skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How "full" will be the OS virtualization may rule out containers, i.e. what about things that are meant for outside containers like playing directly with devices or loading kernel modules? You can give a container privileged access, but if you don't want to affect your main system that may not be used. Maybe a thin VM environment (like qemu/kvm/xen) less expensive in resources than vbox or vmware, and you can still manage them with kimchi or virt-manager.

If you don't want that much "full" access, and still want something that behaves like a full OS, and if you don't want docker's opinionated approach to containers, you can use lxc+lxd for that.
Yes wife worked in the industry for a while.
What if you could locally change the relevant characteristics of air?
The problem with sorting physical objects is that it's basically like inserting everything into a database for later retrieval, except you're only allowed to have one index (whatever you choose to base your categories on).

It's often better to scan things like photos and documents and tag them; that way you don't have to decide ahead of time how you're going to search them.
WW1 was truly unexpected-- all of the mutual alliances and it all being caused by a random assassination.

WW2 was more expected.

And, idk, I don't have the benefit of hindsight, but I really doubt a world war in which the US is involved will break out this decade. Like, with who? Nukes & M.A.D. have still changed the equation and made a conventional-weapons world war unreasonable.
Nice. Pretty sure I need to improve on some of these
Looking at Cute Things Increases Work Productivity
What would incentivize me to forward on such a review? Material compensation just happen somewhere... No one posts great reviews about a product because they were asked nicely. Unsolicited? That's fine; I consider that a review based on the merit of the product. Solicited? The first question is, "what's in it for me?"
Soundfocus (makers of AMP Audio) shutting down
> And of course, this already exists. It's called radar. Haven't seen any radar "photos" though. Interesting if that's indeed possible.

Oh, right, synthetic aperture radar. Duh. Should have thought of that. :)
Just curious, what are the other uses for glucose testing?
> Is that because Java is more a traditional "source code in files, run a compiler" culture, where you can scale teams just by getting better at source control?

Possibly. But you may be looking at history through modern lenses. Java was released in mid 90s, and the open source VC tools of the day were RCS and CVS. SVN came in 2000. The explosive growth of DVCS came after that.

> Also, it's probably a lot harder to scale a Smalltalk app out to a server farm than it is to just rsync a bunch of java packages and hit "run".

A Smalltalk image is similar to a bunch of Java packages bundled into a jar/war/ear/*ar file. You can run any number of OS processes, each a Smalltalk VM running an image, on a single computer. You can scale out by running Smalltalk VMs across multiple computers. Just as with Java and JVMs.
The people I'm talking about were also students, (University Hackathon). A group of four, I want to say 2 sophomores and 2 freshmen.

This was 2-3 years ago, so machine learning wasn't advanced (and even now, getting a functional NN running and trained in a weekend isn't feasible) so they only had it recognize a small set of commands, but it could do that.
I'm surprised anyone thought this was a good venture funded business idea. And there's no reason to use cash. "Points" would be totally sufficient. In fact probably a lot better for the demographic.
Blockchain isn't a silver bullet and probably won't be able to fix all of SWIFT's shortcomings.
In my (somewhat limited) experience, Numba works great until it doesn't. Loops on numpy arrays work great. Other stuff becomes super slow, without any real way to understand what is happening. Julia sees more understandable.
Do you have an example? What makes it unbelievable? What if a product is legitimately that good?
Here's the product page: https://www.ampaudio.com/

I was excited for an upgraded audio experience and extended battery life (paid for mine back in Nov 2014), but to be honest I'm not surprised. Nearly every communication from the company included apologies about 3/6/9 month delays.
Chromebook is the first thing to pop into my head; small panel, battery and inverter would be be able to keep one charged no problem. I dunno how small you can go, but since most chromebook's AC adapters aren't more than 40w, should be able to find something that would fit in a backpack.
That's the thing I don't get. Amazon wants to have reliable reviews, right? If people have to go elsewhere for reliable reviews those better-run sites will start affiliate programs with other sellers. That's a real risk for Amazon. I don't really care where I buy dog food or computer accessories or whatever. I live and breath AWS so they've got me there, but buying goods from them or target.com or wherever else is ultimately all the same.
That was an extremely entertaining and fascinating article on an extremely complex topic. Thank you!!
Open Source Artificial Pancreas System
Yeah, I totally agree. It's not just the OpenMP backend, it's Thrust in general. I had a project that was probably 5-10k LOC and it took like 2 minutes to compile with Thrust. I'm pretty sure nvcc doesn't handle the templating very well.
According to that thesis Japan should be way ahead of China.

They have the same input difficulties, but way longer to deal with them.

Nothing about the Chinese writing system is a driver for innovation. Chinese innovation comes from the economic boom and a big drive to advance.
If you've got a physics background, you might also enjoy Physical Biology of the Cell [0].

I haven't read it personally, so I can't vouch for it, but I've seen it recommended as one of the go-to texts for those interested in the biophysics of cells.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Physical-Biology-Cell-Rob-Phillips/dp/...
> Is it because she is a female everyone is quick to judge her a failure at this point?

Stopped reading here. Not everything is a "struggle against the patriarchy".
The human body does not literally require social interaction to continue operating. That's just silly.

There are also ways to maintain muscles without normal exercise. Direct electro-stimulation is an easy approach.

There is no physical reason you couldn't grow a body without a brain. It's an engineering challenge.
You can, it just makes the environment inhospitable for humans and requires orders of magnitude more energy than just what would be used to transmit the sound waves.

If you mean hyper-localization, that would be a new scientific phenomenon and one worth a great deal more to the world than as a wireless charging technique. The best industrial manufacturing techniques utilizing ultra-sonic arrays can do some amazing things but they:

1) Make the environment inhospitable to humans

2) Don't actually change the "relevant characteristics" of air so much as force a specific resonant behavior to allow them to target the energy at specific locations.

What specific "relevant characteristics" of air would you be changing? How do we then leverage changing of said characteristic to achieve our desired result? It would help if you utilized the terminology from the "Gas" Wikipedia page, a cursory glance and it appears to be comprehensive (from a concept perspective) [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas
If we want people to pay us for software, we have to contribute toward a system where value is added and money is extracted as goods and/or services of increasing value are developed and transition between entities. This radical concept is known as "industry."

The alternative is to be mindless coder drones that produce "content" for people who don't value it but profit from it. Like musicians producing music for music companies but somehow not getting paid for it, you too can be a doofus with a Google+ account adding value to the Android or Apple ecosystem with your free app. Get "wrote an app" on your resume, make a snappy logo, then flounce out with a sad Google+ post to extract maximum brogrammer value!

I increasingly see these issues as self-serving ways for some dude to get out of the hassles of maintaining some bullshit free app with 8 users.

Somewhere there's a real company who'll cut the $50k check. Somewhere there's a hungrier, smarter developer who'll work around the issue. Somewhere there's a dirtier, angrier developer who'll fight for what's right against inane licensing terms. This developer is none of the above, nor is he contributing to furthering the industry. Begone.
Do you think that Amazon doesn't already filter fake reviews? Also, people are already unlikely to write reviews, how likely do you think they are to keep writing reviews if their reviews keep getting flagged as fake?

[Disclosure: I work at AWS, but I really have no idea how any of this review stuff works]
The best thing that could happen is that Chrome would pretend to be Edge too, that would definitely kill UA sniffing for good, because there would now be two distinct browser engines with the same user-agent.
9 Startup Focused Slack Chats Worth Joining
So you wanted to let me know you deliberately misunderstood my point but then, wait, how clever, you did not. I don't follow.
I just cannot comprehend how anyone can use 1-based indexing. I have never used it myself though so there's always the possibility that I may just be missing out on something. Glad that you cleared this up.
I wonder how encryption, if it indeed becomes as widely used as many of us hope it does, will affect the ability of future historians to read all these archives.

All of my computers and backups are encrypted. If I were to drop dead tomorrow or suffer some kind of memory loss, 99% of the documents and pictures I own will turn into meaningless blobs, assuming the cryptography in the products I use are any good. I have no intention to print out the keys and give them to someone while I'm still young and healthy. Part of the reason is that I believe those files should die with me. There's nothing incriminating, nor anything particularly embarrassing, it's just nobody else's effin' business. That's what privacy means to me.

And yet, it is the business of historians and librarians to poke into dead people's private documents and learn from them. In an ideal future society, maybe it will be historians, not spooks, who try to break commonly used encryption methods.
I'm curious. This is a question that's plagued me my entire adult life. Why are many people against being called "those people" or "these people"? Is it a connotation thing---as in previously someone trying to marginalize a population would refer to them casually as "those people"?

Or is there some deeper insult that I am missing due to not having experience of it?
Guile's Theme Goes with Everything Tr-8r vs. Finn
Much of the time the smartest people don't actually do the best. High IQ isn't a guarantee of high achievement.
If an small army of clones possessing IQs of 1000 wiped us all out, then their IQs would drop to 100. Does that make you feel better ?
Finagle 101
We're actively hiring too. If you need a job, just visit our website at http://example.com.

No need to explain how much we'll pay you per year, how long the interview process is, how likely it is that we'll hire you after the interview, how well we treat work-life balance, whether our company is dependent on venture capital, whether our company is even remotely close to generating profits...or even what the company actually does. We assume that you're desperate...ahem...brave enough for a job that'll you click on our hyperlink and reach out to us.
But is a VC backed startup in stealth mode really going to make these leaps in basic research for wireless power transmission? And does the current leadership team really have to background to lead a basic research team?

VC backed startups can be great for commercializing existing technology. I can believe that a 20 year old drop out could take some overlooked published research and make a product out of it.

But to have a 20 year old drop out with no engineering background try and develop near physics deifying ultrasound technology, produce nothing and then pivot to some other TBD type of wireless power distribution?

Great idea to have a blood testing device in every pharmacy that can run 200 tests with a single drop of blood. But ideas with no feasible execution plan are a dime a dozen.
In cursive, it is often indistinguishable too.
But throwing the blood sample in the trash and just saying "You don't have it" is right 98% of the time. Would you support that test? Because I'm willing to charge you for it.
In case you're binary-size-obsessed like me, here are some stats on that statically-linked musl "Hello, World" binary:

$ size target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/debug/hello
text	data	bss	dec	hex	filename
351471	10256	10064	371791	5ac4f	target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/debug/hello

Here is a "Hello, World" C program statically linked against musl:

$ size test
text	data	bss	dec	hex	filename
3380	248	1232	4860	12fc	test

Looking at a size profile, about 25% of the static Rust binary comes from jemalloc, which is strange since musl doesn't seem to use jemalloc?
Current deployment is Graphite (Carbon/Whisper) proper due to a lack of time to change it out, but eval'd Dalmatiner and should be migrating to it in the next 6 months (before the year is out). Made it through testing like a champ.

The use case isn't particularly interesting though. Just multi-site machine and application metrics aggregation. Needed something that could work with Graphite tooling, would be highly-available, and be comparatively trivial to operate/maintain.
Oh dear. Are you one of Nero's "flying monkeys"?

Milo ‘Nero’ Yiannopoulous aka Milo Andreas Wagner but originally Milo Hanrahan is certainly a character: see The Blog That Peter Wrote for some interesting background.

However, his record at The Catholic Herald and The Kernel suggests you could probably find better sources on journalism.

The Blog That Peter Wrote
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
The Art of Self-Loathing
http://archive.is/cTgqq

Guy Debord's Cat
March 24, 2015
Let’s Talk About: Milo Yiannopoulos
https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/lets-talk-about-m...

Milo Yiannopoulos and the Kernel
https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulou...
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/08/kernel-face-pay...
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel
also, it's illegal to send cash in the mail, period (though they seem to give a pass to kindly old grandmas sending five dollarses to their grandkids)
Am I right in thinking thought, that the bulk of UK financial policing is done by the City police, who are responsible to the cooperation, the same way the Met police are responsible to the London Mayor?

Police tend to police in the interests of the guy who signs their cheques.
When I lived in Austin in 2006-2008, the traffic was atrocious, and it's only gotten worse in most areas. That city has a particularly profound infrastructure expansion problem, and the high growth has only exacerbated it.
But usually it is more complicated than that.
I was seeking an alternative and cheaper OpenPGP solution to Yubikeys, then I found that the OpenPGP card is essentially a Java applet lives on a chip runs JVM, and JVM runs on top of JavaCard OS. Since all the programs follows GlobalPlatform standards, communication with Java Cards can be straightforward.

In the end, it's not difficult to burn opensource openPGP applet to your own card. But there are 2 problems:

1. Bulk sales. If you want to all the things by yourself, and you found an ideal chip (recent NXP SmartMX2 cards has all the fancy stuff you want), almost every reseller only allow bulk purchases, say 100 pcs minimum.

2. Propriety software. For NXP cards, you need a propriety software to initialize/unlock a card before you can use GlobalPlatform tools to flash your own Applets. A reseller told me that his can be done by sending raw HEX code with a Transport Key to workaround, but I'm not sure about it.
The other thing about combined cycle plants is they are cheap. A big worry for anyone building a power plant is the long term economics, especially capital costs. Obviously you want the plant to run profitably long enough to pay off the bonds.

For Combined cycle low capital costs means the financial risk involved is much lower. Much more likely it'll pay off the capital costs. After that if the economics get dodgy it can be run intermittently or mothballed. IE, the utility isn't stuck paying off bonds on a plant that is shut down.

Flip side is coal fired plants have higher capital costs, longer payback and high financial risk. If carbon taxes make your plant uneconomic to run before the capital costs are paid off, the owners take a bath. (Nuclear and solar plants have the same issues, very high initial capital costs)
" learning something new I read about how its old and shitty"

Oh, the irony: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8787117
I'd love to know the name of the company they're referencing is.
On what grounds do we have that trust?

You can just as easily teach a computer to trust people to make way as you can teach it to assume people won't make way.
In Lua the same data structure is used for both. The implementation optimizes the data structure like an array when you use a range of non-negative integers as indexes.
Serious question though: what steps on good paths are there that you can't put on your resume?

You can totally list projects you've worked on, or some other stuff which isn't "MS in Comp Sci at Stanford"

I feel kind of the same way about resumes for hiring as you, but they're pretty good entry filters: if you can't be bothered to write 300 words (or, you know, reuse one with a slightly different intro), why should the company bother talking to you?

I think this is all part of the "avoiding false positives" mindset that comes with recruiting. Since recruiting people is really expensive!
The dangers of Duterte Harry
The closest connection I can find is that Steve endorses the Yubikey. I guess if you consider Steve Gibson to be a reliable source on security, you would expect his endorsement to carry some weight and likewise, the withdrawal of his endorsement to matter. So if you can pressure Steve into withdrawing his support, you would be in a winning situation.

That's assuming you consider Steve Gibson to know anything at all about security.
They say the new platform lacks Java and doesn't have an applet model. Or am I misunderstanding?
http://OnShape.com is a full-featured, browser-based 3D CAD system with a nice free account.

Also, they made (and built on top of) "Feature Script" which will allow such scripting.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/onshape-develop3d-live-grant-...
Soviet MSI IC chip designations
Dirty is not dead for rivers. The water is still useful for irrigation and industry, and electricity, which is most of its economic use. And the source of the water doesn't die from downstream dirt...
Not an expert, but I thought nuclear waste disposal was a huge unsolved problem too, rather than plant safety.
> five minutes to set up a LetsEncrypt certificate

Did you read the LE client source code? Did you verify or set up so that files and directories are with least privilege? All that in five minutes?

Or are you suggesting that the Pharo webmaster git clones certbot onto their web server system and just runs the commands according to the LE getting started guide? That's not a qualitative step-up from "curl ... | bash".

I use acme-tiny. It's a nice short Python script that mostly shells out to OpenSSL. I went through the source code rather carefully, tested it, and then mucked around with file/directory permissions when using it for real. Took me like 12 minutes at least.

I'm kidding about the 12 minutes part, obviously. :-D
Definitely natural gas is cheaper. And also world leaders are starting to get spooked by global warming. Fear trumps banal economics.
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That's a myth: http://www.snopes.com/legal/postal/sendcash.asp
The vine program is a disaster for Amazon reviews credibility IMO. The reviewers are almost never invested in the product and most come down to "this product does the thing it says it will do!" and then goes on to some largely irrelevant surface details "looks great, fits just right in my purse" and perhaps compares it to items in a completely different class instead of its actual competition "these $90 headphones are much better than my iphone ones". Some do make a good effort and can be supplementarily useful but they just don't have the same concerns as people looking to shell out full price.

I understand Amazon's (face value) motivation for it; decent products that are passed by because nobody reviewed it. But once you have one or two decent reviews all they do is add to the noise. Some sectors I've been looking at lately (eg USB chargers) are absolutely flooded with them to the point where it can be hard to find regular reviews. I used to use sorting by average customer review as a quick hack to see some of the best products in a sector, now it is often synonymous with "most spammed"; they are killing a key USP.

It's all very well playing the "we are transparent and non-coercive" card but the reality is people are very unlikely to start rocking the boat when you are handing them free stuff, no matter Amazon's position. And call me sceptical but don't forget the role of the selection process.

I'm sure it helps sales in the short term but long term it's a massive own goal. IMO they could salvage it by enforcing a 2 freebie reviews limit, or allowing users to filter them-- especially in the overall star rating.
IME eigen3 is even better (although the template-induced hellish compilation times are a huge pain).
He included an unlicensed H.264 decoder in his app. He could have avoided this by either using Chrome's built-in APIs[1], utilizing Cisco's free H.264 implementation[2], or simply paying the license fees himself. Google and Cisco are already paying the fees to make developers lives easier.

As much as I hate patent trolls, this isn't really patent trolling.

To make matters worse, I informed Koushik Dutta about this possible issue back in 2015[3] and he closed my GitHub issue and ignored it. I'm not surprised at the outcome.

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/pepper_dev/c/stru...

[2]: http://www.openh264.org/

[3]: https://github.com/koush/vysor.io/issues/84
It does look like support for arbitrarily based arrays (like Fortran 90) will be available in Julia v0.5 (thanks to Tim Holy's great work). Julia is very flexible, and the next thing is to allow row-major instead of just column-major arrays (something that I've heard is also being worked on, although I don't know if it will be ready for v0.5)
Consider de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet: Monsieur Grandet is something of a tragic character, tormented by the fact that he could not both circulate his currency and have it too.
As a non-native Chinese speaker, I have to agree that using the IME can make conversation very fast. I can reduce many popular sentences down to only a few button presses. However the author has completely ignored Bopomofo and Cangjie, popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong respectively.

But as for it driving innovation? The way our QWERTY Latin input works now it is good enough whereas without an IME Chinese would have to type in Pinyin or use massive keyboard. So the incentive to innovate isn't as great but implying that will slow down Latin based IT doesn't really make sense.