skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Air launch is an incredibly tricky operation. Even something as trivial as a 500 lb. bomb undergoes lots of trials before it is accepted for use.

The US Space Shuttle program only ever did glide testing of the orbiter off the back of the 747 carrier. A real launch of an orbital vehicle off the back of an AN-225 would mean serious envelope pushing and would be putting an extremely expensive aircraft at risk every time.
A rifle really is the best tool for: hunting large game for food and defending yourself from hostile megafauna.
Does flatbuffers have an RPC mechanism? Or is it purely a serialisation tool?

Cap'n Proto is both. I.e. you have the serialisation, which can be used on its own, but you can also define interfaces with methods that can pass those serialised structs as parameters, and which return asynchronous promises.
> These are binary formats, so loading a record is usually a matter of just copying (blitting) a range of bytes from disk to memory, where you end up with a C data structure you can use. There’s no lexing or parsing involved in loading a file. Lexing and parsing are orders of magnitude slower than blitting.

Yeah, well that was eight years ago. There's no way that, immediately below this item on Hacker News would be another item boasting that

> Cap’n Proto is INFINITY TIMES faster than Protocol Buffers. This benchmark is, of course, unfair. It is only measuring the time to encode and decode a message in memory. Cap’n Proto gets a perfect score because there is no encoding/decoding step. The Cap’n Proto encoding is appropriate both as a data interchange format and an in-memory representation, so once your structure is built, you can simply write the bytes straight out to disk!
A 15-second google search reveals this:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/artificial-sweeteners-insulin...

Some interesting links to pubmed there. Seems that aspartame does not affect insulin fwiw.
The Sovereign Individual. Highly recommended.
The |web| link was added to Hacker News to address the situation. It links to a Google search and many popular paywalled sites display articles when the incoming link is a Google search...including WSJ.

Some will block the Google link when the page has already been hit directly and popped up a paywall. Most sites have a policy of providing the material on the condition of resetting one's cookies and opening the |web| link in a 'private' browser, a different browser, or after clearing cookies comply with the site's policy.
> For example you might just be using hadoop for data replication.

Good point. The reason someone who holds data for 7+ years uses hadoop is not because it is faster.

The processing aspect of the system is only tangential to the failure tolerance when you consider the age of the data set.

HDFS does waste a significant amount of IO merely reading through cold data and validating the checksums, so that it safe against HDD bit-rot (dfs.datanode.scan.period.hours).

The general argument about failure tolerance is off-site backups, but the backups tend to have availability problems (i.e machine failed, the Postgres backup restore takes 7 hours).

The system is built for constant failure of hardware, connectivity and in some parts, the software itself (java over C++) - because those are unavoidable concerns for a distributed multi-machine system.

The requirement that it be fast takes a backseat to the availability, reliability and scalability - an unreliable, but fast system is only useful for a researcher digging through data at random, not a daily data pipeline where failures cascade up.
> Nevertheless I'm sorry to have made a comment that seemed partisan.

I'm interested in figuring out what you mean by your remark. You're saying nobody wanted to talk about it, but it seems for opposite is the case. What prompted your original remark?
There are a few groups trying to promote liquid democracy utilising a blockchain. I'm really looking forward to see which one will be in the right place and in the right time to grab that Network Effect.

Nice proposal, looking forward what will come of it.
> What's communist about this?

Soviet Russia, East Germany, China. Now name a libertarian police state.
At what point will the constant background noise of people complaining about click-bait be more annoying than the wording of the headlines themselves?
I wrote the article. This is not my point. The French RMI was enacted in 1988 with wide bipartisan support and really resembled a UBI at the time.

Then, in the following decades, many people, notably on the right, started to hate it and, as a result, new, conservative rules made it more difficult to claim the benefit.

(Just like, for instance, Republican legislatures all around the US make it more complicated to vote, not because it's a necessary procedural evil, but because it's in the political interest of the Republican party.)

I think that the same fate awaits UBI if it were to be enacted (which I doubt, but that's another story).
> What if I feel that a certain election is a sham, and prefer not to participate?

That's when you turn in a blank vote (void or null vote). If you just don't show up for voting you won't affect the outcome but if there is a large number of blank votes, that will be a signal something is wrong.
For a much more gentle (and illustrated) introduction do public-key encryption, GnuPG and how to use it with email (Thunderbird + Enigmail), see FSF's Email Self-Defense:

https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/

Tactical Tech's Security in-a-Box has more detailed, step-by-step, multiple platform guides for the same tools:

https://securityinabox.org/en/guide/thunderbird/windows

https://securityinabox.org/en/guide/thunderbird/linux

https://securityinabox.org/en/guide/thunderbird/os-x
Google runs on 5000 times more code than the original space shuttle
"As I read, numbers I see. 'Twould be a shame not to count this art among the great texts of our time"

Only took about 5 seconds to find.
I'm glad this story came up. Basic Incomes sounds like a great, simple solution but it's not. Yes, welfare is an important part of our current economic system. There are people that needed it no question about it but giving it to all with no questions asked is a disaster in the making.

The fact is that the only reason we endure a job day after day is that we need to get paid to pay for our needs and wants. We get up everyday and race to work not because we owe someone a favor or because we love our work but because if we don't we'll get fired and have to deal with the consequences.

I would hate to live in a society where people show up to work at will. Think about it. The fireman, or name your specialist, decided not to show up today. Yikes!

I can see why the idea is attractive but money is what makes the world go around. Cliche but very true! If we decide that everyone can get it and not have to work for it, we are asking for a society that loses a prime motivator to get people moving towards a career and even to get out of the house.

The Utopian idea that if we don't have to work we'll be free to create a wonderful world. Is wishful thinking. All we have to do is look at what a group of rich young adults do when all their needs are filled. They become self absorbed and look to fill their own selfish wants. How many of them become nurses or doctors? Yes, rich is an extreme way to look at it, it's not "basic income" but it gives a clue to what happens when people lose a basic motivator.

We are scared that technology will suck up all the jobs but if we don't have people thinking about how to get people jobs and keep them busy we are in real trouble. Basic Income does not help in the long run.

Also it will never be enough. Basic needs will be fulfilled but people will always want more. One example that comes to mind is the introduction of the white phone by Apple. Apple introduced it and some people were falling over each other to get it. Not because it was white but because they could own something that others wanted. Human wants are infinite. Basic income will only create a never ending spiral that will keep people unhappy because they can't get what they want.

Money is a societal tool that's used to keep society fed and safe but it has to be used correctly. Giving it away, while attractive, is not the answer.
>There are two states in nature. You either grow or you shrink.

There is also homeostasis. Perpetual growth is cancer.
I would agree with and extend your remarks in that I live in an area with geologically interesting formations, but the general public is like "um OK you've shown me a narrow valley and I heard there's an ice cream stand up ahead?"
Doesn't the society you live in already maintain order through force? Aren't you already being taxed and the money used for whatever, including things you may find reprehensible?

If UBI were to make more sense than whatever welfare maze we currently have then why not switch? Having a job or means to support yourself is not a guarantee these days, not everyone is as lucky.
> If you don't have the pedigree, go get it.

I am fortunate to be in a position where I can.

But on the whole, it is probably cheaper (in time, money and stress) to find different investors than to go to Stanford.
Yep, that is my exact train of thought. To me, examining email is against the spirit of the law - however, that is allowed because the law did not exactly forbid email (email didn't exist few hundred years back...)
Yes, it's confusing to some in the US because Democrats are basically what "moderate Republicans" used to be in the 1980's. As even Obama pointed out. (http://www.salon.com/2016/05/17/noam_chomsky_the_democratic_...)

By world standards, not to mention many past US standards, the two presidential candidates (and the current president) are clearly right-wingers.
It's a really good book.
Well, whatever the fat intake, it won't be enough to mitigate the refined wheat, and sugars.
So one thing I discovered by reading this article: Server.app seems to be available to anyone with a Dev account, even an old free account without a new paid subscription.
Libertarians intersect with liberals only on a handful of social issues: gay marriage, drugs, and abortion. Most of the social issues near-and-dear to the left are not compatible with libertarianism. There is nothing libertarian about the Civil Rights Act of 1964--which curtailed peoples' freedom to serve which customers they chose to serve or hire which employees they chose to hire. There is nothing libertarian about affirmative action, mandating equal pay for women, mandating family leave, and subsidizing child care. There is nothing libertarian about EPA and OSHA and their extensive regulatory codes. There is nothing libertarian about pushing more educational issues up to the federal level to redirect tax dollars to lower-income school districts.
> Copyright is one form of government censorship.

But copyright is a social contract. It needs people to believe in it far more than it needs people to be forced to follow it at gunpoint.

Aggressive copyright enforcement is counterproductive because it trades a small increase in the cost of defecting for a large increase in public disrespect for the social contract which is what causes people to be willing to defect.
Oh wow, what a coincidence. I was just reading it last night (had bookmarked it earlier and decided to read it yesterday). Very cool project though, would love it if the interviews were longer / turned into podcasts
I wrote the article. Thank you for your response. I don't think post-scarcity will eat the entire economy anytime soon. In particular, I think that it will still be unaffordable to access proper medical care, child care, and housing. And I don't see how UBI solves that.

Hence there are more pressing problems, like deploying a sustainable universal health insurance in the US (either public option or single payer) and reflecting on how we could make housing more affordable so that middle class and working class people can live where the jobs are located.
Make it a Sunday and then make it also a work-free day. Then the impact on companies will be minimal.
Is it just me that can't see the contents of the comments in the past couple days?
Microsoft may end sales of lumia phones by end of 2016
That is most likely just a hint, or misdirection. I'd be greatly disappointed if it's not a multi layered puzzle.
Rework By Jason Friend & DHH / Basecamp. Ignored it for quite some time now, but got hooked to it, and finished it up in a weekend.
It is rapidly oscillating photometricly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidly_oscillating_Ap_star

And also chemically peculiar.
Didn't racket also make the decision to make cons create immutable lists (and using mcons for mutable lists)?
Clinton abruptly departs 9/11 memorial service after feeling 'overheated'
Also, how Ukraine, out of all countries?
10 things I learned crossing 55M app downloads
I wrote the article. Thank you for your response. I'm certainly not the first to point out that Silicon Valley, as an ecosystem, is fundamentally uninterested in politics and history (especially social history). Would you disagree with that?

I didn't write that basic income won't work as a solution designed to fix a problem. My point is that I don't see a political path to enacting it, and even though it was enacted, I don't see how it could survive the next round of election.

So yes maybe it's time to focus on more winnable fights such as implementing universal health insurance.

https://medium.com/@Nicolas_Colin/thanks-for-all-the-respons...
Don't people have friends? Go with friends! Chances are one of them might know a thing or two about the outdoors.
Wouldn't that deny income to people who need it the most? Chance to make extra (premium) income on the weekends.
> Unlike which other entities exactly that are not made by people!?

You've missed the point.

The point is that the foundation of the basic income concept is that the income redistribution scheme works flawlessly and according to the people's expectations. This assumption is patently false, as the system is established and managed by people, particularly elected officials and the regime's apparatchiks, who have a long and plentiful resume of manipulating, distorting and corrupting the state to fit their own personal agendas.

I can tell you exactly what happened in my country's income redistribution scheme. It is supposed to be entirely independent of the state and self-managed. Yet' somehow the ruling regime managed to manipulate the system to finance golden parachutes to the nation's career politicians (golden pensions paid off to people who never contributed to the scheme) as well as forcing it as a cash cow to the state as a exceedingly cheap source of state loans.

And it is supposed to be a simple system where worker contributes 1/3 of their salary to finance pensions and unemployment benefits.

That's what these organizations made by people are used for, in reality, and reality always trumps fiction.
Mine didn't work on this site. Most newsletter popups are home grown and adblockers don't work on them.

I just ignore them and try not to visit the site again if possible. (well done marketing geniuses! Was that your goal?)
The unassembled one pictured towards the bottom of the article seems to have some refinements to the design, not being built with the requirement to haul the Buran around-- they mention a single tail specifically. It might not be as out-of-date as you'd assume.
That's the comment at the end of the file, but is this even the challenge?
Because it take takes less than 5 seconds to find it, i think this is a hint not the solution.

EDIT: Use gimp to save it as ASCII portable bitmap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format), strip the headers and all the junk and you get a message that links to mi5.gov.uk/careers.
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The income itself is what stabilizes the population, this phenomenon is known as the demographic-economic paradox.

The real false assumption here is that increased standard of living leads to overpopulation. The data indicates the opposite is true.

Reproduction is a survival mechanism. Threaten an organisms survival, and that mechanism is triggered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
I nearly had to support one of these - we were using embedded OpenOffice 3.2 on Solaris then Ubuntu to translate DOC into PDF. Someone suggested we use embedded Office; we said "certainly! you will need to pay for a Windows admin." We had two customers for this failed project, so they didn't go for it ...

the tale: https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/599841.html
Reads like an article written 5-10 years ago, not to mention it doesn't mention neural networks (by name) even once. Forget the singularity... the article doesn't mention the singularity except in the title. This is a "computers aren't special they can never be like us" article, based on an interview with a single person who seems more focused on robotics than neural network research.

It doesn't prove anything about the future of AI to give anecdotal examples of computers failing at being intelligent (nobody has claimed that they are human-level at most things, yet), and then draw conclusions from that biased data.

It's more like a half-interview half-essay of a discussion with an AI skeptic who doesn't bring up any of the modern (as of 2015 when the article was published) approaches to AI, and goes on irrelevant tangents like the uncanny valley (which has to do with HCI, not the singularity or AI creativity, which are the subjects of the article).
Many states require employers to give time off to vote:

http://www.findlaw.com/voting-rights-law.html
> If you have a child interested, you can have a huge effect on the local program simply by becoming involved

Sorry but joining an organization that is openly exclusive to you and your values then trying to change it to be inclusive to you and change their core values seems very wrong. Having your child being an unwelcome outsider during your personal crusade. why not join, create, and support alternative scouting organizations that welcome you and your values?
Well basically as soon as big data hit the news everyone stopped doing data and started doing big data.

Same thing with data science. Opened a Jupyter notebook, loaded 100 rows, and displayed a graph - "I am a data scientist".
Do you mean "having a representative vote mechanically according to the results of another direct vote"?

Sure, for the purposes of argument, you could draw a distinction.

The dynamics will look like direct democracy. With all the troubles there attending.

I imagine it would last until someone helpfully circulated a copy of Burke's Speech to the Electors of Bristol.
Clearly the horizontal span lengths , between each fixed height step, encode a useful sequence.

Numbers. Or an offset sequence. If it's a simple cipher recovery should be quick.

Somehow this whole thing reminds me of Egyptian fractions

How long will hn take to solve if we work together

Okay what if rearranging the red strips so their edges are flush encodes a transposition. Key for the cipher.

I'm betting hn will solve when post is 49 minutes old
I have a feeling the next generation of U.S. notes will probably end up as a polymer. A friend of mine worked for a while with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing about a decade ago and said that polymer notes were being tested, but at that time, none could survive the very rigorous durability testing the U.S. uses while the linen paper just barely managed to.

But we're in to second or third generation of polymer notes now and the chemistry has improved to the point where they'll make it through the ringer. However, like this article points out, banknote R&D has many years of work behind each issuance, the new U.S. notes that are just now coming out started development 10-15 years ago and the new ones use a new paper formulation. Bonus, the U.S. gets the benefit of observing the results of field usage for other nation's banknotes before committing to a couple trillion dollars in cash printing (more than any other nation).

Here's a brief video on the evolution of the U.S. Banknote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLD2B5I9yk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DaVsmsHq0E

Here's some videos on the type of durability testing from Canada's new bills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8odUVIAXPS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDHLNgtzao

and an example of where they fail the test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znfOzuCBpAc
It's tentacles all the way down pt DCLXVI: Embedded OpenOffice.org
The key word there is entire. They do not use exclusively NoSQL storage technologies. They use a mix of NoSQL and SQL. There are tradeoffs to each, and if you have as many really, really great engineers as such places employ, it can make sense to deploy whatever database technology best suits each narrow storage problem in order to meet absurdly high levels of usage. For 95% of us, who have neither the resources or the needs of a business that large, using a relational database for everything is probably the right choice.
A proposal of new concurrency model for Ruby 3 [pdf]
> It should make it remarkably cheap to run, comparatively.

You're assuming that it would be possible to simply eliminate government and state services and institutions, both politically and practically.

Instead, everyone working within an organization works to serve their own personal interests. This means that it's practically impossible for an elected official to eliminate all this state cruft, as every single person within the organization would fight tooth and nail to sabotage the project.
I wrote the article. Thank your for your response.

I get your point about painters and writers. But my guess is that working on affordable housing would do more good on that front—and would be more sustainable politically.

You can read this convincing article by Sarah Kendzior: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/expensive-c...
Where can I take a math course for the laymen?
Developing a modern turbofan engine requires deep expertise in numerous domains: fluid dynamics, metallurgy, etc. The basic principle is easy: increase temperature and pressure to increase efficiency. But just because you know that doesn't mean you know how to manufacture a single-crystal nickel alloy turbine blade that can actually work at those temperatures and pressures.
When buying a car from a neighboring state , it took only a quick call to my insurance agent at time of sale. The dealership arranged for the taxes and fees based on my state of residence, not the state of sale.
I'd rather pay for 7 c4.large* instances ($.70/hour for all of them) compared to an x1 ($13.38/hour).

*The original article is from 2014 and references c1.medium which are no longer available. c4.large is the closest you can get without dipping down into the t2 class.
I'm fairly certain that's just a hint.
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There's no reason for guns to necessarily be included in an outdoorsmanship course, of course.

But I'll note that part of the reason the gun debate is so poisonous is advocates that are unwilling to draw a distinction between the use of guns against animals and the use of guns against humans - regarding any distinction between different types of guns or contexts of ownership as heretical.
> because you can still do most things, and it is ubiquitous.

That's also true for LibreOffice or other FLOSS office projects.

In fact, a copy of LibreOffice doesn't cost anyone between 100€ and 300€, or requires any subscription.
Modern turbofans only stand up to their extreme operating conditions because of the use of exotic alloys and elaborate cooling techniques. Just because you know what shape a turbine blade should be doesn't mean you can copy the exotic alloy and manufacture it in a way that results in the correct crystal structure.