skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's quite right. I think that it can't interact with anything electromagnetically, and it can't strongly interact with even itself at larger distances. But it could support something similar to the strong force with itself, and could therefore have structure at smaller scales ("smaller" means perhaps even at the scale of a planet).

Or have I missed something?
You are not correct.
The cctv-america link talks about a blast equivalent to 21 tons of TNT at this event, and your link has 2.9 kilotons in Halifax. So Halifax was ~150x this one.
> At your price point, performance/luxury cars seem to be your only market,

I'm not sure even that will be a market they can cater to as newer performance/luxury cars have a massive amount of electronics and computers inside that put a heavy continuous drain on the battery (and continue to drain even when the car isn't running).

Considering this new battery can't even hold the amount of power that a normal car battery can, I don't see it being used in high-draw luxury vehicles.
The most recent and most serious scandal involving News Corporation was 2011 phone hacking scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_News_Corporation_scandals). Gives you an idea of what sort of scumbags run that mega-conglomerate.
I'll have to take your word for it :) I'm not savvy enough about this topic - I just know the MVM architecture.
"In 10 minutes Convox installs a system that takes over the management of your AWS servers, networking, and data and lets you deploy applications to the Internet with a single command."

Sounds like an ad for an botnet exploit.
The capacitors are fairly immune to temperature variation since they don't store energy using a chemical reaction, and we can also dynamically adjust the standing voltage of the caps to increase power in cold conditions.

We believe so, but don't want to say it until we can verify for sure. Our temp chamber unfortunately has trouble pushing anything south of -20F and it's a bit hard to find weather that cold in August.
While I agree with points 1 and 2, I have a beef with point 5. Car manufacturers do whatever they can to shave costs, all over the car, all the time. Batteries are needlessly heavy because they are manufactured with the cheapest-possible components using the cheapest-possible technologies. They do put in a best-guess size to keep the median consumer masses happy, whether they drive the car once a month in Death Valley or six times a day in Duluth.

You can buy lighter-weight, lower-capacity batteries to use in competitions where weight matters, or higher-technology batteries for use in angles where lead-acid will give up the ghost. Batteries are frequently moved by tuners to places where their weight has less of an affect on the car's suspension.
I could see this being an attractive solution for a battery to power electric turbos but not as a main battery replacement.
magaudet and I are from IBM and are happy to answer any questions.

tl;dr: IBM is breaking apart its JVM runtime technology to allow easy reuse and integration of its GC, JIT and Tooling into other languages. This has been proven with a JIT + GC + Diagnostics enabled version of Ruby (MRI) and Python (CPython)
Cast Iron + Lots of Butter = Teflon
Yes http://www.unity3d.com/ is essentially "Game on Rails". But, just as you can quickly and easily build a failed startup with Rails, Unity doesn't really save you from building a game that no one really wants.
> I think it's mostly a function of my (infrequent) driving habits.

Yup. I bought a Battery Tender[1] for my infrequently-used vehicles and now the batteries last indefinitely[2]

[1] http://amzn.com/B000CITK8S

[2] :) Based on the fact that I haven't had to replace them yet after 5 years.
The job the Times has is at least an order of magnitude harder than the Economist.

I enjoy reading the Economist, but I don't know if I'd say well researched. A few times I've come across articles in my own field that seem really off, which makes me uneasy about the articles on banana plantations in Uruguay.

AFAIK the gold standard in copy editing and fact checking is the New Yorker.
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I know all the blogpost ones. To list a few problems:

* Bitcoin is not better for any of the consumer uses than existing financial systems, and is significantly worse for most.

* the only real-world use that we see happening is illicit goods (and, as noted in imglorp's comment here, the blockchain's utility as prosecution futures makes it not a great idea for that either).

* real-world consumers, who are at the powerless end of the financial power relationship, consider regulation a feature - the only people who consider a lack of regulation a feature are cranks and scammers.

* pretty much nobody actually wants smart contracts. Dr Strangelove is a movie about an unstoppable smart contract going wrong. Both consumers and businesses want the possibility of regulatory interrupt upon a bad deal. The only people who would want smart contracts are businesses looking to screw over customers with no choice (c.f. mandatory arbitration clauses).

Look, assume I know a bit about this stuff and have looked into the brochure version claims in detail. The possibility of a use case isn't sufficient; we've had six years of Bitcoin, and that's been enough time to see most of that blog post list has been tried and failed. You've had six years, it's time to show actual utility.

Also, this is a site for communication using words; expecting someone to watch a YouTube video when you could just write words yourself is probably not effective communication.
The most frustrating thing to me is people ahve taken to posting screenshots of their press releases that we cannot properly zoom or copy and paste. Thank god for 140 character limit!
They actually force simpler designs and catch more defects per... every report ever done on one. Last survey I read had 96% report great increase in QA metrics with almost half saying cost/time was negligible. Esp if you use automation. Reason? Virtually no time spent debugging broken components or integrations. The Windows and Linux stuff I've seen you trust has horrid track record on other hand. So many preventable errors, lack of POLA, covert channel analysis is about impossible... list goes on. Those processes you "call out" lead to none of that as they force discipline on the developers and reviewers.

Now the certification bodies, paperwork focus, etc can be harmful. It's why I got private evaluations for my stuff. I saw Sentinel do same for HYDRA using NSA and Secure64's SourceT (medium assurance) had positive review from Matasano for its POLA/resilience. And that's COTS. Sirrix too using Nizza architecture with tiny TCB. So, the basic principles are there, improvements are often dramatic, several companies are doing it, and so rest have no technical excuse for using weaker methods.
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> Call it a non sequitur but what if they eventually decide they want to remove the 140-character limit from tweets?

Arguably, it'd be a great move for Twitter to launch a (possibly Tumblr-esque) blogging platform under an adjacent-but-related brand (e.g. comments on the articles could be tweets). Keep Twitter exactly as it is, but expand Twitter's reach by offering long-form content too.
(And working on the Ruby JIT)
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They said 20k less than 72k, in other words 52k. You won't find many programmers working for 20k/year. You can probably do better than that at McDonald's...
I used to have that feeling to, but that has changed in recent years. For instance they gravely misrepresented things in a their Nordic issue a couple of years back.
What is sub-Q? An interactive magazine for interactive fiction
Haha you're absolutely right about the cardboard insert! With any other publication that comes to my house, I can easily rip the insert out. I have to be extremely careful not to de-staple the entire issue of The Economist when removing that awful insert.
To get an idea of a machine-learning course not focused on deep learning, compare Andrew Ng's other course, the one he teaches at Stanford, which is exclusively focused on other aspects of ML: http://cs229.stanford.edu/schedule.html
My bad on the mistaken identity.

Side jobs require my time, robots don't, they aren't comparable. I'm better off working no side job and letting a robot earn money on the side because that's simply better even if the bot earns less than I would on a side job. Selling labor is not economically preferable to free money.
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> I'm going to guess this is either totally false

I tried to contact Reddit administration once - no response. They probably either ignore uninteresting emails (read: any email except where people want to give them money) - or it was labeled as spam and went into the bitbucket.

After the latest reddit drama - this isn't surprising. When you fire someone who handles major publicity without telling anyone (I'm sure people knew and knew why - but didn't want to say anything) - there is definitely a communication problem in your company. And this is not a "sorry we will work for better communication in the future" issue - it's a problem where they need to identify the problem and fix it immediately.
It kind of was:

>“We discovered the tile using using a computer to exhaustively search through a large but finite set of possibilities,” said Casey. “We were of course very excited and a bit surprised to find the new type of pentagon.
I don't want to email you. I just want to see some upfront pricing and then I'll decide if it's the service for me.

I don't want to negotiate, enter into a relationship, sign up to a newsletter, or - if I'm honest - talk to you.

Sorry for being a bit blunt - it looks like a decent service, but I can't really be bothered waiting to see what your caps are. Just put it on the site. Please :-)
Important people use both, because they can't afford the limited exposure using only one of them brings.
I was thinking about the internals. They might have components with higher potentials that are then regulated down to 12v. In a crash, those could be a source of high-voltage shorts that might be a source of ignition.
This looks great! I use bitly for this now, to an extent...save the link, and then when I remember, go back and read whatever is at the top of my list from the last little while.

I can't wait to use it -- especially if you add a "digest" function that sends me one email at a particular time of the week, with links to everything I saved...
From the article:

“We discovered the tile using using a computer to exhaustively search through a large but finite set of possibilities,” said Casey. “We were of course very excited and a bit surprised to find the new type of pentagon.

I would expect it to take longer than seconds, since there are many ways that these shapes can fit together, and there are many possible edge lengths.
I've never figured out why some batteries last and others don't. My '05 6MT V6 sedan still had its OEM battery when the starter finally refused to turn over in 2013. My wife's '07 5AT I4 sedan just got its fourth battery this month. My car grew up in central Kentucky, hers spent its first 3 years in New England before also moving to ol' Kintuck.
"Russia" is also killing opposition politicians and independent journalists, sponsoring extremist parties in EU, and invading neighboring countries.

Censoring reddit isn't really significant to be honest.
Scheme: One-armed if statements (1985)
This reminds me very much of watching FOB Falcon burn for six hours one night in Iraq. Lucky mortar strike hit the ammo dump. It was like this video all night.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043792
> Based on many people's descriptions of home-schooling,
> this is a concern that is often overlooked
> unintentionally.

Where did you find people's descriptions of home-schooling that describe this?
I'm glad you've been so fortunate. There definitely is some variation. There are a lot of outliers on the other side too. The 3-4 year number is what most manufacturers themselves claim.
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Meduza is usually criticized by pro-Putin people because they are quite oppositionally-inclined:

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

"Meduza is run by a team of around 20 journalists who resigned from their jobs at Lenta.ru following Galina Timchenko’s unexpected removal from her post by the website’s owner and Vladimir Putin ally, the oligarch Alexander Mamut"
You're right! Lead acid car batteries are one of the great recycling success stories. What's interesting is that the volume of lead acid car batteries in the world is so high, that even at that high recycling rate, that still leaves 24 million pounds of lead each year from car batteries that don't get recycled. There's also been some problems recently with lead recycling plants contaminating the environment [1].

You're also right that it's more complicated to recycle lead than lithium batteries, but a recycling process does exist, and it's getting better thanks to the proliferation of lithium batteries in electric cars.

It's actually got 6 capacitors in series (2.7V each). We don't charge them all the way up to 2.7V, so it's normally at about 13V on the terminals. We are super paranoid about safety. The EDLC caps we picked aren't a fire risk, since it's just carbon and a few mL of electrolyte. You're probably thinking of what electrolytic caps do when you reverse bias them, but EDLC caps are much nicer. The worst they'll do is vent the electrolyte, not explode. LiFePO4 batteries are also really stable and are used in electric vehicles all the time.

[1]: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/07/08/lead-contamination...
>avoid the chatter

If active noise canceling seems to lower conversation volume, it is because you've convinced yourself it should. No DSP located on your ear can analyze and cancel an unpredictable signal like conversation before it reaches your ear. It can be effective against drone sounds like motors, rushing air, etc. because the same cancellation signal works now as did 100ms ago. This is not true of human speech.

Opt for a pair of well-fitting in-ears. If you have the money, see an audiologist for a custom fit. With high-quality earbuds and a good seal, you can play music at a very low level and still 1) hear all its detail, and 2) not perceive outside sounds.
You don't need to; I used to have a really crummy set of jumper cables that wouldn't actually pass enough power to start my car with the battery dead. I'd have to stay connected to the other car long enough to let its alternator charge my battery enough to start.
Describing what miners are doing already, with no-transaction blocks and not bothering to verify existing blocks?
How many false positives would you get if you ran it against an Oracle product? :)
https://angel.co/jobs#find/f!%7B%22remote%22%3Atrue%2C%22sal...

you have to login to view this link, it's just filtering jobs by REMOTE + $125k+ = 255 startups.
Imagine a world, pre-internet, where almost all books are handed out free, but with their pages loaded with ads, and their stories embedded with "native" ads and product placements. Imagine that book "stores" get a cut of the ad revenue and so are incented to stock and push whatever book titles "clicked" the most and contained the most ads?

Authors in this world would say they have no choice, because readers will always choose the free book over the $10 or even $5 book. The bookstores only stock the free books for the same reason.

In that world you would make exactly the same argument that you just made to me.

I'm glad you work on non ad-supported software. But look at it from a consumption, share of revenue and availability perspective: ad supported software is eating the web.
I don't think there would be reason to, except in protest perhaps. 750Kb size block is 750Kb no matter what transactions make up the block; whos transactions go into a block wouldn't change propagation time. Miners would rather take other peoples' transactions if forced to take transactions at all. That way they get the fees.
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You keep saying this. You've said it many times in this thread. 1) there are lots of different kinds of oils each with their own distinct flash points and toxicities. Olive oil has one of the lowest flashpoints and has very little toxicity when burned. 2) Not all cooking is done with oils. 3) even if oil is toxic, it seems to be something that is a required part of cooking - we assume the risk. Teflon, not so much. 3) Teflon does get that hot in the course of regular cooking. And it releases toxic fumes under those conditions. Saying oil is bad too does not negate what teflon is doing. Especially when there are choices for pans/cookware that do NOT release fluorocarbons at high temperatures.
I've been using this for the lat month:

http://www.varidesk.com/standing-desk-pro-plus-36

Best of both worlds.
Thanks so much. For all of this!

You said 6-9 months is a standard time-frame for a corporate sale at F500 level. Shouldn't a new business therefore start with companies that are still smaller and faster at approving expenses?

I am mostly interested in learning how to do #2. I found this which seems to be much on that topic: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141015215831-48424446-the-b...
Whatever else you can think of adding on this, it would be very beneficial to the topic (and me personally). How do I get a conversation going? Do you start by giving a general idea about your service? Or maybe you study very thoroughly the company and make an educated guess on the amount of money you will save/make them?

Maybe #7 is a common knowledge to many people, but I find it absolutely brilliant.

Thanks again!
Not that this was necessarily the case with your vehicles, but battery placement in a vehicle will directly affect its lifespan. If it's closer to a heat source (e.g. the engine), it will die much faster. This is why some manufacturers put them in the wheel well or the trunk.
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The phase-shifted signal from active noise canceling electronics only actually achieves physical cancellation if the signal it's attempting to cancel hasn't changed. By the time the phase-shifted response to a dynamic signal like speech comes out of the speaker, the signal it's trying to cancel is gone, and there is in fact more sound coming to your ears.
> The best companies start out with ideas that don’t sound very good. They start out as projects, and in fact sometimes they sound so inconsequential the founders wouldn't let themselves work on them if they had to defend them as a company.

Isn't this just cherry-picking of examples that validate a preconception? What about Uber? Dropbox? Amazon? Xiaomi?

Theranos:

> In the fall of 2003, Elizabeth Holmes, a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, plopped herself down in the office of her chemical engineering professor, Channing Robertson, and said, “Let’s start a company.”

http://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/
This is kind of besides the point, but do you have any idea what banning reddit would do to America's GDP?
Really cool hack! Would hate to see Apple ban this...
Twitter could go freemium: charge 1¢ per character over 140. :)
While that's a great joke, we actually have a unique way of minimizing false positives compared to the average static analysis tool.

We apply code similarity techniques to reuse analysis across apps, so we don't naively treat a binary as a random jumble of code. So if there's a flaw in a particular parameter passed to a single function, we can find all apps that have the relevant code and then zoom in on just calls to this function. The smaller the number of candidates a matching algorithm has to consider, the less chance of a false positive.
I wasn't aware that anything on Twitter was important.
I think Andresen's O(1) block propagation proposal[0] requires exactly that. I'm not sure if he has worked out the details though.

[0]:https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2
If you're talking about offset printing a proper cut and folded booklet that looks like a reward worth having, then you've got the design, the prepress, the iteration with the printer about what looks good, the domain knowledge of what you even want, etc. I don't think most software developers could do this and have a decent result in anywhere near the amount of time they think it should take. If you have done so, congratulations, but my gut feeling is that your standards may not be quite the same as someone who has some actual experience with that process. If you can't tell the difference between offset printing and laser, I have some bad news for you about how your booklets look. ;)
>the caveat that people would have to be accountable to double spending via a traditional banking system.

If the systems security is ultimately based on a reputation model then the system is just as secure as the existing banking system.
"Embarrassing"? "Insulting"?

Aren't you taking this a little too personally? I mean, it's a software release for christs sake.
Hopefully AppHub can mitigate the worst case scenario to "you have to fall back to standard Apple update procedures".
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I've answered in the github issue https://github.com/digitalfondue/lavagna/issues/10 :)
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This was a good find, thanks.

However, one of the findings supports my case:
"Public charter schools are much more likely than regular public schools to be racially unbalanced. Whereas 30 percent of regular public school students attended a racially unbalanced school (one with less than 20 percent or more than 80 percent minority enrollment), more than 60 percent of charter school students attended a racially unbalanced school. This measure considers the racial makeup within a particular school, rather than comparing the school to the county as a whole."

Based on this, regular public schools are more likely to be diverse or "balanced" than not. This paragraph glosses over it, but it shows that 70% of regular public school students attend a school which has a balanced mix of students from different backgrounds. The segregated public schools are the exception, not the norm, but that segregation increases when parent choice is introduced (i.e. with charter schools where only 40% of students are attending a balanced/diverse school).
Svsh provides a shell for already existing and running supervisors, specifically runit, daemontools, s6 and perp, which are all part of a "family" of similar supervisors. Svsh is external to them, it isn't a supervisor of its own, it just provides a better(?) interface to them.

I actually wrote it because, after switching from supervisord to perp, I was missing the shell provided with supervisord (supervisorctl).
For the north american audience, it's worth pointing out that the UK is as northerly as Canada, so its not ideal for solar, though it does have a part to play I think.
"Of course they are, it takes more than an entry strategy."

If all that is is their "entry strategy" then the strategy they are using is more complicated, which runs counter to your earlier assertion.

"There doesn't need to be. Price moves up, down, or sideways, if it doesn't go up/down as expected, get out and look for another opportunity or wait for the market to move, it will move."

It will move. But it needs to move in your favor more than against you, or you're losing money. There's no particular reason to expect that to be persistently the case.