skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had similar problems trying to convince passers by to help a broken robot in Oakland:

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/RobotMovies/Empathy.mpg

His friend was more (but not very) successful working as a waiter:

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/RobotMovies/Servitude.mpg
The whole point of this whole thread in a nutshell is that speed is greatly underrated.

Besides this thread we had a bunch of "We discovered that adblockers clean up and speed up browsing experience by x%. Now why is that?" threads in the last month posted here. There's a reason for that.

As for reliability... I don't have complaints, honestly. Maybe I spend less time here than you.

My only gripe with HN is the search stuff they use (Algolia). It's almost unusable on my mobile, broken in Opera Mini, and just crappy on my desktop browser.
> "how do you know?"

Maybe he doesn't. If I tell you a story about my culture I don't necessarily imply to know about everyone else's, too. For example I've got no clue how whitening plays a role in much of the world as a beauty standard, but I know how it plays a role where I'm from. And indeed standards may not be the same. For example in much of Asia it's often a beauty standard to have the lightest skin colour possible, for light-skinned people. While this exists in the west for dark skinned people, light skinned people generally have the opposite and getting a tanned skin is considered better than a pale one. How that works for teeth I don't know, although I'd imagine in most cities white teeth as a beauty standard are probably fairly common but it's just an assumption.
Destroying Samsung Galaxy S2 4g Epic
The typographic details behind Typewolf’s favorite websites of July
Which is the fairy tale that investors tell themselves and it's also impeding innovation. We're not music, we're technology; there's more at stake. Our Mozarts are being left to die in pauper graves while Biebers are inundated in funding to compose their next masterpiece called 'Yo!'.

And what's worse is that people like Andreesen used to be innovators and now they are happy to make this all a circus if it makes them just a little more obscenely rich.
From [0]:

> She connected me with Andreessen’s due diligence team who were surprisingly open with all the technical analysis they had done.

[0] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/10/30/the-audacious-...
Reminds me of the episode of daily show where the overseas call center outsourced to Americans who had to fake a foreign accent.
Yeah, that's not a surprise. It was a flippant comment by non-plussed Joni Mitchell to frequent requests every concert she play "Big Yellow Taxi" (also known for it's chorus "Paved Paradise, Put a Parking Lot") over and over. She was not amused.

The subtext of my orginal comment, by way of her and not voicing Van Gogh: you end up doing something different, and people only want repeats of your popular previous work, or imitations of others, anyway. (Note remixes of the song, which I embarassingly like, continue to pop-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Yellow_Taxi)

I get your point, but I think we are talking past each other.
That's the most memorable tourist map I received in 6 months in Europe. It's hanging on my wall right now. Iceland does a really great job with their tourism industry.
"... (so just one DNS request)."

Are you sure?

request #1

1 news.ycombinator.com:
207 bytes, 1+0+4+2 records, response, noerror
query: 1 news.ycombinator.com
authority: ycombinator.com 172800 NS ns-225.awsdns-28.com

request #2

1 news.ycombinator.com:
225 bytes, 1+1+4+0 records, response, authoritative, noerror
query: 1 news.ycombinator.com
answer: news.ycombinator.com 300 CNAME news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net
authority: ycombinator.com 172800 NS ns-1411.awsdns-48.org

request #3

1 news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net:
367 bytes, 1+0+5+10 records, response, noerror
query: 1 news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net
authority: cloudflare.net 172800 NS ns1.cloudflare.net

request #4

1 news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net:
89 bytes, 1+2+0+0 records, response, authoritative, noerror
query: 1 news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net
answer: news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net 300 A 198.41.190.47

A HOSTS file entry for HN will avoid this routine.
All knowledge is probability-based. The question is: are the probabilities in this case low (or high) enough to be very interesting?
I prefer http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ which was my inspiration for my blog design http://benlowery.co.uk/ :)
While not as completely out-of-the-blue, I also had a similarly sudden realization that I wanted to become a computer scientist.

I was in my third year of living in Japan at the time, teaching English in a small, conservative town in which I felt isolated and out of place (despite having become mostly fluent with the language).

My best friend there had left, ironically inspired by me (or so he had claimed) to leave his country and pursue his dreams abroad, in Australia. I had very little left to offer me in Japan, but I had no idea what else to do; my undergrad in physics had left me with an impressive degree but no marketable skills, certainly none that I still possessed 5 years later.

I was in a grocery store in Hamamatsu, listening to one of my favorite podcasts called Skeptically Speaking (now called Science for the People). The episode[0] had a guest named Mark Stevenson, who had written a book exploring the future of various areas of science. At one point he talked about the work of Hod Lipson at Cornell, who had written a program that could investigate data and guess physical equations, and who had also created a robot that taught itself how to walk. I remember him saying that in AI, it's the hard things that are easy, and the easy hard. I remember being so fascinated by this research that I thought, how cool would it be to be involved in this kind of thing? And it was in that moment I decided quite suddenly to become a computer scientist.

I went to a dollar store and bought a notebook, went home and immediately went to MIT's opencourseware site and started the watching the lectures of their introductory CS course. Seven months later, I was back in America at grad school, and a year after that I was a full time software developer.

I still wonder what might have happened if I hadn't happened to listen to that podcast.

[0]: http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/an-optimists-tour...
The possibilities you mention (pivot and cheap money) are very real ones in my opinion as well
All computers and phones need deniable encryption.
Rather than thinking of this as a way to cure HIV, I think of it as a demonstration that if someone has a life-threatening blood cancer – something so acutely lethal that you will take the risk of destroying their entire bone marrow – then if you can find matched but CCR5-deficient donors, you can also potentially cure their HIV.
Unless the extensive DD reportedly done did not include asking physics people, which would shock me, it appears that there may be some disagreement as to whether this is or isn't plausible. With reports of working POC's already, those disagreements may soon be moot...
Our Disney cruise Broke the bank, but we loved it
I have been puzzled by this being said about dlang forever and today about HN. These sites are certainly not noticeably slow, but I don't notice anything remarkably fast about them either. Am I not visiting enough of the slow sites ?

My working hypothesis is that I don't have a good understanding of web-development to appreciate the nuances. Much akin to me listening to Indian classical music, Jazz: I would often encounter trained listeners breaking out into a (silent) applause. At those instances I feel bad because I realize I have missed something but I wish I didn't. So all pointers appreciated.
Microsoft, Google et al to push 25/50 Gbps Ethernet
On the other hand, they do some stupid stuff, disregarding the standard and how useful it is [0].

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-dns-any-meta-query-t...
If anyone hasn't watched the documentary on Miyazaki, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, I'd highly recommend it. It delves a bit into his struggle to give up or continue on with his life's work.

Edit: It's on Netflix.
There is a natural yellowing from coffee, tea, smoking and aging that even disciplined hygeine doesn't combat.
Whitening (via oxidation) is nothing like surgery, being a meager, inexpensive, 5x5 minute habit that has a pretty big impact on perceived health and grooming. The downside is some temporary damage to your enamel, but it's less than a single cleaning at the dentist.
If anything, I'm wary of whitening toothpastes, which are ubiquitous and tend to work via abrasion.
What part of Ireland was that? I don't think I've seen that outside of more deprived urban communities.
What would constructive feedback look like in this case? Padding the comment with something like "While I understand that the author put a lot of work into these essays..." would merely lower the signal to noise ratio. The way I see it, HN commenters who don't mince words are merely doing the same as HN's founder, Paul Graham. To quote from his talk "Great Hackers" (http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html):

"I didn't mean to make the book controversial. I was trying to make it efficient. I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs. But I suppose that's bound to yield an alarming book."

Also, comments that amount to "I like this" can be compressed to an upvote. So we don't see many of those.
And so the war between humans and robots began.
Interesting, I didn't think of quines since I learned about and played with the fixed-point combinators. I never wrote a quine, I guess that's why. I'll try some time.
Did anyone else think "10M is an absolute drop in the bucket"? I mean seriously, this is such a small amount of money that due diligence could have consisted of 'does the website look good?'. It's not like they can't write it off.
It's fast because everything is text based. Very little CSS. Very few files to download.

The language which generates the page is irrelevant, when the page you're viewing changes rarely (doesn't change from user to user). It's very cacheable which means you might just be loading a static file served by a regular web server. Combine that with the above, and you get your answer.

Compare this to http://qbixstaging.com/Groups, what do you see?
Or, even better, mandatory.
In this thread:

* BUT I LOVE G+

* YOU'RE JUST NOT USING G+ RIGHT

* THERE'S PLENTY OF USERS IN SOME PLACE YOU CAN'T GET SOLID NUMBERS ON

* IT'S PERFECTLY SUSTAINABLE WITH THE PEOPLE IT HAS

* YOU'RE A FACEBOOK SHILL
The CEO of Quirky steps down in the wake of lay-offs and funding struggles
As a resident of Philly I'd say you've got to remember the permanent class war happening here. Children die in elementary schools because there isn't enough funding for a school nurse.

To us on HN, a hitchhiking robot is a cute and friendly distraction. To someone with no capital or prospects a hitchhiking robot is a cruel joke, and to destroy it is an act of resistance. This perspective is often missed by the media and general discussion.
I should build a good looking web site...
Buzz Aldrin's travel voucher, for the Moon
If you like this, I made a something similar: http://typwrtr.com/
I could definitely be wrong about the risk factor for girls/guys. It was just another possible issue that could be extrapolated from the data

I still feel that saying "women were pushed out" is the wrong way to phrase it. We can see from the data, that both men and women were "pushed out" of the field, with men recovering from the drop earlier. After reading a bit more, it could be that marketing in the 80's (as suggested by the NPR article) negatively effecting both women and men (which was left out of the NPR article) entering the field, but women ended up more effected.

Side note: drops like this have occurred in other fields at different times. Psychology actually ended up losing a lot of men in the 70s, while women increased. I am sure we could find a few other examples as well.
That's not the fault of CUPS.

Old Laser printers were brutally poor at modeswitching. You have to send the set of escapes for language selection in exactly the right state in the state machine for it to take effect. If you've left a bit of an old job in a buffer somewhere -- oops, that's 50 pages of raw postscript.

Modern printers that ditched plain-ASCII printing are far more reliable.
WHOIS is usually useful in these cases:

$ whois projecteuler.net | grep -i email
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: support@domainbox.com
Registrant Email: projecteuler.net@...
Admin Email: projecteuler.net@...
Tech Email: projecteuler.net@...
I suspect the idea sounds 'wrong' when talking about adults, but most people feel it is intuitive when talking about young children. Which person should you rescue first, the 4 year old or the 64 year old?

These issues I suspect are very rife for post-hoc rationalisation around gut-feelings of morality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YL3LT1ZvOM
> Our Mozarts are being left to die in pauper graves while Biebers are inundated in funding to compose their next masterpiece called 'Yo!'.

I don't have anything to add to this, because I find it to be the most tragically accurate portrait of both Western and startup culture I've ever come across. I just wanted to thank you for providing the perfect response when someone next tries to convince me, non-sarcastically, that Color was "a phenomenal idea."
Or for a bigger offender, I noticed a couple of days ago that Rally (https://www.rallydev.com/) loaded over 5 MB of JavaScript from 3 scripts...being loaded 3+ times each (each one is over 600 KB)! Each script seemed to contain their own copy of ExtJS. Each script returns a 200, and doesn't use a 304 either on each load :( .
This is a legitimate question to ask before going ahead with matters like this. Reporting security vulnerabilities does come with risks and should be evaluated carefully.
You can also have gif spritesheets.
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One of the offices at my previous job is situated on rue de Dunkerque, about 150m from the main Gare du Nord entrance. My boss and the CEO (who was in Milan) were on the phone, while my boss, using the headphones, was walking towards the metro station. My boss was monologuing about some issue in production, went through the security gates, kept monologuing until he reached one of the trains, and told the CEO that he was about to get on a train and the communication would probably drop out. It's only then that he realised that he was talking to himself. He searched through his pockets but only found the end of his headphones cable, disconnected, and no phone to be found.

It slowly dawned on him that his phone had been taken just before he went through the security gates.

About two weeks later, the exact same thing happened, only closer to the office. His phone got stolen right from his pocket. He usually keeps his phone either in the front pockets of his trousers, or the inside pocket of his jacket. He lost 4 phones over the course of 6 months. His phones rarely reach the one-year-old status.

The other end of the conversation was a bit more comical: The CEO was listening to his COO, heard some commotion, then heard someone panting and street noises, cars honking. He figured that my boss had been run-over; he usually finishes that story by concluding that, in horror, he immediately posted about the job opening on job boards.
Some notes about using sets to represent types:

Firstly the symbol you are using for "subset of" is in fact the symbol for "strict subset of". This means you are saying that when C : A + B there is some value that implements A and B but that is not accepted in the place of C. This is of course, simply not true.

Secondly, Type theory itself was created in part due to the inadequacies of Set theory, which is why it is tempting to find parallels in the two, but it will only go so far.
It does not load 10,000 trackers and 10,000 Javascript libs.

That's the whole answer.
I think where Google could build momentum is to try to go for a private ecosystem where everything you store (photos, notes, etc.) would be private. The facebook opposite.

That would be a solid alternative to Apple's ecosystem and you would see the benefits of going from Facebook to Google.

Google has a much better chance of competing against Apple's photo/notes/cloud services than it would beating Facebook. Also I believe there is going to be a tendency in the next few years to move out of Facebook because of the social network effect people want to get out of.

Google would be the only solid candidate for anyone not wanting to jump into Apple's products.
Articles about derivation of quines and fixed points often start with their infinite expansion nature, and then imagine a way to build a meta level replicator. The Y combinator is mostly that, duplicates the function to make recursive, with a functional parameter protocol to pass it to its sibling self. Only my newb view.
What scarce resources are you referring to in the developed world?

Bill Gates turns 60 this year. It's pretty safe to assume he'll accomplish more in the next 20 years than you will in your lifetime.
> While working together earlier this week on a business trip to California, my Mercatus Center colleague Ashley Schiller and I were chatting about Uber and the assaults that governments are now launching on this amazing innovation

Calling Uber amazing innovation means you have no idea what you are talking. It is neither amazing nor innovation.

And if the government was really assaulting Uber they would have used RICO.
No. Uber is "disrupting" the taxi industry, but has no intention of being bought out.
Project Euler has been hacked, Again!
> Am I not visiting enough of the slow sites?

Do you use NoScript? I feel the same way because I usually run with JS turned off. Most things are pretty zippy despite using a computer from 2009.
Not entirely. Team control is a major part of it for companies, and history makes a huge difference to the experience. Slack servers allow the use of IRC clients, but I gave up on Colloquy almost immediately after seeing the benefits of history. For the right teams, the IRC+history combo can almost completely eliminate email use.

Also, Slack bought a company which did voice, video, and screen sharing. Since join.me went downhill, this will be a welcome addition to Slack.
I get that they're different records, www just seems like the one subdomain that everyone expects to be synonymous with the root. Even if that isn't where you want your resources to "live," it's an essentially free way to help people get to your site -- like googel.com redirecting to google, except, as you said, with like 15 years of ingrained user training.
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The problem is how much energy enter the Earth and how much energy exits the Earth.

Forest only move some heat, bot the total amount doesn't change. The part inside the forest is cooler, this makes the part outside the forest hotter.

Actually, it's more complicated. If the forest view from above is lighter than the previous landscape this will make more light bounce and more sun energy will go to space and make the Earth cooler. But if the forest view from above is darker than the previous landscape this will make less light bounce and less sun energy will go to space and make the Earth hotter.

Actually, it's more complicated. The trees transform some carbon dioxide to wood and to part of the soil. So this is good if the sequestered carbon dioxide is more than before.

Actually, it's more complicated, there are a lot of effects to consider..., that why you should try to get more science background.
Venture capitalists investing in blatantly wrong and scammy pseudoscience is nothing new. Andrea Rossi (a convicted fraudster) got VC money for the E-Cat cold fusion scam.

(Which doesn't really contradict the poster's point: that made-up BS >> tawdry physical reality.)
It's too bad that HitchBOT didn't upload images of its attackers. A US version of HitchBOT ought to have live video and more accurate GPS ;)

Edit: From coverage of the upcoming US tour:[0]

> So far, there are no signs of anything nefarious done to the robot, but there's also no proof. Its creators intentionally cast their gaze aside.

> "We want to be very careful to avoid surveillance technologies with this; that's not what we're trying to do here," Smith said.

I get that. Maybe the attackers in Philly suspected surveillance. But we have no idea who they are, or why they did it.

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hitchbot-to-start-u-s-jour...
Maybe someone can explain how this works to me: In the white paper (http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/BOFs/3d-printing/wd-apple-ipp3d-2...) section 5, it lists a bunch of attributes ("material-type", "filament-retraction-speed", etc.) These are all attributes that would be inputs to a slicer. Furthermore, there are a million such parameters (CUPS will never cover them all), are different between different slicers, are ever-changing, and sometimes undocumented.

Why would cups concern itself with these parameters, versus, for example, just acting as a transport for the actual print file (gcode, x3g, etc.)? I feel like this is akin to having CUPS assemble a PDF, versus just acting as a transport for postscript file that gets printed.
The Nobel Prize is only $930k.

There is a lot more potential money in building a company.
While batching (and reordering) can have a benefit overall for rendering, it can have a significant (depending on how thoroughly you do it) overhead, and Disney are primarily doing it because they use Ptex to do texturing, instead of the more conventional and more widely used UDIM texture atlasing method for assigning textures to meshes.

Ptex really chokes with non-coherant texture accesses (partly due to the anisotropic filtering method it uses) in terms of thread scalability, so Disney have gone to great lengths to get around this issue. Doing such accurate texture filtering (the same goes for standard UV EWA filtering) is technically better, but is expensive, especially in a path-tracing context, where the whole point is to amortise the cost of shading over all the rays by making each intersection / shading calculation as cheap as possible.

From what I hear there are big downsides to this current implementation: the streaming of batches is pretty much off-line, so time till "first pixel" is significant, and thus you don't get interactive rendering functionality.
How to Use Todoist to Set Your Goals as a Parent
Do you mean in Iceland, or generally? I agree with your statement, although I don't think it applied to this woman.
Compile-time dependency injection tradeoffs in Android
Probably something more along the lines of "big change that will piss some people off", but it's really just a buzzword, you can have it mean whatever you want.
They just said, they paused until the report by an expert comes in, judging whether the leaked secrets are actually security critical state secrets. Saying, that they paused the investigation is PR, because the first thing you would do in an investigation is exactly what the are doing right now.
Pretty sure I need a home internet connection of 25/25Gbps for research(Probably just speedtest lol) xD
Process can overcome this. "Systematic Inventive Thinking" is a methodology which does just that.

I took a crash course with the company that created it. The repeatability of the process impressed me, especially across different groups and problems. You can boil it down to a checklist, (though it's still a meaningful time commitment).

More on the company here: http://www.sitsite.com/
Unfortunately I don't see much on their site about explaining their process, but a lot of "Design Thinking" courses cover similar approaches. Stanford's d.school has an intro here: http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/