skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is the foundation of western morality and ethics, (the Bible borrows heavily from it).

What is "it" here? And if it's the Bible, can you point to other resources to explore that connection?
He's alive
As an American who got to drive over central Ireland on a vacation and my wife spent half of the time covering her eyes as big farm trucks passed by with just an inch or two of space on my side and an ancient looking stone wall just inches from her side. We weren't even in a big vehicle, it was just a tiny Ford.

It certainly didn't feel any safer, and I couldn't help but to notice all of the sideswipe marks on various vehicles when we drove through towns.
HN being HN I have to say that's this is how I like to read presentations on the Internet. Not on slideshare, not with a js library that add worthless transitions between slides but in a simple, readable text on one page.
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> [Computers] were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.

This certainly isn't a groundbreaking sentiment. There were some interesting points in the article, though:

> [a study found that] families were much more likely to buy computers for boys than for girls — even when their girls were really interested in computers

Which caused the men to be far ahead of women where it came down to experience with computers.

I'm not too confident in the accuracy of the aforementioned study, but if the conclusion was correct, then that would certainly point towards the common "social normality pressure" explanation for women being less common in at least CS.

However, it doesn't really apply in present day as almost every family has a computer, and every student entering college now had access to a PC to work on when they were a teenager.
"Diaspora" by Greg Egan explores a few concepts like this.
Look on the right side of the above links
Doublespeak makes on open source, browser based experiences
That's a little misleading because what you described is a .COM file. They're limited to 64K, non-relocatable, and a holdover from the CP/M days. An .EXE is closer to an ELF in format. It's relocatable and necessarily larger in size.
That is 100% not the message.
It suited my needs so well that I switched to a monthly rental. 100E/month.
Then it suited my needs so well that I switched to a yearly rental. 1000E/year.
(taxes included)
I like most laptop keyboards, just not the one from the recent macbooks, it feels... exaggeratedly flat
Well I don't like safari for web debugging and their dev console to edit elements is just much more cumbersome than one in Chrome, I've tried many times to go back to Safari but it was not as good for me as chrome
> Democracy is about equality. You don't have equality when you don't have equality of information.

I'm not sure what you mean by it but in many countries collecting counter-intelligence info on intelligence agency employees would be punishable by law. If anything this sorts of laws will probably become universal with time.
Yeah, but if you're using proxies your fine on a macbook pro. It's only the final render that needs the original files.
"carry another keyboard" is a bullshit excuse with a laptop. There is no way to feasibly use an external keyboard while on the train/plane or in many other situations where you actually rely on the portability of a laptop.
The many-worlds interpretation doesn't need non-locality.
Now try editing a Swift Playground
What percentage of the images surveyed classify as candidates for selective irrigation? What if that area is more than available selective irrigation capacity?
> "Stoicism is not taught in public schools because it would make citizens ungovernable."

Could you please explain how?
I think the stoic would say that other people's suffering, or in just political systems, or whatever other bad event that happens doesn't affect their own happiness. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to do better, or to help. They're separate problems.

I can give to charity, and be happy with my own life at the same time, even knowing that others are suffering.
Laptops suck on modern no-legroom planes. Total ergonomic nightmare. An external keyboard on your lap hooked up to a smartphone or something is a much nicer way to handle any significant amount of typing.

I think a stand + split external keyboard at appropriate tent and tilt angles could be designed to clip to a laptop where the laptop is opened to a 135° angle and propped up at the back. Maybe more trouble than it’s worth though. Would take a lot of design effort, and would be a niche product to be sure.

Overall I think you just need to accept some level of compromise when typing on a plane or train. If the new Apple laptop keyboards bother you that much, get something else I guess.. Among people who have tried them opinions overall seem split. I know several people who much prefer the new Macbook Pro keyboards to the old ones. And several others who prefer the old ones. In my opinion (as a very snobby keyboard connoisseur) both are comparable – acceptable but uninspiring; same goes for all laptop keyboards since about 1992, most of which are even crappier than anything Apple has put out.
What is the message then? How does the "hero" end up in 1984?

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me.

Tell me it ain't so, pmcginn.
Have you tried the new MBP keyboard? It’s substantially different than the one from the 12" Macbook. (You still might not like it; it’s not my favorite either, but it’s definitely an improvement. Hopefully they’ll put the new keyboards on the next iteration of the 12" Macbook.)
Ask HN: Is it possible to spawn docker instances from a Node.js app?
Hey,

n.b - I have no prior experience in working with docker.

My question is, I want to create an internal company nodejs app that can spawn instances of a docker image dynamically. Ideally a user will navigate to the app, click the environment they want to create. The app will spin up the docker image and provide a link to the running image, which will be a website of some kind.

- Is this possible with docker?

- Is docker the right tool for this job?

- Are there any solutions that do this already?

Thanks.
The real why is: Because we say so, you will buy it anyway.

Its cheaper(no slot) and easier(same production line) to manufacture, and as a bonus forces users to upgrade earlier, not to mention planned obsolescence. Same goes for the SSD.

Anybody want to guess how an official Apple data recovery procedure looks like in case of soldered SSD and no cloud backup? I can tell you how - there isnt one, just like with phones.
> But if the surrounding universe ever got too warm—too filled with thermal refuse—things would stagnate. Luckily we live in an expanding and constantly cooling cosmos. What better long-term investment by some hypothetical life 5 billion years ago than to get the universe to cool even faster?

I'm not a physicist, but isn't that not how heat death works at all? Reducing temperature by spreading out matter doesn't help the "problem" that low-entropy energy becomes scarce.
The sad fact is that user-serviceability has a large engineering and design cost. More or less every Apple hardware component has a weird non-standard shape to squeeze as much hardware into the smallest form factor possible.

A user-serviceable MacBook would be larger, heavier, and have less battery life.
Was curious how this drought compared to direct human impact on trees, quickly mashed together some facts.

There just over 400B trees live around the world, 7.3B in California. Thats 1.8% of estimated world tree population vs holding 0.5% of people population.

301M of 4.9B (6%) trees died in Texas drought of 2011. Drought in California currently accounts for 102M (1.4%) of trees in the state dying.

Also note California has about 1 tree per person in the world. The worst famine in 150 yrs would kill 30M humans / year if it happened today. This considers the % of human deaths / year by famine of 1876-1879 as a benchmark. The article would imply 72M trees dying / year per drought in California. Not sure how comparable that is given different lifespan / reproduction rates, but kinda interesting.

Worldwide people cut down 15 billion trees each year. Maybe 7B for fuel, 6.5B for paper/etc and 1.5B for lumber. If this was distributed equally (which its probably not in reality), that would be equivalent of 274M trees cut down by humans in California / yr.

The global tree count has fallen by 46% since the beginning of human civilization.

[1] http://time.com/4019277/trees-humans-deforestation/
[2] https://www.quora.com/How-many-trees-are-cut-down-a-day-for-...
[3] https://www.quora.com/How-many-trees-are-in-California
[4] http://www.chron.com/news/article/2011-Texas-drought-slaught...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
[6] https://ourworldindata.org/famines/
I would prefer a MacBook Pro that was 1" thicker, if only it had better cooling and kernel_task didn't go up to 3700% and freeze up all the time.
Trump is basically a big unknown.

Actually, wrong!

Trump, by his words and actions, is a known known. Starting from his Birther campaign against Obama, to his utterances during the presidential campaign, to his confirmed cabinet appointments, we know who the man is.

Let's hope we survive the next 4-8 years. If we're lucky, he'll serve just one term.
How was this jpg encoded?
Hey, how serendipitous... I've been trying to do a wiimote project myself and saw your post; do you have any pointers to /resources for troubleshooting the connection to the remote?
They've started doing exactly that in a couple of the newer developments here in Gilroy (California). The roads within the development are significantly narrower, but there are now bike lanes separated from the traffic by actual curbs instead of just a painted line, and the sidewalks are a bit wider, too. The biggest walkability boost is that all cul-de-sacs now have walkways at the top of the 'bubble', so that foot and bicycle traffic can pass straight on through. Also, roundabouts have replaced stoplights.

On the more negative side, the other feature of these development is the size of the lots vs. the size of the homes on them. The houses are close enough that you could probably reach out a window and hand something to your neighbor without much effort, and while each house does have a (small) garage, there is very limited on-street parking.

I have mixed feelings about whether it will succeed, simply because the locations chosen for these developments are many miles away from the nearest stores, so anyone who lives there is going to need to drive most of the time anyway. Some of this is just the chicken/egg problem, some of it unchangeable without completely flattening and rebuilding the city. It will be interesting to see how it goes. I personally am glad not to live in such a place, as it as cramped as any city dwelling, but without the positives that dense cities provide.
Wow - this brings back memories... When I was an undergrad, I took a summer job at Perihelion writing demos for the ATW.

From what I recall, things weren't going great, and most of the staff was grumbling about the Atari side of the machine. Since Atari was where the latest funding had come from, there was a strong desire by management to show how the Atari hardware (display, disk interface, etc) was essential to the whole set-up. Whereas from an engineering point of view the Atari front-end was pretty much dead weight (vs. the Transputers that hung off the back).

Less than a year later, Perihelion went into liquidation, and a friend and I bought the contents of the building (boxes like 'Misc Electronics #14' and 'Papers #5'). We spent the following summer holidays using the customer list (i.e. the Papers) to flog the remaining Transputers (in the Misc Electronics)... Fun (though slightly morbid) times!
Yes, narrowing lanes will increase drivers' stress (whether by a significant amount, I don't know). But it will also decrease the stress of cyclists, pedestrians, and other people using the same roads. So this is not a straightforward consideration against narrowing lanes, or any other measure that will increase safety but increase drivers' stress as a side effect. To me, it sounds like a good trade: when the stress of driving goes up and the stress of cycling or walking goes down, more people will switch away from driving, and there are many reasons why that would be a good thing.
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Ask HN: How much do you earn from side project or passive income?
What is working for you and how much is your income from side project and/or passive income?
How the fear of death makes people more Right-wing
Completely anecdotal, but I agree with this article 100%

I spent the first 6 years of my (oldest) kid's lives in the immediate bordering towns of Madison, WI. Nice, straight, flat, wide lanes. The people tore through those streets; I did as well, before I had kids.

We moved a few years ago and now live outside of Boston. Narrow, winding streets that are easily 1/2 as wide as WI.

I feel much safer with my kids in this neighborhood than in WI. And it's for every reason listed in this article.
Just a side note: I think this is specific to some countries. In India, for example, I do see a lot of women entering the programming field.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/it-gender...

has a link to an older ACM article on this.
>It will take more than a generation to drive us into the ground

It did take more than a generation to drive us into the ground.

>A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both

Nothing you can do about it. Trump and Clinton had the same motivations: they both want to own you, enrich themselves and their friends, and they don't care about anything else. With regard to foreign policy, they support the same nations abroad, will keep sending them money, some of which abuse human rights, and deamonize the same enemies.

Obama never gave a shit about civil liberties or human rights. Largest criminal investigation against journalists ever in the entire history of America. Guantanamo still open. Administration uses newspeak to criminalize Snowden. Largest funding sent to militarized human-rights-abusing foreign nation states in history of the country. Increased military presence throughout the world despite the fact Americans are at least over 50 times more likely to be killed by our own domestic police officers than by a terrorist. Jesus christ.
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If this subject interests you, I recommend checking out Andrew Gordon's wonderful book The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command (https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Game-Jutland-British-Command/dp...), which (among other things) goes into great detail on how complicated the Royal Navy's system of flag signaling had become by the turn of the 20th century, the efforts of some brilliant officers to simplify it, and the disastrous wartime results that came because others clung too hard to the positions of influence mastering that system had won them in peacetime to see that it was completely unworkable in war. It's a fascinating portrait of how technical innovation and institutional inertia can collide, and what happens when inertia is allowed to win.
The apple store still has them for sale, they just haven't been upgraded for a couple of years.
You can email me anytime randhunt@amazon.com
The thing that struck me was the data, not the attempts to explain it. Assume the graph is right. From the 60s to the 80s, the gender mix in male dominated degrees was equalising slowly but uniformly. Then, after 1983, computer science very suddenly became a lot more sexist, while the other technical degrees kept improving as before.

I don't really buy the explanation. The change happens too early: neither schoolboys nor schoolgirls had their own computers in 1982.
Rise of the Small Farm Robots: Part 2
Excellent point. They do mention performing an experiment with large angular displacement and a larger vacuum.

> To definitively rule out any residual concerns about thermal error sources, future test campaigns could employ a test apparatus capable of measuring small torques over much larger angular displacements. For example, a Cavendish balance approach properly designed to allow very large rotation angles such as 90, 180, or even 360 deg will not be susceptible to this type of thermal false positive.
> ...skyscraper that someone tried to make nuclear-bomb-proof (...) That's fantastic.

Given the state-of-art nuclear weapons in the early 70s, it's fantastic in the unbelievable sense as the thing would stick out like a sore thumb from the sky for just about any missile. And if zero point had been chosen somewhere above the structure, there very likely would really be no building left. Whatever was so important within would have to be to be dug down deep far, far below -- makes the whole thing pointless unless as a diversion from something else. And anyway if it was the real deal, then as of at least a couple years now, probably no longer.
One thing you can do is, if you come across a word you're curious about, plug it into Wiktionary and see what comes up. Wiktionary tends to be pretty good with etymology.

For example, thaumaturgy: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thaumaturgy

Clicking on one of the links provided gives this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ἔργον which lists a number of derived forms. Did you know that the words "energy" and "lethargy" and the prefix "ergo-" come from a derivative the Greek root of "urge"? Neither did I until I started writing this comment.

And looking up "demiurge" leads me to this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Δημιουργός where it comes from the Greek for "public worker". So that probably means the "demi" in "demiurge" comes from the same root as "democratic"! And going to the lowercase form gives https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/δημιουργός

And I just realized that referring to a divine entity as "the Demiurge" is just a fancy way of saying "the Creator" or "the Maker".
Is it just me, or is the link to his home site in the top left a spam/phishing link? (has 2x .com's)

Other than that, really enjoyed it.
Conflict of Interest? Foreign Diplomats Line Up to Do Business at Trumps Hotel
Show HN: BoltHold an embeddable NoSQL store for Go types built on BoltDB
8GB is most definitely not fine for anyone who works with media.

Considering the number of people who make YouTube videos, memes, SoundCloud tracks, web pages, blog posts, photo uploads and shares, and so on - that's a lot of users. 16GB means they're going to be waiting around the disk to thrash its way through a swap whenever they switch between applications.

My iMac has 32GB, and it's a bare minimum for comfortable thrash-free media creation.

Remember when media and creation was an Apple thing? That.
>larger, heavier, and have less battery life

All things I'd be willing to deal with to have a powerful workstation - I'm not saying the current thing and light devices would have to go, after all.

Obviously Apple wouldn't just drop everything to go and make me a Big Fat Laptop, but it doesn't mean I can't be unhappy about Apple's 2016 computers grid looking like [this](https://twitter.com/SilverEzhik/status/800191799566299136/ph...).
> If you broadcast everything, then if some people are dicks, you see that, too, right?

There are 3 kinds of people:
https://youtu.be/sEJ7l0kfDic?t=39
Ask HN: New Grad Software Developer at HFTs vs. Big SV Companies
I'm considering offers between those two kinds of companies HFT - (HRT, Two Sigma, Jane Street, ...) vs Big SV (Google, FB, ...) both for software engineer/developer position. From the offers I got, those trading firms pay significantly more than SV companies (base salary is nearly 1.5-1.7x and expected bonus is HUGE). Personally, I have only interned at tech companies in SV and do not have any experience working with Wall Street firms, so I'm quite scared with working there (work/life balance, culture, etc.) Anybody has any thoughts? What are the factors that I should consider when making this decision? Will the compensation in SV companies grow comparable to that HFTs as I proceed to a more senior position? I feel far more comfortable in SV companies but the money really makes me think hard.

Also, how hard is it to move around between these two different areas once I chose to join one of the companies? Any body found that transition is easy/hard? Please share.

Thanks!
I think you need to be fully immersed in his whole body of work and frame of mind before you can understand what he’s saying.

Sort of like Hegel or something.

From outside it’s impenetrable, but once you start to figure out what he’s getting at a lot of it clicks together.
Well, I never heard of Homestuck before. I think the author tries a lot (maybe too hard) to create an aurea around it while defining what it is for so many words.

Well I guess it is simply "Something that reads like a heavily illustrated novel.". Not much more. It is delivered in small pieces and have a community interaction with the story.

Well that's not that exciting or even new. I don't know of other countries, but some of brazilian literature classics from the XIX century were originally published in small pieces at daily newspapers. With intense debate around the paths of the story.

"Manipulating" communities is nothing new either. Art is not that vanguard when it is doing something that companies have even a career path for people who "manage communities".

It is so obviously a fan review. But that's ok, it was an interesting reading.

Where I think it gets right after reading the review and a few searches. It is a piece of art that embody what the internet is, not what was predicted to be. No small feat, as there were a lot of hype about what art in the internet would be and no one seemed to get right until now.

Apart from Homestuck, I found incredible the insight that in the past we had to plant, cultivate and harvest knowledge, usually conforming to not get any. Nowadays we are in abundant forest of knowledge where we can just pick up anything from the trees anywhere.

Not sure of the consequences of this shift, but an awesome insight about the internet era that I never saw before. Really worth reading it all if just for it.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep hearing about how opaque AWS pricing is compared to GCP, yet I personally cannot make any sense of google's pricing. It's difficult to explain, but I struggle ti figure out how much I'll be paying over, say, a month for a GCE instance. It seems like there are too many variables to keep in my head.

But I'm just a tinkerer/hobbyist. So maybe the reason is because I don't have a clear idea of what my monthly utilisation is going to look like, or whether it's going to be consistent. I imagine this would be much clearer for those running businesses. I dunno...
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The only reason we are here [maybe not you specifically], is because some of our cultures were able to fend off the attacks of other cultures, and maintain our boarders, and our common bonds, and our self-determination.

For example, a great number of European territories and countries experienced over a hundred major Islam/Muslim incursions (over the last 1500 years), where the people were killed, raped, and/or taken into slavery, and the territories were pillaged - but they managed to eventually push them out and keep them out. We would not exist if this did not happen.

For another example, most groups that are coming into EU right now identify very strongly with one-another on racial and religious grounds, to an extent that is not productive. And if these people grow into the majority, they will change the country (economically, socially, etc) in ways that are opposite to the existing norms. And you will become a stranger in your own home.