skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large cargo ships are phenomenally efficient. The efficiency of sea freight has more than doubled since the 1970s and is now in excess of 6 ton/km per MJ - more than fifteen times the efficiency of road freight.

Large ships have two key advantages. The first is drag, which increases approximately in proportion to the square root of displacement. The bigger the ship, the less energy it needs per tonne of freight. Large vessels can use extremely clean and efficient engines, with complex heat-recovery systems and exhaust particulate filtering. They run on bunker fuel, which consists of the densest and least valuable fractions of crude oil.

A standard 20-foot container is 30m^3 in volume and normally carries a maximum of 14 tonnes. The queens of the ocean, the eight Maersk E-class vessels, each carry 11,000 containers with a crew of just 13. Maersk have placed orders for twenty triple-E class ships, which will be a quarter of a mile long, carry 18,000 containers and be 37% more efficient than the E-class.

If sail is the long-term answer to sea freight, then it will be on an unimaginably grand scale.
Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
It seems like every second article is "X is broken and we're fixing it" on here.
Two promising open source cryptocurrencies that are not bitcoin forks are Ripple and Opentransactions. These can also be used on top of Bitcoin, or the others, to provide some functionality (such as decentralized exchanges) that Bitcoin itself has not.

As for a big impact on the value of bitcoin, I don't think so. Bitcoin has the networking effects for now, many people are working on accepting them. It may be that the additional cost of accepting, for example LTC is lower when already accepting BTC, but BTC has a large first mover advantage.
There have been a lot of alternatives[1] spring up, but as far as I can tell, they're all very similar to Bitcoin, so none of them solve big problems that Bitcoin doesn't already (variations include mining being not so biased towards GPUs/ASICs and small changes to the way blocks and coin supply are handled). Fundamentally, they're all variations on the same theme.

If a new currency was developed that solved some of the big problems that Bitcoin has[2], possibly by working in a fundamentally different way, I can see that currency becoming the dominant digital currency.

1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrenc...

2. People disagree on this, but I would list things including its deflationary nature and its fragility (human error can cause vast losses in a way that traditional banking prevents). On the other hand, a currency that really was anonymous would serve a purpose too.
Rent one from me for $1500 a month. That will save you the $1200 you otherwise would pay to Tesla, so your total cost of ownership is only $300 per month.

In other words: your logic does not make sense to me.
Along those lines I found that CDNs (I only tried Cloudfront) are actually slower then my dedicated hardware for regions reasonably close to my server. I anticipated this for cold edge locations but unfortunately it is also true for cached files. Thus unless you have a global audience and/or performance issues because of traffic spikes CDNs might not be worth the trouble. Also the download speed from Cloudfront was only halve of the speed from S3 but latency was much better.

edit: specify CDN used
Yay more introvert elitism. HN is running like clockwork.
North Korea: Let’s Not Forget Iraq’s Greatest Lesson
As the drums of war begin, let’s not forget that governments lie. Let’s not heed the propaganda from either side. We need to pay close attention folks because the United States may be equally culpable in the threat to peace.
This is a good explanation, but I still prefer the one from StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/the-python-yield-keyword-explained?answertab=votes#tab-top

You can tell it's popular, because it's been submitted to many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603179

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3066144

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4810661

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124929 - Good discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399772
The advert I got for that YouTbue video started with a Lionsgate logo...
That still leaves the wp-content directory and everything in it, including other plugins, writable by the web server. A malicious or compromised plugin can then check whether some of the highly popular plugins are installed, and modify their files to compromise the whole site. You don't need access to WordPress's core files to inflict a huge amount of damage.

Some directories do need to be writable for caching and uploading purposes, but those are just data, and data is usually inert. It's dangerous to leave any executable file (*.php) writable by the web server.
I would prefer to have semi transparent graphs in background.
Bitcoin is in hyperdeflation
Natural Async Programming (cont'd) – Signal-Oriented Programming - samholmes
I don't think this is stating that (or what other responses to the parent say). Rather it is saying, figure out what the biggest risk is and try to address that first. Often for startups this will be on the business side (i.e. are you building something people want? Is the market big enough? etc.). But if what you're building requires complex engineering, requires that an API you're unfamiliar with works a certain way, requires that certain data is available to you, etc. it is helpful to also investigate these things early on so that you can be more confident of your project's feasibility and can estimate better.
Well yes, I meant "every feature" for some values of "every", obviously :-) For some features the gain is not noticeable enough to justify doing the initial spike.
Well, a troll can present a prototype and still make overly broad claims.
I think this is one of those cases where unless you personally know a lot of people who fall on different places on the scale and perhaps if you personally don't sit at one of the extremes then it can be harder to believe.

While this sort of grouping is certainly a huge oversimplification it does hold a great deal of truth in my experience and observation. I personally am naturally introverted and the whole "alone time to recharge" thing has always been true for me. Even if I'm having the time of my life hanging out with my close friends it's still the case that once I get back home I will typically crave alone time, often even in preference to sleep even if it's super late at night. I also used to have a roommate who was a pretty classic extrovert and his behavior fit into the "recharge by interacting with people" model perfectly. There's certainly a lot more complexity to social interaction than just introversion and extroversion but to a first order approximation it is astoundingly accurate.
What's wrong with finding a job at Apple? If you're a good and passionate engineer, I bet they will surely find a spot for you.
>why would I pay someone a certain amount in bitcoins, when it'll probably rise up to 10 times the current value in a few weeks?

Why would you pay someone a certain amount in USD, when you could buy Bitcoins instead and they would probably rise to 10 times the current value in a few weeks?
I'm not OP but presumably: homeworks are done alone at home whereas professional works are done within a team at a workplace. Procrastination is the demotivating consequence of working alone, isolated.
Most GP representations are of instruction trees, but some GP experiments have been done with strings of assembler instructions. The commonality is that the population of agents are programs and the test of fitness is a function execution.
It's important to mention that "start now" doesn't mean "start coding now", but rather "start working now". Don't omit the planning phase.
I noticed this too. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best (compare with the long thread of suggested solutions further down this page).

It's like a master-criminal's subtle and sophisticated plan being foiled by a simpleton because it assumed that the victims would be able to read.
How I like my Finder
just because your spreadsheet says it will take this long, doesn't mean reality will take a lot longer
probably because the average lawyer or doctor has higher status and a more secure future :-)
How is google buying apps and forcing the users to use a google bastardised service a good thing?
It's a pity Tesla didn't lay out the costs in a calculator as you have above. Would've been far more honest ("am I really paying that much on fuel every month?"), and this whole silly debate would've been avoided.
I don't know the specifics of this man's legal claims, but the article makes his stance pretty clear: the combination of scanning, emailing, LAN and one-button operation is the thing that is patented. The point is not that the user is inventing something, it's that somebody else has invented this combination, and the user must now (again, according to this man) pay a license fee to use this specific invention.

"or doing something completely obvious."

This is also discussed in the article. Many things that many people (especially engineers) would consider 'obvious' or 'simple' really aren't under patent law (again, this mans claims), and in some cases, things that are 'obvious' now weren't when the invention was done. Which, to some degree, is true.

"Maybe I'm misunderstanding the intent of patents, but I would've thought they protected the interests of the inventor against competition by other inventors rather than users of an invented product?"

No, the point is to protect inventors by giving them a way to control under what circumstances (i.e., in most cases, after how much money has been paid) their invention can be used. Patents aren't about preventing other from inventing the same thing again, it's about having a monopoly on using/commercializing the invention.
Liquid Robotics launches autonomous sea-faring data center
Excellent points, esp. "Puppies learn much faster when they have an older dog around so that they can copy their behavior."
pre electronic computers originally programmers where clerks that did repative calculations by hand and most of those where women.
Am I missing something or is "collaborative chat" a pleonasm? Unless you count monologues as valid use cases for a chat application...
Qubit platform revamped & reveals high value of ie users
Yup it would be taxable I should have mentioned that.

What I meant to say for businesses accepting BTC would have other and extra taxes apart from Income like Sales/Excise

For miners I assume it would be either considered as a owned commodity or intagible personal property.

I would assume just like any other commodity the current market value is considered if you have not traded in local currency.

Also if you have bought BTC and sold to make some profit by trading, there would be commodity tax.
Do consider ForkLift - http://www.binarynights.com/ - just look through the key features. I would have bought it for Multi Rename alone (but it also has Dual panes, Mount as disk, all kinds of remote connections, custom shortcuts, Merge, etc etc)
With Obama/EU(not a person at all) winning Nobel peace prize, its obviously just political showmanship.

Obama is a controversial because he expanded definition of combatant and expanded military reach.

EU is a state. Not a person...
lovely UI
means it's not 1:1 chat mainly, like skype, msn or similar. it's many rooms with many people, mainly. like irc
There are some really smart people in the USA, but sadly this doesn't apply to their leaders. The only thing they're good at is running massive propaganda campaigns (to the point where some people think they're proud to work two jobs and barely have something to eat).
Open plan offices suffer from a few very difficult to fight effects. One, a lot of people think they are great for "collaboration". Often this is because they have collaborated successfully in some way in the past in open plan offices and imagine that there would be no way to achieve the same level of collaboration with a different office plan (classic "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy). Two, it's currently very popular and hip, especially in the tech. community. It feels more informal and less "old business" so a lot of startups and companies that want to project a youthful image adhere to it. Three, it's often significantly cheaper than offices.

When taken together you end up in a situation where open plan offices become the de facto choice and where fighting against them is a huge uphill battle.
Cool concept, however it never updates for me, and Money Sent is always $0 (left it open during a 10~ min break.)

Chrome 26.0.1410.43, Linux
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> destroying the benefit we get from faster computers.

That's precisely the point, though.
>continue to do great work and we will reach out to you.

That's a bit of a sticky problem. It's a hard job finding worthy projects that than benefit the most from funding. There are a lot of projects out there. Some have a lot of potential but identifying them isn't easy.

I can understand why there isn't a sign saying "I'm giving away money, apply here." That is a recipe to be inundated with requests where the the most worthy lose out to those more skilled at applying for grants.

I wonder if there is scope for a crowd sourced intermediary here. We all think about the worthy causes we could support if we were mega rich. Maybe what we need is a "If I had a Billion Dollars" website where people suggest and critique causes to enable those who do have the money can look to see where they can do the most good.

Specifically for Open Source, I have found quiet little projects that could benefit from grants, projects that would never actually seek out funding in their own right. Another aspect are projects that are not yet open source that could possibly be liberated with a fair payment. I see things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Studio_Pro which I doubt will ever be finished as a proprietary project, but might have a chance as open source. Similarly http://sol.gfxile.net/atanua/ is an excellent program that is largely lying idle. Both of these could be possibly bought into the open source world if their respective developers were offered some compensation for their efforts so far.

Of course I know only a little snapshot of what is out there, perhaps there should be a way for the cumulative eyeballs of people to find the best opportunities.
ARPwner – ARP & DNS Poisoning Attack Tool
Hm. I hope that sites like this are not a new trend but fear otherwise.
Visiting this page with my screen reader (NVDA from http://nvda-project.org) shows all of a combo box with different currencies in it. There is precisely no other content.
At least before the worst things the blind had to worry about were unlabeled links that you could eventually possibly figure out through trial and error. This? Nothing.
I don't even see the clever little "Your browser sucks" message, as it's not my browser causing the issue. Just a complete lack of semantic markup of any kind that the screen reader could possibly interpret.
The webpage is scrollable vertically (at least on my google chrome), why is that?
Thanks, checking out their free trial now
It's not the whole dataset, but the cables from 2003-2010 are downloadable here:

http://cryptome.org/z/z.7z
Vornado Sells JC Penney Stock - Aomori Group.
You can buy most of the online stuff with BTCs i.e. servers, VPNs, hosting services, seedboxes, most cloud services, music, gambling, games etc

Many sites have started accepting BTC now. ( http://bitpay.com makes it possible )

Some sites which are quite popular and known

http://www.bitcoinin.com/

http://www.bitcoinblaster.com/

http://www.coinabul.com/

https://www.bitcoinstore.com/

( Not sure if updated , but here is a small list https://www.spendbitcoins.com/places/ )
Oh man, OllyDbg was excellent. I was never great at reverse-engineering, it was mostly a "change random jmps and hope it works" thing for me, but it was exciting. Nobody I knew had credit cards back then, and I was a teenager, so I couldn't pay anyway, but I'd get shareware I don't use just to see if I can crack them. I'd delete them afterwards.

I once created an "uncrackable" crackme (in Visual Basic 4, no less!) that had a part of its code encrypted with RC4, and the license key was the decryption ley.
This is quite common in China. Even the largest ISPs do it.
Three do a similar plan too: £12.90 for unlimited data, 200 minutes and 5000 texts http://store.three.co.uk/view/searchSimOnly?tariff=2915
Mate, LastPass does what you want. I've started using 1Password recently, having moved from LastPass, and things like that are really annoying, as are the lack of decent import/export tools and a way of seeing how strong my passwords are overall. They've done good but still got a lot of work to do, should write them a tweet.
totalfinder has a split pane (actually a tab join) which works awesomely.

What I like about totalfinder is that it is not a finder replacement, but just adds some small (but massive) improvements.

highly recommend.
> why would I pay someone a certain amount in bitcoins, when it'll probably rise up to 10 times the current value in a few weeks?

Thanks for being a living example of the chilling effects of deflation.
Then my suggestion to experiment with all three stands.

Things you might want to look at for Perl - Moose/Moo for OO, Mojolicious/Dancer/Catalyst for web frameworks, DBIx::Class/Rose::DB::Object for ORMs, App::cpanminus/App::perlbrew/local::lib for managing installations of Perl and modules, and http://metacpan.org/ for looking up libraries for everything else.

Also, the free book "Modern Perl" to get a feel for the language in 2013 as opposed to the hundreds of horribly outdated .com-bubble era tutorials you'll find on google.

You'd be best with somebody else's advice for python or ruby, most likely, so I shan't opine there.
I wouldn't call it more verbose.

AT&T:

sub $0x8,%rbx
callq *%rax
mov (%rbx),%rax

Intel:

sub rbx, 0x8
call rax
mov rax, [rbx]

Intel can be written with:

mov rax, QWORD PTR [rbx]

But it's redundant and assemblers don't expect it. It's only necessary in a handful of places to avoid ambiguity, as opposed to the incessant size suffixes and $/% prefixes, which make AT&T feel more verbose to me. Definitely a matter of familiarity, though.
We have had a similar case publicly exposed here in the UK a little while ago with Phorm and British Telecom:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13015194

There is a good chance that such practices may be found to be illegal in a UK court (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act primarily with some discussion about applying the Data Protection Act or Computer Misuse Act) but they haven't been tested yet. Both companies very quickly stepped back from the 'trial' they were conducting when it became clear there might be public support for a test case.
Ask HN: Cost of living in Silicon Valley for a family
We're considering moving our family to the Silicon Valley. We're a family of 6: me & my wife, and my kids: 13, 10, 6, 2.

We're not planning on buying a place- just rent a place for now (we need a minimum 4 br), preferably north of San Jose. Add to that the cost of elementary school, high school, daycare, other costs associated with kids (afterhours classes, hobbies), food, car etc..

Can anyone estimate what would be the cost to live for a family like us?
I don't think so. I used to think I was a huge introvert. I'd stay quiet in social situations and being in groups exhausted me. But now I've started to make some deep friendships with people around me, and it's almost the other way. Sometimes I can be so drained from work that I want to call up some friends to hang out, and sometimes I get tired from hanging out and want to go solo for a bit.

I think it's the same as the Night Owl vs Early Bird thing, where I don't think there is a real distinction either. I've experienced a complete shift from staying up until 1am to getting at 5am and now I don't think there's a real personality type associated with either schedule. I can do both fluidly, so I see it just as a lifestyle difference.
"I have to use Trello at work but this bully don't even let me select a card title."

It does if the card is open, are you referring to it assuming you're trying to drag a card on the board view? I'd rather have that than sometimes it drags, sometimes it selects the text.
File-Sharers Will Not Be Held Liable For Piracy, Russia Says
We have. But most productivity gains (together with comp gains) are driven by the top, not the median or bottom.

A burger flipper produces as much now as ever before. Productivity went up because of the computerized jit inventory infrastructure bringing mass produced frozen burgers to him, the highly optimized recipes he mindlessly follows, etc. The guys who built all that stuff are paid well.
Bitcoin needs more security than credit cards because transactions are irreversible. Say his mother has a significant part of her savings in BTC, and they get stolen. What's she gonna do then?
I was extremely sceptical about dogs, having owned cats most of my life. 6 years ago we got a dog (Working line Cocker). Initial 6 months were hard, well she did eat the kitchen floor, but have to say she really is a positive influence for the family as a whole.

If you work from home then I would strongly recommend you get one.
Can you expand on the fragility issue? Are you talking about the lack of chargebacks/reversing transactions?
The Laboratorium : Speech Engines (re Google)
>When you look at his achievements[2], I have trouble finding one that would have succeeded with OP's "advice". Between an app for coffee-lovers and QEMU, I think the careful thinking and engineering crushes the hype of "let's do it". Sure it sounds good, but that is not the way you will achieve something meaningful.

I think both you and the parent got the wrong impression.

The article is not saying "just start coding -- and skip planning and engineering".

He says "just start working hard on the problem from day one, INCLUDING the planning and engineering parts -- instead of leaving it for later, or doing only low hanging fruits in the beginning".

"Start working hard early on != just start with coding immediately".

>- I distrust analogies, and this gamma-correction one is definitely unsound (not to say dumb)

Nothing unsound or dumb about it. It's just that he could reduce it to the curve shown --taken to mean project completion--, without mentioning gamma at all.

The curve is the important part of the analogy, not gamma.
Is it still classified if it's public?
Doesn't a thing stop being secret automatically when it leaks out?

If it does not then I wonder why they even called it "classified" or "secret". They should call it "blargh" and avoid the confusion.
I would be careful with this, needs definitely some revisions. (at least the English and German columns )
This is what I see: http://i.imm.io/12ieb.jpeg

...
Seems quite specific for "common words". I imagine someone wants to crowdsource their translations. Well, no harm done to anyone.
I love these short pieces on stupid legislation in the land of the free.

Makes me so happy I don't live there.

Who in their right mind would even propose such legislation. What kind of immoral, capitalistic people are in charge in the US.