skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia is a combination of STV & instant-runoff, and it's still mostly a two party system. Canada is a FPTP westminster parliament with two major parties (Liberal & Conservatives) and two substantial minority parties (NDP & Bloc). It might just come down to culture.
The mottling is apparently from the bomb casing.

(http://www.damninteresting.com/rapatronic-nuclear-photograph...)

> The resulting extraordinary photographs revealed intricate details of the first instant of an atomic explosion, including a few surprises such as irregular “mottling” caused primarily by variations in the density of the bomb’s casing. It also showed the detail of the “rope trick effect,” where the rapid vaporization of support cables caused curious lines to emanate from the bottom of an explosion.

The camera is interesting - using an electronic not mechanical shutter. This was around 1944. (Bell Lab's transistor was around 1947.)
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I think he was referring to the state of the world prior to iPhone 5 being announced.
Construction "waldoes" are well within our capability for a year out. The Japanese have already been experimenting with on-orbit teleoperation with a synthesized lag of one full second. It sucks to work that way, but human beans are amazing, and I think there's many a talented gamer who would love to work in space from the comfort of planet Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(short_story)
I haven't been tracking Mono-related news for a while, but didn't they abandon this project? Did it ever work well?
From the about page [0]:

> Free.fr is shipping millions of set top boxes in France, powered by EFL

Free is a major ISP here (and a major proponent of FOSS and net neutrality) and I was really surprised at that. It's apparently part of a SDK. The box GUI looks like a variant of XBMC[0].

[0]: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about&l=en
[1]: http://www.mac4ever.com/images-v3-actu/59410_352_la_freebox_...
[2]: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_(Freebox)
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>If you tweaked a hashing algorithm to take circa 100 milliseconds to hash an IP, then "brute forcing" would be much less of a problem because it would take about 13 years to hash the whole lot.

Or $31,000 on EC2. Are these logs per-request or per-transaction? The former could get awfully expensive.

Of course, checking a single target IP address would be trivial. Whether that matters depends on their threat model.
L2 point is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L2_point#L2
I don't know what their financials look like, but a company with 100 million but no revenue is only worth 100 million.
That was before we tried to make Linux a mass market OS.
Just how do you find an exoplanet?
I see your point. Still, I live in that country to the south of you, so I think you have it pretty good, all things considered :)
This is neat. I've always used Amazon RDS in the past because of its ease of import/export, but this may be enough to switch me over to Heroku's offerings.
This is what I loved about working with Dan in those early days of Artsicle. He cared about shipping more then anything else. He was a rabid hacker who pushed out code even if it was crappy but it got us to the understanding we needed so we could move on to the next milestone.
Do you have an example of a raw video or image taken with the device. I scoured the website for this but can't find one. This proves to me that it works.
Definitely agree, you should make an intro!
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Kennedy: Let's go to the Moon. We go to the Moon.

Nixon: Apollo canceled. Shuttle born.

Reagan: Space Station Freedom. The Ride Report proposes a lunar base by 2010.

Bush Sr: Space Exploration Initiative, or $500 billion for a lunar base by 2010 or 2020. Rejected.

Clinton: Space Station Freedom morphs into ISS.

Bush Jr: Constellation program and humans on the Moon by 2020.

Obama: Constellation canceled, SLS born. Moon by 2020. Or maybe an asteroid by 2025. Or maybe Mars (with friends). Or maybe somewhere else entirely...*

Elon Musk: Going to Mars!
It says, "the fireball...is three times hotter than the surface of the sun". Won't you get toasted from only 7 miles afar? Or, maybe the fireball is ephemeral so the heat the fireball produced doesn't do damage?
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I just have to point to that thread's best comment!

Dave said:

"This is one of those images that is equally beautiful/horrible. Kim Kardashian pics are the same way......."
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Neighboring Minnesota elected Jesse Ventura Governor in 1998. He ran as part of Ross Perot's Reform Party.
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CMYK is more intuitive than RGB but still not quite there. It is difficult to grasp that mixing a saturated pinkish color (magenta) with yellow will produce red. On top of that, if you add blue (cyan) it will produce black!

Printer cartridges are highly calibrated for this kind of mixing, if you attempt to do it with acrylics or oils you will get a dirty dark grayish color. This is because different inks have different opacity and reflect light in different ways (as the German research points out).
Talk to them!

Or start with a hypothesis based on your past personal or professional experience.

The point is that you should try to validate consumer demand as quickly as possible without wasting too much time or money. It's the "Lean Startup" approach:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successf...

For example, I recently tried to rent a house in London. The process was painful and time-consuming and I think I could improve it by writing a great software package. But instead of spending 2 years and several million dollars building that software package to a "vision", I would put up a simple landing page, market it to potential customers and perform the main parts of the service manually to gauge consumer interest.
This is what impresses me so much about this photo. I think of nuclear bomb fissile materials as being one of the most precise things ever humans have ever made, yet the the fireball is so incredibly irregular.

It reminds me of when I first learned that irregularity in the early universe is what enabled material to condense (probably not the best word) and eventually form gas clouds.

Edit: I was wondering if there was some connection between the two, but thanks to DanBC's comment, it seems like the actual cause is a lot less mysterious.
Sorry if you don't think that say a Spitfire isn't sexy and should make any engineers heart sing just to see it fly and to hear the sound of the merlin or griffin you have no soul.

And the sad grandeur of the last TSR2 (look it up) all alone at the back of a hanger with its wings off at Cranfield doesn’t make you sad you should not be working in technology not even on some little iphone fart app.
1. We guarantee absolute satisfaction. We also have a secret incentive that we want you to find the perfect fit so you keep ordering and being happy with us. We'll refund or exchange (and pay all shipping, regardless) for anything, anytime. That said, we've developed what we're calling microsizes as well as fits for other body types -- tall and lean vs. weightlifters, who have been traditionally overlooked in the marketplace.

2. We will expand the colors, and, in fact, will be using our members to help guide us. So shoot us an email and let us know what you want! That said, we'll definitely be more conservative than AA. A lot of the time more choice is not a good thing -- AA has some colors that no guy should wear.
Getting not found.
It's a great idea and something that even I, humble amateur developer, have encountered (and wanted).

Any thoughts about which DB would be best suited for this? I wonder if it could be integrated with git somehow and make the whole process seamless.
The fact that you have a fork which is basically a point-in-time frozen version of a tool whose newest version nobody wants to use is pretty telling.

The Gnome team would be wise to listen in on the feedback from the community. If they want a community that is. They seem to think that this "Gnome brand", "Gnome identity" and "Gnome platform" is the most important thing they need to concern themselves with these days.
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Wow, that is a very similar announcement from a very similar product.

Superficially it seems that Parse and Stackmob are executing on the same vision, at roughly the same velocity. Yet Parse seems to get more publicity these days. Is it just that they'r e better at engineering hype and projecting the image of success, or is it something else?
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Twitter has revenue. Though either way I think Instagram would like to disagree with your valuation statement.
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Everlane has been around for a couple years now.
Color picker for data applies some of the principles mentioned in the article, it's more of a palette generator than a color picker put it produces very good results:

http://tristen.ca/hcl-picker/
In Orono at the moment for school, from Orrington originally. Let's connect!
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Well, I was thinking more along the lines of providing a service that takes care of all the note-sample mapping for you. You could either specify instruments/effects that you want via script tag url params, or perhaps using some kind of loading library (Google Web Fonts offers both of these methods). The bottom line is that you would be provided with patchable Instrument and Effect objects that expose a simple interface for triggering/releasing notes and modifying relevant parameters.
I have to admit that I misread the title the first go around as "Nuclear Explosion Less than 1 Mil[e outside of ...]" Being at the top of HN did not help much.
There are plenty of zero-gravity experiments that have been held in the ISS. I think at least the first base is worth it, just to learn more about the conditions of space. We still face one fundamental problem with space travel though, cosmic radiation.
I think that's exactly what Backlift does: https://www.backlift.com/

(I'm not affiliated with them)
AA's brand, at least to me, has been pretty tarnished by having a charismatic pervert as founder and CEO.
Sure. SpaceX or China would win. NASA or ESA would follow about a decade later.
While it is somewhat due to the makeup of the bomb and the environment at the time, fusion physicists are discovering that such instabilities in the explosion are extremely difficult to get rid of. Even in the NIF, which is a controlled environment with no air and a perfectly symmetric fusion target, they'se seeing images that look creepily similar to this one. Unfortunately, that means that creating an efficient fusion reactor is...more challenging that expected.
Wasn't executing untrusted code the purpose of operating systems?

In MULTICS, sure. Not in Unix/Windows/Mac.
I don't agree that's the hardest problem. Most people want something that solves a problem, and if you see a problem that lots of people have it's not too hard to think up any number of solutions. The really hard part is finding a solution that most of those people think is better than the problem. So many solutions simply push a problem from one area to another (time to set up, cost, annoyances, etc.)
The URL in the screenshot still works, you can play with it in the browser:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6432940/paper/mixingWell/24/index.ht...
it's been a long time since i've studied physics and physical chemistry so i could be wayyyy off but ...

how i understand it is two-fold. first, heat density. the surface area of the explosion is significantly smaller than the sun, and so the energy in the explosion is condensed to a smaller area and thus creates a higher temperature. as it expands it will, therefore, "cool" (relatively speaking) and by the time it reaches 7 miles away it wont melt the piss out of the camera (it obviously survived).

second is the spread of heat from the explosion to the camera. heat transfer is not instantaneous, and so the camera was just fine at this point. again, by the time it spreads to the camera it's dissipated so much energy that the heat will be relatively cooler.

finally i imagine the camera was pretty well protected to withstand the various forces of the explosion.
Fuel costs would obviously be greater, but not all that much

Fuel is just a small fraction of the cost anyhow. Also, you could build "cycler" craft using ion or plasma thrusters that could ferry crew modules from LEO to the moon and back.

The convenience of being on a giant rock versus a sitting duck in space can't be understated, either. It makes a lot of things a lot less complicated, especially supplying the base. The deceleration and coupling that ships to the ISS have to go through would be completely negated on the moon - all you have to do is land something relatively close (within a few hundred yards, maybe?) to the base and you're set. It's like threading a needle versus hitting the broad side of a barn.

There's a lot of valuable payloads you wouldn't have to actually land. You could ship frozen water up there in a projectile designed to keep it in a super-cold, super-hard state using liquid nitrogen as a boil-off coolant, and also clad it in armor and partially shield it from impact. Then a rover could go and retrieve the frozen water capsules. Even better, have a few shipments consist of frozen, dampened potting soil, which can be supplemented with lunar soil (made into a slurry with water and sloshed around to wear down the super-jagged edges) and start growing your own food up there with redirected sunlight. (There are a number of plants that are workably tolerant of 2 week sunlight cycles, like peas, provided you keep them cold between sunny periods.)
How do you "make your app high-quality" while also letting it grow organically by letting people see and play with early versions that still have rough edges?
fuck yes!
Well, you directly said you found racial preference for native people in job ads is "wrong on a number of levels" (originally phrased as a rhetorical question). But we know that native people suffer in a systemic way in US society, so they do need targeted help and policies on the basis of race in order to allow them to have the equal participation in society they deserve (and to help them not be disproportionately affected by violent crimes).

Institutional racism isn't just about discrimination, but rather prejudice combined with power. This isn't just about attitudes alone, as we are talking about real policies and incidents that are a direct reflection of racist attitudes. This instance of a job ad with a stated preference for native peoples is discriminatory, yes, but that is wholly acceptable given the state the US and its policies have put native peoples in.

The notion that affirmative action is racist or unfairly discriminatory is a perpetuation of the current racist institutions in the US. It supposes that the experience of people of color is not valid, and that their experiences and lives do not need nor deserve any consideration, ignoring the institutional oppressions that effect them. In the absence of targeted programs to help people affected by institutional racism, that kind of structural oppression thrives.

> Saying that all discrimination is wrong perpetuates violence and harm??

Your message isn't just that all discrimination is wrong. You quite clearly took aim at the behavior of and policies directed towards minorities as wrong or unjust. This ignores the main point: the behavior and policies of the majority have been wrong and unjust, and small programs and policies to help start to correct this are totally and wholly appropriate. This isn't about treating the majority (read: white) population unfairly, but looking at the numbers, seeing how the policies, laws, and enforcement of laws supported by that majority have negatively affected people of color at rates much higher than whites, and taking action to begin to address that.

You scoff at a job ad mentioning they give a preference native applicants, but are thinking about the long history of blood and violence that has occurred and continues to occur to those people? Of course they deserve a better shot at a job (not too mention they deserve much more). The notion of unfair discrimination towards whites as a result of affirmative action policies for jobs and education is a false equivalence.
It's rather smaller than the Sun, so the total energy output is rather less.
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I am also wondering how we can blow up something 3 times hotter than the surface of the Sun so close. Then again, the "surface" of the Sun is orders of magnitudes cooler than its center. The "surface", which is kind of hard to define, is about 5778K, but the centre is about 1.571 x 10^7 K. [1]

[1] http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html

EDIT: If it was 3 times hotter than the centre of the Sun...yeah, the Earth might be done for at that point.
The 'definition' aspect is key, but also the context or project.

For startup/rev1 web products, no doubt Dan's abilities are paramount. Would I want that same "ship it now" hacker ethic at work on a flight system? Or a heart monitor? Hell no.

Context matters.
That's not something you can do on the App Store, but on Google Play this is quite possible.
> In the US, I think most places let you write in whoever you want. If they get enough votes, they win. Google "Lisa Murkowski".

Yes, I would imagine write-ins could complicate the situation considerably (thanks for the link, btw!) - though, if the proportion of write-ins is small, it probably won't matter much.

> The other problem is that unlike parliamentary systems, in the US we vote for multiple things and not which party/who your MP is.

This also happens in Portugal; we do use different pieces of paper (and different ballot boxes) for each of the positions we are voting for.

> I think that we should be using paper ballots. What does it matter if it takes 2 days instead of 1 to figure out who won.

Yes, I totally agree with you. There are more important things than a speedy count, and resilience to fraud is certainly one of them. And as far as costs go, they are probably dwarfed by the amount spent on the campaign. I really don't understand why anyone would be so eager to speed up the process, except for shady motives.
In addition, the Netherlands does not have an election threshold. A party that gets 1/150 of the votes gets one of the 150 seats in parliament.

That is different from, for example, Germany, where seats are proportionally distributed among parties that got at least 5% of the votes.

So, the theoretical maximum number of parties in parliament is 150 in the Nethelands, but 20 in Germany.
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You do get toasted! But only when the fireball gets to you.
I'm pretty sure clever design could get the film into a safe place by then.
I thought that was an awfully large explosion for one millisecond until I realized that light would travel 30,000 times that far in that time frame.
Oh no! I'm just quoting from a linked article. We need a scientist to answer your question.
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ArtRage also has a paint layering/mixing model, although I'm guessing it's using neither Kubelka-Munk nor Paper's survey-based approach.

http://www.artrage.com/artrage-studio-features.html
The Spitfire is sexy. The work that went in to producing it? Not so much. That's the issue: the people who are being attracted by the "sexy" tag are people who actually don't want to do any of that work.
This article kept going back to this being some secret agreement between Obama and NASA, kept a secret in case Romney won?! Uh, what, why? I understand administrations have different goals, but this felt almost like a campaign piece of "Obama good, Romney bad!" and I for the life of me can't figure out why it matters.
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I agree with a lot of your reasoning, except you spoil you argument with the following (incorrect) assertion:

"It really comes down to the market you're targeting. OS X and Rails are for casual users"
> Will be interesting to see if Apple sees this and
> how it counters.

How dumb do you think people at Apple are?
And I don't see how it hits Apple — apple has been operating in low margin markets for ages, except that they have high margins and products good enough for people to pay the price asked.
The dumb move would be to join the race to the bottom.
And frankly, I am so sick and tired of the world where everything is paid by advertising that I am gladly paying premium.
OTOH I think advertisers start to think what are they really paying for.
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This is the third or fourth article I've read on HN about the best time to submit content on HN.

Fair warning: the next time I read this topic here, I am going to write a comment about the best time to submit comments on articles about the best time to submit articles.
So, if the article is correct that the explosion is ~20m in diameter, and the photo was taken 0.001 seconds after detonation...

Then the explosion is expanding at an instantaneous rate of:

(10 meters [radius] / 0.001 sec) = 10,000 meters per second = ~6.2 miles per second.

Obviously it won't sustain that velocity, but still. That's insane(ly awesome).
The question isn't if we should fix the mistakes of the past, but how. Helping all disadvantaged people, without regard to their skin color, will disproportionately help whoever has been disadvantaged the most in the past. That's a good thing.
I would take it a step further and say that everything related to your project should be forkable and branchable. Your source, your assets, your databases, etc.

Isn’t that the advantage of Perforce?
I totally agree with you here. Just saying that probably treating dolphins as people might not help (or be enough), considering that the size of planet would remain constant but we'll double our density soon.
Who is "they"? Mono was transferred from Novell to Xamarin some time ago, but is alive and well (better than ever?): http://mono-project.com/Main_Page.
Fair enough. As someone who doesn't use their phone for shopping, this isn't for me - but I would have checked it out if it had been on the web. Good luck!
Context is what matters here. You're a terrible programmer for established businesses building products they know people want (so it has to be rock solid and easy to maintain/upgrade). But you're great at churning out MVPs, which is really all startups need. The second a startup moves from an MVP, it no longer is a startup - they've proven their business and are building things like betas, where they know exactly what users want and are delivering on that.
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Just curious, but what do you get if you multiply those percentages by the size of those groups?
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Not to mention the surface of the sun is not that hot (around 5000C)

The interior of the sun however is a different story (around 1.57*10E7 K per Wikipedia)
Last year's PyCon was really wonderful, my hats off to the team and volunteers behind it because it was a really special experience. I'm excited about doing it again this year! I have no clue how I am going to manage 6 tracks of epic talks though...
It is possible with Perforce, but it is far from ideal. Compare branching in Git to branching in Perforce. There's still a lot of room for improvement.
It looks like a metroid!

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071202052451/metroid...