skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without intending to liken the USSR to Nazi Germany, the Nazis also had very "green" policies. Why suggest that conservation on the early soviet model should be revisited when in fact you just want conservation, but for different reasons and from a different kind of state?

What I've written doesn't sound very clear but the point I'm trying to make is that even a misguided state can get some things right. That doesn't mean those things can only be got right by that kind of state, or that we should call for those things to be administered by such a state in perpetuity...
Of course, the problems with this plan wasn't the WinNT part, it was the Win95/Chicago part. My favorite technical problem is how it's dependence on DOS led Caldera to continue their DR-DOS lawsuit. But it wasn't just the technical problems, there was also the tactics MS used to attack OS/2 2.x and later.
That was very good. Thanks for sharing.
A very interesting connection with our laptops. And very logical also; a common trick when you export something is to assure to fill the wide containers with anything that you can buy cheap in the destiny country before to return home. Thus you optimize your transport costs or, like in this case, share it with other companies.
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The article does ask this:

"Why not faster? Why not slower?"

Certainly a lot of physicists are content with leaving it at "because it is." They're not searching for purpose, they're searching for explanation. The article doesn't just ask the question either, it explores a possible avenue for seeking the answer.

Experiments over the past few years seem to indicate that the speed of light can be derived by measuring electric and magnetic properties of the vacuum. This leads to the question: is it possible that the speed of light is the value it is because the vacuum restricts it to this value? This would mean the speed of light is not a fundamental constant, but an observable parameter of the vacuum.

The article is light on links, but here is a paper that I think the article was referring to, by Marcel Urban and colleagues at the University of Paris-Sud:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6165

From the paper:

"When a real photon propagates in vacuum, it interacts
with and is temporarily captured by an ephemeral pair.
As soon as the pair disappears, it releases the photon to
its initial energy and momentum state. The photon continues to propagate with an infinite bare velocity. Then the photon interacts again with another ephemeral pair and so on. The delay on the photon propagation produced by these successive interactions implies a renormalisation of this bare velocity to a finite value.

This “leapfrog” propagation of photons, with instantaneous leaps between pairs, seems natural since the only length and time scales in vacuum come from fermion pair lifetimes and Compton lengths."

The paper claims that the speed of light might fluctuate as a consequence, and proposes possible experiments to test this.

"The propagation of a photon being a statistical
process, we predict fluctuations of its time of flight of the order of 0.05fs/√m. This could be within the grasp of
modern experimental techniques and we plan to assemble
such an experiment."

This could answer the question, why is light so slow?
> Sometimes you want a computed property and you use non-trivial getter

Then pre-compute it, make it immutable, and expose the variable. And if that ends up being too hard it's probably because you need a builder and/or to group your properties into smaller classes.
That was the author's point—this isn't something you do to make money, it's a way to show good firms that you have the skills needed to be a solid associate/analyst.
Eh, for most people, the IP changes every 24 hours, and the most ISPs assigns IPs not by city – today you could have 86.131.1.1 and tomorrow 86.127.254.254.

Only some providers in the US have actual static IPs and NATs. Or restrictions like "you can not run a server", or restrictions like blocking port 25.
TIL I am a "never never" or "cord never never."

I wonder if these companies realize how much they are leaving on the table. I would gladly give them money if they would give me unbundled good Internet service. And I would pay for their content, and sometimes do when it is even viable, but a lot of times, they don't make it easy.

Probably most of the never nevers are in higher income brackets so seriously the content companies really need to get a clue here. Apple gets it, and we are about to see a big forced change, and it's not going to be pretty for the entrenched stubborn companies that insist on bundling phone-internet-bullshit-TV-channel-selection.
I am just wondering, could Apple's partnership with IBM got them access to TrueNorth chips to gain competitive advantage against Googles car?
Not the point of the post at all. The author wrote this as advice to people who want to break into VC, which is a common question he receives, per the article.
Already existing.

After https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock was invented, and I got annoyed,

I reported https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock/issues/26

and wrote this solution to the issue https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock/issues/26#issuecomment...
Spec work in an attempt to get a job in venture capital.
I know. I'm just not as familiar with CoreOS.
If you think AD blocking alone is enough to protect your privacy, think again. I think the real problem is fingerprinting. You are always going to be tracked on the web, and one can tunnel their traffic through a hardware-based TOR router, and surf with Lynx browser and still get tracked. Also blacklisting entire classes of AD networks is not thorough enough as a lot of publishers are doing 'roll your own' ADs. You can't block an 80x80 banner graphic with a link yet (well you could if you block images, but we're not all neckbeards who surf with Lynx). You could thwart low hanging fruit stuff like 1x1 pixel beacons, but AD serving technology is ambiguous and also one of the many hard problems of the web.

Shameless plug, I wrote about how to thwart browser fingerprinting here: http://blog.higg.im/2015/04/29/do-ad-blockers-and-anti-track...

My current solution is use any number of things on privacytools.io and try not to centralize browsing to one device and one network. A bit obvious, but you would be surprised how many people just use their phone to navigate the web.

Like all hard problems, there is no sweeping silver bullet that will solve this. You have to get smarter about your browsing. The 'mixing effect' of cities is a great idea, and cheap $10.00 internet enabled burner devices for surfing the web are awesome too
And if Uber drivers were salaried employees, they would be required to drive a larger number of hours per day than they currently do, increasing Uber's income-per-driver and decreasing the number of drivers that Uber would employ. According to http://time.com/3678507/uber-driver-questions/ 51% of drivers drive 15 or fewer hours per week. Only 19% of drivers drive 35+ hours/week. If Uber was forced to employ drivers as salaried employees, I'd expect their driver base to drop to 25-35% of what it is now (and their labor costs with it).

Trying to just take Uber's current numbers and tack on payroll taxes and insurance is ridiculous. These numbers are nonsense.
TI calculators are basically a racket. They are entirely unnecessary (I’d argue distracting and counterproductive) for student learning in the classroom, but via partnerships with the standardized test and textbook publishers, they’ve convinced American parents, students, and school administrators that they’re essential tools, and can thereby charge $100 for laughably antiquated hardware.

It’s even sillier when you consider most students have a dramatically more capable smartphone in their pockets already. We might as well be teaching students to use Palm Pilots or 15-year-old point-and-shoot digital cameras.

Calling them “pro level” is a joke.. real pros use (e.g.) Matlab, R, Mathematica, or Python.
It will be more challenging but not a big issue. Ads will still contain signals they're an ad (I'm reminded of banner ads on the Web 20 years ago).

Back hauling traffic through the site may happen, however that's a huge latency penalty and also will reduce the amount of data leakage. Networks will no longer have carte Blanche access to end users. Also worth noting is that it increases the complexity of the technical implementation from 'drop in this code' to 'get your backend team to change your architecture in this way'.
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Very neat. Would love to see the American equivalents. Anyone have a link?
What kind of stats work are you interested in?
Yeah, I saw there was a of great instructions on Kubernetes and GCE.

AWS, for all it's warts and cruft, is familiar to me, and we have our operations on it right now.

What I'm focused on right now is building a dev environment framework. There's already excessive focus on getting this stuff into production. Neither AWS or GCE will help me with that.
UGH.

Two wheels in front: Good
Two wheels in back: Bad (See: Reliant Robin and those old 3-wheel ATVs that were so dangerous they were banned).
Have you ever considered that not everyone emerges from the womb with detailed knowledge of the command line? Obviously this isn't meant for seasoned veterans, but if you're learning/new and have no idea what you're doing this could be a big help.
A note about the IP addresses: Some ad networks/analytics software does not store your IP address, but an anonymized version of it (eg. drop the last octet[1] or an store only an hash). I believe that they must do this in order to operate legally in certain countries.

They can still store the geoIP information without storing the IP, though.

[1]: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
Scan everyone and remove all the asymptomatic brain cysts just in case they cause problems in 20 years? Maybe we should also go back to removing everybody's tonsils just in case they develop tonsillitis later.
Very inspiring interview. I do not think 50% of Earth dedicated to the preservation of life is too much, not at all.
This is really awesome! How are you finding Funscript? Last I tried to look at it following the tutorials to get started was not a smooth process due to being out of date. It's also, unfortunately, not a terrible active project :|
This is pretty low quality description of a very complicated industry: http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/display-ad-tech-lumas...

And the best part, nothing is said about the fact that blocking inside apps is not on the table, so Apple is simply driving more dollars to where they stand to capture the most from them.
At a very high level:

Spring is written in c++, scripted in Lua, and released under GPL2.

OpenRTS is jvm based and released under an MIT license.
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Aren't you a bit childish today?
The latter. DI frameworks are a convenience item, they should probably not have a big effect on the way the code is written.
You get most of the benefits of DI just from not new'ing up things within your classes.

The main advantage of keeping the constructors around is that you retain more flexibility in interacting with that bit of code.
Whenever I see a prediction like "five years away", the first thing I ask is "how far away was it five years ago?".
There are a bunch of pictures of the TWA Terminal on Flickr, too: http://www.flickriver.com/search/twa+terminal/.
Wtf is this going on about? Can any one explain it in English?
The argument in this article belongs squarely in the WTF category. I wasted 5 minutes trying to find out why a shitty Casio calculator costing $220 is worth its price compared to a $50 android tablet.
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The cyst mentioned in the original article (and shown in the MRI image at the top) is a posterior fossa CSF cyst that most likely formed as the result of hydrocephalus. Basically, it's the same thing. This is an example of how confusing all of the terminology underlying autism is. In some patients, CSF cysts, hydrocephalus, Dandy-Walker Variant and "autism" may all be very much related or referring to the same thing.

And to your earlier point, that SpringerLink article shows that they've been draining such cysts with shunts since at least as early as 1985, even if they didn't necessarily know what leaving them in place might result in later in life.
Quantum computers are well understood and prototyped by experts in the field. What most people don't understand is that Q cannot solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time.
Does it have to be buried? can it be used?
I am truly sorry it didn't work out in our case, but I don't see how you can expect a refund for my time. Feel free to paste our conversation for others to read.

I tried to deliver the project in a way that maximized the value you were getting for my time and I set you up so you only needed to fine tune some physics parameters, because I didn't feel it was fair to charge you full rate to do work that most anybody could do.

I remember your project because you were my only negative review there. I think codementor may have scrubbed your review though after they looked over chat, because I still maintain 5 star rating on that site.

Remind me how much you were requesting as a refund again. Is there anything else I can do to mend things?

FWIW, I still didn't get a share of the prize money so there's nothing to "shhh" yet.
It's funny how both sides of the argument think that ads are something people has to "put up with". If ads are really that good, not watching would cost you (either money or a nice opportunity for good products). For now I don't really see that much of benefit of seeing them (it's the absent of benefits so it's really hard to measure though). I hope web ads companies one day start producing ads that are actually pleasant to watch (some TV commercials are doing a good job here). Until then, you can't really stop people blocking ads.
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Precomputing properties on a hundred million object instances is not cheap.
As the name suggests it does 3L per 100km
> It's like saying "many people don't expect books to be proof-read, when most are".

It's not. Books are written by humans. You expect them to contain fiction or opinion. Pictures are taken by mechanical equipment with no agenda. "The camera never lies" etc. Obviously you can also stage a photograph unrepresentative of reality using techniques other than Photoshop, but the general expectation is that what you see in a photograph is what you would have seen with your own eyes if you had been there at the time.

But people also blame Photoshop when the problem is endemic. Only people with certain body types are hired in Hollywood. Then they have professional makeup artists and hair stylists make them up like a plastic doll, and then the pictures are photoshopped.

I suspect a big part of the reason the criticism is rarely taken seriously is that the proposed alternative of "normal" people is so obviously the wrong one. The average American is overweight and doesn't get enough exercise. People aren't going to want to look at that or be inspired to look like that, nor should they be. But the concept that the represented ideal physical appearance should resemble real athletes rather than stick figures or couch potatoes doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone.
International flights are a high-prestige, moral expensive to a certain social-media-happy subset of the population, i.e. elite-educated, otherwise anti-consumerist young liberals.

Spending a similar amount of money on something like electronics reeks of consumerism and financially irresponsible behavior. You'll do it, but you'll feel a vaguely ashamed, and you probably won't brag about it. International travel is definitely something you want to do and be seen doing.

People who would be disgusted to hear about how awesome your new car is will go on for hours (and hundreds of social media photos) about how their perspective was expanded by their equally-expensive three months backpacking across Europe instead of working.

Add the much simpler Fear of Missing Out onto the photos where your friends are all having a great time together in Paris, and Facebook sells a lot of plane tickets.
Not just today :)
"[Uber CEO Travis Kalanick] recently told me that in 2020, if Telsas are autonomous, he'd want to buy all of them. He said all 500,000 of estimated 2020 production, I'd want them all, but he couldn't get a return call from Elon." — Steve Jurvetson

Kyle Samani completely ignores the diagram he spent so much time talking about. He's convincing himself that being able to park his $200k autonomous car a few miles away in free parking—summoning it to pick him up when he needs it—means he won't need to use a ride hailing service.

I wonder if he will still feel that way when he's been standing at the curb for half an hour waiting for his personal car to arrive, while the rest of the (non-car-owning) dinner party have hailed autonomous vehicles and departed within three minutes of leaving the restaurant?

Given the choice between buying a $200k car, or paying a few dollars every time I want to travel somewhere, I think I'd prefer the paid rides. The $200k could be invested in something productive in the meantime.
He mentions Lombok in the tools section.

And Guava's collection creation methods are part of an intense desire to not use the new key word anywhere in application code.
Who is this book for if not for programmers?

As noted in the introduction, it's aimed at complete beginners:

[T]his tutorial is aimed at complete beginners, so it assumes no prerequisites other than general computer knowledge (how to launch an application, how to use a web browser, etc.). Among other things, it doesn’t assume you know how to use a text editor (or even what that is), and as far I as know Learn Enough™ Command Line to Be Dangerous is unique in this respect. Indeed, this tutorial doesn’t even assume you know what a command line is, so if you’re confused about the title, you’re still in the right place.
As a publisher who depends on ads I do not have a problem with people using adblockers. Those wouldn't click on an ad anyway, so no money lost. But those guys running around and installing adblockers on every computer where they have access to, even without asking the owner before, those guys suck.
When introducing kill, don't use -9. Not a good way for a beginner to learn kill. Guess you weren't kidding with "Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous". Understood that it's a draft. Coming together nicely.
If you're talking about widgets that track things like CDN performance and errors, like NewRelic's[1], then... maybe. I love that people are blocking tracking widgets, but there are some companies that provide useful gadgets that don't compromise privacy and I'd hate for them to be blocked as well. That said, I can't wait for Facebook tracking widgets to go away.

1) https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/03/13/javascript-error-report...
I agree on the first. I'm only advocating for keeping the constructor as the DI entry point. A DI framework can then be used for the convenience they provide in wiring things up at main.

Regarding the second: I think circular dependencies should be avoided whenever possible so I view the difficulty constructors create there as advantage rather than a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_dependency#Problems_o...
> You are clearly posting out of ignorance.

This seems to me a form of calling names, which the HN guidelines ask you not to do. Instead of telling someone that they are ignorant, it's more civil and substantive to simply post better information. They may or may not become less ignorant, but everyone else can learn something.
Burning the older trees defeats the point of planting them in the first place (to remove carbon from the atmosphere). You might transplant them somewhere for aesthetic purposes, but then they're taking up space that could be used to grow young, carbon-hungry trees. I guess that leaves turning them into lumber.
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Yes, exactly what I mean. Use more affiliate networks instead of advertising for useless products.
> there is one part about it that really sucks

Don’t leave us hanging! What is the part that really sucks?
Could you expand on this? In my experience, kill frequently fails without -9, so I basically always include it (and it's never bitten me). I'm open to suggestions, though, so if you have a recommendation for a better way I'd appreciate the feedback. (Feel free to shoot me an email at the address in my profile.)
Real science is just about universal, whereas non-science varies with geography and fashion.

I'd be happier with "real phsychologists" if they were closer to the "real science" end of the spectrum. More like, for example, neuro-scientists, and less like psychiatrists.

Seems to me this story is about someone looking for real neuro-science and not getting enough of it. Whether that's the right quest is another matter: I don't know enough to know.
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After working at two companies filled with Java devs, I don't think any of them will read this article. I can't speak for all Java devs obviously, but it seems unless the dev is a polyglot, they are just fine living in their Spring/SVN/J2EE/Java5 world. They have no idea what's going on in the software development world. I get so excited whenever I hear any of them mention Clojure or even Scala! They just live with this head in the sand mentality. They hate the front end, they think, "these JavaScript developers will go away someday and we can finally go back to writing JSPs". Currently we've updated our JVMs to 8, and that's a big deal, but we've told our devs NOT to use any features from 8 as we're worried about how GC will perform and since we're about to get geared up into shopping season, now is not the time to use shiny new features.
With higher resolution displays I think this gets easier, especially with svg... for a long time it was much more difficult. The skills it takes to make something look better with really low input (ascii/ansi) limitations is very different than even this article presents.

It's good to have modern hardware and browsers...
Keep in mind that Tony Hoare, the inventor of the null pointer, calls this invention his billion dollar mistake. I generally think that he is right and use of null should almost always be avoided.
Ear infections are common with autism and consistent with moderate hydrocephalus, which might be a sign of cerebellar dysmorphism. Increased intracranial pressure can distort the shape of the skull making it slightly bigger, leaving extra space for infectious bacteria, especially with exposure to water. DWV also results in the ears being placed slightly lower than normal (or maybe the rest of the head just looks bigger).

Your friend should definitely see an ENT to get any infections cleared up, but an MRI wouldn't be the worst idea, either.
I remember Steve Wozniak comments about being influenced by a HP calculator, and I ask if we can reinvent the calculator. Probably there is no business here but a short term challenge in UX.
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