skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number one, above everything else:

Work is never lined up for a consultant. Either you have a signed contract and a cashed retainer, or you have a job you are chasing. There's no in between because lined up work doesn't pay the bills. People cancel projects. Consultants get underbid. Start dates get moved back. There's no paycheck on Friday.

As a corollary, clients are people with whom you have a contract. Paying clients have already written you checks. Great clients have written you lots of checks and done so quickly and without hassle. Everyone else is a potential client or a deadbeat. Don't work with deadbeats. Don't pursue potential clients that give you clues they will be deadbeats.

Insist on a retainer applied against final invoice. The arguments a potential client gives against a retainer will be based on their concept of business. If that model is that everyone tries to scam everyone else, take it as a tell about their future behavior.

Lastly, discount all future payments to zero. Don't plan around getting paid on a particular day. Don't plan on getting paid at all by any particular client until you really know their business model inside out and have done enough repeat work with the client that you can describe where your money comes from in their process. Even then you should discount to zero because outliers happen, but nobody can.

Good luck.
Happened all the time before broadband consolidated the market. I loved most of my dialup ISPs.
Seems promising! This is a problem I've been trying to solve as well and have had some ideas but nothing substantial, so I definitely think there's a gap in the market.

Looking forward to the beta.
Theoretical and Practical Nonoutsourceable Puzzles
Finally, someone actually read the whole article.
For anyone else wondering how many IP addresses /48 gives you in IPv6 land, it's 65,536!

This page helps with the CIDR notation for IPv6: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Range_blocks/IPv6
You can't refute other people's ideas and establish the supremacy of proprietarianism by yelling "STATIST!" over and over again.

The sheer fact that you're reduced to this weak grade of "argumentation" shows you either need some serious instruction in rhetoric, or in logic, or you just don't have very good reasons for what you believe.
I'm actually considering to start using latex with git, mostly for my own notes and papers. I'm in an academic environment.

What are your experience with using latex + git?
How Uber’s Head of Public Policy EMEA claims the company benefits EVERYONE
There was a half hearted attempt
http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/2001/PV2001_3363.pdf

However, it wasn't an identical attempt in terms of materials, process, etc...so I'm not sure it really counts.
I wonder what other mathematical axiom sets can be pretty much directly translated in a game like that. Maybe something from calculus, topology or knot theory.
> the true limitations of hardware from over 30 years ago are still rather elusive

That was the basic idea that kept the Apple II line alive for ~15 years on an 8 bit processor running at 1Mhz. Of course at the end, there were a handful of faster configurations but the IIgs @ 2.5Mhz and the short lived IIc+ at 4Mhz were the only machines apple produced with faster processors.
If you're reading books like that, might I also suggest Mindfulness in Plain English: http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Plain-English-Anniversary-...

I found it incredibly useful.
The zero-cost figure is... um... wrong. Your central heater probably either does not use electricity (presumably using a cheaper fuel source) or is a heat pump (and thus gets efficiency greater than 100% on the electricity by stealing heat from the ground). The real cost is still lower than the nominal cost, but it's not zero.
Question, probably going to come across as dumb, but I'll ask it anyway ...

Is there a market for "huge" feature chips (eg. 100nm+)? Would it be worth making these older processes very cheap and widely available and growing the market that way?

(You can still build an early Athlon at 130 nm or a 486 at 800 nm).
Yeah, JPL, about 15 years ago. He measured something, and was conservative with the paper, but a journo got his hands on it from a leak at nature, the papers ran with "Flying cars!!!!", and the rest, like his reputation, is history.
Quantum computing firm calls 'bullshit' as scientists undermine its technology
Shhh allow them their "programmers these days" elitism.

My 25 year old non-techie gf would have gotten that reference.

Blade runner is hardly an underground cult classic.
Unit cell of Silicon is about 5 angstroms (0.5 nm), so we'd be at about 7 atoms wide for a diamond cubic structure (I think).
Promising - I think it fits a nice gap. I never really know how/where to voice my opinions on current affairs etc, so would look forward to this.
The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocrystalline_silicon has 0.5nm for the lattice spacing, distance between Si atoms ranges somewhere between 0.3nm and 0.5nm, I guess. Even if you go to graphene instead of Si wafers, I don’t think you’ll get more than three atoms within 1.5nm, as graphene is not a cubical lattice.
It was an number for the length of a chemical bond that I had easily to hand, other bonds aren't significantly different, definitely not 5 Angstrom.

Also, people working on graphene and related materials are trying damn hard to make chips out of carbon ;)
I'm interested in how you can conceal these API keys in Android, there does not seem to be any recommended approach.

Obscure methods like wrapping them up in C native code get mentioned. I'm assuming Proguard does not help?
Relative volume and value of U.S. currency in circulation by bill denomination
You can run Norton Commander on both computers and set them on connect mode. One PC is set as master and the other as slave; connect them physically with a parallel cable.
That is trademark infringement. You would be at risk of your products being seized and destroyed when they enter the US.
Explicit optionals are great. But I feel some of the other convenience features like type inference, trailing closures, different copy behavior of arrays, and operator overloading have the potential of being abused to produce cryptic code. What's your opinion?
Unless you had a Kempston interface attached to a Speccy, then a butterly fluttering it's wings in South America would crash it ;).
>But wait, survival of the fittest and I don't give a shit. I really don't.

I'll remember that when I'm designing something that can ruin your life.
Here's why Amazon nsde a pho e:
1. To make consumers a part of the Amazon Ecosystem.
2. To make it easiertfor existing users to access the Amazon Ecosystem.
3. To entice Prime User
4. To make it easier to buy anything and everything using Firefly.
It depends on which model exactly time travel works on.

Really, this is good science; it has a low probability of working, but the cost is very low too (literally a hobby-time expenditure), it asks a lot of interesting questions, and has a reasonable method for finding answers. It could also shine light on the question of how time travel works, if it does. Science should include a healthy portfolio of such experiments. (As opposed to low-probability, very expensive experiments, such as I occasionally wonder about our fusion experiments.)
Do You Possess Network Literacy?
Wow that's awesome. I've needed this for ages
No it gives you 65536 /64 blocks. Far more IPs than that! You can give every machine a /64, but I only do if they are running containers or VMs.
Nobody outside Silicon Valley ever thought these people were Ubermenschen.
Improve Your Future By Thinking Like An Entrepreneur
If there are time travellers from a future, it isn't our future, and this isn't their past - otherwise causality doesn't work. Instead if you travel back in time you travel to a point, which immediately bifurcates into a new reality.

I like to think that we're all time travellers, collectively collapsing the universe's wavefunction through will alone... And now I'm onto determinism so I'll shut up.
Self http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774

Xerox Star User Interface http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZBL80JPqw

Tektronix 4404 Smalltalk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yxCJfayW-8

The Smalltalk-80 Programming System http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPiMl8XUKU

The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw

Symbolics Hypertext Document http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxYj32cvoE

Warren Teitelman work at Xerox PARC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7579613

The Mesa/Cedar programming environment https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fbitsavers....

Steve Jobs internal demo of NeXTSTEP 3, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk

Alan Kay on Xerox PARC work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oonXT-gYjU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43fI7Dy04A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QJTsPQQCCc
And if that paper had landed on my desk for review in a top journal, I would have rejected it too! Just because it has the top "Almetric score" means nothing other than it was popular in the social media circles. Where was the tangible scientific contribution in this manuscript? This paper did do a wonderful job of gaining attention, though.
Published by http://oamsjournal.com/ – I'm not panicking yet :)
And it wasn't Bill Gates who said that.
Did you look at the pricing ? - it's 306 euros with stopover versus 190 euros direct Barcelona to London (for one day return on day of startup school). There are certainly other viable candidates to host such an event such as Paris and Berlin, but Frankfurt isn't one of them.

As I said running an event is different from visiting, you're dealing with venue staff, caterers, security, insurers, etc. it's certainly all doable especially at the high-end of the market where everyone speaks english but it adds non-trivial overhead and you will be paying a premium.

As soon as you require all your vendors speaking English you're price segmenting yourself into a more premium market. There are some cities where everyone speaks English, but in many major European cities many caterers, etc. will only speak their native language. I've even found smaller hotels in Paris, Madrid, etc. often not to have english speaking staff.
Elon Musk Aims For Humans On Mars By 2026
In general, I agree with you, but I think that there is a difference between time travel and (e.g.) fusion.

- Time travel as a phenomenon is not known to exist, while fusion is known to exist.

- Fusion experiments are trying to create human-controlled, energy-generating fusion reactions. We know that energy-generating fusion reactions are possible, we just don't know if we can create them under controlled conditions.

- Fusion-generated energy has the possibility to transform that world. Time travel will transform our understanding of the universe, but seems like playing with fire. Were we to discover time travel, we would now have to 'protect time' from 'evil' time travelers.
I would have taken it as a work of philosophical exploration. We don't encourage enough of this work in peer reviewed venues, and so we deservedly get the crap in the popular press instead.
"In the response, the editor said that (s)he has now sent the article out to another editor, one who is quite famous in this area, but who also agreed that this paper should be rejected without being sent out for peer review. In this reply, the famous editor said:

"I should point out that most stock markets around the planet devote considerable resources to looking for temporally anomalous market behavior --- unusual trading patterns before significant news events. When found, such signals are not typically attributed to time travelers, but more prosaically to insider trading."

I agree! This is one reason why we did not look for evidence of time travel in stock market trading. Early on, our group had discussed (briefly) this idea. On one hand, I was glad that finally we had a real criticism to address, but on the other hand, this famous editor's comment indicated to me, once again, that the journal editors did not fully appreciate the novelty, power, simplicity, and falsifiability of our approach. Instead, they gave straw-man criticisms that really meant, in my view, that they did not want to consider a manuscript so unconventional. In my reply, I argued in detail against this criticism and again asked that the manuscript at least be sent out for formal peer review"

I think what the response meant may be - even if a tweet about Pope Francis before Pope Francis was pope was found, it isn't sufficient to prove time travel exist - the tweeter could have a uncle who is involved in vatican politics and the tweeter read some of his uncle's notes. The stock market example was an analogy.
Algolia Raises Another $1.2 Million for Search
The capital costs dwarf energy costs. Asics are losing most of their value when a new generation of equipment is released.
This reminds me of Yoomp!

http://yoomp.atari.pl/media.htm

1.79 MHz 6502..
(A) and (C) are the Availability and Consistency from the CAP acronym. I'll edit to make that a bit more clear.
Best (or worse) of Brazilian Internet in a Compilation.
Not russia, not china, this time, we present you the internet in Brazil.
> Please keep in mind that we will be able to link the content back to your account, in cases of spam, harassment and such.

And on request by The NSA.
The cost of making chips at 100nm+, 90nm, 45nm, etc, is almost indifferent. It actually gets cheaper with smaller sizes because you can fit more chips in the same number of waffles.

The problem described by the article is that 10nm is already so small that we are hitting the barrier of what's physically possible.
seems like the third point will follow the anticlockwise norm
There is, in my mind, a big difference between a scientist publishing a paper in which they investigate some outlandish science-fiction-like concept (such as time travel or anti-gravity) and find evidence AGAINST it, and one where they find evidence FOR it.

The former is a reasonable result, and although expected the research provides evidence to support the hypothesis. The latter is an extraordinary result and wise scientific practice would require extraordinary evidence.

(It also helps if you don't get disavowed by your own co-author and by other labs you say confirmed your results.)
Is this what the technology in the movie "Primer" was based on?
Elon Musk: We Should Fear a 'Terminator' Future
Agreed, and also LLAMA doesn't support high-availability at the moment (soon to be fixed). We rely heavily on up to date table/column statistics in order to accurately determine resource consumption, and unfortunately Impala doesn't currently have incremental/background stats, something that should be in the 2.0 release.
I think the author means the letters C and A from the acronym CAP, where did you got the B from? anyway, I can see how it confused you, looks like this also isn't a good minimal explanation.
http://www.interestin.co/
Zero-Toxic-Emission System That Converts Nonrecycled Plastics Into Crude Oil
Probably something along the lines of "Do not build dangerous things in your yard, were they could fall on people passing by. Also no ugly stuff."
Which could or could not be relevant toward that bookshelf.
What (I think) I mean by the question is this:

Why can't I have a $1M machine sitting in the corner of my lab which turns out 800nm chips on demand? Can the technology which in 1990 was incredibly demanding now be turned into a product, thus vastly opening up the chip market, albeit for "obsolete" varieties of circuits.
This makes sense from the narrow perspective that a compelling story has to be told through cutscenes or dialogue.
or Sotomayor all Robert Rodriguez style
What advantages does this provide over something like Branch.com?
Startup School New York videos
If someone in 1981 had seen this running on the same hardware they would have assumed it was alien software created by a higher lever species.
I wouldn't call it a hub though.
موعد ظهور نتيجة الدبلومات الفنية 2014
Laughable! what is the cost of 16GB these days? Stopped reading after that answer, but keep going if you like advertorials.

Q.
I was surprised that you weren’t competing on price so aggressively. This is essentially the same price as rival devices.

A.
Well, it’s 32 gigabytes instead of 16, which is a big deal.....
I can't fathom what problem it solves. It looks like some sort of chatroom with a couple of collaboration features but I shouldn't have to try hard to work that out if I'm a band.

How do bands currently solve this problem, and why is this better? Every word on the page should be dedicated to solving this question.

Think about the primary actions you want the user to take and work backwards from them. At the moment I know I can give you my email to 'sign up' but I have no idea what that does.

Logging in is also way too hard.
This is now entirely a semantic argument. I would argue "physics" and "nature" are almost interchangeable here. KAM tori naturally occur in ocean currents.
I like the idea of a place where one can express opinions. Kind of a hub for op-ed pieces about any topic. I myself miss some platform to express my opinions about some services, industries, countries, etc.
How are you going to organize topics and relevance?
What Adopting Blameless Post-Mortems Has Taught Me About Culture
Hmm, it seems this page's been taken down now. It's still in google cache though...
You cannot educate a doctor-nigger.

You cannot club a doctor-nigger hard enough.
What makes you think that ITER has a low probability of success?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
> Typing your credit-card number into a web browser was once considered a sign of insanity until Amazon showed how easy and safe buying things online could be.

Eh? I remember doing this via AOL before Amazon even existed.

> The option to rent rather than buy computing power greatly reduced the cost and complexity of launching a new company.

AWS is still more expensive than many of the alternatives and at small scale is more complex.

This feels more like an Amazon puff piece than written by anyone who really understands what they are talking about. Maybe it is just me and the fact I don't need bursting workloads.
It's about time for that...
Darn, no SQL support. I often find myself wishing something like this existed for SQL, so I could, say, find all places where field X in table Y is updated, or referenced in a WHERE clause predicate, etc.
Should You Go To Grad School?
As an aside, it honestly confuses me why the vast majority of company blogs don't have an actual link to their home page, but instead prefer to have the header link to their blog subdomain.
> Feel for the gradient. Walk uphill.

That is the most awesome advice I've ever heard. Thank you for sharing it.
Interesting title. It is wordplay on the old movie title "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", where 'videotape' gets changed to the topic under discussion.

Of those three, " videotape " is the only one that is obsolete, while the others are timeless. While the original phrase goes increasingly obscure, the wordplay remains fresh because the obsolete part is invisible.
I like the idea but dislike the name. It's hard for me to pronounce. My brain kind of get's stuck between 'interest in' and "interestin'"
I LOVED THIS PAPER! Summarised this paper in my 52papers project! [1] Definitely one of the most interesting papers I've read so far.

I should stop being side-tracked from that project, last post made over two months ago ...

[1] http://swizec.com/blog/week-11-searching-the-internet-for-ev...
GitHub: Building an army of robots
The Sinclair was a species all by itself in that respect. I'm thinking along the lines of the bbc micro, the dragon / color computer and the TRS-80. Compared to those the Sinclair was incredibly cheap but that was definitely reflected by the build quality. I remember the microdrive, that was a funny little design, very creative but very flawed. Like an 8-track endless tape but for data.
Hey, you're right. Maybe clearer messaging is the answer. I had no idea that that was the norm.
Any language feature has the potential to be abused to create cryptic code.
Because who you specifically work for matters the most. And getting contacted by another dev just reeks of them being put up to it by the company.

I don't want to work for a company that makes it's developers go out and have lunch as a headhunter. I know I wouldn't want to have to reach out to people I didn't know and 'have lunch' with them just to see if they would be good people to work with.
If you're interested in emergence and artificial life, I've been working on creating in JavaScript a lot of the work that has been done by others in the past as well as some original projects:

http://www.emergentmind.com/

The last project (The Evolution of Color) has similarities to the color visualizations described in this post: it uses genetic algorithms to evolve a population of colors towards a fittest color as determined by the closeness of the bits that comprise the colors.

I have a few other projects planned so if you're into this stuff you're welcome to sign up for the mailing list to get notified when they are launched:

http://www.emergentmind.com/newsletter

I'm always open to ideas for new projects so if you have anything you'd like to see implemented or want to work on something together feel free to shoot me a note.
Google’s Search Engine Can Now Launch Your Favorite Music Apps
Scala's Try-Success-Failure for Java 8
Sounds charming and brilliant enough to be considered a proto-Wolfram.
Why Hackers Should Care About Accessibility
Interesting that Bezos is actually dogfooding this phone. Compare that to Facebook's failed attempts at Facebook phone(s) and the "Home" Android effort -- Zuckerberg never gave up his iPhone. Perhaps that's the clearest way to tell when a company is really behind a new product: is the CEO using it?
You're thinking of the previous generation that I was referring to. "We can create languages that do whatever we want, but Sufficiently Smart Compilers will make it as fast as C!" This has become a joke. Justifiably.

The new generation that I'm referring to is more like "Well, that didn't work. Let's design nicer languages, but think about performance impacts up front this time." Go is pretty fast now, for instance... not C-fast, but not Python-slow or Javascript-slow; it's closer to C than those, even on a log scale. Lua-JIT is an early example, where I believe the design of Lua was fundamentally based on what could be done quickly, rather than what could be done nicely. You can still have nicer languages that incorporate our years of progress since the 80s/90s, but if you think about performance from day 1, they can also run pretty quickly, too. They may not be quite as nice as the scripting languages, but then, we also know ways of making up for that too, so in the balance I like them better even so.

(And A: Yes, Javascript is still slow, even after all the browser work. It's just "not as slow as it used to be"; consider, if Javascript was so fast, how does asm.js post such improvements over it? Answer: JS is still slow. And asm.js is still about 2x slower than C, last I knew, after all. B: I no longer believe "languages aren't slow, only implementations are", as, proof-by-construction, the last 10-15 years produced plenty of languages that appear to be, yes, fundamentally slow. Those who wish to argue may produce your choice of general-C-speed compiler or interpreter for Javascript, Python, Perl, or Ruby. After I-can't-even-guess how much effort has been put into speeding these up, I say I'm allowed to draw conclusions.)
Yes, you can fit more chips on lower nm, but you spend lots of money on tooling and suffer from lower yields compared to high nm processes. The cost of developing and tooling a modern, competitive ASIC, if you need a relatively modern process, can be tens of millions of dollars (not counting the IP development itself, just bringing to production).