skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am slightly surprised that the author/submitter, Matthew Cauble, does not mention that he is the formulator/founder of Soylent, the story of which, I am sure, we are all at least passingly familiar. I cannot specifically address the veracity of his understanding of chemistry, but the pattern of speech here does slightly concern me. I hope that those who are close to him have taken it upon themselves to verify and tend as best they can to his mental health.

That said, beyond my hesitation as to whether I am reading science or pseudo-science, I can't help but feel that we have been here before. This does resemble the pattern of reveals leading to the introduction of Soylent. I have no opinion one way or another about Soylent, and I would readily believe it to be as good a meal replacement as exists. As a business plan, however, this new idea would seem to invite some far more complicated encumbrances. Mr. Cauble may intend to market the product as a nutritional supplement, but here he is openly discussing pharmokinetics, medical effects, and formulating the product so that it has specific medical effects. I am not a lawyer, but a cursory look at the regulatory environment suggests that he must be on rather thin ice.

Furthermore, as happened early in the Soylent story, his claims appear to be once more incautious, bordering on reckless. Mr. Cauble should surely know, now if not then, that he can no more ascertain the medical safety (let alone efficacy) of a potential medical product by personally consuming it every day for 54 days than I could prove LSD harmless by consuming it daily for a like period. What he means by "safe" is "it appears to not have poisoned me yet."

If Mr. Cauble is merely reporting on personal experimentation, then well and good. If this is the introduction to a new product, then the emergency brakes should be engaged right now. It would mean that this blog post was a form of deliberate advertisement, that Mr. Cauble intended to introduce this product to market with absolutely no proof of efficacy and a reckless disregard of safety, and that he was doing these things despite the absolute certainty that we all should have that, after the long story of Soylent, he absolutely should and does know better, and is not innocent in any disregard for moral or ethical standards.
Why would you ever buy a strait jacket in real life, though? The metaphor doesn't even make sense.
Is this doing that? If so, does the privacy policy even matter if no one involved has agreed to it?
I've been messing around with Scaleway lately and found out a few interesting things.

Scaleway is part of the Iliad family of companies, which you probably haven't heard about if you're outside of Europe. This includes Online, a networking provider and Scaleway's parent, and Free, which is a huge French ISP with a fairly hackery internal culture.

Online makes their network map public:

http://map.online.net/

Based on the names, it looks like it's 100% Cisco with a mix of Nexus 9000s, Catalyst 4500e edge, and 4900 ToR switches.

Scaleway is one of the only cloud providers I've seen that is using NBASE-T technology. The Intel Avoton SoCs used by their C2 instances support 2.5Gbps link speeds using an appropriate external PHY.

Their C1 instances are Marvell Armada 370 XP parts, datasheet here:

http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/assets/...

These are using 1 gig connections. The instances I've spun up connect to a gateway with a Cisco MAC address.

The C2 instances connect to gateways with MAC addresses registered to Freebox SAS. Figuring this out took some digging. It turns out that Scaleway/Online is manufacturing their own 2.5G capable switches. Because Free, the ISP, already has an OUI registered and was the only company in the conglomerate which made hardware, it looks like Online had Free make some custom switches to deploy in their datacenters.

They're also making their own BIOS for the C2 instances. dmidecode reports the following cutesy BIOS data:

Manufacturer: Online Labs
Product Name: SR
Version: (^_^)
Serial Number: 42

The root devices for C1 and C2 instances are both NBD. Performance was better than I expected; I get wire rate I/O throughput on both (>90MB/sec on C1 and >250MB/sec on C2). Of course, the disk bandwidth is shared with the Internet connection on both instances, so there might be contention for some applications.
I went to LeTourneau University. You are preaching to the choir, brother. (Yep, he founded an engineering school too. If you built a giant hacker space, and university classes suddenly broke out, LU is what would happen. Even the campus itself was hacked together out of an old army base.) The sheer amount of things he was involved in back in the day is mind blowing.
You'd think, but someone once told me a pithy statement like "the good lord isn't making any morevland, but he didn't stop making people". Because of that, I wonder how far real estate can ever swing to the buyer's side.
I feel like my comment (praising vultr) from a couple of weeks ago is validated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678441
Yes it would be (fixed). Thanks for catching it while it was still editable!
Got a source for that?

Given that Aborigines were slowly getting the vote between the 1920s and the last vestige in 1967, the idea that voting citizens were being scalped for money is supremely bizarre.

I definitely want to see a source for that. While I'm not heavily into fighting for native rights myself, I hang around a few people that are, and I think that this little nugget of information would have made its way into discussion amongst all the other horrible things that have happened to Aborigines over the years.
- "tor hack," or tor browser user who didn't turn off javascript?

- is this only an issue for the prosecution because it happened before the changes to rule 41?
Personal notes about Elixir Daze 2017
It boils down to two areas of trust: a computer that's potentially malicious against a nation-state with stuff like QUANTUM; their ability to go somewhere remote/crowded and make calls. Im thinking lay people can do the latter because they have for ages. The latter also takes HUMINT to counter which is a precious resource they can't throw at all the reporters simultaneously like electronic attacks.
Even better, de-emphasize status. Status concerns are practically embedded in the "elite" professions (finance, law, consulting), but in technology people spend a lot less time worrying about that. And that's healthy.
Walmart has been pressuring vendors to move more SKUs to the US. This has mostly resulted in the most easily automated SKUs moving to the US.
I know Lunanode will do load balancing, ipv6, and floating IPs, if you haven't found one to your satisfaction yet.

Not a shill, just a happy customer.
I think it has more to do with stage of life than type of worker. For example, now that I have a family, I find that I'm willing to spend a few extra minutes driving to the office in order to have a more spacious house and more open space for the kiddos.
Like the sibling commenter I also doubt that people get fired very frequently.

Shady body shops come to mind.

I've witnessed exactly 2 people fired in 7 years.

And anecdotally, the bigger the company the rarer the firings.

Where were you working at that people got fired all the time?
There are a couple questions here:

- Can every minesweeper board be solved without guessing?

No:

1 ?
1 ?

- If a minesweeper game doesn't require guessing, is there an algorithm that can determine the next move?

Yes. Just enumerate all combinations of mine/not-mine for every hidden cell, and look at all the boards that match the exposed clues. If there is a square that is never a mine, click it. If there isn't, the board requires guessing.

- Is there an efficient algorithm to do the above?

Most likely not. Minesweeper as a decision problem ("is there any solution to these given clues") is NP-complete. http://simon.bailey.at/random/kaye.minesweeper.pdf
The story you're telling is accurate for cocaine and amphetamines. Caffeine is different. It blocks the adenosine receptors, which are supposed to slow you down before you wear out.
So this is evidently the wrong forum in which to ask, but what's it like interviewing in other fields? Do chemists have to perform a titration in front of the panel? Do surgeons have to demonstrate an anatomy lesson on a cadaver? Do bricklayers have to build a wall in under an hour?
The rise of buy-to-let schemes have only made matters worse. Investors are buying real estate to rent at a high profit whilst a couple of decades ago individuals would buy a second and third home as a future investment for their children (or whatever other reason) and would put it in the rental market, which was competitive, in order to help pay the mortgage. Low interest rates meant by the time their kids were of age the house could have almost paid itself.

Many of us chose to rent because rent was cheap, we were young, not wealthy, and most importantly didn't know if we would love in this or that city for much longer (perhaps we came to study and moved on to look for our first jobs).

By the time rent became unaffordable, or at least much more expensive than a (lengthy) mortgage, we had also been prices out of home ownership because we don't make enough even with our partner's wages combined. We just couldn't get a mortgage at the prices houses are going. It feels like been between a rock and a hard place.
> which I disagree with at a pedantic leve

I think we'll agree there. Because while you are technically correct you aren't practically.

Like how the Newtonian equations taught to undergrads literally don't have statistics. It isn't that it isn't presented to them that way, it is that they are using a different model. Going through physics (because this is the experience I have) you just keep learning better and better models.

As for Intel, you're confusing micro and macro scales. With the ohm's law you just measure the resistor before applying. This would be common procedure, depending on application. But this conversation is really arguing extremely fine points.
Thanks you very much for answering questions here.

I have a question about your "key operator" - it sounds similar to an idea I've played with - a way to run heterogeneous operations on GPUs kernel by running a very small bytecode interpreter on each kernel (Something similar to what's outlined in this here[1]).

Does that seem at all related to you?

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.321...
good insight, but the service uses the official API. No scraping involved.
The 2 disk special edition is 229 minutes... I saw it many years ago on Netflix (before they had streaming) and I remember it being extremely long, like: had to stop in the middle to get the second disk delivered long, so I'm pretty sure I didn't see an 139 minute cut.
I believe it's more straightforward and feel like it wasn't always reliable. Perhaps delays in their notification system, not sure.
Even better/faster than brick is dry stacked concrete blocks: http://www.drystacked.com/index.html
Official API, no scraping.
> This isn't useful because the printed house lacks wiring, plumbing, and finishes and is also an example of wasteful land use

Did you even read the article? The cost includes wiring, and interior and exterior finishing, the prices are even itemized.

The rest of your argument applies to any housing at all, and has nothing to do with this proof of concept demo.

This is kinda cool, not incredibly new, but the first 3d concrete printer I've seen. It's not the cheapest house on the planet, but it's more than an order of magnitude cheaper than what most Americans are paying. So why are you dumping all over it? Just don't buy one if it's that bad. :P
The Theory of Inputs and Outputs
I do own rental properties, including 2 in France. While it is difficult to get rid of a non-paying (or worst paying only time to time), it is not impossible to get rid of them. I did after 3 years of being payed on and off. One thing the landlord can do, is get all the social aid (Caisse d'Allocation Familiale) being sent directly to the landlord. So, at least the landlord does get something every month. Then as mentioned you can go the court route. You can also not renew the lease (granted, in France a lease is 3 year, so be patient) by sending an letter 6 months before the end of the current lease (which I did). The bad tenant left with about 4 missing rents (and damages in the apartment), but I obviously did not give back the deposit. All in all I did lost some money, but that is part of rental properties, that is not CD (Certificate of Deposit) with fixed interest. Like most investments, it incurs some risks too.

Having been a renter for years, I understand that renters need some protections and also an easy way out if they have some financial difficulties. There is a balance to find between landlord and tenant. If we could make easy for a tenant to move and find a more suitable place, I am sure tenants will be less willing to stick (and eventually not pay) when their financial situation changes (e.g. loss of job). But right now, it is almost impossible for someone who just lost his job, to seek a smaller/cheaper place. Hence he gets stuck with the current place, with a rent that is not matching anymore his income.
Resolving uncertainty is a deeply human trait, though usually it just gives us a false sense of confidence in what we think we know.
Good luck, and please feel free to provide feedback. I'm always looking for ways of improving the situation or approaching it from a different angle.
Exactly right. And as the manufacturing techniques expand you get more choices than just single wide or double wide.
Shill - check the post history
Oh! Thanks. ⌘↓ works as well (and ⌘↑ to navigate to parent directory).
I don't see why anyone would think fast internet access is the key to "the next silicon valley". Silicon Valley existed as a tech hub before the internet, and all sorts of cities across Europe and Asia have fast internet.

Silicon Valley is going to be difficult to displace for the same reason Facebook is difficult to displace - the network effect. Companies come to the SF bay area looking for talent, and talent comes looking for jobs. You can start your company somewhere far cheaper (an nicer, IMO), but people who are used to switching jobs every 18 months are going to be a hard sell on relocation.
I catch myself almost saying things like this to customers all the time. I think its a dunning-kruger related component of engineering humility. Constantly have to watch my words and think in marketing language.
You don't have one "your screening test" in that scenario, you have two.
Having seen the rotating snakes illusion before, I decided to stare at it, playing with the focus of my eyes until the illusion of motion stopped.

Once it did, I found that many of the other illusions also didn't work. Also, I have a headache, and everything not on my screen seems slightly unfocused.

Clearly I tried a bit too hard!
I wonder if and how quickly this will shift with Bash shell support in Windows 10. Unfortunately, there still isn't a great terminal emulator on Windows. ConEmu looks really sad next to iTerm2.
TL;DR Speculates that Apple has abandoned laptop and desktop lines, excited about finally having a Nix terminal on Windows, doesn't like the weak hardware in new MBP for the cost of the the laptop, excited about building a new Windows PC.
That's an interesting idea, and I can see there being some overlap, but the Key operator is actually not my invention, but is a member of a class of operators sometimes called classifiers. You can think about the GROUP BY operator in SQL. Or Henglein's work on discriminators. Key is an operator that is relatively new in Dyalog that came from J and some other APLs, I think. I have to go back to my paper to remember.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2935331