skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while it is obviously a sarcasm, it suggests that there is need to point obvious difference between energy and power and its density. Inertial confinement schemas don't require large energy, they require huge power and power density though. I.e. a few joules in a femtosecond impulse concentrated in a few cubic millimeters volume. Reaching that power and density is just a pure engineering task, there is no hard physical limits preventing it as there are for example on the minimal size of tokamak.
I got a 500 response and a HostGator error page. I thought you were making a point about making sure your website is up or at least not running campy error messages with a cartoon alligator.
Reminds me a little of some mobile games that are supposed to improve your vision by training your brain to be better at interpreting fuzzy input.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-an-app-help-you-ditch-your-r...
What does "Facebook of X" even mean? "X for close friends"?

In any case, I see Medium as long-form Twitter. Follow who you want to follow (even if you don't know them), respond and have discussions. Make it super clean and put the content first.

I think Medium:Tumblr as Facebook:MySpace. Less customization, cleaner, more about content.
Cleffy, your virtual teacher to learn music
Are you disagreeing with me or agreeing with me? Lawsuits financed by litigation funders are much higher quality than ones where attorneys are working on contingency. Attorneys working contingency have committed time, the opportunity cost of which may or may not be that high. If they can get away with not investing much time, they might be happy with a small nuisance settlement.

A litigation funder, on the other hand, will commit hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars up front. They can hire experts to assess each case, and won't finance a case if they don't think they have a high probability of a significant recovery. And their cost model is such that it makes no sense for them to finance a case hoping for a nuisance settlement.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Shouldn't the laws and rules allow for fair opportunities for all? If the laws overwhelmingly favour the rich and the government is primarily concerned with maintaining those laws then you have a tyrannical, unjust government.

I suggest the following amendment to your statement:

Government primary purpose is to be the enforcer of laws and rules in the pursuit of fairness.

You need to look no further then America's bail system to see that our justice system favours the rich.
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I agree! I've asked that Twitter implement OStatus: https://twitter.com/nerdworldorder/status/657073820801470464
Halliburton at one point attempted to patent it. http://www.google.com/patents/US20080270152
I've ranted elsewhere on this topic...but it's far, far worse than anybody realizes, and there is no incentive to make things better for patients. Every other factor is literally stacked against them.
My Dad is a physician and was in/worked for the Air Force in the 60's and he worked in a lab where they were dropping monkeys strapped into seats on vertical rails. It was to test ejection seats and human/animal limits. Pretty gruesome honestly.
Jellyfish are efficient swimmers
"Running" is a very difficult trick. Only a small subset of the Animalia, which is itself a small subset of the Eukaryotes, which is only a small subset of life, has managed to do it.

"Photosynthesis" is another difficult trick. It's believed that (with the exception of the amoeboid Paulinella chromatophora), all chloroplasts in eukaryotes derive from a single endosymbiotic event that took place over a billion years ago, though after the last common ancestor to animals and plants.

What you want requires both tricks to have occurred in the evolutionary history of a single animal.

As evolution doesn't go towards a global optimization, but only acts on what's available, the lack of directly solar powered animals does not place a low intrinsic limit on solar technology. An alternate evolutionary history, perhaps where something like Paulinella chromatophora acquired a chloroplast 1 billion years ago instead of 60 million years ago, may have resulted in the world you envision.
Seems to be going down, so: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iV6Xc7-...
Please read the article - this title is incorrect. There are claims it was the CIA but no proof.
> more than they worry about solving business problems.

That's why companies implement Agile. It's all about "solving business problems". No architecture, no design, no documentation (merely 'user stories'). Dump and re-write instead of maintain. All your problems solved!
Don't you need SecureBoot to start the process of the measured boot?
Some people argue that Uber and AirBNB are not actually changing the way we use capital on a fundamental economic level, but are instead using new channels in a way, and with a magnitude, never used before.

IMHO I tend not to agree with the hole "Sharing Economy is The Next Capitalist Revolution" thesis.
It's hard to blame anyone for that. I don't know how the world would deal with hydrogen bombs that didn't take a huge industrial effort to produce. Probably by blowing each other up until no one could build them anymore.
Really dig the design!
That's one reason I really appreciate being a first-aider at work -- I get paid to do refreshers every year or two. The repeat classes usually contain at least one bit of information I've not heard before, but the biggest benefit is the opportunity to practise the techniques I've not had to use all year.

I took the full 3-day course for the first time this year, and the extra time for practicals was excellent.
Very cool, thanks! Looking forward to playing around with this.

FYI, you named a column a reserved sql keyword ('by'). For future reference, and for others reading this: this is bad database design and makes it harder to use the table. You can get around this by wrapping the column name in brackets, like:

>select ... where [by] = ...
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This is just a standard DMCA notice. Why is it interesting?
It ultimately comes from a star, but not Sol.
Probably the parts that link into YTS.to. Basically all of the content. Hopefully they can come up with a standard API that YTS.to replacements can use enabling users to modify Butter to work like PopcornTime did.
Any invalid ID redirects to your own page, or something like that.
SpaceWeather: Correlate solar activity with system health and outages
> creating multiple language families for instance

I remember reading in one of the introductions that he enjoyed working on the languages for their own sake, and would work on that if he didn't feel like working on the story. It's not as though everything he did was at this level of detail -- architecture, technology, biology, it all varies in how much work he put into filling it out. But the languages were a passion for him.

I don't think it's so much that he created the languages in service to the world and the story as that it's a core piece of the expression. I think of the series as a work of hard linguistic fiction (by analogy with hard science fiction), and seen in that light, written by a professional in the field, it really doesn't seem crazy at all that they're as developed as they are.
Martin Fowler (not the author) definitely thinks he's an authority. Have you ever heard him speak?
There are radiation powered archae aren't there?
The variable name before "=" is missing, therefore the given profile id gets ignored. Per default your own profile id is assumed.
"Just do what you love, even if that means being starving and homeless." isn't what Tim O'Reilly is saying.
Years later this incident I took a First AID, CPR and AED class. I have the same feeling, I don't think I would remember how to do everything now.
Why would they? I'm honestly curious. Do you mean that there will be more competition?
Speaking of Medium and publishing platforms, who wants to see a HN blogging feature?
too cool!
Gulebøj. :)

(Banana!)
Strongest hurricane 'ever recorded in the Western hemisphere' looks terrifying
Thank you filo95!
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Well the last quarter they broke it out, Google was paying $4B/year to buy traffic for search. That was up from about $400M/year when I started tracking it. (and of course up from 0 when they started). One of the consequences of 'commodityness' of search is that owning the box you type into becomes critical. Through a series of missteps they damaged the growth of Chrome, they lost default search on Firefox to Yahoo, and to a bunch of apps on iOS. Of course they didn't have anything going for them on Windows phone but Microsoft does all of its "internal" search (which is not organically a search box but things like searching the "app store" or "places to eat" within tools to Bing vs the user's browser's search provider. And because its "good enough" people don't force it back to Google.

As a former "new-ish search engine" it became pretty clear it was a huge challenge to compete stack for stack. Much simpler to just insert yourself ahead of them in the chain and peel off a fraction of the advertising revenue.

A lot of change headed for the Google Plex, a lot of change.
Thank you SonSt4R!
'Spooky' Quantum Action Confirmed in Landmark Study
Arne Naess! Founder of deep ecology. Good to see him posted here, & good rules of thumb for debate. Also good is this chart: https://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/disagreement-hie...
You could argue the same of the email "platform", by virtue of individuals being "emailable" from anyone.
That Half-Drop Image Grid from the Royal Tenenbaums . JavaScript
Huge fan of BQ, its the best product Google Cloud has that AWS doesn't. Excited for its future.
I am not starving and homeless in order to do what I love. I have a serious medical condition. I am getting myself well. Getting well matters. I don't have to like it. I have saved an estimated $3 million dollars in care by getting myself healthier. I wish there were easier answers.

I am just saying: You have 4 months of savings in the bank and are whining about how you can't afford to pursue your music. I am pursuing better health, in spite of the entire world seemingly being against me.

Being further dismissed by your reply to me doesn't make me think any better of your initial comment.
Launch of Kate's Goodness App
Today, we launched our first app on the App Store (www.katesgoodness.com).
Kate's Goodness is a New York-based, seed-funded mobile startup that helps users uncover great and often hidden places (Goodness) treasured by locals from around the world. The app also encourages and motivates independent contributors to share their favorite locations in a writer-friendly native mobile environment.
We are different for a whole host of reasons, including:
- User Experience: friend-like (not yellow pages-like)
- Content: curated, pre-selected, positive (not generic or negative)
- Locations: only locals' favorite places, high quality (not everything)
- Noise: low – short form clean content (no unlimited reviews or comments from anyone)
- Contributor Influence: tied to quality of content and Goodness (not to quantity)
- Contributor Rewards: community, vanity, promotions, $'s (not just vanity)
- Rating System: dynamic, currency-like (not static, Likes or Stars-based)
- Brand: stands for quality (not just ubiquity)
We would love to talk to you about the app and the company, and to share our plans.
Thanks!
daniel@katesgoodness.com
+1 646 321 3576
Press Release: http://www.ireachcontent.com/news-releases/kates-goodness-unveils-its-next-generation-location-sharing-and-discovery-app-for-ios-536240731.html
Yes. However! Government regulation could cut the knot. If HHS mandated standards for data at rest - since we never got a DICOM for charts like we did for images - the companies would have to write translates. When that happens, vendor lock in goes away and fewer people die.
my bad, i called it conflating because the differences between your own beliefs and the apparent beliefs of others were lost and i interpreted your statement as speaking for each

..acknowledging what I believe to be a causal
relation. If I'm correct..

this new language clears up that confusion
Can feel like it goes hours with barely anyone seeding it with content, outside a select few people. You can tweet something you feel is really interesting and get no feeling that anyone has seen or appreciated it (my two main accounts have about 800-2000 followers). There are some active topics, but a lot of friends have abandoned it for Instagram. I don't use Facebook so I don't see how active that is by comparison.

My wife works in social media specifically and would go days without a tweet now. I take that as one sign.
> Nobody has ever explained to me, in a satisfying way, what's wrong with a helicopter drop.

There is nothing to explain, since there is nothing wrong with it. Steve Keen did a simulation of policies against debt deflation, comparing austerity (business as usual), quantitative easing (giving money to banks) and helicopter drop (giving money to consumers).

The result was that helicopter drop worked the best, followed by QE, and austerity came last. This is consistent with recent historical data we have on austerity (Japan and Europe) and QE (USA); I am not sure if someone ever attempted helicopter drop in debt deflation (although a similar thing - debt cancellations - happened in history).
I don't know about C# compilers, but gcc gives me two errors, "stray ‘\315’ in program" and "stray ‘\276’ in program", which I suppose are the two utf-8 bytes. Rust says, "unknown start of token: \u{37e}". Either way, you get a pretty strong clue that there's a funny character present.
I think OP is saying the money used to buy the tickets is taxed, then the payout is taxed again (at a higher rate). Not that the lottery itself is a tax.
I assume it's using one of the site's RSS feeds.
> You've proven my point that name collisions are undesirable.

But there is no collision. In the example I'm making, the people chose to humor me, they chose to introduce a collision because they always have context information.

> I'd say this is a bad example of "trustless." As an adversary, I don't have to break your onion service's private key to break the security of the system. All I have to do is trick users into accepting the wrong public key. The user must therefore trust that the public key hash (s)he learns is the "right" public key hash.

How do you learn about the website in the first place? Most likely online.

> I'm only trying to bind human-meaningful names to public keys in a decentralized but hard-to-break manner.

Yes, I get that. The point is that there's not much of a point in doing that.

> Miners can and will switch pools if a pool operator starts to misbehave

That depends. They may be enticed to follow the attack chain.

And by the way, even if you really, really insist on binding human meaningful names to keys, all you really need is a Haber Stornetta timestamping service. No need to bother with proof of publication, which is where the blockchain gets most of its bloat from.
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Pair the Tesla batteries with solar cells, and there will be no competition. It will be very hard to compete with free, and we could be able to save utility costs if we no longer need to maintain miles and miles of power lines.
Do you like puzzles?

Do you like putting things together and taking them apart?

Are you disciplined enough to organize lots of tiny little things into something big over a long period of time without getting bored and giving up?

Can you see the forest and the leaves all at the same time?

If you answered yes to all of this, then you have what it takes. I say this to anyone else that answered yes, I don't care if you know 0 programming, but if you can do the above, you have what it takes to become a very good programmer. Programming is about putting little things together, organizing them, and at the same time seeing the big picture (forest) while seeing the small pictures (leaf on a tree). It's not magic or difficult.
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Do you really mean "question", or do you mean "challenge"?

If it's "challenge", I understand your point. If it's "question", then even though I'm a white male who's unlikely to be adversely profiled, I'm still tempted to wonder whether you're doing it wrong.
If I want to spend a few bucks on the lottery every now and then where do you or the state get off telling me I'm not allowed to do that? It's a private transaction that has nothing to do with you.
Not everybody's passions are monetizable and produce items or services desired by a market. One cannot make a living making esoteric GIF art. No amount of staying up late and working hard makes this true.

It's not like I choose to watch TV at night instead of building some dream lifestyle business.

How would you propose I monetize creating my own free open-source programming language? "Just don't play WoW" doesn't make sense in these scenarios. Contrast that with the passion of "publishing books". Starting a publishing company would be an obvious choice.
> He researched the subject thoroughly and found that there was absolutely no other solution to choking besides the Heimlich maneuver. So he spent the past five years developing new technology to solve this problem.

Strange, I did my last first aid course about 5 years ago, and remember a few methods other than the Heimlich. The Heimlich has this weird PR where it seems that it's the only method that the US knows about. It's a bad method because it's not very good at applying pressure in the right places, and done by enthusiastic naifs it can break ribs (less of a problem) and do serious damage to internal organs (more of a problem).

Three alternatives to the 'one and only' Heimlich:

1) Start with short, hard, upward slaps on the victim's back, with the victim bent over if possible. This is more helpful in cases of partial choking

2) Get the victim on the ground on their side, and using both hands, push down on the side of their ribcage in short, sharp bursts. This uses the same 'pop a cork' mechanism as the Heimlich, but you get a lot more power and you won't damage internal organs (and are unlikely to break bones).

3) As a last resort, try and blow the obstruction further into the lungs. It will require surgery to remove, but that's better than dying.
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Richard Feynman on magnets, and why “why” is so hard to answer
One of Silicon Valley's most secretive startups Palantir is now worth over $20B
Doctors, too. One sentence in the stimulus bill mandating "meaningful use" of these mandated systems ballooned into ~700 pages of regulations, and a bunch of consultancies to help keep doctors and hospitals out of trouble, according to a friend in the field.

And there are many related stories about doctors focusing on their computers instead of their patients as they fight with these systems (I kinda saw that once, but in all fairness the doctor had lost all her paper records in a tornado, I don't think she had anything left but her appointment book). In one worse case I read about, fighting the system until there were enough lights turned green.

In general this is a very hard field, e.g. the U.K. NHS more ambitious effort was an abject failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health
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Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in the Brain
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436098
Many hospitals went sold significant assets (like office building - assuring guaranteed rent) or took on loans to fund their EMR purchases. Hence, deals with these dollar amounts are tough to reproduce for many hospitals.

Epic has made major strides in supporting connectivity between EMRs. Partially, through standards like direct - http://directproject.org/. This problem will be largely solved in three to five years. Actually, a growing number of geographic regions of the US already have seamless EMR records exchange
I worked in fast food in my younger days. The vast majority of our customers ordered a normal amount of food, not buckets. I personally didn't notice any correlation between amount of food ordered and weight. Not something blatantly obvious.
What you're saying doesn't make sense. Why would anyone invest without expecting more consumption?

The economy cycle doesn't start with investing, it starts at consumers having money and giving them to someone in exchange for a service or product. How could you know what to invest in before there is even demand?
“Everybody sues us about everything,” says FCC chairman
Coding errors abound in this space. For example, you can go to the CMS.gov to lookup ICD codes.

This is what you get when you lookup the word "finger"

https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/staticpages/i...

It contains hundreds of entries.

Here are just a few selected at random:

S61.352S	Open bite of right middle finger with damage to nail, sequela
S61.353A	Open bite of left middle finger with damage to nail, initial encounter
S61.353D	Open bite of left middle finger with damage to nail, subsequent encounter
S61.353S	Open bite of left middle finger with damage to nail, sequela
S61.354A	Open bite of right ring finger with damage to nail, initial encounter
S61.354D	Open bite of right ring finger with damage to nail, subsequent encounter
S61.354S	Open bite of right ring finger with damage to nail, sequela
S61.355A	Open bite of left ring finger with damage to nail, initial encounter
S61.355D	Open bite of left ring finger with damage to nail, subsequent encounter
S61.355S	Open bite of left ring finger with damage to nail, sequela
S61.356A	Open bite of right little finger with damage to nail, initial encounter
S61.356D	Open bite of right little finger with damage to nail, subsequent encounter
S61.356S	Open bite of right little finger with damage to nail, sequela
S61.357A	Open bite of left little finger with damage to nail, initial encounter
S61.357D	Open bite of left little finger with damage to nail, subsequent encounter
S61.357S	Open bite of left little finger with damage to nail, sequela
S61.358A	Open bite of other finger with damage to nail, initial encounter
S61.358D	Open bite of other finger with damage to nail, subsequent encounter
S61.358S	Open bite of other finger with damage to nail, sequela
S61.359A	Open bite of unspecified finger with damage to nail, initial encounter
S61.359D	Open bite of unspecified finger with damage to nail, subsequent encounter
S61.359S	Open bite of unspecified finger with damage to nail, sequela
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Sure it does. Very large lists of obvious action items flow naturally from the precept of reducing one's dependence on income flow.

As an example, at the top of that list would be relocating to a lower cost area. Residing in NYC/SF/BOS/TOK/LON is a choice that forces one onto the hamster wheel.
PTSD research: genetics reveal that stress might be passed onto offspring
The raise itself is the most important to any company that does not have an ability to meet its objectives without raising. The culture of financing determines what startups are possible. (i.e. the culture of financing divides the "set of startups that require a raise to execute their ambitions" into the group 'possible' and 'not possible'.)

Just imagine how different the world would be under the scenario I outlined, in which this sorting does not occur.
The author seems to ignore the fact that eastern traditions made just such a separation long before 550bce. It would have been more correct to note that this research was limited to western 'classical' thinkers.
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Something similar is done to control fish populations- often they will "air stock" a waterbody by flying over it with a plane and dropping a bunch of fish from hundreds of feet in the air. The fish (mostly) survive unharmed.