skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't intended to imply that the graphic was offensive, nor do I think that most Japanese people would find it so either. I was just pointing out (perhaps imprecisely) that perceived appropriateness in Japan is highly context dependent, with work environments being amongst the most conservative in this regard. The degree to which people seek to avoid offending others (as compared to the US) is quite at odds with a "if someone doesn't like it, it's their problem" mentality.

Trains and parks, by contrast, are generally considered an appropriate context to consume these kinds of materials. That being said, book covers are also far more commonly used for exactly the same reasons.
this comment keeps getting down voted. Let me explain. The year was 1999. I was working at bizrate.com in Marina del Rey California. A young 17 year old kid accepts a job as a programmer intern and I teach him java. He teaches me about napster. We stay friends over the years. Now he's a big time CTO. And I see this on the front page of hacker news. I wrote the comment and it was authentic and real. Why the downvotes?
>Like what?

Look around. If you don't see it already, I won't be able to make you see. And what does the transistor has to do with the period we live in? I mean, right now, not 50 years earlier.

>It's fine to be critical, but let yourself get excited sometimes too.

Do you know why landing a rocket in salt water is bad. I mean, do you really, really know?

From Spacex subreddit..

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/219sow/how_signific...
Lattice towers were common in the past, and are still the best weight/material to strength choice. Other considerations have led to the tubular steel tower dominating, though a new generation of enclosed lattice towers is being developed.

https://renewables.gepower.com/wind-energy/technology/space-...
>there are certain things people want that cities are the best at providing

The real issue though is that it's not "cities" in the generic that provide all these great things that many people want (while also being relatively safe and having a good choice of employers). It's a relative handful of cities--mostly coastal in the US. There's plenty of affordable housing in Detroit and New Orleans.

The numbers tend to bear this out. From what I've seen, there isn't a particular urbanization trend among young people. What there is is somewhat of a migration of college educated young people to a handful of particularly dense cities.
There's good reason why the egyptians domesticated them and kept them around the grain storage.

I used to have a stray that was feral for a long time before she adopted me and she brought me live mice and occasionally I'd wake up to a squirrel on the kitcken floor which was horrifying.

(cats do this if they think you can't hunt for yourself, lol)

Now the lizard population around here is endangered no thanks to my current wild child. I'd freak out less if she would stop bringing them inside alive to play with.
Kinda reminds me of what I did at school in about 1980 while dicking around on a Commodore PET 3016.
13 years as a full-stack dev.

If I went back and did it again, I would have enjoyed my twenties more. No 80 hour workweeks. No killing myself to meet arbitrary deadlines and please bosses who couldn't care less. I'd also make more friends outside of work, and generally spend more time doing things outside, enjoying nature.

In short: work-life balance. I didn't have any of that until recently. Now that I have it, I can't believe I lived without it for so long.
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I'm down with being a samurai.
Not even close to true... mandatory access control systems are pretty common on widely-used UNIX-like systems. Apple is just the first vendor to ship them enabled by default to end users.
You're going to have to provide documentation of this.
Size of Ethernet frame - 24 Bytes
Size of IPv4 Header (without any options) - 20 bytes
Size of TCP Header (without any options) - 20 Bytes
So total size of empty TCP datagram - 24 + 20 + 20 = 64 bytes

total size of TCP datagram with 1 char - 24 + 20 + 20 + 1 = 65 bytes
Well, for me that's only true for the first time I visit a website.

HN, for example, loads in less than half a second, due to using a CDN (i.e. Cloudflare).

With CDNs, the RTTs are small enough to not matter.
Years ago I slipped up on this a lot but then ... and you know what they say about the converted!
I left Vancouver and currently live in Toronto. The real estate bubble monster is a truly frightening beast in those cities. Outside of tech (I am a programmer) and banking, so much of Canada's economy is in real estate.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-29/canada-s-o...
I would like to see a website with very good javascript code.

I feel like it's basically impossible to write JS and have 10 or more people with 3-5+ years go "Yeah, I can't improve this at all and it's extremely clean".
I don't understand your "without due process" statement. Surely there is a process for granting someone immunity?

Jail time does seem appropriate for non-compliance with a legally binding judicial order (I'm not endorsing or condemning the existence of these laws, btw)
You seem more interested in putting words in my mouth than having a real discussion, so I will simply say that if you want to go with that metaphor, having a backdoor is preferable to having no walls.
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Probably not really related but to me that update is stuck at 0KB. I wonder if it has anything to do me having changed country in the middle of the process.
This success was unexpected. That means that they can recover a stage from a higher speed than previously thought. Does that mean that the recovery of the second stage from LEO may actually be feasible?
I feel like PCI and ISA have left holes as well. PCI/e is a fiendishly difficult protocol
It's easy to forget just how well some modern artists fine-tuned the hit song production process. Everyone thinks of The Beatles, but Mariah Carey, Rihanna, and Beyonce (if we include her Destiny's Child time) all beat them for weeks at #1.

Going by weeks at #1, Mariah Carey is probably the most popular artist of all time (i.e., since Billboard started recording). She also had a collab ("One Sweet Day") that still holds the record for most weeks at #1. Not only her raw numbers, but her career delivered #1s spanning 3 decades.

I guess I never thought that she was as big as she is/was.
You're forgetting that the price of any new owner-occupied property must also price-in the opportunity cost of not renting out that property. Nobody buys a house when they could get rich by renting out the same house to someone else. Indeed a foreign investor is likely to buy it, because it's a great source of income, and they already have somewhere to live.

If I can rent a property out for thousands of dollars a month, that property is worth a lot of money. So it's really the rental market that is pushing up prices in the owner-occupied market.
I loved that movie too, and I find it holds up far better than a lot of technologically-minded fare from the early 90's. It was one of those allstar casts that really got some mileage from the various personalities and styles, I think.
Isn't there a process to serve legal documents already? If that is what they are going to do, just server her the letter.
Just the same, they can compel someone to give over information that enables the FBI to do something on their behalf- private encryption keys or signing certificates, for example.
The reason Apple's sales in China are slowing is not because of local favoritism. It has more to do with new iPhones being not much different than older models, much more expensive than similar hardware with Android, and competition (like Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung) catching up.
a variant of google pagerank on employee flux and how it changes over time....Expectation Maximization. pretty rad
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If you wanted to unbind msg, you wouldn't have bound it in a let block.

If you wanted to carry around your bindings with you and change them through function calls, you'd probably use a special variable.
It's like everyone just forgot Freenet when IPFS came around. Compared to Freenet IPFS is very boring and uninnovative.
Right. And because of System Integrity Protection you have to turn SIP off, remove /usr/bin/git and then turn it back on.

Had to do that with Java, which was installed on the family Mac just for Minecraft. Minecraft doesn't require it anymore: http://www.howtogeek.com/210907/minecraft-doesnt-need-java-i...

Now that Apple is having a (seemingly) permanent beta option for Mac OS it would be nice if they'd have a developer option that would update much more quickly. And would hopefully have better bug reports ... hopefully.
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You can also install Apache, a mail server, etc etc on Windows 10. Doesn't make Windows 10 a server OS.
That doesn't define the portability of the language though, that only discusses typical programs. They aren't the same thing at all.

The portability of a language is best understood as how difficult/expensive it is to port a conforming program written in the language in question.

It's easy to confuse the two. But a discussion based on that confusion is not very useful, as you are discovering.
I think cloudshark ended up doing this anyway, probably not with PacketQ on the backend though.
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thanks for the succinct summary.
Or just last three words "subsidizing customer fares" is probably the bulk of it
Its interesting that the same problem (TLS) can also be solved with something similar to promises :)
> I think it's fine to disregard juvenile name suggestions, and the supposed disappointment in the Internet will be forgotten in a couple of days.

Along with the ship itself.
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It's not just domain names. CA and IP have the same problem.
Oh yes, this is just some guys weekend project with a simulator. If I wanted to make the optimal wind turbine, I'd add some random noise in the simulator to account for imperfection in the simulation, and do lots of real world tests. Also I'd allow the GA to change more than just a radial shape. But all that adds difficulty and expense.

In fact I've thought about what the optimal way to do real world experiments is. Assuming you want to minimize them as much as possible, if making real prototypes is expensive.

I think you could use machine learning on the results of real world experiments to invent a model. It would predict how well each design would do. Then you could optimize the design to the machine learned model. Which of course won't be very accurate. But then it will give you a new test to do in the real world, which will give you data to make it even more accurate.
Yeah this is some fun, cool code.

I just finished re-watching _Sneakers_ last night and while it didn't hold up to my memory, I was again mesmerized by Whistler's reconstructing the route taken by the car in which Bishop had been abducted.

I racked my brain but couldn't figure out which bridge Bishop's abductors had crossed. The web came to my rescue.[0]

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/sneake...

EDIT: grammar, URL
Racket is a very nice scheme setup. As a SICPer I initially wondered if I should use a scheme variant for my oldest son but I thought back to my youth and decided against it. in HS I wrote a TP program that plotted functions for my math class. It would run through the line entered looking for whitespace operators like * and + and only keywords like sin before (. Then it would write a .BAS file and run it in qbasic to plot ;) Having later taken SICP in first year CS was mind opening regarding REPL, but I really appreciated having that earlier experience and honestly I needed a certain maturity for the mental abstractness. There's a time for scheme, about the time someone is ready for learning calculus.
> I'd like to see a single study showing a city > 100,000 with 80% of the market locked up in rent control.

It's not hard to find. San Francisco is pretty close, with around 72% of the rental market under rent control. (I saw a figure somewhere claiming it was effectively as much as 85%, but I can't find the reference from my iPhone).

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apart...
Thinking of a genre for this game is actually a good idea. I recall that the last time I saw something like this I think it was a google challenge where they had some kind of spaceship attack game where they pit user submitted AI's vs each other.
Why would I go upgrade Xcode if I don't use apple's piece of crap software?

Why don't you post this in some apple support board or whatever?

Also, learn how to write so you don't sound like an autist. "there's a bug in Xcode" sounds better than "go upgrade xcode".
The process for serving legal documents which are also considered national secrets is to physically detain someone and have them read (or read to) the document. No copy of the document is made or delivered in a way which allows the individual to retain a copy of the document. That is the process, so far an NSL is involved.
A docile, numb, and drugged population is the holy trinity for authoritarians.
A Shukhov tower [0] has minimal wind loading, due to its hyperboloid sections.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shukhov_Tower
It's not just America, and apparently, a 9-5 job is working class as well, because major cities in Europe are unfordable for someone with a job like that.
Musk further said, "This is totally not related to why we want to mine asteroids."
I could listen to Davey McDaveface talk about rare birds for hours.
If you don't see yourself or your dad in their labels, that's OK. But there's no need for guessing. Per Wikipedia: Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. So neither you nor your dad are in that cohort.

Lord knows if the marketing industry has ever found these conjectures from their gurus to have ever been useful. Mostly they're hoping to find some generalized commonality based on presumed shared experiences that come from being born into then living through a certain span of history, however recent. And from that they further hope to be more effective at selling things, from soaps to political candidates.

It's hardly science, they're simply reaching for a good "80/20" rule.
No, you're looking for

1/2m * v^2
From the last landing, Elon said (on twitter), that the ASDS can list up to 8% and the rocket can still land or stay upright.
It should be noted though, that the actual branch prediction comes from the CPU, not the compiler.
Why??? No... CUDA???
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EV isn't that difficult to acquire, only more expensive. Not a huge deal when working with other people's money. What boggles the mind is that the US Senate is using a commercial CA for their website.
I know it's not really what you mean, but jacket foundations are fairly common in offshore wind. The emerged part is still always a solid tube.

https://www.iscpc.org/images/gallery/Jacket_Foundations_EWE....
Sure. I have no idea where the (vanishingly unlikely) 10 year window is from, though. It would be suicide for all the passengers.
Ah, well. It's still interesting. The design of the turbine is really crazy and not what I would have expected in any environment. So I suspect if he corrected the parameters, it would still come up with a crazy and clever design for Earth use, that humans wouldn't think of.
I suspect he is in a unique situation to know the numbers for this much better than you do, because he runs the company that has successfully done this.

Bonus points that the overwhelming majority of ships lack the giant oil rig thrusters that all of the ASDS armada contain to keep them as stable as feasible and prevent listing too much in normal ocean condiditons.
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It looks like from my App Store Updates, it is a "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.11) for Xcode - Version 7.3" update.
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Hah, cool - Nel Cielo Dipinto di Blu (aka Volare) was the last Italian song to get anywhere on US charts.

With good reason IMO - I'm not much of a fan of Italian pop. I go for a bit more esoteric stuff like Fishbone, Oregon's own Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
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> It takes longer to define the requirements than it does to code, and once coded they change mid-sprint

It sounds like your product owner isn't doing his job. What specifically does it mean for requirements to change? If the specifications were unclear or incomplete, well you should have held out for clear and complete specifications. If you can't do that you have an organizational problem. But did the customer change their mind about what they want? Not likely, but possible I guess. The only thing left is that the owner didn't really understand the customer's needs.
> make science seem, "serious,"

Why does science need to seem serious? The Mythbusters tremendously advanced the cause of science, and they did it in no small part by not taking themselves too seriously.
Your aggression is misinformed and misplaced. Why do you think any part of this comment is appropriate for HN?
Yeah, but "science" is not something they put in the name of their departments.

Nor will you find something like a "planetary protection engineer" among their open positions.
Oh man I am having a nostalgia heart attack right now. I remember coding a "guy shooting falling aliens from the bottom of the screen" game and hilariously having the aliens move not only through a timer but ALSO when you moved since there was no threading. Classic.
There is no shortage of lithium, even the USA has lots of it (owned by Canadian companies).

It's just they don't want to mine it until the price is much higher.

Kind of like oil vs gas prices.

But I am curious to see what the next level beyond lithium is for compact power storage. Lithium can't be the end of the line.
Scaling issues, I think - they need to be supported at the top as well, and they're dependent on how much weight and wind force the bearings can take.

http://www.windpowerengineering.com/design/vertical-axis-win...
In a sense you could say this is the market working. America is huge and there are lots of good places to live. We also have this amazing global telecommunications network thingy. Who knew?
Wind turbines kill <this type of bird> is highly location specific; so again, saying wind turbines kill lots of bald eagles is also not telling the whole story.
SpaceX's rockets are basically intercontinental ballistic missiles being used for benign purposes. So there are legal regulations that make it difficult for them to hire foreigners. So...

> I didn't really look it up but it would be hard to believe SpaceX being a strictly American company with 100% American workforce.

They're pretty close to that, actually.

Disclaimer: I used to work there
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How viable is lithium recycling?
I don't get it, why not a HELOC at those LTVs? Any HELOC can beat 10%...
Why don't you post some snippets or gists so that everybody can get a mesure of what a large app looks like with Angular 2 ? that's right, it is not designed to be used with ES5.
Income is a great example of something that is not normally distributed. First, the normal distribution is over the entire real interval (-∞, ∞), while income is over a partially-bounded interval [0, ∞). Secondly, there's a very long tail on the upper end, but a hard-stop (at zero) at the low end. I would expect it to look more like a Pareto distribution [0], with a bit of a hump at the low-end.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
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Ask HN: Unknown certificate authority
I can make:

openssl genrsa -des3 -out myfile.key 2048

openssl req -new -key myfile.key -out mycsr.csr

and then use a cheap cert provider to turn my `mycsr.csr` file into a .crt file.

But can I also just make my own csr file and not pay any money for a cert?
This is true, but it still costs you 300 dollars a year, uses the same mechanisms the market uses (no loose .ipas) and you have to give lots of trackable info to Apple (company info, devices, apps, update/use metrics). It's all centralized too, so if they change their policy (like go back to the >500 employee rule) or don't like an app you're sharing, you might be in trouble. If Windows can eventually swing even this with their marketplace, I think they'd be ecstatic.
So then the question becomes, how many developers take the extra effort to make their Electron application a first-class citizen on each platform?

My guess is that almost none of them bother. I looked at the documentation for Atom, which seems to be the flagship Electron application, and there's no mention of its API being exposed to the system (AppleScript on MacOS and COM on Windows), even though it does have a very rich API.

A quick search seems to confirm that there is no useful AppleScript support:

https://discuss.atom.io/t/applescript-support/1439

https://discuss.atom.io/t/accessing-the-contents-of-a-window...

The second discussion mentions that there is a dictionary, my guess would be that it comes from the underlying Chrome browser. Interestingly enough, looking at the dictionary for Google Chrome, it appears that they have made an effort to expose things that make sense for a browser to expose to AppleScript.
The headline is a misquote. The actual quote, from Musk in the article, is "In order to produce half a million cars a year…we would basically need to absorb the entire world’s lithium-ion production."

That is very different that the entire world's lithium production.
Repetitive manual labour seems as good a proxy as any for productivity. It would be nigh on impossible to find such a robust index for software development work, but other modern professions, particularly repetitive ones, e.g. administrative positions, may be an interesting population to study today.

Software specifically is too variable to accurately measure productivity. It's too subjective. Not only from a personal point of view, but also dependent on the task. Given the tendency towards automating the boring tasks, it seems that conducting such a study in the software development world becomes less and less likely.
That's a strawman. People moving in can have children too, or be looking to start families. Likewise people in rent-controlled properties don't all have school-aged children, and they certainly don't all send them to local schools.

I'd argue it's a bigger social problem for talented young people to not be able to move into centres of employment because of people who's children have grown up and left home still living in rent controlled properties. Such people are locked out of living in a perfectly reasonable place against their wishes - because of a rigged system that entitles those who came first to play by an entirely different set of rules.

Why should they get an easy ride, while everyone else, who's working just as hard - or often much harder, to pay their inflated rent - suffers as a consequence?
Humanity being its own only remotely dangerous enemy, I never understood how more planets help.