skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Irked by author's facile dismissal of Descartes.

Admit I'm biased against Hume. Something about his Hard Scot style that left me as clammy as his pronouncement that "man was no more significant to the universe than an oyster."

For me, it remains Descartes Ontological Argument that provided the philosophical lantern in our collective cave of existential darkness. And I still see echoes of its pure logic and simplicity reverberating into the present. In Boltzmann Brains. In the intersections of quantum information theory and thermodynamics. Yes, even in the realms of design thinking, creativity and startup engineering...
>> It's perfectly reasonable behavior.

I get what you're saying literally, I strongly disagree that it is reasonable, at all. If you can't subtract them, there should be an error at that point, telling the programmer it can't be done.
Stupid easy. $100 fee for five years, background check, and a digital record of your fingerprints are kept on file.
Yapr voice app and social network
Most government prohibitions don't involve technological barriers. (E.g., the prohibition on murder doesn't involve the existence of technological means which obstruct homicidal acts but not other human interaction.)
i didnt follow the argument at all.
I'm sorry that I don't have direct links but most US military doctrine can be found easily in the for of FM's and TM's (field and technical manuals respectively). Many of which are available free on the Internet.

FM's are usually written in a terse and skimmable format.

A good place to start might be US Army FM 7-8 (that's "seven dash eight" not "seven through eight")
I'm arguing that many small companies who have to organize and form a lobby will be far less efficient at regulatory capture than a well oiled monolith like Uber.
Apparently millimeter wave radiation can be ionizing under the right circumstances. That's sort of terrifying.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294
I'm more than a little bothered by this.

Repackaging things is totally a classic and valid thing to do. People do that with everything from custom cars, audio equipment, to yes clocks. Kid you not there is a whole smallish subculture of making clocks of things.
That's perfectly reasonable. Sorry if it seemed like I was making a fuss.

Wasn't trying to pass judgment on the kid; even if he bought a brand new clock and stuck it in a case, I still think that's an admirable quality. The media is picking it up as he "made" a clock, and to me that didn't fit well with the photos.
BuildZoom, Uber for remodeling, is hiring a visual designer
BuildZoom is trying to become the Uber of the construction industry.

We are looking for a talented designer to help us make our site gorgeous and intuitive.

Please email your portfolio to david@buildzoom.com

A bit about BuildZoom, and why you might want to work here:

With the tap of a button, we will send 1 or more contractors to your door, in as little as an hour. We support virtually any construction project, from a small electrical outlet installation to a $1,000,000 home overhaul; commercial or residential.

We are making software to help people build - their dream home, their dream restaurant, their dream workplace.

The best thing about BuildZoom isn’t our product, though. It’s our incredible team, and our supportive environment focused on learning, teaching, building cool features that people actually use, and generally being an enjoyable place to spend your days.

What do a Director of Engineering for Thompson Reuters, a college football player, A Ukranian refugee, a daughter of a Boer farmer in Zambia, a retired general contractor, a scooter salesman, a Stanford PhD, a Berkeley economist, and a Duke Lawyer have in common? One of each works at Buildzoom.

We are currently distributing over $1 billion/year in projects, with over 1 million website visitors per month in the United States alone. These numbers are big. We're proud of our progress, but construction is 10% of planet earth’s GDP, so they are going to get a lot bigger.

One of the unique things about BuildZoom’s marketplace is that it sits on top of an incredible dataset of over 100 million building permits, which provide us with insights about contractors.

We use the dataset to improve the quality of our marketplace, and to build useful tools for property owners.

Here are some of the projects we are working on:

Building permit map of New York City: https://www.buildzoom.com/map/new-york-ny

Mountain View city data: https://www.buildzoom.com/mountain-view-ca

The building history of America: https://www.buildzoom.com/charts

Solar City permit data: https://www.buildzoom.com/charts?q=for+solarcity_corp

The rise of solar power across America: https://www.buildzoom.com/charts?q=with+solar
One exception "NL.1: Don't say in comments what can be clearly stated in code
Enforcement: Build an AI program that interprets colloqual English text and see if what is said could be better expressed in C++." Pretty funny stuff for a style guide.
Global warming? I think not. Fuel costs, sure.
> "string1" and "string2", when read, makes sense. & is different from the conditional && like piping | is different from the conditional or ||

Of course, in languages where & and | are already in use for bitwise operations on ints (etc.), using & for string concatenation would be a different form of the same clash as using + is.
Ask HN: Looking for suggestions on fairly basic IT Asset Management webapps
I'm currently using Google Sheets to track everything, however, I'd prefer to have a web service of some sort either self-hosted or SaaS that's very low cost and/or free.

I'm looking at Snipe-IT right now, which looks great; however, I'm wondering what else may be out there that I haven't found yet.

https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it

Thanks!
The black knight plays for black.
You can't eat your own pieces
Interesting idea. That will be an interesting study many decades from now when we have entire lives of Internet usage to study. I wonder if web site populations, particularly the ones around news/commentary forums such as HN, slashdot, reddit, etc., as a whole migrate from one site to the next as a collective or stay married to single sites. I'm curious if it's the same for social media sites too? My prediction is that the sites will stick around, but different age groups and populations will adopt different sites in somewhat unexpected ways in the same way that fashion or music fads reemerge with populations without warning; that people choose their site/community based on their friends, social allegiances and/or aspirations rather then the "tech" of the site.
> It's certainly less ridiculous than talk of suborbital rocket planes.

as far as in understand the X-15 is more simple than Concorde. The suborbital and ICBM-ballistic tech is well understood and has been in constant use for half a century, where is Mach 3+ aircraft territory is still almost no-go zone. Compare to high Mach the suborbital/ballistic is just more energy efficient.
Actually, I suspect the internet has all but killed the real value of the Concorde.The only thing it had to offer was NY-London in 3.5 hours instead of 7.5 hours. There are so few cases where those 4 hours make any difference, particularly with the advances in telepresence, that there's just no real market for the service. The seats are all technically First Class, but First Class in a Concorde was really not that much better than coach in a subsonic aircraft. Personally, I'd take an 8 hour flight in a 747 with a seat that lays flat rather than pay the same price for a leather coach seat for 4 hours.
That video was amazing, thank you.
Airflow data pipeline management
Analyse Asia 60: Air Travel in Asia with Paul Papadimitriou
Synopsis: With Paul Papadimitriou from Intelligencr and the host of two podcasts (Digital Loop and Layovers), we discuss the air travel and aviation industry in Asia. We started our conversation from his international relations roots and how he came to Asia and started his consultancy, Intelligencr. Paul also shared his experience as an angel investor and the interesting stories behind his investments. Finally, we spent a significant amount of time talking about why Asia has been leading in the air travel industry from premium airlines, budget airlines, airports as retail hubs and trading ports and new technologies & business models that might disrupt a highly regulated industry.
The comment I replied to discussed supersonic transport in general, not the obsolete Concorde. That's why my comparison used a hypothetical SST with longer range and higher cruising speed.
Wait... Are you saying that you find Descartes' Ontological Argument persuasive?
That's okay. They just need to grow the wheelbase a bit and reclassify all their cars as "light trucks". Problem solved.
Why the maker of a chart-topping ad blocker just pulled it off the App Store
I, too, felt the dismisal and the return to mere experience was superficial. Experience would not be possible without an ontological grounding. Just because you ignore it, does not make anything better. You feel better about yourself? Cool, but don't pretend metaphysics is useless. On the real side of things, the dismissal of metaphysics, especially in relation to ethics, has lead to moral relativism and nihilism.

I don't think people get better or feel good because they found an idea in a book. Humans love humans. Humans help humans be happy. She found happiness in another person, not in Hume. This, I think, it's just a post-rationalisation. Sounds cool, but it's not what really happens. In general. Cool ideas create an excitement that lasts only so long.
Sonic booms are far better understood now than they were back then — the research done on the basis on the XB-70 (i.e., the Oklahoma City sonic boom tests) is arguably less relevant than ever, as we understand better than ever how to effect sonic booms, especially with shape of the aircraft.
Was wondering the same since, this is about top speed and not about acceleration the weight shouldn't matter much at all, since it has no direct influence on the air resistance.

Would be interested in knowing, if a human powered vehicle on steel rails with steel wheels with the same air resistance could be faster than this just due to the lower rolling resistance.
what an idiot
We don't know, it says Billy was 'happy with the handshake deal'. I doubt Billy actually literally said said "I'm happy with that', before moving on, but rather said something like 'sure, that works', before moving on, which would be agreement. But that's just speculation on my part, I really don't know and you can't tell from the article.
I've not been to Lebanon, but what you're describing sounds an awful lot like çiğ köfte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çiğ_köfte . You should give it a try if you can find it!
You could just use diff and patch:

diff -Naur dummy my_project >xx

patch -p0 <xx
So when I was getting paid in dollars, and converted it to my local currency right away, I was proving that USD is a commodity? I could not get anything with USD, so it is not a currency? Interesting.

What people miss is that commodity and currency are not exclusive. And the difference between them does not really matter all that much.
Look, the question was "why don't more people use Polymer." That's the answer: it's not natively supported, or not perceived to be natively supported, or whatever. I work with companies who make the decision to use one framework over another all the time. That chart inevitably makes an appearance and polymer gets rejected immediately.

If you feel strongly enough about the framework, get them better marketing.
Sure but to the ultra rich the Concorde lets them wake up and decide they want to eat dinner at the best restaurant in London that night, then fly back home to party all night in NYC.
I live in Victoria, Australia, and we’ve had roundabouts for ages. I think they are very good for a certain scale of road/traffic. Mostly intersections with moderate amounts of traffic on average, and not high-speed. e.g., the main intersections within housing estates. Having too many of them instead of give-way signs drive you a little batty (I’m looking at you, Warrnambool) while really heavy traffic, major intersections work better with traffic lights.

My daughter recently got her learner license, and she has found roundabouts one of the trickier intersections to navigate. You have to read the traffic flow. This person about to enter on your right is going straight ahead, so will block you entering the roundabout[1], but they have to wait for that person coming the other way from you and going straight through, so you can slip in the gap that creates without cutting anyone else off. As with many things it is familiarity and practice that makes them work[2]. I think roundabouts work very well here for the most part, and my daughter is getting pretty good at reading the traffic. It’s not rocket science[3].

The science of roads and traffic I imagine is a surprisingly nuanced expertise involving a lot of physics and psychology. I find when I cross over the border to New South Wales I feel like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. I eventually figured out it was because the signage was a different distance before the intersection compared to my home state. Once I was aware I could adapt.

[1] We drive on the left side of the road because Australia is in the southern hemisphere.

[2] I bet the first traffic lights caused an uproar. “Why the hell should I stop just because there’s a red light?!”

[3] Oh wait, actually, it is rocket science.
It's kind of annoying that everyone says he "made" a clock, which he clearly didn't do. To me, that's kind of a slam to kids his age who really are out there making clocks from scratch.

But it's also very much a secondary or tertiary issue in the story, and just not worth fighting over.
I'm claiming that those things are less ubiquitous than they'd be if they were legal. You can get them, but you have to do so underground, and there are risks associated with that trade.

You seem to be thinking in terms of whether the government has the absolute power to 100% stop something. The rest of us are thinking in terms of whether, if the government declared something to be illegal, it would have a significant impact on that market. I claim that it would. Part of the value of bitcoin is that you can exchange it for physical goods at major retailers like Home Depot, Target, Subway, and TigerDirect. If the government declares a ban, those retailers would almost definitely honor that ban, and then bitcoin would become less valuable overnight.
Block chain and gpg keys. Confirmed transactions and feedback most likely.
Turbojets are truly that much louder than the turbofans we're now used to. At the time it was only a bit louder than contemporary aircraft, but everything else got far quieter. Concorde is more comparable in engine noise to a modern fighter jet than it is to most commercial aircraft.
Hmm, that's true. BSD4.4 seems to have been the oldest version of Unix that included shar, so maybe before that point it was a separately distributed tool?

I guess if the answer is anywhere, it'll be on Usenet, but Google Groups' search-by-date functionality is hopelessly broken.
It's a specific term in chess like castling or checkmate.
The App Store's Leading Ad Blocker Just Took Down His App Out of Guilt
Reality moment usually sets in a bit late for me. When I used to get a new job or contract I used to have incredible initial enthusiasm. Even three months in dealing with spaghetti code and inexperienced programmers I think to myself improvement in my working environment is around the corner and I'm going to be able to fix things myself. And then the reality moment sets in. Why did I agree to this In the first place - I'm working in a terribly unorganised company, being underpaid working with inexperienced programmers who never has a chance to improve properly because the company was too stingy to hire enough good and experienced programmers. But then I look at the state of things - they have been improving because I kept thinking I could fix it, the only issue is I should have been paid more as I've done a lot for the company. Stressed and frustrated I go looking for a new job. The process grants me a big boost of enthusiasm. I interview at a company that really likes me. I see some red flags with the way they produce software, but I ignore them and bury them in the back of my mind. "Do I stay at my place where my effort is having an effect or do I go to this new company?" This new company sounds so exciting!

This time I'm thinking I might be happier taking this job offer back to my current company and get a good pay rise, but I'm not 100% decided yet.
Well it is a giant cancer risk. It contains large amounts of safrole and other carcinogenic compounds. When it was banned, in 1960 [0], MDMA wasn't yet as much of a "club drug" as it later became.

[0] https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/content/profiles/safrole.p...
Concorde itself is a non-starter. The companies which know how to make the parts for it don't want to make the parts, and the agencies which would have to give regulatory approval for it to fly won't give the approval (especially without the parts).

If someone cracks the economic difficulties of supersonic passenger flight, maybe some other aircraft could do it. But Concorde is going to remain a museum piece.
actually just recently updated my 9menu from 1.8 (released 6/1/04) to 1.9 (released 6/25/15) [0]. Apparently took Mr. Robbins 11 years to fix some compile warnings HA.

It came as a shar. I was dumbfounded for a moment as I had never heard of a shell archive. pretty cool tech actually. I've been into UNIX and such for over five years and had never even come across one. Also came across Generic Window Manager during that time as well, which I had never heard of before. Further reading: [1] and [2].

[0]: ftp://freefriends.org/arnold/Source/

[1]: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/window_managers/gwm/

[2]: https://www.sics.se/~aho/gwm/

[3]: http://old.koalateam.com/gwm/
Maybe the bug is that the engine requires ludicrous fuel pressure to achieve its claimed performance.
I am happy with this. The fallback to the version as of starting date is fine.

If I am not using open source software then a subscription seems right in order to get updates as they are ready, not for new release marketing considerations.
I moved the pawn down one space, assuming the board was backwards and the white pawn was on the second rank.
In other words, it's unconstitutional but the court is willing to ignore the constitution. Lovely.
In the solution presented at the end of the article, whose turn to move is it? Who can't make any further moves coz they've been check-mated? That's what I don't get. If it's white, white can still move their king back towards their home row and there's more than one move left in the game. If it's black, black can move the black knight in between the two kings and we'd still have more than one move left.
We are trying to solve this problem with Flockport [1] so users can at least get to see and try apps without needing to install and configure tons of stuff and we use LXC containers which behave like lightweight VMs and provide an OS environment similar to a VM or a bare metal server that users are more familiar with. And this also allows us to package the stack and app in a single container..

With Docker apart from the app you have to deal with the additional complexity of a single app environment that is not an environment that most users are familiar with, for instance you need to launch all your apps in 'non daemon mode' (how many uses know how to do this, and why you would need it?) figure out how to deal with storage persistence, networking and 'linking containers' and things like logging, cron and ssh (there is no place for these in single app containers). Installing something as simple as Mysql with Docker is non trivial because of storage. So this adds a whole new layer of complexity on top of the app that's makes it completely unsuitable to package apps if simplicity and accessibility is the objective. You need to be a real expert to deal with this, much more than LXC containers or VMs.

We have a guide on building a simple Wordpress stack from scratch with Docker [2] that gives readers an understanding of the level of complexity involved with Docker and what it seems to be designed for. It's not for end users and certainty not to making things simple. It would take a tenth of the effort to install Wordpress in a VM or LXC container. But its pointless to compare VMs or LXC containers to Docker, as Docker is intended for a completely different use case and that's what its users and advocates should highlight and push.

We have packaged over 60 apps in LXC containers at Flockport and Ruby apps are by far the most complex to setup, usually requiring a complete build environment. PHP is the simplest both to install and troubleshoot, and usually just works. The Ruby apps like Redmine, Gitlab are more complex and Discourse is the toughest to get going. You need to be an expert to install it and an even bigger expert to run it so much so that I think unless you are a rails developer the only reliable way to use Discourse is to have the Discourse team manage it.

[1] https://www.flockport.com

[2] https://www.flockport.com/a-beginners-guide-to-docker
Every PLB has a lanyard attachment. He should have done a little more preparation and secured the survival essentials to his body or the life raft.
I hope you missed the /s tags.

A background check and your fingerprints, because ..?
I recently landed in Heathrow after a looong time staying in Europe (yes, England's not Europe) only. I was literally shaking when I saw all the people going through a random scanner, looking into a camera, providing their fingerprints.

Ignoring that the system didn't even work half the time while I was watching and that it needed a supervisor that reset everything, brought the people back out of the 'check zone' to .. turn it off and on again: That's insane.

This is the amount I'm willing to pay to a crappy government to go easy on me:

This is the list of governments that are allowed to take my fingerprints outside of a criminal investigation(* ):

Again, I really really hope you were just kidding and making fun of a bad situation.

*: The next time my German ID runs out I _might_ have to do that for my own home country - and I still try to figure out ways to avoid that/let the ID run out (illegal) without a renewal etc. And I try to vote for the parties that aren't insane.
Related to road surface, are properties of the tires used. The goal is to optimize for rolling resistance. On a long brevet, different tires can shave hours off your time.

Since their requirements for durability are much lower (i.e. they don't need to get days or months of use), they could optimize for tires that are just durable enough for the event and have minimal rolling resistance.

Suspension losses are another area where power is lost. I'm curious if it is possible to perform these tests in a velodrome where gains from better tires suspension would be minimal.

Also check out motor-paced records, where the current record is 166.9mph by Fred Rompelberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_records#History_of_mot...

http://mammajammaride.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Fred.jp...
http://fredrompelberg.com/upload/images/site/Wereldrecord_fi...

This is worth a read on the surface of the Bonneville salt flats: http://saltflats.com/traction.html
Dimples on golf balls help in inducing turbulence, not the other way. Turbulence in this case reduces drag significantly. This is a well known counter intuitive result in flu mech.
> However, 1) if leadership is a male field then men should face higher standards, not lower ones

I suspect that anthropologists and sociologists would say that the OPPOSITE is true: that people inside peer-groups are often subject to less criticism than those out of the groups. ;-)