skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming that the average customer knows that the company is subsidizing the printer to sell the ink. . . I don't think that is true. I think the average person sees a great deal on a printer and is genuinely surprised when they find it drinks ink like it's Octoberfest.
FWIW, in this survey I would've answered "Linux Desktop", but at a conference you'd see me on a MacBook. Not everyone uses the thing they bring to a conference as their workstation. :)
Did you mention what platform? Also, the genre of the game?
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Minmus surface gravity is 0.491 m/s^2; current ion drives thrust with a couple hundred millinewtons, so I don't think a drive could even support itself against that level of gravity let alone with power and a ship attached.

However, we currently design our ion drives for power-to-thrust efficiency and long-term effectiveness. I'm not sure what we could get if we designed them for maximal thrust. Especially since in real life, right now the answer to "Do you want a 'maximal thrust' ion drive?" is pretty much "Well, have you considered using... not an ion drive?", so I'm not sure I've ever seen a treatment of that question based on current tech.
Why the harsh tone? The parent poster outlines their initial incredulity and subsequent learning. Nowhere do they suggest that they could have done better.
Sure it will. I once successfully replaced the shattered touchscreen on iPad 2 after just watching 1 YouTube video instruction, and it was pretty cheap since I only had to replace the touchscreen, keeping the same display. With laminated displays, you have to replace the whole package, or employ sophisticated techniques to re-laminate new glass on top of display. It's possible, but requires skills, more specialized tools, and exact amount of special optically clear glue.
I agree with your point of view. Additionally I would add that there are some tools which are obviously not worth it. Someone who wants to use notepad.exe for serious programming must show me first that they can be as productive with it as normal people are with other tools. You need to be able to reach the end, to validate a tool as a means.
Someone's got to pay the piper eventually. "Pay with your soul" services like Facebook and Google are not without their tradeoffs.
>The simple and scientific answer is that you are not a brain in a jar.

The question is just about simulation. Brain in a jar is an arbitrary thought experiment (Kant's(?) evil genius, or indeed "The Matrix" if you prefer) about how you can be sure your environment is real.

In this there's no information assumed about what is real, just that I'm a unit (brain) processing input (electrical impulses/chemicals/whatever) which are fed to me from a source (unknown). For you to say "you just aren't" and then rely on evidence from the very systems that are being described as compromised is to miss the point.

Don't bring "simple and scientific" to a philosophy fight.
If they are selling your house, they are looking for the highest sale price they can get which benefits both of you. Only the buyer should be worried about a scummy or just inexperienced realtor.
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On that topic this tool has a built in directory searching, but why bother doing that when there already exists a generic git tool to execute any git command in multiple git repositories? You could run 'git map standup' and see it for all of the repos

> By default the script searches only in the current directory or one level deep. If you want to increase that, use the -m switch. $ git standup -m 3
The absence of a succinct summary makes me suspect that hiding what it actually does is the intent of the author(s). That's not too strange an assumption in this age of vaporware, or is it?

The essay and FAQ do offer some explanation, but seem to gloss over other things. Does this require a DRM layer? Can I keep (and backup) any content I purchase?

How can I, as a layman, discern the nature of their cryptocurrency setup? In the FAQ LBRY.Inc is shown to allocate themselves 10% of the total amount of their digital currency, and another 20% is distributed by them to partners. In other places they are boasting that this is an open protocol, similar in impact to IMAP — and free from the clutches of evil content platforms like YouTube.

How do I know this isn't another pyramid scheme (the LBC cryptocurrency) or a mule with a carrot on its forehead pretending to be a unicorn looking for a buy-out?
> airlines can pocket the difference as profit

Air travel is intensely competitive in most areas, and customers generally have very little "brand loyalty" and buy almost entirely based on price. The difference in expenses should result in lower fares.

And it is yet unknown whether the extra cost of flying tons of batteries around (they weigh the same when depleted, as opposed to jet fueled aircraft which become lighter as they use up fuel), and the extra cost of those batteries, and maintenance/replacement of them, will net out to be significantly cheaper than using conventional jet fuel.
Mostly wrong. Amazon does not put all the inventory together into one bin, but they explicitly tell FBA sellers that they will ship a different seller's product with the same SKU if it is in a warehouse closer to the buyer, for example. Then, they make up for this by taking one of your product and putting it in the other seller's inventory. Thus inventory is commingled, both at shipment time and then in the inventory to make up for any commingling that happened at shipment time.
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SyncThing solves this quite nicely on Android at least. For iOS, I'm not sure, Apple's restrictions make proper sync near impossible in the name of battery life - even while charging or on WiFi.
That's too complicated for the unwashed masses
Email uses tls. If both ends support it, it uses it. Most popular email providers support it. Also, dmarc signs emails the guaranteeing domains, and if you want email to be reliable, you must support dmarc.
Am I wrong in assuming that electronics firms just don't realize the special nature of the rise of modern consumerism? What I mean by that is that I think it's obvious that consumerism as we've known it isn't sustainable in practice. Sure, there's always going to be a demand for new devices but I think the rate of replacement of them is and will be very slow for a long time. Once devices get good enough or service demand well enough then it becomes a different market entirely just like how cars are today (people replacing them years later and not just every year).
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SpaceX "3D Prints" their merlin engine chambers from the same alloy, inconel.

http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/31/spacex-launches-3d-pri...
It matches by claim id, which is a much longer hash, but the system will do partial matches. In the case of conflicting partial matches, the first claim (temporally) is resolved.
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I did a quick search for both April and June, and found the prices very similar. EasyJet is cheaper when buying well in advance, but it's not a massive difference.

Of course, budget airlines will also take you all over Europe for low prices. But for the narrow case of just London-Paris, the Eurostar is competitive, which is quite a bit cheaper than I'd remembered.
Yeah, still no ideas what it is you do. I'm learning more from HN comments then the site.

A plain english explanation (one to two paragraphs?) would be a huge help.
No. He doesn't say "you are an idiot because you are a proponent of X (for any kind of X)" he says you are an idiot for being an OPONENT of other valid Xs. If you like FOSS without looking down on others you are not an idiot according to what he says.
I uploaded examples from three of the four books:

http://imgur.com/a/SKEVT

It is sad because this is not how my older Oreilly books are printed.
The problem is that there can be a significant amount of time between wanting to protect an idea and when you can effectively monetize that idea. It might take an inventor 10 years to work out the kinks in an invention and build a market for it to the point that they can really reap the rewards. I think anywhere between 10 and 20 years is a reasonable range.

On the other hand, copyright terms are just bat-shit insane and needs to be scaled back tremendously.
To answer 2) yes, you're correct. If there is a main package that exists at `github.com/your-username/hello`, a go get will leave the resulting binary in $GOPATH/bin.
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There's no shortage of other airlines selling the BA, AF or Vueling flights under codeshare agreements as a leg of another journey, which is one of the main reasons why demand on that route exists. Iberia and airBerlin sell others' LON-PAR flights under their own code as a point-to-point flight too. Not to mention the daft indirect itineraries you can buy if there's really no other alternatives
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We recently ordered 6 iPad mini's fulfilled by amazon. They were shrink wrapped and we use them as promo contest swag. After we had sent one out to a customer/prospect they called us and told us they received a piece of plastic that looked looked an ipad mini. Like a prop piece. We immediately opened the remaining 5 we had in our office and they were all fakes. We can no longer trust fulfilled by Amazon which greatly reduces the value of their Prime membership and "free" shipping. The good thing is that we were allowed to return them and get full credit. The down side is we will have to rip the shrink wrap and physically check these out from now on, regardless of who we buy them from before sending them out... which kind of sucks because now the box is opened. If the items were co-mingled who knows how/where they got in the supply. If the seller wasn't doing co-mingled and was doing drop shipping and wasn't actually intentionally trying to screw people... well they got screwed by someone.
Is your boss REALLY insane? 1 in 5 CEOs are psycopaths. And we have proof
Running uBlock Origin here and it's loading fine in firefox and chrome. I have a default install, if that helps debug why it's rendering blank for you.
Yes, he hasn't yet really learned vim. That's why he didn't like it. You can't make vim do what you want it to do. You need to learn the vim way. Maybe he'll take another look in the future.

Reading further down I also saw that most of his complaints were about Emacs not about Vim. So all we can say is: he didn't bother enough with Vim yet.
As in the case of Robert Kearns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns) whose story was the inspiration for the film Flash of Genius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Genius_(film))

It took this man the majority of his adult life to win out in opposition to the Ford Motor Company's "acquisition" of his design for the intermittent windshield wiper.
"Corporations are people, and they have more rights than you."
OpenBSD user since 2009. I have never compiled a package from source.

But they can break the ABI because they do not want to maintain compatibility with old proprietary binaries. It's a source world, in the sense that any software can and will be recompiled if and when needed. That doesn't mean every user has to compile their own system.
Try axel which is a drop-in replacement for curl but has the features of a download accelerator.
"People have tried to fix email but nothing as ambitious as TLS/HTTPS has been. And getting people to use a more secure platform built on top of HTTPS is likely a non-starter..."

Makes me wonder if it's time to metaphorically pack it in, and respecify the SMTP infrastructure on top of HTTP(S), precisely because that seems like the only way we're going to get cert security with email systems. As long as it's an optional add-on to SMTP it seems it just isn't going to be added on. (Of course SMTP wouldn't go anywhere right away; I'm talking about a real process with transition times and such, not a mystical one where this would one day replace SMTP in a big bang.)

I mean, there's a loooot of i's to dot and t's to cross betwixt this little comment and an actual standard, but conceptually it doesn't seem too difficult. SMTP is conversational standard but it seems like we've probably got enough negotiation tech in HTTP to pull it off in a request/response manner nowadays.
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I'm not concerned about too much profit. I'm just concerned about stifling competition for too long. Patents feel like crony capitalism in some industries.

After posting I did consider the lone software engineer who comes up with a great idea, creates an app, and his app is then copied by Google who has much better marketing and distribution resources.

If patent duration was a function of investment in R&D, this software developer would be SOL because he invested little into his "eureka" idea.
I highly recommend avoiding PAM if you care about security.

Also, was this written because pam_ssh_agent_auth does not support certificates specifically? If so, why wouldn't they just modify the existing module? Another example of "Hey let's re-engineer the wheel for fun" ?
Chatbots overhyped, but these conferences not
KSP: 4200s Isp, 2000 N thrust

Real life: 2000-20000s Isp, 0.01-2.5 N thrust

KSP's ion engines are hilariously overpowered in terms of thrust (and thrust-to-weight ratio) and power efficiency. It's a necessary change, however, since KSP is ill-suited for transfer burns several months long.
Do you have a source for this? Searching doesn't yield any results.
We have a Samsung 8" that's a coupla years old. The size is just about ideal for what it actually gets used for: the kid reading books on it!

We'll probably get an upgrade in June, but the old one will remain in service even if it doesn't have a phone connection.
Stories like this are what give African Princes hope that someday they will find their Princess.
I was frustrated with the directory convention as well. What I did was set up the Go directory structure, and then created a symlink to for my projects directory in the Go directory structure. I was already using a directory convention that followed the GitHub/user/project convention, and it seems to work fine. Use at your own risk :)
I think the problem with tabs is that you inevitably end up using both tabs and spaces. This still OK, as long as tabs are used for indentation, and spaces for alignment. But if you don't have good editor support for it, you'll end up with some lines indented using tabs, and some indented using spaces.

So while in theory tabs are superior, in practice they seem to end up being more trouble that they're worth.
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Because he didn't know anyone who could create him drop accounts in those countries?
I agree, I've been thinking about it for years but I really want automated electric farm equipment. Torque and weight wise it all works out.
I can't remember a time without a printer at home. As an entrepreneur they are an absolute necessity. Work doesn't end when I leave the office.

Once you have kids printers are almost required. Mine are constantly printing homework assignments, coloring pages, etc.
> I'm not sure what we could get if we designed them for maximal thrust.

Probably something with a worse specific impulse than a chemical engine.
I have a copy of the book you linked in the book-notes! I am excited to start reading it. It's funny you bring up that book because I arrived at my conclusion that how small "micro" is in microservice is based on my previous viewings of talks and articles by Sam Newman and Fowler. I think a lot of microservices are is just applied distributed versions of Enterprise Integration.
If package `github.com/foo/bar` imports a nested package, say, `github.com/foo/bar/baz`, this will break as it will be trying to look for said package in `$GOPATH/src/github.com/foo/bar/baz`.
thanks to runeks [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13925396]

according to https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/08/20/2059216/ipv6-achi... it's only the US mobile carriers that are over 50%.
And coincidentally building a portfolio with lots of stock grants at more than one of our coming AI overlords. Not a bad plan for the future!
>If something is too expensive, wait a few years.

Isn't that the point? In medicine, you often can't just wait it out. Healthcare is not a normal market.

>By the time a major drug is ready for market, out of a 20 year patent there are usually only 5 years left.

>And for most new drugs, patents expire approximately 12 years after market introduction.

https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-real-cost-of-high-priced-drugs

>When they are operating under that kind of deadline, they don't have time for word-of-mouth marketing.

Word-of-mouth marketing isn't really "slow" if the drug is very effective.
If they have to type the IP address by hand then he was probably not the only person who did time for a typo...
Thank goodness they have ipv4 addresses, with ipv6 you would get more typos.
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JD does warrantee their equipment. I understand the perceived conflict, and I personally think JD should become more open. I'm only saying that this article is obviously sensationalized (no surprise coming from Vice).
Does anyone else think it's odd that the treads are wearing like that after TEN miles? They probably could have done better by sticking a Goodyear on it.
As a vim user with only limited emacs experience this makes me curious. That's usually what real vim pros say about vim. It's an awesome tool in itself. use it without plugins. But "we" always thought that emacs is the editor that is exactly made for people who think plugins, fancypancies, bells and whistles are what makes emacs great. Basically for us it seems the cultural difference is vim="skill beats tools, choose one great tool and master it" while emacs="tools beat skill, no need to learn stuff if you can run a script just as well".

What's your view?
Automating the payment would be a really bad idea, but the workflow of receiving the contract/invoice, running it through internal systems, negotiation and legal could use some software help.
I've worked for companies in the past where no money would ever be paid out to anyone but government (tax bills etc.) without the party sending them the invoice having a valid purchase order number that referred to a pre-agreed supplier record that specified tha company name and address and the bank account to send it to.

It was annoying at times, but it also meant their accounts department could match every single expense to a specific contract or pre-agreed authorisation, complete with who (on their end) had made the request and who had signed off the request.

Even if you don't do that for everything, even just doing that for everything above a certain amount would make such fraud a lot harder.
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What is a decibel?
URLs are part of package name and there is no guarantee they will survive a repository change unless the package author has taken the effort to use canonical imports.

As for being upset, not really, unless my boss requires me to use Go, I don't plan using it again.
Exactly! :) You ought to become valuable in the present economic climate! And you become valuable by becoming a better human.

Follow your heart :)
"trusted third party"

Who can guarantee the third party is either trusted or impartial?
They do say that the victims "regularly conducted multimillion-dollar transactions" with the computer hardware company that was being impersonated.

That does narrow it down to companies in those spaces that run on their own metal, and significant amounts of it.
Privacy aside, isn't the whole point of the bot to send it selfies? The article makes it sound like it's some sneaky scam.
Consider a contrary argument. If every app in the universe was composed of microservices that do one thing and test out in 5 seconds, then there'd be no need for CI, only monitoring & continuous deployment.
How long have you used vim? I had a time of like two months where I spent a lot of time in .vimrc. But it happens less and less often. Now I'm at about one single one line change in two months.
Back before all of the security nonsense we have to tolerate these days it was easy to get to the airport 30 minutes before your flight and all was well. These days I fly with exactly the sentiment you described. I'd rather have enough time that none of it is stressful and you just go through the process in a relaxed manner. That just requires a little advance planning.
Enjoyed the article. My personal battle with f# has always been searching for what is idiomatic. Everything feels a little bit foreign when you write something in f#. One of the responses the author leaves in reply to a comment is something that I found important the more I used f#, and is something that never really gets said out loud.

"Bottom line: people need to embrace the fact that F# is a hybrid language, and that the primary motivation for using F# is the .NET platform. People interested in FP but not in .NET should just try SML or Haskell. Claiming that F# is “up there” with Haskell or SML is false advertising and ultimately deals unpleasant surprises to people coming either from .NET or Haskell backgrounds."

f# needs to find its place not only in the FP world, but also in the .NET world. That's a very hard thing to do. The language is fun, and I hope it finds its way.
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If performance matters, benchmarking​ the heck out of everything helps quite a bit! I like the style of benchmarks that focus on comparing iterations per second.
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I think that was true back when he wrote the words, but less so now. Even if you're not noticing a delay, code that completes quicker is generally code that uses less power and you can still notice the effect on your phones battery life - or on the size of your monthly bill from your data center.
Seems like a reasonable requirement as part of any large deal like this. Even if each party pays someone 200k a year solely to sit in an office and make calls verifying large invoices you're still talking about a small amount compared to the size of these contracts.
Thanks, that helps me understand.
There is something going on

http://www.trafficdelays.co.uk/westminster-bridge-york-road-...
> You're obviously way more legally savvy than I am. Just goes to prove that a _little_ knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Oh no, don't feel that way. The law is a man-made thing at the intersection of logic and opinion, which is why there's so many laws and tests -- if you haven't read the source document that's linked in the Arstechnica article, I would, as it has a lot of important detail.

> I'm referring to the 4th, about needing a warrant to intercept communications...Doesn't the 4th -- on the face of it -- preclude any system of wholesale collection of electronic communications?

Law enforcement were specifically targeting traffic expected to have child pornography and the people trying to exchange it on freenet who join very-special-purposed groups. Peer-to-peer platforms depend on people being free to join, and having special-purpose groups really helps with the "probable cause" condition of the 4th.

On the back of that, the defendant gave them confirmation of his illegal acts, so this case is about recovering evidence known to exist.
Anaerobic digestion causes the production of (more) methane rather than co2. Methane is a 100x more potent greenhouse gas than co2 over the short term. Over hundreds of years it breaks down but even a century from now it's 30x worse.

Anaerobic digestion is great as long as leaks are kept below 1%. Doing so is tricky.