skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"containing only the victim’s name."

This app reeks of propaganda. There is absolutely no context to how or why the 'victim' was killed and even if they should be considered a 'victim' in the first place.
> People who aren't as financially lucky as me don't have that opportunity. I'm not crazy about the idea of living in a world where those people don't get to participate in determining culture.

I can't see why those users couldn't publish through a network that charges for access but guarantees a high bar of quality (both content and browsing experience). Think of something like Medium, with opt-in micropayments... possibly even mix in a social element, so friends of the creator get free access.
There seems to be something uniquely British in its engineering culture which allows for the left-field hack-it-simply-together-and-hope-it-works approach.

I'm guessing that the initial build was exactly this. Maybe the equipment is highly specialised for the UK, and other countries have their own standards?I imagine these custom standards are hard to just rip out and replace. It is also hard to convince a bunch of engineers who know a set of tools, and proprietary formats and hardware to change to something they don't know, with something that is so critical to a nations infrastructure.
The main skepticism regarding Columbus was that they knew the Earth was much larger than what Columbus was projecting. It would be a generation before we had the technology and infrastructure to circumnavigate the globe by piggybacking off islands and friendly ports; to attempt to do so over what was assumed to be completely open waters in 1492 was tantamount to suicide. If Columbus hadn't stumbled upon the Bahamas when he did, his crew very likely would've died.
Side projects are always a good thing. Whatever your idea is, with time permitting, get it out there. Regardless of how silly it may be seen from others, it gets exposure, and gets you experience. Every side project I work on, builds on some core technology I learned from the last project. I've got a million ideas, and when I'm done with one, I move onto the next. Keep your mind busy!
It is free now :-)

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/cfr...
I'd agree, they do just about everything could want you want quickly, efficiently, and most services are free if you're careful.

the customer support can range from OK to terrible... if I'm not sure how some new "mobile only" bank is going to be any better, if anything I'd expect it to be worse as I can't go into a branch and shout at the manager

if it ends up being anything like google support that'll go down like a lead balloon.
My guess is the companies that have been through other accelerators have improved polish that makes it harder for YC to pick the truely better companies.

The more cynical view would be founders going through multiple accelerators are more focused on appearance and "playing the startup game" than actually building a real business.
The Economist Asks: Jerry Kaplan, Author of “Humans Need Not Apply”
Just so you know there is an extra .com on the github link making it github.com.com which has so pretty nasty redirects.
As far as I can tell from a cursory read, this will affect developers that want to write very thorough generic code (think boost, STL).

For regular people it's a non-concern. I'd be happy to be corrected if I misinterpreted something :)
> Um. Perhaps it would be better if the black cabs focused their efforts on enhancing their own user experience rather than trying to artificially cap it? :)

Bingo. For me personally the user experience starts with the price. The reason I tried Uber in the first place was because a black cab trip was £40 or so, the equivalent Uber was around £22 (with a bonus £10 off with a first travel code). I'm also a sucker for all things fancy and arriving in one of Uber's cars, while not exactly a stretch limo affair, just felt more classy than your bog standard cab. I also love the fact you can just move your slider across the more fancy you want your trip to be when booking.

I'm not familiar with London cabs either so I just assumed they were the same as cabs in my local town - Cash only. There were a couple that advertised they accept credit/debit but then you face the issue of picking a cab in the middle of the rank. Will they allow take the fare? Will the cab driver at the front of the queue throw a fit? Is someone going to get in trouble with a union if I just get in? Far easier to just tap in your destination and have a car turn up knowing you're all paid up and good to go.

On a final note it's probably driver specific rather than service specific but the Uber drivers I encountered didn't say a word after the initial greeting while I was riding until prompted by me. For someone that ends the day craving peace and quiet this was a godsend. I strongly dislike the idle chatter conversations you tend to get in taxis on the way home - just let me chill out and drop me off somewhere I can sleep!

It's quite possible you get all of that (minus the type of car) in a cab, but where do you even go to see that? Uber is branded as almost private cars for the everyday person so you go into it expecting a classy affair. Heck it could be that cabs just need a decent rebranding campaign.
> Not my experience - most functional languages make it much harder than it should be to say "this is exactly an X except that it prints differently"

That's because this is the wrong thing to say in the first place - it dilutes the very meaning of “type”. You should factor out the common parts, and only then say X prints this way, Y prints that other way.
Not a great writeup. Nothing surprising. Poor format (slideshow). Seems like cheap churn & burn content for web views.
They most likely buy shipments in bulk. Volume is predictable, so they ask postal office(s): approx y packages, approx x size, how about z dollars in total for a year?
>good marketing will get your product in front of people who want to use it, who may never have stumbled upon it otherwise.

The problem is there's only so much work that can be done in that area, and way more marketing agencies than quality work. The excess labor bleeds into mercenary work where advertising companies shill for whoever pays them, regardless of merit or ethics.

Marketing helps products that would succeed anyway based on merit succeed faster and harder, and also helps unseat incumbents who have inertia but a bad product. It also allows products that should by every right sink like a lead balloon lurch haphazardly above the waterline, leaving behind a wake of cheated customers.

Oh, if only we could trust people in marketing to refuse help to the latter.
This may be a question of direct vs. indirect pay. China and Russia both provide food / shelter / equipment which ISIS may skimp on. Also, ISIS is in a major war relative to there size so hazard pay is an issue.

Anyway poking around the web it looks like they are somewhere between 7,000 and 35,000 fighters which seems to be in the right ballpark for 1Million / day revenue.

PS: And of course graft is a major issue.
we use it internally- we have a team of editors watching esports 24/7 to keep our schedules and scores up to date (http://abiosgaming.com)
I have definitely been on a system with plenty of pids available, that was completely unusable due to memory exhaustion.

As for the OOM killer, its logic has changed over time. All that I definitely know is that if a slow leak in application code causes Apache processes to grow too quickly over time, it is usually a good idea to reboot the machine because you never know what random daemon got killed before the actual culprit.

Of course you also need to fix application code...

The logic that is applied probably works well in the desktop/developer case where what went wrong probably went wrong recently and there is a person who can notice. That isn't the context where I've usually encountered it.
Scaleway unfortunately doesn't accept new signups right now :-/
Just to offer some context in layman's terms:

1. These objects are very, very far from the sun (and Earth).

2. These objects are planet(oids), not stars, so don't produce their own light.

3. They are probably very cold and don't emit much in the IR spectrum.

4. They may have low albedo, coupled with their distance from the sun, means they reflect very little visible light.

5. Space is huge. Trying to spot a tiny, dark, object many AU from Earth is no easy task if you don't know exactly where to look.
Every time I hear of an underdog trying to introduce a space program I'm reminded of the anime Planetes and the pessimistic take it had on the issue.

But it would be great if Ghana did indeed stat a Space Program. We need at least one African country seriously trying to build a bridge to the stars.
Torch: a scientific computing framework for LuaJIT
But what if they weren't starving? What if they had a rich social structure, where children could learn from directly observing their leaders?

I'm not convinced they were starving "cavemen". If they couldn't cut it, Mother Nature would just kill them off - unlike modern, "civilized" people. They had better use of their brains than we do in day-to-day survival.
in the business world this simply isn't true. you don't assume that company will succeed because you give them money or mentorship, you assume that primarily good businesses will take money and mentorship and translate those things into growth.

that being said, I'm sure there are outlier scenarios where a company can plausibly say "we signed up for accelerator X and they sent us down the wrong path for x, y, and z reasons. we'd like to do it right this time around." and YC would take that into account.

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It's certainly getting more expressive. “Better” is subjective, though - IMO, there ought to be more convenient ways to achieve everything C++ can do.
>>Market rate from Shenzhen to Long Beach to ship a
>>container is about $1200 right now

Just so there's context, the actual cost is much, much higher than $1200. That's just the payment for the ocean journey. The other costs are factory to port (varies), insurance+docs (few hundred), destination port charges ($1k or so), customs bond, and then the actual duty for the imported items. Lastly, of course, getting the container from the dock to where you are to unload it.
> John Howard has never, ever, by anyone, ever, been called "Johnnie". Ever.

The actor John Howard doesn't (publicly) get called Johnnie, sure. The politician John Howard was frequently called 'Little Johnnie [Howard]' by detractors, and occasionally this was shortened to just 'Johnnie'; "Did you see what Johnnie did today?"-type stuff. Never used in a respectful context, though.
Why not Jupyter Notebook for tutorial? (It is so, so easier... and more beautiful.)
Kind of an extreme example (from Rich Dad Poor Dad), but most restaurants are capable of making a better hamburger than McDonalds.
Wouldn't that fail when trying to use a tracking number along with it?
Here's an article from 2014 that explains this "loophole" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...
> There's some crazy statistic that 80% of Americans live within 50 or 100 miles where they were born.

what is crazy about it? or wrong?
> At least in the early days, YC had a very strong bias towards selecting companies that would succeed without them.

Interesting, my perception is that it's gone the other way; that not only is YC now primarily accepting companies at a later stage when they've already been substantially derisked, but it's also investing in less risky companies to begin with. Several YC partners have said this as well, e.g. Jared Friedman:

"Companies are joining YC at a much later stage. When I started YC, most companies wrote their first line of code in the first week in the program. Today, many of the companies have been working on their business for a long time and some even have substantial customers and revenue before applying. If the companies in my batch applied to YC today, I doubt that many of them would get in." http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/08/18/nine-years-of-demo-...

While I'd like to believe that YC is still willing to fund companies like JustinTV or Loopt, where there is substantial risk in terms of both the technology and the sociology, the reality is that if you go down the most recent batches of demo day companies most of them look like Dollar-Shave-for-X or Uber-for-Y. Maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but perhaps the most striking thing about the most recent batches is how few of the companies are obviously terrible ideas. Unlike back in 2006 and 2007, where probably a third of the companies failed to even launch, and another third probably never got more than 100 users or whatever.

Obviously YC is now also funding energy and biotech companies that are at least as risky as anything from 2005, but if you look at the verticals where they've been active the longest it certainly seems like the trend in those areas is toward later stage and lower risk.
In the market of payments, all banks compete with rather similar products. They make money of it in (a combination of) three ways - 1) direct fees; 2) "float" (interest earned on money 'in transit', low currently because of low rates, but huge money in other decades); 3) selling other products (credit, etc) to people who also need your payment services.

If you offer a faster and cheaper way to settle payments than your competitors, you'll be able to gain a lot of lucrative corporate customers.

However, if all of the major banks offer a faster and cheaper way to settle payments, then they all simply earn less in fees and also have to pay for developing a new system. This is a loss-loss situation, so it's going to happen only in face of strong competition by other payment systems (in which case they can near-immediately lower prices and increase speed to undercut them, while still making profit) or by regulatory means - e.g. the SEPA-payment legislation in EU forced many inter-EU payments to become much faster and cheaper than before.
Did you read the article? They stated very specific reasons why they needed satellites. Things like monitoring deforestation, farmland, weather, etc.
Ask HN: Has anyone updated an Android app from free to having in-app purchases?
I have a popular app and would like to enable some useful premium features using in-app purchases.

However, I believe this will require all users to accept new permissions when they update, and there isn't an option to explain what the in-app purchases apply to.

Has anyone been through this process? What was the effect on your downloads and updates?

Thanks!
Note that J.C. Bose is not particularly related to Amar Bose (1929-2011), founder of the Bose audio corporation.
Google "hacker news 49th mersenne prime" ... and here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931234

296 points by ramshanker 1 day ago; 123 comments.
Discussion from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931234
Why it's a good idea to be skeptical about claims of a planet beyond Pluto
It is a bit odd that they shoehorned in an existing commercial board rather than just put the FPGA on the main board or even designed a custom daughter card if upgradability was a concern. As it is, they are now tied to the availability of boards with the same board-to-board connector and a similar form factor.
Sorry Chef
While the author postures as an advocate of science she is in fact aiding and abetting the rejection of the Western (scientific) World View and ironically using modern science to do so. You cannot just dispense with the (Aristotelian) principle of non-contradiction and then continue to pretend to do science and learn to live with contradictions.

This has been the state of modern physics since the development of quantum mechanics. During the Copenhagen debates about the "meaning" of QM, Bohr said that all the different interpretations of QM are just various choices on where to hide the contradictions. At the time ignoring these contradictions and telling physicists and students to "shut up and calculate" was not an unreasonable thing to do. There was a lot of work to do with respect to understanding and applying the new theory and the hope was it would lead to clues to resolve the questions. Fast forward a few decades and it became clear that whatever the source of the contradictions in QM, identifying it would not be simple and would probably require a new genius on par with Einstein.

So this approach has run its course and now a new approach is needed but her thesis is to reject science and just accept contradiction and paradox, i.e. the current state of modern physics. She claims that modern science is "neurotic" because of its commitment to non-contradiction and that non-scientific "narratives" and world views that accept (or even wallow in) contradiction and paradox are the answer to the conundrums in modern physics. This would the end of science.

In any case, the article does indicate the contradictions arise not from the metaphysical but from the epistemology of modern science. What she calls systems, language, categories, etc. are euphemisms for reason and, more specifically, our concepts (i.e. classes based on abstraction). Instead of discarding the principle of non-contradiction we need to apply it to our own method of reason, to our perception and conceptual methods and bring a non-contradictory and clearly defined observer into the realm of physics. This is an issue for philosophy and more specifically, epistemology.
The FANG Playbook
As an aside, I've been screwed several times by Prime's "guaranteed two-day" shipping. I had package which was very late December last year. When I went to the USPS tracking page to check the location, it turns out Amazon had requested the 8 day shipping option. After several angry calls I finally had the item cancelled and a new one on the way with Saturday shipping (the lower-tier rep said that it wasn't possible, so I elevated to the manager). Lo and behold, about a month later my original item showed up and I had to return it immediately. This was my worst experience, but not my first with late shipping. I've never had so much as a prime extension offered for my trouble.
More like everyone did.

The myth that people thought the earth was flat has been attributed to Washington Irving (late 18th/early 19th century author & historian).

Columbus actually thought the earth was pear-shaped and 1/3 of the size that everyone since the Ancient Greeks knew it to be.

The issue was not "we'll fall off the edge of the earth." The issue was "Holy cow, you're going to try and sail 13,000 nautical miles?"
Phabricator is super easy to maintain. The out-of-the-box experience is better than any complete solution I've tried, including gitlab.

That being said, just like any other fairly complete solution, it's quite opinionated about the right way to do things, and it's very different from github or gitlab. In particular, since it is not tied to git, it duplicates some of git's functionality in its own tools. In many ways I find those tools to be better than what git uses (arcanist just seems more well thought-out from a UI perspective), but it is a learning curve.

If you are happy with svn or hg, and don't want to have to switch to git, Phabricator is a no-brainer. If your team is a bunch of super-advanced git users, they may not like having to learn a different way of doing things.
This is in the works. We will provide a way for you to "sign" a request with a userId, so we can guarantee you set the id, and not someone else.
What about companies that went through a specific type of accelerator (ex. hardware, or life science focused) and now wants to accelerate there business growth. How are these types of accelerators viewed by YC?
Which significant cultural works have been ad-funded?
I agree with the article, the term "free" is widely misused. Which is strange given the available options in the English language: bundled, included, prepaid, incorporated, et al.

If something costs $99 it isn't free. Free is no cost. $99 is not no cost, therefore $99 is not free. Just as text messaging isn't a "free" part of your $30/month cellphone plan, it is an included part however.
For me, magic isn't the problem. I like the magic of conventions, but not when it is painful to pull back the curtain. For Rails, I think pain comes when magic stands on poor internals, which gets amplified when gems layer on their own painful workarounds...and I have to sort through all of it.

That's why I'm excited about Sean Griffin's work on the [Attributes API](http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Attribut...). To do it, he's had to refactor out a lot of internal monkey patching so that (in Rails 5) there is only one source of type information for an AR model. This means gems can extend AR, I can extend AR, new requirements can walk into my door that I can deliver on without monkey patching or opening Pandora's box of a patch of crappy Rails internals. The magic is still there, but it's done it a way so the magic doesn't fall apart in unexpected, unmanageable ways. That's what matters to me.
Netflix is the next phase of globalization
A company in the UK is working on a multithrust rocket/launch vehicle that would be reusable. It mixes a super-cooled jet engine with a rocket booster. For once you get beyond enough air pressure for the jet engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

Something like this, that's reusable, would allow small (but larger than cubesat) payloads into orbit for what should be a reasonable price. 200 launch lifetime on the vehicle is the plan.
I don't totally disagree with your sentiment yet I am sure these people traveled extensively across their ranges. If by staying put you meant "confined their travels to the known habitats of their prey" then I will agree with you.

I do agree that after generations of following their prey knowledge of warmer or different climates would fade from their collective conscious.
He told the prosecutors that long after he was convicted of murder!
Not sure what you are trying to convey by pointing that one line.
I'd be interested in trying this with Photoshop.

Wonder if they would've been better off if each module was a group of 3-4 blocks?
they've already got your time in an attention economy
It's a little more complicated. A railgun launch would see the payload moving at above orbital velocity immediately upon leaving the gun, creating serious aerodynamic headaches (drag). Rockets don't accelerate to such speeds until well above most of the atmosphere. For a tiny/lightweight object like a cubesat, the drag climbing up from the surface will be monumental.

It's a trap. Drag requires more speed, which creates more drag. So you go with a heavier, more aerodynamically efficient object, which requires a larger railgun. The minimum size for this railgun is probably so large as to make the entire endeavor futile in comparison to rocketry.

Artillery gets around this by firing relatively high. This wouldn't be practical for launch to orbit where you want as much momentum as possible laterally rather than vertically.
Well that's a non-sequitur, to start with.

As in, the position you're attacking (the idea of sanctioning him to get him to change his beliefs) wasn't what the anti-Eich crowd was advocating, by and large.

But at this stage, it's better to just give the topic a rest, please. Pretty much everything that could be said about it has been, by now. And baiting (or simply poorly reasoned) dialog (such as your statement above) simply adds to his lumps.
You have to ask for the prime extension. I've ordered probably 100 items and the few times an item was late I just chatted with an amazon rep and a month of prime was added.