skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Because they built a society that can provide it. To everyone.

That society was built on exploiting global resources and issues eg: selling weapons for wars, extracting oil, gold and diamonds from countries with uneducated leaders, manufacturing stuff from countries where living wage is lower aka making lives worse.

Just think about it! When those other countries start becoming more and more educated and start turning things for their own good, this great American society is going to have to suffer.

Let's say there are two people (American and Chinese) in this world and one t-shirt manufactured. The American was always able to afford it. Now the Chinese can afford it and can outbid the American. Doesn't the standard of living of the American drop? Yes.
From what I can gather on the mailing list threads, the language designers are against polymorphism, as well as adding letters to function names, so unlike the standard C library which operates on float, double, and long double, as well as int and long where appropriate (e.g. absolute value), the Go standard math library operates only on float64.

This is criticism of go I haven't heard before.
Rust, like most memory-safe languages, requires initialization, implicit or explicit. This is not quite the same thing.
This lecture explains a domain specific language for describing and simulating quantum algorithms. It makes quantum algorithms at least accessible to programmers (non-physicists).

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/LIQ...

Read the paper here:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.4467v1
How to activate the brain of the organization?
One thing to keep in mind is that there are many places around the world that have excellent dentists at far cheaper prices than you will get in the USA.

I know a few people in the UK who have travelled abroad for cosmetic dental work as it saved them thousands.

Edit - here's the kind of prices you get in Eastern Europe http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/private-treatment-abroad/which-co...

Though it may be cheaper for you to try and find somewhere in Central America, or the Caribbean.
Probably, the issue is that there's reflection of the double_ish_but_not_really_this_is_new_zealand glazed glass. Also, I take a ruthless approach to "fun" on small side projects and rather it works than is perfect. I did try putting a box around it but it wasn't really that workable as it sits in the corner of the lounge and I don't want it to be too bulky.

What sort of colour settings would you tweak?

p.s. if any other pi-timelapse people are out there, I would be quite keen at some point to open up the API so that you can post links to your videos too.. then we can have a google map to all the timelapses and it'd be just great! :D

p.p.s. did have fun using the python http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/ to calculate the "Nautical Sunset - who knew?" so that it will properly adjust rather than the crude approach of a cron-job with a large enough bracket!

Love side projects :)
"The decoupling of responsibility from control created ambiguity and confusion, tension and frustration for all parties."

Blindingly obvious to some, and will never been seen by others. Being responsible for something you have no control over is probably the worst position to be in in any aspect of work/life.
Reminds me of 1Malaysia, Malaysia's political rallying call to unite multiracial Malaysia :)
> Being able to see the patterns with the naked eye is very encouraging in terms of being able to train a model to detect it.

Would that that were true!
This may not be relevant anymore, but last year I made a simple tool to get stats out: https://github.com/MattNewberry/crashstats
Good to hear! I used and love Fruit Loops back in version 3 in 2003.

/s Now all they need to do is release it for native iOs and Linux ;)
I'm not so sure.

The number of debugging hours that have been spent because of UB causing globally logically inconstant behavior...

And it's better in terms of register pressure than the standard alternative - namely implicitly initializing everything.
Well that issue is the whole ethical concern and restraint for not experimenting in humans,
Awesome. What's in it for Antu? Or does he just like running on a treadmill? :) very cool.
It's worth saving up the money to fix the teeth. It's less expensive to pay for the work yourself than to avoid the cost.
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Thats an example of new money vs old money. Those with old money tend to have a lot less anxiety about what they actually spend, because they know all their needs will be provided. New money is still under the illusion that the fancier things will make them happier.
The Facebook feature "friends nearby" is still around. I know a couple of people that used it for all of about a month then stopped.

You are right in that context is key.
I have to echo this comment. I recently travelled to Japan and Singapore, and I managed really well on the 3G speeds I got from T-mobile's free roaming. I'll admit I didn't spend my time there streaming youtube videos, but I did use instagram and occasionally google maps, although it was slow for maps sometimes (then again, maps is slow here in the US too, it's most likely my SG SIII not playing well with the latest and greatest maps version), moreover, I tethered from time to time. At the end, I paid a pittance (something like $2) because I had to make one call. For me, T-mobile's free roaming was a godsend.
good point, definitely will do this. If you have any ideas feel free to contribute!
I was in your situation 8 years ago. I decided to furlough my entrepreneurial endeavors and learn to code so I could get a high paying job with benefits and afford to get my teeth fixed. I went to a state school, hustled my way into the game industry and later the startup world, and have gotten +$40k in dental work done over the last 4 years.

It's not always easy, but if you're smart and work hard, it gets better. If I could have given myself advice back then, I would've told myself not to be afraid of medical loans or dental schools. I've had ~22k in work done at a really nice dental school in SF that would have cost +50k at private practice. The sooner you get in there, the less it will cost in the long run (trust me).

Also, regardless of the current state of your teeth, every day is still a battle for your oral health. Brush after meals and floss regularly. Email me (link in profile) and I'll hook you up with a Sonicare toothbrush.
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I don't know that I would call them competitors, but DB2 and Informix both have JSON support and both implement the MonogoDB protocol.
Rich people baggage comes out whenever they don't have full control of a situation.
you're absolutely right, will point this out in the next version. As said before, if you think something could be improved, feel free to contribute!
Yes, but do you think there would be any benefit in it there being less variability? Right now a utility deals with a bunch of random stuff drawing power, presumably at different factors. I don't know what the right language is to describe this, what I was thinking is that if everyone effectively had a big UPS then that variability would be seen by the UPS, and the power company would see a more uniform draw.
Does W3Counter make money directly, or does it mainly serve as a referrer to Improvely?
You may be somewhat under-stating your relative wealth.

I was better off than most of the first-generation students, but not dramatically so.

Students today are entitled to £478/month living expense (in 2015 money), which they get mostly as a student loan.

The Oxford University website says that students typically spend between £951 and £1,405 per month on living expenses. When I arrived in Oxford (in 2001) I was told that students typically spent around £650/month (the scholarship administrator was very apologetic about the value of the living allowance).

I haven't been in the UK for over a decade, so I'm not familiar with the state of student financial aid, but from what you've said I suspect that either the government bursaries/loans have gotten smaller or they were being supplemented by significant University and College awards.
Have a look at ToroDB (https://github.com/torodb/torodb). It's open source, MongoDB-compatible database which uses PostgreSQL to store data. In a relational way (i.e., no jsonb, no blobs). It's still under heavy development, but worth a look (ToroDB dev here)
Europeans never paid for speed, that's completely incorrect. There's no tradeoff - mobile phone usage in Europe is simply much, much cheaper because there's not the same quadrupoly that exists in the US (thanks to government intervention and much stricter competitivity laws).

That's an interesting attempt to justify the price, but it completely fails to take into account that simply calculating area is nowhere near accurate for the number of towers - it depends on where people live. Fortunately people live close together, so towers don't need to cover every square inch of the country.

If you look up the number of towers, you'll find that the US has roughly 120,000 mobile base stations, while the UK has 23,000. (Despite the fact that the UK is ~30 time smaller than the US). So your argument does not hold.

On another note, I'll never understand how people think that you get "low to no cost upgrades" of hardware. You don't. You're literally paying _more_ to upgrade your phone/get a new phone in the long run, than just buying one outright.
The reason you can buy an iPhone for 99 USD is because you'll be paying ~27 USD "extra" for the next 2 years, which is exactly the same as if you had just spent 600 outright and saved that amount (or even more, 99% of the time) over the next 2 years. There's no "subsidization" going on, if anything, you're subsidizing the company.
Yep, even though it really shouldn't be.

Volatile has... problems. It was meant more for mem-mapped IO than thread safety.

And it's too powerful at the same time, as in there are a number of optimizations that are safe in the typical use cases of volatile that cannot be done to volatile variables.
The Metric That Matters
good point, will change this!
Charged holes in graphene increase energy storage capacity
Office designers find open-plan spaces are actually lousy for workers
Maybe the problem is that you're asking questions built around bad ways of writing code, that good developers simply avoid. bind() doesn't even work on IE 6, and nobody in their right mind would pass a callback function around that uses "this" and later check that "this" refers to the same object.
Is this what you're talking about https://www.polymer-project.org/0.5/ ?
True, though cannabis is still illegal here, Gay marriage was suddenly and abruptly legalised here in the uk in a move that surprised and delighted me.

Didn't think our politicians had it in them, so perhaps there is some decency and concern left.
See:

http://www.google.com/patents/US20140094607

Potassium tert-butoxide (affectionately "KOtBu") isn't any sort of special potassium compound. Basically KOtBu is a really, really strong base, which is called a "non-nucleophilic base" because it doesn't undergo certain kinds of reactions (generally bad ones). In fact according to the patent it isn't required at all; you could use the non-metallic (but very expensive) BEMP or something.

The patent concerns the "silylation" of "aromatic" compounds, which is sort of involved but in essence normally one would silylate -> react -> desilylate in order to achieve a reaction that would normally be outcompeted by a faster reaction. It's rare (but not unheard of) that the silylated compound is actually the target, so while I expect such a reaction to be useful, it doesn't seem transformative on its own. However using KOtBu instead of Pd certainly makes anything a lot cheaper, and maybe somebody had every wrinkle ironed out but this one in some process somewhere.
Why did that US Marshal illegally seize an destroy a Los Angeles woman's camera?
> You are thinking about only one side of the thing, and not about the more ethical/legal side. For example you could sell your knowledge by helping developers to prevent hacks. Like the Anti-Cheat Toolkit for Unity: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/10395 Sure it doesn't prevent motivated cheaters but it's still has value for the developers.

So in other words I (or the OP) shall sell snake oil to developers? :-(

> Another useful thing could be to sell online c[o]urses about your knowledge.

Even providing real-life examples would probably be of very dubious legality. And building artificial examples would involve building, say, at least half of a game engine - lots of work for artificial, contrived examples. :-(
You're not wrong, but I may phrase it differently...

F# lacks modules, instead favoring objects. Although it's derived from OCaml, it has omitted complex features which don't fit in to the .net ecosystem.
I've been paying $80 + 2 x $10 for 3GB of high-speed data each. After reading this comment, I switched over to unlimited for the same price. Thanks!
To build or not to build for the Apple Watch?
I am not really surprised that there are patterns and connections between seemingly unrelated concepts. Why? Because I think they are way less unrelated than it may seem. After all everything is build on top of a pretty small number of axioms. Every result in number theory - proven or yet unproven - is essentially a consequence of the Peano axioms and the definition of the operations on those numbers. The Riemann hypothesis is a statement about prime numbers, which numbers are prime is defined by the Peano axioms and the definition of multiplication. The real numbers are in some sense build on top of the natural numbers by going through the rational numbers. And you can build the natural numbers on top of set theory. So in essence I think we are just exploring the structure of one and the same object - or maybe a few objects - and every branch of mathematics does this by making a few more assumptions and therefore looking only on a part of the whole.
W3Counter has a couple hundred paid subscribers. It's a freemium service. Less than 1% of the users make the optional upgrade to a paid subscription, but that's enough.
They've offered it for a while I think? It's a pre-paid, look in Other monthly plans. It's pretty hidden, I don't think they want everyone to know about it. Also can be Walmart only, but I think you can do it online just fine. http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans
Chinese researchers report gene-editing human embryos
Is it me or is his explanation of call and ret backwards? Shouldn't call decrement %rsp and ret increment it since the stack grows downward?
1 - good shoes outlast the soles, and can be resoled

2 - the modern world has dramatically increased the price-per-quality on the cheap stuff, shrinking the gap
The most important skill of the decade
Its more about what you do on spring break, on weekends, when not in class, that sort of thing. Those who can afford expensive outings naturally drift away from those who can't.
Thanks for the offer! I actually was able to buy a pretty nice electric toothbrush a little while ago with a coupon I found online.
It's a really, really fun app. I wish I'd made it.

Don't get intimidated by the hype about all that crazy stuff you have to know. Everybody learned one language or tool at a time, same as you.
Before Risk, before Dungeons and Dragons, there was Diplomacy
After hacking Rust, I got the feeling that generics are hard. They are so hard that a language should consider them from the beginning to fully take advantage of them. That might be the reason why the Go team says generics are hard to implement in the current Go type system. They can also choose either C++-like code generation based on templates, or external code generating tools, but both are not perfect in my opinion.
I expect her to say "How do I install software on this platform?" "Oh! /(apt|yum|dnf)/!"

/(apt-get|yum|dnf) install (apache2|httpd|nginx|lighttpd)/
Prices you see in search results (once loading is complete) are real-time from the airlines. While results are loading, we show a route-prediction that is based on a cache (up to 12 hours, depending on whether it's a high traffic route)
Outsourcer, Nearshorer, Remote Dev – struggling /w client? Follow these rules
My experience of "an elite UK university" (quotes because I feel silly saying it) was different. Even amongst people from upper-middle class privileged backgrounds, I think there was a pretty large disparity between people whose parents gave them lots of money, and people whose parents expected them to live off their student loans entirely.

I'm not saying that there weren't wealthy people who spent absurd amounts of money. There were. But there were also plenty of people who budgeted aggressively, and made things like formal hall and pregaming before going to student clubnights on a Thursday night the highpoint of discretionary expenditure.

I don't come from a wealthy background. Because of when I started university, my parents were just outside the bracket that would have got be grants and bursaries (if I'd started a year later, they'd have been in it). Grew up in an ex-council house, dad worked down the mines, yadda yadda (I hate getting into the thing of "Look how working class MY upbringing was" but there you go). But I definitely didn't feel excluded. I suppose there probably were high-spending friendship groups that I didn't fit into. I can't say I felt like I missed out. You're never going to fit into every friendship group.

I'm assuming you went to Oxbridge. If not, maybe it is different. I certainly felt like there were a lot of fairly income independent activities that were applicable no matter your background. Pretty much everyone can go to formal hall, or to a bop, or even to events at the Union. At least in your first few years, those things are pretty central to social lives for a lot of students.

I don't know. I feel like my post is a little pointless: "I don't agree with your experience". Experiences aren't really up for debate. You experienced it, you felt it, it was real. I guess I just feel differently. Sometimes you have to say that.
We Still Don't Know Where to Bury Our Nuclear Waste
Upgrading their service is expensive. T-Mobile upgrades, then Sprint has to upgrade to compete, then T-Mobile has to upgrade again, then Sprint...

Instead what's going to happen, T-Mobile and Sprint both agree to offer the same performance, or focus on different regions.

It's like selling slices of pizza on the street. If you're smart, you and your competitor agree to sell at $5/slice. If you drop to $4, sure you'll get more customers for a short period of time, but then your competitor drops to $4, and now you both just cut 20% off your revenue for no reason.
The Serotonin Levels-Depression Link Is a 'Marketing Myth,' Psychiatrist Claims
Actually, money losing companies are controlled by their investors, and companies that make money are controlled by management.

This is a pragmatic truth that stems from board dynamics, personal risk tradeoffs for investors, etc. Most of the fears around ownership percentage, board seats, etc, are misplaced.
Will it ever support iPhones? Obviously, as the competitor, they have some incentive to play by Apple rules and only support devices running their preferred OS, but at the same time, they make such a big deal over the open protocol of Android, plus have a general strategy of "get everyone using Google as much as possible," that I'd assume they'd eventually roll out to iOS (unless the issue is on Apple's end)
These Six Senators Think America's Biggest Cable Merger Is a Bad Idea
>Once they graduate they are very likely to be at least part of the "middle" and their kids the "upper middle".

This is an observation that I've come to as well, in that first generation success, no matter what level the financial success, will only move the person up maybe one notch in "class", because the old habits are hard to shake (this is both a good and bad thing).

The kids tend to be one notch farther up as a result of not having the extensive experience their parents went through. Again, for better or for worse.
The New Atomic Clock Will Be Accurate for 15B Years
Thanks. I think no matter what I'm going to at least try to further my education. I wasn't aware of the school medical/dental benefits being mentioned in this thread, so I'll keep that in mind when applying too.
Detecting duplicate data with Elasticsearch
OpenLDAP didn't start to become seriously usable until about 2003 (that's when HP dropped SunDS and adopted OpenLDAP for all of their global infrastructure). A lot of work went into it in the 2001-2002 timeframe to get it there. Yeah, a lot has changed, you've missed a couple generations of advancements. BDB's complexity was definitely a pain, but that's all in the past.
HockeyStreams has an API for scores - for free. I'm not sure how quickly it updates though: https://www.hockeystreams.com/api#scoresapi

Highly recommended to anyone that have to deal with blackouts from GameCentre.
I've definitely noticed that, though I think it varies by region and industry quite a bit. Engineering feels to me a little more "blue-collar" than the tech industry in its attitudes, even though engineers often don't make any less money. Some may have to do with where people come from, e.g. in large parts of engineering, the big "feeder schools" are good but not "elite" public schools: places like Purdue, Texas A&M, and Ohio State. People who at least sometimes work on-site in plants might also have more direct contact with blue-collar workers and feel more part of the same enterprise, though that is a minority of engineers.

In terms of region, SF, LA, and NYC are just about the worst for being full of "moneyed family" type attitudes. I lived some years in Indiana and it was far more tolerable on that front, despite what you might expect from the respective regions' politics.
Also be aware that many employers offer flex-spending accounts for healthcare, which allows you to pay for certain health-related expenses with pre-tax money. There can be downsides (e.g. "use it or lose it"), but for planned procedures it can reduce the bottom-line impact by quite a bit.

(Probably not relevant in GP's position, but hopefully someone finds it useful)
Show HN: Smooth open-source Tetris clone with a few surprises
To Stalk a Muni
Using Docker Machine with Weave 0.10
I didn't find it irritating at all, but perhaps you would prefer this article: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-cheap-abundant-chemical-outperf...
It's awesome but it has stagnated and slowly started to go downhill since Intuit (the Quicken/Turbotax company) bought it. First there were no updates for a long time, and recently they FINALLY started changing things a little bit here and there.... those changes being more overt advertising, that is. :(

I wish the mint folks had never sold out. But you can't change the past, so now I just hope Intuit doesn't ruin it before the next personal finance tracking startup comes along to kick mint's ass so I have a replacement.
So, it does exactly the same thing my Nexus one did 5+ years ago before they bought companies and shut them down?

if you don't know what i'm talking about, android got a SIP client working pretty fast from the comunity, and the best provider was using gizmo5. which google bought one year before launching the nexus one. Then on year after launching nexus one, they pulled an apple on it and shut down the service.

then they launched google voice. which was a we-own-all-your-data-in-the-cloud version of gizmo5, but it was nice because they gave me lots of free stuff that almost never worked (phone dialer integration, sms, etc). until the clients they released became a piece of garbage (the last build is still from 2012, then they started to force the features trhu google plus and more recently via hangouts)
With no mention of Heath Robinson?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson

I had to look up Rube Goldberg when I started getting exposed to more US culture. But it has a direct translation into UK culture, W. Heath Robinson had a similar reputation for drawing absurd, complicated machinery.