skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Verifiably true facts on the ground. Like, verifiably true video footage. If we see reporting that something has happened, how do we know it actually happened? This is going to become a much bigger problem - today's "fake news" is just the tip of the iceberg.
because people aren't rational about this subject. on this site their are people with intense maximalist positions on privacy. they can be kind of shrill.
Thought the GP solicited the proof now, without the advantage of hindsight from 2026 or whatever it takes.
I couldn't agree more re. growing food for personal and community use. I'm currently in the very early stages of designing an app for small farmers and CSAs. Hard to get many farmers to respond to giving me input and share their knowledge. I see a tremendous scope for improvement in the entire user and customer experience of finding and signing up for a CSA (from the end customer side) and then effectively managing and nurturing your customers and reducing churn (from the small farmer's side).
A big difference how? You could work for the NSA and make it easier for the government to know people's thoughts, that would sure make a big difference in the world.

Or you could build an information sharing and vetting platform which could use proofs from multiple independent sources to certify data as true by tying it to factual evidence, a kind of scientific reddit to combat disinformation. You could use it as a backend to Wikipedia to vet and prove information, or disprove. Extend it using multiple dependent proofs to support another and you might be able to provide a platform on which to fight for political issues based on reams of certified data.

Also, jobs. It's hard to give some people jobs. People need jobs, and they need to make money, in order to fuel an economy and sustain a society. As an example, in a country with some 6 million felons, it's hard for them to get jobs, so they become a strain on the economy (among other things). Make a thing that helps people who have a hard time getting a job to get a job.
The skepticism of someone on the net is in no way going to hinder Musk from getting to Mars. It might, however, prevent them from wasting their time on another failed promise, and there are many of those.

My default reaction is disbelief (I'd prefer skepticism) especially when someone is trying to sell something because that's their whole goal, they are selling you something.

Not to mention, if you are a US citizen you're already supporting him whether you want to or not through government funding.
I was in LA recently and there was an entire tent city in the heart of downtown Orange County.

The link below lists around 30 US cities with tent cities downtown.
This is incredible, going underwater is actually pretty awesome!
Better tools for the "non-professional programmer"
I think any competent underpaid developer would eventually move on.
And they don't play for USA in Olympic games:
https://www.olympic.org/franklin-gomez-matos
> Tolls can influence traffic behavior and congestion

That's more like "give poor people a reason not to drive on certain roads/lanes" if you take the glass half empty view of things.
Seattle home prices, which have seen a staggering 9-10% increase year over year, are actually only 20% higher than the peak of the 2007 bubble. That's 2% average growth per year over the last 10 years, which doesn't seem so alarming.

Edit: source http://seattlebubble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Cas...
Already there in the form of partial agonists for the benzodiazepine receptor. It won't ever get approved.
jQuery came to mind, but mainly because i only foggily remember ExtJS. I was actually thinking of the library that was widely popular before jQuery, the one it actually replaced - Prototype.
While they compete in some way, jQueryUI is more similar to Ext than jQuery itself is.
Majority of programmers are bad. It is nothing to do with race or nationality. People are taking to programming because it pays well and there is demand. Most companies hire a person with good attitude than a great programmer with bad attitude.
I have a feeling this is going to start happening more and more. The golden age of the ICO's was over a few months ago before everyone and their dog started one.
It's crazy he could put his son through training for years, yet cannot bother to read the book over a weekend?!
A better way to connect funding with research.

This applies to many fields, but in general the academic and R&D funding process feels broken. Researchers and scientists spend a disproportionate amount of time writing funding applications, rather than researching or doing science.
Both referendums were widely boycotted for various reasons by no voters. The only people who voted were the small minority who wanted to become a state.

edit: Thanks for the corrections. The boycott was only a factor for the June 2017 referendum https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/puerto-ricans-vote-on-...
Well, America had something going for it, especially when reports came back from the early explorers that it's lush and habitable (in many areas at least).

On the other hand, people know what to expect from the rock that is Mars. If Mars was an unknown and people would want to go there to discover what's there, then the analogy would be correct.

Of course, people will still go, but reaching a critical mass for an unnecessary settlement (at which point it might turn slightly more alluring for more immigrants) remains to be seen. But I guess what happens happens, we'll see.
Yes, I think it does. I find it a reasonable balance between weeding out early failures and not letting customers get away with abusing their devices and still claiming a warranty repair.
Funny use of the word 'only'.
That's the wrong way to frame that problem. Formal methods generally have a mindshare problem that underlies their cost problems. Make formal methods more accessible to the average programmer.
Autonomous cars. Traffic is bad for the environment, safety, and psychological health of drivers. Let's reclaim years of our lives that are spent in traffic.

Litter drone. Design a solar powered robotic beach sweeper, to identity and collect the trillions of plastic chips that are covering the beaches. Extend the idea to a fleet seaworthy drones to remove floating micro debris and call in help for large floating debris.

Thanks for asking!
I am sure attorneys will find a good reason.
The article you links to reports that Statehood won the 2012 referendum (majority voted no to current status, and Statehood got a majority of votes for the alternative status), which Congress chose to ignore, and overwhelmingly won the single-stage 2017 referendum.

So, no, the issue is not “they have had opportunities to begin the process to fully opt in and haven't done so”.
It is just marketing...
For Slashdot's 15th anniversary: a user-submitted logo contest (2012)
> It's a fucking word.

There's a lot of words that require some sort of care in their use lest some of the potential connotations carried offend or don't communicate intended meaning.

You might not care about this word -- or, more likely, you care very much about its use, otherwise you wouldn't be fucking talking about it like fucking pedant who is so fucking proud of his fucking adolescent pretensions of having thought about language -- but you probably care about some words and how their varied and overloaded use can affect communication.

(There's a much more diplomatic way I could have my little apositive screed up in the last paragraph. That's part of the point.)
It's not clear what that means. Frequently the "financial planning" drumbeat seems oriented towards doing what is good for Wall Street.
U.S. Citizens with their own baseball team?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_national_baseball_...
I suppose you're referring to wikitribune?
I'm confused. This says it's a Swift framework, but it also says you can live-reload code. If you're live-reloading code, then it must be something like JS and not Swift.

Edit: Ok I looked at Reactant itself, it does appear to have you writing Swift. Is the article just wrong about live-reloading code, then? Is it really just live-reloading UI elements while keeping the code the same?
VSCode does this as well, per project. It works really well.
Automatic translation/interoperability between programming languages. The fragmentation of software into dozens of major languages hurts software quality, limits language choices, limits adoption of new languages, limits availability of software on new/less popular platforms, increases cognitive load for developers and sysadmins...

(and JavaScript as the most popular transpiler target today is depressing)
With US passports.
Robots are expensive and not very self-sufficient. (They can't usually fix themselves or build more robots using resources from the environment.) For now, getting a Mars base going is hard but it's probably a more attainable goal with current technology.

Mars is also a more hospitable place; it has gravity, atmosphere, water, etc.. It's possible to create methane fuel on Mars.

There are also more reasons for people to want to visit Mars that aren't motivated by becoming a multi-planetary species. For instance: science, tourism, entertainment (sports, movies, reality TV, whatever), and low-gravity benefits for people with mobility issues who would be stuck in a wheelchair in Earth gravity.

That isn't to say we can't or shouldn't go to Ceres as well.
Like moving to electric cars and using solar power...
Seriously, I don't understand why EMC2 (the polywell team) still relies on the pennies they receive from the Navy. We should be investing at least $200 million into polywell research.
Haha. Only if the US agreed to go back to being a colony!
Couldn't you just use a Hyperloop to travel to the launch site?
Boom can fly you to the launch pad. Still lots of short flights and less popular routes that SpaceX could never service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Mars
OTOH, rented houses are pretty bad, compared to owned houses in India.
Maybe, though the military has studied similar ideas before and nothing has ever come from it, so I'm sceptical they're going to throw the kind of funding at it that would be required here. As a general concern, actual travel time doesn't usually seem to be the main determinant of how fast military forces can be deployed.

But who knows. The idea of a big capsule coming down in a war zone and a bunch of tanks and marines rolling out certainly seems pretty cool, and I'm sure Musk and his lobbyists will at least try and convince the DoD that its something worth throwing a lot of $$ at.
The risk of that happening depends on how dependent the functioning of the token is on the company that held the ICO. It's precisely why the effort to decentralise governance for the project and give token holders influence is such a crucial consideration when investing. Unfortunately it seems there has not been too much pressure recently for projects to incorporate decentralised governance models.
Press Release: Vibe Tokens to Start Trading
Does it say on the page somewhere that this site is built with Gatsby?
Recently my cousin, and my friend's child were diagnosed with type 1. Following their Facebook posts I was surprised how limited and frustrating current monitors/pumps are.

Thanks for the input from your wife's experience
As the open-floor plan is already basically a Panopticon - with the director in his office with a glass wall through which he directly overlooks us in the open-floor area, and the manager just at the strategic table (his back to the window, face overlooking our team) adding any "cell" walls would be a vast improvement (which also would result in improvement for lighting (limiting direct Sun hitting eyes/monitor), AC and ventilation (better turbulence/mixing before cold/fresh air just rivers away like it does in the open-floor) and thus less virus spreading effects, etc...) The new Apple "spaceship" building would have "pods" so depending on how field of view is organized there it may be kind of Panopticon.
> I think that this is a good example of how racism, conscious and unconscious is making us worse at predicting the future. Ten years ago, so many Americans were making jokes about poor quality Indian code

That statement is racist
Sure, it's a massive generalization. But, no more so than "college is an over-priced waste of time," which is a claim I see repeated on HN and other tech-centric forums.
>a static site generator that uses React

Does this mean the HTML is constructed by rendering components to strings using ReactDOMServer, or that the frontend scripts use React? Or both?
Waves are oscillations, and thus do not move matter over long distances.
Am I missing something?
French Guiana is part of the EU as a part of France, and closer to the US than to Europe. So if we're talking things like that, it becomes more thinkable.
Google Sued by Gab Over Play Store Booting 'Free Speech' Twitter
Not sure how you're soliciting feedback but you'd probably have pretty good luck volunteering for them and observing/conversing while getting first hand experience. Plus you'd make some friends (beta users).
Most junior developers will not even know that getting into a dead end job such as these are the end of their career. Sad!
They already designed the space suits.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/23/16188658/elon-musk-reveal...
If you smooth out the case shiller over the last 30 years the market on the whole is right where it would have been given typical growth without the crazy manipulation.
No, the owner of a site does not have to trust their DNS provider and registry. SSL and TLS were designed from the beginning to assume that the DNS was insecure --- they had to be, since the DNS was insecure when they were invented (and, of course, remains so today).
Thanks for reproducing the experiment. :) I sent a message to tianon asking him if he remembers what the original numbers were. He told me long ago, I think it was around 1000. This was well before the go shim or dockerd existed.
Will zero fee transactions ever get confirmations? They'll be the absolute last thing any miner includes so unless there's nothing else I wouldn't expect them to get any confirmations.
Part performance and part developer experience.

Gatsby generates HTML pages for each page so it loads as fast or faster than other static site generators but is way faster when clicking around the site as it prefetches pages and renders them in the client so the site feels like a local or native app.

It's also fully setup for building with leading modern web development tools like React, webpack, all CSS options including css-in-js, code splitting, PWA techniques, etc. so the development experience is excellent and you get production quality code without any setup.

Gatsby's ambitions are much higher than simply transforming markdown into HTML. See the writeup of the talk I gave recently describing Gatsby as a website compiler https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2017-09-13-why-is-gatsby-so-fa...
Another fun twist would be to see what effect there would be if you mentioned that no one from Puerto Rico voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
My comment about intelligibility refers to a human (with normal audition) directly listening to the output. When the output is used in a hearing aid, a cochlear implant, or a low bitrate vocoder, then noise suppression may be able to help intelligibility too.
Just to mention https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ , probably a good point of entry into the present-day Spectrum community.

EDIT: As to the manual, see this FAQ entry: https://www.specnext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=540
You may want to consider a gentle reintroduction to "weather", especially East Coast winters. Snow is fun when you're on a ski vacation. Decidedly less so when it's wet and getting whipped into your face by the wind as you trudge to work.
But we get faster into Mars if we first develop post-scarcity economy here on earth first.

Name that fallacy?
This Esquire article gets into a lot of detail if anyone is interested in reading more: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a16681/elon-musk-interv...
It saves you fuel. More space spent on fuel reduces your payload, driving costs up.
It may be just me, but the tracks that distract me the most are the ones with a solid melody line. Such as Willow's Song, easily the most beautiful song about milking a bull:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOtscTCJBk

Or "Peter" from Holderlin's Traum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGn6nLaTfqU&feature=youtu.be...

Out of curiosity, could you recommend some bands with very good drums ? One that springs to mind is Guru Guru. When I stop to think about it it seems it's the drums that seal the deal for me, in many tracks. And Embryo, especially on Embryo's Rache.
I live in a small town in the middle of the US. Our schools have very large numbers of kids who bike every day. Probably aided by the lack of busy roads in town and a commonly shared culture that biking and free range kids are ok.
I hated the Android phone I had 5 years ago and haven't looked back, so apparently I'm not up to speed on developments in the Android marketplace.

I stand corrected on everything stated above!

I'll have to borrow a friend's phone to play with this and see how it compares to the old Graffiti.
> the SpaceX suits are meant to be worn by astronauts when riding inside the company’s Dragon Capsule

That is not a Mars rated space suit for living and working on Mars. Not even NASA has one ready yet. (They are working on it though)
Short lived effort, but some in Sicily wanted to, after WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state#Sicily_.28Italy.29
It looks like approximately 1.8 million people voted on the first question, and 1.36 million people voted on the second. And in 2016 Puerto Rico was estimated as having a population of 3.4 million. In light of that, 1.8 million votes on the first and 1.36 million votes on the second seems fairly similar to the normal voter turnout in the U.S.

So no, it doesn't sound to me like a "small minority" of people were voting.

EDIT: This is talking about the 2012 referendum.

EDIT 2: It occurs to me that 3.4 million isn't the voting population, it's the total population. So the voter turnout is even better than it looks initially.
It's really not an issue of visibility.

European countries tend to spend less of their money on military and more on social programs so that it's both harder to become homeless in the first place and, if it happens, there are programs to help you.
If you have too much noise in your comment section, Graphcomment is a nice (not free) alternative.

https://graphcomment.com/en

(I work for GraphComment)
Darn, I wish you'd seen it too :). Sounds like you came to similar conclusion I did -- using C++ templates to stamp out v8::FunctionTemplate and ObjectTemplate instances.

I was pretty happy about how Gin turned out and always thought it would be nice to put it on Github where it would be easier for people to reuse.

But at the time Chromium still didn't allow all the modern C++ features, so Gin had to depend on base::Callback, which made it hard to extract cleanly.
This is a great point, one I wish more people would consider.
And CRI-O [0] is another open project making head way in that space.

[0] https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o
The difference between a suborbital and an orbital flight is the difference between dropping a basketball, and scoring a three point shot from the other side of the field.

Attaining orbit required 20 times the energy that spaceship one's flight did - it's why landing airplanes is trivial, and landing rockets is so hard.
If they can lobby appropriately to get supersonic over land transit approved.
That's the classic real estate bubble.
Canada has also had this problem.

http://tentcity.wikidot.com/list-of-tent-cities
but why would we? we’re bigger, richer, stronger, and (hypothetically) being asked to accept outsiders
Musk is truly an inspiration for each one of us. He is the one who dreams big and works even harder. Musk's idea of connecting different parts of Earth using rockets is truly astounding and it would be great if all the government and private agencies come together and try to remove border barriers. It is inevitable that the days of flying cars and jetpack will come very soon and there may be drastic effects if border tension arises. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16362868/boeing-go-fly-pr...
NYC has a much more diverse business environment than the Valley and that grounds the tech industry a lot more to focus on solving problems. There's much less acceptance of "Uber for lawn gnomes" app companies and a lot more pressure to deliver true value (in my observation).
I also much prefer the Speex version. The robotic noise is consistent and easy to ignore. The NN version has a "choppy" feel to it that catches my attention. It reminds me of H264 vs VP9 video codecs at the same bitrate. VP9 is supposed to be better, but H264 artifacts are more artificial looking. VP9 artifacts look more natural, almost like mold/decay on film, which I find more distracting.

I prefer your hacked RNNoise version to the original, but I still prefer the Speex version. Robotic is predictable, and predictable is good. I don't want denoising artifacts to feel like there's some intelligent agent behind them, just as I don't want any software tool to feel intelligent. The smarter the tool the more jarring it is when it misreads my intentions. It might help average performance but it harms worst-case performance, and worst-case performance is subjectively more important because humans pay attention to outliers.
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, and I fully understand that there's a huge, huge ream of people working to deliver Facebook, but honestly, I could fill multiple volumes of multiple books with the things that Facebook does wrong, and some of it is surely deliberate dark patterns, with specific behavioral objectives, but other aspects are not.

Nevermind whether or not one agrees or disagrees with the all-encompassing nature of Facebook's grip on so many social circles, or whether one has an opinion about Facebook's policies and business practices, the website itself is pretty bad. Bad enough that, had I my druthers, I'd be able to create something that out-competes it, if a creation I put forward could clear the sheer gravitational inertia of the network effect that Facebook enjoys. And I realize that's no small claim, but here I am making it anyway.

It's not your fault, specifically that shit sucks on Facebook all over, and I sincerely doubt you'd have the clout necessary to enact change.

Since it'd be a lot to write up, and this is simply yet another peanut gallery web forum, I'll say this much: as a user, I am clueless about the decision tree I'm offered when I log into Facebook, furthermore, so much of Facebook is mystery meat links and who knows why I see half of any of it. Then as soon as a snippet of user-created content appears, it's buried. Go in to check the settings to see what the hell this system is trying to do for me, and I see trashy icons leading to incomplete features that don't even work as advertised, and I never get what I want, when used as directed. After about 30 some-odd clicks per any given session, and maybe 100 sessions of trying and retrying various combinations from a clean cookie, learned helplessness kicks in, I shut down my computer and find something better to do.

BTW, this cuts across several assets and UI's throughout Facebook's offerings as a whole, for all devices.
That's the goal of the current quesst program.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-work-to-build...
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> that is not necessarily how it will be spent.

Especially in the US, where we are likely to raise the defense budget from $500 billion to $700 billion per year.

Makes me think about how much carbon is released for "defense".
F stands for fun. (Not really).

F does stand for fun. A lot of it. It's really down to attitude.