skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 35 and have an established reputation as a curmudgeon. When people my age were first getting cell phones, I kept a landline. I eventually came around -- now I have a flip phone ;)

It might help that I'm from a religious tradition closely affiliated with the Amish (Mennonite), and have developed a mentality of being intentional about both adopting new technology and how I use it once I have it. Likewise with social trends -- there are certain sports I enjoy and therefore watch quite a bit, but I have no idea what clothing or TV shows are "hot" this year.
SPOILERS - don't read unless you've read the book:

I read the book earlier this year and I loved it. One thing I had been thinking about though was the carbon nanotube wire and the ship.

Single-atom-thick wires used as knives have shown up in science-fiction before. In Ringworld, for example, a character is decapitated when they run into a nano-wire strung across a path.

In The Three Body Problem, I don't think you could ever 'cut' metal like that with carbon nanotubes - you'd have to overcome the cumulative bonding energies of all of those iron atoms in the ship and I doubt even the ship's engines running at full blast could push hard enough to do that. And that's assuming that a string of nanotubes has the strength to resist all of that tension. Apparently carbon nanotubes can resist about 100000N of tensile force (about a 10000kg weight in earth's gravity), so perhaps it wouldn't break - but I doubt that the metal in the ship would cleave, either.

Is there anyone who knows more about chemistry/solid state physics/materials science to comment?
There's nothing to stop anyone from creating new RR types in djbdns and put anything in them they want.

I edited dnstxt.c many years ago to print new lines, etc. so I could store, retrieve and cache small, _formatted_ ASCII files from a "zone file" as "TXT records" via DNS. They print nicely on the terminal.

And, with dnscurve, you now also have a fast way to encrypt each DNS packet ("small, formatted ASCII file" or whatever you desire) individually in transit.

DNS is just a database that happens to be used for a small set of purposes. It's fast. And almost everyone connected to the internet uses it.
In the last month, off the top of my head:

* Mass arrests of human rights attorneys and dissidents:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/world/asia/china-arrests-h...

* Online political dissent shut down:
http://www.afr.com/technology/social-media/how-china-stopped...
Show HN: Project Cloudly
Most geo data providers (like MaxMind) provide datafile downloads so you don't have to use an API.
I would think next would be including general reletivity in miles per gallon calculations on cars, or adding the mass gained from moving at highway speeds when finding desired tire pressure. It's always fun to throw those in just to confuse people. If anyone questions it, you can honestly say it is a more accurate method.
Note that you could build a simple API with Google App Engine:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/#Request_Head...

and it would likely be free if the number of requests was below a certain threshold per month.
A Java inspired logging module is big on CPAN, at least. :-)
Test Anything Protocol
In a couple year, we are going to have a round table about women issues at the UN and another table about men issues, it's going to be fun to watch both sides argue about a "polemic" subject.

For example:

If a guy impregnates a woman, and she decides to abort it, but he wants to keep it?

grabs popcorn
Right, but those aren't usually free ;) On the other hand there are plenty of free (limited) APIs.
Sometimes never.
What is immature about the view of science in the book? It seems to go to great (even unnecessary) lengths to adhere closely to 'real' science. Certainly the author's understanding of science is far beyond that of the average person in the United States or anywhere else.

I will say the book provided an interesting insight into some people in China's view of the West. It reinforced what I've observed, a love/hate perspective mixing an admiration of achievements, inferiorty complex / assumption of Westerners' superiority (undeserved, surprising, and embarassing, but I've seen it many times), and resentment of Westerners' arrogance and disregard. People in the West have forgotten or written off the horrors inflicted under colonialism, including what Chinese call their 'Century of Humiliation"; people in the countries that were oppressed often have not.
Perl is not "old" culture. Sure, CPAN and much of the testing infrastructure including TAP is from the 90s, but so is Java. But a lot of the other cool stuff, such as Moose, is from the 00s.
Perl did a lot of things right a long time ago. For me a few of the big ones arent technical-- CPAN as you mentioned, was the most useful repository of any programming community. Another one for me is that Perl documentation has conventions and one of those conventions is a tiny "synopsis" at the top of each page that shows actual code using the thing that page is describing. I dont think people understand how much this has helped-- and its been that way for 20 years. Of course, in Java to show how any simple library works you'd have to show the contents of at least 8 separate files but hey- who's fault is that? ;)

Now that I think about it, the documentation in general (in Perl) was light years ahead of its time. perldoc, the included documentation is pretty comprehensive. The camel book came out when a lot of hacker news readers were a twinkle their father's eye. Perl was a big part of Oreilly's good ole days and it set Perl apart as a community that had really good accessible books available that werent CS textbooks but also werent "Learn how to programmer in 24 minutes".

I dont use Perl much these days. Most of my peers are afraid of Perl or were told to hate Perl. They dont know much about it other than when to laugh at a Perl 6 joke. A few point out that python has come of age and greatly out performs Perl. Still, there will always be plenty of perl in ~/bin.
The Information by James Gleick, a history of information
While physical laws do not bound mathematics, they bound the reality and context in which we talk about "compounding interest."
Show HN: GeekNews - a cloud-native Python3+Django sample app for CloudFoundry
Id be interested, especially if it used same file format as Maxmind's binary dat file ... so it can be a drop in replacement.
Also, should I just wait for Snappy packages?
100% of the top 20 by valuation have their .com

What proportion had it at their founding or shortly after? Surely a well funded and successful company had the means and motivation to purchase their .com
It'd probably be more clear to not use car sales as the divisor of an equation that doesn't involve losses related to actual cars, but if that's the one that HAS to be used, I think "loses more than $4,000 FOR every car sold" might be a little more accurate.
Actually, paypal owns x.com, not Stripe. :)
If your numbers are going up and to the right, what does it mean to "signal weakness" with your name?
Exactly! This why I commended Casey Neistat for waiting to announce his startup name to the public until he secured the domain name.
>Don't believe a domain is for sale unless the owner has already told you an asking price.

One of my favorite examples: http://nissan.com
Yes, one initial download and then subsequent deltas on a regular basis. Will be willing to pay. I know of plenty of Fortune 500 companies will be willing to pay for it.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863
> "Whereas (as Stripe shows) having x.com signals strength even if it has no relation to what you do."

I would contest that it has no relation, I could be wrong since I have no knowledge. That said I always saw it as a relation to the cards themselves and the magnetic-strip on the back of the card.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell. It's a universal story, with the major features of every major world mythology catalogued and included within.
True, but x is a variable in this case.
The title of the post as it appears here on HN is misleading. Actually the original title does not mention classical music, and the original post as a whole mentions the word classical exactly once, when referring to the Classical Piano Midi Page[0], from which he took the material he used to train the neural network. So in a way the entire discussion here is misguided.

The post is interesting I guess for its discussion of neural networks, but I fear attempting to train an AI system for 24 hours to produce anything which purports to imitate an artform that was developed by countless generations of human beings, is a bit pretentious.

As an aside, I find it a bit alarming that people are seemingly so eager to generalize the term "classical music", without taking into account that it refers to a field which is almost infinite in its diversity of forms and styles.

[0] http://www.piano-midi.de/
Cheaper still, would be to get a new name that has an available .com
Should've use ^([^\.]+)\.com$ for clarity.
They do have a free version which is just a bit less accurate than the commercial version.

http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/downloadable/
> How do you find them? One answer is the default way to solve problems you're bad at: find someone else who can think of names.

Imagine a website where startups could describe what they do and users could propose and vote on ideas for names. It's been on my list of potentially decent project ideas.
A great example: how long did it take Square to get their hands on square.com? Even now it's just a redirect to squareup.com.
Great names are made not found.

I think Paul for once have it the wrong way around.

If you become big enough and happen to have enough of a market you might need to .com name to optimize your numbers.

If you happen to find a good name you can afford that you still think represents you and is .com you should most probably change your name.

But for most people just like their logo it's it's not that important until you become big and you can become big without .com name. Whether you can stay big is another discussion.

Far too often we fool ourselves thinking the wrong things are important.

But just as you most probably can easily find another name because your current one isn't as great as you might think, you can probably also wait a little until it becomes an actual issue.
Best advice I've ever seen on naming a business is from this old Seth Godin gem:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2003/06/naming_a_bus...

I read that in 2003, and have never forgotten the "Lemon Pie" example since.
You almost certainly don't want to be using IP geolocation to compute sales tax, rather some kind of billing address explicitly provided by the customer.
To me, it really just seems like a difference in labor and time. BEAM doesn't have nearly as much investment of brainpower going into it. It's also been mainstream for much less time. There's less corporate R&D working on it. So, we'll see things progress more slowly and it be behind in various ways until some of this changes.

True for most stuff out there that's not the No 1 or No 2 choice for mainstream developers. Yet, results such as HipHop and PyPy show vast improvement can be made when even one company puts a lot of effort into something. A combo of academics applying to Erlang/BEAM the best in FP compilation and best in VM architecture might bring similarly dramatic improvements. A good precedent is how I saw the Racket Scheme team knock out significant weaknesses in their compiler practically as they were posted on forums. Not saying it always happens but that sort of thing in Erlang space would be interesting.
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It's implied by his equating "feature" to "structure" and his references to a "Cosmological Principle" that "indicate that the structure of the cosmos is uniform on the largest scales" and that "this new discovery challenge the principle, which sets a theoretical limit of 1.2 billion light years for the largest structures."

Think of it in terms of the Second Law of thermodynamics. Local increases in order (decreases in entropy), such as there formation of stars or the emergence and spread of life, apparently violate the law, but in fact do not when you look at a greater scope. Order is decreases at "the largest scales".

So by "feature" and "structure" he means a local violation of this principle of uniformity. Apparently this arrangement of GRB's cannot be random non-uniformity, thus implying it is some kind of structure. For example if you flip a coin a million times you will get some clumsiness, periods with far more heads or far more tails. But if clumpy periods exceed a certain size, you would start to suspect that the coin is biased or rigged. It would be violating your expectations given truly random coin tosses.

Or as skwosh said in another comment, "It's considered a feature I think not just because it's a ring but because it's an area of higher than expected density of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs)."
Tracing JITs and modern CPUs part 3: A bad case
Oh, I didn't know that. How much less accurate? Will it accurately determine country of origin?
If the words are just unaligned, you not only run into issues spanning cache lines, but spanning pages as well. The prefetcher can detect general linear patterns (+/-c, etc..) after a couple misses, but it can't prefetch across pages. Misses are still an order of magnitude slower than hits though, and this would imply at least two misses per page (~100 cycles), plus at least the number of pages you span. Assuming they were tightly packed, and depending on the number of instructions per value, it can nearly double the cycle count. Thankfully, unalinged access is generally as fast as aligned access with Intel though.

When you span the word size (e.g. add a single bit), you not only add two (dependent) instructions to access the value (consume a register), but without a linear access pattern (i.e. id index access), you can add anything up to ~200 cycles per value access. So, depending on the number of instructions per value, this could be anywhere up to 200x slower. This also doesn't consider the other possible issues like polluting the cache.
This is true. Despite the number of choices, what Amazon has going for it is that I'm a repeat visitor and their pricing plan is consistent for movies. I've long ago decided what I want. That might change as I, say, upgrade from DVD to Blu-Ray or downsize my possessions to go digital, but in general it'll stay the same for months or years. Further, those are mostly commodity formats, so I'm used to deciding if it's worthwhile to spend my money by comparing to other vendors' pricing.

In the author's case, his product and business model are unique. There may be other "pay as you wish" eBooks elsewhere, but none with quite the same mix of fonts, donations and eBooks. Consciously or not, I think the author has made it more difficult for me to consider if and how I'd want to pay him compared with Amazon (or O'Reilly for a closer product).
"Nearly all your attachment to it comes from it being attached to you".Interesting.Very interesting as this is truth in the real sense.
i thought pg was finally changing his name to butt
On a related note, would anyone in the community be interested in an inexpensive service that differentiates dynamic from static IPs? Dynamic IPs would be accompanied by an estimate of lease duration.
Exactly, better than other panama hats for the purpose for which it is used. And I wasn't as KC8ZKF states, comparing hats by one standard and watches by another. You can make a quartz watch that looks and feels exactly like a fine mechanical watch (excluding those that expose the insides, of course) AND is more accurate. You can't make a cheap panama hat that looks and feels exactly like a finely made panama hat because the craft is directly exposed.
I knew I needed to change our company's name but this article really sealed the deal. The problem is I don't have the skill of naming. If you do, I'd love your help (email me at lalalee at hotmail.com).
Or just example.com :)
and regularly scraped by bots to squat domains? You can hold a lot of domains for two years when you can sell a few for 5k
I don't understand. Could you be direct?
> 100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another.

I wonder how much of that is due to the fact that landscape has changed in past 8 years and top 20 YC companies are all at least a few years (5-ish?) old. I appreciate the rest of the sentiment of the post, but I don't think the numbers he chose to share clearly support the assertions. Correlation isn't causation.
I think the essay is missing crucial elaboration on the central point. That is, the idea that .com is associated with strength, and lack of .com with weakness.
Who ever said living under pure capitalism was a good idea?
No, old grumpy woman, you should care how you look. And fat body is a problem too, not only in terms of "look", but in terms of health. Athletic body is the aim - not fat and not anorexic. And "just be yourself" it's not an excuse, it's just laziness.
You just too lazy for this.

I know you will downvote it and I don't care :) I more care about young people who allow themselves to be fat or ugly because of "be yourself" mantra. You will NEVER return these golden years, don't miss it - make your body beautiful (athletic) and enjoy it.
As usual, going to news.google.com and entering the title brings up a non-paywalled version of the piece.
Another example: Dropbox originally had getdropbox.com, and didn't obtain dropbox.com until more than 2 years after founding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)#2007-2011
It's a language for high performance computing (HPC). I think it's the only one that survived out of three languages competing at the time: Fortress (Sun), Chapel (Cray), and X10.

See https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~achauhan/Teaching/B629/2010-Fall...

Designed mostly for scientific computing on highly parallel machines. Not your typical web-application development :)
I'd be interested if it included cities. If there was a javascript plugin to automatically help contribute (is that possible), I'd add it to some of my web pages. CSV is fine.
Construction of languages
In that case, the customer could cheat. I am not totally sure about the current discussion on that, but the problem is, that you definitively can not rely on the address given of the customer, because in this case the customer will always give a country with the lowest sales tax. Also you must provide proofs for the location. The IP address is IMHO (and not only my opinion) better and will be more likely be recognized as proof instead of relying solely on some customer input.

But, you (because you are so sure about the best method) by sure know, that the laws are explicitly for non-physical goods, where no delivery-address must be provided, right?

Here is a link, how one company is doing it (forget about government information, they seldom go so much in details!):
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/12/08/consensus-and...

They use the IP address to validate the user given address and for later proof.

BTW: Downvoting all the time does not help the discussion. I try to discuss this topic seriously and I was bringing some very relevant topic here, and am constantly downvoted. (It is not my fault, that the EU came up with such laws, and provide no useful guide how to implement it!)
I read the rest of your replies and I think I misunderstood your point a bit (as did the rest of the crowd).

I don't agree that assortive mating could do what you suggest as quickly as you're suggesting -- evolution is slower than that. But I agree with the general idea that meritocracy has caused a brain drain from the lower classes, and also that the ruling class is quite clever.

As far as transferring 50% of the middle class's wealth upward without a peep -- this has primarily been accomplished through the "culture war." People will vote against their economic interests if it means voting in favor of their cultural biases.
The website is nice but the phones are 10x the price of an iPhone and 30 times the price of a Moto-G 3rd gen.

That said it's nothing to do with the spec of the phone and everything to do with the look of the phone, everyone in their set knows that the phone costs 7 grand, they know that you know that they know etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snob_effect
Why You Should Work as Though Your Kids Are Watching
5 Use Cases Enabled by Docker 1.8's Fluentd Logging Driver
>100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another.

How much of that is due to the pressure that he admittedly puts on them to change names? (And that higher valued ones are likely to be older and have had this pressure for longer?)
TIL Reuters is getting money from the established car industry.
Nicotine Absorption from First and 2nd Generation Electronic Cigarettes
Nvidia owns deep learning. They are alone at the top. Intel and AMD aren't even in the picture. I think this could end up being a bigger business than graphics accelerators. There's a huge opportunity here for the first company to put out a specialized deep learning chip that can beat GPUs (which is definitely possible; probably by 10x or more).
It was repaid through and equity round (people like me bought TSLA stock, and that money was used to pay the DOE back).

Frankly, I find your opinion grossly disingenuous. Tesla has pushed harder and faster than any other auto maker to electrify transportation. They're a phenomenal bet to make considering their existing track record of success.
Yes, it will
How did biology begin?
True. I hate domain sharking.
Mozilla runs an open/free geolocation service: https://location.services.mozilla.com/
Hugely disappointing, but not really their fault - from the title I thought this would be a guide to winning the board game Risk.
We'll buy it when we raise series A. We'll use our hipster version until then. Thanks.
If you're ready to pay, try http://www.pickydomains.com/
> Maybe I am biased from reading on a laptop where scrolling and scanning is easy?

Probably. I first looked at the page on a tablet, where the viewport is much smaller and so scanning/skimming is much harder. I later got back to the page on a laptop, and I scrolled past uninteresting parts without any problems.

One thing I think would be good on learnxinyminutes is an ability to link to a specific line. Is it possible and I just missed it?
I've done some scuba and I don't get the Lemon Pie name in that context. Care to explain?
Nissan vs. Nissan (2008)
Already done, see http://www.pickydomains.com/
Scientists built a single-layer ANN that mimics vision in autism
MQTT is really nice for generic pubsub, but from what I've seen doesn't handle RPC-style transactions at all.

It is very hard to have something like this without requiring a whole bunch of ephemeral topics or lots of message id tracking on the client and server:

server> set this value to Z.
device> oops, in your previous command, Z is invalid.

Of course you can have an another service to handle this (HTTP API, CoAP, etc.,) but I think if MQTT added a command for something like this, then it would see a lot more adoption. It is nice to keep the broker in the middle of the communication to the devices even for RPC, simplifies a lot of things.