skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you could get the breathing tube to the vent pipe part of the plumbing there might be air in that part of the piping even while the toilet is draining the water from the flooded room. You would need to get the tube pushed past the toilet and into the main drain pipe though to have a chance at hitting the vent which would be difficult. I would be concerted about the gases that come out of a waste pipe though in either case I would think that can't be good for you.
Brilliant, I just tried the test here http://www.indiana.edu/~bobweb/Handout/d1.uses.htm

and it was delightfully fun to pick a mundane object and imagine all possible uses.
> I’m no physicist - oh, wait, I am - but I did a little back-of-the-envelope (ok, front of the paper) calculation this morning...

I react very negatively to this sort of catty writing. I find it obnoxious. I understand that I shouldn't necessarily expect more from something from tumblr. On the other hand, I do like that the calculations were included.
I don't care if VCs waste their money like idiots. Let them. Plus, the sad part isn't that they wasted $10 million on this worthless "idea", it's that $10 million is probably nothing to them.
Can process overcome this?

For example, if the first step in attempting to solve a physical problem like the candle/wall/box problem is to take itinerary of your tools, it might become more apparent to the problem solver that they could use the box.

Not sure how well that approach would work if the problem were less physical, but I think there might be an equivalent.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

-Most comments mentioned the "progress bar issue", honestly this is the first time I thought that this would be a problem.
According to you, what's the best way to display skills?

-I wanted to balance between keywords/length/readable-content (not sure if that worked) but if I didn't mention a number of tools or "skills" it is mainly not to make this section too long.

As I'm currently looking for a project mainly related to embedded systems, do you think that I should just comment out all the "unrelated" fields?

Thank you again =)
Same for me. I don't think HN's particularly fast. Barely faster than rockpapershotgun.com, which has lots of images, but not much. Given that it's all pure html text, I would expect more. RPS might have better caching that's closer to me though.
We created a page at Unixstickers where you can purchase the posters for each of these patent arts and have them conveniently delivered to your home or office: http://www.unixstickers.com/posters/iconic-patent-posters

Check it out : )
Can't wait to bring up this edge case the next time someone asks me to reverse a string in an interview.
Wow, really? Has it become such a generational sea change? Have people really failed to understand the nightmare that modern javascript, full-motion animated gifs, web videos, and ultra high-resolution jpegs represent to bandwidth? Nevermind their local CPUs?

Javascript is really the black hole, though. When people defer their client-side libraries to whatever CDN, and then let that library manage whatever it pleases for dependencies, forget it. That's like saying, I don't even care if people's computers catch fire and explode, when they try to watch this awesome star field simulation.

Oh yeah, and all the ads and spyware analytics too, ya know...
I stopped printing on Linux when it switched from the old printcap based tools (which while hard to configure, mostly worked) to CUPS. I was an experienced sysadmin, but no amount of configuration could make CUPS print anything but the text of postscript files to my laser printer.

I'm sure it's gotten much better, but CUPS is pretty opaque, and when you're doing 3D printing, controlling the conversion pipeline from model to print code is typically done manually with a great attention to detail.
It's been a while since they invested in UBeam. Any updates? I can't seem to find any.
Yes this is a subjective guess at best. But I try to remain close to the grades I got in engineering school.

As I've said in the other comments, I never thought that this would be an issue. I think your proposed solution might be the closest to the answer.

Thanks for your time and feedback
> HN does not load particularly fast for me, 300-500ms is fairly slow

slow Compared to what? Show me a social network/forum that you visit everyday and loads everything under 300ms.
Does anybody seriously think, for even a second, that A16Z didn't do massive due diligence with extraordinarily intelligent and experienced individuals before investing?

One thing that A16Z is not lacking is access to tons of Stanford/Berkeley physics PHDs....
We got a Wan Hao http://3dprint.com/62585/wanhao-usa-duplicator-i3/ for about $400 and it's the best printer we have seen in that price range (part of my job is evaluating 3D printers). I've done a number of detailed, production-quality prints (I make parts for scientific equipment using it).

The Taz and Taz mini are also quite good.
Everyday, when I wake up in the morning I always have tasks to accomplish that are overwhelming. But, I make sure I complete most of them. I use certain tools and processes to stay productive.

1. Getting up early - I get an extra hour early in the day. This hour is very special to me as there is no distractions during this period. I use this time mainly to plan for the day.

2. Meditate - I use calm.com to meditate for 10 mins. I would call this best 10 mins of my day.

3. Prioritize tasks - I use wunderlist for tracking my tasks. I use pomodora to keep myself focussed on my current task. It also helps me to take regular breaks.

4. Read,Walk and Play - Some days tend to be productive and some don't. No matter how productive my day was, I will not miss reading a book for an hour, I will not miss my long walks and I ll never miss my playtime with my kid.
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Sorry for the offensive domain name (it's not mine), but this is relevant here:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
When I visited Autodesk, they had a ton of broken Form1+'s on the shelf. They said they always broke.
ColOmbia?
A lot of Asian cultures actually have a culture around teeth blackening.

http://www.traveldudes.org/travel-tips/tooth-blackening-forg...
Russian Peasant Multiplication, Exponentiation, and Matrices
It's missing support for the way you used to get boldface on a typewriter: Type a word, then go back and type it again.

This is why the source of manpages does boldface (and underlining) like that -- it's from the days of lineprinter terminals!

For example, to write "hi" in bold, a manpage's source does this: h^Hhi^Hi .. and to underline it: h^H_i^H_

Also, if you keep typing off the end of the page, it doesn't simulate what would usually happen on a real typewriter: you'd get ink on the roller.
Young Men in Shorts (2004)
We are not machines or not all of us want to mimic their functioning.
+1 on PBRT - great textbook, and a full program to boot.

Though they don't use the batching method outlined in the video - it would be interesting to see PBRT modified to do it and compare the resulting efficiency in rendering.

https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v3/
Teeth whitening is very cheap, you can buy teeth whiteners over the counter in the US, and most toothpastes you can buy in the store have whitening agents in them.
Well just compare a large company with tens of thousands of people, to a small one, the smaller ones are much more nimble and able to implement new best practices.

Imagine you had 1 team of 10 people working on ABC, or 100 groups of 10 people, working on ABC, yet having to cooperate between groups. It's really hard, it creates all kinds of friction, you need all kinds of overhead human capital to organise everything, everything moves slower, there's more resistance to change, and various of the smaller groups create their own working cultures and approaches, and squaring all of that into one cohesive vision is really tricky.

Then consider that companies are relatively dictatorial compared to the runnings of most OECD countries, where a CEO has more power to simply lay down a vision and expect everyone to get behind it, much more than a president or prime minister doing so.

I think that's mostly it. For a more academic approach look up diseconomies of scale, although I'm sure you're already familiar... It also applies to government. I do agree with you though, to a large extent I think we can scale, but there are limits and disadvantages at some point.

Beyond that I think to a large extent the differences can be numerically explained. It's not true that small countries do best across the board. Germany does better than Italy, Kenya does better than Malawi, China does better than Vietnam who does better than Cambodia etc... all larger countries that do better.

But imagine you have a list of 10 'large' countries, and 100 'small countries'. Obviously the large are less common, after all only two countries have more than 1 billion people, no other ones more than 500m, only 3 other countries have more than 200m, while more than 100 countries have less than 10 million people.

So imagine 10 large and 100 small countries, and they're randomly distributed. The chance of a small country in the top 10 is very large, as it is to be in the bottom 10, while for large countries the chance is really small to simply end up anywhere. Yet if you break up the US into 100 little regions of a few million people, like about 80 countries on the planet, similar to say Norway, Singapore, Finland (all 5m ish people), or Iceland (300k), you'd surely have many of those little regions hitting top 10 rankings for standard of living. Places like greater San Fransisco would probably do quite well.
"Well I say you are the messiah, and I should know, I've followed a few."
As many others have mentioned, the secret sauce is probably quite simply this: No ads, no trackers, no js libraries. I use Firefox with the 'disconnect' plugin. On HN, disconnect stays completely inactive, nothing to be blocked, just good old html to be rendered with a sprinkle of css. It's beautiful, it's the way it should be.
The site is just a bunch of text without any async loading. I think all the database is cached in RAM. So a page load is just "render this tiny HTML with a few template substitutions and spit it out over the network".

I kind of wish the whole web worked that way. Yahoo was like that in the old, old days (akebono.stanford.edu).
I don't understand why unicode needs emojis. I am perfectly happy with ASCII smileys :D

This introduces a lot of complexity with little payoff; not a good engineering practice. Also, let us not forget what Bruce Schneier said: "Unicode is just too complex to ever be secure." Maybe it would be a good idea to stop spiraling the complexity out of control??
What kind of a world do we live in, when a guy can't even run an educational mathematics website without getting hassled?
Dental insurance is pretty cheap in the US. Medical insurance varies a lot, but for most people it is also pretty cheap because their employer pays the majority of it.
HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour
it's down pretty often.
About once every few weeks, the site is hard-down for posting for several hours.
"Mickey D's first introduced a lobster roll — then called the "McLobster" — nationally in 1993" [1]

IMO, no one reads that and assumes that McDs invented the lobster roll. Why then would someone read the Wikipedia quote and assume Solar City was first or assume that's what the wikipedia quote was implying? That was when Solar City first introduced their new product: a lease.

1 - http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/mcdonald-start-se...
Are you talking about those that last just a couple of hours or different ones?
I shall do so. Thank you for reminding me!

Edit: it appears to be covered by https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/2100/sum-map-foo-is-m...
Bitcoin exchange CEO arrested by Japanese police
It's not opt-out with mobile broadband connections. These are automatically set to metered by default [1].

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/metered-interne...
It is more likely that Peak Oil will kick in before the project is completed. There will be a permanent change in the order of things, it will no longer be economical to import plastic doodads from China, world shipping will decline and the Nicaragua canal will lie half-finished like stone statues on Easter Island.
a new reddit?
How can a dummy pill have a real effect on your body?
although it's useful to note that use of anycast is impossible to hide. any looking glass will tell you that CF has tons of routes to each apparent IP, e.g. https://ssp.pme.gin.ntt.net/lg/lg.cgi?query=bgp&sourceIP=IP&...
It's relatively straightforward. Take a look at what Pingdom tells you it does when the site loads:

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cnYAuq/https://news.ycombina...

5 requests, Total size 12.6kB, total time 661ms. 1 request for the content, 1 for css, and then 3 gifs, all from a single domain (so just one DNS request). If you look at the profile, 47% of the time was spent doing that one DNS lookup, so subsequent requests will be even quicker (plus caching will handle those gifs just fine)

That's almost no work for the end client to do. No javsacript for the client to download, parse and process, just straight content to render and done.

The reduced request count is especially important when it comes to the mobile experience, where bandwidth might be great, but latency is terrible. Every request you have to make to render a page significantly impacts the loading time (HTTP2 helps here). Along with trying to reduce the number of resources being loaded on the screen, it's especially important to reduce the number of domains you're getting them from so you keep the DNS queries down.
For spending $10 million out of the $4 billion they got kicking about? Probably not massive due diligence.
Jejuri
On the plus side, this is really great work. On the minus side I sometimes think people working on unicode, a system intended to allow for all the world's written languages to be represented by a single encoding, have lost their minds sometimes.

I understand that emoji are used in-line with text, but they aren't text.

Once you start going the path of encoding pictures into a text representation you're going to start missing things that people need in these kinds of pictoral representations.

I'm sympathetic in a sense, I wrote a paper in college demonstrating why emoji/emoticons are a natural extension of text (to a point), because they can allow encoding emotion and intent, which natural language punctuation don't really allow for. But at the same time, is it really necessary to have half a dozen fish, trains, several food items an alien head, a full set of numbers from 1-10, squares of different sizes, and other non-emotional iconography?

And then the argument is that this is just intended to encode Japanese carrier emoji. Great, let's spend brain cycles building into unicode icons used by phone carriers in one country.

I'm already bothered by the separate encodings I've seen from time to time for the exact same script, but in slightly different font variations. That's supposed to be handled by the font that's representing the script, not by the encoding.

This really needs to be a separate encoding that's not unicode. I figure at some point, unicode will simply turn into a generic image format with a bunch of extra character encoding baggage that people will complain about.
Let's say the treatment guarantees until life expectancy of 88, ignoring a few details. Do we say that 28 years of life is worth the same as 58 years of life, keeping in mind budget is fixed?
Obviously, women do want to be programmers, unless they are told by society that they shouldn't or couldn't. If that weren't the case, movements like DjangoGirls would be far less successful.

The comparison with fashion design is also BS. For one thing, there are lots of male designers (especially the famous ones) and then the number of fashion designers is a lot lower than the number of programmers.

And this is not as irrelevant a choice as whether to play with dolls or lego: Programming is a skill which allows for social upwards mobility like nothing else. Just assuming women (and minorities) don't want that, is a bit too easy.
Chip design/build vs. market windows: between a rock and a hard place
CEO Who Raised Minimum Salary to $70k Falls on Hard Times
I always laugh when I see the ending. I'm still at the ThinkPad mainboard screws level. Soon I'll enjoy car engine screws.
Google’s Self-Driving Cars ‘Drive Like Your Grandma’
Not ridiculous, but I think Unicode consortium's resources could be spent better.

This is my opinion about including emoji in Unicode, not the skin color modifiers.

I can only think of it as a case of bike-shedding. Han unification, indic scripts or the lack of differentiation between umlaut and diaeresis are difficult and require experts to be solve satisfactorily. Emojis are easy and anyone is able to contribute a little bit.

What is the scope of Unicode?

Unicode covers all the characters for all the writing
systems of the world, modern and ancient. [1]

Sure, emojis are used for communication, but so are images, logos, emblems, coats of arms. Will we have company logos next? Hopefully not.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html
That 1.2Mb gets partly cached on the desktop. Mobile clients cache very little. Safari on my iPad is currently storing only 6.1Mb of website data and I use it every day on a variety of websites.

Client-side caching is a nothing but a lie bad front-end developers tell themselves to justify producing bad websites.
Ask hackerz neus: da fuck?
Came to know about projecteuler just now and found the site has been hacked. What a pity. Hope it gets back live again.
(October 2014 - this isn't a new round.)
Yeah exactly. Emoji might charitably be called an extension of punctuation, but some of the stuff that ends up in the Unicode spec seems pretty crazy.

I mean, there's a Moai head in this set.
Yes. Hopefully euthanasia will be a thing should I reach the decrepit stage. One last party (perhaps with a bit of morphine), followed by drifting to an infinite sleep... sounds fairly dignified.
> Barely faster than rockpapershotgun.com, which has lots of images, but not much

rockpapershotgun.com takes 10 seconds to load entirely and serves 1.6 MB of data. Which is OK compared to others Like Polygon and Co which serve more that 5MB on their homepage and take 20sec to load on average.
I've no idea what this is doing on HN, but it's very nice, and I wish I'd seen it before I was there a few weeks ago. Beautiful city, far bigger and far more modern than I'd imagined, and full of lovely people.
No, that works fine.

I can't make the colour change work, though. I was looking forward to see if I could make it type in part red, part black :)
This naive view that if is someone is silly enough to throw money at your silly idea you should take it isn't just hurting the current industry by setting unrealistic expectations but will also be the driving force behind the collapse of the unhealthy capital market in the valley. Unrealistic salaries (that completely ignore any roi calculations), ideas that aren't grounded, and the need to get it all done super fast are what's going to cause a drought in capital for tech and then both good and bad ideas will suffer.

I urge you to rethink your statement with the future of the industry in mind, not just a single bank account.
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Same thing crossed my mind. I can only assume that the company has long pivoted to another technology, left the ultrasound technology behind and just kept the old homepage (the mentioned WSJ article is from Oct 2014). Or the valley VCs might be really desperate to invest the huge amounts of cash Yellen is printing.
Do it! Just... Do it!!!
That they can assign a core to a particular user. So assume the VPS is a 16 core, according to your statement if they have 16 clients, the web host can allot 16 clients only?
I agree. I also like Van Halen's:
http://www.google.com/patents/US4656917
And many more:
https://www.google.com/search?q=funny+patents&safe=active&so...
Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+
burning carbon molecules sourced from photosynthesis. Carbon positive, but the fuel generation is carbon negative, so it balances out.
I agree. I think the issue isn't that money is being spent but that it's being spent on the wrong ideas. Split that 10m into 5 and help five different founders who have taken their time to really prove their concept and build a real revenue model...
>Probably as static as possible, speed is easy then.

With an empty cache, every asset except font awesome is getting to me - here in Poland - in under 200ms, with some under 150ms.

For 22 requests - even with a total payload of "only" 155kb - whether static or not, that is seriously impressive.
Certainly its been vetted and if successful it will have a big impact. Will it work? Who knows, but it seems like exactly the kind of thing that should get investment. In the meantime we should let her do the work.
How I sped up my server by a factor of 6 (2010)
Thanks for some fascinating contributions to this thread.

I see both sides of the debate, and lean toward your side. But I also think both sides are probably wrong to speak as if we will have either one system or the other in the foreseeable future. I think it is more likely that government resources and law enforcement will exist alongside any trustless contract system, acting as a failsafe (or guarantor of exploitation, depending on your POV I suppose). Few contracts would be irreversible, and few holders of contracts would resist reversal, if physical violence from the state were brought to be bear, even if the issue had already been "settled" by software. I believe the reality is that Ethereum-style contracts would increase efficiencies in more routine, less controversial contracts and the state would remain the final recourse in more extreme cases. As some have said, 30 years down the road when machines are more intelligent, all bets are off. But for the foreseeable future, the state isn't going to wither away just yet.

As far as people obfuscating with complex contracts, yes, of course they will do that. But the obvious implication is that a class of techno-jurists will have to arise to help advise users. Again, that's not much different than the current system of clueless folk consulting attorneys, and I imagine both systems would coexist for some time to come.
Due to "rectangularisation of the survival curve", probably not (there appears to be a max age of around 110). Current rates are 3 months more life expectancy per calendar year. However, in the US and various other places the improvement is seriously wobbling due to wobbly bellies.
This isn't the first time you've made that claim, or failed to back up your claim with any evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9535977

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9536210

If you can't provide any proof of your accusation that Brendan Eich and the Mozilla board are liars when they said "It was Brendan’s idea to resign", then I think it's safe to dismiss you as just another angry Social Injustice Warrior.

So tell us your evidence supporting your accusation that this is a lie:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

Q: Was Brendan Eich asked to resign by the Board?

A: No. It was Brendan’s idea to resign, and in fact, once he submitted his resignation, Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla in another C-level role.