skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The legend of early Islamic scholars "preserving human knowledge through the dark ages" is extremely overdone.

Eastern Christendom fleeing the encroachment of Islamic invaders (which is largely what reintroduced Aristotle to the West, not Islam) had grappled with the conflict between Platonic and Aristotelian theological influences for centuries prior to the Crusades. The dispute between Gregory Palamas and Barlaam of Seminara is the culmination of that conflict. In fact, there arguably wouldn't have even been Crusades if Islamic armies hadn't been actively assaulting Byzantium for centuries.

I think it's disingenuous to say that Aquinas resolved anything. He played a role in moving the West towards Aristotle, but that was not exactly an advancement. It'd been dealt with before.
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What if they charged you a fee, say a monthly or annual subscription?
The silliest part of this worldview among political people is that they themselves are usually just mediocre to above-average in their own specialization. What technologist dreams of working for the FCC? What business owner dreams of working for the Department of Commerce? Of the few parts of government that attract excellence, most are in the security services and legal system where there is no real competition from the private sector for talent because of a government monopoly on force. Where government competes with the private sector, the latter wins the talent war.

If your metric of status or intelligence is doing the least amount of work for the most payoff, then government probably is the best deal around. So I don't think that government officials necessarily think of us as morons, but more like rubes who are easily seduced by idealistic rhetoric. If you are completely cynical and just want to "get yours", then working for government is indeed a smart choice.
Agree all around. I recently regressed to the Linux text mode ptty for terminal work. I can't imagine running a browser to have a shell.
Normally it's based on (roughly) multiples of revenue, future earnings, etc. Their revenue this year was estimated to be like 370 million.

Let's compare that to recent IPO darling Nutanix. Nutanix had revenue of approximately $241 million and was valued at north of 2 billion. So that's approximately 10 dollars of worth for every dollar of revenue. If you were to use the same ratio, then it would be suggested that snapchat's valuation is approximately 3.7 billion dollars.

There are also LOTS of factors such as is the company profitable, what do their margins look like, what does future growth look like (as often share price is also dependent on growth expectations), etc. My understanding is they were anticipating just shy of a billion in revenue in 2017 (which is ~ 300% growth (which is pretty remarkable at this size). Anyways, that's how some of these numbers come to be.
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It does speak volumes of Twitter that even Google and Facebook want to keep distance. Is it because there is nothing to see here? no product that works meaningfully?
I think when you serve multiple users, it is much easier to serve up 1gbs bandwidth wirelessly.
How would you pay for a government not to be lazy?

You can't trivially turn money into good oversight, because of the agency problem: quis custodiet?
Compared to the more classical lecturer at the chalkboard classrooms.
Reminds me of this TED talk about 'Grit' by Angela Lee [1]

[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance?language=en
I have a Baxter Research Robot. The theory was that you would make up for the imprecise gear train (backlash at the gripper of 10-20 mm) with visual servoing. But this turns out to be hard. A big limitation is that the gripper-mounted cameras are 30 FPS (less if you try to use both) and add a full frame of delay, so the visual servo loop has to be really slow (like, 1/2 second to zero in on an object). That means it's far less productive at simple operations like loading parts into boxes than humans.

Also, its industrial design is really bad. I hate its hulking arms and smiling animated face. It's surprising that you can ruin an industrial product with ugly visual design, but there you are. For another example, see the Boeing X-32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-32#/media/File:USAF_X...
Newtonian physics allows different frames of reference. Non inertial frames of reference need pseudo-forces. Einstein's relativity deals with non absolute space and time, that is, time speeds up or slows down depending on your 'frame of reference', the only thing remaining constant is the speed of light in a vaccum.

The choice isn't purely one of convenience because assuming 'heliocentrism' allows for a more elegant and universal set of equations to explain everything, from quarks to galaxies.
I've always thought of the difference between geocentric and heliocentric to be an ego thing. Setting Earth as the center of the Universe works great, for everyone on Earth. It enforces the idea that Earth, and through that, Humans, are so important that the Universe is really centered on the Earth.

Maybe this is the case, maybe its not. To assume that the Earth is the center because of us is pretty egocentric.

Heliocentric places it in a more objective way, I guess? Changes the reference point to be consistent with the known laws/theory/whatever of gravity.

It could also be a scaling thing as well. Applying the equations to planets while setting a reference point based on our sun would provide equations that are more easily adaptable to other galaxies or solar systems that also have planets rotating around the sun. Sure, we could try and create formulas that describe the motion of other galaxies in reference to the Earth, but that would fall apart if the Earth stopped existing.
>Another point is that people tend to write awful comments anyway.

This. When we talk about stellar teams with stellar writers both in programming language and english, it seems nice to throw comment here and there. But when I look at what we do at work, I just... want to s{//.+$}{}, because comments there are A) misleading, B) senseless, C) grammatically awful, D) obsolete. Today almost everyone can be a programmer, but only few know how to explain things in short text at right place. You have to be writer to do that.

The best way to test a comment is to turn it into code and test it as code. Or, in more modern way, make a neural network that parses comments and check if these apply.
Google's market cap $500+B so if they hit a home run their market cap will only go up 1-2%.
Sure, I understand it's a complex topic, I just figured I would source some info from someone involved in farming at your level. :)

I'm for farm raised animals, I think that results in a fairly good life for the animals. I understand there's not a lot of incentive for people to raise certain animals without some sort of pay-off at that end, and that's usually eating them. That makes it somewhat complex.
I seem to be able to find plenty of restaurant food that's not too light on vegetables, and it's not significantly more expensive. Price is a factor, but I think it's an overall factor: it's drastically more expensive to eat out than at home.

But there are alternatives to cooking and going to restaurants that are often frowned upon, yet nonetheless allow you to get everything you need and are already drastically cheaper in many cases:

- canned food;

- frozen food;

- meal replacements;

- supplements.
I believe he's referring to the "fixed size" part of it, really only an argument a true pedant would make.
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or if this is some even deeper level of condescension.
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Ask HN: CTO of seed funded company or Director of well funded company?
I have been offered positions from two separate companies here in SF.

One is a well funded startup in need of someone to grow and manage their engineering team as the Director of Engineering

The other is a seed funded startup iterating on their product with an offshore team in the short term and currently raising the next round of funding. Seed funding is good for another 6 months. I will be signing on as the CTO.

Both pay what I consider fair salary and equity for what stage they're at.

Any thoughts or insights are appreciated. Ultimately I want to run my own startup and I am having trouble gauging how much of an impact either of these will have on my long term goals.
And yet "asshole", "dick", "creep" and so on are perfectly valid to throw at a man without anyone worrying it's casting aspersions on the entire gender.

Double standards, must protect the m'ladies!
IIRC, while popularly referenced and in some ways intuitively attractive to many people, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is basically speculation that has never been born out scientifically.

So the fact that if one assumes it models reality, then certain observed distinctions people make about jobs are sensible doesn't actually make those distinctions sensible.

(Also, psychological and self-fulfillment needs are realized through industry or agriculture [pretty much all luxury products of either kind], and a some Basic needs are realized through services.)
I'd say OAuth, like StackExchange does. Then you can run your own authentication and/or accept others like Google. In my experience (we run a db-per-tenant service, with OAuth for internal support users), it works fine.
Yeah, emacs would be a great operating system, if only it came with a decent text editor.

(ducks)
Edit: responded in the wrong thread, sorry. That said, I do mean to check out this series, thanks for the heads-up.
That is great. I am working on a project where I require a font which includes all (or at leas as much as possible) unicode symbols. Until now I was thankful that I could use GNU unifont as a fallback, even if it was ugly. But this will make my app look so much better.
>smaller decentralized crews that would be much less violent

Maybe, maybe not. The problem is that those businesses are still illegal and so have no recourse to the law for dispute settlement. When fraud, theft, delinquent payments, etc cannot be addressed with the force of the law they can only be addressed with the force of, well, force. Which likely escalates recursively until the biggest bad ass is holding all the marbles, taking us back to where we started out. It's that lack of recourse to legit dispute settlement that fundamentally guarantees that illegal markets for high demand, high value goods will attract and/or create violent actors, IMO.
What is the possible applications? i.e how to potentially make use of all the cores? Is it more like GPU programming?
"While the creature appears to fit the traditional description of Bigfoot, it also could pretty easily be explained as a bear or a human. Because the camera is capturing the forest floor looking down from 100 feet up, the perspective is a little screwy and it's hard to get much clarity."
Considering that it is from 2013 and from Hinton team then are the Restricted Boltzmann Machines actually necessary for this?
Yes, we looked at huboard.com, zenhub.io, waffle.io and blossom.io. There are really a lot of tools out there. But I can't remember the reasons we choose huboard over blossom. In addition, the tools evolve quite quickly. So the reasons might be outdated anyway.
I'm not saying that every decision must be handled by the entire voting populace, just that we need to embrace a more issue-focused mindset and acknowledge that the world is too complex for one person to know what's best on every policy stance.

The test should be on the federal level (knowledge is universal), and wouldn't be designed by politicians. The tests should be very very basic and test a minimal level of understanding. For example you should be able to explain what the Fed does if you were voting on an issue pertaining to monetary policy. The questions would be as objective as possible.

Yes we may still need politicians, but again the main idea is that we seek to have people only working on matters they're qualified for rather than some jack of all trades who's supposed to have the country's answers on everything. Military operations would be handled by military personnel, housing policy would be designed by experts in housing policy, energy and climate change issues would be designed by experts in those fields, foreign policy would be dictated by foreign policy experts, etc.

Could this new system be a slippery slope? Are there other problems? Of course. But our current system is failing - just look at the presidential "debates", they're a complete laughingstock. We need to try to figure out how to improve this broken system rather than keep perpetuating the status quo.

I'd love to hear your ideas on how we could improve things.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

-- (Not really said by) Winston Churchill
128 = 2^7

Wonder if prices like this are more attractive to techies.
> Before telescopes, Plato and Aristotle were state of the art knowledge in cosmology

No, they were not. They were just popular but not state of the art, as neither from them actually preformed astronomical observations or did the calculations. There are people before and after these two who did much more. Because they actually did some real science.

Aristarchus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Ar...

"This work calculates the sizes of the Sun and Moon, as well as their distances from the Earth in terms of Earth's radius."

Eratosthenes:

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

"Repeating Eratosthenes' calculation with more accurate data, the result is 40,074 km, which is 66 km different (0.16%) from the currently accepted polar circumference of the Earth."

Aristarchus of Samos:

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

"presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it"

Archimedes:

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

"Estimation of the size of the universe

Archimedes then estimated an upper bound for the number of grains of sand required to fill the Universe. To do this, he used the heliocentric model of Aristarchus of Samos."

Everything before that year that that carpenter was born, and before his followers continued to depend on older or plainly less informed texts.
I understand the GP's comment a bit differently. What matters is how much the taste buds are stimulated, not the amount of artificial sweeteners. If that is true, the sugarless chewing gum is many many times worse than the diet soda. The drink passes through your mouth in a few seconds, the gum stays in contact with your tong for half an hour (or more).
It's not security fatigue, it's just old-fashioned laziness combined with ignorance, compounded by the "on-a-computer" rationale that makes 'normal' people turn their brain off because they treat this box like it's black magic rather than trying to understand it.

That they 'have' to use this box for work or recreation, rather than having a curiosity that fuels learning and exploration and therefore better understanding, leads to them feeling like they're at the mercy of the machine, rather than the master of it.
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> I still think there is a niche for such a system today

In Polish auto repair, if nowhere else:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a23139/co...
Yeah, but that's still plenty of webpages.
Actually, greater production is a combination of capital and labor. The Industrial Revolution was from capital investment in machinery that mechanized clothing production for example.

It is wrong for Americans to have their jobs replaced by people who are in this country illegally. It really is as simple as that. People who are in this county illegally shouldn't be able to work at any job according to the law.

Meanwhile, the people who have been unfairly unemployed because of these illegal immigrants and not fortunate enough to have their jobs protected from illegal immigrants by state licensure requirements, are suffering as are their families.

There are many societal costs when people are unemployed including many medical issues from alcohol and other drug abuse and from children not growing up in a stable environment, something society has to deal with for years to come with increased crime.

Illegal immigrants don't have to remain out of the country forever, they simply have to apply for a Visa like every other person who came to this country legally (except of course, Native Americans and Blacks who were brought here as slaves).
tjic didn't say that human life is worth more than animal life. Are you projecting? All life is precious, but we are all still animals. We need food to survive. Almost all life consumes other life for survival. There is nothing more natural than eating.
You can't write every possible term of that type. However, you can write a program that performs the same computation as any expression of that type by explicitly breaking recursion out, e.g. via

Free (() ->) Integer

And then using corecursion to evaluate this step by step.

The actual definition of Turing completeness is the ability to implement any program that a Turing machine can compute, which you can with corecursion.
Well, "need"...

To quote the sqlite website itself:

> The SQLite website (https://www.sqlite.org/) uses SQLite itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per day, about 15-20% of which are dynamic pages touching the database. Each dynamic page does roughly 200 SQL statements. This setup runs on a single VM that shares a physical server with 23 others and yet still keeps the load average below 0.1 most of the time.

I think its fair to assume that the sqlite site could be redesigned to meet most of its functionality as a largely static site, but that would come at a loss of functionality. And obviously it's a form of dogfooding, but that's not objectionable, right?
We are already past the point of no return.
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Nobody starts out creating things that meet their idealistic standards. The only people that create such wonderful things are the people that trudged through that period where they knew they were making crap, but kept going.
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He's referring to including Google Fonts as font-face into your webpage, so that they are downloaded by each client from Google's server.
The end of the article feels like a cliffhanger for a CI-CD sequel.
FML I could not imagine prepping for something like this.
It's not that it isn't an obvious conflict of interest. I believe it stems from the same realm as the military courts. Namely, civilians and noncombatants are not the peers of soldiers (or cops) because of the vast difference in experiences and mission.

That's not a statement of support. Personally, I reject all military-esque ideas within a police force and consider them terribly dangerous.
"By way of comparison, at the weekend launch of iPhone 6s last Sept 25, Apple announced sales of over 13 million units across 3 days. In total, Apple sold 75 million iPhones in the launch quarter, the most it has ever sold."

If they sold a single batch of 1 million units to every police officer in the country, it would still not even be in the same league. 1 million total potential customers sold in small batches is not mass market.

[0]: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/16/editorial-sorry-an....
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They'll never do this.. it is way more profitable to keep your value opaque. The average user might be worth $13 but not you!
Are you an above-average voter? If so, how far above average? Where is the cutoff for acceptability?
Why would I want to use this over (Mac) Terminal or iTerm2? The rationale for me using iTerm2 over Terminal is that it has genuine useful features like 256 colors that Terminal doesn't support, but for any major customization, I edit my `.bash_profile`. However, what "killer" feature(s) does this have that would persuade me to use it over the base terminal for my OS?

One feature might be that it's extendable. Sure, but what does that really give me that I can't get in Bash/ZSH?

Edit: I'm not trying to be snarky, if it came off that way. I'm genuinely curious why this terminal would be better than a really simple terminal and Bash or ZSH.
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I've been a Project Fi customer for almost a year and love it. I am slightly worried about them shuttering it at some point, but switching to another carrier is really easy and I use Google Voice anyways, so the downside of potentially having to do that isn't too bad compared to the huge upside of awesome customer service and super cheap pricing (for me). It brought my monthly bill from $80 to $30 as I mostly use WiFi.
As other have pointed out, US manufacturing is at an all time high. It just doesn't require as many people these days.
Would this be the time to explore selling iOS apps outside of the app store?

Offer users a binary download (like when you buy the desktop app outside of the store). Then have a little tool that you run on your Mac, connect the iOS device, enter your developer credentials (since this is a developer's tool the user likely has them, otherwise registration is quick and free)... and the tool sideloads the app to the iOS device.
What's your solution?

I'm not claiming that this idea isn't without its flaws. Our current system is just such an inefficient laughingstock that we need to be seeking to improve it.

Of course corruption will most likely persist under any system. The goal is to minimize it. The purpose of my proposal would be to make us make more informed policy decisions and incentive society and the media to focus on the issues.
Wow I am surprised they actually have that much revenue already.
> I think that software developers and computer enthusiasts back then wanted to upgrade as often as they would now

I was a software developer back then and the pace was measurably slower. Development tools would be static for years between upgrades too.
Fantastic. I would love to do what you are doing. A long term goal of mine is to have a few acres in the UK, raising animals for meat in my spare time. 1. So I know I can give the animals an peaceful and happy life 2. The quality of well raised meat is many orders of magnitude tastier than the supermarket stuff imo.

Could you point me towards any resources that you found helpful when you were starting out? One of my concerns is long term storage of the meat. 3 pigs yield a massive amount of meat, even for a large family. Raising some pigs for beautiful meat, it would seem like a shame to lose some of the quality by freezing 90% of it.
That's HTML. One of the many things layered on top of "The Internet protocols". It's not exactly a core protocol :)
I suggest you stop throwing out baseless accusations and apologize? Wild idea, I know!
Does everything need to be monetised? Cause this seems like the kind of app that could work just fine as a passion project or a typical free game.
thanks for the feedback. With this new label product you can package your items yourself and print the labels. You get a final price in app/web before purchase.

With our pickup/packaging business there is no way to give a price up front. Only to give an estimate based on the information we receive. There are too many variables that go into the packaging process (padding, re-arranging items, multiple boxes etc). Something that I would love to be perfect on but its a very hard problem.

We typically split items into multiple boxes for safety or to reduce the cost of the overall shipments. There are some very high oversize fees from the carriers that we try to avoid as much as possible.

I hope you will give this new product a try :)