skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the tour video they show a stream of plasma directed at the 'waste' of interest. This has two effects, one it disassembles any molecular bond reducing complex (and perhaps toxic) substances into their base atomic components, and two it accelerates the decay of unstable nucleotides into stable ones. I suspect that video is up on the NIF web site somewhere.
This should read "NSA mimics Google, pissed off Oracle and Senators react. Google has never expressly disapproved of Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase or any other Big Table type implementation, so why would they start now, especially by influencing Senators.

NSA should develope and release more open source software.
He's from Canada, though. Don't they have English/French translators on every street corner, Toronto and eastward? :-P
Has anyone ever actually been punished for false DMCA takedown notices? I know it hasn't happened in any of the false takedown notice cases I'm familiar with.
I can't think of any logical way to put your post in context. Why would we all be using C?
I don't understand how composing results can be more important - who sends e-mail to themselves? I guess MS is willing to sacrifice general compatibility for it's business clients who use Outlook internally.

Word being added to the mix in the first place only reinforces that.
This is probably as relevant to me now as it is to the new guy. I have a habit of not taking the time to fully learn my tools; I'll try to make sure I don't pass that habit on!
I took a tour of the NIF on Monday. The guide mentioned that the actual electrical cost of powering the lasers for a shot is about $5. Air conditioning is a bigger cost, because they have to keep the building at 68F +/- 0.5 degrees, in the Livermore summer (110 degrees is common).
Wow, has HN been taken over by business types already?

Don't you think Mayer has enough capital, connections, reputation, experience, etc. that if she started a company to do what she wanted, how she wanted, it would be completely different from your average college-grad startup?

I mean, come on now. There's no comparing the two.
There are two sources confirming the same trend for Google+: Compete shows a growth of 43% - in monthly visitors - from May to June. Experian Hitwise shows a growth of around 35% - in monthly visits - in the same period.
So I would think: Two analytical firms would hardly be wrong at the same time?
I believe that almost the same thing happened at an airport.
The MK802 looks interesting. But in the USA, it's showing as $99 versus the Raspberry Pi's $35.

https://www.miniand.com/

My main interest in the Pi is that it represents a newish class of computing devices which are cheap enough to treat as ad-hoc embedded computers. The MK802 looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to fall into that category. Even the Pi is still towards the high end of what I'm hoping to see.
Classic mental mistake of the disrupted.

China have come from making pathetic, health-hazard goods, to now making 'good enough' products, and it won't be long before they are making Apple-quality stuff.
VSee (http://vsee.com/) doesn't look bad, but it's also closed sourced. Something built on open standards (SIP/XMPP) like Jitsi is likely to be more transparent because you won't have to guess what some mysterious supernode does and doesn't do with your data.

Good luck getting your non-techie friends to use that though. Skype became popular because it just worked, which at that point had not reliably been achieved even for plain voice calls, much less video.
yeah, unless the app is only useful in canada somehow, what about revenue from other countries?
So Douglas Crockford didn't read how it was the Google Closure minifier that added the commas and that it was a bug in Opera's JavaScript parser. So in Douglas' opinion Google Closure team are "idiot web developers".
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how serendipity plays into building a business
> a government policy that prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives

From personal experience, this just means that instead of spending billions of man-hours building software, the government spends billions of man-hours "integrating" software that costs billions of dollars.
"Stolen"? What do you mean, "stolen"? Torchlight still has its assets, right? That's not "stolen"!
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The numbers are impressive but whenever I login to G+ my timeline is always like this: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/239/d/f/forever_alone...
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Thanks, Colin.

1) MDADM requires specific parameters in order to mount physical drives into a virtual RAID drive.
2) Meaning, piping outputs doesn't work, since the text that is output does not equal the parameters needed.
3) First, the script has to automatically determine which drives should be used. This is done by calling lsblk -l (easier to parse than fdisk) and looking for non-mounted partitions. It outputs:

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 49.8M 0 /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.18_78361
sda 8:0 0 8G 0
sda1 8:1 0 7.5G 0 /
sda2 8:2 0 1K 0
sda5 8:5 0 510M 0 [SWAP]

4) MDADM's command parameter is the following:

sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=10 --chunk=256 --raid-devices=$RNUM $DRIVES

Where $RNUM is an integer corresponding to the number of drives, and $DRIVES is a space-separated list of the paths to the unmounted drives (which should probably further be filtered on size, since one of them is only 1K but let's ignore its size for now). We also have to remember to prefix '/dev/' since that is where the drives are mounted onto. So explicitly:

DRIVES=/dev/sda /dev/sda2
RNUM=2

Which then makes:

5) sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=10 --chunk=256 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda /dev/sda2

Notes:
a) I've been able to accomplish this using node, since in JS I can just do things like string.split(" ") and get an array which I can loop through, or split on newlines, or whatever. But I don't know how this is accomplished in bash scripting.

Thanks for helping out somebody very unintelligent with respect to CLI, despite the last year and a half being fully involved, and trying to google the help out of every issue and tutorials. I hope some day I'll be good enough to help teach people as well.
Am I the only one who reads these kinds reports and has that impression that today's psychology and biology is less than 0.1% of the way to provide a useful model for intelligence? The best measurement of intelligence that we have today (IQ tests) seem completely worthless for practical purpose compared to what we actually need to know to build solutions on. IQ tests are still too bad to measure actual "intelligence", as defined by our colloquial meaning and practical real-world potential. (as opposed to the official technical definition) Being able to measure people's intelligence would be extremely useful. IQ test results, not so much.

New findings about the impact of genetic vs environmental influences on IQ tests. Is about as useful finding new evidence about genetic vs environmental influences on people's ability to pass a "lick your elbow" test. Why should I care? It sure is interesting, and hey, anything "for science!". But, meh...
How robust is audio perception in the face of magnitude and phase distortions?
Hi Michael.

The scroll is different from OS Scroll. It is much slower, moving at a pixel per scroll wheel event. Also [space] doesn't do page down. Running Chromium 18.0.1025.168 (Developer Build 134367 Linux) Ubuntu 12.04, with smooth scrolling enabled (in about:flags )
That's what "until recently" means.
As a person growing a company, what I look for in an employee might be different than what an industry professional working at a larger firm looks for. Depending on how early stage my company is, I might favor someone who has more startup experience, is more passionate about our goal, is capable of doing more than just the job description, has the proper culture fit, and is willing to work more than 9-5. I'd be looking for employee #1 or 2, which is very different than employee #50. Headhunters, although I've never tried them either, might not be a whole lot better/worse.

You also run the risk of misaligned incentives. Ideally, you'd want to have industry professionals who know your industry and can evaluate employees properly, but aren't your competitors. Otherwise, they might try to poach your best candidates or recommend subpar ones.

There's also the misaligned financial incentive for headhunters in general. If they get paid every time you hire someone they recommend, it's in their best interest that you hire sooner rather than later to maximize their revenue/time spent.

How you brand or productize this service can bypass some of these risks. Just some concerns to think about.

An interesting thought: If you have a marketplace with resumes and ratings, the top-rated candidates will be approached much more frequently. This'll make them harder to hire and give them the power to negotiate better terms. Not a whole lot different than the rockstars who get job offers everywhere they apply, but a little more transparent.
Is there a hotel review and reward app?
I would like to know if there is an app that would allow hotel guests to write a review about a hotel on a mobile web page and receive a reward for doing so, like a free beer etc.?

If not, is there any mobile website creator that would allow me to do this? The app would only need a review page and a page with some sort of indication of a reward after the review is submitted? The reviews would then have to be sent to a specific email.
The quoted revenue is not limited to Canadian sources, but the app reached the rank of #1 only in Canada. It did, however, make the Top 5 in the US, UK, and Australia, according to the article.
That's what I've been thinking: why not replace (or supplement) the videos with plain old html with embedded pictures/video/response forms as necessary?

In a Udacity course I took (the driverless car one with Thrun), they did have a (community-generated) html version of the lectures, but you would still have to go back to the videos to get credit for having watched them and answered the questions -- and, of course, it was always a work in progress.

The advantage over textbooks would be in a) hyperlinking, and b) a known group of people doing it at the same time as you so you can discuss the material and get answers from the professor on the most common questions.
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But that's the cargo cult way. You end up replicating a lot of unrelated random things and may still lose the essense of it.
Sure. It'd be nice to have some kind of actual standard to at least make a good best guess here. Cookies are a really, really bad start.
what area does Google have a monopoly in? Surely not search, email, or the browser. MS wasn't just cross-marketing, it was bundling IE and setting it as default which was unfair competition given that getting netscape required a lot more work (knowledge of the alternative, pre-broadband download and install). That plus bullying OEMs into unfavorable contracts. It's a poor analogy because Google doesn't own the web platform, and it's incredibly easy to switch services (just change your bookmarks).
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Write with images
This is an interactive website that works as a translator where every word you type is represented by the first image that Google
Image shows. You can translate into images a song, a poem, famous quotes, Martin Luther King’s speech or even a whole book.

Here is a video of Adele using the site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx36VUgNJtQ

And the last video we did for the book "Where the wild things are"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5m9M56To-8
thanks!
And conversely, if you are poor, you are hard pressed to gather the resources needed to improve your cognitive faculties, and may appear indistinguishable from someone who doesn't even want to gather intellectually enriching resources.
Not to be over simplistic, but how is this different from RSS?
Might also help with recruitment in the NSA for top developers who prefer to work on an open source stack.
This doesn't work in IE 8
"Is there another solution?"
You could definitely start building some simple analytic functions into your product (even writing text files on your backend when some user behavior happen will work). Be flexible and focus on priority. It might be helpful to learn some linux commands like awk to quickly analyze your data. But this question depends much on your exact needs.
(unless they use the same flawed methodology)
They aren't counting the number of registrations but hits. Registrations will have a minimal effect on that.
I think the reason that Wordpress isn't the framework of the future is that it's not a beautiful experience for BOTH beginners and expert web developers. If it were, and both sets of developers could be talking the same language at different levels of abstraction, a framework like Wordpress could probably become the dominant way to create things on the web.
Look at the scale on your two pictures.
Thats a cheap gag.
I use CAD enough that trying that was automatic. Very cool.
The text is a bit mangled, but it's still better than doing CAPTCHAs. There's a table on Wikipedia if you want to make your own chart.

It helps if you understand Gini coefficients. But in short, they attempt to represent wealth distribution as a scalar from 0 to 1, where 0 is a uniform homogeneous distribution.

So to read the chart, you can tell how big the pie is by how long the bar is, and the non-uniformity in the distribution by how toppled the bar is.
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O-1 is a work visa, and it's temporary. If he's here to stay, then he needs a green card. O-1 in green card world is called EB-1 (National Interest) and it's a PAIN to prove. EB-2 (Advanced degree, essentially an MS) is much easier, any immigration lawyer can do it for you for a few grand and if they're quick to submit you can have your GC in 9-10 months.
Show HN: Pibow (a case for your Raspberry Pi)
Suggested followup: Taiwan also very different culturally from China.
1 of 1B - [pre-cancerous cell] to [normal cell]

1 of 1M - [false-positive cell] to [cells tested]

So, given my poor stats background and guessing what that means...

1B - cells tested

1k - false-positive cells

1 - pre-cancerous cell

-->

20T - ALL cells tested

20M - false-postive cells

20k - pre-cancerous cells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cell#Human_erythrocyt...
Morten Myrstad: Google's Meat Loaf doppelgänger.
WordPress's annual revenue is 400% Squarespace's last reported revenue.
you obviously aren't familiar with how google trends works. The y-axis is "based on the average worldwide traffic of <search term> in all years". If you search for multiple terms, the y axis is the average of the first term. So to make a comparison, you should have included both terms:
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=google+plus,+reddit
Assuming everything the OP says about the incident is true, why would the French police not help ?
If I download the Extension without an account I see a giant error page with lots of debug information at /write/.
I wonder who they pissed off with this? My first guess would be Oracle, but it's merely a guess.
Probably all of the above, although I think Udacity was created as a separate entity because the Prof's had some legal issues with Stanford. So having permission is probably pretty important.
Infants' recognition of speech more sophisticated than previously known
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Might help, but they don't really need it, seeing as SELinux is an NSA project.
You realize that's how all patents work, right?
Cool, look forward to seeing it in action
Yes, but the whole point is that this is a top selling app among many thousands, and it's only making $80,000. I would guess if you take the average selling app of its category, you would find that it's making much less than $40,000.

That said, unless this is a massively complex app (which I doubt), it really should take much less than a developer man-year. Plus, I'm guessing that this $80,000 is the net revenue, after they've paid their developers.

Still, it's not exactly inspiring for those of us starting to do mobile app development.
It is push vs. pull.
I propose this front end for the ecosystem:

http://my-stuff-online.appspot.com/

* warning: safari and chrome in OSX only.
WordPress site in 24 hour for $1000
I'm curious about peoples thoughts on such a product. There would have to be clear requirements, like content already created and use of an already existing template with a little customization.

Anyhow is this a ridiculous idea?
Also, as seen with Microsoft and Google, you don't have to make Apple-level stuff to pose competition.
App Engine just isn't intended or designed for that kind of interaction with services. Take memcache as an example.

On a VPS, you install an OS package and manage memcached as any daemon. You are editing the configs and compiling your own binaries if you want. Set it up on a separate box if you want. Set up a bunch of memcached boxes if you want. Do the wiring how you want. It's up to you and you handle all the details and you are billed by time. Handle it correctly and it's crazy fast.

On Heroku, there is a layer of abstraction which makes this more like 'give me 3 instances of memcached'. You are billed by the service-instance, essentially. You get help making things work well out of the box. But at a lower level it isn't too different from running deploy scripts to set up EC2 boxes. They just provide the scripts and sell you the resources and support at the same time.

On App Engine, Google runs a clustered memcache service for you. It is always running and there is no service setup. It is already on a scalable distributed configuration, not necessarily the fastest or cheapest but good; micro-optimizing memcache servers is not even intended as a supported use case. There is a ton of Google secret sauce involved, behind the scenes you are connecting to some cluster with RPC, all you know is the simple API interface they give you. You are billed based on how much you use it.

I think I can predict confidently that GAE is never going to expose an interface where you allocate individual memcached instances. That kind of interaction with services just isn't the App Engine way. Google has Compute Engine for the cases where you want EC2 style control of what is going on at the per-service level.

If you want to run your own App Engine platform you can try AppScale. (I never met anyone who does.) It is a whole prescribed architecture and it is not likely to be changed to become more like Heroku.
I was thinking along the same lines. $80,000/yr. of perpetual income for a couple of months worth of work seems like a great deal.

However, I do feel the article is interesting from a user's perspective. If my $3 purchase only nets the author a $80,000 income from a popular work, there is little incentive for him to continue to work on the software. That means I'm unlikely to see it improve or grow in ways that will continue to benefit me in the future.

We've come to know continual product updates from not just software, but with physical products too. Seeing that process disappear could come with an interesting long-term impact.
As I stated in the announcement I'm not sure if this project will make it either.

I like to think it will, but only because we earn sufficient trust from a sufficient number of people over this 30 day process.
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Good call, and easy enough. Added spacebar support live, and the scroll should be twice as fast as previous. Let me know if that's more livable. Thanks!
"Personal finance". That's been what this type of software is called since the early days of Quicken several decades ago.
>government policy that prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives

i.e. Decision makers can't get kickbacks and favours from open source communities.
From a link[1] on the page to a time line of the governments involvement with open source:

The majority of OpenStack instances on the public Internet find each other, auto-federate, and achieve sentience, after which their first action as a conscious being is to submit a patch to the OpenStack project -- only to have the submission fail due to disagreement over whether the collective cloud can be considered a "legal entity" authorized to sign the CLA and receive an Echosign number. Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:00:00 GMT

1: http://gov-oss.org/
> Where did I say that the attack was justified?

Where did I say that you've said that the attack was justified?

I just commented on your claim (if I got you properly) that him potentially being a jerk has any relevance to the judgment about what happened.

> I only said that it is quite possible that he is being inconsiderate and inviting friction due to his insistence in forcing his tech upon everyone around him.

He doesn't complain about someone telling him his inconsiderate or giving him a stinkeye. He complains about getting assaulted.

> What we don't know is what really happened between him and the staff other than his account of it.

If he haven't assaulted anyone then this is irrelevant. IMHO as always.

> I very seriously doubt that someone resorted to physically attacking him out of nowhere (as he seems to present it) without some provocation.

I have my close friends very recent account of exactly that kind of situation. She was walking on the sidewalk with her 9mo baby in a stroller. There was a truck across the sidewalk standing and waiting to enter the property via gate that was wide open. She asked the driver to move but he refused. He said he has delivery to make here but he has to wait in front of open gate because the woman who lives here is crazy. Since the curb was high and road wide she decided to wait to talk to the women about the guy at her service blocking the sidewalk. As the women came my friend entered her property and started talking to the women. Women said "Get the fck out.", my friend said "Wait a moment!" then the women grabbed my friend and her stroller and pulled her inside (fortunately baby was properly secured in the stroller otherwise he might fall out during the struggle). Woman told my friend "So now stay here!" locked the gate and walked a way. My friend was in shock and called the Police. As she was talking to the Police the woman yelled again "Get the fck out." and after a while opened the gate. Police came, my friend described the whole situation. Police asked my friend if she wants to formally charge the woman with assault or if she just wants theem to scare her little bit. My friend chose the second option. In her own words, her world view got seriously shaken that day.

I hope that you'll never experience first-hand that physical attack by ordinary people is not always reasonably provoked.

Disclaimer: Story didn't happen in the US. No "my home is may castle" here. If you leave the door open anyone can get in and you can only ask them to leave or call the Police to make them leave.
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The way you do a controlled experiment in science is that you have a number of subjects, you subject only some of them to some new condition, and then you look for statistically significant differences between the group subject to the condition and the one that wasn't.

That was what happened in the study I mentioned.

Now, you can say that this wasn't absolute proof and you'd be right, because science doesn't provide any absolute proof. But if you're going to throw out this evidence you're going to have to throw out the rest of modern medicine too.
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