skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa, time warp to a previous life...

Whatever you decide about his beliefs, Nagel is a wonderful writer. Pick up a copy of Mortal Questions if you get a chance.
How does a potential AirBnB "landlord" ensure the potential "tenant" isn't going to wreck the house? In a normal year-long lease, you can run background checks, credit checks, verify employment. Are you really suggesting we should do that for a weekend long AirBnB?
...one day I'm hoping they'll release all the cut footage from the, um, learning experiences of the early Falcon 1 and 9. I'm sure that they've cleaned up the broken frames and there'll be lots of fascinating fireworks.
Net Neutrality Is Trump’s Next Target, Administration Says
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Because if one works well, why stop there?

Amazon isn't some tech startup with only a few hackers to focus on supporting their core product. They can easily maintain support for their core offerings while building out/up.

As to why: why not? In this day and age, why let anyone have a slice of something you have the recources and reach to do far better and cheaper than them?
No, he was just doing an elevator pitch on reusability. Has probably done that thousands of times now so it will sound a bit scripted.
Domino's delivery robots are invading Europe
I believe they do. That's why AirBnB advertises the policy mentioned in the article. The problem is AirBnB appears to make it very difficult to make a successful claim.
That doesn't add up: SpaceX will be able to use a chunk of their savings to outbid their competitors for launch capacity. So any premium paid by a competitor would have to be passed on to their customers to stay afloat whereas SpaceX would merely give a slightly lower discount.

SpaceX really caused some sleepless nights today with the executives of other rocket companies they are several years away from being able to begin to play catch-up. This was one very long bet SpaceX made and it paid off today and will continue to pay off for years to come.
I recently canceled my membership after a year. I love the idea, and the food is good too, but the dish prices have skyrocketed recently. Now I know why. I liked to order 4 or 5 dishes and eat them over the next couple days for lunch and dinner. It tastes way better than frozen food, and is better quality than prepared dishes I could pick up at the grocery. However, their model seems to actively punish ordering multiple dishes. They have raised dish prices rather than delivery fees, and their rewards program rewards you per order rather than for dollars spent. Regardless, $10 is a psychologically significant limit for me per meal, and while they used to have a number of dishes under this price point, very few are now.
2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports
Oh absolutely. I didn't mean it as a negative. It was just an observation
You're completely changing the argument.

I said wealthy people prevent sensible, non-regressive taxes. You said that can't be right because rich people don't pay taxes. I showed you that they pay millions in taxes, on average.
I've seen many non-technical professionals using iPad's. In many cases they are replacing laptops in meetings. They are used in manufacturing environments. They are used in hospitals, airports etc etc. That said, my 80 year old grandmother learned to be pretty proficient on an iPad in a matter of a few hours, so I'm not really that concerned about people being able to pick up general tablet usage outside of school.
Ooooops. Shows me. I turned it off to leave work.
It just depresses me seeing how many people don't have the slightest clue why this is something incredibly remarkable - the complexity behind each and every component, process, research and engineering making this possible - and then start bitching about the new Emoji set on their smartphone
Meeti APP
I agree that darwinism is overused to explain everything but materialism seems inescapable -- especially for atheists. I think even Nagel agrees with "Inference to the Best Explanation" and so far I've never seen a single case of anything better explained than the materialist explanation.
For nostalgia's sake, here's Elon's speech to employees after the first successful launch of Falcon 1 (flight 4), in 2008 at Kwajalein Atoll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQhtMrUQlE&t=32m30s

(speech begins at 32:30, in case link doesn't work)
Amazon retail has a reputation for allowing marketplace sellers onto their site then cloning things that sell well [1].

If they'll do it for their marketplace sellers, why shouldn't they do it with their technology partners?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-20/got-a-hot...
Oculus doesn't have room scale, and just got touch recently. It's easier to setup something with half the functionality.
Yes it is extremely hard, which may make the ham-fisted way more practical.
No, you could actually here the person counting down and then telling him he was on.
As is "Psychology Replication Crisis".
It is far worse than other nonsense. Can you think of one advantage of computer technology in the classroom? Tech company PR is really good, but edu tech is really just part of the corporate takeover of education that's happened over the last few decades.

Additionally, almost all technology will be superseded by AI in the future, which means that training young kids in technology is literally preparing them for unemployment. At best, kids trained in tech will be used as flesh-and-blood beta versions of future AIs. I would go as far to say that exposing kids unnecessarily to technology is a form of child abuse. A very rounded education is preferable to being unemployed and tech-literate, bitter at the AI that is doing the job that you trained for.
How to define a visual prototype?
It's just a term referring to a shitty post.
Awesome,

Shameless plug we just released our app today that would not be possible if it weren't for Apollo.

If you're interested in exploring fashion, check out Nelo on the app store:

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/nelo-shop-tv-fashion-and-dre...
> Apologies to my neighbors who I surely woke up.

Of Course They Still Love You ;).
>Eventually I realized that I was never grokking things with mathematics beyond a certain point. I was in office hours with the professor, asking how I could generalize the concept to a new problem. He said "just use your critical thinking skills! That's what employers are looking for."

That's the introvert's version of "just be yourself, you're overcomplicating it" -- i.e. just draw on innate skills that I have without realizing and you don't.
Are you sure you meant to reply to my comment and not some other one? Because the argument that you're arguing against (that there is some 'just' distribution of wealth) was not the one I was making (though I'd be happy to make that one too if you'd like).
They are still a ways off from having something comparable to SpaceX. New Glenn might have a test launch in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn
Fair enough, probably right. He just seemed really calm for what just happened. Like no emotions. :) Maybe he was just flipping out and not sure how to react yet.
Is there a reason you're doing this stuff manually instead of using something like Elastic Beanstalk or Lambda on AWS (or the equivalents on Azure or Google)?
“I’m the Guy Who Created Bulletproof Coffee–This Is My Morning Routine”
How can you provide evidence to support a philosophical viewpoint? Such questions are unavoidably subjective.
Most of the dishwashers I've seen don't actively drive the rotating spray bar. It's spun by the water running through it and being ejected through angled holes.

You'd need to run a air blower into the same plumbing to make it do anything, and you'd need a fair bit of air to produce the same thrust.
Neither. Just import a singleton root store and reference it directly.
Interesting to note that AirBnB is screwing over both hosts AND guests.

As long as things go well it's fine. The moment there's a problem it's a nightmare.

https://bkpk.me/why-the-risk-of-airbnb-is-not-worth-it-anymo...
> Marketing expense: $19.9bn

Here I go tilting at this windmill again...

"Selling, marketing, and administrative expenses" (SMA) is not just marketing or advertising. It is all the costs of operating the company that are not either R&D or direct costs of producing products sold.
Yeah it would be a real Cultural Revolution
Just one for both! When online, please check out my talk. I cover all of this and more about how we host Kubernetes at Google.
RankPL – A qualitative probabilistic programming language
The reason refugees as a concept is particularly singled out, is because they tend to be a wave by definition, which is much more difficult to handle than routine immigration.

It's why China is so afraid of destabilizing or allowing North Korea to collapse. Refugee waves have caused immense problems pouring out of Venezuela (and into other poor or semi-poor bordering nations completely unable to deal with it). Countries like Jordan, Ethiopia and Lebanon have had vast refugee problems that have overwhelmed them very substantially.

In fact, if you go down the list of countries with the most refugees, they're all countries that are among the least equipped financially to handle it: Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Uganda, Chad.

Turkey has taken in perhaps two million refugees in just the last six years. They have a median income around 1/5th to 1/7th that of Canada or the US. They're completely unable to absorb that many refugees. Lebanon has 200+ refugees per 1,000 citizens currently, the notion that that isn't a problem is absurd, it's the very definition of overwhelmed.

It's anything but ridiculous, it's a not uncommon history of refugee waves spanning thousands of years.
Doesn't airbnb offer a $1M guarantee? I guess it is really a guarantee* subject to exclusions and NDAs.
Very cool project!

"I am quite desperately looking for an EPROM programmer capable of reading and writing 2708 type EPROMs since I am afraid that the 2708 EPROMs on this board will loose their contents - the are already about 20 years old."

It's not very hard to build your own programmer/verifier (reader) ... if you can't find schematics then message me. But this is very important. Those EPROMs are are erased by shining UV light through the window in the package ... get some UV opaque material over those windows immediately and stop leaving them in the light.

In the mean-time, I'll dig around in my basement and see if I still have the correct programmer for that part (I vaguely remember using it to restore my COSMAC ELF to operation).
If Amazon had governed its growth by deciding just to stay at where it "is", it'd still just be an online bookseller. And you'd be asking "why should they move into digital services? They're in a unique position to sell books online with low risk."

Amazon has the potential to distupt nearly any service it wants to. The "risk" analysis and assessment is something they can handle - besides, the "riskier" applications they can just bide their time on and see how/whether they pan out for competition.

Anything Amazon can undercut by having a wider service available on its platform, is just another bag of money they'd be leaving sitting on the table. And Amazon doesn't leave money on the table.
JS is almost never the "best" tool for any job. But the browser is (arguably) the most pervasive environment, reaching the largest audience, so JS has the farthest potential reach of any tool. That is the trade off of web development -- pick a sub-optimal tool in exchange for highest potential market share.

In other words... No. But experimenting with JS still can have value.
We do that with my agence Mozza (mozza.io) but it doesn't work if you do nothing in the meantime. You can deleguate a part of your work and get guidance, but ultimately you can't replace the effort you and your team will put in building the right product by understand your users.
How a Hollywood Mogul Found True Happiness
The legs are only flown once and are replaced in their entirety, they take the brunt of the impact from landing and may suffer non-elastic deformation.
Some very pretty pictures there!

I often write fractal renderers when I'm bored, usually batch rather than interactive ones. My most recent was able to parallel draw using several hundred servers, it was great fun.

Next steps for me after mandelbrot, on my most recent run, were the burning ship fractal, then fractals using floating point (Glynn Trees) and imaginary exponents, then Pickover Biomorphs (which I love to look at) Never quite got my phoenixes working....

And then I got some real work to do !
I agree with you: everyone else will be playing catch-up, probably for a decade.

But what I mean is say I have a payload I want to launch. I go to spaceX and they say they can put my payload on their manifest for 2019 for $60 million. I go to another provider and they say they can get me up into orbit in 2018 for $120 million. If I'm a government and don't care so much about the cost, but do care about getting my payload into space, I'll go with the 2018 date.

So, there will still be other non-reusable providers out there. For example, European governments want to keep Ariane around regardless of the cost to keep the launch capability around (for national security issues).
It was just because they went from crazy cheering to utter silence. If they had have kept the feed from the main room mixed in, it would have felt like "normal tv"
Recently I was fiddling with Julia sets. I find the HTML5 canvas quite comfortable to work with, and after implementing the renderer as a WebGL shader, it was a snappy update/refresh/get feedback loop.

Javascript is a nice hacking tool if you keep it in the browser.
Just click back in the video on the linked page.
You may think it is perfectly reasonable to have the customer sign an NDA before the warranty work or guarantee is fulfilled, but I find it dishonest and ridiculous.
My family has "adopted" a Syrian family and I'm working with them to help them integrate in Canada (Toronto to be exact). The biggest challenge they face is the language barrier (although they are well educated). They barely speak any English. We don't know how long it will take them to be fluent in English, but they surely will not be employable within 1 year.

I met another newly arrived Syrian through them and that gentleman speaks perfect English and is an IT guy. He came here with several certifications (VMWare, PMP, MCSE, MCSD, etc). Settling down will be a relative walk in the park for him.

If anyone from Toronto is able to guide an IT guy with those certifications, please let me know.
I definitely programmed TP 1.0 in mixed case on a TRS-80 Model II running CP/M.
SpaceX is still struggling with launching frequently and reliably. I'm hopeful that they will solve those problems, but until they do, other launch providers will have a leg up for customers who really need their payload not to be destroyed and really need it to be launched on time. Keep in mind that some of these satellites being launched cost hundreds of millions of dollars, so paying a few tens of millions extra for a more expensive launch provider isn't necessarily a big deal.
Thank you for the response. I am planning on adjusting touch location on next update. Other option is to make a separate controller and fire button somewhere near the bottom. Thanks again!
hello down there at the bottom :D the funny thing is there was no "aws" until Amazon wrote their "app"
I'm kind of impressed that you managed to turn this into an opportunity to whine about your own continuing education.

Also, just FYI doctors already have to do continuing education to maintain a license, which cuts into the time they can spend researching new drugs.
It sounds like maybe they renamed it to be a feature in "FogBugz Dev Hub":

http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/devhub
Yes, but those launches would be subsidized, so technically loss leaders which you should not even want to compete with. SpaceX is in business with first mover advantage of a kind you can only dream of.
Because neither of you cited any material to substantiate your claims, I did some Googling.

As someone with little bias on this topic and no prior knowledge of the "Hijrah" from Mecca to Medina, page 1 of Google for multiple queries returned both versions of the story; a peaceful one and a violent one.

> It is quite literally one of the least contentious pieces of Islamic history.

That doesn't appear to be true.
There was also outrage within /r/The_Donald as well, because it sounded like a scam and people suspected one of the mods of trying to do a money grab.
And when, say, an amazing archeological artifact is uncovered, we probably won't appreciate the complexity that went into that, and the folks at ArcheologistNews will be pissed.

There are so many fields and so many complex processes. I can assure you that any one of: the world of power transmission, or offshore oil drilling rigs, or commercial shipping, or chemical process design and optimization, or tons of other stuff, is enough to warrant an entire "HN".

So don't expect people to appreciate it all. But what we can appreciate is the fact that you and I don't need to understand archeology to contribute to society ;)
100% agree:
"Sets wtf is a set

I’m not really going to get into set theory because I don’t know anything about it tbqh, but maybe it’s worth a mention? Wonder what would be a really good succinct but not wrong explanation of set theory…"

"Sets wtf is a set", I don't know Bob, what is grammar, and why doesn't your article have any?
"lol, sets? one of the fundamental sections of mathematics? Wut r those lel? who cares I do js, fuck learning about what's going on when you're here to write a trite, subpar blog post on the subject".

"...but maybe it's worth a mention?" I don't know, is literally one of the fundamental parts of the underlying mathematics important?
"...Wonder what would be a really good succinct but not wrong explanation of set theory…" Here's an idea, take literally 3 seconds, or the minimal amount of effort you have and search 'introduction to set theory'. I can almost guarantee that there is a plethora of fantastic resources out there. Hell, Wikipedia is often more than adequate for mathematics topics. Also, unless you're a James Joyce tier writer, this stream of consciousness style writing is exceedingly poor form and should be avoided. It adds nothing and really only serves to tell the reader how little you know.
You can not compare all launches. Most of these launches are not competitive. SpaceX mostly competes with Arianspace for the truly commercial launches. SpaceX has captured around 50% of that market and the share is increasing.

ULA competes mostly on the Air Force launches. They still have capabilities that SpaceX does not have (large fairings) and some that SpaceX will not have for a long time (vertical integration). For these cases, ULA will still have a market, plus the Air Force always needs to have two providers.

SpaceX will however take quite a chunk out of ULA as we have already seen with the bidding for the GPS flights.

Orbital ATK will have hard time in the commercial market but they might be happy with just flying the COTS contracts.

The main issue SpaceX has to solve is flight rate, that is most of the reason others can still be on the commercial market at all. SpaceX is now so far away from everybody else on price, everybody else is still in the "developing a new vehicle and we have some ideas about reversibility, maybe" stage.

SpaceX can now launch a reusable core for around 50 million, and still make a nice profit. The target price for both ULA Vulcan and Arian 6 are 100 million. For Arian that does not even include the massive amount of development cost. Arianspace will survive because of the political imperative.
More "worthless" than "shitty".

Some people call posting humorous nonsense on Facebook or Twitter as "shitposting" as well. Doesn't add anything, but can be amusing in small doses.
It appears like Dropbox has ~2X the revenue of box with possibly higher costs in marketing and sales, since their investors are pushing for growth. Assuming these higher costs to be nullified by operating their own datacenters, their (fair) valuation is ~$5B. Anyone still wondering why they aren't hurrying to an IPO, what with a plum $10B private valuation and all
... for Block 5, which is the next version after this one. They've learned stuff since they started landing and examining them. First Block 5 launch is perhaps the end of this year.
Analog computers perform a few, specific operations at full-speed that take quite a few components to do in digital with them only running at a specific, clock rate. Combining them with digital computers that feed them problems and measure the answers can be quite powerful. See especially the math-coprocessor at first link. The neural simulation at second is illustrative where one wafer (300+ chips) of analog NN's took 294,912 cores to simulate. That's full-custom, high-end digital stuff rather than the average stuff. Analog also gets used a lot in mixed-signal ASIC's where specific things are cheaper or lower power per unit in analog so they mix digital and analog.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/friday_squid_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731697

EDIT to add: The paper below is a short history of them that gives examples whose benefits are consistent with other stuff I linked to. Some really cool stuff there, too. :)

http://oro.open.ac.uk/5795/1/bletchley_paper.pdf
Scroll down, https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc
That's true, but overall their failure rate is really not all that bad. Only the Russians are doing better and they're doing better because they are not innovating at all.

I could 3 out of 33 as failures, one of those is a partial failure.

The only area where SpaceX really can't compete yet is manned flight, everything else looks quite rosy.
I definitely agree that Canada has a great social safety net and is a better place to live. Those costs you mentioned do add up. I will most likely be working full time in Canada because of those reasons. The vast majority of peers though might not because of the UPFRONT lack of competitiveness from Canadian companies.

Correct me if I'm wrong but is it not the purpose of taxes to fund these services. I actually had to pay Canadian income taxes this year in addition to US taxes, even though I had no income in Canada. I totally understand and accept this as it helps maintain everything that is great about where I live.

I'm not seeing how valuing an Engineer less solves the issue of funding social services. If anything a higher income for an Engineer would mean that they would be paying more in taxes to also fund those services. Does an Engineer in Canada not provide the same financial benefit for the institution where they work, compared to if they were to work in the US? I feel like there are set income brackets that companies have established that have not been modernized to adapt to the changing marketplace. It just so happens that being a competent Computer Scientist is a valuable skill at this point in history because of the potential upside they can provide for a company and companies are not acknowledging this.
An artist named John Whitney made the world's first computer motion graphics in the 1950s using an analog computer that was converted from a WWII anti-aircraft gun control system. The results looked like this:

https://youtu.be/TbV7loKp69s

In the 1960s IBM hired him to work on digital computer animation concepts, and he gave up on the analog system. But it's interesting how the technical complexity of the work dipped for years while he had to wait for IBM's general-purpose digital systems to catch up with the capabilities of the analog computer setup.