skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and his camera freezing wasn't something I thought modern cameras were especially prone to

They are. Try using your modern DSLR in even -10C for a day. You better bring some spare batteries with you.

If I were to go on a photo safari in such cold I'd bring a mechanical Leica range finder camera (possibly a model completely without any electronics) and film. At least as a backup.
Doesn't he have a permanent profit share in the Bain funds? Bain is one of the more successful private equity funds in the world, and as such, I'd think that 'stake' could easily be valued at 10-20x earnings.
These remind me of some of the scenes in the end of the movie "Enter The Void".
I was reminded of the quote from TRON Legacy:

> I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?

These shots definitely capture the city-to-circuit transitions from the films.
How do you manage the code quality of your projects?
Hi,

I'm Mariano Focaraccio, Founder & CEO of Gitcolony (http://gitcolony.com). We are working really hard to redefine how software companies manage the code quality of their projects.
I'd love to hear about your experience with code review, peer programming and QA processes to understand where the pain points are and make sure we can tackle them!

Gitcolony is still very much a beta - there are plenty of rough edges. It'd be great to hear your thoughts, good or bad!

Thanks for your time!
Show HN: I created a custom iOS Tabbar
> "Isn't their current economy significantly smaller than their current population"

I'm not sure what you mean. These are apples and oranges you are comparing here.
That's not even close to a formalization of human morality. Such a thing probably isn't even possible. See this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/
> Worse still, the technology behind systems like Waves Ultramaximizer could easily be built into an iPod, automatically remastering all those dull old Neil Young records into BIG LOUD IN-YOUR-FACE BANGERS.

I believe Museum of Techno has done some work on this problem.

http://archive.museumoftechno.org/exhibition_detail.php?id=5
The narrator in this one claims to fear heights and electricity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGoaXZwFlJ4
No, the blood would be on the hands of the medical professionals in the clinic, or the owners of the meditation retreat, if for some reason they didn't keep watch on those who might need help.
Serious question, what makes this the "newest" skyscraper? There are various buildings that are more and less complete than this one.
Found this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPQiHyJj7Wk

introducing the Google Radio Automation suite which seems to be what came after the SS32 thing mentioned in the article. Seems like Google got out of that business in 2009:

http://www.wideorbit.com/wideorbit-acquires-google-radio-aut...
"It's ironic we had to look so far back in the literature to understand something that may so radically change our future."

No, it's expected. Fundamental science rarely "ages", it just might be a while before it can find applications. I hope for a future where scientific discoveries don't fade, they are just input into some distributed semantic database as a "fact". Combined with researchers who are taught to use these tools and to think in a multi-disciplinary fashion, this could really accelerate the pace of discovery and invention.
Asus released updated firmware it seems, that was quick!

http://www.asus.com/ie/Networking/RTAC66U/HelpDesk_Download/
Disable anything you don't use. I wish it weren't so but IPv6 is probably a safe assumption there.
It seems like there is an obvious way to close this loophole: require the taxpayer to realize the $990,000 capital gain. Can anyone explain if/why this is not already required?
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Something something tech bubble, something something are you kidding me...
Except that Machiavelli didn't believe what you attribute to him. Only the first of four items in your list did Machiavelli advocate in The Prince; none of the items you mention were virtues to Machiavelli in The Discourses. Even in the case of manipulation and deception by a prince (think governance not commerce) - Machiavelli viewed it as virtuous only given the state of affairs among the competing principalities and countries of the time. The Prince was Machiavelli's Leviathan, his answer to the nasty, brutish and short state of nature. Of note, Machiavelli was tortured by the Medici's so the sadism, in particular, he'd have found offensive.
>>Modern GPUs don't even have SIMD units per core any more; both NVidia and AMD are completely scalar now.

This is factually incorrect. Let me quote Vasily Volkov [1]: "Earlier GPUs had a 2-level SIMD architecture — an SIMD array
of processors, each operating on 4-component vectors. Modern
GPUs have a 1-level SIMD architecture — an SIMD array of
scalar processors. Despite this change, it is the overall SIMD
architecture that is important to understand."

[1] http://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/sites/all/parlab/files/LU,%2...
It's just figure of speech.
Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth
The unfortunate reality might be that we have reached the limits of what chemistry can physically achieve with battery technology and there are no more significant shifts to be dealt with...
If You Find Buried Treasure, Here's the Guy to Call
Importance doesn't imply goodness. WW2 was important, but it was still a waste; we didn't learn anything from it that our best people didn't already know.

So what is the point of letting people die? What _reason_ do you have to do it? Some vague appeal to nature/tradition isn't going to cut it.
Sometimes comment threads get really long on HN and if I try to scroll up to traceback to the parent, I get confused. I could click on the link to the comment, then click "parent", but that takes me out-of-context. So I put together this bit of JS to do a popup that shows me the parent comment without having to scroll anywhere or change what I'm currently looking at. Just an idea I was playing with. You can paste it into firefox console. There's no license or anything; I don't care what happens to this code or if I don't get credit for it in someone else's app/extension/whatever. I just want people to think about this concept. It'd be cool if HN just built this into the site; maybe account-option to turn it on/off.
Yakuza: Trying to understand many shades of grey
UK’s Cameron won’t “allow” strong encryption of communications
It seems though that nobody improved the results of even short programs presented here:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang...

The slowdown of most of these is 2 to 9 times, only one is comparable to C.

And I can imagine the difference when reimplementing the Knuth's code to be even bigger. For what Knuth did as early as in 1960 see here:

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7

He wrote the whole ALGOL compiler in 1960 alone. During the first week (!) he first wrote the assembler. As written by one of the guys who developed another compiler, the Fortran one:

"Our compilers were both punched or cards and were the same size. We had written ours in STAR 0, the only assembler that Burroughs supported on the 205. It had been Dick Berman's first programming project. Our compiler took one hour and 45 minutes to assemble. The first week of don's project he spent in writing his own assembler. He could assemble his compiler in 45 minutes. We were green with envy. I am sure that don used only half the computer time that Lloyd and I used."

Btw they had no terminals there then, and all shared one computer:

"Our compilers were both punched on cards"

"There was only one 205 at the Pasadena Plant. It was primarily used to run the payroll. Lloyd and I were given top priority on the machine since real money was going to be given to Burroughs as soon as we successfully finished our compiler. Payroll had second priority and don was third."

TeX was written by Knuth between 1978 and 1989, working on it for ten years and starting almost twenty years after his 1960 feat.
So the problem is not that they don't have enough people. The problem is that they won't have enough people to form a sizeable enough tax base in the future, given demographic trends and the situation of debt/currency destruction. The demographic trend isn't the underlying cause, but it comes at a particularly bad time.
I thought it was well-known that consumer weather forecasting is almost always pessimistic.

Forecasting sun when it rains generates complaints; the other way around, not so much.

Personally, I prefer it when they give percentages (which I assume are still pessimistic). The Met Office appears to forecast "rain" on a "30%" chance of precipitation.
Nope, just instead of this

0 1 * * * backup >/var/log/foo 2>&1

I do this

0 1 * * * backup >/var/log/foo

My errors are emailed to me via standard cron conventions. Normal logging is available for me if I care to look at it.
Jan 29: Heavybit's DevGuild: Developer Evangelist Event in SF
BEST WEATHER APP HANDS DOWN!

Yes, I needed all caps there because I'm shouting.
Or maybe there's some disagreement between the sexes on what constitutes "a relationship".
Those images are amazing. Great photographer, and great idea at this unique perspective. Although I think the height above the city drama was a bit overplayed.
The packages are secondary; TeX stripped of all its accouterments already solves a really really hard problem, and is extremely fast and free to boot. The rate of bug discovery has slowed to about one a decade so there is really no need to mess with the internals at this point. It "just works". I think TeX will be with us for a very long time yet.
Actually normal support for windows 7 ended this month. You're only getting security updates for that now, not new features.
There's a fair amount of recent work on both improving the GC and making it less used. We'll continue that work this year.
Really? Why would they be coupled? I mean, maybe a little bit. For instance, maybe the parser could tell the lexer what kind of token it expects to see next, so that the lexer doesn't parse an int as a float by mistake, but that doesn't sound that bad to me. (I should point out that my experience here is a single class in college.)
One of my favorite things to do with new passengers is take them up and down the Hudson River corridor, an airspace that "tunnels through" the more tightly controlled airspaces of Newark and Laguardia. From the Verrazanno Bridge up the Manhattan side of the river at 1000 feet and exiting over the Tappan Zee (or vice versa, southbound on the Jersey side, or a round trip) is unforgettable for passengers.

These images are breathtaking, but the nofilter, in-real-life version are even moreso, IMO.
I can't see it as lying. It is a thinly traded asset with limited price history.
> And simply saying that privilege is "unfairly reserved"

I meant the promotion of empathy is being unfairly reserved. Empathy is a universally virtuous principle. To preach it at cis white males excludes others from the joys of this enlightenment.

> To them (and I'm in this group)

This is what confuses me. Why is privilege seen as a membership of a group rather than a behavioral fact about human existence? If you took someone you considered "under privileged" and gave them "excess privilege", surely they too would employ "hedonic adaption". Point being, it seems privilege can be reasoned about in principle without employing group mentality.

> To illustrate: How often do people hear heterosexuality applied as a pejorative label?

On the surface we can reason that pejoratives are bad. Beneath that we can reason that some people are victimized for being different. And beneath that we can reason that empathizing with others helps us act in more caring ways.

I think the promotion of kind language is valid and good, but I feel like it's less useful than the promotion of empathy, because the result of empathizing most likely encompasses the benefits of kind language and much more.
>> Reproductive apathy is not the same as sexual.

No, but this is: "More than a third of childbearing-age Japanese have never had sex: 39 percent of women and 36 percent of men, ages 18 to 34"
View page source and find "original.jpg"...
It's not just about productivity. As the article says,

"People in Japan tend to live a long time; elderly Japanese are expensive to care for because they spend so many years in retirement and because they're accustomed to a high standard of living and medical care. For any economy to stay healthy, there need to be enough taxpayers to support all the retirees. But Japan's population is shrinking and aging simultaneously, which means that the number of old people is skyrocketing just as the base of taxpayers shrinks."
Who named Silicon Valley?
Even independent evaluators go by price history.
You don't need more people, you need economic growth via capital investment, innovation, productivity gains, and government that isn't wildly fiscally irresponsible.

Again, see: Germany

If your theory were true, Germany would be in terrible financial trouble just like Japan. Their population decline over the last 20 years would have reduced their financial tax base, but the exact opposite happened.

You do not need more people to grow your financial tax base.

Also, without productivity gains and a competitive private sector when it comes to innovation (see: South Korea and China taking Japan's growth by out-competing them), an expanded labor pool will not boost your tax base, it'll make everything worse - you'll still have the social welfare costs of an ever greater number people, meanwhile you'll primarily stagnate existing labor through wage pressure that comes with more workers.
Designing for China
That doesn't seem to be on the RT-56U which the OP has.
New York as a Microchip layout was the main theme of the intro of 'Hackers'. Check out around 0:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c4KG_8iTZM
Hopefully someone will get so fed up with it that they just make a powerful replacement from scratch. (Maybe with a TeX export utility.)
At the moment, no, I am not willing to do that. Because the technology is not yet good enough.

But it may be possible for the technology to be that good. Let's assume that in the future, we have tests after tests showing that the automated systems have better performance than humans. Then, yes, I would be willing. In that case, we have two faulty navigation systems, but one out-performs the other.
The poker-playing program that marks a breakthrough in AI
I fixed this for you:

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Ignorant? I think not. I do not want to trust a typical driver to see me, identify me, and stop a vehicle doing 100+ kph in time not to kill me.

Would anyone here be willing to stand on a road with their backs to an oncoming car with human supervision? Thousands of times. In all weather conditions. When the driver's credentials and eyeglass prescription are 5/10/25 years out of date? That's what motorcyclists must do at every red light: trust that the car approaching behind them stops in time.

____

Personally. As soon as computers can be proven to have a catastrophic error rate lower than human drivers, statistically, I'm all for it. From there, it can only get better.

And in case it isn't obvious, my point is your argument didn't really have anything specific to machine vs human driver. It's essentially saying "I don't trust robots, because they aren't humans." The only thing that should really matter is results, and that will only be determined by testing and comparing.
"Have never had sex" (usually construed as meaning "...with another person") and "lacking sexual desire" are still not the same thing. I find it extremely hard to believe that you're unaware of the possibility of solo sex (which highlights the distinction). Wouldn't be surprised if you're an expert, in fact.
When you adjust for Japan's fraudulent age accounting, they're not living much longer than Germans. Maybe 1 to 1.5 years tops.

It's just another bogus excuse for the extraordinary mismanagement by the Japanese government over the last 25 years.
Compared to something extensively hand-optimized by Donald Knuth, it doesn't seem that surprising, especially considering Vanderburg went with better abstractions in preference to optimization.
In pretty much every case, if changing 'var' to 'let' would trigger this issue, the original code isn't doing what the author thought it was.
I guess he has mentioned it for those, whose tiny programs get the job done before the lovely JVM gets warmed up.
The actual headline is more accurate: 'Barack Obama calls for stronger data privacy laws' (at the time that I'm writing this it is 'Obama to beef up laws on privacy and data breaches').

The President of the United States is not able to 'beef up' federal laws; he can execute the ones that exist and call for new ones to be passed.
I'm aware of AMD's terminology here, and I disagree with it. They say "SIMD array of scalar processors" where "SIMT" makes much more logical sense to me. I believe the only reason that they maintain this "2-level vs. 1-level SIMD" distinction is because NVidia coined the term SIMT, so they refuse to use it due to marketing concerns/some possible trademark or other IP law liability/pride.

...and now I read your paper, and I need to eat humble pie, because it apparently predates NVidia's use of the term "SIMT." Apparently, even if it makes more logical sense, SIMT is the buzzword!

Either way, I think it's a stretch to say I'm "factually incorrect" just because I used different terminology. Whether you think of it as an "SIMD array of scalar processors", or (to use NVidia terminology) an "SIMT warp of scalar threads" the important thing here is that the execution units in the bundle with the shared instruction pointer operate on scalar values now, rather than 4-element vectors.
Yup this is right.
>> "20 or 30 days without food will resolve most symptoms in most humans."

If you are a type 2, you are a diabetic due to lifestyle choices like overeating, eating/drinking high-carb foods, not excercising, smoking, etc. If you are a type 1, no matter how good you eat, you will still need to take subcutaneous injections every day to manage blood sugar, your body won't let your pancreas create insulin or glucagon.

For type 1s, this is terrible advice. It won't help and will likely kill you.

For type 2s, this is somewhat sound advice. While I don't imagine too many type 2s who have the discipline necessary to not do that which they have overdone for years for 20 to 30 days, a type 2 eating a lot less (or perhaps fasting entirely under doctor's supervision), it will definitely help better the situation and would be a great step in getting their diabetes under control.

What I find frustrating is that this research is being done for the section of diabetics who actually have control over their diabetic destiny, simply stop being obese by any means necessary. As a type 1, I honestly resent Type 2s who do nothing to better their situation. This research is just another way for Type 2s to not have to deal with the consequences of their actions ahead of me and those like me being liberated from our sharps, glucose monitors and pumps.

Wow, I am raging, better check my levels ;]
I was looking for the same thing; however I can't find any acknowledgement of Ansible's existence anywhere on the site or in the docs :(
What about semipermiatic structures such as the blood brain barrier? According to The Internet(tm), permeability in rat brains is affected by a mere 0.1T.
Actually, this is probably nothing more than FUD: http://www.yutaaoki.com/blog/top5-mistakes-journalists-make-...
"The Fine Article" (if you're in polite company): the original posted link.
Even very hot iron is not magnetic. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature )
I'm not aware of any structured databases of published research articles, but this project (a database of computed properties for materials) has generated some interesting insights into batteries and other technologies:

https://www.materialsproject.org/

For example, check out the papers on phophates as Li-ion cathodes in About->Publications.
"The Fine Article". Originated from Slashdot, I believe.
Have you asked them, and listened rather than dismiss what they say?

I have. I am not just pushing narrative here.
African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax
Already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874624 although I think that one is being negatively scored for the high number of (low upvote) comments.
very much so.. no doubt how the "Grid" in Tron was conceived..
in fact, these photos have a "tron" kind of feel to them (the saturation of some of those neon colors looks very EL)
You put _way_ too much faith in human beings...

I spend a lot of time hanging out in the middle of the road in less than ideal conditions. The leading cause of death and injury for paramedics are motor vehicle accidents. Speaking for myself, I eagerly await the day when we get to remove the least reliable element of most cars... the driver.
I'd heard that severe haemochromatosis could trigger a metal detector. Is that just an urban legend?
Haven't you heard of MK809 dongle? Quad core, much cheaper than Intel, with full Android unlike Chromecast, able to install Linux distribution: http://amzn.com/B00EE4KKDA
Wouldn't that be shocking.
You are not creating content, you are creating
I've become extremely disillusioned with US Politics and I find it hard to not be apathetic about it no matter how much I don't want to be. It seems like everyone treats it as a big game. Just look at the landscape and how its implemented. Talking heads providing endless commentary, the entire country being broken into teams, people taking sides and playing favorites, presidential elections have more in common with American Idol than with actual political elections, politicians being more concerned with being the "winner", or at least not being the "loser", than doing what's right (even when "right" is defined by their own beliefs). I'm sure its always been like this in some way but it feels like it just gets worse every election cycle.
Do you realize that there have been hundreds of studies suggesting that fasting has health benefits? There are too many listed on Google for me to link to them all but here is a random sample of a few.

Start with this one, which was on Hacker News for awhile:

Total Starvation – 382 days without Food

http://cristivlad.com/total-starvation-382-days-without-food...

"I recently came across this study from 1973 in which a 27 years old male has fasted for 382 days under the supervision of researchers from a Scotland University. This is the longest fast ever been recorded.

This patient weighted in 456 pounds (~207 kg) and weighted out 180 pounds (~82 kg). So, he lost 276 pounds (~125kg) during his fast. Five years after the fast ended, the patient’s weight has been constantly around the values of 196 pounds. A.B. had no ill symptoms during and after the fast."

Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of hypertension

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11416824

Intermittent fasting: a dietary intervention for prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease?

http://dvd.sagepub.com/content/13/2/68.long

Wikipedia lists all the fasts undertaken by Ghandi, his longest being 21 days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fasts_undertaken_by_Mah...

There are all the Christian sites that promote fasting so you can be more like Jesus:

https://danielfast.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/christian-fastin...

There's endless other religious sites I could link to. In India the yogis are known for very long fasts.

You should try to educate yourself on this subject. There is an abundance of information that is only a Google search away.