skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually already been scared by it, investigated it, and dismissed it (you can't remember sleeping because you're not forming memories, not because you cease to exist). But it was interesting to see the idea phrased so succinctly.
It's not about the size. It's about making more money and working less (or almost not at all)
CAP Should Be CLAP
The parent comment is probably referring to wording that says that "lawful" or "legal" content should not be blocked. The argument seems to be that the definition of "lawful" or "legal" will be stretched as appropriate to make whatever ISPs or the government wants to block "unlawful" or "illegal", like, say, Wikileaks.
It's been very long since those reviews actually took 2 weeks. It's 5 days now http://appreviewtimes.com

And it's really a super easy process, I'm sure that speed/ease of development and team experience is the major deciding factor.

Plus, in this particular case, I can imagine that iOS uses are more interested in luxury watches.
dollar-store version of Trader Joe's

The family resemblance is to be expected since the two brands are the result of feuding brothers splitting their family business:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/12/02/aldi_grocery_...
The Ice-Bucket Racket
Thanks! No rate limiting - I've signed a contract with M-W allowing unlimited use for 1 year for $XXXX. You can check out the their API at http://dictionaryapi.com/. I use https://github.com/gniquil/mw_dictionary_api to access their API, and haven't had many issues.
What I understand of the project is that the Lanterns(the data receivers, which you can make yourself apparently http://outernet-project.github.io/orx-install/) store data received from the satellites on a daily basis. The information, which is voted by global citizens, is stored on it wherever you are on Earth, so you can access to sites like Wikipedia even if you are lost in the wood, for instance. But the goal of the project is not to make money but to give the opportunity to population of countries like China and North Korea (and many others) to access information otherwise censored in their country. So yeah, it's similar to a global radio broadcast.
FTL signaling is possible and doesn't break geometry of the universe because the signal doesn't travel through anywhere in the first place. It uses entanglement which connects two places in a "spooky" way, teleporting information.
They've already teleported information, you can google it.
The Feds Are Funneling Phone Data Through Fake Cellular Sites in the Sky
Apple's A8X Chip Causing Big Problems for Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung and Nvidia
I have not developed with salesforce and this is the first time that I am reading about their database. But it looks to me that you can implement what they are doing with orient db. It has fluid schema, "objects" and an sql like query syntax.

https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb

All of the good stuff is in the wiki :)
I still don't get it. Who is currently experiencing the problems that the proposals for net neutrality aim to solve?
Chart.io et al are awesome. But all of them are extremely expensive. Chart.io for example starts at $1000 per month and periscope.io starts at $300 per month.

It is frankly not very affordable for a bootstrapped startup.

My questions are how easy is it to host this thing. (It would be perfect if someone makes a deploy to heroku button so that we can just do this in one click)
Does this allow Joins and Subqueries?
It's a JIT compiler that generates x86-64 machine code
Why are you all in on this?

The problem w/ all of the proposals from Obama is that when you get into the details, they hinge around traffic that is "illegal". No Snowden disclosures, no wikileaks. If you distill the proposal to it's basics, it has very little to do with the kinds of functionality that people think they are fighting for.
A large percentage of the people there are there on a court order. Rape victims are potentially in the same groups as convicted rapists and murderers. These are not happy places for finding and maintaining well-being; they are chaotic hellholes. If you lose your sense of self in there, all you have left are labels of insanity reflecting back at you to tell you who you are. You can call that person a client, but they are still a psychotic, borderline, {etc} client, whom can be drugged, physically restrained, and held against their will.

That said, I'm sure there exist people who don't experience that. But that doesn't imply that it does not happen.

You have no idea about the level of conflicting messages you receive in these places. The advice is so diluted that it can't be practically applied, it only describes very generally the way the mind functions when it is operating at an average baseline. It doesn't mean it creates mental stability. These places run on belief systems, not science.

I am absolutely certain this is one side of a coin. On the other hand, these are difficult, systemic issues for which places like this serve as a sinkhole for. The people who work there have to deal with this every day, and I'm sure many of them are trying their best and are not abusing the power and authority they have been given over the lives of other people. But that doesn't mean it can't be improved, and it doesn't mean it doesn't warrant a real, socially active and involved discussion.
This is amazing technology, I'm excited for it to actually come to photo editing/manipulation. Sometimes I wish the programming world and academic world intersected more to solve problems.
Have photocamera and shoot cars? Here's nice tool to become famous
Same reason for Red aswell as for Rebol. There are many more primitive/literals like that, tuple! [1] for example is used to represent RGB colors (255.0.255), ipv4 addresses (192.168.0.1) or even version numbers (2.7.8). Time/Date [2][3] also are basic datatypes with proper literal form.

From Rebol console (these types not yet all implemented in Red):

>> red + blue
== 255.0.255
>> 192.168.100.123 and 255.0.0.0
== 192.0.0.0
>> yesterday: now/date - 24:00
== 15-Nov-2014
>> in-one-year: now + 365
== 16-Nov-2015
>> yesterday < in-one-year
== true

Rebol provides around 55 datatypes, with a good part of them having a specific literal form. The standard library is actually built-in the language, through this rich set of datatypes (each datatype overloads the basic language functions and operators). You don't need to "import" any of it, it's right there, but almost transparent to the users. The footprint for that is small, the full uncompressed runtime in binary form is about 500KB only.

This unusual (but very effective in practice) approach, is one of the features that got me hooked to Rebol in the first place, 15 years ago.

[1] http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html#section-3...

[2] http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html#section-3...

[3] http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html#section-3...
What are your thoughts on http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/ ?
A "deploy to GCE" button is something I am planning to add in the next weeks.
Japan's levitating maglev train reaches 500km/h
Fair enough! The one over here has a pretty solid frozen vegetable section and reasonably good fresh produce ($0.99 unripe avocados!!!). I'd estimate that they have about 20ft of shelf space for fresh stuff.
Ask HN: Did “Idea Sunday” HN Discussion Die?
The "Idea Sunday" HN thread described as "A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on." by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601 (223 days ago) seems to be dead.

Is there any replacement for that thread? Any website? Or shall we reactivate this thread?

Thank you in advance,
I had been know to call it "Whole Paycheck" in the past, but I've found prices not to be too bad if you're selective, such as their house-brand products.
Here's a big problem - in the US St Johns Wort isn't regulated like a drug, it is regulated as a supplement. Which in practice means when you buy a bottle of St Johns Wort it can contain almost anything and may or may not contain any actual St Johns Wort.

Plus St Johns Wort interacts with practically everything.

Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/health/policy/26herbal.htm...

>16 of the 40 supplements tested contained pesticide residues that appeared to exceed legal limits, the investigators found. In some cases, the government has not set allowable levels of these pesticides because of a paucity of scientific research.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements...

>DNA tests show that many pills labeled as healing herbs are little more than powdered rice and weeds.

>Two bottles labeled as St. John’s wort, which studies have shown may treat mild depression, contained none of the medicinal herb. Instead, the pills in one bottle were made of nothing but rice, and another bottle contained only Alexandrian senna, an Egyptian yellow shrub that is a powerful laxative.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/dangerous-dietary-s...

>out of more than two dozen supplements that were pulled from shelves after they were found to contain anabolic steroids or powerful prescription drugs, roughly two-thirds were back on the market a year later with the same illicit ingredients
You will find in Red everything you liked in Rebol, with some important additions like cross-platform static compilation and system programming abilities [1] through the built-in Red/System DSL. On the downside, Red is still alpha, but beta is just a few months ahead.

[1] http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs-light.html
That the sender can probably crash the receiver with a malformed offset in a message.

I'd like to see marshalling as a language feature. It's compilable, done often, and has an effect on performance. Many marshalling systems, from OpenRPC to protocol buffers, use a precompiler. But that adds another level of language.
I'd be interested to see if the tech companies could push out something to their users to help educate them. Something similar to the news feed notification Facebook pushed out asking for donations to fight Ebola.

The real resource these companies have to use is the attention of their users, not money.
Here is where I've found it good use: biking, hiking, parties/wine tastings/weddings, parades, etc. Driving is a fairly good use case as well. If there is a clear use for it people don't seem to care I'm wearing it, and its pretty fun with Auto-Awesome.
Indeed. Interesting on the focus of calbe lengths. Have they moved from "TOR" to "MOR"? For automated configuration the industry has been moving this way for a while, IMO. Im more curious in the mention of host based "rehashing" for mitigating large single tuple flows. If I had to guess ... hashing on dscp/vxlan/etc bits and alternating (probabilistically?) on egress packets?

For others, check out the work of Clos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network.
They denied it; that's practically proof they did it! /tongue in cheek
If only politicians were as easy and cheap to buy as the Internet thinks.
To me, it seems like the most sensible thing would be to make the choice of memory allocator a global OS configuration parameter—like enabling DEP on Windows. It'd still only be the program (or language runtime) deciding for itself whether to obey the allocator suggestion—but having one system-level place for this kind of policy information to be stored, where glibc et al could look for it, would make a lot more sense.
Quitting a job at Google to travel
A great machine learning video lecture series
I think that's why the Mafia used to just threaten them. When you've got pictures of a guy sleeping with prostitutes and they got elected on "family focus" and do photo ops outside church with their wife of 14 years and fives kids, it suddenly becomes easy to "buy" politicians. Or, the old balls and the literal vice.
I learned to type using only my thoughts
MathB.in – Math Pastebin with LaTeX and Markdown Support
So... i know someone. One day his kids were hungry and asked for something to eat. He gave them each a candy bar. He had access to FREE healthy food as he was staying with my parents at the time and he could eat anything there. He could have literally walked two rooms away to the kitchen and found something for them to eat. But i guess he thought a candy bar was just as good as any other food.
The real problem isn't drug repurposing, but off-label promotion. If you want to take a drug through FDA approval for another set of indications, that's fine and dandy. What isn't cool is actively promoting the use of a drug without market approval - having reps drop subtle hints, funding third-party publication, paying doctors to speak at conferences about their off-label prescribing and so on.

Eli Lilly, Pfizer and AstraZeneca have collectively paid out more than $2.5bn in settlements over the off-label promotion of atypical antipsychotics. The drugs that they unlawfully promoted are now being used widely for the treatment of a variety of conditions for which there is little evidence of efficacy. Lilly were marketing Zyprexa for the treatment of dementia, in spite of having extensive unpublished research showing that it was ineffective.

Atypical antipsychotics are being used by far too many psychiatrists as a catch-all where other lines of treatment have failed - OCD, autism, PTSD, ADHD, anorexia, substance abuse, you name it. In most cases the evidence of efficacy is slim-to-none. That's not medicine, it's quackery. Frankly, I'd be happier if they were prescribing placebo; Nobody has ever died from the side effects of sugar pills.
Would optical processors be immune to some of these problems?
Having grown up on a farm it is usually the cost of pesticides that trigger depression!
Since when do these companies get such a big say in our Democracy? Since when is "Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying" a headline and not "American people rally the vote to stop sweeping surveillance"?

Personally, I think it's mostly a show to bolster consumer confidence (rant purposefully left out). But let's say it's not. Why should a handful of private individuals be more important for the direction of legislature than democratic consensus AND what's written into law by the Constitution.

A fluffy feel good piece about how the elite are on your side. Bullshit through and through.

I'm not upset that (publicly) these corporations are against surveillance, I'm upset that it matters.

Yes we live in a Representative Democratic Republic. But I don't remember voting for the board of directors.
Favorite quote: “No one steals vegetables.”
Like I said, I follow 300 people. But I don't break my ass to read everything by everyone. I dip in and out, because anything interesting is going to pop back up eventually and having that broad a cross-section of people to follow exposes me to more and more interesting people.
The Email I Sent Steve That Kicked Off Reddit
BTDT and it was a huge relief when I moved my domain to Google Apps and started using Gmail. Unless it's gotten hugely more effective than it was a few years ago, Spamassassin is nowhere near as good as Gmail at recognizing spam, and spamfighting was the biggest of many chores involved in running my own server. I was constantly having to tweak and refine things to keep my spam filtering effective.

I don't miss running my own MTA. At all.
No one yet, other than maybe the netflix throttling that some experience. The problem if this isn't nipped in the bud now it could become much worse.
I have a soft spot for gravity simulators, my first BASIC program that wasn't a variation on INPUT "Your Age";A :PRINT "You are ", A*52, " weeks old." was a gravity simulator with a rocket in orbit and your capsule needed to dock with it by apply forward or reverse thrust (2D only!) What made mine a bit different was that you launched from the planet so you had to take into account where the other rocket was before launching or you wouldn't have enough fuel to dock.

What this example in Elm and all reasonably implemented simulators provoke is a sense of awe in just how hard it is to "drive" in orbit.
Exactly. You CAN spend a lot of money at Whole Foods--and I'm often tempted to-- but you don't really have to. Interestingly in Fresh Pond in Cambridge, there's a Whole Foods that's the only supermarket near a housing project though it's also convenient for people on their way out to the suburbs.
I understand whole heartedly - I've been there. If you are a family provider, and don't want to get too far out of your comfort zone (every personality is different) - you could look at consulting, software consultants, software architecture, sales, etc. These would provide a rough average income of what you're earning now. Or, as an aside - you could also teach yourself a new skill or do a side job at night/weekends. Find what you are yearning to do, and incorporate it. Are you feeling isolated coding too much? Find a more extroverted position, etc etc.
I'm pointing a camera at you when I read the messages on my phone too. After all, the camera on the back is facing you. Doesn't mean I'm using the camera.

The "camera in my face" is just an excuse. You're actually being recorded by other things. Anyone who takes the time to learn about Glass would know that the battery would last about 10 seconds if I had the damn camera on :)
Freelisting objects to reduce load on the GC has a long history. The Lisp Machines had a feature called "resources" to support this.

While I think the best modern collectors, such as the JVM collector, are good enough to make manual freelisting unnecessary, it is still a massive amount of effort to develop a collector of this quality.

[0] http://common-lisp.net/project/bknr/static/lmman/resour.xml#...
Any reason for the selection of GPL3 for the license?
If Microsoft cares about privacy, when will they change Skype back to the encrypted peer-to-peer architecture it had before they bought it? If Facebook cares about privacy, why is their signup page not just a redirect to diaspora, friendica etc.? And why can't google split stuff up into subdomains, even if that'd mean no precious .google cookies? Okay, the last two are a bit silly, but I just don't feel like looking up and rattling down all those laundry lists of the ways of how they shit all over privacy again and again, just to eek half a percentage point out of something somewhere, in the name of functionality and convenience as if there aren't lots of more promising and unexplored avenues to improve those.

Of course, none of these companies are monoliths, and I don't doubt that there are people in them that genuinely care. But on the whole, you are really* saying that the companies care about privacy, but just pretend it's about money because Congress is more interested in money than they are? I doubt that, mildly put.
This article has an an absurd premise.

A Democrat controls the NSA (POTUS).

They don't need to lobby anyone in congress.
Nobody said Detroit was a food desert or that it had no grocery stores. The claim was that it had no supermarket. You said "don't spread this lie" but then gave no evidence it was a lie. Is it a lie (I wouldn't know)?
Downvoted within 7 minutes. Nice going.
Apparently a judge still remembers what "Infinite" really means.

If only he would look into the numeric meaning of gigabyte when it comes to storage media.
Note the last part of his article: "Access may be necessary, but it’s not sufficient. Policies that are aimed at just eliminating food deserts may not work. More needs to be done."

There are a lot of reasons poor people don't eat healthier; supply is definitely part of it. But not just supply of food, supply of time as well. A poor person is probably working some physically taxing job and is just too tired to cook a healthy meal. Or too tired to get to the market selling healthy food, or... a million other things. It's not just "demand", it's not that they just don't want to eat healthy. Some don't even know fast food is unhealthy. Don't forget, we have people on HN defending fastfood hamburgers..... so imagine the potential confusion about nutrition in a poor & less educated community.
Yes, actually: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
The boxed mac & cheese at the Whole Foods near me is cheaper than that at the local corner store. You can spend stupid amounts of money at Whole Foods, but they've got a reasonable selection that is reasonably priced when you look past the overpriced stuff.
There is nothing sinister about allowing illegal traffic to be blocked. Currently ISP routers often block massive DDoS attacks and without that exclusion they would have to let them through. Realistically, routers are the best place to deal with such attacks and not carving out that exclusion would open up a lot of valid criticism.
>it apparently lacks the ability to evaluate or set its own goals.

The AI would have to evaluate the goal by some standard, so 'maximize paperclips' is a proxy for whatever goals get a high evaluation from the standard. Getting the standard right presents essentially the same problem as setting the goal.

Putting in 'a need to be intellectually satisfied by the complexity of your end product' is complicated and still wouldn't save humanity.
Looks like a tool I need. Unfortunately, it looks like the MySQL backend is more a promise than reality.
My Thoughts on Net Neutrality
I find this article interesting in that it describes a direct clash of motives between two major systematic problems in American government at present: corporate capture of politics, and the runaway NSA.

What needs to happen is for both of these forces to be curbed, before they find a compromise that I don't expect to be in the best interest of the people.
On their 27 mile test track. Which is too bad since at 300mph that would be a 4 minute ride :-) I expect it spends all of its time accelerating and decelerating. I suspect such trains will only be practical in the 'real' world by having them in some sort of fully enclosed track. It doesn't have to be a solid tunnel but something that keeps out birds and other debris from the area. Nothing like hitting a pigeon or catching a flying bit of branch at 300MPH, hurricanes put 2 x 4s through houses 2/3rds that speed so that would be a challenge.

That said the only other remarkable thing was how shaky the video was at 500km/h if the train was really moving around that much it wouldn't be too sustainable. One of the amazing things for me on the TGV was how smoothly it rode even going 200km/h.
Not everyone measures success by money and leisure time. Especially in more creatively-derived industries, like culinary arts, I find that money has little to do with what people judge as success. Many simply want to make the best food they can.
I think dang, the moderator of this forum decided that we should stop doing those, if i remember correctly.

But there's this:

http://firespotting.com/
So we give more power to an incompetent agency to solve what, exactly? To get what we pay for? Is the level of service going to improve, or will prices fall to match the current level of service? Or will service degrade and prices increase?
Here is a working example: https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric/blob/master/fnordm...

And a few bits of documentation here http://fnordmetric.io/documentation/chartsql/external_data_s...
./build/cmake/target/fnordmetric-server --http_port 8080 --storage_backend mysql
[ERROR] unknown backend type: mysql
I have noticed that too. It's pretty much standard that people take at least some prescription drugs regularly. Also the children of some friends know all the ins and outs of different pills. I don't think I ever had had a headache pill when I was the same age.
Looks good but it doesn't say how it orders the entries? Are the latest entries always on top?
It sounds silly, but that's how it really is. Treason is often a crime with the harshest punishments, yet also one that's most unclear if it's very bad or very good. Somehow it doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves as immoral law.