skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - not criticizing it. Thought it was sensible. Also keeps costs down as people wouldn't abuse the carts.
The first thing I thought after seeing that example is FB is the new Yelp. Restaurants will have to pay FB for visibility and recognition...

Same thing as Yelp, just a lot scarier.
I keep wondering why this talk doesn't get more traction?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6z1vP4Eo8

Published on Aug 22, 2012
Google Tech Talks
November 9, 2006

ABSTRACT
This is not your father's fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion; hello inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IEC), an old idea that's been made new. While the international community debates the fate of the politically-turmoiled $12 billion ITER (an experimental thermonuclear reactor), simple IEC reactors are being built as high-school science fair projects.

Dr. Robert Bussard, former Asst. Director of the Atomic Energy Commission and founder of Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2), has spent 17 years perfecting IEC, a fusion process that converts hydrogen and boron directly into electricity producing helium as the only waste product. Most of this work was funded by the Department of Defense, the details of which have been under seal... until now.

Dr. Bussard will discuss his recent results and details of this potentially world-altering technology, whose conception dates back as far as 1924, and even includes a reactor design by Philo T. Farnsworth (inventor of the scanning television).

Can a 100 MW fusion reactor be built for less than Google's annual electricity bill? Come see what's possible when you think outside the thermonuclear box and ignore the herd.

Google engEDU
Speaker: Dr. Robert Bussard
But isn't expecting your spouse to answer your call immediately being "control freak" as well? Who do you think I am to answer your call, a Slave? Seriously, this s*it has gone to annoying levels. Expecting timely response to time sensitive questions is just expecting the other person to have some basic "mobile etiquettes", not an intent to control them. Not all questions are life-or-death critical, some just needs quick response. "My friend is asking whether you'd like to come to dinner at his place tonight". A simple "Yes", or "No" would suffice. Calling for every such thing is actually much more time consuming for both parties involved (though that's the last option).
Argentina decides all schools should teach computer science with 300school pilot
There is no need for it to be a lump sum. A (much smaller) regular monthly payment to a Bitcoin address is perfectly adequate a mechanism.
Sorry, guys, there's an unfortunate pattern:

In parts of applied math for
business, there are lot of talks
and papers of the form
"Problem X: A Y Approach".

That seems to suggest that there is something
really promising about Y. Instead, more
appropriate would be "Solving Problem X".
If Y was involved, then fine; if not,
still fine; that Y was involved really
doesn't mean much.

Then also in computing there are talks
and papers of the form "Problem X via
Programming Tools A and B".
So, for the part "A and B",
can substitute Python and Julia,
Fortran, C and C++,
C# and C, C# and C++, C# and Visual
Basic, Common Lisp, anything
Turing equivalent, etc.

To me
Quantitative Economic Modeling
is a big enough subject and quite
challenging. That some of the
computing was done in
Python and Julia
instead of C, C++, C#, Fortran, Algol,
Folderol, etc. strikes
me as nearly irrelevant. That is,
I see nothing about Python and Julia
that promises especially good results
on the main challenges of the
very challenging problem of Quantitative
Economic Modeling.

Where am I going wrong?
On any distro with a compatible set of GNU tools. Unfortunately, GNU breaks its binary compatibility all the time.
but she did return to her existing job, it's just that it was now working with another team. would it be fair for the people who had been working for the interim manager to now have to switch managers again? that is going to affect their annual review and possible promotions. on top of that all her directs except for one were already gone, so why would it make sense to put her back on that team? did she start working there specifically to run that team because thats not usually how these big companies work, people are expected to have to occassionally switch from one team or another.
It's greedy to design systems that manipulate children into becoming psychologically addicted to fruitless casino games.
For anyone who reads this comment and is confused about what we are talking about.

On page 17, Fusion research for the NIF of ~480M is outlined. We could debate for a long time about how this is more of PR move, and not realistic. In the parent, this is where I talk about Nuclear Weapons research. For this to make power you literally need to drop millions of pellets of gold plated deuterium one after the other to create 'power', all the while firing the lasers like 100X faster than they can currently be fired. You decide if that's attainable.

On page 44, the supposed ~400M a year is outlined and in the discussion notes. "The FY 2014 Budget Request funds U.S. contributions to the ITER project for long-lead procurements required in construction of the facility; the majority of these contributions will be spent on in-kind hardware sourced from U.S. industries, national laboratories, and universities" Which is basically a retelling of my comment about the ITER 'boondoggle'. There is also a gov't sentence on how they money will go to existing projects, which is really lip service to Fusion research and mostly used for Public Education (very good!)

General research on the 'sun' is very far afield to say that it applies to harnessing fusion to create electricity.
>Yes, it absolutely is always unethical. [...] Nothing is as black and white as you are claiming it to be.

The irony thickens.

Let me rephrase you: "Who are you, or anyone else, to evaluate 'abuse' in a relationship..." -- the answer is "anyone who knows how to count". While there are exceptions to every rule, the majority of cases fall into rather ordinary examples. Not everyone is special.

Of course, indiscriminately doing this sort of thing like the AM hackers is terrible -- notwithstanding those in third-world countries facing draconian legal consequences -- but plenty of the people exposed certainly deserved it.
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og:image - An image URL which should represent your object within the graph.

http://ogp.me/
A UDP packet walks into...
Same here. In fact, I use the standard Unity based Ubuntu on my desktop only. I prefer to use a more traditional desktop environment like XFCE on all of my other machines and laptops. The Unity desktop is tolerable and not too difficult to get used to and switch back and forth from XFCE, unlike windows 8.

The Unity3D game engine announcement is awesome and they've been really changing the face of game dev.
Last week I saw this from Sam.

> If we don’t invest in these companies, they don’t happen… The thing about Y Combinator that’s cool is that most companies won’t happen if we don’t fund them.[1]

I thought YC was always looking to fund those that would exist with or without YC. I have seen less and less "crazy bets" every batch, but I have to say there's more diversity of founders and topics (biotech, energy, farming). Companies generate revenue before DemoDay and many are startups that work for other startups. It's not a bad thing but would love to see more Airbnbs or Reddits around. Those are the ones that can generate a true impact on society and can only exist thanks to YC giving them a chance. The fellowship can be a great starting point for those.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/23/sam-altman-and-jessica-liv...
> Yes, it's been around for a while and contains various enhancements and patches that aren't in Core. See https://bitcoinxt.software/patches.html

Only if by enhancements you mean damaging centralization bugs.

TOR blacklisting by default for example
The trick is as always to know what you are looking for and find the tool with the strengths in the right places. As with any system, Contiki has its strengths and weaknesses. The Coffee file system does its job well for what it was intended for (storing simple files on an on-board serial flash chip), but it seems like it didn't match what you were looking for. Filesystems certainly wasn't a design goal of Contiki, there may be better places to look.

If you're looking for a lightweight OS that does low-power IP networking with built-in support for self-healing wireless meshing, I think it is difficult to find an OS that beats Contiki. Take this from someone who has in fact built a business on top of Contiki :)
That's not a super high bar. Most of these founders could get $200k jobs at top tech companies, invest $100k/year, and be a millionaire in ~10 years. Much better than 10% odds!
Ask HN: The most CPU and memory at the lowest cost?
We are considering building our own scrappy big data cluster but want to do this at an extreme low budget. Since it will only be used by our own internal data sciences team for analysis and experimentation, we don't need crazy redundancy or production grade hardware.

So, does anyone have any suggestions on cheap, even consumer grade, hardware to buy and squeeze the most CPUs and memory into a low budget and ideally the smallest space?

Would just stacking a bunch of micro ATX/mini-ITX boards make sense (maybe even without cases) screwed to some boards we can rack? We probably new a few terabytes of memory so maybe the limited memory slots will be a shortcoming.

Has anyone here done this? None of us are necessarily hardware pros.
So, how the hell would you receive your criminal payment of $10mm? How would your life be afterwards? You don't think the FBI or whoever else will be spending $2mm to catch you, and a big money payment like that will be the way to track you?
This reminds me of some reading/watching I've done in the past about how video game demos can actually hurt sales in the long run[1] which sounds very similar to what you've stated.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us6OPbYtKBM
> The original citations were reasonable...

but the stop itself was not reasonable.
BlackRock is interesting in that they're very forward-looking and conservative at the same time. One of the first to use an AI-like system to support management of huge assets. Also one of the elite firms of the country in terms of just how much capital they manage.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21591164-getting-15-t...

Will be interesting to see what happens to FutureAdvisor.
They missed a great straight line.

"But if they realize that your dick is American, they do try to forget that they saw your dick."
"or put his butt on the camera, it fails to tell me my cat was eating."

My favorite issue this year.
Thank you for using the standard tracker note keys on the demo page! I look forward to exploring the library in more depth.
Anyone figured out how to sign up for the test? Is it a contact you can add to your Messenger list, like chatbots of old?
Indeed, was a brain fart.
Stop going to coffee-shops for working
Check out the "bash-git-prompt" project, which includes this fish prompt: https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt/blob/master/gi...
(author here) I didn't have a chance to test how the VPN works, but even if they were using MPTCP the switch wouldn't necessarily be seamless.

Especially how they are using it now - which hands over a Wi-Fi call (which is data) - to a cellular voice call (not data). It's a subtle point, but calls over cellular are not data, so they are not using TCP/UDP/MPTCP/etc.
We were lucky to have Qasar as a mentor in W15, he was amazing. Very cool to see him help YC execute even better, well deserved.
Warning: the page auto plays a video. Apparently its HTML5 so flashblockers don't work.
That's Visual Studio logo.
> I'm sorry but you might want to get a 2nd opinion B2B services in the UK are VAT taxable.

Only applicable if you as supplier are registered for VAT.

Many smaller businesses and sole-traders selling less than the relevant home-country thresholds are unaffected.

In the UK that is £82,000 per year.

Source: being a small UK business that decided against VAT registration for that reason
Indeed. That's why I referenced it in the second paragraph :)

Also "Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger" looks quite good.
I would love to see John Oliver integrate that into a bit.
The great majority of companies we fund, even in recent batches, have effectively zero revenue when we fund them. But certainly more have a product and users than they used to, which is why we're doing the fellowship.
>>> 'The value is '+value+'.'
'The value is 80.'

Boilerplate? It's one extra character.
Facebook M: Human+AI powered personal assistant
Drug research strikes me as exactly the type of industry that would benefit from optimizing for characteristic other than profits.
How is anyone else supposed to answer this for you?

What do you want? Do you want to stay in your existing comfort, or do you want to try something new and expand your horizons?
Agree that this sounds like a non-story. If you can execute code, you can execute code! Wow.

Obviously LD_PRELOAD isn't parsed by suid binaries.
Where are the lynch mobs? For the vast majority of these people, they're being called assholes because they were being assholes. I'm okay with that. The same "not sticking our noses into other people's relationships" was the root of the Family Values crowd in the 80's saying that domestic violence is a family issue, incest is a family issue, etc. Where do you draw the line at sticking your nose into other people's relationships? I find public shaming for deplorable behavior to be perfectly fine.

And if a ton of these people are non-monogamous, then perhaps we as a society should have a discussion abuot how our values are shifting and what new families look like, but something tells me that there aren't suddenly millions of non-monogamous marriages.
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes (2004)
Precisely - that stable IP between networks is what you need to have completely seamless switches.

This is what Touch Mobile (www.touch.com) does for their handover, for instance.
Fair point - it's a new feature that is getting eased in. As with other quotas, talk to us about your use case.
I'm not sure I'd agree that those are examples of people fighting React though — using it on the client and server allows you to never duplicate markup you might have in a component with markup in a template, for example. The case for writing your entire UI in React is pretty strong actually, as it's just a matter of where you create the data to pass down to your tree of components: once, on the server for a complete page load, or incrementally and dynamically on the client.

There are some cases though where the component model feels strained — consider components that act as a pass-through for debouncing data, components that implement routing as a tree of routes and handlers, or components that perform data-fetching. Perhaps it's that the community hasn't found the right APIs for these higher-order components, but it's hard to argue against using React for a stateless tree of UI components.
Thank you. For all this talk about Amazon being a 'data-driven' company, I have yet to see any data on their employee churn rates from the people defending Amazon. I wonder why we don't hear about these types of horror stories from other companies?
Both are general purpose engines and can be put towards a wide variety of game genres. Out of the box, UE4's editor comes with about half a dozen templates (FPS, top-down, side-scrolling platformer etc) for rudimentary intro projects.

Unreal Engine is somewhat harder to use, but it's graphics engine is a bit closer to the cutting edge - it's the go-to engine for AAA devs these days. Unity's main user base (for people who use it to make games - some use it for academic ends, or for tech demos) tends to be the indie game scene.

They do the same job, but differ in the technical aspects and ease-of-use, and business model (though both are aiming to lower the barriers to making games), and they tend to cater to different segments of the market.
Related: I really dig the work KitCrm.com are doing in making it easy for businesses to buy FB ads and do light marketing via SMS & messenger.
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Wow! It's easy to make jokes, but
actually this is serious -- a lot
of people are going to be hurt,
and so far already two have died.

Sounds like AM's computing was
all f__ked up! In US Army terminology,
FUBAR. Or SNAFU. Gads.

Wonder how AM
paid, maybe I should say, compensated,
their server farm system administration
staff? Their server farm security was
wide open?

Should the users have
expected something else?
We've changed the title. 'Q' for 'M' is unusual; if a typo, it was a non-Qwerty one.
That's zero-sum: the (minor) cost the team pays for supporting the leave is repaid by the support they get when they need to take leave themselves.

The other things could and should have been improved by Amazon. Their obligation is to get you back into a situation as close as practicable to the one you left.
One hit like Angry Birds and you can keep the lights on virtually forever. Assuming you don't get so greedy in the first place and immediately bloat the company.
I think they are comparable, even if UE often gets presented with a first person view. Here's a large list of UE games that cover many different genres: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games
Cloudflare gives HTTPS for free. All you need to do is change your NS servers and flip a few buttons.

Traffic is encrypted between browser and Cloudflare but not between Cloudflare and your server.
Hamburgers Aren't the Problem; Menus are a Hack
It doesn't have to make it to trial, it just has to be searchable. A civil complaint is enough.
But usually it shows up as a small image

Apparently this is 4 images and it shows up like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1n8wkixfimkmvlr/Screenshot%202015-...

Can anyone do this? If so, how exactly?
>>or be fired unceremoniously as a documented poor-performer and have that hanging over your career

How would something like a PIP affect one's career? Companies don't share that information, or they expose themselves to serious litigation risk. That's why most places have a policy to only verify an ex-employee's dates of employment and job title if someone calls to ask.
Have mixed feelings about this like I'm sure many do. Greater convenience, but less and less privacy.. Our Fb/goog/nsa overlords know what we eat, where we shit, all of our conversations and relationships. What a scary world we live in.
How would you have an affair if you're politically and economically powerful?
That's an excellent statement of your opinion but a poor answer to my question.
Sorry, I wanted to say that I am not actually not familiar with your product and was not aware of the feature in which you can create audiences for running ad campaigns. From the article I thought the sets were used mostly for real time analytics and that is why I started to talk about HLL.

If you do need the actual set members in real time then of course you can't use HLL :)
That's the background on a couple of tweets I've already sent today - part of a 56! post sequence (3/4 done, I'm splitting it up a bit).

https://twitter.com/alister_b/status/636563590288437248 - 29/ If I start work and have to spend 3 days just getting the dev site running locally - we know the live site is also a pile of crap

There's a plenty more of along similar lines about recruiting, interviewing, and the working environment - both for people, and the code.

When I'm done, I'm putting them all together in a blog post with some extra thoughts as well.
ie creating a paper trail of documentation of underperformance to prove that you weren't discriminated against
I used to live near a town like this. Thornton, Illinois is the site of a giant limestone quarry and there's one major road you can drive on to get around the quarry if you don't want to get on the expressway (which is a bit out of the way depending on where you're coming from). These streets have 25 or 30mph signs, yet are wide and underutilized enough to easily be 35-45mph streets. Drivers unfamiliar with the area would be taken off-guard by these slow speed zones as they enter from neighboring towns. The police there pull people over for 2 or 3 mph over regularly.

According to IDOT, there were 2,334 traffic stops in Thornton in 2014. This town's population? About 2,300. That's one stop per man, woman, and child in this town! This is naked profiteering and pretty much all small towns in strategic areas turn into police-led profit centers. The real question is why isn't anyone stopping this?
Or possibly rhetorical writing intended to convey an offhand comment by impersonating the style of speech. Who can say?
Did I find the culprits? http://www.impactteam.info/
No, this was not a case of "not meeting my needs". I read your papers and carefully considered whether the design goals worked for me.

It was a case of "poorly implemented and poorly tested". I know lwIP is widely used, so I'm sure it's not all this bad. However, that was still a pretty big red flag for me.
The old one is a mobius strip. The new one is more angular and 1 color. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/visual-studio-homepage-vs...