skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool idea, the importance of libraries can't be overstated. So it would be great to have an alternative to robust public library infrastructure in developing countries.

With that being say, you really need to hammer out how to create a sustainable business model. Just off the top of my head, the transaction cost is going to kill it before it get off the ground.

1. Who's going to pay for high shipping cost? (especially in developing countries where the infrastructure will cause you problems)

2. Who will pay for content cost? (cost of acquiring books not to mention later on acquiring users)

3. How will you build your margin on top of all that cost?

Until you "solve" these problems, I don't know if this is an investable idea.
as a side note i remember reading something about some patent trolls using money from suits to actually drive development of promising patents. i do not remember if this was optimism about their true intent or full bs...now i will have to go hunt that down.
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I upvoted because I found the comment useful. I honestly didn't even see the one line at the end until you called it out. No problem here, please keep the summaries coming. I find them valuable.
I'm the boss and I wrote the why page, I was poking fun at myself. Perhaps my sense of humor needs an upgrade.
Great idea, great strategy to promote it with the summary comments (even if some people are complaining).

If you want a little help/advice on making this happen, email me (it's on my profile). No equity, or any formality, just a peer wanting to help.

Put a email on your profile too so you are more open to opportunities.
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Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't think that curl|bash can replace package managers. curl|bash can be used for getting software which doesn't need the sophisticatedness (and effort) of creating packages.
This was also my first reaction. I don't see how energy could be quantized with the inverse of the diameter of the observable universe.

Could someone explain the current thinking around how energy quanta relate to the size of the universe, or rather why wavelengths larger than the universe are impossible?

If the latter were true, I'd expect that an energy quantum corresponding to 0.99 * universe would be equally impossible as 1.01 * universe, and that only integer multiples of the corresponding frequency would be allowed (i.e. a harmonic series across the universe).
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Hook me up yo! If this thing works out it will change so much about the logistics of space.

Key word: if
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>I would not recommend ... it is an attempt to influence votes.

Are you accusing him of breaking a rule or a spirit of a rule? Because your comment reads like that.

To me, this is an unequivocally useful service, and those imaginary internet points are well-earned. Very often a quick summary in the user's own words bubbles up to the top because people find it genuinely useful.
Monroe is a like a defanged version of Jackson. Equally impactful to the shape of the country (though less on the contours of our politics than Jackson), but with a healthy ambivalence towards slavery and less genocide.
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In SF Bay area, outside GOOGFBAMZNMSFT, if you put in 10 yrs of work and jump companies once in a while you should get there. (I am from semiconductor background)
Huh, seems I'm wrong - there was an actual high vacuum test -http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2015-4083

Paywalled on that link though so I can't see the details which tend to be everything since last time a vacuum chamber was involved it wasn't actually evacuated.
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> ticks regularly use mice as hosts so the mice population may affect the tick population

True, (well, shrews are preferred in fact to mice), but only when young. Adult ticks feed mainly on large mammals, specially herbivores, and die if can't find a host in a few days, therefore is easy to understand that the recruitment of new ticks, the number of tick eggs released by surviving adults, is directly linked with the role of wolves as predators.

In the other hand, to put your "population of wolves has doubled between 2014 and 2015 but ticks had not changed" claim in context, we need to note that wolf population in the Netherlands between years 1869 and 2013 was composed of zero wolves.

Then, in 4-Jul-2013 something very strange happened. A she-wolf was found dead in a roadside next Luttelgeest. The first confirmed case of a "dutch" wolf in 140 years. A study in the journal Lutra covered the issue concluding that:

1) The animal was a purebreed wolf genetically related with East Europe populations [discarding a dog-wolf mix or a sarloos dog], was unchipped, and between 1.5 and 2.5 years old.

2) She fed on beaver in either the Carpathian mountains or the Eifel which is too far for the animal to have walked (9Km/h) from by itself within the 24 hours needed to digest its last meal (Genetic analysis from the remains of the beaver and the wolf linked both animals with populations living in this areas).

3) Bullet impacts and shattered fragments where found in the chest and flank indicating that the animal was shot twice before being hit by a car.

4) No car accident involving an animal was reported to local emergency services in the previous hours to the discovery of the corpse.

5) A discrepancy between the timing of the post mortem and rigor mortis intervals indicated that this wolf was shot prior to illegal transport to the Netherlands, from a distance within 2 days.

[To fake a car accident, running over a previously killed animal is a common procedure to cover environmental crimes against protected species].

Source:

The first wolf found in the Netherlands in 150 years was the victim of a wildlife crime. Lutra. 2013. 56(2): 93-109. Gravendeel, de Groot, Kik, Beentjes, Bergman, Caniglia, Cremers, Fabbri, Groenenberg, Grone, Bruinderink, Font, Hakhof, Harms, Jansman, Janssen, Lammertsma, Laros, Linnartz, van der Marel, Mulder, van der Mije, Nieman, Nowak, Randi, Rijks, Speksnijder & Vonho

Link to the article: http://www.kora.ch/fileadmin/file_sharing/5_Bibliothek/51_KO...

... So in 2013 there was still zero dutch wolves.

Then in 9-march-2015 a single wolf was photographed in Hunze.

So, unless you can show us new data, yes, wolf population was doubled in Netherlands in the last year... but you forgot to mention that is from zero to one animal. Here have your answer to the lack of changes on tick population.
V. disappointed this wasn't a buzzfeed listicle of people pulling faces at the dinner table in medieval paintings.
Is Barcelona showing the upside of smart city-ness?
Beware, for this article includes a gem like this:

Instead, these companies turned to a standard called ARM. Created by a once-obscure British company, it was designed from the ground up for low-power mobile uses.

Nope, their price budget required plastic instead of ceramic packaging, which had a 1 watt power budget. They were sufficiently conservative that it ended up dissipating 1/10 of a watt. The usefulness for mobile applications came later.

On the other hand, if Intel turned down an offer from Apple to supply the iPhone CPU, well, that sounds like a mistake. Then again, it's such a different business that it's not clear it would have worked for them, especially given the opportunity cost. So different, their FPGA aquisition Alteria is still having their lower end more price sensitive chips fabricated by TSMC, apparently because Intel is just too expensive for that market.

And Apple could well have changed to ARM later, Macs are now on their third CPU architecture.
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Per the FAQ:

> Can I ask people to upvote my submission?

> No. Users should vote for a story because it's intellectually interesting, not because someone is promoting it.

I added the "at minimum" since it is a bad tactical decision for the OP anyways as it would potentially trigger the voting ring detector.

And no, "genuinely useful" does not morally counteract the impact of the promotion.
Ahh sweet Rhetoric!

Arguments of sophistry and nationalism are not data, but bias. None deserve preference for the accident of birth. Over the whole course of the human experience, the idea of nation is a distinction sans difference.
Not in my experience...it's just a matter of knowing where to look.

Not that I'm really interested in smoking pot any more. It's a bit too uncool and boring.
The problem is purely one of incentives. If you design a pathological system and make highly intelligent people use it then don’t be surprised with the terrible results.

The solution to science is actually very simple - move from a peer review ranked grant allocation system (which is totally gamed by those at the top) to a basic screen and lottery system. The idea is to do a basic screen on grant applications to make sure they are scientifically viable and not majorly flawed (at least 75% of grants should pass this test) and then put them all into a pool and draw winners from this pool until you have allocated all the money you have.

Lets stop using a system that can’t actually do the job (peer review can't separate the top 10% from the top 20%), and which is open to corruption and old boy networks, and move to one that is at least fair and better than all the alternatives.
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Do you have a link to the 6 experiments? I'd like to compare the results. This link has a list of 3 or 4 experiments before December 2014, that is more than 1 year ago. http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.msg13... I'd like to compare that with the new results.

With the "current" physic laws, the theoretical maximum of ForcePerPowerInput is 1/c = 0.0033 mN/kW. In that table, the ForcePerPowerInput varies from 300000x to 3x. That's a lot of variation, not and exact value that coincides with a theoretical prediction. It's a pity that the list is not ordered by date.

If you order the experiments by date and all of them have roughly the same result, they probably are measuring a well known effect were all the variables are well understood. Like measuring g with a pendulum.

If you order the experiments by date and the value increase a lot, it's perhaps a new phenomena that is still not well understood and they are tweaking the materials to get more efficiency. For example, let's consider measuring the critical temperature of a high temperature superconductor. If you pick a fixed simple superconductor, you expect to get approximately the same result in any laboratory, but small changes in the fabrication process can increase or decrease the temperature. But any time someone discover a new superconductor material or method of production, you will get a new record, so the world record will increase and the other laboratories will try to reproduce and increase it.

If you order the experiments by date and the value decrease a lot, it's possible a sign that they are fixing some experiential details and reducing the experimental errors, and they get a smaller result because the correct value is 0.
Speaking as someone with experience and friends who do both I can assure you it's far easier to make quality beer than it is to learn all the ins and outs of growing quality cannabis. You have it exactly backwards.
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Cybercrooks turn away from banks. Your health records are far juicier
I think there's some great community-designed projects out there now (particularly in the web app space). Linux isn't one of them, obviously, but is that because it's open source or because design and consumer friendliness hasn't been a strong focus for the majority of it's contributors?

I would suggest Android is a much more consumer focused product, whereas Linux has been a much more IT focused product, and their development priorities reflect that.
WSJ is one of the wost offenders for this. Their origional content is often a mix of public datasets with a visual and deeply biased stories that are practically propaganda. It's a simple test pick 10 major stories from this time last year and look for inaccuracy's. Last time I did this they and several other papers scored a flat ZERO.

Several papers could not even get everyone's name correct.

Going this day from last year I picked a short strait factual story at random.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/spanish-teacher-killed-with-cros... and reading the two comments I saw at least two possible innacuracy's vs http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/teacher-killed-... how many wounded and was second teacher shot or stabbed. Thinking about it the spin is the fact they are not rating the attack by a 13 year old as a criminal case. It also starts with "Madrid-" then says the attack is in Barcelona, which is odd but I am willing to let that slide. Feel free to dig into this one or pick something else.

PS: I started this first time around because I had seen several stories I knew about in a few papers and not a single one was completely accurate.
His one line ad is repeated across several articles.
He's flipping your "bad taste" question back on you. Jefferson and Jackson have been on currency for decades and in their time treated people as currency and no one blinked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_slavery
There are always simulators for when bench time is scarce.
It's normal for these sorts of power supplies to have a small leakage current. Hopefully someone else will be able to explain the details, but as I understand it it's the result of capacitative coupling across the transformer and filter capacitors.
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The practice of adding "gate" to the end of every scandal should have ended in the last century.
But for whom is it more efficient? The capital owners or the non-capital owners? What happens when the non-capital owners are of no use to the capital owners? That's the problem with trying to excuse the abuses that are permitted within capitalism.

How is capitalism exploiting workers that it doesn't employ? The history of capitalism is littered with abuses and exploitation of the working class, but that has nothing to do with UBI, and it isn't the case that UBI is some kind of make-up for capitalism's past abuses. The goal is to fix the system to avoid the abuses going forward. We can lament the past all we want, but only by acknowledging and understanding the past can we strive to fix it by making changes that will reap rewards in the present and the future; lamenting what is already done is a distraction, short of having a time machine.

Rather than addressing that abuse in an effective way, all I see UBI doing is formalizing the concept of charity. Rather than discussing real alternatives like sharing in the actual ownership of capital, mutual aid societies, worker owned cooperatives, and the like, it seems the powers that be would rather just throw a tiny slice of the wealth to the people for the sake of retaining control over capital.

Providing a basic, consistent income to everyone isn't sharing in the fruits of capitalism, the ownership of capital? The owners of capital get to reap it's benefits. If everyone reaps its benefits, then is not everyone an owner? Distribution of the fruits of capitalism, equally to all, is effectively the same thing as communal ownership of capital.

Considering UBI to be a form of charity seems to be asking for a requirement that recipients (ie, everyone) somehow "give back" to the system, contribute in some way — that would be the only way to make it not be a form of charity. But this is short-sighted. In the classical capitalistic setup, the owners, by definition, are the only ones who can reap the fruits of capitalism, merely by being the owners, with no requirement that they contribute back to the system. Gain without contribution, no matter who is doing the gaining, sounds like charity. The point of UBI is to allow everyone to reap the fruits, which effectively makes everyone indistinguishable from owners.
Hopefully Linux and Mac package management systems have this available soon. I really don't see it gaining much traction until then.
Agree completely with your first point.

To your second point: eliminating all blood-feeding mosquitoes is the most radical proposal I've ever encountered, and this is a small subset of all mosquitoes (itself a small subset of Culicidae). I've never seen it compellingly demonstrated that these mosquitoes have an irreplacable role in any ecosystem, but there's much we don't grasp that an incremental and cautious approach seems wise.
I'm not sure I would be comfortable in a state where the government favors passing laws that _prevent_ anti-discrimination laws from being passed. I don't know how that area leans towards this issue and so I'm not saying that area is to blame, but I find it hard to want to go where the state actively tries to allow discrimination. Granted this only happened recently, but my opinion of NC before was that it didn't have a sterling reputation in welcoming non-White, non-Christian Americans.

And you may point to CA's Prop 8 passing as a counter-point, but I think one of the reasons for it passing was some voters assuming it wouldn't pass, and also the confusion of whether or not you're suppose to vote for/against if you're for/against same-sex marriage. Regardless, at least the State of CA fought against it and refused to enforce it.
Many qualified investors around Seattle are nervous to enter the Angel/VC game. Seattle Angel Conference is working to fix that issue. Introducing both investors and companies to the process. Investing about $200k every 6mo in Angel rounds
The page mentions there is a shuttle service, where does it pick up from and when does it run?
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Great form-factor to easily re-use existing battery enclosure, but I have been wondering lately about the long-term future of arduino.

With the low price of something like the Pi Zero which is running a full version of linux, or something like the Esp8266 which can run many different languages, you're basically paying shipping costs. What benefit does arduino have in this future, other than a large existing network, which I understand can't be overlooked as a strength.
Nitpick: that's the force supposedly produced by the engine, not delta-V. Delta-V, should the drive work, would be limited by the available electrical power.
If that thing is really stretching and compressing spacetime, and a Michaelson Morely interferometer can see that in theory, then something like LIGO would be equipped to measure it.
Just watch this: https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71/videos/10154130107...
What I want is one with included Bluetooth LE so that it can easily talk to smartphones.
After thinking about it, it might be better to go with non-profit route. Get all books donated (ideally from first world where the donation can be apply to tax deduction). Network with church groups where they can pay for the initial shipping cost to your countries. This solves the cost of content acquisition.

Once you get hold of the books, add them to your market place and allow anyone to pick up the books for free. If someone else wants to read that book, they make a request on the market place then it's the responsibility of the current book holder to decide whoever is on that waitlist. Ideally someone close by and who has higher needs. This solves the problem of shipping cost since it's up to the users to share them amongst themselves. The market place keep track of the supply/demand and can make suggestions.

You can do more complicated interactions when the system has more users. Like if a remote village has need for a list of books and a user is scheduled to pass through that village. The marketplace can facilitate all nearby bookholders who have books on the waitlist for that village to give books to that person travelling.

By cutting out "all" of the transaction cost, you can focus on value added services where you can add margin (profit). For example, allow publishers to give out new books in circulation. Newspapers, political ads from politicians, ads flyers from local businesses etc. stuff that readers might want and don't mind sharing. If users don't want the ads/services, they can trash them. Otherwise, pass them on. Interesting way of measuring success of x campaign. Use the money you make from those services to buy more books and expand network or subsidize the network to reach more communities!

That would be a nonprofit that I won't mind donate to.
Everything seems to be limited by the precision our simulation is running on :)
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Nearly all commercial tools use ACIS or Parasolid or Dassault's CGM I think.
If Amazon is the only company willing to make a product, that gives them a monopoly by definition. When have consumers benefited when they only have one choice?
Like Bezos needs to move in on a niche aluminium computer stand business. Pick on someone your own size Jeff.
Nope, it actually was the serpentine belt. The serpentine belt shredded, wrapped around the crankshaft and worked its way into the timing cover, caused the timing belt to slip, which, since this is an interference motor, was disastrous for the valves.

Forum threads:

https://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=424956

https://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=407745

There is a design flaw that allows a shredded serpentine belt to work it's way past the timing cover and wreak havok. When I took apart the engine, the timing belt was in-tact.

There is now available a guard that you place behind the main crankshaft pulley to stop this from happening but I can't find it right this second.
Have you thought of running this as a service? Would be nice to just through an NPM module at it and make sure it will run across multiple versions. Without having to install docker, etc. Not sure I'd pay for it, but maybe somebody would...
Apache Groovy was really just intended for scripting anyway, and not meant to be scaled. Someone in their development group added static compilation and Android executables in Groovy 2.x, but they aren't being used by many people. Best just to use Groovy for its original purpose, for scripting Java classes or as a DSL in Gradle, and convert to Java (or Scala, Kotlin, etc) if you need to scale anything.
Hmmm ... China hasn't controlled Vietnam in a very long time, AFAIK; maybe never.

China has occupied Vietnam many times. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vietnam

Vietnam has a different culture and language.

The language is very much a dialect of ancient southern Chinese. In fact, it is used by linguists to reconstruct (along with other languages) ancient Chinese pronunciation. Culturally, Vietnam has Chinese holidays like Chinese New Year, plus Chinese characters (though they are forgetting how to read them after the installation of Romanized script), Confucianism, Taoism, etc.

South of Vietnam is ocean; what does this comment mean?

Sinified Vietnam (ie. the first beginnings of modern Vietnam proper) expanded southward overrunning completely culturally distinct countries such as Champa, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champa
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Why? Put a transpiler inside your build chain.