skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does everything have to be a duality like that? Can you have darkness without the concept of light?"

Can you have darkness without the concept of light? Simply put, no.

If you'd like another example, how about this... If there were no objects in the Universe, only free space, would gravity exist?

> "I believe in monism - ultimately there is only one thing, or one type of thing. It is not contrasted with anything else[1]. That's why it's not meaningful or meaningless, good or bad, right or wrong - it just "is."

[1] Except, perhaps, complete nothingness, utter void. So in that sense everything that exists is meaningful, and only pure nothingness is meaningless."

Have you considered there's another explanation that is the polar opposite to nihilism? Whilst it may not be what you thought of before, your comments above would suggest you'd be open to that possibility. To start exploring this...
That would require implicit heap allocation, which is a lot to ask for in a language where malloc is a library function.
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As much as I don't like Telegram weird pseudo-crypto, I really like what they are doing with their bot API and the messenger is really good in general.

They are adding features like on fire.
> I'm really surprised the stock hasn't taken more of a hit from this case.

Already priced in long ago. Agreement in principle was made in January.

http://www.goldmansachs.com/media-relations/press-releases/c...

Reserves for these penalties were allocated last year.
You're right, it's not an argument. Those are the prerequisites to having an argument because I don't have the time nor energy to get you up to speed.

I don't think you even remotely understand what the term "intellectual property" means outside of some narrow and lopsided definition of the term from something you read in Wired magazine or on Slashdot.

From my perspective you're too ignorant to have this conversation and you need to go learn a few things before you should try and engage in a discussion about these concepts.

Right now it's like I'm trying to discuss differential equations with someone who hasn't even studied grade school algebra.
Its cheaper and better to build the panels over the roadway rather than have the actual road surface contain them. Its even cheaper to stick them on existing roofs that do not have solar panels installed.

Solar panels do not tolerate partial shading, which car/truck traffic will generate. Several people[1] have run the numbers for them, and there are many other locations that would be much cheaper and more effective. Also, if glass made as good of a road surface as they claim, it would be in use now at least somewhere.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZSXB3KDF0
Depends on the work; not all work requires you to be a genius. But simply saying it's "obvious" that that must be one of the prime drivers of poverty strikes me as 1) not that obvious at all 2) self-serving
hey - that's a good idea :-)
Too late. In 5 years it will make little sense to start a nuclear power plant instead of a solar power facility with batteries.
> Artists can do and have done all of the above

Of course. But not that many are successful at it. Even the Beatles floundered for years before success came only after signing with a label. Note that Ringo was a session musician brought in by the label. George Martin made enormous contributions to their music.
You're writing this on an article about how GS paid billions to settle a claim. How is that "nothing on the line"?
I think even Bob Dylan could agree that Shatner did the best version of that song!
You have strong opinions about this. That's cool, and if you believe one way is more correct that's also cool. My advice to everybody is the same advice I gave you: try it. Try project without them and see. The only risk is that you might find out you're wrong. If you want to add them later there are tools for that.
you're so right! it's all about the drugs!
As CubeSats and FemtoSats are picking up support, we need LEO trash collectors even moreso.
Hats off to all the people who contributed to LetsEncrypt. Your work has brought web security to the next level.
You've gotten pretty poor answers so far. I suspect they'd try to communicate in a wavelength where there is little interference. It's one thing to notice "there is a tiny amount of wavelength X light from the vicinity of alpha centauri" and a whole lot harder to notice the difference between two light sources close together at the same wavelength. The latter requires sensitivity to magnitude AND incredible angular precision. It's like seeing a flashlight from a long way off even though you couldn't make out an object that size in daylight. You know the flashlight is on, but you can't resolve it spatially.
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It's a pretty common pattern.

When you're small, you have no users, and need to start gathering network effects. So you champion and implement protocols that allow you to interoperate with other networks. You start to eat other companies lunches as you provide a better product.

As you get larger, that same interoperability starts to become a liability as other networks start eating in to your userbase. So you cut out interoperability and start building a walled garden.
Starshot is on the first page, and apparently they timed the PR for the anniversary. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480840
I can really relate to what you are saying. I share many of your fears and have general anxiety about dying too early and death or not existing anymore in general. But i never took drugs. For me it started with a traumatic event (passed out one morning 3 years ago when i was ill and did not drink) and even after doctors checked everything countless times i developed fears, especially related to my heart and premature death scenarios.
I have it under control and can live normally, but these thoughts are basically is always somewhere in my mind. I also have slight visual disturbances (like visual snow) that are persistent for 3 years now and started in the time when i had most of the anxiety and panic attacks.
Compression for live video streams maybe? You need to take a high quality input, continuously recompress it to several different qualities (for varying connection speeds and screen sizes) and then kick the data out to a CDN for viewers?
At least ACH is slowly working towards being faster. In less than 2 years, next business day ACH should be pretty universal. In about 6 months, some ACH transactions will clear the following morning.
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Almost certainly. But using a laser requires much better aim than a radio transmitter.
That's not how this works. We're not dealing in absolutes because this is real life. We're dealing with probabilities and expected values. If nuclear power provides a net good, we should consider using it, not blindly reject it.

Saying you "don't care about probability-weighted outcomes" means you aren't willing to objectively value nuclear power. Why not? Why are you afraid of nuclear power?

The point this article makes is that nuclear power is an incredibly safe technology, and the concerns about it are exaggerated.
Author here... Do tell! :)
> I'd really love to see an API or a unified configuration system.

That's next (3.0)

> feels like it's just not a priority and that it's is going to remain very web UI focussed.

part of it is the audience we have.
part of it is dealing with the architecture we have.

but... trust me, it's likely more important to me than you.
Yes, this release is all about performance. Now Storm must thus be far ahead.
It's actually 0.7kT. A 0.7kT asteroid will burn in the atmosphere of an earth like planet or for an atmosphere less body like moon it will cause a crater with diameter ~10m. Asteroids this powerful are pretty common.
Oh. I read over that. Thanks.
to me the most intimidating problem is to make sure that the the beam is symmetric and sail is perfectly symmetrical reflecting the beam, otherwise it will go in very different direction than intended. Given the high acceleration during the short time period, i don't see how it can be sufficiently corrected for the beam and sail asymmetries. It is like kicking a soccer ball - you'd like to hit a perfect "9" ("upper 90" in US), yet ...
Peter Thiel called China "copiers."

This turned around fast.
Living near Davis/Porter/Harvard/Central is pretty damn awesome, to be fair. I wouldn't live downtown even if it was cheaper.
Or at all, observationally.
I think the reason we don't have private insurance is the worst case risk is too significant for a single enterprise to absorb. Which is why the state is involved.

Your point remains valid, I just wish our governments were better at avoiding regulatory capture so we could trust them to do their job at this.
You do know that most places don't have the geothermal energy close enough to the surface to make that happen? Also you'll need to provide a source to show that nuclear is "not economical" and "the worlds most expensive way to boil water". All the evidence indicates some of the renewables are it [1]. About 77% of France's energy is nuclear, so I'm not sure what you mean it doesn't work on a large scale...[2]

Fun fact a lot of aluminium is made in Iceland because of the cheap energy [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iceland#Aluminium
Actually this wasn't a terrible rate for GS, it was a great rate. And it can't simply be compared to a mortgage.
https://youtu.be/ryIQYYogQ8A

I've literally never owned a plunger in my whole life, and I don't know anybody who does. It baffles me everything I'm in the US and every toilet has a plunger!
Thanks for this, that's inspiring. I suffer from fear about death as well, and will look into this as what i crave most is a way to just be comfortable with the reality of dying.
Messrs Milner and Zuckerberg are surely aware that their business is perceived as an occasionally creepy timesink that made them enormously rich while adding little value to society. I'm sure they're not happy about this and would want to change this perception. One way to accomplish this is to pay a team of celebrity scientists for the privilege of associating your names with theirs.
"For a 4m sail, for example, the diffraction limit spot size
on Earth would be on order of 1000m."

That must be a misprint; the diffraction-limited spot size would be on the order of 10 million kilometers. It's correct when it says a 1 km^2 collector would intercept ~10^{-14} of the transmitted signal.

https://www.google.com/search?q=4+light+years+*+1+micron+%2F...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk#Size
I recommend watching "The Wrecking Crew". It's an eye-opener. Especially the parts where they show what the artist brought them, and what the studio turned it into.
Heat air up enough and it turns into plasma. Plasma's opaque. That's going to do terrible things to your beam focus.

I remember hearing that this is a problem with high-energy laser weaponry, which is why it tends to be pulsed, to give the hot air time to dissipate. But I can't find a reference now.
Still not outrageous to think that people might be able to give rookies some context rather than check the full thread for other comments doing so.
> That is an insane amount of trust to give away to a 3rd party company.

Why is it insane to give that trust to a carefully selected business partner, but not the random 3rd parties with access to plain HTTP content? Also, your CDN has access to unencrypted payloads anyway, whether it's encrypted elsewhere or not.
My health care costs were almost 50% of what my rent was recently. Seriously.. rent was $590/mo, my ACA plan (with fairly lousy coverage and few doctors that would take it - I lost my original doc) was $290/mo.

You're absolutely right. Those three things are spiraling out of control in price. The place I moved out of is now renting for $700.
Why decelerate? At 0.2c it takes around 40 minutes to cross 1AU. (Ignoring time dilation which is not super significant at 0.2c.) That gives ample time to take photos from a moderate distance.
This is a good start to solve an old problem. However they need to start filtering out their own ads. I don't know which is easier, catch them before it goes live, or after, but either way... that's something in the right direction.
>The actual penalty portion isn't an expense...

>...gets to write off the community service portion of their punishment.

If it is a punishment (a bank handing out money counts as community service in these courts?) it is a penalty.
This is probably the biggest issue hampering renewable energy. The investment just isn't there, and hasn't been there - across the board, for decades.

The ironic thing is when we do actually have investment, it's under the guise of cronyism and political favors. How many solar companies did the government give BILLIONS to, only to have them go out of business less than a year later, leaving the tax payers on the hook?

At last count it was 36:
http://nation.foxnews.com/obama/2012/10/20/list-36-obama-s-t...

The other thing we need to consider is making renewable energy affordable. If you can get cheap energy, it would solve some really huge problems with global poverty.

As it sits right now, no renewable energy is affordable. I've been keeping an eye on solar for years. Last year when I checked on a small solar array for my house, the layout was around 30K and the ROI was ten years. No way does that work for low income families who could really use this type of renewable energy.
Who will guarantee that all the individual contracts works flawless? If you hire a wedding Planners, anything that goes wrong you could go direct to him. But, with that binding process, if just one thing go wrong, would be very frustrating as the fiances would have to solve.
I really love the comments about making a city more pedestrian and bicycle friendly.
> >Languages don't create bug

> No but they allow certain classes of bugs to be written.

True. And, for some categories of bugs, there are other languages that do not allow those categories of bugs to be written. But be careful not to read too much into that. Those languages may also allow other categories of bugs to be written, or to be written more easily.

Do not assume that avoiding the previous generation of bugs means that your code is safe.
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I posted the article as an example, but there are many other studies on it coming to the same conclusion.
Which is, of course, the exact opposite of what the Samba project communicated: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2016-March/198526.html

Coincidentally, Samba 4.4.0 was released on the same day: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2016-March/198501.html
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"The Transformed Man" is one of my favorite albums. I sometimes play it to torture my guests.
I had this same thought a while ago. If our universe is just the Nth universe in a chain of simulated universes, and the number_of_bits(N) < number_of_bits(N-1), then each simulation gets more and more "compressed" and approximate the deeper you go.
I think criminal prosecution should be reserved for the most outrageous and clear-cut misrepresentations. Look at the examples on pages 6-9 of the government's statement of facts. If any of those folks should go to prison? Should the folks at Microsoft who keep stating that the latest firmware update fixes Surface Book/Pro 4 sleep issues, even though people keep having troubles getting their laptop to sleep properly, also go to prison?
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I don't think this is enough, because it assumes that all clients are connected to the same server. What we need is something federated (like XMPP) and with a design that is reasonable for mobile.
That's what the "web" link at the top right under the story link does.
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Hi folks! I'm new to slack bot creation and I would like to learn it while doing something useful. Do you have an idea of slack bot to enhance your workplace in order to make you feel more happy and productive at work?

Thanks for your input!
I've never used drugs, but am definitely more likely to move somewhere that has progressive drug policy, if for no other reason than that it suggests a reality-based approach to governance.
So you're saying they'll slow down significantly due to the friction of the interstellar medium so they'll need some form of propulsion of their own?
I have fairly a boring Spamassassin configuration on my mail server, and I don't get a lot of spam reaching inbox.

What I have noticed, however, is that I am now getting more and more telemarketing phone calls (robo calls) on my cell phone than I am spam hitting my inbox. It's reached the point where I keep my phone on silent all of the time because I get 5+ robo calls each day.
Yes. The economy you see now is wholly new and remarkably created by Al Gore.
I should also add that if you are an Australian manufacturer, you have to submit your product for testing for design compliance and you won't last long if you dont, but importers can import anything with none, yet another impediment to Australian manufacturing.
Please add a description to your code. Yes, we can read the source, but at least a few sentences about what your work is about and what it will do will motivate many more people to take a closer look. Adding good docs values your own work!
Two a6300's next to each other with Samyang 8mm fisheyes does the job nicely for 3D180
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For fun, listen to David Cassidy's work during the Partridge Family years, when the studio wrote the songs and provided musicians for him, and compare to Cassidy's post-PF work. What, you never heard of his post-PF work? :-) It's because it's awful.

Ditto the Monkees. At least Cassidy could sing (and damn, he was good). The Monkees couldn't write, sing, or play without massive help.
In my experience, there's some world class tech in the city, but in terms of numbers mid-level more accesible employment is easier found elsewhere.

Also the weather, landscape, and a road system designed to match a 4 year old's hot-wheels track are a real love it or leave it kinda thing.
>I wouldn't live downtown even if it was cheaper.

...which it may be soon! In fact, for office space, it already is!
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Even though this is purely to fuel VR content creation for Oculus, at least the invention is in the public domain (pending OS license and patent grant)
If you wish to allow the creation of subdomains by users, or if you dynamically handle unlimited subdomains for any purpose, then Let's Encrypt won't be able to help you just yet. Luckily, wildcard support is at least planned, so these use cases will eventually be supported in the future.

I've been using Let's Encrypt for my personal blog and I definitely appreciate the free security that is does offer, even without wildcard certificates.
The claim was for fraud. The fact that GS defrauded investors is its own independent transgression, separate from the risky bets that the government de facto insured them from.

If I default on my mortgage and commit fraud, I don't have the luxury of saying "the fraud sentence is enough, can't I at least keep my house?"
That would fix so many errors and the notation is extremely simple.

That's definitely the best idea I've seen.
Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users
It seems that SerNet provides a huge chunk (the majority?) of the manpower behind Samba, and has thus considerable influence in organizing the project.
Those billions are relative to the amount of money they made though. A crappy analogy is a bank robber who steals a million dollars from 10 banks, gets caught at the last, and has to pay back 2 million dollars.
Oh, I agree - I was just quoting they acknowledge that point of view and don't dispute it.
We use it for real-time web/content analytics. You can see our product tour @ http://parse.ly/tour.

Other examples of "common" steaming data with real-time use cases:

- Twitter firehose

- Network packet analysis

- Financial market data

- Device and sensor data
To do this kind of very broad genomic analysis, you need a set of markers to compare. These markers, or easy identifiable orthologs, need to be present in most/all the organisms in the comparison.

Ribosomal RNA is a well studied marker for both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, so it makes sense to use these as markers.
Well a 1 g spacecraft at .2 c has roughly 10^12 J kinetic energy, so it just loses something in the order of 10^-3 of its energy due to collisions with the ISM. (Which should have an order of magnitude less density in the solar neighborhood.)
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Great work. I have been using pfsense for 5.5 years now and it never disappoints.
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It's an internal system, but it was discussed at F8 last year. Here's the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VH78ye4yY#t=31m30s) and someone's notes on it (http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2015/03/28/notes-from-facebook'...).
Money quote: "I've seen how powerful it is for a city to have those people. Five years ago they shifted the center of gravity of Silicon Valley from the peninsula to San Francisco. Google and Facebook are on the peninsula, but the next generation of big winners are all in SF. The reason the center of gravity shifted was the talent war, for programmers especially. Most 25 to 29 year olds want to live in the city, not down in the boring suburbs. So whether they like it or not, founders know they have to be in the city. I know multiple founders who would have preferred to live down in the Valley proper, but who made themselves move to SF because they knew otherwise they'd lose the talent war."
Maybe it's not character so much as a particular skill set called money management?

I'm not sure I'm convinced of this, but I think that's the idea.
What if you didn't have to attract the "most" 18 to 30 year olds? What if what you really needed was to attract an underserved niche of 18 to 30 year olds?

I think Atlanta or Nashville is ripe. Northeasterners can and do move to California already. Southerners are much less likely to do so imo. The rural market is grossly underserved right now. Almost none of the efforts to get people into computer science are hitting rural communities. I'd very much like to see that change.
Your point would have been better made with a link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160310-fukushima-...

I'd love to have numbers, like is it 100km^2?

I looked but couldn't find any sources backing up your claim about geiger counter scandals, so my only advice is to be skeptical of things you read on both sides.

Of course it's dumb to ignore warnings that nuclear power plants can cause massive amounts of damage, but there are also over 400 active nuclear reactors.
Vultr.com is FreeBSD friendly, and dirt cheap. They are different in that you can upload an ISO of any OS you want. I was able, for example, to try out DragonFlyBSD this way. No association other than being a customer.