skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely a good critique. I remember when I got an iPhone in 2007, people always wanted to talk about how I had an iPhone (they were still very uncommon, I think I was the only one at my school to have one for a time). I can't imagine how awful this would be with something that wasn't meant to be in my pocket for most of the day.
Not directly related to this article, but gwern.net seems to be coming up on the front page quite often. Is there an RSS feed for the site? I was unable to find one.
It can contain much more dollar value at same sized locker.
I'm surprised they'd make such a rookie mistake when there are hundreds of good encryption methods online to crib from, just a Google search away.
The latest trends in startup funding
That's amazing, I am really happy about the founders getting teenagers as interns. Those are life long memories for them.
I find in most cases it is people comparing Ruby on Rails or other modern development tools to Classic ASP or even Visual Basic 6 which is decades old.
It's not about storing large numbers, but math precision. For example:

0.3 * 3 => 0.8999999999999999

A few rounding mistakes and you have a huge mess.
Coal power is more deadly than fission power?

When has coal power ever created the sort of crisis that occurred in Fukushima?

Because of fission reactors, the safety of entire regions of the world is dependent on a consistent power supply and lack of human error, something that clearly we can not rely on. In the event of a cosmic emp or major meteor strike, these power plants are at risk.
The limitation you see on the number of pps is mostly due to software and hardware artifacts. With careful tuning (interrupt affinities, etc.), or bypassing a bunch of software layering (e.g. Netmap), or special stacks (e.g. Intel DPDK) you should be able to hit "line rate" packet processing.
This is actually a really well made prank. Even knowing it was fake, it was hard not to feel spooked by that girl.
That's not a coincidence. I took inspiration from that design so that it's many users would instantly know how to use it.
Science’s Sokal moment
Sounds true and I would have expected the same with Television / movie commercials, that people will stop buying those brands. But most of the people go to supermarkets and buy the product that are familiar.

This could happen here also. Creating a familiarity. So even if a person is initially irritated, after a month when he / she goes to make a donation, it would be to a charity that is familiar than a completely unknown one.
This is definitely true, and the BBC totally omitted these facts. The official NIF announcement[1] tried a little bit to cover their tracks. They posted some flashy numbers about the total energy output from neutrons, but nestled in the bottom of the page is the total energy dumped into the entire system:

1.7 megajoules.

In comparison, the fusion power produced was a paltry 8 kilojoules, which they compare to the "energy required to form the plasma".

For this technology to be actually effective, there needs to be a multiplier of several thousand. As other commenters have mentioned, this is mostly just nuclear weapons development.

[1] http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/politics_and_polic...
The "truly prudent criminal" may be a lot like the "truly square circle".
Time is not money: Thinking about it makes you a better person
At the moment, we supply a template for sweepstakes run in the USA and Canada under a certain prize value ($5,000; otherwise the promotion needs to be registered in several states). Sweepstakes law, as you said, is extensive so we're taking our time to ensure we handle it in the proper manner before offering global advisement.
Add bit.ly! Good stuff.

I've been doing this stuff for a bit on my personal sites. Interested in how different networks contribute to link popularity.

http://hnfluence.com

http://influentialtimes.com
Once again, it's open source we are talking about here. You do realise the problems you describe are also prevalent in other content management systems and publishing platforms? Wordpress is the worse offender for global variables, the theming system in Wordpress mixes HTML,CSS,JS and PHP together, the code-base is a mixture of object-oriented and procedural code as well. But it powers most of the web. Any blog you visit is most likely powered by Wordpress and why is that? Because it works.

Dropplets might not have the prettiest code, but there aren't many projects out there that do. In-fact, Dropplets is no worse than Wordpress is and that hasn't stopped Wordpress being hugely successful. Why? Most people don't care how things are coded if they work. Dropplets works, Wordpress works. If it works, who cares really? As a developer, I don't care, I'm not a code purist. My clients don't care either if I use Wordpress or Dropplets for their site.

Frameworks do have the added advantage of giving you things like encryption, database abstraction and a structure to adhere to, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to do things for yourself, sometimes understanding things on a lower-level makes you a better developer. Besides, the overhead of a PHP framework would be too much for a project like Dropplets in my opinion. Considering it's database-less, you don't need any database abstraction, ORM, no custom-built session management or complicated caching libraries.

Even a framework as light as Codeigniter would be far too heavy to build something like Dropplets on-top of. And people need to realise the future of PHP is not within frameworks, the Composer package manager means we can include what we want in our projects like a framework without the added overhead: include only what you need and ignore everything else.

I was hoping to avoid a framework, language, code-quality discussion but I guess it's fair people raise their hands after I question the intent of the comments on this submission. At the end of the day, good code is important, but as developers we know that it just isn't possible to write good code all of the time without help.

This highlights why open source is important and I think if people truly care about good code, they should roll up their sleeves and help. You can't deny Dropplets is pretty-darn cool. Not nearly enough people contribute to projects like this. I've forked the project and am planning on helping clean up the code-base a little bit if it means more people will use it.

I thought the whole point of open source was getting your ideas and work out there so others can improve it, not criticise it. If we spent all of our time perfecting something, most open source projects in existence would probably not exist. Sometimes it's best to get something that works, but isn't exactly coded to God-like developer levels out into the public. Criticism stems open source. We need to embrace imperfection and achieve perfection as a whole over time.
You'll fit in well here at HN.
If we could get a fusion design that works a bit over unity, couldn't you, well, chain them?

E.g. 1MW basic plant that drives a 1.5MW plant that drives a 2.25MW -> 4 -> 6 -> 9 etc, however many stages you need.
Eric Schmidt calls Android ’more secure than the iPhone'
Success is in the eyes of the beholder. Take two millionaires. On that had the objective of having by now one million bucks, has them, reached his objective, success! The other had the objective of having by now two million bucks, has only one million: failure. Not even close.

Now what if the later changes his objective after the fact? IMO still a failure :-)

So success is not defined by what you have are or archive, but by the goals you set for yourself.

I am a big failure: I'm not 500 light years from here exploring the stars. :-(
Capturing the Aura of the Scottish Highlands With the iPhone 5s
Either the Fox staff does not know how to use these or they were captured using it not exactly the way it was intended. From what I know these are not supposed to be used as tablets like the guys in the article are doing. These are huddle around whiteboards. Something you can use in a meeting room. Their use in media is interesting and the use of these in a broadcast is just a minor use case for these amazing devices.
Better than that: The original NT design is from Dave Cutler, who designed a series of good-to-great OSes for DEC, including RSX-11M, VMS, and Mica, which never saw the light of day but was meant to be VMS-meets-Unix for the brand-new RISC chip DEC was making before it transmuted into Alpha (the chip, not the OS).

He's on the Xbox team now. He helped design the OS for Xbone, which, at this point, can't possibly tarnish his reputation that badly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler

http://www.krsaborio.net/research/1990s/98/12_b.htm
Tweets with a picture are 94% more likely to be retweeted
You've got a real nice sense of design: in general, and especially for a 14 year old!!

And keep doing what you love. Don't worry about the SAT's your sophomore summer. http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
>> jebblue 1 hour ago said:

>> I find a lot of relevant news on Fox, relevant commentary, knowledgeable opinions. Unless you can cite an example of
what you mean then it's just a personal attack against Fox with no basis.

Here's your example.

"Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news. Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast....any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom."

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-w...

I eagerly await any attempts to defend FOXNews in a comment-thread on HackerNews. Seriously, go for it. http://i.imgur.com/xblF4.gif
Kid Builds Fusion Reactor
If you ever want to fix an issue like this in the future, it's very easy to just create an empty folder on c:\ named something like "empty" and use robocopy to mirror the empty folder into the folder that is too deep.

robocopy c:\empty c:\so_many_subdirectories /mir will do the trick.
Man. You are going places. That's all I want to say. Good luck to you and I will remember your name for the future.
Sustainable R package development
Australia prepared briefing on PRISM before Snowden revelations
Graduate nerds being exploited in web dev sweatshops.
Does this mean if you create a 100px high triangle, it has 100px of invisible padding on top?
I've seen more people using a shattered phone for the remainder of their contract than I've ever seen replacing a shattered phone right away.
Coal power creates that kind of crisis every day, so we don't bother calling it a crisis anymore.

A total of 240,000 years of life were said to be lost in Europe in 2010 with 480,000 work days a year and 22,600 "life years" lost in Britain, the fifth most coal-polluted country.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/european-...
If you have that data, feel free to share it so that we can compare the risk. I do not feel particularly threatened by a 'once in 4,000 years of heavy driving' type of event on a personal level, though if there were any evidence of systemic risk, I might be more concerned, though I do not own a Tesla. I also assume that there is some non-zero risk of a more catastrophic accident, which will then cause further hand-wringing, but I expect it to occur in a crash that was unlikely to be survivable or for it to involve someone doing something completely moronic. Or quite possibly both things at once and then some.

On an individual level, I am far more worried about identifying and avoiding the disturbingly large number of idiotically suicidal drivers I have met. And I mean that very seriously: as soon as I identify someone driving erratically, I find some way to get away from them, whether it means forcing them to pass me, taking an unplanned exit, or what have you, I will make sure I put distance between us.

But I remain unconcerned about a single report of a small car fire when there are many worse ones every single year (if not every day...)
From my reading, Bluetooth LE isn't so "low energy" when you send lots of data, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#Radio_inte.... In the end, you still need to use a bit of power.
I've worked in ICF for a nearly a decade. I think NIF research is a necessary step to a ICF based power source. If NIF demonstrates ignition, it can be used to validate our physics models of ICF (turbulence, fusion product transport, thermal conduction, etc). These physics questions are shared by all ICF approaches. However, a fusion power plant will use entirely different laser technology [1], and most likely a different target design [2]. After showing that the physics works, there is still a lot of engineering work needed before building a reactor.

[1] An ICF power plant will be pulsed at 1-10 Hz. NIF is a flash-lamp pumped glass laser, which takes ~12 hours to cool between shots. A power plant would likely be diode-pumped sold state laser since these can meet the required repitition-rate.

[2] The indirect drive target that LLNL is pursuing on NIF is not very efficient. You spend a lot of energy heating the hohlraum. Directly driven targets (blast the capsule directly rather than heating a gold can to make x-rays) should be much more efficient. There are also several ideas for ways to ignite a target more efficiently (shock ignition, fast ignition), but these need additional laser hardware.

@sam Though I work in ICF, I was sad to see the innovative confinement concepts (magnetic confinement) cut a couple years ago. I think it is short sighted. Fusion need to work and get smaller and we should keep our options open. Hope you managed to get a thesis out before the walls fell.
I didn't realize complete dedication and sacrifice for your ideals was indicative of psychosis. I suppose in that case many of our heros were psychotic.
The BBC did say:

> the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel

As soon as I saw that, I immediately understood that they're nowhere near breakeven -- much less power generation.
It's because the original promo video gave that impression:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSnB06um5r4
Yeah. My comment has nothing to do with finite or infinite amount of any energy technology but rather that my original comment applies to fusion competing with the price of any existing energy technology such as coal, oil, wind, solar, etc.
Since you're launching the probe well in advance of sending out the key, a sufficiently well-funded and a paranoid party could send a probe that just trails yours, intercepting your signal and beaming it back to the party in question (encrypted with their private key, of course.)
Thanks for that. They're useful numbers for me, because I've got this plan…

My current side-project involves a RaspberryPi (sitting in my loungeroom on my home ADSL connection), iRedMail, full disk encryption, a handful of inexpensive VPS providers with APIs that allow automated provisioning (DigitalOcean, NineFold, and Hetzner – to spread out the jurisdictions) – with the RasPi opening a reverse SSH tunnel for ports 25 and 465. Add in a DNS provider with a useable API so the 'Pi can spin up and shut down VPSes itself and update MX records to suit, and VPS images configured to not log anything mail-related, and I think I've gone as far as I can to secure my end of all my email. Having physical control of the hardware/storage that my email relies on won't protect me against NSA level targeted-at-me snooping, or even local law enforcement with sufficient "probable cause" to get a judge to sign a search warrant, but at least I'll _know_ if someone grabs my server hardware. (Hmmm, I wonder if there's some NSL-type coercion that could be used against my partner to force her to let someone take/image my 'Pi while I'm not home, and not be allowed to tell me?)

Possible over-paranoid ideas include refusing port 25 smtp connections that wont negotiate a secured connection in response to a STARTLLS command, and possibly blacklisting mail originating from any of the 8 known PRISM collaborators. I like the _idea_ of ensuring none of my mail arrives from known-intercepted sources, but reality dictates otherwise since way too many of the people I really do want to communicate with are exclusively using gmail/yahoo for email (or worse still, have migrated largely to Facebook messaging instead of email).
Or the unemployed hackathon.
It looks like the keyboard and mouse shown are made by Apple.
No. If you take the example animation, you can set border-left-color and border-right-color to transparent, and set border-top-width to 0. This will place the triangle in a bounding box of the correct width and height.
If you're curious, here's another example (open-source) Meteor app: http://telesc.pe
What Twitter Earns Each Time You Look at Your Feed
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A UNC always references a network path. You can use \\?\ to reference a network path, but it can also be used to reference a local path too. \\?\ is not always used to represent a UNC.

\\?\ is an extended-length path.
Criminals face the same sort of issue DRM makers do: they only need to make one big mistake.

Some of their mistakes may go unnoticed for a long period of time, but in the long run, just one mistake is all it takes for everything to come undone.
Man when I was that age, my only concern in the world was trading Pokemon cards after school. I wouldn't have given up that carefree experience for the world.

I don't know how I feel when I read about things like this.

It starts off as jealousy that the kids started their "career" at such a young age, then respect towards them for the same reason, but then I feel sad because at the end of the day I feel like they're being robbed of a childhood in some ways.

Then I go back and read, and it seems like the kid had a lot of fun, and maybe I'm the one who's lacking perspective.

I don't know. I think it's great at the end of the day. Obviously smart kid, and he'll go places, but I just don't want him to miss out on the more lighthearted times in his life.
So the thing about markets was just innuendo.
This makes me very happy to continue being a Fastmail customer.
Exactly. Say you go to a fusion laboratory that employs the top ten fusion scientists in the world, with a current budget of a few hundred million dollars, and you say to them "I've got 2 billion here in additional funding for you. You need to spend it in the next few months because I'm trying to stimulate an economy right here."

Does that hire you forty more world class fusion scientists? Are there forty more world class fusion scientists?

Are those scientists going to go "Fantastic! We'll just order up three more of these experimental fusion reactor rigs, here are the plans, we'll start hiring engineers and buying up electronic components from the local silicon fab down the road driving all that money into economic productivity for you!" - unlikely. They already have one experimental fusion reactor. Three more the same aren't going to get them anywhere any faster. They won't know what the next one should look like until they've finished getting results out of this one.

Maybe they just spend it all on repainting the lab, buying new office furniture, getting in catered lunches - you might see a marginal improvement in fusion research productivity, and certainly there's a local economic stimulus which was the idea there, but you're not getting the valuable long term capital value of, say, using the money to rebuild a few bridges.

Even if it turns out your ten fusion scientists have a ready proposal to build the next generation experimental fusion reactor, plans are drawn up and costed, and all they need is you to hand over that check for two billion, if they then go ahead and order the parts from China, subcontract a bunch of German engineering firms to build the cooling systems, and get the heavy steelwork welded together in Korea, your stimulus effect just disappeared overseas.

Of course, if that experimental fusion reactor turns out to be THE ONE that creates viable economic fusion power, maybe that's worth the 2 billion. But that's not stimulus spending, that's gambling on an investment.
Anyone else in Perl 5 land, having tried Perl 6, just not that interested?

Seems like a lot of trendy changes that weren't needed to the language. There are some great changes (especially in the OO realm), but also a lot of weak ones.
What is wrong with FTP? Or scp if you prefer?

scp -r pictures dad@my.son.computer.org:~/pictures

Oh right: this would go directly from your dad's computer to hour own computer, encrypted, without passing by the NSA case and without your dad's pictures scanned for terrorism.
Where those markets act with those interests, sure, i can see that.

Unfortunately, if the new generation of Silk Road type platform proves effective and resilient, I think that any large scale crime syndicate or trafficker with the wherewithal to pay is going to start running their own.

And granted, it may just be an arbitrary level of abstraction to say the state is necessarily any more just in generating or enforcing laws than a third-party entity, but I do believe that in the case of decentralized black markets, something other than the markets themselves are going to need to act in that stead, because there would otherwise be a conflict of interest in trying to rein in illegal activity in communities whose entire purpose is profiting from illegal activity.

Though I suppose there might be precedent, for the sake of the self-preservation of the whole, for an Anonymous-like group to step in and keep the real scum at bay.

Which might bring everything back full circle, either the Feds get called or vigilantes.
God's world is perfectly just. My Dad might well die a more painful death than Jesus. Jesus died over 3 hours. If cancer kills you it probably hurts and it takes much longer than 3 hours.

God says...
ipod adultery mine atrocious California how_bout_it desert
homo you're_no_fun Venus whazza_matter_for_you thats_just_wrong
couldn't_be_better One_finger_salute vengeful vengeful
You_can_count_on_that love HolySpirit Greek_to_me you_shouldn't_have
not_a_chance_in_hell programming break_some_woopass_on_you
I'm_done no_you_cant incredibly how_about_those_yankees
thank_you_very_much courage lust play it's_hopeless happy
what_a_nightmare Japan it's_hopeless kludge potentially
arrogant wastoid how_could_you hippy walking That's_gonna_leave_a_mark
whiner programming failure_to_communicate figuratively
so_he_sess wrath baffling arent_you_clever spunky you're_so_screwed
ahh_thats_much_better do_over hey_thats_right you_know_a_better_God
recipe
Thats excellent. Keep going!
It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding. One is by doing very good work, the other is by cheating. Both are much too simple to require any literary explanation.
I second this. Summers should not be spent studying for the SAT.

Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points.
To be fair, you probably wouldn't know...