skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's effectively pirate radio for the internet age - broadcast outside the domain of law and thus avoid censorship.
>Of his interferometer which he invented and used in the Michelson Morley experiments it was said that it was a remarkable instrument - provided you had Michelson to operate it. His experiments to measure the diameter of the nearest stars using an interferometer were not reproduced for 30 years.

From the perspective of the scientific method ("on the words of no one" etc), that's ... not actually a good thing.
Idea Sunday – have an idea you want to see executed?
Do you have an idea you would like to see executed but do not have the time or skills for? Then post it in this thread.
All about 64-bit programming
It looks like one of the factors was "cumulative days use of any pesticide". However this did not take plot size into account - a farmer with a large plot and an appropriate use of pesticides is in the same category as a farmer with a small plot and an overuse of pesticides.

"Farm size" was mentioned in the previously identified confounding factors, but not one that was corrected for in the study after seeing it made no difference? Education was a confounding factor that was accounted for.

"Cumulative days use per acre" would be an interesting factor to test, but varies greatly between various crops and climates. "Crop loss despite pesticide application" would be the real one to measure but that requires a certain degree of god-like knowledge. Days-use-per-acre over time and yields-per-acre over time is probably the best that could be managed, where "time" is at least 5-10 years.

One term in the paper went over my head and I can't find a definition or sufficient context. Does "ever-use" mean a small amount or a large amount? (once-ever or for-ever)
Same group who did the Pokemon conversion, amazing.
Do you agree with President Obama's immigration plan?
Man, this is genius. I hope you succeed, but it is so awesome that I can't stop thinking there is some problem with the idea (I'm not seeing any, but, hey, it is too good to be true!).
Battery Optimization for Android Apps
I'll add another reply to this, because this deserves its own discussion:

> I don't personally view a lack of $GROUP as a problem

Do you really not see how a group's problem-solving could be much richer if more $GROUPs are added to the mix?
I find this astounding. A lack of $GROUP in a design team designing products for $GROUP leads to obvious overhead where the members have to account for every $GROUP's needs, while not having a representant of this very group, leading to blindness and bias - one popular example being crash test dummies which no one even thought to test for female body types, leading to greater injuries in car accidents for women (it's not difficult to find scientific articles on this, if that's new to you)

Another obvious problem is that by having $GROUP out of the mix, a member of $GROUP trying to enter the field faces doubt and skepticism ("scene whore"), just because of the fact that $GROUP is under-represented, perpetuating the situation.

Let's play devil's advocate here and say that a lack of $GROUP isn't a problem in itself - how would you solve the two aforementioned problems without increasing $GROUP's representation in a field?
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/technology/gamergate-women...
Blacks is very good. I also like Opie's in Spicewood (right on the highway). Laird's is good in Llano.

Still haven't been able to get to Franklins - I can't justify taking most of a day off work to go stand in line.
Exactly.

I distinctly remember how several years ago Mexico manufactured Tequila shortage by claiming that disastrous weather led to a shortage of agave fruit. At least this was a story given by Canadian liquor stores to questions why Tequila prices were hiked by close to 50% almost overnight. I kid you not. They also issued assurances that once this pesky Mexican weather normalizes the prices will go back to normal. You guessed it - they never did.
Mystery trader buys all Europe's cocoa

17 Jul 2010

The purchase was enough to move the entire global cocoa market, sending the price to the highest level since 1977, and triggering rumours and intrigue in the City.

It is unclear which person, or group of traders, was behind the deal, but it was the largest single cocoa trade for 14 years.

The cocoa beans, which are sitting in warehouses either in The Netherlands, Hamburg, or closer to home in London, Liverpool or Humberside is equivalent to the entire supply of the commodity in Europe, and would fill more than five Titanics. They are worth £658 million.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/7895242/Mystery-t...
For those of you who have the pebbly-textured pans from Lodge, this worked really well for me:

1. clean the inside of the pan of any oil, run it through the dishwasher, and then clean it with acetone. (you are doing this so the oil doesn't build up in the sandpaper, and keep it from cutting)

2. get several grits of sanding discs for a random orbital sander. 50, 80, 120, 220. Also get a fine particulate mask. Iron ground with 220 grit paper makes some very fine dust.

3. start sanding the inside of the pan. for a 10 inch pan, this took a while, but it will successfully grind away quite a bit of metal.

4. once you are done with the 220, it should be much smoother, then you can clean it with soap/water again, and then begin the seasoning process. I seasoned my pans outside on a grill.
Interesting idea - it looks like you're a lead generator for businesses - do they have to sign up with you, or do you manually call places? How many businesses do you have signed up? If I was looking for a plumber, etc, I'd give your service a shot.

This may just be me, but for some reason, the landing page turned me off - I think the call to action may look too similar to a website that costs money, or signs me up for a 'trial'? I'm not really sure, but I figured I'd mention it. Some other people might want to chime in here in case this is a personal thing.
The alternative explanation to easier access is "great stagnation." Discovery is slowing down, low hanging fruit has been picked, so older papers are relatively more important than they used to be.
Also shows the correlation to slavery in the US as well http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/maps-reveal-slavery-ex...
How is the supply fixed? It literally grows on trees...

The article mentions a few obstacles to increased production, but those certainly aren't insurmountable.

Price increases will inevitably result in both decreased demand and increased supply.
I'm happy that you like it. Data: in browser and backend. The stack is custom - based on canvas famo.us and node on the server side. Is there anything else that might be of interest to you?
Agreed even for normal color perception :)
There is an essay (in English and French) published last month on Grothendieck's life and work by Pierre Cartier who was a member of Bourbaki and a friend and colleague of Grothendieck's.

http://inference-review.com/article/a-country-known-only-by-...
In Phoenix, Arizona the major streets vaguely relate to the location. The layout is a big grid (for the most part). The north-south streets are numbers and east-west streets are named (you need to memorize the order). There is a central avenue with street numbers increasing both east and west. "Avenues" are on the west side and "Streets" are on the east. Given the major cross streets it's pretty easy to find your way there.

I believe many Utah cities are more extreme than this with a grid and all street names being a number + a direction.

You're right though. These are the exception and not the rule.
I made a post for todays Sunday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614657
I don't know about the USA, but in some countries it's legally required.
The Mobile Future of Wikipedia
You can ask us anything about Sketch
With the relaunch of sketchtips.info there is a new Q&A series called "You can ask us anything about Sketch" where we answer our reader's questions about Sketch.

So if there's anything you always wanted to know about Sketch or have any troubles to figure out a certain function please head over to http://www.sketchtips.info/articles/you-can-ask-us-anything and drop us a line.
Solution:

1) Raise prices till consumption matches production.

2) Increase production.

3) Don't decrease prices.

4) Profit.
There's a world of difference between "an addressing system" and one that is effective.

Try to go anywhere in India by using the address. You will find it challenging.
They don't have a "flag" button, weird, considering that anyone can create a campaign.
Oh, there's definitely a heavy dose YMMV :-)
Sorry but I'm not really clear on what you are saying here.

I mean, it seems quite straightforward and obvious to me how to identify abusive, vitriolic harassment, and how to recognise legitimate criticism of someone's viewpoints. Perhaps I am misreading your point, but you seem to be arbitrarily conflating the two?
If you don't respond, a census taker stops by for a visit.
Answering US Census surveys is legally required, though nobody's been prosecuted for failing to do so in decades. If you don't respond to a survey, the bureau will send someone to the house to ask the survey questions in person. If nobody there will respond, then the agent/representative will record their own estimates for that household.
Those obstacles could easily be insurmountable at chocolate's current price point, which is the point of the parent comment.
Just because someone is incredibly passionate about something technical that you don't understand doesn't mean that person has a mental illness. It's pretty clear from reading what he's written that it isn't technobabble or nonsense in the least. Schizonphrenic individuals do not generally write comprehensible and logically sound ideas down. The worst you could characterize graycat's comments as are "quirky". Your comment is both hurtful, since it was made publicly, and completely wrong.
Depending on how wasted you were last night...
Better alternatives to basic command line utilities
>you nutjob

Great start.

>However, a significant number are people from GamerGate that are tweeting negative things at me.

Name and shame the harassers. Disagreement, however, is not harassment. If I enter into a very, very large public conversation on a forum, is it harassment if people reply to me specifically because they take issue with my characterizations?

>It's never one person when GamerGate is involved.

That's because it's an amorphous hashtag that anyone can take up.

>I don't need to tie anything to GamerGate.

You did. In your blog post. You blamed the harassment of Anita, Zoe and Quinn on GamerGate. It's not mincing words. You said that GamerGate supporters were the ones harassing Anita, Wu, and Zoe. Fact of matter.

It's not my cause. I'm just tired of dishonesty.

Stopped playing videogames when I was 18, thanks, and don't particularly give a fuck about consumer recommendation media being fundamentally underhanded. I'll stop short of appealing to relative privation: rest assured that this isn't "my cause."

Harassment in tech is an important issue. How do we deal with anonymous trolls without burning down the forest?
Doesn't that strategy require a step 3.5, "repeal economics"?
Yes Now You Can Downgrade iOS 8.1 to iOS 7.1.2
What is wrong with researchers getting money directly from the people that are interested in this thing?

You'd rather the government act as a mediary and psychic as to what the public wants? So that they can then apportion the public "research" spending budget accordingly?
You didn't mistunderstand the purpose (However it's not an explicit goal of FnordMetric to substitute chart.io)

Here is an example that connects to a MySQL database on localhost: https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric/blob/master/fnordm...

Note that the IMPORT statement might be a bit misleading. The IMPORT statement only creates a "virtual table", it doesn't actually copy any data. As much of the query as possible is pushed down into MySQL/the external data source and the charts will be generated from the query result that is returned by the external data source.
If you have some time - you could create a udemy course based on what you know. Making screencasts is very fun and will provide you with a stream of passive income.

Other than that - I think it's hard to give an advice about career that would be both fun and wouldn't require a lot of skill to start with.

But if you are willing to invest time and effort - writing, painting, and computer graphics are the thing that I massively enjoy in my free time. I bet you could use your programming skills in 3D graphics as well.

Also - some sort of internet marketing. It isnt usually considered fun or worth doing among programmers, but it can actually be fun and profitable, and obviously a useful startup-related skill that you can utilize to make/sell your own products if you ever want to.
I recently wrote a 20 LOC (synchronous) implementation of define() and require().

https://gist.github.com/paton/ab27a1be7e843d220ee3

Less than a tweet long when minified :)

If file size is extremely important to your project, I highly recommend using something like this instead of almond.js or require.js.
If this isn't stopped soon next they will go after your 401ks like in eastern Europe and then your bank accounts like Cyprus.

The Constitution means nothing to these thieves.
> So what, if anything, is proposed that we do about anonymous trolls? Just malign all discussion and criticism of a subject or person? How will that enable us to eliminate the harassers out of a community?

It's like you're still reciting your lines verbatim even though we skipped a page. Did you see that the post you're responding to explicitly acknowledged that criticism isn't harassment? Harassment is harassment, and that's what we're talking about, and your concern trolling isn't toxic so much as incoherent.
»We all feel the magnetic pull of celebrities—we track them, know their net worth, their tastes in furniture, the absurd names of their pets and children.«

No, I don't at all. Am I kind of a statistical outliner? I like their movies and their music, but I could not care less how they dress, what they earn or with whom they end up in bed. I always thought that interest in kings and queens and celebrities is something for teens or bored housewives. Now I need some statistics...
I think this would be more intuitively understandable if they just took the skin color to represent the different races.
No, I'd like to see evidence of some sort that the effect is significant before concluding it plays a significant role in keeping women out of tech.

If you want to tackle the problem of crazy people trolling public figures, be my guest. I don't see any reasonable steps that we could take that wouldn't be oppressive, but maybe you have more imagination than me. Just don't be surprised if you solve this problem but tech remains 25% women.
It's not a proof, it's an article written on the subject which makes the same assumptions as you do.
Linux memory management is actually quite good. In particular the unified fs cache.
I would think this guy had weird settings/tweaks and or more things enabled since he ran gentoo but misconfigured swapiness.

The apps code is very close and linux doesnt magically needs to allocate more memory. What changes is just libc.

Freebsd is one of my favorite OSes regardless.
As I understand it most of the old pans were sand cast too, but they then polished them before selling. Modern manufacturers skip the polishing step. You could always sand it down yourself as abakker detailed.
The article mentions how fiction has convinced people that cars explode, leading bystanders to drag people out of car accidents, injuring them.

Another example could be crime or terrorism shows that make people think LE should have extraordinary powers.

Fiction, even unrealistic, certainly effects people. As the article mentions, brains believe everything they hear, at first. The understanding that something is a lie comes after. Additionally, we cache thoughts, for efficiency and do not always reevaluate thoughts for truthiness. So being bombarded by many counterfactuals can certainly change our minds in the "real world".

This is only mentioned because it points out that reading fiction can be actively harmful, so we can't just sum it up as just potentially positive.
RFC 6919: Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
My ClojureScript Adventure at Øredev – Through the cracks of immutability
Comcast is the least popular company in the U.S. right now. I hate them and yet I still use them because the Internet options in my area are nonexistent. Why would a monopoly care at all about your public opinion?
You're generalizing an entire industry based on a few bad sites. All the interactive projects you see news organizations doing are REQUIRE Javascript. You're asking developers to handicap themselves just because a few people decided to abuse a tool.

I've never done any of those things you've mentioned above and my first aim is always user experience across all devices. Don't portray all developers who are creating good experiences on the web as bad guys. Show HN itself contains numerous examples of Javascript doing amazing things in the browser and your attitude craps all over the hard work of those people.
Why Modern CPUs Are Starving and What Can Be Done About It (2010) [pdf]
Clickable: http://www.sketchtips.info/articles/you-can-ask-us-anything
ConcurrencyKit[0] also has an implementation of epoch-based reclamation, which I've been experimenting with lately (with good results).

[0]: http://concurrencykit.org/
I worked in a department store filling shelves for a couple of months and I actually enjoyed it. The work is boring, but what happens inside your mind belongs to yourself, all day long. Made a nice change for prostituting my brain. The social interaction is nice too. You would be amazed how many old people come to department stores just to have a word with another living soul.
Last Call for Sharepoint Conference
That's two "3 words" that are textually close to each other not two places which are spatially close.
Mara Zepeda, CEO at Switchboard
Even the most liberal of economists must be thinking: "this sounds like a job for... the market!"
Really, it's not about tech. It's about women in society, in general. Now, I will not say that she have to be ashamed of anything, but... this is just too much victimism.

You know, she actually went to live with those guys she talked about. She actually put her information on-line. She actually took the pictures, she actually went to have the abortion... Well... I do not want anyone to think I am saying that anything that happened to her is good or deserved, but, hey... let's shoulder with the responsibilities of our decisions, please.
Forming a chocolate cartel would be one way to keep prices high. OPEC and De Beers are two successful examples from recent history.
If you could elimiate the outermost braces and have a line
continuation character you might get something even less intimidating.

In other words anything between two auccessive non escaped line endings is treated as being parenthesized. Suddenly you can write lisp without parens everywhere.
goals.margin.functions
Ask HN: AWS alternatives?
Greetings,

Our web project is currently running on a VPS of one of the leading service providers.

But the problem we're having is that our traffic is not constant, it might raise 4-8 times depending on the day, the time. Having a VPS that does not automatically or easily scale (as in, without restarting the VPS) is not good enough for us.

We are looking for services like AWS that do provide automatic scaling when needed (probably, when CPU/RAM reaches some value). Unfortunately, AWS is currently not an option since we can't really afford it and it might get us broke if it scales too much ;)

We're quite unexperienced and would like down-to-earth answers. If you do have your own projects and do not want to look like you're only promoting them, feel free to message us at hn at ampoll com.
Performance Tuning EC2 Instances
This reminds me of the weird hostile takeover of cadburys by kraft where they purchased 90% of the worlds chocolate for delivery (not option, for actual delivery).
I expected GOTO implemented with continuations. Very disappointing.
What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?
If you are interested in why racial segregation persists to such a high level (especially in the de-industrialized midwestern and rust belt cities) and the persistence of intractable racial disparities, I highly recommend Massey and Denton's American Apartheid. A bit old now, but still a very clear and deep understanding of segregation and its effects

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674018214/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=4161...

--

I spent about a decade working for racial justice think tanks doing research and policy work around racial segregation and its connection to racial disparities, and it was always my go to book to explain to people why the work I was doing was important for racial justice.
Because this is a textbook case where you have good elasticity.
Like this toy lisp of mine: http://akkartik.name/post/wart
Similar precision can be achieved by using GPS coordinates with four (10 m accuracy) to five (1 m) decimal digits, sometimes even fewer depending on location as you don't need trailing zeroes.

The coordinate system is old, ubiquitous, and it's readability is similar to that of ipv4 addresses.

So it's [13.054:5.237] vs "surcharge.caveman.echo".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees

[2] http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/8674
Vegetables in NYC gardens are ‘toxic’
Show HN: Launch an Anonymous OpenBazaar Server with Bitcoin
I'll take it on good faith that this is not "your cause", and just point out that this comment and others you've made amounts to a far-reaching denial of 'freebsdgirl's lived experience, to say nothing of other women you aren't directly replying to. Your message is clear and unnuanced: "I don't believe you."

So, two questions: First, just, why? Do you have any concrete reason to try to second-guess these specific women's first-hand experiences?

Second, do you really think that's a good default response to someone who comes to us from a place of vunerability? (Is this the "forest" you're so keen to protect?)
The incentive is that it determines your congressional representation and funding from federal gov't for all sorts of things such as education, welfare, etc. Not to mention, it is spelled out in the US consitition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census
We're not discussing "crazy people trolling public figures" here. No one wants to do anything about your favourite sunday newspaper cartoonist and his daily Obama caricatures. We're not talking about your neighbour kid playing phone pranks on you.

What we're talking about here are death threats, sexual harassment, and calling your boss to get you fired. Deliberate, organized hate. Effective and planned activities to harm an individual who doesn't represent the in-group you're happening to be in.

I couldn't care less how the gender distribution remains after we've solved THAT issue. This is a showstopper bug that has to be solved BEFORE we even begin to debug the gender gap.

Anything else would be ridiculous:
"Yeah, we're trying to find ways to get more women in tech, but since we don't have any scientific evidence to back up that the harassment, hate and verbal abuse against women in tech is a root cause of too few women in tech, we're still investigating and solving other possible causes"

If you were a woman (I suppose you aren't), would you want to work in an environment that is obviously this toxic?
This is really sad.

When I was younger, I used to visit slashdot and skip directly to the comments without bothering with the articles. The meta-discussions were generally the most interesting part. Not all sites are youtube.
For those of use less familiar with the metric system, what's the conversion rate between Titanics and Olympic swimming pools?