skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USPS won't care, their (legally protected) business is shipping letters.
Comcast Tests Net Neutrality by Letting Own Streaming Service Bypass Usage Caps
Yup! Credit where credit is due—that is the gif that inspired this thing. Love it!

I'm really curious how they made it in the first place.
> Say it eats an atom - it has to accelerate that atom to the same relativistic velocity

Not quite the same, but almost, yes. The final velocity of the hole after it eats the atom will be equal to the velocity of the center of mass of the hole + atom before the atom is eaten. But if the hole has the rest mass of Mount Everest, the motion of the center of mass of the system will be almost the same as the motion of the hole, since the rest mass of Mount Everest is probably about 40 orders of magnitude larger than the rest mass of an atom.

> meaning that new atom now has EXACTLY the same gamma as the black hole

Yes. But this gamma will be slightly less than the gamma of the hole before it ate the atom.

> and steals just as much momentum as if gamma was 1.

I see what you're thinking, but it's still wrong; you haven't calculated the effect correctly. See below.

> It only needs to absorb mass similar to its own rest mass.

No. Say the hole starts out with rest mass M, and is moving at velocity v, where v is almost 1 (the speed of light), so the gamma factor is, say, 1000. Then the total momentum is about 1000M.

Now the hole absorbs enough atoms to have rest mass 2M, and each atom is at rest before it's absorbed, so each atom contributes zero momentum to the total, so the total momentum is still 1000M after all the atoms are absorbed. That means the gamma factor is now (to a very good approximation) 500 (rest mass 2M times gamma of 500 times v approximately 1 gives momentum 1000M), which still corresponds to an ultrarelativistic velocity.

For the velocity to be less than Earth escape velocity, the total momentum of 1000M would have to be carried by a hole with a rest mass of about 3 million M, since Earth escape velocity is about 1/3000 of the speed of light (11.2 km/s vs. 300,000 km/s)--i.e., we would have rest mass 3 million M times gamma of approximately 1 times v of 1/3000, to give total momentum 1000M.

> That is also irrelevant. The only thing that matters is its "width", i.e. how many of the particles it interacts with does it eat.

The cross section (what you are calling "width"--what fraction of particles encountered does the hole eat) will depend on the speed of the hole; the faster the hole is traveling, the lower the cross section will be.
The Wolf (2014)
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Thanks for posting this.
Easy solution: stick. to. cash.

Side benefit: authorities, tracking companies, banks, "big data analysts" and friends cannot use the information about your shopping behaviour to profile you.
Please put the date in the title if you're going to post old content.
> If the gamma is expressed in terms of velocity, wouldn't that suggest that the momentum isn't exactly proportional to velocity?

Yes. At ultrarelativistic velocities, momentum can change a lot for a very, very small change in velocity, so the behavior is highly nonlinear.
This is pretty nifty. I rediscovered how much I hate Windows solitaire: http://i.imgur.com/a8jbpok.png
> “For too long, powerful corporations have exploited loopholes that allow them to hide earnings abroad to lower their taxes,” said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “Now Pfizer is trying to reduce its tax bill even further.”

You don't like the loopholes? Close them. Do not blame people for using every single option they are given.

The right thing to do is lower the tax rate and remove the loopholes. The total tax paid could stay the same, but the distribution would be different.

The current system is unfair, you need to pay a lot of money to work out these complicated scenarios, this hurts smaller businesses, and costs a lot of money to implement.

"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." - Gregory v. Helvering, 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934)

"Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant." - Commissioner v. Newman, 159 F.2d 848, 851 (2d Cir. 1947) - dissenting opinion
One way to resolve this problem is to use a continuous, increasing map f from the reals to say, (-1, 1). Something like arctan(x)/pi. You can then pick a number randomly from (-1, 1), then compare that with f(A), rather than a random real with A.
Ruby Gem https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails works fine.
Concurrently JavaScript (concurrency, parallelism, asynchrony, CSP, and more)
Dan Boneh's "Introduction to Cryptography".

(Part 1) https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
(Part 2) https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2
The Web Platform will be always criticised and that's a good sign. So many eyes on it are improving it much faster than other platforms.
It does if you specify the `autoDetectRenderer`, rather than `WebGLRenderer` or `CanvasRenderer`.
True, although you must agree, that Amigas were slightly better.

ducks
This is graudian sub-editor's mistake - we should be happy that the headline is even close to the article content.
> That seems like a false dichotomy to me, and what you're really suggesting is that monetary policy should encourage the accumulation of debt(spending) rather than careful insulation from chance(saving).

I do not believe my statements suggest monetary policy should encourage anything. At least they were not meant to.

Lowering interest rates is bad for those with savings, but good for those with ongoing income. I understand this is a widely accepted observable economic phenomenon.

Does that clarify?
There are billions (BILLIONS) of people living in grave poverty in the developing world for whom "managing their money prudently" means not getting any shoes more than once a year or skipping diner.

The idea that any significant percentage of poor are poor because they are not prudent does not hold.

And even if it did, it's way easier to be "prudent" when you have a basic income that covers your needs and leaves a little or a lot more to be prudent with, than when you go hand to mouth with every paycheck.
Clarifier: Chrome extension replaces “I'm not racist” with “Because I'm racist”
> A physical copy of Snow Leopard is required.

It happens that I have a 2006 Macbook (x86, not x86-64) running snow leopard. I used to have the disk but I don't know if I still do. I'll look in the process more. Thank you.
But then it's not really uniform, is it? That innocent instruction to 'pick a random number' is carrying a lot of conceptual baggage.
An Intersection of Art, Biology, Ethics, and Computer Science [pdf]
It sounds like that but if the bartender notices he's serving a lot of water to you, he turns you around and gently pushes you out the door (redirect).
One problem, which the article discusses just after the parts you quoted, is that there’s a huge amount of lobbying of and money flowing to politicians willing to thwart reform efforts. Closing tax loopholes would be easier if we also had publicly financed elections or stricter limits on campaign contributions, and if the media wasn’t a consolidated corporate cartel.

> “[...] Many influential Republicans, already uncomfortable about the Peru reforms, are expected to use committee hearings to launch an attack on the European commission’s ongoing state aid investigations into suspected sweetheart tax deals granted by Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to, respectively, Apple, Starbucks and Amazon. ¶Well-resourced rightwing lobbyists are agitating in Washington for a final push against the G20 tax reforms. [...]”

There’s a feedback loop involved between corporations saving billions in taxes -> donations of some portion of that to politicians willing to play along (and offer to give them board seats and high-paid speaking gigs after they leave office, etc. Just look e.g. Bill Clinton’s post-officeholding career.). Same story with industries that receive large government contracts, or which are under heavy regulation. In every case, there’s big money to be made in helping corporate interests at the public’s expense.

Candidates running for public office have great incentive to talk about how they want to close tax loopholes, etc., but once they are elected, the only thing holding them to those promises is personal integrity, and none of the US presidents since Jimmy Carter have been able to face down that kind of temptation. The pressure might be even greater for Congress, as smaller amounts of money directed at unseating particular troublesome Reps goes further, and there’s less direct public attention on each one.
Doesn't this paradox hinge on both of you having the same definition of "random" (i.e. using similar range of numbers)?

That seems to be extra information given to you, above and beyond simply an envelope with a number.

So there is no real paradox, the solution is based on a hidden assumption not directly spelled out.
Arch is really not the distro you want to run on your daily work machine. I played around with Arch and three times the system got wrecked by a simple update.

It's just too much overhead to study the daily release notes to find out if the official update will break your system or not.

Arch is a great system for people who like to work on linux. Just like oldtimers are great cars for people who like to to get their hands dirty.
Communication from them about the tablets has been horrendous. I backed them last year and the way the communication around this project has been handled leaves a lot to be desired. In fact I have a lot more respect for the openpandora folks whom I have also backed in the past - both projects had their fair share of delays and hiccups but despite being a much smaller setup the openpandora did a much more honest and clear job of communicating how the project was evolving. In Jolla's case even till a week back the whole official line was that people would be getting their tablets by December.
Yep, pixijs can fall back to a canvas renderer. I have a feeling it would be too slow unless I disabled all the effects.
Are there any unicorn co-founders who didn't attend prep school and Ivies?
It seems like everyone from Gates to Blecharczyk went to private prep schools and then on to Harvard or Stanford. Is there anyone who DIDN'T have this advantage who made it in the world of startups and VC?
I would be a lot more comfortable with this approach if the powerful corporation had not bribed the current system into existence. Yes the best solution would be to lower rates and reduce loopholes, but until the corruption that allowed the current tax system to arise is addressed all you will end up with a lower rate and the same number of loopholes.
Also note tat the separation of content and structure is mostly nonexistent as it's currently practiced. People like to talk about it as a Golden Rule, a holy virtue, and then proceed to write even worse code than they did with tables. Generally, if you find yourself writing a tangled mess of divs in order to support CSS tricks, you're not really separating content from the structure. HTML5 semantic tags helped a little, but I still rarely see them used live.

(I'm not really convinced that separation of form and content is a feasible goal anyway - some elements of form are also content at the same time - but it's still a good goal to have.)

> now we have pages without content but with markup where the content is loaded after the fact

This is absolutely ridiculous and it, combined with the idea of routing everything through the cloud in IoT / home automation applications, makes me wonder what happened to some good old-fashioned engineering sanity. It's like people are trying to create wasteful and insecure systems on purpose. ("And what would that purpose be," - the cynic in me asks - "maybe monetizing people's data?").
What are the established alternatives?

ZFS has tools do execute the actual snapshots and to do the actual mirroring, but nothing to manage which snapshots to keep or how to actually reliably get a snapshot from one place to another.
My major takeaway is that they are trying to push as close to instant delivery as possible (30 minutes seems like pretty remarkable goal). Potentially taking out the delivery service middleman is also good. I have my doubts (regulation, security concerns, social doubt a la Google glass) but overall it seems like a good long term strategy to try this.

If they ever come close to hitting the 30 minute delivery it also opens up the entire food delivery industry as a potential Amazon extension. Buying one of these "premade meal delivery" startups could also be an option.
Through subsidies....
What you characterize as an "arbitrary technical limitation" is there for a good reason, unfortunately: even anonymous requests made by the _browser_ are not equivalent to anonymous requests made by the _server_ the web page came from.

That's because the browser and the server have different routing tables. Or to put is more simply, the browser can see the stuff on your LAN, behind your firewall, while the server can't. The point of CORS even for anonymous requests is to prevent web pages from being able to exfiltrate stuff out from behind firewalls, so you don't have random data leaks just because someone in an organization visited some random website. (Yes, you also need them to not download and run random binaries, not have any unpatched exploits in their browser and OS, etc... security is hard.)

Now obviously native apps _can_ exfiltrate stuff out from behind firewalls. Which means that if you really care about your LAN's security you have to assume or enforce that none of the phones connecting to it have any sketchy apps installed...

Note that there is in fact discussion about having a concept of "installing" a web app that you trust sufficiently, which would relax the browser security sandbox such that you get more of the capabilities you're talking about here.
What we need is a new protocol: something that lets an author write and publish text documents, marked up with basic styling, with "hyperlinks" to other text documents. The protocol could allow embedding of simple inline figures as well. Users would run a "browser" whose function was limited to requesting and displaying these documents.
>> Middle class is not a specific dollar figure. It's not owning a large TV.

Right, should obviously be a middle-sized one :)
It's easier to write HTML by hand if you only have a few pages. But if you have a few hundred or a few thousand pages a site generator can save you a lot of time and sometimes your sanity.
> I know it's Go and it will likely be a single binary with no deps that just works.

It is and it does.
I wanted one of their phones so incredibly badly but you can't buy them here in the US. Now there's the Ubuntu touch phone which you (supposedly) /can/ buy in the us and (from what I've heard) also runs X11 apps.
Corporate domicile is essentially a market and corporations have a choice where to domicile themselves. So instead of governments making futile attempts to legislate their way to a solution why don't they do as participants in any other market do and actually be competitive? This means reducing costs and finding savings to compete on price, i.e. lower rates of taxation. If government was a private enterprise, it would go out of business.
Pretty sure that it's not intentional by the look of the waves that go through the side of the boat.
So to answer the OP's question, we're not confused, and JS still sucks for refactoring? (as I have to maintain a big monolothic client-side JS app, and good tools for refactoring would be most welcome)
Right, though I don't think uniform is the necessary condition here. We only need a positive chance of picking an R so that f(A) and f(B) are on different sides of R, which isn't as much of a problem if we're picking R from (-1, 1).
The Christians and the Pagans: Part 1
Definitely agree. Who says you have to find time for the side project? I believe if it's an idea you're truly interested in, you'll find time somehow. In the meantime, go spend that time with friends/family, a hobby, or a new TV show (I recommend Fargo)
x = 1hr
Runs pretty fine on Opera on a LG L70.
It's basically a plugin architecture. Firefox was wildly successful because of it: Mozilla took the old, massive, full-featured suite, chopped it up, then released a basic no-frills super-fast browser, turning all "questionable" features into plugins. I agree that it's usually a great idea; however, it's also hard to do well and maintain in the long run. Mozilla arguably struggled with development velocity at various points, in part because of them having to avoid breaking compatibility in the plugin infrastructure too often.

In Apple's case, tbh, the overwhelming feeling I get is that the problems are almost entirely due to a fixed release schedule rather than actual "featuritis". As it is, they are forced to release OSX yearly in order to match iOS, which in turn has to match hardware releases come rain or shine. iDevices now drive Apple profits, not Mac; OSX stability is sacrificed in order to keep iPhone sales healthy. It sucks, but I don't see it changing anytime soon.
I watch a lot of TV series. When I say "Homeland" to it, it takes me to a page about Homeland in general. From there I have to select a poorly named button to say "I want to see the episodes I own", and then I have to scroll along with no visual indication of which I've watched. When I hit Menu from that, I'm dropped in to the main menu, with no obvious way back. If I go in via TV Show from the main menu, it's a different UI that works more sensibly. This and 101 other minor irritations with the UI just get between me and my content.
Actually ARM also has an office in Trondheim, Norway that is behind the Mali GPU (700 million processors sold in a single year)
How to Sell to a Bank: Learnings
You mean like AMP?

https://www.ampproject.org/

And yes, it's pretty silly that this is a thing.
The root cause here is the amount of money required to be elected. Get rid of the need for money and you get rid of the corruption.

I personally like the idea of increasing the number of members of congress so each member only represents around 25,000 people like they did 200 years ago. If your electorate only had 25,000 voters you would not need much money (nor staff) to get elected.
Apart from that, separating content and design can also be a big deal for working with different kinds of tooling.

You can use hugo to fetch JSON, YAML or CSV data from remote URLs and use those data as part of the build process. And if you use local data files instead of HTML you can use a tool like netlify-cms (github.com/netlify/netlify-cms) to give end users an easy way to work with that structured data without ever touching text editors or the like...

And as jacquesm said, once you have a more complex site with lots of pages, you'll want to use partials, reuse content in different places (show a summary of an article on an index page, full article inside, small blurbs on the homepage, etc), and once you get there you really don't want to write HTML by hand...
To me, the real issue is that no other photo app can get close to iCloud synching. I've tried Dropbox, Google Photos, et al - but none of them can sync reliably - and it's not their fault as far as I can see.

iCloud, for me, syncs photos well - I then run Google Photos on my MBP to sync back to Google - but it's a half-assed solution. The best solution would be allowing photo apps to upload in the background without being brought to the foreground on the iPhone, but I don't see Apple doing this.

It's really the only thing I miss from having an Android phone.
I use hugo on my personal blog at the moment. http://utkarshsinha.com/

A few things I've found interesting are:

- Getting the layout just right takes a bit of tinkering (I mean the layout, theme and include file locations - not the CSS).

- The `hugo` executable is just perfect. hugo server --watch is all you need (plus it's super fast!)

- Also, I'm not a Ruby person. I don't need a whole Ruby ecosystem working on my machine just to parse some markdown.
Re-publication of an article from 2014 (originally appeared on randsinrepose.com).

Interesting discussion from original post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8253627
Notch made Minecraft, I don't think he went to any fancy schools, though I'm only speculating.

Edit:

David Karp is another great example I suppose. He made Tumblr, and doesn't even have a high school diploma.
"Programming Languages" - https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang

"Compilers" - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
I stored my photos in year/month directories for years after abandoning iPhoto waaaay back when. Finally settled on Aperture a few years ago.. so I returned to the Finder.

But I swear, with el Capitan, folders with more than about 500 photos will now beachball for minutes at a time waiting for a click. WTF. this ship is sinking.
Travis Kalanick went to a public high school and dropped out of UCLA.

But really, this is the wrong question. Even if there were 0 examples of what you asked for, it doesn't mean one can't come along.
Smartcasual meets Tak Lo
Notes on the China I’m Leaving Behind
Wouldn't moving taxes from income to sales-based resolve many of these issues?
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