skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'd like to tell you about something I'm really excited about. It's called Android."

My first reaction was, "Haha, no shit." And then it gave me goosebumps to realize how it's just seven years ago but so much has happened.
Probably meant more conductive because the walls inherently have to be thicker, so if the atmospheric side remains barely below melting, the interior of a thicker wall will be cooler. Rocket engines have the same problem. Thats why no one ships a 50000 PSI chamber pressure rocket engine, it would work great (Well, I wouldn't want to design the pumps...) but we just don't have the metallurgy to make a chamber that wouldn't melt. Aside from the Isp not going up fast enough to make a heavier engine worth it.

Although there is also truth in that higher temp materials tend to be bad conductors. Tungsten is like what 4 times worse than copper as an engineering estimate? You don't use pure W or Cu anyway, but the general idea holds.
>And in what sense is consuming ride-sharing any different than paying a taxi?

It isn't.

When I think of "ride sharing" I think of friends or coworkers actually sharing rides.

I used to do it back in high school. I worked with 3 friends and we all lived within a mile of each other. We would take turns driving the gang to and from work. That is ride sharing. It worked out great too!

Or we had ride sharing boards back in college. Going back home for winter break and don't have a car? Find a fellow student who is going that way to drive you. At least drive you within 30 minutes and have a friend pick you up. Throw $20 at them for gas but you aren't paying them really and they aren't making a salary off of you. Plus they didn't just pick you up and bring you where you want to go, you just rode with them to somewhere they are going anyway.

Once there is a business model involved it, commercials on TV, and are actually making money is just a business and a service not ride sharing. There's no sharing.
I concur. I use Ansible for my deployments on Digital Ocean. It would be trivial to move over to Linode because of Ansible's flexibility (which is actually something I consider every time DO has network issues). Hopefully this competition helps both services step up their game.
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I'm reasonably well versed in these topics, I found them unsatisfying, they don't capture the essence for me. I don't really know what I'm looking for I just know I haven't seen it yet.
I thought this was more of a data analyst looking at data. He does have harsh words of the other side, but if you've ever heard him speak he does the same with his peers in aerospace.
Because many of the apps require connections to deprecated (and usually non-working) Google APIs to even start up. Thus the white screens, crashes, etc., as mentioned in the article.

If you can find a way to emulate Google's infrastructure and services circa 2007, and redirect all your DNS traffic to this local infrastructure setup, then you may be able to run the apps in an emulator. But it's more effort than it's worth :(
I think they would observe each other traveling at C but would experience visible time dilation (in the other person's frame of reference).
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Recycling - because most popular recycling (plastics in particular) was propped up by government subsidies, not viable businesses on their own. Plus, the energy savings (again, for plastic recycling) were nonexistent.

Gun Control - I don't remember the arguments there, other than specifically arguing against most popular arguments against the second amendment.
It really depends upon if the git repo is gpg signed. We really don't know enough about the automation to make any assumptions.

Were I to do it I would require gpg signed commits and setup the trust chain a bit differently. But you're right its likely just a list of git repos that aren't signed.
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Perhaps most importantly, we didn’t kill each other in the process. Which, at the end of the day, is really all the matters.
Considering this situation where the developers don't want to take a stand against Quento Lite, what if, Quento developers add a couple of features to the original game release it as "Quento 2"?
How would the reaction be like? More downloads, because of the new version? Would people ditch Quento Lite then?
OP's collaborator here.

The goal of this framework is to explore the (huge) gap between card- or board games, and videogames, so we can take the best of both worlds. It's hard work to imagine what users can do with new interaction techniques, but the goal is to make videogames which are more fun with paper/card based interaction than d-pads. Or conversely, to find card/board games that are more fun with a computer (i.e. not a simple 3D animation of the battle between two pokemon cards for example).
That's pretty much exactly how Neal Strphenson defines "bulshytt" in Anathem...
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I was asked - "why on earth shouldn't he accept the acknowledgement?" My reply is an attempt to provide a partial answer to that question, and is unrelated to the rest of the discussion. :)
http://status.linode.com/

vs.

https://status.digitalocean.com/

I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;)

Anecdotal: I've seen ~5x as many VPS restarts due to host issues on DO than Linode.
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Warm blooded or cold? Dinosaurs were somewhere in between
Because nobody buys 100 dollar toasters.
One problem is that these battery swap stations need to be almost as ubiquitous as gas stations (at least along highway routes) to be convenient, otherwise it'll take very careful planning on road trips. But because swap-outs are the rare exception rather than the norm, they don't benefit from scale, so it's unlikely they'll be ubiquitous unless there's a cheap way to automate it.
> To me innovation means something absolutely new, not re-applying/combining prior art.

You may have considerable difficulty finding a language that anyone uses that is innovative, in that case. Most new programming language concepts are explored in research projects, and _then_ incorporated into languages.
DO will take your site offline without even telling you the reason why. Have done it to me multiple times, and only tell me after I file a support ticket. They seem to be disorganized and make decisions separately/randomly.
Or just create and try a brand new profile for some time.
1.7c for an observer just standing around and watching the two guys run. I am not sure what it looks like from the point of view of the runners without calculating it but they should see a speed smaller than the speed of light.
If they mandate that handheld navigation apps freeze out certain controls when the device is in motion (as in a car, boat, etc.) in an attempt to make things "safer" it will destroy the usefulness of any device.

Not everyone operating a hand-held device is the driver of the vehicle and forcing you to come to a full-stop in order to input an address is already the main reason why I'll never pay for a vehicle's built-in navigation system ever again.
Because all social platforms look a lot like each other, our designer thought that using a visual wouldn't be enough to show the different aspects of Whapsy. So we have decided that expressing these differences verbally in the "Why Whapsy is different?" part would be more appropriate. Thank you for the advice. We'll discuss and evaluate the issue with our designer.
I'll suggest ultimate frisbee as another sport that is welcoming to nerds. Find the mellow pick-up game that has a few summer parties.
A lil background.

I worked my ass off, for a cs degree thinking once the money will rake in, I'll get a girlfriend, friends and all the life style I wanted.

Once I got a job, I found myself going right after work studying coursera class ML, to find a better paying job to support my parent. Eventually I ended up depress...

I started to workout again and eventually reconnect with my college friends. Unfortunately it was really hard but got some decent friends out of it.

I was lucky because I was working near my university so my old friends are still around. I was horrible at keeping in touch.

Anyway here's the deal, I didn't really acquire the skill to make friend with strangers during this time. I moved to a new city and realized I don't have the luxury of being nearby old friends like my old job living nearby my university. I had no existing connection I can call up and work the existing connection for new friends.

I did eventually learn how to make friends and it was through PUA, pick up artist. Yeah it's fucking weird.

But let me try to explain what happened. Once I got some friends going, a few nothing major, this is back at my university I got lonely and wanted a girlfriend. Most of my friends are usually busy except for one, I found out he was doing this pick up artist thing. The whole thing is weird there are some good and bad to it, I like to think I chosen the good thing out of this whole underground society.

But I eventually learned how to approach random strangers and make a comment or two. The seduction/pua community call this process opening. I spent two years on and off opening girls on the street of hollywood.

Eventually I moved to a new city and...

It was great, being able to approach women but the problem eventually I realized was I couldn't hold a conversation. I got rid of my "approach anxiety" and can go up to stranger and just open but I can't hold a conversation worth at damn.

The problem was I was doing this at night time and practicing night time, at least to me, didn't enable me to practice the other seduction techniques of conversation. I spent roughly 3 months so far this year during the day holding a conversation.

I got three new friends out of it and can hold decent conversation with strangers now (male and female).

How the hell do you make friends using PUA? By holding a conversation.

I talked to this girl at starbuck, got her number, and eventually she invited me to do activity with her. She have become a close friend and I've done tons of activities with her now and planning a few more. Within the seduction/pua community I've made friends.

Well anyway take it as you will.

edit:

I'm Asian short ESL btw. The PUA taught lots of things including destroying any insecurities I had.

edit2:

I also had to learn how to keep in touch too. It's fucking stupid but yeah.

Every friday I'll be on aim and message people with it's FRIIIIIIDAY and how's your weekend looking?

I know it sounds stupid but omg, I was retarded on keeping in touch.
Who are they marketing to though? Do they think someone is going to fall for this trap and call purchasing to get them to just go ahead and purchase it?
> Meanwhile I'm slightly concerned about the future quality from Linode, as low-priced $10 plan will certainly get lots of customers

They've had a $10 plan for a looong time. It's just recently that they got rid of it, and now it's back.
Mixed emotions... after the free upgrade to 2GB, I feel like I'll be losing something. But saving $10/month is probably worth it for my low-traffic sites. And I was running at 1GB just a few months ago anyway!
Hackerspaces. Geek meetups. Get roommates, even if you can afford not to have them, join a co-op. It takes work, it sucks, but its worth it. Join a sport even if you hate them?....guy at my job has been inviting me to dragon-boating. For women...no clue, I'm gay.
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>The one thing that never ceases to amaze me is how many people work at jobs they don't like because that's the only work they could get.

People paying their bills amazes you?

There are very few 'career transition' positions that are entry level and only require a positive attitude and a willingness to show up. Those were 'upgraded' to require a degree and a few years of experience for complete strangers.

Also, some people try to avoid gaps of unemployment, and that means slinging pizzas with a couple of katanas for the Mafia when there's nothing else.
I'm reminded of how difficult it was to create a new Flickr account recently. In order to sign up for Flickr, I really have to sign up for a Yahoo Account. This has been the case since ~2007, but it hasn't gotten any easier. I need to enter my first and last name, an email address, a (fake) phone number, my birthday, and my sex. All of this just to start using their 'beautifully redesigned' photo-sharing site or app.

Inversely, Instagram let me register with nothing but a username and password. No wonder Instagram is eating everyone's lunch.
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Hopefully it won't end up in a situation where a lot of apps bundle seriously outdated versions and any given system has a dozen old dlls strewn all over. Didn't that kinda happen with bundled flash players - even Adobe shipped exploitable players for years in other products?
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> How is memory usage relevant to creating fluid/responsive applications?

Mobile phones are generally memory constrained as compared to desktop computers, because memory takes space and power. In addition, their memory bandwidth is usually _extremely_ constrained as compared to desktop computers, making big copies, etc, expensive.
I was unsure what notation to use, so I used english instead.
In Haskell a Functor f is characterized by a higher order function fmap :: (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b), which is required to satisfy the laws

fmap (g . f) = (fmap g) . (fmap f)

and

fmap id = id

where (.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> (a -> c) is the function composition operator and id :: a -> a the identity function. Those are the laws the last two sentences try to phrase in english. In mathematics a functor F between categories C and D maps objects in C to objects in D and any morphism f: X -> Y in C to a morphism F f : F X -> F Y in D, in such a way that for morphisms f : X -> Y and g : Y -> Z in C one has F (g . f) = F g . F f and F id_X = id_{F X}. So you see Haskell and math notation are almost identical, although you can express the laws only as compiler rules in Haskell.
There was an analysis done by a respected frugal blog (can't find it now) on new v. used.

From what I remember, the result was "new" only won if you intended to get a car and have it for a very long time. Eventually you could overcome the initial depreciation with decreased maintenance.

Obviously, there are a lot of assumptions, chief among them, that we were only talking about cars with good maintenance histories.

A lot of people would like to not have the same car for 15+ years -- they should get a used car.
Wow that just about sums me up right there. I can make friends with pretty much any one but as soon as they leave the day to day interactions I just don't make that effort. It's certainly something I've been working on as there's no shortage of ways that I can interact with people that move away or move to a different job.

Thank you jonnathanson, you helped out me out today.
I've saw restarts and networks issues frequently on DO months ago. They seem to have stabilized in the NYC datacenters where I host https://minimalreader.com/ but overall, the stability always seems to be on the edge of collapse. I'm not sure if that's because they are growing so quickly they cannot keep their network and hosts up with the demand, or what.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Similar products (yours being superior IMO) being given different exposure is crappy. =\

I'm not really in the market for themes, but maybe filtering by the of CSS preprocessor being used would be a nice thing to have? Also, the "checkboxes" do look like checkboxes but act like radio buttons, you might want to consider changing either the behavior or the look and feel. =)

Upvoted your HN original submission for what it's worth.
> its proponents at least are guided by some underlying "truth" (belief).

The same could be said of other areas mentioned in the list in the post you were responding to. The point appears to be not that the entire field is bullshit, but that one can find examples of bullshit in the field. I would even add science to the list if that's the criterion; one can find examples of bullshit in science as well.

If, OTOH, the point was to give fields that appear to be primarily bullshit, I would not have put education, love, sex and romance, technology, business, art, and medicine on the list. (Or science.)
And with today's phones you can usually just say the address to the phone.
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not everybody likes the jvm ecosystem.
I would give the opposite advice: go for a tech group!

Since the goal is meeting people, and the challenge making friends, it will be much easier if you do it IN your comfort zone.

Seriously, I think most of the people on HN is likely to be more "actually interested" in tech, rather than art...

But overall I agree, go for a meetup where the goal is not just "meeting people", but has a definite goal or activity that you would enjoy already doing alone.
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>A medallion (to be able to legally drive a cab in NYC

You forget about boro taxis and car services.
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Actually that would be pretty great, I'd love if my pizza order could be shared between the different places I order from.
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Argentine Tango classes. Seriously. The bay area has some fantastic tango opportunities! No partner needed.

Find a friendly, welcoming instructor and go to learn about the dance and culture. Something curious: In the Seattle area at least the Tango community is full of engineering types.

One of the great things about tango is how you ask people to dance. With your eyes and nod of your head. It takes an amazing amount of pressure off when you don't have to walk up to someone to ask them to dance. Something which terrified me, sans alcohol, until I was in my mid-40s and started tango.

You'll definitely make friends. And there are opportunities, especially in your area, to socialize as often as you wish. I feel like I acquired an entire family by joining the tango community.
Is there a meaningful difference in CPUs?
As a statistician working for a bank, this is good news. I was doing some self-study to become proficient in JavaScript (I already know a bit of programming in C, Haskell, Java and JavaScript) - and this looks like it could lend some stamp of credibility to a prospective employer or client. While I am sure this is not enough, and should be backed up with open source contributions, this is definitely a good start.
This illustrates the confusion that occurs when people are exposed to horrible "artistic renderings" of the Big Bang as a huge explosion that throws matter all over the place.

It's better to think of the Big Bang as an unimaginably intense period of expansion and cooling of whatever substance the earliest universe was made out of (see Inflation theory). It was not an explosion that happened in a pre-existing spacetime.
I've had five 1GB VPSes running on Digital Ocean for the past year, for http://www.hostedapachesolr.com/. Of the five of them, three seem to have 5-10 minute downtimes about once per week as measured by https://servercheck.in/.

On Linode, I stopped using their 2 GB VPSes for the past year, but before that, I had 3 of them. One had about 5 minutes of unscheduled downtime over the course of a year, the other two only had a few scheduled restarts where Linode emailed me a day or so before it happened.

Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, and I've been extremely happy with both providers (Digital Ocean has been very good, much better than any other sub-$20/month provider until today's news)—but when push comes to shove, I would rather have my more critical VPSes on Linode.
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I rather doubt it's a calculated ROI move. I did calculating ROI for my CFA exams and I doubt that would fly. I suspect weirdly enough they are trying to do good.
*You should each borrow a book from each other.
Switching by scrolling, or by jumping directly to the pages using a page selector? The latter case will be handled fine by a 10 page cache.

Anyway, I think this fear is overblown. The CPU cost of rendering a single page isn't that high.
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What FB has done is force people to game the system in order to appear in the feed, which results in more content than people are able to consume, which results in the fact that we don't want to see it all because some of it is junk.

This is a problem that Facebook has created, and one they will wrestle with until they either fix it and save their business, or are displaced by an upstart.
They're claiming that it has a max range of 1860 miles for a 100kg battery system:

> The Phinergy aluminum-air battery at 100 kilograms (220 pounds) weight contained enough on board energy to allow the vehicle to travel up to 3,000 kilometers (over 1,860 miles)

The article does seem slightly unclear on that point, though.

Again, if you have normal driving patterns this Al-O2 system is a backup battery. You'd be using a smaller li-ion battery for the day-to-day drives. That means a normal user wouldn't need a new Al-O2 battery every month, because they'd only rarely be using it.
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Apple does that with _consumer_ products (well, usually; please ignore Siri). They've historically been much more willing to ship developer stuff that's very rough around the edges; the iPhone OS 2.0 SDK shipped in a barely usable state, for instance, and Xcode 4 was a similar story.
I don't "like" any major brands or companies on Facebook, but I do several local companies. The froyo place we like publishes their daily flavor offerings on Facebook. The local butcher gives coupons on their Facebook page. Stuff like that.

Facebook is constantly recommending to me things I should like. I ignore them all. I drink a Diet Coke from time to time, but I don't need the latest Diet Coke news.
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Instagram has no way to sign up via the web. While I understand that the vast, vast majority of people will just sign up for an account on their phone, the last thing I want to do is give that app (and Facebook) carte blanche to my contacts list.

I had to create an account on my friend's phone because there was absolutely no way to do that via their website. This is just to be able to use their API!
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what does being Asian have anything to do with this?
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Ask HN: Company I work for is raising money, how to forward interested VCs?
We're looking to raise in the 8 digit range this year, and I mentioned to a family member we were doing this and he asked me to forward on some people he knew who were interested in investing in tech companies at that level. I'm not sure how I would, or if I should approach either our COO or CEO about these totally unvetted and probably uninitiated leads. Any advice? Just email the names? I'd have no idea what I'm talking about.