skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this is a broad question with little to go on.

For comms look to break your sale into 2 parts. 1) The introducion: define your key selling points, especially any points of differentiation. E.g. Show value and ideally ease of implementation. Make this short. Someone is likely to view your offer at a glance. Make a non committing and interesting call to action. 2) Have follow up materials for those that do where you go into detail and expand on selling points and information. Ideally you'll run them through in person. This could be for broshures or the website.

LinkedIn should be your friend for making initial contact with decision makers. Try advertising and direct contact. Look to use that to get on the phone or have a face to face meeting. Be chill about your approach and don't push or be overly eager. Don't harass as people are busy and might be interested just not now but stay in contact with new and interesting information. Personally if I don't get a reply I wait 3-6 months to recontact. Aim to contact people up the food chain at companies. Things get taken more seriously when something interesting is passed down 'to investigate' that a junior presenting up.

Given your product is new use this as a sales point. Never shy from truths when marketing. Embrace it and find the positive. Perhaps Thus business gets first mover advantage. Perhaps you can offer customisation specifically for there business as you develop the product offering. Ect.

Is this the kind of information your looking for?
You'll probably see that less and less. People start to learn that the end user is a horrible investor. A real investor knows that out of 10 projects more than 5 will fail. The end user doesn't. He gets really angry at any fail. A few months back there was a blog post in "lessons learned about kickstarter" style where they basically said you need to make sure it's already well funded and nearly beta before you go to Kickstarter and have a shot.
Why would they sink?
Glad this was a clean-up release.
I think our safest bet is pretty much - get fusion ASAP, outsource it, replace all forms of energy with it.

And start planting trees/plnats wherever you can.

Also it might be better for people to congregate in few large metropolis, to minimize the impact. Chernobyl is doing great pretty much because no humans are there to bother the wildlife.
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Well, there is a difference from "we do this" and "we have been mandated to do this", whatever the reason "to do this" might be.
I guess that explaining they were forced to cover the reservoir makes me appreciate the solution even more: given an order, they found an intelligent and efficient solution.
This is really amazing, I have always wondered what the first dreams a sentient creature are. What is the context of a dream before we have any experiences to form it from?
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10 Year lifetime? Just the lifespan of these plastic balls being beaten with sunlight?
Learn from it by thinking smaller. When you started out making GTA5+1 and in the end have a new Tetris you are still in the top 10% of people who tried, I think. Really, cut down everything you can and some you can't. Remember that the first iPhone came without copy&paste. Good luck!
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You're mixing modes of operation with compression functions. A mode can be shown to be unconditionally resistant to length-extension attacks. Every SHA-3 finalist's mode was shown to be 'perfect' (indifferentiable) as long as the compression function remains strong. So if a length-extension attack is found on hash function H, this means that something has gotten horribly wrong and it is likely that more serious attacks are also possible.

It is in the compression function (resp. permutation) that Keccak differs the most from BLAKE. BLAKE is ARX-based---like SHA-2---while Keccak only uses bitwise operations. Since SHA-2 is not being deprecated by NIST, they figured that having a 'different' SHA-3 would hedge their bets against an attack against ARX primitives that could potentially break both SHA-2 and {BLAKE, Skein}. This is stated in [1, §3.4]. This has nothing to do with the MD structure.

Sure, when discussing these things security does come first. But all of these functions have been thoroughly vetted already, so the differentiators are elsewhere: sponges are flexible, BLAKE is faster in software, etc.

[1] http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2012/NIST.IR.7896.pdf
Collision detection, in a platform game, is an user experience problem rather than a well-specified mathematical problem. If it feels like you should have landed on that ledge, you don't care what the capsule-versus-AABB test says: you expect me to "fix" the game.
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> What you say was true for PowerShell 1.0.

Ok, I said I used it many years ago :) Thanks, it's good to know.

About the console/terminal emulation: PowerShell has way saner architecture in this regard. I wasn't clear enough, what I wanted to say is that on Linux we have terminal emulators which try their best to emulate (hence the name) physical hardware from ages ago. I was both impressed and seriously disturbed when I read this: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/ In short:

> In present time, we find ourselves in a world where physical teletypes and video terminals are practically extinct. Unless you visit a museum or a hardware enthusiast, all the TTYs you're likely to see will be emulated video terminals — software simulations of the real thing. But as we shall see, the legacy from the old cast-iron beasts is still lurking beneath the surface.

PowerShell simply ignores all the legacy cruft and doesn't even try to be compatible with 1940-era hardware. Which is, in my opinion, better and a sound technical decision, which resulted in much better architecture. The problem is that most Linux cmd-line apps expect to work under terminal emulators, not inside a modern environment PS provides.
Doing well or badly financially is usually reflected in the price you are getting for the spin-off. At the right price, even spinning off very profitable parts of your business can be good.

The argument about distraction still holds.
I would be careful comparing low quality aircraft with cars and books. These things are more different than they are alike.

Also as someone pointed out: there are other aircraft than passenger aircraft. I live in a city with a hospital near the city centre. At all hours of the day helicopters take off and land there. Depending on where they have been, they follow different flight paths entering the city. Meaning that they cross through airspace trivially reachable by drones.

I've seen people fly drones over the river that runs by the hospital. Every time I see that I imagine the medical helicopter hitting a large drone and crash into the hospital. And I guess the pilots imagine this too.
End users suck as investors. They think they already bought the product+rewards and feel it's quite painful that they still need to wait a few months before starting to use them.

Hell, to say the truth although I'm a developer, when I paid something on Kickstarter I also feel that way...
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This may seem like a silly question, but...

Why on earth are you chlorinating the water in the reservoir? I've never seen any other country that does that. Isn't it a really, really terrible idea? Environmentally ghastly because you kill everything in the reservoir, expensive due to chlorine loss, subject to side effects (like this one), and ideally suited to breeding chlorine-resistant bacteria... not to mention giving you nigh-undrinkable water!

I'm from the UK, and we chlorinate our water pretty heavily, but even we don't do this.

(I now live in Switzerland. Water in Zürich is purified via activated carbon, live biofilm and ozonation. The water which comes out of the tap is unchlorinated and is better and more drinkable than most bottled mineral water.)
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Sometimes, this plays out in hilarious ways. Infosys and TCS, for example, are well-known companies in India. Tower Research, on the other hand, is not known at all. A friend got an offer from Tower Research (he went to the same college as Sundar Pichai), but his relatives were appalled that he would choose it over a code monkey role at Infosys.
"Angle-Bracket Components and One-Way Data Flow" in the pipeline => Awesome!
Docker under OSX is a real pain to solve ASAP.

I've set Docker on my Linux machine and it's working like a charm. Then I had to do the same for my coworkers running OSX, the vbox shared folders are definitely unusable.

Now it's been few days that I'm trying to find the best way to have a two-way sync in order to sync back changes from docker to the OSX folder (eg. when you upload a file and it's saved in the /public folder, otherwise it'll be lost)

So far I've used docker-osx-dev[0] for 1 way sync (with rsync) and it's working nicely.. they also plan to add the support to unison for a 2way sync

I've also found docker-unison[1] but I haven't found a way to have it working correctly

I'd like to try with boot2docker-xhyve, but it only runs on Yosemite and later

[0] https://github.com/brikis98/docker-osx-dev

[1] https://github.com/leighmcculloch/docker-unison
~~Taking Sweden as the example the take-home salary would be $126000pa. That's not entirely unreasonable.~~

Edit: scratch that, I read it as "the company has an additional cost of 200" for some reason. Yeah, something is wrong with the math.
The closest video to the Tianjin explosion, RIP cameraman
Doesn't add new features
Remove all depreciated features
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Why not use ozone to teat the water. It's a better solution that chlorine, even more effective to kill bacteria.
They have space, and they conceived this system, like many others, thinking of what was the easiest thing to do, disregarding a low-maintenance approach.
> If your app runs on Ember 1.13 without raising deprecations, it should run on 2.0.

Every framework should take note: that's how you avoid creating another framework and fragmenting community!

It's is great to see this in action :). Amazing work.
"2^1E80 approx. - As there are only about 1E80 particles in the observable universe, it has by now become impossible to write the date"

Reminded me of Wikipedia's Timeline of the Far Future [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
I guess remote work is an option, but not quite a total solution at the moment.
1) not all work could be remote
2) self-discipline/communication is tough

Woofoo (about 7 people) did remote, but the founder admit it's tough and challenging even for such a small and motivated company (imagine your workforce > 1000 people), though there are some obvious benefits.

It's not just about tools (slack, skype, etc.) and finding a procedure that works, but more about company culture, motivation, discipline, adaptation to remote environment, family at home, etc. Not every employee could survive a remote environment and continue to be productive :(

Before everyone could work from home, maybe the idea of multiple office location/work-space (rather than centralized) could be explored, yet it will have many pros and cons.
Yet the Bible is not in the list.

Edit: Oh, I get it - the Bible is not written by an American so it cannot make it into the list of American books. Could have used a hint with the downvote.
Looks like 3d simulation example came to life :)

But seriously, why balls are used? They say it's cheap but 36 cents doesn't look too cheap on the hundreds of millions scale. Wouldn't it be better to use sheet-like form? It will be covering space more efficiently.
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Revenue and profit are two very different things.

Their quarterly profit was just $105m so it isn't exactly a high margin business. That number was a 51% drop compared to the same quarter last year. [0]

It is hardly surprising that they want to shed staff if the profit dropped that much. Nor was the 3% revenue increase anything spectacular.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33900230
Let me chime in and say that getting rid of VirtualBox and moving to xhyve would be amazing. I was really sad when this PR was closed:

https://github.com/docker/machine/pull/1358#issuecomment-126...
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But certainly the water is filtered before reaching homes, considering it rests a long time in a open reservoir. So you could remove the dead algae. Still, they certainly have a "better dead" approach, wanting the reservoir to be a dead pool instead of a living ecosystem where they'd have to monitor what is growing and how dangerous it might be.
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> library and technology choices made across the entire App Store. I figure this would basically be killer for e.g. sales teams at API companies, analysts following them

You nailed it, Patrick, and I wish I talked to you sooner. We were collecting this app data at MixRank for a while before it occurred to us to track every SDK and API integration. It turns out that knowing all the integrations an app has (ads, analytics, social, cloud services, tracking, libraries, etc) is really useful for predicting and understanding your customers!

> Do a for loop over your customers and profile as many signals as you can.

The most effective signal is the most obvious one: Did the app just integrate my competitor's SDK? This usually means the app is in a trial period and still deciding— you couldn't ask for better timing. Next best is: Did the app just uninstall my competitor's SDK? Then they're likely unhappy and searching for alternatives. (Source: we work with a bunch of sales teams that use us for exactly this)
No goggles usually, the pilot might but spectators typically get a screen, or so I heard from someone who knows about this stuff for factory inspection work.
My first thought after seeing the video was "you could make a really cool James Bond-movie introductory title scene or five with this".
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> They actually said they had everything made and printed, can't be that hard

Lots of it was "ready for printing", but not actually printed yet.
Don't go the eshell route unless you're prepared to learn Elisp very well and then write a ton of custom Elisp code. Take a look at its documentation:

> Eshell is _not_ a replacement for system shells such as ‘bash’ or ‘zsh’.
Use Eshell when you want to move text between Emacs and external
processes; if you only want to pipe output from one external process to
another (and then another, and so on), use a system shell, because
Emacs’s IO system is buffer oriented, not stream oriented, and is very
inefficient at such tasks. If you want to write shell scripts in
Eshell, don’t; either write an elisp library or use a system shell.

And yes, I never managed to make auto-completion work really well in M-x shell (or eshell).

One possible shell env you might be interested in is IPython. It's a Python REPL with support for launching external programs, shell-like variable substitution and much more. Coupled with qtconsole it makes for a great shell-like experience. I was using IPython under Windows as my shell for awhile, before switching to PowerShell.
His name "Zelf Koelman" in dutch literally means "You're cool yourself" which I find hilarious.
I do wonder if it's a different set of challenges. The demand for water in California is probably much greater, rather than adapting everyone's use to the climate. So I suspect the innovation is to sustain the level of water usage that isn't seen in the desert.
Being balls, they would also reflect that light into the water
I wasted so much time using node-inspector – I have a new Node.js debugger
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discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037641
Where is "Slaughterhouse-Five"?
What makes you think the pan's surface is more carcinogenic than the steak crust?
How are they creating a magnetic field that writes out the time? Is it a large grid of magnets or something more clever?
Hopefully their keyboard designers are among them.
I really, really, don't understand the docker fixation, but maybe I'm missing something.

The most important function of docker, IMHO, is that it standardizes the creation of a VM using Virtualbox across platforms.

Unless Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, GoogleCompute, etc. allow a docker image (aka a VirtualBox image) to run directly on their base virtualization platform (without me putting together an AMI or whatever on their platform), this just adds another layer of virtualization that I can do without. Do they do this already?

If and when they do that, docker would be tremendously useful because I wouldn't need to rebuild my image for that particular platform (AWS/DO/GC).

And if they do that already, then why aren't they just accepting existing popular VM images (VMWare/VirtualBox)?
Triangulations are rigid. You can do better using pseudo-triangles
I was thinking why they use ball form instead of something sheet-like. E.g. thin pancake - it will have same properties as the balls but will cover surface more efficiently, if you count material.
Has anyone tried VMWare fusion to run a Docker host VM?

Virtualbox shared folders are unusable for my purpose (compiling software on Linux).
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Seems different to me: https://auth0.com/blog/2015/08/11/create-your-first-ember-2-...

Especially the MVC -> Route-Glue-code-Component model (which I welcome). But yes, looking at the change log, it does feel like a bunch of deprications only.
"The city’s secular middle class was disappearing, squeezed out between gangsters, profiteers, fundamentalists and soldiers."

...sounds like the USA we hear about on the news :)
You don't see any value in a marketplace that matches drone pilots with those needing drone pilots?

Drones aren't just toys any more. There are good business cases for using video shot from a drone.
I think the story sounds a bit ironic:

So you are essentially dumping objects made out of chemicals, you had to drill wholes in the ocean ground to get, into a lake, because you found out that the chemicals you dumped into it earlier kill you when the sun shines on them. You also think that this might help you with the water shortage caused by unsustainable use of resources.

To me this all sounds like we arrived at a local maximum here. This simply cannot be the way to do this. Maybe we should start over.
I'm not sure you can count what you get after taxes as salary, your personal taxes is normally considered part of your salary.

The "arbetsgivaravgift" (i.e. taxes that your employer pays) is about 30% of your salary, so if you're going to get a salary of 100 that costs your employer about 130. The cash you get in hand varies depending on your personal tax rate, but normally you would receive between 50 and 70.

Edit: This is for Sweden. YMMV. :)
They may be closing down whole departments, cutting other costs than just salaries.
They can always hire even more incompetent batch than they had in the past 3 years. And my suspicion is that it was forced upon them from management that probably stays in place to make sure there is no improvement in the future either.
Agreed. This is how to handle deprecations gracefully.
Hm, I don't think there is such a moment. From the moment we acquire some sort of consciousness and sleep becomes a requirement for the body and mind to work properly, you at least some sort of experience.

Newborns can't see properly, they see only shadows and perceive mainly by sound and contact. But even them, have nightmares or good dreams :-)

A better question might be: "What kind of dreams does a human blind from birth dream?"

Nature Magazine featured an article on the topic[1].

[1] http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/26/how-the-b...
Yes, and I think its much worse in terms of reliability. When I save a file (say a Gemfile), sometimes only half of it shows up inside the container.

Anybody know what would cause VMWare Fusion (or any VM for that matter) to behave this way?
AWS supports deploying Docker images on both Elastic Beanstalk and their new Elastic Container Service. While it doesn't completely remove the need to worry about VMs, it does abstract them away somewhat (ECS much more so).
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Sleeping on your side also helps prevent snoring! Win-win!
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> I think our safest bet is pretty much - get fusion ASAP, outsource it, replace all forms of energy with it.

We've been trying to get controlled civilian fusion ASAP for 60-odd years now and it seems as far away (or as close a reach) as it ever was.
When you say "I PM'd you", it's not clear, so, I think, Twitter, by choosing their own term, it uniquely specifies the communication channel, i.e. you can PM via different channels (like Facebook, etc.), but you can DM only via Twitter.
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"20??-??-?? ??? - Introduction of the Euro in the UK ??? "

At least it was non-committal.
Looks at "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500#Price_history" the returns table at the bottom. It's not 10% every year but this is long term investing but a get rich quick scheme to look at any 20 year interval. It averages more than 10% and isn't exactly obscure.
Does the docker image run directly on their base virtualization platform or does it run on top of another OS (that I install) that runs on their virtualization platform? I have an OS in my docker image already, so..
http://imgur.com/JagJndf
It was still a profit, that is my point and your reply just sounds the typical MBA stuff I was mentioning.

A business is sound if it can pay its employees and running expenses with a little savings on the side, not trying to achieve increase multiplication factors in profit.
This is really helpful to understand. Thanks so much for sharing!
Who are you to say what opinions they share? Especially considering davts emails...
Unless you have a better idea, I don't see how the criticism is useful.
Docker Machine alone knocks out the entire list of hosts you laid out: https://docs.docker.com/machine/

For more sophisticated scheduling needs there is http://www.replicated.com/, https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/, and https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

Related to what you say about "don't VM's solve this problem?" is a project called https://hyper.sh. They're coming at it from the angle that if VM's can boot really fast, containers are a moot point.
Thanks jcr. Will do
Cool! I signed up.

It seems to crash when encountering an email address with a + sign in it though, see http://imgur.com/vpldMXV
> get fusion ASAP

If we rely on fusion to save us then we're thoroughly fucked – please excuse my language, but it's the most accurate portrayal of the situation.

- The best-known research project, ITER, is incredibly expensive and it will be 2050 until we can even start building commercial reactors using this concept (note that this is the current official schedule, so expect to add several decades to this). It is not even certain whether we can overcome the immense engineering challenges within the next 100 years.

- Other approaches only receive a fraction of the funding of ITER. Some of them might be more promising, but are still far away from breakeven, and it is still unknown, if and when they reach commercial viability.

We already know how to generate CO2-neutral energy: solar, wind, and fission nuclear. Let's do those instead, and keep researching fusion energy, but don't bet the future of our planet on it.
Oops, yeah, that's what I wanted to say. Brain-fart there.