skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure. Selling $100 of chips that cost $20 each is probably harder than selling $100 of chips that cost $5 each, and ARM gets the same money either way. Cheaper tech tends to increase overall usage.
Thanks -- that meshes with my impression so far. Is it smart/reasonable to use the es6 shim today?
IIRC, the primary issue with Ensure was only that it cost too much per serving to make it viable for eating every day.
Great story--I think one thing to highlight is 3D Slicer (the publicly-funded open source medical imaging tool used for all this):

http://www.slicer.org

More doctors should be using tools like this. Hopefully stories like this will help to overcome the inertia in adoption.
I saw the terms of use and its mentioned there that "The rcdb grants permission for users to freely distribution the data contained within the Roller Coaster DataBase" .. but can't see a direct dump link for the database .. do you mean if the user scrape the data and save in their own db and then they are allowed to freely distribute it further ??
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Take it with a grain of salt, but this report of fish genes in tomatoes seems credible: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dna/pop_genetic_gallery/

Apparently fish tomatoes do exist, but have never been on the market.
Sorry bud. Here, I found a little friend for you, should be much more your taste: http://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
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Awesome, we use a lot of PET/CT/MRI fusion imaging for computer assisted surgery and have an EOS scanner (statistical shape modeling). Just really awesome tech. Good ultrasound -> CT fusion would, I think, be indeed be a major breakthrough, allowing easy matching / guided procedures everywhere in the body but also for us as a secondary check on CAS / robotic accuracy.
I honestly can't understand the appeal or novelty in it. Ready meals have been available for years. Vitamin tables have been available for years. Where exactly does the difference lie?
CS professor here - I use LaTeX, and my wife, also a professor in a different field, uses word. From watching both of our workflows over quite a time, a few things jump out very clearly:

1) LaTeX + revision control is better for multi-user concurrent collaboration. Word + track changes can get the job done for one-person-at-a-time as might be seen more often when making revisions. (We haven't compared word+revision control). But the typical Word workflow involves emailing documents to collaborators - barf.

2) LaTeX+bibtex is better for references. As far as I've been able to tell, EndNote is a steaming pile of pain that crashes frequently and takes Word for the Mac out with it. And glitches in horrible ways.

3) Word users are more likely to get their table formatting the way they want it in less time. I hate playing that game in LaTeX. Particularly if you want fancy nested stuff that looks right, is space-efficient, etc.

The study linked in this article notably omitted two of those that are quite important at least in engineering disciplines -- multi-author collaborations are the norm.

But the recommendations are asinine. In the engineering and sciences, at least, the amount of time that goes into the physical preparation of the paper, seated at your computer, writing de novo text, is nothing. It's trivial. You could crank out a full-length CS paper (12 pages, 2 column, 10 point text) in a few hours, were you just limited by your typing speed and the time taken to format it. If that were the case, I'd have more papers than Erdos!
No. Illegitimate third parties, such as criminals, want your data. So you throw in the towel and give your data to legitimate third party companies that you have signed privacy and service contracts with. They're really not comparable.
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How do the Moon Nazis feel about it?

Seriously, the article is about as factual as Iron Sky.
> it's possible to get all daily nutrition from just (...)

How do you know you're not missing a few micronutrients? We don't know yet all the micronutrients our body needs, so how can you really say that?
Wonkblog's headline is pretty clickbaity -- there's really not much to see here.

Technically it's true that the federal reserve has a lot of control over who is elected president. But, contrary to the headline's implication, the article doesn't argue that the fed can intentionally engineer electoral outcomes. The fed controls elections only because monetary policy has a significant effect on the economy, and the nation's economic performance significantly effects presidential elections. Bad monetary policy -> bad economy -> change in political party occupying the white house. On this definition there are many agencies that "have enormous power over who is president."

I suppose the Fed chair and other officials could engineer an electoral outcome by sabotaging the economy, but this seems pretty far fetched and the article does not suggest that this occurs.
More American Businesses Dying Than Starting
As I said: there's no guarantee it affects you. But messing with timeouts during startup (where stuff might be failing and prevent server processes from recovering correctly) can be an issue. Even when the process is long-running in general. If that issue affects your particular program is a different question.
Google Disclose Another Vulnerability in Windows 8.1
Then we should probably compare other NOSQL solutions to relational databases. Like CouchDb, CouchBase, FoundationDb, Neo4J, etc.
Wasn't the point of Angular, bach in the days, that it isn't over-engineered and was put together by some guy at Google to show that it can go easier than with GWT?

I remember, 2 years ago, I was on a JS-meetup, and some guy was rambling about how Angular is the hot shit.

Funny thing was, he always said "yeah we had often the feeling, that something was fundamentally wrong with Angular, but after a few days into a problem, we found that we were wrong and Angular got it right."

His main argument was, that he uses Angular, because it feels better to use something "a guy at google did for fun"
If you're running a business and you want an internal social network then you're far better off installing redmatrix.

https://github.com/friendica/red

It's easy to deploy and you can do things such as end to end encryption, and there are many sharing/privacy options.

If you install some version of Facebook then chances are they'll try to find some way to exfiltrate or monetise your company data. Also, if you're not a US company then 100% of everything you enter into Facebook is regarded as fair game to be exfiltrated, stored, analysed, etc. Probably that's not in your best interests.
From reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Fusion_reactions, the 2p are two protons, and not positrons, as valarauca1 is saying.

So, 4 protons and 2 neutrons go in, 4 protons and 2 neutrons come out.

But charge still needs to be conserved -- I presume that the spare electrons just aren't shown in the reaction; if they were bound to the protons, then we'd see 2H rather than 2p.
This is truly amazing. Someone needs to fund this guy :)
I'm not one of these "I hate daylight savings time" people. But I will say it is a massive pain in the arse that DST starts and stops at different times in different places.

So instead of you being for example 8 hours difference you might be 9, or 7, and so on. It is really super annoying and avoidable with a little cooperation.
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The problem is that we're still very much in the dark regarding nutrition:

"This formula contains what we know we need but not what we might need and don't know how to measure or quantify yet," said Ayoob, at Albert Einstein. "There are hundreds of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds, for example, that we're still learning about." (1)

The danger with Soylent is that they don't acknowledge these limits of our knowledge. Rather, "You can live on Soylent alone, Mr. Rhinehart claims" (2). Given the nutirition field believes differently and he really has no expertise in the field, a statement like this is mindbogglingly irresponsible. This is my basis for the accusation of hubris. (This also doesn't touch on the obvious monetary incentive he has for believing this/making this claim.)

(1) http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/DietNutrition/46983

(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/technology/personaltech/th...
Assuming China does want to go get it [1], profit may not be the motive. It might just be a resource grab. Uneconomical in the short run, but with a vague expectation that the resource will skyrocket in value years from now. I doubt China is interested in resale, so much as stockpiling.

[1] I say "assuming...," because this article is basically just speculating.
If that is true WHY is there such a serious decline from 1980s and early 1990s to today in the States?

Also why is there tremendous amount of police killings in the 1920s-1930s is so far above from what they were in the 1950s, 2000s+?
What If Amazon Launched a Bank?
This is a cool application, but 3D reconstruction of DICOM images isn't that new. For example, there is the Mimics commercial package that is on version 17, and similar things are actually quite commonly used by radiologists. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimics)

Patient-specific surgery, and computer analysis in diagnosis and treatment is going to be very big (I'm betting four years of my life in doing a PhD in the field). Its always interesting when there is patient or family led efforts in the field, but this kind of thing was cutting edge in research probably 10-15 years ago (I 3D printed aortic aneurysms as an undergrad in ~2009 for a surgery planning project, and it wasn't a new thing then - example http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s100160010054).

Its curious then why 3D printing for surgery planning hasn't become the standard-of-care yet. My instinct is that we'll see more improvements to 3D rendering, planning, and simulation on the computer, but a physical model is not that additionally helpful to surgeons for most cases. Especially considering increased cost and time compared to a computer model.
Pudding Pops:

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/27800000/Jell-O-Puddi...
> and takes Word for the Mac out with it

This is another important point.There are incompatibilities between the Windows and Mac versions of Office. I've never seen any such cross-platform issues with LaTeX.
I have been working in the mainframe industry for over 5 years now and i know tons of company (government, banks, insurance and others) are still running mainframe. I picked this field because i saw the opportunity of how alot of the old folks are retiring and companies are willing to pay alot of money to get young folks to join and learn the mainframe. Honestly its not even that hard as long as you are willing to learn....
what are your thoughts about it?
If someone was willing to train people, would people be interested in it?
My issue with AngularJS: Debugging is an absolute nightmare, error messages are far and in-between. And when working on a 50k+ line production code-base, one single comma a in a file where it is not supposed to be will shut down the whole GUI. And occasionally, it won't even show where in the console.
I use scsh every day, not interactively but the scripts that implement my workflow are written in scsh. I don't change them all that often but when have to tweak something or add a command it's an absolute delight. Imagine -- a shell language with decent power of abstraction.

Here's the main script I use, as an example of practial scsh (I don't know if it would be considered idiomatic): https://github.com/plesner/scsh/blob/master/ash
Now please demonstrate how Soylent is as great a leap forward from existing nutritional shakes as you infer Google was from Altavista.

Ridiculing an argument is not the same as countering it.
That's very well put! I think it's the same for me; I just haven't been able to verbalize it so fluently.
This is great. What other games can I play by legally modifying code to change the way my player acts? One example that comes to mind is http://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/
Enterprise Java dev here. Angular has made no great in roads here. Not sure where its popular.
Interesting that drive provides this functionality, and not the system. Thanks for clarification! (:
guess what? not every company can afford or even convince the best, ereetest security professionals to work for them.

most companies can't even configure their printers correctly, how do you expect them to harden their public facing servers?

you live in hackerland, and not reality.
You are correct, but the station also has two main engines on Zvezda that are rarely used. It's easier and cheaper to keep these main engines ready for emergencies and let the docked craft perform altitude boosts.

As to the parent comment, burns are required because the ISS is at a very low altitude. It is still technically within our atmosphere and experiences significant drag from it. In addition, as the stations rotation changes, it's corrected using gyroscopes on the station. Once these gyroscopes have stored their maximum momentum in the flywheels they need to be released, and thrusters are used at that point to cancel out the momentum.

Something a lot of people don't seem to realize is that the station is moving all the time. Anything you do on the inside, such as exerting force on a wall or running on the treadmill (which had to be specially designed to minimize vibration transfer to the station) affects the station and must be cancelled out over time. The station moves as part of it's daily operation as well, such as when it enters [night glider mode](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Glider_mode) to reduce atmospheric drag.
Are these guys the idiots that ban haggis from the US?

(You guys don't know what you are missing).
I've also used it for a while. That one has an annoying visual bug (flashing phantom activity) and doesn't support things other than text/plain.

We would have normally contributed back to the original project instead of writing from scratch, but since it hasn't been improved in years, the author is completely inactive and it's a fairly simple application, we decided to roll our own.
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The relief will have to bring in water regardless (so people don't die). If they add it to the product that isn't "wasted" water as your body just re-extracts the water and uses it like normal.
> Do you have any advise for someone thinking of deploying on GCE?

No, sorry, I've never used that. However, generally - like all dbs, Orient is happiest when it has access to a lot of RAM. Also the Write Ahead Log can take up a significant amount of disk space, those are two things to be immediately aware of.

> I'm also interested in understanding if there is any built-in compression mechanism because I will be storing a large volume of very similar text files. Any hints?

Sadly it doesn't yet do leveldb style document compression, and I've seen no hints that it's on the horizon, but the OrientDB guys are pretty responsive and would probably be open to the suggestion.

> Have you used the lucene indexes much? If so, can you do any of the crazy faceting delivered by ElasticSearch?

I'm just starting to use the lucene indexes now so I can't give much feedback on those yet. It should be possible to do faceting using SQL to a limited degree, but I don't think there's native support for it yet. I think that will get improved in the next few versions because people are crying out for it.
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I totally wanted to believe in Hans, given his accomplishments to the file system community and open source, I was saddened when he admitted to doing it.
Not if you're using it for interactive use, which is what I think the GP is talking about.
How I build this project: It was mid-2013 when I wanted to apply what I've learned from the MOOC CS188.1x Artificial Intelligence offered at edx.org. Around December 2013, I joined a bootcamp held in my university (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) in which some of the speaker came from Mozilla. Here, I learned a lot of stuffs on JavaScript (they also introduced us to HN). Later, I thought of applying what I've learned to a game. I then started the project and finished it during January 2014.
I imagine something involving balloons. I guess if you have the tech to strip mine the moon, you might have a shot at liquefying it, but that's what? 4 degrees K? Either case seems challenging.
Is he similar to the monster in Ski Free in function?
Shark Tank season 5, episode 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqBFqh-SIY&t=1340
This is what I have been saying since 2012. Angular was created by java developers for java developers. It's is an abomination to the frontend.
> There has been no other time in human history when ALL low-skill labor was in the process of being automated in such a generalized way.

Resist hindsight bias here; the work we consider low-skill today--working in factories--was the high-skilled labor of its day. The low-skill labor it replaced was largely the large-scale manual labors of raising food, producing energy, and making basic everyday items.

The need for more educated, better trained, smarter workers during the Industrial Revolution led directly to the establishment of free, publicly funded schools for all through high school. That was a major cultural shift, a huge public investment, and a huge jump in the mental capabilities of the workforce as a whole.

I think it's arguable that now we're facing another similar shift, and we need to make another jump in how we educate people. The number of people who get left behind depends on how well we recognize and commit to this shift.

I would argue that a starting point is to accept that the economy is changing, and we have to do something to prepare everyone for that. Wishing that textile or car factories would go back to centers of mass employment won't really protect anyone.
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Microsoft bought Groove in 2005 and renamed the client to Sharepoint Workspace 2010. It was not that great and it got canned.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Groove
Not only a raid with flashbangs. They also tried to take an old lady's house for selling Nachos.

"Afterward, the city of Little Rock sued Harris, alleging that her property should be declared a nuisance and “abated” — or razed — since it was being used to facilitate criminal violations."
Does anyone have access to the companion paper? The link[1] is broken.

1. http://scsh.net/docu/scsh-paper/scsh-paper.html
I think some of these front end frameworks come from developers looking the bloated mess that is Enterprise Development and they think, "Man! I gotta get me some of that!"

/S
"As I commented on the other thread today, it's possible to get all daily nutrition from just 5 cups broccoli, 1.5 cups peanuts, and 3 cups milk."

That's pretty random. Provided you're not just being facetious, where are you getting that information from? I'm genuinely curious.
Great Pros/Cons on remote working. I've definitely felt cabin fever. I find a balance by going to a co-working spot once or twice a week.

Timezones can also be hard. We've struggled with getting our team together for daily standup meetings in the AM, which led us to build our own tool (http://heyflock.com).
Didn't see one for Javascript so here:
http://tech.pro/tutorial/1214/javascript-regular-expression-...
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Here's a fascinating concept... if you don't like the product/don't trust the company... don't buy it. Boom. Go back to buying whatever crap new vanilla melto-choc insta-coffee sachet Nestle thinks they can get a 4% ROI on. Or buy some unmilled wheat and chia pods from your local Spirit Journey Nutritionist and spend an hour making artisan flatcakes. Whatever you want really, it's a free world.
The only soy product in Soylent is soy lecithin.
In my personal experience, with any non-trivial application with continued (read as multiple years) of development frameworks tend to get in the way (I want to do this, but the framework wants me to do that even though this is better for my use case).

Building your own "framework" from a good collection of libraries tends to not have this problem. Also, if it does have that problem (this library is getting in my way) you can usually more easily exchange the library for a different one.

Note that developers tend to disagree on the definition of framework. When I say framework i'm saying something like Rails or Django that is a big monolithic thing that your application is built upon.
Alternate title: Man encourages his wife to go through unnecessary surgery for a benign and symptomless meningioma after she had an unnecessarily complicated thyroid removal in order to avoid a 4cm scar on her neck. Oh, he also made a shitty 3D model of her skull in the process.
We use Chatter where I work, and I think it's used pretty successfully. It's not exactly a "social network" because, let's face it, when you're at work, you're (hopefully) going to be a lot more professional and not treat it like Facebook. Instead, I'm seeing our sales team communicating with the product team to ask questions about our products, post suggestions they've received from clients, ask for example clients, etc. It seems to work. It just doesn't work like Facebook because, well, it's a completely different environment.
So for those of us who don't have a Facebook account and refuse to create one, this means our employer can force us to sign up?
Paradox has transitioned into being a niche publisher, particularly since merging with Slitherine. Also, DiD was, I believe, making simulation software for the RAF.

I do really miss Microprose and Bullfrog. As a wargammer, I would add SSI, SSG, and Three-Sixty to that list as well.
This is really neat, but I actually wonder if we aren't trying to solve a mostly solved problem.

As a C programmer, yes, sometimes you forget to free memory that you've allocated, but then you run valgrind or some other leak checking tool and the problem is solved. When you add all these compiler specific attributes and introduce a lot of preprocessor macros I think you are creating a situation where you've created code that is easier to write, but potentially harder to read as there is now a lot more abstraction that a programmer has to wade through (assuming they need to debug that abstraction and not just trust that it just works). Now, if you're using a leak checker you can save that abstraction and switch back to using the standard free(3) library call and then 100% of C programmers will be able to follow the code.
Why Paul Graham and Matt Mullenweg Are Both Right?