skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm getting from this is that -

> under relativity fast things are heavier
> electrons are fast, they actually have about a 23% weight boost
> heavier electrons 'orbit' closer to the nucleus
> the atomic size is then smaller than anticipated
> this has a bunch of interesting effects on melting points, reactivity, colour/reflectivity etc, (especially of transition metals?)
> this stuff has not always been well understood.

It's been a long time since I studied chemistry, so I may be reading it wrong. It's pretty cool though :)
Startups for non-technical founders
The only good approach I see for most non-technical people serious about starting something even semi-complex. I know too many just waiting around for the right technical cofounder or giving a half-hearted effort to learn some basic coding.
Well I wanted to be inclusive and just because you have piercings doesn't make you gay BTW.

I probably should have added caste and religion as well.
Did you read the next sentence?

"All these things influence the validity of a direct speed comparison between the two versions, but the speed improvement is nevertheless too overwhelming to attribute only to these small changes. And in fact, many of these changes might even have negatively impacted the speed of the new version in exchange for saving on the monthly bills."
Show HN: Analyze how performance impacts ROI
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That's basically how aircraft carrier launchers work too. There's a long pneumatic tube with a piston running the length of the runway, and huge boilers that build up a lot of steam pressure behind the piston. The piston is attached to a little block on the deck, and the airplane is hooked into the block. Release the piston, and the piston and block shoot down the runway dragging the airplane with it.
Default is King – breaking console and editor habits
> The biggest reason why Python 3 is/was seeing such late adoption is purely because web frameworks/libraries were not migrated to Python 3.

That is a pretty big assumption to make, in my opinion.

When we're talking in the context of scripting then we should be talking about what distros have easily accessible python3 packages/libraries, good python3 community support, and whether libraries relevant to sysadmin scripting tasks have been ported to python3 or not.
It looks like it's only single-quoting the characters that need it, in his example the newlines.
How you can avoid ignorance [infographic and review]
"Fortune 100 firms overwhelmingly offer some paid time off to care for a new child and recover from childbirth. Among the companies in the Fortune 100 that responded to the JEC questionnaire, three-quarters (73.6 percent) offer mothers either paid family or disability leave. Firms are more likely to offer paid family leave to mothers than to fathers as only 32.1 percent report offering paid family leave to fathers. However, most (75.5 percent) firms allow employees to use accrued sick days, and among our sample, nine-out-of-ten (88.7 percent) report offering some kind of paid leave—family leave, pregnancy-related disability leave, or allowing the use of accrued paid sick days—for the birth of a child."

http://www.jec.senate.gov/archive/Documents/Reports/03.05.08...

Edit: It also notes that among Fortune 100 companies the median maternal leave is 6 weeks.
Sorry Elliot I did not know that. I added WePay to the list.
Loving my Leaf as well. It does suck when you're out and you want to go to another bar across town, but are not confident in the round trip, but that would be the case even if I have 10,000 mile range. At some point, knowing me, I am only going to have 9,985 miles left and want to go to the other side of town.

The thing I like most is the acceleration. I had a 300hp sports car before the Leaf and prefer the Leaf's acceleration much more. My ego does miss my last car though.
Dominocopter
Yeah but it'd have been much slower and riskier: the combo of instant broadcasting and instant money-transfer abroad hugely amplifies rewards.
> Current fly away costs for Block 50+ F-16 are in the 100M range depending on electronics suite.

Any sources for this claim? The details on sales deals are scarce, but from what I gather Block50/52 models should be in the $40M range, or maybe even as low as $15M. The major exception being UAEs heavily modified Block60 which seem to go for significantly higher (in the $100M range).
As someone who's worked in text analysis, I'm comforted to see this story told. It's what we should be talking about. Please take the time to read this full article, then go out and do something useful for our world, we're going to need it.
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I'd go for it if the team is good. With 20 senior people, that's a lot of possible mentors and people to learn stuff from. The money is obviously good, and it's the thing you want to be working on.

You can evangelize once you're there. Or, you'll find out that what they're doing is actually best for the environment they have. I seem to remember SVN handles larger repos better.

Don't work about being "junior." I joined my employer as new college graduate, and still was able to influence some changes in my environment. However, I still use RCS for some scenarios because it works best in my environment.
Technically speaking, a credit card is a third-party payment system ;)

But, I still get your point. Ridiculous shipping charges has definitely led to me abandoning a cart more often then coupon code boxes. Although, I still prefer it when sites just tell me what the shipping is before I put the item in my cart. Not telling me before I have to fill in anything more than a zip code tends to be a sign of high shipping charges and sometimes leads to me going to a competitors website without even checking what it will cost to ship.
Three of My Customers Have Cloned My Product
> the millions of pictures collected by San Leandro’s license plate cameras are now passed on to the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC), one of 72 federally run intelligence fusion organizations set up after 9/11. That’s where the photos are analyzed using software built by a company just across San Francisco Bay: Palantir.

it is beyond creepy, Stasi/KGB could only dream about it.
In a way, this is a sad story. It reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber

But some people will never learn. Fortunately, he decided not to have kids.
Well it did say "European wealth connections and Ph.D.", which is a bit different than just the one...
I like having one of each, more fun that way. I use a Galaxy S III and an iPad mini - love them both.

Using a few services like DropBox and Evernote eliminates some of the down-side of using two portable devices.
Exactly what I thought. Some strange hybrid between the two.
QuickFuse looks really nice, congrats! I very much like that you let people play with the interface without signing up, might have to ape that. Where's the pricing though?

Obviously we agree visual interfaces have some real advantages, especially for things that are conversations (SMS, Voice, USSD). The real trick is managing to keep things simple as complexity increases.

I think the most interesting aspect for us has been to see project owners, the ones who go out to the field themselves, build applications that fit their use cases instead of having the cognitive barrier of communicating their needs to a programmer first.

Anyways, fun stuff, thanks for sharing.
I've been experimenting with the LeapMotion at work today, and some initial observations:

- There's no apps yet that have made me go wow.
- The range is quite small
- The motion of hovering an arm in front of you is extremely tiring after more than 10-15minutes. Try holding your arm out in front of you for that long without moving and you'll see why.

The reason Kinect was a success is that you can take real-world activities such as dancing, jumping over obstacles, jogging (on the spot), and translate them into an interactive digital version.

With the Leap, I've yet to think of a real world scenario where I would be waving my hands in front of my chest, that would translate well into a digital experience. Conducting an orchestra would be one good application for this, perhaps training conductors, but I couldn't think of anything else.
To be fair, I don't think you have to do much propaganda to sell people on the idea of emulating Palantir. Movies and novels like the Bourne series do that for you.

The idea of a brilliant government agent who understands science, math, and law and who frequently has to skirt the murky waters of government intrigue is kind of a sexy zeitgeist in America.
Amazon Introduces iOS-Compatible Cross-Platform Notification Sending Service
At my first job we ran a small scale pilot system near milton Keynes to test Pneumatic systems for industrial uses.

My colleagues in that department some times had to crawl 1/4 of a mile in the tunnels to unstick the capsules! - that is why I chose the mathematical modeling section
Or you know, you could read the actual paper http://www.mockingbirdeducation.net/uploads/5/4/0/7/5407628/... where the nature of deliberate practise is deliberated on.

Fluff and blogspam.
The New York Times Website is Down
I believe it's a technology demonstrator for the eventual version of the Dragon capsule that has powered landing at a spaceport rather than the current water splashdown.
Are you unknowingly putting trust into the hands of people who don't deserve it?
While Germany has plenty of room for improvement, I'd hardly call the US a shining example of a country that's great for families with children, either.
No, it's a demonstrator for a full reusable rocket that returns all stages to the launch pad autonomously.
Tolle’s work and meditative practice are not mutually exclusive nor in conflict with one another. His characterization of the human mind—how we create (mostly unintentionally, through conditioned habits) so much suffering and problems for ourselves—is spot on and very helpful for gaining an understanding of ourselves, imo.
Grasshopper is a test vechicle, they plan on doing this with the F9R. My understanding is that the F9R will burn once to de-orbit (well, the first stage will be suborbital to begin with), aerobrake without a parachute for a short period, and then burn again for the final landing. I may be wrong about the aerobraking step, but they aren't planning on using a parachute regardless.

IIRC they are expecting a 10% drop in total cargo to LEO when the F9 is used in the reusable configuration. It takes far less fuel to get down than it does to get up since they only have to decelerate the lower stage (not the upper, or the cargo) and since the lower stage will be mostly empty at that point (much lighter). Furthermore the initial decent burn will be at a much lower outside atmospheric pressure (near vacuum?) resulting in a higher efficiency.
Flickr Co-Founders Launch Slack, an email killer
Heroku, MongoDB, Go, Revel, Bootstrap, with a sprinkling of overkill..
> It comes down to the age-old problem of how to represent and store logic in a fashion that end users aren't afraid to manipulate.

I agree.

It's the difference between someone who builds a car and someone who drives it. Building the car using diagram-as-programming is probably going to be complex.

Using the car in a diagram/visual environment is, in my opinion, the sweet spot of such systems.
Just to be clear, the BSD license did not exist previous to net/2 it was not open source or free software in any meaningful way.
But that can be the case for small hatchbacks as well. I traded from a Toyota 4Runner to a Fiat 500, and the Fiat was much cheaper (MSRP). I spend a small fraction of the $180/mo I was spending in gas (going from 15mpg to 35mpg). It's far from slow (even with only 101HP). I got it nearly fully-loaded for $18k (the only thing I don't have is the GPS built in). It's also super fun to drive. Obviously the 500 doesn't make sense for families (my SO and I have no plans for kids), but maybe the 500L would be a more apt comparison to a Leaf.

All in all, the Leaf seems like a very expensive and very average small hatchback. I'm not trying to detract from your experience, I catch a lot of flak for driving a Fiat and I know how it feels. The comparisons you're using, however, are far from unique to vehicles like the Leaf. I would love to drive an electric car, but a small efficient hatchback running on gasoline (though I wish it was diesel) just makes more sense to me given the realities of electric car ownership.
Google’s legal counsel says Gmail users have no expectation of privacy
You can also just click on the image thumbnail in the left column. That jumps you inside.
Michael Birch on Bebo's repurchase
The Meanings of Appleiness
While it's certainly possible to oppose immigration for noble reasons, the documented history of the NPG indicates that this is not the case for this group.
Drupal Module Development with TDD
Eric Schmidt would feel right at home in prison then. I hear there's not much privacy there either.
Let's say the string contains 100 0s and 101 1s. How would you encode the positions of the 0s without using more than 201 bits in total?

Nearly all random strings of sufficient length have different numbers of 0s and 1s. So if your argument were true, your compression scheme would reduce the average length of completely random strings, which is impossible.
> For native applications (whether desktop or mobile), building interfaces from a consistent set of components is usually considered a good thing.

That's a remnant of the past and it's changing quickly. Look at any consumer app developed and released in the past year. Most have custom elements, layouts, etc. The web just did it first and is further along in the "designification."

Native apps all looked the same because they were all designed, built, and used by largely engineers. As computing (both usage and development) becomes less esoteric and more powerful, design will naturally become more expressive and purpose-built. This trend extends back to DOS as well and applies well outside of computing (cars, buildings, clothing, hardware, etc).
"I didn’t stop to think if I had the authority to actually sell the product."

This, IMO, is the line that best encapsulates the launch's performance.

The problem with courses like the one the OP took is not that they offer bad advice, but they get people thinking about what they can sell instead of a) what problems they can solve and b) what problems they have the authority to solve.

Sounds like the OP got the first part right, but maybe jumped too early on the 2nd.

I'd encourage anyone looking to sell a product like this to spend just as much time, if not more, becoming an expert on said field before selling advice.

I don't know the OP, so I apologize if this comes across as presumptive.
Every time there is an edit, no matter how small, the article shows up once per edit in my RSS feed. I think edits should be kept to a minimum or not published multiple times.
Here's a video explaining it all: http://youtu.be/abLC1l3loFA
If nothing else it was going to be pushed by atmospheric air presser which would seem to limit thing to well bellow Mach 1.
Latter ..
The New York Times Website Is Back After Two-Hour Outage
There has been plenty of British Harriers crashing too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harrier_Jump_Jet_family...
Like catching 'potential' terrorists, you mean?

Sorry for the snark, but I call BS on glorification of a technology company that so far has not done anything but strip away almost everyone's privacy.

Fat comfort in that.
Hi!

Thanks for submitting this. I'm a big telecom geek and I am curious about your connection to the phone network (specifically, how are you enabling these SMS to actually go out?).

Is this sitting on top of something like Twilio, or do you have an underlying switch? What's the magic here? Is this just an interface for laying out SMS strategies or is there more to this?

It looks visually appealing, I think you did an excellent job on the site, but the technical portion is difficult for me to divine.

Thank you for the hard work!

Edit: Wait, is this not SMS and actually just a messaging service delivered over the top? If so, calling it SMS is sort of dubious. Would adore some clarification.
I wonder what logic Karp has used to convince Peter Thiel that he's still a libertarian? I mean, talk about cognitive dissonance.

“If we as a democratic society believe that license plates in public trigger Fourth Amendment protections, our product can make sure you can’t cross that line”

The majoritarian argument - That's a popular one amongst libertarians /s.

On the other hand, Jimmy Wales considers himself an Objectivist... I guess, forget the mumbo-jumbo and judge people by their works?
"I'm sorry, but no. Observation comes first, then hypotheses, then prediction, then verification. Explanations go from proposed to confirmed, but they are certainly not the genesis of scientific knowledge.

Not really. I mean, I appreciate the old "Scientific Method" card, that doesn't actually describe how it happens, pretty much ever. All observations happen schematically: by the time you're in grade-school, you've already gotten a basic grounder in Science: The Lies to Children Edition, and all future observations and learning are elaborations on the groundwork. Observations without theory happen at somewhere around, I don't know, age 2. By the time you can speak, you've already started the process of sense-making. In reality, observation always happens against the background of pre-existing theory. It's turtles, all the way down. (This is hardly ground-breaking: Thomas Kuhn was discussing this half a century ago).

"The phenomenon itself must come first, otherwise all you have is the fitting of facts to theory."

Which is precisely what we do. We collect facts, interpret them (that is, use them as a representation of underlying trends or relationships), and then collect more facts to see if our generalization holds true beyond the initial dataset that we used to generate our ideas. Science is absolutely about fitting facts to theory, and then collecting more facts to test that theory, and then elaborating that theory based on those new facts. It's entirely circular (for at least the last few centuries): no modern scientist sets out gathering observations without any pre-existing theory in his head.
Top down selector parser
Sadly cell phone OS choices have become something that straddles the divide between a holy war and a football rivalry. I simply don't understand it.
Very cool. Anybody do a CAT FACTS version yet?
I had a look QuickFuse. Do you still work on that project?

Just some advice - in the pitch quickfuse is addressing business customers, but is littered with technical language (not programming language, but written communication technical people would understand). Quickfuse might want to provide some examples of how these business applications get created...for example "this is how a doctor's office sends SMS's" etc
Hi Nic,

This is nice, I am the developer on Ureport Zambia and we are currently using RapidSMS http router. Thanks alot and good work on all.
Now am off to look at textit!!
That assertion isn't backed up with data, though.

Without showing how many seconds were spent loading Disqus, we don't know how much of the load time improvement was based on eliminating Disqus vs. the switch to Go.

Based on experience I'm guessing the lion's share of the gain is due to eliminating Disqus.
>> So according to the Asperger contingent, focusing on a few activities, or just one, is a mental illness.

> You chose to ignore the requirement of "significant difficulties in social interaction". These are also not the only diagnostic criteria.

But much field experience shows that the absence of the full symptom set doesn't prevent the diagnosis, therefore the comparison is valid. During its tenure as a serious syndrome Asperger's diagnoses went completely out of control, due to ambiguous diagnostic criteria and (my point) how much like normal behavior the symptoms are.

Allen Frances, the editor of DSM-IV (the edition that introduced Asperger's), now thinks the inclusion of Asperger's was a mistake that led to what he now describes as a "phony epidemic" of diagnoses. Over the protests of many psychologists, Asperger's has been removed from the new DSM.

> There's in other words no contradiction between the positive treatment of grit vs. the description of Asperger syndrome as a disorder.

False. The contradiction is obvious -- they both describe the same behavior. And when it was pointed out that many very successful people exhibited Asperger's symptoms (or "Grit" symptoms, depending on one's outlook), psychologists responded by labeling those people mentally ill. As a result, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, and Bill Gates have been labeled mentally ill. The evidence? They accomplished something noteworthy by focusing their attention on a few activities, or just one.

But you're missing the point, which is that psychology proceeds based on descriptions, not explanations. Asperger's is a description without an explanation. "Grit" is a description without an explanation. Science requires explanations. This is why the DSM, psychiatry and psychology's central authority, is in the process of being abandoned as unscientific.

> There's in other words no contradiction between the positive treatment of grit vs. the description of Asperger syndrome as a disorder.

That's true, and it shows what's wrong with psychology -- its superficiality and willingness to accept mere descriptions in lieu of explanations.
Just to keep it historically accurate, PayPal's Adaptive Payments API supported marketplace use case since mid 2010.

Disclaimer: I used to work on it in my past life.
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And the very next sentence:

>"All these things influence the validity of a direct speed comparison between the two versions"

I hope the author wasn't trying to say, "Go is better always forever." I read it more as, "hey I rebuilt my site in Go, and it's fast." Go has potential - I'll be excited to see what people come up with.
Given our (somewhat irrational) risk-aversion towards things like terrorism, the success of this sort of tech seems pretty much inevitable.

The stable state we'll probably reach is a more extreme version of what Karp mentions: next to zero privacy, but also high levels of transparency into the operations of our authorities, and, as a result of both, much more cultural acceptance of "deviancy".

Their civil liberties controls seem like a fairly sane attempt to smooth out the transition to that sort of society (but admittedly of unclear effectiveness). They're trying to avoid a detour into a totalitarian police state while our laws and cultural norms catch up with the reality of our growing data collection and data mining capabilities.

Edit: To clarify the logic of my first sentence above: if we keep voting out elected officials who fail to stop terrorist attacks (which are almost always disproportionately sensational compared to their actual death tolls), we're basically evolving our set of politicians into people who will stop at nothing to prevent them.
It's amazing to me that such a high profile site had such a vulnerability. The postmortem on this is going to be interesting..
Ubuntu Edge funding reaches $10M