skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that it really applies to this video, but there are other videos out there of people recording video while looking at the window at the explosion, where they're far enough away to have a few seconds' warning before the shock wave hits.
it doesn't have a monetization strategy

Neither does twitter. Bazinga.
As a Linux user: I very much would at least try it. Magit works great for the git repos themselves, but when I'm on my work machine (a Macbook) I tend to use Github's Mac client in order to handle things Github-specific (particularly cloning and handling pull requests).
How Killing Elephants Finances Terror in Africa
Former US President Jimmy Carter announces he has cancer
> Advertising is our C8.

This. Not to mention the malware that hitches rides on ad networks. Adblockers being the new condoms and all that.
It varies based on the specific car you have, but the short answer is "several". We've been measuring the current needed to start a bunch of different cars, and the results are pretty varied (based on temperature, engine compression, size, etc). One of our testers often needs a couple of starting attempts on his car and it sometimes takes him 3-4 tries before it starts with Ohm.
Dark matter is believed to be very weakly self interacting. If it had any type of self interaction it is assumed that it would aggregate into large structures (like stars) because it would lose momentum due to collisions or "drag" interacting with other dark matter. We would expect to observe structures like dark matter stars/galaxies/planets, but no such structures are observed. Even if those large structures did not interact electromagnetically, the gravitational effects of those objects would be felt on "ordinary matter" like stars and galaxies that we could observe.
This is exactly the problem with Kickstarter. Backers assume all the risks, but gain no benefit from success.
Yeah, I use npm2nix a lot, and it does produce very large files (a few thousand lines of code). But in practice it's fine. I very rarely look at the generated code. If I need to update a dependency, I change my package.json file, run npm2nix and start a new nix-shell.

I also wrote a bit of nix code to read the package.json file and figure out what the direct dependencies are, which keeps derivations for my own packages simple.
This could be rephrased as:

"I do see a potential problem with lights turning off abruptly, for example if an accident occurs as a result it could open up the company to a lawsuit, even if it is the result of a faulty charging system."

I personally wouldn't agree (do normal battery makers get sued whenever a battery dies?) but it would no longer be gratuitously negative.
Same reason as everyone. They've got a workflow that works for them, they don't see the value, and it isn't worth the hassle to change the way they do things.
working url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33898331
Convox co-founder here. Happy to answer your questions about Convox, AWS, Heroku, YC, open-source business models, and more...
Financially, the right decision is the one with the greater expected value, while accounting for the marginal utility of money. Your understanding of the stock market is fundamentally wrong, owning a stock is owning a piece of a company, a company where people spend most of their lives trying to make a profit, for you, the shareholder. It's a gamble to put all your money on one company, because some companies fail. Buying shares in a large number of companies is the best long term expected value you'll find.
I wonder how long until someone submits a DMCA request against it for 4′33″ by John Cage.
Thanks for that, and a tip of my hat to the HN community. Love this place.

Having written the aforementioned, I thought maybe y'all would be interested in a very very lightweight version of same done w/ my assembler of choice (only because it reminds me of Turbo Assembler from way back in the day).

format ELF64 executable
_start:
mov	eax, 1	; syscall # = write
mov	edi, 1	; man 2 write arg1 == our fd, stdout
mov	esi, .msg	; "" arg2 == const void *buf
mov	edx, .msglen	; "" arg3 == size_t count
syscall
mov	eax, 60	; syscall # = exit
xor	edi, edi	; man 2 exit arg1 == status
syscall
.msg:
db	'Greetings, HackerNews!',10
.msglen = $ - .msg

I don't think it gets much clearer or simpler than that, and more so that "man 2 xxx" provides all of the information you need for syscall goods anyway, it really isn't that bad :-)

if you compile this with fasm (http://www.flatassembler.net/) it produces a 174 byte ELF64 (and if we wanted to have some fun, we could lower that number by quite a bit still).

Cheers!

Edit: leading spaces for code
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I am sure you are right about the apparent cloud movement in this case, but shockwaves can result from sudden displacement. I read somewhere that Fermi made a good estimate of the Trinity bomb yield by dribbling a stream of shredded paper from his hand. After the shockwave passed him, he paced out the displacement of those that were in the air at the time.

http://www.dannen.com/decision/fermi.html
Around the same order of magnitude. Some are less than ten, some are more. It seems like most are aiming for about 10-15Ah these days, at 36V, 48V, or higher. Since capacity translates into range, the greater the better.
But why would YOU program it? The AI can do that.

It's kind of going full-circle really. You don't need to program a horse in C or Lisp to ride her.
Yet STALKER was not vaporware after all.
Charlie Rose: Reorganization at Google
There are always going to be anecdotes to the contrary, but the trend is pretty clearly in the opposite direction.

Usually what happens in my case is I forget to turn the headlights from 'Auto' to 'Off.' But even with the lights and fans off I don't tend to see more than 20-30 minutes of operation at most. The car's version of HAL 9000 tries to be conservative and shut things down as soon as the battery voltage goes below about 11.9.
NixOS is the whole OS. It doesn't use the kernel sandboxing at all, for itself at least, any more than any other distro does. Conceivably it could be used to replace CoreOS, though I'm sure that while at a high level that makes perfect sense there's an arbitrary number of incidental details that make that impractical, as is the way of these things.
Much better and not restricted to only containers.
You can click their profile to learn they are not.
And the click-bait media vultures are already hacking into it, despicable. http://i.imgur.com/MROUpJ6.jpg
I really appreciate the thinking behind the post & convox itself. What's the business model for you guys? Just commercial support?
Preskill's Quantum Computation notes were highly rated during my postgraduate studies: http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/
I'm curious how you interpreted this culture shock.

Was it that you regretted not having similar experiences?
We presented early perf numbers from the classic subset which we felt had well known benchmarks. We wanted to present an good overall view of what we can do right now as opposed to biasing towards only the best running benchmarks. There was also the matter of presentation, its a bit easier to present a chart of 9 versus 43.

The team is interested in working on a paper, once the hard work is closer to being done.
The Economist has a writing style where they present the 'facts' that make their case but never state the uncertainty over those facts. It makes their articles look really persuasive until you do your own research at which point they look really, really shaky.

EDIT: That said I do have a subscription to them.
I certainly hope not. There were 2000 fatalities in Halifax.
Hatch is a marketing planning tool that enables businesses to quickly create calendars, dashboards and campaign outlines.
Informed about the neo-liberal point of view.
Nature Comms paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150812/ncomms8908/full/nco...

Abstract - Quantum Darwinism posits that only specific information about a quantum system that is redundantly proliferated to many parts of its environment becomes accessible and objective, leading to the emergence of classical reality. However, it is not clear under what conditions this mechanism holds true. Here we prove that the emergence of classical features along the lines of quantum Darwinism is a general feature of any quantum dynamics: observers who acquire information indirectly through the environment have effective access at most to classical information about one and the same measurement of the quantum system. Our analysis does not rely on a strict conceptual splitting between a system-of-interest and its environment, and allows one to interpret any system as part of the environment of any other system. Finally, our approach leads to a full operational characterization of quantum discord in terms of local redistribution of correlations.

Related arXiv preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8640
They mention problems with collision detection, which indicates they were writing their own game engine. Why? There are good game engines available, and writing one is a big job.
If Apple wanted that they would just give developers the ability to update without review [or a question when submitting a new binary "Have you made significant updates that changes the functionality of your app and or features to the app you are submitting? Yes/No". They don't even let you distribute public beta through their system without the app being reviewed first because they want complete content control over the software distributed on their devices.
Seeing as the footage made its way onto youtube I'm going to assume the videographer is ok. Fingers crossed.
Agreed, that's where they want to be, I think.

But they're definitely more in tune with the Austrian school than with the Keynesians or the Krugmanites. Calling it a "left-wing weekly" is pretty questionable.
DM means dungeon master.

Now get off my lawn.
(BTW: Count me as a very happy user of Bench9k. It's been a very appreciated tool here. I'm hoping to contribute some of our harness customizations back when I have the time to clean up the commits a little).
It feels like it might be some sort of crime specifically to misrepresent your product as being capable of X and sell it to people who you know will try to use it for X, when X is disallowed by the ToS of the platform. Con-artistry of a sort.
"Deek" meaning to look at is a Scottish word:

http://m.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/scottish-words-of-t...
> It often allows complete idiots to air their opinions in the name of presenting a "different" view.

There, you just described the economist.

Okay, jokes apart... My 'problem' is that most mainstream media, doesn't consider the economist biased. I didn't consider the economist biased in the past. When I did, I stopped my subscription because it had nothing to offer: I knew beforehand what am I going to read on (almost) any given situation.
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I have been building the next version of my hobby project in newspeak and have really been enjoying it.

There is no funding, so the platform itself is also a hobby project for everyone involved. But there are a lot of really interesting ideas here.

The goal is to be able to create a modular, secure, distributed platform as a better alternative to the web browser while keeping many of the qualities that made smalltalk great, such as being extremely dynamic and interactive.

In addition the goal is to be more integrated with the outside world, so it supports things like using standard source code controls tools and has a native gui interface for windows.
I wouldn't try to speak for everyone who uses Linux of course, it's just been my observation. With my "roots" in computing being in the command line driven 80s, I still feel way better using command line stuff and likely will never change. It doesn't mean I am opposed to GUIs in general, there are certainly things I would never consider doing from a command line, but git isn't one of them.
$ nasm -f elf hello.asm

$ ld -o hello hello.o

ld: i386 architecture of input file `hello.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

$ nasm -f elf64 hello.asm

$ ld -o hello hello.o

$ ./hello

hello, friend
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Russian Army is like American Prison. Violence, a lot of violence.
I got some shit for bringing this up last time, and I will again.

Does anyone use GNU Smalltalk and how does it compete with the CogVM on performance?

(GNU Smalltalk is a text-based version of Smalltalk, on a separate dedicated VM, and apparently is shippped with a functional Seaside port, and there were even cool incomplete projects like a Qt shim library to buiild GUIs [0]).

[0] It ought to be gst-qt, as mentioned here, but unfortunately Github links and initial queries led me to a dead end for actual repos with code.

http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project
ceramic is a great option, as long as you take care of it (don't scrub with abrasive, etc.) I switched recently to ceramic pans and I love the look and feel, silky smooth and glossy white surface!
We don't think this will be a major issue. One of the nice things about LiFePo4 batteries is that it has an enormous cycle life compare to lead-acid and can provide a really high level of power throughout its entire discharge range. The power of lead-acid degrades pretty quickly and you can have significant trouble cranking your car even if it still has half of its energy available. If the electronics were using high enough amounts of energy to be a concern for our design, it would also likely mean that the cars would have trouble starting with a lead-acid.
Last winter I built an application called Subtweet that built on top of Twitter's Direct Message service, using Twitter's API as much as I could to reduce overhead. It is bittersweet that Twitter is improving DM as it makes Subtweet more and more unnecessary to users, but I am so happy to have all of these features built right in. I saw this shift coming when Twitter added multi-user DMing so I had already written the post mortem if anyone is interested.

http://subtweet.co/
http://chrisandrejewski.com/2015/02/07/subtweet-postmortem.h...
via reddit: It was picked up on the Japanese Himawari 8 weather satellite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgS3C7PblA
Thats a mess waiting to happen. Just crazy, after Fukushima I lost any belief remaining that the nuclear industry can be safe.
Would the output of the capacitors have to change for different applications, requiring different base models; for use in motorcycles, for example?
You've got a car in your battery? Damn
Seattle, Washington. Fresh out of school (with a master's), and 120k base before bonuses/stock. And I have the lowest compensation out of all my friends who graduated with me...
We presume stupidity because that's the default state of a person. You have to load instructions and data into a neuroprocessor, just like any other computer system.

Case-in-point: Woolfe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047721
I agree 100%. More GUI tools will most certainly attract more people to Linux and something that shouldn't be overlooked. For the record I was just guessing the reasoning GitHub overlooked it, there could be other reasons I'm unaware of.
I don't understand. Why are there so many light colored areas in the city where rent is half/third of Mission.

Non SF person here. Can anyone explain? With exploding demand it should have trickled there by now ( Bayview, Excelsior)
And in that world, I would have been able to read a lot of books that I wish I could have when I was growing up, when I only got 3-4 books per year, plus access to a poorly stocked library.

Would I have traded? Yes, I probably would have.

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I also don't agree that one must oppose all advertising or none; we can oppose native ads and personal tracking without being necessarily opposed to well demarcated side ads.
Then you should do more research. Thorium salt reactors are quite promising.
I don't think he said anything about Spark inventing allreduce. Spark did use torrent broadcast, which I believe is pretty unique.
I was just guessing, I really don't know. There could be other reasons I'm unaware of.

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
Note, the failure has already happened, and the EPA is responsible, as predicted:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/10/navajo-...
Congrats on the launch!
Analyzing stylistic similarity amongst authors
I'm surprised they didn't build this on electron...
Clearly only applies to the Bay Area. I guess they don't invest far from home?
It's possible to make a nuclear reactor fail-safe. It's only poor engineering that lead to Fukushima being fail-dangerous.

From here it moves from being a technical question (how to do this) to being a political question (who does it and why). How do we convince non-technical bureaucrats to convince reactor architects to make these be fail-safe?
but I think that lead-acid batteries can become damaged if you bring the charge below a certain value... usually not a problem with cars but...
> I guess our public silence the last few months already said a lot. It is not out of disrespect that our communication dropped to almost zero… it is out of shame.

PG has actually written on this subject: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

Basically, if a company stops communicating, it's almost a sure sign that it's in its death throes, and if a company is doing well, it's going to try to reach out as much as possible so they can show off how well they're doing.
That's not really true any more. Due to increasingly strict fuel economy rules, every car manufacturer now has cost models to trade off weight versus cost and reliability. So they will pay a little more for lighter parts.
This paper is also worth reading, it's excellent and very little known (comparisons start from page 5)

http://www.cs.uic.edu/~tdang/file/CHIRP-KDD.pdf
The thing about Nix is that it's the first project, as far as I know, that tries to solve the problem of package management with a fundamentally different approach. Most of the solutions to date were just okay: they worked with a tolerable degree of failure.

A solution that works good enough is often a serious obstacle for developing a solution that works really well. E.g. Unix works just good enough to preclude the adoption of a new paradigm in OS'es such as Plan 9.

Treating packages like immutable values sounds like a genuinely new idea. So what I think is that people don't go "this seems better than my current development toolchain", instead they think that the idea that underlies Nix might result in disproportionately more reliable tools in package management. That's worth fussing about.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with Nix in any way.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
This story is the precise reason why innovation usually comes from outside, from the startup. Why did Mercedes see value in Tesla's technology while the Big 3 did not? It pains me greatly to see the tech leadership mantle in automobiles slowly pass from Michigan to California.
>>It don't know what it means for biology to be less mathematically difficult

It means that wet lab biology can be learned after a few years of work, making professors less valuable as a source of knowledge.

>>grad-level quantum chemistry
I would be suprised if the guys running the elisa have more than second semester calculus. Certainly not a requirement for undergrads at our school.
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Ask HN: Help getting a Knowledge Panel on Google search results?
This seems like something random that you all would have some, er, knowledge about...

I'm trying to improve the web presence of a business and want to get one of those fancy boxes on the side of the search results. The business has a website with decent traffic, all the social media channels (including a verified G+ account), a wikipedia article and a relatively specific name so that it won't be confused with anything else.

I've tried to find some sort of specific guide to help but alas, it's Google and I haven't had luck.

Can anyone help? Thanks!
If this data is anywhere near reliable, then a large number of engineers are taking positions in the Bay Area with a horrible financial outlook.

The median one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is something like $3,500 a month now. To keep that at 30% of gross income (which is still pretty bad), you need to be earning $140k a year. And yet, these graphs suggest that only "senior" engineers make $140k. And they top out soon after that (the "lead" roles are only making ~$160k).

If a company is asking you to move to the bay area, demand a salary that will allow you to live here without having to take roommates or go into debt. If not, make sure you're making a calculated gamble, and be sure you're getting some other concrete value for the financial sacrifices you're making -- career experience and reputation, for example.

If you're starting a startup in San Francisco...well, don't do it. Unless your customer base is here, you should go somewhere cheaper.
Why are they using a Hardware Engineering motif (blueprint) to represent Software Engineering salaries?

The unnecessary theme makes the chart extremely difficult to read regardless, especially when you try to use lines of differing directions to differentiate categories for a stacked column chart. Also, unlabeled charts because minimalism.

And then unlabeled pie charts using lines of differing directions to differentiate category.

This infographic is the definition of chart junk.
I'm actually working on a Github Desktop "clone" using Electron (so that it'll be "cross-platform"). I'm also working a Gtk+3 version (since I have more experience with that), but I haven't gotten too far.
Different angle with sound: http://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:dc65aafd8a97629626a8b7c...
"So there [sic] are no need to use tree allreduce [...] These big inventions from Spark..."
The flip side of meta ignorance is the curse of experience. Inexperienced people are more likely to take big risks because "they don't know any better." Most of the time, these risks predictably don't pan out, but sometimes they do!
I'd love to have a lighter bank of batteries in my (small) sailing yacht but I need something that can be "deep-cycled". Getting rid of several hundred pounds of batteries would leave capacity for more stuff!

I could replace the engine's starter battery with this one for a bit of weight savings ... and it's protected from the "house" circuits" by a charging diode, so there's no risk of discharge.