skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an investor perspective, prices in the stock market are basically meaningless.[1] As an investor you can purchases multiples or fractions of a stock which allows you to choose your price. Percent change in price is all that matters for your ROI.

e.x. A $1 increase on a $1 stock purchase yields a 100% increase, a $1 increase on a $100 stock price only yields a 1% increase. In this example, you should have purchased $100 worth of the $1 stock.

e.x. On the other hand, if have some $x less than $100, but you think the $100 stock is going to increase at a faster rate than the $1 stock, you should purchase x/100th of a share of the $100 stock.

[1] A stock's price is meaningful for two reasons. The sum of value of all shares defines the market capitalization for a company. Also, price can be used to exclude buyers in a socioeconomic way. This is rare, most companies will split the stock every so often to keep the price affordable. An example of an exclusionary stock is Berkshire A, which is currently priced around $180,000. Nonetheless, at the end of the day, as an investor, the only thing that matters is your expectation for the percent change in price.
However, then you wind up with 1,000 different products with 1,000 different design languages, if the designs are even thought through well enough to be considered having a design language.
From the abstract of the paper, energy equivalent to three solar masses were radiated away in gravitational waves. That's a simply incredible amount!

Possibly stupid question: Given how far away it was, and that the inverse square law applies, would the effect of these waves be visible on the human scale if we were closer? We can see the effects of the compression of spacetime with LIGO after all, so presumably we could?
I watched the press conference, and they pretty much did that. Generally, I feel that in physics, this is well handled. That's what citations are for.
In the press conference Kip Thorne mentioned that the estimates were for several events per year, before sensitivity upgrades.
Yep, I'm on an engineering team at IBM and this is basically what's happening. In my (admittedly limited) experience, I can only think of one thing that had multiple designers working on it, and it was basically a marketing website.

There are design guidelines and even some base templates and sass files and such to keep things looking somewhat similar.
I've been looking for a service like this for a long time. I've set it up there to look for any keywords on "Ireland" or "Irish" as I can relate to that news a bit more because thats where I live.
The worst part: we all knew this day was coming from many years back. Because we all know but don't want to accept that advertising is the only viable business model on the web.
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>It will work on the Turbo! :)

Since people seem to put the Turbo/Mini/Maxx in the same group, would it work on any of them? :)
How do your customers contact you? That is how you should approach prospects. If they use the phone, so do you, etc.

A) It depends on the market you are selling into. I think for people >35 or non-tech people, the knowledge of live chat isn't there. We have found in our sales efforts that offering people 1. An email we monitor regularly and 2. A phone number that reaches a competent person, is best. It is pretty much 50/50 how people reach out, what matters more is how quickly you clue in to their actual problem.

B) Our market is not tech-savvy and requires us to communicate using more typical business communication methods such as email and phone (as opposed to live chat). We tried live chat, and no one ever used it. It was more overhead to support (be online, etc.) than it gained us. The answer lies in who you sell to.
LOL, 4chan.
AMP is open source. The problems begin when companies do indeed just let Google handle everything, like they've done with Google Analytics.
We talk exclusive content, audio/video, contests, selling merch, tickets and more
not peer reviewed; there's a big red warning at the top of the page, as well as on every page of the paper.
Are there any potential competing theories this detection could also support? I'm wondering how much room there is here for confirmation bias, but I suppose that's a pretty hard thing to measure without the benefit of hindsight.
Nah, it's more of a feeling of liberation from unreasonably high expectations.
That's not a use case I'd considered, but I suppose it could.

It grew out of wanting to be informed about any links related to a book I was writing (on 'docker'). Friends have used it eg to be informed about any 'rust' related posts.
FYI, it can be stored in theoretically any key. But it's probably worth looking for SUFeedURL* at least.

% plutil -p /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/Info.plist| grep SUFeedURL
"SUFeedURLForFinal" => "https://iterm2.com/appcasts/final.xml"
"SUFeedURLForTesting" => "https://iterm2.com/appcasts/testing3.xml"
Both!

As others have said, intensity (power per unit area) decreases according to the same inverse square law that governs most effects due to localized sources in three dimensions of space. In this case, you're looking at a distance of over a billion light years, and then squaring it: that's a pretty enormous "per unit area"!

But gravity itself is also a tremendously weak force compared to the others. That may seem surprising at first, but it becomes pretty clear when I point out that a cheap little refrigerator magnet exerts enough force to overcome the gravitational pull of an entire planet right beneath it. Gravitational waves are pretty much just ripples on the top of that already tiny force.
I'm sorry but no, you cannot transfer information with quantum entanglement. What entanglement says is that if you have a photon and I have a photon and they are entangled and you make a measurement on some attribute of your photon, my photon will assume the complimentary state. However, the state your photon assumes when you measure it is random and once you measure it, you lose the entanglement. So, there's no way for you to encode any information in your entangled photon. Yes, I can infer what state your photon was in as soon as you measure it, this is useful for encryption as we can then compare notes after making a measurement and make sure nobody tampered with our entangled photons.
Wouldn't this just have the same problem as the previous site? The functionality for this tool seems better implemented as a Chromium or Firefox plugin rather than a service.
Since you want high bandwidth, OVH level prices/hardware/etc.

Reliable site is noticeably better but costs more. The others are Kimsufi/SoYouStart kind of providers. [e.g. the lower end OVH brands]

NYC Metro

http://www.reliablesite.net/

Kansas City

https://www.wholesaleinternet.net/dedicated/

https://joesdatacenter.com/dedicated-server-packages/

https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/

South Carolina

https://billing.dacentec.com/hostbill/index.php?/cart/dedica...
> You have to provide a pay stub, and a post-dated check, and the money just gets taken out on the day of.

That doesn't prevent missing payments; if it did, the risk profile on payday loans would be much different than it is and the costs would be much lower, in line with other, lower-risk, loans that exist in the market. There are several reasons why it is possible to miss the expected payment even with the paystub + postdated check approach.

(1) There's no guarantee that the next paycheck will be the same size as the previous one, particularly with the population (largely not salaried, often without paid leave available, and often with little job security) that needs payday loans.

(2) There's no guarantee that someone else won't reach into the account and take money before the payday lender gets it (including the bank itself, which absolutely will beat anyone presenting a check if there are fees, etc., due.)

(3) Its possible to cash/deposit paychecks other places than the account on which the postdated check is drawn, and people might do so if they have another unexpected expense, and decide paying that is more important than paying the loan.
18F is hardly the only group within government using OSS to build websites. Also hardly the first (CFPB was at it before 18F existed), I'm sure there are more way before CFPB.

According to https://www.govcode.org/repos, there are about 1,300 U.S. government repos on GitHub that do not belong to 18F.

If you're generally interested in how we do ATOs, https://pages.18f.gov/before-you-ship/ato/ is a nice internal guide for our devs.

(I work at 18F)
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Near as I can tell, they're intrinsically extremely weak, so much so that the only thing we've been able to see it all is extreme events like these black hole mergers. In theory, pretty much any time anything moves, some level of gravitational waves should be generated, though no telling if we'd ever be able to detect them.
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MIT News Page: http://news.mit.edu/2016/ligo-first-detection-gravitational-...
Oh, I guess they fixed it. It was broken before.
When programming with immutability becomes ubiquitous, this problem will be solved. Immutable systems enable permanent & idealized caching at all layers. This is more of a research topic now but is where we are headed in 10 year timeframe i think.

Anyway, who cares. What about the last ten thousand years of content that nobody gives a shit about.
This is not just true for Ruby but also for the entire npm ecosystem.

I wonder how much traffic could be saved by optimizing npm packages... probably on terabyte scale at github alone, methinks.
Well, technically, they black holes circle each other for billion of years. So with instruments sensitive enough, you could do that. Unfortunately, LIGO and the others are only sensitive enough to see the last few parts of a second, when the signal is strongest.
TFA says "they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away" and "1.2 billion years ago".

And from the paper: "The source lies at a luminosity distance of 410+160-180 Mpcc corresponding to a redshift z=0.09+0.03-0.04.". (https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P150914/public) Which corresponds to 1.337+0.522-0.587 billion ly (or between 750.2 million and 1.859 billion ly).
> This event was the equivalent of three of our suns turned into pure energy.

"The collision unleashed the energy of a billion trillion Suns in a fraction of a second."
Is Anal sex actually taking over from the original?
I do budgeting in Google Sheets and use Mint for historical reviews. I recently helped my gf go from minimal money management to proper budgeting, forecasting and tracking, so I learned from experience what steps can be helpful to take and in what order to help understand things.

I think if you earn less than or equal to what you spend, the most important information is where your money is going so you can be aware of what is happening. If you earn more than what you spend, you want the same thing plus an ability to save and invest in something and track that.

I would suggest starting with something manual (ie. Google Sheets) and then automating once you see how everything comes together. Do things that don't scale (ie. enter every transaction) until you feel more in control, and then automate with Mint or similar tool for European market.
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That sounds pretty fair. I think the RQL Builder issue is a bit bigger than that since it would make writing your own DSLs a bit more awkward, with more overhead. I think a simple published protocol would be the better alternative. But even so, it's not insurmountable and there are databases with much much more awkward APIs. RethinkDB's isn't all that compelling IMO, but at least it's not actively hostile.

Cloudant gets most of the rest correct. Their (dedicated) clustering has been largely flawless IME. Their availability probably the best of any system I've used (database or otherwise). Very very impressive. And their integrated Lucene takes a whole category of issues out of the equation.

They don't have transactions either though. Which is a bigger issue than in RethinkDB since they also don't have joins. If you need to dematerialize a navigable tree into your documents that's easy enough. But what happens when the source-of-truth for your tree (another document in my case) changes? You have to reprocess the entire live database. The fact that you can't do that atomically mean you either: A: Hope for the best. Or B: Do a lot of extra work implementing processing that will (hopefully) converge on eventual consistency.

I feel like RethinkDB is moving up my list during this thread though. So there's that. :)

The lack of integrated full-text-search that provides decent guarantees is a real sticking point, but outside of Cloudant I can't think of another NoSQL solution that attempts it.

I'll say this though: If RethinkDB resolved the search issue, it would probably be THE DB to use IMO. RQL (despite the space I've given it) is pretty petty in comparison. And lack of multi-document atomic transactions are much less of an issue with the schema flexibility afforded by JOIN support.

Even without resolving it I think I'm convinced enough to give it a closer look.
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There is operating at a loss because you are reinvesting (see: Amazon) and there is operating at a loss because your business isn't viable. Soundcloud is somewhere in between those two extremes.
To me, this seems more like an argument for optimizing beyond your own stack. Don't kill your own dependencies.

Your app uses to much memory? Improve a dependency, you have now improved other peoples apps, too.

Your app uses to much dependencies in total? Try to get all your first-level dependencies to standardize on the best http-client. (Which he is partially doing with his post.)

Dependencies may have problems, but shared problems are better than problems only you have.
All of my weight behind it. SoundCloud was how Indie Music, the companion of the lonely programmer, took us all into the small bedroom corners of the struggling songwriter. The problem is obviously business model.

While not so straightforward, applying DJBooth.net's money-making viewpoint of non-intrusive angle ads or more creatively publishing short-span addictive games on the website Indie gamers can play while listening to Indie Music should start a path to a defining solution.
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FWIW, I did an install from source and it was totally painless--no dependencies to track down. ./configure, make, sudo make install and you're done.
Even before this discovery, it's been pretty solidly established that any alternative theory to General Relativity would need to behave essentially identically to GR in the limits where we've been able to test it. So, for example, the "low energy limit" of string theory is general relativity (plus other content, in most cases). I'm not sure whether the loop quantum gravity folks have a working low-curvature limit yet (I'm out of touch), but that would be a requirement for them, too.

At first glance, I'd guess that this discovery only strengthens that conclusion: even a small deviation from GR might well change the detailed behavior of an immensely high curvature situation like a black hole merger, and what we saw seems to have been a spot on match for the GR-based models.
Interesting (unusual?) choice of a hypermedia API structure. Were you having a lot of issues with RESTful APIs?
Could somebody explain what this discovery means for science? Are there any functional applications for this?

Note that I'm more of an innovator than a scientist, so I always like to think about applications for new scientific discoveries.
It's not about your credit card #, it's about your social graph and your existence as a datapoint for anomaly detection.
I think if this was available in some package managers, it would be pretty useful. I mean being able to apt-get/yum/brew/choccy "ricey" and have it work on all of them would make this a deal breaker
Not necessarily. One person defines the design language and the other 1,000 apply it to different products.
But he neglected to mention the error bars on this, which AFAIK are huge at least for BH-BH mergers. Every time we built a new instrument, we saw something new, whether in astrophysics, or nuclear physics, or particle physics. Maybe the BH-BH rate is much higher than expected.
A bit of both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave#Wave_amplit... runs through the numbers for the gravitational waves the Earth produces by orbiting the sun; it claims that at 1 light-year the amplitude would be 1 part in 1e26.

For comparison, the wave that was detected is claimed to be "four one-thousandths of the diameter of a proton". That's about 7e-18 meters, on a baseline arm length of 4 km, so about one part in 6e20 -- about 175,000 times stronger than the waves Earth's orbit produces. And that was about 40x as strong as minimal sensitivity on LIGO, according to the article ("can detect changes in the length of one of those arms as small as one ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton").

Obviously if we were closer to the black hole collision we'd see much stronger waves. But you really do need very massive bodies accelerating very much (or equivalently orbiting very fast) to produce something that's detectable by LIGO over interstellar distances at all. The key part from this article is that the orbital period was about 1/250 of a second at the end; compare to Earth's orbital period. Going back to the formula given in the above Wikipedia entry, the frequency dependence is hiding in the "1/r" factor for the amplitude. 1/r is proportional to w^{2/3} (though it's not clear to me whether that's still true in a general-relativistic treatment; it's true enough for the Earth's orbit), which tells you how the wave amplitude scales with frequency...
Someone should create boilerplate marketing websites for all of these ideas and see how many bites they can get from people who believe they're legitimate startups.
Others have answered other aspects of this, but as I understand it, it is not the case that we don't know how rare they (BH-BH events) are because they are so rare, we don't know how rare they are, because we don't have a really good model for them. So, we don't know how often we'd expect to detect them, once we had a detector.
LIGO's mirror: https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0122/P150914/014/LIGO-P150914%3A...
It sounds like this is advocating NIH syndrome. If a library is going to make my job easier I'm going to use it, unless there is a very specific benefit of doing it myself.
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080701
Frankly, I don't even look at them at all. Snacks are a nice-to-have and shouldn't be a selling perk and a 1x week team lunch can be a good way to build morale and camaraderie in the company, but again, not mandatory. What matters is work expectations, compensation, team, culture fit, other compensation, salary, etc. Not the freebies that might get pushed to distract you from other things you need to consider.

I get worried when people really push the free perks like breakfast/lunch/dinner every day. That, to me, says the corporate culture will expect you to work longer hours (for probably less take home pay) in exchange for feeding you. The food may not even be that good or healthy for you. Frankly, while I like my coworkers, I value having a life outside the office with friends and family and would be extremely leery about any job that asked me to spend the significant majority of my waking time working outside the usual 40hrs/week.

Value wise, ask them for their per-diem rate or what they budget for lunches/dinners to evaluate.

Lunch, depending on your organization/per-diem rates in the area, usually fluctuates between $10-20 and dinners between $20-50 depending on organization, expectations, restaurants in the area, etc.

Then figure out what the difference in salary is, knowing you could make lunches and dinners on your own for between $5-10 ea that are guaranteed to be fresh and nutritious. Odds are, you're going to be losing more money getting the "free" lunches/dinners than you get back in their dollar value.

Yes, you can argue there's a time tradeoff for buying and cooking, but if you do it smart, you can get this down to once a week in a batch trip at a prescheduled time.
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A lot of apps (old-timey Windows apps, for example) have this philosophy, leading them to reinvent things like crypto and image decoding. Naturally, this leads to tons of bugs, including security bugs.

I would revise this to: Don't bring in more code than you need. But if the choice is between writing something yourself and using someone else's well-tested, heavily-used library, always go for the latter.
No. But with so much interesting things left to find I start to really really hate the concept of mortality :(
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Compiler also is a tool. Do you disregard people who do not know how compilers work as well?
Is it possible to get real support from Steam?
I accidentally double purchased an item on Steam (item was listed as 2 different DLCs so I thought I was purchasing 2 different items). Requested refund on one of the DLCs with details of what had happened. Steam just sends automated "refund request rejected" email. Apparently no way to get actual support.

Steam sucks; how do you actually get support?

More details here.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/325180/discussions/0/405691491108971709/

---- UPDATE ----

Interestingly I also posted on the Steam subreddit looking for how I might get help and moderators immediately deleted the post.
Nope, it automates nginx too!
This article at ars technica has a few more details as well:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/netfli...
I think the joke got lost on the HN crowd. +1
Well, they extracted a lot from the waveform: Distance, the two masses, the resulting mass. I could imagine that a competing theory gives the same waveform maybe with different values for these parameters.
For developer positions in Berlin 4000 € after taxes would be a considerably high salary.
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Looks like 8.04 hardy heron, no ?
Oops, missed that. Thanks!

Looks like there are roughly three million galaxies within a billion light years. Seems like lots of space for black hole pairs to live in. I suppose over the coming years, these gravity wave observatories will nail down just how common they are.
No it isn't. Quantum entanglement doesn't allow for instantaneous communication[0][1].

[0]http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/137-physics/genera...

[1]https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/78118/quantum-en...
I like the DEC PDP-8 shown on "Machines in motion", sitting on top of the IBM tape drive. All modern computers are boring :-)
LIGO is measuring wave amplitude, which is the square root of the power. So the thing it measures actually goes down linearly, not as inverse square.
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I'm going to leave a link to Microsoft TCP/IP (Wolverine) for WfW 3.11 here for posterity: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/peropsys/windows/public/tcpip/WFWT32.EXE
If you are doing coding or other non-design work, I would highly recommend learning how to do everything on your computer without touching your mouse. It's a whole new world when your fingers never leave the keyboard and you can still do anything you want.

But if you really want a trackpad, yep, nothing beats an Apple Touchpad. (or at least what I have used / seen)
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If people actually like the idea, I'll most likely try to get it in some/most package managers