skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful with that assumption: the standards for reliability and safety for crew-rated vs. uncrewed vehicles are very different. I've heard figures at around 10% hull-loss accident rates as expected for uncrewed, vs. an order of magnitude less for crew-rated. There's a very good reason that the pad had been cleared of personnel, and no one was injured in this launch. While spectacular, this explosion didn't inflate any body counts, because the risks were understood and well-managed. Spaceflight is hard, and people die, but we need to make sure we are comparing the same categories when we assess risk, reliability and cost. Trimming that 10% hull-loss rate down to 1% can be done, but probably not at anything like a cost that would make it commercially viable. The only other way to ensure reliability is the way commercial aviation did it: break enough vehicles (and lose enough people) that you understand the failure modes so well you can very nearly eliminate them.
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3D isn't really that much extra money though. If you've got a quality panel, you already have a high refresh rate. So all you need to add 3D, beyond a bit of software, is polarization or active glasses. It adds so little to the cost that it doesn't make much sense for manufacturers not to include it on high end TVs.

Saying that 3D is "doomed" because one manufacturer is not bringing out new 3D models this year is, IMO, ridiculous. Eventually of course it will get much better, with no glasses, head tracking setups that are already in development. So 3D as we know it now of course won't last forever. But it's not like it's going away. Look at the percentage of movies released in 3D today compared to 5 years ago.
Was speaking with a French professor, visiting us at the university for a couple of weeks. He was telling us about how the French public view Hollande's "liberalism" (in France, a "liberal" government prefers lax rules on business---in North America, the word "liberal" no longer has quite the same meaning), which lead to weakening of social service nets, as a major cause of the current unemployment (employment laws were made much more lax).
You could say the transonic barrier is a big nonlinearity, and that it wasn't worth going further.

Peter Thiel says it's caused by pessimism, and that's a much better explanation.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/530901/technology-stalled...

(I'm not related unfortunately. Joe Sutter's father Frank Sutter was born Franc Suhadolc in Slovenia)
Motif and CDE!
This is why I haven't been able to stand the IO hype for years. When are people going to realize it's a tech demo, not product announcements? Do thy not realize most of the announced projects have gone nowhere?
I think that's a bit unfair. If they went to the point of two CT scans (which showed nothing), it's not like they were being dismissive. They were probably trying to give the best diagnosis they could with the evidence available.
Excited by the Jio launch. Congratulation!
Any QA/Test Automation roles?
Where are your offices in Bangalore?
Any bad weather argument is likely to apply to Copenhagen, which doesn't prevent it from being a paragon of bike-friendliness, bike usage per capita, etc.
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You might be interested in https://libre.fm/ if you aren't confident about the future of Last.fm. It can be used as a drop-in replacement to track your music plays.
VS Code is pretty tolerable right now. Not near what it could be, but makes it useable.
No, I said that the money was spent, not lost; it didn't just vanish. They didn't bury it in the back yard and then forget about it, or set it on fire. They've definitely lost future income though, even if they rebuild the satellite and launch it successfully a few years from now. (I know that you usually build a test version of your space hardware, for tests that might be destructive. I wonder if any of those have ever been launched insted?)

It was also spent on something they wanted to spend it on, rather than something they were forced to spend it on. It's still an interesting point though, because they spent it on something that carried significant risk. Does spending money on a glass window, which carries the risk of a broken window, work in the same way? I've not considered the broken-window fallacy from that perspective before. Perhaps it's not, for the same for the same reason that breaking a window is considered a crime and an exploding rocket generally is not.
Has there been any paid studies into a herbal cure with no opportunity to patent, own, exploit, I say no, I could ask Google but I get the feeling I don't need to. This has no bearing on it's efficacy, round here people throw 'anecdotal' around as if they believe it to be synonymous with meaningless, this is nonsense, much research has been inspired by a wealth of anecdotes, in fact, afaik off label use of pharmaceuticals is also kind of 'anecdotal', these drugs have not been tested for the off label use, it's a body of anecdotal evidence, albeit supplied by 'trusted' professionals that allows physicians to use it to treat conditions it was never designed for.
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What possible evidence do you have of this? It sounds wholly speculative.
If you want to allow user-defined fields in a relational database, your realistic are either EAV or stuff json into a text column. EAV, if done extremely carefully, can be a good solution, but 99% of the time, it's going to be a huge pain.
Fair enough. According to Wikipedia of the 26 Mercury program missions there were 6 pre 1962 Mercury program launch failures before the 6 successful manned missions. 5 of the 6 failures were test flights without payload.
we are getting ourselves in a mess with this, psycho pharma genetic nutrition says most things we eat have 'psychoactive' potential, as does our mood, environment, genetic make up and food, we are psychoactive beings walking around in electromagnetic energy fields...
Hi David,

Thank You for posting about this.
I am really very interested to be a part of this initiative and looking forward to work in a startup like work environment.
What are the requirements and experience level for this?
I always thought they take it a certain distance to maintain cred, then ditch it as the last thing they want is 3rd parties hooking stuff up to their things.
Your career page mentions housing as a perk. That's a first for me.
I do not match any profile but I'd recommend friends.
ios has gotten rather complex and big over the years. Just look at the Settings. About as bad as Android settings.

I'm a computer guy and it's a struggle to find things.
I have not had the chance to try this, but this sings high praise:

http://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/10/rreverse-debugging/
Its all about money -> Do incremental "innovation" but make people pay for the whole thing again and again each and every year.
This is the sixth time this article was posted. It also is somewhat biased, not that anyone wants to have an intellectual conversation about gun control.
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If it came out tomorrow it'd be 10 years too late. Cellphones seem to have hit a plateau. All the parts are now good enough in a cheap phone that no one really needs this.

I got a $150 aluminum phone with a huge battery, nice enough camera, fingerprint scanner, 3GBs of RAM, expandable storage, etc. etc. ... I don't feel like I need expansion options.
What can the higher-specs really offer now a days?

Samsung has the right idea, maybe we'll need better phones for VR. Or maybe built in picoprojectors will be a game changer. But for that you'll need a whole new phone - not just a module snaps on.
you "treat" the metal much like you would a cast iron skillet.

After using, clean the grill, rub a thin coat of oil (I use canola different oils provide different seal quantity) then heat to smoking point. Wipe down and repeat a few times. This will coat the metal.

Most importantly DON'T use detergents it'll ruin the seal
You missed a key point:

> unless your terminal emulator filters out the bracketed paste characters when pasting!

Any sane terminal should already be doing that, if not there's not really any point in offering bracketed paste in the first place as any input could break out of it.

Of course, this should really be on the browser for not delivering the proper text that the user selected to the clipboard.
In some regards this reflects how I experienced many managers. Understanding that a management task needs to be done (e.g., define a business process), then go to an employee below and charge them with doing it.

However, a good manager also adds value. If you work as engineer you are exhausted after a programming task and don't really want to write notes down. But you yourself already know that you actually really should do it. Having a manager to motivate you and help you improve your documentation and formatting skills can go a long way to find out what happened in that task 6 months ago.
That volume of data should be handled pretty easily by the right indexes and joins. At one place with that order of magnitude of data we kept an offline synced clone of the data with indexes designed for the queries we needed to run (this is basically OLAP). Have you already looked into that?
Same. My most recent is a programming language. I need to stop with these CS type projects.
that means nothing, the first-gen pixel was discontinued before the second-gen was announced too. and the chromebook pixel is hardly the only chromebook out there. it's a thriving product line, and the pixel series is a very very unimportant part of it.
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Could probably just throw out the grill at that point, that thing should cook steak just fine.
Is there a reason to have a password other than 123456 on last.fm?
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If this reasoning is valid, we might as well accuse you and the grand parent of being internet kratom sellers, who have a vested interest in convincing HN readers of the benign nature of Kratom.

In any case, your reasoning is completely invalid. Here, for example, is an article from pubmed which argues:

"While several cases of toxicity and death have emerged in the West, such reports have been non-existent in South East Asia where kratom has had a longer history of use. We highlight the possible reasons for this as discussed in the literature. More importantly, it should be borne in mind that the individual clinical case-reports emerging from the West that link kratom use to adverse reactions or fatalities frequently pertained to kratom used together with other substances. Therefore, there is a danger of these reports being used to strengthen the case for legal sanction against kratom. This would be unfortunate since the experiences from South East Asia suggest considerable potential for therapeutic use among people who use drugs."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27178014
I wondered the same thing. I can't imagine more than a few million dollars of raw material goes into a satellite. I'd wager it's more like $150mil to design the satellite, then $20mil for parts and $20mil for labour to build it (since these things are so low-volume they've gotta be largely hand made).

It'd certainly suck to be one of the people who's slaved over the satellite for the last couple of years, to see your baby get blown to smithereens like this.
Telling people something is the next big thing is part of trying to make it so.
Not to be paranoid or anything, but with the Russians in the news with hacking, could this be the equivalent of a Stuxnet industrial sabotage? It would seem to be in their foreign ministry's interest to reduce the one successful American domestic manufacturer of rocket motors...
It's not something you'd want to be doing every day before grilling. The usual ritual for most people who grill would be to heat up the grill till it's at cooking temperature, then scrape for 20 seconds with the brush just before putting the food on.
I believe it is meant to be a serious analysis after observing many (but clearly not all) media outlets. I suspect the intelligence agencies are included due to their ties to media outlets (while other government agencies have less to do with media).

I agree that it could use a lot more polish and copy-editing for consistency.
Yes currently all the reports operate quite efficiently on a set of indexes. The performance of the database is currently very good with the reports in PL/SQL. The problem arises when the reports are generated using application logic on another server. Let's say we have a report for the last 10,000 records. For each of those records, I have to query the database again for some other time series information. If the latency between the reporting server and database server is 2ms, that report is going to take 20 seconds to generate.

Edit: If you're saying mirror the time series data onto the application server to avoid the network roundtrip, I guess that is possible but we still face the SQL overhead with each query.
How would you regulate that? Wouldn't that suggest that the EU would have some sort of access to private back-ends in order to check?
In that case, why isnt that normal and key name size a non-issue with document stores and JSON columns?

Am I missing something on why this isnt done already and automatically?
Probably getting downvoted because these comments are common and don't make any suggestions on how to get rid of passwords.
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Yeah, you definitely don't want to be making those roundtrips. Why doesn't a join work?
But it was all smooth sailing for Apollo 13 after that, right?
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I'm a former full-time developer who's now splitting time between a folk band and consulting. As a band, we created a Facebook fan page, and have been using it to promote upcoming shows, our "Tune of the Month" Youtube series, and so on and so forth. Every fan we talk to in real life is positive both about us and about our Facebook presence, but I feel like we're leaving a lot on the table.

Specifically, we tend to wonder about:

a) Time of day / day of week to post content

b) When and how to share a post on our personal profiles for maximum impact.

c) Why some posts (that are seemingly similar or even superior to many successful posts) fall flat.

d) Whether we need to start using hashtags.

e) Best use of boosted posts (paid ads)

f) The 1001 things that never occurred to us as things to wonder about (unknown unknowns).

I'm willing to believe that Facebook management (and Youtube, and Twitter and oh-dear-goodness-do-we-need-to-get-an-Instgram-account?) is a legitimate skill, like playing music or programming. But unlike playing music and programming, good resources seem hard to find. I don't want listicles, I don't want clickbait headlines, I don't want a special offer on the now-just-$5 Insider's Guide to Social Media. I want a systematic guide (be it a website-with-many-articles, wiki, book, ebook, whatever—heck, I'd accept an active StackExchange-like Q&A forum) with data-driven, goal-oriented, rationally-conceived information on dealing with social media. Does such a thing exist?

Thanks!
ReactOS is trying to make a Windows type OS and needs developers and donations.

HakuOS is a BEOS clone.

AROS is and AmigaOS clone.

OSFree is an OS/2 clone.

Nobody has solved how to make a free or open source operating system that uses apps and drivers from the original.

Having FOSS alternatives to those OSes is just as important that *BSD Unix, Linux, and MacOS are alternatives to Unix that can run Unix apps due to the API.

There are always problems to be solved like getting everyone solar panels on their house to fight climate change and cut down on their electric bill.

Ask SpaceX why one of their rockets blew up recently. Someone needs to solve that problem too.
So Google discontinues Pixel laptop (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/google-discontinues-t...) which is very disappointing by the way (I have 2015 Pixel LS running Ubuntu - best laptop ever had) and then renames well known Nexus phones as Pixels? This cannot get more confusing and I just don't understand their reasoning.
We need phones that are basically indestructible and last 3 full days on one charge.
As far as I know Lumina is a one man project. I remember listening to a podcast with him. It sounded very much like a guy started messing around and trying stuff out and ended up with Lumina. Kinda like Hammer2 is also mostly a one man project. That's why it's pretty slow moving.

Sorry about LxQt. Wish I had some Qt experience to help out
Complex domain-specific requirements preclude simple joins unfortunately. This is why I'd like to redevelop these queries in C#. There are many imperative steps performed on each time series record to decide how these reports are generated.

To give a very broad example of one report: take 10,000 latest time series records from geographic location X. Now for each of those records load the latest 100 time series records from location Y and Z. Multiply all records from Y and Z together then divide by the value at location X. Throw in lots of business rules at every one of these steps so we have no chance of representing this as a tidy join operation and so that we can make no assumptions about the data we'll need to load to generate the report :)
Actually not totally true. There was some content in there. But since it wasn't structured that well it's hard to see. Putting everything in a process is like putting your code in a class. It's not absolutely necessary but helps structuring stuff.

A process is a regular activity that solves a certain problem for a certain consumer group (the consumer may be an employee of your company, e.g. when the process is mail hosting for your company). Writing down the usual steps to take helps people to not forget stuff when doing the job, and helps managers/QA make sure everything is there to close a task.

Also each process has typical roles, e.g. someone who is responsible for the process adding value to the big picture (process owner), someone who is responsible for getting the day to day problems out of the way (process manager), and someone who actually does the steps involved in the process (process practicioner). With this structure it is easier to see when something is missing. E.g. in corp life one can often find a process with more than one owner, more than one manager, but zero practicioners, which results in nothing getting done at the end of the day.

Also you can think about how all that may relate to Scrum and co. There you also have these roles like board owner, scrum master and engineers.

All this stuff is somewhere in the article, but it's not layed out very well. Probably written by a person who works on a daily basis with people who already know all that, which of course makes the tutorial nature of the article worhtless. One may guess there was a blog post practicioner, but no (real) manager.
Most of these applications employ this one weird trick to get digitized sound out of the speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_speaker#Pulse-width_modulat...

The result is 6 bits of resolution, along with a high pitched squeak during playback, depending on the output circuitry and speaker characteristics (it's less noticeable when a low-pass filter is added).
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That would be a smart move, at least politically if not economically.

People have been wary of large bailouts since 2008. The Chaebol family that owns Hanjin is especially unpopular in Korea, due to a widely publicized incident where one of their daughters threw a tantrum on board an international flight and made it return to the gate.

The President of South Korea cannot afford to make any move that would hurt her (already rather low) popularity rating. She needs to throw Hanjin under the bus if she wants her party to have a chance in next year's election.

Besides, the government is too busy trying to rescue the shipbuilding industry, which is worth much more to the Korean economy, to babysit a shipping company.
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Awesome! The syntax reference is a must: https://github.com/cdglabs/ohm/blob/master/doc/syntax-refere...
Why are hardware innovations not possible with Android's Linux kernel? OEMs' concerns about the GPL?
Things get interesting if you look at $TSLA as an energy company of which cars is just one component.
I would imagine that over time even a proper brush could be weakened such it would be prone to this problem. Most of the bbq brushes i see are not exactly new.
I'm not one to typically experience much stress, but it sure sounds like a dubious explanation for the symptoms.
> It was an interesting idea but I could never see it working myself. It looked like a solution in search of a problem.

Modularity worked out pretty well for the PC. When you make things open, there's no way to imagine ahead of times the things people will come up with.
> Is (10 * a few days) to change jobs is an unreasonable burden?

It's the quality, not the quantity.
Until you become the boy who cried wolf. I now consider anything from google vaporware until proved otherwise.

The biggest part of making something the next big thing is actually producing a product.
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iPhone prices don't go down because it's a brand and hardware controlled by Apple. AI is software, with zero marginal cost to copy.
> that's access for people lacking the technological means to hail an Uber

IIRC, at least one of these public transit / Uber partnerships includes a standard phone number that people can call to order an Uber.
Will rowhammer attacks work against ECC RAM? Multibit memory errors should be detected, even if they can't be corrected.
"That might work great for other companies, but..."
Adrian Thompson's 1996 paper was about Genetic Algorithms. A poor overfitting example considering the whole article is prominently about Artificial Neural Networks. Thompson's FPGA components were trained at room temperature and the creatures were unable to function well when the temperature deviates too much from 10 deg. C.
That's not timeless, that's very very timed.
Bureaucratic process-driven de-skilling probably made sense when you were GE and had six-figure worth of boomers to coordinate physical goods manufacturing. But today, for a company with 1 to even 4 figures worth of people paid to think and decide, it doesn't even make sense let alone work. The whole point of software, and computers, is that if something is that systematizable then have the systems do it. Process that is not code is a sloppy half assed anachronism. People are not machines, if the following the process actually matters then don't leave it to a human error rate.
Since until now rockets have been of the throwaway kind, they are all broken by the time we finish using them.
Being European and computer literate, I hope the EU stops creating stupid and pointless internet laws
You maintain favorable access to that information, and your people get to see different scenery instead of being stuck in one particular, usually crappy, locale.

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