skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sidenote: This page has unbearable amounts of JS. It is unscrollable on latest generation Chromebook, a device explicitly built to browse the Web. There is a limit to how much JS one should use; if your website requires a pro gaming machine to be readable, you probably crossed that limit.
Don't worry - it's not THAT great. Mine went back to 2007, and taking a quick look it didn't really remind me of anything.

Maybe I should disable it...
Ok, not an email, but certainly it could have been on-line. You get all the feedback, better access to documents and web resources, and you get to know who everybody is (little names over their avatars).
Well, students often come from their parents' home, not necessarily that small.

But small is good for students or bachelors indeed, because as he said he's not often home, and he doesn't need to have separate rooms to isolate himself from family members and get some "alone" time.

When you get kids, that's a different story.
Your second case there is still relatively easy to test!

Consider the problem of intersecting two arbitrary 3D surfaces to get a curve. There are an infinite number of possible inputs. Except for rare simple cases, for each pair of inputs there are an infinite number of valid approximate solution curves AND an infinite number of ways to express each of those curves. Also, you want solutions which are well-behaved -- no kinks, no singularities, etc -- and as simple as reasonably possible (but no simpler).

And even that's still better than something like MP3 encoding or digital musical instrument UI testing, where the quality of the result is arguably subjective...
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>Slower than flying except over short distances

Not really if you count door to door. 1h15 Paris to Brussels, city-center to city-center and less time wasted.

Same thing with London-Paris, even if you fly to LCY, you're still going at least to Orly.

> and less convenient and timely over that short distance compared to cars

But not everybody can have a car or can drive or even want to bother with that.

"Less convenient", sure, let me worry about where to park my rented car, how to drive in an unknown city (even with GPS), etc. In Europe this is really not worth it in some cities (even in cities like Toronto, you shouldn't bother if you're going to the city center, trains beat flying for nearby cities (Ottawa/Montreal)
If we are to devote resources to preventing humans from assaulting non-humans, should we also devote resources to preventing non-humans from assaulting each other?
> As he showed, a null pointer cannot point to any object

From my reading, he didn't even show that:

>> If a null pointer constant is converted to a pointer type, the resulting pointer, called a null pointer, is guaranteed to compare unequal to a pointer to any object or function.

So a null pointer could point to an object, it just wouldn't compare equal to any pointer, even itself.
Link says talk was given in 2012 not 1955.
Note that standards for ethical experimentation ... hadn't really appeared until the 70s and 80s

I used to joke "... and then in the 60s, Ethics was invented" regarding biology experiments...
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You must be totally horrified that the EU is doing their own QE.
Normally, if you have a security patch you release a new version containing that patch. 1.9.0 -> 1.9.1.
If you look at Washington DC's metro its pretty much the same QoS as you get off the Berlin metro. So I am not quite sure how its considered "primitive"

Berlin - 4 - 5 minute trains
DC - 6 minute trains

Berlin - 9 lines, 170 stations
DC - 6 lines, 91 stations

and thats not even the biggest metro system in the US. So really the problem isn't going back to the US, its going back to whatever place you're going to in the US. I am sure if you moved out to Zwiesel you would be in the same situation
Worked fine on my iPhone? But I agree...
There is a giant difference between feeding some and some of the "behavioral" experiments mentioned in the article.

Why do cats play with mice? Are cats evil?
I'd imagine that the wear on rolling stock and tracks as well as the power lost to friction makes Maglev worth it if you actually want to operate close to such speeds.
I actually dream of that day. So much better than my $200 package with Friends reruns on 90% of the channels.
"isn't small housing a good solution?"

Size is relative. There are definitely cultural factors that influence what we consider small or large. For example, London has the London Housing Design guide which recommends a one bedroom flat for two people to be a minimum of 50 square metres. I don't think that’s palatial or excessive. It's still less than what many other European countries recommend (it’s 20% less than what Germany recommends which is 60 square metres for a one bed flat for two people [1])

In the article, it states that UK developer Pocket Living are building 38 square metre one-bed flats. 38 square metres is fine for one person, but not for two people in my opinion. These apartments may have high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows, but they are usually single-aspect and narrow in length (with the windows at the narrow end) in order to fit as many units into the available plot of land.

I'm not a fan of this micro apartment trend. Housing lasts for decades and future generations will have to take over and live in this micro-housing stock. Is this the housing legacy we should leave future generations?

[1] The Case for Space report (PDF) from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) published in September 2011:
http://www.architecture.com/files/ribaholdings/policyandinte...
Better question: what is a successful downtown? An entertaining Main Street USA style place that pleases visitors? Or a living place with commerce, residents and industry living in harmony? Or what?

Maybe its easier to define a failed downtown - closed storefronts, declining buildings and poor streets are red flags.

I recall the old Sunnyvale CA downtown, with its corner bar with mariachi music at all hours, its mix of thrift shops and restaurants, the old pavement with makers marks from the early 1900's. It was ... interesting. They remade it as a boutiquey shopping district with fake old English streetlights and brick pavement and chainstores, and I never went back.
I inherited a (dreadful) application which had a hilariously lame 'rude words filter'. It checked for words on a banned list.

The full list is here:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1Pv4v8j7

It contains such gems as "cockburger", "penispuffer", and -- the piece de resistance -- "twatwaffleunclefucker".
somebody make a website or app that lets me Google as someone else.
Why would you want to do that? Aren't there garbage containers where you live? How do you usually get rid of big things?
terrible site...google/disqus polluted
This is a great project. I backed it a few days ago, after asking them if you can host your own private servers (yes, you can).
I was expecting to read about 30 year contracts given out to its dev team.
Good point :)

But in Kaliningrad's case it used to be attached just fine to the rest of Soviet Union from which Russia "inherited" it.

No part of former Yugoslavia was ever close to bordering Russia. At least not yet :P
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> You want a double digit billion dollar MagLev train that connects Boise, Idaho with, St. Louise Missouri? That will be another 10% of your income

No, just reallocate some of the hundreds of billions spent on wars / military and make something productive.
Yes, we devote X resources from stopping the suffering of humans at the expense of other humans. We currently only spend Y on stopping the suffering of humans from other causes and Y is not massively greater than X. However, the reasons for that are mostly due to the fact that spending on X also works to preserve the power structures (various government) that we use to direct money toward Y.
Netflix isn't a studio--they still buy their shows from the same production companies.
I stumbled onto the new design about a month ago. I had mixed reactions to it, one side of which was like yours: "Oh no, they're going to ruin it."

But then I found these amazing treasures that were so much better than what I was looking for [0].

The Internet Archive is so priceless, so special, and so impossibly good, that I have to trust the people who make it.

As long as they are "focused on how the site looks," there is nothing they could do to ruin it. Yes, the changes are pointless for someone who was already happy with it. But if they are able to bring more attention and support this way, then more power to them. Their #1 job is to keep it alive, and I'm sure this is motivated with that in mind.

And after all, they have an API.

[0] https://archive.org/stream/playseditedannot03shakuoft#page/1...
Government is not a service. It nearly always provides services, but it also provides stability and a means of dealing with "negative externalities". Running a government with a particularly lax policy on fraud, pollution, etc. can easily export problems around the world.
But does it mean we should be willing to lock someone else in a cage or ruin their livelihood for doing so?
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I was working within the constraints imposed by those obstructionists.
As a Serbian I welcome our Liberland neighbours. It really opens a lot of possibility. It citizenship doesn't require you to live there for Liberland to thrive. If he/they would just start a top level domain name for example, I can see how being citizen would be beneficial to enterpreneurs.
Until everyone moves to your small big city...
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Perhaps the difference is that today's outskirts are impractically far away. 2 hours commute per day? That's more than 10% of my awake time. i.e. Fuck that.
+1 I swear I read it 3 times.
Being fully buzzword compliant isn't easy!
Whether using animals is necessary for the research is one thing. I'd also quite like to know whether the research is necessary to start with. I assume that the research design when animals are involved is generally of a higher quality than it would've been otherwise, but still, so much drivel and nonsense gets published (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8124111) that I can't help but wonder how many animals suffer because of a lack of scientific imagination and professionalism rather than because it's truly, absolutely needed to help discover life-saving drugs and treatments.
I think I've read somewhere that it's possible to run trains of steel rails really fast, but doing so creates lots of wear, so it would not be economical to do it routinely. That the big advantage of the maglev technology is not the absolute top speed, but the fact that the maintenance is cheap even at high speeds.
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> This is ironically mainly a problem because older compilers acted normally on some undefined code.

As they should. C and C code predates all of the standards, so ALL that C code was, at the time, "undefined". There were still working compilers and working code, how could that possibly be??
The problem with this in London (my city), at least, is that transportation (commute) costs[1] go up fast as you move further away, assuming workplace is not something you can easily change. This means costs don't go down as fast as you might expect, after the initial sharp drop.

[1]: and this is completely forgetting the time involved.
Last fall I did a major cleanup of my apartment. I trashed things that weren't useable by anyone (damaged, too worn, etc.). I recycled everything that could be recycled. Everything else that I got rid of went to Goodwill. If you don't care about the money, thrift stores are great places to take your unwanted stuff (clothes and furniture in my case). If you have books in good repair, your local library may take donations. If not them, then a local used bookstore.
I'm still waiting on my IndieGoGo Dragonfly... soon to be 2 years late... (T_T)
Does "mostly plants" refer to mass or calories?
It seems like killing the only security officer in a country would probably be the end of the war.. Most of the expressions of interest I've seen are explicitly because people think they'll be able to stop paying taxes so I'm curious what kind of voluntary funds they would be able to raise.
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Despotically?
Liechtenstein is entirely legal, although formed by this kind of manoeuvring 200+ years ago.

"For this reason, the family sought to acquire lands that would be classed as unmittelbar ("unintermediated"), or held without any intermediate feudal tenure, directly from the Holy Roman Emperor. " ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein#Principality )

The quasi-independent fragments of the British Isles / Empire are also interesting and tend to operate as tax havens.
Bookmarking is liking. Bookmarking means "I like this and I want to look closer at it later when I have the time" to me.
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Well, before the first ANSI standard, ALL behavior was "undefined", and yet we got many working compilers and tons of working code.
> In nobody owns most of Antarctica which is not exactly tiny.

But many countries, including most of the 'powers', have also signed treaties ensuring that no one can lay claim to Antarctica...
I'm not convinced. Some conventional rail operates at close to 400km/h today. This will operate at 500km/h - in 15 years. But it's completely incompatible with existing infrastructure, and thus doesn't allow incremental updates of either the infrastructure or the trains (i.e. no service in the mean time, and no ability to reuse existing tracks and stations in cities).

Then consider the amount of research that's been put into this, and the complex problems that needed to be solved -- it would probably cheaper to invest research into track that allows higher speeds with less maintenance (again incremental improvements possible).

Then consider that most of the speed from this maglev comes from the geometry of the track. It's all tunnels and bridges. That's a giant investment needed to get to those speeds; and conventional rail with that track geometry could be similarly fast.
Give me a year and I'll say: "mine" :)

Edit: removed name of my startup to avoid "click-bait"
It's worth noting JR Central is a private company. So I don't think the Japanese are giving up any of their income unless they pay for a ride.
I agree with this. Of late I've actually become a bit annoyed with our Slack install, because it keeps changing. What can and can't I do with our chat tool? Who knows! It'll be different tomorrow.

I used to lambast my colleagues for having chosen to use IRC over more modern tools like Jabber or Hangouts. I realize now how foolish I was.

Some software just don't need to change continuously.
Except for the part about real time notifications, which is RethinkDB's killer feature.
One of the best optimizations I have done was switch my caching from using a key-value serialization to an array form. I'm caching fairly large data reports about computer performance. It brought the average cache size from 100 megs to around 4 megs.

[{'first_name':'mike'},{'first_name':bill'},...]

vs

{meta: {'header':['first_name']]},
data: [['mike'],['bill],...]};

This is why I can't consider databases like RethinkDB or Mongo. They are taking such a big hit already for using something like BSON as a storage that I don't even want to be involved in that train of thought anymore.
I think orange juice is the classic example.

But orange juice isn't healthy before or after processing, so the point is lost.
Right. There is virtually no difference here.

I can get a 1BR flat around the corner for 15K GBP or a 1BR flat 1.5 hours away via metro for 10K GBP + 3K GBP travel costs.

3 hours commuting daily for 2K GBP saved? Not even minimum wage.

(Driving is impossible, by the way. Parking costs would be 20GBP a day or more. A motorcycle could possibly work.)

I actually think that commuting is broken as a concept, at least considering cost savings. It's likely easier for me to find a way to stuff in an extra hour of work, freelance or whatever, and do that instead of commuting.
But it has to be economical: if the cost of wear over the life time of the system is less than the initial cost of building maglev, then you're still ahead.
I'm currently working on a similar idea: https://github.com/TimDaub/hnwisdom

I'm trying to collect wise hackernews comments.
Google's definition of disingenuous:

dis·in·gen·u·ous
ˌdisənˈjenyo͞oəs/
adjective
adjective: disingenuous

not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.

synonyms:	insincere, dishonest, untruthful, false, deceitful, duplicitous, lying, mendacious; hypocritical

"that innocent, teary-eyed look is just part of a disingenuous act"

Calling it an ad-hominem is certainly not off base. Due to some linguistic anomaly, a lot of people seem not to realize that this word has a significant component that indicts the character of its target. Sometimes it seems to be used in an ad-hominem manner, and sometimes it seems to be used in ignorance of that component of definition of the word. However, it's often impossible to tell with certainty whether the person is using the word to intentionally attack someone's character or not. In any case, using the word can be incendiary.

The word 'misleading' can generally be substituted in cases where one wishes to avoid the character attack.
So you've never had to edit a broken maintainer script under /var/lib/dpkg/info/* from bad post/pre install / removal bits? I've used both extensively on somewhere around 30k machines over my career and have to say I see rpm make a mess impossible to fix with just rpm 0 times. I most definitely can not say the same for Debian / Ubuntu systems. I think yum wins in that it has real plugins, not quasi plugins. There is a sort of debdelta-upgrade command, where as yum deltarpm is part of yum natively (you don't have to know about it to use it). The same can be said for the fastest mirror plugin, where yum will ping several mirrors and choose the fastest one for you. I can go on and on, but the moral of the story is that in 2015, from a technical standpoint, yum simply beats apt-get.

Bonus points that you have things like rpm -V and rpm -qf (which dpkg -S don't really replicate much at all).
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It's less noisy than wheeled trains, and the maintenance cost for the track is lower.

http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Culture/EnjoyBJ/t1192828.htm
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Ok, you go get right on that. I'll help you build that MagLev in our imagination. You are asking something that cannot be changed without drastic measures. You are asking American to not be the thing it is, a war mongering nation that has never not been at war or agitating and instigating or preparing for a war or conflict of some sort. We live in a war based economy with an insurmountable amount of support for exactly that in the voting populace.
If, like me, you got lost in the overwhelming universe of available storage technologies; I found this a bit useful (but incomplete): http://nosql-database.org/
I agree it's outstanding. Probably the best thing I've personally seen to understand ISIS, followed probably by the Vice documentary https://news.vice.com/video/the-islamic-state-full-length
Who needs to go on a holiday when you can just put on your VR goggles?

And who needs to go on a business trip if you can use the internet?
Thanks for the vote of confidence :-)
I've been using C since before there even was a standard. Why should I ditch the language because <deleted> have hijacked the language spec?
Looks cool. I'm a bit puzzled every time I have to do something on Linkedin cause it feels bloated and slow.
For anyone interested, an active HNer Edward Weismann (edw519) made an eBook[1] out of his contributions on HN. Certain of his opinions can be disagreed with but there is a lot of wisdom in his comments.

[1]: http://static.v25media.com/edw519_mod.html
There have been many properly conducted (double blind, level matched) ABX[1] tests. It's easy to test yourself: encode a lossless CD rip to various bitrates of whatever codec you want to try, and use software like the ABX plugin for foobar2000, or similar standalone software to compare the lossless and lossy versions. You may be surprised at how low you can go before noticing much difference.

Some sounds compress better than others, and the different codecs (MP3, AAC, Vorbis, Opus etc.) tend to have different problem samples, so take your time and play about. Of course the only point in lossy encoding is to save space (or bandwidth), so it makes sense to do it efficiently hence MP3 CBR320 is rarely the best option, despite it's popularity as a common "go to" solution.

[1]: http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=16295
You can't just start a top level domain. Calling yourself a country doesn't make ICANN hand you a ccTLD, and there's not currently an open period for gTLDs, even if the people behind Liberland could get one if there were.
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This isn't surprising to me, coming from VMWare. Try using an API for any of their software projects. They break the principle of least surprise far too often.
I've only ever used an Oculus DK2. If it isn't perfectly calibrated for my eyes before I use it it's basically unusable. I'll most likely vomit within 30s to a minute.

Once it's calibrated I can't play for more than 15-20 minutes without getting a slight headache.
Anyone can share their experiences with Kitematic?
Via that link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re... - good to see someone producing a convenient wiki list.
>and also remember Berlin's system is essentially new and was rebuilt after reunification so you are looking at a modern system.

After the reunification, they only had to reconnect the lines that were separated by the wall. Only a few places needed some extensive work. You probably meant WW2 where most lines were destroyed. Note that Berlin was also one of the first cities in the world to have a metro system.

>No one is keeping you from remaining in Germany, are they? I can guarantee you they will approve your work permit and you can become a resident and eventual citizen.

The horror!
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Good point, almost like an "I approve for use" type of situation, I began using Watch for a while but didn't seem to get the same notifications. I do however wish there was some alternative view to your star(ed) collection (breakup by tech/domain) because you can't really organize. Something similar to explore (https://github.com/explore) but your own items based from what you have approved.
I wanted to use Kitematic as a way to get our non-CLI savvy designers up and running with our software stack on docker. They key feature missing IMO is the ability to "open" a docker-compose.yml file.

I want the ability for a designer to select "file open" and then select the docker-compose.yml file to "launch" our stack.

Without that, it seems like you still need to rely on the docker-cli to build images from a Dockerfile.
Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.