skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm comparing it to Hawthorne, where most people had interior offices and the building had completely interior hallways. I was one of those who had a completely interior office, and it sucked.

If you give some offices windows, then you must take those window spaces away from other public and private spaces.
Duet is still waiting in line for approval in the app store. Launch is later this week.
Wow, sorry, I totally missed that! I read this as a grammatical-pedant comment, and somehow missed that the linked article actually has the title that you mention.
Long term, the threats posed by climate change are far more of a threat than any disease.

As another reply has already noted, that seems incorrect even for just one disease that the Gates Foundation is working on eradicating. That would be even more incorrect with reference to "any" disease, meaning even diseases that are in the top five worldwide as causes of death. Most people will survive global climate change by adjusting to local weather, the same as most people long have done throughout human history. People in the Netherlands have already figured out how to live below sea level, people here in Minnesota have already figured out how to live in a place with wild annual extremes of temperature, and so on.
Another resource in the same vein (it links to this page, among others):

http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
The "Production" picture [0] is quite challenging for all encoders. The original has fine details like text that are smoothed out of existence even in the "Large" profiles - though to its credit BPG preserves more of it than the others. (Also, relative to other high-detail pictures this one has an unusually low filesize.)

[0] http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#production&bp...
That's a bummer, it would be worth buying a new iMac for the screen alone.
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There are different certifications. One in the US is Certified Nurse Midwife, essentially they are RNs with a certification in midwifery as well. They can have privileges at hospitals, which is a very useful backup in cases where something goes wrong in a non-911 sort of manner. There are also Certified Midwifes, which have a somewhat less medical oriented training and may not be able to bring patients into a hospital as 'their patient'.
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I don't think it's nearly that ideal. I just think it's better than the "some offices get windows, some get none, and all hallways get none" alternative I've seen elsewhere in office parks.
If you go with PayPal I'd recommend only using their free services (e.g., the "subscribe button") or going with BrainTree (https://www.braintreepayments.com) which is also free and a nicer way to integrate PayPal than their paid APIs.

Payflow Pro by PayPal ($30/mo) is ridiculously complex and it's better to buy an additional 3rd-party service built on top to make it easier (you'd end up paying $100+/month plus 2.9%).
Hey thanks for the input. From what I have seen so far, guides to getting a web development job are either not very detailed, or are very vague in their advice, things like 'find a local business, non-profit, or church to volunteer your services to.' This advice is okay,but it isn't detailed and doesn't give step by step instructions on how to learn the technologies necessary, build up a great portfolio, and finally walk you through the process of leveraging all of that into a position as a web developer, including how to start the conversation with companies and interview tactics.

I got my first web development job completely through self-teaching and building up my portfolio, and I'd like to give people a guide that teaches them how to do the exact same thing, going through all of the detailed steps, so that it can be a job-seekers ultimate resource to go from knowing nothing, to getting a great job as a web developer.

What else have you seen missing from other guides to learning web development and using it to land your first job?
i was about to propose some sort of annealing process like they do with metals, and it seems like someone has already beaten me to it: http://3dprint.com/3388/study-how-to-make-3d-prints-stronger...

as a side note, this looks like kind of a cool way to smooth pla prints, for which up till now there wasn't really a great option.
The whole protetcion under Australian law is a nice marketing spin. But that's all it is: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/australian-government-...
In principle this would be possible. In practice, the standard advice is that inventors should avoid looking at competitors' patents to reduce the danger of "treble damages" due to "willful infringement". This fear is likely overblown, but I've certainly never heard of anyone excited to hear that their competitor has published a patent because they hope that the new information revealed in the patent will help them to innovate better.

I'm sure it's industry specific, but I've don't think I've ever even heard someone claim that they learned something from a patent that they could not have legally learned in some other way. Given that this spread of knowledge is part of the ideal that is presented for the existence of patents, it would be nice to hear from anyone who works in area where patents are felt to actually help in the spread of knowledge.

I'm willing to believe that promising a monopoly can help to incentivize research and innovation, but I'm doubtful they positively affect the rate at which knowledge is shared.
My sense was that the 20% speed advantage was as important or more than the small energy savings. Is that common for slower drives to handle data faster?
> This is why it is imperative to build your model up from first principles.

The main problem with this approach (I'll call it the Cartesian approach because it was most famously used by Descartes) is that human beings are less than 100% reliable at logical reasoning. If you make an error anywhere in your chain of reasoning, your conclusions are going to be off and there's not going to be any way to check them. It's just like writing 10,000 lines of code without ever actually compiling it, let alone testing it. You also develop a sort of foolish confidence about the correctness of your own beliefs, which makes it even easier to be wrong. If you make enough wrong turns, you become Ayn Rand.

That's why empiricism is so good. It's not that empiricists don't make mistakes too, but when they do, they find that they are surprised by concrete facts that they observe, and know when to go back and reevaluate.

Another helpful trick is to understand that there are degrees between 0% and 100% confidence. I can entertain an proposition as being possible or likely rather than simply true or false based on the recognition that I have incomplete information. If you tried to take this approach you couldn't derive anything logically because you would just have a multitude of possibilities in front of you. Formal logic only works with statements that are 100% true. Otherwise you're stuck with Bayesian reasoning, which is even more mentally taxing to derive information from.

(Or, as an alternative response)

Please derive for me, from "first principles", why it is imperative to build one's mental model from first principles.
Bankers don't really care about fines. Sure $16B here or there hurts, but as long as no one goes to jail most of those losses are absorbed by shareholders. Top management already got their bonuses.

I've seen some argue that the sheer volume and complexity of financial law actually makes it easier for bankers to find loop-holes and insulate themselves. I'm not familiar enough to truly judge the truth in that theory.
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This sounds like a perfect feature for iPhones / Android which could be enabled.
We have spelled out in our privacy policy and public communications that we don’t participate in blanket surveillance. We are an Australian company, and to participate in such programs would be in violation of Australian law.

Are you really this naive?

Australia is a member of Five Eyes[1]. Your local laws don't apply to intelligence agencies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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Yay! Another new image thing for 1 browser to support and the rest to need polyfills for!
Automating the manipulation of S-expressions (i.e. via Paredit) makes quick, controlled edits feel almost like a second sense. I've found it to be the most painful part of going back to algol-style syntax.
Actually a bit simpler, Business Insider released the article to fill their timeline not Duet's launch date. The app is still awaiting review and with the app store being so busy this season it's hard to give a hard date. Expected to be released later this week.
Subjectively, the best overall trade-off between quality and file size seems to be BPG Large. Great comparison.
How is this NASA's failing? A congressional mandate to fund and build this regardless of the agencies needs is the failure. There's no need to display the agency in a bad light, especially if you have the information about what happened and show it was caused by other government involvement.
Backblaze is pretty awesome for open-sourcing, effectively, their costs in a high-competition segment. It would be difficult (read: pointless) to compete in that market without massive vertical integration, greater scale, deep pockets and compelling, differentiated value (eg something different enough besides all the other entrants).

For anything critical in business (customer list, billing, finance, etc.), I would recommend also using Tarsnap in addition to whatever other (non-AWS) vendor/s are used for "offsite"/"offcloud" backup.
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Fastmail is a great company. We worked with them when we were a cyrus mail shop.
Somebody following those rules could easily be wrong. Even smart, logically trained people make errors in logic all the time. That's why they introduce bugs when they try to write code, or errors into mathematical proofs or philosophical systems that sometimes don't get pointed out for years.
Almost certainly yes, you would need to license the many patents covered in H.265 and H.264.

However if you look at the history of JPEG and MP3, which were also encumbered with patents, the public domain basically won due to the sheer number of violations being too large to take down or even force licensing.

It will be interesting to see if any product (ie browser) actually puts any of these algorithms in their codebase.
The local congressman is doing something for his voters. It's his job.

It's also why Americans think dimly of congress as a whole.
LIBOR manipulation (which many banks confessed to), FOREX manipulation (ongoing scandal), Goldman's Aluminum debacle and other commodity rigging.

These are just the ones I'm familiar with. I believe it's 80-20. 20% of banks profits are rent-seeking behavior. If we compare this with megacorps in general I'm sure some of their bottom-line is also from rent-seeking behavior.

Edit: additional thought: Rent-seeking is child's play when you consider too-big-to-fail, too-big-to-jail.
Fair criticism, so let me make a few points on that.

Startups can't afford full, unconstrained open allocation. They have to give people a high degree of trust and autonomy, but they've also got to be able to meld as a team and hit a target quickly. It's when you're past 20-40 people that the open vs. closed allocation really becomes critical. (VC is causing companies to grow rapidly beyond that 20-40 mark without developing a coherent culture, and if that phase happens poorly or wrongly, you're more likely to get a crappy closed-allocation company.) At 8 people when you're fighting for your life, you just need people to do the work that needs to get done.

These beasts fueled by VC aren't really "startups" in the classical sense. They don't offer meaningful, life-changing equity and, while clueless people go all-in, the smarter ones just treat employee positions at them as stepping stones. They're closed-allocation companies that are good at dressing themselves as startups. The true power relationships are intense and harsh, but not stated upfront.

Open-allocation companies are subject, of course, to many of the same political problems as closed-allocation firms. I think that they're less likely to fall into certain failure modes, and I think the evidence is strong that, while open allocation isn't a panacea, closed allocation is strictly worse. Let's say that you're running a school and one fistfight breaks out per week. That's not a good thing, and you'll have kids out for hospitalizations. But if you arm a randomly selected 10% of the population with handguns, now you're at risk people getting killed. Adding the guns to a fight-prone environment was a mistake. Similarly, closed allocation adds something that can only be harmful; but the absence of it doesn't guarantee a lack of harm.

In banks, the power relationships are more legible; however, there's more of a need for management to lead, perhaps in part because there isn't an army of clueless 22-year-olds (well, except in "analyst" programs; but even those are more selective than employee-level positions in the Valley.) Managers in finance are more likely to treat their positions as mutual and symbiotic than the "I know all of Sand Hill Road and you don't" founders who now run the Valley.
I'd love to see the bug reports for that.

"Your program says I should now believe that it's morally acceptable to kill infants. I don't agree with its reasoning."
> Not necessarily; they (lab B) can license the refinement to whoever they want, for example lab A. Or to a third party who licenses both technologies.

In which of those cases is permission from Lab A not supposed to be required in order to make the product?

There are two scenarios here. In the first case Lab A doesn't license the base patent because it wants to make the product itself or (equivalently) sells or exclusively licenses it to a single manufacturer. In that case Lab B is dealing with a monopsony buyer and is hosed. The holder of the base patent can offer Lab B some fraction of their research cost for their patent, secure in the knowledge that Lab B's only alternative is to eat the entire cost and get nothing.

In the second case Lab A is licensing the patent to lots of people and you're proposing that Lab B license the improvement to the same people. The trouble is Lab A still has all the leverage. The availability of the improvement increases the value of the base patent, which allows Lab A to squeeze the licensees harder and leave less for Lab B. Lab B can't respond in kind because the licensees can do business with the Lab A patent without the Lab B patent but not vice versa.
CVPR is pretty good.
This is easy when you start a project, a multi-year project would be almost a complete rewrite which would cost much more than a few $K. Sencha nows this and is abusing its position.
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I think that's just groupthink. People tend to act on their beliefs about things like vaccines, Israel, and handgun ownership.

Of course, it's one of the earliest results in psychology that social conformity has an influence on people's beliefs, even on readily accessible questions like whether line A is longer or shorter than line B. To me, if somebody professes a belief, acts on that belief, and works to convince others of that belief, then they effectively hold that belief.
Check the discussion from 11 days ago. I think your concerns are misplaced. BPG ships a polyfill... and it works. That's what you're seeing live on the parent page. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704629
Wow. That alarm system! Bonus points for an amazing hack!
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I agree that it's annoying and unnecessary and I won't defend it, but that's rather different from "you don't know what you're paying." You only don't know what you're paying if you don't want to figure it out. All the necessary information is available.
I'm not sure why something congress forced them to do is an example of NASA's problems.
You know this is just confirmation bias, right? This is another way of saying you're going to increase your confidence in sources that already agree with your existing mental model, which is the exact problem you're trying to solve!
pg wrote about that as well: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Uber is all of us on HN. And we need to speak up that greed is bad. We need to not associate with greed. We need to recognize that this new economy-thing-that's-so-new-we-don't-have-a-name-for-it-yet changes life; And we need to not be on any side that funds, creates, supports, programs, designs and Elephant-in-the-room ignores greed.

If the end result of rich people funding new companies makes greed, then I vote to stay poor. There is so much potential with "airborne extensive genetics" to do good. But Uber is greed; greed is bad and toxic.
If you haven't read "It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News"[1] by Drew Curtis, then I highly recommend it to explain quite a lot of the process and thinking of the news. It might not be the most serious, and it is funny, but it digs into the truths of the beast.

1) http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-News-Fark-Media/dp/1592403662/
> refuse to compile if public functions did not have an associated test

Sounds like my worst nightmare.
I've noticed that whenever truly original thinkers encounter a problem, they'll quickly establish a workable model—even if it's known to be flawed or wrong—just so they can begin testing it “against the world's experience.”

(I had no idea this style of thinking was associated with INTJ types.)
I've accidentally gotten my wife into trouble this way because one of my hobbies is to tell elaborate lies and she can't always tell when I'm doing it.
Stop buying bullshit narratives against state funded science.

Rocket test stands are not limited to a single rocket model. The choice in 2010 was to spend $57m finishing a project that will undoubtedly see future use, or to abandon a $292m investment with 0 return.

Look for SpaceX to jump on this opportunity since they already lease testing facilities from Stennis.
On one hand, Bill himself seems to support rather strongly "energy miracles" [1] as well as some sort of carbon tax (he thinks certainty is important)[2]. But the Foundation notably does not address any carbon issues, instead looking for opportunities to provide aid where the climate is creating harm.[3]

1. http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates?language=en

2. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/bill-gates-the-roll...

3. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informatio...
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Who says it was their failing? Drift just means being pushed from one's target. It is acceptable (and usual) for drift to be caused by external forces.
My wife and I decided to try for a home birth since she had had basically a perfect pregnancy. It may turn out to be the worst decision we ever made. She ended up in second stage (pushing) for 6 hours due to an awkward presentation and was rushed to hospital in an ambulance. She suffered a pretty bad tear and was seriously traumatised by the whole experience - she still has flashbacks almost a year later.

3 months later she suffered a prolapse as a result of the labour. Prolapse is the huge dirty secret of vaginal delivery - one woman in two will suffer some degree of prolapse as a result of childbirth, but probably only one in 5 of those will have it badly enough to have symptoms. But once you have it there's basically no cure and it can be hugely debilitating. My wife has always been very active, when she was younger she was going to try out for the Spanish national handball team, she has always run a lot, and so on. She will never run again, she shouldn't lift any weight at all (not even our daughter), she is basically an invalid by her previous standards. Her sex life has been severely compromised due to nerves in the vaginal wall being crushed - that will never improve either. All this was probably not 100% avoidable but we could have massively improved her odds if we had had access to accurate information ante-natally.

Natural childbirth is the biggest lie we have ever suffered from. If we had known then what we know now she would have had an elective caesarian, and I recommend everyone consider it.
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I don't mean to pile-on, since I like the project too. But whenever I read about a process control project, I always have to chime in with my usual question, about fault tolerance: Can the system withstand the condition where the heaters remain fully powered, indefinitely? This could happen if:

1. The relay fails shut (which may be its typical failure mode)

2. The temperature sensor comes out of the water, or fails in some other way.

3. Software bug.

I could tell you my story of my temperature controller running away in the middle of the night and wreaking havoc on a delicate and elaborate physics experiment. But in terms of taking your project "to the next level," it's worth thinking about how you can design your system to fail safe, i.e., so it remains safe under any reasonable single fault failure mode. A more subtle failure mode might be failing to reach the set temperature, resulting in undercooked meats.
I've found that when I reexpose myself to the same subject or book or whatever, I recall or relearn the information a lot more easily than I did the first time. A lot of times it was just in cold storage the whole time.
Depending on what you mean by scaling up. There have been single man vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicles that have two rotors and require no variable pitch for directional control so they are even simpler then the system in this video since the 1950's! The first such vehicle was the Hiller VZ-1, dubbed the "Flying Platform". If you are in the bay area you can go check a real one out at the Hiller Aviation museum next to the san carlos airbort (30 minutes south of sf). Or enjoy watching this video...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/the-se...

Directional control is achieved by leaning, the gyroscopic forces from the dual rotating blades creates inherent stability without any feedback system. They are like segways of the sky. Reports say it only took 20 minutes for a non pilot to learn how to fly it. These machines are incrdible and I don't understand why more hasn't been done with them.

A late 1970's version called the williams x jet WASP added a cruise missle turbojet for more horsepower, and was coined the "flying pulpit".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-3Ql7G7qRc
The Bayh-Dole act wasn't some singularity of research innovation.
You've completely misunderstood the line you quote. FastMail as a company do not participate in blanket surveillance. We can't control the actions of any one else, governments or otherwise.
What is such a person doing reviewing for the IEEE.
That's not how parallel circuits work. The voltage is independent of how many devices are connected. That's how your wall plugs always provide 110V.

Edit: Sorry, I misread, I thought this subthread was about parallel circuits.
any link or email to apply? It seems like company's home page is www.ivc.com but there is no career/jobs links.
Maybe it's a side-effect of increased vibration for 7.2k drives? Hard drive performance drops in environments with high vibration. I could imagine that being a factor when you put 45 drives in a single server.
Actual green in a bit more genetically complex, but yes there are lot of people with brown eyes that carry the blue eye variant.