skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel this points to the need to abandon adversarial approaches to truth-seeking and public oversight and look for more cooperative ones. Adversarial systems are really easy to game and tend to result in over-simplifications of complex problems which are then exploited in turn.

I agree, but know little about the topic. Do you have any information on information dissemination and consensus (which naturally would extend to governing systems to some degree) that are less adversarial? I'm a big believer in capitalism and competition (with appropriate controls) for some systems, but free markets only work efficiently when the information is good. Broken information systems lead to poorly functioning markets (in the general term of market, which in this case could be public policy decisions or elections).
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You have a path from earth to a planet 40 lightyears away. There is a planet every K meters that can house a fuel tank to serve as a checkpoint. Let F be the amount of fuel to take a ship between two adjacent planets. Let 0 be the first and L be the last checkpoint.

Suppose a rocket can hold 3F. Go to A, deposit F, and return 2 times. Next rocket goes to B, stopping at A each way to take F -- do the B trip two times. Now you have two tanks at B and none at A. Repeat like binary addition till you fill L-2 with F, then repeat for L=L-3 to L=0. Now each checkpoint except the last and next-to-last has 1F. A final ship can make the trip to the planet, build a civilization, find a fuel source and return with pics.
Of the 25-30 times I have entered China, only once was I asked a question and it was "Are you here on business?".

They are exceedingly polite... Granted it may be because you have to receive a visa prior and the application is pretty extensive.

On other hand, being Canadian I have been grilled several times at both Canadian and US immigration.
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I don't get the 'maintaining type definitions is hard' argument. It's super easy to do, especially when coupled with typewriter which will automatically generate types for your server side DTOs. Also having typings saves you an incredible amount of time with fast refactoring, auto-complete, and of course the type checking which saves countless hours of debugging the dumbest mistakes.

When you start talking about getting into code bases that you didn't personally write. The time savings and productivity benefits that TypeScript brings are immense.
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My understanding is that it is mostly due to solar wind, meteorite impacts, and various other infrequent events.
Sorry but your facts don't fit his narrative.
I'm with you, a reasonable middle ground like that is a great way to go. I visited Nagoya and Tokyo and was very positively impressed with the kinds of neighborhoods generated by that kind of zoning. In a way, the typical pattern actually generated more diversity YET more solitude and peacefulness than I see in the US.

Here in the USA, only the older parts of the old pre-zoning cities have a shot at being nice like that, and even that may have been ruined in many cities. I think we artificially have an obsession with preservation in the USA, because current zoning means that many building forms are unbuildable today so the only way to get them is to preserve something old. These nice old sorts of buildings and neighborhoods can be destroyed but not created, but that's only an artifact of zoning. With more Japanese-style zoning, preservation would be less important
powerful meteor strikes spreading debris out of orbit.
It doesn't work in Microsoft Edge either (yup I use it).
Absolutely right. Here is a recent paper on exoplanet atmosphere characterization by JWST: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05528 -- the overview is at https://jwst.nasa.gov/origins.html

As you say, the contrast between seeing (star + planet) during a transit, versus star alone, is enough to identify absorption of infrared light by some chemical species.

The simulations in the above paper basically show they can infer some chemical abundances (carbon, oxygen) and some atmospheric parameters (inversion layers) for Neptunes and Jupiters. But probably not for Earths, so not for the system in the OP. Even for big, thick atmospheres, these spectroscopic characterizations take a lot of observation time (like, days).

The race is indeed on to develop instruments and algorithms for this problem -- e.g., detecting CH4 or CO2 in an exo-Earth atmosphere. There's feverish activity in the Astronomy community around this, and post-JWST missions are being formulated to tackle the problem.
This book is a pretty good tutorial on getting web service with rest up and running. https://www.manning.com/books/go-web-programming
And we also gave up on incremental and evolutionary improvements on the last great new thing, nuclear technology. The first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was on December 2, 1942. Nuclear bomb - July 16, 1945. Hydrogen bomb - November 1, 1952. Grid connected nuclear power plant - June 26, 1954. Nuclear aircraft program - canceled 1958. US nuclear rocket program NERVA - 1959 to 1973. Project Orion, a nuclear pulse spaceship design (with an interstellar variant) - ended with the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963. Low radiation versions of nuclear explosives for seismology, mining, excavation, and construction (Project Plowshare) - canceled 1977.

I think you are right that 1970's was when society changed with the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 as the final nail in the coffin for nuclear technology advancement and use.
This news is very interesting but how is this different than any of the recent planet discoveries? Anyone mind explaining the significance of this discovery over the others?
Assuming this [1] is reasonably accurate, very much yes. It proposes fusion occurring at speeds as "slow" as 0.9c.

[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Uncertainty Perception Drives Public’s Trust, Mistrust of Science
That's an objectively incorrect assertion if you're applying that to TypeScript.

The same can be done to it that would be done to Flow: you can just either strip types manually, or just do a single export to your ECMAScripttarget of choice. It'll be native JavaScript. Even the little shims/polyfills it does (to support older ECMAScript versions if you wish to export to it) are optional and can be disabled.
Well, our most important of our corrupts are still free, and nobody is certain if they are ever going into jail (what is already a huge improvement).

The good part is that it takes an entire mafia to run a country. I doubt its heads alone are powerful enough.
Does the Apple building have more light than skyscrappers with mostly glass walls?

The standard 12 story mid-rise buildings in DC are built with glass walls so that light doesn't get caught in outer offices.
Nested comments are now supported, FWIW.

Demo - https://tweaked.io/guide/demo/
Brasília made their WC stadium into a bus parking lot, IIRC. Recife built their WC stadium, the Arena Pernambuco, in a neighboring city, thinking it'd be a good way to build inland and incentivize development, but I'm pretty sure that has not happened. People would have to basically take the bus an hour or more to get there, and with 500 assaults on Recife buses in 2017 alone, it's a bit hard to do so.

A light certainly went out in Maracanã when they removed the "geral" (cheap seats for the working class) in 2005, long before the WC or OG.
Doesn't work on IOS either (chrome specifically).
The moon rotates once every ~27 days, so its day is ~27 days. It's just in sync with its orbit of the earth, so it appears to us that it doesn't rotate.

http://www.space.com/24871-does-the-moon-rotate.html
The same can be done with TypeScript. Type inference has been added to it in 2015.
Game dev here. People don't share engines because there is no reason to. Unless I'm trying to license my engine out like Crytek or Epic there is no reason for me to open source my entire engine. You can talks all the time about the interesting parts of engines, tools, and techniques but there is no reason for a company to just be like "here is our engine bye"
There are moments of pure beauty in the universe.
If pixie dust is plutonium and unicorn farts are tetradeuterium-methane, you could get there in 400 years or so, Earth-time, 398 years shipboard time.

So you really need your pixie dust to be antimatter, and your unicorn farts to be terawatt lasers.

For now, the wait calculation suggests that anyone leaving now will reach their destination after someone who waits to leave until after the next breakthrough in space propulsion technology.
Physics as a Way of Thinking (1936) [pdf]
I came with the expectation that you have experience with SenecaJS. If you read my comment you would see that HemeraJS rely on a messaging bus called NATS. We focus on clean error handling that implicit error-first-callbacks. Logging is consistent. One of the most complex parts of a software which provide building a microservice architecture will be handled by the messaging bus NATS - Service discovery, client pruning and load balancing. Hemera has a very small core but it is also very modular. You can create plugins, middlewares and more. We already provide lots of plugins for different categorys e.g data-serialization (JSON, Msgpack, Avro), Database adapter( Elasticsearch, Couchbase, SQL or Arangodb) Payload validators (Joi, Parambulator) We also provide a plugin for monitoring your system with Zipkin. I hope you have now a better picture. Otherwise you could visit the github project. I invest a lot of time in the documentation. Thanks!
works on Arch Linux FF
I am 87% confident that this has a 74% change of hitting it off with the HN community.
The MBA is the perfect laptop for most people, except that the screen sucks. This made sense in 2011 - at that time good retina displays and good-enough low-powered GPUs (e.g. Intel integrated stuff) that could power them were expensive. Today they are not. Today Apple could launch a retina Macbook Air with the form factor and battery life that people love... with a great retina screen, for the same price, if they'd be happy with the profit margin the were happy with when Jobs ran the company.

The Macbook 12" is an underpowered Fiscer-Price-like toy with a crappy keyboard and one (ONE!) USB-C port and nothing else... well, except a good screen.

The current MBA is a text-book example of an intentionally under-specified product designed not to undercut the more expensive offering. If they put a good screen into the MBA form-factor a lot less people would buy the MBP. People who can't innovate their way out of a paper bag are terribly afraid of cannibalization of existing product lines. Jobs wasn't.

One of the great things I think he did was to introduce the MBA and to drive down its price point so that lots of people could and did buy it. For all of his faults, I think he did have a democratic kind of vision that great computers should not be reserved for the rich.
I can give two options.

If you want purely manual tiling, with windows being arranged normally until you tile them, there is WinSplit Revolution (can't find the canonical link right now). It basically does the same thing the tiling keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7+ do, but with more options and granularity.

If you want automatic, dwm-style tiling, there is a project called [bug.n][1]. I am currently using it, mainly because besides offering tiling windows, it is also the least-bad way to get multiple workspaces on Windows that I could find.

[1]: https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
That's your own fault for being delusional enough to think that you should buy a house as an "investment" (or even worse as speculation because you think it will go up high and fast)

Buy a house if you like it and want to live in it for the next 30 years. Then you won't care about resale value.

Should we also feel bad for people who decided to short a bunch of random stocks because they had a gut feeling? Mortgages are highly leveraged, and are not inherently a safe investment. What makes them safe is when you're buying something you intend to live in anyway, because you'll always need some form of housing, you're just prepaying for it.

Besides, long term, this will make the neighborhood denser and ultimately increase land value. As long as you hold on long enough your resale value may actually go up. Either way, resale value is not something legitimate everyday people should be concerned with, only speculators. If you're not ready to commit to live somewhere for the next 30 years, rent.
As far as we know, as long as you don't actually reach light speed (which is currently thought to be impossible anyway) you can pretty much get as close as you want and be fine.
Melancholia by Lars von Trier is another great movie about the earth colliding with another planet.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/
What's your product?
Yep. Absolutely love Mailgun, provides an incredible service but I haven't hit the limit where I've been charged yet and hope this continues. I use them for firing off mail from contact forms and the visibility/trust is great.
40 light years = 12.2 parsecs.

I mean I feel like an opportunity was missed here...
No major connection between one's personality as a teenager and a septuagenarian
7 is a very high number of planets in an odd system overall.

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

PS: Note the above systems may have many planets we don't know about.
Is this taboo? I also use Edge and find it great.
Is there something wrong with

for(int i = 0; i < Environment.ProcessorCount; i++)
Task.Factory.StartNew(...);
?
Then the surface of stars ought to have more life than planets.
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There may be some xenophobia and racism there, but I think there's also a substantive amount of anger among a sizeable amount of the populace due to how the rule of law is selectively applied, and how open-borders advocates intentionally blur the lines between lawful immigrants and individuals who illegally enter a sovereign nation.

Case in point: in the last couple of months, how much have we heard the "we are a nation of immigrants" line, especially during a border security debate...as if just about everyone, including the passengers of the Mayflower, skirted customs?

The racists and xenophobes likely don't want immigrants, but I think the vast majority of Americans are happy to welcome folks from other countries who have demonstrated respect for our laws by entering the country legally. Hell, if you've spoken to naturalized citizens, they're often the most patriotic, pro-American people you'll encounter!

And many of those Americans, who have spent time, money and energy to become citizens, are strongly against the lackadaisical border enforcement that has led to the current mess.
NASA Just Found a Solar System with 7 Earth-Like Planets
the fusion bit not (yet) so much though
That's not at all the defining characteristic of modern cloud computing; if it were, you would call VR systems (laptop or phone does computation on behalf of video system on your face) "cloud computing."

What's different about cloud computing is the persistent connection and availability, combined with the ownership model and the resulting implied scalability.
So this can totally screw you if:

Day 0 - Company is worth $1B (pay $10k)

Day 365 - Company is worth $2B (pay taxes on $10k in "income")

Day 900 - Company sells for $50M (your stock is probably worthless due to liquidation preferences)
Oufti !

For those who don't know it:

- Trappistes are some special beer brewed by monks and Belgium is famous for a lot of them

- Speculoos are some kind of brown sugar based cookies. Caloric bomb we name them.
Yes, as long as you don't hit anything or care about the time dilation you will experience.
If you go fast enough doesn't any incoming radiation just get blue shifted into gamma rays? Just running into cosmic dust at the speed of light would not be fun.
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Fascinating! Would vira or bacteria beable to survive travelling from Earth to Mars in or on a rock or vice versa?
A large mass of water ice would make a decent ablative shield.
Isn't that technically the moon's "year"?
Definitely curious about the jurisdiction aspects here. There aren't any immediate cases that come to mind re stuff outside EEZs (I wonder if there's any precedent associated with oil rigs - they're the only freestanding marine structures that immediately come to mind, besides artificial islands).

One thing that does stand out is the sheer greyness of it all - international legal matters like this move very slowly and moreover the ICJ seems very poorly equipped to answer questions like this.
> then it's more likely it lies in our future (e.g. global thermonuclear war, plague, difficulty of space travel, etc)

Difficulty of space travel is one of the possible filters.
From the article: André says. “He came back and just started grilling me. ‘Is this your email?’ and it was an email attached to a Craigslist account for sex ads. He asked me, ‘Is this your account on Scruff? Is this you on BBRT?’ I was like, ‘Yes, this is me.’”

I am no fan of CBP, but the guy apparently admitted to placing sex ads on Craiglist. The article doesn't state what the ads said... but depending on their content, it may be reasonable to suspect him of prostitution... an argument could be made that it shouldn't matter, and I don't think CBP should be demanding passwords like this, but the denial may not have been so absurd as the article would like you to think.
Apologies, sloppy link-copying. Should be pointing to the .jpg now.
TypeScript has `--target ESNext` this will strip out any TypeScript-specific type annotations, and leave you with standard-track-only JS code that looks identical to your input (modulo type annotations).
Disk activity LED used to exfiltrate data from an air-gapped computer
It's almost all Hydrogen/Helium gas. Other larger atoms and molecules are known to exist in the interstellar medium, but it's primary gas.

Also, a good way to remember the density is ~1 Hydrogen atom per cm^3.
> if you recently learned/mastered a topic, you're in a far better position to teach that topic than an expert, who's so deep into it, that they can't understand the beginners.

Most experts I come across are generous when it comes to sharing what they know and their generosity may sometimes get in the way of a beginner's learning, but this is not always the case.
Thanks. Sounds useful especially for library authors.
Uh, Mongo when it flew by Earth?

edit: Mongo from Flash Gordon
If you interpret »not paying it mention in any sphere« broadly enough as not talking about it and not doing anything against it, then yes, it would mean ignoring the issue.

My interpretation as a non-native English speaker focused on »mention« and so I did not interpret it as excluding any actions. But with you pointing this out and after having a second look I can see how »in any sphere« could make the point stronger than what I thought.

I the end I am neither in the position to judge what the correct interpretation of the phrase is, nor what statement treehau5 actually intended to make. I of course stand by my point, whether it is the same one treehau5 wanted to make or not.
For passersby who were confused like I was: IntelliJ Community Edition has absolutely no support for Javascript or Typescript, which is not noted clearly in the help docs. You apparently need Ultimate Edition to get it.

I was real excited that I could finally use the same IDE for front-end and back-end too... :/
... that they haven't paid taxes on
What? Worked just fine for me.
A Russian billionaire is trying: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/3
Totally got it. It's a refinement of the line. As the person below understands.
You are, for all intents and purposes, stealing from people poorer than you.

The default assumption is that customers will tip at least a reasonable amount for all service. If you aren't going to do that you need to announce your intentions in advance. Whenever you go to a restaurant just let the hostess know your plans. That way you won't be deceiving people who are serving you.
You are technically travelling at 99.99999% of the speed of light right now, relative to something.
As a founder myself I find it's more about the difficulty in finding a marketing strategy that has an effective ROI without increasing your burn rate to a point of failure.

The article implies that all marketing will be effective, or at least that you can easily have a positive ROI just by hiring a marketer.

This is not necessarily true, especially with the limited capital that many bootstrapped startup may have available.

Experincing negative ROI (or even hearing experiences about that) seem more likely candidates for why it isn't done than the "Myths" listed here.
Gene Wolfe mined this idea for some of his science fiction works, except it was alien life making the jump ... Fifth Head of Cerberus & Blue's Waters/Green's Jungles.
Completely agree. Currently reading a book authored by the creator of a framework and having a hard time of it. So many newbie questions. There is extra stuff I don't need to know as a beginner - put that in another book or another section. Don't interleave it with the basic material. There is stuff that make assumptions that I am an expert in the language, the code needs to be fully explained, line by line.
They would have to license it from Intel. Which I bet Intel wouldn't really want to do.
> A motor neuron (or motoneuron) is a nerve cell (neuron) whose cell body is located in the spinal cord and whose fiber (axon) projects outside the spinal cord to directly or indirectly control effector organs, mainly muscles and glands.

The neurons in the motor cortex are not motor neurons.
Project Orion doesn't get you anywhere close to 1G constant acceleration to turnover and constant deceleration the rest of the way; a fairly high performance Orion concept for interstellar use did have 1G acceleration, but only for 10 days on each end of a 133 year trip to Alpha Centauri -- and needed 300,000 nuclear bombs with 1 megaton yield each as fuel.

> Srsly give me 5% of the GDP of the US and I'll put a monkey on Trappist within 5 years.

No, you won't. First, you won't design and build and launch a ship that will ever get to TRAPPIST-1 within 5 years at that (or any) price, and second TRAPPIST-1 is close to 40 light-years away, so even if you had a ship built and ready to launch today, you aren't getting anything there within 5 years.
Apparently what would hurt the chance of life in a tidally locked planet the most is that due to being tidally locked the planet would have a reduced magnetic field to protect the atmosphere, and therefore there is a good chance that the planet would lose it's atmosphere over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_red_dwarf_syst...
Man those links are illegal and can get someone into trouble especially if they download it (unknowingly) from a corporate VPN. Just link the books on Amazon and leave out the dropbox referrals
Sure, there's no technical issue since a prefix is a prefix is a prefix. It's all just bits. If you can convince your upstream/peers to accept a route, there's nobody to stop you. I haven't run an ISP, so maybe I haven't had to push hard enough, but my transit providers' willingness to accept someone else's PA block has been nil.
That's almost equally depressing. "Really, we're the best the universe has to offer?"
The upper bound is the age of the universe.
Give me 0.1%, and I'll put a vanOverbruggen "Suzanne" model into a photo-realistic virtual reality imitation of one of the Trappist planets, and I'll throw in reduced head-motion lag in the viewing headgear at no additional charge.
In which Firefox version?
Can you please share other buying decision for sparkpost compared to mailgun? What about deliverability?
Thank you man! Come visit us next time you are in SF :)