skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have probably 3-5 drinks per day throughout the day. We have a keg in the office and I enjoy having a beer with lunch, and maybe another in the afternoon. At night I tend to have 2 or 3 drinks. Some evenings more.

Every time I recount this, I feel like it reads like an alcoholic, but I hate getting drunk, and I don't particularly enjoy getting buzzed, and hangovers are basically not something I'm willing to deal with so I avoid them at all costs.

For me, I drink because beer and wine are lovely beverages. I've searched for other beverages that have the depth of variety and nuance of these, and I just can't find them. I find tea to be weakly flavored, kambucha is ok but not THAT interesting... soda is disgusting and bad for you.
Huh. So they are really talking about a pressure.

1 kWh/(acre ft) = 2919 Pa

It makes a great deal of intuitive sense that the quantity that describes how hard it is to move water over a path is a pressure.
> The data subdirectory contains a database named LONGBASE, which is in EViews format and contains actual observations on all FRB/US variables from 1968q1 to 2015q1 and projected observations on all variables from 2015q2 to roughly 100 years in the future.

Included. 4.5 megabytes. 2.7 compressed.

> This document lists the roughly 375 equations in the FRB/US macroeconomic model.

Included.
Richard Feynman – Problem Solving
Nice article, very thorough
Oh? I get perfectly sane results using modulo, as it should if it is actually a completely random number: http://3v4l.org/nIBGT
This is precisely what we do at Cloudstitch. If anyone is interested in this model please reach out!
It's against free market
I tried this at Coupa Cafe. It's really clever. The lid in the cup has a filter, so it can brew while staying inmediate and portable.

I got Earl Grey + Lavender. Cheap and great. I kept the filter lid :)
Who determines them when you raise money from investors?

That's the market that should determine the value of the shares obviously. The last price fetched on that market. Whether its liquidity is high or low, it's still a viable market, even if it's not the public stock market.
With all these government contracts, they must be making a lot of money already, why do they need to raise so much?
There's a very good reason Dent liked tea. Too bad that Vogon ship couldn't get it right... should have had a teaBOT. I think Douglas Adams would have agreed.
#BotThisShip
The point is that complaining did nothing. Just doing it, taking control, and more importantly proving the misogynists wrong, had a much better impact.
Bizarre name. People who screen calls and control access to other people are receptionists or secretaries, not janitors.

When was the last time a janitor told you that Mr. Smith isn't taking any calls right now?
No it doesn't, such a claim would be laughed out of court. Where did you hear this? Are you not aware that there have been other non-Disney versions of Snow White?

Here's a list, you'll note there were 3 feature films released in 2012 alone taking different perspectives on the original story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White#Modern_uses_and_ada...
>RESTful also never meant HTTP

NOt in its original spirit, but it was developed in parallel with HTTP 1.1 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfe...) and uses the same verbs (GET, POST, ..) as web browsers to transfer data.

I agree with the posters who say that just using 4 verbs is CRUD-oriented and semantically just not rich enough to support often complex business operations.
Which everyone reading the New Yorker surely does.
This document is part of the random_compat project, which aims to provide a sane polyfill for PHP 7's random_bytes() and random_int() functions in PHP 5 projects.

We had a couple of issues in the tracker pop up about which strategy for obtaining random bytes from the OS should be relied on in favor of the others, so I put this document together to explain our decision. Should someone raise a point that causes us to change the priority, we will amend the document to reflect this.
Yeah, bad press about the ability of someone to remotely kill you in their products.
It means I should have used fuzzier language (so as to not imply that I have a solid understanding of the bugs).

But:

https://twitter.com/0xcharlie/status/624608184485851136

So the vehicle connection is not as visible as it used to be.
What I think he meant, at least if I understood correctly, is that Disney stories and characters from the 30s and 40s, like Mickey Mouse et al, should themselves by all rights be public domain by now, like Snow White or Cinderella were, so that other artists could be inspired by them and create their own derivative works.
Ironic how your comment kind of epitomizes the whole gist of the article.

It was well written, and the take away for me was not the closing sentence you quoted. As a father, it echoed a similar sentiment I've been thinking and have read about recently, namely:

> They’d have to learn to lie on the lawn watching ants scale the grass blades; they’d have to linger, digits pruning, in the bathtub; they’d have to stop, to be still, and then to wait, and wait, and wait, allowing time to fatten around them, like a dewdrop on the tip of a leaf. And then, only then, who knows what they might imagine or invent?
What additional information could I add, that would make it interesting for you?
Subresource Integrity hashes [1] should let sites get the caching and CDN benefit of using shared resources like jquery without letting 3rd parties have the ability to XSS them. Basically, you can specify a hash of what the url should point to, and if it doesn't match then the load is blocked.

This isn't quite out yet: it's in Chrome trunk [2] and still under review in Firefox [3].

[1] https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/

[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=355467

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992096
Is it still at Coupa? I would love to try it.
You should [pretty much] never blame yourself for somebody committing suicide.
Thanks for the time for making a thoughtful response. I don't think we disagree on too much here, and I see your point - but the thing to remember is that, for some people in your "life will go on" scenario, life will in fact not go on if the habitats they rely on for survival are destroyed, even if to you and I those ecosystems are merely an enormous benefit, not a necessity. I think that this impact is morally appalling enough to act upon.
And finally, my point about climate change being unparalleled in 60 million years was restricted to global warming, you're right that catastrophic events have occurred during this period, but the sort of greenhouse gas induced, rapid global acceleration in temperatures has likely not been seen since the KT event.
I see. Copying the javascript you use into somewhere on your own site does take too much time.
Ask HN: Drone-detection systems – how do they work?
I'm wondering about drone-detection systems. How do they work?
Is it too late to start thinking about building "advanced" drone-detection system?
Related to your 3rd link [0], we used Time Series Analysis and Its Applications [1] in my undergraduate time series class. They have a free version [2].

[0] http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa3/R_toot.htm

[1] http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa3/

[2] http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa3/tsa3EZ.pdf
My mistake, I don't follow it very closely anymore, so I made my statement with only 2 datapoints :). Have an upvote.
>horrendously dangerous and irresponsible.

Not something that I would do, at least not on that stretch of road. But, nobody was actually harmed, nor was anyone even inconvenienced beyond perhaps having to make a lane-change. It could have caused a pile-up accident, but to give some perspective, 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.

>They deserve to be charged/locked up for that portion of it.

"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? Locking one of those groups up makes us more safe, and the other less.
Thanks for the feedback! Right now we have 18 ingredients per machine. But I must say, more variety is a common request. We stock what's popular and curate our selection based on user feedback. So please keep it coming.
Very nice! It reminds me of these two loader experiments:
https://curiosity-driven.org/amd-loader-with-promises
https://curiosity-driven.org/minimal-loader

But for production builds I highly recommend Almond: https://github.com/jrburke/almond
> including massive siphons that literally pull the water over mountain ranges.

I don't think that is physically possible. Water won't siphon more than 33ish vertical feet. It will just draw a vacuum in the pipe.

EDIT: Found a good link. The word "siphon" is quoted on every use in this link, suggesting that they're not actual gravity-powered siphons. See #10. http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/revisit/commentary/concret...

EDIT2: Ok, they are gravity-powered, but not by the "pulling" action of the water on the downslope side of the siphon, as much as by the pushing action of the previous downward slope feeding into the siphon. Technically, it's still a siphon i guess, just operating at higher than atmospheric pressure.
> Would you rather take coding advice from the person who wrote a ball of mud in PHP, or John Carmack?

Depends on what I'm doing. Maybe I'm indeed going to write some ball of mud (unmaintainable, one-off, but perhaps faster to write) PHP code? I reject your hero worship.
they are getting closer to their final form.

let them keep wasting their profits on old business models, their well will dry up soon enough.
I wonder what the AT&T unlimited TV package will look like. I assume it will be limited to 10 hrs of TV a month, and then once you go over you only get commercials.
D, Modula-3 and the Oberon family are two examples of value types by default with a GC enabled heap.

Eiffel also offers value types (aka expanded), but it is reference by default.
I'll do so.

Edit: done.
15 Differences Between Employees and Entrepreneurs
You found the exception! Congratulations!

You're using a bucket size which is a power of 2. A random byte fits on the interval of [0, 255] which is evenly distributed modulo 256, which if you reduce mod 2^N for 1 < N < 8 will still produce a uniform distribution.

If you copied my JS code into your console and changed the 54 to 64 the bias evaporates. Hooray :D

However, for arbitrary ranges, you should use an unbiased selection strategy to ensure a uniform distribution.

http://3v4l.org/EgfPR - notice 0 is significantly more common than the other values when reduced mod 17

http://3v4l.org/LXmKq - same with mod 15

https://defuse.ca/generating-random-passwords.htm
It is only for TLS, and of course your server needs to support it.

However it's definitely not just beta versions. Check it: http://caniuse.com/#search=http2

If you broaden that out to http2 and its very similar predicessor spdy then the browser support graph looks even better, including the latest versions of Safari, Mobile Safari, and IE: http://caniuse.com/#feat=spdy

>82% of US traffic supports SPDY or better.
I believe I've read before that there is code to detect "controversy" or flamewars and bomb the relevant thread in the default ordering.
All of the photos in the article show consumer electronic devices. Could I use it with, say, furniture manufacturing / aftermarket car parts / leather goods manufacturing?
I was thinking "ugh, this looks terrible" and read all of the copy as well.
Yes, the Coupa Café in downtown Palo Alto. Let us know where else you'd like to see a teaBOT and thanks for trying it!
Because then you have to target two different sets of infrastructure. The extra work and complexity carries with it a rather large cost too, -and- greater risk. It's almost the worst of both worlds, rather than the best, as you have to solve all the problems of rolling your own, -and- pay Amazon for the extra utilization.
It's great to see all the work done on Flame Graphs. What a great way to tune and debug your systems.

I first heard about Flame Graphs on BSDNow.tv in your Interview. http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_11_26-8000000_mogofoo-ops
Walt made movies using public domain works that were 40-50 years old.

Today, the copyright term is pushing 110+ years, in part thanks to Disney.

That means the next Walt Disney has to pull from increasingly culturally irrelevant works that are 3, 4 generations old rather than one.
The issue isn't vulnerabilities, it's connecting those vulnerabilities to the net. This isn't about software quality in general.
> Only for TLS or only in beta versions.

Actually no. If you advertise in your headers that you support SPDY/HTTP2, they'll use it even if they are not using encrypted http in the first request. Anyone who hasn't updated their servers to support it can't honestly claim they care a lot about performance.

> It's still going to be awhile before it's worth it to sabotage older browser performance, even once sites update their servers.

It is already worth it really, particularly when you factor in mobile where performance is a bigger.

> And in the end, that'll just embolden sites to crust their pages with more analytics and trackers until the performance isn't any better.

Well, there is a natural equilibrium that we tend to arrive at, but at least 1st party trackers are so lightweight with SPDY as to be irrelevant. If you have one 16K image somewhere on the page, the overhead of loading 100 trackers will seem negligible (JavaScript might be another matter though ;-).
How Silicon Valley Can Make a Dent in the Hotel Industry
That is the future. We have to accept it. The new technologies bring us comfort. Unfortunatelly it is very difficult to create the car or any machine which works hundred percent all the time with all the electronics inside. Hopefuly we will be able to create approach which we'll reduce the fatal mistakes even before the product is ready to use for the customers.
While I very much agree with the point you're making here, I don't known if Witten (assuming you mean Edward Witten, of string theory fame) and Einstein were the best choices. Einstein basically is THE stereotype of the aloof genius.
Blessed, honored pioneers! (It's Pioneer Day today in UT)
How do you remove the tea in order to prevent over-brewing? It seems like you are highlighting tisanes, which can pretty much be brewed forever. Almost all actual tea (Camellia sinensis) needs to be brewed for a specific amount of time otherwise it can taste bitter.
Looks like something called EViews:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EViews

http://www.eviews.com/online_help/helpintro.html#page/EViews...

ftp://ftp.rau.am/EViews%20Enterprise%20Edition%207.0.0.1/Example%20Files/Sample%20Programs/model/taylor1.prg
I think this is for grab and go - they have a variety of huge ready made filter coffee flasks in many US cafes / universities. It's not the same as a gourmet artisan well made timed tea... but I really hope that it improves the general awareness of tea in general.

I'm not an employee of the company, I'm just a huge tea nerd.
The problem with this argument is simply by being the first a lot of the 'natural' story > movie translations seem to fall under copyright. While copyright does not extend from say StarWars Lightsaber to all light swards nobody is going to make a major movie that comes close to Disney’s copyright. So, the chilling effect is much wider than you might first assume.

EX: Sure, Android > droid is a natural and obvious adaptation, but good luck defending that in a movie with light swards and magic.
It doesn't have to be either-or! Ads or fees can just be different points in a price structure. Pay nothing, and be the product sold to the ad syndicate. Or pay for the service, and don't view ads.

One consumers may be all "Death to ads!". But the next one might be "Gimme for free! (And I will find a way to block the ads or just live with them)."

In this situation, however, it's not obvious how the service could be supported by ads. This is a robot that works in the background and blocks calls. Whom do you show ads to pay for this? Audio ads to the callers who are rejected?

The whole idea behind this is that the end-user who subscribes to the service is not to be bothered. He or she is not aware that the system is working when it is rejecting calls. If that user has to somehow view ads to have the service, it defeats the point.

"An annoying call was blocked for you! Please view this 30 second ad in compensation!"

LOL!

Perhaps it could work like this: in the free version of the service, unwanted callers must hear an ad before they can get through to you or your voice mail. They are told this. If they listen to the ad, then they do get through.

In the premium version, you pay for the service. Unwanted callers are no longer told that they will have access after the ad plays. (The ad still plays, and they don't have access.)

Also, how about monetizing access to yourself or your mailbox? What if I don't want to reject people, but make them pay to talk to me? "Sorry, reaching ... Kazinator ... during these hours requires a payment of ... two ... dollars ... and ... ninety ... nine .... cents. Please enter your credit card number, followed by a pound sign, or your four-digit speed-pass payment code." :)
OpenBSD has bsd_auth and it works well with things like googleauth (HOTP, TOTP), s/key, etc.

I think the problem is that somehow everyone ended up with PAM and are now somewhat stuck with it. FreeBSD too.
Well, some of the proposals flip the relationship on ads. For example, rather than getting access to fine-grained personal data about readers, a marketer gets some coarse data like general location (eg. midwest US) and language. Using that, they propose a set of ads to the browser, and the browser decides which might be relevant based on what it knows about you. The browser keeps the personal data to itself, though. Marketers get some analytics on the response to their ads, but not full-on tracking.
> This is why C/C++ is usually faster than managed languages, they can get close on generated code but can be off by a factor of 50x in memory access performance.

This only happens because the Pascal branch of languages with GC, sadly failed in the mainstream (for several reasons).

Modula-3, Eiffel, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal all offer the same data access patterns and packing available to C and C++.
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How is a "proper tail call" implemented if you aren't talking about conversion to iteration? I found the following article helpful.

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/tail-call-optimization-and-java/2...
> What if we add kernel same-page merging to the mix? Might still be a little less efficient at run time than the optimal use of shared libraries.

Might be a whole lot less efficient than even sub-optimal use of shared libraries. A optimizing linker pulling together static libraries is going to make page-merging the executable almost impossible.
There's a solar (thermal) desalination operation in Firebaugh, CA. Drop by to see how it works, and talk to the owner about why the economics don't work.
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it. Lavend-Earl is on our popular blends page.
gotta chug the tea, it's grab and go and chug!
The secret is indeed the traditional tight integration of IDEs + Documentation + Ease of compilation and deployment of code. I'd say the first 5 points are absolutely crucial to the success of good BASIC coding environments and more languages should offer the same.
I thought the same thing. I assumed it was an app for dealing with clutter on your phone. I'm sure they have their reasons for naming the product as such, but I think 'Butler' or 'Secretary' or something that implies your inability to contact someone directly would have been better.
Use Excel's tables feature, and it will more or less force a column to contain the same formula for each row (or a numeric value). In these formulas you can refer to other cells in a row by column name.

https://support.office.com/en-ca/article/Overview-of-Excel-t...
Siphons that are an inverted U have this limit. However, siphons that are a U shape have been in use in aqueducts since Roman times. (There is even an old Scientific American article specifically about them.) Of course, these aren't relevant for getting over mountains, though they are very relevant in mountain ranges for crossing gorges and steep valleys.
... and the car slowly drifted to a stop.

The only crap stunts here are by the car company pretending to fix the issue and knowingly leaving everyone vulnerable.
>when does the average person deal with acre-feet?

An acre-foot of water is approximately the amount of water that a suburban household uses in one year, which is why that unit is used when talking about non-agricultural water usage.
>"Maybe this group of people has more of X because X is more likely to have a neurodevelopmental disorder"? Nice. Thank you so much for associating a whole industry with autism.

You have it flipped. "This group of people with a neurodevelopmental disorder are more inclined to X and therefore industry of X has more of them."

Which is an entirely valid thing to say, by the way.

I'd be willing to bet that people with higher-than-normal levels of empathy and an outgoing attitude are more inclined to work social jobs than solitary jobs. Would you disagree with that?

I can understand a displeasure that the association is with something "negative", but that doesn't immediately invalidate the statement.

>A disorder that apparently 1-2 out of 1,000 people have, at that.

And how many people work in "the Tech industry", specifically coding/engineering related fields, compared to other areas like Marketing, Sales, Design, Social Workers, etc? Maybe 1 or 2 in 1,000? If this is your biggest defense against their statement being "wrong" I have to find it unconvincing at best.
The saying "You become the average of the people you surround yourself." is a very wise piece of advice. Try to meet people with similar interests (professional or otherwise). If applicable try getting in front of a smaller crowd and talk to them about a subject that's interesting to you.

Unless you live in a very lonely, rural area (and even in those there often is at least a church community to go to) there probably are lots of local opportunities for meeting people. Meetup might be a good starting point for meeting like-minded people: http://www.meetup.com/
> Minifying your JS and CSS files is a very good practice as it's not only secure, but also is compact.

If you think you gain much in terms of compactness, you might not understand how the subsequent gzip compression works. ;-) There may well still be a gain, but it won't be significant.
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It sounds and looks really cool. Although I see most of the coverage has been US orientated. Do you have a rough estimate of when you'd be likely to launch in the UK?
I'm not a huge fan of copyright, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this analysis. The clause providing for copyright is an Article I, Section 8 clause. Generally Speaking (except for the post office) the AIS8 duties have legislated details, but execution is left to the executive branch. For example, the USPTO is part of the department of commerce. It's not clear as to why the copyright office, which is justified in the same clause that justifies the PTO, shouldn't be part of the executive branch.