skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't you. The AMD opensource team has been doing a terrific work lately, especially considering the small size (IIRC 4 people). DPM is the big thing, as it means that the gpu can raise the clock under load as it does on Windows, but they've done lots of work everywhere else as well.

Say thanks to Intel as well for driving the work on Mesa (It's thanks to Intel that Mesa got OpenGL 3.3 compatibility so fast).

Also Wine got some speedups as well (and an huge one should be coming soon with the stream patches).

Overall, I'd say that the Linux graphic stack has never been in a better state. We got official opensource drivers for Intel, official opensource drivers from AMD that are 50-80% as good as the closed one depending on your card, and unofficial opensource drivers for Nvidia that are usually good enough for non-gaming.
http://toshnology.blogspot.co.il/2014/03/goji-play-making-30...
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Yeah it has. Over the last few years, the OSS radeon driver has significantly improved. Most of the feature matrix [1] is now green. Whenever Hyper-Z is finished and enabled by default, it should lead to another major performance improvement for geometry-heavy applications. Mesa and the Intel drivers have improved significantly too. As far as I am aware, Nvidia drivers are still closed-source.

1. http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/
Lovely. Would love to be able to see the constellations more clearly. I can make them out I zoom in, the sun's rays enhance them. Although someone above doesn't like the constellations - so maybe a switch.
Any more news on the performance of the first stage recovery test? Elon Musk tweeted that it was successful but I haven't heard anything more detailed than that.
Postman is exactly what I have been looking for. I used Fiddler for years and always thought it to be heavy and awkward to use. It's strange I never heard about Postman before this post.

I like working out of the browser and Postman has just the right amount of features I need.
edit: sorry. Nevermind. In a bad mood. I get a little tired of some of the naming these days. Its like, what are you going to do, Go home and say to your kid, Hey try that just f do it library
The source code is a PDF of old printouts...
I am having trouble getting OCR to work.

Anyone know where to find the text?
Well, civilian reactor "waste" is potentially very valuable stuff, but we're rather stupid in our approach towards it. And the "tens of thousands of years" is grossly overstated, at least if you apply the metric that after 600 years it'll be no more radioactive than the ore from which it was mined.

The Chernobyl RBMK design is criminal, and literally so in the US, where Edward Teller made sure reactors with positive void coefficients were outlawed (one reason we don't do CANDU, although the proposed Advanced CANDU reactor addresses this). The Japanese demonstrated long before Fukushima Daiichi that they don't have a nuclear safety culture at the level they should be allowed to run serious reactors, and that incident prompted me to look at boiling water reactor designs for the first time, and I don't like them at all.

Yeah, the above is in danger of the No True Scotsman fallacy, but we have heck of a lot of counter experiences, including the pressurized water reactor worst case incident at Three Mile Island which harmed no one and was never in serious danger of doing so.

As for what you poise as a bizarre focus, every coal plant in the world is pumping out a lot of nasty stuff, they're inherently dirty, and totally cleaning them up is not in the cards. As in, right now, every day one is running, it's potentially doing harm....
In all honesty, I think you need to spend more time talking with people that have undergone similar decisions in the past than worrying about building a website. Other people will directly tell you about their doctors and help you choose from there.
Have you ever looked at patents to inform your ideas? As slavik81 says that's legally dangerous, but it's also typically useless.
Adults wanting to learn to code?
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Just get rid of Twitter and try Twister instead.
Citymapper may have the real-time stuff, and the UI is good, but it seems the suggested routes are suboptimal.

An example: From 220 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn to 1 East 28th Street, Manhattan to arrive by 10 AM on Monday:

* Google [1] correctly lists 5+6 (28 mins), 4+5 (26 mins) and Q+R (27 mins) at the best options.

* Citymapper [2] choices are C+5+6, C+4+5, A+4+6 and Q+N, all of which take 35+ mins and require an additional transfer.

It looks to me like Citymapper heavily weights the distance to the first station; the Nevins St station, which Citymapper doesn't consider, is two blocks away from the point of origin, and from there you can take 4+5 instead of the C+4+5. If you move the origin slightly closer to that station, it then figures correctly.

At any rate, with Google you can tell it to favour fewer transfers, Citymapper has no such option as far as I can see.

[1] http://bit.ly/RC5tO5

[2] http://bit.ly/1hfqEu3
LTS is supported for 6 years, but they release a new LTS every two years. pushing LTS back a year to wait for Mir doesn't really make sense when the next LTS is due only a year after that. And from what i've seen of Mir/Wayland, i suspect that one year is a pretty optimistic timeframe for actually moving away from X in a stable, production quality OS.
I think you mean instead of GDM, not GTK.
You could hire someone to clean an entire apartment for $50.
NASUNI http://www.nasuni.com started out with the same idea but now has become much bigger focused on enterprise market. As a Storage Product Manager managing a Storage Virtualization software product over a decade ago, I researched this idea. Also, my first startup was addressing similar problem - consolidation of unused storage space within a geographically dispersed enterprise. Both happened before "cloud" term became popular and S3 wasn't even a service.

Technically, it is a difficult problem to solve if the product need to be software based, simple, transparent and targeted at consumer market so that user can install on their laptops/workstations. The product will need to sit in the middle and capture every operation between OS and DropBox, GDrive, and OneDrive etc. It is not a trivial problem to solve.

A solution that uses a target storage device on a network which in the background sync with different online storage service providers is a better alternative and that is what NASUNI and a few others pursued. But now you are in consumer/SMB storage hardware business. Another better solution option is for users to only install one piece of software (ex: OwnCloud) which uploads to one cloud and then sync with other services in the background. Overall, my impression is that online storage providers offer very little support for such services that try to consolidate storage from different service providers.

On business side, it will be very difficult to make money of people who want to consolidate "free" space from different services. Such people are inherently cheap and wouldn't pay for your service either. So this will lead you to target SMB/enterprise market where typical mindset is to use one service like S3, Box, or Dropbox. So your value proposition has to change from distributed and large online storage system to redundancy, disaster recover, data access and data protection. Such solutions still have the single point of failure - your service. You will need to somehow need to be overcome.

Overall, I believe it is a good idea in principle, figuring out a business model, distribution and customer discovery may be a larger challenge.
According to Elon it landed:

"Data upload from tracking plane shows landing in Atlantic was good! Several boats enroute through heavy seas." -- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/statuses/457307742495993856

Which is pretty amazing. Apparently the telemetry continued for 6 seconds as it fell over.

"Flight computers continued transmitting for 8 seconds after reaching the water. Stopped when booster went horizontal." -- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/statuses/457311780943822848
Yes, xubuntu 14.04 is the best xubuntu I've ever used. :)
an awesome start for reusable rockets, amazing!!
I think he meant culture of the workplace. It would have been interesting if he would have described the core components of the workplace and what character traits the average airBnB employee possesses.
I'm very impressed with ubuntu lately. Despite all the drama in the blog space about their technical decisions, from a user's perspective it's a very stable and mature OS. Every upgrade fixes a few little things, makes things a little bit better, and most importantly doesn't break anything. There's very little to get excited about and very little to get annoyed about. It really does just work. On windows or even mac I would wait until a day when I don't have a lot of work that needs to get done to install a new version of the OS, on ubuntu i feel confident clicking okay on the upgrade notification, even if i'm in the middle of something important.
NB: Metacademy is open source: https://github.com/metacademy/metacademy-application
SpaceX/Nasa livestreamed the whole docking (sadly I was asleep at the time...).

I don't know if the whole footage is up yet, but this is a nice summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDzvdEfSgc
Training For An Uncertain Military Future In The Calif. Desert
You're right, I haven't seen that even better resolution photo.

http://typesetinthefuture.com/postfiles/2001/2001_ibm_tele_p...

We see even the brand:

IBM
TELE PRO

So it is a flat TV set after all, made by IBM.
But in the meanwhile graciously supporting their decision can go a very long ways, especially if you then choose to make those changes.

Yeah, programming careers, especially I'm told in the Bay Area but I observed this in the D.C. area, tend to end at age 35-40, but people have long memories, especially of injustices.
Managers control reviews, and money. So that'd be a way to vote with your feet (by quitting).

In most companies, engineers don't control what gets shipped. There is no way to say "No, you can't ship this," and the product is going out with crappy quality because of a ship date. It comes down to how companies determine software quality, and how much they care.

In really bad cases, nobody can tell that the software is terrible.

In truly horrible cases, everyone knows the software is crap, but they ship it anyway because they don't care.

In any case, "getting professional" in some companies would mean losing your job.
Something like this? http://www.iron.io/worker
Sounds interesting!

But would the company be able to build brand? First, to find expats would be somewhat difficult as they tend to blend in! Second, the company would need to be careful which people they hired, so they might be able to start at the top end of the market (high rates, high quality service) and work down from there...

That gives me the idea that it could start from an already existing service-oriented company, whether that's landscaping, security, legal services, accounting, etc. and they could just add translation and a more taskrabbit-like approach (phone app, etc.)
Or, they just did the expected. Those accounts were unlawful and there were court orders against them. You or I may disagree with it does not matter.
The BSDs are far more approachable, and I recommend starting there for anyone interested in kernel development.

There are books, such as The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (by McKusick): http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operatin...

There are papers, such as Jonathan Lemon's "Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility" presented at Usenix 2001: http://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/papers/kqueue.pdf

There are kernel interface man pages:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=SYSCALL_MODULE&sekt...

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hhook&apropos=0&sek...

There are examples referenced by the man pages:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/examples/
How Close Are We Really to Finding Life in Outer Space?
Many of these pictures are based on designs described in one of my favorite books of all time, The High Frontier, by Gerard K. O'Neil.

In it, O'Neil, a Princeton physicist and founder of the Space Studies Institute, goes on to describe in great technical detail the feasibility of building artificial space habitats of varying sizes. I heartily recommend it to anyone even remotely interested in space. The ideas from this book have been implemented in countless fictional universes[1], so you may find that you've seen them before.

It all started here in this excellent book.

1. http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Space_colony_(UC)
Realty Mogul https://www.realtymogul.com Real-estate Crowdfunding.
"What sustains the price" and "what sustains the tradition" are not the same thing.
Overpopulation and Its Discontents
could it be since its a warmer climate, hot drinks aren't consumed at home as much? or coffee is prepared differently down here (espresso?)
Thanks for this. I'm in a similar position to the OP, and needed the encouragement.
I remember that paper. The researchers ran a de-auth attack and then attempted to brute force the key.

It isn't worth reading.
there's a few user-visible changes, but for the most part they are hidden behind a setting so you won't see them unless you enable them. personally, this one is my favourite: http://imgur.com/lTncRkz
Electrically powered multicopters can carry DSLRs quite easily. If it's supposed to carry expensive equipment, you'll want to use a hexa- or octocopter though.

Of course multicopter flight times, especially with payloads, are problematic.
Yeah, I particularly agree with "negotiate on scope". That's a way to make clear that you appreciate their budgetary concerns and signal that you're happy to be accommodating, but that your time is valuable. Then they're left with the only counter being that they actually don't think you're worth that rate.

I also think it's worth noting that there is a cost to them to walking away and finding someone else. As the potential contractor, you're not the only one who has put time into figuring out the project. It probably isn't worth that $10/hr rate discount to have to negotiate all over again with someone else who they haven't identified yet, don't know if they'll like as much, and who may charge just as much or more.
I once lost a huge project simply because 1) I charged less than my competition ("there must be something wrong with them...") and 2) I didn't add a 20% annual maintenance fee my the proposal. Needless to say, I never made that mistake again.

But yeah, I can't agree more.

The amazing thing about raising rates (which I think patio11 and I talked about way back when here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/10/10/kalzumeus-podcast-3-grow...) is that you make more money, get better clients, and get treated with a lot more respect.
Or, you can do what everyone else does. Set your rates 20% higher and give anyone who asks a 20% discount. Or set your rates 10% higher, and give a 20% discount for something that is valuable to you, but not necessarily valuable to the client (e.g. prepayment).
I'm willing to bet that this is what everyone is most curious about.

During the post launch news conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G2pRVQ1JhA) Elon said he was pessimistic about a successful recovery of the stage for this launch. However, he said SpaceX is "connecting the dots" and seemed optimistic that they are making good progress (for example, they successfully canceled the roll this time). The rough timeline he mentioned was that they will probably recover a stage sometimes this year, with fully successful recoveries (i.e. capture, refuel, and ready to launch again within hours) sometime early 2015.
Yes, it's exactly what I'm looking for
This seems like the more straightforward way to try to kill the project: get Github to stop hosting it. You'd think with the right team of lawyers this would be do-able. There must be something interesting them preventing them from doing this, surely it'd be cheaper than dealing with developers one at a time.
Recently I found myself in the position of a diving save not of someone who reports to me, but of a peer. In this case, the balance is more difficult. On one hand, I have my own self-interest at heart -- I intend to stay at the organization, and I believe that my peer has great value to contribute to the organization. On the other hand, I have his as well, as a friend -- is the offer that they received likely to do better for them in the long term?

In this case, I felt like the two interests were aligned: I felt like their opportunity for growth within my organization was going to be greater than the opportunity that they had available in the company that they were going to. The mechanics were similar, then: understanding why the current role was better, I could explain it cogently.

The moral, I suppose, is that not in all cases, but in /some cases/, there exist times when diving saves can be executed by peers, too.
and I wish linux wasn't a horribly buggy hard to use desktop OS.

Fortunately my macbook combines a good desktop environment with what I need for work. I just my windows PC for my games and such. Linux can sit on my server where it belongs.
I work for Zapier and I'm totally planning to do this for my R / iPython jobs! Ideally I can interface through email or some other convenient service / app. Would obviously love to have the feature inside Zapier, too, we'll see!
How is that related to the content of this article?
As someone who was once a founder (failure) and is now the first engineering hire at a funded startup and plans on founding something after my current gig, the issues Sam raised that are most concerning to me are all the other issues besides the size of the grant. Don't get me wrong, I wish the grants were higher, but all the other issues are more pressing since they increase the utility of the small percentage I earned without diluting anyone else. Solving those issues that increase the utility of a good limited in supply and makes the valuation of that good far less nebulous makes it much easier to more accurately determine the amount of equity an employee demands/receives.

Getting a bigger percentage with unfavorable terms that might be used to limit how much upside I can get or nullify the upside entirely matters far more.

I would prefer terms:

* where the exercise window is long (10 years)

* where the employees and the founders have the same conditions in funding rounds or acquisitions. i.e. equal dilution. equal opportunity to take money off the table if that is an option. same triggers (double, single).

* protection against liquidation preferences (honestly this shouldn't even be a thing)

* restricted stock instead of options, with a bonus to cover the tax on it for the year it was issued that is paid out either on the 12th month when the cliff is reached or when taxes on it are due, whichever comes first.

Beyond that, a change in tax treatment for these illiquid assets would be awesome.
I've been looking into a very similar idea. There's a fair amount of prior art in this area, but I feel that no one has nailed it by including the right level of data sharing and practitioner motivation in a way that lets the ecosystem learn from experimentation and improve while not running afoul of HIPPA. If you're interested in exploring the idea more lets connect : http://www.linkedin.com/in/loganhenriquez/
I totally agree, but didn't feel confident in picking a different title.
My wife also didn't want a diamond, and we went with a synthetic emerald too. Technological progress and the triumph of humans over nature maybe isn't the ideal symbolism for an engagement ring, but it's better than blood and oppression (at least, given our views on marriage - others may disagree...).
Ask HN: Side-project website creation tools? 
Hey Folks,
A friend and I are thinking of working on a (small) side project and I'm stumped over what tools to use to create our website. Basically it will be a listing of all the organic meat farms in our state that a user can search to find the products being sold near their location. For example, you could search for a grass-fed beef farm within 20 miles of your zip code.

I haven't really worked with websites using lots of data and needing search capabilities before. I am ok with using a bit of CSS and a small (emphasis on small) amount of HTML to tweak the design, but I'm really not familiar with anything more complicated than that. Ideally, I would like a solution available for free or a low monthly cost (this is a side project after all).

Here are the goals/workflow/revenue thoughts:

A farmer/rancher would register for an account and fill out a form with their address, the types of meat they sell, whether they deliver or require pick-up, the characteristics of the product (organic, grass-fed, hormone free), and any other relevant data.

A consumer would come to the site, not need to register, and search for products by type (for example, hormone free, grass fed beef), and be able to limit a search to a certain distance from their zip code or see the results on a map. If they click on a result they would be taken to the farm's website or a results/bio page with a phone number.

Revenue would probably come from email marketing to customers who sign up, or from ads shown on the page or a yearly fee to farmers.

Any thoughts? Wordpress, Weebly? I'm not really sure how all the options available to me would work with all the searching users would be doing. Mapping seems an important component, and registration is a biggie. But I DO NOT need eCommerce abilities, as its a side project and I don't want to get into the business of selling food products over the internet. Ideas, suggestions?
The Anatomy of a $122.5 Million Venture-Funded Ecommerce Website
Not to mention that having a toxic culture is the fastest way to lose your very best people.
Does this have any particular advantages over imgur?
Sometimes I wonder, what magic still exists to be invented?

I am glad for my world full of science, but sad that all my ideas have been done before, and better than I could do no less.
A physics version of 2048 – stellar nucleosynthesis
Useful social purpose in signalling games, is what the parent was referring to. Proof of burn, roughly.
There is nothing wrong with offering a discount. Make sure there are good reasons for offering the discount and make sure that the discount is a line-item on the invoice.

For example, if a client is willing to commit to hiring you (by paying up-front) for a certain larger-than-normal period of time, you may be shooting yourself in the foot by not offering them a small discount to sweeten the deal.
Very cool.

Isn't the challenge here, though, simply to write an interpreter/emulator for that exact version of BASIC, rather than actually "porting a game", as such? Given the requirements it seems like attempting to re-write the original code would be a non-starter compared with any emulated approach.
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The dark rabbit hole of Systems, Operations and DevOps