skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Do you think that confusion comes from the fact that commit history (to not say 'time') is represented vertically (and sometime going upward and sometime downward)?
No, that's not correct. This is MUCH MUCH slower than RAM.

You would not use this to replace RAM, but rather have a second section of memory for persistent data.
The answer is obviously yes, Google for "Peripheral nerve stimulation", this is old stuff, any magnetic flux cause by the field changing or the person moving can generate a current, possibly with an enormous magnet high enough to be barely felt. I've occasionally wondered about those magnetic EMP bombs that are only semi-declassified, the superconducting rings, would it be possible to be close enough to feel the magnetic flux without being vaporized by the charge that sets it off? Probably not, but its interesting to think about.

Magnetic effects on biology suffer pretty badly from the same problems as radiation and RF. Terror / hatred of what isn't understood (which is usually a lot), lack of understanding about orders of magnitude, lack of understanding that being able to calculate something doesn't imply it means anything aka the astrological effect, binary thinking about safety and danger...

This is aside from the obvious physical dangers. I've ended up with band aids due to shattering magnets, luckily never anything worse.
I guess often the feeling of despair comes from working super hard but still looking at the jarring amount of work ahead. It's not required that you know an answer to everything and finish it all by tomorrow but it's a general sense of running in the desert searching for spots of water here and there, you are worried when you come across long stretches where theres not even a puddle of water and you begin to panic and start asking all sorts of questions like, maybe you've been walking in circles or you start seeing skeletons where those who have walked before you lie. You are getting thirsty but instead of resting you just keep pressing on because the anxiety is slowly setting in. Keep this up and suddenly you aren't able to move very far without considerable amount of effort. No water in sight.
Inhaling plant smoke is a bad thing

http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8446

>To assess the effect of reductions in air pollution from biomass smoke on daily mortality.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22302628

>The authors tracked changes in children's respiratory health during a wood stove intervention
By cutting out the part about speed you've grossly distorted the quote. Yes, people will hang on to lots of data. But for the vast majority of files there is absolutely no need to access them faster then, oh let's say 1gbps with 1ms latency.

I'm sure people will find something to do with it but I'm having a very hard time thinking of situations where you want massive amounts of RAM and also need to be very power conscious or wary of power loss. Certain types of database, perhaps? I wouldn't imagine HPC worries much about power loss. Video game textures don't need to be nonvolatile.

For most purposes you can keep shoving in DRAM and SSDs until you have enough space.
You mean the bonus was 2000 not 200 right? I think 2000 is a nice gesture for two months in only. After all, most corporate jobs only do annual bonuses. If it was 200, then that is just laughable and the companies either is doing poorly or will be once its employees leave.

On the other hand your job has clearly shifted. Your discussion should be less about the bonus (given 2k) but rather your future role and its appropriate compensation. Choose the right time to bring it up. You may wish to wait for the bonus to pass, so they don't use it against you, and when you deliver a first prototype. That's when your value is obvious.
Mozilla has an add-on review process, "AMO". It's weak on privacy rules. I was just looking at the source code for DoNotTrackMePlus. It's in "all the code on one line" style. One wonders how that got through AMO. After some ed-obfusiciation, it's kind of scary. It can tell when you're typing in a credit card number, and tries to sell you their "credit card masking" service. The code encapsulates XMLHttpRequest in a function called "n", so it's hard to find all the places it phones home.

If you have DoNotTrackMePlus installed, I'd recommend un-installing it. Ghostery has a better reputation and fewer unwanted features.
Edit: I should read more throughly next time, we don't really seem to disagree at all. I thought I read that you said that these patterns were not interesting because they are not 'perfect'.

Original comment:

I've always thought what seems to be the direct opposite of what you do.

In the end every thing we know are incomplete internal models of external systems. E.g. We see a plant, and the image of the plant is stored in our minds, however the image of the plant is not _the_ plant, and may or may not perfectly resemble the plant.

What I'm trying to say is that I think it's pretty pointless to try and find 'perfect' patterns because our own storage system/recognition engine is less than perfect and that it's more fruitful to focus on those domains in which it's easy for us to see patterns, incomplete they may be. Like this very intriguing map of prime patterns.
But who would buy it?

Contra the article, I would argue that there's three reasons bottled water became popular:

1) Convenience: no need to tote an empty container around with you, or find one when you're thirsty

2) Status signaling: a.k.a. "tap water is what the proles drink"

3) Collapse of faith in the efficacy of collective action: the rise of Perrier was driven by sales in the US & UK, and occurred during the late '70s and early '80s, the same time as the rise of Reagan and Thatcher and the beginning of the era we live in now. Guarantees of the purity of tap water rested on the authority of government, which people had stopped believing in. The purity of bottled water rested on the authority of the Free Market™, which was more in fashion.

Empty bottle plus tap would be much better for the environment, and probably cost people less over time than bottled water does, but it fails in comparison on all three of those points. And since history shows these are the points people care about, the prospects of the concept don't seem bright; at least not without another major shift in society.
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It's getting better. SFO, for one, has long-neck water dispensers for filling your own bottle. I've found other airports often have something similar. Of course, you need to think ahead to actually BRING your empty bottle (or dump the water before security), because my first thought when packing is "oh, I can't take my Nalgene because they won't let the water through security". It takes an extra step to say "oh, wait, I can take it through EMPTY".

Of course, it also seems silly to pack a large empty container.

I'm more likely to use a disposable bottle if I'm going to an event, or I'm walking around a city all day as a tourist, and want to be able to ditch the bottle rather than carrying it around empty.

That said, I virtually never buy water, I dislike it on principle and only do so in special circumstances.
The docs are sparse. Can you briefly explain why this is awesome?

I actually use backbone and react right now and love it. I also thought flux was too much, so I'm very interested in a framework like this.
[OT/Pedantry] The shower faucet thing is caused by a large distance between the spigot (where the hot/cold mixing happens) and the shower head, not between the water heater and spigot.
FWIW: I get a vastly superior experience from Seattle utilities than Comcast or any number of other private services. About my worst complaint is that PSE (the local natural gas company) has a hokey early 2000s website with ugly visual design...but functional SSL and working autopay + email billing. Whenever I've had to call them to change service or what have you, I've spent less than five minutes getting a knowledgable human who isn't reading a script onto the phone. Seattle City Light is equally good; the trash pickup people have annoying timing but responsive customer service and extremely friendly workers. I've had one power outage in about four years (lightning strike to a distribution station.) As for rates, power and gas are fine. Trash I feel is a little high, but not unworkably so (and they're trying to incentivize me to compost and recycle more, both of which are free at the margin.)

Seattle city government is borderline incompetent, our bus system is collapsing due to union capture, we can't build roads or tunnels...but the utilities seem to work Just Fine. I'd be very happy if Seattle City Light ran fiber.

(This despite Seattle's incompetent city government trying to roll out municipal fiber and failing miserably. I just wonder what would have happened if the utilities had been in charge.)
I used to drink bottled water exclusively, mainly because I thought the taste was unambiguously better. However, three things got me to switch to using filtered tap water.

#1) having to carry multiple gallons from the store to the car to the house was getting to be a chore. given the amount of water of i drank, it was a headache. now that i've switched to filtered tap water, it's so much easier.

#2) i received a brochure from the local water municipality that documented all the steps that the water went through to be purified. It was way more involved than I thought. Plus, the purchased filter literature claims to remove impurities to several significant digits - post coming from the tap.

#3) it's cheaper overall. sure there's a fixed cost to buying a filter system, but once it's up and running, it pays for itself.
A Ponzi scheme is is where the operator pays returns to its investors out of the money brought in by new investors. That is not what is going on here.

TradeMore lends your money to borrowers who then pay the money back with interest. That is where the profit comes from.

If only 2 people use the system (1 lender and 1 borrower) the model still works. It does not depend on new investors to pay profits to previous investors.
Right. Also, the cost of computing has dropped so much in the last decade that running a social network without ads or tracking, such as Ello, is now possible. What we may see is a major social network that's like Craiglist - very cheap, a very small organization (30 people!), and very popular.

You can now beat "free with ads" on price. This is important.
I wasn't talking about the US in particular, I'm from Europe in fact.

I pretty much agree with all your points: surveillance overreach is unacceptable, police power abuse is disgusting, mandatory private health insurance is unethical (though the previous situation didn't exactly work either so I'm unsure that would be better), and I think almost all monopolies are the enemy of both free markets and social protection.

Fixing these things does not require libertarianism or socialism or whatelsehaveyouism. They need political pragmatism, courage and common sense.
I don't think anyone's banking on Dart unseating JS, and it doesn't need to. It compiles to JS to work across modern web browsers while smoothing a fair deal for you in the way of optimizations and cross-browser issues. But that's saying nothing of the real reason folks choose Dart, or JS or any transcompiler or framework for that matter: the ways in which it may benefit you and your projects, relative to your other choices.

In Dart's case relative to JS, I think the language is more sane, debugging easier, the core libraries really powerful, the tooling more uniform, and the ecosystem more organized. I like the idea of one language on client and server, and yet the way it's done in JS-land with Node feels wilder and less approachable than I liked when I researched it some years back. That's just me, and admittedly I don't have all that much experience in the world of JS before I dove into Dart.

There are some tradeoffs of course, the biggest being that you sort of block yourself off from a world of JS libraries and even community to some extent. There's dart:js interop to wrap any JS library, and work being done to make that even easier with js:interop, but I think there'll always be some disconnect. Still, it's about costs versus benefits, and there are many benefits that I think ultimately outweigh the costs.

The point is there are a whole host of reasons to choose Dart, and I think it's foolish for any one of those reasons to be because you think it'll unseat JS. It won't, but there might be merit to it unseating JS in your own workflow.
Vaping and smoking are two different experiences, and eating it is yet another. IMHO, in order to properly review a strain, all routes of ingestion should be analyzed.
FYI, the register form doesn't display for adblock plus users -- forms usually do, so this was quite confusing. It looked like you weren't accepting new users.
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Yes, things are generally only existent if they are either popular or good (or very new). There's git, and there's mercurial in the world of DVCS. Which is popular? Which is good?
A Typeface Designed to Help Dyslexics Read
See Sociology.

The model / metric forms the inference.
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Makes you think about the sheer amount of traffic. Incredible.
Is it interesting this is in class "decoded"?
It's why New York Pizza is so good, it's the minerals in the water.
If I wasn't expecting anything and I got $200 extra out of nowhere, I'd think that was strange, but whatever dinner on them. If I knew there was a quarterly bonus and the max was 4k and I got $200 I'd be very insulted.
He said anti-conformist, not non-conformist.
If it's so bad they can't give larger bonuses that $200, they should have skipped them all together. That's just insulting.
I've recall some prior attempts along these lines. This one is distinguished by having some research backing up its effectiveness:

Boer says that independent studies[1] from the University of Twente and the University of Amsterdam back up his claims that Dyslexie helps both children and adults with dyslexia to read faster and with fewer errors.

I wonder how far the typeface optimization approach can go towards helping dyslexics?

[1] http://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/dyslexia-font/research/
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Point 3 is confusing to me. In the U.S., government regulation of water quality got a lot stronger in the 1970s:

http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act

http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/index.cfm

Between that, advances in technology and the wider deployment of municipal water supplies, U.S. tap water is probably as clean and safe as it has ever been, at least since the beginning of the industrial era.
John! And with the Dart team no longer? Where are you now?
It's been sorta mentioned elsewhere on the thread, but there is another (IMO simpler) mathematical intuition behind 0:1 :: false:true that doesn't involve any lambda fundamentalism. It's the algebraic analogy disjunction:conjunction :: addition:multiplication :: union:intersection :: ... which also turns up pretty often in computing.

For instance, if you've got anything like regular expressions, then you've got something with a structure where the "unit" (trivial match) is an identity for sequencing, and the "zero" (failed match) is an identity for disjunction and a zero for sequencing. It's not exactly a formal argument for preferring booleans to loobeans, but a failed regex match sure feels like a "false" to me.

I don't doubt that it's not worth changing at this point, but don't throw the semiring baby out with the lambda bathwater.
No, shit like this isn't helping. You are talking out of your ass about something you clearly know nothing about.

Marijuana is as addictive as potatoes. The fact that you even mention heroin in your post shows you clearly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

Alcohol is way more addictive and dangerous than pot and we have a huge craft brewing and tasting culture in this country.

If you know absolutely nothing about a subject, for the love of god, please stop and think before you hit reply. You're not contributing at all by posting when you know nothing about the subject.
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Simply fill a jug of that heavily chlorinated water and put it in the fridge, all the chlorine will evaporate after few hours. You will get free, cold and good tasting water always available. No need for filter.
Debit cards work just fine.
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Not so fast, there are many fundamental issues in China and Chinese economy, this does not mean I am betting on its failure. There is a tendency in the opinion-markets we either declare a total victory (with centuries attributed) or complete debacle. Actually in terms of Population 21st century is Century of Africa and in terms of economic expansion, we still have 86 years to go.
And for hg it's:

> Push changesets from the local repository to the specified destination.

:s/changesets/objects
:s/local refs/local repository
:s/specified destination/remote refs

Is it really that much less easy? Both require that you understand the nomenclature chosen by their respective systems ('objects'/'changesets', 'refs'/'repository').
I didn't see your reply until today.

Thanks! I'll take a look at those books.

Any good links you could throw my way while we are at it?
I (who submitted of this article to HN) have this problem as well: on one hand, it's great that he's gotten rid of the tired trope of AI as and technology as a pathway to dystopia or of too-overt celebration of warfare that exists in a lot of military sci-fi.

I'll also post a limited defense of why most of Culture novels take place outside the Culture (note that first third of "Player of Games" is a pretty big exception to this): to paraphrase Banks quoting Niven, "stories about happy people are boring".

On the other hand, is the hypersadism needed? The levels are simply numbing, beyond gratuitous, so a few books on it simply fails to shock. On the other hand, Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" featured a much smaller amount of violence (as done by Emergents) it did happen to be realistic and managed to create great amount of empathy (at several points, I was close to simply putting the book down due to the bleak and hopeless situation of some of the characters) with the characters (who -- both humans and aliens -- seemed a lot more alien than culture's non-Homo Sapiens Pan-Humans). Of course comparing "hard SF" to Banks is quite a stretch, but the "non-alien aliens" and "hypersadism" aspects subtracted rather than added to Banks.

On the other hand, Banks' manages to do what very few can: the characters are great, multidimensional, and show development; the big ideas are big, and yet story-telling and plot aren't sacrificed. There are very few other SF writers who are able to do this (Gene Wolfe, Stan Robinson come to mind).

I'm going to stay out of the discussion of libertarianism (there's a corollary to Godwin's law: unless a certain German leader -- not Frederich the Great or Angela Merkel -- is mentioned first, any online conversation will ultimately end up becoming a debate about libertarianism), but I'll leave these few links out there:

http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/15/the-endless-lives-of-i... (a positive libertarian review of Banks' work, which acknowledges Banks' explicit rejection of libertarianism)

http://a.b.i-b.tripod.com/html/faq_text.htm -- see the question about "Top Ten" SF novels according to Banks, the first is quite explicitly libertarian "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (there's debate as to whether Heinlein himself was a libertarian, but it's undeniable that at least some of his works are libertarian fiction; OTOH "Beyond the Horizon" is quite Culture-ish in terms of describing a post-scarcity society).

There's also "The Dispossesed" amongst those books which describes an non-property owning anarchist society ( I haven't read it, although it's on my list). For an example of very well written anarcho-capitalist SF, I strongly recommend Vinge's The Peace War, The Ungoverned, and Marooned in Realtime. The Ungoverned goes as far as describe private ownership of nuclear weapons, and yet the novels/novellas avoid the "shill political screed" feel some of the other explicitly "libertarian SF" works have.
A container? Like a coffee cup? Were do you work, that doesn't have running water? (And no toilets, I presume?)
At their base level both have similarities: Expressing and parsing the world in a funny language.

But seriously, there's a lot of math in programming that we wouldn't even consider to be "math" in the general sense.
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I'm having a hard time imagining when this would be preferable to SVG text.
Your division signs got parsed as italic typesetting.
Groupon is doing the right thing here, but probably only because it's also the smart thing.
So you are, in essence, guaranteeing every loan on your service (excluding the usual acts of god and stuff)? Assuming that all goes well, where does the extra 5% come from? As I understand it, the return on a loan is usually a function of the risk attached to it, and you seem to be saying that your loans are risk free...
This is sort of the opposite of the RAM-based battery backed drives [1]. I can see this being immediately useful for things like large database servers: instead of re-priming caches on reboots you just have them already warmed up. You can also suddenly have a whole lot more "RAM" at the cost of its speed.

I do have a hard time picturing what this will look like if it was as fast as traditional RAM. If I can store everything in RAM, from the OS binaries, to the running processes, it certainly has a kind of elegance to it. Lots of microcontrollers already act this way: all your hardware has an address in a single address space, be at a hardware port, ROM, RAM, NVRAM, etc. However, I wonder how the modern UNIX OS will work with a system like this without block devices at all. I wonder if what it'd do is actually just use RAM disks, and years from now we'll still be doing this the way we do double emulation of the TTY. That'd be kind of sad since it means we can never get away from the concept of old block devices.

On the other hand it's damn convenient to be able to just append to a file and not have to worry about reallocating it. This means that perhaps all we'd need is a filesystem that's designed to work over RAM rather than over block devices.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM
Interesting, what filter did you use? For simple taste filtering I've used a Brita pitcher with its built in filter, at home I installed a reverse osmosis system that feeds into a silica (sand) filter and an activated charcoal filter. The house one is a bit larger so that it can filter tap water and water that goes to the ice maker in the freezer (the refrigerator has its own filter which on top of the house filter gets replaced every 3 - 4 years).

The reason I've gone to some 'extremes' is that in earthquake country the house filter can do double duty for making drinkable water out of pretty much anything that might get into it after an earthquake.

My experience though has been that pretty much a basic charcoal filter like the Brita gets rid of taste issues pretty effectively.
I'm referring to public perception, not facts.

The environmental wave that was symbolized by the first Earth Day resulted in lots of environmental policy improvements in the US by the end of the '70s. But by the time those policy improvements happened, public sentiment had turned away from collective action towards private, market-based action.

Remember, laws lag public opinion, they don't lead it. So the laws that pass today are responses to public opinion as it stood at some point in the past.
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