skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing is a defined-contribution pension plan (like a 401(k) or an IRA) rather than a defined-benefit pension plan.

As I understand it, public employee unions have not been big fans of defined-contribution, preferring the more generous promises. That is a risk that both the union and the government take together.
It's plausible it's because of her name Isis and some agent thinks she's Isis
At first sight I thought the movie was from 2016, since "Title (Year)" is a very common way of mentioning movies, but this movie is from 1992, so that's not it.
But you don't want to distort the message either. How do you know that you will not infer the wrong conclusion on another chart if you bend the curves, think of a chart showing two curves, one being slightly higher than the other.
They've done most of the hard work in demonstrating a fully reusable rocket stage of an orbital launch vehicle. That's historic, beating even what the Shuttle managed (the Orbiter was not a full stage).

Nailing down the remaining operational workflow and they'll be able to achieve reusable rocketry, and bring down the cost of spaceflight significantly. It truly is the dawn of a new space age.
This didn't really register with me as tyrrany. What did the FBI actually do to her?

Going around a lawyer is a good way to lose a case against her, so maybe they weren't trying to make a case against her.

Maybe they actually had some real questions that involved her expertise or knowledge she might have had.
If we're talking about linking names to resources, ipfs/ipns is not a different thing https://github.com/ipfs/examples/tree/master/examples/ipns
The Blockchain Revolution, an Excerpt from Don and Alex Tapscott’s Upcoming Book
> running this project (mainly) for an American entity (NASA)

NASA is the largest customer but so far they account only for about 50% of the launches. This one in particular was for JSAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSAT_Corporation), a Japanese company.

I'm a little uneasy with the chant mostly because I (want to) perceive it to be largely a commercial enterprise and this win should belong firstly to the company and people working there. Too bad that "SpaceX" just doesn't sound that great as a chant.

It reminds, a little, of certain systems where the state is held above all else, where patriotism is a requirement and a virtue in itself, and where there's no division between government and economy.
The Blind Pug and the Lightning Strike
You can't even remove execute permissions on it. This was stated in the article as well.
Startups Guide to Manage Trademark Objection by Anu Sharma
thanks for the quick write up, i'll have to take a weekend to play with it

god of magic form: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Angelke...
Yeah I've had that a couple times. Once was a honk (I can only assume was) because I wasn't tailgating--yet we were moving at the same speed, so the driver swerved from behind me to the side and then in front--then slammed on their brakes.

The other time was after cruising during a lot of short stop and go intervals (so it was easy to judge crawling speed, that is to say). I eventually switched to the lane I needed and the guy who was rubberbanding behind me the entire way (pretty much going 1-10-1mph constantly instead of just sitting at 3 like me) pulled next to me and shook his head. I had a good feeling why, so I rolled down my window as we came to a stop next to each other at a light and asked if there was a problem. He said, "You drive like a dumb ass". "Oh, I do? Please tell me what I was doing wrong so I can improve". "You just drive like a dumbass". "No really, you seem like you know a lot about driving, please enlighten me". And he rolled up his window, the light turned green but he accelerated before the car in front of him had a chance to go (perhaps to get away from me, I'm 6'2" and 250lbs.), and then slammed on his brakes again...

Dunning-Kruger, if you ask me.
How is this different from Nock's ability to record HTTP streams and put them into tests for later "playback"?

https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/http-apis-test-code
Ask HN: Who is using AWS Aurora in production?
AWS Aurora has been in general release since July 2015. I've been considering using it for a larger project, but casual reading of the AWS forums ( https://forums.aws.amazon.com/search.jspa?objID=f60&q=Aurora&x=0&y=0 ) suggest its performance gains are not universal, has high replication lag and is generally unstable for some.

I was initially very excited for it based on their AWS deep dive talks, but the AWS forums have tempered my enthusiasm somewhat. Is there anyone here using it in production that would care to share stories of its use, and any pitfalls they encountered?
> 1) What happens when you run these benchmarks on a machine with only 16GB of RAM?

kdb+ uses ~ 1.2 MB of Resident RAM at startup. In addition, kdb+ storage model in memory and on disk have very little overhead (a few hundred bytes) per column over the raw binary data.

The above, combined with memory mapping, allow for large databases to be queried with great performance.

I query billion row futures databases on a Macbook Pro with 16 GB RAM with kdb+.

> 2) How does the KDB performance compare to doing the equivalent operations on a Pandas DataFrame (which, since these are simple in-memory operations, seems like the only fair comparison).

Could someone provide the equivalent Pandas code running against similar TAQ data for the queries in the following benchmark?

http://kparc.com/q4/readme.txt
You have a computer with servos and winches fly parafoil kites to generate power from wind. This is definitely the theoretically optimal answer. It's also very low capital intensity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-qUaO-xzrY
It's perfectly healthy to be critical. Depends how you do it.
They won't kill the same kind of birds, though. For example, there's a new rule raising the number of bald eagles which can be killed by wind turbines to 4,200 per year. I'm guessing that house cats kill few bald eagles.

It may still be a nonissue, of course, but the comparison with cats doesn't tell the whole story.
The Puzzle of Paul Meehl: A history of research criticism in psychology
The thing about alcohol and tobacco is that it is a personal choice that affects the people making that choice directly.

The diseases can be spread from generation to generation. And the problems tend to be worse for kids that are born with these diseases than if they contracted them in adulthood.

I personally have no moral qualms with prostitution as long as prostitutes are making the decision freely and not coerced (even indirectly by lack of options to survive economically) into it. My point is that it is somewhat reasonable for people to have a default rule of thumb that says 'this activity is not a good idea and I feel some revulsion for it'. Kind of like swimming in stagnant, slimy water.

Legalization has some definite appeal -- I mean, if it is going to happen anyway (and it will) it might as well be above board so we can at least exert some level control and have society offer legal protections to those invovled -- there is some level of danger reduction. But legalization cannot remove the inherent dangers of the activity and the dangers are real and lasting and not as fully understood as some seem to think.
Since the system git redirects to the git in Xcode (or whereever Apple's command line tools are installed), copy homebrew's git there.

Updating Xcode itself might be easier, though.

Edit: Copy homebrew's git into the directory inside the Xcode application where Xcode's outdated git is.
Or Scientists aren't a bunch of stiffs and can have fun too, because it's a fun profession...that more people should get into.
Hi,

You can contact us at developers@theaigames.com Then we can look at your projects and publish it at theaigames.com if it's suitable. The future idea of theaigames.com is to make a community where developers also can publish their own games.
Which is one reason why strong technical cofounders are so exceedingly valuable.
I've wondered about building an AI tournament for Avalon before, as my feel from playing and discussing it is that success in the game is strictly dominated by social strategy.

It would be interesting to test out different bot strategies - I'll take a look later. :)
The Dark Eye RPG – English Edition
That doesn't work for OS 10.11[1]. There's a workaround in that article.

[1] http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/
I live in Canada, did a degree in CS and work as a programmer. I do ok money wise. I consider myself lucky that I enjoy programming. I live in Toronto and have zero chance of ever owning real-estate (unless there is a massive real estate correction which would blow up the Canadian economy). Even if you consider a hypothetical marriage and doubled my income, it would be out of reach.

Its even worse in Vancouver.

I don't think its the end of the world. With a bit of luck and discipline, my retirement will be funded by investments.

(edit: i am using the rule of not spending more than 30% of after tax income on housing)
Actually I've spoken to Danny in person about his book, he lives down the street. My final line about socializing to make our simulations more accurate comes directly from a conversation with him.
Wow are they really ready for human life onboard in a year?

Unmanned failure doesn't bring much press.

Kill a few people and it will set back the whole program years.
Have you looked at Let's Encrypt for the redis.io domain?
We're Gonna Build a Framework
Apple Inc. To Replace Intelligent Personal Assistant Siri with Viv
Hi Demircan, Can you explain more with what you mean with " I was thinking the exact same thing recently"
Ariane 6 looks like it will be a fine rocket. Should be quite competitive if they can get it to market before, say, 2010, and if SpaceX's reusability efforts come to naught.

Otherwise, I fear it'll be much too little, much t0o late.
Gary Johnson – The Stealth Alternative to Trump and Clinton
This maneuver (powered descent with high deceleration right before impact) is called a "suicide burn"!
kdb+ map/reduce implementation operates across data in memory or on machines in a cluster.
No one. That's why this is such a stupid argument. BSD and OSX and Solaris and other Unixes have been doing their own thing for ages, and none of them worried about being compatible with other competing Unixes. But somehow Linux distros are wrong to do their own thing (collectively), and should be worried about *BSD and OSX? It makes no sense.
Yesterday I mentioned how Invoicely seemed to be a rip-off of Hiveage, another invoicing product.

The co-founder of Hiveage has published a detailed post today about this: https://medium.com/@prabhaths/invoicely-a-hiveage-rip-off-b9...
And this wouldn't be a problem if they didn't make a wide variety of system directories immutable to anyone (including root) but the installation user.

Apparently this is a very unpopular opinion, so even though I really like Apple and use them on a daily basis, I await the brickbats for daring to offer even the smallest criticism of decisions they made about El Capitan.

Please, feel free to reboot your server to disable this security feature so that you can install security updates for software Apple take a rather long time to supply themselves.
I agree. Also it seems the opposite is true: most dramas on streaming tend to force in obligatory racy sex scenes.
Locking in WebKit
There's no claim, AFAIK, that Apple actually intends to replace Siri with Viv. This is the people who originally made Siri, who don't work at Apple, making a new virtual assistant. No relation to Apple.
It seems Steve Jobs was inspired by Socrates: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
Completely incorrect.

The question to ask is, why are they bothering to land at sea?

And, if you had done any cursory research instead of just announcing that SpaceX is making a PR grab because it sounded good to you, you would have read in the abundantly available explanations that this launch was to geostationary transfer orbit, rather than low earth orbit. GEO is a lot, lot higher than LEO, which means the rocket has to be going a LOT faster to get there. This uses up a lot of fuel, leaving them very little to slow down from an even higher speed than the normal mission. Decelerating from a much higher speed takes MORE fuel than decelerating from a low speed, and they have less fuel available because so much got used up in getting to that speed.

So it's not plausible to get all the way back to the launch site. Instead they position a droneship way downrange so the rocket doesn't have to go as far back to land. But it's still going EXTREMELY fast, and managing to slow down all the way and land is an incredible accomplishment.
Truth and Trumpism (Op-Ed)
Show HN: Archmule, a social project management tool
I would have guessed that it's a trade-off between efficiency and mimizing public outrage in densely populated areas (yes, outside the US that can be an issue). Three blades, when the turbine is not working, block less from the view than a large number of blades (which converge towards giant white surfaces).
Ive noticed it in any technical field. People love to hear themselves talk and miss out on a lot by not listening to others.
> Sorry. We are living in a period where mediocrity and even complete fraudulent stuff is hailed as profound and "amazing".

Like what? Even the transistor is pretty damn amazing.

It's fine to be critical, but let yourself get excited sometimes too.
> I absolutely consider how that purchase will look to other people. it's one of the primary reasons why brands have value.

Wait, what? In fashion, sure, by definition - but when I'm choosing between Persil and Tide, or Coke and Pepsi, or Pizza Hut and Domino's, I'm primarily looking at how good it is at whatever I want it to do. Which one cleans better, which one tastes better?

There's a certain point where many people start buying things more as social signalling than as actual useful things, but I'd disagree that the vast majority of brands could be fashion items in this way. The rest use their brands to evoke trustworthiness - "I know that this will do what I want".
Not even that they're unable, there's a valid certificate & they're deliberately not using it for the site.
That was an interesting video, but it was restricted to a 2D simulation on a vertical-axis turbine with exactly 3 blades.

A more intricate genetic algorithm that runs a 3D wind model and accounts for the cost of manufacture would almost certainly produce some more novel solutions that completely demolish our preconceived notions of what turbines should look like, just like the "jellyfish" cross-section. But it would also probably not effectively scale beyond the model size. Genetic algorithms almost always exploit any previously hidden little flaws you may have in your model simulator, such as the rounding error on floating point numbers at the limit of their precision, or even the way in which you represent airflows. They evolve to maximize performance in the modeling environment, so if your model is not perfect, the solution does not always translate to reality.

As such, you always have to test the evolved solutions in the real world before you can say they are better than the designed solution.
Luck was a significant factor, however. There were _so many_ things that could have gone wrong, that is not an understatement at all. They found bugs in the AGC's software years later that could have sent 3 men to their deaths, had they occurred.
The ability to query with polygons defined by transit isochrones would be broadly useful.
>I find the level of criticism for SpaceX on this site to be incredible.

This has to be the funniest comment I have seen today. There are more than one post regarding this event with 300+ votes. Still the level of criticism for Spacex on this site is "incredible", Really?
I see little or none, <5% of discussion on this page.
I'm not sure you understand the point of my comment. I was sarcastically agreeing with you.
Is it enough to update Xcode command line tools or do I need to install full Xcode?

(I don't usually use Xcode)
My understanding is that the NSL is a subpoena, and therefore a request for production of documents. It does come with a gag clause however.

Government can only compel you to hand over information for third party which you possess. They can't compel you to DO something, as demonstrated by FBI v Apple recently.
If they chanted "SpaceX," or "Falcon 9," or "JCSAT-14" it would signify pride in their work. The "USA" chant glorifies the state/government above all else.

It's the same reason why foreigners are baffled by, for example, the Pledge of Allegiance.
This argument makes no sense.
These are the effects of suppressing causality. When a person or group believes the knowledge of their actions needs to be suppressed to increase the performance metrics of their actions, they literally become insane.

No government has the right to withhold information beyond a clear and reasonable timeframe. 3 months seems reasonable. 1 year is out of the question.
Here are the quick-start rules: http://ulisses-us.com/thedarkeye/TDE-Quickstart-new.pdf
Panama Papers source issues statement
The only two questions I see in your post are in the P.S. What am I missing?
I'm not saying he is wrong, but he makes some bold claims without giving any proof.

Some examples:

> Twelve blades is a nice number.

Why twelve? Why not 50, it's a nice number as well.

> Lipps turbines can operate in faster winds [...] turbines could be allowed to run 24/7 in any wind with no computer

So even in the strongest winds turbines with 40 feet blades do not need to be stopped?

> using permanent magnet generators instead of alternators, but those are more expensive
> Use permanent magnet generators leading to [...] even lower cost.

Which is it now?

> what matters isn’t power efficiency per turbine so much as power production per acre of wind farm.

Isn't it rather electricity production efficiency in terms of invested capital?
You can't. That's the point!
He tried to touch on that - making the blades shorter but in greater quantity will drive efficiencies of scale in manufacturing and shipping. And smaller turbines lead to cheaper towers. Hard to know if he's right without crunching actual numbers though.
Because 6S is a boring phone, and people didn't want it as bad as 6.
The person I'm replying to used "circle jerk" to describe things "before they started chanting."
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11642855. We don't usually merge an older thread into a newer one, but people obviously want to keep discussing this, so it seems like the best way to avoid more duplicate posts.
You Don't Own Anything: Apple Edition
Oh, now this I like! Now I just have to 3D print Whistler's custom braille keyboard...
> Is that still how its done?

Good lord, that would be shocking. I know very few under-20s who listen to the radio for music, and I've never even met someone who had ever called into a radio station to request a song.

Most likely it's a mix of itunes downloads, youtube clicks, spotify plays, etc.
What if it turns out that most of these agencies don't care about negative publicity (because they can't be fired) or lawsuits (because it's not their money)? That's the part that really scares me: no transparency, no accountability, and a bunch of secretive True Believers running things. Like the Chinese government!
Tracking Time
"Or are they using terrorism as a pretext to expand their powers"

That is exactly what is happening.
You can't, not even root can. El Capitan is the only Unix in existence that will not allow root to update files in the /usr/bin directory.

Edit: turns out that I'm wrong, there are plenty of examples - SELinux, Sun had a version, lots and lots of other examples I just didn't look very hard to find them. Sorry if I misled anyone.
There's a question then, why are support towers solid? Maybe they should be made more like the Eiffel Tower?
I thought I was clear on my point, but I suppose not. I will try to clarify again.

In the beginning of the thread, I said that I do not necessarily think the regulations should be the same as cigarettes. In other words, I am not sure if I agree with the regulations that are described in the article. I bring this up because you said "the regulation in the OP has nothing to do..." in a manner that implies to me that you think I am discussing those regulations. I am not.

However, several people have said they want no regulation, which to me seems extreme. That would make the regulation of liquid nicotine less than that of other drugs like caffeine, ibuprofen and aspirin.

I find your wine example to be strange, as wine and alcoholic drinks in general are heavily regulated, just not by the FDA. For wine specifically, see: https://www.ttb.gov/wine/index.shtml

To your question, which is why do I think think these vials should be regulated the same as existing drugs? Because it is a drug, and I think the FDA should regulate all drugs. Drug safety is generally not a problem because of regulation. I also linked to a NYT article which shows that there are problems where children handle the liquid nicotine and get very sick. Liquid nicotine is toxic, which some people don't realize. And it is a problem with "supplements" which the FDA is not allowed to regulate. So, three questions. One, do you support the FDA regulating drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen? Two, if you do, why do you want to treat nicotine differently? Third, are you ideologically opposed to all food and drug regulation?

I ask the third question because if you are ideologically opposed to all food and drug regulation, then there's no point in discussing the particulars of regulating nicotine.
I'm not sure how you can say that.

Look at the moral aversion regarding eating pork for some religions. It is completely conceivable that they saw people getting terrible wasting diseases from parasites from people who ate pork and came to their own conclusions that they were 'dirty animals'. Local authorities banned pork consumption. A few generations later it became necessary to describe why people shouldn't eat these animals and what made them different. There were no longer any examples of human disease people could point to so it simply became 'because God said so'.

Who knows if this is how it actually happened but we do know early societies attributed to the divine all sorts of stuff that seems silly in terms of attribution but wise in terms of action today...I recall a story of one village in SE Asia surviving a devastating tsunami because of old religious lore about what to do if the ocean receded.
Wow, what a place to live in.

Regular citizens not charged with any crime having to keep moving to hide from LEO.
With land area being one factor that goes into capital cost.
Well yeah, that was a dick statement on their part. If I was at SpaceX, I would be proud of my work and the company as well.
Why is Didi better?
Quake 3 Source Code Review (2012)
OS X isn't a server OS and hasn't been for a while.
The number of units in NYC under 'rent control' is ~30,000.

Yes, it's that low. It's less than 2% of the available housing.
I haven't tried using IPFS, but the default ulimit setting on OS X is tragically low. You might want to try bumping it up.
I use git from Homebrew, which updates more frequently. It might also be even smarter to pull the project from GitHub and build it from there. (Assuming Homebrew doesn't already do this.)
I really don't see the issue here, I'd be more upset with my QA team.
I hope teenagers don't consider Internet polls as a measure of democracy.
> I don't understand his explanation of starting torque

That's because Cringley doesn't, either. The starting torque is entirely provided by the wind, not the grid.