jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"...this is a vehicle that, in still air, would go uphill under its own lack of power..."

No, it wouldn't. The vehicle extracts energy from the velocity difference between the air and the ground, which it converts into forward motion. This is essentially the same mechanism used by sailboats tacking against the wind, and despite being counterintuitive at first is well-established. The speed is limited only by gearing and mechanical efficiency--an idealized device could accelerate arbitrarily.

While the Wired link doesn't explain how the device works, the same idea has made the rounds on the internet many times before; links to detailed descriptions were already posted in the comments here, which I assume you didn't bother to read before implying that this is a scam?

"Trying to put skeptics on the defensive"

Sticking with a knee-jerk reaction against something while ignoring further information that supports it gives "skeptics" a bad name.
You might like to try Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/ Probably not really appropriate for this cause, but it seems to host quite lot of good-karma fundraising. It's worth a look.
according to the website, there will be smart phone applications that tell you where parking is available and/or cheaper
Is that the UCSD library?
Yes but someone probably needs to request it specifically. My first thought was that he should try B-12 shots as well, they are cheap, their effects are nearly instantaneous, and you can take shitloads of it without any problems. Unfortunately they are prescription only in the US, you can get them OTC in Mexico.
I'm so very confused by the chosen subset of html5 and css3, it looks like they implemented a few things and ran like 20 tests on those few things that other browsers have yet to adopt while the actual things that other browsers are accepting aren't even shown.

I really hope they IE team continues to work on putting html5 and css3 in their browser and if it turns out to be the most standards compliant browser kudos to them but this was disappointing.
Further evidence: NT was first booted on the Intel i860 - not a DEC CPU.
I saw someone riding one of these in Golden Gate Park in SF not long ago. It definitely got everyone to turn their heads. All the kids wanted to try, and the guy was cool and let a bunch of kids have turns, although small kids aren't big enough for the weight sensor so they can't really use it as designed. Pretty cool to see out in the wild though.
<aol>me too</aol>

Python looked like a weird toy language to me because it had such little syntax compared to Perl. Until I actually had to write some, that is, and I realized how much of Perl's syntax was superfluous and bug-inducing. For example, Perl kept C's distinction between values and references, so I always had to plan ahead about which one a function would accept and return. It was eye opening to realize there were comparable languages that allow me to not care about such things.
So the whole thing is a lie? Who was it done to?
It seems really unlikely you'd waste a company's time by emailing them and asking for a sales pitch.
A bit of a wild guess, but many of those look like self-diagnosing or "fringe" from folks dealing with autoimmunity issues. Is that right?
They have 2.1million paying subscribers. I'd say it's more mainstream than cult.
Would you use raid 5/6 in btrfs?
Agreed. I’m surprised there are more than 500 parts. I guess to do a proper Justice the kit would need to be twice as big with 5 times more parts
The core of MMT’s story is that money creation begins and ends with government spending and taxes respectively. Beyond that I am unsure as to how much their theory differs from mainstream economic theory.

At the end of the day they seem very much rooted in the question of wether there are productive economic assets that can be utilized. Yes => the government should spend money to use them, don’t worry about deficits, No => either spend less (create less demand for resources) or tax more (remove demand from somewhere else). In the end, there’s no reason assets should be left to no productive use, by their estimation.
The whole point of Bayesian networks is to have something that's asymptotically simpler than "arbitrary dependencies between N inputs" while still being able to model useful scenarios.
Mountaineers is where I heard it.
Yeah this was a particularly weak one though. The doctor example was much stronger.
If you're including Letterle, you might as well add Horsle where the word is just always "Horse". https://horsle.glitch.me/
Same :-(

$ curl -I http://78.140.176.180/
[SNIP]
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
It pulls it from your Google Calendar - so whatever time zone Google thinks you're in, is what is used.
"This is largely a solved problem, at least if you choose the right framework."

I've never used Rails or Heroku, so I have a question - how many companies can depend on deploying to Heroku? Is it really flexible enough?

I have only used Python + Django. A few solutions are starting to crop up for Heroku-like easy deployment. But I have some special needs that I don't think will be covered well by these services (for example, I have to do Comet, which means setting up an extra server to do Comet, etc.)

My gut has always told me that Heroku is fine for deploying your application initially, but that most companies will quickly outgrow it and have to resort to manual deployment solutions.

By the way, in my case, I started off with deploying on DreamHost, which is almost brain-dead simple. Then I moved to WebFaction, which gave me more flexibility but I had to do some extra stuff for deployment. Then at some point, when I started making more serious apps, I moved to using VPSs and encountered exactly the nightmare the OP is talking about. I suddenly had to learn how to deploy from scratch, which involved learning to install and configure various programs, and get them working together. It was... not fun.
Rhino is fine if you have to use the JVM. If you have a choice then I would avoid it. It performs like a pig. The re-throws everything as a RuntimeException. It uses statics all over the place so having more than one instance can cause all sorts of weird problems. The documentation is a little out of date and there are some gotchas that you are left to figure out on your own. Still, it's the only thing available on the JVM and it actually works so it's not all bad. I would love to have alternatives to look at, but it's not to the point where I want to start writing my own. FYI, I'm using it for DOM scripting in a custom spider.

Also, like someone else said, Rhino is an analog for V8 while RingoJS is an analog for NodeJS.
There is a YC company that will collect and maintain medical records for you. PicnicHealth - https://picnichealth.com/ I am a customer, recommended.

Also, "medicine for the rich" companies like Pinnacle Care and Private Health will do it for you as part of their services. And for a good reason, you need records to do anything else.

Whether you do it yourself, or have somebody do it for you - do it. EMR portals are nice, but not nearly enough, you need the real backend records.
The first answer atm is terrible, switching failure rates to success rates within one paragraph.

I've said it here a few time, the 9/10 number is total nonsense propagated because people like to think they're special for lasting.

It's never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever been that high, it was made up in a NYT article 10 years ago and been repeated without any challenge in startup circles for far too long.

Worse still 'failure' rates often include people who have sold their business for massive profits or have shut the business down after making profit, neither failures, in fact successes.

So while you are pretty special for starting a business, you're not that special for still being in business in 5 years time. It's actually pretty common.
The much-more-informative original blog post from MySQL's site, which RWW doesn't seem to link to for some reason:

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/nosql-to-mysql-...

What wasn't obvious to me from RWW's article is that this isn't actually memcached at all -- it's InnoDB, speaking the memcached protocol, to save having to create a whole new protocol and a bunch of new clients. Essentially, it's MySQL pretending to be memcache, but a memcache with persistence. Pretty cool!
Apple isn't bringing an NFC solution to market anytime soon to the best of my knowledge.

Sadly, Square doesn't actually bring any competition to the payments marketplace at all. It just further entrenches credit cards.

I've written more about this here:

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Paying-With-Your-Phone-...
>ou won't see much of an investment on Silverlight for the Mac, for example.

Can you resolve this with the following excerpt of Tom's comment?

"To that point they reiterated their support for the Mac meaning Silverlight is an environment that can be used for out of browser apps that run on both Mac and PC (much like Adobe AIR)."
Agreed. Switching authentication gems is incredibly painful. Sometimes I think the best solution is to use the "low-level" gems like warden and always craft an authentication system myself.
A good textbook is indispensable.

The difficulty of a student is knowing which book is good, and which could be doing a better job at teaching.

Is it a difficult subject or do you need a better book?
> It seems to me that misinformation should be fought with information, not censorship.

That's not working. The New York Times, Washington Post, testimony from state department officials, climate scientists, etc etc etc etc etc

etc
etc

etc
etcetcetctectetc

hasn't gotten through to this country. Believing that "truth wins in a marketplace of ideas" relies on

a) people caring about the truth above all else, including their emotions

b) people having access to the truth

c) people being able to tell truth from fiction

The counter-point to these is the entirety of human history.

We have built technology that has hacked human nature for profit.

Sugary and fatty foods overwhelm our capacity to differentiate food that is good from food that is good for us.

Heroin creates tremendous addiction that is, for most people, entirely unbreakable.

Social media has consumed a generation with performative outrage, diminishing attention spans, and hyper-targeted misinformation.

The mortgage crisis was triggered by people buying homes on financial terms that they did not understand, which would have worked out only in an impossible scenario where home prices never go down, interest rates sit at near-zero, and their income continues to go up.

It might be time to admit that "just give people options and they'll make the right choice" is bullshit. It doesn't work. People aren't rational creatures with infinite will.

This isn't an argument between the Ministry of Truth and infinite freedom. Even the 1st Amendment—which doesn't apply here—has limitations, because we live in a society and some lies can get people killed.

It's not as hard as people make it out to be to take incremental steps towards quelling humanity's worst impulses. We can do this.
so happy that you mentioned this, my first time hearing of this. this is why I love HN, someone always has a suggestion/alternative!

Going to use this instead of Postman now!
"freedom of speech is not freedom of reach"

"free speech" is not curtailed when Facebook disallows hate groups from reaching one third of the planet. These groups may have all the "speech" they want but global media platforms need not facilitate them.
lol yeah - before posting I was trying to convince myself not to post, and what yous dais was exactly my counter "narrative".

But still; Between 10^3 and 10^77, that 77 OWNS
It's true. Trying to isolate a specific product and deploy it independently if it's grown up "organically" inside Google's core infrastructure is like trying to take an animal from the rainforest and air-drop it into Antarctica with a "good luck" and a smile.
The kind of off-road done by people who think that the ford f-250 is a good off-road vehicle.
Indeed. It looks to be inspired by the RAH-66 Comanche stealth helicopter [1]. Currently operators are known to use (through Mil-COTS) the Toyota Hilux. Maybe Elon is after an influx of SOCOM/DARPA money for Tesla (increasing his association with Tony Stark in the process).

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing–Sikorsky_RAH-66_Coman...
We haven't actually started injecting it into free sites with custom domains yet, and we're still tweaking it.

The goal is a balance between something that visible enough that for profit sites will want to pay for a subscription, but discreet enough and pretty enough that it's not a big deal for hobby projects and personal sites.
Actually generalized fear of the venemous snakes is irrational. It's an overgeneralization. You should be afraid of stepping on or near a snake by accident. But if you are 20 feet away from a rattlesnake who is aware of your presence, you are not in any danger.
For the US, it was only the 34st warmest.

To put it in a bit more perspective what the NY Times is saying:

http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/16/scientists-balk-at-ho...
Interesting use of a bus for each action. I'm curious why you used @setProps() instead of just storing the person object in the component state? Modifying props seems a like non "Reactish".
For me, I'd summarize the need as a "first class bash/zsh environment". I'm fairly certain this cannot happen on Windows, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

The reason I switched to linux, then OS X, was as a web developer there's no substitute for a real bash environment integrated with the OS.

I was a cygwin user when I was on Windows, but many things just didn't work or only worked with a lot of messing around with configuration. I believe most of this is due to the lack of POSIX compliance on Windows.

Many things were funky, such as "cd c:", symlink vs junctions, and interplay between dos utilities and cygwin utilities (the find and locate commands come to mind). A lot of things worked, and I commend the developers who hacked it together, but when you wanted to do anything remotely complicated, it became evident it was just a veneer.
BudVVeezer and bgtnhz have already made some of my points for me. "EXP05-C. Do not cast away a const qualification" is a recommendation largely because casting away constness isn't undefined behavior. There is a also a rule "EXP40-C. Do not modify constant objects" which defines a normative requirement not to modify constant objects which would result in undefined behavior. The intent of the exception to EXP05-C is to let authors of API constrain how objects of types they expose can be used by users without forcing the same constraints on the implementation. In C++, this can be done by making class members private and providing inline member functions. In C, the options are using opaque types (which has a performance cost because they can only be accessed by non-inline functions defined in the implementation's .c files), or making the struct pointer members const and casting the const away in inline functions. This is safe because the implementer knows that the objects the const pointers do not point to const objects (because the implementation initialized them).
We're considering getting rid of the exceptions and risk assessments for recommendations because it suggests that conformance to recommendations is required.
Then explain how it is that meat can feel. There is absolutely nothing inherent in the nature of meat, as far as we can quantify, that entails feeling.

So, please, yank my sacred mystery out from beneath me: what's the explanation?
Predicated on the concept that the Hard Problem of Consciousness is actually a problem.
Indeed, thank you, I removed it.
I don't know what to say.. Do you want your local food and bars to remain in business? If so you have to prepay. If you buy a gift card you are basically insuring them against default. I am sure they will factor in some loyalty reward.
Restaurants and bars close and change ownership all of the time.
Some places they are not revealing the location of the testing as they are getting overwhelmed.
Firstly these court documents are exactly as described on twitter.

http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/docket/CivilCourtCases...

Second I submitted a complaint to university where the perp teaches. No response so far.
tl;d(l): Because Objective-C's memory management (or lack thereof) is presently a benefit to iOS when mobile devices have limited resources, Apple has bought itself some time before relying on Objective-C for development of OS X and iOS applications becomes a serious problem for their business.
Exactly. The vendor wouldn't be paying the tithe to the credit card processor.
Computing may be sufficiently advanced when the biggest thing I am looking forward to is not having to plug in both my display and USB connector when I sit down at my office.
glassdoor.com has anonymous salary reports from many companies. In my experience, they seem to be pretty accurate.

Of course, the reports become even more accurate when more people participate. So please sign up! :)
Any specific companies to recommend? If I search for something like "spielkarten hersteller", I find that linx.de has a nice list, but they're not all necessarily wonderful.

I don't have a job in mind at the moment, but I'm always curious to explore the possibilities.
It mentioned in the article that it costs the patent office more money than what they charge for processing patent claims. Why is that? Why don't they just charge the full amount?
Web app to report how much money is frozen in your poker account: http://socialsensornetwork.com/online-poker
> Having done a lot of iOS dev, Garbage Collection isn't even in my top 10 wants.

Seconded.

I, for one, would greatly like to see an easier way to build large, non-congruous table views and easier creation of cells.

A view subclass that handles rendering of formatted strings would also be a welcome addition.

UIWebView could also use some work - not much has changed on that since 2.0.
surely raising the fee is just going to screw over anyone without corporate backing, and do nothing to the corporations who already can afford to file most of the spurious patents?
Help build and integrate data tools - this could be done in Ruby but I'd imagine that working with data people using the same language could be helpful.
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First, a disclaimer. I am not a lawyer, nor am I even American, so all of this should be taken with the understanding that I'm really not qualified.

I don't know how you found these violations and, for all I know, you may not even be in the United States, but if you are, I would consider speaking with an attorney (preferably one with experience working cybercrime cases) to make sure that you aren't going to stumble into CFAA territory.

If I were your competitor, if I happened to find out that it was you, one option would be to call, "HACKER!! EVIL HACKER!!" And, looking at some recent cybercrime prosecutions (ie - aaronsw), if your competitor happened to catch the ear of the right prosecutor, you could be in heaps of trouble.

I hope that you do report this - your competitor honestly sounds like a scumbag. But, because he/she sounds like such a scumbag, they may not fade gracefully into obscurity. Protect yourself accordingly.
I agree, but most major space-faring nations are democracies, which tend toward a popularity contest with respect to issues. It's just not exciting enough for the average voter to support large expenditures without a fantastic story.
Coral cached version: http://conal.net.nyud.net:8080/blog/posts/can-functional-pro...
0F of course. We get pretty cold here.

When some youtuber is camping out in 'sub-zero' temps, I smile. We call it 'warm' in Iowa when it gets above freezing in winter.
Slow government is like reducing the clock of your cpu in order to protect against security vulnerabilities

Step debugging is exactly that: slowing down the execution enough so that errors in the process become apparent before the program reaches its fatal state.

I disagree that it's a non-sequitur. What you want is for government to move slower than its observing processes, otherwise you can't prevent disasters, only correct them after-the-fact. Whether that means slowing down government or speeding up transparency (e.g. journalism/foia requests) is open for debate, but slow(ish) government is essential to the process of checks and balances.
Legally that's a fair argument, but there's an ethical hazard in law enforcement catalyzing a crime that may not otherwise occur, in order to bag a person who may not otherwise be a criminal.

Some of those setups discriminate based on ethnicity, such as those that target Islamic radicals and black nationalists. In my mind, this further deepens the ethical quandary.

Sometimes a solution in search of a problem is itself a problem.

"...the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) have approached multiple activists organizing for justice for George Floyd—who was killed by Minneapolis police officers—and have alternatively attempted to entrap them or pushed them to work as informants."

http://hrlr.law.columbia.edu/hrlr-online/the-anatomy-of-a-fe...
hm how so? I just assumed they're using something like moment for relative time https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/fromnow/
They fully expect it to survive the night - it'll have survived identical conditions in pre-launch testing - and thus there's no need to rush through the other steps.
The new Flight Simulator is an upgraded version of the engine that dates back to at least 1990s, if not earlier, and traces of the fact are obvious. Legacy aerodynamics simulation from Flight Simulator X (2006) is included and fully functional. Air traffic control system introduced in Flight Simulator 2002 is also there with minor changes throughout the years. Even some artwork is 20+ years old, such as "737-400_scenery_t1.bmp" texture map[1] for a fictional 737-400 that came with Flight Simulator 2000[2]. I guess they forgot to remove it, or left it for backwards compatibility reasons.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/KnP1NKl

[2] https://microsoft-flight-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Orbit_Air...
Roads are still roads though. And they get pretty full now. Imagine rush hour with twice the traffic.