skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The British approach of starting a season on the solstice / equinox has always seemed somewhere between weird and quaint (more towards the inconvenient end of weird).

Surely the reasons for the definition of seasons was for farmers to know the position of earth relative to the sun so they could make good decisions about the likely weather for growing? To say it's weird is quite an extreme position to take, there are clearly rational reasons for it. Even if they're not as important to our society as they once were.
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Ok, we're far away from my original point which was only on using tau in one website.

My actual only personal argument against Tao as Hartl proposed it is the use of a standard Greek letter. Really would have preferred he picked something that was more "backwards compatible", exactly as physicists did with hbar.

If you're for reducing confusion, do you think adding a new fundamental constant to the body of mathematics that is a Greek letter already used for countless other variables in history, will this cause confusion between old and new mathematical science texts and papers?

Asking students of science for any texts and papers they read whether tau is 2pi or some other variable, and keeping track across them, seems more confusing to me than just consistently using pi and extra factors of 2.
In the store. The author lists some missing apps under the heading "The app gap problem still exists".
This is sick
Don't look for a rational system for any kind of review ratings anywhere. They can't be rational and objective, they're totally subjective.

And on top of that, they can't give a 2 or 3 to Microsoft's new flagship phone because they want to receive a review unit of the Surface Pro 4 next spring and they won't get one if they take that big of a dump on the Lumia 950 XL.
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Thanks for pointing that out! I thought the project was dead. I was really interested in it when it came out and disappointed that it didn't seem to go anywhere, but I think part of the problem is that it was too complicated to use and it was either all in or nothing (either the whole team uses BE, or no one is going to..)

So my approach is sort of an attempt to simplify things by going back to how an organized person might have tracked their issues in 1970 before project management software or source control, and then adding a couple hooks for SCM. "bug" is just a tool to streamline it without a lot of pushd/cd/popd.

Which means that you can use all of the commands except purge and commit in Mercurial, and then manually commit the issues directory (I think "hg commit $(bug pwd)" should work for commit, but "hg purge" seems to require an extension and not be built into the base install.) I'm not opposed to supporting hg (or anything else) as a first class SCM, except that I don't use it and wouldn't know if things were working as expected.
"90 degrees" is not confusing to me in the same way that measurements in feet and miles is not confusing. I was raised in a system that emphasized degrees, feet, and miles (USA). But in engineering, metric is the standard/default system of measurement. And in software libraries (e.g. JavaScript's Math built-in lib) or many calculators, the default is radians, not degrees. So even though degrees is more natural for me, it was worthwhile to get a deeper understanding of radians. The Tau Manifesto got me there. (90 degrees is 1/4 turn around a circle, which happens to be expressed as 1/4*tau -- and I didn't even have to look that up!)
This is a subjective question. Depends on the individual performing the action. To him anything may or may not be more "creative" than programming.
It's probably good enough for consumer finance sites, but they should really factor in inflation. Inflation has been below average recently, so the margin of error is not that large, but still ~1.015^10=1.16 which means that price drop is steeper than reported.
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>Facts beat theory.

Not necessarily. Facts (in the sense of "anecdata") are simple observations.

The only make any sense against or in favor of something when we combine them with a theory why it is so.

OK, students faring better on exams when they are taught with tau is an argument in favor of tau only if we theorize (assume) that it was the tau/pi thing that made the difference.

Whereas it could just be that the second group of students was just better naturally (e.g. a good school vs a mediocre one), or just a chance outcome, due to the small sample we picked, or the teacher going for tau was also better at explaining and would have fared just as good if he also was the one to teach the pi group.
"So what is your age limit?"

Why should there be an age limit? If a person is capable of consciously plan a crime and execute it, he/she should be able to take a responsibility and punishment for it. What I mean, is that such incidents should be decided case by case basis, not setting some hard limit just because a perpetrator is below a certain age. A person doesn't become somehow magically different at midnight he turns 18. Aand it's not like we have a problem of minors of 5 years old running around and killing people, so the bar sets itself naturally (I'd guess proposed 16yo is pretty accurate for the serious crimes).
In Germany, Harald Welte has taken on several hardware vendors over GPL violations.

I wonder why vendors that build, like, SOHO routers and Wifi access points go through the effort it takes to violate the GPL instead of using a BSD base (where making modifications to the codebase and keeping them closed is at least legal). It's kind of like breaking into bank while next door there is a guy giving money away for free.
> Because the return part of the mission relies on nine identical engines right now. So if one fails it is not a problem.

Is that true? Doesn't the landing have to use the center engine - any other single engine would be asymmetric, and multiple engines would have too high a thrust.
I'm a WP 8.1 user. The main problem isn't so much that there aren't enough apps or that entire classes of apps are completely missing, but that the apps that are there lag way behind equivalent Android and iOS apps in quality and features.
It's not all black/white good guy vs. bad guy stuff.

This thing is so big, it creates problems of its own.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/americas-dirtie...

It's pretty much proven we can't control the flow of drugs. The cost of attempting to do so is too high. We should just stop.
Aphelion and perihelion do not have anything to do with the solstices. They are currently coincidentally 2 weeks apart, but will be months apart in several thousand years.

http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/perihelion-aphelion-sol...
I'm pretty sure they have hired at least one farmer at their Texas site.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-real-reason-spacex-is-h...
The value of bitcoin is in properties of ideal money.

> decades-long recessions and wars triggered by fluctuations in the commodity markets

As opposed to now where we have no recessions and no wars? A deflationary currency doesn't cause a recession, the unwinding of practices like fractional reserve banking or the deleveraging of debt do. When these spin out of control the financial system becomes fragile because none of the intermediaries are resistant to any sort of failure to be able to keep their promises. If no one person in an organization is really accountable, why would they care? They can make short term gains, and when things fails they all fail together and no one really has to claim any substantial responsibility - they can say 'it just happened'.

So what you are talking about is a problem with certain systems, not with money that doesn't lose value. Then again it doesn't come as a surprise that a co founder of a company so misguided and desperate doesn't really understand systems, accountability, or even bitcoin/cryptocurrencies.

That is like saying 'the value of the discrete cosine transform isn't JPEG but what it lossy compression gives us'. They are separate things, and denying the impact of one is a simple, easy, and wrong answer.
Missing teeth is one thing but British orthodontics are far less commonly used than in America. America also has a far higher negative stigma against gaps or unstraight teeth.
Just to point this out, traffic always drove shaping of journalism. That's exactly how beats are established and budgeted. For example, typical metro desk stories are always popular but not always overly staffed because the news pretty much writes itself. Education takes more work, but it's not that important to audience so you pick a person or two wisely to run it, maybe throw a general assignment reporter on a few stories. Investigative pieces, for those you throw your best people and if it's newsworthy - that is, in the matter of public interest - you wastefully throw resources at it to get the story out. You can't do that for every story though, so editorial meetings are harsh.

The only difference is that for traditional print, the metrics lagged behind by months to a year (these were done by circulation analysts or media analysis companies that do this for a living, with lots of phone calls and even more interpolation). With interpolation, you can imagine how you can under- or overestimate a situation. With print interpolation, it's even worse: they would ask people if they didn't read a newspaper this week, did they at least glance at one that someone held, or left on a bench? If they said yes, they got a checkmark for a partial reach. Based on these delayed and inaccurate numbers, people sometimes got or lost their jobs. More often, they got reassigned to do something else. It's always been like that.

Now, with near-realtime feedback, you better know how a piece or a series or a section front is doing and can react to it in a more timely manner and make adjustments (ex: throw more people on the project, or pull people away from it and have them try something else). For example, ebola as a news topic is not doing so well now because it's pretty much contained, so lets get that reporter onto something else.

Don't assume that this modernization change is going to be a rowship with a whip and a piper. Besos has a decent track record on enabling journalists to do their job better, seen both from the outside and the inside. And yeah, metrics can be misread, misused and misinterpreted, but that's always been a possibility.
My guess is, it's more likely he's a micromanager, but, he also spent $250 million of his own money on it as well.
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How do people put up with non-iOS phones? I scrolled halfway down that article and mobile chrome decided to reflow and take me back to the beginning.
Are these systems totally self contained? Seems a bit unsafe to have fire retardant chemicals vaporizing constantly in a confined space. Has anyone given any thought to the health effects of these type of data centers?
Shameless plug: I wrote a quick and dirty node.js library to re-purpose the amazon branded ones to do anything you want.

https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button
My sons were 4 when they wanted to learn how to read from their older sister (7 at the time). I diverted their attention and learned them how to play chess instead
(anything that's not taught in primary school would do).

The reason was this: if they can read before primary school, they will certainly be bored out of their minds, and would be detrimental to their school experience.

Today, I still think it was the right thing to do.
Not exactly. You can prune txs if you don't need to keep them for archiving purposes. But you have to validate the whole blocks to verify your own payments. You cannot selectively validate portions of blocks ("shard blockchain") and still have perfect proofs of validity of payments to you.

If every block was capped at 100 Gb and there were miners creating such blocks, then only a handful of companies would be able to validate the blockchain and therefore mine and receive payments. That would reduce censorship-resistance and make the system less decentralized.
In China, yes, but recent Uber aggression has been anything but aggressive. Just look at driver referral incentives been slashed from $750 to $200 (if you're lucky).
If the real problem is misuse of clause of being underage by organized criminals, then laws against organized crime and even more importantly it seems in India's case the infrastructure to prosecute the guilty should be strengthened. Toughening the laws for under aged does not seem the appropriate response in that case.
Then you contrast that with the Halo 5 XBox one, designed in a place that does have artists in a creative environment...

I mean it's not gorgeous but it's a hell of improvement, accomplished with just different printing on the outside.
With so few entries, let's have a look at the verge Android & iOS ecosystems scores in the 6P / 6S reviews : they both get 9.

either its 3 vs 9 or 6 vs 9, in both cases it is still an enormous gap.
229922 BTC according to Google's exchange rates.

See: https://www.google.com/search?q=100M+usd+in+bitcoin
At this point, they have the functional monopoly advantage of being able to set prices where they want them (in terms of having an exclusive technology their competitors do not have; they have competition, but if they can really slash their costs by 50% they have the capacity to set their price ten bucks below the competitions' prices and win).

... but if I understand correctly, one of the points of the reusable rocketry experiment is to be able to lower the price point to allow new customers who couldn't afford to launch at the previous per-pound cost. To give a terrible but not inaccurate analogy: Think similarly to how the Nintendo Wii found itself in entirely new markets of game players by droppping a $200 console onto the market alongside competition that was nearly double that price-point.
Actually yes, in the latest versions of phone and desktop you can run the same exact app across both. These new phones are actually running Windows and can run any of the new style apps in theory.
This title is such clickbait...
"The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil." - Sheikh Zaki Yamani
Me too but my feeling is that Apple is putting more resources on iOS and is betting on it to gain more usage over Mac OS for most users. The release of the iPad pro is the most recent sign of that trend.

The Mac app store is not that successful which is not very surprising as it requires devs to invest in a new app with a completely different set of competencies.

iOS and the iPhone are Apple cash cow presently.

That's why Microsoft strategy makes sense to me. They have a chance at least. We'll see.
I think the idea that most law enforcement agencies try to paint everyone that they are taking action against as the "bad guys" is a dangerous road. This is how you end up using SWAT teams to serve warrants to unpaid parking tickets. It attempts to make the law some sort of "good vs. bad" moral struggle. I'm sure that there are many laws in other countries (e.g. Saudi Arabia) that we would disagree make someone "bad" for breaking them.

That said, painting the Mexican cartels as some sort of group of "freedom fighters" trying to bring drugs to the impoverished, oppressed masses is hopelessly naive.
I believe the current oil price is more a function of a ongoing price war between OPEC states and declining oil consumption, and not the total amount of oil available on the planet.
He's talking about running something that does bitcoin, but without the inefficiencies of PoW. I pointed out that the RPi 0 doesn't have enough power to handle that scale, even if we took out the PoW stuff.
Evening project: union Hello Kitty and Ashley Madison lists.

No, some things are better left unknown.
Everything is boxes forever.

I fucking hate minimalist UI.
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I'm also using a very simple example to talk about making specific choices on which legal action to take in the face of varying tax incentives, which is analogous (though not identical) to the choices multinationals face when deciding whether to do X, Y, or Z.

(where X might be "do foo in one jurisdiction" and Y might be "do foo in another jurisdiction" and Z might be "do bar instead")
>The only special power of a 50% miner is to consistently resolve double-spend attempts in its favor.

No, this post, and the handy table inside, explains the various attacks possible at different percentages of the hash rate:

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopo...
My son have been learning chess from Kindergarten in his school. So I think thats different (his school is a charter school though)
This is wrong. Plenty of people have converted to fiat and not been caught, there are ways of mixing coins.
Reading the standard library is a huge help in learning to write Go well. It's a high-quality compendium of best practices.
As I was reading your sentence "go through the effort it takes to violate the GPL instead of..." I was expecting the "instead of" to be just publish the necessary source code. That seems pretty easy to me. It's probably easier than trying to get non-GPL versions of things like Linux, which tends to have more widespread hardware support (like, a full set of drivers) than, say, NetBSD. And I say "probably" because I expect these companies have been taking the easy way out.

The BSDs still have to rely on Linux compatibility layers in order to use Linux drivers, right?
If I telecommute, I manage hundreds of servers from my bedroom. I don't see the issue here.
Actually, this is partly the fruits of their work.

It seems like we're experiencing peak oil demand, rather than peak supply.

I'm not sure if the "peak oil prophets" considered this possibility - that their warnings will actually be heard, measures will be taken and we will avoid running out of oil.

Now that we're here, is peak demand less scary than peak supply ?
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As someone who has suffered through a few different smallish projects with R, I don't think it would be even remotely worth using without ggplot2 and Hadley's other amazing contributions, especially dplyr and rvest. Easy to find flaws in R, but ggplot2 makes it easy-ish to produce nice-looking plots.
>This feels much more offensive than the act of capturing video

This idea is shifting though, we've steadily been leaving behind a place of having cameras predominantly being used to prevent theft, towards a situation of mass government surveillance on the street level (think license plate scanners etc). To me personally, that is more offensive at this point.
I'm surprised they're just now saying they will look at web traffic as part of performance reviews. I thought there was a time years ago, pre-Bezos even, when the Post fired someone basically because they weren't pulling in the web hits.

I just keep hoping Bezos will interfere more directly with editorial decisions, because it certainly couldn't be worse. (Famous last words.) Shortly after he came aboard, the Post dumped Ezra Klein, and brought on Radley Balko and the Volokh Conspiracy blogs, which were all great signs, but since then I haven't seen much more in the way of positive developments.
> You can't just download Windows 10 software and run it on Windows 10 Mobile.

That's exactly what you can do, given that the app is written against UWP.

We already universal apps between phones and tablets and we use webapps everywhere. Different screen sizes, different usage scenarios, different input methods – those are all things you can adjust your interface for.
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Didn't they say Vagrant got replaced by otto?
Oh grief that is one confused bit of reporting.
I'm a paid subscriber to the digital edition, but I won't be renewing -- had to actively unsubscribe in advance because last time they sneakily renewed me sooner than I expected.

WaPo was a great newspaper that today has become rather shallow and partisan and has lost whatever claim it once held to being the "paper of record" along with NYTimes and WSJ.

The age of great journalism is over and there's no jobs anymore for hard charging investigative reporters. Bloggers are trying to assume that role, but we're still in the shake-out period of hundreds of websites all vying for our attention (and ad views and monthly fees).

The reader comment sections that accompany almost every article are a joke; it's almost impossible to have an intelligent, threaded conversation because the boards appear to be completely unmoderated and are dominated by highly opinionated trolls and bullies who post one-liner insults and demeaning rejoinders. Once in a while there's an interesting posting, but it's like finding a needle in a haystack. The online reader population appears to be highly partisan, largely Democrats, and some of them come off like full time DNC employees whose job is to attack the opposition no matter what. A waste of time.

The editorial page leans left, more so than the New York Times. The news articles range from near-duplicates of AP/Reuters dispatches to occasional incisive in-depth reporting from some of the few good journalists still on staff.

I don't understand why Bezos chose the WaPo, unless it's the beginning of a publishing empire that he hopes to build. One might have expected him to start with a more solid publishing organization, but who knows, maybe he'll invest more money into hiring good journalists and other professional publishing staff who can bring the paper back up to code. I'm not holding my breath on that appealing outcome, however, since trends appear to be in the other direction of clickbait and sensationalism.
The only way they make money (cash out) is if trust remains in the bitcoin platform. By doing 51%, they tank the platform itself. No liquidity. Provable and transparent majority attack is MAD in the strictest sense.
> i.e. the default configuration

The default configuration for MongoDB is to listen on localhost only. Someone changed the configuration if it was listening on a public IP.
> So what is your age limit? If 16, why not 15? And if 15, why not 12, or 10, or 7, or 5?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
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> Fine, but give them the rights to go with the responsibilities.

What rights are you referring to here?

In New Delhi, the drinking age is 25, but you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that the fact that he's not of legal age to drink means he's not of legal age to be expected not to brutally rape and murder a young woman.
It is one of the great errors of the "SCIENCE!" attitude that it convinces people that if we do not have peer-reviewed papers, we must necessarily claim full and total ignorance and berate anybody who attempts to do otherwise.

I'm not obligated to stop using my brain just because we have no SCIENCE! papers to work with. In fact, you can't. You have no choice. You must do your best with the data you have, because we do not have "science" for all the questions we encounter every day.

Given how standardized education is nowadays, as I complained in another comment, it isn't exactly a far-out theory that when the same person, in the same context, switches to using tau, and sees a difference in results, that it may have something to do with using the more mathematically-sensible concept for teaching.