skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've been farming the old-fashioned way for thousands of years with exponential increases in population. If that's not the definition of sustainability I don't know what is.

Just because a technique is sustainable at prior population levels doesn't mean it will be sustainable in the future. Slash-and-burn was used for thousands of years and is now one of the main causes of deforestation. Bottom trawling has been used for almost a thousand years and is now considered directly responsible for fishery collapse. Humans have been responsible for the extinction of thousands of animals through unsustainable hunting practices that occurred thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago.

> Also, modern cultivation techniques can strip the produce and soil of essential vitamins and nutrients. So yes, in some cases, the "inefficient" and "unsustainable" farms yield more nutritious and eco-friendly foods.

Actually modern farmers are very, very careful about keeping high quality soil because it results in higher yields and spending less on fertilizers and pesticides. 60 years ago, farming "the old-fashioned way" we had things like the dust bowl.
The thing is, the last A-10 rolled off the production line 32 years ago. Airframes have finite lifespans.
If you have an existing codebase already using Babel and Webpack or Browserify, then using Flow only requires tweaking Babel's config a little (or not at all if you're already using the React preset). You use Flow like a linter tool. It doesn't try to take over your build process; You don't have to leave Babel and Webpack/Browserify behind. Flow is also great for allowing you to gradually add typing to an application.
You're right in that we don't know how the photo was taken but a long photo exposure doesn't necessarily mean you will see his trail. My explanation still stands a pure guess of how that photo could have been taken. Let me explain more:

There is only so much range a piece of film can achieve. I don't know how much you know about photos but exposure and light are usually discussed on a log(base 2) scale. Each exposure "unit" called a "stop" equates to doubling or halving the amount of light. So a 4 second exposure is 1 stop darker than an 8s one because it lets in half the light.

Assuming there are no other light sources we can assume the entirety of the exposure came from the flash light. There is a shadow behind and above the elephants foot which tells us the elephants foot was illuminated by a light below the camera. Assuming the guy had the camera at almost eye level, shines the flashlight at waste level could produce this kind of shadow.

Now let's say the guy turns the flashlight off walks over to where he is in the photo and starts moving the flash light more, shift position and does it again. You will not see him walk to the spot in the photo even if the room was not completely dark.

If he took a 60 second photo, he set the exposure for 30ish seconds of light from flash light and not from ambient light. This means the ambient light reflecting off the guy while he walked probably exposed a trail that is over 10 stops below what the light from the flash light did. In good conditions your average color negative film has about 7 stops of dynamic range or +3 from middle tones before turning completely white and -3 from going to complete black. It's not hard to set up a photo where you don't register because you're trail exposes below the range of the film. Many people do these kinds of photos and they are called "lightpainting".

This is very commonly done in landscapes where certain features of landscapes like trees and rocks are painted. You don't see the people walking around because they turn their lights off when they do it. They do produce walking smears but they account for such a small proportion of the overall exposure they don't show up in the final photo. I believe this what these guys do and notice no people in their photos:

http://www.lightmark.de/overview.html

However they might compositing images. Here is another example:

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/554997063-glowing-digital-m...

I've personally done photos like that in a single long exposure. I'm sure the photos I linked have lots of photoshop to get them perfect to get them perfect the principal stands. I'm assuming a lot of photography sophistication that the elephant foot photographer may or may not have but how knows!
It's possible the original source was bad on that one. I'll drop it for now until I revisit the evidence. Or dfop it entirely as it wasn't a critical claim to begin with.
> You're literally in favor of taking power away from people and giving it to others.

Absolutely. For the exact same reason that we don't live in a democracy. It's a feature, not a bug.

I mean, by your argument, why have a House or a Senate? We've got telecommunications, just have a vote. Direct democracy. Why not?

Well, that turns out historically to be a really bad idea. But anything short of it is "taking power away from people and giving it to others", in one form or another.
Particularly interesting is the section, "Popular Music":

"The authors go on:

"'experts fail to predict success not because they are incompetent judges or misinformed about the preferences of others, but because when individual decisions are subject to social influence, markets do not simply aggregate pre-existing individual preferences.'

"In short, quality is a necessary but insufficient criteria for ultimate success. Social influence, timing, randomness, and other non-qualitative features of music are what turn a good piece of music into an off-the-charts hit."

Scott's point is that (a) this applies anywhere social influence is strong, and (b) social influence is strong in a lot of places.
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Checkout the remsoftware stuff, they provide cross platform c#, java, and swift.
Intel plans to cut thousands of jobs: report
This is really just a matter of definition at this point. The entities which actually hold governmental power are by definition 'states'. The individual states which make up the EU are what grant the organization its power. The individual states in the US are what grant the Federal government its power.

Central planners think that there should be one state, the US state, where the individual "states" derive their power from the Fed. And if you think that the states should be small municipalities then that's fine too. But it's not hypocritical that municipalities derive their power from, and are restricted by, the state.
People laugh at me but as I work mostly in Java I don't have many cross-platform bugs. The best I had with C++ cross-platform was Qt but even that has weird issues which are a real pain to track down sometimes.
People really need to know more about LISTEN/NOTIFY. It's the primary reason that PG has ruined me for other databases.
He built something that failed, then made a very cushy landing at YC. Hardly "one of the most disruptive" ...
The "sexiness" isn't just because of their egos; sexiness fuels recruiting, which is ultimately how the air force is effective.

Granted I'm not sure what isn't sexy about the GAU-8 firing; probably the craziest gun attached to an aircraft ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6s6dryF9M
My personal theory that the path to becoming one of these 'red pill' people goes like this:

-Naturally unsuccessful with women, because of personality / looks / etc.

-Sense of entitlement, where this person "deserves" to have women desire them, specifically attractive women.

-Discovers some sort of methodology that is supposed to help them get women, such as pick up artist communities.

-Techniques fail to help them get women.

-Warped sense of reality develops, where it isn't their own fault that they can't get women to love them, it's society's / women's / feminists / someone else's fault.

-Intense hatred and fear of the opposite sex, supported by a reactionary ideology that permits their beliefs and behavior.
Wait. Red pill is misogyny? Is this just intentional conflation and misinformation?

Red pilling is about embracing the sometimes painful reality or truth in lieu of the short term and blind comfort of illusion and self-delusion.
This looks like a map of Hyperloop stations.
This whole incident really lowers my opinion of YC.
Maybe they are more interested in African raw materials than Africa as a market?
GitHub Feature Request: Organizational Wikis (2013)
I don't see a problem with the truth of the internet being reflected in ipfs.

Consider the internet to be write only, forget maybe (you are not in control of that). If you accidentally commit a password someplace the correct response is changing that password.
>The internet has been stole from you.

It was never "stolen" because "you" never owned it in the first place. The internet infrastructure has always been a monopoly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Corporation#Monopoly
What about the Erie Canal and the B&O Railroad? Those were government funded projects in the Northeast that had massive, massive impact. You can definitely draw a line between that economic jump start and the current distribution.
That's because the tea in those states is beer.
But authentication goes both ways.
GITS Producers Reportedly Tested VFX That Would Make White Actors Appear Asian
Insightful article, but the tl;dr is:

"The highest quality entrepreneurship is heavily concentrated in a select few metros on the East and West Coasts."
Imagine you could take a tree, put it into hibernation mode, split it into planks, build a house from it and reanimate the house...
Three years ago, this would have been fantastic, but today it is impractical and tomorrow just eccentric
Well, it's a different government. I'm not sure it's a different country.
Check out the speedy railway system that is in China now:

http://crh.gaotie.cn/CRHMAP.html

The whole country is meshed with new railway systems that normally runs at 200 miles/hour(designed for 218 Miles/hour), it presents large pressure to local airlines and is really convenient when I travel there.
You don't seem to have understood my comment at all. In what way is Diaspora, the (failed) 2010 solution to this "problem", at all different from what you say the solution is now? And other than "controlled by corporations", what problem are you even trying to solve?
OpenVMS is closed source. The Open there refers to DEC's (then Compaq, then HP) use of pen standards like TCP/IP, instead of proprietary standards like DECnet.
From the comments on the Guardian site, user bllckchps estimates the needed amount of stuff in the comet to produce the signal:

"Of course, most of the mass is in the nucleus, and will be in molecular form, unobservable at 1.4GHz. Let's be generous, and allow the comet to be made purely of water ice (H20) which will dissociate into a neutral hydrogen (H) and a hydroxyl (OH) as it goes into the halo, meaning that ~1/18 of the mass can be H.

We're already about a factor of 20 too low to explain the Wow signal, and now here's another factor of ~20. What fraction of the total mass is in the halo? Generously, maybe ~1%? So it's about a factor of 40000 too weak to be a plausible model."

The same user, regarding Antonio Paris, the person who collects the money:

"The web page for his Center for Planetary Science is pretty much just a collection of stuff taken verbatim from wikipedia. And his twitter feed is mostly a collection of uncredited images taken from whoever/wherever, interspersed with exhortations to send him cash for this ridiculous project.

If you follow up the various programmes he has been "involved" in (candidate astronaut etc) you will see that they are distinctly less impressive than they might at first seem to the naive. "

Fascinatingly, according to Antonio Paris' LinkedIn profile, he got a Master degree in 2012 and immediately started to refer to himself as "Professor Paris" in the "Area 51" documentary directed by... himself!

His "astronaut candidate" program:

http://projectpossum.org/possum-astronaut-program/training-p...

Wow, indeed.
-> That advertising and mass surveillance go hand-in-hand.

-> That the slim, slim, slim chance of making out like a bandit in a startup as a non-founder is getting worse every year.

-> That most of the products we build don't affect more than 1% of the world, nor ever could.

-> That HN, while generally benevolent, does have active censorship (sometimes for the better).

-> That many folks in the Midwest are as good as any programmer on the coast.
Many thanks for the info
ThinkPad T460s.

Sure, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4rd gen) looks thinner, but at the thickest point, at 16.9 mm the T460s is only 3% thicker than the X1 at 16.35 mm. Also the 1.4 kg vs 1.2 kg weight difference is not big.

T460s is easier to open, if you want to add memory or change the SSD drive, or change other components. T460s still had a traditional RJ45 port for ethernet cable. With X1 you need an usb-adapter, or always use wifi.

For both you can choose a 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 screen resolution.
CAS is a job best done by relatively slow, but well armored aircraft flying low and slow. Pilots need to have time to develop awareness of both their allies and their enemies. Pilots of this type of mission are going to come under fire, which is something the air force is fundamentally unwilling to accept. Marines in planes, on the other hand, are likely to accept similar risk to marines on the ground if it reduces risk for all. Given that CAS pilots must work most closely with those on the ground, it makes little sense for them to be air force.

That being said, drones are probably the real A-10 killers. They can fly right down an enemy's throat without risking their pilot's lives. VR technology promises to give drone pilots a better field of view than any cockpit offers, and pilots could potentially switch control to a new drone when their previous drone is forced to return to base. This means one pilot could follow an engagement from start to finish, instead of multiple pilots trading off. This would greatly reduce the likelihood of pilot error and friendly fire incidents.
I wonder how clang-tidy [1] could help in this task

[1] http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/
Well, if you are impressed by Lua scripting in a game, go back to Minecraft, then install OpenComputers.

They have it all. Those computers have firmware, an OS (LuaOS), filessystems, network routers, you name it. You can do pretty interesting things with the peripherals. You can also program robots.

https://github.com/MightyPirates/OpenComputers
It's also worth pointing out that private corporations with sufficient scale to plan and build road networks are also fantastically inefficient organizations in many respects...
Umm... Except for la veta pass Interstate 25 runs east of the Rockies from Denver to Albuquerue. More possible than you think.

Denver to SLC, on the other hand, you'd be 100% correct about.
While working on a data science team some months ago, these notebooks helped me build something that explained, in detail and at a high level, the implementation details of an algorithm to sales and others not familiar with data science techniques. It was awesome and so easy.

I also used them when we did a capture the flag contest to help explain visually how a multi time pad vulnerability works.
Jupyter is great for prototyping and playing with ideas, essentially its great it you want persistent data. But after you more or less know what you want and loading the initial dataset isn't a constant annoyance you're usually better off in an IDE or other real programming environment.

I use it to ask a whole bunch of exploratory questions about a dataset then productionize the result in PyCharm (my preference, other ways work great too :)
To work for the private sector further against your interests? /s
I teach an internal class on python at my office, and the notebook makes it significantly easier to work and play with code. It's a step between a REPL and a file you load and run each time you make a chance. It speeds up the dev/test cycle significantly.
I think it would be fair to say that most of us can accommodate much more than an hour per week at work. Perhaps an hour per day or more.
Dell XPS was widely lauded as one of the best laptops in the last few months: http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/28/dell-xps-13-review-2015/

The developer ver is sold natively with Ubuntu.
Born-n-bred and live on a farm.

GMOs are a form of proprietary lock-in backed by legal restrictions.

The underlying problem with almost all GMOs is that they are tied to a particular chemical combination, and the seed must be re-purchased every year (the harvested seed is sterile and/or you cannot (legally) re-seed).

Those chemical/GMO businesses then have a strangle-hold on the farmers. Farmers are enticed by low prices until a substantial percentage are 'hooked' and then the prices rise - just like Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish policy.

Here in the E.U./U.K. we've resisted GMOs but the pressure (mostly from global/U.S. seed/chemical producers) on the politicians to allow them is constant.

Until these global seed producers emerged (latter half of the 20th century in concert with the chemical manufacturers) farmers either kept back some of their own harvest for seed or bought at-will from other farmers without restriction. Such seed sells for a slight premium (due to quality and cleanliness - low numbers of alien species) over other seed.
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Natural language processing algorithms for web developers
Then Build more Airframes...

Start up the production again, I would rather them scrap the F35 program, which is vaporware at this point, than the A10
Ask HN: Open-source mixpanel?
I've been looking for an open-source mixpanel.

I've ran into Eventhub, but it hasn't been updated since 2014. (https://github.com/Codecademy/EventHub)

Has anyone seen anything like Eventhub, but is still maintained?
An Open Letter to Social Autopsy
One of our data analyst had fun drawing all the shots from Kobe during his whole career.
He did everything on jupyter, which I discovered at that moment, and was mind blown on how well it worked and how powerful it is.

I don't think I would ever use this tool as a seasoned software engineer, but I can definitely see the power it has for newer people who want to learn, or simply people like him who know a little bit of code and just wanted to run it.

Congrats to the team building this tool!
Thanks for the example! I especially found the commenting style and return type on its own line to be interesting.

Regarding placement of curly braces, did you see them on their own line or at the end? This article seems to imply that CNF had braces at the end: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/peterwie/2008/02/04/pedanti...

I'm interested because it seems that lower-level systems programming at Microsoft put braces at the end (early .NET BCL, maybe even the first C# compiler's C++ code, TypeScript compiler source, etc), but that Microsoft documentation tended to put braces on their own line and then that became the more de-facto style that shows up in their open source code.
The first Seedling Harvest Videos:

Cats!: https://www.giveseedling.com/#/harvest?token=d57d195549f8858...

Birthday: https://www.giveseedling.com/#/harvest?token=0df51c5c0f76f25...
The map also totally ignores state by state rivalries. Cats up here in Oregon throw a lot of shade at California. Colorado and Oklahoma have lots of beef, but this map puts Denver and OKC in the same mega-region.
"If "Open" means open source,..."

Ah, no. Sorry. "Open" has a long history of not meaning 'open' in cases like this.
Bernie Earned Less in Year Than Hillary Made in Single Speech
> Do you want to see 80% of existing content creators online to die and the other 20% to keep the lights on through paygates?

YES, emphatically so and I will happily help build the coffins. They cannot die soon enough, we have massive over-coverage and not nearly enough darwinism when it comes to news websites, which is what causes clickbait headlines and shoddy quality.

I'm hoping for more around 95% death toll but that's just me.
Jupyter notebooks are for running ad hoc blocks of code. The biggest advantage of doing so is being able to check the output of each block to make sure the output is expected. This feature in particular makes for a great tool for tutorials. (Example of mine: https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper/blob...)

It is definitely not a tool to replace a typical Python workflow.
But how much of that can be done by unskilled laborers? And will any public sector unions allow it to be done? Why not just funnel the money to the existing government agencies? I'd imagine it might be possible to require that they hire new employees too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2GV_bCfnCw#t=6m23s
Paramount: “We own the Klingon language”
That's how it's always been in Bulgarian: "Чехия". The "cz" is really strange though! Why not "Chehia"?!
"Marines in planes, on the other hand, are likely to accept similar risk to marines on the ground if it reduces risk for all."

Is this an issue of different cultures within different departments, or different objectives, or what? I would hope that combined arms in a modern military would break down divisions in combat behavior like this
There's also a newer alternative called Zeppelin:

https://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org

Comparison: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comprehensive-comparison-jupy...
I guess part of the problem is that most producers don't want to open-source a game until it's stopped making significant money, and most games are largely forgotten by that time, so there's less incentive to bother in the first place, and (perhaps more importantly) no press when it does happen. (That Wikipedia article is surprisingly long, but I haven't heard of most of the entries.)
Well Eastern Wyoming is certainly part of the Great Plains. But agreed, the line across Wyoming is too far to the west and includes a significant chunk of Mountain regions in the Plains area. Maybe the author doesn't care about Wyoming. Hardly anybody lives there. Except Dick Cheney.
It's sad that it's so expensive to retrain someone used to telnet for ssh.
Speaking as an avid gamer, every VR headset looks like pure garbage next to my 4K monitor and to add insult to injury you need to beef up your machine for the privilege of a worse experience.

Screw it. They're expensive, you look incredibly stupid wearing one, you'll beat the crap out of your machine to make it work all for the joy of watching the same thing you would've been watching from a comfortable chair in 1/4 the resolution and detail on a screen rubber banded to your face.

You guys have fun, I'm sticking to the couch.

Edit: My plan is to save all the money Oculus and company want to make me spend on their rubber band screens and save it for the day the legit holodeck comes out. Everything less is just a sad imitation.
Not true at all. American infrastructure desperately needs to be rebuilt.

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org

https://hbr.org/2015/05/what-it-will-take-to-fix-americas-cr...

http://www.vice.com/read/america-is-collapsing-a-brief-look-...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/falling-apart-america-neglected-...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/opinions/blumenauer-renacci-in...

http://www.nssga.org/case-missed-60-minutes-falling-apart-am...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/american_prosperity...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-s-crumbling-infrastructur...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-us-economy-is-under-...
Very much agreed! I've rarely heard people working at big corporations say, "Wow everything we do is so free or red tape and full of efficiency!"