skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks good, but it's a bit pricey for my tastes and that hardware is an unreliable brick of a machine.

I'd love to see someone hit the market with a working Linux-ready netbook. I used to have an Acer One cobbled into that state, but the lack of direct support from the vendor meant that things like power management and sleep-on-lid-close never quite worked right. It's the little things you miss when you go off the vendor's book on operating system choice.

On the other hand, the stock Vista on that machine was dog-slow. Being able to strip down the crap from the UI and run much faster was a Godsend for hacking around on projects while away from the desk.
I'd really like to know what he meant by that. I have a feeling I'm not going to like the answer.
absolutely.

so please, once you have a serious condition only take your spices.

no penicilin (or does it count as mold?), no insulin, no aneasthesia for you. just a little cinnamon.

wear glasses or contacts? away with them! a little pepper in your eyes works wonders.

and they wonder why seattle has lower polio vaccines rates than kazakhstan or tchad.
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Actually taxis and personal automobiles do not create an equivalent amount of congestion. Personal automobiles tend to go point to point during several peak periods, after which they park and are off the roads. Commercial vehicles like taxis, on the other hand, are in service all day. Taxicabs, in particular, produce a lot of congestion since they're always stopping to pick up/drop off fares.

The money shot on this is that a single taxi produces congestion equivalent to about 40 personal vehicles, and a 15% increase in taxicabs reduces all traffic speeds by about 12% [1]. A certain level of taxis is a good thing, but they don't solve the need for an effective mass transit system.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/01/20/more-taxis-...
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Since we're all pitching in anecdotes, I also live in Manhattan have very few problems with either.

I can get a taxi almost any time I need one. The times I can't, it's late on Friday or Saturday night and I just use Uber or Lyft.

I also use Uber to JFK simply because I get tired of hearing taxi drivers complain about going to JFK, demanding huge tips, or bitching about paying with cards. Taxi drivers usually give me no trouble, but to JFK, there is some issue at least 65% of the time. Never a complaint and always a smile with Uber or Lyft.
It's worse than that. They are _utterly_ obsessed by sex.

They will blur images in medical training videos if they contain genitals.

They will also blur images of artificial insemination of animals. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-3360...
Just use Crystal instead.
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The idea that top-level programs use UCT is just folklore at this point. I know that at least MoGo uses a greedy version of Monte-Carlo Tree Search enhanced with RAVE (Rapid Action Value Estimation), a way to share information between branches of the search tree, a pattern database which runs an evaluation function on small patches of the board, and a set of simple heuristics.

The consensus is that UCT is bad because it tries to minimize cumulative regret (the average performance over all simulations) at each node, rather than the strength of the chosen move, and that the various heuristic strategies used by strong engines introduce enough noise to make greedy playouts the better option.

If you want to learn more, you might want to check out these two papers:

http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Applications_fil...

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.3382.pdf
... and as a result, I end up with reliable, light, somewhat costly machines(1) that come from one or two vendors and provide a consistent if inflexible experience.

This is not the lose-lose that some people seem to think it is. One of the reasons closed-source few-vendor is a dominant ideology is that it actually satisfies the use-case for an awful lot of users. Meanwhile, in 2015, I still can't get a reliable basic audio(!) experience on my Linux distributions because the open-source community can't seem to decide on the right way to do something as fundamental as "pipe bytes to the digital-analog-conversion hardware."

(1) Costly in general. With the Gluglug running at around US $500, it's not winning the cost game.
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...as he (probably) posts to HN through a web GUI
Calendars are certainly not appropriate for dates of birth, lest anyone get that idea …

Calendars are useful when entering recent dates you may not perfectly remember (i.e. you might know that the day you want was a Monday last week, but you might not know the exact date) or for planning (i.e. you might know that you want to depart on some Saturday in September), especially when either days of the week or dates might be relevant points of reference for you.

For dates very far in the past that tends to break down a bit, though, depending on the exact use case. Calendars are cumbersome to navigate if you want to go back years and years.
If you have an existing codebase in PHP, Hack provides a backwards compatible way to improve the state of things.

I have experienced both cases: a conversion of a large codebase from php to Hack and also a conversion from php to rails. Pick the right tool for the right job.
Node.js is interesting, and while it wouldn't be my first choice I can see how it came about. AJAX in the browser leading to Javascript developers evolving a callback-chaining style; realising that they could use the same language and style on the server; the inherent high efficiency of single-process nonblocking callback orientated servers.
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Ask HN: Recommended Atom.io packages?
I'm looking for package recommendations for Atom; I'll be using the text-editor primarily to teach a beginner web-design course, but I may also use it on a side project or two that would involve the MEAN stack, LESS, and Grunt.
I think those are the author's words and not Kahneman's. At least I would hope so, otherwise it would reveal a lot of ignorance about the objectives of a bureaucracy like the government.
Agreed that manned missions are hard and expensive. That is an area that $100 million could help (even in a small way).

But even robotic missions are very limited. We just had our first flyby of Pluto (not an orbiter). Jupiter doesn't get an orbiter until 2016 (Juno). No orbiters around Neptune or Uranus. So, lots still left to explore and observe with probes in our own solar system.
Doesn't the person not tossing the coin get to call though?
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Yeah we're going for being indistinguishable from MRI (unless you want to use the extra features). We even have a simple statically linked build that does not require a JVM, so that you're just running a simple binary like in MRI. That coupled with our support for MRI's C extensions is our strategy for MRI compatibility.
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I'm expecting somewhere way down the road, scientists will unlock the secrets to prolonging our lives for nearly forever. They'll stop the telomeres from degrading, come up with ways to address cancer quickly and effectively, etc.

At the same time, space travel technology will also have been advanced, allowing for self-sustaining spacecraft that offer protection against the harsh environment of outer space.

At that point, you can imagine that a hearty band of explorers will undertake a mission of leaving our solar system and exploring way beyond our world. Who knows how far they could get.

These are the sorts of advances I can imagine becoming real many generations from now. I wouldn't underestimate our capacity to make it happen.
I'm with you on most of that, but Petraeus got off easy, considering he shared classified information with his mistress and then lied about it.
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I wouldn't want a DnD library to magically 'implement' accessibility for me. How would that even work in a one-sizzle-fits-all way? If I'm building a UI that needs both mouse interaction and keyboard interaction, I want to consider and build both those things, not expect all the keyboard stuff to happen automatically because I used a library to manage mouse events.

EDIT there's a bad autocorrect in there but I'm going to leave it
Click fraud is the opposite of impression based advertising. Click fraud is when the bad guys encourage people to sign up for services or click on links that offer a sales based bounty and are rewarded for their actions.

Impression based brand advertising is a different model to click based lead advertising. The former places all the risk and work on the adveriser, the later pushes it towards the publisher. If you run a website that's hugely popular and don't want to waste your resources on other business's ad campaigns then selling by impression is the only sensible option.
Sure Thanks! After we rest a bit (we did this in less than 24h), we will start making web more useable and less buggy for everyone :)
"Nobel prize in Economics" = "Swedish Bank Prize in Economics".

It's ridiculous when some financiers get together to legitimize their field, co-opt the brand of another prestigious award, and everything just accepts it.
The fact that no user really enjoys banner advertising occupying their screen real estate, and that most of this advertising can be prevented from displaying with a simply installed browser plugin, makes the whole online advertising economy seem rather tenuous. And yet, some of the largest companies on the planet derive most of their value from it.
"artifical" medicine is all about having a specific dosage of the active chemical.. if you are consuming raw herbs then chances are you have no idea what dosage of the active chemical you are taking, which can affect the quality of your treatment. Given the importance of dosage (it can be the difference between medicine and poison) Tim Minchin was 100% correct.
> It would be very hard to detect intelligence from our use of sonars.

Why would it be hard to determine that we're intelligent? We've clearly created some sort of apparatus for generating sonar. I would imagine that someone listening in our oceans would be able to tell fairly quickly that we're a technical civilization.
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What about crowdsourcing the job? I'm sure people would be willing to help.
Specifically in PHP, though, you can't (anymore) break a variable value.

break $n;

isn't valid since PHP 5.4
Why would you wait for a response? When you send a letter, you don't send the line "Greetings from happyscrappy! How are you?" and then wait for them to reply - you go ahead and ask them questions, tell them about yourself, etc., and then wait for a reply. Or don't! Send them a letter once a week, etc.
That hasn't been the case for a long time (a decade?). Nowadays you can only use Intel chipsets, even in desktop systems. I believe it's the same for AMD.
This is probably a misspelling for darchini, i.e. cinnamon
While I agree with your point that computers should do the most they can to take the work out of things for the user, the flight search example used in the article is exactly the sort of thing that at some point you're likely to need to input. It's a plan that the user has that they want to action. While you could use voice recognition or call a person to do the same, some people are probably going to want to type it into a flight search or calendar app or similar, so the GUI for that is necessary.

"Making rounded corners and gradients is easier than making something useful. that's why it gets so much attention"

It's not about it being easier, it's about making it obvious that the user can use it. Following established design conventions for buttons by gradating backgrounds or rounding borders, however right or wrong they may be, can help a user to know the intention behind something without needing to think about it.
In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about fighting over imaginary monopolies.

On that note: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2834 (it's a textual story, not a comic)
Woz also coded the first Apple I in binary as he had no assembler. Of course the 6502 was a beautifully simple design with a minimal set of opcodes.

Mel's story is nuts but from the perspective of today (or even when I started in 1981) but you have to start somewhere and you can't judge what people did in the early days except in the context of the times.
Its possible to curry a variadic function if there is a way to know when you reached the last argument. For example, in a printf-like function you know the number of inputs once you parse the format string.

This example here is a function that sums a variadic list of non-zero numbers. The zero signals the end of the list.

http://pastebin.com/xQRbRcJe

Its certainly very weird though. I wouldn't recommend doing this in real programs.
Didn't ham operators talk to each other all night long over random and often amazing distances? That was kind of the point.
As the smartest man on Earth, I concur the problem is with you all. Goddamn blind people, when will you see my genius already, I need money for a Lamborghini. Don't make me work for it. And I see your doubt, and I raise the card 'Self-reliance' by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reliance

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Self-Rel...

For certain, it is beautiful. Reason, it's overrated, it makes people all mean.

"Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say `I think,' `I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."

Sounds like me
Kernel hacking, drivers, virtualization, FPGAs/ASICs, compilers/linkers/toolchains, bootloaders, firmware, debuggers, databases, shells, process managers, etc. etc.

There's plenty. Generally if you don't have to worry too intimately about VMM semantics, you probably aren't doing low-level.
No, I am not.

The places where New Yorkers own cars are also not the places that are congested with non-personal vehicles (except densely populated parts of Queens).
There might also be the small problem of actually building the fusion engine first. I don't think that's something we're really able to do right now, is it?
It would make it that much harder to justify many religious beliefs, which I predict would be a positive outcome. It's harder to be arrogant and self-righteous when you find out you're not an only child. Sure, some people would find a way to stay stuck in their ways, but not everyone.

However, the much more important thing for me is that we'd know we aren't necessarily going to run into some Great Filter [0]. I'd fret a little less about dangerous new technologies if I knew at least one case where a civilization survived.

Lastly, maybe we'd learn something from the signal itself! A new communications protocol, new music, new technologies, insight into how languages work - who knows? Finding out what we have in common with the beings who sent the signal and what we don't would teach us a great deal about what is arbitrary on our world and what's fundamental. It's like growing up in a society with extremely rigid gender roles and then traveling to a country where that's not the case - you get that "Oh I didn't realize women could even have jobs" moment, but potentially with problems that aren't self-imposed.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
That second quote is very powerful. Often enough we proceed to higher usage of previous knowledge without understanding its foundations. Often enough, you really don't need to understand previous steps to make a leap to the next. That's simply progress. Taking the next logical step.

However, some have argued that with deriving foundational knowledge you attain a discipline and through this process the decisions you make about taking the next step are done completely differently. You sincerely evaluate whether to take that next step.
Pet peeve of mine: It's actually the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" or "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".

From the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...

"It is not one of the prizes that Alfred Nobel established in his will in 1895, but instead was established 73 years later by a donation to the foundation from Sweden's central bank, the Sveriges Riksbank, on the bank's 300th anniversary."

From the criticism section:

In his speech at the 1974 Nobel Prize banquet Friedrich Hayek stated that had he been consulted on the establishment of a Nobel Prize in economics, he would "have decidedly advised against it" primarily because, "The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.... This does not matter in the natural sciences. Here the influence exercised by an individual is chiefly an influence on his fellow experts; and they will soon cut him down to size if he exceeds his competence. But the influence of the economist that mainly matters is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally."

Less important, but relevant note about the name:
"Some critics argue that the prestige of the Prize in Economics derives in part from its association with the Nobel Prizes, an association that has often been a source of controversy. Among them is the Swedish human rights lawyer Peter Nobel, a great-grandson of Ludvig Nobel.[28] Nobel criticizes the awarding institution of misusing his family's name, and states that no member of the Nobel family has ever had the intention of establishing a prize in economics."
The original Acer C7 (now back-called C710 I guess) supports up to 16GB: http://normcf.net/~john/chromebook/Acer/acerC7ChromebookUpgr...

You could even put Coreboot on it.

People praise the C720 a lot but it has no upgradeable RAM which makes it a regression in my book.
I'm on a self imposed holdout until the supposed "convergence" version (basically what they showed in their first videos, phone+docking station=desktop) which is rumored for October. Once that will be release I'll be VERY happy. It's pretty hard to not buy an MX4 though. Pretty solid specs for the price.

Only browsed the article but that's exactly what I am hoping for. I want to own my phone. My pipedream is that I'll eventually own a 100% free phone+laptop combination.
The bulk of the market are conscious of these issues; the "leading tail" of the market, the early adopters much less so. Obviously the "lagging tail" of the market won't buy without cash and without personally knowing the seller and inspecting the goods in person before buying. Branding however is for the rest of the market.
I know it's terribly old-fashioned to take the word "literal" literally ... but I'm now trying to imagine what a "literal fuckton of banners" might actually be. It's pretty disturbing.
What's the yellow arrow?
At least Ubers here have to have TLC plates. If you're looking at license plates, they're much more identifiable...but if you can read their plate it's too close to matter anyway.
I talk with God.

Oh well.
This kinda looks like something that would get you auto-spamfiltered/shadowbanned from reddit if it pulled the 'wrong' message or something didn't get filtered out.
I don't know if it's the only one, but it is one Stephen Baxter's novel Exultant plays brilliantly with: the people in that universe discovered means to travel faster than light, but at a high price: causality was gone - and they had to get over it.
This is some of the best advice available on HN.

Don't (just) read books. Put down the highlighter. Explain them. Get in front of a whiteboard and explain it to an imaginary audience. Imagine the questions you get back. Try to answer them. Sometimes you can do that nearly sentence by sentence, other times you have to do it section by section.

I was lucky enough to have a Feynman level (in terms of teaching) EE professor. I banged my head against modelling electron behavior in NPN junctions until I recognized that his teaching style was exactly how I needed to approach the material. From there on out everything became much easier.
I flashed Ubuntu Touch on top of an LG Nexus 4 I got for around ~$95. That's their main development target, and it works well.
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Phone books are not copyrightable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
Are there any good space or physical science focused episodes? Whenever I check in on Radiolab it seems like it is all about pop-psychology topics or TED-ish "turns out this counter-intuitive notion is true" stories.
Banks don't lean from deposits even in the "official" narrative.

A bank that needs to lend money that doesn’t have it's going to use the interbank system in order to get "reserves" from others banks.

The idea is that the causality is inverted. Banks lend and then search for reserves. If you see it this way, you realize that there is not constrains in how much money they can lend (except how expensive is to find reserves).

Try this (maybe more clear than the other):
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=14620
Actually PC sales seem to be leveling off to me. Down 11% in 2013, but only down .8% in 2014. I can also understand 2015 being slow, some (like me) are waiting for Windows 10.
Actually, an appeal to authority [0,1] is fallacious because the entire argument (e.g. "authority figure says X") rests on the supposed infallibility of the authority, and says nothing about X in itself.

An expert is, of course, more likely to be well informed within their field than a layperson, but they may nonetheless be incorrect.

[0]: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
The US is richer, and has a larger GDP as of now (post Dollar run and Euro drop) than the European Union. The US has about ~40% of all private wealth (globally private wealth is around $270 trillion, with US households holding $86 trillion [1] of that; then furthering that are US corporate assets, which are far larger than European corporate assets).

By comparison private wealth in all of Europe is about $60 to $65 trillion. [2]

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/Current/z1.pdf

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/01/us-europe-wealth-s...