skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite Heinlein prediction is the "Shipstone" from Friday - an energy storage device that packs "more kilowatt-hours into a smaller space and a smaller mass than any other engineer had ever dreamed of. To call it an "improved storage battery" (as some early accounts did) is like calling an H-bomb an "improved firecracker."

In the novel, the Shipstone's eponymous inventor realised "that the problem was not a shortage of energy but lay in the transporting of energy. Energy is everywhere—in sunlight, in wind, in mountain streams, in temperature gradients of all sorts wherever found, in coal, in fossil oil, in radioactive ores, in green growing things. Especially in ocean depths and in outer space energy is free for the taking in amounts lavish beyond all human comprehension.

"Those who spoke of "energy scarcity" and of "conserving energy" simply did not understand the situation. The sky was "raining soup"; what was needed was a bucket in which to carry it."

I really hope this is what Elon Musk is working on next.
Open letter to Stephen Colbert on citing blogs in amicus briefs [pdf]
In Search of Uber’s Unicorn
Even in KDE, the JuK media player/tagger (which is actually the semi-official app) is much closer in appearance to Rhythmbox than Amarok. https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/juk/

On the other hand I've not been having a lot of success maintaining JuK recently, but there's better-maintained apps like Tomahawk http://www.tomahawk-player.org/ and Cantata (https://code.google.com/p/cantata/, screenshots at http://i1-linux.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Cantata_2.p...)
>I'm pretty sure he was referring to the part of the article that mentions the folks on comp.lang.lisp who were discussing writing a competitor to Reddit in Lisp.

Yep, spot-on. It's the same with those guys who wanted to make a Facebook clone focused on privacy or whatever. Lots of talk and then you never hear about the project again.
A big part of transparency where there are legitimate purposes for secrecy is protection of whistle-blowers.
mh370 conspiracies
When was the last time your computer was CPU bound long enough for you to notice?

And it wasn't a bug or homework assignment or something involving NP?
There are some decent C++ web IDEs, like https://www.codebox.io/stack/c or https://koding.com

But what is the purpose of creating yet another Web IDE (for Go) if there are already many established open source solutions like Eclipse Orion? They could just add a Go code completion and a build service to it.
Since we're on the subject of floating-point numbers in Lisp/Scheme: https://wukix.com/lisp-decimals

This uses the Lisp ratio type in place of floats, to avoid the usual float issues.

ntoronto, any thoughts?
> What's bus factor?

The number of developers that can be suddenly and totally lost from a project (e.g., by being hit by a bus) without the project itself becoming unable to proceed effectively.
> Here in France the same principle prevailed: "better an ex-collaborator than a communist", with the difference that they were starving for managers (and it didn't go well for the resistants). So they didn't try an in-depth cleaning of the country which led to great disasters during the decolonization wars (tortures, mass executions, etc.)

How is that (French here)? Maurice Papon, the man you are talking about, was responsible for the brutal repression of the demonstration ordered by FLN, which lead to hundred of dead people. However, given the climate at the time, it's not obvious that a different man in the same position wouldn't have acted the same way. As for claiming that the French army tortured in Indochina and Algeria due to a lack of denazification, that's plain silly. Many of the soldiers who took an active role in these crimes were former resistants (like Massu and Aussaresses).
Or, you know, paying for tethering.
My car insurance is 10% cheaper due to keeping my car in a residential parking area as opposed to in my garage! My best guess for the reason - aside from that the statistics say the risk doesn't require a higher premium - being a person, I want a proper reason ;) - is that on average a garage affords a thief more privacy and gives them (compared to on-street parking) a good idea which house to look in.

(The funny thing is, my parking spot is numbered. But they never asked me about that.)
Interesting!

Just three more little things:

- Do you document using Marginalia or something similar (perhaps lein-midje-doc)?

- Since you do a lot of REST, have you ever considered Liberator?

- Regarding Clojure books, I've found Clojure in Small Pieces quite interesting---but far from complete
Corruption.

http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/06/06/study-corrupt-states-s...

"According to research published in the journal Public Administration Review, states with higher levels of public corruption spend more money on highways and construction. The study found highway and construction projects and police programs provide the most opportunities for lawmakers to enrich themselves, according to Governing Magazine, and are positively correlated with state levels of corruption. Meanwhile, highly corrupt states also spend relatively less on health, education, and welfare — categories that were less susceptible to graft and bribery, the report found."
Forget it and move on with your life?
No, for closed source distribution. Commercial can be open or closed source. GPL does not prohibit commercial use, it prohibits not sharing source under same free terms.
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Psychiatry/Psychology > schizophrenia drug treatment though. Whitaker has some points, especially about the way that companies push drugs on people, but his book would have benefited from both a broader look at drug treatment for mental illnesses, plural, and a more nuanced discussion of the specifics of treatment.

He also was really quick to take correlation and imply causation. Like you do when you talk about the common thread of schizophrenics in the developed world vs the developing world. You could just as well argue that the difference is clean drinking water, or any other number of things.
The graph is a lie
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I like the idea -- sure wish I could try it. It hasn't worked since the original submission for me.

I have a feeling I'm a hater.
The paper's main problem is that they have to second guess all of Intel and AMD's design decisions. And it looks like they got some important things wrong, which makes their conclusions suspect.

For instance they claim an ADD mem, reg instruction would be translated into three 3 uops. This is definitely not the case, x86 chips can do a load+arith_op or a store+arith_op in the same uop. The reason they need to do this is because the old x86 (in the pre-AMD64 days) had only 8 registers so spills were very common and so loads and stores were very frequently executed, much more so than in RISC code. This meant that getting maximum performance out of the memory subsystem was very critical for x86. I remember an AMD chief architect telling me that the hardest part of building a performant x86 core is getting the memory subsystem right.

Anyway, back to the paper, I'm not terribly impressed. The uops/instruction number looks bogus. I remember those numbers being very close 1. The cycles per uop of 0.37 seems wildly optimistic. I remember numbers closer to 1.

My only caveat is that my experience working on x86 is from about 3-4 years ago. Maybe things were very different in 2000, but I doubt it.
Wandering Intelligence
Nest to build out IoT with acquisition of Revolv's home hub engineering team
You're just attacking strawmen. Where did I say the cost of the chair is the determining factor? Where did I say that improving high school conditions would just universally eradicate bad behavior in adolescents? You've made up all this. Go re-read my first post which offended you so and see if you can find any of that in there.

You were upset to some degree that I mentioned an $800 chair and you seemingly won't let go of that even in the face of the broader context of what I clearly meant. All I ever said is that really bad classroom conditions do play a role. You agree with that even, but are still fighting back against an imaginary opponent.

And in my experience, yes, even call centers have more comfortable seats and desks than the typical high school classroom. I certainly didn't always have a full square meter of desk space in high school.
The next step for IoT in the home will enable devices from different manufacturers to communicate with each other.

Spending $3.2 billion for Nest in January, followed by a $555 million buyout of Dropcam in June and last week's acquisition of Revlov for an undisclosed amount, Google is moving quickly into the home Internet of Things (IoT) market.
Too lazy, but you can just google "miller magic number" and it explains to you that we can remember 7 +- 2 elements at the same time and discusses a few implications, such as phone numbers having 7 digits.
Whoa whoa whoa! Now we're getting deep into what used to be called "Kremlinology". Back in the depths of the Cold War (and even today, from North Korea) the Soviet government would issue "news" that was blatantly untrue manure, and nothing else. So people would try to divine real meaning from arcane aspects of the untrue manure.

If they need to "make favorable information disclosures without it seeming official", and they need to improve their image without appearing to be "soft on crime", they should just say so, rather than making unofficial official statements and jumping through flaming semantics hoops like linguistic circus lions. We know those TLAs are rogue, but if we need to apply Kremlinology to understand them, they've lost their moral and linguistic anchors as well.
My preference is a bit outside the mainstream, in that I don't agree that the trial should have happened in the first place. I've never seen Microsoft beat anyone in the marketplace who didn't deserve it. Like Google and Apple, they were lucky to have some of the least-competent competition in the history of business. When those competitors proved inept at defeating Microsoft in the marketplace, they went whining to the DoJ.

I believe that any other consumer-friendly OS, if exposed to the same critical scrutiny that Windows faced, would have fared just as badly in the quality and security areas where Windows has traditionally taken most of its bashing. Windows didn't win over OS/2, MacOS, and Linux because of any skulduggery on Bill Gates's part (and yes, I agree, there was plenty of legitimate skulduggery to accuse Microsoft of perpetrating.) It won because the others sucked even more.

Moreover, I believe that the network effects that arose from the dominance of Windows were far more beneficial than the sort of meaningless competition that prevailed in earlier personal computing eras, where everyone was selling proprietary hardware and OSes that were just different enough from everyone else's to make life annoying and expensive for independent developers. Modern mobile developers don't know how lucky they are that they only have to target two 800-pound gorillas.

So I disagreed strongly with the DoJ's antitrust efforts, and would have even without the involvement of figures like Judge Jackson whose legal talents would have been better spent adjudicating parking tickets. The whole process made me pretty cynical about antitrust actions and our legal system in general.
so, is that to say that hate can't add to a discussion? It can certainly detract, but I wouldn't be so quick to say that there are no benefits.
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I'll walk knee deep in their spit then. If they can make evil to me and get away with it - why won't they?

Hatred is like a spring - it will eventually go off. That's a mechanism of delayed defence.
New project from Apple and Google alumni aims to fix an annoying Android problem
https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop may be up your ally - a formal language designed to make this sort of thing doable..
considerably less than ended up in both the GDR and FDR police forces
Pretty fast. Can I do auto renew on CL with this extension?
That would be in the customer's best interest.
Yes, raw files have quite the dynamic range and the current generation of raw processors can really pull a lot of detail out of the shadows and highlights.

The strange black dots you find in the shadows are noise. Simple no data to produce any results.

The key part to in camera HDR is, automatic. No manually fixing your camera to tripod, copying them onto computer and the loading into software capable of HDR and finally manually processing them.
For me, that page is lagging like crazy (although other tabs work fine). Also, this is another good example of a headline that doesn't state anything about what the product actually does.

Going further down the page does make it more clear though.
Interesting, would it make sense to store/convert the trace in the CTF format[0]? Would the viewers from LTTng[1] be useful in analyzing this trace data?

[0] https://www.efficios.com/babeltrace
[1] http://lttng.org/files/lttv-doc/user_guide/c42.html#mainwind...
Except that leaks to the press as a way of trying to control a story (or to simply play bureaucratic knife fights) is a DC art as old as time. Such things happen in other countries including Russia, though the Kremlin promulgating "blatantly untrue" material isn't quite the same as leaking stories to the press...
They send tweets later.
Same here I swear a fucking lot in my posts, hopefully the swear word detector ranks me high.

I hope this site stays up, seems lot more fun to game than karma, or rather it would be more challenging to garner karma and HP (hate points).
Taco Bell Canada: https://mobile.twitter.com/TacoBellCanada

I'm almost vegan now, so I'm not their target market.
If you use table for layout, remember to also use

table-layout: fixed;

It will improve table behavior (content will no longer affect horizontal layout of the table) and performance, saving repaints, reflows and whatnots.
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It'd be nice to see the score on a post before you post it - it could keep me from doing something I'll regret.
Hey, are you guys hiring?
Related reading on why companies don't want to go public:
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/26/5837638/the-ipo-is-dying-marc-a...

In short, a couple factors have made IPOs less appealing:
1. More regulation and reporting requirements
2. Hyper short term investors

The first incurs great costs, and counterintuitively reduces transparency. The second drives heavy gaming of the market. You can't hold a company accountable to day to day events, you probably can't even hold them accountable to month to month growth, it's an unnecessary burden and short term predictability doesn't correlate to long term value growth.

As a result companies wait longer before going IPO, and individual investors (read: the 99%) are no longer able to invest in the growth stage of companies. The implications of this are interesting:
1. Rich get richer, poor can't. Retirement funds and the likes get no real returns.
2. Things like second market, the JOBS act and more will provide real alternatives to the public market. Extend this out 100 years, the IPO market becomes day to day gambling with 0 connection to real growth. People will write algorithms to play this game, and it will roughly be a zero sum game. Private unregulated markets will replace the public market once individuals have the freedom to invest. They'll look like public markets of the past where there wasn't rapid trading and there were less regulatory requirements.

As a company, I would much rather list on a private market where people were only allowed to buy and sell my stock once per quarter. You could design an auction system that allowed the price to be set based on how many shares were requested to be bought / sold (could be similar to the way IPO prices are originally set). I wouldn't have to deal with short term ebbs and flows of the market, and worries of cascading crashes due to day to day events and rumors. Instead I'd get to release a comprehensive quarterly report explaining how the company is doing and why people should buy into our growth, and give a gameplan for how we plan to deal with crisis. Someone should build this, and figure out a way to let individuals invest.
libpHash is actually quite slow for what it does. I spent a fair amount of time investigating image hashing algorithms a few years ago and at that time I saw 10-20x improvement over libpHash just by implementing the similar phash algorithm described in Neil K's blog.* With Puzzle being both slower and dramatically less accurate on my body of test images. Perceptual hashing can be surprisingly lightweight -- by the end of the experiment I was really just benchmarking image loading libraries. If speed is a concern you are probably better off foregoing these libs and writing the 2-3 dozen lines of code (really!) it takes to roll your own, or better yet implementing a comparable, even more lightweight algorithm like dhash.

* http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/529-Kin...

* The main difference being that libpHash applies a gaussian blur over the image, which can be made redundant by using a decent resampling algorithm.
> they've lost their moral and linguistic anchors as well.

Whoa whoa whoa, I thought the intelligence apparatus was a benevolent entity!
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I haven't been able to get good quality PDF output using the docbook based toolchain, as seems to be used in git-scribe. You can style the HTML output with css easily, and you can even get good looking math by including your LaTeX in a literal block, and use MathJAX in your HTML template to generate the math when the reader looks at it.

PDF however is a different story. Currently, docbook's PDF backends use dblatex or fop. Fop is more styleable out of the box, having many parameters you can set. However, fop doesn't support ligatures in the output, and has some issues with math typesetting. dblatex has better quality output, but the amount of configurability of the xml stylesheet is limited. In order to configure the output, you must write a LaTeX sty file, which is much more difficult than a css stylesheet.

A nice thing about docbook is it has xml stylesheets to transform to split page HTML and single page HTML.

Honestly though there's not really many alternatives. Texinfo can produce single page HTML, split HTML, and PDF, but offers very little PDF styling. If you want your output to look like a GNU Manual you are set, but even things like changing fonts are not supported.

Troff supports PDF, but even though there are some HTML backends, they are all pretty bad.

There are also some html-generators for LaTeX, but they aren't really that good either.

I think there is just too much of a gap between web and paper targets to be able to generate both in high quality from a single source. It may be possible, but it is difficult, and current tools are not able to do this.

honestly, I would love to be wrong about this conclusion, and if anyone knows of any other tools that can do this with good quality, please let me know.
Also that would mean training? Which is rather cumbersome here. Can you elaborate a little more ?
Hey, well it was obviously the right way for you all at the time. I was just surprised because I haven't seen execs interviewed that way, but my experience is heavily skewed towards very large companies. The more typical pattern I've seen has been (over a few weeks) an informal meeting, lunch/dinner then a few hours of in-house/panel interviews.
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Yes. It's not just good contact. It's about good electrical contact. For example, if the strap is dry, even if it's directly on the skin, it won't pick up a signal.

I suspect that this optical LED-based HRM tech is going to have its own problems. For example, if it has to sit close to a vein, and you move it slightly. Or if it has to be relatively tight on the wrist. Or if the LED's get dirty because of sweat.
Aircraft avionics are separated from the internet access on-board and must be manually accessed to be controlled or modified.
Do you have a car made in the last ten years?
Doesn't

table-layout: fixed;

help in Safari?
NY Times published very similar article 4 years ago by the same author.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html
Well, it sounds more like superorganism talk to me. The possibility of a superorganism "above" humanity doesn't seem to me to have any bearing on the development of AI "alongside" humanity...
Yes! I love this idea, can you make it go back further and have a leader board?
>Joining to fight a war of aggression is and willingly participating in it is.

Think of all the modern conflicts the US is in- If people actually voted on such things, they would happen less often. Nazi Germany quickly went from a "fighting mob" democracy to a "not really a democracy at all", proposing WWII was the choice of the average German citizen is nonsense. Even if your country is fighting a war you didn't support- you probably still want it to win...

>My Russian teacher was telling us a personal story how as a child she watch through a fence how German soldiers, raped and then dismembered her childhood friend.

And the Russians were just as bad later in the war... Are you claiming the Germans were especially brutal? This behavior has been the norm for solders for most of history- (Not saying its right, just saying it wasn't abnormal or unique).
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The Big Bang of Social Networking
according to todays evening standard range rovers are uninsurable in London unless you have secure off street parking
casting one-offs with a disposable form (wax, styrofoam) isn't particularly difficult or expensive. They use big basins full of super-fine sand: a great insulator and the grains are too tightly packed for the liquid metal to flow into the tiny spaces between them. We used to do it in high school shop class.
The title is wrong. Ghost didn't increase their conversion rate by 1000%. They found a segment of their user base that converted 1000% more than another segment.

It is not included in this post whether the overall conversion rate actually improved substantially after the changes were made.
Yeah, you're providing checking account details, not credit card details. The system is intended to "cut out the middleman", where the middleman is those nasty credit card companies taking their cut of every sale.

Perhaps they'll start their own bank so you can open a checking account with CVS and use that account for your high risk CurrentC trading (NB: there's already an app on the iTunes App Store called Current C which is a currency conversion calculator).
yup, we will, thanks!
Except that these unofficial official leaks are now in the Sacred Homeland Security arena! Think of the children! Terrorist must not triumph! If you give them an inch they'll abuse a mile of it right into the ground!

Seriously, off the record stuff about unemployment statistics is one thing. Leaking stuff about drones and TSA and so forth is entirely another, or so we're told. Isn't James Risen in the doghouse over exactly that sort of thing?