skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People actually checked Delicious like they checked Twitter or Facebook.

Or they subscribed in a RSS reader.
Tesla and Uber's defiance are for things that are pretty hard to justify.

As the multitude of airbnb horror stories show, anti-subletting rules and the like are usually there for some pretty valid reasons, and it's in a different category of illegal.

I, for one, am glad that my neighbour isn't inviting a bunch of strangers into his house every other day.
That certainly contributes. But I can check my bag for free (as a frequent flyer) and I still never do for several reasons. It saves me a lot of time, being able to walk directly off the plane and to my ride rather than waiting half an hour at baggage claim. It is impossible for my bag to get lost or mis-routed, which is a major hassle when I'm on a short turnaround business trip. And finally, it makes it much easier for me to switch flights at the last minute, which I do with some frequency when there's a delay on my original flight. These things are small, but they add up when you fly a lot.

My bag is not oversized by any means, by the way, but it does need to go in the bin, not under the seat. That's what they have bins for.
If we can model or compute physical processes then we can model or compute the human brain. Is consciousness beyond physics? I realise that some people think so but personally I find it preposterous.
It's not a defence, I think you can see from my tone I don't support stealing media just because you don't like how it is distributed.

I'm saying rather this argument won't find much favour here unless everybody is a hypocrite.
I really really think these projects need to have an automated notification to the devs to update their news page, or even automagically post a digest of mailing list activity. Lots of projects I've thought were dead have had lots of stuff going on behind the scenes.
It appears that your current position is one where you may not have all the relevant facts, e.g. there maybe contractual issues or the possibility the company is in a due diligence phase or that the company is in negotiations for a contract that would pay for making the changes.

To put it another way, the closest to a business case you have presented is that sales has voiced complaints to you. They're the ones in a position to make a business case to management and it's management's prerogative to act upon it or not. This isn't worth falling on your sword. Move on or find a side project to channel your energy.

Good luck.
>windowmaker - been around forever; hasn't really "innovated" in forever; just a NeXT clone if I remember correctly for GNUStep

>enlightenment - okay, kind've resembles Win 95 too... but more of a DE than the others you listed

> etoileos - last news update 2012 and wasn't even about the project

What you seem to be missing is that these projects died because people thought they were weird, which is to say, innovation in the DE space pays negative rent, and that's no good, especially not from the perspective of an open-source project, which, the social dynamics of open-source dictate that projects need to acquire a large userbase to sustain an active development community for more than a couple years, that is to say, to make people keep working on it after the "new project smell" wears off.

In other words your observation is a direct consequence of the choices in DE that users have made and continue to make.

The recent trend has been towards modularity, and while you dismiss awesome and ratpoison, a major boon of LXDE et al is that, unlike Windows 95, you can replace the window manager with xmonad and still use all of the other components of LXDE. Modularity brings innovation to the people who want it while satisfying the large majority of users who apparently do not.

There's no reason for LXDE to ship anything but Openbox; LXDE could certainly switch to xmonad tomorrow, but their users wouldn't be happy. And who wants that?
People who need "a little more time" to board.
HTC sold their shares in Beats a while ago. They don't own any now.
Your argument is that I'm tiresome. My argument is that you're ignorant, and perhaps willfully so. I think we can leave it at that.
No Problem. Good Luck!
Staying in the airplane toilet during landing
>which is to say "the collection of all ways to relate an object to other objects is isomorphic to the object itself".

That reminds me of the time someone explained attributes in terms of relationships, using Magic: The Gathering as an example. In MtG, you have a player's creatures attacking the other player. Some of the flying ability, which means they can only be blocked by flying creatures. You can express that as "may only be blocked by creatures with this ability".

There are also (a few) creatures can that can only be blocked and can only block flying creatures (which is not as good as flying), which you can express as "my only block or be blocked by creatures with the ability A", where A is the self-referential description of flying.

I imagine you can stack it further and replace "player", "attack", and so on with some other relational/self-referential definition.
Energy density of li-ion batteries is less than 1/50th that of jet fuel, and modern high-bypass turbofans are far more efficient at turning that energy into forward power than a gasoline engine is.

A Boeing 777-300ER carries 304,000lbs of fuel fully loaded. This contains just under 6 terajoules of energy.

The battery pack of a Tesla Model S is about 300 megajoules.

So you,d need 19,700 Tesla battery packs to power your 777-equivilant jetliner. Problem is they weight over 15 millions pounds.

So no, there is no magic bullet in aviation.
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Ask HN: Am I HIPAA exempt?
I'm building a service that provides a mobile and tablet app to input medical health record info, which can be stored locally and / or in a private, redundant virtual instance. I will be meeting with an attorney, but I wanted to see if anyone in the space has any IANAL experience / insight.
> How will open allocation for janitorial duties work?

This would probably not be done via open allocation but I'm not sure it's unreasonable. Just hire a janitor. If they have other skills and they figure out they are more valuable doing other work, then hire a new janitor.
I'm not saying anyone is dumb; I'm saying we as a society haven't made understanding the mind a priority.

Also, I did read it. That "workable" definition is so presumptuous about the nature of consciousness. What I'm saying, and many others are as well, as that we still need to have a discussion about what we're even talking about. The mind may not even be able to be understood or measured in the "realm of science". That is, we may have to use alternative language to explain something like the mind.

We as a society haven't answered fundamental questions such as what is the mind, why does it exist, where does come from, is it a physical/nonphysical phenomenon, etc.

We can't really solve(especially "compute it") the mind problem if we don't fully understand the problem domain.
Except their Noise Canceling line has been getting good reviews from many review sites.
I tried loading that and it worked pretty well for me. Not fully native speed, but just a couple seconds to draw complex pages. Certainly not a "throw the computer out the window" experience.
Apologies: exclusivity and price guarantees.
Exactly. A lot of people on this thread have been kind, which is sometimes not honest feedback.

Compare and contrast with Strava, the running and cycling app. Word of it spreads by word of mouth, even amongst those that do not run/cycle. If they have a colleague that uses Strava they tell their cycling/running friends without even seeing it for themselves. Furthermore, Strava has female users, it isn't a boys own gimmick.

This yoga thing should be able to sell itself on the same basis. But in reality it is a slow Drupal desktop site that doesn't really have any stickiness on mobile. Women have been welded to smart phones for five years or so, women do yoga, the app/site should just be a mobile thing for women that the occasional bloke can use on his desktop too. The product has failings. Drawing board failings.

There is nothing wrong in building a community site on Drupal, that is what it is designed for. But doing so does not make you some pioneer of the digital age. Much like using an egg to make an omelette for a meal does not get you a Michelin star.

As a complete newbie, how are you supposed to know what a given style of yoga is? If you are not into it already, yoga is yoga not some foreign restaurant menu where you are magically supposed to know the buzz words. There should be an opportunity here to cut through the buzz words and explain things in a better way than with a footer link that takes you away from where you are.

A process such as YC or a TV talent show has a certain amount of slots = 'we have twenty slots to fill!!!'. Sometimes, regardless of the prize and cost of bringing people into the interview, you need people to make up the numbers. So there may be some stand out contenders but then there is best of the rest, the make-weights. Being invited to attend may mean you applied and the standard of candidates was 'patchy'. It might mean that your idea was better than the guy with the app for oiling his co-founder's girlfriend's spare hamster wheel. It does not mean you are the next Google.

You could decide on whether to back 'Strava' in ten minutes, you would not even need a founder, just a user would do. If you need more than ten minutes the problem is quite fundamental.

All told, rejection in this instance is probably the best thing. There is now hopefully some determination to succeed to spite those nay sayers like myself! More Ramen Noodles and a drawing board is what this project needs, not some VC wanting a return and proper company structure.
I fly a lot, so I think I probably feel the pain of this issue more than the average person. And I have to say, I'm kind of baffled by the amount of time that is spent discussing it. Yeah, it's kind of frustrating, but is this really such a huge problem that it deserves this kind of dissection? Or is it just that it's a visible problem, and one that's easy to grasp, so everyone thinks they can come up with a better way to do it? I don't doubt that improvements could be made, but even in the best case, this isn't going to change the world or even make the average person's life significantly better...
What's a "Social Justice Warrior"?
Vim-like mission control shortcut
> You think they can't do their own licensing deal?

When you are the richest guy in town it is hard to negotiate a good deal. It is probably much smarter to just buy Beats. If they bought Spotify, they would be stuck supporting Android and Windows customers.

The $3B price probably reflects the current profitability of the headphone line. For what it is worth, audio brands seem to have staying power. I am not sure if the quality criticisms are a positive or negative value signal personally.
In Marx case - at least in your example - he is not using "contradiction" in a formal logic sense. He is using it in the sense of the contradicting forces of dialectical contradictions.

Marx specifically used different terms when referring to contradictions of formal logic.
From the abstract: "Since lossy integration would necessitate continuous damage to existing memories, we propose it is more natural to frame consciousness as a lossless integrative process and provide a formalization of this idea using algorithmic information theory. We prove that complete lossless integration requires noncomputable functions. This result implies that if unitary consciousness exists, it cannot be modelled computationally."

Seems to be setting up a straw man only to knock it down. Does anyone believe the brain losslessly integrates information? If not, the conclusion doesn't seem to apply.
It's not, we checked that before coming to the US. My wife was a performance engineer in our home country, and there was some discussion about her keeping her job and working remotely, but our immigration attorney said that would be illegal.
One of the interesting properties of fuzzy logic is that you can model boolean logic as a special case.
If you are having trouble getting your point across, it's probably you.

I don't think I even disagree with the issues you point out. It's just that I hate the way you present them.
I would say it's worse than that. Writing it down won't even be enough in all cases, because communication is a hard problem. It is very easy to come out of a conversation believing you know what the other person said, or believing that you accurately communicated your thoughts, desires, or plans and just be completely wrong on all counts.

There is a reason lawyers write contracts: it reduces the likelihood of a miscommunication about what each party expects.
True, but no one is claiming that technology will stand still. Heck, we've even played around with nuclear powered aircraft in the 50s [1]. And there is enough uranium to be mined to last us 80 or so thousand years.

People have often claimed that we will exhaust our resources at some future point, but these predictions have always excluded technology advancements that have always come before any resource crisis has occurred.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
I suspect with enough data you could do a bayesian analysis and pick out the troublesome people who screw up the boarding process for everyone. ("We notice that whenever Jane P. Slowpoke is on a flight, it correlates to it leaving 3 minutes later")

A modest proposal: Then take the worst 1% and put them on the no-fly list. Problem solved.
Hmm, I went thought the questionnaire but I need to have had Canadian work experience to apply for PR. Still, it seems much easier to go there and stay permanently... From what I understand, if you work there for 2 years, you can ask for PR, then after 5 years living there you can apply for citizenship. Compare that to the US, where I'll probably have my Green Card in 4-5 years and then will have to wait another 5 years until I can apply for citizenship.
Wow blast from the past, it looks awfully like something out of the early / mid 90s
I would argue that if they could board/take off quicker they could squeeze in an extra flight a day (possibly), which would reduce their costs. But it might be hard to recoup the amount lost from the early boarding fees.
New Frontiers: Marc Hauser back publishing in scientific literature
> why does it exist, where does come from, is it a nonphysical property of the body or vice versa

Are any of these actual debated questions? Outside of religious arguments I don't think anyone can question that (in order) the answers are

It doesn't need a why/It was the best tool our ancestors evolved for their niche

It comes from electrochemical reactions in your brain

Of course it isn't you die when you are killed, getting head injuries can change your personality/memories.

Since your brain exists in physical reality the question "can we run a perfect simulation of physics" is also exactly "can we compute conciousness". Since it's looking pretty good that we can run a simulation of reality at the level we work at it's also looking pretty good for that whole "mind" in a computer thing.
ClassLoader contortions are one of the cleaner ways to handle the problem, but they're not the only way.

You could:

- Create a fat jar, which necessitates bytecode transformations to prevent namespace collisions if you don't want to be sloppy. JarJar did this kinda of thing many years ago, but it seems hard to trust a process like that.

- Create what is essentially a self-extracting archive. This looks like the path Capsule took. This introduces unnecessary state and increases startup time. This is what servlet containers do, so reinventing that wheel seems like a particularly foolish decision. Not to mention that it appears that Capsule adds the additional step of pulling in all dependencies from an external server...slow deployment and an additional point of failure!

I still believe that some sort of VM image or container makes the most sense. Short of that, any system that supports sshd can be configured with Chef. The "solutions" I see coming out of the Java camp all seem like hacks by comparison.
It's not just oversized carry-ons. There isn't space for every single passenger to bring a full-size (but within stated limits) carry-on plus personal item. And with carriers charging for checked bags, it's worse than it would be otherwise.

That said, as an infrequent flyer, I do like you and just wait in the terminal until the end of boarding. No point waiting in the middle of the line - that's the worst of all options. I also make sure my personal carry-on (usually a large laptop bag) has my toothbrush and clean socks, just in case I get stuck checking a bag at the gate.

But, given the option to board early without charge, I'd take it.
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I have FireFox 29 and those pages rendered fairly fast for me. Maybe a couple seconds per first viewing of a page, worst case.
The China Daily? Is that the same paper that quoted the Onion when they ran an article about Kim Jong Eun being the "Sexiest Man Alive"?
Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu were all founded by Chinese and are based in China. The Chinese government welcomes foreign investment as long as ownership remains Chinese. KFC, McDonalds and Starbucks have succeeded because the majority of their managers, owners and workers are Chinese.
They are only worth that much because people pay that much for them, valve only prices hats (that you can buy) at like $5

It's not really their fault people want to pay $400 for a hat.
Perhaps that's because according to AngelList you're an investor in Square, which has signed two consent decrees for violating money transmission laws. That would make you a federal felon per 18 U.S.C. § 1960. And it sure would suck if my "presentation" caused you some legal trouble.

The feeling is mutual.
> “back-to-front”—the chosen boarding process of most U.S. carriers

> Nobody boards back to front.

Just to add weight to this, I've flown on at least United, American, Delta, and Southwest, and in my experience, none of them board back-to-front. These are the very airlines mentioned in the article!

> (From the article) United uses an “outside-in” boarding process by which people with window seats board ahead of those on the aisle.

I doubt this as well.

The only thing I've found that does speed up boarding is that some (rare) airports support jetways with two doors: one for the front of the plane, and one for the back. (Albany is the only airport I know of.) Getting on/off the back is significantly quicker in my experience. (Practically no waiting, between the gate and the seat. There's still the line at the gate, of course.)
Of couse, if you can model or compute the human brain, then none of us has free will since we are merely chemical reactions and the product of environmental inputs at that point.
Thanks for posting this. I am a big fan of
Ed Catmull's ideas about running a creative company, but didn't know there was a book in the works.
The moron-boarder is a non-trivial issue. I don't think you can adequately model that type of behaviour. Any method has to be robust to problem boarders - people who go for the bathroom, can't find their seat, bring on too much luggage, don't speak the language, etc.

If anything I think the 'morons' in the Mythbusters ep were moronic enough. Certainly anyone who travels frequently wil l be able to cite behviour far worse than they modelled.
It is a pejorative term for civil rights activists.
The stock market functions almost independently of what a share "owns". It's just a big casino.
I have no idea about the statistics, but in a wartime scenario this leaves out a crucial factor: number of enemies killed

So if you send out 100 B17s with guns and 80 come back, but they kill N enemy attackers, and 100 B17s without guns and 90 come back, but kill 0 enemy attackers, maybe if N is high enough it's worth it?
Personally I think it's the goddamn panel; I've never seen a Linux panel that looks as nice as its counterparts on Windows and OS X. It seems like a small component, but it really "frames" the whole desktop environment -- like a drumbeat -- and in both OS X and Windows there are some complicated gradients in the panel that I'm almost certain were insisted on by some tweed-clad hipster with a title half a sentence long; to my eye it really does make a difference.

The windows actually look really nice, especially considering it's the default skin.
As others have mentioned: energy densities simply don't support it. I've just recently posted a longer piece on this: http://redd.it/24wois

Even absent energy storage density, you've got challenges of power profile (fuel cells love constant operating load, aircraft are anything but), powerplant siting (do you really want to hang your fuel cells outside the fuselage? How are you going to cool them), and motive mechanism (props are more efficient but far slower than turbines, electric turbines are possible but inefficient).

Trains are amenable to electrification, though arranging for that over tundra and a Bering Straight crossing would be an interesting challenge. Energy requirements in general for ground transport are vastly lower than for heavier-than-air powered flight.
Also crashes Safari on my OS 10.5 Mac, and is unusably laggy in Firefox on the same computer. All sorts of thrashy javascript nonsense seems to be going on.
Nice, but as they say, actions speak louder than words.
For all the talk of Marx as having a philosophy that embraced contradictions I am a little sceptical of the way that this is frequently represented. Hegel certainly did have a philosophy that embraced contradiction and Marx certainly drew from his system as a mode of expression but his work was rooted IN the world and the kinds of contradictions he pointed out where not logical contradictions but rather opposing forces that demanded resolution.
Virgin Australia domestic planes sometimes board without jetways (even in airports with jetways). I believe this is to save on landing fees. When they do this, they open front and back doors with stairs. These planes board significantly faster than using a jetway and single door, even accounting for people having to go down stairs and across the tarmac.
Why, then, are you surprised how people react to you here?
looks great, was really desperately looking for something like this for a personal project earlier this year, but couldn't find anything that I was perfectly happy with... ended up using a jQuery plugin, but bugs out quite a bit across browsers. Guess I'll give this a try and see if I could replace the old one :)
Actually, if you consider how much time is wasted in an inefficient boarding process and how much anger/frustration it causes people, it probably adds up to an insane amount of lost productivity.
Amazing how we assume there is a need to board the plane faster. It likely doesn't matter how quickly you can board the plane, since the process of loading luggage, fuel, and preparing the airplane for flight will still take as long as it does and often takes longer. Have you ever sat in your seat and watched the baggage handlers load luggage?

Deplaning is another matter, of course, and generally I think that is actually quite efficient. People who hold up the lines are usually embarrassed and therefore police themselves. Every once in a while a fool holds up the line, but mostly each person adds no more time than the space ahead of them can allow.

Proof? Ok, how often do you find yourself in a secondary lineup, bag in hand, near the door of the aircraft? Nobody in your way now but the lineup ahead to get out of the corridor.
Exactly. (just posted same point.) Even those 'dialectical contradictions' are perhaps better described as opposing forces that set in train a dialectical resolution.
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