skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One killer for startups is the weakening of patents. After eBay vs. MercExchange, easy post-grant re-examination, and Seagate[1], the worst-case penalty for infringing a patent is only paying the royalties that would have been paid if a license had been negotiated. So there's no incentive left for big companies to buy technology; they can just steal it.

This is new. All those things changed in the last 15 years. The result is that VCs have gone for market share, not technology. (Or they've gone for pharma, where patents still work.) Until about 2000, Silicon Valley VCs wanted startups to show that they had a strong intellectual property position. That all changed in the first dot-com boom, when it started being about buying market share.

This hurts innovation. Why work on a hard problem?

[1] http://www.fulcrum.com/punitive_damages_are_now/
http://www.csszengarden.com/ exists but many of the css files have been lost/removed. Based on the urls of the remaining files, they are all from before May 2013, when older IE was a real concern and before flexbox was widely supported.
Did you just reply with a second account?

I hope you weren't up-voting your own post with that...
So, uh, who owns the moon, and that tunnel in particular? Is it first come first serve?
Is there any advantage for a country to have a base on the moon?
I recently read [1]: "There are three ways in which information may be learned or committed to memory: by rote, assimilation, or use of a mnemonic device.

By Rote. Material to be learned is repeated [...] It seems to be the least efficient way of remembering.

By Assimilation. Information is learned by assimilation when the structure or substance of the information fits into some memory schema already possessed by the learner. The new information is assimilated to or linked to the existing schema and can be retrieved readily by first accessing the existing schema and then reconstructing the new information. Assimilation involves learning by comprehension and is, therefore, a desirable method, but it can only be used to learn information that is somehow related to our previous experience.

By Using A Mnemonic Device. A mnemonic device is any means of organizing or encoding information for the purpose of making it easier to remember. [...] Any form of processing information in this manner is a more effective aid to retention than rote repetition.
"

Is this information (from 1980) outdated? Is "spaced repetition" a newer idea? Is it more effective than assimilation or mnemonic device?

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
You ignored my point but I'll still repeat -- onboarding new language is relatively quick (several days). Onboarding new frameworks for languages people know is much slower.

So no, I disagree. Known language is not quicker onboarding for a framework. You'll save 4-10 workdays out of the several dozens needed for one to become an expert in a framework.
The journalist reveals his or her ignorance by not considering Gusto or Flexport to be well positioned, imo.
It’s theorized that CA’s golden hills used to be entirely covered with wildflowers. I find it sad that no photosynthesis can occur all summer due to the dead grasses. Such lost potential. But we get some amount of beef and dairy in exchange for the dramatic loss of efficiency and biodiversity.
Yea, the problem is the debt-based economy leading to things like the ad bubble in the first place. Mining is a process leading to a block reward too, and obviously typically as hashrate increases the difficulty increases too.
You can say that about any pair of companies where one has a shipping product and the other does not.
I'd imagine the tubes are relatively stable because they regularly (at geologic time scales) experience seismic disturbances from weak plate tectonic activity and especially impact events.
If you ever want to do a lot in space a ton
No. It user experience and so conversion rate.
It also kills battery life and therefore everything on the planet
I stated that my decision has benefited the companies so not sure what you're trying to say.

Fine, it wasn't 100% clear: "it ended up being great every single time". By saying that I didn't mean that I got tingles in my stomach for using some tech, I am saying that I helped an employer stop bleeding money and human resources in a black hole.
Java will use as much memory as you give it. Higher heap size is better for performance up to around 32GB. For most Java apps you can limit heap to 256M or less with little consequence.

AFAIK Java uses less ram than Python and JavaScript, only common languages that beat it are Golang and C/C++
>>> Ming dynasty rulers felt that China was culturally, technologically, and economically superior to all other nations

They most likely were at that time.

>>> Obviously, that turned out to be a total failure of a policy as China was rapidly surpassed by the West over the next several centuries and is still catching up today

You don't know that. Maybe expanding beyond your means for no good economic reason would have been a bad idea?

And the reason they're catching up today has little to do with that decision. The industrial revolution or the enlightenment didn't happen because Columbus discovered America.

>>> This whole discussion seems sort of pointless to me

Agreed.
I regret I only have one upvote for this.
iOS photos is something like ACDSee or Windows Explorer, not like Flickr. Maybe it syncs something, but it's primarily local photo viewer.
You can also leverage Google's apis and their expertise. These kind of articles forget about the api economy. Then we have new technologies like "serverless" that radically lower the bar to entry for new business to get into the game. Why did I work for the guy who founded Geocities instead of founding something myself? Up to my neck in studio loans and remember in 1998 you had to cough up $1 million for a starter oracle license to go big, today you can scale as you go. The only thing that will end the startup is a lack of creativity and vision, it keeps getting easier and easier to jump in.
> why wouldn't they screw over BMW and Lexus?

Because Tesla markets itself as "the safest car on the road".

> collude

Who is saying anything about collusion?
Sorry meant to expand more. The fact that the moon has such lower gravity than the earth means it's a lot cheaper in theory to get stuff from the surface of the moon to orbit than from earth
That's not actually true - some coins are designed to be used on "commodity hardware". Monero is one, and it's what Coinbase uses.

Last I counted, my estimate on profitability was 0.006 cents / computer / minute.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/62m5mu/eli5_why_can...
“Ugly Christmas Sweater” for DOGS
Whoever gets there first, and can realistically form a threat credible enough to defend it.

You’ll probably need the backing of a nuclear power, although off-world representation of earthly countries might not turn out to be particularly credible threats (enough to intimidate new emerging space-based powers), or remain truly politically cohesive with their root terrestrial counterparts, depending...
"Return to flight" activities appear to be a big distraction for the entire company, for example the previous 2 failures caused Falcon Heavy to slip a lot.
This is part 1 in my series, Bitcoin, the real Great Emancipator.

The series is a survey of the major types of human slavery, and how Bitcoin disrupts these repulsive institutions.
In Part 1 we will establish a solid definition for slavery
"Humanistic" in sense "marketed for the masses" and "knows what you need and what you don't need". Old Google was more "technical" but more neutral.
You can get under 200KB in Java easily by using proguard or similar to strip unused code from your dependencies.
A poster above mentioned that they experienced VR some 30 years ago. I, myself, had a chance to work with it in the early 1990s. Truth be told, it was horrible. It was rudimentary and the graphics were very poor as it was computationally expensive. Exploration stopped and we reexamined the tech a decade later, with similar results.

I've long since postulated that I'd absolutely volunteer to 'jack in' to a neural method to control a computer - complete with my standard joke about being willing to even have a wifi antenna poking out of my skull.

I wonder, then, if we are going about this the wrong way. We are trying for ocular stimulation directly. If we could skip that and move to neurological stimulation directly, I'd expect VR and AR to finally reach the tipping point. There is, after all, a finite amount of miniaturization that's possible.

It is purely a hunch that tells me VR/AR are not destined for wide-scale 'normal people' adoption until it doesn't require external apparatus to utilize.

As it is, we already have people who don't even like wearing simple eyeglasses. However, if it didn't require such, then it may just be something we humans add to our bodies to augment it.

Thoughts?
(I'm one of the coauthors of the paper referenced in the post)

For me, charging for actual usage instead of reserved capacity actually aids in implementing those good design guidelines that were collected in books, such as low coupling and high cohesion of code, and this is what we wrote about in the paper as well. charging for reserved capacity creates financial incentives to bundle tasks and features into applications, creating runtime coupling (eg sharing the same /tmp dir, reusing security roles etc), even though they are designed to be isolated. charging for actual usage removes that incentive, so stuff that was designed to be isolated stays isolated when deployed.
Chevy Bolt: the First Practical, Mass-Market Electric Vehicle
Volunteer needed to help transfer solar eclipse data to NASA
Some minor programming help is needed to help complete the effort. Project info is on the page, if interested, email is at the bottom of the page:

http://eclipse.fisketech.com/
Alternative perspective from the same article:

> The language that specified how the agency would calculate car-tab fees was included in every version of the transportation revenue bill lawmakers considered in 2015, dating to at least four months before the measure was finally approved.

> The topic even came up on the Senate floor in February 2015, when the Senate voted down a proposed amendment to change the car-tab valuation schedule to a third, completely different formula.

> “Each step of the way, this language was there,” said state Sen. Marko Liias, D-Lynnwood, one of the negotiators of the 2015 transportation package. Liias explained how the car-tab fees would be calculated in a short speech during the 2015 floor debate.

Again, you can claim it was misleading, but you can't call it fraudulent.

This is the sort of obviously important detail you expect staffers to be on top of. It's silly to later claim no one had thought of what method would be used to calculate the value of a car when enforcing a percentage tax on the value.
This looks pretty neat! A few questions:

1. Are there plans for a multi-browser (especially mobile web) test runner?

2. Are there plans to detect change provenance (eg. if I change my heading height on a page, all the content below it will shift down. The change I really want to be notified about is that the header's height changed, not that everything was pushed down because of it)?

3. There are a lot of similar tools (eg. back in the day I used https://github.com/facebookarchive/huxley) - where does Appraise succeed where those tools failed, or what does Appraise do better?
As I've said before, when a headline asks a question, the answer is almost certainly "No."
I focus better in the hours after exercise, and better generally while maintaining a regular exercise routine. Any kind of exercise helps some but I find cardio is most impactful in this particular area. It doesn't have to be intense but I do need to work up a good sweat. Long low-intensity works too but it's not too often I can take a very long walk/hike.
This is diffing PNGs? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Here is what this looks like in the much denigrated Java Enterprise world:

https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/tutorials/rcp-testing-tool-r...
I imagine the big issue is that the underlying model isn't actually being changed to support the new UI (even by a wrapper-layer); so you're just doing shallow edits to the "skin" of the OS. The problem being the underlying model and the WIMP model have been co-evolving, and likely aren't very open to other fashions of interaction.

Presumably, the way to beat it out is to figure out how to change both to instantiate an entirely different interaction model, and thus naturally a new UI.

Otherwise you can really only commit to incremental improvememts, but nothing particularly interesting.

ie smalltalk's requires an entirely different underlying model to support its in-place editable UI model; it cannot naturally be built (but maybe hacked together) if you try to avoid that shift
They moved for opportunity. Dunno if Mars is much of an opportunity, especially after 150 days of weightlessness stuck in a small RV.
Uncertainty and Monetary Policy in Good and Bad Times
"average daily budget derived from national GDP per capita figures" sounds...erm...almost meaningless.
>This is diffing PNGs? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Not necessarily, if you use it for what it was intended -- visual layout tests that are easy for a human to approve/reject when there is a difference. It doesn't know if the change is right or wrong, just helps humans be more effective by showing the difference clearly and aiding in comparisons.
“Possession is 9/10th of the law” would appear especial relevant on the moon. However the United Nations Outer Space Treaty agreed that no one can claim sovereignty.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/02/lunar-proper...
Western countries talking about the benefits of immigration and multiculturalism - but when those immigrants are educated or skilled the west is robbing the poor countries of their only hope. This is why visas are better than residency/citizenship - the poor country person spends a few years in the advanced country then returns to the poor country with improved skills and knowledge.
R34 Skyline GT-R vs 2018 GT-R Nismo: Old vs New Drag Race
Where did the comets get the water they impacted on earth?
And by now, the bacteria have been monitoring the researchers for signs of evolution...

Anyways, what I found interesting is that one of the strains can now metabolize citrate, which as per the article E. Coli "traditionally" can not.
Smartphone design is downright terrible in terms of functionality

I disagree. It seems obvioous to me that smartphones are optimized for easy insertion into and retrieval from tight front pockets in pants. That’s why they are shaped the way they are. It’s also partly why the headphone jack had to go. Wired headphones are a pain in the ass when you have to route the wires through layers of clothes and into a pocket or a handbag.
In what way does Coinbase use Monero?
Also it doesn't have magnetic fields like the earth does to shield its gas from being pushed off by solar wind.
Url changed from https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1839226/could-crypt..., which points to this.
Or maybe the people who get there can just agree to cooperate instead and share the land, unlike how we do things down here.

One can dream.
That checks out. There is a treaty but space-faring nations have not signed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty
The passenger is monetized and Volvo becomes a conduit through which everything listed in the top comment gets implemented and even

It has nothing to do with the number of cars being sold.
Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude
That's because the "new world" was already livable by the people who, um, were native.

Things that we take for granted on earth (and which allow a simple tribal existence):

- air with enough oxygen

- most radiation is shielded, allowing one to subsist with minimal clothing

- vegetation that grows food

- roaming animals that can also be food

- water for basic necessities (hydration, hygiene).

Picture setting up camp in Death Valley. That's luxury compared to Mars.
Oddly, the satellite that did the mapping ended its mission in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE

Did it really take until now to analyze its data?
But there isn’t exactly a lot of readily available resources on the moon, so until that changes your just paying to lift stuff twice. Water may be an exception to this?
Url changed from http://nypost.com/2017/10/19/after-you-die-your-brain-knows-..., which points to this.
But it's not free when compared to advertising. Case in point, this article hypothesizes about botnets mining cryptocoins - but botnets are already frequently used to exploit advertising payment channels.
This is fantastic. I'm an American who's been learning Danish casually, and as a native English speaker the pronunciation is... challenging. Even a year or so in, developing an ear for it is still an ongoing process.
Disclosure: I own Bitcoin, Dash, and Sia, but I've sold most of my Bitcoin.

I'm surprised I even have to spell this out for people, but here goes:

Mining stops the double spend problem just like market makers solve the liquidity problem: A little bit is great, but at scale it's divorced from the public good it provides. We don't need the amount of mining that is going on in Bitcoin right now. It's just wasted cycles because of the economics of the damn thing.

What fundamental good does spreading any PoW to millions or billions of devices accomplish? Nothing. That is why cryptocurrency mining will never take over advertising.

What should take over advertising (if anything) is micropayments built into the browser. Maybe with some sort of probabilistic or web-of-trust mechanism on top to prevent the bookkeeping burden from overtaking the payment amount.

The problem with advertising is that it rots peoples minds and makes certain classes of goods compete on brand instead of competing on quality.
I don’t understand your question. Does Pax Americana mean invading Vietnam or Iraq? Pax means “Peace”.
As a french, I don't think the blame is upon fat people, but more about obese people. I think the general view on obesity is that it is a health issue you can clearly do something about with just a little bit of will. I have no idea if this view is correct or not from a medical standpoint though.

On the other hand, i am a bit skeptical about the "you're fine no matter how you are" mentality in the US regarding obesity. It is a health issue, so it's great not to blame people but saying "you can stay like this for how long as you want" is also a bit weird imho...
Profitability doesn't matter if you're not paying costs but getting the income.
Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain [video]
They wouldn't be using Bitcoin, they'd use Monero.
I see other 'startups' that I think are missed by the SV folks. They aren't tech, but may use tech in their startup. I see quite a few of them.

They are people starting their own business. A friend borrowed some money to start a business where he drives a remote control vehicle down pipes to examine them from the inside. The space didn't have much 'local' competition and he was able to spot that, take advantage of it, and now has a dozen employees, has repaid the money, and is seeking to expand his operations. A similar experience was loaning my sibling some money so he could start a plumbing company - except it is more niche and not residential. They use some tech but they aren't tech companies.

It seems to me that the SV pundits see the tech startups while not seeing the guy who does vehicle power washing on-site, the interior decorator that uses 3D modeling and VR, or the folks who opened a diner where they have automated the food ordering process.
All I can say here is that my team has been using Clojure for over 7 years now, and hiring devs hasn't been a problem. At this point, my view is that if somebody has problems learning these concepts, I probably wouldn't want to hire them to work with any language.
Are you sure about "you do get compile-time validation like making sure all arguments are passed to a function"?

If I run this:

(defn bar [x y]
(println x y))

(defn foo [v]
(if v (bar 12 42 79)))

(foo false)

The program prints nothing and Clojure reports no error.

But when I run this:

(foo true)

Then Clojure reports an error:

Exception in thread "main" clojure.lang.ArityException: Wrong number of args (3) passed to: user/bar, compiling:(.../test.clj:6:5)
> 1. Are there plans for a multi-browser (especially mobile web) test runner?

the screenshot engine is designed to be pluggable, so theoretically this should be easy to do with some kind of mobile-test-farm runner.

> 2. Are there plans to detect change provenance...

You can set the relevant clip region to just the header, so it will only notify you if the header changed and ignore the rest. check out https://github.com/AppraiseQA/appraise/blob/master/examples/...

>3. There are a lot of similar tools...

appraise is designed to be used like fitnesse (so example+fixture=> result) instead of record/replay tools that end up being fragile. it makes the examples easy to understand, splitting what is being tested and how it will be tested clearly so both of those aspects are easy to maintain.

it's also designed to work well with github markdown, so your tests become executable API/component specs that are easy to read and also easy to verify.

I'm working on an AWS Lambda runner now, which will also make it quick and cheap to run UI tests in parallel, so it will provide reasonably fast feedback for large test suites.
I used Swing Java applications on a computer with 512 MB RAM. Sure, Java eats more than C++, but it should be pretty in line with JavaScript which is a very popular choice nowadays.
As someone whose job was once to work with that data, yes. It’s a tremendous amount of data and the resources allocated is often a half dozen grad students with a copy of MATLAB. The big iron is only really applied to create the official maps for the planetary science data archives, then real analysis is often paid for piecemeal with relatively small grants.
Url changed from http://cliffc.org/blog/2017/10/21/programmers-suck-salary-ne..., which points to this.
As someone who has always been fascinated by Space, reads a lot of SF and generally feels quite positive about Space exploration, I nonetheless think manned Space exploration and human colonisation of other planets is really not a good goal. I know it's dramatic. I know many people concern themselves with the long term viability of the human species (as something important).

Personally though it seems like robotic exploration is just much more sensible and useful. Humans are not going to thrive in any of these environments: they're absolutely horrific in every way. I mean maybe if we went down the "Man Plus" route (or the more fanciful bio-engineering of Clifford Simak's Desertion) then it would make some kind of sense. Also my feeling is that our interminable survival as a species is not necessarily that big a deal AND I don't really believe we have any viable strategy for keeping people out there...

What else I am missing? Why do we spend so much energy on putting people into space?
A Mars mission — even if you ignore the radiation danger has a massive engineering hurdles.

How does one land — decelerate to a safe landing. The amount of fuel required to fire a mars retro rocket is many times that on earth. Then you need to lift off.

Getting to mars is not the issue — landing and taking off is the major challenge.
That sounds very sensible.
Interesting. Any link?
Musk has mentioned SpaceX doesn't patent its innovations because you're competing against nation-states who don't have to follow the rules.
IIRC what you're talking about is called "True Cost Economics". I first read about it years ago, & when I look for the article now it's a 404.

However I was able to find an excerpt here:

http://www.utne.com/community/truecosteconomics