skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying we teach someone theoretical physics by saying "dive in!" But you're talking about things that are relatively static.

I'm not going to spend a sprint building perfect mental models of an application because if your app is anything like the ones that I've built, they change significantly over the course of a year. We rip out services and and abstract them behind new API layers all the time. Legacy interfaces are provided of course, but the way things work internally is constantly a work in progress.

Now, just because it's a good idea for a developer to learn how the system works today when they first start doesn't mean it's a good idea to carry that complexity forward to your production servers. So if the day comes when someone containerizes these applications with an actual business benefit, then let's containerize the fuck out of them. But I'm not taking on a bunch of tech debt (that will incur more tech debt as the application changes over time) just to make onboarding easier - when making onboarding push-button isn't necessarily accomplishing the goal of onboarding because the developer is going to have to learn those lessons sooner or later.
Li-Fi has just been tested in the real world, and is 100x faster than Wi-Fi
Microsoft pushes 5 undocumented root certificates
Oh, that's really neat.
I took a look at the data Simple returns at some point a while back and it seemed (upon just an initial glance) that it would be fairly straightforward to extract data from. Everything that you saw on-screen could also be found in just a handful of JSON data points. Obviously there's the issue of constructing some kluge-y authentication mechanism which in and of itself would be insecure. But if you wanted the data, Simple by no means obfuscated it.
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A small note. I read a Statfor report that North American Rivers were very important.
Because phone numbers aren't public keys.

What's a reasonable verification step?
You may be the Chosen One. I don't see a hide link on the overlay that obscures comments.
From other comments, I gather that (to make things as confusing as possible) Sourcegraph Core is released under the Fair Source License with a 15 user limitation, but the fee for > 15 users is $0/user, so its basically a free (gratis, not Free/libre) shared-source model.
> Get on steam with no 'greenlight'?

Where does it say that? If that's true, it would bring the overall quality of Steam indie titles down even further, so why would they do that? Don't get me wrong, there is some great indie stuff on Steam right now, but there's also a long tail of exceedingly bad "games" that make you wonder how they even got on there.
Considering you and the landlord have opposite goals(you want to minimize rent, she wants to maximize it), it is unlikely you would find a situation where long residential leases are offered.
Hi, I work at Mondo.

We need to work through a bunch of KYC and AML issues around EU-wide signup, but it's definitely high on our priority list.

That said, our accounts will initially be GBP only, so we'd hold your balance in pound sterling.

If you sign up to our waiting list we'll reach out as soon as we know more :)
Step 0: Get a folding bike.

Step 1: Be an adult and carry it around with you. Might feel strange at first, but eventually people will get used to it and will stop asking questions.

Step 2: Live happily.
I can do this in verb-noun structure of VI/VIM, but for some reason the somewhat richer but less structured Emacs movements don't flow as easily. I've been using either for decades.
The whole climate thing has become so politicized I'm suspicious of anyone who's passionate about it either way
Putin calls jet's downing 'stab in the back'; Turkey says warning ignored
Doesn't say what "Mondo" is. Is it a bank? A third-party programming platform? An open-source library? The article says that it has a "bright pink Mastercard." So... it's a bank?

This is a chronic problem on here: not saying WHAT the topic IS.
I've thought about doing this (and sort of started) but for a separate industry. This is going to prove challenging legally, no?
I note that you still haven't named a good or service that we consume less of.
As I said in another comment, many of the companies pushing this model are VC-funded with intent to sell out and their operation disappears into a big company (or disappears). We should distinguish between business models that are just to get an acquisition and that support long-term growth. Cheap addons with OSS/FOSS seems mainly to work in the former.
> fusion reactors are nuclear as well and they will be a big thing in the future

I used to think this as well, but I'm not sure I believe it anymore. I suspect that by the time we're able to make fusion power work, the solar/wind/batteries combo may be so cheap as to make fusion pointless for mainstream power generation.
4. Maybe there is just more traffic generally, so this slice of traffic is simply a smaller piece of the pie.

5. Some other explanation.

You never step in the same river twice.

People always bellyache about changes in a forum. They change. Time moves on. They weren't static creations to begin with. Plus, there are always random fluctuations that are just a blip and mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Many developers and companies look at Facebook as a model for good software practices and principles, so it's interesting to see them struggle with the same issues:

"Increasing overhead initiates a positive feedback loop: less getting done -> more pressure -> more mistakes -> even fewer changes per deployment -> more overhead -> less getting done."
That promises durability, at least once delivery and sequential consistency (an important set of promises that put it largely in a class by itself).
> Here’s the takeaway: when airlines check your suitcase for $25, they’re giving up space for which freight forwarders would pay $40 to $100 to transport air cargo.

Uh, but if they decide not to ship my bag^, they also decide not to ship me, because I'm not planning on buying a whole new wardrobe at my destination.

Also, doesn't this imply that they should be paying me not to check luggage?
did you see "Properly"? please re-read what I wrote and you quoted, otherwise I "might" think you unintentionally unable to read what I wrote, or unintentionally don't like to understand what I wrote, I don't like sweet talks, I prefer to be concise and direct. you don't know me, so you cannot judge my civility neither I can do yours. and you are not in a position of correcting me or anyone here, but you can express your opinion on someone's opinion and you are just a moderator (I guess), you seems like US government which is trying to "Correct" people who don't know ( by using force ) and have no intention of knowing them, you just use your "Civil Words" and threat of banning rather than trying to understand what I said. ( did I attack you too? I hope not, don't take it personally everyone needs a reminder sometimes, it could be me or you), feel free to ban me if my opinion hurts your level of civility. I have no intention of correcting you or anyone, peoples are uncorrectable until they realize (by education may be or facing the truth/consequences of their actions) themselves that they were wrong, then they might overcome their ignorance and mistakes, and that is very small possibility specially these days. :)
MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer
Asher Peres has a pretty famous short paper in quantum information: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310035
"Anticipated Clearance Level: Q (Position will be cleared to this level)."

... why would someone working on climate modeling software need a clearance for nuclear weapon design information?
CANADA REVENUE AGENCY SCAMS: IF YOU READ ONE ARTICLE, READ THIS ONE
If by different label you mean open standards and open source, sure. I'd still consider that a win.
Obama urges steps to avoid ‘escalation’ after Russian jet is downed by Turkey
Have been tinkering with the Mondo API myself and can confirm it's great. It's really strange building apps around your own money.
Completely agree. I like Bret's stuff and love Julia but that section seemed very weird and almost preachy. He seems a little out of his element because a lot of physicists doing earth modeling use compiled languages like Fortran and C/C++ for the big simulations and python for the smaller stuff. Julia is cool though and a great substitute for the python stuff. It won't implicitly solve distributed computing and the computational problems people have to create large models. Unfortunately being closer to the metal can give big wins in terms of communication (mpi), avoiding memory copies, using simd compiler intrinsics and gpus, etc. and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
When I say peak oil isn't believable, I mean in the sense that over the last 15 years, especially before shale oil, the west was bombarded by "experts" saying peak oil had already occurred, and oil would be unafforadable in just a few years as prices skyrocketed. Any argument that involved technological progress in reducing the cost of mining hard to get oil was mocked and lambasted as hopelessly naive.

I of course don't believe that there's an infinite supply of oil. Only that we haven't exhausted the millions of years of dead trees, which before the the emergence of white fungus with the ability to eat them, covered the Earth a hundred meters deep in some places.
So you're building a service on top of undocumented and private APIs? They could shut you down an instant - no?
Survey papers
Show HN: Chat – Talking to Strangers Has Never Been So Easy (Feedback Wanted)
Where the Maltese language comes from
Reuters reports that a rebel commander said that they killed the pilots, and "A video sent to Reuters earlier appeared to show one of the pilots immobile and badly wounded on the ground." http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/24/us-mideast-crisis-...
You can use the basic version of Google+ - https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/
From what I can tell, Leadwerks has a "Game Launcher" application on Steam, and you can upload your game as a workshop mod for the Game Launcher App.

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/tutorials/_/publishi...

So, its not like its actually a title on steam, but its available to be played through steam if that makes sense.
SpaceX's Elon Musk goes ballistic over Jeff Bezos' rocket feat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622941
Spatial Interfaces
Happier Rails Development with Polo
In addition to what XorNot7 said, the amount of concrete needed to build a nuclear power plant is trivial compared to the total amount consumed annually by the construction industry.
How far down the FCA application process are they? As far as I know only 2 companies have been granted permissions in the UK so far this year. One is a law firm, the other a stock broker.

Their site says they are still applying, thus how can they be accepting people's money already?
"The license doesn't attach without your knowledge."

It does if one person on a large team did it without others' knowledge. This doesn't occur for most, non-copyleft code. At that point, if it's a derivative work, then your codebase looses its value as it gets GPL'd just because GPL'd code touched it. Preventing that outcome would require both preventative methods and constant vigilance.

Kind of like avoiding getting sick from a virus and spreading it everywhere.

Note: A former Microsoft employee told me in a prior discussion they identified this exact risk and took steps to prevent it. I never knew if it was paranoia or what could legally happen. Interesting to find last year that my hypothetical scenario actually played out to a degree in FOSS's arch-rival of that period.
Hi redbeard0x0a, fully agree! We do try to open source as much as possible. We have open-sourced large parts of our stack already:

https://github.com/mondough/
I don't work with Megas, but I have to say this sounds like a terribly brittle view.

Frequently it is exactly when connectivity is gone that you want some intelligence combined with data upon which to act, or a buffer in which to spool data. Otherwise you've just got a pile of sensors that are slightly easier to deploy than the ones with long extension cords.

Put another way,

> If your data is at all valuable/useful, you don't want it sitting out somewhere on some device that will hopefully/maybe be online when you go to query it.

So what do you do with data on your device when it is offline? If it is at all valuable/useful, hopefully you're not just dropping it on the floor when Daddy-node is unreachable. Sounds like a job for which some sort of structured data store might be useful...
This script works in SQL Server - I would think you could do the same in Postgres, but I'm not as familiar as I'd like to be with Postgres.

Note that it does require 2 separate steps rather than 1 as you appear to desire, so may not work for you:

IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.dogs', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.dogs
GO

IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.doghouses', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.doghouses
GO

CREATE TABLE dogs (
id INTEGER IDENTITY (1, 1) PRIMARY KEY
,name VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL
);

-- Now we want to give each dog a doghouse:
CREATE TABLE doghouses (
id INTEGER IDENTITY (1, 1) PRIMARY KEY
,name VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL
);
GO

ALTER TABLE dogs ADD doghouse_id INTEGER REFERENCES doghouses (id);
GO

INSERT INTO dogs (name)
VALUES
('Sparky'),
('Spot')
;

DECLARE @DogsAndHouses TABLE (
doghouse_id INT
,name VARCHAR(MAX)
);

INSERT INTO dbo.doghouses (name)
OUTPUT INSERTED.id, INSERTED.name INTO @DogsAndHouses
SELECT
d.name
FROM
dbo.dogs d;

UPDATE d
SET
doghouse_id = dah.doghouse_id
FROM
dogs d
JOIN @DogsAndHouses dah ON d.name = dah.name;
GO
The modern equivalent of this would be to convince the New Yorker to print data graphics such as scatterplots.

You can find instances where they devote an entire paragraph to describing some plot that the subject of an article produced or saw, and which astounded that person or changed their world-view. Surely such a transformative graphic merits more than a paragraph of thin description. This is especially galling in a publication that prides itself on the sophistication of its readers.
By now I think case insensitivity is probably good (back then I don't think I did), but the idea of introducing it into an existing language, breaking much more than Python 3 eventually did doesn't sound great.

And as an option? I can't remember what the actual proposal was, but having case insensitive code trying to use a case sensitive library sounds like lots of fun.
Does "elementary school" mean something other than school for 5-11 year olds in other countries? I am having trouble imagining 10 year old me being concerned with a font's "inelegant spacing and minimal kerning."
this is pretty awesome, if/when it ever picks up. the possibilities of this far surpass just the basic "what's the traffic jam today" of personnal use cases. by making such data publicly available, it can influence significantly public policies and much more.

good thing things like this are finally getting off the ground. pretty much the only thing still tying me up to google maps at least...
The same problem exists with Python, C#, node.js, and Groovy.
I am curious about the 2D embedding method: what constitutes a vector in the original "paper space" and how the 2D clusters where determined.
The things the author likes = culture
The things other people like != culture

Hipster cred checks out.
It is true that CS is more conference-oriented, however most top conferences require that a paper be submitted, reviewed, and (if accepted) published in the conference proceedings before you can present your work there. This does vary by discipline though: algs/theory is more traditional journal oriented, I believe.
What are you going to do when you start getting C&D letters?
Amazon Prime Now – Should UPS and FedEx Be Concerned?
> But then you just end up with a bunch of microservices you have to coordinate changes between.

Not if you do it right. As long as the API doesn't change and you adhere to every service having its own data store (which is key and many people forget), you can make as many changes to your service as you want without any coordination.
Hi DomBlack, I work at Mondo.

The cards we're issuing now are prepaid debit cards backed by another firm's license (Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd).

We're aiming to have a full banking license and issue our own cards by the end of next year.
With SpaceX it's really just because they didn't bother, though. Getting their test vehicle to space first probably would not have been too difficult, considering that it was adapted from something meant to go to space anyway. It's just that doing that wouldn't have been useful to their ultimate goal of recovering the first stage as part of an orbital launch.

I know this sounds like a typical "I could do that, I just don't want to" boast, but it's true. There's little point in merely going to space without also achieving orbit, unless you're selling people the opportunity to say "I've been to space." And getting to orbit is way, way, way harder. In terms of relative difficulty, Blue Origin's accomplishment is much closer to SpaceX's Grasshopper flights than to their (not yet successful) barge landings.
SQL Server has a limitation of 1000 rows maximum allowed in a VALUES clause, so sometimes a SELECT ... UNION ALL is required instead (this limitation probably doesn't exist in Postgres, though).
I do think that the degree of coordination needed is reduced with increased frequency of deployment.

Mentally, I imagine an airport and there's a number of planes that need to be landed in a week. What requires more coordination: an airport that is open 24/7 and planes land when they arrive (continuous deployment) or an airport that is only open 1 hour a week?

Congestion drives the need for coordination. Or, put another way, when there is low or no congestion, sequencing through time is a sufficient form of coordination.
Nuclear plants cost a lot up front but they produce a lot of power for a long time. Per MWh they're not that expensive compared to renewables. Taking the government's estimates for capital cost, we have onshore wind at $58/MWh, nuclear at $70/MWh, hydro $71, advanced coal $77, solar PV $109, offshore wind $168, solar thermal $192.

But I don't think anyone would claim that the construction of a modern coal plant has significant emissions compared to actually burning the coal.

https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm
Author is a long time import/export supply chain business man. So his views are naturally reflected his narrow domain.

I think we probably all agree that paying extra luggage fees that we don't used to pay is NOT a good deal. We also know that airline industry are struggling in the post-911 era. They have been trying to extract every possible revenue streams they can possibly get: narrower but more seats on the same plane, more granular levels of seat upgrades, non-free in flight meals, change of milage programs and luggage fees.
As some of the other commenters pointed out, the author failed to recognize that airliners are making profit not because of those extra fees but by carrying more passengers (and more efficiently). And customer patronage and airfares have DIRECT impact on the sales (e.g. post 911 airline industry slump).
Author also failed to recognize that each passenger carried with luggage, there are more ways for airlines to sell added-value services (drinks, merchants, in-flight movies, seat upgrades etc) to. So to say that carrying air freight is going to be more profitable for airlines is absurd.

I almost wonder if the author was getting paid to write this article or perhaps trying to stir up getting some PR exposure out of this absurd post.
LiFi internet: First real-world usage boasts speed 100 times faster than WiFi
Remote control for Netflix and VLC using the Xbox 360 Scene it controllers
SVB acquired Standard Treasury (YC S13).

http://blog.ycombinator.com/standard-treasury-yc-s13-joins-s...
Compare the size of grasshopper to BO's little toy rocket. Grasshopper was a full Falcon 9 first stage, which is a production GTO capable rocket.

What exactly is BO's rocket capable of? Reaching 100km altitude?

No one is more embarassed than BO engineers by the comparisons with SpaceX. They are in completely different leagues. BO is playing with toys, SpaceX is hauling commercial payloads to GTO.

It's like me making a go-kart that goes 0-60 faster than an F1 car, and saying "I've built a faster race car than McLaren!". Anyone with an ounce of knowledge on the subject would be in tears from laughter.
I knew cuckly was big data...
"A video sent to Reuters earlier appeared to show one of the pilots immobile and badly wounded on the ground."

So, assuming description of the video is accurate -- does that mean they were "shot out of the sky"? From what you've quoted, wouldn't it be more likely to assume that they found the pilots in that condition on the ground?

I'm just looking for something resembling a logical substantiation for the allegation that was made.
Nope. They just store your 6-8 character password in plaintext behind their huge monolithic Java/.Net/Cobol app.
Oh interesting. Have you used this? Any thoughts?

Edit: looks like they havn't launched. Will keep an eye out. Thanks for posting!
The capsule used rockets to arrest its descent at the last moment, which made the landing look more violent than it probably was.
> There are comparables: stick goes up, stick goes down without crashing.

SpaceX did that years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)
The lab clears basically all salaried employees at L or Q; if there's any chance that you might look at classified data some day (IE: if you want to interview at another group internally, or have some useful expertise that can be leveraged somewhere else), it saves everyone time and energy if you're already a Q. There's some financial reasons not to do it, but I think the math works out in favor of not running multiple levels of background check on every new hire (if they were to give you an L and then a Q).
To clarify - things abroad become relatively cheaper to Americans (or USD holders). This also applies if you purchase things imported from other countries.
Sure but you're also paying an extremely rock bottom rate, $1/lb for media mail iirc (don't flame if wrong). Don't expect you're going to build a next day media delivery service to rival amazon on this service. There are tradeoffs for prices.
Create a month picker jQuery plugin (by Lugo Labs)
You've either somehow overlooked the two I initially named - one of which has been actively discussed, or you disagree and have decided to make a sarcastic remark instead of offering a counter argument.
Wasn't there a single page PhD thesis that was a single sentence describing a counter-example for some long-standing conjecture?

I realize it's vague (to put it mildly), but it was 20-something years since it came up in the math class in the Uni.

Edit - Haha, found it! It was in Littlewood's Miscellany - Picard's Theorem [1].

[1] https://books.google.ch/books?id=MjVgeT7Laf8C&pg=PA40&lpg=PA...
I always find it strange when a proponent of gender equality does not treat genders equally.
This is a sign of how bad and far behind the bank technology stack has become. They are all fighting to stay relevant by keeping others out. But technologists are finding loopholes around their stack.
The sciencification of (professional) sport is fairly recent, probably around 20-30 years. There's the famous story of Arsene Wenger coming to Arsenal in 1996 and giving his players diet plans, something unprecedented in England at that point.

There was plenty of time before that for mediocre conventional wisdom to spread and become entrenched. But sometimes it's right.