skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the frame of reference. Obviously we're talking about a solar reference frame here with respect to linear velocity (it's the only other object), but it will also be rotating.

If the reference frame is initially rotating at with your orbit or a closer one, "speed up" is accurate. If it's rotating with some more distant orbit, "slow down" is accurate.

This, by the way, is one reason why physicists tend to just say "accelerate" in both cases: then, it's technically true for any external reference frame.
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Alpha radiation is blocked by a piece of paper. Beta is harder to block, but not as bad as gamma. Beta radiation can definitely penetrate the skin.
In which the OS and language runtime are the same thing, e.g. Mirage OS.
More Cancers and less cancers?
I'm Iranian. Taarof is the worst thing ever. Simple social interactions become these meaningless and tangled situations. It's really hard to get things done. Your average shopping in the market takes at least 50% more than it should. Just going through a door as a group might take a few minutes.

I see it as an inefficiency. I'm sure there are a lot of Iranians who disagree with me.
Do you want a prescription with those fries?
Prescriptions, Hamburgers, and cheap Chinese Trinkets. CVS just moved past McDonald's into the #1 slot.

S&P job leader board:

http://jobdensity.com/SP500.aspx
Unlike these folks I grew up in the age of cassettes and CDs and have spent a small fortune on music. The past 4/5 years have been just Spotify and I don't miss CDs one bit. The fun of reading thru the album art is cool for a minute or so, but flimsy scratchable CDs are a terrible medium for music.
In some cultures, you make an admiring comment about the thing:

"That cake is very beautiful! It looks delicious!"

and the process can start over again.
I had to think about your 2 sentences for a long time before I decided that you are right. The top 10% of income earners make $113,799 per year in the USA. The number of people I've seen who can earn that amount of money and burn through it all is astounding. I personally even know people who can spend that kind of money and even need to look for food handouts at the end of the month.

I suppose what I meant is that if you can live happily on $10K per year, then probably it will be very easy for you to get and maintain employment for a lot more. As well as meeting people who can burn through money at a ferocious rate, I've met (much fewer) people who can live happily in what most Americans would call poverty. Those people always seem to have much more money than they need.

It takes rare skills to live like that. The end result is that the poor have very little chance of bootstrapping themselves out of poverty (because if they could, they already would).
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I agree with that, I just passed it off as "must be in beta or something", I have no idea what it does or why anyone would need it.
Aren't those regulations what makes nuclear power safe?
> but if you want to write stuff in modern ecosystems there's a shed-load to learn

What exactly? If all that "new" stuff is just a poor, crappy execution of the concepts that had been around for over 30 years. There is nothing new to learn, same old stuff presented slightly differently.

> it's all the crap you need to learn

Do you really need to learn something as simple as a new syntax for the same old stuff? I hope you're not memorising APIs and command line arguments - it's always better to look this stuff up as you go.

> there's a great deal to learn to get to Haskell, OCaml

Mind naming any fundamentally new concepts introduced by Haskell or OCaml? Type classes? Not that new, and still worse than the good old SML modules. STG? Implementation minutiae. Or you're referring to "learning" the ghc command line options and things like hackage? Things you can look up in seconds are not worth any "learning".
> But for patients that are OK with being addicted (and have the means, like many people on HN do), why is addiction a problem?

Addiction effects many, many, many more people than the addict themselves.
Here is a good summary of the stats from various sources. Death rate per terawatt/hr is 0.04 for Nuclear and 0.44 for Rooftop Solar. Basically Rooftop solar is a full order of magnitude more dangerous. Coal is WAY more nasty at a world average of around 100 deaths per terawatt/hr if you consider heating/cooking/electricity or 60 for just electricity. Those numbers for China are 170 & 90 respectively.
If you include the worst hydro accident, Hydro is 1.4 deaths per terawatt/hr, or 0.10 if that is excluded.

Nuclear is the best game in town, even though the accidents are well publicized and the marketing for alternatives have done a really good job of making us scared of the nasty radioactivity, nuclear has the best safety culture and safety record.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...
Apple security really is the laughing stock of the info security world these days.

First the SMS of doom that could crash any iOS or Mac device, now this. Seriously though, thanks for the fappening!
I can lock the bike almost anywhere anyway, I thought this would help protect it.

I don't see any reason to use this service.
It is in beta and is a method like agile/scrum just more human and more focused on Makers need than control from management. Sign up for the newsletter to get three emails explaining it in details.
I did that. I stopped working full time. I started working on my own projects, which I have like 10 of, all very different. 3 of the ones I launched are already making okay money, paying half of our rent.

The mental change is tremendous - I don't have a manager harassing me, I do everything on my own schedule. I can switch between whatever projects I want, whenever I want.

The only thing that I miss is working with the people who are smarter than me.
I just launched a soft beta SaaS and I am doing 90 days so I can work out all the kinks and automate the manual parts. I might consider some accounts for a longer period if they are early adopters as they provide me with great feedback.
The benefit for me would be quick, isolated development environments. I want to boot a contained swarm of services connected to each other in a single command, and shut them down in a single command as well
I'm certainly better off today - 40 years ago a lot of activities would have been off limits to me. For example, walking, sitting, missionary position, sleeping on my side, basically everything besides lying on my back. Health insurance simply would not have paid $infinity for me to have treatments that were not yet invented.

As you might expect, these treatments have caused the price of health insurance to go up.
It's certainly a statistical artifact. They probably haven't done cross validation.
I'm thinking you mean "tight UI integration."
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While i feel similar in that i don't think i could go back to a "normal" job, i also realize how incredibly lucky i am to have this choice. So many people have to do much more grueling work that is not even remotely their passion and earn much less doing so. It's not even a question of education really, imo it comes down to luck in where you were born and some choices that made you end up in an industry that allows all of this.

I also know that there are always people that aren't as lucky and privileged and that it shouldn't be the argument to end all arguments because otherwise no progress will ever be possible.
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He can still get those for an extra $0. What you're really getting for your money is convenience and integration.
I don't see it that much difference and I used VisualWorks for Smalltalk at the university, right before Java was announced to the world.

Given my experience in OOP frameworks since the early 90's, I would say if Smalltalk had won, we would nowadays have SmalltalkEE.
SpaceX profitable for ~7+ years now.
Tesla could be, but every cent is being pumped into growth, research and dev.
They use cameras for counting free spaces as they mention in the video. Nothing is said about security. Having cameras does not mean you have actual recording and surveillance.
Will it actually harm anything in the ocean though?

From the analysis above it looks like this stuff is harmless once sufficiently diluted.
After reading on HN about the miners in England yesterday, it's difficult to generate too much sympathy for your situation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677863

I hope that you translate your passion into using technology to truly help make the world a better place.
This is an ingenious idea--but .20 is too high. Micropayments of less than a penny mean that readers will not hesitate to pay and multiplied by the hundreds of thousands means a real revenue stream for content providers.
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i find it impressive he resisted using the word 'fuck' until about 2/3rds of the way through. he may have a future yet.

the irony of course, is that anger and humiliation and frustration drive you to start your own company, but if you succeed, you will basically deal with new instantiations of the same old problems, except this time it's all your fault and they still need to be fixed. now 'that guy' is you. congratulations! you've made it.

technical debt, constant stressful fire-drills, ludicrously overloaded schedules, demands on your time and patience, inane re-inventions of established technology, etc. plus a whole host of others ('unknown unknowns') that you can't even begin to fathom as someone who was paid handsomely to care only about the technical problems in an organization.

but, of course, you will be king shit sittin' pretty at the top of the whole shit-heap by then, and see the entire heap of shit from a new, exciting, gilded perspective. and this is, in and of itself, worth something. in fact, it can be worth a shitload.

they don't call it an exit strategy for nothing!
Don't you want https://coq.inria.fr/library/Coq.Lists.Streams.html ?
It seems with this scenario, whoever strikes first really does win, though the game takes a bit longer.

The game always nearly ends with a couple of bombers sneaking past the bases at the front and taking out the factories and cities until the player runs out of resources.
I see.

Would something like pCell would be an improvement here?
I think it needs more of an explanation on the home page, not many people are going to sign up to an email subscription JUST to find out what the product actually is.
Rare footage surfaces of Amelia Earhart shortly before she vanished
I've been buying OpenBSD CD's since 3.4 and a long time friend has commit bits with the FreeBSD project. I am a big BSD supporter :)
>> Just imagine that the holocaust Never happened: German would be much closer of what the Nazis thought it should be, a world-wide spoken language.

That's a great point
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This sounds very much like the article I read yesterday: http://mashable.com/2015/06/09/post-hipster-yuccie/
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I couldn't believe what I was reading. I have the exact same feeling about current state of the tech industry.

No one pushes barriers anymore. Rarely anyone makes anyones life better by doing things radically different. We keep reinventing the same wheel again and again. I've been paid handsomely in the last 5 years by doing pretty much the exact same things, using different frameworks for different (and at times the same) companies.
Ugh. Can we just stop using the word 'connection' altogether when what we really mean is 'an indeterminate and quite possibly coincidental correlation has been found between X and Y'?

A 'connection', to me at least, implies causality. No causal relationship has been found here.
In my farsi class we also once had a brief introduction into the concept of Taarof. Never heard of it before and thought it is really interesting but I understand that it sometimes can get a bit too much :-)

Here is a video that also explains it and shows some examples of Taroof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5oX2n1-diA
I have been working for myself for last 8 years after completing my masters, in hindsight financially I did not do too badly (tho there was some great and ups and incredible downs!) and it is NICE working from home and watching your kid grow (tho there are quite a lot of distractions!!! says he who is procrastinating reading HN :D )

BUT if I was offered a job with guaranteed employment and steady wages and (gaaasp pension!) like being a teacher I would go for it. Having kids changes your perspective.

I would have been financially much better of if it wasn't for punitive taxes in Ireland, here you reach ~53% high tax rate with only about ~$35K in income. And then there are new property/water taxes they brought in now as well as 23% VAT :(
All of these taxes really make you ask yourself "why bother work harder and longer" and really kill any incentive to work.
And no we do not get free healthcare here still need to pay for medical insurance out of aftertax earnings. And as a business owner I do not qualify for the full welfare if things go to shit, despite paying high rate of social taxes.

edit: Now that I read my rant in second half of my past, no wonder no good startups come from here, the atmosphere is toxic to entrepreneurship.
Looks like a case of "never meet your heroes".
Yes, this is very confusing. It assigns the IPv6 address but that does not actually work as the LB is in the VPC which does not support IPv6. Lesson I learned: testing whether IPv6 actually works is worthwile.
Spotify Raises $526M Amid Battle with Apple
Well if anything it certainly shows traction -- so that is cool. Have you attempted to engage the communities similar communities?

Given the gray-area you play in I think you might see what communities exist in Nevada, Germany, Australia, The Netherlands, and elsewhere these activities are legal and a little more regulated.
The guy is clearly burnt out and your best response is "well at least you don't work in a coal mine".

You could argue "well at least those coal miners didn't live in Ethiopia or Rwanda"

There is exactly one person on this planet at any time who has it worse than everyone else, everything else is just relative.
+1 for Bourdieu. I think everyone should read him.

I thought he was particularly interesting on music. You might expect the upper classes to be opera buffs and experts on classical music. But in fact he found that the middle classes used a knowledge of classical music as evidence of aspiration.

The upper classes sometimes used opera as a status marker, but were more likely to enjoy undemanding music, like easy listening and musicals - presumably because they felt they had nothing to prove.

Interestingly, median prices for a stadium show by a mainstream act are higher than tickets for most seats at the Royal Opera House.
> Visual Studio Code

It is based on Visual Studio Online. Its text editor component is non-trivial and Microsoft spent a lot of money on it. The editor (codename "Monaco") is from Erich Gamma (ex-IBM/Rational), the "Design Patterns" book author from Switzerland. Microsoft bought the Monaco editor with him and its the single reason why TypeScript exists and why JavaScript ES6 looks like it looks ("class" syntax) and why he leads the Visual Studio team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma

The Monaco editor (coded in TypeScript) will never be open source, its their competitive advantage. The same reason why HTML5's contentEditable API will never be fixed in IE/Chrome/Safari as a web office suite is their competitive advantage of Microsoft Office365 Web Word , Google Docs and Apple iCloud Pages. With a bug-free contentEditable API would render also Monaco editor and many other web based rich text editors obsolete:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...
Hyperbole. Some of the concerns are quite real but please don't mistake this for an accurate or balanced statement.
The bike parking lots are generally located in extremely convenient places such as next to train stations, or near large squares. In the Netherlands, there are a lot of places that you can't park your bike, unlike in the US where you can just lean it against a wall. As you can see in the video, most of these parking lots feature the double level racks. It was hard for me to understand why this was necessary before I moved here from the US, but if you ever travel to the Netherlands, you will be amazed by the amount of bicycles. Being able to fit 2x as many bicycles in the same square footage is 100% necessary.
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I am in a similar phase, just two more days left in my current job. After that I shall start working on my own projects and freelance and build MVPs for startups to keep me afloat, which I also enjoy for the fulfilling responsibility. But I am only experimenting it for next few months and if it doesn't work out I shall fall-back. Good luck for your next steps.
Well, you've just convinced me never to return to Ireland until I retire, thanks!
The Irish equivalent, courtesy of the fabulous Mrs Doyle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVH3IBr_Ipk
Wolfram Alpha says average word length in English is 5.1 chars.

450000 words * 5.1 bytes ≈ 2.2 MiB

I like to read novels on my phone in plaintext format. 2001 by Clarke is 368 kiB. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is 1.1 MiB.

1984 would be 423 kiB, which I consider pretty normal, not "large". But that's subjective, I guess.
This is just semi-anecdotal, but for watches I don't think there's really a lower threshold when it comes to price. My watch is the $90 (sadly out-of-production) Casio MDV-102 [1] which is a real cult classic. I have it on a black and grey Nato strap ($10) and it does get me compliments from watch connoiseurs from time to time. But I guess there's a definite knack to recognizing cult classics though.

[1] http://forums.watchuseek.com/f220/review-casio-mdv102-duro-2...
It's pretty obvious things have moved on massively since the 80s.

You're trying to make an (extremely weak) reductio ad absurdum argument, an intellectually bankrupt solipsist.

There's no point engaging you with anything more than exasperation, especially since the guy's asking for help, not useless snark.

Actually, to be completely honest, because you've made me angry now, only an asshole would say something like that to someone asking for help.
I agree!

The thing is that I still do personal sales and on boarding and often gets 2 new referrals every time I pitch it to one customer so I am not in a hurry yet.

When we are getting ready for a public launch it needs a serious brush up.
IOW, you switched your dependencies.
Discordians do this nonsense 23/7.
This was super fun to play with and the visuals are very cool! One minor thing though, the Star Wars program simulation seems too good: once you have around 5 sats going around you're safe for a long long time that it starts becoming boring (and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be the case IRL). Like, I watched a game for 30min and all sats were too effective and nobody could really hit each other no matter how many attacks they did. Maybe make sats attack each other while in orbit? Perhaps only in specific timed cases, sort of during an orbit apogee or perigee or whatever, just to make them a bit less effective or durable?
Yep, job burnout is the pits.
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This is what burnout looks like. Unless Yelp has a toxic work culture, it's likely the author brought it on themselves by pushing too hard. After several months, the author will probably start thinking about work again, and begin the job search once more.

Not to say that the author's points are invalid; it's a terrible feeling to have to spend your most productive hours working on someone else's problems. He or she may find themselves drawn toward entrepreneurship. There's nothing quite like working on your own idea...especially if that idea is going to make you cash.

Office culture is draining. Some people aren't cut out for it. Additionally, programmers tend to push themselves too hard for too long out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the company. They're being paid huge sums and sometimes feel that they need to work extremely hard to deserve what they're being paid. They don't see that the work they do is extremely valuable in and of itself. Employment is a business arrangement; a coder doesn't owe the company anything more than their agreed-upon hours of work.

If/when the author does return to work, it's likely they will be much more likely to put themselves first and the company second. They'll likely have a plan to escape working for someone else ever again.
Yeh me and my kids will be paying for a long time for the worlds biggest banking (per capita) debacle and the destruction of the economy in the 00s by various governments. With kids its sort of hard to leave :( Tho' it is a nice place to live despite all the carry on.

But hey look over there at the news yet another multinational setting up to launder/funnel money onto somewhere warmer and seems like a housing bubble is re-inflating again.

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edit: last year i arranged my salary to remain under the high tax rate band
Gross: €32.6 K
Net (after PAYE,PRSI,USC): €25 K

The accountant said that above this €32K line i would have lost about ~53 cents in taxes for each €1.00 earned by ending up in the highest tax band...

So I left the extra money in company (corporation tax 12.5%) and will spread out my wages over few years, tho is risky practice if the company gets sued and loses the money.

There is an option to pay into a pension but with the pension funds being so mismanaged and the government actively robbing all pensions and destroying the pension reserve that would be downright stupid.
This post expresses exactly how I feel. I am currently under a 30 days vacation and it has been incredibly good. In only three weeks I have studied lots of things that were postponed for months or years, worked on a personal project, exercised my body, slept well, read books, disassembled every old electronic device that was lurking for years to clean and fix it, went to a medical doctor to fix health issues that were also postponed and now I still have an infinite list of things to learn, books to read and projects to do.

Now I am really thinking on leaving my full-time job, because the vacation is coming to an end. But how to make money? If I could have a stable but low income without wasting too much time, it would be great. Mainly if that income came from a source with which I care about.

It sucks. Life, I mean.
As a kid I heard the song 'We Work The Black Seam Together' by Sting. It was protesting the closure of mines in England. Even as a kid I couldn't imagine what was going through his head. Yes many minors were put out of work and I'm sure many of them and their families were put into horrible poverty or worse but breaking the generational cycle had to have been a positive thing.
You can lock your bike however you want, but any experienced thief can remove those locks within minutes. No reasonable priced combination of locks keeps a thief from taking your bike.

Luckily there are so many bikes in Utrecht and Amsterdam and especially around Central Station (10-20k), that chances that they take your bike are really low. Then if you use a good lock, one that takes an extra minute to break, and if you put your bike in a good location, you're relatively safe.
Anyone know what's with the black "x" characters which appear through the article?
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"I can lock the bike almost anywhere anyway" ...

Yeah, good luck with that near eg. a dutch train station ;-)

http://media.nu.nl/m/m1oxconajm5k_wd1280.jpg/bouw-grootste-f...