skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good place to start if you want to understand the purported rationale for the NIF (stockpile stewardship), I suggest reading and understanding this light introduction to modern nuclear weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
(the rhodes books, Making of the Atomic Bomb is required background reading, as is Dark Sun, if you want to get into the backstore).

In particular:
The NIH experiment recapitulates many of the design aspects of a thermonuclear weapon, but does so in a highly controlled lab environment.

I'm a biophysicist. I know a fair amount of engineering, although I'm not a weapons physicist. Nonetheless, after years of reading about the NIF and various fusion projects I've come to believe that there is little justification for their expenditure. In particular, we can do stockpile stewardship without this device, more cheaply, nor does NIF present an economically viable method to production of power at a large scale in even the most rosy predictions.

I still think the experimental design is cool, but I can't see this as a rational expenditure (HUGE opex and capex) compared to other investments we could be making.

Most likely scenario I see in 20 years is that china will be mass-manufacturing small, safe fission reactors and making a mint selling them to the rest of the world. That's got far less reqiurement for massive capex and opex. It's just that the western nations decided to go stupid about fission because OH GOD NUCLEAR MUTATIONS and stop investing in building more reliable, safer, and smaller plants.
What would be the impact of a 'fusion economy', assuming realistic evolution of the technology for the purposes of commercialisation? (i.e. I'm assuming "Mr Fusion" powerplants on top of one's DeLorean aren't ever going to be practically feasible).

What would such a world look like? Does it promote world peace; through greater energy security for nations, would less reliance on fossil fuels for baseload electricity generation have a significant impact on price of air travel/sea cargo?
I Agree. The organizers should be ashamed and should publicly apologize. This is NOT acceptable and shouldn't be tolerated in our society. The prize should be taken back from the participants and be given to a men sexually abused charity.

err, just kidding, I thought it was pretty damn cool and a very nice hack.
Interesting hack - Best of luck.

btw, would the ruling also cover in-app purchaes? Also, does the law which requires a mechanism to transfer ownership to be built in software (DRM etc)
This was posted two weeks ago and was a load of BS then and still is.

Can someone with appropriate privileges just kill this one off please?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6444566
Good for TV? Its Fox, so anything that distracts from the words they are saying is great for TV.
Where oppression exists, resistance should exist.
nice demo. should make some people think.

content-editable can be nice when it works, but
it doesn't always work. for example, i couldn't
edit stickies-text in safari. (chrome worked.)

further, the cross-browser inconsistencies have
-- regrettably -- been present for a long time,
with seemingly little progress toward resolution.

doesn't negate anything that you have accomplished,
but it might put a cap on how far you can travel...

just so you know...

-bowerbird
MAX_PATH is a #define, so by increasing it you immediately cause buffer overflow vulnerabilities in every program which ever does a wchar_t foo[MAX_PATH] = {0}; since the old limit will be baked into the binaries.

Even if VS restricts itself to 32k-aware APIs, you'll hit this eventually when shelling out or calling any third-party code. Never going to happen.
It is strange that I have to quote the article as an explanation but here goes:

The Bitcoin Solution

In today’s world, quick payments online with little or no cost are readily available via bitcoin. Recognizing the potential this provides are a number of entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on what could be a game-changing industry update.

Micropayments of just a few cents per piece would offer greater incentive to consistently produce content worth paying for rather than optimize for headlines and SEO, since the probability of someone returning to a site where they didn’t receive ample value is low. Micropayments also reduce or eliminate the incentive to subvert the paywall, since the time to find a way around it may actually be economically more expensive than the few cents spent on the article. Enabling this are two companies that recently launched, offering bitcoin paywalls to solve this problem.
Don't get me wrong I think that LLNL and the NIF are doing great work. I just think the work is more weapons based and less energy than we are all lead to believe in the press. and I meant that the Fusion Reactor business is a low priority compared to testing the nuclear stockpile, etc., not NIF in general.

The chamber first wall material keeps me up at night. I think money spent in that area would be really well spent and have many many uses, both in places where you need neutron shielding, and to a lesser extent, protection from heat. When I think of really big, fun, 1960s style energy projects, the only other 'credible' one seems to be laser pro-pulsed power-satellties. Now there is where we might take a lot of the laser tech from the NIF!
Agreed. slower use f these things and encouraging alternative energies earlier (while understanding population control) would have kept this less of a clusterfkc. However, humans != long-term political planning.
Sounds like a job for the NSA.
I actually to read what you wrote but your site is down...
the partner control thing is interesting, but it will be more interesting when you have 2 of them operating synchronously with some sort of feedback loop...
Yes. Optimized for both local and international buying and selling with the purpose of eliminating arbitrage in objects of uncertain value. Added to that, bitcoin, distributed, and built in community escrow -- the first truly 'internet' market.
I thought we'd already done Perl three. Waiting on Perl100... And maybe I'll even be able to run something under Perl101.

And some people still claim we're stuck at Perl10...

P.S. I love Perl. Above said with affection.
But not every law is an oppression...
Eradicate the startup pitch event
My thoughts might provide some ideas: http://www.collegeanswerz.com/rethinking-education
Watch This Girl With Telekinetic Powers Freak Out Coffee Shop Patrons
Why is this on frontpage? This website is so poorly designed and (probably) generates so little revenue that couldn't seriously be considered as a study case for Bitcoin substituting bank accounts for business.
1920 / 55 means 34.9 dpi ?

If thats correct then this is just awful. I feel sorry for those who have to use this daily.
Yes but in the real world there are inefficiencies. We can't even transfer energy efficiently enough into the reaction yet to get a net energy gain from the fusion reaction. And once you reach that milestone, you still have to make transfer of the yield energy into useful work efficient enough to make the whole thing productive. Efficient energy transfer is hard!
Judging by the ample supply of version number rimshots, some clarification might be helpful: this isn't a Perl release, nor is it a new Perl version. It's the name of a general project in the Perl community to try to decouple Perl 5 the language from perl the runtime, and hopefully achieve interoperability between Perl 5 and Perl 6 code in the process. Perl 5 and 6 are distinct languages in the same family, much like (for example) Common Lisp vs Racket Scheme, which is why interop is an interesting and worthwhile goal.

There are some really cool things happening in the specific projects on the linked page, if you're into compilers and VMs.
Will this system hinder our enforcement of slave trafficking and murder for hire laws? What are people going to do, stick a person in a box with a bunch of laundry detergent to mask the smell, then drop the box in the mail? Is an assassin's bullet going to travel over this network instead of through the air?

Those transactions are still going to have "meatspace" components which are, and will remain, the weak point that law enforcement will target.

Tor and bitcoin already exist, if mobs want to use those systems, they already can. The utility in systems like SR is reputation management and connection discovery. In other words, this system would really be nothing more than a craigslist that doesn't claim to take down ads for hookers. It shouldn't frighten you.
Your satire fails in its comparison. Nobody (well not nobody, but epsilon people) would claim that a hi-tech masturbatory device for men (not that men couldn't use this device) was sexist, so long as its purpose was described tastefully and objectively.

This is obviously also intended to a be a functional device that actually serves its purported purpose. TitStare was simply a crass joke.

So no, there is no comparison between this and TitStare. But nice try.
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It seems you have copyright infringement liability as well, when the guest pirates a movie using your equipment. Or worse problems, when the guest makes threats using your equipment.
I don't understand how anybody would use that to do anything serious on.
Glad to see our corporate overlords are equipping their propoganda departments with the latest high-tech gear.
I tried to set this up a few months ago. Apparently I was formatting post headers incorrectly, because I couldn't get any posts I wrote to show up on the site after upload. No error messages or anything.

It's pretty, but the workflow isn't much better than Jekyll. I would have been happy if there was a post editor in the admin panel, but that's apparently not going to happen.
Very cool!

I always knew how it worked but it was nice to see the animation play out.
I actually don't know. I've actually made some contacts within enterprise .Net for contract opportunities.
I know that there's quite a few opportunities in the start-up space in entrepreneur meetups in Brisbane go to meetup.com. Although most often it will be the "I have an idea and I want you to be technical co-founder and do all the work for no pay" arrangement being sought after. The Silicon Beach scene has a huge amount of ideas people looking for "technical" so you'll be surrounded by vultures but at least you could pick and choose.
Sorry for the late reply.
Google glass gets public transit directions
Not all articles are news in the traditional sense. Editorials, opinion pieces, historical perspectives, analyses of markets, etc. are not a google away. The dilution of the news market is because a lot is poured into hype, that is a google away. High quality content gets people back which is evident in how the New York Times manages to maintain loyal readership and profitability.
LG confirms production of 'bendable and unbreakable' smartphone displays
I think it was never clear whether he was making a princess bride joke when he claimed there were multiple dprs.
Those bezels look larger on one side... which must make their work lean heavily to the right. /snark

In all seriousness, though, I can't imagine how they are going to be any more productive at those resolutions than they would be with traditional input methods, not to mention the sore arms that these will cause.
I don't want to offend you, so I'll assume you haven't spent a couple of hours attentively reading the court docs.
https://www.rossulbricht.org/srforum/html/dpr_posts_page_01_...

There has been more than one occasion where I have wanted
to quit as well. Without going into details, the stress
of being DPR is sometimes verwhelming. What keeps me
going is the understanding that what we are doing here
is more important than my insignificant little life.
I believe what we are doing will have rippling effects
for generations to come and could be part of a monumental
shift in how human beings organize and relate to one
another.

I have gone through the mental exercise of spending a
lifetime in prison and of dying for this cause. I have
let the fear pass through me and with clarity commit
myself fully to the mission and values outlined in the
Silk Road charter. If you haven't read it yet, please do.
Well, I'd say everyone tries to overstate their case a bit, don't we? But if we care about the state of everyday debate and judgment then we should also accept improvements. And it could be considered improvement if a politician / manager / director gets their knowledge of science and psychology from Gladwell than from CSI or ESPN Live respectively (which they would otherwise).
I haven't seen enough details to have a good opinion, but I'm skeptical (but would happily eat my hat if it works). We abandoned mirror fusion in the 80's because confinement is really hard if you have open field lines [1]. I do think high beta confinement concepts ([2], [3]) are very cool and could drive power plants small enough for power companies to be interested.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Fusion_Test_Facility
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_tokamak
What's the big deal with getting bignum into js? Everything else I can agree with, but not having 64bit int support in a server side language has to hurt. (just look at most node db adapters and bigints are handled as strings)
that's not correct, 55 inches is diagonal.
It would be nice if it actually said this on the page. I had to poke around for several minutes to figure out what this project actually was, and I'm a Perl person myself.
your scenario sounds like an ideal use case for a service we recently released, Coinvoice (https://coinvoice.com/). Coinvoice allows you to invoice in USD and receive Bitcoin (BTC) without forcing your customers to use BTC.

i have myself had a number of issues with banks in the past and can speak to the irritation it can cause when you're trying to do business. Bitcoin is a great way to get around banks that are uncomfortable with your line of business or that add too much complexity to your business.
See, now you haven't assumed it, you've researched it.

But are you saying Google could factor all that... if they took all their servers that they ordinarily use for their business, turned their business off, and instead used them to factor an RSA key?
You mean, the illusion of the latest high-tech gear.
National Do Not Call Registry Unable to Offer Service
Not really attacking the problem from the direction you indicated, but authenticating the coin is a non-problem. There's only one and everyone knows where it's supposed to be and who owns it. Carmen Sandiego stole the empire state building by carrying it away, but that doesn't work in the real world; the actual way to steal it is to forge change-of-ownership papers.
I've done graphics for television (literally fullscreens and boxes for newscasts and that sort of thing) - if something appears onscreen (especially on a screen on screen) you'd be surprised how terrible the resolution has to be before it even matters visually to the home viewer.
Hey atmosx, the site is an MVP, but yes I agree the design needs work. The site itself and its revenue is irrelevant to the issue at hand. Any US citizen (or non-EU citizen) who wants to form a company in Europe is going to run into the same banking problems I ran into. Bitcoin can provide some relief for this issue.
'Aside from it being simply neat of Fox News to use the displays,'

Nah.

'it’s a nice moment for Microsoft:'

Nah.

'the company has found an early commercial use for the technology.'

Nahhhhhh.

To me it's more likely Microsoft is driving hard these visible partnerships, for example like Delta Air using Surface tables, at a loss for exposure. But I wouldn't know, I'm not a TechCrunch journalist.
I think most of the anti-microsoft disposition is legacy and deservingly so, but IMO no longer applicable. At least not against the technology anyway, since the mvc framework is pretty good. Licensing costs are a different matter all together.
What about launching a probe that echoes any signals it gets? If it were sufficiently far away, one could send it the private key and destroy the local copy. Nobody's going to leave from Earth (or wherever) and catch up to your private key!
I took it as a reference to Six, a Python 2/3 compatibility library.
> I don't get why writers try to abuse copyright law to artificially constrain the disbursement of their material

That's not an abuse of copyright law, that's it's exact purpose.

> Instead, I'd attach a donation link [...]

Just because you can make up numbers where this is successful doesn't mean it would be successful, or give any insight into the situations that are most amenable to it.
Sure. I don't feel the need to impose my lack of facebook on anyone else. I do mind when people act shocked when facebook throws its weight around to get what it wants. Its a walled garden in the fullest sense.
If you look at energy, there isn't really a big shift, depending on what energy sources you use. Oil prices have gone up substantially, due to a change in supply vs. demand. But natural gas prices have gone down, for the same reason. So it costs more to fill up your car, and less to run your furnace. Things do change real price, so the fact that gasoline and beef cost more now can just mean that gasoline and beef are actually more in demand relative to supply, just like natural gas is now more in supply relative to demand.
This is a chicken and egg scenario though. By producing masters online grads into the world employers will encounter them and firm their own opinion on the quality of their education.
I'm sorry but you're wrong with the elitist view you're taking on paid content. The problem is not that high profile publishers succeed while others fail. The real problem is that no new monetizing mechanism is used. Take in-app purchasing as a payment model for news and voila, money rolls in the coffers.

To make a point, FarmVille is not high profile. It is for everyone who is anyone. On the other hand EA bought a game called Pet Society which had a loyal following whom I knew some of. The first thing EA did was change the payment model and then all hell broke loose. People I personally know started complaining and EA eventually closed down that game. The problem is not in either elitism or micro-payments but rather in the sales approach.
When I was still at MS, a lot of these kind of bugs didn't get fixed -- the code checking against the old (smaller) path size would often not be owned by anyone anymore, and nobody wanted to touch it (because that would make them the new owner).
Counts are simply hits.

Not that I tested it or anything.
Why would I want to try something new when Perl and MySQL running on Solaris and Apache gets the job done so well? Just kidding :). As I get older, I do find it easier to rationalize using the older, mature thing over a newer, less tested thing.
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There's around 200 current people going in the group and I know some alum are in the group as well.

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Producing does not imply the ability to do useful work (power steam turbines).
I can't stand either of them! Take that, people who make up rules about how the same people like and don't like stuff!
It's more complex than free vs. non-free, but it's solvable and will be solved.
haters gon hate :)

nice response
If I plug in a YouTube link will it also tally all of the YouTube link variations for that video? For example, if I put in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g, will it also include the shortened http://youtu.be/wE3fmFTtP9g in the tally?
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Note that you work for qz.com which kinda discredits you when asking for another site to be deleted.
(16x)^2 + (9x)^2 = (55)^2

x ~= 2.996

1920/(16x) ~= 40.05 dpi