skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"40 x 40 x 10 centimeters"

I wonder if those are exact numbers. Entertaining notions of a sort of prob-distribution of size for a human picked unit of length, and then the probability of both 40 and 10 hitting precise centimeter units.

(why: I saw this out there youtube /g video a while back that claimed a unit meter stone in front of a pyramid, and went for broke by suggesting it is in fact an ancient unit secretly introduced by occult groups via the French enlightenment thing. :)
Ken Liu actually wrote a response to one of Ted Chiang's stories.

http://kenliu.name/stories/single-bit-error/ is a response/exploration of the same world and ideas as Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God", in Stories of Your Life and Others.

I recommend reading the Chiang story first.
Virtual reality movie theater with friends & fun: CINEVR.IO
i think they are like a bank. Value is inserted by people asking and answering questions.
The economic argument is rather persuasive IMO. The nuclear subsides are simply massive and often ignored.

The cost problem with nuclear is not that it's slightly more expensive, it's vastly more expensive. For the same cast you can build a lot more renewables which reduces their variability. Yes, they will often be over producing, but from a cost standpoint that's not really an issue.

PS: As to R&D, not having construction ready designs is a huge problem. If we had 20 years and 100's of billions for risky R&D that would be one thing. But, I think that time has passed.
Is this backlash related to the "Correct the Record" group or did the Republican campaign also mount a similar offensive that I'm unaware of?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac...
Virtual reality movie theater with friends & fun: Introducing a multiplayer 3D movie theater to experience premium movies & videos in VR
I got excited and then I saw that this was for sorting not storage...
Very cool.

Just an FYI, the links at the top link to the current page instead of sections.
This sounds like one of those things that might, with some luck and maintenance, become a universal thing. My first reaction was "why would I need this, surely I can type the appropriate build/run command for the environment I'm developing in?" but I might just end up going "okay this is extremely practical", especially after running some open source projects from a git clone.
It's back now :D
To call REST APIs.
If the algorithm could work well on a mobile device, this would make awesome camera filters for something like Instagram, likely could make some $ or get someone to buy it from you.
I suppose if you had a single 32TB drive that went offline for say a week, and then once it came back online you'd have some type of pent up demand and a "slow" transfer speed. Storage systems in general spread the load across multiple devices so the effect of slow transfer speed is near zero in most backup and archiving applications and maybe more problematic in transactional applications.
Backblaze always gives great stats with these. I upvoted the story before looking at it.
Back now!
I'll be damned, I was starting to work on app with idea like this. Looks nice.
I think it's just that they weren't designed with spoofing in the threat model.
Having read the short story after seeing the film, I agree. The story is enjoyable, but the film is powerful.
> If one wants to be closer to the metal, Go's cross compilation works out of the box, without all the LLVM/MSVC work that Rust requires (for now, that is).

That's not "closer to the metal"; it's reinventing parts of the native toolchain.
Re: balancing the needs of advertisers -

We looked at advertising with them about a year ago and their options and response were both underwhelming. It wasn't possible to geo-target, it wasn't possible to advertise on most relevant sites (e.g. SoftwareRecs), and their upfront budget requirements weren't compatible with how we normally do things, which is to run a small test campaign to see what sort of traffic an outlet can drive and then expand if it goes well. On top of that, the response from their sales reps was curt and the last message in conversation, once it was clear that we aren't going to drop 50K, remained plain unanswered. So, YMMV.
Social media didn't create anything new. People are on these websites because they want to see specific things, not things they don't want. Social media want people to be engaged so they can sell ads. If they show unwanted content or irrelevant content, people will leave.
Exactly! and BMW i8 is an example of an EV that looks pretty sweet[0]. So, it's not like car manufacturers can't make good looking EVs, it's that they chose not to.

[0] http://buyersguide.caranddriver.com/media/assets/submodel/78...
Typically, an article would include something like "Hahn's family could not be reached for comment".
Except that anyone who lives in a liberal/conservative area knows that they live in a liberal/conservative area. The vast majority of people have absolutely no clue how intense of a filter their Facebook feed has. This is amplified when 62% of American adults get their news from social media [https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/most-people-get-their-news...].
The algorithm used is actually very very different even if the results are visually similar.
Buran
Well, to be clear it probably is illegal to read for those with clearance. e.g. SF-312

It wouldn't be criminal, but it's certainly possible to receive a civil contract enforcement action.
https://wootboard.com

Draw something and share it.

Like jsFiddle for drawings. In need of a rewrite and mobile support, but pretty useful if you just want to scribble something down and share it. And I like the borderless canvas :)
(For anyone else reading this who might be misled, note that OP's position is generally considered to be "crank" mathematics)
http://opensharecount.com

Restores the little counter next to Twitter's "tweet this" button that shows you how often your article has been tweeted. Also available as drop-in replacement for Twitter's old undocumented API endpoint that provided this info.
> Money is easy to get compared to content. What helps StackOverflow grow is quality content.

I do, >10k rep on the security.stackexchange.com site. I just think it's an amazing platform that I'd like to support with hosting and development costs.
How about teaching children critical thinking skills? Much of my education in America was focused on blind obedience.
where are all the articles that talk about fox "news"? come on buddy, comparing the nyt and sources of right-wing propaganda is disingenuous at best.
I wonder if it’s possible to turn this into a video filter.
Nice, thanks. I'd like something like that, but generalized for any output, not just progress bars.
An alternative is to just turn the device off before you walk up to a potential issue. That way you're assured that the TouchID won't be accepted (last thing you'd want is to learn it only registered X presses rather than the Y required to disable). In the event you are caught off-guard, disabling TouchID is as simple as just holding in the power button until the screen goes black. If you practice this a few times, you could accomplish this even in a stressful situation.
Regardless of who won, can't we all agree fake news is bad?

Are you now in favor of fake news just because Trump won?

I don't understand why Hacker News has so many people defending fake news today. Should be a non-partisan issue, except for those looking to benefit from lies.
To anyone with these problems: try Solus. It's far better than ubuntu (benchmarked), has almost no papercuts, and it runs games quite ok.
How to teach endian
There is no limit - the only issue is if your questions are marked as bad. If you ask questions that are answerable and work on StackOveflow, you can ask as many as you like.
And what? We'll get back to newspapers?

One newpapers for the democrat & One newpapers for the republicans. People will be able to read only the one they relate better to, just as with the internet :D
People tend to think of the proof you are thinking of as easier because they are more familiar with it. There are some subtle things that the proof you mentioned glosses over. Namely, if p|A and p|B then p|(A-B). Now this is not a deep concept but it is something which people who are not accustomed to thinking of proofs tend to gloss over. Namely, they will see the part that if P = p1 p2 p3...pn + 1 and p|P then p|1 and not think that this does itself require justification.

Personally, I really like the proof using sines. I won't claim it is easier or simpler but it is very nice. I've never thought to prove the infinitude of primes this way and it uses facts from trigonometry. I will now incorporate this into my trig classes.

I think it is quite straightforward and easy for one to understand. Students in trigonometry and calculus generally do not have experience in proving statements about arithmetic. Here is an excellent way to show a connection between concepts that seemingly have nothing to do with each other. It is this that mathematicians really like.
Our World Is Going Full ‘Black Mirror’
If that's the attitude you have (which I don't think is necessarily wrong), than that's fine. But people aren't going to adopt linux if that's the case. Frankly: The manual sucks. If mass adoption isn't your goal, then great, nothing more to discuss here. But the point of the conversation is comparing linux to win10. I've never used win10, but from what I understand it doesn't require you spend hours pouring over man pages, so there's a lot of friction to transition from win10 to linux.
This is great. Here's the poster[0] for the Core Infrastructure Initiative's [1] Best Practices Badge [2].
Zoom out by clicking "-" at the top left.

[0] https://commits.io/posters/a9a5c093686
[1] https://coreinfrastructure.org/
[2] https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/
iStats - https://github.com/Chris911/iStats

Wanted a command line tool to show OS X stats. Browse Stack Overflow and a bunch of forums to find that nothing existed. I believe it is now the go-to tool for this.
I like Stack Overflow, but I seriously don't know how all these answers end up there. I think about 80% of all my questions are answered sooner or later by myself. And some of them are quite massively upvoted too afterwards, so they weren't always niche problems.
Considering his social skills, that would be a great achievement ^^
Yes. If nothing else, wider SIMD lanes and more expressive SIMD instructions matter a lot.
It's not the factorial either, that would include composites in the product too.
Agreed. I'm always interested in the results , even if their physical usage of the drives is miles above anything I'm ever going to do with a hard drive.
In the Backblaze case, they are securely wiped clean and then recycled.
But then you can't exclaim Q.E.D., bitches! and it would be a terrible cartoon. :)
Firefox 50.0
We (databaselabs.io) did some customer dev tests for that exact product (databases with fast local hardware storage.) We found that almost all customers didn't care about getting that level of performance (enough to pay for it, anyway.) For ~99%, cloud-level shared storage is all they'll pay for. Finding the other 1% is a very expensive long-cycle sales and marketing proposition, so we decided to market cloud solutions to the 99%.

That said, we are equipped to run the 'fast dedicated hardware' solution (we come from a managed services background) -- just write me, pjlegato at databaselabs.io, and I'll get you set up.
Are you one of those people that thinks everyone around him is an idiot? That if everyone could just leave you alone, you could get a shitload of work done in no time?
I have the same experience with books. I don't buy non-fiction for learning purposes* because it never worked. I tried with an IPv6 book which I read a few chapters of; I tried with another book or two that I don't even remember; I was gifted two books, one about making games and the other about programming paradigms, neither of which I ever read more than a few pages of... and yet I'm perfectly proficient by just playing around in spare time and looking up stuff I need and stuff I run into.

* I do buy non-fiction for amusement and casual interests though, like Predictably Irrational.
I think a synthesized title like "Facebook, Fake News and Elections" is better than language from the article that includes numbers that are an opinion.

Or just "Facebook and Fake News".
It is definitely not a standard or mainstream view, but it could be a flavor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism which has been defended by a very small but not infinitesimal :-) number of professional mathematicians and which isn't a logically inconsistent position.
Its not social media. My parents barely use the internet but they live in the same bubble /w fox news and conservative talk radio. Its existed for a long time, but now there are so many sources and outlets you can stay completely and entirely within the bubble.

One could argue about how much a bubble there is on the left... think for example the difference between CNN US and CNN international - one is relatively vapid lowest common denominator infotainment, and the other is hard news. I feel like infotainment/tabloidization and an uneducated populace is the biggest contributor to ignorance. Granted, its hard to know how much of a factor that's always been.

I'd love to actually see tags on facebook posts. "Extremely conservative", "Mostly Neutral", "Mostly liked by liberals" etc etc. At least make people think about why they're seeing these sources.
Sure, misleading title. We should also probably weight the score a little heavier so misleading news doesn't percolate to the top of people's news feeds. It's not filtering, it's just curating!

Weren't we angry at Facebook just a few months ago for doing just that?

Who gets to decide what's "relevant"? What's "misleading"?
If I'm looking for a library now, I start the search on github, not Google. The github search can be filtered by language and sorted by stars, among other things.
Obviously not every project in the world is on github, but it's usually much more efficient to start there, rather than Google.
> Are you now in favor of fake news just because Trump won?

Pardon my tu quoque, but isn't that equivalent to "Are you now against fake news just because Clinton lost?"
If it's cheap to accelerate mass around the universe, spreading beyond one planet is easy, but provides less insulation against non-natural disasters, like species-ending war.
To elaborate: only high value notifications activate OS notifications (i.e. your phone beeping.)

Low-value notifications simply accumulate in a separate chronological list. There would be a visual signification in the Twitter UI when you have new unseen stuff there.

This will make spam accounts that 'like' random tweets, to get people's attention, less effective.

The downside is it raises a barrier to possibly valuable new connections being made between strangers. But not a hard barrier. It'll take some extra effort for a message-recipient to engage - they need to proactively check their low-value-notifications page.

Twitter would prefer a solution that preserves a high engagement level. So I don't think they'll adopt my great idea.

Should the Twitter app on my device serve me, or Twitter Inc.? This seems like a conflict of interest!

Imagining a superior, more harmonious social networking ecosystem: separation between developers of client interfaces and message-delivering infrastructure. This is the approach Urbit is trying...

Twitter's free, ad-supported model, is not financially successful. It may not survive, whether it's disrupted by an alien computing ecosystem or not. In the course of evolving the microblogging concept, other desirable aspects may die too, like Twitter's monopoly status (and thus its near-universal reach). Maybe we'll end up with hundreds of separate networks, with varying user policies and performance qualities.
Hmmm. Curious. I wonder if Seagate has improved their production somehow to avoid those failure rates, because even with those previous very high rates, they fare much better on the 2013-2016 total chart.
Docker, the great equalizer
Twitter Adds New Ways to Mute and Report Abusive Posts
IIRC Palmer Lucky, the guy behind Oculus Rift setup his own CTR like company, without any connection to Donald Trump.
the paper is reporting milli newtons and claims the measurement device can measure micro newtons - or am I missing something?
Cache COW – a Debugging Adventure on Minoca OS
The article is reasonably written but I believe the author makes his main points through false claims. Don't take my word for it; see for yourself.

The upshot of all this is to say that a 1–2%
difference in election results based on the assault of
the <1% of fake news articles on Facebook is an entirely
plausible outcome. We can’t know for sure, of course,
but there is real, hard science to back up this theory.

There isn't real hard science to back up that Facebook had a 1-2% difference in election results. There's real, hard science that long-running general marketing campaigns can sway consumers of popular brands (at least that's what he says in the previous paragraph)

Moving to news, then, let’s state the obvious. Saying
you’re 99% accurate in the news is a complete failure.
Can you imagine the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
CNN or, hell, even Breitbart saying “hey, only 1% or so
of our stories are wrong.” Even one incorrect news story
is a terrible tragedy

Does the author read news? Reporters and news organizations are not injection molders. They don't churn out the same story over and over where the inputs are all clearly defined and subject to their own quality control. Actually, that's more true of the type of fake news the author is criticizing here. A 1% error rate would be amazing in a news organization.

And the real kicker of the whole thing

Thus far, all of your proposed solutions to these
very real problems are predicated upon a still-unproven
hypothesis: That communities at scale can police
themselves ... This is not true, and has never been true.

Well, I guess every democratic nation on earth is well and truly fucked. Get out the big black markers, fire up the government presses, turn back the clock 300 years[0].

[0]http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/legal...

EDIT: Less derogatory initial sentence.
How do they employ almost 300 people on $11 mil / year?

Also, why are these posts getting downvoted? The title of this article is "How We Make Money at Stack Overflow".
Sad to see this nonsense pseudoscience constantly making HN's front page. Whenever it appears I debunk it using the same post[1] (in short, conservation of momentum cannot be violated) but it keeps coming back. Looks like even highly intelligent people like HNers are easily fooled by pseudoscience.

[1] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2015/05/26/warp-dri...
I think I would expect logged-in users to be more likely to have whitelisted the site than random Google visitors.
I would like to suggest a feature request...

I would love to use developer stories but more importantly, would like to integrate my dev story with my website (as this would also keep the "recommended reading" section up to date as well). If there was some way to do this (we can discuss options) without using an iframe, I would LOVE to do so.

Just to mention...I want this on my website & stackoverflow. Updating recommended reading is of a lower priority than having it on my website in the first place.
I'm not sure that's the right way to look it. After all, someone has to construct the factories for building future devices. And those buildings need concrete, steel, electricity, infrastructure, etc.

THOSE jobs are decent jobs. Even if the factories are robotic, we'd still be able to recover those jobs.

So the future will be different, but I'd still rather be making things in our country for the reason above.
> There's a word for this, it's called 'subscription' : )

I avoided that word because it's the wrong word.

A subscription implies I get something that normal users don't get. I don't want that. I hate services like Dropbox where the free users get benefits for installing it on their Android or from referrals (shitty stuff) and live off of the backs of paying users. Yet here I think it's much more akin to something like open source software, which is for the general good and is worth supporting for those who are able to afford it.

Edit: There is no need to downvote the person, though. To me he seems to be contributing to the conversation.
China looks into sudden iPhone 6 and 6s shutdowns plaguing some Apple customers
I imagine there are a couple of points that play into this:

1) The good dam spots are occupied, to put it lightly.

2) Hydroelectric dams aren't exactly built to be replaced

3) The technical side of hydroelectric power generation hasn't changed much in recent years; the old dams hold up pretty well for efficiency in taking energy from the water flow.

Hydroelectric dams were great before global warming became an issue.

The effect of all the above points is that a modern dam would be situated in a place either too small or too risky or too troublesome to put one before. With the effects that dams have on the surrounding environment, it's unfeasible to imagine a scenario without government on board.

Given that they must be involved anyway, the state's scarce resources might be better placed in other energy investments than the remaining high growing fruit left on the hydroelectric branch.
My take is you should be skeptical but don't let that skepticism stop you from learning something new.

I remember the complex UIs I and others wrote a decade ago with jQuery, now those aren't complex at all compared to what is common now. I feel that it isn't quite fair to say that back in the day we got along fine with just jQuery.

Speaking of Backbone, I was already more or less organize my code like Backbone for a year when it came on the scene. Then there is the question, can I really program a custom framework better than an established framework?
Thanks a lot for the compliment! It is really great to hear from users. I just created it for myself and it is humbling every time I find out that people simply like it.
There already is a "Ministry of Truth", as you put it. The point of the article is that Facebook _already_ picks and chooses which shared items it promotes into your feed, so the news you get exposed to is already the product of human judgement. So, Facebook can't merely wash its hands of culpability in the propagation of fake news as the product of some "mathematically neutral algorithm". There's no such thing.

Not saying I agree 100%, but I think there's something there worth considering.
Whoa, what a great application of this. :) My buddy tried doing something similar with his CNC machine.
They have already taken up editorial roles.

It's entirely reasonable to demand that they do it responsibly.
Yes. Easiest example would be just the product of a_n, n=1,2,3,..., with a_n=same constant in (0,1). Then all the partial products will be positive, but the limit is clearly 0.
Perhaps we are 0.o
What a rigorous way to defend your position!
Calling names!

I bet you are an infinitely good Cantorian ! Did you speak with God recently?
I've contributed a fair amount to Stack Overflow, but it's actually pretty hard in the niches I care about. Not because the questions are hard, but because people answer them so quickly: it's hard to find a question I can answer that hasn't been addressed well. That's a great problem for Stack Overflow to have, of course, but I do wonder if there's some easy way to monitor specific tags without having to constantly refresh the page...
Euclid didn't use the factorial in his original proof, but it still produces a logically correct argument and it has fewer syllables. Metri causa. :-)
Ww3 still on
Not quitting my day job any time soon. :)
What does Backblaze do with all the removed HD that still work but maybe have a ton of cycles on them? Are they just recycled, or resold?
New OnePlus 3t specs