skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take that bet. ITER won't just break even, it will have sustained (15min) runs where it produces 10 times as much energy as was input. This is not wishful thinking, this is the expected output of the reactor, which will be attained unless something really unexpected goes on in the reaction chamber.

It should be completed in less than 10 years, so I'm curious as to what you think will solve/ameliorate the world's energy problems in such a short timeframe.
> Was he new at this?

I mentioned he was a student for a reason. What do you think? This was a project for a class and even still he immediately recognised the error when he tested it.

Similar to as I mentioned in reply to a child comment, you kind of sound like someone chastising a physicist for dropping a negative somewhere in their calculations. It doesn't betray a fundamental lack of understanding such that they should be lectured to go back to first grade and learn how to do arithmetic; it just demonstrates that at some point they were acting somewhat careless in what they were doing.

And, yes, it is a bit of an embarrassing mistake. That's what makes it such a fun story!
I'm not asking anyone to use this, just making it available to people who want it and showing off a concept which people can re-implement themselves.
I love you for saying this.
Yeah that seems to happen if you leave type aware highlighting enabled. Seems to work well with that switched off.
Character encoding bugs are 𝒜wesome
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."

A quote hanging above my Grandma's oven :-P

Congrats Dalton
I'd find this difficult to tolerate at work. I can't imagine anybody addressing me with one of these. Not only that I am certain no work place I have worked at would ever buy something like this. And they're all happy to spend thousands of dollars on things which would improve our productivity.

I was ready to dismiss the idea until I saw the end of the video. I think outside of business/work it could be quite useful (as demonstrated by the art gallery).
You should talk to Bjarne about leaving it out of C++ :)
It's a completely flat tech demo. I don't really think that it needs jump.
Please elaborate; I'm intrigued...

A Faraday cage will protect against an EM pulse? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

RepRap is a self-reproducible 3D printer? http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap

And so with the RepRap (and some power source/converter) inside a faraday cage (with other physical protections as well), you're saying that this is the ultimate backup system for worst case scenarios? Do you have any links to provide more information about such a setup?
I don't know how many people remember this, but this reminds me of a technology in the mid-to-early 80s where computer magazines offered a gigantic QR-like code that could be scanned (if you bought the device) so that you wouldn't have to spend any time typing in the BASIC source code.
Google, Salesforce were allegedly offered 'TrapWire' spy tool
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PHP has no destructors?
thats just silly talk. of course they would want that stuff natively. that is why they created the querySelectorAll method. If Moz/Goog gets it native in browser, that is less bytes that need to be transfered over the wire, and therefore faster websites.
The worldwide median standard of living is a hell of endless hard labor and famine. It would be more egalitarian for outsourcing to continue until everyone is reduced to a level near that, but I'm still concerned about it, partly because nobody would have the luxury of accomplishing anything meaningful.
Aegis = Indian company providing support services to American OEMs. Therefore, outsourcing is still from America to India and not vice versa. Aegis hiring native Americans for the job is not the same thing as "India outsourcing to America" because native accent is not a requirement/demand of India. It is the demand of OEM consumers of America and thus it implies only that the American jobs have "stayed back" in Americas. There is absolutely no cross-border outsourcing happening at all, whatever be the consideration.
This encoding system kind of reminds me of how the Nintendo eReader worked... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_e-Reader
Figuring our how core libraries such as the collections framework work is pretty easy if you get a good book like Scala for the Impatient.
I hope Frommer's negotiated a high break-up fee.
The difference is that the quantum version of the "one time pad" can't be copied. So if someone stole Bob's quantum states he would realize. (Anyway for practical applications this is still overcomplicated and http://xkcd.com/538/ apply.)
Google buys Zagat HN discussion, from Sept last year:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974271
> Figuring in that the generator weighs a lot less and can make the car a lot smaller is probably where these numbers come in.

The only relevant question is whether "the generator" is significantly more efficent than a conventional engine with the same power output, size, and weight. After all, we can make smaller conventional engines to put in smaller cars.

Disagree? Then I'll point out that there are micro-vehicles with conventional engines (albeit tiny ones) that do even better, thus "proving" that conventional engines are far superior....
Please don't use this. There is nothing stopping paymentiframe.com from taking your customer's credit card numbers.
It's not many things, if you look carefully you will realize most of what is listed can be rewritten with a CSS selector. For example ":button" is the same has "button, input[type='button']". They are mostly just shorthand and that's not extra feature.
That would only work on the front page though, wouldn't it? Once you click the "more" link it would just start from 1 again.
AngularJS has been one of my pet projects recently.

I really like the idea of creating new modules and directives and I've created a few of them. However, after creating a number of modules and directives I started to think that it would be nice to have a central repo so I can quickly look for and find new directives.

The angular ui project doesn't fit the bill as I just want to import specific directives into my project.

Some way to determine directive dependencies would be nice too :-D
Love the search function.
wow - that must have taken a LOT of organising! And how do they know which website I'm going to visit next!?!
This is part of the core of HN. As I understand it, it generates those links on the fly, and they expire. I think they are handled by some sort of lisp callbacks that expire at a certain age. It's not something that can be fixed with re-theme-ing the frontpage.
Swipe Gesture for Chrome
How do I add breweries? I'm in Boston and there are none on the map, but we have tons of breweries.
For the reason that this is real technology and not just another consumer/social/we'll figure out the business model later idea, I hope this grows and becomes huge, or at the very least spawns some other applications.

In a week that NASA lands a robot on Mars, I'm glad to see real technology being created, that perhaps looks crazy or inapplicable at first. Great stuff guys.
Congrats to the Team at Clutch.io :)
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Great post. I kinda resent when people mention weekly products that seem so awesome simply because I fret about with my projects, but then again, they're awesome if it's true, and kudos for the work ethic.

I think that the author, and I can definitely relate to this as well, don't plow through without overthinking things, and I feel this holds people back more than anything. I'd love to just build something without constantly getting stuck with architecture or design decisions constantly...
I felt exactly the same way. If I don't find a service I may create one because I think many iOS devs would find this helpful.
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Perhaps - thanks for the suggestion.
Do you not think the way you have presented it is encouraging people to use it?

I love Stripe, I love people hacking and creating new cool things but an emerging trend I'm seeing with Stripe is that people are really not taking the security of the CC numbers their customers have entrusted to them as cautiously and as securely as they should.
Sorry, we're getting a bit of a battering at the moment. It doesn't usually take that long.
Alignment problems on opera/android 2.3
Good idea, but that may introduce some really thorny issues with color calibration.
Sounds like microfiche
How about during surgeries where a remote doctor who is highly trained can wheel around (virtually) and instruct or guide a less experienced surgeon?
Security questions are basically passwords and thus suffer from the same issues.

I'd a neat (imo) idea for this, though not everyone agreed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4349116
No, instead those degrade naturally on their own.

"CD-Rs are expected to have an average life expectancy of 10 years" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Expected_lifespan

CD/DVD experiential life expectancy is 2 to 5 years even though published life expectancies are often cited as 10 years, 25 years, or longer -- http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/temp-opmedi...
That's not the point. Unix invented the idea of a simple system call to create a process by forking, and (more importantly) the idea of a "pipe" syntax in the shell to connect data streams between processes in a natural and intuitive way. These were usability and elegance enhancements, not performance things.
IE8 supports pseudo elements with few catches (none that affect this use case) http://css-tricks.com/browser-support-pseudo-elements/
Can you explain how you find freemium to be a sleazy model? That's a genuine question - I run a freemium service and I'd hate for there to be a perception that we were in any way sleazy.
Why should continual/incremental compilation be part of the IDE?

You can do this in a separate process, the IDE only needs to detect that some .class files have changed and refresh the metadata of those files.

Eclipse support for this is sure nice, but then I hate Eclipse for being bloated, with a sluggish interface and shoehorning such features on top is the reason why Eclipse is the way it is.
Enjoyed skimming your article. If only more geeks actually wanted to teach kids... unfortunately most of us will only be able to do that once we've retired!
Absolutely when it comes to big companies. I'd also like to imagine that Steve would have potentially gotten fired before making any heads spin with his decisions/design achievements.

I'd say that Steve Jobs created an interesting atmosphere/culture for a company more than anything, and that if he was just a rank and file employee, would never had the chance for this.
1) IntelliJ automatically recompiles your project in the background.
Its only when I do something drastic like changing dependencies that I have to hit the 'build' button.
I think IntelliJ gets this balance right.
That could be fixed with:

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Interesting. So immediately there's a large stake holder that withdraws value disproportional to their value of the network; Whether it's a problem or not would have to be thought through..
That's really neat, I think this has a number of uses and not just at work.

How does it stand up though? Is there an acceleramoter or similar powering a balancing act?
Congrats, this is interesting because Eric Florenzano one of the co-founders co-founded Convore.
Congratulations to the team! They had a really cool product and the way they are handling the acquisition is great. Glad they aren't just killing it.
Just a note: they're not in a UL currently, but each post is in a DIV.post.
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It's available for people to use if they want, sure. I expect Stripe to offer a similar service soon too (at which point that issue goes away, since people are already trusting Stripe with their card details).

I'm trusting people to decide which risks they want to take -- I'm providing tools, not dictating policy.
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Anecdata here, but I've been wearing a tie for a few years, and while I don't think it has changed my behavior much, it definitely changes how other people treat me.

It's actually a little creepy how that one little difference of putting on a tie changes other people's behaviors in so many tiny daily interactions. Things like: when you approach a door, escalator, getting in and out of elevators, people let me go first. People are definitely nicer to me, cashiers smile more, etc. It's noticeable, and a little weird.

We're conditioned from a young age to respect the tie. So, it's not crazy to think that forcing everyone to wear ties in an office will make them a little nicer to each other. I do think it affects people at a subconscious level.
Erlang still uses GC, however because there is no shared memory (except ETS[1]), the GC can run independently for each process. This is eons better than JVM[2], with all the benefits of not having to worry about manual memory management. It’s not C, though, and I don’t believe author implies that in any way. In fact he acknowledges the exact opposite.

[1] http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/ets.html

[2] http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/04/erlang-vs-java-memory-a...
There's not really any need to address it specially. Tags only get added to the extent that users care, so mismatches are a problem of abundance, and to the extent tags are meaningful/accurate, they facilitate editing to personal preference.

I'm sure that successful file managers will also have some degree of fuzzy matching. But tags are still useful, even if we never realize the RDF dream of a perfect global ontology.
That's definitely another angle I hadn't really considered. So would current vendor clients then purchase support packages from you? Or would you encourage their conversion to your new system?
"What about the sharing of state?"

There isn't any shared state between components of a pipeline.
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> Kaplan's default rate is 17 %, Phoenix' is 13 %. If that is any guide

There are lots of public schools with much higher drop-out rates. Maybe those folks don't go into default, but they're still paying for an education that they didn't get.

> Training in the trades is a different issue.

Nice duck, but until there's another mechanism for training tradesfolk exists, it is insane to destroy the one that we have.

And, I'll bet that German employers rely on outsiders to do the training. Either that, or the training is useless outside the employer. While employers may like the latter, it's a bad idea.

If German employers use outsiders, we're just quibbling about who signs the checks, not who actually pays.
Most of the recent aqui-hires. AOL buying Netscape.
Eventually users might get to the point that the hierarchy is unnecessary. Surely it's more efficient to type out "2012, foo, xyz corp, alpha". And it's certainly easier to type out a few tags than navigate a few trees to do a search.

But people have stubbornly resisted that for so long, I wouldn't hold my breath. [1]

[1] It seems just about every document management system since the 90s was designed under the "search, don't scan!" assumption, stubbornly clinging to theoretical efficiency and then grumpily (and often painfully) adding back in 'artificial' folder structures built from the tags for both file->open and file->save UI.
Can you give some examples of this? Would this be an emulation layer to support classical hierarchies or something else entirely? Academically, I've seen some research in this area from file systems researchers and it certainly has not been a trivial problem for them, particularly due to nuances that emerge like cycles in graphs (maybe? I know there is some data structure oddities, though I'm certain what they are), labeling, and when requirements like backwards-compatibility get thrown into the mix.

It's often said that the devil is in the details. Simply saying, "Tags subsume folders in the UI" likely has many cascading implications and edge cases.
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H1-B visa abuse must be stopped.
Then you have missed the point of the article. The intro even says that the point is to compare the Linux world with the BSD world, not specific distros. The author highlights - stresses even - that there is no homogenous Linux community, that Linux development is 'chaotic' compared to BSD development, and that that chaos is the source of Linux's strength. That sense of chaos is the core shared culture in Linux.

What you want - distro-to-distro comparison - would suck; and age rapidly.
Wouldn't it be reasonable/acceptable to deny support to those that use expletives when asking for it? Assuming you forewarn in your contact form or in your terms. Specially for non-paying users. Those people are not going to be paying for the product anyway, they probably wouldn't be insulting it/it's developers otherwise.
Regarding what and where something is...

Let's look at two examples of most-used aspect of folders. A document file and photograph file.

For me, the least efficient aspect comes with not being able to store a single document at multiple places (folders). If I have a document on Subject A written by Author B and C (two authors), than I may want to have this single document show up at multiple places, for example, the Subject A for me could be XYZ, ABC etc. The best I can do is create shortcuts of this file in a multiple folders (I shouldn't duplicate the file). So here, the tags would come handy.

Now, I don't know about you but I have spent significant amount of time thinking over how to folder my photographs (and I am not a professional so not talking in GIGs).

All in all, the folders are not very efficient on their own.
To clarify I was in speaking in context of the post, Japanese. I've personally witnessed the accuracy of their system as a native dutch speaker. Although it's the closest language to English, it still impresses me.
yeah that wouldn't be fun, but maybe we could make a browser add-on to check for the md5 checksum, not a security expert here but sounds like a solution to me
I don't have to turn on Javascript to read HN. Why should I have to with this?

Hell, I had to turn on Javascript just to not see a wall of text on coderwall. Honestly, HTML and CSS for layout people.
If you read the documents, this is all about trade dress, which may be inspired by others but can be claimed as your own if you build a strong enough case.

Samsung's deliberate copying of the iPhone, as directed by management and documented quite extensively in the evidence, is the source of most of these problems. When you have Samsung saying "Make it more like the iPhone" you have problems.
Let us just say it was ripe for disruption.
Basically, the advantage is that you're creating the same one time pad in two faraway places at the same time, so there's no risk of it being intercepted. If Eve tries to mess with the stream of entangled photons all that will happen is that Alice and Bob will see garbage when they try to decrypt their message. If the one-time pad had been sent via traditional means, Eve would be able to read the message without Alice and Bob knowing.
Baking informaiton into clay tablets isprobably the best bit-per-year-of-rentention technique that mankind has invented. Not sure what's second best -- ink on archival paper?

[I don't count the recordings attached to the Voyager probes. We can't easily retrieve those.]
Cool, learned something!
Added to the reading list. I've been saying this for quite a while. I think we were able to capture this in our 9th grade math games we have been working on.
The art gallery idea struck me as interesting at first.

On second thought, however, why would you want to look at art through a low quality iPad camera when you could browse a website with high-res images of the same stuff?

I'm not sure that usage would pass the gimmick test after the novelty wore off.
I like KDE's UX better than any of the alternatives.
I speak dutch and from my experience it can't get any more accurate. But of course since it's machine translated it tends to be extremely literal, and some context is mistranslated at times.
I would add near the top of your list the awesome (and free[1]) book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg that accompanies their Cornell undergraduate course:

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World.

[1] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
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Of course, folders imply more of a relationship than tags do.

If I'm keeping files on what multiple companies are up to I might have:
Company A -> Secrets -> Company B
and
Company B -> Secrets -> Company A

To denote the secret files that each company is keeping about the other. The tags would be identical, but the folder structures entirely separate.
Also, potential data-corruption issues with color laser printers that add spurious yellow watermarking dots [1], though perhaps a sufficiently robust error-correction scheme would be able to work around that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
This post is so neckbeardy I feel itchy all over.

GitHub provides a lot more than the open source tools. Primarily it provides community. Most people would rather not have patches received by email. They would prefer a web-based interface where you can comment, adjust, and accept.

This is a classic case of not getting it.

You can manage your repo independently and push to GitHub when required. It's not even hard. If, as an open-source developer, you want me to log into your own personal bug-tracking system, your own personal source-control system, you've lost me as a contributor.
No one ever said yellow :) Cyan/Magenta/Green or any other trio of darker and differentiated colors may be able to do the trick.
Congrats to the two Erics - and I love the way you're handling the transition and existing customers, seems very classy.
What are you talking about? His "mockup" (http://jsbin.com/ewufof/3/edit or http://jsbin.com/ewufof/3 (full-screen)) has no JavaScript.
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The folders are important of course but they should be very few at the top. A system's folder and User's folder. Rest all should be tags.
You could cheaply achieve RAID-6 this way! But data throughput might be abysmally slow though... so don't use it for servers. ;)
I don't think I understand your $64,000 example. Are you being sarcastic or are there actually people who spend that much money week by week?
It's not widely used but the investment bank I used to work at open-sourced some of their work. They figured they could get more eyes on the code and find issues with it faster.

https://www.openadaptor.org/

source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/57362/Open_source_bre...
I feared you might have removed Paypal, because Paypal allows using local payment methods (like direct debit).

Fortunately it seems like both Stripe and Paypal are supported now. Phew!
I used to do this with a right-border, not sure if that's a best practice these days or not. You could do something similar in between the date/link/comment sections underneath a given link as well (since it logically is a list).
I haven't looked at any in a very long time, but I recall Frommer's guidebooks as having the feel of McDonald's, relative to say Lonely Planet.

I'm eager for the Wikimedia Travel project to get underway https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide
I used to run backups onto VHS tapes using a PCI/ISA card adaptor. IIRC, you could get about 2GB on a tape, with a SVHS recorder, or 1GB on a normal drive. Something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

Of course, it was absolutely useless. Might as well have piped the data to /dev/null.