skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not "true". It's "unknown". To date, there have been no studies of how human (or any other) physiology holds up in low-gravity environments.

There have been a lot of studies showing that zero gravity[1] is reasonably unhealthy, but there is a lot of room between earth gravity and zero gravity. At what point does lower gravity become unhealthy? 90% earth gravity? 10% earth gravity? 1% earth gravity? Nobody knows; no research has been done. We need to get some experience with it.

It doesn't seem reasonable to speculate that anything less than 100% earth gravity will be unhealthy. Gravity itself can be a significant and damaging stress on the body; a bit less gravity may actually improve health, not hurt it. For this reason, it's also not reasonable to speculate a linear slope between "healthy at 100% earth gravity" and "unhealthy at zero gravity". The slope is very likely non-linear, but nobody knows what it looks like.

Some space medicine people I've talked to speculate that lower gravity is probably harmless, up to the point where fluids stop flowing downhill. Your body relies on gravity to redistribute fluids throughout your extremities; in zero-gravity, this no longer happens, and a lot of weird things start happening as a result. If this is the case, then lunar gravity (1/6th earth gravity) should be just fine to live in. But, again, we don't know, and all the zero-gravity experiments in the world won't tell us. Until we get some proper low-gravity experience, it's a big question-mark.

1: Technically, "micro-" gravity, since "zero-" doesn't exist in reality. But it's very, very, very micro -- like, 1/1000th earth gravity or less.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

tl;dr: prototype warhead core, on which people were doing very risky experiments, which underwent some criticality events by accident, releasing lots of radiation which killed some of them. It was eventually detonated in a weapons test in 1946.
Way ahead of its time. Nowadays everyone uses the internet while on the toilet.
Sure, they already hosted the Prelinger movie archives: https://archive.org/details/prelinger & https://archive.org/details/prelingerhomemovies
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And furthermore, how people who are too retarded to see through the ads and hype are competent enough to enact moral-based laws?
Sound as one representation channel for data is an interesting idea. I'd love to hear the sun's magnetosphere once, or radiation bursts from a quasar.

However, the article author seems to imply that there's a difference between “pitch” and “frequency”. I wonder what that might be.
Could Slack Be the Next Big Thing in Post-Blog Online Writing?
The flush servo is connected to a Windows ME box via serial. Fuck.
I'm a little older (46) and my first computer was a Vic20. That was followed by a C64 which I owned when the Amiga 500 was released and the difference was staggering. The introduction of the workbench desktop was jaw dropping compared to the relatively clunky Commodore Basic interface of the older machines. I couldn't afford one at the time so I only got to play with the 500 at a friends or in stores which probably made them even more fabulous - it was years before I actually owned an Amiga and that was the 1200. The next time I had such an experience was when I started using Sun Sparc stations connected to a network and the SunView interface. Great days.
iLoo - there goes my iPoo
Amazed at an Amiga 1000 of a friend.
Amiga 500 then A4000/40/RetinaZ3.
Music preferences reveal your inner thoughts
E.g. using a variation of zippers
Here's the original paper: "A pattern-matching algorithm for two-dimensional coordinate lists" by E. J. Groth, 1986

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986AJ.....91.1244G
HIPPIEWALKS – Your Friendly Local Walks
Would you guys like to go on a walking tour of a foreign town for free?
Six weeks for closing a seed/angel investment from introduction to term sheet sign-off is not "too long". From my reading, it seems there was a firm commitment on both sides and hence, it was bad of both airbnb and YC to cut you off totally. At the very least, I would have expected the likes of YC to allow you to co-invest instead of simply assuming you were a newbie marine. After all, it was not as if YC had seen some stellar exits by mid-2008.
This can also be used with London Black Cabs.
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If the content that's on Youtube is in the public domain then yes. Note that sometimes restoration involves enough creative work to make the result copyrightable even if the original footage was in the public domain.
At the moment it's iOS-only, but should come to Android as well soon.
Can you please let me know your browser version?
My first contact with a A500 was in a friends house. I was amazed by the graphics and the sound.
At that time, I had a ZX Spectrum 48k, and had to save money for about 2 years to buy it. never had the money to buy a Amiga.
Last month, got myself a A500 and I'm discovering a whole computer world that I've missed.
> Unfortunately I don't remember LOC, but I don't remember the average Scala file being overly large at my Scala job, or the average Java file being unusually short at my Java job.

LOC isn't what should count though - there are cases where 1 line of Scala offers functionality that would take 10 or more lines of Java to implement.
Well, we have lots of data on zero gravity from various astronauts in space who have been up for long periods of time. In zero g, muscles atrophy and bones get less dense. The longest moon mission was 12 days, not really enough to know what moon gravity can do to a human over time.

I think there is some hope that low-but-not-zero gravity will have less pronounced effects in the long run.
... cancelled because it would do little to promote the MSN brand.

It would have promoted the brand to be sure, just not in the direction they wanted.

I wonder if they were inspired by Apple to use an iName. But then, “internet” was the best excuse ever for the ridiculous leading vocal.
Definitely, to my mind. It's not exactly error correction, it's comparison of two results, expectation (from emulation circuitry) vs "reality" as (measured by sensory feedback).

Incidentally, these circuits are chaotic. They are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. These conditions are in part the output of other circuits, which are chaotic themselves. The circuits can be trained to perform better and better, by constantly comparing actual performance to emulated performance. However they will rapidly degrade. This is why even top athletes benefit from warming up before competition: training their circuits to reach maximum performance, because they will have degraded overnight. That degradation may be marginal, but at elite sports level those margins make all the difference. The best athletes are able to train their physical circuitry as well as their emotional and cognitive circuitry.
Don't forget doorknobs, the dirtiest thing unknown to mankind.
Living on another planet makes sense for us if we ever plan to survive an extinction level event on Earth. Keeping humanity alive if Earth is FUBAR is something robots can't do until they merge with us.
Actually it was a dispute between EMI and Apple Corps (not invoking Apple Computer Inc) over royalties that held up the Beatles music licensing.
Not ARM developers; my workstation reboots every few months, my ARM boards every few minutes :-)
That is, unless you have a qemu port for the SoC in question.

That's also why my host /sbin/reboot is "echo Wrong terminal, you idiot"
Let's say 80% of people killed were armed, 60% with firearms. That still leaves 20% of unarmed and 20% of armed with knives which are common tool abundant everywhere. Grabbing some of them was surely crime of passion. And between grabbing a knife and stabbing someone with a knife is a long way.

I'd say that it all still leaves plenty of room, given how many people are killed by the police and how few are legally executed to believe that there's no huge gap between number of people legally executed and number of people killed by the police as a result of policemen vulnerability towards disrespect and propensity to escalate confrontation to maintain authority.
Scaling Things That Don't Scale
Every time I see that Bruce Sterling quote, I feel obliged to point out that the Gobi Desert has been settled for many thousands of years, and is currently inhabited by hundreds of thousands of people.
Good point, I think I should not even link to that blog post that refers to it as such. http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2011/09/25/sql-the-successful-...
Well, mostly because it would make discussing anything difficult and meaningless. And, in that case, if we wanted to talk about the about the largest nuclear 'accident' involving the most deaths, we'd discuss coal burning power plants.
Olimex deconstructed that $9 computer story a while back.

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/how-to-get-in-the-ne...
> Living on another planet doesn't make any sense for us

At some point in the future Earth will be uninhabitable for humans. At that point, it will make plenty of sense.

> sending a single tourist to the moon...

All this focus on tourists seems like a strawman. Yes, there are people who would probably want to go to the Moon or Mars for a space-cation. No, that is not a primary reason for the existence of space programs.

Manned Moon and hypothetical manned Mars missions are not the endgame. They're stepping stones that hopefully lead to our escape from the solar system.
Long term plans need (a) vision.

A great thinker like this can't be replaced by something quantifiable.
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Warp now supports HTTP/2
I read shopping cart handles were filthier than toilet seats or keyboards. A study in 2011 discovered that fecal bacteria was on 72% of all shopping carts: http://blogs.webmd.com/breaking-news/2011/03/fecal-bacteria-...
If I have to give you one advice it's to be or become good at explaining.

It's really hard to persuade your collaborators of your competencies, especially in the case of no-techs more if there is your boss or for a critical decision.

You'll become the king of metaphors!
Blimey, that was hard to read. Also a couple of points were only relevant to the USA.
Cool idea!

Typo on the homepage: Unlimitted -> Unlimited
I think there is a lot of frustration from some people with regards to PH and it’s understandable. But I don’t know if PH can be blamed for this. There has to be some kind of curation for something like this, and whether it’s a journalist (ex: TechCrunch), a community of people (PH), an editorial team (AppStore), as with all curation systems, there will always be people who feel it’s “unfair” (typically when their thing does not get selected).

I think what this fails to capture is that actually, it seems to me PH is a great proxy to the real world of startups. Yes it helps to be connected to influential people to be featured on PH. But the exact same thing is true for your startup in general. If you don’t know anybody, you’ll have a hard time getting noticed and finding investors. Your network and ability to connect to influential people can make or break your venture (I used to NOT think it was the case… I changed my mind based on my personal experience :-) ). I think that’s one of the very reasons Silicon Valley works much, much better than other places in the world: London, Paris, etc. They are a tightly connected community of makers, investors, journalists, influencers etc. It’s the whole echo-chamber thing and it’s absolutely fundamental.
Nuclide – An IDE with remote development
Note that there's a second edition that's split into two volumes. The first covers the "8-bit era". The second, covering the "Amiga years" has just had a successful kickstarter [1] and should be ready by end of year hopefully. It greatly expands on the original.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-th...
Algorithms of the mind
The VideoCore IV is pretty well understood, and there are some hacky C compilers for it. I have, e.g., a simple boot monitor for it:

http://cowlark.com/cgi-bin/fossil.cgi/piface/doc/stable/doc/...

It's a bootcode.bin which runs a simple shell via a serial terminal which allows you to do things like up and download data, examine memory, etc. No ARM code involved anywhere! It doesn't initialise the SDRAM yet (although I think I know how).

Right now it's built using a hacky port of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, which generates lousy code. I've tried porting both gcc and LLVM and ran into a brick wall --- they're both vile. I'm hopefully going to have a go with libfirm soon, which looks more tractable. However, Volker Barthelmann's non-open-source vbcc has experimental (and apparently very good) VC4 support: http://www.compilers.de/vbcc.html
"You conflate them either out of ignorance, or because you're fearmongering."

It's a valid argument that people die because of multiple nuclear accidents in the USA.

In a car accident if someone dies two days after in hospital as a result because of injuries (a consequence of the accident), people say that they died of a car accident.

Radiation poisoning is obtained as a result of a nuclear accident. In exactly the same way as injuries obtained as the result of other accidents.

To draw a distinction, and claim there is a difference is being ambiguous. Many people will misunderstand the difference because it makes no sense, and is not the way everyone else uses the language.

To claim people understanding the statement in a sound way are fearmongering or being ignorant is silly.

The headline is misleading.

ps. "only fatal reactor accident in US history" claim, apart from the other deaths within the USA, the recent (and still ongoing) Fukushima accident used a General Electric design from the USA.
I like your comment because it is a good antidote for people who suffer from a naive and dull sort of adoration for saintly, detached love. But there is also a detachment which comes from embracing and surrendering to human nature. This is the difference between the saint and his admirers.
I recon the percentage for toothbrushes is higher, because proximity. Nothing wrong with giving your immune system a bit of a workout.
Human beings (us) currently use a combination of pure calculation and intuition to play Go.

Pure calculation is useful in small battles and corners where you can actually calculate the outcome of battles to pretty much 100% accuracy.

However , there are still large chunks of the game where it is difficult for the human brain (even seasoned professional go players) to process huge sequences with similar levels of precision, for example early to mid game areas when both opponents are vying for influence and positional advantage.

That's when the experience and intuition comes in. Professional go players are much much better at this due to years of experience playing top-notch games against other professional go players.

The interesting question for the software developer and Go AI researcher is to attempt to use technology to capture a top-notch professional Go player's "intuition " in such situations.
bash is quite a neat language (for what it does) but has horrendous syntax.
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God it's time someone came up with a good, modern monitoring system. I used Nagios for years but it never evolved past a bunch of CGI scripts written in C(!). I tried Sensu, and was moderately impressed until a major update broke everything and it never worked again.
Apple didn't invent the iName, they were late on that bandwagon. For some unfathomable reason i or e whatevers were for a while the way to name your product if you had no better ideas. In fact, Apple have had to buy or otherwise acquire most of the iNames they use from previous users. (Including at least iPhone, iOS, iPad.) However, all the other consumer iWhatevers were generally completely uninspired products that didn't live long and which no-one remembers, while people do remember the Apple iProducts, so iNames are now associated with Apple.
that is why its great to toss them into the dish washer to keep them clean.
10+Ideas+to+Place+Adsense+Ads+on+Websites+and+Blogs+|+AnsMachine
Higly interesting after the discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9849332 just 15 days ago.
Do you know who are these people who work on Go AI daily and how to get in touch with them ?
Yes. XFS just works.
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For the record, Zen Masters were often violent, and they do not seem to have believed in returning to a natural state of peace and love.

"Original face" is a mysterious phrase used by Huineng, an early patriarch, in a story where he's chased by an angry monk and when they stop and talk, the patriarch tells him to suspend all thoughts of right and wrong and then asks him about his "face before you were born." This provokes an insight for the monk.

These masters did talk about being ordinary, ordinary mind, mind that doesn't cling to delusions, mind that's relaxed and in some sense carefree. But they also denounced "mind pacification" and sitting cross-legged.
WatchOS 2, le système d’exploitation de l’Apple watch se met à jour
Yup, Ive heard of him ... the professor who created Crazy Stone
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Im sorry but you need to register a toilett paper license first at microsoft.com. Do not support unclean behinds! Report people doing the crapwalk!
That sounds very interesting, what kind of hardware do you need for NBP?

Edit: I just found http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/nbp/rtx.html
But can you do it also with off the shelf, hardware?
>"Colonize" isn't the right word. Living on another planet doesn't make any sense for us.

It does if you want to have an insurance policy against a planet wide catastrophe.
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Estudio relaciona abortos con antenas de telefonía a menos de 100 metros
> European consumers want to watch the pay-TV channels of their choice regardless of where they live or travel in the EU
> Our investigation shows that they cannot do this today [because of licensing agreements]. We believe that this may be in breach of EU competition rules.

Been waiting a long time for this. Too bad I no longer watch TV.
Where did you/they get the information on the VC4 instruction set from? According to some sources about reverse-engineering VC4 which I could recover if I wanted to, finding out the instruction set that the blob uses was a serious problem at least in the past.
Migrating to JSON in PostgreSQL
Someone always has to spoil the party by blurting out the truth :)
I missed one: citing cherry-picked "experts".
Black people makes serious funny videos. That's how we laugh
There's ways you can show it without it being stupid. For inspiration, have a look at the following:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddFtftDKzI
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHD2J2za6Y
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWZKCmEq1A

The what you want to get across is the effortlessness of cutting with a really sharp knife made with VG10 or similar Japanese carbon steel, vs what you're going to get out of a more traditional German or French knife with something like X50CrMoV15 or similar stainless.

A good video explaining what's going on with the differences between knives would probably help a lot.
Lots are made of copper which would dispel that entirely.
"Over the last seven years, I’ve discovered and invested very early in a handful of highly valuable companies (Wish, Lyft, Zenpayroll, Postmates, AngelList, Plated, Styleseat, Klout, etc.) as well as plenty of disasters."

Any middle ground between "highly valuable" and "disaster"?
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> but it worked for Gandhi

Non-violent movements needs an audience with influence to succeed. You need an influential gallery to play to. Gandhi had that. Not everyone does, for example Palestinians dont
> This is infinitely more impressive than Google's image generation. There are zillion ways to generate weird-looking images

Google wasn't training their NNs to 'generate weird-looking images'. The NNs were for image-classification (which is pretty impressive), the weird images were just a visualisation/artefact of the training process.
That kind of thing happens already (with human experts rather than RNNs, but does that matter?) - you're reminding me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimi_Eguchi
Will you find these analytics dashboards useful?
After 20 years of JavaScript - I've got no idea how it works.

And I think I'm not alone. There's been all kinds of layers on top, like CoffeeScript. And now ES6 brings us classes.
JRUBY_OPTS="--dev" lowered the startup time to 12 second, basically on par with MRI. Thanks! I googled you suggestion and I found https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Improving-startup-time I'll try a few suggestions that look like doing with spring does (Theine and Drip).

My other problems are with JDBC but if database drivers don't support Ruby's largest use case (Rails with ActiveRecord) probably JRuby will be negatively impacted. This is about the "ActiveRecord 4.2 is not (yet) fully supported by AR-JDBC". The other one (unix domain socket) is a minor issue but any small nuisance loses developers along the way.
“It's a Unix system, I know this”
I always trust sites dedicated to getting people jobs at startups to tell the honest truth about what it's like to work at a startup.

I work for a large corporation, and almost every single negative thing listed here is false. The main one that's not (and I'm not sure this is even really a negative) is the high risk/low upside - I'll be quite comfortable here, but I'll never be pulling down millions in a year as I would if I struck it rich with a startup I owned. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure only a few dozen people actually make millions from startups.

Oh, and "essential vs. substitutable" - everyone is substitutable. It doesn't matter if you're employee #2 or employee #10002, you're replaceable. Actually, that one amusingly contradicts the generalist vs specialist one - you would think specialists that know the domain would be a lot harder to replace than the "generalist" who's spinning up the world's 8 billionth MEAN stack, but then that would require the source to have a little self-awareness.
The literal "Shire" is the West Midlands of England [1].

Examples:

Staffordshire: http://roughmini.s3.amazonaws.com/best-places/2015/wp-conten...

Worcestershire: http://hdw.datawallpaper.com/architecture/broadway-tower-wor...

Warwickshire: http://news.warwickshire.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/B...

The Black Country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=industrial+revolution+blac...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_%28Middle-earth%29#Inspi...
Agree with "brand recognition" - its a serious advantage for employees of large corp.
Large corps are vulnerable to losing top talent because they usually can't match market due to strict internal hierarchy policies. Quicker way to get promoted at large corp - prove your skills, leave on good terms, gain visibility and titles elsewhere and then re-join large corp at a much higher position.

Regulations:

Large corps are much stricter regulated and this adds to your responsibilities to do boring stuff.

Permissions:

Large corps spending lots of resources for reinventing and improving systems of access controls and permissions as well as sets of exceptions to such systems.

Average worker age:

20+ something for startup, 40-50+ something for corps.

Accessibility of top management:

Startup: you knock the door and talk to the guy, Large corp: you send email to C*O of large corp and get no reply not because he is busy, but because his secretary pre-filtered emails and discarded yours.
Copyright requires creativity; just using a tool to convert from analog to digital and generate files doesn't grant copyright protection, AFAIK.
Ray traced shadows vs. cascaded shadow maps
Don’t settle with a co-founder
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