skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say anything about biggest. I'll note that they typically charge an order of magnitude or two more for the airplane than for the WiFi, so I don't see anything contradictory there.

Why should WiFi be free like water regardless of where you are? WiFi in a coffee shop, sure. It costs about $100 to set it up and maybe $50/month to run it for the whole place. WiFi on an airplane? That's neither easy nor cheap to provide.
Something else those countries have (to varying extent) is strong public transportation and an ancient and coherent food culture, which has helped them resist the epidemic of obesity and diabetes we are suffering in the US. Does your book address this?
V8's Math.random() is comparatively unsatisfactory
Won't this raise the noise floor considerably for any other networks nearby?
The propellers can absolutely break skin.

A commercial quadcopter motor typically runs at 1000KV, meaning that it spins at 1000 RPM per Volt. Most batteries are 12-14 volts.

Even for little plastic bits, if they're spinning at 12,000RPM, theres a lot of kinetic energy behind them.
There's a question of whether or not those faster transportation systems would be a good long term investment. Create the means for people to spread out more and still enjoy the advantages of cities for just a 10 minute train ride, and people will spread out.

But is that scalable in a society where both population growth and economic growth is slowing?

The cost of maintaining infrastructure for a suburb is far greater per capita than the cost of maintaining a city. How much more expensive when the whole concept is reliant on the latest mass transit technologies?

It seems to me that the marketplace might be providing the best and most practical living arrangements for the long term.
From trying it out, what does this new support have that LiteIDE does not?
It's a completely shared infrastructure from the demarc in your home to the local cable node. It's not very secure and pretty trivial to abuse. Remember this was an infrastructure originally implemented to distribute TV signal.

Because of that TV heritage and the way they grew (on a town by town franchise basis), cable networks were usually a patchwork of really shitty networks up until fairly recently. My (limited) understanding is that on relatively modern cable systems, there is fiber connectivity to the local nodes, and then coax from that device to the homes in the area.

DSL is a switched network of sorts, and provisioning happens on the switch in the CO. Ditto for fiber.
> There might be some exotic cases where genetic algorithms are actually the best solution, but nobody knows that.

Actually, No Free Lunch guarantees that such cases exist.
Spinach, that's interesting. Apparently, tryptophan + vitamin B6 + vitamin C converts to serotonin.

https://thomasmcgregor.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/cure-depress...
Yes. It's fascinating to watch these companies evolve. A few years ago AWS was all about price reductions. Now, they are focused on large enterprises and most of their R&D is on features that appeal to that set. Google seemed to be built by engineers for engineers, but now they are starting to really polish the edges around their offering (for example their new redesigned web console that was release a week ago or so).

The other advantage Google has is simple no-nonsense pricing. The longer you run a machine, the bigger discount you get. That's pretty much the extent of their pricing schema vs Amazon with their whole reserved instances and you never really know if you're getting the best deal without breaking out Excel and doing some analysis.
Nanocarriers May Carry New Hope for Brain Cancer Therapy
Forgive me if I'm mistaken... but isn't there only one infinite value being considered here?

edit: perhaps you are saying you have preferences between different universes most people would consider infinitely bad?
Fuck ambition for its own sake. It only causes a race to the bottom and short-changes users/customers.

I have used this strategic vacuum technique as a manager to great effect before.

It brings out the best creativity and allows people who are going through apparent productivity lulls to come out of them in a healthy, smarter way. It also builds lasting loyalty and a strong team spirit.

Velocity isn't just hours spent butt-in-seat or number of commits or whatever. It's precious moments of high quality attention. To maximize that you need to be more like a conductor of an orchestra than a drill sergeant.

CAVEAT: when under a high-pressure situation with a new team it is sometimes necessary to limit freedom, demand trust, and command things for the purpose of getting through that situation. Obviously it's dangerous and the wrong kind of manager can get addicted to this kind of solution easily. These temporary command-and-control moments can sometimes be used as trust builders for the managers if, once the situation is resolved, they immediately relinquish the extraordinary power they had used and return to a more natural/creative dynamic - the team will see this as honourable since it didn't technically _have_ to happen that way.
Transformations created with premap are stateless, they depend only on the current input. So one can't build UTF8 decoders with them, for example. That said, if you supply a function to premap, the result typechecks as a "Transduction".
Google has been the price leader in compute and storage for at least 2 years. Here's an example:

http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-cost-analysis/google-vs...
Hm, I'm curious why this wasn't caught by the HN anti-duplicate. Previously when I've (obliviously) posted an already posted URL, I've been redirected to the comments of the pre-existing URL. The URLs are literally exactly the same.
Introducing Cloaks, a New Breed of Privacy
>watching the news after dinner

Found your problem right here. The news no longer serves to inform. It's little more than a conduit for fear, terror, and doubt. Switch off the TV and go read some websites or books to find out what's happening in the world other than the latest development in a terrifying incident in which a handful of people out of nine billion died.

Better yet, take your daughter down to city hall or a county government meeting, and get involved with what is actually going to affect you tomorrow.
Pitivi 0.95 – Enfant Suisse release
Let me take a look at our Jira queues.

Confirmed, leaving work unassigned doesn't get anything accomplished.
Or the other option, work remotely and not get underpaid...
Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time I [video]
Yep, and it took me years to learn that lesson :)
Even without the internet, the status quo in the western world for several decades has been to spend five hours a day eating Hot Pockets in front of the television. Hopefully future generations will remember that when they're criticizing us for looking at too much Facebook.
call me a fuddy-duddy but i want to be convinced that there are no adverse health affects -- or understand what the risks are, however minute.

after all, one can get cancer (and die from it) from something as 'harmless' as sunlight.
clickable ->	https://github.com/farshadjahanmanesh/awesomeTableJs
> they assume every potential customer have quite good technological knowledge

Their target market is large enterprises with massive IT departments staffed with people who "have quite good technological knowledge" - most startups/small companies have probably never fielded an unsolicited sales call from AWS while most enterprise IT staff are probably sick of hearing from them.
This only reinforces the idea I have that NPM is the absolute worst package manager ever and I wish it would die and people would start using one that works (or building one that works)

A huge regression like that (x3 slower) is not something that should happen from a "mature" project that relases its v3. It's simply inacceptable and it clearly demonstrates that the team behind NPM is incompetent.
It doesn’t sound like they are talking about boosting the power output from access points, so I guess this is, WLOG, the same question as asking “what are the health implications of wi-fi?” I don’t mean to imply that the answer is ‘none,’ but this new development doesn’t seem to change any of the relevant primary factors (i.e., how much energy the human body absorbs from wi-fi transmitting antennas).

EDIT: Sort of nevermind? I re-read and see that they are telling the access points to send more data, but not to send them above or beyond the antennas’ already-intended power output. So I guess the analogous question is, “what are the health implications of using your wi-fi a lot?"
Yahoo mail needs to just die, they also send every Coinkite to spam.
Words have consensus meanings, and when you try to redefine them unilaterally you make it harder to communicate. Strength in this context is defined as the ability to exert physical force (as in Newton's Second Law, force = mass x acceleration).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_strength
Ask HN: Is it possible to start a successful tech non-profit?
I've been very curious about this.

There seems to be a few categories of non-profits/social enterprise that are heavy in their tech usage that are also relatively large. The goal here is to see if it is possible to make a great social impact and be relatively unaffected by the interests of investors, which presumably will (but not always) be in conflict with the social impact interests.

* Direct Nonprofits:
- Wikipedia
- Khan Academy

* Nonprofits with for profit Subsidiary
- Mozilla Foundation

* For profits with a nonprofit like governance
- Craigslist
- Kickstarter

I would love to hear your thoughts on more examples to flesh out the above, or perhaps a refutation of my argument that a for-profit organization cannot make a huge social impact through traditional means. (For example, would Wikipedia be as influential today if it were a for-profit? Craigslist a nonprofit?).

I would also love to know if there are any further articles/books/reading on the subject.
I love the concept of micro-housing and have looked into micro-houses quite extensively. The biggest issue with them is of course zoning laws and the only easy way to actually live in one is to buy a plot of land way out in the country.

If you want to live in a city cheaply, you're pretty much forced to have roommates. That's fine but roommates are not always great and personally I would much rather live on my own. So what are the options? Well, the cheapest studio I could find in my area (Ann Arbor, MI) that is within a 10-15 minute to downtown (as my current place is) is almost double what I'm paying currently for a bedroom in a shared house. Ridiculous!

As a young 20 something, I don't have a family, I don't need space. When I'm home, I'm at my desk or sleeping. I view a city in the same way as a phone being an extension of your brain, the city is an extension of your home. If I need a bunch of space, there are plenty of places I can go to get that.

Is micro-housing and super dense living for everyone? Of course not! But for many young people, it's pretty damn great to have an affordable to sleep. Build 'em high, build 'em dense.
In fact they are the same - one is the derivative of the other. So the RFID scanner emits a radio wave; the RFID chip magnetically couples to it to provide a small charge; enough to run the RFID circuitry for a few milliseconds.
I really wonder how effective these link networks are at SEO nowadays. Obviously it's a short term strategy either way, but can you get to first page of google for competitive terms by doing this stuff?
That's a start, but not quite what I had in mind. I was more thinking of the case that you write 10001000, and then later, you read 10011000 back from the disk and the fs panics.

The words "checksum", "digest", or "integrity" don't appear in the paper at all.

It's probably a case of "in theory the bits you write to the disk are the bits you later read back, in practice they are not"
Found it: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go
This makes a lot of sense, and makes me wonder how much experimentation on humans has risen in the time it took for that demand to reach zero. Or maybe how much regulation of human experiments has relaxed. I doubt there's much advocacy for these people, who are often just people in need.
MOBILE PAYMENTS IN BRAZIL. OPPORTUNITIES AND CHallENGES
Do you genuinely not understand I'm talking about a member of a minority doing that?
It's not April 1 - at least on planet earth. So, WTF?
Facebook Debuts New Digital Breakup Tools
Actually that doesn't dereference a nil.

https://play.golang.org/p/cjmflMBhF7

Why not learn the language before criticizing it?
Just a reminder, there is no evidence that the Paris attackers used any kind of encryption.

After Endless Demonization Of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151118/08474732854/after...
Considering the source is available - https://github.com/WhisperSystems/ - it should be reasonably straightforward to take the piece of code out that accesses your contact list? (On iOS, and by the sound of it, latest Android OS, you can also just disallow contact access via the system UI.)
We already have it. It is called solar power. Please use it.
For the same reason drinking water is free on airplanes. For the same reason it's free to use bathrooms on planes. These are considered basic human necessities. I see internet access becoming a basic human necessity. Sooner or later our devices will "expect" to be connected 24 hours a day, and the applications running on them will make the assumption that internet access is available at all times with smooth handovers between Wi-Fi networks, 4G, and other technologies, and zero interruptions or downtime during handovers.

Handicapped people will rely on it to see, to hear. Everyone else will use it to slash and cut language barriers, doing real-time, face-to-face, cloud-based speech translation with augmented reality so you can talk to anyone, anytime, without any barriers. Indoor maps and navigation will become a reality, superimposed over our vision, telling us when and where to go so we aren't late, informing us of dangers, and educating us about the world around us. Self-driving robots, cars, and other gadgets will rely on constant, reliable bandwidth, and link to our calendar management services and travel planners so they can just show up without us actually even having to open an app to call them. Health monitoring devices will tell us based on cloud-based services if we encounter foods that contain allergens, and constantly update their data and firmware.

A paywall that causes even 60 seconds of interruption to this flow of data is going to throw off this technological dream. Internet access should be available worldwide for the same reason nobody charges you to breathe their oxygen. I should be able to board a plane and my data streams should handed over smoothly from airport Wi-Fi, in-flight Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G where necessary, without even so much as to drop a TCP socket.

Having uninterrupted access to the internet should be a problem that the world's infrastructure engineers collectively take care of, so that software and consumer device engineers can collectively abstract this problem away.

I'd even rather pay for water, whose supply can be interrupted for minutes or even hours. But please give me constant, 24/7 internet access, no matter where I'm in the world, with almost zero downtime, so that we can go ahead and invent what the 21st century was meant to be.
I just skimmed the paper, they achieved 10 microwatts at 10 feet. Yes, micro: this is about a million times less power than a modern smartphone or laptop charges at.
Yeah, but they compose differently and are stateful. Transducers compose much like functions and are stateless.
This happens pretty often in the Python world. There's a bit of an unwritten rule to leave implementation details public that would be private in other languages. Many libraries simply don't bother with prefixing privates with '_' and just leave things undocumented that you probably shouldn't touch/use.

One notable example is importing libraries in your code automatically exposes them to the caller.

$ cat lib.py
import re

def somefunc():
pass

$ python
>>> import lib
>>> lib.re
<module 're' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/re.pyc'>

Many packages also do `import *` from files which polutes the package namespace with all kinds of stuff you really don't want in there. For example, the popular Requests package:

>>> import requests
>>> requests.logging
<module 'logging' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.pyc'>

The logging module is not a public part of requests' API. It's just there because requests uses it internally.

So to answer your question, I'd say it's just common practice. If it's undocumented in Python, you should pretend it doesn't exist.
X-Seed 4000
Expensive is relative. Power is still pretty cheap especially for the power requirements of a mobile phone. (I assume not more than 15 cents/kWh?).
This would be the first time I've seen someone suggest gentrification makes things better.
Hellerstein's Progressive Systems Project Ideas
If little hobby skunkworks 6 hour projects actually made much money then that would be the norm.

The reality is that the things that people and companies are willing to pay for often take a great deal more time and dedication. Also, they often involve work that's a hell of a lot less interesting. Even the projects that are fun to start often become boring drudgery during the long haul of making a product that someone is willing to pay you for.
I really liked this read.

It's a topic my mentor/friend (I always add mentor because he means more to me than just "friend" and he teaches me stuff) have discussed before. Our work environment is lacking in a lot of feedback and review; we're often reporting to people who don't work in our company and touchy-feely stuff is indirectly seen as unnecessary in this culture. Add that to the fact that we're separated from the majority commercial IT world and there's a sense of "we're just hacks" and really don't know what we're doing, we're just her because of a lucky credential that gets us hired and riding the contracting gray train.

In trying to evaluate my skills absent feedback, I look to compare myself to those around me. And there, I've noticed, is dangerous territory. I need to state that what happens here, is not good, but it should be recognized. If I'm on a team of engineers and operations staff, building a system, I look around and see what others are doing. Did the configure something wrong that resulted in a fault? Someone screw up and dump too much on that datastore? "Ha!" I guiltly laugh. Because I knew not to do that, I must be better than them. And since, given I hold a very critical view of my own skills, if I'm simply average or "getting by", then they must be really bad indeed.

Of course, that's a terrible thing to think about one's colleagues. There's a danger in thinking that because one knows something, that knowledge must be common because to know something esoteric would be exceptional and therefor, better. Keeping with the narrative that we're average, and knew it anyways, then it must be exceedingly simple and the other person should have known better. That's not the case. We can know uncommon things. We can be deeper in our fields than we think.

The other fallacy of course is that it's also a degree of confirmation bias. Everyone else's failing below ours is a sign of their ineptitude. It assumes that our own mistakes wouldn't have been caught in turn.

All of this I'm trying to illustrate is, impostor syndrome can be harmful to more than just ourselves when we fail to believe in our own abilities and at the same time, measuring ourselves against others. I've caught myself trying to drag my colleagues down in my private assessments in this way, and that's not good.
Now this is what I call talent
Lockheed Martin's Hybrid Airship
Good point. What I had in mind was "problems that someone actually cares about". My bad.
Sunlight is ionizing radiation -- the ultraviolet light is capable of knocking electrons off their atoms, damaging nearby biological systems. 2.4 GHz radio waves cannot do this; absorption just causes local heating (in this case, truly infinitesmal amounts).

I dont know whether that meets the standard of convincing you, but it is fantastically well established science.
Dammit.

No, I mean, this is great news, but I thought I could create value by listing the CAs that provide free SSL on this page: https://paragonie.com/white-paper/2015-secure-php-data-encry...

And soon I won't be. Dammit. And the worst part is, I can't even be angry about that, because it's subverted by a significant security gain.
Curiosly, water is free on airlines because, blood clots and strokes. When water isn't provided, old folks can get blood clots in their legs from being cooped up for hours. Once they got off the plane the clot would move, and very soon it would enter the brain and boom! they'd fall over, usually in the terminal.

With water, they don't fall over in the terminal. Maybe out in the parking lot or in their car. But not where the airlines are liable, so all is well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium

If anyone else is curious like I was.
Amalgamated hosts file
This is called the fallacy of relative privation.

You can't dismiss the lived experiences of people simply because someone has it worse.

It doesnt matter if theres a genocide going on in every single country in the world - its still going to hurt when you get dumped, cheated on, fired, break your leg, get in a car accident, suffer a loss in the family, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
Kubernetes and the DCOS–friends or foes?
"The reason it took God only six days to create the universe is that he didn't have to deal with the embedded base."
I thought the same. I use it every day and its great. I dont understand why it doesn't get more traction.
Yes, exactly. Charge slowly and discharge fast.
I played a bit with the "more faithful" genetic algorithms, got some promising results (getting out of the local minima better). The key is to use hierarchical encoding in your chromosome: instead of directly encoding traits/functions/properties/whatever, encode a program (maybe even in a Turing-complete representation) which in turn generates those traits/functions/properties/whatever, or even generates a next level of code. This is closer to how the biological systems work, and allows for much higher sensitivity to small changes.
I researched GAs / GPs back in the mid-90s (but then went in a different direction).

Is there a paper/presentation that embodies the current best practices/thinking that you could recommend? I'm not trying to be lazy, it's just that there is clearly a lot of retro thinking among the top search results on the net, and it's difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff...
The inverse square law is a bitch.
> Result: That condo is worth half what I paid.

That happened to me, and I felt exactly like you do, six years ago — but the market has recovered, and I've paid off enough of my home that, if I wanted to, I could write a cheque for the balance of the mortgage. And local rents are up, way above house prices, so when I buy a house I'll have a rental property.

Slow and steady wins the race. Hang in there, and you'll be glad you did.
A Personal Journey from “You Suck“ to “You Rock” in Doing Customer Support
Thanks for the link. I started on Spinach because my doctor suggested "leafy green vegetables". I tried kale first, but I prefer the taste of spinach.

I most often eat it first thing in the morning as a shake: 90g spinach + 1 cup almond milk + half a frozen banana.

According to the article, I may want to add some strawberries or oranges for more vitamin C.
Those sorts of things affect disease incidence rates but not "death rates after diagnosis of major disease."

And Japan, for example, has an aging population of heavy smokers.
I get similar affects with turkey, again with the tryptophan.