skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously the tech is really awesome, but I was curious how the projected power level compares (500 megawatts)

Comparison to existing powerplants: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=500+megawatts

TL;DR: We already have significantly bigger plants. ('average' coal and nuclear plant produces about twice as much power)
One thing I don't see anyone mentioning is why Google ignores the 404 and still applies the penalty.

PageRank is fully automated, and probably probes pages very frequently. If you let a 404 remove a penalty, people could probably occasionally 404 Google's crawler and see if it helps their rank to automatically remove poorly performing backlinks.
> There's no reason that websites can't be built from the ground up for mobile devices.

This is true in principle, so let's see if my theory holds up when generalized to other pre-touch stacks:

Windows? Failed at repeated attempts to touchify.

Linux/BSD? Only systems where the whole app runtime was replaced succeeded at being touchified.

I think that points to a future where, if the Web is to work on touch mobile devices, there has to emerge a consensus around a manageable handful of frameworks with common UX conventions, and apps have to use one of those frameworks.

But even then, native mobile platforms are evolving ahead of Web frameworks. Android's Fragment and ActionBar classes enable UIs to "fold up" and "unfold" across a range of screen sizes. That's part of the expected Android UX now. Capturing that, or creating an alternative UX accepted by the same user base, in any cross-platform system is going to be difficult.
This goes to the root of the problem, which the linked article ignores.
You guys need to understand that the slow streaming that netflix had problems with is actually netflix fault. They choose to use the cheapest peer possible(cogent). So them paying comcast to be a direct peer makes complete sense as comcast will not be sending 1/1000th of the traffic it is recieving on these peering connections.

This has nothing to do with you having to pay more to stream other services. It has to do with netflix finally deciding to stop placing blame and further their own product.
Headline two years in the future: "US plans submarine mission to tap into undersea cable."
Decades from now? Well I hope they build the prototype in space then, and far far away. I don't want that heat escaping...
Have you spoken with your lonely friend today?
It seems like a day does not go by that i do not hear about some other wandering soul who decides to leave this crazy party on earth due to depression. It is a long battle, and one i am currently fighting, but in my experience our Waterloo Moments can often be avoided by the timely appearance of a willing listener and/or friend.

Suicide is a personal choice, and one for which others should not feel responsible, though who does not feel a twinge of missed opportunity when someone dear leaves us because of the place they are trapped in their minds? I know i am a stranger, but if you need to talk to someone, or just sit silently on the phone, or anything... I am here friend.

I leave you with a book recommendation, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, and a quote from Hugo Wolf:

"To be sure, I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds."
This is more about going after volume with Android and leaving Windows Phone to compete with iOS for the high-end market. But I guess that is exactly embrace/extend/extinguish except applied directly to the Android brand, which makes more sense than turning the screws on devs with constant platform headaches.
I am awestruck by ITER. This is the reason that I am in this field.
GCHQ is in Europe (UK), maybe they should specifically route to mainland Europe. (Since GCHQ is working with the NSA).
> …so Lisp and Erlang are well-liked on HN.

Umm... Maybe not? What if a post is titled "I don't like Lisp. Go Python!", and it hit the front page? How exactly do you infer the language being talked about?
FirefoxOS applications simply wrap the browser and provide a launcher. Some environment integration there may be too. Sailfish browser can run FirefoxOS applications already (being current Gecko based), so I guess Jolla is just looking into integrating it all.
Hi, i'm q's creator (HN made the name q uppercase, but it's actually a lowercase q). The reasoning was that it's used as a command line tool, and used often. So "q" and not "Q" :)I'm currently preparing the debian package, and one-letter names are not allowed, so it's going to be named "qsql" there.
Peering isn't a big deal. Paying for peering is madness. Netflix is saving Comcast a ton on interchange fees. Why are they paying Comcast for that?
The core idea in this article is that it is possible to convince Cole, a 24 year old making mid 6 figures in finance, that he should have instead taken a job making mid 5 figures (maybe) at an energy startup.

I don't see how you can make that happen. His entire trajectory was "making the correct choice" - in which that correct choice was future potential maximizing. Why would he suddenly abandon that track?

In many ways, people in high finance have already "won" in real terms. If he really wants to try his hand at startups, why can't he just jump in as a VC?
Show HN: VUE – Understand and Engage Your App's Users
I think “real-time” does not mean what you think it means.

I’ve read a lot of things like “TCP is not suitable for real-time online games”, in this thread, where the author of this sentence excludes RTS, MMORPG, etc. As if these were not real-time games.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_game#Real-time (and also the fact the RTS means real-time strategy), any game that is not turn based is a real-time game.

It’s not just you, but I had to choose one of the posts in this thread for my response. Saying “TCP is a wonderful protocol but absolutely useless for multi player gaming” is just plain wrong. A lot of online, real-time games are using TCP. Saying that TCP is useless for multi player gaming is really misleading and I’m tired of reading this. There are a lot of valid reason to choose TCP over UDP (for example the fact that your game doesn’t require any round-trip to be shorter than, say, 500ms, because that’s how the engine works). Of course, TCP would not really be suitable for an FPS like quake, but that’s only one case of real-time game, there are a lot of different kind of games, for which TCP is the best choice.
Reading the changelog at that link made me realize that Ruby's core trunk is still hosted on Subversion!
The last one of those games was released 14 years ago. Nothing since then.
"From a user perspective there are no points of differentiation between NeoVim and vim."

This is shallow and short-sided opinion. If neovim achieves goal of "easier to maintain codebase" then it will have much faster feature development, bug fixing, and extension development. All extremely user facing and exciting.
It seems like investigating the history of a domain before you buy it, and if it has a negative history either not buying it or ensuring you fix the issues with it would be considered, good practice. It seems like if you do not do that you have yourself largely to blame. Similar to buying a house that was built on the location of previous toxic spill, or that had lead paint, or is haunted.
Here Is Why Awesome Startup Ideas Sound Terrible in the Beginning
The process you're referring to is "ring vaccination", and is quite commonly used in epidemiology to limit the spread of outbreaks from a known point source. They are however quite resource intensive to implement - you have to do tons of contact tracing to know who belongs in the net.

It would be extremely difficult to do something like that for those avoiding routine childhood vaccinations.
I don't think that there's any reason that it has to be one or the other.

It's interesting that you bring up Winston Churchill. He slept less than 6 hours per day, which suggests to me that he likely had a higher dopamine response than normal. That's associated with higher drive, which means Churchill was probably one of the outliers I was talking about.
I don't think that outweighs the evidence from Language Log clearly showing that "which" has been commonly used interchangeably with "that" in good English for centuries. This was linked earlier in the thread. Personally, I'm going to go with Dickens and Melville and Orwell (and statistical evidence) over a blog I've never heard of.
Exactly right. Fusion is not at all like nuclear fission. It's so incredibly hard to maintain the reaction that any catastrophic failure stops everything.

There's no unrequested fission surplus situation possible here...
My friend, I sympathize with you. But surely you can email those webmasters in at most 30-45 minutes with requests to remove those links, give it a week, and then do the disavow tool? Is it not worth it to spend 2 hours to rescue your site that you care so much about?

RapGenius was able to do this in a few hours and they had THOUSANDS of bad backlinks. They even published their source code for automating it.

You gotta try. Good luck!
I would strongly prefer to work in an environment that detected the error and gave me the power to trace through the app to resolve it while still letting the damn program run in the mostly-working state. The mental cost to review hundreds of lines of code to work out the implications of every change before you can see any results is a problem - it breaks the creative flow, it prevents experimentation.
Why "young" people specifically? Seems extremely limiting. There are a lot of talented people out there of every age and we should be encouraging of anyone building the next innovation.
Transmission and storage are really big barriers to widespread renewable energy. Solar and wind only work in certain geographic areas and times of day, unlike coal/oil plants which can be built anywhere.

Solving those problems is potentially a game changer for carbon emissions, and (if you accept the more dire predictions) the future of humanity.
Specifically, the critical % of people needed to be effectively vaccinated is 1 - (1/R0), where R0 is the "Basic Reproductive Number" of the disease. In English, how many people a single infective individual can be expected to infect in an entirely susceptible population.
Free Online University Receives Accreditation
I'm seeing waaaay too much stuff happen all at once for quicksort. Frankly, most visualizations give you an inkling as to the logic behind an algorithm, but quicksort just sort of pops the field into the correct order in a blur.

Another classic sorting algorithm to visualize is heapsort.
The change from Jan to Feb 2014 alone is impressive:

Comcast: 20.61% -> 24.42%

AT&T: 13.53% -> 16.77%

Verizon Wireless: 40.03% -> 45.75%

Time Warner Cable: 3.88% -> 5.37%

T-Mobile USA: 9.58% -> 15.76%

Google Fiber: 71.87% -> 76.43%
Adwords Planner? It’s time to turn to Bing Keyword Tool
I had a site that was hacked. Over 250k links were built. They were pointing to a new page on the site. We found out about the hack via Google Webmaster Tools. They sent a notice it was a malware issue.

We cleaned up the hack and 404 the page. To this day, there are still over 100k links that Google says is out there.

The nice part is, there is no indication of any negative action taken by Google.
Netflix is there, but what does the Comcast deal imply? Maybe Netflix's calculation is that they're big enough to sustain paying Comcast's toll, and that agreeing to pay it helps add a barrier to competitors behind them. If that's the case, then the consumers lose because they're paying higher, hidden, overhead vs what they would pay in a more competitive market. With insufficiently transparent choices for the end consumer, one big driver for efficiency disappears.
I wonder if the writer is going to inspire his own children.
This is really clever, and I'm definitely going to give it a workout on my system. Thanks!
Thanks. That first suggestion in particular is a great idea. We'll get straight on that!
Telegram now has 4.95 million users
If you have any questions tweet me @gdi2290 or @blaurenceclark @GetVUE
Nokia X Software Platform: An Android-Windows Phone mess
Older people tend to be more conservative. They tend to have less energy/motivation and more to lose (partner, children, career, friends, house). Younger people are more likely to take risks such as relocating or invest money and time in something that might well fail. This of course doesn't mean that you have to be conservative and unmotivated when you're older, but it's the trajectory the large majority take.
Given that the command argument is in full SQL notation, which must be passed quoted, saving three or four characters on the executable name doesn't really seem worth it. The shortest example they give, a SELECT/GROUP query, is over 50 characters.
Privacy is becoming quite an issue lately, so simple apps like this one are very welcome.
As though the EU doesn't work with US intelligence.
"Also, what happens if the mechanisms that contain the "Star in a Bottle" fail? Will the French Alps suddenly and catastrophically acquire a new valley?"

To a first approximation a magical 100% effective explosion of a 500 MW fusion plant would be about as destructive as the explosion of a 500 MW coal plant. So yeah, dead stacked like cordwood and an impressive hole in the ground, but not much more than a nasty industrial accident. You'd lose a lot of windows but in bulk the building foundation would likely survive.

Why an explosion would magically be 100% as effective as splitting a steam boiler like a bratwurst is a mystery, as the short version of why it takes so long to build these things is before they work they fail containment a lot of times. So its like building that 500 MW coal burner and designing it to split in half and get put back together over and over until with some fine tuning it works.

In the long run, in like 2300 AD or whatever, I'm sure cheapskates will create some fascinating industrial accidents by neglecting to build in ablative shielding or liq H2 overpressure burst disks or whatever and the accidents will be quite exciting as a typical industrial accident.
Store your crypto-coin address in a DNS record
> It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static

Nothing about their algorithm cares about domain ownership -- and why should it? Ownership can be gamed. If your domain has a bad reputation other reputation based services like SiteAdvisor are going to affect your domain as well.
Agreed, but the regulatory effect is potentially bigger. In many places Whatsapp will not simply be able to roll out telephony services without the OK of the local regulator. I expect them to dis-activate VOIP for many countries initially, otherwise be a loggerheads with authorities (eventually). Will be interesting to see what happens.
Ask HN: 'Unknown or expired link'
Why does the 'more' link at the bottom give 'Unknown or expired link' at certain times?
I don't think people in high finance have "won". I view winning on a logarithmic scale, and they're somewhere in the middle. At the top would be someone like Augustus Caesar. Below that is Bill Gates, Elon Musk, etc. At the third rung maybe you have multi-millionaires, and below that maybe typical high finance types. So they are at least 4 rungs down.
All of that is true. None of that means that anyone should hesitate for even a moment in getting their children fully vaccinated.
Terence Tao Proposes Fluid New Path in Navier-Stokes Problem
In all fairness, if you don't anticipate a switch many years before you have to make it, you could get caught flat-footed. I personally have taken jobs where I didn't have any primary experience in the platform, but it was for, essentially, pocket change. I would hate to get dependent on a six-figure income predicated on knowing, say, enterprise Java, then suddenly find that nobody's hiring enterprise Java guys anymore and having to take a huge pay cut. Sure I could find a job. That doesn't mean it won't suck.
I suspect a high capacity USD/doge exchange with a Gox compliant API would be the most lucrative opportunity out there right now. But I'd need to recheck the viewpoint before acting on it.
When I interviewed with an early-stage startup, I met with the CEO and interviewed him just as much as he interviewed me, and I asked questions like:

- are you profitable?

- if you had zero revenue starting today how long would you last?

- have you ever missed payroll?

His candor in answering these questions was a big plus for my decision to join.

Note, these were asked near the END of the interview process, actually after they made me an offer. In general, after you get the written offer is a good time to ask any final hard questions to confirm whether you want to hitch yourself to their wagon for the next couple years.

You should be prepared for many of the questions you listed to be legitimately answered with "I don't know exactly what the future will hold". E.g. A business planning for a buyout might later realize they are better off on their own, so it's better for all if they hadn't told you one thing before and then changed course.
> Finally Javascript gives you 0 tool for manual memory management,which is central for any embedded programming. On Android and Iphone one can go down to C/C++ if necessary.

asm.js offers manual memory management, with no garbage collection. You can compile C and C++ and it will run essentially natively, modulo the sandboxed safety checks.
Did you ever read their twitter feed? It was nothing but auto-responders!
> Also, what happens if the mechanisms that contain the "Star in a Bottle" fail? Will the French Alps suddenly and catastrophically acquire a new valley?

Unlikely. The reaction is not self-sustaining; it needs the very high pressure provided by the containment, and without that it would fizzle rather than boom (a hydrogen bomb works by using a fission explosion to compress the hydrogen part enough to fuse). The tritium in the fuel is radioactive and releasing it into the atmosphere would be... not ideal, but the reactor doesn't use a lot of it and it's light enough to fly off into space fairly quickly.
My only regret is ever going through their verification process at all. I never even ended up conducting any sort of business at the site (and I'm now grateful for this).
First of all, the VC-funded startup scene is not an antidote. I heard people, in 2008, expressing hope that the financial meltdown (at the time, it was not clear that the financial industry wouldn't contract to 1/20 of its pre-2008 size) would push smart people into Silicon Valley. That wouldn't do much good. The VC-funded world has a corporate ladder that is even more dysfunctional, packing more downside and less upside.

Second, this person ("Cole") is right to take the hedge fund job because it has a far higher chance of making him a founder or VC, in the future, than an engineer position at a startup ever will. When finance people (after a few years) enter the VC-funded tech world, they come in at the top. Seems like a good deal to me.

Silicon Valley doesn't respect its own people. It doesn't respect the people making things. Because of that, it's dead as far as innovation goes, and the death of Silicon Valley has done a lot more damage to society than the mere existence of finance.
I know they usually take some liberties, but the movie was nothing like the book.
Microsoft had a Unix distro for a long time - Xenix. It was built as Microsoft's next generation OS, originally Microsoft thought they were going to migrate to it as their dominant platform as computers got faster. It was the most widespread version of Unix around in the late 1980s in terms of machine installs. Microsoft sold it to SCO in 1987.
should include "posts about analyzing HN posts" as a category

how meta
(Edited to add: I am not aware of any statements on WebGL from MS beyond that blog post, but I don't follow those circles, so I'll accept your word that they continued bashing it after CORS was introduced. However, people I'd trust more than either Google or Microsoft employees, like Carmack and various security researchers on HN like Daeken, agreed that WebGl is a security risk, so I disagree that counts as bad behavior on MS's part.)

So why did Microsoft go ahead and include WebGL? Why, because they had to respond to Google who did exactly the same thing that Microsoft was lambasted for doing with IE: pushing proprietary, unsafe technology before it became standardized and forcing other browsers to catch up. But since you work for Google, I am sure you consider Google's actions to be perfectly not "evil"...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/87696-webgl-is-fundamen...

> But there’s more! Not only is WebGL inherently flawed, but Google — one of WebGL’s strongest proponents — even knew about the DoS and cross-domain image vulnerabilities months before they were thrust into the limelight by Context’s report. Not deterred by these flaws in the WebGL spec or its implementation, Google pushed ahead and turned on WebGL by default in February 2011, in Chrome 9.

> As terrifying as that is, we now have to wonder why Google rushed the deployment of a nascent, dangerous technology...

Note that it was enabled before the v1 of the specification was even released. But worse, when I follow the embedded links in the top para, why I do believe they show that you ("you" as in not Google, "you" as in you specifically) were aware of these security flaws before anyone else reported it, and yet you (as in Google) went ahead and enabled WebGL in Chrome by default. And then you accuse Microsoft behaving badly! Really?!

> They are still a bad company that does arguably bad things

I'd like examples of Microsoft "behaving badly", preferably:

1) stuff that isn't religious fanaticism;

2) stuff that isn't driven by vested interests that are not in everybody else's interests;

3) and stuff that I haven't already covered in my linked comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282162). I hope you do better than the other replies in that subthread.
> What’s interesting is that many of the people I meet who are young, highly educated, and from good families are among the most risk-averse

I would think that because these people are risk-averse, is why they have the stability that can help form a bedrock for "success". (Disclaimer- I'm biased because I'm risk-averse)