skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vaguely remember sama had a comment some time ago, kind of related to what you are saying here (paraphrasing here): "being contrarian is easy, being contrarian and right is hard." Working on a seemingly bad idea is being contrarian by definition, that's the easy part. And if people just take the advice at its face value and intentionally work on "bad ideas", that's being a fool. The real hard part is "being right", which requires the founder to have a unique vision or belief in his idea, and drives it really hard, maybe even to the point of being "delusional" to outsiders, but again, being delusional about your own idea doesn't guarantee it's "right".
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Two more thoughts:

The button should be very visible at the top. Because it does not make sense to read the article first and then find this button at the end...

If possible add a number like '243 read me laters' just like the sharing options normally do. Maybe that is more encouraging.

And final thought: this should actually be part of the normal sharing options. Next to the Facebook, Twitter and email ;-) buttons. Partner up with services like 'AddThis'.
Maybe if you're deving on linux you just want the CLI anyway? I don't know if I'm abnormal or not, but I've _never_ wanted a git gui and really don't see the need for it at all.
More info: http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/08/12/explosion-reported-in...
Google Cloud Dataflow will charge shuffling by bytes in the future
React, react-router, Backbone models, https://github.com/magalhas/backbone-react-component, systemjs, jspm
Here's a few details: http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/08/12/explosion-reported-in...
Lenovo used shady 'rootkit' tactic to quietly reinstall unwanted software
Quantum darwinism – From quantum to classical
They don't get enough credit for their humour. The covers sometimes have me cutting them off and hanging them on the wall – a great recent example was the "Hiyatollah!" cover.

http://www.economist.com/printedition/covers/2015-07-16/ap-e...
Well, success stories tend to share the same sentiment of "Everything worked out because we worked so hard and cared so much!". It can be important to also share the failures that tend to share the sentiment of "We worked so hard and cared so much, but things didn't work out."
In 2009, the S&P 500 returned 23%, where were you then?

It did similarly well in 2013. Are you picking stocks or something? Because you should settle down and just get some Index Funds from Vanguard.

The Median 15 year annualized return on the S&P 500 since inception is 12%, back out 2% inflation and you're right at 10% returns.

10% returns are not unreasonable. Sure it's not going to be a flat 10% every year like the article, but annualized returns of 10% over 15-20 years is doable for everyone.
Really honest letter that is simultaneously an apology and an explanation, without making excuses.

I wonder if more experienced game developers could have recognized the failure much further down the track and pulled the plug (or taken on a lot more funding?) before it took the company under. I also wonder, if this undertaking had been made in the US, would the outcome have been any different due to different... I dunno, funding laws or more available funding from traditional investors?

Was the completeness of the failure of GRIN down to the fact they spent way more money than they had trying to prove a point (don't need to do pixel or highly stylized art) ?

The game industry is interesting to me because of the nature of the problems they have to solve, but it is so damn brutal I don't want any part of it.
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this covers different ground than a book like LPTHW. A cursory look at the table of contents will suffice.
summary, country you live in helps. This guy is on welfare.
That is a very low figure (more than 3x lower than early-career programmers where I work) for what is probably very hard work. I hope you've considered all options.
From my lay knowledge of space travel, they seem to have lots of other issues to address before, as the OP puts it, "structures will be produced in space that are much larger than what could currently fit into a launch fairing".

Top of my list would be tidal forces in low orbit. It's microgravity, not zero gravity. If you extrude out a long structure it is going to bend ever so slightly. So you need either a brace (an existing big structure) or some sort of laser measurement to adjust the build process to compensate.

>>>"In a vacuum there is no air to affect heat radiation"

Shouldn't that be convection? Heat loss through radiation should be somewhat the same in a vacuum.
Well there are several altcoins using proof-of-stake. Whether they'll be as secure in the long term is an open question, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a perpetual motion machine.
Maybe it is easier to come out with a list of:

a. "things that would mean the project failed."

in contrast to:

b. "things that could lead the project to fail."

For "a" one could list.
There is no money left.
The team desintegrates.
Etc...

And finally ask yourself, what could I do now so that, if we arrive to any of the listed sutations the damage is reduced.

Take this comment with a grain of salt. As every other comment on the internet.
Are you sure about Tesla? What material do they use for the permanent magnets in their motors? I know the motor has to contain permanent magnets since Tesla cards have regenerative braking.
I've always liked the word project when talking about startups. The word inherently conveys the idea that you're building up to something that will exist in the future (in Latin it means "throw forward"). It gives you the flexibility to change and evolve. "Company" feels like something established and somewhat static.
So the main question I have is... Obviously someone has to do the invention. How will this pan out after all these container tools settle?

What if Kubernetes is it? The primary solid implementation of the hardest parts of distributed state management. Google uses this to power GCE, Amazon supports plugging this into ECS, and anyone building their own data center uses it for a control plane.

Is this the dream? Or is this a bad outcome for lack of technology diversity?
tiny Linux-WiFi-H.265 board form WRTnode, and turnkey PCBA manufacturing service
Teens don't use Facebook.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/30603/20150203/faceook-los...
Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security
I think generalizations like yours are why things like this fail.
The pull request is just an alternative version of the patches linus used to receive via email. Git is equally well suited to both.

At this point I don't think the tool does all that much advanced stuff, but the focus appears to be on understanding git at a level required to understand the more advanced features... so actually more focused on the semantics of git than on specific workflows.
The profiles are just throwing out random numbers without any rhyme or reason.
I really enjoy the print version of Popular Science, if you're looking for another.
It will indeed. The current plan (subject to change) is that Pharo 5 will ship as Pharo 4 + Spur (32 bit), then Pharo 5.1 will be Pharo 4 + Spur (64 bit), and then normal releases will resume. But as I said, that's just the current plan, and so much has landed on the 5.0 branch already that I'm a bit dubious they'll stick to that.
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Classic tragedy of the commons: for everyone as a whole, it's better to process transactions as fast as possible. But with the way incentives are currently structured, it's better for any individual miner to produce an empty block that propagates faster. Or in other words, to process transactions as slowly as possible.

There's two ways you can fix the incentives. One would be to kill the block reward. You don't process transactions, you don't get any fees. This would likely cause a massive increase in transaction fees if the network were to retain its current hashrate (and thus level of security).

The other way is to make a law, basically. You'd need a hardfork that refuses to recognize any block that isn't at least 75% full, but you keep the block reward and thus avoid blowing up transaction costs. This has the problem that the network could "stall out" under the right conditions (no incoming transactions, gigabyte blocksize, etc).

Or instead of messing with incentives you can change the protocol itself - if everyone works on the same transaction set then all you really need is a fixed-size structure to propagate the winning hash, and there are no empty blocks unless there's no incoming transactions. Again, you're talking a hardfork and this one would involve core changes to the Bitcoin protocol.
You're not even investing, though. Investment implies a share of the company.
I am a guy who usually puts too much info into commit messages instead of code comments. Git blame recently helped me to find out why I had added a particular line to a lengthy if condition.
Come on. It's the left-wing weekly magazine. I can't read it. It's Keynesianism propaganda.
Box hires Syncplicity CEO
Q: If I use linux as a host OS for VMWare, and install a Windows guest, will I avoid these types of issues?
KEEP CALM AND DRINK BEER
That article seems to indicate that 88% of teenage social media users use Facebook.
I follow a slightly less aggressive, but similar strategy to the OP. I save about 30% of my income in most months. It leads to some fun financial benefits like a much higher interest rate on your savings and checking accounts and easy financing terms. Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too. I saved up all the money for my car and they gladly gave me 0% financing (having almost no debt and a perfect credit record doesn't hurt either). I took that and kept the money in a stable investment.

Sometimes the trite saying of "Money makes money" is spot on. For most people though, you're right, that 2% deal would be a steal.
Probably a chemical warehouse?
> For one, I'd be ok with Tor traffic being de-prioritized in an attack since that is commonly where an attack is coming from anyway.

The hardcoded list of "bad" peers is effectively worthless (it's already hopelessly out of date), and the additional service which downloads a new blacklist from a centralized website is completely insane. The reality of the situation is that if anybody with criminal intent wants to attack the Bitcoin network you need exactly two IP addresses (one v4, one v6) to completely disable all new incoming connections on all nodes in the network. This patch doesn't change that fact, nor that criminals often have botnets with unlimited access to new IP addresses every second of the day.

It doesn't achieve the stated design goal, and introduces new vulnerabilities which aren't stated in the commit.

> All of his other proposals are just that, proposals and "lets talk about this and the problem". I hate to think if I proposed/discussed a bad solution to a problem and suddenly I'm part of some conspiracy theory.

Bitcoin isn't like any other software on earth, it can't exist in fragmentation or in consensus incompatible forks. Operating on a fork of the software with soft consensus changes or simply operational changes that do not affect consensus are completely fine, that happens today under the assumption that you are somewhat at risk if you run software that is even slightly different to anybody elses. Some nodes in the network for example support different P2P commands, and that's fine because the P2P network is not part of the consensus at all. The linked discussions are mostly harmless, it is extremely positive that all scenarios and eventualities are debated out in the open.

Prompting companies and individuals to attempt a hard fork of the network without consensus is another matter entirely. In the light of that, the previous discussions lose their innocence somewhat.
Oh, not really trying to brag. It's just a minor league baseball player. Point is scheduling something like that means figuring out best timing for both our schedules, etc.
Seems like a powerful blast . Is thee any oil refinery or power plant nearby ?
https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=VFINX+Interactive#{"cust...
At the risk of sounding out of touch, was there some reason an email couldn't have been sent? I regularly use DMs on twitter, though when I know a message will be longer I just take it to a medium made for a conversation or longer messages.
I don't use tumblr but someone told me that tubmlr is very similar to what you just described (sans the char limit) - from your point of view, why would twitter do this?
It is a bad idea to stay near glass windows during an explosion. Don't do it kids.
I'd say that part of the problem is that there is no "right" way to develop for Linux. There's a multitude of choices available at every turn when developing software for Linux, and while this is its strength, it's also its weakness. On Windows and especially OS X there are established "right ways" that can easily be deferred to.

Trying to provide support for Linux software could also potentially be nightmarish given the innumerable factors at play. There's no end to the number of ways any given Linux box may be set up.
Maybe that'd be good to include in this post as well?
Looks very similar to a refinery explosion
Suggestion for title in case English is not the submitter's first language:
"A terrible explosion just happened in Tainjin, China."

EDIT: Oh gee, I am so sorry I non-forcefully suggested a grammar fix in the title so that people would not harp on it. The proper response for my constructive criticism is more downvoting.
Watching the videos on the CCTV America link reminded me of some basic (but apparently necessary) safety advice. If you're ever in a situation like this, don't stand by a window filming it! You only have seconds until the blast breaks yours windows (depending on your distance from the epicenter and the explosion strength). From what I understand, the biggest immediate danger is lacerations from flying glass.

Get away from the windows and duck behind something solid.
And just to give the quick summary, Spur enables:

* More immediate types. The classic Squeak/Pharo image type only allows for
objects, strings, and integers as immediates, if I recall correctly.
Spur adds individual characters, floats (soon), and some other stuff
I'm spacing. Since all Smalltalk values are nominally heap-based,
having more immediates is a really big deal.
* Allows for a segmented heap. For desktop apps, this isn't a big deal,
but for server apps, it means that the VM can actually relinquish
RAM.
* Better object pinning, which makes FFI a lot easier.
* A more GC-friendly design, that should enable a much faster GC pass.

The only downside, IIRC, is that the total image size grows by about 15%, but that's a pretty good trade-off, given a normal image is usually in the tens of megabytes.
My friend Szilard is the author of this benchmark. He was attempting to answer the questions in the comments, but the responses did not show up. I am posting his answers here for him:

~~~~

I was trying to answer each question, but got blocked, so here are some answers in one comment:

1. Yes, it's WIP.

2. Did RF+GBM so far, did not even start DL, but stay tuned...

3. For Spark I used number of partitions = number of cores

4. For why Spark is less accurate for RF see Databricks comments here:
http://datascience.la/benchmarking-random-forest-implementat...
(essentially current version aggregates votes, while it should aggregate probabilities).

5. The issue of Spark being slow is not only an overhead on small data, but lots of serializing/deserializing, garbage collection etc.

6. Non-linear SVMs scale badly, but one could look at what max size can e.g. svmlight do (results/pull requests are welcome)

7. I think Logistic regression in Python scikit-learn can be much improved (as I mentioned on github) by using a sparse format (someone should do it)

8. The difference between implementations in somewhat surprising, but some of the tools take different approaches (e.g. RF in Python/xgboost works with the data, in H2O/Spark it builds bins from the data etc.) There are tricks, options available only in 1 or 2 etc. I was trying to do my best to match parameter values/setup, but it's not the same.

I also wrote a blog post (a slightly more organized text for RF than the github README):
http://datascience.la/benchmarking-random-forest-implementat...

There is also a recording of a talk I gave at a Machine Learning meetup if you want more insights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK87lCLH_6A
I was subscribed to the economist for several years, and unsubscribed once I figured out that much of their content on non-western countries is either heavily tinted, or outright false.
What's the most recent decision in your life for which understanding Shakespeare was relevant?

What does it mean to "understand" Shakespeare, by the way? (If I read or watch the plays, is that sufficient? Or is there more to it than that?)
And this is why we can't have nice things. Someone is going to submit a React Native app to the App Store, use this bullshit to bypass the update review, and either use it to steal information of a user, or post dick pics all over the app.
If you use Hoare triples for total correctness, you can't reason about non-terminating programs. I recommend to use a Hoare logic for "generalised" correctness that enables you to reason about both, terminating and nonterminating programs.

I would be interested in your ideas about aliasing. I don't think you can avoid the complications of separation logic or content quantification.
It's really nice to see ecosystem tools working together in stable Docker. This means that Flocker can stop doing networking and composition and just focus on storage!
So step 1 don't live in the US.

fixed that for you :)
I know it can be pointless to compare circumstances. You can always find someone worse in your situation.

I just read the (currently highest ranked) article about the failed Woolfe game, and reflected on how bad it must suck to put your heart, soul, and life into something only for it to fail. This sucks.

But, then I came across this post, and it again makes me reevaluate what truly does, suck. Failing sucks, it really does, and it might feel like death, but ultimately, it's not, and real, physical tragedies always remind us that there are truly reasons to keep living each day with passion, even with the eyes of failure glaring at us.

I hope everyone is ok.
That chart doesn't take into account dividends. At the end of 2014, the 15 year annualized return of the S&P 500 was 4.24%. The 20 year annualized return was 9.85%.

SO, while you were claiming the above poster was using bad numbers by using "the last 6 years," you are similarly using biased data by looking at the past 15 years because that's the eve of the dot com bust.
My site has apparently reached the view limit. I'll move to GitHub Pages, I'll let you all know when I finish.
Thanks a lot!
Right, bigger blocks take longer to propagate so you get more forking with a block that's too big compared to the time interval.

This might change if Gavin's IBLT proposal [0] gets implemented. Basic idea is that the miners have most of the transactions already (otherwise they couldn't mine), so you don't have to transmit them again in the block itself. You just need a small fixed-size data structure that lets miners reconstruct the full block from the transactions they have already.

Another idea is GHOST [1], which shortens the block time by letting all the forks take part in the consensus process, and get rewarded even if they don't end up in the final linear chain. It was proposed as a Bitcoin modification but just got its first production launch with Ethereum.

[0] https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf
Haven't tried it yet, but the history visualization looks very cool. It can be useful to actually SEE branches sometimes. As for why its not on linux desktop? Probably too much work to adapt for many different flavors for a small number of people.
Looks like there was an initial fire followed by a much larger explosion. My guess is that there was an accident at a major power/refinery plant.
Teflon is not toxic. Some precursors are but once made it's completely inert.

And a frying pan is mostly metal, it'll get recycled at some point and the teflon burned away anyway.
The triangle is pretty easy: take two of the (same size) triangles, with vertices ABC and A'B'C'. Rotate and translate the second triangle to fit the matching side of the first triangle, e.g. AB to B'A'. You now have a quadrilateral with two pairs of equal sides (sides (AB')C and (A'B)C'). The angle on the corners comprised of the two triangles (e.g., C(AB')C') will add together to be 180 degrees minus the angle of the adjacent corners, due to the three interior angles of every triangle summing to 180 degrees. Duplicate that quadrangle and fit the second to a matching side. The angles put together will form 180 degrees, i.e., a straight line. Now you have indefinitely extensible strip. Place the strips next to each other and you've tiled the plane.
Reading through their page, it gives the impression that they fully intend for people to use it for adding/changing features. The guidelines explicitly state this is not allowed.
When to Give Up on Your Consumer App Startup: Top Signs
I didn't generalise, I gave an cherry picked example of a company that promised things they already had made (e.g. a wallpaper and soundtrack) and then said it's not always like that and so it depends, but it's not a priori a bad idea.

The OP generalised by saying they wished game devs would simply never do merchandise all together, even though it looks like this project raised half its budget from rewards, and I think we both can guess they spent more than half of their time developing the game, and even though one can find examples where merchandise was successful.

I also think you missed the point which is that they actually shipped the game, and made the merchandise. They just didn't end up selling enough and went bankrupt, preventing them from shipping the merchandise. If they'd earmarked the funds or actually sold as expected, none of this would be a problem. i.e. merchandise wasn't the source of their problems.
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Windows 10 IoT Core Public Release for Raspberry Pi 2 – Install and Impressions
Yea that guy was wierd, I didn't get any sense that you were bragging.
I disagree, having felt a while that Twitter's user experience was beginning to unnecessarily calcify. It's one thing to remove DM post limits, or (someday I hope) make photos and links a separate part of the tweet object instead of elbowing in on the 140 character limit - but it would be something else entirely to force a Facebook-style ranking algorithm.

As long as they don't force users to adopt their way or the highway with every update, you can keep using Twitter as you like it, while others can forge their own experience.
Yeah, I also think correctly conjugating the verb is what really matters. :-|
Russia bans Reddit
I would not put the NYT in the same league as The Economist.
The NYT used to be a quality publication, but recently has been going down hill, fast (recent fiasco with quickly edited extremely one-sided article on Ellen Pao's verdict, etc)

I have been a subscriber to The Economist for 25 years now, and while I don't always agree with their opinions, their articles are unquestionably well researched - and beautifully written (and often tongue-in-cheek, British-style).