skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this an indication of anything other than popularity.

With programming languages, the general rule seems to be the worst win in the popularity contests (VB, PHP, MySQL come to mind).
For anyone looking for the download link, you can find it from the following:

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I've done this before. The performance on IE, firefox, safari and mobile is complete shit yet suprisingly good in Chrome.
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"Even with a telescope your human eyes are limited to planets and the moon, that's it."

Andromeda, M42, star clusters, can all be seen with the naked eye, but only from a dark location, and unfortunately not in most cities. I've seen scores of galaxies with just a 8.75" reflector. The virgo cluster that's available at this time of year is amazing.

I agree with most of the rest of your post though, especially the weight thing.

I'd also suggest that learning to star-hop from one object to another is a great way to learn the sky, but it does put newcomers off sometimes.
I'm beginning to believe IBM is a sinking battleship. Considering the job losses and the - insane - direction set by the board, it's not obvious IBM will still be around five years from now.

Besides, a really good AI should literally be able to sell itself, surely?
I am visiting the USA soon and thought of getting a telescope, but not a 42lb/20kg monster. What's the best I can do for 10 kg/$300 or so?
If only it were that simple. Even if we restrict ourselves to open cross platform software, hardware support remains a big issue. I have a Skylake laptop with which I daisy chain two external monitors via displayport. Linux doesn't even support Skylake properly, let alone my dual monitor configuration.
I wouldn't even say that it's a common goal.

If I'm trying to solve problem X and writing a paper about a new, better AI/ML approach to do it - this is most likely not even in the direction of strong AI. In fact, the new and improved solution is quite likely to be more specialized to the problem and thus even further from a general AI.

If I could magically build a strong general AI then it most likely wouldn't be an improved or even a good solution to the problem I'm looking at - it would be a horribly inefficient overkill, something comparable to using a human brain to perform arithmetic calculations - it can do it, but less accurately and more wastefully than a simple calculator.
Sodium-ion batteries aren't necessarily the dead end you might think.

Faradion has been working on portable batteries w/ decent energy density (~150 Wh/kg), excellent charge-discharge performance (93% capacity after 1000 cycles) and competitive costs: http://www.faradion.co.uk/about/news/2015/05/489/

Recent formulations for sodium rechargeable batteries are room-temperature and non-flammable: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4525335/

Here's a a short article progress being made getting Na-ion batteries into an 18650 form-factor (their current prototype has an energy density of about 90 Wh/kg): https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/a-battery-revolution-in-motion

While energy density is lower than Li-ion, there's probably a good argument for longevity, safety, and material costs.
I'm just curious because I really don't know more than my own sample-of-1 experience:

Don't you have to agree to "Terms and conditions" before the Windows 10 installation actually starts?

I actually re-enabled the Windows 10 upgrade warnings on my Windows 7 desktop, because I intend to upgrade in the last week of the upgrade being free. My desktop (Dell XPS 8500 from 2012) is not supported with Windows 10 (the first time I have to say "Dell, you suck!" - I've had 5 systems from them, desktops and laptops, and a few monitors up to 32 inches), and with my XPS (9333) 13 laptop (which Dell supports with Windows 10) I had pretty much unsolvable (Realtek) sound crash issues.

So anyway, just two days ago after reenabling the Windows 10 upgrade warning it started installing it on its own, as you say - but it first asked me if I agree to the "terms and conditions". I clicked "disagree" and the upgrade was canceled.

So from my own experience I can't see that Microsoft installs Windows 10 without an option to stop the process? I also have not been bothered with another attempt of auto-installation in the days since, but that's probably going to happen after an actual reboot - thus far I've only used "suspend to disk" to switch the PC off.
I always wonder how theme creators make static pages? Do the use some sort of preprocessor or they create and duplicate code by hand?

It would be very useful if this theme have had a AngularJS version + github/whatever git hosting.
I was planning on porting some short-lived but computationally intensive jobs to AWS Lambda. These run once per day so cost isn't an issue at all. The whole plan fell apart when I found that Lambda doesn't support more than 2 concurrent threads[0].

Is there any service out there that does this? Basically I'm willing to pay $1 to rent a c4.4xlarge instance for just 1 minute. Keep in that the hourly rate of c4.4xlarge is only $0.621 on US East, so I'm willing to pay a huge premium here.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34135359/whats-the-maximu...
I can recommend Scala.

The libraries are top-notch and unlikely to be found in other languages due to the superior typesystem.

It has broad tooling support, and Scala's JavaScript backend is stable, mature and actually works (unlike some other JVM languages' JS backends which currently exist mostly in marketing speeches).
That's 100% typical IBM. Overpromise, underdeliver and sell their crap for an expensive amount

But it seems now they can't make sales in golf courses anymore and are trying to appeal to the technical staff for sales (but there might be one or two manager on these meetups that buys their BS)
Haha... I took up scuba diving after astronomy too. Maybe there's something similar in wanting to see stuff for yourself, rather than television or photos. Coolest thing I saw was a star disappear for a few seconds as it was occulted by an asteroid.
Business Area Limited UK is seeking to expand its investments into innovative computer software projects to turn over about 78 Million USD in medical device , computer development and biotechnologies.
For me, it is communities that make or break a language.
By starting from scratch, with a new language, you are starting with 0 users. You have to win hearts and minds, rewrite the libraries and get market share.
Even then there will be places where this new language will not be allowed.
I think a new language it's rarely a good solution, ideally we should have an assembly language, a procedural language, Oo language and a functional language, ideally syntactically consistent.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737510
> I just wish he hasn't chosen to shit on the tech that sustained him for so long.

Oh please stop treating your favorite tech like a religion.
Business Area Limited UK is seeking to expand its investments into innovative computer software projects to turn over about 78 Million USD in medical device , computer development and biotechnologies. If IBM is accepting external investment portfolios.
> whereas a 4X game tends to be more about resource management, research, and building spaceships.

I think those three are represented as well in Stellaris. As mentioned above research is done very well, and presents often dilemmas when you want to research multiple things and you don't know when a certain option will be available again.

Ships can be designed by the player and offer a lot of customisability. Resources are abstracted behind three basic resources so is probably not as deep as other games, but it is in.

I really like the randomness of Stellaris, not only of the research options but also the randomly generated galaxy and AI empires, which means you never encounter the same systems or competitors (unless, of course, you start in the Sol system or let certain empires spawn, which can be chosen at game start).

The article seems to be of someone who doesn't really like the game. Arguably it isn't as fleshed out as other 4X games, but to me it doesn't seem fair to blame it on the random generated content.
>> But is China’s strategy running according to plan? Recent trends in the national identity of the Taiwanese population might suggest otherwise

>That's a great example of international propaganda failing to work in China's favor

I'm still waiting for your definition of propaganda.

You've led me to believe that your interpretation is that every-time the journal article finds propaganda to have some influence then the journal article itself is taking part in propaganda and every time it doesn't find propaganda at work it is not.

Is that what you mean?
Previous discussion if it's useful for anyone : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11654155
Is this a joke?

Of course it's a joke. Use semantic CSS class names.
Weird, I thought he was outraged because "cognition" was being co-opted by IBM marketing and it's actual abilities being mis-represented.

He wasn't saying "Watson is crap", he was saying "Watson isn't doing cognition, stop saying it does"
Off topic, but curious - Is there any discussion on whether there will be a support for a good concurrent programming in PHP in the future? (e.g. channels in Go & Elixir) - of course, you might say "you're using the wrong tool.."
It's easier/less deltaV to send things out of the solar system than it is to hit the sun.

(Basically, to hit the sun, you have to scrub out all/most of the velocity from the Earth's orbit, or what you've done is put your waste in an orbit around the Sun that may intersect the Earth's at some point in the future)
It's not so unusual. Sid Meier has talked about a feature like this, and I think even Civilization (the first) had it.
What's going on here is Brent Simmons has been posting a series of blog articles expressing concern that very useful dynamic features used in Obj-C to great effect cannot be currently done in pure Swift. And many of the old guard that is knowledgable in how Obj-C+Cocoa is implemented and have built their own powerful things on top of it are also expressing their same concern that Swift has not addressed how these things are going to be done without Obj-C.

http://inessential.com/2016/05/18/what_im_doing_with_these_a...

There are key technologies in Cocoa like the Responder Chain, NSUndoManager, Key-Value-Coding/Key-Value-Observing/Cocoa Bindings, Core Data, that are made possible due to Objective-C's dynamic features which allows for easy coding and also impressive decoupling.

The concern is that some developers actually need to develop things like this and Swift doesn't offer anything comparable. Additionally, as Swift enters new platforms where Obj-C doesn't exist, or if Apple kills off Obj-C support, there is no obvious replacement for those who want/need to build systems like Cocoa. For right now, Swift is a good consumer of Cocoa, but not something you could implement Cocoa with.
"Can you think of any worthwhile/interesting software that is desktop-specific (Windows/Linux/Mac) and that does not already have in-production offerings by at least two competing teams?"

I would say Microsoft Visio on Windows, and Omnigraffle on Mac OS X would be good examples. Both software packages that command a premium price, have virtually no competition on their respective platforms and are very specific to the Desktop.

While writing a clone of either might not be a license to print money, perhaps focussing on a diagramming tool specific to a niche market might be interesting?
Rainloop already has this.
http://www.rainloop.net/

Been using it for a year or so now, it's fantastic and has never let me down.
Thank you! That really improves the situation!
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35% Market Share generally means in this context: "35% of the cars sold in the year 2025 will be electric".

If you want to talk about the number of cars in use that are electric, then "installed base" may be the more traditional term.

Market share generally preceeds, installed base, especially in markets with durable goods.
Ruby on rails. 20 jobs in germany.

It is right :)
Depends on your definition of gamer; I'm sure the millions of people that love the games (and are willing to spend that much money on it) disagree with your assertion.
I'm not sure what you mean by "independent", but there are multiple references to Jesus from sources which we know are not fabrications, as you could find out by reading any introduction to this subject.

>The question is not how many scholars do or don't believe it, but what are the reasons

I don't quite agree with this. Neither of us are in a position to make a proper evaluation of the evidence, since we lack the relevant expertise. Trusting the overwhelming consensus of scholars in a given field is usually the sensible thing to do, unless you are yourself an expert in that field.
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The bots are coming to KooKoo, a cloud telephony platform
I can't see people liking that. Charging at home works because you can sleep while it happens. Road side charging takes time away from some other part of your waking day. Wikipedia is saying 40 minutes for an 80% super charge for a Tesla. That's a sizable chunk of time to be loitering at some random location.
How is this a logical fallacy ?

Technically you would see the effect of your shot (i.e. too much to the left) and adjust your aim (more to the right).
Did I read it correctly that the malware had the name of the printer embedded in it? The sentence 'The PCL language used specifies the printer model, which is "HP LaserJet 400 M401"' seems to suggest it did.

This strongly points to an inside job, but does not exclusively prove it.
The saudi oil minister said that if everyone in the world had as many cars as the US, then they wouldn't have enough oil. So that's a very aggressive yardstick you're setting for EVs.

It would be much more sensible to electrify the cars/busses/trucks/delivery vans that are driven a lot, that are driven in stop-start traffic, and that are driven in heavily populated areas first. That gives you much more bang-per-buck in terms of pollution and CO2 reductions.
Has all the interesting art already been created?

There is likely enough art to keep any one person entertained for a lifetime, sure.

In the case of software, there is likely enough desktop software to keep users content for their lifetime use of computing too - but that doesn't mean that all useful/interesting art or desktop software has been created, or written.

The question is rather of necessity rather than interesting I think.
So not really Ruby at all! I thought, after posting, that I should have clarified I was only talking about the syntax. The runtime (absolutely critical for a scripting language) I didn't investigate.
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the infographic tells me we'll get new levels once more, at most, and that's it. dead.
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What does your tool do? Is it a replacement for all those AWS services you listed, or does it run on top of them?
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I wish someone would do this for S/MIME. S/MIME has native support in many MUAs, even Mail.app on iOS. http://smime.io/

https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/4977
> Also, syscalls in every constructor/destructor call? No thanks.

You can batch up operations just like with normal list and malloc/free. Instead of 1 page, allocate some bigger size in one go.
> Where is the documentation?
> You don't need documentation.

What constitutes self-describing code is wildly different depending on the person. I mean, really?

EDIT: I definitely missed that this is a joke :'(
Delightful, cringe-entailing humour; this definitely made my day.
As a French with a strong accent, Siri probably understands only half of what I say and I have to make lots of efforts.
You mean, computer sales were not bubble, so they didn't burst, but online
marketing, which exhibits similar characteristics, will burst, because it's
bubble? And this proves the online marketing is a bubble? I don't get this
reasoning.
React has been around for a while - http://reactphp.org/
I would say it is a rather misleading title, it is only free in some very limited sense.

Which is quite interesting, looking through some similar packages I noticed they are selling bundles of otherwise free UI components e.g. select2 (maybe it is not the case here though)
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I don't know if you can classify it as "good" concurrent programming but there's this https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads

EDIT "pthreads v3 is restricted to operating in CLI only" - from the project page.
Ah, I thought it was both, but was just working from the top of my memory. Good for looking it up :)
I think you may have missed this:

> Is this a joke? Of course it's a joke.
This reminds me of Tachyons[1], except Tachyons (supposedly) isn't satire.

[1] http://tachyons.io/
One of the founders of HTC is doing this for mopeds. With a much smaller battery, you just pull it out and carry it with you to the swapping station. Seems quite interesting:

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/electric-scooter-maker-gogoro-...
It seems that a buried nugget of info here is how seemingly pointless Amazon Underground is in terms of revenue. Admittedly MV seems a bad fit for it because of its low replayability.

Also, what's with iDreamSky? They basically give the game away for free to China for...what? Or is that part of the 6% "other"?
> "put on hold as too broad by ..."

and yet again StackOveflow do their best to kill a problem/discussion with a lot of interest and interesting comments.

...sigh...
Open water is as hard as concrete when impacted at high speed. It doesn't compress and doesn't "have time" to move away.
My favorite feature is definitely the square bracket destructuring syntax. This is great for bringing tuple-esque operations to the language.
The ocean, for spacecraft first stages, yes. Rocket launches are so infrequent and the ocean so large that it seems irrelevant, and in any case there's no practical alternative for a nation that's just getting started with spaceflight.
Infrared: Most amazing experience I ever had looking at the average clear night sky was wearing a pair of night vision goggles. Seeing all the extra stars (100x more) in the sky as I turned my head around allowed me to see the sky in a way I never would have imagined possible. Highly recommend it.
"Cloud SSH Keys".

Absolutely not.
As someone who lived in Norway in the past few years, I have always wondered why the local banks aren't pushing more for standard contactless payment like [1] instead they developed several competing QR code based solutions like Vipps [2], mCASH [3] and MobilePay [4].

Since I recently moved back to China, I noticed that the mobile payment war has mostly settled, Alipay [5] and WeChat Pay [6] split the marketshare while Apple Pay and Samsung Pay tries to increase their influence with partnerships with UnionPay [7], the national banking union of China.

It would be interesting to know the stories from other countries.

[1] https://www.visa.co.uk/products/visa-contactless/
[2] https://www.vipps.no
[3] https://mca.sh
[4] http://www.mobilepay.no
[5] https://intl.alipay.com
[6] https://pay.weixin.qq.com/wechatpay
[7] http://www.unionpayintl.com
Well a consistent system that can't be computed can prove things about all Turing machines.

E.g. ZFC plus an infinite set of axioms of the sort "machine X halts" for all machines that halt. We can't compute all the axioms, but the system is perfectly consistent. We could compute the axioms if we had a halting Oracle.

It wouldn't be able to prove the halting behavior of some Turing machines that have halting oracles attached, though.
> toot sweet

"Tout de suite" has never before sounded so appetizing!
On the other hand,car ownership in dense urban areas shouldn't be the norm. The future is also in active transport (walking, cycling) and transit, not only electric cars.
According to school, I tried to maliciously crash their servers
That is a more comprehensive list. Thanks for sharing.
Dozens of the same thing on the WrapBootstrap theme marketplace.
Can't figure out why this is on the front page.
ha i remember long time ago chasing for the perfect webmail system.. before gmail of course.
Horde,Roundcube, squirrel god... I've never found the perfect one!
You're using your best judgment?
Stripe's customer support sucks
I've been trying to contact Stripe support for a week now and no one will respond. They're holding our funds and haven't given us a reason why.

If someone from Stripe sees this please help me
It's interesting, because it means that on average you'll do substantially better than your expected hit rate. For poisson processes a lot of the expectation of the time taken "comes from" long tails.

If you're rolling a fair dice, if you cap at 12 (i.e. the 12th roll will land a 6 no matter what) then your expected time to roll a 6 goes down from 6 to 5.4.

So by applying a "correction" on strings of misses without applying a similar correction to a string of hits it skews the mean down which actually changes what your average hit-rate is. It would be interesting however if the tested hit-rate was adjusted lower to account for this effect, that would make it "fair" again by the hit-rate stat reporting the average hit-rate, but would make the randomness generate "appear more random" to humans.
Shai Agassi tried that with Better Place. It raised about $850M and filed for bankruptcy after 6 years. Less than 1400 cars were using the 38 deployed swapping stations in Israel and Denmark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place
Have you considered a cron lambda that breaks the task down into smaller parts and creates jobs for those parts onto SQS or SNS? Sounds like you already have smaller jobs since you are breaking up to threads.

You could then have your worker lambdas being triggered off the SNS publication and doing the work.
Constraint propagation solvers seem to work well.
It isn't sufficient to launch in the general direction of the sun, using the minimum energy required to escape earth's gravity?
Wow, okay, that's good to know, another way around the Great Firewall. I will have to give NX a spin.
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Related: I wrote a mahjong game many years back (the tile matching version; not real mahjong).

It turns out you can have unwinnable boards if you build them purely randomly.

So I ended up having the app play the board in reverse to make sure it was winnable!

It still managed to hit stalemates, while playing backwards, but they were very rare. I just restarted instead of trying to avoid that situation algorithmicly.
Using Redux with React or Vuejs is a good way to go!
By the side of the street. In between the street and pedestrians passage. Or between street and bicycle path. Sometimes diagonally.

The only possible charging would be some stuff that's underground and comes out of the ground right next to the car. Hopefully attaches to the bottom of the car, so there're no hoses/wires flinging around.

And some cars are parked at grey-legal spots blocking other cars. People just leave their phone numbers if someone needs to get out earlier. That is super common when you know people around and can expect to drive away sooner than your neighbour.
How do I go from this landing page to actually chatting with Murphy? I have messenger installed on my android phone, but clicking the button opens a page telling me to download messenger.
Sure, but I also trust it a hell of a lot more than any port knocking implementation. If SSH is your point of trust... make it your point of trust. Throwing up an extra layer of obscurity on top doesn't help anything.