skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never seen such an edit on the internet before.

I am amazed.

This is why I love HN.
Japan is about to test out plans for a real-life space elevator – ScienceAlert
Something the general reader may not know: As late as ~2004-7, calculations of this type were impossible. It was a major achievement when numerical relativists were able to achieve a single orbit of a black-hole black-hole binary system.

Figuring out how to make it work was the culmination of decades of attempts at the problem. Improved computational power didn't hurt, but the major improvement was finding the right metrics in which to do the simulations.
You should really take it easy on the beheading, humiliation and torture videos. Just like Howard Stern, it's possible to go through life without going out of your way to expose yourself to those things, or even hanging out in online discussions about them, telling people how much you don't like them even though you "watched lots of" them.
I think you've got my argument completely backwards - I'm pointing out that if repetition as implied by the article is everything, then results from e.g. the LHC are discounted.

Similarly, I am not saying that you don't need to repeat - just that it isn't the be all and end all of what defines 'science'. Supporting this interpretation is that I mentioned DAMA. Nobody is accusing them of not taking care, but nobody really believes the result either.
I don't think it does (although I'm not 100% certain). We use Duo Mobile[0], which pushes a challenge to the phone, then I have to acknowledge it. It's not the standard "enter the 6 digit code" that Google Mail and most 2 factor systems make use of.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duo-mobile/id422663827?mt=8
Well, it forces to open source anything "linked together" with the GPL code, even if it has no relation to it and is in no way to derived from it. So in that sense, GPL tries to force the developer to release unrelated code under GPL.

Of course, as a consequence many developers refuse to use any software distributed under the GPL (as in using GPLed code in their software). I am not sure how this is a good thing.
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What do you need me to clarify?
From your link...

> "Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide."

The types of links should be crystal clear from the licence, rather than relying on judges to determine fair use. Companies are likely to avoid the GPL due to the potential risk derived from this lack of clarity.
It seems his premise is "Rethink wealth so you feel better about giving your money to others" I find it well meaning but naive to human nature. It might as well have been called "Ignore human nature". Wealth stems from "taking" resources and wanting to survive. We are in a petri dish of limited resources, with more and more people consuming. Good luck with that math.
Hindsight bias. It's very easy to look at the 3 winners over a long time horizon and say, "Look, they keep on going up and up." If this were a real trading strategy, then Momentum would sustain itself over a longer time, but the empirical academic evidence is that it's short term.

Over long time horizons, this tends to reverse itself. (Both companies and markets with unusually high PE ratios underperform low PEs over long time horizons) This is well accepted in finance. [0] [1]

[0] https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/t...

[1] https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~charvey/Teaching/IntesaBci_2...
Could you please expand on "realizing that absent mindedness is a symptom of poor plannning"? Also limiting gifts and travel?
TrueConf Announces Monthly Subscription Option for TrueConf Server
TrueConf has introduced a new licensing method for the TrueConf Server video conferencing solution. The dedicated server option for closed networks is now available as a subscription with monthly recurrent payments.

Licensing with payment on a monthly basis is a step forward for next-generation IT managers who use a monthly purchase and budgeting model when dealing with cloud service providers. What differentiates TrueConf Server from cloud solutions is that a subscription covers the on-premises product installed and running independently in a customer’s network.

This new licensing option also allows to customers to dynamically increase or reduce the license scope on a monthly basis, aligning it with the company size and number of customer subsidiaries. Funds are deducted automatically and there is no further cost to the client.

TrueConf Server monthly licenses include a wide range of capabilities. These include support for all types of video conferences, conference scheduling and recording, access to collaboration tools, federation capability for multiple ТrueConf Servers, and native client applications for all popular desktop and mobile platforms.

Dmitry Odintsov, TrueConf Development CEO, comments: “The cloud model of corporate software licensing is a new way of doing things for us, but why not try it if it is demanded by customers?”

“The subscription format allows to deploy fully-fledged video conferencing system without the need to invest in expensive video conferencing infrastructure, while at the same time retaining total control over the safety and availability of communications. Cloud service providers simply cannot offer this,” Mr. Odintsov says.
This is not accurate. You don't need to learn Redux or WebPack to use React. With Angular you also need a build process so you can use gulp or WebPack. Maybe there's a pre baked process but you still need to know some build tool.

Because React doesn't care about how you manage your state, you can use Redux or other solutions. Not because they are cool , but because it fits your needs.
I agree it was not accurate in all cases. The api is in beta but it was fun to use.
You would want to look at lifecycle analysis studies (here's a few [1][2]). The big problem with fossil fuel is that it takes fuel to extract new fuels (high cost sources like tar sands have a ratio of like 1 fuel unit used to extract 2) AND they have a cost for each unit of power generated. Most renewables (excluding biofuels for example), have a manufacturing cost, but little to no energy generation cost (solar and wind have none, hydropower basins have something like 1/1000th the emissions of coal).

[1] http://phys.org/news/2014-10-first-ever-global-life-renewabl...

[2] http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sustain_lca_results.html
Usenet wasn't any better.
"It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question
that brought you here. You know the question, just as I
did."

"What is the Matrix?"
Envy/Jealousy Tendency
True, though this story sounded more like one engineer convinced of his godhood and a bunch of clueless managers who ensure that the only way you can keep your job is to believe in the greatness of the solution and its author...
I picked a random username to stay anonymous. :-)

Like you, I also enjoyed the burst in energy when MM landed. I just wish she had not trusted the middle management so much; but these people had entrenched themselves over many, many years like barnacles, and it's not easy to get rid of them.

Good luck, wherever you are!
Not for Musk's Tesla at least:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/mythbusters-part-3-recycling-our-...

https://www.tesla.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-recycl...
I think it's missing a lot of cities. The concept is good, but I don't trust the metrics. (Bookstore in an airport versus something else?)

I'd be interested in books read per person (though hard to measure) or at least books sold per capita.
i think its a bit misleading. I grew up in munich, germany and there are not many public libraries, but they are massive. The münchner stadtbibliothek has stores (?) in every district. Then a few extra stores near major places and a big headquarter. It is roughly half the size of the new york public library for a city of only 1.5 million inhabitants. its not the only one, the state has one, the universities etc. The bavarian state library has nearly twice as many books as the new york public library.

Maybe books per capita would be a better metric to rank cities (albeit a bit more complicated to research)
Are App Video Ads the Best Way to Promote Mobile Apps?
In addition to smaller/faster than XML, protobufs make it extremely easy to declare the schema of data, validate data and version your schema. Then the generated wrappers and static type checking in various languages add additional guarantees that you're using the data correctly.

Plain XML still requires a lot to ensure compatibility when it's used across multiple places, protobufs attempt to minimize many sources of the incompatibilities.

Add in a bunch of tools such as protobuf->JSON, protobuf plaintext serialization, etc and it becomes more difficult to argue for using something such as XML or vanilla JSON.

Flatbuffers are still a nice solution for more performance-critical applications.
I meant no offense by issuing the correction. I heard it from MM's mouth that she wanted to get rid of these barriers to entering Yahoo. My point, which is minor, is that she evaluated the situation herself and made a decision to get rid of the barriers, rather than responding to someone's complaint.
Yeah, we all get the Donald Trump emulation act you're attempting. It's not cute, it's tired and pathetic.
There were several "bogey Higgs" at different energies during earlier Tevatron and LHC runs. Maybe these were 3-5 events which hinted at a signal. Then they disappeared. But the real Higgs was not confirmed until there were 40 events of two different decay paths at two different detectors, i.e. 5-sigma significance. Different runs and decay paths are like multiple replications.
I believe that it is not simply the decision of leaving the EU that is the big news. It is the ideas and discussions that caused that decision to be made by the majority of the UK population (this article focusing in on the economic inequality portion of the argument) that are the most interesting and cause the largest reaction.

I should also mention that it is big news in the US because we are seeing similar sentiments from a portion of our populace and the foreshadowing of our own elections is, well, interesting.
Well, I am very, very cautious when I hear "DSL" and don't hear "Lisp" in the same sentence. Most languages are not powerful enough to create full DSLs that are maintainable and actually improve something.
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As opposed to saying drivers are already getting tipped despite the fact that there's no percentage of the fare that's set aside and preserved from Uber's cut ie they're not being tipped?
There are many people who need versions and don't run the tip of master. Even for projects that always try to keep the tip of master as a stable build.

I think of OpenStack here. Multiple times per year they produce releases because many people need them. Yet, the CI/CD system keeps it in such shape you can always run the tip of master and some people do that.

Both options need to be available.

To not have release versions means you're not willing to support a certain class of users. It says something about your intent.
The difference is that with "increase Britain's GDP" there are several sensible choices that can get you there.
Ask HN: When I put my computer to sleep, does it dream like I do?
Hello HN,

(Backstory)
Yesterday I was asked to inspire a group of elementary students about Computer Science/Physics/Space/Galaxies/ and all the exciting stuff. It was nice to interact with these kids and inspire them.

As I started talking about, AI and what companies like SpaceX and Magic Leap are trying to achieve. One of the students asked me. "When I put my computer to sleep, does it dream like I do?" Now, I didnt wanted to get dive in technical details and spoil the fun. I told her yes, it does dream. That was well aligned with my AI discussion. But, now I can't stop thinking about the technical challenges and complex AI network that could make this happen.

But, If I want to give explain it again, what would be a good way of doing it.

Edit: Explain like in both technical and non-tehnical terms.

Thanks,
"Does money matter?"

i will check with my landlord and let you know.
Actually, I heard it from her directly that she was appalled at the barriers, and wanted them to go. Now, whether it was in a TGIF or in person, I don't recall.
Something can be an indirect subsidy and a Pigouvian tax at the same time; they are non-exclusive options. I see the carbon tax as both, and am opposed to both.

There are no 'pure market[s]', and there never have been. The 'pure market' was a straw-man invented by anti-market people.
Please don't do this on Hacker News. We ban accounts that repeatedly post like this.
At heart this is a call for several reductions in user freedom. The GPL exists to protect the freedom of users. So these reductions will not be introduced into the GPL, unless there is an extremely good tactical reason for doing so.

"Because my company really, really, really wants to restrict our users freedom and we want to exploit free software to do so" isn't a good tactical reason.

That said, many of the things the author asks for are already included in the GPLv3. You can place DRM software under the GPL. You get a compliance window if you break the GPL's terms. It refers to "shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms".

So this isn't a conversation that needs to happen. Or if it is, it's one that needs to start with a bit more listening.
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There's also the option that papers are written the way they are so that they still remain papers and not books. A five page paper on someone's findings is much easier to read than a 20-30 page paper where field specific knowledge is redefined and explained instead of referenced.
Totally unrelated to anything, but I love the term "numerical relativists". I know it's actually a branch of computational physics, but it calls to mind postmodernists invading mathematics departments and claiming that theorems are socially constructed, and that maybe 2 > 3 under a Marxist-Leninist interpretation.
That's why the industry standard in IT is to use the dumbest tool for the job. Replaceable cogs and all.
I feel I should do the obligatory Dan Carlin link here:
http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepri...

Long, harrowing and left me hankering for more. He covers Verdun in the later episodes.
He really lost me with the first two paragraphs... Oh, and the title. The Brexit? Really? He's using the Brexit to launch into a soliloquy on the meaning of life?

It's not clear to me that the Brexit had to do with wealth as much as it had to do with sovereignty. It's also not clear that the Brexit will have a negative long run impact on Britain's wealth.

I know this sounds crazy to all the super smart international people out there, but A) the EU's growth sucks and B) it's likely to get worse before it gets better - oh, and C) when it gets worse the Euro could very well go away, making the Brexit crowd look like geniuses.

Look, if you look for fulfillment in money or possessions you are going to be disappointed. This has been a tenet of Western philosophy for millennia. Using this philosophy as a platform to trash the Brexit is disingenuous and beneath somebody as uber super smart as Hawking.
> I would be inclined to point out that if you vote for radical change, radical change is what you get!

Yes, it's like voting for Trump, you have voted against "the system" and you will get ... something else. it will change, to something unknown. You might end up not liking it much.
Vue templates support conditional rendering (v-if/v-show/v-else) which I didn't realize I missed until using them. Also, conventions around component data are really nice and help keep markup tidy and very readable.

I like to think of Vue as React with sensible conventions. That said, both are terrific and solve UI problems very elegantly.
> But under current medical practices, if a drug trial saw this sort of effectiveness, the trial would be stopped and everyone in the trial offered the treatment. To do otherwise is immoral. As would repeating the same trial.

Then perhaps current medical practices should change. The benefits to those who were previously given the placebo should be balanced against the probability that the observed outcomes may not occur in other circumstances.
Saving for FI (Financial Independence)

If I save at my current rate I will achieve FI in 2022. If I had started saving aggressively sooner I would already be FI (I'm in my mid forties). I hate answering to other people and would rather work on my own stuff. FI will get me there.

Read the book The Simple Path to Wealth to understand the process. Or this blog post is a good start:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...

Another great resource (read the sidebar and FAQ on the right)
https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
> How about the Earth is warming, we don't know by how much, but likely not nearly as much as we previously thought

This is a bold claim completely unsupported by your link.
The DNS resolving code in Docker for Mac is in the VPNkit project which is open-source: https://github.com/docker/vpnkit. A DNS timeout is a fairly general symptom and it's hard to diagnose fully without a packet capture, but there's one issue that I'm aware of: if the primary server is down then the UDP DNS queries and responses will use the host's second server. However if a response is large and requires TCP then unfortunately we will still forward it to the primary server, which obviously won't work :( I've filed this issue about it: https://github.com/docker/vpnkit/issues/96. We hope to improve DNS, VPN and general proxy support for 1.13 -- please do file issues for any other bugs you find!
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The link seems to be a parody Kickstarter project.
Now imagine the state of the battlefields of Vietnam and surrounding countries.

There are places in Cambodia that are no-go areas because of all the stuff we dropped there that did not explode.
This a thousand times.
I got a warranty replacement for my phone a few weeks ago, and immediately noticed that despite explicitly signing in to SwiftKey and verifying that my member ID was the same across my devices, my new phone was not getting any of the dictionary suggestions from my old phone.

At the time I spent a couple hours googling it before giving up. Glad to see that my dictionary suggestions were instead going to someone else. I'm sure they'll be pleased with the variety of profanity that my years of texting should bring.
Only for a tiny pet project.

The sales pitch I usually give people is that any ops person can read a Dockerfile, but most devs can't figure out or help with vagrant or chef scripts.

But it's a hell of a lot easier to get and keep repeatable builds and integration tests working if the devs and the build system are using docker images.
To answer your question: I heard it from her directly. Now, I don't remember if it was in a small setting, or it was in the weekly TGIF. But I do recall her saying that she wanted these barriers gone.

But it's been 4 years...
Cool, but... wasn't the question explicitly to describe the moment(s)?
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Can you point me to those Fedora discussions? I'd be curious to learn more.

I understand how operating system package managers deal with things differently than application developers. I've heard of problems with the way PHP apps are handling their dependencies these days and how Linux distro package managers aren't happy about it.

I'm curious to know more in this case.
It would be interesting to see a historical plot of: # of bookstores vs cost of land vs Amazon stock price.

I see bookstores closing every year in NYC, Houston and other major cities because land prices go up, and it gets too expensive to have what is essentially a warehouse you can browse in the middle of the city when you can have it delivered.
Wow, that got a downvote?

I meant it as answer to the question: No, it's not possible to screw over people while being a nice guy. Ipso facto.
So... describe the moment you realized this.
The error message specifically says "not a directory" and afaik you can't mount single files, only directories. I at least have never even thought of trying to mount individual files since the bind mounting functionality in Docker seems to always and everywhere have been described in a way that suggests that it's for mounting directories, not individual files.
This is a piece of amateur speculation making huge assumptions about advances in technology, and about Uber's ability to adapt to those advances.

One crucial thing to remember, when considering the threat Uber faces from traditional car manufacturers, is that Uber is a software company and they are not. It has a huge advantage in product development, and stands just as good a chance as they do of coming out with self-driving cars for ride-sharing.
It kind of is, though? The US don't count, they have the death penalty and are not a European country, but the UK, just like basically all other European countries (not just EU countries) excluding Belarus & Kazakhstan are members of the Council of Europe, where membership requires abolishing the death penalty. Also, the article for Germany showed, as I said, a rise to 25%, which is really rather far from anything approaching a majority, while the BBC article talked about a decline to 50%. So there is quite a difference.
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You are talking about seperated events, one 800 MY and other 2400 MY.
Uber has aggressively invested into developing its own self-driving technology. This has been extensively discussed on HN.

See some nice photos here: http://qz.com/688003/ubers-self-driving-cars-are-on-the-road...
It does sound like a great target to support! Okay to get in touch with you when we start on this?

Thanks for having a look!
So... describe the moment.
I agree. I call what I believe the critical factor in being a good teacher, "sympathetic imagination"-- the ability to imagine what the other person perceives.
Taxis are over twice as expensive as Uber where I live so it's no competition. They would easily win with or without subsidies.
Dating apps attach themselves to the Pokémon craze
While that's certainly true, nothing beats the First World War for the sheer volume of unexploded ordinance.
From what i've heard from people managing the hosting and development of Wikipedia, this (using a P2P hosting solution) is mentioned very often, but very impractical to put in real world use. Hosting Wikipedia is quite cheap: most of the content is text and images, which lends itself very well for caching. Making sure people can edit it at high frequency and the transition to mobile use are far more complex, and not the things that P2P distribution would solve.
vendoring is dependency storage. Management, especially when you have transitive dependencies (deps of deps), is more than storage. We need to solve the non-storage related problems.

Are you familiar with the diamond dependency problem? That's one example.
Why are people listing random things they've done instead of what the moment was that led to whatever random thing is listed?

Ugh.

Edit

I've asked a few people to describe their moments instead of just listing what the change was. YMMV, but for me, these are far far more interesting than random lists of things.

I may have mis-interpreted the OP's intent, but it sure seems a lot more compelling when you know the catalyst as well as the reaction.