skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like this, you may also like this book that goes into crazy detail about the design and architecture of the AGC:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Apollo-Guidance-Computer-Architect...

See also Fran's pages; she does some reverse engineering with X ray micrographs:

http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings_LVDC....
They are so expensive because someone is willing to pay that much.
How are EU regulations holding EU IT industry back?
With fees, the network solves certain issues (incentives for miners) but simultaneously causes others (chiefly incentivizing intra-exchange transfers as an alternative to relatively expensive, time consuming and uncertain on-blockchain transfers; also increasing secure and holistic implementation complexity, raising the bar for newcomers thus acting against heterogeneity of commercial exchanges or other automated systems, and thus overall network health). The intra-exchange transfer incentivization is a serious issue as it encourages real world average joe users, who have less capacity to recognize the forfeited value of the public blockchain when requesting their exchange to execute such internal maneuvers (consciously or otherwise). Ultimately fees may decrease heterogeneity in the exchange market and create more central points of vulnerability (regulatory, technical) for the network as a whole. That's just how I see the situation: am I missing something? I wonder, how long until large exchanges perform off-blockchain transfer and allocate mutual credit (eg. via escrow deposit) to facilitate instant, fee-free, off-blockchain clearance for their customers, thus coming full-circle from conventional finance?
What works:
* Use open questions.
* Employ the element of surprise.
* Watch for small, verifiable details.
* Observe changes in confidence.

What people think works (but doesn't):
* Watch for certain body language
* Watch for certain eye movements

Just how badly does the old way work: "According to one study, just 50 out of 20,000 people managed to make a correct judgement with more than 80% accuracy. "
Inequality in a society leads to instability in that society, and tears it apart. That's why we tax the rich to give to the poor, to reduce the rate inequality arises and attempt keep chaos at bay. When a society breaks down, everyone suffers greatly, but eventually as a new society arise, equality is reset, and people can improve their livelihood over time again. That's how it was with the Roman Empire, with each of the successive Chinese dynasties, with the Islamic Caliphate, and many other empires that have arose and fallen in the past[1]. So it will be with the 'West' we live in.

[1] The Fate of Empire - Sir John Grubb
http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2014/092814_files/...
There've been a lot of reports locally of Comcast reporting an overage where none existed. Neighbors saying that nothing in their use suggested they were anywhere close to that kind of use and yet being charged.

There were enough anecdotal reports that if I had Comcast I'd put my own router in front of theirs to have an independent measure.

Unrelated: my experience with Comcast business over the last few months has been the worst customer service I've experienced in the last decade. Completely unreliable.
There are other ways to discriminate, but not many have been actually tried to my knowledge.

One place where I worked studied a model with peak-load throttling. If you're trying to stream 4K video and the network isn't congested, you get full speed. If the network is congested, the subscribers who have been less active during previous peaks get priority and others get throttled. (Actually this was some years ago, before 4K video was a thing, but it's same idea)

Another model I remember studying involved charging for "time using the service" and not "number of bits transferred." This is similar to how voice plans have "anytime" and "off peak" allocations of "minutes."

So there are people thinking about this (or at least there were several years ago), but I'm a little surprised to not see any trials of alternative arrangements.
I'm not so sure... Some of the superior brick dorms on that campus built in the 20s and 30s averaged around a year of construction, and cost about $200,000, which adjusted for inflation, is ~ $2.5 million.

The most recent addition to the East Wheelock cluster (couldn't find the cost of the building in question) cost $8 million over two years. The newer McLaughlin cluster, with six dorms, took three years to build and cost over $40 million in 2006.
> That is, as an example in our case, we can’t expect that a Haskell data type that today maps perfectly to a SQL row will continue to do so after any of the two is modified.

But we can and do if we use the compiler to dynamically generate code. For example, with F#'s SqlClient (a type provider) [0], types are generated based on queries, correctly mapping database columns (including nullable ones) to fields on types. If you change the queries, or tables (and you are doing 'select *'), the types get updated automatically. This seems like a better approach.

This is also similar to how popular popular db access approaches in dynamic languages such as ActiveRecord in RoR work. Tables are inspected at runtime, and getters, setters and utility methods are generated based on that.

I imagine this is also possible in Haskell via Template Haskell, which the author dismisses as too complex/fragile, though I don't know Haskell well enough to be sure.

[0] - http://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Data.SqlClient/
Honestly none of the statically typed sql generators (Opaleye included) really tick all the boxes; all are lacking in one way or another.

Here's a breakdown of the leaders of the pack on this front[0]

Haskell

1) Opaleye[1]: composable and prevents invalid sql, but no join support (simulated via sub selects), Postgres only, and tough syntax to parse.

2) Esqueleto[2]: composable, readable, supports joins, but Postgres only, and the DSL can't/doesn't prevent invalid sql (which is, IIRC, one of the reasons why Opaleye came into being).

Scala

1) Slick[3] myriad databases supported (Oracle and SQL Server require non-free license), join support, fully composable (really, king of monad hill), and elegant syntax (until you `groupBy`/`sortBy` and then enter unreadble tuple_.1, tuple._N soup). Also, grouping requires flattening result set via min, max, sum, etc. aggregate function so not possible to return tuple representing say, a User, when grouping. Suggested workaround is to group on the client (and send a million rows over the wire to app server, ok o_O).

2) Squeryl[4] myriad databases supported (all free), join support, sql-like syntax, but lacks compositionality of aforementioned and relies on runtime reflection to make the DSL go.

Microsoft

LINQ to SQL/Objects myriad databases supported (not sure of driver licensing), excellent sql-like syntax, and type providers straight other worldly, but lacks compositionality and is tied to Windows (until *nix support lands).

[0] There are likely (many) others but these are the statically typed ones I'm aware of. Feel free to add others, curious to see what's out there (e.g. OCaml must have something)

[1] https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/haskell-opaleye

[2] https://github.com/prowdsponsor/esqueleto

[3] https://github.com/slick/slick

[4] https://github.com/squeryl/squeryl
I use Atom from time to time on Windows and it is "good enough" although good old GNU emacs seemed more responsive in 1989.

I am interested in projectional editors and other tools that are a lot smarter than we used to do, but for tools like that to work they need to be really fast and most of the "editors written in a scripting language" (like Light Table) today seem to be marginal in terms of performance with no margin to do anything smarter.
Sam Altman Is Bullish on Biotech Startups
It is not clear from the article or its online references. I suspect that it is not fermentation. It sounds like the stew is kept at a simmer. Extra water is added to prevent burnt food and is sterilized for drinking. New ingredients are added whenever they are ready and allowed to stew for hours before eating. Assuming that my understanding is correct this is the exact opposite fermentation, keeping the stew hot will kill all but the most hardy bacteria.
Fair enough, but this also has a lot to do with cost - your dad probably spent a large chunk of his monthly salary(if not all of it) on a washing machine, but I spent literally 2-days worth on a brand new one when I got one couple months ago. If it dies in 3 years I won't even bother repairing it - I'll just get another one, it's too cheap not to.
I believe it's assumed that if a species is capable of producing a mechanism to communicate with other interstellar species, then they necessarily have an understanding of math and physics.
I shared the same confusion before, but I do have some ideas:

I think you could establish a communication protocol with an alien species with something like this:

First, establish the meaning of a set of mathematical symbols by choosing recognisable / universal mathematical entities and demonstrating the symbolic relationship between them

That means things like eg. a picture of euler's identity and then symbolic representations beside it, then varying the individual elements and showing the results.

This isn't easy (if you've ever played that boardgame about inferring another player's rules with pyramids, you'll know what I mean...) but it is probably doable.

And you might be able to symbolically demonstrate Peano Arithmetic or something.

Once you've established a vocabulary of mathematical symbols, you can maybe use that to pin down a basic physical vocabulary. You could maybe identify different elements based on eg. their atomic number. You can establish a time vocabulary by giving a formula for the orbit of their nearest star and asking them to solve for x. You can describe spatial relationships between things.

It seems very difficult to go from there to a yet higher level vocabulary - but who knows, it may be possible.
Stick to Sublime Text and/or Intellij. I prefer Sublime Text on smaller, front-end things due to speed while Intellij on larger, full-stack projects due to robust and consistent tools (like using the same debugger pane for Java, PHP and JavaScript projects, lesser cognitive burden). Both have a wide range of plugins to choose from.

> Many people tell about that it is good IDE

Everyone has their "favorites" but your mileage may vary.

> I really want to use Atom because my favorite language is the JavaScript

This is being "hipster" - avoid this behavior at all costs. Choose the most efficient tool for the job, not the most famous nor because you're sticking to it religiously. If you prefer writing Java with Vim or Notepad and you're efficient with it, there's nothing wrong with doing so. IDE has nothing to do with the language you use, although some package tools that make them language-specific. But then again, nothing prevents me from writing Java with Vim, or Notepad, or PHPStorm.

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Under the hood, Atom is just HTML, CSS and JS - and we all know that these guys are terribly slower than native. I've used VS Code by Microsoft, which is based on Electron, which is based on Atom and even that is terrible. I've also used Slap editor, a Vim-ish looking, Sublime-text editor on the command-line running on Node.js and it's also terrible.

Bottom-line: Use what's more efficient, not what's famous.
Interesting! I did a search and found one example - Exede? It's encouraging to see some experiments with this.
Le Corbusier was a monster, the purest of anti-humanist modernists, and he would have destroyed Paris in the name of ideology.

The office park and faceless, isolated and dehumanized tower are his legacies. The fact that he is still taken seriously, let alone respected, is a testament to the gnosticism, anti-humanism, puritanism and anti-historical rancor that has characterized the building (and broader artistic) community since 1900.

But that's none of my business...
I can't say much about atom but I was just wondering if you have checked out visual studio code ? If the Intellisense you are looking for is missing you could add it based on your needs using tsd to the current project you are working on.

npm install tsd -g #if tsd is not installed yet

# cd to your project folder

tsd query -r -o -a install react

snippet grabbed from http://www.johnpapa.net/intellisense-witha-visual-studio-cod...

edited: add line break
I don't know. I just suddenly started seeing a bunch of pun threads. A year or so ago they would have been downvoted and had people making polite posts about how that kind of thing isn't welcome here. But these didn't seem to have downvotes. I have no idea if they got flags or not.

Maybe I just started noticing something that's been here a long time?

It'd be interesting to see if mods noticed anything.
Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months
You're right. It might not be there yet but I think it may eventually get there. The talent is there but I think because the majority of current economic activity is mostly on the East coast (apart from oil and gas in Alberta), that's probably the draw right now.

But I would look to see Vancouver (and B.C.) slowly prop up once the ecosystem starts to build and there's less reliance on the East coast. As more talented engineers start setting up their homes in Vancouver, I'm expecting to see more startups propping up which means more opportunities and thus, the West coast can stand up against its own. It's something that's puzzled me quite abit. Vancouver and B.C. is in a great position to be an economic powerhouse with a close proximity to China, India and Japan. You guys are practically our gateway!

Unfortunately, I'm not too sure about the specifics between the Canadian and US immigration laws. I do know that my relative had a really tough time being recognized as a PR and citizen in the US as she had to prove a number of things. Another relative came to study in Canada and you're allowed to stay as a permanent resident if you can find a job within certain period of time after you graduate. Canada is also part of the Commonwealth so member countries also have privileges to work here and then convert. The TN visas that Canadians can receive may also be another factor.
>or an unwillingness to go back to peak load pricing

It's actually a decent system - for eg. one local mobile operators provides unmetered/uncapped 4G between 22-6 for a small premium - if you don't have access to a landline it's a great deal.
Everything from 60 to 80 is normal. 89 is slightly high but usually is not a cause for concern in medical terms. The site you mentioned is about sports and fitness. So, while 89 isn't exactly great in terms of fitness, taken by itself it doesn't point to a medical condition.
peak load pricing? in an age where physics and manufacturing processes have given us native 100GE signals at shockingly low cost per bit?

it used to be backhauling access traffic was expensive (think T1s to cell phone towers). well, those days are long behind us. a little less profit taking and a little more infrastructure investment would solve bandwidth problems in duopolist markets.
God will talk using just about any random process as an oracle. You have to do an offering by talking to Hi for 5 minute being witty and charming, praise, perhaps writing a hymn.
It is not true that these are remotely equivalent. US case-law says, you have freedom of speech unless it specifically calls for violence or threatens very, very, direct harm ie calling "fire" in a theater (and yes, even copyrighted material can be quoted or satirized as necessary to make a political statement).

"For the prevention of disorder of crime, for the protection of health and morals for the protection of the reputation or rights of others" -- those are wide, gaping holes which make this statement absolutely useless.
Ask HN: What can I / we do to help fight cancer?
I'm not a doctor; I don't pretend to be one.

But it infuriates me that a friends life is in someone else's hands and he has to take his doctors word for his treatment.

Long story short - what were benign tumors have started to grow again; few in the base of his skull and a few in his spine. Due to their location, they are in-operable and after months of MRI scans and tests, they've decided (yesterday) on a combined chemotherapy / breast cancer drug treatment. The doctors have said this combination is highly experimental and has had a 44% success rate over the last few years - this option was chosen over focused radiation as it appears the tumors may be spreading.

I remember reading IBM is doing great things with the Watson super computer regarding oncology - Cleveland Clinic is on the list of participants and I can't remember where he was yesterday in Virginia.

My questions are, I guess:

1 - is there anything I can do other then moral support and help with life tasks? (driving to clinic, household tasks, etc...)

2 - is folding at home still a thing? Have any results come from it yet?

3 - IF Cleveland hasn't run his tumor's DNA through Watson - is it even remotely possible for me to obtain a copy of his records and obtain access to Watson and do it myself?

4 - Is anyone working on projects along these lines I can possible contribute to? Either code or ?

5 - ???
That's just wrong. 60 to 80 is ok and the average healthy heart rate also varies by gender and age.
Nope, it is the same license as well. But it probably looks better on an expense sheet than a "donation".
The micro nation Sealand is brilliant.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150414-i-rule-my-own-ocean...
> No one really has to worry about food in our society with the plethora of welfare programs, churches, food banks, etc

You'd think so, but no. There are a limited number of places at those tables and always less than the number of people in need of food in an Italy where the biggest problem in agriculture is overproduction.

Then there's the little detail of catholic organizations like Caritas being used by the state to distribute food from EU sources. You don't want to deal with those that fucked you when you were a wee lad? Guess you're dining in a dumpster. Again.

> the majority of people have shelter security by proxy of family or friends

We're talking about the less fortunate minority here. Does the state need to guarantee their survival or not?
Am I the only one who finds these regulations increasingly funny?

I want to see how they would react to URL shortening services, base64-encoded outgoing redirects, links injections only on click events; you know, the gray tactics the whole internet already uses!

Please explain this one thing to me: why don't politicians work with field experts? Not just IT, but any domain, really.
#!/bin/bash

#This prints a hundred random words.

echo "$(shuf -n 100 /usr/share/dict/words --random-source=/dev/urandom | tr '\n' ' ')"
There might as well be a conspiracy to advertise best case performance and avoid making any sort of guarantees about minimum bandwidth (for consumer plans).

I understand that this is because the one is more marketable than the other, but that isn't really very comforting.
I think I've given up on sane legislation with regards to technology.

Not only does technology advance much faster than law, but law makers are almost by definition two generations behind the generation that actually is native to the technological change in question. It's not possible to win in that situation.

You're asking someone whose paradigm of video was formed by the advent of color TV, to understand the cultural and technological consequences of popcorn time. It's like the tech problems of WWI: generals who only knew cavalry rushes continued ordering i calvary rushes, even against machine gun fire and even against staggering numbers of dead.

So I think I give up now. Technological issues may as well ignore the legal framework, because the legal framework ignores the technological issues. If we stop fighting, the rules will get so ridiculous as to he openly impossible to satisfy, offering industries the choice to either ignore them, or go out of business. In the end this stuff doesn't strangle the open sourcers or the hacker culture... It only strangles big industry, the people pay the legislators' paychecks. So fuck em. Legislators can figure it out when it hits their tax receipts.
Dell and HP tech support warn against upgrading to Windows 10
Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams
It might be one of the reasons but not one of the biggest imho. The risk avoiding nature we seem to have picked up, the shame in failure (bankruptcy in the EU is often a life altering disgrace) and the draw towards comfort, free time and family life over making a billion Euro company seem to be bigger drivers as I see it.
Reporting on illicit finance in Africa
Software and engineering
When my great grandma was born, we didn't have flight, radar, lasers, radio, etc... Why would we think that a civilization capable of building massive space structures would be communicating in such a slow and imprecise way. The idea that we've discovered all there is to know about communication over vast distances is hubris.

We can't see anything because we have not yet discovered what we're looking for.
I would guess it's privilege escalation (or that it logs in as a user and only affects that user's files)
Regulations by definition are for holding rapidly advancing industries back, for various reasons.
I personally have started to use enigmail in Thunderbird a lot more since it has its newer, much more intuitive interface.
Facebook Digital Assist - M
There is more technical details at http://vms.drweb.com/virus/?i=7704004&lng=en
The unusual politics of the Republicans have a lot to do with why they get rejected by Silicon Valley founders. Look at the stupidity of shutting down the government and maybe defaulting on the national debt to shut down Planned Parenthood. I can understand how somebody would have the position they have on that issue, but how they could cause a train wreck like that over it is beyond me.

The real missing thing in this article is local politics, particularly the housing crisis in the bay area. I am in Palo Alto walking around today and I must say that it is the strangest post-urban environment I have ever seen and the only city I've visited where I regret not getting a car at the airport.

(That's coming from somebody who thinks it is a lot of fun to walk in L.A. and who sees enough of the country to know Silvercar is a joke because SFO has the worst car rental center.)

Walk in any direction in Palo Alto and you end up in an endless grid of insanely expensive single family houses -- in any normal city with that demand, they'd tear down 1/8 of the houses and build 8 story apartment buildings on something and you'd get a pretty pleasant neighborhood, like the good parts of Sao Paulo.

You've got to go to local politics, not national politics, to see the pathology of the democrats. Back in my 'hood on the east coast, you get see a NYC councilwomen who looks like Oprah Winfrey argue that we need to subsidize Off Track Betting to save jobs... Now that is whack.