skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you can't force them to be entrepreneurs and you shouldn't. Second, entrepreneurship is not limited to making and selling products. If you want to prepare your children for the possibility of being entrepreneurs, make sure they are exposed to thinking about business. Read books about some company founders with them. For many people, the idea that they could start a business is something they never are exposed to. Try to give them a well rounded exposure to life and teach them to be observant and critical thinkers. Most importantly, try to encourage them to be active doers rather than passive consumers.
Why would you redesign SICP and neglect having a wizard
I still feel that offering desktop style access to the file system is a mistake.
The file system is way too complex for a normal user and since developers can put files almost anywhere it is usually a total mess.
I would much largely prefer a personal sandbox for each app : their own folder in Android/packageName like they can optionally use right now. On top of that, add an API to grant access to shared folders for music/photos/documents/misc files.
wow, sarcasm is really missed on this crowd!
The story has a link to "Cooking For Engineers: Smoke Points of Various
Fats" [1] that looks real useful, but it does not provide any reference
as to where the values come from, and the stated smoke point
temperatures listed vary a lot from those listed on Wikipedial [2]. I'll
begrudgingly refrain from making jokes about believing what you read on
the Internet, but I figured pointing out the discrepancies might be
useful to some.

[1] http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/50/Smoke-Points-o...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point
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Woman wakes up 11 hours after been declared dead in funeral house
well we'd need something to keep the servers running!
Maybe for fun? To learn something?
Not directly relevant, but why not spend the minute necessary to google whether the explanation for "How did the primary and secondary batteries not power the lander for the calculated one week+ of operation?" is readily available? (it is:

The harpoons failed to deploy leading the lander to bounce off of its landing target and land in a crater where the solar panels intended to increase its battery life had limited sunlight. http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7214941/philae-comet-rosetta

)
It's not the idea, but the jargon that's offensive.
I don't know about the other languages, but while C# may have dynamic typing, it's extremely uncommon to see it in use. It's introduction was to make certain types of interop easier. It was not intended to be a general-purpose programming feature.
Identifying User Behavior from Residual Data in Cloud-based Synchronized Apps [pdf]
Tesla's plans are to sell about 40 or 50 times as many vehicles per year as what GM is doing with the Volt, within a decade.

Further, being the center of global battery production for electric cars, has the strong potential to lure other suppliers. And that's before getting into that Tesla would no doubt like to drastically increase the size of production over ~20 years, which is why they sought out so much land.

How about in 20 years, Tesla employs 12,000 people, in several facilities in that industrial park, making 25 million batteries per year? Hardly an outrageous outcome, when you consider the truly massive scale of the auto industry.
Microsoft eyes White Space tech to provide free Internet in India
That's great, thanks for sharing!

I'm fascinated by cast iron cookware, the durable nature of it seems to contrast with so much of the rest of our lives. Take good care of it and it will last generations!
we could certainly look at doing real-time processing if there's demand
Technology to identify user behavior in cloud-based apps probably creates nice little revenue streams.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8611691
Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc (2011)
The primary objective was always planned to last few days, and it did that part pretty much perfectly (80-90% of results were received). After these few days, there was a secondary objective, which was to turn Philae into a kind of weather station on a comet, with pretty much every instrument turned off.

It would have been great if it had worked of course, but compared to the main objective it doesn't really matter. What they really want to know is the chirality of the water on the comet and wether or not the comet contains certain elements, it seems like they manage to get this data.

Also the secondary objective is not totally abandonned, since there is still a chance to see Philae back in some months, with the comet getting much more sunlight and warming considerably.

Plans change with time, and the FAQ is adapted to those plan.
Hell iirc there wasn't even suppose to be a lander in there initial plan 25 years ago.
Emphasis on permanent. Otherwise even flashbangs and tear gas would be prohibited.
1. The primary non-rechargeable battery was designed to power it for a whole week.

2. The secondary rechargeable battery was designed to continue powering it for months after that.

The detail you include is only relevant to 2, and keep in mind it is reasonable to assume that the secondary battery was fully charged before descent.
Most of the features make the language more consistent and reduce syntactic noise, making it easier to read. The only feature that puts additional mental burden is the elvis operator.
>But science does have a sexual abuse problem. Some established male scientists do choose their female collaborators according to taste. Sexual violence does have a tendency of being initiated by men against women.

I dont think you are wrong about this, but painting individual men with the same broad stroke that is frequently is being applied to women to dehumanize them and discount their achievements isnt the right answer to right the wrongs you are listing.

There are plenty of women's issues that are waiting to be championed that are not what amounts to bikeshedding.
Is the NPV of each of Hansom jobs worth $20k to the state?

Hard to say. But once the factory is built, it will be there a long time. Even if the company Tesla fizzles and dies, a big battery plant will still be pumping out batteries for decades to come under someone's stewardship.

Put it this way - what was the NPV of the first jobs established by Ford in Detroit 100 years ago?
It is amazing the depth of the revelation of their trechery. No doubt stuff like this has helped the top NSA official become a multimillionaire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8611661
Wow, they have a whole category for Lan-Messaging clients (only for windows, though):
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/37,1,3,0,1.html
Cheers!
For journals in the fields that I’m familiar, what often ends up happening is the authors do all the typesetting perfectly with LaTeX. Then they submit a PDF, along with a Word file with all the text. Some contractor of the publisher does the typesetting all over again, using LaTeX!
Wow, I've been looking for something like this. Much better than vanilla malloc. Thanks!
Philae Lander FactSheets [pdf]
> or is it just being done out of an interest in programming languages

That would be enough. I believe more people should be thinking about programming languages - even if it's just for fun or learning.

> what this language is trying to provide that isn't already provided by [...]

Most languages don't provide things that aren't technically also provided by others. It's more about how they are provided, what the language's strengths are, and how it wants programmers to approach problems.

Showing people what your language is all about is harder than it seems at first. Duck could probably do with a more in-depth tutorial and some talking points in order to better inform people about its features.

This made me look at the website of my own perpetually unfinished language project, and even though I knew I had to make an effort to showcase the thing in the tutorial section, upon reviewing it now I don't think it was particularly successful. Arguably, there are even some high profile languages that don't do a good enough job explaining what they're about, though website quality has picked up dramatically across the board in recent years.
But looking through code there are lots of references to gc, mark and sweep. Even with acyclic data models memory has to be cleared.
Fonts are still looking extremely ugly after install. How can I get clean fonts for typographic work?
http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube....
"Why aren't they open about what clearly seems to be a major failure with the scientific mission?"

Human nature. Haven't you worked in a corporate environment where people try to spin to the positive? A lot of money was spent and people want to feel good about the results.

When they sold the project, the PowerPoint needed to present a great show or it wasn't going to get funded. A 1 week minimum was probably needed.

Anyway, I could go on but just try observe human nature, otherwise people will accuse you of being negative.

As for me, I thought it turned out to be a great because it became a mainstream story. We should be putting 4k video cameras on new craft. Get people excited so we can get a budget to build 10 times as many vehicles.
How about first learning which experiments were actually supposed to be done? Can you list them? Can you explain what they are about? Then we can try to consider how much of which of those were done and what are the actual consequences of different schedules in their execution.

We can expect the years of scientific papers based on the analysis of the raw data made by this mission.
U.S. Air Force Targets 2021 Launch Date for New Weather Satellite
I don't see a handy possession vs distribution summary, but look here for the types of cases that get prosecuted for trafficking:

http://isb.ussc.gov/content/pentaho-cdf/RenderXCDF?solution=...

The typical federal marijuana trafficking prosecution involves possession of 10 kilos (the small number of cases involving less than that averaged 4 kilos). The numbers for crack and meth are smaller, but there is still a pretty clear line at 'dozens of doses'.

I'm not sure I understand it correctly, but this graph seems to say that the majority of people sentenced under drug guidelines are convicted of some other crime. So apparently they are committing other crimes while in possession of drugs:

http://isb.ussc.gov/content/pentaho-cdf/RenderXCDF?solution=...

And then the majority of "pure drug cases" actually do involve trafficking, which the data above indicates usually involves substantial quantities.

Nothing I've said is an argument in favor of the war on drugs.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has a good companion article to this one regarding care and usage of your now properly seasoned cast iron pan:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/11/the-truth-about-cast-iron...
> but painting individual men with the same broad stroke

"Not all men!"
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It may not be important, but it's still interesting. We have two pieces of information about an interesting subject which appear to be inconsistent; attempting to resolve that inconsistency is the natural act of the curious mind.
How cool - I joined Harris after grad school expressly to work on RTX architecture issues. (Previously I was a Forth developer.)

Nice to see this neat-but-underappreciated architecture in the news.
Stuff like this reminds me of Doug Lenat's AM (automatic mathemetician) from back in the day, written in everyone's favorite, Lisp.
How to Optimize Entrepreneurial Learning in School
Annualcreditreport.com doesn't do it on your behalf. It guides you through the steps with each CRA so that you can get your free annual report that the law gives you. It's the only "official" site other than each agencies site. There are hundreds of others that often play on the users confusion/ ignorance. This is why I agree that AnnualCreditReport should be a .gov site to help it cut through the noise.
> it is reasonable to assume that the secondary battery was fully charged before descent

Actually, no, it's not, unless you show something to prove that. Have you ever designed the device with two different power sources supposed to work on a comet after travelling 10 years through the space and being launched from the orbiter? I haven't, and can't claim it's reasonable to assume, whereas being an engineer I can imagine a lot of reasons for the directly opposite claim. What are your experiences or citations that allow you to claim that? Please state them or avoid uninformed claims.

Specifically, if the secondary batteries were supposed to be fully charged before, why would the non-rechargeable batteries be the primary batteries at all?

And technically, there are more primary batteries and more secondary batteries in Philae, the primary batteries having 1000 Wh, the secondary batteries having 140 Wh. Note that if you use e.g. 30 W during experiments, you use the primary batteries in some 30 hours. The scientists had to decide the rate of the battery use. Just like your mobile phone lasts only hours if you speak all the time on it. The lander being in the shade had different temperature environment than in the ideal case. It's extremely cold there and the high enough temperature is necessary for the things to work.

Compare all that with your modem constantly using 10 W, your computer, if notebook, using probably 20 W for serious work. Even without the heating problem, you wouldn't be able to use internet and work for more than 30 hours with Philae's primary batteries, and certainly not for 4 days.
That would be possible in theory, a few problems though:

You would need a flat surface to reflect light towards Philae, so the only appropriate surface would be the solar panels.
The solar panels are not mirrors however, they would probably only reflect about 5%-10% of the sunlight towards Philae. This is even assuming the solar panels are sufficiently flat.

Also the location of Philae is unknown (AFAIK), so there is the problem of where to aim the reflected light.

Finally the relative direction from Rosetta would presumably change as the comet rotates, which means the solar panels or Rosetta as a whole would need to be continuously aimed at Philae, using propellant and/or other energy.
No. Just a hipster.
I've met and worked with the founders of http://www.psychologyonline.co.uk/ and can recommend their service. It's the leading provider of online CBT in the UK and for the NHS, however, they also offer an international private service called Thinkwell http://www.thinkwell.co.uk/
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> most people in Des Moines were born there

The opening bit of this book talks about that: http://www.billbryson.co.uk/index.php/the-lost-continent/#ex... (click on extract to read)

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job at the Firestone factory and live there for ever and ever, or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can’t wait to get out, and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job at the Firestone factory and live there for ever and ever."
I assume that Philae isn't meant to be powered directly by sunlight but has an intermediate battery? So wouldn't it make sense to simply wake him once this battery is full, do some experiment, send the data and go back to sleep until recharged again? Shouldn't that work even with low light conditions, just that the sleep phases would be much longer than planned?
The article sounds like they aren't sure Philae will ever wake up again.
So they have private FDIC-like insurance. That's good to see. Certainly in the wake of MT Gox. However, they don't name the insurers, which I would have liked to see.

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/166237...
Brazil starts building a fiber optic network to avoid NSA surveillance
Yes but you don't need to announce that in a public FAQ ;)
It's not a merge commit for every single commit, only for every, well, merge. I sure hope people are writing new features or bugfixes in several commits, not just doing days of work and committing at the end (though I guess that would be a workflow for people who are worried about the size of the commit log).

What's the purpose of keeping a commit history at all? Really, what are your use cases? For me, the history is for looking around and understanding a particular change, or for bisecting to help understand a bug. Both of these use cases are better supported by seeing the tree as it actually was when someone was working on it, than by seeing an artificial, rebased history. What's your use case where the rebased version makes sense?
> This ain't some piddly kickstarter trinket. And exactly what was promised that you didn't get your money's worth for?

Parent never stated he wanted his money's worth. He points out some obvious history rewriting which highly harm Science's image (IMNSHO). In no way does that diminishes this mission's outcome, results, feats and the admiration it rightly deserves.

I don't understand the hostility here for a valid question about something that has nothing to do (obligatory political rewriting, maybe ?) with what was achieved.

> I hereby guarantee that none of them will succeed 100% of their stated targets.

But you don't lower your expectations after the facts and state "look, we did it as we told we were going to do it".
I'm almost certain that it's a hoax...
I wish there were a lot more of missions like these. We should accept some failures as well. If the cost can be lowered, the increased risk can be offset by more tries. It's better for the science as well if the missions are more diverse and the lead times are shorter.

I hope humanity grew up, so that failures would not produce so much backlash. Seems everybody feels so entitled in this age.
Tesla's "teleforce beam" was intended to be a particle accelerator, not something that shoots out photons!

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The space is unbelievably cold. The lander is in the shade, meaning the temperature there is probably mostly at least around minus 60 degrees. The battery has much higher operating temperature.
Well maybe in a previous version (screenshots ?) but they say themselves: "Textra is the first messaging app that features the new Lollipop Material Design"
Mine was also the international edition, with dark blue cover. Not having been a CS major I bought a copy out of curiosity on how a compiler is made, since it seemed a lot more approachable than the famous dragon book. I admit I was a bit overwhelmed at the amount of code it took to build a compiler. Glad to see the book again in its entirety.
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> Unfortunately most of my time over the last couple of years has been spent helping to build up the Rust ecosystem to a stage where it is a viable choice for game developers.

Unfortunate for you, but fortunate for a great many other people. Thank you for doing this.
Lot's of props to the author for no hyperbole. Clean write-up with an essentially admission that it is "working as intended but could be communicated better."

Far too many security articles find "working as intended" functionality and make it sound as if it is a complete systems breach (e.g. "With an administrator account on Windows you can access ring 0 via uEFI!!" -- actual hyperbolic security announcement[0]).

[0] PDF: http://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/14-222...
Battery can't be charged in low temperatures. It has to be heated to 0 C to be charged, and there may be not enough energy to do that in the short period that the sun reaches solar cells.
Posted because a lot of things in this rang true about founding tech companies for me as well:

There's a reason why big accomplishments always come with effusive thanks to family and friends. It's not just about giving thanks—it's about publicly apologizing to the people who've sacrificed so much so you can realize a dream.
What language changes are you waiting for?
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Of course you adjust your targets. But it doesn't imply you must rewrite your expectations to fit with reality after the facts as if those expectations never fluctuated. You actually lose data points by doing so.
"just awaiting a certification."

You say that as if the certification part itself is remotely quick, predictable, or easy.
The 5.5% rate applies, beyond books, to a bunch of other things which are hardly first necessity: e.g., theater, cinema, the importation of works of art and antiques. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticle...

The Wikipedia article you mention refers to the 5.5% rate as "common consumption, first necessity, or to favor certain sectors. I would think that books would rather fall in that last category.
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I've had just the opposite experience. I used to write a lot of tests, but now I can usually encode my constraints in the type system, where I get a lot for free thanks to the structure - often I just need to compose a couple of existing things specialized to the right types. All the useful ways I've found to enforce correctness boil down to types in one guise or another.

When I was writing tests I felt busier because I spent more time typing; now I spend more time thinking and less time writing code, but I'm ultimately more productive.
I'm assuming they burned through much of the initial battery charge trying to establish contact, determine orientation, right the lander, etc. So it may have been able to operate for a week had they not had to do a lot of things they hadn't planned on.

Yes, they want to give things a positive spin, but they aren't being disingenuous. They have learned a lot from this, and they got to run tests with all of the equipment on the lander. Calling it a major failure is way off base. You often learn more from things going wrong than from when they go right. Maybe not the things you were planning on learning, but this is very far from a failure.

I also think you're over-interpreting their "minimum mission target". That was an "if everything goes to plan" target. Everything didn't go as planned, but here's the thing: that's also in the plan. It is not possible to do this kind of mission without things going wrong. Usually when things go wrong, you get no data back. But despite the landing going terribly awry, we still got a lot of data back!

If you consider this a failure or a disappointment, then I'm glad you don't work for the ESA. You are far too cynical to be able to get this kind of science done.
Only barely related, but it'd be nice if more languages had something similar to BASIC at the end of a loop (NEXT <VAR>). That way, if you're looking at the tail end of several nested IFs and loops, it's easier to know where you are.
What's silliest is that these nicknames make no sense. Why call your town "Silicon __________" to refer to a scene where people are making iPhone apps? Where's the Silicon?
Many might not agree with the conspiracy tone of the comment, but we can see that there's something to be explained.
Well, I meant it more as "hopeful pondering", but point taken :)
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According to Wikipedia, US military spending is about $643 billion. So, $300m would last about 4 hours.

Those shrimp really are stealing a lot from the military. </sarcasm>
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