skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many cases I think you'd want a third number, something like the core urbanized area. Metro area is too big, but in some cases city limits are either too big or too small for historical/political reasons. For example Houston includes many of its suburbs, because Texas law is very annexation-friendly. Whereas parts of the urban core of Boston are legally in Brookline and Cambridge, and part of the legal core of Copenhagen is legally in Frederiksberg, but for transit purposes those distinctions aren't that important (Brookline/Cambridge are still part of the "T", and Frederiksberg has a line of the Copenhagen Metro).
There's no need of a solar panel for big spacecraft, US and USSR have designed compact enough nuclear reactor that can generate Mw of power for various submarines,like here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_class_submarine. There has been time that a single US submarine was able to power the entire Hawai island after a natural disater http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19821128&id=E...
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One thing I've wondered about with respect to bustard ramjets: they work by collecting hydrogen from the quite rarified interstellar medium and fusing it for energy release.

Collection of hydrogen for fusion means that collected hydrogen atoms need to be in close proximity with one another for fusion to occur.

This in turn means that interstellar hydrogen, essentially at rest with respect to the ramjet-equipped spaceship ploughing through the medium, has to be accelerated pretty much from the rest frame to the velocity of the ship as part of the collection process. This acceleration of hydrogen to ship velocity requires energy.

At what ship velocity would more energy be expended collecting hydrogen than it would yield in ship reference frame when fused? This would seem to be an upper limit for Bussard-type propulsion systems.
I actually took a for-credit online class last year and I did rather poorly in it, at least by my normal standards. There were several problems. First, I didn't find the material very interesting (it didn't cover what I thought it was going to cover).

But second, and maybe just as important, I just hated watching the video lectures. I had a lot of trouble motivating myself to spend several hours watching lectures, and when I did watch them I often found I got very little out of them because I couldn't ask questions in real time. So, for instance, if I wasn't completely clear on a point in minute 10, I might be lost for the next 40 minutes and my only recourse was to watch the part that confused me over and over again in the hope that it would become clear (which is boring).

I think I simply can't learn well from video lectures. When I was in school I was the type of student who would always engage the lecturer. I asked a lot of questions, sometimes when I was confused, sometimes when I wanted more information, and sometimes when I thought I had something to add or wanted to know about some special case. This just doesn't work with video lectures.

So I think the answer to your question is that I probably wouldn't do very well in a MOOC, even if there was some kind of consequence behind it.

Edit: I do think that MOOCs are a great thing and I hope they stay a part of the "scene", partly because it is nice to have the option (I enjoy participating in them even if I usually don't get very far), but mostly because they seem to "work" for a lot of people, like yourself. More options is good, just don't take away my in-person lectures! :)
Sounds like you and I have had different faith experiences. I didn't grow up with it as a kid, so all of what I know I've had to discover as an adult.

As far as mockers and fools, you only have to look as far as the comment section of YouTube to find a whole plethora of them. If the Internet had been around when I was growing up, I would have been right there among them.
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I think the subway in NYC is pretty great, though by no means perfect.

Amsterdam doesn't have great public transportation. It would drive me insane when I lived there (Indische Buurt / Science Park). Their system of public transportation relies a lot on connecting between bus/tram/subway/railway, but I never found the connections to work well. The frequency of most lines is also pretty darn bad.

Unfortunately a lot of people living in Amsterdam are fine with the sorry state of their public transportation because they feel the Amsterdam mindset is to ride a bike. (There's a lot of truth to that, of course, but the reality is that a lot of non-white Amsterdam-born people rely on public transportation.)

Stockholm's public transportation seemed fine last time I was there, but it's definitely not better than NYC. When I visited a university there, I had to take a subway + bus. Buses suck! Nevertheless, the connection was not bad overall.

The great thing about the subway in NYC is the how the stations are spread out on the map. There are a lot of stations and you will find them in sensible locations. The fact that the subway is operational 24/7 is also amazing. That's a lot more unusual than some people give credit for. You don't even find that in Singapore or Hong Kong or London or Paris. What's less than great is the reliability and the frequency of the trains to/from Brooklyn.

Going from one point in Brooklyn to another also sometimes requires going through Manhattan, which makes the trip take too long.

Another sore point is communication. The signs are confusing and there are virtually no CRTs/LCDs to guide you (if Paris and Brussels can handle the vandalism, so should NYC). The verbal announcements are often confusing or wrong (multiple times, late at night, I heard 'train X was canceled' just as it arrived). A lot of the time you can't even properly hear them. The train models are also incredibly outdated.

Unfortunately, in NY, buses are no good alternative because they are always late and absurdly slow. I always suspected they were intended foremost for old and disabled people since they accelerate very slowly after a stop and seem to stop every block.

I have never been to Helsinki, Tokyo, or Berlin.

One subway system I want to mention is the Beijing one. It's by no means perfect, but the frequency of the subway is just amazing. At many–perhaps most–stations a train stops every one or two minutes. My patience for waiting for trains never recovered after living there.
USPTO fees are about 400 to apply. Another 450 if it's approved. More if you have a ton of extra stuff.

The real cost is having some draft it and prosecute it. That's like 15-20k.
Meh, I'm not that big on 'totally decentralized'. Most of the time when nobody is in charge, it just ends up as a clusterfuck (bitcoin being an obvious example, or Occupy Wall Street which had a governance structure so impossibly idealistic that it was doomed to failure...by design, IMHO). So yeah, you have a small self-appointed elite of 'leaders' who essentially have more power than everyone else. That's how human society functions, most of the time. If enough people like it, it will take off and that self-appointed elite will become disproportionately powerful and rich...but at least you know who they are and they're in a well-defined governance structure subject to specific laws and can be challenged well-defined procedural tactics. The creates a large degree of predictability, and business likes predictability, as do consumers. So while it may fall short of purely democratic ideals, if more poeple use it and it actually results ina greater consumer suprlues, then it enhances the lives of mroe people to a greater degree than an ideologically pure alternative that never acquires sufficient traction to deliver a significant economic benefit.

Cynical, maybe, but as a good utilitarian I'll take results over ideals any day.
Most OSS already has a "parent" company, mozilla's everything, walmart's Hapi, Joyent's Node etc. Nothing overly different about this case.
When I will see "UK to ban manual driving on public roads"?
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With digital capture, color response is predictable, so you get accurate but boring images straight out of camera. Highly saturated colors, highlights and shadows can also clip because you don't have enough bits, so there's less room for error.

With film, color response varies by film, ISO rating, light source and exposure [1], so each one has a very particular character ("Kodachrome look", "Provia look", etc.). Also, analog media isn't prone to clipping, so you can get deep reds, deep blues, detailed highlights/shadows and still have the rest of the scene perfectly exposed without a lot of work.

It's hard to achieve the same characteristics with digital in post-processing because the limitation is at the capture step. It's like trying to fix a dull audio recording - no amount of work in post can bring up a frequency if the mic hasn't captured it.

[1] http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs...
How about de-duping tweets that reference the same URL?
I'll use this as an opportunity to give a shout out for my own unix password manager that I started writing because I did not like some design choices of pass: pw [1].

From the homepage:

> pw is an alternative to pass, keepassx and other similar programs.

> The main points of pw are:

> * The passwords are stored using a simple line-based text format.

> * Passwords can be protected using public-key encryption or symmetric encryption. Or both.

> * No information about the accounts is stored in clear-text.

> * All the work is done using only GPG and Unix tools.

> * The output is easy to use in pipeline with other tools.

> * Follows the XDG Base Directory specification: no clutter in your home directory.

[1] https://github.com/gioele/pw
In my previous company, we built a narrow usecase product with the codebase of a platform we built earlier. We went to market faster because of that and grabbed the market share. But, the performance was quite bad. A large company wanted to acquire our product. But, the deal fell through because of performance and codebase i.e. technical debt (among other things).

But, if you put me in the same situation today, I will repeat what I did. Going to market is almost always more important than beautiful codebase. Beautiful codebase is developer fantasy and doesn't fit the market reality. You can always refactor after understanding the market for your product. But, not the other way around.
And there is no way to change your password.
I'd 100% agree on poor ethics if I didn't talk to Douglas but I did, poorly obviously. I get that now but my intention wasn't to offend him or the other contributors, it seemed (and still does) like a win-win to me and some recognition for the work. I don't recall people freaking out at Ryan when he sold to Joyent, he wasn't the only one working on the project either.
I don't have an answer to your question, I just want to point out that other countries allow spouses of foreign students and workers to work without going through H1B-style hassle. This is the case in Canada and IIRC Australia and New Zealand, probably others too.
I just read through the discussion, and created an "awesome style" note on GitHub based on the resources mentioned. Did I miss anything? https://github.com/memect/awesomeport/blob/master/awesome/im...
Joke for hn:possible news headlines of year 2030?
here are some:

"Samsung galaxy s50 released"

"I will colonize Jupiter in 20 years:elon musk"

lol...what else might you think of?
Thanks, appreciate the information. I was thinking more along the lines of an EC2 instance rather than a shared service like Gmail.
It pretty much says they could use it for any legal reason. Life is short. The chances of it causes problems are slim. I'll probably just sign it.
PagerDuty is awesome and so is their android App. We've hooked our entire probing(system test) and code instrumentation through riemann to pagerduty. Each time a developer starts a new branch she can deploy it on the cloud, get into pagerduty console and within a few minutes check if there are any regression failures. Furthermore, production alerts make a "snake attack ssss" notification on my android (which by now everyone recongizes) and if they are not auto-resolved within 10 minutes I get a phone call, and if I don't acknowledge it, another engineer gets a phone call...
It took some time to tweak riemann to avoid the pagerduty throttler but now it works great, and makes our product even greater.

I would only wish pagerduty added a regex filter in the incidents view. It would help us alot.
You can pull in an iCal link from the web UI, if you weren't aware. That way, it will nicely with the rest of your calendars in the apps you already use on a regular basis.
> Another solution would be to allow gateways to declare that their coins are only redeemable by a limited set of accounts.

Yep, that's baked into the protocol :) https://www.stellar.org/api/#api-accountset - require Auth flag
I'm not sure anyone's advocating for a value-free and uncritical judgment of every last cultural practice, and personally I don't think any practice is above critical review.

At the same time, though, I think it's important to try and bring a holistic approach and an awareness that every culture probably has some such flaws. By "holistic approach" I mean remembering that "slaughter your children before you kill yourself" probably isn't a dangling horrifying imperative, it's probably an intersection of the problematic side of some values that have positive sides as well (for example, you could get it from "good mothers do not neglect the future of their children" + group identity over individual identity + a heavy personal accountability/status culture, all of which have some upsides as well as down). And of course, just like your favorite band, your favorite culture probably has something equally horrifying you accept (millions of abortions, automobile deaths as fact of life, elder neglect/abuse, money as status, whatever...).
Because notwithstanding the drought water is a renewable resources, so the real question for me is how much water does a cow consume in a year as a fraction of the amount of rain we've been getting (and also, how much nutritional value does the beef deliver in comparison to cost of the inputs).

I just like having things in perspective, whereas the absolute amount of water that goes into producing a given amount of beef doesn't tell me a great deal. That's like me saying 'a cow weighs 1000 pounds so it feeds a lot more people than a head of lettuce' - it's superficially true, but not very meaningful.
Yeah, I think you can be a fool who doesn't mock others, or someone who mocks and isn't necessarily foolish. I'm just saying that I was both, and to some degree still am. Depends on who I'm being measured against.
Not referencing sources is bad even for classic non-hypertextual media.
The operative phrase there is "considered to have entered the language as an everyday word". The acronym "PIN" has morphed into the term "pin number" meaning "A personally-identifying number usually associated with financial transactions".

Yes, it's redundant, but the point is that it's not being used as an acronym, but as a separate part of the lexicon with its own meaning.
Maybe missed "I understand this won’t clear my name, and that’s not the intention of this post"?

Eran was claiming I mentioned nothing to Douglas at all so I just wanted to put the facts out there. I could have taken the money and run, frankly it's hardly a month's worth of money, not worth all the community BS haha but I wanted to share it with Douglas. I know StrongLoop will do no harm, moving of the repo is completely irrelevant IMO, lots of people will rage and say otherwise but that's my view.
Unrelated to your question, why are you leaving?
In the example above, could social network analysis (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NodeXL) be used to profile Sarah Palin, then combined with text classification?
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There's a great list here they can start with:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/chinese-govt-reve...
There are a few HN extensions out there that could support this feature.
Choco Pie isn't like "chocolate pie" in the Western vernacular. It's a knock-off (of a knock-off) moon pie. [1]

> In the wake of World War II and the Korean War, the snack gained popularity in East Asia through its introduction by American GIs. Starting in 1958, a similar type of marshmallow filled cake was developed by Morinaga in Japan as 'Angel Pie'.

> Tongyang Confectionery began selling a similar product known as 'Orion Choco Pie' in 1974.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choco_Pie
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Affinity supports RGB8/16, CMYK and Lab colour spaces - but Quartz/CoreGraphics does not. We needed to make sure we produced a pro level application - which necessitates pro colour support so there's no way to do this if you're limited to what the OS provides: That's why we have our own renderer which took a lot of development to make so powerful and fast.
Thanks, I actually didn't know about sarcasm and wit being frowned upon (is it documented somewhere) - this helps explain why an earlier comment of mine[0] which I considered a valid counterpoint to the parent was downvoted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7351540
Other countries have legal, political, cultural, and social environments that differ significantly from the US. Finding out that something works better in London or Paris than it does in Seattle is interesting as trivia, but because of those environment difference usually doesn't tell much about how to improve that thing in Seattle.

Finding out that San Francisco does something better than Seattle does teach something about improving it in Seattle, because the legal, political, cultural, and social environments are much more similar.

Hence, domestic comparisons are more interesting, as they suggest more achievable improvements.
Internet.org has contracts with regulated national telcos. The customers of those telcos do not have employment agreements with Internet.org's founding companies, i.e. they are not in a workplace relationship.
> The cluster supports many programming languages, including: BASIC, C/C++, Fortran, Cobol, Ada (on Alpha), Bliss, Macro32, DCL scripting, Java, and Pascal.

That's probably historical, but I wonder what's the point to advertise that the cluster supports Cobol for example?
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Again, no love for Linux :(
Yes, charged batteries have more mass per e=mc². That means that a good AA battery weighs ~100 picograms more than a dead one.
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This is worth parsing. Is it really incompetence? Or is it actually a very high level of foresight? As a general rule, the only thing people are evered fired for is breaking the law. While there are exceptions to this, in an organization like the CIA, such would be aking to admitting terminal liability at the next level within the organization.

(This seems to be why companies like GM never admit to an engineering flaw; or why wall street firms are never prosecuted criminally to the full extent of the law.)
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I understand your sentiment, but to be fair, the released product will have everything the website says it will. You're testing a beta version that may have any number of things missing at this point, so please don't judge too harshly as 'not playing straight'.

I could've included the current state of the AI/PDF import in the version you have - but it isn't ready yet, so instead of 'it doesn't import AI files' the comments would be 'AI files don't import properly' or 'why doesn't this attribute work?' because people may assume it's finished.

The personal info we ask for is nothing except an email address and your name so that we can send out updates about new betas - complete with an unsubscribe link.

This is a work-in-progress and it is very quickly evolving :)
At least for Linux, Xara Xtreme is quite nifty [http://www.xaraxtreme.org/]. It's now been abandoned but it definitely had lots of potential.
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seriously wtf.. it was tldr but amongst anybody who reaches mythical/legendary status we know, implicitly, that the myth isnt the man. i remember learning about gene roddenberry and how he was kind of a pig towards women. but his philosophy was totally against that. i think, in the long run, his philosophy is what is more important. its what deserves being shared and praised, even if the man wasnt quite the living ideal. if we did the opposite, and somehow devalued his ideas because of his faults, i think that would be a tragedy. im not saying we should pretend the faults werent there, but im thinking, telling one of these stories is worth telling and the other, well.. there are probably better things to do
We recommend you only trust one gateway per currency for that exact reason. You can only paid in currency issued from accounts you trust. Lets say your friend holds Euro credits from a gateway in London, and you live in San Francisco and therefore only hold USD credits from a gateway there. All she has to do to send you USD is specify "Send him X USD". She doesn't have to care about your issuer. It's taken care of by the protocol.

Check out https://www.stellar.org/api/#api-payment. By setting Amount.issuer to be the recipient's address, the protocol will find a path from the sender's gateway to the recipient's gateway.

Speaking more broadly, I anticipate many gateways will also become exchanges, to make their credits more valuable, aka more "liquid". For instance, in the last example, what was required to make this work was a "market maker", someone in the middle buying London EUR and selling San Francisco USD. If no direct exchange existed (highly unlikely in this example), there may be a EUR -> XYZ Currency -> USD. To avoid this external dependency (and also offer a cheaper exchange rate), it would be in the London and SF gateway's best interest to trust (https://www.stellar.org/api/#api-trustset) each other. Then, the exchange from her EUR credits to your USD credits would happen directly.
Very cool. Good to see OpenVMS is still alive and kicking that also on AlphaServer. It is the best command line operating system I ever used. Never liked unix variants after that. Commands are so intuitive copy is copy not cp. File versioning is the best. I never had to worry about saving versions of my Fortran code files.
FTA: "Last year, researchers at ISE found that a staggering 100% of SOHO routers they evaluated were vulnerable to remote attacks."

However, the linked study[1] shows that:

1. 2 of the routers did not have remote exploits

2. All but 2 of the other routers required authenticated access to exploit remotely

Authenticated attacks "require that the attacker have access to credentials (or that default router credentials are used—an all-too-common situation) or that a victim is logged in with an active session at the time of the attack."

While default passwords may be common, virtually all routers have remote admin turned off by default as well.

[1] https://securityevaluators.com/knowledge/case_studies/router...
The sad thing is it is taking local community governments to compete with broadband 'providers'. You know you need some competition when local governments are the tip of innovation and your biggest competition. I hope many more communities and Google Fiber wake up the slumbering cable companies and telcos.