skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nah not that many. Based solely on the number of long lost friends/acquaintances/family members (known & unknown) I have encountered on Facebook over the years, I am sure that stat is for real.
It's not million dollar listings
I have started a few businesses small end service based. Before I walk into the sunset I wanted to have a crack at something disruptive, scaleable and that can change things. Here in Uk real estate agents only ever got 1 or 2% ...with online estate agents coming in with full service for £400 margins are tight. Our model allows vendors to sell for free.

We are getting word out with decent seo ( I own a small online marketing agency) facebook ads. Just feel I am missing something..tonight I stuck an ad on gumtree to recruit social media fanatics to share our messages and earn some £....i am not a coder, my vanilla approach to this will get traction, but given none of us alone is as smart as all of us together I would welcome any thoughts.www.solds.co.uk
By gnaritas definition the entirety of the proprietary trading industry would be considered retail investors, and that quite simply is ludicrous.

At the end of the day these terms largely are undefined and used loosely. Is a day trader with a TT terminal in their home a "retail investor"? If so, some of the biggest movers in options markets in the world are "retail investors".

The needs of that person vs someone who trades a couple of times a month via Robinhood are clearly much different.
No. We’re talking about 1B users per day, not 1B logins per day.
The third time I switched from Windows to Linux stuck for me :-)

It was always that I got a laptop or computer running Windows, after a year and a half or so I managed to crud it up badly, even while keeping everything as clean to the best of my abilities, it just got slower and slower, meaning to install Linux as a dual boot, until something breaks and I actually do it.

Next computer will just start out with Linux, though.
The CHSH proof of S<=2 for hidden variables supposes that integral over all angles "phi" of probability of passing/interacting of spin/polarization/etc having angle "phi" with detection axis is 1 (i.e. either no loss or the loss is proportionally distributed over "phi"). For example like the integral of Malus law's cos^2("phi") produces 1. That is in the theory. On practice i haven't been able to find experimental confirmation of Malus law for single photons. Practical loss of high "phi" photons on polarizer - the cut-off or significant dampening of the trail of cos^2 - would easily produce S>2 for hidden variable "polarization" of photon. Moving cut-off to pi/4 (almost like Einstein suggested, the difference is that he preserved probability 1 which isn't necessarily true for practical experiments) even produces the maximum S=2.8 for hidden variable theory. The same applies to spin as well. Notice it isn't a detection loophole which is about detecting after polarizer or after spin measurement, it is about the measurement/interaction itself.

In the posted article the entanglement between the electrons exists only in theory - 2 different physical objects - the generators - receive the same random number, and the connection ends there. They could have used 2 completely separate random generators, and after completing of the experiment to use only the events where the 2 random numbers were equal. Absolutely no physical connection, yet I bet they would still see the "entanglement", entanglement post fact um, propagating from present into the past.

At least in downconverted photon pair case one may try to believe in some entanglement magic because the photon pair is "made" from one photon - ie. there is real physical connection exist at some moment in the photons' past.

In short - to state Bell violation here one have to experimentally show the single electron spin Malus law equivalent.
It would be interesting to meet someone who sincerely believes in god, does not despise god, and yet consistently acts contrary to (his idea of) god's morality.
...for those who fulfill the same requirements that current concealed handgun license holders have. Let's take a look at the violent crime rates among CHL holders:

https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/convrates.htm

Consistently under half a percent of violent and weapons crimes and felonies are committed by licensed CHL holders. It turns out that people who get handgun licenses generally have a pretty strong interest in keeping them.
The biggest objection I have to self-reported studies and the conclusions drawn from them in articles like this is that, according to research in books like Thinking, Fast and Slow, a lot of self-reported facts (including beliefs) are often wrong. Revealed preferences will often show that people believe something different from what they report. And people will fervently believe they told you the right thing. Also, a lot of the findings of these studies end up not being repeatable or have very small effects. I've gotten to the point where I unconsciously put little value in opinion polls and other self-reported data, unless I have a good reason to think otherwise.
That is a labeling requirement for health, not compelled commercial speech (which again, is about commerce :P).
It does not require them to state anything about themselves, just about the risks of the ingredients in cigarettes.

You need to understand these are all very different things in the eyes of the law

Also note the

A. current warning labels were litigated, and tobacco won at the district court level:
http://www.news-record.com/content/2012/03/01/article/judge_...

This order was reversed by a divided panel on appeal:
http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/artic...

The supreme court declined to hear the case (which means nothing :P)

B. Requiring phillip morris, et al to make ads stating they deceived the public was not okay.
http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2015/05/22/263534...

etc

These are all very complex constitutional free speech issues, and trying to simplify them like you have with a throwaway line doesn't work well in practice.
OK, I get it. I misunderstood what you were complaining about.
European Startup Monitor
Have they said why your paint job is insufficient? Its hard to imagine that it would require a professional.
I'm not sure the dream was such a mistake. We now have that language, though it may not be quite what Algol's designers were hoping for. It's C.
Ah, the docs around FFI say that libc is a part of the standard library so it wasn't clear that I'd have to pull that from crates.io.
My suggestion is to get a per hour freelance job and only take on 20 hrs per week. I found such work on odesk.com though its a crap shoot as you're having to justify value vs $2 an hour foreign workers. Still, the point stands: freelance for fewer hours per week, giving you flexibility during episodes and more personal time to work against your symptoms.

Also, exercise and cold showers can help alleviate your symptoms:

http://www.medicaldaily.com/benefits-cold-showers-7-reasons-...

http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/exercise-depression
http://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/exercise-and-dep...
In California, you are governed by http://www.fppc.ca.gov/legal/regs/current/18110.pdf 84211(f) -- $100.
Paywalled. Mirror or bypass anywhere?
Instagram now supports landscape and portrait modes
I'm really surprised Mesos and YARN weren't talked about in the article as they've actually been used to build multi-cloud environments.
as browsing the api docs I kinda like lots of things from rust however, how is the portability ie. target windows/linux/mac at once? is it easy to cross compile?
is it easy to include c/c++ header files and use them?
kinda like to link with nuance c sdk
Clarification: Clicking through, I see they are talking about speed of development to create a mashup, not speed of execution.
During the Depression, thousands of jobless men became taxi drivers. As a result, the number of cabs ballooned, and suddenly there weren’t enough passengers to scoop up. The industry became as hopelessly unprofitable as any other.

Is that really true? If so, what makes the cab business so different than every other business where limits aren't put on the number of sellers?

If there were too many cabs and it became unprofitable, then you'd expect the supply to dwindle until it was profitable for some.

The whole safety thing is a different regulatory issue. I could understand trying to keep passengers safe.
To add to your point, studies show that people use FB to keep contact with their existing friends; not to meet new ones. This means in most cases FB is not the only communication channel one has with their friends.
Presumably they only had 15 fake accounts because they put a lot of work into each account. If some company just optimized for quantity over quality, they could get that number up a lot. And if another company used bots instead of employees, they could easily have tens of millions of fake accounts.
The health risks of the business traveller
> I'm curious if you'd care to mention exactly what "more lethal martial arts" or "good schools" you're alluding too.

That's actually a pretty complex question because I'm not sure I can really draw the line along the different styles rather than along different dojos/masters. I would say that generally e.g. Krav Maga, Japanese Ju Jitsu (including some of the derivatives like Small Circle Ju Jitsu), then something like Wing Chun, Musado and many others are pretty good. Note that minus Ju Jitsu, I have only limited experience with the others so my impression of them might be wrong but they seemed pretty good.

The most important question is whether they teach you e.g. where on the body to strike to kill and then prepare you physically and mentally not to freeze when you get into a situation when it's needed. Another thing I have noticed is that the better dojos are very eclectic and pick and choose from other martial arts if it makes sense.

> The US military's combatives program is based mostly on combat sports[1], e.g. BJJ, judo, muay thai, boxing, wrestling, etc.

The fact that they pick and choose is exactly why it's effective though. They don't teach pure BJJ because pure BJJ isn't that useful IRL.

> will lose quickly to even an average BJJ blue belt

I'm well aware of that. But remember, none of these matches were to the death (I assume).

> but if you're attacked by a team of people with serious weapons you're probably screwed anyway.

If they have weapons, your martial art should teach you how to get the fuck out of there ASAP. If they don't have weapons, self-defense is not unimaginable. Harder, but not impossible.

> Opening up leg strikes certainly changes the game, but experienced boxers will have extensive practice in controlling their position, distance, making angles and avoiding strikes

He's prepared for a different type of opponent. Boxer will do well in mid-range but not so well in a clinch or on longer distances.

> It was one of my first days of class, against someone with years of experience.

Right. So maybe it wasn't the best example to bring up if you didn't have much practice.
Dog trained to detect electronic data devices sniffs out  porn stash
If you ever develop any abstraction over the raw DOM when writing a rich web app, you'll be dealing with trees, and if your abstraction supports nesting, you'll be dealing with recursion.
Your client a spin. Looks interesting.

On a side note I built something like throttlehq back in 2009. I even made one of those zany animated how-it-works videos that were popular at the time. https://youtu.be/SLJHPMxgAWU?t=14s site is down, but here's the source https://github.com/schneems/WhySpam. It didn't work out so well.

Around the same time another company called OtherInbox had a really similar product. They've shut theirs down due to lack of monetization.

I like the button right in the form with the extension, that's a nice touch.
Given that the Daily active users (DAU) averaged at 968mil for June 2015, this isn't too surprising.

http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=924562

And this is a quarterly report. I don't think they can BS on this kind of thing.
Are there actually people who put stuff on facebook thinking it's private?
James Rickard's Currency Wars, and The Death of the Dollar are interesting reads. I have given copies to family members because even if Rickard's is not totally correct, his analysis is interesting.
Not toooo much, but I will say that feeling inspired by the typesetting helped keep my motivation up for all 299 pages...
If you live in SF and you're reading this and you want to help the homeless, this may be a good option:
https://handup.org/giftcards

Also consider donating to a local organization, there are many good ones. I personally like Larkin Street Youth Services. They help homeless children and young adults (12-25) get back on their feet through housing, education, etc. At that age you really can put it all behind you with the right support.
> Users and distributions who do not want to use systemd (their choice!) can use any other init system they want. They are also free to implement any other solution as their cgroup controller. Their situation is not changed one iota by this additional feature in systemd. They would have had to implement a cgroup controller either way.

The trouble is, that Docker doesn't get to choose what cgroup controller "everyone" will use, it has to support them all. And the idea of interfacing with systemd on cgroups wasn't very appatizing because it was guaranteed to lead to Docker needing special compat code for whatever non-systemd version of cgroups control came out. While I agree with @cwyers that kicking the RedHat folks out doesn't help, it certainly felt to me like that particular discussion could have been phrased differently so that no conflict was created. For example, if the RedHat folks have said that there is going to be a single writer policy and systemd is a cgroup writer on systemd systems, that would have been far less combative than saying "and systemd is that writer". I know that the distinction is subtle, I'm not sure if I should try to find the origional thread. It was written as comments on diffs in a pull request. It would be therefore rather hard to find, and also I feel a little bad about pulling out exact names of the people involved because I think that the actual people working for RedHat are fine people who I don't want to attack and that this is somehow a problem of RedHat corporate policy and not bad apples.
Trees don't always call themselves "trees." They can sneak up on you. Nested lists, for instance, are equivalent to trees, and nested lists show up all the time. Perhaps your programming languages has some sort of recursive map function builtin, but a lot of common languages don't, and it really helps to be able to intuitively think about recursive traversal.
http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/causality.pdf :

> Finally we need to assume that we have complete freedom to choose which of several measurements to perform - this is the third principle, also called the no-conspiracy principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem#Overview :

> Freedom refers to the physical possibility to determine settings on measurement devices independently of the internal state of the physical system being measured.
And of the 40 that turned the same results, a fair chunk might be just by chance.
There are 3.20 billion internet users which is 44% of 7.2 billion (1)

1 billion facebook users is 1/3 (32%). That is very impressive.

1) http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/
Back when I worked there, I "audited" the systems that count Facebook's active users. I needed to analyze code efficiency and feature growth over long periods of time, and so needed very accurate user counts in order to subtract user growth.

Without going into details / trade secrets: there is more than one system, they can cross-check each other, and if anything it's conservative. You have to perform legit, non-drive-by actions on either the site or the app before you're counted as an active user on a given day.
Sorry for the accidental downvote, I actually wanted to upvote :(
> The HN crowd like to "disrupt" things, so may I suggest finding ways to disrupt the common fears about radiation?

Don't get your hopes up - I can't imagine how a tech startup could participate in nuclear power generation. Startups can however compete in decentralized energy production technologies such as wind and solar.
He doesn't.

Here's some data. June 2015 averaged 968mil daily active users. From their quarterly report: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=924562 And quarterly reports aren't something you add marketing lies to.
What are the next closest products in terms of single day user count?
I've received practically no information from them aside from the legal letters.

They seem unwilling to send a person to walk around the exterior with me to point out what I've specifically done wrong, preferring instead to just mysteriously drive by at a time of their choosing. (they're worse than the cable company :P)
Sounds similar to the Eden Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Project
Probably a lot longer than that.

> assuming you count once per second

One second is counting pretty slow for small numbers, but it's counting really fast for big numbers. (How quickly can you say "three hundred twenty five million seven hundred ninety six thousand one hundred seventeen"?)

And there are a lot more big numbers than small numbers.
For anyone interested in more information on this topic, the book "Psychology Gone Wrong" by Tomasz Witkowski and Maciej Zatonski is a very in depth look into the problems in this field.
(not-related) I'm happy that you show my twitter post on your homepage. I do love using circuitlab.
I suggest experimenting with horizontal bar graphs.
when did the dumbing down of programming start?

I'm all for code-reuse and componentization but common... recursion is programming 101!
Bet it's Turing complete. Many CAs are, and this one smells of it. :)
I hate stuff like this:

"A more open and connected world is a better world. It brings stronger relationships with those you love, a stronger economy with more opportunities, and a stronger society that reflects all of our values.
Thank you for being part of our community and for everything you've done to help us reach this milestone. I’m looking forward to seeing what we accomplish together."

It reeks of dishonesty. This kind of faux gratitude is ubiquitous in our corporation-heavy culture, and being continually exposed to it is part of what has led me to take most things unseriously - because it feels like no one who's serious is honest.
To the best of my knowledge:

1. Rust is working on cross compiling support (very hard atm).

2. Rust can (pretty trivially) interface with C.
Tom Perkins NYT Full Page Ad Re: Carly Fiorina
Awesome Planets
California bill would close 'insidious' wage gap between men and women
Probably YKK zippers.
> Not everyone is going to do customer support. I'll be pretty sure even where some CEOs do actual 'customer support' (in whatever capacity) the janitors and CFOs and in-house legal counsel aren't also manning the email support desks.

Agreed.
Right, I was not "destroyed", much as soi-disant "SJW"s may wish that I were.

The high-priority destruction question is about Mozilla, not about me. Mozilla needs a more crisp differentiated value proposition against its well-heeled competitors, on top of minimum basic competence (E10S). Threatening to break add-on compat does not help to differentiate.
Codecademy has a "Learn SQL" Beta
No, he obviously means the backers who have a stake in the thing they backed. Doesn't have to be a legal stake.
Series A's are currently a bitch.

Angels who want to hand you half million seem to be everywhere. $100+ million seems to be all over the place because there are so few companies to invest in.

God help you if you want $2-$10 million because the VC community sure won't.

And then they wonder why there are so few $100+ million companies to fund.
Who care? Even if it was 1 billion bots loging info FB in one day, it would still be massive.
> Don't get your hopes up

I know, but it's worth asking anyway.

Note that I'm suggesting education, not power generation. The generators can come later, but only after the radiophobia is addressed.
-OT-

My grandfather, when I was a teenager, wanted to impress upon me the vastness of large money numbers. He was wanting me to better understand how large these sums were when discussing personal wealth in the millions+, as well as how even larger such sums were when discussing government expenditures.

He made me do this same math, suggesting spending $1/second. When I calculated, and wound up with these same numbers for spending $1M & $1B--which I always rounded up to 12 days & 32 years respectively--he succeeded in cementing his point in my mind.

I have never forgotten it in over 20 years.
I'm currently building a 2D/3D simulation engine as part of my PhD - it's uncanny how incredibly simple physical principles generated output that has the "look 'n feel" of organic phenomena.
Academia is far more cutthroat and stressful than programming. It is not even close.

Coming to industry after being in academia was like being on permanent vacation.

One thing I would recommend: Try a programming job outside the Valley, preferably somewhere where tangible goods are produced. It doesn't have to be outside the technology industry, technology companies are not limited to Internet startups. Big oil, the automotive industry, defense and aerospace, these are all industries whose primary business is the development of technology.

And even "non-technical" companies like Walmart have demonstrated a lot more technical prowess than the average trendy startup, and my guess is that the hours are very reasonable.
I was going to mention you guys, its a pretty straight forward system.

There has been some other work on notational representation of electronics as part of the SPICE work that Berkley did. Also AT&T did some work there, the BLADES papers (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=31523&...) and others have that. Hardward description languages (HDL's) often include an internal way of expressing various things as well.

From a purely hobby based approach building something which was a calculator with a resistor, capacitor, and inductor key might be useful. All though if you add two resistors and an inductor what you really want is the frequency response of the RL circuit not the parasitic resistance of the coil added to the resistors.
Cross-compiling is easy... once you have the standard library for the target, which usually requires compiling the compiler manually (work on better cross-compiling is focusing on removing this requirement). For this particular library, I've been running tests for the author on some ARM hardware (both Android and plain Linux) without issue: it's just a `cargo build --target=...` away.
March 2014 isn't exactly proof the language is alive today.
Usenet still exists, but herding cats never got any easier, and the cost for hosting didn't go away. There is a reason it became marginalized: user experience.

Facebook Zero is no longer doing what you allege, and never actually did. It was just a plan that was scrapped.

Diaspora never had a design or plan to work. It was a couple college kids who thought it would be neat despite never having written a distributed protocol before. We've had lots of smart people attempt this, and haven't gotten anywhere close to a usable "distributed" social network prototypes.

If your idea can't bootstrap itself from zero users the way modern startups work, maybe it isn't such a great idea after all.
Isn't there theoretically a risk that one thread could hang indefinitely while accessing (or holding a reference to) the data structure, which would prevent the epoch from ever advancing and prevent all memory from being reclaimed?

(On the other hand, I'm not sure what guarantees GC-based lock-free data structures can make in the same situation.)