skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dl.acm.org won't have the paper uploaded if it wasn't published in an ACM journal or conference, but it has the metadata, including citations, for a huge number of papers published elsewere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619027
> Can't say I expected to see Nvidia fanboys on HN

This breaks the HN guideline against calling names in arguments. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have a friend who works in stratospheric research. He has to work with some hoary old Fortran stuff. Giving scientists better computational tools like Julia is absolutely something that would help fight climate change.
The cook and the chef – Elon Musk's secret sauce
Actually there's quite a bit wrong with this approach, the most obvious being the inefficiency incurred by funneling money through several layers of middlemen.
This has been brewing in my mind so adding a few more:

* Canceling the return flight if you miss your fight out, even if it was an un-intentional miss.

* (not all airlines) Charging more that the cost of a round-trip ticket for a one-way ticket.

* Making it intentionally difficult to report a problem: Hiding customer service phone numbers, having 1500 character limits on the web forms and no e-mail customer service (to reply to a reply you have to go back to the web form).

* Having lines to check bags that take over an hour to sort through (I avoid checking bags, but not everybody I travel with does).

* Trying to sell bonus miles (correct me if I'm wrong, but these seem like they're always bad value).

* Trying to sell trip insurance (this in particular seems as overpriced as "additional insurance" at a car-rental place).
> That's quite an interesting theory. Do you have any good books on the topic?

It's an idea that comes up in online discussions from time to time but is generally not taken seriously by academics because it completely ignores the fact that most non-Latin languages do in fact lend themselves quite well to being written as the composition of smaller elements used in a printing press.

It's the same sort of argument made about keyboards to explain "why China, Japan, and India haven't produced as many prolific computer scientists", completely avoiding the fact that keyboards for Chinese, Japanese, Devanagri, etc. have existed for over a hundred years.
LOL so funny this article is. I store part of my passwords locally and I have the text file encrypted with AxCrypt.
100km is the edge of space. Reusable human transport payloads that go to space and back are sufficient for a space tourism ecosystem to start forming, which may be the orange Bezos is chasing (to Musk's "payloads to orbit and beyond" apple).

In that sense, this is exciting news for Blue Origin, as it gets them one step closer to the insane-but-possible goal of profitable space tourism---with the world's money being as disproportionately allocated as it is, one can imagine actually being able to find six people willing to pony up enough cash to get launched into the edge of space purely for the delightful view.
>it’s often practical matters that attract users and developers to open source software.

But the (un)Fair Source License is not an Open Source license.
It replicates once it attaches to things. This is true even of distributing a large amount of non-free code while someone in organization unknowingly included a tiny amount of copyleft code. Now, FSF etc are usually more reasonable about enforcement and I doubt most would do more than ask it be removed if whole isn't GPL'd.

The image fits the behavior of the code, though. Hence the meme. More accurate description is like an agreement many parties participate in with copyright used to seal the deal for current and future distributions. So, control-freaks enforcing ideology on improvements to what they create rather than virus. ;)
The Politics of Empathy and the Politics of Technology
I wouldn't judge a huge, successful company on one jerk

That's why you discuss it with his manager or HR. First, unless the company is totally borked, they will understand how people react to that behavior. It's not about getting him in trouble: it's an opportunity for you to see how they react when they receive valid criticism. And a chance for them to correct a problem.

There are 20 more people waiting behind me.

Yeah, but you're better than all of them combined. Think positive!
This doesn't sound like an improvement to me. It actually takes (just another) SaaS product, and makes it feel like it intentionally does a disservice to it's users.
+1 for GitLab - a platform that actually feels like a hacker's tool. Not to mention they have an open source edition (CE), unlike GitHub -or- BitBucket.
Sort of. There's a significant difference between breaching the Kármán line and matching velocities with the ISS (as any player of Kerbal Space Program can demonstrate ;) ).
Bootstrap 3.3.6 released
I think the stillness refers to the idea of keeping your eyes steady on a target, even if your head or body is moving around.

I'm a competitive bowler, and you use a small spot on the lane about 15 feet out (there are arrows to help you target) as your visual focus. When you watch the best bowlers, although they are walking to the foul line, so their arms and legs are moving, their head and eyes are basically motionless, as they are keeping their eye on the target throughout the approach and after the release of the ball.

In fact, coaches will tell you to watch your ball roll over your target and not lift your head up for another second after that, as a way of enforcing the "eye on the target" concept.
My take is that there is real value by integrating your issue tracker with your source repo. If you start with Jira, it's not surprising you would end up with Bitbucket. If you start with Github, it is very easy to use the Github issues tracker.

And, if you want extra Github issues functionality (like a Kanban view), I recommend https://waffle.io.
It's worth remembering that studies have shown the hire/no hire decision has in most cases been made no later than ten seconds after you walk into the room, and your experience confirms that. So:

1. Don't fret too much about how you answer some arcane technical question. That's probably not going to be the deciding factor.

2. Research ways to give a good first impression.

3. Practice not visibly stumbling or looking nervous during the interview.

4. Accept that sometimes the decision will have been made before you show up for reasons that have nothing to do with you (e.g. your competitor will get the job because his dad called in a favor or suchlike).

5. When it becomes clear that a no-hire decision has been made, call a halt early - it's perfectly okay to say halfway through the interview, "But I think you've already made your decision, so let's call it here." It won't make a difference to the outcome this time, but it will protect your self-esteem and thereby improve your performance in future interviews.
What Has Better Odds: Daily Fantasy or Mega Millions?
Buy iron, dump in ocean. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization) Donate to geoengineering efforts and lobbying against insane moratoriums against geoengineering efforts.
You sit at a table waiting an hour for your food to arrive. I cook a majority of the meals for my family, and they are healthy, cheap, and never take me more than 30 minutes, and most of that is waiting for water to boil or stirring something occasionally.
Birthday Reminder – Leveraging Clever SSO
Except that solution cannot scale here. If most people with the ability to solve these issues chase after dollars, then there's fewer people actually working on it.

Remember, there's no plan B for earth. We have to overcommit our resources to ensure success, since we won't get many "iterations" to find "product/market" fit.
Higher-level parts of Java were almost always strapped in obnoxious way to the
language, so it's not a surprise they perform terribly. What is a surprise is
that foreach loop behaves properly.
Religious flamewars are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10620369

But SpaceX has landed reusable rockets, and in addition, has actually put payloads in orbit. SpaceX has been trying things that are much harder, and has come incredibly close.

Not to deny how hard Blue Origin's objectives are, and how well they are doing, the article is not doing anyone any favors with that title. Deeply misleading. Very disappointing.
This map is beautiful!

But what does (x,y) position mean? If two papers are close on the map are they also close in some other aspect?

I mean, what gave this map this particular shape?
> Open source is about the source being open plus certain benefits. Free and open source software, a la Richard Stallman, is a totally different thing with a philosophy akin to how a virus operates.

This is all wrong. One: Stallman only advocates Free Software, not Open Source, and not "Free and open source". Open Source Software and Free Software are defined very similar in substance (by the OSI and FSF, respectively), what differs most substantially between the respective organization is the philosophy of why they think those definitions are desirable, not the substance of the definition. Virtually all licenses that have been considered by both the FSF and OSI have either been recognized as meeting both definitions, or have been found to be outside of both; there's almost no inconsistency.

"Free and open source software" is a collective term for the common category of software described by the FSF and OSI definitions, typically used by people who are not interested in (when using it) diverting things into a philosophical debate over preferred terminology between "Free Software" and "Open Source".

The license type sometimes described as "viral" espoused by the Stallman and the FSF is copyleft license, which is a kind of Free Software (and/or Open Source) license which has clauses to assure derivative works are licensed under a similar license; the GPL and AGPL are well-known copyleft licenses.
This looks neat, but the license is fatal. It is not "just like an open-source license."

First, what is a "user"? It is not defined anywhere in the license.

I did not look at the source code, because of the potential IP issues. What would happen if you looked at the source code and then later worked on another open source project and implemented a bit of code that looks similar? The worst case scenario if you did this and the "upstream" was open source is that you'd have to do a bit of re-licensing, the worst case scenario here is that every user of the "downstream" project gets sued by SourceGraph.

Asking for contributions is also problematic, as you're asking for employers to authorize free contributions including a blanket license and patent grant to a proprietary commercial project. And even after that the contributor doesn't have the right to freely use and distribute the software they modified.

I'm all for publishing source code of proprietary projects, but dressing it up as an open source project is not great. I'd suggest adding a license clickwall to avoid accidental IP contamination.
No -- ad hominem is a personal attack unrelated to issue under discussion. Saying an author cherrypicked to arrive at a desired conclusion, is not that.
The FlatCam Lens-Less Camera Is Thinner Than a Coin
It's also worth noting that the ability of Infocom/IF games to simulate real-world puzzles is fairly limited next to what can be done with two- and three-dimensional graphics, stereo sound, various input method, etc.

There is some novelty in solving some problem abstracted into written language, but I find it to be most analogous to reading a good novel. Calling these kinds of things "interactive" is a stretch to me, because the "interaction" is severely limited. It really is, an another commenter implied, more akin to solving a coding problem using a REPL loop.

On the other hand, the potential landscape of IF games is unlimited, bounded only by the author's imagination!

Still, at the end of the day, given an hour to play games after work, I'm going to reach for something new and shiny because some of the newer games are truly astonishing in scope, story, and technical accomplishment.
Do you check psychology journals every time you want to consult with a psychologist? Check the materials of the replacement parts in your car and run them against a material model to make sure that they're within the specified bounds of safety? Put food fragments on petri dishes to check bacterial content?

For 99.9% of people, scientifically validating the opinions of the scientific consensus in all fields of life is a non-issue, except here. We trust other human beings because society and ecology are systems far too complex for anyone to make falsifiable assertions about them without serious research beyond the scope of single individuals.

If anything, on the thing we can actually check up on, which is the integrity of climate scientists as an institution, they've been a hell of a lot more trusworthy than dozens of other institutions for which we rely on all the time. Maybe you've heard of them: the FDA, SEC, WHO, AMA, and dozens upon dozens of bodies of researchers, advisors, and experts.

They all fuck up significantly from time to time, but by and large, their assesments are useful and have helped to bring some of the benefits of modern society.

Now, I'm all in favor of people wanting to verify and corroborate data and evidence, but let's keep in mind that realistically, very few of us are capable of even asking the right questions. The best we can do is read up a little and check for consistency and reasonable explanations coming from the very scientists. So far, anyone who has listened to dudes like Michael Mann, Jason Box, and a plethora of other climatologists cannot seriously question their legitimacy any more than their own peers.
Live feed (updates) from the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/24/russian-je...

One of the two Russian pilots is dead. US and France urge Russia and Turkey to prevent escalation.

ps. On a side note, does Germany actually count as a military force? Because when we're talking about the EU's economic policy, we're basically talking about Germany. But when war is at the gates we always see France as the major European player.
Scientists on quest for friction-free oil
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Both of you have been crossing into flamewar territory and abandoning civility.

One should be more civil, not less, when discussing a divisive topic.
Technically correct, however for users that install from OS packages it's possible that they're getting a version of nginx that had SNI enabled and a version of Apache that did not.
This always comes up with Martin Kleppman diagrams. See this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613118

The bottom comments seem to agree it was done using Paper.
Develop products and technologies that are better for the environment while at the same time more attractive than what it replaces. People don't want to sacrifice: they want better. So real change is about better alternatives.

You need a long planning horizon. Be prepared to spend decades for the problems that matter.
You pay taxes. You vote. You spread ideas that you believe help the world. That in and of itself is immensely useful.

Your impact on the world isn't just what you directly build or finance. But also the impulses and ripples you leave through your interactions with other people.

As a sofware developer, I hope to make enough to one day to not worry about providing for myself and family. So I can more directly contribute to solving the world's issues. But until then, I can continue to try to be a good person and individual economic contributor. Donate what I can (time, brain power and money) to good causes.
And to spread knowledge and ideas that, if they reach enough people, can make big differences.
If you click on the individual paper there will be a popup in the upper right that contains various links.
Mars to lose its largest moon, Phobos, but gain a ring
In capitalism the idea is to pit people's greed against other people's greed. In alternative methods, people's greed is still there, it just isn't as well checked. Take for instance some of the insane scientific beliefs held in the USSR. Someone in power wanted this to be true, so the scientists made it true-ish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
The article was pretty unclear about what's going on here. I've pieced together the following, please correct mistakes if any.

10.000 sales at $100 each is 1m in revenue. Steam keeps 30%, so it's closer to 700.000. The product has been for sale for only 2 months, as far as I can tell. So 350k a month.

The company has been working on this product since 2006, and according to wikipedia they launched version 2.0 to the public in May 2008. Two years ago their kickstarter only raised 40k.

So they've been building a customer base for the last decade. They've got hype and people who love their game engine. Which means the sales of the last two months consist mostly of preorders. Once they've converted these core customers to the new version the sales will plummet. Therefore the revenue for Leadwerks Game Engine will be around $3M a year. That's a lot of money for regular folks, but not for a studio that has to make payroll every two weeks.

I've always loved games, but when I look at the numbers the market looks so unforgiving.

edit: looks like the company is tiny. Just a couple of people. So that means they're doing pretty well. Congratulations to the team.
Or in firefox, anywhere.
Especially for social problems, my working theory is work to make people's lives better. A rising tide lifts all boats. The poor of today seem to be better off than the poor of two hundred years ago, as many things (including food) are available cheaper than ever.

How can technology specifically help? The first thing that comes to mind-

The entry of women into the workforce and subsequent advances in gender equality were, in my opinion, greatly aided by advances in textiles & housekeeping (washing machines, dishwashers, etc).
Perhaps, perhaps not.

Financially speaking, between the two goals, there's enough money concentrated in private individuals' hands that you might be able to find six people willing to shell out for space tourism.

Government funding supplies the ISS. A laudable goals, but there's a grim realpolitik view that suggests it's not as guaranteed sustainable of a market as space tourism.

On the other hand, SpaceX's goals also allow for deployment of orbital payloads... Now that's lucrative.
It's not pretty much what SpaceX is doing. Even down to 1 of 9 engines and throttled as far as they can (they can go to about 70%), it has too much thrust to hover. So the amount a single engine can throttle is indeed important.

SpaceX plans to solve it by extremely accurate timing so they don't need to hover.
IACR eprint for crypto, ECCC for complexity theory, though plenty of TCS people use arxiv too.
Houses are bigger, cars are safer, faster and more efficient, medicines are more prevalent, entertainment options have increased incalculably.

I guess I don't feel poorer.
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...But then returned to specifics at the end.

:-)
Becoming a podcaster, finding your podcasting niche, going global
The US president's rush to defend Turkey is beyond ridiculous, even taking into account that Turkey is part of NATO. Turkish airplanes breach the Greek airspace over the Aegean sea multiple times every day (Turkey considers parts of the aegean disputed despite international treaties). Never has an incident happened, despite dogfights having been happening for decades. By this logic there would not be any turkish pilots alive by now.

Turkey's military often likes to interfere in turkish politics, and this was probably caused by some hothead militant. I doubt turkey has at this stage anything to gain from confrontation with Russia.
I'm pretty sure it's a falumpkin that they ooplunkle through the diplesplit. I'm currently working on an article on falumpkining that should explain it all pretty huflinkinlipit.
As others have said, that tool is Postman. I'd also suggest looking at Paw.

https://luckymarmot.com/paw
So in recent months you've been buying oil from ISIS, sending supplies to ISIS, and shot down Russian planes that are fighting ISIS. Why are you still in NATO?
France has nukes and a UN Security Council seat, Germany has post-WWII military restrictions.
The phrase itself originally came from the free software movement. The practice pre-dated it. Former is philosophical meaning with strings attached, the latter is a literal definition with many forms. I'm using the latter.

I'd be up for considering a new term to avoid confusion. Paid, non-profit or for-profit, models allow for most benefits of OSS if structured correctly. So, the new phrase must allow for that. I've been calling it "proprietary OSS" or "paid OSS."
Any ideas how could 'content discovery' work (or be improved) with the research papers? What is the current standard, just the keywords/topics/authors or is there something else?
The hypocrisy is that Microsoft wants us to remember that we're getting Scroogled, but ignore that they are just as bad for privacy. Personally I don't care about hypocrisy; people can flip flop all the time, and maybe it indicates a flexible mind that updates based on new evidence.

What bothers me is the dishonest implication that Microsoft is good for privacy, and that the anxiety they wish to arouse for Google shouldn't be placed back on Microsoft.
Telepresence and telecommuting is a big one. The energy savings that could be realized are staggering, and it's so far probably one of the Internet's greatest failed promises.

The Internet was supposed to break the tyranny of place, reducing not only the need for constant energy-guzzling commutes but also reducing the need to cluster in overpriced 'centers' like... well... Silicon Valley and San Francisco for example.

The reality almost seems opposite. The Internet seems to have intensified geo-centralization of industries, with the Internet itself being chief among these. The fact that the whole tech industry must huddle in the Bay Area is a clear demonstration of this failure-- these are the people who are best at using the net, and they can't use it this way.

So yeah, this is a big one and is a very worthy target.
Both of you are breaking the HN guidelines. Please stop.
This is such a superficial aspect of the framework that it's really not worth discussing. You need to go deeper to learn it properly, and only then give verdict. In ClojureScript (Om, Reagent, etc), you have the same HTML building pieces with code. Also in Elm you use normal Elm functions, not a HTMLish DSL. Also, nowadays in Cycle.js we use the more friendly syntax:

.map(name =>
div([
label('Name:'),
input('.field', {attributes: {type: 'text'}}),
h1('Hello ' + name)
])
)

Which was inspired by elm-html https://github.com/evancz/elm-html .
$(".comment-form").remove()
"You may want to Google the term 'effective altruism'."
> SpaceX is attempting to have the rocket's vertical velocity reach zero at the exact moment the rocket reaches the pad

It's definitely hard. It's also the fuel-optimal solution (referred to as a "suicide burn", http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10307/what-is-a-sui...).

So while it's a very difficult control solution to accomplish, being able to do it reliably translates to a significant savings in fuel cost and therefore one step closer to sustainable reusable rocketry.