skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect at least a link to download your app. The logo and name on the top are only a gift and text, (I think that) they must have links to the app or your main webpage.

Also, there are many dupes or quasi-dupes. For example, all the Facebook pages look alike. They probably require some login information to provide the image. The Youtube pages also look similar. They need more render time to get the main a good image of the video.

Also, is there any privacy concern? DO the users know that the page from the QR is made public?

And how do you filter NSFW content?
I find this repulsive. Here's why:

- Promotional post masquerading as an essay

- (Laughably) pretends that Frucket is the only service in the event space or this niche of that space

- Author is sales head for Frucket but doesn't disclose

- No data to back up claims

Your claims about Facebook are self-serving nonsense. Go peddle your bullshit somewhere else.
https://dev.twitter.com/
> Also you can use smart pointers to do automatic garbage collection.

Not quite. Smart pointers do automatic reference counting, which doesn't use a garbage collector.
Expect to get used by spammers (for phone number verification for google/craigslist/etc)
This is a very good article. The reference to the newly published book Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky prompted me to request that book from my friendly public library. I like how the article looks at the absolute skill levels among professional competitors in chess and professional performers in orchestral music and shows that the skill level in those and many other domains has been steadily rising in my lifetime. There is still a lot of untapped potential in most individuals alive today that can be developed even at adult ages.

As the article reports, "What we’re seeing is, in part, the mainstreaming of excellent habits. In the late nineteen-fifties, Raymond Berry, the great wide receiver for the Baltimore Colts, was famous for his attention to detail and his obsessive approach to the game: he took copious notes, he ate well, he studied film of his opponents, he simulated entire games by himself, and so on. But, as the journalist Mark Bowden observed, Berry was considered an oddball. The golfer Ben Hogan, who was said to have 'invented practice,' stood out at a time when most pro golfers practiced occasionally, if at all. Today, practicing six to eight hours a day is just the price of admission on the P.G.A. Tour. Everyone works hard. Everyone is really good." This kind of cultural change can still go a lot further in a lot of fields on human performance. A culture of continual efforts at self-improvement has hardly even begun in many occupations.

The article's conclusion about improving the performance of elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States is thoughtful, and also refers to good new books, Building a Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green and The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein. Studies of educational effectiveness in the United States consistently show that the variance in teacher quality in any one school swamps the variance in school quality between one school and another, so any child in any school district is at risk of getting an ineffective teacher. (Although schools in poor neighborhoods of the United States, on the whole, have the greatest difficulty in hiring and retaining good teachers.) Anything that can help teachers learn to teach better before or after they began working in the classroom will have massive social benefits. An economist who has studied teacher effectiveness for years shows that the best teachers are almost literally worth their weight in gold, while the worst teachers have negative added value for their pupils.[1] Bringing a culture of continual self-improvement in America's schools is a project of crucial national importance.

[1] http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/valuing-teachers-h...
Pretty harsh to downvote this person for writing out an idea - ok, if you know the physics you might dismiss this, but dismiss with words not votes!
You could drain the battery completely while charging.
> In 1935 Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen published a thought experiment that seemed to produce a paradox in quantum mechanics, as well as demonstrating that it was incomplete. Their argument used the fact that there can be an apparent instantaneous interaction in the measurement of two separated particles that have been prepared in a certain "entangled" manner. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". It has been shown by Eberhard that no information can be passed using this effect; so there is no FTL communication, but the paradox is still very controversial. See the FAQ article The EPR Paradox and Bell's Inequality for more details.
It's pretty neat for a paradigm of poor design to last so long...
Water is really good at blocking proton radiation (those stray hydrogen atoms in the interstellar medium become really dangerous once you go fast enough). Plus you can drink it.

You also don't want to stop particle radiation too quickly, or you get x-ray Bremsstrahlung. So something a little less dense than steel works better in practice.
euphoria [http://www.rapideuphoria.com/] is the closest I've seen to a decent c/basic cross. worth checking out if you're interested in that space.
George H. Heilmeier's Catechism
There's also http://vim-adventures.com/. Costs a bit, unfortunately, but it's an amazing way to learn vim.
The Github link at the bottom of the page 404's for me.
https://github.com/tmsgost/Bayes_Imact

Seems to just be a misspelled "Impact":
https://github.com/tmsgost/Bayes_Impact
Open Global Food Co-Op – Onchenda
Show HN: SineRider, a game inspired by my TI-86
I think your district is the exception. In mine (Fairfax County, Virginia), high school started at 7:20 am, and it was brutal. I don't recall the exact time middle and elementary school started, but middle was later, and elementary was last. One benefit was that the same buses could be used for high school, middle and elementary, saving money.

Fairfax apparently recently changed (or will change) for high school to start at 8 am. That's still earlier than I think is civilized, but it's an improvement. (One that I would have welcomed as a high school student.)
I think he is referring to scoped pointers.
There's also already a crowdfunding scheme called "the private market". So far its existence has not caused governments to stop funding science.

The way I see it is that each of these schemes allows money to be allocated according to different sets of criteria, each of which we hope will overlap with the vaguely understood criterion "benefits society". Since the overlap isn't perfect (sometimes pathologically so), I'd argue that diversity of crowdfunding schemes is a good thing.
Oh god, why.
A negative to this is a proposed solution to Fermi's Paradox
>I don't know how you break the cycle of cynicism and instill some civic responsibility in the average Joe

You can't.

>There's never going to be some external savior who swoops in from the outside and magically makes things less corrupt

That doesn't mean people aren't going to keep clinging to that joke of a hope.

Look at Google Fiber! It's people getting excited that one huge corporation is going to save them from the other massive corporations. We read articles about how the tech giants are going to save us from the NSA (oh the hilarity of Google and Facebook being on that list). We all love Tesla because we cling to a hope Elon will save us from dealerships and "Big Auto". Lots of people buy organic in the hope it will save us from "Big Agro" and be healthier. We like reading about battery and alternative energy companies because it's gonna save us from "Big Oil". We like reading about the miracle cancer cure that "Big Pharma" has allegedly chosen to ignore for evil reasons.

All of our media outlets have realized this trend and shifted to printing puff pieces about our favorite "saviors". At this point the average American has zero hope for real citizen motivated change, so we'll keep hoping for a savior that's never going to come right up until the second this ship crashes into the iceberg.
Killing for Conservation
Yeah, that's a joke. What developers really care about is Twitter's API.
But it's full of dust. Yuck.
CHILDREN IN NEED
... yeah, and water your greenhouses (you're going to be in space a very long time), split it to generate O2 for breathing, etc. It's also probably a lot easier to find water to replenish your shield along the way, or at your destination, than steel or lead.
Hey man,

I'm sorry you saw it that way. I probably published too prematurely and I've added a few corrections to my wording.

The article wasn't meant to be promotional of Frucket, which is the app that I am currently working on. The purpose of the article was to highlight a trend in the social media space that I have observed, and what I believe will happen in the near future.

We've also done plenty of research, and no app is moving into the space the Frucket is moving into.

Again, I'm sorry that you saw it that way. Hopefully the tweaks in my essay could change your opinion on my thoughts.
Just pushed a fix. Thanks!
A couple of things in your interesting comment were a bit confusing to me. Since you obviously know your stuff, it may be just a difference in terminology that thew me off. So let me add a couple of notes that hopefully may help clarify for others.

> You have sub pixel rendering today because pixels aren't squares.

Another way to put this is that color LCD panels don't have pixels at all. The only thing they have is red, green, and blue "subpixels" that each have a 1:3 aspect ratio. So you could take any three of those subpixels in a row and call them a "pixel".

Operating systems were traditionally written without any knowledge of these individual subpixels, and addressed the display on a whole-pixel basis. It's up to the display hardware to figure out how to map colors onto the physical device.

But if you know you're rendering on an LCD with the 1:3 subpixels, and you know the order of those subpixels (usually RGB, sometimes BGR), then you can give each "pixel" a color that lights up the individual subpixels as you want.

As an aside, in CSS you can think of a color value like "rgb(10,20,30)" as addressing the individual subpixels, assigning 10, 20, and 30 to the red, green, and blue subpixels. You just don't know how those physical subpixels are laid out on the display, so you can't really do subpixel rendering in CSS.

But if the OS knows what order the subpixels are in, it can take advantage of that. Even though the display hardware/firmware presents an abstraction of "pixels", the OS still provides individual R, G and B values for each "pixel" - thus addressing in a roundabout way the individual subpixels.

That's what makes subpixel rendering possible on displays that don't directly expose the individual subpixels.

> rendered pixels weren't squares in those days (they were not-always-circular dots on a screen which itself wasn't flat)

The circular dots on a CRT aren't pixels and aren't directly related to pixels at all. Assuming a traditional non-Trinitron CRT, you have three electron guns for R, G, and B. The beams from these guns go through a shadow mask with little holes in it, and then the beams hit phosphor dots on the screen. The shadow mask allows each beam to light up only the phosphor dots for that color.

As the electron beams sweep across the CRT, each horizontal sweep corresponds to a row of pixels, and the three beams are modulated brighter or dimmer for each individual pixel. But there's no relationship between the size and location of these "pixels" and the actual shadow mask holes or phosphor dots on the screen. CRT displays could run in multiple resolutions but obviously the phosphor dots couldn't move to line up with the pixel locations for each resolution.

Trinitron displays were are a bit different, using phosphor stripes instead of dots and an aperture grille (tiny vertical wires under tension) instead of a shadow mask with holes in it, but the principle was the same: The phosphor stripes didn't correspond at all to pixel locations.
This should help

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/first-demonstratio...
This is why I see the trouble with the semantic web. If even large guys like Netflix are unwilling to share their API publicly then semantic web becomes something like a really expensive toy that people with very large pockets can afford or you end up scraping everyone to death. This is why I think strategies like Kimono and Import.io will fail.
Where I live, elementary starts at 8, middle starts at 9, and high school starts at the wonderful time of 7:30. The transition from middle school to high school was especially painful. I wish we used the times your district used; they make so much more sense than ours.
ThinkwithGoogle: What Influences the Films We See
Photography Festival Finder app
They have special SDKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StCrm572aEs
I preferred to try to find written sources about "dubious creations."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2007/07/heimlichs-son-...

"A recent 20/20 investigation detailed Dr. Heimlich’s attempts to promote the use of his maneuver on near drowning victims and cystic fibrosis patients, which leading medical experts say is either useless or potentially dangerous. Dr. Heimlich has also been criticized for supporting human studies into his theory that malaria can be used to treat AIDS patients. The application of so-called "malariatherapy" has been denounced by leading AIDS researchers as dangerous, scientifically unfounded and unethical. "The harm that he’s caused overwhelms the good he accomplished," Peter Heimlich told ABC News about his father."

"Every study in this shows that back slaps drive the food deeper and do not save lives, that only the Heimlich maneuver saves lives," eldest son Phil Heimlich told ABC News on behalf of his father.

Though Peter denies the charge, Phil also believes that Peter’s campaign has been motivated by personal issues."

Radiolab's episode was also edited later:

"We removed the audio of Peter Heimlich, Henry Heimlich’s son, from the version now on the site. When we approached Henry’s other son Phil to arrange an interview with his father, one of Phil’s conditions was that we not air audio of Peter. We thought he’d waived that provision in a subsequent conversation but he contends he did not. So we are honoring the original request."
Muslims traded with American natives as soon as 889 CE
Also watch this extremely informative video from xiph.org: http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
Many APIs, in fact. Netflix takes the odd approach of implementing a separate API for each client:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/embracing-differences-in...
Yes I understand you are a master kernel hacker uber programmer. I understand you absolutely positively need bare metal performance.

However the vast majority of all C code ever written does not; most code is written by mere mortals and contains various bugs, including memory bugs and undefined behavior.

Why can't the C standards committee introduce a memory safe mode for C? Make it opt-in. Prohibit aliasing without special overriding casts. Bounds check array accesses.

I'm willing to trade some performance to prevent the next Heartbleed; I can throw VMs at my problems very cheaply. Having to tell everyone on the Internet to change their passwords (and every server op to get a new SSL key) is a multi-billion dollar waste of human capital for no reason. And that's just one C memory error. New zero day vulnerabilities, many due to C memory errors are continuously discovered. How many more Heartbleeds does it take?
Resume written in Haskell
Yes, I recall having noticed that, but still didn't feel very natural, probably because I use different systems (not all of them OS X even) and this complicates habit making.
Did you read the paper at all? You're argument doesn't really address anything they say. They cite research saying that the most important thing in retaining graduates is availability of jobs, not housing, city lifestyle, etc... And that since Boston produces so many graduates, it's unrealistic to think they're all going to stay, simply because there aren't jobs for all of them.

You're arguing a point that the paper isn't making.

EDIT: Spelling
Apple Disables Trim Support on 3rd Party SSDs in Yosemite
I have been saved by the Heimlich maneuvre after choking on some bread, and recently saved the life of another family member choking on some meat using the same technique. If we had started with back blows, I think the family member would have been unconscious before we had the opportunity to resort to the Heimlich maneuvre, given that my family member didn't raise the alarm until quite a while after the choking started.

Personally, despite the potential for injury that people say the maneuvre has, neither of us were injured, and both were able to breathe after the blockage was removed (it took 2-3 thrusts). I am forever grateful that this technique is so well known. In our life threatening situations, the risk of injury or bruising was well worth it to be able to breathe again.
And this difference is why it is imperative that last-mile infrastructure building is done by a government entity

Why? I'm really missing that logic step. OK, so rural is too costly to connect. But that doesn't follow that a specific solution is imperative, especially since the vast majority of the population lives in cities.

Why can't the government entity only build in rural/unprofitable areas, by imposing a tax on city connections? More: why can't the government entity simply subsidize the bills of rural users, adjusted to the extra cost of wiring their areas?

Thinking even wider, must we wire? What's keeping wireless point-to-point connections from working here?

Rarely a problem only has one solution, why is this one an exception?
Why not allow the oceans? The most common, shortest words are on land, the longest, least common words are reserved for the oceans, so the "land" 3 word combinations aren't affected at all by the inclusion of the oceans. For now, most navigation for everyone is based around a 2D map so, 2D is sufficient. If the world becomes fluent in 3D navigation, then there could easily be an optional extra parameter for height.
Wouldn't it work to discredit enough of these stories coming from the same sources - that way, after a certain period, claims coming from the source can be discarded by default, and only assumed true if they can be verified via some other means. Ad hominem, basically.
I do not understand the backend reason for this (and did not when I saw the announcements about this two years ago): while I can see not wanting to provide a full movie metadata API, having "is this or is this not available on Netflix right now" seems like a really important API to have, one that allows websites people use to browse and find movies to funnel users into Netflix (and seems a natural fit for their very popular affiliate program).

Apple actually provides massive database dumps of everything available in iTunes, for free, to anyone who asks, which is why virtually every music discovery site or app has a "buy this on iTunes" button, not just "a small set of developers whose applications have proven to be the most valuable for many of our members" (which is a quote from the Netflix developer blog earlier this year; you have to pull this from Google Cache now, sadly).

I don't see how "stream/rent this on Netflix" is a bad thing for Netflix (but am totally willing to believe I am not "seeing far enough", because this is not my area of expertise, hence why I am asking this question: I hope to be enlightened ;P). (edit:) I guess maybe for the same reason Uber and Lyft don't want APIs? Because they want to dominate the end user searching and discovery experience as well? But like, even Walmart and Amazon offer APIs... ;P.
Indeed, and arguably, even if you go really far back, even fields like physics and mathematics spawned out from philosophy. Physics was originally known as "natural philosophy" for example. Biology came into existence independently several places, but often it was considered to be a part of Theology, and a study of Gods creation. Hardly any field except philosophy and theology has started as anything other than a specialization of something else.
and surely fanboys will justify it as being better for them somehow.

or did this tend stopped with jobs?
Point 19 seems to conflate quantum fields with imaginary mass and superluminal particles. As far as I know, tachyonic quantum fields and tachyonic 'particles' are unrelated except for an unfortunate naming convention (historically, tachyonic fields were thought to result in tachyonic particles; the name was kept around even after the mistake had been realized).

Note that tachyonic particles are not very particle-like at all, so I prefer the name 'tachyonic interaction':

Tachyons cannot be properly localized, there's a critical frame where they have no energy, their 'life-time' is space-like, both endpoints of the interaction may have the same (intrinsic) type (absorption-absorption, emission-emission), to name just some of the peculiar properties.

Recami argues (imo convincingly) that you cannot use such tachyons to violate causality.

Point 13 is also somewhat questionable, but this is more of a matter of semantics. While each of the galaxies are at rest (or in free fall, if you prefer), they are not at rest relative to one another according to parallel transport along the light ray (otherwise, there would be no red-shift). This is imo the correct way to handle relative velocities in a general-relativistic setting; the fact that their comoving distance is constant doesn't mean they are at rest in any physically meaningful way, but one can at least argue this point both ways.
I would like to start using LaTeX actually. I like that LaTex would work will with source control, and that you can use a simple editor like Vim to edit.

I hate using word and have a load of random formatting applied to my document. I am fed up with using the 'format painter'!!!
Here's an example of a school applying Demming's/Toyota's/Lean's techniques to great success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZHQnuZXj8
My bet is that airplanes will look just the same in 2070 as they did in 1970...
What Startups Can Learn from the Philae Lander
I prefer HTML & CSS, maybe with something like restructuredText on top.
I am on fastmail and use android without Google Play Services (and would think that a significant proportion of your customers have moved to you from gmail because they care about things that might lead them to avoid google play services). Having said that, I'm happy enough using an IMAP mail client.

I would have been much more excited to have good calendar and contacts synchronization with my phone. Please don't make those dependent on google services too.
Thank the studios for most of this - they will not allow their content to be distributed without encumberance.

Even if that somehow makes them evil (or insert other derogatory words here), their assistance in the fight for net neutrality makes them very much "the internet's friend", IMO.

FWIW, I find it very hard to get outraged about DRM when it comes to streaming services - the usual "fair use" things that DRM usually inhibits does not do so in the context of streaming. The only thing you can't do with an encrypted stream that you can do with an unencrypted one is record it, and you agreed not to do that when you signed up for Netflix anyways.

In other words, you're getting exactly what you pay for with the service: Ephemeral, on-demand streams of content.
Hello! Send to where?
https://rms.sexy/img/p1010270.jpg is a great one.
Which one would you recommend if I want to develop, rather than calculate?
Airbus. That makes a lot more sense. I initially read that as Airbnb.
Sorry :) An honest DYAC mistake.
For print-quality stuff?