skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the team members had an excellent answer to this question a few days ago in a Reddit IAmA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3bnjhe/hi_i_am_alan_s...

>We’re limited in other ways, weirdly. For example, LORRI, our high resolution imager, has an 8-inch (20cm) aperture. The diffraction limit (how much an 8” telescope can magnify) is 3.05 mircorad. which is just over half the size of single pixel 4.95 microrad. So if we swapped out the current sensor with a higher res one, we couldn’t do much better because of the laws of physics. A bigger telescope would solve that problem, but then it would make the spacecraft heavier, which require more fuel to send to Pluto AND a longer time to get there, because the spacecraft is more massive. We launched Pluto on the largest, most powerful rocket available at the time (the Atlas V, with extra boosters), so again we’re limited by physics: “At the time” doesn’t mean best ever. The Saturn V rocket, which sent astronauts to the moon, was actually more powerful.

>More megapixels also means more memory. For example, LORRI images are made up of a header and then the 1024x1024 array of numbers that make up our image and go from 0 to 65535 (216). There’s not really a way to make that info smaller if we went to 2048x2048. We could downlink a compressed version, but we want the full info eventually.

tl;dr

1. Between optical physics and balancing different costs to launch mass, it was the sound engineering choice.

2. Higher resolution would take even longer to retrieve the captured data.
I expect very few people learned from this post; I didn't, and I kinda like math. This was the sort of math writing that makes sense only given nearly the same background as the author. (Someone above posted specific complaints about the unclear notation.)
I listen to dotnetrocks.com podcasts during my commute to work and while taking a walk. Love it so far. Learned so much new stuff.

edit - I also follow asp.net\community, techcrunch, robert scoble's updates, the hacker news, fb engineering, scott hanselman, guy kawasaki and few more tech resources via my fb news feed. I also watch few videos from time to time at youtube.com. MSDN blogs, Channel 9, mvc conf, dotnet conf are also in my reference list.

My problem here -
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On some planes, mostly in the Economy Plus areas. Eventually all will have power outlets but, knowing UAL, it will be a very slow process. Your best bet is an international flight.
As the article points out, it's not really "wrong" to say "the" is an adjective: it functions exactly like one! It's only wrong in the sense of violating one of two equally useful classification systems.

And this error doesn't even bubble up to the level of miscommunication, the only real sense in which you can say someone's usage is incorrect! Remember, in everyday use, you don't directly observe word classification. So unless someone goes Archeresque and says "I saw the movie -- in which I of course mean 'the' to be an adjective", there's no sense in which that mistake is common either.

With that said, I think there is a substantive, common misuse of "the", but it's not what the article describes. Rather, it's when people say eg "I went to the store", when the speaker and listener don't have a common reference point that would justify "definiteness". I've always felt these should be "a store", since there are so many they could be referring to. (It's fine when there really is only one store they could be referring to.)
The design looks mostly to be made of steel with simple joints. So how come it costs around $12,000? All the components look like they could be mass produced with a total cost just a fraction of that?
That...couldn't be more wrong.

Back in 2012 it was determined that Greek debt was unsustainable, and a large haircut was needed. But because the EU governments were unable/unwilling to accept any haircut on their holdings of Greek debt, that write down was borne entirely by private sector lenders.

> Instead, the governments cared only for the banks.

The banks lost 75%+ of their loans. The governments lost 0%. There's no way you can realistically spin that as a bail out of the banks.
Show HN: Indented outline to graphviz
OK, let's assume a child exists.

A woman can make a man pay. A man can't make a woman pay, she can just give the child up because she HAS MORE RIGHTS to the child.
Hi this is Rachel Edelshteyn Allen of the Chicago office, new product developer.

I really love these bullet points to work on..I think we should target the porn market more and go 1:1 and get personal with the customers.

I never would have bought my orange nuvi vibrator if it wasn't for the ad popping up because I was researching vibrators.

It's one of the most personal ads ever targeted at me and because of the value click & CJ algorithms I was able to get the perfect size, shape and color nuvi for me.

I must say I really like the new team and can't wait for the San Francisco office visit as I hear they like to smoke the good sensi there..

Anyway have to hit the hay for that big AGILE adtech thing with Raju in the morning then taking off the day early to meet with my wedding planner. If you want to chat on the phone give me a ring at (847)989-1243 or redelshteyn@conversantmedia.com
Caio,
Rachel
Team Leader
Product Development Manager
people think your "keeping it real" is total BS, thus the downvotes.
Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... For tomorrow, we dine in hell!
It is the 10th amendment, part of the Bill of Rights.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I'm aware of the Supreme Court interpretation of it but there are also a number of people who contest that particular interpretation, as people do on multiple Supreme Court rulings.

Totally agree with you on the highway funding thing. That's basically the tax equivalent of taking your wallet and then telling you what you have to do to get it back. It was one of the earliest recent examples of a Federal power grab and if I'm not mistake that was actually Reagan.
I'm not an expert but my intuitive understanding would be that you are recapturing some of the energy required to pump water to households in those area in which gravity does some work to allow water flow.

From my experience with drip irrigation it surprises me that this generates enough electricity to be worthwhile, since you need tremendous height to get any amount of pressure in a gravity fed drip system, and that is still much lower pressure than typically flows into a home. Article isnt clear on how much is saved...
Why Piketty isn’t Marx
A similar question was just posted recently, with some good answers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9814749

If you search older HN submissions, you'll find many other similar articles.
Going downtown is not that bad. There’s a transit line from pretty much any neighborhood to downtown, and a lot of express services during rush hours. Service is dramatically worse after midnight, though.

It’s getting from one residential neighborhood to another that’s really annoying. I have students scheduling over an hour to get to high school, because SFUSD has a policy of promoting school integration and doesn’t provide buses. Teenagers getting enough sleep? What a silly idea.
You can check out a preprint version free online. (Google suggests http://www.epsa.org/forms/uploadFiles/3B6300000000.filename.... though I can't trivially tell if that's the author's official free version, since the official book site has some https problem Firefox is complaining to me about.)
Thanks for the Echojs recommendation. Looking forward to follow it closely.
Heck yeah he did. That was great.
> when you try to unify Europe?

Very few current EU countries signed up for a "unification of Europe", it started as a trading bloc and escalated from there.
More pocasts - RunAs radio and Coding Blocks
A couple of fun linux / open source podcasts.

1. Linux Action Show (http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/tag/linux-action-show/)

2. Bad Voltage (http://badvoltage.org/)
Chrome showing an SSL security alert for Hacker News (weak cipher SHA-1)
No, there was a huge amount of anger and condemnation directed towards banks who received a bailout. The difference is that a collapse of so many large banks would have wrecked the German economy. That is why they received a bailout - not because of any 'moral superiority'
Hmm, I read that there was no notice given. Either way, I agree with you that personally identifiable information should be forbidden and censored by mods, admins, and the community as general policy. I may have misunderstood your meaning. I read that you support blocking offensive speech.

I'm not convinced that removing/blocking the old content (as much as I did not think it was funny) is a good idea. It stokes a fire. Giving notice to the moderators, and then either replacing them, or closing submissions to that sub, and cleansing old data of personally identifiable information seems more appropriate. Under the current circumstances, it's really difficult for the community to verify that what was claimed happened actually happened: we're blocked from seeing it all. There could be more transparency, and I think that's what folks are clambering for. The firing of Victoria, santa, and the leukemia boy with no notice point to the same issue, and these were just the final straws that broke the camel's back for many people. Reddit still has an opportunity to be both an awesome community and a monetizable business. It just depends what steps are taken from here and if they're consistent with old policy, or if managers will really get introspective and work with the community to make some changes, even if they aren't the exact ones demanded in this petition. The way I read this saga is, each time something happens that demonstrates a lack of transparency or oversight in how the community operates, more people get upset: it is more evidence that the lack of communication was not a one-off mistake. Rather, it's habit and deeply ingrained.
There we go. So, it could be the one's that are allegedly already here just trying to get our attention. I'm still for exploring those underground caverns in the moon. Might catch them sleeping.
He could be in the tweet (giving the benefit of the doubt), but there's no way he is in the email reading it in context.
Well not possible yet. Even Alpha Centauri is 4 light years away.
All this type of stuff has been predicted 5+ years ago on the bitcoin forums. The tricky part is getting a userbase and making it easy for regular folk.
Not in the depth that it should have been.
Like I said, there's enough natural language around this issue to convince me a lot of those signatures are real, mine included. It sounds like you don't trust some of the heaviest users of reddit. If that is your sentiment then I would not recommend investing in it. I personally would, given a leader who understood technology and the value of free speech, and who could communicate effectively. But I doubt they will IPO under Pao. The balance sheet may be looking better, but they are tanking hard on relations and she needs help. Perhaps she need not be the figure head and could instead fall back to other roles.
> Mexico is the country of inequality

You seem to be saying that the revolution didn't work out as hoped. Which isn't surprising; many things don't. But that doesn't mean the revolution didn't happen, or that it wasn't motivated by inequality.

> Likewise, I admire your optimism that Chinese inequality will be solved just as soon as the newly rich realize that they're Communists. I hope the future will prove you right.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that China has already had one revolution where inequality was a driving force. That the inequality is returning is again no proof that a revolution couldn't happen.

> Neither a race war nor a class war will happen in the US.

The US has a long history of racial violence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_Un...

Further, unrest usually starts with the people getting the shortest end of the stick, and in the US that has a strong racial component. That sort of unrest quickly sets off white people; during Ferguson, for example, you had heavily armed white people coming to Ferguson to "help" and plenty more offering.

I agree they are unlikely to happen in the next couple of decades, though.

> the US lacks the strong cultural/religious ideologies necessary to organize armies and instigate revolutions

Keep telling yourself that. We've already had two organized revolutions in the US: the War of Independence and the Civil War. The latter of which was a war driven by race and economics.

Further, there are plenty of ideologies available on the fringe. See, e.g., Niewart's long look at the US protofacist right.
This is one of those ideas that is either brilliant or complete nonsense. I'll let time tell us which one is correct.
It seems like "blockchain" is the new "NoSQL". Blockchains are designed for specific use cases, they aren't a generic powerup that you just bolt onto your idea to make it a distributed awesomeness machine.
http://programmingisterrible.com/post/39438834308/distribute...

The practical and social problems of distributed/decentralized social networks seems to far outweigh the gains in terms of anti-censorship/network resilience.

Reddit already suffers from a thing known as 'karma whoring', where users will work hard simply to gain karma points, often to the detriment of the quality of the community they're interacting with.

Karma points have absolutely no financial benefit or real worth outside of the status some internet denizens attach to them. I have struggled to imagine a single way of introducing financial incentives for Reddit participation that wouldn't ultimately fall prey to this.

It's also hard to conceive how moderation/curation might work in a distributed/decentralized system.

To put it simply, I've come to the conclusion that censorship is an often required tool in creating internet communities where everyone can feel welcome and safe.

I'm not sure how that would work in a distributed system.

Context:

I had this idea a while ago and started trying to write it. I really hope something comes out of all of the different approaches people are taking to this problem.
Respectfully, I think your rhetoric doesn't help the situation. It's not "gas-lighting" to be skeptical of the prevailing narrative that tech is a misogynistic boys club. The thing is, the harassment that Jessie is facing could literally be one person, right? Do you deny that?

Absolutely no one suggested "was okay in any way shape or form", but the fact that you used all caps really drove the point home for everyone who wasn't sure.

It's like, you get shamed if you even suggest that this might possibly be attributed to something other than "misogyny in tech".
Fighting a somewhat reasonable request with fraud seems right out of the gray zone and solidly in the territory of immorality.
Usually predatory lenders have more recourse over you: they'll take your car from the car title loan, etc. What do they gain from this situation, exactly? It seems to me like everybody loses here... and I'm not entirely certain they won't find some bailout and have it happen again.

Right now, I feel sorry for the people in Greece, it seems like they work long hours for nothing and their government is completely underwater.
Hmm. Maybe someone can debunk this idea:

Could it have been some harmonic frequency of a terrestial lower frequency radio signal (such as 710MHz) that bounced off ionosphere?

That frequency range is currently assigned to mobile, but I suppose it could have been in TV/Broadcast use back then as it's right next to that spectrum.

TV broadcast truck?
Blogs/websites in no particular order:

* http://blog.codinghorror.com/ (Jeff Atwood)

* http://www.catonmat.net/ (Pete Krumins)

* http://blog.fogus.me/ (Mike Fogus)

* http://research.swtch.com/ (Russ Cox)

* http://effbot.org/ (Fred Lundh)

* http://adam.herokuapp.com/ (Adam Wiggins)

Podcasts in no particular order:

* http://www.dotnetrocks.com/ (NET Rocks)

* http://herdingcode.com/ (NET focused podcast with Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scoot Koon and Jon Galloway)

* http://www.coreint.org/ (A podcast about indie software development)

* http://www.talkpythontome.com/ (Python podcast)

* http://www.binpress.com/blog/category/podcast/ (Binpress podcast about digital products)

Magazines in no particular order:

* http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ (HN in PDF)

* http://www.codemag.com/magazine (Tech/coding news)

* http://www.drdobbs.com/ (Dr. Dobbs)

and many more.
In my view the only way this would work is on a "Decentralized Autonomous Organization" model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...
Title seems quite linkbaity. In a 4digit PIN-based system, being able to log in with a 4 digit PIN isn't a vuln, it's how the system works.

They even state up-front that improvements to the system are in the works.
Poetic justice. Serves the bastards right. I'm sure hackers are flocking to the download in search of awesome tools. If they're there, then we might see independent, malware authors building some interesting things to produce headaches with. Interesting times continue.

Note that many of us in INFOSEC said years ago that these offensive, cyber companies developing weapons was a risk to us if they double-dealed or got breached. Their weapons which we (and others) funded might get turned against us. Depending on what's in the torrent, that scenario might begin playing out.
Do you mean Bitcoin or the subject of the article?
Yes, for at least two reasons:

Unsafe string-munging is too easy and seductive. Doing things the safe/secure way needs to be at least as easy.

And it makes for a growable language, the way Lisp macros do. E.g. https://github.com/erights/quasiParserGenerator
This can reduce the demand for feature bloat in future language standards.
1) purposeful digital archival and day-to-day throwaway content generation are very different stories in terms of staying power

2) the loss of print media is happening right now, today, while the loss of digital media is not quite as pressing. "Kicking the can" in a sense.
Good. Serves them right.

Normally I'm a bit more reserved when a company I dislike gets hacked, but take a look at Hacking Team's history and you'll probably want to celebrate too.
This is a strongly gendered phenomenon. Prominent women in tech have an entirely different experience than prominent men in tech. (This is mostly true for non-prominent people as well.) This comes up over and over and over.

But by all means keep clouding the issue in hopes of not having to talk about it.
> it's not really "wrong" to say "the" is an adjective: it functions exactly like one!

The, theer, theest? The, more the, most the?

The shoe was red but most importantly, it was the. She had never before seen so the a shoe!

In the clearing was old a house with smoke rising from stone the chimney.

Edit: couldn't decide on the number of shoes so I went for both singular and plural :(
How would you define austerity for the Greece? To have public spending at 58% of GDP?
I'd say the buyer's shock was just a negotiating tactic...I've seen this used in many different situations. That said, I certainly wouldn't be surprised that most people would gladly sell off people's privacy for easy money.
> The author received private messages saying that someone jerked off to a picture of her

The author says she received these pictures. There's a difference.
I follow all of them via RSS. In English: Hacker News, InfoQ, Planet Clojure, O'Reilly Radar (and ocasionally listen their podcast in SoundCloud), Ars Technica, The Server Side. I save some episodes of some podcasts which I find interesting (eg. The Cognicast) but takes me a long time to catch up.

I also follow some tech blogs in Spanish: Microsiervos, Fayerwayer, Manzana Mecanica, Hipertextual, Genciencia.
Harassment is not okay. Never said it was. Nobody thinks it is.

But "calling someone out" means nothing. Tim Hunt was "called out", and mobbed out of his career on the basis of personal accusation alone, with zero actual wrongdoing.

Mob violence is bad, no matter who does it.

I asked for thoughts, because I want so see the evidence that contradicts this theory. Please, please, PLEASE show me some evidence that I am wrong.

I want to be wrong, because being right about this is scary as fuck.
Because the initial one is where you'd interface (potentially) with non-promise code. E.g. in order to wrap a node-style function, you can't throw or return. But in general you shouldn't need to use `new Promise()`, that should in most cases be reserved to more general, low-level code (e.g. a promisify implementation).
The main technically publication I really follow is lwn.
Also read arstechnica on occasion, but not as much as I used to.

But I do subscribe to a few key developer's blogs.
It really depends on what you work on though.
It's not a waste of time if it gets you where you want/need to go.
What makes you think she didn't call the police?

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome...

"Two hours later, a Palm Springs police officer lumbered up the steps to my hotel room, paused on the outdoor threshold, and began questioning me in a steady clip. I wheeled through the relevant background information: I am a journalist; I live in Los Angeles; sometimes, people don’t like what I write about women, relationships, or sexuality; this was not the first time that someone had responded to my work by threatening to rape and kill me. The cop anchored his hands on his belt, looked me in the eye, and said, “What is Twitter?”"
It's not so much grouping internet trolls with the tech industry, but that the tech industry is having a problem with its troll population.

This might be purely because we're the first out of the trenches... we got the first trolls because we were the first to adopt online communication, and we have the first gamergate because we're still ahead of other industries/communities.

I think we need to associate this sort of thing with the tech industry, because only then will we be able to fix it. Shrugging it off as "universal behaviour" will just mean no-one tries to do anything about it. In order to "un-fuck" this industry, we do need to accept that we do this. You (as an individual) may not and I may not, but we as an industry troll our women and minorities. And until we as an industry accept that we do this (and that it's a bad thing that we need to stop doing) it'll never stop.