skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The atmospheric pressure is so low that you don't need a tube at all (<1% of Earth). And you'll have to use wheels instead of hovering because you can't suck in enough air to eject out the bottom. At that point, you no longer have a Hyperloop, you have a car (or train).
Having installed cygwin, I’m not so sure. :P
Shame, it's my go-to app for tracking my walks... It's lite and get its job done.
It's a good way to get the right answer but it's not a very good way to get help.
I am not aware of any market where generators are getting a premium for being dispatchable. I would be very interested in knowing what the value is.

Certainly some markets have prices that vary through the day to give generators the incentive to generate when power is needed most if they have that flexibility.
One part may be that the "brilliant" folks went for the established companies or into research. Amit went for the scrappy startup - that could have exploded just the same.
Ask HN: Any reliable Stock predictor?
I Have been FX traders for 5 years and not seen any reliable predictor. is there any reliable stock predictors?
Indeed -- isn't Congress exempt from copyright law?

And is the Smithsonian then an entity that could legally preserve it if not display its contents?
The cream always floats to the top.
Just sharing for anyone interested - the UK National Grid has a nice (if a little antiquated looking) site which breaks down power generation by source http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
Actually we have deployments where the JRE is packaged alongside the application, because in some customers teams have the freedom to choose their JDKs.

However we also have projects where the Java version is married to whatever the Websphere deployment of the day supports.

And on Android, well there is no upgrade at all. Which is yet another reason to use the NDK, even with all the 3rd class developer treatment, at least the C++ compiler gets updated and doesn't depend on the Android version of the target devices.
a lot of tech-forward companies do it, and not ironically. search for the testing on the toilet series at google.
I like the concept, nicely done as well
That's correct. There was a very lengthy intermediate period, ranging from the introduction of dial telephones to as late as I believe the '70s in some areas (Santa Catalina island off LA comes to mind as an area with manual operators extremely late), where some areas had dial telephones and others had operators - and for some time long distance trunks were split the same way!

This means that some people had dial service but, to make a long distance call, had to speak with an operator. Other people had manual operator service, but when they wanted to make a long-distance call the operator would connect them to the trunk and then dial for them. For this reason many later-model telephone switchboards had a rotary dial built into the desk.

Customers also weren't necessarily expected to have dialing down pat early on, either. To this day, the error messages that you hear if you e.g. call a phone number that does not exist are referred to as "intercepts." The reason for this is that on early dial phone systems, when a customer encountered an error the line would be flagged as needing attention and a human operator would "intercept" the call to help the customer. These days this function is always performed by a boring recording, which starts with the SIT tones - another system of beep codes intended to tell automated dialers what went wrong.
The way I see it, I don't think I am subsidising these other startups since DO raised $83m last year [1]

Secondly, with the high attention of YC companies using the service, this may help push innovation forward for things like improved firewall and private networking, managed databases for backup and redundancy and an S3 comparable file store (thus no transfer costs).

If giving $250K to YC companies to create that demand for them to implement it, I'm all for it.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/08/digitalocean-raises-83m-ser...
You have a pocket computer that's really good at storing random bytes. Store a decryption key there, and get it into your random browser's memory via QR code or encoded mnemonic phrase. The UX is hard, but probably solvable.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I will try that and see how it goes
Visual Basic for me, as well as Java on my own time.
Currently taking this course. I don't know if I am allowed to share material online. Although all of these papers are well known papers in Cloud Computing. You can search for them online for open/free access.
EDIT: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15719/readinglist.html
One feature I think this excellent resource really needs: offline mode. I'd love to have the whole guide available locally ..
Url changed from http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/csfieldguide/dev/dev/index...., which redirects to this.
wow, where did you live where getting to microsoft via 520 took 1.5 hours? 1 hour i believe as an occasional max. maybe across puget sound?
I'm surprised the media is billing this as "a push for AI".

I was on both Giannandrea's and Singhal's teams at Google (I left last year). Giannandrea doesn't really have an AI or machine learning background (LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngiannandrea). He was put in charge of machine learning relatively recently, IIRC less than two years ago. Before that he was doing Knowledge Graph - he came into Google through the Metaweb acquisition - and that technology stack really doesn't have much AI or ML in it. Google has tons of good AI people; if it wanted to, it could easily have replaced Singhal with any number of engineers with more AI experience.
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Except he did provide context as he cited an article with a genuine criticism. Your suggestion is in all ways a loss of information.
It actually does. The course is designed to get in details of challenges in cloud provisioning like designing Load Balancer.
I am already aware of the Barr Group team and I know their claim.

>NASA didn't find a software defect, this is not the same as NASA finding that there is no software defect.

Read my post carefully. I haven't claimed such a thing and I offered two possibilities.

>Toyota absolutely built and sold dangerous vehicles with software and hardware defects.

You have to be careful with this. The Barr Group team haven't proven the relationship between the accident, and the software defect which they claim to found of.

The important thing is that software, hardware, system, and the whole design for car safety can improve significantly better than the current situation, which is much more better than just relying on human drivings.
Im just reading into it, but you sound both depressed, and also like you are finally growing up =D.

Things aren't always beautiful and rosey. You will find eventually how to take a longer-term view of the world, to slow down, to start enjoying the day to day by living it. Or you wont.
In the uk politicians are paid peanuts, hence we have monkeys who make stupid descions like this - guaranteeing 3 times market price for such electricity - it's a complete scam confiscating our hard earned cash, then paying most of it too foreign companies somwe don't even benefit from tech advances in this field.

All in the name of the modern religion - nonsense computer modelled weather forecasts.
Most weather cycles - particularly solar cycles related to Gas giant orbits and and our position in the milky way point towards cooling.
Currently we are in a weak solar maximum, when this goes minimum in 5 years after El Ninio swings to La Ninia next year - it will be very obvious how silly most people are.
Co2 is good, life is carbon based, the world becomes much more fertile at higher levels, in anycase warm is better than cold, most prefer Florida to Canada a much greater temp diff than any concievable warming.
It's interesting to see printed descriptions of events that I lived through. (I worked on projects sponsored by both of them, and was also loaned out to help with the Emerald Sea launch.) Some are echoes of the truth, but there are also some fairly big inaccuracies.

Emerald Sea didn't have anything close to a prototype that could ship in 100 days. At best, there were a few technology demos from individual engineers. Urs sent his memo in March 2010; Emerald Sea launched as Google+ in June 2011, with the +1 button (done by David Byttow, who later attained infamy as the founder of Secret) launching a couple months earlier.

Vic had few if any dealings with Marissa. She was moved to Geo in Oct 2010; at the time, Emerald Sea was a few scattered tech demos. The push to integrate G+ into everything Google didn't really start until after G+ launched in June 2011.

Larry was impressed by speed, but I think that his exemplars were much more Android and Chrome than Emerald Sea.

Mayer and Singhal had a very confused reporting relationship - basically, the engineers reported up to Singhal and the PMs reported up to Mayer. I wasn't close enough to them to know how well they got along personally, only that they both had very strong opinions and a lot of experience to back them up. It did make for some very slow product decisions as PMs had to get both of them to sign off on a change.
Go's assembler is built in. It is easy to drop a .s file in and `go build` just assembles it and links it without you doing anything.

The weird syntax makes more sense when you compare different processors. It is kind of standardized so you can switch between them easily. That choice makes the syntax please no-one I expect but it does make maintaining multiple platforms easier.
They still do

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/UnrealA...
Sure if you want a full set of native tools I won't suggest otherwise. But a full cygwin install is way more invasive than node, and if you just want some specific tools, vorpal might be for you. Or maybe cygwin is. Whatever works for you.
Pretty sure we do better than that on a regular basis.
The title is somewhat sensationalist, but there have been articles coming out for months, including from more respected papers like WSJ and NYT, claiming they have info from sources inside the company that there are discussions about selling their core businesses assets.

These were of course unsubstantiated, but now Yahoo reports another bad quarter, a bunch of layoffs, and also says this:

>The Board also believes that exploring additional strategic alternatives, in parallel to the execution of the management plan, is in the best interest of our shareholders. Separating our Alibaba stake from our operating business continues to be a primary focus, and our most direct path to value maximization. In addition to continuing work on the reverse spin, which we've discussed previously, we will engage on qualified strategic proposals."

That does seem like a dodgy way of asking for offers.
Yep. If you dig deeper, much of their technology has been acquired from takeovers - the vitrification from Impact Services in 2012, more robotics expertise from Oxford Technologies in 2015.. the list goes on.

The overstatements in this 'article' leave a very bad impression of Kurion and Lux Capital.
Ask HN: Do you feel HN should have a just new software/software updates tab?
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cuz yea i actually come here mostly for the software releases
Printers are the only thing you still have to really watch out. Or just buy Brother. Thats what i do. No bloatware, works after pluggin it in, on most distros.
I really liked Mailbox (later acquired by Dropbox). It was clean, easy, zero inbox with one million user signups at the beginning and what happened to them? Went to the kitchen sink... I expect the same from this.
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Back in the 80's and early 90's, that type or remark was intended to anyone trying to use Turbo Pascal, C, AMOS, Turbo Basic, Forth, Modula-2.... for game development.

No sane game developer would use anything other than Assembly.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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If I had a choice between A) death or B) a chance at continuing to live, I'd choose B. And if B doesn't work out, A can still be chosen. So choosing B is not much of a risk.
So, if one views the global financial system as a big distributed belief propagation algorithm (eg. min-sum) how do loans fit into this?

Perhaps it makes sense switching to a "quantum-like" dynamics where one may "borrow" energy for a short amount of time before having to repay it, as in Heisenberg delta E * delta t uncertainty. So decreasing interest rates amounts to messing with some kind of Planck's constant.
Maybe the depth of knowledge in the AI field wasn't the only reason why he was chosen ?
The hardest part is recognizing the good material from the bad. In my experience its less about feeding for information from a single source, and more about separating useful market information from stories full of chaff.

Advice can be tricky but IMO the best information are plain, boring whiteboard lectures explaining investment fundamentals. (This guy, who I've enjoyed a few of his tutorials, as one example: https://www.youtube.com/user/MoneyWeekVideos) I avoid fruity, feel-good financial gurus because I see a lot of the same mannerisms and personality types as I encountered amongst the con artists in the 'financial seminar' and MLM scenes.

Also, market commentaries from conservative brokerages are good for figuring out the macro picture
You're thinking of sybian army.

I'm really tempted to continue with "a simbian army is actually" but this isn't Reddit so end of comment thread.
Indeed, but it's better to just flag this type of comment than to dignify it with a response (and further dilute the thread). Flagging it guarantees that a moderator will see it, and for something this awful it's an obvious call to ban the account, which we've done.

In case anyone's wondering, you flag a comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag' at the top. There's a small karma threshold (currently 31) before those links appear.
... and spend the rest of your time at BigCo playing bullshit
bingo with the pointy-haired ones.

So your solution is to become one of them ? (the pointy-haired ones)

It would be nice to find a solution that doesn't increase the pointy-haired entropy of the world.
Basic income will only create more basic couch potatoes.

We are not strengthened by having things handed to us, but by challenges.

Of course, there is nothing stopping proponents of basic income from proving me wrong with their own private experiment. I'm sure it would get a lot of volunteers, at least for one half of the equation.
"This comes at the expense of 1.3 million pounds of CO2 released into the atmosphere every hour. I would argue that Bitcoin is the worst idea to come out of Computer Science in the history of mankind."

Any good counterarguments? :)
I worked in Amit's organization for over four years and it was great. He was brilliant technically both in terms of writing the main search algorithm that replaced Sergey's janky code, and explaining tricky principles of designing search engines to other people as the search team massively grew. One conversation we had about when it made sense to take the square root of things, which I still recall which whiteboard it was on, in my noob-cubicle in building 43, was really the time when I realized, aha I get how to design search algorithms now. It was also always just a very fun, idealistic, and interesting team. And he was good at corporate politics and defended his minions well ;-)
Oh also Amit clued me into the fact that Ardbeg is the best scotch.

This is certainly a loss for Google, but the guy was there for 16 years, so it's probably just time for a change. I will cross my fingers hoping something cool comes next....
Sure. But in that case, why interpret choosing him as "a push for AI"? The logic of "Google put an AI person in charge" -> "Google wants to focus the company more on AI" seems mostly valid, but the premise is false, so there's no reason to believe the conclusion (more than we would have otherwise).
Which is great, until it results a implicit-but-really-mandatory 10+ hour workday for everyone (namely, we post-obsessive geeks)
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11025937 and marked it off-topic.
Hope the new guy reveses the recent change to presentation of Google results on iPad.
The so called - Mobile Friendly - is truly horrible - it's such a pain having to - request desktop site - for every single search, shaame there is no auto option for this on safari or even better change user agent in settings.
Some app browsers let you do this, but they are slower and flackier than safari.
I tried Bing because of this, but still no where near in relevance of results for me.
Please don't accuse other users based on what you imagine their votes might be, and please don't make ideological slurs on this site.

There's a substantive point to be made here, but since you didn't make it, this comment probably should have been edited down to nothing.
The chapter on formal languages is almost entirely about the mapping between regular languages and finite state automata.

While the section on grammars is yet to be written, what's there is still one of the less practically useful parts of language theory. It's nice to know how to direct-encode a regex matcher as an FSA using the program counter as the implicit state register, but it's exceedingly rare that you need that level of performance. And that's pretty much the only time you really need to know the fine details of regular language <-> FSA.

However, quite apart from working as a compiler engineer for 7 years or so, I've found formal languages come up quite a bit. Not necessarily regular languages, but ad-hoc languages and parsing issues are very common if you do much work involving data from third parties. I continually build ASTs and AST-like things to solve everything from client-side routing + module systems to ad-hoc query UIs.
Most Go developers just use goimports. So really this "unused import" warning is a "you forgot to push the magic fix-it button." (Why didn't it push it for me?)

Or more to the point, if Go can figure out imports, why require them to be explicit at all?
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This article is terrible, it explains the Hyperloop as just an evacuated tunnel, which is not what it is at all.

The Hyperloop uses a low pressure tunnel, that's critical and the system would not work with a vacuum tunnel. The air in the tunnel is blown below the car to provide a low friction interface, much like an air hockey table (but with the puck providing the air, not the table). Linear induction motors in sections of the track accelerate or decelerate the cars, with gliding in between.

This is a new idea, and it's a highly useful idea because the vast majority of the track is just a pressure vessel, while the friction reducing components are fairly low tech and on the pod and the acceleration components are only on small sections of track, and potentially solar powered during peak hours. This lowers the cost of construction enormously while enabling speeds approaching that of commercial air travel.
Sounds like I'll have to add another writer to my reading list :-). Thanks!
If YC isn't exclusive enough for you, I'm sure you can find a more exclusive accelerator.

In the eyes of customers, I don't think it would give you an "easier time standing out when competing", but I guess everyone is entitled to place their own bets.
You can sign up for bizspark without a registered company?
Definitely NOT the answer you're looking for, but I think the point of the question lies in the thought process/discussion of possible solutions, more so than there being one definitively "smart" solution.

In fact, the smart way to handle it likely depends on the needs/business constraints at the time it was implemented. For instance - If I'm following Bieber on 9/15/2015 @ 3:00 PM EST, and he tweets, must it be a permanently held "fact" that I saw this in my feed? If I stop following him 6 months later, but sit there in my phone app (or web app, whatever) and scroll back far enough, should the tweet show? And when that tweet happened, was it potentially true that all of his followers should potentially have gotten in-app notifications (or at least, the possibility of this exists, depending on some algorithm so that people's phones aren't getting a never ending stream of notifications, but something can decide which tweets are important enough, or have been paid, to cross a threshold that says "notify"?)

"Edge"ish case: He tweets, we use a pub/sub or information bus type system to publish this fact. I'm following at 3:00 PST on the dot, precisely when he made the tweet, but I happened to unfollow 20 seconds later. Some async job is processing the "deliveries" through 30 million followers, and by wall clock time is faced with this decision after I've unfollowed to put this in my inbox or not. What happens?

Anyway, long winded way of saying I think it's more fun to explore options than to search for a textbook answer.
.NET as distributed by Microsoft:

- JIT and AOT compilation via NGEN up to .NET 4.5.2

- Starting with .NET 4.6, RyuJIT which uses the Visual C++ backend and exposes SIMD support to .NET languages

- When targeting Windows 8 and 8.1, AOT compilation to native code in a format called MDIL. Basically requires dynamic linking on device, everything else will be native code already

- When targeting Window 10 store applications onwards, AOT compilation to static executables

- .NET Compact Framework also always JITs

- .NET Micro Framework is the only one that does interpret MSIL

Also Microsoft .NET JIT compilers, with the exception of the .NET Micro Framework always jit the code, there is no threshold to trigger it like on most JVMs.
That's not how the hyperloop works. The air isn't for moving, it's for reducing friction using the air hockey table effect. The acceleration is provided by linear induction motors in accelerator sections. It's that combination which results in a high speed train at low costs.
Then you'll have bonobos showing up and claiming their percentage.
Welcome to Slackware 14.2 beta 2. Getting closer. :-)
It doesn't care about speed? I think UPS, FedEx, Amazon Prime, yadda yadda, would all disagree with you strongly. Moving cargo quickly across the world is probably a multi-trillion dollar industry. And the car shown is just a proof of concept prototype.
Just out of curiosity, what's not reassuring about Azure, other than the fact that they seem to think Chef and Puppet are Linux distributions?
Source? I am skeptical WhatsApp is a single monolithic service at this point.
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Fiver says he isn't.
| - expensive and limitation of option plans

This stopped me from becoming a paying customer for years. I had 20GB of free space from referrals and it's a big leap from not quite enough space for nothing to too much space for a $100/yr. I started using the free space from Google and Box for my overflow while waiting for Dropbox to offer a $50/yr plan... and I blinked first.

The Google and Box clients are serious contenders for dethroning iTunes as the worst software on my computer. Dropbox just friggin' works and I've never noticed it crash or have a negative impact on any computer I've put it on.

My first renewal is in four months. Maybe I'll find some time to give ownCloud a try before then... or maybe not.
There's a lot to be said for preparing and positioning yourself to be ready to take advantage of providence when its winds blow your way.

I.e. it'll never happen for you if you're home watching TV.

It's also necessary to be able to recognize opportunities when they come your way. I know I've missed many. My dad would say that most people don't recognize opportunities because they come disguised as hard work.