skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MPAA is not going to fade away, because motion picture publishers have economic interests, same as any other industrial sector. I could cite a bunch of things I don't care for about it, such as the ratings policy, but it's going to keep existing in some form.

I think what the MPAA is worried about here is that if US fair use standards are exported to all TPP countries, then decisions in US courts come to cover a much larger part of the world, with potentially unpredictable economic effects. In this case, they're arguing for not changing the copyright laws of the other countries.
> "Realistically, any form of power generation could be used in space. It's really only a question of whether it's financially and practically feasible."

Are you referring only to nuclear power sources? Because a literal reading of your comment ("any form of power generation") is obviously silly (e.g. steam power). And questions of financial and practical feasibility are two of the most important considerations for nuclear power systems, so one shouldn't dismiss those concerns so easily.
Do you know for sure that RethinkDB can't work out what columns are being filtered by a function? In the examples it would certainly be possible with some analysis.
Mixing matching, mutation, and moves in Rust
"You haven't lost at life and you're not losing at life, you've gained something extremely valuable: experience."

Very well said!
Doesn't a lot of US nuclear power come from dismantling Russian weapons?
Bloomberg's stickiness is primarily about the IM network. Everyone is on it. Familiarity is a close second, but nobody likes paying the fees and an alternative would be welcomed, particularly by clients burned by the chat log snooping scandal.

There was some press quite recently about an industry-backed initiative to develop an alternative IM platform (which is a necessary first step to displacing terminals), but nothing much has been said since.
Here's the editorial by David Trafimow and Michael Marks explaining the new policy for their journal "Basic and Applied Social Psychology": http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01973533.2015.101...

And here's their concluding paragraph explaining their rationale and objective:

We conclude with one last thought. Some might view
the NHSTP[1] ban as indicating that it will be easier to
publish in BASP, or that less rigorous manuscripts will
be acceptable. This is not so. On the contrary, we
believe that the p < .05 bar is too easy to pass and sometimes
serves as an excuse for lower quality research. We hope
and anticipate that banning the NHSTP will have the
effect of increasing the quality of submitted manuscripts
by liberating authors from the stultified structure of
NHSTP thinking thereby eliminating an important
obstacle to creative thinking. The NHSTP has dominated
psychology for decades; we hope that by instituting
the first NHSTP ban, we demonstrate that
psychology does not need the crutch of the NHSTP,
and that other journals follow suit.

[1] NHSTP = null hypothesis significance testing procedure
The real questions with the creation of corporate forms are 1) how do taxes work, 2) how does bankruptcy work, and 3) what rights and powers do investors have. Most startups fail, so 2) is an important issue. Policies vary by country. The US is lenient on corporate bankruptcies; Ireland is very tough.

There are a number of rackets associated with easy corporate creation. Ordering stuff and then going bankrupt with the stuff missing is a classic. (The usual strategy is order a little stuff, pay for it, order more stuff, pay for it, order a lot of stuff, disappear with the stuff. Popular in New Jersey.)
I haven't skateboarded in years, but some of my fonder memories was just me and like the regular 4-5 other kids going out and skating around town together.
No downvote from me however...

If you want email and privacy, you need to encrypt.

Email is as secure like a postcard; at least that is what we use tell the people that wanted to append long email disclaimers.
>Regarding the last test procedure, that would be like testing the helmet on an adult male of average height, where, while standing, suddenly suffered a stroke and fell over

With all due respect, do you ride a bike extensively? Because these exact sort of accidents happen all the time. I've fallen sideways from a stationary position several times over the last 5 years as an avid cyclist when I've had lapses in judgment or focus when declipping from my pedals.

Further, I was struck by a car from behind 2 years ago and lost consciousness, propelled forward several meters, broke several ribs, suffered large abrasions on my back. My helmet suffered dents and scratches, but my head and face were 100% fine. If not for the helmet, I would have 100% suffered from cuts and abrasions to my face (given that my back has permanent scars, this could have easily happened to my face), even without taking into consideration impact protection.

The fact that bicycle helmets don't protect you from every type of accident situation is a ridiculous reason to not wear one.
Could we not reprocess uranium into plutonium from commercial reactors to recycle the waste and use that for space probes?
Campfire and Flowdock are both pretty awful compared to Hipchat (the previous market leader) and Slack. I think Hipchat is feature-wise mostly on par with Slack, but has a much more approachable interface. Hipchat is also learning from slack on how to make integrations easier to install and configure. Slack surged into the space by marketing to companies that were using nothing - not by winning people away from competitors. I'm not sure that Hipchat can take the space back from slack without a major new killer feature, but Slack's marketshare is hardly guaranteed.
Actually, I think you've hit on something important: you're saying "manly man" is wacky and humorous, but "negro" is problematic. The only difference here and now is how it's no longer acceptable, at all, to play on race stereotypes, not like it was 50 years ago.

Times change, and we can either keep up, or we can let ourselves becomes relics from an earlier era.
So people should be punished because something you deem important was exploitable? What about the other 99999999 items that they view as important and that they're also already spending money on?

If I go to your house and break a window and steal a bunch of stuff, am I justified because you needed to learn a lesson about security? If I go up to you and beat you up, is that ok because you should know how to defend yourself better?

I don't understand this self righteous hacker mindset that if you're able to exploit someone somehow then they deserve it. How about respecting people's boundaries in the first place? Recognize that as a company a&r, finding new talent, marketing existing projects, managing key relationships, etc etc are probably seen as where they should actually put their money rather than security?
How do you handle the storage tier (e.g. Core Data) of your react-native apps? Do you just write native Obj-C that handles interacting with core data and integrate it w/ your react code?
A list of several dozen posted recently to twitter:

https://storify.com/mooseallain/picking-rhymes
Apple didn't do this. Companies wanting to make money since so few people actually paid for games up front did this.
This article from 2012 sheds some light on the issues/tradeoffs related to glued batteries: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/recyclers-disagree-on-i...
Yes, considering how expensive(in terms of price per hour) it is to just manually install drivers on those machines.
A mix of politics, historical nuclear industry in-fighting, 9/11-terrorism-godzilla paranoia and oil industry lobbying make nuclear development very difficult.

It's also made nuclear power one of the safest and cleanest sources of power in the States.

China and India are very aggressively pursuing Thorium reactors though, which risks putting the West at another energy competitive disadvantage within decades.
Drones blow that eight-year-old-into chunks in real time. I doubt the eight-year-olds appreciate the difference.
i keep getting:

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The requested URL /bitstream/handle/1911/64493/mcdaniel-shear2012.pdf was not found on this server.
This is a false dilemma. The reasons those problems aren't solved aren't because of scarcity of resources but lack of political will.
The first manned flights were likely in 1783. No, that isn't a typo.

The debate between 1901 and 1903 (Whitehead Vs. Wright) is really uninteresting in the grand scheme of overall aviation history, and long before 1901 even members of the public could take a hot air balloon ride (and they were already being used in wars).

All that really happened in the early 1900s is that the weight-power ratio of engines got such that it was just waiting for someone to exploit that advancement. That's the reason why people didn't do it before 1901, not because nobody had invented the concept of a fixed wing aircraft (they had, with gliders) but because engines were simply too heavy for their power output to carry both themselves and a passenger.

PS - Yes, Whitehead/Wright deserve credit, they often had to tweak engines, optimise the design, optimise the propeller, and so on. Just saying that broader technology advancements played a large role which is often ignored.
For anyone who's interested, I gave a talk called "Let's build a React Native app in 20 minutes" [1] at the React Berlin meetup a couple weeks ago, where I took a little example React web app and "ported" it to React Native. It was my first time giving a talk at something like this, so it's a bit rough around the edges (and the audio quality isn't great because the primary mic's batteries went out a couple minutes in), but it might still be helpful if you're looking to jump in.

Don't forget to check out the companion Gist [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ArhJiMGVDc

[2] https://gist.github.com/peterjmag/2ef39ba5d25f3f1e0008
There are two teams in any football game.

I actually "know" a guy ( old Usenet contact, current Facebook friend ) and he's savvy enough to explain the models to me. I don't understand them, but I can kinda sorta get a little bit about it - they depend on theorems and assumptions that, if I started now, I might get to the bottom of before I die. The knowledge gap here is staggering. I just don't have that kind of training and bandwidth.

Basically, I sort of have to trust him. That's not the same thing as "knowing".

No, he won't write That Book; I asked. He doesn't have the time. He has grad students that do have the time, but they're busy doing something else.

I am unusually lucky in that regard. And fossil fuels are pretty important as a replacement for animal - and human - muscle power, historically.

It's less activists than ordinary people going "Lol, whut?". And if, as I see it, there's a skirmish line between the industries that make carbon-causing things and ... "science", it's not reasonable to expect the carbon-people to all just get shot and lay down.

This is looking more and more like a "smoking" thing, and that didn't turn out so well. I know people of low income who smoke, and the taxes hurt them. They already live close to the edge. You and I don't get to tell them to quit; that's up to them.

I am not even a "doubter" but don't ask me to show my work. So I can hardly throw rocks at people who draw a different conclusion.
No, the Maj3 interval between the 2nd and 3rd strings on the guitar is unrelated to this issue. It's just the fret spacing on the guitar that causes it to have equal temperament and therefore makes chords slightly "out of tune".
Melissa S Mccracken, synesthetic art
​Scientists develop mesh that captures oil–but lets water through
From what I've read it's not a legal issue, it's a "huge amount of money needed to get thorium reactors to where they need to be" issue. Nobody is really interest in putting up that money because current modern reactors are "good enough" - all the problems with nuclear plants tend to come from old, bad ones that are decades behind the state of the art.
So... what are your opinions on Wikipedia?

Google is a collection of links to the rest of the internet. Popularity and accuracy determine what is shown in the results. It's an aggregate of information and not company-selected&approved information.

If it was the latter, I'd have a larger problem with it.
The Student Bill of Rights
They aren't actually gnomes.
You can't design protocols without implementation experience. Looks like they're going the same route they went with SPDY, and that has worked really well.
A friend showed spacemacs to me a while ago but, as a vim user who knows nothing about emacs, I got lost very quickly. I never knew if a problem I was having was due to not knowing how to use emacs or to not knowing how to use spacemacs.

Does anyone know any tips or references for total emacs newbies trying to jump into spacemacs head first?
Why not write with a pencil and paper, I can think of no more distracting thing than a computer.

Or better yet, a quill and parchment, to totally withdraw from the confines and entrapments of modern technology.
He was seeking attention
Ah, but how would you know?
Haha very true!! My #1 complain against MongoDB was the silent data loss scenario. Anyways I am curious what RethinkDB has to offer.
For those who were wondering, this is what the Rabbit Proto has been working on for the last 10 months. Pretty hard to be keep silent.
+1 to ratcheting drivers, they're great
No, the naturally abundant isotope of Thorium has 6 fewer nucleons. Why would building a special reactor for a program that has so little funding be justifiable?
But it's not quite the same as sony still giving it up. Their execs had to pay out of their own pocket.

I'm actually glad to see that they cared about the law at all, and there was some level of effectiveness to it!
Last time I encountered these, I just popped off the pins with a small flathead and converted the "security" torx into a regular torx.

There isn't much security there when the screws are made of cheap metal.
Scientists find radioactive WWII aircraft carrier off San Francisco coast
> Is there a way to remove the distinction between employee and contractor?

Yes, the US Department of Labor has to decide there's no such distinction and must decide to reorganize various structures.

> Does the distinction serve a useful purpose?

Arguably, yes. The issue is that technology has brought on changes that don't fit neatly into the two boxes.

An employer provides everything for an employee who performs a very broad function. Think front-desk receptionist where a computer is provided. Health-care is sometimes provided, but they may be paid as little as minimum wage (sometimes less).

A contractor, on the other hand, is expected to provide everything themselves. Think plumber or locksmith. They bring their own tools, perform a specific task and they're done and free to move onto the next contract. They provide their own health-care, which, since they're traditionally paid far about minimum wage, is perhaps fair.

(There's a lot more to it and it quickly becomes quite involved with tax code, but suffice to say the plumber is recognized as owning their own business and performing their own trade.)

Does the distinction still serve a useful purpose in this day and age?

As long as we rely on employers to provide necessary benefits that (eg preschool), and not the government, it serves a useful purpose.
I think the rise of these development 'boot camps' is causing more harm than good. It devalues programmers skills and worth as well as give people false hopes. I am all for people wanting to improve their skills or learn something new, but these bootcamps overpromise, and under deliver.
Multiple accounts is supposedly in development/beta - https://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/sug... but yeah, they waited way too long to implement that.
Pretty sure WhatsApp makes more money than Slack. It made $15m in first 6 months of 2014. In theory it's on track to make 100s of millions of $ per year with the $1/year fee. Slack might make $1-2m/month with the 200k paying customers.
Word of advice - don't do this in a jeep. Get a Toyota - spare are everywhere, and every single garage / mechanic / village in the middle of nowhere will understand Toyota. In Africa, Toyota rules completely.

Speaking from experience here.
Solar panels don't fit the bill for missions far from the sun.
That's fine. What about the rest of the documents?
238Pu is only efficiently manufactured by activating 237Np.
I thought it was a tad condescending. Instead of:

>As someone who has actually done a good amount of soft-real-time audio programming, I can tell that you probably haven't. Everything you are saying about CPU speeds is made-up nonsense.

You could have wrote:

>I've actually done a good amount of soft-real-time audio programming and everything you're saying about CPU speeds doesn't make sense.

I think it's good to call out what you see as misleading information but that may have been going a bit too far.
This is honestly a great question, but much more the answers that the community have given.

I read almost all the comments (took me like 1 hour). I've been working on a startup for 3 years, learning from the failures and success, I've read couple of books, talk to a lot of people about startups, etc, however something that always will surprise me is that the community is the one that really has the knowledge and savvy.

Happy to be part of this community!
I think of classical music as a more "canonical" target than atonal or dissonant music, though it depends on what community of researchers you're looking at. One of the more famous researchers is David Cope, who spent much of his time on algorithmically modeling composition in the style of J.S. Bach. There's also an intermittent stream of papers on jazz improvization, e.g.: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=jazz+improvisation+icmc

There is a good deal of avant-garde experimentation as well, in part because computer music has in many places/eras been larger in the field of music, rather than the field of computer science. Contemporary composers like Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, etc., picked up and developed new technologies as they became available. But they were avant-garde composers interested in using these technologies as part of their compositional toolkit, not CS researchers interested in automating generation of music per se.

One driving question for a certain group of composers is along the lines of: how can this new technology/technique help us make new, different music? Which leads to different experiments than the question: how can this new technology/technique help us automate the production of existing music? Sometimes that still ends up popularly oriented, e.g. in the '60s and '70s there was quite a bit of crossover between avant-garde synth experimentation and popular music, with Brian Eno as one hub in particular, and Moog synths finding their way onto all sorts of top-charting albums. Other times it's ended up less popularly oriented, like most of the granular-synthesis music.
The fact that this remained controversial due to a lack of evidence for over a century speaks to how limited the world's communication networks were at the time. It took a century to uncover evidence in the form of first page reports, a form of communication that we'd all believe would spread the message far and wide, yet Whitehead's accomplishments were relegated to obscurity almost as soon as they were reported.

I remember reading about these claims a few years ago and the only evidence at that time was the back page report in a newspaper that most Wright supporters denigrated as a satirical source akin to today's "The Onion". I was ready to hop in the comments section ready to decry the article only to find that the digitization of archives had completely changed the body of evidence supporting Whitehead's claim.

To be fair, the Wright brothers have their place as the first successful aviators as they were able to iterate and expand on their Wright Flyer's design to produce an unbroken lineage of aircraft leading to the modern day. Whitehead's design flew first but it was ultimately a dead end aside from his powerplant. I think there's an equal place in history for creators of the first practical, foundational, or modern design in a given category. Invention doesn't happen in a vacuum and researching the best combination of fundamental concepts and applying them as the Wright brothers did is equally revolutionary in my opinion
I use plain text editors mainly and agree with the author's premise about cutting the cruft/using a focused tool. The cost complaint doesn't really fly though.

Those times When I need something to be in Doc format, I use libre office - https://www.libreoffice.org/ It used to be called "openoffice". It's free. You can verify the documents look right in the free word viewer provided by Microsoft if you're planning to mail it to someone who will open it in Word.
All of the ReQL examples are completely unreadable relative to SQL.

Call it declarative, format it however you want - a purpose-built DSL like SQL is always going to be easier to grok than a Javascript-inspired functional language (for me at least).
I'm a SF resident who was visiting NYC last week, and saw those protected bike lanes for the first time (I lived in NJ a decade ago). Frankly, drivers' attitudes towards bicyclists will be slow to change, and thus the only reasonable course forward seems to be this kind of infrastructure improvement.

As infrastructure improves, more people will consider bicycles as a reasonable transportation alternative, and hopefully increased numbers of cyclists may help driver attitudes change as well.
From what I have read, the best traditional fission plant designs are very safe, efficient, and produce few byproducts. It's the older plants that have problems but we have learned from them and made improvements.

Compared to the most state-of-the-art plant, thorium reactors are not significantly better and we have years of first-hand experience with traditional uranium reactors and very little with liquid fluoride thorium reactors so the incentives to start at square 1 with an new technology are small.

So the good news is if we ever got over our irrational fear of nuclear power, we have time-tested plans for safe, clean and efficient power plants ready to be built.
Data structure for concurrent lookups
I really hope to get some good inputs here unlike stack overflow where people are more focused on policing and less on helping.
Google or Youtube for Peter Boghossian, he has an approach based on socratic dialog to ween people out of false beliefs.
Absolutely. If I were in charge of curriculum development for engineers, I'd swap out a couple of semesters of math that the student will never see again unless they end up working on EM simulators, and replace it with statistics course(s) that will be helpful throughout their careers.

Unfortunately there's a lot of coursework in engineering that amounts to institutionalized hazing. The professor had to do it, so by the hallowed beard of Frobenius, the students have to do it too...
Interesting, I wonder if this will will end up gaining enough momentum to become a standard, similarly to how SPDY ended up essentially becoming HTTP/2.
Meet Sphero, the Company Behind Star Wars' BB-8
Here is your tutorial, from a Vimmer: http://ian.mccowan.space/2015/04/07/Spacemacs/
Becoming a Startup Again
You can always use an existing OT stack within Meteor, such as this package I wrote integrating ShareJS: https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-sharejs
Yep, I've been learning Haskell for the past year. Honestly, I consider myself still at the beginner stage at best. But I'm just starting to see a light at the end of a tunnel.

It is most definitely humbling to learn new ways to compute that force you to reconsider what you hold true. I liken it to learning a human language and having it force you to learn another cultural viewpoint. You quickly learn that you have been in a filter bubble.