skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is solid reasoning. The amount of energy in a system may well dwarf a given input, but that doesn't mean that the system doesn't have multiple equilibria that a sufficiently large delta could shift it to.

For example, the energy to fly a plane into the sky is small compared to what's released in a rainfull, but that doesn't prevent cloud seeding from being (somewhat) effective. The energy from a lit piece of magnesium is much smaller than what results from touching it to a thermite block.

It is of course the responsibility of the pro-nuke-on-hurricane folks (do they even exist?) to offer the mechanism that a nuke uses to shift the hurricane system to a lower energy state in a controlled manner.
Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans
Good points. Science and business writing often includes very precise words and/or acronyms that can make writing very dense, in a way that's good for experts to communicate effectively.

However, this can be a trap when trying to engage executives who may not have the expertise or the patience. (I've put myself in this trap many times, unfortunately.)
If you don't mind my asking, who is `we` in this?
It sounded like his management style left a lot of people in the company completely loathing him. How is that admirable?
If they considered it in the 60s, my inclination is to think there was something to it. It sounds like an idea of Teller's (not a dope). In fact, a quick Google search just confirmed this to me.

The first approximation energy considerations quoted in the article and elsewhere in the comments here are not the same as a model of what happens in a physical system when you set off a bomb in a hurricane.

What a hydrogen bomb tends to do is to expel a cylinder of atmosphere straight upwards. Why didn't they ever build bombs greater than a 100 megatons? Not because it would have been too hard. It is easy to do. Instead, past 100 megatons, the extra energy just expels that cylinder of air into outer space even faster. So there is no reason to build a larger bomb.

What happens to a hurricane when a chunk at its center is launched into outer space? Or several chunks? Teller thought it was worth finding out. And there are very few physicists fit to lace up that man's boots. So it might be worth investigating.
I think living a good life and doing something that benefits other people (aka earning money) is a good idea. If somebody disagrees, he can of course take his kids and go live under the bridge and open his school there. Let's see where we'd have more applicants - in a school that teaches kids how to be successful or in a school under a bridge that teaches them money is nothing, you can subsist on garbage and live in cardboard boxes forever. I think you can predict the result - and explaining this result would also explain which system is better, in opinion of your peers.
Let me join in the chorus of people that are slightly miffed that I don't have access to my Trello boards. In a way it highlights again the importance of local storage and off-line accessibility for web-apps. I just checked and in the trello app on my nexus 7 I can still see (and browse) all my boards for example (the only problem is that the content is a few days old as I have not used the app recently)
Apologies, but that's the general headline the researcher is using to raise awareness for the initiative.

Can read more here: http://mashable.com/2012/10/25/rockethub-meth-lab/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORoTCBrCKIQ
I think it has been well established that disclaimers on legal advice and commentary are less important than 10 years ago. A reasonable person must be under the assumption that the author is acting as their lawyer. Adding the extra "This is not legal advice" is moreso just a extra nail in the coffin of protection.

Its the same reason webmd does not have a big disclaimer at the top of the page saying they are not acting as your doctor.
For version 2, please get this running in Google Glass and give me realtime aiming assistance. :)
For those asking what's special about this - the design of the UI is pretty top notch. It "feels" great, works well on desktops and tablets, and has a great selection of content. I wrote it up for Wired if anyone wants more background: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/10/sketchfab-embedded-cad/
The concept of using technology to change weather has been around since the '50s, at least, with the advent of cloud seeding. Shooting a-bombs at storms seems to fit the gee whiz nuclear-positive culture of the '50s.
The only reason I'd buy a Nexus over an iPad is if Google offers great integration (search + maps) on the Nexus, but Apple blocks them from doing the same on the iPad.

If Google was a hardware company (not a search company) I could see why they would screw over the iPad by not porting their apps. But Google is not a hardware company, most of their revenue comes from search. They want Google search (or the next generation, interfaced with their Siri clone) on every phone and tablet. That's why they make Android open source.

Apple can try to screw over Google, by blocking Google apps (or just not cooperating with Google on integration). They can offer their own search and maps, but they'll do a crap job, and end up screwing their customers. It might hurt Google, but it will also hurt Apple (as Android will have a big advantage).

The best thing for both companies is cooperating to get Google features on the iPhone. Sure, Apple may resent Android, but they are just going to have to suck it up. If it weren't for Android, Microsoft would be making the leading iOS substitute, and I can't see either Apple or Google loving that.
Is this really a step forward? It feels a little bit like a step backwards -- more like classic email clients and less like Gmail.
For more information on the researcher's discipline, you can check out this neat video on 'Evolutionary Pharmacology': http://vimeo.com/44687770
Hey folks,

If anyone has questions related to this change I'll be in and out all day :).

Cheers,

Joshua
Funnily enough, I usually don't even look at the front page. My feed reader picks up all articles on hacker news. For me, you're best off not posting on the weekends cuz my reader fills up and sometimes I just dump it, but more often then not, if you post it here, I'll at least see the title! For me, it's more important to choose an interesting and relevent title. That said, I'm probably not a typical use case.
Yeah, "radioactive hurricane" should be mentioned a lot earlier. Is anyone really that crazy to consider something like that?
It sounds like the idea of a Bond villain.
Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android
Felix Baumgartner’s sonic boom captured
Inertial scrolling is tremendously useful, you can scroll more with fewer swipes.
Before Unity, iirc, alt+tab default behavior switched between windows, regardless of program groupings (e.g. Thunderbird compose message and main windows).
India may run out of mobile numbers by 2013
The Ruby DSL for puppet has been around for a couple years, and recently got some improvements as part of GSoC.

http://puppetlabs.com/blog/ruby-dsl/
http://puppetlabs.com/blog/gsoc-project-ruby-dsl-for-puppet/
Hmm, how do you mean? I don't see how it's like classic email clients.
In NYC without power, but I voted for the third party candidate here. All I care is that whether or not the deadline is extended we know sooner rather than later so we can work around/with that constraint.
And also remove the clause stating that they can change any part of the agreement at anytime, the op link said this basically makes a lot of these whimsy internet agreements void.
Sorry to be a pedant. It's "moot":

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3Amoot
Interesting, so you are not only switching to Passenger but switching to MRI as well?

I think it might be worth dropping an Email to JRuby mailing list (https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/MailingLists), if you haven't already about what troubles you faced and why you are switching.
In my understanding, they are building a Dropbox/Trello/Deviantart hybrid specific to 3D Models. In my view they are coming up with an MVP that is somehow promising on these lines. How money will flow in [i.e., why power users would pay sketchfab instead of relying on the whole bunch of existing 3D library services] still looks to me a bit of a cryptical point, but they have probably yet to focus on this with some serious customer development.
Then you might want to re-watch episode 6 of nerd TV: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/
I think it looks great. Many times I've opened gmail in another tab to find some info.
Fighting the good fight for fun and credits
What feels the most like classic email clients is the way they abstract recipients by placing the contact's name into a box and no longer display the email address next to it. The pretty box is fine, but I hated seeing contacts on an email in something like Outlook and not being able to quickly confirm which address was used for that contact, so perhaps it'd be better if they had these recipients in a scrollable list.
I will enjoy this a lot, because I do often save drafts to go looking for some other message in my inbox. However, I think it saves valuable seconds, not minutes. :-)
And that's because they are cheap enough to buy on impulse, and/or to make an affordable gift for the holiday season that is clearly the hottest and newest available.
Seriously, just no. This is entirely against the spirit of open source software and Linux entirely. It just turns Ubuntu into another incompatible walled garden. I've had enough of all these turf wars between "app stores" and walled gardens. To hell with them all - this is not why I use Linux and this is the same for many people.

I think Shuttleworth's intentions have finally become apparent. Hypocritical sell out.

I'm moving the last 3 LTS machines to Debian tomorrow and cancelling our landscape service.
I can see the merits of this, but I'm curious about how it fits into a mobile strategy.

My big complaint about email, especially gmail, is that it seems to insist on keeping too many elements from desktop to mobile. My mobile email needs are much more like my SMS needs, yet the UX for mobile Gmail (for example) largely resembles the desktop client.

I know that's tangential, but it's what's on my mind regarding Gmail right now.
Yeah why not? The metaphor works/I cant think of a better one. One thing that I like about some of Apple's approach to things is that the user explicitly enters a mode or changes frame of action. There is a mode the user enters when moving around ios icons/making folders, there is a mode when editing content that appeared to be static at one point. The faux leather/fake realism helps make that switch. If the Xbox os looks just like Metro, how does the user know when things are different?
Most places I've worked have had the first DC close to the office, then the second one in another country. When you're just starting up it's important to have easy physical access, and it's seldom worth migrating away from an existing DC rather than just opening up a new one.
Windowing.
While I appreciate that you have decided to test the teachers, and that you have unions which come in the way of it, I am greatly amused by the ill conceived plan to achieve your goal.

Its remarkable really. Years, decades of seeing kids die to suicide and cram pressure and this is what you choose.

So that you can test your teachers?

Anyway, your test doesn't test teachers, it tests students.

And then you assume it is a good proxy for teachers.

So just to be clear.

1) Tests are a perfect proxy for taking that test ->
2) Then they are a proxy for test taking ability in the student
3) Then a proxy for student understanding of the subject
4) And thence a proxy for teacher ability.

I'd understand if we were doing chemical analysis with 4 steps involved in the process.

But with human beings? Kids? The fundamental chaotic units of society?

I really have to point out that this is logic that gets most startups killed, or logic on which they pivot to something smarter.

I know you aren't the one responsible, but I really can't help but be perplexed. Once upon a time you guys were known as the place where "stuff just works."

Your older education system did a great job. Sure it may not have made everyone a rock star but frankly - not everyone is cut out to do so at that juncture in their life.

If you say that there is nothing else that can be done, then I accept and understand. But it is a terrible terrible outcome.
Ask HN: Reject job offer after H1B issued?
tl;dr is it a really bad idea to reject a job offer after having accepted it and received an H1B for it?

I'm not from the US. Last year I received a job offer at one of the big companies in the Valley but I couldn't take the offer immediately due to H1B caps, and we mutually agreed that I would move there and start working in December of this year.

I've been working on a few personal projects during this year in my home country while waiting to go to the US and one of them I've now realized has a lot of potential. So much, that I'm regretting having accepted this job offer and the fact that my visa has already been issued, because I'd like to dedicate 100% to getting this project off the ground. So,

1. Does this sort of thing happen often? Is this a normal and acceptable reason for rejecting a job offer that has already been accepted, even though of course this company won't necessarily like it? I don't want to permanently blow my chances of working with this company again, maybe in 5 or 10 years, if it comes to that.

2. Would there be any grave legal consequences for me if I do this? Including being unable to enter the US, not even for a tourism or business trip?
IOS development just got faster.
Good.

The most annoying thing to me about gmail's interface is center-clicking on something (to reference it, like something in a mailing list) and having the entire window redirected.

This is cool :)
then you don't care if you're running on Solaris,
Debian, or CentOS.

That does sound like an advantage, but I generally run the same OS across all machines (for a client), so that's not a huge advantage for me.

Fabric seems more like SSH with a for loop.

Definitely. And that suffices fairly well for managing 10-20 servers.

if someone goes and changes a vhost file by hand, that file
will be replaced with a good one and Apache will be restarted,
even if that file was made by a complicated template.

Ah, so Puppet is running on a machine, it will maintain the configuration of the machine even if some well-intentioned user fiddles?
Any kind of front-end reverse proxy could be doing that. At a complete guess, might they be using cloudflare?
You can still open up emails in the larger view, If I'm not mistaken. I can see and have experienced the issue they are attempting to solve here and this seems like an ok solution. I guess we won't know until we try it. Most emails are short however, at least that should be your goal unless it's something more detailed and then you have a larger canvas to work with.
This sounds reasonable but it's not how things work in practice. Some of the best startups we've funded applied at the last moment. David Rusenko of Weebly for example decided to apply so close to the deadline that he didn't even have time to tell his cofounders he was doing it.
How does one prove that at the time a user signed up there was a checkbox/button to accept the terms, not a different version of the page?
Internap LGA11 lost power at 11:48AM ET http://pastebin.com/6AxvbzF1
I agree. This interface seems cluttered to me. A live view of my inbox may distract me while I am writing an email.

In addition, GMail haas been feeling more bloated for me lately with such an Ajax-heavy UI, and I feel like this could cause further slow-downs.

However, I will keep an open mind - this is not a drastic redesign to the overall system.
The thing is, who uses mobile GMail? Almost everyone I know uses a native client (Android or iOS). The mobile version of Gmail is definitely a second-class citizen, but I'm glad they're not letting it hold back development of awesome features like this.
ASP.NET MVC: PagedList
Why is this so important that it reaches top spot in minutes. My links to curing cancer with ultrasound or creating ai get nothing, but the big G opens a new window for compose and it's a giant leap for humanity!

Peter Norvig gave singularity summit talk on exciting work they're doing http://fora.tv/2012/10/14/Peter_Norvig_Channeling_the_Flood_... , why isn't that top spot?

HN is kowtowing to the pseudo-brogrammer crowd.
This has been one of my biggest Gmail annoyances - having to open a second Gmail tab while composing to do a search.

Really looking forward to this hitting my account.
I'm mainly a backend guy but do some frontend work from time to time. I keep seeing all this talk about a dozen different CSS "frameworks", and I just don't get it. Can someone explain to me what the purpose of these things is? Bootstrap's site for example doesn't even try to tell me what I would want it for, it just says I want it "because its for nerds" (do I have to dress in faux-nerd chic and live in the valley to use it?) and that it uses grids (that's the opposite of a selling point guys).

From looking at the code, all I see is a bunch of boilerplate CSS that seems to deliberately work against the nature of CSS (protip: the C stands for cascading), and is very brittle and tied to specific classes and markup rather than using selectors to be general and reusable. Is that really all it is, just a "I'm too lazy to design my site, so I'll just use twitter's design"? Perhaps it is just the word "framework" throwing me off since it doesn't appear to be a framework in any way? I know this is going to sound needlessly critical to some people, but I am expressing genuine confusion here, I really don't understand what I am supposed to use this for, or how it would help me in any way.
Ha, I wouldn't worry too much about Kiln. I can push when the servers come back. Heck, considering how often some folks I know of push their changesets I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them never even notice that anything happened.

FogBugz is more of a problem. Some days the "Resolve" button is my only source of job satisfaction.
Ember.js Router API v2
I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but...

Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gm...), and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there.

To wit:

When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal the content. Really? Can they really not innovate here? This is a company that spends massive amounts of resources to get their homepage to load as quickly as possible. Heck, they even penalize companies in their index with slow loading times. And yet they purposefully add loading animations and transitions which add at least a second to page load, and probably more as far as time it takes me to engage in the content.

Also, every time I reload the page I see something different. Sometimes there is text in the black menu bar. Sometimes there is not. Sometimes there is an "extra" screen that slides up after the orange loading gears, sometimes not. Sometimes the sidebar navigation is there, sometimes not. Try refresh a few times yourself and you'll see.

Also, I love the five-second delay for the document URL update when you navigate via the sidebar.

All of these fancy, look-we're-using-ajax, gee-whiz-its-a-single-page-app features -- just for a simple blog post. Talk about complicating a simple problem!

Again, apologies for the rant but I couldn't even concentrate on what the blog post was saying because I was so distracted by this garbage.
Looks like pushing google plus to all gmail users.
ARM's Cortex A57 and Cortex A53: The First 64-bit ARMv8 CPU Cores
If something is going to cause $10 billion in damage, it's not nuts to consider nuking it to stop it.
Be constructive. Elucidate. I have some experience with Erlang and quite a bit with many other languages. I'd be curious to hear your side.
Judging by current Twitter traffic for @trello, there is a clear need for a self-hosted version.
Google's interactive hurricane map
I guess that more than a dozen of people saw this on RSS and rushed to post here. When you post a link that has been already posted recently, HN upvote it for you,
While we were gathering supplies I joked: "I'm glad that I got the YC app in, I want to enjoy my hurricane."

Supplies: https://twitter.com/mikeurbanski/status/263028329483997185

Best. Hurricane. Ever. https://twitter.com/mikeurbanski/status/263117753995644928
Announcing RubyMotion Trainings
Yep. Coming from a different background, Phusion Passenger is not as J2EE-ish as the other Java app servers. We do things a bit differently, for example:

- We don't run multiple apps inside the same JVM. We strictly run each app in its own JVM, no exceptions. As I've understood, running multiple apps in the same JVM can cause garbage to leave behind when you try to uninstall an app. And the JVM does not always perform optimally when the heap is large.

- We integrate directly into Apache and Nginx, so no need to setup AJP reverse proxies. I don't think Nginx has an AJP connector.

- Phusion Passenger is also a great option for people who want to take advantage of JRuby (whether it's for the speed, or the threading implementation, or whatever) but aren't intimately familiar with the J2EE stack.

- Our support for multiple Ruby versions (and even multiple languages) allows you to easily mix and match things. No need to commit 100% to Java, or MRI, or any particular implementation/version.
Acheter et télécharger Windows 8 Pro avec l’assistant de mise à jour
They have a sort of theme roller implemented. Watch the dropdown on top left.
Really interesting. Just yesterday I saw in TV that in my country (Uruguay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay]) there would be free access to "Registered Educational Contents", at first I thougth "Great!" but then it came to me that voice that says "What about net neutrality??"

I hope to see a good discusion here
I think that you are confusing "what you want to read about" with "what the HN community wants to read about".

It's a pain when your carefully curated submissions don't even hit the front page, but you just have to suck it up and move on.
That looks great!

It feels to me though that google is still playing serious catch-up to it's main competitors (yahoo & microsoft) in the email arena who both have great web-mail solutions that don't get the accolades they deserve.

Now all I need is full folder support and I'm happy!
One of the biggest mistakes that agencies or freelancers make with big corporations is to assume that their direct point of contact is able to call shots, or is fully empowered to render decisions on behalf of the client. For the most part, the bigger the company, the bigger the bureaucracy is likely to be, and thus the less true this assumption will be.

If at all possible, try to figure out where your day-to-day point person sits on his company's totem pole. How many layers are on top of him, or next to him, or between him and "Yes" or "No?" Make absolutely sure that a verdict from him, at any stage in any process, represents the verdict of anyone whose consensus or approval he needs. It's very easy to get burned when your point person renders a decision, then you find out two weeks later that his boss's boss's boss just got back from a two-week business trip and is looking at everything for the first time.

Agency squeeze is usually the result of internal politics at the client firm. Either someone's throwing you under the bus to cover his/her ass, or the Big Boss is putting pressure on everyone (including the agency) to deliver additional work, outside of the SOW, for the sheer sake of applying pressure.
The thing is, who uses mobile GMail?
when my wife wants to use my tablet to check her mail.