skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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?

This is a reasonable concern, but your intuitions on the physical processes involved are off by a couple orders of magnitude.

From a previous comment on another fusion story, two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839722

Fusion reactors are fundamentally different from fission
reactors. You have to get a tenuous wisp of hydrogen (the
reactor in this particular experiment was running at 10
mTorr, or 0.0013% atmospheric pressure) very, very hot, and
keep it away from solid matter, which is millions of
degrees of colder than the fuel plasma, and will suck all
of the energy out of the reaction.

You shut off the containment coils, and tremendously hot
plasma ions leap away from each other, instantly stopping
the reaction. If the reaction somehow "runs away", which it
absolutely can't, then it brushes the walls of the vacuum
chamber, poisoning it with cold metal ions, like injecting
lead shavings that have been chilled to absolute zero
directly into your heart.

If our magical "runaway reaction" somehow overcomes this,
and melts a hole in the vacuum chamber, then the atmosphere
rushes in, both freezing cold and at intolerably high
pressure, like the North Sea flooding into the hull of a
submarine resting on the ocean floor.

Fusion reactors don't melt down, or explode. At all. It
just can't happen, much like how a Yugo rear-ending a
garbage truck in Brooklyn doesn't instantly consume all of
New York City in a gasoline fireball.
It would actually be interesting if this could be true. Encryption at the transport level (POS, SONet, ATM, VPLS, etc), such that all higher layer traffic whether further encrypted at the application layer or not is automatically secure between two trans-oceanic points. As far as I know, this technology doesn't commercially exist today, but theoretically it could be invented.
also still updated, there is at least an Ada 2012.
`Suicide is a personal choice`

I hear this all the time, and I could not disagree more. As someone who has been "there" more than once, suicide is not a personal choice.

And I'd also like to extend the same offer. I've been blessed to have someone else on HN do this for me and contribute to my recovery. If there's someone you need to lend an ear and listen, or speak with you, I'm here.
Agreed 100%. Not just comedy, but culture. It's amazing to me that "Groundhog Day" has entered American English as an idiom meaning something unpleasant repeating itself from this movie. An incredible accomplishment by Ramis, Murray, and everyone else involved in the film.
You left out that he has that going for him.
The first argument, ",8" caused the load to come from the attached disk drive, rather than the default cassette interface. The second argument, as explained by others, was to load binary files into their defined locations.

So you could also load binary programs from cassette with a LOAD "*",1,1
I rather think those guys have a very interesting approach:

http://www.generalfusion.com/
An MVP is a starting point. Generally an MVP is not market-viable; it's somewhere between a tech demo and a beta product. But it's complete enough to start having talks with potential customers / investors about where the product should go from there. When you're just talking about a theoretical product that doesn't exist yet, it can be hard to have a constructive conversation with people.

No two people will probably agree what an MVP is for a specific product at first; but it doesn't matter. I think too many companies focus on an MVP as a stage-gate versus just planning feature priority (and revisiting as necessary). The whole idea behind an MVP is that you don't really understand the market, so you build a barebones product to go start to learn what you're doing from a market positioning standpoint. Then you go develop features to reinforce your position.
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>I suppose one man's act of war is another man's act of diplomacy that can avoid war.

"Politics is war by other means." - M. Foucault

Which is an inversion of military theorist Clauswitz's "War is politics by other means."
That's great, you should enter that in JS1k: http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demos
So, besides unsavorily and surreptitiously profiteering off the death of privacy and issuing otherwise-legal bribes to local guv players, it appears his only crime is not being a US citizen.

edit: TIL unsavorily is a legit adverb, despite my spell checker's denial.
Yep, I'm in the same boat. And good luck upgrading ExtJS 3.x to 4.x. Occasionally minor point releases are painful to upgrade to as well. Good lord.
No, I neglected to date it. As far as I can tell from my notes it's from Jan. 20, 2012.
When was the last time you had to replace a phone's battery?
Are there any plans to cut a new version of Andrei's book at some point? I keep meaning to find some time to work thorugh it, but it's getting quite out of date (Was current with 2.010 or something, I think)
Check their issue number 53. Won't happen.
Linux has CPU scheduler tunables via CFS/cgroups. dispadmin allows fine tuning of the dispatcher table, but I've never seen that provide significant or consistent wins for production (and I've had use cases where it seemed possible in theory, and dtrace'd dispatcher queue latency, but dispadmin didn't really help.) I might mention dispadmin in a 5 day talk. :)
The political spectrum in the americas is a lot wider than that.

Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador,...,Argentina, Brasil,...,Colombia, México, Chile,...,Canada,California,...,....,....,The Bible Belt.
<-- Extreme left ----------------------- Extreme right -->

So Brazil is not particularly crazy. It is in the left from the american point of view, but it is not as crazy as Cuba or Venezuela.
Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, sure... but he was great on SCTV as well.

I won't forget Harold.
Nokia's got a long history of internal turf wars. I'm sure it was Symbian vs Meego without Microsoft being in the picture.
> Entirely different if the US attacks a cable it does not own. It changes the game. It could be considered a hostile act against allies.

Problem's how are you going to prove it, run through the whole undersea cable every month to ensure it's not been tapped?
I did a similar analysis to the one posted here and computed a similar heat map to the one you describe, but I marked a submission as successful when it went from new -> front page, not when it hit 100 points. The result is in ~middle of the post and it seems that weekends are best for chances of a story making it to the front.

http://karpathy.ca/myblog/2013/11/27/quantifying-hacker-news...

and the raw ipython notebook with too many details:
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/hn_analysis.html
Ah. Proprietary servers are a dealbreaker for me.
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I am also kind of worried that now angular.js has quite a high adoption, and plugins / modules becoming better and better, the devs will focus on angular 2.0. Not only will it use new core technology, but they'll have less time working on the 1.x branch. With over 1000 open issues, this is not a good sign.
The lack of certificate verification for the http scheme means that ISPs can MITM HTTP traffic with or without this proposal, just like they can with HTTP/1.1.

Can they really? At least some of those connections should have the certificates verified out of band, so I'd imagine they would get caught fairly quickly. And then loudly accused of conspiring with the CAs (to stifle competition) or the NSA (to steal your data), or the competitors of whatever site/product was being used, or someone I haven't thought of.
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The urbanized parts of the U.S. aren't behind in general. If the east coast states were countries, a number would be top-5 on Akamai's list for highest average bandwidth. As for HK and SK: there is only one city in the U.S. as dense as Hong Kong or Seoul, and that's NYC. And it has FIOS. So why does everywhere in NYC not have FIOS? Is it because of lobbying? No, its because building infrastructure in dense places requires coordination, and its just not a big political priority the way it is in Asian countries. Its why infrastructure projects of all kinds cost more in the U.S. from trains to telecom. In other countries, the government makes it a priority to remove roadblocks to infrastructure development, in a top down way. In the U.S., every infrastructure project becomes mired in NIMBYISM. Look in the back yard of Silicon Valley. Why isn't SF wired with gigabit. Is it because Comcast had more lobbying muscle than tech in tech's own back yard? Its an absurd proposition. The roadblock is instead the same dysfunctional government and the voters that complain about Google busses.
I don't think there's any place on Earth where you can escape government wrath. Better to design assuming the environment is already compromised.
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It would be nice to know what Graylog actually is after reading the entire linked page. It left a fluffy impression, but most (all) of the information there is explaining nice things about Graylog.

This seems suboptimal from a marketing perspective.
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South Korea also has highly invasive internet censorship.

Would you like that as well?

Oh of course not. We want the great parts but to leave the bad parts. Sometimes it's a package deal. I'll take what we've got, thank you very much.
In brief, faster network connections are rolling out slowly because practically everyone that wants to do it faster is prevented from doing so thanks to statutory or logistical roadblocks thrown up by the incumbents, who have zero incentive to do it themselves because they enjoy a territory-designated monopoly.

The logical thing for most towns to do is to use their eminent domain powers to force the sale of easements and utility poles/tunnels to the municipality, and charge all utilities a flat rate based on pole capacity used. While two wires on a line of poles doesn't seem all that wasteful, two wires on two parallel lines of poles sounds pretty stupid. Digging up the street with two parallel trenches is even worse. As a consumer, I don't want a service provider in a position where it can keep its competitors from reaching by house via the best route possible. I want that access controlled by the cartel enforcer rather than any of the cartel members.

As a bonus, the town could allow residents or HOAs to hire qualified contractors to run and maintain their own cables to anywhere the poles/tunnels go. That way, if an ISP won't come to you, you can go to anything else you can reach.
I feels like this cable will be cheddar cheese to a uboat and some skilled divers. Encryption is probably better as is opensource and open hardware.
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>I thought the USA was the model of capitalism.

You mean to tell me that the NYT has been lying to me all these years?
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I'm on an S4 right now, and it may be my last Samsung product - the bait and switch of the 64GB S4 has soured me on Samsung.

When the S4 was released, Samsung took heat for the memory capacity: The S4 was more expensive than the iPhone 5, but the 5 had 64GB while the S4 had 16GB. Samsung was likely peeved, since the S4 beats the iPhone on pretty much everything else, but critics blasted them for the memory - which was a fair criticism, see below.

Samsung relented and indicated 32GB and 64GB variants would be available, created spec sheets, even put some into the hands of reviewers.

But try buying one. Samsung and its carriers are convinced that 16GB, max 32GB, is all most people will need, which, for the carriers, is self-serving, because the less room you have on your phone, the more data you use - and carriers ding for data.

Apple understands storage requirements, primarily because of iTunes: Your music, etc., are local, and synced. Consumers with music collections are largely on iPhone; Samsung and Google want to differentiate themselves, somehow, but don't have a full clue. Google wants you to stream everything, so they believe you can live with less space.

Yeah, maybe in downtown NYC, but try streaming in rural or even semi-rural Ontario sometime.

So Samsung is playing bait and switch. Part of me is pissed beyond all reasonable belief. My choice came down to the Nexus 5 (32GB, no bloatware, no external SD card) and the S4 (64GB, bloatware up the wazoo like you wouldn't believe, external SD card, but WTF it has 64GB!!!).

I chose based on storage - knowing it would take me hours to disable all the bloatware. But knowing I wouldn't have to muck with external SD cards anymore.

My admin orders the phone, a 16GB arrives, I say "whoa, what's up", she does some research, I am gobsmacked, I do some research, validating hers and leading to the above rant.

Lying bastiches.

My next phone will be a decent Android phone with 64GB of internal storage - 64GB available to me, not 8GB sucked up by the OS thank you Samsung - and no bloatware. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

(Too bad I cannot stand the iPhone - used one for two months while waiting for my S4, and couldn't abide the kindergarten level of one-click-at-a-time-a-tude.)
New attack completely bypasses EMET, Microsoft zero-day protection app
They only need to be caught once.
Engineers are lead users for internet usage, they predict what others will want in several years.
And even average users would become upset if they found out how much more they are paying than Swedes.
Density either prevents better infrastructure in the US, or it doesn't. My use of statistics was merely to show that density has no relation to the existence of fiber internet infrastructure. The US cannot be too sprawling for fiber if areas with lower density in other countries have better internet. Major cities cannot also be too dense when cities with higher densities abroad also have better internet.

This is a commonly repeated argument in favor of the status-quo in the US, and I'm just trying to refute it whenever possible.
This is the way search should work, and it only goes to show how well Google is doing it. People shouldn't have or even want to do SEO, they should just make great content and wait for their rankings.
"Essential device protection
The Galaxy S5 is IP67 dust and water resistant. It also offers a Finger Scanner, providing a secure, biometric screen locking feature and a seamless and safe mobile payment experience to consumers. The Ultra Power Saving Mode turns the display to black and white, and shuts down all unnecessary features to minimize the battery consumption."

Don't wanna start a flame war but it's going to be interesting to read the comments about the fingerprint scanner now that others are deploying it besides apple.
This is excellent and a great teaching tool. I tried putting something like this together a while back as a Java applet for one of my classes but couldn't get the color ordering function to work correctly. Did you use HSB?
Well, there is the classic W.C. Fields movie, "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man". It opens with a con where a cashier pretends to be distracted and acts like he is overcounting the change for a customer, who grabs the money and runs. But the ruse is to cover up the fact that the cashier actually short-changed the customer, who, if he had tried to protect the cashier from giving him too much change, would not have been cheated.
South Korea's internet censorship has very little to do with their internet speeds. Saying "Well, if you want fast internet, it'll have to be censored" (as if our internet isn't fully monitored) is a false equivalence of the highest order.
Yeah, I should have expected that.
On first install when you're setting up the phone in the winzard, the last thing is WhisperPush
For what it's worth if you set up your SQLCLR assemblies right, that line of Transact-SQL can run just fine now, on SQL Server 2005 and later.
Yes, it will connect just fine over v6 if no v4 addresses are available. It should, however, try v6 first and then fall back to v4.

At least on Linux and OSX, getaddrinfo() won't return ipv6 addresses if the local machine doesn't have any global ipv6 address, which means that a server without ipv6 connectivity won't waste any cycle trying to use addresses it can't reach.

Preferring v4 means that you'll never shift your traffic over to v6 unless v4 is shut down.
Because networks and services are going to be dual stack for as long as sysadmins see substantial v4 traffic, such behavior will create another chicken and the egg problem.

It will also put more strain on the network (as traffic will eventually have to go through multiple layers of NAT, etc), render operations more difficult (how do I know who made that request if an entire datacenter is behind one or two ip addresses?), and in the end, make network operations more expensive, because we'll have to run dual stack longer than necessary.
We've got a browser extension in development, with the possibility of using an email address instead of a phone # as ID-- no promises on time line though.

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/438020504780152832
You're being downvoted because you're wrong. Density is a red herring that can be easily demonstrated by looking at comparative examples.
The U.S. beats Sweden in Akamai's study, so are we paying more to get more?
I may be an idiot, but I feel like I need to get a bottle of that to keep on my desk. But googling it only seems to reveal a different style of label. [1][2] Have I got the search right? You didn't happen to buy it online?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=2009+Roland+Tissier+Sancerre...

[2] http://bestbuyliquors.com/roland-tissier-fils-sancerre-2009....

Edit: looks like different labels for US and UK? Oh well. :( [3]

[3] http://www.colombierwines.co.uk/products/Sancerre-Rouge%2C-D...

OK, enough wasting of time...
"The idea of MVP is your idea of the minimum set of functionality that represents a [complete] product that you want to test out to determine if you have something that's worth something to someone else ... [in a completed state]."

An MVP, an unfinished product, simply gives you a level of confidence that the effort to complete it will reward you with resonance with your target market.
My internet speeds are pretty spiffy here in NYC; granted, not fiber spiffy.

Of course, I'm with Cablevision - when most of the city is limited to TWC.
I really feel like Snap is a much more pragmatic approach to types. Where Yesod uses tons of metaprogramming and DSLs to make HTML and CSS type safe, Snap focuses on being a great Haskell system and HTML/CSS continue to be whatever they are. In practice this seems to be a good trade off because to get type safety in HTML/CSS the way Yesod does, you take on a lot of complexity and black magic.

The one place I wish I had better type safety in Snap is the SQL level. Yesod has Persistent which you can use with Snap but Persistent follows the same "black magic" design principles. I really wish there was a tool that handled PostgreSQL-specific query type checking and migration and that's it. No JSON/noSQL to SQL abstraction etc (which is cool if you want it but just a lot of if you don't). Once I pick a DB I don't want to constantly be generalizing away from it which is a conceptual overhead.
Ask HN: What kind of Pebble apps would you guys be interested in?
I've recently gotten into developing for the Pebble Smartwatch, and I'm interested in what type of apps people are interested in seeing...

Thoughts?
Wasn't Whisper Systems/Moxie bought by Twitter some time back?
> Programmers are also expensive.

I seriously doubt that. I see so much wasted programmer time in my daily work. It must be a cheap commodity.
The two parent's answers are completely correct.
Thanks very much. And on a log scale too!

As you noticed, not only do weekends offer a significantly improved chance of making it to the front page, but also: the mid-morning weekday peak seems to cause enough competition that submissions have a hard time making it.

This is in contradiction to an assertion made in the OP: "Your odds are slightly better when submitting at peak activity (weekdays at 12 PM EST / 9 AM PST)." The problem being, they did not calculate the odds.
It's done with FileSaver. More specifically, it uses this polyfill: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js
ipv6 support (it's been mentioned multiple times in comments, thought I had to share it here)
And what is more technical than code?

It's literally logic that will be followed extremely, anally literally. No scientific language gets close to being that literal - normally, you are always going to keep the author's view/point in mind as you read. If you were to accidentally remove a random "not" from scientific writing (as happens), we can usually realize what the author meant. (With rare exceptions, if we are particularly unfamiliar with the topic.)

With code, on the other hand, code doesn't have a "point of view". It will just do whatever you wrote, completely literally. The shorter the expressions, lines, etc, the better.
> In other words, "real-time" in the sense that missing deadlines will mean that the quality of service is degraded. Deadlines here mean delivering the packets in time for the next simulation timestep.

Yeah, that’s what happens in most RTS, if the feedback for the action you sent doesn’t come back before Xms, then the game pauses and waits (for example Starcraft 2 does that).

And I know the lock step mechanism used in some RTS, I’m implementing one myself. But I don’t see how it makes it non-real-time. If quake or teeworlds associates a network packet (containing a player-position) with a frame, does that make it really-fast turn-based game (with turns being frames, or ticks, or what you want to call them)?

That being said,

> You and I agree on everything except the definition of "real-time".

No, the “real-time” word is really not that important to me, I mostly disagree with you saying “TCP is […] useless for multi player gaming.”

RTS, or MMORPG, or turn-based tactical RPG, or card games are not “some exceptions”. They probably even represent a huge proportion of the multiplayer games out there. I now understand that you were talking about “fast-paced action games like quake or the likes”, but that really didn’t sound like it.

> I'm sorry if my words were a bit overgeneralized and it annoys you.

This is not just you, I’ve seen a lot of these “— TCP sucks for all online game purposes!
— but what about all these cases were it’s fine?
— Oh, I was obviously talking about those other cases”

But that’s ok, I’ve made my point public instead of grumbling in my head, now I’m fine and we can move on. :)
I love my people. I took the management gig because I was tired of seeing other people do it poorly. I figured I could do it at least little better than they were.

Results are currently mixed. :-)
This suggests one could work around the Google penalty by having the bad-links (PHPBB forums in the OP) link to malware pages.

I think you'd call that a high-risk strategy however.
Kind of-- some older code was (is?) copyright WS, newer code is OWS, in both cases everything is GPLv3 and all future code will continue to be OWS & GPLv3.
I love watching how the boids converge, and then small groups break away from the pack every once in a while.
Or do what I'm doing: slack off at your day job and start getting terrible performance reviews... I'm not proud of it, it's just what is happening.
On the other hand, the WhatsApp people have a working prototype. The final total cost to build a fusion reactor that has a net energy gain is still unknown, because nobody has done that yet.
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