skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's not much more justice in committing him involuntarily

In what way are you describing a healthy person? Would we call a person as being healthy if they had a problem with being aggressive, repeatedly committing assault, convicted several times, and admitting that they can't control their aggression and intentionally goes and look for people to beat up?

I think such person is likely to have a medical condition, psychological or actually brain damage, and treatment (involuntarily if needed) is best for both the individual and society. Trying to "find other ways to prevent them for coming into contact with people" would be horrible bad idea and unlikely to work.
It is literally 0% effective. At least for what they claim to do. What they do will only stop a dumb criminal, like one who couldn't even blow up his own underwear. But against any sophisticated terrorist, it will do nothing.
But is it a deterrent? For what? How many people are going out and hijacking or blowing up planes? Now, or before?
Pretty much all it does is waste time and money.
I think the real answer is that there will be a complex contractual relationship that "ownership" is too simple to describe, in either direction. E.g. I say I "own" my flat, but actually I am a shareholder in a company that owns the building and have a lease contract with that company (this is the standard (only?) way of "owning" a flat in the UK, because multiple flats stand on the same piece of land - you can't truly "own" something you don't have the right to destroy, but obviously you don't have the right to destroy a flat with someone else's above it).

> And the math there would no doubt be really interesting to an insurance company since you have the possibility that the launch is a success and the first stage lands, the launch is a success and the first stage crashes, the launch effectively fails (second stage failure) but the first stage successfully returns, and both stages are lost. That is a number of different outcomes to insure.

The insurance industry already deals with far more complex scenarios. A ship on an ocean voyage will often have the hull and cargo insured separately, different loss layers insured separately (e.g. first 10% of losses, 10-20%, 20-100% all separate), with multiple underwriters on each layer (and sometimes the same underwriter on multiple stamps).
Fair enough; in my experience, direct native interop (not using a wrapper), monkey patching and meta programming are all exceptions in the Python world.
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A thing Richard Dawkins and Deepak Chopra do not want to tell you
Who cares about what makes more sense ... giant robots, dude! :-)
And like the iPhone roll-out you have to have bought the device directly from Vodafone - http://www.vodafone.co.uk/explore/network/network-improvemen...
I learned this stuff by playing with the pneumatic elements Lego used to (still does?) make. There's actually a lot of literature from this perspective, try searching for "lego pneumatic logic" and the like.
From users accidentally supporting [1] Free Basics; to Facebook asking American and Canadian users to email India's telecom regulator in "error" [2]; to even dead people supporting Free Basics [3], it's all part of Facebook's philanthropic efforts in India.

[1] https://twitter.com/singersuchi/status/677734574319767552

[2] https://recode.net/2015/12/21/facebook-accidentally-asks-u-s...

[3] https://twitter.com/grondmaster/status/677797484781957120

Edited: added line spacing
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> Is it complex to compare the traffic rate by numbers and percentages (I mean mobile vs desktop, is the chart there necessary?)

I couldn't do the % calculation in my head - and "vs." implies exactly this. So having it ready in a chart would be nice.

Nice, will try the pro version. Didn't notice that I could to that.
In Soviet Rus^H^H Most large corps have a dirty tricks dept, but in Capitalist USA, dirty tricks dept has FB #NetNeutrality #SaveTheInternet

FB is going all out to promote it's rebranded Internet.org initiative (now named Free Basics) to capture and lock in poor user on the platform. Since it's first attempt was thwarted, they have now brought out their dirty tricks department to "influence" or (rather misinform - a better word to describe the situation) Indian citizens. It has bought out front-page ads on popular newspapers, hoarding on trafficked roads and misleading ads on FB and youtube to do a sneaky campaign to mislead people to support the initiative.
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It looks like blaming the software and its developers is becoming an easy way of evading responsibilities for those in charge.

Volkswagen did a similar thing a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710354
I started working on a snood clone. It's' still unfinished, but I've spent countless hours playing it mindlessly:

https://www.tbmatuka.com/blog/2014-05-31

https://github.com/tbmatuka/hennin

If anyone would like to knock a thing or two off the ToDo list, I'd appreciate it :)
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As an Italian, I have to say that being convicted or found innocent of anything in the local legal system doesn't really indicate much.
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Ah sorry, I was misreading it from the beginning :(
The key difference is, again, space vs. orbit, i.e. 4). 100km vertical hop is not meaningful for lowering costs of spaceflight. Comparable feats have been done before, as pointed out multiple times in this subthread. You can't just take New Shepard and use it as a first-stage booster; it's a rocket designed for the very easiest component of spaceflight, i.e. going high, and completely unsuitable for putting anything in orbit - which means going very very fast horizontally. OTOH, SpaceX landed an actual booster - a much bigger rocket designed to put payload into orbit - which again, means going very very fast horizontally, and then having to reverse that flight and navigate to a proper landing site. What SpaceX did impacts spaceflight significantly. What Bezos did (and SpaceX before him, and others before them) does not.
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Is "tangential velocity" not just another way of saying "outward acceleration"?
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Can an attacker bypass this by using the serial number and validity period from an already issued certificate?
Thanks, we're working towards a multithreaded application server to reduce memory usage https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592
It's important that the trajectory be fail-safe in terms of avoiding land - if the falcon were to explode early on it could sprinkle debris over a large area around the intended landing zone. So it'd have to be a small unpopulated island - a barge is probably easier. If they need more area or stability I'd think it's relatively easy to expand the barge or add more mass/sea anchors underneath.
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It's describing the dynamics in the (non-inertial) reference frame of the satellite (the reference frame in which the astronauts can be described as "floating around"). In this reference frame, the centrifugal force balances the gravitational force, leading to zero net acceleration.
I'm not sure if that's a question or a statement.Firstly, velocity and acceleration are different things. Velocity is change of distance with time (km/s), acceleration is change of velocity with time (km/s per second or km/s^2).

Secondly, an acceleration on a mass requires a force. Supposing there were an 'outward acceleration', where do you propose the 'outward force' is?
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I watched his statements to the news and it made my blood boil. If it wasn't spite you couldn't tell by his tone and body language.
Turns out JIT is disabled on iOS and AppleTV. So might not get that boost.
How fast do you have to go? Easy. Look out at the horizon far enough that you can see it drop (for example a mountain etc). You have to go so fast that in the time it takes you to reach that point, you only drop by the amount the horizon falls.
Thank you for your feedback.

Enjoy the product! :)
If you are flying in through HK get a china unicom hk cross border SIM. Somewhat expensive data but a life saver in those situations since there is no firewall.
That should work both ways then. Games are $60 digital or physical, by your logic they should be way cheaper digital. Game studios can't have it both ways.
The logs are normally on this page. In this case there is no log, probably due to an error (this build is 4 months old). For a better example see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/builds/485077
I missed the time when I can take a nap after lunch. We don't really do that here in US, but it is particularly for me to keep up with work after the first 1-2 hours after lunch.
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Linty Fresh parses lint errors and report them back to GitHub as comments on PR
7 years of college and you have no idea how to find a job on your own? or are you just whining at how 'unfair' your situation is?
uploaded the PDF here : https://transfer.sh/l4JOD/good-sleep-good-learning-good-life...
I don't think “nuclear theory” explicitly “rules it out”. There's certainly no result that leaps off the page and states that it most certainly is or is not possible. But there's a very clear threshold of Coulomb repulsion that would need to be overcome in order for this to work, and absolutely no trace of any phenomenon so-far calculated or measured that might allow it to be overcome at room temperature. So it is... shall we say “inherently incompatible with theory and what we know impinges upon those theories”?
I would argue that copying more bytes (as demonstrated) is correct behaviour:

(1.) The function is supposed to append a string to another, not paste a byte range into another one, leaving extra bytes at the end untouched. Thus the functional result in the test code is correct (i.e. contains the concatenated string with for the usual definition of NUL-terminated strings.)

(2.) The strncat man page (and similarly the C99 standard) says: "[...] the size of dest must be at least strlen(dest)+n+1." It does not specify what happens to unused bytes at the end. It would be incorrect if the function would ever touch more than `strlen(dest)+n+1` bytes in dest, but it doesn't. Supplying a proper value for n in the code (e.g. `strlen(s2)`) shows that it wouldn't overrun the buffer.

Thus supplying SIZE_MAX for `n` would be a bad idea (because the function could overwrite random memory locations) and would probably be incorrect in most cases (e.g. on amd64 with SIZE_MAX=2^64-1 it would only be correct for the null pointer.)

Copying less would obviously be incorrect. I couldn't reproduce that though. (The more case even appears on Ubuntu with eglibc on both x86 and amd64.)

Also, this is probably still a bug and not the anticipated behaviour. (As in: whoever wrote that didn't think of those cases and the overflow happens by mistake.)
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That's sweet, here's one in pure JavaScript and HTML5 for x86 that runs linux (GUI included) and windows http://copy.sh/v86/ , source code here: https://github.com/copy/v86

The CPU code is pretty cool https://github.com/copy/v86/blob/master/src/cpu.js
... We are talking a tangent on a circle that is changing every second.

So that is a change of velocity, which is acceleration. Outwards is clearly "out" of the circle. The tangent (on the curve) would be a snapshot of that "outward" velocity.

As a said: Tangential velocity is the same as saying outward acceleration. Unless you were referring to just that single "snapshot" in a frozen time scenario.

That "outward" force usually comes from a massive rocket... It is then maintained by the inward force of gravity.
How on earth do you make C++ like JS? I'm no JavaScript programmer so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is legal: x = 5; x = "five"; How do you do that in C++? In C# they have the dynamic keyword, but C++? I guess boost has all sorts of magic, but... good support?
By "doesn't use divisibility" I assume the author means that the point of contradiction doesn't rest on the "divisibility properties" of the integer, not that division is never used. In particular, this proof doesn't rely on the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
Indian Regulator Temporarily Suspends Facebook’s Free Basics
Agreed. I believe a reasonably qualified engineer would produce similar solutions to those same problems. With this patent system, you have to search the patent databases before your start to implement your idea. I've had several buzzkills on ideas because I found them to have been patented. Perhaps my implementations would have made the world better, but we will never know because of the daunting prospect of facing a legal battle.
That's interesting, but I'm not sure where it ends up.

You say "a computer could grind out a solution that gives everyone in the trade chain as much of what they want as possible, for as little as they can spare of what they offer." But if this is dynamic, and trades using different combinations and subsets of the same goods give you different quantities of each, then arbitrage is inevitable. Even on a personal basis: if I know that my software gets me four pizzas in another place, and just two here, I'll trade it in that other place and get two pizzas as profit.

If you eliminate those differences, such that trading e.g. offering 2 pizzas always ends up getting 4 mason jars of 80-proof, then you can calculate all the values against a single good - and you've just created a new currency :)
Because they're clueless and they're living in the past. There are notable exceptions but for the most part this applies to public administration in general.

From their point of view, why should they try to find novel solutions to evident problems while they can much more easily just "regulate away" the potential for such solutions (for now, that is) and claim the problem doesn't exist in the first place? Public administration is notoriously bad at both embracing change and long-term planning because its stakeholders' outlook is measured in legislative periods.
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Sometimes the pictures lose the sense of scale - the stage they're landing is something like 20 stories high, and the engines alone weigh around 4 tonnes. Also anything you put on the pad has to survive being torched by a rocket plume as it comes in for landing - even the concrete is pretty scorched. So that kind of system would be pretty hard to implement - and even if it were workable, Musk is mainly interested in landing systems that will work on Mars too.
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Amiga 500 Emulator in Chrome (pnacl-amiga-emulator.appspot.com) A Portable Native Client demo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753816
> I assume the author means that the point of contradiction doesn't rest on the "divisibility properties" of the integer

I see what the author meant by that. I just think it was stated in a slightly exaggerated way. The "divisibility properties" of the integers are still used. That part has just has been moved to another corner of the proof, by transforming fractional equations.

One of the comments in the article is quite interesting here:

| Theodor Estermann proved the irrationality of 2√ without relying on the prime factorization of m.

I believe that this statement is more correct. The "traditional" proof uses not just divisibility, but prime factorization, which is quite a strong property. And that is something the alternative proof doesn't make use of.

Maybe the introduction should have been stated that way.
Nothing is accelerating outward. There's only one acceleration here, and that's towards the centre of the mass of Earth.
On Keyboard Centricity: POS system in DOS.

1. C:\> a {enter}
(a.bat starts c:\pos\pos.exe)

2. Pull-down menu: Transactions -> Sales {enter}
(Sales is the default selection)

3. Bill no: <last + 1> {enter}
(new id starts a new bill)

4. Item code: <4823> {4-digits+enter}
5. Quantity: <2> {2-digits+enter}

6. Item code: <blank> {enter}
(just one item; give blank to exit)

7. Menu: [Print, Next Bill] {enter}
(Print is default selection)

(loops back to 4, keying in a new bill)

Without a barcode scanner, a keyboard-centric interface takes the minimum possible number of keystrokes for a POS system. This efficiency was the norm in DOS-based text-centric systems, but with today's GUI interfaces, developers have to put extra effort to make things keyboard friendly. This is not done well enough in many cases, and is an instance of how the forced-advancement of technology makes things worse.
Looks like a nice time-saving product. I work on Quill Engage which offers weekly/monthly NLG driven insights for GA and it's nice to see more products getting into this space. I think there's a huge need for better GA reporting and streamlined access to customers data. Best of luck to everyone involved!
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Try limiting your nap to 20 mins max. Anything longer and it's likely you'll enter REM sleep, and waking from REM sleep may be what contributes to this feeling.
That's pretty awesome. On my 27" iMac (2012 model) it struggles a bit with copper functions though, making the sound slow down.
TL;DR The collections agency can sue you, garnish your bank account without even informing you, and if you want to challenge that, you can only do so in private arbitration and you cannot also be a part of a class-action lawsuit.

Despicable. But is anyone surprised anymore? This is a country for the corporations by the corporations. The common folk are just critters to be exploited. Is there a way to incorporate yourself, so that you take a loan not on your person but on your corporate self?
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If that were the case then you could get into orbit by simply going straight up. Why do they go laterally up to 8km/s then? (if not to generate an 'outward' force?).

There are two vectors being added here. One is gravity. The other is a tangental/outward vector. When added together, they form an orbit. Ignore one, and you leave orbit, either by going into space, or smashing into earth. But there are clearly two forces/vectors. And one of them, is having it's direction changed by the other, and thus is acceleration... I don't know what other words I can use to describe it. But I fail to see where I'm wrong :\
since everyone is wondering where this guy was I'll go with 'incarcerated'.
> There are more computers on the Top 500 supercomputer list using AMD GPUs than Nvidia GPUs.

I'd like to see numbers on that.

CUDA hits in Google: 24,000,000
OpenCL hits in Google: 1,000,000

I tried to use OpenCL a number of years ago and the drivers were brutal. CUDA just works.

The number of great libraries available for CUDA is huge, where as the OpenCL ecosystem is more expensive to participate in because those fundamental libraries are not available.

You will get more bang for your buck doing CUDA on Windows or Linux than OpenCL.
Web tech > pnacl

Using Firefox on Android right now, so the pnacl thing is just completely useless to me. With the JS emulator I can at least play the demos :)
And let's not even talk about new movies having record box office revenue... That's how much piracy affects them, sending more people to the cinema, on every new movie that comes out.
Fuel is government-taxed.
More traffic jams = more fuel = more tax.
Forget long-term thinking. MORE TAX. NOW.

I agree with @BjoernKW also.
I noticed this in Shenzhen last year. At some point around lunchtime the lights in the office would go off and everyone would have a nap in their chair.

But then this is because they are in the office 12+ hours a day and seemed to have only one day per week off. Routinely.

I don't want to live that way.
I actually have an unpublished draft post on my blog titled "Is Megaupload as guilty as YouTube?".

The idea of the post was to compare and contrast the internal YouTube emails[1] that came out as part of Viacom vs YouTube with the internal Megaupload emails[2] [2.5].

The reason why the post remained unpublished is because after reading the relevant indictments and court rulings I found that there were clear distinctions between the cases.

Namely it was that YouTube were grappling with how to deal with the situation and not sure where they stood while Megaupload knew exactly where they were and what they were doing - they were actually assisting users in locating pirated content when support was emailed.

Google also implemented ContentID to help identity content, while in contrast Megaupload placed a cap on the number of takedown requests a content owner could file and internal emails show Kim Dotcom being angry at employees for taking down copyright content that wasn't explicitly cited in an DMCA request. The employees also discussed how they built their filtering system to take down child pornography but not affect copyrighted content.

In the latest appeal court decision in Viacom vs YouTube the judge vacated all counts against YouTube and found that the company had no knowledge of specific infringements of copyrighted works. The judge also found that there was no evidence that YouTube induced its users to upload infringing videos, or "interacted with infringing users to a point where it might be said to have participated in their activity."

MegaUpload did exactly that. Reading the MegaUpload indictment[3] and contrasting it to the appeals court decision[4] in Viacom demonstrates the same with every count or claim (being willful, having knowledge, inducing users, etc.)

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/1588353/steal-it-and-other-intern...

[2] https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-what-made-it-a-rogue-sit...

[2.5] http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/1/9436735/megaupload-prosecu...

[3] DOJ vs Megaupload: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/documents/mega...

[4] Viacom vs YouTube district appeals court decision: https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/New_York_Southern_District...
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here's one: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/10/helsinki-share...
Same. Once I've started I want to sleep for many hours, 20 minutes isn't refreshing for me, it's disorienting.
>But elephant in the room is that if you can produce a MW of usable energy out of this thing then why not run it 24/7 and generate your quarter million a year in revenue

I guess the fundamental problem could be that while it does produce excess heat, it doesn't produce more than a heat pump would, so you can't actually use it for anything useful.
That stat being buried in the article felt like poor journalism to me. Chipotle is a really popular restaurant, and the article states that 500 people got sick there since July out of (presumably) 24 million total food illnesses during that same period. So maybe nothing unusual is going on?