skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think of that link as a more sophisticated take on the old GNAA Slashdot trolling. Or possibly Timecube.
Show HN: Rstudio notebook support of legacy SAS code through Wine
New OpenRA release
The upper cockpit is a huge aerodynamic drag compared to previous designs.

Perhaps the 747 was a hedge (and it turned out to be a good one if so), but the design kind of implies otherwise IMO.
The I ching works like a binary look up table

You divine a series of yins and yangs, usually 3 or 6..
trigrams and hexgrams (o).. then look up that sequence in the text to discover it's meaning

010010 references one, whereas 000100 references another

I guess you could argue it's more Shannon than leibniz

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching#Hexagrams
knowing what i know about fiserv your thesis is either laughable or horrifying, the truth likely lying somewhere in between as it does
You know buses have seats right?
Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Erupt Sooner Than Expected – ExtremeTech
I've managed one flight on the upper deck of a 747, and I'll never forget it. To me, growing up, it was the iconic passenger jet.

The 787 is a technical marvel, but it doesn't evoke the same feelings.
Southern Irish, although as a sibling comment noted you'll also find it in Scotland and Northern England. It helps that the Irish language uses this sound copiously so most people are used to it from school.
It's not just that the code is already written and debugged; in many cases results have been published using analysis done with this legacy software. Using the same code ensures a certain amount of consistency between experiments from the same lab.

From this point of view, rewriting code is an extremely high-risk proposition. As we know, the likelihood of discovering bugs during this process is quite high.
Indeed!

BTW I just submitted a link to show HN how I include SAS code inside Rstudio. It is a bit ugly but it does the job. If you still need to do some SAS it could be helpful to you.
I've visited this exhibit and it's amazing. What blew my mind was how much space there was above the passenger cabin.

http://www.ul-hs.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/47.jpg
Something isn't set up right if your goal is to have the browser reflow text as required -- I just clicked through on my iPhone and the text is at a specific width (and fwiw it's not very readable to me with my non-perfect eyesight).
Not MY ARMS MAKEUP CHallENGE (HUSBAND)
> parking spaces often cost $10,000+ apiece to build, excluding any land cost

I don’t buy that for a second - even in extremely expensive areas like the Bay Area, concrete is less than $20/sq ft poured (ie including all costs), and most parking lots I see around here are blacktop which is even cheaper....
It's not just wing area, the body of the aircraft is also impacted by up/down drafts.

Velocity and angle of attack also play a role.
Can verify that if you give numerical methods people C you may get wonders like (e.g.) main() functions that are 30 pages long.

No, I'm not kidding.

I shudder to think what they'd have done with C++. :-)
I'm fairly certain that Sanders would have won against Trump.
I believe this, which is why I've stopped keeping up with environmental news. It's so fucking depressing and sours my enjoyment of the life I have now. If things genuinely will shake out this way, I want to have enjoyed the sweet life while I had it.
So I take it you would be perfectly happy commuting into London from Cambridge on a train without being able to sit? Our commutes are a bit longer (20-30 minutes standing isn't the problem, but an hour is). Articles like https://www.the-tls.co.uk/kings-cross-to-cambridge-how-nasty... are written by Brits, not Americans.
Modern fortran is quite awesome for matrix manipulation. The ease of using it for math makes me wonder why we don't use it more often. The main downside to modern fortran is its I/O capabilities are quite stunted. I honestly think we need an open source fortran95 to gpu compiler.
Things like this exist but there are two issues. They aren’t part of the standard and Fortran compilers are better at optimizing built in Fortran abstractions than c++ compilers are at optimizing user made abstractions.

I suspect it’s the lack of standardization that’s really the issue.
> Ajit Pai is stoked about this.

This seems like an unfair claim. Since you didn't provide a citation, I looked for one. I found plenty of articles insisting that Ajit Pai and through association that Trump are both out to harm privacy online, but this is typically an inference based on the fact that Ajit is blocking more regulations placed on ISPs. His reasoning has consistently been anything that makes it harder to compete (the context is in small-medium businesses, think tiny companies trying to upset Comcast or AT&T) is bad, and specifically in this case that extra regulations on ISPs that businesses (read: the entities that actually have virtually all of your data) are not required to follow is unnecessarily limiting to competition. That's really not the same as "Ajit Pai is stoked about this." I will thus consider this bullshit until someone actually asks him what he thinks about this and whether he supports it. I doubt he does, because I doubt anyone does, and because it appears it may already be illegal.

The DNS entry for this site is already gone, though I can't tell if it was an action by GoDaddy or if it was explicitly removed to hide the page. In either case, that kind of response indicates guilt to me, and unless the ISPs are explicitly informing people that this is happening, it may already be illegal. I'd expect a class action lawsuit to determine that, and legislation to make it illegal for ANY ENTITY, be it a business operating on the internet or an ISP, to do this without consent from the user, which is what we really need.

I've been very annoyed at businesses like Spokeo that operate entirely in the realm of selling information about people, and they're fueled by shit that Facebook, Google, and friends freely offer about people, and now worse what about cross-referencing what they already have (everything in this case plus things like residential history, criminal history, etc) with your entire credit history and SSN and more thanks to Equifax and even hashed passwords due to the dozens of leaks we get every year.

I don't think this belongs in the FCC's wheelhouse, this belongs in Congress, because this kind of shit is getting out of hand, and it's not just ISPs.
https://codenvy.com
This would be incorrect as contactless payment cards (e.g. via Apple Pay) are widely supported in London. [1]

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/ways-to-pay/whats-the-...
AWS Deployment, iOS11 updates and startup management
My interpretation of his comment was that drunk driving was basically required if you wanted to go out and drink. Public transportation in LA didn't work and cabs were too expensive for people who wanted to go out more than once a month. So well-intentioned people still drove drunk because the alternative was forgoing a social life.

Now, with ride sharing, people that care can avoid drunk driving. But some people will always not give a shit or will have driven someplace that they didn't anticipate drinking, so it wouldn't drop to zero.
https://codenvy.com

https://eclipse.org/che/

https://c9.io

Etc.
NASM Assembly Language Tutorials
Uber is selling shares at two different prices because it can
We're still running the old compiler, probably within DOSBox or something similar. There are one or two boxes on which the executable can currently be built.
I was curious how the hell they ended up with a Buran, given that there were two, the one that flew was destroyed in a hangar collapse, and the other was never completed.

Turns out they have the atmospheric aerodynamic test vehicle (OK-GLI / Buran Analog BST-02).

As for how, it has quite the interesting history. Bought by an Australian in 2000, displayed for the Olympics, owner went bankrupt. No buyers appeared. It next shows up being exhibited in Bahrain, before the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum buys it (finally moved in 2008).

The remaining Buran vehicle is still in Russian custody.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI
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Idk how old you are, but I suspect within the next 20-30 years we will be deploying robots that turn the iron, soil, etc. On Mars into a plastic, resin, metal-frameworks, fuel and water. From there robots can build some facilities or at least materials and humans can land in a pre-constructed environment.

I dont know about a return trip though, but I do think long term inhabitation is possible. Especially, with our advances in robotics, genetics, and medicine.

Also remember it takes a lot less to launch a rocket off of Mars. For instance, you only need 33 tons of propellant to get an 18 ton MAV off the ground[1]

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151002-mars-missi...
You don't need html email for that... you just need a trackable link. If someone hasn't actually come back to your site for years due to the mail you're sending out... should you really be sending them mail?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880
I suspect we would need to practically out-law personal driving during rush-hours to make public transit attractive.
Or apply a massive fee for driving in rush-hours.

Then you would, however, have so little traffic and so many users that transit could be made nice.

But these things are politically impossible, and never really attempted.
Alibaba.

Most other shops will be expensive, occasionally you can find deals on anchor optics clearance (though that info is years old, and to have to know what you're buying!).

You're almost always better off buying the cameras and sensors together, unless you have specific needs. Sadly, this isn't something where you can save money by doing it diy. Supply chains are good and overall demand is too high for deals outside the normal channels, I think.

Would love to be proven wrong, but I used to pay around with optics regularly and it was always more expensive than I liked. Cutting open photographic lenses was a common way to get fun glass for cheap... So getting cheaper glass is tough.
We made an experiment to test if it's feasible to use drone to do food delivery
You might like this: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/02/algorithmic_the...
> So you're only interested in the freedom to do what you want

Well yes, this is kind of how interest works. Not being interested in something does not imply being interested in banning it! This binary fallacy is at the root of today's politics.

> Markets aren't "odd." They simply exist

Sure, but you'd have to do a lot more defining to flesh out how you're actually applying the market paradigm. You seem to indicate that ability to kill is "supply". But is the demand a primal desire to kill, stochastic mental process, attention seeking, call of Evil, or what? Will changing the blade in my utility knife increase the likelihood that I'll attack someone with it? More often than not, the justification of "economics" is trotted out to obscure a blatant political point.
See, they are in the business of selling fancy trinkets from China as it is what 9 out of 10 consumer goods are. No mater what they do, a Chinese company will be having an edge over them no matter what they will do.
Reminds me something Ze Frank said whilst talking about this exact question:

> Our definition of work is quite different than our experience of work... Without the discomfort, why would it be hard [work]?

He goes on the describe a "provisional life," and reaching our limits and if that's even worth our consideration. Its a good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2cMjeSvZSs
I want to be excited about this and plan to look into it... mostly I'm sincerely hoping PayPal hasn't taken their standard pile-of-garbage approach to documentation...
Yeah, but do you ever perform an operation on two hexagrams (addition, multiplication)?

If not, each hexagram is just a bitstring, not a number in binary notation. If not used as numbers they don't count as numbers.

Words written with the standard English alphabet are not base-26 numbers until someone decides to interpret them as such. Dictionaries are lookup tables but the ordering is lexical not numerical. Maybe we are in agreement.
Okay, I missed it. I think that's a very reasonable path if you don't have kids.
cool idea. I tried googling "banker's division" and got nothing, what is it?
Scipy is where a lot of the fortran is.
What annoys me about MySQL is that it gets simple basic SQL wrong. For example

update foo set a = b, b = a

is supposed to swap the values in columns a and b, according to the SQL standard. Logically, all of the right hand sides are evaluated using the pre-update values from the columns, and then the results are assigned.

In MySQL, it logically does the assignments left to right, not evaluating an assignment's right hand sides until it gets to that assignment, and that evaluation uses the updated values from the already evaluated assignments.

In Python terms, it is supposed to be like this:

a, b = b, a

but it is instead like this:

a = b
b = a

If we had the time, I'd love to switch to something else just to get rid of annoyances like that.
I don't think you understand Tensorflow. Tensorflow compiles tensor mathematics into a shader that can be run on the gpu. This is usually faster than acpu computation.
> My interpretation of his comment was that drunk driving was basically required if you wanted to go out and drink.

That's a reasonable interpretation, though even so interpreted it's quite wrong. You can go out and drink and never be legally drunk, much less not drive drunk.

“Go out and drink” is quite different from “go out and drink heavily and then drive immediately”.
Check out the sweet 1995-era website: http://upc.gwu.edu/

Not a project that seems to be into recent trends.
I switched from Arch Linux to NixOS last year and it was a great experience https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/19/switching-to-nixos-from-arch.... The community is relatively small and easy to get into, with lots of people ready to help out beginners.

It took a while to get used to, especially considering the way to learn how something works seems to always be to go and read source code on GitHub. There are good things and bad things about this approach but I fear it makes it difficult for your average user to use since it is a bit of a barrier to entry.

I loved how extensible the system was, and how easy it was to make modifications simply by modifying configuration.nix. It made it really feel as though my system was truly 'mine', in some ways being similar to the feeling I get from setting up an Arch machine. Being able to just recreate a machine by cloning your configuration onto the new machine, and running 'nixos-rebuild switch' is extremely powerful. Being able to roll back machine is also amazing. Something else that really impressed me was how great though ZFS support was. Setting up a ZFS system on Nix is one of the best experiences I've had using ZFS on Linux. It really feels as though ZFS is a first-class citizen on Nix, not something tacked on top. It's possible to set up ZFS without adding any sort of external repository like with Arch.

I ended up leaving NixOS after running into an issue that I would get related to UEFI, and at that point didn't have the time to track down the problem, but I'm really excited for where NixOS is going in the future, especially when declarative user environments https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250 (user configuration) with NixUP becomes a thing. I will definitely be coming back to it in the future.
Though Damore didn't say that directly, it is in part an underlying thesis of his essay.

So it's not a complete summary of his paper, but it's also not an inaccurate one.
It won't matter, since the data will have already been sold. And 'services' will fallback to a different provider.

American databrokering is a really mature industry after all.
And, yet, most of the time, most people can fairly readily infer gender based on voice alone.

I know it isn't politically correct to talk about any differences at all between ethnicities or even genders. The PC thing at the moment seems to be that "all such differences are social construct." So, it would probably be wise for me to just walk away here as a lot of people will assume I am a racist trying to justify racism. And this isn't some kind of hill I care to die on.
Guix explicitly rejects non-free software.

Unfortunately, that isn't workable for most of us.
Multisync means the CRT will succeed at syncing to multiple specified frequencies.

There is nothing stopping non-multisync monitors (including TVs) from trying to sync to an out of range signal and depending on the design they might damage themselves trying.
Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding another layer of indirection. Except too many layers of indirection.
Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography with TPM2
I'm always rather skeptical of people who call themselves political scientists. Like all branches of social science, actual scientific standards are low and many academics in these fields cling to bizarre and archaic worldviews. For instance a surprisingly large number of American social scientists claim to be Marxists:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/the_prevalence_1...

The analysis in this article is a mishmash of old findings and regurgitation of currently fashionable paranoias. The past was rosy and wonderful and apparently the modern era is full of authoritarian fascists. The fact that the apparent golden era of American democracy witnessed things like McCarthy-ism and a full blown Communist party with tens of thousands of members. The article breathlessly says things like:

So it’s not merely that we disagree about issues; it’s that we believe the other side is a grievous threat to the republic. According to Pew, the numbers above have more than doubled since 1994.

Gosh. People strongly disagree with each others politics? Say it ain't so! Here's some political science theory for you: maybe 2017 is not unusually politically divided year but rather, maybe 1994 was an unusually united year. 1994 was after all just a few years after the fall of communism, thus conclusively resolving the 20th centuries biggest political fight in favour of capitalism. The new ideological causes that would replace socialism in universities and amongst the metropolitan elites (identity politics, globalism, etc) had not yet taken over in any major way.

The article is also riddled with its own biases that the authors cannot see. Hillary Clinton believed she should be president because she is a woman, wanted to start a war with Russia and is a devotee of moving power away towards opaque bureaucracies, as she's made clear with her many comments disparaging Brexit as "not the future" and so on, but it's Trump - who actually listened to voters who'd been ignored for years - who is supposed to be the autocrat?

And of course they take it as an article of faith that the Trump election wasn't legit because Russia "meddled" in it. Vox is the sort of publication that's always claiming democracy is about to be wiped out by people they disagree with. Several years ago it was railing against Citizens United because it would put democracy at threat from "dark money", whatever that meant:

https://www.vox.com/cards/super-pacs-and-dark-money/what-is-...

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/3/7150105/dark-money-2014

But ever since Clinton massively outspent Trump (an actually super rich dude) and yet still got her ass kicked, it's no longer campaign financing that threatens democracy. Now it's something else.
I'm a big fan of Nix, but I really with there was a declarative way to define a user's environment similar to what NixOS has with /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.

It seems a little strange to me to have a functional package manager, but an imperative package install process. I think there are a few projects like NixUP and home-manager that are looking to address this, but I'm hoping Nix will provide an official way to do it.
If you make it easy enough and obvious enough to figure out how to buy a card and don't impose a significant card purchase fee, I think a lot of temporary visitors are willing to do it. The problem is when transit agencies don't make the process of obtaining a card as straightforward as buying a single-trip ticket.

Personally, I've got around a dozen transit cards spanning at least six countries...
Ride sharing is of tremendous value in the Bay Area since BART irresponsibly stops service at 12:30am. People living in the East Bay often go into SF to drink, so getting home after bars close is a lot easier now.

Of course the somewhat ironic thing for people living in the East Bay is that Oakland's social scene has emerged at roughly the same time as ride sharing, so people don't need to go into SF to drink as much as they used to. But ride sharing is still useful for getting to/from Oakland.
Show HN: Baseball-Stats.net, a reference of common baseball statistics
Then it was only suspected, now it is headed in. One good solar flare to poof up the atmosphere and down it will come.

I guess the Chinese figured you always burn up your first space station. (Skylab, Mir)
I recently wrote a blog post about how we use Nix at Pinterest (just the package manager, not the OS). It helps us give all developers and CI an identical environment. On iOS, we run most build commands and other tools through the nix-shell. New engineers set up their environment by just running a script that installs nix and enters the shell.

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/continuous-integra...
Comprehensive undergraduate math book list
Does anybody know where to order high-index lenses (1.74) in the US?

I can get them from China for about $150.
Pentagon Turns to High-Speed Traders to Fortify Markets Against Cyberattack
If you want to do make an implementation that supports runtime-specified matrix sizes you change your implementation from...

auto *my_matrix = new MathArray<double, 10, 10>();

Into

auto *my_matrix = new MathArray<double>(10, 10);

Most programs don't need dynamically sized arrays (rows and columns) and as such it makes sense to also provide a template Row and Column width. By doing this you can likely implement matrix multiplication and addition as a constexpr (with some effort) and thus get....

1. Compile time matrix evaluation
2. Vectorized multiplication/addition of matrices
3. Pipline-efficient code
I really think that an 8 seater vehicle running uberpool will be the sweet spot here. Buses are slow and annoying and crap. I think algorithmically directed minibuses will be the gamechanger.
That's facile and incredibly trite. His base is voters, regardless of creed, race, colour or intelligence.

I'm not a Trump fan (nor even American) but I think your analysis of skin colour based demographics is probably flawed in some way.
Once Mocked, North Korean Cyberpower Is a Global Threat
I may have misread your original post but your hostility isn't helping to clarify things. Instead of replying back "I was talking about the SSD cache" you replay back with "Well, it could hardly be below, could it. Was there an insight you wanted to mention?" So instead of clarifying things you decided to be rude.

Now that I know what you're talking about, let's try to answer your question. There are SSD controllers that don't use a RAM cache on the drive. It's not necessary for performance and doesn't do as much as on a HDD if present. The main benefit of a drive cache while reading is for read ahead. This is not needed for an SSD as it doesn't have to wait for the sectors to show up under the head.

The only thing that will affect things is reading file system blocks from the same SSD page/block. The md code already does this. If the next block requested is after the last blocks read it will use the same SSD.

If the block is from somewhere else then it doesn't matter if it comes from this SSD or that SSD. Access time will be the same.
I want a piece of that.