skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like the double slit experiment, you'll probably like Feynmann's "motivation" of the path integral in quantum field theory:

Suppose you take the double slit (plate with two holes in it), and you start adding more holes. Of course the particle will go through all of them, but with less probability the further they are off-axis. We can also add more than one plate, and the particle will go through all possible combinations of holes with some probability. Now suppose we let the number of plates go to infinity, and then let the number of holes in each plate go to infinity. The particle still goes through all of the infinite combinations of holes, with less probability if the path is unlikely. But really, there is nothing left anymore between the particle source and the screen! There is just free space! So this path integral with the particle going sort-of-everyhere weighted by probability actually describes propagation through free space.
Nuclear, coal, and geothermal all use steam, so there's a bunch more hot air for ya.
It's not just MRT's. It's any and all construction. On any construction site (even regular homes), you'll see barracks style housing for the migrant labor. They are de facto second class citizens.
HTTPS Everywhere*

* except uspto.gov

Are there any other .gov sites doing this? Can anyone shed more light on this?
N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web (2013)
From a programming/hardware hacker perspective, are there any opportunities in wind generation worth exploring? Perhaps mini-turbines, or a turbine array with wind positioning?
Trump's cybersecurity plan is officially late
Parent's paste bin is ~40 lines of code (with white space) consisting of 4 functions, with what? 4 loops.

If you consider 40LOC complex I don't understand why you work as a dev.
The two slit experiment has been done with buckyballs, which would indicate all matter is capable of exhibiting quantum nature.

Keep in mind the double slit experiment is designed to illustrate the "effect" we observe, when we observe, is at least partially governed by the observation. Given certain interpretations, it can also have philosophical ramifications[1][2] for the existence of reality, self, and choice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave
"phoneopathy" sounds better :)
"...here we’ve done the work to make it real and we were about to give it to
the world and now, instead, it’s 50 or 60 petabytes on disk, and the only
people who can see it are half a dozen engineers on the project who happen
to have access because they’re the ones responsible for locking it up.

"I asked someone who used to have that job, what would it take to make the
books viewable in full to everybody? I wanted to know how hard it would
have been to unlock them. What’s standing between us and a digital public
library of 25 million volumes?

"You’d get in a lot of trouble, they said, but all you’d have to do, more
or less, is write a single database query. You’d flip some access control
bits from off to on. It might take a few minutes for the command to
propagate."

Now this would be an interesting leak to Wikileaks.
Mine3D: A Web 3D Minesweeper Game
Viral, Funny and Cute Video Directory
no, the point of the template engine is not to push all the logic into the templates. as you say you still handle the state yourself. the template render just skips the messy output building step, which for many cases is all you need
You should also have a look at this book(http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14744694-python-for-data-...), it helps that author of pandas library is also the author of the book. From the description of your use-case, you seem to be doing exploratory data analysis, pandas can definitely handle that.
The world adopting a vegan diet would stop the production of a huge majority of greenhouse gases
Most of them need also same theme for terminal to work as expected.
It's nothing special. Every time you interact with people you have to start from zero.

Don't let idiots make you bitter forever.
In death? The company is a major presence with billions of users across the world. They are not dying.
Honestly, once you learn 5 or 6 languages, picking up a new one (not as a deep expert, but enough to functionally contribute to an open source project) takes only a day or so.

If you are not there yet, take every opportunity to learn a new language, doesn't really matter which as long as you have a good breadth (e.g. don't do entirely functional languages).
Because it has zero dependencies -- There's no reason to pull in boost::shared_ptr when you can use std::shared_ptr
It's too bad the vision depicted at the beginning of the article (full texts potentially available in all libraries), didn't come true. But I feel that the public did get the most important benefit from the project: the ability to search these books. I've been researching a history of science subject recently and it's amazing the amount of information I could get from Google Books and nowhere else online. And where the snippets are not enough, I have the book title and author name, so I know where to look for the information in print.
Also a big issue here, as with many software vulnerabilities, is that the people the public disclosure would actually damage are the users, not the company making the vulnerable software. The bank would only start losing money if the users (personal customers, business customers using their APIs) would notice the hack and start demanding their money back.
Also sometimes people in dire situations resort to eating pet food because it's sometimes cheaper.
My prism for the whole world is punching up vs punching down.

I've had the shit jobs, lived hand to mouth. I never grief the help. I don't condone people being dicks, ever. But I cannot abide by those who prey on the weaker.
Actually it sounds like they broke their own rules which seem to not allow removal of passengers for crew (but do allow it for overbooking, which is a different situation): http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/united-passenger-remo...
The studies I've seen are a few decades old, and I think programming has become easier since.

But the result back then was that even among young talented people who entered programming classes, a large percentage (40%-70%, don't remember) just couldn't do it.

The biggest "tell" was understanding pointers (in C). A lot of people just got stuck on that and couldn't move forward.
Passengers were first offered voluntary removal incentives until, I suspect, the agent's authorized limit was reached and involuntary removal became necessary.

The fact that there is an "authorized limit" is squarely on United. Start offering cash money to give up your seat, rather that near-worthless vouchers, as they are authorized and supposed to per FAA regs, and eventually, I guaran-freaking-tee you will find takers.

60% United, 40% hired security goons. United could have very easily avoided calling them in the first place
We just asked you not to post inflammatory comments with the most tenuous connection to the topic, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll follow the guidelines in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Researchers produce all RNA nucleobases in simulated primordial Earth conditions
'Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan'
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/16/technology/theranos-elizabet...

She did not graduate. She dropped out.

I also dropped out of college at a young age, but not to defraud the world in an effort to become a billionaire. So, this is not intended to suggest being a drop out is inherently bad.

#JustTheFacts
what a silly article. just unfounded claims not based in reality.

probably an article by the united PR department.
There was some hype around microturbines a few years back but a lot of the ROI claims were found to be, um, "optimistic." I assume that today's PV tech makes them even less interesting even if some of the assumptions that go into pricing solar can be questionable as well.
Well if you put on your tinfoil hat - maybe someone wants to track who's viewing which patents, which they can't do when it's encrypted. You're right, it doesn't make any sense to do this, so there must be an ulterior motive.
TLS offload is usually extra on F5 BigIP
For someone's personal project I'm not sure why anyone would choose to avoid the new shiny features of their preferred browser given that those features will wind up in the others eventually. It was the same situation with HTML5 where devs jumped at the ability to write code that was forward compatible and to hell with any 'legacy' browser that wasn't modern enough.

For community OSS projects I would never expect them to spend time mucking about with cross browser compatibility given that they will be eventually consistent.
"Passengers were first offered voluntary removal incentives until, I suspect, the agent's authorized limit was reached and involuntary removal became necessary."

Looks like United's fault to me. On a side note, I'll never understand wanting to side with a corporation on a matter like this.
United is who called airport security to forcibly de-board someone, likely in violation of their contract with them: https://www.facebook.com/erik.bauman/posts/10106083654220072

The crew should absolutely have exhibited some agency and basic human dignity and intervened to prevented airport security for de-boarding a passenger who had already been seated. It would have saved everyone tons of time and their company a ton of horrible PR.
That just makes them viewable, and being still hosted on Google's servers, it would probably be closed in a few minutes too as people start downloading everything they can find. Something similar might've happened to Springer a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810271

Leaking 25M books' worth of files, however, is going to be far more difficult. It would have to be a very carefully coordinated effort both on the "inside" and "outside"; one person doing a Snowden won't have any effect.
What if they aren't working there to survive? What if they are just teenagers living at home for some spending money? Or a retired person just trying to get out of the house?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantively like this?
TLDR: DWave doesn't provide a speed-up over classical computers.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3192
The great thing about renewables is everyone's situation is different. IE wind might be the #1 option in an area with little solar radiation, or micro turbines might be a better fit vs giant turbines in other areas. Major diversity in the problem space depending on geography.
From what I've seen, genius for me can be reduced to "what one is able to achieve in some dimension with a limited amount of instruction".

I subscribe to the idea that someone can be taught to do anything, given enough time and the right guidance. However we are all limited by our available time and our access to instructors. At the top, this becomes even more pressing - who can teach you when you're at the forefront of whatever you have chosen to specialize in? This is where genius comes in, to quote Schopenhauer, genius hits a target no one else can see... - there will come a point where you will have to be your own teacher and whether you plateau or continue to rise will depend on your being a genius.

This manifests in a whole variety of ways - for some, it may be mastering calculus as a pre-teen and while Erdos, still had good and dedicated teachers, there will many who would fail to grok the subject given the same upbringing.

For others, it is mastering the art of writing symphonies at the young age of 8 like Mozart.

My personal favourite to observe is in sports such as tennis or football where the spectator has the chance to witness moments of true technical brilliance and improvisation under very quick and stressful situations.
Reads to me like the airline industry is trotting out it's PR team to try and prevent regulatory reform of their customer-hostile practices. If you watch the press session with Dr. Dao's lawyer, he framed the attack on Dao as only the most extreme example of the pattern of mistreatment and disregard airlines have for their customers.
I was trying to say in a nice way that it's unlikely you've created something as fast as netty because a lot of people spent a lot of time optimizing it.

Netty is also a lot easier to extend and more portable
Good article. But I have to ask for clarification for this statement:

"Empty seats cost the airlines money, and they need to recoup those losses somehow."

What does this mean? The issue here is overbooked seats. If a seat is physically empty during the flight because the passenger just doesn't show up, the airline doesn't lose any money - the ticket/seat is still (pre)paid for. Overbooking is simply a way for the airlines to make extra money on top of what they would normally make, gambling on some percentage of customers not showing up for the flight.

So, is the airline industry operating on such a slim margin that giving up the practice of overbooking would force airlines to take noticeably drastic cost-cutting measures?
We developers have strong urge to try new things, new paradigms. Maybe it's FOMO. You don't want to stand in the corner, when it comes to those never ending debates, if A is better then B. I know what I'm talking about, It happened to me couple of times. We did rewrite our app from Backbone to React, the other one from Angular to React. Same story on the server side. Also I personally did poor job, be choosing NoSQL db over SQL db, which complicated lot of things later on. All this before we shipped anything. But I swear I will not allow to do it again. Enough on jumping on those hype trains. There must be strong tenable argument to do so, not just "hey, lets try this new stuff, because everybody is talking about it". It cost lot of money and users don't care about your tech anyway. You'll realise that, when you start throwing your own money to finance all those rewrites. It's really painful.
Haven't local hidden variables as an explanation for quantum phenomena been discounted a while ago with Bell's Theorem ?
I wonder why was that exact passenger picked to be removed?
Envy: Text editing supercharger
>United could have very easily avoided calling them in the first place.

Yep. And that actually yet further shifts the blame towards United even from your split. If you call in security goons, you can't get mad when they act like security goons. Just because United didn't bust the guy's lip doesn't mean they couldn't reasonably foresee that happening once they picked up their telephone to call in security.
Does this mean simple for-loops in R will be faster? Currently R can be order(s) of magnitude slower than MATLAB / Python. Does one have to do something specific to use the JIT or is it automagic?
I dated someone who lived in a Section 8 housing complex. It was a major eye opener. Every one was terrible to every one else. I'd never seen anything like it. It validated the observation that the middle class has nothing to worry about from the lower class, they're too busy tearing into each other.

Generally, people behave poorly, are easily controlled/distracted, when they're scared and stressed. Like when they can't pay their bills. This Great Unraveling, where no one feel financially stable or secure, is turning everyone into savages.
They both use epoll underneath. Netty will likely perform better because it has a robust thread pool implementation.
In general, the fervor surrounding coal stems from the fact that for a long time it was the only industry where a person could bring home more than minimum wage, and see the decline of the industry as a personal attack.

What the people really want is work. The article tells the tale - a thousand applicants for a handful of positions. The program I'm in had hundreds of applicants for only ten positions.

To me, too much money has been spent trying to resuscitate the coal industry when it could have been directed at new industries. The politics of it all doesn't interest me, and it wouldn't interest the legion of skilled technical personnel now clamoring for even minimum wage jobs if they had somewhere else to go (aside from relocate entirely).
It's been in that state for many years at this point.
Implementation of recurrent attention module
Ask HN: Polymer and Web Components?
Where are we here?

Polymer is kind of weird. It appears to be always radically changing, it still uses bower.... which is fine but seems a bit old.

Hit the polymer tag on stackoverflow and nothing gets answered.

There is one book on amazon which is outdated.

The new google maps will be web components.

I don't want to go down a learning road like others in terms of just for fun. No thanks! Yet everyone seems to be involved.

Another thing which isn't shown anywhereis application development. If every individual tag is a project by itself, or if my entire app is components relative to the app.

Do a search here, polymer announcements have no comments.

I must turn to HN
While the violent part of the incident is the fault of security (why should a non-violent, non-threatening passenger have violence used against him???) the airline should never have been in this position. Stop overbooking flights. Pay to put your 'deadhead' crew on another airline. OR offer passengers an incentive above the one they are entitled to by law instead of trying to get them to accept less than that before giving up. It's just terrible business practice because they know they can usually get away with it and can save themselves a few $.
I'm sorry, I don't agree.

The offending party (in the court of law) might be the security officers. But as a passenger, Dr. Dao bought the ticket from United and it was their responsibility to treat him with dignity and safely transport him to his final destination. The situation arose due to lapse in United's protocols -- which was probably enforced by Chicago Airport Security officials.

I could make another argument, for the security officers, that they were just following protocols. Maybe the gate agents let the security know that the passenger isn't leaving even after "politely" requesting him to. The security officers, hence rightfully, assumed he was a threat to other passengers and used force.

All of this comes down to the fact that United started this, and they could have easily avoided the whole thing.
1. Nothing is forever.

2. The thing you worry about is in other words that wind power will be a cheap sustainable energy source.
Because a wind turbine is limited to the area of the swept blades, and larger turbines can reach the faster winds that occur higher off the ground, large turbines are MUCH more effective than small ones. Turbine blades that are twice as long can capture four times as much wind, and the tops of those blades capture faster wind, too.

On the other hand, ignoring integration and installation costs, solar panels scale linearly with size. So small solar makes much more sense than small wind.
Are Lisboa (Lisbon?) and Prague in the same country? The charitable (and common too) way to read "more than countries in Europe" in this context is that it's more diverse than any country in Europe, not than any two countries in Europe.

Talking about anything across the USA is as insightful as talking about anything across the whole Europe, the point you have just supported. Do we cry about Europe turning into a developing nation because Moldova is not quite as developed as Monaco?
Also, at the bottom of the page "This page is owned by Service Desk." What does that mean?

And it's legal to publish a .GOV site using Drupal?
If that were the case and USPTO were in on the trick, why the need to drop HTTPS?

They'd have that data already, so could just share it directly.
Does F5 do any special secret sauce that can't be replicated with an equally powerful set of hardware and a good HAProxy config? I know one of our network admins is continually complaining about how shitty their UI is...
> If a seat is physically empty because the passenger just doesn't show up, the airline doesn't lose any money - the ticket is still paid for. Overbooking is simply a way for the airlines to make extra money on top of what they would normally make

Your logic is perfectly reasonable and sound, and it took me many years of working for Big Corp (TM) to understand that is simply not how a big corporation thinks.

Once they have a revenue stream, anything that diminishes it is a "loss", even if that revenue stream was kind of fake or invented anyway.

The massive company I worked for was making millions per week from something that was accidental and they shouldn't have been. But it went on for so long, they got so attached to it (those millions looked great on year-end reports) that soon any talk of "fixing" the problem was referred to as a "revenue loss" and it was completely unacceptable to the business, unless your proposed change kept the revenue.
Any ideas what kind of DIY experiments I could do to replicate/outperform them on carbon sequestration? If they're the first group in the world to work on it, I imagine there's a lot of potential for hackers to fiddle. I have access to hardware lab and biohacker lab.
Re: article, A, lot of programmers treat their work as a work of art, so art comes before money.

Simply speaking - while shit sells, making shit sucks.

B, having a "license to renegotiate your deal" in reality looks like "having a license to lose your job".

Re: question, i think self-taught programmers mostly lack team and people skills. The idea of developing code in unison with other people often feels wrong and bizarre. Luckily, this is usually solved within a year or two of getting a job.
I think there are two issues here:

1) That United could have him removed to begin with. Call this the social issue.

2) That he was removed violently. Call this the physical issue.

It's because these things are combined that we get the outrage we're feeling now.

Police interact violently with people all the time. Often it gets overlooked because they were doing something wrong to cause it.

People also get removed from flights all the time, but usually it gets ignored because we can't see their frustration as easily as we could see blood on Mr. Dao's face.

United is absolutely responsible for the social issue, but I don't agree that they're responsible for the physical one. The police should have explored other options that didn't involve violence in order to get him off of the plane.

At the point Mr. Dao was at, he was essentially trespassing on United's plane (not something I agree should be the case, but the way that I understand the policies of the airlines' governing body, that is the way it is looked at once they decide he should leave).
I don't buy this argument. He tries to remove blame from the airline because they were just following procedure. But the issue is that the procedure was stupid and greedy.
Not defending United, but the airline industry is known for having pretty slim margins.

Air travel is fantastically expensive and we all want it to be cheaper than it really is. This is one of the ways that is done (people who don't show up pay for other people and displaced passengers move to underfilled flights).

The practice is annoying, but I think with the exception of bungled reqccomodation is a net plus for the consumer.
That is a good entrepreneurial instinct. If you or a competitor comes in and can create the same value with fewer people, then that drives consumer prices down, which is one of the end goals.

Having said that, there is nothing wrong with employing more people, as long as they are creating marginal economic value. Hiring 10 people to make $10M is better than 5 people to make $9M for a company.