skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you there. People are aware of this problem. The main issue is that XUL/XBL and other gecko stuff used to build add-ons (and Firefox itself) are not the easiest techology to work with. There is an effort to change that but how to fix this without breaking every single add-on out there is tricky, still IMHO is something that must be done.
For me, it's nice to think of the "what if..." as I will generally only buy a single ticket per drawing over 100 million. I've never gone out and bought multiples of tickets. It's mainly to keep the dream/fantasy. I only even check my tickets a few times a year.

Then again, I'm not much of a gambler in general.
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When we discuss immigration we are talking about immigration from generally the entire planet, including Europe. I can think of noteworthy discussion around Cuba, Asia, refugees from numerous conflicts, all of South America... we immigrate far more people and nationalities than you would ever dream because of historical status and in spite of our broken system.

We have an illegal immigration problem from Mexico due to conditions there and our border situation. However, countless people from South America flow though the same system by buying their way to Mexico first. That's the immigration politics you observe, because how to handle it is partisan.

This whole thread, which was extraordinarily stupid from the get go, is amounting to Europeans explaining the U.S. to the U.S. You guys are getting it wrong, too, your comments included. Who gives a shit about immigration policy? We are in a bloody thread about mankind's achievement in space. Christ, hang it up for one day.
I would say it's a joint mindshare from all the various functional families (Lisp, ML, Erlang). After all, what kind of programmers do you think wrote the functional libraries that led to the "functional hype" in JS in the first place?
Outside Magazine did a great article about the Cascadia Subduction Zone a few years ago.

http://www.outsideonline.com/1819046/totally-psyched-full-ri...
I know I'm sorry I'm sorry but I can't help myself.

"Winter is coming."
Yes. But without icon fonts, the web would look like it did in 2008. And you don't want that, do you?
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Ask HN: How do I know what to charge?
An associate has asked me to build an iOS app for him. I am a new iOS developer and this would be my first freelance project of any kind (I am a full time Python/Django developer with 3-4 years experience). I have no clue what would be a reasonable fee to charge him. I want to skew to the low-end since I have a personal connection with him and would be learning as I go, but I want to be fair to both him and me. I would assume a flat rate is better than hourly given the slow speed with which I will program. He's looking for an app that would get a user's location in the city we are in (so, limited to just this Metro area), provide a route somewhere else via Google Maps and our local bus transit's API, and pop up with interesting trivia along the way (that he would provide me). The project seems interesting and at the right level for me, skill-wise, but I have no idea how to estimate what that's worth.
It seems to be very difficult to find a genuine Nexus 4 battery that isn't already a year or two past manufacture date.
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Yes. We changed the url to that from http://flowingdata.com/2015/07/14/disney-business-strategy-c....
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I think the suggestion was to send the data after impact. I guess the idea is to basically fire a shock-absorbing crate full of scientific instruments, let the impact destroy the crate, and hope the instruments survive and get to work.
The allure of that seems enticing, but I've found in practice that the effort to income ratio is not what it seems: it takes a lot of effort to even hit that $300/mo mark, and it's not "set it and forget it" - in most cases you have to keep working to keep viewership interested or keep ever changing Seo rankings healthy.
I'm in holiday in Barcelona at the moment and visited the sagrada familia today. It is truly breathtaking. I honestly wasn't prepared for how incredible it is on the inside.

I've long since left the church, but in the building I understood and felt a connection to the kind of spirituality that the building is meant to impart.

It is a magical place.
Consider e.g. the Sudanese government, with systematic murders/rapes in the millions. Not to mention organized sexual slavery.

Even with a Palestinian description of the Israeli govenments the Sudanese one should be at least a factor thousand worse.

Note also that the Sudanese government is supported by Iran and most Arab countries.

If you think antisemitism is a logical result of Israel, how should the non-muslim Africa then judge muslims...?

(Yeah, I'm hellbanned. And with what I wrote here and what seems to be the political opinions of the censors I'll probably continue to be. :-) )
I'd really love to see the numbers on failed startups, though I suspect that they don't exist (since a fair chunk of startups don't even get as far as incorporating)
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you could tell that to all the browser vendors too
> Was driving an automobile so much more inconvenient in 2000 than it was in 2009?

I don't understand this logic. The answer is "no, it wasn't, because there were fewer vehicles." What would happen is that stations would become less dense, and there's a low density point there where "inconvenience" is reached, or at least, gas-range anxiety. This actually happened when gas vehicles were new.

The response also says that demand is already decreasing simply due to the emergence of more fuel-efficient vehicles, so a penetrating EV market may merely accelerate that decline.
Eddystone for dummies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSDnf4In6QI
So you don't want to use AWS because the risk Amazon will shut it down tomorrow?
I've thought that for years, but I'm undergoing a rapid change of opinion in my geopolitical views. Strategically it makes much more sense for Iran to be aligned with Russia and China right now, which puts it into an oppositional relationship with the US.

I still think this deal is a good thing though.
Reminds me a bit of this: http://www.sosbeacon.org/ - I worked on an early version of it many years ago. Doesn't look like he's done much with it lately, though.

It's a good idea, so good luck!
At this point, my mental model of what this will be is a hacking version of Eve Online. That is, an online persistent world where people can work with and against each other. But through hacking a market, not waging war. This implies that there will end up being a non-hacking meta game, which I think is inevitable when enough people start doing the same thing.

Am I on the right track?
So what useful things/libraries/whatever have you created? I'm rather curious what you find interesting enough to work on.
Universal is all people. (x axis) Total as in covering all conditions. (y axis)

"Universal health care is not a one-size-fits-all concept and does not imply coverage for all people for everything." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care Note from that page: "The Swiss Healthcare system and US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are based on compulsory insurance."

PS: Hospitals are required to treat some life threating heath conditions like gunshot wounds without asking about payment. So, that also counts as a limited (some conditions) form of universal (all people) heath care.

Arguably, free speech would be universal but not total as there are limits on nonpolitical speech.

Edit: IMO, the implementation was terrible, but it's still a huge improvement.
So you want your bash history safer than your private ssh keys? Like at userspace, there's very little point in protecting anything. Just lock your computer when you walk away from it.
and I just realised I don't give artists enough credit as business-people.
If only Firefox actually supported my AMD APU, then I wouldn't have to use Flash for YouTube and such. I actually force YouTube to play using the Flash player, as with HTML5 the video freezes and is very choppy. My mother is using Linux Mint, and for her the reverse is true, Flash is horrible and HTML5 is smooth and fast.

edit: I use Windows 8.1.
Can someone tell the designer of this website that thin fonts are not good for legibility? You should only use them for headlines, etc.
Thanks for pointing this out. The original thinking was twofold: 1) I didn't want people to get in trouble if their phones were searched and they were in possession of a recording and 2) Keep the data stored on the phone to a minimum, in order to increase available space for storing video when Cellular Data/WiFi is not available. The data is always available later through the shortlink.

You raise a very good point though. Offering an option to keep data locally (or save it in the camera roll) in a future version would make sense
I agree with you on the Persona topic. I've heard that it was quite hard to maintain and it got no traction and thats why it was turned into a community project. Apparently the federation part was the hardest thing (federating identity servers and keeping trust and security is non-trivial).

As for priorities, you know that there are many teams each one focusing on a different task. Pocket is not bookmark management, it is a "read later"feature for those that want it.
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I'm wondering how I would undo the "natural inbuilt reaction to run like hell" long enough to tap tap and look at my phone.
While an MD and pediatrician may be knowledable about these things, I'd trust the information far more if it was in a paper format or a conference talk than in YouTube video format. I'm not going to spend an hour watching something that has such a high chance of being drivel, without more supporting information that lends it credibility.
It looks like they've documented the packet format here: https://github.com/google/eddystone For example URLs: https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-ur..., UIDs: https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-ui..., and telemetry: https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-tl...
> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier.

Not sure how it was easier, since there is already a Firefox extension for Pocket which could have been shipped as an extension installed by default (but removable by users who do not want it)

> Instead of offering just a web view, Mozilla is trying to bundle features that the users find useful. None of the said features does you any harm if you don't use them.

A lot of privacy-aware users will expect Mozilla to provide a way to easily disable and remove what are essentially features tangential to the core functionality of the browser. By making it a feature integrated into the core Firefox, the users now have to jump through various hoops to come close to achieving that. Having it as an extension makes it much easier to do so.

Disclaimer: I contribute to Mozilla Input codebase but have no affiliation with Mozilla.
>Greece functioned "OK" if a low standard of living, rampant inflation and pervasive lack of access to credit for businesses or individuals is "OK".

They still have all of these things. Plus 25% unemployment (50% for young people), and debt equal to 180% GDP (soon to be 200%).

It takes two to tango. I was not trying to grant them victim status, I was just pointing out that German (and other EU businesses/banks) are not exactly blameless (ever heard of predatory lending?)
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You're right; I shouldn't have said positive. That was my own bias, expecting "the truth" to align with my mental model of the world, which is the same critic I was making against the commenters. I take it back.

The word I should have used is intelligent comments.

The amount of vitriol and ignorance is what repulsed me. From people comparing transgenders to be mentally ill, to others saying that "terrorists will sit back and watch America defeat itself". Reddit/YouTube-level. Very few were able to intelligently argue why they were against accepting transgenders in the military - despite having thousands already in the ranks.

But hey, I should have known better; don't ever read the comments. Not even on NYT.
HTML5 is plain slow.
"When they finish the Second Avenue Subway, this apartment will quadruple in value." [0] Mad Men had real estate agents promising the subway in 1965. Of course, the US$28k apartment in question is now worth about US$1MM, so it's true that the value will quadruple -- times at least ten.

[0]http://videos.nymag.com/video/Mad-Men-Takes-on-the-2nd-Avenu... Men' Takes on the 2nd Avenue Subway
One of big problems with comparing radiation exposure is that there is no quantity that can be both accurately measured and at the same time meaningfully quantifies biological effects.

One of projects that I consult on involves sorting of gravel from inactive uranium mines. On site the difference between "safe gravel for construction" and "radioactive waste" (which was found out to be viable as precursor for nuclear fuel) is mostly insignificant, but easily detectable. In my house this difference is swamped by natural background radiation (see "Living in a brick, stone..." in the XKCD chart, the sorting site is open-air installation).

Edit:
Somehow I think that the real danger of radiation comes from radioactive stuff that can be aspirated or ingested, not from "some well-localized thing that is radioactive" and thus any kind of "fear of radiation" is mostly irrational (given that one does not go near radiation sources unnecessarily). Otherwise it's poison as any other (and most radioactive isotopes with long half-life are primarily chemically poisonous with the radiation hazard being mostly insignificant).
> rampant antisemitism

Both Arabs and the tribes of Israel are Semitic people.

I think you mean anti-Israeli. One can be opposed to the actions and policies of a state without referencing its inhabitants or their religious notions.
I thought they were still not profitable, which makes me use the term startup. I could be wrong though.
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Reminds me of this parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
On the other hand, she was working out of their NYC office, SF is not a good location for PR work, they in fact relocated her from LA to NYC. These things can often turn into a race to the most favorable courthouse; then again what's a little more bad publicity for Reddit the corporation?
It's not difficult to come up with a specific set of requirements that make 3rd party hosting suboptimal or even impossible. We have customers who do not want their data to leave their data centers, so we must oblige.

For many situations, services like AWS are a god send. Resources that were typically allocated to infrastructure can now be reallocated to other areas. With a little bit of common sense hopefully areas that drive real business value.

Cloud isn't appropriate for all situations, but I assert that for many, it is, and "investing in IT" isn't a default directive.
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That is exactly one company, not nearly a series.
Actually, there is. Contrary to what ninja rockstar hipster Wangular.js devs like to believe, not everyone runs an i7 on a gigabit fiber line. Little useless counters like that (who the hell cares how many people have viewed a page anyway? I sure as hell don't, and can surely survive without being bombarded with attention whoring) tend to add up. And even for those who do run an i7 and a gigabit fiber connection, it's invariably in response to little bullshit widgets like these clogging up CPU cores and network connections.

Sure, go ahead, downvote my comment while dismissing it with snide remarks. You're just contributing to the reasons why people disable Javascript or relegate it to on-demand / click-to-play functionality.
I don't think this should use the name of "Markdown" in the name, this is a niche feature this just waters down the meaning of "Markdown".
Please, keep explaining America to us. Most of the socially liberal Americans consider it just as ridiculous and it is regularly parodied in our media all the time. I especially love that you dug up an obviously ironic chant by college students at the presence of a bald eagle and cited it as if it meant something. The bald eagle is our national symbol and is so over-the-top American that I could see the joke immediately, but I guess I understand how it would be lost on a European. That you take that video seriously is hilarious.

There's something I could counter relating to certain European tendencies to explain the world to the world since certain parts of Europe still consider most of the planet as belonging to them, but I won't, because this isn't the thread or the place. Did everybody in this thread wake up today and say "gosh, I'm going to argue about America in a thread about Pluto, that's my achievement for the day"?
Or they could raise prices.
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I don't think this is very informed by actually going to hackathons.

A good team project needs a strong vision and someone that coordinates that vision among team members. Its hard to coordinate that vision AND directly contribute at the same time in a compressed time period (I've tried to do that too and its really hard)

There are a lot more people who would want that kind of role than people who would be good at it/able to attract a team for it. But that doesn't mean that that role isn't important for team projects.
To be fair, Facebook tends to hire 1 engineer per 1000 lines of php code.
I don't think there is an ethical obligation to do anything. I hope people contributing can afford to lose whatever funds they are pledging. They will have to seek FDA approval. If they don't get it, no one is going to be buying some overhyped piece of plastic that doesn't actually work.

One of the challenges we have currently is that the medical field is over regulated and there are excessive barriers to entry. Perhaps you can make your peace with the fact that it isn't your money and if people want to hope against hope for something better and pledge a few dollars, that is their choice. Then the developers might get their shot at developing something new. Maybe it won't meet every criteria they listed. Maybe it somehow will. Maybe it will be a complete flop. (Shrug)

Innovation only happens when there is some leeway for some of it to fail. $100k is a drop in the bucket for medical research. Why do you feel such a strong need to not even let them try? I suggest you let it go.
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Has a woman's name, could be a woman or not.

It is a snipe at a very, very tiny, extremely aberrant group. There are a lot on Reddit, sure. Reddit is where the movement was born and grown. Reddit works by rewarding 'group think' and discouraging critical, non-consensus opinions. Of course cults, very aberrant cultures will grow here.

I am not interested in debating, however. I will just point out every person who gets into that belief system is going to create tremendous problems for themselves in their dealings with women.

I can point out some 'outside viewpoints'. For one, there are some strong commonalities of the Believers: they tend to be techies, tend to be male, tend to be American, and tend to have very poor relationships with women.

There is nothing happy for them to take such beliefs. It is even more sad when they add to them the whole 'pick up artist' - lol - belief set which often accompanies the very absurd 'men's movement'.

FYI, I am a male and heterosexual, lol. I think your attempts to try and cast me as a ... what? Lol? Anti-Male?

Nazi level political correctness is simply not an admirable trait when you are not preaching to the choir.

If I were to be critical of 'why someone might join scientology' would that mean I am being critical of human beings? Or, 'why some guy in Idaho went and shit on the American flag', would that mean I am anti-male?

As for you, for all I know you can have posted this as satire or rhetoric. I do not know you. Maybe you are just pretending to belong to the movement.

But, if it is true... that you work in tech and feel threatened by women in the workplace... that you have severe problems creating and maintaining substantial relationships with women... that you are very sexually frustrated... that you do stick around 'yes men' and engage deeply in 'group think' where you do not consider alternative viewpoints of anything you believe deeply...

Then, I can only suggest you look at your self and get your self out of that mess.
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Broken for me as well, but not cloud front; instead I get this in the console:

ReferenceError: L is not defined jobs.html:38:12
Working with the chart, to reach the lowest dose clearly linked to cancer (100mSv) minus background radiation for a year (4 mSv, so to get 96 mSv), you can find some silly permutations of that to get to 100mSv:

Spend a year in the Fukushima Exclusion zone (26mSv) plus 10 Chest CT scans

Spend a year in the Fukushima Exclusion zone, then take the max dose for a US radiation worker and two chest CT scans.

The whole green area of the chart (75 mSv) plus taking a dose at the northwest edge of the Fukushima exclusion zone puts you 19 mSv over the limit. So lay off a couple of CT scans and visits to Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima and you'd be beneath the limit clearly linked to cancer.

Get 5000 chest X-Rays

250 mammograms

Eat a million bananas

This silly exercise at least convinces me to worry less about X-rays, plane flights, and eating bananas. It would be nice if XKCD had the dose that takes your cancer risk above certain thresholds like 1/million, 1/1000, 1/100, etc. It would also be nice if the public calmed down about radiation.
I have family in Switzerland who, IIRC, are living in a ~700 year old farm house that doesn't qualify as historic because it's not old enough (too many other similarly old farm houses for it to be considered rare enough to protect).

Meanwhile, my parents considered an "historic" house in Ohio from around 1900.
The closest thing I know about, that's close to what you are talking about, is the wait calculation. Basically, if you assume that the velocity we can attain grows exponentially, and if you do a calculation, you'll find a "best time" when to launch. Assuming that the velocity grows with an exponential growth of 1.4%, equal to the current world economic growth, says that the earliest we would expect to get to the closest star is 1110 years from 2007, or 3117.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Calculation
That's how I got my start: two unlikely ad-hoc apprenticeships in applied EE and CS.

http://carlos.bueno.org/2013/06/apprenticeship.html
Where does that 30 liters per minute go? I'm reasonably sure it's not going into the user's nose or mouth.

Part of the claimed innovation here is that the thing sticks directly into the user's nose. If it seals well, it's plausible that there's very little wasted air, which would account for the factor of roughly five.

(Also, you used the formula for isothermal compression, I think. A tiny little device like they showed would probably move air quickly enough through its fan that it would be closer to adiabatic. This doesn't matter much for the small pressure change involved.)
These exist, but the criteria most desired is apparently wealth. Date a millionaire dot com and such.
If you were trying to land, you would use a different trajectory that doesn't result in you traveling 14 km/s to Pluto?