skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be too basic for you, but I liked this 2005 overview from Physics Today: http://www.chemistry.northwestern.edu/documents/about/Rosenb...

The problem with the popularly held "pressure melts the ice" theory is that ice can still be very slippery even at temperature-pressure points that are not explained by that explanation.

It may be misleading to say that ice's slipperyness is "not understood", but it still is definitely an area of active research, with the understanding and theories evolving more rapidly than one might expect for something "obvious".
Because I don't want multiple editors in my workflow, one for opening projects, another for opening single .txt or .log files (by right click, open with), I don't want to wait 5-10 secs before opening these single files and I don't want Atom opened all the time either, its a RAM guzzler. Sublime fits the bill perfectly, blazing fast and lot of plugins.
For anyone interested in Spark, I created http://www.reddit.com/r/apachespark a couple years ago. It's a relatively small subreddit given the popularity of Spark, and could use more users :)
Let me take a counterpoint, since unfortunately you've started said loop (at least for me) by saying some things I can't honestly agree with.

Primarily, "I would rather miss on a big bet than win on a tiny one" Since I see this not as "winning a big bet" so much as e.g. "winning a big bet on Enron." The fact that you summarize "if holmes did something horrible and the internals rot out" as "that sucks" demonstrates the difference in our views. That's not a "that sucks" to me, that's a "bring down the goddamn hammer." I've seen techs I respect and look up to leagues beyond anyone involved in theranos leadership, not even just speaking of Holmes, but they aren't given a FRACTION of the leeway I think Theranos has gotten for consistent breaches of trust, integrity, and legality.

Theranos is not an "I told you so" for me, it's an example of how different the playing field is for different people, and _THAT_ pisses me off far more than any amount of angry birds rebuilding. This next statement won't earn me any allies here, but after significant contemplation I've come to the conclusion I hope they fail, because otherwise conveys (yet again) the message that you can start with one foot in a reprehensible place and still profit enormously.

To be very clear, I agree with your hope that it does not poison future VC, but I hope it causes people to both look deeper and more comprehensively before leaping. I also agree that there are good people there, and I dislike the thought of them taking part in the pain, but this is part and parcel with my "there should have been more due diligence", since otherwise Theranos would likely not have scaled as far, as fast, or touched as many people as it did when it came time for that bubble to pop. To forgive such a level of misdeed because the recompence has collateral seems to me taking one step forward and two steps back.
> at any comparable business

like college football?
A friend of mine lives opposite some farmland. He told me the story of the owner of the farmland wanting to sell it for housing. He got a geologist in, who looked at the land and explained that this land was prime for a major landslide because of hollow pockets under the surface.

The farmer thanked the geologist, paid him, and then got another geologist in. This second geologist gave him the all clear that he was paid for, and went on his way.

I should point out that my friend lives on the DOWNHILL side of this land, so when it goes...
Sure it is, if you are a "Wordpress Engineer", you are absolutely right. However, if you are a "Web Based Marketing, Strategy, and E-Commerce Consultancy", suddenly you are making $250+ on Wordpress stuff. I can name off more high end sites built on Wordpress than I would care to where the companies pay huge amounts up front plus on going fees to keep them up and running smoothly.
Just because your cheap home router does it doesn't mean it scales to thousands of users on one router. Some home routers are actually quite capable AND very unsaturated. I'm not trying to defend carriers but it is a very apples to oranges comparison.
I enjoyed the 10 seconds of the article that I read before the ad-wall came up...
It seems hard to believe they have so much traction and aren't an HN-household name...

I would suggest that, perhaps, "HN household names" and "things lots of people actually use" are not particularly strongly correlated.
(Since you asked for it...) We've been working on something similar at Nylas, trying to build next-gen email. Lots of our users also use Quip, plus our app is open source. https://nylas.com/
As long as we're sharing examples of Liszt's genius, I highly recommend his transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies; Cyprien Katsaris released a 6-disc set of them and it's absolutely phenomenal[0]

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Liszt-Symphonies-Piano-Tran...
Shareholders selling stock to other investors is not the same thing as money owned by the company being used to pay off previous investors.
I really hope the SF rules for building giant buildings are similar to recent Japan ones.

What I've heard is that after the Kobe earthquake, Japanese earthquake rules have been made so good that anything built after '95 has never fallen over, even in 2011-sized earthquakes (at least until the tsunami came).
Anecdotally, yes, at least one; Cloudsoft, in Edinburgh in the UK! I brought my cat Biggles to work once, but it was underwhelming. He ignored me completely, and went to sleep under a colleague's desk.

2/5 would not bring cat to work again. Also, the building has since put down rat-poison to sort out a rodent problem, so it probably wouldn't be safe for him, sadly.

If you _really_ want to work with your cat, may I suggest remote working from home as the way to go?
This explanation sounds believable, but I think it's important to mention the basic math of the salary cap:

NFL salary cap is $155M across 53 players = $3M/player

NBA salary cap is $95M across 14 players = $6.7M/player. But actually it is a soft cap so the teams can spend a lot more in extreme cases.

MLB has no salary cap.
I was told in another thread [0] that NetLogo isn't really suitable for "turtle graphics" and is apparently for "actor based modelling". I certainly found the interface overwhelming.

When I last used Logo it was in mswLogo [1].

There's also Lhogho [2], Python's turtle module [3] and FMSLogo [4]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12149061

1: http://www.softronix.com/logo.html (not sure if this is the original site)

2: http://lhogho.sourceforge.net/

3: https://docs.python.org/3.0/library/turtle.html

4: http://fmslogo.sourceforge.net/
Plenty of imageboards have that feature. It doesn't tend to lead to higher quality content or a better community, though, it just leads to sockpuppet accounts, shitposting (because no one has any reason to invest themselves beyond the most superficial level) and mods with Napoleon complexes.
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... A big enough earthquake
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I wonder if you'd consider dedicated hardware for sources where the AWS bill gets to high?

For example, here in the netherlands, you have one major IX, the AMS-IX; if they were to rent a suite there, put some metal and hire a few engineers, they could supply most of western europe from there; I can imagine for some of these locations, it would make sense cost wise; on the other hand, if they are profitable like this, why take on the extra distractions of HR, failing hardware, etc. (which is probably why Netflix doesn't do the above...)
The single most important thing in conflicts of interest is up front disclosure. If you let everyone know what's going on, there is rarely an issue. (This is what ultimately brought down the CEO of LendingClub [0])

One challenge is we never see the instances where boards shoot down pet M&A projects, because those discussions happen behind closed doors without a merger announcement.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/lendingclub-ceo-resigns-over-sal...
It all comes down to core -vs- non-core competencies...
It is not a secret, it has been addressed in at least one talk by Netflix a head[1].

> Cloud features and APIs should be a commodity not a differentiator

> ...

> We would prefer to be an insignificant customer in a giant cloud.

[1] https://justinmk.github.io/jmk/selfish-cooperation
> they don't know the rule.

I doubt it. I've seen reddit mods complain about being harassed across multiple social media sites, sent death threats and so on, not least by people professing to be affronted by their offenses against "free speech". I would be very surprised if a goodly number of deleted comments aren't people deliberately posting off-topic.
Steel reinforcement inside concrete is not the same as a steel frame outside concrete?
For firmware. The driver itself is open. I don't think even Qualcomm have open firmware for 802.11ac chips. That's an unfortunate trend. While drivers are getting more open, firmware blobs are becoming more prevalent, in GPUs, WiFi and etc.
Why wouldn't someone occasionally want to output data per partition? I have that need fairly often, and I appreciate having the flexibility to do it. Spark requires reading the docs, for sure, but once you get down the basics it's easy going compared to other options.

I've been using Spark for a while now, and the only thing that's still frustrating is underestimating memory use. Nothing like crunching a couple hundred TiB only to have executors start dropping because they've run out of memory (because a task created just a few too many objects). It'd be really nice to be able to recover easier.

Spark is awesome!
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Why Is Ice Slippery? (2005) [pdf]
I see a lot more comments asking if earthquake safety has been compromised than comments saying that it has.
Ideals become pretty maleable when you're in a situation of crisis (which Musk seems to have been, according to the pundits).

Things I do are good + I am in trouble financially
-> Conflict of interest doesn't matter, because it's to save
Important things.

It's possible to have sincere ideals and still make iffy judgement calls. The positioning makes sense, but who here would bet that this would have still happened if both companies were turning a profit?
This idea seems similar to local linear regression [1] in a way: approximate a non-linear model with multiple linear models that are fit to different data selections.

Neat idea wrt. using a Naive Bayes classifier here!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression
When my laptop is booting I'm usually fetching coffee. Most of the time I just crack the lid, it wakes up, and all my editors are still running anyway. I probably boot an app like Atom once or twice a week. Plenty of tools I use (PHPStorm, vagrant boxes, VMware) all take way longer than 5 seconds to load and that has no noticeable impact on my productivity or happiness.

It seems silly to me for someone to adopt a strategy of opening/closing Atom (instead of reusing an open instance) and then complain about how long it takes to boot. You don't park your car at red lights and turn off the engine, then complain about how long it takes to pull away when the lights turn green.

> Plus, the slugginess extends beyond startup time, into working with large files (were large = puny for other editors' standard) and other activities.

This I totally get. If this is someone's use case, they probably shouldn't be using Atom.

I don't mean to rail on you in particular, I just always found the "oh it takes so long to start" complaint to be a silly one. It's such a minor thing. Atom is really good for a bunch of use cases, it's a shame that people write it off for this stupid reason.
This brings me back to a question I have frequently asked myself: What do you do with unsafe or old skyscrapers? How would you raze such a thing? What if it falls over, breaks apart or breaks in on itself (9/11 gives an idea)?

To a layman (with slight acrophobia) skyscrapers seem pretty fragile, and I'd much rather have them built into the ground than towards the sky, but obviously they're holding up in general and I'm interested to see what happens with this one: Hope that it stops tilting or sinking? Raze it before anything bad happens?
> I particularly like how URIs are sometimes encoded as attributes and sometimes as child text elements.

I think the distinction here is that the one is an identifier which is not intended to be dereferencable, and the other is a link to a resource which has to be retrievable. In the good old days the id would most likely have been a URN and the link a URL, but that distinction was being discouraged in favour of the more general URI term at the time the Atom spec was developed. [1]

So while they're syntactically both URIs (well technically IRIs), they're functionally quite different. It may be debatable whether that's a good enough reason for the one to be an element value and the other an attribute value, but I don't think that decision was obviously wrong.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-1.1.3
True. But, while you can make that claim about WWI, you can't about WWII. Worse, it might have appeared that you could have made that claim about WWII at the beginning of it...
> Consider that we have ~100 billion brain neurons and 100-500 trillion synaptic interconnections and each connection is modulated by many factors including endocrine and immune system input. Furthermore connections transmit and receive many kinds of signals in complex feedback relationships.

This is exactly why estimates of AGI in the next 20 years are laughable. It isn't the neuron that we have to emulate. It is the communication between neurons that we have to emulate.

It is absolutely correct that a 1:1 artificial to natural neuron will not be the case. Current artificial neurons (all deep learning neurons) are nowhere near as complex as a natural neuron. It will more likely be 10-100:1 artificial neurons for each neuron.

Bandwidth to communicate information between neural processing will be the bottleneck (rather than operations per second). Bits per second is multiple orders of magnitude higher than operations per second in human intelligence and our available bandwidth is at least an order of magnitude lower than our operations per second. That means we are at least 10,000 fold farther in terms of raw processing tech than the most optimistic estimates of ~20 years.

10,000 fold. That is 13-14 doubling times or 26-28 years longer than the most optimistic estimates. That is assuming something like Moore's law holds for technology over the next 46-48 years. That is the time until the fastest supercomputers will be able to emulate one human mind assuming we have figured out the algorithms. 40-60 years is a more reasonable time frame for one human mind on one supercomputer. Everyone should have a pretty good feel for the worth of a prediction that will happen 50 years in the future. There will be at least two more AI winters.
(full disclosure – I work at FastSpring as a Product Manager)

Really sorry to see Kagi go. I think they had their reasons to close overnight and I really hope everyone will get the payout in full. End of an era..

Thanks everyone who mentioned FastSpring as a possible alternative – we are indeed way closer to Kagi than Stripe. We are (and Kagi were) what is called an MOR (Merchant On Record) and that's why we collect all the taxes, handle compliance, multiple payment methods and everything else that makes platforms "convenient" for a smaller business and "hands off" approach to all those issues. Stripe is (without deeper explanation) a payment processor (which means you are responsible for taxes/fraud) and their rules are stricter.

With that said, if you are not afraid of development work and tax/fraud/compliance issues don't bother you Stripe would be the best/most customizable/integrate-able option (with the exception of their Java API as we learned above :)

If you would still like "hands off" approach and let someone handle your taxes, compliance, payment methods etc I would recommend going with FastSpring. As it was mentioned, we are very supplier-friendly and will help you get up and running. We also have new cool APIs/Webhooks so give us a go if you are looking for a replacement.
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Except the FB mobile site is buggy as heck.
So, no.. FB does not "get mobile".
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I didn't mean to disparage the U.S.A., just to share Piketty's point that it was particularly exceptional two hundred years ago because of reasons of geography and development.
I heard that there is already a $100m+ compensation fund in place for owners who agree not to sue. Any other information?
Good news, the sinking is slowing!

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Yes, man [command] is good 95% of the time. Weirdly it doesn't seem to always show the options I need though, it sometimes just shows the basics, and I need to google "manpage [command]" to find the one I want.

I do find the lack of standardization on command arguments slightly annoying in linux... Is it [command] --help, [command] -h, or just [command] by itself? It would be nice if there was something that could be relied upon.

Also handling of filenames with spaces could be standardized as well. Is it -0, -print0, or --null to get null-termination? I always forget which program wants what.

Unfortunately, I have to keep Windows around for Ableton Live. Linux is not great for professional-ish audio.
Interesting, I actually implemented Local Regression from that very Wiki page! https://github.com/kennycason/ml/tree/master/src/main/java/k...

This idea originally came to me after explaining Random Forests to someone as a way to improve their Decision Tree. On a whim, I built out a prototype and it offered improved results. :)
I don't know, but if it was written in Python, Go or Java things would have different in here, just guessing.
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One source is a GitHub issue for one of the popular open source Pokémon Maps -- https://github.com/AHAAAAAAA/PokemonGo-Map/issues/2777 . AWS/Heroku/Azure/DigitalOcean (mostly) seem to be banned.
The pokemongo dev forums on reddit have been compiling a list of known hosts that will result in a 403 response code when an api call is requested.

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>I can't conceive of building a 58 story building on sand in an earthquake zone
There are ~ 8 stories of concrete underground that is is built on. It would be another ~12 stories worth to get down to bedrock. Someone screwed up here but there are plenty of buildings that don't go all the way down to bedrock and are just fine. Maybe if they would have went with a lighter steel frame construction instead of concrete or if the building wasn't so tall the foundation would be fine.
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Would be interested to see a video of water being poured onto a flat surface inside this building
I guess I didn't completely answer.
If you force the classifier to rate 100% of the data, I expect ~80%.

If you set a reasonable confidence threshold, I expect mid 80s to low 90s.

In both cases, the clustered Bayesian classifier outperforms the single classifier.
That is totally orthogonal to his point. He isn't talking about what industries succeed. He is making that point that because land was relatively cheap, labor was relatively valuable.
I'm sure there are some wonderful things Excel does that Sheets doesn't, but since I haven't noticed them they don't bother me. One thing that I don't miss about Excel is the 2^16 row limit. Also I seem to recall some difficulties copying and pasting pivot tables, but it's been a few years...