skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read a pilot's account of flying the 747 carrier with the Shuttle on top. (USAF officer, former SR-71 driver, got to fly the shuttle carrier loaded as a special treat.) His description of the loaded 747/shuttle stack's handling was hair-raising -- it used nearly the entire 12,000 foot runway to get airborn, and once flying it had a tendency to want to topple over sideways whenever he banked (very gently!).

The 747 can carry the shuttle, but it's pretty marginal -- in hot weather, with full fuel tanks, it's a bit of a beast.

The An-225 wasn't developed solely to carry Buran -- it's got a massive load capacity (bigger even than the freighter version of the A-380) and can carry external loads up to 200 tons (compare that to the 186 ton empty weight of a 747-400!). The flying An-225 is in constant demand for special lift missions and Antonov were/are working on finishing the second airframe (while using the first as a development platform for future heavy lift designs).
While I doubt Maddox alone was a serious influence on anyone's stock price, commentators like him definitely have an influence on people's attitudes; when Crocs became ugly and smelly in the minds of many potential customers, those people were no longer potential customers.

(Whether Crocs are actually ugly and smelly is beside the point, though I agree with maddox here)
Apple can do better than ZFS
I highly doubt a little script written in Haskell and comprehensively
tested with quickcheck lacks security like a full blown PHP/mySQL
stack. Likewise, a litle super-optimized C filter is probably more
efficient than a PHP interpreter, even with cache. If I'm wrong, it's
because the cgi mechanism is as inefficient and insecure as a full
dynamic framework.
from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.
> Why not build the airport 40 miles inland, in the desert?

Heresy! Desert land in CA is considered sacred.
Awesome.

But the sad fact of its abandonment remains.
Also agree. I don't have time to watch this live today but would love to watch a recording sometime next week. Slides would be a nice bonus.
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I'm seen him speak several times now, and he's definitely one of the best natural speakers I've ever seen. I pretty much always learn something, and laugh a lot. He's just wired up that way, as he's the same (though lower key) in personal conversation.
He is complaining about mood swings, not coffee. If that's the case, I'd concentrate of stopping having mood swings as opposed to stopping drinking coffee.

It's like avoiding women and sex due to mood swings, elevated heart rate and other "impractical" side effects they may cause.
An Immodest Proposal for the Next Big Fuel
The easiest way to get a sense for the difference between the laws is to look at their mathematical statements. From the sheer magnitude of the forces induced, electrostatic repulsion of like charges (Coloumb's law) is ~10^23 times more strong between two electrons than the attractive force between their mass as given by the law of gravity; for protons (which have more mass & opposite but equal charge) you lose a few orders of magnitude, but the margin is still ~10^20. But gravity always attracts, while electrostatics may attract or repulse, so when you consider a real situation then things like your falling example get more complicated. I prefer just to remember the difference in their magnitudes.
Funding for technology projects as part of foreign aid to countries with predominantly Muslim populations != "Muslim Tech Fund". We don't call foreign aid to Israel "Jewish aid".
Type systems that are concerned with representation and range of primitive values aren't very useful. Replacing representation/structure with type names doesn't improve things.

If I'm adding 3.5 oz of OJ to 6.7 oz of vodka, that's either a programming mistake or a strong drink (represented programatically). (Yes, the correct answer depends on context.) A type system that helps me in that situation is worth something.

A type system that only addresses representation and range of primitive values can't even begin to help in that situation.

Yes, units are a partial solution. (They also reduce programmer work - you can add feet to furlongs and get something sensible.)
Yup. http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm
No, these are 1.6 million public domain works, that are available for any platform on archive.org.

The reason that these are finally available for the OLPC is because they are now all available in EPUB format, and the Read Activity on the OLPC has been updated to handle EPUBs.

In the past, the OLPC could not display archive.org pdfs, due to the specific PDF encoding used (MRC-compressed pdfs with jpeg2000 layers).
Chromium is the 100% open source version of Chrome. The branding (including logo) and license is the distinction.
Most of these apps seem to be based on the idea that an individual is in a location with no predefined plans/destination and a lack of familiarity with the area. Sounds great for travel but in my everyday life that's just not a realistic problem.
This seems like an incredibly poor idea. For whatever reason, people with engineering and hard-science backgrounds are much more likely to become terrorists (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/engineers_terrorists...). And dollar-for-dollar, US companies still seem to get more out of engineering investments than overseas companies do (even when they're using workers who immigrated). And with a deficit like the one we have, throwing more money at uncertain projects is a poor plan, even if it is investment, rather than spending.

So, this is a waste of money we don't have, in order to get worse results that it would get if we spent it here, with the side effect that it could increase the supply of terrorists.
No: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jupiter_interior.png
Negative text-indent is perfectly normal and I've done it many times myself.
This one of the things that Microsoft got right with the CLR. That TCO is required by scheme is where I finally grokked programming language semantics -- how implementation and form are intertwined.
This thread is so blatantly stupid that it must be flamebait. Accordingly, I responded.

To those who are taking it seriously: you will not be successful with YC until you get a better grasp of reality.
For one thing, a desert airport is harder to sell once you outgrow it.

"Used airport, good condition, excellent for coastal city, $15B, free shipping."
2 Things here...

1. This is marketing. The Obama administration is attempting to use this as an olive branch to the Muslim community in these countries so that those Muslim's who hate America might say "Hey, maybe those Americans aren't so bad after all". Hence the name.

2. Israel is one country while this is to many countries. The only thing those countries have in common is that they are predominantly Muslim (and in fact, as I said in Point #1, that's why we're giving them the money in the first place)
> people with engineering and hard-science backgrounds are much more likely to become terrorists

Of all the out-of-context-nonsense this has to be the best piece ever. Seriously ?

You think maybe that errrm, toddlers or gradeschoolers or writers are going to be as adept as technical people at blowing stuff up or destroying it ?

The Army corps of engineers is just as good at putting stuff together as they are at taking it apart.

Of course technical people would be the ones you find behind successful acts of destruction.

But that does not mean that all engineering and hard-science types are more likely to become terrorists.

It just means that if you take a random sampling of people and you test them for terrorist potential you will find that the technical ones will do better at it.

If this is the 'right attitude', then why bother letting those scary muslims have any education at all ? Maybe we should bomb all those schools, that way they're certainly not going to be engineers and science types.

Bollocks.

What I think is that if having an education will make them less susceptible to brainwashing. Engineering takes skill and critical thought.

If that means that the few engineers that will go through this program ending up as terrorists will be better at it, then that's just too bad, but as a scheme education certainly beats arming opposing groups (the normal way to deal with this problem).
Wouldn't that make so much more sense (by orders of magnitude) than build a floating airport?

Not necessarily. Look at the long-term impact of building a one-road-in and one-road-out solution into the desert vs. a potentially multi-routing solution for something on the water. It's no accident that the coastlines of the USA were populated first, and are currently the most densely populated areas of the country. Logistically-speaking, the multi-variant nature of water trails makes much more sense.
My more cynical Harvard friends say that you can always spot the Harvard alumni because they learn that the polite thing to say is "I went to school in Boston".
I don't see the problem. It doesn't use the same colours and it isn't that similar. And the Amtrak logo is only known to Americans anyway.
Rianti Cartwright Ogah Dipoligami
Lantaran ingin dimiliki dan memiliki sepenuhnya Rianti Cartwright tak ingin dipoligami. Ia yakin, sang kekasih Alfonso Nainggolan yang biasa disapa Cas tak akan berpoligami.
I could understand these as cheap water shoes for children. I've been a fan of these watershoes for adults: http://www.rei.com/product/780680?cm_mmc=cse_froogle-_-dataf...

They stay on really well, and when combined with neoprene booties provide the best cold water/mountain river shoe I've ever found. I use these when I go kayaking or try to hike up a stream or creek.

They're not that much more expansive, but provide a significantly improved experience, and look a lot nicer. Overall though, I the crocs fit a certain need -- cheap watershoes, for infrequent use, or for children.
SICP really isn't about learning Scheme, and probably shouldn't be about learning Clojure... but if someone wants to present the material in Clojure, sure, why not?
My first thought was that at least one of them should be named Marvin.
If he liked coffee because of the taste or warmth, that would be useful, I agree. He apparently doesn't care about those, though, from what he says. Since he actually cares mostly about the caffeine, and since high levels of caffeine produce mood swings for him (and me), going off coffee would seem to be the solution he wants.

Personally, I'm willing to put up with the mood swings, since it's not so much really high and really low as really, really high and kinda low. :) But that's just me.
I've always found that tea, not coffee, has enabled me to concentrate more clearly on the task at hand..
Thanks! I hope you or your friends find it useful one day.
I like your suggestion of recommended videos to load automatically on the opposite channel search..
I am going to check how to do that with the YouTube API.
Thx!
I can't use this until Live HTTP Headers/Tamper Data && Firebug ports are available. Until then I await with bated breath.
For a country that is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy this is a prime example of poor money management.
Well, SICP is hardly about Scheme itself as a language. Some features such as macros aren't mentioned at all.

It has more emphasis on programming paradigms and Scheme is just a tool to convey them. Its core is small and simple enough that you could introduce advanced topics without the need for the reader to learn the language beforehand.
Yeah, I used it way back when it first got posted on the App Store.

I reinstalled it based on your post and used it in Starbucks earlier, where it definitely worked better than Shazam.

Still can't recognize my humming, but that might be my fault more than Midomi's...
> If Crocs hadn't saturated the market, then all those knock-offs would have stolen more of the total money to be made on the idea.

That is true. I think the total amount of crocs sold is the same - the only difference is that 90% of them are knockoffs. I am wearing a $2 pair of knock-offs right now.

The problem is that it was a good idea which everyone could copy.
Very helpful, & i'm very appreciative.
http://www.newsbrane.com suggestion from DTrejo seems 2 be a winner 4 me.
I've read some evidence that people who are more likely to die from flu are less likely to get vaccinated for flu thus the vaccinated population 'looks' healthier.

Worst this means that flu vaccines are bogus (not likely, we're quite good at creating vaccines and they work in labs) and best it means they are a HUGE waste of time and money (a bit more likely but you can level that argument at most things we routinely do for health).

However since I am _not_ a virologist or epidemiologist I tend to follow what my doctor says.
This is not a question that can be answered in a span of less than a decade.
"Far better to tell a kid that they're hard working."

Sorry. Working smart beats working hard. EOM
I suppose that's a possibility, though I saw these in the store today for $100. That's an absurd amount of royalties if that's the case.

It was also in a Target, so I'd imagine they already have the scale part down.
Top business schools know how to create entrepreneurs and teach people how to take risks.

Or they just know how to attract entrepreneurs.
You are right about ice, but metals (which are comprised of neutral atoms which lack an intrinsic dipole moment like that of H2O, and nearly always have crystalline structure) are not held together by Van der Waals or similar forces - one needs to invoke quantum mechanics to get even a qualitative picture of why they stick together.

Consider for instance Sodium. If there were no force other than Van der Waals holding the atoms together in the crystal, there is no explanation for the fact that Argon, a significantly heavier atom, has much lower melting and boiling points.
While the OP's argument is easily absurd, there is (contrary to intuition) little causality between education and terrorism: http://www.krueger.princeton.edu/terrorism2.pdf

But even if a better education caused or prevented terrorism, what's orders of magnitude more significant in this fund is the good PR it generates for America.
Of course technical people would be the ones you find behind successful acts of destruction.

But that does not mean that all engineering and hard-science types are more likely to become terrorists.

Right, but that's not what I said at all. Regardless of why there is a correlation between engineering education and terrorism, there is a correlation; whether you're equipping potential terrorists with the tools to commit terrorist acts, or somehow making non-terrorists more terroristic, the end result is the same.

It just means that if you take a random sampling of people and you test them for terrorist potential you will find that the technical ones will do better at it.

That's interesting; I hadn't heard that the same kind of study had been duplicated elsewhere. Do you have a source? Before I saw the study, I was struck by how many of the 9/11 hijackers had an engineering, compared to, e.g., American terrorists. (The Unabomber is the closest analogue, and his academic background was fairly abstract).

What I think is that if having an education will make them less susceptible to brainwashing.

And yet that effect is clearly counteracted by whatever else it is that makes engineers more likely to blow stuff up. If they're half as willing but ten times as able to commit terrorist acts, we still lose.
You mean etherpad-like slider?
unreal. You'd think it was comment section on youtube.
Off-topic.

I love justin.tv, I have been following it since its early days of justin's stunt on lifecasting. I have seen the site morph over time. But the site in its current form is just very ugly UI. The chat widget is horrible and the bar on top is very out of place. They need to look at other live streaming site for decent UI design.
The tone of this article is far more shrill than the Atlantic article. Dr. Thomas Jefferson is demanding evidence for assertions - that's "methodolotry"? He's betraying the original ideas of evidence-based medicine by demanding that medicine be based on evidence? For shame.

In this case his evidence base isn't even relevant, because we aren't dealing with seasonal flu but pandemic flu.

Ah, but the epidemiology to back this statement has mostly come from very dubious and biased statistics - specifically, the way that, in Mexico where epidemic originated, the only people they found with the disease were those on the edge of death because of the tendency there to only go to the doctor when you are on the edge of death. Despite the pandemic declaration, we haven't seen death rates above the normal rates of flu season yet (though a slightly different group is dying..). We might see high death rates but ... perhaps ... we should look at evidence before making grand declarations that this like nothing seen before.

Note, the original article is a not screaming endorsement of Jefferson's view, just a summary of debate:

The most vocal—and undoubtedly most vexing—critic of the gospel of flu vaccine is the Cochrane Collaboration’s Jefferson, who’s also an epidemiologist trained at the famed London School of Tropical Hygiene, and who, in Lisa Jackson’s view, makes other skeptics seem “moderate by comparison.” Among his fellow flu researchers, Jefferson’s outspokenness has made him something of a pariah.
AT&T would be better for international roaming just due to the whole CDMA vs GSM thing.

The obvious guess would be money. Maybe AT&T offered a better deal. Even without a better deal, manufacturing costs most be cheaper with only one GSM version doing twice the volume versus two different versions.
It is correct, however, to read the linked article and see someone who thought violating a license was fine so long as it was a closed-source Apple license, but had problems with it as soon as it appeared to be violation of an open-source license.
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At my last job I worked in a lab, which was mainly a server room... the kind with the raised floors and the constant 60º. Well almost the difference was the project I was working on dealt with Virtualization. The room used to have thousands of servers, but after we virtualized everything there were only a few hundred. The AC was never adjusted though (we kept telling the maintenance people about it, but they kept telling us it should compensate automatically) Finally I went to radio shack bought a thermometer, which read something around 50º. Took a picture, and emailed maintenance. They came down, and investigated. Somehow the room reached a cozy 60º after they pushed a few buttons :)

The other thing that sucked about the room besides the temperature was the constant noise, and the lack of windows. Also the warning signs about the fire suppressant kind of freaked me out :)
Any time you educate someone in technology you increase their potential to do harm.

The high school kid with sharpshooter skills can do more harm than the one without, the professor with a good and solid understanding of chemistry will be able to do more damage than the one that studied English poetry in the 17th century.

Technology is a two-edged sword (for want of a better analogy), you can do good with it or bad. Technology education is neutral as well.

The people that have access to technology decide what they can do with it. And that means that if you educate people in a country where terrorism is high that you will proportionally educate more terrorists.

But that's not a reason to deny the others of that education, in fact that's an excellent reason to educate all of them, which will to some extent level the advantage of technically inclined people bent on destruction.

Check out the high schoolers that are technically inclined, I'll bet you that a good portion of those that studied chemistry got in to it because they liked to play with stuff, and in the process learned a thing or two about explosives, maybe even played with them.

I know I did. And if I should turn 'terrorist' I'd probably make a half decent one, as would anybody else with some understanding of technology.

What stops people from doing stupid stuff though is not just their technical education - or lack thereof - , but their overall education and worldview.

And if you were a terrorist in the making, aged 15 or so and nicely brainwashed by your environment, told to go study engineering, you would do it to and you'd possibly excel at it.

So, that might even be the spot where you might find out who these people are and deflect them before they can do real harm.

You'll stop losing by creating economic parity and making sure that those in the world that would turn to terrorism have too much to lose themselves.

You'll never achieve that goal by denying them an education, that makes the disparity even greater.
China's Xinjiang 'isolated' by email, phone blocks
But is that true of business contacts, casual aquaintances? Some guy who's going to sublet your apartment while you're on sabbatical?

I would hope that my friends don't feel left out if they aren't getting my complete output stream. If someone did, I would find it odd and possibly creepy depending on the context.
I always loved these schemes and it took me a while to understand why they are inherently expensive and so are not likely to appear soon.

The reason is that a man-made structure on the water is subject to continuous strain and thus continual and so needs continual repair. The larger the structure, the more that this becomes a problem. Bridge and ships fall apart over time and still require continuous maintenance while they're in their lifetime.

It's appealing but like the underwater city, it would be enormously impractical.
Unfortunately (as someone else here has posted evidence) your assertion is bull.

Of course engineers feature in terrorist attacks. But that does not make them initially more likely to be a terrorist.

Besides if we had that attitude everyone would end up as unskilled and on the dole :-)

it all sounds a lot like the old political line to me ;-)
Chrome's Developer Tools does a pretty good Firebug impersonation. It's certainly prettier.
Isn't the TCO problem largely a non-issue? My understanding is that if you do (defn function [...] ... (recur ...)) instead of (defn function [...] ... (function ...)) the compiler handles it for you.
That would be a joke people. Spearhead is about as bigoted and ugly as you can get without broaching open hateful language.
It works in Chrome. And you can drag the scroll bar to get there much quicker, rather than clicking.
That article has the worst Google map ever. It's zeroed in on Beijing rather than Xinjiang which is really the other side of the country. You'll get a better idea from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang
I'm actually very excited about this. I run a coworking facility in Atlanta (Ignition Alley) and we have a central music system that has just been Pandora for now. But this presents us with new options that we wouldn't have before. Primarily, I can start building out a music voting system to let those in the space vote up music they want to hear from any source available to the system, defaulting back to Pandora, if there's nothing left. It will be like iTunes DJ + Pandora for continual music awesomeness. I'm stoked to get started!