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The dev has tried to push it, but it seemed that nobody cares.

See https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/forum/topic/2063/#10728
The original Asus Eee PC was designed for schools and was launched first in the UK by the then leading education supplier, RM. I was there.

It had a Celeron inside.

It was part of Intel's response to the threat of the OLPC.
> Basically, it made me realise how impossible I would find it to write good C!

That was my thought when the comparison was with Turbo Pascal 6.0.

Luckily in the same year I got Turbo C 2.0, someone made me aware that the school also had the newly released Turbo C++ 1.0 available.

Since then, using C instead of C++ or better alternatives, only when I didn't have an option to do so.
I watched this ascend to the top of HN in one min with constant refreshing. Refreshed one last time in that minute and it had disappeared. How does this happen?
Put 250 million bucks into this idea:

http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/

Locate richest mineral resource in near-Earth neighborhood. Apply rockets. Build new rockets.

I know, it is 'just a fantasy', but .. y'know .. it was once 'just a fantasy' that we'd all have Internet terminals glued to our heads, and look how fast we got that one, once the will-power was there ..
Yes, I'd say "binders of lore" are a rather good approach to a book.

While they would be far away from a video game or something...
> Twitter et al could drastically improve this issue. While being a public figure is difficult, this kind of thing isn't an inevitable aspect of it: there's clear concrete things you could do that would substantially lessen it.

Sure, but it doesn't make sense to invest engineering time on problems which only affect a tiny subset of users.

Nobody blames the USPS for not investing more in solutions to help celebrities deal with fan mail. I fail to see why Twitter should spend any effort optimizing for the experience of a privileged <1%.
Have anybody works with Mesos?

How does it compare to Yarn, particularly in a production perspective? Is it stable, easy to integrate?

We are currently thinking to switch from a Kafka-Spark(on Yarn)-Mongo stack to a SMACK stack (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka)[1]. It seems that there is a good integration between theses projects. Also you can run Docker on Mesos using Marathon[2] so not only our data-driven stack could be on Mesos but the full stack.

[1] https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/07/24/learn-everything-you-...

[2] https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon
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I'd be interested to see what (if any) EULA the students agreed to.
While I'm not really concerned about it, I doubt that it would live up to Danish building regulations. I'm mean we pressure test our homes... then install ventilation systems because living in a house that can parse the pressure test would be unhealthy. We then continue to get headaches and stuffed noses because the ventilation systems aren't any good either.

Anyway, it doesn't look like this house would fit the required amount of isolation.
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It worked, the story is ranked 3 right now on HN.
> In a functioning market rents bring in just a tiny bit more than the monthly mortgage payment, including taxes and fees.

Which means rent is still transferring money from the poor to the rich. If you have a mortgage, you're hopefully building up equity that can be released when you retire to somewhere smaller or in a cheaper location (which you can do, since you don't need to live near jobs and any kids will have moved out). If you're renting, you pay the same amount but the money that would've gone into equity instead goes to your wealthy landlord. Here in the UK, there's been a huge wave of rich buy-to-let investors buying up properties on mortgages and paying the mortgage off with rent payments.
Yes. Most (or almost) most of the commercial flight time is spent at not cruising altitude and speed - I've taken longer to get to the airport than the flight, and then once you're there there's security (although Burbank is usually a breeze), passenger loading, taxiing, take-off and climb...

Then just enough time for a drink service and you head back down, to do it all over again in reverse.
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NCAA March Madness is coming up - it's probably the most exciting event in basketball, possibly all of US sports. There's always surprises, some team that comes out of nowhere to make a big run, some heavy favorite that goes down in flames, buzzer beaters, human-interest stories, the minor gambling aspect of filling out a bracket in the office pool.

College basketball can also be some of the most entertaining basketball to watch. There's a lot more variation in style and strategy than you typically see in NBA or international ball. As long as you don't get stuck seeing too many Big Ten style grind-it-out defensive slugfests.

It's kind of like the World Cup, with less flopping.
Go has one of the best TLS stacks in the world

Do you have any proof to support this claim?
Or you could install it with easy install and pip. Literally 2 commands in terminal.

Virtual environments have their benefits, but they are far from necessary.
> If you watched Top Gear even occasionally you'd know how rediculous it is claiming that Top Gear is serious news

You could say the same thing about most mainstream newspapers and TV channels, and yet...
The founder of WikiHouse (open source housing system, similar build cost) wrote a book on the topic: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1850356/ARighttoBuild_CC...
Cliffnote version is: stellarators are hard/expensive to build. The test run shows this one seems to be built correctly.
Simplifying a ton one could compare the two competing designs as follows:

stellerator: harder to build, easier to run (and more efficient)

tokamak: easier to build, harder to run (and less efficient)

Due to the first property, there are more tokamaks around and showing basic functionality for any stellerator is a good/important step.

Edit (relevant quote from the article):
"""Although there are about a dozen stellarator experiments around the world, including in the U.S., Japan, Australia and Europe, scientists say the Greifswald device is the first to match the performance of tokamaks."""
She's also the head of the "Christian Democratic Union" party...
I don't think they generated any fusion reactions, I believe they used just natural Hydrogen rather than Deuterium and Tritium (which would normally be used for fusion fuel). Also, magnetic confinement fusion reactors don't explode, they are like pencils balanced on their points, when something goes wrong or they "lose containment" the pencil falls over, the fusion conditions dissipate and reactions stop. This test was just one step along the way of verifying the plasma dynamics and heating capabilities of the system, it'll be a while before they do fusion reactions, and it will never produce energy from fusion. But be aware that making fusion reactions happen is easy, it's the matter of creating a self-sustaining fusion reaction that's hard.

In magnetic confinement fusion there is a big problem of confinement stability. You are trying to confine a plasma, which is electrically charged and thus an electrical conductor. Electric current generates a magnetic field. This is actually made use of in tokamak designs, which are the most straightforward magnetic confinement systems. However, tokamaks suffer from a fundamental flaw, that plasma current produces a feedback instability loop making it very challenging to attain plasma confinement longer than a few seconds or minutes. That's problematic because the shorter lived the fusion plasma is the more the initial (externally produced) heat as a proportion of the total cumulative heat of the plasma over its lifetime adds up. Short lived plasmas don't spend very long producing fusion heat to "pay back" the energy used to heat up the plasma to fusion conditions to start with.

A stellarator is basically a way to twist the magnetic fields around the fusion plasma tube in such a way so that the trajectories of ions in the plasma will stay inside the confinement volume, without requiring any current in the plasma. This makes the system potentially much more stable but at the cost of a very much more complex arrangement of magnets. The longer the plasma can be confined the longer fusion reactions can be sustained, making it easier to generate more power than was put in to raise the plasma to fusion suitable conditions (high density, high temperature).
What do you think about Cloudera's Spark backend to Google Cloud Dataflow pipelines[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/cloudera/spark-dataflow
There are many good reasons to rent a house, just as there are many good reasons to own a house. However, there is no God-given right to own a house. If you want to own your own house, work hard, save for it, make a plan, have patience.
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> What's special about the Wendelstein 7-X? I know stellarators as a concept aren't new. Is this a significant result, or is it just a handy opportunity for a media event?

The concept is not new, they're just hideously complicated to build. It's a relatively new development that it's possible to model the shape of the magnetic fields and magnets required to keep the plasma. So it's a significant achievement to build one and prove that you can run it while containing the plasma. Yesterdays event is one step on that path.
Show HN: BMStats – Stats for your bookmarks (Chrome extension)
Looks like OVH starts at $34/month. While, at DO you can start at $5/month.
Also, if they don't build homes fast enough, the national government steps in and overrules the local planning process, allowing the companies to build on other, more desirable greenfield sites that they ordinarily would never have gotten planning permission for.
I agree. It's a very thought-provoking piece, but I think the problem with the analogy is highlighted when the debt is transformed into an investment. Debts don't turn into investments. Assets turn into investments.
This design requires a rail down the middle of the tube? Am I reading that right?
The trouble is that young people don't believe the major political parties will fulfil their promises even if they do vote for them (and they're probably right).
Yes, it is definitely on the to do list.
Ageing seems to have several orthogonal causes[1]. So it's a mistake to see each discovery like this in isolation as a candidate cure for ageing. A real cure is likely to need a series of distinct cleanup processes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negl...
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It's extremely hard to understand how this could be the case. He has evaded prosecution for rape for years and still has people defending him. It was entirely his own choice to seek refuge inside the embassy and he did so to avoid prosecution. This makes him a gigantic hypocrite in addition to the sexual offences.

Reading the complaint against him, it's very hard to see how anyone could justify his actions. I'm sure there'll be much posted in this thread shortly though calling him a hero.
I think he was referring to ARPANET being a military project whose goal was a system that could survive a nuclear attack or other such calamity.
This thing has disturbed everyone who have hosted their apps on Parse platform, they are looking for an alternate solution. I am also one of them.

I have already talked with various app development platform providers and check their platforms. I found Configure.IT as the nice solution compared to other platforms. Actually my 10 to 15 apps are on Parse. So I am bit worried about it. Now After checking all the solutions, Finally I reached to a decision.

I also want to guide all the people who are passing through the same situation as I am passing. I have checked all the features and facilities provided by this platform and also talked with the authorized persons of this platform. Really a genuine one.

So finally I have given the project of my apps migration to Configure.IT ( http://www.configure.it/ ) and they are doing it very nicely. Thanks to whole team. Thanks a lot.
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Perhaps now that Google has taken steps to block websites that display these ads, Google should take steps to stop accepting these ads onto their network in the first place.
Most of the time when I see those DOWNLOAD/PLAY buttons, they're hosted on doubleclick.
Wikileaks' Assange wins U.N. ruling on 'arbitrary detention“
Most people (in my experience) don't use the old S3 block filesystem protocol anymore, and just use object storage instead (with either S3n, S3a or the proprietary EMRFS).

The Hadoop FileSystem interface doesn't really force an specific underlying implementation, and you can even use "local" filesystems without any issue, in fact, IIRC, MapR-FS is just an optimized NFS drive, i.e. a shared network drive.
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When someone buys a house to let, they are making property prices more expensive for everyone. I do however agree with you, in essence. But I find it genuinly shocking you that you see a low cost portfolio as the road to ownership. Perhaps this is a uniquely American philosophy?

The point of contention in this debate, probably boils down to if you see access to housing as a social issue or an investment opportunity.
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You can't get a contract like that - the terms are entirely dictated by the landlord in the absence of regulation because of the scarcity of housing.
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Try this source: http://www.local.gov.uk/media-releases/-/journal_content/56/...
> trajectory of progress

How to write the history of science? First, watch James Burke's histories - Connections[1] and The Day The Universe Changed - for his non-teleological view of change.

Connections is an important examination about the trajectory of progress. Burke's premise - which I agree with strongly - is that change is not predictable. We can, at best, make educated guesses about the future and be prepared for those guesses to be completely wrong more often than we like.

The conclusions here - which is very relevant to teaching both science and its history - is the importance of involving normal people in this rapidly accelerating rate of change. Why involve people? Because technology is a trap if you don't know how to build it. Do you think of the trap you are walking into (if the power fails) every time you enter an elevator? The history of science is a series of ever more complex traps... that happen to give us incredible benefit as long as we are careful not to get caught.

The Day The Universe Change is a different focus, about how science changes our understanding of the world around us. That is, our universe changes with each discovery.

[1] The original 1978 series.
I wonder if those ads that push you to install certain product with half-truths and lies are considered deceptive as well. You know, "Install Chrome for better experience".
UN panel 'rules in Julian Assange's favour'
I wonder how this works for somebody like Elon Musk. Does he have idea debt?
I don't see how any small time hacker agrees to any indemnification. It's not as if you could even if you wanted to even defend a small lawsuit (I don't know how much they paid him). So what's the point. If you are afraid of being sued, buy yourself insurance. You are a large company, that's something you can do. And it will actually provide you protection rather than a contract which I can not possibly fulfill.
On the show they are presenters in a comedy driven magazine-style opinion show.

That they are journalists elsewhere is utterly irrelevant, also they would more properly be called columnists these days rather than journalists as their work in print now is usually opinion based and presented as such.

Even wikipedia splits up James May's journalistic career and his Top Gear presenting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Journalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Radio_and_television

There's virtually no mention of journalism on Richard Hammond's page (and no evidence that he actually is one).

Jeremy Clarkson was a journalist for actual papers before he started presenting Top Gear.
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Perhaps a more direct analogy would be that manual kerning is like hand-optimising code at a low level.

You can improve almost anything to some degree, and an expert would be able to detect even quite small differences on close inspection. However, an isolated minor deviation would not make a significant difference in normal use, and the effort to hand-optimise everything is prohibitive.

However, a user could notice either the cumulative effect of many suboptimal areas (poor built-in kerning in a font, careless inefficiency in frequently run code) or a single major problem (not tidying up a large logo or hero graphic, not optimising the body of a loop running many times causing a delay in UI response). In these cases, the benefit of manual refinement may be amplified enough to justify the effort.
Interesting that when I read "these buttons", I thought " which buttons?" because my brain's spam filter initially made them invisible to me!
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Cherrypick much?
Brazilian government website hacked. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes over front page
I'm just flabbergasted at how much the UK has spent on the operation: Last October, Scotland Yard said it would no longer station officers outside the Ecuador embassy following an operation which it said had cost £12.6m. But it said "a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest him" would still be deployed.
This is really important. One step closer to killing ad tech companies who only make money off my grandma and little brother.
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No, they start at $3.49/month, https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/
The joy of Streak, and the fact that they work remotely,
is that I could see them forwarding my email to each other.

You’ll see in the map below that it was opened in multiple
locations, multiple times.

It’s like sending a text to someone you’re interested in
after a date, and knowing that they’re talking to their
friends about how to respond. They’re interested.

This doesn’t always work obviously, but it gave me a ton of
confidence in the moment.

Interesting... Tracking people opening your app. I assume this tracking using a hidden image in the email?
More about the winning teams: http://hyperloop.tamu.edu/news-release-january-30-2016/
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Because this way they get to charge for the ad and then also not let their users get suckered. They win both ways.
Omg what a melodious and powerful voice
I recommend the Insight Data Science Fellowship.
http://insightdatascience.com/
You can read Ethan Rosenthal's blog about the transition from physics to industry.
http://blog.ethanrosenthal.com/
Sure, inventory is waste. You need to store it, protect it and organize it. Maybe you never even end up using all of it.

The thing is that without inventory, you can't build anything. Manufacturers optimize their supply chains to keep minimal inventory and reliably acquire the supplies they need just before they run out.

...but the creative supply chain is not reliable. You need a lot of inventory because good ideas might not arrive right before you need them. Fortunately, a binder full of notes is a lot easier to manage than manufactured parts for thousands of cars.
I wonder how many of them would be caught using a very strict compiler flag regime.

For the winner, perhaps the gcc flag, -Wmissing-prototypes would catch it?
Oliver Keyes is a very intelligent & energetic contributor to open-source projects.

His contributions to Wikipedia have been discussed by journalists:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2...

http://www.examiner.com/article/wikipedia-s-new-editing-soft...

http://www.examiner.com/article/wikimedia-foundation-s-olive...

Keyes has also been discussed in threads at Wikipediocracy, a forum for critical discussions of Wikipedia (with the name inspired by "Idiocracy"!):

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7337

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2572&p=...

(The latter thread has 15 pages.)

Please note that I quoted some of your comments on Wikipediocracy,

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7337#p1...

which I hope shall alert others of your discussion here.

Full disclosure:

I was the editor whom Ironholds/Oliver Keyes suggested dowsing with oil and lighting on fire on Wikipedia's IRC.

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=51423#p51423
But it doesn't mean that he'll walk free. It's not legally binding. And British officials have made clear that the European arrest warrant against him remains in place.

The panel's ruling will not have any formal influence over the British and Swedish authorities and the UK Foreign Office said it still had an obligation to extradite Mr Assange.

I don't quite understand: Why appeal to the UN in the first place, if their ruling is not legally binding?
I remember a few years ago AdSense was showing a lot of fake Download buttons (and users would complain about it). I haven't seen them recently, though, so I hope that means they've fixed that problem.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Blocking/warning about them at the browser level is a great move, especially as it will also work for ads not served by Google. But they should also be working to stop these ads getting published on their network as well.
This is a little bit of a worrying precedent. It essentially makes the search engine into a propaganda (or counter propaganda) arm of the governments it operates in. This year it's anti jihadi messages...next year it's searches about the great firewall of china, the following it's anti corporates.

The quote sheds more light on it

"The other one is to make sure when people put potentially damaging search terms into our search engine.. they also find this counter narrative."

So it's down to potentially damaging. What if it's commercially damaging?
There is something curious about the conclusion that surrounding a person for the purpose of lawfully detaining them amounts to unlawful detention.

Hasn't that been a traditional method of catching a suspect? "Come out with your hands up, we have you surrounded!"

Perhaps there is something significant in the fact that Assange is in the Ecuadorian Embassy. We'll have to wait for the reasons to be published.
This is a joke right ? We run Adsense display ads on our site and have to spend significant time every day reviewing and blocking new ads which try to use these deceptive practices.

Since Google clearly has the tech to detect this they should be implementing it at source on the advertisers (malvertisers). Instead they are pushing this down to the publishers and hitting them with penalties.

It's a clever ploy in some ways - Google gets the revenue from the ads and also the kudos from Joe Public for "being on the side of the consumer".
Google doesn't charge for ads, it charges for impressions. If you user doesn't seem it, google doesn't get paid. Get your facts straight.
More censorship... no thanks.
The Aedes aegypti is the vector of the Zika virus (and Dengue virus and in some places Malaria).

This is seems to be a reaction to how the Brazilian government has handled recent outbreaks of Zika.

Screenshot if they fix it: http://imgur.com/y2hLt7J