skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no idea, really. Apparently the film should be already out in the Russian cinemas. There is also a documentary from Roskosmos about the operation[1]. The beginning is boring, but then they claim, the Shuttle "Challenge" visited Saljut-7 as a preparation for taking the soviet station to the Earth. Still watching it, no subtitles (my Russian is rather intermediate). There is also a book from Victor Savinikh, the flight engineer called "diaries from a dead station"[2], but couldn't find any comments on that book.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxhv6GOLZqE
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20633100
I think the problem is that it's becoming harder and hard not to use a Facebook related product. Along with the social network, you have the IM app, Instagram, Whatsapp, and potentially VR.

As much as I dislike FB (I uninstalled it from my app and have used the social network in many months), it's much harder for me to convince friends to switch over to another chat program, or to publish my shitty photos on another another platform with an actual audience of friends.
EmailPrivacyTester.com owned this
So if you are going to have a intellectual property system, then someone has to own that property. That starts with Inventor and then proceeds to Assignee (which never changes) through Legal Events to the current owner.

If you're gonna have a property system then you have to have ownership. You can have multiple Inventors and, failing Assignment to a third party, then each Inventor will have equal rights. Also, you really really have to declare everyone because if you don't they can come in later and claim ownership regardless of later transfers.

So there can be multiple ownership (but VCs are gonna hate that). Also, with the tennis ball vs yellow tennis ball example, there's a 'form' of multiple/conflicting ownership. Berkeley can't manufacture yellow tennis balls and Harvard/MIT can't manufacture tennis balls at all. Unless they both come to the table and agree.
Yeah the malware incident made it a no-go for me
> No "importantcollegehere.edu" email address - no Facebook account. You could use MySpace.

Yeah... you get it. (=

I don't know that it was our goal to be elitist... but certainly it helped that we knew it was a small group of people who had access to what we posted online. It felt safe.

And even after it expanded to other colleges, it still felt like a college thing. Many colleges still put out paper "face books" and so we had that connection.

But once we graduated and realized it was suddenly for everyone, and all of our posts that we made to a small group were now visible to everyone... ugh it was just such a turn off.

Seeing a parent or grandparent commenting on a status update or photo we shared from a party, "Oh shit, my mom can see this stuff?! How do I delete it?!"

I bet there's some market for a school-wide system that only lets you communicate with people who would have been on campus the same time you were... so like pick 3-4 years in either direction. Try and mimic the first Facebook rollout...

But I don't know, if anyone had the magic solution they'd have built it by now... personally -- as I said in the previous post -- this shit just all makes me cringe now. I can't even look at someone's Facebook feed without losing respect for everyone involved. It's all so smug and self-promotion of crap. "I'm going to say something, and all my friends will like it to affirm they are my friends!" Just creepy.
I don't know what I was thinking by submitting it to be honest. I've just taken emailprivacytester.com down as it was collecting potentially sensitive info.

[edit] You need to work on sanitising email before it is displayed. Stripping out anything that will trigger http requests to external domains.

[edit2] You definitely want to set up Content-Security-Policy

[edit3] I've brought it back up but with the appropriate records removed from the db and with my mailserver configured to reject mail to your domain.
> Most of those have relatively high value added from the conversion.

That is true. There are so many things I can work on, I try to pick only the ones with the highest ROI of my time.

> feature parity

The initial conversion is feature parity. This is deliberate, as conversion only works if you ruthlessly avoid any attempt at fixing, improving, or refactoring code. Just translate.

But once the translation is done, and the new program is working exactly like the old one, then the benefits start accruing as you can start removing the technical debt, and take advantage of what the new language offers.
They don't accept donations, they only accept tax funding or money from patent licenses.

Processing donations would be far too much work for such a research organisation.

And if you want to avoid giving away your right to sue for patent infringements, you'll want to avoid VP8/VP9 anyway, as the patent grant is similar to Facebook's and Tesla's patent license, and does end as soon as you sue.
I suspect this violates one or another aspect of the ADA. Especially as the OP followed the carrier's and the TSA's instructions and was given (verbal, but apparently authoritative) approval in advance.

If we had an Administration actually interested in these things: A first step would be to require the carrier to transmit written, authoritatively-signed approval in advance for all such accommodations granted. Yes, this will cost them something. At this point, let them eat that cost. If it were possible, I'd require them to create a separate accounting bucket for such expenses that can only be charged against gross profit and, to the best extent possible, cannot be charged back to ticket prices and therefore other customers' fares.

If their institution is so fucked up that they cannot properly and accurately accommodate legally-mandated behavior, then they should pay for this -- out of their own pocket, not the customers'.

This is a case where "hit them in the pocket" is quite appropriate. And, maybe it will have to come out of customers' pockets, ultimately. I see it as akin to Walmart, where the workforce is only sustainable because of substantial government program payouts -- tax dollars -- that subsidize it.

If United, et al.'s making money requires this level of disfunctional organization, then they need to find a better business model.
accidentally stumbled on the Buddhist practice of deity visualization, which created a second conscious voice in my head. She helps me learn how to embody more than one new personality trait at a time easier than if I simply focused on being those things. It's weird/complicated, and I'm willing to go into more detail if people have questions.

I would love you to go into more detail, though probably only for all the wrong reasons (such as my own entertainment).
Furthermore, something like Gmail does a pretty reliable job of automatically putting a lot of newsletters and the like into a tab that I can just skim once a day or so. I used to use a Yahoo address for a lot of the mailing lists or online specials that I signed up for.

Now I pretty much just use Gmail because the vast majority never hits my primary inbox tab and I can just train it to be even better over time. It avoids the mental energy associated with deciding whether I want to unsubscribe to something that I might potentially be interested in from time to time (although in practice I almost never look at it.)
That's the one in our galaxy, and the other target—in the galaxy M87—is around 5 billion times the mass of the sun!
My Facebook feed is nothing but ads, low effort clickbait, and liberal anti-Trump news pieces. I'm pretty liberal myself but I just find the incredible level of groupthink to be completely insufferable.

Content from friends and family is rare to nonexistent these days.

For finding clickbait, memes, etc., reddit is pretty much strictly superior to FB.

If I want to follow the news, my FB feed is one of the most biased sources on the internet.

In short, FB has almost no purpose for me anymore.
They hold huge indexes like SPY and are huge ETF vendor (in fact, Wikipedia says they invented the ETF), second only to BlackRock. So trillions under management (not to be confused with money they own!) entirely not surprising.
I know I am really late to this, but one of the things I have been meaning to try is running Electron apps that have Web Apps with [Fluid](http://fluidapp.com). I think this may give me the perks without some of the drawbacks. I am not really sure, but it is an experiment I would like to try out.
snap inc is killing itself
NSA Exploits Reveal the World of 1984 Is Here
From Belgium, and even I think that we should not be allowed in the EU.

At it's core, the principles of the EU are great. But members were cheating, we have to much debt to be allowed in the EU when you look at the 'requirements' , but perhaps that's another discussion
Show HN: Eliot 1.0: Causal Logging for Complex and Distributed Systems
Interesting. I'm sorry to hear that; I actually never used an Onyx but I went from a Cray 2 to a Cray X-MP to a Power Challenge. I was skeptical about Irix and the Challenge, mostly because a bunch of consumer-ish processors seemed like a downgrade, but it turned out to be both fast and rock solid for my workload. That said, I was a consumer, not an administrator, so it's very possible that our admins kept the reliability issues from affecting me.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14121904
> I think that anything funded with public grant money should be barred from being patented.

Grants, green cards, and IP rights are the three pillars of research funding in the US. Any proposal to lop off one pillar needs to come with a plan to replace it or an argument why decimating the US research apparatus is the lesser evil.
F# has lots of .net warts. Haskell is probably the cleanest ML syntax-wise in somewhat widespread use.
Fascinating, are you writing this up anywhere?
I will smack the next person that says "because x is more productive than y". That's an excuse to scratch an itch to using some latest popular framework or language. If that was actually true, it would be easily measureable with a double blind test. What's usually true is "rewrites (in any language) are more productive than the original team, because now we actually understand the requirements"
Why is it a worrying development with respect to academic freedom? I think I'm getting the sense -- statements you make about how difficult some piece of work is can be used as evidence that the work is difficult, and thus as evidence that someone who does that work has done something inventive. But it doesn't seem like a particularly unusual revelation. Sometimes true things will be to your adversary's advantage. That's always been true.
Sadly, this is rather underwhelming.

AFAICT, the only reason it's a point release are the breaking changes. Unfortunately, in order to stay relevant, coffeescript needs a major overhaul, though I must add that its biggest problem (the readability of tab denoted closures) is probably one that needs to be ultimately solved by the IDEs.
Not sure how much of that can be transferred to later optical media. Right now a fresh off the shelf BR drive can still read (and possibly write) a CD.
Editas, a biotech company, is funding Broad's legal fees [1]. I had thought that another startup was funding Berkeley's side, but am having trouble finding a source.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/how-battle-lines-over...
Speeding Up ReSharper (and Visual Studio)
If one is going to use an emulator to test an OS, why be confined to the x86 ISA and all the historic warts of the PC?

Design a decent computer first, then write an OS for it.
this actually makes sense, such a sad reality that we live in
So keeping with Berkeley examples, should the Regents not have rights (copyright not patent) for BSD? That too became the foundation of the entire ecosystem. But the Regents defended those rights (which they give away for free) from the UNIX System Laboratories lawsuit. You can't defend what you don't have.

Full disclosure: my copy of Lions' Commentary was entered as evidence in that lawsuit.
Why are you there still?
OCaml doesn't have argumentless functions.. But they do have functions that take a 'unit' argument.
Йэс, ит'с нот вэры диффицулт то вритэ Энглиш ин цыриллик. Муч море диффицулт то реад, И гуэсс.
People mention that said rewrite needs to have some immediate benefits. I actually like rewrites where no obvious changes are visible. These are rewrites, where one anticipates future problems and does this work preventively.

Three projects come to mind. 1) Rewriting a set of internal libraries from Python 2 to 3, because it's better to do early on, before compatibility problems arise. 2) Rewriting an ancient cli tool written in C++ into Go (nobody here knows C++, some speak Go). It has worked for years untouched, but you never know. 3) Rewriting a Fortran modelling tool into Go, because while people know Fortran, it maintenance costs are annoying and adding functionality is difficult or impossible.

In all cases, no functionality was gained or removed by the rewrite, but future pain was spared thanks to these endeavours.
CD-ROM (physically pressed) should have the longest life. Write-once media can last decades but will degrade eventually. Rewritable media have the shortest life.

Variables include the quality of manufacturing, and storage environment.
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Think about it.
I would argue the concepts of monoid objects and the category of endofunctors on an object are simpler than that of monads, so this description does help. I come from a math background and had never seen this quote before, and I think it has given me a definition of (mathematical) monads that I can remember.

Haskell, unfortunately, is still quite opaque to me.
Oh yeah. It did get a lot of usd at least in the early days.
> No, we don't have 'our biases' you're just plain wrong.

You sound defensive.
Tesla is threatened by a strike at ‘Advanced Automation’ group
heh. Enterprising pranksters could also rewrite those locations using an init. I believe gravity mouse was the name of it.
It's not just China. A lot of websites, event signage, ads, etc. in much of eastern Asia look to my Western eyes like something someone's kid put together for a school project. The script may be part of it--it doesn't lend itself to the sort of clean sparse design that's in vogue in a lot of the West. But, as you say, there's also just a lot of clutter and generally cheesy art work, stock photos, etc.
Ask HN: Where can I find raw images from space telescopes?
The Perky Experiment (2014)
Curious what sort of redundancy these systems have. I mean, you think of a web production environment... you don't just get an alarm, you typically have redundant systems you can turn on if primary servers fail. Seems like they only had one system running, and when it failed they were boned.

Wonder what it would take to build more redundancy -- seems like samples that are this rare would deserve freezers inside of freezers? Multiple AC units for the room? Or is it the case that these samples can be easily restored by re-drilling in various places? Or is it the case that despite age and rarity, they don't have that much value after being catalogued?
Uber lost $2.8B in 2016. Will it ever become profitable?
Or just use a simple, stack machine. Or a RISC CPU. Preferrably on an emulator or FPGA already. Oberon did this.
Ah, I see. I think your comment about 'Not something I would casually drop into my backpack' is what threw me. You want something you can slip into a pocket. I had an HP Jornada 680 and a Nokia N800 with a bluetooth keyboard back in the day. They weren't as useful as I would have liked. Editing even plain text prose was difficult.

Personally, I'd love a galaxy s8+ sized phone with an eink display, but I think the best I'm going to get is either a DPT-RP1 hacked to take a bluetooth keyboard or the good e-reader tablet. Then again, I prefer a full android operating system to a single app locked down model. Maybe you could convince the hemingwrite/freewrite people to come up with something a little more portable?
I would say probably, if you're a good enough writer and game the search results a bit.

One of my employers gave me permission to spend a day a week writing articles for a couple months. I wrote 5 articles and they brought in over 90% of our site traffic for years, even thought we had hundreds of articles on the site and new ones added a few times a week.

The quality of writing matters an extreme amount, more than any of the content farms have you believe. If your content is unique, useful, or brilliant, even to a small number of people, it will bring you good traffic for a long time. We didn't have Facebook sharing or any advertising. People simply shared the links organically
Some of the people at Flattr probably live in houses.
My wife use to run a travel blog that got kind of popular at points. We were never able to make any income from online advertising(though if we put the effort into direct sales it probably could have done better) but we got more than enough free stuff over the years to make it worth operating.

Hotels, restaurants, attractions, tours, transport, etc are all often willing to give you free access, free upgrades or a huge discount with the promise of a post. You have to be honest in your approach with the fact that you don't guarantee a positive post just a post though(and you have to follow through with negative posts when they are deserved).
Feel like the title should be - 22,000 years of history MELTS after freezer failure melts Arctic ice cores
This seems to presuppose a good deal of functional programming background.

Not a criticism, just a note to anyone thinking of spending an hour with it.
And with shoebill[1] you can run A/UX, Apple's Unix with a MacOS GUI.

What I love is that it was a real Unix, but it could run Mac apps, and it even provided a graphical interface to select/explain the command line switches of some Unix tools.

[1] https://github.com/pruten/shoebill
"need" is a strong word, but variety and choice would be nice.
Now I'm really curious what software doesn't qualify as an "insecure, bug-ridden mess" in your book.
The difficulty is according to the amount of miners, right? So it's supposed to not matter if China shuts down their pools. And local police? Complete speculation, my friend.
I'm with you. An OS is the core functionality on which everything else is hung. Code to fork a process? That's OS. Window manager? Not OS.
You would not consider all of these maintainability improvements to be immediate benefits?
https://www.propublica.org/article/is-it-age-discrimination-... covers the same set of discrimination lawsuits as this WSJ article without the paywall. It also goes into more depth about the legal precedents involved.

The tl;dr: the companies argue that the discrimination laws only apply to current employees and not applicants so it's OK for them to intentionally discriminate against older applicants.
> Has anyone ever built a useful and successful decentralized service.

E-mail fits all of your requirements. Even the now being centralized (Gmail)
That's a weak argument. Just because you are not familiar with Perl regexes doesn't mean that this line is unreadable. Not saying that there is unreadable Perl code; there's troves of it. But this line is reasonably clear and idiomatic Perl.
We need more alternatives to FB but be hardly can get more relevant alternatives to FB...
It's worth mentioning that I come to HN explicitly searching for a mix of interesting reading in my field(s) and Ancient Greek. I think it's super important for me as a mathematician working in technology to try and understand what clever people in other fields find interesting and important. I don't understand it in any sort of depth, and I don't expect myself to. I would imagine that a lot of folks from "your side" probably have a similar attitude to mathematics.
Synth Guitar Pioneer Allan Holdsworth Dead at 70
Review: Ubuntu 17.04: The bittersweet Linux release
Awsome! I need to finish that game of Fool's Errand [1] I started a quarter century ago and doing it on a modern machine seems just wrong.

1. http://www.thefoolandhismoney.com/02-FE/index.htm
Interesting. What browser are you using?
Who knows, in my extended circle, Facebook is increasingly being viewed as: "for old people". So we may not get to the direction they are heading towards.
Mapping between different orthographies is not usually that obvious though, unless they are designed to have one to one mapping, it can be tricky and lead to ambiguity or even cryptic gibberish.
I work at Target and we have a weekly class on algebra, category theory and Haskell because people are interested

Wow, Target sounds like it has a nerdier crowd than Facebook.
> Grants, green cards, and IP rights are the three pillars of research funding in the US

IP rights are definitely not a pillar of research funding. The majority of universities lose money on their tech transfer offices[1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/education/patenting-their-...
And 3 in Three.
Mira que pasa cuando enciendes 6000 Fósforos a la vez
Cadillac Super Cruise Sets the Standard for Hands-Free Highway Driving
Yeah. I would expect monitors and alarms on all freezers and a freezer inside a freezer.
Yeah, proper parsers are actually super easy once you are comfortable with them and take much much less time than a pile of regexps. Like higher-order parser combinators. You can implement them for most languages in no time and then just construct your parser from a few basic higher-order primitives: regexp tokens, alternations, sequences and repetitions.

Getting there though takes a bit of practice, from recursive descent parsers to parser generators.
It's easier to convince them if you don't have Facebook to begin with. Then it can't be used as an excuse. Nearly all my close friends and family have Signal.

As for shitty photos... they can see them on the TV when they visit :)

I have considered making a pseudonym account just for Tinder though (hi ladies!)...but greeting people with "my name isn't actually Johnny Depp" does not sound like the best opener either.
The Magnificent Mane on a Lion Means We're One Step Closer to 3D-Printed Toupees
Chuck Norris could create a rock so heavy he himself could not lift it ... and then he would lift it.
I do this a lot (end-to-end tests that just `diff` the results from the current code with the expectation that I previously committed into the repo), and it makes one appreciate how much work it is to make a program's output deterministic. When you look around some of my code, there's a lot of loops over maps/dicts/hashes where, instead of iterating over the map directly, I first gather the keys, sort them, and then iterate over these to ensure that the test is deterministic.
> just eight have won Nobel Prizes

You pick 2000 teenagers, and 8 go on to win a Nobel Prize, and you're still not satisfied? High expectations much...
Michael Cheney 2017 Commission Machine Review
There are many languages less phonetic than English, Chinese is just the best example I can think of. I was just pointing out that English spoken and written are close enough that you can learn one from the other.
The Fearless Girl would have been a completely different story if they didn't put the plaque in front of it. Had it been the statue alone, it would have left more room for interpretation.

The same goes for the bull. If he had a plaque on it with his name, an artist statement, and some information to contact him, the piece wouldn't have had such an impact.