skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging how it is impossible to watch a b&w movie with friends today, pretty much. If all my mp3's were shellac records, i would listen less, but value my time listening more.
Building Variational Auto-Encoders in TensorFlow
It is not a obvious insight to grasp since airlines take a strategy that makes them the most money and passengers are cost sensitive. Wasn't this the driving force behind the hum and spoke model?
I agree with you that AMT for ISO exercise is bullshit but they did significantly change the rules. My AMT tax burden for exercising this year is half what it would have been under the old rules.
What Is the Perfect Age
I think it's misguided to label non-economic factors as irrelevant to a rational consideration. Humans aren't economic robots. Money is an abstraction, a very important one, but not all-encompassing.

Perhaps your comment came with an implied "assuming no preference in firm size". That's fine, but a large number of people don't fall into that category, and so they will need to rationally modify the analysis.
Prime numbers thin out. We have very good estimates of how they thin out. We also know that gaps between primes can get arbitrarily large. And we cannot predict when the next prime will happen without huge computations. And large primes have a use, e.g. cryptography (although, who knows when we'll have a use for such a large one). Having a list of primes is also very useful for empirical evidence for many conjectures in number theory.

None of these things are true about natural numbers in general.
> You mean yes, you don't understand social interactions at all?

Do you derive emotional satisfaction from putting words into other people's mouths?

> I mean, you haven't asked _me_ anything, you asked some other user.

Then what was the point of your reply?
Comical, your source is "my friend told me"?
Well, I'm somewhat relieved to read that, in that I purchased one for the same reason but have been rebooting it at least once a day for a while now. I was initially relieved to see it may have been the Chromecast. Now I suppose it's both!
Surely, it was quite noble of them to stop the slave trade in Benin while colonising, exploiting and draining their wealth.
Thank god, maybe I will actually want to use FB instead of feeling like I have too because everyone is on it for uses x y and z. It used to actually be a fun place to go and catch up with friends who are in different time zones etc.
Like Ruby!
Freemasonry, which I'd describe as a sort of meta-framework for living a good, ethical and worthwhile life.

Freemasonry among many other aspects can serve as constant reminder to behave ethically and make the most of your life.

It also allows to get to know people from all walks of life and backgrounds that otherwise you probably wouldn't have met. Apart from being a great way to discover novel ideas and broaden your horizon this also helps with becoming more tolerant towards others who don't share your background or points of view.

Although the question implies just one thing I'd also mention having worked as a paramedic for some time.
Since their surgery center does not employ the army of administrators that is often required to haggle with insurers and follow up on Medicare reimbursements, their overhead is smaller.

This is part of why Obamacare is fundamentally broken. Using the existing commercial insurance system to try to provide universal coverage injects unavoidable extra expense and complications.

Really happy to hear about the trend the article is describing.
Why? What if the ordinance is bad?
> it's a lot harder to sell people meth, coke, heroin, etc. than it is to sell people pot.

Only the first time. Then the opposite is true.
Not sure airplane not selling is really the core issue. Someone working closely with airbus management once told me the real problem with that plane was that they allowed way too much customization of the interiors. No two planes would end up being the same, and so the costs of building the plane weren’t easily going down after some time. The end result was that airbus is actually loosing money on each plane they sell.

That may be the real reason they would stop production IMHO.
Because nobody knows a fast algorithm to factorize an integer into its prime factors. Yet, it is very easy to check if a set of prime factors multiply to a certain integer.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/439870/why-are-primes-im...
Bryan Caplan: I Win All My Ebola Bets
> Airport capacity scales with number of planes.

There's another factor: these big-ass planes of A380 and alike produce a lot of wake turbulence - in fact, the A380 so much that it has its own strength category and its wake turbulences nearly shot another plane out of the sky (http://avherald.com/h?article=4a5e80f3). This means that an airport may dispatch more lighter planes in the same time than heavier planes.
If you are entertaining an offer at a company, they should give you these numbers without hesitation. If they don’t, refuse the offer. I have never had an issue getting details on equity, funding rounds, and valuation.
Show HN: Little Benchmark, a framework for benchmarking microchips
The scalability of airports is really only an issue at a select few airports, though. JFK and LHR are the big ones that come to mind. FRA and ORD are pretty congested as well. SFO might become extremely congested in the future as they don't have much room to expand.

However, that's still only <10 airports in a world of thousands. Pretty much every major Asian airport (with the exception of Haneda) has tons of room to expand, and most are already doing so. Congestion is hardly an issue there. Even in the US, there are still airports with plenty of unused capacity: DFW, Denver, Dulles, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Detroit, etc have plenty of room to build new terminals and runways as needed. Even LAX and ATL are still sitting on plenty of land awaiting terminal expansion. And the same can be said for much of the small-medium sized airports in the US as well.

The A380 is important to JFK and LHR slots, but I think it's much more likely that we see a the growth of alternate airports and more point-to-point travel than it is that the entire industry will make an about-face regarding the A380 just for the sake of a handful of airports.
If your boss isn't supporting you, GTFO. Either to another group internally or another company.

Not everyone here works in a tech-hub or even in a large company.
Most frequently mentioned keywords that are not common words in the banned posts.
After Surgery in the Womb, a Baby Kicks Up Hope
We Asked Students What Drugs They Take to Study
Indeed, it's entirely proprietary. Being able to get deliveries to your house shouldn't be dependent on someone paying a royalty to a startup.
Is there a primal connection between humans and video games?
I used Amethyst and KWM in the past, but ultimately settled on Spectacleapp, which is great for basic window management. Sadly, neither of them can really compare with i3wm when you take into account the tabbed mode and easy window splitting.
Man. When you said that I was really hoping you were being hyperbolic. Then you pasted a link. The world is a sad sad place.
That’s comfortingly close to fractional reserve banking (which unfashionably I’m a big fan of).
Freeform and digitally surfaced single-vision lenses have less peripheral distortion away from the optical center of the lens. Round/oval metal frames will reduce visibility of the frame edge, if the frame fits well and the eye size is tall enough.

Lenses: Essilor “Eyezen+ 0” CR-39 lens+AR is ~$120 online or Zeiss Individual SV ~$300. If you have prescription with sphere stronger than -3, the improvement in peripheral vision can be useful for large or multiple monitors.
this was on HN not long ago (legends of the ancient web) http://archive.is/9evG0

told how early radio was even more community than business, time to loop the loop
Emacs doesn't feel like either a tool or a place to me. If you use emacsdaemon and emacsclient, it becomes not a fixed place you work in, or a completely static tool, but something like a part of the ether you can draw from when needed. There's background state, but much less of the spatial/navigational burdens the author talks about. It's interesting they go on to mention mpd.

I'm not just saying this just to nitpick - I think the stateful daemon concept is a useful extension to the place/tool metaphor and might be a way to achieve the author's desired web browsing experience.

For example, what if web browsers could move tabs to a sort of "invisible window", and there was some shell command like "recall-tab Hacker News" which foregrounded them into a new window? I think something like this might be already possible with something like surf or uzbl and window manager cooperation.
> potentially incredibly useful idea

Do you really want to depend on a startup's ability to keep their service running and well funded to the location needs of emergency services?
Unless they donate the grid and word associations to the public domain, it's a bad idea to use proprietary data sources for emergency services especially since there's nothing wrong with longitude and latitude, and humans really don't need to be able to read it, computers do just fine with it.
Again, Sadedin covers this. Men and women differ in motor skills, not abilities that make them good executives, software engineers, upper level management, etc., which Damore isclaiming. You're ignoring the facts here (confirmation bias).

Also, a moment ago you were saying Damore doesn't make this claim, now you're defending it? Which is it?
Apple to keep Chinese data in China, privacy picture unclear
Naive question: What is the problem with simply detecting dependencies amongst the goals, and then proceeding to tackle the dependencies in order?
Keep Our Mountains Free. And Dangerous
Murder is -obviously- a hyperbole (though I'm sure a certain H. Reiser would agree).

You can make a case for anything voluntarily involving destroying your privacy. Compare to GDR. You were always watched, period. The same's true now, but its partly voluntarily. Is it desirable? You should decide on that on a case-by-case scenario. Schneier wrote several essays on this matter (here's one [1] and a more recent one [2]) and his latest book, Data and Goliath also covers this subject.

Interestingly the more we centralise on our smartphones, the more difficult voluntarily leaving it home becomes. We already put all kind of NFC cards like our bank and public transport on our phones these days. What's next, unlocking the car via NFC?

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal...

[2] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_t...
Not as serious as the article, but I still don't understand why Find My Phone can almost tell me what room in the house each device is, but the (built-in) weather app tells me I'm 2 towns away...
Just to debate, but why do you believe: "Not disagreeing with your larger point, but the fact of the matter is that it's a lot harder to sell people meth, coke, heroin, etc. than it is to sell people pot."

Funny drug dealer quotes "I don't sell drugs, drug's sell themselves"

In all reality though Pot is by far harder to conceal in small/large quantities so per pound profitability on Pot has to be lower than other drugs like Meth / Cocaine / Heroin. Especially with the rise in Opioid addiction here in the US it seems folks with a poor moral compass (drug cartels) are naturally going to flock to something like Fentanyl production to increase the potency of their heroin or opioid sales.

Kudos to the legal marijuana industry, but it does shift the "war on drugs" to areas far more dangerous, and in my opinion worth focusing on.
Oh thank you. They must have check for referer. Because the google's link is exactly the same with HN's link
It's an amazing aircraft, and quite comfortable, but I feel like Airbus went for size rather than Innovation.
Oddly, the article neglects to mention the whole rationale for boosting the blue light in these kinds of therapy lamps: blue light (wavelengths in the low to mid 400 nm range) has the greatest effect on circadian rhythm.

Google "blue light circadian" for loads of data.
Centralized trading does refer to website exchanges I believe.

But not all exchanges are centralized. For example [1]BISQ is one of many decentralized P2P exchanges.

[1] https://bisq.network/
Tesla vehicles were set on fire in apparent act of anti-EV vandalism
Yes.

http://planetwatt.com/new/index.php/about/

"wattOS is a lightweight Linux operating system remastered from the core Ubuntu Linux build."
Just before Christmas I spent an hour in a ditch with a broken hip after cycling into a a sheep (I'm from New Zealand and they crowd all our roads and are a frequent hazard). I was in a rural location so I had to spend quite a bit of time on the phone with the emergency dispatcher, while in a not insignificant amount of pain, trying to describe my location in relation to various landmarks. The dispatcher was in a different part of the country and was unfamiliar with local landmarks so this was very frustrating. I found out later that there is a increased probability of complications (avascular necrosis) if there is a delay having surgery following this type of injury (I'll know in a few month if I need to go back for a hip replacement). Not sure if an extra 10 - 15 minutes it took to get a ambo to me would have helped, but I'd prefer the odds my way where possible! My parents were confused by how I wasn't able to send the dispatcher my exactly location over the phone.

Me after being picked up by ambos -> https://imgur.com/a/HJKWo
I like that they take responsibility for complications. Instead of shoddy work being an opportunity for future revenue like with the rest of the system, it's an actual disincentive.
right but the dot com bubble included Google and Ebay and a lot of other legit companies. Maybe one can argue that bitcoin and Ethereum are the analogs but only time can tell
Yes, thank you! Same!
> I really don't get why so many people (Linux Desktop users especially, so maybe they're all webdevs?) love them so much.

I don't either but my guess is they are running it on their personal machine which makes the risk of something breaking less of a concern. At home i'll run the latest and greatest but at work I stick to LTS releases and just compile from source the few packages I want/need with newer features.
It's an interesting concept! Hello from term.dame.hurt (Auckland).
This very plant was built under an exemption to that law. Clearly indicating California gave them a chance. And all they came up with was grossly inadequate on-site storage.

http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-001

And I also would like to point out, when environmentalists refer to a process as “Green”, they exclude the ongoing production of highly-toxic byproducts, no matter how “safely” they are stored. Yes, CO2 is another toxic by byproduct. Renewables address CO2 as well as fuel-related toxins.
In aviation, the saying goes that "aviation regulations are written in blood", because for many rules, some time in the past people died in an accident, and the rule was established to prevent reoccurrence.

Now, in finance, the situation is not quite so dramatic. Nevertheless, many of the banking rules that cryptocurrencies (and sometimes fintech) aim to circumvent or flout are there for a reason. Surprise!
Adderall is way better than coke
Assuming the lawyers are cautious and risk-averse (as they should be), their counsel will be pretty predictable: don’t do it.

On the other hand, if we’re speaking just about doing it anyway, it’s basically trivial to do this as the commenter described without ever being caught. Publicly claiming the PGP signature later will obviously not be trivial, but you can easily send one anonymous email without ever being caught.

If someone wants to do this out of a sense of personal ethics, and doesn’t mind restrictions on legally claiming it later on, I’d say go for it. An anonymous email is not a high operational security bar to pass for someone technically competent enough to find a security issue, especially if it’s only once.
Yup. The worst thing is that coins are pumped without any technical backing at all. For example look into Ripple, Cardano, Tron or Verge.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/CenturyofSurveillance
Will Lenovo always have the shadow of the Chinese government looming over it? Is there a point in the future when the two might be disconnected?
> Yes. Game copiers enable users to illegally copy video game software onto floppy disks, writeable compact disks or the hard drive of a personal computer.

Source that says copying bits from my own retail game disc to my own hard disk is a crime, please?

> They enable the user to make, play and distribute illegal copies of video game software which violates Nintendo's copyrights and trademarks.

If I make a copy of a DVD and place it on my shelf beside the original, which laws/copyrights/trademarks have I infringed upon? Redistribution may well be an issue in most jurisdictions, but we weren't talking about that.
There is a difference between creating one component as entry to the lib and using React for the whole state management.
Cash payments don't count toward a patient's (insurance) deductible

This seems like a problem. How is this not an anti-trust violation? In order to benefit from the insurance contact you purchased, you must use a provider who will submit to an insurance company's capricious payment system.
1. Mersenne numbers (of the form 2^n - 1) are far easier to prove primality than other similarly sized numbers.

It looks like there is a registry! Details for adding an item are at https://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/add_prime.html

2. We haven't enumerated the vast majority of the primes under this. There could even be mersenne primes as yet unexamined smaller than this, as the search is distributed. And whenever an ssl certificate is generated, two (hopefully) previously undiscovered prime numbers is found. (For 1024-bit length keys, that's around 308 digits.)

The magnitude of the numbers involved is hard to think about. The number of protons in the observable universe "only" has around 80 digits.

References:

* Mersenne primes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime

* Eddington number -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_number
And if you need many customizations
Airbus Beats Boeing in Annual Jet Order Contest
How does one get the app? The whitelist feature would be game-changing.
> no skin in this, but maybe it is legal to create a digital copy of your own but illegal to download someone else's generated copy?

I think that's probably true, but it's not what Nintendo is claiming. They claim that the copying devices themselves are illegal to own or use, since the result is a file that can be illegally uploaded and shared, and that as a result, any digital copy that a consumer might create is also illegal, even if kept for personal use.

> but I would wager the amount of people with the hardware to migrate NES/SNES/Genesis/etc. cartridges to ROMs is pretty low.

Yes, but not terribly exotic. There are EEPROMs that are drop-in replacements, in many cases. So they're also the kinds of chips that you can just connect an EEPROM reader to, to dump the data. Reading the data from the cartridge pins themselves can be a little more complex; I know that the 8-bit Nintendo systems broke their games into swappable sections, with access controlled by a mapper chip. To dump those games from the cartridge connector, one would need to send bank-swapping signals to the chip. The NES had a couple hundred variants of these mapper chips; the Game Boy had about 5 common ones. Not sure about the SNES. Sega Genesis/Megadrive just exposed the cartridge pins directly to the CPU's address bus, I think.

I know that people build Arduino-based ROM dumpers. The secret sauce is more in the mapper-handling code than anything else.

Newer systems like the Nintendo DS are likely to be less straightforward, but I haven't looked into it that closely.
> I’m not sure how you got “day" out of it, the linked recording sounded (to me) more like "the", if you were trying to say the word "there" (but obviously without the "re").

What kind of English accent do you have?

I'm from New Zealand, so the way I pronounce vowels is probably differs a lot from the prestige accents of English.
These guys, I guess: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaire...
There was no problem whatsoever with buying such things like bread or local fruit. Why? Because a great share of those was produced by private entrepreneurs and had the price set by an almost free market.

Actually you can have a look at the statistical data and you will see that there were more pigs, cows, milk etc. then than now.

The problem was with many products manufactured by the collectively/state owned enterprises, because the prices were set artificially low centrally. That caused lack of balance in the market. Of course you could buy those products paying market prices to the private entrepreneurs (called speculators by the government) in the free market (called gray or black market by the government).

And I can assure you that Pepsi was sold in regular (not Pewex or Baltona) stores and those stores were state owned or controlled by the state (cooperatives) because private stores were almost nonexistent.
I saw them mentioned in another HN thread recently. From the photos on their web site, they use Ubiquiti gear (probably the Ubiquiti airMax LiteBeam) which runs on 5ghz.

https://support.common.net/hc/en-us/articles/115001438367-Wh...
Things aren't nonlocal in geometrical optics though. Something happens at C at the instant in time when the particle is at C. You can start a ray at any point in any direction, and just follow a straight line until you hit something. Then you determine what happens next based on local information at that point, and you continue. Ordinary tennis balls have the same property that the path from A to B can be altered by putting a wall at C.

By the way, wave optics is already QM in some sense. Maxwell's equations are the analogue of the Schrödinger equation for light. Geometrical optics is the analogue of classical mechanics.
What a shame. The best flying experience I've ever had was coach on an A380 from SFO to Frankfurt. It was the only time I arrived feeling awake and fresh. The air felt cleaner, the lighting was great, and it was so smooth.

I get why it isn't popular, but it's just too bad. I really liked flying on one.
Put it on your Amazon wish list and hope someone gifts it to you.
yeah, although the name is: "double-the-joy-will-get-you-destroyed"
Seems like a great hackathon idea. You could even build it as a webapp and target all your major platforms at once. I'm going to give this a crack while I'm sitting at the hospital.
> I have found that touch screens work pretty well when covered in blood.

I haven't. The screen registered keypresses all over the place. It doesn't work reliably with wet hands either, or even in a steamy bathroom.

> Using my phone is the last thing I would be doing in a sinking vehicle and preferably outside of the vehicle.

Every situation is different. Revisit your strategy once the car has already slipped under the ice and started to drift. The cabin is filling with freezing water but you still have some oxygen left. You won't be able to make any calls once you break the window and go underwater, so you better hope you can find/reach the spot where you broke through the ice...in the dark.

I personally knew someone who drowned under these circumstances. (And the saddest part is, even though she accurately reported her location, responders showed up instead where E911 said she was...an entire county away.)

At the very least, you should be able to just call 911 and engage no further. It should be broadcasting your exact GPS coordinates. To the dispatcher, the pinpoint on the map in the middle of a body of water should speak for itself.
Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering
You should check out teller.io - they let you have "an API to your bank account"