skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the fact that yall made it without a degree. But I wouldnt say "useless". More like "not necessary". A software engineering or CS degree can be useful, but not necessary to have an excellent career.
This man has nothing on Formula 1 ECU coders. Their levels of deception and track covering are beyond impressive.
He learned how to bait people into his views about anthropomorphism.
No way I am believing that. If I'd believe in consoiracies, I'd rather say it is a US leak... The USA is less involved here than Putin's own government. Makes no sense. No, it is no excuse that Putin was already suspected, because these papers are further damaging as solid proof that he is surrounding himself with corruption. Not just rumors.
I've heard this about bar codes, so I guess it was inevitable for it to extend to digital money.

http://www.theonion.com/article/satan-to-revise-bar-code-sys...
I am amused, not angry. I find self entitled goofs tiring, but like to poke them a bit from time to time.

Blocking ads will only make things worse, btw. You just don't see it coming, yet. Just wait for the telcos.
Oh that sounds like a good idea. It's kind of like watching a movie. You don't see it unless you buy tickets or paying too see through other media.

It would be helpful to see reviews of the content before you pay for it, like we have rotten tomatoes or imdb.

That definitely sounds like an interesting idea
Mimsy were the Borogoves
Douglas Rushkoff: The Internet Is the New Playing Field for Corporate Greed
https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
That does a good job of explaining it. Space isn't very far away. The difference between getting to space and getting to orbit is the difference between something you can build in your garage and NASA.
So I guess that's a no?
Smart phones are all a commodity now. There are amazing Android and Windows phones available for $150-200. Some even much cheaper than that.

If someone is going to spend $400 for a iPhone SE, spending $200+ more for an iPhone 6 isn't much difference to those buyers. Price obviously doesn't matter to them.
> What would the argument for this being OK be?

It's saddening that this is even a question in anyone's mind.

Is it okay to use Lynx? curl? Is it okay to save what I downloaded with curl?
Say What You See, Facebook
> No distractions.

Nothing like your parents asking you to borrow some money from your side job so they can pay the bills, as a 14 year old, to start your distraction free day. /s

There's a million examples like this. Sure, rich kids have busy lives and can be stressed out by all kinds of high standards, don't get me wrong. But being poor means you have to think about every single little thing that you do, or that happens to you. A flat tire, or worse, having your bike stolen, is a disaster, it can mean weeks of disposable income lost. As a kid I was constantly stressed out and hopeless about the most insignificant things because they can hit like a brick. I remember I talked to a kid once who asked me whether we'd be using graphing calculators in a particular class. He was wondering whether he should drop the final years of hs maths where we'd be doing calculus for an easier hs math curriculum, because paying $150 for a graphing calculator was not an option for him. Distractions like that happen left and right, things 'normal' kids wouldn't even consider thinking about. There's a Christmas dinner coming up in 3 months and kids are supposed to wear something nice and formal? You're already stressing because you'll be the only kid with a bunch of 2nd hand regular clothing.

In fact quite a few studies have shown that poor people have less mental bandwidth to deal with their every day lives, because they're bogged down (distracted) by all of the issues that come with a life of poverty, and that this lower bandwidth is a big hurdle in achieving the same level of performance as a normal person.
I don't know if they care too much about redundancy. The landing is still very much optional, after all. They have no redundancy in case of engine failure for this phase, which is probably much more likely. GPS is kind of inherently redundant anyway, as long as you have multiple receivers. You need four satellites for positioning, but way more than that are visible at any given time.
OneSignal (YC S11) is hiring full-stack and mobile developers
Yeah, I tried taking notes on my laptop a few times in engineering classes before I realized how hard it is to sketch digital logic in an emacs text buffer!

Even the guy who used a Windows tablet with Onenote didn't actually use it much... and now that I have a Surface for work, I hardly use it as a tablet, I just carry a notebook with me.
Yes, that's what I meant. The first landing was a huge step, proving the whole crazy concept can work. This was another huge step, proving that the whole crazy concept can work out at sea, where it needs to happen most of the time.
Benjamin Franklin's quote comes to mind here:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Everyone realizes perfect enforcement of crimes related to rape or murder would be "great" in the sense no one wants that. However, the risks of those crimes happening to you are very minimal today and dropping every year in the U.S. Most victims of those crimes are placed or place themselves in situations that bad things can occur, think drug violence.

In order to combat the stuff you mentioned we would essentially lose the liberty to make mistakes as a society. For example, if I want to smoke weed, and do. I'll go to prison. Today, I get a ticket.

Or let's take an even more exterem case, say I am a 16 year old male and my 16 year old girlfriend texts me a picture of her breasts. We both would be labeled paedophiles for life, and got to prison.

There are literally millions of laws, to the point no one can keep track. If we made "Perfect Enforcement" we would all be jailed, for crossing the street without a sidewalk, for texting a friend a picture of a statue (copy right violation), potentially for being gay, etc.

We don't live in a society where people want to protect your freedom to not be physically hurt. We live in a society which tries to ensure people don't get physically, economically, socially, emotionally, hurt. This leads to many contradicting laws, and makes it impossible to both be free and secure at the same time. If we enforced "Perfect Enforcement" there would only be a totalitarian Enforcement force that doesn't follow laws, and the imprisoned populace who at least tries to follow the laws.

That's why the founding fathers added the bill of rights. They understood this, and sadly 200+ years later it appears our society is still incapable of understanding it.
"Flee if pushed to pay". This uses a very narrow definition of pay. The reach into your pocket to pay cash that you earned. But there are other ways to pay - ie with something else of value to you (time/attention), your vote in an election etc. Remember that Twitter competitor that was a monthly sub with no ads? It made the above mistake - that there was only one honorable way to launch and charge for a service that brings value to millions of people.
This has inspired me to quickly knock up a Dockerfile for fans of Alpine based containers, if anyone is interested.

https://github.com/hazbo/phoenix-docker-alpine
My strategy in school was to take quick notes by hand during the lecture. Basically highlight big points and jot down things I had more questions about. Studying was then just typing up those notes and expanding them where needed. Usually after typing them up I never looked at them again, since it was really the act of typing them that made the information stick.
Dear Facebook, why are Facebook Comments so unremittingly terrible?
Actually it's the energy - think of a static shock, which is similarly in the kV range (or higher) and thus the instantaneous current and power is also very high; but it doesn't last long enough to cause any real damage (i.e. the amount of energy imparted is tiny.)
The community itself - the Joe Runner types - are absolutely great, and I can't see that changing.

An anecdote: I went to see my buddy run a 50 miler in the Charlottesville VA area a few weeks ago. I remember being told how great the race was a few years ago - cheap, fun, great afterparty. This year, entry fees were much higher, the post-race spread was more or less nonexistent... signs of nickel-and-diming everywhere.

I suspect that's fairly common now- RD's looking to make a profit through their racing companies.
Forbes implemented this and so far none of their articles were worth reopening in an ad block enabled browser for me.
For a short time I took notes using my phone and the reaction to that was interesting to me. People just assumed I was texting and not paying attention. With a laptop in the US you can be browsing Facebook and at least look to other people like you are taking notes.
> in that regard I don't think secretaries are essential.

Ah, now we've gotten to the very nut of it: you don't think that secretaries are essential. Never mind that the sort of folks who employ them seem to think that they are: you, who aren't in their position, don't, and that's enough.

I'm reminded of pg's famous essay on the Blub Paradox. Programmers who use a semi-powerful language can see that others are less powerful than theirs, but can't see that more powerful languages offer anything much. Likewise, folks at one level of society can easily see that it makes sense to hire others to grow their food and make their clothes, but can't see that it makes sense for others at other levels to hire people to manage their schedules and correspondence.

A good secretary is a lever for a decision-maker.
I agree. But I think it is unethical to build a business around convincing consumers to replace a content producers' revenue with its own.
Future Solar Panels Will Generate Energy from Raindrops
Most people didn't know the dangers of electricity at all

If anyone tried doing this today in a similar environment and succeeded, I think there would be be plenty of people trying to tap electricity from it.
One shortcoming: these requests are always HTTP GETs, and various web browsers/servers/proxies will impose different limits on the length of the request. In the best case, it looks like you're going to get 8k requests, and if you're dividing that up among multiple timeseries, it's not a _whole_ lot of data points.

You'll also end up needing to do a length check client side, since the degradation is probably not graceful as you approach the request limit (fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, HTTP 414).

That's probably fine for a lot of use cases, but if you adopt this charting library / system and then later want to do more complicated things with it, you're going to end up needing to rip it out and replace it with something else that doesn't have this limitation.

I don't see a way around it, you can't make the browser POST to get the img tags AFAIK.
I cringe at the thought that the Amiga is partially responsible for what we perceive today as Muzak. As sourced from the article: https://www.youtube.com/user/PrevueChannelMusic
Early in my professional career, I learned something: nobody in the professional world wants to hear what anyone else has to say, unless money is involved (e.g. one of you is the other one's client or customer), and even then they want to hear as little as possible. I had to learn how to professionally communicate with my employers and clients, which means learning to say as little as humanly possible while still mostly getting the point across.
Thinking about it more, once you get to the point where a bi-elliptic transfer is the most efficient way to do a plane change, the launch site doesn't make a lot of difference. That's basically Baikonur and up, counting Israel as effectively having a ~150-degree latitude.

Anyway, the penalties can be pretty big, but they're often tolerable. For GEO you want minimal latitude, for others latitude may not matter at all. But other considerations (like Israel having land to the east) can easily override the penalties.

For the particular example discussed here, if you could ignore the problems with squishing people and buildings downrange, Colorado would make a decent launch site. KSC's latitude is better, but it wouldn't be a huge deal. You'd even get at least a little bit of it back because you'd be launching from higher altitude.
This xkcd is pretty illuminating on the subject: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

Reaching 100 km straight up is not that hard. You can do half that just with a balloon, and you can easily exceed it with a simple sounding rocket. The point is that the vast majority of the energy required to actually get into orbit comes from horizontal velocity. Going straight up is way, way easier going fast enough sideways so that you never hit the Earth on the way back "down".

So ...

> I think they've done a great deal just as SpaceX

Simply isn't true. Blue Origin is doing cool stuff, I won't begrudge them that, but it's not within an order of magnitude of the same kind of accomplishment. The take-off mass of New Origin is 75 Mg. The take-off mass of a Falcon 9 is 541 Mg, and keep in mind it is designed to be capable of using the Falcon Heavy configuration, which is almost triple that in total take-off mass. The SpaceX rockets, owing to their much larger size, are capable of things that the Blue Origin rockets simply are not.
I think raw materials are actually going to be easier to automate. Australian mines already have self-driving trucks and US farmers have been at the forefront of UAV use.
The author claims the cost for the UK of the navy is 0.6% of GDP, and the cost of not being able to access the Suez canal is 0.06% - ten times lower. My problem with that argument is that the Suez canal is not on the only shipping lane that the UK is using, and thus interested in 'protecting'. Maybe the proportional cost for 'protecting' the Suez canal as part of the whole navy budget is much lower than 10%, in which case the economic calculation may come out ahead.
It's a nice city, wonderful air.

If finances permit, I'd still do some Chinese registrations though, just so you're covered on that front. I recommend at least getting a small foothold over there, just in case that once you're big, they decide that haogege is chinese and legal, and you're not.

If it makes you feel better, lots of Chinese are just as clueless about the "West" as we are about China. Met a guy at an event last Thursday who asked me and a friend about the feasibility of selling phone cases in Europe and the US. To be fair, they are a big fashion accessory in China, but really only in China. We told him that if he thinks that going into a saturated market with a low margin product people don't care about that gets replaced maybe once a year sounds like a fun time to him, he is welcome to try. I'm not sure whether he got it.

There's also the thing that really competent people over here would probably not care to copy a German eSports startup 1-to-1. They might have some mediocre PHP programmers and probably someone who knows enough frontend stuff to copy over all the assets. If you drop features, you should watch out for how long it takes them to duplicate them. If it takes as long as it took you to write them, be worried. If takes far longer for them to step up, you've got an edge. If it's instant, you might want to redouble on your security.
Protonet Zoe is a crowd funded Echo competitor that claims to perform local-only voice recognition with some open-source code based on CoreOS, http://readwrite.com/2016/04/07/zoe-smart-home-hub-amazon-ec... & http://experimental-platform.github.io
1) It really depends on the features of QEMU you use. Unicorn and friends could eventually support every feature of QEMU, but currently are nowhere near that. Usercorn should be able to replace qemu-user eventualy.

2) You should really go to the QEMU team for support on that.
Looks good for a first dockerfile. You may want to try combining several of the run commands together to save on the number of layers generated and improve the final size.

A good rule of thumb is to combine if the command can touch the files of a previous command. Then it becomes easy to clean up after downloading a package (no need to have the downloaded version and the installed).
A few folks were asking about open-source alternatives. I've found Quarz's Chartbuilder is really nice, though not able to throw-parameters-in-a-URL which is a super handy feature.

Use: https://quartz.github.io/Chartbuilder/
Source: https://github.com/quartz/Chartbuilder/

Chartd looks super awesome for a variety of use cases though, especially if you've got regularly updated data you want to visualize.
Also helped to make Babylon 5
Austria plans to seize house where Hitler was born
If I don't like a friends comments, I unfriend them. What is this "comment spam" of which they speak?
SpaceX Augments and Upgrades Drone Ship Armada (2015)
My theory is that typing is more of an automatic brain activity (e.g. learned muscle memory) than writing (which involves more brain centers because you have to expend more CPU on recognizing what you wrote). Also, when you type notes, you can edit furiously - while with hand writing, usually (but not always) you need to maintain a 'stack' of what has been said in your head.
It's true that trade of physical items in the end is just a social convention. But the current legal status of bubblebum theft is based on depriving someone else of their physical property. It is not at all related to the shoplifter getting to unjustly enjoy the bubblegum.

Re both having a nonzero marginal cost: There is no consistent criminalization of wasting other people's time or money as they're trying to engage you commercially. Of course there's a separate system under which we evaluate if something is unlawful remote access of other people's computers, and I suppose that could be perverted to criminalize ad-blocking, but the sense of justice of the average citizen does not call for it.
Bureaucracy and hierarchy are the same no matter the ideological varnish.
The most interesting thing from my POV was the existence of http://x.ai/
Perhaps doing something with the knowledge gained from the mooc. Like contributing to open source projects, side projects, etc.
> What would the argument for this being OK be?

What would be the argument that it's not okay? To me your argument is like saying that it's okay to buy a book and draw on the cover with a green pen, but not okay to draw on the cover with a red pen. If I bought the book, I can modify it how I want; the colour of ink I use shouldn't matter.
Telcos? Please, enlighten me.
Works plenty well with ABP.
Zoho does this.

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/LU4qIlz47C5Uph2P5i250K/Cha...

I studied in a Chennai corporation school...When I was in 12th class, Zoho representatives came to our school and told us to take an exam. I was...among those six that got selected,” recalls Babu, who has been with the company for years. As product manager, Babu now leads a team of about 60 engineers.

But it's a bit different over here. Unlike the US, lots of people over here are poor due to chance and bad luck. Firing people is easier and less risky.

I'd also happily hire people without a degree - any self taught stats guys wanting to level up, email me.
Thanks.

Perhaps at this stage, a diagram mapping swipes to actions, might more clearly orient a person unfamiliar with Forum with it's functionality and operations.

Because the linear format of video can struggle to convey the spatial component of an application's architecture and interaction.

Keep in mind that the video shows an expert user and new users will be novice users.
I just ran across this in the book Seeking Chances by Emanuele Bardone:

> Interestingly, one of the techniques used by the banks to dupe the rating agencies [before the 2008 economic crisis] was to reverse-engineer the computer models the agencies used to devise their ratings. Reverse-engineering was facilitated by the fact that the rating agencies made their computer models public. Thus the banks could trick them starting from answers and then working backward to get the intended result.

It would seem open-source is not always advisable when it comes to sensitive information.
> It is the rich and self-righteous, who want to tell everyone else what they can and cannot read and watch and hear

That is a rich vein of irony
This is great! Is there a website selling these?
I hate to break it to you, but Brave has a nice big Limitation of Liability section in their terms of use that completely exempts them from liability for any malicious ads they might insert into web pages.
Why do some rich kids fail?
For the 3rd party (ones that you want to show off the achievement), I don't think there is any difference between "Passed course on Coursera" vs "Passed course on Coursera and paid for certificate".
As far as the fiction can envision the techno future and human AI interaction, one of the more interesting books for me was SNUFF by Victor Pelevin. In it the main character is a freelancer drone camera operator living with a humanoid as a partner, tweaking her settings and getting very emotionally and sexually involved with her. And the devise is so human like and autonomous, that it eventually runs away from the owner leaving him with huge debt still unpaid.
Might you share an example of what leads you to believe that Comey is capable of acknowledging when he's gotten things wrong, changing course, and moving on? I've never had the chance to meet him but even General Hayden's remarks on Comey seem less glowing than yours. For example, while Hayden does describe Comey as a "very competent" and "very honourable man", Benjamin Wittes, in a conversation with Hayden, described some "not so veiled hostility to Comey" in Hayden's recent book [0]. Hayden has, in my view, been able to weigh the national security benefits on encryption alongside the national security risks. I've never once heard Comey speak with any degree of clarity or comfort on the issue, and has instead doggedly pursued his goal of ensuring the FBI's access into content data. Thus, I've described him as a 'one-track-mind kind of guy'.

Well, I'm not sure if my comment about "the worst kinds of cops" is necessarily hyperbolic or even emotional, but I can see how it does make having 'purely rational discourse' more difficult. Surely, a singular focus and unwillingness to consider the validity of alternative perspectives is not unique to some members of the law enforcement community, but I think that the shorthand I employed does cut to the core of my understanding of Comey; He doesn't understand this issue as well as the technology experts who, virtually uniformly, disagree with his position on crypto.

[0] Hayden did rebuff that characterization, though I think the public forum might have had something to do with it.
The "why do some kids have more grit than others?" questions could just come down to mix of inheriting that trait and/or living in an environment that fosters the development and growth that trait.

There is an interesting book called "The Sports Gene" that has a section that talks about how someone bred sled dogs based on their "grit" characteristic and was able to be a successful dog sledder because of it.

Also that book is also a great read about how inherited traits and environment interact with each other. And thanks for the podcast suggestion.
Y'know, I have a terribly powerful desktop always running at my home; I'd love to be able to load a container on it which does all this processing locally.
I find — anecdotally, of course — the people who type notes in class are usually the ones that sit at the back, don't pay attention, and seem inattentive.

The people with their notebooks open, and pens in hand, are usually in the first few rows. I've never seen someone handwriting notes at the back of the class.