skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Germany it seems will continue to pay for this mistake from the 50/60/70s in a number of ways unfortunately.

People are now afraid of immigrants in general. Most people don't realize that there is a VERY big difference to the economy from an Indian IT worker - who learns German - assimilates himself culturally (maybe even studied a masters or something in Germany - picking up the finer bits of your complicated culture) & the Turkish family in the shady part of the city thats living on Hartz 4. This is a huge issue for a country thats trying hard to attract foreigners (www.make-it-in-germany.com).

Most other immigrants I know here - eventually get tired of this feeling of constantly have to justify that they arent here to mooch of the system - and are probably providing for some family in Brandenburg with their monthly tax and social security payments (most educated immigrants earn atleast 40-50k€ - its a natural lower limit set by the fact that you cant get a permit otherwise). This means easily 15-20k € in tax and Social security (and lovely SOLI of course) - with which they are supporting a society that looks at them as leeches.

Dont get me wrong - Germans are tolerant - but that's different from inclusive. The tendency is to assume "oh these poor 3rd world people need to come here to have a good living." That simply isnt true - a well qualified person can live an equally good life in the developing world as he would in Germany. (sure maybe not everything is always on time but so what). Many people move to Germany for other reasons - be it hte love for beer (no kidding) , german cars, the green, or they wanted to be with a German person they got to know somewhere. but instead of considering any other possibilities - the average German tends to assume "ah he wants our awesome healthcare & social security).

This needs to change. Especially if you want to tackle the fachkraftemängel. Those qualified people will get employed anywhere. The government gets this and has made small moves to make it "easier" - you can easily get a permit and work here now - this is good. Even the beauraucracy is less of a pain in the ass than a few years ago.

What's missing though is the public education. Merkel herself at some point said "Multiculti has failed in Germany". Foreigners will take an integrationtest, learn the language and even figure out the complicated regulation system. In turn though - you need to offer them more than juts a decent salary and standard of living - you need to offer them acceptance. This is missing. People need to be given reverse integrations training or atleast provided some information - let them understand that these people aren't here to mooch of the system or steal jobs - they're here because to a large extent the country needs them.
Samsung Wants You To Figure Out What To Do With Its Flexible Displays
It would help if they would just declare it unmaintained. Maybe projects would give up on sticking to a 20 year old C standard just to maintain compatibility with MSVC.
You can be evangelical in all positions -- make sure you do a respectable work wherever you are and people will respect you and your opinions. If the job looks better, go for it!

This is time to use your intuition, not to be rational. If you stay rational you will never change jobs because your brain can invent and pretend that your current job is the best and the opposite is the worse.
in the original musk writeup, those two costs are separated, which is why the OP does the cost comparison like it's done (on a material basis)
This is easily explained by a broader psychological phenomenon. The brain and ego will invest itself in a task in direct proportion to the expected payoff.
As much as the article conveys doubts to Karp's moral fortitude, at least one (former) engineer there is willing to speak his mind

> He goes on to argue that even Palantir’s founders don’t quite understand the Palantiri seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings . Tolkien’s orbs, he points out, didn’t actually give their holders honest insights. "The Palantiri distort the truth," he says. And those who look into them, he adds, "only see what they want to see."
The material cost of the fuel is something like $200k, which is peanuts for what launches as a whole usually cost. They cut into their payload to orbit budget to bring more fuel along to return with, but doing so allows them to reuse all the hardware which is the actually expensive part.

Once you are able to re-use the hardware then the cost to orbit can be lowered, which means that the 10% payload cut you took earlier actually isn't all that expensive in the first place.
> no modern scientist sets out gathering observations without any pre-existing theory in his head.

Or without the intent to shape a new theory, a new, testable inductive generalization, as when Einstein shaped special relativity. That's my favorite example because it happened in a theory vacuum, no pun intended. There must be a theory to inform the research, or the research must lead to a testable theory, or both.
yes - this is exactly the point I made in my comment above. Couldnt agree with you more. Dont just make getting a visa or a job easy - make it easier for people to integrate - make people more accepted.
...Is that a reasonable counterargument to the most recent ravings about Google and privacy? I didn't think they actually existed.
Nissan's been dropping the price on the LEAF. If you live in a state that provides ZEV rebates on top of the federal credit, you can get a LEAF down to ~18k. Same applies to the other city-car EVs (Spark EV and 500E).
Mostly good points, though I'm not so sure about the "with no strings attached" on the Googliness side.
Yeah there's a number of techniques similar to that which get people to leave you alone. Here's my favorite:

http://www.daily-comix.com/image/comic/small/1307/jesus-save...
Because talking about voting is somewhat annoying as it has nothing to do with the discussion at hand.
Why Do Microbes Kill Some People but Not Others? - Blog
Is this true?

I'm not sure about C, but it's definitely the case that Go compiles magnitudes faster than C++, for any reasonable sized project. For example, the ~200k lines of Go standard library compiles in about 14 seconds on my workstation, while random C++ libraries frequently take much longer (just my anecdotal impression from waiting on "brew install").
What Good are Terabytes? Because Data Sets are Not Information.
You should have also put terrorists in quotes. We already know that the NSA is going after drug crimes.
He's not talking about medicine, he's taking about psychology. I'm sure molecular pathology gets a very favourable "is science" score.
DARPA Exploring Big Data as Security Threat
I taught a programming/entrepreneurship course a few years ago in Kigali through aiti.mit.edu at KIST and a few companies came out of it working on SMS apps. This app seems to make a lot of sense and seems well done. Good luck!
Is this the wrk you're referring to:

https://github.com/wg/wrk
This is due to not enough housing being built over the past 30 years
First of all if you want secure private IRC you should be running your own irc daemon (I would reccommend UnrealIRCd).

Second, if you insist on using a public IRC server a much better solution would be to use FiSH encryption (ultrx.net/doc/fish). Distribute the passkey over another channel to the users and you can have secure irc on a public network without even making the channel private. SSL also ceases to matter.
Merchants of Meth: How Big Pharma Keeps the Cooks in Business
Its a good step. The problem though was never the visa or whatever. The problem was and continues to be the fact that Germans as a society have trouble accepting immigrants. The first assumption (probably because of bad experiences with turks) is that these people are here to mooch of the system and wont learn our way of doing things. Thats disastrously untrue - and only serves to make Germany unattractive.
I've always found Palantir terrifying. The name itself is just so brazen. This article's presentation of 'but even if you're sketched out by the defense angle, it's now being used for good!!!' doesn't help.

Also, let's not forget that Palantir helps the FBI infiltrate and attempt to destroy domestic political groups like Occupy.
It's not a surprise, it just rides the trendy tide of accusing big corporations of egregious privacy violations.

Obviously Google has been doing this for years. But it's a slow news day and we need a sexy headline, so let's go with a recent favorite: "<insert BigCo here> is violating your privacy! What are you gonna do about it?! Get angry!"
I am not a "JavaScript Developer".
So where's the reason? It mentions the real estate, but not its value. They mention spinning off the band instruments, but what exactly does that accomplish?
At my first "real" job I used to work on a RS-6000, a couple hundred-grand machine. The admin wouldn't install _anything_ non-stock other than a JVM on it. It taught me how to get around using only BSD Unix tools and Bourne Shell. It was an enormous pain in the butt, but what I learned has been utterly invaluable over the course of my career.
100% agree.

Above all, understand who your customer is, what they need and how they value that need before you begin to think of your solution...

By all means, start with a hypothesis and "big idea," but conduct thorough qualitative research with your prospective target customer before you start building in any real sense (beyond simple prototypes).

As a marketing research consultant, I've worked with too many companies (large and small) who flail around to find target segments after not spending the appropriate time upfront understanding and qualifying their target audience.

Despite seeing so many companies fail at it, it's even tough advice for me to follow on my own personal projects because I love building things and just want to get started right away...
Well, it kind of sucks that your options in the US are gentrification or Detroitification. It's part of the price we pay for not having the social safety nets and public investment in infrastructure that other countries have.
That's a graph from webmaster tools. It may be that the Google Bot is hitting some pathological case with the Django (e.g. server-side sessions) or Disqus. I don't think he ever tested the latency directly.
But the overall mentality towards Families with children is alot different from my experience.
I want one. I preordered on day 1. I pray for a miraculous burst of fundraising and/or Shuttleworth swooping in to save the day.

But I am prepared to be disappointed because as of now, we are more than 2/3 through the campaign (22/30), while the funds raised are less than 1/3 ($10m/$32m)
It's interesting to compare this with DC-X "Swan Dive" test in 1995:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o
You can get into tech companies and do well too. The problem is the softer side. Social life is just not the same as in other more integrative societies like the US or the UK.
Interview: Lavabit CEO on why he decided to shut down the service.
This has been true of the word 'literally' for hundreds of years. People seem to have coped. Pedants have just become more vocal since the internet.
I don't think "ad scientum field" is any better than an "ad hominem".

Not to mention that mine was not an ad hominem in the first place. I attacked an epistemology/methodology "positivism/reductionism" that he exhibited (as far as I can tell), not his person.
Dalvik isn't native, but Android doesn't seem to have been hurt by that. Why, then, would Firefox? Native simply isn't critical.
The NY Times website just crashed
Can't post the link to them because it crash 90 days ago apparently, so here is a text post. http://www.nytimes.com
In Natural Networks, Strength in Loops
No, some scholars and some outliers.

Judging from sales numbers, 90% of the population could not care less.
When I find your wallet, I do not own the contents really and I certainly do not have "broadcast rights". If I find your password to facebook on the web somewhere, does that give me any rights to your account? No. If I leave the front door of my house open by mistake, am I waiving my property rights if someone comes in and takes my property? No.
To understand this project you have to remember that Elon Musk's goal is Mars colonization.

The goal is a rapidly reusable launch system that can be deployed anywhere in the solar system. A parachute system would work well here on Earth, but the martian air is too thin for it to work there. Therefore they are aiming to make it work straight off of rockets.

As for the fuel issue, if I remember Elon's figures right, SpaceX currently takes a $100 million rocket, fills it with $100k of fuel, launches it, and throws away the rocket. Hence the desire to reuse the rocket.

He's far from the first to try this. But the potential failure mode that others encountered is along the lines of what you indicate. You wind up with a reusable rocket that gets to altitude and back, but which is unable to lift a useful payload on top of that. He thinks that he can avoid this, but has not proven it yet. However even if he needs 10x as much fuel per pound lifted into orbit, he's still saving money. (His actual goal is, I think, 10% of his current launch cost.)
Stroll through the park coding on your Google Glass doesn't seem useful? Well, maybe not useful, but it would certainly be cool :)
The Marines have "amphibious assault ships" that are sort of like aircraft carriers for helicopters. S/VTOL aircraft can operate from these locations.

I was told by a Marine that the Harrier obsession stems from Guadalcanal in WW2. The waters in the Solomons were heavily contested and the Navy basically took off and left the Marines stranded. That institutional memory is hard to shake.
There's a table in the PDF on pages 55-56 that shows the tube & pylon cost breakdown. In the small version the tube costs $650mm to make. In the large version, which has 60% more material, it's quoted to cost $1200mm to make. That's an 84% increase in cost for a 60% increase in materials. The other costs in the system such as the cost of pylons, installation, etc are individual line items on the overall budget of $5bn or $7.5bn
I don't care what Google says in their filings, we absolutely SHOULD expect privacy and confidentiality. Whether Google cares to honor and fulfill that expectation is up to them.

Now what they're really saying is "Google has no intention of helping keep your email private and confidential" which is a very different thing from insisting users have no expectations of privacy. They cannot speak for me.
Scraping for good, how novel.
... decided to split the business in two. Sell off the non-piano instrument division and keep the piano business public. Now the piano business is expected to go private. That implies that the value of the sum-of-the-parts is less than the value of both businesses running independently. Why? Well, for starters it seems there isn't that much public investor understanding of how this company works, its market, etc, and a good indication is that only one equity analyst (of a not that well known broker) covers the stock.

Additionally, the reporter says the the real estate where the office/factory is, is extremely valuable (implying that such asset isn't priced in correctly in the value of the stock - god knows the book value of the land/real estate, a market sale can generate a considerable one-off dividend).
Where is your pricing info?
I think you're referring to the "tyranny of the rocket equation". Learned about it on an XKCD what-if: http://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
Of course, that never crosses his mind - or of it does, is easily ignored. Principles quickly go out the window when you stand to double your wealth.
Supply of housing kept artificially low (SF gov resisting building up for decades). Demand for housing rising, as it should in any desirable city.

People seem surprised by this.

As long as we are adding CS to school curricula, maybe we should add some Econ 101 as well...
I'm a Googler living in SF, and my landlord recently tried to drive me out of my apartment, so I think I have an informed perspective on this.

It's not as simple as you make it out to be. The laws being renter friendly are helpful but they don't solve anything. If I hadn't had the time and money to try to fight this I would probably be looking for a new place right now.
This is just theory getting up to speed with current practice.

Password breakers (when having the hash result) do not assume that the passwords are random strings, they use several assumptions that greatly reduce the time they need to break the passwords.
That may be true, however, we may understand that google has been doing this since day one but many people have no idea about this kind of stuff. Not everyone understands the Internet and how everything works... to some people I'd imagine this could be quite shocking.

But I do agree that this is definitely part of a trend and this could have been reported on at any time over the last couple years.
Holy shit still? This is a misquote http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/08/14/no-google-did-not-sa...
> (remarking that the proposed system may involve 12% higher lateral accelerations than HSR, and instantly dismissing it as a "barf ride")

You're comparing apples to oranges here. If I understand the OP correctly, the 4.37 m/s^2 (which is a claimed maximum, not actually in practice, but let's ignore that) is in the plane of the ground. Canting will convert that acceleration into a mixture of horizontal and vertical acceleration, as experienced by the passenger. The hyperloop track has 11.1 m/s^2 of acceleration in the plane of the ground based on their path assumptions (= (480km/h = 133 m/s)^2 / 1600 m), which the OP claims can get converted to 5 m/s^2 of vertical acceleration. This 7 times greater than "track specifications" of 0.5-0.67 m/s^2 and 5 times greater than the 0.93 m/s^2 of vertical acceleration coming from the Transrapid's 4.37 m/s^2 in the plane of the ground.

To step back for a minute, the issues with curve radius for high-speed transit have existed since the beginnings of high-speed rail 50 years ago and maybe longer. It's one of the major issues preventing Amtrak from going faster in the Northeast corridor, for example. If there was some easy way (blocking windows, lowering vibrations, changing expectations, self-medication) to deal with it, our first assumption should be that someone's already tried it. If Elon Musk had some new, breakthrough ideas in this regard, then our assumption should be that he would somehow mention it, rather than expecting the Internet to figure it out from the numbers he uses.

In the absence of evidence that any of the thousands of people who have designed high-speed transit allow for such sharp turns, or that the hyperloop designers have any way to mitigate the effects of high acceleration, I think the most likely possibility is that they (some of whom work for SpaceX, remember) used acceleration limits coming from the space program. Since they seem never bothered to compare to look at actual high-speed rail systems, they never noticed how different their assumptions where.
That document is from 2010. ArsTechnica and other places wrote about what came about when the shit hit the fan in 2011: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/the-ridiculous-pl...

From the article: "I have directed the company to sever any and all contacts with HB Gary," said the CEO of Palantir.
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A standard semi-trailer is 53ft long and an internal cargo area that's 8ft wide and 8ft tall. I think you can fit a 7.5ft diameter tube inside an 8ft square box.

If you wanted to do the 11ft you would need a low-boy trailer to avoid height permitting and you would need "wide load" signs for the trucks individually but no lead/chase vehicles.

The tube joining/welding/grinding jig could be 40ft (or 200 ft or more) long and fit inside the already assembled tube AND the to-be-welded tube. Precision alignment could be done via movable clamps. Once the tube is held in place via the jig it can be welded via a number of methods (friction stir, friction, MIG, TIG or SMAW) inside, outside or both.
The headline is misleading, and the article eventually clarifies it—Slack is supposed to be an "email killer" for teams, not everyone.
That is a bit of an NYC-centric view. Many people do not find it attractive though I am not one of those people.

Oddly, Portland has become an extremely popular and attractive place to a lot of people in the startup community. I know many people in the tech business that have moved there from Silicon Valley and NYC (e.g. Simple, which moved from NYC to Portland). It is an incredibly livable and active city so I understand the attraction. Seattle is also experiencing similar growth and is more cosmopolitan than Portland for people that want more of the international big city experience than you'll get in Portland.

The Cascadia region (Portland, Seattle, Vancouver) has been undergoing a bit of an urban renaissance that has been seeing those cities attract a steady stream of tech talent from other top startup cities in the US. I personally moved there (Seattle) three years ago and it is hard to argue with the quality of life compared to many other cities in the US.
To be fair, Occupy largely fell apart on its own.
Well done! Plus, it is great to see an old Nokia instead of another iPhone on the hero shot. It is really intriguing in combination with this slick, modern design of yours.
There was lots of valuable discussion about requirements the Hyperloop white paper didn't discuss or questions about why some of the numbers deviate from accepted figures used in transport design, and if you're intellectually honest you will have to respond to those, not just say "he's being mean to Elon Musk!" and ignore his substantial concerns.

Though, there are also important questions he raises about Elon Musk: whether he has a conflict of interest as an automobile executive and why he is releasing white papers spreading FUD about rail projects without investing in the hyperloop project himself. The thought that Musk is a disinterested genius who does everything out of the goodness of his heart is a little naive, and the way people overreact when that's called into question says a lot.
Yes, 'The New York Times' Knows Its Site And Apps Are Down
Windows 8.1 update rolling out from October 18th
not everyone agrees with you, i'm afraid. more generally, this is something you'll learn as you get older - a lot of things you thought were cool, aren't. not even one direction.

reality's a bitch, son. sorry.
As a fan and reader of history myself, you couldn't prove my point better.

I mean, if the best you can come up as "value most people get from historical data" is photo montages of WWII/now and better designed costumes for period movies..
The biggest problem with the leap that I have seen (there is one in my lab) is that it sees hands spread out evenly on the surface really well, and that's about it. If you do a thumbs up gesture (or a rude gesture when it doesn't work), the fingers get occluded by the bottom of your hand.

Think about you hands as five friends trying to play connect at the same time and you can imagine the kinds of occlusion problems you might face.

Still, I, and probably others, like the leap. It's not useless. You just have to exploit it the right way, looking for natural interface design beyond a Tom Cruse movie.

The biggest free air interaction problems are (1) making visible what the available gestures are, and (2) providing tangible or visible feedback. You don't get to see and feel the the interaction like you can with a keyboard or less digitally inclined tools.
Turkey bought 30 Block 50s at $2.9B, which is a hair under $100M, but I was really referring more to the UAE Block 60.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/turkey-orders-30-f16c-bl...