skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not exactly difficult to move past the first page or to use the search bar, and any comments about those stories are going to appear on /newcomments anyway.

If there is an effect of 'minimizing awareness' at work, I don't think the effect is very large.
I went through a period of being obsessed with Buckminster Fuller's work. I took a trip to Montreal to visit the Canadian Centre for Architecture a while back, and at the library got to view this old construction kit called Tensegritoy. [1]

1: http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/Tensegritoy
Agreed, not sure why no one throughout the writing or editing process of this article realized this obvious fact.
No. There are no real restrictions on the title of engineer in the US. In some industries (health, civil eng.) you need a PE for public safety reasons but it is rare for engineers to have them in general. A PE can be hard to get in many places because you need at least one coworker with a PE who can vouch for your work. Without one it is an impossibility. A system like Canada's would be nice to have to eliminate the cheapening of the title.
Ideally from the perspective of the inventor :)

But that's an interesting idea. In that system how is the valuation of an innovation determined?
This link goes to a 2 minute promo video for the upcoming Al Jazeera series related to secret security documents leaked to AJ.

A better link, in that it has the same promo video along with text (this link has no text) is to http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/spy-cables-world-espio...

Quoting from the later:

> Among the revelations, the Spy Cables disclose how:

> * Israel's Mossad told its allies that Iran was not working to produce nuclear weapons just a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned it was barely a year from being able to do so;

> * The CIA made attempts to contact Hamas directly despite the US government listing the Palestinian group as a "terrorist organisation";

> * Britain's MI6 sought South African help in an operation to recruit a North Korean official who had previously refused their cash; and

> * South African and Ethiopian spies struggled to "neutralise" an assassination plot targeting a leading African diplomat.
This seemed like a no-brainer as soon as Oculus sold out to Facebook. Instead they waited until they lost Michael Abrash to decide whether they are actually going to build commercial VR glasses or not. Bad move there, but hopefully they will unveil something competitive, at least on the hardware side.

If I were Valve, I would immediately ban any previous Oculus Rift support in the Steam store as well. It's the only way for SteamVR to make itself competitive this late in the game. Otherwise, unless the hardware really is radically better than Oculus Rift (seems improbable) they won't have a big enough competitive edge to catch-up to Oculus in terms of developer support and user critical mass.

Besides, why support Oculus Rift after selling out to Facebook and stealing your best VR guy anyway? Facebook will only screw over Valve some more in the future once Oculus Rift gets big enough and Facebook doesn't need Valve anymore.
This is very interesting because I as I'm sure many did agreed with the sentiment at the time and assumed that community was trying to create some sorta social commentary about how toys have become expensive, but now we see that the price of legos hasn't actually changed so much, though it's had a long term downward trend.
It's probably just been flagged by users a few times as an unsuitable story (as they see it).
You can't compute story rank from just points and timestamps. The story is being weighted by user flags, by the fact that it comes from a source of a lot of flagged content in the past, and possibly by other factors. But none of that has anything to do with NSA, at least as far as the code is concerned.
Having so many copies was expensive advice perhaps 20 years ago, but now it makes a lot of sense.

Drive capacities have increased so much that, unless you're trying to create your own copy of Megaupload or The Pirate Bay, you can easily afford to maintain many duplicates of any data you care about. The real problem is bit rot. How can you be sure that random corruptions that might accumulate over the years don't cause you to lose an important file or two or two thousand?
I really liked this. Thanks for sharing.
There was an article on NPR Morning Edition, this morning about the Hygiene Hypothesis. A study in Sweden found that children in homes without dishwashers had 50% fewer cases of allergies including hay fever.

The assertion being that exposure to bacteria and other microbiota early in life mediate sensitivity later in life.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/02/23/387553285/kids-al...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
Don't forget that currently H1-B applications exceed the quota, which means you can only hire H1Bs in October, if you sponsor them the April before, if they get through the lottery (~50% chance). So your hire turns into a maybe-hire-in-six-months.
> Preferences are not a problem, social inequalities are a problem.

Exactly. Preferences are not a problem. Social inequalities are a problem. However, neither of those are easily directly measurable. So we do indirect measurements on things like gender participation in a given career. When we measure unequal participation in a field, I think we are too quick to attribute it to social inequalities when perhaps it is more personal preference. That's the only point I'm trying to make... My movie preference analogy confused my point. Sorry about that.
Is this description of the difficulties of EUV lithography http://semiaccurate.com/2013/02/13/euv-moves-forward-two-ste... fairly accurate or not? It's certainly very funny.

I also note that Seymour Cray wanted to do gallium arsenide CPUs back in the late '80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW7j2ipE2Ck .
looks like they have real operators 24/7.

how can you get those kind of operators, hopefully at low prices? odesk?
Unless someone invents a language where non-GC memory management is easy and that language can compile to both the client and server...
Pharma is just the best example. But any industry that involves R&D would be heavily affected.

Why would Qualcomm bother making new designs if some other company will just rip off their design.

All it would do is further weaken the engineers role in society and favor the banker. Without IP, the only thing that matters is capital to build production facilities.
Another anecdotal is that I used to get allergies due to dander, pollen and dust for the first 20 years of my life. Without changing my diet, things greatly improved for me. I presumed I had been exposed to so much that I eventually built up immunity.
Entirely possible that Parent in the United States are paranoid over what they feed their children, and have been given strict guidance by their pediatricians to not feed peanuts prior to age three under threat of being a "Bad Parent."
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"Rae tells me she’s an aromantic asexual, Sean identifies as a heteroromantic demisexual, and Genevieve sees herself as a panromantic gray-asexual."

Grooooaaaaaaan.
'rake' also runs the entire test suite, as it's an alias for 'rake test'.

I really disagree on the bit about not using rails g for controllers, and especially models. If you include your fields and types in the generate command you are given the corresponding migration, fixture, and test file for said model. If most of what you need can be generated by a single command, that's a whole lot less to remember compared to the intricacies of manually creating migrations, fixtures, test files etc. The generate commands have gotten so solid throughout the years, you can even do polymorphic and other associations through them and skip manually writing out all those details at this point. A whole lot less to remember there.
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GitHub does cut it off beyond a certain point, but that cutoff point should be much, much earlier.
Interesting article, it will be useful for our workshops and hackathons
Stimulating investment is very much the intent of QE. Given that the entire economy is transforming, we could use quite a bit more money flying into experiments and new ventures right now.
It's cute that you think so but this has always been the default behavior and this is the first time it has ever been an issue for me. It's not difficult to see why: ordinarily when you click on a link to huge file, you know you are clicking on a link to a huge file. I wonder if anyone who did so in this case knew what they were getting.

(realistically, if you were on a desktop browser you would mouse over the url and notice it was linked to something stupid, but not on a touchscreen device)
Most of these are really excellent, such as the suggestion to require example code for claims implemented in software, to allow the regional courts of appeal to decide patent cases, and to defer most discovery until after claim construction.

On the other hand, some of the suggestions simply beg the question. What is a "software patent" or a "patent troll?" Software is eating the world--mechanisms that would have in the 1990s been implemented in ASICs are implemented in microcontrollers. What people think of "software" they think of typical application code that mostly moves bits from point A to point B or react to user input. Software where each individual line of code is straightforward and requires little thought. An R&D project might spend millions of dollars to write a bunch of code that will be thrown away--and can still be considered successful if it yields useful algorithms. These are qualitatively different kinds of software, but it's devilishly difficult to draw the line.

Of course the easy solution is to eliminate software patents. I'm not convinced that's a good thing long-term. I look at the tech industry, and see one where product companies rather than hard R&D companies make all the money. The folks at SRI who invented Siri get a small license fee, while Apple makes billions by wrapping it with a candy shell. It's an industry where there is tremendous pressure to vertically integrate, because you can only justify R&D on basic technologies if you also control the product that gets sold to end-users.
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Reminds me of the Stick Bomb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_bomb
Seems like the U.S. may be going in the same direction as Japan with growing asexuality or disinterest in sex: http://www.thedatereport.com/dating/sex/an-epidemic-of-asexu...

I'm not sure what explains the phenomenon. Perhaps it's a culture where raising children seems increasingly difficult or costly indirectly puts pressure on sexual desire.
The dutch think they invented it.
Can one stipulate that one does trust a particular server (maybe it has a valid TLS cert?) and still derive some value from this API? E.g., it seems perfectly valid to me to do some work on the client in order to reduce data volumes or server loads?
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I wanted to do something similar last year, but I figured that I'd need a lot of input data to classify on facial features. Where do people get the input data?
AFAIK the test suite for Redis is also written in TCL.
Certain US federal government websites will be inactive during certain late hours. In extreme cases they are only available during regular business (9a-5p).

This is almost always because there is some ambiguously worded regulatory or statutory requirement that says that department or entity has to provide live personal support, and rather than pay the increased staff they just take the site down.
Those are the results with a training set of 7000, I imagine it would get spookily accurate with a 50K training set.
hi, feel free to get in touch via my profile if you want. I did FC research in late 90s first at Monash Uni as a post-doc (i did the MeOH reforming for my colleague who worked on the PEM) and from there moved into a development role at CFCL, one of the longer-living attempts at commercialising high temp FCs (just had a look, they're still going). with my background (heterogeneous catalysis), i mostly worked on the balance of plant (reforming, desulph and catox) and by extension the anode. from there i worked in an electricty trading division here in NZ which completely blew my mind wrt the value proposition of FC technology. Now that i understand the technology and the market, I'm happy to be doing other things. NB this isn't because i don't like FCs (i'm strangely enamored of the three-phase boundary as a topic of research ;-) but because i don't think most people, including those commercialising them really understand how they would be used and i suspect that most activity is mining clean-gen subsidies which has a place but ultimately needs to be a transition, not the end point. maybe their business cases have gotten more sophisticated over the years but i doubt it. as i tell people now - FC tech is exactly the right answer to a very specific question. most people then ask what the question is... ;-)
XKCD's “Fundamental Forces” isn't funny, it's sad. Can you do better?
> "Friends and family often find such identities flat-out strange and assume that it’s all some kind of postadolescent phase or that something is seriously wrong."

I'm no expert on sexuality, but I do know that if I had written down half the shit I was thinking when I was that age, I would not be the least bit surprised if my friends and family thought I was a nutjob.
Php-to-c-extension, allowing developer to developer php extension using just php
php-to-c-extension is a tool written in php to allow developers to write php extension using just php. It also has options for developers to mix C code with php when developing the extensions, thus opening the option to further tapping into the power of C and a lot of existing C libraries.

Check it out at github:
https://github.com/jimthunderbird/php-to-c-extension
LED traffic lights pose unexpected hazard
When I was in highschool it was considered the "in" thing to be bisexual. I never really understood the claim, I was who I was and that was that.

But I'm starting to wonder if the new way to express your individuality is to come up with a sexuality nobody else has claimed yet.

And if that's who you are then more power to you, but I wonder how many people wear their sexuality on their sleeve as a changeable accessory instead of as who they really are. Being who you are is more rewarding than being a member of the currently fashionable clique.

Edit: typo
A company that wants to operate 24/7 would need to hire for the night-shift. This would be based on demand, of course. Night-shift hours are probably lower since most customers go to sleep at night.

I don't see why hiring evening and night staff would be that different apart from training. It's probably a bit more difficult to find people that want to work the night shift... some companies get around this by rotating staff between the day and night shifts regularly to give everyone a chance to lead a normal life.
Some allergies are activated by exposure. For instance, health care workers (or any other job that requires latex gloves) have a far higher rate of latex allergy than the general population.
Looks like Infosys is the only route to get H1B
We have suspected that parents are too protective.

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/kids-and-dirt-...
And how exactly would the author do that?
Because it's massively overgeneralizing. As has been discussed ad nauseam elsewhere, people are influenced by the gender roles thrusted onto them from birth. Gender isn't binary, and the way a person acts doesn't always have to agree with what is "typical" of their gender.
Thanks! By the way, your blog http://rmcgibbo.org/posts/ seems to be missing an RSS/Atom feed; I would subscribe if there were one. (I would also tell you this via email, but your website is also missing an email address.)
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Another allergy anecdote - I used to be alergic to cats, then I got a cat, and now I'm not allergic to cats!
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I would caution against bringing chromatic up in any context including Perl 6. That particular period of history is complex enough with enough blame to go around that I doubt any gain you hope to get by bringing it up will work as you expect. Best to respect his wishes and leave him out.
Ha, I was thinking about similar system but non static, absorbing multi-state ones. Fuels my curiosity back, so thanks.
LOL, anytime I ask about linux availability, nobody has anything to say about LINUX.
This Yahoo Answer from two years ago [1] actually has a good way of putting it into perspective (unlikely, I know). It may be just one data point, but it's a good read.

[1]: https://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201301...
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> almost unheard-of in the EU

Not really true in my experience in the UK. Most schools around here have no nuts policies for food brought in by children, because of the prevalence of nut and peanut allergies. (And I know peanuts aren't nuts, still).
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They specifically excluded any kids who already showed signs of severe peanut allergy, so I think this has to be taken with a grain of salt.
I love how the Hacker News crowd is consistent over the course of 200 days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094351
Could that just be that health care workers are more likely to notice a latex allergy due to repeated exposure?
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The author is selling the support to the companies that can request some changes. Having the best tests, he can claim that the modifications he introduces are "production ready" and charge for that too. Others can just say "we changed something and it works maybe."

Just writing the code is significantly easier than having it verified and tested.

See specifically:

http://www.sqlite.org/th3.html

"SQLite itself is in the public domain and can be used for any purpose. But TH3 is proprietary and requires a license. Members of the SQLite Consortium get free and unlimited access to TH3. Others can contact the SQLite developers for information on how to obtain a license to access and use TH3."
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congrats gophers! That's a big step for the language.
"willing to work for pay Z"

Is 'Z' a low number compared to the average employee? If that is, maybe that's the problem?
Personally, I don't think explicit asexuality exists. Nor bisexuality, nor homosexuality, nor heterosexuality. It seems to me that gender and libido are spectra, and that people can be basically anything. Your brain likes certain colors or music or pictures more than others, and so it's set to certain places in these gender and libido spectra. People name themselves with whatever they're closest to, but that doesn't always mean they are exactly that.

It's a normal thing to not conform explicitly to one word or definition. Doesn't mean you have to make up your own, either.
Ask HN: How to fix my nonexistent focus?
For as long as I can remember, I've had awful focus. But I've never done about it.

It's really effecting me in school as I put everything off as long as possible then have to really force myself to work. I find it really difficult. I envy my friends who can focus for hours on the most boring work imaginable. How do I get like this? Any tips would be great.
Everything that's wrong with poker as a game can be exhibited in the fact that 70-30 is considered a rout. It's slightly better than 2 to 1, you lose almost 1/3rd of the time. AQ vs KK preflop is roughly like leading 1-0 in a baseball game.
They don't claim to have reduced allergies from people showing signs of severe allergies. The control group and the experimental group were of the same composition. They claim to have reduced the development of allergies for people who were at risk.
I had (have?) a minor cat allergy. Itchy skin/eyes and difficulty breathing (tight chest, wheezing, etc). Unfortunately, I've always been a cat lover.

My girlfriend got a cat (big fluffy persian) and the first few months were pretty bad. Even though the cat was never allowed in the bed I had difficulty sleeping (weezing, difficult to breath). I medicated with over the counter allergy tablets.

Within a few months my symptoms were gone. It's been two years now and I rarely have problems. If I'm away for more than a week, I'll have a few hours of itchy skin when I'm back, but that's it. I can happily let him roll around on my face and I won't notice any negative effects.
Ask HN: Why don't companies sign email the way we do with HTTPS?
Why is it that we don't have better support for signing email? You'd think banks and other financial institutions would be pushing to spread this type of technology in email clients, especially in web clients like Gmail... Why aren't they?
This is a merge commit, which means the diff is going to include all the changes on the branch being merged. Even if all the individual commits are small, a merge diff can still be very large.
I'm a Software Development Engineer.

Doesn't really matter what you are called, it's what salary you negotiate for the most part. Some titles are only bestowed on certain levels of people, but there are very few of those at all the companies I've worked at (Staff Engineer at one was a title only bestowed on people who had been promoted to a certain level and had certain compensation bonuses tied to it).
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The minimum set of tests needed to provide 100% branch coverage takes about 3 minutes on a fast machine.

To run all of the tests under various compile-time options and on all supported platforms usually takes two to three days, assuming everything works. A full-up automated test on just Linux x64 takes about 18 hours.
Yes, I think it's accurate. As the article says, the #1 problem with EUV is low power output. Especially with less sensitive photoresists (another problem unmentioned), today's 30 W output is not enough to churn out 100-200 wafers per hour.

By the way, an interesting alternative to blasting drops of molten tin in vacuum is to just build a multimillion dollar synchrotron and use its x-rays for lithography in a fab. This has a whole bunch of other problems, but it's an idea that engineers are seriously considering.

Most of my knowledge comes from my friend who used to work on the problem of inspecting x-ray masks.
Just curious, is there a larger pool of good engineers in India than available locally? If there is, that sounds like an opportunity to fulfill the promise of the H1B program. From what I understand, the body shops that import most of the H1B workers don't source the high quality employees that employers are demanding here.
Very true, and that's a good example for another reason. Bolt actions and revolvers have that nasty property of rotation in the action (in conjunction with close tolerances!) that somehow cosmically invites jamming. A lever action is more of a simple push-pull kind of thing.

Revolvers have hung onto their reputation for superior reliability with some people but there's so much that can go wrong, and so much that's pretty difficult to fix. In contrast you can build a semiauto that can be taken completely apart without any special tools or knowledge.
openacs [http://openacs.org/] is still alive.

Openacs was my first web development framework. My first ever database training was from Greenspun's "TCL for web nerds" book. Those are some fond memories.
Does Facebook/Twitter pay royalties to Netflix for autoplaying video?