skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you looking for a way to automate the registration process on the web? Not sure if that's what you are looking for, if so I have a product that can be customized to do exactly that, can you send me a quick email in my profile?
Prof Graham Farr of Monash University told Tutte's personal story at my show once. http://thelaborastory.com/stories/william-thomas-tutte/
All you have to do is make the seller of drone equipment legally liable for any and all damages for equipment sold to unlicensed operators. Investors and insurance companies will make sure the sellers require licensing, and the legal liability will keep users in check.
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This referendum is a fight between the Greeks and Europe’s cruel capitalism
You made me remember a comment I made some months ago about the speed of light being a performance optimization on a post asking if reality was a computer simulation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8638150

Lazy loading makes perfect sense to me!
What I would do to have a projector with that resolution. Sigh, I don't even want to remotely know the price tag on that. But it's also the absolutely coolest thing I have seen in plasma tech/research recently.
If you liked this then you might find my Python one liner games interesting [1]. They fit a tweet in most cases.

[1]: http://arunrocks.com/python-one-liner-games/
Totally exploiting the fact invalid HTML is accepted by modern browsers. :P
reality must be dynamically typed.
Safe = reliable = high capacity factor = revenue. Look at the INPO and NRC ratings of plant safety and economic performance. They are directly correlated. So it's in every nuclear startup's best interest to be very safe.
Interestingly git used bit fields in it's code.
Also, Chernobyl was one of the reasons Soviet Union collapsed.
Interesting analogy and choice of words since UPower is building a solid state reactor.
Can anyone speak a bit more to that? I was wondering if this was just a convenience feature that browsers added or something that has been in Javascript all along?
Maybe the universe doesn't do it for the same reason games and movies don't do it, the people watching expect smooth playback.
the part that got me was how they froze the ant raft to model it in a computer. wonder how they made the freezing happen
I imagine that in a combined mond+dark matter regime, one would need a lot less of the dark matter flying around... Any sense of how the ratio of dark matter to regular matter plays out amongst people working on hybrid theories?
What happened in Vietnam over the past 20 years?

>facing genocide

Either Israel is attempting to annihilate the Palestinians, or they aren't. The Palestinians are still here. Israel has strong military means. They are capable, and they are competent. If they are trying, they are failing, and thus incompetent. I do not think they are incompetent. Many generals, commentators, and experts believe they are amongst the most capable nations and praise their abilities and precision. I think it's clear they aren't trying to annihilate any group of people other than people that launch rockets, attacks, or support those activities. It ain't genocide, so why call it that?
I know tons of people who only use Windows because they don't know how to use anything else.
Swift and Haskell: 'do' or Die
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Perspective on how radically warped the mindset of these CIA types are? It was the most obnoxious thing I've read in a while.
This is completely false. First it is not dangerous to live in those zones, second this is a pretty accurate land comparison - http://www.thingsworsethannuclearpower.com/2012/03/using-too.... Maybe Elon should visit a nuclear plant...
The Meteor framework [1] uses this to good effect to support latency compensation.

You can optionally choose to include Meteor methods (ajax-style remote endpoints) on the client. Then when the method is called, the client-side version is run in addition to the real, server-side one being kicked off. If the server-side returns an error, such as due to insufficient permissions, the changes made client-side are rolled back. Combined with Meteor's client-side mongo implementation and reactive UI updates, it gives impressive "perceived performance" benefits.

1. https://www.meteor.com/
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> clearly undermines our entire financial system and the best features of capitalism: which is to reward those who innovate

Let's not pretend that US spying on foreign companies is something new at all. It's been widely spread by other means for decades if not more. I would even say it's an integral part of doing business for larger companies, and they call it "intelligence" and they get it by whatever means they can. The NSA is just one of their tools.
Probably nothing? But since they're funded anyway, it's pretty cheap to cross our fingers.
> An observation collapses a wave function.

Not if the MWI is true. Talking about wave function collapse presupposes that the Copenhagen interpretation is true. In the MWI, there is no collapse; it's unitary evolution all the time.
World+Languages+Measured+&+Counted+in+Human+Units
*Worked slowly.

Of course science is much faster nowawadays; although there are no more facts about the Earth to be discovered as basic as the outline of it's geologic history. Even getting a book across the globe was a major issue I suspect; you'd have to slowly accrue interest from the community around you and divulge your work a lot for it to start propagating and eventually start having effects. Nowadays cutting edge papers are often put in the arXiv even before hitting the journals (which have instant online access), and I believe even speculative theories spread much faster by email, etc. And every researcher from every field has ready access to what happens on other fields.

Although I think it's not nearly as fast as it could be, and a large problem in our way are the big journal publishers. We need to restructure publishing urgently.
war is boring
Indian IT needs to move up the value-chain
TIS-100: An emulator for a CPU that doesn't exist
Cortana, siri and Google now are the future of advertising and sales. "Okay Google, order me a pizza". "Hey siri, call me a cab". "Cortana, I need restaurant reservations at 8. Something nice".

The virtual assistant's job is to pick a supplier and spend your money on your behalf. Everybody wants a piece of that.
Turning a reactive web application into a regular "web site" -- ie. allowing you to use the bulk of the application without Javascript enabled. Great for SEO, too, at least until Google gets Javascript execution further along (which it's certainly doing, and getting better every day).
Ditto. Out of curiosity, is dark matter spread unevenly throughout the universe, or is it directly inverse to matter?

Like, when we expect dark matter causes an effect, is it because we expect there to be a massive dark-matter "object" acting upon matter, or can we attribute it to denser dark matter as space between matter increases?

Edit: would viewing dark matter provide a negative image of the universe?

I'm asking mostly because I'm curious if there is dark matter, "light" matter, and empty space, or only one or the other? I love imagining this stuff, as if two different universes in a multiverse - ours and one we can't see - are acting upon each other and causing what we strive to explain. As if they were passing through each other.
So a bear doesn't sh*t in the woods.
You can also find all that out by doing investigations.
Amplitude of the magnetic field.
What are the benefits of live a opposed to pre recorded? Ability to ask questions and get immediate responses?
So distribute fission and fusion, overcomes much of that. And distributed solar and wind needs backup which is usually fairly centralized. Unless you want to spend 3-5 times as much for your energy to buy batteries.
If the person had been waving around said pole camera in a reckless and out-of-control manner over peoples' heads, had crashed it into someone hard enough to knock them unconscious, then run away and left the scene without offering an apology, the outcome would have been the same.

As I tell my 4-year-old all the time, sure, the crash itself was an accident, but the pilot's behavior before and after the accident was not.
Probably not, but there's always a first.
This is part two* of a great long-form essay on the topic of a technological singularity, and its impact on humanity. Even if the majority of HN users are familiar with the concepts, the prose of this essay is very readable, and it's a great piece with which to introduce non-technical people to the topic.

[*] Part one is here: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
Oh, that article again. This has been discussed before, especially on Slashdot.

There are two things to worry about. One is a threat to space satellites. The other is a threat to certain long power transmission lines. There is no damage threat to ground-based electronics not attached to really long wires (many miles, longer than CO to phone loops.)

The threat to power transmission is simply that different parts of the earth temporarily have different electrical potentials at "ground". This is only an issue for long transmission lines, hundreds of miles. DC superimposed on AC causes partial transformer saturation and reduces transformer capacity. If undetected, this can burn out transmission transformers.

Since this happened in a big way in 1989, US transmission systems have added DC sensing at key points in the system, and have ways of dealing with the problem. Here's the popular explanation.[1] If you're really interested, here's the training material for the people who sit in US east coast power control rooms and decide what to do about it. Read the section on "geomagnetic disturbances"[2] If you're really, really interested, you can look up "PJM eData Guest Access" and bring up a huge Flash page which shows the current status of the east coast electrical grid. Under "Emergency actions", any current solar storm activity and related problems are mentioned. Nothing is happening today. A few times a year, there's enough solar activity that grid controllers prepare to take action. There was a moderate solar storm on June 22nd. Did you notice?

The effect on fiber optic cables is zero.

[1] http://pluggedin.pjm.com/2014/09/keeping-alert-for-solar-act...

[2] http://www.pjm.com/~/media/training/nerc-certifications/re6-...
https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/pull/978 just submitted a PR, enjoy!
Ask HN: Web design a depreciating asset?
High-priced web design seems like a bad investment to me.

Decent designers ask a minimum of $100/hr but no designer wants to be held accountable or be compensated on the basis of driving actual business results.

More often than not a company will spend $50,000 on a web design and get 0 business results.

Then the design itself becomes outdated over time and is less and less valuable for "credibility" each month.

Is design just another depreciating asset?
> You can make an observation of a system whose state is undetermined. By interrogating the system for its state, a state becomes determined.

For QM, this is not correct, although it's a common misstatement. The correct statement is this: you can make an observation of a system which is not in an eigenstate of the measurement operator you are using. After the measurement, the system is now in an eigenstate of the measurement operator--i.e., the act of measurement changes the state.

Note that this is only true on a collapse interpretation, like Copenhagen. On a no-collapse interpretation, like MWI, the "observation" is just an interaction that entangles the state of the measuring device with the state of the system being measured--it's all just unitary evolution.

> You could flip the coin, and put its state vector into the form of sqrt(2)/2 Heads + sqrt(2)/2 * Tails. This state isn't observable*

Yes, it is; but it isn't observable by a simple method like looking to see if the coin is heads or tails. But according to QM, every state is an eigenstate of some operator, so there will be some observation that will distinguish sqrt(2)/2 * Heads + sqrt(2)/2 * Tails from the state that is exactly orthogonal to it, which is sqrt(2)/2 * Heads - sqrt(2)/2 * Tails.
You cannot lose your copyright other than by your signed agreement. But look out for the term "work for hire". That specifies the company owns your work.

If you are a regular employee then the company owns your work. In the US the determination of whether you are a consultant or employee is determined by the "twenty factors", also known as the "twntry questions".
> Fuck you for pretending it was a real comment. It's disgusting that you're pretending it was a real comment. Losers like you are the reason HN is a piece of shit now.

> 2) I am advocating banning people for being rude.

Indeed
Has been like this for as long as I can remember (at least back to IE6).
> at least hundreds of billions of dollars on this very same project.

How is that a measure of doing something meaningful ? Take EADS making the Ariane rocket launchers, they have been spending billions and billions of Euros making rockets for years, yet they have no project like SpaceX and yet they will be rapidly obsolete once SpaceX works as expected.

It's not about the amount you spend, it's about experimenting in new areas not explored yet. Now, about fusion, I have no idea what they plan to do, but in principle there's always new things worth trying (even if they end up failing).
Less energy in a falling selfie-camera than a drone falling from high enough not to get hit by a stick.
And when throwing baseballs into the air in crowded areas of folks not aware of flying baseballs becomes a frequent occurrence, we can look into ways to resolve that problem. Until then, lets focus on things that appear to be becoming a trend?
I use Caspio which is essentially a graphical front end for Microsoft SQL. It is a good product for rapid application development with minimal administration.
your analogy would only make sense if you were hitting a baseball toward a crowd and surprised it hit someone
For what it's worth, this is the kind of comment that looks hilarious in retrospect after every major breakthrough.

YC has demonstrated they aren't just throwing darts here, so vague pessimism is not the best default.
> So are they claiming that it infringes copyright if your implementation is a superset or a subset of the original implementation, but if it is an exact implementation, then it's not copyright infringement?

They're claiming that any of the above would require an API license, and that a license (requiring GPL for the implementation) was granted only to the latter, so a subset would be unauthorized infringement.
What exactly is happening here: "a.style.margin=++s+e%300"? (Specifically, the "++" part.)
Is the skill level required to operate a baseball safely near a crowd the same as that of a drone?
Thanks! I found the most relevant idea here, and I upvoted it

"API – Technical Specification May 2015"

http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/?p=45
wow your homeowners insurance covers that? i guess if i ever get one i'll have to add that on
You forgot python, with package: (similar in that R needs parallel packages): http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2015/06/26/Complex-Graph...
Remember that time I emailed Steve Jobs?
I would love it if anyone repeating the tired talking point, that solutions for rich people's problems will magically transmogrify into solutions for real problems with actual impact on human potential and quality of life, could name even one example of this that's come out of U.S. technology startups in the last ten years.

I would also love it if anyone could explain why so many people don't feel compelled to do anything about the poverty in Silicon Valley that is becoming much, much worse and drastically curtailing social mobility for poor people in the area, and instead promote this idea of "efficient charity" or whatever to help people far away, instead of fixing the problems caused by the kind of people who focus solely on earning a lot of money. Problems that exist whether those people spend that money on mosquito nets or hookers and blow.

These talking points get thrown around over and over again, largely without evidence, and it's starting to feel like it's just people trying to justify their desire to make a pile of money without feeling bad about it.
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> Couldn't Google just comply with the license and re-release their code under GPL with linking exception like the original standard library?

Yes.

Alternatively, .NET is licensed under Google's preferred permissive license these days.

Neither of these will happen, however.
increments `s` before evaluating the expression and adds it to (e % 300)
How would APIs involving callbacks work? Would they need special license acrobatics to authorize you to implement a callback of the necessary form as specified by the copyrighted API?
No, dark matter is definitely not the inverse of regular matter. Dark matter is spread unevenly through the universe, and it's spread in a pretty similar (but still notably different) way to the spread of regular matter. For example, where you have galaxies with lots of regular matter there is also lots of dark matter, but it has a slightly different distribution. You seem to be imagining something cool, but not something that bears much resemblance to our universe.
Thirded. The narrative form threw me off at first, but I think it really lays out a lot of the concepts in a digestible way.
++ will increment s before the new margin is set.
s += 1
a.style.margin = (s + e) % 300
You sign up for 6 months ...
increments s before doing the rest of the calculation?
Pretty much! The interaction is a key part of it.
These recommendations are great, but I'll add one I haven't seen here yet: "Notes to a Software Team Leader" by Roy Osherove. I think it's a great read on how to empower your teams to succeed on their own. And it's written from the perspective that is likely to be shared (at least in part) by your dev leads, so it'll likely have helpful insight in that way as well.
Actually, no. With the high availability of PCB's and the upcoming ubiquity of 3D printers, the reality is that such overreaching restrictions as you propose would do nothing but slightly push the market back toward the realm of hobbyists.

Let's look at laser pointers--a good example since those with the strength to affect aircraft became commercially viable in the early-mid 2000's. They're affordable, and have a similar enthusiast following... and yet the incidences of lasers being pointed at aircraft per anum is surprisingly low, seeing as almost everyone gets caught, and the punishments are severe.

Trying to regulate technology in the manner you suggest would just incite people like me to be more interested in building and producing that which is unreasonably restricted--affecting public perception is far more reliable in terms of generalized safety from idiots and reckless negligence.
Increment global state variable, add it to e, which is the number of milliseconds the game has been running modulo 300. Then set the margin size to that value. It's a simple pseudo-pseudorandom number generator.
First things first, IANAL. Assuming you are talking about building a website for a client as a contractor, and the IP you refer to is the code behind the website:

Q1: Most development contracts I have seen usually lay out that the code is owned by the developer until final payment, or some other final agreed upon milestone is reached, at which time the ownership transfers to the customer.

Q2: While not signing a "transfer agreement" sounds simple in theory, you are going to be hard pressed to convince a customer to not take ownership of a website or other application you were hired to develop for them. Why would I hire you to build a website for me and then not want ownership of said code? This is exactly why this question is asked by potential investors and exists on directly on applications for programs like YC, "Was any of your code written by someone who is not one of your founders? If so, how can you safely use it? (Open source is ok of course.)"

Q3: Why as the contractor would you want to retain the IP? Are you looking to resell to other companies? One option would be to build it for them under contract and then come up with a lease or maintenance contract upon completion of development. This may allow you to retain the IP while continuing to bill them.

I think to answer your questions though it really depends on what you are developing for the customer. If you are building a website for a company or building a specific application than I can't see a reason the company would want you to own the IP when you are done development. They hired you to develop it for them to own.

Based on your questions it sounds like a company asked you to develop something and you think it is a good idea and want to keep it for yourself so you can resell it to other clients. If this is the case, it sounds like a shady way to approach it. You may be better suited to build the software and have the customer as your first client. But tell them that is your intention from the get go. Another option would be to attempt to work out an arrangement with them where you build it and they sell it, splitting revenues.
There were several political mistakes in that one. The poor outnumber the wealthy, so they can vote more. Anything that targets them can be a hard sell, especially if a lot of them are elderly.

I would make it a 'complete, long term non-occupancy' tax, that is solvable by renting the places out or having someone live in them. People can still have whatever space they want, but don't do the utter waste of buying a house as a another form of bank account.
In case any one was wondering the difference between "s++" and "++s" (the former of which is probably more common), prepending the "++" increments the variable before returning it, whereas appending it would increment after returning the value.

The code you posted is essentially equivalent to "s = s + 1; a.style.margin = s + e % 300".
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Well, Sun does matter a bit when it comes to questions of what license terms were or were not offered and with what motivations. If there's any doubt about what Sun actually did back when they were independent, then Oracle is somewhat constrained by what Sun was trying to do (Open source Java), not what Oracle is trying to do (close Java while leaving only a GPL implementation open-source).
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"They do it (trust me!) so it's okay that we do it."

It's really difficult to see any logic in your recent comment history, frankly.
If my friend got knocked out by a drone and the dude came up to claim it, I would tell him as soon as the police get there he can claim it from them. I sure wouldn't hand it over "here's your drone back, sir!"
oh, because drones falling on people is a trend?
I am literally asking "what?" Because I don't know of any common idea that is even in the realm of this. I'm hoping someone knew something about the process they're pursuing that is not commonly known among cargo cult physicists like myself.