skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This 1996 failure was not a "production" flight but a "test" flight (the very first test flight in fact). I guess the article implicitly claims all "production" flights were flawless.

But that too would be an overstatement. There was a second (and last) failure in 2002 for the first test of the ECA configuration of Ariane 5. (ECA, Évolution Cryotechnique type A, is an improved Vulcain 2 first-stage engine with a longer nozzle with a more efficient flow cycle and denser propellant ratio.)

All ~75 launches since 2002 have been flawless.
I know it's probably a custom order, but don't they have a cast which is more similar to the end product that they can use, saving them time by skipping a few steps?
Well at first I thought that you could create an in-memory tablespace. But it doesn't seem like its a good idea though, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7872693/running-postgresq...

So I guess if you need in-memory data, SQLite or Redis are better options.
They are not facts. You are lying. You are engaging in fraud against society with this level of deceit on this important a subject. Shame on you.
Here is one: https://www.unixstickers.com

Examples:

* https://www.unixstickers.com/stickers/linux_os_distribution_...

* https://www.unixstickers.com/stickers/linux_os_distribution_...

* https://www.unixstickers.com/stickers/linux_os_distribution_...

* https://www.unixstickers.com/stickers/linux_os_distribution_...
It is a 6MB file produced from several source files.. Does any library count if I concatenate all the source files to a single file?
Tipping in general is a big deal to me. I usually overdo it because I'm just pro-labor.

But, at a certain point you do start to feel a little scammed by the companies simply underpaying their workers and expecting you to make up the difference.

More recently, this trend of tip jars for people just ringing you up and other minimal things is downright annoying. Extra money for <20 seconds of minimal effort wherein the service quality level is relatively unimprovable? C'mon.
Down we go.
If a society produces so much value that everyone can be provided with a basic income that is greater than cost of living, why is that a bad thing?
>It's been an incredible journey

oh, so they are firing all of you and shutting down the company?
The entire first point is on the assumption that you are pushing the flat sales tax that is very common. Is anyone pushing for a flat income tax?

If so, apologies. It is still easier for the wealthy to dodge. But not as easy. (Main way I can think of is that at that level you can often live off the company. I don't think this happens enough to care about. Could be wrong.)

This still doesn't address the cold start problem. If a region needs X dollars and that requires Y rate, how do you ensure that doesn't drown out the poor?

And again, I'm not pushing these problems as show stoppers. Just things that contribute to a complicated solution.
That's my thinking as well. Take GitLab for example: you can self-host private repos using the community edition of GitLab for free, or have them host it for $35/mo. Loads of users choose the latter because it's less maintenance and easier to get started with. Larger companies on the other hand will pay for the enterprise edition so that they can self-host it.
The fear of lazy people is not founded on empirical evidence just as much as the idea that people can be encouraged to contribute nothing without detriment is founded on empirical evidence.

Once again, I'm not sure about how the reality would play out on a large scale, but obviously there is risk.
Usually people identifying as Americans write good English on HN, but in the comments in this thread, I must say, your English isn't that good. And I'm not an American or an Englishman, I don't live in an English speaking country and English is only my second language, so me easily spotting your mistakes is saying something.

Of course, you could be an immigrant, which is cool actually , but mentioning it when giving a disclaimer would be nice.
'Ninja Run' May Be the Craziest VR Locomotion Technique yet – Road to VR
That was a little excessive wasn't it? I didn't consider that comment to be "nothing" at all; s/he mentioned Scientologists have solid business pillars, I asked for examples, s/he elaborated and provided them.

Not sure what your screening criteria is for how much a comment is 'worth' but maybe it needs some calibration.
Intuit Launches Open Platform to Help People Achieve Financial Freedom
Oh no. It's about time that Facebook ramps up its user service. I have notified Facebook of countless violations, including calls to literally burn refugees, and all my complaints were discarded.

Just a couple of days ago Süddeutsche Zeitung leaked internals on the user service teams: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/exklusive-sz-magazin-rech...

No psychological support even though the employees have to deal with more vile stuff than even 4chan, only 14.4 seconds (!) to deal with a single complaint (2k complaints/8h workday). No wonder Facebook is fucked up.

What we're seeing, not just with FB but also with Twitter and Google, is the usual capitalism ideology of privatizing profits and externalizing losses - in this case the "loss" is the damage done to victims of propaganda, hate crime and "fake news". The "profit" is the amount of money that the companies save on actual customer support (which is my main complaint against Google).
It's amazing how much of the labor force itself is anti-union.
Clojure does not have the warts JS has. This is a win in itself.

Data structures in clojure are unimaginably better. In js you don't have anything like this. For example you can't tell how operations in js will perform since not even their complexities are documented.

Please elaborate about the better community. AFAIK js libraries have the half-life of months and you can't rely on them not being obsolete after you finish a project.

Macros are a tool which you don't have to use. Everything in the clojure world is optional. But when you need it you have something powerful. Try and emulate macros in js (like AOP in java) and you are in for a rude awakening.
Uh, comparing Apple to Rolex is ridiculous. One is a mass produced piece of plastic retailing for a few hundred dollars, and the other is a status symbol of craftsmanship that, price point wise, is more equivalent to a used car. Smartwatches inherently occupy a niche like Google Glass. Real watches, timepieces, chronographs, are already so well established and up market that, uh, I don't think the conversation is really even comparable.
Decoration because decoration. You don't decorate your house because your house is ugly without decoration. No TV means we want things to look at, appreciate including flourishes and complexity in our print, masonry wood work.
As long as they have their own constellation that stays unjammed.
Even if it was, it likely was tuned for, or even built for, only one OS for years.

That will have made an impact. For example, if thread creation is faster on an OS, starting threads for smaller tasks becomes a win; if locking primitives are slower, it may be better to take a full-table lock more often.
People out of work is not that way because they're lazy.

They're that way because the only jobs they can get are jobs that will have them work all day long for a pay that won't even cover their basic needs.

Human exploitation in several forms is all too real and happening right next to each one of us, and almost no one seems to recognize it.

Do you want to give them jobs? Fine. But don't provide minimum wage that will make them have to work 70 hours a week just to make ends meet, and want to kill themselves afterwards.
"Even in those days"?

Douglas Hofstadter apparently published a correct analysis of the number of configurations in Scientific American in 1981... It's not as if it was anywhere remotely near being beyond the tools available to mathematics at the time.
There will always be a new Walmart as long as most of us are primarily concerned about price and/or convenience above all else.
Which in turn, could mean people being incentivized to make all sorts of globally nonoptimal choices.

Won't be surprised if that's the beginning of an "end" for China.
"The Chinese government were hailed as heroes today, as they foiled a plot by the US to terrorize key shipping lines with a mobile targeting bomb."
You still are arguing something I never even mentioned. All I was refuting was the assertion that their desire to be in the same location as that which they are testing is somehow a sign of their engineering disfunction. I have also said numerous times that they should not be doing this testing in dense urban areas in defiance of local laws.

Maybe they should relocate everyone! Total tangential point!
Ask HN: Instead of Self-Owning Cars, Why Not Community-Owned Cars?
I've been discussing solutions to the potential future of significant job loss to automation. While I think Basic Income should be considered and piloted, I am trying to keep an open mind for alternatives.

I keep reading about cars that would own themselves and communicate with each other to essentially compete for customers.

However, why not have a fleet of community crowd sourced autonomous vehicles that pay out dividends? I feel like, modeled properly, it might work well in conjunction with a basic income of some sort.

Why would this fail?

Bonus: couldn't it be applied to other services that would benefit the community?
can you guarantee that your software team will ship on time?

Sure. At the company I work for, we almost always deliver on time. You don't need Taylorism to do that.
Interestingly, the Taiwanese government was on the UN security council for a number of years after being driven off the mainland.
Could change but I think Bill Gates originally tried making money selling a version of BASIC. Never made much money[1]. Since then Microsoft doesn't try to make money on dev tools. The dev tool business is there to support Microsoft's internal needs and to promote the Windows Platform.

[1] Bunch of companies tried selling compilers with 'drink your milk shake' licensing terms in the 80's. Developer resistance, Microsoft and Borland killed them off.
I'm ashamed of my US college education and the US public school system, for it has failed at even the most simple task: endowing me with intelligible enough English so that random commentators on the internet are able to identify my first language.

I had seen statistics that our school systems were bad. But it wasn't really palpable until I got accused of having the vocabulary and grammatical equivalent of a paid Chinese shill.
>The researchers did not find any important differences between the results of the ANT test the early birds and night owls completed in the morning

So the morning people are just as bad as a night person in the morning, and worse at night. Maybe they should revise the headline: Why you shouldn't hire morning people.

>Participants were required to stay awake for 18 hours, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., and adhere to their normal routine.

That doesn't seem to fit the normal routine of either a night person or a morning person, nor really the opposite. A morning person would be up earlier and asleep later, while the opposite for a night person. Seems a better test would be to have night people stay awake from 0500 to 2300 and morning people stay awake from 1100 to 0500 or something like that and test under those conditions that oppose their natural schedule.

It gets worse:

>>During the week prior to the SWP, participants were required to adhere to their normal routine as much as possible; e.g. have a normal sleep duration (approximately 7.5–8.5 h per day) and maintain regular sleep schedule (e.g. approximate bed time of 11:30 pm ± 60 min, and waking up at approximately 7:30 am ± 60 min each night/morning).

So they forced night people to live on morning people's schedules, but not the other way around. (And yet the night people still performed better!) And the study was only done for one single day, which doesn't seem likely to have any bearing on how people actually perform over a sustained period of time (such as a regular job), but just how they might perform on an occasional holiday like New Year's Eve.

Combined with such a small sample size, this study doesn't really seem to indicate much of anything except that the researchers could potentially have done a better study.
Trying to explain glottal stops with English examples is pointless - "Apple" doesn't begin with a glottal stop in English; "fear" and "ear" differ only in the absence of /f/.

German does introduce a epenthetic glottal stop before word-initial vowels, but not English.

Also, attempting to explain /ɪ/ as "Fin" -> "fen" is also unhelpful.
What you are describing for the self driving car is completely different.

Programmatically reviewing stored data as defined by some machine learning algorithm is not dreaming.

Unless you are imagining some not yet invented general AI tech to be present in the car.
So you are saying we should not condemn the Chinese government for the actions described in the article because the US government is doing the same things.

I strongly disagree. I think all human beings have the same basic rights, and so we should condemn actions that undermine them no matter where they happen in the world.

Furthermore, governmental violations are complicated and so for each government we need separate articles describing what it is doing wrong. And that is what we indeed get in many media articles linked to here at HN, including lots at The Economist.

That being the case, why is it that you condemn describing what the Chinese government is doing wrong, but think it is good to do so for the US? I don't know, but one possibility is that you are a troll paid by the Chinese government to promote its propaganda.
Sounds like you are offended by hearing something you don't like and projecting something worse upon a commenter. Just short of calling him violent. 2016!!!
In case HackerNews is wondering, this is what a 50 Cent Party member looks like.

Seriously.

The comments contain all the classic deflections of wumao posts: the endless whataboutisms, claims that China is peaceful, minimizing the situation in China, outright lies, a seemingly endless and authoritative knowledge of any situation in China you care to mention that always parrots the government line...

Everyone grows up learning a version of the Boy Who Cried Wolf stories. The moral is: when someone willfully engages in deception, it destroys their creditworthiness, even when they might be telling the truth later.

Maybe you aren't wumao. Fine - but the Chinese government has invested years and billions in utterly destroying the trustworthiness of your viewpoints by employing people who sound exactly, 100% like you. Sorry buddy, it undermines all of the possibly valid points you are making.
Negative income tax would be a blatant subsidisation of labour, which has it's own issues. In another sense, it's just welfare, but a highly regressive one. More income would go to those who are poor but in work, and less to those for what ever reason (like disability) unable to work.

If you were to further lower the costs of labour, you risk stymieing actual economic growth which comes from improvements in efficiency. For instance, why use a machine when you can just hire more people?

Also what would the effect on monetary policy be? If this was funded though an income tax, would the lower savings rates of the poor, put more money in circulation, thus increasing inflation? Could you account for the change in prices driven by an increase in demand from those who's labour isn't actually valuable enough to sustain their consumption.

I don't claim to have the answers to welfare, but I really think that we should aim for a solution that provides as little market distortion as possible. I sincerely think that a negative tax would be a huge unwelcome and ineffective distortion in the labour market.
Not all people working are benefitting society. Many are actively leeching from it.
I couldnt really find anything useful in there...
Excellent points.

> whereas it's a bit of an anglo thing to have a "manager" who is somewhat business agnostic

I now see this as a piece of a self-justifying ideology:

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

A while back I read an eye-opening book called "Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance". [1] They see US-style management as a primarily a caste system.

One of the odd things about business in the US is that most people can't even conceive that there are other approaches to business beyond the standard US MBA dogmas. Even when those other approaches clearly are successful, and even when one's ass is getting kicked by somebody using them.

E.g, Amazon, which has been crushing competitors for nearly 20 years by ignoring short-term numbers and focusing on creating long-term customer value. Or Toyota, which went from a nearly-bankrupt company in war-ravaged Japan to the world's dominant car maker using a totally different philosophy of business. Toyota even took one of GM's worst plants as part of a joint venture and made it one of the best ones, but GM couldn't absorb the lessons. This American Life did a very moving piece about that plant. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Managerialism-Business-Ec...

[2] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/561
I think this is inevitable, I just can't figure out what it means to be a human if your day isn't defined by the struggle for economic survival and your worth to society and to yourself is no longer defined by your output. Whatever is coming next has to be better than that, I just don't know how people are going to handle the shift.
Ask HN: Did anybody bootstrap a successful business by hiring a freelancer?
How would you rate your experience?
That's prob caused by crappy config of whatever compositor you tried, compositors use GPU which adds latency, for example Compton using openglx backend is quite slow but if you add copyonbuffermesa it gets as responsive as CPU rendering,at least in my case, it obvs depends on the vga
>which doesn’t include the number of people who "self-deported"

But if you did include the number of people who "self-deported" then you'd find that the total number is not that great under Obama and in fact is lowest since 1970s.

Now, I don't know what these two numbers from DHS reports actually mean and the DHS does not tell me, but I find it peculiar that the number of "returns" under Obama decreased 10-fold, while the number of "removals" doubled. More peculiar that the "returns" had been pretty stable for the past 30 years too, the 2014's 162K returns only had been seen in 1968 before.

https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2014/tab...
Well if the rules are:

- Libraries must be usable from C or C++, ideally both

- Libraries should be usable from more than one platform (ideally, all major desktops and/or all major mobile)

- Libraries should compile and work on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms

- Libraries should use at most two files

Then ya, I think it'd fit. I'm not sure why size matters here: the goal is to have libraries that are easily embedded. Anyway, I was mainly curious for the reason. If size is the reason, then that's that. Thanks!
I also have this picture in my mind of the pacific plates slowly twisting progressively clockwise... not that I know a whole lot about how this all works.
>there is nothing stopping a group of people right now from ... giving basic income to all members

Nothing except the humongous coordination problem involved in doing so. These are exactly the kind of problems that government exists to solve.
I think being a good CEO involves many traits. Obviously he had the wrong impression of where Pebble stood in the marketplace and where the company was headed (ie. he didn't foresee the fitness trend, or thought they could successfully pivot). But I assume he had good reasons for doing what he did. Having multiple $10M+ kickstarter launches is evidence that he understood product needs better than most of us could ever hope to.

I'm sure he regrets the decision to not sell more than ever now, and realizes he was wrong, but to say he was a bad CEO because he didn't sell at the right time is akin to being a "Monday Morning Quarterback Expert" where it's easy to criticize somebody for not acting correctly in the past because the right decision is so obvious now.

That's what I meant by the 20/20 statement.
> previously NDA documents become public

I'd say some are eventually made public. I went to the IDF in San Francisco expecting this sort of information on Skylake. What a waste of a day.

Not that I'm complaining. Intel's information is excellent. It just arrives when it arrives and it is what it is at that point in time. There are many ways involving effort which glean more information: Agner Fog, articles, patents, .... BTW, Intel folks are helpful on their dev board.
Flying Upside Down (Working as a Pilot in China)
Do I understand you right, that Arabic uses diacritics when written in Arabic script? Or did you mean Arabic when written in Latin script?

Using diacritics is usually a sign, that the language uses a script that does not map very well to the target language, so the latter would be understandable.

Slavic languages would the same in this regards. Those, that are written in Latin script, have to use diacritics. Those that use Cyrillic, do not need to.
>> Most likely, they meant "simple" more in the syntactical sense than in the sense of language abstraction level.

Outside of the Clojure world this would be a reasonable interpretation. However, if you watch 'Simple made easy' by Rich Hickey - that was the definition of simple I was going with (as opposed to easy.)

>> Macros is just transformation over a data structure, albeit a data structure that is interpreted as code later on. It shouldn't add more complexity than other forms of data transformation.

Because they specifically inject before the eval section they _do_ add a lot of complexity. Writing complex macros is a lot of guesswork.

>> Neither do I, but I'm glad they exist. Core.async is built with macros, for example. They are part of what makes it possible to have core.async as a library rather than having to build it into the language.

I'm not sure what the benefit of this vs 'language features' is at this point.