skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was absolutely delighted when I found out that most East German home computers (and probably most Eastern Bloc computers in general) are supported in the MESS emulator. About a year ago I spent a few weeks to get some of my old KC85 games from the 80's running in the browser via JSMESS and emscripten (no sound support yet at that time unfortunately):

http://www.flohofwoe.net/history.html

MESS has since been merged back into MAME, and has been moved to github:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame

And some info on how to get started with coding on the KC85:

http://flohofwoe.blogspot.de/2014/11/new-adventures-in-8-bit...
I like the idea of this, how large is the list at the moment?
I'd like to talk more about it can you drop me a message josh[at]seriousfox.co.uk
I wasn't referring to you; I just found a plausible place to reply to OP. There were plenty of real naysayers in the thread, though. And even more that were just very insensitive. (Again, I'm not referring to you).
I think a part of this, though, is that everything is geared toward comparing only price. I don't fly often enough to have a good sense of what airlines are going to genuinely be more comfortable, so I weigh more heavily the thing I'm more certain of. That doesn't mean I wouldn't be willing to pay more for a more comfortable flight.
tl;dr Christmas light bulbs each have a bypass wire which is initially insulated to avoid shorting the filament. If the filament burns out, the new high electric potential burns off the insulation, thus re-completing the circuit for the rest of the bulbs.
I suspect he means that in some jurisdictions, you need to be a licensed medical practitioner of some sort, so the traditional "on the ground" experience of midwives by itself won't qualify.
flow is very important with the temperature gradients that can exist in fluid. When you're talking about 0.01 and 0.001 degrees, flow is really important.
> for the rest of us mortals

Why do you begin with the assumption that you aren't gifted? Does 'gifted' imply innate talent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srk9c4rOgZ4

Pretty scary isn't it?
Here you go:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/CompCertTSO/doc/
So tangential, but germane: What if anything have you learned about all the banker deaths in the last ~24 months. Do you think, as some do, that its just given the population-size of the banking sector, these deaths are all normal? Or do you think there is a wider story here? Or do you not know what I am talking about? [1]

[1]This is not an authoritative list, and I have never read this particular site, but its one of the first on google: http://www.hangthebankers.com/48-suspicious-banking-deaths/
Haskell is a start but I was thinking of a system with dependent types such as Coq, Agda or Idris.
"half-singing half-joking throughout the mandatory safety stuff."

I've taken to exclaiming "Oooh!" when they show us how to buckle our seat belts.
Andre Geim talks about it 21 mins in to his Nobel Lecture -

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1418
>Dragging windows does not constitute my basic desktop usage

Fair enough, but it does for most people. The claim I was disagreeing with is that >30fps only matters for action games. It is noticeable for most tasks that use a mouse.
I'm just really happy to hear that I'm not alone in my anxieties about needing to re-read books and my inability to remember everything written in a book!
Schopenhauer said it first and better:

"However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them." -- Schopenhauer
I thought Dropbox was the answer to all my desires early in 2011. Then I travelled to a rural area in a foreign country and my only internet connection was an expensive 2 gig per month USB dongle which was lucky to reach anything more than EDGE (about 30 kbytes/sec) transfer speeds.
One of those wrinkles is the mobile experience of your site, which is currently almost unusable - a big chunk of navigation always taking up the top 3/4 of the screen, and then a tiny fraction of scrollable content.
Actually, that's the same as Australia: standard procedure in public hospitals is two midwives in a maternity room with 1 doctor on call overseeing the whole ward.

But moving to a home setting still seems like a poor choice. Even ignoring the higher fatality rate for home births, having the doctor available to sew up the 20% of "normal" deliveries involving vaginal tearing seems like a good move.
Demand to leave was abnormally high because of a perceived threat to public safety. Keyword: perceived.

Regression to the mean applies to panic as well. With a large enough sample size, all humans, wether they be passengers or drivers are susceptible to fear in the same ways.
The brightest minds weren't exactly hard at work at this.
Cool, comes in quite handy!

You may want to up your security-game though. Check the ~/FIXME file on your sever for more info :-)
"directly increasing supply" - this is why I say they should say how effective it was. If a 4x price increase increased supply by 2%, that doesn't sound very effective.
This is going to be a bit discursive, but bear with me.

Imre Lakatos, a philosopher of science in the 60s/70s, had an idea to try to rescue science from the earlier attack on it by Kuhn (or, at least, his more radical misinterpreters). A body of science isn't so much defined as a particular set of facts, but by the core theoretical underpinnings behind it. And what's key: instead of the naive falsificationism of Popper, he recognized, like Kuhn, that scientists would come up with ad hoc elaborations or patches on the core theory to save it for the day.

Unlike Kuhn (or his misinterpreters), he believed that these ad hoc justifications weren't necessarily bad. They can be part of a progressive research program or a degenerative research program. The key difference being that ad hoc explanations in a progressive program enhance the explanatory power of the program--suggesting new experiments and new possible insights--while degenerative ones don't.

Now I come back to your main point about political ideas. I believe this scheme can be applied to many different fields, including state political philosophy. And the issue we are seeing is that all these existing approaches--from libertarianism to Rawlsian liberalism, state socialism to anarchism--are more or less spent forces. Which is to say, the various experiments and experiences we've run all point to the reality that the only stable state is one that's run on neoliberal principles (which is ideologically a rationalistic Rawlsian state and materially a state dominated by powerful, propertied interests). All others fail, from either internal or external competition.

Worse, we're unable to really run further experiments, so the ability to create alternative, progressive research programs is sharply circumscribed. Any failures of the neoliberal state are to be handled ad hoc in neoliberal frameworks. And that's as much a condemnation of all the previous attempts at state building and management as neoliberalism itself: in terms of politics, we're stuck using degenerative Newtonian mechanics despite obvious failures, and all of the critics of it are attacking it from programs that are not so much degenerative as dead.

I think for anything different, we need some kind of radically disruptive technology that would change the material terms we build our society on. But how we get from here to there--or if there's even a there, there--is an entirely different question.
> Until today I haven't found any significant difference between what I had back then and what similar age IBM-PC was in terms of hardware.

On the other side of the curtain we had SVGA instead of EGA. And 486 or (barely) Pentium instead of pre 386. Probably more RAM. Probably a bigger harddisk. Probably printer or modem or both. Maybe a sound card. And CD-ROM.
> Patents, unlike copyrights, are additive. If you write a book based on the Harry Potter characters, JK Rowling owns the copyright to your derivative work.

No, they're both the same. One of the exclusive rights under the Copyright Act is the right to make derivative works, so you can't make a book based on Harry Potter characters without JK Rowling's permission. If you do anyway, JK Rowling can sue to stop you but she can't start selling your version herself and taking all the money without your permission. Nobody can sell the derivative work without permission from both authors, which is as it is with patents.

> This is why there is a "race to patent every single miniscule discovery" in the first place -- Lab A getting Patent 1 doesn't remove the incentive to discover refinements.

Of course it does. It requires the discoverer of the refinement to obtain the permission of Lab A before they can make any money, and the refined version competes with Lab A's version. So Lab A is better off to exclude the refined version from the market unless they can claim nearly the entire margin from it as they can with the original version, and the patent allows them to do that. Which leaves little or no incentive for anyone other than Lab A to make refinements.

The same thing happens with copyright. Disney makes movies based on ancient fairy tales because they're in the public domain. ABC's Once Upon A Time uses characters from Disney's Frozen because they're the same company. Universal Studios pretty much never makes movies with Disney characters, even though they theoretically could with Disney's permission, because Universal would be doing all the new work even though Disney could claim as much of the revenue as they like.

> It is not obvious that the search for refinements would happen faster without this incentive.

That's the fundamental trade off with patents. You grant a monopoly to one entity on the theory that the incentive of the monopoly will get that entity to invest in the research. The benefit of that incentive then has to be weighed against the cost of excluding all other potential innovators from the market for the term of the patent.

This is why patents work best in markets where innovation is slow. If patentable innovations happen only infrequently and/or there are only a small number of major players then the cost of the monopoly is smaller because fewer incremental innovations are being excluded by the patent.

This is one of the big reasons that software patents are so abominable -- the more innovation that would be happening without patents, the higher the cost of issuing patents grows.
That's a different class of lounge. They're tiered, Priority Pass is partnering with the lowest tier willing to accept their pricing.
Yes, the similarity between science and evolution is one of the major themes of STS, emphasized by both Kuhn and Lakatos.

The reason this makes a lot of people uncomfortable is that it messes with our notion of scientific progress. This notion is rooted in 19th century romanticism, and predicts inevitable progress toward totality. It sees science as a matter of manifest destiny, guided by the truth and approximating it ever more closely.

Evolution, however, does not have any goals. It might or might not tend to produce complex and intelligent organisms, but it sure ain't guided by any overarching ideal or telos apart from the laws of thermodynamics. Evolution wanders aimlessly, making do with whatever the universe randomly throws at it. This is not the kind of model that most people want to associate with science.

Meanwhile, transhumanists who rally around the idea of the technological singularity represent the last holdout of the old, romantic ideal. They can maintain a semblance of consistency because they also reject the relevance of evolutionary biology to the future of humanity: the age of evolution is over, and AI will take over from here. I'm not quite sure what to make of this idea, but it will be really interesting to watch how their predictions unfold (or not).
I'm fascinated by Fibonacci #s and phi*, aka the Golden Ratio, but Anyons, Abelian-ness and braids are entirely foreign to me. Can anyone with more knowledge opine on whether this is genius or quackery?
We found lots of different estimates ranging from 4 trillion to 12.8 trillion dollars and chose to use the conservative figure.

Better Market estimated at 12.8 trillion: http://bettermarkets.com/sites/default/files/Cost%20Of%20The...

IMF said $4 trillion dollar: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2009/01/pdf/text.pdf

On reflection, Perhps we should perhaps have gone with a higher figure, but chose the conservative figure'. So, we are thinking of increasing the "4 trillion" to "over 10 trillion" to reflect a mid-point between the variation in estimates. Thanks for pointing it out!
Startup: Groupon meets Draw Something. Sketch for daily deals and weekly perks
This helps alleviate the fear of potentially "wasting time" if a startup or project we're working on doesn't take off. Either way, the things learned while undertaking the endeavor will affect our mindset, usually for the better.
There's an opportunity to outsource mental models to software in a similar way to how we've outsourced basic math to calculators and basic facts to search engines.

A benefit to a digital mental model is that it could be updated based on new data independent of the owner which has all kinds of (possibly disturbing) implications.
For anyone else trying to follow along (and still evaluating docker at a distance), start with this comment in that thread:

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/2112#issuecomment-39...

It gets quite interesting, and it's still going 14 months later...
Very neat! Any ideas if this would run without much trouble in WebGL?
Interesting to see that in Holland 'danger' for cyclists is... other cyclists. I was expecting systems that detect cars, trucks, and buses. It seems like using Hall effect, say, and letting the machine build a profile of how near on average vehicles get to the bike, you might be able to squeeze out a warning, but if it was only 1s, I am not sure that would be of much use.
I can confirm that even the best of the gifted are still mortals.

Now, I'd be really worried if I got that wrong my whole life so far...
Just to clarify: I think you're saying that the best societal answer is what you suggest. I agree (as I agree with eitally).

The best if-you're-pregnant-right-now solution, though, is different, since currently very few hospitals allow birth in their physical location without a hospital physician.

The calculus in that case is probably a tradeoff of unlikely but very bad outcomes (death by homebirth) vs quite likely somewhat-bad outcomes (unnecessary Caesarean, unnecessary rushing, etc., by hospital), I'd think.
A truly appropriate article for a site whose name is "wired".

LED sets are usually wired in series too, since they're current-driven devices.
Put it in a Docker container! :)
> My understanding is that they make breaking changes fairly frequently

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/1.0-Timeline.html

* now -> Jan 9: TONS of breaking changes
* Jan 9 -> Feb 16: probably shouldn't break, but we
reserve the right to deal with exceptional circumstances
* Feb 16 -> six weeks, maybe 12: no more breakage
Not sure I agree. The entire UK economy has been swallowed by big banking as they ramp up house prices meaning both parents have to work all hours.

Also the idea of a level playing-field on competition doesn't exist IMHO. It's a corrupt area that needs squashing.
That sounds cool, do you have any links to your projects?
An interchange format will be needed for independently-developed deep apps.
Creator of the site here: wow, did not expect to see this on Hacker News, especially since it's been years since I made any significant changes. But if you have any questions, ask away!

Server's buckling under the load, so if you just want the data, you can get it straight off SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/p/openflights/code/HEAD/tree/openfli... (yes, I'm planning to finally migrate to GitHub, thank you for asking)

The blog has a lot of background about what this is and how it came to be: http://openflights.org/blog/

And if you'd like to see airline schedule data, especially to the point of being willing to pay money for it, I'd be much obliged if you could fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KadfmOED90LHtUEOxA2oYW9nrN9...
There is an android app on the google play marketplace, but it is not from the anova folks and it costs $2. I haven't purchased it, because I already have my own list of "if you're cooking foo, set the temperature to bar" commands in my (analog) recipe notebook.

Everything else about the newer anova is great. I have both a new-style and old-style (anova one) from them, and they're both cool. Now that I have the newer one with the adjustable clip, I intend to keep that in my kitchen for simple sous-vide stuff (steaks, chops, eggs, etc) and build an insulated enclosure out of a cooler for the One, so I can tackle bigger cooking projects.
I am in middle of reading a fascinating book that discusses how the brain, processes, interprets, and retains information as it passes from your Sensory Information Storage to your short term memory to your long term memory, as well as how you retrieve information from your long term memory. (The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis)

The book was written as a guide to CIA Analysts to understand the limitations their own filters and mental models place on new information they process.

One important point that I find applies to this essay is that the way we retrieve information is through schema that associate various memories with each other. Creativity is about mapping new pathways through your memory or applying other patterns and schema on top of existing memories.

So, reading a book a second time, or even "forgetting" what you read, can not only give you new patterns and schema to apply to your other mental models and memories and stimulate creativity.

I highly recommend everyone read The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis... or if you want the abridged version you can read my brief recap. http://www.davidmelamed.com/2014/12/05/internet-marketers-ci...
15 minutes for electronically confirmed swaps.

In reality, the swap data repositories are finding the data submitted by each institution very difficult to reconcile - it's a step in the right direction but the goal of constructing a full representation of each financial institution's derivatives exposure is still a way off.
Write Less JavaScript
This is one of the sources for the airport data on OpenFlights, although OF's data set is (intentionally) heavily filtered to formally recognized airports with IATA/ICAO codes. OurAirports is very inclusive and has all sorts of helipads, bush landing strips etc that are of use to pilots, but not so much for our audience of commercial flight passengers and crew.
Maybe pm90 suffers from impostor syndrome.
Teespring (YC W13) Is Hiring a Senior UI/Front End Engineer
Overview:
Teespring, an innovative web-based crowdfunding platform and tech startup, is seeking a Sr. UI/Front End Engineer for its San Francisco office. A graduate of the Winter 2013 class Y-Combinator, Teespring launched in 2011 and has helped its users sell over 2 million shirts to date. We are hunting for engineers to work on problems that contribute directly to our two main goals: growing the company and making our users happy. We are among the fastest growing new companies in the country and are always on the lookout for engineering talent to help sustain our growth and product.

Description:
We are looking for a Sr. UI Engineer that has extensive experience with object-oriented JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. You will be responsible for building out our next-generation mobile applications. We encourage innovation, creativity, and a think outside of the box attitude when solving complex problems and implementing new solutions. You should have a strong passion for design and product development with solid communication skills as you will be interacting with all teams, in particular the product and creative teams.

The front-end engineer will help us push the boundaries of what is possible. You'll work side by side with outstanding designers. You should be proficient in HTML, CSS and Javascript. You should appreciate the details that make a front-end user experience memorable, and demonstrate enthusiasm for new front-end technologies.

We offer a highly competitive benefits package including base salary, full benefits, annual and spot bonuses, and a great work environment.

What the UI Engineer will need:
5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on UI and firm understanding of Front End best practices.
Expert experience with object-oriented JavaScript and frameworks such as Backbone.js, NodeJS, Knockout, AngularJS, batman.js, Closure
Experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS (we use SCSS), jQuery as well as comfortable writing native Javascript.
Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop mainly)
Ability to own and execute complex projects
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience is required

Nice to have as a UI engineer:
High Traffic Social Network, Gaming or Web Experience
Experience with Agile/Scrum
Experience with Front-End performance testing and optimization.
Experience working with Rails and Grunt/Gulp JS
Experience with OOCSS
Experience with HAML/Slim templating engines
Experience with Javascript Testing Frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, QUnit a plus!

What’s in it for the UI Engineer:
Competitive base salary
Relaxed work environment (Kegerator, ping-pong table, lounge areas)
Flexible work schedule
Company sponsored events

Email resume to ashley.hearn@teespring.com to learn more
I enjoyed this little jab: "It was twice rejected by Nature, where one reader stated that isolating a stable, two-dimensional material was “impossible,” and another said that it was not “a sufficient scientific advance.”"

It's completely impossible, but if you did manage to do it, meh.