skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logic gate 'another important milestone' on road to quantum computers (Oxford)
Capital One business banking has a caveat of having no shared database between branches and some other twilight zone interpretations of compliance regulations.

Every time I needed to do something in person, it HAD to be at the Capital One I originally opened the account at.
I love these; I recently picked up the whole collection and started reading them as I never read them all. Last year I went to a village somewhere north of Tokyo and if gave me flashbacks to one these albums: 70s buildings with big roots flowing through them. They should just base a complete series on these. The Star Wars link is lost on me though. Maybe I will find that when I reread.
A couple prior HN discussions on him from when he's previously been in the news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6702535 (Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1785189 (Super-Soaker inventor may have solar-powered fuel cell breakthrough)
A comparable e-reader is also available from Onyx: http://ereader-store.de/de/75-onyx-boox-max.html . The site owner (ereader-store.de) is very active in the mobileread forums and provides on-going support for Onyx products including firmware updates. For example, he has made available Android 4.2.x for Onyx Boox T68, even for versions that he didn't sell.
I can't answer the question of technical merit, but things hardly ever win public appeal based on technical merit. The appeal of x86 is the mountains of backward compatible software, which is due to how well-known its programming methods are, which is due to how incredibly popular the CPU type is. If we keep switching to the best possible CPU architecture every time a new one popped up, nothing would ever achieve what x86 has done.

English is far from the best language, but everyone on this site speaks it. Gasoline is far from the best source of fuel for a vehicle, but every corner has a gas station. x86 is far from the best architecture, but basically every OS at leasts supports it in some way.
StructureMap supports property injection in addition to constructor injection.

http://structuremap.github.io/setter-injection/

It's beef awhile since I've used it, but was using it for web forms where we didn't want to deal with creating our own page factory.

Also, the way I've typically written unit tests is with StructureMap auto mocking which will automatically inject mocks into your constructor so you don't have a bunch of compile errors if you add a dependency.

https://lostechies.com/joshuaflanagan/2009/02/04/auto-mockin...

But, I'm not trying to bash your project, it's always fun to dig into the internals and set this sort of stuff up on your own.
the semi-irony here is their source-project management site for addon developers is called "curseforge".

I use curse mostly to handle addons for games I play a lot (world of warcraft primarily). Every now and then, when I bump into some terrible interface on their client or bad practice by their business managers, I have wondered how much work it would be to move to an open addon publication system. If you get all the addon authors to move to a different storage platform for their actual addons like github, how much extra work would it be to build a client on top of that? The addons themselves are pretty much FOSS by definition - you can't distribute for-pay addons for WoW at least.

I imagine there'd be some scale issues, and github isn't really a distro network, but I'd bet the technical work could be done in a weekend.
That doesn't make sense. Again: active colonies, not the number imported. Literally: there are more live bees in the US post-neonicotinoid.
Indeed but it seems to be human nature to constantly look for prophets and seek advice on the one true way to live?
No, I'm suggesting there may be no causal link at all.
How does it not? When making a fruit salad, the knowledge that tomatoes don't go in fruit salad seems pretty relevant.
Hosting the Olympics where you already have facilities is ideal, but that's much harder for the winter Olympics. Building athlete housing and spectator housing that can be moved would let you have an Olympic Village without it turning into a ghost town or a prison.

Kasita is an attempt at this: https://kasita.com/

But even conventional mobile home manufacturers seem to have taken a hint from the Tiny House movement and are making trailer homes for hipsters: http://www.championhomes.com/park-model-rv
SuccessFactors HR product used to do this (may still do).

You had to drag and drop your skills within a kind of bell curve. It forced you to prioritise only one or two as your super skills, then a larger number that were your next top skills, and finally a whole bunch of stuff at the lower level.

It worked well, though it was in no way the final word on this kind of very challenging problem.
Free Easy-to-Read medical journal summaries on diabetes
The conference is http://www.nordicruby.org. It was held at a Japanese-styel spa. When you check in, they give you the robe and slippers, and lots of people choose to retain them throughout the conference.
Absolutely correct. Zuckerberg lucked into Facebook after stealing the concept from a client. Zuck's self-esteem would be destroyed if he had this same honest evaluation of himself, so he has to tell himself that he made it due to his unusually high work ethic, intelligence, or other personal traits.
Nice article... I remember when they neutered the SuperSoakers. One summer there was a mother of all model... IIRC the Super Soaker 3500, or something similar. Man, huge payload, huge tanks, and a lot of water. The next year, the entire line was smaller and less powerful. IIRC, this was around 1996-1997 or so.

Brilliant idea, and glad the Lonnie made some money on it. Same for the Nurf work.
In Munich (they had the Olympics in 1972) they are apartment buildings as far as I know. In general, Munich did a great job at using the Olympic facilities later.
I don't think Oculus Rift is going anywhere. They bungled that project pretty well. My question was more about your assumption about getting some kind of cash cow and then milking it to provide for "moonshots". It is one model that works but it's not the only one. Well, actually, it's debatable whether it works or not.
Maybe monad in JavaScript
It still requires some cooperation, which means it's subject to game theory and defector risk. And there are numerous after the fact approaches to enforcement.

Just make a $1,000,000 reward for anyone exposing a conspiracy to rig an election, and audit the voter rolls on close elections, and impose stiff penalties for voter fraud.

These are all cheaper and probably more effective than voter ID laws. Strangely, these kinds of approaches come up far less than imposing an ID requirement. Also, mail in voter fraud is a far greater risk, yet is also ignored.

Voter ID laws are a cynical and despicable evil.
Of course, ARPANET, Multics, and Engelbart were funded by ARPA, not DARPA.
A toy typically has a few ways to play associated with it. A cardboard box, on the other hand, now that's where the creative fun begins!

If anyone needs a primer, I suggest starting with the existing literature, namely Calvin and Hobbes.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2012/05/28

https://riteshjsr.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/recurring-motifs-...
> my guess: somewhere lurks an AS/400

Not a bad guess. Of course, they're flawlessly receiving their statement, every month, without fail — so my guess is that somewhere lurks an AS/400.
I've heard of that. I believe it's used on some automotive computers (Bosch GS19 transmission controller comes to mind, which I think uses the Freescale MPC500).

I wonder how it works. If the opcodes can all be compressed, why not just make them smaller to begin with? I guess I always thought of opcodes as being enumerations of "commands".
You're confusing maintaining muscle with gaining muscle.
You don't have any study supporting the claim that you would lose muscle by getting your protein from soy. The only study here says that thirty 70+ year old men didn't gain muscle while taking soy protein isolate.
The idea is that containers are started to support the load of your application. If the load of your application is so low you have zero containers running most of the time you're not the target audience for this kind of service.
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, this is the markdown source for a presentation. A program called DeckSet turns it into a conventional presentation.

Having it in markdown enables some useful things like git/github.
All these comments, yet no mention of how Zuckerberg stole the project from the Winklevoss twins? My, the memory hole is really working great.
And coincidentally, is also funding spaceflight research!
Explore / Exploit
Well, the book gives you one way to financial independence (though it is a bit outdated now), that may be important to you. The movie gives background on why consumerism does not fulfill us.
Another story about a child "genius" that you'll never hear about in the future.
That's the dumbest thing I've seen in a very long time.

Also, if it's costing the bank $41 per month this must surely be getting passed on to OP somehow - they can't be making a loss on his account? I wonder what OP pays the bank?
Lol. Thanks for calling me out, albeit it subtle. I don't work 24hrs, like i already stated. Which means my price per hour obviously is not uniform throughout the day.

However, my value for my most productive 8 hours of the day is directly correlated to what i do in my "downtime". So if i went drinking for 4 hours one night, it would reduce my productivity during my best hours during the next day. So whatever i do during my down hours matters. Sleep matters, rest matters, food matters. So i have to optimize those as well. So my price per hour never goes to zero at any point in the day. Which is why i trimmed it to half in my final part. So that 15min is still worth a dollar value, no?
Prisons in America is a massive scam and so tightly linked with war on drugs. American government is like the Mafia boss while the City officials acting like henchmen. The first time I read about "civil forfeitures" I felt like someone kicked me in the balls.

But here is my favorite "Prison Project" story.

Kaiser Steel started a mining project in California in 1942 or so called "Eagle Mountain". A town was built for the workers (around 4k) and it was a very busy town until 1980s. Environment regulation killed the mining business and Kaiser left the place in ruins.

State of California then spend millions of dollars to convert the ghost town into a correctional facility in 1988. State could not budget it properly and one insane prison riot that got few people killed the prison was closed. This prison was privately operated and not sure how many people benefited by the whole scam.

CA then decided to convert the abandoned mine into a giant landfill (the mining was problematic for environment but somehow the landfill was not!) and after spending few more millions of our money the project of abandoned too or perhaps it is still being planned on paper.

The best part is however today the entire ghost town is closed and there are some people appointed just to make sure no one trace-passes over a town that no one wants to live into.

I am not even sure who owns the land, the buildings and who is spending the money to keep it fenced etc.
I've been running Debian on my work & home laptops & desktops for many years now, with very few complaints. I'd recommend it.

I think maybe the encryption issue you refer to is a really bad bug several years ago (2008?) with SSH keys. Nothing that bad since, I believe.
I agree that the luck angle needs to be tempered by considering that there are many ways to accidentally destroy a good thing. It should also be recognized that luck is required to prevent other, bigger companies from catching on to you before you're big enough to stand up for yourself.

I don't want to discount merit or work, but we too often seriously discount luck. Luck plays a large part in every success. That's not to say that people are justified in being unsuccessful; it's just to recognize that we're all involved in something larger than ourselves.

As failure doesn't always correlate to incompetence, success doesn't always correlate to competence.
I feel this way too. I was amazed at how much better Discord is in comparison to Ventrilo and Mumble when I first used it.
TFA refers specifically to wild bee populations, not the domestic honeybee.
the escape sequence is to anticipate all the questions they're going to ask you and answer them in the first correspondence. try two different browsers, try it in incognito, etc. If you can prove you've isolated the problem, you get to skip the back-and-forth required to isolate the problem.

And actually do all that stuff, don't just pretend you did so you can cheat at customer service. because maybe it is just your browser, and if you insist it isn't they're just going to hang up on you and you're going to deserve it.
I assume that's why dzfo is using a throwaway account and omitting identifying details (if their story is to be taken at face value).
So my solution to this was to sign a ton of publicly archived email with my full fingerprint. Then I stopped signing email and not a single person noticed/cared, so yeah. Meh. CVE assignments, no big deal I guess.
I think that the best long term way to spur investment in projects like a space elevator would be to make space as economically attractive as possible. In-situ resources, extracted/processed robotically and accessed via low cost rockets is the way to do that.

Once we have a rocket-powered transport network between, say, Earth-orbiting space stations, a moon colony, some near-Earth asteroid mines, fuel depots at lagrange points, a Phobos outpost and robotic factories on Mars, the economic payoff of a space elevator will be more immediate. Plus we could try them out on less massive bodies first, like the moon.
This is extremely in-progress. In general, the rust project is very happy to see some alternate implementations, but the author of this expressed some frustration on IRC recently that someone expected this to be working already. Please take it for what it is so far!
"Part 1" Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270386
Active colonies != total bee population.
If the mortality rate is high, then you need more colonies with reproducing bees in them to maintain the population at a certain level.
Civil forfeitures is another sport that USA always wins at.
I charge my per hour price based on my productivity. So even though its only 8 hours of proudctivity in a day, my effectiveness in that period depends on what i do in my downtime. If i go drinking, my productivity is affected. Same here. Even though it won't be the same price per hour
If my memory from last year serves me, this is less a wormhole and more of a "magnetically-shielded tunnel". Cool and potentially useful, but I wish they didn't use the word wormhole.
Can't wait to do a follow up post from the back of the box truck :D
Will DropBox be the first (/only) YC company to go public?

I can't remember any others going public ever, can someone correct me on this? Seems weird that, despite being so successful, no YC companies have IPOed before. Seems almost improbable, but I can't find evidence of any going public.
Saw that coming. Nothing will be done of course.
How timely. I just started reading Disrupted.
There appears to exist throughout the "standalone" Info viewer an assumption that you have Emacs globally installed. (I can't imagine why.) If you don't, you're stuck with whatever info documentation your distro packager and software developers provide, which usually is both not much and not good.

Anyway, here's throwanem's handy-dandy cheat sheet for Info navigation:

m - Select a currently displayed menu item, with partial entry and tab completion

p, n - Move to the previous and next sibling nodes at this level of the tree

u - Move to the parent of the currently displayed node

t - Move to the top level of the currently displayed manual (and u from here takes you back to the directory)

s - Search incrementally forward, with wrapping, by substring or (Emacs) regexp

C-r - Search incrementally backward, etc., etc.

l, r - Move back and forward, respectively, among the list of nodes you've visited this section

q - Exit the Info viewer

As you see, in a lot of ways Info navigation conceptually corresponds with that in a web browser, especially if itimplements the semantic navigation UI that never really got the love it deserved. (I don't think any current browsers have had that in core for a long time, but there is a Firefox extension that provides them, in the rare case that you actually browse pages which include the metainformation that UI needs in order to work.) But, unlike a browser, Info's UI is so undiscoverable as to be actively hostile to the task-focused user. If you often find yourself struggling with it, perhaps the information here might help.
One of the common error about evolution is that some people expect that any creature will evolve after certain time. I call it half joking the Pokemon model, were the specie accumulate experience points and then it magically evolve.

These animals are somewhat similar to "rat from trees" or "squirrels" or your preferred small mammal that lives in trees and eats fruit and whatever it can found. I'm guessing a little because I'm not a biologist ...

They probably lived all these years in a similar environment, i.e. trees in a tropical climate with lot of fruits and similar depredators. They live in an island, so they probably get few new fancy predator. They were well adapted for this environment 50mmy ago, they are well adapted now, and they were well adapted all the way down. So they had no good reason to evolve.

The question is why all the other evolved? (more guessing here). Perhaps some of them lived in a place that get some new predators, and the trees were no longer safe, and they had to hide underground, so they evolved to loose the tail and change the hairs. (Actually, this means that the population had a few variants, and the variants with longer tail get cached more frequently by the predators, so the ones with shorter tail had more children, so the average tail is shorter. But now the variants with longer tail get cached more frequently by the predators, so the ones with shorter tail had more children, so the average tail is shorter. After a few repetitions, the original variant is extinct an you get a new specie.)

Another possibility is that a part of the population get trapped in a zone with less trees with fruits and more grass wit seed, so they have to get used to walk in the floor instead of the trees, so they evolved a different kind of foots without.

Another part of the population live near a river with a lot of dead fishes, and they become better eating them. The climate change, and the tree disappeared, but they like eating fish and they evolve a different mouth and teeth, and some of them realize that they can catch the fishes before they were already dead, ...

After many of these changes and evolutions, you get giraffes, whales and humans ...
Off-topic: What are they doing that requires "hundreds of thousands of searches with the DMV" every month?
New steel treatment could enable lighter, stronger, cheaper cars (2015)
His javascript books are pretty good too, fwiw.
This is true. He did steal this concept and then create it. The execution made tons of money.
Do you disagree with Dr. Kip Thorne?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne#Wormholes_and_time_...

Wormholes for matter and energy are not incompatible with physics. We just probably won't ever see one like the one he proposed, because creating it would require manipulation of matter or gravity at extreme scale.

But, it is wrong to say it is impossible. It is theoretically possible.
What about NVIDIA-docker?

https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
True, although the fact that one validated a driver's license last month does not mean that the license is valid this month.
Uhm, yeah
I'm responding because I hate when people think that down-voting is a signal for disagreement, and because I think half of your second statement can be addressed.

State ownership of capital is the definition of socialism. In as much as anyone uses your term 'state capitalist', they use it to refer to the heavy-handed control of markets by government in places like China.

As to the departure from capitalism: when you depart from free markets without some seriously strong restraints to prevent further movement, you're always moving toward the same endpoint of non-choice and stagnation, but there are plenty of trajectories to get there. In the US, we enact well-meaning policy to protect our hallowed institutions or to protect the disadvantaged. The resulting distortions in knowledge conveyed by prices create arbitrage opportunities. Organizations/companies that can find and exploit those opportunities can grow powerful, and then they can sink in their talons to further distort and fossilize the market to their advantage. In the middle term, we have a different small group of people who get rich at others' expense, but it's a race to the bottom just like any other. Our confidence in preventing that decline is a finesse, just like in bridge: we're handing over control in the hope that we can both effect an intended change and regain control. That's a good trick for as long as you can keep it up.

Having said that, I think it's bizarre to say that any system's purpose is to destroy the world, even if that is the probable end state.
Regarding Emacs, are you familiar with the emacs tutorial?

C-h t

or

M-x help-with-tutorial
Conversation on /r/spacex:

https://m.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4y0z6e/toray_carbon_f...
I don't see how they're going to extract enough revenue to keep the lights on and pay the staff. This isn't the same as Amazon reinvesting money that would otherwise be profits.
It remains to be proven that Facebook's contribution is positive.

See e.g. http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/is-facebook-luring-you-into...
I saw that also... It reran on sci-fi channel many times. Can't recall the name but it was pretty bad.
Yeah! I was thinking about how I estimate tasks, and I always add storypoints when there's uncertainty involved.
Looks excellent. My immediate thought was whether it could be developed to get one step ahead: actually flag up the "bad" behaviour when you're doing it, rather than afterwards when it's too late

Obviously, that could sometimes be deeply annoying but there'd be plenty of times I'd like a calm push to focus and to stop switching about!

Of course detecting that sort of behaviour effectively would be a non-trivial task but it strikes me as pretty helpful.
The curious case of the disappearing SaaS company
Event Horizon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)
Interesting! I started this project a long while ago and I gradually introduced additional features and formats over time after running into performance issues with other file parsers (not Tika). Tika looks like a great solution if you don't mind the Java dependency.

Here's a JRuby wrapper: https://github.com/ricn/rika
Why Traditional Programming Courses Are Failing
Not all good products make good businesses
I guess the novelty here is that constraint based optimization with no guarantees on convexity or biconvexity is a PITA?