skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Napkin math: For just 1 person to intersect: Each of those 10000 people have a (10000/30000000)/100 % chance to get selected, or .00000033%. Multiply that by a thousand selections = 0.00033% chance. Those selections are refreshed maybe 100 times a year so 0.033% chance per year.

There are billions of facebook users, so this should be happening all the time by pure chance. But of course it's not pure chance. Facebook will be selecting from a pool much much smaller than 300 million, and the selections won't be random.
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we can anecdata whatever numbers we want at each other, the point is the shift from upfront/sunk-cost to utilization cost will give every actor more information and better price signaling to work with. And the shift to fleet/service-provider from individual consumer for the assets themselves will cut a massive amount of the fashion-premium out of the costs.

You could argue that with this greater efficiency will come a jevons paradox like greater consumption. And that will probably be true in-aggregate, but I think thats going to skew toward more short trips per day (off-peak) than longer commutes (peak).
If the facebook app can identify unique phones in your vicinity -- IE MAC assesses, then it could form links without facebook being installed on the middle devices.
The entire thing reads like a bad case of sour grapes. Thatcher and Hayek didn't dehumanise the world, buddy.
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Other than the "secondes" my only real feedback is the price - Charge more!

I think you may be underestimating a little just how many domains people have if they're in the business of selling them!
Hi Gordon, sorry if this is too far off topic, but what software did you use to make your awesome github profile photo?
> The "few trillion dollars" part is a problem.

I am not particularly convinced that this requires a few trillion dollars. Is there some hard evidence that sunshades are impossible to deploy with less than $10 billion?

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/space/Self-deployed%20extrem...
Ask HN: What software do you use for your company knowledge base?
Also, is it any good?
Why? Voting for someone doesn't mean you think they will win. It seems that for many Republicans it was a happy surprise. (Going by post-election news reports from West Virginia.)
I find it funny that you're being downvoted to shit for holding an opinion which actually was quite common in the philosophy of mind, and which hasn't been quite yet superseded. Or at least I guess so, because nothing in philosophy ever really is.

The identification of thought (or rather reason) with language was explicitly advocated by Descartes in part V of the Discourse on the Method, where he suggested a test for distinguishing a perfect automaton from a human being. It's a view more often associated with him, but other early modern thinkers such as Locke, Leibniz and Kant made similar statements.

But in each case they were also more concerned with abstract thought, rather than just the general information processing that all animals do.
The base system is usually capable of compiling itself. If the source for your base system is stored on a remote git repository, and your implementation of git in your base system is written in OCaml, you're going to have to use an OCaml compiler to recompile it.
Nowadays I feel that experience with some type system at least as powerful as Haskell's is required to criticize static typing...
Well, of course, you can criticize it without such experience, but that only serves to look foolish when you complain about stuff that is solved for a decade.

Are you really complaining about lack of generics?
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Thank you, great point. The impact of these things on american/burb/pre-existing-car-culture locations will be very different than how it plays out in 'developing' locations.
Can someone change the URL to https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-reverse-aging-brain.h...?
I'm intrigued by thinking about what will happen when all of the parking lots and garages get turned into more useable space. When we hit the tipping point of self-driving cars being commercially feasible, it will make sense that they be parked where the land and electricity is cheapest, when they are parked at all. If we transition to mostly Uber-style car usage, the cars will be in motion as much as possible.

That will lead to lots of parking lots and garages being razed in favor of more useful buildings. That means more density in urban areas and potentially more pedestrian friendly cities.

Higher density means more electricity, water, and sewage usage.

I was looking for new office space a few months ago. I asked every real estate agent and commercial builder what they were thinking about self-driving cars. They all said that they weren't thinking about it as it was too far off to worry about. I was surprised at their lack of vision.
I'm assuming this was meant to link to: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-reverse-aging-brain.h... instead of the front page.
"cofounder" is a legally meaningless SV term. There are three ways you can be associated with a company

1. Shareholder (anyone in the world, except few countries with sanctions)

2. On board of directors (varies from case to case)

3. Employee (requires immigration status)
Yeah except you're not going to reverse engineer the GPUs of a dozen SoCs just to save a few dollars on a beowulf cluster. Even in the best case you will reverse engineer one commonly used GPU and then pick phones based on that.
Which security patches?

The slides are light on details, but if I were doing this, the phones would not be running Android in any case, so while security is an important consideration, you can't just say "but security!" and toss out the baby and the bath water.
GHC is very slow. That said, cabal defaults to incremental buillds, so most compilations will take few seconds.

It does not change the fact that GCH is slow, since you must do full compilations once in a while. But it does let you keep your flow while developing. Besides, GHCi is much faster.
their idea is to index All the site tech and sell it to sales people
Can you send me one? (to Australia). Or if you link one, I can probably use a shipping forwarder.
Great idea.

What do you use to read the records?
I don't think so. Is that not 90% of Kick starters purpose?
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Some of the dialogue for the Death Star attack scenes were taken directly from "The Dam Busters", a WWII movie depicting the Allied attack on a heavy water producing German controlled damn that required specialized weapons to be delivered in a highly specific attack run.
I will leave the details as an exercise for the reader but one would have to quantify fun in its full spectrum.

Ill give you one clue or more like a hunch...

If you have a tool that is trying to do everything it isn't going to be equally great at all those things and it will likely be confusing/hard to use.

The generic programming languages tend to be more popular but they do so in the same way TV programs or video games are trying to appeal to an audience as large as possible. (This is how we got all these absurd hacker movies for example)

In the future (lol) we will discover that single purpose languages are just better at the limited scope of things they do.

PHP is perhaps a bad example that I shouldn't even have mentioned here but such a language knows exactly what its goal is in life like PHP knows it is suppose to bake websites.

Maybe you've touched the awesome with your fun. Someone should try build a language entirely around the core mechanics of fun.

In games there is fun in the form of rewards for stuff that just takes a fucking long time to do, there is fun from rewards for stuff that requires skill, there is fun from rewards obtained though luck, there is fun from a storyline progressing, there is fun from unexpected things, fun from buying ingame shit, fun from selling ingame shit, fun from cooperation as well as growing to be able to do those things on your own.

But the real list is probably much longer.

The language should probably have a basic fun object that looks something like:
{
temporal: 0.
skilz: 0,
luck: 0,
story: 0,
randomEv: 0,
pay2win: 0,
progaming:0.
coop: 0,
solo: 0,
[...etc...]
}

Then you have to benchmark the fun people are taking out of a bit of code or graphics using real world data.

And then....

Then you would be able to focus your attention where your effort produces the largest amount of fun as well as see the areas where your game is teh suck. Answer the big questions like what parts are people playing and why? Where do they rage quit?

If they didn't give up on creating content for Diablo 2 I would probably still be playing it.

If they had a language where fun was the central mechanic they would have known that changing all the items and ruining all the heroes had a negative dev time to fun conversion ratio.

It wouldn't have to be limited to games at all. One could quantify the fun on HN using the same language. It would all of a sudden be obvious that the karma system and submission ranking lacks random rewards and events. A thing no one considered up to now but if we know it is fun and the system is lacking it it becomes worth considering it.

</fun>
The original paper for FAWN: Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes came out of CMU back in 2009; HBO's Silicon Valley has no monopoly over the level of idea which would fit in a tweet.
Cool project. We do something very similar with an internally made lander for our domain portfolio, and it works well. Lots of serious buyers contact via e-mail listed on whois too.

One thing very useful is to have analytics, perhaps you could add a feature for users to input a Google Analytics tag (UA-000000).

Side note: for anyone who actually wants to sell/buy a domain in a private transaction, I highly recommend Escrow.com as an escrow service.
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I thought there might be some comments on darcs in here. I've only just started learning OCaml so haven't yet used darcs, but am looking forward to trying it out.
> Never mind that smarter, nation wide, grids can allow electricity to flow in either direction depending on where the production and need is.

Larger grids are also more vulnerable grids. We should learn from the lessons provided by, e.g. the 2003 blackout in the northeastern U.S. We don't need bigger, more vulnerable, more tempting targets for the bad guys. We need more compartmentalization to limit potential damage and make systems easier to understand and repair.
Don't know if it qualifies as self-hosted but Web Maker is like an offline Codepen packaged as a Chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-maker/lkfkkhfh...

https://github.com/chinchang/web-maker/
The acids in orange peels are organic; they would have been consumed by soil microbes as a carbon source pretty quickly.
The sad thing is that I wouldn't be surprised. Then they can show you the same 3 minute buildup after the break in case you forgot.
As others have said, it was probably a Roland GR-series unit connected to a guitar with a hexaphonic pickup.

If you're a computer-based musician, an excellent option is Jam Origin's Midi Guitar 2. It's a pure software solution that accepts any guitar as an input. It works polyphonically, has low latency and tracks the notes with remarkable accuracy.

https://www.jamorigin.com/
For web development, yes. Once you know pretty much what you want, and have a good idea of how you're going to go about implementing it, it can be fast. If you're new, don't know what you want, and are starting out on a framework, it can be an impassable chasm. If you're just experimenting, it's also a bit too much.

Starting with a simple unit test or spec (what I meant by functional testing, though this can be BDD too) can be easier to start with and change as you figure out what you want. Even with specs, or a BDD framework like you said, no need to bring in a whole new DSL unless you need it IMHO, others may disagree.
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https://sandstorm.io/ - includes a lot of good and useful tools.
Always use percentages with respect of the fully diluted number of stocks (preferred + common), absolute numbers are worthless. In my current company:

- I joined as a senior software engineer among the first 3 employees (seed round) and got 1.8%. Junior engineers got ~0.5%

- At series A (30 employees), senior engineers got ~0.5% and junior ~0.1%

- At series B (70 employees), senior engineers got ~0.2% and junior ~0.05%

- At series C (100 employees), senior got ~0.1% and junior ~0.01%
Why are their planes "disgusting"? I fly a lot, both short haul and long haul, and I can't see any quality difference (is that what you mean?) between any planes from any carriers. They are all the same. Mind you, there are differences in seat pitch, lack of USB ports and so on, but I would not call any plane more disgusting than any other plane.
GitLab. I know it has it's problems in hosted form, but I've stood GitLab up on a Linode about a year ago and have had zero problems with it. Since then, I've grown increasingly dependent on it, starting to use GitLab CI for some basic automation around things like my blog, or managing my Chef environment. I started out by standing it up as a test, and am considering strongly reducing my GitHub footprint in favor of it if only for the "free" private repos (yeah, I'm paying for a server, so it's not free). I think having GitLab stood up in my life will actually open me up to other stuff that I hope to find in this list, too.

Does Plex count? If so, Plex. I love it, and don't remember how I lived without it.
Oh yes you can. The GPL gets its power from copyright - the rights that the authors of the original software have over their work. It does not and cannot place any restrictions on any software that you write, unless you literally incorporate the GPL'd source or binary into your software, which a CLI interface does not. The same would be true of an RPC interface.

For example, many databases are GPL'd and provide their entire functionality over RPC. Many CLI programs are GPL'd and (of course) provide their entire functionality over CLI. Neither of these cases place GPL obligations on clients, and it's no different for any given library which you wrap with a CLI.
The fundraiser itself may well have been a violation of "qualified investor" rules. The SEC may well catch up with them eventually if they remain in the US.

It looks like their early investors are unhappy for other reasons too:
https://safenetforum.org/t/storj-screws-their-ico-token-hold...
Business Insider is rather linkbait driven. I've had more luck reading FT, Australian Financial Review and even Bloomberg to some extent.

That said, "grade school gossip" might be an accurate characterization of where this has descended to. Just because it's a huge company doesn't make it immune from petty infighting.
Open Sound Control is effectively MIDI2 - it ameliorates all of the obvious shortcomings of the MIDI standard. It isn't hugely popular, because MIDI is good enough for 99% of users 99% of the time.

http://opensoundcontrol.org/introduction-osc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control
My understanding is that black hole mergers are not expected to have any optical-wavelength emissions, whereas neutron star mergers should have emissions across the electromagnetic spectrum. Is that distinction part of the excitement here?
Yes, all violence. Just because I don't support left-wing violence doesn't mean that I support whatever the left-wing is fighting against.

That's what I hate about politics nowadays - it's either you're agree with us on everything or we immediately assume that you disagree with us on everything.
> why people want to get a lot of money, put a ton of pressure on themselves, and then put out a shoddy half-baked, half-finished product.

Other way round: produce a half-baked product, get a lot of money, hope your investors are too libertarian to set law enforcement on you.

> Shouldn't you earn it first? Isn't that healthy?

Have you heard of this thing called "capitalism"?
This might be a naive question, but I'd like to clear it out.

Do gravitational waves travel at the speed of light?

I know the theory says nothing can travel faster than light. I also know that photons can be seen as quanta or as waves. So my guess is that gravitational waves travel at most, at the speed of light.

But do they? or do they travel slower? faster? Is there a doppler effect for GWs?

I ask because I would think ripples in the space-time fabric itself might be a bit different than light waves or other more studied phenomena.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Maybe old brains just need some vigorous shaking?
While I can see how someone could draw similarities in the aggregation of user data, I disagree about that being a comparable system for many reasons. Namely that they aren't government systems, and the political environment doesn't reflect, nor are projected to reflect a state of genocide.

This falls into the same line of thinking as "I need my assault weapon to fight the government when it becomes tyrannical." It's an unreasonable conclusion that comes from a reasonable set of first principals because the landscape is so different now than in the comparing period.
Darcs is interesting but not same system as Git.
Those are in fact the most relevant elements of this question. They are elements which, as in the case of the Netherlands, don't matter at all, until they mean everything.
Not radical at all, greed ruins everything.

The more we can decrease it in society – the more freedom we'll all get.
I used to make a joke that phones will be the future in datacenters because nobody is designing ARM SoCs for servers and those that do made them perform worse than phones.

The paper completely ignores the lack of ECC, hardware reliability and lack of software support. Especially if you consider that the majority of mobile gpus don't stupport opencl or don't even have drivers available for modern kernels. You will need to support your software for each device type or rewrite your software as an android app. But since developer and sysadmin time is far more valuable you're better of just buying an x86 server.
Oh yeah... Sometimes I mix up my french/english :P
About the price, you're right, but I'll probably make different plans.
Thanks for the feedback!
> It's funny how when someone describes their own experience, you tell them they're wrong. Are you claiming the GP didn't actually experience fast reloads?

Nobody is saying anyone is wrong. One person can perceive short compile times that another thinks are long. But, we shouldn't make generalizations based on one datapoint. Maybe you _can_ have fast builds with Haskell, but maybe that isn't the norm.
It does affect the users' abilities to hack on the software. Since BSDs are used a lot in commercial environments this is a real concern for BSD-hackers.
Keith McMillen Instruments make a fantastic foot controller based on "smart fabric" technology. Each of the footswitches can detect pressure in three axes, so it can be used for some very sophisticated expressive playing.

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Well what's the justification for the tax break? If it's "well, self-employed people are important so we should just throw money at them" then that's not a very good reason. Why not have them pay 0 taxes?

While I'm personally for single-payer healthcare, I don't see why going off on your own means you should get to pay less in taxes than someone who has to work under a boss. Does it incentivize economic growth? You're not hiring anyone...
What you are saying is like the people that would "rather write new functionality than tests"... Like, yeah, that would be nice, if you were able to write 100% bug free code, but you aren't so your tests are actually important in the goal towards a working product.
2 - Irreversibility of payments. This helps merchants avoid fraudulent credit card chargebacks: once funds are received they are spendable right away. No one can reverse payments. No system other than blockchains offer irreversibility.

Flip side is that customers can't reverse payments when they're victims of fraud.
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All the BSDs have traditionally included GPL'd software in the base system, so I don't think many people share this view (it's a possible interpretation of the GPL, but not a common one). As one major example: every BSD until recently included gcc in-tree, and OpenBSD and NetBSD still do.
The use of the term prior probability in that paragraph is not consistent with its use in bayesian probability, so something is wrong.

Also, I am not sure what magic numbers you are referring to.
Thanks! I use this little PHP function dns_get_record() ;)
The opam is pretty new. When I looked at OCaml a few years back my phd work, it didn't exist, so there's some churn in the tool chain

I think your overstating the pain though. Even in other languages, best practice demands you pin a library version so you wouldn't have some of those issues.
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This might sound petty, but the number of "I" in the writing was a bit overbearing.
I was going to say something to this effect since the MtA had a very free and easy magic system that was more about manipulating reality in subtle and not so subtle ways than "I cast fireball". It was a really creative and fun idea for magic without mages outclassing everyone like with DnD (3.x).

What about it doesn't work cause I've spent quite a bit more than 5 seconds thinking on it and I find it works quite well.
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It was neither. It was Regulus. Mercury was further away (still relativelly close) and Venus was much further away.
Why do you trust the IPCC?
Why does thinking require language? Besides for you defining it as such.

Ancient Inuits may have said flying requires feathers.
Craig Fugate told his Waffle House postulate in Nov 2009 at the first Random Hacks of Kindness hack day.

Video:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnstone/4110293316/
OPAM was released in 2013 and I recall it being mainstream by 2014. Maybe I am overstating the pain, but I've jumped through hoops for plenty of languages, and OCaml stands alone here. As somebody who's pretty good on the command line and at solving installation issues, the thought of a junior developer trying to get started with OCaml gives me shivers (probably another impetus for Facebook's Bucklescript).
It wasn't just any kind of dancing:

"We tried to provide our seniors in the dance group with constantly changing dance routines of different genres (Jazz, Square, Latin-American and Line Dance). Steps, arm-patterns, formations, speed and rhythms were changed every second week to keep them in a constant learning process. The most challenging aspect for them was to recall the routines under the pressure of time and without any cues from the instructor."
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Agreed. I'm always looking for excuses to use it or F# at work but rarely come up.
Haha, `libcaca` FTW http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca