skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no wonder, I have seen a similar attitude from indian nationalists towards a more powerful country like "china", specially when it comes to the india-china brahmaputra dispute.

http://www.ipcs.org/article/south-asia/india-china-a-water-w...

so in that sense, if you find any "bangladeshi nationalist" complaining about this interlink project, I bet it's coming from the same ground.
I don't think that's going very far. Humans who figure this out also have access to context. You wouldn't know a song is protesting against a war unless you know about the war it's protesting against. 800 million pages might seem overkill but it pales in comparison to the amount of information humans (sub)consciously use to reach these conclusions. Think about the amount of information required to adequately describe the concept of a protest-song to a machine.
Android users don't but apps. The entire Android echo system is setup around ads, and ads don't have the return of paying for an app.
SfBay/Manhattan: How did you save up that cash for down of your first home?
Hi Folks,
I am 29 Year old SRE working in bay area planning to buy my first home in the near future. Have a couple of questions and would love to hear your stories.

How old were you when you bought your first home?
How much % downpayment did you do?
What advice can you give to someone like me (single) and making an average bay area salary of 130k to save up for that hefty downpayment?
I don't have any savings in my bank account, its time to start. Don't know how many years its gonna take and the rent is taking almost half my paycheck.
Inflation, deflation, and stagflation are symptoms, not causes.
I thought it died because it was weak technically and in terms of publishers vs next gen stuff right around the corner. Nobody I knew wanted a Dreamcast with PS2 and Nintendos about to come out plus hardly any good games. May just be anecdotal though.
Oh wow. Everything from watching end result to the tech exposure is so very-well done here. You just have to appreciate the way they told us about this, it has everything:

- Source

- H/W specs

- Basic docs, build instructions

- Video of success

- Video of failure

- Side-by-side simulation and outcome

Makes it easy to understand even for someone who isn't well-versed in how such systems operate and what they're made of.
A few:

- Road trips. Range needs to accommodate the 95th percentile trip, not the mean.

- Apartment living

- Unknown depreciation curve

The other inconvenient fact is that you need to drive a lot for the TCO of an electric car to be lower than a similar gasoline car.
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear
The defaults in debian for fail2ban are too short, in my opinion, it's useful to turn the ssh, postfix and other daemons' fail2ban time up to 3000 seconds.
Thus, take a compressed-air tank with you. Point it down and open the valve to increase the air density that you are falling through. Is this so complicated???
It doesn't seem to have done too well in the market and gets ragged on a lot. IMO a good concept.
Like most people who know anything about the Colorado River, I do wish it were not depleted as it is now. I wish that wasteful subsidized alfalfa cultivation in Arizona would cease and therefore that dairy production would return to the Midwest where it sustainably belongs. I wish that the riverbed at the Gulf of California weren't dry every day of most years, and that native wildlife could recover. I wish that the cities of southern California and Arizona would try harder to live in a sustainable way.

With respect to TFA, I wish India-first commentators would realize that this project threatens hundreds of millions of Indians and Bangladeshis, a number that dwarfs former populations of the North American southwest.
So you agree that Zendesk have shown themselves to be bigger assholes even than Kik?
of course. I'll just get some benchmark results published before doing such claim on the website. :)
Personal attacks and name-calling are not allowed on Hacker News, regardless of how wrong someone is.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750599 and marked it off-topic.
> most of the definitions do include some element of official imprimatur.

It's more correct to say most include some element of superior right or ability, often not attributable to the state.
It's awkwardly phrased, but it's pretty clear what they intended from the rest of the comment.
Is there an authentication gem which works well with Sequel?
A pity? IBM is DIRECTLY responsible for me not doing so any more. I've just given up on it because you (IBM) waste my time and insult my intelligence.

And i sought you guys out and your company pissed in my face!

If every time you invite people to your party you serve nothing but turd sandwiches, don't bitch about how we didn't give you credit for the croquembouche you've got in the fridge out the back...
Docker Cheat sheet [pdf]
Ask HN: Has Meteor grown up?
Early in the days, there were a number of questions regarding Meteor. Will it scale, how secure it is etc. etc. Do people think it has finally grown up and addressed some of the early issues?
All this with a $14mil investment. Pretty impressive.
Ariel Gave Me a Lyft
It does, unfortunately, have a bit of an "Old man yells at cloud" tone to it. And I don't see any solid evidence for his arguments beyond appeal-to-authority in that essay.
Chinese pour $110bn into US real estate, says study
Awww, sad lil' hater.
They kept the monetary base pretty steady for a while in the mid 2000's. It ended up hurting their ability to export and made it easier to import. They were unhappy with the slightly higher unemployment, the slight and constant price deflation, and the lack of GDP growth. Otherwise, things actually weren't that bad.
People also steer themselves away so the collision is more likely to happen on the other side of the car.
They're just playing the expectations game.
yes, india withdrew the troops, not because of favour, mainly because of sheikh mujib's stubbornness.

well, in fact, bangladesh can also screw india in some sense, by helping the maoist separatists of the north-eastern part, but bangladesh never does that.
I have tried it -- but for me, at least, it reinforced the negative opinion that other have expressed here. Not because many of the services offered aren't good -- they are -- but because you can't help but note the enormous chasm between what I can actually do with Watson today to what you see on IBM ads.

To me, the resentment is completely understandable. When Watson goes on Jeopardy -- an incredible technical and PR achievement -- the implication to the rest of the world is that ".... and now you can use it too!" The ads, too, convey that idea. But that isn't the case. Instead, I can access APIs for language translation, sentiment analysis, object recognition, etc...

You guys are selling Watson as a new paradigm of AI never before seen by man -- that I can plug my business and my app into this and do things never-before conceived in the history of computing. The service you let me access is basically a bunch of algorithms for which there are countless alternatives -- even in places like Algorithmia. There's a huge disconnect.
Million-dollar-home count triples across Seattle area in 4 years
Consumers should absolutely consider whether we are on a sustainable growth curve. How common will electric charging stations be if it turns out that EVs can't rise above 10% of the total car market? If hydrogen-powered cars all of a sudden became the norm, EV drivers will be much less well-served than if EV sales continue to scale (as most EV purchasers probably assume they will).
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3070460/windows-pcs/mic...
>NASA is operating on a shoestring budget compared to a few decades ago.

NASA has gone from 5% of the federal budget to .5% of the federal budget. It is quite depressing to see this.
Atlassian has a sales staff.

Atlassian has a sales staff.

Atlassian has a sales staff.

Atlassian employs many people whose job it is to be on the phone all day with potential customers.

This is just marketing. Take it with a grain of salt.
Have you asked at Meteor discussion forum as there are active community?

Are you comfortable using either React or Angular?

You will probably more concern on running Meteor on mobile devices if you're talking about scaling, you might consider Swift and Android Studio, I didn't go further with Meteor due to mobile experience that Swift can provide native experience and running as a web framework like what Meteor does.

Other concern is the architecture, I couldn't explore the internal working in Meteor.js due to some difficulty in understanding the concept. That was a factor I moving to Swift as well.
What I dislike about Python
Which is funny, because that's what exactly what the OP wants from Rails.
Absolutely. If a commercial plane is too damaged to make a reasonable emergency landing, you probably won't get to use your parachute.

The only case it would be useful if if there's nowhere in range to make a reasonable landing -- no airports, no water, no roadways, no flat land. Given that your fly thousands of feet above the ground, it's unlikely that would happen.
You would need a parachute for a cabin bag and checkin luggage too in that case! :)
I don't think their point was to experiment with reactions on unusual shells.
ISRO carries out successful test demo of its own reusable launch vehicle
Flexibility is available in Rails. But is not a top priority. I would say that Rails gets most of its flexibility from Ruby. You have Rails Metal, which is intended to provide a modular way to extend Rails. If you know Ruby well, you can take advantage. Solnic had the capability to do so, and did, but eventually chose to leave the ecosystem. I'm fine with that. I don't expect the techs i use and love to be all things to all people. I just wish he hasn't chosen to shit on the tech that sustained him for so long.
From Peter Thiel's CS183 class notes:

"People say it all the time: this product is so good that it sells itself. This is almost never true. These people are lying, either to themselves, to others, or both. But why do they lie? The straightforward answer is that they are trying to convince other people that their product is, in fact, good. They do not want to say “our product is so bad that it takes the best salespeople in the world to convince people to buy it.” So one should always evaluate such claims carefully. Is it an empirical fact that product x sells itself? Or is that a sales pitch?"

http://blakemasters.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels-cs183-...
Awesome graph comparison - https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6bkJnp_y46...
Static Typing and Refactoring
same as N64 in comparison to PS1
Thank you for the kinds words, I did try to put a lot of thought into the feature set to make it useful.

I have seen a number of tools that are similar, one way I wanted to set this project apart was with a simple interface that even non-technical teachers could use. I decided early on I wanted the application to be latex-free. Creating the equation renderer from scratch was a bit of overkill (the engineer mindset "oh it'll be easier to write myself"). This is something I hope fix and instead plug in a more complete and better tested alternative like JLatexMath, with actual editing capabilities. Pulling the editor out of this application looks promising http://mirai.sourceforge.net/.

If you look at Khan-Exercises they have actually moved away from automatic generation (see their Perseus project), because it was too hard to write the kinds of problems they wanted. Also internationalization when the content of the questions was dynamic caused them more hassle than it was worth. I am considering de-emphasizing content creation and focusing on the student solution interface, as I believe it is the more novel feature of the system. But for now I wanted to get some teachers using it and find out what they found useful.
Apache httpd stats directly over SNMP (2009)
If you're refering to Yedidia and Aaronson's machine, the machine searches for counterexamples in ZFC. We believe, but cannot prove, that ZFC is consistent. Also, we can prove that assuming ZFC is consistent, ZFC cannot prove that ZFC is consistent. Hence, since we believe ZFC is consistent, we believe that the machine will not halt, but we can't prove it. This implies that BB(7910) cannot be computed.
One of my favorite resources in the how-to-survive-a-fall-from-a-plane genre is wikiHow's "How to Cope With a Double Parachute Failure: 10 Steps." [0] My favorite paragraph is the last step in the second scenario "Alternative: Lack of Companions".

> 5 Expect impact. You are unlikely to have the time or ability to aim for a soft landing-spot, body of water, or other impact site that might improve your chances of survival. There is a minuscule chance that your impact will result in non-life-threatening injuries; if this seems incredibly far-fetched, comfort yourself that double chute failure in modern times is also extremely unlikely, and that you have already beaten worse odds.

[0] http://www.wikihow.com/Cope-With-a-Double-Parachute-Failure

EDIT: readability, grammar
I think that's incorrectly narrowing the concept of "censorship" to mean only "government censorship," when other kinds exist (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship).
I agree with those statements. I'm not sure we agree on what they mean though.

World becomes more zero sum when growth plateaus. Only now it is proposed that everybody and their dog get PhDs in god only knows what.

Diminishing returns are exactly stagnation. I know blue collar workers making more money than people who took extensive study and got 'good' jobs. This is despite the fact those workers haven't actually had wage increases themselves! They're just working long hours for more pay. We're stuck in a rut. It could be the case that technological stagnation is created by technology itself. A hairy subject!

If I remember rightly wage increases for the higher percentile aren't that great either. I mean they are better than zero but not as great as they used to be. Makes sense since their market of consumers is drying up as everybody becomes cash poor except for those making toys for the actual rich.
This is wrong. The battery is not tied to the drive train. Given the same electrical interface, dimensions and a compatible BMS, swapping out for a lighter, cheaper battery IS trivial. Even cell level replacement is possible -- it's actually happening commercially where I live.
That actually helps me have a better understanding of how the framework is structured, thanks.
Yes Japan was awful during WW II. That's why the US dropped the bomb.

The thing to remember is,

(1) how devastating nuclear weapons can be

(2) how close the world came to a much larger nuclear holocaust during the cold war period

(3) that it's possible for us to forget the past and re-enter such a period

(4) that today's nuclear weapons are 1,000x more powerful than the ones that leveled two Japanese cities [1]

(5) only nine countries have these weapons, and

(6) that it only takes one bad actor to start a worldwide nuclear war

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield#Examples_...
I think what erikpukinskis means may be more that Go is still a "non-mature"/"research" ecosystem - for example, what do you use for version control of dependencies? Rails has bundler, Go has a few different approaches, none of which are the go-to thing everybody uses.
You could try nilfs for that.
When you want to buy 50k licenses of JIRA, there is a "Contact Us" button. The person who is responding to that email is a salesperson.
1) Spot on. If you won't bother to learn at least a few prominent bits of the sky first then a telescope will be fun about twice and then gather dust.

2) Subscribe? Er, see if you can buy individual copies first. I dropped my subs because, well, the articles all started to become pablum. Probably worth picking up a few issues when you start out.

3) Yes, join a club or tag along. There's no better way to get an idea of what it's about than to meet some enthusiasts and look through their scopes. And a really friendly and helpful crowd, in my experience.

Binocs: I bought 10x50s, and I wish I had bought 7x50s. The higher magnification is nice and all, and I can hold them steady enough...for a little bit. You can use 7x50 without strain for a lot longer. Also, yes, do buy binocs. You'd be amazed what you can see with a pair of 7x50s that you can't see with naked eyes. It's a great, cheap, convenient way to get started.

Telescopes: buy one that you can afford and that you will use. Like my binoc choice above, I bought something actually nice but big enough that it was a pain to haul around and set up. Save that for later. Buy something that you will pull out on a whim and have a nice evening. This is a very individual choice, of course. If you live in a fairly dark place and the farthest you will take your scope is to your back yard, by all means get that light bucket. :)

Overall very solid advice in the article.
Yes, but you don't need chademo. Your car comes with 120 and 220v, plus j1172, plus you don't need an adapter for superchargers. So $0 additional cost. Plus it comes with the wall charger. So you might live in a place with Chademo, but its only useful if it exists, and there is no high power charger. So the extra set would $450, but you actually need $0 extra - and it fits in the corner of the trunk. I've owned a tesla since 2012, and I don't have chademo. I've spent exactly $0 extra on the plugs you suggest. I have been from seattle to portland, eastern washington, Vancouver BC, Whistler, Banff. Just using regular j1772 and superchargers.
There is a risk of oriential mysticism when talking about japan's game design sense. Yet it is a real thing. Japan has a different game design culture which grew during the 80's and 90's. Japan's game designers almost never speak or read english. Entire companies are isolated. So you have isolated game designers working in an isolated country. This has led to several unique understandings of how games should be developed.

Some of the ideas just seem wrong to my foreign experience. A designer might say "this is easier for the player to understand", as he suggests something which seems to me 100% opaque and blackbox. There are fundamental differences to how a japanese mega-corp develops a video game.
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No it isn't. Maybe for IBM, but others are doing great e.g. people love amazon echo and if viv accomplishes what they're trying to do, that'll be another win for AI. Image recognition startups are doing great as well and many have been acquired. X.ai is simply amazing particularly wrt their strategy and a few other chat bot companies are doing similar work in other areas.

Most companies are not building general thinking AI, they're focused on actual industries or customers and going from there. Nobody cares on AI's that can think -- if they can help you to do something, that's just fine.

There are plenty of data analysis companies that are doing specific work and are revenue generating.

It's really about what you're selling - if you're selling general AI and it falls short that could be a problem.
And if we go the Hydrogen route, then batteries definitely won't be what holds it back. But certainly other factors will.
Moderation: the action of making something less extreme, intense, or violent

Censorship: the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts

Moderation is censorship.

To say otherwise is to make a distinction without a difference.

Rephrase your question to have meaning. Perhaps "When is censorship justifiable?"
If there is any decent vertical feature, a good skydiver could try flying into it and sacrificing an arm. It probably wouldn't help but if we are talking optimal strategy here, that's probably near the top.

A friend of mine had his primary fail and he passed out. He woke up before the ground and fired his reserve. That broke his neck. He fell hard, there was no one in the area he fell in, but he was able to gather his chute and walk back to base with his chin on his chest without passing out. Though I think he crawled the last kilometer or so.

He started skydiving again, pretty much as soon as they took off the neck brace that had been screwed into his skull.
It could've been more if they had one ;)
https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/head-of-sales-operatio...
>Tesla doesn't have sales people, You go into an apple store, [and] they don't have sales people.

God, I love these word games. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Product Specialists[0]. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Specialists[1] and Experts[2].

[0] https://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/careers/job/product-specia...

[1] https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=USASP#&openJobId=USASP

[2] https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=USAEX#&openJobId=USAEX
> The number of people who gave an opinion on quantum computing is 16.

> 1 said quantum computing is a hoax.

Wow.
Mostly because, in an era where you can stand up a website on a worldwide communication network for less than $50, I kinda think that the definitions of censorship have narrowed.
They don't have a sales team, but don't think for a minute they don't have humans helping out.

They invest heavily in their customers success, and they do this by hiring people to talk to the customers. Yes, on the phone, and sometimes even in person. They're closely in touch with how to sell to developers, and one of the best ways to drop the idea of big-up-front sales. If you can get one small zero-friction sale, the rest of the sales with people become "support upsells" and "customer success", and you can tell the world you don't have a sales team.

They might not be called sales, but there are people at Atlassian who's primary job it is to talk to people and sell them software.
http://rodauth.jeremyevans.net/
I was hoping for more, but it only talks about strategic video games.
India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday
This is one of Atlassian's go to PR pieces - here's one example a year, you can find multiple:

- April 2014 "Australian tech company Atlassian valued at $3.5 billion despite having no sales staff" (1)

- August 2015 "Atlassian ignored bad advice, avoided sales staff and grew fast" (2)

- February 2016 "How Atlassian built a $4.4 billion business without sales staff" (3)

And while it's true that they have a different sales "culture" I wonder if the people they interviewing for Head of Sales Ops, Loyalty Advocacy, and Field Enablement may consider themselves salespeople?

"Head of Sales Ops" - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/131036087

"Loyalty Advocate" AKA "Sales Retention" - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/136717830

"Head of Field Enablement" - https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Atlassian/92170329

(1) Australian tech company Atlassian valued at $3.5 billion despite having no sales staff

(2) http://www.afr.com/technology/startup-war-story-atlassian-ig...

(3) http://www.sugarux.co/blog/how-atlassian-built-a-44-billion-...