skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA should over the next 100 years build a hyper-telescope, so that people can begin to actually see these planets in detail before before a probe can be sent.

Even with current technology, a hyper-telescope could be self-assembled in space, built from billions of 3-d printed & smoothened mirror segments, all aligned to half wavelength of visible light. We need to have a 1000px x 1000px resolution of earth-like planets out to 100 light years away, which would be several thousand miles in diameter.
No tracking is a terrible thing. Freedom is important. Concerns about taxes and black markets are meaningless if they eliminate freedom.
Bingo.

See also: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/institut...
Ask HN: What features on HN do you use the least?
I've been using HN for about a year off and on. Here are some of the features I never use either because they are hidden or not useful:

1. Search
2. Hide
English has 52 characters including both cases. Moreover, the ways in which these are combined to form words are highly inconsistent and idiosyncratic.

Chinese characters are made by combining 214 radicals, and most of the characters are written by combining two of these. Most words are created by combining two such characters. It's not really that much more difficult than remembering how to spell an English word.

程序 means program. 程序员 builds on this, not the individual parts of the constituent words.

Chinese is actually a very logical language. The writing system is arguably more complicated than it needs to be (see Victor Mair and his quixotic crusade for romanization), but it conceals a language with very flexible morphemes and simple grammar. I recently had to translate 照顾着 and 被照顾着 for an app, and I had a hard time coming up with concise and decent translations that mirrored the simple relational antonymity of the Chinese.
> He (Kenneth Rogoff) argues that, apart from facilitating crime and tax evasion, cash hampers central banks from setting negative interest rates.

I think a lot of the "war on cash" boils down to this. Central Banks want to impose negative rates on us to try and get us out of the mess of having too much debt in the system. Cash makes this difficult.
The update broke my install. Update finished and the computer restarted to a blue screen. Next restart didn't work and all I had was a black screen. Windows installation media couldnt help out since the partition was locked for some reason.

In 6 months, I had to restore windows 10 3 times after botched updates.
You sound like some computer illiterate that can only understand the Internet as a series of tubes(when it comes to your understanding of what is going on under the streets). Rather than seeing communication protocols, physical networking, social/actual contracts, and whatever else.

Just spend 20 minutes looking at/reading ladder diagrams, an organizational method electrical control systems. You'll learn that you pretty much 1 for 1 programming logic (that first motor controller you look at is the same as hello world, and algorithmically it's somewhere between 6 and 12 if statements).
Upvotes are like spandex. A privilege, not a right.
Domo is not the issue here.

The issue is the huge can of worms this (could) open up if every shareholder realizes access to financial information is a #right and not a #privilege

At least as far as I understand the law, which is (admittedly) limited.
Which programming languages do you know?

React is the most popular clients ide framework, Rails is still the most popular serverside.
> Newton and Kelvin both "proved" that heavier-than-air flying machines were physically impossible.

Can we please stop bringing this up? Same with the "faster than sound flight is impossible" quote. Kelvin was well aware that birds were heavier than air and before supersonic flight it was well known how fast a cannon ball can fly.

These people were talking about engineering and economic realities of their time, not physical laws. In contrast, we currently know of no natural phenomena that would hint at the possibility of faster-than-light travel and in fact have good reasons to believe that it is impossible.
Solving the privacy issue would be great, of course, but much more challenging than your one line would indicate (while keeping up with other benefits of cash, e.g. it doesn't disappear when I run out of battery, ...).

Meanwhile, a private company now knows an incredible amount about you and is potentially willing to sell that information to advertisers, give it to the US government, or get hacked and give it to everyone.
There's also a whole host of "impossible" things that haven't been achieved - time travel, faster-than-light travel, heck, even lunar colonization.

Sometimes, you just have to wonder whether it's even possible to break our current understanding of physics.
> It's a hugely inefficient way to write.

Not necessarily true.

For instance, "Not necessarily true" is 18 characters and 2 white spaces, while in Chinese, it could be as simple as "未必".
How is it disingenuous?

Or is it more accurate to call Fukushima a dirty bomb that spread nuclear material all over Japan because of idiotic politicians?
A bunch of other excellent similar projects have been linked here, and here's mine - a general purpose tool that lets you put together flexible responses to file system change:

https://github.com/cortesi/modd

The use case here is deep and interesting, and I don't know of any tool that gets it 100% right. HN is often quick to grumble about reinventing the wheel, but where there is no clearly correct solution I think we should encourage experimentation.

Modd is my opinionated take: it differs from other tools by trying to have a "proper" configuration language in which you can embed shell commands, by separating prep commands (that run and complete) and daemons (that run, but might need to be restarted on change), and by being completely agnostic about languages, test methodologies and other specificities of external tools.
Perhaps GP was thinking of the mainland variant, but only had a Traditional Chinese IME available on the computer.

Speaking of mainland-only variants, their official translation of computer is "计算机" (lit. computation machine).
> Is that incorrect?

Yes. The Sr-90 from a nuclear explosion will immediately oxidize in the atmosphere, so it is not a soft metal much like lead, but a brittle ceramic much like lime. It also has a half life of 28.8 years, not 29.1.

Not that these details matter, but I'd still like to draw attention to Schlosser's tactics: By dumping these irrelevant facts that are only approximately right on you he seems a lot more knowledgeable than he really is.

Back to the matter at hand...

> Is that incorrect?

Maybe, maybe not, but it surely is irrelevant. The radioactivity of fallout is dominated by very short lived fission products and by activation products that form when neutrons interact with vaporized soil. Most of these have half lives of hours to days. The radiation from something that short lived is intense and will kill humans quickly. A fallout shelter is intended to prevent exposure to that kind of radiation.

By comparison, long lived fission products like Sr-90 don't matter. In a nuclear war, you worry about surviving the next few weeks. You don't worry about dying from leukemia 30 years later. (It also appears the link between Sr-90 and bone cancer or leukemia is merely a plausible assumption, not an actual observation.)
I think you are solving the wrong problem.

The problem isn't HTML, it is its users. People who can't quote properly, people who end every single sentence with an emoji, etc. In a nutshell, people who have never experienced Usenet never learned how to communicate properly with a keyboard.

The fix for this is to configure your email client to auto-answer a rejection message when it receives anything other than plain text. You can always blame your antivirus for that.

Help people with disabling HTML email. With a little bit of luck, they won't remember how to enable it again. And hopefully, since they won't be distracted any more with fancy formatting, animated smiley and which GIF-meme-to-use-for-this, hopefully they'll focus on words and reinvent ascii art.
This might be a naive question, but has there ever been a successful non-profit bank-like financial institution?

As I was reading this article I thought of iPredator.se, which provides a non-tracked VPN service. Their USP is "We don't track anything you do". I wonder whether there could ever be a cashless option that offers a similar service. This of course would only address the concerns of privacy and profit-driven interests, and not the other serious concerns raised in the article.

Has there been/could there ever be a bank like that?
yeah to hell with those latex documents and word processors, behold the .txt file!
Adopting Virtual Reality technology for the new-age marketing
The title of this blog post is one of the funniest I've read on HN, really made me laugh.

The author states:

"We might get a small probe up to arbitrarily high velocities if we cheat by using an engine that stays back home where we can keep it running, but then we run into other problems."

Does anyone know which rocket propulsion technology he is referring to there?
In the paragraph before he is referring to plasma beam but he doesn't say what this is.
Unless a couple of huge mining companies can actually control the network consensus.
6 great features that Apple should “steal” from the Galaxy Note 7 – iSpazio
Perhaps smaller banks that cannot afford to eat millions of dollars/pounds of fines from the SEC or FCA?

Assuming they're as sinister as you think (not sure if this is true) he won't get hired at Goldman, JPM or similar, but I know that Risk/Compliance dept at company I work for would jump at the chance to hire someone so knowledgable and ethical as this guy if they had open positions.
So what I take from this is that C4 photosynthesis could be arrived at through marker assisted selection, i.e. traditional breeding, rather than through GMO.
My favourite example of this madness was back in my Eve Online days, where, for years on end, I would be bombarded day-and-night with ads for Eve Online. SIGN UP NOW, JOIN THE ACTION, all the usual bullshit, despite me having an Eve account for years.

What the hell do they want out of me at that point? I already pay for an account, and if I want a second account then I already know where to get one, from the same place I got the first one: eveonline.com

Jesus, the whole thing was farcical, for all their tracking and profiling.
Don't listen to any comments that give you definitives on popularity. Most places/people pick a framework based upon the technology they already have or their language of preference.

At this point most mature frameworks all have the same abilities. The only differences you might see are speed, and even then, most people don't take that into account.

Pick the language you like or know the best, and have at it.
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Isn't that the same in most languages though? For instance in English "electronic mail" became "e-mail", which became "email". "Web log" became "weblog", which became "blog". "Cellular phone" became "cell phone".
The title of this article sounds like a password [1].

Whenever one of these articles comes out I like to think of this fun paper: [2] Are Black Hole Starships Possible?", http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.1803

[1] https://xkcd.com/936/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship
Pokémon Go cheaters You could be missing out on important health benefits
remember the US military expenditure is almost the total sum of the next 14 countries, 12 of which are allies.

I'm sure the "pax americana" would hold with some cuts.
Yes, if only Mars were already settled and we could exploit the people there.

The question has always been what resource, with 3He and platinum being the two main contenders.

Otherwise, it could be like coal mining in Antarctica, or manganese module mining from the deep seafloor - technically possible, but not profitable, and certainly not enough for a new EIC.
The convenience argument is complete nonsense. Personally I hate dealing with physical things like writing a letter, buy an envelope (well, buy 20 when I need one) and a stamp and mail it, but cash is really the single most easy physical thing to deal with that I know of.
Jetbrains always sucks, just turn to Visual Studio platform .I have always love its Refactor feature and a free license for up to 5 team members :)

See what I did there?
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>Einstein said that nuclear fission was impossible, before Fermi promptly proved him dead wrong.

Reference please.

And was this before or after the famous Einstein-Szilard letter to Roosevelt, which not only motivated the Manhattan Project but also specifically referenced Fermi's unfinished theoretical research of a possible chain reaction in uranium?
I distinctly remember stores having to use the old-fashioned "knuckle-scraper" credit card machines after hurricane Katrina in Baton Rouge because phone lines were down. It basically took an impression of the card from the raised letters of the card.

Not many places had one of these and some just had to close because it didn't take long for all their customers to run out of cash without atms. Nowadays my credit card doesn't even have the raised bumps anymore. The knuckle-scrapers were a wide open vector for fraud but did at least work in a natural disaster.
Debugging and extra vars are clunky, to pick a few.
It would seem that some studies have shown increased impulse buying to be tied to credit cards, eg.
https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/GN_27032015_280306/
That reminds me that sometimes in my family we'll jokingly say jeet? It comew from the comedian Jeff Foxworthy who said it's redneck for "Did you eat? "

I'm in Canada and not redneck I wonder if jeet is actually used in the US.
Right, but when learning English as a second language, they don't teach you "com" and "putare", because the roots are too far away and too diverse (Latin, Germanic) whereas in Chinese, it's often immediately obvious. Well, more often than in other languages. Most of it is still random-looking.
> To read an English newspaper you only need to learn 26 symbols.

Replace English with any other language using the latin alphabet and this doesn't hold up as there is no indication of meaning. For that matter, there's not a strong indication of pronunciation. I may know English and French but that doesn't help me understand Hungarian or Swedish.

I do not know Chinese but my understanding is those 3000 characters are not only glyphs, they are elements of meaning. Incidentally, that is the same order of magnitude of words one needs to know to read an English paper, with the difference that in English, there is a portion of the meaning that is encoded in grammar, ie. the relation & order of words. That a cognitive overhead we take for granted in our language system.
It depends. A couple hundred was sufficient for us when Hurricane Wilma knocked out power across most of South Florida in 2005, but we happened to be in a pocket that had power, were surrounded by family and friends with food and other resources, and didn't really have to go anywhere or do anything. YMMV, but be careful with the idea that you don't need any. The ATM's and card swipes work until they don't.
Or a time stasis device, as described by Niven, Vinge, and others.
why is this post getting so many voteups?
> This might be a naive question, but has there ever been a successful non-profit bank-like financial institution?

Credit unions are not-for-profit institutions, member-owned, and are very successful.

But they don't satisfy the second part of your post. Tracking and auditing transactions is kind of built into the idea of modern banking.
In fact everything on Netflix is already available in torrent, so DRM-free or not, nothing will change on this side.
Actually, if you want it literally it would be "eat rice or not yet" (กิน=eat, ข้าว=rice, หรือยัง=or not yet). Like you said, verbs are not conjugated in Thai but instead verb tenses are accomplished with helper words to indicate past, present or future. Sure is a lot more orderly than English verb conjugation with all its irregularities.
The Scottish response to 'not yet' is usually something like 'well it seems foolish to have ventured out in that case', obviously delivered in the local dialect.

Though I have extracted one dinner from an Edinburgh man who deploys the phrase, but that was probably because his ( English ) wife had put it on to cook earlier!
I didn't realize people like you actually existed. I always assumed everyone understood how a tyranny of majority was created.
Not much difference I'm afraid. IOS-XE is essentially the product of porting the classic IOS and runs it as a controlling process that sits top of linux, and with dedicated forwarding path.

If you look up for IOU, which stands for IOs over Unix, it has been around for quit a long time.
Who is an engineering manager at Google?
NeuralStyler AI- Turn your videos into art (offline processing)
I help myself sometimes by taking a piece of paper, putting it next to my keyboard and writing down a schedule:

"It's 16:11, so:

16:11 – 17:00 trying to fix that bug
17:00 short pause
17:05 – 17:45 implement easy feature XY so that I feel
I accomplished something
17:45 – 18:00 wrapping up.
I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I only seek out full albums. I've found that YT does pretty well for classic rock, metal, and electronica, and ok for older Jazz and classical music.

I tried it out just now for an album I like. I get about 25% unrelated junk or stuff I've already watched, but the rest are also full albums that seem like fairly solid recommendations based on the album at hand (Jan Jelinek's "Loop Finding Jazz Records").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIgBEXuQD8
Basically nobody hoards all the money at home as cash, so people would just have a bit of money. Almost no difference.

How could you still buy stuff then? Debt! When you buy something your name will get noted down and how much you owe. When the systems are running again you will pay off your debt.
This is what I was thinking of:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en

I didn't look closely at it the first time, but now that I have, it's not that useful.
> Research is either legit or BS. That's all that matters, doesn't it?

Yes but:

1. It's non-trivial to distinguish between the two

2. It's not a binary distinction. It could be 1%/99%, 99%/1% or anything inbetween.

So - a useful heuristic for those of us who can't take a few months off to reproduce the study is to 'follow the money'.
In Germany we have GLS bank which is for profit but has a strong ethics code about their investments and try to maintain high standards of transparency.

https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/english-portrait/
You mean a private company that can legally declare interplanetary war?
Not really cheap for software... I worked for Cisco in Shanghai and I recall we were more expensive than our Ottawa friends.
Vendor-published case studies are pretty worthless IMO. I've seen plenty where the vendor was absolutely despised by anybody working for the client who had to deal with them.
There's a lot of science behind this phenomenon, this article does a good job of discussing the process https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-work/201209/...

But tl;dr your brain is adept at working on problems in the background after you've defocused on them. Your work is still getting done, even if you cut out of work and unwind, no guilt necessary ;-)
Mastering GitHub with a screen reader, part 1
Two points: First, the economic logic of negative rates is actually to try to incentivize the private sector to create more debt.

This isn't completely absurd. Slow economic growth quite often boils down to a lack of spending. One way to get more spending is by having the private sector take on more debt.

I think this is a bad idea, considering how the global financial crisis was caused by too much private debt in the first place. It would be better to increase public debt, at least in countries with monetarily sovereign governments, since there is no risk of default and the financial chaos that goes with it.

Second point: I've been hearing voices against cash since before negative rates became a thing. So while they're certainly a factor, they're far from the only one.
It actually quite impressive little distro if you love Debian and want to use it on the older machine, because it is Debian and Openbox. They have a cool terminal based welcome script that lets you configure many things.
> Some reputable bank should chase this guy to work in their regulatory affairs.

I doubt he will ever find a job in this field again.

If you show such 'disloyalty' towards your employer you will be tainted forever. Companies, especially banks, do not want to run the risk of having their dirty laundry exposed (both legal and illegal dirty laundry). If there is any hint that you cannot look away when questionable things are happening there is no chance you will get hired.

The Financial Times has an article about three Wallstreet whistleblowers (including the
Deutsche guy):
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ce216134-e6c7-11e3-9a20-00144feabd...
I'm interested in how this compactness changes the expressiveness and evolution of the language. In English, as in other languages written in the latin alphabet, you can make changes to the spelling of a word and create new meanings rather fluidly and it's usually easy for the reader to comprehend. I have no knowledge of Japanese, but are there similar possibilities? How do new words/slang get created?
One is an advertising company and the other also has an advertising division, your data is used to target those advertisements, they're both absolutely selling your data.
There is a ton of misinformation out there, and it tends to greatly overestimate the dangers of nuclear weapons.

For example, it's a common assumption that global thermonuclear war would wipe out humanity, or even all life on Earth. That's not even close to true. Billions would die and civilization would be wrecked, but the human race would continue.

For an example specific to civil defense, the old "duck and cover" routine is widely ridiculed. Which is bizarre, because it's great advice which would have saved many lives in the event of nuclear war. But people don't understand how this stuff works, and just think that nuclear war is a moment where all die, O the embarrassment.

With sufficient warning, evacuating cities would have saved many lives. Such warning wouldn't have been available for ICBM strikes, but in the 50s and 60s the threat was bombers, which would have provided hours of warning.