skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IT's a crappy article, that is why I at least have flagged it. Not worth reading, just a bunch of giggly-talk about different kinds of porn.
> But we do need to ship energy across markets over long distances.

In the case of that LNG tanker, yes. But for electricity the majority of it is consumed relatively close to where it is generated in the case of renewables and waste as the source. There is an obvious economic incentive to transport it across larger distances if and when feasible but for now there does not appear to be a huge need for this. For natural gas and coal fired plants the distance tends to be much larger, but this goes for any fossil fuel production / consumption setup.

To your other points: it is exactly this independence of geopolitical factors that make renewable energy so attractive.

If there ever is another war in Europe (this could easily happen) I suspect that it will be fought with fossil fuels rather than electricity as the dominant power source for prime movers so in that sense not much will change.
I'm allowed to hold two thoughts in my head at the same time: that it's important that we do everything within legitimate law to suppress bigotry and racial supremacy, and also that it's important that we defend the basic principles on which our rule of law is built.

So: I'm not so concerned about the welfare of the Nazis that are getting punched.

What I'm concerned about is that normalizing political violence will have the effect not just of normalizing Nazi punching, but normalizing punching of all sorts of people.

Does this mean that vulnerable people should be left to fend for themselves on the streets with Nazis throwing bottles at them or beating them? No, of course not. Beat the shit out of those people (call 9-1-1, too).

But those same vulnerable people are going to need to employ something other than violence to deal with offensive flags and racial slurs, no matter how unsafe they (legitimately!) feel when confronted with them.
Sniping at US Forces Beginning to Boomerang (2011)
> So can you do the ground work and show that a position like opposition to same sex marriage is actually frequently and casually labeled as extreme?

I suppose I could, but I'm honestly not interested in doing so to support a casual conversation on a web forum.

> I also disagree with the point in principle. We even have a word for it when a majority gets on the wrong side of rational (and goes to extremes), a mob.

Actually I'm not familiar with the term "mob" being used that way, and a quick search doesn't seem to support your usage either.
Still though, having a correctly spelled version and and incorrectly spelled version sounds better than just the latter.
> If that is indeed the case then the student's "significant misunderstanding" of this material wasn't reflected in the calculation of their final grade, which is the textbook definition of grade inflation.

I don't know; it depends. I typically write my rubrics so that there are "style" points. In a really easy proof, style might be up to half the available points. In a very difficult proof perhaps only 1/10 or less.

But even that doesn't totally solve the problem. Some mistakes are on the border between style and substance. Grading and assessment aren't a perfect science.

> I seriously doubt the existence of University of Phoenix has ever made an employer say anything close to that.

Call me old-fashioned, but IMO the actual education is still the hard part of the Education Industry.

My comments have all assumed the goal is student understanding. IMO the obsession over grades (by students and by external observers), testing, and accreditation is completely mis-guided. Focus on exceptional student outcomes and the rest is easy.
Great idea! So who's head will roll when hackers steal that master key(s) with access to the world's biggest networks?

Any volunteers? Anyone at all?
However, Vancouver had over 16 hours of sunlight _today_, but Quito only had 12.
And you know that if you ever find yourself in Chicago you are always welcome in my house, too.

I'm not discounting your personal experience of violence. But no personal history of any sort entitles you to hit someone simply for carrying a flag. You know that's true.
I'm guessing very little. Most of the time I think that active people are not considered -- that the data is pointed at those who are moderately active (a few gym classes a week, or a few runs).

I've been working on leaning out a while now, but I have the affliction of loving beer and whisky so much... (Canadian).

I work out 5 or 6 days a week for at least an hour in the morning immediately after waking: bike, run, weights, calisthenics. I'm 6 ft, ~210 lbs at present.

I start out with a high protein breakfast, a light lunch, and a high protein supper. I don't snack a lot, but if I do I go for nuts or a little chocolate. As is, I still feel hungry regularly and as is, I am at least a thousand to fifteen-hundred calories below my maintenance requirements.

Did I mention I enjoy my beer? I enjoy regular libation, usually beer and a (one or more) scotch, irish or canadian whisky and yet I'm losing weight at ~2 to 3 lbs a week. That said I very rarely indulge in any junk food, fast food, or overly fatty or carbed meals. So rarely do I eat pasta or potatoes these days. I usually have one slice of bread with breakfast and that's all unless I take a sandwich for lunch -- but I don't make rules out of that either.

I have heard many times over about the benefits of intermittent fasting, but I personally can't be bothered with the attention that fad diets and labeled lifestyles require.

I tried restricting my caloric intake as well, and I found I just had a severe drop in energy and focus when it came to my morning workouts and my daily work.

Just eat your greens people! Go heavy on the spinach.
An explosion on a manned flight shouldn't result in anything more than some bruised and disappointed astronauts.
During a separate quarter of the year, the sun is above the horizon for most of the day.
>> Avoid certification.

Why? Is that something that can hurt your abilities, or your employment prospects?
>As much as the concept of "tolerance" is criticised (more recently from those people who, I think rightly, are tired of only being "tolerated") I think that people should be allowed to believe whatever they want to believe.

In my mind, respect is something that's earned rather than expected.

People should be able to believe whatever they want, but as soon as it affects anything they do, any such "respect" becomes counterproductive. E.g. respecting anti-vaxxer beliefs, how would that even work?

Would you rather be in a crisis situation with a person who will pray for your well-being instead of actually helping you when it's needed?
Porn has also involved into live streams people watch for free, or "donate" tokens. e.g. Chaturbate, MyFreeCams, and CAM4
I'm not sure what you're saying 'no' to, in my comment.

> "We must love one another or die."

This is good enough for me, but going further... The Gospel of Jesus Christ, and Ahimsa are persuasive for many.

EDIT: just had a shower, and remembered this paper that supports the idea that violence is an inter-generational disease:

https://pascual.scripts.mit.edu/research/03/paper3.pdf

Pascual Restrepo, May 2014

Abstract

> I study the role of the monopoly of force in shaping cultural traits associated with violence
and their persistence. I do so in the context of the settlement of the Canadian Prairies from
1890 to 1920. I find that places with a weaker monopoly of force by the Canadian state
during the settlement – as measured by their distance to the early Mounties’ fort – were and
are still more violent despite the later consolidation of the Canadian state. My interpretation
is that counties with a weak monopoly of force during the settlement developed a persistent
culture of violence. Consistent with my view, I find that hockey players born in these places
behave more violently even when observed in a common environment: the same team in the
National Hockey League. Besides the persistence of culture via inter-generational transmission
and socialization, I find that culture favors complementary institutions and political
views, creating an additional channel of persistence. Finally, I show that the monopoly of
force during the settlement crowds out pre-existing cultures of violence brought by immigrants.
Despite the persistence of culture and its dependence on past circumstances, the
right institutional conditions can change it
I'm wondering if fitting the station with a wall or glass curtain between the tracks and the platform (with sliding doors to let people in/out) could help mitigate this effect. See the MTR in Hong Kong for an example of what I'm talking about.
The required propulsion is minimal. They're all going into the same orbit, just spaced around it. A tiny speed difference is enough to do that, since it adds up over time.
How does an ORM know what your database schema is at compile time? Honest question.
I just spoke to Correlation Ventures this week. Great model, and a refreshing change for fundraising. They came in cold after hearing about us from another VC, then we had one phone call which was mostly a friendly chat, and then 3 emails with pretty simple docs and clarifications. They got back to me with a decision in 2 days. After that, they just want a short conversation with a VC co-investor, and another short call with me. Super simple.
>"But even after the great depression of 1929 and repeated stock market collapses, New York is still a major FS hub."

I don't think that a very good indicator. There is a difference between the tech industry and financial services. Financial services depend on markets that have a well known and established opening and closing time. In the US the markets are very much tied to 9:30AM to 4:00PM in the Eastern time zone.

How would that work if Wall Street were to move to US Central Time or Pacific Time? Would workers be expected to get up in the middle of the night?
Someone with a shallow familiarity with feminism like myself won't find anything surprising here. That patriarchy (which is a set of commonly held attitudes) disadvantages men as well as women is well understood. That many women have patriarchal attitudes is also well understood.

However, don't assume that these things are fixed. Highly feminine occupations such as film editor and software engineer have long since "flipped" to being male-dominated professions. Nursing could easily be next.

Or, you know, we could all grow up as a society but I'm seeing no evidence that this is likely to happen.
Everyone is a dick during heat wave
I think many people fail to understand Amazon's approach.

From watching their business over the years, Amazon isn't about books, or online purchasing, or data, or Whole Foods.

Amazon's secret sauce is lowering costs, especially transaction costs. Monetization and business case are easy to justify when lowered costs are provable (not just expected).

Google was the same for search and ads, but seems to forget these lessons in other fields and experimental ventures (Google Reader, etc.).

Both tend to bring high quality (from this user's experience). But the reason they are so fascinating to watch really is due to the reduction of transaction costs.
Nice. SpaceX is finally getting their launch rate up.

As a business, that's been SpaceX's biggest problem. Customers like the pricing but not the long delays. Finally, SpaceX seems to be getting past that.

Getting pad time at Canaveral is a bottleneck. SpaceX is still building their own launch site at Brownsville,, TX, but that's going slowly.[1] All SpaceX has there right now is some fill that's settling (the location is on sand maybe 2m above sea level) and a dish antenna. Next to be built, the fire station. First launch is now supposed to be no earlier than 2018.

[1] http://www.krgv.com/story/35550679/3m-road-project-underway-...
Just more FUD. Here's the explanation.

https://i.redd.it/3yddemsdku5z.jpg

"We have noticed the speculations created by a posting on the website of UK’s Company House with respect to Coutt’s security for our UK Tax Rebate advance, and we would like to provide you with the following insight to help prevent some of the misinformation we have seen.

Our UK companies are entitled to a Government Game tax credit rebate which we earn every month on the Squadron 42 development. These rebates are payable by the UK Government in the fall of the next following year when we file our tax returns. Foundry 42 and its parent company Cloud Imperium Games UK Ltd. have elected to partner with Coutts, a highly regarded, very selective, and specialized UK banking institution, to obtain a regular advance against this rebate, which will allow us to avoid converting unnecessarily other currencies into GBP. We obviously incur a significant part of our expenditures in GBP while our collections are mostly in USD and EUR. Given today's low interest rates versus the ongoing and uncertain currency fluctuations, this is simply a smart money management move, which we implemented upon recommendation of our financial advisors.

The collateral granted in connection with this discounting loan is absolutely standard and pertains to our UK operation only, which develops Squadron 42. As a careful review of the security will show and contrary to some irresponsible and misleading reports, the collateral specifically excludes “Star Citizen.” The UK Government rebate entitlement, which is audited and certified by our outside auditors on a quarterly basis, is the prime collateral. Per standard procedure in banking, our UK companies of course stand behind the loan and guarantee repayment which, however, given the reliability of the discounted asset (a UK Government payment) is a formality and nothing else. This security does not affect our UK companies’ ownership and control of their assets. Obviously, the UK Government will not default on its rebate obligations which will be used for repayment, and even then the UK companies have ample assets to repay the loan, even in such an eventuality which is of course unthinkable.

This should clarify the matter. Thank you. "
It's right there in the recipes on the iDiet website, recommended in the article by "Susan Roberts, a dietary scientist at Tufts University". I was surprised too-- I didn't think anyone still believed margarine was healthier than butter, but here it is:

https://www.theidiet.com/food/idiet-recipes/vanilla-spice-co...

And here's their cake made with egg whites, which I imagine is great for crying yourself to sleep while trying to ignore your hunger: https://www.theidiet.com/food/idiet-recipes/idiet-chocolate-...
I should also mention these two posts:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100804-00/?p=...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20161104-00/?p=...

It now says that "First-time commenters will be moderated." BTW. The feature the 2016 blog post talked about was invented in 2011 or so as part of Win8 BTW.
I feel like venture capital is a major choke point in our current implementation of capitalism, where "the market will decide" is really a euphemism for "a small handful of extremely wealthy investors will decide." We're paying a massive opportunity cost on all of those ideas that don't ever reach the market because VC's don't think they're easy money.

A good way to resolve this would be to reform the accredited investor laws into something more meritocratic. Instead of needing to own one million dollars in assets, there ought to be some sort of knowledge-based competency exam so that regular people can invest in ideas they think are worthwhile.
After reading the article the chips they chose shook the world because of their silicon, not good tool support like AVR studio and Arduino, which was what made the Atmegas so popular. The 328 in particular is otherwise a boring and low powered chip micro, despite its impact on the hobby world.
If this were true, 'most VCs' would be bankrupt, and many probably are.

However, nobody should care about 'most VCs'. You only need one. The good ones do not miss the big deals. There may be evidence that they take a long time on the big deals, but miss them? What evidence do you have?
Indeed; why don't they take the barbaric regression to its full conclusion in one fell swoop and go straight to line-numbered BASIC.
I may have just been imprecise in my wording. I was addressing andreiw's assertion that Japan would "not really (be) Japan anymore" after cultural influence from immigration. But Japan's culture is already the beneficiary of a great deal of foreign cultural influence, so nothing would happen to it with respect to immigration that hasn't been happening to it since practically the dawn of time.

At best, the rate of cultural transformation might be accelerated, but even then I suspect the doomsday scenario of Japan simply vanishing in a generation (or whatever) due to an influx of immigrants is unlikely. If the Meiji restoration or the American occupation didn't destroy Japan's cultural identity then a few thousand more gaijin won't either.
In the USA, it's not uncommon to check in at home and/or print your own boarding pass. It's far less common to print and attach your own luggage tags - United does it at SFO. However, US airline regs require that an employee checks your ID and compares it to the boarding pass before accepting luggage - so there's always a human in the loop.

However - a lot of Americans still aren't comfortable with this level of self-service, and want to go to a full-service counter.

What I was referring to specifically with LCC's is that they have zero personnel at the check-in counter -- self-checking your luggage isn't a nice option, it's mandatory. And there's not even a kiosk for printing your boarding pass (that would cost money to maintain, best to have you use your own paper and toner at home).
I agree that an app has better ergonomics, but I believe it would murder the phone's battery life. Better to run out of battery on a third-party device than your phone.

Plus, a separate device allows you to use it with your laptop or your phone.
I thought predicting winners in startups was searching for "Black Swan" events - the ones models often miss...
I've heard of tutorial D before, but I haven't taken the time to learn it as I'm off the impression it isn't widely deployed. :( I'd love to hear any first hand experiences though!
I think the basic problem is that people arguing the way you are arguing are basically arguing in a theoretical space. It almost never addresses the practical realities nor tells people how to move the needle in any meaningful way. Arguing about doing it right very often ends up being a form of flak that helps keeps the status quo in place.

I'm currently homeless and I try to explain to people why I don't agree with their position and it kind of boils down to the fact that no matter what I do, I seem unable to get meaningful traction on solutions and, very often, people are content to argue with me about "well, we need the right answers" and ignore the fact that they could do something for me right here, right now.

I am probably not saying this very well, but I just run into an awful lot of people online who imagine themselves to be good people who claim they desire to live in a better world and see zero contradiction between that and crapping all over me personally in conversation while doing nothing whatsoever to help me solve my financial problems in any kind of meaningful way.

I am somewhat sympathetic to your side. I get a lot of flak from women who act like my efforts to empower them are simply another form of blaming the victim. But I increasingly feel that it is both irresponsible and disingenuous to argue the side you are arguing without giving concrete solutions in the here and now to the problems people are actually having. Without that, these arguments merely serve to say "We need to respect Nazis (or other horrible people) and we don't need to respect you and we don't actually care about your problem at all."

FWIW and all that.
> US voters are impotent. Millions are about to be kicked off Medicare and Medicaid because of the signature of a man who repeatedly pledged over and over again that he would not ever cut them. Politics has become a metagame of tribal signaling with only a tenuous connection to actual policy.

Voters are ignorant, not impotent.

They just don't care enough to stay informed with their other life responsibilities and/or pleasures. The dangers of slow strangulation in the form of bills like Republicare is something they simply don't care enough to track. It'll be fully felt around 2021-2022 and by the time people realize its a problem the Republicans will have control of the government for 6-8 years.

If people genuinely cared the prescription is still rather simple:

A) Organize voting blocs to end careers on the issue of gerrymandering to prevent statehouse control == Congress control.

B) Organize voting blocs to end the careers of anyone who lowers services below Obama-era levels.

C) Organize voting blocs to end the careers of anyone who violates Constitutional liberties.

I don't think reasonable people really want people in power who are willing to do those things, they just don't care enough to do anything about it.
I wonder how thoroughly the various failure scenarios have been modeled and reported on. Something merely of the magnitude of the East Ohio Gas Fire [1] in a crowded port or canal would be awful, and I'm pretty sure a supertanker carries a lot more gas.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_East_Ohio_Gas_explos...

The industry has every incentive to do a careful job with the safety features of these ships and the terminals they unload into, but the trouble with ships is that things sometimes run into them... sometimes really big things.

It's a pretty awesome way to carry around a lot of portable energy, though.
See also: creat()

https://linux.die.net/man/3/creat

It goes way back to the murky beginnings of Unix.

Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."
I absolutely agree. Itanium effectively killed any hope of VLIW architectures for a generation.

I'm hoping The Mill folks can bring back attention to VLIW.
Fantasy has to be believable, there needs to be suspension of disbelief to give it power.

There is very little believable fantasy in porn today. It's shitty porn really quickly and cheaply, because most people are only going to watch for free.
This is a cool idea. When posting your own projects on HN, it's better if you prefix with "Show HN:" so that it's clear to us that you're advertising something, rather than a random person endorsing a product you like.
A fictional character in a 1999 sci-fi strategy game Alpha Centauri. It has some quite memorable quotes about technology and society.
Does anyone know how they do this?
The second great library of Alexandr(i)a.
It's doable but it's not recommended.
One of the central reasons for Windows's success is backwards compatibility. 16-bit Windows 3.1 applications still work in Windows 10. There are countless teams at Microsoft whose sole purpose is to verify backwards compatibility with almost every piece of software that more than a handful of people are running.

Public API contracts are NEVER intentionally broken.
Didn't OKCupid (or possibly one of the other big dating sites) post a bunch of similar research? I remember reading a bunch of interesting articles regarding dating trends.
> And while I really liked Scheme, I didn't like SICP which like the bible we actually never read and only worshipped.

Uh when did you take it? When I took the self-paced version with Harvey we read SICP. I mean, I'm sure some students skipped readings but they were still assigned nevertheless.