skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if Jobs deserves praise or honor, but I will say that true giving is anonymous, except when a person gives non-anonymously with the sole genuine goal of influencing other people to give, not to enhance his or her image or legacy.

The Gates family name is plastered everywhere. Buildings on the University of Washington campus, the name of their foundation. That puts into doubt his true motivations. He seems to like amassing things: fortune, and now legacy. I'm sure he's also quite motivated to reform his image.

I'm glad Gate's is spending his ill-gotten gains on social and health causes. That doesn't mean he deserves praise. He is sacrificing nothing. He lives just as luxuriously, but now he also gets to luxuriate in all the adoration of his "generosity".

Who deserves more admiration, Bill Gates giving away money he can't really spend on himself anyway, from the comfort of his 60,000 sq ft mansion with a 2,500 sq ft gym, a 60 ft pool, and a 23-car garage filled with exotic cars? Or the person who decides against a lucrative career path to be a public school teacher with the meager pay and little thanks? Or the doctors who volunteer for Doctors Without Borders, often working in dangerous places, when they could be using that time to rake in more money at home?
True.. But maybe a Aircraft carrier harness sort of system that adds a high friction carriage after you hook into it may be better.
Neal Stephenson's 2015 speculative fiction novel 'Seveneves.'
I would imagine a simple drill bit would do the trick - that action isn't dependent on gravity, and in an enclosed area (the bore) the simple action of the screw should do it. The real trick would be making sure the ejecta doesn't hang around. For small particulates you could use a static field, but larger masses would be harder.
Are you feeling okay? Did you just get back from Colorado or something?
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Troll Hijacks HLN Segment on Edward Snowden to Defend Edward Scissorhands
Technically no, if we're talking about installs of OS on platforms. Bad business decisions and uninformed consumer decisions don't necessarily line up with "voluntary". Voluntary on the part of the manufacturer, yes. But less obviously so on the part of a less informed consumer. And complicated further by the fact that some of those manufacturers later came to regret the deal they entered - specifically that MSFT got a cut of all shipped machines regardless of whether their OS was installed.
Do you have any data that indicates that network saturation is getting worse? My experience is the opposite.

Also, how would your protocol help your example of you riding on a train? I'm not seeing it.
Surely you can give a rough idea?
Wow -- people used to paste paywalled articles all the time on HN and, as far as I noticed, got upvotes for it. Did I miss a meeting? Is this now discouraged?
Netflix, I agree. But what about Tinder, Reddit, Yelp, and Foursquare makes them unsuited to a PaaS? Is this, "It's not fast enough for my EXTREME METAL CLOSENESS?" arguments? Scaling them isn't inherently made easier by AWS. People said the same shit about AWS as opposed to your own data center.

The nice part about Google's approach, it gives you both worlds in an interoperable package. But I suppose you're more interested in the silverbacking than the specific technical arguments.
This is the first thing I've ever seen on HN (and I've been here since the beginning) that I've shared with my father. He absolutely loves avocados and eats them raw, and I knew when he saw this it would be love at first sight even though he lives on the east coast of the US and can't use the service!
I've read it and I think it's awful. Nothing there that isn't obvious; it will say exactly what you expect it to say.
Well NASA recently made a statement that there's no significant asteroid going to hit Earth for centuries to come thus shunning growing rumours by conspiracy theorist about Planet X. SO why are they spending dollars on such a scenario (specially when NASA's budget has been reduced recently)? It could rather be spent on say human mission to Mars ETC which are near term possibilities.
So many programming languages are like magic: you have to know the name of something before you can control it.
I'd rather get unripe avocados, because then I can choose the best time to eat them.
I guess trollers/jokesters aren't appreciated here...
SFAIK, anybody who has kopecs, roubles, yuan or lira can exchange them freely and instantaneously for dollars ( albeit probably for a fee ).

Those US dollars printed that get stuffed under mattresses don't actually... exist, in a way, wrt to US monetary policy.

The military spending is the same as for everything else.
It's not really the "giving money away" part - though I would note that there are ways to spend it (like a floating sea palace or something).

It's that the Gates Foundation is successfully getting things done. At least, that's the impression I get after reading their annual letters. It's not a typical charity where it's all about helping people today (giving out food, medical service, etc.). It's about changing things so things will get improved. So things like bringing in new types of crops to Africa - that kind of thing might make a real impact forever.

And even more interesting is that his money isn't enough. He cannot buy solutions to these problems. 50 or 100BN just isn't a ton of money on a global scale, to e.g. immunize a billion people.
The book The Nuclear Bazaar made the point that the ex-Soviet guards of nuclear material are unusually devoted to their missions, even without pay. Also, the roads in those areas suck so transporting any material covertly would be a challenge to say the least.
So you are now following me around these threads, defending the concept of AWS from all criticism? Even that which has been admitted and promised to be fixed by AWS's support staff?

For someone with 'toomuchtodo' it seems like a very questionable use of time.
I find the first set of pictures the most interesting, because they all display various forms of what we would think of as automation -- machines to do house cleaning, farming, barbering, grooming -- but none of them actually automate anything. The floors do not clean themselves, nor do the tractors navigate their own course. All of the machines are still controlled by levers and pedals. The barber is still required to cut hair, although his efforts seem magnified. The housewife still must carefully control the cleaning machine, perhaps saving some elbow grease but not very much in the way of leisure time.

A century ago, we thought that machines were going to be multipliers of the effectiveness of human effort. Now, it seems clear that they will inevitably replace it.
Well, the article says Internet, but if you're proposing that instead it's the Web that will unravel from its own internal contradictions, could you explain how that will happen?
Because Nasa can only see about 10% of the entire sky. Meaning, they can't see the other 90% probability that it might hit some day.
The Curious Case of Competition among Androids
Most pantry essentials are only purchased once or twice a year. So, you just spend a year accumulating that stuff, and eat beans and rice in the meantime.

And you buy cheap. A jar of spice from McCormick might cost five bucks, but you can get the same amount in a plastic bag at the bodega for a dollar. And really, you don't need two kinds of salt.

If you're one of the fortunate poor, your immigrant parents/grandparents have already taught you how to cook.

It's really quite a foreign idea to me that cooking for yourself is expensive, even though I hear that all the time from people my age and younger. Maybe they all think you need to cook elaborate meals. But when you look at the way immigrants cook, it's really just a small set of cheap ingredients combined a bunch of different ways.
Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Tutorial
Voices?

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind [Julian Jaynes]
A Single Neuron May Cary Up to 1000 Genetic Mutations
How difficult would it be to obscure the isotopic mix, either through running it through a purification process that is not effective enough to get weapons grade from raw ore in a reasonable timeframe, or by mixing in small amounts of un or underpurrified ore.
I just suspect that I shouldn't really care what the reserve currency is. If anything, it probably has minor annoyances for Americans.

I meant that vacations for people who live in non-dollar places are cheap, goods are cheap. I recall that trips from Canada cost pretty much the same as from the US, taxes notwithstanding.

The main complaint I hear about goods is VAT and import duty where applicable.
Spineless is the word.

This is all about the psychology of pride and envy. You go to Princeton, buy into the whole mindset and at the end of the day, when you figure it out, pride and greed prevent you from making a decision in your interest.

There's a reason why those things were categorized as Cardinal sins in the old days.
To me, microservices address for many the continuing need for structures that hide complexity behind small, understandable interfaces. Black boxes if you will. Unlike components, which have no standard for connecting to and among each other, microservices do - in a relatively standard and easy to understand way. That's why they are so attractive.

I find myself very much agreeing with the author, but being involved in modeling complex business problems into object-oriented code, I'm more frustrated that in a problem domain, we have no effective modular concept for groups of collaborating objects. We can't walk up to an object graph and immediately understand the functionality it performs and the services it provides.
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> The implication of that is that people need to move up the value chain or perish.

Nice. So will there be enough jobs in this value chain for all the unemployed truck drivers?
uber, apple, amazon, netflix, linkedin, Tesla/SpaceX.... to name few. (I dont think this is a bad thing for these companies FWIW, these companies need these types of people leading based on how the companies operate.)
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Great post. This is really exciting. Being able to 'see' something more easily is such a big step into the quantum world. I love the word 'unvoid'.
I'm not 100% sure how to answer the first question. Yes, in a way, but those aren't tradable instruments any more - they're part of the Fed balance sheet. And technically, the Fed isn't government.

Yeah, I know....

This is the point - no more bond vigilantes as in days of yore. Bonds are smooth sailing on calm seas. This signals that everybody's on board with the low rates.

So this signals a lack of concern without deficits/debt.
Many of you are romanticizing "hearing voices" but is mostly because you don't know what that's really like, is not like talking to the mirror or "hearing your conscience". I had a friend with Schizophrenia and she cried every single day, many times she wanted to die just to make her pain go away, she tried every possible drug (legal or otherwise), the level of unrest and anxiety that she had to go through is not something I desire even upon the worst human beings.

I think that just like the brain is likely the most powerful machine in the world, when it goes bad is also the most damaging machine in the world for the person who has it.
I think HP was seriously hurt by this, losing to Intel in R&D right?
Peter Shor Explains His Namesake Quantum Algorithm [video]
Ignorance isn't an excuse - otherwise we are the baddies for being at fault for not steering consumers towards better alternatives, not Gates.

> later came to regret the deal they entered - specifically that MSFT got a cut of all shipped machines regardless of whether their OS was installed.

Then they should've developed their own OS, as they were completely free to do.
> But still, there are failure modes and unintended consequence opportunities that should at least be thought about a bit, even if a very little bit.

I think it's highly likely that the people responsible for these projects will realize this. Do you disagree?
Ask HN: How did you start using Buffer?
What was your need and how Buffer helped you?
What are the typical pricing sans delivery?
Gates is using his name to further the philanthropic causes. He's not doing it just for the warm fuzzies.

> He is sacrificing nothing.

This is utter wank. He sacrifices his working life - he spends a lot of time working on the foundation and pushing philanthropic goals. That's far from 'nothing'.

> Who deserves more admiration

Why is it a competition?
He he..I am fine. Thanks for asking. I am from India. That is another thing I have found curious. Somehow, in online discussions, people always assume that you are from US.

And my comment does not mean that I believe ghosts exists, if that is what you meant by the Colorado thing....
But how are you going to press against the ground without gravity? If you don't press firmly, the drill bit will just scratch the surface instead of boring in. You don't have gravity, and you can't use suction cups (no air!), and I'm skeptical if you can grab on something and hold on to that. (It will require a lot of robotic engineering, and what if the surface is filled with loose gravel?)

Maybe you could fire a rocket in the opposite direction the whole time, but that increases fuel requirement even further.
Private Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Good Idea or Scam?
Yes. partly it's easier parallelism. Generally, easier ways of doing things are successful.

And partly. it's more efficient use of resources because finer-grained, therefore cheaper.
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You need leverage to drill. You have to push down a bit on whatever you are drilling into, which will push you away from it. So, until you drill in enough to get leverage on the target, you've got to either counteract this force, or keep extending your drill arm as you drift away.
How meta: http://hnrankings.info/10329038/
A curated list of awesome Torch tutorials, projects and communities
OSI Layer 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_layer
Perhaps once labour costs are eliminated you can also improve efficiency by driving more slowly (in a truck-only lane on the freeway). You could also draft just behind other trucks. Finally I suppose you could be whatever shape is most efficient for slipping your cargo through the air without needing to worry about accommodating a pesky human.
You may dislike him all you want, he deserve credit for his philanthropy. Credit where credit is due is one of the more important values in engineering. There are criticism to be made against Microsoft, but as with praise it has to be based on facts and not vague allegations.
Of course viewer-pays web content is economically feasible. Because we are already paying for it! Where do you think the advertisers get their money from? The idea that ads give us things for free is an utter lie: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237

You're right about the need for technology innovation around payment. The problem is, there is more money to be made under the current ad regime. When you ask people to pay for things, they will only pay for the things they truly think are worth it (That's key to the idea of the free-market!) But when you get people to use your product by fooling them into thinking its free, but while they are mesmerized by their good fortune at all this free stuff your accomplice the advertiser is on the other side picking their pocket, who then gives you a hefty cut, you can make gobs of money! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047706

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair

If you also see this truth and want to do something about it, send me an email. I'm starting a project to whistle blow, to raise awareness, to inspire change.
In some ways these people don't begin this way it don't imagine becoming what they do become and what they become is a product of the organizations they work for themselves. That is, outside of working for these organizations, these people would likely behave differently, so it's not something you can lay at their feet entirely.
Sounds nice in practice. Do any of the major providers (GameServers.com, Hypernia, MultiPlay) use containers for their services? I ask because, if this is something worth doing, why they haven't done it yet (if they haven't)
Weed. The answer is weed.
A government or private company censors, private individuals libel and slander (in this example).
I would agree that it's frowned upon (if only from a liability standpoint) but at the same time it's borderline silly.

Between names and looking at LinkedIn, it's not difficult 99% of the time to figure out if you're looking at a male or female candidate.
Any landing on a such a low gravity object object would require some form of anchoring, which you can use to to get the drill started. The Philae lander (was designed to) use its impact velocity to drive ice screws into the surface, before fireing a harpoon. Presumably such a harpoon could give sufficient leverage to get run a drill.

Of course, if you followed the landing, you know that things didn't quiet go as planned, and Philae bounced a few times (and almost escaped the gravity), so this is definitely a difficult problem, but I suspect that once you have a lander that can anchor itself enought to not bounce, you could probably anchor yourself enough to drill.
fwiw, this is currently my favourite site to check for possible optimizations, I ran the test so you wouldn't have to wait 30 seconds in the queue ^_^ http://yellowlab.tools/result/e7v314ikq3
Actually it's funny, just not to us.
This thread has gone from a parody of the reluctance of HN readers to spend money to actual reluctance to spend money.

I must protest!

We still need a discussion about how the NSA is instrumenting avocados to track us, how free markets distort government regulation of avocado markets, how we should all grow our own trees, how YC has jumped the shark by funding avocado services without a proven business model, how we are in an avocado bubble and a deep learning implementation that generates avocados crossed with dogs.

Then we can ask these kind of questions!
$2 for 2 avocados (bought some just now)
European and laden.
A century ago, we thought that machines were going to be multipliers of the effectiveness of human effort. Now, it seems clear that they will inevitably replace it.

Interesting point, though despite the development of automation/AI I think the main setback is the same today as it was back then - complex tasks require complex mechanical systems. Moving parts are required and lots of them, making them an expensive, fragile system prone to failure.

If you could have a system that rarely broke down that could say, perform a manicure all by itself, you'd then have to overcome cost vs ROI. We need to break the point where complex mechanical systems with intelligence are worthwhile for the service that they provide vs cost and maintenance. It's more an economic problem than it is technological.

The best form of AI that we have at the moment lives in your pocket, has essentially zero moving parts and also acts as a communications device, source of information, clock/calendar/alarm/diary and source of entertainment. People have no problem dropping USD 700 on something that can add that much value with a low failure rate. The smartphone's success was rooted in economics as much as it was technological.
I think this is slightly different, in that mobile ads demonstrate an explicit market inefficiency (it is in the interest of both the user and the publisher for the user to pay directly for content, instead of being served ads).
> I'm completely amazed there hasn't been an openly documented theft of either nuclear materials or weapons and subsequent nuclear declaration by a new state or non-state.

I have a feeling that, given the way that both suicides and bank heists increase when they get talked about in the news, no government wants thefts of fissile material talked about, lest the news that one state was successful once embolden other states to try for themselves.
Eats them raw? Who would cook an avocado??? Or you mean eats them plain? Because that's just delicious.
The last book of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Flynn#Firestar_seri... is all about deflecting asteroids, IIRC.
I just bought 2 avocados. This is not a joke.

- Proof: https://i.imgur.com/0egDixL.jpg

- I was their first customer. These guys are really working hard to establish an edge.

- I paid $2 for 2 Avocados. One was a bit over-ripe, but the other was perfect.

- They came in a brown Walgreens bag. The bag had a $3 receipt.

Overall: I'd probably do this again.
Modern, as in Leonardo Da Vinci.

Muybridgean, as in Eadweard Muybridge, and his animal locomotion studies dated, circa 1877, after which artistic assumptions regarding animal behavior had firmer reference material.
That or they are no actually Hass avocados - they look like Shepard avocados to me.
The TPP: Copyright Law, the Creative Industries, and Internet Freedom
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