skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's a strong argument that the university system was destroyed when it was started to be run like a government program.

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science
Upvote for Zed's link. I was pleased to see that!
If they are in Europe, it’s useless trying to do anything the last week of July through August. France, for example, pretty much shuts down. I have heard of VC negotiations just stopping practically midsentence August 1 and magically resuming September 1. Apparently France doesn’t understand that it is possible for people to take vacations in any month other than August. They seem to thrive on tourist destinations being absurdly crowded while in June, many destinations are nearly ghost towns. (I live in Provence and have a tiny hotel there so I see it up close and personal every year.)
I doubt it. Big media sites would be blacklisted by many for being "too liberal".
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Thanks! So that looks like ~$26,125 for a 4.75 hr flight in pure costs (fuel, plane and engine maintainence) exclusive of crew pay. If the numbers are totalling the line items above.

So call it around $50k all included.

Depreciation doesn't look like it's in that number either, but I'd say that's probably ignorable when you're as heavily utilized as a major carrier plane is.

That seems like a good ballpark number for something a carrier would agree to. Not something to do every day, but arguably worth the PR and not going to torpedo the company either.
I agree, it's the overall complete lack of education on any topic that's even remotely cutting edge. Technologies and ideas move faster than the institutions can keep up with. The only subject that should really be taught now is the ability to self-educate as much as possible.

Ignorance to these kinds of things keeps people who would otherwise totally support in the dark, and thus, afraid of it.
Yeah, DeBeers has already had a rough century. Now this? When will they get a break?
This is a pretty naive view. There are no electric replacements for some of the big consumers of oil (trucking, shipping, airlines, construction equipment, etc).
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Recommendations for open source alternatives or even similar closed products would be appreciated.
I read the article but I don't understand what it was that the director did.

Does anyone have the list of violations? I'm curious what the violations were that caused a fork to be created.

--

EDIT: thanks to devmunchies https://medium.com/@rvagg/the-truth-about-rod-vagg-f063f6a53...

His responses to the allegations look truthful and human. Sometimes as people we make mistakes. I don't think that's grounds to be removed though IMO.
Perhaps one that controls a motorized door, but this is not the first vulnerability with the capacity to cause actual physical harm to a human, no. For example: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
I don't think that there is anything non-modern about posting and viewing experience on HN. My personal opinion is that the UX doesn't have all the bells and whistles that you might see on other websites and that is a good thing which invites people to focus on few important things.

But your comment doesn't substantiate what isn't modern about HN UX; anything other than lack of an advanced editor with live preview?
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Good news. Moreover, it would be great if Eclipse would take over Eclipse IDEs for Haskell and Rust...
Based on sokoloff's source, it looks to be a bit under $50k in total cost (to the airline).

If you want to run that number by your friends for a 4.75 hr flight in a 737-900ER, it'd be nice to get confirmation.

PS: You lucky dog. I've been debating going for my pilot's license.
> So first, tax is marginal. Only the amount above a tax bracket is taxed at the higher rate.

Yup. That's the core point I was making.

> you can get into the deal flow for any of the trendiest and flashiest companies with the biggest upwards trajectory

Much harder that you're making it out to be. Being a angel investor is tough. Being a successful one is even tougher. Experienced investors can improve their network, access and odds - but it's a lot of work and they're often outliers.

> This is about honesty.

Really not sure what point you're making.
That invalidates the need for a blockchain. Censorship resistance isn't for popular content.
No problem, I love SwiftKey. You just blindly tap the general area around the keys you want and it figures out exactly what you want to say.
Once all the people posting porn and racist memes show up, everyone normal will leave and the worst shit will get upvoted.
Very strange. It is working fine on our side: https://cl.ly/1x150t1m0922
I'll check this with our developer and get on it right away. Thank you so much for taking time to report this!
When Did Bayesian Inference Become “Bayesian”? (2006) [pdf]
Needs to be very wide as the base needs to support a 4km (2.5 mi) structure above it. It could be more narrow if you had no living space inside, but then it's even less useful.

For comparison the Burj Khalifa and Shanghai Tower also taper which dramatically reduce amount of weight the base needs to support. Further, if you somehow stacked them on top of each other that's still less than 1/2 as tall as this structure.
Friction Isn't Always the Bad Guy in User Experience
Dolding's Design
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Well, when you consider that even Tiger Woods had to take an extended break from golf and completely redesign his swing to prevent permanent shoulder and back problems, it doesn't seem to be a 'genetic' thing per se, but rather a human mechanics limitation.

Some sporting activities are just outside the scope of design of our bodies, it would seem. Much like trying to use a Japanese chef knife to prise open jar lids. It will work up to a point, but not being the core design of the tool, you are guaranteed of breaking the knife at some point, or at least severely damaging it.

It would appear that the human frame is not suited to short, explosive, twisting action of the arms and shoulders while the lower body remains planted.
I’m a T-shaped Designer… NOT
I don't understand how the arm sprays water on passengers while they are inside the car. I can imagine this working if you knew where the cabin air intake is, but the article is very vague on this point (which is the only claim that is remotely surprising to me...)
Do we take hearts from healthy people to replace hearts that are still working just fine?
The quote "There is no such thing as digital circuitry. There is only analog circuitry driven to extremes." is a gem. Thanks for the link! Is anyone aware of a textual version of this slide deck?

https://c3.nasa.gov/dashlink/static/media/other/ObservedFail...
Sure, but consider you just spent months working on something and your giving up. You can toss that work away or gamble that nobody notices the error. Further, if they catch something then you have not really lost anything at that point anyway.
Doesn't work on a Mac.
Twitter is already full of racist memes that people see.

That's kinda the whole point, watch it all burn and interact with people at the rawest level.
"The X-Seed 4000 "is never meant to be built," says Georges Binder"

.. and this is because it will probably fail - badly - if it were to be built. Bear with me 8)

Civil Engineering is capable of creating things of wonder and also of complete disaster. For example the Millennium Bridge in London: standard materials, not a particularly fancy loading (people) but it was a bit flat and when I saw it I instantly thought about transverse loading caused by people walking. When I was a grad in Civ Eng we were drilled about the Tacoma Narrows bridge failure due to wind and about people walking in lock step (not just soldiers) on bridges. That bridge ended up with some hydraulic dampers pretty quickly.

So, this beast. Hmmm. Resonance of some sort might destroy it in some way. When you do Civ Eng our materials and knowledge generally proceed in small incremental steps to be successful.

"Buildings & Data" might as well be smoking crack with their design. They do admit as much. You should see what I've got on the drawing board.
I heard the audio book version, which was read by the author, and found it to be an excellent piece of literature. Highly recommend it to anybody.

Big takeaways for myself are the differences in what it takes to be "good", "great", and "among the best"

Also, once you become a master at something, then your opponents are more or less equally matched to you, and the final winner comes down to psychology

And, don't stick to one thing for too long if you don't want to. Put it down when you're finished, and begin mastering something else that's more fun / interesting.
Seeing the story about water on Luna reminded me of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. And now the public library copy is on my desk.
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
My scenario is just me thinking out loud. Most people don't participate in online discussions. It's a very small part of the population that logs onto the internet to critique news articles and spread their agenda.

I don't participate in that sort of thing at all.
I'm a layman, but my mental model suggests that tidal-lock would be the relationship that raises the energy most on the receiving body. An example of that concept would be Mercury.

A tidally-locked body would have nearly 50% of its area "cold," in other words it is not radiating any heat from the primary heat source out into space. Only heat reaching the cold side from atmospheric convection or internal conduction would be able to reach space. In Mercury's case, the lack of significant atmosphere reduces the flow of heat from the warm side to the cold side.

A spheroid with any given amount of surface area exposed to equal heat / cold has the highest chance of preserving equilibrium. If that logic is true, correcting Earth's axis tilt should slightly increase the amount of energy radiated away. That would also produce more consistent temperatures between the equators and poles (raising sea levels by reducing the amount of frozen water proportionally). Needless to say that would have nearly incalculable side effects.
I'm not 100% sure, but it sure looks like the shape is designed to result in equal strain/deformation throughout the structure.

Imagine the structure is sliced into horizontal layers. Each layer needs to support its own weight as well as the the weight of all the layers above it. Similar to the exponential effects of the rocket equation, this results in a rapidly growing mass requirement as the structure increases in height.

Some other towers actually have a similar shape, but with different constants at work due to their smaller height. Look at the profile of the CN tower: it also grows exponentially along its height.
Oddly enough, this has always been my understanding of the word MVP - simple but complete. I'd be surprised if there good engineers who make the mistake mentioned in the article.
Input?

If you control the input, at that point can't you hack a human mind?
Was in the navy, not as IT, but I had friends who were. Way, way, way more on the sysadmin and traditional "IT" side than software dev. I doubt most of them could code at all, other than things like simple bash scripts. Zero CS fundamentals.
You can come up with all sorts of proximal causes for the current situation, but once all the bs excuses are stripped away it really comes down to plain old corruption.

Banks collude with their regulators to both minimize required changes to the system and make it effectively illegal to create a competing system. Without pressure from regulators or markets, banks can rest on their laurels while doing just enough to avoid public outrage over their level of dysfunction.
Argh. The top post is so full of BS it completely kills any excitement about the platform: https://steemit.com/joy/@teamsteem/on-the-path-to-a-fairer-f...
In The Killing Star, by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski, there's a section where a submarine-like vessel explores the depths of Neptune. They find diamonds there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14078524
This just seems like nothing but fluff:

Simple = Minimum

Complete = Product

Lovable = Viable

People (including me!) just suck at knowing what an MVP is, and tend to release 2-3 connected MVPs at once.
A good elucidation of cypherpunk philosophy:

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/a-proof-of-stake-design-p...
There's Symfony and some other good frameworks around. PHP 7 was a god send.
In case someone is looking for the equivalent on Linux and Mac, there is HeapTrack

https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack

edit: typo
Not mentioning Uber breaking every transportation law they can find.
The code of conduct is here: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
Hi Peter,
I'm a Iranian PHD student and got 2 offers from a big co and a startup. Both companies were very excited on having me on-board, but now both have decided to not move forward with my export license. This comes at a terrible time as I just got my opt and now need to find a new job. Can you shed some light on the requirements of export license and costs associated?
This is an excellent illustration of how software failsafes are unacceptable in internet connected pieces of hardware interacting with human beings. At a minimum you want all your interlocks to connect to a logic board with an FPGA that can not be upgraded remotely (to avoid someone overriding the FPGA programming using an updated bitstream).
Canadian Software Engineer without a degree, what are my options for working in the USA, is it possible ?
>> They could also manipulate the mechanical arm to hit the vehicle or spew water continuously, making it difficult for a trapped occupant to exit the car

They've simply extrapolated on this capability to make the headline more clickable
I did not get that either, but I can see a way to do it: use the spray arm to smash a side window. They're not laminated and shatter easily.
I am a Canadian Software Engineer without a degree, what are my options for moving to the USA to work?
I agree with your assessment of what a code of conduct is.

That said, just the 'code' is pretty useless without a process to give it life. This is exactly like laws that tell you what you can and cannot do, and the process tells you how you evaluate whether or not the laws have been broken.

So on the one hand you have a document that says, if you're part of this community you will be expected to do this, this, and this other thing. And then this process side is "if you don't, these are the consequences; further this is how we will evaluate whether you haven't followed this code ..."

> From a practical standpoint, due process can be
> simple as the people assigned to deal with
> complaints saying, "This is problematic. Please
> stop."

I see it differently, practical or not, the reason behind having a process that requires disclosing who made the accusation of failing to follow the process, and the evidence that such a failure occurred, and a rebuttal from the accused, puts the transgression into context for all parties so that a fair judgement can be made. In the absence of an investigating body it is the only way something can possibly be fair.

From the practical stand point the process can be as simple as the adjudicating group sending an email to the accused saying "Bob has accused you of violating our code of conduct, and offers as evidence the following; ... what do you say?" [2] There isn't any need for actual lawyers and you don't even need an appeal process. Once the adjudicating body has made its decision on whether or not there was a violation then they can enact what ever remedy is specified in the code of conduct.

In your example, the only way "people assigned to deal with complaints" could say "this is problematic, please stop." is if they take on the role of the accuser. And if they do take on that role they must only do so when they have direct, and for them incontrovertible, evidence of the violation, rather than hearsay from someone that there was a violation.

I feel it is important to understand why the process has to be at least this thorough because it prevents abuse and injustice. One of the most interesting things about the law for me is how it creates these sorts of processes to deal with the fact that people who have to run them may be bad actors. And then still generate fair results[3].

[1] Initially only to the adjudicating authority, the accused and the accuser.

[2] And of course the adjudicating body has the obligation to do everything in their power to corroborate the evidence presented and the rebuttal.

[3] In the absence of grand collusion between accuser and adjudicating body.
You couldn't buy a ticket, invite and media only.
Storm chaser livestreaming Hurricane Harvey near the eye
What was it like EXITING totality? Was it like God said, let there be light?
My impression is that Rhino was a separate project entirely.
It's perfectly possible to live at 4000m. For example

* El Alto (Bolivia, near La Paz) 4,150m (13,615ft) population of 974,754 in 2011.

* Potosí (Bolivia) 4,090m (13,420ft) population of 240,966 in 2012

I've never been so high. Once I went from my city Buenos Aires (25m, 82ft) to Abra Pampa (3507m, 11505ft). I had to be quiet (walk instead of running) and even talk slowly, but I was fine. (Some people get worse symptoms.) I stayed for a day, but after some weeks you get use to the height an can live quite normally.
Admittedly I've never worked at a startup. I've always taken MVPs as a releasable proof of concept. Reminiscent of the "tracer bullets" discussed int The Pragmatic Programmer.

If you're trying to prove a market, yeah, an MVP would look like the skateboard -> car image. If you're trying to prove a technology, it would look like an internal combustion engine strapped to some tires. If it was a passenger vehicle, it would look like a carriage with some engineers pulling it with ropes like horses. The "Not like this" looks like a poor implementation of "waterfall."
The sexless marriage
Why a dichotomy?
I would say the precedent is more to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Land - nothing about the Tower of Babel was meant to house anyone or be self-contained, it was merely a ladder to the heavens.
It was pretty incredible. The "diamond ring" really bursts out over the edge of the moon, and then it's glasses on or look away, because the sun's back.
OpenGarages encourages open innovation for automobiles
Yes, it says that in the README. Plenty of people use other operating systems, though.
Yep, I think it was a Twitter trending topic.
IMO code katas are a waste of time. Practically speaking, prolific development means getting large chunks of the system done quickly, and the best way to do that is to reuse what others have done. Don't code your CSS from scratch, use Bootstrap or similar. Don't create an auth system, use the one that comes with your framework.

Counterintuitively, don't automate all the things until that automation is sure to pay off. Sometimes manually testing something is just faster, if you only need to test it a few times before the code never changes again (when was the last time you rewrote your password reset flow?)

To get prolific, don't do katas. Katas are the same problem solved in different environments. Do different problems in the environment in which you are productive. That is what will make you better and faster.
8000' is high enough for people to have problems (I live near the mountains in Colorado, and whenever I'm at a vacation destination that's at 8000' or more, they always have oxygen canisters for sale).

But people hike/climb to the top of 14ers (14k+ feet) here in Colorado all the time without additional gear/oxygen. 4000 meters is only 13k' and change.

Ears would pop going up or down if they didn't pressurize it, but it would be livable -- especially if you pumped in extra oxygen on the higher floors.

But if you're building it that big anyway, you could certainly pressurize it too, though that would make the HVAC tricky, though you'd probably need to have zones of no more than 100 floors that were sealed from each other, or the weight of the air on the higher floors would raise the pressure on the lower floors.

If you're spending a trillion dollars to build a building, might as well make it comfortable, right? :)
I love that 1-bit image at the bottom. Reminds me of the Atari logo.
Also reminds me of Kowloon: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2014/10/28/detailed-cross-sectio...
If you've got a technical background there are a number of routes/companies. You could make the jump directly into sales, but without experience you'll have to start at the ground floor. If you take on a technical/pre-sales role you may be able to move laterally.

Probably lots of companies you can do that at. Will depend more on your geography, the opportunities that are available. Generally system integrators and technical consultancies can be a good place to start looking...
In my undergraduate I worked in a lab where we made very sensitive voltage measurements on a large apparatus. The experiment was grounded to a large copper bar buried under the floor but the measurement equipment was connected to the building ground thereby creating a gigantic loop that could pick up all kinds of crazy noise. The solution was to break the (literal) ground loop with a buffer amplifier.
How do the salaries in Switzerland compare to SV?
Efforts to save money on pipelines in the 1970s will cost water systems billions
> If you want to build a city from scratch, why would you build this thing instead of just starting it in e.g. the plains of Nebraska or something?

Because major cities are located near natural supplies of fresh water, navigable waterways, etc., for a reason. The good places for cities tend to have cities in them.
What's the state of the art of progarm-diffing (i.e based on LLVM IR)?
Or for hackers looking to exploit technologies with known vulnerabilities.
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Since the (excellent) Economist is behind a paywall, this is the description of Pigovian Taxes from Wikipedia:

A Pigovian tax (also spelled Pigouvian tax) is a tax levied on any market activity that generates negative externalities (costs not internalized in the market price). The tax is intended to correct an inefficient market outcome, and does so by being set equal to the social cost of the negative externalities. In the presence of negative externalities, the social cost of a market activity is not covered by the private cost of the activity. In such a case, the market outcome is not efficient and may lead to over-consumption of the product. An often-cited example of such an externality is environmental pollution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
> or they are inconsistent

Honestly I think a big change that human industry will have to make over the next century is becoming comfortable with intermittent peak power. Some stuff will happen when it is sunny, or windy, and not otherwise. It's not crazy to say "maybe we should only smelt during peak solar hours", and probably not even crazy to say "maybe our bulk freight should only be moving during peak solar hours".

Once you get rid of the need to do energy intensive stuff at night, the power storage problems become a lot easier.
Looks like Blood Boy is now more real.
How reliable math proofs are is pretty tangential to my argument above - I don't actually have any attachment there not being any fudging modern math proofs - notice I said "fraud might be" made impossible in these fields.

That said, a tool like coq will deal with any inaccuracies as things good forward. Some portion of math has supposedly been verified with it.

But, of course, I haven't run the program, just read about it. So still - no dog in that particular race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq