skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is interested in investigating nuclear reactions, there is a wealth of publicly available data from a huge number of experiments; and simulation software is available.

For example:
EXFOR (Experimental nuclear reaction data https://www-nds.iaea.org/exfor/exfor.htm) is an international collection of more than 20000 nuclear reaction experimental results dating back to the discovery of the neutron.

ENDF (Evaluated nuclear data library http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/endf/b7.1/) is the current best evaluation of the most up-to-date data available for many nuclear reactions that have been seen experimentally.

FLUKA (http://www.fluka.org/) "is a fully integrated particle physics MonteCarlo simulation package", partially developed and used by CERN.

Beware that all of these require some knowledge of nuclear physics to use and understand (obviously!), and can be somewhat archaic in data formats and computer languages used (think FORTRAN).

But it is truly wonderful how you and I have such easy access to such high quality and complete data.
Okay, my mistake in using the term "always-on." That term is generally reserved for broadband network connections.

But consider the standard use case for undergarments. It will continuously collect data any time it's worn. That could turn out to be a lot of data, even in a store-and-forward data collection strategy. And really, bras are most commonly worn in social situations, so most data will be collected while the subject engages in social interactions.

I point this out as a possible "lie detector" because that's my immediate association with respect to electrodermal and EKG sensors used in combination. Add in respiration (a small leap since this will be strapped to your rib cage) and you would have the complete recipe for a lie detector. That part doesn't seem to be included, although my free association still stands.

I'm hypothesizing that Microsoft might be taking aim at a strategy to crowdsource ambient lie detector data, because that sounds like a really interesting data set, with lots of opportunities for exploitation.

What motivation could there possibly be, beyond "pure evil", as a drive to study this sort of thing? Perhaps a sense of adventure and bold curiosity for the future that lies ahead? I dunno, but it's already well established that Microsoft is a known collaborator with the DoD and most alphabet agencies. Maybe it's a sureptitious fishing expedition?

Why women only? Because a complete lie detector session involves respiration. So, if it's a sureptitious data collection program, you start with the question: how do we convince people to adorn themselves with cumbersome blood pressure cuff, EKG, electrodermal and respiration sensors that we usually wrap around their chest? Who would ever wear anything tightly strapped around their chest? Wait! Women do that all the time, whenever they wear a bra!

Good work, Johnson! Here's a two million dollar budget! In six months, be ready to show me something that will convince people to willingly share respiration, heart rate, and skin conductivity via the web. Then we'll restrospectivly analyze the raw data set, blindly without context, and try to pick out the liars, and develop a common statistical model of deceptive behavior, ironically collected using deceptive tactics.
This isn't all that surprising given that they did not receive special bone marrow, but it is very sad for these patients.

<speculation>Even in the Berlin patient, it is likely that there is some reservoir of HIV+ cells, but because his transplanted bone marrow lacks the CCR5 receptor, that reservoir cannot expand, so he appears cured (and, for all purposes, is).</speculation>
I noticed two types of HN posts:

1.- A Hacker News for _______ (finance[1], bitcoin[2], architecture[3], etc)

2.- Filter Hacker News (exclude ___[4], by tags[5], etc)

Food for thought.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867232

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6860611

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6866403

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2563739 (expired link)
My daughter was one of the operators of the TRIGA reactor at Reed college. Some of the students joked it was a Fisher-Price My First Reactor reactor :-) at only 250kW its small as reactors go, but also exceptionally interesting.

It is very disappointing how constricted the field of nuclear research is, as it is a demonstrably zero carbon footprint energy source. I understand the emotion that nuclear power evokes in people, I think the only way to combat the misperceptions is with improving results. I recognize I am a minority in that regard.
Ah, very nice! Any commentary on if it affects the speed of Quick Look in general? (I've noticed Quick Look getting slower in the last couple generations of OS X, and don't want to dog it down any more.)
Unique to DragonFly, which is a shame[1], since it seems to have implemented everything one could possibly want, including replication.

[1] In the sense it's a great filesystem that could be more widely used.
Naming things

Cache invalidation
Overloaded record fields for GHC
No one is willing to pay money to send messages. I even proposed Satoshi Nakamoto's idea (possibly other earlier peoples' idea) to require paying to send a message but receiving money to receive a message and no one would accept even that idea.
Pretty much. When I saw the early releases I was wondering iis that the Matt Dillon? And sure enough, it was.
I like this approach a lot. If you have hundreds or thousands of posts, it would also be pretty easy to only append new posts to the JSON file instead of regenerating the entire thing.
Experimental code increased the understanding of these complex systems across a greater population of developers.

If we are going to come out on top, then we need to play the long game. In that case, experimental code has a lot of value.
The web-going public desperately needs a bigger stick with which to hit a CA which screws up. 'Sudden death' would be a nice idea if the browser vendor half of CAB could achieve it. A bond held by CAB and forfeited to UNHRC (or someone) on an event like this would work, too.

CT is a great idea, and the CAs really must pull their collective fingers out and support it, but only works to detect screw ups after the fact.
Who Owns the Arctic?
For what particular reason do you want him to start with Lisp?
Advertised Private Placements – Insight from the Form D Data on 506(c) offerings
So Dragonfly BSD is the WinNT* of UNIX world, interesting!

"One big part of the goal set will be the creation of a
middle 'emulation' layer which is managed by the kernel
but runs in userland, which will take over all primary
system call entry points (in userland) and convert them
to syscall messages that the kernel understands. 4.x,
5.x, SysV, Linux, and other compatibility sets will be
moved out of the kernel and into this middle layer."

-- Matthew Dillon (main dev): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July...

* think about subsystems like Win32, POSIX, OS/2 of the WinNT series operating system (XP, Vista, 7, 8, Xbox, ReactOS)
If yahoo sends you FBI made tracking and demasking cookies instead of a regular one that would work though they claim they didn't help. Could also have found out what vpn this guy used and had them redirect Iran originating traffic to the FBI fake yahoo MITM login full of java exploits or sent him a malware image and turned on image preview on his account.

So turns out this guy is just trolling on cruise control because why not, not like he's going to be extradited for harassing Americans. Likely there's a work station at every Iranian military base in the cafeteria that says 'troll FBI here'
I was born and raised in Omaha, and spent most of my career there (now live in the Rockies). This is a great thing for the city and it looks like they have a great group of mentors. Good luck to everyone running this and participating in the program.

I think other comments that Omaha is / has been an enterprise Java and .NET scene are accurate, but perhaps this program will help shift things for the better. Let's hope.

Looks great!
Probably because it's easier, safer, and cheaper to just purchase one or visit your local university if you have enough interest.

You're very unlikely to invent a new nuclear reactor improvement in your basement (50 years ago it would have been plausible).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Power-R...

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/04/170482802/are-mini-reactors-th...
I2P is slow, it has no incentive system like T4T.

Try installing it, search for files and watch download speeds. Onion routing and tunnels cost bandwidth. The crowd that is used to Bittorrent speeds (in combo with VPN safety) is not interested in 2 Kbit/sec speeds. Plus the user interface is hard to understand without having attended crypto courses.
I know, I live in a country with socialized medical system. It doesn't matter. Socialized system means everybody pay collective check to those pharma companies. The issue I was talking about is more effective way of inventing and distributing drugs.
Can you point to resources to safely and legally begin dabbling? Are you familiar with the process to obtain proper licensing?

How are simple reactors like the Farnsworth Fuser regulated, or why are they exempt? Are non power generating reactors exempt from regulation? How does that get defined? Is it based on maximum emitted radiation?
Where do you find a breakdown of the costs? Anyone have links?
Related: Cubase 64, one of my favorite demos ever :)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=artEQkifGG0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
Ask HN: I just dropped out of college, should I do a coding bootcamp?
I recently dropped out of college (I was a CS major). Without getting into too much detail, I know that leaving college is the right decision for me personally and I'm ready to move on to new things.

I want to work for a startup and eventually start my own (or start my own as soon as possible), because the corporate life doesn't appeal to me. The problem is that my CS program was woefully inadequate--the standard Java/C++ stuff with little exposure to many of the real world tools and practices (we never even learned how to use version control!).

I've been teaching myself Python and Django for the last few weeks, but I'm seriously considering one of the coding bootcamps like Hack Reactor/Dev Bootcamp/App Academy. I think they could really give me a good jump in the direction I want to go. The only downside is that attending one would basically eat up all the money I've saved up. Does anyone have any advice? Are these bootcamps worth it? I feel like at this point I'm not at the stage where I'm hirable to a startup or have the technical skills to start my own, and I'm hoping the bootcamps can get me to that baseline.
I could cycle through all 1023 combinations in under six minutes when I was 17... Hmm... Misspent youth!
How come this doesn't have a hundred of votes already, it's a very good step towards interactivity.
"Vista Point" Update: We added new Webcams to the "Wonders" tab
I get where you're coming from but I get that with my workstation.

Triton has assignable knobs and pages and pages of virtual knobs which are trivial to change. If you really want you can stick a MIDI knob box in the back of it and associate those to a virtual control including parameters equivalent to the 808's.

Triton has multiple outs and multiple internal busses. Think of it as a 120 note polyphonic synth with 16 part timbrality, built in rack of effects, built in sequencer, built in sampler and a full size studio mixer and half a hard disk recorder (TBH I use an external DAT because they're bomb proof). Plus it burns and rips CDs and loads Akai samples off floppies and CDs. It's a whole pile of awesome which fits in a flight case.

My rhythm is naff enough that the Triton's sequencer has the resolution to pick it up. If I really want to, which as per you I don't, I can quantize on the device and get it perfect. Then I can assign patterns to keys and play them with my left hand while I hammer out a lead with the right hand.
And the waste simply vanishes if you really wish for it very hard.
@synctext: you can't have traffic anonymity without routing. And I2P is mainly slow because the shared bandwidth is low.

Also, it isn't a hard as you claim. It is mainly a matter of setup.
Hi Jay,
I was talking with Anne just now and we need explanation on another level, I am afraid. I would like to understand BayesDB, and I wonder if there is a layman's summary available?
It was great seeing you at Thanksgiving at Beachcliff!
Mimi
You can look at british uni's for another data point, though. It all has to do with demand, not the cost base. Uni's were free, but seeing how much the 'stupid americans' were paying (thanks to leverage), the UK started to reduce grants to 'tap into the damand', and they now purposefully issue debt to students as a from of highly targeted TAX.

The demand comes from the 'social marker' heuristic that a university degree conveys (ie, social proof) for employment and personal networking. Until there is a competing "commodity" whith this aspect of social utility, a degree with have economic value proportional to GDP, in a way like housing stock. The main problem with broad based inflation of the costs of college is that there is only so much "beach front" real estate in the degree system. The top 10 schools are typically the ones that matter, for social signalling, and quite frankly nobody cares how much you paid to get the degree. A "free" degree from cambridge (UK) has a good value, just like a $$$ degree from MIT or Stanford. Heck, many will argue a <dropout> from a top 5 school has more going for them than a degree holder from a middle of the pack school.

The great thing about Berkeley is its one of the few state schools that has a powerful global reputation. And in that sense it remains good value for money (if you are a resident Californian). But the taxpayers and politicians seem to be playing a rather sophisticated game of stealth-taxation with the Higher Education system as a whole. It really doesn't matter the details until one unpacks how the system is really working. And what is driving supply and demand at a more 'meta' level.

Not to mention, barely anyone pays the "listed price" in the USA for any school.
I hope that all these promising therapies somehow make it out of their trials and more people can benefit from them.
Obama,Bush and Clinton travel together for Mandela
Threshold Logic - a kind of in-between.
Yes, but this would be frowned upon and even actively resisted by the BTC community because it clutters up the blockchain
Please, not the same "let's be unfair towards men because we don't have a lot of women in the industry" discussion. I mean, people that use this as an argument make me believe they'd force girls to CS courses so there is a better ratio of males:females.

Also, "people of colour" sounds, and is, so wrong.
An old friend. Here are some of the previous submissions. Most have no comments, some have a few, and two (noted) have some discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6849532 (15 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5466305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5340683

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3681389

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036042

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578765

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988165

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988165

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1573034

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637491 (22 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=304039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252615
Motorola's modular phone prototype is almost ready
Show HN: I made the first web based Vine client
I just created the very first fully functional web client for Vine. It features all of the functionalities that the mobile app does. It enables you to experience Vine seamlessly from your web browser. You can browse, upload, share, download, interact and more with it.

http://www.vineclient.com
Not the same problem. Many of the skilled trades not only require an apprenticeship to learn, but also to be licensed to perform the work independently. Coding could probably use more of an apprenticeship path, but there is currently nothing preventing a coder from pursuing just about any type of job that they can talk their way into.
Quipus are interesting: using knots in string to encode columns of decimal numbers. They also had a device (made of beans and slots) for doing calculation (similar to how an abacus works I guess). The Incas had spreadsheets.
"And yet at the same time it is a city notoriously plagued by poverty, crime, and political gridlock, all of which, like all problems, can be solved by the application of sufficient quantities of VC-funded smartphone apps and responsive websites built on Node.js and MongoDB."

Please tell me this is not serious...

"Silicon Valley has already shown this to be true with its cornucopia of revolutionary, world-transforming companies such as Instagram, Snapchat, Topsy, QuizUp, and Vine (to say nothing of Color.)"

Okay, good. Not serious.
This is a classic piece we generally give hackers new to FreeBSD: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/08

Something to consider, which I should point out because your new, is that without BSD you wouldn't have OSX. There's a little BSD in everything (even windows). Another worthy article you should definitely read which explains that BSD is the The single Greatest Piece of Software Ever, with the broadest impact on the world, was BSD

http://www.informationweek.com/whats-the-greatest-software-e...?
software engineer for google. I built Exacycle: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-... http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-core-ho...

some of those projects have papers on their way to print.
While I work in the same lab as a bunch of nuclear physicists, my physics expertise is in experimental gravity.

To get the official scoop on such things, I'd start with the NRC: http://www.nrc.gov .

If you're at/near a university, many of them have a radiation safety office as a part of their Environmental Health and Safety department. University radiation safety officers are a great resource for timely details regarding rules in an experimental setting. Even if there's no "nuclear science" underway at a school, if there's a medical school or nuclear chemistry at work, there's probably a radiation safety office.
Someone somewhere is happy the Smithsonian finally found his lost phone. But that someone would like to get it back.
Apple's App Store Hits One Million Apps in the United States
The sad part of this story is how this publicly funded research is being licensed to Novartis.
It's PG's advice, by no means universally shared in the investor community

Look at every major tech blog or site and you'll see list after list of startups described as "this for that" so even if it's not universal among investors, it is more than just PG pushing it.
Google Play Music All Access gets Handy in Germany
The reason is no longer true but it was true that corporations needed more educated workers to perform certain tasks and college graduates were relatively rare. Most of the college graduates in my parents' generation were gainfully employed consistently in my childhood. That is definitely not the case among my college educated peers today. Many are underemployed and in debt.

Some of the issue is that people are chasing the economic signals from an age past where the conditions were just different.
Think Distributed, Live from RICON West 2013
Tools and language change quickly. Engineering basics and methodologies remain.
You might not like my advice, but reconsider your decision and show that you have the discipline and endurance to finish things, even or especially if they don't appeal to you all the way.
I'm so sorry you and your wife are going through this. It's an awful experience, hopefully it'll be over soon and you two can move on with your lives.

Something to keep in mind is that cancer isn't just one disease, it's a huge cluster of diseases with similar presentations. I survived testicular cancer this year, which happens to be one of a group of cancers that is almost completely curable. Thirty years ago it was not the same story, with a 90% five year mortality. Now it's 95% five year survival. That said, two close family members passed away this year from other types of cancer, one kidney and another colorectal.

I guess my point is that each type of cancer potentially requires a different cure, and some are easier nuts to crack than others. Leukemia has a promising future as one of those curable cancers.
I'm not a biochemist, but my understanding is that that's less relevant than you might think, especially if you're talking about vaccinations.

Vaccines can have a number of different mechanisms of actions, not all of which involve the immune system (at least, not the way you probably think of the immune system).

For example, in 2007, scientists were excited about the prospect of emerin[0] - it turns out that by knocking emerin out of cells' membranes, it becomes difficult for HIV to penetrate the cells.

Before an individual seroconverts, it's possible for the immune system to "fight off" HIV, and this happens sometimes (which is part of why transmission rates are not 100%). It's just a question of whether this is effective enough against all strains in order to be used as a vaccine (as well as the costs or side effects of doing so).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerin
Similarly, watch Vray closely. I have a feeling that in the next few years, Corona is going to eat Vray's lunch much in the same way that Arnold is eating PRMan's right now.
It's a classic. I posted Chaos vs Order
There's also http://www.reddit.com/r/hackerjerk
The war on democracy
Show HN: First ever made Vine web client
Reducing Domain Sharding
About ART - the new Android runtime
I don't buy the arguments that trade jobs are a good option. It's especially hard to swallow from a college graduate who belongs to an anti-union political party.

Unless you are unwilling or unable to go to college, the numbers indicate that, on average, you will have much lower unemployment and a substantially higher lifetime income.
AT&T says shareholders don't have the right to know about N.S.A. dealings
No it's just BSD UNIX proper.

quoted from: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/

"the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series"
This is so close to working on ios. Needs way to rotate image after it is uploaded.
It's a slang.
This isn't actually the point that the article is trying to make.

The submission title for example can be reinterpreted in two slightly different ways. The first is the way that you interpreted. The problem is that -nobody- out of the general population chooses to make nuclear reactors as a recreational activity of some sort.

The article however poses it in a different way. It rather seems to mean that nobody goes into the field of nuclear engineering with the expectation of experimentation and "having fun" while working. It has nothing to do with expense, danger, illegality, working with universities, doing it in your basement, or any of that. It has to do with commercial interests not supporting their engineers in experimenting with possible designs.
Fixing both problems is ideal, and we should do both. But, I fear, that after fixing the "how to pay for it" problem, no politician will try to fix the much more complex, and much more important problem of the very high costs. At the rate we are going, by 2021 US is expected to spend nearly 20% of GDP on health care. To address this we will need to cut the spending on last-6-months care as well as reduce procedure costs. Even if we address the latter, I doubt any one in congress has the spine to address the former.