skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what the backend motivations are.

Clearly, the amount of work involved here was way too much.

But if 72k can keep you alive on ramen and a futon so that you can make millions on the back-end ...

Regardless, it's a gamble. But the up-front money isn't the only consideration. Especially if everyone has a real stake (which is not the case for startups in general).
If solar is really that viable of an option, India should be investing a lot in this research. Power is a huge problem there. 24 hours of power supply is a luxury even in top cities. Small industries in rural parts operate around availability of power. There are a lot of wins here. And guess what, there is a lot of sunlight in major parts of the country throughout the year.
"Spur is just a stepping stone to a more ambitious goals planned over the next five years." Does anybody know of a document describing these goals?
So the game did get created though right? It's $9.99 on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/281940/ It sounds like while the game got made, they aren't profitable and can't afford to make good on the kickstarter rewards.
Although I think the whole "the fear of failure has destroyed learning" thing is rather dramatic, I realize there is a basis for that perspective that I think lies more in that academic achievement destroys exploratory, off-script types of learning that lead to fulfillment. America is rather innovative and we are arguably innovation leaders, but the quantitative success factor overlooks the qualitative measure of living life.

Innovation in the USA in particular seems to largely focus on chasing some sort of target and/or be driven by some paranoia based anxiety. A perfect example of this whole issue is something I heard the other day, that technology could be used to solve earth's environmental problems. It's so schizophrenic if you start even barely thinking about it ... we're going to invent solutions to problems that we are causing ourselves, at this very moment? It strikes me as a similar strategy as growing yourself out of net loss. It's really kind of mind boggling and quite similar to obsessive compulsive disorder; just clean those hands one more time to make sure they are clean, just clean those hands one more time to make sure they are clean .... innovate our way out of the problems that our last innovation caused, innovate our way out of the problems our last innovation caused ... and on and on.
A Windows port is in progress (https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/labels/windows), but it will take some time to complete. Windows support is one of our most-requested features: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1100
This isn't what people normally mean when they refer to subsidies, but the fact that fossil fuel users are allowed to contaminate everyone's air is effectively a massive subsidy for their operations. If the cost of the CO2 and pollution were paid by those producing it, this stuff would be way more expensive.
I could say the same about any specific group or class of people, and be a bigot. How horrible would that be considered if I said what you just said about another specific racial group?
Why Dalga instead of of some other job scheduler? Because all service software will eventually be rewritten in golang, apparently ;). Don't hate the player.
You can't get rid of mining - that's the cost of trust-less decentralization.

You might be able to make mining more efficient, or based around some other finite resource besides computation power (like storage), but even that's a long-shot.
There are a few places like this.

UCB comes to mind, and of course, Second City http://www.secondcity.com/people/ (whose alumni list is insane. )
I agree in the context of the non-deterministic algorithms. If there is too much variance between runs then the ones that do well are probably just overfitting the data and won't actually perform well when deployed.

However, I wouldn't consider differences in each implementation as a measure of variance. This is likely the result of differences in parameter choices or subtleties in the algorithms. There are multiple ways to train a NN, for example. So I doubt any of the examples shown in the study are true apples-to-apples comparisons.
From TA:

"What about our Kickstarter backers?

The people that believed in us from the beginning? People we made promises too. People we have let down. Even worse… people we will not be able to give the full rewards they invested in.

The crazy thing is, that we have most of the rewards ready for postage. All the backer stickers and letters of enlistment just need a stamp. All the poster sets printed, signed and ready. The artbook is ready to be printed, the soundtrack is ready for distribution, the DVD case is ready for production. But we have literally no money whatsoever to pay for stamps, let alone print the artbooks and dvd-cases."

This could be a good closure. From comments:

"Fredrik Waage:
Please honor your backers who believed in your game by releasing the DRM-free version like you promised so linux backers (hopefully via WINE) and ppl who don't like steam can enjoy your game."

Or maybe even go open source?
Destroy energy to bury the historic record under irreversible computation. Think about it in terms of physics, and what makes the best kind of money.
Properly estimating is not just difficult in your field, it's difficult anywhere in 'software' or tech. You always run into issues along the way, and you have to deal with them.
I like that term 'meta ignorance'. It is important to realize that ignorance isn't "bad" it can be fixed by learning, but its good to know that you have it so you can start fixing it.

The other aspect of this that I see, even in seasoned engineers, is the 'presumption of simplicity'. Some things look really simple, but inside they are actually quite complicated. A smart phone is just a screen, a computer, a battery and a radio right? Too many times people see something, think "that doesn't look too hard I bet I could do that in a weekend"[1] but don't actually follow through on that thought and spend a weekend building what ever it was that was so easy. Sometimes the more experience you have the more dangerous this is. I can recall times in my own life we're I've grossly underestimated the difficulty of stuff, its lead me to be a lot more conscious about things I know about and things I think I know something about, especially when predicting schedules and work effort.

[1] A very common theme on acquihire stories here.
I don't think I stated or implied that I feel like a victim. Also, I specifically said I don't take these prejudiced people seriously.
I've been using this for the last few months:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/bed...

While its not really designed to be a standup desk, it works quite well for me. I only use it for a couple of hours or so a day though.
People are terrible when dealing with large scale diffuse issues. Coal might be 30 times as bad as solar, but that's not zero and most of coal’s harm is spread over a large area.

In 2003, China had 4,143 coal related accidents that killed 6,434 people. But, installing rooftop solar also kills some people so it must be the great evil.

PS: A report by the World Bank in cooperation with the Chinese government found that about 750,000 people die prematurely in China each year from air pollution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China#Accidents_and_de...
The first issue from 1843 can be viewed here, and Incognito mode can be used to (mostly?) bypass the article viewing limits:

http://www.economist.com/node/2002191
I think there's more interest in learning it from scratch.
Can you quantify that? I'm seeing comments in this thread saying, over and over again, that manufacturing these things is an environmental disaster. But without numbers, the statement is meaningless. We are currently poisoning pretty much the entire planet for our energy needs. If we cut that down to, say, poisoning an area the size of Texas for our energy needs, that would be a massive win.
The Intellectual Property (IP) will be listed as an 'asset' in the bankruptcy submission. Whoever picks up the IP will likely receive the money from the game on Steam, since they are the new owners of it. No different than if someone had bought out the studio (GRIN).
>Rampant competition for talent and nowhere near enough awareness, coordination and collaboration.

Oh no, businesses aren't collaborating enough to successfully push down wages and monopolize sales in their field. How terrible. We must do something about it.
Its a shame that a Linux version is not included. A significant volume of developers work on Linux. If doing a multi platform application, why exclude it?
It's interesting to see the reactions here. The matchstick project ended up giving full refunds to the backers and yet they were trashed in the comments. While here people are showing lots of love even after the bankrupt notification.
Bell tests give more correlation than what you're describing could. That's what makes it "spooky".

For example, there are coordination games which can be won with certainty only by using entanglement (or full communication); where just having pre-shared random variables would not be enough (you'd expect to lose now and then). [1]

It's very hard to give analogies for what entanglement is, because of the tendency for any intuitive mechanism to allow either no coordination or too much coordination.

1: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post6536_implementing-quan...
The problem is in pinmuxing. If you want to change the pins from their default modes, you're in for a world of pain. Systems on a chips (SoCs, basically run everything portable these days) are optimized to the point where different die pins can have different modes (GPIO, LCD framing, USB framing, might all be available, one at a time, on the same pin). Switching between them requires mucking about in the kernel and reconfiguring hardware and is, at least in my experience, incredibly painful.

Also, the sysfs mappings that the easy bindings tend to be written from are very, very slow (like ~3+ orders of magnitude slower than they should be: http://hackaday.com/2013/12/07/speeding-up-beaglebone-black-...).
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However, that would only become a problem after centralization, correct? Otherwise, it would require a concerted effort by most/all miners to take the same approach, rather than competing for staying power etc.
I would also be interested. I'm less interested in the open source examples and more interested in the techniques and options that are available.

Huge bonus if it takes Elixir into account.
because people like actively development software. Sublime text is a good example of this.
Easy as pie. You can buy PBX add-ons to let you spoof any number you care to send out. Telemarketers drool over that sort of stuff.
I don't see how it is different. A "higher level of abstraction" means progressively higher-level versions of source code. Binary->machine/assembly code->C++ code for example. Each step involves reverse engineering. Simply disassembling/decompiling a binary is not really sufficient to be considered "reverse engineered". Someone needs to analyze the output of these tools to create reverse-engineered output which is ready to be modified/extended/investigated.
> how could you not know that this would have a major impact?

Anybody starting a major project will be ignorant about some important things. It's impossible to do anything interesting and know everything up front; if you could know everything, then that would mean it had been done a zillion times before and therefore not be interesting.

There's also a strong selection bias. The kinds of people who don't take chances? They don't become entrepreneurs. They don't bet years of their lives on projects in hit-driven industries. Those who do take chances already know that so many of the things that previously seemed impossible or dangerous to them worked out to be fine.

So nobody should ever, ever, ever not start something because they don't know everything. The trick to successful entrepreneurship is to test your big risks early, so that your failures are small and recoverable, rather than late and fatal. Here their mistake wasn't underestimating the impact of 3D. It was in not testing their assumption before the public launch of the Kickstarter.
Really happy to see volume plugins in stable :)

We wrote up a demo of using volume plugins in docker 1.8 with compose here, in case people are interested: https://clusterhq.com/2015/08/04/docker-volume-plugins/
Out of curiosity, how much better, typically, is the 'optimal' blending rule than blending with some random or 'reasonable' weights? Never really thought to ask myself that question...
Tracking the flow of ideas through the programming languages literature
Arduino is awesomely easy in this regard, but lacks a proper operating system, and the individual pins have fewer modes than systems on a chip. That is, in a way, exactly my point: the operating systems we have are so bad at portable systems that going without one can actually make development easier. That's a big problem.
Depends what you're going for, I guess. If it's something you're developing for public use and/or something you want to run on !Linux, portability might be a concern (FreeBSD, for example, doesn't ship with bash and, if you install it, it lands in /usr/local/bin instead of /bin).
Agreed. That number should have been a red flag from the beginning.*

*unless this was a legitimate case of being 1 month away from launch.
They say that the source is for sale along with the IP, so probably not
> Since the regular salary is $24k

Where did you take this number from?

Try at least, the bare minimum, double that in Western Europe for anyone calling themselves a game developer
Who cares about efficiency or size?

I mean that seriously. Right now, pretty much all that matters is cost per watt. For normal terrestrial uses, a 20% efficient cell loses out to a 5% efficient cell that's 10x cheaper. (Numbers made up on the fly with no particular basis.) We're not currently hurting for space for these things, and sunlight is free.
It's great to see people admitting their mistakes. On the other hand, the project was doomed from the start $50,000 just isn't enough money to produce a game, let alone a game and collateral merchandise. And the commitment to collateral merchandise for a project like this meant that effort that could have gone to making the game was committed to dealing with posters, printers and postage. There's a reason startups don't return dividends to early stage investors. There's a reason sophisticated early stage investors don't want their investments to pay dividends.
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While I find this initiative fantastic, it's a bit frustrating that Github, a company that lives on source code being open, does not publish the code of tools like this one.
Muse protocol: encrypted bytestream “email” for IoT (and beyond)
As strange as it sounds the lack of a decent git GUI is one of the reasons I don't feel comfortable using Linux as my main development environment (not the only reason of course).

It's a big pitty neither Github nor Atlassian (the big "git" players, in my mind) seem inclined to release a GUI client for Linux.
Ask HN: Has anyone used any DigitalOcean projects?
I keep an eye on the DigitalOcean projects page but I have never had time to look into any. So I was wondering if any of you had ? If so which and what are you using it for ?

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I never get tired of hearing that -- thank you! :)
https://www.offensive-security.com/
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How to Go Mobile: App vs. Mobile-Responsive Site?
It's going to be interesting how this series will expand to more complex concepts of interpreter design, such as grammars, AST's etc. To be honest, right now I'm thinking the approach taken to teach the basics of parsers and interpreters is detrimental to understanding how these things work in the real world.

IMO, it's important to learn about concepts such as regular expressions/finite state machines for lexers, grammars, lookahead, recursive descent, etc. for parsers first, before diving into code and writing a ghetto-lexer and a linear parser with hard-coded rules and trying to build from there. At some point when you really want to parse and interpret Pascal (which is what the first article in the series mentions as the ultimate goal), you will have to forget about everything the naive code did, and throw away all the code, because you're not going to be parsing any 'real' Pascal code the way the toy examples work right now.

Not saying this to talk down the author's effort, because it's an interesting topic and I assume all these things will be addressed in later posts. I just wanted to point out to people who want to learn about parsers and interpreters, that the approach the toy interpreter in its current form will not scale to a real interpreter that can parse something like Pascal code.
It's typically 'window' on these showers, so maybe!
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> Or maybe even go open source?

While that is the ideal way to close up a failed start-up (in my opinion anyway) I don't believe they would entertain that considering they're trying to sell the IP.
What are Grid's similarities and differences over a Digital Asset Management tool ( DAM )?
I would advise anyone to stay away from ROOT. It's a really, really badly programmed framework that will steal many hours of your time.
What would you call those square axles? Gears, cogwheels and sprockets all have teeth. The cube doesn't exactly have teeth... Come on logophiles, help me out!
Oh. Yesterday these came up as pictures of the filename. Like, white background, black text. Today, at least one of them is a picture of kelp.
Simply "being social" is not what I'm referring to. Of course home-schooled children can still be social and have social skills. There is a specific subset of these skills which I am arguing that represent more of a challenge for them.

It is not impossible for them to still obtain these skills/exposure, simply more difficult. It also isn't life-ruining to be deficient in the specific skills I'm talking about. However, I personally think these specific skills are very important for the diverse, interconnected modern society we live in. It is an important concern to evaluate before advocating for 100% homeschooling, which is what started this whole debate.
That sounds like the number for the average salary in Belgium.
Do any of these libraries have support for computation on the GPU using CUDA?
thanks! i got my CELESTRON FirstScope. word to hardware people.
I'd buy it. Doing some Erlang and Elixir stuff at the moment and need as many tips as I can get.
I see that lasting almost three weeks before Apple shut it down (assuming anyone uses it...)
Completely agreed. I work in a large games studio and on our project the team that does nothing else but makes sure the game is compliant(so that it is accepted by Sony and Microsoft for release) consists of 7 people - 5 programmers, a designer and a QC tester. I imagine doing the work we are doing for an indie game would be extremely time consuming.
Is there a way to clone BitBucket repositories from inside Github Desktop? It looks like they've locked it down to clone from Github only.
By the way, turning on S3 bucket versioning is safe in that your objects will get served exactly the same over HTTP. However, with many of the AWS SDKs you will start receiving an S3::VersionedObject rather than an S3::Object. From there you can get the S3::Object but the VersionedObject does not have all of the object's properties.
Exactly, it's somewhat ironic.
It was way too little money ... but I guess what happened is that they expected a third party investor to complete the development budget given the success of their KS campaign. Well it looks like it didn't happen. In my opinion , if one choose this strategy, one should make sure some investors are actually interested,even better, sign an agreement with potential "angels" before launching a campaign.
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I had an opportunity to use PowerShell recently. The task was simple: on a bunch of freshly installed windows 8 boxes, kill a running graphical program of a certain name, copy over new executables, and restart that graphical program. The kind of thing you do essentially constantly on Unix boxes.

I urge anyone at all with any interest in PowerShell to give it a shot. Spoiler: it's not possible without an epic level of hackery; but along the way, you will uncover that PS uses the same parameter to mean very different things for different commands, that the 'everything is an object' conceit doesn't work when the object you want doesn't exist, that PS is chock full of hacky, revolting cruft already despite its youth, hacky revolting cruft that makes oh-my-zsh look like /bin/rc, that most windows commands will fill your screen with banner(8) style output even on success, and that no two windows commands are alike.

Given which decade it was developed in, PowerShell represents the most absolute and fundamental failure of software I've had the pleasure of encountering in the last five years; and I've seen Windows 8.0. Anyone who thinks PowerShell is at all any good has, axiomatically, never seen any other shell besides cmd.exe before. You may think I'm exaggerating. Please, try the example above, then report back here with a list of what you had to do.
I so often realize, when I look at my efforts in my own recreational programming, that I want to recreate and recapture the joy of working in smalltalk (which I've only ever done recreationally w/ Squeak/Pharo). Just with tools/APIs that I'm more comfortable with in my day-to-day programming.

Also lisp.
I feel like most GNU/Linux users (especially developers) are comfortable enough using cli tool for this to be a non issue.
Important point about this debate:

* There is not the organic transaction growth for this to even be a problem, and there is no evidence there ever will be. Bitcoin's only real-world use case is illicit goods.

* Even 20MB blocks would be susceptible to a cheap spam attack like the DDOS "stress test" a few weeks ago.

This is the quintessential bikeshed: a fight to the death for insanely low stakes.