skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That notation was standardized 36 years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Analysis
Long after Maxwell was dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside

Supposedly they're only known as "Maxwell Equations" now because Einstein began his 1905 paper naming them such. Prior to that they were known by other names. Before even my time though.

Frank Yang's talk (and the associated paper, but that's only available behind a paywall) might be of interest to those looking for more background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG343kojbnU
Leaving the Agency World: Advice for New Product Designers
I agree but I would say, the simpler answer is because there is only one super power.

few decades ago the limited benefit of putting a man on the moon was compensanted with the symbolic ass kickery of the soviets.

Lack of competition kills innovation. For something as difficult and expensive as putting a man on Mars, there needs to be something more than short term commercial success.
p=np is a well-posed question, so clearly it must have an answer. We can't just make it an axiom.

However, the thought occurred to me that perhaps p=np could reduce to some undecidable problem (in the halting problem-sense). In that case, solving p=np would be impossible. But we could prove that it's impossible, and the issue would be resolved.

I'm not sure whether this scenario makes any sense. That's why I asked the question.
Normally the PXE boot code is, itself, stored in firmware.
The general pattern is write code to do initial processing, set up promises, return a promise depending on those promises that will do something.

The promises you set up should always be assumed to do things in whatever order they happen to happen. Your code that does interesting stuff happens before any promises are seen. The interesting code in your returned promise will happen after the necessary promises are resolved.

As long as things are always set up this way, you'll be fine no matter how the promise library is set up. Which is good because unexpected implicit dependencies are a problem.
Good to see HN's skepticism about the original story borne out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422017.

What's sad is that these sorts of debunkings of outrage-bait don't usually make the news because there isn't usually such a ridiculous follow-up.
Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school
I love that someone stowed away on the ship. Worst luck of 1915.
She's actually from the UK, we considered trying there as well but Dublin seems to have a better technology scene (don't know for sure if that's the case, but it's what it seems from here!). Thank you for the input, I really appreciate it. :)
That link is to the version hosted on a MyCPU. There's a bar at the bottom advertising a backup: http://mycpu.thtec.org/www-mycpu-eu/index1.htm
I guess before that happens, we should have all migrated to another tool - Microsoft OneNote being the closest competitor, having this tool at hand may make sense:
http://www.howtogeek.com/227719/how-to-convert-from-evernote...
It's ironic that an article about the awfulness of js on the modern web is rendered unreadable by javascript and/or flash: http://imgur.com/8Iikyd7. The page literally crashed my browser on first view.
A TV series where all the actors are real insects
I met these funny, talented French brothers on the internet about 12 years ago when I happened by chance on their internet radio broadcast/AIM channel. They have a quirky, clever sense of humor in their work... I'd love to see what they'd do with this!

Here's a music video they did in 2012 for their band Skwhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aec0RaXYte8
Then thank God for CNSA! Can we please have another space race (but without a cold war this time)?
I settled on Debian after years of switching between Gentoo and Slackware. Debian suits my needs best. Easy to update and fast on my old machinery.
TL;DR: Babies laugh in an interactive or social context. When adults around them laugh, they laugh with them for example. They look at cues that others are laughing and are happy, so simply watching someone trip and crack their head on the floor won't be funny usually (it would probably register as dangerous and scary).

Of course the important thing that is not mentioned explicitly is that it makes adults, especially parents, happy and it rewards them, so laughter becomes a bonding experience. Parents like to hear their baby laugh, they make the baby laugh, they are happy and baby is happy. And as a result baby bonded with their caregiver.

I don't remember when my daughter made her first steps on her own, or the moment she said "daddy", but I remember vividly the context when she belly laughed for the first time. For whatever reason that was a very wonderful and memorable moment that I hope I'll never forget.
Yeah, my plan is to try and get a spot in some company that's willing to sponsor the whole work permit thing. My biggest concern is that the government will deny the permit because I don't have a degree, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try!
Tesla bonds considered junk bonds ...

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tesla%20bond%20r...
M. Cuban Fined for Swearing During League of Legends Match
If society needs unskilled labor more, the wages for that should rise, so more people go into those careers. It's weird to call that "skew".

Extrapolating the current trend to decades is assuming a lot.
Except the bot is causing things to be written to the server. The ad blocker is only blocking requests from happening (and those requests occur on the client side, in JavaScript). It's not blocking the transmission from the server's end at all, it's only stopping an event from happening locally.
This isn't too far-fetched -- there's already a marketplace for buying and selling used reserved instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...
In reading up on this the other day, when that Guardian article appeared, I was intrigued to find that there is a conspiracy theory types who advance the idea that Heaviside was the bad guy because he removed important parts of Maxwell's work that explains, well...X-Files type stuff. Read on: http://www.cheniere.org/references/maxwell.htm
You might want take a look at SoftLayer, they have bare metal servers. However, if you are okay with ARM servers, then I'd suggest taking a look at scaleway, which provide bare metal ARM servers, and they manage it all for you as well.
Rackspace offers a cloud cum bare metal service called OnMetal. They flash the firmware before putting a new user on a machine.
PyDev of the Week: Amit Saha
Indeed- I saw the same after it finally loaded, and modified my comment accordingly.
There's a part of me that can't believe that I live in an era where the authors of the article were directed to "the local cyberpolice" for questions. Sounds almost dystopian when I read it aloud.
PyDev of the Week: Arun Ravindran
See also: Neal Stephenson's newest novel, Seveneves, in which instead of an alien probe with a post-it, something just blows up the Moon. A great book with tons of interesting ideas.
Not if it's primarily to accommodate bring-your-own-license for per-machine-licensed software. Needing to have control over what machine runs your instances doesn't mean you can't allow other people to run their instances on "your" hardware.
I love using nginx but it seems that all the new features lately are only accessible through their enterprise service.
I scan/use them as a factor (with the Google Authenticator mobile app) with google-authenticator for secure logins to servers. I find they are quite useful in that capacity.
It's not riskier, but it's harder to get right. We met the challenge though.
Although I see what you mean, it's worth noting that Elon tried to do exactly that.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/
This happened 4 years ago for institutional clients, see: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240531119033665045764881...
worthless piece of sub-human shit, just like his family
Show HN: HdfsCLI – A python API and command line interface for HDFS
Pulte Acquisition Group is headed by Bill Pulte IV (age 27), the grandson of Bill Pulte Sr. Bill Pulte Sr is the head of Pulte Group, a $6.7B company.

Needless to say, filing fees aren't that big of a deal for this family who are very wealthy (billionaires).
Can you link to an explanation/derivation of the geometric formulation?
Ask HN: Why are there so few Show HN threads on homepage these days?
Is this a trend that only I feel or do others find it too? There is none at the frontpage at this moment. Could it be that:

1. We are busy this time of year
2. The bar of approval at HN has raised higher
3. It is just you. Data shows that it has increased.
SLAC Theorist Lance Dixon Explains Quantum Gravity
A Marshmallowy CyanogenMod
Tips for naming your mobile app or game
> Hosting a git repo and a very very basic issue tracker is so not worth $2500/year.

It's $250/year per developer, which is a rounding error at most software companies.
Creator here. Happy to answer any questions!
Aluzinc steel coil
Is it possible that's been going on the whole time? Allowing different flavors of guests to cohabitate has few benefits (at their scale) and many drawbacks; I wouldn't be surprised if they simply never allowed it.
You can get managed Docker containers on bare metal with Bluemix which runs on Softlayer.
"kernel on a kernel" is one of the worst things you can do to a distributed computing environment. This is why Google does containers.

I have double digit thousands of machines for one application, and have an Excel spreadsheet outlining the additional hardware that would need to be purchased to handle the same workload but virtualized. I pull it out every time some recent Stanford grad tells me the cloud is the future.
168K/s? Did you actually decode the bid request (json) or just return no bid? That seems too good to be true.
Yes there are a few reasons for that. Mostly cost (it runs on 2 servers) and it can only index things that are publicly exposed. Since the majority of code released is in github it tends to skew towards it as the main source.

It does however index the following (and more) repository locations, Github, Bitbucket, Fedora Project, Google Code, CodePlex, Sourceforge, Tizen Project, Google Android, Minix3, Seek Quarry, Gitorious and a collection of sources from GNU Savannah.

Im always looking to add more, so if you know of say a github for fossil projects (tarpit would be an excellent name for this BTW) let me know so I can add and index them.
Doesn't deserve jack shit, maybe just the public apology. Can't fault him for going for the money grab though, smart move.
Nginx is a solid piece of software with a lot of people working on it.

I find it sad that people expect good services built on top of it to be free as well. Without an enterprise/paid offering how else do you suppose people fund nginx? Right now the state of open source funding is abysmal.
It's actually not the next event loop tick (or it's not supposed to be; some implementations get this wrong). Promises use microtasks, so an already-resolved promise dispatches at the end of the current tick.
I don't think this is the reason. The amount of text that is contained in the article is usually smaller than the shit ton of superfluous JS and images they're sending. If they're looking to optimize page load, there are lower-hanging fruits.
Gotta ask for $15 mil just to get a $10k settlement.
This should be higher up. It's time for end-to-end IPv6 functionality on all major service providers and applications.
Ask HN: How are you using React server-side rendering?
My app (http://www.escherpad.com) is using angular, and I have decided that I'm going to rewrite it in angular2 after research both react and angular2.
The reason I want server-side rendering is for SEO, because I want to serve these collaboratively editable documents as blog posts. My friend at a large startup mentioned that they are using react for quite a few projects so I want to ask here:

"are you using react in a project with server-side rendering? and how are you using it?"

Thanks!
Automated Scanning of Firefox Extensions Is Security Theater
I agree. Github works and really shines for "developer"-centric small teams.

You mix in larger number of developers, add in QA, testing, release, issue tracking states between them and it becomes a pain. Having to implements bots, API keys other stuff like that.

Not all tools work for everyone. What works for individuals and small teams doesn't work for larger teams.

I saw this twice both at a smaller company and larger one. Starting with Github. Hit pain points and then picking something else. In one case was about buying Jira + Confluence, because it was about issue tracking states. In another not sure yet. But lots of bots and rules and automatic pull requests and merges is becoming a pain and might end up with Gitlab or something else soon.
Seems like an effective way to teach the state not to be so racist/reactionary. Assuming he wins. Of course the lawyers will no doubt take most of it.
Man. What a pile of nonsense.
This move really undermines the overwhelming good will that people had towards Ahmed.
Nice Cock Ahmed
Not really, you're just operating on a higher dimension.

It's like saying multiplication makes things hard to understand...

You could write things 15 x 3 or 15 + 15 + 15, I dislike having programmers who like to do the latter on my team, or languages that make you do things like: Integer(15).multiply(Integer(3))

I'm sure that using reflection or higher order programming does cut out some people that you probably don't want anyway.
A Pain U Really Didn't Know U Had
Sorry, that seems opportunistic. I felt bad for him, but no way he was scarred to the tune of $15 million. Even the bad experience had a major upside - he was offered an internship to Twitter and an invitation to the White House. Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix.

In this case everyone involved in suspending him should have been seriously reprimanded and an apology given (and I'm surprised one wasn't). But a $15 million lawsuit isn't the answer.
Welcome to the Scene
I assume this is partially about his detention without parental notification, but maybe that would be the city, not the school. It seems a pretty big error on the part of the administration and police.
Jimmy Wales: “All major internet traffic is going to be encrypted very soon”
Gold does pay interest if you lease it. See: http://www.kitco.com/market/LFrate.html - note that sometimes this goes negative for all kinds of weird reasons (see: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/01/13/831971/goldman-on-meta...). disclaimer: I don't work in capital/metals markets so if you do and you're reading this please add to the conversation.
This article has put me over the ledge of taking some time to really study Go. Goroutines are starting to sound very attractive.
Ask HN: Favorite tech-related audiobook
We have an 8-10 hour drive to see family for thanksgiving. Wife snoozes, I listen to music and audiobooks. What have you enjoyed?

I'd like something in-depth enough that I'll end up learning something, but not so dense that I'll fall asleep. I'm open to anything, though!
Texas teen arrested for fake bomb demands $15M and an apology
I think this is how you get schools to care and avoid doing the same in the future.
The higher-ups at the student federation got involved, finally we got an e-mail routed through the student federation basically saying they couldn’t get a French name and nobody wants to do it, so we’re going to cancel it for now.

This, to me, is the best part of the story. She had a workaround using a different name because she didn't really care about "yoga", and that didn't work out either because of the "everything needs a French name" rule.
I ported Haskell's [Aeson](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-0.10.0.0/docs/Data-...) library to [Swift](https://github.com/PKAuth/SwiftAeson). You might find it helpful with verbosity and better type checking. Note that there is some hackery to satisfy Swift's type checker (and its type inference usually doesn't help too much).
What usually happens in cases like these is that you get to download all of your notes in some format. This is what happened when google wave was taken down.
This is great for (warning: potentially limited use case ahead) engineering companies* who run large analysis clusters for specialty Simulation/CFD software. Especially those frustrated by their vendors current or (non-existent) cloud processing offerings.

A lot of software in this space, for instance, has a fixed MAC address requirement for their license servers, and you report/pay depending on the number of cores. Whilst you can get around that sometimes, it would certainly void agreements and wouldn't hold up in an audit.

In some companies I've worked, this could drastically reduce the capital costs for engineers needing overpowered workstations that are analogous to Ferraris you only take out on weekends.

*who are already using AWS in other parts of their infrastructure.
Still early days, but see http://www.nemocas.org/
I wanted to see what you've built, but I'm not going to sign in to do it. You should have a demo.
I couldn't disagree more. Schools & cities both ought to live in fear of lawsuits to stop this kind of nonsense from occuring as a kneejerk reaction and give common sense an opportunity to prevail.
Do you really think there's a correlation between population and drug discovery effectiveness? I know part of the hypothesis here is that we generate huge amounts of data and not enough analysis, but analysis parallelizes too, right?
This however isn't the same as depositing $ in a bank though, where you're "loaning" your $ to the bank who will in turn loan it out to someone else (hopefully earning interest in the meantime!). If you were simply giving $ to the bank to safeguard and not loan to anyone then you would imagine they'd charge you as there would be no potential interest earnings on your "deposit"
This basically lets you have an entire machine dedicated to a specific type of VM instance, plus have the underlying hardware information, to ease licensing requirements that certain programs and operating systems have. So you can get a box of m4.larges and know exactly what programs are running on it; for example, RedHat offers per-vm server licensing, so running 20 instances on RHEL on your dedicated box just costs you the flat rate VM host cost.
I encourage everyone to dig into this story a bit more. This family acted in a provocative way, and now they to attempt to punish the school and taxpayers.
If you're starting with the expectation of raising VC, filing in Delaware is a good option. Investors prefer Delaware for its pro-business Chancery court and its established history of corporate law. However, if you're not expecting to raise VC, it's almost always easier to file in your home state. By doing this you can avoid paying foreign corporation fees and filing additional paperwork.

If you need outside investment, forming a C-Corp is the way to go. There is more paperwork involved but it's well-suited for investment. LLCs on the other hand offer more flexibility but are more complicated to invest in.

Delaware has a procedure known as "statutory conversion" for converting an LLC to a C-Corp but there may be tax consequences.
It may not be statically typed, but it is strongly typed which is usually more useful than static typing.

For instance the type system in C is static but weak, creating entire classes of issues that are hard to debug that don't exist in ruby.
Or effective bait for activists to troll public institutions for publicity and cash settlements. Settlements paid by tax payers that take funds from education, public safety, infrastructure, and other public insitutions.
Well, it allows certain opportunistic individuals to claim he's just in it for the money (and it does look rather bad, although I'm certainly not that reactionary). It comes as a charge to taxpayers, as well.

Also, I find the phrase "live in fear" to be a little... strong. Is that really what you meant?
Marxists and other leftists have identified the need for cheap labor as a major long-term weakness in capitalism for over a century. The question has always been how long technological advances and increased globalization can provide the growth necessary for social stability.

Liberals might not think about it in the same way, but they're unlikely to see a reduction in population growth as a bad thing on its own terms. Certainly, they're very unlikely to propose natalist policies as a solution.
A powerful way to integrate Hubot with Slack
Deliveroo, an On-Demand Food Delivery Service, Raises $100M
This is precisely why you should never get your hopes up about results from a mouse study. (mods forgive me, I just couldn't help that. ;-)
This is giving you control of the allocation on one specific VM host. So you have, for example, a box that is hosting x m4.larges that you can fill how you want. Plus you have information about the hardware, so software that's licensed per physical machine can be run on each of those instances.
Ever since News Corp. bought the WSJ in 2007, the nutjob conservatism of its Op-Ed page has permeated and corrupted its formerly excellent and fairly objective news reporting. A lot of the best journalists have left, and the rest know which drummer they march to.

One aspect of US conservative thought today is nationalist hostility toward China (cf. Trump), and schadenfreude over anything that takes China down a notch. Unfortunately, WSJ reporters facing those incentives will have a harder time being reality-based. They seek instead to flatter their readers' sensibilities and obey their editors' orders. This leads to sloppy arguments. Take this line, for example:

> By 2050, the working-age population will decline by 212 million, estimates the United Nations—> roughly as many people as live in Brazil, the world’s fifth most-populous nation.

I doubt that the UN report takes into account Beijing's decision, published three weeks ago, to transform its one-child policy into a two-child policy, which is just the latest in a series of moves intended to shift its demographic outlook.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/asia/china-one-child-policy/

China's rising wages are the inevitable, logical result of China getting richer; i.e. they are a sign of China's success in modernizing itself.
Well, they did become commoditized though.
No, I don't think there's any correlation. I'm poking a hole in a tangential part of your argument, in the finest tradition of message board pedantry. We used to search for drugs differently, it was about 80x more effective, and therefore we could make way fewer people and still come out ahead if we just switched back.
From the Wikipedia article:

"From 1882 to 1902, except for three years, he contributed regular articles to the trade paper The Electrician, which wished to improve its standing, for which he was paid £40 per year. This was hardly enough to live on, but his demands were very small and he was doing what he most wanted to. "

The prototypical hacker?
If you ever used Laplace transforms to solve differential equations, that is Heavisides work too.

Good book:
http://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-Genius-Vic...
Regardless of what you think about all the actors at play here, this is one of those stories to look back on that says... something... about the internet. A few million tweets led to media attention, discourse about schools and race, meetings with presidents and scholarships to prestigious universities. All good things and all was once again well in the world and the internet won.

However, with time, more details come out that make the whole thing not quite as clear cut and it becomes pretty obvious that there might be more than to one side of the story that we all jumped into.

I don't pass any judgement, it just makes me wonder how to bring balance to the social media firestorms and convey a more nuanced perspective to stories like this.
I am guessing Oracle's lawyers will argue that is indeed the case. Let's hope they do not prevail