skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make this argument foc any country in the world that has decent English level among population. Given the fact that Sweden has a lot of Arabic speakers, do you think that they should get even more or that maybe effort should be distributed more evenly?
NASA working to develop completely electric airplane
Thanks, my first question was exactly the one you answered: "is the proposed mechanism within an order of magnitude of explaining the observed thrust?" It sounds like it's not.
This is salt stack recipe that auto-configures your sshd using in a super secure setup. It basically only enables strong encryption key algorithms, ciphers and message authentication codes. And rebuilds secure machine keys.
Sure but most functions are longer, small functions can grow, and consistency is better.

On a separate matter: you should read the HN guidelines.
My uncle worked at PARC when this was being made. I probably wouldn't of gone into tech, if it weren't for him.

This makes me want to message him and ask him about his time there.
I can't read this in any way that doesn't just mean, "Destructive interference". Given that... NO EXHAUST, no reaction mass, no momentum exchange.
Comment below was correct. Sorry, I thought it wouldn't be confusing because it was in comment I replied to. My bad.
These things have changed dramatically in the last couple generations, in Europe and in the US, and Asia. I would caution you against thinking that things will stay as they are. Hell, I'd caution you against thinking things actually are the way they seem to be.
Not comprehensive by any means, but The New New Thing, by Michael Lewis, tells an interesting story about Jim Clark, and his role in founding Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, and Healtheon (later called WebMD).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_New_Thing
Or, strange idea, leave it be.
Show HN: Have startups fund your life
The "problem" this dev is having is what AWS was built for.

He could get his OS of choice, customize it with his server software, then copy the AMI to various regions, spin up dedicated instances as he needed them, use what he needed in various regions and direct players to their closest server. Turn on and turn off servers as need arises and they are close to players. After his game settles down to predictable traffic, he can move to some bare cost ISP. He would not have to call anyone and within a hour or so he could have a game that gave a much better experience.

What kills a flavor of the month game like this is being laggy and having an awful experience.

The only thing I think would be an issue is the bandwidth charges. I wonder why his game creates so much traffic?
Algerian government blocks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter during exams
lol if you think that gold has any real value
Depends on the person you see and your particular issues.

For me I did a lot of time management exercises like making an inventory of where I spent time in any given week and then planning the next week and seeing if I met my planned goals. That exercise is also good at showing you how much free time you actually have.

For me I often avoided starting tasks because I wouldn't have enough time to finish it before something else required my attention. Planning in advance shows that I usually do have the time, and if I didn't, I could plan to work on things in the slots where I did.

There are a lot of things they could say though, for me my ADD and poor behaviors when I was younger meant I needed a few things rebooted :)
slither is similar to a fps, so it's very very latency sensitive. It's frankly often unplayable at peak times on the W coast on xfinity.
If I'm a guest, visting NYC and looking for the next place to stay, I would be logged in and Airbnb would know very well I'm from out of town (payment details etc.)
I think the parent meant bankruptcy as in not having any money for anything in your college years.

You are correct Student loan debt can not be discharged in bankruptcy.
Idea HN: Facebook Search Integrated in Chrome Omnibar
Don't know if Idea HN exists (would be cool if it did), but here goes one:

Facebook search could be integrated into the Chrome search bar, so that when you search for people or places, for example, it would suggest results from Facebook, perhaps with a photo and some info, linking to the corresponding on Facebook.

Google results would still appear and be the default search option.

Hopefully this makes it to some Facebook engineer.
My 14 y/o daughter is having no trouble with it - in fact she asked why doesn't everyone use S-expressions? Regarding the parentheses, that's simply a non-issue. Both vim and Emacs handle the parentheses so you don't have to worry about it.

Finally, the reason Lisps haven't had much traction over the past 50 years is the Von Neumann computing model proved very useful on anemic hardware and languages such as C were designed to this model. Today's hardware is forcing us to rethink our approach. That's why the Lisps, especially Clojure, have recently gained a lot of traction. You ma want to revisit these languages again.
I never get the reason why that gets downvoted. It's just the metaphore?!
To the DAO and the Ethereum Community. Signed: The Attacker
It is. People came up with the same plan. I believe it was popular with lawyers, but I could be mistaken.

Get your degree, file for bankruptcy. Since they can't take your degree away and you have no collateral, there wasn't much they could do.

The inability to relieve debt through bankruptcy is a result of that scam.
I wonder how counting the segments of your remaining four fingers with your thumb fell out of style in favour of just counting your fingers.

You can do it with one hand, you can easily visualize dividing by two and four, you can count higher (144 if you use two hands), and it clearly looks way cooler.
I'm disappointed they didn't go with quasilite.
So this paper's foundation seems to be the idea that 2 photons can propagate in the same direction with the same wavelength and phase exactly 180 degrees off. As such, the net effect on the EM field would be 0, so they wouldn't interact with anything through the EM force and could pass through the walls of the chamber, escaping the device and acting as propellant. Importantly, the photon pair, they say, still caries energy even though it doesn't interact with anything.

My question for anyone with a background in this is, is this bunk? It doesn't square with my intuition. Suppose we have two plane waves in the EM field propagating like these photons, exactly out of phase, how would this be different from no plane waves in a completely empty space? Where's the energy in this photon pair scenario? If it doesn't interact with anything, in what sense could it possibly have energy?

Moreover, what would the production of a pair look like? They're claim of it having energy is important only in so far as it is a release of momentum for the drive, so the formation is the key part. Suppose there's just the first photon - is emitting the second of the pair equivalent
to just absorbing the first one? In which case, their claims that photons don't just "vanish for nothing" aren't valid.

Edit: Oh and that stuff about Gauss Bonnet ("Geometry at any point along an action can be recapped by signed curvature.") - I do research in related areas of math and could recite Gauss-Bonnet without reference, but I have no idea what they're trying to say. Gauss-Bonnet is a statement relating the global topology of a surface to its curvature, what surface would they even be considering here and how would its topology matter?

Honest question: is this representative of how physics papers are written in terms of style? Sentences like "It is no new idea that inertial effects are immediate, because the vacuum resists changes by embracing everything" make me wonder how physicists communicate.
"The enemies” aren’t just terrorists overseas but terrorists at home — along with their friends and relatives — and “the battlefield” is in our own communities"

said every fascist movement..ever.
Why the LinkedIn Acquisition Is Bad for Social Media Users
Excuse me Dang, what would you expect from a brief blog post linking healthcare to pentagon?
Calling .click() in a loop inside window.onload hangs Chrome, Firefox, and IE
Tendentious. "Children of earth" need not be terrified, and supreme artificers need not be arrogant.
Oakland loses third police chief in 9 days, will operate under civilian control
StartSSL vs. Let's encrypt
I tried Kotlin during the Surprise Language round of Codeforces, a programming competition.

I found it to be more verbose than a typical modern scripting language. Maybe it's the result of choosing the least of the evils for what it's trying to accomplish.

The other drawback: the documentation. Kotlin's reference documentation (looking up how to properly use a call) does not have any examples. I'm not even talking about full compilable examples - although that would be nice, it doesn't even have one-liner examples. FWIW, I was trying to look up how to use a comparator to sort a MutableArray<Int,Int>.
Readers: Consider the source of this article and who owns the NY Post before trusting its narrative. Fact checks aren't one of their strengths, but propaganda is.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-alternatives-to-NLTK

http://opennlp.apache.org/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nlp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics
Stop using JWT for sessions, Part 2
It's worth noting that, depending on how they wired the thing, they could get an extra power of two. Energy carried in massless form, including in a wire, has the same force of (power / c). So, if you wire the thing up so the power cable comes in the back, your apparent efficiency will double. Of course, this is useless in a spaceship that carries its own power source. (Unless you're a solar sail or powered by a ground-based laser.)

Actually accounting for the force in a transmission line (e.g. where is it in space) or, for that matter, the power, is notoriously complicated. Also, real wires have tension as well as magic Maxwell's Equations force.

I wonder whether the experimenters tried leaving the power cable in place and turning the cavity around. If the thing really worked and they corrected for their cable correctly, they should observe the same thrust in the other direction.
Of course I'm asking with context of massive parallel realtime queries from customers as it's going in yandex metrika or google analytics. And yes 100T lines with Hive+ORC it's not an issue, but it's another league.

I assume that only Kudu is a competitor for ClickHouse now. Or may be Greenplum.

Thank you for your answer.
> you'll get a decent pension which will allow you to live comfortably

Assuming the state pension system will still be running by then and won't be totally broken due to birth rates < 2.

At least in countries such as Germany they are currently facing issues because of the low amount of young payers in the next few decades. And politicians are just ignoring this to get votes from the mostly elderly population (recently in Germany: pension raise of >5% while inflation is at almost 0%).

Sorry, but I think depending on the pensions in the EU is waay to risky. It'll probably fail like a ponzi scheme in few decades. I guess US-citizens are actually better off, because they have more money to save on their own.
Yeah. No.
Perhaps a good test site for Planetary Resources, although it sounds like it may be too small. Can you call dibs on an asteroid?
> But I don't see a great reason why aside from squatting or having tons of companies why someone should own 200x .coms.

How about because they paid for 200x .coms?

BTW, for you and some others here:

Domain squatting is when someone registers domains in the hope that trademark owners will shell out cash to get the domains.

Domain squatting is not when someone simply registers domains you happen to like and wish you owned instead.
This Orlando fellow had quite the history. He sounds like a fairly typical picture of a male workplace/spree killer, but of course in this country we just don't think in terms of that anymore I guess?

He's a terrorist, or he's totally crazy, or some other extreme. Not: He always had issues with violent impulses according to accounts of his time in early school, and beyond. The man had classic warning signs of a particularly dangerous man, with the failed attempts at law enforcement being another red flag.

He's textbook, but the people reading the textbooks anymore aren't in law enforcement or media. He's a textbook spree killer, or pilot who crashes his plane with people on board, or school shooter, or workplace shooter. Textbook. 'Sexual Homicides: Patterns and Motives' among many others.
"Nowhere else in the United States - or the world - has quite the unique mix of red-blooded capitalism, concentrated wealth, and a culture of innovation."

China is a serious contender to SV.
I worked on screen saver engines that had to support these - We did a lot of direct access to the bit mapped display for speed, at the cost of compatability. That being said, there were OS hooks that made responding to the rotation easier.

The problem came in when running applications that didn't respond correctly to the configuration changes - since we had patched the os (transparently, particularly when not actually driving the display) we got blamed for a lot of application crashes and ended up debugging and sending very explicit bug reports to other software vendors.

When the iPhone came out, I was deathly afraid of the screen rotation for about 6 months, convinced as I was that 50% of the apps wouldn't respond gracefully. (And I personally have never found one that failed here.)
Why are there windows on a spaceship?
Money for nothing: Why a universal basic income is a step too far
You might like this: http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mi...
> But anything that is Turing complete automatically implies that anything layered on top of it will incorporate such niceties as being impossible to formally verify due to the halting problem.

Not sure I follow here... You can certainly run a non-turing-complete language on top of a turing-complete one and anything in that language could potentially be verifiable.
How do you stealth promote on YouTube?
Xerox Alto brings back some memories indeed. I used one at CMU as a frosh to do engineering drawings for the Terragator (http://gizmodo.com/5072167/25-years-of-strange-and-wonderful...). Being new to computers, I didn't really get that a mouse and GUI were revolutionary. It just seemed so obvious. But that is the beauty of innovation done right - that to users it just seems obvious and natural.
Because windows aren't unheard of even now on spaceships?

http://atlcoin.com/atlcoinblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/UF...
Right, I had always assumed that it was to keep the roof on.
For the reply below, temperatures vary wildly, as it's in altitude - even between the shade and sun in summer, there's a large variation, and in winter, it gets coooold.
https://youtu.be/C-qEmmpGYvA?t=36s

Seems to be human nature.
Thinking About Smart Contract Security
That looks like some sort of internal WordPress link. I think you mean:

https://wuthefwasthat.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/git-open-alia...
> First, if the exhaust is photons, you have a photon rocket.

I was wondering about that. Why not just use a flashlight?
I used to think the US would go metric, but more recently I'm not sure. The biggest question is what is the advantage for every day purposes? For example, a foot is a more useful measurement than the meter. Fahrenheit is more useful than Celsius (I know Celisus is not technically metric). Pounds are more useful than kilos (a best it's a wash). I don't see why grams beat ounces.

I just don't see the value of metric for everyday purposes. For science, yes, but not for everyday measurement.
We had a yearly competition like that at school. The "winner" was always someone who put all their money in one penny stock and got lucky.

A better approach is to reward the portfolio with the highest Sharpe ratio, but even that is flawed because it ignores systemic risk and confuses historical volatility with actual risk.

Anyway, these games teach nothing about the essential habits of delaying gratification and living within your means. Those habits are far more likely to make you rich (and keep you rich) than any particular investment strategy.
Yes, but the environment doesn't care about at per capita stats - only the total CO2 output. China output is growing, West is not.
I'm also finding the "blockchain all the things" concept ... perplexing.

I really don't understand the mechanism or dynamics.

It seems I'm not the only one.

There's a growing set of evidence of breakdown among institutions founded on or around Blockchain: Bitcoin, MtGox, Ethereum, others.

And a profound failure to either understand or acknowledge (and I'm not sure which of the two it is predominantly, or how much it varies by individual) what money, currency, and contract actually are.
One fascinating thing I discovered a few years ago: Lego Technic is a combination of both metric and imperial units. Hole centers are 8mm apart from each other. But hole diameters are 4.85mm, perfectly sized for a 10-32 (size based on inches) screw.
I've traveled all over this country for business and visited cities large and small as well as cheap and expensive restaurants. I'll say it again, I have never, ever seen this or heard of any such thing from anyone I've ever known. What you encountered could only have been a low-class dump from your description.
Here is a zip file with the relevant issue

http://www.megafileupload.com/bbgb/Almagest-Volume7-Issue1-T...
Evolving Query Languages
IANAL, but as far as I know, traditional contracts can be amended - under the condition that all concerned parties agree to the changes. Not 99.9% of the parties, all of them. As you say, that may be impractical with such a big number of parties, but impracticalities don't change the law.

In fact, before the incident, Ethereum's rules were even stricter as in that there was no way at all to amend a contract. Which is why the current strategy against the attack is to modify Ethereum itself and hard code the attackers wallet into the platform code. The ones who are to "vote" on that proposal (because they are the only ones with the power to implement it) are the miners, not the DAO holders.

I think this would be comparable with making a contract with a bunch of MPs - and when they find that the contract can be exploited, they lobby to amend contract law itself and add a clause that deals specifically with your contract.
.org runs on postgres.
Author seems to be mostly concerned by code loaded as a module being treated as strict 100% of the time.

Literally every difference that they list is strict mode (and the usual misunderstanding of |this|)
Can you share some links about when it was in style?
I really liked Scala when I played around with it (bare with me here), but when deciding on what to use on a project I'm starting, targeting the JVM is a downside. Can I depend on the JVM being on the target machine? If not, I'll have to deal with the dependency. However, if I choose a compiled language like Rust, I don't have to worry about that.
Don’t ask for permission, come with intent
I see I have been downvoted a few times. What's your argument? Where do you disagree? I'd like to hear an alternative viewpoint.
the fact that a small, new snake can kill a massive server leading snake makes it very unlike agar.io
Better wines too [1] but that doesn't concern me. I was born in California and have decided that if Republicans end up destroying the Federal government, then I'd be fine with California, Oregon and Washington forming a new country called Cascadia. By the way, Cascadia would have the 2 or 3rd most powerful military in the world.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5013910.stm
It has pretty low pause times by the GC.
Click on 'web' then on the link to the article. NYT whitelists visitors coming from Google
Virtual Reality Development Tips
While possible, that runs into another question: why would someone pay for support when they already have the software?

There are a few reasons: 1) they want to support new feature development, 2) they want to support me personally, or 3) they want support with understanding the API or doing integration.

I think most F/OS software has lousy documentation. I think that's because developers rarely like to write documentation, because free documentation writers are rare as hen's teeth, and because users aren't willing to pay for documentation.

Which is great if you want to sell your consulting services as well. That is, if the tool solves a problem, but is a hassle to use, then you get paid for configuration and customization. But that disincentivizes putting together a solid API with extensive documentation, where people don't need your help to understand how everything works.

> "even when the software is open source, can you stipulate that payment is required if used by a commerical company or academic institution?"

There are two issues. First, for the software to be open source, then there can be no legal mechanism to require later payment. What you propose is not "open source".

That said, it's might be possible to have a side agreement which does that. That agreement might not be legally enforceable, but a company will likely comply anyway, because they made the agreement in the first place.

But there's no way I'll obligate an academic group to pay me $20K should one of the grad students, or student with access to the shared disk, decide to redistribute it, after seeing that it's under an open source license. There's no way that will do me any long-term good.
The big problem with one of the most popular assumptions about the poor
I just gave up today trying to install arch on my new-ish '13 laptop because of a UEFI debacle. The instructions were not clear about how to install the bootloader and UEFI partition.

At one point it says make a fat32 partition, but after that it never says what to do with it, or where to mount it. The instructions don't go in series, each section is its own novel, with branches at each level.

earlier, it says "pick one of these 3 UEFI bootloaders" but never follows up with how to make each one work.

I'm in no way whatsoever afraid of the command line (I run ubuntu every day ), but man I wish it had a graphical or at least curses-based installer. linux mint installs in under 3 minutes, including UEFI and full-disk encryption.
if I want to see the last Added inside an already existing playlist I can't.
As someone raised metric I never understood how one unit was more "useful" than the other. The fact of the matter is that you can calculate and reason with metric which is tricky in imperial units. Celsius also makes more sense to me as someone living in the alps ;)
Are you that weird luke guy from bitcoin?