skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this lately, and one of the problems is that most politics and government can be boiled down to tribalist behaviour and gross generalization. Us vs. Them. I defend this solutions because they work and are the ones I've always have believed with my pears. The guy in front of me is wrong because (cherrypick some obvious and probably true examples) and doesn't have a clue.
Government could better be performed if done similary to a doctor prescribing to a patient, today you need this treatment, but maybe in a year you have improved enough and you need a touch of the opposite one, and then we have to try something new with this other problem.

But current believes don't let politicians try this (I don't think they even believe it's possible), and even if they tried we voters wouldn't trust this kind of "changing sides".

If X policy worked so well till now, why I'm not going to apply it to every problem we have or imagine we have?

Of course it's more complex than this (as it's just a generalization) but I have not seen this said in too many places.
This may also be a way to reduce vandalism. E.g. in France, libraries are a favorite target during riots, apparently as they are seen to represent the state:
http://www.booksandideas.net/Why-are-people-setting-fire-to....
I hope our country gets to your level. Our online tax system is an excel sheet and the site doesn't handle load well.
What exactly is the difference between a a micro framework and a library?
lol
vegans have FAR LESS cancer (http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2250052.html)
but nooo, I won't go vegan - those peoplz ares crazies!!!11
Two things are amazing (to me) about this picture.

1) When you look up in the sky at the Andromeda Galaxy, your retina is absorbing photons that have been screaming through space for 2.5 million years. If you were on the Earth then, you'd be hanging out with Smilodon, the saber-toothed cat. For 2.5 million years, those photons were freely zooming through space and time, and when you see them, those photons are gone forever, their energy powering a chemical reaction in the rods and cones lining your retina that enables you to see them. Those ancient photons were seen by nobody else but you, and they literally become a part of you.

2) In about 3.75 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy, currently zipping through space toward the Milky Way Galaxy at 110 km/s (nearly 70 miles per second, or about 250,000 MPH), will collide with and merge with our galactic home. It's unlikely anything would happen to the majority of planetary systems in either galaxy (there's a lot of empty space in there) -- but the night sky (not from Earth, we'd probably be cooked by the Sun by then) sure would be beautiful. And bright.

Scientists even proposed the name for the new galaxy: Milkomeda.
This question was answered decades ago

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/amount-of-space-required-to-t...

It's painful that it needs to be explained.
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I really wish that people would stop using "Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" as the fallback fonts.. just use sans-serif (which tends to be arial in windows and helvetica in mac, or some other helvetica-like font.

If you happen to have both, Arial looks better in windows, and Helvetica looks better in mac.
I was surprised to learn the post is referring to a type RSU that defers settlement and thus taxation to a liquidity event.

This is very intriguing. We may not be familiar with this because traditionally RSUs were issued by mature public companies, so they couldn't / wouldn't need to support that trigger.

Are there any startups using these single trigger settlement RSUs today? Any other drawbacks like from an accounting perspective?
This makes the second or third piece I've read this week to suggest that the populism we're seeing behind Brexit and the Trump phenomenon is at some level motivated by a desire to actually cause the harm seems so obvious to experts and the chattering classes. Mind you this guy added a new twist that this destructive intent might not have been a conscious.

Just to spell it out, this articles answer to the question posited in it's title is that maybe Brexit was an unconscious act of economic sabotage.

Seriously? Is that where we're at?

If people want to make sense of the populism surrounding Brexit or Trump, the first step is to stop making up bullshit and accept these many voters and activists are sincere, genuine and motivated by the hope of something better.

I think the reason that people don't get this, is because they inhabit an intellectual and an informational world where all those harms mentioned in the article are just freaking obvious.

So, in the UK, the US, and even in Australia we're witnessing these populisms that invite the connections everyone is making, they express the same fears, the same distrust of institutions and expertise, they share the same race-inflected dimension, and belief that Islam is a threat. They even share the same climate denialism, which is curious.

Now, while it may not sound as creative or cool as the masses unconsciously taking down the system. But it's worth mentioning that in Australia, the UK and in the US, our news media is characterised by the dominating reach and profound influence of News Limited / Fox News. Being the news outlet who's reputation is synonymous with its message on those same very fears and issues.

But that's just a coincidence right? No, we don't talk about that. It's not like a divorce between democracy and science, expertise and truth is something we should be worried about.

Yeah, my bad. Brexit was totally an act of unconsciously self-destructive class warfare, that makes much more sense for us to be talking about. That's some next level jungian collective unconscious shit right there.
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I'm excited by Java in general, multi-threading, Big Data and back-end development.
I might go with something like this:

"We, corporation X, hereby declare as a matter of public record that our counsel of choice in any criminal proceeding pertaining to a NSL is the EFF. This notice constitutes prior informed consent to any advertisement featuring us as a client of the EFF should we chose to retain them."
Hi, spanish dev here.

Currently working in London and looking at options after Brexit referendum.

How do you get paid by US companies if you don't live there? Do they hire you as freelancer?

Do you have to open a USD bank account in Spain or do you need one in the USA and then transfer the money over to your spanish account?

Thanks.
> People don't need a local time

People do need a local time.

> Maybe your sun rises at 00:12 and mine at 08:15.

That's already the case regardless of timezones (sunrise is currently at 02:24 in Akureyri, Iceland with sunset at 00:10)

> Maybe you go to work at 01:00 and we do at 10:00.

When shops open or close, people take dinner, the trains start and stop running or people go to work are all local time concepts. If you don't provide convenient time notations for local times people will just make their own because they need to talk about these concepts and synchronise based on them anyway. That has nothing to do with local traditions, it's a form of compression.

> This is why we can't have nice things.

UTC already exists, and foisting it on everybody regardless of their actual needs is not a nice thing, it's just technologist laziness.
Dwarf Fortress 0.43.05 released with 64-bit support
Android real-time effect filter rtmp streaming library
As a consumer affected by this bug, sure, you may find it inexcusable. But the basic truth about any mature software product used by tens of millions is that there will be a laundry list of bugs competing for limited resources. So there will always be bugs that you want to fix but simply isn't a high enough priority relative to all the other bugs or features.
Still better than Node...
Google AdSense has closed many inactive accounts on July 4th
It is harder, more expensive and time-consuming to fix bugs later than sooner.
Tropic Fallout: 70 years later
The main purpose of this course is education so we pick Python and iOS. So that anyone who want to learn Python and Swift can join this.

Hybrid apps sounds good but native apps still play huge role in reality.
Yea, no shit. This is pretty much common-sense advise by now. I was hoping for some new insights with respect to things like cell-phone usage, pesticides, low-carb diets, fasting or those so-called "anti-inflammatory" diets.
Weird. On Firefox, with ad-blocker and PrivacyBadger disabled, I am stuck on a page with only navigation menus and a title that reads 'Explicit cookie consent'.

In Chrome I get the expected I-agree-to-your-cookies consent form.

Anyone else getting this?
> Surprisingly, Excel can import CSV from UTF8 with BOM (at least new versions of Excel).

A BOM is abnormal and not recommended in UTF-8, it's basically a shitty MS hack: the BOM is necessary to detect endianness differences between the document and the host system, endianness has no impact impact on UTF-8.

And as freak_nl above notes, Excel uses locale-dependent field separators, so in some countries/locales it will try to import "CSV" with semicolon separators.
Only if you believe HFT players actually increase liquidity. That's not as immediately obvious as it may seem.
You're off by an order of magnitude.

Stars are often trillions of miles apart. Binaries can be so close they touch or as far apart as 100 billion miles.

As for the aliens, there are good arguments for and against their existence. The numerical argument is not, by itself, very convincing. It's like thinking you will win the lotto because you have a million tickets, but not knowing how many balls are drawn and how many numbers are on the balls. You may be guaranteed to win, or your odds may be effectively zero.
raising a $5M equity round on a $25M pre-money valuation
I've had this for a while on this domain, which Chrome and Ghostery. I haven't been able to read their articles for months at least.
Awesome. Was looking for some of those media suites on the strip. There's one at Palazzo that has a piano! I miss Vegas. Your site makes me want to go back again. The data for the Palazzo media suite, however, isn't exactly right. It shows amenities include a piano, massage table, and pool table. The suites don't have all of them (at least, not when I toured them a while back) but do have one or two in each room configuration.

Great job on the site. Some gorgeous properties out there. I'll definitely be returning when I'm ready to live it up in Vegas again. That bungalow at the Cosmopolitan looks pretty swank...
Use as option to encode a request for a mime type in controller tests in Rails 5
The examples around terrorism undermine the article. Anyone paying attention, presumably including politicians, knows why Islamic terrorists want to attack the US; the problem is the political difficulty of clearly stating the facts in public without being accused of being unpatriotic or of attacking America's allies.

Likewise, the article glibly states all experts oppose protectionism, but in the words of Ha-Joon Chang, "Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies." (http://www.paecon.net/PAEtexts/Chang1.htm) Appeals to authority don't work; economists cannot be expected to be systematically unbiased, if their funding tends to depend on particular economic theories having political currency.

The problem isn't that expertise is impossible, it's political structures which push objective inquiry aside. "It is very difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it."

The global warming "debate" also backs this point up. There is no doubt the experts are reliable, that global warming exists and is a serious threat. But we are unable to come up with an effective policy response, because fossil fuel companies can buy an opposition.

> If we want to test whether fiscal stimulus cures recessions, we cannot prepare two identical societies, with identical recessions, and then apply fiscal stimulus in on
e society but not the other. Nor can we take a large collection of societies with recessions and randomly assign half to receive fiscal stimulus and half to receive no fiscal stimulus.

There is no reason that randomized controlled trials of economic policy could not be done on particular regions, and this is occasionally done already (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/12/randomis...). It's really a bit outrageous that we'd introduce far-reaching economic changes with less evidential support than for a new brand of athlete's foot cream.
He may be referring to that, but there doesn't seem to be a per-click zoom amount. It zooms further the longer you hold a click and seems very sensitive.
I have used exclusively Thinkpads since 1997.

The one I bought in 1999 broke through a cracked screen when a pencil got wedged between the frame and the screen because the hinges were not as strong as those today.

The T42, T43 and T60 series were absolutely incredible for their times but were now without fault; even back then they screen bezel was huge and you had to pay unreasonable money to get a screen with a higher resolution than 1024x800.

My Z60 was a fantastic machine that I ended up giving away. Its battery life, however, will not be missed.

My last T420 has an assembly that flexed far more than I liked and buttons whose pretty uniform black wore out with use, but I still keep it in the closet because it's indestructible. It's ugly as sin though.

I have my minor disagreements with the keyboard design of the X250, but the trackpad is great, the screens have actually usable brightness now with their default configuration, and battery life has gone way, way, way up.

Let's not look at the past with rose-colored glasses. Every one of those machines had a minor issue as far a Linux compatibility (always different), but back then it was a pain in the ass to get the WiFi working, whereas now if anything I might have a complaint about default keyboard bindings. Things change, but at no point in all that time did I have to send any of those machines for repairs (save for the Z60's fan getting clogged with dirt and some random memory module that died).

People get enamored with their machines and their particular quirks, but I much prefer the new, thinner machines. The tradeoffs are tradeoffs, and the defects are just different. Hell I even prefer the new chiclet keys over the old keys.

The only thing I can say is different is that the frame of the newer machines flexes more. That is not a defect; a frame that flexes is far more resistant to falls and impact. All of my machines have fallen off chairs at some point; all of them survived intact.
This is clearly a shot at Kupor's infamous A16Z post where he claims employees who stay suffer a LOT more dilution (80%) when employees who leave keep 100%.[1] But this poster's model puts it at just 5%.

There's clearly wildly different assumptions at play here. Can someone smarter than me spell them out? One that jumps out is the assumption here that no employee stays past 3 years. Isn't that a pretty high attrition rate for a pre-IPO startup?

[1] http://a16z.com/2016/06/23/options-timing/
rosalinekarr we are always keen to receive feedback and suggestions to improve the docs, if necessary you can create a Pull Request so that we can improve it and make it less offensive. We have taken some actions recently on this matter: https://github.com/impress/impress.js/issues/540 and https://github.com/impress/impress.js/commit/967017115bd659a...
"Simple" here has a particular meaning, related to Kolmogorov complexity.
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> What am I missing?

In planning a strategy, I've found it helpful to consider Win Conditions. It forces me to think backwards from the goal, construct a dependency tree, and consider resource allocation. I first heard about it from videogames but I've also seen it in math, engineering, logistics, recipes, etc. I also pattern-match it the insight that solved the Problem Of Points [0] which motivated Probability Theory. If it were on the curated list, I'd expected to find it under "models" next to cost-benefit analysis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_points#Pascal_and_F...
> 100 billion stars, not million

No, it's 100 million, as the article says.

> It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.
Setting to disable Chrome extensions on certain domain names
No. From the detailed description:

> A SYLK file is a text file that begins with "ID" or "ID_xxxx", where xxxx is a text string. The first record of a SYLK file is the ID_Number record. When Excel identifies this text at the beginning of a text file, it interprets the file as a SYLK file. Excel tries to convert the file from the SYLK format, but cannot do so because there are no valid SYLK codes after the "ID" characters. Because Excel cannot convert the file, you receive the error message.

This is usually called "magic string" or "magic number" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)). It has nothing to do with the comma, and everything to do with SYLK using a pretty risky magic string (ID) and Excel not having a "try SYLK, if that fails, try as csv".

tl;dr: this is about guessing the input format and has nothing to do with the delimiter.
yeah I'd bet that way. Go ahead and note down my email somewhere, if in the next five years anybody is charged in the United States for publishing "we haven't been served any secret court orders" (or similar), or for removing that text - which is the two parts of how a warrant canary works - then you can email me and I'll paypal you a token payment.
Yet.

(Does kdbus count?)
I think my celtic skeleton weighs 80 lbs
Yes, this is so horrible.
As a workaround I sometimes put "sep=," on the first line of the spreadsheet. This forces Excel to use the comma as a separator, regardless of the locale.
The downside of course is that every other tool on the planet shows the extra row, so it's not very useful.
The bright parts are boring, let's look at the empty ones! http://petapixel.com/2013/06/06/a-mind-bending-look-at-the-h...

Now while watching the video, do keep that picture of Andromeda in the back of your mind, and that the Hubble telescope was aimed at the darkest corner of the universe! Factor in Kepler stuff, and draw your own conclusions.

And zooming back, here I am, sitting on a chair in an irrelevant part of that thin blue layer on a ball of iron and oxygen, crying of joy, hope, and a little bit of sadness for those of us that keep throwing flak – whether bombs or words – at each other in a delusion of self-importance. How feeble are we, merely able to be at peace with our kin; how frail, when we can barely camp out in such close proximity to our home. Please, world, let's race to space again, in a – this time around – friendly competition.
So, a question back at you. Let's suppose an ontology of technological mechanisms. That is, describing technologies by how they operate. I've kicked some ideas around and come up with:

1. Process-knowledge. Arts and practical stuff, say, agriculture, construction, boatbuilding, sailing, etc.

2. Fuels & combustion, generally. Wood, plant and animal oils, charcoal, coal, petroleum, steam, otto, deisel, turbine engines.

3. Materials. Functions dependent on specific properties, and abundance of materials they're based on.

4. Power and transmission.

5. Sensing, perception, symbolic representation & manipulation.

6. Systematic knowledge. Science, geography, history.

7. Governance, management, business, & institutions.

8. Scaling and network technologies. Cities, transport, communications, computers.

9. Sinks & unintended consequences. Pollution, effluvia, systems disruption, and their management.

"Thought technology" probably falls into scientific knowledge (models) or symbolic processing.

Thoughts?

More: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/klsjjjzzl9plqxz-ms8nww
Is it because they are vegan or because vegans live healthier lifestyles?
is there anything of statistical or other cosmological analytics merit here or is this just for enjoyment?
Pocket has comprehensive search, which is pretty slick. The tagging feature leaves much to be desired, though it's also far better than Readability.
This is more about distribution of software publicly. For ops and internal deployment, yeah I'd stick to the platform specific pkg manager.
Reminds me of an old one-liner I saw in an email signature years ago - "There's one really terrifying word in nuclear physics.

Oops."

I'll lead myself out.
I've enjoyed this video exploration of the image:

Gigapixels of Andromeda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU
Sometimes you just think you know how something works, so you don't study it anymore.

I have a rule that if I'm Googling a symptom for the second time that I have to take some time to learn more about the subject.
I thought they were mainly thieves. When I was in Galapagos, I was actually taking pics of a booby feeding its kid when a frigate flew right through both of them, grabbing the fish as it flew through. All three of us were surprised.

They also bother the other birds in mid flight, causing them to drop their food.
I have my priorities right - I spend my time writing code.

During the early stages of the company email does not get my attention, despite the fact that I know how to set it all up and configure it.

To me this is wise use of time. It would be a waste of time to get properly configured email addresses when the real priority is to get code out there.
For context, see https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502c/
Google Cloud Functions is in Alpha. It's not being held back for "the big corps", in fact most big companies won't touch any product that isn't Generally Available (and therefore backed by an SLA).

It's just a product that's still in development, and changing a lot! They'll be in Beta soon enough, and then anyone can use it. Until then, they're following our usual launch phases (https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages).

If you want to try it out (and provide feedback, and deal with potentially large changes), I'm sure they'd be happy to whitelist you: send me your info (address in my profile).

Disclosure: I work at Google on Compute Engine (but I know the folks on Cloud Functions).
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I thought the Lunar Guidance computer used cooperative multitasking.