skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the content doesn’t have to be that good, because it is going to disappear anyways, and everyone else’s content isn’t that great either.

That makes me want to sign up right away!
What happens if a bird flies into the rotors? Is there a failsafe for that?

How would two drones know not to fly into each other?
My wife is a science-educated high school teacher, and as part of getting her B.Ed she had to do a literature review. She was alarmed by the lack of rigour in education research. Almost all the studies she found in education journals were poorly designed, the biggest flaws being:

1) A lack of control groups. In fact, she was told by her instructors that many journals consider it an ethics violation to use a control group, the logic being that in denying your experimental method to the control group you're putting them at a disadvantage.

2) Overgeneralizing results. It's common to use education students (i.e, future teachers) as experimental subjects in education research. Then the results are interpreted as applying to all students, ignoring all the ways that your typical education students are different from your typical high school or elementary school student.

While there were some examples of good education research, she said that by far the best education research she could found was actually published in psychology journals. So it's not surprising to me that myths and even pseudoscience will proliferate in education when the standards on research in the field is so poor.
Good point! I didn't think about this much specifically.
I switched my parents to Ubuntu about 5 years ago. They didn't even blink, and for me maintenance is easier since I can even upgrade the OS over ssh. Zero problems so far.
Hence the concerns over a conflict.

Whilst the risk to PayPal may be deemed acceptable to PayPal, the only reason you would need the loan is because they froze Tor funds. They are not just managing your risk, they are increasing it whilst mitigating the effects it has on themselves!
I think we should talk about the constraints rather than relevancy.
This a thousand times over ...
Indeed, as tingol wrote, parts (as the Linux kernel) had to be open sourced. But also for the large rest I believe open sourcing Android had more advantages than disadvantages for Google - thus it made sense. This does not contradict the fact that Google might not be fond of forks.
Glitch Saver, a program for creating glitch art
If you are using paypal and not stripe to start your business, you already made a bad move.

After reading countless horror stories, the first thing I do is always use stripe for payment.
Nightfall, as mentioned at the end of the piece, is a great little early Asimov story - a culture to whom candles are alien and the idea of artificial light is bizarre. Thoroughly recommend. In fact, here it is: https://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/nightfall.pdf
One thing that always surprises me about the search for ET is how often the purely psychological / consciousness aspect is disregarded. As anyone who has worked with DMT or Ayahuasca can tell you, you don't need to travel far to reach the outer limits of space or even have contact experiences, and this is very easy to test should the anti-scientific legal mechanisms preventing such a study be overcome.

Its like, Fermi's Paradox is almost completely irrelevant if you come from the position that any sufficiently advanced civilization is aware of the possible non-local properties of consciousness.
Thank you! The usage workflow is pretty straightforward. You are a professional. You want to ensure that your strongest traits and qualities (through verification from your colleagues) are visible to the world and to your potential employers. You make a profile here and just get feedback by your co-workers on different qualities.

Based on the feedback score from you colleagues on different qualities, we graphically represent all the traits you are given feedback on.

If someone is not an A* performer or has not received positive feedback on some qualities, he has total control on his profile to display that data publicly or not. Users create their own profile, so if they are not on the platform they wont receive feedback. Also, if someone decides to quit, he will deactivate his account and won't receive feedback from anyone.

They can always dispute a review and our content curator checks for random unnecessarily negative feedback (All negative answers) and remove it from the system.
I know -- I think I'm actually a late adopter.
Yes; I've often wondered about the potential existence of planets with an insufficient quantity of rare earth metals, and if that renders them basically "inhospitable" to high tech civilization.
I would argue that physically-based raytracers actually make things more difficult for artists, because they tend to be less flexible. Being physically correct is great if what you get out of the renderer is exactly what you want, but as soon as you need to cheat anything to achieve a particular look, it's much easier to not be bound by physical correctness.
The language being discussed has parentheses and brackets:

Vect n a -> Vect m a -> Vect (n + m) a

What's that around n + m, and how eager are you to replace that with multi-line indentation?
No More Pirated Games in Two Years, Cracking Group Warns
This is a very interesting article, thanks for sharing. I attempted several times to understand the HDF5 C API and create a custom format for storing connectivity data for neuroscience models, but each time I found the API exceedingly complex and bizarre. I am quite impressed that the author managed to write a substantial piece of software based around HDF and relieved to read the sections on the excessive complexity and fragility of the format.
> making incorrect assumptions

If it was easy to know when you make incorrect assumptions, nobody would.
>...they shouldn't ever be killing kids with toy guns or people with wallets, which they in fact are. The thinking that enables that needs to change.

I disagree. That's not an achievable standard without putting officers' lives at undue risk. Cops can not tell the difference between toy guns and real guns without a close inspection.
I've been out of the industry so that may be the norm now - when I worked, we were expected to present the checkbook already split for the guest.

If that's the case, I doubt most waiters would have issues with check splitting.
The bad UI generates a sort of viral effect. I know a lot of young kids who use snapchat and often the conversation starts with 'How did you do that effect on that video?' or 'How do you send a text message without a picture?'. Snapchat is one of few apps that has a lot of hidden features for power users that are not explained anywhere. I am not saying that it is a good thing, but it makes people talk about it.
> This is just like selling 100 shares of AAPL and then before T+3 happens deciding you aren't going to honor the sale because the price has since gone up.

There is some resemblance but no, actually this is not just like that at all. One of the two things is a financial instrument and security and one isn't, the primary purpose of the ticket purchase is to gain the personal enjoyment of attending a sporting event. A ticket is not an asset like a stock or real estate.

I get the concept in the abstract for sure, and it's not an impossible argument. My point though, borne of some related experience, is that it's going to be awfully hard to prove damages beyond the money spent, and actual tangible consequential damages if any. Many intuitively think the legal system should work the way you describe, myself included, but in practice it has more of a laser-focus on the financial aspects of a transaction only.

Here's a discussion of a very similar situation:
http://wileylegal.com/super-bowl-breaches-of-contract/

Money quote: "Contract Law remedies are designed to retrace steps in an effort to put the injured party back in the same financial place they would be had the contract been properly performed. Many argue that this approach doesn’t account for emotional damage and disappointment, and they are correct."
It is right that converting endianness is faster than reading text, but it still requires more code than calling printf and scanf. I am not into big data really and my program spends most of the time computing instead of reading and writing so 10x speedup in I/O is just not worth it. As I said, HDF5 was an overkill in my case.
"Cortana looks out for you." - the marketing version of "Big Brother is watching you".

Just think of it as Microsoft Total Information Awareness.
As far as I understand, sugar and carbs may worsen existing acne, but do not necessarily cause acne.
No one stays in the Top 1% for long
I've done more than my fair share of fucking with FITS and ROOT files, HDF5, SQLite, proprietary struct-based things, etc...

It's easy to get a file format working on one system. It's Herculean getting it working on all systems bug free. It's nearly impossible to get something to work portably and performant across many systems.

As for simplicity, people start wanting metadata and headers and this and that, and before you know it you need HDF5 or ROOT again and it's no longer simple. Maybe if you're lucky you can stick with something that looks like FITS. If it's tabular, SQLite still can't be beat. Maybe Parquet would work fine too.

I'd vehemently oppose anyone in the projects I work on from trying to standardize on a new in-house format. I'd maybe be okay if they were just building on top of MessagePack or Cap'n Proto/thrift etc... but nearly every disadvantage the OP references about HDF5 will undoubtedly be in anything they cook up themselves. For example, a "simpler format" that works well on distributed architectures, well... now you're going to go back to the single implementation problem.
> Edit: To clarify, I am supposing that perhaps more English-speaking knowledge workers would be trained in the future.

As a side effect of US immigration policy and the hot job market for knowledge workers over the last 20 years, an extremely disproportionate number of PhD candidates in science and business at US universities are Chinese nationals. So it's already happening -- and we're the ones doing it.

I think China is aware that Mandarin will not become a global language of trade -- it's simply too difficult to learn. But this likely suits the government just fine as it funnels all business deals through a (relatively) small group of people who are fluent in Mandarin and another language. And given the difficulty of learning to read Mandarin as opposed to say, French or English, I suspect almost all of those people will be Chinese.
Are you implying that people are making actual contact with extra-terrestrial life via hallucinogens, and not just interpreting the internal experience of altered brain chemistry?
> in defense of the prosecution

I should clarify that I do not condone the actions of law enforcement here. I just think that I think lawcomic is an interesting introductory resource.
The idea of multiple IPv4+ hosts with the same IPv4 address doesn't come into it at all. (Questions of proxying in its various forms aren't really relevant.) So, to answer your question: it wouldn't.
I love the product and am still trying it out while learning Russian (very tempted to purchase a subscription, and it's sitting in my toolbar, which is a good reminder). A couple feedback things about the website because you seem to be receptive to it, after reading some of your comments in this thread:

The "loading" page was a bad first impression for me. It was super fast, and I wouldn't have minded at all if the page were loading "normally" during that time, but the fact that you put up a loading page reminded me of Flash sites and over-developed crap in the mid 2000's. It was odd, and not in a good way.

The site design, as another person pointed out, needs a little work. I know that you like serif fonts, and want it to feel "warm" and inviting and non-threatening, but you have to be really careful about piling too much on at once, especially when you're trying to promote how fantastic and slick the extension is :) The rabbit logo was a little childish. Rabbits connote "speed" books connote "learning" but the logo design itself didn't really make me say "Oh, super fast, slick, easy learning in a browser extension I should definitely download and trust with my personal data!" I put together an example of what might be improved (note: the logo here is just something random I found on Google images. Probably super duper copyrighted!) http://i.imgur.com/Ix7ubvR.png
Getting rid of some of the border-shadow/rounded corner stuff might help, as well. It looks a little out-of-date with modern design trends. Not saying you need a trendy site, but you probably want something a little more timeless :)

Also, adding a little more variations on the "green" theme could probably help. I really like this website for color palette inspirations: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

Loved the About page, the testimonials, and the obvious care that you had in the product. After exploring the site and installing the extension, it felt like a really cared-about (if that makes sense) well-maintained company and product. The fact that you had your personal address and mobile number there was awesome!

Not a designer, I'm a software engineer, so take my advice with a grain of salt!
What about founding a startup to try to make big money and then have the time to explore things?
Obligatory: http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/13692/1386568...
I notice this the most on tech people, I think it's related that we read a lot of stories about people getting fired for a tweet or a post...
Finally a relevant opportunity to mention my employer's software on HN :)

http://www.zonal.co.uk/aztec-epos-solutions/

Not only does it split the bill N ways easily, it can cope with all manner of per-seat bills and shared items.
There is still a lot about the formation of galaxies and star systems that we don't know. The reason why we assume a lower probability for rocky planets in globular clusters is the general environment of the typical cluster: a small population of slow-burning early-generation stars with no appreciable interstellar dust clouds in between them.

If you compare that to low-metallicity stars in the galaxy proper, there are reasons why those might have planets that are not easily afforded to star systems located in globular clusters. Our galaxy is rich in dust and gas clouds that are also inhomogeneous. For example, a metal-poor star may be born out of a low-metal gas cloud and then attract a metal-rich dust disc later. These things are expected to happen a lot less often in globular clusters.
The most unique has got to be a 4 rotor RX8 (rotary engine).

Back when I had an RX8, I wanted to convert it's stock 2 rotor over to a 3 or 4 rotor purely because of this engine sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Fgi1OQqao

The rotary engine is amazing. In the RX8, the powerband kicks in around 4500-5000 rpm, and pulls strong right up through the redline at 9500 rpm. The engine loves high rpm! You can sit in 3rd gear running at 8500 rpm at 80+ mph on the highway and it'll just take it without question. The BMI 4 rotor has a much higher redline, if I recall, near 11,000+ rpm.
From upwork.com.
It's actually not clear from the data whether women left coding, or did men just enter the field at a higher rate them women as the field grew? Maybe coding was a more attractive path for a single lonely nerdy guy who was too shy to ask a girl out. Of course as more lonely nerdy guys entered the field and that culture came to dominate, I'm sure that made it less and less attractive to women. But again, the author hasn't shown data to make the case that women were leaving the field.
So let's just talk about countries with more than a billion people with growing economies? They are mentioned together because of their developing status and increasing effects on the world economy, but otherwise have little in common.
No argument there - that's actually what you try to do with larger tables to "ease" the pain.

If you have a 7 top, you do your best to keep yourself as organized as possible to save as much time in the end.

After a while, most waiter who've worked a bit are trying to cover all their bases all the time.

Interestingly enough, the analogy of a good waiter is a good error checking strategy: expect everything to work but check every exception anyway.
In a corporate world, it probably doesn't matter most of the time. Corporations are big entities - individual failings get lost in the noise. If you're a top executive then sure, your every word will push the stock price around. But an average employee can absolutely be an ass, as long as they don't anger the management, and it won't likely affect the bottom-line that much.

It also applies to smaller companies; in fact, I'm beginning to believe that people are being too obsessive about pleasing the customers. For instance, the best way to get a company to respond to your complaint today is through social media. They will ignore your e-mails. They will bullshit you on the phone. But they will not ignore a complaint on a Facebook page. But why is that? An average consumer has exactly zero capability to inflict any damage to the company. They won't even lose a single sale over it, unless the company is very new or caters to a niche market.

Some companies, those in extremely competitive environments, know it all too well. In convenience stores, besides meeting tons of cool people, you can also meet tons of assholes. They don't care. They know you have to buy food anyway.
He's pretty much available all day. He usually gets back to me within 30-90 minutes. Sometimes he can't get to things until later in the day.
Sounds exactly like a protection racket to me.

Artificially create an urgent need for a service, then sell the service.
Doesn't that just prove that 1 dog = 2 cats and not that anyone was actually willing to pay $1 million for the dog? People are spending real money, that they could equally well as spend on other things, on stocks - they're not just trading stocks, correct? The man in your story couldn't actually sell the dog to someone for $1 million, but people who own stock can sell for cold cash.

Or am I wrong?
Out of curiosity: do you do contracting / consulting work, or have you found a stable 15-20 hr/wk job? I think the latter sounds excellent, while the former sounds stressful.
A founder who doesn't take vacations or spend time with their family will most likely go crazy and fail.
With all the fast-growing tech startups, where are all the new jobs?
We used HDF5 and NETCDF at NASA and it was a constant struggle. I remember when someone dropped the specification on my desk and said, "should be a good read. Enjoy!" Glad you found a more suitable alternative.
You've described a struggle that's very real in production with the off-the-shelf renderers today. People seldom realise that.
I searched for the phrase "diminishing marginal returns" but could not find it in the article which seems like a bit of an omission.

This is a fundamental economic concept - the more of something you have, the less value you derive from each incremental unit.

So, based on personal preferences, once you reach a certain level of income you will start to substitute away from labor (income) towards leisure/free time (non-market activities such as hobbies, cooking, parenting, gaming, chilling).

The study data shows this pretty clearly (if I'm reading it correctly) - in Study 2b (wealthy people polled at a science museum) the median household income was $100-149k and the "% Time Oriented" was 69%. In Study 4 (online panel members who get free internet in exchange for survey participation) the median household income was $75-85k and the "% Time Oriented" was 46%.

The implied result that upper middle class folk are able to spend more time on leisure and are therefore happier on average than regular middle class folk doesn't seem too groundbreaking.
Instead of solving the problem or urban overpopulation, high real estate prices we are a new generation foolishly celebrating these kinds of toys that little by little is chipping away our personalities. The new generation is indeed globally slave labour.
A simple association doesn't tell you much.

One perfectly plausible explanation is that people who already have plenty of money tend to value time over having a little bit more money. And people who already have plenty of money are happier than people who are a bit short on money.
A side comment. Anybody else noticed a request was made to hm.baidu.com for a javascript from this site?
Minecraft: Pocket Edition 2 is as shameless as App Store games get
> I wouldn't underestimate the amount of coercion that was going on in the past.

Don't forget about the Inquisition. Most people hear that and think of the burning of witches and heretics, but that institution alone had a much wider array of non lethal punishments for all sort of behaviors considered "undesirable".

I have been in the Inquisition museum at the city of Guanajuato during the holidays, and they had a remarcable number of painful or even midly unconfortable artifacts that got used on people doing the pre-modern equivalent of littering. Victims would not face lasting harm, but the judicious infliction of pain plus public humiliation [1] was enough to keep them toeing the line more often than not.

[1] A remarkable example was a sort of iron flute. It was heavy and it had manacles for both hands and neck so that the transgressor would be forced in position as if playing it. They would attach it to the victims and send them back home for a few days to reflect on their sins, which was alteration of public order, or "wild partying".
Wow, this news was crushing. I was on the fence about getting ynab for a couple of months now and I was going to get it sometime this week. Coincidentally the trial of ynab made me detest subscription models more than I already did and then they became a subscription model! This is really saddening.. Are there any good replacements that you are aware of (since I do know that ynab is essentially a glorified spreadsheet, but I do like their methodology).
You can push it in favor of certain options by disabling the one you don't want, such as sequential scan.

SET enable_seqscan = OFF;

We use these options a lot on tables that result in odd query plans to get them doing the best option..
This site will make you want to speak about meteo
Without a doubt, there is something highly mysterious going on that should be explored. What that is, I'm not sure. The only way we can know is to explore it scientifically and without bias, accepting the accounts from those participating "as if" true and then working backwards systematically towards a theory or direction.

I cannot emphasize enough, what you encounter in the DMT or Aya state can be totally alien and extradimensional, and the themes you find within seem to be consistent across highly disparate cultures as well as time.
> IEEE 754 floats don't have different endianess.

The standard does not specify endianness [1]. From the standard point of view float is a sequence of bits. But if you memory-map the file and store float on little-endian machine, you get bytes reversed compared to how it is written in the standard. On big-endian machine sign is stored in the first byte, and on little-endian machine sign is stored in the last byte.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Floating-point
The corresponding colloquialism is "Variety is the spice of life."