skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article most definitly does not have a (valid) point here. Idlewords is painting Elon as a bored billionaire who wants to nuke Mars because he has nothing better to do. It's completely ignoring both the reasons (and context) of the quote, and the fact that said 'bored billionaire' makes good and impactful progress in three important big problems of humanity - namely, energy safety, transportation and access to space.

Even what you call "mindless pursuit of space" isn't so; SpaceX aims for space for known, well-thought and well-defined reasons. It's not just fueled by imagination.
The curious case of the mobile MOBA
Space leaks in Haskell are like memory leaks in a reference-counting garbage collector: a real problem, but one that is manageable. It does not mean we should abandon all hope and go back to exclusively manual memory management!

It's also a problem that tends to be exaggerated and is certainly not a reason to abandon laziness as others (not you) in this thread have suggested.

The equivalent of full-on garbage collection would be perfect, of course, and we'll get there eventually for non-strictness and meanwhile the existing system and tooling is improving all the time.

Finally, I think people also overestimate how much these things affect the popularity of a tool. I remember having pervasive, hard-to-track memory leaks in JavaScript just five or six years ago, and look how far it's spread by now!
This is actually a pretty rare sequence of events.
Know of any interesting examples/fun projects where this data is used?
Cable Robots are generally a very interesting technology. I wrote a bit about them (eg. for 3D printing, as a crane, etc) a while back: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2014/07/15/stadium-sized-3d-print...
Optimizing the device's profile for a known input is generally celebrated. Deliberately misrepresenting the device's capabilities to deceive a test is what folks are generally upset about. It's a subtle distinction, but I'm happy to use Justice Stewart's "I know it when I see it" criterion.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/live-memory-test,1241-10...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-andr...
Very small children are mostly loud meat slugs and easy to care for while you're playing games. Then there's a phase where they're very active but not potty-trained or good at talking.

The next phase, when they are a little older, you can share your hobbies with them. Kids love to do fun things like hiking and camping and building stuff and playing games. That is awesome.
Euro standards are backwards; they have stricter CO2 emissions regulations, but are lax on NOx. I'd imagine they don't have a lot of smog events like what happened in California during the 60s and 70s.
Considering the price of phones today, the prominance of mobile use and development, it seems like a very reasonable question. There are a lot of blog and production site articles on the topic as well. If you're not interested then why not just ignore.

Reference for what should and should not be flagged can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click "flag" at the top."
> I don't think I can withstand working with that kind of people in the long term, this is really soul-destroying.

Why are you working with them now?

I realized before I was even in industry that I didn't ever want to work for a company that received their income from advertising, and I haven't worked for one in my entire career. It hasn't always been easy to find jobs, but the jobs I did find actually tended to be a bit higher-paying.

Ads are sucking up a lot of the intelligence in our society and the only people who can stop them from doing that are intelligent people. If we refuse to work with advertisers they will suffer from the incompetence of the people they do hire.
That's where it started. Open a marketing message, look at the from line. If they're implementing it, you'll see "Marketer name" <marketer@emailaddress.com> Unsubscribe
> my wife was told being left hand was evil (she was ambidextrous) and she was converted to fully right handed in 1st grade (1990s).

The 1990s? Is that a typo?
Gimbals are limited to ||acceleration||=1g. I guess there are some elements you miss from that, like when a roller coaster starts to fall (you experience <1g), or when a car takes off (you experience >1g). Here you can provide a bit of both and also gimbal action. There's also rotation effects (which I don't know if are felt) that can be mitigated too and better jerk simulation (not only acceleration, but variation of acceleration).

Actually if your whole simulation has ||aceleration||>1g you should be able to do it perfectly (save for jerk/rotation effects) with some large centrifuge: the rate of rotation of the large centrifuge dictates the "perceived gravity" and gimbals dictate the "perceived direction". In this sense it would be perfect if you could get a centrifuge with a gimbaled end in a 0g environment.

Hey NASA, I have this one little idea for the ISS... :)
I agree 100%. That column of uniform green makes it easy to miss. It is a poor UI choice but can be easily fixed.
If there is an adjustment in valuations across the industry,
it should not effect the public markets the way it did in 2000.

Isn't this only in the case where the said unicorn is not IPO'd. Like in the case with Groupon which lost 85% of it's value since IPO, the public market is affected.

If these 59 unicorns go public and begin to loose money, they would effectively trigger a domino I believe.

Like the VCs who get in during the E/F rounds, the general public is also susceptible to similar behavior.
I believe dpdk supports non-Intel NICs as well. Would also be interesting to compare scylla with kernel networking vs Cassandra.
In the US I would never consider any such job. I've got a family to feed and I can't dick around with a "maybe you'll have a job in 3 months, maybe you won't" type job.

I nearly quit a job I had when they suggested doing that to new hires. I knew immediately that we'd never get any good candidates in that way, as the good candidates will have legitimate offers from other companies where they weren't "on probation."

If labor laws in the US actually protected normal workers, it might make sense, but since they don't, it's entirely favorable to the employer and unfavorable to the employee. Right now, if I don't like a job, I can still quit whenever I want, so that's no loss.
Flipping over past a magazine page doesn't directly cause the publisher to miss out on revenue.

I'm not defending advertising. It's a pox on your society - a virus for our brains. The best ads are deliberate manipulative lies. Still, your logic is awfully convenient.
Lyft, Sidecar, Haxi?
Not up to 1g acceleration, exactly 1g aceleration only (if the platform only rotates), with varying direction.
That release is from 2002, which predates the introduction of Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel in the US (Cali switched in '06, the rest of the US switched in '10). This drops the allowable particulate concentration from 500 ppm to 15 ppm, which as you would expect greatly reduces soot as well as emissions of all kind.

The diesel we were running back then was garbage. It really had more in common with something like heating oil than the diesel the rest of the world uses, and is the reason why the US has a perception of diesel engines being dirty. It also created huge problems for porting small diesels over from Europe - they run at a much higher compression, but at those pressures the particulates in the fuel become abrasive and eat away the fuel injectors. Now we can use the same engine designs they are. It's win-win for everyone (except the oil companies I guess).

Also, biodiesel reduces soot and other emissions even further. The only downside is that it has a higher gel point than fossil diesel. In southern states you can get away with running straight B100, in more northerly states you need to mix in 15% fossil diesel to get the gel point back down (B85 fuel).
This article is about 2 years late. These are solved problems in angular 2 by default and have solutions in angular 1.

= Problem #1: Scope inheritance and dynamic scoping

Use directive controllers

= Problem #2: Dirty checking

Use immutability

= Problem #3: Dependency injection

I'm not really sure what the author is saying here. It sounds like he's confused and thinks DI and modules solve the same problem.
The one statement he has bolded is completely false:
> Angular forces you to use a third, custom designed alternative mechanism: one that is inferior to the already existing mechanisms available.
You can use a module system if you want. Nothing is stopping you.

= Problem #4: Pointless complexity

> providers, values, factories, services, constants [...] All five concepts could easily be assigned a single identity.
True, so just use providers if that makes you happy. Angular 2 also simplifies things.

= Problem #5: Server-side rendering

He stated a solution for angular 1. Personally, I don't really care about server side rendering so I won't elaborate.
Angular 2 will have angular-universal

= Problem #6: Angular 2

> Not convinced yet? Well, what if we were to tell you that the next major version of Angular will take a scorched earth approach to the existing structure that means it will have zero retro-compatibility with what exists today?

> it would be simply foolish to use Angular 1.x for new applications.

LOL, fear mongering. The angular team has already stated there will be a migration path to angular 2. They also announced they will continue to support angular 1 as long as people are using it. It's funny that he complains about angular 2 when it addresses his problems with angular 1.
Annotation is moving through W3C, http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/
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You're forgetting that we do things that nobody understands and nobody else can do. We can't raise taxes on the rich, sure, but we're uniquely armed to provide technical feedback for legal decisions.
Cuz one do not operate a state as a farm?

In Soviet Russia we tried vice versa: to operate farm as a state.

Even today every business entity has to have specific person responsible for accounting, fire defence, labor health, energy efficiency etc even if you have just 1 employee and he is business owner.

If you write customer name and birday somewhere (or name + almost anything), you have to sign with him additional agreement about personal data. There you have to specify how you will use it. If you get blood type or any other health info - you will have to certify your datacenter, use open crypto and have specific responsible employees.
I don't think it's "backward compatibility with C". It's that C++ deliberately lets you go down to raw pointers. This lets you write things like memory allocators in C++. Yes, that makes it a hard problem to do only shallow copy, which gets us back to overloading assignment operators.

It sounds like you want C++ to be something other than it is. That's fine, for you. Use something else. But C++ is the way it is for a reason. A lot of people find those parts that you don't like to make it a more useful tool for things that we actually do.
If null can be problematic then certainly making it more obvious when you might have a null is a pretty good idea. I tend to think, however, that getting rid of null completely as a concept is even better. One less thing to worry about.
The easiest way to understand what Sandstorm does is through the demo: https://demo.sandstorm.io

Try installing Wekan, which is a Meteor-based app.

The thing that makes Meteor easier for us is, as I said, the meteor tools have a command "meteor build" which gathers all of the app's code and package dependencies and puts them into a self-contained directory tree with a start script that is executed the same way regardless of the app. This makes it easy for us to build a tool which turns any Meteor app into a Sandstorm package because the input is in a well-defined, self-contained format.

We are, of course, building tools for other stacks as well. It just takes more work.
I've been getting 2-3 emails per year from a recruiting company. Each time I respond telling them to "REMOVE ME", but never hear back.

This feature will help, but does leave me feeling like no justice has been done.
On point #2, this was not only VW. That list even included Ferrari.

On point #4, this is pretty normal for any large company playing damage control. GM did the exact same song and dance in 2014.

I don't think I've lost any confidence in VW, but we may be looking at different types of cars. I like driving machines that may not be practical, but a hell of an experience to drive. The GTI's have done a great job of this, and I'll probably buy a new one soon. Currently a 2005 MKIV GTI 1.8t.

Given that VW tried to cheat emissions to improve performance and mileage, it's exactly something that a person like me actually wants (not the cheating the system, but the driver benefits).
Tape a piece of tin foil over your webcam.
Statically typed concatenative programming may be at the point that lazy functional programming was a few years ago. As valuable as separate research and hobby projects are, at some point we should probably put our heads together and collaborate on a single vision.

I’m more than willing to lead the effort if there’s enough interest—but as it is, it seems like those most interested in seeing it happen are those least interested in actually helping. So I just keep working on Kitten.

Factor is an impressive piece of engineering, and for those who like dynamic typing, I’d strongly encourage people to use it, and see how useful a dynamic and reflective programming environment can be. It’s just not the language I want to build.
Why it's not about self-driving
It seems to have been common knowledge in the industry for some time. It was mentioned on BBC Newsnight in December last year for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUr3RQRERM
and even if compilers were those that generate machine code (and they're not), what's wrong with (source-to-source) translator?
How to get started? Its simple enough - don't.
I have an old x201 that I need to upgrade. Can you share what ExpressCard you're using? Also, did you get a new 9cell? My own 9cell is at 77% tot. capacity and at 90eur for a new one, I'm not sure if it's worth investing in. Oh, and how much battery life are you getting under what distro/desktop? Cheers!
Downvoting is rude.

But, to your point -- Apple hardware, like most modern laptops, are built on Intel chipsets and cryptographically signed to prevent tampering by the owner. You're locked out of your own laptop.

If you're concerned about security or even if you just like to hack on the stuff you paid for, it's probably not where you want to be. You have no idea what's going on in there, and it's heavily encrypted at multiple layers to keep you from finding out. See my comment above: you were backdoored before the operating system was even installed. I was too, with my sweet new matte black Dell. (See my comment above).

The sad part is that there are very few modern laptops (if any) that we're not steadily being locked out of. It's not just Apple. It's (almost) everyone. and, of course, it's our phones, too. Check out the libreboot and coreboot websites for some modern(ish) gear that isn't backdoored.
> $300/month for the VM

High-availability, automatic failover, managed, with diamond-cut SSDs I hope? Who are you with? For that money you should just pick up a box.
Am I transferring data to the US when pasting it in Google Spreadsheets?
> But the idea that they sold 11M vehicles with hardware cheating the emissions test makes his claim fairly absurd.

So a CEO must know every detail about every component of every subsystem of every system in every trim level of every car of every brand that the company sells?

If that's really true, we're headed back to the early industrial revolution. Nothing can have more than a few dozen or perhaps hundred parts, and integration of say electronics and mechanical things will be rare, as it'll be the rare CEO who knows enough about both to meet your standard.
It'd be cool if they could get this cheap enough to tell the difference between a cold and a bacterial sinus infection. I'm plagued by the latter, but feel guilty about taking antibiotics. It really sucks to feel like crap for 2+ weeks only to realize you could have been back on your feet in a few days by popping some pills.
As a Catholic, I find your choice of words very interesting. The Faith teaches that darkness has no part with light, and no unholy spirit can stand before the Triple Holy (good and evil are said to be like water and oil). So the damned, who cannot stand (in) the presence of God (who is agape, the ultimate good, and triumphant), are thrown / throw themselves into Hell where they are immolated. Except souls are eternal, so they remain forever in that separation from God (the source of all good). "...people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment..." [Hebrews 9:27]
i don't think we can compare a naive, young and/or peer-pressured juvenile to a multi-million ( billion ? ) dollar company that knows what they are doing.
So a quick summary of the ruling:

This was a movement for summary judgment which requires a very high standard: they are basically responding to a threat of a lawsuit by asking a judge to declare in advance that this lawsuit can never truly happen; effectively they are asking a judge to affirm that the threat is really, truly BS.

They gave a lot of reasons why the lawsuit might be invalid from the get-go, from "how do we know that the purported author was actually the first to write this?" to "how do we know that she didn't abandon her copyright interest before the critical date?"... but for a summary judgment, you don't need to show what's true but rather what's arguable. The judge denies the vast majority of these complaints by saying that even though the plaintiffs might have given some good evidence that those things are what happened, they didn't show that it was inarguable.

The sticking point is that the copyright today is only on the words, not the melody and various arrangements, which have long since passed into the public domain. However, according to the judge, there is absolutely no evidence that the copyright for the words was ever transferred to that company alongside the words. References to the various lost agreements between the parties generally explicitly say that they were agreements to transfer the music, and make no explicit mention of lyrics; and the lawsuits that the company began litigating similarly complained about the use of melodies or arrangements rather than complaining about the words being used. On this one narrow point the judge said, "no, that's inarguable: there is no argument that in all of this evidence you've brought me, that there is nothing transferring lyrical rights to the company.
Forcing a child to write with their non-dominant hand can lead to all kinds of psychological trauma. Children can develop stutters, have a difficult time learning, and can experience profound secondary psychological effects.

Think about how much concentration it takes to write with your non-dominant hand. Now imagine being a child, being told you are somehow wrong _for being who and what you are_, and being forced to concentrate on working with your non-dominant hand while attempting to learn how to read, write, and do math.

This educator should be fired. She is clearly incompetent. Rather than supporting someone who already faces many challenges the right-handed world doens't face, she is actively attacking his psyche and making it more difficult for him to get an education.
I've recently been leaning towards not using web servers like nginx or apache at all. There are non-blocking server platforms like node.js or vert.x that let you code your web server instead of configure it. I find that ou frequently hit a wall of opaque redirect rules that become unmaintainable for any complex project. Having your server written in testable code makes it more predictable. It looks like nginx is trying to meet in the middle.
Usage of Big Data in Contact Center
Why would you want 'just' a checksum? I want something I can rely on. If I have to dedicate half a core per gbps of internet-crossing upload, that's not a big deal.
As I'm observing this scandal unfold, I find it amusing that all the eyes are on the VW company and how it affects it's finances, it's reputation, etc

While the effects on the company are extreme, I think we should also consider the broader and ultimate consequences of this trickery.

The fact that those cars pollute a lot more than officially acknowledged.
I've read figures like 40x as much.

Does that make those 11 million VW cars caught cheating the politically accepted pollution equivalent of 440 million cars ?

Another interesting question - if VW was caught doing it, who else is doing it ?

And if other companies (and factories, etc) are doing it, what is the purpose of the international pollution treaties ? How does it affect the plans to reduce pollution, given that the numbers that we base our calculations on might be off by factors of 40x ?
One would imagine that when google receives enough block and/or unsubscribe clicks from their users that they would eventually ban that sender from contacting any gmail addresses in the future.
One reason is that managing an open-source community requires a huge investment in communication.

If you're not in a position to run a community, it makes sense to avoid doing things that suggest otherwise. People will ask questions and be upset when you don't have time to answer, they'll submit pull requests that you don't have time to properly review, etc.
> And I'm not infected by this piece of malware, so I still trust myself over Gatekeeper.

That's idiotic.
ClojureScript tries to be Clojure, and Parenscript tries to be Common Lisp. Eslisp tries to be JavaScript; it's intended to just be an obvious one-to-one syntax replacement.

I wrote a brief comparison in the docs: https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...
Hopefully not a completely ridiculous question, is there any chance cable technology like this could be used as public transportation in the future similar to in Pixar's Robots?
> I didn't like how they artificially segment the market by owning Audi/VW/Skoda/etc anyway

How is this different from Honda/Acura, GM/Cadillac, or Toyota/Lexus?
You can't do brief periods of weightlessness with rotations on a gimbal, or periods of larger than 1 g.
An "agreement" is not a contract? How committing are EULAs then?