skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I do see as a possible are classes on visual design at both the grade school and college level. Even just one a year can make younger people better at presenting information and will eventually trickle up.

I've got two kids who have been through grade school. Actually, they spent a fair amount of time making visual presentations. But as with most of their lessons, I would prefer that the work be done without a computer.
Ha extremely true. There is absolutely no way Google is going to let Microsoft peddle on their turf. They have been not so subtle about wanting to avoid windows phones for their core products and even to some extend actively sabotaging (remember that whole fiasco with Google blocking maps for Windows phone users?).

This makes me wonder if investing in Cyanogen was a wise strategy for Microsoft? This way they could get past the gates of Google and into the land of Android.
why do you need one library to load another? Am I missing something here?
Obama and Rand Paul Face Off Over the Patriot Act
Boring cities
The option given was between lowering wages, or firing a third of the workers.

If those are truly your only options, I would hardly call you a capitalist tyrant for lowering wages. However, I imagine that in most cases, these are not the only options.

For me personally, this article seemed to play on the fact that external viewers to the game (e.g. readers like me) will naturally feel that there are other, more humane options. Forgetting about the rigid constraints of the game - since they did not play it themselves.

(I'm not sure if the above makes sense, I've never been to good at explaining myself)
How Terrorism Prolongs Conflict but Loses the War
official recode announcement http://recode.net/2015/05/26/a-note-to-our-readers/
Dating apps should have a bright future here in the US thanks to the sterilization of the American work force. We have women like Ellen Pao to thank for that. Men are rightfully too afraid of the legal consequences of hitting on female co-workers with HR policies like "no unwanted sexual advances." How do you know an advance is unwanted until you try?
Let's not get carried away here: Relativity predates Noether's theorems.

In fact, the reason why they were established was because Klein and Hilbert asked for Emmy Noether's help in figuring out energy conservation in GR.
I thought the article did very well in providing an introductory resource to students hoping to learn more about the structure of an interpreter. On the other hand, if one wanted a nearly identical, and possibly more rigorous approach to learning about implementing a "tiny lisp" Peter Norvig's lispy implementation is a wonderful resource: http://norvig.com/lispy.html ... of course any computer scientist studying languages should also have read Mcarthy - http://www.cse.sc.edu/~mgv/csce330f13/micromanualLISP.pdf
Yeah, I could only play it for a month before I lost interest due to the loneliness, emptiness and sameness of the universe. I guess that's the drawback of primarily procedurally generated content...

The new Powerplay update looks good though. Do you reckon we'll see any announcements at E3?
The Making of Adult Swim's First VR Release – Brainload
If you think that's bad, have a look at TVTropes, which is basically Wikipedia's "In Popular Culture" cranked Up To Eleven and turned into its own separate encyclopedia.
It's the fault of Congress that they need that information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986
Short-clip consumer web application
So I've spent the past 12 months building a short-clip consumer web application. Essentially, users can create their own video web-app be the admin of it, and upload videos. The videos will be automatically encoded in all of the HD and SD qualities, ranging from 250-1080. The visitors of the website will be able to rate the clips, comment on them etc... It has a sort of NetFlix interface.

I'm thinking of offering this service to superadmins (people who'd like to run their own web-app) for $500/mo. They can then of course add there own advertising etc to monetize it...

I'd like some feedback though on the concept, and pricing structure. There are costs such as hosting, and video encoding costs, which is why it cannot be free.
Because if you didn't spend 200k then actually came to need it, you would have lost your 100 million dollar deal.

It's a completely different beast, and making sure your ass is always covered is of utmost importance, which is why the largest companies are constantly doing it.

On a much smaller scale, and hopefully one more relatable, this is why even smaller businesses always go with the software/hardware package which includes support. Cover your ass.
>Both Congress and the Judiciary make law.

No. Judges do not make law. I see what you're trying to say, but making law is not their function. To the extent they engage in legislating from the bench they ought to be punished with censure and/or impeachment.

>You're implying that Congressmen should pass a law that places them above the law? That's an incredibly slippery slope.

That ship sailed long ago. Congress exempts itself from all sorts of laws. Insider trading is the one that pops into mind most prominently. And do you remember the House banking scandal? Most recently they've exempted themselves from the ACA.

The idea laws pass only when voted on by the full house and yet only a tiny subset have the data to make decisions is absurd. If that's the state of the law now they ought to change it.

>To arg. ad. absurd.[0] your position: Congress should just pass a law that frees all Congressmen from any and all legal obligation while acting in their official capacity as Congressmen.

They certainly need enough freedom to do their jobs. That's why the constitution includes the Speech and Debate clause.
There are so many more demos media start ups can be targeting, but everyone is after the same tech savy millennial demo, it's completely overloaded. You really hit the issue directly, the mass market is much larger and there is a lot more potential new media that could be created targeting them.
As I stated in another comment[1], this is a false dichotomy. There is a large continuum of various ways you can make decisions in between the two extremes of "YAGNI!" and "be as general as possible". The correct solution almost always lies somewhere in the middle.

YAGNI is appropriate if you think there's a very good chance that you won't need to do anything in the future, or if the future is so ill-defined that you can't make any sort of reasonable prediction of what you might need. If you're writing something that will be deployed once and never updated again, well, YAGNI is fine. But in most cases you're writing something that will need to be maintained and have more features added over time, and in that case, you have a variety of architectural decisions to make that influence what sort of changes can be easily made in the future. Determining which decisions to make in which ways is a hard problem, and it's something you basically just have to develop an intuition for by working on a lot of projects over years.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9608099
If I understand your description correctly (and it is the way it should be done, whether jumpstarting with external battery dolly or using another vehicle), you had the battery pack connected together with that old monstrosity of lead-acid battery at parallel, which still had some charge left and also acted as a buffer.

It would be completely different story having the lithium battery pack connected as the main and ONLY battery and cranking with it four times a day.

A typical car battery can begin at 55 Ah 12 V, this is for a European downsized petrol engine (larger engine requires more, diesel requires more, electric accessories require more) from before the advent of start-stop systems (start-stop requires better batteries or even two of them).

That is 660 Wh.

I guess the weight and volume of this in li-ion would be similar to or slightly better than lead-acid (imagine roughly 10x laptop battery or 75x 18650 cell), but the cost would be a multiple even at manufacturing prices.

Next, the car battery can sit in freezing cold for several days to weeks at -20 °C and still crank or it can be frying itself all day under direct sunlight. This is deadly for li-ion. Electric cars have heating and cooling systems for the battery packs even when the car sits still in a parking lot.

Also, while driving, the battery sits next to hot engine. You can move the battery elsewhere (driver seat or trunk, like the second battery for start-stop systems), but you need high-energy leads and the engine heat is actually a benefit for recharging the lead-acid in winter.

Compare all these complications to price, simplicity and reliability of nicely recyclable lead-acid box...
PowerPoint used correctly can be great. The article seems a little over-the-top, just because a few people are misusing it is not cause for going and make statements like PowerPoint should be banned. a can of spray paint in an artists hands can make a piece of art, a spray paint can in the hands of a teenager painting graffiti on a billboard is vandalism and misuse.

If we banned PowerPoint, people would just find another way to create an abomination of a slideshow using something else. The tool isn't the problem. Just like paint cans aren't to blame for graffiti and car manufacturers aren't to blame for drivers who misuse their cars speeding. There are bigger problems going on in the world that we should be worrying about more than we should bad PowerPoint presentations.
Just wondering -- are either Chosen or Select2 508-compliant or screen-reader friendly?
Yes, I came to make this point, and to appeal to the masses for the accompanying lecture so that I might better understand some of the contents...anyone?
The non-map method they show for correlating income and flooding (and a few other) is a great example. It's nothing but text yest still far more effective at explaining this particular correlation.
literally part of the national GOP platform

So you really think whatever they tell you is true? The GOP has not actually shrunk the government. Even when they had full control over the senate, house, and the presidency, they did not shrink the government... in fact, they made it bigger.
I hear this argument a lot, but things changed a lot since the 90s. People's adaption to new tech has evolved.

Even if they fail now, when they make the product that is truly good, everyone will keep hearing that on the press and from friends.
It is pointless to spend so much time and money on sirtuins, resveratrol, and the like from the point of view of producing therapies. There is no conceivable way that the outcome will be anywhere near as good as either eating less or moderate regular exercising. That became clear from the research results quite early on. Just isn't going to happen, and the cost of everyone else coming around to figure that out runs into the billions for each such drug target and the few pathetic drug candidates that result.

https://www.google.com/search?q=resveratrol%20site%3Afightag...

The people backing Sirtris made out just fine of course. Not sure that the incentives are aligned here.

I've come to the conclusion that the best way to look at most drug development for slowing aging is to assume that those involved have found a new and apparently effective way to raise funding to achieve their actual, original goal, which is to map the entirety of human cellular biochemistry and all of its alterations that occur over a lifetime. Every change, every protein, every process, all in a map with an additional dimension of time and response to damage. That is worth chasing as a pure science project, but funding sources tend to insist on practical goals - even if those practical goals are evidently marginal.

This is the rut that aging research has to be kicked out of by the likes of Aubrey de Grey and the SENS research programs. We need better approaches, better biotechnologies, and an end to haphazardly mining the natural world and the back catalog of approved drugs for things that achieve very little when deployed as therapies. Enough is known to work seriously now, today, and at any time in the last fifteen years, on actually deliberately repairing the causes of degeneration aging with new, designed, targeted biotechnologies. Instead billions are spent on messing around with penny-ante adjustments to metabolism and on drug development that will never go anywhere.

But that all makes a lot of sense if the real goal is the grand map of metabolism rather than treatments.
Hackers stole data of 100k taxpayers, IRS says
The churn argument overlooks the fact that there's a lot of repeat business. I know plenty of people who have been using one or more of these services literally for years. IAC seems to have figured out something the other investors have not, which is how to capture that segment of the market and keep them coming back. It seems to have something in common with slot machines and other casino and freemium games: you have to give people enough wins to keep them playing but not enough that they actually get what they want.
Obama Urges Lawmakers to Pass NSA Surveillance Bill
I'm not going to defend individual design choices as I wasn't party to the tradeoffs being considered - and I disagree with some of them myself. But if you are involved in any kind of design (and I would definitely include programming here), you will be well aware of how much goes into boiling down a set of compromises into something elegant and usable - and how hard it can be to communicate why some part of that was really the best choice and took a lot of deep thought and iteration to get there. And you'll also be aware that design is never finished.

More generally, Apple have taken what many might think of as an industrial design approach and applied it to consumer design in a more rigorous way than others. So a lot of thought about coatings and materials used for screens and bodies, packaging (part of the consumer experience), and so on.

To construct a plausible scenario around your point off the top of my head, reduced size is clearly a key functional feature of a portable device, and while I'm not defending 3rd gen shuffle, it would make sense that a device you might go running with would be better if absolutely tiny. And if you are on the run, there would be an argument for having controls on the cable rather than the device. I think these kinds of things are clearly getting a lot of attention as we see the designs are being iterated and previous mistakes corrected.

Likewise, things like sealed devices are absolutely functional design decisions from the point of view of creating a mass-produced device. The success of the ipad bears this out. It may appal me that apple will only completely swap an ipad with cracked screen, or that I can't upgrade RAM in my macbook - but I can understand that standardisation and non-customisation is key to things like a predictable user experience, manufacturing and supply chain, worldwide warranties. Apple have always been about this and it's why they manufacture both hardware and software. I won't buy the 12" macbook computing device myself, but for family members it might be the ideal laptop. Anything else and I know I'm going to get several more messages a week asking me why facebook and twitter aren't working.
Nice. I like the visualizations.

I don't understand the author's reasoning for preferring mean shift over k-means due to k-means needing the number of clusters as an input. It seems that in mean shift, choosing the kernel bandwidth parameter is just as arbitrary in that it requires domain knowledge. In k-means there are tests[0] for choosing an appropriate k. Is there a similar strategy in mean shift for choosing an appropriate kernel bandwidth parameter?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determining_the_number_of_clust...
Unshackled puts its money where it’s mouth is to support H-4 visa holders
Not all of it was because of redeployment after the war. At the start of the war MN had only been a state a few years but were the first to volunteer troops (the governor happened to be in dc). They distinguished themselves in battle, including stopping the Gettysburg charge, but then some had to quit the war early to go back to MN to put down a Lakota uprising - which was more just the Lakota attacking farmers because they knew no troops were available.

http://exploringoffthebeatenpath.com/Battlefields/DakotaWar/...
>> I can't install apps from third-party sources

> http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/apps/how-do-i-i...

As I understand it, all "sideloaded" apps still have to go through the Windows Store. If it doesn't map to a free or trial app in the Windows Store, it won't install.

http://www.windowscentral.com/install-apps-sd-card-tested-ou...

If that's the case, then this is not installing apps from an independent source.
I wonder how successful recode was because they seemed to be competing with the WSJ market along with review tecg market while being so pro apple all the time site
Google, Yahoo, Twitter Have Had Talks to Buy Flipboard
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It's a bit of a problem that Wikipedia has a list of fictional ducks, but doesn't have a lists of olympic athletes -- because an olympic athlete is not notable.
The poster above is saying that it's part of the GOP's political agenda that's marketed to voters, rather than necessarily what they do once they're in office.
It's all well and good to classify non-falsifiable philosophies as "inspirational". However, many tenants do not look at dualism as mere inspiration.
It's hard to trust the comScore number of 1.5M for Recode's traffic. NYT cite comScore in reporting The Verge is 12M uniques a month, but The Verge themselves confirm it's almost exactly twice that in their own story covering the acquisition:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/26/8662905/the-verge-and-reco...
Hmm... What's up with this page?

"Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition has blocked a page!
Malware detected!
Access to this page has been blocked."

Any idea what's in there tripping out Bitdefender?
This is probably one of the best acquisitions Oculus have made so far, purely for the talent alone. Last year Oculus acquired Nimble VR and 13th Lab. More interestingly is 13th Lab were working on similar technology for taking a room and turning it into a virtual environment. Check out this project 13th Lab were behind called Minecraft Reality in which Minecraft objects were spawned in real life: https://youtu.be/2pOpcR7uf5U

Seems there are some big things planned for Oculus' launch next year, lets see what Sony brings to the table with their headset for the Playstation 4.
Apple Replaces Discoveryd MDNSresponder in 10.10.4 Beta 4
Ask HN: Would you use Excel to release your new algorithm?
I have been working for a while now, with a good friend of mine, on a data mining algorithm (decision tree) that has some pretty cool features. It is fast, robust, very accurate and parameterless. We didn't know where to start using it so we thought an Excel addin might do the job. We haven't launched yet but we are going to do it soon. Excel is for us a tool that we use on a daily basis among other data mining tools and seemed to require a lot less investment in time and money to begin with. So I know we are probably not following the optimal path for making this algorithm available to a wide range of users but do you think Excel is a dead end? Any suggestions are more than welcome.
Whenever I see an article about banning PowerPoint I think of Peter Norvig's humorous PowerPoint rendition of the Gettysburg Address http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
"So don't settle."

That's much easier said than done. Maybe it's easy for you, but from most of the people I've seen, including myself, when you have emotional involvement with something it's difficult not to be biased. It's easy to make excuses and convince yourself that you are doing the right thing. I think it was Stephen King who said it best, "We lie best when we lie to ourselves"
Irregularities in LaCour (2014) [pdf]
I have no idea about physics but Noether(with Artin) certainly changed the mathematical landscape. She was probably the first person to really do modern algebra(building on Dedekind) and is the first person whose works really seem modern.
I agree. Projects should not be scheduled in isolation. Delay may be a great idea, or a terrible idea. Sometimes prediction is easy, sometimes it is not. Trying to oversimplify the decision making is a mistake.
Previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9186246
Thanks for the tip ;)
I'm a polyglot ;)
Mozilla only announced that they're abandoning efforts to build the lowest-end stuff. IIRC, most FirefoxOS handsets are still pretty low-end, and have been doing reasonably well.

And feature phones are still dominant in places like Africa and South America, particularly due to their lower cost and power consumption (smartphones are still unable to reach the battery lives of even dumbphones from a decade ago, which is an important consideration in environments with limited/inconsistent electricity). Even in "developed" countries, feature phones are popular with the elderly and disabled, since they usually feature physical buttons that are easier to work with (better tactile feedback, easier to find with poor vision, etc.) and have simpler interfaces.
Because the IRS lost the trust of people long ago when they used overly aggressive and abusive tactics against taxpayers.
http://www.cato.org/blog/irs-abuses-past-present
Exactly this. Virtual Reality headsets for many will be an entirely new never before seen experience, if they get it wrong, people will definitely avoid trying it again and that will be bad not just for Oculus but the virtual reality industry as a whole. If Oculus are first to release, they have a lot of pressure on their shoulders to do it right because their v1 launch success will have a flow on effect to other devices.

The higher end specifications required to power Oculus will definitely be a stumbling block. Presumably the headset will cost more than the developer kits costs, then you need to throw in at least an additional $800 for a high-end graphics card to power the Oculus. This is the kind of money only hardcore gamers will warrant, not a small family with a few kids wanting to get them a Christmas present. I have always said Oculus need to partner with a graphics card company like AMD or Nvidia and give the headset away with a high-end graphics card purchase, or at least heavily subsidise it. They're killing two birds with one stone then.
Is this something you have sources on or just an opinion? Would be interested in knowing.
Er...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_competitors

Bit more useful organization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_competitors_by...
Ok, valid point... But still the Ghz's per core are also increasing, and with that the overall performance. If you've used webapps like Popcorn-time or Slack you'll understand what I'm trying to say.

Are they native? No, they're JS apps

Do the users care? No, cos they do the "job" pretty well

We're reaching that computing power with mobile devices. In fact current mobiles are like desktops of 3/4 years ago. For certain kind of apps it won't matter if they're built with web technologies. (I'm not saying that you should bet on WebGL vs OpenGLES)

It's all about the use case.
Augmented reality was implemented for Google Glass.[1][2] There were startups with demo products. The hardware was capable enough to do limited AR. Google itself didn't get there, but others did.

[1] http://arforglass.org/
[2] http://www.wikitude.com/products/eyewear/google-glass-augmen...
I wonder if there's any correlation between the tech saviness of their reader base and use of Adblock?
Can't comment about mopeds, but in car, when your battery nears the end of its life, when you turn the steering wheel (with electric power steering) while stationary, headlights dim for a short moment until the alternator increases its output.