skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But housing situation is extremely shitty. You are forced to live in shoebox for a LOT of money."
Depends, I am in Noe Valley and its pricey but nice. It really comes down to values/lifestyle preferences. Do I really want to live in a giant place where I can accumulate lots of stuff or do I want to live a bit lighter and be able to do world class hiking every weekend year round.

"People waste enormous hours in traffic every day."
Not unique to here. Experienced the same in South Florida growing up and Chicago for the brief period where I didn't work close to where I lived.

"State is in huge debt and public school system is one of the worse."
Not really on my radar as I am in my mid twenties. Also, plenty of places where this is the norm anyhow.

"Govt is not able to develop infrastructure with growth. And you still pay everything through nose added with state and city taxes."
Infrastructure hasn't really been an issue. Taxes are high no doubt. So is tech income.

"The place is enormously overcrowded to be pleasant."
Not sure how you define this, SF proper is full but would prefer that to Detroit without a second thought.

"Significant portion of population is possibly undocumented exploited immigrants who don't even speak english."
I hate the idea of exploiting people regardless of well, anything. I love the idea of immigrants and I am not worried about the population not speaking English. Any urban area is going to have multiple languages and immigrants. It means interesting culture and experiences. Most places I have been where its ~100% English speaking have been rather depressing.

"People who often feel its nice out there are usually coming from mid west small town with nothing to do or super-crowded places like NJ/NY. People from places like Seattle, Florida, Portland or New England might not feel they have ended up at better place."
I grew up in a beautiful area of South Florida, went to school in Chicago and lived in the hippest of hip areas in Chicago. It simply depends on what you are into. I wanted to go outside and recreate all 12 months of the year the midwest is rather lame. Too cold and not much of interest ecologically/geographically. There are many great places to live, but not that many at the epicenter of the tech universe.
I bet Naloxone/Narcan isn't available over the counter so it isn't as available as it should be. First I'm hearing of this.
Except as Google is demonstrating by just outright closing Google News Spain, they don't have to put up with that bullshit. They are so big in so many countries dropping one won't do anything for their bottom line (especially when Google News itself makes them no money directly) and the news lobby in Spain gets to rip itself a new one destroying itself out of greed.
Why 'jokingly'? I'm a firm believer that anyone with the right mindset can really open their minds to different paths and different ways of thinking once experimenting with psychedelics. Politicians are no different to say, a builder and an engineer. They would benefit, just like the engineer would.

Therein lies the problem though. It comes down to mindset. Psychedelics are great for helping people with anxiety, stress/tension and helping them remove dependence on medication, alcohol and so on (my experience) as it helps you step outside the square and play the whole "mind over matter" thing. That being said, if you're an anxious person, there's a chance that being on a "trip" would make you even more so. That wasn't the case for me. I believe in myself, I just needed to see myself outside the square.

I would imagine for Politicians especially, they may be able to discover something within themselves on just that: _themselves_. They're people, like you and I. I'm sure there's plenty out there who have crippling anxiety over something. Undue stress about another thing. Rely on alcohol to get to sleep, and so on.

I used to have the worst anxiety until I tried psychedelics for the first time (many years ago) and I still remember every second from that wonderful journey. I am confident the world would be a better place with healthier and happier people. (note: not everyone needs to if they can face their problems/demons without any help)
I'm guessing they're way better at lawyering than coding
The UP2414Q is IPS, so viewing angles should not be a problem.
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They are cheating :-)

The laser and sensor aren't standard Lego parts. Still impressive.
Interesting point you bring up. I don't know if we know enough about how these substances work that we can make those distinctions.

I will say that I personally think the experiences themselves are powerful enough psychologically on their own to have lasting effects, similar to the effects you would get from other worldly experiences. Psychedelics do differ from "real" experiences in that they are comparatively brief, more intense, and have other unique characteristics (such as ego loss). I think that the intensity of those experiences, if repeated enough times, definitely has the potential to permanently change you psychologically (and potentially negatively). Fortunately, that intensity also has built in anti-addictive properties, so most users would not be endangering themselves in that way.
> I've personally found that setting up a wifi gui is harder than just manually editing simple and straightforward config files.

Wicd-curses is very usable.
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This is why the behavior of AEDE here disgusts me, while I am a fan of attempts to break up Microsofts business and desktop monopolies.

Google is in a symbiotic relationship with news agencies here. They may not like it, but Google is not ripping anyone off operating a news aggregator, and their willingness to just up and leave proves it. Spanish media just wanted a piece of the Google pie and now it is biting them in their own ass and now they are trying to use the state to force Google to give them money. Its like they want their mafia dues for owning the state enough to pass bullshit like the original law.
Really? Thanks for the warning.

I avoid Broadcom parts anyway but that's just messed up.
Emacs is an outstanding image-based IDE for Elisp, with extensive support for text editing. It's a dynamic environment where you can script your way out of any situation as you go, without restarting and recompilation and so on, which is probably its most powerful feature. No wonder you need to know how to script it to appreciate this power - but I don't think Emacs hides this feature from users. On the contrary, the second thing you see when running vanilla Emacs (after its logo and greeting) is a scratch buffer, so a feature directed at users who want to customize or extend Emacs.
Detect on add? Not sure. Detect before add? Simple!

bool int_add_safe(int a, int b) {
if (a >= 0 && b >= 0)
return INT_MAX - a >= b;
if (a < 0 && b < 0)
return INT_MIN - a <= b;
return true;
}

If you ever have an instance that will result in an overflow you've got some kind of bug on your hand. Or at least some kind of circumstance that requires special handling. You don't want to overflow, not perform the add, or perform the add and discard the overflow. All three sucks and sweep a bug under the rug in some instance. Computers suck sometimes. :(
I think that guess is accurate and was a big consideration. If it were for an interplanetary vehicle, multi-months, etc, then yes clearly you'd want a design that assumed stronger/longer radiation exposure. Plus redundancy becomes even more desirable if you have humans inside the tin can.
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FWIW, I found the very best method to help kids learn to actively do things was letting them do the things they chose to do instead of mom imposing on them her will and deciding for them. But that seems to be an enormously difficult concept to convey to other adults who seem to have no real understanding that the most important ingredient here is personal agency, even if they are only 2 years old and just want to do things that seem rather silly to adults.
At least make the tax health-dependent. As a non-overweight person I'd hate to have to pay a premium for any kind of food.
How much money did he start with? Why not publish his complete trading history? With these kind of stories we are never given the actual data and I think it's dangerous as it encourages others to speculate with money they can't afford.

There was a story on CNN yesterday where a person said instead of paying off their student loan they had invested in the stock market and they were doing going great. Of course they neglect to mention that he started investing in 2009 and not in 2007.
Yes, it does. SD cards are not really designed for being used as a root file system. They are OK at streaming writes and reads, but once you start getting non sequential they slow down like you wouldn't believe. Which, yes, I know, is super weird for what should just be some glue logic around a NAND.

I was investigating corruption and performance problems with our root filesystem on an SD card. The cards would be great a obvious benchmark style tasks, but when I recorded the block access pattern from our driver and replayed that on a Linux desktop with O_DIRECT, we'd not only get under 200KiB/s average access speed (which matched what we were seeing on the embedded system), but we would also get corrupted sectors (ie. we write it just fine, but we just get an error back from the card when we go to read the sector) in less than a day of sustained writes (once again at only 200KiB/s). And this was with high quality SanDisk cards that were then verified by them to be real cards (for a while we thought that clones had made their way into our supply chain). Using a weird form factor eMMC chip in an SD card got rid of these issues. There's also "industrial" SD cards that are around the same price that I suspect are basically the same thing.
> You cannot be serious. A 1000+ line long setup() method that creates a ton of one-off elements, sets a million properties, and saves them all as instance variables is in no way superior to using some XML to structure your elements, and then a separate, extracted layer for styling. I've done the procedural shit before, in Java, UIKit, Cocoa, you name it. There's just no way you can actually think that is better. Presentational separation is a good thing. (btw you can write your UI in the same procedural way in Javascript if you think it is superior/are a masochist).

Depends what I am doing.

Shipping a large scale commercial app with thousands of UI elements? I sure as heck pull everything out.

But if I am making an app that has a dozen UI elements and maybe a couple of screens in total? It isn't worth my time to switch tabs between my code and an XML file.

> I write polished, pixel-perfect, cross-platform interfaces, and HTML/CSS is the best tool I have found for the job.

Pixel perfect is trivial in any system. Winforms can do pixel perfect, and has a damn hard time doing anything else!

A UI that scales across screen sizes? A UI that auto adjusts itself as needed? You can do it in CSS (many websites do!) but isn't fun.

And I do wonder how you found CSS, a layout language which until recently couldn't even do simple math, to be the best tool for creating UIs.

There have been decent CSS pre-processors out for awhile, sure, those work. If you do parts of your layout using JavaScript at run time, hey, that can also work.

But pure CSS before CSS3? Bleck.
Well that's still rather related to legal issues. If opiates didn't have legal issues, then the social stigma would drop and people wouldn't need to go on these binge rehabs. Also note that other very popular legal drugs require care when going on or off. Eg benzodiazepines can cause death if suddenly discontinued. SSRIs also require care when stopping. Yet these two groups are the most prescribed medications, ever.
In practice, there is no such thing as "no optimization" in C.

If you map every variable read to a memory read and every variable written to a memory store, your code will run incredibly slow. At the least, you will want to do register allocation and constant folding.

That's not so bad w.r.t. undefined behavior, but you also will want to do dead code elimination. If you don't, program size will blow up (think of macro definitions for DEBUG) That dead code elimination is what causes many of those portability issues.

In C, undefined behaviour is the price we pay for small code size and fast execution.

Also, are you sure C# doesn't optimize code marked DontOptimize? I'm asking because the documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.compi... says "The method is not optimized by the just-in-time (JIT) compiler or by native code generation (see Ngen.exe) when debugging possible code generation problems.", but doesn't tell what that last phrase means.
A plane that will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours
I'm surprised that so many people don't know this. Back in the day, StrongARM and XScale were used in most (if not all?) of the PDAs. Intel could've easily had a monopoly today if they continued developing the technology.
It's a trade-off between features/usability and price. I'm sure this one has its niche. It's much cheaper than a Lego Mindstorms kit, and probably easier for kids to use since they have the android and ipad interfaces.

But there is an ultra low cost (~$10) robot kit in the works (trade-off of course being less features/usability), but it's not available yet: https://sites.google.com/site/affordableeducationrobot/home

At $99 is the Pi-Bot http://pi-bot.org/

$50 Hack-E-Bot http://www.hack-e-bot.com/

$100-$150 littleBits http://littlebits.cc/

$99-$250 Finch & Hummingbird http://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/

$250 Arduino Robot http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Robot

$100-$150 Parrot Minidrones http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/minidrones/

and many others
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I'd say there's an upper bound where more money doesn't correlate with any positive emotions, but poverty is most definitely misery.
> I'd suggest you consider the possibility that obesity is just as likely to be a symptom of poor health as it is to be the cause of it.

I gladly acknowledge that possibility, but you should acknowledge the likelihood that the medical community is roughly correct in its belief that obesity does in fact cause a huge number of health related problems regardless of whether this is "primary". My claim above does not rest on obesity being the dominant factor.

> it's asinine to believe that folks can eat horribly and live sedentary lifestyles without serious consequence.

Misunderstanding someone's claim and then suggesting that their beliefs are asinine is not a good way to get people to engage productively with you.
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Valgrind doesn't work on windows.
Old-school is not particularly old. I was expecting something like CDE.
The native AES encryption instruction set on AArch64 might also be really useful if you do any kind of encryption.
He's being downvoted for being rather insulting. I'd further your point to: education. People are realising that cannabis isn't actually that bad for you, won't turn you into a criminal and that it has a lot of benefits.

Hush drug for the poor, it ain't.
I'm confused here. You said something that was on the surface absurd, got downvoted on it, which I would assume would at least cause you to re-examine your original premises, and then came back doubling down on your original statement, which I interpret as dismissal of the downvotes as just hive mind thinking about a subject they're very clearly wrong about. So, do you honestly actually believe that most Americans are more concerned with copyrights than torture? And if so, what leads you to this conclusion?

This question is not meant to be hostile, I am not American so I have no horse in this race, I just want to understand where you're coming from.
If Intel thinks a 65% margin for IoT silicon will be achievable, they'll probably lose again.
I'm thinking the banning was probably not a conspiracy to suppress "enlightenment" for the benefit of the status quo. The people who did the banning almost certainly never tried psychedelics (which they very well may have if they really believed it would give them extra super powers and make them smarter... a view sometimes seen on HN which I believe may be a bit overblown).

I'm thinking the keyword is "unexpected". People who took psychedelics behaved in an unexpected and unpredictable fashion. When it was a few Native Americans and University researchers, no big deal. When it became a large percentage of America's young people dressing up funny and doing weird things (i.e. anti-social from the perspective at the time)... well, that's a different matter and steps _had_ to be taken! Western civilization hates and fears the unknown.

So as usual with these types of things (terrorism, communism etc). everything got all blown out of proportion and the person who screamed "Fire" the loudest got the most air time while anyone who dissented was highly suspect and had trouble staying employed. You know, the usual nonsense that seems to repeat throughout history.

There probably was a (very small) seed of reality at the base of the hysteria. Twisting everything around can on occasion produce undesired side effects along with whatever benefits are claimed. The idea of drugs for extra powers of perception is not new. Psychedelics have been used for thousands of years. While I am in full agreement that they may on occasion lead to individual realizations which can be useful, if psychedelics were a magic answer for creative thinking, then it would have been a tribe of jungle natives sailing over to greet the linear thinking palefaces rather than the other way around....

Should psychedelics be legal? To that I answer... what are laws when time and space are expanding? (real answer... I don't know. I guess I don't care either. But I don't think people should be criminally prosecuted for drug use. I believe I would be wary of mass commercial availability. Not for the masses I think.)
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You just timestamp the messages and give them a TTL. The worms can use ntp to sync.
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Several anti obesity medications had weight loss amounts of 5.9, 4.7, and 4.2kgs.

Average long term weight loss for diet 2.0 or 7.1kgs(only 55% of people responded so huge selective bias could be present)

I think the gap is nonexistent or much closer than you think. It looks like pills are pretty close to as effective at causing weight loss as changing your diet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_obesity#Medicatio...
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.short
> you cannot put workspaces next to each other and get an overview of multiple windows at the same time

While I personally prefer a single-monitor no-workspace setup, there do exist several window managers that let you independently choose workspaces for different monitors rather than having each workspace specify a layout for all monitors. For instance, the window manager "awesome" uses tags (primarily 1-9) for windows, and lets you say "this monitor should display 1, and this one should show 2-3".
This is not true. It's quite easy to trip hard enough to be disconnected enough from understanding some things will cause permanent damage that you won't want. For instance, thinking that blood is life energy and so is electric so why not connect the two? Additionally, the idea of death can become non-scary entirely (which can make it great in therapy), lowering inhibitions.

Perhaps it's not common to have such problems, but your key word is responsibly. It's misleading to suggest that an uncontrolled bad trip can't easily result in tragedy. (Not that that's good justification for making it illegal.)
> The optimal viewing distance for reading is called the Harmon Distance.

I’m not an expert here (I had to look up the Harmon Distance), but from what I understand from other reading about eye strain, this should be rephrased as:

“Reading gets less comfortable if the material is any closer than the Harmon Distance, with some variation depending on age and individual differences between people.”

In particular, there are two factors that make focusing at close distance uncomfortable: (1) you need to flex the ciliary muscles to focus the lens (this is called “accommodation”), and (2) you need to flex the medial rectus muscles to rotate the eyes inward to point at the same spot (this is called “convergence”).

Both sets of muscles start getting strained if you look at a very close object for a long time with no breaks.

Looking at further away objects, even all the way out to the horizon, isn’t really a problem though.
No, it's not a Windows problem. Actually Windows 8.1 has a pretty reasonable Hidpi support with infinetly adjustable scaling factor. I have my 28" 4k set to 175%, but I could also put it to 300% which would be ok for 250dpi.
Overall I get better results than with various linux desktop managers.

Win 8.1 also allows to set the dpi independently for each connected monitor. That's important when you connect a 4k screen to an average notebook or a tablet to a TV.

The main problems are the applications (Steam - I'm looking at you) which were not written to support a higher DPI. Some of them will simply be lineary upscaled by Windows which causes bluriness but at least makes them usable. However other ones will have tiny user interfaces. But with 150dpi they are at least still usable when you have to set them to non-scaling (100%).

I think it will still take some time until the problems are fully resolved. Most developers have no hidpi screens and therefore can't even see the problems they're supposed to fix.
Integer overflow is really a strange problem - it is no problem at all on the assembly level but then we abstracted away the details in our higher level languages for convenience or what ever only to realize that we now regularly shoot our feet. It is nothing more than a language design mistake.
If anyone here is interestd in helping with the project, we just made this tool inspired by Mozilla's "What can I do for Mozilla" tool:

http://www.knightos.org/contributing/what-can-i-do.html#!/pr...

It's not just assembly!
I'm pretty sure that's directly at odds with what the State Department has to say about things. If you care about the legality of what you're doing, use extreme caution here and consider getting real legal advice.
Is Debian Jessie part relevant? I could do it on Wheezy or Ubuntu?
That's great for my home server, which only gets rebooted when something goes wrong and/or I swap hardware.

But I've yet to experience those kind of uptimes for my laptop - either I forget to plug the charger in, or I've dropped it, or it's decided to shut down because "someone" in my house decided that covering the went with a blanket was a good idea.

It just lives a much harsher life, and as a result boot times matter because these things have a way of always happening when I urgently need to do something.
You're saying that Android on Intel works, but that isn't saying much. It isn't better, it isn't cheaper (once subsidies expire), and it doesn't have the diversity of dozens of different SoCs to choose from.
Hmm. I'm not sure what the status of the Nexus 6 is, I believe it should have already been here by now? Looking at the images and specs of the device, I'm going to skip on the Nexus 6.

1) The device seems to large. I'm not a small guy but the Nexus 6 seems like a device for which you need a purse to carry it around.

2) Way to expensive. If I'm going to shell out that much money I might as well consider getting an iPhone 6.

3) The form factor (casing) just looks plain ugly to me. It reminds me of the Galaxy Nexus which, when I hold it my hand today, feels weird and looks totally outdated.

I could be wrong though. When the Nexus 5 was released I was waiting for the online store to open to purchase one. With the Nexus 6 my feelings are, Nah.. Not for me.. Sticking with my Nexus 5, thank you very much...