skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the note of "innovation", looking for the term for vertical turbines, I came across this article from 2011:

"Changing Winds: The Evolving Wind Turbine":
http://www.powermag.com/changing-winds-the-evolving-wind-tur...

It has (what appears to my untrained eye to be) a quick overview of various designs. To me it seems that vertical turbines makes a lot of sense - if for no other reason than it would seem like most of those designs get you more "turbine" for your build-costs/materials (and less "inert tower").
I think what YC has done was reasonable. It is true that you changed the rules, but Apply HN is like a MVP. Making things up as you go alone is part of the ethos of startups, and what matters more is if it's done in good faith.
The exact problem with Web.config modules is that they are never handled in your code, only in the config. It also is very IIS-specific, precluding it from working easily with other web servers cross-platform. With OWIN, by starting with code, there is nothing stopping you or someone else from making a config-file-driven middleware loader to accomplish the functionality you're looking for. i.e. app.LoadMiddlewareFromConfig("middleware.json")
That's because your information on Medicare is wrong. I and many others would be happy with Medicare for everyone. It's well run and more efficient than private insurance. Expanding Medicare to everyone would give it even more bargaining power and price controls.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-miller-medicare-idU...
one would hope 50 REST requests per second would not be the limit of the platform.
Hyundai's transformation happened much earlier than 8 years ago. By the time I bought my first car in 2002, they already had a decent reputation and a 100k warranty.
That's the point, though. They do miss most of their deadlines, and if they miss the 2018 date they're going to have to wait a few years for a comparable launch window.
Well we can compare to Phoenix :)
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> I hope the WebKit guy can release it as a standalone library that will benefit many C++ developers.

+1. Even just the WTF::Lock, WTF::Condition and supporting code would be useful.
There's a company in Boston called Vecna [0]. I always thought it was odd to name a company after a famous evil lich [1]. Though now that I'm reading the company's About page, I see both names were probably inspired by the Czech word for "eternal".

[0] http://www.vecna.com/about-vecna/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vecna
I think more scary is the macroeconomic effects of a large amount of cash on currencies and prices. $30m is a relatively small amount (compared to a total GDP of e.g. more than $50b for Kenya), but of concentrated in poor areas could have unintended effects.
I wrote Zappa, thanks for sharing it here! :D

The project is maturing rapidly and has picked up some (soft) support from some major tech companies, which is neat.

I have been working on another major new feature that should be announced with a demo hopefully next week.
Sure, I would. You think a Mac Pro couldn't run Apache, MySQL, and PHP continuously for a year or so? I imagine I'd discover some network tweaks I'd want to make, but I'd be interested to hear what part of that system would prove inadequate.
I nearly got thrown out of uni for using JTR to easily crack hundreds of NIS password hashes conveniently served by the CS dept. boxes:

getent passwd > passwd.txt && john --show --wordlist=dict.txt --fork=6 --stdout --session=lose-your-scholarship passwd.txt

Where dict.txt is from https://crackstation.net/buy-crackstation-wordlist-password-... (and buy the OpenWall list, or donate, to support them too)
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Hey there! Can you provide proof? Because every other first world country achieves better care at lower costs than the US with universal healthcare.
Even more volume, but also not needing to drag them across the ocean. They get transported a few hundred miles instead of a few thousand.
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This made me chuckle:

Critics of the special role of the observer also point out that observers can themselves be observed, leading to paradoxes such as that of Wigner's friend; and that it is not clear how much consciousness is required ("Was the wave function waiting to jump for thousands of millions of years until a single-celled living creature appeared? Or did it have to wait a little longer for some highly qualified measurer - with a PhD?"[3]).
Had to look that up again to be sure - no, instead what I'm suggesting is the number of possible states of neurons is infinite, and not countably infinite (implied by a cardinality of aleph-null).

I suggest the number of possible states is infinite since the signals between neurons are analog (though I acknowledge this one-word categorization is a major simplification of the actual process of neuronal stimulation).
There will never be better protection for whistleblowers. That is just not in the interest of those who make the laws nowadays. What will come are new laws which will make the publishing of whistleblower material illegal. The EU for example is currently working on a law for better protection against theft of trade secrets. Which such a law in place no newspaper would risk anymore to publish something like the panama papers.
Alternate headline: number of secret societies at Harvard about to sharply rise.
It's good to see the apology, it's very well written and dang has seemed consistently genuine throughout this process. My respect for him has increased because of this episode, and I think he does a great job shepherding HN.

I wish I could say the same for YC. Kevin's post about why Maciej wasn't accepted was a textbook example of the sort of thinking that leads to the terrible lack of diversity we have in tech. Nothing about this changes that. 20k is relatively little money for both YC and Maciej, it's nice to see it go to what looks like a worthy cause but it doesn't really address the core issue at all.

The arguments about diversity in tech are normally framed in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation etc. But in this case the issue was in diversity of ideas relating to startups. I think Maciej makes some very compelling arguments that the sort of model that YC promotes is seriously flawed, and was basically rejected because of that. I think his arguments are ones that many young entrepreneurs should hear.

If you replace the first couple of sentences of Kevin's post with "The simple answer is that ${the woman | the black person | the gay person} was clearly the best candidate, but just made me feel uncomfortable in the end. It’s touchy feely, I know, but the truth." they could have been successfully sued, and for good reason. Think of the 20k as settling out of court.

I generally agree with Maciej's assessment of the startup world, and it's sad to have one of my major prejudices about it confirmed so clearly. My estimation of YC has definitely sunk even lower after this.
Me too. And it has an API.
There is a lot of info out there. Maybe try to spend time researching each problem you have. Experiment.

I used to get migraines when using the computer early in the morning. The light from the screen seemed to pierce my eyes and slice right through my brain. I fixed that issue by wearing sunglasses but I haven't had that problem for years.

Maybe lighting and different screens / color schemes could help your eye issues. I can work on a computer all day with no problem to my eyes. But a black screen with white text really screws with me.

I will sometimes go out and work from up to a half dozen cafes / restaurants sometimes. That's expensive, but I consider that my office costs since I work remotely. I'll work at each location for an hour to an hour and a half sprint. I'll then walk to the next location. In a given day, I walk at least an hour. This gives my eyes more natural sunlight than I would get while cooped up in an office.

If you're working solo, then you don't necessarily need to be working full time. Work less hours and raise your rates. Maybe notch out time for certain types of work to be done with pen / paper and scan your notes. You could also spend more time meeting with clients and outsource / partner for some of your work.

I sometimes have issues with my wrists, but usually that's because I get into some sort of bad habit in placement / position. The soreness makes me realize the problem and adjust. The problem then goes away.

Ask 50 different people and you'll get 50 different opinions. Lots of different info out there. Just keep experimenting / researching to find something which works.

Of course, you could always go into something different, but nobody here can tell you what to do for a business to get into. That's also experimentation and exploration.

Either way you go. Experiment and explore.
The Geo API allows it to work like a search engine.

On my wish list would be adding a bounding box query to return results within a map displayed on the current screen: e.g.:
https://www.algolia.com/doc/javascript#search__inside-boundi...
or
e.g.:
http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ST_MakeEnvelope.html
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Yes, that definitely needs to be clearer. Given the context of "wisdom of the crowd vs. wisdom of YC", I interpreted the sole criterion to be "YC will benefit by making this investment"; it seems that many people took it instead as "who do we want YC to give $20k to", which is a very different question...
According to wikipedia, Hacker News Launched February 19, 2007; 9 years ago.

[ed: Other things off the top of my head, AFAIK both from the 90s: slashdot.org, webhostingtalk.com, twitter is from 2006 (obviously twitter and slashdot have been pretty much rewritten, not sure about wht.]
I always like NASA's earth observatories satellite images and analysis

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87985

apparently a really hot spring
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87992
Zappa author here - Wagtail works great on Django-Zappa. I have also been slowly writing my own CMS, https://github.com/miserlou/zappa-cms, although that's not ready for public consumption yet!
The google cloud documentation is definitely sub-par. I tried to build a simple Go app trying to use the pubsub api and eventually gave up. None of the documentation provided a full working example and any example you can find references an old version of the api. And this was with Go!
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It does now via CW Events.
One workaround you can do is to add lots of symlinks to keep the old paths working. This is what they do in Gobolinux (a Linux distro that has a radically different filesystem organization)
BTW, there is also a PostgreSQL flavor of this schema. That one is using snake_case convention for column names:

https://github.com/membership/membership.db/tree/master/post...
I'm not sure about that. Search Indeed.co.uk's API (which removes duplicates) for - "Ruby" title:(Rails or RoR) - and you'll find 101 jobs listed in London. Repeat the search for United Kingdom and there are only 158. So 64% of Rails jobs are in London. Compare that with PHP - 2102 jobs in the UK, 672 of them in London and you find a more even distribution and a much higher number of jobs. Rails is still a niche framework and has never come anywhere near matching PHP's adoption despite all the hype.
If you have Xcode, you don't need the command line tools and are better off removing them. The Xcode.app bundle itself contains all the command line tools, so having both is redundant. The command line tools are just provided for people who don't want to install the full Xcode.
DDG has done excellent work building their traffic[0] and have been getting a solid 10-12 million or so searches per day for a while. Even if you halve that due to !bang redirects and ad blocking and put a fairly low CPM on the ads they have quite a few millions or or low tens of millions coming in. I haven't been following too closely but my impression is Gabriel has been increasing staffing and other costs at a rate far lower than the increasing revenue.

Additionally the donation itself got a vast amount of coverage in the relevant communities, including HN, so the expenditure is offset against advertising for user acquisition they didn't need to do. It probably also strengthened their core community, making their users more sticky. The donation also went to some of the infrastructure they use anyway.

[0]https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
If Harvard rejects all forms of government funding(including FAFSA-related funding and tax-exempt status), I would agree with you 100%. The more government funding they take, the less I agree with you.
I've seen distros choose /opt for software not built by the maintainers, but simply repackaged in binary form. This would include software like oracle/sun java.
The mere fact of who won suggests that you and I were in the minority on this. Most of the problems Dan and Kevin have suffered is due to most people not thinking of what is best for YC.
>>Nature doesn't have an enemy.

How are you so sure? Have you talked with Nature by any chance? Has Nature given you this statement, say, in English?
I am not trying to be sarcastic here, I am dead serious.

I for example, think that Nature likes to fight many of its creatures against each other. e.g. polio viruses against human beings

I may be wrong, but one cannot be so sure.
To add to the other comment.

http://www.spacex.com/news/2006/01/01/octaweb
Seems like the last gasp for philosophy as a publicly influential field of work. I'd never heard of Bergson before, but I've certainly heard of Einstein.

When was the last time a philosophical argument or book was front-page news? I can't remember it happening. Stories of scientific discovery make the news pretty frequently.
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The systemd maintainers were one of the first ones to put together a technical proposal and do a lot of the implementation work for the UsrMerge, in a way that was reusable across distros.

systemd itself does not depend on being on a UsrMerge'd system, and otherwise, the proposal does not have anything to do with systemd.

From https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...

"Note that this page discusses a topic that is actually independent of systemd."
Two people died in the car accident on Hwy 63. For some reason they heavily reported just the single girl (she was a triplet).
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I actually don't think it is really that much money. It's as much as/less than a developer would cost.

Seems to be a fairly good deal. I try to convince the bosses where I work to do something like this and they just roll their eyes at me.
This is a video of the fire actually overtaking the inside of a fleeing resident's house. It was caught on his home security camera.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-man-wat...
I would encourage you to donate your time to some open source project that you use instead.
Yeah, it's not a perfect comparison. I only chose it because I'm familiar with it and understand how that style of code would behave.

I do agree that reading a line like "Blah varName;" is confusing when you don't know what 'Blah' is.
Box Charts would probably be the best way to look at it.
How good does it look for a hobbyist manipulating large matrices for use in machine-learning?
Reminds me of travelling near a large forest fire in Australia. The sky was covered with smoke such that the middle of the day was almost dark as night. Ash fell from the sky. Pretty scary. Took hours of driving to get away from that.
Isn't the Titan X also about RAM? It has 12GB to the GTX 1080's 8GB. At the low end you could just buy more than one GTX 1080, so it looks like a good deal there, but at the top end you are running out of slots for cards.
Okay yes, you're correct; xo does not buffer stdin, because the regular expression pattern may span the entire contents.
Another summary gave a little more: http://phys.org/news/2016-05-space-three-dimensional.html

If you're interested in physics in general, there's nothing finer than the Feynman Lectures: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
Counter example: Volkswagen diesel case, Judge Charles Breyer

All litigation should follow this model. No delays, and transparent to the public. No PACER account needed.
I live in Alberta (Calgary) so have obviously been following this closely. Two things stand out in the videos.

1. People are still very courteous while evacuating. I imagined it would be people driving across lawns and through parks. Instead most people are driving on the proper side of the street and letting others in.

2. We shouldn't take forest fires for granted and we should evacuate earlier. Tuesday morning this fire was a non story, then without warning people are driving down their street with 60m flames on the sidewalk. And not just a few hold outs, majority of the population came very close to injury or death. Fort McMurray has basically one way in and out (Hwy 63). If it had been blocked in both directors, this would be a much different story.
+1 You should look at Elixir/Phoenix
I'm still not seeing him say that

"If the votes swing my way, I'd be happy to have a good-faith conversation with you."[0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441978
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Well, maybe you could describe your problem. You don't provide sufficient detail for anybody to provide practical assistance.
I don't know about where you live but in the UK job market, as measured by Indeed.co.uk, PHP:Rails is 13:1 with only 158 Rails jobs in total, 2/3 of which are in London. That's hardly "one of the most in demand". I say this as someone who dislikes PHP intensely. It's just so frustrating when you've invested so much in learning Ruby & Rails to then find jobs are very thin on the ground.
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sounds like another 319 scam waiting to happen. bye bye money. all you have to do is read the thousands of stories about different governments or NGO's attempting to "help", or "fund", or "develop" projects in that part of the world and all the people have done was squander the money. History repeats itself if you don't learn from its mistakes. I think a better place to flush money down the toilet is to use an actual toilet, at least you know where its going.
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The problem with hex.pm is that it doesn't distinguish Elixir and Erlang packages so the total is a mixture of both which is not very useful.
Yes, you're right that chi-squared is non-parametric, my mistake. However, even non-parametric tests can have assumptions that should probably be checked into at least for a given data set. It may be robust to the violations the data collected may exhibit, I'm not sure. This article lists the assumptions for chi-squared test:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900058/
Yup. Canadian dollar is being hurt by this too
The only thing that precludes Web.config from working cross-platform is the absence of reliable implementation of a cross-platform web server. For example, I don't even consider Nginx reliable on Windows; some nasty effects are in place. The best home for Nginx is Linux. The best home for IIS is Windows. Cross-platform sounds sweet in theory but in reality it goes down hill pretty fast with subtle defects.
Man, I find it sad that 30 days ago, there seemed to be such a positively exuberant attitude.

So, good-faith conversation occurred. Didn't go well obviously. Definitely seems to indicate that 30 days ago, there was an understanding that participating in YCF and winning the $20K wasn't simply a matter of votes swinging one way.
Larger learning sets, essentially. I'm a neural net novice, but I think the general perspective seems to be that 8 vs 12 is not a big deal; either you are training something that's going to have to get split up into multiple GPUs anyway, or there's probably a fair amount of efficiency you can get in your internal representations shrinking RAM usage.

One thing not mentioned in this gaming-oriented press release is that the Pascal GPUs have additional support for really fast 32 bit (and do I recall 16 bit?) processing; this is almost certainly more appealing for machine learning folks.

On the VR side, the 1080 won't be a minimum required target for some time is my guess; the enthusiast market is still quite small. That said, it can't come too quickly; better rendering combined with butter-smooth rates has a visceral impact in VR which is not like on-screen improvements.
Every piece of open-source software needs donations of some form (time/money/hardware/etc). Donate to the ones you use. If they accept your money, great. Many only accept time though (in the form of patches etc).

Tor needs help with software too.

Tor relies on exit node diversity for security. Jurisdiction diversity, organisation diversity, sysadmin diversity, hoster diversity, hardware diversity, OS diversity etc. Funding exit nodes reduces a lot of those. It would be best to setup a node yourself and convince people you know to setup nodes. If you still want to fund nodes, the Torservers project accepts money to do that. Tor itself had/has an experiment on funding exit nodes. Exit nodes tend to attract law enforcement in some cases, there are no guarantees. Relay nodes are much safer.

http://torservers.net/
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2012-July/...

Tor needs funding diversity too, hence their recent individual supporters campaign.

https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/funding

Tor FAQ about funding:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#Funding
Ask HN: Is pursuing a PhD worth it vs. starting/working for a startup?
Spotify dark pattern in the early days?
Great job! I'm also trying to build a dead simple CMS (I call it statico) which tries to produce ultra-efficient static pages (in-lined css, minimal js, lazy loading images, gzip and cached content). So far my biggest challenge has been page transition. Since I go and get a new static page the old-fashioned way (a hyperlink, ha!) I see no way of speeding up transitions. Any ideas?
That's a good point and bound to happen. In our area, the township covered the price of the removal of the tree provided you allowed them to take it when they chose to (otherwise you'd have to pay for the removal of a dead tree or get fined for not handling a dead tree on your property).

Since the various jurisdictions didn't pay for the replacement trees (but all had ordinances requiring a tree every "x" feet where the property meets the roadway), people were free to purchase any kind of tree they wished. The problem is that Maples were the most inexpensive tree that could be purchased at a reasonable size so nearly everyone planted a variety of Maple. So,... yup ... give it a few years.
You are aware there are many people out there with technical skills who choose not to use drugs for a multitude of reasons? For these people, a security clearance can add tons of job possibilities, a higher salary, and greater job security, with the only tradeoff of being more "miserable" according to the occasional HN poster.
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