skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential story: I live in Norway where neon signs are basically unknown (or at least, were back then). When I was a kid and visited the continent for the first time, I recall being struck by how common neon signs were, even in "serious" establishments like drug stores. At the time, already the pretentious aesthete, I quickly decided that the popularity of neon signs on the continent was a sign of poor taste.

After reading this article, I wonder why these kinds of differences between countries exist. In Norway it would almost be gauche to open a brick-and-mortar business without first hiring a designer to create your visual expression, but other countries seem to like neon signs (and the like) better or alternatively just don't care as much about the visual design of a store's sign.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe DMT can be produced in the pineal gland? I can't read this paper from 1976 but that's what the title says http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1976....

DMT is hallucinogenic, similar to LSD and psilocybin (magic mushrooms), and these NDEs sound quite similar to the results of medical psilocybin trials http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment. I'm surprised the author didn't mention this aspect (or if they did, it was very brief).

As the author alluded to, the disappointment for me is with this false dichotomy - mystical and wonderful or scientific and mundane. Isn’t the idea that a bunch of neurons can produce these incredible experiences wonderful enough? How great is it that we can produce a drug to make the last moments of our life beautiful? Aren’t we lucky that sometimes we get a second chance, and our brain can rewire so dramatically we change the way we live our life? And just think how it will change our understanding of consciousness when we figure out how all of this happens! I think that’s a much more fulfilling explanation than the intangible mind/soul argument. But maybe that’s just me.
I've been working with ROS for almost five years and maintain a number of sensor drivers and other packages. It's certainly a large and complicated system, but the onboarding story gets better all the time. If you're starting from an Ubuntu desktop, you can install 1500+ packages from debs, including pre-built Gazebo simulators for dozens of robots.
Route to an $8M Portfolio Started with Frugal Living
Priime, the best iPhone photo editor I’ve ever used
https://www.terminal.com is also good
I'm a big Ethereum/Eris fan, but another option specifically for attested hosting is Codius from Ripple Labs (codius.org). I'm not sure how far along their development is atm.
I didn't even make an argument. I posted a few links to peer-reviewed research about the effects of artificial sweeteners. HN poster kmicklas, way up there made a post referring to "unfounded fears in the public" about artificial sweeteners. The links I posted are enough to dismiss the notion that artificial sweeteners can pose no health risk(s).
Browning understood Musk's impulse:

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”

Robert Browning, from Men and Women and Other Poems
We Know How to End Drug Violence in Central America
House.gov or Buzzfeed?
It also only works if you can get a lot of employers to go along with it.

There isn't much point spending a lot of time on something if it's only going to get you an interview or two (if even that). And if I'm looking for a game I still have a lot of stuff in my Steam account from bundles that I haven't had time to play.
The PLT group and particularly Matthias Felleisen have been engaged in computer pedagogy for several decades.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/

Dr. Chuck is another person with an informed opinion.

http://www.dr-chuck.com/

That said, I wouldn't discount the experience and opinions of professional trainers such as Kathy Sierra or people like Zed 'The Hard Way' Shaw.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra

The drop dead serious point is pretending that web programming is a snowflake looks a bit like an excuse for less than rigorous research and a rather dismissive attitude toward professional pedagogical practice.

Of course that's not to suggest that hopping on the boot camp gravy train is not a better business decision the closer the investment in excellence aligns with the absolute minimum requirements of getting paid.

How much concern a teacher has over their students' successes is a matter of taste.

Good luck.
>> What OpenSSL needs to do is ... port it to C++

Awful idea. The absolute last thing we want is for memory management to be out of OpenSSL's explicit control (then we would have two audit trails to worry about). Automatic memory management is manual memory management you've outsourced to somebody else.

(By this same argument, you also shouldn't turn on compiler optimizations when you build openssl.)
I'm not quite sure there is that much overlap between Erlang/Elixir niche and Rust niche. You can certainly do "most" things with both but they will shine in different circumstances. You can certainly build anything with Rust, even an OS. And I guess this is where it will shine: system development, and very fast applications/tools.

Erlang/Elixir is made to build fault-tolerant applications: think a service (which is really tens of thousands of micro-services all running in the Erlang VM), distributed on a cluster, that needs to run 24/7 without any interruption ever. Upgrading the app should not halt the system. A bug somewhere should not require you to restart the app: it should be limited in scope and you just hot patch it away. Erlang is fault tolerance is fault tolerance.

From a Python/SQL background both will have a different set of challenges to learn: Erlang/Elixir means learning functional programming (no for loops, all map/reduce/filter and recursion), while Rust means learning how to handle references/memory ownership.

To build webservices I'd give an edge to Elixir: cowboy + plug (+ phoenix). But that should be fun to build with Rust too... You should learn both :)
Except when escape out to unsafe (as a lot of rust code does) or stop using rust because the borrow checker is brain dead:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6268
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6393

Those bugs are 2 years old. And heaven forbid you have &mut self in a object.
McConnell Urges States to Help Thwart Obama’s ‘War on Coal’
I've seen it all
Yes. Being anti-racist is just like being the Thought Police in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Like reading braille on your iPhone.
The odds are heavily stacked in favor of a universal common ancestor. We share like 99% of our DNA with chimps; how do you suppose we got that, if we didn't share an ancestor?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20463738

> Among a wide range of biological models involving the independent ancestry of major taxonomic groups, the model selection tests are found to overwhelmingly support UCA irrespective of the presence of horizontal gene transfer and symbiotic fusion events. These results provide powerful statistical evidence corroborating the monophyly of all known life.
Some people are going to fawn over people who went there, and some aren't. Don't be one of the first category, and to the extent such matters are under your control (e.g. if you have influence over hiring decisions in your place of employment), don't tolerate other people doing so either.
Dempster–Shafer theory
That is beautiful. Thank you for putting that together. Haha, I'm just glad someone got my humor!
You're discounting the value of his leadership and company stock.
Why is mentioning transphobia such a downvote-trigger?
You got the motto wrong.
Cloudflare didn't side with the Chinese govt. They sided against a group that was abusing their infrastructure.
Still though, just thinking back to the cuisine in my wife's home country (a thoroughly 3rd world country), even with something as basic as a fish you get from a fisherman on the road, we'd eat fried fish, fish curry, fish stew, fish sautéed with various starchy vegetables or greens then eaten with flatbread or rice, and so on...

Even in a culture where the only cooking implement is a fire in the backyard (and a clay oven similar to a tandoor), all the vegetables come from no further than the next village over, and starchy vegetables are dug up from behind the house, the variety was staggering.

Fusion cuisine exists everywhere BTW. African cuisine has Arab and Indian influence, Caribbean cuisine has African, Indian and Amerindian influence, Asian food has Western and Indian influence, and the various Asian cuisines all borrow from one another.

Heck a great example of fusion cuisine is the Kebab - seen from Germany to Turkey to Iran, Pakistan, all the way to Vietnam and elsewhere. All have regional variations, yet all can trace some sort of middle-eastern (likely Iranian) origin.

The fusing of cuisines has happened since the beginning of time, ever since nomads encountered agriculturalists, since Egyptians traded with Sumerians, since Greeks journeyed to Babylon and India, when merchants travelled along the silk road (all Western cuisines use Black Pepper, which is certainly not indigenous to Europe), etc...
>If you could demonstrate in controlled conditions that (ideally more than 13[1]) people who eat and exercise in moderation suddenly start gaining weight when artificial sweeteners are added to their diet (or losing weight when they are removed), it might be an interesting finding.

I'm not into psych/medical research, but even in the hard sciences it is often difficult to have enough data to point to a conclusion so unambiguously as to be obvious

>If anyone has actual evidence of failure to disclose a conflict of interest in a published study, then it should be reported to the relevant institutions, not used as a platform to denounce all research on a topic.

That sounds wonderful but in the real world moneyed interests have and use their means to promote their worldview. Medicine, food, and diet-related markets are lousy with overly ambitious marketers and outright frauds. I did not "denounce all research on a topic" I was responding to another poster who appeared to want to dismiss anyone's concerns about the potential health risks of artificial sweeteners.
Seems like Go would be a good fit here - true parallelism would have to handy since I'd imagine you'd often want to have several control routines running at once.
My intuition (and cultural tropes) tells me this varies depending on whether you are male or female. You can look at the age differentials of married couples and see that women will marry men who are older than them (or men will marry women who are younger) meaning that as women age they should likely have a harder time finding a partner.
> Why this desperate attempt to make it somehow the fault of "Republicans"?

They're the ones trying to make something created by the Heritage Foundation seem "Socialist".
You want to "take on the end of life", you want to "redesign death"? you want to be radical? and that means putting the metaphorial mirrors on the gurneys, and creating an iphone app "After I Go" and "reforming end-of-life care"?

Here's how you take it on if you really feel like being a radical: you upend the culture of pro-aging trance [1] that has gripped 99.9% of the world population:

- Aging/death is natural.

- Aging/death is good.

- Aging/death is normal.

- Aging/death is inevitable.

- Aging/death is necessary.

Believe it or not, everyone hates diseases, but everyone seems to love death (including most medical doctors and researchers), except when that deathist himself/herself is diagnosed with something terminal, or when it's too late in any other sense for that person.

When you have a good idea about how we could change that, I'd be more inclined to call you radical.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RITCdrOEO9Y

EDIT 1: I'm sorry if I sound harsh. I just feel very intensely about this topic.
Machine learning algorithms to intelligently mine Bitcoins
tl;dr: 1 in 20 would be a better estimate than 1 in 10, but even this underestimates the skew.

Across all VC-funded startups which received first-round funding between 1985 and 2009, 55% were terminated at a loss, and only 6% returned more than 5 times the original investment. But this 6% group generated more than 50% of the gross return across all ventures.

At a "single large and successful" (but, for obvious reasons, anonymous) VC firm which invested about 1 billion over the last decade, about 5% of the total money invested generated a return of 10x or more; almost 60% of the money was invested into companies that terminated at loss.

Source for both assertions: Kerr et al., 2014 (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2473226)

You may also want to take a look at Figure 2 in Hall and Woodward (2008), which shows the distribution of exit values over 22,000 VC-backed startups founded between 1987 and 2008. About 5% of these startups had exit values of $50 million or more. (http://www.nber.org/papers/w14219)
What's wrong with electroluminscent wire?

It's inexpensive, has the 'swoosh' and is pretty much indestructible.

http://www.thepoopers.com/house/blog/diy-neon-sign
>The government shouldn't be inserting a 3rd-party -- Google -- into my communications with them!

I'd think you would be surprised to discover that the government has been using 3rd parties for years to manage various services. Did you know the government also uses Oracle databases to store your information?
When I was a kid nearly all fuel stations were "full service." You would pull in, and an attendant would pump the fuel, check oil, clean your windows, air up tires if needed, take payment, and you never had to step out of the car. It was really nice, actually. Now you get to do all that yourself while standing out in the cold or heat, or dealing with an indifferent clerk who adds zero value to the transaction.
make drugs legal. ty.
I don't agree this is an anti-feminist choice, but I think people might see it that way because genuinely anti-feminist people like to claim that a woman's place is in the home and that women's brains aren't really suited for tasks that aren't nurturing. So women staying home to take care of the children, on a surface level, supports this traditional anti-feminist argument and this is why it could be seen as anti-feminist.
See my theory here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236049

EDIT: Please, and if you want.
If you don't need the latest hardware and enterprisey features, give soyoustart.com a look. It's an OVH company on same network with same DDOS protection that uses the 'OVH' brand recycled servers. About half the cost.

And if you don't need any support or server hardware, give kimsufi a look.

I do not work for OVH, but am so impressed by their automation and value in this field I refuse to use anyone else.
28 days after it's opened according to the literature. I think the actual quantity in the vial would last longer, depending on dosage.

(On the first vial of $25 Walmart Novolin N for a diabetic pet)
Huge number of features = more to go wrong.

Cutting edge tech = higher risk. (can be mitigated with engineering discipline)

Small production runs = less time to debug production process, which is a 2 edged sword: higher production costs and more built-in defects.
Why not define proper keywords for this?

#define own

Then you don't need ugly comments...

void own *some_func(void *a, void own *b, void * own *c);
The idea of liquid democracy is appealing because the issues are all opt-in. If there is a particular topic you feel passionate about, say funding stem-cell research, you can choose to vote on it. That + more votes makes it harder for special interest groups to influence outcomes.
I guess one interpretation of Erlang's = (this is from someone rather new to the language) is "Make the thing on the left equal to the thing on the right without mutating existing variables. If that's impossible, error". That nicely accounts for the apparent dual nature of the = operator.
I will second piwik. I've used it on my own sites. The only issues I've found:

* not quite as mature as GA (to be expected)
* little support from vendors. For example, I wanted to use piwik for my leanpub books, but that wasn't possible.

If you don't want to set up a mysql box, etc, there is a piwik hosted option, which costs money (looks like $65/month for 300k hits, as of this writing: https://piwik.pro/cloud#pricing ).

Side note, I wonder if piwik pro pricing is a good proxy for the minimum amount of value/month that GA provides google?
Right. The conversion rate is better for some products after a salesperson walks the customer through.

Of course, you're cutting off the cohort of people who just don't want to talk to a salesperson - so you'll never convert those - but you're converting at a far higher rate with people who need explanations and a salesperson to help them navigate the internal blockers at the company.

There is a good joel-on-software post about this - essentially once the price goes above a set level - maybe $2000 all in - then the price has to jump because enterprise-y sales means that the buyer has to justify it to their purchasing, which means needing a salesperson to do all the grunt work to help.

A lot of people in the no-touch SaaS model think this is nuts - but the fact is different models work for different people. Just because two companies have similar-sounding products, it doesn't mean they are in the same market. Gmail and Exchange server essentially do the same thing, but the markets are mostly different, with only a small overlap.
Were you an engineerer or a seller?
Ask HN: Startup Finance resources?
I want to take a deep dive into finance. Markets, valuations, investing, etc...what are some good resources/websites/books?

Thanks
There is no such thing as 0% financing. The cost of the interest is buried in the product somewhere.
Remember Super Mario? Yeah,it goes mobile now.
how do you know you are getting the same price as everyone else? online sales certainly are not immune to pricing tailored to the individual buyer... in fact they are in the best position to do that compared to a brick-and-mortar retail seller.
Really nice review of source for a truly classic game.

It's cool that we have source available and even better that it's so easy to digest with the help of the review like this.
My sister bought a car last summer. She started with a fax-blast site, then scheduled a test drive with the dealer with the best price. The night before, she called a fleet broker one of her friends suggested. He sent a price that was about $120 less than the dealer's, and promised to deliver the car to her door with a full tank of gas.

The dealer refused to skip the 2 hours of paperwork ("It's required by the state" he said) and said the fleet broker was a scam. She left, called the fleet broker on the way home, and had her car the next day. The paperwork took 5 minutes, standing at her front door.

I have always wanted to take a cashier's check to a dealership and tell them "that car, this check, keys in my hand in 15 minutes or I leave." But I think I'll skip that show, entertaining as it might be, and use a fleet broker.
Google ‘encouraged too much attention’ on Google Glass
How does this work? Seems like snake oil to me.
Yes, this seems like a well-solved problem as nearly every franchising model includes company-owned stores.
This very much reminds me of Nick Bostrom's 'The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant' [0].

[0] http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
It's pretty naive to say that 'politicians' don't have goodness in their heart, period. Like most things in life, one can't group a large subset of people to think exactly the same way.
The intrinsic value of chess pieces inferred from analysis of 4.6M boards
Show HN: Print My Social – Instagram Online Photo Printing Service
voter coercion is orthogonal to online/offline voting.
Tesla already does this to some extent. TACC will go down to a full stop in traffic today, you just don't get the steering part(which isn't hard in stop & go).

It's incredible how less mentally wore down I feel after a long commute when using TACC. Still paying attention but at lot less effort required.
Over promise, under deliver. The PR machine at work again.
It's not just states that hate Palo Alto. Foreign governments the world over are chafing at the amounts of revenue that pour into Google and Apple and they don't get even the tiniest cut.

A large economy will have consumers spending millions on google ads and iTunes content, and none of it will end up in the tax coffers of the local country.

This is better off for everyone except for the politicians who want to throw money around.

The eventual result will be make-work schemes like the local dealer franchises. Expect enforced-local entities in some countries where an office is created and people do meaningless work so the tax revenues can be domiciled. In other words, the exact same model as the car dealerships.

It's bad but people hate being exposed to the market, because it systematically punishes laziness. Most people will vote for a politician to make it easier for them to be lazy, even if it ultimately makes them worse off.
I'm interested in the edge cases when the driver stops giving any input to the car (e.x. they fall asleep).

Does it follow the car in front through lane changes? Exits? Sharp turns? What if your car can't safely change lanes to follow?

Does the car attempt to alert the driver, or does it just slow down?

How far ahead does the radar look? What happens if you drive ~65mph straight at a brick wall?
Ask HN: Can a tutorial be “Show HN” content?
I've been working on a tool for a while to automate some of the steps I take in the creation of a new project, but after writing down my process and taking a look at all the open-ended questions, evolving/flexible components, and fuzzy guidelines, I came to the conclusion that the most effective form of my tool was the documentation for it, with links to the pages involved for specific steps.

The criteria on https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html says that a Show HN is for something I've made that other people can try out, ask questions about, and give feedback on. These are all things that I want people to do with these notes - I want HN users to try reading and following them, I want them to ask about it, and most importantly, I want feedback as to what's missing, unclear, or misleading.

Is that keeping within the spirit of a Show HN, or am I misinterpreting?
Supercharging makes road-trips much more reasonable. 20-30 minute break every ~150 miles.
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/posters/sigcomm-...
I think the OP is talking about sitting in the back seat, not the front. I'd say OP got into a Tesla taxi/exec car and didn't like the room.

But not sure why comparing to the Panamera is a good example, because it has a low and sloping roofline, and is only a 4 seater. Weird choice.
I would appreciate it if people who down voted my comment explained to me if it's because i'm wrong or because they don't understand what i am trying to say or just for the heck of it :).
Wow i really want to see this project outcome, u guy's have great idea!! how long u gona stay in San Fransico?
Dang. I wistfully hoped this would be drill down real time analytics for the U.S. economy and government operations.
"Huge number of features = more to go wrong"

You do realize that this is a good argument for the Tesla, right? An electric drivetrain is much simpler than a gasoline one, and in a crazy features battle, the S Class trounces a Tesla.