skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to see how much of your collection is available in Library Genesis [1]. I am no authority on The Law but see no moral issue with collecting other people's scans of printed books that you own.

[1] http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
> I think a tax advantage can be considered a subsidy only when others are actually taxed more due to not receiving it.

Wouldn't that be everyone? Unless you mean they increase the tax rate for the others while reducing yours... but net comes out the same.

My point is that there usually isn't a standard to these, the government can claim all kinds of subsidies because it's saying that's the amount they aren't charging (even if that amount was never to be charged to begin with).
The "steady state" part of those theories was just wrong. And in fact some religions got that part right (no doubt just through luck).

I am not denying that there are degrees of rightness and wrongness, by the way. That isn't Asimov's key point; it's just a banal observation that anyone would agree with. His key point (which I somewhat disagree with) is that the history of science can be viewed as a steady progression from "less right" to "more right" theories. Of course there has been a great deal of scientific progress, but sometimes scientists do just get things wrong.
No, ill-defined non-portable C bitfields are evil.

If you can specify bit endianness, byte endianness, spans of bytes, and so on... bitfields are mighty nice.
The problem lies where the "cherry on top" is that which causes the jury to eliminate the shadow of a doubt. In that way, maybe it's not so much a "cherry on top," as a "linchpin," or "keystone."
In my opinion, the worst by far is the implicit subsidy where fossil fuel users are allowed to pollute without paying for the damage caused by that pollution. If you accounted for that fully, renewables would be cheaper today. Coal pollution alone causes something like one million deaths per year. It's like a big war that never stops. That's not even counting the potential deaths and disruption from climate change.

Fossil fuel users poison our land, air, and water without consequence and without paying for the damage, but somehow it's the guy making solar panels and electric cars that everybody complains about.
The --head brew install option at the moment points to just a few commits ahead of 4.0. There has not been a lot of divergence. I expect the homebrew packagers will soon update the url to point to 4.0

I really wish I could dedicate myself to working on the Mac OS X packages. It really requires a lot of work.
Usually you can take a bus between terminals and transit without clearing UK immigration, just hand luggage security. It used to be the same for T5 in-terminal transit. Security check is needed because of variance in origin country security. UK border checks are so slow that I can't imagine them wanting the cost of processing transit traffic.
I don't have any particular use for Lua now and maybe never but Lua is such a beautiful language, that I can't avoid liking it. I invite anyone reading this to give serious consideration to Lua even if just for the novelty factor.
I agree. Totally. I am not a very intellectual person, and you could say I'm a slow learner. But I really cannot fathom how these people can learn that much in so little a time. I'm currently enrolled in http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers where I get to chat with native English speakers online. And even if I am in the advanced levels of English, I am still learning a lot from my instructors. This means that, even after more than 20 years of speaking the language, I still haven't mastered it yet. I don't know how these people are doing it. It's amazing if it's true. But right now, I'm not buying it.
I agree. Totally. I am not a very intellectual person, and you could say I'm a slow learner. But I really cannot fathom how these people can learn that much in so little a time. I'm currently enrolled in http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers where I get to chat with native English speakers online. And even if I am in the advanced levels of English, I am still learning a lot from my instructors. This means that, even after more than 20 years of speaking the language, I still haven't mastered it yet. I don't know how these people are doing it. It's amazing if it's true. But right now, I'm not buying it
I have interest in these languages because, in general, I have high appreciation for simple solutions to complex problems. I find very interesting how they solve different challenges.

I just learn a bit about them, but do not learn to speak, at least not enough to have the simplest conversation. But I understand how you could get more hooked into it and learn it and spend many hours with your toy language.

From all the unuseful hobbies people have, I do not think learning artificial languages is one of the worse.
Sorry about that. Did you try the move to drive option? One of the reasons we added the ability to move the finished archive to Drive was to allow users with unreliable internet connections to use the Drive Sync tool to sync the finished download down to their computer. I know it is a little inconvenient but it should make it possible to download a large archive over an unreliable connection.

(I work on the Takeout team)
Yes, I imagine the reason Matlab takes so long to start even with -nodesktop is the license manager. I mostly use Matlab/Octave as a glorified graphing calculator (anything complicated I do in ROOT) so the startup time really irks me. That said, I also of course appreciate that it's Free software.

And now that I realize that you're a (the?) core dev, I should say thank you!
Love Photos App.
There is a serious issue with Photos app on Android that is making many Apps fail while using intents to select photos from Gallery.
See the Code Strip here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3401579/get-filename-and-...

(Trying to convert URI to Path String results in null with new Photos app since _data value is set to null for some reason).

Trying to reach someone who can look at Android Photos app since its breaking a large number of PhotoGraphy apps.
It's fascinating because literally every single thing you have said is a lie.

Tesla is not profitable and is massively subsidized by its competitors and the taxpayers. They make a product that causes massive devastation to the environment through toxic lithium mining, and which is astonishingly expensive and can only be afforded by the ultra rich, and then only with subsidies paid for by the poor and middle class. Furthermore, these so-called cars have off the shelf Panasonic batteries that only last a few years before they have to be replaced at extravagent cost.

You call the reporter of the truth an "absolute imbecile" because using ad hominem arguments is the last refuge of a brain dead moron with no facts.
Its even more common for companies to prove their business models without making taxpayers pay for it.

It's generally easier to influence politicians to give away other people's money than it is to convince customers to use their own. EVERY business should have to do that without special help.
Inspired by Anatole France, "In its majestic equality, the law allows the rich and poor alike to hire a private DNA testing lab..."
One man's market distortion is another man's pricing in of manifest but indirect costs.

To take an obvious case, it might be very cheap for my neighbour to heat his house with coal. Then one day laws are introduced which say he has to abide by emissions standards, and in order to do that, buy an expensive clean-burning stove, and expensive specially refined low-sulphur coal. If that ends up making it cheaper to use natural gas instead, no doubt the coal company (and the neighbour) will say the rules represent an artificial distortion of the market. But I would say the rules are there prevent him transferring the true costs of burning cheap coal onto my family (and the other families nearby) and their health.
The lack of capitalization and most punctuation makes that jarring to read, which is why I downvoted you from my normal account. (Commenting to let you know why using a throwaway because I believe that if one both replies and downvotes the downvote is removed.)
As mature as anything for a language which just hit 1.0. Alex, the main developer, said he likes it a lot. https://m.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2v1fe3/hows_rust_workin...

I think it's a pretty good architecture overall. We'll see how it all shakes out.
Human consciousness is a reflection of the only conscious entity that exists. That consciousness is able to perceive life as it happens in the present moment. Something impossible for a corpse, the body, to do. We are each, one of the infinite reflections.
This is a start and better than what they have right now. :D
The Tricks Used by Pilots, Surgeons and Engineers to Overcome Human Error
@will_brown, i agree we need more local ambassadors who should be proudly proclaiming they are here (helps for recruiting). shoot me an email brian @ refreshmiami.com if you ever want to discuss miami tech scene.
Netflix: BitTorrent traffic being killed by streaming video sites
How can a single pilot go it alone for 130 hours? Is it safe to sleep?
I like the idea to just show the globe (i.e. orthographic projection); it is familiar, interactive, distortions are not deceiving and naturally disappear with zoom.
Does your company hire expats?
I never thought of using a typealias for a function or specific form of dictionary; that's very cool! Thank you!
ok.....?
That's a guideline I disagree with pretty strongly. For my part, I'd say downvoting usually doesn't do any good. There's not much that's edifying to communicating to someone that you don't like what they said. But there's a lot of value in communicating to someone why you don't like what they said.

The downvote's a feature that really needs to be removed from sites like HN. Keep the upvote; that does something constructive. But the downvote has an almost strictly adverse impact on the quality of discourse, and for that reason alone I'm more than happy to use opportunities to encourage people to use their talking words.
Just tested it out, and it works like a charm! They will have to charge eventually, just wondering what the price point will be.
Unbelievable. Typically an oxygen starved brain can be permanently destroyed in minutes, like alone more than half an hour. Just shows that what we think are limits to human capacity are more just experienced we've had until now. Very inspiring.
I did use Octave during my university time even though the course I was doing recommended and used Matlab. And I think for nearly the entire course, Matlab commands were an one-to-one translation to Octave. I personally feel science should be done using open tools.
The problem with that study is that they didn't control for all the other possible influences on the change. The comparison was made between different orchestras in different years.
At one point the article claims he fell into the canal, then a couple sentences later says he jumped in willingly. Which is it?
I guess here is one of the big problems with these solutions. Post scarcity is not even a thing. There will always be finite amounts of different resources or creations.

So even if we live in crazy robot utopia world people will be creating things that will still exist in finite amounts that they will trade for other objects that exist in finite amounts. In fact we really already do live in crazy robot utopia world and this is already happening. Almost no one is starving in america and millions of people live primarily on the dole. Those people living on the dole are living better than like 90% of the human race that has ever existed, they are just living relatively worse than the people who are employed or making a living.

In project australia or whatever it sounded like there were easy ways to consolidate resources because people still owned things and could barter them and eventually they would have all the resources and the monthly credit allowance would once again be welfare. I'm not even really sure what is wrong with capitalism as a system because life is getting better for everyone over time, and as long as ownership/monopoly isn't taken to its extreme things continue to work out.
The entrepreneur who most closely resembles a Rand hero couldn't have done it without government loans and subsidies. That should tell you something.

Markets do some things very well. Hard core innovation isn't among those things. If anything, really deep and difficult innovation requires shelter from market forces, since market forces always pull toward short term thinking and delivering what people already want. There is never a market for something genuinely new-- such markets must be bootstrapped.
There's a reason why they say that "you're not dead until you're warm and dead"!

The case of Anna Bågenholm [1] is similarly fascinating. She was in cold meltwater for 80 minutes before being pulled out, and made a ~full recovery. Her core temperature was around 56 degrees when they began resuscitation. It is truly amazing how effective hypothermia is at preserving bodily function!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bågenholm
Or they can analyse the photo itself. They seem to be getting quite good at picking out faces, scenes, events, and locations in photos.
Do you have any book suggestions for learning modern C++ memory management techniques? I'm beginning to think maybe it's time to fill that gap in my programming knowledge.
Why the fuck is this on the front page of hacker news.
Japan music
True. And closer to our space, years ago I started an online/offline school with a dream of becoming what General Assembly is now. The marketing costs made my venture less palatable. GA was smart to get a $200K grant from NYC to get over that hump.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/24/nyc-general-assembly-200k-g...
Weboob (http://weboob.org) has moderately active community. There's even a couple of finance tools built around it. Though web services it scrapes are mostly European.
That moment you read something and realize that someone is talking generically about a broad field (fantasy RPGs) and only has any experience with one or two examples (probably D&D).

A few other games to look into, for the curious: HeroQuest, Mage: the Ascension, Nobilis, and Sorcerer.
So if you use Original, does it still use up your storage, even if the photo is under 16MP, or video under 1080P?

From what I have read, they compress the files when 'High Quality' is chosen, so I'm guessing if you select original, it all counts towards your storage?
It seems that the cold water also contributed to his survival. He only had to lose a lower leg, no brain damage.

This is always the question: very nice you are able to survive x y or z, but in what condition do you get out of it: like a vegetable or like a human being?
The Manual That Dictates Every Detail of the NYC Subway
[OFX](http://www.ofx.net/) already exists.
Just for interest: why shouldn't be on the front page? Why do you think this is off topic?

And what should? What do you think is on-topic?
But the thing is...the spec is ill-defined in C, and given the fact the C runs on almost any processor, you can't specify endianess in the abstract and pandemonium ensues.
Is it legal to scrap data from a banks website, even if you actually scrap your own data?
>overall the output looks ugly (compared to TeX)

what doesn't!

>What is the advantage over simply creating an appropriate LaTeX/ConTeXt document in the background and serving that?

the obvious advantage is that you wouldn't have to learn LaTeX/ConTeXt, no?
Just a core dev. I actually have not been writing a lot of Octave code recently, and have faded into a more "managerial" or "support" role, helping with the website, the code hosting, and so forth. Other people have done a lot more coding than I recently.

Actually, most of my time has been spent talking to business people trying to grow our commercial support business so that Octave development can really take off.
Interesting. Protein requirements will obviously vary based on size and weight, but I agree it's definitely possible to hit those numbers on a vegan diet.
> He's put everything on the line.

I don't think that justifies it. Every business has investors. Some also receive large amounts of government subsidy. Per the article, some of Musk's businesses are in the latter category, for good or ill.

(I won't try to define or debate "mooching".)
Yes, scraping is legal in most cases, and if you do it yourself you don't give your login credentials to a third party either, which might be a liability issue.
The Rust community has tended towards lots of tiny libraries. Hey I made this cool function -> library.
see this post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622250
Welcome to ycombinator where things get moved on a moderators whim. I am working on a analysis of how often this occurs btw so we shall see soon how prevalent this is
The point was the motivation of protecting money. Under the Texas law, the defender doesn't need to be defending life, only seeking to recover property. Most of what you've said isn't a counterargument to what I said. Willy nilly was never a claim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine#State-by-state_...

Louisiana appears to allow lethal force just to prevent unlawful entry into a dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle.

You're also looking at one law about one situation to dispute what I conjectured about a different situation. Is it not legal to chase down the thief yourself? If you are threatened in the process, is it not then legal to defend yourself? Are 'dead or alive' bounties not legal? The effect may well be the same.
Some interesting drowning facts:

- Clean and cold water is ideal: pneumonia and metabolism.

- If you revive a drowned person, insist they go to the hospital: CPR can push the fluid in their lungs into their blood, only to return later on, drowning them all the same, "parking lot drowning."

- Quite often, water doesn't enter their lungs as their vocal cords spasm.

~ Paramedic in another life
Because flashes of insight and great ideas often come from reading articles about topics outside of our individual fields. Also, hacker news is primarily for entrepreneurs and hackers (not in the criminal sense of the word) which means besides the small common threads like technology and business, we come from all walks of life and fields.
SpaceX Testing – Merlin Engine Starts Up
This entry doesn't feel like a complete thought to me, basically some observations on notional "magic" and the rules for developing and implementing the same. Conceptually there has been a lot of work done on Magical systems, both from a technical point of view and story point of view, very little of which seems referenced :-).

Typical RPG systems use magic either entirely, or mostly entirely, for combat. Meaning attacking and defending against attacks (physical and magical) which result in damage to the player or the opponent. And unlike Magic in books like the Harry Potter series where it has more of a 'tool' nature (travel, lighting, retrieving things, fixing things, cleaning, Etc.)

That said, having dabbled in game design I have found that "real world" things like economics and physics express self contained and dynamically stable systems. That can be useful in the fantasy world given that one ever burning fire spell could burn everything in the game universe if there wasn't something which prevented that from happening. So thinks like the inverse square law and conservation of (magical) energy really help out in keeping the game from becoming radically unbalanced.

When I read "The Magic Goes Away" by Niven I felt it was an interesting take on 'magic as alternate scientific thing' and Zelazny's unfinished "Changling" trilogy about magic in an alternate world an interesting 'magic is where you find it' sort of system.
FULL STACK SUCKERS
How good are you at identifying country shapes with the mercator distortion?

http://bramus.github.io/mercator-puzzle-redux/

Might need to zoom in a little. The original was a little easier, but didn't randomise the country set - the redux version picks lots of tiny globs that are hard to identify at scale

https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poly/puzzledr...
Simple C++11 metaprogramming
Well the question is, can Tesla survive to make the affordable EV they promise? Do they even have the cash to build out the factory to support that car in any volume? Can they find new tax credits to shore up the bottom line; its been suspected the battery swap station was only for a specific tax credit and there still is only one station and its operational status is questionable.

Love Space X, think Solar City is a great idea, but not keen on Tesla simply because they seem hell bent on having EVs that are not affordable and each improvement seems aimed at speed performance numbers instead of distance. I was really hoping the D was going to be for increased range but instead it was 0-60 first and AWD second.

edit: after reading up on the home battery offerings they really aren't that impressive... I need to dig up the articles that revealed all of its short comings
This is why I'm skeptical about the importance of high speed rail. Normal speed rail is fine in today's world because the main thing people need is solid broadband. Just make the cars really comfortable provide rock solid broadband. Business class passengers wouldn't even mind six hour trips if pretty much the whole thing was billable and comfortable, and the schedule was totally reliable with fast boarding.
Scanning and image capture is only the start of the process of creating a usable ebook. Post-processing workflow is also labor-intensive.

https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/...

http://www.konradvoelkel.com/2013/03/scan-to-pdfa/

http://scantailor.org
Well Elon would be more inclined to invest his own money the less risk that existed. Government subsidies definitely reduce risk. (Just pointing out that this doesn't refute the articles claim)
I don't think the primary use case for a GC in Rust would be "contexts where performance isn't as important" so much as another tool for lifetime management.

The current reference counted types don't just get used for convenience, they get used because they describe the actual life cycle of the data they contain. A tracing GC would be similar.
The automated gates are extremely fast.
The stock market? Securities are not consumer goods, why should they be counted in an inflation metric?

Food (and energy) prices are well known to be very volatile due to yearly changing weather and whatnot, and that signifies very little for economic policy; that is why there's a "core inflation".

If you don't trust the obviously fake data the evil government publishes, why do you link to a data series sourced from the US Department of Agriculture?

There's the MIT's Billion Prices Project, which is generated in some way from prices in online shops (but MIT is a private university, so we can assume it's not part of the government conspiracy). It usually tracks the official CPI data fairly closely, but sometimes it shows a slightly higher or lower number.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/05/01/why-weather-could-...

But anyway, if you look at how the Fed has expanded the monetary base by 300% since 2008, how come that all this "money printing" doesn't lead to much higher inflation? Isn't that quite amazing?

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BOGMBASE