skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've been doing test fires with helium to clean the inside of the stellarator for the past few months. This news is because yesterday, with hydrogen, they ran a plasma at 80million degrees for 0.25 seconds. Still a few years away from the goal of 100 million degrees for 30 minutes, but it's a huge achievement. When that's working they'll start putting deuterium in and the fusion fun will begin, but not at a level that actually has a net energy output. That will only happen with tritium, but that won't ever be done in this particular stellerator (at least there aren't any plans to do it).
Serious crime? Are you out of your mind?
His "crime" would be no crime at all in every other country. Only in Sweden a prosecutor is allowed to call that a possible rape. The "victims" did not so. It's entirely a political theatre. See e.g. http://assangerape.tumblr.com/ or https://justice4assange.com/Assange-Case-Fact-Checker.html
You don't use OVH for the UI, you use it for the cheap and reasonably stable network. Do a quick bandwidth cost comparison between OVH and Amazon and you'll see what I'm talking about, unfortunately I'm unable to load the AWS pricing on mobile under Firefox or Chrome.
Gravity is the reason the Sun hasn't exploded. It's way too big and heavy for the energy from its fusion reactions to push it apart.
Just $2 a day!

I don't spend as much, and yes, coffee can be so much cheaper, but it's also not a lot of money.

Interestingly, the following guy has a recurring theme on how trying to save on lattes is inefficient and distracting (similar to the idea of premature optimization in code):

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/save-on-coffee/
> We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the version 2.6 release.

Meanwhile, most FxOS phones (all three of them, I guess) are still stuck on 1.3 because Mozilla's update policy for it has always been even more broken than Google's.

I won't miss it. My Fire E has been a paperweight for the past year because it was just useless – the base OS was never on par with even Android 2, and the fragmentation killed the app market before it even existed.

If Mozilla handles FxOS for IoT like it did on smartphones (or like it handles Thunderbird), it won't survive another year.
Varnish – 10 going on 50
The UK has time limits on planning permission too, but they are quite long - 3 years is the default. Also the limits only apply to the commencement of the work. You can (and people do) get around this by digging a hole or laying a small part of the foundations, and then they do nothing else. So with really a very small amount of effort, you can "land bank" indefinitely. The government shows no signs of wishing to fix this, since forcing up the price of houses to absurd new highs is policy.
good idea! it certainly is, thats kind of what turning off the "free mode"does!
Actually when I saw the headline my first thought was sourceforge. You expect these kinds of deep web ads when perusing sites you know damn well are "less than legal" but I've seen them on a number of websites I wouldn't normally expect to, sourceforge being the worst offender in my experience.
You might want to find some sources that seem slightly more credible. One is an obviously biased website and the other is a Tumblr...
Mesos is a superset of Yarn and also a bit lower level. In fact, there is a project that allows you to run Yarn on top of mesos thereby getting the best of both worlds. Kind of by design, you couldn't really run mesos on top of Yarn.

http://www.apache-myriad.org

I use Mesos in production and it is great stuff. It also helps knowing 100% of the backend of Siri, 100% of Twitter, much of eBay, PayPal, Airbnb, Uber, etc all run entirely on mesos. It is simply battle tested.
> Anyone else suspect Hyperloop is a transport technology destined for use off-planet where it wouldn't be plausible to pave roads everywhere, where there isn't sufficient atmosphere to support flight nor oceans to float boats?

If it's not plausible to pave, why would it be plausible to build an elevated, evacuated tube on stilts?

> Evacuating the tubes would be far easier on the moon or on Mars.

But probably not easier than just driving off-road, as we've already done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle
>Why should they?

Because, as confirmed by the Swedish supreme court, that's their fucking job.

> They have a valid arrest warrant for a fugitive. Their usual process is for the fugitive to be brought to a convenient location in Sweden for questioning.

This is not true

>Why does this fugitive have the right to insist a public servant comes to see them?

Why does anyone have a right to due process? Assange has every right to respond to the Swedish enquiry from the UK, but the prosecutor has not allowed him to make his statement on the accusations against him.

>fugitive

What are you smoking? Assange is not a fugitive in Sweden, the only country that could consider him a fugitive is the UK.

>If I were a prosecutor dealing with a busy case load I might well do the same: especially when I can leave the whole mess for the UK to deal with!

But in Sweden you can't, as the courts have confirmed. This is like locking someone up in jail until trial and refusing to interview them because you're busy.
If you haven't already, it's worth reading the New Statesman piece that @contingencies linked to.

It has a verbatim account that the prosecutor passed to the UK courts during the extradition hearings.

To paraphrase, they don't want to question Assange. They want to arrest him.

They already believe there is enough info to indict. For reasons explained in the piece, they can't reasonably lay down the indictment until he is in Sweden.
Unfortunately the full article is behind a paywall, but I wonder how many assumptions the authors must have made to specify not only the amount of carbon that can be released, not only the balance of coal, oil, and gas that can be consumed, but the regional distribution of that consumption.

Sounds more like politics than science, and neither the Guardian article nor the abstract explain the reasoning why some carbon is ok and other carbon must be kept below ground. Are we meant to merely accept it on authority?

And why 2C? A number that round almost certainly has no scientific significance, and was probably chosen for psychological and political reasons. It's a completely arbitrary target, but we are meant to feel fear that we won't meet it.

Articles like this give people who aren't inclined to believe in climate change more reason to suspect it's a scam (something I've often heard them claim).
I had to leave that chat because it was nothing but bots.
Yeah, I just don't buy it. I don't buy that the typical football fan recognizes adjustments mid-game. I don't buy that they recognize very many different types of defense (probably the blitz and that's it). This minutiae of a game is things that enthusiasts notice but not the typical fan. I think some of the other explanations given, particular in regards to the social aspect, are more likely it.
Industry Data Models
You're kidding me. You actually believe all of this is about sexual assault?
You're joking? The idea is to take a topic with a lot of specific knowledge and build vertical search around it so you can go deeper on that topic. There exists an Awesome Swift, for example, with a lot of static data.

https://github.com/matteocrippa/awesome-swift

I'd like to build a search engine with all Swift urls and allow the user to make queries.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

break out books, for instance.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/books

When I get a few minutes, I'll add links to the source code for the books.

Show me SpriteKit articles within the past 30 days:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=30&q=spritekit
> Why should they?

Because it quickly became clear that the alternative was not to be able to interview him, and they have a legal duty to seek justice. Justice has not gotten done by refusing their best opportunity to interview him.

> Their usual process is for the fugitive to be brought to a convenient location in Sweden for questioning.

Yet they deviate from this regularly, and actually did so in another case during Assange's extradition hearings.
Random workload model and SSDs
Very interesting discussion on the subject :

http://www.wired.com/2012/01/can-you-walk-on-lava-falling-in...
Introducing Muffin: The 21st century way of building sites with dynamic content
You might, but then it would be a conscious choice and you would be happy doing it. Don't judge your possible future self from your current selve's perspective.
Why Robots Will Not (Fully) Replace Human Writers
This is a good news.

Firefox OS was never a real product, but a PoC.

IMHO, Mozilla should absorb the Tor project and focus on Free Web technologies, e.g. a really Free email service and a Free cloud storage service.

Yes, I intentionally use capitol F for Free.

How to raise money? Freemium model.

A good email+cloud storage service, with the optional pay model for using a custom domain.

And stop attacking the Linux distros for the Firefox trademark (forcing them to create the Iceweasel fork) or including proprietary services (e.g. Pocket) forcing the creation of the Icecat fork.

Just be a Free and Open browser, with some good cloud services, and make money within a Freemium model (allowed by Free Software Foundation policies).
Imagine how many people could be educated with the money that governments spend on activities like this, I doubt it will ever happen but until we stop the mostly needless wastage of throwing money at bureaucratic political games we'll never get off this rock. You know who's being punished when that money is being spent? The public, not Assange, not Wikileaks, not any governments - it's the public.

Politics aside, there is no human reason why informed, intelligent people could not speak and asses him within the embassy, then give the same treatment to those making claims and present their findings accordingly, it's only the totalitarian inhuman systems of political practise that have prevented sound, logical reasoning to take place.

If the evidence clearly states that he directly hurt other human beings then he should face punishment for that in the country that he is a citizen of, if it is unclear he should be presumed innocent until proven guilty but still investigated transparently and humanely.

With regards to assisting parts of Wikileaks - he was part of a large community of people (remember, we're humans and we want to get along for the most part) that exposed corruption and wrongdoing by people and governments in positions of power. If you have to break a law to prove that laws have been broken both parties must be treated with the same scrutiny - end of story.

Edit: I'd like to add that if the sexual assault claims were true he should be treated as a mental patient that committed a crime rather than a criminal with malicious intent of direct wrong doing. You can't heal, or change people with punishment - humans are adaptive, complex organisms that need quality education, therapy, social training and reflection and then they need to play a part in the community to help prevent such things from happening again. If you think about the money that's been spent with regards to the alleged sexual crimes alone - with those millions of dollars just think about how many people that could help, not just with education but also improving mental health, support networks and so forth that can make a difference not just to 1-3 people but thousands of people. The value of where our money has been spent on this is clearly very poor.
There's an unexpectedly large number of commenters who seem to think that this falls under free speech. Do I need to explain that the crap these ads usually download when clicked is responsible for a ton of support calls, many of which go to innocent kids on weekends just trying to unwind from school? :)

I'm kidding of course but seriously comparing blocking these buttons and deceptive elements is not censorship, it's Google saying to these publishers that if they don't get their shit together, that they will dissuade traffic from visiting their sites. The only way to get the attention of bigger publishing companies is to grab them by the revenue stream, you all know this.
From the essay:

> In contrast there are masters in the martial arts who learned their art as a means of survival and became masters in a realistic and hostile environment. We don’t have anyone like this in the programming profession, or at least I haven’t met any.

Charles H. Moore springs to mind.
Elon Musk Personally Cancels 'Super Rude' Customer's Tesla Model X Order
but..but the ad looks cyber perfect
> I don't see how UK is doing something illegal

Threats of storming into an embassy is not illegal?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-...

Or threats to arrest him inside an diplomatic transport?
Or even threats to ignore any diplomatic immunity at all?

Nothing illegal here it seems.
Why should you ask the missus, just because she's a female?
> German ICE trains usually peak at 300 km/h on selected tracks

So selected, in fact, that the DB is currently procuring over 300 ICEs limited to 250 km/h, and a grand total of 17 (with an option of up to two more!) that peak at 320 km/h.

I'll call myself lucky if the train manages 180 km/h on my usual routes.
Or the 5th sentence of the abstract:

> Questionnaires accessing demographic data and characteristics of cell phone usage were completed by 106 men referred for semen analysis

And this article isn't recommending a change in behavior, only further study:

> Investigation using large-scale studies is thus needed.
Thinking of this as 'debt' doesn't seem quite right to me. It's not like someone's going to come and break your kneecaps some day if you don't act on these ideas. You don't owe these ideas to anyone, and you don't have to 'pay them back'. Calling this debt is like calling the hours while we sleep and are not being paid 'income debt', or calling our front lawn 'food debt' because we haven't planted a garden there. How dare we!

I'm as guilty as anyone of amassing ideas and half-baked projects in various files and/or boxes of junk around the house, but I don't think of them as debt. They're all opportunities. Some are good, some are bad, and some have been missed, but they're not debt. I happen to think that some of them have the potential to make me a lot of money should I choose to implement them, but there are no guarantees. There is nobody out there saying, "Here's a check for $20M if you implement that idea right there, and you get to keep half."

'Follow your dreams'...'Do what you love and the money will follow'...'Nothing ventured, nothing gained' these are phrases that all sound great from the other side of success, but when you have a normal life with a family and a mortgage, the decision to pursue your opportunities is not as cut and dried. Having to weigh the consequences of not earning a paycheck to pursue one of these opportunities against food on the table or missing a mortgage payment, or even just not spending those evening free-time hours with your kids changes the equation substantially.
Apart from academically, it is largely irrelevant whether or not this is likely to happen.

What is relevant is that there are good reasons why Assange might genuinely believe it likely to happen, which means there is good reason that his asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy was requested in good faith rather than "just" to avoid a Swedish court case with a low risk of conviction and short sentences were he to be convicted (he'd have been out a long time ago if he had been extradited and convicted in Sweden).
You gotta wonder why he'd flee from Sweden (not a NATO member) to the UK (NATO co-founder). If I was afraid of the US grabbing me, I wouldn't go to the UK.
Good! There's too many of us already.

6.8 billion phones today means 6.8 billion pieces of high tech garbage a couple of years later, leaking all kinds of toxic shit into the water, plus 6.8 billion new devices manufactured while digging up all kinds of precious materials out of the ground and using oil to transport them all over the world, then burning coal, heating oil and natural gas to melt and glue shit together, and then burn more oil to transport the finished devices to customers all over the world.

That helps climate change, which leads to droughts in places like Brazil, determining people to use bathtubs to catch every drop of rain, were mosquitos breed and then fly around spreading Zika.

More phones and more porn, that's what's needed for a happy future.

/sarcasm
Does that mean they're taking down SourceForge?
Only 1.2 Percent Are Using Android Marshmallow on Their Devices
Wait till you hear what the UK does to terrorists. The current legal justification for Guantanomo Bay style torture is based of a case that the UK won.
Deep Residual Networks pretrained models (ILSVRC 2015 winners)
Because the UK stands up to the USA all the time?
Have to paste it:
http://i2.wp.com/armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
As it's pedantic Wednesday I'd does like to point out that the Queen uses these powers regularly.In fact we can't pass legislation in the UK without her assent, she suspends Parliament all the time, she removes Ministers etc.

What hasn't happened in a long time is for her to act contrary to Ministers' advice.

It's probably fair to say that there is close to negligible chance that that state of affairs (or Affairs of State if you prefer) will change in the present Queen's lifetime. Charles, however, may make things a little more constitutionally interesting as he has far more activist tendencies.
> threats to ignore any diplomatic immunity at all?

I agree with you that it is an obvious pressure by the state, the question remains how is that technically illegal and how is he technically "arbitrarily detained."

I'm looking forward to read the details tomorrow, or something more that you know even now.

I also find it good that Ecuador remained firm, because otherwise the claim would be that Ecuador agreed to what was demanded (as in UK saying "we've just made threats but haven't done anything else"), so there would be no chance even to consider if something is legal or not.
This is HSR done on even larger scale. It will travel nonstop for 600km+. Recharging is an issue there.

(I don’t know if you have ever used High Speed Rail, but usually it’s a direct city-city transport, only connecting the largest cities in the region, and often going for a long time uninterrupted. Many countries, like Germany and Japan, even decided to put HSR onto completely separate rails)
Erotics in Prison: On Jean Genet’s “Our Lady of the Flowers”
Your brain is your key: Brainprints could replace passwords
Maybe not but when you believe you're facing extradition to a country that supports the death penalty you don't really have much choice.
If "UN ruling" were binding then it would turn the notion of political asylum irrelevant. Political asylum only makes sense if laws have some sort of limit. And I am not looking into Assange's case specifics, but in a more abstract way, in which a bad "UN ruling" should be considered.
Money is irrelevant.

It's clearly not a question of borrowing resources. It's conning people into thinking they have more resources than they actually have, while redistributing money around the economy. Until, the music stops and people notice they don't actually have anywhere to sit.

PS: It's sad how closely you can model the financial system as a pyramid scheme.
I think the more I work on my idea the worse it sounds compared to the others. But, I've decided to finish the product one way or the other.
Only if you need to fetch new dependencies.
There's several types of ICEs, only two manage 300/330 km/h – they make up less than half of the current inventory, and are scheduled to be reduced even further.

Meanwhile, the more ubiquitous current 280 km/h models are scheduled to be replaced with a more economical 250 km/h one – and they won't even reach 200 km/h on most tracks.
> If Sweden says they won't send him to the USA then he will walk out today.

Can the US President give a guarantee that the Supreme Court will decide a case in a certain manner? Because that's what that means.

Sweden is a country with laws, and an independent judiciary. Sweden has extradition treaty with the US (as do many people). If the USA follows a procedure, then the Swedish courts must hand someone over (and vice versa). That's what the (Swedish) law says. You're asking the Swedish government to guarantee that the Swedish courts won't decide a particular case in a particular manner.
That part, I'm ready to bet dollars to peanuts, is a talking point pushed by Google PR, which the journalist used (just like the other 99 facts and not-so-facts served to him on a platter all ready to digest by PR) because he's on a deadline and doesn't have the time to look for alternative explanations. That's a lot of work for a very weak ROI.
Hiring Condeleza Rice was scandalous to me, since I care about privacy.

Obviously, this is a non-issue for the general public, but it's a bit tone-deaf for "power users".
Reading the article you would think it's the case though ;-)
The government also now has a direct liability to a fall in the housing market through Help To Buy.
PostgreSQL: Use text instead of char/varchar
I'm not sure we can extrapolate here: Right now it's expensive government-driven research, Manhattan project style.

Once it's proven that you can make money with fusion (and Wendelstein is our best bet), all hell will break loose.
Making the world safe for disruptive technologies– lessons from 100 Years of War
Also, ideally Google should implement this within their search algorithm itself, by punishing the sites which indulge in such practices by pushing their search results much further away.
> no one would ever be extradited from Sweden to any country in case they risked facing the death penalty and/or are whistle blowers.

Capital punishment is against the European Convention of Human Rights. No EU (well Council of Europe) country is legally allowed extradite anyone where they would face the death penalty. That's been the law for years. There has never been any question of Assange being extradited and executed, because you can't extradite someone in that case.

Cripes, even Russia has stopped capital punishment because of the ECHR.
In the Spring 2013 I made $4k in one month on that. Just bought $2k worth of bitcoins and sold them for $6k a month later. But it was way easier back then (because bitcoin price just kept growing without any downward motion), and I was risky.
“Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines” in HTML5
I think if I wanted to throw myself to the mercy of the court, I'd probably choose a British one.
100% of what stock, didn't Bezos own everything?
Combined with Matt Cutt's "indefinite leave", this seems somewhat curious. Pure speculation, but it's somewhat interesting to me that both are the "old guard" in search, and during their tenure, the pure AI sort of approaches, like Panda and Penguin, were implemented outside of the main algorithm, as bolt-ons that were very klunky and separate.

Feels like a move to to clear the way for AI to drive the algorithm, versus running outboard and afterwards as a tweak/tune cycle.

Edit: Er, okay. It's not curious that an < 50 years of age superstar is suddenly retiring for personal reasons?