skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Feynman is worth quoting here:

All the major problems of the relations between society and science lie in this same area. When the scientist is told that he must be more responsible for his effects on society, it is the applications of science that are referred to. If you work to develop nuclear energy you must realize also that it can be used harmfully. Therefore, you would expect that, in a discussion of this kind by a scientist, this would be the most important topic. But I will not talk about it further. I think that to say these are scientific problems is an exaggeration. They are far more humanitarian problems. The fact that how to work the power is clear, but how to control it is not, is something not so scientific and is not something that the scientist knows so much about.

Let me illustrate why I do not want to talk about this. Some time ago, in about 1949 or 1950, I went to Brazil to teach physics. There was a Point Four program in those days, which was very exciting--everyone was going to help the underdeveloped countries. What they needed, of course, was technical know-how.

In Brazil I lived in the city of Rio. In Rio there are hills on which are homes made with broken pieces of wood from old signs and so forth. The people are extremely poor. They have no sewers and no water. In order to get water they carry old gasoline cans on their heads down the hills. They go to a place where a new building is being built, because there they have water for mixing cement. The people fill their cans with water and carry them up the hills. And later you see the water dripping down the hill in dirty sewage. It is a pitiful thing.

Right next to these hills are the exciting buildings of the Copacabana beach, beautiful apartments, and so on.

And I said to my friends in the Point Four program, "Is this a problem of technical know-how? They don't know how to put a pipe up the hill? They don't know how to put a pipe to the top of the hill so that the people can at least walk uphill with the empty cans and downhill with the full cans?"

So it is not a problem of technical know-how. Certainly not, because in the neighboring apartment buildings there are pipes, and there are pumps. We realize that now. Now we think it is a problem of economic assistance, and we do not know whether that really works or not. And the question of how much it costs to put a pipe and a pump to the top of each of the hills is not one that seems worth discussing, to me.

(from https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/feynman-meaning.html)
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Edison gets a lot of flack for some things he did (especially in the context of Tesla) but he certainly was a great inventor. Many of his inventions did come from working with the people he employed, but they were nowhere near "enslaved". No more than employees at Google or Facebook are.

Furthermore, a lot of the accusations levied against him are just outright false. For instance, the "electrocution of an elephant":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29

Edit - more about Edison: http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/02/oatmeal_comic_...
Great Job! Singapore and Malaysia will TTN soon also, the things.. are in motion.
Nudity detection doesn't work on black and white photography.
>If they're racist, guess who selected for that trait.

So I suppose unionization in industry is caused by bosses selecting for socialist employees?
Some in law enforcement feel that it's better to subdue resistance right at the beginning of the interaction with decisive or even harsh treatment. They go for the "Shock and awe" approach.
Funny what made ESPN popular in the early years was their constant coverage of Aussie Rules Football. So many in the US were curious about it and helped ESPN grow. I'm sure other sports were a factor too.

Too bad ESPN dropped coverage of that sport - I used to pretend I was an Aussie trying to bounce the ball and catching it and kicking etc with friends who had ESPN as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football_in_t...
11k fps. Wow. I will never get tired of watching this stuff.

That got me thinking, is there any theoretical limit to the number of frames that can be captured in one second?
A better title might be "Scientists pause the motion of atoms by blasting them with an imaging laser"
The lawsuit answer is the standard one I pretty much always get for this question. The problem I have is transaction costs.

Your example is very good for the lawsuit approach, because there's one polluter and one pollutee and it's very clear with liability, cause and effect, etc.

I accept that this solution works for cases like this. Indeed, it's why I mostly don't have to deal with people dumping trash on my front door and such. Property rights work fine for that sort of thing.

The problem I have is when both pollution and harm is much more diffuse. You might have thousands or millions of polluters, and millions or billions of victims. For any given polluter-pollutee pairing, the harm is far below the cost of litigation. Yet the total harm can be enormous.

For example, let's say there's a city with ten thousand factories and 20 million people. The factories are polluting the air like crazy which makes it unpleasant to be outside and causing all sorts of long-term health problems. (I just got back from Beijing so this is a particularly significant example for me.) Someone living in this city wants to sue the polluters for the massive amount of harm they're causing. How does this work?

Here's how I see it not working. They can't sue every factory because they can't afford the legal fees for ten thousand lawsuits. They'll have to pick one, or maybe a few. Now they get to court and have to prove damages. Well, the defendant's pollution is causing about 0.01% of the total pollution affecting the plaintiff. It's negligible. Even if you say that the total harm to the plaintiff is, say, $10 million, the defendant's share of that liability is $1,000. Hardly worth the time to litigate. And will you even be able to prove to the court that that particular factory is responsible for any of the pollution harming that particular plaintiff? Particles don't have serial numbers, after all, and neither do cancer cells.

Maybe you manage to put together a class action lawsuit so all 20 million citizens can band together. You still have the same problems of going after an individual factory.

Maybe the legal system is structured such that all 20 million citizens can band together and sue all 10,000 factories simultaneously. Aggregate harm can be demonstrated and liability apportioned even though no individual factory can be blamed, and no individual plaintiff can conclusively trace any ailment to the pollution. This works, but all you've done is reinvent something identical to modern environmental regulations, only they're ad-hoc regulations dictated by courts rather than concrete regulations dictated by the legislature.

And this is a relatively simple example. How would this deal with, for example, atmospheric mercury pollution that has already caused seafood to be dangerously toxic to children and pregnant women if eaten in large quantities? How would it deal with greenhouse gas pollution which won't cause any catastrophic effects for decades?
Heartbleed and ShellShock are examples of why open source is better. Both were found by folks who were not the software maintainers, but were reviewing the source code independently.

In comparison, it took multiple deaths and a major lawsuit to create the same level of visibility into Toyota's codebase. And what reviewers found was code quality far worse than that of OpenSSL or bash.

Someone else said this in another HN thread, but I love it: imagine a world in which Consumer Reports car reviews include a code audit report. That would be far, far better for overall safety than the current situation.
Please, please have Stephen A. Smith be one of the people laid off.
I'm not accusing the author of anything, I'm accusing you of thinking retina Macbooks are somehow cheap and accessible.

I also dont't think the comment you were replying to was expressing a dislike of Apple.

Basically, I think you're not even wrong. :-)
I'm not an expert but a big difference is packet size: Sigfox is limited to 12 bytes, while LoRaWAN is up to 256 (iirc). Sigfox also imposes a max of 140 messages per day. Also, the governing body of LoRa is open (lora alliance), while Sigfox is closed. In general, the LoRaWAN approach is more open, with most if not all of the infrastructure being open sourced.
The article focused on systems for running straight Docker containers, so I didn't investigate Flynn.
D I G I T A L S P O R T S

It's already a thing. Twitch is massive, and seemingly profitable. They're not the best company but they're providing a platform for millions of people to watch online events in traditional games (chess, poker) as well as eSports (called digital sports by some companies).
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The author did claim in the article that he's a dutch citizen and presumably the police would know this since they confiscated his passport. I'm not sure about the status of the refugee crisis in Bavaria, but I'd wager a guess that most of the people illegally entering the region or trafficking drugs aren't EU citizens on a business trip.

The author wasn't just "checked" (which I assume happens to everyone on the bus), he was asked to get off the bus, searched again on a public street, heard disparaging comments made about him by a police office, and was again checked in the police station and asked to strip naked.

Of course I wasn't there and I don't actually know what happened, but from the version of events written here there's a very obvious and very uncomfortable conclusion to be reached. The thing about racism like this is that there's always an element of plausible deniability to it. No cop is going to come out and say "we're detaining you because you're black and you fit the profile", but when it does happen to you it's very obvious what's going on.

If anyone is curious, the author's image can be found on his company's website. He's David Asabina - http://en.solarswing.nl/our-team/
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How well does Cloud Foundry play with stateful containers?
That book is a political piece aimed at regulation, it doesn't establish that the average person commits three felonies a day and when you look at the example cases there are things like people intentionally illegally importing millions of dollars of shrimp (they were trying to avoid harvest regulations).

It's a shining example of marketing having a negative impact on public discourse.
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1 in 200 men are direct male-line descendants of Genghis Khan. Many more are descended from Genghis Khan in any path (probably all Mongolians, and large fractions, quite possibly majorities, of many Asian groups).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor
Similar idea, but since MLB has its Productions service, things might become more monopolized through them over time.

If I remember correctly, the NHL is already using them as a provider for online streaming (as well as HBO Go for that matter).
The massive distractions allowed by the Internet, gaming, and the choice of what to stream is going to slice into those billions pretty deeply in the coming years.
There definitely is subtle or even open racism in Germany, and it is true that some people will treat you very differently if you look "non-European". Appearance-based or racial profiling is also inarguably done by the police and is definitely injust as well. The best we can do to fight this is to stand up for each other, and in fact I often see people doing this and openly intervening and calling out on people that are being racist. While this does not solve the problem of racism it at least creates a climate where racism is seen as something that is not tolerated, which in turn will help to drive it back.
I assume the post above yours was referring to the brakes being able to stop a moving car that also has the engine's power being applied, which they easily can do. If the brakes are engaged enough, even a full throttle engine won't be able to keep the car moving.
I don't think this had anything to do with refugees. They busted the OP because they assumed they'd find drugs on him.

Young man - check. From Amsterdam - check. Dutch passport - check. Dark skin - check. Dreadlocks - check

In their mind this kid was going to have dope on him no matter what.
SIGFOX has certain limits (outside of theoretical and practical bandwidth restrictions) placed on it. radio-electronics.com (http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/wireless/sigfox/basics...) states up to 140 messages of 12 bytes per object per day, with a throughput of up to 100 bytes per second.

The Things network, on the other hand, seems to supply its services openly and freely without limits, using the LoRaWan spec. Semtech (http://www.semtech.com/wireless-rf/lora/LoRa-FAQs.pdf) says it provides between 0.3 and 11kbps of bandwidth, so in theory your speeds can be anywhere from 3x to 111x higher.
So here is a guess: you are white, you have a standard hairstyle, you wear standard clothes.

There's nothing like the irony of trying to combat bigotry with generalizations.
> The big difference with Kubernetes is that it enforces a certain application style

In our experience, it isn't so much that Kubernetes enforces a certain style as that it doesn't force services to understand the scheduling layer. A Twelve-Factor-style app will deploy very nicely and easily into a Kubernetes cluster.
This is the most sane comment yet. As a society we get what we ask/vote/don't vote for.
This tells us that they didn't manually test Windows, or have automated tests that compared bitmaps. We don't know whether or not they ran automated tests. I'm guessing very few automated tests take font rendering into account. Although for a site that is so focused on typography, you'd hope it'd be a focal point.
They are not perceived as the same by most people in those cultures. There are tons of characters that to someone who's eyes are not used to spotting the difference would not notice they are actually different. A single dot, or touch vs pass through or curved at the tip vs not make all the difference

入　vs 人

玉　vs 王

口　vs ロ　<- my font might make those indisguishable out of context

千 vs 干 vs 于

of course in English we have 0 vs O and l vs 1
Part of the reason this is unappealing to consumers is there are actually two layers of bundling here.

One layer is the obvious cable TV bundling that most of us probably think is evil and should die.

But the second layer of bundling is ESPN itself. How many people care about "sports" in general, enough to pay for all the sports? No, people usually are into a couple of sports at most. They like baseball, or they like basketball and football, or they like the other football, etc. Or even, they like specific players.

I think there is a future to be had in selective channels available on the internet that cover specific sports in much greater detail than ESPN ever would.
Most european police forces train for de-escalation. Treating another person the way you want to be treated makes a huge difference.
Cookies or browser fingerprinting should do the trick, with gentle reminders to register. It's how most online shopping carts work.

I'm not saying no one should ever use OAuth2, ever. Sometimes websites have to jump through weird hoops to get conversions. But as a web developer, it annoys me a lot.
It's the beaver equivalent of alien abduction.
"They took me up there! I swear!"
It still does! You've just explained something that has been annoying me for about a year now. Thanks!
Wow, that's a good question. I see that I have the font here on a clean-install of Windows 8.1, but if I use the element inspector in Chrome to try to change the font on some of the text here on the screen, it seems to render as Times New Roman. And I have to eliminate the fallbacks. It will fall-through System, but it won't pick up the body font.
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How'd you set that up? Aka I'd love to copy you as that sounds like the ideal way to view this site.
False. While most pro teams in major leagues other than NFL have local TV deals, the leagues control all of the national broadcast rights, including streaming services, and that's not likely to change anytime soon.
The comic really needs a panel that goes something like, "Hey, since vaccination programs are so common, let's take advantage of that by using undercover nurses as scouts so we can kill terrorists!" And then that gets shot down as the completely idiotic idea it is.

I would really like to see an estimate of how many deaths will result from the CIA's subversion of Pakistani vaccination programs, and how it compares to the deaths caused by bin Laden. I'd wager the former will outweigh the latter by a substantial margin.
The flight-critical software in planes is at least somewhat reviewed and regulated by the FAA and other national aviation agencies. AFAIK, software in cars is totally unregulated.
I had similar suspicions about women's studies. But I didn't really believe it.

Then I read Judith Butlers Gender Trouble to about halfway. It's a book that's canonical in womens studies these days. Holy shit it reads like political manifesto, with sciency stuff only to mask it little bit.
Not Google, but apparently one way some malware tries to hide edits to, say, the hosts file is to create a duplicate hosts file with the cryllic homoglyph for 'o' and then hide the real hosts file.

Presumably this would trick users who would go check "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\" but not show hidden files. Seems like a niche subset, but still a neat trick.
You need to find some local startup / entrepreneurship community and meet some people. You are definitely not ready to be approaching investors now, so don't worry about that at this point. It's not hard to raise money when you have the right idea in the right stage.

Forget that about somebody stealing your idea. That simply doesn't happen. You know, I had software with basically same features as the first version of Twitter at least 6 months before Twitter appeared. And look were Twitter is today, my software is definitely not. And I'm not sorry because I'm well aware how things work. It's not the idea that counts, it's all together, the complete process, people and product, every single thing counts, idea is just a tiny, tiny part of it all. There were some cases in history where idea was everything, but they are so rare that you can easily consider them to be statistical errors.
This is a good question.

Obviously it becomes easier the more you understand the subject area. As student you might have little understanding. That's why you are studying!

In my case, initial downloads were readings for my courses or papers referenced in handouts. I just let my curiousity guide me from there. But I'll admit I also had some background knowledge to begin with, gleaned from work experience.

In some (most) scientific discplines, every paper begins by citing background material. You should gather and save those papers. No matter how old.

When you read the more general papers, and the other background material, in chronological order, you are in a better position to understand more specific, recent work.

Basically you are building a foundation for understanding the current state of research in a subject area. At least you will always be able to get up to speed more easily by having the proper foundation.

Of course, when you're at university you may be busy with other pursuits and you may not have the time nor inclination to read all those older papers. This is what you download and save. Sometimes there are scientific "encyclopedias" or other compilations. These can be good in their own right and also a further source for references pointing to more worthy downloads.

When in doubt a general rule is to download papers that are highly cited.

There is a vast amount of general knowledge that will never be offered on Wikipedia.[1] It is the best kind: peer-reviewed. Wikipedia and clones (Knol, etc.) wanted or tried to become "peer-reviewed" sources but this idea has never really succceeded on the open web. That is why this issue with academic publishing will continue to simmer.

1. At least, not until academic publishing undergos some changes.
It's funny how many growth hacks finally boil down to "Collect 500 emails and then email them about your startup".

Is it okay to find users from Craigslist to tell them about your startup too?

Another thing that I never understand is If I draft the email personally by hand then it is okay but if I use a template to mass fill the emails with [first name] then it is spamming? How does one decide the ethical side of such growth hacks?
It doesn't. It's intended to support 12-factor apps[1].

State is handled by services bound to your application. CF injects the connection details into the staging and runtime environments. Applications using buildpacks generally have that connection autoconfigured.

For example, Rails apps have database credentials autoconfigured if you have a database bound. Spring apps get a DataSource. And so on.

[1] http://12factor.net/
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
How much time can a man invest in learning a really complex stuff so he can work on compilers, creating programming languages or implementing extraordinary search algorithms. And who will pay for that ?

That is the downside of capitalism.

Just take a look at what happened to Oracle when the most brilliant engineers left after they acquired Sun Microsystems. They literally could not find anyone for ages to replace these people just because there is not enough talent out there.

And that's Oracle. Who else is there that can afford to pay these people ? Google ? Maybe. Netflix ? aye IBM ? likely And maybe few dozens of other corporations.

But these people do not want to work for corporations instead they need to be treated as special unicorns.
> This is what it feels like to get in touch with the police? Unidirectional respect?

Yes. No matter how good a police force's reputation, once you're in their hands, you better make sure you make them feel respected if you want to get out of their grasp quickly. Otherwise, trouble.

That said, German police in general are pretty laid back and respectful in my experience :-)
I wrote a meditative slow game called Calmer (was iOS, sold terribly, no longer available). I was contacted by a US psychiatrist who said he prescribed it for anxiety patients.

It never occurred to me to try to raise tens of millions of dollars for medical trials and then charge a huge amount to insurers!

It does strike me as dubious that the investors are backing this game. When surely any positive result would hold for any number of similar games. A branding play, presumably 'we're the game that did the trials'. But it does seem like that relies on ignorance of what games are available. It remains to be seen if and when they actually show the gameplay!
I actually looked for this and couldn't find it. Where is it? Should definitely be more obvious, unless I'm completely missing something :)
Cynical but there it is:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11

There's no 'economic value' to an idea until its executed. So you're in the right direction. You need a team and funding, and that's where most of the critical work happens.
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Similar in theme to that trick of sending strangers that "link to your facebook page" (http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363)
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