skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why wouldn't SpaceX be capable of doing life support systems? What's so magically complicated about those compared to the rockets themselves? You have to be aware of the shifting goal posts scenario here. At every stop people said SpaceX wasn't going to be able to do what they were going to do, because there was some kind of magic fairy dust that only government space organizations have. And each time that they achieve a milestone, people just keep shifting the goalposts. They've already done things NASA was never able to do, like build a reusable rocket and land it vertically. Clearly they are more capable than NASA in some ways. Personally, I think SpaceX will be able to do everything they say they will do, up to and including putting people on Mars. They've come this far, why wouldn't they go all the way?
Minecraft: A Software Engineer's Experience Part 1
Writers write because that's what they do. Paul Graham has been at for more than 20 years...there was a PhD dissertation and then two books on Lisp before all the essays. Joel Spolsky and Dave Weiner developed a following because they wrote something interesting...regularly without worrying about audience. What they focused on was writing.

There's no such thing as writing in your head. If it's not written its not writing. So start a journal for yourself. Start a blog. Write. Everyday. If it's reasonably good, a few people may care.

Good luck.
The "left" or "right" refer to the direction that the chemical (usually in solution) rotates the plane of polarized light passing through it, from the point of view of an observer that the light is traveling towards.

An experimental setup to demonstrate this is a light source, a linear polarizer oriented in some direction (say along the x-axis for definiteness), followed by the sample container, followed by another linear polarizer, followed by a detector.

With nothing in the sample container, the second polarizer is rotated around the light beam axis until no light passes through. This will be very close to a right angle with the first one (try it with polarizing sunglasses :) ). The sample is then added, and the change in angle of the second polarizer required to again allow no light through is observed.
Because the market is so inefficient and taxis are so terrible that a company somewhat more efficient and somewhat less terrible can make lots of money and have only one real competitor.

If a market is ripe for disruption, we shouldn't believe that the first company that comes along is efficient and running well. Quite the opposite, since it has so much room not to be and still be successful.
Everything you said sounds logical. But, it's a wide swath of information. What books/articles are you sourcing to piece this all together?

Hacker News barely supports links, and you want footnotes?

Volatility and CEO pay, Harvard Business Review:
https://hbr.org/2011/06/volatility-the-nasty-truth-abo.html

AT&T breakup and reassembly:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/atthistory.jpg

Union decline:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674725119
This is literally the stupidest comment that I've seen on HN in my several years of browsing this site.

If you're a troll, congratulations.
You may get hooked on endocannabinoids, if you run intensively for prolonged time (>1hr).

Running can and will mess with your endocrine system.
Russia, Iran, China are all countries of concern in the middle to long term.

Iran would obviously retaliate against efforts to destroy their nuclear infrastructure. Russia has stated that it will defend Russians anywhere leaving many Eastern European countries in question. China has stated quite clearly this year that it will start to assert its position as a counterweight superpower to the US.
I am less then convinced that relying on Emacs as a primary environment is a problem, but I think that not documenting the relevant features of emacs and the relevant emacs mode(s) for your language or tool the same as you would if it was a custom, language-specific environment is a problem. Too often the relevant emacs mode is documented with the assumption than any new user of the language already has a broad general proficiency with Emacs.
FreeBSD admins are hard to come by. Same with software; try getting something hip running on FreeBSD these days. Even better, try getting a support contract on it, it will not be trivial.

However, the quality of the sysadmins that prefer FreeBSD is pretty high, though. And FreeBSD is pretty neat.
Also, try reading the article. Naturally-produced RNA, etc are all left-handed. :)
>Actually, it's turning out to be this generation's TFX,

Yeah, that thing. Also, Robert McNamara.
there is an approach in xquery,

which could easily be ported to js

https://github.com/jpcs/transform.xq
Realistic estimates and actual history put airframe and total crew losses for the Shuttle fleet at ~25 flights per vehicle as I remember, definitely no more than 35. The SSMEs needed total rebuilds before reuse, there were the obvious expendables, etc. etc.

Spending more money upfront and wisely could have changed that, but once the turkey's design was set in stone its infrequent launches and insane operating costs (especially from all the staff who had to be retained no matter what the launch rate) were baked into the cake and turned it into a public works project. Certainly not something that demonstrated much about a market, given its insane costs/lb and severe restrictions on what it could loft due to safety reasons (e.g. no lithium batteries, Centaur booster canceled post-Challenger, etc. etc.).
I think a sweet spot are neighborhoods ~10-15 minutes from city centers. You usually get a nice mix between city benefits and suburban ones.

Once you get further than that your total transit time starts to grow compared to the average time you'll spend at your destination (i.e shopping, eating, going to a show, whatever). A good ratio for me is about .25 - i.e if I'm going to spend a total of 30 minutes in transit and I have a reason to stay ~> 2 hours then I'm likely to go.

The distance 10-15minutes equates to varies by place and I imagine the transportation options can also move the dial as well.
Tone-map me sceptical.
I agree with the comparison sort of being apples to oranges, but the key point is it's bad to have the majority of CEO's pay be Stock+Options because that will lead to:

- The CEO will push the company to focus on SVM
- The increase in wage gap due to high exec pay, like the 1%.
- The company might not be helping it's longevity

An alternative would be not to pay exec's with Stock+Options, but focus on Salary+Bonus.
It's Easy to Make Someones Day
here here,

XSLT v1.0 is severely limited and many of the idiosyncratic behaviour ppl associate with XSLT in general is because they hit some very hard to parse/understand/grok things in XSLT v1.0

I remember in 2001-2002 sending the following link, when anyone said 'I am having a problem with XSLT transform'

http://www.exslt.org/exsl/functions/node-set/
How do you manage to change C or Python source code? Omit a ";" in C or ":" in Python and it will refuse to compile.
But this data is actually useless without context. I actually have no clue if 500 calls since August is a lot -- to be honest my first reaction was that it sounded low compared to my (completely possibly incorrect) notion of how many uber rides must be taking place in New York (Uber's biggest market?). It would have been nice for him to have done some analysis with this supposedly indicative number, for example saying how that represents x% of all rides or something. Instead he focuses on really strange parts of this story. I suppose its an op ed so excusable, but I think there was an insightful possibility here that instead just comes off as some guy who's kind of angry and snarky.
> No, it isn't. That's very much the point. They have spent all this time realizing that doing it wrong is bad and rewriting it to actually work.

Troll much? Nope. That is not accurate at all. Varnish, with it's current storage engines manages to power sites such as Wikipedia and NYT. This announcement was not about that, it was about enabling caching of really large datasets. Datasets that run in the hundreds of terabytes.

And we did tens of migrations from Squid -> Varnish. Usually it involved scaling down the number of servers to 1/6 whilst seeing a massive decrease in response time. So it kind of surprising that your findings are completely different and somewhat disappointing that you cannot back them up.
I kind of agree with you. I've seen some of his interviews on Youtube and tried to read some of his work but couldn't find anything of substance. On the other hand, many smart people seem to disagree so it's very possible I am missing something. There's been a few debates on HN about deconstruction and both sides had good arguments.
For fun: start with one picture, then it run for a while, and then change the source picture
This short documentary is a nice tribute to the A-10:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YktOuoqA-I

It's a leaked version with blurred out faces, apparently because the Air Force decided not to release it.
That is very harsh critique which you leave unsubstantiated. Did you have something particular in mind? Preferably something you have made an honest attempt to benevolently interpret.

This being said, I too am confused about this being popping up on the front page uncommented.
http://agentscript.org/models/tspga.html

http://agentscript.org
The problem with most tools is that they go through the "bright and shiny" stage:

"New tool - cool! Lets use it on EVERY problem."

And are thus misused.

XSLT exists for inter-organizational data transfer and transformation. Don't use it for any other situation.

XML is a good (not perfect) persistent data storage mechanism where you need the data to outlast the program that created it.

I go into more explanation here: http://sworddance.com/blog/2014/12/06/xml-is-not-bad-just-mi...

Lets not blame a tool that was misused.
I find the taxi business to be impersonal and cutthroat. They under pay their drivers, they offer the least service for the most money, and they will often rip you off if you let them. My mother-in-law got taken for a ride because she's a gullible old woman who didn't know that two miles was two miles, between her pick-up and our house, and this cabbie took her in circles and charged her way higher than he should have.

If it were Uber, he'd get one star and a complaint and probably would never get any more riders.

But since it's Yellow Cab, he just pockets the money and laughs all the way to the bank.

Yeah, there's plenty of need for competition in this overly regulated racket of a business.

I wish airplanes were as cheap as cars, and then maybe we could have an Air Uber as well, to give the airline racket a run for their money!
Sorry, poor wording on my part. You are correct. You can create a pure sample, but it doesn't stay pure in your body.
I didn't say the nuclear industry faces the same regulations as any other industry, I said the problem that restricts the economic viability of the industry isn't special regulations, its general liability, which is why in a country where there is a major and powerful political faction that is favorably predisposed toward industry complaints of overregulation, the industry itself doesn't generally complain of overregulation but instead of the need for broad government-granted immunity from general liability.
Yeah, I remember that guy and figured it would've been the same. It's not. Nice steal Chris, at least cite the main source in your site.
"For those who don't know, Derrida was a French postmodern intellectual charlatan with absolutely no redeeming qualities."

This is a ridiculously inaccurate way to explain Derrida to "those who don't know" him. Derrida is one of the most important continental philosophers of the 20th century.
Many small dams? One word: beavers.
Wouldn't this require quantum computing to be developed relatively gradually and in the open? Seems likely that a gov or company will suddenly reveal it or have it exposed.
➔ host www.gmo.com
Host www.gmo.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

This is using Google's DNS servers.
There are some German terms that have taken on a particularly distinctive significance in terms of the Nazi era, like Lebensraum, Endlösung, ausrotten, Anschluss, even if they have a more generic literal meaning. (That's true of terms in other languages that have a strong connection to other historical events too.)

I don't find that the preposition über has such an association for me -- maybe because I've used it in day-to-day contexts when speaking German as a foreign language, like "nach Hamburg über Zürich fliegen" -- but someone upthread pointed out that it may remind some people of Nietzsche's Übermensch, an idea that the Nazis associated with their concept of the Herrenvolk.

It's possible for some people to perceive a connotation that others don't perceive at all. I was working with some Brazilians on a document that used the term "solução final" as a non-Nazi reference, to mean something like 'definitive solution' or 'complete solution'. I strongly urged them to change the term to avoid the unintended Holocaust reference, but they assured me that Brazilians in their circles used that term completely neutrally, and that readers wouldn't take any reference to the Holocaust at all.
It is my experience that this is true. However, it is probably smart to list some minimal prices so people that are in different ballparks can adjust.
So if I'm understanding you correctly, a dividend is just as good as a buyback from the POV of a shareholder but a buyback is preferred because it makes options holders more money. If this is the case, can you explain why there are companies that issue dividends at all? Are these companies that are paying their execs with few options?

How are buybacks a tax dodge? If they have the desired effect of boosting share price, then there will be increased taxes paid by shareholders when those positions are exited, no?
Well, it certainly can't do it with cannon, they can carry about 1/10 the number of rounds the A-10 does, and they're much less effective.
I don't think I understand the question. If you prefer, I whipped up a gist on this, we could discuss there. https://gist.github.com/latkin/909d6f88493f049d7f81
In addition to it being super cheesy and cringe worthy to me as a native speaker how am I supposed to pronounce it when I am speaking German?

If say Uber I sound like an idiot that can't pronounce the ü.
>My main point was that overall USAF expenses are pretty high, whatever aircraft are in use. So we shouldn't be scared by high per-airframe costs, if F-35 is say 40% better than some 'average' aircraft of comparable role,

I see that and agree. I just don't see how the F35 is ever going to do all of the thing that its supporters want us to believe it will do.

They want to kill the ~300 A10 fleet that costs ~18000/hr to operate in exchange for about a half-dozen F35's that cost who knows what /hr in that same role. That is not a good proposition. There is no way that a half-dozen F35's can replace 300 A10's at any operating cost.
Delhi Woman Raped, Allegedly by Uber Cab Driver
Does anyone use Microsoft XPS? It looked rather interesting; like PDF without any interactivity (except for links) and with special support for publishing (color management, job tickets, etc.). And internally it is a collection of XML docs and binary data zipped together into a single file; pretty neat, must be easier to use in automated workflows.
Better not ask anyone to "concentrate," because that would be a transparent and villainous reference to concentration camps.
Sorry dragonwriter, you make my point.

The term "Tiers Monde" was coined in an essay by Sauvy specifically making the analogy to the Tiers Etat (third estate) of pre-revolutionary France. The point being that the dispossessed majority rose up and overthrew their seemingly entrenched overlords, and that by analogy the disenfranchised poor of the world would rise up and overthrow the then global powers (USA & USSR) of the cold war.

Now academic revolutionary theory had already moved on by the time he wrote that (revolutions like the French or American are clearly the revolutions of the upper middle classes, and even the major communist revolutions of Russia and China were instigated and lead by upper middle class bourgeois who used the poor to help achieve their own ends). But the simplistic marxist view of class struggle was still popular in the press and much of the populace (and was still considered legit in academic settings too until the 90s).

Now as a kid/teenager during the cold war I spend part of my life in India (famously non-aligned; Nehru even foolishly turned down a seat at the security council to make this point) and France and the origins and implications of the term were important parts of how geopolitics was viewed. However in the States, all the context is stripped out rendering the analogy simplistic at best and ultimately not really formative (we already know that there are poor countries -- simply using a new name adds no value). In fact even today I look at my kid's high school american history textbook (stops and rummages in kid's backpack to confirm) and even in American history it seems most of the context has been stripped out. I guess it's too contentious, or perhaps controversial.
It was basically designed to “take apart a Soviet tank,” says Jeffery S. Underwood, a historian at the United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Just in case the collapse of the rouble, precipitous drops in oil prices (traded in dollars printed somewhere else), problems in Ukraine, the technical inability to extract vast hydrocarbons found in the Arctic, and a list of other issues, have a negative impact on Russian decision making.
<tongue-in-cheek>They also work on Android devices, you could say they are cross-platform wallpapers</tongue-in-cheek>
> consistent

I think jimfleming covered what I was going to say really well, but I wanted to really emphasize that for this to work, you need to be maniacally consistent with using the system.

I use Asana, and just keep a tab open next to my inbox. Sure, having a todo list helped from the start, but it took probably 2-3 months of consistently putting everything (and their anticipated due dates) into Asana before I could really trust the system. Now that it's ingrained into my workflow, though, I know that anything I need to keep track of is there.

Once you get to that stage, it's like a whole different life -- seriously.
I really recommend meditation.

Other than that, you just need to accept that you'll never be able go through it all. And prioritize what's most important to your life. And sometimes just lay it all aside and recharge.

But meditation has really healped me with all of these. And in the end it's quite of a high-quality problem.
Doesn't share price typically go down after a dividend payment, by exactly the amount of the payment per share?
yes, its a typical scenario ... XSLT is one of those languages where people either love it or hate it ... I think its to do with the fact that it takes a bit longer to become productive or useful in XSLT, most developers are expected to just immediately start writing code that 'does stuff' these days.

Anyhow, I see most of developers pain with XSLT is because they never learned the basics of the language and thrash about ... perhaps thats the biggest fault of the language, in that its difficult to tell its story with an analogy to where people start from. Anyhow, learning any fp language tends to improve a developer as a programmer
A lot of people get trapped into this these days.

You have no commitment to read these articles. They should serve you, not the other way round.

I would personally purge everything and stop using pinboard/instapaper for a while.

Try to unsubcribe to as many newsletters as you can as well, it definitely helps.
> But if you’re more of a normal case, where you could pursue profitability with marginally worse growth, go after the profitability; because once you are profitable you don’t need investors’ money. And not only will you be picky, you will appear picky as well. Investors will realize that they will have to convince you to take their money because you don’t need it.

This is silly and idealistic. Profitability in and of itself doesn't make a company more attractive from an investment perspective. Silicon Valley angels and institutional investors are looking for companies that are believed to be targeting a market opportunity of a certain size, capable of achieving certain growth, etc. Profitable companies that don't fit the profile are no more investable than unprofitable companies that don't fit the profile.

More startups should target profitability because many of them will eventually find that they can't raise additional capital and will either have to sustain themselves or die. They should not target profitability in the belief that it will instantly make them more attractive to investors.
I know a Wordpress customizer who does very well at 125/hr in Orlando. He's booked solid 3-4 days per week
> XML might be overengeneered (which, except for a few things I don't agree with), but there is currently no alternative for it.

There's perhaps no general alternative to it that covers all of the things XML tries to do; there are lots of specific alternatives that cover specific things that XML tries to do. The complaint against XML isn't that there is a better general replacement so much that there is a better replacement for each (or at least, very many) of the applications and that trying to shoehorn all of them into a single solution has costs that outweigh the benefits.
>Compiling config file into an .so object.

That is neither new, nor interesting "engineering". Lots of software that needs significant customization uses the host programming language for configuration.

>Using innovative priority queue (heap) implementation

How is "we used an existing data structure and deliberately misrepresent this as some amazing discovery" an amazing feat of engineering? This supports the notion that varnish's biggest achievement is an amazing feat of marketing.
Where it benefits is trying to represent in video something perceptually close to how the eye/brain perceives a scene.

It would have been nice to see some scenes with dialed down settings more "natural" results.