skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't concentrating on any specific satellite, just noticing a very noticeable trend of 24 h period orbits with inclinations between 0 and 15 degrees. They are not eccentric, so I think it rules out Molniya orbits. The trend is readily apparent if you zoom out and view the Earth in profile (see http://imgur.com/FQpTkLR). There is the obvious trend at 0 degrees and then a noticeable high density from 0-15 degrees before then trailing off.

For arbitrary examples, see Palapa 1, Insat 1A, Raduga 6.
Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses
Stanford neuroscience research: kids learn math better if you emphasize symmetry
Hi! I'm the Director of Product Marketing at Stack Exchange. It might sound like more work for us to use Github and markdown, but I see it as a huge plus. For non technical employees, this is a great opportunity to learn a new skill and collaborate with the engineering organization. Jon trained a few of us already... so far, so good!
Yes, I'm looking into a cloud based API that anyone can call into.
You are assuming that I would lobby local government to restrict competition and maintain my high prices and my bad product.

I would never do that, I welcome competition.
PHP Frameworks: The Best 10 for Modern Web Development
My CS program was taught in Scheme (the version that's now Racket), and I think I kind of understand it. Shortly after graduation I felt like I had this gap in my resume due to spending all this time learning a language that nobody uses in industry instead of something marketable like Java.

Nowadays, though, I feel like my time spent getting used to functional programming in school has given me a secret weapon. It's something much more subtle than the ability to bandy about obscure words that probably start with M. I really do think I'm just fundamentally better at dealing with abstraction, both using it and creating it, than my peers who haven't had such an experience. And that's not small beans considering that, to an approximation, working with abstractions is what I do all day every day.
Because he accuses those who have different prioritization in the functional/experience tradeoff of having "serious problems in critical thinking"? It's a matter of opinion and not mental capability.
I'm all for spending engineering time on non-project related tasks occasionally, but this seems like an excessive use of valuable time to reinvent the wheel. I'm sure they could have found a blogging platform that didn't require custom markdown interfaces, Python scripting, and re-writing everything from scratch. It's just a blog.
You've come to some incorrect conclusions.

If someone makes a particular claim, the burden of proof is on them.
I wonder why this is not more studied in the black population in the United States.
> When we look at modern web development needs, the key to success is speed development with well organized, reusable and maintainable code, all the while ensuring scalability. The best way to achieve this is by using an existing, proven PHP framework.

That's crazy.
not really. That's a conjecture that may or may not be true, but it certainly isn't simpler than small sample statistics tending to be extreme.
I agree, I tend to prefer when utilities like this are single statically compiled program like Go produces.
DewDrop – A Formal Language for Social Networks
I was thinking the same. I initially thought based on the name I could pick a single component to use but its an entire framework, so it still suffers from bloat.
I don't, nor have I ever, considered myself particularly talented. At best, I would say I have the drive to force myself to practice. To say things came easily to me is an outright lie.

Hard work, persistence, and luck. Stir and serve chilled.
The general impression I see the most is that Pao and here team are trying wash the site of any content that Corporate Advertisers find offensive and try to monetize as much of the site as they can starting with a monetization scheme for IAMA where PR firms can use IAMA as celebrity advertising with softball pre screened questions.

Victoria was the key person organizing IAMA guests across the whole of Reddit. She helped to enforced the strict policy that IAMA have that the person is actually there and not a PR rep fielding questions. And that the questions are real and generally keeping the quality and integrity high.

There has already been a number of high traffic subs that have decided to close down and move to voat.co or other sites.

It's telling that instead of addressing the community directly Pao and here group stage a PR blitz in the media trying to spin a false narrative instead of addressing Reddit first and dealing with Redditors concerns about moves to limit free speech. Commercialisation and firing of key community friendly staff. It shows total concept for Reddit users and the same sort of dishonest personality that would try to destroy the credibility of her former employer Kleiner Perkins with false gender discrimination lawsuits for 100 million. which she lost spectacularly with all 12 jurors siding with Kleiner Perkins.

Pao has shown on numerous occasions she is a toxic personality. And has no interest in Reddit and the communities there.

if anyone is planning on launching your FREEZE PEACH community platform NOW IS THE TIME...
While I think the entire furore is completely misguided and utterly childish, I doubt that would've been the case. Besides, they have a blog.
Guideline: Recommended Use of Concentrated Sodium Chloride (Hypertonic Saline)
My employer originally had a Wordpress-based blogging product.

They spent more than $2M writing their own blogging system, and it still was missing many features that come with Wordpress.

They ditched it and switched back to Wordpress.
That would be the simplest explanation, but I think a complicating factor would be that for the Nazi concentration camps, many people were murdered, healthy and unhealthy alike, alongside those who perished by other causes.
what is your opinion about modern web development, fiatjaf
It's really cool that people are doing stuff with TempleOS if for nothing else than to broaden their horizons. Maybe when the aliens from ID4 visit, we'll be ready.
IoT Development with Docker Containers
Data Structures for the Efficient Implementation of a Timer Facility [pdf]
>If the CEO was some boring old white man, nobody would be calling for his head like this, nor would they be the best person to be publishing apologies.

You mean like Brendan Eich? (CTO, but still)

Or, as long as we're talking about online megacommunities, how about moot of 4chan? He stepped down as the owner of 4chan half a year ago and people are still mad at him.
I guess inflation is tax on those who hold cash. Inflation is tax on people who hold cash (or are on a fixed income that will not go up as inflation drives prices up). My thought was that inflation hurts the poor the most. If someone is rich, they probably hold more than just bank notes and government bonds. They hold controlling interests in the markets. As inflation goes up, they will hurt but the rich will not hurt as much as the poor will.
I have been looking for something like this library or Sympy for Haskell but couldn't find anything. Do you know one?
This isn't Google creating am uber rival, it is quelling competition for the rideshare services that exist for co-commuting.
Why are there no odd Windows process Ids?
I'm unfortunately not in a position to win your prize, but I think this is hilarious...

Props for creativity and best of luck to you.
On the other hand, for commutes from, say, SF to Mountain View, or Mesa to Scottsdale, I bet a lot of drivers would love to have an extra passenger so they could use the HOV lane. During rush hour, the difference between being able to use the HOV lane vs. not could easily be 30 minutes.
It makes no sense to combine those things, especially since not all capital holdings which recieve the benefit of favorable capital taxation are investment in entities that are even theoretically subject to corporate income taxes.

Could you do some arithmetic? I'm not really sure what you are talking about.

But this is a ludicrous assertion, since the part taxed as labor income is not taxed as capital income.

This is simple arithmetic. Suppose I'm paid $100, taxed $20 on labor income. Then I invest the remaining $80, cash out at $90 and pay $2.50 in cap gains. I've then paid another 2.8% (adjusted for NPV).

Taxes on capital income always come after labor income, except for certain special tax deferred investment vehicles which treat capital income as equal to labor income.
The way that it appears out of nowhere. Pop-ups are a forced interaction anti-pattern.
Design for Devs: how to build a good app without wearing a turtleneck
I'm a dev that has learnt a lot about design in the last few months.

I gave a half-hour presentation today to explain my workflow to other devs.

Covers:

- accessibility
- mobile-first
- user testing
- Material design
- Sketch
- InVision

Would love to hear if any of this is useful to others :)
What, exactly, is the travesty? That your nanny was poor, or that your nanny provided domestic labor for more productive individuals?

I agree that poverty is a travesty, but luckily we've found the solution to it (trade). I don't see a reason to believe that more efficient trade will do anything but help.
It seems like this was a big waste of time reinventing Octopress.
> and have your IP address identify where you are to within a couple of microns

Well, on Earth, yeah.

But not in space.
Mutually Assured Hug
Hi! While the change surely was not a huge investment I just do not believe that the benefits justify the costs. Since you wrote a blog post about it, I felt free to question your decisions.

Nevertheless, now that it is done, I hope the new system works well for you. Maybe your team gets used to git for version control in other areas of work, too, which would be a huge win and ultimately prove me wrong ;-)
Why education is so difficult and contentious
Thanks! I really wish this piece had been published somewhere else; while the author comes with his own baggage there'd have been a better chance of real discussion that way. C'est la vie, and thanks again for listening.
Interesting. Wouldn't the effects tend to cancel each other out because the inclination of the Earth spends half the year with the poles facing each to and from the Sun? Also since the Earth's inclination is 7 degrees, why do the satellites get to 14 degrees inclination?

Edit: And furthermore, wouldn't the spread be somewhat random with respect to the longitude of the ascending nodes? This seems to be anything but random: http://imgur.com/FQpTkLR
I see the note about rendering with a custom font. Will that screw up recording for those with special fonts being used (powerline for example)? How does it play with ncurses displays, or even tmux? I assume vim session recording is fine?
I know that YouTube used to support only up to 30fps video, but IIRC they now support 60fps. This became a thing because people making videos of themselves playing the newest generation of consoles (PS4 / XBOne) want to upload in high quality, and the consoles now do 1080p at 60fps.

If this is a concern for people (recording at 60fps to upload for 60fps), I doubt that Google would downgrade the framerate except for maybe the lower quality versions of the video (does 60fps really matter for 240p video?).
> I have always started on the solution to an ambitious problem by asking "what would have to be true for this to be solvable?" and from each of those things working backward until you get to things

Can you give an example of an ambitious problem you solved backward this way.
One man's "meaningful information" is another mans "privacy leak." If I visit foobar.com and they can find out from my ipv6 address what make and model of motherboard I am running, is that really a good thing? There is a reason why MAC addresses were not included in ipv4.

The ipv6 designers seem to have hated the idea of network address translation (NAT). But a lot of people have come to depend on it for security. For example, with ipv4 my wireless router only exposes one IP address to the world, no matter how many devices are behind it. But with ipv6 in its default mode, all the devices are exposed. So if I visit evildude.com on my laptop, they will know my ipv6 address. This will then map back directly to the device (no NAT), and they can port scan me and try to do bad things to any ports I have open. You can fix this with firewalls or just with NAT, but you lose a lot of the supposed benefits of ipv6 by doing so.

I think there's a strong argument to be made that point-to-point communication is more useful for evil than for good. Most of the time when you're doing something legitimate you don't mind going through a gateway. For example, I don't need to talk to my bank's backend servers directly... I can just use their public IP address and let their load-balancer send me to some open server. But if I'm a hacker, maybe I want to target something deep inside the internal network, and ipv6 makes that easier.
April Fool's posting from 2014.
I have lived with CFS for about six years now. Step one is to see your primary care doctor and rule out all the things they can test you for. That will take a while. I remember hoping I would have MS because then that would at least explain things. :)

Step two, if you have CFS, is to come up with a plan to manage your energy levels and think about how you are going to live your life. For me, not overdoing it is key. You cannot recover like a healthy person, and often each crash makes your baseline even lower.

Step three, think about how you want to try to treat the underlying issue. Since it's not clear what the underlying issue is, there's a lot of paths here. I was conservative and didn't try a lot of experimental things. I worked with Doctor Jose Montoya at Stanford (http://med.stanford.edu/chronicfatiguesyndrome.html) who is an amazing doctor. He's highly recommended if you can make it to Palo Alto. My health has slowly improved over the years and is much better now than it was say 3 years ago.

Best of luck!
If you just want a GIF, then fucking just use ffmpeg. It's not hard. Just do it.

node.js to record my screen. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
Interesting, but I can't immediately think of any real-world use cases that this solves that aren't already solved with existing technology. The docs don't really describe anything beyond "automatic NAT traversal and end-to-end encryption with no configuration". No configuration? Not entirely true. :)

What are some use cases this can be applied to?
Beautiful. I wish I had the first 30 pages of this book during my SE 101 days.

A direct link to the PDF might have been better though. I almost skipped this when I saw the Sourceforge URL.
Material Design is the new Bootstrap.
Greece Refuses Pound of Flesh
I attributed a lot of this 'effectiveness' to developers who are lazy.

There have been times when I automated things and that was because I wanted to avoid repetitive work. I have never been able to automate something I had not manually done 2-3+ times, but once I did I knew what I needed to do to avoid manual work and make the process error free for next time same operation was needed. If someone else was dictating what they needed, I would not have been able to build my tools as effectively.

To me, a good developer is a "maker", who builds tools. For us the raw material is a computer and some free time, which makes experimentation and evolution of our tools easier compared to other professions.
The default font (terminus) supports 891 glyphs. However, ttystudio can support any font you find in .bdf format. The readme explains how to use them.

Terminus works fine with tmux, vim, ncmpcpp, mutt, irssi, cmatrix, hundreds of pieces of ansi art, and everything I've tried it with.

As far as powerline goes: I think powerline changes some unicode glyphs for its own purposes, so you would need to grab the powerline .bdf if there is one and compile it to ttystudio's bdf .json format.

Font formats other than .bdf may be supported in the future. This was a weekend project for me and .bdf happened to be the most convenient (and I use terminus in my own terminal so I'm biased).
In the US, especially among people of politically-influential age, hitchhiking has a fairly negative connotation. In most US states, hitchhiking is at least restricted, and sometimes entirely illegal. There was a long period in the 80's where hitchhikers were portrayed as criminal, untrustworthy and those who would pick them up were likely to want to hurt them.

Carpooling, on the other hand, is highly encouraged, even to the point where local governments create special infrastructure to encourage people to do it. Are hitchhiking and carpooling two sides of the same coin? Yeah, probably. Should we be more encouraging of hitchhikers? Again, I think so. But if you have a positive message "Look at all the cars we're taking off the road! We're helping people meet others in similar situations, who all want to commute together!" it sets you up for a very different interaction with the public and with governments than "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could get people to hitchhike more?"
"Usually at least a few months before the deadline, which is usually in October for winter batches and March for summer batches."

http://www.ycombinator.com/faq/
Please focus on discussing technical issues!!

it 's all about golang and large-scale application experiences
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the team just use it... some software engineers employed by qihoo...
I really don't know how to make it more clear to you: do you think that the air and water in Texas stay in Texas. What part of the argument is unclear to you?

> The logical conclusion of your argument is that a non-exporting, environmentally neutral area should, again for reasons that you have not made clear, have increased legal precedence over other areas.

Come on, man, now who's being half-assed?

I am completely unclear how this is the conclusion you jump to. If you earnestly want to argue with someone, process their argument by pretending it was your position, and consider what would the most advantageous interpretation of the argument be. If you want to set up straw men for me to knock down, then that's just wasting both of our time.

A more obvious conclusion would have been: being that natural resources -- air quality, water purity, natural beauty, etc -- are non-renewable resources, which once polluted cannot easily be recovered, and are not owned: they exist, then, to be enjoyed and consumed by all citizens equally. Therefore, no particular state -- even the state in which they are found -- has exclusive right to them.

Put in other words:

* California can decide, largely on its own, to export sites onto the internet, because the internet is (mostly) not a consumable resource

* but it cannot unilaterally decide to export oil onto its beaches, because the beaches are non-renewable and belong to more than just Californians
Is there a group/organization responsible for space debris cleanup?
As an engineer recently rediscovering the pure, tactile, offline experience of creating art (not that I would go so far as to call what I have created so far 'art'), this piece couldn't have come at a better time. I really appreciated how Noah shared his journey, it definitely inspires me to keep going. I also recommend giving sketching/drawing a go for anyone looking to spend a bit less of their 'relaxing' time on a computer screen (though of course I am eyeing up digital art as a someday!).
What are people's experiences with asciinema? It's always seemed mindblowing to me to be able to search a screencast, and to be able to pause and scroll around.
I've done the exact opposite having learned industry standard languages my entire career and only after many years finally gaining a much deeper understanding of computer science (and especially functional programming).

I can say without a doubt that having functional programming knowledge first would have been a phenomenal advantage.
Here's a Flickr stream with lots of art with good to great technique:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7474079@N02/

Boring isn't it? (Interesting as history maybe?)

The "what is worth expressing" is where creativity happens. Technique makes you a competent hack. It's not enough for originality. So it's misleading to think it's all art. Technique and originality are different skills. The best artists have lots of both, but they're not related skills.

(Software has the same problem.)
Thanks for writing this...too many of us engineers treat non-technical employees as morons/infants, as if you didn't spend 12+ years of your life learning math and English and aren't able to cope with new text/symbolic systems...Learning Markdown is as easy/difficult as learning a rich-text editor...why do people assume that pressing a button with a cute icon on it is inherently easier than a Markdown convention? At least by learning the few Markdown conventions there are, you get some hands on experience with understanding how literal computer languages have to be...rather than forever treating rich text editors as a magical machine.

God, the hours I've seen co-workers waste, trying to eliminate some errant space in a rich-text-editor-generated hyperlink, by pressing a random sequence of rich-text buttons. A lot of times, they just go straight to the raw HTML to fix things...and if you're already doing that, you're capable of learning Markdown (let's skip the discussion of why editing raw HTML can be even more disastrous).

Kudos to you for being eager to learn new skills...I'm an engineer and a self-taught web dev I wish someone had forced me to learn Markdown much earlier than I had.
I use LICEcap: http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
i haven't looked into it deeply, but it sounds like it'd be great if you wanted to build a decentralized p2p system that didn't require a centralized routing system like dns or ip. like in practice email or twitter but decentralized, and would act similarly as simple as HTTP over DNS
The narrative changes form 50 fat white neck beards misogynistic racists GamerGaters with 200,000 sock puppet accounts. to "all the horrible little shits on the internet".

Please clarify this point as your slander changes direction at light speed. Is Reddit '50 racist neck beards' or 'all the little shits on the internet'?
Doesn't the code get distributed to the employees? How are they prevented from redistributing it?
I've provided several sources, which you haven't bothered to try and dispute. Your WaPo link disagrees with nothing I've said.

You asked why people are talking about taxpayers having to bail Greece out, and why we don't try and punish the banks. The answer is because the debt is overwhelmingly owned by taxpayers, not banks[1]. (Which, in turn, is in large part because in 2012 we punished the banks still holding Greek debt pretty severely.)

If you persist in thinking that foreign banks hold the bulk of Greek debt, or that no haircut ever happened, then EU politics will continue to be a mystery to you.

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/28/investing/greek-debt-who-has...