skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoke point temperatures found in literature and on the Internet seem to be something of a religion itself. The same could probably be said of cast iron seasoning. I've seen people argue that extra virgin olive oil has one of the highest smoke points. If two sources ever agree on smoke points, I wouldn't bet on it being sourced from independently replicated experiments.

Even when a reference is provided, the reference itself isn't reliable. Cooking seems to be slowly emerging from the dark ages, but there is still a lot of pseudo-science that most people unfortunately don't even realize is exactly that.
The way the lines of force are illustrated (even the colors used) is very reminiscent of New Orbit, which is still one of the most innovative games I have seen for Android.

http://blackish-games.com/neworbit/
One statement that I disagree with is the one that farmers apply the majority of pesticides. In actuality commercial applicators, most likely employees of commercial fertilizer companies or Coops are applying a very large amount of total pesticides.

I spent twenty years in the fertilizer business as an agronomist. Interestingly a government study back in the nineties found a link between commercial pesticide applicators and depression. In that study it was only insecticides that caused problems. Note a large percentage of those insecticides are no longer applied as extensively because of genetically modified seeds.
Yeah I'm no expert so I can't really comment on which book is better. But as someone who knows nothing about AI I'm finding this book pretty fascinating. Seems like a fairly gentle introduction to me.

And I definitely appreciate that it's freely available online.
A job well done. Thank you jgrahamc for your hard work on this issue. I know it's not a general apology to everybody who suffered under such a world, but it's a big step towards everybody learning how to treat each other decently.
I work with optical detectors. There are certainly other materials that can be used for imaging. There are some things going for silicon -- depending on the application of course. Notably, it's sensitive to the visible wavelength range, up into the UV, and can be turned into detectors with extremely low self-noise. It can be manufactured at a level of purity that allows for extremely low electrical leakage that would otherwise add noise. Any system of two or more elements can't reach this purity because it would require an absolutely perfect stoichiometric mixture.

Large "scientific" CCD's benefit from large geometries (typ. 25 micron pixels), which probably contributes to radiation hardening. But it's hard to protect a chip from radiation without keeping it in the dark.

There's also the fact that silicon has received such refinement thanks to the overall semiconductor industry.
This point is sort of irrelevant to the article.

Read this, perhaps instead.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1518694/

The issue is not that they are portrayed as too "hardcore", but rather in general things like depression are over-simplified and dumbed down to stoke consumer demand for narcotic remedies.

(Trivializing the subject is not a good thing.)
This lets you hide bits in punctuation changes (or whatever else you want): https://github.com/countrygeek/stegparty/blob/master/stegpar...
Kevin Rose Introduces New App Watchville
It's natural in the sense that the healthy human body produces s-ame on it own, and if your body ever stopped producing s-ame, you'd probably die since (quoting Wikipedia) "more than 40 metabolic reactions involve the transfer of a methyl group from SAM to various substrates, such as nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and secondary metabolites."
A start-up is born. ;-)
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
Oh how right you are. My experiences are purely anecdotal but there seems to be a recurring theme.

Note: All Rayovac batteries used were confirmed to be alkaline batteries and the Sunbeam batteries it appears are not alkaline. This may have been the reason for the subpar results I experienced yet I question why the Rayovac alkalines I used produced very similar results to the allegedly non-alkaline Sunbeams.

Xbox 360 controller: I've used Sunbeam and Rayovac AA batteries from the dollar store and CVS, respectively. They barely last a week and when I hit the dashboard button to check the state of charge it still shows 2 and sometimes 3 bars but the controller kept disconnecting. Tried 3 other controllers and 3 other battery packs to verify it wasn't a controller/battery holder problem. Same results. Switched to Duracell and not only do they last almost a month but they go all the way until the battery icon is empty and then they cut out. I now use Energizer rechargeable NiMH batteries and they last almost as long as the duracells but I can swap them out quickly.

Paintball marker: I have a relatively high end (it was top of the line back in 2007) paintball marker that I'd been experiencing problems with where it would turn off in the middle of games. At the time I was, again, using either Sunbeam or Rayovac 9V batteries from the dollar store or CVS. I found an old duracell 9V and tested it. It had about half a charge left, perhaps a little more. I put that in and it went strong for a few months and many games before finally crapping out.

Ditto same results for my paintball loader which takes 6 AA batteries or 2 9V batteries. Sunbeam and Rayovac barely worked for a little while but Duracells kept on trucking for a long time.

Ham radio: I have an AA adapter pack for my handheld ham radio but this time it was a 3 way comparison with Sunbeam and Rayovac again taking a distant 3rd place, a rechargeable Maha battery taking 1st and Duracells nipping at the heels of the rechargeable battery for signal strength and general usability when I needed it most.

All that being said and taking into consideration those experiences, all the smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in the house have Duracells in them as I'll be damned if I'm going to take a chance on the generic batteries again.

P.S. I still can't convince my mom to buy Duracells as she insists on getting the generic batteries and then keeps complaining to me that dad gets frustrated that the TV remote "doesn't work like it used to!" (Note: It had Duracells in it for a while before they finally died and were replaced with...Sunbeams!)
> As far as I know, all atypical anti-psychotics have been black boxed (major league warning) for treating the elderly with dementia, the side effects in them are worse than the benefit.

Yes, there has been a major push by Medicare and others to reduce anti-psychotic use in the elderly.
Not only is it not proven for <insert drug here>, it's not even a useful hypothesis in the scientific sense. No one has ever proposed a useful model of the "chemical balance" that is hypothesized to be "imbalanced", so the whole theory is a non-sequitur. It is proposed because the more accurate explanation of "this is a powerful drug that introduces long-term changes to the structure of your brain. A few cherry-picked studies funded by pharmaceutical companies seem to show that there might be some short term amelioration of your symptoms. We have no idea how it works, but that's not surprising, as we have no idea why you have your disorder, or what it is other than a particular constellation of symptoms. We won't find out in the near future, because there's really no money being invested in finding out the ultimate causes for mental illness or in studying the long term effects of these treatments." doesn't get you invited to the really nice pharma-sponsored conferences.
I'm a fan of Blacks, moreso than Franklins. Which ones do you recommend?
A point that one might be able to gather from this is that Whole Foods could be trying to capture some of that by being present where it is used.
Thank you for the info. I apologize for the snark. I was responding to what I believe was a reply that sounded confident but in fact didn't answer the question, a pet peeve of mine.

> LOLA on the Lunar Recon. Orbiter flew as low as 30km and only got down to around 10cm resolution and required around 15-30W

Thank you, this was interesting. Note that Rosetta's solar arrays generate 1500 W.

> You asked why it doesn't have a positioning system: the simple answer is the battery (Philae has only 130Wh or so), cost and whether it's necessary to do the science: it wasn't.

I'll claim that a small, pulsed IR LED array would be sufficient to give sufficient directional information on sub-second timescales with negligible power draw.

I think the scramble to try to determine how Philae had bounced and to locate it on the comet surface is good evidence that ESA thought location info had an important impact on the scientific mission.
Hard to say... had you asked me this question 15 years ago, I would have answered without hesitation, The Hobbit and Ender's Game.

Today, it's a bit less clear, but here is what comes to mind.

Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke

Worthing Saga - Orson Scott Card
What kind of a box do you really need for that, though? The requirements seem to say 4G of RAM, which seems to demand a big VPS or a dedicated box... (would be $40/month for a 4G RAM VPS at digital ocean or Linode)
I did the same thing, but wrote considerably less on the topic, back in 2012.

Definitely fun little devices to play with.

http://robotrising.org/2012/10/capturing-weather-satellite-i...
Thanks for this. I have read the Chronicles of Amber and really enjoyed Zelazny's writing. I will put this on my list of books to read.
20 years ago, I dated a pharmacist and she said that two of the most prescribed drugs that she dispensed was ritalin and Prozac. It shocked me back then, so hearing that anti-psychotics are amongst the highest these days is no surprise, unfortunately.
I could see putting in a Trader Joe's, but Whole Foods? Whole Foods is overpriced silliness. "Organic salt", stuff like that.
> even if he does reinforce a rather negative stereotype of mathematicians).

is there some circmstance in which it wouldn't be sad to hear of that death of someone who "reinforce a rather negative stereotype of mathematicians"? That doesn't sound like a capital offense.
Precisely Clockwork Orange.
Oddly, I used to feel the same. I recall vaguely liking Mutt back in the day, but I really liked gmail. Especially with the keyboard shortcuts enabled (and without... I actually hate it).

Not that surprisingly, the lure of emacs really hit me and I find gnus to be a better interface now. Much better.
Even if the landlords charged no rent, I would not expect to see profits increase significantly, rather I would expect prices to lower (and additional restaurants to open). Of course, if only a small(ish) number of restaurants get free rent, their profits would go up.
YouTube announces Music Key subscription service, starting at $7.99 per month
Having been to MIT, I can second the feeling that MIT is extremely diverse. Of course, I'm sure Caltech has its supporters too.
Trap the Doge, a Fun Mobile Game Launched in the App Store and Google Play
Hey Doge Fans!

A friend and I just launched our 2nd game called Trap the Doge! We are indie developers and would love to hear your feedback on the game! Thanks in advance.

A short preview video can be found on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kancueq_jWE&feature=youtu.be To enjoy playing ‘Trap the Doge’, download it from Apple App Store at the following address: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id907985694; and Google Play at this address: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trapthedoge.ios

The objective of the game is to trap the Doge and thwart his escape plan. At first glance, the game is simple and easy to play. A player just needs to tap the light blue dots on a 9X9 matrix in order to block the path of the Doge. However, after a few trials, you might find that it is not as easy as you thought. It might require some level of strategic planning beforehand in order to trap the Doge within the green dots. Otherwise, the Doge would get around the green dots, reach the edge of the matrix and you will lose! So, think twice before you tap any of the blue dots on the screen! Once the Doge is surrounded by green dots, you are successful. The fewer steps you take to trap the Doge, the higher score you get.

Wow! Very Game! Such Trap! Feel free to contact me at contact@trapthedoge.com
Tom Chen
I really enjoy reading about the trials of entrepreneurs outside The Bubble on HN and this was a great piece of writing. The vignette about the dirt-loving sniper sucked me in.
Justice Department Probes Generic Drug Companies After Price Hikes
Food deserts are real, and caused by consumer choice. Giving people access to health food does not result in an increase in vegetable consumption or a reduction in BMI.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/giving-people-ac...

tl;dr; The issue is demand side, not supply side.
Money. Not altruism or moral compass or even customer demands.

But lost foreign dollars is the wrong argument, right? Restricting the NSA from bulk collecting US citizen data has nothing to do with their legal rights to do the same to non-citizens.

I'd venture to guess that the NSA cares very little how Brazil builds a trans-Atlantic line, they'll still secretly tap it.

And a big HA! for Verizon being sad about the NSA collection while they're unabashedly MITM-ing 100% of its wireless customers.
The general idea sounds cool.
For the most part those people who are in the dark and don't have internet access, don't have a wifi enabled device and the luxury of having/maintaining a satellite receiver thingi to receive someones' offline sub-internet + "sponsored" content.
I hope google's balon project takes off sooner.
Yes, I have. Also, nictotine oral sprays are known to cause them as well, quite consistently.
It's interesting that Kevin Rose always launches his apps on ios first. In my experience it just seems that it's much easier to launch and iterate on android because you don't have the 2 week apple review process. With Google Play, you can pretty much launch a new app version every day, seeing what works and what doesn't.

And the article didn't really mention about tiiny. What's happening with that? Is it still alive?
If you want your pan smoother, you can always sand it smoother. Will need to re-season it afterwards, though.
Don't over-engineer, be bold - be specific.

"Overtly generalized code is the root of all evil."
Why the Internet has turned us into hypocrites
Similar to some of the worlds in the hit game Osmos: http://www.osmos-game.com/
Red's author here. I agree and I apology for the currently poor web site. It was built for the Red and Rebol crowd to help them follow us while we are building Red. As we are getting closer to a beta version, we are planning to move in the next couple of months to a brand new site that will properly communicate about Red to newcomers.

About the syntax and semantics, in a nutshell, it's a Lisp without parentheses and with infix operator support. Tokens are separated by a whitespace or a delimiter (very few of them). Code is a tree of lists (called "blocks" in our local jargon), blocks are delimited by square brackets [].

You can have a look here [1] for a larger code and syntax example.

[1] https://github.com/red/red/blob/master/red.r
Woops, you're right of course, it's Cryptonomicon.

I'm well aware that it's standard financial terminology, but I was referring to how Stephenson satirized it and showed how it provided perverse and destructive incentives.
This is just my guess: now with the funding, there is a need to increase time commitment. I don't know the financial situation of the other cofounder but with 5 kids, man, doing startup for little pay is not an option. I guess the salary is little to none in this case but require full-time.
i'm with you - i don't really take good care of my cast iron pans because they were so incredibly cheap and i just don't care that much. i never 'seasoned' them, i just started using them. i don't wash them regularly, and when i do, sometimes i use soap, sometimes i don't, depending on how negligent i was. it doesn't seem to matter.

they work fine and produce great results with my heavy duty metal utensils (spatula, tongs). they can easily produce non-stick eggs and fish. i can brown->roast without worrying at all about the pan. i have also destroyed every other pan i have ever had, and have learned my lesson - i just won't buy those precious non-stick or anodized or ceramic pans anymore.

to me that's the beauty of cast iron - superior results without having to treat it well. i thought that was obvious but apparently some people have a very different take on it!
I guess I am a bit dense here, this imports CSV files as a table and then adds a SQLish 'CHART' command ?

I'm guessing it is for automating Excel or another spreadsheet? I'm not seeing the whole tool chain and I'm wondering why this isn't built into an RRD of some sort rather than the middleware step of CSV files.
FnordMetric allows you to query data from a number of sources. CSV Files are one of them, but there are other backends like MySQL and the built-in statsd server. So ideally there is no "middleware step": you generate charts using only sql from your backend data source in a single step.
This is absolutely not an apology. Anyone can apologize when their culture tells them some action was wrong. Whether it's persecuting homosexuals, jews, blacks, or whatever. But the fact is British law still persecutes minorities, for example incest is still illegal and people are in prison today for committing that offense. Of course most people agree that it's "wrong" or "immoral" or "sick" - just like they did with homosexuality 50 years ago. So until those other similar persecutions are stopped, this isn't an apology.
Possibly a mild reference to male genitals?
I've talked to some Whole Foods employees about this. Cashiers at the location I frequent have estimated that anywhere from 10% to 30% of their sales are made to people using SNAP. It's hard for me to make sense of it given how much a grocery bill at WF is and how little assistance SNAP offers, but those were the 'numbers'.
I thought I'd tumbled onto 4chan for a moment. If you're going to be critical of others you may want to take the time to form a cohesive argument that isn't riddled with grammatical errors.
This is neat! I wrote a script recently for extracting vocabulary from Chinese texts...kind of the same idea. Are you rate-limited by the Merriam Webster API at all?
Oh wow, that's a fascinating drug. A shame it seems it's not allowed here in Australia?
As someone who built a dashboard app, I tip my hat: this is a very powerful new feature.
How do you know the person who clicked the "Reply" button is the same person who wrote those words?
I personally know zero experts like this.
First you need to setup VR Player as follows:
http://www.vrcircle.com/post/how-to-watch-movies-on-the-ocul...

In VR Player, I found the best options were as follows:

Media Menu Option,
Format: Mono,
Projection: Sphere,
Effects: None,

Device Menu Option,
Layout: Side By Side,
Distortion: Barrel,
Tracker: Oculus Rift DK2,
So to break that article down, all it really is, is a Paid-music subscription to YouTube videos/music? (With no ads, offline use and a music player?) Doesn't seem that worth-while to me..
Of course money. You make the argument that your audience is most likely to hear. And between lobbying and campaign contributions, jobs for their constituents, lost tax revenue and so on... money is the argument Congress is most likely to hear.
Considering Ireland (except Northern Ireland) is now widely accepted to be independent of Britain, doesn't that mean any "treason" supporting that should also seen as acceptable, and Casement should be pardoned from his treason conviction? To maintain it, implies that Ireland really shouldn't be independent, and that anyone still supporting it is also guilty.
I think it's worth looking at the other way; obviously this kind of treatment is wrong when you apply it to anyone, but it is even worse when you apply it to one of the 5-10 most important and accomplished people your nation ever has and probably ever will produce.
We have designed and implemented a new operating system, Arrakis, that splits the traditional role of the kernel in two. Applications have direct access to virtualized I/O devices, allowing most I/O operations to skip the kernel entirely, while the kernel is re-engineered to provide network and disk protection without kernel mediation of every operation.

That's the way IBM mainframes have worked since IBM VM, 1972.

There's a lot to be said for this. For historical reasons, most microprocessor systems have an I/O architecture that's far too much like that of an 1970s minicomputer - device registers with meaning determined by the peripheral. Minicomputers had that because they couldn't afford enough transistors to do mainframe-type channels. That problem went away a long time ago, but the legacy architecture remains.

You need both channels with access control and peripherals designed for channels to make this work without OS intervention. Peripherals may have privileged functions - user programs may be restricted to an address range on a disk, or an IP and MAC address on a network controller.
The Whole Foods in Almaden (affluent South San Jose) hires off-duty San Jose PD to provide security. The officers are in full uniform and carry their utility belt and service weapon.
I really enjoyed reading Snowcrash. It's no literary magic but it's a fun read.
Each area is different I guess. In NYC Whole Foods is among the cheapest of the supermarkets and one of the highest in quality. For example, Gristedes and Morton Williams cost more and their fruits/veges selection is poor.
Don't get too excited about zero-copy. Copying is cheap if the data was recently referenced and is in cache. Conversely, if the data was put in memory by a peripheral device, it costs almost as much as a copy to get it into the CPU's caches.

The bookkeeping associated with zero-copy often exceeds the copying cost. This was the curse of the original message-passing Mach implementation, which gave microkernels a bad name.
Why Virtual Reality Will Break Out in 2015
This is pretty amazing. My team just started using Chart.io because we couldn't find an easy way to turn data in our relational database into charts. Chart.io is pretty great, but there are several other very expensive BI tools that don't offer much more value than this tool provides. Great job.
Show HN: Calling information from Blockchain
How BlackBerry can win mobile security with Bitcoin technology
It's only treason until you live long enough to see your side win.
Is there plans to implement this into a program (executable) or a website?
his point is still valid though
The idea that government regulation enables freedom is no necessarily one that holds water. If that were the case, the government regulations protecting car companies wouldn't be denying Tesla access to certain markets, and the regulations that govern taxi companies wouldn't be denying Uber and Lyft access to their markets.

Admittedly, these aren't apples to apples comparisons, but it strikes me as somewhat ironic that after all of the hullabaloo with the NSA spying and such that we still hold the belief that the government is every trying to do the "right thing".
Gah, true. But would that mean that you would be allowed to swear at someone higher up in the hierarchy, if you were a sailor?
I met Tyson a few weeks ago at Arrogant Swine after the Brooklyn iOS Meetup.

I have to say, from what I saw that night at his restaurant I'm fairly certain he's stumbled upon a formula that is going to work quite well. The place was jam packed, food was delicious and I'm still telling people about the meal and ambiance.

If you're in NYC, definitely go check it out.
Alternate hypothesis: less overall original research in general because we're not actually building on the new stuff, just continuously almost replicating results because no one bothered to read the new stuff.