skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly my experience as well. I transitioned from a 2007 335 to a 2013 335i because I wanted new tech and warranty. But I miss the old car's driving dynamics every single day. I'm getting a M3 next because it's been my highschool dream car and still retains a bit of that BMW magic, but the one after next? Probably a Model S for daily with a Porsche Boxster for weekend fun.
I don't think really any scientists in the relevant fields actually think it's an interesting mystery. Lots of people make extraordinary claims about new theories or perpetual motion machines, but those claims frequently get reported on a disproportionately large amount.

This is from the perspective of a former physicist who is grumpy about the endless torrent of "Einstein was wrong!"-type articles. I personally feel like it's risky to allow people to pin their hopes on something that's pretty obviously bunk, but I imagine it does have some benefits. I just don't think it's worth it.
That is fine, but beer and liquor need to be included as well.

Just because alcohol prohibition ended first, doesn't mean it deserves special treatment (I live in a state where cannabis is legal).
It's an ad, but one that's providing a legitimately useful service. Theres no conflict of interest here (the summary isn't any more biased because it's an ad than a regular commenter would be) and if it weren't an ad, it would be generally recognized as a constructive comment.

There's no need to get dogmatic about advertising. If all ads were this high quality and considerate, I would have no problems with ads.
There isn't much to see with a tiling window manager...
Are you being facetious or was this a real story? I'm not in America and have not heard of it.
>They couldn’t force me to have an online presence after all.

I don't know where he gets this idea. Both the Comp. Sci. and Engineering schools at my university require that all students have a laptop capable of running software related to the coursework (financial aid is available specifically to help meet this requirement). The university also supplies plenty of computer labs. If I insisted on turning in all assignments on paper, I would be laughed at and given failing grades until I was kicked out of school.

The modern world absolutely can and will force you to have an online presence.
Longform Podcast #189: Maciej Ceglowski
What about Reuters and Associated Press?
Ubuntu 'snaps' for secure, transactional packages in Ubuntu 16.04
But the Ponzi scheme aspect of SS is (mostly) orthogonal to its "forced savings" aspect. If the revenues from its taxes had been invested like a sovereign wealth fund, even very conservatively, it would be in much better shape.

Instead, it was "invested" in government bonds, which is equivalent to saying, "oh, I'll just raise the money later". But that's courting disaster: if you have these unfunded obligations that come due, you have to gore an increasingly difficult amount of taxes out of your base, which can become rapidly impossible if and when people start fleeing from the burden.

We could have kept the forced savings but given people back more than a real dollar per dollar forced to contribute.
Not necessarily on top. Samsung can already layer more stuff on top, but this would enable Samsung to replace things. Now, yes, that might be exchanging Google spyware with Samsung spyware, but at least you can choose who's spying on you? (Using different services for different things can help keep all of your data off a single profile, at least.)
ISP idea == very interesting !
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wangle

There are many meanings, including:

> A combination of the words wang + angle.
> Noun: A curved/bent/crooked penis.
I find that actual metric here to be the most dubious part of the whole argument. I can easily understand making qualitative claims about happiness and maybe even some of the arguments presented by the author are good ones, on a qualitative basis.

But trying to quantify this is just so bogus. What do they think they're even measuring? They're just making statistical claims about questionaire results as far as I can tell. The author doesn't qualify that nearly enough. He is treating this like there's some kind of discrete quanta of happiness. "My current happy level is 7.453 kiloJoys" or something like that. Its just weird.
It would be fewer bills than without the $25, but the greedy strategy would still work for both (without, you'd get 3 bills: $20, $20, $10, and that's the optimal). Whereas change for $40, the greedy strategy will give you 3 bills: $25, $10, $5—which is more than the optimal 2 bills.
Part of the way down the post links to Russ Cox's excellent writeup of how Google used this general sort of technique (turn a regexp into a bunch of conditions involving three-symbol sequences, search an index for them, work from there) to do regexp searching scalably for Code Search: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

You can peruse his open-source (re)implementation of the approach at https://github.com/google/codesearch .
Or, for a quick fix you can turn off Javascript on wired's domain.
Also the author of WAL-E works with me on Citus Cloud.
And this is a recent investigation by german authorities, confirming that everyone cheated.

http://www.thelocal.de/20160420/several-german-car-manufactu...
Infrastructure guy at Plaid here.

> Is there really no way to get closer to normal performance for networking in Virtual Box?

Unfortunately not! It takes many different tweaks, tunes, and hacks to squeeze performance out of VirtualBox. To make matters worse, NPM as a tool is pretty slow in general -- in fact it's become somewhat of a joke in the community[1]. npmserve solves this by offloading the work to a remote server, so the npm install process becomes as simple as fetching and expanding a tarball.

> Also, why not use Linux VPS?

This is something we may move to if performance becomes an even bigger issue. We use vagrant-aws[2] in our integration testing environment to achieve a similar effect.

> Also, take a look at Docker as an alternative to Vagrant/Chef.

We don't currently use Docker (in this use-case at least). It's definitely an option, though! Using Chef here is pretty handy, insofar as we can use the same infrastructure code we use on production, so our developer environments are as close to production as possible.

> Also, take a look at pnpm.

Nice, this is the first I've heard of this project. We looked at ied[3], but we weren't comfortable moving over to it without also moving our production infrastructure.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nplaym
[2]: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws
[3]: https://github.com/alexanderGugel/ied
Then remove all workforce and automate everything..

No seriously, read this: http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-... ,It's why second hand clothing is sold in africa and not given away.
There are places where mosquitos are an invasive species. Hawaii apparently did not have mosquitos until they were introduced there by humans. So that might be a good place to experiment with eradicating them, the "it's not natural" argument would carry less weight there.
The hidden trade in our second-hand clothes given to charity
well the article seems to imply that 7% is low: "by the colossal 7%"

and there is this:

But that same survey found that those with a low level of education were 47% more likely to be the happiest than those with a high level of education.13

so low level of education makes almost 7x more impact than diet + exercising combined. something is seriously wrong with this happiness calculus
Punch-Card Powered Train Station Display
> Lots of people make extraordinary claims about new theories or perpetual motion machines.

Such claims don't often get replicated by multiple, independent labs, as is the case here.
Michael Arrington Steps Back at CrunchFund
Secretary of the Treasury has an official announcement on Medium:
https://medium.com/@USTreasury/an-open-letter-from-secretary...
It has been proven that a 2-Angel can.

The difficult part of the problem is proving your argument to others. There-in lies the difficulty of mathematical proofs.
"Marijuana" isn't one thing. Dutch coffeeshops are fairly unique in their offering a tasting menu of dozens of varieties of marijuana.

But yes, the actual number of cannabis connoisseur tourists is tiny.
I’ve actually wondered if we should create some kind of ‘blackops’ X-prize. Crowdfund a million dollars in bitcoin and release it to someone who can prove they released a gene drive that wiped these monsters out.

Obviously this would be a major violation of the democratic process, but I feel like the utilitarian ends here justify the means. Should an individual have the power to take a global decision like this? Probably not, but this action is needed because the current GMO debate is so bogged down in unmovable, politically entrenched positions.

The environmental and social justice NGOs who campaign against this technology may be doing the world one of the greatest environmental dis-services we’ve ever seen. Biology is the ultimate sustainable technology, it’s crazy that environmental groups are opposing it’s use so strongly.
I'm not sure I'd call that summary well-written or particularly valuable, but I also don't think that's the poster's fault. Journalism is fundamentally contextualizing information, and stripping the context back to information is like playing telephone.

I say this all the time, and I'll say it again: you and I can both write a passable story relaying a world event, but contextualizing it and adding illustration around the event is what journalism is about. Distilling that back to a summary is the antipattern. Simply start with the information and don't add context, because stripping out that nuance can change the context of the story (and did, in this case, particularly in the "even smaller" summary-of-summary).

Even beyond that, the summary is a bit error-prone, but again, not the poster's fault and probably due to English being a second language or rushing it. I'm less concerned about that.
Well for one you cant get a massive tax bill for options that are worth nothing.

The first $15k of capital gains is tax free and approved share schemas have even better allowances.

I know some one working in a 100 year old ftse 100 company that grossed nearly $200k from a share option scheme - and that is effectively tax free.

From next year you can put away $28k in a tax free account that is immune from income tax - this years allowance is $20k.

Thats before you get into EIS and VCT Shares
Donald Trump’s Jet Is Grounded by the F.A.A
SOMEHOW, Congresspeople who receive massive donations from Google employees have written incredibly specific letters to other governments directly begging them not to investigate Google.

Anna Eshoo is a great example of a bought-and-paid for Google shill. Her primary donor is Google (technically, :Google employees:) and she's actually actively campaigned for Google on the international stage.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0000... <- $24k so far this cycle, $34k/top donor last cycle.

And shilling:
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/225332-lawmakers-protes...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/anna-eshoo-zoe-lofg...

The other Congressperson mentioned in both above received $22k from Googlers so far this season, and $32k/top donor last cycle: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0000...

Google doesn't OFFICIALLY endorse anyone, but they buy out of a lot of them.

EDIT: My comments have been rate limited for being unpopular, so my response to the below comment is:

In the 2014 cycle, Googlers donated to 252 members of the House of Representatives, and 64 members of the Senate. Obviously, the majority of which aren't presiding over Silicon Valley.

Here's a list: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000022008&...
I think you might be conflating assessments of importance with assessments of soundness. Referees often disagree intractably on importance, and its been shown to be a very poor predictor of future important results. But referees disagree much more rarely on soundness, and when they do they are often resolved through discussion. Papers that are sound but deemed uninteresting get published elsewhere. The importance checking is debatable, but soundness checking is crucial and reasonably objective.
Is there any evidence of this? I have to admit, the amount of data Amazon would have about the intimate inner workings of companies using AWS is terrifying.
Daughters of the Guild: The Overlooked Women Painters of the Dutch Golden Age
>16-year old firm is headquartered just outside of NYC in Cambridge

hmmmm... Cambridge Massachusetts?
I'm curious to what degree Unruh radiation (and the resulting consequences this idea relies on) 'established physics'?

By extension, I think this is the most interesting article I've seen to date on the EmDrive: it seems to have a basis in a fairly non-controversial result of GR, which in turn is something which nicely explains an otherwise bizarre physical phenomenon. And, to top it off, there are a number of falsifiable predictions which are within our ability to test. I'm interested in whether any of my assumptions are wrong.
I think that point needed to be deconstructed (by the author of the article) in a lot more detail. It strikes me as both obviously true in many ways but also obviously false in many other ways.

It is obviously true that losing weight won't make you feel any better about being stuck in a shitty marriage, or a job you hate, or being estranged from your parents, or any number of other things that can cause deep-seated unhappiness.

It is also obviously true that losing weight will make you feel better physically, and probably result in you being treated better by most of the people you interact with face-to-face on a daily basis. Being treated better by people definitely makes me feel happier.

On that note, I should really go to the gym more often.
I actually had an Ask HN[1] with this question but it went completely under the radar. I was hoping for some good discussion!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11467942
It's real, and it's not in the Opinion section. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/18/be... (Paywall)
Amazon can undercut you whether you sell on their website or not. So can any other major corporation if your product catches their eye. Lastly this particular product was on Amazon for a decade (per article) before Amazon choose to complete. And the answer to your question is develop something you can patent or can compete in other ways that scale and price.
I estimated from the number of people who clicked through the link in the post and further to the medium post on the headline links to. The number would be very close to 1000 at the very least, but most likely several thousand.
doesn't refraction also require the speed of light to change? I'm guessing you mean something subtler.
Then just write es5. It'll still run everywhere forever.
Book Review: “The Go Programming Language” by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan
But real world ecosystems are never in equilibrium, at least not for long. Even isolated ecosystems with little human contact and no invasive species experience boom and bust cycles. So we're actually just discussing the appropriate rate of change. How fast is too fast?
I'm suprised the topic of emulation hasn't been raised yet! The Xbox 360 emulator project Xenia[0] has made great progress on perserving a generation of games[1].

[0]https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
[1]http://xenia.jp/compatibility/
Yeah, this is why I want to try and negotiate my risk and have a steady and more reliable monthly income.
Is there an open source clone of Sketchup?
Especially since they're offering the ability to run Xbox 360 games on Xbox One, including support for Live. I can't imagine it's any more work at all to keep Xbox Live running for actual Xbox 360s if they need to keep it running for 360 games running in emulators.
Harriet Tubman New Face of $20 Bill
Google’s New YouTube Analysis App Crowdsources War Reporting
Have you factored the tax you would pay on any money you make? Thats 40% -- if you take this into consideration, price rises aren't THAT extraordinary...

I'm also one of the lucky one whose house price has risen by 25% over the last 2.5 years. However, it means I'd have to pay 40% tax on that delta, leaving me in no position to buy anything equivalent (let alone better) in the same area.

The only people who 'profit' are people who want to seriously downsize or leave the 'red' areas. Everyone else is on the same mad train, apart from the banks, solicitors, insurers, estate agents, 'developers' and other bubble hangers on.
[In the future]

Shopkeeper: I'm sorry, I can't accept this bill as legal tender. It doesn't say that it's not legal tender—ergo it is legal tender, ergo it's not legal tender.
"The internet, as opposed to AOL and the others, was like a great city. It certainly had slums and red-light districts and places you wouldn’t want to visit after night, but the museums, ... streets were packed with excitement. "

This memory of the internet still lives. There are many nooks and crannies that are hard to find as they do not show up on facebook, reddit etc. Lots of independent, wacky, controversial, illegal and subversive sites are alive and kicking.

In the earlier days, I suppose due to lack of volume, it was a lot easier to find these places.
You could write vanilla JS and your code still could fail in some versions of node because of bugs or breaking changes.
And in browsers, the JS language is the same, but the implementation of the various APIs has varied greatly.

So ES6 is not the problem.
I've never heard of Anna Eshoo before, here's the first few lines of her Wikipedia bio:

Anna Georges Eshoo (born December 13, 1942) is the U.S. Representative for California's 18th congressional district, serving in Congress since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, which includes part of Silicon Valley, includes the cities of San Jose, Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto.

It doesn't seem that unusual for the representative of the area that a large company is based in to help defend their interests.
This is precisely why many Buddhist scholars have worried about the integration of Buddhist thought into Western culture: the divorce of these concepts from their underlying meaning can render them ineffective, or worse, harmful.

Without an understanding of the foundational concepts of impermanence, nonself, and nirvana (the three jewels), activities like meditation lose much of their transformative power and much of their effects on creativity and mindfulness. This is important as these effects appear to mirror the very aptitudes that "Abundance Philosophy" is attempting to target.
Thank you for the reply, I hadn't noticed.

My point of view is that I don't care being tracked, as long as I'm paying for said tracking. I browse the web with NoScript, Ghostery, uBlock, AdBlock etc because I don't want to be used as a product without my consent.

But I'd gladly pay 10-20$ more per month to my ISP for access to quality journalism, where payments are arranged for by my ISP through some tracking cookie or whatever.
You know, if something makes you fall asleep after 20 minutes... then maybe this is your brain's way of telling you -- ever so gently (for now, at least) -- that you're pushing it well past its normal, safe operating parameters? And that perhaps you should start cutting back a bit -- perhaps way back?

Being as, if you keep ignoring these signals, and pushing that envelope, eventually your brain will start letting you know in ways that aren't so gentle - or as forgiving.
DIY Apple Watch Parrot Drone Flight Hack (GitHub)
Unlike Reddit, HN welcomes self-promotion when it is on topic.
CAVE Language – a visual design language for contextual applications
Fascinating read and terrible light casted on Fidelity.
As a form of consumer protection I can see why that is desirable.

I think if a company wanted to create a strong branding, for which it would be known that the experience is distinctly NOT android (even if it's based on android) then that is more acceptable.

'Android phone' implies that the google play store and apps are on the device.
Getting Started with the Terminal, Git, and Node
Every move increases the area needed to be blocked.

Starting off, if the angel can move 1 every 1/9th of a turn, a devil could block off a 3x3. Every subsequent full turn would add 2 that the devil would have to block off.

So for move rate M on an NxN grid (which can represent any wandering linear path) necessary to trap an angel is 8+2NM (interestingly, close to 13). If an angel moves at all, the devil cannot trap it without player error.
Y Combinator Haters, Read This
Chesterton's fence applies to things that are built with a purpose. Natural evolution does not meet this criteria; mosquitoes are more like Chesterton's Fallen Tree.
Read the article before commenting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique
I'm pretty sure it's not possible to prevent a role from setting session parameters.

I believe it is not possible to SET ROLE or SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION with code executed within a SECURITY DEFINER function (which is what you're asking to do), though as Tom Lane points out one shouldn't rely on that:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/10703.1417480773@sss.pg...

Given arbitrary SQLi, it's hard to see how one can do better than setting up an untrusted sandbox like that and executing your untrusted SQL there, but being able to prevent setting a session parameter would still be useful within that context.
UK is probably going to keep a hardline on it. Government shuts down any potential discussions on it here.
Want something incredible to read that will fundamentally alter your conception of power? Look up Foucault's work [0].

[0] https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/newhistoricism/mod...
According to an acquaintance who worked there, the original research was funded by the Gates Foundation’s anti-malaria R&D program. Intellectual Ventures developed the prototype Photonic Fence (http://www.intellectualventures.com/inventions-patents/our-i...) but concluded that low-tech things like bed nets had higher benefit per dollar for malaria prevention, particularly when you factor in the challenge of powering the device in areas without reliable electricity (the kill laser requires enough power to make solar non-trivial).

The good news is that they licensed it to a company for commercialization last year:

http://www.intellectualventureslab.com/invent/new-collaborat...

The business plan I'd like to see would be selling it as a luxury for the relatively affluent and use that sales volume to drive the manufacturing costs down. I live in Washington DC and it'd have to be really expensive compared to the cost of real-estate which is unpleasant to use from May to November due to mosquitoes, not to mention the growing number of people who will pay a premium not to spray pesticides around their children and pets. Diseases like Zika, Dengue, etc. should boost that even higher.
anyone knows how this would affect Kubuntu?
If you're suggesting giving low ratings as a reaction to what Amazon's done and not because it's actually a bad product, I really wish you'd reconsider. Seems like a rather slippery slope, to start basing product reviews on something other than the products.
> the chronically uncool.

Such as politicians? Or basically most people living in Ottawa?
>> "UN is meeting one of the next couple of months to hopefully start to get rid of all that idiocy"

I think that meeting it yesterday, today, and tomorrow - hence the timing of this announcement.
I see 2 base salaries of $420420. Ha ha.
So Mr. Fry is assuming that 15 year old boys would be willing to give up the treasure trove of Porn that is available to them via the technology he suggest they spurn.

A very unrealistic assumption.
Yes, thanks for the clarifying points.

For (2), if you convert the residential property into a business by renting it out, at what point can you do a 1031?