skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things.

In the near future launch prices are going to be much lower, which changes the landscape in exploration and exploitation of space completely. That means that you can get more missions for fewer dollars. It means you can be more adventurous and innovative (since the cost of failure is lower and the time to recover is shorter). Which includes things like making increasing use of advanced propulsion (ion engines, plasma propulsion, etc.) which would enable things like a Neptune orbiter or what-have-you.

As to communications, almost certainly there will be a change to laser based communications over long distances. The technology is maturing and once we have the ability to put more infrastructure off-Earth (orbit, etc.) then you can replace things like the DSN with laser based communication hubs in orbit or at L2 or L4/L5 or wherever. They'd take the form of essentially space telescopes with special instrumentation for sending and receiving laser comms. That would make it possible to send and receive at a much higher rate across the entire solar system.
There is typically a cost leader and a quality leader in most markets - e.g. android and apple, Blue Bunny and Haagen Daas, kia and mercedes (respectively).

Companies that target the cost-leader position will have thin margins but make up for it in quantity. Google didn't lose anything in the Android victory over the mobile OS market, and falls in line with their strategy of making slim returns on every user (which adds up).
Loaded question?
How many people are on here are business owners? And if you are, what type of business do you own?
Our central alerting gateway (CAG) does much more than just send emails and pages. When the system was fist built we hooked into CAG directly as it is capable of taking many of the desired actions on its own.
One of my favorite things is an old highway in Kansas that emerges from a reservoir that was created in the 1960s and then drops back into the water a short distance away. It's in an out-of-the-way location and we used to go sit on the pavement and drink beer when I was in high school.
Joinable would be a much better name than FlatMappable. FlatMap makes it apply too much to collections.
Thanks. What if you were to try to evolve a program that solves a problem- but tests each evolution simultaneously on multiple chips? Instead of one chip, it must work on 100 chips in order to pass. To sort of cancel out the idiosyncrasies of any one chip.

I imagine you'd still have problems but might be mitigated a bit.
This is changing in iOS 9 which has an iCloud Drive app, thankfully.
Holy shit. I was fucking joking. Wow.

I really can't believe that it didn't come across as a joke either. You guys can't possibly have thought that I was trying to write embrace, extend, and extinguish and then realized all of a sudden that it didn't fit in this case?

You guys need to lighten up.

EDIT: Yep. It was funny and you guys need to come off your fucking high horses or you're just as bad as the "Embrace,exten,blah blah blah" kid.
Note that this is from 2012 and many things have been added/improved. Cost has also been dropped by ~80% a year ago.
I was joking dude. It was a joke because people always put that in any post about Microsoft. So, it was sarcasm.

But way to be a tool about it.
They could have tossed in a few of the large moons of Jupiter & Saturn and included the Oort cloud at the very end for completeness.

Great visualization nevertheless...Especially loved the various markers for spacecraft. Mind boggling what we have achieved in the short space of about 60 years.
Swift itself is quite easy to learn, and you don't actually have to do any functional programming in it if you don't know how to do so. I'll bet most people writing in Swift are doing little more than they would have done in Objective-C since it fully supports the OO paradigm. Over time, more and more will adopt some of the neat things you can do with this first-class functions.
That's a very good counterpoint, thanks.
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They have been hiring way too fast for way too long. The beginning of the end is years ago, at least.
IT WAS A JOKE. Damn.

I thought it was funny, ya know, because it's about Microsoft, but its really about Google...it was a joke.

EDIT: And I'm sticking by it. That was funny.
eh, it's close. if the semantics are

apply(fun,args)

it's not much of a mental stretch to do

apply([fun1,fun2], [arg_for_fun1,arg_for_fun2])

it's probably better to just suck it up and learn the precise terms though. a lot of hazy thinking can hide behind overloaded words.
I have not. The design and size put me off. Plus I really want to avoid a different key layout, as it raises my error rate (and hand stress). This is important because I move about and sometimes use a laptop keyboard.

But maybe I'll have to give it a shot. I just don't see what's so hard about taking a normal ergo keyboard and making it with proper switches.
I have a Harmony remote, and love it, but it is slower to respond for many devices. It is also absolutely inferior when compared to BT devices (my Roku and my PS3 come immediately to mind).

I wish the manufacturers would come up with a common standard for remotes - perhaps over BT - and just have one "universal" app for my phone. Ehh.
I was referring to what you referenced. In a lot of ways the US was just another part of England, but the revolution really started as people wanting their rights as English citizens and went separatists from there. We then got waves to different regions as immigrants (e.g. the North Dakota and Minnesota immigration maps are pretty interesting for an example).

It just seemed like our Civil War shutdown the separatists and India separatists had some success, so I was wondering if there is a likely further break or not.
Dropbox's event log has saved me so many times. I have recovered pictures of my family that mean a great deal to me. I even get an email if lots of files were deleted, and the API is amazing. That's why I love Dropbox, the file sync is their bread and butter, their core business and not just a feature.
What would happen if we actually had a system like Tony Stark’s JARVIS?
Can I please request a language that's at least partially designed by UI specialists, or psychologists familiar in cognition? Because, to me, it seems the most expensive part of a computer system is the relationship between the programmers and their code. We can make programming languages that are machine-readable, how about more effort in making programming languages human-readable?
It's Larry Wall. Dressing like a member of the Village People on acid is probably one of the least whimsical things he's done. His State of the Onion addresses all blend surrealism and technicality quite aptly.

See his Wikiquote for examples of his humor: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
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This was something I looked into when i performed the initial investigation for this project. It was a bit difficult to locate supporting academic material on the algorithm though. The white paper on the page seemed more like marketing material than an academic paper, which I imagine serves their business purposes better.

I will say the fact that nupic produces an outlier score and confidence score are things that would have been incredibly useful by the time this was brought to its end users. Definitely worth a look for anyone looking to do realtime stream processing for anomaly detection.
"flatmap" hints at it consisting of two components, flattening and mapping. Both are to be seen in a generalized context though, and the words are familiar to many when thinking about collections.

1. Mapping - the same as what Functor/Mappable provides. We use this to "map" over a structure, producing a nested structure.

2. Flattening: we just built our nested structure, time to squash it again.

In types akin to templates,

Structure<A>
------------------------ (map something suitable over it)
Structure<Structure<B>>
------------------------ (flatten it)
Structure<B>

It's not a terrible name, but it probably doesn't help seeing the bigger picture either. "Flattening" a parser, a subroutine, an empty thing -- that's not really something very intuitive.
You don't have to crash/land the entire probe, you could land a lightweight sensor that was carried by the probe and which requires little fuel to decelerate.
Terrorism, eh? Ok. Well, here's a comprehensive list of "terrorism" against Jews in Europe from the beginning of civilization until today, with a special focus on recent events:

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

Again, I'm sure it's just my imagination.
Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything
Just a function that returns a value of the same type. The value comes from mean nasty state modifying and/or over the network. It is the function programming portal to real world, encased in a pretty function you can reason with.
Can we stop saying 'API' to talk about Web service?

API is more generic than that. It is the abstraction describing software components and operations. Any good library should have a good API.
I knew that np stood for numpy but had to Google to realize that the .T suffix meant transpose.
It's not as easy to find as it should be, but you can recover deleted files on iCloud.com: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201104 (search for "recover")

Whether that only works with intentionally deleted files or it would help with the ones in this post that were deleted because of system error, I'm not sure.
Sorry for confusion. The legal links have been updated. Hope this helps.
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I hope the will address some of the larger issues as well like version control.
Yeah, no kidding.

On the other hand, the story of the plane is quite funny in terms of details (see wikipedia). The second gas tank couldn't be refilled, and the armed bomb couldn't be moved to another plane, so they took off with a half functionnng device. As famous, the winds drew the smokes over the first target, so they diverted to another one, and a third one, Nagasaki.

They actually had to save gas while flying. They had to land on another military stripe on an island. For some reason (I think the stripe was too short because they were on the wrong landing place, because of the fuel, because of the disabled tank) they didn't have enough lengh to land, so the pilots had to stand straight on the brakes. Quite circomvoluted for the most important bomb in the XXth century.
>For this day, they can feel good, but this is a signal that Page is facing the fact that the search advertising business may have hit the limits of growth

or just a big one coming - the correction ("bust") is coming around next year, and thus advertising business will not grow until we are out of the correction several years down the road. So may be what Larry does is just that old "butten down the hatches", like some other companies are starting to do to.
We have, specifically in the domain of using RL for parameter selection. Part of the reason I was brought on board was background experience in RL. I fully believe it's the key to turning domain (yes/no) decisions into numbers for our algorithms to ingest.

Ultimately we would like all of our systems to use RL to interpret user feedback to determine parameters, actions, etc...

Brilliant question by the way!
"And iBooks dropped all metadata at some point"

The worst part of that is that there is no way to manually export that data and back it up yourself.

Its worse now because Apple is only providing some information as ebooks and not pdfs. So, I get something that can loose my notes and I cannot print out (sorry, I sometimes like to read on something without an LCD).
Mathematica 10.2 released
This is a really fantastic article, I've been looking for a code-based "Neural network implementation for idiots" thing like this.
This is MiniPCIe which would only have a x1 connection to the edge fingers, which means only 4 GTP connections would be needed (and the XC6SLX100T has 8 IIRC).
That's been available for some time via iCloud.com.
I started out learning Perl. This was when 5.10 was the newest version which was pretty much forever ago.

I just went to look up Perl 5.10 release notes, and they billed it as "the first major upgrade... in over five years."

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html

I would have loved to keep using Perl in a professional setting but even when I first learned it, it was already forever between two major updates. Perl was fun to use. It's just too bad everyone moved on.
Are there any nice, one-step-at-a-time introductions to Haskell that stick to lowly, commonplace English rather than insisting that "just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" is universally preferable because technically it technically is technically more technically correct?
Yeah, I'm not too interested in using any cloud storage:

1. slow
2. bugs that delete your data
3. company goes bust or dark for whatever reason
4. your private data is available to voyeuristic employees, hackers, spies, advertisers, researchers, monetizers, anyone who offers to buy it, stalkers, dragnets, and anyone who buys their used disk drives on ebay.

No thanks.
Flash isn't part of the Web. It's not vendor neutral.

If Adobe decides to deprioritise a platform that mean the users of that platform with experience less support in terms of bug fixes, performance and security. If Adobe decides not to support a platform period that means users of that platform are left without a means to access Flash content.

If you are a user this is unacceptable. More importantly these things have already happened.
I've never used iCloud drive, and now I'm very happy that it's the case. It seems like a very incompetent bug, once they implemented the .iCloud files they should have seen this.
The music itself or the playlist? I've seen iTunes corrupt its playlist, but the physical music files always remain. Don't get me wrong, it is still a huge pain in the butt, and one of the reasons I uploaded all of my music to Google Music and got an All Access subscription.
I think it is safe to say that Apple iCloud is not a backup product, but merely a file synchronisation tool.

I never liked the idea of stub files with tools like this. I used Livedrive a few years ago and the whole stub files gives a false sense of security. The only benefit it provided was I could double click the stub file and prioritise the download.
I fell in this rabbit hole while tweaking desktop colors and trying to figure out how to programmatically create same-intensity colors. oops, RGB illusion broken.

This article is a good introduction to color spaces, but stays too abstract to really examine what's required to significantly enlarge gamuts. Doing so would require entire new devices and manufacturing processes - it's not simply a matter of throwing a bit more money, but a lot of money and long-term R&D.

There are "wide gamut" LCDs for people who care about color reproduction, but all they do is spread three primaries out further (and even this is expensive).
...has everyone forgotten the 20,000 people who died in the tsunami? What's the opportunity cost with the $300 billion that will be used to rebuild the devastated areas? And yet we've got no deaths from Fukushima. How many other deaths would we have suffered from a natural disaster, if it were a large enough event to have caused a bigger problem at Fukushima to cause one hundred radiation related deaths?
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> Fine. That’s what dragging a file from one place to another generally does!

To me this is not fine. Usually dragging from a different device(USB Thumbdrive <-> hard drive, SD Card <-> Thumbdrive, ....) should copy the files, and the cloud should be considered as another device.

Could a Mac user confirm if this is the default behavior on Mac devices?
And how are you supposed to hire people to do things like improve build tooling? That doesn't generate any money except indirectly. "How much revenue does this janitor contribute?"
What's the real significance of this? Aren't labor relations primarily governed by federal and state law rather than by individual cities?

For example, if the IRS thinks your employer should be paying you on a W-2 according to federal law, NYC and NY State can't overrule that. And if you sue the IRS to challenge this, the case will end up in a federal court.
They have the occasional less boring ones. Netjets fractional jet ownership and BYD electric and other cars for example.
There's more to the interfaces than merely the operators; there are laws, too. Besides that, the operators give a big advantage when sequencing operations, something you can't do with map() notation.
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Opting for the solution that is offering less privacy to users requires an explanation. This isn't one. They say that they've collaborated with Pocket on their ToS, but those are still way worse than Firefox Sync's.
Is flying popular among the tech professionals who can afford it? Where do they do their flight training? Typical flight schools seem sort of old school for a place like the Valley.
You tried to look like you were agreeing with me but skirted the main point and instead asked me a question. Excellent PR skills :). The problem isn't the fact a utopian version of a Reader List doesn't exist, the problem is what Mozilla did in shipping Pocket. Let's not get away from that.

>> If you're not using Pocket and it is not sending any data because you're not using it, having that feature present is actually harming you?

Pocket doesn't "hurt" me, it hurts Mozilla's reputation and it hurts Firefox's less knowledgeable users, particularly because it was made a prominent default. You're handing your users over to a closed source company and not even getting paid for it!

In my opinion if Mozilla was really focused on what it says are its values, it would never have shipped with Pocket integrated like it did. Instead it would have have taken the time and developed the feature in Sync and allowed users like me to host my own. Integrating Pocket to simply rush a feature to get a PR win is the problem.
This is a bit different in that Greece has control over a real printing press. While it would be unlikely to be kept hidden, it should be possible for the Greek printers to avoid overlapping serials numbers.

In practice they could only start their own “unauthorised” printing if it was kept secret since if it leaked the ECB would just issue new notes. This would likely be highly disruptive to the ECB as it was to Portugal.
We most certainly do, one of the more obscure applications is detecting customer service agents who are gaming the system.
Perl was what made one my all-time favorite side projects possible.

Back around 2000, I was working at a mid-size company that stored tons of data in a company intranet. There was lots of useful stuff locked up in there, but hardly anybody ever used it because the web interface was clunky and slow.

One day I had a brainstorm, and after a few evenings' Perl hacking it was up and running -- a conversational interface to the intranet, running over AOL Instant Messenger. You added the bot as a buddy, and then you could query the intranet a bunch of different ways; IM it a client's name, for instance, and it would ping you back with their contact information, who their account reps were, what projects they were associated with, etc. (Which is very useful when your phone rings and it's someone you don't recognize.) Pretty nifty stuff, for the time. Everyone had AIM running all the time anyway, so this turned out to be a big hit -- much bigger than I ever expected.

And I probably never would have been able to get it working were it not for the ease of programming in Perl and the ability to tap into CPAN's massive library of code and take advantage of modules like Net::AIM (http://search.cpan.org/~aryeh/Net-AIM-1.22/AIM.pm). So thanks Larry, and thanks to all the Perl folks who contributed to CPAN over the years!
There are approximately 1 billion Android users and half that amount of iOS users. If Google didn't own Android then other companies would have those billion users. Google would have to pay them for the user activity (if not outbid by someone else) and would be subject to their whims (eg Apple deciding to do their own maps). Google does not need to own every user, but does need to control some to keep the other players in check.

As I mentioned, if Android costs less than a billion dollars a year to develop, then Google is ahead. It won't show up as a regular profit line, but they will be better off by the difference. It shows up in other ways too - Android gets Google's apps preinstalled. Defaults are extremely powerful as most users go with them. Google can essentially do whatever they want on Android. For example doing Google Now even required some changes to Android. A competitor platform would severely limit what could be done, and most platform owners would want that kind of functionality and knowledge of their users for themselves.

Think of Android as sending pennies a day back to Google's products for each user. On other platforms, the platform owner gets first bite, controls Google's access, requires payment, and reduces what Google gets back.

As for the Android OEMs, Google doesn't need them to succeed, and only that there is reasonable choice of devices available in the world. Heck it is actually in Google's interest for Android OEMs to just barely make it, as that means cheaper devices which means more users, and that those users have a bit more income left over to spend with Google.

Google is making billions on Android. Without it their future would be very much in doubt.
what are the caveats of Gimbal?
So a photon can get anywhere it wants instantly to them?
> But this blurb fails to mention that the user provided passcode can only be about 15 bits of user supplied entropy…

How do you figure that?
> Presidential candidates are vetted by the theocracy, but are elected in pretty legitimate elections.

First of all, I wouldn't call any election in a country without free press and with severe censorship legitimate or fair.

Secondly, around a hundred people got killed protesting contested election results in 2009. The democracy Index ranks Iran among the 10 least democratic countries on the planet.
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There are roughly 3 million people in this area. The really big earthquake may cause death of 13,000 people - or about ~0.5% of the population. Chance of that happening over next 50 years is 10%. In other words, if you were living in this zone, your chance of dyeing due to a big earthquake over next 50 years is about 0.05%.

It occurs to me that your chance of dyeing over next 50 years for reasons other than earthquake is 90%. Nevertheless, my hope from this article is that government will invest much more in early warning systems and enact laws to build structures to withstand such natural disasters. As it appears now, government is starving off these kind of projects from funding.
Four digits, choice of 10 for each digit.

log(10000)/log(2) ~ 15.
It's even more of a holding company, it doesn't try to integrate the disparate businesses under a single management structure (if anything, it encourages owned companies to thin out their management).
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I wish they targeted py3 from the beginning, by the time they get it usable to the mainstream developer (if...) py2 will be lagging a lot of features. That kinda sucks :/
Probably more I-don't-care-what-you-think Unix hacker than psychedelic hippie.
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