skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are only addressing 1/6 points mentioned by the OP, most of which is a load of BS. As for the gain in digital transactions, was there no other way to boost them? If the supreme leader comes up with another rule that anyone who uses cash will be shot, the cash-based transactions will reduce to nearly 0. But will it make any sense?
In contrast, Star Wars spacecraft fly around as if they were aircraft in an atmosphere

Maybe the spacecraft designers made the spacecraft have aerodynamic-like handling in space so pilots that honed their skills within the atmosphere could use those same skills in space battles.
Why waste all those good petrochemicals?
no Moya ?
Does the dome have some sort of purpose? For example, as an engineer, if the dome was the wall of a building and provided more space inside for less material that would be awesome. As it is, it just seems like a useless art display and waste of material since the building inside is exactly the same as it would be without it.
I'm an Australian and I'm not ok with our gun laws.
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One of the most unexpected & interesting "history of space aesthetics" to me came from the recent documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune" (which is awesome!).

The film recounts the attempt by avant-garde director Alejandro Jodorowsky to turn Dune into an epic, 12 hour film in the mid 70s.

He assembled an incredible cast of conceptual artists and designers including Moebius (jean giraud), Chris Foss, HR Giger , and others and designed a giant illustrated tome laying out the shot-by-shot epic, largely penciled by Moebius and filled in with art from the other contributors.

Producers scoffed at the scope of the vision but ultimately the team of people that Jodorowsky got together went on to design the art & aesthetic for seminal credited films including Alien, AI, Gaurdian's of the Galaxy, Tron, etc.

And even more broadly this group is credited with the inspiration behind the aesthetic of Star Wars(1), Blade Runner(2), and more recently Fifth Element.(3) as their giant tome of incredible, outstanding sci-fi conceptual art was passed through Hollywood in the giant, fabled Tome.

As a nod to the importance of Moebius' designs in particular, the imperial probe droid in Empire Strikes Back is a direct copy transfer of one of his creations (4)

I was already a hopeless fan-boy of Moebius & Jodorowsky thanks to "The Incal" - which in and of itself is one of the most inspiring pieces of storytelling and graphic art I've come across, but Jodorowsky's Dune cemented to me that the early works by these teams are the true inspiration for much of the visual sci-fi aesthetic that has predominated 50+ years of pop culture.

(1) https://kitbashed.com/blog/chris-foss-and-the-triangular-tot... & http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/7-famous-sci-fi-movies-inf...

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tomorrow_(comics)

(3) https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=376571

(4) https://kitbashed.com/blog/moebius
The First Amendment is designed to prevent the government from stifling free speech.

Unfortunately, the government is not the only threat to free speech.
are you saying that terrorists and their sympathisers were not affected by demonetization? Would be great to see some sources for your "debunked many times over" statement.
Very cool. Out of curiosity, what would be the best way to get involved in Nominatim?
Lack of visibility I guess. People in general are really bad at seeing the danger in something that isn't visible. And they probably also imagine it's only used against the bad guys, selectively. Surely no one would be monitoring everything all the time?

Basically I think it's hard for many to grasp the scale of it.
I left before the system got much use, so grain of salt and all that. It was a Rails shop so deployment would have been by a migration. Not sure what you mean by version control. The source was in git. Had we refactored significantly we would have had to write a migration. But the system was in the end quite simple. I refer to it as "BPM" but real BPMN is a bloated monstrosity -- I just captured the essence, and that was dead simple. One fun thing I did not mention was implementing "funcall" in pgsql. That meant that edge cases could be covered by writing a custom pgsql function that would do exactly what was needed. That meant the rest of BPM could stay simple.
Just curious if you saw that in the media.

If so maybe that answers the first part, where they got the flags, and also makes the second part worth little to nothing.
> Later, I was reading about molecular nanotechnology, and then considered the idea that un-augmented meatbags like us travelling among the stars is absurd. From an energy expenditure perspective and practically perspective. Basically, if we have the technology to travel to the stars, we won't be humans anymore.

Ehhhh...

If you place a lot of intrinsic value on being human, as most humans do, then the idea of sending non-humans to space is going to completely miss the point.
Time to go grab the source for a few crypto systems now I guess...
Well, some of them definitely had flight...
Right, but they're not looking to control criminals, they're looking to control you, so that's fine.
Who said anything about waste? The plastics will be there in the landfill, ready for future mining and cracking once it becomes cost effective to do it.
Besides (as others have pointed out) some of the classics aren't that great. Then, there is the problem that it seems frequently the books chosen for a high school reader are chosen based on some perceived quality of the book rather than what is going to be enjoyable, relatable and readable by someone who effectively doesn't have any adult life behind them.

Worse they seem to be chosen without regard to length or readability. I had to read Grapes of Wrath over 3 weeks in HS (with everything else going on, and I know most students shared a cliff notes and prayed for a reasonable grade), but there are plenty of worse examples and the The Count of Monte Cristo in its 1000+ page unabridged addition was assigned my niece last year. I tend to be able to read pulp novels at 100 pages an hour, but older novels, Shakespeare plays etc, can easy bring it down to 30 pages an hour or less. Which for a 600 page book is a 20+ hour long drag if the novel isn't enjoyable.

Surely the instructors can find shorter novels which are easier for the kids to read and relate to. I remember reading Cannery Row a few years ago and wondering why instead of Grapes of Wrath it wasn't assigned, or for that matter I read "This Side of Paradise" and am to this day 100% convinced that any teacher that assigns The Great Gatsby to a teenage student over it should seriously be examined (actually IIRC when I read it, it seemed the sexual content in this side of paradise probably makes it hard to assign, but that is another discussion, along with the fact that Gatsby was initially a failure with mixed reviews, the reasons should be understood but apparently aren't. I hated the Gatsby assignment, but suspect that I would have found it more enjoyable in my 20's when I read Paradise, which is likely one of those books that is less meaningful to people in their 50's).

The bottom line, is that there are plenty of "classic" novels that are relatable to a wide audience (male & female, differing economic backgrounds, etc) and are short enough that a normal teenager can struggle through them even if they aren't enjoyable. The fact that it accepted to assign some of these book because everyone else is doing it is just a sign of bad instruction.
But good luck finding a specialist highly conversant with MCAS if your allergies are not IgE reactions.
> The time is fast approaching when all of these internet data funnels will have to choose whether acting as editors and publishers is worth the cost of facing the liability for everything they publish.

Yes. You have to wonder how many millions of dollars in copyright claims Facebook would face per day if they were treated as a publisher (like a newspaper, which controls content and is responsible for it) rather than a common carrier (like the phone company, which does not control content and is therefore not responsible for it).

They should be made to decide which of the two they want to be.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta's unencrypted, cleartext e-mails for one...
You should be, however I've delt with subtle bugs caused by throwing errors across the RPC boundary. Those exceptions weren't logged in the sending side.

The solution in the recieving side was a try catch, which ate the "connection terminated" exception. And instead of a stack trace, I'm dealing with broken connections later on in a different RPC.
I missed StarGate references in there! Plenty of ships in those series.
It is and works great, see Subaru
It's more which tools are used to make abstractions -- I find that rails uses and encourages implicit (auto-created methods, stuff injected into a method's scope) abstraction creation rather than explicit (functions/higher-order functions) abstraction creation.
Is this an Apple problem? I've used a few different Linux distros over the decades, and all already had these improvements built into the default bashrc (well, maybe HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE could afford to be larger, but they're still larger than 500, the claim made in this post).
Perhaps they configured it that way? Maybe these are optional dependencies that provide additional functionality.

I was able to build it on a Ubuntu VM after installing no more than gcc, g++ and make.

apt list --installed suggests this VM does have a surprising amount of stuff installed (more than I'd expected at any rate), but of the dependencies you list it appears to have zlib, curl, and nothing else.
Allow deferral of excess property tax payments until the property is sold. Simple as that.

Furthermore, landlords shouldn't be able to raise rent faster than their property taxes go up.
Although demonetization might have spurred digital transactions, it wasn't able to get rid of black money for the simple reason that black money owners weren't foolish enough to store large sums of cash. The average corrupt Joe who has a few millions in black money, invests in businesses, real estate, gold, sending kids abroad and so on.
That's the mess I'm dealing with today. Lots of secret suppression on dozens of cases. Once we started logging and stopped seeing obsolete responses, the data loses started coming in. That's raising a lot of concern now
I have a significant number of very technically advanced friends (due to previous jobs). The exact type you'd think would care about this. They couldn't care less if they tried. Somehow, at some point, the "geeks" just decided that unless you're a blackhat, or buying/selling drugs online, or into some underground scene where you specifically are trying to circumvent the authorities, then it just doesn't matter. They all use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, etc etc, while decrying the "evil" of China.

I'm not sure when or how the shift happened, but the same friends I use to sit on IRC with and rant about open source, privacy, and the important of encryption, have all just... given up.

I've been fighting for and preaching the importance of privacy my entire life, and my dad was a life-long activist (physically, too) for human rights, so I've been exposed to "the fight" since before I was born, and for the first time ever, I'm starting to feel like I should just give up, make an FB account, shut down my Pi-Hole/OpenVPN, and just "wait to die" as they say.

It's a bloody depressing era. I want to wake up.
Tech Giants Now Share Details on Political Ads. What Does That Mean for You?
I would say that it's too early to tell. I think a better gage is the increase in tax compliance over the next few years. If the treasury gets an increase in money then I would think it was worth it for the government and society. People hate to pay taxes but if you go to a country where people avoid taxes you'll see an infrastructure that's just awful. I rather live in a country where people are willing to pay their share.

I would also look at the increase of money other than cash. People love cash but a good banking system is vital to start small businesses to help people out of poverty.
This is all good stuff. When we ignore the wishes of the majority of UK voters this will make it much easier for us to look ourselves in the mirror and pretend that we still believe in democracy.
> 1. Literally Every nook & corner shop now accepts digital payments

At what cost? Was it worth the lives that were lost?

> 2. I have seen cash-distribution by candidates during elections to influence votes! They were mostly absent in the immediate subsequent state elections.

Because you diligently monitored every single election personally after this fiasco? And you also have certain guarantees on why this won't happen again?

>3. Many "Poor" people made extra money by queuing in the line for "Rick" people.

Oh nice. Should we add this to the tally of 10 million jobs that were to be generated by the present government?

>4. Terrorist activity immediately stopped all over the place because they are mostly cash sponsored.

Just look at what has happened in Kashmir since, and whether the situation is better or worse. How has immediately stopping the terrorist operations helped?

> 5. Situation normalized within 3 month.

Get out of your bubble.
http://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/msme/small-businesses...

> 6. Many of counterfeit presses in neighboring countries stopped working for some time at least.
Irrelevant AND wrong. From [1], "9254 Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) of newly introduced Rs 2000 were seized between November 9, 2016 and July 14, 2017, "

I'll leave the cringeworthy remark you made towards the end alone. I'm sure you are used to losing your loved ones [2], [3] to the nonsense of power hungry idiots, others are not.

[1] http://www.zeebiz.com/india/news-govt-seizes-rs-255-crore-in...

[2] http://naradanews.com/2016/12/here-are-the-97-people-who-die...

[3] https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/dem...
I liked the Gap Series by Stephen Donaldson, he gets zero-g and distances right. I can't remember if their weapons were energy or mass, but space battles essentially boiled down to rolling your ship to always present your best charged shields and damage absorbers towards the enemy.

I'm also a big fan of the Culture series by Iain Banks, it's a lot of high-high-high-tech technobabble, but he gets some physical basics right, it doesn't matter if your ships is enormously more technologically advanced than someone else's, if they can project enough energy onto you, you will be vaporized. He also gets the timescales and distances correctly, because none of it runs on a human decision-making timescale, it's all sentient weapons and AI's, so a close quarters battle is over in seconds.
... at least someone is trying to do something about the problem ...

I really can not fathom this sentiment, which seems to be the primary counter-argument to virtually all criticism of this project (as well as to criticisms of many other pie in the sky solutions to major issues). There are countless people who have devoted their lives to studying ocean eco-systems, safeguarding the nature, and understanding our impact on the environment. Many who have been trumpeting the problem of ocean plastics decades before it became a pop-issue. There are also millions of people, and billions of dollars worth of industry that is dependent on a healthy ocean eco-system.

Do you really believe that nobody else is trying to take action on this issue? Or could it be that people who have devoted lifetimes to understanding the reality of this issue and the engineering requirements and impact of large scale ocean structures have done the risk assessment and realized that this kind of approach is not viable?

The people who understand the problem have a solution, which is unfortunately the only viable one: The reduction of single use plastic products, more effective recycling and waste disposable programs, and a general reassessment of the volume of, and manner in which, we use plastics. But people want a magic pill that doesn't require them to accept that they are a part of the cause of ecological issues like this, and the only solution is for us, as a society, to change some of the aspects of our day-to-day lives. So they happily ignore the real solutions, click "Like" on posts that say their going to solve the world's problems, and berate entire fields worth of scientists, engineers, and ecologists for not "doing something about the problems".
Your title reads "breath first", this should be "breadth first" with a "d".
> Star Wars spacecraft fly around as if they were aircraft in an atmosphere, which isn't surprising given that older war movies were an inspiration for its battle scenes.

Indeed, the following youtube [1] shows how much the original Star Wars borrowed from old WW2 movies, in particular, from "The Dam Busters" [2], 1955.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/
Ask HN: What is your personal experience with alternative medicine?
I'm not asking for your opinions, or not those of your doctor buddy, or your favorite internet sites. I'm not interested in links or references or evidences or science or rants.

I'm asking about your personal experience (if any) with any kind of approach/practitioner that is considered alternative -such as naturopathy/naturopaths, gaps/gaps practitioners, homeopathy/homeopaths, other kind of weird healers, etc-.

Especially curious to hear about chronic disease stories; such as diabetes, hormonal imbalances, auto-immune diseases, food or other allergies, persistent digestive issues, depression, autistic spectrum disorders, cancer, and similar.
Yup agree, I’m like I know this X project compiles file, let me
Look at their cmake file....copy pasta.

I’m not proud of it, but it works.
Brazil's 200-year-old national museum hit by huge fire
It's more that ships fly around in a way that only makes sense if there is air to provide drag.
There’s no race war in America, only a misguided drug war, stop disseminating nonsense.
A real-world example to support your comment that my civil engineer buddy recently told me: in Columbus, one of the main streets past Ohio State University into downtown is completely at sewage/rain water capacity. Decades ago when the street in question (High St) was being built, the only buildinga along it were single/multi-family homes. Now there are large student dorms and apartment complexes. During intense thunderstorms, the gutters along the street which feed the sewage system reach capacity and the whole street floods. And I mean floods.

This is an "easy" fix in theory: gut the previous system and just build anew. The problem is, that would be such an enormous undertaking (b/c you have to divert sewage during the whole process, etc) that the city is effectively forced to apply what amounts to band-aid fixes in its place.
Edited to add: This quote below changed while I was replying. More goalpost moving.

> But not all transactions require Bolivars. That is the point.

Only if everyone agrees to not use the Bolivar anymore and say something that everyone has readily access to that can't be counterfeited. At which point you say, "BITCOIN IS THE ANSWER", except it's not because Bitcoin is not easy to obtain. It requires some technical skill, a bank that allows you to make bitcoin transactions, etc.

And even if most transactions no longer require the Bolivar, then using Bitcoin at all is mostly a moot point.

> Dollar conversions in Venezuela (at black market rates) are already illegal, yet they exist. I don’t see your point.

Right, and so if you want to not be thrown in prison you're going to use the Bolivar and not US Currency. The same would be true with Bitcoin if Bitcoin were made illegal.
it's probably still going to be someplace where there's a large concentration of money. it's also probably going to be in a mild climate, because those people with loads of money to invest don't want to live in the arctic. so, perhaps not SV directly, but i bet it will look similar.
How major news organizations and businesses surrender their privacy to Google
Phrase-Based and Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation
They would be slaughtered by pilots that practiced for space.
Glad you mentioned Babylon 5. The Earthforce Starfury light fighters are what you're talking about. Basically the human stands up while in a space-suit in a tiny cockpit with two plasma cannons underneath. Four crossed arms stick out with an engine on each arm (not unlike an X-wing). In a dog fight you could actually see the pilots kill the engines on one 1/2 the ship to spin around and stuff. Really cool cgi for the mid 90's.

The best part of Babylon 5 (besides the best writing in all of SciFi) was how asymmetric the races could be (makes perfect sense). Earth is pretty powerful among the younger races, but we're nothing compared to the mid-level Centauri Republic & Minbari Federation. We still have to spin mass around our ships for gravity while they've figured out a way around it. So you see the Minbari ships being beautifully designed on the outside and inside (proper living spaces), while Earth ships are almost like old Navy battleships but in space where everything is cramped and people have to where seatbelts in combat as it is so likely for the gravity to be unstable. The ancient races don't even really need to open jumpgates to go into hyperspace, they just phase and have 100% sentient organic ships.
US military has a lot of anti drone weapons including lasers. If you’re worried about facial recognition then masks or makeup are what you’re looking for.
I'm curious about space elevator phenomena related to lateral ∆V.

At Earth's equator (zero altitude - i.e., on the ground), an object moves spinward at about 0.46 km/sec. In geosynchronous orbit, an object has to move at about 3.07 km/sec.

A space elevator car ascending from stationary on the equator to a terminal at geo altitude would require a tangential (lateral) ∆V of 2.61 km/sec. This is in addition to the energy needed for ∆ altitude-related potential energy change. Am I thinking about this right?

The faster the ascent, the greater the lateral reaction force on the elevator because ∆V/time increases. Has anybody done that model? I didn't find anything in a brief search.

The lateral ∆V also suggests it could get windy on ascent because the atmosphere rotates with the earth on a macroscopic basis. Maybe later tonight, I'll calculate lateral wind velocity as F(altitude) and see if I can fold in pressure drop to get wind pressures as F(altitude).

I would love to see even a prototype attempt in my lifetime.
Cheney himself was not:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY
> Privacy laws must prevent arbitrary or unlawful interference, but privacy is not absolute.

This is really it in a nutshell. They say this like it is assumed, but this is actually a new beachhead in the war on individual rights. There seems to me something sacred about the idea that I as a human being can exchange thoughts with another without those thoughts being appropriated by the government. It seems to fundamentally violate something about what it means to be human to say that my thoughts are not really mine: they belong first and foremost to the government, then I can have them. Is there anything about us humans that is really totally belongs to us, or are we nothing in and of ourselves, just mechanisms to serve the functioning of a government?