skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the late 19th century, it's been standard in English to use U.S. state names as adjectives unmodified. In part that's because many states have rather strange adjectival forms, or no good ones at all. For example, "the Michigan ideology" would be almost universally preferred over "the Michigander ideology", except perhaps in some hyperlocal writing. But even adjectival forms previously in use, like "Californian" and "Texan" (or the even older "Texian") fell largely out of use a century ago, in favor of the adjective following the noun form. For example, according to Google's ngram stats, "Texas law" and "Texas legislature" overtook "Texan law" and "Texan legislature" somewhere around 1890, and have been orders of magnitude more common in recent decades.
> Airfares are most definitely higher than they were in the mid 2000's

We've established that. The data shows that flights this year were about 13% higher than at the lowest point, which was 2009 (recession). They are a little under 5% higher than the lowest point during the "mid 2000's". These numbers (~.25% increase per year over 10 years) are fairly insignificant when you look at the broader trends (>1% decrease per year over 3-4 decades).
>Earlier in my career I did some fMRI and, whilst an interesting technique, I've never been convinced that it quite delivers on the claims. Firstly, you aren't looking at an electrical signal but rather changes in blood flow which are (reasonably) assumed to be coupled with areas of increased neural activity. This felt to me a bit like trying to debug a computer program by pointing a heat sensitive camera at your motherboard.

It's pretty crude but it works. fMRI has been useful for a ton of things, it's even possible to read people's minds with it (from seeing what words they are thinking to an entire video reconstruction.)
Another great one is the Irish Mannequinn. I thought BPG blows up the edges, because every other format smoothed them out. But no, when you compare to the original, all the interesting edges (hair, hanging fabric, top of the lips) should be very visible.

I really like the results!
Thanks! Currently I'm working on delivering Flutter Wireless, which is at www.FlutterWireless.com.

The 3D printed robots will be for some tutorials we will be launching. Other than that, I've been continually procrastinating about making a website for my personal projects, but I have a lot. If you dig through my youtube account at the original link, I have some other project videos there.

Notable ones are:
The robot I made when I was in High School:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJu1eL_dYs&list=UUxTluifYa_...

An app to interface with some cheap helicopter joysticks (and not shown - I could fly the heli with an app on my phone).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq2x3DVq7gs&list=UUxTluifYa_...

Lighting a campfire with thermite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pu-R_IHirE&list=UUxTluifYa_...

A demo sketch I made for 3D printers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEH7Ji4a3Ss&list=UUxTluifYa_...

The time I was on G4 TechTV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2R-TlBomnQ&list=UUxTluifYa_...

My stuff on thingiverse.
http://www.thingiverse.com/tlalexander/designs

Not currently represented online are some of the robots I have made, the Tesla Coil I made when I was in High School, and the gas powered hovercraft I made in 8th grade. :)
Plain-text and a file system? See emacs' org-mode. It has many of the features parent listed.

update I'd even add perhaps the solution is really to take the best ideas out of org-mode and give it a platform-integrated UI. It does basically what everyone here has been asking for and more... it's just buried in Emacs which is definitely not for everyone.

Document sharing across devices is easy if you're comfortable sharing your content with a third-party like Evernote or Dropbox. I'd be more comfortable with something that's decentralized, encrypted, and versioned like a Git + Freenet backing store.
I am not worried about natural toxins. Most of what I select to eat is likely free of them. What I am worried about is that there doesn't seem to be any evidence of non-transfer of chemicals even at lower temperatures. I see claims but no clear evidence. Even if the transfer rates are low the chemicals "dose" can accumulate over repeated use.
I agree that this is possible, but to find the correlation, a full data set is needed (behavior and medical data).

As far as I know, no single entity has such a data set.
>Of course that will be impossible to prove.

This is a bold claim. You might as well say that science can't prove electrons exist or that water is wet.

What do you mean by 'proof', and why is that what you choose to mean by it?
I couldn't stomach reading the entire link, but I think your post is quite lovely.

One thing I wonder, is whether the next new thing will be thought out first and then executed, or executed almost by mistake, in pieces, only being seen to take shape as a social trend once it has assembled itself, little link by little link, from the ground up. Two of my favorite social paradigms/ trends/ somethings (which I believe are almost, but not quite spent) -- Christianity, Capitalism -- have done just that. Sure there is theory that happens along the way (St. Paul, Milton Friedman), but it is actually in the thick of the action as people jockey for power (in the wide, Nietzschean sense). (Edit: FYI, this is almost straight Foucault, except he believed in some naive French justice and couldn't take the Nietzschean medicine full strength). (Edit, 2: If I remember, Uncle Fritz also predicted that God would give his last shudder and be finally dead about two centuries after the publishing of Genealogy of Morals about 1889... I love that guy... Just 75 more years...)

Another thing I wonder, is didn't Nietzsche also predict that only once we finally finish our utter boredom with empty ideologies that make us feel safe will we be free to start realizing our potential as human beings? And, he promised, there will be LOTS of good music....
The rise of MEAN for web app development
He'll get more traction once he signs up for Traction.VC and learns some great tips.
If an American company incorporated Bellard's reference decoder into a commercial product that is distributed in binary form to clients, would that company need to license the HVEC patents to avoid being sued by an HVEC patent holder?
> Has Linus ever gotten bent out of shape at somebody for forking Linux

Nope. For forking Linux, changing the behaviour and then telling Linux to comply with it he has bitten several heads off though.
Actually the simplest way to dix that code ils to write

it = v.push_back(5-*it);
It seems more like a monument of a raised finger, the Congressional middle finger to NASA monument.
For those not willing to read a full page, in the end run it is more an energy decision than a reliability decision. And they mention at the end that they are already looking into the 8TB Helium and 8TB SMR drives.
They'll have to eradicate it in Pakistan and Afghanistan first, and around there people don't really trust foreigners who come around promising free polio vaccines because that was the CIA's cover when they came looking for Bin Laden.
How the heck did Spotify convince me to go Premium?
Where do I learn more about shadow banking?
Bitcoin and the double-spending problem (2013)
Injection molding is on the order of 10,000x more expensive if you only need a single part.

I'm currently on a quest to design highly functional robots that can be made with just a 3D printer and a minimum of external parts - so far only bearings, motors, drive belts, batteries and electronics are the non-printed parts needed. I make everything so that it fits together by interlocking or with minimal use of some coarse printed fasteners.

Since nothing needs to be bought from the store that won't be useful if the design changes, it is trivial to iterate and build a newer version.

My hope is that with developers worldwide working on improvements, injection molded versions of the parts would become obsolete before the mold was even cut.

When it comes to manufacturing, 3D printing is a whole different ballgame. No other manufacturing technique can make so many complex parts without human intervention. This means it opens up all new possibilities for how we manufacture things - like continuous iteration of shipping hardware.
Seems to give screwed up results for the BPG in Google Chrome Dev: Version 41.0.2243.0 dev-m (64-bit) But works in my copy of Firefox.
Yes, it seems like BPG is smarter in finding interesting parts of the image.
Oh, I forgot I have a portfolio of machine parts online now too.
http://www.tlalexander.com/files/portfolio.pdf
RFPs: The Least Creative Way to Hire People (2011)
Hooray, I finally have a new best example of congress interference in NASA's budget and planning. And it's simple enough for anyone to understand.

A TLDR for the entire thing, "Local congressman urges congress to force NASA's to spend four years building something in his state for a rocket scrapped four years ago, demanding the agency waste taxpayer money."
Unless you are wanting to get into compiler development, get certain government positions or work in specific scientific fields of development 5-8 years of experience is worth more than the MSCS.

Unless someone has < 3 years of experience in the field I basically ignore the education section on their resume. I will look for relevant certifications, and any job/technical related training, but experience is worth so much more than a degree in my book.

As for getting recognition for your skills, you'd be better of doing any of the following:

1. contribute to open source projects
2. start a blog, write guest posts
3. contributing to conferences as a speaker.
4. publish white papers on work you have done/been a part of (with permission of course)

If you just want it for personal development though, go for it, I can't think of any reason it would hurt anyone.
Impacts of conventional and alternative light-duty transportation in the US [pdf]
the SVS is accurate across the horizontal plane, but not across the vertical plane. I couldn't trust a water bath without active circulation ( I use a Sainsare at home, and at work, we use PolyScience circulators)
A parser framework for Swift
I thought NASA has been on a decent rise as of late? Maybe I am biased given my love for their success with curiosity, but I feel like I have heard more good then bad out of NASA during the last few years.
Can anyone share how/if Health Insurance benefits are provided?
Boobs, Butts and Beyond [PornHub Insights]
The irony is that the "news" often focuses on exceptional events, which tends to result in having a skewed view of the world.
> power storage will continue to improve

Power storage may continue to improve, but it will take a long time before you hit the energy density of fossil fuels; the difference between batteries and fossil fuels is something like a factor of 10 (actually greater than that, but electric motors are more efficient so let's say 10 for the sake of argument), and it's improving much more slowly than Moore's Law, doubling maybe once every 10 years. That means if those trends continue (and there's no guarantee they will), you're looking at 30-40 years before the energy density allows electric helicopters to be competitive with fossil fuel powered.

For cars, energy density isn't quite as important, as the weight of the car is not the dominant factor in its efficiency (it does have an effect, but the aerodynamics, engine efficiency, transmission efficiency, tires, etc. all make a big difference too). But for a helicopter, every pound you add to the batteries is another pound you have to lift, so energy density of your power source is quite important.

So, if trends hold on battery technologies, it will come about eventually; but I would put money more on the decades timeline than the years timeline.
it occurred to me that (some) Forth systems are awfully close to being macro assemblers, and that really the only reason you’d use a higher-level language rather than a macro assembler is that error handling in macro assemblers, and in Forth, is terrible verging on nonexistent.

Another reason to use a high-level language is that macro assembly code and Forth programs aren't very portable across machines. I guess you could model a virtual machine in the same way the authors model x86, target the virtual machine instead, then have a verified translation from VM operations to x86 instructions, ARM instructions, etc. I wonder if you could get similar performance to a native compiler with this approach.
Who would like a guide to landing their first web development job?
I'm in the process of creating a step by step guide that teaches people how to get their first web developer job, and am doing a bit of market research. I was hoping you guys could help me out and let me know if this is something you would be interested in.

The guide teaches you what level you need to be at technically, guides you through creating an online presence, a personal site, an awesome portfolio, and finally guides you through the process of talking to companies and ultimately landing your first web developer job.

The guide would include not only the concepts, but will also include a step by step action plan to take you from zero knowledge to landing your first full time web developer job.

If you would read this, what would you pay for it? I'm thinking of a price point of $5.99 for everything I just described above, and a premium version for $9.99 which would also include step by step guides for learning 4 major web development frameworks: Meteor, Ruby on Rails, Django, and Laravel, as well as a guide to teaching yourself any web development framework you choose.

Any and all input is appreciated, thanks so much!
A smart article. Finding the reusable services than can be readily translated from one application domain to the other has always proved to be a challenge in this area.

I've found the consulting part (for scientific applications) to be fun, but it's not scalable.
This is a boring brag journal
Shells for Shits
Yes :)

My favourite peer review story is when I submitted one on my articles to the top journal in my field at the time (Appied and Enviromental Microbiogy). It came back with the usual peer review trivial changes (cite this irrelevant paper of mine,etc) which I did (this nearly always easier than arguing with the reviewers). The editor made a mistake and instead of sending the updated manuscript out to the original reviewers, they sent it out to a new lot of reviewers. What was funny about the whole exercise was the second set of reviewers called the first set of reviewers idiots and told me to change everything back.
At-home 3d-printing uses shitty materials and has terrible precision. If you don’t want to go all the way up to making expensive metal tooling and doing injection molding, you can sill get much better results from CNCing some material and then using resin casting than using a 3d printer: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
“Big Government” isn't the problem – we should be talking about complexity
You know what I mean when I mentioned "Dive into things head first, just make sure you're diving into the right things." Be smart about it and analyze the circumstances but truthfully...sometimes life is about taking a risk for something you really believe in and no one else can see.

I understand your point of of view on diving into things, but just do what makes you happy and fuck everything else.
A Gentle Intro to Libevent
"it's better to have documented and defined power relationships to start a discussion (and, one hopes, end it with doing the right thing regardless of who is in power) than having the creepy, undefined power relationships that you see in a VC-funded startup."

The latter sounds like "open-allocation."
Well the issue isn't just that they're hard to fly or that they're mechanically complex - the issue is that they're both. So you crash often (when flying models) and crashes are expensive. This makes it a very expensive hobby.

The issue when flying is that they balance as if they are on a ball. You need to constantly adjust the controls to stop from "falling off the ball". Go the wrong direction and you speed up the rate at which it falls. When it is facing away from you, that's not very hard. When it is facing towards you everything is backwards. When you are turning, the correct direction to stay balanced is constantly changing.

Automated systems can do this automatically for you though, so a drone-like autopilot in a standard helicopter could make them as easy to fly as quadcopters. Traditional helicopters are still mechanically complex though. This system looks to fix that. And this would be more efficient than a multirotor.
Because it worked so well for Tesla. (Nikola that is)
No doubt! That's great to hear. Enjoy Europe...it's awesome! It will probably be one of the best experiences you'll have and you're lucky as hell to do that with someone you care about. By the fucking horns man! Haha. Wish you the best.

Cheers
This comes up every time someone suggests pricing a scarce good (either with Pigovian taxes or privatizing a scarce resource), but it has an easy solution: [p]rebate everyone the amount of tax they would pay for poverty level consumption of the resource. That preserves all of the incentives to cut back on a marginal unit, without penalizing someone for being poor.

Facing economic realities doesn't mean keeping staying with systems that rewards the wrong thing.
What the Gates Foundation is wonderful, laudable, noble, and good. I am disappointed to not see mention of any environmental accomplishments in the list, though. Long term, the threats posed by climate change are far more of a threat than any disease.
What' the source of world map?
I'm surprised you are listing Somaliland and Northern Cyprus as an independent nation, but not listing some little nations. (e.g. Vatican, Andorra)
Fruits: Mozjpg medium is still worse as BPG and is nearly double the size, it leaves a lot artifacts in the cloudy areas. Found it very convincing.

I think the results depend a little on the kind of input, but some of the pictures where rather convincing. WebP seems to do better than jpeg.
Firms' don't-call-us policies speak volumes
Don't forget 700,000 dollars per year for maintenance. Pure insanity.
There's also a lot of 64-bit hacks on pages related to chess programming (8x8 boards).
For example: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Bitboards

And my faviourite bit hack question on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14537831/isolate-specifi...
This tends to happen to an exceptional degree when news has a strong emotional impact, which is of course what sensationalized headlines try to emphasize (whether out of partisanship or because emotionally charged information is more viral).

People's belief systems about the relative threats of terrorism and pedophiles is thus distorted by the media because the amount of time they spend watching terrorist attacks or episodes of "To Catch A Predator" is massively disproportionate to the actual level of risk posed by those kinds of things, and so especially is the emotional impact of that media.
The Threat of Treble Damages versus the Benefit of Insight
Oh, I was referring to what the original authors called it, not to what I thought would have made a better title. The HN title doesn't reflect the official title chosen by the authors.

I definitely agree that it would have made sense for the original authors to have titled it "the California Ideology".
My understanding was that the latest research showed that some folks are quite sensitive to salt, and that a low sodium diet is critical to their health. But that most folks are not, and there isn't a benefit to a low sodium diet for them.

I couldn't jog the citations back into my memory, but I may have another try after a bit.
Hacking a Routing Component in Jekyll
5.99 is a good price point for me, but what does it do better than the competition?
You misunderstood; the arbitrariness I address is not in the term cloud, rather in your definition which tries to somehow bundle processes that surround your perception of an entity and the existence of the entity. I am not saying it is not a valid approach, but still it could be as nonsense as the nonsense you ascribe to the detailed approach. How individual droplets become clouds, the outsiders' definition and possibly the insiders' too could be a very illustrative example in the discussion about societies etc.
Same results here too - corrupted in Chrome 41, works ok in Firefox. Filed a bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=442599
Neat. Also here's some other sources beyond the usual CS bookshelf suspects:

http://www.hackersdelight.org/

http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html

(We recently had to grab the C standards in order to bust out some integer under/overflow macros that wouldn't be brittle.)
Hey, I see this almost every week! It is sitting in the lobby of the storage building of the Computer History Museum[0] which is in Milpitas, CA. Unfortunately it is not presently on display to the public; only staff and volunteer workers go into the storage building. Here's the not very interesting catalog record[1].

Thank you for posting this; although I have walked by and looked at it often, and had been told it was functional, I did not realize until I saw these videos how the erase head worked, or that it draws those well-formed "1" and "0" characters.

[0] http://www.computerhistory.org/

[1] http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102682867
That doesn't seem to be true. According to the WHO, climate change has the potential to cause 250,000 deaths per year in 2030-2050. When it comes to disease, malaria alone kills between 376,000 and 755,000 people per year - right now.

Sources:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/premature-deaths-m...
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/
I think the big question is whether people can put BPG pictures online without getting sued.

edit

Why am I being downvoted for saying this? Do the people downvoting me realize that BPG is using HEVC which is patented by many entities?
Well it's federal taxes, the local congressman brought jobs, and tax revenue to his state (rough guess would put the state tax revenue probably close to $10 million in taxes).

Purely disgusting.
you chopped off this part "...iDevice as an extra display for your Mac using the Lightning or 30-pin cable"
The funny thing is I had just posted on hear to ask about how others help improve their reading retention, since I've been feeling bad about forgetting thing after I read them.
Seems to me that the worst part of 3d printed stuff is "the grain" is there any way to fix that?
You are being downvoted but apparently that is what /r/books is claiming the reason is: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2pcnv2/amazon_remove...

I guess it causes issues with bad screen readers.
Does that include overall government spending, or only Federal spending?
From my culture, this is arguable. What Gates is displaying is concrete evidence of progress... What you're saying there isn't any mention of is still argumented largely on if it's a real threat, or not... If it is a real threat, it will take a LOT of change and human resources to correct. I think every bit of this is a step in the right direction. If humanity cannot survive with what they're presented with now, how can they with what they're presented with tomorrow?
Regarding the retention from books, it's often the case that I could fill a dozen pages with correct answers to questions that I only know from having read a particular book, even if I could only fill one page with unprompted recollections.
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" The same book would get compiled differently at different points in your life. Which means it is very much worth reading important books multiple times." -- I loved this statement most.