skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's dispense with the "amateurs" first: the complete stack is build almost exclusively by people employed by Google, Facebook, Apple, Mozilla, and a handful of smaller, but at least as professional, companies.

Then, I don't understand the rest of the argument. Open Source software has simply won in the marketplace, mostly because of it's openness, rarely because of it's price.

Example: Operating Systems, which is the rare beast where an actual closed-source competitor still exists. Yet the Windows marketshare on the server is around 10%, and I doubt that it's the price that encourages all those Unicorns to chose Linux. Databases are a similar story.

> Neither of these necessarily implies writing or maintaining ideal tools to support web development more widely

It doesn't necessarily do that, but in the case of Google specifically, it does: they need the open web as a platform to compete against the "walled gardens" of Apple and Facebook. Their interests happen to be aligned with those of web developers, which is why Chrome has revitalised browser competition, easily beating the laser-focused team at Mozilla.

> Unfortunately, because so much of the influence is now concentrated with so few organisations or even individual people

The influence is spread out far wider today than it was at the time where Microsoft and Flash were able write APIs without asking anybody.

But, more importantly, I'm unsure what you want? A version of React that supports IE 6 and lynx? They have that, it's called XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Chrome has a flag in chrome:\\flags to enable partial matches.
"One 14-inch pizza has roughly the same area as 1 14-inch pizza..."

How enlightening!
I would take this list with a grain of salt.
There are several entries with a QE in the nineties (e. g. the Leice C with 95%) which seems implausible to me. Even more, further down the list are some entries way over 100% (e. g. Nikon D2X with 476%).
Most of the telescopes are extremely dark compared to "normal" camera lenses.
The brightest that I remember was the so called "camera Schmidt" with f/2.8.
Normal Newtonians usually are in the f/4-f/5 range.
The cassegrain and derived are around f/10.
The big aperture in the telescopes is needed for the angular resolution, certainly not for the brightness.
The thing I was trying most to emphasize was rarity. All else being equal, it seems that scarcity usually increases the value of something (I pose tentatively).
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There is a movement (also includes Wales) with funding promoting this around the world.

They're quite discrete, and I have no idea of their scale, however it is a thing. And given the peaceful premise, could vastly eclipse the niche funding achieved through the 70s, 80s and 90s during The Troubles.
Wait, what's the medium for these ads? Audio? Video? If you're watching tv in your car, sure there might be ads but are you saying that if you're reading a book you won't be able to turn off the radio or tv? That seems a bit extreme.
Photon counters were not what I had in mind when you were speaking about astronomy cameras.
I remember that around 20 years ago we had 1/100th of magnitude resolution with photon counters compared to 1/10th of the CCDs (SBIG &co.)
I'd guess the manufacturer sued and made them edit out the imagery in those segments.
As a Canadian, no thanks. As soon as something goes wrong with the relationship, you'll bail like you did on your other lover.
The general physics is that the more photons there are (big aperture and/or bright source), the more opportunity you have to have high resolution.
"... venture capitalists whose sole claim to fame is making a lot of money off a social media platform. ..."

There was the whole Netscape thing, too. I mean, way his arguments on their merits, but he's not just a random VC.
I recommend checking out https://vimium.github.io/, provides a lot of shortcuts (You don't even need to know vim despite the name). "b" brings up a box like this:

https://i.imgur.com/qqDKqZ6.png
> Court of law != court of public opinion.

This is quickly becoming older than the stupid "First Amendment only applies to government so it's okay to censor opinions we don't like!" trope. Innocent until proven guilty isn't just some quaint legal principle, it's supposed to be a foundation of American society (and many like it). The legal system is ultimately just a mirror of society; if we disdain such principles for long enough they'll disappear from the courts as well. Many people would be happy to see that happen; perhaps you're one of them, perhaps not.
are you working in related area now?
I use Pinboard (for free) to manage more than 4000 bookmarks. And I use it often, it's my personal search engine. It's great. But it can be improved a lot.
> Governments won't do anything since Uber has tons of positive externalities such as... ...They think in terms of net welfare and a few Californians having some issues at work is the least of their worries.

That's not all that's at play and ultimately, Denmark did do something: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/uber-to-pull-out-of-denmar...
ApiStar, a new Web API Framework by the author of Django REST Framework
The thing is "Scandanavia" isn't a country or any sort of meaningful confederation, more a neat way to describe a collection of geographically close countries. What's being proposed here is a country/union of some kind
I started with VIII and really enjoyed it. UII was great too, UO was just awesome. Ascension was ...different... but still I prefer it over the RPGs these days.
The Moon Machines documentary series states the rocket used to get off the moon could never be test fired to make sure that particular rocket engine worked due to the propellant used - the engine had to be rebuilt after each firing, so it was one use only for space vehicles. They compensated for this by using the simplest design possible with self igniting propellant (separate fuel and oxidizer sources).
I'd like to know how this is 'cheating'. The questions are quite simply memorization problems as the difficulty increases especially. You don't have to disclose you've seen a problem before. These types of interview questions are already terrible, and now you are expecting interviewees to intentionally make it harder for themselves.

I don't get this anti-worker attitude. However I'm not surprised to see it on HN
As a Canuck, I think this kind of thought experiment must be extremely offensive to the autonomy of Scottish people... I would be pissed if I read the same sort of thing coming from the U.S. towards Canada.

Nonetheless I love my Scottish brothers, if it were coming from you I wouldn't say no!
Bob Ross on AI Acid: Deeply Artificial Trees
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In India, specially in remote parts, kids would be seen running around without shoes. And many of them don't have access to even simple slippers.
Why regulators should focus on bankers’ incentives
Interesting. I prefer to write in high-level strongly dynamically typed garbage-collected languages when I can.

But of course I can't always do so and get the performance I want. My approach is generally to prototype in languages like Python, but implement in C89. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNTOpl30MIQ . That's 10s of thousands of times faster than our initial prototype and...

We profiled all sorts of things in order to make it that fast. Right down to cache misses, branch mis-prediction, etc, how concurrency on the CPU interacts with I/O.
I guess the "powerful" Loop-macro was not even invented yet. They do mention the overloading of the Format with some incomprehensible stuff. Which was also one of the reasons I lost interest in Common Lisp at that time in 1984.
The WWI Starch Solution for Denmark (2012)
Sounds awesome! Have you ever considered turning it into a product/service?
Why is the night sky blue? Is that really scattered starlight?
Thanks, Ill check that out.
I work for Airbnb but don't have inside knowledge of this case. If it seems like "all of a sudden" we care about discrimination, then we're not doing a good enough job of communicating.

At every level, this company cares deeply about discrimination. As the article states, this host was removed because they violated the non-discrimination policy that we believe makes our community better. It was not because of the law. (We operate in just about every country but our terms are the same worldwide.) This is not new. We have repeatedly, for years, removed hosts who we've determined are discriminating.

I can understand if from the outside it seems self-serving and seems like it's being done for PR, and I probably can't convince anyone who has made up their mind to be against Airbnb. But if you could look inside the company or be a fly on our walls, you would know. We all care extremely deeply about discrimination and we are more than willing to remove discriminatory hosts from our platform to make a better, more welcoming community.
Your comment makes me wonder if pure taxi apps like flywheel even kick licensed taxi drivers off the app for having low ratings. It's entirely possible for someone to be a totally shitty driver but still not do anything that gets their licensed revoked by the commissioning authority because it's a purchased asset.
That is valid only for point sources.
Stars are not points when seen in a telescope because of airy disks, atmospherical scattering and imperfections in the optics.
If you have perfect optics, you are outside of the atmosphere and the only limit is the airy disk then yes, for point sources you don't have that problem.
Now, are you saying that a valley is a point source?
Yes. I managed a team and had to hire many people. My company provided me with a mountain of data that was broken down by location, job title and years of experience. The data was pretty accurate, at least for San Francisco, but I have no way of knowing if the other locations were correct.

Two stupid things on their part...I got headcount, not a budget. So when negotiating salary, it wasn't in my best interest to haggle. I'd rather have happy relationships with my direct reports than know that I screwed them out of a few dollars on behalf of the company. Had they made it my duty to make the numbers add up, I might have been a bit more frugal. Oh, and they didn't filter the data to only show me positions below my title. So I went into my reviews armed with the exact market salary data that the company used to negotiate with me.
No one else here disturbed that a intellectually handicapped girl who was abandoned by the system has been turned into a dancing monkey for HN's amusement.

Surely the discussion here should be more about what a horrific system exists in parts of India that handicapped people are turned into stories.

Do I really need to spell it out it's an abandoned handicapped girl found near monkeys????

The doctor says when she was brought in she was near starving (video)? Were the monkeys looking after her or not?

This is a common fairy tale, seriously people, what is wrong with you that you can't see the real story here. It's about poverty, people not dealing with mental illness and broken systems???

The fact doctors even allowed her to be filmed for your amusement shows they are not very well trained.
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in this case the middleman is telling a different story between the user and driver. uber is, allegedly, charging the user a higher price while showing the driver a lower price so that they are pocketing extra money that should be going to the driver. say uber takes 10% off each transaction by contract. if they charge the user $10 but show the driver the ride is $8, then by paying the driver $7.20 instead of the deserved and agreed upon via contract $9.00, then they are skimming "hidden" money. this is highly deceptive.

this is how a middleman in a more seedy emplyment scenario gets their fingers chopped off because they're making extra money on the side from the business transactions.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Official support for installing Mesosphere DC/OS on Ubuntu Server.

- DESCRIPTION: Ubuntu is the leading Operating System for cloud environments and scale-out applications. DC/OS is a natural expansion of the capabilities of the hybrid cloud since Mesos is suitable for running traditional workload alongside container. However, after one year since the DC/OS Project launch backed by Canonical, installing DC/OS on Ubuntu still consider a hack.
https://jira.mesosphere.com/browse/DCOS_OSS-25
https://jira.mesosphere.com/browse/DCOS_OSS-904

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Hi. Since you brought up privacy.. Where exactly does Foursquare gather its location data from for these enterprise reports? Is it exclusively from "checkins" on Foursquare apps, or does it include locations provided via lookups to the Foursquare API places database from various 3rd party apps?

I've always wondered how deep the data could be if it was just Foursquare checkins, given the decline in usage of the apps. Yet I only ever hear about "billions of checkins" as the source. Not billions of queries. It doesn't quite add up for me.

I kind of feel that if Foursquare is tracking user locations via apps that use its API, that should be more clearly stated. Is it? Thanks.
I'm unsure if this Maker's Triangle thing applies to OSS. But if it does, it's my impression that it's usually the "Fast" that is abandoned, not the "Good".

But how does that apply to Chrome, or React? Is there any indication that Chrome carries more technical debt than, say IE7? Similarly, in what way does Facebook need people to adopt React, and would that matter enough to accept such compromises? Is there any indication that their code quality is inferior to <pick whatever commercial js library you want>?

And if this is the complaint about churn, that, at this time would be older than our js stack if it were true: React came out in 2013, it's four years old. Before that, most people probably used JQuery, which came out in 2006, i. e. 11 years ago. Is learning a new library every five years too much, considering this is one of the most dynamically evolving ecosystems of technology?
> Who's 'she'?

The feral girl.

> Anyway, I think you ought to rethink your claim that Chomsky is the father of cognitive science and of modern linguistics.

He is one of the founders of cognitive science, and a major contributor to linguistics.

So his claim is factually true.
Name another language + tooling ecosystem where you can do ALL of: * Perform automatic refactoring of a 100k+ LOC project and be confident that absolutely nothing breaks. * Reliable edit and continue in the debugger. * Fast incremental compile times. * Easily pull in third party libraries without messing with include-dirs, link-dirs and whatnot, and automatically get the documentation built in and ready for autocompletion.

I won't list all other things you can do but no other popular language even come close to the tooling of Java or C#. C and C++ has too many different build systems and too much lazy evaluated templates and typecasts for the IDEs to handle well. Python, Ruby, JS, PHP...well they are all dynamic so good luck with fancy IDE features.
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If I understand this article correctly in 10 years all these big software companies that never managed to make a 2d UI logical, intuitive and coherent will try to put the same shit (but in 3d ... yeah) directly in my brain ?

Hell no.

And at one point I'm going to start to believe the conspiracy theories about "their" plan to implement the Matrix IRL ...

Color me not unenthusiastic for a world where our lives are even more sucked up by virtuality.
If you look back, I made a statement about the number of photons collected. I totally understand that camera people, who have a shitload of photons available most of the time, don't think about them like astronomers do. But if it's very dark, it becomes astronomy.
Ask HN: What is your favourite Data Backup Service and why?
Also, the same "CA" abbreviation would still work.
'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel'
I have hundreds of bookmarks stored across dozens of folders based on topic. I've been burned in the past with Google changing their search algorithm and not being able to find material easily, so I just bookmark everything I want to refer to later now. To that end, I primarily use Firefox and periodically archive them using the "Import and Backup" option from the bookmarks folder. That works alright as it produces an HTML file with the entries, but I'd like something more program independent. Does anyone know a good utility for offline archiving of bookmarks in a mostly browser independent way?
Yeah, U7 and U7 part 2 were my main jams as a kid. I remember also playing Martian Dreams And Savage Empire but they were in the U6 interface which In comparison was tortuous. Perhaps Im just spoiled. I did enjoy the U5 and U6 remakes but they tended to crash a lot making it hard to actually play through.

I still haven't ever tried the FF franchise games. I'll have to try that. Thanks for the rec.
Online Booking and Reservation system will make you tons of cash. Here’s how?
Yes, the resolution is given by the diffraction limit of the optics that is dependent by the diameter.
But resolution is different from brightness.
If you tried to take a video of the same scene with a telescope chances are that the final result would have been darker, even using the same camera.
Granted that it would have had a much much better resolution (but a much much smaller FOV)
The first company to provide a total and credible alternative to a human driver will probably capture most of the market. There is little reason to believe this will happen precisely simultaneously. Even a relatively short lead could be a massive advantage.

Also arguably the company providing the contact with the customer is more of a commodity. Certainly its the easiest aspect to replace. 100 companies could handle that tomorrow with existing tech for example. I can imagine people using a service that shops a bunch of car services and lets you connect with any of them.
I worry about the refugees streaming from the rump USA into California, most of whom would not be prepared for the harsh Sierra conditions.
Such a miserable attempt to pretend it wasn't fake. Hey guys, it's almost fifty years since then, it's ok now to admit that your hoax worked out incredibly well, but noone gonna believe this bs now.
Having macOS in there would have made it perfect.
So Americans will never amend the US constitution to allow a state to secede?
SpaceX patenting ITAR-covered technology is a landmine of problems.
I thought that California and Oregon were supposed to join China, like a large, distant Hong Kong.
India has a space program and modern military, so why don't they fund "slippers" and such basic needs for population?
Great work and paper. The fact 53% of the Tor relays have either shared prime factors or non-standard RSA components is worrying. This kind of research is mandatory.
> Numerous stories of feral children ...

"Feral children?" How amusing; is that an actual phrase?

It evokes a domesticated species of rug-rat, bred in the wild.
The breakup of the React package into a bunch of smaller modules really puts packages that treat React as a peer dependency in a pickle. I have a component module using createClass that works fine and exports a transpiled bundle in package.json. I guess now we'll have to switch to create-react-class, or maintain some kind of "backports" release series for people that are still using older React versions but want bugfixes.

Anyone have experience with this sort of thing?
> Probably because it requires sockets to be kept open.

HTTP2 requires kept-open sockets, not server push. HTTP1.1 already supports keep-alive sockets btw, and CDNs have survived that DDoS attack :)
They mention it's large format so over 100 mm sensor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_format
We have this exact argument at my company.

The parking is insufficient and costs money, so the drivers would like cheaper more plentiful parking.

The non-drivers catch the bus or pay extra to live in the surrounding suburbs so they can walk in.

Neither side will see the others point of view.
One would think with all the money the military throws into imaging technology that they would already have this.

For Special Operations use, it'd be nifty to have this technology digitally composited in real-time with MWIR imaging on the same wearable device. Base layer could be image intensification with this tech, then overlay any pixels from the MWIR layer above n temperature, and blend it at ~33% opacity. Enough to give an enemy a nice warm glow while still being able to see the expression on their face. Could even have specially made flashbangs that transmit an expected detonation timestamp to the goggles so they know to drop frames or otherwise aggressively filter the image.

Add some active hearing protection with sensitivity that far exceeds human hearing (obviously with tons of filtering/processing), and you're talking a soldier with truly superhuman senses.

That's not to mention active acoustic or EM mapping techniques so the user can see through walls. I mean, USSOCOM is already fast-tracking an "Iron Man" suit, so I don't see why they wouldn't want to replicate Batman's vision while they're at it.
> Additionally isn't there more analysis ? What are some scenarios ? I mean crashing after a failed launch attempt on the moon would perhaps be less disastrous than on earth, but can you realistically hope to survive a fall of several kilometers ?

I am not an expert, but I guess that the letter was mostly intened to cover cases where the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_Propulsion_System failed to ignite at all, or perhaps sputtered early enough that the astronauts had a relatively soft landing after failing to make orbit.
Ultima 4 was the pinnacle of the series. It's also very different than most RPGs, it's about figuring out the virtues of the world and sticking to them. I'd suggest that one.
So you think astronomers are too stupid to trade resolution for brightness? Hint: downsample your image: you won't lose too much as long as the dark current isn't too large.
Douglas Crockford might have some answers for you; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGEjv3Tqo0.. It makes the developer favor inheritance over composition.
I remember finding a casino in one of Ultima7 islands, I made so much gold out of the roulette that it became a problem stocking it and carrying it around Britannia.
Well, when you're older, with iffy teeth, flossing removes trapped food that will cause inflammation and pain, the next day. That's personal experience.
The USA without California is screwed. The USA with California screws California while insulting us.

Do you think that the problem is California or the rest of the USA?
Although correct use of the feature is still debatable, interoperability with CDNs is not. The link header standard is the de-facto way to communicate with frontends about what to push.