skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Here's a Radio Yerevan take on Brooks' writings, from Language Log:

> Question to Language Log: Is it correct that if you show an American an image of a fish tank, the American will usually describe the biggest fish in the tank and what it is doing, while if you ask a Chinese person to describe a fish tank, the Chinese will usually describe the context in which the fish swim?

> Answer: In principle, yes. But first of all, it wasn't a representative sample of Americans, it was undergraduates in a psychology course at the University of Michigan; and second, it wasn't Chinese, it was undergraduates in a psychology course at Kyoto University in Japan; and third, it wasn't a fish tank, it was 10 20-second animated vignettes of underwater scenes; and fourth, the Americans didn't mention the "focal fish" more often than the Japanese, they mentioned them less often.

From: Reality v. Brooks - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=19531
I'm not really sure how we are supposed to give feedback to a closed alpha test, but many people here are discussing the business viability of native email clients, so maybe you can talk about the market and what the business prospects are when entering this market.
His government and many of its representatives, when shown by independent researchers various concerns they had found with their e-voting system[1] were dismissed as having a political agenda for the opposition (who have dismissed online voting). Estonia's CERT also went onto write an article entitled "E-voting is (too) secure"[2].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os

https://www.ria.ee/e-voting-is-too-secure/
I think it's a valid point since the EPA labels CO2 as pollution.

[EDIT] Since I'm getting so many down votes, thought I'd link the EPA calling CO2 pollution. http://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan
That generalization isnt totally accurate, CouchDB has in built ability to validate data that gets written to it, and PouchDB was built specifically to make that type of control easy and powerful.
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I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I too wasn't interested in history at all until I read this book: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power ( http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/143911...) Which was a fascinating history from the rise of oil in modern times uptil the first Gulf War. I would love recommendations on other history books that got people turned onto history?
There are barriers to entry, for the miners - that's the whole point of having a closed block chain. Nodes and addresses could be open depending on the hypothetical.

Mass decentralization is only a selling point for Bitcoin, but even then the Bitcoin organization (who controls the code) has authority to push a hard fork on the miners. They won't do it obviously (e.g. increase block size), because it would alienate their user base.

Miner validation can be controlled by the same organization in charge of the code, which isn't aligned with any one competitor in the industry.
> If telecoms want to run successful mobile television streaming businesses, they can start selling reasonable amounts of data with their plans.

First-party services fall in a different category; quite aside from net neutrality, that raises potential antitrust concerns.

But partnering with third-party services, especially if offering to do so with arbitrary third-party services, seems far less problematic.
I just found this link http://www.science20.com/news_articles/solving_ozone_problem... . I am sure this will be a problem for many years but it will be addressed.
The problem on the other hand is the pollutants from automobiles. If someone is driving a car in New Delhi with windows down for few hours, can feel the grease from engine fumes on face and nostrils. Clean your nose and that is when you realize how terrible the traffic is. The problem is not with people who are driving the cars. There are pedestrians and people living off streets who breath that air all day. It scares me to see a child breath that air as I am tend to fall sick with throat ruptured even after a day on the road inside a car. That would hopefully change around the world if we have electric vehicles.
When Pa == 0, so like, most of the time.

It's an email app. It talks IMAP^H^H^H^Hto Gmail. It runs on iOS. How many secret, commercially important techniques do you really suppose it contains?
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That's norm. What's more interesting is that, if everybody gets choice, will some of blue-collar jobs such as janitors actually gets paid a lot more? Somebody has to do it, after all. (I'm not disgracing those jobs; as Prof. Maguire told Will in "Good Will Hunting", there's honor in it. But is it the case that their wage kept low because they're taken advantage of, having no other choices?)
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Hexdumped the html of the webpage, there's only two codepoints here.
Those with the power to capture and steer asteroids also have the power to direct them at targets on Earth.
IIRC at the convention that wrote the constitution there were about 5 axis involved. I can't remember what they were though. Any insight on it would be appreciated.
It blows my mind too.

I'm a coffee nerd, but not a snob. I can enjoy a cup of Starbucks, gas-station coffee, and even be fine with a cup of instant.

I would choose any of those over the best Keurig I've tried. To me, the taste goes far beyond "not good" into "awful" territory.

But like you say, people genuinely like it. We added one to the waiting room of my wife's medical office, and from her patient's reactions you'd think we were giving them world-class coffee for free. I wonder if Keurig coffee is one of those weird foods like cilantro where only some people can taste the "awful".
Are you a venture capitalist? Because if not, you should be!
You are most certainly technically incorrect, which is the worst kind of incorrect. It would take very very high levels of ozone to be anywhere near as promptly fatal as carbon monoxide poisoning from running a gasoline powered car inside a closed garage. As far as I know, no one commits suicide by running an electric motor in a closed room. Ozone causes oxidative damage to tissues, including the delicate tissues of your lungs. Carbon monoxide shuts down the oxygen carrying function your hemoglobin. You can be killed by unnoticeable levels of carbon monoxide. It's highly unlikely you won't be able to sense dangerous levels of ozone. In fact, it's likely to be unpleasant enough to drive you from the room. Whereas CO makes you feel sleepy as you slip down to unconsciousness forever.

(EDIT: That said, ozone in rather small amounts can be quite damaging to long term health.)
Another thing that should be mentioned is that most VC's have a close relationship with bigger tech companies. Its a way to move money out of the public markets and back into private. There are multiple implications with this type of behavior.
Of course, and we did. But, I continue to believe that allowing calculators on ALL mathematics work from a young age does the student a disservice. Calculators certainly have their place, but elementary school arithmetic is not that place.
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Some people are naturally more stubborn than others. I probably came to that conclusion due to my exceptionally mule-headed ancestry.

As a result, when I perceive that someone is working against my own interests, I will do anything within the bounds of my own ethics to trip them up, even to my own detriment. I want to waste lots of nights and weekends mailing documents in to traffic court, to try to get that revenue-generating municipal summons turned into a money-losing jury trial, with plenty of motions and discovery and appeals.

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." --H.D. Thoreau

Under a government which funds itself by forcing citizens to pay more in order to be hassled less, choosing to accept the inconvenience might be considered an altruistic act....[0] But in my case, it would be purely for spite. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee, Captain Kirk.

If you want to let those bastards get away with their scam just because you can't stand to have a little manure tossed at you, go right ahead. I hope you enjoy smelling nice and not having any parts of your face broken when you go out with your fancy respectable folk.

The cops say "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride." Well, Cave Johnson says, "I'm going to burn life's house down, with the lemons!" (He says what we're all thinking.) If you want to take me on a ride, don't forget that you'll have to drive the whole way. If you're intentionally inconveniencing me, as as informal punishment, remember this: "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." --G.B. Shaw.

[0] Poe's Law note: this is the inflection point between mostly-sincere and mostly-insincere. Determining which is which is left as an exercise for the reader.
Typical logical flaw of applying the argument to various other argually retard comparison.

The comparison here is between clean energy and fossil fuel. It has little to do with cooking, or extreme poverty.
They were probably using an outdated version of rakudo, the latest version returns 2 as you would expect.
# Why not
## Lodash
`_.flow(b,c,d)(a)` // left to right
`_.compose(d,c,b)(a)` // right to left
`_.flowRight(d,c,b)(a)` // right to left
`_.backflow(d,c,b)(a)` // right to left

## RamdaJS
`_.pipe(b,c,d)(a)` // left to right

# But why
are we inventing so many ways of doing forward, backward function application and composition.

Aside:
I've never found an application of lodash `_.chain` that couldn't be expressed in a better way.
Yup. I put together a successful proof-of-concept with React and PouchDB / CouchDB, but quickly concluded the lack of granular security was its Achilles heel.

I switched to Meteor with GroundDB for offline support, and haven't looked back.
Url changed from https://timeline.com/stories/melvil-dewey-was-brilliant-and-..., which points to this.

HN prefers original sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The biggest pain points when using emscripten are debugging, compilation time, and code size. Debugging means poking through what is the JavaScript equivalent of assembly code but without a debugger that understands it (no segfaults on null access, strings are just numbers, etc.). The emscripten toolchain doesn't include an incremental linker yet and compilation time is limited by C++'s dumb compilation model. C++ also generates a lot of code if you use the standard library and templates (this is C++'s fault, not emscripten). In practice, we have an Xcode project hooked up to build the same C++ code and use that as our IDE. That way we can mostly treat emscripten as just a build target. I would only do it if it's worth the tradeoff.
Another critical media server vulnerability? Really? Is Google at least working on an overhaul of its media library for the next version of Android?
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There always will be a debate on global warming.

I doubt this is true without the caveat: ...so long as the energy industry keeps funding an opposition.
Seems to be a typo?

$ perl6 -e 'say "नि".codes'
2
On a non-retina screen, the font weight of 100 looks not so great. I'd recommend to use a media query to check the DPI.

When I saw "Discover" I expected some examples. Your product is intriguing, but I don't think there are that many people that will go "Oh, now I can finally make <insert object>". HAving some examples would be a great way to show what can be done and inspire your customers.
You said that already. I'm wondering why the name or comments from a specific user is so important to you. Certainly many others on HN have discussed acquisitions (a search by comment or story gives tons of results). The fact that you repeatedly single out a specific user seems a bit "stalkish".
affiliate spamming is not really something new. It's annoying and terrible, but it's been around for as long as affiliate itself.
Not just new collaborative robots, but whole product lines at iREX2015
1. "WHO estimates indoor air pollution was linked to 4.3 million deaths in 2012 in households cooking over coal, wood and biomass stoves."

If the majority of the "7 million" die from indoor cooking, It seems like it would be better to focus our resources on developing infrastructure in SE Asia so that every household has electricity and modern cooking appliances.
Spark is great for this; it supports IMAP very well. You can customize the UI for archive, trash, snooze and pin swipes to your liking. And unlike Mailbox, does not rely on server side access to your email or email account.
How big of a Star Wars fan are you
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Those people would likely also have access to nuclear weapons, what's your point?
With gas burning cars we have two problems - pollution from cars and pollution from electrical plants. With electric cars we only have one problem - the power plants. It increases the magnitude of that problem, but the total complexity goes down.
I go there when there's no other options, and probably twice a year to see if they've gotten better.

If I'm spending $4+ on an espresso drink, I'd rather it not taste bad :)
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I supposed if you built things right(have a nice clean separation of the display logic) you could plug it into Electron.

I feel like you'd need to architect for the Render/Main Node.js thread split upfront though, bolting that on would be difficult.
>The miners are incentivized to do whatever is best for the value of Bitcoin

No they aren't.

The miners are rational actors and incentivized to do what's best for themselves, not Bitcoin. The entire network is built on the premise that the miners are rational, and it has been demonstrated four times already.

Bitcoin is an example of how Tragedy of the Commons applies to digital networks.
I would be very interested in an all-electric minivan with enough range for my frequent 600-mile trips to my wife's home town. Sadly, this does not yet exist.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688639.
This really calls into question whether or not we can build these large multi year or multi generational ships for interstellar travel.
I think you're ignoring the profit to be made in extending the time between now and when ANY kind of regulation (pollution OR climate change) kicks in. Industries have historically avoided responsibility for various kinds of pollution by using the same FUD tactics that are used in the climate change "debate".
I absolutely don't believe that human-created CO2 emissions cause global warming. However, I consider myself a staunch environmentalist.

I believe we should be doing whatever we can to control pollution. It sickens me that factories pump out pollution, that we can barely eat fish anymore because of all the garbage and poisons we pump into our oceans. I think we need very strict controls on every form of pollution as well as garbage and creating plastic waste (including microplastic particles in our oceans), although I do believe CO2 pollution is on the bottom of the scale in terms of importance. I believe that fines for factories that pollute the environment should be material, ie. very heavy relative to yearly revenues. Personally, I do my best to ensure that I create as little waste as possible, and that I do my part in terms of recycling, composting, etc.

So I consider myself an environmentalist, I just don't believe that global warming is caused by human activity, and CO2 pollution is the least critical of the pollutions.
They are not as commonplace as clouds on Earth (from what I've read), and like clouds, they don't block all light. The Mars rovers seem to get good results from solar panels and batteries despite the dust storms (though perhaps they have just been lucky).
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Replacing all of the modules including the nodes would cost as much as building a new station.
The specifications are limited, there's a limit to the mass of the modules that can be connected to the nodes (torque is quite real ;)) and considering we don't have the space shuttle to assemble new modules easily (with the exception of Zarya, Unity(node 1), and Zvezda all modules and large parts like the Solar Panel arrays were assembled with the use of the STO) so at best you'll end up with an ISS redux with the same limitations to size, mass, power generation and module compatibility as the current one has.

We need to be able to build bigger modules for bigger experiments, we need more power, we need it to be higher to further avoid atmospheric drag and to be used as a launch platform for further experiments.

There are various proposals for both low orbit space stations like the Russian OPSEK which will be recoverable, and various future uses for the ISS* including using Node 4 and some of the ISS modules for the EGP which will be a refueling station parked around E/M L1 (approx half way to the moon).
The EGP could be build on the existing ISS and launched to L1 since it will have a central node and a service module additional modules even a habitat module could be later added.

* Please note that this will not reuse existing ISS modules in orbit but will reuse built/planned unlaunched parts like Node 4 and Zvezda 2.
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Can you please provide some examples with real numbers on puts... I do not understand them. Thanks -- and Apologies for not turning to google, as opposed to asking you to ELI5
I don't think that having badly photoshopped image of an opponent really prepares the reader for constructive critique of anyone's character.
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Kottke serves up a number of lists:

http://kottke.org/15/11/best-fiction-of-2015

Among those not already linked upthread or sibling:

Tyler Cowen, fiction and non-fiction:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/bes...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/bes...

Buzzfeed Fiction:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/isaacfitzgerald/books-we-loved-in-20...
They don't grind the other roasts for espresso.

I like dark roasts. But theirs is crap :)
I hate the C++ keyword auto
Not true. Brushless induction motors don't produce ozone, and that's the type of motor used in the Tesla, Leaf, Volt, i3, and any other electric vehicle on the road. Schwarzenegger wouldn't be dumb enough to end this letter with a claim that wasn't fact-checked.
Centralized coal plants are more efficient than individual internal combustion motors.

Even adding losses from transmission and the electric motors at the end, it's a net-win.

Yes, other power sources are better, but even as a stopgap coal has its use.
"they".

I am not a he.
Wow.

Okay, that makes sense then, thanks.
Some of these prices seem too good to be true. I know the accommodations on some of these are pretty sparse but the listings on some of these properties include transportation, guide, food for a price that would be reasonable at any hotel without the extras (guide, food, etc).

These locations and setup are compelling enough though. I'll have to put some research time into this, seems like just the sort of thing I'd want to do.
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> There always will be a debate on global warming. So keeping global warming as the prime focus of fossil fuel usage kept people divided.

Bullshit. Whatever the focus was, vested interests would have funded opposition and that's what kept people divided.
Where does the 7 million figure come from?
I suppose some think there is an opportunity for disingenuous posting if there is monetary gain to be had. That said, I agree with you, and knowing I have posted affiliate links without trying, I think any malice attributed to it is misplaced.
Perl6 agrees that it consists of only 2 codepoints:

say "नि".NFC>>.uniname.perl;
#=> ("DEVANAGARI LETTER NA", "DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN I")

Nothing more serious than a typo in the article would be my guess.
Agreed that private parties can choose to do what they like - but my question is whether the gov't position on a go forward basis would be "you got your check - we have no further obligation"I think that position would be hard to carry out politically + the risk of moral hazard should that in fact not be the case.
Because your documents are already in dropbox. I believe that is the main value proposition.
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Thanks
Well, some of us live in homes with rooms and walls, and so 5GHz is pretty useless.
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> Why does every startup need to aim to take over the world overnight?

Its preferable to work on a project for a few years instead of half/full decades.
Right, it's clearly a matter of degree and the thing is I don't hear economists talking about this, only the general public, who has some sort of warm fuzzy feeling about the idea of free money, but little actual talk about what's going to happen.

My feeling is that it will either be too low to be meaningful or too high and it'll lower the production of useful things to buy, such that we're actually poorer in some sense in spite of it. I certainly agree with you about the fact that the production of the things we buy with money being more important than the rectangular pieces of paper, though.

So I actually think it can work out for a country like Norway, that's small and rich and which imports plenty of physical goods from elsewhere with oil money, and therefore where it honestly doesn't change much of anything. It's what happens when everybody does it that I wonder about.

But maybe I'm wrong and it will just end up outsourcing all the labor to China / Mexico / SE Asia / wherever with a manageable inflation and we'll muddle through somehow. I don't really know, which is why I'm disturbed that I see so few people who seem to have any good idea about the actual effects talking about it.