skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see. That page is kind of rough. Doesn't even seem to link to the yaml file, just implicitly references the docs path as if the user has a local enlistment of the kubernetes code. Probably should be a kubectl apply link that directly references the yaml blob url on github.

I think any and all help is welcome on the docs, it seems to be a well-known weak spot.
I think you underestimate the importance and cost of the artificial lighting :P

On the moon it means you need enough solar power in batteries to power your gear, and to power appropriate spectrum lighting for plant growth.

If you can rely on solar power more reliably, then you can construct (significantly more complex than those required on earth) green houses which still benefit from natural light.
His goal is to make our species multi-planetary.
No one cares what you think about space travel or world priorities. That's why you are a troll.
Depends on how messed up it is. Earth ravaged by global warming and pollution? Yeah, still a lot easier than Mars. Earth ravaged by a strike from a gigantic asteroid that sterilizes the crust to a depth of three meters? Mars is probably easier.

The chances of the second one are pretty low, but some people think that any chance is too high.
I believe Xamarin is now free post the MS acquisition with various parts and pieces even becoming open source:

https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
It would be interesting to see an analysis of the impact of the Request for Startups in YC applications (and the results / progress seen so far).
System Blindness
Given that you made a link between killing and abortion, it was pretty obvious that you were against abortion. Pro abortion people do not believe abortion is killing anyone.
I don't think this is a recent trend, look at the presentation post of Dropbox[1] from 9 years ago. On the one hand, YC is a relatively contrarian community. On the other hand, if you agree with something you may not have much to add, but if you disagree you'll probably want to express why.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I don't quite like Google, but happy birthday Google :)

20+ years of being online. Google was a welcome change when they launched, but they've been on a path of slow credibility erosion for much of the last decade. IMHO.
Most of the Appcelerator community i'm in touch with use the free Titanium builds instead of paying for an Appcelerator license: http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#m...

Titanium has always been a pretty advanced product however ever since Appcelerator introduced it's licensing/arrow stuff, Titanium (and Alloy) uptake seems to have fallen off a cliff.
>More than ever, I'm seeing comments by good users telling the bad ones to take their bad attitude elsewhere.

That's been happening since I've been here, since around mid 2007. Not to dismiss what you're saying, I just want to say that there have always been people fighting the good fight.
I agree 100%. I actually have worried about this problem for a long time and I have come up with quite a lot of clever ideas (well I think they are clever) to solve this problem. Pity I don't have any time :(
We all use it, but 'no true programmer likes
javascript.' :)
Finally, colonization without genocide. Maybe humanity is making progress after all?
VR work+play in a Musky geopolitical climate, with a Martian exploration theme park for weekend excursions.
This seems close to what I want: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/local-time-automat...
This is simply a list of things the author doesn't like about JS, very much of which is practically solved by Flow/TS and ESLint.

He also makes some of the React examples quite a bit more complicated than they need to be. Declarative UI is very simple!

Here's the same code, using both class and functional styles (whichever you prefer), in a much more succinct style (11 LOC vs 49):

class Root extends Component {
render() {
var isConnected = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) > 5;
return <ConnectivityIndicatorView isConnected={isConnected} />;
}
}

function ConnectivityIndicatorView(props: {isConnected: boolean}) {
const color = props.isConnected ? 'green' : 'red';
return <View style={{backgroundColor: color, width: 20, height: 20}} />;
}

The point is, much like many things in software, it's all about perceptions and familiarity. He's not familiar with JS, and I don't fault him for that - it's a quirky language. But for the many, many developers who have built up a tolerance to JS and built/use tools to tame it, moving to React Native is a breath of fresh air vs learning Android & iOS toolchains and idiosyncrasies.
Reddit's last round valued them at $500 million, and it is something like the 25th most visited site on the Internet.

That's a successful company by any standard.
Isn't that just a part of having a personality? In the planning stages you give something a silly name and it kinda sticks, especially when it's the big boss who came up with the name.

Kinda like the "heart of gold" -- it tickles Elon.
The directory structure is beautiful.
There is pretty much nothing we can do to this planet to make it less habitable then Mars short of filling it with self sustaining death robot armies set to kill all humans or something. Incredibly severe global warming? Still a better temperature then mars. Nuclear Winter? Still can breathe the atmosphere.
Possible solution: leave room at the top of the whiteboard and between some lines for erasing and rewriting sections.
“The DDoS attack on freenode is ongoing and still causing us trouble.”
Ughhh. It's fine if you prefer statically-typed languages to dynamically-typed ones, but that's a preference, not a reason to try and say that JS is objectively terrible.

Same with switch fallthrough, same with error handling, same with half his issues with JS.

There are some legitimate grievances tucked in there, but the author lost me by pretending that his preferences were universal.
> Whoever pays

So Mars is going to be a colony of the developed world elite.

> Who cares

A million people generate is not short term or small scale. Property rights, criminal law and all of these other things that make civilization civilization will need to be hashed before we get out there.

> Musk clearly wants to

This is pristine, unspoiled nature we're talking about. There are immense ecological concerns here that aren't simply mitigated by Musk throwing cash at the problem.
There we go, we've now gone full sci-fi
I didn't care for it much - it seemed like something aimed towards young adult readers more than adults - but it's light-hearted, has magic spells and PG sex scenes, and you can easily read it on a plane flight.
MS is working on a VS Code extension for TS/React Native - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-react-native
Thank you, yes - utterly! And, dare I say it, half of them sounded stoned too (and I'm a smoker)

He says mid-way through he'd gloss over detail and leave technical questions until the end, and what did we get..?

I feel so bad for the guy in that regard.

Let's hope the seed is planted - that's all that Musk has fundamentally wanted anyway.
The Sanger/TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) stuff seems to be specific to microarray data which is different (older, more expensive) than the newer high-throughput data.

The figure you linked is a good explanation. The split read method is helpful for finding the edges of the CNV, while the number of reads (relative to other regions that were tested) can give an idea of the number of copies. The problem is that these methods all have their own unique biases/noise that makes it non-trivial to figure out the absolute copy number change.

Ideally they would find a similar CNV that has some clinical association.

The DGV has a lot of reference CNVs. Here are some in BRCA1: http://dgv.tcag.ca/gb2/gbrowse/dgv2_hg19/?name=id:3087443;db...
I used to half joke like this, but recently I've been doing some React work in ES6 with Flowtype annotations. It's actually not that bad.
There's a mention of it in the "Motivation" page on the GitHub wiki. Basically the big thing seems to be the feedback from Linux users that most distributions bundle Python but not Node. Also that AWS and Google CLI tools are still more Python than Node.
> and none of the planets seem to be habitable.

You surely don't mean that no other planets could be used to sustain life with technological assistance?

Mars has water, accessible nitrogen (HNO3), carbon (CO2), hydrogen (H2O), oxygen (all of the above)... technologically assisted humans could absolutely inhabit mars.
Why are we thinking about going to other planets when we can't even take care of our own?

How many industry leaders see planets as merely resources to be exploited like they do people?
And of course ancient mathematicians knew it already at least around 2000 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squared_triangular_number

"Pengelley (2002) finds references to the identity not only in the works of Nicomachus in what is now Jordan in the first century CE"

Now it is Jordan, but at the time on Nicomachus there were almost 300 years of Greek and 100 years of Roman rule of that area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachus
The first step is to articulate specific problems.

The link does a little bit, but people with minimal savings don't actually care that they are unbanked; paying Walmart $3 to cash a check isn't that terrible a deal (Even if it isn't a great deal).
For real-numbered measurements, dangerous. For integer measurements that are about seeing the counting re-arrangements, safer.
Does it? For me fingerprinting works on different devices with Brave Browser...
We've talked about "following the news" far longer than following anyone on twitter, but when I read an article that's clearly part of an ongoing story, there's no way for the author to send me updates. There needs to be a feedback loop between newsrooms and readers that's more substantive than click counts and more scalable than letters to the editor. Combine this with a newsroom that takes itself seriously as the first draft of history and 1) cites its sources better 2) compete's with wikipedia for those controversial topics that break wikipedias editor model.
I suspect the problem is big media rather than Google.
In finance, successful two party private systems / standards are often turned into industry standards. Think Swift, FIX, etc.

In the case of FIX, the reason it was widely adopted was that a buy-side client (Fidelity) demanded their brokers (developed with Goldman, then taken up by others) adopt the standard.

I understand why Microsoft would want to support this. I can understand why BoAML would want this. Where I'm failing to see how this initiative will succeed is there seem to be missing a buy side participant to demand implementation. Perhaps BoAML has some sort of leverage with other market participants to get them on board? Recording transactions from one arm of BoAML with another arm of BoAML doesn't make sense to me. There are already internal systems to handle transaction recording.
I prefer statically-typed languages too, but this is easily solved by using something TypeScript or Flow.
NativeScript looks really promising. My colleagues have used it for numerous client apps. It's not as mature as Appcelerator Titanium so it doesn't have as many plugins for advanced things like video recording or audio playback but if it continues to get traction, it could become a really good option.
A better analogy for "designer babies" would be performance enhancing drugs in sports. If we accept their use, then it basically becomes a requirement on anyone that wants to participate (or at least compete).
I get the impression you haven't tried to refactor a large code base to change core functionality before. Any system architecture is built with, inevitably, certain assumptions on how the data is going to come through the app and where it's going to come from. Something as low-level as the source of video files in an app that is no doubt optimized for that is undoubtedly a fundamental change, and one that is going to be easier to fork and rewrite than try to shoehorn into existing code.
> They were always white as that was part of the spec - dark colours would have taken heat absorption out of limit!

Wouldn't the color only matter when it comes to heating due to absorption of electromagnetic radiation?

For heat transfer by direct contact with the heat source (in this case gases that were heated when compressed by the plane's motion), wouldn't color be irrelevant?
Agreed. But this is an awfully fine point for proofs which are intended to be «simple».
To the US Federal Government:

PLEASE. FUND. THIS.

Loan the money to SpaceX, or partner with private investors, or increase NASA's budget and have NASA pay for it. Just make it happen.

Even if this project fails, the benefits from having a lot of smart people trying to get to and establish a colony on Mars will pay dividends for a long time.

Please make it happen!
On the mass media side of things, I am listening to the Audible version of "Algorthms to live by" (excellent)

In it he comments on the explore/exploit trade off, when to stop exploring an area / industry / string of lovers and when to settle down.

He suggests that the vast increase in derivative works in Hollywood cinema suggests a switch from explore to exploit - and may indicate the industry recognises it's time is limited.

With absolutely no data points, I would like to conjecture "mass media" is similarly placed. In a world where a chatty guy with a Xbox gets ratings of 10billion views on YouTube, mass as in centralised broadcasting is dead.

Mass as in watched by many is probably going to get a lot more massive (another 3 billion viewers to be born soon)

So I don't think fixing mass media as in somehow improving the ownership incentives at NBC or BBC matter. What matters is giving small organisations and individuals tools to speak easily- we will discover them and they will become massive if we want them to.

So focus on editing tools, creativity tools and weirdly, better search and ranking algorithms

Big media is beyond saving
Who cares if it's a long term undertaking? The people capable of bringing about something. So miraculous won't be looking to achieve it all or see the fruits of their labor in their lifetime - a start contrast to the 12-30 month timelines that most modern software projects follow..
It's pretty baffling. When you suggest that people try simply not using Facebook or WhatsApp they act as though you just suggested they stop eating and breathing.
Out of curiosity, is there any thorough Qt for mobile tutorial working nicely on Jolla C? I am even willing to pay for it if it teaches me how to do advanced stuff, like getting straight to OpenGL with the least amount of clutter etc. I would love to write some Sailfish-only apps cool enough to attract regular people.
Hah, you just described the sheer drivel which is comments on LinkedIn stories. Good point - contentious and _well presented_ negative arguments are still helpful.
Comment sounds like another armchair "expert" opinion to me :-)
There's nothing wrong with any of that, but you can't complain if your audience follows your lead. Not that Musk was complaining (to the best of my knowledge) but others on his behalf.

If I chair a board meeting wearing a clown nose, I can't complain when the members pull out squirt guns.
>'d rather teach generalized sequential logic and reasoning in high school. //

Isn't teaching programming one way to do that?

Interesting codinghorror link. What struck me was the ineptitude of the question in their example assessment "intended for students who have never looked at a line of code in their lives" ("int a= ..."). It's testing syntax primarily without having taught the syntax, it seems really worthless - all you're really going to test for is who has actually seen some programming and knows that "=" is not equals but is being used as an assignment operator. Surely a proper test for ability in programming would be to write it out in pseudo code like:

integer value a is set to 10
integer value b is set to 20
a is assigned the value of b

what are the values now of a and b.

Supremely facile.

Surely they're not really trying to test ability to guess arbitrary syntax? If they were then they'd be better with

nni a :-# 10
nni b :-# 20
a :-# b

what are the values of a and b?

At least that's not giving a free ride to those who know the previous syntax, they also have to impute meaning on unlearned symbolic strings.

Mind you how do you decide to do CS at Uni and not ever have programmed anything??? Sure there's not the degree of crossover that people imagine between the two, but it seems like choosing to do maths without ever having proved a theorem.
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> So Mars is going to be a colony of the developed world elite.

Sounds awesome! Decreases the chances of them being politically abused.

> will need to be hashed before we get out there.

They probably will be for the most part, but why do you say "need" to? Should we screw around here on earth until we figure out some utopian system that's going to make everyone happy (good luck), or should we accept that it's OK to be adaptive and figure some things out as we go?

> This is pristine, unspoiled nature we're talking about.

That's one way of putting it. Another is "lifeless, barren, frozen, useless desert".
Are you familiar with people porting code/applications that were intended to be run on a Linux cluster (using MPI over Infiniband) to one of these cloud services? We have some people at work asking whether this is possible. Sort of like HPC on demand. I'm guessing the interconnect between the nodes isn't as low-latency, high bandwidth as IB, but I may be wrong.
In practice, people have pressures put on them from an early age to do whatever their elders think is best for them, and, frankly, their elders are often sexist, and the community they're born into might push them one way or another. This goes all the way up to the first year of university for many people.

There really isn't another good reason for a lot of what we see in terms of what people wind up doing (and some of how they behave while doing it!) when they're older, and we're well aware that socialisation during childhood is a powerful thing. As an example, there's relatively few people who are brought up without religion but find religion later - but there's a heck of a lot of people who were brought up with religion and never leave it.

Attempting to remove some of those pressures and counter-balance others seems perfectly reasonable, and unless there actually is something innate which causes boys to enjoy computers and girls to enjoy nursing, the result of that should be that we see a number of job markets level out to look like a reasonable cross-section of the population. Anybody who thinks that independent thinking is a good thing should likely support these efforts, or at least the well-implemented ones.
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In addition to those, mostly as an example on how to start a actionable framework on luck, there's James Austin's 4 definitions of luck, see e.g. pmarca's old blog entry about it: http://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html
Can anyone tell how is this course compared to the FreeCodeCamp courses?
In addition, I'll bet that if he ended up broke, but having significantly pushed forward various technological ideas, he wouldn't consider it a failure.

Some folks who only focus on wealth would call it foolhardy regardless, though.
"have also heard, especially from customers working with Linux, about our XPlat CLI and its poor integration with popular Linux command-line tools as well as difficulties with installing and maintaining the Node environment"

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-cli-...
Miserable sods are not an exception in the human history but, until now, doers have always had the last laugh. Steps may be faster without them but, you know, the higher the target, the more substantial the effort to get rid of miserable sods. It must be noted that it often happened that miserable sods' arguments helped improve the process overall, so I'm pretty sure SpaceX is taking note of the most intelligent arguments over here to improve their products.
I'd guess as an alternative to the "demeaning" HackerRank style tests which are purely meritocratic and allow smaller companies to interview large amounts of people you would prefer nepotism and only hiring and interviewing people with high GPAs from expensive schools?
Little off topic, but does anyone have a good resource or tutorial for FreeRTOS. I find freertos.org sparse and not really illustrative.
It's scary: the litany of "reasons" that always get brought up to explain why its literally impossible to stop using Facebook often sound a lot like the reasons addicts can't stop doing whatever it is that they do compulsively.
Why are you certain folks have tried to make a self-sustaining Antarctic colony? I don't see why anyone would bother. You can get supplies from the outside. Activity on the continent transitioned directly from exploration to scientific outposts.

Biosphere 2 was in many ways more challenging than Mars. It was intended to be totally self-contained with all water and oxygen recycled. On Mars, water can be found outside, and oxygen can be made from the atmosphere industrially.

The transit time to Mars with this system is 3-4 months. Astronauts have already spent far more time in orbit than that. There are negative effects, yes, but blindness isn't one of them (and your link doesn't even list blindness as a potential consequence, just impaired vision).

It's possible that the reduced gravity on Mars would continue to cause harm, but I rather doubt that it would be so bad as to make the whole venture impossible. Maybe Martians have bad eyesight and shortened lives, but nobody's doing this for their health anyway.
Let's hope some of the people from the Q&A session will be banned from getting a ticket to Mars, or soon we'll make humans a specie of multiplanetary idiots.
Pls do share.
FYI, both AWS's CLI[1] and GCP's Cloud SDK(which includes CLIs like gcloud, gsutil, bq, etc.)[2] are also written in Python.

[1]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/
I mean, Musk himself is very upfront about the risks involved, especially for the first few waves of colonists. And indeed, there would likely be very little personal upside for them, even if they survived the grueling initial period. But you're making a false equivocation: considering the colonists personal risks in leaving against the species shared risk in staying. If there's even a small chance of success in establishing a self-sustaining colony off of Earth (and I don't think you can argue that success is inconceivable/vanishingly improbable), then any degree of personal risks levied on individual colonists are "worth it" from the species level perspective, which is precisely the perspective taken to justify the mission.
"Wow this is great. I think you may know more about this situation than I do! Could you tell me more about X?"
Would have been better if they had rewritten in rust or go if they wanted to eliminate problems with distros...
If I recall correctly Elon said they have the money. That the project is costing them <5% of SpaceX.
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