skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the argument that photographers and musicians should give their work away for free for the "exposure". But it turns out that converting "exposure" into paying work is quite difficult. Good luck with your negotiations!
Stephen Hawking warns development of AI could mean end of human race
> once SMART 187 goes above 0, we schedule the drive for replacement.

This agrees with my personal experience. Once you get any reported errors at all, it's time to plan the drive's funeral.
> Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

Counterpoint: Isn't that pretty obvious even without psychedelics?
486s typically had 4-16MB RAM. To access this memory in DOS a special driver needed to be loaded, EXTMEM386.SYS or something like that from what I remember.

This article really is somewhat misleading, as that is not an OS, rather it is an application running on DOS.

Did the same sort of thing as a kid on an Atari 130 XE. Was a lot more graphical though. It's something you do when your computer is essentially useless :)
Texas agrees with you:

> Do I need a license to play music in my establishment?

> Yes! When you purchase a CD, MP3 or similar product, you are granted the right to non-public performance of the material, such as at home or in your car. [...] Although you may have paid for a copy of the music, or are paying a DJ or live band to perform copyrighted music, you are still required by U.S. Copyright Law to obtain the proper licenses for the playback of the songs. [...]

http://governor.state.tx.us/music/guides/music_in_venues

It goes on to state that ASCAP does not have licensing information available on their website (as of the last update in 2009), but BMI does. Here's their license for "Local Governmental Entities": http://www.bmi.com/forms/licensing/gl/lge.pdf and for completeness, "Eating and Drinking Establishments": http://www.bmi.com/forms/licensing/gl/ede.pdf

Another article from The Guardian also reports that in 2010, prisons in the UK had to enforce rules to prevent music from being played in the open because licensing costs were becoming too expensive: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jan/19/prison-music-...
Sorry man, you're right, I updated the Readme and put there a live demo link. Hope you like http://www.mrdrozdov.com/focusable/sample-app/index.html
I moved to another group immediately and doing well in the new group. The manager got demoted during a reorg several months later, likely because there was a lot of negative feedback from his direct reports. That's one thing I like about Microsoft. Microsoft collects anonymous feedback about managers from their direct reports during an annual survey, and if there is a lot of negative feedback about a manager that manager is not going to do well. Other companies should adopt this.
If it was GWAR it would've been a request to participate in the next torturing.
HDMI 1.4 should drive it at 30 Hz.
No need for a second mouse: http://synergy-project.org/
This is how big company middle management works across the board regardless of profession. You think it was age, but it could simply be your manager didn't like you or was threatened by you.

When I worked at big companies I was fortunate to have great managers, but I was able to see how bad ones worked from the outside. I got tired of rolling the manager dice and have since decided to only work at smaller companies. At smaller companies it is a lot easier to see how things will go during the interview.
LSD certainly kills people, but it's down around the danger level (to the user) of Cannabis or Ecstasy. Much safer than scary drugs like alcohol or cocaine let alone even worse ones (to the user) like Meth or Heroin.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...

(That list has alcohol at the top but that's mainly due to drunk people's tendency to harm others via driving or violence)
2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past
Can I Haz Name?
It looks like a good choice for equipping your own child with an engaging platform for physical computing and robotics, but at in its price range of "hundreds of dollars" there are many good choices. It is at the "nice present for a privileged child" price point. We could really use more choices that are at the $20 - $30 level where it becomes an easier decision to equip whole classrooms with one for every student in the class.
Wrong on Premessis one.

We now have recorded video and audio. Things are now stuck here.

Anyone 40+ years old remember when everyone had a serious accent and you tell where a person was from after one sentence. Now a day NADA information UNLESS they lived in the epicenter of that accent(i.e. lives in Boston (Not Springfield MA to Boston etc.)
It's not about music being extreme. Actually, you can see that other bands in the list aren't something that is generally considered being extreme. I'd argue that listening to Merzbow as a torture method is far easier than Queen exactly because of lack of structure — I generally listen to Merzbow and such when I'm extremely tired and it just helps to relax and stop thinking.

Anyway, I wouldn't be so sure that loud music for 12 hours is actually more humanistic (hah, humanistic torture — I've got to remember that!) than arbitrary item from your list. After all, Chinese water torture [1] also sounds surprisingly harmless, right?

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_water_torture
Amlogic is known around the XBMC/Kodi forums for their excellent OSS VPU drivers and boxes using this chipset are usually among the most recommended.

This new chipset (S805) should also be able to support H.265 videos, the first patches for it have already appeared on the mailing list.

I can't comment on VDPAU support but for Kodi this board should be pretty awesome :)
Prior Work:

GPUfs: Integrating a File System with GPUs. Mark Silberstein (UT Austin), Bryan Ford (Yale University), Idit Keidar (Technion), Emmett Witchel (UT Austin)

Paper: http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/papers/asplos13-gpufs.pdf

Slides: http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/papers/asplos13-gpufs-slid...
I think I'll wait, then. I need a minimum of 60 Hz for it to be bearable.
I'd just love to see a solid open-source standard graphing calculator app for the common tablets - something like a more user-friendly version of gnu octave or something. The vendor lock-in by the education industry and TI is absurd.
ventile = lowest 20th = lowest 5%.

And, yes, we in Scandinavia have plenty of crime committed by our ever so wonderful freshly imported Muslims -- and it is NOT because they live in poverty.
Extensive discussion from two weeks ago - anyone interested in the collective wisdom of the HN community might be interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8686841

These other submissions got very little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8698629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690071

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8688631

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8686989
While I expect the death rate of psychedelics/hallucinogens to be much, much lower than that of alcohol, it should be noted that the analysis you presented here doesn't really provide solid evidence that it is so.

Given that an average LSD dose is 50-150mcg and because of the "Cascade effect" nature of the drug, LSD is often not measurable in the blood even when someone is heavily under the influence. And even in the cases where it would be detectable if they tested for it, LSD is not included in coroners' postmortem tox-screens unless it is specifically suspected. Movies and TV get this wrong frequently.

Basically, I'm saying that since it isn't routinely tested for (and is often undetectable anyway) the published statistics have no reason to be accurate.

But really, how much more common (even after adjusting for frequency of overall usage) are "Hey, watch this. Hold my beer" deaths than any deaths from LSD? My estimate is "a lot."
You have to compare that to the non-availability of cabs. Is 5x more fair than a cab that you can’t get for any price?

An elderly, disabled, or injured person is poorly served by unavailable services.
> Also xmonad beats icewm.

Did you mean "dwm"? As a non-tiling WM, icewm is very different from dwm (mentioned in the article) and xmonad.

Assuming you meant dwm, I'd invite people looking into doing this to have a look at i3wm as well. It's what I'm using now, and is quite nice.
Fun in the console and CustomEvent
How about taking the offer at one of the startups that potentially expand to the US in the future. Then you could go with that team to the US
> Not just me. Sociologists also.

Have you ever encountered a sociologist who understood statistics?

Have you ever encountered a sociologist who understood that at least part of the reason why SES is inheritable is because intelligence is?
How I defeated the Tolkien Estate
Let me share the unusual approach my father applied.

When I turned 8, the deal was to read the chapter of a book (real book, like Jules Verne, Arthur Clarke, etc..) and write it's synopsis. Dad would than read it and correct the grammatical mistakes.
If all was well and done, I was allowed 2h of screen time.

Never seen another dad with such an odd methodology
Maybe you are trolling. In any case what you say is patently untrue for popular psychedelics. It may be true of users of deliriants and stroke victims, but not psychedelics.
And is it fair that someone who has other means of transportation gets a cheap ride, while the elderly person who needs a cab urgently is forced to wait for his chance because there aren't enough cars on the street?
curious to know how the port is implemented - if it's wedged in to the USB bus like on the pi that has performance implications.
I've got John Yoo on the phone for you. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo)
It's probably obvious if one has widely varied experiences or is open to exposure to different viewpoints through social media or literature.

IMO though, the vast majority of humans are completely absorbed with self interest to get outside of their own head without a little boost.
No OpenCL for Mali 450.
Those videos on the Idris mode are also very impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsON_8vogp4nCQFTnfu43kA

(Other languages also have nice modes for context-aware completion (and more), like Haskell's ghc-mod and Rust's racer, which is incomplete but is already very nice)
Reading this article reinforced a perception I walked away with at an event where parents were complaining about common core related topics.

The professional educator dialect of English is not very approachable for the layman. To many people it sounds like somebody throwing out $10 words to make the arguments sound more intelligent.
Its not entirely that simple. If most people switch to Uber then a given city won't be able to support it's previous population of cabs and it will be harder to call one in less heavily trafficked areas. Now, if that ends up happening I feel like the consumers have spoken and too bad for cab users but it's not irrational for a Taxi fan to try to discourage others from using Uber.
That's a video card question, not a monitor question.

That being said, this monitor supports 60Hz operation in SST with DisplayPort 1.2 so it should work cleaner than those first generation monitors that have to pretend that a QHD monitor is two monitors to work at 60Hz.
Would somebody please develop a modern sonar system for low-end robotics? Those guys are using sonar sensors from the 1980s. They give you the range to the nearest thing in a cone about 90 degrees wide. They're from an obsolete generation of self-focusing cameras. There's been some progress since then.

Robot sonars should have capabilities comparable to bats by now. You've probably got at least an ARM processor available. There's a startup trying to do this (http://www.chirpmicro.com/) for mobile gesture recognition.
The author writes, in the interesting blog post submitted here, "We should wonder why Khan Academy emphasizes this particular work. I have no inside knowledge of Khan Academy’s operations or vision." Actually, here on Hacker News we have had public discussions blessed with direct participation by Khan Academy developers, so I think I have some sense of what Khan Academy intends to do as it continues to develop online lessons. I've even had some off-site email interaction with Khan Academy developers after threads here in which I have "met" them while we discuss our common interest in mathematics education. I certainly hope that Khan Academy staff will join the discussion of this post.

The author also writes, "I find it more likely that Khan Academy’s exercise set draws an accurate map of the strengths and weaknesses of education technology in 2014. Khan Academy asks students to solve and calculate so frequently, not because those are the mathematical actions mathematicians and math teachers value most, but because those problems are easy to assign with a computer in 2014." I think this statement is correct. The Khan Academy developers have devoted a lot of thought to how to computerize problems rather than exercises, and they are still working on building new problem types for the mathematics lessons. I'm actually quite impressed with some of the problem types that show up in more advanced mathematics lessons on Khan Academy that go beyond the eighth grade level implied by current United States curriculum standards. But the author's point is well taken that the Common Core, and good mathematics curricula around the world, expect reasoning and explanation from pupils in mathematics lessons already at elementary school age. That currently is indeed difficult to automate.

The author's comments on development of Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBC) as a new platform of online mathematics instruction is of course especially interesting. I will be curious to see how this program continues to develop, and I would be glad to hear from developers of that program in this thread too.

(Disclosure: I am a teacher of voluntary-participation prealgebra mathematics classes to advanced pupils of third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade age, using the Art of Problem Solving prealgebra textbook by Rusczyk, Patrick, and Boppana as a core text with many supplementary materials from around the world. I do not view Khan Academy as a competitor to my classes, but rather as a helpful supplement for many mathematics learners around the world. My daughter, who is of a younger age than eighth-grade age, is currently doing many of the same Khan Academy lessons as those just reviewed by the blog post author. I recommend Khan Academy to my friends, and it will probably stay in the mix for the mathematics studies of my three minor children for quite a few years yet.)
As it turns out, words can unexpectedly hurt whether they come from the internet, office, or a bathroom stall.
You were able to hail a cab in the street? Lucky you. I've had cabbies refuse to take me to where I want to go. I've called cab companies, told them where I am, and they refuse to come pick me up. I've seen a cab turn down an elderly couple want to go across town because his "meter was broken", but 2 minutes later take a fare that just went a couple blocks. And I'm a white male. Minorities have an even harder problem getting cabs.

Depending on where you live, cabs are not always something that is just as easy or reliable as Uber/Lyft/Sidecar/etc. When I'm unable to get home for whatever reason, I need a service I can rely on.
Not really related to being an extrovert; finding ways to deal with the incongruity of working remotely in a world that assumes your workplace offers a social experience is something introverts need as well.
It's published to be able to run at 70%, which is quite nice. But 70% is still way too much to match stage weight.

It's been said to be capable of 60% (or maybe 40%, depending on how you interpret a three-character tweet). But even that is still not enough: the stage is 40k lb empty and a Merlin D at sea level is 165k lb thrust. You'd need to get it to 25-33% to hover nearly-empty.

(Keep in mind most SpaceX numbers involve a fair amount of guesswork and Kremlinology, and they're always changing, but they should be ballpark accurate.)
Musicians have made similar demands in 2008[1]. That includes Christopher Cerf, one of the Sesame Street composers. He features in a documentary Aljazeera made about this[2]. I seem to remember he also asked for royalties but was unsuccessful, but I can't find a reference to that.

[1] http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google...

[2] http://www.dummymag.com/videos/watch-al-jazeera-s-songs-of-w...
The billion second hack – A neat CSS3 hack
Making the Shortest Path Even Quicker (2009)
I'm not trolling. My cousin's friend did exactly this. She was on off her face on Ecstasy and wondering straight into oncoming traffic in front of all her friends whilst having a big smile on her face.
No. aaand No.

That is the most stupid thing I've ever seen. You will (presumably in the next version of Windows) be able to use workspaces. I have 11 workspaces and I can switch to a workspace MUCH faster than you can tilt your head. I've never understood why people need more than 1 monitor. I've used two monitors and felt overly confused.

It is utterly pointless and expensive to have an entire monitor dedicated to an application. By your "setup" I should have at least 20 monitors. Go figure.
That works with that monitor but only using display port. It's more of a cabling thing than a linux thing.

It also seems to support multiple interface signals side-by-side or above each other (see documentation):

http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/b/bdm4065uc_61/bdm4065...

That might be an alternative road to getting 60 Hz at full res.
There's nothing to "get" really. If you feel that Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse, etc. are sufficient for your workflow, and wholly capture your needs, then you don't need emacs (or any other editor for that matter).

It just happens that there are people out there, like me, that want more out of their software and really enjoy tweaking and improving our editor. For us, there's emacs :).
Or take a look at the videos at Emacs Rocks.[1]

[1] - http://emacsrocks.com/
Alcohol is far worse than Heroin or the other opiates. Nearly all the problems with opiates relate to having unknown quantities due to the lack of regulated producers. The opiate side effect profile is rather tame, mainly constipation. (Apart from respiratory depression, and the unfortunate people that get nauseous.)
Don't berate someone's tools before you've looked at their application of those tools.
Is it possible to map RAM as VRAM?

Is that called shared GPU memory? Can it be adjusted in WinNT/Linux? Some recent console game ports need/want 3+ GB VRAM. Upgrading VRAM is impossible, RAM is easy and cheap(er).
SCELBI Computer Museum
I guess it is just the audience on HN that is driving it, but I find it interesting that this whole discussion here is focusing on subjects like the purported STEM shortage and whether programmers should unionize. As far as I can tell the badmicrosoft.com site and suit in question really doesn't have anything to do with these subjects, other than the fact that Microsoft is the largest software company in the world.

Relatively few Microsoft employees are STEM workers or programmers, and none of those in the lawsuit in question. They are in the sales organization. They may work in the technology industry, but the questions of this lawsuit are more about ageism and management issues endemic in many Fortune 500 corporations regardless of the industry or role of the worker.
Cold wars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
If anyone is looking for alternative, Deluge is open source and very good (http://deluge-torrent.org/)
That includes VAT, and profiteering on limited supply. Expect the prices to be under $800.

And $800 is a nice compromise between $400 crappy TN panels and $3000 IPS panels. Myself, I prefer VA over IPS because the black levels are so much nicer.
> Before starting this project I was wondering how happy I would be with 30Hz updates. Well, at this point I have to say that the display appears solid at that update rate with no noticeable flicker whatsoever. Maybe if I was using this setup to watch sports videos this might be an issue, but for me, I'm finding this 30 Hz update rate to be quite satisfactory for workstation duty.
Just to add, union dues and initiation fees are also tax deductible in the U.S.; however, you can only deduct the amount above and beyond 2% of your AGI.
Can you provide some quantitative studies to support these "blog" articles?
Amazingly, some people don't get confused when confronted with two different things going on in two different places.
Thoughts on Constraints, Productivity and Creativity
Hacking the Tweet Stream
Come on guys, let's not downvote the dissenting opinion.
Amazon sellers hit by nightmare before Christmas as glitch cuts prices to 1p
What it does is give a huge incentive to wait if it's possible to wait. On the busiest days of the year, Uber sends out a message to let people know when those busiest times will be, so people who care about the price can plan accordingly.
I have a late-2010 Macbook Air with the nVidia 320M, which can handle 2560x1440 over the mini-DP. I have the Acer B326HUL which was $399 on Black Friday. Seemed like a good compromise since driving 4K would mean a new laptop.

Compared to the 28" 1920x1200 monitor it replaced, I'm very pleased with the 32" 1440p.
Is the 8 year old doing Scratch exercises not programming? I would claim she is. The difference we want to make then, is between 'simple' programming and complex systems level programming.

I claim both can provide value. Even simple programming can be used to automate domain specific tasks that will reduce the amount of manual labour required, freeing the professional to other tasks and thus increase their productivity.

Programming in a professional setting has thus at least two facets - a tool to create new systems and a tool to automate existing ones. I would claim both tasks are programming but with dramatically different mechanisms for adding value.

"Reducing programming to writing or arithmetic is maybe true for simple Excel macros, but not what most people on this site would consider programming."

Yeah, I went overboard with simplification there. The difference I wanted to communicate (but failed) was between the human requirements for entry level scripting and actual systems programming as the post I responded to stated programming did not have the same economies of scarcity as skills in medicine. I would have been more correct to state that programming is more like arithmetic than medicine in the sense that both novice and experts alike can provide added value through the act of programming but in widely different circumstances.

I'm a professional software engineer but my wife with a PhD in physics 'just happens' to write Matlab scripts in her day job as an R&D engineer to chew through terabytes of production data in an indusrial setting so I think I have a pretty good view to these different kinds of domains :)
form factor is clever, should be a drop in replacement for most people's pi cases too!

http://linuxgizmos.com/35-dollar-quad-core-hacker-sbc-offers...
Would have been nice if there were some photos of a palm leaf manuscript in use or how the text is laid out. I can sort of guess, but it spends all its time talking about the cases and paintings...
If anyone else is interested, it sounds like HDMI-CEC should be working within the next week or so.

http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=7479#p58825