skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interested to find out the same. I recently got thermal solar panels for heating and they're working great but coming into summer, I'm wondering if there's a way to convert the captured energy into electricity.

They generate 130C+ on clear days, which in my mind could be used to generate some sort of steam powered generator.

Has anyone ever done similar?
> I'm afraid the whole Xamarin thing won't solve "cross-platform" which isn't a real problem but sure. Its just another horse that Microsoft is betting on.

Why do you say "cross-platform" isn't a real problem? It sure seems to me like mobile app developers need a way to share large chunks of their code, and possibly even some UI code, between platforms while still delivering native apps.
I got called once and said "Oh really? What office?" but they realized I wasn't buying it and hung up.

These things are pervasive and they are annoying, they are also impossible to prosecute in the "small" so I'm wondering if there is a case to be made for user provided call tracing. Specifically, if you get a call, you can originate from that same phone a request for trace which returns the origin point of that call. These days with call setup being 100% digital the trace information is available immediately (rather than after some fictional period of time with an open line) so why not provide this as a service to phone subscribers? I'd be willing to pay $10 whenever I triggered the service, and the data is out there so its essentially "free money" for the phone company.
"Bastard Barbie" or "Evil Barbie".
This is compared to the standard (CPython) implementation. PyPy is about 7 times faster, often uses less memory and generally optimizes pythonic code better, so would improve all three metrics.
http://speed.pypy.org/
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I watched the Alpha Demo and briefly read through the comments on this thread and description on the github, but still am a bit confused.

I mean, there already are multiple file-sharing protocols. There are video-streaming protocols. There are p2p data-exchange protocols. Some of them need more friendly end-user tools to become widespread, but still, they do their job and usually are introduced as having some feature, which "all the previous stuff" lacked.

So what exactly is IPFS and why I would use it over… whatever else I can use to share files? After all, it's a protocol, and not an end-user tool yet, right? So what does this protocol present us? What exactly all that "p2p, decentralized" stuff means in the case of this very protocol?

Why I'm asking it here and not seeking answer in documentation and source-code? Well, there's quite a real reason beyond my laziness: from what I've understood so far, it seems like some pretty ambitious project. And ambitious projects need one short, clearly expressed idea, to avoid becoming a mess during the development process. I don't see one.
Yeah, if your "paleo" diet happens to kick you into ketosis, then you've stumbled across a beneficial thing. If you're eating lots of fruit and starchy vegetables, it's probably not doing much for you.
I use that first reference extensively.

But you have to understand that it's just a reference, it doesn't give you the complete picture. It just shows you the important stuff when you already know where to look.

I've written partial disassemblers/assemblers. And that site has been a huge help to me.

My 2 cents:

Start with being able to decode the mov instruction, with all the different possible memory encodings. Once you understand how you parse the memory/addressing scheme of x86 it's suddenly a whole lot easier. And I agree that writing an assembler to start is probably easier, to write a disassembler it has to be complete, but an assembler doesn't have to support all instructions to work.
"Other researchers have suggested that fresh milk provided a more pure fluid alternative to contaminated water sources in arid environments"

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an-evo...

"Milk is uncontaminated by parasites, unlike stream water, making it a safer drink."

http://darwinstudents.blogspot.com/2009/02/evolution-of-lact...
Just imagine writing code in c# instead of obj-c.

It is 1:1
That's a creative interpretation of history.

Keynes was one of the great advocates for dropping the gold standard, calling it a barbarous relic - as his biographer Skidelsky says, "useful as a constitutional monarch but disastrous as a despot".

The various central bankers clinging to gold - against all evidence - caused the great depression's deflationary spiral.
That sounds like registered users, which may be completely different than active users. The number of registered users tells you very little without also knowing the number of active and/or concurrent users and what type of activity they're doing.
That title is misleading. He doesn't regret beating Floyd, he regrets not pursuing the contracts the promoters were offering him.
If you have ever used the -print0 option to find, and the -0 option to xargs, you know that this is not really a non-problem.
Here's a YouTube channel of a guy eating all sorts of foraged weeds and plants.

https://youtube.com/user/EatTheWeeds
No.

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That's actually the way Xamarin works the best - you usually don't develop UI natively, but use Xamarin's wrappers for native UI elements for each platform separately. They're not all that compatible when it comes to UI and UX anyway.
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I remember reading about American Indians killing nursing buffalo calves and cutting open the stomachs to feed the curdled milk to their children as a special treat (almost like ice cream). Surely hunters of mammals throughout the ages were familiar with this delicacy. Why isn't this considered the 'discovery' of cheese?
I'm totally with you.

To me Rothko is everything that's ever been wrong with modern art summed up in one person. He's virtually the worst of the worst well know modern artists. A pretentious, talentless hack who, with no discernible skill or even an interesting process or story, managed to ride a wave of modern art garbage that was fashionable for a hot moment and put him on the radar. He's as detestable as the people who made him famous, a group who turned the field of visual art into a talentless, skill-free, farce that the art world is only now starting to recover from, but has churned out tens-of-thousands of "artists" who think using words like "semiotics" and "human condition" while randomly rubbing paint on a flat surface produces something that moves us forward as a species.

The only kind thing I think I can say about his work is that, like raw sewage, at least it's all instantly recognizable no matter where you see it. Huge "lookatmelookatme" canvases with squares painted on squares in whatever color the paint bucket next to him happened to have in it when he decided he need to make some money that month to make rent. Work laid on canvas in a herculean effort that must have taken no more than 60-90 seconds of the artist's labor and preparation -- cranked out with all the flourish of a fast food hamburger -- over 800 pieces.

Being able to instantly recognize his work is important because it lets me immediately know to avoid that part of the gallery, it's saved me the world over, from the NGA to the Tate Modern.

I sound like a modern art hater, but I'm not. There's a lot of great modern art out there, even some that takes quite a bit of work on the part of the viewer to appreciate. But I've never found anything even remotely interesting about Rothko's work. It has all the "art" of an amateurish custom bedroom paint job. I find it inconceivable that nobody has bothered to write the 20 lines of code necessary to just algorithmically generate an unlimited supply of this wall garbage.

My summary is that I think he's a con man who figured out how to insert himself into art circles and game rich pretentious patrons into parting with their money, who then justifying the purchase of trite oversized dentist office paintings by building a minor cult around him. Then to complete the image of the tortured artist, publicly lamented the fad that had grown around him, insisting that nobody "got it" that nobody "understood his work" yet refused to provide any coherent explanation of what it was about.

Heaven save us from modernists.
I can't see how the article justifies its title. Did the (comparatively) lower level of adult lactose intolerance in the West have social, cultural, economic or other effects significant enough to be described as a change in the course of civilisation? If so, what were those changes?

EDIT: s/tolerance/intolerance/
I was flabbergasted when someone expected me to send them a fax a few weeks ago. I unintentionally responded really rudely; I was just so surprised, expletives were the result.
Our app Pacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com) is built with Cordova and the Ionic Framework. It's far from a crappy experience. I think that too often people pick these frameworks and assume that it's a substitute for good design. You still need to put in the effort.

There's also the fact that the bar is a bit lower to get an app finished and released with something like Ionic. So you might see more apps that aren't quite up to par, but that doesn't mean that it isn't possible to create something beautiful with them.
Consider it's just north of Nevada, which has a lot of empty space!
That's circular reasoning. The only reason it was "only present in the infant diet" is because of the evolution of lactose intolerance. Without that development, children would keep drinking milk for as long as they could get away with it.

But don't take my word for it; here's what Slate has to say: "With Cain weaned, Abel could claim more of his mother's attention and all of her milk. This kept a lid on sibling rivalry [...] while allowing women to bear more young."

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolu...
I surmise that you have defined "crank" and "charlatan" to mean anyone who, regardless of their study on the matter, is opposed either generally to fractional reserve (and central-) banking or specifically to the current federal reserve.
Unless you regard all taxes as debt, this meant to keep people from escaping from paying taxes, not paying debts.

Here's a variation of the earlier scenario. I have a company. I give people gifts of US $40,000, with no strings attached. It happens to be that, in their free time, they volunteer at my company to help me out with my business, and spend about 35 hours a week in volunteer labor.

Is this really a "gift" that shouldn't be taxed at all? If so, it's a way to avoid employment and income taxes.

To prevent that from happening, the gift taxes are going to have to be at least as high as employment-related taxes would be.

Since the gift tax doesn't kick in until $14,000/year, which is under minimum wage, the gift tax for higher valued gifts must be much higher than employment taxes. Otherwise it will still be used to avoid employment and income taxes.
The cliché comparison for Robert Moses is the urban planner Edward Logue. http://www.edlogue.org/index.html

My mentor, the late David Crane, FAIA worked for Logue at the BRA. Crane's opinion of Moses reflected the standard criticisms. His actions over the course of the time I knew him and the portions of his career about which I am aware reflected values running opposite to those of attributed to Mr. Moses. The peers who he associated himself with and the projects he undertook later in his career did not reflect the values Mr. Moses is accused of having.

None of which is to deny that politics has artefacts. Crane's work on Sadat city was halted by Sadat's assassination and Mubarek's subsequent rise to power in Egypt. Logue's work for the BRA likewise reflected political will and has its own high and low spots.
Amusingly, I once got a call from the actual IRS -- and the caller asked for my SSN before continuing! I declined to provide it, asked for his name, looked up the IRS number in the phone book (this is how long ago it was), and eventually got through to him. He did not seem at all upset or surprised by my wanting to do so.

Turns out there was a similarly-named company not that far away from us, whose CFO had the same last name as me. As soon as I called and gave my SSN he said, wait, do you work for "Cygnus" and I said yes, but we figured what had gone wrong out and he said, "sorry, never mind". Total time on the call: less than 60 seconds. Total time to get through to him? About 30 minutes.

Still, the commissioner's advice was essentially correct: I was surprised to get the call because it wasn't for me. Was the IRS, but not a call for me. Good thing I called back though!
Thankfully, no.

XML, as a medium of transmission of structured data, pales when compared to basically any other commonly used alternative in 2015, in ease of use, readability and available tooling.

Now, I enthusiastically agree with the underlying ideal of having programs communicate on the shell through data structures instead of through eight-bit bytes. Let's do that, be it XML or anything else.
I'm not sure that it makes economical sense once you subtract the labor cost to plant and harvest them (or plant, harvest, classify, clean, transport and sell them).

My family is form Jujuy (in the north of Argentina) and we went many times to visit the Quebrada de Humahuaca ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebrada_de_Humahuaca ) that is a nice but not very fertile place. In every site that you have a little of horizontal land and some water there is a small farm, and you see there potatoes and maize.
I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that the predictor should also be able to solve the halting problem. Additionally, if the entity to which the source-code is a descriptor for is so simple that they can be predicted without full simulation, can we really say they had free will?
That depends on what you mean by "related". The relations between languages are surely no indication of other forms of relationship (cultural, geographical, historical).

When equating "people" with the language they speak, something that was very popular in the 18th & 19th centuries[0], it is important to remember that the ancestors of many people you know today probably spoke a different language 200 years ago.

[0] For a good historical summary, see http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520244559
it would be nice if xamarin implemented it.
Although the shires became counties after the Norman conquest, the rulers remained earls, probably because 'count' was too similar to a rude word.
Milton Friedman, a man who was awarded the Nobel prize for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy, called for the end of the Federal Reserve.

I agree that it isn't a popular viewpoint, and I don't think it is even feasible with fractional reserve banking as well as other nation state risks to a currency, like foreign manipulation, but I don't argue that it's all that crazy to call for the end of the Federal Reserve.
My wife got one of these calls a month or so ago. And not bragging, but she is very intelligent and they had her going for a bit too. She was actually getting upset with them because they kept hanging up on her and blocking her number. She would call back from other cell phones and VOIP numbers trying to figure out what was going on.
Great feedback, thanks. I think you're right that giving more of a preview of how the app works can help onboard new users who will find the app itself helpful.
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Cheese is an awesome food. It's high-protein and high-fat and is perfect if you're a farmer or in some other way burning a lot of calories.

Where I live (switzerland) we eat a ton of cheese and it's seasonal, with Spring/Summer cheese being when the cows are in the mountains eating clover, herbs, and grass, versus in the Fall and Winter when the cows are in the valleys eating hay. There are something like 5000 varieties of cheese in Switzerland if you include every village and farmer and their sub-varieties in the list, but for mainstream cheeses there's something like 500 varieties. You can get unusual different cheeses every weekend if you're willing to take a trip to some random village in a tucked-away valley. (sausage too! especially if you're willing to eat sausages made with horse, deer, dog, etc.)

I'm not Swiss but my wife and I still eat a ton of cheese. It's so good here and such a part of the culture that you can't help but take to it. We burn off the calories like the Swiss do with hiking and skiing every weekend.
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Oh...AIX isn't the worst thing in the world if you don't try and pretend it's going to be Unix like you want Unix to be and do things the AIX way. In return, Power8 does crush T5 for most things.

If only we'd make a Power 7 or 8 workstation...
I've been getting a lot of the IRS and the "This is Windows calling" calls recently. I usually tell them to fuck off, but once in a while I will string them along. I figure my best revenge is to waste their time so they can't spend it harassing someone else who doesn't know better.
Here's a recent extensive benchmark against popular cross-platform toolkits: https://medium.com/@harrycheung/cross-platform-mobile-perfor... (including memory usage)
ObjectiveSharpie is awesome! No problems so far.

But when are you gonna let us use Xamarin Studio on Linux?
You can't be sure you're gotten all ravens unless you check everything in the universe to see if it is a raven.
Nice post! I think your encoding of functors could be replaced by:

object Module {
private class MyUnbalancedSet[A](O: Ordered[A]) extends MySet[A] {
... body as in your post
}
def UnbalancedSet[A](O: Ordered[A]): MySet[A] = new MyUnbalancedSet[A](0)
}

Which looks more like "normal" Scala but still offers the same amount of abstraction.
A 'free' market supposes that the consumer has all the available information he needs to make the most rational choice for his own best interest. Deception of the consumer is not a primary part of the (mostly theoretical) free markets.

That is why laws exist to protect the consumer from provider deception. The question, related to this topic, is just how manipulative are you able to be before you are being deceptive?
The Laser Safety Officer for Rockwell Laser Industries - https://www.rli.com/resources/articles/laser_safety_officer.... - is an example of a LSO in private industry.

"Certified Laser Safety Officer" from the Board of Laser Safety ("It should be emphasized that a certificate awarded by the BLS does not constitute a license to practice, nor does it guarantee that a CLSO meets any federal, state or other requirements related to the practice of laser safety.") - http://www.lasersafety.org/uploads/pdf/clso_pp_manual.pdf .

In other words, a 'Certified Laser Safety Officer' is not a government-specific designation.

Turns out, there's even a Wikipedia reference to LSO, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_safety#Laser_safety_offic... . "In many jurisdictions, organizations that operate lasers are required to appoint a laser safety officer (LSO)." with a link to a University of Chicago page at http://safety.uchicago.edu/tools/faqs/laser_safety.shtml which says "only Class 3b and Class 4 lasers are to be registered with the Laser Safety Officer."

(U. Chicago is another non-government organization with a LSO.)
Thats not true for all Motronic ECUs. The OEM has to decide which kind of tuning protection they want to have activated.

Some OEMs opt for the low settings where tuning gets detected and logged while still allowing you to run new or modified code while others only allow the flashing of signed code.

Also, as far as i know from motronic mods, they mostly only change calibration data and not the code itself, but i may be wrong.
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> Then how would you explain this irrational aggression in every Bitcoin thread?

I don't consider downvotes aggression. I don't consider skepticism or even a general dislike of bitcoin to be aggression either. As far as the the discussion goes, bitcoin discourse is no more aggressive than any other technical topic on this forum.

> Neither waterlesscloud nor me wrote or implied anything like that.

A direct quote from waterlesscloud: >There's some truly transformative tech at the core of Bitcoin.

waterlesscloud is only one example: ctr+f "revolutionary" or "early internet" in this thread for others. It's not a strawman because I'm not making an argument, I'm giving you examples of enthusiast rhetoric that turns people off; it's not "something stupid that someone else once said", it's a category of condescending platitudes commonly laid out by bitcoin enthusiasts.

> presenting an actual argument versus my "intellectually insulting" idea that Bitcoin might touch on some mammalian "fear of change"

My point is that painting bitcoin skeptics as irrational people who can't help but lash out due to a subconscious fear of what bitcoin might mean for world economics is insulting and also subtly pushes the narrative that bitcoin is such a clearly amazing technology that it would be reasonable to ascribe fear of bitcoin's success as a motivator for negative reactions to bitcoin. It's absurd.
I've written a pretty complete assembler a few years back. My advice, if you want to truly learn encoding, you need to write an assembler. The reason being, as you're trying to figure out if your assembler is generating the correct instructions you're going to be looking at it in hexdump format for days or weeks. Pretty soon you're going to notice prefixes, and will be able to visually decode instructions just by looking at them in hex bytes. It's really not that hard after a little practice, and knowing ModRM.

I will emphasize, the Intel manual is pretty much all I used. Along with NASM. I looked at NASM source a lot to figure out what they did, but also used NASM to compare generated instructions. The Intel manual is critical. I would go straight to the authoritative source. It's not hard to follow once you understand the terminology and format a bit. Just keep reading it.

edit: Oh, and, the most important thing to ever know: Intel is little-endian! I cannot stress understanding the importance of this enough. Even when you know this, it's very easy to forget it when looking at code.
Cows convert grass and water into meat and milk.

Humans convert grass and water into starvation.
Many edible (and nutritious) weeds grown on farms. Currently, they are watered, fertilized, then composted. By diverting the weeds so they're sold for consumption rather than thrown out, that can increase efficiency. We are currently working on how to make this possible!
That doesn't appear to be correct; e.g.:

"There is a common misconception that malnutrition greatly reduces the amount of milk a mother produces. Although malnutrition may affect the quality of milk, studies show that the amount of breastmilk produced depends mainly on how often and how effectively the baby sucks on the breast. If a mother temporarily produces less milk than the infant needs, the infant responds by suckling more vigorously, more frequently, or longer at each feeding. This stimulates greater milk production."

http://rehydrate.org/breastfeed/faq-maternal-nutrition.htm

Do you have a citation saying otherwise?