skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The luck of winning the genetic lottery and being related to someone with skill is still luck. Really, the purest form of luck, since there is absolutely no way you could have any influence over it, unlike most other instances of "luck" which have often have some element of personal choice to at least opt-in to a particular opportunity, even if the outcome once that choice was made had a significant contribution from chance.
Annnddd it's down. :(
Self-induced, yes, but not stupid, and there is a reason.

Egomaniacal, narcissistic, who cares? There is decent consensus that these qualities benefit (https://hbr.org/2012/07/narcissism-the-difference-betw, http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/minds-bus...) entrepreneurs and leaders.

The reason is that as a single unit the combined companies are a much more compelling offering as a next-generation energy company managing, both supply and demand of a sustainable, renewable resource. I'm not aware of anyone doing this strategically, building bridges from both the supply and demand side, and at this scale.

The article is an interesting example of how entrepreneurship, and any startup battles similar issues with growth, debt and financing, regardless of the financial position, or level of influence of the founder. All the more reason not to be disheartened when facing challenges of a similar nature, though likely at a different scale.

Master plans 1 and 2 from Musk have been large in scope, practical, achievable steps towards what I think is the moonshot, which is a renewable energy ecosystem for the future.
The problem is, this sends bad message to users.

I (the end-user) get a device with a blob that looks like a Linux (the kernel). I don't get any freedoms (but to whine to vendor). And I get a message from the very head of kernel developers that they aren't interested in me having anything.

Now, it's also true most users don't give a damn about their freedoms. And those who do are such a tiny minority they can be just ignored - unlike the valuable corporate partners.
Implementation of Neural Style Transfer in Python and Keras
This headline and story is misleading. The talk is about limiting company size so startups can return/thrive again.
Here is a more balanced article: http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_30313704/palo-a...
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I don't think its correct to automatically assume naive solipsism of the author.

these two statements are both true (as far as we can verify in this limited human existence, anyway):

1. there is a world beyond an individual's consciousness.

2. an individual can only ever experience the world through their own consciousness, and therefore their own senses and memories.

Bloom's statement contradicts neither of those things. He is simply acknowledging that from an individual's own subjective point of view, their own consciousness is really the only thing they can work with in a direct sense. That isn't a denial or negation of exterior reality. For practical purposes though, if we wish to examine consciousness we are pretty much stuck in examining our own consciousness, since that's the only one we have direct access to.
There was no mention of those effects at all, and it happened with 2 or 3 different medicines to different degrees. At least, not that I know of.

I've also never heard of it happening to anyone else, so it wouldn't surprise me that it's not mentioned anywhere.
Via https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html ...

From section 3, my understanding is that if you distribute then you must do one of the following:
a) include complete source code
b) include an offer of source code if contacted
c) include the offer of source code you originally received

(It's a bit more complicated than that... but close enough)

So... if they're distributing the kernel as part of a drone they're selling, these clauses would apply?

I'm not sure why "changes" they may or may not have made would have anything to do with it?
This situation (upgrading server during traffic spike) is an example of why saving a $20-50/mo on hosting isn't worth it, unless it's for something non-commercial.

If you've got maybe tens of thousands of dollars of time (and money?) invested in your app, what's another $40-80/mo for better hosting (e.g., 8GB/4 cores on Digital Ocean is $80/mo), in case something like this traffic spike happens? The app reaches the top of HN, where thousands of people that use Trello, Basecamp, and/or Freshbooks (I use all 3, every day) will be frequenting, and you've lost all that revenue.
Pretty much any security measure in isolation can be bypassed. So you need to stack as many as are reasonable on top of each other to limit the attacker's toolkit.

This change is basically free and makes certain things more difficult for attackers, so why not?
One has to wonder why it was thought to be a good idea to keep an expensive payload onboard during a live-fire test

EDIT: Did some research, it seems that those tests (without the payload) already ran successfully, and that this accident happened during the fueling stage at T-3 minutes... that's super unlucky :/
Obviously Amazon alone didn't kill them. But being dropped by Amazon as a carrier certainly didn't do them any favors.
I've also been thinking a lot about sustainable open source software, mostly with respect to my own project, rinohtype.

I hate ads and block them whenever possible, and I believe most people hate them as well. I also have this feeling that the concept of advertising somehow doesn't rhyme with open source. It just doesn't feel right. Open source is about freedom and advertising is about being in-your-face. I don't know how to word this in a better way.

People turn to ads because it seems to be the only way to make some money from their work. There must be a better way! But how? The best I can come up with is some sort of automated royalty payment system. Commercial users of the software need to pay a license fee, which is divided among the contributors relative to their contributions. This last part is the hard part. I don't think lines of code is a good measure of the value of a contribution.
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About the EU's Apple tax ruling
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Loading the payload also requires a load of work moving the vehicle about etc. If you want to be certain you didn't damage the vehicle in any way during all of that then you need to test again once the payload is attached.

Of course normally a failure during a test would be something like minor thrust fluctuations - not a complete loss of vehicle and payload!
Wall Street doesn't like long term Capital Expenditures. They can only see to the next quarter.

For proof, go look at railroad companies. Same thing. Everyone knows the railroads will have periods of very high CapEx, yet they still only care about the current quarter.

These articles are common for any company doing massive infrastructure projects. Raising capital is a business decision. Sure, he could wait a few years until he has the money to build the infrastructure (megafactory) he needs, but that's not how you grow a company at the speed it needs to.

Also, I didn't read the article, I refuse to visit WSJ.
The goal was to renormalize Germany back into the world economy. Unless you were Churchill, you didn't see it coming ( and Churchill could have easily been wrong ).

The internment camps? People were almost universally quite racist, the Empire did everything they could to reinforce this (they were poorly served by the Bushido Code) and it's all very unfortunate.
It will also likely increase the cost of insuring SpaceX launches. I'm sure it's like car insurance. Of course SpaceX is so much cheaper than their competition that it may not matter, and reuse is about to make them cheaper still.

Short term setback, but probably not so awful long term. Also glad nobody got hurt. It's just money.
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I see it as SFC cashing sweet, sweet settlement checks.
not a real estate guy but:
a) high-speed rail b/t metro areas could change the game here. I live in NYC but would very quickly move to Philly if commuting wasn't too much of a hassle
b) what would "growth hacking" for cities look like? there are a lot of attractive cities in the US that struggle to steal people who are on the fence between staying in Bay Area/NYC or going somewhere else
It's an interesting article. Because it does not contain something for people to try out or play with, it seems inconsistent with the spirit of Show HN.

It would probably be a better fit as a regular submission.
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The last thing I want a company to do for me is care about me. I see what they do to things they have to care about.

Benign neglect, please.
You might want to use an overlay networking solution like https://wormhole.network

Edit to add why: You'll have full reachability between pgbackup and your customer's servers without opening ports inbound on either side. Traffic is also encrypted :-)

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Great, now we're trapped into Fedora's release cycle. People will now be building to Fedora's released version, rather than the latest stable build.
> It's standard practice on twitter to use images for blocks of text.

Yep. The best of 1997, Web 2.0 style.
I'd say the answer was "yes" to "Can Google Help Translate," but decisively "no" to "Can Google Translate a Classic Novel?" The interesting thing to me is that Google can supply reliable translations of stock phrases, which helps the translator identify them. More unusual constructions stand out because the translation is nonsensical in context.
That was one of the first points addressed in the article: the OP referenced the recent outcome in the VMWare case as an example of an undesirable outcome.
Charts show how some Olympic swimmers may have gotten an unfair advantage
Even if they are (which is apparently disputed), pointing out that someone is using a fallacy does not make them automatically wrong. Next time, you should try saying something more substantive than "Fallacy!"
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Marijuana is not harmless, nothing is. But relative to other drugs (including legal ones) its harm potential is very limited. I wish the discussion were a bit more nuanced than "Marijuana is evil!" "No, marijuana is awesome and everyone should smoke it all the time!"

> I also find it surprising to see how it is sometimes depicted very positively in mainstream TV series.

Why? Most peoples experiences with marijuana are positive. That doesn't mean it's harmless, but not every show on television has to be part of some drug-prevention propaganda.
> It was an extremely financially stupid and ego-maniacal deal

Maybe. But also maybe, it's breaking the conventional wisdom that has gotten him where he is today.

> I can definitely see Musk losing control...

I am sure investors would be super careful of doing that. Specially now, when we remember what happened to Apple when Steve was expelled.
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