skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" gets across my position here. There is in Internet media something which engenders a short attention span, an addiction to novelty. Something which pushes breadth-thinking over depth-thinking, and which causes us to relate to other humans in inhumane ways. We have all the worlds information at our fingertips, but do we give any of it the time it deserves?

Yes, it is merely a tool. But tools aren't really use-case neutral. Bombs and stethoscopes are obvious examples.
Coffee has been traditionally grown within a forest containing both native flora as well as other productive species (cacao, banana, vanilla, etc.) that grow well under taller trees. So in a sense coffee _requires_ vertical farming, except that the vertical space is only occupied by coffee plants at one place. John Vandermeer of U. of Michigan has been studying coffee cultivation as a primary example of food forest, and has been pointing out the negative effects of full sun (and yes, full rain) intensive coffee cultivation on the resilience of the production system. I am surprised that the article does not mention these aspects of coffee.
Optimising Landing Pages for Greater Engagement and Sales
+1 - However you'll find no love within the HN crowd. YC and many SV startups are vehemently against remote work. That's why I was stunned when YC allowed for new fellowship applicants to work remotely (so maybe it's getting better...?).

I think a lot of it has todo with ego, investor show-ponying and lack of solid culture. Beyond that many startups justify paying their employees like shit for small office perks like free lunch and couches. That type of stuff doesn't really work remotely.
It's an interesting concept, but I don't think enough people use mobile video clients yet for this to take off. I do wonder though, if the video quality is superior to competitors like snapchat because there's no need to transfer the audio.
If your current companies codebase is "terrifying", then you may end up finding a lot of resistance to writing cleaner code anyway. Many of the "senior" developers could be suffering from expert beginner syndrome and not be too welcoming to different ways of thinking.
If what you were saying had any merit, then Google would be doing the same. Because, in case you forgot, they also have a popular mobile app store.
i see. History links does seem like a useful feature (I've pasted links to SO answers in slack, so same could be applied to when someone answers a q on slack)

Stars also seems like a useful feature, but I'm so used to pasting useful stuff in a google doc, never even thought of it
From skimming an author's replies to the reddit thread linked above, they seem to be less excited about the demonstrated colors and more excited about the novel semiconductor growth technique that they used to generate the combination.

They mention that the various "components" could be tuned as necessary to generate different frequencies if needed, but the RGB was kind of their proof of concept.
Other apps getting slow is also not a very good thing!
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Unless its being sold as a reference compound for analysis, I highly doubt that. Reference chemicals are sold in sub gram amounts because they are not being consumed. They are also extremely pure and cost a lot because of that.

There really aren't other offerings online for this chemical and I doubt that the suppliers are doing back alley deals with research teams in the US.

Someone in the supply chain knows exactly what this compound is for. They know people are buying it to be consumed. They commissioned a foreign lab to have it produced. They could have found a pharm grade lab to produce it. They didn't, because the margins are high on quasi-illicit substances produced in Chinese labs.

It was a cheap synthesis to get tons of the stuff on the market quickly with a huge margin. It's certainly meant for human use.
I took a .net internship this summer and I'm actually really enjoying it. The most annoying thing to me has been dealing with wcf (which you may be able to completely avoid), but otherwise, it's been good. I was also apprehensive to stepping into .net/microsoft stack, but really, as long as you can use modern versions, the tooling provided by Microsoft and Resharper makes things really swell. There are still things that make you go "&#$@ Microsoft", but they aren't really an everyday type of thing. MSDN is great.
You're actually in luck: https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/caffederm.shtml
I think that the final destination here is going to be a near-complete lack of privacy in human relationships. Everybody is going to be able to look up everyone else's porn habits. Everyone one is going to know who does drugs, and who's cheating on who.

And as a society I think we're going to need coping strategies. Trying to protect privacy is only going to delay the eventual meltdown of privacy in our lives.

I think we are making good strides already though. There is less stigma around porn, around homosexuality, around fetishes. Religious tolerance also seems to be increasing. There are still problem points, but I think the trends are in the right direction. I'm happy to be proven wrong on this point though.
I didn't even know that they still did it, it's been so long since I've seen one. (Adblocker)
Thanks for pointing that out -- we're hoping TechCrunch will fix this shortly.

Our 401k actually offers dozens of Vanguard funds, and companies can even customize the investment options if they wish.
Try roasted okra seeds then.
SCOTUS = Supreme Court of the United States, in case anyone else was wondering.
Nice work! Keep building!
These shipping containers are converted. The idea isn't to just take a shipping container and start living there. You convert it so it is safe to live in it.
HPCG basically measures STREAM and has many technical flaws making it scale-dependent and difficulty to adjudicate. As codeveloper of a different benchmark, I'll just cite this paper from a third party. https://hpgmg.org/static/MarjanovicGraciaGlass-PerformanceMo...

The reality is that there are many dimensions to supercomputing performance and it's impossible for one number to capture the utility of the machine. Our HPGMG benchmark (https://hpgmg.org) attempts to strike a balance and give useful supplementary information. I do think it's better than any other single benchmark for evaluating today's machines and will also prove to be more durable over time.
I wonder if they mean 1 fund, or that it's just tied to Vanguard, and offers a set of Vanguard funds. Either way, good that it's Vanguard. Some other providers' fees are highway robbery.
I would argue the people publishing in the AGI journal:

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jagi
The Future of American History
"Landesverrat" is the core paragraph around the espionage complex. It criminalizes (among other things) passing secret information to foreign powers.

As usual when comparing different legal systems it gets muddy. I guess what you're having in mind is more like "Hochverrat" (high treason).

An aside: what are the connotations of "treason" and "treachery" in English? Is treason the criminal act against your country and "treachery" more personal, betraying a friend?
Riegel and Cameron are two methods for calculating race predictions. I have a short post about them on the blog, but a third party description offers a better explanation currently: http://www.runningforfitness.org/faq/rp

My worker ran out of memory, so sidekiq wasn't completing your predictions. I just restarted it and it looks like everything is caught up now. It normally should only refresh once and then your predictions would be ready.

This is the problem I keep having - my sidekiq worker runs out of memory and basically stops processing the queue.
You're not missing anything.

HN's rule about titles is "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". Changing a title to be both more misleading and more linkbaity is as bad as it gets.

Completing the trifecta, this story was already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976043.
What's with the creepy, invasive Twitter tie-in?
A worthwhile little post. However:

> The truth is the final and most endemic problem. Employees incorrectly (in many cases) believe that the boss doesn't want to hear from them, doesn't want constructive feedback.

This needs to be thought through a bit more.

A blunt, honest comment to ones boss is often the kind of thing that has a small upside in the best case, and a large downside in the worst case. Why take a nearly pointless risk? What the boss thinks he "wants" is hardly relevant.
I had a brief look at your article about gauss-distributed number range, and I am sorry to say that I don't find it particularly interesting, it's just some basic probabilities notion.
I wonder how many DMCA requests they will get and if the administrative overhead with it will kill the Pilot.
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Can you tell me which OS you're using?

In Linux and OS X the less command should keep the output in the screen after you press 'q'.
The Hawala system, which I had not heard of by the name, seems identical to the system of letters of credit that prevailed before the evolution of formal payment networks. In the Hawala case the password replaces the physical letter from one trusted agent to another, but otherwise it seems identical. This sort of system was the historical precursor to banking as we know it today.
Increase Engagement: Ditch Free and Price Your Content
> This is a common refrain since about 2010. Hasn't happened so far.

iOS market share has declined tremendously since 2010, from approximately 80% to approximately 20%.
Since when do adblockers block those? Every holiday season, no matter what adblocker I'm using, the nagging to donate is incessant.
Interesting! I'll have to check this out, thanks!
The elite don't have to work in the trenches afterwards...
How have either of those broken HTTP?
Tell HN: My way of doing 'community service' on HN
As a long time user I try to do my bit in keeping HN nice and getting quality content on the homepage. With the enormous rate at which content is being submitted there are a number of things that you can do to help out (once you have accumulated enough karma to do so):

HN has a very limited amount of front page area and the new page scrolls by insanely fast.

Depending on the number of spammers active good submissions might not even be on the homepage for more than 15 minutes.

So if you want to help out then I suggest visiting the new page frequently, upvoting the good stuff (keep an eye out for dupes, and remember to check pages 2 and 3 as well) and flagging spam, those are the biggest factors in getting quality content noticed and not doing these things by enough people are a major factor in good content being lost.

How to spot a spammer...

It's a bit of a Bayesian approach but these factors help me to decide whether to flag content or not:

- new account

- no comment participation (or maybe just a 'test' comment)

- first link posted within seconds of account creation

- first link posted a political or controversial subject

- Or other low quality content

- Always submitting the same domain

- re-submitting the same url over and over again

- many submissions per day

If it's a 'mild case' then I flag the entry, if it is more serious (10+ submissions in a relatively short time for instance) then I mail the moderators.

I try to do this cycle a number of times per day and if enough people do this the homepage will be more varied and interesting.
In Los Altos, Brandon Williams crams 14 tenants into a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house -- where monthly rates for a bed start at $1,000. He leases the bungalow from a Chinese venture capitalist for about $6,800, which he can more than double when all the beds are occupied.

“This is scalable,” said Williams, 28, a freelance electrical engineer. “I know a guy who has about 12 of these.”

What a scumbag.
In Ghana they are used extensively as shops/storefronts, but no one lives in shipping containers. Even in the most rural areas, people make houses literally brick by brick (buying 1-2 bricks at a time) instead of using shipping containers for housing. I think it's for the reason you suggest, and for the additional reason that I imagine living in a shipping container to be somewhat akin to living in a big metal dumpster.
Sorry -- I really meant if there's anything that calls for new language constructs to be reasonably expressive (i.e. alternative being really awkward API calls). I found none.
The Chrome team has been working on power efficiency improvements [1], some of them have gone into the already released Chrome 44.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/GpL63A1K2TF
Ask HN: Help me get into electronic music?
I listen to a lot of di.fm. I like Giraffage and other electronic artists.

I am looking to obtain some equipment so I can start to make electronic music. I am on OS X.

Can anyone help me pick out equipment? Garage band? or Logic? Hardware?

Here are some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyGuYtpM9o4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdbck5qisMI

The winters here are brutal, so looking for a winter hobby.
This is well known and widely publicized by Apple. They list it as one of the major new features of Safari 7.0 and OS X Mavericks. They had similar charts in the keynote when they announced it.
I replied to this:

> The amount straw grasping I've seen when people try to justify their purchases leaves me unable to tell anymore

The Mac mention in the grand-(...)-parent is just an example there. Surprise: I own a Mac.

> Except that's exactly what we were talking about here: Saying that people are "irrational" for not buying the same thing the poster did, in this case, Apple products.

It seems to me that you are the only one talking about people being irrational or not. People can't be irrational. Decisions can and only with different knowledge and/or values.

> I believe that if you care that much about what other people are using to the point where you would have to question their rationality, then you're a class-A jerk.

Class-A attack towards a straw man! :) Your potential issues with a stereotype have nothing to do with what I said. Good luck in your crusade, though.
The phenomenon prevailed in the U.S. as well during the same time period. "Mineral waters," i.e. iron-rich springs, were valued for their supposed medicinal qualities, and resorts sprang up around them at places such as Saratoga Springs, NY and Schooley's Mountain, NJ that catered to the cream of society at the time.
I'm somewhat confused -- I thought we were arguing similar points?

I don't want to drag this out, but where do you see the language constraint? You need an MPI binding, sure, but what else?
From http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/dmca/guidance:

Section 404 of the DMCA updates section 108 of the Copyright Act to allow libraries and archives to take advantage of digital technologies when engaging in specified preservation activities. The amendment to subsection 108(a)(3) is intended to ease the burden on libraries and archives of the current law's requirement that a notice of copyright be included on copies that are reproduced under section 108. Under this amendment, such notice would be required only where the particular copy that is reproduced by the library or archive itself bears a notice. The amendment to subsection 108(b) permits a library or archive to make up to three copies or phonorecords, rather than just one, for purposes of preservation and security or for deposit for research use in another library or archives, and permits such copies or phonorecords to be made in digital as well as analog formats. The amendment provides that any such copy in a digital format must not be otherwise distributed in that format and must not be available to the public outside the premises of the library or archives.
> iOS market share has declined tremendously since 2010.

Has it? It looks to me like most measures have current iOS smartphone marketshare at or above 2010, but down from a peak in 2011-2012. Android is a lot higher than in 2010, having eaten most of everything that isn't iOS
I do understand the desire for co-located teams up to a certain point. Today, I certainly work outside an office more than inside. That said, I have a lot of trouble seeing how remote work would have been a net positive when I was starting out. Admittedly, technologies we had available for communication weren't as good then but that part of my career was so dominated by F2F interactions that it's hard to imagine I would have been as effective as a remote worker. (I was a product manager for mostly system hardware.)
Tons of people still use Borlands tools and there are lots of legacy enterprise apps maintained in them.

In Windows there are also several high profile apps written with Pascal. One such I remember reading about recently is Fruity Loops, one of the most popular (though entry level) DAWs.

In the TIOBE rankings (not definitive, but indicative), Pascal has 2 entries in the top 20, as Delphi/Object Pascal and plain Pascal -- far ahead languages from all CLs combined, to Clojure, Scheme, Lua, Groovy, Erlang, etc.
> living in a tent is still prohibitively expensive if you have to lease the square footage it is pitched on

The difference is tents aren't designed to be stackable. https://www.google.com/search?q=shipping+container+stacks&tb...

But as below comments mention, generally steel intermodal containers make pretty poor livable areas for a variety of reasons. Lack of insulation, hard surfaces, contamination from previous contents, weight and difficulty in handling without heavy machinery, lack of local sourcability, etc. etc.

Your ideal use case is probably a port area with extremely high population density and an advanced economy (for heavy machinery) but an extremely high wealth disparity, in a reasonable climate. So, maybe SE Asian port cities? With a sacrificial layer of containers on the outside to heat-sink?
Awesome to see a big name company set specific goals for gender and racial diversity. I can't wait for the end of the "almost every meeting is all white dudes" era.

And much respect to Tracy for moving the needle.
I'm glad it was helpful! In case you're interested in the other hidden switches that you can toggle if you're willing to void your warranty, there's a reference at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entr... . (I'm not sure how up to date it is, though.)
Medication is one tool. (This includes other stimulants such as caffeine which some ADHD people self-medicate with.) No tool is sufficient in isolation, though - different people need different sets of tools. Here's a book I've found helpful in presenting a bunch of different tools: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415815894

Social support, using todo lists, lots and lots of effort to establish habits, so you can stop spending so much daily effort (CPU) on things that most people can handle with GPU.
They even list it as the second featured benefit on their website today https://www.apple.com/safari/
A collaborative residency program in mathematical biology and deep learning
Your guess about the connotations is correct.
A little bit of (somewhat relevant) context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718034
4 Unstoppable Essentials for Big Data for Startups
Because the design isn't the only point of it. He has some back end stuff that adds value. He can get a pass on the design in my book just as long as he gets his backend out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961527
What's Going on with Fund on Etsy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9973087
No, it really does require bias.

"Ban flash."

Because Flash was buggy as all hell, and ran like absolute shit on mobile. Remember the short time it was available for Android? Remember how no one really used it, because it was crap? Remember how Adobe gave up because they couldn't do it worth a damn?

"- Cripple the iOS web browser just enough that web apps trying to have native style performance will struggle."

You're gonna need a citation for that one.

"Release their own map to push Google out of their ecosystem. When that didn't work now they are trying this."

Yeah, no. Apple and Google had a dispute over licensing. They were unable to resolve their differences, and so they parted ways amicably. Google Maps is still freely available for iOS, and developers are still able to use it in their apps.

"You don't need bias to see something as obvious as this now is."

No, but apparently you need a tinfoil hat.
As an example if we attend an hour long meeting -we might have many outcomes from it...say take-away items,status updates,status of something etc..These are all some actions/intent that can do something.
Now,we are looking for something which can understand human language and extract these actions from a hour long meeting recording
The site seems to be down. Here's the repo: https://github.com/devgeeks/Encryptr
As an example if we attend an hour long meeting -we might have many outcomes from it...say take-away items,status updates,status of something etc..These are all some actions/intent that can do something. Now,we are looking for something which can understand human language and extract these actions from a hour long meeting recording
Because only a very small percentage of those that create the content are disabled themselves.
Multiplexing Connections in Go; Serve multiple services on the same port
I'm cautiously optimistic about this, but won't be using it to manage passwords for anything important -- yet.

On one hand they claim to be in league with SpiderOak (how, I'm not sure), which surfaced after the Snowden leaks as a zero-knowledge encrypted alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive.

On the other hand, it's a cloud-based solution which to me is still a cause for caution, and I'd feel more reassured if someone (who knows JavaScript and security better than I do) conducted an audit of this.

Hoping for the best for Encryptr, but I'll have to keep it on the sidelines until it's more battle-tested.
humble and modest too ;)
Of course not.

It's also probably a more humane solution than the currently popular option - don't build anything at all.
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Probably fluff added by the headline writer to sound more exciting. The White House press release doesn't make world's-fastest claims: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/07/29/advancing-us-lead...
If you think the Tor project is working on an important problem, consider running a relay. It's inexpensive, easy to administer, no hassle (if not an exit) and I think the scale is such that a couple thousand additional relays would make a noticeable difference to the network.

You can even have it AWS where it will get automatic updates with almost no effort: https://cloud.torproject.org/

If you want to run it on OS X:
https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/6567/how-do-i-manual...

I think it's pretty cool that you can help enable people to safely bypass censorship/surveillance from across the world.
> Google, Mozilla disable Flash over security concerns

That was a version of flash, and after the bug was fixed, it was reenabled. How is that in any way comparable?
GAM: The Predictive Modeling Silver Bullet
Your points offered absolutely no evidence, except to your own bias.
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wow, whole $40 in memory?
I don't know about "normal" blind people who are not software developers like me but I find most of the web accessible. I was able to successfully complete the R Programming course on Coursera with no sited help. I can do online banking, ordering off amazon, etc. One accessibility issue with Netflix was that they did not have audio description for video but this is getting better.