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What do you call traditional social networks ? To me a traditional social network is an AFK thing.

If you're internet connection goes down, power goes out, you get DDoS'D this would hinder your ability to use any third party online service anyways.
The data cap and ISP restrictive terms of service are a different problem that would be challenged and fixed given internet subscriber would go the p2p self host way. The commercial ISP situation is a terrible mess right now.
If you got hacked unplug from network, boot from recovery, restore from backup, you're back online in less time than it takes to recover a hacked facebook account.

You say decentralized but it seems to me you meant distributed here.
Indeed. The 18 rotors in two concentric circles (6 in the inner, 2 x 6 in the outer) are each driven by an independent engine, and they're operated by many power trains that supply rotors on opposite sides. So, if a rotor fails (or actually up to 4), no prob, still controllable for expedient landing.
If a power train fails, same.
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It's like a drone with GPS. It stays where it is unless you touch the joystick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazFiIhwAEs
I'm not too sure. There seems to be a spot for more niche search engines on the market. Take DuckDuckGo for example, it doesn't have that much of a market share, but it's a good option for people who care a lot about their privacy.

I would also consider WolframAlpha to be in a similar category as Google in the sense that they're "answer machines". I think there's a market opening for a search engine with the wisdom (knowing what you're looking for) of Google with the Intelligence of WolframAlpha (being able to draw curves that look like Darth Vader).

For example if you search "Darth Vader curve" in WA, you'll get this: http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Darth+Vader+curve&x=0&y=0

But if you can't remember exactly what it's called and search "Darth Vader graph" you'll just get redirected to the page for Darth Vader. Ideally, a WA would know what I'm looking for ("Darth Vader curve") and show it to me instead.
I think the difference is that you can use the APIs of any bank as long as you fulfill some standard criteria; each bank can't set their own, or pick and choose who can "partner" with them to use the APIs. At least, that's my understanding.
Well, the article says hybrid fusion/fission but maybe it is still a big leap forward.

Point is, according to my reading the IFR promised clean energy which is much safer than light water reactors in 1994 not X years into the future.
Sorry buddy, that ship has already sailed. Terms become popular because they are useful. We all know cloud means "a remote computer accessed over the internet", but that is rather cumbersome phrase. "Cloud" says it in 5 characters. Can you suggest a better term?
I get so frustrated reading anything in the popular press about nuclear power. Everyone commits the same fucking fallacy over and over again: measuring it against an absolute idea instead of anything in the real world. Even here in the HN comments, I see "if it can be made safe." In TFA, it's the explanation that people are afraid of a three mile island or Chernobyl event, that his killer feature is the impossibility of meltdowns.

Here in the real world, you have to measure options against other real world options. The other real world options we have for baseload power on this scale are fossil fuels, primarily coal. Coal plants emit much more radiation than nuclear plants - even old ones. There's lots of research about HOW MUCH more radioactive coal power is, but we're talking about anywhere from 50-200% more. Coal power is responsible for 800,000 deaths per year, WHEN IT'S WORKING PROPERLY. That's the bar nuclear, and any other alternative baseload power source, has to beat. It doesn't have to failure proof, it doesn't have to have zero deaths. It just has to be significantly better than the alternatives.

Refusing to consider a power source unless it has zero deaths, zero radiation, zero side effects for all time, is living in a fantasy world. It's the paradigm promoted by the fossil fuel industry, and bought hook line and sinker by the dumber end of the environmentalist movement. And it keeps us from ever decreasing our power generation carbon footprint.
It's generally a "read only" view, i.e. you can get account info etc. Root is a "write" API. So you can actually create and modify transactions.
What is it with "capacity factors" that seems to confuse people? It's a relatively simple concept, but all over the net I see people turn it into big mystical numerological nonsense.

It's not the capacity factors of solar and wind that make them not able to follow flexible demand. Just like it's not the capacity factor of nuclear that also makes it unable to follow flexible demand.

Is it really just because it's a lower number than the alternatives, people just latch onto that and won't let go?

Some nuclear plants have some level of load following capability (though the cost are fixed so this can be less economic than a nuclear plant that runs 100%) but still not enough to precisely match demand, so what are you going to fill the rest in with? You've just explained how natural gas is horrible and causes explosions so I guess it won't be that.

"Base load" is another weird chimera, but that's not what I was suggesting natural gas be used for except in the short term to help phase out coal as quickly as possible. It has a medium term role in rapidly responding to demand to fill the gaps and has a similar potential role in a nuclear dominated grid. France appears to use natural gas and hydro in this role, both of which are regularly demonised by nuclear fans, which seems a bit self-contradictory to me.
Nothing. We know it's messy, but React doesn't really provide a better way of doing this.

Context is barely mentioned in the docs, "not recommended" by the devs. Redux is incredibly verbose and overcomplicated. Passing "global" things down in props is just madness (if everything needs it).

Personally I use context, or a singleton (which is just a hidden global really). It's naughty, but usually required for one or two things per application.

FP folks aren't sages hiding in caves who we all wait to come down from the mountains once a year with their crusty wisdom...
Don't know for sure, but considering you can run the blades at higher RPM due to the smaller radius vs approaching the speed of sound, it might be better. (also redundancy).
what about, for a change, US didn't bomb yet another state and civilians into oblivion for something suspiciously well timed with trump domestic issues (Waging dog movie again, anybody?).

In fact, please stick your crappy US ideals somewhere deep and keep it there. Nobody in this world cares about them anymore, you guys lost all the credit for next 100 years already. US has nothing to give to this world anymore in terms of freedom. Many countries are way ahead. US ideals in face of US reality are nothing but a sad joke.

Just. Keep. Away.Your. Fucking. Armies.
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Are you implying that only speech that has some "cultural value" is to be free?
Could you name a few such open source projects ?
>Imagine huge, modular atmospheric/solar/geothermal/battery/molten salt combination generator/energy storage plants dotting the globe

Or space elevators, or flying cars.
Ask HN: What reporting tools do you use, and what are the pain points with it?
That's hilarious! Do you have a link to an article about it by any chance?
> Web apps today just get rewritten every two years.

Your startup either dies or lives long enough to become a hodgepodge of ten different frameworks.
Uh

> comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit [...] a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills
They are mentioning doing a fusion reactor but there are no details. Lower down the page they mention that the startup will be actually using a fission-fusion process, so they are not talking about classic self sustained fusion that we haven't been able to maintain yet. They are using the fusion word a bit lightly. Fusion is a big deal.
The early web was devoid of average users. Then the flow of newcomers and not knowing better users surpassed the old timers and knowledgeable users.
Then we entered a leveling downward race to a web tailored to their needs because they're the large majority.
Being in a high risk group isn't grounds for involuntary commitment.
to code a machine learning library from scratch, you must first invent the universe
Sadly, the sort of activists we're talking about here seem to believe that their activism should pervade every aspect of their lives.
I guess, it purely depends on what you hope to achieve. If you're going to spend a few months learning how ML works, sure you'll benefit immensely. But if you're planning to apply in some field/area, writing your own library and making sure it's better than others, well, it's not going to be easy or fast..
>What is the legal action for verbally harassing someone

There is no 'legal' action. There is Twitter's right as a private entity to enforce its property rights. I can't tell what's causing this irrationality and whataboutism.
scikit-learn is a production ready library that has some very well commented and easy to read source code.

https://github.com/eriklindernoren/ML-From-Scratch is an easy to understand understand implementation of some the basic ML algorithms built from first principles and aims for readability over performance.
But she's not going back on her forcibly removing the project from the FSF.

It's platitudes without that. She "punished" them successfully.
I can understand such motivation, but aviation is extremely heavily regulated area. I am not sure whether non-standard controls would even be allowed, though. While driver's license is granted for demonstration of rather basic ability to handle a vehicle, even non-commercial pilot's license (which I do not have, so) is granted for demonstrating substantial ability to control an aircraft and number of hours clocked. Enough hours that different controls could seem an obstacle.

If it was about new concept self-driving car with manual controls on joystick rather pedals and wheel, I would have my doubts about its marketability also.
This article is spot on. I've been building Angular 2 and React (Native) apps over the last 3 months and I have broadly similar conclusions. Once React clicked, it really is very easy to reason about.

With regard to the DI problem, I created a combination of static classes for things like the User object and function collections with observables for app state. I didn't use Redux. You can get similar behaviour with Observable zip/scan/reduce and it's much more lightweight.
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Fellow South African here. How do I get in on the closed beta?
Because calling for the UN Security Council to do something is easy but often doesn't achieve anything, Russia, with its veto, is hardly going to allow its ally in Assad to be implicated is it?

The question for Trudeau is - when Russia says no, then what?
Out of curiosity, is there a button that's held while rotating the stick to rotate? The stick looks directional, so it wouldn't make sense to just rotate it and keep it rotated...

Anyway, sounds like a cool setup.
"Whenever a company takes on VC investment, there are certain expectations attached to it. It depends a lot on which fund invests on the company, but more often than not, with this investment comes the expectation that you have to spend the money as quickly as possible in order to grow, and once you have spent it, you’ll have to ask for more money again so that you can keep on spending it, and so on and so forth. All this is necessary to create this illusion of value, importance, and relevance needed to maintain outrageous valuations."

This is something all entrepreneurs who are looking for investments should really understand. VC money dictates huge growth and this is not suitable for all business opportunities. For some viable businesses taking VC money is akin to signing their own death sentence.
Please don't spread bad advice. There is a reason we teach Python and not ia64 Assembly to beginners.
You also forgot who gave him those chemical weapons and with whose tacit approval the Kurds were gassed in the first place.
My first reaction to this, "there must be a reason that they are not known", I click the link and "Error establishing a database connection" :D
I used promethease report generation and it gave me around 500 paged document about everything related to my DNA.
They say they have a technique called Secure Aggregation as well so that it can only decrypt the update if many users have sent their updates. I don't know how possible that would be to reverse engineer.

Plus this would seem a computationally expensive way of conducting mass surveillance
In React there are no templates, just component trees.
Experienced pilots tell me that automatic position control even in modern (non-military) helicopters work worse than experienced hand in non ideal conditions. YMMV, though :)
The accessibility of GNOME under X11 should be really good. Not so sure about Wayland though. E.g. not sure how dasher would work, nor orca. Secondly, some of the things (IIRC pointer highlighting) actually is done using some X11 application. That needs to be moved (e.g. mutter).
Obviously therefore nobody writes real world SPAs with React.

/s
Fellow saffer here. I signed up for your beta yesterday and I am quite excited, I think this has the potential to become an absolutely amazing product.

As a developer, do you plan on having a market/app store where I can sell my "apps" to other root users?
Ask HN: Are there any good alternative Google Cloud Platform docs/examples?
I find it much harder to get new things done with GCP compared to AWS. It's more difficult to understand the GCP concepts from the docs alone. The examples are often incomplete and assume knowledge from three other places while dependencies and requirements are never just listed but linked indirectly through some git repo elsewhere. AWS feels more solution oriented (as in products) whereas GCP seems more feature oriented (as in engineering).

For example there is one documentation for datastore queries [1] and one for appengine datastore queries [2], but the docs were seemingly written by different groups?

Are there any good alternative learning resources?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/queries#datastore-cursor-paging-python
[2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/datastore/queries

PS: The capabilities of GCP are awesome so its worth it / AWS docs also have their weak spots / all subjective personal opinions
Definitely interesting. Regarding the human eye, it varies greatly from person to person how well they see. However it's not even only about the eye itself, but also how well suited & trained [1] your brain is to interpreting the signals.

I personally have always had perfect vision, and have always been able to notice even fairly subtle differences in resolution. My brother also has perfect vision in the classic 20/20 sense, but has to inspect closely to tell apart even 720p & 1080p movies. Our ability to notice differences in bitrate is even more far apart. [2] It's not even only about picture quality, but also about refresh rates. I can tell the difference between 100 Hz & 144 Hz, and I'll even notice bad frame pacing on an otherwise stable framerate. At the same time I have a friend who didn't notice anything different about the 48 fps variant of The Hobbit compared to other 24 fps movies.

It probably has a lot to do with what we spend our time doing. In that I've spent most of my life hunting for better picture quality & higher frame rates. Compared to the average person I must've spent an unbelivable amount of time thinking about & observing picture quality & frame rate. Thus I have probably developed a skill for this.

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[1] The training can be an implicit side-effect of other activities.

[2] Interestingly this is for video bitrate. The reverse is true for audio bitrate. My brother being a lifelong audiophile claims to hear the difference between even 320 kbps MP3 & FLAC.
> Travis's Page

pfft hahaha

> there's nothing the press loves more than a turnaround story

There're plenty of things that they love more. A "rise and fall" story, for instance.

Schadenfraude sells; eespecially in tech, where nominally anything is 'an idea you could've had'.
I would love to see Chomsky's archive unlocked. I don't see how or why MIT needs to go on a crowd sourcing drive to do so however.

The fact that they are doing so would suggest to me that there isn't a long term commitment to the material.

Crowd funding efforts by places like this just strikes me as cynical.

I would rather support an institution or project which actually needs financial support, than to put money into the mega wealthy MIT.
Less efficient, generally speaking you want as few blades as possible. One in the ideal case but that's prohibitively difficult!
Considering how people drive cars, this is very scary.

I do believe we'll see things like this flying around in the near future, but I've always thought they'd be self-driving.

Very cool, though (besides the vaporware).
Apple sells their computers at a premium and to do so they need to provide premium features and quality.

Lets say it takes 6 months to design and test a new system at peak design efficiency using current parts. If you want a cutting edge system at launch though you need to design and test it to take advantage of the CPUs, GPUs, chipsets, connector technologies etc that will be cutting edge then, not now. That’s a lot more complex and takes much longer. Also the launch schedule is not just driven by your own product development, it also has to be synchronised with the component manufacturer’s product development. That can easily push out the schedule even further because you’re not working with current known, well understood parts. You’re working with pre-production specs and early prototype samples.

Most manufacturers don’t get privileged acces to these, but you can bet your bottom dollar Apple does. Apple also have a history of collaborating with parts manufacturers to specify custom variants of parts or even designing entirely new parts, such as the custom timing controller chip in the original 5K iMac. Working at that level takes even more time.
I swear "React is just a library, not a framework" is the new "JavaScript is just a scripting language, not a programming language". The comments in this thread are a great example of this.
Here is something you should check out in that case https://github.com/eriklindernoren/ML-From-Scratch . Although be warned, everything from scratch approach l, despite being addictive, is harder than standing on shoulders of giants and takes too much resilience. If you are even a bit of procrastinater like me, it's tend to stay a sweet fantasy a lot of times. It's only when I was half working on a project and had no other option, I could go for implementing my first algorithm from scratch.
>I don't really see the Tesla "could be a trillion dollar company" as too far-fetched.

Anything could be anything. The challenge for Tesla is that they validated the electric car market and managed to carve out some market share, but now they are in the sights of every car manufacturer in the world. It's a different ball game for them. Car companies know how to make cars at scale, Tesla doesn't. It's a big challenge.
But the alternatives without ME have worse performance.
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I'm no nuclear physicist, but they might use the fission reaction as a primer for the fusion?
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Yes, it's definitely part of the plan. As you can imagine there are a few interesting security challenges etc to solve, but we're working hard on it.
I was asking about the ones which don't have very good documentation and are in need of contributors.
> The one thing he's likely right about is that there probably isnt enough market to actually chase ...

I agree completely with your last paragraph. Of course Atlassian's market is very lucrative and they execute poorly (Jira is simply awful), so this seems like a viable business strategy to me.
"Just say no."
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It should be much easier since GTK+ "4" (not too many changes in GTK+3.x) combined with finally having a theme API, though the intention is to have some bits of GNOME run these development GTK+ versions at some point in future.

They're redoing how widgets work in GTK+ "4". That's basically like changing HTML and having slightly different elements. Though there's a theme API, I wouldn't be surprised if some theme work is needed as a result.

See the last bits at https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2017/03/31/gtk-happenings-3/ for why I think above things.
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Why not take a well tested open source machine learning library and read the source code. No black box, and no spending a lot of time having re-inventing the wheel just to get some work done.
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https://www.thequint.com/world/2017/04/07/usa-attack-syria-g...
To clarify, you managed to sign up for a US stripe account with a foreign corporation?

That's an interesting approach. Thanks for sharing.
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I think the article sums it up really well. And I doubt we'll ever see something as extensible as the cheese grater models again. Apple has convinced me by now they dont't want to make anything but throwaway appliances with fashion appeal.
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Isnt Redux about using components to dispatch actions, and all the logic happens in the reducers for the store? So, the Model part is not inside the react view components which are just used for display. If you have uncontrolled components(React terminology for forms with extra data not handled by props), then form validation might require some processing in the components.
"The car itself already borders on ugly."

1. To me it looks so generic, I miss them, and in my county(Marin County), they are everywhere. It use to be BMW's (Basic Marin wheels), and now it's Teslas. These rich people love them.

2. That said, I'm glad consumers are looking at what's under the hood. Hell--I don't even know what's under the hood.

3. If I had the money, I would buy one. A year ago my plan was to find a wrecked Tesla, with a Salvage title, but haven't had any luck. I naively thought I would just repair it, and drive my poor man's Tesla. Wrong--on so many levels.

4. I never thought I would say this, but I like no sound comming from the vechicle. A few years ago, I wanted that throaty sound. I'm evolving, or getting old? Old!
Ack. I had this thing where I would feel guilty in the evenings for not working on side projects.

I was getting up at 6am and doing the dad thing for my two kids getting them fed and ready for school. Walking the dog at 8am and then working from 9am to 5-6pm. Then I would do the dad thing again, until the kids went to bed at 7-8 pm. Spend an hour or so with my wife and then stare bleary eyed at a load of terminals and code until 11-12pm, feeling guilty that I was not the next greatest individual creating cutting edge tech.

Now I have a no work policy in the evening. I still spend time on learning new tech, but I do this for short periods during the working week / hours.