skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way this works is:

* We take a set of axioms, just like any other mathematics. Say ZFC.

* We construct an isomorphism - a bijective mapping - between states of universes and the reals. This step is honestly pretty trivial. Our laws of physics, as far as we can tell, are just big continuous-ish differential equations, so it's just going to be a serialization.

* We construct the reals from our axioms.

* By the isomorphism from before, we have constructed all possible universes which run under our laws of physics.

* We have constructed our universe.

Epistemologically speaking, mathematics doesn't work like anything else. Just about everything else you ever do is fundamentally bayesian in nature - we form hypotheses and attempt to disprove them by comparing them to our observations, and all we can do is disprove hypotheses, and even then not particularly strongly. Consult Karl Popper's works on empirical falsification for deeper discussion. Mathematics, in contrast, is inductive. We can prove that a statement is True by combining other True statements, and once we've done this it's done and cannot be "disproven" by the addition of more information. Well, unless you count Godel's result, but that's a bit of a special case and we usually ignore it because it's annoying.
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The PC gaming industry didn't need saving. Console publishers tried hard to spread the FUD that it was dying but the numbers told a different story.
The ground absorbs most of the solar radiation anyway. So having some of that radiation hit some black pipes is not going to change the amount of heat generated in any significant way. So you need to explain what you mean by "thermal pollution".
The interesting thing here is that he used only algebra. This model therefore occupies a sort of sweet spot, insofar as adding to the accuracy of the model requires machinery a level above what was used to get this model.

To wit: If you want to take into account eccentricity (which I think would be the biggest source of error), the steps needed are fairly involved. For one way to do it, see [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_m...
I wanted to make the same pun.
Prototype of an Ambient display using VLC media player
Bear in mind that BEM (CSS-wise) is just a nomenclature. What it addresses is exactly excessive nesting and dependence between mark-up and styling.

It roughly means that you imply structure via naming conventions instead of nesting (e.g. if you have a box inside a block, you'd style it via single class such as .my-block__my-box, instead of the traditional nesting approach .my-block .my-box). You can - and should - still use SASS (or other preprocessor) with BEM.

Some interesting resources regarding this:

http://philipwalton.com/articles/css-architecture/

http://philipwalton.com/articles/side-effects-in-css/

http://philipwalton.com/articles/extending-styles/

http://benfrain.com/the-ten-commandments-of-sane-style-sheet...
Modeling the behaviour of personal assailants from the POV of their rational risk-reward expectations does not match reality very well. They are largely people who are not in control of their impulses.
"H&F: Do you see the PC gaming market being eclipsed by mobile or console any time soon?

JG: I think mobile has it since the install base is massive and people have a lot of spare time sitting around where they have their phone right with them. Mobile has a fantastic growth opportunity."
> ... worst of both worlds ... timeboxed approach

Just to provide the other side of the story, I've done about a dozen MOOCs (mostly through Coursera) and I'm most of the way through Georgia Tech's online masters program.

Having to make progress every week is contributes a lot to me actually finishing these courses. The Udacity courses I've signed up for never get touched because there's no urgency. Ditto the textbooks on my shelf that I keep meaning to go through, and the Open Yale and MIT OCW courses I've bookmarked... I obviously have the time, but unless there's a threat of "Do it now or it's gone" I'll probably go and watch TV when I get home from work.
I use moderncv: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv?lang=en
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I completed a bunch of MOOC's. I've also worked on a bunch and not completed them while still learning. At some point, the learning took precedence and that's fine. I am profoundly grateful that there are free courses at the other end of the internet and feel lucky to have lived to seen the time in which it happened.
https://github.com/jgrahamc/webwatch/pulls
More proof that genetics is not read-only.
It always bothered me that Java8 and Guava optionals don't just implement Iterable. There must be a good reason for this, and I'm guessing they're worried about confusion when you have an `Iterable<List<T>>` but still, it'd be really nice to be able to just write

for (T result : potentialResult ) {
//...
}

I agree with you, that just seems so much more idiomatic than

if (potentialResult.isPresent()) {
T result = potentialResult.get();
}

But maybe it comes from my mental model of Optional being a 0- or 1-length collection. It's at least definitely treated as a functor in that for pure functional operations, you have .map (or .transform for Guava).
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You're not going to use glass panels in your roads. You're far more likely to use printed spools of flexible cells and cover them with a translucent, pourable protective layer. Some form of epoxy, or a concrete impregnated with optical fibers, perhaps? The efficiency per unit area will be horribly low, but when multiplied by the area of the whole road, you still end up with a lot of power.

You will lose some area to potholes. That's just another reason not to use the expensive, glass-covered cells.
Too bad we're stuck with ASN.1 in general, if you ask me. :-)
Point / function is it loads a website every x seconds. The obfuscation comes as it's utility, as it loads in an iframe in your browser you have the full pull of the site inc js etc, which if you wanted to could be used to semi obfuscate your surfing. i.e. creates a bigger haystack to find the needles of your surfing.
If I remember correctly, the XBox was operating at a loss at the beginning. I think it was more than expected that it would take a few years to break into the market.
The only reason it took everyone by surprise is because tech media (including YC) hailed it as being the "next big thing".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_La... -- Looks a really fun set too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_E... -- This book is an awesome read
Ideas go to paper (most often), or Markdown in my random projects, way before I decide to 'decide to make them'. Mostly so I don't have to keep things in my head and worry about them.
Then maybe I'll flesh it out, both big picture and any details that come to mind immediately.

If I find it interesting enough, and I decide to do it, I focus my idea-generation finding the minimum core of the idea, as a milestone with steps or pieces required to get there. Basic rule is that it must take less than 1 day to get there (or know that you can't get there). Then I code/fabricate it, then iterate along same lines, each time allowing more time for next milestone, until I'm done with it.
The process explicitly focuses on keeping problems small, so they are fun to execute - and not worrying about 'final' outcomes.
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Thank you for the info!
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I saw the comments- 4 years ago. Hmm.. Seems like a bug.. But no, old article
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I think a lot of people really did believe it, but they vastly underestimated how much Steam was displacing vs. consoles displacing in the major stores like Best Buy and whatnot. Like, you'd go to the store, see rows and rows of PS3 & XBox 360 games and practically nothing for PC games. It's not a big leap to say pc gaming is dying based off of that, as obviously stores are going to sell what people are buying.

Digital distribution is obvious NOW but back in the day there were a loooot of people scoffing at paying the same price for the digital version and making fun at people for not getting the obviously superior physical version.
Show HN: Cnverg – visual planning with GitHub issues
It's using the standard `flag` package that comes with Go, as for why `flag` parses args this way I don't know.
The problem is that a function cannot know whether or not the caller can recover from a particular error, so there's no point in making that distinction in the first place.
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The distinction is there but the runtime behavior is not remarkably different. This feels more like a philosophical argument with no real purpose, to be honest.
Dota/CS:GO are a couple of my favorite games, and excel in eSports because they have impeccable balance, a huge fanbase, and extreme depth of play/recurring novelty. I think eSports wise both franchises are in for the long haul; the real challenge is to deal with the game-release-mediated ebb and flow of relative popularity.

There's also a ton more investment in the quality of the games themselves relative to console/cross released titles. The Battlefield and CoD series are great examples of titles completely incompatible with competitive play: there's hardly any balance, no spectator mode, games and DLC churned out every year, distant/apathetic devs/producers, made to be 100% approachable rather than engaging for people who invest more time, and buggy as shit without exception. Valve has found ways around these problems, and that is why they excel at eSports titles.
According to http://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/washington/... , 90% seems to be an average number, not a best of fleet number.
It seems Denise Minger has changed her mind:
http://rawfoodsos.com/2015/10/06/in-defense-of-low-fat-a-cal...
They'll be pretty powerful. A single senator can secretly prevent a motion from reaching the floor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_hold
> So, "nil" is not a primitive value in Ruby

Almost nothing is a primitive value in Ruby. Not even true/false/numbers are "traditional" primitive values.

> Let's get back to the example, let's say that checking for «u» would return «nil», wouldn't checking for «u.profiles» would result in an exception thrown nonetheless?

No, because `u.?profile` would return `nil`, then, when you try `nil.?thumbnail` on nil again, it would return nil. So, doing the following, with `u` being `nil` is legal:

if u.?profile.?thumbnail
# doesn't run if u is nil
end
The difference is that Optional itself can be null, and in Java everything can be null.
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According to the README, that is what the posted templating system is based on.
NSA dodges another lawsuit because nobody can prove agency is spying on them
After reading the text of the bill I'm full of indifference towards it. Can you expand on why you think it's a bad law? I'd like to know because I'm probably missing an angle.
The most significant issue with HAProxy and large SOAs is the lack of really good dynamic re-configuration. You don't want to have to manually change your configuration every time someone wants to add or change load balancing to a service, and if you do it automatically you run into HAProxy reloads being a reliability problem as they drop traffic on the floor due to Linux being goofy in how it implements SYN handling.

It looks like there is a lot of good advice on this thread for how to mitigate the configuration problem (bamboo, consul template, etc ...) but then you run into reloads, and even if you use zero downtime restarts as I described in my HAProxy deep dive (http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-zero-downtime-h...), you still end up with periodic ~50ms blips in your timings.

We've found that Synapse (https://github.com/airbnb/synapse) is best in class at managing HAProxy for us in a fairly large SOA. It is really intelligent about doing as much as possible dynamically over the HAProxy stats socket as opposed to reloading for every configuration change, and we can finely tune how often we are reloading HAProxy. The best part is that it is fully pluggable. Use DNS, marathon, zookeeper, etcd, etc...: Synapse can manifest that service registration information into HAProxy configurations.
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Down-votes are a way of distinguishing between posts that actively degrade the environment versus those that are just passive noise (like redundant comments.) Fanatical behavior thrives without them.
That is really hard to determine, mostly because project costs are part of the greater EdF numbers and not broken down in details for those years. So someone with better French and access should be able to answer you there. This is true not just for nuclear but all power generation before the late 90's in europe. i.e. same difficulty to getting numbers in the UK and Germany. Once these national power companies went to the stock exchanges they started to report in more detail how much projects cost. Anyway there are also number of existing reactors that are no longer running even if in the same generation as some other ones.

The, unfortunate, reality is nuclear reactors are not build in serial production. Therefore learning costs do not decrease as much as you might expect. Main reasons are distance between sites, meaning many construction workers do not work on all sites. You see at most 10 units for one design. Time between forgings for mayor means parts are not made in large series so relatively little is learned. All 4 EPR sites seem to have suffered from the same issues with concrete pouring so even there learning might not have happened.

Economically nuclear is in a real bind: for regulatory reasons you want big plants (1gw+), but for economic reasons you want many small ones (about 100mw). The current 1.6GW units are in many ways to big and smaller reactors would be much better project/knowledge wise. Yet the regulatory overhead for each new unit means that the firms went towards designing larger units.

Bechtel marine nuclear powerplants could actually be produced in series as they are small enough to be build off site and could be made economically viable. Yet I don't expect that Bechtel ever will.

But lest assume Arreva learns how to build EPRs for 5 billion and in 5 years. Which gives you

EPR done right
5 billion / (1.6 GW * .7 historic capacity factor) = 4.4
to
5 billion / (1.6 GW * .9 best capacity factor) = 3.2
London array
2 billion / (.63 GW * .50 historic capacity factor) = 6/2

Even in this very optimistic scenario, offshore wind is between 100% and 60% more expensive on construction costs. Offshore wind however, still has lower opex and a much better learning curve. i.e. if ordering a london array today costs will be less than 2 billion. (big difference in reporting is that wind projects include interconnect costs
which current nuclear projects do not due to sitting next to existing plants).

Wind farms, also have positive decommissioning costs (those steel towers have real economic value at end of life).

Both types of projects have issues with nimbys.
The template element looks very useful. Basic support in old browsers should be possible by simply setting it to display:none.
I think that the base concepts of this article are wrong. eSports is not saving PC gaming because the games require the best hardware. In fact competitve games have some of the lowest requirements possible. Riot(League of Legends) goes out of their way all the time to make sure that their game will work even on the most outdated computers and really none of the competitive games have the most astonishing graphic.

For the pros too it's not about the hardware or graphics, many use the lowest possible settings to make sure they get a decent performance. I don't know if it's still a thing but in Counter Strike people use very low resolutions to enhance performance, have better vision and reduce mouse movement. We are talking about games where a few ms can make a difference.

What is selling hardware is not eSports. It's all those games that look amazing and perform the best on great hardware. Skyrim(or even GTA V) for example, on a console will never look as good as on a PC. A recent controversy was that on PC Watchdogs was "downgraded" before release to look more like the console version because they weren't powerful enough.

Here's another thing that is saving the PC industry, the mod community.

If there is one thing for sure is that phone gaming wont destroy PC gaming.
Just FYI, I don't primarily use MySQL and I'm much more familiar with Postgres. I don't think you read my post charitably (or correctly, in some cases: for instance, I didn't say InnoDB's MVCC implementation was better in general, just that it seemed unlikely that Postgres's is better in all cases). I listed everything I am aware of, feature-wise, that might put MySQL over Postgres for some people. I could write a far longer post in the reverse direction.
Your suggestion makes sense, but my previous question was referring to how Windows handles this. Do you know if it's possible to assign Ctrl+C to both operations for the Windows 10 command prompt?
Try one of these bookmarklets to make the page look better - I routinely use zap or zap stylesheets to get rid of all annoying page elements and stylings:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
It is extremely odd that this article has a burger at the top of it. As far as I know burger patties aren't normally processed, someone correct me if I am wrong?

A lot of people find it surprising that aside from the veggies the patty is the next healthiest part of a burger. It is the bun and sauce which will kill you (both have a lot of sugar/complex carbs), and then maybe the cheese in third worst.

Just for an example, a Big Mac has three layers of bun (2x patties), while a McDouble has only two layers of bun (2x patties also). The McDouble has 7g of sugar, while the Big mac has 9g of sugar. Now, yes, the sauce will account for some of the delta here, but my point is those buns are extremely unhealthy.

As a strange result, it is often healthier to get smaller but stacked patties rather than a single patty that is larger since the buns, sauce, and cheese will be smaller also. That's why if you look at the Quarter Pounder (1x patty) at McDonald's it is much more unhealthy than the McDouble (more so than you'd expect), the McDouble (2x patties) is 7g of sugar, the single layer Quarter Pounder is 10g(!) of sugar.
I'm pretty excited about what this will do for web components development. Polyfills have come very close, but deeply nested components can become a tangled mess in no time.

If anyone is interested in getting started with web components, I recommend taking a look at Google's Polymer[1] library. It's a fairly opinionated approach, but has a relatively small learning curve.

[1] https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/
Grav is a modern open source flat-file CMS
Just because lots of people are terrible doesn't mean this is laudable. One of the major roles of management is (or is supposed to be) to jump in and fill holes when needed.

In my opinion, a sane business starts out with the CEO/founders doing the actual work, and only after a great deal of expansion does it reach a point where upper management can think about being disconnected from it. I guess massive VC funding allows companies to skip straight to the second part.
FLIF, the new lossless image format that outperforms PNG, WebP and BPG
Those are easy numbers to figure, and there's enough empty desert space within Morocco's own borders for all of those installations (assuming you accept their claim over Western Sahara).
FLIF is a new lossless image format that promised to be superior to the popular PNG format. This article describes comprehensive benchmark tests that verify that FLIF indeed outperforms PNG, WebP and other lossless formats.
See also FLIF introduction on Hacker News earlier this month:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10317790
Okay, good theory crafting...

From http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09digi.html?_r=0: "A home user’s Internet connection, with a laptop using Wi-Fi, would be available about 99.8 percent of the time, estimates Mr. Hölzle at Google, which equates to about 18 hours of cumulative downtime a year."

So yeah, two nines.

Also, here's the results of me pinging google.com from the network of my "large technology company" who employees me.

652 packets transmitted, 646 packets received, 0.9% packet loss.

Two nines.
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Ask HN: Algorithm for Scheduling appointments by location
Is there a good general purpose algorithm that can be used to schedule appointments given time and location constraints. Say someone wants me to come to their house to fix a computer at a certain time on a particular day and their neighbor also needs a computer fixed and is flexible with time. The algorithm would work it out to show the neighbor that I am near by and available on a certain time slot. Another potential client that is 50 miles away wants to schedule something close to the same time slots, but the algorithm considers they are much farther away and offers them a time slot much later in the day.
There are some key features of template that hiding it would not accomplish, namely that the contents like scripts are guaranteed not to execute until they've been cloned/stamped.

Fortunately there are already polyfills for that: http://webcomponents.org/
F1 works incredibly well in Visual Studio, especially if you're working with one of the flagship .NET languages. For example, highlight a core language element in your code, press F1 and you'll get specific help on it.
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Every reference in Java can be null. You should be thinking about it all the time.

It's the Java language that forces you to think about nulls, not Optional.
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That's egress traffic :) And yeah, https://github.com/QubitProducts/bamboo/issues/143#issuecomm... is currently my best idea (with some additional nfq stuff). Doesn't help when requests span the entirety of the reload though.
That is only in the last decade, and for the US. Other countries and decades have differing numbers. Still it only holds when Nuclear is a less than 50% of production. France tends to have around 77%.
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A hair dryer and a $10 cell phone camera attached to each panel is likely more cost effective than a fleet of drones.
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I support it. I think higher wages for unskilled and semi-skilled workers is generally a good thing.

But then, I make a conscious effort to live in an area with reasonable housing prices.
Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
Design and education kept Apple alive through the dark years. I can see gaming doing the same for the PC industry through the dark years of Cloud ("Mainframe 2.0") until "PC 2.0" arrives.
I'm sure Chrome/Opera and Firefox will tweak their implementations to match the updated spec soon, then all that's left will be Edge, and they've expressed intent to implement!! https://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/shadowdom
Again: the premise of the business is that there's a premium to collect on top of the work of housekeepers, who generally do that job because it is the only way they can scrape by, and that the premium should be assigned to people who can code. The article's author thinks that performing the gig once is somehow an illustration of a startup founder's determination. I winced.