jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The tailgate in a standard truck actually helps with aerodynamics by encouraging the laminar airflow over the cab to continue rearward rather than mixing with turbulent flow in the rear. While it can intuitively appear more aerodynamic, driving with the tailgate down actually significantly increases drag.

I agree though that the shape of the cybertruck, especially with the cover, should be a significant improvement.
I had 2 twitter old accounts over the years, I stopped using twitter and I end up having both disabled. I messaged their support but got no answer.
>Stratfor is not the military-industrial complex.

No, it's just a tool it uses and with ties to governments, foreign diplomacy, policy makers etc. And it's not only about Statfor, it's about sending a message against this kind of journalism and against meddling with this kind of institutions and interests.

Whether "serious foreign policy journalists, made fun of Stratfor" doesn't say much. They also make fun of the CIA as incompetents who couldn't predict things like the fall of the Soviet Union and so on...
Tube costs under a fiver (~hour). National express costs around a tenner (~half hour). If you take a non-booked taxi from an airport and it's not an emergency then you're a fool or rich, frankly.

$500+ a week (double that for the return) is a phenomenal amount of money to spend on commuting. If you value your time at $50 an hour and someone else is paying, then sure it may be worth it, but this won't scale simply because its impractically expensive for most people.

But I agree, $99 for a helicopter ride over New York is probably a lot cheaper than the experience companies.
Please keep in mind, the USA is not the only supplier of these parts/components.
> from Manhattan to JFK and Newark Liberty Airports cut the travel time from 2-hours to 6 minutes for about the same price as many black cars

A helicopter flight is cool, sure...

...but "2 hours" is complete nonsense. Even if traffic is terrible, you can always take LIRR+AirTrain from Penn Station to JFK for less than $15, and it's basically guaranteed to take 35 min or less, straight to your desired terminal. Heck, I took it this morning, and there was a new train every 10 min.

And most people are going to find it quicker to get to Penn St than to get to the heliport in the first place, so it doesn't even have an advantage there...
Slightly related - SimTower was originally created as an elevator simulator - if you right click on an elevator engine room in the game you get a wealth of programming options
I live these days 15 min of lazy walk from Paddington and i prefer the express over a car due to the fact that it's much quicker.

There is the connect which is about 60-70% of the rate of the Express but it tends not to run late at night, and every time there are any works done on the line it takes a back seat to the express.

The problem with the Piccadilly line is that it takes ages, it doesn't run late (service stops around 11pm and doesn't renew till about 5.30ish iirc) and it's the most delayed line of the tube system, especially the parts towards Heathrow. So many people don't take it, most people that do are young people that take it during the middle of the day since it's also when most of the low cost airliners operate.

I think that most people in London at this point are just used to paying the premium of living in London even tho at this point i don't really see a point for that. The salaries are double at least than pretty much anywhere else in the UK, but the cost of living is also at least as high.
Who actually uses Box? Does anyone here use their service? Do they have some submarket cornered?

Most of what I hear about them is related to their IPO or recruitment.
We did the same, but used iTunes shares. My machine ran a really fantastic service called mt-daapd, which would periodically scan a folder, then offer everything up on iTunes (I should clarify. iTunes was used as a client to listen to the music, mt-daapd ran on a linux box under my desk).

There was a software called "ourtunes" that would let you download things from these shares. It was amazing. People would name their libraries things like "room 204"...it had a great community feel to it :).
It never meant anything before. Even a focused laser can be pulsed, diffused, or reflected before it hits its target.
That's a great idea. I think we have some mutual friends. I'll see if i can get to him.
I completely disagree. The classical approach you mention has been tried many times, most famously by the Cyc Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc) without great results. AFAIK, nowadays the "no-model, pure statistical" approach is the norm
Surprised? After seeing their "4chan/hacker" news with scenes of exploding vans (with a "demonstration only" label underneath), they're not going to shock me... Does that really work on an average person?
yes, I like having some time between shutting it off and deleting the data as something of a last-ditch contact effort... It's just if that time is long, the expense needs to be paid for some how.
>American's (myself included) are too terrified of losing our cars or making oil unaffordable to demand reasonable regulation on the industry or investment in real alternative technologies.

Let's save the America self-hate for now. We're not the only country in the world that uses oil.
"it was designed to restrict the kind of trouble programmers can get themselves into"

Every programming language is designed to restrict trouble programmers can get into. The key is that they all have different ideas of trouble.
So there's one fibonacci sequence benchmark that's faster? Come on.

The issue with Ruby is that the things that make it so nice (all of the great object model and meta-programming additions) also bring a certain level of overhead. If it was such a simple task to optimize then the MagLev guys would have produced a kick ass speedy Ruby years ago, based on all of the things that they know about Smalltalk VMs. That said, if Apple has the resources to make MacRuby as fast as Objective C then holy crap; I'd be on that like white on rice.

I don't believe for a moment that Apple would ever use Lua as their systems language of choice; more that I personally thought it would be a great pick. As much as I love Ruby I seriously doubt that Apple would ever be able to squeeze the required performance out of it; the language itself is the problem, not the implementation. Look at all of the work that's gone into producing fast Ruby VMs over the last several years . . . Really, there's low hanging fruit out there and Ruby just doesn't make sense in this context.
(sigh)

Dude, seriously... who's talking about invading Iceland? Are you out of your mind? I never even suggested that!!!

Did the MPAA / RIAA mafia need the U.S. military to invade Sweden to shut down The Pirate Bay's servers a few years ago? That's right, they didn't. They merely contacted their obedient, corrupted "friends" in Washington D.C., and had the U.S. government pressure the Swedish government, and the Swedish government had the Swedish police raiding The Pirate Bay... even though Stockholm is way out of U.S. jurisdiction.

Sweden has professional armed forces, defense and high-tech industries, natural resources, land. Sweden needs the U.S. less than Iceland does. This means that the U.S. can pressure Iceland whenever it wants, and Iceland will obey because the small and the weak don't make the rules. International relations are, essentially, bullying. It sucks, but being in denial won't help.
When the TSA Agent said he wasn't detained yet refused to return his stuff, was that not theft?
he probably told this story many other times before
Though for the most part you have a point, I'm not sure if denying him water counts as 'doing their jobs'.
It really seems like "Flying While Brown" is this century's "Driving While Black". These and similar stories are shocking and demeaning all involved.

Since the OP is here, and it wasn't totally clear in the story, I'm just wondering: if and when did you point out you were a Hindu not a Muslim†, and whether doing so and possibly additionally pointing out the historical enmity between those two groups might have helped or hindered.

And it seems minor amongst everything else, but them making jokes about your credit card in that situation really pisses me off. Its adding insult to injury. However, it seems to me that people make jokes when they are uncomfortable. That guard probably was uncomfortable with that he was doing, and if he was, maybe he should complain to their bosses, stop doing their job in that way and/or quit.

† Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I do not condone this intimidating, brown-shirted bullshit for anyone; I'm just wondering if it is possible to get away from being pigeon-holed.
Simpsons already did it.
That's one of the reasons I've never liked torrentfreak as a news source. A lot of their writing is also just focusing on worst-case scenarios. If you read torrentfreak daily you'd probably believe the internet is about to collapse as we know it any second.
Don't know about you, but I already switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh 2011.

One of the reasons (after unlimited p2p sync and 5GB cloud sync) was the ability to sync ANY regular folder on my HDD...

Turns out they didn't consider the UI as too confusing or complicated.
It's also possible to change the plist files to get TRIM support on third party SSD's. I am currently running a Intel 320 SSD with TRIM enabled on my Macbook (according to System Profiler). The utility can be found here http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322
I don't want to find prime ministers born before 1955 with backgrounds in anything.

Usually when I'm visualizing information, it's at work. I want a tool that lets me pull data in from my database, from news aggregators, from emails, and visualize that. Why must ever neat visualization tool be consumer focused? I don't think the market is there, but I know it is for people at work.
You can achieve the same effect with smoking pauses:

1. your mouth isn't stuffed and you can and want to talk during smoking. It's reflexive - as soon as you light the cigarette you're looking for a conversation;

2. you have more pauses per day;

3. the pauses are shorter;

Are there any downsides? Well, some say it's unhealthy... Anyway, I'm not smoking anymore, but back when I was, we solved lots of problems and came up with tons of ideas while smoking.
The problem with decoupling amnesty for illegals and high skilled immigration is that the administration doesn't care about high skilled immigration. Illegal immigrants, were they to become legal, will vote Dem. Thus Dems favor it, Reps oppose it. High skilled immigrants don't show a large bias, neither party gets a political advantage from high skilled immigration, so it goes nowhere.

However, don't think that work authorization will stop innovation from fleeing the country. I'm a US Citizen, and I'm leaving the US to start a business in India in few weeks. My partners are both Indians with a green card.

It would be preferable for us to start our business in the US. We'd love to hire unemployed low skill Americans to act as mechanical turks for us (we need quite a bit of AAI). Their cultural knowledge would certainly be superior to Indian college students (important, since the US is our target market). But Americans are simply too expensive - the business wouldn't be feasible at US minimum wage rates, let alone wages high enough to convince Americans to give up unemployment benefits and come back to work.
Yep. The algorithm is: there is a leap day for every year divisible by 4, unless the year is also divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400, then there is a still leap day.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu Ventures R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
> Open source tools can now compile C++ into silicon (with caveats).

Woah, really? This seems ... impossible, right?
Higher minimum wage is a subsidy for tech companies though. A better policy would be UBI rather than higher minimum wage.
I believe he's talking about Voxel Quest [0], which was on HN some time ago. I see what he means, it has clearly been a big time investment.

[0] http://www.voxelquest.com
Yes but 5% of false positive raise the price of this a lot for a large scale campaign.
Is there any implication in TFA that this would work? It appears to work on a pathway which converts collagen to bone, if that is already happening, would adding this drug make it happen more? is there any "more" to happen?
Thanks for the morning chuckle.
"Basically everything in FB has one main goal: Ads"

Is this actually true, or a glib answer? Ads certainly don't feel like much of the FB experience, nowhere near the level of Google, or even Twitter. They're negligible, really.

Whereas shaping the feed and identifying people in pics, etc, is central to the FB experience.
Huh, apparently this is the first time I zoom in on a site that only uses the default browser font. Turns out, Firefox on Mac changes from Times New Roman to just Times when zooming in—so that the font proportions suddenly change.
> What always baffles me is the term fanboy, how in this day and age do we still have people believing/having faith in a company.

"in this day and age"

Where things different at some point? Or where you simply less familiar with other times?
Its the man who designed the original protocols with expressed purpose of allowing anyone to have the ability to publishing information and link it in an open, democratic way. He also too extreme pains to make sure the work was open, unencumbered by patents etc and widely available.

You fact you;ve just types what you have means you absolutely do owe the fucking fossil something, you ingrate.
I would counter with the fact that in physical endeavors it's apparent to us that we are not #1 - our household cats are more agile than us.

It's in matters of intellect that humans still believe they are #1.

AlphaGO's achievement in another field would have similar effects, e.g.:

- An AI that diagnoses sickness better than any doctor

- An AI that generates text which humans believe more beautiful than any other poetry created

- An AI which creates classical arrangements the likes of which we compare to Mozart

I would imagine that in any of those situations some doctors, authors, and musicians alike would be devastated.
Well heck, if we're going to stretch the analogy why not a mouse trap?
It's true, I've recenlty found some interesting open source projects while browsing Google Summer of Code accepted organizations.
Check how many khash/s do you process and use this calculator http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php to estimate how long you'll have to wait to get bitcoins with 95% probability.

I currently have 150 000 khash/s on Radeon HD 6850 And I'm hoping to see 50 bitcoins per two months (I don't run my computer 24/7).

Six core AMD 1090T does only 9 000 khash/s so with two cores of laptop you'll see your first mined bitcoin exactly 5 seconds after hell freezes over. ;-)
Even if different properties have different profiles, Google will still have access to each more then enough data to create these clever integrations in the future. I don't even mind if they have a hidden 'aggregate' profile they use for those features.

The frustration comes from removing the option of customizing my profile for each service.
That doesn't make any sense. You're saying you have made some sort of value judgement, presumably based on logic and information, but if someone sends you a piece of propaganda you'd totally change your position? You don' t play poker, do you?
And if you are not the CEO the head of product comes to the CEO and says "my team needs this" and then you ship it.

Spending political capital on something that "the entire industry uses!!" doesn't usually align with my incentives.
But of course it would also introduce security holes currently unimagined

I would argue that at least some of those holes were indeed imagined, that’s why iOS works the way it does and not the way parent would like.
I love HN but I think you're giving it too much credit on this one.

Many (most?) of the conversations I see on here around crypto are copiously littered with straight FUD. Very little arguing on the actual nuances and intricacies of crypto. Seemingly low understanding / imagination of the possibilities allowed by the underlying concepts. Histrionics about power consumption in every thread.

Disclosure: I liquidated my crypto positions last year, and currently hold $0 worth of cryptocurrency.
It makes sense to consider the lowest number amongst browsers in fairly common use when considering the limit. IE7 may not be a "modern browser", but it's still one in widespread enough use that we have to support it. (It was only in IE8 that MS bumped the limit to 6.)
Thanks! That's one of the things I'm loving about the RoR community, all the nice, helpful people. :-)
I took CS at University of Wisconsin. Yes, you could collaborate and chat with your classmates, but copying/sharing code was absolutely not allowed. Maybe schools are more lax now, but I would frown upon copy and paste education.

Developing myself as an independent thinker was one of the most important things I took away from college.
I used to be; reading this article was one of the catalysts for a serious rethink of how I was spending my time, what I was focusing on in life, & my state of mind in general.
When I was 13, I thought I was an excellent programmer because I could use inline assembly in Pascal to put my graphics card into VESA mode and draw circles. I gave everybody advice, with absolute confidence. My geocities web page was full of tips and tutorials.

Now, at 27 I think there are many things I should improve upon and many things I have to learn. Isn't it sad how much worse I've gotten in those 14 years?

(For the sarcasm impaired: < http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1343 >)
Has anyone thought of the impact of tourism. I'm in Australia and there has been a bit of a campaign to spend your holidays in California on the tv. I was deciding to take the family to Europe or the US, after hearing all the travel problems the US has - Europe here we come. I'm not the only one.
Good point on the redownloading part: I'd have to look into the actual numbers, if the homepage-primed connection count is still only 1 it's definitely worth it.

However, I disagree about the low benefit of minifying gzipped CSS. I thought the same thing too until I ran some tests. For example:

34K v6core.css.gz
27K v6core.min.css.gz

I ran your core CSS file through YUI compressor and then gzip. 7k of savings, over 20%, definitely seems worth it.
Pure self-defense, sure, no legal guilt and no public shame. Privately, who knows? They were both 'nice guys' BTW.
Interestingly, there is a thread on RWT that talked about this where Linus Torvalds was involved. It seems that it wasn't until 486DX2 in 1992 that x86 was beginning to beat RISC and even 68040 on the lower end. And remember that 33Mhz 386s did not even arrive until 1989 or so.
Spend time with her while you still have the chance. The 'my parents are stupid and my friends know better' years will be there before you know it.
The CSSTransitionGroup component that comes with the React "addons" is very useful.
I truly didn't; the use of the word "device" and the word "canceling" hints at something active. I've not heard of foam before referred to as a "device".
That links to the Surface Pro 3, which has been out for sometime now. You wanted: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/products/surface-3
Maybe the problem is, that hiring companies think that programmers like Carmack or Torvalds are so plentiful that even they have a chance to score one of them.
I've tried doing this by practicing NodeJS lately... But it looks like I need to publish code in GitHub to prove that I'm not a charlatan. It's rough doing that in addition to a job and a side project though
Thanks a lot for pointing me at this. While NES is the goal, I definitely need to take baby steps first!
Hm, I didn't realize that dotCloud was acquired after they switched to being Docker, Inc.:

http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-paas-joins-cloudcontrol
The one freedom the GPL doesn't have is the freedom to take the freedom away. In BSD and similar you easily can. It is the taking away of freedom that is at the crux of all this.
I fully expect this to happen, said so to friends after the second movie. Just have to wait for the studio to wring out the trilogy version money first.
The claim here is that $10M is the wrong number to look at for inherited wealth and for a systemically enshrined class. That happens somewhere between 0.1% and 0.01%.

1% makes a great campaign slogan, but is similarly picked from the air. If one wanted to find 'the number' related to the Bourgeoisie - it would be near 0.05%.
Credit is a feature rather than a bug in the existing system

And Bitcoin actually adds a horizontal layer: the average person needs to go to an exchange to get BTC[1]. Assuming they don't want to wait for the funds to clear, they're relying on credit to obtain the BTC (otherwise they're speculating on the price of an extremely volatile asset whilst they wait, which is hardly an improvement). They then pay the BTC to an entity that almost certainly converts them instantly back to USD via Coinbase/BitPay which again involves the extension of credit and acceptance of counterparty risk. The transaction may well involve more intermediaries than doing it in dollars.

Sure, converting between regular currency and BTC currently involves lower spreads/fees than mainstream payment processors. But that's not the magic of the blockchain revolution; that's the exchanges' having an altogether different approach to risk management, regulation and near-term profitability than the mainstream processors

[1]Or they could buy ASICs, I suppose, or go work for a funky startup that pays bonuses in BTC. But for everyone else, there's MasterCard
I wasn't making any conclusions. What's aggressive or unnecessary about explaining how I felt when I read his article? You felt differently than I did reading it.

Also, freeloading is, by far, how most people and organizations use open source, so it's not exactly a unique situation.
Stallman appears to make himself out to be a Capitalist with positions like this -- he simply takes profits in the furtherance of his cause rather than in dollars, and uses procedural controls like the GPL rather than technological controls like obfuscated binaries to do so.

That said, personally, I think the GPL has both helped and harmed the evolution of computing.
CMake is another useful tool. It has fewer dependencies than SCons and is significantly faster. The only downside is that CMake scripting has a steeper learning curve because it is so different than other build systems. On the other hand, it allows one to configure and build portable code across Windows, OS X, Linux, and other flavors of Unix.
I think there’s a lot of potential in this idea.
Using these argument we all should write code in Rust for its performance and safety. But people keeps using JavaScript because it's very approachable and good enough.

Let's go to icon font. All I do is include a font and use it, I can set color and style it.

It's has 99% features that *I* need, I don't need advanced features that SVG offers and I don't like to embed SVG directly into our HTML code or has separate SVG files. Icon font is a great hack to me.
Regardless it looks like anyone choosing Aurora should not hold their breath for Mysql 8 or Postgres 10+ compatibility. Seems like only one major version bump has happened since they launched the first one (Mysql 5.6-to-5.7).

Which is fine. It can just be a little confusing as they drift and the caveats grow.
Is the value of the art in the titanium lcd or in the pixels themselves?
My experience with MSFT is that the account reps are clueless by design. Even the sales assistants with fancy technical titles are short of clues. Easier for them to oversell when they don’t know what’s really going on underneath. We have to go 3 or 4 deep into their product org to find someone who will fess up to product issues that we are already aware of.