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> This only means that this research should be done by state funded universities and not left to commercial industries.

As anybody who has worked in academia for long enough can tell you, state-funded universities are very much a "commercial industry" and are in no way exempt from market forces. There are a few extra layers of indirection, which slow them down, but the end result is the same.
D3 is a framework rather, it requires tremendous amounts of work to be able to create interactive charts.
Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans, by Stanislaw Lem (1975)
How is it a huge load on the system given that node can lazy load modules? Do you mean disk space?
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Yeah, yeah, I know that it works with UDP and what's happening.

What is amazing is how much it makes my day-to-day work with remote machines much more pleasant.
A friend worked for the market leader in "rivets and rivet punching machines", and they did very little/no marketing from what he said. They didn't seem to understand the web at all, or maybe it simply didn't matter, as much as that sounds like heresy on HN. They had a huge contract with a household name German car company, and the rest of their sales with from a catalogue sold directly to smaller manufacturers. There's countless German companies like this, scattered all over Germany. If you're in a particular industry, you likely know the highest quality manufacturer in your segment, and there's a good chance that it's a German company.
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Currently, the battery is the biggest and maybe the only issue most users have. And it's easily solvable(redmi 3 with 4100mah, new lenovo with 5100mah).

But it was nice for manufacturers to toghether maintain this artificial problem.
Ranking is relative, so on less busy days (such as today's holiday in the US and Canada) stories with fewer points can be ranked higher than usual. You can always email questions like this to hn@ycombinator.com to avoid cluttering the discussion threads.
Planck length, nor any other Planck unit isn't the "shortest/smallest" anything* at least it was never intended to be that.

These units are very useful in QM and as "constants" (not the best choice of words since Planck units intentionally ignore constant values to some extent) that can be used to describe a relativistic universe.

*You can use Planck Length/Time to put a lower limit on any possible wavelength that below it a wave cannot exist, other Planck units can also be in the ballpark of the smallest possible unit/quanta of various things in various theories.
The movie shares little but the name with the book. I don't think of it as an adaptation.
I must not have driven any good automatics then. They all felt sluggish and unresponsive. Biggest problem being that they downshift after I press the throttle, not before.

I don't see how they could know in advance that I'm going to accelerate unless I tell them. Hence the sluggishness can not possibly be removed.

Unless you count flappy pedal gearboxes as automatics as well. Then yes, far superior to traditional manuals.

Mind you, even Formula E has a flappy pedal 5-speed gearbox despite being all electric.

I haven't driven a fully electric car yet, and I'm sure their power output is impressive, but I have driven hybrids and they were crap in terms of fun-to-drive.
> my insurance provider picks up the bill

In that case you are in a lucky situation due to being privately insured. The vast majority in Germany is in the public system which only pays for the most basic of dental care. If you want more eloberate work or better material you need to pay out of your own pocket (which of course is still much less than in the US).

Dental care combined with a vacation in Poland, the Czech Republic, or Hungary is a thriving market. Some health insurers even cooperate with providers abroad and many doctors there speak German.

Similiar, many people opt for eye laser surgery (which you need to completely pay out of pocket) in Turkey or in-vitro fertilization in the Czech Republic (where a wider range of methods are legal).
I just wanted to point it out. The thread title is "Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University", which could be read with the implication "Learn advanced mathematics, at the university level, without going to university". Under this context, someone replied that this is possible because s/he learned it, but can't prove what s/he's learned. Of course not being able to prove the useful theorems you've learned doesn't render them useless (although perhaps less useful as you're less likely to know precisely when they can be applied and how to extend them to new situations), but in the context of the discussion it seems like an important distinction to make.
there are many doctors that won't sterilize childless people, nor
folks that are young - and it is often not a covered procedure

This is very strange. Sterilizing people who can't safely get pregnant ought to be a no-brainer, including (especially?) from an insurance perspective.
Curious as to what constitutes good and bad photos in this context.
Hi HN!
I'm the creator of Exynap, and I'm really excited to share it with you all.
Quite a while ago, I started Exynap for my own purpose. It began with a simple wish:
I'd like to spend more time on the "awesome" parts of app development and less time on Google figuring out how a certain API call works.

The project grew up and is finally live! :)

Hope this plugin helps!

Feedback and questions are welcome.
They're trying to simply buy their way in:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-deal-makers-have-germany-...
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Isn't it Showgirls, or is this a regional title variation? Anyway, it's clearly an attempt at parodying the exploitation movie genre by delivering all the required elements but not actually being enjoyable.
This experiment is pushing towards Bohemian Mechanics, we all like PWT but I'm not sure what does this has to do with the comment above :)
And it is precisely because of this that the paper has to go through peer review and also the authors specifically state that the optimisations that they do make the code run at least as fast if not faster than the state of the art.
I watched this documentary called "To catch a comet" about the Rosette/Philae mission to comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The achievement of getting to the comet and landing Philae, like many other achievements in space, is really phenomenal. So many things could've gone wrong, but the fact that the worst was Philae bouncing and getting stuck in a dark place (and not being able to perform fully) is a huge success beset by an issue of a smaller magnitude.

The description of the documentary says [1]:

> Unable to carry enough fuel owing to weight restrictions, the Rosetta scientists devised a delicate cat and mouse trajectory to reach their distant destination. In the ten years Rosetta had been in space she flew around the Earth three times, Mars once and the asteroid belt twice, to gain the momentum she needed to reach her destination. In the months before landing, the team navigated Rosetta safely to a world never before observed at such distances or accuracy. Rosetta orbited the comet before releasing Philae onto the surface.

Quoting from the article of this thread:

> “We were beginning to think that Philae would remain lost forever. It is incredible we have captured this at the final hour.”

This brings a much better ending for the people who worked on the mission for more than 30 years. [1] We tend to anthropomorphize things like spacecrafts, landers, rovers and many other inanimate objects. I think for the team (and many others following this news), this photo would be like being able to see a dear friend one last time, say goodbye in their minds and have some kind of closure.

The Wikipedia article, and especially the section titled "Landing and surface operations" [2], is also quite interesting to read.

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/program/catch-comet/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)#Landing_an...
The US government knows that our European allies spy on us all the time. That's been known since the founding of the nation.

They don't make a stink about it because you don't rock the boat when you don't need to. Advise those with sensitive information of how to proceed and move on.

Think about why French intelligence would give this to the press, rather than obviate it either technologically or diplomatically.
"Hummer, Jaguar and Maserati though, those are further away from the natural "ideological core" of potential Tesla owners."

True, but they are also cars for the affluent, and Teslas, in addition to appealing to people with an enviro-lefty bent, appeal to the affluent.
Hmm, I'm not sure. My friend worked in UK.
The tiny bits of code that can wreck computers
Innovation in big German companies? It's very slow
> government is a representation of the will of the governed

No. By this reasoning "we are all murderers."

A democratic system means that 51% of the people can legally deprive the other 49% of basic liberties.
I didn't mean that more exit nodes should collect and share their logs. That would indeed weaken the Tor network, by facilitating traffic correlation.

I meant inspecting/manipulating the traffic if it is unencrypted. As a political statement, this should of course never actually attack the client, but instead try to raise attention by e.g. injecting a message along the lines:

Hi, I'm a stranger and it was trivial for me to
inject this message. Please use HTTPS to prevent
me from doing this.

Thinking more about that, however, this may be a bad idea. People could perceive this to be a security hole in the Tor network itself, rather than HTTP itself, which could damage the reputation of Tor.
Timeline: 20 years of KDE
Sorry to ask, but where exactly was this addressed?
Neither of those cars get 150 miles of range. They're both squarely in the under-100 miles category. The BMW only reaches 150 if you get the "range extender," i.e. a motorcycle engine in the trunk that charges the battery. The MB has a "extended charge" mode where you get get a little over a 100 miles, at the expense of using some of the battery overprovisioning.

Also, humorously, that Mercedes B-Class you linked to is, under the body, a Tesla frame and propulsion system. They're buying from Tesla because they don't have their own technology yet. Tesla only sells them 30-something kilowatt battery packs, though.
Looking further into the examples, it looks like they offer time scale zooming, which is sufficient for what I'm looking for.

Thanks!
As if our brains magically emerged from a billion years of evolution with complex mechanisms that did not help us survive... :)

I tried (like a good nerd) to reverse engineer all our emotions in my book "The Psychopath Code." Loneliness fell into my group of "Tribal Emotions" (thus evolved to help us form extended families), and here is how I defined it:

"Loneliness - the emotion of being disconnected. You feel physical pain in your intestines and chest when you see others enjoying themselves. You sleep lightly and wake often. Your immune system starts to slow and you start to get sick. Your metabolism slows down, yet you eat more often than usual. Your circulation slows, and you feel cold."

http://content.psychopathcode.com/chapter6.html
Yes, but I don't buy into the premise of French (or any particular government's) policy being primarily influenced or directed by a chilling effect created by NSA spying.
I think that might be it, and it was submitted to HN.
How to Understand Myths of Fear and Greed in FX
You have gotten good feedback on what it's like to live in Stockholm here already.

I moved here four years ago from Australia. The worst part about relocating here is finding housing. We ended up just buying our own apartment and that ended up being much cheaper and less stressful than continuing to rent. Other than that for me personally there hasn't been much to complain about. People tend to regard Stockholm as an expensive city. Coming from Western Australia I didn't feel that much of a difference. My salary isn't huge, but make enough after the hefty taxes to have spending money left over. Public infrastructure seems great, it is safe, bike paths everywhere. People _are_ reserved yes, but there are many Meetup groups where you can socialize. The nature is beautiful, and how close it is to more urban areas is a big plus. Very pet-friendly - pets are allowed on subways, in many stores, etc (although the level of veterinary care and approach here varies, but I could write an entire separate novel on that).

I would ask your potential employer if they can help line up housing for you for some time after you move - larger companies often help with that and have their own contacts.

Also the games industry is booming here. I don't know what it's like compared to your current EU country, maybe quite similar. But after having lived in Ukraine, the U.S., and Australia Sweden is definitely my favorite.
No, they can't. :)
Seriously, driving fuel powered cars -- manual or not --, do not get close to the experience of driving an electric car.

Caveat: I am from Germany, have driven manuals all my life.

Every time I even drove a Citroen C-Zero shared car from Multicity for 10mins, getting back into a manual car -- even one of the nice CLA Mercedeses that car2go now offers --, feels like going back from the 21st to the 19th century.
Maybe. If I remember correctly, Barbier said that it was less likely, as french intelligence sysadmins (or people with the same access rights as Snowden) have been working for the Defense for ages, whereas Snowden was a young outside contractor from Dell.
People that believe secret services follow any kind of law other than their internal regulations, are only deluding themselves.

They never did and they never will, regardless of the country.
Ask HN: Can I Re-Share Open Source ebook from my portal?
Hello,
I run a portal/startup called DocsTub (https://www.docstub.com/). A portal where anyone can share documents and earn money.

Since we have just started one of team mate suggested to expand reach include Open Source Books into the platform.

And we want to do it legally. So wanted to know can this be done? Is it legal to reshare open source ebooks?

And best source to find open source ebooks?

Thanks,
Vivek
Thank you!

To those who didn't click on the second link, you really should. It is like a journal of the lander, except in webcomic format.
I agree with you, I like SD cards myself, but not something my parents will mess around with - it's much easier to put those pictures and videos (and shared ones from thousands of miles away) on their cloud provider's storage mechanism and have a seamless experience.
And Linux boxes aren't what 99% of consumers use. What you and I tinker with is different than what the vast majority of consumers will experience. You can just plug in an iPhone on a PC and Windows Photos will just import your pictures without a second thought.
My father-in-law had an S class which I drove from time to time. I hated the driving experience; it felt like driving a 5-ton tank. It had so many features that I counted nearly 100 buttons within reach of the driver. He had it in the shop annually for $5000 worth of work. He couldn't wait to sell it and switch to a Lexus.
Absolutely. As much as working remotely can be rewarding, like you said, there is a need for some level of interpersonal relationships. A remote internship to me, would be like doing an online class without a syllabus or professor. Here's your book, figure out what you need to learn and how to learn it. If the company isn't willing to have the intern on-site, even for a day, that to me says more about the company.
This can be useful but to avoid confusion, I wouldn't call it a string type at all. Maybe it's an identifier or a symbol or a label or something like that? If you're excluding square brackets, there are probably other special characters you want to exclude too?
Robot tractor draws crowds on debut at Iowa farm industry show
But housekeeping is important! I've seen supposed quants who didn't know how version control worked. It caused productivity to plummet when people just did what they thought quants do.

If anything it's knowing the plumbing that makes you productive as a dev, of any kind. You just can't get around understanding how branching works, or having some unit tests.

Very little of the work ends up being the bit you think you're there for. I suspect it's the same in many industries. My parents ran a restaurant, and there's a lot of cooking, but there's also a lot of driving to the wholesaler, picking out vegetables, cleaning surfaces before and after a day, doing the plates, accounts, and so forth.
Wonderful job! It is like IntelliJ Live Templates on steroids²

I'll test it out properly before jumping to feedback! Thanks for your efforts
I'm not aware of ARM architecture CI services for any language but I've seen people run tests in QEMU on travis-ci. It's not quite the real deal, but it's a whole lot better than nothing.

I'd imagine having real ARM hardware in a CI service would be a real pain in the ass compared to just getting CPU time from any cloud provider.

And ARM hardware is really diverse. There are a lot of variants of the CPU and most of the products are some kind of system-on-chips with a lot of device-specific software.

If you don't mind the manual maintenance, you can just get a Raspberry Pi or another ARM machine to run on. You can run a runner for a CI service on it to get the workflow automated.
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So what else is new?

This is how secret services always worked since they exist, yes even in democratic countries.
I have never heard of anything like this. Seems like using using QEMU in existing CI services would work but likely at the cost of long setup times.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM64/QEMU
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I'm working on an Ionic2 project right now and we talked about a lot of this stuff and the desire for a `min-font-size` and `max-font-size`-like CSS rules. This is great stuff, can't wait to share this with my team.
Comparing their Finance demo [1] to the HighStocks equivalent [2]. It comes in at nearly twice the lines of code for significantly less functionality. Obviously there's a difference in approach here - HighStocks comes with lots of sensible default options where as Plottable.js seems to require more explicit configuration. And Highcharts is a commercial product whereas Plottable is free.

For me though Highcharts/Highstocks is still easily worth its license fees. In my experience >90% of charts I require are very simple to implement in Highcharts and the sensible defaults make your life easy. For the other <10% use D3/a custom solution.

[1] http://plottablejs.org/examples/finance/
[2] http://www.highcharts.com/stock/demo/compare
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The one that ships with Android Studio is pretty rock solid, ensure you're using x86 Android images and you'll have a close-to-native Android experience.
> but these people never really materialize or if they do no one can quantify that they are anything more than some random extremist.

It seems that we're commenting on an article where just such a person materialized, and their impact can be quantified: a well-qualified speaker was dropped from a conference.

> They are (in my mind) the same people that view Native Americans being offended at the existence of the Washington Redskins as people that are making "a bit fuss over nothing."

I admit I don't follow sports enough to know the details of that brouhaha so I don't know if someone (or many someones) of American Indian descent were the ones calling for the change or if it was a "disinterested" third party. Either way, the opinions and preferences of the community at large must be weighed against those of the dissenters. In my opinion we already have an extremely effective means of recourse for those who take offense - the free market, which can be impacted by direct means (boycott) or indirect means (convincing others to support your view).
Friend of mine did a lot of research on contraception, doing her culmination project for her degree on it, looking into the history and current.

The women in her family also had a history of complications with hormonal approaches and after all her research she settled on the copper IUD for her. Said it hurt like hell for a few weeks and made periods rougher than usual for the next 6 months but she was happy to trade (relatively) temporary physical difficulties for emotional/mental ones.
Obviously different for everyone but worth looking into all the different options.
>You are making the assumption that spying is common, so it is justified.

There isn't a single sentence in what I wrote where I made this assumption. This is what you perceived I assumed.

My point wasn't on the ethics of spying which I haven't addressed at all in my reply. My point was on the reaction different people have to spying.
I really dislike these simple charting libraries, because I always have some kind of issue that just wastes my time in the end. For example with plottable, there is a hover event function that is extremely expensive that will trigger for every pixel movement with your mouse. With just a few hundred datapoints every chart we rendered ran horribly slow.

With D3.js you have instead full flexibility and the only performance issue is that SVG's are slower than canvas, and that is mostly a problem when you have tens of thousand data points.
The way I've heard this explained, fuel is 3% of the mass of a modern car, 45% of the mass of a passenger jet, and 90% of the mass of a rocket. That means the structural engineering margins of safety for a rocket are much smaller, as there's very little mass fraction available to build redundancy into. There just isn't a lot of 'rocket' in a rocket. That, not complexity, is the root cause of why rockets aren't so reliable.

There's an even more basic physical reason why 'rockets are hard'. It's easy to explain in energy units of kT, the approximate energy of a gas molecule at room temperature. A carbon-carbon bond has an energy of 140 kT, while the gravitational potential energy of a carbon atom on Earth is 300 kT. If the Earth's gravitational potential were much closer to kT, room-temperature gas molecules would be able to diffuse out, we would have lost our atmosphere to space, and humans wouldn't exist. But that means that for a chemical system to escape Earth's gravity, needs a clever arrangement whereby most of the energy contained in its chemical bonds goes to a small fraction of its molecules. In a way, it's surprising not that chemical rockets are hard, but that we're lucky enough to be able to use them at all.
All hail Uber, anywhere but Boston's Logan airport
TAILS is not designed to be run in a VM. You can do it but it's not recommended. Whonix on the other hand is designed with VMs in mind. Qubes running Whonix isn't a half bad solution, though a live CD of TAILS is probably best becuause your system will have relatively few traits that can be uniquely profiled to you. https://panopticlick.eff.org
They can co-exist, but this is a control issue. USB connections to external devices deprecated to rely on proprietary services; replacing non-replaceable batteries creates reliance on 3rd party services; absence of expandable storage encourages hardware deprecation and high margin internal options; lack of physical keyboard... IDK why, despite my need I am consistently reminded I don't really want it. All these improvents take control away, create future revenue streams, obfuscate the mundane and, best of all, deliver wafer-thin slabs that are a short drop away from replacent hardware. This is why I am waiting on parts to revive my nokia n900(again).
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules