skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly a nuclear industry kicked off by startups would use different technology. It may be no coincidence that we used a gigantic price-insensitive entity to develop the early technology, and ended up with expensive reactors.

Molten salt reactors, for example, were known back in the 1950s, and appear to have a number of major cost advantages.
If the Point of Capitalism Is to Escape Capitalism, Then Why Capitalism?
So is this another "Free for all your data" scam? Haven't we learn to not trade data for free service yet? Is everyone stupid?
Been Experimenting with generation of RSS feeds for over 10k sources for crypto related stuff, based on google news sources found over the last 2 years. Currently working on automation of the generation of these feeds in python.
"Nothing can stop an anti-consumer corporation with monopolistic power except government intervention. Roosevelt didn't bust trusts by politely recommending alternatives."

- Perhaps. But how often does the gov play a role in creating that monopoly? And sustaining it while the monopoly deepens it grip?

- Perhaps. But with rare exception (i.e., your example?) my wallet is still more powerful than your vote.

- Perhaps. But given the Snowden revelations, in the case of Google, whose side do think the government? Even if by chance the gov does something (to Google) its not going to address gov's key role in these situations.
Here's a typical problem:

* Be in the US, get your mobile number years and years ago and it has the area code of where you lived at the time.

* Move somewhere else, keep the mobile number.

* Now you get 4-5 robocalls per day spoofing numbers from "your" area code and calling at reasonable hours for that area... which are not reasonable hours where you now live.

And if you say "just turn on do not disturb", remember some folks have to be on call for their jobs, don't know in advance what numbers the pager alerts will come from, and so have to leave the phone open to ring from whoever calls. Which will be robocalls with "helpful" offers at 4AM.

What I would love to see in a future mobile operating system is the ability to say "block all calls from this area code unless they're in my contacts".
I wonder if this implies the incidence of appendicitis is higher when living in the Antarctica. Perhaps something about the living conditions is more likely to trigger appendicitis.
Also, what Air France 447 showed us was that excessive automation becomes a problem when it is assumed to always work. The recommendations about more systems are all very well but there are 1000s of international airports who are either not going to have these systems or sometimes they won't work. What is critical is that pilots follow their checklists and that 1 action would have prevented this happening despite the fact that the other systems could have warned about it.

Making NOTAMs and the like more clear just seems like good design. They should certainly be able to prioritise information or only show what is relevant for a particular flight/aircraft/location/approach so you only have to read 3 things instead of 50.
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In aviation these are called Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS) cameras and when paired with a Head Up Display (HUD) are called Enhanced Floght Vision Systems (EFVS). EFVS give ‘credit’ to land in bad weather using the camera and display to see the runway.

Anyways, in the last couple years the FAA has changed the regulations to allow EFVS for credit on Part 121 (passenger aircraft), you can read the rulemaking change proposal that was implemented [0].

The generation of camera that existed at the time of this rulemaking was generally a cryogenically cooled InSb sensor type. The main (certified for credit) cameras here were the CMA-2600/2700 from CMC Electronics (I worked on these) and the Kollsman EVS I and II. These were mostly on BizJets before the rules were changed , except for the FedEx fleet that had an exemption.

As the rules were changed, airport lighting started to change form incandescent to LED, which made those expensive and heavy InSb cameras useless at seeing the approach lights in bad weather.

Over the years microbilometer LWIR tech has improved, and while they won’t help you see any lighting at all, LWIR sensors will help you see the ground and have better weather penetration than other wavelengths.

All that leads to the next gen of cameras being fused multi sensor cameras, 2,3, or even 4 sensors. Rockwell Collins EVS-300 and Elbit’s Clearvision EVS are examples.

The non-certified for credit systems have mostly used microbolometers over the years although some have used SWIR sensors as well.

As others have said the ITAR comes into play with anything approaching usable frame rates and resolution, although these are being slightly relaxed. Also, don’t buy American and you don’t have this problem.

After camera-based systems they are database driven Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) that would have helped greatly in this particular near disaster. Then you can get even fancier and fuse synthetic with infrared to get a Combined Vision System (EVS + SVS = CVS), while Elbit and Rockwell offer. Sometimes I miss working on these vision systems.

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/06/11/2013-13...
The problem with "studies/research" today is that most of it cannot reproduced, not that it went nowhere. It's not really a matter of "cleaning up" the research to make it "positive". In other words, most science today isn't real science.

Throw in the issues of funding ( government - political issues, private - corporate issues ) and there is very little incentive for real research. And with the current academic environment at leading institutions like Yale, scientists probably are too afraid to do research honestly on sensitive topics.

Also, isn't this just a rehash of another nytimes article from last year?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/upshot/science-needs-a-so...

There are 3 or 4 nytimes articles on the frontpage. At this rate, how long before the entire frontpage is just nytimes? Just redirect hn to nytimes and be done with it?
Right now to subscribe to over 250 rss feeds (that update in realtime) there are services offering this for typically around $250/ month.

Suppose this was decentralised. I think the cost would greatly reduce and RSS could power a whole new web
Agreed. From my POV, unless you’re really needing anonymity, I don’t include TOR as a practical solution for day to day needs.
We're roughly what 3 years in? It's to be expected, but what it does currently support is fairly impressive. Having used ASP .NET Core on a couple of projects I would say it covers enough for web development, right after Python I'd much rather do web development in C# as a result.

I do agree though it isn't a completed product yet, but what's already there is fairly capable depending on what you're working on.
> This form confused a lot of our German members, and they ended up putting any number of things in that field, just to be able to move forward. This led us to saved addresses like:

> Ets Y. Crafter

> 123 Main Street

> Berlin, Berlin 12435

> Germany

> In this case, the member just entered the city in the state field. This wasn’t the worst situation, and anything shipped to this address would probably arrive just fine.

Actually, "Berlin" is the correct state (Bundesland) for the city "Berlin". It's just not relevant in addresses in Germany most of the time.
It's just evidence for the existence of hell. Dante's Inferno is a physics treatise.
I found this definition very strange, from its choice of words and mentioning “undeveloped planets”?!

"Mob behavior found among primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets, in which a discovery of important scientific fact is punished"
Good luck ensuring those guarantees across all these compilers, and it is only a partial list.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compilers#C++_compil...

What many think is ISO C or C++ is actually compiler specific behavior, because they never bothered to read the actual ISO, just some programming book.
Guix has had support for external package definitions for a long time (via GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH) and recently gained a channels feature, which makes this even easier.

At the institute where I work we use this feature to provide package variants that aren't going to be added to Guix proper (e.g. because they are no longer supported upstream or because they are only useful on obscure systems).

This mechanism can be used to include package definitions for non-free software, of course, but this doesn't mean that the Guix project encourages the use of non-free software.

You have the freedom to package up and use non-free software, but we won't make them part of Guix, build them on our build farms, and we won't hold back changes to the mechanism even if that might break 3rd-party collections of non-free software.

You don't really need a blog post about how to set up a package repository, because it's right there in the Guix manual.

PS: It's "Guix", not "GUIX" ;)
I disagree. I've been keeping a journal for more than 10 years (started when I was 14 and am 25 now), where I report important events and more importantly reflect on them, and also on general concepts. Reading old entries can be very enlightening.

What comes out of it is that events are the "data", while personality/identity is the "software". The data is various, but the software is the same. The consistency of reasoning between now and then is incredible. When I read the setup of an old recounting, I start reacting to it while reading it from the point of view of my now-self, and then I see that the reflection of my old-self on this event to be very consistent with that. It's naive, uninformed and a bit rebellious (probably because of teenagehood), and sometimes because of that it completely misses the point, but the direction of reflection is the same. It's not alien, it makes sense.

We're reacting to events by using our software on related data. The value of experience entirely lies in the data, which can sometimes create entire shifts in perspective, but the software is the same. If you read an old journal you'll see that most reactions are the same, and for those which differ you can point out exactly what piece of data was missing in comparison to today's perspective.
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>I see the question being whether to use Java or C#.

I can't see why you have understand it like that, but I agree with the rest.
So, who is paying the bills?
Java was never fully free, not even under Sun, it was only free beer for desktop platforms.
My $.02 FWIW:

- Your 2% on top of Stripe's fees is off the charts IMO. Stripe charges $.30 + 2.9% and they're taking care of the actual payment. You're merely making it simpler to insert a button.

- The difficulty in practice isn't creating a button to make the payment; it is what happens before and after the payment. Offer to host and automate the delivery of the access-restricted deliverable when it's digital (ebook, software, etc.). Work with Zapier and similar to offer integrations on their end. Provide your users with a way to run their own affiliate program. (Charge extra for that.)
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It's a corporate decision made way above the heads of the developers, for sure. But, there has been very notable occasions in history when the US and Europe wasn't content with "I was just following orders" as a defense.

And, during at least one of those periods in history, the US was not content with superiors claiming ignorance of any wrong doing either.
I can't really tell, because I can't know for sure what you experience internally, but I felt similarly a few times, and I think that calling that "personality" is not appropriate. I believe you are talking about "behavior". We can display different behaviors in different contexts and that can still be perfectly coherent with our personality. In fact, I think that realizing about those details that make you behave differently, even when you initially think about the situations as "similar contexts" is really helpful in getting to know yourself (and others near you) much better, and finding out about the often most subtle and yet most unique details about your own personality.
> Sounds nice, but as a scientist I can say that it would be a huge overhead to have to constantly prepare half finished work for public consumption throughout the entire process of a study.

How about writing into a (public) blog, instead of a lab notebook?
> Good luck ensuring those guarantees across all these compilers, and it is only a partial list.

Why would you need to? Build your binary, test it, give it to your customers. Why do you have to test every compiler?
Again, that's only if the NAT allows this. Not all of them do and not all of them will have predictable port mappings. See http://www.ijimt.org/papers/226-G0027.pdf for example for details about what works when.
What I mean by "communication" is what you describe as "the intent, strategy, methodology, math, models, data, outcomes." What do you mean by editorializing? If you mean discussing implications on existing theories, I think this can be done badly or done well (like all parts of a paper.) But when doing research it's important to read follow-ups and rebuttals. We can't forget that science is a process, an on-going discussion. It's not a single result or paper.
I understand that, looking at individual scientific problems, it's easy to get cynical. It's even fashionable to be so.

Deaths attributable to heart disease in 1970 were just shy of 800k per annum. As of 2010, it was about 600k. A 25% drop in the leading cause of death, in less than a generation. Life expectancy was 70.8 years in 1970, and 78.7 in 2010 - an increase of more than 10% in a single generation.

Science isn't a process that moves along by weeks, months, or even years. It's something that moves generationally, and our society has made impressive strides.

You're welcome to be skeptical - science would die without that. But be the "loyal opposition," not a casual cynic: help the process improve, don't discard it as some political shell-game. Lives are in the balance.
This effect is currently happening on Alzheimer's research: people, including veteran experts, are rejecting the viral theory because it's so crazy.

Maybe in a few years we'll lament that...
Check out Fathom Analytics. It's open-source, modern, only tracks aggregates and can handle up to 20.000 pageviews per second on a cheap $3/month VPS.

http://github.com/usefathom/fathom

There is a hosted version available if you don't want to take care of managing the installation yourself. You can always move to a self-hosted instance later on too, there is no lock-in there.
> They just don't use competition as an exclusionary criterea like many VCs do.

YC, originally started as Summer Founders Program
[0], was an experiment to help PG & JL allocate seed capital differently from the norm.

So the reason why "investing in competitors" makes sense for YC as a VC firm is because YC invests a tiny fraction of $1m at the earliest stage in the life of a company, similar to the dollar amounts an angel investor would commit to a fledging startup.

Angel investing dollar amounts are an order of magnitude lower than what VCs typically invest because they invest at the growth or late stage, where an idea has been shown to be viable -- at this stage -- the product matters as much as the team behind it and thus the capital requirements are higher, usually in 10x, 100x multiples of a $1m, depending on the opportunity.

IOW, VCs don't necessarily use competition as an "exclusionary criteria" as you imply, it is merely the consequence of the magnitude of the capital at risk due to the stage at which many of them choose participate in the startup lifecycle.

A VC having a portfolio of companies competiting for the same set of customers would only lead to capital erosion -- it wouldn't any make sense to allocate capital to multiple independent entities that have traction, to exploit what is essentially the same market opportunity.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/summerfounder.html
NewsBlur is iirc $36/year and can do 250 easily (20 or so for free)
Reminds me how those "Simulator" games are so popular in Germany!
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Hi
Thanks for the feedback.

Inserting a button is part of what Trolley does.

But really what it's doing is stopping you having to build / host the back end server and code that handles the tokenised payment exchange for Stripe (Stripe - and all other similar payment processors require there to be some non-front end code to handle secure token exchange)

So I'm hoping that 2% works out better than managing a server and potentially hiring a developer to build you some code if you can't write it yourself :)

I'm still feeling out prices... 2% was the starting point because it's in line with services that sort-of compete (Celery, SnipCart and so on)

Totally take your points about digital asset delivery - it's on the backlog.

Thanks again!
This has been dealt to death in Dharmic philosophies; I'm surprised there is zero attribution to this anywhere in this article. This is not the first such instance though; I have to wonder why standard academic ethics is not followed with anything concerning Indic traditions.
Java to Go - two extremes, too bloated to too simplistic - I'd look for something between. If your projects aren't interesting an interesting language can help you endure. If your projects and your language isn't interesting then tedium.
Thanks for the info - didn't think of this angle (i.e. advertising sending a list of numbers to target, and facebook tying that to their cookie ID they have on you). There I was wondering how this works in a browser since browsers don't know your phones number (right?).

> Would you rather use Netflix or Spotify without recommendation engine?

100% yes.

Personally for me the term "personalisation" is becoming a dirty word and I am becoming uneasy when I hear it mentioned in design docs and product launches etc. I dont want to see what some algorithm thinks I want to see. Instead I would prefer to see the real, unfiltered, unfettered data. I think the whole Fake News outcry started me thinking about it in a more deep way.

Imagine if you went into a fancy restaurant for some special occasion and the waiter took a look at you as you walked in and brought you a "special" menu based on some decision they made silently in their own head about what they think you want. Rightly you'd want to see the full menu and not just what they think you want to see. Sure I'd welcome them pointing out some highlights on the menu, but I'd apprecaite seeing the whole thing before making up my own mind.

As a result now I use DuckDuckGo exclusively and have Firefox set up with Google Container[1] to keep the Google cookies separate from everything else (I dont use facebook at all so their cookies are entirely blocked as 3rd party) as well as the usual uBlock Origin, privacy badger et al. I am even toying with the idea of moving away from my gmail that I've been using since 2004/05.

1 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
There are not enough upvotes for this comment in the world. Oracle is cesspool.
Theoretical computer science isn't science, it's maths, just like theoretical physics.

But there are plenty of empirical studies in computer science that are certainly science.
Hi
Yes, we're looking at Braintree and Adyen for the future, but for MVP Stripe was by far the easiest starting point.

Thanks!
It’s quite possible to have an understanding of something that works in some situations but does not explain every situation. I would say that we have mathematics models of fairly large portions of physics but they are limited because they can’t explain how gravitation works. We can describe how we see it working but not explain how and why it works. I think there will always be new more complete models that encompass more and more of what we cannot explain.
You do realize that US planes still have to be able to fly to countries other than the US, and vice versa, right?
It is impressive, and I do spend most of my time on it, but there is still lots of work to be done.

.NET 3.0 will close the gap, but there are lots of .NET Framework features that aren't even on the migration roadmap.

Enterprise stacks are a different animal than plain web sites, where integration between existing platforms plays a major role.

The likes of SAP, Oracle, Rational, Enterprise Architect and similar software are not yet there.
You've made the correct conclusion. Management of a perforated appendix is vastly different from management of the (much more common) uncomplicated appy. There isn't much controversy about the management of the perforated appy: it's going to be surgery and antibiotics. Removal at that point isn't in question, because the perforation is due to an increase in intra-appendiceal pressure compressing its vasculature, causing a focal necrosis. The perforation happens when a piece of the appendix dies, and thus loses its integrity. Dead tissue has to go.

And of course surgical clean-up of the abdomen must follow, along with a big pile of abx.
The self-surgery bit is definitely incredible. The doctor was Leonid Rogozov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Rogozov). More info with photos here: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/leonid-rogozov-appendix-196...
I don’t see old releases of go supported too long either, and google is rather firmly in control of that language.
This is an awesome initiative. The fact that AWS isn't on board is disappointing, though not terribly surprising.

I don't even think it makes sense to hold out hope for future inclusion given that AWS has a competing product and makes a ton of markup on their bandwidth charges, but I would love to be wrong about that.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by bounce particles, but I think the answer is probably that at these highly relativistic energies, particles don't really bounce (what would they decay off of) or decay backwards (in the lab frame).
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I work with many Linux Minecraft players and we recommend using Oracle Java if OpenJDK refuses to play nice with the proprietary drivers.
I'd whitelist a true advertiser who ditches tracking entirely and focuses more on advertising content relevant to the page it's going on instead. Chances are if I'm looking at some Python programming page or server setup tutorial I'd be more inclined to click on ads relevant to the page as opposed to a creepy ad of something vague as heck that I looked up on Amazon 5 years ago that Amazon really wants to sell, or whatever.

I really would love to see advertisement companies that are less focused on tracking and more focused on ad placement that's relevant to the content it's going on, and hey sometimes there's no relevant ads for content and that's cool too, but at least show anything generic or close enough at that point. Also advertisers who don't do pop ups or annoying ads (that I swear could cause epilepsy on some users) are also good stewards of the online billboard market.
Slightly different topic, but there is value in using a column based ORM strategy where each attribute has it's own table, and objects are dispersed over the tables. It's very flexible and most of the time you just want a few objects with a certain attribute having a certain value anyway.
Hey Rory, can you add more gradients on more elements on the site? I don't think there is enough to proper be catching the gradient fad. thanks.
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Is this only applicable for the 6th generation?