skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good ISS pass should be visible virtually anywhere-- at its brightest (when it's passing almost directly overhead), it'll be either the second or third brightest object visible in the sky (behind the moon and occasionally Venus).
Most of their revenue = Most of their volume is questionable. Do you have any sense for whether revenue and vole are roughly correlated here?
Having played Warcraft 3 and a lot of Wow, and not having seen the movie yet, I have no idea who you think is the good guy and who you think is the bad guy (don't tell me!) So the games, at least, did pretty well IMO to create more complex characters than that. (Alliance thought they were the good guys but were usually racist assholes with anger management issues, Horde were superficially painted as the bad guys but really just wanted to be left alone, and generally behaved well aside from a few very notable exceptions).

Also WoW is/was absolutely huge in China and their business model there is different (you pay per hour to play at net cafes rather than buying the game and your own subscription) so there's a good chance that many of the people seeing the movie have at least played some WoW.

Edit: Fixed broken grammar.
Outside of silicon valley and New York salaries in the US are not actually that great. According to glassdoor the average junior developer is actually only 60k when you consider the whole country. Junior software engineer on payscale is median 55k.

Also, in some place like San Fransisco the cost of living is going to be 2x or more, so that 2-3x higher salary will end up translating into maybe 1.2x. Salaries in Toronto are still low, but not nearly as much as some people make it out to be.
They were actually acquired by Facebook some time ago.
Honestly, when you consider the etymology of "profanity" and "curse word", they all go back to religious roots. Even the use of deliberately misspelled and mispronounced curse words is called a "minced oath".

We don't really have a good word for swearing that's not a religious reference. The closest we have is "obscenity", but that traditionally only refers to sexual words. For example, "fuck" is obscenity, but "goddammit" is profanity.
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It's still surprising that it was possible at all to start doing this without some proof of work. There are better checks and balances for something as mundane as selling lettuce or holding money deposits; why not blood testing?
Renesas CPUs are not open source.
Editors I used on OSX before sublime text:

- textmate
- BBEdit

Before I was an OSX user, my editor of choice in Windows was Crimson Editor.

All of these have two things in common: simplicity and speed. They are extremely simple to use, but also have some powerful features (if I didn't have to resort to perl most of the time, I was happy). And they didn't hog system memory or hang when editing large files.

Textmate added something to the mix: It was pleasant on the eyes. I'm a big fan of dark themes.

When sublime text came along, it added the absolute killer feature: "do anything" typing. I'm a HUGE keyboard navigator, avoiding mouse pointing a lot in favor of keystrokes. The ability to hit Cmd+P and type a couple letters of what I want to do and sublime text prompts. I can open files, edit in several ways, find and replace, do a build, whatever I want, all from the home row.

If there's ever a better editor than sublime text, it would have to be an IDE that brings fast, efficient, memorable keyboard-only navigation. And current IDEs do a decent job of this, although they're way sluggish compared to sublime text, and not as feature rich.
TL;DR: it does this by generating shell aliases which use $EDITOR to open the file. Neat, but does it clean up the aliases when you use one? And what if you don't use any? Kinda makes my OCD cringe a bit.
It's been the other way around for me; I grew up in a place with clear skies. Now I live in cities, and rarely even see the stars, never mind dimmer features. I miss it, and make sure to get some time in the fall and winter to get to a place where I can see the stars again.
It's a shame the International Dark Sky Association hasn't gotten more traction. They advocate the use of lighting and fixtures that reduce light pollution without sacrificing illumination for safety, etc. (Spoiler: just make sure the light shines down and not upwards).
http://darksky.org/
> how do you unmount without being able to read the binary

We have enough RAM now that there's no reason (even on embedded devices!) to ever unload the initrd/initramfs. An OS should be able to be configured such that you can unmount your rootfs whenever you like, and just automatically be de-pivot-root'ed and end up back in your initramfs, where you can mount the rootfs again.
Probably for the same reason they think the CIA is 'hugely' responsible for mental illness.
Yes, you can see it even in LA. It's pretty noticeable since it moves quite fast (takes around 3-5 minutes from horizon to horizon)
I used Padmapper back when it had access to Craigslist data. Now, I just use Craigslist itself. So does everyone else I know.

There aren't a lot of better options, aside from cold-calling apartment management companies. Everyone lists on Craigslist.
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That hangs on whether or not Metrolinx can purchase the rail between Georgetown to Bramalea.

http://www.metrolinx.com/en/projectsandprograms/corridorowne...

This article states that they want to bring 2-way all day service... someday.
From what I can see in the video, it seems to fall more into the 1K category - a single room with a kitchen - making this even more pricy! 1DK tends to have two separate rooms, one of which can be quite small. Agreed on the price - a quick search for 1K or 1DK apartments in the most expensive ward in Japan shows that only even the most spacious apartments ever go over that range:

1K : http://madori.chintai.net/1k/tokyo/area/13103/o=3/

1DK: http://madori.chintai.net/1dk/tokyo/area/13103/o=3/
EDITOR="FOO"
$EDITOR $FILE

Are there issues with this? I can't imagine a reason they'd need to export $EDITOR to the parent shell process.
My main point, of course, is on this:

> Furthermore, trademarking generic words and phrases (such as "Apple" or "Orange" or "THANKYOU") is totally legitimate

Which really, shouldn't be. Because it couldn't reasonably be argued that a consumer could be "confused" at a simple word or phrase like "thankyou" and therefore being misled into using a different company. If you do try to make such an argument, it displays a level of contempt for the consumer, and is also taking the protection of intellectual properties beyond a reasonable level and moves into the abstract.

I completely understand that people will happily defend things like this because it is "legitimate". I generally question why people feel it's acceptable that it's a legitimate practice however.

Apologies if that annoys you, of course.
Let's not legitimize that behavior.
I think what happens is that every property manager and landlord lists on Craigslist, as well as a few other places. Craigslist is pretty much a superset of all apartment ads in the area. Some of these other sites copy Craigslist, and some just have duplicate postings put there by the landlords.
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What does the resurrection of a flower have to do with the origin of life?
I'd also like to see some cross-linguistic analysis of swearing.

For example, English uses a nice mixture of profanity (religious references, like "goddammit") and obscenity (sexual words and bodily functions, like "fuck" and "shit"), but not much literal cursing. But not every language does that. Quebecois French, for example, uses profanity almost exclusively (where the worst single word you can say means "tabernacle"), and nobody pays much attention to obscenity. And then there's Dutch, which relies on literally cursing people (among the worst things you can say to someone are to tell them to "catch cholera" or "cancer off", and the worst thing you can call someone means "cancer patient"), while obscenities are minor insults, and while profanities are historically more serious, they're not nearly as common as the curses.
I made Morning Mill because I wanted a very, very lightweight tool to help me focus on writing 1000 words per day. I use Ulysses and Medium drafts, but neither is as fast or as lightweight as I wanted for just making the first pass of my writing. So I built this. :-)

It's also my first OSX app. I used Electron, which was a great experience -- this first version just took a couple of hours to design and build.
Is that a safe?
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/JT3A00...
Does driving between Santa Clara to the Golden Gate Bridge include farmland in the middle?
I’m from China. What you said is partly true. But the reason why the success of Warcraft in China is that this film is produced by Legendary Pictures owned by Wanda, the one that owns the largest number of cinemas in China. And Wanda is very good at marketing.
Of course it's against the rules. People have done this in casinos with black jack. Definitely not something the casino is going to allow, because they lose the money if the boot plays better than humans.
Instead of corporations buying robots
Sometimes I hear people talking about "the future" where most jobs are automated in sweeping waves of corporate greed.

I was just thinking:

Only large corporations can afford the immediate buy-in cost of a fleet of robot workers. The medium to small companies would only be able to do this incrementally. What if instead of marketing robot workers to corporations, companies making robots marketed their hardware to individuals? I have a naive understanding of what is possible with robots these days - but I'm still of the mindset that it's mostly manual labor with repetitive tasks that are easy to automate.

I think it'd be interesting for "the robot company" to market individual robots to blue collar workers that they can use at their job to do their work for them. The company the worker... works for would essentially be leasing use of the robot from the worker. The worker then acts as the robot technician.

To me this would seem like a much easier way to gradually automate everything without companies having to take the brunt of the costs of buying 2000x robots. Buying a robot replacement for your own labor would be like mortgaging a house. You'd pay off owning that robot over 5-6 years like a car.

Maybe this is silly but I could see there being several types of general-purpose robot workers [[someday]] and you apply for jobs based on what robot you have. "Oh yes, I can offer X company the use of my Masonry Model X7 robot..." You negotiate a rate for the work your robot will do, and you as the owner ensure that it operates at capacity for the needs of the company. There's also a component in here that if a robot can far outpace a human, the owner of a robot would have more bargaining power because the company wants that level of productivity.

I'm not sure how you'd handle the problems of having robots and workers working alongside each other. What legal considerations should be outlined for this, etc etc..

Thoughts?
I have been using this with https://jasperproject.github.io/ on a raspberry pi to make an open source amazon echo type device. It works pretty well for controlling basic things around the house.
Our vision is to make it easy for developers to make apps or devices that can leverage AI/NLP/Speech. As you probably know, the key is the amount of data you can collect. The more data, the better your models will be, the better you API is. When you are a startup, you need at some point to generate revenue to continue to grow/hire even if you objective is to gather more data
We have much smaller apartments in SF for the same price: http://www.equityapartments.com/san-francisco-bay/soma/77-bl...

I agree. Both are not really worth the price.
As is true in many areas of organismal biology, botany is a field in decline. There are not a lot of jobs anymore, and in academia, not a lot of grant money. In spite of this, every year universities continue to pump out more and more graduates trained for careers that no longer exist. Some of the best botanists these days are citizen scientists who have day jobs at the Cheesecake Factory or driving limos in Las Vegas.
There are no such rules for what constitutes a sport. Under your definition, business, programming, poker, sex, war, and speaking are sports, as is just about every other human endeavor.
You're obviously referring to something very specific, while being vague enough that people that are not 'in' on it don't understand.
A very similar situation there is in Tokyo: young professionals rent microscopic apartments close to work and the downtown founts of intense social life, and only use them as sleeping pads.

This is where that trend is heading:
http://blog.sleepinginairports.net/2015/10/13/zzzleepandgo-b...
1 - Theranos should have been more transparent, but what startup doesn't stretch the truth or even leave out data on occasion? It is a fine line between lying and hustling. Startups can often talk about something that doesn't exist yet like it does because they can move fast enough to build it.

2 - I worked at a medical startup in Palo Alto and I can attest that it is incredibly hard complying with all the FDA rules. Many are regulations that do little to protect consumers and exist from an outdated bureaucratic system. Others are lobbied into existence by big players like JNJ to protect themselves from startups like Theranos.

3 - Theranos was trying to do something that few people do - truly inovate in the medical world. As a country we have come to a point where little inovation is possilbe bc so many rules prevent the change necessary. We are not willing to accept any risk, and so we are stuck without progress.

4 - Before we all hop on the hate Theranos band wagon, lets remember that they did what all startups do - move fast and break things.
I am implementing it (search for Hypercrud) and I know of one group of people separately implementing it (search Posh and Catalysis) I know of no others, if anyone reading this is working on this and would like to share ideas please email me
>Murphy beds

It's only a matter of time before the bed/living area gets crammed into the kitchen like I've seen in some of the weirder parts of London.
What does their blood test tech not working have to do with regulators?
Who's writing the checks really depends on what's in the contract between Walgreens and Theranos. I haven't seen it, but it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for Theranos to have agreed to indemnify Walgreens against claims over the accuracy of the tests. If so, Theranos would be on the hook even if Walgreens is getting sued as well, and the real question is how big the claims are and whether they will be enough to to bankrupt Theranos.
Fortunately we have a system of law and not based on outrage.
It's impossible to have a society without laws, written or unwritten, and the Constitution is the underlying legal document which all laws must be in accordance with.

(A society without written laws is anarchistic, or despotic. A society without any laws at all is impossible.)
That dates from a time when it seemed that you could fit all important knowledge into a modest set of books. Also from that era are the Harvard Five Foot Shelf of Books, and the full set of Audels Manuals. The Harvard Five Foot Shelf covered everything important in the liberal arts. The Audels Manuals, circa 1920, covered, in one encyclopedia sized set, everything a mechanic needed to know, from plumbing to auto repair to machine tools.
Too late to edit, but I realize that I may have not been entirely clear with the 'not even close'. My house is worth much less than the $1m price point mentioned above.
Except without a higher authority to prevent it, majoritarianism is exactly what ends up happening. It isn't a strawman if it's inevitable.
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1000 pages per day?
Yep Kik is in Waterloo, and Waterloo is actually 70 miles away.

I've lived in both cities and I have never heard anyone refer to Waterloo being in the GTA. They are both very distinct cities, and even on good days it takes about 90 minutes to drive between them, and it is even worse during rush hour.
Nothing. But, Panspermia is not meant to address how life began, just the method that may cause its distribution in the Universe. - from the Panspermia Wikipedia article
Yes, even politicians.
As a practical matter, you can evade US taxes if you have no financial contact with the US; the IRS can deem you liable for any amount of taxes and it won't have any effect on you if they're unable to collect them.
Seriously, the 401 is horrific. I've spent a great deal of time in all of the major Canadian cities(offices), and the traffic situation is the same. I don't know what the deal is with Canada, but they REALLY need to clean up their transit.
> It's impossible to have a society without laws

If by "laws" you simply mean that people's behavior in a society is constrained by what other people in the society will accept, yes, it's impossible to have a society without "laws". But that in no way implies that it is impossible to have a society without laws in the sense that term is usually used--i.e., laws that come out of some kind of formal process, either legislative enactments (statute) or judicial decisions (common law) that are accepted as binding on everyone in the society, not just the parties to a particular case.
You should be able to tell. It's fairly straight forward outlier detection; if someone is doing 20% better than anyone you've seen before you monitor them. If they continue to do better constantly you manually look, then you can either make a choice manually or have a system auto remove them. They may even remove you just because you are costing them too much money (depending how the game is setup).
On the other hand, out of the top 5 pharma companies, only 3/5 CEOs have science degrees: (Edit: was 1, wasn't counting medical degrees before)

#1: Novartis: Economics, MBA
#2: Pfizer: BS chemical engineering, chartered accountancy
#3: Roche: economics, law
#4: Sanofi: MD
#5: Merck: veterinary medicine, PhD

So a person who didn't know any better might not assume a science degree was necessary.
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I refer you to almost the entire output of the 80s & 90s game scene.

Especially platformers.
Warning: kinda of spoiler

At least there are some good guys among the bad and a bad guy among the good; so it adds some drama.

Tell me what action/fantasy/sci-fi movie is not good guy vs. bad guy ? More specifically, bad guys have an evil plan to do something destructive, and good guys somehow ruins it. Star War, X men, all the superheros ones, 007, and I can keep name more (at least that is the theme of the individual movies, if not the theme of the whole sequence).

The critique Warcraft received most is about the lack of character development; lack of a clear lead actor/actress. In some sense, it is not necessarily a bad thing because it breaks the old "one dude with protagonist aura that never dies" Holywood pattern.
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> A society without written laws is anarchistic, or despotic.

So is a society with written laws, if those laws are not enforced exactly as they are written. Which is the case for every society in human history that has had written laws.
I remember using (sharing!) an XT (8088? 8086???) at work in 1985. One good thing about the 386 in 1986 was that it made the price of 286 (AT/clone) systems come down. I almost never saw an XT after 1986. We started seeing quite a few more clones (Compaq, etc) about that time, as well.

Which is of course a big tangent off of "why/whence command.com & .BAT files" :-)

OS/2 and Windows were a big deal in virtualizing memory use in PC land, with widespread Linux use still "a few years" in the future. (and effective adoption of NextStep even further out)
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This tool seems to be equally useful for modeling any complex software at the concept level. Is there any thing that would prevent this from being used in non-distributed systems scenarios?
I don't see one with a science degree. I see two with science degrees -- both in the same social science, each of which also has a professional degree in addition -- one with an engineering degree, and two with professional degrees in medicine (one if which is veterinary).
As someone who is interviewing around the bay area for hardware engineering positions that pay between 90-110K starting (I'm from Detroit), this terrifies me if I do choose to move here. Half of my after tax salary would go to rent. I don't know if the premium is really worth the SV environment. GM and Ford pay 65K-75K starting and you can get a 1200 sq apartment in Ann Arbor, Dearborn or around Detroit for half the price of that walk in closet they call an apartment. And to anyone who says "buts its Detroit", come for a visit. The Detroit Metro area is not as bad as you think.
I believe San Diego Magazine trademarked "San Diego" quite a few years ago. IIRC the trademark included the specific font used by the magazine on its cover. If they had tried to trademark the phrase without limiting it to a magazine with that specific font, I would hope they would have failed to get the registration. I haven't looked at the filing in this case (life is too short for this kind of bullshit), but I would hope it's limited to "THANKYOU", all caps, no space.
I use a Hipster PDA.

Step 1: get 3"x5" (~8cm x 12cm) index cards. They can be ruled, gridded, blank, colored, whatever.
Step 2: Get a binder clip.
Step 3: Clip the cards together.

It's pretty easy to get index card storage bins, and it's convenient to take around a little stack in your pocket. If you have a lot of cards, a rubber band works almost better than a clip, but it works better with fewer cards. There's a lot of templates you can print onto cards, but I usually just use gridded / blank cards for code ideas. An added bonus is, you can rearrange cards with different functions to help structure out code ideas. Or you can print out code, cut out relevant bits, and glue them onto cards.

I tend to manage task lists/todos, mind mapping, and pseudo-code on cards. Very handy on long bus rides.
> 4 - Before we all hop on the hate Theranos band wagon, lets remember that they did what all startups do - move fast and break things.

There are some things like medical information which should not be broken, and worst of all, lying about it.
There are other advantages too. If you rewrite libc in Rust you can also take advantage of link time optimisation, full static compilation and (further) platform independence.

That and people underestimate the value of the entire codebase being in a single programming language and environment. If your language continues to rely on C dynamically linked libraries there remains a barrier that your workflow can't be translated across. This is more pronounced in languages like Ruby/Python/Java ofcourse but it's still true for Rust to some extent. Having everything written in Rust (or whatever language you prefer) has compounding benefits when it comes to productively programming on really large systems.
You may be right with all your points.

But did Walgreens know this was Theranos' mentality? The investors, patients, the doctors using the unreliable test results?

If the Theranos stakeholders all hopped on to the "move fast and break things" train- I'd be all for it. Facebook had that as their well known public motto and people still invested and used the service. People don't want to break things when it comes to their health.
Look up "ratting computers" on Google.

It's when someone takes remote control of your computer and then uses it to harass you (among other things)... e.g. by suddenly opening your DVD tray, etc.

I wonder if some of them are victims of "ratting."
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Hahaha, good catch, thanks. :-)

Hmm, but then again...
Life in the dark is magnificent.