skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True! The actual induced strain is not particularly high (the wheels do not visibly deform) but it's the cycle count that will get you. The chevron-shaped grousers also act as stress concentrators, which is why the cracks are all starting at those tips.
Ideas can be proven true or false, but only in the context of other ideas which are assumed. That is what all of mathematics is based on. Of course, there is no objective truth or falsehood - the world doesn't even exist in a single objective state - and inductive inference is merely sufficient to provide estimates of probability.
Is this true or a fig leaf. Hard to know for sure, but the fact that the restrictions do not apply to passengers on American airlines certainly doesn't decrease my skepticism.
While doling out vim tips, here are two quality of life improvements you can add to your .vimrc:

nmap ; :

set grepprg=git\ grep\ -n
nmap <F7> :cp<CR>
nmap <F8> :cn<CR>
Let's accept that for a moment, for the sake of argument.

I want an explanation for why AQAP won't just hop on an airline unaffected by this ban, drive the bomb to a country unaffected by this ban, or put a timer/altimeter on the laptop bomb that's in the cargo hold.
They are mostly the only game in town. There are a handful of very large competitors (CLAAS, CASE + New Holland -- which are both Fiat) but the market is very heavily swayed in the direction of Deere.

Also, at least in the field of telematic connectivity (having your tractor 'online' to sync field operations, harvest data, etc...) Deere is leading the pack.
Definitely appears to be on a good trajectory, but the tech was definitely not developed from scratch.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.01716.pdf
Proposal: localized remote work stations. Companies can keep an eye on you, know when you arrive, you dont have to work from your room. Big pipes, gormet coffee. Yes its a huge starbucks/library/cybercafe but with careful balance of company oversight, and a laid back atmosphere. Not to mention a couple busy IT guys. If margins are slim, open for lan parties/group raids/meetups etc.
Where can I make a feature request?
AFAICT it's a place where content is hosted by its creators and micropayments are used to subsidize the content creation (instead of advertising). There are many comparisons to youtube on this site, although content is not limited to video.

> How can I watch, read, and play in it?

I haven't figured this bit out yet. I suppose something like a web browser plugin should be on their roadmap if it's not already available. I'd imagine the plugin would yield the LRBY credits to creators in order to browse the content.

The FAQ describes how LBRY is distinct from Storj and IPFS et al, but not mentioned is steemit -- it has a similar concept IIRC.
It's not really friendly to mobile sync, so if you're heavily into that, it's not a full solution. I'm sure you can find a way to securely push the file to the phone as an exercise to the reader, but it would probably involve some philosophical security compromises or creativity.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929588 and marked it off-topic.
Fortunately, podcasts do seem to be one area that is apparently working reasonably well today for both producers and consumers.

Consumers get mostly free podcasts. Producers are either fine with not monetizing; the podcast is a hobby or it's in support of other activities that do bring in money. Or a pretty reasonable ad density (apparently) brings in enough money that people find it worthwhile to produce podcasts.
Unfair comparison - beverages don't cost hundreds of dollars each, you can buy one of each and try them out to find your favorite(s).
Personal blog authors - if you insist on not using Medium/similar big box blogging service, just host your blog as flat files on S3. It will never, ever go down when you hit number 1 on HN (as this poor author's site has).
It's arguable that Lexmark is misapplying patent protection in defense of its stupid business model. I mean, it's pretty obvious.

And yet, if Lexmark were successful here, what would stop competitors from using that against them? As in, "Only fools buy Lexmark printers."
Cotton itself is a very unsustainable crop. It takes 20,000 Kg of water to produce 1 Kg of cotton, and it's mainly produced in countries that do not have sanitation provided to a majority of their populations.

Cotton farming has had a devastating effect on drainage basins across the world.

http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...
I suck at succulents. This might help. :)
I'm personally against patents, but even if I were to assume they do provide the common good used to justify them, the #1 problem with patents is that the people who grant them appear to be either completely unqualified, or under too great a workload. Or both.
Apologies, I misunderstood your post.
It's not a pic fool. Take a pic from the keyboard!
Microsoft Windows 10 has a keylogger enabled by default
It may say that, but it's main use is a serialization format for machines. The lack of comments makes it apparent that it is not for people. When you want comments, what you actually want to do is write code in a real programming language.
Maybe tie the patent duration to some measure of how long the invention took to develop? An algorithm that took a day from napkin to filing for the patent? You get a day of protection. A drug that took 10 years to develop? You get 10 years.

The difficulty there preventing companies from exaggerating about the time it took to develop. I suppose it's not too much to ask companies to show written evidence of the date that a specific invention process commenced.
But no linux support.
Yes I suspect they are. Rents are incredibly high in major cities. Having seen the size (&cost) of the rooms available for rent in london these containers look quite reasonable.

In the west we don't have favelas so while I think it would be a down-point, I don't think there would be such a strong negative connotation.
Thanks! What I'm looking forward is adding secondary indexing to this module :)
I think the parent might mean eg. travel from the UK outside of London to Paris, and France outside of Paris to London. In that case you'd probably spend longer traveling to the Eurostar in your own country than on the Eurostar. The same would be true if you traveled to an airport in London/Paris to fly, but there's the alternative of flying from a regional airport direct to London/Paris instead.
"IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories?

Yann LeCun: My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the brain actually does. And describing it like the brain gives a bit of the aura of magic to it, which is dangerous. It leads to hype; people claim things that are not true. AI has gone through a number of AI winters because people claimed things they couldn’t deliver."

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...
I pay less than $1000 for a lawyer and get 10x the value I get out of an agent for which I'd pay several thousands of dollars.
It takes a few months before a new account can get the buy box. You can get a seller shut down quicker than that.

And it may be possible to get new identity and accounts, but they aren't easy or unlimited. Scammers will go after the lowest hanging fruit.
The problem with Kant's view of an objective outside world is that it is to some degree demonstrably false. Quantum physics shows us that the observed and the observer constitute a system, and the nature of the observer influences the properties of that system as a whole. That influence might be small enough on very large scales to call the observed to some degree "objective" but we don't know that for sure.
The ban is not limited to certain airlines, it applies to all flights from certain cities. The ban is supposedly based on those cities' airports having sub-par security screening. I can't answer that last part, though. The ban could make sense up to the part where they say "so just chuck it in the cargo hold."
Ask HN: Am I the only one who keeps returning Apple's EarPods?
Hey guys,

Sorry for the silly question but I go to Apple every two months on average (November--January--yesterday) to replace my EarPods.

Every time it's the same issue: the remote starts accidentally pausing/playing music or activating Siri. The culprit ends up being the connection near the jack but every time I am assured by Apple employees that nobody ever goes back to them this often to replace their headphones.

I don't know if they assume I am running a scam or something but am I really the only one who has such a poor experience with the EarPods?

I'd be happy to upgrade to something more sturdier if my experience is unique but I am curious if it actually is...
9 Ways to Spot an Opportunity for a New Business
R&D is ultra-expensive in-part because of government regulation. So the government is playing both sides of the ball:

+ Pile up mountains of red tape through the FDA

+ Provide patent protections for those with enough money to wade through the red tape

+ Give R&D grants to companies with taxpayer money to take up the slack in their budget

So since R&D is so expensive, only large companies can afford it, which is just fine for them: it keeps out competitors.
The ban applies to all flights from the cities in question. If it doesn't apply to American airlines, it's only because no American airlines have direct flights from those cities.

Edit: this is only half right. Part of the ban is for specific cities, and part is for specific airlines: http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2...
Durability is a problem here too: these things fly through hailstorms and thunderstorms, and it'd be nice to have power coming out the other side.
I like to think that since white guys are generally the most universally hated group by other race\gender combo's, white guys just dont really care who you are as long as you get the job done. Thats why they have the lowest interest in diversity.
Utter nonsense. Human beings are at least as motivated by intrinsic rewards as extrinsic ones, if not more.
> which means that the developer population doubles every ~10 years

Or that people stop being developers with time. Or older people use stack overflow less.
Uber for bikes: how 'dockless' cycles flooded China – and are heading overseas
My much less polished bash script:

$ tt 2017-03-21
repo1 author date
commit desc
commit desc
repo2 author date
commit desc

function tt {
local day=$1;
local d=$PWD;
local buf="";
echo $day;
cd $GR;
for i in *; do
local p=$GR/$i;
if [ -d "$p/.git" ]; then
cd "$p"; whatup $day
fi
done
cd $d;
}

function whatup {
local day="$1"
if [ "$day" = "" ]; then
day=`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`
fi
local author="$2"
if [ "$author" = "" ]; then
author="amichal"
fi
local dir=`basename $PWD`;
local msg=`git log --all --author $author --oneline --since="$day 00:00:00" --until="$day 23:59:59.999"`
if [[ ! -z "${msg// }" ]]; then
echo "$dir $author $day"
echo "$msg"
echo "----------"
fi
}
I'm not opposed to a different system for different industries.

I'm just saying that, for example, I don't think we would've discovered a hep-c drug without the incentive of exclusive rights to sell the drug. I think the individual researchers are probably motivated by their desire to help people, but corporations don't run on altruism.
Depends on what you're trying to do with them since they have a few applications.
This presentation is a rough but simple overview: http://cs.haifa.ac.il/hagit/courses/seminars/wavelets/Presen...

Here's an online demo for a C library that can do DWT and CWT. The code is a little rough but it's functional: http://rafat.github.io/#/sites/wavelib/front

Also, a really basic but easy to understand video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX1-xGVFqmw
Measuring production code coverage with JaCoCo
So in the case of trial jobs how do you narrow down the candidate pool to the point that you have few enough candidates that you can bring them in office and let them work for a day without the office just becoming an unmanageable Fiesta?
Awesome. With the Hobby Dyno pricing and no effort support for Let's Encrypt, Heroku is really hitting a sweet spot for supporting low volume web apps (e.g., less that a 1000 daily visitors).
Even something as simple as integers is problematic, because they are underspecified. Since javascript uses 64 bit floating point numbers for all numeric types, 64 bit integers can not accurately be represented. If you need 64 bit integers, your best bet is to use strings...
I'm pretty confident actual Sysadmins don't use/prefer Javascript more than anything else.

I think that question was multiple choice. My guess is that most sysadmins use their favorite language and a bit of JavaScript when they have to, and since they all have different favorite languages javascript ends up 'winning'
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The relationship between our moods and sunlight
It's not the number of repairs, it's the sheer impact of repairs. Farming is a 48 weeks of relative calm. With 4-6 weeks a year of sheer, balls to the wall, 24x7, all out GO GO GO. Having a core piece of equipment fail in those 4-6 weeks can ruin an entire year. With farming margins being lower all the time, losing a year's crop, or even losing a percentage of that crop will bankrupt a farm.

So this brings in the question of "why not have two of everything?". pure cost. Combines easily run 500k USD. That's more then a lot of folks can afford for an idle piece of equipment.
That sounds incredibly nice. I'm envious
Even if they did do a better job of reviewing patents in certain countries, people would just shop around until they found the most lenient international patent office and file there.

The US Patent office in particular decided many years ago that they simply weren't qualified to review all patents and just left it to the courts to deal with the fallout.

Realistically a patent examiner cannot be qualified in all areas; so they'd need to gather industry experts which would make patent filing pretty expensive (plus a lot of experts disagree, so where do you set the standard?).
Don't use sarcasm on the internet (or at least not on HN), it usually ends with a bunch of responses which didn't pick up on the fact that it was sarcasm which lowers the quality of the conversation. Remember also that many HN readers are not native english speakers and are unlikely to pick up on the true meaning of a comment if you're not really clear. Even suffixes like /s are not clear IMHO (at least, I didn't know what it meant until I saw the other comment here suggesting it and I AM a native english speaker).

Jokes and such are frowned upon on HN and many people probably see sarcasm the same way, so you risk getting downvoted too.

In order to avoid adding noise (in the form of responses from people who didn't realise you weren't serious), I would suggest to refrain from sarcastic comments.
Ask HN: Best way to document RESTful APIs?
What is the best way to document a RESTful API? I've used tools like Swagger/Apiary before, but they require a considerable amount of manual work when writing all the specs. Is there a better more automated approach to this that you have used?
I wasn't arguing against that. Rather against the conceit that my tax situation must be the result of people conspiring to keep things complicated, when the big thing (that got me thousands of dollars) was probably something that cannot really be simplified much further. Yet TT found it for me when lots of CPAs just didn't understand it.
When the attacks are coming someone has to hold the flag up high.

But seriously, shell scripting in JS or even Go is not a pleasant experience when you know of other tools. You can not deny that.

And to be clear there are many tasks where I would rather choose another language than Perl. Mostly for applications where compilation is a win.

But I still maintain my position that if you stick with Perl and of course have other skills like web/infrastructure you will be ahead of the pack.

And the Perl community is very friendly these days. Despite very strange attacks from outsiders where it is obvious that they have not seen any Perl code written after 5.8 and pull their examples from 90s websites etc.

Also it seems like the author of the talk you linked to has been way more optimistic about Perl the last couple of years. Perhaps things has changed a bit from what you remember from 4+ years back.

Don't take my word for it, I am JAPH. Go see for yourself, talk to the guys doing the booths at conferences. You will be amazed how welcoming they are.
I'm all for advancement, but this feels like overload. We have each of the big companies promoting their own languages. Microsoft: Visual Basic, Apple/NeXT: Objective-C, Bell Labs: C and C++, Sun: Java... I'm sure I could keep going, but that seems to be the trend lately. You can't be a big company and not have your own programming language.

By the way, C# has been around for 17 years.
It1s a safe question to estimate the troll numbers.
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It's difficult to get a $750,000 machine with a top-speed of 25mph to a repair shop, so even if the frequency of those visits is low, it can be a massive burden. This assumes you can drive it there.

Also, farming is a seasonal thing with (sometimes) small windows to do certain things. If weather is great and your tractor is in the shop you might miss a good planting opportunity -- it could rain by and you might need to wait a few weeks before you can get in and work that field.

This kinda blew my mind when I first thought about it -- a farmer really only has like 50 chances (crop years) in their life to perfect their craft. One bad year can be devastating.
I would think that given the lack of water temperature variation based weathering is dominant on Mars. If this is true the rover is essentially driving on a surface similar to a pile of freshly smashed glass.
I'm a proponent of these ideas. Patent duration as a function of private capital spent? It would have to be immune to "profit-shifting" but maybe that could be a good alternative.
Yeah, in the actual system the government plays with the large companies to make big money on top of every single aspect in life of people.
Opening a new chapter of my work in AI – Medium
> general accessibility to medicines not protected by intellectual property monopolies

Could you provide some examples of these?
What you're saying. The only reason to take a plane vs taking a train for this distance is the price. Usually planes are way cheaper. But the hassle of taking a plane is really making it a tough sell as you say.
I have to be honest, Louis C.K. is looking more and more wise and moderate by the day. Don't let your young teens have smartphones, even when all of their friends have one. I realize that's incredibly difficult, but no one said that parenting would be easy, and clearly you can't count on anyone else.
The ban has two parts. One targets airports, the other targets specific airlines. http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2...

In a less serious vein, if you told me my kids couldn't have their Kindles or iPads on a seventeen hour flight, I'd probably want to kill someone by the end of it.
Am I the only one who looked at the page for 2 seconds, clicked learned more and then went back here again?

It's sad how "good looking" demo pages have turned me into a robot, ignoring everything that doesn't satisfy my preferences and therefore result in me missing out of a huge amount of valuable information.
> R&D is very wasteful and expensive.

Therefore the government should pay for all of it. In the USA, since 1970, funding for science has declined. If we could merely get funding back to the trend line of 1930 to 1970, then the government would certainly be able to cover this kind of research. More so, it is completely incoherent for anyone to argue "We should leave this to the private sector because the private sector is more efficient than the government, but this process is wasteful and so we must grant a monopoly to whoever is willing to do this." Rather, as soon as someone says "We must grant a monopoly" they are also saying "the private sector market place has failed" and therefore they are also implicitly saying "The government should do this."
Of course, there are a few assumptions that must hold true for the simulation theory to be true:

(1) It must be possible to build a computer powerful enough to simulate the universe.

(2) It must be possible to fully simulate a human. This assumes Free Will is a facade (determinism). Also, it's worth noting that if a computer were able to simulate a consciousness as complex as a human, we would have the ability to create the singularity. So most likely, if we are a simulation, it is being run by the singularity.
This is why the word "suit" exists. There's smart people who contribute value and build companies, clever guys who make money skimming off the top off smart people via finance, and then there are suits who leach off the other two, with no redeeming value.
> "I agree that Go makes programming simple, in a matter of less than 6months, I learned how to write a webapp in Go just by using the standard library"

I've met non-technical people who were able to make a webapp in PHP after 6 days with just the standard library and the O'Reilly Head First book.
I think I'd prefer it if filing for a patent would cost like $500, or even less, but then the USPTO would reject most applications by default, instead of accepting most applications by default, as they do now.

I'd prefer a rejection bias over an acceptance one. And I think a patent costing however many thousands of dollars it does now puts some pressure on USPTO employees to accept most patents.
It would be nice if the tools and means of production were owned by the individual researchers, then.
You got me, developer2. I've been commenting with my real name on HN for 5 years just waiting for this moment, to get the $35 that Intuit will mail me for my comment.
It's true that libraries can cause performance issues, but it's not a given. Using template metaprogramming libraries (like STL and Boost in C++) can result in clean, high-level code which has very good performance. Often the "loops" and other high-level constructs are optimized right out of the program.

Also, link-time and whole-program optimization can remedy some performance issues across modules/libraries. [edit: not algorithmic problems, of course, LTO isn't going to rewrite your algorithms for you.]
After the 2nd or 3rd tablet one would think "seems like a good idea" would have become "seems like a bad idea". You also didn't even mention why you stopped using the 3 other tablets you bought after having bad experiences with your iPad2 and HP Touchpad.

Your iPad2 example sounds like a software problem? And regarding slowness, have you tried a factory reset? I have an old iPod Class gen5(?) from 2004ish which became very usable after a system update (6 months ago) and a factory reset. I use it now mostly for streaming radio from various websites, all of which load fast enough.
I've seen UNIX tools that were more robustly designed chatbots.