skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're optimizing for the wrong resource.

Computers serve humans, not the other way around. That means that unless you're optimizing for something that benefits people, you're probably making things worse.

So yeah, if a program is just the same but is twice as slow in a way that harms user experience, then sure, that's bad. But if a program uses twice the CPU but is easier to develop and deploy, that's a win.

For example, if somebody uses the technology to make MAME and its library available in every browser in the world, then that's great, because somebody just enabled a hell of a lot of fun.

Sure, they could try to get everybody in the world to download and install a native copy and save a bunch of CPU time that wasn't going to get used anyhow. But that'd be a big waste of human life, a much more precious resource than CPU time.
So I guess the near-term future is to commoditize the battery like Blue Rhino propane tanks you can swap around at the grocery store?
A little of both, I think. It coincided with a more sedentary job, but I've noticed a lot of small aging-related changes in my body (nostril hair going crazy, fingernails getting rougher, that sort of thing) at about the same time, and I don't think they are related to the job.
Reported: First entanglement between light and optical atomic coherence
>I would not trust an automatic robot arm

For 95% of newish cars this problem is fairly trivial because the gas cap/fuel doors are so similar (there are exceptions, I'm specifically thinking of cars that require you to press a button inside the car to open the refueling port), and any college robotics lab could design a system to handle it that was much less likely to scratch your car/spill gas than a human operator.

The problem is that in Oregon/New Jersey it's a jobs program, so regulators are unlikely to allow something like that.

In every other state, gas stations have no incentive to pay for such a system because they have no labor costs to save.
That may work for model s market... But even they came up with model cheap, this will be all kinds of nightmare from smart ppl "returning" all sorts of junk batteries.
So do you keep the books that are part of the 90%, or do you get rid of them?
That's what I thought, though "bill you the difference" indicates they're not treating their batteries like propane tanks. Hopefully someday.
How do we know that the government has not cracked AES?

The NSA employs the best mathematicians in the world, and half the PhD output in math from our best colleges end up working there.
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معرفة نتيجة الدبلوم الفنى التجارى 2013 برقم الجلوس نهاية العام الدراسى وذلك بعد ان انتهى جميع الطلبة والطالبات من امتحانات دبلوم الثانوى التجارى بعد كد وجهد وتعب طوال العام راجين من الله هذا وجل التوفيق والنجاح بأعلى الدرجات وافضل التقديرات التى تلبى طموح الجميع واسعاد اولياء الامور بـــــــ نتيجة الصف الثالث الثانوى التجارى
Practical quantum computing moves closer to reality
Open question: is this what was chasing LA Times journalist Michael Hastings a few nights ago? Sharyl Attkisson thought she was paranoid, until her employer (CBS News) discovered her computers were indeed being hacked.
Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote: a symphony of adjectives
What do you mean by 3/4 can't use that banal resolution?

on your other point, i used a sgi 24" crt with all the resolutions mentioned in this thread summed and UNIX/Linux/windows were just fine. And that was the 90s
5 days/months/years doesn't really matter, they have it, they will store it. Data is new Gold, no one wants to get rid of it or can get rid of it for the complications it might cause in the future.
Can the people who decided to store the data, will ever be ready to destroy it ?

1. You Can't treat your citizens like suspects
2. You can't take control over the world information
3. If it is done for the security, let us know upfront about it, there should be no beating around the bush.
According to the FAA, 1 inch. Remember the recent story of some schmuck piloting a quad-copter less than a foot from his neighbor's window? There was much arguing of whether said neighbor would be within rights to shoot the thing out of the air, and the HN consensus was, "nope".
I feel like what you are saying here agrees with the article.

I've had a banner feature on the photo and video section of the app store. It only drives a couple hundred downloads a day. The reality is, the front page in the US is the only section that drives substantial downloads ~50K in a week is possible with 1st or 2nd position. Neither of those things drive great users which is again what Andrew mentioned as building PR hype.

Also believe it or not, our banner feature was more or less dumb luck. I mean, we make a great product, but getting their attention was a lot of luck.
This thread makes me regret to be a code money. Would love to be more business savvy and start a highend notebook startup.

It's not like you require much investment. You can buy pieces from everywhere.
No I cannot, because this individual stated that "a 3 letter federal agency" operates the node. Thus never really saying it was the NSA. Given the recent news though, one can only guess it was the NSA.

Is it really that hard to believe? Considering that the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) gets mostly DoD contracts and research grants and a lot of those contracts are for classified projects.
I'm just curious what the user's incentive for using upboat is?

Edit: I mean, I'm not a startup owner, but I visited the site and couldn't figure out why I would want to do this, rather than just wait until the product actually comes out.
Yeah, you should check out AWS EC2. You can ramp up to a large server for your anticipated spike and then back down afterwards. That way you are not spending big bucks for a server you don't need yet.
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I'm not sure where you got that list form, but GTRI does a lot of DoD contract work and probably has quite a large range of addresses it can use.
thanks that is what i meant.
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I've seesawed on this over the last few years.

I. The Good

I was originally* a big fan, faster than gas stations, but still compatible with at home "pumping" for city driving. It's basically a propane refill model, shops could buy back your old battery while they sold you a new one, so eventually you're really just paying for the energy at basically no wait.

II. The Bad

I grew more pessimistic as I started shopping for aftermarket cell phone batteries, noticing that:

a) Batteries degrade over time (in terms of capacity or depth of discharge)

b) Batteries are expensive, especially car batteries (though this should improve over time)

c) It's impossible to really know the exact capacity of a battery without a power cycle or two

Would you be willing to swap phone batteries with a stranger? What if the battery cost $4000? Who eats the cost of lemon batteries on the market? Does a sort of Gresham's Law kick in where suddenly everyone's dumping a lemon in every transaction?

Buying gas involves some trust, trust that they're not loading it up with crud, that it really has the energy capacity it says it does, that it's not 30% ethanol instead of 0, 10, 15. But I believe, based on the factors above, the trust relationship with a battery refill is a little more intense.

III. The Beautiful?

That said, now I'm of course swinging optimistic again. Car and Driver taught us that Tesla's diagnostic tools are awesome. Serial individual batteries, let the owner see its entire history, hidden lemon problem basically solved. Maybe build some "insurance" into battery costs, guarantee certain lifespan, smoothe out the cost of duds.

Musk can dodge some of the authentication problems by just keeping a tight grip on the infrastructure and the technology, but for this to really take off, Musk will want to allow competition, standardize battery swapping tech, encourage mom and pop "battery stations" to quickly build out the infrastructure in all the small towns he doesn't know are on the map. Not sure if that's in his personality though...

* Originally = Few years back I sat on a few panels for energy and transportation, wrote some white papers, nothing big.

EDIT: formatting, headings
It's the same way ofthinking as a luxuory hotel. There's a groom bringing your luggages to your suite, not a sophisticated warehouse style system shuffling them around. Having a guy/girl fill in the tank at the station is not efficient, but it makes a better service experience, it' also less error prone and stress free.

BTW most people 'standing there doing nothing but X' in Japan are actually very valuable and can help you in a lot of matters, even completely unrelated to X. Unefficient but priceless if you have a special need or just don't know how things work.
"Someone would decide to create a new application and opt to put his code up on the GitHub website."
The version that runs Android is actually more interesting than this to me. A dual Android / Windows notebook could be an Android developer's dream if the setup works right. Not to mention, seamlessly flipping to Android when on the go, but still with all my Windows files available sounds pretty nice.
Perhaps the reason I haven't shared your experience is because I primarily deal only with tech people.
The reality is, people are taking millions of dollars to build an app, and it takes them many months to push it out. With only one dev, me, my cofounder and I lived off of < 25K for a year, and built up an app with +70K users. That's a lot of wasted time and money on the people who took millions in funding and haven't hit millions of users. I don't know what 1999 was like, but it's true that tons of startups raised money, were slow to validate, and are now are dying.

With regards to Highlight I imagine they will likely die before doing that or give up on the original hypothesis. Statistically speaking that is most likely. I was trying to be helpful, and as you mentioned you can just as well list off a list of startups so I'm not sure focusing in on one example is that useful as I can just as easily name more.
Hike, bike, and surf. Not everything has to be hi-tech.
They're in the exact same ballpark. That workstation has 2 x 8 cores, and a higher RAM ceiling on it's favor. On the other hand, it's limited to 7 PCI slots for expansion, three of them slow/legacy, vs a max of 36 chained devices on the Pro. The quadro GPU it comes with is 3.5x less powerful than the one in the mac pro, and it will come in at a higher price tag.

Do you by any chance drive a mid-range Bentley?
> "....The Ministry of Defence has issued a D notice preventing the UK media from 'publish[ing] information that may "jeopardise both national security and possibly UK personnel"'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-me....
I believe he was referencing the Uranium required for Nuclear Reactors that currently is the most efficient/green standard for generating electricity at scale, althought Thorium-based nuclear power could well solve the "rare" issue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
Interestingly I was working on this as well. It was called "should I Build it?" and the idea is if enough people vote YES (you decide how many people are enough), then you build it.

Two Additional Suggestions:

1. After the potential user votes "yes" or "no" allow the idea author to collect feedback as to why they voted the way they did. (customer development built-in). This will provide some great insights into what's valuable to your prospects.

2. Secondly it will be more useful to allow the idea author set this up on their own domain and be able to add their own styling to the page because most of the traffic the page will get will be from the idea author's network.

I don't see myself as a user, coming to your website to look for ideas to support with my email.

Finally how do you plan on monetizing this app? This is the chief reason I dropped the idea which is probably short-sighted but it'll be interesting to see how you go about it.

Good Luck.
If I remember correctly it's a driver limitation, and theoretically it could be modified so it would do what you want, but consider the amount of userspace/kernelspace crossings to be made just to send some ciphertext over the network to some other party.

I imagine something like this would take place:

SSL does not happen in the kernel. So you need to send a payload to the kernel to encrypt, you get back the ciphertext, wrap it in your packet (add some headers) and then push this data once more to the kernel, which sends it out over the network for you.

Receiving ciphertext would go along similar lines.

That's probably not very efficient. Contrast this with full disk encryption using dm_crypt (linux). No shuffling back and forth of data. Userspace only really needs to handle the plaintext (and not even directly, but through the FS layer, which is also in the kernel).

So maybe it may just not be worthwile to expose the interface to userspace on reasonably powerful platforms? Anything above a tiny MIPS or old 486?

The VIA padlock crypto accelerator is (or was at some point) exposed to userspace and OpenSSL could take advantage of it. I wonder how much of a performance increase that yielded, considering the issue I noted above.

Also, hardware accelerators typically only support a couple of modes and key sizes. That's fine for full disk encryption, but in a networked world you need more flexibility.
I'm not sure what angle you're asking this from--the originator of the idea, or someone who might want to use a service?

Regarding the former, that's answered in the OP, so you probably mean the latter.

A) Why do you browse HN? I will assume here that it is because you want to keep up with hacker news. Another possibility is that you want be stimulated/inspired by interesting ideas and premises for startups. While the traffic and postings on Upboat thus far haven't been overwhelming, I've enjoyed reading people's ideas and commenting to probe them deeper about them. It keeps me on my toes for ideas I might have in the future. It also gives me the chance to become an early adopter/user of a service I personally find impactful and needed. I get to be a part of that, if other Upboaters agree.

B) The social aspect to Upboat lets me see how people I follow are upboating. This eases the friction of finding potentially great ideas I would like to upboat for the reasons in A. Although the follower/followee social network thing is overplayed and contrived by now, I feel the social filtering it provides is a compelling reason to stay active and upboat ideas I find valuable and want my followers to take a look at.
This is good as far as it goes -- nice to see further corroboration that EBS is not always the best solution.

What I'd really like to see is details of how the traffic monitoring works, how you calculate how much extra capacity to spin up, and how quickly you can react to load events.
> perhaps some faceless NSA analyst might one day have burned countless cpu-years decrypting my 2048bit GPG mail, only to be Rickrolled with a 70 year old cautionary tale about themself…)

That, sir, is genuis. Now that talibans have office in qatar, I hope they'll publish some kind of contact email, so we can rickroll both NSA and them through tormail. Sorry authoritarians, this is the internet.
Publishers can kiss my ass since they don't fund the creation of anything original anymore.

Here are some general guidelines if you want to see your schlocky video game in my household:

1) Everything is a spin-off, sequel or re-imagining/reboot. Give us something original. EA style cookie cutter crap is not desired.

2) Stop trying to control every possible use of the DVD/CD. If your game sucks, it will likely go back to the store or the vendor will get a chargeback and there is nothing you can do.

3) Give us interesting online game play without having to deal with the 14 YO k0olD0ods.

4) Hire some shills that know how to read and write the English language. That last article was nearly unbearable.

5) The last 2 truly original games I can think of were Tetris and Sim City... ~20 years ago.

6) If you just cannot find it in yourself to be original, learn some lessons from the genius that is Shigeru Miyamoto. Or maybe Dani Bunten or Sid Meier.
Rehashes of the same old shit have generally not been purchased in this household since the end of the RPG versions of Might and Magic.

7) (EA I'm looking at you here) Don't treat your employees like shit. I will not buy anything from you if you do.

Things to shoot for:

Legend Of Zelda: One of the best games ever. Kept me interested and engaged for a long time

Metroid: See above

SSI Gold Box Games: Pools of Radiance. Curse of the Azure Bonds. Crappy graphics, good stories, good game play.

Diablo 1: Well above mediocre but not near as good as Miyamoto

Ultima 1 through 5 (Including the NES port): If Garriot had been a better programmer, these games would have been masterpieces. The design was outstanding.

Now that that's off my chest... Off to complain about Windows. :)
Tesla's batteries aren't your regular cellphone battery...
Not to mention Musk said they have partnered with Panasonic and are working on battery research for the future.

Tesla's Shareholder Meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3AcKTmaoE8

Worth watching if you got an hour and a half to kill :)
Shame they only showed the major versions
1. Good call.
2. A widget is an awesome idea. Move aside, LaunchRock!
3. You're the man. Thanks!

Monetizing? Apps aren't expensive, and if it provides value to a community I certainly wouldn't mind not-charging for it. It took me 24 hours to build, and hopefully not a year of labor to maintain. If I can break even, I'd be happy. Otherwise, selling contact info of idea authors who've collected unreal amounts of upboats to investors seems like it could do something, granted I gather the consent of all parties involved.
> Are you saying that chickens and monkeys got fatter over time due to "record-keeping errors"?

Depending on the margin of error, yes.

> Are you claiming the "fat virus" effect - that if you give chickens or monkeys or rats or mice a certain human cold viruse, they get fatter - is due to "record-keeping errors"?

I'm claiming that getting fatter is completely explained by net caloric balance. Insofar as a virus depresses metabolism, it is still explained by net caloric balance. Insofar as a virus increase appetite, it is still explained by net caloric balance. Insofar as measurement fails to be adjusted for either scenario, it's a record-keeping error.

> He argues that the phenomenon of some local culture getting unusually fat in spite of the usual suspects not being present, is something that has been seen a great many times in history...but has been ignored or misinterpreted until recently.

Anthropology is not a substitute for metabolic ward studies and controlled-diet studies and medical fasting studies and twin studies. All of these find that caloric balance has predictive power, modulo noise and measurement error.

If energy or matter is being destroyed by viruses, there would be detectable evidence.

Lethal amounts of radiation, for example.

> You can't derive the direction of causality from that relationship.

Given that changing caloric balance temporally precedes changes in body mass and body fat, and that the outcomes can be predicted to within a few percent in controlled conditions, and that the mechanisms of lipogenesis and lipolysis are well studied, yes. I believe that I can deduce just such a causal system.
-- Don’t we already have enough options to express ourselves?

We have enough options to express ourselves in a specific way only. The basic thinking around these expression options is same. If a new language comes up with new way of thinking about programming then it is worth it otherwise it is just something that you should not care about.
Couplet, a site where you can set up your Facebook friends by buying them coffee
How do you know when you're making it too complex?
On one hand you have Hello world! And on the other the vilain project manager requests.

But say you design a distributed system and its protocol, how do you know what is to keep and what is to delete ?
We know the problem of over quality or complexity, but how do you know you're just right?

My feeling is that beeing too minimalist might refrain progress and discovery of new loved features.
Sure. Your app can be featured by Apple like Intuit got displayed prominently in Walmart in the 1980s. But on the web, Vyclone would be available on download.com, not get accessed through millions of search terms on google (like Yelp, eBay, Airbnb, Craigslist, Amazon, Trulia, Linkedin, even Facebook ...all consumer web public/quasi public Companies ...)
What was their traction and valuation when they raised this round?
Yeah I was being to specific but having a service is and a scalable back end is core if anything to get to marketing etc..
We also waste >95% of the uranium and generate a lot more high grade waste due to our once-through policy, so there's that...
Is "silly rich" now defined as "bloated with VC money"? That's a bit like contending that you're silly rich because you've got a $1M credit card limit (though the comparison is admittedly imperfect because debt and equity aren't the same).

To me, "silly rich" would suggest they're immensely profitable, which is rather unlikely since they probably wouldn't seek more investment if they were.
http://mean.io/linnovate/mean/blob/master/package.json

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There isn't a GitHub Page here.
It is if you then sneak into his closet and start tampering with the wiring.
Agree. GitHub is ultimately doomed because not enough people will pay up.
Yeah, it sounds like you have a couple options. You can return to the station you swapped your battery at and get your old one back. You can also decide to keep the battery and you will either end up paying a certain amount of money that is determined in how much better condition the battery you have now is than your old battery or you can pay to have your old battery shipped to wherever you are.
But what does it all mean?
> just shutting down their DRM servers without making it right for the customers who bought into their DRM'd products

This can happen to provider, and is one of the reasons why I stay away from Steam games.

Many times within the last couple years, I've been ready to purchase a game, then walked away when I saw Steam is required.
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Got the zip.
Nice :)
Thanks, am working on Node+Angular+Mongo+Express these days.
I really doubt horses were fungible. I don't know the actual details, but I would expect when you swapped horses, you got off a company horse and got on another company horse.
> How is it different than Steam?

It isn't. DRM is DRM and it sucks. I mostly stay away from Steam. Multiple times, I've walked away from purchasing games when I saw they required Steam. I've never taken my current-gen consoles online.
From where will electricity come?

If the current political climate is any indication, coal.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-...
Laptop safety precautions while travelling
Is it? Jobs provide all sorts of intangibles. You can't derive job satisfaction and a feeling of value to your community if you don't have a job. Neither of these things are requisite, but can be beneficial to the community.
It seems someone has written a PGP extension for Chrome/GMail: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mymail-crypt-for-g...
words are awesome!
http://startpage.com serves also Google results.
Steve Wozniak: I feel guilty for enabling surveillance
Did anyone else notice?
Header: iOS 6.1 and Xcode 4.6.2
Text : Make sure your devices are running iOS 6.1 and your Mac has Xcode 4.6.1

And I'm currently on Xcode 4.6.3

nitpicking, just kinda amusing.
You've missed the point, which is that body mass is directly predicted by total calories and is not statistically distinguished regardless of macronutrient composition. There are multiple studies listed, you just picked one.

Review articles come to the same conclusion:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15351198