skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the boy was saved by the mammalian diving reflex. It is what allows whales to hold their breath for so long. It exists in a much weaker form in humans especially young ones. It kicks in when the face is submerged in cold water. 40 minutes is certainly at the high end but this isnt unprecedented

http://www.today.com/id/36190954/ns/today-today_news/t/mirac...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
Let's not make this about the benchmarks game.

A couple of weeks ago you said -- "… optimizing performance hasn't been a focus, shipping good language semantics has been."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9565405

edit: Please provide a better response than downmods.
Undertow and Jetty are both Java options that support HTTP/2. I've been playing with both and it's still very rough around the edges (have to mess with bootpath to get ALPN to work), but it does work. F5 are supporting it now too.
Our class B rate in Potrero hill went up from $18/sq ft in 2011 to $35. Now looking forward to 45-50...
I want to make a similar tool, I have accounts over two banks and a shared account with my girlfriend. I really want consolidated reporting. This sort of thing would be much easier if more banks provided a json api to customers.
If you're on a budget, you could get a lenovo X200 Tablet, fit a new battery and 8GB of RAM. You get a nice touchscreen which you can orient as you please and 2 minipcie expansion slots.

That is, if you don't require modern OpenGL/gpgpu features, nor plan on doing massively parallel jobs on it (It sports a Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L9400 @ 1.86GHz)

Hypothetically, you _could_ solder a faster processor (not realistically for most of us tho).

Why the X200 and not a more recent one? They changed the keyboard / buttons afterwards, for the worst :(

NB: you might want to patch the bios to remove the mpcie whitelist ibm/lenovo put in. Misewell flash coreboot (requires in-circuit programming, due to flash block write protection)
IIRC, one of the ideas of lojban was to develop a group of speakers of the languge during a frozen baseline period where the language couldn't change. Then changes could be made by the speakers of the language in lojban itself and see how it evolved.
Then you would be making just as an asinine and ignorant statement which is factually correct, but grossly misrepresents the truth

Yes, I would be – exactly the same as the one you made previously.

Animals and humans are alike. Animals and plants are also alike. Your argument therefore appears to be one of scale – plants are sufficiently different, in your opinion, that eating them is not mutilation. I'm of the opinion that animals are sufficiently different from humans that eating them is not mutilation. You see the problem?
None of these are usable as a customer, in a country where creditcards aren't commonplace (eg. the Netherlands, Germany, ...)
What bad code is desktop linux driving into distributions?
Polymer Catalog
> Paypal is absolutely not freezing accounts to earn interest, that's absurd.

Then why else are they doing it, on cases where no investigation is pending (not for fraud or otherwise), and they have already decided to terminate your account?
What if The Sherrif's entire motivation in imprisoning Robin Hood was to have sex with Maid Marion?
While not a pure developer, I am extremely impressed with the Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 2 with I7 and an SSD. It has the perfect blend of speed, strength, lightness, battery life and quiet which I always thought was unattainable. I.E. at least one factor would have to go.
A conversation with food historian (and contrarian) Rachel Laudan
While I know nothing about metaprogramming in C++, the book Metaprogramming Ruby is one of the most well done and thought provoking programming book I have ever read, one I always recommend. Really, even if you hate Ruby, it's worth your while to see how metaprogramming can be used to problem solve, which is ultimately what all this is about.

The most popular Ruby framework, Ruby on Rails, has quite the learning curve because it's based heavily on conventions enabled by metaprogramming. inb4 lengthy discussion of "convention vs configuration" and "magic."
I'll second the recommendation for the Thinkpad W530, with one additional suggestion: go for one of the "pre-configured" ones, skimp on RAM and HDD, and upgrade it yourself.

I purchased mine right about two years ago (brand new from a seller on Amazon in order to avoid delivery delays when purchasing direct) and went for one with only 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB SATA HDD. I paid (separately and, again, via Amazon) $300 for 32 GB of RAM and $385 for a 480 GB SSD (and spent 20 minutes installing them) but this was much, much cheaper than purchasing the W530 with those upgrades pre-installed. I ended up giving away the "original" 4 GB RAM to a friend who could use it and (since I very rarely need or use the optical drive) I usually keep the original 500 GB SATA HDD in the secondary bay in order to keep a fresh, up-to-date backup of my data for when the SSD inevitably fails without warning.

The NVIDIA Optimus graphics system is apparently a PITA for some people but since I don't use a dock or external monitor it's really not been an issue for me. I believe I have my BIOS set to the "Discrete Graphics" setting (to use the NVIDIA card) and Ubuntu has no problems with it (I previously ran Arch Linux on the W530 with the Intel card and also had no issues).

The W530 isn't nearly as light as many other laptops (about six pounds, if memory serves) but, then again, it's considered a "Mobile Workstation" -- and with the quad-core i7 @ 2.70 GHz, 32 GB RAM, the 480 GB SSD and 500 GB SATA spinning disk, and FHD 1920x1080 15" display, it truly is!

Side note: after using MacBooks and MacBook Pros exclusively for ~7 years, I said that I'd never again buy a "PC laptop" (i.e. a non-Mac), but I'm extremely happy with my W530 (running Linux, of course) and use it almost exclusively nowadays. About a year after purchasing the W530, I sold my MBP simply because I had only used it two or three times in that year and thought I might as well sell it and get something out of it instead of letting it sit around and eventually become obsolete.
Beware of the 2nd generation (2014) X1 Carbon. The HDMI port doesn't support audio (in either Windows or Linux), the click pad rattles and requires too much force/travel for something you're supposedly to do as effortlessly and frequently as clicking, the mouse buttons that correspond with the trackpoint are practically non-functional, and the "adaptive function row" is an endless source of frustration. And for reasons that I may or may not be able to fix eventually, wifi on Linux Mint with this laptop is so unreliable that I spend most of my time in Windows despite otherwise preferring Linux. I'm typing this on one right now, so I know from experience.

I've read that the 2014 T-series clickpads and trackpoints have similar issues too. Generally, when people recommend Thinkpads for their quality they're referring to the X and T series. The 2014 models are frequently showing up in the Lenovo outlet store with surprisingly low prices because of low sales and high returns. Not a good deal. I would have gotten a refund if it wasn't a refurbished purchase.
> I'm a big fan of ethical treatment of animals used for food production.

This is an utter logical fallacy. There is no such thing as ethical treatment of animals used for food production, just as there is no such thing as ethical slaughter, ethical rape, or happy and humane slavery. No commodification of another body is ethical, nor should be tolerated.

You may be interested to learn that Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo commander responsible for deaths of many people, ordered as a "more humane means" of execution the use of poison gas in specially constructed chambers disguised as shower rooms.
It's amusing to me to see 20-something Bay Area startup types, most of whom are likely also rabid leftists, championing "culture fit" in hiring when these same people are the ones demanding everyone else "embrace diversity" and "celebrate multiculturalism."
I think "writing my own fits-like-a-glove tool" pretty much covers it. I wanted a very minimalistic tool which just scrapes the data and transforms it into a report. Probably I could have achieved the same result by writing a few plugins for HLedger. Though I doubt the overall code size would've been smaller (currently it's <1000 SLOC and I'm not planning to add any more features). I've been using it for last few months without adding more features. The only thing that changes/expands is scraping, which is a part of a separate project - Weboob.
From the presentation, Jetty's smart push feature sounds really cool, do you know if there's more information available on that feature?
I'm really glad people wrote octave and gave it to me for free, but I found a lot of unimpletmented functionality that kept me from getting things done, for example in image handling. I tried to port some code from matlab a couple of years ago, and ultimately had to start over with another environment after losing a lot of time. The basic stuff for things like math and plotting seemed to be present and complete in octave, but as soon as I got away from those kinds of things, I started finding stubbed functions and broken stuff. I hope that either I just didn't know what I was doing, or that octave is getting more well rounded...
Ah damn, missed the edit window and forgot this wasn't markdown.

Formatting fix:

1. Touchpad on the side of my sofa, so I can use gestures to control TV and media.

2. Touchpad on the side of my headboard in the same material as the rest with a subtle marking on which I can control / dim my lights. Similar things for controlling alarms.

3. Improving children's toys that require buttons now but do so by having hard things surrounded by some padding. I imagine "tickle me elmo" that was able to say "you're tickling my feet!" would be popular.

4. Would this detect my feet through socks? Run a bunch through my carpets, I'm sure I can do some fun stuff with home automation with that by knowing which room I'm currently in. Similarly for that, I'd like to track some of my habits, how long do I actually spend just sitting on the sofa or how often do I really get up from my desk and go somewhere else?

5. Make some board games. Fabric + some metal pieces, all the complex logic could sit on your phone.

6. Better sleep tracking? Do I curl into a ball, starfish, keep rolling about a lot?
I've generally had good experiences with ASUS and very poor ones with Samsung.
the story is presented is nearly as guilty as S in that she abused her sexual power for gain (undermining justice in the process) to free someone

Considering S's actions - arresting someone and then giving someone the choice between prostituting herself to him or leaving her loved one in prison - I have no reason to assume any justice has been undermined.

The name might indicate a position of legitimate power, but the actions suggest he's nothing more than a kidnapper. Hell, who knows what he might have done to the prisoners had she refused.
Maybe because it doesn't work as well?
This article is just blog spam.
Terribly written sensationalism.
Any recommendations for converting books into another format besides PDF? Ever since I read SICP as a texinfo in Emacs while working on another screen I've been looking for an easier automated way to convert my library to texinfo or LaTeX source.
What about Xen development? Xen is very limited inside other virtual machines (learned that from my experience of mostly macbook usage).
Would echo several other comments herem. Am in the lucky position of owning a Dell XPS 13 with Linux pre-installed and then using a Lenovo X250 for my job, and they're both excellent laptops for development on. The work one isn't running Linux, so my comment is less fully tested but the hardware alone is just a joy with the solid feel to everything.

I'd definitely buy the XPS again as it's been brilliant (not Wi-Fi issues as other owner mentioned), although I might forgo the touch screen which adds nothing really on Linux and marginally increased weight and apparently causes slightly lower battery life.
Blackmail is not quite the right word. There is no evidence in the story that MM is not free to reject sheriff's offer without consequence (above RH/LJ remaining in jail, which as we've all observed is not necessarily unjust).
It's really easy to say existing magic systems in games don't have the mystery that magic can in literature, like LotR. It's a lot harder to actually propose a way of designing a system that has mystery but yet is understandable to players and makes the game fun to play.

This post is all really obvious observation and no unique or innovative suggestions. Let alone a fully thought out new way of doing magic in games.
You were under a false impression if you're referring to a single recreational dose (approx 120mg) taken once or even twice a weekend. The studies on animals that are often pointed to in Wikipedia involve exposing lab animals to doses that are both quite high and importantly far more frequent than the way this drug would utilized during sessions or as a party drug. Controlled tests on lab animals where a more normal dose was given and a more appropriate period of time was given between the next dose do not show any compelling evidence of any kind of long-term anomalies.

The studies on humans that are often cited are typically unscientific because they're inclusive of individuals who also use other substances that are known to be neurotoxic such as alcohol or even methamphetamine. Also more importantly these recreational users are not given a supply of pure MDMA so it's safe to assume that some percentage of them are actually ingesting a cocktail of MDMA adulterated with other substances.

With all of this said, the verdict is still out on whether or not this is neurotoxic in human at normal doses.. there definitely is a long term tolerance that builds up to the effect of the drug but this alone does not prove anything about neurotoxicity.
Thats my brothers homepage/business. He helped mé with the design and asked me for the backlink.
Show HN: A mathematical solution to any Game of Life variation
Regarding Space... SpaceX's primary competitor in the US (when it comes to government launches) is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin called ULA. ULA receives a _billion_ dollars a year just to maintain their ability to launch rockets (they still get paid enormous sums of money for each launch on top of the subsidy).

On top of that, they were recently awarded an 11 billon dollar 'block buy' contract covering launches over the next five years. The award occurred suspiciously just before SpaceX was supposed to be certified to launch DoD payloads (and therefore would have been eligible to compete for those launches).

Note: That 11 billion figure doesn't include the 5 billion dollars worth of annual subsidies they will receive over the duration of the contract
I still remember playing Shadows Over Riva where you had magic to see through walls or teleport to a distance thus completely avoiding combat with though enemies. Sure, if none of the mages in your party had those it made the game much harder, but that's the whole fun IMHO.

If you are only playing the game yourself, I don't see a need to balance out the skills, spells, races, etc. I understand that balance is needed in MMOs and such, but I love single-player games that give you freedom and ability to "rule".

Another example (non RPG though) of great non-combat magic is Heroes of Might and Magic where you have spells to summon boats, walk over the oceans, teleport across the map, see the treasure/resources obscured with fog of war, disguise your army as more powerful creatures, etc.
It's not clear to me what it means by "moral"... does it mean aligned with the mainstream morality of our society, or does it mean what I believe is good according to my personal morality?

There are a bunch of cases where these two differ (for me), just think of the Snowden and Silkroad cases, or attitudes towards marriage or promiscuity, or towards religion.
Very good: Thinkpad X250, Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Thinkpad T550
- Good: Dell XPS 13
Very good: Thinkpad X250, Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Thinkpad T550
Good: Dell XPS 13
A chromebook that has the 4 gigs of ram and a 32 gig ssd is large enough to handle the android sdk's, I was trying to do this on a 16 gig chromebook, but 16 gigs is only enough for web development, the android sdk is pretty huge.
Libertarianism is fundamentally about self interest. If the government is doing something in their interest, you can be pretty sure that they won't complain.
'Shamil Basayev, Occultist' ...what? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil_Basayev

That must be the development version with dummy characters.
How Ideo Redesigned Monday to Be Less Awful
As for refurbished models, stay away from T410 with discrete (NVIDIA) graphics. I own one and experience nothing but troubles with the thermal design.

I am doing everything to keep the GPU from frying my fingers on the keyboard and/or causing emergency shutdowns

- got the heatsink replaced by customer service

- cleaning the fan regularly

- tune software fan control, nevermind the noise

- check and replace thermal grease

- switch away from graphics-heavy desktop environment (Unity...)

- switching off webgl support in my browser

- ...

Well now that I put it like this, I am thinking it might not be worth the whole effort :)
It is too bad Rand Paul is having problems fundraising from the large US billionaires that seem to be major determinants in the Republican primaries.
> Is there any way to buy a kit for a nondestructive scanner?

Yes, I linked to http://www.diybookscanner.org/archivist/ in my original post. It has a "get a kit" link on the left. The forum post it links to cites a cost of $1200 for a full kit, which are available for pre-order.

The plans are also available at that same URL, and if you know someone with a 4'x8' CNC router, they should be able to help you put them together and cut them for about half that cost in time and materials. Then you'll just need to source the nuts and bolts and cameras and electronics yourself.
I have an older 2012 Gazelle Pro with a wide-gamut TN screen.

It's fast and quiet, the keyboard and touchpad are decent, and the screen is mostly good. I don't know about new ones, but that version is SUPER easy to clean out: remove one panel and the fan comes out letting you clean the heatsink. It doesn't collect dust really, but it was handy because replacing the thermal paste made it run quieter after the original stuff dried out.

The only issues I've ever had with it are that small amounts of dust got behind the display panel but in front of the backlight, leaving fuzzy outlines visible. It's probably not an issue for most people though because I've taken this laptop camping in the desert...

The other problem is the battery has degraded over time. Originally I got 5+ hours of battery life, but right now it lasts maybe 40 minutes. Replacements can be had relatively cheaply, but I just never got around to getting one.
Libertarian (mostly) here - I don't think Musk or anyone else should be getting subsidies or sweet loan deals.

If the government wants to run a federally funded research lab for say, battery tech, fine. But I'm not on board with them picking the winning businesses, and putting the public's money at risk in the process.
Servo layout, painting, DOM performance. JSON serialization in serde.
Optimizing language performance has been a focus.

Optimizing the workloads tested on the benchmarks game has not been a focus.
Depends on where you interview. A lot of startups in the east coast, in the past few years, have changed attire requirements and the people interviewing you might be in even lazier attire.
The X201 Tablet has the same chassis but Nelham architecture Arrendale CPU's rather than the Core2 of the x200's. But the x200's are still good machines at a very steep discount.
I've been using typed racket for backends https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2014/fall/15100-...

Recently where I work we switched to Golang for any network facing daemons and it's been awesome. Rust was decided as 'too alpha' to try yet.
Running Linux?
Just to define some terms, for the benefit of other readers:

a) Coordinate Bilingualism: In this type, the person learns the languages in separate environments, and words of the two languages are kept separate with each word having its own specific meaning. An instance of this is seen in a Cameroonian child learning English at school. This may also be referred to as subtractive bilingualism.

b) Compound Bilingualism: Here, the person learns the two languages in the same context where they are used concurrently, so that there is a fused representation of the languages in the brain. This is the case when a child is brought up by bilingual parents, or those from two different linguistic backgrounds. This is additive in nature.

http://www.translationdirectory.com/article419.htm
Moreover, if we're not assuming anything inherently dishonest with the premise (that two men are in jail), then it is very reasonable to assume that RH and LJ did something dishonest or immoral to begin with. Most people seem to put LJ (whom we are told is a convicted criminal) as one of the most honorable. I bet this would be more pronounced if multiple surveys were given with different names, like if LJ/RH instead had the names of famous criminals.
We also have no evidence that she is sure there will be no consequences. In her position, if the local sheriff had just arrested your loved one (for valid or invalid reasons) and then called you saying he would free them if you only had sex with him, would you really trust him not to take revenge if you refused?
Thoughts on Ada and Language Technology in Our Times (2012) [pdf]
I agree that Lojban is a "research language", but that is certainly a good thing! Seen in relation to its size/popularity, quite a large amount of research in linguistics and computer science sprouted from it. I myself have comitted a master's thesis to the language [1] (on p. 29 I attempt to summarize where it was picked up in academia)

[1] https://goo.gl/hkr38R
In another life I used to prepare Tc99m injections for various scans and we'd call the ligands by their intended target (e.g. lung, heart etc). We'd measure the dose according to the expected time of administration in order to account for the expected decay. Our generators came from a place outside London and we would 'elute' with saline to extract the Tc.

We didn't just deal with human patients and often tagged the white cells of race horses in order that their veterinarian could detect points of infection with a gamma camera because the white cells, once re injected into the animal would quickly migrate to the nearest infection in order to join the fight.

Contamination was rare because Tc has such a short half life but the same was not true for Fe 59 and the various Iodine isotopes. Hilariously two colleagues were once tested by the monthly inspection team and were compelled to dispose of their trousers because of contamination... The mind boggles.
I wonder why they even tried CPR or a defibrillator. They spent 42 minutes rescuing someone who was underwater, and then decided to try and revive him? Maybe there are details left out, like he was not fully submerged the entire time...
It's fairly well known that submersion in cold water can lead to recoveries after periods of time far longer than would be expected in other circumstances.
I think I may have seen this a couple of times, but it's certainly not constant for me. It may just be my router.

I'm dual booting Ubuntu 15.04 and Windows 8.1 as I support software on both platforms. So I'm suffering from the "reboot twice to get working audio" issue and occasional touchpad problems.

I believe that both will be fixed with kernel 4.1.