skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no fundamental reasons to believe that Ariane space and others can and will not reach a similar level of cost cutting by the time Space X gets anywhere near them in reliability level.
Business meetings are necessary,but the question remains-are they productive
It's important to understand why business meetings are unproductive.We then improve productivity by using these hacks-Schedule shorter meetings, get everyone to participate and focus on the agenda.
and if you wanted a little history to back up your thoughts, Henry Ford had the 999 racecar before the Ford Motor Company was founded, and Soichiro Honda was crazy about racing as well and almost bankrupted the company in pursuit of it (some dispute the closeness of it). Both felt that racing captured the hearts and minds of the public, and gave the newspapers something to write about.
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Your judgement matches my experience. I lived in the US then moved to Northern Europe.
>> "ls" is oriented for human viewing, not composition with other tools.

> Is there any basis for this claim?

Of course. For starters, there's the fact that the date modified column format depends on how long in the past it was modified! This makes it impossible for `sort` to work with.

So suggesting that the `-t` option of `ls` could be removed in favour of using `sort` is entirely wrong.

I could go on and on. There are excellent criticisms of UNIX/Linux. This is not one.
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They would say "we had no choice, it was a court order. The sheriff's department is responsible for the mistake."
Make a good impression. Don't restart meetings for stragglers
A few established meeting ground rules, an opening that sets the tone, a clear purpose and appropriate attendee engagement can make a good first impression. Start your meetings right with MeetNotes.
Bailouts are irrelevant to ordinary customers, what matters is that your account is insured by FDIC or NCUSIF.
It was "banner" for me!
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Presumably, make the date illegible so that you can claim whatever date you like. I don't quite see how that gets you anywhere. Maybe somebody who only just got the degree is trying to claim they got it 20 years ago and have been gaining experience ever since?
> Heck, I worked with someone with a mathematical PhD for years wondering how he'd never heard of Banach-Tarsky. Not that it's a specifically useful or necessary thing, just that you'd think a math-interested person would have come across it.

Math is huge. If he does have a Ph.D., he has probably forgotten more named theorems than either of us know. Banach-Tarski is one of those results that, for a pragmatic mathematician who doesn't know it's a meme-y theorem, could go in one ear and out the other.

I'd bet the average avid HN comment reader knows more about Goedel's incompleteness theorems than a big percentage of math phds.

> Or how it could be that he thought excel was a good platform for quantitative finance.

That's not surprising at all. Why would a math Ph.D. have any clue what-so-ever about how to build quantitative finance software?
A Supreme Court case involving sweeteners could have an impact on Silicon Valley
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It's more likely that the big banks will be bailed in, not bailed out. Which means your money is less safe there.

Also, credit unions have a different insurance scheme than the banks, which insulates them from this.

Finally, credit unions are more aware of possible jeapardy, and so tend to act more prudently.
Don't mess around with the court, the whole thing is Bank of America's problem, don't let them make it your fault or the courts. They have debited the wrong account, you can prove this; in the UK if this happened and they didn't return me my money I would take them to the small claims court which can be filled in online. Surely California must have this?
If they're not interested, just keep them in the loop. Show them some of the cool stuff people build every once in a while or just tell them they can automate their math homework with a simple console app. I'm pretty sure the prospects not having to do my homework by hand would've made me sit down and code instead.
The Patriarchy Hates the Moon
Trouble is, this guy is a random citizen who doesn't know much about how the law works, and so it hasn't clicked who the correct plaintiff would be for his case.

He'd probably get told who the right parties to lodge a complaint against, if there was any lawyer willing to talk to him for about 15 minutes, but the last half of the article is basically him being bounced all over California by legal professionals who won't speak to him, because he's out of their bailiwick.

It's the XY problem in legal form...
Its worth pointing out that until recently, as I understand it, most forms of product placement were not allowed in the UK. As such, many american tv shows and movies literally had scenes cut out. Turns out, it rarely seemed to affect the content, but perhaps thats because anything important got another take without the overt product placement
Using Deep Learning to Predict Lottery Numbers [pdf]
Rich guy Escapism reaching escape velocity
How do I start creating test case/test plan as a newbie?
I suspect that the main obstacle for self driving cars, if they do eventually exist, is not going to be finding use cases for them.
Reddit’s most popular books (2/10) – Part two of ten, book 101 to 200
Reddit’s most popular books (3/10) – Part three of ten, book 201 to 300
When most of your population lives in three major cities, you only need 4/100 of the top universities!

It's generally a pretty great place to live.
Bank of America – what is a SSN?
I recently came up with next problem, I did the ungly POC (proof of concept), but don't know how to properly advertise it to find to get responses (except for HN, reddit and a couple of same-type resources).
> - There is also datalog, with pydatalog it's python equivalent.

Datalog is a strict subset of Prolog that guarantees termination (over finite sets), i.e., it's not turing-complete. This makes it more suitable for knowledge representation tasks than general programming. pydatalog is a specific implementation of a datalog reasoner.
> Why would he pursue some court order he's not a party to? The only logical counterparty to this dispute is BoA.

As someone very ignorant in how to handle legal issues, as the story went on I originally thought he had to go through the court system to get his fees returned. It didn't occur to me, until the very end, that it's something he needs to dispute with BoA.

Obviously the author needs to take BoA to small claims court but it took me a little while to realize that so I can understand.
Founders Fund also put $20m in, in 2008, before the Falcon 1 reached orbit for the first time.
It's very important in the storage of hashed passwords, but not in checking the integrity of files, which is the use case here.
Obviously bank didn't even validate SSN:

“Is the last four digit of your SSN not 5189 (not the actual digits)?”

Sounds like brunt of this mistake lies with the bank.
I love this. I was always frustrated by the ever-growing-in-size Twitter app. Which is around 105 Megabytes now (aka ~73 1.44 floppies). So I welcome this.
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Inside the New Death Industry
That's true. But at the same time, it seems to me, Uber lawyers are arguing that Uber is not responsible for Lewandowski's defence strategy even when that hurts Uber. If an employee works against his company, he is usually fired. Uber his looking bad either way here.
> So you guys literally milked ideas and and code in the guise of teaching the students only to spin up another business. I loved the whole MOOC idea until it was ambushed and hijacked by people running all manner of fluffy positions.

As someone enrolled in the course, I don't think this is a very fair judgement. The TAs genuiunely seem there to help. I'm actually happy that Oliver decided to do this and wouldn't mind if more did it, more employment opportunities!

> The whole system is now bent on profiteering with marketing staff fabricating fancy outcomes and guarantees to lure people to sign up for the paid version of the course.

Oh, you mean like traditional universities? $2400 doesn't look so bad when you compare it to grad school somewhere that would teach this stuff.
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> Sorry, I should have phrased it as a positive-outcome post-Singularity environment. Mainstream audiences might not grasp the nuance between post-scarcity and post-Singularity

Post-scarcity and post-singularity are orthogonal - The Culture is both, Star Trek TNG is post-scarcity only, Rapture of the Nerds[1] (Stross & Doctorow) is post-singularity only.

1. http://craphound.com/rotn/Cory_Doctorow_and_Charles_Stross_-...
yeah, 5 minutes playing with Kerbal Space Program really highlight the fuckery that variable delta updates cause to physic based games
Making Robots from Scratch
...but not Uber CEO drunk arguing with drivers...lol
Reddit’s most popular books (4/10) – Part four of ten, book 301 to 400
That doesn't seem more convenient than "ls -abc", whatever the flags are.
35/mo is pricey but nothing compared to cable prices.

I will be interested to see what channels this will offer in the UK. If it offers all existing freeview channels + some premium ones I can see a lot of people cutting the cord.

Set my VPN to LA but still can't get in even in incognito. Not sure how it's determining location. As I have other location tracking blocked.

edit: got it working with this
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/manual-geolocation...
> walgreens does it when you buy the waldrug instead of whatever else.

How? I never noticed this. Is the ad printed on the receipt or something like that?
I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but damn that is some ugly interfaces.

This seems to be the current trend!
I've always loved BF games but with BF1 I've just kind of lost interest after about 12 hours of total play time. Not sure why but I just can't get motivated to actually play it.

It was one of the few online games I played these days, I've been sticking mostly to single-player RPG's and grand strategies.
Without knowing the law, it seems like Uber could construct a viable legal defence around admitting that they inappropriately got access to these files, while simultaneously arguing that they should not face an injunction blocking work on self-driving technology, because the current technology they're developing differs significantly enough from the proprietary tech Google is trying to claim ownership over.
In theory: the blog's author would counter argue that BoA didn't perform due diligence in checking that the order mentioned the correct person, and even then, they didn't send the notification on time. The court rules against BoA, and it's up to their lawyers to recoup the money.

In practice: BoA pays straight out of their pocket, sends those $3.4K to losses, and shuts this down before the media finds out. And based on the speed of votes this article is getting, they will find out.
I once wanted to solve a problem that is perfect for Prolog, but I wanted it in Clojure. Turns out there's a great library for that! I don't think it has the full power of Prolog (I only know of Prolog and what it does but I've never used it), but for integer constraint programming it was a joy to work with.

https://github.com/aengelberg/loco
I'm not sure I follow. The legal order required them to withdraw money from someone with a different name and SSN than who was involved in the case?

That's not a winning argument.
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Awesome. Hidden in the preferences is also the possibility to remove pictures completely!
Windows 10 adoption surges, yet businesses still hang on to Windows XP and Vista
Wow what a horror show
Well they can release something good after all. Look at the main Web UI. I don't know what they are thinking at Twitter. Its the most unintuitive UX I've ever seen.

E.g. :

Click on the Image -> Only the Image gets larger

Click on the frame around the image -> See the comments and Image is larger.
Is that really true in practice? I've been reading lots of stories like these: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160314/09374733901/isps-... that talk about how hard it is for any new player to get access to these last mile infrastructure bits. Even if the rules of renting pole space are "fair" maybe we should be encouraging competition in this space by changing them.
That's good to hear. Any idea why Debian lags behind?
One the arguments Bezos floats for space-based manufacturing is to offplanet the negative environmental consequences of industry. His premise is, the earth is for habitation, space is for industry. Certainly seems likely to be very expensive, but he also thinks he can put down a foundation of space infrastructure upon which the next generations can build upon (with the implication being to bring costs down dramatically to enable a boom in all things space). He uses the Internet as a comparison, in that he was able to do what he did, because previous generations put down a technology foundation that made Amazon possible (he didn't have to build all of that).
My mom still loves Vista best. Shes 70
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LMDDGTFY: https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=javascript%20game%20frameworks
Im shocked and amazed. Doing the same exercise on our code base right now.
didn't gnome2 use to have one?
FWIW, I imagine what happens quickly in a true self-driving car world is that we stop bothering to own cars as the cost in terms of both time and capital of temporarily renting a car only at the moment we need it makes that no longer be a relevant concern, at which point this actually is no longer an issue as the cars would be owned and maintained by the service we get the car from.
The money stands for work and resources that get wasted though.
I'd say the risk of killing someone or causing an incident is much lower when riding drunk on a bike than in a car. To cause a major accident while drunk on a bike (that doesn't only involve yourself) you need an unfortunate chain of events such as a car avoiding you and running into someone else.

For starters, I can usually go most places by bike without doing it on the same roads as cars. (I know that's rarely the case in the US though). If that's not possible, and you are so drunk you can't ride a bike (I can certainly ride a bike safer than a car while drunk simply because the speed is much slower so the reaction times are longer) - then leave the bike too. Walk or get a cab.
Lisp machines once had all it took to make better interfaces but were wiped out by the worse-is-better logic behind Unix. Now the weight of all the stuff we built on top of that makes it harder to change. And almost everyone still subscribes to worse-is-better, albeit under a different name.
This was brought up by the top-voted post: I think Blendle has something going for it, but the individual articles are way too expensive (at least in Germany). Whenever I use Blendle I'm thinking: Do I really find that article worth 79 Cents? Three articles would be the whole paper - I don't want to read the whole paper on a computer screen anyway. With this economic considerations cascade going off anytime I'm using Blendle, I actually stopped using it completely.

I want a Spotify for newspapers.
Ask HN: How much censorship is there here really?
So even if I have 231 karma points I decided to Show HN from a new account to confirm my suspicions mainly because of a recent article I read about moderation here.

I find it unreasonable that a new account's posts are [DEAD] immediately and I can only suspect that it has been hidden because it deals directly with a well known SV startup that copied the idea after my site was online.

Anybody has a similar experience? I hope this post stays a little bit online.
The mobile site looks exactly the same as it always has?
How to Get Your Team to Follow Through After a Meeting
Yes, the abonement payment is a great way to take the pain out of people's face. But most abo services have a long-a quitting period, like fitness centers usually have 6-12 months you need to pay after already deciding you don't want to anymore.

This is really bad and painful, and these service providers know that as well. But they still do it, so there must be a good reason for it.

I just suspect that abo is not the best way to make money because it also limits how much the user spends each month. For instance there may be a few months I don't spend a single cent on Steam (the computer game webshop/package manager), but when I spend, I spend a lot more than in a year of using Netflix. And even if I'm excited about Netflix, I can't give them more money (I have the biggest abo already).

Therefore I would say making money is not about the payment but about the sales process. It must be fun to buy and increase your excitement, then you'll buy more, maybe even unreasonable much. That's also why Kickstarter probably makes more money than Flattr. They enable and enforce good sales tactics with videos, picture driven articles and easily shared Kickstarter pages, while Flattr is only a button on another person's freely structured page. One increases excitement, the other doesn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYhVcO4WgI

transcript: https://genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-start...
Well, usually you get what you optimise for. Right now HN community is raising your karma, maybe from agreement, maybe out of spite. Does it make you less knowledgable?
Samsung Galaxy On7 Pro (2017) Specs Leaked on GFXBench (SM-G6154)
omg, I love the colors!
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It's satirical, parodying arguments against superhuman machine intelligence. IMO it's also not as clever as it thinks it is.
> I'm happy to provide the technical support to the customers on my Saturday night but I'm not going to tolerate any tantrums.

> At this time your only option is return Garadget to Amazon for refund. Your unit ID 2f0036... will be denied server connection.

HELL YEAH! Finally someone with the balls!

Bending over backwards - NOPE - why don't you contact support first? Why do you use course words? WELL DONE
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> Just try to solve the zebra puzzle [1] (without help if you can, esp. through any of Norvig posts or videos; they're addictive).

FWIW, I generated (using a small Python script) a bunch of zebra puzzles [1] that can be played on the browser, including the original "Einstein's Riddle" [2]

[1] https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/zebra/
[2] https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/zebra/einsteins-riddle/
If you know a little bit about legal procedure dealing with something like this shouldn't be too hard.

You'd file against your local bank based on the address of the branch you go to for an order to show cause hearing where they are tasked to show up and show cause as to why the transfer of money should go forward. You'd state the basic grounds of mistaken identity, propose a temporary restraining order barring any further action until the case is heard, and go to the court for a judge to sign the order and give instructions for service.

Once it gets on everyone's radar as a conflicting court proceeding (rather than a customer service complaint) they'd likely quickly get to the bottom of it.

It sounds really hard but it isn't, most courts in bigger cities at least will have an office where you can make an appointment to get free volunteer legal help.

Yes this will burn a couple slightly frustrating afternoons getting it together but it's eminimently possible to do, and an interesting exercise for the average person who enjoys learning how things work.
Europe in crisis? Despite everything, its citizens have never had it so good
Refuse to look at the article as it has lost all credibility on first impression of title.
Does anyone have a place/site for browsing through new/popular utilities? I've been on Ubuntu for the last year and I love it, but reading this I just realised I don't have anywhere to browse or find things like this.
Fine questions.

But super-compact code could be very practical/readable/hackable, as long as there's the prerequisite knowledge. Fewer symbols means less complexity to parse. This works, provided that those symbols map to powerful operators that can be really understood and effectively combined to produce the desired outcome.

And there's no need to scroll: perceive everything in one glance!
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Here [0] is a video link to SICP lecture 8A about Logic Programming, which accompanies the section 4.4. It's an excellent lecture!

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
I'm sure an AS400 is bigger than a human.
If you look deep enough you will find that even life on Earth is meaningless. Our very existence is just a ride on a blue-green rock inside a meat suit.

For a more 'down-to-earth' answer, we can look into the past - how did the space race, landing on the moon, etc contribute to the development of science, technology, art...
Did that have anything to do with our development as a species ?

If we manage to settle on Mars, that would mean a great deal of new technological and scientific discoveries - which we'll be able to apply here on Earth. Maybe the solutions for the problems we experience here on Earth lay on other planets ?

Other planets will follow and eventually other stars. There will probably be generations of people who live and grow on a space ship, watching space youtube and movies all their lives - set in a strange distant place called Earth.

Eventually, they will arrive on a planet far away and settle there - maybe they'll forget all about their space trip and technology - become farmers and raise space chicken - only to reinvent rockets once again thousands of years later.

Maybe this whole thing is inside our DNA ?
Makes total sense, I certainly have seen it.
This is how journalism should work. Not like the Washpo, acting as Jeff Bezos Anti-Trump propaganda machine. Don't get me wrong here, this is not a Trump fan writing, but I can't stand the biased bs media publishes these days.
I think this paper publication date (April 1, 2017) may mean something.
I wonder what the difference is between, say, SWI-Prolog, and a graph database/query system like Neo4J?
Building an AI Chip Saved Google from Building a Dozen New Data Centers
I support your idea that software is often bloated.

However, as usual you're doing the mistake of somehow thinking that you are a customer of Twitter's. Of course you're not, since you're not paying to use the service.

That turns things around so that you're the usual ad target product, meaning the app might swell to contain more candy to tease you into clicking, and so on.

Uh, and just to be clear I'm not meaning "you" in a very personal sense, this applies to me too when I use Twitter, of course. :)
Sorry I cannot see the relationship between moving industries into space and total productivity or earth becoming a paradise.

Moving things between space and earth will always be costly and people will still want to live on earth. If we can solve waste, productivity issues in space why should we not be able to also solve them on earth?
I was surprised by the number of books on CLP at a large public library. It seems that it became the main interest on "logic" programming.
He's $8 billion away from Gates at this point and moving a lot faster. It'll happen in the next 12 months.

When Amazon hits $500 billion, he'll be the richest person on earth. That's about 15% up from here, a gain likely to occur before a correction does.
Same here. I load the data using pandas or parsing the rows by hand in go. It's interesting to watch your RAM getting filled up while the data is loaded.

Looks like this tool is for non-programmers, it's interesting to see that there seems to be a market here.