skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually on the cheaper side, journals especially upto date ones are pretty non-existent in the public library space anymore, I remember when I was in highschool you could actually go the the Uni library and get access to material regardless of you being a student there or not but they've also restricted access to academic journals and data-bases to students only.

And if you aren't an academic well that access is pretty much out of your reach at all, some won't even allow you to pay if you don't belong to an academic institution or just scam you for even more access (seen 800$ access fees vs 175$ for an edu account), so unless you work for an employer runs it's own library you are completely screwed which is just beyond stupid.

Journals don't fund research, most of them don't even take care of the peer review process any more, the writers of the paper aren't getting paid squat, and they just milk you more and more each year.

If they want to continue to sell hard copies they can go a head, but the cost of publishing online today is zero, and before some yells bandwidth this and bandwidth that I'm pretty sure that Google and Wikimedia Foundation would gladly take care of the costs.

Considering how much higher education costs, universities and colleges should also be mandated to open their libraries to the public for free, sure some services like study rooms can be either restricted to students only or have a charge for non-students but I really don't understand why basic thing as library and even non-lab lecture access shouldn't be available to the public. I've used to sneak to interesting lectures quite a bit before every school started mandating 78 forms of ID and a retina scan to use the water fountain...
I know Microsoft pretty well, and it would have wanted to support as many versions as possible, within the available time-frame. It obviously didn't just support SuSE, so your implied either/or is just yet more of your spin.

I don't know Red Hat that well (it's a few years since we've talked), but it has a strong focus on its own cloud business (1). It might have seen Azure as a rival to Red Hat cloud services, but that's just my speculation.

(1) https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing

BELOW

> I have no horse in this, no investment, nothing; I just don't like unsupported bias. Can you say the same?

If you really don't like unsupported bias, perhaps you shouldn't post comments that reveal so much of it ;-)

> Yes, it is "just your speculation".

You could also cut out the cheap tricks. I referred specifically to the comment on Red Hat's motives, not to anything else.
I think of it like this: If I'm going to manually be managing memory, I might as well get some real gain for that effort. Provably correct memory management through an ownership system sounds like it might be worth the effort, especially if it might also help in situations with threading. I've had reason to use threads quite a bit in the past.
I don't know why you think I made that error. Is it because I said "human right" that you think I was making a point about government censorship?
Apple's 'iPhone 7 Plus' expected to pack 3GB of RAM into 'A10' CPU in late 2016
Spark-timeseries: financial and time series calculations on Apache Spark
Not that I'm aware of. I made that joke since it's the second submission in a week I saw sunk far below its expected score (the Homejoy debacle was the other, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469134)
Oak Ridge ran an MSR for four years without difficulty. One solution is to just do that, rather than trying to make a reactor last 60 years.

At least two startups are going that route. ThorCon's design is a plant with reactor cores as replaceable "cans," each lasting four years in production plus four years of cool-down before shipping to a reprocessing facility. Terrestrial Energy has sealed 7-year units.
Are you really making a meaningful counter argument to the post you're responding to? or are you just inflating a poor word choice to derail the argument?
CA Dungeness crab season start delayed due to toxic plankton bloom
This post, and the many others like it, simply repeat the experimental shortcomings and potential sources of error that the NASA staff themselves point out in their communications.

It's sort of like science blogspam--repeating what someone else already said, but injecting more emotion into it to attract pageviews.
Yup. The tradeoff is that in operations we then need to work around all of the inherit disadvantages of running docker containers (network slowness, disk slowdown, logging, etc) to keep their systems performant.
"Perhaps most telling that Go is a good fit is that a lack of previous exposure to the language has not been a barrier for contributors"

This. It's true at the 100% Go backend company I work at that's never hired anyone with Go experience, and I've heard many others repeat this mantra.

While many people like to think of Go's lack of features in the realms of packaging, types, syntactic sugar, etc. as downsides, they're huge upsides when learning the language. There's just so much less to learn. Onboarding a new Go developer takes days, not weeks or months.
it would be interesting if you could talk about Nix, Guix and the 800-lb gorilla: click packages. incidentally, they just made an announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506188
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10501429 and marked it off-topic.
That Terry Davis comment :)
To my mind "your teeth are falling out, you should drink more lemon juice" is the same kind of argument as "our gini coefficient is too high, so we should raise the minimum wage" or "our companies are taking too long to fill positions, so we should allow more immigration".
Energy begets population growth. Whether thats the fungal growth on a dead tree, the ant colony that's found it's way in to the cookie jar in your kitchen, the algae bloom thriving on a mineral imbalance (manmade or otherwise) Or our accelerating use of tools to advance ourselves.

Nature has provided the most advanced species on the planet with easy access to bountiful energy.

I, for one, believe our impending predicament is a forgone conclusion. The underlying driver of climate change is the byproduct of our natural population growth, which in turn is a factor of evolution. We're in the start/middle of the Holocene extinction event. It's a perfectly natural consequence of life on earth.

Is it a problem, no more than the inevitability of our own individual mortality. It's the circle of life.

With all that nihilism aside. I choose to lead a simple lifestyle and work at an organisation whose focus is developing the advanced tools used to; get us off this planet, design ev's, simulate climate models, educate our future engineers.
My bank doesn't support alternative addresses, so merchants who enforce that policy have lost my business for the past 12 years - firstly because I've been moving about annually, so I've kept my cards registered at my family's home; and secondly because I want parcels sent to my workplace, where there will be someone to receive them, not to the place I'm living.

Given that Amazon and Ebay accept my card, if another retailer rejects it they'd need a pretty compelling offer for me to take a day off work to receive their delivery.
I've been using the KDE spin for a long time but this has me concerned - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2015-October/0... especially what he has to say about F23 - "the Fedora 23 KDE Spin (which is now final or almost final) is easily the worst KDE Spin we have ever released:"
I feel your pain. I'm trying to figure out how to get some code with some unique dependencies shipping to a wide range of users (both in skills and platform), and I don't even know of a good (multiplatform) solution that doesn't look like "bake it all into a static zip and unzip into /opt" or "run a docker container".

I need to think about that a bit more instead of solving the actual product problem at hand. :-/
>these documents are ancient history.

No, they're not. They're hagiographies. They're not intended to be records of historical events, but narrative prose with a specific audience, intended to bring them to Christ. The only exception might be Luke, who purports to recount eyewitness reports, but even he is not intent on detailing history, but imparting meaning to an existing narrative. (This is, by the way, widely accepted mainstream theology)

If these are our best sources (and historians tend to agree that they are), anyone honest about history has to recognize that the historiography of Jesus' life is problematic, and the quantity of manuscript copies in circulation will not change that.
In a nutshell yes. The binary argument is true as well, however many developers don't want to make their sources avaialbe which means other than going source -> some obfuscated IR -> native, thre is no way to allow the end user to run your app on any arbitrary platform.
Seem like a lovely bunch of nice and inviting people.

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
Futuristic test runner
If you think the 1040EZ filing process is in any way similar to what I attempted to describe, I fear that my description was grossly inadequate.
not right now. I think multi-monitor support is broken right now. In fact, FYI - the version of X in F23 is bleeding edge and does not supporting binary nvidia drivers (yet)
> I'm not a citizen of the U.S. so maybe I'm missing something.

Quite a bit.

> Why is he not just switching to the Republican party? What's this nonsense about his ideals being more in line with the democrats?

The "nonsense" is the truth; there's actually considerable overlap between the positions Lessig took on issues and those taken by other notable Democrats, including Democratic candidates (most particularly, on Lessig's central issues, Sen. Sanders), with differences largely in the relative priority between issues rather than the positions on major issues. You don't see the same overlap between Lessig's positions and Republican positions (this became even more clear after he adopted a more full platform.)

> thought the Republicans were all about the founding fathers and making sure the United States are not ruled by the old-rich?

You need to look beyond the surface rhetoric at substantive policy positions to even begin to understand where the parties lie and why Lessig might feel more comfortable with the Democrats.
It's funny because he says the complete opposite. The whole idea of the new covenant is that Jesus replaces the Jewish Temple of the Old Testament.

Read Mark 12, where Jesus basically avoids a loaded question by the Pharisees dealing with exactly what you're bringing up (old vs. new law).

Again, I don't mean to be rude, but it doesn't seem you have the theological background to have this debate.
Nah I actually have no employment (no cultural fit anywhere) - so I am focusing on (or figuring out) building something that could generate income pretty quickly, though I understand the size of the income wouldn't be big, so I've cut all my costs down for me and my family to $20k annually.

Living on savings for now, which runs out in a couple of weeks.
> it's failing the SC Heuristic because it recognizes no downsides to vitamin C or when you would be taking too much; telling this to a scurvy sufferer is only correct by accident. It would fail to notice that eg too much can cause vitamin C poisoning or (if in the form of fruit juice) obesity or vomiting.

Exactly! And yet for centuries it was nevertheless an extremely valuable model to have (I should have said "lemons" rather than "vitamin c").
They're pretty right wing, and some of their articles are questionably sourced.
We have evaluated Snappy a lot. In Snappy you can only share executables as dependencies, not librarires. So, you can use curl as a program, however if you want to use libcurl in your application, you have to include the library in package. When this list goes large, you have to keep track of the state of the every dependency you include. Bugfixes, security patches.. However, in regular package managers, you can also depend on libraries. And this solves a lot of headache, since those packages are shared globally and updated by system. I have almost never seen a backwards incompability caused by an update (some program needs to update liba, but some other program cannot use that upper version), it happens very rarely.

If you insist of using a specific library version, there is nothing stopping you from including it in your package , like snappy's.

Lastly, when you include libc a million times, or static compile your binaries, the size goes up and storage/bandwith also becomes an issue.

I agree that Snappy solves some problems, but introduces new serious ones as well.
Suspend works perfectly for me on Debian. I don't use hibernation (no reason to).
67 Reasons Investors Don't Like Your Pitch Deck
I started my career in machine learning with absolutely no knowledge in it. It is definitely some thing that you can learn on the job. You do need a background in linear algebra/ statistics to understand the theory behind different algorithms that will help you decide what algorithm to choose (SVM vs Random Forest for ex.).

Like suggested in the other comment, the best place to start is probably by working on projects with open data sets. Try experimenting with different algorithms, feature engineering techniques. This is especially important because there are plenty of algorithms and identifying which algorithm works for which kind of data set is useful.
I was pleased to see Boole celebrated the other day in a Google Doodle (on .co.uk, at least) but unsurprised and disappointed to see they still don't allow his contribution to the world to be used, easily, on the world's biggest search engine.

Would've been nice for the day, I thought.
So next version of Windows getting systemd?

Systemd would be right at home in Windows.
"...In developing Smart Reply we adhered to the same rigorous user privacy standards we’ve always held -- in other words, no humans reading your email."

That the humans at Google may read my email is the least of my privacy concerns. That the robots will pass them along to other robots at places other than google is the real worry. But as no such agency exists, why worry?
Making money was hurting their growth, so they stopped. Ah, the ol' Amazon model.
As far as I can tell, ICRs (Internet Connection Records) will be subject to the same availability restrictions as "communications data".

So no warrant would be needed to get a list of domains a person has visited.
Why TSLA Stock Price Jumped 10%
There's a qualitative difference between "I own stock that might become worthless" and "I own a security that someone could just take from me because they notice my deed just sitting somewhere unprotected."

If someone steals my Schwab account contents for Schwab's servers, I can call on the government for help; and the stock market bookkeeping system has the technical ability restore my shares to me. If someone gets a copy of my wallet key, I've got no recourse unless (unlikely) someone can track down the obfuscated thief.
Couldn't an alternate explanation for the numerous copies and translations just mean that it was really popular at the time? Two thousand years from now we might expect to find more translations and copies of Harry Potter than any significant history journals.

As for why these types of conversations frequently end up with people talking past each other, there are too many vested interests in too many different sides of the debate for people to know in advance which points and interpretations they should be emphasizing. Are we discussing history? Religion as a concept? Religion as an identity? Epistemology?

As for myself, I used to be devoutly religious, I read the KJV OT cover to cover once and NT multiple times, plus the other books of my former faith multiple times, plus a number of apologetic essays. I was also learning about science and empiricism, and eventually found that my faith was full of contradictions and grasping at ever more tenuous archeological straws, while science provided modern evidence for its claims that could be verified and even rediscovered by anyone with the time and equipment.

So in these kinds of discussions, if you happen to be talking to a person with a background like mine, if you want to go beyond just factual discussions of historical discoveries and into the loaded territory of religious historicity, you must first convince such a person that fragments of ancient manuscripts should bear any modern relevance whatsoever in the face of what they would see as the significantly more reliable epistemological foundations of modern empiricism.
Check this out: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~zfrenett/CS886-Project.pdf
Agreed. Have two dependencies which have the same underlying dependency? Install and compile that dependency twice (with two different versions, by the way)[1]. Want to use grunt? Need to set that up as a dependency for your project, but only for development. A problem while installing? Have fun with the debug output detailing the fetching a building of every dependency, and every dependency's dependency, and every dependency's dependency's dependency... etc.

[1] I can't believe how many distinct copies and versions of the 'shell' module are downloaded and compiled when pulling in a seemingly simple set of modules.
It's 9.4mm at its thickest point. Will consumers really be turned off by a phone that's barely 1cm thicker than other flagships? Most smartphones I see in people's hands have a bulky case around them already.
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Yes, it's a rarity indeed!
npmcdn - an experiment in serving files directly out of npm packages over a CDN
I would have to disagree with that as a blanket statement.

Plenty of "successful" businesses use other means besides added value to extract rents from customers.

Robert Reich has recently written very eloquently and convincingly about how multi-national corps are using all sorts non-value producing economics to increase bottom lines at our expenses.

For example, Americans pay more for pharmaceuticals than do the citizens of any other developed nation.

That’s partly because it’s perfectly legal in the U.S. (but not in most other nations) for the makers of branded drugs to pay the makers of generic drugs to delay introducing cheaper unbranded equivalents, after patents on the brands have expired.

This costs you and me an estimated $3.5 billion a year – a hidden upward redistribution of our incomes to Pfizer, Merck, and other big proprietary drug companies, their executives, and major shareholders.[1]

[1] http://robertreich.org/post/132363519655
A counterpoint to some of the pro-bitcoin hype.

The developers are still arguing about the 1MB blocksize limit. Currently bitcoin is limited to a theoretical maximum of 7 transactions per second (~60k transactions per day). This figure was derived assuming the smallest possible transaction size but of course real transactions are larger and the practical maximum is only about 2-3 transactions per second (~20k transactions per day). This should have been a pretty easy limit to change, it's just a #define in the code. But some core developers are against it and we're deadlocked and have been this way for at least a year.

There is an alternative client called bitcoinxt, this supports larger blocksizes but has literally no support among either the miners or chinese exchanges which are driving the rally. (See https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-block-sizes-e047bc9f830 for a summary.)

A number of DoS attacks on the bitcoin network: some based on spamming lots of fee paying transactions, some based on retransmitting slightly modified versions of existing transactions, have rendered it practically inoperable for days on end. The fee paying attack isn't terribly expensive, costing only a few tens of thousands of dollars per day, while the "malleability" attack costs literally nothing other than an internet connection. There hasn't been any significant progress on solutions for either of these problems.

The bitcoiner response to this is that you shouldn't have been affected by either of these if you used the right client or paid the right fees, but imperfect clients and fixed fees are a reality of the bitcoin ecosystem so I don't see how wishing them away changes anything.

One of bitcoin's biggest advantages was supposed to be the ability to quickly react to changing circumstances by modifying the protocol. Recent events have shown this is pretty much impossible: too many people are too heavily invested in its current form, and they want no risks and hence no change. Techniques which supposedly allow risk free changes (called sidechains) still have a long way to go before we can be convinced they work as intended. Besides they're not even fully implemented on the bitcoin testnet, let alone real bitcoin.

Overall, even if people are buying into the "blockchain" tech, it doesn't seem to me that they would be interested in bitcoin itself because of the problems I've outlined. I think the safe money is still on this being a repeat of the Willybot/Mt Gox fiasco where the exchange operator used nonexistent dollars to buy bitcoin and drive the price higher. Other people were sucked in by the uptrend and they ended up with nonexistent bitcoin/dollars which they weren't able to withdraw from the exchange.
>The BBC is not funded by tax payers. //

Has this changed in the last 2 years?

Previously, when I looked, the BBC stated that they received a substantial sum from direct taxation in addition to the license fee. On that basis you pay in part and the BBC is funded [partially] by tax payers. IIRC it amounted to about 5% of the take from license fee payers.

Ah, decided to track it down ... http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/pdf/2014-15/BBC-FS-2..., p.34 - "grant-in-aid" funding £243.6 Million up to March 2015 (6.5% of the license fee income).

However it looks like this has stopped in 2015:

"Grants from Government departments
For the year ended 31 March 2014, the BBC World Service
received Grant-in-Aid from the Foreign & Commonwealth
Office. Previously, BBC Monitoring also received a grant from
the Cabinet Office. These grants have been drawn down to
meet estimated expenditure in the year but unspent amounts
do not have to be repaid, as long as they fall within
predetermined limits. The grants are recognised as income in
the financial year that they relate to."

Very minor nitpick: you should say "consume live broadcast TV" as blind people don't watch but still have to pay.
Ginkgo Bioworks to purchase 100M base pairs of DNA from Twist Bioscience
I hear you. I've been trying to do that (figure out the next big thing in the 'background' while working a day job) for 15 years, and, let me look around.... nope, no unicorns here yet. I'm slowly coming to the same conclusion as you, but it's going to be hard to kill and bury my hopes dreams. I'm going to have to put together a mock funeral (complete with a casket) for my dreams one day, in order to cope with this reality. I'd love to run my own business (unicorn OR "lifestyle" business) but I feel the opportunity is slipping away year by year...
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Don't worry, we all have an idea for a method to solve GI in P tucked in the back of a drawer. Best to just let it go. Personally I know where I got stuck many years ago and I'm very excited to see somebody do it for real.
> 2. Gold is no longer safe bet in the light of a large scale government defaults and rather drastic domino effort that will follow.

That makes no sense what so ever.
I think they got downvoted because their "not reading" sounded a bit too hard, someway..
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I'm one of the founders of Ginkgo (YCS14). I posted some comments on the technical details of the DNA synthesis business here - http://blog.ginkgobioworks.com/2015/11/04/comments-on-gene-s...