skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how much are you generating in terms of revenue? are you venture funded?
iCab has had built-in ad blocking since the very beginning, in the late 90's. But by including the vague qualifier "major", one could technically argue that Opera was the first.
How about this?

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-things-work...

"During some Blackbird flights, however, the harmonious working of the spike and the forward and aft bypass doors broke down, and all too quickly the inlet was filled with more air than it could handle. When the air pressure inside the inlet became too great, the normal shock wave was suddenly belched out of the inlet in an unstart, accompanied by an instantaneous loss of air flow to the engine, an enormous increase in drag, and a significant yaw to the side with the affected inlet. Unstarts occurred 'when you least expected them—all relaxed and taking in the magnificent view from 75,000 feet,' wrote Graham in SR-71 Revealed. If the crew’s attempts to restart the inlet’s supersonic flow failed, they would have to slow their aircraft to subsonic speeds."
Isn't that change coming now?
Most of the most popular libraries have python 3 support now, fedora will soon move to python 3 as default, and there are soon more developer support behind 3 than 2.[0]

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/03/0...
It wasn't really a "bug" but more that the computers could not keep up with changes in the flight conditions so if the engine spikes were not in the correct position for the speed and altitude it could cause a blow back which would extinguish the engines which will require the pilots to restart them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Air_i...
"Wrong" is at best ordinal. Not absolute. We make up our own lines we won't cross and then complain because others disagree.
This is the best post on this subject I've read in awhile. If you're building your application in a modern manner, half the stuff I see in ridiculous comparison posts shouldn't matter. Disposable infrastructure is a thing. If you're making a choice of "the best cloud" (k...) with that fact in mind you should mostly be considering cost over time and capability to innovate on core offerings. Given unit economics and the continual drop in price of commodity hardware, everything is going to become utility pricing, and services like lambda will help you optimize your costs. Personally I'd put all my chips on AWS over GCP.

Also, nice to see someone finally identify DigitalOcean as a B2C provider.
This is an astoundingly underrecognized fact. We do so much to boost economic activity by just a percent or two but how much would enabling cashless transactions WITHOUT a universal ~3% tax help things? In some places it's nearly everything we buy (except for the largest expenses, like housing).
I am usually not surprised to find that they often use a text editor as their IDE or just run Windows in a VM.
Yeah I recently read When Panic Attacks by David Burns, which is all about CBT, and while I see the value in what he is saying it really didn't change my mindset about things. There is a separation between what is rational and what is mental/emotional. I actually feel like I could do a pretty good job talking to someone else who has a fear of flying and helping them with what my logical side knows, but internally I am still a wreck.
Bill Hicks was both wonderful and a very talented troll.
>proceeding very slowly and cautiously

I see not only Google, but a number of auto manufacturers, doing a lot of work. The Google testing, which is on a relatively small number of precisely mapped roads in good weather, has had a quite a few incidents that required a human to intervene (which won't be a realistic option once normal drivers turn over control). So from my perspective there's quite a bit of work going on but a lot more experience and work is needed before this is something that can be sold to consumers even for limited use cases.

(What we are already getting in high-end vehicles is assistive driving systems which should reduce accidents as they become more widespread--at least so long as they're not so effective as to increase issues associated with inattentiveness.)
Thanks! Each puzzle is about doing some crazy thing that only a 4D being could do, such as binding two rings without breaking them, or stealing something from a building that is closed from all sides but not in the fourth dimension. We'll show more of that soon.﻿
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> Not to say 150th isn't impressive or likely a lot of traffic..

Ballpark, I'd say that's between 700 and 1,000 hits/second on the main frontend. I sort of doubt either AWS or GCP is so much faster than the other for this kind of load.
These days is there any great benefit to Oracle JDK over Zulu? It can be deployed with Docker easily [1].

1 - https://www.azul.com/products/zulu/docker/
- 2x polymer = empty hull
- hull + electronics = boardable ship (unpowered)

Then I got back to work.
> A decade later, many pilots struggle to perform the most basic and critical maneuver, a stall recovery, and ...

I just flat out don't believe that modern airline pilots have more trouble with stall recovery than pilots of earlier years.

Now I might be wrong, I'm just a layperson here, but my understanding is that airline pilots have to practice stall recovery in flight simulators. A flight simulator can't be 100% accurate to a real aircraft's behavior in a real stall, but my impression is that modern flight simulators are quite realistic.
I read elsewhere, from a reliable source that I can't find right now. that the mean time between reboots on 'mature' fighter planes is 8 hours and the F-35 is at around 4 hours so far with plans to improve it.

It was the first number that shocked me the most.

EDIT: I found it:

http://breakingdefense.com/2016/02/bogdan-predicts-f-35s-for...

The toughest problem the program is having is matching the timing of the aircraft’s fusion software with its sensors’ software. “As we add different radar modes and as we add different and capabilities to the DAS system and to the EOTS system, the timing is misaligned,” and then you have to reboot it. Bogdan said he’s aiming for eight to nine hours between such software failures when a radar or DAS or EOTS needs to be rebooted, which is what legacy aircraft boast. Right now they are at four to five hours between such events. “That’s not a good metric.”

I don't understand a lot of that, but I think the fusion softwre refers to a unified UI for the pilot that merges information from the plane's very many sensors and presents it in a comprehensible way on one screen. Apparently pilots in older planes suffer from data overload and from watching many different screens at once - all while trying to fly a plane in combat. UI is reported to be a highly consequential improvement for the new plane.
In my view, successful (and hence viable) open source projects tend to have

1. Centralized decision-making

2. Distributed contributions

While forking is important and necessary to experiment/test/prototype and iterate on various ideas, forking of a community is absolutely deadly. Look no further than Emacs/XEmacs or Node.js/io.js. It's very, very important that the ultimate decision making authority is concentrated on a few people with sound judgment (Often the creators, but not always).

On the other hand, development/contributions should be absolutely distributed: it accelerates development and makes it much easier for people to contribute to open source projects.

In fact, understanding this subtle difference between decision-making and development is what made GitHub successful: git was already a great tool for developing in the open. GitHub built a great platform for making decisions on top of it.
>I'd try to do all the things smart economists have been yelling about for a while but that almost no country ever does.

Yudkowsky then mentions NGDP level targeting, consumption taxes, land value tax, negative wage taxes, Singapore's healthcare and Estonia's e-government.

Is there an economics textbook or article that explains in layman's terms what those things are and why they are good ideas?
Can you explain how you were using PostgreSQL as Graph Database?
Yudkowsky has a way of thinking that he believes everyone else should adopt. He is skilled at using phrasing to frame his statements in his way of thinking.

For example, instead of saying something like, "a lot of people think college is good," he phrases it in terms of a bias. Why? Because if he can get the other person talking about the subject in terms of biases, then he has advanced his own favorite way of thinking.

But is liking college really a bias? And if so, compared to what norm? He offers no explanation; he just asserts it.
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Hi! I'm wondering how Enchat is different from other open source projects that wrapped messenger.com into a Mac app with electron. What features does it have that these free and open source projects don't have?
Could you quote the line you're referencing? The key differentiator in that article sounds like data services (dataproc et al) and I don't see anything mentioning support.
No, it runs deeper than that. You're mostly reaching out for pypy in case you're running into the wall with performance, one way or another. In that situation the LAST thing you want to do is to move to another language that does not give you answers to that performance problems. People are moving to go, yes, but not to python 3 in that case.
We want speech to be pure and abstract. So this relegates money to our expression of the venal.

Then we find this, and wonder why it bothers us.

You are ultimately responsible for your own perceptions.
I worked on a (very old) ship-building and factory-building CAD, written mostly in PL/I and Fortran. It was built around a graph database. Throughout its long and turbulent history, there were many attempts of moving to a relational storage, every time resulting in orders of magnitude drop in performance.

Keep in mind that in such a CAD designs are huge. Think of an aircraft carrier scale of "huge". And it was designed when memory was very limited. Therefore, pretty much all the CAD operations depended on the database access.

So, nobody really cared about the queries, they were insignificant. What people cared about was:

* Performance of following an arc

* Transactions

* Data consistency

* Compactness of representation (remember, disk space is also a limited thing when you're building aircraft carriers).

* Nice API (even in a very limited language)
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IoT Foosball Table - http://www.pointsource.com/blog/pointsource-foosball-buildin...

The table uses break beam sensors, an Arduino, and a Raspberry Pi to send score events to Node-RED instance running in Bluemix. A StrongLoop server in Bluemix acts as the app server, and a Cordova/AngularJS app allows users to identify themselves as the game players, follow the leaderboard, and monitor game scores remotely.

We're using this to get better acquainted with various technologies so that we can make the right decisions for our project work.
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Thats a cool ( perhaps hot) idea. I would love to try it, dont have an iphone though. Are you planning an android version in future?
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Currently requires a physical keyboard to operate. Keyboard commands listed at https://github.com/markneub/redditq#navigation

redditq is an image browser for reddit. It features a minimal user interface and is designed to be controlled via keyboard shortcuts. This project was inspired by redditp[1], but I wanted to add support for image galleries and Flickr photo pages and experiment with a minimal UI. From a technical standpoint, I wanted practice using CommonJS modules for structuring my JavaScript, as well as using webpack for bundling static assets (including JS modules).

[1] http://redditp.com/
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Codenames as a Service

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I think those are Yudkowsky desperately trying to explain things without using scientific technical terms and lesswrongian jargon.

You can see he kind of drops character with the 'cyborg' question.
I've worked in healthcare, finance, logistics, and consulting in a technical capacity and healthcare and politics in a non-technical capacity. Both the non-tech jobs expected 60+ hours a week (politics considerably more). Only with the logistics programming job was I regularly asked to work past 5 or over a weekend.
We switched from the Oracle JDK to OpenJDK a couple of months back and it's going fine. It's nice to "yum install openjdk" and not have to worry about license gotchas. What are the advantages to the Oracle JDK that we're missing?
> warring criminal gangs

Why are criminal gangs assumed to be the bad guys here? Do you know the varied history of different gangs in the US? You might be surprised at what you find.
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If you assume that fighter planes were and are cutting edge, it's not really surprising.
I think it's to avoid spooking the public.

Imagine if self-driving cars were at a point where they were 10% better (in terms of fatalities caused) than human drivers. You start flooding the roads with them, and fatalities decrease.

Then the news stories start. "Mother of Four Killed by Self-Driving Car." Video of the grieving children. News shows host "experts" who go on at length about the deficits in computer judgment. The family sues, with their lawyer saying that this death would not have happened with a human at the controls. (And he might be right! Even if better than humans, computers will probably get into different accidents, not just fewer.) Restrictive regulations or even bans start being discussed in Congress.

Maybe it wouldn't happen this way, but it could potentially set things back by years. Looking at the technology, pushing for early adoption might save lives. But looking at the politics, pushing too hard could cost lives, by making people unwilling to accept the technology.
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Not trying to single you out (your statement is totally on point), but generally we need a word for this developer-centric view of Cloud. My kids write javascript and might be considered developers, but they don't have the faintest idea about operating systems, containers, services, or anything non-superficial in the stack let alone IAM, I18N, consensus, etc. Cloud is not any less of an operational model as it is a development platform.

Anyone else have to read "Madame Bovary" in high school? Maybe this focus on developer is a form of provincialism.

Come on: someone smarter than me must have coined this already.
To be fair, a 4-hour reboot on the radar is pretty bad to have in-flight.
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I don't agree with the OP ; however GCP's sub-hour billing is nice. I need to process a lot of tasks that take longer that 5 minutes which makes them unsuitable for AWS Lambda. With GCP , I only end up paying for a maximum of 10 ~15 minutes-- which is a nice cost saving. Dear AWS -- if you are reading this, match this and I will never ever leave you, not even for 10 minutes.

edit : typo
http://www.vumble.com/ is doing the same thing with a different UI FYI.
"flying is no more than 10 times as dangerous per mile of travel."

That may sound like flying is considerably more dangerous than driving, but this is an overall statistic. Most GA accidents happen because the pilot did something stupid like taking off without enough fuel, or flying into weather they weren't equipped to handle. So if you avoid doing stupid things, you can stack the odds considerably in your favor. The risk of flying can be comparable to the risk of driving.
An automatic parallelizable language:

RxWrappers: https://github.com/RixianOpenTech/RxWrappers

MonadSharp: https://github.com/RixianOpenTech/MonadSharp

This is an idea in progress, but the idea is that by using the observable pattern (ReactiveX implementation) you can describe a sort of 'meta' program that breaks down function boundaries to automatically run your code in parallel. Here is my initial paper describing the idea:
http://rixianopentech.github.io/MonadSharp/Documents/Computa...
Kespry - http://www.kespry.com/

We provide a drone to the (primarily aggregates/mining) industry that can create highly detailed survey quality maps. Our customers can use the data in measuring the volume of their material (stockpiles) and in planning a big project, construction, etc. Basically anything you can imagine someone would need information about a physical location from above.

We develop the full stack in house. In that I mean electronics (PCB board level), drone hardware (mechanical), low-level embedded software, and flight controller software. We also develop an iPad app that allows customers to easily operate the drone autonomously.

We also do all the data processing, using photogrammetry and open source mapping frameworks and tools (gdal) and provide users with a web interface via our Cloud platform for them to view, manipulate and download their data.
This treatment is actually only for infants.
Personally: http://pentacular.com - Draw/paint a song. I think it's fun to play with.

Professionally: https://tailorbrands.com - Algorithmically designed logos and branding assets. It's great for side projects, inspiration, or any other situation where you want something quick and usable.
Wizely: Social Wisdom App. I'd share a URL (wizely.net), but that's just a landing page. The app is still in development. It's essentially a marriage of quora, twitter, and a decision-tree format.
Anybody know how long the reboot takes? That seems like important information. Especially if e.g. your AAMs need directions from the master system (?) in order to take over tracking by themselves.
Syscast: https://sysca.st/

High quality screencasts that teach open source technologies. Instead of having blogposts where you blindly copy/paste and pray it works, this aims to really teach you how it works and show the why of each configuration, instead of just the how.
> Yes, I support an X% increase on my taxes to pay for wheelchair lifts on public buses.

I agree. Considering we're happy to spend loads on the dangerous roads that often put people in wheelchairs, spending a much smaller amount to help people maimed on those roads seems only fair.
they also used google reader for gmail (it was integrated on the top of the inbox). it didn't stop them from killing it.
It was literally the cutting edge of 60's engine control technology, and an analog computer to boot. ;)
``Google Cloud CTO Urs Hölzle has said publicly that `One day, this could be bigger than ads. Certainly, in terms of market potential, it is.' Diane Greene now leads the division that includes GCP---from our perspective it’s nice to know that the cloud division has a seat on the Google Board of Directors.''

It seems that if Google believes in GCP being almost as big as AdWords, the likelihood of GCP Compute being shut down is as likely as GMail for Business being shut down. Not saying that it couldn't happen, but with Spotify and Quizlet using GCP instances, I find it highly unlikely the compute platform would go away, especially with paying users. A free product on the other hand could die on a whim.
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I've been using Caddy for at least a year now, and I host several high-traffic sites on it.* I was one of the first people to try the Let's Encrypt support when it was in Alpha. The Caddy team has been amazingly supportive and responsive during the whole process. Last week when I read this post I immediately dug out my personal credit card and donated $75. It's not much, but they add up. I hope others will too. I agree that making a paycheck out of open source is complicated and confusing. Cheers to Matt & team for trying.

* Not HN definition of "high" probably, but still, not joe's blog either.
Because they're small, cheap, easily made, easily replaceable and easily deployed.
I don't have actual numbers. That'd be a very good thing to check. It uses convolutional codes and viterbi decoding which helps reception and decoding considerably.

I suppose I should really call it nearly ultrasonic. Since I've only been able to play with standard sound hardware, and this hardware always has a low-pass filter that cuts off around 20kHz, that's the absolute highest frequency I've been able to test. When I say 44.1kHz I just mean the sampling frequency -- perhaps I should have been clearer about that, sorry :)

The modulation scheme for the air path is GMSK. For cable transmission, it's OFDM + QAM1024.
artursapek, DannoHung:

Thanks for your thoughtful replies. Notice though, that you've both affirmed that the Nazis did in fact do (really) bad things. You've also affirmed that the bad things they did comported with their general ideology. It was not the case that they were characteristically decent folks with a few bad apples in the bunch. It is for these reasons that I described them as "bad guys".

I think you've both missed a subtle distinction, however, and that is that there are bad things regardless of what I think about them. For example, if I were a rapist (I'm not), and if I thought rape was wonderful (I don't), what would you say to someone who said, "well he likes rape and that's just his perspective"? My guess is you would (correctly) say something akin to "yes, that is his perspective. But his perspective is wrong. Rape is wrong, he's wrong for doing it, he's wrong for liking it, and his belief that it's fine is incorrect, like believing in a flat earth." And like a belief in a flat earth, simply believing the wrong thing doesn't tell us that there is no correct view. It only tells us the person is wrong in the view he holds.

If there is no real standard of right and wrong as a distinct, discoverable feature of reality, we can never be opposed to anything on moral grounds. The most we could ever say about slavery, racism, rape, the holocaust, and anything else we know to be bad is "I don't like it, but that's just my perspective". Taken to its logical conclusion, this only leaves us with a might-makes-right world but not a moral one.

artursapek, I completely agree that "bad guys" is a term that is often used carelessly. Maybe this is even a good reason to avoid it conversationally. But when discussed in a thoughtful, precise manner I do think it stands on its own merit.
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It's a web application that generates the astrological interpretation of a person's chart using traditional astrology methods. I hope next week to start selling the Temperament analysis.
Fighter jets are mechanical / propulsion / material science wonders, perhaps no less than space-faring rockets.
Here is an (old) overview: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XGapLHpSd2Ta8019VlwY...
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