skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds plausible that it takes some time to come up with a reasonable-ish framework for legal production, distribution, and consumption. Most of the US states that legalized seemed to jump in with an attitude more like legalize it now and figure out the details as we go. It seems to have worked okay, but could be seen as being kinda risky.

I also think that many people way overestimate the importance of international law and treaties. There is no court with any teeth on these things, and nobody gets any brownie points for following treaties. The only enforcement mechanism is what other countries care to do about any violations they perceive, which could be anything from nothing at all for blatant violations to sanctions, trade war, or real war for minor violations or even not going along enthusiastically enough.
They could have done the whole thing without that outer bottle with the WiFi enabled display. Just put a label on the metal bottle and be done with it. Needless complications and expenses...
That's my plan. But it means I can't use other people's modules anymore.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11534148
Is there any study on the reduction of young consumers (rebel/taboo incentives) and reclaimed resources for police forces (less time dealing with petty to medium weed issues) ?
DEET has its own health risks.
So basically a country can pull out of a bad treaty and all they're going to get is some strongly worded letters?

Hopefully once Canada and others defy these terrible agreements, poorer countries will realise they have a lot to gain by ignoring them, too.
I disagree with this. Other than the place-keeping, search, and notifications, I (and my team) don't want other features from Slack. In fact, the constant additions of features is aggravating as hell. The addition of an enabled-by-default DND feature was a real PITA for our team to try and work around.
1) Suggested by a lawyer.
2) Had enough already because have extraordinary abilities :)
3) I would say, long and arduous - even having all the evidence first. Collecting it and collecting references from basically everyone with a professional connection.
Yeah, seriously: "Oh my god, a laptop stand is now being produced at half the price of the previous one! The sky is falling!"
The problem, with 1-angel, feels very go-like.
You'd be forcing them into another ecological niche, where without additional changes to adapt them to their new diet they'd likely be outcompeted and die. It'd be a complicated and inefficient route to eradicating them just as surely as if you'd killed them all.
Has a nice relation to the board game Hex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)
Those are reasons that people become willing to give up something else for it, and, as such, reasons why it has value. The value of a thing is what someone is willing to give up in exchange for it, not the reason they are willing to do so. That's just what value is.
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The idea of bringing in ‘adult supervision’ is one that was pervasive in the minds of Seattle’s investors, at least up until a few years ago.

Sounds good to me. If the Seattle tech sector appreciates the value of experience, maybe I'll still have a job at 50.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098655
If it wasn't going to eat into Xbox One sales, I'm sure Microsoft would consider it. The Xbox 360 makes a far better media center than the Xbox One does. The apps on the 360 crash less then on the One and dealing with crashed apps on the 360 is much more reliable.

For example, when your YouTube app crashes/hangs on the Xbox One, returning to the menu does nothing as the app pauses/runs in the background. You can hit the menu button (akin to a right-click) on the YouTube icon and select Quit. If you run YouTube again, it'll still be running and crashed. The trick is to menu button and quit YouTube and then run a couple other video apps (usually Netflix and Hulu do the trick). This is usually enough to fully offload the YouTube process and allow it to run again.

This is how Microsoft's flagship entertainment console works. In 2016. Seriously.

Everytime our cat sitter watches our place, I have the Xbox 360 hooked up for her to watch videos on. It's easier to use and more reliable.
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Zero-copy in capnproto docs and in this blog post actually mean different things (the first means that serialized and in-memory representations of capnproto messages are the same and the second means the absence of copying between user space and kernel space when sending a file over the network).
1. The power requirements to run one of these would be larger than what would fit in a basic Cubesat form factor. It's not going to be a 1U, perhaps something like a 3U or 6U at best. Then there is the thermal management of the large power supply (getting rid of heat in a vacuum is not simple) which is even more equipment and mass. Those larger satellites are a bit more expensive.

2. A lot of the "Launch a 1U Cubesat for $100k" figures are for the launch itself. That ignores other stuff like engineer wages, legal, etc. and is mostly hyperbole. Launching two for $200k is much more common as the second one take a lot less time to put together once the initial R&D is done. Then these "$100k" Cubesats, capability wise, are fairly useless. Think Sputnik type satellites. Want a working payload? Prepare to do more R&D. Oh and Cubesats have about a 50% rate of actually operating in orbit. First one doesn't work? Now you need to find more money to launch another if you weren't lucky.

3. The number of people who are willing to throw millions after something that currently isn't explained by science and is a lot harder to debug when you don't have someone sitting next to it in orbit, when it can done on the ground for an order of magnitude cheaper, is very small. Most people interested in using this are waiting for someone to pay for the testing first. Hell most satellite engineers I know for now still believe it to either be a hoax or will end up being just a measurement error. So people are riding this out until there is more hard evidence.

Disclaimer: I'm a Cubesat engineer
> The obvious explanation is that they have an error in the measurement.

Then why have 6 different teams verified it? Not saying EmDrive is the real deal but either the error is hard enough to catch 6 teams missed it, or theres something else going on. Saying all these teams are wrong, to me, is far from "obvious".
It's like the Walmart-ization of main street - except in the digital realm. Great for cost-cutting consumers today, bad in the long run.

Personally for the product pictured - the Amazon version is gaudy - I don't want to see more AMZN branding on my stuff.
Having another weapon in your arsenal during an arms race does not sound like having solved a problem.
A famous example of this was polywater, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater.
Amazon's android fork is desperately bad irrespective of their app store. If you aren't primarily using the device to consume Amazon content it is essentially useless
The Chinese steal everything they can and reproduce it for cheap. No respect for intellectual property at all. We are being robbed.
The Xbox One controller is a decent incremental upgrade on the 360 controller when you get a chance or find a cheap one in a store. The port on the back of every Xbox One controller is bog standard USB micro port (just like mobile phones, PS3/4 controllers, so many other things) and you can just USB plug it into your PC with no adapter needed.
The family is going through internal conflict at the moment as well.
Looking at today's world the Chinese curse comes to my mind may you live in interesting times.
After having had my original XBox fail once and XBox 360 needing to be replaced three times, and eventually still dying, with Microsoft refusing to replace the third, I switched to PS3, and now PS4.

I will never buy Microsoft hardware again, ever.

So, yeah, that is definitely a factor in my case.
Fortunately in the UK you don't pay capital gains tax on the property you live in.

You pay it on your second property I believe, but only if you sell, and only if it is a second property at that point.

CGT is also only 10% or 20% depending on your earning situation.
Ask HN: Would you use a “git for data”?
Dear HN:

Let's say there was a thing that gave you the full git workflow (branch, sync, push, pull, merge, revert, etc) efficiently for large-scale structured data.

Would such a thing be valuable? Would you use it? Would you pay for it?

Asking for a friend.
I would think the more fundamental question is -- are these 32 (or 303) different versions so non-backward-compatible that the need to test on all of them is just an accepted thing out in Node.js-land? That everyone just kind of shrugs and puts up with (the way MS Windows used to crash on a near daily-basis for nearly everyone, not too many years ago)?

I know that other languages also have issues in this regard -- but for more mature languages it seems to be more an exception than than the rule (restricted to certain platforms of subsystems, say).
Posting an update on this for anyone else in a growing org using Slack: Our team chatted today and decided to keep using Slack because it's awesome for remote teams and our needs. It works well for us. What we are doing now though is to us the 'Snooze' function which lets you set it on a timer. Then when someone msgs you they are told that you're in snooze mode and given the option to 'break through' the snooze and alert you anyway. We've agreed we'll only do that if it's urgent.

I think this will work well and probably scale well too.
I guess it's more complicated than that. Brain usage affects its chemistry - how much of what is available where - which, in turn, may have an effect on how misfolded proteins interact with normal ones.

Keep in mind I'm no expert, but this seems to be a reasonable assumption.
https://dnscrypt.org/
Doesn't HN qualify as some sort of social media too?
It can't be a coincidence. I hope they pass the bill next year on this day. I'll be booking work off and heading to the Art Gallery for that one.
CBC is pretty good, especially Peter Mansbridge. He hosts a good roast, when the powers that be bring the pork.
We need to talk about Scrum Nexus
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I grew up nearby, and virtually all of my friends from high school are attending universities in the Triangle.

After looking at the criteria used to compile the list, I can say that RTP still fails to compete in multiple categories. There is still little funding available in the area for people looking to spin up a "tech" startup, especially for series A and later. The region hasn't had many exits recently (at least, that I can recall), hurting the area in the "performance" category. Additionally, this means there aren't many "startup veterans" around to mentor younger business, dinging the RTP in the "startup experience" category.

There is certainly a growing entrepreneurship scene in the area. There are plenty of healthy, bootstrapped SMBs in the area applying tech to novel problems. But these aren't the types of businesses that come up on Hacker News regularly.
VW to Pay Each U.S. Customer $5,000 to Settle Dieselgate-Die Welt
ShopRunner was giving out 1-year trials and extended them every year for quite a while. I almost never used them.
I don't think ecologists use the word the same way you do. I'm not an ecologist; I just used to date one. But I do know that equilibrium in the ecology sense is not static at all.

If I'm understanding your comment about the rate of change, I think you're talking about drift between equilibria.

Asking about "too fast" is where the human value judgement comes in. Which isn't invalid, it is just human-centric and far from the whole picture. Stating that introducing an invasive species can destroy the existing ecosystem is a statement of fact without judgement. It is just an observation of reality.
Metcalfe’s Law Revisited
From the Wikipedia description it is bit vague how many blocks the devil put down each turn. Is it just 1? The same as angels power?
Tubman replacing Jackson on the $20 bill
Little: a statically typed, C-like scripting language based on Tcl
It costs a lot less, runs smoother, and gives better service. At least that's the idea. Whether it works or not in practice is for another day.
California is experiencing a high amount of nut theft
>> import hundreds of thousands of foreigners to replace their American workers

Oh FFS. Stopped reading there. I don't know what incentives are there for hiring immigrants. Immigration is hard and you end up with a less flexible employee. Immigrants are getting hired because they're people, and they happen to be people who are qualified for the jobs.
Words are cheap. Actions are not. That is why you see a lot of talking but no doing.
Yes, absolutely brilliant.
> jacked

Do you mean jagged, as in jagged edge? That is how new words are born, people accept it as if words wouldn't have to mean anything.
This article turned me off the WSJ:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/price-tag-of-bernie-sanders-prop...

18 Trillion -- yikes! It's not until the 5th paragraph that we find out that this includes health insurance and that me and my employer wouldn't have to shell out for that anymore. Does it save me money overall? A question not asked. But they do make a big deal about that number and how alarmed they are at it, even if it it's designed to save money.
"Resurrect"? I don't recall any time period in which micropayments were successful.
Beautiful, I've been looking for something like this for a while. My only issue is getting a strange

fatal: remote part of refspec is not a valid name in :MARKET-446

error which seems resistant to the usual sort of tweaks.
That's 100% the title's fault. The content of the story is about startup ecosystems.
Show HN: A regular expression based router for Rust
Seattle doesn't have the raw cash NYC does. I think that that's the core difference. Seattle punches above its weight and is a good place, but it doesn't have the wealth and easy access to wealth that NYC has.

Also, culturally, I don't think Seattle has a high risk appetite, and there's a pronounced anti-commerce attitude among many of the long-term locals.
Yeah you're right. I've read sometimes(maybe spacex?) companies just keep things secret and don't even patent them cause the chinese will just copy. Do they actually produce anything new/research and can/do we steal it from them too ?
Apparently there's a Cambridge, NY with a population of 2000 people
Is that why they can bombard the entire UI with ads? Every single page has tons of ads, and MS misleadingly only notes one of them as "Advertisement" (autoplay video). I disconnected my Xbox360 from the Internet because it's faster that way, and cleaner.

I see the Xbox One is pretty bad, too, and this "ads everywhere" has leaked into Windows 10 (though you can turn them off a bit).
It never stops being funny. Many famous comedians suffer from depression and/or mental health issues because that is one of the primary sources of their inspiration. Laughter, and specifically dark humor is an inoculation to misery. A perfectly healthy response to an unhealthy mental stare. When it feels like the world is crashing down, it's best to laugh at the ridiculousness of it all and move fowrard then be paralyzed by fear.

Laughter is also a common social signal, it signals safety and increases happiness for all who join in. Dark jokes specifically, increase our threshold to face terrible things and help distract from the anxiety of -- otherwise -- trivial matters in out day-to-day lives. It increases empathy and connectedness among people, even strangers who have little or nothing in common.

Just look how Austin Powers uses puns to lighten the situation. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wafhDIMU6w. It's cheesy and over-the-top to match the character but the effect is the same. We joke about the things that make us uncomfortable because it makes us feel better.

The only people up-in-arms about dark humor are individuals seeking to use their own false sense of moral superiority to subjugate others.

In a way, I'd be more scared of somebody who can't find it in themselves to laugh at all. To laugh at an awful joke requires self awareness and a clear understanding of the separation of truth from reality. People who lack those characteristics lie to themselves as much as others and live to project an 'ideal' image of themselves rather than face the humility of accepting their own weaknesses. Whet her the reason is big or small, they project a facade because they have something to hide. Is the person secretly a 'political activist' with an agenda or a murderous psychopath a hair-trigger response away from going off the deep end?

Of the dark comedians, Doug Stanhope is one of the darkest. Just watch the following skit https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3W9Z4bdS8. It's a clear middle finger to the 'Breast Cancer Awareness' movement for distracting from one of the few things in life that he truly enjoys. Not only is it extremely shocking but it artfully shines light on the ridiculous hypocracy of a movement that is more marketing than substance.

As shocking as his comedy usually is it's surprisingly endearing and disarming. Look past thr 'bitter old guy' image and it's hard not to see an intelligent young idealist who gave up one day and said, "fuck it, I'm going to ride out this existence until the wheels fall off."

BTW, the dead baby joke the author didn't have the courage to share was, "how do you get a dead baby out of a blender... with a spoon."

In short, don't feel bad about laughing at terrible jokes but be on guard when it comes to those who can't find it in themselves to join you.
The sentiment I hear in this thread is like those that dismiss cold fusion. Sure, we can all make statements like "obviously, someone screwed up" but it is another thing entirely to have to the patience to simply cite the experiments that disprove the proposed effect. I don't know what to make of cold fusion, but I also know for a fact that neither do physicists, and instead of studying it, they're just simply saying because there is no theory it must not work. Same with this stuff.

The one YouTube guy discovered the beaded-chain lifting effect, and then it had to be studied to find out what was going on. Obviously that was an easily reproduced experiment.

So with this thing, we must find conclusively the unmeasured heat or ions or whatever and show a repeatable method for such mistakes. That is my opinion about science, of course I probably lost most scientists with my first sentence.
> Radically new ideas (like for example that wolves will generate money and provide basic services valued in millions of dollars, or that if you kill the alpha wolf in a pack there is an increase, not a decrease to cattle damages, or that to cull badgers will spread faster the cattle diseases that you want to stop and thus is a questionable investment of public money)... all those knowledge is generated normally in universities, placed in big cities, after years of painfully slow research done by experts

Actually, the big agricultural research universities are generally not located in big cities, because that makes it difficult for them to do their research.
> I'm curious to what degree Unruh radiation (and the resulting consequences this idea relies on) 'established physics'?

Most theorists think Hawking–Unruh radiation has to exist, I guess because the calculation is relatively straightforward. You just need special relativity and some basic field theory.

Hawking–Unruh radiation has never been observed in a gravitational system, and doing so would be very difficult because it requires a truly enormous acceleration in order to produce a horizon with a temperature that is an appreciable fraction of 1 K.

There are certain regimes in fluid mechanics where the mathematics governing the fluid looks like the mathematics governing relativity. Some people have produced phenomena in those systems that look like Hawking–Unruh radiation. Some people further claim that this demonstrates the existence of Hawking–Unruh radiation for gravitational systems, but I find that reasoning to be specious.
This reminds of a great article from Blake Ross that demonstrates the laziness in journalism today. It also goes into detail about a few simple ways a journalist can investigate a topic: https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-...
I assume that mutating. We release 1bn sterile mosquitoes, most die, but 1,000 of them have a random mutation on top of the original mutation and become hermaphrodites. Now they reproduce on their own and become invincible microbots that bring zika to the masses.

Of course that could also happen in the wild with some good 'ol cosmic rays and no human intervention.
> The only time I know a woman is menstruating here in the US is when they tell me.

You and me. I did know a few people who told me they can smell menstruating women... I simply didn't ask how that's possible.
Its practically in NYC.
What's the Greatest Software Ever Written?
You do need more than 2 bits. DNA can be modified (5-methyl-C is the most well known, but there are lots of other modifications known). You also have degeneracy where the exact base at a position is not known and these are represented in the data as additional letters [1]. To cover all these you need 4 bits and if you want to cover the modifications you need at least 5 bits.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_notation
I am skeptical about the EmDrive (although I would very much like it to be real), and my opinion on the drive or its theoretical underpinnings is not really relevant, given my lack of knowledge about the field. But I don't think that writeup is very good either:

From the IO9 article:

> The experimental setup is so flawed that it’s continuing to produce measurable “thrust” while in null mode when it should do nothing.

From the Wikipedia page on RF resonant cavity thrusters (and corroborated by the citations):

> the 'null test article', was designed without the internal slotting that the Cannae Drive's creator theorised was necessary to produce thrust

> The null test device was not intended to be the experimental control.

The article's author seems to fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of the null test setup. Setting everything else aside, if the null articles did produce thrust, this would disprove the Cannae theory (which requires the slotted configuration), but would say nothing about the efficacy of RF thrusters in general.

Their quotes from various physicists about why the drive is probably nonsense are a lot more compelling.
As long as the income is greater than the expenses for MS, they'll keep it running.
I remember that being a thing when the droid phone was first launched.
I'd go back to a feature phone rather than locked into Xiaomi. Even with access to the Google apps it's a disaster area
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Yes, that's a good point, and I get that. But these days there are more smaller screens that they don't control because their mobile phone strategy was a huge failure. I would focus on controlling the smaller screens because that's where most entertainment and things happen.

Typing this from my android phone.
What sort of structured data are we talking about?

If you format an XML or JSON file with one field per line (or just use YAML) git itself should fit the bill perfectly.

Now, I do see lots of room for a git-like tool targeted at specific existing binary file formats. Microsoft Office and Photoshop files come to mind off the top of my head. (I believe that such tools already exist for those particular formats, but they're expensive and currently have low adoption.)
I'm surprised that more Microsoft and Amazon money hasn't worked it's way back into the Seattle tech echo-system. Is it a lack of VCs, rather than a lack of seed money and engineers?
So do CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, Times, NPR, RollingStone, etc etc etc.

No really sure what my point is... but having bias is the norm, not the exception.