skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disingenuous to talk about Fukushima as a "meltdown", or imply that it was dangerous (on the scale of space-travel dangers).

The Project Orion design was for 10% of light speed, and didn't assume any scientific breakthroughs like fusion - it would require a massive amount of engineering , but the core technology (that used in nuclear weapons) was mature in the '70s.

We're still talking about a 40+ year journey, for a craft whose cost was estimated at $367B at the time - about $2.5T now. It's not easy by any means. But it is doable. We'll get there.
Another targeting mistake is by language. On Facebbok, My profile includes Swedish, Italian and Dutch as languages I know. I've seen ads in those languages even though the products aren't even close to available for me (Though the ads are kinda memorable, especially the Postnord ad that I ran into for about 100 times, I wonder how much ad money they spent solely on me)
A counterpoint: When a message is written with an alphabet, it's not as compact, but its meaning can be guessed at even if significant portions of the message are missing (known as lacunae). See, e.g., the TV game show Wheel of Fortune; another example is the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient manuscripts that have deteriorated over time.
Babysitters. Slumber parties. Summer camp for the kids. Ship them to relatives for a day with their cousins (and make sure to reciprocate).

They're practically going to be few and far between, but taking a day for yourself (or for just you & your spouse) while they're still young doesn't have to be a dream!

[Disclaimer: Post may not apply if they're still babies. If so, then yeah, you're screwed. ;-) ]
Remind me of a (sort of) similar story of how Iranians consume online content https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552423, though for a different reason.
I definitely notice facebook ads being more and more interesting to me. And even more interesting is that most ads are of the "need creation" type. Things I didn't really google anything about, or I never really thought as a product I would buy that show up and are actually relevant to me.

Last one I can remember is from yesterday a new startup doing good, cheap luggage (both carry on and bigger ones) which had me go to their website, spend some time looking at some of their stuff and made me think that I new a new carry on since then and I'm very close in puttin $250 in a carry on...

I guess I travel pretty frequently I don't know if facebook is able to say that I travel a lot by different locations I check in, or from my use of google flights and booking.com etc. but yeah, I never googled anything about luggage or buying anything else related to travelling (except hotel and plane tickets). So pretty interesting to see
I have had a very short look at your submission history, and I still have no idea what product or service you're offering.

Why do you expect "success" with something nobody even notices?
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Not a one of them appears to have thought of linking categories. If I just bought a mid or high price set of ear buds, sell me a nice case, some new music to listen to on them, or even a better music player, etc. Nope, more headphones usually.

If I just added some hiking boots, show me fluffy socks, gloves and coats. Maybe a compass and rucksack. Nope, more boots x4. Also bought: More boots x2, 1 pair of socks and a USB stick. Top Sellers in Athletic & Outdoor Shoes: Guess what? Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations... At which point it's getting tedious.

The only time the also-bought ad engines work is when buying music or books. I often buy those in 3s and 4s, and same artist/author or similar genre work pretty well there. For most everything else I buy they just don't work and are about as welcome as a party political tv slot.

I'm amazed none of them have tried to get a bit better at this.
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The physics of space travel are harsh, and the distances involved even harsher. Plus, unless you want to go screaming by on a fly-by mission, you have to burn all that delta-V you generated to get there in order to slow down again.

The only real solution will be some kind of essentially magical faster than light technology - never say never, but it doesn't seem likely without some staggering breakthroughs in areas of physics we don't even have an inkling about.

Maybe it's the American exceptionalism and internalization of Manifest Destiny as the natural order of things, but the idea of being effectively stuck, as a species, on this one rock for eternity is pretty depressing. Especially if that is the fate, not just of ourselves, but of all life intelligent enough to look up at the stars and imagine walking among them. If the best we can hope for is a Motey-like[1] Malthusian cycle, it's not much to look forward to.

[1]http://amzn.to/2b5I0Ea
Billings and pay rate basis are parts of a large lie in business.

Revenues are based on customer value, supplier costs, and relative bargaining positions between the two, which moves the balance between the two. The party that can't walk away is the party that loses.

Pay needs to similarly compensate for the provisioning cost of labour, fully accounted.

If you're not paying your employees what theey need to survive and raise families, you're not creating wealth but are extracting liquidity. How you pay isn't terribly significant, though bad bases, such as piecework, are often long-term harmful.

Marginal cost and value are, I'm increasingly convinced, in many ways a distraction. Not entirely, but they confound the matter.

Guy named Smith had a lot to say on this a ways back.
Markdown is both faster to type and easier to read on source form. I actually wrote big parts of my dissertation in markdown and then transpiled to LaTex for integration and formatting.
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اسباب الحرمان من اعمال الامتحانات مكتب ماهر الطوخي لمحاماة 01009188182
حالات الحرمان من الامتحانات والالغاء لطلاب التعليم العام
حالات الحرمان من الامتحانات يقدم مكتب ماهر الطوخي لمحاماة رفع دعاوي حالات حرمان من الامتحانات او الغاء الامتحان لجميع الطلاب.
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أناط قانون التعليم رقم 139 لسنة 1981 وتعديلاته بوزيرالتعليم بعد موافقة المجلس الأعلى للتعليم بوضع نظام التأديب والعقوبات التى توقع على التلاميذ ومنها أحوال إلغاء الإمتحان أو الحرمان منه .
ونفاذا لذلك صدرقرار وزيرالتربيه والتعليم رقم 500 لسنة 2014 بشأن تنظيم أحوال إلغاء الإمتحان او حالات حرمان من الامتحانات وقد تضمن هذا القرار فى المادة الثالثه ” يلغى إمتحان الطالب فى جميع المواد سواء الإمتحانات العامه او الإمتحانات المحليه مع عدم الإخلال بالعقوبات المقررة قانونا إذا توافرت إحدى الحالات الآتيه :
أ- الغش أو الإستفادة منه أو المساعدة عليه بأى وسيله أثناء الإمتحان .
ب- القيام بأى عمل من شأنه الإخلال بنظام الإمتحان . حالات حرمان من الامتحانات
ج- الإعتداء بالقول او الفعل على أحد القائمين بأعمال الإمتحانات أو معاونيهم او الطلاب او التحريض على ذلك أثناء الإمتحان او بسببه .
د- إستخدام الهاتف المحمول بكافة أنواعه أو أى وسائل تكنولوجيه تؤدى إلى الغش أثناء الإمتحان .
ه- مساعدة الغير فى أداء الإمتحان بدلا منه . حالات حرمان من الامتحانات
و -إخفاء كراسة الإجابه الخاصه او الهروب بها .
كما تضمنت المادة الرابعه من هذا القرار حالات وأحوال إلغاء إمتحان الطالب فى المادة التى يؤدى الإمتحان فيها إذا أرتكب إحدى المخالفات الأتيه :
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> Don't quite see how Chinese is so terrible. It's a remarkably efficient mode of writing for a language filled with monosyllabic words and homophones.

It is the opposite. A writing system that requires multiple years to learn is not "efficient".
I buy from Bandcamp and voluntarily pay double just out of general principle. I listen most of music via Spotify out of convenience, but I'll gladly financially support any band that offers an honest product.
Viruses are not exactly living organisms, so the comparisons you make are not apt.

There's a huge difference between any virus and an organism which plays a role in a super complex ecosystem (and our food chain) we don't entirely understand.

Likewise, there is a difference between playing god in a self-contained environment like a farm, but which is not the case with the wider environment.

Yes, humans have driven many species to extinction but I think in retrospect this would have been inadvisable.
Basically wormholes/hyperspace/teleportation, or bust.

But I'd think living in orbital or interplanetary space right here in our solar system can be a happy medium, and sustain us for a loooong time to come.
The Japanese Urban Zoning System
You do see the difference between trade publications - connecting supply with existing demand - and the kind of marketing done in something like GQ, which is far closer to demand creation, right? For lifestyle goods in particular, demand generation is almost synonymous with trying to make the consumer unhappy with their life. It's pretty evil stuff, even more so in women's style magazines.

To the degree that FB advertising could be used for either ends of the advertising spectrum, FB data gathering for this purpose is at best amoral while averaging immoral. But we both know most advertising on FB isn't selling thirsty people water.
The U.S. Embassy in Germany agrees with you.

>The United States is said to have a mixed economy because privately owned businesses and government both play important roles.

http://usa.usembassy.de/economy-conditions.htm
Given that you have a fixed area the tickets can be in, and you know every possible address, it seems like you could investigate string distance measures. It would solve your pl vs plaza vs place problem.
afaik Windows firewall is not able to block loopback communications, can komodo?.
I dont want to give up dns caching, and since I dont know of any way to firewall localhost traffic in windows I figured only way would be in dns caching program itself.

So far only way to prevent dns tunneling I can come up with involves giving up dnscache :(. To make up lost performance you could maybe run dnsmasq on the router, or in a virtual machine? or somehow force dnscache to listen on virtual network adapter?
When I was a boy in the Soviet Union in the late 80's, I picked up a book on computers. It was targeted towards children, and talked about a lot of different components and ideas from bits and bytes to RAM to networking, and interesting applications like barcodes.

I remember my mind being blown by barcodes. But the idea seemed far-fetched and unrealistic. To put a barcode on EVERY single item in the grocery store? That would take decades to implement!

Then we emigrated to Canada and I was shocked to see it was already in place (and must have been for a while).

Maybe this isn't the best example of tremendous human achievement but it taught me to not take for granted what is unrealistic and how quickly humanity could achieve it if we put our minds to it.

With apologies to Cliff Stoll and his magnificent brain, let's not forget a pretty common perspective on the Internet from 1995: http://europe.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-ni...

Space exploration and rocketry is not cheap, and requires new innovation. Only SpaceX is doing anything on that front. But if humanity set getting to Proxima Centauri as a goal, I have no doubt we could achieve at least kicking off a single-generation journey within my lifetime (ie sub-80 year journey time in the next 80 years)
I thought Elite:Dangerous was Elite for the 21st century?
It's hard to explain. In English, spelling, pronunciation, and meaning are all more or less interrelated, right? In Japanese, writing (kanji) correlates to pronunciation and to meaning, but pronunciation and meaning are mostly unrelated to each other. Kanji is what disambiguates them.

So, obviously learning 1000 kanji isn't easy. But doing that is what makes it possible to learn 100,000+ words whose pronunciations and meanings would be otherwise largely unrelated.

It's quite similar to the role that Latin/Greek roots play in English. When you see a word that includes "-graph-" you know it probably involves writing, and similarly when a student of Japanese sees a word with "間 (kan)" they know it involves an interval or space. Throw away the kanji, and your student now just sees "kan" - which means the word will probably involve an interval -- or a barrier, or emotion, or appearance, or a tube, or a building, a warship, a crown, an ending, China, a publication, a government ministry, or.. you get the idea.
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Well, that's a surprise. May be I am doing something completely wrong because the previous two submissions (apart from this one) were of the products, we have recently launched.

https://www.readboard.io

http://apps.baapps.com/preview

And that's what my question is, why HNers are not noticing things I am posting? :)
> "Most human edits will be good, unless the data later changes"

One concern is the date of the bot's data-source/satellite imagery.

- Bot reviews satellite data, creates building.
- Human notices that the building's actually been demolished, so removes it from OSM.
- Bot reviews satellite data, recreates building.

When I was in Georgia (the Eurasian country, not the USA state) in 2014, I was making changes to OSM and noticed that the satellite imagery was very different to what was on the ground. I couldn't find any way to work out how old the satellite data was, but my gut feel is that there will be some places where the pace of development is much faster than the rate of updates in satellite imagery.
I think I understand what detaching means, but what effect does marking a thread off-topic have?
Ask HN: What are some of the engineering challenges one should keep in mind?
The question might be little broad. Pardon me, not a mainstream tech guy. But I'm looking for some advice on what are some of the engineering challenges and cautions one should keep in mind while building and scaling up a networking app? How to build the system and team from Day 1 and how to improvise things as one scales it up and what are some of the things that should be paid attention to avoid future mishaps?
BTW I found some great insights in following article and its comments about posting on HN.

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/hacker-news

Especially a comment, which says "My point is simple. Find something worth writing about that the HN community is hungry for, and come up with a good title for the post. No need to manually market your post on twitter or to your friends. Just post and watch your real-time analytics soar."

And a few things from following article...

http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/29406022580/how-to-get-on-...
Excellent read, so much insight. We really need those gates from "The Expanse" series.
> a craft whose cost was estimated at $367B at the time - about $2.5T now.

So we can pay for it with just the money mismanaged by the US armed forces.
Please share the code to generate your view.
Eve repository: https://github.com/witheve/Eve
It is kinda cozy and cuddly, kind of. "Koselig" is one of those words that doesn't have a direct translation, and takes a bit of experience for the immigrant (me!) to get an understanding of.
> you only need to learn around 3000 symbols

This is not a good result. Learning 3000 characters could take years, and even then there would still be some you don't know. To read an English newspaper you only need to learn 26 symbols. Yes you need to learn the words, but you also have to do that for Chinese which is separate from learning the symbols for each word. It's a hugely inefficient way to write.

Furthermore, while combining smaller words to represent a more obscure word is an improvement over introducing a new character (and is a step towards an alphabet), the examples I've heard are very one way. You might look at 程序員 and think "one who orders rules" makes sense for "programmer." But that sequence of characters could just have easily meant any number of other things (lawyer, politician, etc).
I used to use mutt, but I switched to Thunderbird because I now have to track more than one mail account and like having a clear overview of all my accounts.

I al perfectly aware of the fact that mutt can handle more than one mail account: I used to change settings with chdir hooks and stuff like, but honestly, it's quite an overkill.
Thanks muchly for another example! Harder to grasp for outsiders living here.
How to control application flow in Ruby?
> Currently, the most distant visited body in the solar system is Pluto, at 7.5 billion kilometers. The New Horizons probe flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015. It was launched on January 19th 2006 by a booster and upper stage combination that blasted it straight up to solar escape velocity, with a speed of 16.26 km/sec (58,536 km/h), making it the fastest human-made vehicle ever: it then executed a Jupiter gravity-assist flyby to slingshot it out past Pluto, where it arrived nine and a half years after departure.

Lots of people have no clue just how big the solar system is, and how small the planets are in comparison. (Never mind the distance to exoplanets). Here's one video that gives a nice demonstration using a soccer ball and pin heads, from Mark Rober (who worked on a Mars rover at Nasa): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR5VJo5ifdE
It's not a software issue, the licensee has access to the source code and can modify it in anyway they want, including removing any software-enforced licencing restrictions.

It's the responsibility of the licensee to make sure they are in compliance with the licensing terms (buy enough licenses to cover the number of CPU cores they are running in production), otherwise the copyright holder will sue them.

This idea of licencee self-compliance is not an innovative concept, it's how most licensing in large enterprise companies already works (and that's where this license is targeted), the company checks how many copies of the software they are running and pay that much.

It's not quite an honer system. Companies conduct regular audits (done by an external company) to prove they have everything licensed correctly.
It's incredible to me how much people look the other way for Google. Talk about privacy invasive features in Microsoft's products, everyone loses their minds. Talk about privacy invasive features in Google products, people think you're being paranoid.
Effectively, what we need to do is to get some kind of space resource rush going. Similar to what fueled the likes of the East India Company.
Thermodynamics is a real downer...
Having seen how demand side subsidies destroy the rest of the education sector, why oh why would they think this is a good idea for tech?

If they want to promote tech boot camps they should have community colleges open free to the public ones. Then all the bullshit paid ones will have to compete against a free product and the price will go down. To solve the demand issue start off with a lottery system and tweak class size accordingly.
Do you have link to the template?
Any examples of the developer/hobby sites?
It's a visa card, but without credit.
> Uber has hired people who have built systems that enable a regular car to self-drive.

No they haven't.

I know this because there aren't any cars in the world that can self-drive.
I wish I could upvote this ten times. This is the clearest and best written exposition of what cash really is and why it matters that I have ever seen. Well worth taking the time to read the whole thing.
It is a break from the norm, which is the whole point. In your case, it would be a decent, once-in-a-while-spoil-yourself type of breakfast followed by lots of not working and not doing your daily habits.
It is possible to leave this rock, but we'll need to think in terms of millennia, not lifetimes. Long term thinking that's also kind of unAmerican.
Anybody using vault ?
Just to be contrary, I happily used emacs and Mutt together for about a decade.

(I wanted to start using Mutt again earlier this year, but so far the labour of love involved in cobbling a good .muttrc together - without just copying bits and pieces from other people's - has proved too much like hard work, and I have enough of that as it is.)
I wOUld agree with you if it weren't for the wOUnd I have where a bOUlder pOUnded me in the head, so I don't have the cOUrage.
Giving up revenue from customers that don't want to change and are happy to pay is a huge loss. AOL still makes 600m/yr from dial up.

The open source freemium is cool, though. Those are two powerful forces.
A) Everything is on bittorrent anyway

B) Music download sites removed their DRM and they're doing fine, last I checked

I heard an argument that it isn't about stopping piracy; it's about controlling legitimate distribution, e.g. so they can charge Samsung for putting Netflix on their TVs. No idea if that is true but it certainly sounds plausible.
Binding.scala, a reactive web framework, released 8.0.0
I was expecting yet another puff piece on the advantages of some app-based alternative. A good exploration of some of the disadvantages of cashless society.

Only thing they have missed is the indirection of cashless - the further you are from actual money, the more you're likely to spend, especially impulsively. Works for credit cards, game currencies, and undoubtedly for cashless apps.
woah, 30 years-old inside jokes going on?
Humans are starting to think about what we are doing wrong. The expansion of the regions afflicted by mosquitoes is largely our fault.
Currently down. Mirror:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?site=&source=hp...
I find quite annoying that many people go "oh geez, what is this crap, nah, it's not like this" when this is a huge part of what brought us all that the hackerdom is today (whatever it is anyway).
I'd rather use BOSH, which has an explicit compare-and-repair model.

On the other hand, Terraform is much easier to get started with and much less opinionated.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering on BOSH.
I get the impression that some people flag things as a way of "down voting." I don't approve of the method, but I do sometimes wish for a way to down vote an article. I've had non-controversial submissions on topics regularly discussed on HN be flagged in the past.
Be super clear about the purpose of the interview (to yourself). What do you want to discover about the candidate? Tech skills? Soft skills? Culture fitness? All of them? Is there a concern the HR pre-screening uncovered and you need to dismiss/validate?
Hear hear.

I work for Pivotal on the fringes of Cloud Foundry. Between us and other Cloud Foundry Foundation members there are around 200 full time engineers working on it.

Featuresome, robust, industrial-grade cloud platforms are hard.
More than once I chose to use React (+ Redux, etc.) for something that could've been solved with a few snippets of jQuery or even just plain javascript.

In many of these cases the app ended up becoming complex enough that I was happy to have prematurely optimized. This has happened often enough that I tend to give React the benefit of the doubt when I'm building an app. (This is also the reason why sometimes I choose to use batteries-included Rails even though Express.js or some lighter framework seems like a perfectly fine choice.)

In other cases using React didn't make things easier, but doing so was convenient because I'd been working with React most of the time anyways (and had some other project to use as a basis or even entire components I could re-use).

All that said, I do err on the side of shiny sometimes, and spend much more time (and Kb's) using React for something where it wasn't necessary. So I see your point.
No you can't, Jesus, read the actual article. The entire yearly budget for the US armed forces is around $600 billion.

They had $2.5 trillion in adjustment lines that mostly netted out, they didn't actually lose track of $2.5 trillion, because they didn't have $2.5 trillion to lose track of.
Or just build a big ship and send it with settlers. If it takes 1000 years that's fine