skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the argument boils down to all that you wrote, relative to what you gain. AFAIK a supersonic passenger plane doesn't shorten your total trip enough, compared to regular passenger planes, to create a new quality class of travel.

E.g. taking 5 hours to go to a place (2h flight + airport overhead on both sides) by a plane vs. 12+ hours by bus makes many destinations suddenly accessible to people to visit for a weekend. Except maybe on intercontinental, I don't see a supersonic passenger plane enabling another quality class of travel.
China vs. South Korea Live Streaming 23-3-2017
Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector (2010)
I'm not sure I like this. It seems that we're very clearly in the area of diminishing returns when it comes to solar panels.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Efficien...

The conclusion of that chart seems to be : concentrated solar power (even on small scale) is unbeatable, and tops out (realistically) at ~40% efficiency.

So now we should probably work on very, very cheap lenses if we want to advance solar panels, and quick ways to make small, very cheap panels.
They didn't test against pointy embedded rocks, because there where few of those where the small rovers had been.

The main problem was the angle of the front and legs: if you drag a rolling suitcase up a curb it's all good, but when you try to push it up, you can generate forces much higher than the weight of the suitecase. Same happened to the rover.
The Handwork of the Footbound
LastPass – Incident Report: March 22nd, 2017 (2:30pm)
The problem is the same one that Medium will likely soon find out.

The news market is a heavily competitive one, with hundreds of sites offering everything for free with ads. As a result, most people just don't see the need to pay for news. They can find the exact same information in a million other places, and the friction from going from 'free with ads' to 'pay for content' is fairly considerable.

It's like trying to sell a smartphone app. The pressures against it are considerable due to the race to the bottom and a large percentage of people just don't see the point in paying.

So it's a business that's hard to build trust in, requires a decent amount of marketing/awareness, will attract a far smaller audience than the free sites and ends up being a difficult one to monetise properly.
Quora's Daily Digest is the best transactional email I've seen! I'm curious what their open rate is because, it's one of the few digest emails I read every time. For those that aren't on Quora, here are some topics from my most recent digest:

- As a SaaS company, do you allow customers to pause their account?
https://www.quora.com/As-a-SaaS-company-do-you-allow-custome...

- Why does every employer asks about my current salary during a job interview? https://www.quora.com/Why-does-every-employer-asks-about-my-...

- What is the strangest archaeological object ever found? https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-strangest-archaeological-o...

- What is the typical revenue ramp for a venture-backed SaaS startup? https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-typical-revenue-ramp-for-a...
That's not a very informative link. Was hoping to see a changelog or something.
US Gets Dedicated IRS-Friendly Crypto Reporting Software
According to Wikipedia [1], in the US tax revenue is 26% of GDP and in the UK it's 34.4% (while in Denmark it's 50.8%). Moreover, the US spends large portion of its budget on military, so even less goes back directly to the people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
one of the defining features of a startup ~according to Paul Graham~ is fast growth. Much of what he writes about is geared towards the type of startup that YC wants to accelerate - the type of company that could go from college bedroom to bought by Google in 2-3 years. There are plenty of other companies in the startup ecosystem that aren't entirely driven by VC strategies.
It was much worse than initially expected.
Learning a new programming language by contributing to open source
When I started out in IT contracting, I worked for many ethically challenged companies (banks, insurance, tobacco, pharma). Very early I would not take work from clearly criminal operations, e.g. illegal gambling. I have seen that most young people start out with good intentions, but the money and power erodes their ethics. When I realised how insidiously toxic those environments are, I stopped working for any company where I did not believe in their ethical position. This had a big negative impact on my income, but I am happier for not playing a part in helping these organisations.

I have since discovered that many charities and aid organisations actually make very little difference to those that they claim to be helping. The leaders in these organisations often publicly project an ethical image of themselves, but are secretly using the organisation for their private profit. Many ethically minded people are actually vain and power hungry. Success fuels hubris.

You don't mention how much income you need for your chosen lifestyle. In my experience, our needs often limit the available options.
Abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646/full/nature2...

This looks to be the software used to analyze the data and suggest the new tree: http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/
An agency like the FTC could also evaluate various products and demand a recall from the market. If they set the tone right, I think that will change manufacturers' minds pretty quickly.

But we need an FTC that is actually hell-bent on stopping bad behavior, and not the one that exists now that gives slaps on the wrists to Internet providers for collecting and selling everyone's personal data.
This Bookstore's Clickbaits headlines are actually plots of Classic Novels
Perhaps by the time we get to the level where we're doing mass geo-engineering, all the cool trademarks and names will be gone :(
It's a lot of land, but the culture is basically homogeneous so every where you go is very similar aside from the geographical differences and a few accents.
This is a common argument. For example, many people in the UK's Labour party said this would be the case if the UK moved away from FPTP to AV. The conservatives wouldn't even allow the choice of real PR, limiting the vote to either what they wanted or a crap choice that no-one wanted in an attempt to get their policy choices rubber stamped with a false sense of public approval. This "worked" for that vote, and for Scottish Independence (not allowing further devolution as an option which would have won handily) and failed catastrophically with Brexit.

Notably, Brexit was caused by the small party UKIP stealing votes from the Conservatives, and then by Lib-Dem voters fleeing to Labour because they previously teamed up with the Conservatives. So a leftward shift of voters, sent the result rightward, giving the Conservatives a clear victory which meant they had to deliver a referendum that they never thought they'd have to.

Too late now to change it, but it seems likely the UK wouldn't be tearing itself apart at the moment with a better system.
What’s the Matter with Owen? – “Zazzies” – GE
I'm not in a position to downplay or comment on Medium as a platform, as I don't actively read it and when I see posts linked to it from places like here I often don't read them, but in the articles I have read I've rarely found anything truly substantial or of note (outside of some programming articles) when comparing to more traditional news organizations like Economist or newer news organizations like Quartz, and so when I read that they want to funnel money into content that truly makes me think or learn something, I'm not sure if I buy it. Sure, I've read blog posts about postmortems and about product releases, but rarely have I found anything that makes me learn more about the world, like for example, a more nuanced understanding of the reasons behind the South Korean ex-president's impeachment. I'm sure Medium could pull it off, but I'm not convinced yet that they will.

Also, as an aside, they really should let people change the look of the posts beyond the header image. Content tends to look too much alike and while Medium's design is pretty nice, I'm sure there are content creators that would like to change how their posts look beyond the basic controls.
"Minor" depends on whom you ask: each time this happens, MS generates n angry support tickets...for me, not for themselves, of course: "the computer is broken again and I have lost all bookmarks and sign-in data, why did you break it again?!?" (The good news is, of course, that nothing is "lost" except for the default browser flag: resetting to FF fixes it...until next time)
A nice quote about leadership that I heard today
I heard this quote about leadership today and felt it was worth sharing. This comes from overhearing an executive recruiter in a co-working space on a phone call about what he looks for in CVs.

What kind of leader are you? A driver, a good leader or a bad leader?

A driver is someone with a whip at the back of a crew, forcing people off a cliff, but not necessarily willing to go off the cliff herself.

A good leader is someone who gathers followers, says "follow me" and jumps off the cliff, and everyone follows behind her.

A bad leader is someone who says "follow me, I'm going to jump off the cliff," and receives nothing but blank stares and "you're not jumping off that cliff alone, mate."
> I am saying, semantically, calling "wheat free" "gluten free" when its something else in the wheat, is to misidentify the problem.

I never claimed that gluten was the problem, or that it was somehow accurate to call gluten the problem if it wasn't gluten!

I was responding to your claim that the issue was likely FODMAPs, and I gave two responses to that 1) the people you claim likely had improvements by inadvertently following a low FODMAP diet would likely have been consuming a high FODMAP diet 2) there was more recent research showing that there was an alternative explanation for the FODMAP one.

Also, as far as I can tell, they don't know that it is something other than gluten. They don't know what it is.

> no thats not what they discover, they discover foods that lack something, that sometimes correlates with foods lacking gluten ...

What I said was correct. If they avoid gluten they get improvements. That does not mean that gluten was the problem.
I'm another person but I do use Glympse Express, a version made only for sharing the position. I use it to show friends where I am on the way of meeting them. No more messages about being late or on time. I usually share position with whatsapp. I didn't know it had a share position feature but it's OK to compartmentalize information between different vendors. I'll keep using Glympse.
Strange you should say that I was going to call my Mars Terraforming project Configuration Manager.
It surprises me that Americans don't even get Christmas (or the “holidays”) off. Would the religious right not support that?
Why? That is worse.
> QT used to, the source in escrow, to be released under GPL or BSD if a nominated independent person decides the software is ever "abandoned".

Wow, interesting. I was aware of Qt's early history of being fully closed, but I didn't know it was in escrow like that. Link from wikipedia:
https://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqt_announceme...

Here's an example of another non-OSS program with source under escrow: https://fman.io/blog/transparency/#open-source-promise
From their website: Instant Coffee

Often made from leftover crops, sometimes 5+ years old. Coffee is unripe, moldy, or has insect damage. Yikes.

Any sources on this?
In Scotland, the opinion of Uber amongst its drivers (and their general mood), from the ones I've talked to (a dozen or so), seems to be somewhere between "decent" and "very good".
A 16 hour flight dropping to 6 hours is a very noticeable difference, the question is if the economics work out. From an energy perspective ultra high altitude flight at Mach 2+ is surprisingly efferent. Though getting up there and up to speed is pointless for D.C. to NYC or other commuter flights.
I'd suggest a name change as calibre is already well established open source e-book management software. From my results you are the 6th result on google searching for "calibre".
> Not performing testing on Linux is inexcusable in my book in this day and age.

No, wasting time for two open minded users instead of working for 99,999% users is inexcusable.
Read his post again
Much negativity results from 50 years of supersonic biz-jet daydreaming without anything progressing past airshow models. It's basically the original vapourware.

Even experts like Dassault and Sukhoi, with more supersonic experience than any current company, have shied away. And Dassault is reknowned for its biz-jets; if anyone could do it I'd bet on them.

Gulfstream looked at it from the other direction, potentially moving-up from big subsonic biz-jets to an even more exclusive and expensive aircraft. They too decided against it, even with Sukhoi's input into supersonic design.

Beyond the big companies there have been a string of smaller dreamers. Jane's "All the World's Aircraft" from through the 1980s is testament to that.

Can Boom do it? Possibly so, but given that they're building on the same technology as the rest of the aerospace industry then I don't see why they're any different. This isn't a problem that software can solve ( unlike Space-X ).
Does this only happen with certain configurations or something? I've been using Windows 10 since it came out and can't really remember this happening to me
Spending 11-12 hours doing that every day sounds like a horrible existence
While I agree to the points made in the article that workers in a gig economy have little rights and less benefits than doing a full time employment, gig economy was never supposed to be exact replacement of a permanent job.

If you live in a Western country, gigs like driving an Uber, doing a task through TaskRabbit or providing service at Fiverr / Upwork can be considered a modern day equivalent of waiting tables or babysitting. Obviously, if you consider the later as full time jobs then you have to burn your a-- to make the ends meet.

For those living in the developing countries, the gig economy is a gift from skies. More and more people from Asia, Africa and parts of Europe are joining the gig economy to supplement their income. Considering the cost of living in these areas, they are even in a position to generate full time living from doing these gigs. Not to mention the digital nomads who are escaping the stressful lives in the US / Europe and traveling to less expensive regions - living off gig economy.

Looking at the positives; gig economy gives you freedom to live your life. You do not have to spend precious hours of the day in commute, waste time in useless meetings, bear office politics and bend over to get a raise. Reduce your expenses, get a few well paying clients, work when you feel like it and enjoy your life.

All hail the Gig Economy ;)
What does gravitational teleport even mean?

One would think that effect of gravitation could be forced to occur at a different place in the universe, nifty perhaps but not on the top of things I need.

It seems naming has turned into a poetic amalgam of words to excite. Stripped of meaning it is technobabble in its purest form.
Same in Sweden. People ask, "you have a Samsung charger?" (Meaning micro-usb in general)
Its a well known fact that languages are not detected correctly on GitHub (linguist). One example is Perl.

So I would say this data is not 100% reliable, perhaps even very unreliable for some languages.
thank you .. your course was really helpful.
And literally every person who has carried bags to my hotel room has seemed pleased to serve me.
I interpreted it the other way initially, it seemed more natural (but I'm not native English speaker maybe that's why).
I have been thinking about this for a long time, it happens now on FB and whatsapp but happened earlier on email.

It's like a chain of trust where everyone trusts the last person who shared something but you never know on who you are trusting at the start of this "chain" if you share. So people share a lot of BS :/
You might think that, but Airbus developed the A350XWB — a direct competitor for the 787 — on a budget of €11Bn. Even taking into account exchange rate issues, that's less than half the cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A350_XWB

(On the other hand, Airbus already had a lot of experience with composites in airliners, so the A350 was an evolutionary development, not a revolution: and they'd been working with international airliner component supply chains for decades already — it's what they do — so they didn't have to start from scratch.)

My point is, the $30Bn sticker on the 787 is misleading because it covers not only a new wide-body airliner type but also a whole new supply chain management approach and a (for Boeing) revolutionary change in materials technology (from mostly-Al to mostly-carbon fiber composites).
Short answer.The spending priorities are different. We get a much smaller military for example.

Long answer (includes speculation). One primary function of the nation state is to provide its people security. I think most European societies include healthcare and unemployment in their concept of security. This means that spending on these things is seen (by a majority) as a primary function of the state in European cultures. Whereas in US culture these things are seen by a majority as outside the primary scope of the nation state's role in providing security to its population. (NB the UK falls somewhere in between and these things are in flux all the time.)
The U.S. is particularly sensitive to government encroachment... registries are a hard no-go, never will be accepted, I'm frankly somewhat surprised the sex offender registry exists (think of the children), despite its' flaws. Also, they don't tend to work well for home defense when locked in a safe (as you mention). I don't own a gun, but am very pro the right to do so.

I consider myself a pragmatic Libertarian, so my personal political views don't really align with either of the major parties, but are definitely more conservative in terms of limited federal government than most of the rest of the world view, exceptions to essential infrastructure, which to me includes water, power, communications/internet, transportation, preserving public lands, and education (though in need of some revision). As to corrupt local governments... those are easier for local citizens, and even states to address. Of course historically that hasn't always worked out so well.

In the end, what keeps Germany from being corrupted vs. Belgium... the States in the U.S. are slightly more coupled than the EU nations, but it's not too dissimilar, discounting the same language for the most part here.
This quotation is the most concentrated form of hipster I have ever seen.
I believe the BSD licensing makes it easier to integrate BSD code into proprietary software without needing to open source the proprietary code.
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I don't consider myself a quitter of Facebook but rather Free. Facebook is like eating cheesecake hn is graniac from Costco with articles tag help with my job. Facebook could just get me fired
The things we are "giving up" aren't ones I'd like to keep, especially stuff like working on XMLs with 100k+ lines on a slow notebook.

The development with web technologies means a big step forward in accessibility and usability and that's much more important to me.

For the rare case I do need to work on an XML with 100k lines, vim is still around and using a modern editor won't make it disappear.
It appears that organisation is named Gravitational, and the project name is Teleport.

I don't think there's much basis for this critique aside from the poor title choice.
Yes I've definitely noticed a rise. Each email always mentions something about me that gives away where they scraped my email from. Some of the sources I've gotten spam from:

github (most common), academia.edu, HN who's hiring, Show HN

I don't get annoyed at emails like this because I accept that if I'm posting my email along with my work in a public place, I am inviting people to email me about it. Emails are easy to ignore, so I don't get annoyed at receiving emails like this. Even if these services are automated, at least they're semi targeted, and maybe 1/10 might interest me. One time someone emailed me promoting a business with an interesting business model and I replied and spent some time discussing it with him.

What does annoy me is that they get through my very strict gmail filters. I filter every email to an "ignore" label unless it's directly addressed to me and not categorized by gmail as "primary" (i.e., not one of social/promotions/updates/forums). It works very well and basically zero newsletters get into my primary inbox. But these emails are different. It seems these emails are categorized by gmail as "primary" which means they escape my filter. I wonder if, ironically, gmail filters newsletters by looking for an unsubscribe link. Because as you mentioned, I have noticed that none of these emails have an opt-out link.
> L_n = L_{n-1} + L_n

L_{n-1} = 0 ;-)

You probably meant L_n = L_{n-2} + L_n{n-1}
Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones tell a different story
> especially when the only person doing it is an already overburdened professor

That over burdened professor was offered help, and s/he had to sign a declaration to say s/he was aware of the help provided by Berkeley, and that the content was accessible.

https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08...

Pages 3 and 4:

> UC Berkeley’s faculty creates and publishes courses for the public on UC BerkeleyX. Faculty developing UC BerkeleyX courses can, but are not required to, develop courses in collaboration with the Berkeley Resource Center for Online Education (BRCOE). BRCOE follows best practices in design for accessibility and also has a quality assurance process that includes deploying various accessibility evaluators; remediating layout, page structure, downloadable or styling accessibility barriers; and obtaining transcripts of all audio and video files associated with a course.

> Prior to July 1, 2015, UC Berkeley also allowed faculty and instructors to design, develop and publish courses through a self-service model, which did not include support from BRCOE. Beginning July 1, 2015, UC Berkeley advised the Department that all faculty using the selfservice model will be asked to sign off on a list of accessibility resource reviews prior to publishing the course. The sign-off statements include:
Do you put spaces around em dashes—those of this kind?

edit: Ah, in german we use a shorter one with spaces – like this. Still longer than a minus: -
Gravitational teleport sounds like something out of cheap science-fiction novel. Magical device with pseudo scientific name which inner workings are never explained. It's only purpose is to act as a deus ex machina when author runs out of ideas.

On the other hand, future heralded by sci-fi is indeed now: you can download your gravitational teleport and you are free to use it :)
shrugs just edit them with regular expressions from the commandline. http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3229684
> Inequality is the result of reaping the rewards of your own work: someone is more effective, so they earn more. Why is it bad? How can any market economy even function without it?

Let us make an experiment and drop Paul Graham in a rainforest to see how much value he manages to extract.

Then, once he has starved to death or died from some random infection, let's think again what makes IT jobs more valuable than garbage collector jobs.