great reference on mechanical design in general. Author mentions it for gear design, but it covers a broad range of topics including strength/stiffness analysis of parts, fasteners (nuts & bolts), materials, etc.

Shigley : http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design...
email search WAS awful on local clients, years ago.
However Amsterdam, the other place they mention is a smidgen further away.
One founder told me that a decent personal investment strategy of his was to be a forever-renter and invest in REITs instead. That way you get the financial upside of homeownership but more diversification instead of having all your equity locked up in a single asset. It sort fits the changing profile of this generation, which is more mobile and doesn't want to own cars or huge assets.

On the other side, while I personally don't know enough about the behavior of REITs across the entire country, I can tell you that Sam Zell's Equity Residential is causing huge problems for the Latino and black community of East Palo Alto, which is adjacent to the Facebook campus. They're getting hundreds of eviction notices per month, which the community lawyers have to fight off.
Enterprise support I guess. If you are a big enterprise, and not in favor of dealing with Oracle/IBM support, this is a pretty good alternative.
You inspired me to write up another one: Entry-level programmers, non-breaking spaces, and user experience https://davidmichaelross.com/blog/entry-level-programmers-no...
> “Puck Man”, an identical clone of Pac-Man, was copyright infringement in Midway v. Artic (1983). Was “Puck Man” seriously the most original name they could come up with?

It's well known that the original Japanese name for the game was Puck-Man, and that Bally/Midway changed it for American audiences (the "P" in Puck was just begging for vandalism). So, it's even worse than inventing a bad name—they just plagiarized the original name…
Aren't vacuum tubes still used in photomultipliers?
I wish humans were non-blocking species
When you feel pain, all you think about is pain. That's a single thread of thought running through your mind. You can't think of anything else. If humans were non-blocking species, things would be so cool. When someone shot you, you could actually choose to think of something else simultaneously.
Claiming that VR/AR is a wave on the same order of magnitude as mobile a bold statement. Mostly AR/VR extend existing waves. They make gaming better. They make mobile better. They are not by themselves the same kind of shift as PC -> Mobile.
Hi,

The Dunning-Kruger effect doesn't actually cause people who are good at a thing to say they suck at it and people who are awful to say they are good. In the paper, most tests found that estimated ability was positively correlated with ability, but had a lower slope.

Thanks.
This is more or less where I stand as well. Haskell has an efficient RTS, well designed compiler, best-in-industry concurrency, good-enough type-safety that is light-years ahead of even things like Scala, and a good library ecosystem.

It's ready now and I'd like to begin work with Haskell in the hopes that industry wakes up to the utility of future successors to Haskell by seeing Haskell itself in action.
I believe it's all true, because around that same time I bought some web design software at Microcenter. When I got home, I learned it was a cheap Photoshop clone that output a giant image and an imagemap. It was pixel-perfect, but completely useless.
I love Multiple Inbox for work emails, although for home I don't. My work email tends to get a bit cluttered during a project, but I try to get back to Inbox 0 when I get a moment to go through things.

My Multiple Inboxes are: Unread Inbox, Starred, Action/WaitingOn labels, Drafts and Unread (non-inbox). I had to add the last one as I was missing emails I hadn't read but had setup filters for. This deprioritizes them, but I still see them, and I can easily just mark them as read as they generally don't require much attention.

The other tip I'd say is learning the basics of keyboard shortcuts - I can open, assess and archive/delete an email very quickly because I use e/# (archive/delete respectively). I can burn through the unimportant emails very quickly that way.
At least do social auth or auth to netflix instead of requiring an email account to sign up... ain't nobody got time for that.
I don't think the author trash talked search advertising. His point is around the increasing dominance of native advertising. Think about it. How long do you spend inside platforms on a given day? You probably have Facebook or Twitter open on a tab all the time. The odds of you looking at ads on any of those platforms are far more than you would on any of Google's. That isn't to say that one form of advertising is better than the other. It just means that native advertising is growing in prominence and Google doesn't technically have a presence in that space.
Google Maps API Utility Libraries Moving to GitHub
This is quickly becoming SOP... I'm still waiting for Google Now Gmail cards >:/

(And as a single-user apps account I don't even get the recently-released unlimited storage...)
Atom-scale brain sensors will show exactly how your mind works
Very possible a typo but the term is "princely sum."

No criticism but if you didn't know I thought you might want to.
all the other upsets the author mentions were consumer product driven. Mainframe -> PC. PC -> Mobile. Advertisement is business driven. It doesn't seem to be even in the same league as the other upsets and search advertisement will likely upset by "Death of a thousand cuts" than some plucky upstart.
I don't think testing every single unit is reasonable. Luckily we have Random Sampling which typically works quite well. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_sample
Private paper burried under $100m of preference :(
The Open Standard
Honestly? I rotate accounts on most major sites periodically. It is a tinfoil-hat foible, a way to distance myself from the exceedingly dumb things I have almost certainly said in years past.

Unfortunately for me, I chose today to rotate.

I don't work for FTDI; I'm not even British. But I did build that Adafruit altoid tin MP3 player eight years ago, which used a FT232.

Why am I wasting my time on this argument? I don't really know, aside from I hate the "internet dogpile" effect.

My credibility as a greenbean is nil of course, but oh well.

Edit: obviously folks do not believe me. Serves me right for trying to answer. jessaustin, I hope you at least feel like you got your answer. I get the feeling it doesn't actually matter what I say or even who I really work for- I'm branded.
Totally agree. We are looking for a better UX that does not use right/wrong model. Maybe more like "what's YC recommendation on X".
Yes, according to IBM's presentations, BigDecimal in their JVM uses 64-bit DFP instructions on their hardware. Minimum hardware level is POWER6 or Z10 (Z9 supported via microcode).

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/cafe/docBodyAttac...
I think it's a little early to tell if it's a failed product. It might be in terms of unit sales, but I'm sure that in terms of the knowledge and understanding of AR, Google are probably in a good position to capitalise on the (hopefully) coming AR/VR wave.
I played a text-based MUD called Federation II for about a year before I moved over to a more popular title named Gemstone III, which was a sort of text-based precursor to World of Warcraft, where you could run around and kill rats and cast spells and such. I was obsessed with GS3 for a few years until my early teens. It was no less addictive than Warcraft later became (at massive scale), and back in the days when AOL was $3 per hour for dial-up, this was not an inexpensive activity. Fortunately my parents wanted to support my interests and for several years I received "AOL coupons" for all the usual holidays, my birthday, and chores around the house. I'm glad they found a way to make it work, because those experiences are what inspired me to learn how to code - I wanted to make a virtual world just like the ones I fell in love with playing. Most people I've talked to who never played them definitely underestimate how immerse a text environment can be.

Here's a video that shows the medium for those are who may not have seen it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJrC1xD4DM8
After a bit of use, I think I like it.

I was curious about the relation between Inbox and Gmail.
My current Gmail has a lot of filters and labels.

When looking at the labels, you have the choice of displaying them as "Clusters" in your main inbox, which is pretty convenient.

I did that to my Friends label and it is now a Friends cluster.

Note that it doesn't change anything in Gmail: the label is still here, all the filters that interact with it are still here too.

I realized that one of my friends wasn't in the cluster, so I moved it in it, and clicked on "Always do this", it prompted me : "Always move emails from Myfriend@email.com to Friends" .
2 remarks about this:

-	This is a very basic way of adding some emails from bundling, in the future I except to be able to specialize more: for instance sometimes I get important emails from a co-worker, but he also sends a daily reminder that I don't care so much about, I would like to be able to move it to the bundle “Useless updates” only it comes from him AND has this specific subject. That is something we can do through the Gmail filters, but not through the “Always do this” interface yet.

-	Curiously it created a filter in my old Gmail filters with as a rule : " from:Myfriend@email.com Action: "
The filter has no action, so I assume that when I will be receiving an email from that friend , in Inbox it will go into the good cluster, but in Gmail the label "Friend" won't be appended to it, this means that Gmail rules/filters apply to Inbox, but Inbox rules don’t apply to Gmail.

The Inbox's "Done" is doing the same thing as the Gmail's "Archive" .

I haven't been able to experience the snoozing feature yet
[EDIT: redacted unnecessary aspersion.] In none of the links you provide are authorities taking or destroying property that consumers already bought. Rather, they're taking property from distributors who theoretically could have known better than to purchase the "counterfeits" in the first place. Can you think of any interesting way that LEOs taking property from distributors is similar to a private party destroying the property of consumers?
I can't find the link right now, but I've seen sales/marketing efforts _so_ determined to include "vacuum tube" in their features list, that they designed an amplifier with only opamps and transistors in the audio stages, but a single tube as a rectifier in the power supply...
Yeah, but these ads once again miss one of the biggest things- intent. At the end of the day, nothing you do on Facebook or Twitter speaks to intent. It's great for mindshare companies, like Dr. Pepper or Apple- but it just isn't very strong for local businesses, or more purpose-driven businesses like auto parts stores or coffee shops.
You say this as if the 20-something libertarian software engineer isn't just as pissed off when he gets screwed over on equity or stock options as is the 50-something manufacturing worker whose job has just been outsourced.
Marvel's “Avengers: Age of Ultron” – Teaser Trailer
I really can't get over the level of marketing here. "Report" after "report" from a company that specializes in generating favorable copywriting out of thin air (https://451research.com/about).

This is clearly not a product being targeted at developers, so I have no idea why "Open Source" or Docker is being pushed, other than being profitable buzzwords. In fact, on first impressions this looks like exactly what I would produce if I wanted to cheat clueless IT executives into buying a rebranded copy of OpenJDK.

If that's the goal, maybe it will work. If not, they badly need to rethink the site.
When God talks to you and you are an atheist, you do the opposite of everything you believe.

You dumb fuck nigger.

A computer person says, "Whoa, the Amish must be correct."
A Reagan Republican says, "Whoa, corps must be bad."

You understand, dumb fuck nigger? Fuck you, nigger.
To clarify, no you can't use it at the ATM or to get cash back.
I don't think Zuck has been a scrappy anything in years. I'm pretty sure you're disqualified from "scrappy" once you make your first billion. (Possible exception: Notch.)
Gymtrack
It looks pretty, it looks like it might end the hide and seek with attachments on a smart phone client; not a problem on a desktop but I can never find the attachments in Gmail on the phone. I'm not sure I like that idea that it decides what's important and highlights it; probably because it would get it right most of the time. I could get used to it.
Occasional random door-to-door checks? (Miss too many, and you lose your local-resident exemption.)
One problem I've always had with weather.gov is the radar maps just display the raw data from each ground station. Their system doesn't attempt to fill in missing coverage from neighboring radar sites.

So it often looks like the edge of a storm is just a few dozen miles away, when in reality the storm continues for hundreds of miles (far beyond the coverage of the current radar station).

As an example: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=atx&product=N0R&overl...

This storm (assuming you're looking at this shortly after my comment was posted) continues down the entire northwest US coast into Oregon and Northern California. But here it looks like it's contained entirely within Washington state.
In AIX the text/data page size can be controlled independently per-process with environment variables. What drives me up a wall is that the per-process setting does not actually flow through to their POSIX layer. Have any code that calls sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)? The page size is 8k! No, wait...
WHEN TOO MUCH BECOMES OVERWHELMING: DEALING WHEN THINGS BACKFIRE
The benefits are pretty obvious from the article.

Azul only works on the JVM. IBM/Oracle works on the JVM + other things.

Because as we know companies are only capable of doing one thing at a time and could never manage multiple projects. Because Java/JVM itself was written by that single focused company: Sun.
"In most sane places, if a landlord wants to go out of business / quit being a landlord, they must sell the property to another landlord. "

Actually no. This is not really true.

There are plenty of states/places where you can simply evict the tenants at some prorated rate, and then go about your life. You mention it yourself a few paragraphs up.

Additionally, for the specific case of condo conversions, which is the largest claim of ellis act "violations", most states are friendlier than you claim.

Let's take maryland (A state I am barred in, so very familiar with property law for):
http://www.peoples-law.org/conversion-condominium-ownership

You get 180 days, an offer to purchase the unit at the same price as the best price the unit gets offered for in the next 180 days, and moving expenses.
That's it.

"Even red states like NC have pretty strict restrictions on when you can evict a tenant, and "'Cause I'm shutting down the LLC" is never one of them."

Source?
AFAIK, this is completely incorrect for "most states"
NoScript is your friend, I saw no such nag screen.
Well, it's good to know how utterly I'm pissing away my entire life. It helps to be reminded of that now and again.
> He added, with comical appreciation of the irony of his position, “We were glad to get out of the Dardanelles and be shipped to Saloniki.”

For some explanatory background on the two fronts this soldier fought on:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Front
Wow they could have planned this misadventure a bit more carefully. Having decided to do this stupid destructive thing, they should at least have resolved not to admit they did it on purpose. The general public would have much more sympathy if the story was "after lengthy investigation, we've determined that the bug only affects counterfeit products... we have sympathy for all victims of counterfeiting." Instead, they've gone for "in your face, you cheap bastards!" Honesty is not always the best policy, especially when you're evil.
Damn, I had an MK calculator when I was a kid. I was always fascinated by it. I think I took it apart to see how it worked and was unable to put back together.
Those pictures sure bring back some memories.
Not entirely true. At least in the Bay Area, I've seen some highly targeted ads on my Twitter stream. Twitter also does a great job at showing me ads based on who I follow. Do I act on these ads? Sometimes yes. Companies throw out incentives to act on promoted Tweets. I think it's a nice, subtle form of advertising that just works. Facebook, I don't like. Their advertising comes off very intrusive and honestly, I've never acted on a single ad there. Helps with brand recognition though. When I see a brand advertised on Facebook, I recollect it. How many times have you been to a coffee shop and seen posters redirecting you to their Facebook presence (I know that's not an ad but, it goes to show you that they have a presence there). Some take it to the next level and advertise too! I've seen quite a few local ads on my stream.
Curious aside -- is there any blog / article out there where someone has tried to max out network bandwidth on an x86 box? I checked a POWER8 we have today and it has 14 PCIe3 slots (mix of 8x/16x), so theoretically one could load up 14 40GbE NICs on it. I'd be interested to see some kind of I/O shootout to see where both systems hit a wall.

e.g. Snabb Switch 20x10GbE on x86 https://lukego.github.io/blog/2013/06/23/echoing-packets-wit...
oh! That could be an error on my part. I'll double check the case.

edit: I didn't realize Pac Man was originally "Puck Man" in Japan. I added a note to the article.

Artic just copied the original Japanese name. Pretty lazy:

"The only differences between Artic's Puckman game and Midway's Pac-Man game are (1) the names of the ghost characters in Artic's game are different from the names of Midway's characters, (2) the Midway copyright notice does not appear on Artic's game, and (3) the name of the game is different. Other than those trivial differences, the Artic game is absolutely identical to Midway's Pac-Man video game described above. In fact... Artic's Puckman printed circuit board contains an error common to Midway's Pac-Man game." http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3162513435280413...
I know almost no German, but I learned French to fluency and know spoken Mandarin somewhat well.

I think that talking about the relative difficulty of a language as a whole is not really workable. There are different aspects which order differently.

For example, if you already speak English then you'll find German vocabulary far easier to learn. There will be a lot of shared or similar words that you can build on. In Mandarin, there are almost no common words, so you basically have to start from scratch.

On the other hand, Mandarin grammar is pretty simple. No conjugations, no genders, just slightly different word order from what you're used to. If you know how to say "I eat noodles" and you know how to say "yesterday" then you know how to say "I ate noodles yesterday". We spent a long time learning how to conjugate the various past tenses in French class, and I believe German is similar.

I think there's no contest when it comes to reading and writing. Learning to read and write Mandarin is almost like learning a whole separate language from the spoken version.

I think the easy grammar helps give Mandarin a big advantage, especially if you're learning it for casual conversations. But that advantage is greatly reversed in other areas. Much will depend on what the individual language learner finds easy and hard to learn.
But how is the driver to know what's written on the chip?
Problem is, only 1.7% of college football players are ever going to play professional ball.
How a 90 Minute Interview with a Designer Resulted in a Product Our Friends Love
I wish that it showed the previous color scheme if I go back. As it stands I have to go back and then refresh with that URL. (firefox)
BitCoin allstars launch sidechains project
I think the % is higher, even if we're talking about practice squads.

As mentioned, the curriculum would also include tangentially related fields.
It was an honest question, and that's the kind of answer I was looking for. So maybe once it's been sold nothing can be done about it(unlike stolen goods, which is obviously a different case).

edit: According to a professor at the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, buying counterfeit goods is only illegal in France and Italy[1]. US customs even allow people to knowingly bring one counterfeit good into the country.

[1] http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/the-legality-of-bu...
Virtually every kitchen has a built in microwave?
I'm not so sure about that monsieur.
Fantastic Read
I've been a fan of this site for a long time, great resource if nothing else then for nostalgic purposes.
Or compare it to the AHL, where players make $70,000 (this is as of 2012-20130. The $70,000 figure is not hugely out-of-line with the cost of a year of tuition, room, and board at a good school. Once they make the leap to the NHL it goes up markedly to at least $525,000 (as of 2011-2012), and of course free agents make even more.

I do think that most public colleges should get out of the business of fielding sports teams. Except for the best schools, they will not be a net positive financially.
I have only fleeting interest in the subject so I've only read one titled "What every body is saying" by Joe Navarro.
It did teach me a few things, but didn't really strengthen my interest or desire to go more to more depth in the field.
>Where's "here"? I lived in Shanghai 3 years I would have put that number pretty close to 0%.

Shenzhen. You're right, 10% is being generous but a lot of long time expats pick up Mandarin not at work but through the "long haired dictionary" method.

I don't know any successful business people that have been here for more than five years that feel it's essential for business. Foreign companies fail here all the time due to not understanding culture, I've never heard of any failing due to the language barrier.

Value comes from scarcity- fully bilingual people simply are not scarce in China.
But... innovation!

Seriously, though, this just looks like extracting economic rents from the fact that their vendor ids come pre-installed in certain OSes.
No its not. While the Indian caste system is mostly dead (at least in the educated upper class circles I travel, mostly full of brahmins), it does play a social role.

Us capitalism is nothing like it. Something closer to the caste system might be the tribalist cultural grouping of people in the us (e.g. fishtown and Charles Murrays other subgroups, or Scott Alexanders reds and blues).

I know its fun to say capitalism is just like all historical bad things, but its silly.
Relevant doesn't necessarily mean requires actions. I average around 100-150 relevant work emails on a typical day (can also be 20), and plenty of them are ones that I only need to glance at for 5 seconds - some that I don't even need to read but need in my inbox for potentially looking up later.

I work in marketing for PC hardware, so very different sort of workflow to coding.
I can understand FTDI's frustration, but vigilantism is not acceptable behavior. The lawyers are going to have a feeding frenzy on this one.