skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may sound surprising but via youtube-dl I bought more music than before.
If I find a new band that I might like, I search for Youtube videos first. The non-official videos often show just the cover of the CD or some useless slide show, so I extract the audio to have it in my playlist.
Once I am decided that I like the music I had over to Bandcamp or Amazon to buy the mp3s.
As an example: I lately bought four digital cds from progmetal act Redemption because someone upped their cd 'This Mortal Coil' to Youtube.
Yeah, the format enumeration works quite well too. I've used it to download the "original" format for videos available in higher-than-1080p resolutions, as well as using the --extract-audio option.
That's true for the version in Debian stable as well. The package in unstable tends to pick up upstream updates pretty quickly, though, especially when they're needed to fix site support.
Doesn't necessarily negate the findings, but I still don't trust it now that I read that. I want to see an academic medical center do a non-industry funded study before I accept this result.
I'm probably missing something, but what's the advantage of drilling a hole as opposed to "simply" building a kind of drain or sky scraper. I doubt it would be more expensive.

Sure, the pressure-aspect would be away, but besides that...
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IIRC --ytdl-format is passed directly to youtube-dl -f, but all other options have to be set in youtube-dl's config file.
I think there is some truth to the concept of material design, but so far in practice I've seen a wide variety of implementations that vary from "subtle yet pleasant" to "what the fuck were they thinking" and "why is this happening?".

I think the implementation is a lot harder than people realize. It's not Bootstrap, you can't just apply it to your site and be done. You have to think about the interaction design in context with the actions in your application.

Google Inbox seems to be the best example of good material design components, however, I've yet to see another app/site that uses these principles well. The "material design" frameworks I've seen on github thus far (even the Google Angular one) are sorely lacking.
Youtube-dl is the biggest pre-built thing I use in GifMachine[0] after ffmpeg, and I've used it in innumerable projects since then. I love youtube-dl, it's fantastic!

[0] - http://gifmachine.xwl.me/
Controls are always essential in this type of research. Placebo effects abound. Maybe the people knew they were on an increased fat diet and so exercised more?
-- and if multiple strange cats enter your house, you start to think about closing the door.

Interesting that you mention sodium. I've wondered whether the common advice to restrict sodium to reduce blood pressure actually has any effect. It would only work if your kidneys were not effectively regulating your blood sodium.
With such capabilities it's pretty weird that such companies aren't fiercely competing in the mcu market(at least in the high end of it). They could have made a killer mcu for very cheap.
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Doesn't render in Firefox 11.0 - just gives a blank screen.
I was just thinking a similar thing. If user agents have evolved to effectively become a way of saying "Our browser supports standards X" (where X is an awkward grouping based on which features vendors and browser versions originally supported the feature / standard), surely the ultimate solution is to provide a header enumerating support on a per-feature basis.

Obviously it would take a while for the standard to be adopted to the point where it was useful, but as a web developer I dream of a time when we receive a header that lists the supported features in the client (similar to the classnames modernizer adds to the document body, and probably eventually versioned) and no longer have to resort to either UA parsing OR javascript-based feature detection, both of which are hacks because this problem hasn't actually been solved properly at the standards level.
>> If we eat something, there must be more of it in body.

That's not scientific thinking. That's more like pre-scientific Ptolemaic reasoning.

If you drink more water, do you fill up with water?
youtube-dl rocks. One of my favourite features: youtube-dl -F
I really admire how Steve has remained independent and continued to create fun, imaginative games year after year. Truly one of gaming's greats.

For those who might not be familiar, a fun episode from SJG past...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._Un...
As of April they now give a flat $120,000 for 7%:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-new-deal
Bureaucracy can be dealt with by hiring a specialist legal firm. It sounds really expensive, but in many cases it's not - it's in 10-20K range, which is comparable to what it costs to move an established household from US/Canada to Europe. One can of course sell everything, move with just a backpack and do it frugally by trying to deal with all the formalities themselves, but that's certainly is taxing if you are over certain age or have family/kids.
For best musical accompaniment to this, I recommend Stage7's "8-bit Mentality"[0].

[0] - https://soundcloud.com/stage7/8-bit-mentality
Spain is like phone companies: a welcome mat for outsiders, a nightmare for insiders.

Spanish companies can't have anybody working (i.e. 'dormant' state), they always need an "administrador" who pays a monthly 300€ self-employment tax. This kills companies in early stages unless they can break even quickly (3600€/yr while not having any income, plus maintentance expenses, is terrible)

Creating a company is bureaucratically difficult, I reckon it was on the bottom area in the latest "easiest countries to create a company on" report.

If you're an exporter, you can go bankrupt because you owe worker taxes to the State... while they owe you return of export VAT. I personally know a case of these. They owed the State about 300k€ while the State owed them 500k€ for more than a year. They couldn't "cancel out" the debt. That is outrageous. They had to file bankrupcy.

And finally, if you're a small company, you have to pay a lot of taxes, while if you're big and can pay big lawyers/accountants, Spain is equivalent to a tax haven (i.e. Ireland). This is true. Spain attracts big companies with a tax maze which allows the rich to evade taxes.

This is really disheartening for Spanish enterpreneurs. We're treated as second-class citizens... in our own country. Our taxes go to finance big, foreign companies. That sucks.

Sorry for all the negativity, I'm currently trying to start a company in Spain and I'm meeting a lot of friends who also have. This is the general sentiment. Spain needs to fix A LOT of things if they want to be enterpreneur-friendly, starting with THEIR OWN enterpreneurs.
Actually I prefer it to many news formats. If there is a big story (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots ) and you turn on the news or go to the front page of reuters.com in the middle of it they are usually focused on some up-to-the-second minutiae or the latest sub-story to have occurred in the larger story.

This is fine if you have been paying attention to everything up until that point.

This is not so great if you came in a bit late and want an overview of everything about the story.
The making of "Highway at Night": http://jsriffs.blogspot.fi/2014/05/making-of-highway-at-nigh...
This would be cool on a mobile, since you usually hold it with the display facing towards the sky. But then, the length and angle of the shadow have to depend on the orientation of the phone.
Bduerst, I have almost never downvoted anyone over anything. But I must say you have no right to put "experts" in quotation marks. Given their bio, they are experts. Which makes your comment a troll comment. (Unheard-of on HN.)

Really, what do you think the definition of an expert is? "Just because he teaches the stuff at the University of Edinburgh, has sold a company to Siemens that created the world's only installed MW-scaled marine turbines (with the sale described by Bloomberg as a 'blow to the UK'[1]), and received an MBE for his contributions, does not make him an energy expert."

Of course they're experts, even if they're ones you disagree with.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/siemens-to-take-ove...
>they'll just partially refuel the spent lower stage on the barge and have it fly itself back to the launch site.

given the capabilities of the stage, wouldn't it basically be a suborbital hyper-transport - they can fly it from any point A to point B, like from SF to Honk-Kong must faster than Concorde.
Wow. I can make sense of a little bit of the original source, but I wonder more how RegPack [0] works to compress it into that final submission!

As a side note: I'm in college now and looking to propose an independent study on compression. Any suggested readings or algorithms I should look into?

[0] https://github.com/Siorki/RegPack
Well, if Pb and Sb are more scarce than Li by mass, then they're even more scarce when you're counting atoms.

If Ambri's technology does pan out, it will be due to a cheaper manufacturing process, not because they're avoiding lithium.
What has our immense military budget exactly achieved? It hasn't defeated ISIS, brought peace to Syria, stopped Putin's aggressive expansionism, or ended North Korea's nuclear testings. Maybe Western Europe isn't interested in the bargain to begin with. From what is the US defending itself against with excessive military spending when we already have nuclear weapons that function as an effective deterrent? It doesn't seem like our military budget is preventing worldwide crises and nuclear development in rogue countries.
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Which is great.. until I do a google search for my closest movie theater on my phone to pull up the listings... the link to that theater's page is right at the top... "great" ... now I click the link and the site redirects me to m.theater.com/ (no path after the slash) ... now I'm stuck slogging through several pages to get to what I wanted.

This happens a lot.. there's a page on the desktop site that doesn't correspond. Responsive design still shoves a lot of extra resources at a client that the smaller devices especially don't need. Responsive rendering then loading an adaptive client in the browser is a better option... browser sniffing is the only way to do this.
Or what about the ocean? It's 4km deep on average, so why not just drop the weights there? No need for setting up tracks or carrying the weight up a mountain.
I agree with you, but you speak from the perspective of an doctor in an ER (and use medical terminology). In first aid, one would not put a finger in the wound. I would like to clear this up for laypersons:

It's either direct pressure on the wound, if possible with some padding, like this: http://www.roteskreuz.at/typo3temp/pics/17_EH_Blutung-Arm_39...
If you don't have gloves, or while putting them on, have the patient do it - with a wound of this size, this usually works well.

If the wound is too big, apply direct pressure on the artery between the heart and the wound, like this: http://www.citizencorps.fema.gov/cert/IS317/medops/images/ic...

Apply just as much pressure as needed to stop the bleeding, use your fist if your fingers are not strong enough. Wait for the ambulance to apply a more permanent solution.
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Including non-video sites like Soundcloud and it supports playlists (downloads multiple files) on and off Youtube.
So your argument is that because you should be doing $X anyway, let's make the entire OS's configuration system needlessly brittle, just because you're a python dev and like python's style.

I don't think you understand the philosophy behind FreeBSD: it's about creating a predictable and reliable OS. This goes against those goals. Simple as that.
Hell, I'd be happy if browsers sent a content and platform dimensions headers... so that I at least know the screen size, and if it's in a window, the content size that will be filled.... would make it really nice to be able to do adaptive rendering of the markup.
Google Play store publishing service from a credible HN user. Allowing devs from unsupported countries to sell apps.
Before cellphones there was this technology called TV. Which has been broadcasting live from around the world for decades. I think they can figure it out.
Check out the DefineJS-v0.2.2 with a bunch of examples and Promised Modules.
This reminds me of the magazine phone. http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/
You're welcome to do just that.. md5(useragent) and keep your own definitions... be mindful that in IE in particular plugins affect the string itself. :-(
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Plan 9 did give us one thing that is used almost everywhere: UTF-8.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
You can see all the submissions at http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demos

My favorite: http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1868
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Why is helium found underground with natural gas? My theory is that the helium underground comes from radioactive decay and gets trapped along with methane.

-- I guess there's no need to speculate when you have Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=where%20does%20helium%20come...
How does this loop work ?Does this create an array where B,F,Z,D and i are 0?

for(T=[B=F=Z=D=i=0];i<600;i++)
This could very easily be ruled out by examining whether the people in the sample were raised in those places or moved there as adults.
>Wikipedia functions worst, IMHO, for politicized issues.

It still functions better than most major news outlets do. Usually the only time I see an article that is very heavily slanted is when it the pet issue of some particular group or cause (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_United_Sta... )

Its rules on sources aren't bad at all, it's just implementation which is a bit dodgy sometimes.
Germany has only 1.9 WiFi hotspots per 10,000 ppl, compared with 29 in the U.K
This demo gives some ideas about how the human brain manages to remember events. With just a few lines of code, containing very little information, it generates something we perceive as a very detailed record of a highway trip at night. Even if we don't know exactly what tricks the human brain uses to compress information about places and events, this demo let's us imagine how some of it might be done.

The human brain is a master at recognising and codifying geometric 3d shapes. The developer who created this is a master at coding geometric shapes and transitions in javascript as well.
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What they would be getting out of this still seems to be a bit of a mystery.
> but it's not restful

Absolutely mandatory comment on each REST API discussion!
It may have to do with maintenance.
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Hang on. I use Silver Searcher but its a reinvention of Ack. Its a better version of Ack that appeared because you reinvented the wheel.
>Android 4.X phones for under $10

did you mean Android 2.x for $40?
Places we hang out:
- http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm
- Micropreneur Academy (http://www.micropreneur.com)

reading material:
- The 7 day startup (http://wpcurve.com/the-7-day-startup/)
- Start Small, Stay Small (a bit dated, but the concepts are worth the read - http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...)

podcasts:
- Startups for the Rest of Us (http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com)
- Bootstrapped with Kids (http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com)
The loop first sets B, F, Z, D and i all to zero. Then it sets T to a new array containing one element, zero.

The key here is that = is a right-associative expression operator which yields the right operand.
We have one of those, a bit more limited as it only works on a single CA.

Give me a week and poke an email to spider@aanstoot.se and I'll see about giving preliminary access.
I would say: T is an array containing one element which is zero.
I thought those numbers were showing that lead and antimony are more common than lithium.
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Yes, the theoretical efficiency limit on electric engines and generators is 100%.
This is so very impressive. I like how it uses canvas to make the moon:

// Moon
c.fillText("(",99,-99);
java script remembers events this way. Dont see how one can apply this to human brain..
May be a look at second 2nd law of thermodynamic would help. Electric motors are efficient but there are still more losses that this company claims.
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OK. I just realized this does something really cool. I've been troubled with 1080p videos as they no longer contain audio. They're separated and YT uses DASH to join the audio+video stream.

youtube-dl seems to solve this: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2165
The Tesla Model S won't regen when the battery is full (or cold), either.
Well at least if it fell it would be buried in a giant hole.
How can the human brain remember hours of highway trips in basically 3 pounds of fat without using some tricks to convert the information in to geometric 3d shapes? The developer who created this demo also know how to do it the other way round, he can write javascript that generate simple geometric shapes and animated transitions in javascript that generates a pretty good rendition of a highway trip at night.
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You're correct and provide useful information. Sorry - sometimes I forget to not use medical terms
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When we did it we didn't even need all the cash for it. Started a company in the EU. Built software on a seed investment. Had software startup valued at USD500k+ merge that into a US company with all the staff from the EU, six of us. Get E-1(2?) visas. Done.
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Where did you find one? That was my phone through college and one of my favorite pieces of design ever. the screen was phenomenal and the interaction fairly unique.
I've never used "ip" in a sysadmin setting - the only command I've ever used on a nix (bsd, OS X, Solars, Linux) is ifconfig - which may just indicate I'm using the wrong command, but also demonstrates the issues involved in switching to a new command.

Re- ifconfig/infiniband - this is ironic - because when I google "configure infiniband linux" - every page I come up with only mentions ifconfig, and never ip.

(though, ifconfig is just used to display the interfaces, and it's usually other commands like ib that seem to be used to configure the infiniband interfaces)
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the cost structure does work out but the complete picture can't be disclosed for competitive reasons. There are a lot of "obvious ideas" that have only come to fruition recently where the technology was already basically proven, but only entered productive use after several generations of systemic improvements made it a competitive choice. For example: LED lighting was around for several decades but only had niche application until gradual cost/quality improvements pushed it ahead of older lighting tech - and now every major city is rushing to replace all their old street lights. With the Gravitricity tech there are factors like the cost of drilling, the strength, cost and density of the materials used, and lifetime maintenance costs relative to other solutions. There's lots of room for expertise to know for sure what the issues and bottlenecks are.

I'm looking through all the dismissive comments to see if any of them are pinpointing it as a scam - because this is, after all, the kind of idea that is simple enough to captivate laypeople and lift dollars out of their pockets. But judging from this kind of response, it seems like it's also the kind of idea that is simple enough to be dismissed as a "they would have done it already if it worked," rationalized via fuzzy back-of-the-envelope math.

Ultimately, since I have no stake in this one, I'll just wish them luck.
Online syncing is not backup, just like RAID mirroring is not backup, but that doesn't make either bad ideas. Dropbox does however archive deleted files for 30 days, and you can pay extra to extend it to a year: https://www.dropbox.com/help/296
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I doubt that (all) humans think in javascript :P Im sure the brain has its tricks, but they dont need to have something in common with the ones used here.
I wonder what Kolmogorov Complexity this program has. Obviously <= 1023.
Some of the other demo's quickly makes my Macbook Pro's fan make noise. This cute 3d demo can go on forever without any noise. And it even has reflection and (fake) shadows.
Principal component analysis and then ignoring the least important components is the only compression technique I know. Hope it helps.
I agree that the 300€ are a big turnoff initially, but it is not a self-employment tax. It's social security contributions and it entitles you to full health coverage (and eventually a pension). Granted, you can get the same in the UK for almost nothing until you actually make money. But the 300€ is about the same as in Germany I believe and you get a big rebate in the first few years if you register as self-employed for the first time.
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As soon as the shadow flowed up the page, I was like, WTF the sun is underground now? This, on a tech news site is.... dumb
> What did the rock do?

Possibly the same trick that the Foreign Legion used in the Sahara; a small stone held in the cheek tricks the mouth into generating more salivia, reducing the perceived 'thirst'.

The underlying hydration isn't addressed but it does psychologically increase endurance between drinking.
I've used this one for so many things and it's awesome.

I've downloaded a whole youtube channel, downloaded videos as mp3's and what not.

I have couple of aliases set in my .zshrc too :)

mp3dl() {
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 $1
}

root@haseebr7 ~ mp3dl <youtube_video_url>

and bam i have the mp3 download. I no longer have to visit shitty ad infested websites to do these kind of things.
Haha, wow, a mechanical engineer was on duty that day.
Are there studies illustrating great discrepancies in programmer productivity?
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So you compared an IaaS (AWS) with a PaaS (GAE) and found different performance profiles.
This is way cool as YouTube separates video and audio streams for 1080p (and up) and then joins them with DASH.
Nice gifmachine - Thank you!
>The basic income is a form of wealth distribution. The poorer people get a larger share of the economy at the cost of the richer people getting a smaller share.

This is much too basic an understanding of the real value of a fixed quantity of dollars to people in different economic classes. $100 to someone making $4,000 a week is a drop in the bucket, $100 to someone making $300 a week is magic.
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this was really beautiful. I almost blurted out it was art but then I was forced to remember we can't call computer generated things art by some hidden rule.
Image the '0' walking left, because it as to follow the =, everything it touches on that path, turns to zero and disappears. What are you left with? Just '0'.

The block quotes provide containment.