skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't give a lot of detail to work with, but my best stab in the dark is that in X by default the font renderer will sometimes use bitmap fonts (and stretch them) when what you really want are vector fonts. You can edit fonts.conf to avoid this, if you like. (Unfortunately, I'm booted into Windows at the moment so I can't copy and paste my configuration.)

Or perhaps you've got something else going on entirely. It's hard to say from your post.
Alternatively setup your own free mailserver.

Its always been a puzzle to me why so many people just don't own their own mailserver, just like you "own" your mail box at your property.

You can use spamassasin which is as good as they come. Problem solved.
OTOH, plenty of people go through tough life situations without suffering mental breakdowns.

I think it's more complicated than a simple either-or proposition.
Well, for some X there's always a base-2^X encoding you could use. If you can find 512 swears, you could do base-512. You don't actually have to do a base-2^X encoding, but that's more convenient as it means you're encoding X bits with each "digit".

But yeah, I'm not sure there are that many recognisable swear words in English. Unless you count massive compounds, but now all your words are really long, so you haven't gained anything.
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On a per prescription basis acetaminophen plus hydrocodone is the top selling drug.
How about an 18th century machine that performs
Fourier analysis? A violin!

Also it has a really good numerical approximation
of 2^(7/12).

Why? A violin has 4 strings. The lowest string
in frequency is the G, the first G below
middle C on a piano. The other three strings
are, left to right to the player,
D, A, and E. Each adjacent pair of strings differ in
frequency by a musical perfect fifth
so that, three times the frequency of the
lower string in the pair is the same as two
times the frequency of the higher string in
the pair. So, as move across the strings from
G to D, A, and E, at each step are multiplying
frequency by 3/2 which, then, must be, and is,
a nicely good approximation to 2^(7/12) which
is essentially what a piano is forced to do
for those notes.

A lot in violin playing is from listening to
harmonics, that is, overtones, that is
Fourier analysis.

Also that each string has a natural frequency
of vibration is essentially a Fourier point.

But, wait, there's more, and much earlier!
Newton ran a beam of white light through
a prism which is a Fourier analysis --
essentially
a power spectrum via Fourier transform.
Then Newton was smart enough (uh, he was
a bright guy) to use a second prism and
show that the individual colors could not
be further decomposed. So, somehow the first
prism did some fundamental decomposition.

Also, some armies knew that soldiers walking
across a bridge should not march in step.
Why? Because a Fourier analysis of the bridge
might show that frequency of the marching
was a natural frequency of the bridge and
could cause large amplitude motions of the
bridge, failure of the bridge, and the army
to fall into
the water below.

The main parts of the human ear do a Fourier
analysis.

X-ray diffraction is essentially 3D Fourier
analysis.
It seems to me that the only two features I can't get in my modern bash is completion of the kind cd /firstletters/firstletters/<tab> ==> /fullname/fullname and the keyboard navigable menus.
Maybe I want to actually recieve email?
I agree, but Turing was pardoned and it was not universally applied: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315
I could see the US Navy be interested in this technology.

You would be unable to tell an encrypted message from normal discourse with a sailor.
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It was a shock for me to have worked in the US for a few years, and slowly realize that I was in the distinct minority in my circle of friends in not taking any medications consistently (I'm in my thirties). Made me think of Brave New World.
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It's a research project so it produces experience and, well, research that can be useful to commercial enterprises. Lots of companies have an interest in making dynamic languages faster.

The project does have a secondary goal be a useful hobbyist platform and is making progress on that front.

(disclaimer: I'm a minor contributor.)
Maybe this has changed recently, but last time I checked there was no self-hosted email client that even came close to the great UI that Gmail offers.
> I don't see how they are supported on the surface

I can't speak for how these specifically were positioned, but in general I don't see a problem with it. It looks like they're supported by gravity, and under vacuum the surfaces are likely going to be 'sticky' anyway due to electrostatic forces. As for the positioning, micromanipulators are common in electron microscopes and should be capable of it, though they're usually used for different purposes!
Would you consider Aldi's to not be a real supermarket? We have one in my neighborhood in MA and you can find passably good produce there. It's certainly not as nice of an experience as the Whole Foods, but you still find organics there.

Calling an area that has an Aldi a "food desert" doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
I have been working with my employer to use our lobbying resources to push net neutrality. It took me months of work to even get it started. Getting the company to take a stance publicly would be years of work.

What they are doing right now is nothing short of monumental in a large corporate environment where the same telecoms you are opposing may be your customers, suppliers, or partners.
We are not "as good as" whites

Well, in some key ways (at least for tech) Asians are better - e.g. a +0.5 SD average IQ boost really helps for the cognitive and analytical challenges that are commonly encountered in the tech/programming worlds.
Never thought I would stick up for Whole Foods, but their
price on the basics(milk, butter, some bread, flour) is
cheaper/same price than Safeway. Their bulk food section
is overpriced. I'm not sure why they overprice the bulk
foods; I think they figure we can't do the math? Examlpe:
Lumberg rice is cheaper than WF bulk rice? If anyone from
Whole Foods reads this, and I imagine everyone of these
posts are going to be dissected my management--get rid of
the Security Guards. If you are that conserved about theft,
use undercover guards.
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Nov 10 - Private equity firm Trading System Algos (TSA) has agreed to acquire X Trading Algorithms (XTA), which is located in Tokyo, Japan, for close to $236 million, 30% of the company would be delivered as stock shares and another 50,000 long term options, according to people familiar with the matter.
The software’s founders and employees will also be granted $23.7 million restricted stock that they won't have access to for four years after the deal closes.
European Union regulators approved the deal on Thursday, clearing the way for the acquisition.
The unique tool that was developed by X Trading Algorithms (XTA) was developed by a group of 4 members.
It started as an idea to take advantage of different prices in the financial markets. The tool was measured on one of the largest trading companies Byrix.com (Online Trading Company) and it showed accuracy of close to 86% on all the trades that were made on Byrix.com
'The acquisition supports Trading System Algos (TSA) and X Trading Algorithms (XTA) shared mission to bring more efficiency and accuracy to the trading world, by delivering cutting edge arbitrage tool that can predict market prices into the future.
The combination of Trading System Algos (TSA) and X Trading Algorithms (XTA) will allow traders to trade in a better and more secured environment.
Alan Jeremiah C.E.O of Trading System & Algos (TSA) said. “We want to develop stabilized environment of investors just like the biggest banks in the world.”
Saburou Katashi Nakahara Chief Executive of X Trading Algorithms (XTA) “we are happy to provide secured world for traders around the world. We are proud that we managed to create such a magnificent tool.”
Marco Waldemar C.T.O of Byrix.com “We feel honored to take part in changing the world of investors and traders. Our mission is to change the world of traders and investors in all ages. With interests rates at all-time low this is the time to start and look for better investments.
This is what I meant [1]. It seems that only a few Australian companies do this for external parties for about $1,500/genome. I'm tired of waiting for the price to get down and to be offered publicly - is it possible to do personal sequencing somewhere in the US below $2,000? Is there another way? I don't mind donating my genome if there are ways to get this cheaper (or free) and do more if necessary.

[1] http://systems.illumina.com/systems/hiseq-x-sequencing-syste...
I wonder if the increase in the percentage of citation to older articles is related to the overall access situation getting better, though? Not that long ago, >10 yr old scientific articles were often quite difficult to access: shunted into "old journal" paper archives somewhere in a basement, from which they had to be specially requested. The library shelves typically only held 5-10 years of recent journal issues, and digitization efforts (at least in science) typically started with only the recent issues as well. To make matters worse, the old issues were rarely full-text indexed, so you might never even discover something relevant existed in the first place, much less try to access it. Nowadays an article from 1965 might randomly come up in a Google Scholar search, which was not the case in, say, 2002.

A more speculative hypothesis: this relates to the general "flattening" of the literature, as people relate to it more via search and less via subscriptions. People no longer really read journals as periodicals, or even use a specific journal's index as a search aid, but rather search entire archives for things. So it now matters less not only where something was published, but also when it was published.
Thank you. I am fascinated by food businesses (so I appreciate the insights) and by food eating (so I asked where I can try it.)
Let's Play a Game: “Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?”
Actually, that IS planned.
Same. I generally trust the FCC to be stupid rather than (as ISPs are right now) actively malicious.
Actually it's because I realized that I could make three quarters of the money while working less than half the time :) I'll never be rich, but I'll always have time to tinker and do a bit of volunteer work. Also, no commuting, that's a good 10 hours a week I'm gaining for myself right there.
Isn't Gmail's UI overrated? What's wrong with Mail.app? It doesn't have Gmail's horrendous new Compose UI, and it has threading.
Relax people this was satire. Perhaps I should seek some other form of commentary. Good to see a backlash I guess. FYI I have lived in a police state.
Yes and as per the article and my own experience that's especially true when you think about going into food & beverages as it's the complete opposite of what it feels like being a customer - you have to love it (never-ending, physically and psychologically hard work) there really is no other way.

Edit: I enjoyed Peter Thiel's "Competition is For Losers" as it pretty much sums up what is wrong with this industry from a business perspective - http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec05/
This was a satirical comment. I have lived in a police state. I should look for other forms of commentary it seems.
Mirror Deployment
You could generate a Markov chain from your own emails to make it seem like you and perhaps be more consistent (single author).

But this'd mean you'd need to share the dictionary somehow, and you might accidentally expose sensitive information in the Markov chains.
Fiction is dangerous because it has an overly powerful way to change thoughts as it isn't constrained by what's true.

This is a fundamental feature of language. Fiction is a feature of words. Story is the very basis of a technologically aggregating culture like ours. We describe things that do not exist, so that we may build them.
I would strongly prefer a path that allows a competitive market to emerge.
Obligatory Rust comment: Rust's type system relates allocation to variable lifetime in such a way that garbage collection is not needed, and almost all deallocation is deterministic, and yet safe.

Rust is still in flux, and its documentation is a bit all over the place, but here are some references:

http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide-lifetimes.html

http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/03/18/an-overview-of-mem... (warning: contains old syntax and defunct features!)
I get this with higher-kinded types. The concept seems pretty straightforward to me, but go and read any explanation of it and it seems like someone got a bulk discount on asterisks.
I'm not a sysadmin, but I'm a software engineer generally pretty comfortable doing ops stuff...and I'm pretty daunted by the thought of running my own email server. Beyond the setup(1), which isn't child's play, there's ongoing maintenance, possible issues with deliverability, security concerns, availability concerns (what if my server goes down while I'm off the grid on vacation and all my emails bounce for a week?). Basically it's an awful lot of effort for...not much reward, in my opinion.

1. http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/
The claimed stat seems more ambiguous to me on which of those possibilities is the case. It's specifically citations to old papers that are increasing. That is the original old papers, not just their results. Citing old results "updated" or "collected", in e.g. a modern textbook or survey article is one thing, and could more plausibly be divorced from the history of science. But if people are really reading (vs. just blindly citing, which may be the case) old scientific papers, that seems more to me like the history of science, in at least a somewhat broader sense, is poking its way into modern science more significantly than it used to.

When you read the original papers, they come along with their whole historical era, all the way down to the quirks of language, notation, problem framing, epistemological assumptions, etc. You even, sometimes, need to know something about the history-of-science as a field to correctly read and interpret a paper from a different era, which you probably want to do if you are really citing it for significant content. (Admittedly, a lot of the citations are probably throwaway cites to old papers the authors haven't themselves read, along the lines of "This was first studied in 1927 [1]". In that case someone still needs to do some history-of-science work to read this 1927 paper and characterize it accurately as "first" to study some problem... but that work might be done by someone else.)
Fields generally doesn't start - they branch off as a specialization of something else. So no, there will be no 0 % unless you go really far back.
I don't understand how that would work. The video gives a great explanation of analysis, which is that you are given an arbitrary waveform, and need to decompose it into it's component sines or cosines. Even with your description, I can't see how a violin would accomplish that.
Let's start with ISPs can't manipulate any data in layers over IP. Seems like the majority already fails that very, very simple requirement to a communications provider.
Ha. This is why I use Energizer lithiums.
Sounds like they're trying to desperately raise before bitcoin investment dies down...and they might be too late already.
You need to scale your business up.

Whatever thing you're selling, it's obviously good, and people like and want it.

I don't know if you care for my advice, but that's what I would start with:

* Website, a very simple one where one can order your stuff, wholesale and small amounts (priced differently). This kind of thing doesn't require any coding these days.

* Automate as much as you can.

* Make sure you learn how much you make per hour, because this will pay for the salary of the person doing what you're doing.

* It sounds like you're close to being maxed out, and your only options are A) Raise prices B) Expand. I would try both.

* When you know how much you can pay, start expanding. Hire people, one at a time.
yes, originally I was thinking 256. Unfortunately it's difficult to reach 256 without adding hate/vitrol/racist language
I'm guessing the paper was submitted to PLDI or POPL (wordpress is blocked here, so I can't read the context), the tier one PL conferences. The communities are not adversarial so much as they are enamored with science. I think from that perspective, rejection is understandable: they want more numbers and comparisons, and might accept the paper even if these numbers are not very enlightening (call it going through the motions). You also don't get many points just for wild experimentation.

For the same reason, many of the papers accepted seem very incremental and disappointing from a "new idea" perspective; and once you get the paper in, you have to go to the conference (I'm not a PLDI/POPL person)! One can always publish in a "new idea" PL conference (like my personal choice, Onward!, and there is even a new one called SNAPL from the people that brought us PLDI and POPL), but the points you get for publishing at those venues aren't as much as the true technical conferences (I don't care, since I have a job, but for a grad student, its a big deal).

My advice would be to suck it up and write a good PLDI paper. Be very thorough and honest with numbers and comparisons, and try to do it "right" (no pointless numbers that don't contribute to the story even if they might "work"). Then with a little bit of luck in PC reviewer selection (most PLDI reviewers are reasonable, some are not), the paper would probably get in. And if they do it right, it could be a really good paper that are lacking these days. Actually, that is another point: sometimes rejection is good, because the paper that gets in later is much much better. Patience.
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Thanks! Semi-transparent and one-eye would be tiring. Fixing them (two-eyes + removable patches) would be a different product, almost an occulus. But it's helpful to see the keyboard...

I go bicycle touring, and a heads-up map while cycling would be convenient. Plus, it would require less room to use in a small tent/bivvy bag.
The problem is in a lot of places when someone retires they are not replaced and the workload is then spread across the remaining staff. In the seven years I was a academic every time someone retired my workload went up. When I finally resigned my position was not filled. Of course my former employer managed to find the resources to hire dozens of new senior administrators.
Ah, I see the problem. An awful lot of profanities are ethnic/racial/other minority slurs.

Perhaps some foreign-language and more obscure (dialectal?) English swear words could be used? With crowd-sourcing I'm sure we could reach 256.
> In reality, any code beyond trivial complexity will benefit much more greatly from algebraic rectification, which can only be done with certain languages that are amenable to formal analysis

What exactly is "algebraic rectification"?

While it is generally true that having a formal semantics aids greatly in analysis, it is worth noting that a very large amount of program analysis work is targetted towards C. (And mind you, flexible, high level languages bring with it their own troubles. Analysis in the presence of higher order functions is not a panacea at all)
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--disable-shared
as it was, I needed to make a call for swears and look up some different dictionaries to fill up this project

People are somewhat reluctant to share their profanity on GitHub
I don't think the Ford Foundation has had much affiliation with Ford Motor Company for decades.
Not everyone measures the success of their business by its size.
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I'm not convinced either, it looks like something Intel or IBM would brag about and yet it's just some artistic venture ...

Someone just learned how to play with Maxwell Render. I call hoax.
This is correct. Explicit/per vertex subdivision weights are basically never used in high end CG. Geometric detail is used, since it is simple and universal. Geometry density is no longer a significant factor in interactivity and not the most significant factor in rendering.
Make that call here and now on Hacker News, while this still has attention and is on the front page, and I'm sure you'll get contributions!

I suggest putting at the top-level of this comments section, so it gets more attention.
it's OSS...
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k thanks!
Some time ago I played a bit with elm and made this: http://share-elm.com/sprout/5467ef7de4b00800031feadf, not a simulation of course but the effect it's nice.
It's cool to see an actual simulation, now. Well done.
Considering the low-and-slow technique of a lot of smoked / bbq meats, it's actually really hard to dry out most meats because few of them are lean (chicken breast is notorious for drying out, even with the low-and-slow approach).

You can keep things "warm" without keeping them under lights - a lower heat ( < 100F ) can keep beef and pork plenty moist.
Love the nice informative website.

However:

[1] https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/zookeeper.html

This did not unequivocally convince me in the benefits over ZooKeeper. On the contrary, it makes it seems that ZooKeeper tries to do less, and I strongly prefer simpler tools.

[2] http://aphyr.com/posts/316-call-me-maybe-etcd-and-consul

Have the issues discussed in this article been fully addressed yet?

Overall, can you outline a use case where Consul is definitely better than ZooKeeper?
I actually saw an undercover sting (not federal) in progress once. It was late at night in a small town in rural New Mexico. The town had two convenience stores.

I was passing through and stopped at one of the stores to buy a soda and the police were parked on the side with a kid that looked about 17 years old. They were prepping him on what to say. So, I walk in the store and the kid walked in behind me. He went straight to the back, looked at the soda coolers then asked the lady... "Hey, where's the beer?" Her response was "We don't sell alcohol at this store". So he left and I started laughing. The clerk asked what was so funny and I told her. She immediately called her friend at the other convenience store in town warning of the impending sting.

I imagine some of the federal stings are about as professional. But maybe some are better run.
Not everyone here uses Macs, and Thunderbird is, while an excellent mailclient, no match for the Gmail UI when on the road (e.g. internet cafe, a friend's computer)...
Cryptonomicon, it's by FAR the best I've read!

EDIT: Come to think of it, I don't know is in the right category as Sci/fi. Well if not cryptonomicon, then SnowCrash probably :-P
"The standardized United States Product Insert says Abilify's method of action is "unknown" but it likely "balances" brain's neurotransmitters."

The whole neurotransmitter imbalance hypothesis is itself not proven for Abilify or any other anti-depression drug (like SSRIs). At best, it is a guess since there is no way to measure levels of neurotransmitters in live subjects. At worst it is a lie. Regardless, the method of action is irrelevant if medicines work, but considering the efficacy of such drugs (not very good) and their frequency of prescription (very high) it's not surprising that the medical industry would work so hard to push an unproven theory as fact simply to sell more drugs.
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Yeah, unfortunately there is a dearth of decent email clients. :(
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