skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they're a good match if you have a nominal (non inflation linked) book of liabilities, eg a pension fund that pays pensions that increase by a fixed rate every year.
> Also, as others have calculated in other comments, the amount of energy coming from the sun dwarfs what these panels radiate, so you are better off just pointing your satellite collectors at the sun.

Especially in space! We lose a good amount of irradiation energy from the sun to the atmosphere.
In my, arguably limited, experience, it's web developers that tend to use Macs. I don't see any other type of devs with Macbooks. And web developers are also the group that is most visible on-line and tends to hold disproportionate amount of conferences.
Didn't find anything of interest at all + did a foolish, possibly illegal thing.

Why is this blog post being upvoted?
I had to read that title about 6 times to undertand what they were trying to say
not familiar with tachyons and just did a cursory look at it, what about tachyons really solved your problem?
Hackable scientific calculator
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Then let this be the first step among many thousands.
> By the time the industrial revolution started the Native population had already been devastated by disease. The Native Americans whose land we took were post-apocalyptic survivors--their civilizations were a shadow of what they were before the old world diseases wiped them out.

This is an oft-repeated genocide denial. Yes, disease killed many natives but that's not what committed genocide against the natives and stole their land. This is the same genocidal denial peddled by some who want to excuse nazis by claiming the jews died of disease in the holocaust.

> Only because the causalities from both sides count as American casualties, and because we developed better medical treatment and sanitation technology.

What's your point? Dead is dead. Should they not be counted?

> Far more civil war soldiers died of disease than combat

This is the case in most wars. Not just the civil war. Most of the deaths in ww2 were due to disease/starvation/etc rather than combat. Should we not count those?
I think the article paints too rosy a picture for older minds.

Yes you can learn things as you get older but the bar for your achievements gets lower and lower as you age.

Let's take chess: There are no cases of a novice starting to learn at the age of 25 and becoming a grandmaster. You need to do some of that deliberate practice at an early age. I suspect the case is the same for math,programming, violin playing etc.

Interesting thread on the topic is here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/who-is-the-oldest-p...

It is not just the case of kids having more time to dedicate to a skill/hobby because there are people of independent means who pursue chess at an adult age and still fail to advance.

As you get older your ability to truly master a skill declines.

That does not mean that you can't become a productive programmer at age 60 or 70.

It just means that you will not achieve Bill Joy || Fabrice Bellard || John Carmack levels of proficiency and I suppose that is ok. :)
Plants can pass learning and memory tests designed for animals
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Banks have daily lag (pending transactions). They also stop business in the evening and resume in the morning to process all these items. That isn't feasible in a lot of scenarios.

Rarely do you have an up to the microsecond view of the markets (unless you are located appropriately and pay significant amounts of money). There is always a delay in the information's accuracy and relevancy.
Benchmarking of ML Libraries
Yep, the CLR/VM is a much better target for languages and C# fixes a lot of Java's mistakes.

It's such a shame that Microsoft until recently kept it so tightly controlled and Windows only. If that hadn't been the case the ecosystem (libraries and languages) might have been a lot more up to par when compared to the JVM ecosystem.
I was / am pretty sympathetic to their situation. At that point, SDB was already deprecated in favor of dynamo, and they had been asking us to move off of SDB for over a year (before I had joined the company via acquisition). If someone ever does an oral history of AWS, I'm sure that SDB would be the "grand mistake" they made in their first few years. It was never ready for prime time in the way it needed to be.
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If I had $$$$ to fund one scientific endeavor, it'd certainly be HE hands down.

There are a million different ways we're imminently hurtling down an empty abyss, and obviously if I was an inundated Texan or a general I might be more concerned about the environmental or nuclear apocalypse, but as a programmer the Cloud apocalypse is what concerns me the most.
Is it legal to hunt people down on Reddit?
Seems to be following in the footsteps of Firefox OS. They had APIs for everything.
I cannot resist from a sarcastic comment. I find it cute when Americans claim they are "learning a foreign language". Currently I live in a 5th country. Each of them had completely different language, only two were from the same language family. I had no knowledge of English until I had been ~18.
I mean exactly what I said. Cooperative threading is still single-threaded. Two things cannot happen concurrently in JavaScript.
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That's not "begging the question," it's "raising the question."

https://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/begging-t...
The paper at http://www.shoup.net/papers/helib.pdf should give you an idea of what goes in a HE scheme. They also report performance of multiplying two 1024x1024 matrices: 473 seconds.
Surely there must be a site that floats nuanced and well-formulated posts on satirical and utterly terrible start up ideas, right?

I am sensing a market
Of course I am partial to savannah gnu and nongnu for its philosophy. However over the years there have been too many outages that made me switch one my projects from savannah to github.

Since beggars shouldn't be too picky, I don't fault savannah: it is seriously understaffed by volunteers. But still I switched to github (for some things) mostly from a pragmatic point of view. And to reduce my frustration level during the outages.
Scoping CSS is great, you can do static analysis, idiot-proof just-in-time stylesheet loading, and when done correctly it eliminates a lot of specificity issues. It doesn't scale well though. Eventually you develop http-call bloat, and unless your CSS is written by a single and very devoted person, consistency becomes nearly impossible to maintain.

Visual consistency begs for DRY CSS, and DRY CSS tends to bend back towards single global stylesheets.
What sites would you list for conservative then? Also drudge is just an aggregator/curator, they don't publish anything.
It probably is, it's been around for a while and is widely used by those of us who still have to keep legacy Unix boxen running As it's not like you get to touch your Unix box every month due to how rarely they fail or need updates after a decade of purely bugfix releases.
It's not the least alarmist. The EU Presidency is an real office that has a real function, and the leaked document literally says in the first line "From: Presidency".
This has nothing to do with political correctness or offending people. We didn't think it was some horrible mean thing to have bad_style. We just wanted to improve it, to be nicer (doesn't imply it was not-nice before, but improvement can always happen), and more accurate.

Feel free to continue to call it bad style within the Rust community. Nothing 1984-like about it at all. It was a request for changing some wording, one which could have been rejected, and we would have moved on, because it was a drive-by issue that I didn't care about much.

You're ascribing a lot of intent and background to that post, intent that wasn't there.
Anybody remember Runaway?
Lots of things have faulty wiring, but they keep working as long as their power draw is under some limit. Drawing excess power is a common result of software going into an infinite loop, which is a possible outcome of security probes.

Half the bugs I notice in Chrome, I notice because my laptop fan starts running.
> Music, startup, reading

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong...

Founding, or co-founding, a startup, probably shouldn't ever be on the shortlist of ways to walk back or avoid stress / burnout...
Has anyone who has been regularly lifting and exercising experienced wrist pain due to computer overuse?
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For all your language skills, I'm not sure you know what sarcasm is.
No, they have the power to "call for" it, which is what they have done (and the article says they've done).
You don't need more than one hash function. Just append an incrementing token onto the input before each successive hash.
Build nation-scale infrastructure? Surely a major bank would benefit greatly, if indirectly, from any improvements in the national economy.
A university should not focus on producing founders but to teach scientific working and after all enabling research. If people found their own companies - nice. If not, doesn't matter.

Also nice for Olin College to produce so many companies but Stanford's history did not only produce tons of companies but also this place known these days as Silicon Valley (there is no way SV would be the place it is toady without Stanford).
It seems like this ending was totally predictable at the outset of the project. To me, it sounds like this project was a total hedge against the case that the TV manufacturers didn't play ball and let them ship a Netflix client.

It really sounds like a story that was respun at the end such that the development team didn't realize they were jerked around on a chain the whole time and were just a negotiating strategy.
Out of curiosity, when else would you suggest they do this? Other than "not at all", of course, which is not going to happen.
Damien's a very smart guy, but I don't think I agree with him here:

> Within a datacenter, the Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) for a network switch is one to two orders of magnitude higher than servers, depending on the quality of the switch.

A switch is highly unlikely to fail. They seem to be bulletproof. But having worked with a datacenter (on the engineering team of an early AWS competitor), switch _misconfiguration_ was all too common. Maybe a tech accidentally plugs in the wrong ethernet cable and forms a switching loop. Maybe someone fat-fingers a tag and a broken VLAN gets automatically deployed to 10,000 nodes. Either way, the _switch_ is alive, well, and pushing packets - but they're the _wrong_ packets and the result is indistinguishable from hardware failure to the end user.

At datacenter scales, these things happen... not infrequently. If you engineer your database to expect that netsplits are rare, you're going to have a bad time.
When you do 5.) show them appreciation - buy them a nice meal as they explain things to you - it's a nice thing to do, a small price to pay, assuming it's appropriate
500k lb, at the very least :)
The commonwealth countries are all facing a property bubble (Canada, New Zealand, Australia, etc). The household debt levels and property prices didn't taper off nearly as much following the 2008 US housing crisis and has pretty much continued unabated: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/stephen-punwasi/real-estate-bub...

Which is fascinating to consider that the Bank of Canada, et al, have let this happen for so long and are only reacting now...

By artificially keeping rates near 0% the idea was to 'stimulate' the economy by making capital freely available, so for example, banks can more easily loan money to businesses generating long term economic growth and add new jobs. But the side effect has been that retail banks were incentivized to hand out cheap mortgages and the public was incentivized to speculate on the 'hot' property market.

If this bubble doesn't deflate smoothly this will be yet another very expensive side effect of mainstream monetarist policy.
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Indeed, iirc that was the idea/inspiration.
I had exactly the same issue about 2 years ago. Long hours of mouse use and I was suddenly getting pain in my wrist.

I did the following:

1. Use the trackball, but do it left handed.

It doesn't slow you down any more than it does learning to use it right handed, but it gives your right hand a break (and yes, it totally SUCKS for about 3 weeks, and then you're roughly as productive).

2. Take a serious look at your mouse.

If you have any of the "magic mice" that support gestures, ditch that shit as fast as possible. Holding your fingers arched like that for long periods does damage.

If you don't have that mouse, look for two things:

- Very light weight (yes, a super cheap lightweight mouse is better than a heavy "ergonomic" mouse in most cases).

- Able to rest your fingers. You need to be able to relax the tendons in your hand/wrist, and you can't do that if you're supporting your fingers in the air (part of why the magic mouse is literally the devil).

3. After a month or two of using the trackball, feel free to switch back to using a decent mouse like normal. In my case, eliminating a magic mouse and giving my hand/wrist a few months to heal did the trick.

4. If none of the above helps, contact a therapist.
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If you assume that, out of all the students who applied to Olin, only 70 were entrepreneur-y, then a class size of 75 would capture all of them, and Olin would have an impressive number of successful entrepreneurs among its alumni.

But it doesn't scale. If you made Olin accept ten times as many students, then its numbers would regress to the mean.
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If you visit make make sure to walk through the academic building. Yes only one such building. That is where you will find the students, usually on the floor, with their project, in the halls, everywhere. Giant post-it notes all over the walls.

My wife and youngest visited in 2015. She is now a first year their. She did a gap year.
While I agree that it's stunning and alarming if true that 40% of millennials think the gov't should be allowed to arrest people for making racist statements, I don't see where Facebook fits into this situation. They are a private organization and should be allowed to do whatever they feel is necessary to protect their business interests (within legal limits). Personally I don't really use Facebook anymore for a host of reasons. If they want to start filtering all kinds of speech they disagree with, they can go ahead at the risk of losing members. But I don't have a problem with it. Every organization has its skew whether you see it or not.
The commission as a whole has to be approved by the directly elected parliament. It can also be dismissed by the parliament at any time (which has happened before).

The situation is quite similar to a number of member states (e.g Germany) where neither the prime minister nor cabinet ministers have to be members of parliament and the government itself is not elected by the people.
^ exactly. And why do so many religious parents think that's going to work for their kid?
Right. Elixir and Erlang's fault tolerance is amazing. I think it is important to point out that to use Elixir's let-it-fail mechanisms, you have to use concurrency. You can't have a supervisor and supervised code running in the same process, so you have to use concurrency in order to benefit from this fault tolerant mechanism.
That means you are replaceable (most of us are), it tells nothing about the consequences of your work.
They might make languages harder to implement, but on this point C# definitely wins over Java/Scala for programmers.

I cringe a little when I need to write the occasional `def foo[T](list: List[T])(implicit tag: ClassTag[T])` in Scala.
Why is that a trade-off?
Deep Learning with Python Jupyter Notebooks
Well, pick one.

Pick one of what?
TIL about zero relative pronouns, despite using them all the time and wondering about why we can elide them in English but not reliably in many other languages, e.g. "The car (optional that) I bought" vs. "El coche (required que) compré".
Just curious, did you remove any submissions?
Building a Trello Layout with CSS Grid and Flexbox
Still being on the board of a relatively small (sub-50 regulars) hackerspace, I second this comment. The perspective of spending all of your free time on paperwork and management tasks and no time whatsoever on actual hacking is not helping with burnout.
Quick summary:

Overnight rate directly affects the prime rate, the rate at which commercial banks loan to their least risky customers. In the US, prime rate hovers 3% above overnight rate (federal funds rate). You can see that relationship here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=eY9Y

In basic economic theory, when interest rates go up, the economy slows down. Higher interest rates encourage saving/purchasing safe assets, and make lending/investing in risky assets or new business ventures more expensive. Banks generally make less loans that fuel direct economic activity when interest rates are higher.

Context/So What:

Canada's economy showed strong signs of growth and low unemployment, so the central bank decided to bump up the interest rate a bit while the data supported the decision to "cool off" the economy.

OK, so commercial loan interest rates will rise 0.25%. Not a huge deal for majority of the economy.

More importantly, the central bank is slowly gaining back the overnight rate as a tool for monetary policy. Many central banks are unwilling to drop the overnight rate below 0%, effectively taxing banks for the reserves they are usually mandated to hold with the central bank.*

If the Bank of Canada can continue to bump the overnight rate up to traditional 4-5% level, it can then cut the rate again to spur economic activity in the case of a downturn. The closer the overnight rate is to 0%, the less effective the rate is as a monetary policy tool.

Personally I believe it will be a long time before we see 4-5% overnight rates again, but overall this is a reaction to good economic news. It happened before investors expected, so the markets are buzzing about it a bit, even though the small bump will probably not have a large impact on Canada's economy.

*BoC actually has no reserve requirements: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/1997/04/working-paper-1997-8/
'People spend lesser valued currency and hoard higher valued currency'

+

'people are hoarding bitcoin'

(does not imply)

'bitcoin is a higher valued currency'
I don't recall a time in history when publishers (what Facebook et al. are) were required or expected to publish whatever any random person or organizations opinions.

Furthermore, the country most in favor of limiting free speech to protect minorities, Germany(70% pro, 29% against, total population) , ironically has the most experience with the dangers of both extremes of allowances on speech. On one hand the Nazi's were able to rise to power partly because they were able to publicly scapegoat groups of people who were eventually slaughtered en mass. On the other hand you have the Stasi who would torture and murder people based on a whiff of being critical of the ruling party.

Look, I'm for free speech, but lets not pretend that its an issue that doesn't require a modicum of nuance to approach.
Mapping an enormous power set to understand Roaring Bitmaps performance
How do you re-use CSS across components?
Not sure how it is now, but the requirement to run Windows in order to be a first class citizen, as .NET required for most of its existence, is enough to give me an allergic reaction.
Ask HN: How are you teaching your children programming?
What websites, apps, tools, videos have you decided on to teach your children programming? Are you using only online resources, or also traditional classroom setting? What do you like about the apps and tools you are using, and what could be improved?
> and inflation are all now on an upward trend. Right?

Not inflation. Inflation isn't going up much anywhere. It's a conundrum for central bankers. The old model may no longer work.

Normally, when unemployment goes low enough, wages and then prices go up. That hasn't really happened. Instead, house prices (in Canada) and consumer debt are rising.
I must say I was thinking doing what you love matters but I do what I love now i.e. designing infrastructure but it gets overwhelming, I don't like being forced to work when I don't feel. So I have decided to make more money asap and retire do what I love later. I really changed my path after reading 16 ways to fail book. Though many won't agree here, I think financial freedom is basic to live and do what you love.So i started looking at the career as job sometimes even as a task. And the task fetches my salary no more no less. Not working beyond 8 hours and not pushing projects for sake of management helps to tolerate the job even if you don't love it. Because then you have life beyond you money fetching task.
And a cheap workforce is considered a greater necessity than a competent or compliant one.
It does but that is not necessarily a lesson that needs to be learned by those who are poor. If you read the thread here about those of us who have had to clean out our aging parents home it is amazing how much stuff they have that they hold on to forever and really did not serve a purpose other than to have it.

We all make financial mistakes. It is just that the mistakes of the poor have much more profound consequences.
I only have experience with smaller, general aviation aircraft (Turboprop, 8 seats) but the IFE is indeed connected to the same box that handles maintenance tools. The ipad we use to troubleshoot the engines is on the same wifi network that we use to watch videos.
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