skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the Whos in Whoville would beg to differ about them being "rocks waiting for us to do something with them".

Flippancy aside, just assuming there is no consequential life on any of those rocks just waiting for use to exploit is quite arrogant of us. I'm fully behind humans being multi-planetary to increase our bus factor and because it's just plain awesome. I also think some caution is needed to prevent us destroying signs of other life before we even know what we've done. But this is not some revelation, smarter people that me have already thought this stuff through. We just have to follow through on the protocols.
Maybe not Mars, but asteroids definitely. Platinum is $33k per kg. Bringing back a tonne would net you $33 million.
Every species on Earth exploits all resources it can lay its "hands" on and destroy plants and animals in the wake of its immense and selfish greed. We are just better at it.
Car speed limiter is completely trivial, cheap and potentially life saving.

"Most Japanese domestic market vehicles are limited to 180 km/h (112 mph) or 190 km/h (118 mph)." Almost twice the common maximum speed limit (100km/h).
"everything is fine until YourLib 2.0 comes out, at which point users doing `brew install myapp` will start getting cryptic compiler errors."

Sorry, this is just not true, we hold merging YourLib 2.0 into core until all dependents are upgraded or boneyarded. Maybe you're speaking from your outdated experience with brew years ago.

Also, we do have plans to support multiple versions of libraries, see https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/620 "Handle Versions Better" (although I'm not necessarily a fan of this personally). We also have an openssl@1.1 formula in core already in case you want a sneak peek of the future.
The energy cost of transporting mass over distance isn't going to change no matter what technology we invent.
If the trend continues, could it be counter-productive also for the tech industry? Are the housing price the outcome of fair demand/supply?
"Amazingly enough, the U.S. can still grow its way out of the massive debt we’ve taken on. I know … hard to believe. But it’s true. The power of compounding is truly inexorable, and it’s amazing what a steady 3.5% growth rate on a huge economic base can do to make manageable even trillions of dollars in debt."

Oh, the irony. In an outstanding article about the dangers of magical thinking, the author slips into magical thinking. The power of compounding is indeed truly inexorable. It's also exponential. It doesn't matter how big the economic base is - a 3.5% compound growth rate will always be defeated by a 7% compound interest rate on borrowed money. Or a 5% one. Or even a 4% one. Always. It's just mathematics. The higher rate will always run away from the lower one. At a certain inevitable point, the unit time growth in the higher rate will exceed the growth of the lower rate. In economic terms, that's when all your output goes just to interest payments.

That's not very manageable.
I'm guessing you would need to have a few controls - one plain "still" water and one carbonated water just to sort out the effects of those.

I imagine it is possible so long as the nail is made of something prone to corrosion, but I'm not so sure it would be from the ingredients in the Coke as much as the exposure to water.
What do you mean by "iron nails"? Nalis are always low-grade steel with low carbon content, the rest is iron.
I'd want to see an automated test suite for the build.
What's up with Google Allo ?
This time is different, I'm sure.
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yes, that's one major aspect of it. engine.io adds is own protocol and isn't exactly the most performance tuned library
>Allo messages will still be encrypted between the device and Google servers, and stored on servers using encryption that leaves the messages accessible to Google’s algorithms.

'using encryption that leaves the messages accessible to Google’s algorithms' So, not meaningfully encrypted at all then?
Ask HN: Best way to crunch 3 weeks work into 2?
Hello HN,

I'm working as a dev in a brand new startup. The team is new (but experienced) so there was some learning / setup overhead but it's now fairly minimal. We use Clubhouse so we have some insights into our velocity.

Now, base on our realistic projection we need at least 17 days before we can deliver our initial Epics. However, management could no longer wait and they have set an arbitrary deadline by the end of month. They are now asking us to work through the weekend at a remote location so we could be undistracted to deliver the work. Management thinks that the 3 days away undistracted will yield twice the productivity so the math ends up somewhat working (2 work weeks plus weekend = 12 plus 3 days with 2x output = 15 days).

I'm not entirely convinced that this is possible but management believes so. My biggest concern is that the team will not deliver twice the productivity over the weekend for 3 days and still keep up with normal productivity the week after. I'm wondering if other HN members have similar stories to share (both success and failure) and if there's any recommendation I can make to management.
As someone who maintain a ROS installation scheme for Mac based on homebrew (https://github.com/mikepurvis/ros-install-osx), this is a constant source of frustration.

Even a fairly vanilla ROS installation has a deep dependency tree— there are any of several dozen major packages which can at any moment release a new major version and break us.
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
Found it: https://youtu.be/YdXQJS3Yv0Y

Was a bit off ("lord of the lash", not "Dark Lord"), but not bad for something I haven't heard for ~35 years.
Thanks for your response. Sounds very interesting. How much work is there in terms of graphical design? That's something I'm not naturally good at. And Joe long did it take you to become good at it?
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LOTR is a fine but flawed book. Reading it as a dark skinned Asian boy the characterization of all dark races as evil definitely stung and still hurts. The evil side is one dimensional and has no redeeming qualities at all.

The female characters also tend to be quite weak and uninteresting.

Still the vision and the universe was inspiring. I still prefer it to most other fantasy.
>It has recently become commonplace for elected officials to get away with arguing that they have a moral imperative not to listen, and not to give a greater opportunity for people to voice their views. Each of these topics is frequently decried not just as wrong but as "populism".

Well yes, of course. If you actually listened to the people, you'd have to stop passing trade deals that put capital over labor and the environment, pass universal health care, fix public education, fix basic infrastructure, tax the rich and the upper-middle class more (not out of justice, but because that's where the money is), enforce corporate taxation for once (again, because that's where the money is), stop wasting money on "military" projects the military itself doesn't even want, and numerous other policies about which there is a large consensus among the bottom 90% of the population but apathy or controversy among the top 10%.

So instead we hear about the dangers of "populism".
Posted because we just received our 2016 box, and I thought it was fascinating to see the contents as a Scottish man:

* http://imgur.com/a/I0NYI
The art of defining products
So npm is bad in your opinion, because it correctly handles different dependencies on packages with varying versions, screwing up? Or is the problem the vast js ecosystem?

I don't think that "tree X" can be a good argument against using any kind of package manager.
Please, start with yourself and let us know how it goes.
I'm not familiar with the US legal system, but what senators have to do with this? shouldn't it be the role of a prosecutor to deal with this case?

I also find the politicians quite hypocritical. Aren't they to blame if the laws they voted for (or didn't vote for) are such that guys like Stumpf get unpunished for their wrongdoings?
Show HN: Semi-AI that tries to categorize the world in many languages
I couldn't easily tell what it is from reading the homepage
I haven't used Rust enough to comment myself, but other people have said that Rust essentially does have "automatic" memory management (in the sense that you must manage the memory in order to get your program to compile). People say it works most of the time, at least. Rust is trying to make that as painless as possible, so it'll be interesting to see how painless it really is.
No I'm afraid I don't. You are right that this is a lot of pain for a UI framework that's supposed to save you time. But because I've done this a few times over it's become fairly simple once it's coupled together with some vim macros and snippets. But it's not a very good workflow that someone else can adopt quickly. I just found bootstrap to be super comfortable to get started and I also built some generators that auto generate templates for me when I work on my little projects. When I wrote those I made them to use bootstrap and I can't be bothered going back to change them now
>shows its acidic nature

Generally, yes.

>and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied

(Bio)chemistry is a bit more complicated than that. But anyway, if you have calcium or similar waterproof stalagmites in your intestines, you'd better get rid of those asap.
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To be clear: I'm only talking about core here. If you try to compile external software against brewed libraries, of course you may run into problems, but we do have the homebrew/versions tap, and you can always host your own taps for outdated libraries.
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Much of the worlds problems were created by US involvement. We (the US) created the conditions that created ISIS for example (by invading Iraq). We along with the British, overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 leading to the Iran we have today. Perhaps we should rethink this "world policeman" role.
Ah, no desktop client ... so not proper cross-platform.
Ecigarettes are actually better for you than real ones, and not only that, they basically make it easier to quit using nicotine altogether (according to reports I've seen).
Purported sleep benefits aside, the reduced eye strain from warmer colors is invaluable to me. Sometimes I'm working on a ship's bridge where it's dark or under low reddish light. Turning on a bright, blue laptop screen is brutal. At home it's much more pleasant to look at than the colder daylight colors.
Teller may believe that the system and our leaders are just a reflection of us as a society? After all, it's society as a whole that allowed the system and our leaders to be put into power in the first place.
You know your stomach has pH 1 right ?
I'm wondering if Macs would be as successful with developers without homebrew.
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Has opt-out Google Analytics had any help for your project so far?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720
And its state isn't saved so I have to switch each time I open the page. And it defaults to proprietary units from used in only one country.
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It is easy to have an effect on something, and much harder to have a positive one.

Building a house takes months, but in a day, it can be burnt. Fighting entropy 101.
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That stuff is nasty. Too much ingestion and you are done for.
What's the write speed on these things? Need much faster than current SD card write speed, for 4K Raw and faster FPS video
The guy that sells rockets wants us to embark on a rocket trip so unfathomably expensive that it could only be paid for by an international conglomeration? You don't say...

Look, I know that pie-in-the-sky science futurism is kind of our thing here at HN, but could we at least feign a little pragmatism every time Elon Musk pitches his plan to move us all to Mars?
You make it sound like we've been destroying environment only lately and with current political systems.

Humans have been wrecking havoc various environments ever since Neolithic. Although there's no definitive proof, there are strong suggestions that they were at least contributing to the disappearance of the Mega-fauna, for instance.

Examples of small human settlements in small islands are very characteristic, IMHO. Everywhere it happened, endemic birds where usually eradicated very quickly.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recently_extinct_birds
I'd say that Buddhism is more like philosophy than a "real" religion. Though I agree that there's no clear definition of what "religion", especially now, where every nutjob can create his own "religion".
What don't you like about PPAs? I find them a great experience as both a user and maintainer.
This is such a cool idea. Since distribution is the real secret behind the success of Coca Cola and the beverage giants, I bet this would pair well with a Dollar Shave Club type of business model. Deliver a crate of Open Cola to people every month. Undercut the outrageous markups the big guys apply to fizzy sugar water in order to maintain their distribution monopoly. Pass the savings along to the customer. Heavy cola drinkers would love it. Massive and global market.

Need to figure out what to do about the product getting a bit shaken up in the mail though :)
Google's new messaging app Allo is a little bit snoopier than expected
Well the systems and their leaders come from the species, not from ether - and remain there because the species seems unable, for the moment, to decide to change them.

The root problem of all is that we discount too much the future, so we don't value enough the long-term effects of anything (votes, policies, environment, etc.). This is something instinctive and natural to us as humans, and it takes us a lot of mental effort to be rational to the e.g. LessWrong et al. ideals, to the point that we can't be indefinitely rational, just for brief moments of attention. Our irrationalities govern us.

This is indeed a fault of the whole species.
What's wrong with Tunnelblick or Viscocity on macos?
I had uninstalled homebrew this week because it stopped functioning. Out of nowhere, I started getting a ruby error related to a particular package and every CLI call would fail because of it. As someone who works with Go, it's sad to see an error bubbling up and not being gracefully handled.
I currently run close to 72,000 servers doing automated deployment and configuration management with nothing but OS packaging and shell code inside of those packages. Does that qualify as large enough?
Denethor is actually a great example, who also happened to be done a fair amount of disservice in the movies.

In the books, Denethor is a rational character who is recognized for his wisdom and insight. Gandalf has immense respect for him (though they are not friendly) and at some level they are peers - not at a fundamental level, obviously, Gandalf being Maia.

Denethor is the character who is using reason to get through the day. He isn't operating on faith like Gandalf. He's used the palantir, out of necessity, so he understands the situation better than anyone else. He's stood up to Sauron himself in one-on-one mental battle time and again. He thinks, quite rightly, that Gandalf's plan to send the Ring into Mordor is insane: if the Enemy gets the Ring, everything is over. The most rational thing to do is to hide the Ring away in the most secure place possible (Minas Tirith), and, in the event that they have no other choice, to use the Ring to defeat Sauron. Of course, he accepts that that choice is already out of their hands. Frodo is already gone.

But Denethor has known, all this time, that Gondor (and therefore the West) cannot hope to defeat Sauron. They are ultimately doomed. Gandalf affirms this even after Denethor dies, when he proposes the march to Mordor. Even after their victory at Pelennor, they are doomed. They have defeated only a tiny fraction of Sauron's forces. The last straw for Denethor, of course, is losing both his sons on top of knowing they are all doomed (after a last consultation with Sauron.) But when you look at Denethor through this lens, he looks a lot different than his portrayal as a crazy madman. What distinguishes him and Gandalf is Gandalf's faith that everything will work out.
> Spacex is not a party to the treaty.

I know, and I didn't say it was. Only nations can ratify treaties. However, the OST states that "States shall be responsible for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities" [1].

> I doubt a treaty from 1967 would hold back SpaceX.

SpaceX is a US corporation and is subject to US law. If maintaining the OST is in the interests of the US then SpaceX would absolutely be held back.

I think of the OST as a sort of Nash equilibrium. Given the current situation (no terraforming on the horizon), it is arguably the best place for everyone to be. If the rules change in the future them some different set of controls would come into play.

[1] http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/intr...
Except there don't seem to be any contests?
Also making it impossible to install Windows 10 downloaded directly from MS.
I see no problem in this. We need writing permissions to /usr/local to finish our migration (as we always did). Once you finish the migration we (hopefully) never write directly to /usr/local again.
This kind of thing is seen as a positive in the infosec space, is it not? Meaning that an end user can't come along and boot linux (or anything else) via USB and bypass system security controls.

I'm personally not a fan and won't buy anything locked up in such a way, but I'm pretty sure that the security team is. Regardless, we see this all the time in other devices - tablets, phones, routers, gaming consoles, etc. It's only logical that MS would want to pursue lock-in in their subsidized environments as well.
Is there a reason this has it's own article? I'd seen this covered elsewhere in articles from BI, not sure why this deserves it's own coverage. Or does this have some new information I'm not aware of, because I can't find anything.

Still horrifying but you know, I've read about it already.
This failure to innovate presumably includes touch screens, Windows Hello biometric sign-in, running sandboxed apps from a Windows Store, integrated Cortana AI, Notification Center, cloud integration via OneDrive, Continuum mode, Device Guard, Universal apps that work across PCs, tablets, phones and the Xbox One, Xbox app for streaming live games to a PC or Tablet, touch-optimized Office apps on Windows, iOS and Android, and half a dozen other things.
Wow. That sounds like a sick joke.
Its not because something is acid that it eats everything just like in Aliens.
When I used to drive long distances for work, my windshield would have all these dead insects that are hard to clean even with Windex. My then boss showed me how to clean it with coke and it was squeaky clean.
Leaking resources: command pattern to the rescue
Does your eCommerce store need a mobile app?
Is there some data available on which factor the perfomance benefitted from this change (like some benchmark results)?
In praise of lost time
The last post links to the post from a mod saying the issue has been escalated.

That last post also makes it clear that the thread isn't locked, but that you can't use Lenovo forums to call for a boycott of Lenovo products or to coordinate lawsuits against Lenovo. That doesn't seem particularly outrageous to me.
>1.5 to 2 hour intense weightlifting workout

How do you manage doing intense work for 2 hours? Professional hockey players don't even do that kind of work on game night.

Edit: I see a few people are asking the exact same question. Guess I should read first.
So how do I get this going? Ask my friends to install a new messaging app just to talk with me? Unsure if I have that much of an influence even if I wanted people to switch. :P
Why was the title changed to "a recent Lenovo laptop" when at least four models are affected: Yoga 900 ISK2, Yoga 900S,Yoga 710S and Ideapad 710S.
Yes, but instead of writing them by hand, you should just use the unprefixed version, and use autoprefixer to support older browsers. This also ensures you don't forget anyone.
MAOIs in tobacco are thought to contribute to addiction, not harm. The carcinogenic parts are the smoke, and the tobacco-specific nitrosamines formed during the curing process.
You know, you're kinda right. Emacs has most of that though.

>great language-related facilities for code navigation

ectags, Semantic, and various other extensions for various languages

>AST-based autocomplete

Various autocompleters, including Autocomplete (not AST-based, AFAICT), company mode (which is, I think).

>intelligent refactoring

CEDET, Semantic Refactor, and various modes for various languages, provide a good bit of this (although it's not up to Java IDE standards).

>integrated debugger and build system

Check, check, and check. We've got GDB integration, as well as GUD, which can run DBX, SDB, XDB, the perl debugger, PDB, and JDB. integration with make, or any other command-line build tool you want with M-x compile.

So yeah, refactoring aside, we're actually pretty well off.

And you still don't have org-mode.
I wouldn't say that it didn't live up to the hype. I think it just has a steeper learning curve than a lot of other NoSQL databases and is often overlooked.

MongoDB makes a lot of sense to folks already familiar with relational databases. Collections are like tables, documents are like rows, and it's easy to use document IDs to establish relations and perform queries like you would in a relational database. There are a lot of problems with using it like a RDBMS, but still a developer with zero knowledge of MongoDB can become productive with it very quickly.

When learning CouchDB, the first WTF moment is when you realize there are no tables and that all the documents regardless of the type of data they contain go in the same place. Eventually you learn that you can add a type field to the documents to distinguish between them, which does feel hackish. The next WTF moment is when you want to query the data and realize you have to use map-reduce to do what would seem trivial in any other database. The early version of the admin tool definitely didn't make this easy since it required writing a JavaScript function and escaping it so that it could be stored as a single-line JSON string. It also didn't help that the map-reduce code was stored in special documents that used magical document IDs to distinguish them from other documents, which again feels hackish but makes sense eventually.

That said, I am a big fan of CouchDB, and I hope that with the query language and new UI in 2.0 that CouchDB will earn the respect it deserves.
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>I take alcohol and caffeine (and sugar!) but consider doing it batshit crazy, as most people do

Hang on now...most people find consuming caffeine and alcohol batshit crazy? Do you live in Utah or something?
Now imagine building that house together with 20 people who all try to scream at, sue or shoot each other over trivial and irrelevant details. That's generally how all international affairs look like. In terms of lowering entropy, we're not even trying.
First it was developed in Estonia, then they sold it to eBay for couple of mil. Then eBay sold it to MS for couple of bil.
This article reminded me of a Bill Gates joke:
Bill, when I said "Please, buy china in the evening", I meant food.
Sorry, it doesn't let me reply for some reason :-( Development is in progress, there will be figures soon
Or even just integration testing Firebase without hitting a remote service!
With respect to the daytime tiredness have you investigated sleep apnea as a possible cause?