jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
not in the same vein as "it'll never work", but, arthur-eddington's heavy-handed approach to subramanyam-chandrashekar's theory on maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star (chandrashekhar's-limit), seems to have set back cosmology by at least couple of decades.
what is kind of interesting, is that, lot's of luminaries f.e. bohr, fowler, pauli etc. agreed with his (chandra's) analysis, but owing to reputation of eddington, were unwilling to support him publicly.

an excellent book by arthur-miller (empire-of-stars) is quite fascinating
The purple, blue and green-suited mascots in the foreground of the photo on the linked page are neat-looking.

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gen/4784616521/

More photos featuring the same characters from the event:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fjoerfoks/5142119185/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fjoerfoks/5142111909/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fjoerfoks/5142708312/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fjoerfoks/5142103071/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fjoerfoks/5142096079/
Pylon's unit testing guidelines was a very insightful read. Thanks!
The slaves may delay applying the transaction, but the data is already on the slave machine. As the article points out, the data gets written to the WAL on the slave before the transaction is committed on the master. The slave might not update the database from the WAL immediately, but the data is on the slave in case the master goes down.

Basically, it means that there is the potential for replication lag and so you have to make sure you query from the master for just-updated data. However, it also means that if the master goes down, any data committed on the master is already on the slave in the WAL, just possibly not applied yet. So, it doesn't isolate you from replication lag, but it is a nice thing when it comes to making sure that the data remains intact even if a complete failure of the master occurs.
OK. Let's get back to some basic vocabulary:

What is a table.

For sure, it is thing.
And for sure it is an object too.

What is "the plan to build a table"
For sure it is something, hence it is a thing.

But is it an object?

Well, if the plan is printed on a piece of paper, then for sure it is an object.
OTOH, if the plan for the table is in the head of some designer, then it is not an object, it's... an idea.

So basically, you have two planes (at least), the "physical plane", where object lie, very tangible, very concreate, and the "idea plane" where ideas lie, very abstract.

So, is 9 an object or and idea?

In CS, things that lie in the "idea plan" are called "values". That's probably because we don't hold it (yet) that computers can have ideas ;)

See also http://virteal.com/ObjectVersusValue
Interesting question.

I would try do diversify more aggressively than Google seems to be doing presently. Even though Google has a excellent grip on the search market, market share in the internet arena has been demonstratedly ephemeral in some cases, so diversifying more aggressively is a hedging strategy. Specifically:

Continue to concentrate on making search better, more useful, faster, etc., as number one priority.

Start two new independent clean-slate next-gen mobile OS efforts, in case they are needed, that are closed, in case that is an important advantage.

Acquire wind turbine generator technology firms

Buy up many transportation efficiency startups, i.e., new electric motors, improved internal combustion motors, new transmission, new battery, system integrators, etc.

Invest in hydraulic hybrid technology; buy patents, startups, etc.

As other have mentioned, leverage the massive amounts of data Google has to advance NLP and related, and try to figure out a way to make money from it

Fund three startups the goal of creating a hybrid drive conversion that would turn an existing car into a hybrid car in a cost effective manner

Fund a few internet education startups, look for opportunities in education area generally.
But the problem with your argument is that, at least according to the article, the kids don't have a problem with the book. It's just one parent who doesn't like it and is preventing it from being assigned.
Yes there are some genuine problems with the idea, but nothing in the realm of impossibility IMO. It will need a reasonable amount of investment and time.

The thing about education system is that everyone knows its a problem and everyone knows it needs to be fixed but no one wants to be the first to jump in to it (I don't think Khan Academy counts).

I think the first effort is important and whoever does it first needs to set an example for everyone else to follow.
That's because the source is the plan to build a table, whereas the .o file is the table itself. Tables are objects, plans to build tables are ideas.
Why is support limited at all?

I would have thought that displaying up to N pixels - where N is much higher than the number of pixels in an 8K display - would generally be possible.
Really great read... I used to write a lot of JScript in classic ASP, as well as the MS script runtime in windows... I think the only really ugly part was when you had to deal with COM enumerations. I also used to use hidden frames as post targets and use JSONP-like callbacks into request queues... most often I'd use the ADO option which allows for a response to be serialized into a string specifying a field and row delimiter.. I'd have my client-side script split this out. I also remember it being much faster early on to fully re-render a frame vs. manipulating the DOM for a lot of things. DHTML while supporting NN4/IE4 was a pain.

I couldn't be happier for where JS has come.. I use node's tooling daily, and although I do use BabelJS for ES6 features, I find it to be a very good fit (with more functional thinking) for a lot of problems.
There's still a maximum level of complexity for presentations (here: HTML presentation of a set of data). That level is independent of the content. Anything above that is just irritating for the viewing persons.

This is especially true for web sites which should at least look as simple as possible. So in principle, there should be always a way to produce HTML whose DOM structure isn't too complicated, no matter what the content is.
Fark headline of the day! Way to go, subby!
Yep, hook it up!

http://jarinudom.com

jarin.udom @ gmail.com
Looks like this is a Hosted Reddit install?
Is there an About page, or other information to know how it's different than /r/startups? ;)
If it were mining and drilling policy, perhaps. But this is more about energy policy.
I'd really like one, but I only have a Github account.

Github: http://github.com/scriptor/
historium at gmail
Ugh. Your time must be pretty darn important if we should get petroleum out of the earth, turn it into dishware, haul it to your home, haul it from your home and into the landfill just to save you the two minutes it would take to actually wash the stuff.

Part of being a grownup is learning to enjoy living responsibly.
A good read on this topic: John Carmack's .plan entry from 14 Oct 1998. He writes about replay as a development tool, how it's necessary to record time, and how journaling inputs "turns a realtime application into a batch process".
One of the neatest ways replays are implemented is in MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). The replay is recorded by just recording all of the inputs given to the emulator during the course of the game. Since the entire system is deterministic, you can watch a replay by having MAME just play back the game with the inputs stored in the file.
This had a different name and domain name and was posted here before, right? If not, it looks identical to a site that was (and covered the same topic).
I guess if I really needed to, I could make some argument that connected stories like this to the forces that either support or cripple innovation. I realize that the crowd that reads Hacker News is mostly into software, but Hacker News is also an important website for anyone who is into innovation and entrepreneurialism. Some people who read Hacker News have ideas for startups that, if successful, would come up under the regulatory review of the FDA. As such, the heavy-handed tactics that the US government uses against anything drug related becomes a block on innovation in that field. An entrepreneur contemplating some new bio-tech, say some interesting use of new proteins from bio-engineered stem cells or bacteria, has to feel a chill when reading an article like this.

The problem is that the government's actions appear to be both arbitrary and heavy-handed, meaning that even when an entrepreneur has good reasons for taking whatever action they take, they may not be given a fair chance to explain themselves.

Hacker News sometimes upvotes articles that are not about software or startups, but they are about the US economy. This article (above) could be tied into that category of posts. After all, the USA is at risk of getting a very uneven form of innovation. If everyone who wants to do a startup dealing with drugs has to face (or their customers have to face) arbitrary actions from the government, whereas those entrepreneurs working with software face very little regulatory review, then the USA is going to get a lot of innovation with software, and relatively little innovation in fields in which drugs are involved. We will have an abundance of small web startups and a shortage of small biotech startups.

For a variety of reasons, too long to cover in this comment, it would be better for the USA, and the world, if innovation could happen evenly across all sectors, so that the only brake on entrepreneurs was their own imaginations.
Maybe you could do a chat roulette where instead of blocking the penis, you embrace it. Well, not embrace it. You don't want to touch it. Eeew. I just meant that... oh nevermind.

I agree with top comment. A startup is a startup. You only have so many resources though (time and money) so make sure this is the area in which you could kill it the most.

Just like with any startup, look for something which you can improve on. Except for bigger boobs. They can go bigger, but they are already big enough on the sites which specialize in those things!
You made a valid argument with your first comment, but your second comment ("furthermore...") has nothing at all to do with the article or SEO. Go troll somewhere else.
As mikecane pointed out - get your book on Amazon. I've found that 80% of my book sales come via Amazon - if possible put out an ebook version and a publish-on-demand through them as well as people still do go for the physical book often enough to make it worth the small investment in time to get both set up.

You do have to deal with Amazon taking their cut of the sales but they have the market size to more than make up for this.

ebook: http://dtp.amazon.com
publish-on-demand: http://www.createspace.com
Agreed. I get enormous benefit from Skype for next to nothing so the criticisms seem somewhat unjustified since most people fall into the same bucket (free.) It's still an excellent service IMO.
I have no experience selling a startup, so my opinion is probably not worth much...

1. Running a company isn't the same as building a startup. Two different skill sets, for the most part.

2. On to the next thing. Unless my startup is fighting some huge, globally important problem, I'd rather take the money and put it towards something that is more relevant.

Just think what Zuckerberg could do with billions of dollars towards a serious issue. Staying at Facebook isn't a bad thing, per se, but with that sort of financial power one could really make a bigger difference than connecting people online.
I think they just hire great people and trust them. The designer of the LDS website is someone who I look up to, wrt/design: http://www.cameronmoll.com/portfolio/
Also, he can get away with much simpler / basic tricks because people aren't expecting it. It's more of a prank that uses magic than the traditional magic as an art form.
>I don't see how much more open and free (as in speech) it can get without taking away someone else's ability to do what they want with their computer.

Do you understand why some of us are viewing this problem through an anti-trust or public utility lens now?

In other words, "I don't understand how much more open and free (as in electricity) it can get without taking away someone else's ability to do what they want with their power plant."

It's really, really unfortunate that this debate was triggered for what are at their base partisan political reasons. Because this is a debate we should have had with cooler heads, about what these services actually represent for human society and how government should interact with this technology. Instead, everyone is drawing a line in the sand based on their politics (not saying you are doing this, but others clearly are).

And look, yeah, I get it. "Electricity" is not "speech". But when you need electricity and you need computers to transmit speech in the modern era ... well I guess I just see it as six of one and a half dozen of the other.
Plenty of kubernetes use cases where fetching some http resource and storing the result in a shared volume where some other container can access it.
i.e.:
* InitContainer in a pod
* step in an Argo Workflow
Discussed at the time (of the article, not the history):

A bit of XENIX history - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604134 - April 2014 (35 comments, some by ex-SCO employees including cstross!)
For use in Kubernetes containers?
"without fear of personal liability"

You see no issue with that, seriously?
It's hard to reduce your air travel if you don't actually fly. Nearly half of the UK's population didn't take a flight abroad in 2018 [1].

Just making the point that your lifestyle might not be representative so be careful when making arguments based on it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/1-of-eng... [1]
I'm not the OP but I have been using Libby with my public library's access (I live in Vancouver), and they have an incredible selection of books you can borrow for 3w. Few people know about this, but it's really worth checking if your library has something similar
Considering AMDs software chops, I guess that won’t be coming from them.
It has wireless charging.
> government official performing a government job because they are required to by the government should not then be ordered by the government's court system to pay restitution for damages caused by the government's ordered action

There is a lot of grey area in qualified immunity. Government officials actions are protected so long as they are legal. If someone knowingly orders an illegal action, qualified immunity no longer applies. If someone knowingly follows an illegal order, they too may bear burden. (If they unknowingly follow an illegal order, we enter the greyer shades of grey.)

(Edited.)
There's no such thing as a trivial OS upgrade, and so long as 10.5 is supported and runs the stuff I need to run, I don't have a compelling reason to go to the trouble of upgrading.
Correct - the various companies have been re-orged into a slightly separate entity called "Slashdot Media":

http://slashdotmedia.com
This author completely misses the value in the liberal arts, which I'm saying as a computer science major. Definitely my best decision was to study CS as part of a liberal arts curriculum (where 1/2 of my courses have nothing to do with CS). This is really how it should be done.

Sadly, the liberal arts are dying out (or, in the case of the UK, don't exist at the university level). In such a system, I'd actually encourage people to study the arts, not engineering. It's easy enough to simultaneously learn to code and put bread on the table from that. (Most useful technical skills are learned outside the classroom.)

Until the non-classroom resources for learning the liberal arts rival those for learning CS, in an either-or situation (like the author's) one should definitely study the arts.
Hmm , so who will be the new boss ? I think it should have been Sinofsky. He delivered W7 which the best Windows ever period ( and i'm a linux fanboy ). W8 was not that great but i dont think he designed that whole Metro fiasco, Metro came from the top. Anyway good luck MSFT.
Languages are a tool. They are fun to learn. I always want to use something new on a new project but then I realize that I need to get it done and I need to find people that can maintain it.

That takes the fun out of it. I do think that one can safely bet on scala or go and have fun.

If you have the right architecture you can be as polyglot as you'd like. It's just risky from a maintenance standpoint.
I kind of agree. I completely agree that confidence/arrogance is a male-associated trait and so we see more male incompetent managers, but it isn't a "woman" problem that they are incompetent and bad, it's an everbody-but-the-arrogant-ones problem. I'm not convinced you can solve it "for woman"; solve it in general and the gender problem will resolve itself.
She also wrote:

"Computer science, technology and physics just did not figure in my teenage world view. Nobody popular in my school chose to study those subjects."

She gave more weight to the peer pressure from other teenage girls, especially from the popular girls, than she gave to the word of her teacher. Not very uncommon.

Peer pressure on what is considered "cool" vs. "lame" is a strong force in teenagers. I don't know if it's fair to say that every teenager who is not immune to that is not accepting personal responsibility.
You've got a point. I'll edit it to say "terrible". How's that?
You read angry and hateful comments for fun or to make you feel good about yourself because at least you're not that bad?
I predict Marissa Mayer, will take the mantle.
Why the following: "the selection pressure at the individual level tends to outweigh the pressure at the group level".

Also, I wonder if built in variability with social roles (e.g. a human might be a leader or follower for reasons NOT determined by genetics -- debatable, but I/ many others would hold that early childhood and culture might trump DNA in many important cases ) might alter the equations? Perhaps we evolve past genetic determinism in order to allow for larger group structures to feel the selection pressure more than individuals.

If I had another lifetime, I would study evolution enough to know what I am talking about.... Thanks for the interesting comment
a hacker wastes her precious life-time on whatever she damn well likes.
The fbi didn’t screw this up the capital police is. It’s not like they were hamstrung by dhs...they were ready for BLM marches
Smart writing won’t be in formal and difficult-to-understand journal articles, but in the profanity-laced angry rants you’ll find on someone’s blog. That’s where the smart people are, even if everybody else just thinks they’re dumb.

The trouble with this principle is, by Sturgeon's law, you are forced to sift through the 90+% of profanity-laced angry rants that aren't worth anything to find the few that are actually worthwhile.
though the researchers (the Ph.Ds) are very infrequently the students' lecturers.

Who does teach at these Universities? Almost all my lecturers where either current researchers or former researchers currently focusing on writing and teaching. I can only think of one or two courses where the lecturer didn't at least have (or was working towards) a relevant PhD.
My iPad beeps with every keystroke and it seems to have a few other MovieOS features.

I'm really looking forward to the infinite zoom and one-click ticket change applications.
How so? I appreciate corrections.
looking at the front page and the about text, I still have no idea what this is. "secure network" suggests it's something about a VPN, but the example looks like some sort of private social network. I think it would help to clarify what exactly the product is on the front page with more familiar phrasing.

the idea looks nice though.
It's considered an insight because a year ago HN was raging with debates over whether Android might be a viable competitor to iOS, or whether it would be stillborn. Now, "everyone knows" Android's going to win.
Go to http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=10smom
I just bought it. They nailed the title! It's probably the most awesome book I've ever read. My daughter needs it in her library.
Only partially. Take a look at DOM interpretations for HTML's flavor of XML: that sort of [b][text]a word[/text][/b] markup is precisely what it interprets [b]a word[/b] as. Because that's what it means.

And in any case, in order to handle truly inline content you've still got to correctly detect such in-line code, and label it as separate from regular text which just looks like inline code. Which means escaping. Which means

"text {b:'bold text'} more text"

is the same solution, with the same problems.

>Here is XML's sweet spot (using square brackets to keep everything un-mungable by the angle-bracket chewers in my current tool chain):

Sweet spot, in that parsers usually just assume everything which looks like code is code, even when the spec allows for other ways, forcing people to fake it with things like square brackets.

edit: whups. Editors, not parsers, are primarily responsible for such mangling, by making it hard to insert code-as-text. The problem with inline markup still exists, however.
Similar to "The User is Drunk ... with friends, at a bar, not at home on the couch alone on the internet."
Isn't your government incredibly conservative at the moment?
Thanks for sharing. Reading and thinking about this makes me feel rather relieved about the 'Do Not Resusciate' status a close person to me had before dying.
There are valid arguments on all sides of this:

- That desktop browsers can be less secure

- That software can work around that

- That mobile can be more secure

- That mobile can also be false security as "0 days" are currently in the wild and mobile phones are typically always online

- Etc.

If you truly want security, there's a really compelling argument for live-booting a distro like https://tails.boum.org/ and then rebooting when you're done. On the other side there are compelling phones such as the Libre 5 (assuming there are no current 0 days).
I have a gift card in my wallet that you can have for a fraction of what it is for. I need nothing from the store issuing the gift card but I would like booze from the shop around the corner or cash for some contraband substances.

The store issuing the gift card is out of the town center and I have had it for ages. Make me an offer and, if I get enough booze or contraband for now/tonight then I am happy.
Perhaps it is because our government does not have unlimited power to seize property, and the order against TikTok was not legal? Just because the executive branch makes an order, or our legislative branch makes a law, or for that matter, a judge makes a ruling, does not mean that it will not be overturned under judicial review. Our entire system in the US is based on individual rights being protected from the collective will.
The interest rate is locked for the duration of the loan. The fees can vary according to how much money the bank feels like making this year.

Since there are quite large expenses associated with refinancing the mortgage most people put up with this.
Do GNU Units handle units with implicit parameters?

For example, 1500 mAh (milliamp∗hours) could be converted to 5.55 Wh (watt∗hours), or 19.98 kJ in SI units, in the context of a 3.7-volt battery.

Naive approach fails:

$ units "1500 milliampere*hours at 3.7 volts" "watt*hours"
conformability error
1.9593687e+09 kg^2 m / s^4
3600 kg m^2 / s^2