skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to me the amount of negativity directed toward his projects and the millions of reasons people give for why they "won't work" (not necessarily on HN, but at least on general news websites).

I'm starting to believe the only difference between those who start their own companies and those who don't is that the latter convinces themselves that it is impossible, never builds anything, and from their own lack of having ever produced anything, concludes that their original supposition was indeed correct.
Solar radiation? Probably why burrowing would be the way to go.
Nicely done! So it works. I badly want to see the software, however, which can do the same translation.
>These ideas don't exist (to our knowledge) amongst animals, so I don't find it convincing to use animals to support your argument.

But aren't we humans just that, animals?
While the concept of ethical hedonism is of a rather philosophical nature, I still think the basic definition of hedonism translates very well into actual nature.

At least when hedonism is defined as "strive for pleasure and happiness" while evading "pain and suffering" there should be no issue applying this to other animals because we know for a fact that animals, besides humans, are able of these emotions and feelings.

What we don't know is if other animals actively reflect about these things. But that's a matter of motivation and not actual observed behavior, if we go by observed behavior than pretty much all living things are living a "hedonistic lifestyle".
> I don't entirely agree with the Twitter thread, but it's also possible to "weaponize" and "suppress" because you think it's the right thing to do.

Everyone thinks what they do is right. Ill-intentioned refers to whether the characterizer thinks it was right, not the actor.
The bread under discussion is itself part of a revolution. Since the invention of the steam oven a century before, French bread was the insipid, if iconic, industrial baguette. TOday's loaves are the result of a 1980s a reactionary movement in bread baking led by Lionel Poilâne. Poilâne revived artisanal bread, much more delicious and satisfying, which now we take for granted.

(Amusingly people liked his bread so much that there were always queues outside the bakery in the morning. In the Soviet Union they printed photos of this in the newspaper to show that even in the West there were bread queues, so all the claims of a better life there must be propaganda.)

The article also mentions Guy Savoy: his restaurant has three stars which is presumably why he is name-dropped. What they should have mentioned is that when you eat there, not only does the sommelier pair wine with your course, but a bread "sommelier" comes by with a special cart and recommends specific breads for each course as well.

Poilâne's shop in the 7th retains a lot of anachronisms: walk in and everybody greets each other, and the ladies behind the counter liked to hand little treats to my son when he was small.
Well, they blocked the app on all US middle- and high-school campuses so it couldn't be used for bullying. But past that I wouldn't call it a rampant problem. If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular."

The main problems were the occasional bomb threat and the overall degenerate nature of some of the posts.
Another example of possible poor security (which seems to be depressingly common with UK banks) is to ask for certain characters from your password. Like say, the 1st, 3rd and 5th characters in the word.

However, if the password was encrypted, they shouldn't really have this information should they? So by asking for it, they're basically admitting everything's stored in either plain text (very bad) or a reversable form of encryption (also quite bad).

There are other complaints about this too (like accidentally encouraging people to write the passwords down so they can figure out which character is the 3rd one or what not):

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/64589/is-it-bad...

And it also doesn't seem much like a good deterrent against keyloggers. But yeah, quite a few banking sites do this, which is a tad worrying.
I’d guess because CPython is assuming the input to -c is ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) when it decodes it using Py_DecodeLocale():

main()
…
setlocale(LC_ALL, "")
…
argv_copy[i] = Py_DecodeLocale(argv[i], NULL)
…
mbstowcs() or mbrtowc()
…
setlocale(LC_ALL, oldloc)
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Py_Main(argc, argv_copy)

While the REPL’s encoding (sys.stdin.encoding) is set to UTF-8 due to LANG/LC_CTYPE settings. You can get the same error when invoking the REPL as:

LANG="en_US.iso8859-1" python2.7

So the shell isn’t doing anything to the text—it’s providing UTF-8 bytes in both cases, it’s just that Python is interpreting them differently.
This project and the Hiperloop to me seems really alike, testing the capabilities of non-rocket launchers.

Kinda like in Verne's "From Earth to the Moon", both try to move and accelerate objects, maybe enough to launch something into orbit?

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Non-rocket_spacelaunch

Or maybe im reading to much scifi :)

PS: sorry for the broken english, not my native language.
Both chocolate and chili peppers are native to the Americas, and both have been pairs for centuries. Also, both cause a release of serotonin, and it's believed that capsaicin is soluble in fat, which is in chocolate (maybe smoothing out the heat effect, allowing one to taste the chili?).

I've never heard of wasabi and chocolate though.
Don't go to this site on mobile android Chrome. Fake virus notice scam.
Because in some respects it's not a theory, it's his own explanation for why he does certain things. The extrapolation to how it applies to new ventures is theory, but it doesn't obviously make little sense. It doesn't even need to be realistic, all that has to be true for the theory to be true is that Musk believes it, as it's an explanation of his behavior.
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There's this joke that may have originated in a Cheech and Chong movie ("Up in Smoke") that you should have ice cream after eating anything really spicy. The idea is that a day later when your spicy meal is making its exit, you can say "come on ice cream"[1] expecting the ice cream to cool things down for you.

About a thirty minute drive from me is Sunni Sky's[2] ice cream in Angier, NC. They have a flavor called Cold Sweat[3] which includes among other things ghost pepper extract.

They require you to sign a waiver[4] before letting you taste it.

Then they ask you if you want the baby taste or the real taste. Assuming you go for the real taste (as I did), in addition to handing you a mouthful of Cold Sweat, they are standing by with a second spoonful of vanilla for putting out the fire in your mouth.

Now I like really spicy food. I'll order things as hot as they'll let me in most Thai restaurants. So I was able to finish the full size taste of Cold Sweat they gave me, but there is no possible way I could have eaten a full scoop.

After finishing my taste, I glance up at their menu and notice a flavor called "Exit Wound." Upon asking what it is, they tell me it's about twice as hot as Cold Sweat.

Let me just say about these flavors: ice cream won't save you this time[5].

The flavor has made the local news[6] and Food TV[7].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyQoLtqB0s

[2] http://www.sunniskys.com

[3] http://www.coldsweaticecream.com

[4] http://www.coldsweaticecream.com/Cold_Sweat_Waiver.htm

[5] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL9vXAih2HI

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8oy_zYRTZ0
I don't prepare, either. I figure if I can't get hired on my natural abilities, what's the point?

I did make it to an in-person at Google. I failed the interview. The recruiter did encourage me to prepare, though.
This is a different bug.
You're asking the wrong question. There are over a hundred million Americans who commute long distances in their car. Mostly because they live/work in areas that aren't dense enough to have good last-mile public transit, and they don't want to deal with transfers. You can lecture them all you want, but ultimately, these people aren't going to downgrade their lifestyle just to fit your ideas of engineering efficiency.

The real question is: is this new solution more efficient than the current alternative of driving on the highway?
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is preserving our species by laying the foundations for us to leave and survive beyond this planet. He's the ultimate prepper.

I'm totally down with that, by the way: I believe there's a nonzero risk that our resource consumption trajectory, population growth and environmental carelessness will combine within centuries (if not sooner) to make this planet incapable of supporting us.

If plan A is "fix human behaviour", then we need a plan B. Plan B must be get another planet.

"All of this was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." - Sinclair.
What happens to those holes once the car is lowered into the tunnel by those carriers? Can I pedestrian just jump into the hole and then sue the boring company?
I saw the video a while ago - really neat technique, I love the visual differences between patterns. Love that it's written down - far too much great material is locked up, unsearchable, in videos.
So...they don't exist. The fastest ones are actually 40% slower.
Another 14-pointer which was overlooked:

nitromagnesite <--> regimentations
I don't know what you all are talking about. Clearly this is a great piece on how to fix motorcycles! :)

I enjoyed it. The part where he talks about how a stripped screw is suddenly the most important screw in the world and you should treat it as such really stuck with me. I have used that attitude many times to get out of jam.

Also, I really enjoyed his description of how he approached fixing his bike vs his friend's BMW. And also the little talk he gave in putting together the grill and the instructions manual.
It's not a straight transliteration -- it's not like we are writing IPA phonetic marks by-the-by in two different languages. For example your "th" in "thing" doesn't exist in Hungarian so I will use "sz" which by the way is one of the common pronunciation mistakes we make: replacing /θ/ with /s/. There are sounds in Hungarian which do not exist in English and yet if I wanted to "encode" the word "duke" I would likely use "gyúk" thus replacing /djuːk/ with /ɟu:k/.
What happens to those holes once the carrier lowers the car into the tunnel? Can I, pedestrian, just jump in there with the intention of discovering the future and then sue the Boring company? Well jks aside future is getting here sooner than we think.
So I use My Facebook as login. It has 2FA.
If the goal is spicy hot peppers, you actually want more nitrogen in your fruiting cycle as nitrogen is in fact a key component of capsaicin. Do not reduce its levels. This is the big mistake everyone tends to make. Keep your hydro solution balanced (I run about 13-13-13 with 6.5 of the first 13 (N) being a readily-available nitrate.)
I haven't heard Big 4 in context of tech companies, only in context of accounting and consulting firms.

Some stock market analysts use acronym FANG for Facebook, Amazon, NetFlix, and Google, best performing tech stocks recently.
What Is the Difference Between a Software Engineer and a Programmer?
Many people think and are incentivized to think about how to optimize for today.

Thinking about tomorrow can be counter-intuitive as to the way things work today, and it is pretty easy to construct negative arguments about tomorrow that are based on what we know right now.
Ironically it is actually infinite.
Ooooh. Thanks. :)

I definitely have no excuse, I need to go find a decent Haskell reference-tutorial-manual. Know of any good ones for people with no former experience with functional programming (and ADHD :P)? I'm aware of Learn You a Haskell, just wondered what your experiences were.
Games, luckily for me
At least the low gravity makes a space elevator tenable with current materials -- that'd be a big aid. Getting to and from parking orbit from Earth is such a pain!
It isn't a theory at all. It is what drives him.

http://mashable.com/2013/03/10/elon-musk-sxsw-2013-mars/
It's not just a British thing. Mango con chile is a popular Mexican snack.
if you'd create 124mph transportation from 20-60 miles outside and through the city into the city, you wouldn't need to drive into the city. Most commuter trains average less than 50 so it's worth trying to drive. The average speed of the NYC subway is less than 35 mph. Light Rail?

Low-speed maglev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8SqDVUdMtY
At least AFAIK all the non-CJKV scripts (except perhaps Mongolian?) use right-to-left decimal characters with 0. So you should be able to "transliterate" (transnumerate) ۲۶۷۹ to 2979 with a simple look up table and no R-L confusion. In fact ۲9۷9 should be the same.
But... a subway for cars? This strikes me as significantly less efficient use of resources than everyone switching over to printing out their emails/IMs/photothings and faxing them to each other.

Edit: I mean, sure, great science fiction fun to think about!
Why not show some understanding for the people who worked tirelessly to pursue a common goal that's now come to an end, and their most loyal users who are going to be sad to see it go. As someone else said, nobody forced you to read the "6 shitty paragraphs". It's almost like you're throwing a tantrum at a parent who posted a longwinded obituary in the newspaper for their kid.
Huh? Yes, there's propaganda on all sides, and always has been, but the dystopian reality-surrender of NiT EiP does not immediately follow in the least. People paying attention have a very clear grasp on what is true and what is possible.
> we are basically trusting them to not look at it.

And trusting them not to lose control of the data. Given their inability to protect against Snowden, Shadow Brokers, etc. that is of course a reasonable possibility.

It's also a national security risk, imagine if an antagonistic foreign government had blackmail power over the US business elite, military officials, and politicians.
JavaScript is fine as a language. However, if it had never been allowed to run without user consent, it wouldn't be such a scourge as there would be minimal ads, minimal cross-site tracking and most sites wouldn't be able to justify a user prompt just to enable a useless animation.
If I recall my EE schooling correctly, the 1Hz resolution bandwidth significantly reduces the noise floor of the receiver, and this allows you to resolve smaller signals from the noise. Also, assuming it is sweeping, having a digital signal with greater bandwidth is no problem to find.
Google and Facebook Loses $100M to Hackers
Rose quartz is a primary ore of Titanium. Asterated rose quartz comes from this area. If you have gold you likely have other heavy metals like iron in the area, which can lead to garnets. The calcium content in the area lends itself to making Epidote. Sphalerite is the primary ore of Zinc and also produces quite impressive gems. Then you'll have volcanic gem rock in the area, such as multi-colored obsidian.
Microsoft's secure boot key is compromised* on ARM, and it's not feasible to revoke and replace it.

AFAIK, Secure Boot is still secure on x86_64, at least if you trust Microsoft to not be doing something (either deliberately or unintentionally) malicious.

* The key isn't actually exposed, but a signed binary that will run unsigned code has been-- which allows secure boot to be bypassed without turning it off on affected systems.
Yes, see Pinheiros subway station accident as a good example:

http://oglobo.globo.com/fotos/2007/07/11/11_MHG_sp_metro4.jp...
https://www.ita-aites.org/fr/news/download/383_4725e686e12d3...
When I look at what the front-end developers at the company I work for have had to go through with respect to package and dependency management to get an Angular application going, I cringe.

The problem isn't that JavaScript is a bad language (that's purely subjective), it's that it has a terrible ecosystem and a community that, apparently, is willing to accept very low standards in library and package management.
edit: don't feel like arguing. Best of luck to Musk.
How would you apply that thought if a friend gave you their credit card and asked you to buy something for them?

What about if you ran an online store that held credit card numbers, or any other sensitive data?
Not only do they "promise" but they realize they'd be violating the legal boundaries placed on their organization if they do. Arguing they shouldn't have the capability for this is like arguing the army shouldn't be allowed to have tanks because then they have the capacity to perform a military coup.

No judge has ever signed an NSL. That's precisely the distinction between a "regular" judicial subpoena and an administrative subpoena [1].

Subpoenas have nothing to do with NSA interception, and everything to do with ordering businesses to produce evidence or individuals to testify pertaining to a crime. The case law setting the "expectation of privacy" test is from the 70s, and the electronic wiretapping laws from the 80's. The only recent development is that SCOTUS decided people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when their cell phone connects to cell towers because that's obviously how they work [2].

You don't need a law degree nor security clearance to understand this. Stop finding reasons to justify your anger and start getting informed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
YikYak baffled me for its entire existence, their product was incredibly simple from an engineering standpoint, they had no clear route to monetization and followed in the footsteps of several apps that shut down due to bad press. (Juicy Campus, College ACB) Yet they were able to raise an insane amount of capital from several respectable VCs. If there isn't a clear answer to how does this company make a million dollars they shouldn't be able to raise multiples of that amount.
Yes, Didi is universal across the country. You can order Didi through WeChat and actually what you get is a regular taxi car, not a Uber-type freelance driver.
Indeed, the website seem fairly broken. i.e. the right side is clipped as well on Firefox (can't see the Contact link on the mast head).

On (desktop) Safari hovering over a few sections causes the site to just randomly scroll to another section (e.g. Hovering any of the first 2 links of "Get in touch" goes a section back and the third one goes to the last hero section").

In mobile Safari (latest version) the website stops functioning after the first scroll until the end, the hero is the only thing that is viewable.

Lastly, the infinite scrolling loop doesn't work backwards (i.e. scrolling up) which gets a bit confusing.

There's something extremely fundamental in scrolling, it gets embedded in the user's cognition. I wonder what we need to do to raise awareness in finally stopping to meddle with it.
In China, it's Google who doesn't have a chance. Their search, email, and app store are all blocked. There's no reason to think they'd have any more success as a car company.
I had the privilege of eating a fresh one at a fish fry a few weeks ago. Yes it was delicious but the pain is absolutely savage. I was a low-grade pepper head up until that, eating habaneros for fun almost every day, but the reaper made me re-think what I have been doing to my body.

It is a brutal pepper and only the truly exceptional, probably <0.001% of people could honestly say they enjoy it.
it's also possible to "weaponize" and "suppress" because you think it's the right thing to do

How does that have anything to do with whether he was horrible? In general, people think they're doing the right thing. That doesn't mean they're not horrible.
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To me the only thing a lifetime of cocaine use predicts is more cocaine use. To place squarely outside any one political view seems disasterly infinantal motive of self confirming ones own view. How many people can you name that do psychedelic verses how many can you name that use cocaine only reaffirms what you are exposed to in the population, not what is fact.
Yeah, I love dark chocolate and chipotle ice cream. It tastes a little like mole. But I don't get all macho about it. I just like the taste.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-i...

When it's summer in the arctic, it is winter in the antarctic, whose area of ice is necessarily going to vastly outweigh the other when you add them together. So the trend will be less visible.

Just looking at arctic ice extent in summer, on that page, you can see the trend.
The only credible way to trust that NSA had stopped wiretapping would be a drastic enough reduction of its finances (and no transfer to FBI/CIA for that purpose).
Only if the output is an issue, I rather have an engineer who is still excited about coding vs. an engineer with barely any production.
I really, really hope I get to see you eat your words in 30 years.
remember that cheap clones also foster innovation, by spreading tools that would be completely inaccessible to people without money, that's how computers revolutionized the world.

With some cheap fake arduinos, cheap fake Saleae, and cheap fake FTDI chips, you can start prototyping while others are still counting their money to buy a $35 arduino. When you've established your working capital, you will buy brand-name stuff.
Never used the app, never heard of it... but I'm confused by "when handles became mandatory"? Prior to that it was just anonymous chat (with optional user id)? Why would requiring handles (user id's... right?) have made such a difference?
Yes, sugar. But it's lactose, which is much less sweet on a mass basis than sucrose, or even glucose.
DOE freezes millions in high-tech energy grants and gags staff
I really wish this was a top-level comment so it could be voted up to the very top. More informed than 99% of this entire comments section. Thank you!
If I adhered to the same system of morality as you do... I'd have most likely ended up working as a counterintelligence operative.

I'd like to hear your opinion on the following:

1)Is capital punishment 1 or 0?

2)Is euthanasia 1 or 0?

3)Is abortion 1 or 0?
This meme that transportation network companies are waiting for self-driving cars to eliminate drivers has been promulgated for years, but does anyone really know what will happen when self-driving cars are widely deployed? It's pure speculation.
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How is your experience? Interests? Success to the point of professional maths community recognition?
>I'm starting to believe the only difference between those who start their own companies and those who don't is that the latter convinces themselves that it is impossible, never builds anything, and from their own lack of having ever produced anything, concludes that their original supposition was indeed correct.

The latter are also aware of survivorship bias
For me the main disadvantage is that it takes an hour, comes once an hour, has inaccurate timetables, costs 13$, and stops running at midnight. Hence why I drive from mountain view to San Francisco rather than bother with Caltrain.
> they don't compete directly in any major market at this moment

Emphasis on "at this moment".
Why don't any of Snowden's documents confirm that they're using this interpretation and instead show that they are interpreting it as everyone else does?
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If the SEC truly wanted a transparent public market, all trade data would be published, for free, in near real time for anyone to use.
fwiw, here is the discussion from the 2 months ago when this was submitted (renamed "Anagram Scoring") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696196