skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,

Sure I'm using leanpub.com for generating the ebooks; they have great tools and manuals for the markdown style they use.

The book itself is saved into a private GitHub repo; so I can keep tabs on all the changes. Formatting the code becomes a walk in the park thanks to leanpub.com

If you need more help, advice or any help at all feel free to email me at amacgregor [at] allanmacgregor.com
AT&T is only interested in DirecTV because AT&T's DSL services don't have enough bandwidth to carry simultaneous TV and Internet service. The DirecTV acquisition is a stopgap until AT&T can catch up to DOCSIS/Fiber networks, at which point satellite TV will be mostly dead regardless of whether AT&T buys them or not. If the conditions and restrictions work as intended, then by the end of the four year period AT&T will be on a more level playing field with the cable companies and their conflicts of interest should be managed through industry-wide regulations.
It requires additional complexity than what is in modern FPUs, but it arguably more efficient when actually operating due to being able to have the same accuracy while using fewer bits.

Most people don't realize that it is the data movement that is most expensive thing in a processor... It takes 100 picojoules to do a double precision (64 bit) floating point operation, but a humongous 4200 picojoules to actually move the 64 bits from DRAM to your registers. The really crazy thing is that around 60% of that power used to move the data is wasted in the processor itself, in the logic powering the hardware cache hierarchy. My startup (http://rexcomputing.com) is solving this with our new processor, and are working with John Gustafson in experimenting with unum for future generations of our chip.
> Steering wheel audio controls are common and useful in motion.

But wouldn't those likely be one-way commands TO the infotainment system? They would still work even if it was receive only.
Well, I feel exactly the opposite. Although, I had no chance to write gtk theming engines due to lack of neccessity, I would argue that most of the time clear good ol' imperative chunk of simple and straightforward C is far better than arcane declarative CSS based on whatever underlying rules I am not fully aware of.

P.S. I has experience with both - besides writing my decent share of C code over the course of past 10-or-so years, I had an opportunity to write stylesheets in pre-HTML5 times (for money). Later was far more sane and flexible (yet a bit arcane due to multi-browser compatibility) than writing on pseudo-CSS in order to compactife modern Eclipse (4.x). No way I would believe that pseudo-CSS for constantly unstable underlying engine could be somehow better than "clunky, complex loadable modules in C".
Huh. That's the most thorough and concise summary of male gender equality issues I've seen. Thanks for the insights :)
Chrysler doesn't have much of a choice. They have to do a "voluntary" recall for a safety issue, or the NTSB orders an involuntary recall. Since this has terrorism implications, they need to get this done.
The big issue I see with these is that the number of bits is dependent on the stored value. It's also not a power of two. This has a lot of problematic consequences. Indexing into a list of them wouldn't be constant time, for example. You'd need to unpack them (into fixed size unums?) first.

That said, information here is sparse and I'm not an expert on numerical computing (although I do graphics at work and know some about the subject).
Like Sublime Text, but for Spreadsheets?

1) Create a contained python/node/ruby environment.

2) Bind an object to a spreadsheet ui

3) ????

4) Profit?
Hard to tell from a quick scan, but it appears to be slightly more informative than the classic document in the python docs: https://docs.python.org/dev/howto/functional.html
That would make a neat drinks coaster.
Yeah, I'm sure they aren't directly comparable. I'm just trying to describe my general feeling of "life as we know it" will somehow always manage to make itself more and more expensive, no matter how many productivity gains we experience. I'm skeptical of how a basic income can address this - wouldn't living off of the BI be equivalent to the frowned-upon practice of living off of welfare? I need to research this area more.
Oh Gosh Four Zero Day Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Internet Explorer
I don't think you understand because I was being too concise. There are standard feminists and I have no problem with them, in fact, many even bat for both sides, so they will help to promote equality issues that men face.

On Twitter however, there is a more extremist crowd who go after people, manipulate facts, get people fired (who dare to have a different opinion), organise offended mobs, all sorts of unfortunate behaviour. To put it simply: they are pushing their selectively puritan views on bystanders who give in too readily and, in the process, become famous from those actions.
I think the issue was they couldn't keep their own fabs running hot enough at a large enough scale with just the volume of silicone they were selling.

If the fab sitting idle or production is bellow running cost then they are in trouble. Better to spend that money on R&D.
this is why he (and the others in the Interior Ministry top brass gang he was part of) thought that they can challenge FSB (KGB). Well, they lost, not surprisingly. About the same mistake that Khodorkovsky did when he challenged Putin for the position of the top-thief-in-command.

For another gang who is in the process of losing right now lookup "RUSNANO" - kind of a huge Russian sovereign venture fund officially intended for development of nano-technologies in Russia (what an oxymoron!) while really is a vehicle for government money "privatization" and laundering for inside people and a subject of infinite number of regular people's jokes. After several years of non-stop-party under Kremlin's protection they seemed to have lost some power fight and now everybody who wasn't arrested has left the country (except for the highest guy there - Chubais - who seems to be still untouchable, or probably all this is exactly what will bring him down finally, will see...)
Nexmo also works with Cobalt.io: https://cobalt.io/case-studies/nexmo
Wikipedia is your friend... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law

Would be happy to explain it further, but about to get on a flight.
The problem isn't what they did to the vehicle.

The problem is there were other drivers around who may not have been expecting the situation.

Further, since they weren't in the vehicle, if something happened ahead of it and the Wired journalist NEEDED to make a sudden maneuver to avoid an accident he might not have been able to. Asking them over the radio to turn X back on could have taken too long causing a serious accident when without their intervention one could have been easily avoided.

It's not scaremongering. There is a reason you don't interfere with a driver on a public road at high speed. It was extremely irresponsible. There were plenty of ways they could have done the test in controlled circumstances (ask the cops for help, race track, auto test facility, large empty parking lot, etc.).

They took unnecessary risks with possibly fatal consequences. It was irresponsible.
This is an alpha version, I hope to improve it over the next week by incorporating ConvnetJS, to label pixels in mixed superpixels (Superpixels with both positive and negative labels). And incorporate additional functionality to such as blurring the boundary.

The current restriction on the size of canvas 640 X 640 (Instagram size) , will also be removed over next few updates.
> This is a terrible decision.

Regardless it's the only and correct decision they can make at this time. It's honestly not terrible at all. What would be terrible, and valid of the comment "a terrible decision" would be doing nothing at all.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing :D
To me surfing feels like running - you spend most of your time in that meditative state you reach when running, sitting on your board going up and down on the waves, watching the ocean and waiting for a good one.

The difference of course from running is that there's no feeling like when you see a good wave coming and you start prepping, lay on your board, start paddling, and then catch the wave. It's almost more like hunting.

I used to live in Ventura and surfed almost every day but now I live in a landlocked country - Switzerland. I run almost every day and get that meditative feeling, but I only get that excitement here of catching a wave that I had in Ventura during the winter when I ski off-piste.
Ask HN: Are there any startups disrupting business banking?
Ally and Simple are doing a great job in the consumer space, but is there anyone working on business banking?

We have used both national and local banks and it's nothing but a struggle. Fees to receive money, fees to move money, fees to send money. There's a fee for just about everything, and almost nothing works as it should.
I personally think that it would be nice but the deeper discussion normally removes the need for AMA's imo.
Ah, so they can coexist in such fashion? Before there was some problem with that.
I have mixed opinions. I find dealing with UPS/Fedex delivery attempts almost as infuriating as dealing with traffic and the Wal-mart store. On other angles: Wal-mart's browsability and prices are better, but Amazon's selection and ability to find specific items are better. In some specific areas the contest is much clearer: Amazon is much better for books, Wal-mart is much better for household supplies, etc.
Not many. I did go ahead and purchase his book. It's... kind of a weird read, honestly. Useful - it clarified some things about the proposed Unum format - but also written very casually, like "pop science" prose, which seems inappropriate - who would buy a book about a floating-point number format if they didn't want a dry, boring book full of technical details? Some of the arguments are made as though to convince a non-technical audience - maybe Gustafson wants managers (or former engineers who haven't worked as engineers for a long time) to read his book, but I think it would have been better to publish all of the details without any fluff, first.

Also worth noting that half of the book is about the "ubox" method for solving optimization problems - also cool, but may be overkill if you are just interested in the numeric format itself. Personally, I've been working on an implementation of the format that I can toy around with - I have no real interest in learning a lot about the cool algorithms I could do with it until I can show myself that it works for basic arithmetic, etc, as well as the author claims.

Gustafson also makes the code available (I think [here](https://www.crcpress.com/The-End-of-Error-Unum-Computing/Gus...). It's Mathematica code... there is a free viewer for that format (if you don't have Mathematica) which can print out a PDF with richly formatted equations.

Also, Googling for that link led me to this [Python implementation someone whipped up](https://github.com/jrmuizel/pyunum).
>That's a fair argument, but in my experiences those two people do not share their interests. If you live with children in the house, you know how that goes.

Having 5 younger siblings - I know very well how this goes. But is it a problem? If they lack similar interests what difference does it make if they're both reading books if the books are different? If one is reading romance literature and the other Stephen King, are they in any better a situation?

Myself and the eldest of my siblings talk a lot about our personal interests, though we share very little of the same interests. We both enjoy learning and make a great effort to empathize with each other and understand each others' hobbies and do our best to encourage them. This close relationship, sadly, does not exist with my other siblings. I largely blame the age gap. I'm only 3 years older than the eldest but over 12 years older than the rest of them.

I don't disagree that offline has more potential for running into contradictory opinions and viewpoints. That's why I find comment sections so important, although they are often dwindling and filled with flamebaiting trolls they are also one of the few sources of contradicting opinions that some people face.

But that same offline experience shows me that many people live in their own social bubbles of people with similarly-held beliefs. Religious institutions are my best example for this. How often do you find a Christian at a Mosque or reading the Quran? They're mostly attending their own Church and associating with other people who go to that Church who largely hold the same beliefs they do. This extends to fanclubs, school cliques, and more social structures. People don't tend to branch out.

Offline or online the scenario, to me, is largely the same and just as sad.
it was added in python 2.7 / 3.0
This and the top 100 game show thing are some of my best memories from using the xbox 360
Thank you! I love this kind of feedback. I'll sit tonight and play around with the landing page.

A lot of the fun with this book has been finding a writing style that feels natural but is still clear enough; a bit difficult since I try to ramble.

Cheers!
I've posted about this before, but the UAE has an interesting solution to water and electricity generation.

One of the by products of oil production is natural gas that accumulates as pockets in the wells. Compared to crude oil this is a lot harder to store and transport, so in most cases is just burned off (if you ever fly over The Gulf at night, you can see the flames from the wells doing this).

This by product is what is used to generate water and electricity. Sea water is heated with the natural gas, and turned into steam which runs turbines to generate electricity. The steam is then cooled, which provides desalinated water. The water is stored in tanks for a few days where limestone rocks are added (from other parts of the country) to provide minerals, then fed into the public water system.

The newest "M" plant produces 2,000 MW of electricity and 140 million gallons of water a day, with an overall efficiency of 85%. It cost around $3 billion to build.

http://www.power-technology.com/projects/jebel-ali-m-station...
You guys shouldn`t give up on reporting vulnerabilities to businesses. It`s a highly important work that should be treated accordingly! It affects everybody and keeps the internet safer.
Cobalt.io seems to be doing a great job in this area, maybe you could contact them and they can reach to the business and help your voice be heard.
Nanostructured Glass Can Switch Between Blocking Heat and Blocking Light
> I guess the question is where we draw the line as to what counts as reasonable.

Yes, exactly. And I think a lot of people, including me, would say that anything that can be done entirely in software is reasonable.

Hmm. Does this mean that anyone doing safety-critical embedded software should be compelled to formally verify every line of their code? I'll have to think about that. That might be going a bit too far given the present state of verification technology. On the other hand, it would be a great thing.
The apps that secretly run ads that no one sees, and that slow down your phone
Because trademarks are different from copyright, in law and in practice. 'Google' is a trade mark even though it's just a homonym of 'googol,' a word from the dictionary. You can trade mark almost anything and if you can show you have been using the mark in commerce in a meaningful way then you can stop other people from using it in an infringing way - and you have to make an attempt to do so, or face possible future claims of trademark abandonment. Registration of a trade mark is prima facie proof of ownership and also allows you to collect statutory rather than just economic damages.

The only way it could genuinely be a trademark would be if it were used in a way completely unrelated to the character or story.

Who told you that? It's wrong, wrong, wrong. Trade marks and copyright are totally separate beasts and bringing up TM issues in a discussion of copyright only confuses people.
"Intent" meaning what?
Congrats! Looks beautiful, makes the whole process so easy. This will save so much time to many people.
What sort of data sources? I'd imagine it's not simply government interfaces/APIs. Scraping?
I'm a big tea drinker and would love to see more high quality loose teas available for grab & go. However, I would not be as likely to use TeaBOT if I couldn't use my own reusable cup. Do you have any plans to produce and/or market reusable cups to work with the machine, with the (seemingly) popular filter lid?

(I'd also rather be able to control the steeping time, but I get that that's hard to manage in a to go situation.)
SDDAS: The Southwest Data Display and Analysis System for space physics data
I am finding myself using Amazon less and less. For years it's been my goto for long tail items and books, but over the last few years it's algorithms have segmented me into the "show high margin prices" bin to the point where I pretty much see prices that are competitive with my local big box and Amazon jacks up the shipping on anything in the first few pages. I guess I shouldn't have used that $30 credit for getting one of their credit cards a few years ago...or paid it off each month, because now Amazon's first order of business appears to be clawing all my previous savings back.

Not that I take it personally. Amazon went down the path to breaking trust when they came up with Prime. What does it say other than give us money so we won't charge you more. Time, gravity and a slippery slope mean that logic ultimately becomes dominant without heroic efforts of corporate culture. Sponsored ads don't create a culture to help anyone within who might be trying to fight the slide. Hell, Amazon is even in the textbook rental business screwing college students.

The problem for Amazon is that they don't have good locations locked down. Six letter .com domains aren't prime real-estate. All they have is the quality of the sales experience, and the more convoluted shopping for value becomes the better competition looks.
New hardware would be needed. I think libraries like LAPACK basically are fast because they do a good job taking advantage of the hardware implementation of floating point math, and are written with sufficient understanding of the format to mitigate approximation errors. Therefore you would probably need to rewrite huge parts of such libraries to use the new Unum hardware or software - though doing so might be relatively straightforward - as you say, Unum can be seen as a superset of floating point and it does support all of the same operations.
It's hard to believe that AT&T has any serious intention of improving their network.

If they wanted to spend $50 billion they could run optic fiber to 50 million houses at $1000 a house, then they would have a competitive network in every way.
It's really not smart to count that against Amazon. Amazon doesn't run a profit because it believes it can better utilize the money to invest in its business. If that's actually true, it's way more valuable than spinning off cash. Being able to reliably convert large sums of money into substantially larger sums of money is an extremely high value talent.
iTerm2 does something like that? How/what? I've been using it for years and never heard of that, looks like once again I've been missing out on something incredibly useful for way too long. :)
I'm afraid we have lost our sense of irony.
How did that work for you? Isn't skype screenshare super laggy for a movie? What about audio?
New Photos Show Bush Administration Reaction to 9/11 Attacks
> Perhaps a small proxy application that is fully vetted and tested code.

I think that's a good idea, but I think it would be better if it was a small hardware firewall than a program in the infotainment system.

I would think something like that could even be entirely formally verified.
You bring up an interesting aside (Not related to growth prospects or productivity improvements per se)

By Marketcap: Facebook > Amazon > Walmart
By FTE: Walmart(2.2 million) > Amazon (150K) > FB (10K)

I realize FB is not in the same business, but I wonder what view those picketing Walmart for unfair and unjust labor practices have of the 'new economy businesses' that are being valued higher yet employ fewer Americans. Do you protest the jobs that were never created ?
> But, nobody was actually harmed

That's ends-justifies the means. I'm not arguing someone was hurt, I'm arguing they put people in a situation with a higher than necessary risk.

> I commuted into Houston on that same day and counted half a dozen disabled vehicles on my route, and two police officers trying to catch speeders; both of which add at least the same magnitude of risk to other motorists.

You can't control what other drivers around you do to cause road hazards, but in this case that's exactly what the hackers did. By cutting the transmission they caused a possibly dangerous situation.

They could have done this test safely in numbers ways. On a rig designed for testing horsepower, an abandoned parking lot, a private track, or asked some police to close a section of road.

Instead they did it in about the most dangerous way possible: live on uncontrolled roads with other traffic.

> "They" the two that did the risky road demo, or "they" the ones who waited 9 months to mitigate the safety defect in thousands of cars?

The 'researchers'/hackers. They directly put people's lives at risk to have a stunt to prove their point.

FCA screwed up big, and deserve some sort of penalty from the government. This shouldn't have been possible in the first place. But they didn't modify a running vehicle at 70mph surrounded by unsuspecting motorists.

If the hackers had done this reasonably safely, I'd have no issue at all. But they don't deserve the title 'researcher' after behaving like that.
If you want to win over someone from an opinion... the last thing you do is tell them that their wrong.
> ...having to pay $200 a year to get quick shipping...

Amazon Prime (two-day shipping) is $99/year[0]. Are you referring to something else?

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DBYBNEE/ref=gno_joinprml...
Making Something People Want Isn't Good Enough
Did you go to YC because you couldn't find money here in Toronto?
Well, Disney released Snow White in 1937, and the Brothers Grimm version had been published in 1812. So the story was 125 years old at the time Disney published the film, and the Disney film has been copyrighted for 78 years.

Again I'm not endorsing Disney's copyright practices here but let's keep the discussion grounded in fact, shall we?
Well, it is no longer true as of now. AMZN stock went down a bit after a day of trading.
If you're into this kind of thing, I've used anveo.com before which has a pretty powerful call flow engine that can be programmed via a nice drag-and-drop web ui. I found it similar to Yahoo Pipes but you're dealing with phone calls instead of web data.
Train Speed Control Plans Still on Same Long Timeline After Amtrak Derailment
Though I originally made it for me and my SO, it was surprising how many people have told me that they also have done the whole netflix, skype and "3, 2, 1, go" combo. Its interesting to think about things we could make that would better allow shared experience or emotional intimacy with people over distance.
"When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."