skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t ChromeOS already automatically apply OS updates on restart?

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/177889?hl=en
Interesting comment. I really like Elon but I think he's a bit off here. My reasoning is that fuel is fuel. Basically you get the energy out of gasoline through an exothermic reaction with oxygen, you get the energy out of Lithium Phosphate by the electron exchange reactions with the cathode. Fuel cells can be the middle road, liquid fuel into electron exchange through catalysts.

The "issue" with fuel cells is that you cannot easily make fuel at home. I get that, if we're one end use energy form (electricity) then we can optimize the infrastructure to carry and deliver that efficiently. But arguments about energy density are silly. There is way more energy in a gallon of gas than you can put into an equal volume or weight of battery. That is why you can use it as a fuel at 20% efficiency and still have a viable business model.

So what is 'bullshit' here? Is it that people won't create the infrastructure to make fuel cell friendly fuels? Is it that a parallel fuel structure can't compete with the existing gas distribution infrastructure? So I don't buy the idea that fuel cells as a power mechanism are non-viable but could see and argument that a car eco system based on them is unlikely.
"These are companies that are for-profit companies, and like you said, they have to answer to people. They have to develop drugs that will make money, and that’s not an antibiotic."

The profit motive is almost as blind a watchmaker as natural selection. We've built an environment which encourages bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance. Let's structure a pharmaceutical industry in which antibiotics are profitable.

The problem appears to be myopia. Antibiotics make money for a few weeks, chronic diseases for a lifetime. Fortunately, finance long ago solved the temporal shifting of incentives and payoffs. We need smooth the lumpy, often in-the-future, demand for antibiotics.

The government could tax the pharmaceutical industry, medical insureres, or the public. The proceeds would fund tax credits for the developers and/or producers of antibiotics. Alternatively, a more elaborate system by which health and life insurers incentivise antibiotic research, perhaps by issuing credit default swaps on pools of their reinsurance liabilities to antibiotic developers, could be structured.
dent in social networking :)
im looking for techies who cn partner me ,,,in a project focussing on ecommerce nd social media integration,,,,anyone there for it
"> as far as I can tell C# offers little or nothing more but has just a different flavor of syntactic sugar, one related to C and that I don't like. I believe that, compared with C#, Visual Basic .NET is easier to read on the page, is less prone to bugs due to being more verbose, and will be easier to teach to new staff. Where am I going wrong?"

"VB.NET suffers somewhat from the poor reputation of previous variants; it is probably not as bad as all that. "

Absolutely. Nothing to do with VB6.

"That said, more verbose code tends to be more prone to bugs, not less, and I imagine it's a less structured language."

It doesn't need to be. I have in front of me a very nice codebase in VB.NET.

"Less structure makes it easier to start a program but harder to maintain and develop it - for a maintainable program you need a language that enforces separation between different layers and makes it very clear which parts of the program can and can't affect other parts of the program. "

That's exactly the same in VB.NET than in C#. You declare your classes as Public, Private, etc..

"Whereas in the early stages it's very convenient if you can just change everything from everywhere."

I think the differences are mostly syntactic and readability.

I prefer VB style because I've been exposed to it the last 5 years, but my first years I thought I would be caught dead before writing in a non-C style language (money convinced me otherwise :P ).
What you're saying is certainly true, but I don't think you're addressing the criticism directly. The question is not, "Is there money to be made by bypassing the scientific method?" The question is, "Are there systemic biases that result from money's setting the research agenda?"

It seems to me a virtual tautology that companies will only fund areas of research where they think they can make money, and so areas without apparent profit potential will be understudied. This is a reason why publicly funded, pure science is so important to me.

I just want to make it clear that not everyone who is critical of the way science is practiced by human beings and institutions is "anti-science". One can still be a True Believer in the scientific method and its philosophical underpinnings, and yet still still believe that science as practiced has institutional blindspots.
Samsung acquires 7.4 percent of Gorilla Glass maker Corning
Not really. The market was well-aware that SR was an illegal enterprise which could end at any time. The risk should have already been priced in. To a reasonably efficient market, good news is not good news if it was already predicted, and bad news is not bad news if that had been predicted instead. What matters is the extent to which the news is better or worse than predicted.

In SR's case, the news was better than one would have predicted. Despite it being the worst-case scenario - the server seized intact, Ross's laptop seized unlocked, all outstanding balances confiscated - it wasn't that bad because Ross's personal savings do not yet seem to have been taken, the current seizures will not be sold until the trial is over, and the bust was not due to breaks in either Bitcoin (they didn't even bother with blockchain analysis in the indictments!) or Tor (as far as we can currently tell) but to errors and overwhelming hubris on Ross's part, so SR could be and was quickly replaced by a flood of clones/competitors (at last count: BlackMarket Reloaded, Sheep Marketplace, BuyItNow, DeepBay, Budster, & Black Flag are all actively buying & selling; in addition, The Market and Silk Road Reloaded are expected to come online in the next few weeks/months).
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Depends where you are and your definition of 'green'. In Ontario, right now we're running on:

- 57% nuclear

- 25% hydro

- 14% gas

- 3% wind

- 1% coal

- <1% other (mostly natural gas, apparently)

If you consider nuclear, hydroelectric and wind to be 'green' (in the sense that they don't produce CO2), then we're running on 85% green power in Ontario right now.

Source: http://media.cns-snc.ca/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelectricit...
Codero Launches Industry's Only On-Demand Hybrid Cloud Hosting
What Kind of Problem is the ACA Rollout for Liberalism?
Well aren't there a lot of licensed physical devices with a Skype client (I'm thinking actual phones)? A breaking change would require an update to the firmware on those devices, which seems non-trivial.
Netherlands: http://dutchstartupmap.com/
Except for every 4 H2 molecules you get a CO2 that's generally released to the atmosphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
Innovation’s Next Decade
It is not "internal backing", there's a search referral deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google

Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is driven by its mission and is not controlled by any other entity: https://www.mozilla.org/mission/
I think its meant the same way that Dawkins talks about genes in the Selfish Gene.

I.e. they act as if they are selfish.

Blame this way of phrasing it on the limits of language.
A game like an FPS doesn't need much speed (they can work with modem-level bitrate). They instead depend on having low latency, or ping time. Since the moon is so far away, it takes a signal 1.3 seconds to travel to or from it.
Having recently taught myself to draw (somewhat) I know where you're coming from. From a design perspective this is a super challenging problem though.

I actually spent a while trying to come up with an introduction to the app that would do a drawing tutorial of sorts. (Along the lines of http://www.drawastickman.com/episode1) - but the line between the app telling you what to do and guiding you is very thin, especially in content creation software. In the end I decided that it was best to try and build motivation and a personal connection through more subdued means, and that that method would be "truer" and deeper as well.

This is the same reasoning behind not having sample artwork within the program, not even as a tutorial. I didn't want people to open it up and see anything that they had not chosen to create.

I don't know what the proper solution to what you're asking would be - I want it to exist in theory, but I can't convince myself that it would be good in practice.
New Communication Manager Role Added to Google+ Pages • vlogg.com
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/10/23/are_japanes...
That's not a code review; that's either QA or UAT.
Google for "mrsa aerosol transmission".

Yes yes make everyone wear gas masks and space suits the entire time, staff and patient alike...
We're looking for all three. https://www.contentful.com/jobs/
That's not violence. They're not being beaten with a crowbar.
I particularly like the custom event triggers in this and how it's only trying to be a simple clustered gossip layer that other services can be built on-top of. That's my primary complaint with etcd is that it's both attempting to be a clustered gossip layer and a built in memory database (not necessarily bad, I'm sure it's a natural part of maintaining state anyways but I feel like the in memory db part could be split off). Please correct me if I'm conflating these two, I've only had a cursory glance at both (ie, I haven't actually used either).
Tesla plans to create battery-swapping stations that switch battery packs faster than filling an empty petrol tank, which can mitigate recharging.
New Haswell Thinkpads
I'm jumping on a plane right now (a couple hours) but I'd be happy to answer any questions related to Serf once I land. Just leave them here and I'll give it my best shot! We've dreamt of something like Serf for quite awhile and I'm glad it is now a reality.

Some recommended URLs if you're curious what the point is:

"What is Serf?" http://www.serfdom.io/intro/index.html

"Use Cases" http://www.serfdom.io/intro/use-cases.html

Comparison to Other Software: http://www.serfdom.io/intro/vs-other-sw.html

For the CS nerds, the internals/protocols/papers behind Serf: http://www.serfdom.io/docs/internals/gossip.html

Also, I apologize the site isn't very mobile friendly right now. Unfortunately I can write a lamport clock implementation, but CSS is just crazytown.
There are many sides to the cracking community, and the nefarious side of it is just as "legit" as the law-abiding side. They've been at it just as long and many of them are just as skilled as their legal counterparts. Note that when I say "legit" I'm not condoning their actions, I just recognize that they are a part of our history, and that many of them are good at what they do.

Sure, there are things that Anonymous and Lulzsec have done that weren't very impressive (like the DDoS attacks) but at times both groups have pulled of some pretty impressive stuff.

Practical jokes conducted via technology have a long and storied history in the hacker community, its disingenuous to act like Lulzsec's continuation of this tradition somehow maligns everyone else's reputation.

Also, unless you can prove that he was just a mouthpiece, there isn't really any way that you can argue his sentence was excessive when he only spent 37 days in prison. Sabu became an FBI informant, and I bet that even with his deal, he's going to end up getting anywhere from several years to a few decades when he's finally sentenced.
Lets abandon quantum mechanics because most people dont understand it.
I like the first part but not the idea of open sourcing it. Why does the American government want "the global development community" involved? That makes no sense to me.
Google its 'hedging' system; now that it's down, the documentation will be harder to come by but there should still be clearnet discussions of it.
No purchase page yet, but you can see details on most of the new haswell thinkpads by hacking the URL.
I know this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but what would the long-term consequences be of importing large quantities of hydrogen from off-planet and then binding it to local oxygen?

I suppose if we had the tech to do that, we might be able to find off-planet oxygen as well...? Except wasn't most of ours produced by plants splitting carbon-dioxide?
Except he's doing it because there is (to him) an impression that the original software isn't being maintained. So instead of letting a beloved piece of software disappear he cloned it and released it to the world.

The presumption that he's trying to destroy the original developers livelihood is naive at best.
There's a deeper problem here, though. If you're asking, "So, that's what you think your code will do... what does the standard say?" the problem isn't really that they don't know the standard, it's that they've written the code in a way where it's ambiguous what it does.

If I see

static int i;

in code, I'm going to change it to

static int i = 0;

even if I know that static integers are initialized to 0 in the standard, because I know that eventually someone will have to maintain the code who doesn't know that. I don't particularly care what the standard says there: the code shouldn't assume detailed understanding of the standard, which isn't realistically a valid assumption.
The title needs to be improved. "A decentralized, highly available, fault tolerant solution..." for what? The title should include "for service discovery and orchestration".
they are unfashionable not because they are written in C/C++. Programming at the end of the day is just not that hard, what is hard is domain knowledge, you can write a compiler in any language.
slow clap for this lame joke.
If you're looking for good looking icon fonts, don't forget to check out Entypo as well(http://entypo.com/). Not as many options as Font Awesome, but they do look really good/much better than other free alternatives or even paid ones.
No, Japanese People Haven’t Given Up on Sex
What about chemiotics? Do the usual warnings about antibiotics abuse refer to chemiotics in the same way?
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SEC releases rules on Crowdfunding
Announcing: LinkedIn Intro
It kind of bothers me when people talk about fuel cell vehicles as being "emissions free". Producing the Hydrogen required to run a fuel cell requires either electrolysis of water, or extracting it from natural gas. That's really energy intensive. Either the emissions come out your tailpipe or go out a smokestack. Pick your poison.

There are other interesting fuel cell technologies that use liquids, like methanol, instead of Hydrogen as a fuel source, but even Methanol requires energy to be produced.
I feel like whenever one of these gets posted, it should have a compare / contrast with d3.js
You need to do some repair on the website for iOS; the front page is white text on a white background.
Request: healthcare.gov architecture docs
As noted on several articles, including:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/obamacare-website-programmers_n_4141411.html

"A review of internal architectural diagrams obtained by the AP revealed the system's complexity. Insurance applicants have a host of personal information verified, including income and immigration status. The system connects to other federal computer networks, including ones at the Social Security Administration, IRS, Veterans Administration, Office of Personnel Management and the Peace Corps."

Did those documents ever get released publically or just to AP? I am curious about their design. Quick searches didn't turn anything up for me, yet.
Microsoft made a costly mistake more than a decade ago. They decided to attack the internet with full force.

And they lost.
I'm not talking about infants, I'm talking about the majority of the adult population which can take good care of it's own.
I had a really time figuring out what this is, but the "Getting Started" page shows off the API a bit. Wonder why they didn't just call it Raphael 3.0.
Here's some of them:

http://shop.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440s

http://shop.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440

http://shop.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/s-series/s540

http://shop.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/s-series/s440

http://shop.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/l-series/l440 (This one actually appears to be on sale already)

http://shop.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/edge-series/e5...

http://shop.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x240
> The single most important factor on whether you’ll have a good experience is whether the company you join is exploding with growth or not.

Growth is a double-edged sword. Working at a high-growth company can, for some, be a rewarding experience. But high-growth companies can also be chaotic, dysfunctional and unreasonably demanding of employees.

And if head count grows faster than meaningful traction, which is not uncommon at venture-backed startups, there's nothing less rewarding than being a part of the layoff process that inevitably ensues.

> The best learning is when you get to see the company grow around you. If the company already has a hundred or two hundred people, it may still be a startup, but it is really a late stage startup, and all of the tremendous learning opportunities are already gone.

Nonsense. What you have the opportunity to learn is just as important as how much you can learn. On this front, larger, established companies often have a lot more to offer.

> So if you’re not blown away by everyone you meet during the hiring process, look elsewhere. You don’t want to be learning bad habits, especially because you might not know at the time that they’re that bad.

First, while it's usually wise to trust your gut if you get a bad feeling during the hiring process, if you expect to be "blown away" in a set of limited interactions with a prospective employer, you're probably being unrealistic. Keep in mind that what you see during the hiring process may be not be representative of day-to-day reality, and in some cases, what you see might even be staged[1].

Second, great people can make bad colleagues. An individual with a friendly and/or compelling personality isn't necessarily going to be knowledgeable or even competent. A lot of knowledgeable, competent people don't have a reality distortion field around them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543410
yes but the number of places that are suitable are limited and it might be politicaly sensitive eg flooding Wales and Scotland to provide power for the English.

And farmers might object to you taking the water they use for irrigation
Interesting indeed. How is the application running in the browser though?
The Sterns, Pi’s and Chromebooks
Biggest takeway for me: look at the effect unit price has on revenue

Just doing a quick analysis of the first two:
http://d.pr/i/hhne

Having higher price-points dramatically increases total earnings.
I came across the snapsvg announcement in a Tweet by the creator:

https://twitter.com/DmitryBaranovsk/status/39305298289322393...

> Here we go: new SVG library from Adobe by yours truly Snap.svg. Snapsvg.io

I didn't know Dmitry was Raphael's creator nor that he was working for Adobe. So all I saw was "Adobe" and thought "Flash" and then, "Nah"
Of course, they're given to animals to keep them healthy enough so we can eat them.

If you cut back on keeping them healthy, you're cutting the amount of food available for human consumption.

I recently re-read the fantastic Ishmael[1] which does a fantastic job of explaining the crazy things we've done to increase our food supply in the last 10,000 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28novel%29
I'm on your side. It's one thing to relate to people's emotions, but it's another to ignore the fact that people can be in control of their emotions. Just because people might get worked up about scary-looking things doesn't mean that the correct response is to go to all lengths to prevent scary-looking things without discriminating between things that are actually dangerous and things which aren't.
Strings Attached cartoon
Agreed, these tag lines come off as buzzword soup instead of informative. I would love a small quick scenario describing what serf can help prevent/enable.
Despite some of the obvious problems, the matter of "taste" provides the biggest challenge / opportunity. By "taste", I mean something similar to what plagues wines especially, but also beers and single malt scotches -- maybe better described as snobbery.

How does one either surf (or conquer) the matter of "taste" in weed? What happens when -- by analogy -- someone makes the weed version of "Sideways" and you're the guy holding the weed version of merlot?
> Our problem isn't that we give antibiotics out like candy, it's that we give them to the elderly, people with AIDS, the poor, etc.

Do you realize what you've just said? Are you arguing that we shouldn't have had given antibiotics to people that needed antibiotics?

Also, I don't know how your society is or does, but in our country the poor have a better immune system.
The Public Image of the Female Programmer
There are several other grammatical errors or awkward sentence constructions. Pixelmator team: I think you could benefit greatly from hiring a native English speaker to comb through your website copy and fix these (admittedly small) issues. Please don't take offense at that suggestion; I honestly think it would benefit you and your business to do so.
The growth of global immunisation
This template needs about 2x as many features (really just integrating other's libraries, like all other templates) if it's going to compete with other bootstrap templates out there (which sell for less).
Yeah, my thinking is that a trendline would be useful.
A file is a file and the software that can manage it
Makes you wonder how much OO is enough OO.

What does this achieve that you can't do by lazily merging two hashes (the default values + the second data source)?
You would also need to quantify the difference in disutility between a passenger and his/her children being forcefully groped by security and a passenger being startled by a smoke bomb.
No IE7 support any more it seems.
The big question is: does it compile under OSX 10.9 (Mavericks)?
The OP's description makes it pretty clear. This is a library that seems specifically geared toward those who create SVGs in programs like Illustrator. That it is described as "jQuery for SVGs" should imply that it serves a different need than D3, as one usually does not call or think of D3 as the "jQuery for SVG data visualizations"
Venture Capital in India: Age of Reckoning
Um have you seen a pumped storage power plants they are major civil engineering constructions.

You could probably add a small hydrogen storage facility to every wind farm in the UK for less than the cost of the public inquiry into a new pumped storage scheme.
LiveScribe: A pen that writes on paper and saves a digital copy of everything. Also, records audio. You touch your pen to your writing and it will play back the audio that was occurring at the moment you were writing that word.

You can use the digital copy of your writing in OneNote or EverNote and it can read your handwriting allowing you to search.
Interesting story. He seems like a good guy, but quite naive ...
if you are looking for sources of inspiration, check out http://socialengineered.net/. Most discussions are borderline illegal, but it does get your hack juices flowing!