skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? You're going to dismiss the ability to pull up maps and be guided to your destination. Voice recognition, browsing the web, a music player, and having a video game console in your pocket.
What, precisely, are you looking for? The stdlib continues to grow and improve, MRI continues to get faster, we just got full native unicode support a while back, GMP usage in Bignum, refinements, symbol GC, compiling with jemalloc... and that's just stuff in 2.1 and 2.2.
The greatest mass extinction on Earth was caused by fossil fuel burning
Is there any way to change it?

I imagine if your name was Alexa (or even Alex) or had a close friend with that name you could also get a lot of false positives.
I bought one of these a few years ago and was touched by the personal note written in it. I hadn't realised until now that it was Clifford Stoll who actually sent these! Fascinating video.
Part 2 – How a Guy in Canada Built 3 Multi-Million Dollar Businesses by Age 30
True, but the scale doesn't come anywhere close. Renewables production isn't changing the climate, poisoning seafood, or giving millions of people lung diseases.
I love this guy, I first saw him in his TED talk [1]. He kinda reminds me of Richard Feynman (similar mannerisms and enthusiasm for science).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk
While funny, RPS is disingenuous:

after visiting RPS, you'll get cookies from the following additional domains:

- adaptv.advertising.com
- adjs.net
- b3-uk.mookie1.com
- mookie1.com
- doubleclick.net
- iasds01.com
- m6r.eu
- mathtag.com
- quantserve.com
- scorecardresearch.com
- openx.net
- adnxs.com

This might change depending on location and time of when you visit it.

I can see how you might think: "who cares if Google Analytics tracks me? Google already has all my web searches", but it's not that simple... every one of these entities can share information about your visits with any other (search for "cookie matching"), and yet... with a visit to a single (!) website, you're loaded with cookies from 12 external different domains, all of which have the exact same purpose.

Personally, I never cared that much about privacy (or at least, this kind of privacy) but now... if only out of spite... I disable storage of 3rd party cookies in my Firefox.

So it's not only a matter of privacy, but also a matter of respect for the (your) user:

as a videogames site, you can easily (?[1]) provide advertisement targeted only to your main audience (for advertisement metrics and fraud prevention, the advertiser could just use the referrer and ip of the source, at least for a first approximation)... so it's not true that giving up (tracking) cookies would prevent advertisement

OTOH: by including random 3rd party javascript (and not simply static resources like images, css, etc. with their own tracking cookie) you are completely leaving your user to the good faith of these other companies, which are then able to use javascript to load other resources, and so on and so on... reselling your visits to other companies again

Not only is this wasteful and never done according to the explicit will of the user, but since the visits span multiple domains, this is something that not even HTTP2 will be able to help for.

Lastly, I think it's antithetic to the very original purpose of HTTP: HTTP nowadays is used for webapps and plenty of different things, but reading articles, seeing images (and possibly videos, just like on RPS) aligns quite well with the original purpose: downloading and transmitting simple documents or data thereof

Cookies are a way to circumvent the stateless nature of HTTP, but why shouldn't a news site like RPS be stateless? (the exception would be for comments, but that isn't necessarily always true either, and anyhow for that the issue is more nuanced)

[1] I have never done it, but I hope so... I hope that inserting adwords is not the only way
I don't have a cell phone or a stereo, so the Echo is really the perfect device for me. I use it for weather, timers, news, fact look-up, math, music, etc.

I really wish it supported something like json, allowing me to get an audio of anything on the web.
What is it about our industry (or perhaps just the slice of it that hangs around HN) that makes people feel the need to spout absolutist dogma about trivial shit like whether a commit message should be a sentence or not? Jesus. Sometimes a sentence is the most useful and sometimes a very short newspaper-headline-style summary is the most useful. Why must we constantly go in search of hard rules that prevent this sort of consideration? If having to shift between styles makes commit logs too hard to read for you, maybe the commit messages aren't the problem.
You do not have privacy from your roommate. They could easily set up a bug just like they could set up Echo.
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IE, cross-sections or projections. Would be interesting if there were a way to render a Klein bottle using techniques similar to those used when 'impossible triangles' are modeled with boards and 2x4s in fields which then seem to work when viewed from a certain angle. But then what would non-intersecting intersecting lines look like. Sounds like double-think.
If you're in the US and that is happening, it's a "Brand Standards" violation: the hotel can start losing reservations from Hilton if they are a franchise, and the employee can get disciplined if they are a corporate property. The next time that it happens, call the HHonors helpdesk and complain...and they'll usually comp you 1000 HHonors points and send you on your way after sending the hotel a nastygram.

This is something that just started happening in March...so, it's also possible that some hotels just don't have a clue yet, but honestly, there's no excuse if you have a reservation with your hhonors number on the profile.
Yeah, my guess is that their legal department negotiated the hell out of these contracts with the labels (which is what they're supposed to do) and obtained a concession. Someone at the labels probably went to Taylor Swift about this and told her what was happening, knowing that she would cause a public stink about it and Apple would cave.

Anyway, it's not as if Apple and the labels have a cozy relationship -- so all's fair in love, war and contract negotiations. I'm sure Apple has plenty of other pricing / payment levers they can use to claw back most of what they're losing anyway (which probably isn't much at all).
Note: This was written by George Monbiot. The original title of the article is "A Prehistory of Violence", which doesn't say much about the content. The related Guardian article [1] is titled "How fossil fuel burning nearly wiped out life on Earth – 250m years ago".

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/threat-...
Hydro is produces little C02 but causes other problems.

http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/hydro.h...
Is there a quickstart?
Chomsky and people who study in the generative tradition have a lot to say about language as a biological organ (which obviously evolved from the language organs Chimps possess). In fact, Chimps have very similar systems to us. They can perceive voiced onset time (VOT) just as we do and they can reason about semantic issues. They can also utter and understand sound-meaning pairs however, they have nothing like our syntax for making novel and complex utterances out of the simple ones.
There are three ways to handle the difference between relatively fixed base load power generation and highly variable grid usage.

First, you can add variable load power generation facilities, that are less efficient overall, but can change output levels more quickly.

Second, you can add an energy storage and return capacity to the grid. For this, you need a reversible process and good efficiency.

Third, you can add variable usage. "Smart grid" appliances, particularly air conditioners, are good for this. But an energy-intensive industrial process co-located with the power plant, that could be scaled up or down automatically, would be better.

The fact that most solutions to the problem of handling variable load when it is most efficient to have near-constant production are of the first variety is easily explained by the economic factors. A power generating company understands power generation better than any other industry, therefore has a bias towards solving its power generation problems with different kinds of power generation.

It is only relatively recently that computing made it possible for automated usage negotiations could take place between producer and consumer on a scale that would be significant. And we still don't quite have batteries good enough to make peak-leveling storage practical or cost-effective. Pumped hydro is about the only game in town, and that depends heavily on appropriate terrain.
There are heavy human costs, too, when you consider that mining and oil extraction can leave their laborers handicapped and often dependent on the welfare system, and when it becomes unprofitable to extract from a given area, these companies will disappear and leave the communities they supported to collapse.
I think this is the point of some 'breeder' reactor designs. Much of the current waste that is in storage could actually become fuel.
Very interesting take, thanks! That is probably what's going on. I wonder what other examples there are of such policies.
You seem to be talking exclusively about the survival of the American economy, rather than then the survival of humankind.
Any few decades would be a great time to say that. You just have to pick the right predictions of yours to say "I told you so" about, and be silent about the incorrect ones.
Still worse than Öffi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.... in terms of coverage – 3 cities in Germany? Really Citymapper?
If Google understands the content it's presenting, like weather, it will read it out loud to you. If a wikipedia article is the first result, it will read the entire first paragraph out loud.
Cool! Will signup, btw:

Anyone knows a source of information about next conferences around UK / London for technology?
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The Obtuse Triangle – Basketball's Triangle Offense
I think "massively" is relative here. If you compare Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 2.2, they are very clearly the same language, but the latter with many pleasant and useful additions - the sort of iterative improvements, in fact, that Apple are so good at with their hardware (for the most part). If you compare JavaScript from the 1.6 era to today's ES6... they hardly look like the same language.
This applies to a large swath of the Ruby community for me.
I'd argue that making solar and storage cheaper is not engineering. Currently, their efficiency and capacity do not warrant widespread use. More research should be done before money is wasted deploying half-baked technology.

You can try to engineer cost savings and efficiency out of the current solutions, but using all that brain power on something that might yield single digit percent gains is a massive waste of talent IMO.

The minds that are working on those problems would be much better utilized working on solar and storage research as well as more long term solutions like nuclear fusion (NIF, ITEF).
Integrating Active Directory from Java
Nothing special, as it turns out.
This is reminiscent of the argument that marijuana could never be legalized because no one could figure out how to tax it. Different angle of attack, I suppose, but just as inapplicable to reality.
same. i work for us companies but i contribute 0 to us economy while contributing a lot to local economy.

scratch that -- i contribute a little by traveling to the us every once in a while (on vacations).

and even that visa, business/vacation was a big pain in the ass to get because for the us gov't i was going to stay in the us forever and ever because i happen to do work for american companies. i had to show the us gov't a ton of documents (from my marriage certificate to my tax returns and bank statements) to prove that not only i lived here but i also would go back.

and you know what the guy that was interviewing me said at the end of the visa interview? "i'm going to trust you". even after showing a ton of documents, it came to that -- a guy trusting me or not.

(btw, my wife also got her visa but it was way easier. she basically showed my passport with my visa and entry stamps and they said "ok!")

(btw 2: i was never more scared in my life than when i went to us for the first time. the border control point inside the airport was just insane, it felt like i was going to get arrested and deported at any time. there, i also had to provide a good reason for coming into the us + show the border control office my plane tickets, hotel reservation, money i had with me, credit card statement... otherwise i would get deported).
google now will try it's best to answer questions out loud if they were asked that way. Your weather example works, but in general it's inconsistent enough that i can't assume it will give me an audible answer, and I usually limit myself to speaking only questions or commands that i know to work.
No company will ever intentionally bring its contract terms into the public spotlight. Not to mention the amount of coordination this would take is just too risky for a PR stunt. Apple would have been better off just paying Taylor Swift some money for exclusive streaming rights. It's not like they need to save money through use of guerrilla marketing.
Plasma is almost always quasi-neutral. It's very hard to separate positive and negative charges, especially along the field line. Electrons move very quickly to cancel out any excess charge.
I would strongly support massive expansion of the lottery system (and the reserve on advanced degrees), and have written my local congresspeople about it in the past.

I do this knowing that it may even result in driving down wages in STEM fields. Because I think it's too important over the long-term.
I think the point is: why do you trust the "off" button for the features on your other devices but not trust the assurances of the Echo about what it is doing? The other devices could just as well lie about whether they are off.

I'm certainly not a lawyer, and I'm not sure which laws you're referring to, but I know that some laws relate to one's expectation of privacy which would certainly apply to an Echo in your bedroom just as well as your phone.

It's perfectly reasonable not to want an Echo because you don't value its features.

My point is that we may get the emotional 'creepy' factor from thinking about the Echo listening, but that rationally the risks and trust involved are not greater than those with, for example, a smartphone.
I'm really not a fan of the keyword argument feature in Ruby, especially after using ES6 for a good number of projects. It's essentially a special-case of variable destructuring that works for one type of key, Symbols. Also, since its coupled into the arguments of a function, there is no way to use this sort of feature for simple variable assignment.
It's difficult for the reasons stated by the author. You have to convince an employer to sponsor your H1 befor you even start working for them. Also, they need to apply for your visa and hope it comes through before you start work.
Im not dismissing any of those things. Im saying the phrase has been used so much in vague contexts that it has become meaningless.
Ah, I didn't realize it was new. All my domestic stays have been at Hyatt this year.
Announcing a new portal for microbiome studies
That's my point. Things that are so commonplace should be implicit.
I will give you the example of my country, Portugal. We have very rainy winters and the reservoirs usually get full. At some points the entire production of the country is provided by hydraulic power (minus the base coal plants that can't be stopped). With rain usually comes a lot of wind. The eolic energy is sent to the Spanish grid for free, since the energy needs are meet by the hydraulic energy alone.
In summer, we have very dry weather and the reservoirs are used just for top the demand of peak hours. The wind is irregular and more prevalent at night. Now we are retrofitting some dams to allow pumping, so the excess wind power at night is used to pump water back into the dam. This process unfortunately only has 60 % efficiency.
My main point is, for the price of all those eolic towers, pumping dams and gas power plants that backup the renewables, we could build a more reliable nuclear fission power plant at a lower price.
Reminds me of a story of a photographer that would leave their hand in some of the shots deliberately so the client would point them out and spend less time nitpicking on the rest of the composition.
Why we created a startup for startups
Sure you can... you just have to not extend those benefits in full to new migrants. Europe seems slowly moving in that direction in response to this exact problem, though it's not straightforward as the current jurisprudence seems to regard this as an infringement on EU citizens' freedom of movement.
This is a very good paper that will help you out (Intervals, Thresholds, and Long Slow Distance: the Role of Intensity and Duration in Endurance Training), http://www.sportsci.org/2009/ss.htm#_Toc245522384

Here is a good video he gave on polarized training, http://www.canal-insep.fr/fr/training-periodization-deep-roo...

There is also the Phil Maffetone 180-Formula, http://philmaffetone.com/180-formula/
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Software companies are leaving the UK because of government’s surveillance plans
I never intended to convince you or your parents to use Linux. It's just, that you said that they are able to do more, therefore they have more control. If you understand that the opposite might be the case then my job is done. In some scenarios it's okay to have less control in exchange to do more. I do such exchanges on a regular basis myself. But one must be aware that one gives away control, not gains control.
I'm unwilling to separate out "they were defending their values" from "their values included chattel slavery". I find nothing noble in holding values dear that are so wrong.
Michael Pryor, CEO of Trello: What No One Told You About Running a SaaS Business
> google now will try it's best to answer questions out loud if they were asked that way.

And its a fairly amazing technical achievement, but its still got a long way to go -- if you ask when a business opens, it will show you the hours but not tell you the time it opens, even though Google has enough semantic understanding of the open/close times to tell you on the results page with the hours that it is "closing soon" or "closed now" if that is the case.
Time travel and the single atom – Cosmos Magazine
> In reality, all power is solar power

The Earth's molten core is not solar power.
It isn't the public that needs convincing.

It is the people who provide the budgets who have drawn up rules that make it nearly impossible to build the safer designs as they haven't been run for as long a time as the unsafe ones, so score worse on the risk assessment.

Hence why the UK is getting a brand new actively cooled pressurized water reactor built by China based on a French design, though it might not be now. - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b8741dd0-1048-11e5-bd70-00144feabd...
"Numerous American friends, when the subject of my immigration status came up, have said to me things to the effect of, "Why don't you just become a citizen?""

I totally recognize my own friends in this. Americans have no clue how difficult it is to obtain a green card or a citizenship.

One of my friends was dating a girl from Asia, she was in the US under a work or student visa. She decided to attend a school in Europe for 2 years, their plan was to do the long distance thing for 2 years and then she would come back. I told him many times "Dude, if she leaves and gives up her visa she won't be able to come back". They ignored me, naively thinking that she would just get a new visa. 2 years later, she couldn't make it back to the US and stayed in Europe (or moved back to Asia, not sure).
Ah, thank you for the link, that was the missing piece of the puzzle! :)
Cool!

The system has three basic components – an 11.5 MW wind farm, a 380,000- cubic-meter upper pumped hydro reservoir in a conveniently-located inactive volcanic crater at 709.5 meters elevation and a lower 150,000-cubic-meter reservoir at 56 meters elevation.

I especially like the inactive volcano part. Technology that tempts the gods.
I've had a paid imgur account since the day they announced them. In addition to the compression, mass upload and album mgmt is very clunky at best. I stopped attempting to archive many images there years ago...

I should give it a test again though to see if it is better.
Death to ‘Data Journalism’
Minio Unveils Minimalistic Object Storage Compatible with Amazon S3
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2015/06/23/minio-unveils-minimalistic-object-storage-compatible-with-amazon-s3/
Except would they have been able to create that company NOT in the US? The US dominates the world with pop singers. Do you think the majority of talented singers are only born in the US? No. They are just in the best environment for turning talent in to a star.
You can easily change it to Amazon if you do not want it to be Alexa. However that is your only other option.
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Right, but what happened between 18 and 33. At some point the author must have realized "the system is fucked" but decided (for multiple reasons) to risk continuing to work and live with the US.

It's one thing to attend university for 4 years, get a job and then head home. Quite another thing to base/commit your entire life/career in the US without a clear path to citizenship.

I'm not saying the author should "suck it up" but rather it seems many take this risk, knowing the dangers and therefore shouldn't be surprised or shocked to eventually have to leave (given a gap in employment)
The electricity always ends up as heat.
"Whilst I quite enjoy Go, one annoyance I have is that it seems there is no middle ground between alright performance using pure Go and great performance using Go with assembler."

I've banged the drum here on HN several times on how I consider Go to be more scripting language that "systems language", and this is another example of why. For a scripting language it's actually screamingly fast, even when you use interfaces, but if you want to bit-bash inside the language itself using sophisticated instructions (i.e., not just the bitwise and, or, etc.), it hasn't really got a great story for it, nor is it likely to develop one, because it's not in the core thrust of the language. It just isn't a "low level" language, it's a high-level language that happens to include true arrays and structs. It's not "high-level assembly" like C, and lately even C isn't really "high-level assembly" unless you mean "high-level assembly for a 1970s machine".

That said, I'm not particularly familiar with any high-level language right now that really and truly opens the power of modern assembler to you, within the language itself. I don't consider "sometimes the optimizer secretly and silently manages to use SSE" to be "opening the power of assembler", nor is "allowing you to inline assembler". Partially that's because contrary to popular belief, hardware actually moves much more quickly than software languages, and hardware's been moving fast on this lately. While I don't know that you could wring a Next Big Language out of this, there's probably room for a language that would make this stuff more directly available to people. (I'd focus on making it easy to integrate with other languages rather than trying to make it stand on its own. Partially that's so you could keep pace with the rapidly-moving hardware... you won't be able to keep up if you're trying to drag an entire general-purpose programming language around with you.)