skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other option (from the science fiction, anyway) would be to revolve part of the spacecraft enough to generate sufficient centripetal force to approximate gravity. It's become almost a trope since 2001, but I'd imagine there are some significant engineering challenges to actually implement such a thing. How do you keep the drum rotating, without spinning the rest of the craft? How do you engineer bearings that can handle the force, while at the same time dealing with vacuum and extremes of temperature? There's a lot of moving parts, and moving parts wear, seize, and can fail catastrophically...
Currently working on Golang implementation of Paxos consensus algorithm: https://github.com/RichardKnop/paxos
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Here is a tip, anytime you a filling up on petrol check your pockets first if you find some coins as you are bound to have some, then add them up

For example last time if filled up I had a 10euro note in wallet and had about €5.60 in coin change so I just filled up petrol for €15.60 since its not hard to fill up down to a cent amount

Most small shops love coins as added bonus
This is insanely brilliant. I am now happy to use Mutt again.
Repository: https://github.com/ThoughtWorksInc/Binding.scala
Might be best to file a bug-report if you have questions/feature-requests.

But see HACKING.md. In brief the display of mode X comes from the output of the function "X_view()". So you can change the rendered text there by updating that function.

So for changing the message-displayed you'll want to tweak `message_view(msg)`, and can add rendering there.

Hope that helps.
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Acceleration and gravity are entirely interchangeable. The feeling you get due to gravity is also because of something "pushing against you" - namely, the ground. If you didn't have the ground to push against, nor air to drag against you, you'd be in free fall, which is the same as being in zero gravity.
There's a whole host of "impossible" things that have been achieved: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions

In 1957 Lee de Forest, father of the vacuum tube, deemed all space travel impossible - six months later, Sputnik orbited Earth. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KXhfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=my8M...

Steam trains were deemed impossible, because people's heads would fall off at that speed.

Finally: No Wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Germany has a law which allows you to adblock your mailbox. If you put a sticker on sayin 'no advertisements', you can sue any company that puts material without your name on it in.
That’s a problem with the mastering, not the recording format: There’s plenty of dB available in a CD to cover the full range of human hearing.

Sadly you have no guarantee that a random 24/192 recording wont have the same compression / clipping problems that plague CDs thanks to the loudness wars.
As I understand Hakka is actually a collection of languages, not necessarily mutually intelligible.

I learned a bit of one dialect from a friend's mum.
And the basics were very similar to Cantonese.

Would be interested to learn more dialects once I'm done with Mandarin and Cantonese.
> Since acceleration acts by pushing against you, rather than acting against your entire body as gravity does, I'm unsure as to whether it would be an adequate substitute for gravity.

I'm far from an expert, but I thought it was a basic tenet of relativity that, without external information, there is no way of telling whether your spaceship is accelerating at 1G or standing on the Earth's surface.
Cash is public, banks are private.

Half of the problem with cash could be solved by ending the war on drugs. The war on drugs has created a class of people whose main economic function is to transfer wealth from the public to the worst people in society. This is a many-headed monster that robs/burglarizes/steals money from average people, and vacuums it into a global system of money laundering. The cost is mostly absorbed through higher insurance premiums and more costly welfare schemes. The physical needs of this class of people are often carried by family and charity.

No cash could kill this, but so could treating drugs like simple agricultural and/or chemical products and regulate the distribution.

All costs of the war on drugs are covered by the public. All profit by heavy criminals.

Sort this first, and then get back to cash and its utility in evading taxes.
> Another interesting aspect of traditional Chinese characters is that complex words are expressed by combining simpler symbols. For example, the Chinese word for computer is 電腦. The first character represents "electricity", and the second character represents "brain". Which is really what a computer is, an electric brain.

That's nice, but I think most languages do this. It's not particular to Chinese. The word "computer" comes from "com-" (with/together) and "putare" (to reckon). Or "composition"; to position together. "compile"; to pile together, etc.
Not sure if I'm on HN or reddit. I like it.
how can i get in touch with you? i need a fundraiser app similar to yours
So where's the confusion?
Nobody thinks you're being paranoid by thinking google is selling your data, that's known.

But Microsoft previously did not do this, and you're paying for the operating system. To my knowledge you don't pay for google products. (excluding the business apps suites, which are still cheap for what they are).
On the other hand, there are hard limits in physics and the speed of light is only the start. In general, Exponential curves of progress or growth are not unbounded, and are really just the lower part of a sigmoid curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
> The only real solution will be some kind of essentially magical faster than light technology

Doesn't have to be faster than light, if you don't care about everyone you ever knew being dead for decades (or centuries, or millennia) by the time you reach your destination: thanks to time dilation/length contraction, you can travel arbitrarily far distances in your lifetime by going at a large enough fraction of c.

Assuming you've got the technology, of course.
We have been using Vagrant, Terraform, Packer, Vault etc from some time. While there are some issues(that's true for many tools), I find these tools helpful. Hack, I used terraform to provision my QA cluster right now :)

Thanks for these tools.
I agree with you, but in not sure I'm right in that. Chances are that, centuries ago, people used to say "further you are from actual gold, the more you're likely to spend, especially impulsively". So, people could/might become used to currencies that are even less physical.

Also, before banks provided credit, people used to run up bar tabs not only at bars but also at their grocer. Maybe, the thing to fear is credit, not money being virtualized?
This works much better in Europe or Canada than in the US... US pocket change is effectively worthless, since the largest denomination coin in wide circulation is the quarter. Unless you are carrying around (physical) pounds of change, using it for anything beyond laundry, vending machines, or parking meters is impractical.

1 & 2 euro coins, on the other hand, are pretty convenient for small purchases.
Also how can I forget Consul.
Doesn't this mean the OSM repository will be used as a cache of the output of someone's version of some ml algorithm?

Why not distribute the data as well as the tagger and let the users tag the data themselves? This will give more freedom to the user and arguably lead to a better quality data (e.g. some additional tuning could give better results than the general case for a given region, which can be best performed by a team more familiar with that particual area) as way more eyeballs are now on the tagger itself, not just its output.
> If you came upon someone's custom HTTP client, I imagine your response would be something along those lines.

No, why would it? What HTTP client framework am I supposed to be wishing they used?
Characters do give a lot of semantic information than an alphabet and it's definitely easier to learn new words through context if you can see the characters vs just hearing them.

Knowing Chinese characters is closer to knowing not only the alphabet but also understanding most basic English words plus Latin/Greek stems like auto (self), locus/loco (place), -ous (possessing or full of -), etc. From that base it's pretty quick to learn longer words and there are tons of clues to help you remember them.
Similar to above, check the recently deleted album and then select remove all to actually free up the space.
Darktable will export to LaTeX and allows specification of a template. LaTeX might count as hacker style for some definitions of 'hacker style'. But it's all a matter of workflow.

Good luck.
Banning cash is such a monumentally bad idea its a miracle of modern propaganda that a single person is willing to even consider it. From negative interest rates to ubiquitous tracking of your every move and purchase (by stores, banks, governments, and whoever else they choose to share the information with), to the total paralysis society would face from any sort of blackout or network disruption, to limitless technical vulnerability by hackers, eliminating cash is truly one of the worst ideas ever conceived. Its bad enough that the government enforces a legal monopoly on currency. Extending that monopoly to digital-only currency is a huge step in the wrong direction for business, commerce, and freedom.
Not to mention that Mandarin would use 嘴（里）rather than 口

The pronunciations of kanji correlate to different Chinese eras and areas.

The usage and choice of characters are influenced by Classical Chinese, which was the literary language in Japan until, uhm, recently-ish.

There is a very good recent YouTube video that explains the usage of Chinese characters in Japanese and which I recommend to anyone interested in the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF3MRMBjd20

I was very impressed by the accuracy and knowledge displayed, as most of what is written and said on the subject is ehhh somewhat disappointing.
In that vein, Newton and Kelvin both "proved" that heavier-than-air flying machines were physically impossible. That belief held for hundreds of years, and likely put many off even trying.

Einstein said that nuclear fission was impossible, before Fermi promptly proved him dead wrong.

I'm not saying that we're wrong about c, but we don't know what we don't know.
Korum is cited by a line of cases in DE for the proposition that info rights are waivable as long as the waiver is expressed clearly. There may be an easier case to parse for people who are not used to analyzing caselaw, but there you go.
Isn't tracking a good thing? This way the government can fight tax-evasion and the black market...
I'm a DWP call handler and have no time to care about your disability claim
This whole argument is based on two false assumptions. One, that shitty broken web frameworks like cakephp and zend are "well known, well documented project with thousands of eyes fixing bugs and adding features" rather than the horrible messes they actually are. And two, that web apps are the only software to share any common aspects. Every lame VB+Access app I ever saw had more in common than two randomly chosen web apps. Yet nobody needed a "framework" to enforce worst practices and ensure that everything was done inefficiently and unmaintainably.
The title makes it sound like Rust is easy to use or learn. It isn't. And I mean that in a nice way.

The whole point of Rust is to give you compile-time errors (as opposed to UB or runtime checking) when you are doing something unprovable and force you annotate your code so that things become provable. That involves understanding up-front a lot of things I learned the hard way while writing in C and C++.

If I just want to quickly get something done that involes hitting the bare metal, then C is probably easier than Rust. What Rust makes easier is getting up to a high standard of confidence in the coide. But easier is still hard.
Just finished reading "The three body problem". A civilization on planet in a system with 3 suns would have some interesting challenges.
Well, that's good, Truecrypt mode worked for me. I'll start switching over now in Truecrypt mode, and eventually will create VeraCrypt volumes and move everything over.
Nor Google nor Microsoft sell any data
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Tracing buildings by hand is quite time-intensive even with stuff like the buildings plugin for JOSM. And it is a prerequisite for going out and mapping addresses. In cities metadata acquisition might be a much larger thing, but it isn't here on the countryside where I live. Tracing landuse form aerial imagery is probably 90% of what I do here.
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Yeah a handful of astronauts can go there. But everybody else is stuck here.
The cashless society is hugely convenient though. Wouldn't it be better to accept that it's inevitable, and solve the privacy issues?

For the year 2016, and excluding rent, 3.1% of my expenditure has been cash. I've used an ATM five times. [More-or-less; foreign spending isn't on this statement. In Germany I use more cash, in Norway I didn't use cash at all.]
Not a bad plan!

If I'm going to have a switched off day (which I heartily recommend), majoring on breakfast, it's going to start with a full English or Scottish.
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Or just repurpose the incredibly expensive relict stockpile of nukes, which is where most of the cost sits.

The tricky bit is reliably getting hundreds of tonnes of thermonuclear goodness into orbit without a single accident, which is why Orion died a death.
> We are fighting a broader battle to maintain alternatives to the growing digital panopticon that is emerging all around us.

This is just one of the aspects that support stronger governments and corporates that put the interests of themselves and a tiny section of the population (those who help these get even stronger) above everything else. While some people discuss about this or mass surveillance or tracking, most of the populace isn't even aware how liberties are being lost and how "the power of the people" is becoming more of a carefully constructed mirage. Things seem to be moving in the direction of a dystopian society where appearances mask reality and common people are kept complacent with entertainment and other things to keep them occupied.

I don't see a cashless world happening in the next few decades, because it will take a lot of work to get people out of poverty first while some entities focus on removing cash. Even if it were to happen, a cashless society would still have many different pseudo-currencies and barter systems (like those that exist in different contexts and systems today). What's worrying though is that in the future many goods and services may become inaccessible (if one wants to avoid electronic transactions) unless one resorts to the black/gray/underground markets.
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This is why Bitcoin is such an exciting concept: digital cash which can function without any central authority.
Of course it does..the digitised signal loses information as it is processed by the MP3 encoder therefore it is lossy
We'd get there even faster with the money mismanaged by the US welfare system. Armed forces is only 23% of the US federal budget. Welfare's a whopping 40%.

Of course, without American armed forces and the Pax Americana, the unprecedented world peace (relatively speaking) we have right now likely would not endure. And without welfare spending, morale would decline when old people and children that didn't need to die do. Both outcomes would likely lead to economic decline. Then we might not get there so fast after all.

Sometimes the expedient-seeming solution isn't always the best one.
There's a lot of stuff you can't put an ROI on. So instead people waste time trying to come up with a poor model.
When working in console just hit mutt
And to a lot of people here thinking this mentality is dead are, I think, confused by the fact that the growth and general appeal of computers have only diluted the hackers, but they are still growing in absolute numbers.

Same goes at DEFCON in a way, where so many people want to see what a hacker is that the whole conference looses its "direction" in a way, as a whole at least...
It is obviously inaccurate to write "nobody" and I am sorry if I have hurt your feelings by this rhetorical device. I've merely pointed out a general tendency that Islam numbs social, economic and scientific progress, i.e. that the influence on the conflicts in the Arab World with regards to religion is not just a matter of differences in beliefs, but rather an underlying condition of a kind of belief which prevents progress. The niqab and burqa, the excessive structuring of day-to-day life, Islamic extremism, as well as oppression of women, gays and atheists are simply symptomatic examples for an overly binding religion. I've also only pointed out that it plays a significant role in the grievances in the Arab World, not that is the only cause.
you have to make your peace with the fact that fighting the good fight can sometimes be very unpleasant.

I'd like to suggest that "unpleasant" doesn't cut it. Rape threats, people posting your address online and encouraging others to visit you and do you harm, threats to your family, damaging your job prospects both directly and indirectly, causing you to live in a state of constant tension and fear (which is truly corrosive). These are real things that happen and they go beyond "unpleasant".
Technology is one thing, and the article has basically assume 2 order of magnitude better than anything that is currently somewhat achievable. But really, Earth has still millions of years of habitability, so really the limitation is not spending 200 years to send a probe and a few thousands in a space ship.

The key limitation here is obviously political stability, and in that area progress are counted in hundreds of years. We need something that fit within a tiny fraction of a single human life, because any plan longer than that is highly improbable, not because of physic, because of human.
Never attribute what Microsoft does to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice.
Depends on who is doing the tracking and for what purpose.

I prefer societies that expect people to do the right thing and have measures in place to deal with anti-socials than societies that expect people to do the wrong thing and therefore try to control everybody for it.
It's a wonderful way to fight things governments don't approve of. For example, generating a list of every person who bought food / water / whatever at a protest.
Once an intermediary feels secure in their position, the temptation to use the position to further other goals becomes pretty irresistable. Consider Square:

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/25/gun-shop-owners-longer-hip...

They are actively seeking to erode 2nd amendment rights. What other do-gooder impulses will Square pursue? Perhaps they'll next infringe on our 1st amendment rights by prohibiting payments to organizations they disagree with.

We see the same thing with speech brokers such as Facebook. Want to exercise your 1st amendment rights? Not on our platform!
I'd be careful with that assumption. Tthere aare over one million novels written every year now.

The novel as a literary form dates only to the 1500s. Cervantes' Don Quixote is generally considered the first novel.

I suspect a quite large share, possibly majority, ofnovels have been written since the word processor era.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorgan/2013/01/08/thinking-o...
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OIC, To express the same meaning, using Chinese needs far more less physical space than using English.
And you know what? Classical Chinese takes the compactness to the next level ;D

I'll try give an example:
English:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Chinese:
敏捷的棕毛狐狸从懶狗身上跃过

Classical Chinese：
棕色敏狐跃懶犬
Note: This is composed by me, maybe not very well-written, and maybe it can be even more compact, but you see what I mean ;)
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"There's huge interest in cryptocurrencies and what perhaps they can create in the market place. Now we at MasterCard are not completely comfortable with the idea of cryptocurrencies largely because they go against the whole principle that we've established our business on which is really moving to a world beyond cash and ensuring greater transparency.. If you think about it, cash is a problem for a number of countries. Cash really facilitates anonymity, it facilitates illegal activity, it facilitates tax avoidance and a range of other things that aren't going to drive efficiency in an economy"

-https://youtu.be/bO4jHXjCXw8?t=2m57s

"If it's an anonymous transaction, that sounds like a suspicious transaction. Why does somebody need to be anonymous?"

-http://youtu.be/bO4jHXjCXw8#t=4m12s

MasterCard SE Asia President on cryptocurrencies and cash
Humans were busy fighting wars, improving its advertising technology, and just generally slacking around when the internet was being born as well.

It only takes a very tiny portion of this world's 7 billion people to be smart and motivated enough to create a breakthrough for the entire planet.

That said, interstellar travel is an order of magnitude more difficult, so I agree it won't be happening very soon.
Which is why Stross ended with:

> Anyway, the point I'd like you to take away from this is that while it's really hard to say "sending an interstellar probe is absolutely impossible", the smart money says that it's extremely difficult to do it using any technology currently existing or in development. We'd need a whole raft of breathroughs, including radiation shielding techniques to kick the interstellar medium out of the way of the probe as well as some sort of beam propulsion system and then some way of getting data back home across interstellar distances ...

You wrote: "Einstein said that nuclear fission was impossible".

Do you have a reference for that? The closest account I know is described at http://www.doug-long.com/einstein.htm :

> Among those concerned were physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner. But Szilard and Wigner had no influence with those in power. So in July 1939 they explained the problem to someone who did: Albert Einstein. According to Szilard, Einstein said the possibility of a chain reaction "never occurred to me", altho Einstein was quick to understand the concept (Clark, pg. 669+; Spencer Weart & Gertrud Weiss Szilard, eds., "Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts", pg. 83).

but that wasn't about nuclear fission per se but of a chain reaction.

Also, how was Fermi involved? Fission was "was discovered on December 17, 1938 by German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, and explained theoretically in January 1939 by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission .
How much cash am I supposed to be keeping on hand in case there's a flood or tornado?
What would you like to make? They are all ok and can do whatever the other ones can.

A lot of people choose based on their primary preferred language, so if someone likes PHP they might use Laravel, if someone wants their stuff to be in Python they might use Django or Flask.

Go's ecosystem is not as mature yet and you'll have a harder time finding relevant resources or libraries.

Nowadays I prefer Javascript/React stuff because you can make much more "responsive" and nicer UI/UX with that setup as opposed to the way all those other frameworks work which is to push html back to the client that you "enhance" with some javascript.