skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested to learn the reasoning of those who are against the independence of Catalonia. Apparently, there are many against the Catalonian separation movement. Why?
I'm tempted to make a sarcastic, hyperbolic reply to this hyperbolic and aggressive comment, but in the spirit of hacker news I'll address the content directly.

You imply that the only way to mitigate the problem of fake news (no need for scare quotes, we're talking about news that is fake here) is to hand over total control of the internet to some single entity. You have failed to make any case that every other action that could be taken to mitigate fake news would be insufficient. This is far from clear to me. I think there is a great deal that could be done to mitigate fake news aside from that. Note that I say mitigate because I do not think it would need to be eliminated entirely to be effectively made powerless.

Further, it's an old propagandist trick to claim that people who disagree with you are "screaming", to make them seem less rational and thus wrong. The language you choose to use in this post undercuts your points. Show me the data that fake news didn't affect the election results in any way. The probability of some effect is much greater than the probability of no effect at all, given the complexity of the system and the obvious mechanism. I think the burden of proof is on you.
Hint: Base64 Encoded
wouldn't that have to be reflected in inflation figures? Gdp growth is usually adjusted for inflation, is that different in Turkey?
Well, then it would just be chaining if statements.
It's a mathematical constant. Answer is Feigenbaum.
You're halfway there - google that number.
That number has some significant meaning. You'll have to Google it, the author expects exact answers.
I can tell the difference quite easily. That 7% weight difference by size is quite noticeable. I mine both in Southern California.
Good lord... thanks :)
> Why do I have to fetch jQuery from fricking California when it's sitting on my girlfriend's phone in the other room?

Because your girlfriend probably values her battery life and data usage? I doubt we'll ever see phones hosting any ipfs content for the reasons.
Actually, adding engines increases resilience, or the ability to tolerate failure.

The extra complexity of extra engines actually reduces reliability, since there are more components that can fail.
More interestingly - it will work with a forced-set resolution using ManyCam. Just not with webcam natively.
The concern I have with this scenario, is that I'll get conditioned to ignore this kind of stuff as a driver, and will manage to hit something real that I mistake for an optical illusion.
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Hint: Letters.
Pitch Like Elon Musk: Lessons from the SpaceX BFR Launch
It's truly awesome. Overtime I associated FF with hung pages and poor performance but stuck to it just to get away from Google software. Am really happy with FF 57 (Quantum). It's really really good.

BTW, also using DDG for search, Outlook for email.
I remember talking to someone who had worked on reversible computing about 13 or 14 years ago, and he had said that (i) it does work (presumably that it is indeed more energetically efficient), but (ii) the state of computing was such that it may be a couple decades before it can make a real impact (). Then he added, "someone else can have that fun." Around that time he switched to working on other things. () Unfortunately I can no longer recall exactly what he meant.
Geez, I thought it was asking you to extrapolate.
The primer is actually much better: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWimYyZHzChb35EYojGduWHBdhf9SD5NHqf8Mj...

There are over 5 billion files hosted on IPFS and over 500 GB per day going through the IPFS gateway. Not bad for something that supposedly doesn't work and that's only been around for a few years.

When people can get paid to make content available on IPFS… well, that's going to to be a quite a thing.
> A lot of criticism for not being a "real" OS from a technical perspective

It's not criticism, an actual full operating system written in NW.js would just be very special in its own way.

NW.js requires an underlying operating system to function, so if it really could be called an "NW.js-based operating system", there would have to be interesting things like bootstrapping WebKit as early as possible and then doing everything else in there.

And that would also have stark performance implications. If core-libraries were written in NW.js, getting something as fluid as in the videos, would be absolutely incredible.
The Intel Core I9-7980XE and Core I9-7960X CPU Review Part 1: Workstation
Ask HN: What was the best version of everything you used?
Example:
OS: Windows xp sp3
Browser: Firefox (the old one, before chrome existed)
Search engine: old Google (with 3d logo, no bubble)
Phone: iPhone 5
Chat: mIRC / IRCnet
Video player: mplayer
music player: winamp
It's rare that the funny response is actually more likely to be the accurate response.

One possibility is that the fan shaft failed, and since the fan was no longer attached to the plane that it had been pulling through the sky, it went happily ahead by itself (perhaps still in one piece), taking the cowling with it.
simple A=1 index decodes to WHITESOUTHERNGIANT.
> for what I can only think are ideological reasons

That perception tends to be in the eye of the beholder, in the sense that people of all ideological commitments see HN as being censored in favor of the opposite side, in proportion to the strength of their own feeling. I've written about this a bunch:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&date...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
IOW: Groveling.
It was also my first thought.
You're getting downvoted because putting forward suicide as an explanation without any evidence is, well, "bad taste" doesn't really cut it. If you're going to speculate about it, at the very least give some justification.
Nope. We'll open source parts of it but that'll take time.
Exactly right, but for omitting associativity (which, as noted elsewhere, mightybyte skipped).
I chuckle whenever is see the acronym RDD, I can't shake the joke a while back that it stands for 'resume-driven development.'

With the largest EC2 instances having 1TB of RAM, many problems that used to require distributed compute can be more efficiently run on one machine with a variety of software: R, Python/Pandas, scikit, julia, etc.

When you've cleaned and filtered your data to meet the problem space, you may well find you don't have big data -- and be relieved that you dont need to hire distributed systems engineers to keep everything running.

There are important use cases however, for example small-world graphs.
white southern giant

antarctica
I considered that, but your comment was the one that really unmoored from the specifics. The parent comment was still tied to the topic, and pretty obviously not intended as an attack on small towns.

The site guidelines say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Had you followed that, I bet you wouldn't have reacted the way you did. It's doable but it takes a conscious effort, one that many users (including me) have had to make.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes. He has these capsules in his books in various places, separate from the story, where he calls out "facts" that are anything but.
Proof of Stake Is Still Pointless
One question that came to mind while reading this was "Why do we have to demean HTTP in order for the tenets of IPFS to succeed?"

HTTP is ubiquitous, and no purism or idealistic superiority of some other protocol is going to sway everybody to the New Hot Thing. This is not a knock on IPFS but rather a recognition of reality: you're going to have to work within the current system to supplant it. And that means not only tolerating the old thing while pushing for the advantages of the new thing, but accepting that absorption of the dynamics of the new thing within the old thing represents a victory for the new thing, even if it doesn't get the named recognition.

Maybe we're ready to evolve beyond the limitations of HTTP (and HTTP/2, which I see as a viable and feasible, if not short-sighted improvement to HTTP). How are you going to get Google, Facebook, Amazon, and everyone else to go along with you? If you offer the benefits as compatible add-ons to the existing norms, you will succeed. If you demand that we fully jettison HTTP to achieve something better, methinks you will have an insurmountably hard time.
I think the idea is that the scenario where most people can't afford to purchase goods is going to creep up on us.
Puerto Rico's population is close to 3.5 million people. How large of a population do you think it was able to support before industrialized capitalism?

"The bottom end of capitalism looks like subsistence tribalism"; how powerful, how insightful! Why don't we start with the fact that millions of those people would not be alive in the first place without the modern, evil, capitalist system?
Stuck on this one as well.
VIM Style Media Keys (Play Next, Play Prev, Vol Up, Vol Down) Karabiner Elements
much more natural answers "petrel"

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nor "fulmar"

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work
Would you mind breaking down how did you arrive to that conclusion?
That's how these things always work, by saying "it will work one day."

If it would work, and the cost benefit ratio were there, people would adopt it quickly. That's what happens with just about everything else.
Agreed. When I saw the amount of damage, but little on the wing edge (there may be damage on the underside), I assumed the engine maintained confinement long enough to dissipate a lot of energy. If the cowl was damaged during this, then it may have then come off due to aerodymic stress. Either that or they were very lucky. From the photo I saw, it looks like they lost the forward cowl, fan and maybe a compressor stage. If I had to guess, failure of the low-pressure shaft.
It's from a text from a friend who knew him, if that matters. We all got PhDs from the same school. I have been here for 6.8 years and in the last two I find myself going back to Slashdot more and more.
Unfounded speculation is now "PC"?
Here is a much easier way to get started with Spark on AWS for free: https://community.cloud.databricks.com
I think the example was transferable coupons for free tacos which don't expire.

They are certainly not shares. But could you turn such a token into an investment opportunity? Certainly you could.

The stunning reality is that Blockchain technology makes practically everything a security. SEC's wet dream.

It's probably why, on some level, all coupons carry the disclaimer that they have no (or nominal) cash value, and are void if tranferred.
also eye-patch resilient :)
Ask HN: How do early stage startups define their culture or core values?
What process to co-founders of early stage startups follow to define their culture? When do you even define core values? How do you avoid fluffy core-values or mission statements?
Stop! Stop! Stop! Start. Stop!

Stop! Start. Stop! Stop! Start.

Stop! Stop! Start. Stop! Stop!

Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!

OK!

Not sure if it matters, but HN won't let me format it the way it's presented. There are five words/commands to a line.
Here is it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ5Cu7rEs_Q
The numbers are each in pairs and each pair doesn't exceed 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet). a = 01, z = 26. Convert the number pairs to letters, you get

whites
outher
ngiant
Very cool! I work in Education (Higher Ed) but I've seen K-12 use this app before: https://www.plickers.com/ which kinda offers the same functionality.

I LOVE seeing these kinds of apps come from low tech solutions combined with small bits of high tech!

Great job, and I hope you run with it.
You got it wrong. He complained that speculation is considered non-PC here.

Speculation is at the heart of science. We shouldn't forget that.
If data isn't embarrassingly cheap before mid-century we did something terribly wrong. Ditto electricity / battery life by the end of century.

(and again: content-addressing could drastically reduce data usage anyway.)
Level 25

Stop! Stop! Stop! Start. Stop!
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OK!

Let's say Stop! is 0 and Start. is 1, we get:

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Or:

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Not sure where to go from there
That was my initial guess. It could also have been a contained failure that damaged the cowl, which later separated from aerodynamic stress. But the missing fan (and maybe a compressor stage) does seem to imply a shaft failure. The main question is whether that was the beginning of the event, or a later result from a different failure.
I can't tell whether the link "promising leads" was broken on purpose when the page was written in 2015 (to make a point), or if it itself is an example of centrally-served pages that slowly bit-rot over time.
Beyond approx. 30 ft., depth perception is useless in VR
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It sounded like he was complaining that the downvotes were out of "PC", as if we were offended that suicide could be the cause. I downvoted him because I don't think speculation without evidence is useful.
If you try a bunch of bogus answers in quick succession you get an ad for a betting site.
Since you didn't include it, but it's relevant to the topic at hand -- Michael Freedman is also a Fields medalist that did substantial work in topology. Which is, ultimately, why he's involved with Station Q -- he was part of the group that realized you could use the topological structure of certain interactions to encode general computations, and was part of convincing MS to pursue that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Freedman
4TB nowadays:

Model	vCPU	Mem (GiB)	SSD Storage (GB)	Dedicated EBS Bandwidth (Mbps)

x1e.32xlarge	128	3,904	2 x 1,920	14,000
A sincere question: Why is it bad to speculate that it was suicide? I assume there is some intention-guessing or social norm coming into play that I don't see. Could you explain your reasoning?

Edit: Is it that it is not considered okay to consider suicide a plausible explanation? Is suicide a taboo, or something that would make a person seem less?
I think the unspoken agreement is that nobody wants HN discussions to turn into reddit with its overabundant pun threads and "funny" one liners. But this one was on point.
Einstein's.
Airports Worldwide Are Hit by Delays After Software Outage
I'm guessing that's somehow linked to the zip code? I'm not seeing the connection.
If it's a desktop environment for a Linux-based operating system, like it seems from the comments here, then you'd have access to more and especially more powerful software.

And then I suppose, it's a matter of taste when compared to KDE, GNOME, Xfce etc.

Would however be interesting how much resources it actually uses when idle. The page suggests a minimum for RAM of 4 GiB.

So, unless that is one of those minimum system requirements where the author wants you to not even touch their software, if you're not equipped to have a completely stutter-free time, I also find it hard to think of many cases where someone would prefer the design so much that they'd buy another RAM stick for it.
Alternatively, make it a reward. "If you make your bed, we'll make a computer game."
I am not trying to start anything here, but serious question.

A lot of government agencies were listed in the the call. Are these agencies not in fact working for the white house / the US people?

I guess I really don't understand why the white house has to be on the phone for any of these events. To me we have arms of the government to do different things. FEMA in fact is the branch of government designated to handle these type of situations.

Also given that so many government agencies were already in place and lined up what was the white house going to do more? Send its office aids to help?

I guess what I want, and am hoping I can get a decent answer from this group vs the twitter group is What does everybody expect the white house to do that they are already not doing? It seems like all major government agencies under its command have preemptively and continue to provide help.
Level 26... Did a base 64 decode.. The output looked base64 legal. Decoded that, looked legal again, decoded that... Canabarro Sandow?
Wonder what Tesla's vision-based automatic driving makes of this.
Power Assert for Java and other languages
I got an answer here but it seems more like a clue?
Not accepting that answer, what am I missing...
Also if you look at their facebook page it's kinda weirdly hype-y.
Thanks :) Yes, Plickers also works the same way and is really awesome but for now lacks anonymous polling which I'm sure they must be working on.
Speculation without evidence is a fundamental tool to figure stuff out. You are given a situation you don't understand (He died young). You make a speculation that seems plausible (Maybe suicide). You look for evidence (They asked here). Seems naively fine to me.
As a slight aside, I always wondered if zero-knowledge proofs really reveal "slight" knowledge.

That is, if I ask 1 billion questions about a resource, and get true, verifiable answers, can't I find out something about it? For example, some projection onto a linear subspace or something.
Same that's why I posted.
1867 (Wiki mentions both names)
I got this worth pointing out it's a clue not a solution
Well, as I said, there's gotta be a way. It just has to be invented and tried :)
> How old are you?

30s

> My younger friends who missed being alive during the real fear of Russia/Communism often say exactly what you said.

That fear was mongered. Socialist ideology is there to help the workers: only capitalists have to fear it. It's not worked out well, even for many workers -- I blame that on a bad (highly authoritarian) route to implement socialist ideals, not on those ideal by themselves. Capitalists made the US workers afraid of commies, because they saw it as a thread. You've been fooled.

> at the time the spread of Russian communism was a real and valid fear

Seriously? I call it an unfounded and irrational fear, mongered by super wealthy (that were really afraid to have "their" assets seized by the workers). Valid? Not for the working class.

> Your TLDR is seems to say ignore history and believe the very simplistic view of a war mongering US. If wars were only that simple, they could probably be avoided.

No! I advocate not to watch this doc because it is a waste of your time. Nothing new is there. And it does say "US was evil, lets learn from it and do not do it again" -- which I believe in the current geo-political mess it the right think to do. (Yes I'm talking to you: ALL RECENT US PRESIDENTS)

How can you justify the US has not been war mogenring recently. I see huge military (they call it defense, lol) budgets. I see no WMDs in Iraq, no danger for the US in Libya, no danger for the US Afgan/Iran/Syria. These are not peace missions. People die and US seems to make it worse. Gadaffi->Isis; Saddam->Isis; Assad->Isis. And now aggression to NK. Have some restraint, c'mon!

> If only the US knew then that it would basically win a culture victory barely ~20 years later.

Please explain this, and how it matters to the discussion.
> the Catalan people have their own cultural identity

Spain is divided into 17 communities. Each has their own cultural identity.

What I like about travelling around Spain (and I must do the Canaries and Balearics some day) is the microcosm of different regional flavours, e.g. Asturias and Galicia have bagpipes, the Basque country is a foodies delight, Andalucia has flamenco & Moorish palaces, the Canaries have a whistled language etc.

Now I get the Catalans feel "different" but when I see the graffiti around the place saying "X is NOT Spain", I wonder which Spanish identity they're referring to.
"relativity"
4chan has the current high score(spoiler warning http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862)
It is actually Michael Freedman who was that math panel. https://youtu.be/d7f_GZsQMpA?t=59m56s

Not sure who else might have a device that can instantiate in some physical way a Quantum Superposition, but Microsoft showed such a device during that discussion: https://youtu.be/d7f_GZsQMpA?t=1h3m6s
Fwiw, I got readers a few years ago, when I was working 12 hour days in front of a screen. They're weak lenses. When other eyeglass wearers put them on, they think they're fake. But they make a huge difference for me, just by diminishing the effort of focusing on a screen to near zero. I don't feel anywhere near the same eye fatigue.
I cannot confirm this in any way, but one of my Russian friends told me he had Cirrhosis and was being treated for it.
One Day in the Life of Battered Puerto Rico
Man I tried all sorts of things including "theory of relativity" with and without "special" and "general" etc. Thanks!
now how the heck does that drone image translate to deadly sins! :)
curious to know this also
> But is this something you can tell people that are seriously depressed or is it just another useless bit of advice?

From my point of view, it's not useful advice, partly because severe depression utterly saps the motivation to do virtually anything, and partly because depression is highly resistant to rationality.

Mandatory references to "Hyperbole and a Half"[1][2].

[1]: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...

[2]: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...
> On the other hand it's kind of a crazy what if to imagine there not being a French/US involved civil war in Vietnam.

A lot less bloodshed. Otherwise I expect pretty much similar outcomes. HCM/north winning.
British Racing Green, clearly, should be accepted.
OK = oklahoma...
That's pretty stupid, though. Kind of like "prime numbers." If there are multiple correct answers, it should allow multiple correct answers.
This is someone whose cause of death is unknown because, as far as we know at this point, the revelation of his death is new, not because it's a scientific field of inquiry and experiment.
You need an extra newline between line breaks. I've added them for you.
Cheatsheet for the modern JavaScript
Curious project I wonder how it compares in actual portability to a project like Kotlin? Been enjoying that language and the possibility of the apps core functionality being cross platform.
Ah, Haxe...we used it to build the video player at Justin.tv, because it had a reasonable build pipeline to SWF and some nice language features.

I rather enjoyed the language. Certainly, it's a lot nicer than working in Flash directly.
In a post-carrier world, she would be paid with tokens that she could use to buy faster network access later in the day or sell any surplus to heavy network users (probably indirectly through a brokerage, perhaps even run by a company that used to be a carrier). The tokens might even buy electricity from the neighbor's solar panel to charge the phone.
Zoom in, below left of the drone.
It's time for Blockstack.
Exactly. It's like, Woah, hold your horses there. "Obsolete"? I don't think so. To what extent can this IPFS serve an API or a dynamic database at this point? To what extent will it ever be able to do that?

I think HTTP/websockets is very good for these things. Static data is one thing, dynamic is a whole other story. It seems IPFS is just a new distributed way to archive data. So what? It doesn't help serve something like FB over a distributed network does it?

And to what extent could some sort of "protocol" vulnerability stop these networks from being "uncensorable". Are they truly resistant to censorship, or could they be effectively shut down somehow? Wouldn't DDOS attacks cripple these? I mean, that's a crucial flaw, right, you just have to look up all nodes for an piece of content and constantly flood them with DDOS traffic and then, hey, you've censored the network, right?
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with, I was specifically responding to the "adds another three clicks" thing