skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been around since Lotus 1.0, and worked in financial and engineering firms. I've seen cases where spreadsheets have been the right answer for knowledgeable and relativity sophisticated users, either to build a quick model or as a front-end, and cases where the result is an unauditable mess. Lots of oops when say accounting people don't understand say the math of partial-period NPVs, or are so innumerate that an obviously wrong result looks fine to them. Without the review process that should go along with production code, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. It all comes down to who is using the tool, I guess.
There's got to be money in a service where a company provides your parents with a computer that's set up to be pretty user friendly and safe. If they brick it, the computer is replaced. The company manages the machine so backups are handled and the new machine will be pretty close to whatever they lost wherever possible (in terms of content on the machine). If the hardware gets damaged that'd have to be paid for I guess.
As always, I'm still waiting on criminal charges for this classic case of fraud.
I'd imagine things like bite-sized projects of the appropriate skill level so that they learn something. One of the harder things about being a junior employee is knowing what you're supposed to be doing at any time.
To a first approximation, nobody recovers from obesity. Less than 1% of obese people regain a normal weight through any kind of lifestyle change. What works, kind of, is bariatric surgery.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/kcl-lco07141...
I suspect that the top search result for "water analogies" was hugged to death because of this comment.
Hype > profits if you're trying to find the next sucker to sell your shares to. Especially for companies that don't pay dividends.
this one always bugged me a little

a rocket takes off. let's say it's going upwards at 1 m/s at some short time after takeoff. why can't it then reduce (not to zero) acceleration such that it stays going upwards at 1 m/s all the way out of the gravity well? don't aim for escape velocity, keep the velocity at exactly 1 m/s until you're out.

yes, I know - Tsiolkovsky, reaction mass, delta-v etc etc clearly that's wildly impractical

but MUST the rocket achieve its 'escape velocity' in order to escape? why can't we have a casual stroll out of the gravity well?

escape velocity applies for an unpowered vehicle, right? throw a rock, it's gotta be going at least at the escape velocity or it won't escape. but throw a rock that's propelling upwards itself all the way out ...

if I want to climb stairs, I propel myself gradually on every step, I don't require that I launch myself off step 1 with the speed to get me to the top.

what am I missing here?
Do the top VCs really play in biotech?
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I think it's just that the business wants to know where their money is actually going (and they have every right to, it's effectively their money, or managed under their auspices). and unfortunately agile is one way they can accomplish that. It's unfortunate because it costs a lot of developer time to go through the motions, and we are the closest witnesses to this overhead/waste.

I think using/not using agile is like doing business with a contract vs a handshake. When there are few enough people who trust each other, you can get by on a handshake. When you get into larger dollar amounts (like paying an office full of developers), sometimes its better to use a contract so you have some perception and promises about where your money is going.

Now, agile is of course not a contract, but if teams meet their deliverables, the business can at least see where their money went, which they are entitled to do.
Yeah, using GCM to wake up the device is totally worse than sending 99% messages without end-to-end encryption.

What's wrong with Reuters? Would you prefer RT?
Getting funded by VCs doesn't mean what you think it means. It isn't validation or lack thereof, it is perceived portfolio fit plain and simple.
> surprised by Theranos’s secrecy—such behavior was to be expected at a tech company but not a medical operation

Is that true? Are tech companies are more secretive than medical research labs?
> VLC is a media player. It supports more formats than a web browser, but audio and video files can be converted. If you have a file in an arcane, outdated video or audio format and you want to make it more easily accessible just convert it to something that is playable in a browser.

This is what the Internet Archive does right now. Unfortunately, transcoding from one lossy format to another just results in more quality loss. Something like VLC.js would sidestep that problem, and remove the need to transcode everything (and keep multiple copies!) as a bonus. You even mention that yourself, so I'm not sure I understand your point here.
Oh please. Twitter is not fundamental to discourse, it's mostly an open sewer along with the vast majority of social media.
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And COBOL uses fixed decimal math by default, an excellent feature for most business applications.
Twitter as a network and format is replaceable and replicatable, Just let it crash and burn. From the ashes can rise a new and better Twitter-like service. The current Twitter carries too much nostalgia, undecisivenes and other toxic dead weight to change course.
"Do you believe in God?"

"I believe in one fewer than you"
This is just not true. When a VC invests, they are betting this company will aggressively grow in value. All do some amount of due diligence. Clearly in some cases, not enough.
and painfully slow
A better comparison would be on the basis of PPP instead of nominal value. Given that India's nominal and PPP GDP are $2B and $8B respectively, $1 ~ Rs.15 PPP.
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The Kodi people are not to be trusted on this matter, it's just an ugly political game. See http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=1497&pid=13513#pi...
And also https://github.com/linux-sunxi/libvdpau-sunxi if you are actually interested in a working hardware accelerated video decoding. To sum it up, hardware video decoding acceleration works fine with fully open source drivers on Allwinner hardware, but the Kodi application just does not want to use them. Fortunately there are also other open source media players, which can do the job.

As for the lubuntu image, anyone can take any ARM Linux distribution rootfs and combine it with the Linux kernel, built for Allwinner hardware (both mainline and legacy kernels exist). You can find a lot of tutorials at https://linux-sunxi.org

But if you are not a very experienced user, I strongly suggest you to try something like the armbian distribution first.
Since I can't use a tiling window manager everywhere, I do the next best thing: I have a set of key configs for most platforms that gives me (mostly) uniform control over windows, and then use the local terminal emulator with tmux inside.

I use Moom on the Mac with hotkeys that match the Windows left/right-side tiling, and a custom OpenBox config[1] that matches those too:

https://github.com/rcarmo/docker-templates/blob/master/deskt...

Then on the Mac I usually use the native Terminal (I keep trying to switch to iTerm, but most of the performance issues Terminal had have been ironed out by now), on Linux I usually use lxterminal, and on Windows I either use Cygwin's mintty or (more recently) wsltty to interact with Bash for Windows:

https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

(even though I'm a Microsoft employee, I strongly dislike the "feel" of the standard console and the way it handles both fonts and copy/paste, so I seldom use it at all)

I also tried various hacks to do raise on hover and suchlike, but I found that some things were best left "native" and get along OK with these bare mouseless window management hotkeys.

Incidentally, tmux has a growing following among my colleagues (there are a lot of Microsoft folk getting to grips with Bash and SSH these days, so when I tried to pass on some best practices, tmux was right at the top of the list)
So you are arguing that weak foundations are one of the greatest sources of problematic learning outcomes. And yet you are advocating for a system that produces those poor foundations and learning outcomes. I just don't understand why you are so hung up on university/school/establishment dictated 'core/prereq' classes as being defined as the foundation.

I would argue that the current pre-req system is responsible. It lumps a full class as a pre-req. And someone can pass a full class while not understanding pieces of it. Those pieces could be the essential ones needed for the specialty knowledge a person pursues. If instead of saying generally, this requires a 200 level linear algebra course and instead enumerated the topics from that course that were necessary than people would know the foundation that is needed. You saying that 'fluency' is required in some broad course is intellectual elitism.

"I see the pursuit of quick and shallow ways of learning advanced subjects"

Also in what way is clearly defined prerequisite knowledge 'shallow'. And where is this coming from:

"People who only ever search for the quick secret trick to learning X"

You are injecting biases into this debate that weren't there in the first place to make it seem like I am advocating some kind of get rich scheme for learning things. I am actually advocating clearer and more descriptive knowledge ontologies. This would allow for better learning efficiency and overall may benefit the field. People would be able to spend more time on depth in the field they want to pursue.

Also using 'never' in an argument is a habit you need to break. It is hyperbolic and usually trivial to find counter examples.
Hold option, select the text you want to copy, CMD/CTRL+C.
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This is false. See http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21584359...
do it; don't limit yourself to what your neighbors are doing.
I wasn't confused. The first one is pretty obvious it's unknown and "I don't know" is the closest answer.
Twitter was doomed from the day it started, when it imposed the 140 character limit on what you got to say to the "world".

I mean how can anyone have a meaningful conversation or make a point in 140 characters or less? The only person capable of doing the latter ("making a point") is the Republican Candidate for President - Donald J Trump i.e. @RealDonaldTrump - and what does that tell you?

( * = Unpleasant side-effects of the 140 character limit include 1) "longer tweet" sites and services that would link a 140+ character statement to their site, so you go elsewhere to read it and 2) celebs and influencers sending a series of tweets 1 after another, and the media and others have to piece them together painfully in order to make any sense of the tweets.
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Anyone else see the recent WikiLeak about Theranos?
Ask HN: Translations for common words?
Is there some sort of "common gettext repository" for really common phrases such as Log in /Log out / Register / etc that exists somewhere with a reasonable licence in multiple languages, or should I end up trying to re-translate everything from scratch?
One of my childhood memories was finding a piece of yellow plastic broken off of some toy that had lots of colorful little symbols and ornaments printed on it. It lay buried in grass for a few years at that point and it went almost white, bleached by the sun. I stood a while, pondered and remembered the toy as I had remembered it further in the past. Fast forward to my late 20s. I started, not too systematically, learning quantum mechanics because I always felt that, although regarded as an intimidating topic, it is probably a thing that is, given a bit of time, not too complicated to understand and involves just as much forgetting established ideas as it involves understanding new ones. And THAT I have on lock down, you hand me ideas no matter how complicated and I will forget the shit out of them so hard it's gonna make your head spin, tremendous. So when learning about entropy and information conservation it struck me:
Every time a photon tickled my child self and told me about the way atoms of my toy were arranged, black ones here, yellow ones there, my god even some god damned green ones, that information was not handed to me for free. It was taken from my toy and not only when I saw it but for as long as it lay there enjoying the sun, it sent its information out to everyone passing by, even back into the sky, while putting on its new dress which was designed with a die and tailored by nuclear fusion. Some of it will have waved pluto good bye before the real journey began. Year in, year out. And, finally, it showed. Patterns grew less strong. Distinctions between different regions of the plastic died off. And the information from all the times I saw my toy was, as exclusively as anything, mine. Noone else ever laid hands on these particular bits. They are with me, still, because they tipped a few neurons of mine into a state stable enough to last a few decades. They are slowly leaking, for instance into your brain right now, but I am sure I will not run out until I turn senile.

TL;DR quantum mechanics made me realise that all my toys were doomed but that I managed to secure some of their essence
> I don't see how the difference in thermal swings between California and Dubai matters.

It doesn't really. But whatever thermal expansion problems you have in California you will have them worse in Dubai.

> Specially designed slip joints at stations will be able to take any tube length variance due to thermal expansion

See:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/

for a detailed explanation of why this is not an adequate solution.
Electricity doors mean one thing: the movement of electrons. There are a lot of significant ways it manifests, like in static charge and power systems, and there are a lot of insignificant ways it manifests, but it's still just electrons moving around.
I knew a serial entrepreneur (three paydirt IPOs and still going) whose formula for building basic infrastructure was this:

1. Find some capital to fund it

2. Build it

3. Attempt to sell services across it

4. The prices will be set to recoup investment + return. These prices will be too high for the market.

5. Go bust

6. Get bought for a song

7. New owner sells services at market-friendly rates.

It merely remains to find VCs to sucker into step (1). More than one internet backbone got built this way.

I leave unanswered the question of whether Twitter can be treated as infrastructure, and in particular do not mean to suggest their investors are this naive.
Do you have a link for those who haven't?

Edit:

“I don’t think it was wise to have Elizabeth Holmes host a Clinton event,” Clinton donor Herbert Sandler wrote in an email to campaign chairman John Podesta a week before the fundraiser. “There are significant questions concerning Holmes and her company. She may come out alright, but it is certainly possible that everyone associated with her venture will be embarrassed.”[1]

[1]:http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f8609630ae206654824f897...
Rather than 4/32, 9/64, 5/32, you'd have 4, 4.5, 5. That actually seems even better.
I don't know about typical, but being able to automate things is a sign of a good network admin.
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Your article is from April, while the parent comment's articles are much more recent (October).
You can't really complain about the choice of the best option at the time, just because it's owner subsequently killed it. I think it was madness and internal Google politics (because it competes with Android Dalvik JVM apps ) that killed it, not technical problems.
My tesla 85D has better performance in every way. More horsepower, faster 0-60, more space etc. Etc.
I didn't ask a question, I know how to fix the issues.
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>The DF-21 "Sunburn"[1] anti-ship ballistic missile

Only the "D" version. It's a complex system that involves satellites, which can be shot down, and multiple communications links that can be attacked. And it's expensive, which is why they don't have many.

>Additionally, Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.

This is wrong. All US CBGs have ballistic missile defense.
Ugh, yeah, GamePro, sorry. I got my magazines mixed up. I wish I could edit my post.
Twitter is absolutely essential if you prefer to get your information unfiltered from the source. Yes, that means that there's much more noise and you have to work hard to keep your stream info-dense and free from your own biases. But any other source will have someone else's biases and spin, an extra layer of fog that you have to work through.
I use screen rather than tmux but the principal is the same.

I have set things up so that I maintain separate screen sessions per context, including separate shell histories (the single biggest win, by far), separate shell defaults, aliases, etc.
Which is meaningless
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/
Utter crap.

I have and continue to run companies inside of China, and have lived here on and off for 16 years. IMHO like most of the China-focused muck-slinging coming out of US media (increasingly frequently of late), this article lacks context and basically cries wolf over nothing concrete whatsoever.

First it claims "required security checks on companies in industries like finance and communications, and mandatory in-country data storage". That's really no different to EU and US regulations. Anyway, if the journalist (who according to the dateline allegedly published from Hong Kong) had basic knowledge about mainland China, they would know that foreigners are largely barred from finance and communications-related business anyway (despite China committing to open finance when it joined the WTO).

Finally, in China it's extremely common for new laws to be made (eg. "smoking inside is illegal") but absolutely zero enforcement to be done.

(Edit in response to stupendous quantity of downvotes: Oh sorry for having an informed opinion instead of upvoting faux-journalism that agrees with ignorant anti-foreign sensibilities. The evil freedom-destroying communists are coming! Run for the hills!)
It didn't count them equally because they weren't allowed to vote. Let's say you had a state with one voter and 9,999,999 people who couldn't vote. Should that guy have the voting power of ten million people?
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please rtfa.

what the article describes is nothing like what you are arguing about. There's nothing about the price going up at the original bodega.
medical research is much more heavily regulated (or at least it's supposed to be) with oversight from federal regulatory agencies poking around inside processes. And the needs of university funded "publish or perish" medical/biosciences. You can develop something like Magic Leap in near total secrecy, not so much advanced medical technology.
> Typically authorisation layers on top of existing data, but in this case, we had to redo data structure keeping auth in mind. Is that why you feel its brittle?

That's pretty much exactly it, I guess. It honestly just feels less "secure" than I'd like, even if it's not!
> 100% voted for the selected politician

Wrong.

This is not 1930s Dominican Republic. Politicians are not so stupid these days (at least not in terms of their political cleverness). Corruption is not so obvious when the public has become much more informed.

"Wholly corrupted" in election terms can be very correctly defined as "The politician selected is not the one who received the most intended actual votes", even if the vote disparity is a very small number. To extend it even further, you could include the fact that this can happen legally under the electoral college system, but what I am referring to is simply a situation where the lesser desired (by vote count) candidate wins, by means of the combined effects of a number of subtly and carefully corrupted systems.
I recommend finding a project that is localized and has a license you like and starting there.
There's no precedent for ruling that linking to public content (CBC's podcasts), from a public entity (CBC) using an open standard (RSS) over a public network (UN controls the internet now) can in any way violate copyright.

They know they'll lose in court, but that isn't stopping someone from sending out the threats.
Darktable is pretty good these days.
For custom claims on tokens you need a server, unfortunately. I've not found a way around it yet, but I was hoping someone had an idea on how to get rid of it!
http://www.recode.net/2016/3/14/11586966/theranos-ceo-elizab...
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/58315
Yeah: four different manufacturers, four different spreadsheet programs. Loads of fun, that was - not.

We will soon look back to the Microsoft era as a golden age where you only had to avoid getting milked by one company, rather than every single one out there.
I mean, how could it possibly grow into a Google type of company? it's product is just not that valuable. it could disappear tomorrow and nobody would have to change their plans for the day.
Since QFT usually involves perturbation theory of a free field, whether or not particles are virtual (= intermediate products of interactions) is beside the point.
That would be nice. Finally people might be able to afford housing :D /s
Of course you need a decent product and some hard work to go with it.

I'm not sure if I remember correctly but it was either Peter Thiel or Malcolm Gladwell that mentioned (in one of their books)how much luck and knowing the right people can make all the difference in the world. It makes sense because I know firsthand that the smartest folks are not necessarily the most savvy business people and a great product with good customer service may not be enough. Getting your foot in the door or knowing someone who can open a door can be a huge deal.
From an energetic standpoint, a capacitor is something that takes a trickle over a long time, and releases a flood over a short time. So it would be a water tower with a small input and a large gated output.
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No ebook version? In current year? Are you even serious right now?
Understanding Godel, and that God set it up this way.

I laughed hysterically.