skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initially I agreed with what you say here.

After some thought, one aspect came up that I'd be interested in your views about:

It's like they said it was wrong to persecute a gay man for being gay, but only if you help invent the computer and help defeat the Nazis.
What about all the other gay men persecuted under the same law?

What you say here is so obviously right that is is difficult to argue with. Maybe pardoning Turing is a necessary first step to see that everyone deserves similar treatment?

(Non-gay, white male. Not sure it matters in this response.)
> The vehicle is still undergoing testing, the facility may not have figured out or implemented the ride-quality algorithms yet.

The Maglev train between Shanghai airport and the city is perfectly stable at 500 km/h if I remember correctly. Japan is very, very late for Maglev technology.
could also might have been renamed: the diminishing impact of modern paper because every scientists know they are not worthy.
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From what I've read, the regulation prohibits ISPs from blocking lawful traffic, but it doesn't require them to block unlawful traffic, or give them any greater ability to block unlawful traffic than they already have.
It looks like you can see the lander, up in the air and casting a shadow on the surface in the 2nd image. If it is, you can get a good estimate of its horizontal velocity from the image timestamp.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13gzxiwdkq2clyew22...
I understood the point, I have been on SNAP before and I am aware that $138 isn't a whole lot of money for food. I was merely stating that there are at least $1 billion dollars of SNAP money per year in Chicago and Whole Foods is trying to get some of that money by being present. It is not the only reason, just one of many. Also, SNAP recipients pay for food with cash too, it's not like being on SNAP means you cannot spend other income on food.
Typical victim blaming. Everyone knows poor people have no agency.
In case anyone else was slightly mixed up like I was: Joe Haldeman the author is not H.R. "Bob" Haldeman of the Nixon administration, who died in 1993. It was Howard Hunt who was the novelist (and Watergate burglar), not the White House Chief of Staff.

I have no idea if I'm the only ex-journalist geek who might possibly mix this up, but I figured I'd share. It doesn't help that Forever War was published in 1974, the year Nixon resigned... it just mashes it all together in my brain.
> I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with someone being paid twice for the same service, although it comes across as incredibly greedy, but the end effect is that consumers pay more and the ISPs get more profit, because the content providers' costs will be passed on to consumers.

Well there are obvious conflicts of interest here. Many ISPs are also content providers. E.g. Comcast has xfinity TV streaming which competes pretty directly with Netflix.

So if Netflix has to pay an exorbitant amount to link a server to Comcast but Comcast can stream stuff to their customers basically for free...
I loved the pictures I could take with my f1.4 - particularly macro photography, insects, flowers, etc.. but also low-light portrait photography. The f1.4 lets in a ton of light, and shoots really fast, so you can get a low-light portrait with great bokeh. The second best lens I ever purchased for my camera was the Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM.
But turning an off-label use into an on-label one to promote it has its own nasty consequences, even if the drug is proven to work for the new indication (or whatever).

Consider Lucentis vs Avastin. Ophthalmologists were using Avastin off-label for wet AMD. Genentech was making a huge multifaceted effort to discourage off-label use because they had sunk a bunch of effort/$ into the order-of-magnitude-more-expensive Lucentis for not much of an improvement. Similar situation and different ending with Lumigan (glaucoma/ocular hypertension eyedrops) vs Latisse (eyelash enhancer), where Latisse's patent (afaik) was thrown out because Allergan was trying to patent a known major side effect of Lumigan.

I'm not a fan of misleading promotions of off-label uses either, but I wish there was a middle ground still banning that that didn't also involve more patents and protection.
Neighborhoods in Boston, lower life expectancy than Ethiopia and Sudan
Quote taken from this article as well: http://time.com/3182726/if-you-want-to-see-inequality-in-the...

This article was discussed on hacker news nearly 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8240886
> Locking down computers using UEFI Secure Boot and taking control away from the owners of the machine.

Microsoft requires that x86 UEFI machines be unlockable by end users.

In comparison, Apple has locked down various aspects of their desktop machines for years.
TempleOS is finish being written. Now, I am in charge of marketing TempleOS. I am High Priest.
>>this fraction has grown 28% since 1990

Is 28% growth over 25 years significant? How did the growth in the last 10 years look? Somehow the algebra in the article makes for a far more moot point.
How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_Euler_method ?

That's what I used in http://wry.me/t/gravity/gravity.html (Which is not in Elm; it simulates a solar sail instead of a rocket.)
Why not, precisely?
If you look closely, even express trains don't have a high average speed. The companies like to boast that they're fast but it's usually only for a couple miles of track.
In the violin tuning, a human just
listens to the beats. In principle,
a tone deaf person could do that.
So, the beats just need sensitivity to
volume, amplitude modulation,
not really frequency. So, the
frequency stuff is in the violin, not
the human.
This may be a good place to ask this question -- We are a small startup that has its data in MySQL database and google analytics. We are now focusing a lot more on our marketing/advertising efforts, and would love to have a dashboard on a big screen that can collect, show, and update this data everyday (or better still, real-time). What do people use for something like this?
Yes, total metric fail. Sigh.
At InternMatch.com, we use Geckoboard - it pings our Rails app periodically for stats. Our Rails app uses this gem to expose endpoints to Geckoboard: https://github.com/ejdraper/chameleon

We do a bunch of other cool stuff too for stats. I'd be happy to help you if you ping me :)
Whole Foods has a huge selection of niche products. Trader Joe's specifically carries a very limited number of items and much of stock is their brand.
Could it be that this technique is not as broadly applicable as the existing JIT techniques? Would it be possible to use the approach taken with Higgs to implement a language with a more open ended object system such as ruby? In JavaScript there's an upper bound on what a + b could mean, does BBV work well for more general method dispatch?
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In an enterprise project some would be changing the widht instead.
RedPhone: open source app for encrypted voice calls for Android
Almost anything by Vernor Vinge. "A Deepness in the Sky" in particular is amazing. I was/am particularly impress by how he handles the idea of fundamental limits on the scope of human achievement, and by how he weaves that into the story so that it's there at all levels.

"Diaspora" by Greg Egan has a great story, huge ideas, and probably the most cogent explanation of sentience/sapience ever written.

"The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" and "Accelerando" have already been mentioned.

"Reteif!" Made me laugh out loud. Larry Niven's "Destiny's Road" points out the difficulty of interstellar colonization. "Ringworld" blew my mind. Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Syn" taught me to pay attention; "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams reinforced the lesson.

There are a lot of good ones; I could go on for ages...
If I remember right, this machine inspired the discovery of gibbs phenomena. One of the few times a mathematical result was seen in practice before writing it down on paper.
Good point. We could have voted in more Democrats, what with their demonstrated position against NSA surveillance. Like Pelosi.

Wait.
Direct link to the eBook PDF: http://www.engineerguy.com/fourier/pdfs/albert-michelsons-ha...

Direct link the the accompanying video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg&list=PL0INsTTU1k...
Thank you! I'll definitely have to ping you in a day or two. BTW, Geckoboard seems to have most integrations that we would need. I'm wondering if you used any of them and if you'll say that the integration was very straight forward or if it needed to be told a lot to be useful
Thank you for detailed answer!
Yes, but there are only 3 Trader Joe's in all of Manhattan. Two of them are down near NYU and the other is on the Upper West side, which makes them difficult to access for people living in midtown, uptown and virtually the entire east side.

On the upper east side, where I live, the options are pretty much Gristedes, Morton Williams, Food Emporium and Fairway. Gristedes and Morton Williams are overpriced with a bad selection of produce. Food Emporium is worse. Fairway's prices are more reasonable and the produce selection is actually quite good, but I tend to think the quality of Whole Foods' produce is a bit better.
The french has the conventional rail record with ~574kph (357 mph) [1].

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_world_speed_record
If I recall correctly, the Shanghai one topped out at around 478km/h... They actually run at that speed only a couple times per day.
I too agree. It's the holy grail to directly draw using a database source by skipping the middle man.
If you can't afford Geckoboard, Dashing is open source https://shopify.github.io/dashing/

There's a tutorial specifically about MySQL https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/How-to%3A-send-mysql...

And a variety of Google Analytics (and other platform) widgets https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets
Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana is a wonderful match for this if you want really deep dive into your data. You can slice and dice and aggregate and display it in a ton of different ways.

For counters, statsd + Librato is dead easy to set up and is really nice for communicating key metrics easily.
Chuck Hagel Lays Out Weapons Plan
Some notable features of Higgs include:
- A self-hosted runtime written in extended JavaScript
- Lazy/incremental JIT compilation Context-driven versioning of basic blocks
- A Foreign Function Interface (FFI) system to interface with C code
- An interactive shell (REPL) with access to low-level primitives.
- A simple module system and a set of useful libraries.

I like these features. This is simply awesome.
I think it is just a language problem. I presume you are talking about this train: http://www.smtdc.com/en/gycf3.html which is, according to the web site, still just running on a test track with a max speed of 430 km/H, which is a little bit more than 43mph slower than the Japanese demonstration. It looks like the maiden voyage of that test train was 2002 and it is still not a "production" train, no doubt owing to the challenges of putting a maglev train into production.

But the article wasn't about "maglev trains" in general, it was about a specific one. And so the comparison is moot except to compare how each system has approached the challenges of building and/or productizing such fast trains.

When I read your comments I felt like it was a Chinese boast/Japanese putdown not an actual comment. As I understand it there is some animosity between Japan and China, and with that understanding it felt to me that your comments were simply being mean rather than adding to the conversation.

So given that you have first hand experience with the Shanghai train, do you have any insight into what has kept it from being deployed into a production capacity? Articles like this one in Time (http://content.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,3148...) portray it as a sort of entertainment ride, like a roller coaster might be in an amusement park.
Hey dang - I noticed the comment below I made which stuck to the top for most of this thread's life dropped to the bottom at the time you commented here.

What's the process for penalising posts in this situation?

Is it just an individual decision where you've decided it distracts from a valuable discussion?

I see I could have been a little less harsh with the damnning commentary (only to a point), but ultimately if we're all scientifically-minded then knowing that the internal targets were airbrushed for the public is a bit of a cerebral 'what?' I'd expect we're down with exploring on HN.
Many people are moving from linux to *bsd in protest of systemd.
> corporate capture of politics

If you look at which companies can actually make things happen in DC[1], it's the ones that are regulated (the reasons for this should be obvious with some thought). Those are not Silicon Valley companies, by and large, but telecommunications firms like AT&T and VZ.

And it's those telecommunications firms that have long-standing surveillance "partnerships" with the NSA, according to leaked Snowden docs, which I wrote about last year here:
http://www.cnet.com/news/surveillance-partnership-between-ns...

Here's one reason those regulated telecom companies may not be eager to see reform happen:

"ATT, Verizon, Sprint Are Paid Cash By NSA For Your Private Communications"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013/09/23/attveri...

[1] AT&T/VZ/Comcast rolled Google/eBay/etc. on Net neutrality in Congress. Twice. Silicon Valley-backed NN bills were defeated in both the House and the Senate. And heck, Silicon Valley can't even get a permanent R&D tax credit passed. They've been trying forever to get a ECPA reform passed (this has failed). DMCA reform? Over a decade, nothing. They should be heavyweights or superheavyweights but they're bantamweights instead.
I would love to completely skip integration between a database (not .csv or .sql) and chart for something like this: http://phpdatagrid.com/examples/phpgrid_phpchart_integration.... As you can see, it's the most tedious task combing server and client side scripts. However, it also the most flexible. So the important question is how flexible is to create complex charts that have many different attributes.
For someone who follows this stuff and likes Joe Haldeman I noticed exactly one new piece of information in the interview: Heinlein didn't just like The Forever War, he read it three times. High praise.

War Year is interesting in that it was originally written to be published as part of a series of novels for students of adult literacy programs which never took off. You wouldn't notice that the novel deliberately avoids ten-dollar words and overly complex sentences. It was a good (but pretty dark) book. Interesting to see it discussed in a new interview.
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It's offensive (calling someone an idiot) in British English
I too am wondering this. This tool would be great if it could directly use data from my own databases. But it seems data has to be imported first:

http://fnordmetric.io/documentation/chartsql/external_data_s...
In case this is helpful: I interned at a company, Polychart, where we built a product similar to chart.io that is now open source and can be self-hosted: https://www.polychart.com/
ISPs act the way they do because they've bought the right from the "publicly accountable" people we're expecting "bow to public pressure." I personally trust GoDaddy to bow to public pressure way before the FCC.
Just read about Roundup being commonly used by wheat farmers to "desiccate" the crop before harvest (allowing for earlier harvest). Maybe this whole gluten intolerance thing is actually a Roundup intolerance.
You can bring any idea discussion over to Ideas on Techendo:
https://ideas.techendo.com/
wow, it would be great to have meet-ups at Chennai, India and to collaborate with new people and share about trending tech projects. I am quite interested.
It's true what you are saying (not everyone..) but I am not sure that there's so much creativity in 99% of the food industry. Take NaOH, he makes pretzels, using a very good recipe that he probably doesn't want to change, how much innovation can he put in that? Please note that I'm not critizing or bashing his work,not at all, I've upvoted his posts because I found them very interesting, it's just that I think that when you move to "professional" food production, at some point what you are asked is delivering with consistency, and you have less space for being creative.
I like cooking, I am not bad at it, and when I moved to this country (Luxembourg, coming from Italy) I was unemployed and so I was joking with friends saying things like "if I don't find a job I could open a restaurant" but of course it was just a joke, first of all because you should really have worked in that sector before starting to do something on your own, and second because one thing is cooking a good Risotto for your family once a week, another thing is doing it for 10 tables every single day...I think it can become quite repetitive and not enjoyable
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I "trust" the telecoms more, because it's illegal to start a competitor to the FCC if I don't like how they're doing their job.

That's not to say that the current batch of telecoms are trustworthy, but at least there is recourse in the form of competition (see: Google Fiber), while if the FCC goes off the deep end we're irrevocably pooched. And...we have immediate history demonstrating that the FCC is corruptible for external agendas. I don't know why people think they would suddenly become above reproach if net neutrality legislation were enacted.
Please explain why it is FUD rather than just being condescending.
In Japan, there are two independently developed maglev trains. One is HSST by Japan Airlines and the other, which is more well-known, is SCMaglev by the Central Japan Railway Company.

The development of the latter started in 1969, and Miyazaki test track had regularly hit 517 km/h (321 mph) by 1979 but, after an accident that destroyed the train, a new design was decided upon. -- Wikipedia

I'd say Japan got into the technology quite early...
Well, a traditional wheel, made from three wooden boards (|), doesn't see much application today. ;)
The Shanghai maglev is 19 miles long. However, it leaves you at an inconvenient spot, and another 20 minute subway ride outside of the center of the city. This is discussed on the Wikipedia page:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train

My understanding is that it was suppose to terminate closer to the center but people were afraid of the magnetic fields and protested.
If you want to use that kind of dumb lazy argument you could also say that the American people voted against NSA spying when they voted against Obama's administration.

But what people actually voted on was a media hype alternate universe that has little to do with any real issues.
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Manhattan sucks for decent affordable groceries because semitrailers, are not permitted in most of the city. Everything has to be transferred to smaller trucks, which usually means a pass through, and possibly resale at, the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx, or through some facility in New Jersey. In many parts of Manhattan, trucks aren't allowed at all during the daytime. So there's lots of extra handling required.

(Ref: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/tm1trafpolicies.pd...)

Older cities with narrow streets have it even worse, with little warehouses where the medium-sized trucks transfer to tiny trucks.
Based on the story in the video the sculptures were only recorded while on the glass (and only from one angle) before the operator accidentally destroyed them. This indicates all images with something else in it were photoshopped.
Love this. Great work!
Yikes; I will not be registering there but I like the idea of the website.
Yeah, I was really big into elm until I started noticing how slow many of my programs were on Firefox. Everything runs great in Chrome however.
So which propaganda are you specifically trying to ban?

>It's unlike it because it's far easier to establish emotional connections and paint a rich world full of counter factuals. Fiction can easily establish itself as a reference point for future ideas, such as on AI.

The thing about rich worlds full of counterfactual events is that, being completely unrealistic, they have no influence on real life. There's a reason the people who accomplish big things in real life usually spent a lot more of their time reading textbooks than novels.

If you want to raise artificial intelligence as an example, the very ridiculousness of the body of fictional evidence from which to generalize has probably set back the field by decades, because people keep running around chasing nonsense ideas out of the sorry imaginations of philosophers of mind and science-fiction writers rather than following the obvious research leads that stare into the face of anyone who bothers to actually look with a clear head.

But I'm sure that anyone complaining about how speculative fiction is dangerous would probably say the opposite: that giving people bad models to work from somehow makes them more likely to discover real, working science.

Anyway, point being, the thing about having movies where pandimensional posthumans open wormholes to save mankind from omnivirulent crop blight is that they don't make space exploration dangerous.
Man, this is awesome. Great on several levels: (1) will allow paralyzed people to talk with their loved ones. (2) This technology might have implications for persons stuck in comas, specifically waking comas. This is just conjecture, of course. (3) As this technology matures, it might offer benefits to non-paralyzed users. Perhaps we'll finally have a method of input that is faster and, perhaps, more pleasant than using a keyboard?
Indictment: Former cop taught clients how to 'beat' polygraph exams
How did the Enigma machine work?
That's because in our society you're either free to explore and use your imagination or are expected to sit down quietly and listen to what the teacher is saying.

Masaru Ibuka (a startup founder himself) has written a book "Kindergarten is too late" where he explores the idea of tying learning to a creative and exploratory urge that exists in every kid (but most commonly is expected to channel through games, not education).
It kind of bothers me how he says in the video the whole thing got destroyed when the EM operator wanted to image them from another angle, while at least one of the sculptures appears in multiple angles.

It also bothers me that the sculptures have these layering artifacts, which match 'normal' 3D printing technique but I don't see how horizontal 'pixelation' should be more prominent than vertical ones in the technique used here (on micro scale).
Scientists finally invent real light sabers
> Heat the pan after cleaning, evaporating all water.

Don't do that. It causes rust.

Metal rusts MUCH faster when hot than when cold. If you have wet metal that you are worried will rust get it as cold as possible, and let it dry. Best place is in the fridge - it's cold, plus low humidity helps.

A fridge is not necessary for cast iron, but don't heat it when wet.
It's not cultural, it's a societal perspective. Not sure about other countries, but at least in India there's a secondary education test that everyone has to take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Secondary_School_Exam...

Results are published, and colleges then make their decisions based on the results of those test. If you don't outperform your peers, your pathway to a good career will get significantly more complicated.
Big screens are great for dashboards. I don't use Google Analytics (access and reliability of Google products is unstable where I am) so turned to Piwik, which stores analytical data in a database, so you have immediate access to, well, everything. Querying this can be easily automated.