skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been curious at the strange lack of foresight during the nuclear age of what to do with the waste. It's almost South Parkian:

1: Fuel a Ship with nuclear power
2: Collect Radioactive waste
3: ???
4: Profit!

As always, I wonder, what was the plan exactly? What did the engineers of yesteryear actually plan to do with the stuff?
This is great, not many people stick with something for that long. I will recommend to a friend.
Protip: Buy your sysadmins a cake from the grocery store for $10, and have them write on it in icing, can you please fix the database server now? (I know that's really for DBAs, but it's topical...)
Deployable native-app encrypted email based on ECC OpenPGP, with a default to some affordance for generating new keys on the fly.

That, or an ANSI-art spin on Dwarf Fortress but set in San Mateo in 2010, because if ever there was something screaming out to be represented as a procedurally generated mob to kill, it's the California tech startup. ;)
As long as a human operator is needed (per drone), it doesn't scale, so I think the impression is not that strange.
This is great, thank you! LFS looks good.
"But that would take local governments to sign up and developers / designers to begin solving problems that matter to their local society. Might be worth a shot though?"

Tech minds are always want to build a tool, not sure why it's just how we're wired.

Don't.

Just do less and do something.

Ask the "Head of Social Service & Care" you were talking to to get 5 or 10 colleagues to get in a room with yourself and a few other hackers.

Ask them their problems and write it all down. Then build something to solve ONE of their problems. This could be as boring as reducing their wasted time and money by automating a menial task in the departments offices.

Once you've built a thing show them it, then ask them to organise another meeting to talk about other problems. Ask them to invite community members. Then you do it again, and again.

Helping people isn't about building things, it's about talking to them about their problems and solving them. Keyword there "talking".
I'm no expert, but I'd imagine a corporation could argue that reinvesting capital for the purpose of expansion, at the expense of immediate profit, is maximizing shareholder value over a longer period of time. Isn't this what all "growth stocks" try to do? I personally would prefer stocks that optimized for long term growth over immediate profit.
Looks like somebody took the day off.
Yes, and it's a very niche demographic. I think Pete made a great point about bearing in mind where the feedback is from.
> That makes no sense-a nuclear powered carrier that doesn't require underway replenishment, would be much more capable if its escorts also didn't require conventional oil fueling.

The battle group still needs underway replenishment for food, ammunition, avgas, maintenance materials, and all the other various and sundry items required to keep ships functioning. Fuel isn't that big a deal when combined with all of these other items.

Also, nuclear reactors were replaced with gas turbines in surface ships. Nuclear is attractive versus the older oil-fired boilers. Large gas turbines changed the calculus. The steaming range of cruisers and destroyers with gas turbine power plants is excellent, hence the reason fuel is not a big deal to add to all the other stuff that needs to be provided for the battle group.
Hey guys, happy to answer any questions here or on email (leo@kivo.com). Enjoy!
Awesome! It is true one could turn off and/or rip out the handful of church-focused features and it would stand as a fairly good member directory and private social network for close knit communities.

Thanks!
hah, that is a super-negative interpretation of it. It is also a really one-sided view (only looking at it from the perspective of people who submit links). The bulk of their users will never submit anything, they just enjoy reading the posts, trying out the products and giving feedback. I'm not sure what you see as "fake" about the "buzz"? It isn't like they are bots. They are actual human beings who might even purchase the service or product.

Another view (a far more accurate view) is that it is a spin-off from Hacker News with a more focused topic. I quite enjoy the site, and I've never posted anything on it. Non-technical people and product focused people can find a lot of the stuff on HN outside of their interests where product hunt hits much closer to the bullseye, more consistently.
> I'd just be embarrassed because I'm not good enough and they'd laugh at my code.

I don't think one is a good programmer until one believes themself to be a bad programmer.

When I was more green, I used to think "I've got this!", but as I learned more, I began to realize how little I really knew.
This looks very nice. I'm the technology director for a Catholic college prep school and we have been wanting to put up an online alumni directory, but the commercial packages we've seen are too expensive for our small school. I'm thinking your software could be adapted for that purpose, so I will show it to the lady who runs our web site and see if we can use it. Thanks for sharing your work with the world!
"the abilities of real physical objects like Turing machines"

Or at least any physical approximation of theoretical constructs like Turing machines.
A better understanding of math would directly impact your skill as a programmer. It might be worth it to float the idea with your job and see if they can help you with that. Then demand a raise because of your increased value.
"but you won't see me flying anywhere near Russia/Ukraine anytime soon"

Actually most flights from Europe to East Asia fly over Russia now while carefully avoiding Ukrainian airspace.

So if you really need there and want to avoid Russian airspace, you'll have to fly via Africa or Americas or possibly transsiberian rail.

By glancing at flightradar24: Everybody is scared to fly over Ukraine, except for Russian (Transaero) and some Turkish planes bound to Russia who fly over central Ukraine just fine.
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I don't think any non-Christian in the United States would agree with this.

Not that there's anything wrong with sticking to a particular audience.
I'm curious as to the actual plans as well, but I suspect the early engineers seriously underestimated how dangerous the waste materials were going to be. Of course, now I think we overestimate.
I've been using servers wherever they're cheapest for some time - currently I run most of my work out of Germany, with spin-up/spin-down of ad hoc systems from various cloud providers, distributed around the world
I'm trying to make the same decision you are.
The thinking goes that yes, at least a MS is something for the two years you will have spent there and you can demand a higher salary with a MS over a BS.

W.r.t. being suspicious, who cares? Tell them outright your plans, and if they have any sense of decency, they will support you anyway.
I have been using jumpcut - http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/ - as my "clipboard buffering" tool and it pastes stylelessly
...and removal of emotion from sentencing is precisely why we have independent judges and juries in the more civilized parts of the world.

The application of justice must be blind and impartial in order to approach being just.
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>Amazon is in it for the long haul and will likely make shareholders a lot of money in the end.

I like Amazon, and also assume that they'll actually make money at some point, but the financial graveyard is filled to the brim with companies like this.
There is no story downvoting. At a higher karma level you can downvote comments. It seems like it's not published anywhere what that number is, but you can figure it out easily enough by googling around.
It shouldn't sadden you, because Amazon is a pretty extreme case of this behavior. They've been unprofitable for a very, very long time, and they command a very high multiple of earnings. Matt Yglesias has suggested that they're less a business than a charity run by Wall Street. At some point, they need to demonstrate that the land they're grabbing can be both defended and put to productive use.

Amazon's performance in the public market is more or less than only communication channel that exists to prompt Amazon to shift from Alexander the Great mode to Qing Dynasty mode.
Time between disasters has exponential distribution (or the number of disasters in given time adheres to Poisson distribution). Something we were taught at the university.
Frame.io
> Error establishing a database connection

Very funny. :)
SDRAM's interface doesn't leave room for extra commands, it's pretty much designed to read/store data and refresh content. It only has 3 lines to select the command (RAS#, CAS#, WE#).

Other RAMs/Flash with different interfaces (e.g. SPI) require a prefix command to be sent over the wire, so it's easier for them to implement things like chip id commands.
I recently had to do some data model changes on a Rails app which I've had running for about 6 years, some notes here:

http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/06/09/reorganizing-a-data-...

Church-related IT is an interesting challenge - not a lot of money to be spent, and what money there is usually gets directed towards tracking contributions. I was the IT guy for http://www.alexandriapres.org/ for a few years (mostly running backups and such) and we certainly had a grab bag of solutions to the problems that church.io is solving nicely.
I'm reading through Martin Booth's biography of his life in Hong Kong, and was struck by his family's transit from England to Hong Kong by ship. His family didn't bring any cargo, just suitcases, so I had assumed that their trip was during the 30s or early 40s by the description of things.

Turns out it was during the 50s. I guess right before global jet transport became commonplace. Not long after they arrived, Martin's father flies off to Japan. But the opening month long sea voyage (now a slightly uncomfortable 12 hour flight) has colored the rest of the story for me as some kind of strictly "pre-modern" feel.
I said submissions because it seemed to apply to the whole post. Another comment has indicated it is because of the posts age, which makes sense for my example.
Ahh thank you, this makes perfect sense.
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For which parts would you need to enter a credit card? The addons? I've used Heroku for some assorted Ruby and Python programs, but I have not had to enter a credit card. However, what I have done has only scratched the surface of what Heroku offers, so I am not surprised if I missed the the parts that require credit card info.
I had this day I was laying down under a dogwood tree and planning to tell my PhD adviser I was going to quit.

The next day he told me I had funding for just one year so I had to get my PhD in one year. I thought about it, a year didn't seem so long, so I toughed it out.
Lack of qualified operators is real operational problem.

Majoring in physics pretty much guaranteed you a NROTC scholarship, if you wanted one, back when I was in undergrad. Around a third of my cohort (and the ones graduating immediately before and after mine) were in NROTC, and every last one of them was earmarked for the nuclear program when they finished school.

I'd speculate that the Navy simply doesn't have enough personnel to put a nuclear drive-train on every cruiser, much less the entire fleet.

Edit: grammar

Edit2: Also, keep in mind that aircraft don't run on uranium. A carrier group needs tanker replenishment anyway, so switching to nuclear ship propulsion doesn't save you from needing to worry about the logistics of transporting large volumes of flammable liquid to the group.
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Do one thing well does not really apply to larger user-interface applications that inherently have to aggregate lots of unrelated functionality. It applies to one-shot commands that you'd use in shell pipelines; that's why the other commandment is to use text streams. The point is that by combining these small utilities which do one thing well, you can create the aggregated functionality you need to perform a higher level task. Whereas if you didn't have these little utilities which do one thing well, you'd be scratching your head trying to figure out how to do something that a big monolithic application can do for you but which you need in a different context, i.e. where running that big monolithic application to do that one thing is very very incovenient if not impossible. Why do people quote this out of context?

If you stop and think about it, it's really pretty much impossible to define the "one thing" a code editor does.

Forcing the user build everything out of shell pipelines is not the goal, and achieves nothing. At some point, it is appropriate to build the aggregate and combine these functionalities for the user so that he doesn't have to do it himself. And in many cases, you end up reimplementing the thing because it is more efficient that way. The shell utility is still there for the user should he need it.
IBM makes its money on the consulting anyway, they don't need to make money off the cloud services. They just need to sell lots of $200+/hr consulting services putting people on them.
Im too lazy to move two fingers for that, instead mine is mapped to jj. =P
Hi Laura!

Thanks for the link. :-) It's bookmarked now!

This reminds me of something we discussed at a hackathon some time ago, where the government representative raised the issue of how to connect all of these apps together (like Legos) to make maintaining and integrating them into a workflow that makes sense to government employees.

I could try contacting Open City to hear what their thoughts on this. The current solution that's on the table here is to require the apps to be able to connect to a central "engine" that would act as a "local government dashboard". The apps would stream the data, either raw or filtered and be presented and manipulated in an interface that's understandable and actionable for non-technical employees.

If it's the right way, we don't know yet though. :-)
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Core premise:

I hate to break it to anyone, but the creation of a board, the building
of a strong legal base, and, to take it a step further, tedious little things
like values statements and human resource policies, are all the work
of building a real company. Terms that hold founders accountable make
them better founders and company builders.

It ain't all coding, selling, and raising money, people.
There are downvotes and flags. People with at least 750(?) karma can downvote comments, so long as they are less than 24 hours old. No one can down vote submissions.

If a submission does not belong on HN you can flag it. Be cautious with flagging because you can (apparently) lose flagging privlidges. (I think I flag too many submissions and I have cut back on that. I think I flag comments carefully).

You can flag individual comments by clicking the [link] link which should then provide an option to flag.

There have been some discussions and guidance about the difference between downvoting and flagging but I can't find them at the moment. (But if you do get downvoted it's nice to remember that some people use it to express disagreement).
Your friend must have been trying to link a fast C or Fortran library to some higher level language, yeah? That's always a nightmare.
The author of the article is following the lazy and tired "Point at that hippie and laugh" formula, complete with a "Right on, man" ending. Maybe that's expected for a mainstream publication like Businessweek?

Other than that, the article is interesting.
Point a phone in a direction and see geocoded tweets taking into consideration the position of the phone,gps, etc.
I guess, they just were lucky.

The power nuclear fission got us was remarkable and when they started, the marked wasn't regulated, so the companies could make huge amounts of money. This money was free to pay lobbying. They just outperformed the law makers.
They may not have intended this to be public; the link no longer works
Not even close. One of the major innovations missing from OS evolution is a cloud connected OS. ChromeOS gives you a bit of a glimpse at this but in reality ChromeOS really isn't much of an OS when you think of something more robust like OS X. But if you can imagine a cloud driven OS where you simply log in (like you would, say, gmail) and your entire OS follows you no matter where you go. This is also a concept similar to network accounts Universities have for students (although in much more limited capacity) and I believe one of the core influences behind Dropbox.

I am fairly certain there are way more than just this but ultimately this is one of the things I'd like to see happen.
>Maximizing short-term profitability is not a high priority for Amazon, and it never has been

How do you define "short-term"? Amazon IPO'd 17 years ago.

And there's a big difference between "maximizing short-term profitability" and being even marginally profitable.
The headline got me to click, but I fail to see how cheap interest rates makes IBM's potential cloud failure the fault of the Fed.

You could argue low rates force the hand of some firms - the stock buyback argument made sense in the article and had me following. How a strategic decision like "Cloud is where we're going as a company" can be traced to the Fed? That's where I lose the thread. What if they had decided on another investment area? Would you be writing the same article? Would one write an "The Fed suckered Amazon into a successful cloud strategy" article?
Fork and run sed - such is the beauty of OSS.

I just sent this a non-technical friend whose 'church is called a mosque'. I'm sure he'd be able to figure this out and I'm sure you could too.

No need to be disingenuous.
> GPU: You don't have to believe it. It exists. Embedded DSLs and cross-compilation are very common in Haskell.

Of course I believe it exist, I just don't believe it can achieve top performance (which I happen to need in $dayjob).

> Let's not argue readability, it just makes everyone look bad.

??? It's still the most important thing for a programming language. Most of our problems are because programs are hard to understand and hard to change.

> Forced to write good code: you really aren't, you're just forced to mark it as bad code (i.e. live in IO)

If I need an ugly script quickly for splitting a big binary file in parts to people that went to a tradeshow (yes true example), I don't have time to type "IO" or even think about it. The language won't help me achieve anything in that case.

> True parametric polymorphism: I have no idea what you're talking about here. Parametricity leads to much more program correctness and specialization recovers speed. Further, parametricity opens up compiler-enforced behavior leading to fusion which dramatically improves speed.

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/users_guide/prim...
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/Haskell...

Unboxing/specialization needs access to the whole source code like any whole program analysis. So what I get is that if you are lucky, the compiler will recover the speed that was lost in the first place. But you can't be sure.

> Each has their own particular use and forcing them to be the same would lead to inefficiencies or incorrectness all around.

It still an impediment to have three of them. Many languages have one, period.
That really impressed me.
"cash them"? I think you meant "spend them".
Remember bitcoin is money, why convert it to another form of it?
How would you "cash out" bills? Convert them to gold?
The "What is money" section of the article taught you nothing?
Right. "There exists a device that can solve NP problems in P time" is a different statement than "P=NP".

Regarding "Hypercomputation" in particular, I've typically encountered it in the context of "solving problems a TM can't solve" rather than "solving problems a TM can solve but asymptotically faster" - is it actually used for both? A skim of the article didn't clarify.
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See The Fed's Financial Repression At Work: How Big Blue Was Turned Into A Wall Street Slush Fund, by David Stockman at Seeking Alpha http://seekingalpha.com/article/2324305-the-feds-financial-r...

It's a good piece, even if you don't share Stockman's view of the US economy and its impending doom http://seekingalpha.com/article/2324315-the-implosion-is-nea...
> The backlash against this world is democracy manifesting itself; a tacit rejection of the ideological assumptions underpinning the personal tech revolution.

When was there a time humans didn't react negatively toward technology advancements?

This article fails to deliver on the assertion in its title: "the world ... will be awful". Someone thinking the future will be awful doesn't not mean the future being awful when we arrive at it.
Also look up [Dunning-Kruger effect]. You know enough to be worried you don't know enough! Definitely apply for developer positions, or work on external projects, where the details of your work can be discussed with other technical peers – not just its output as evaluated by non-technical people. It's the best way to improve.
I learned about it on the bloat/cerowrt-devel ML:
https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/bloat/2014-July/0020...
The box is not completely accurate though. When it says:

>On the negative side, there is no one to step in and help stabilise it should things start to go wrong (for example, the various governments that printed more money to help ease the cash flow crisis in the ‘Credit Crunch’).

There are other mechanisms that don't involve the printing of money in order to stabilize the economy.
However, it is true that increasing or decresing the amount of money in circulation is a very simple way to do it. For example, bitcoin could live along with government backed money, like the greenbacks were in use at the same time as gold-backed money.

>In practical terms, the biggest difference between Bitcoin and most other currencies at the moment is the wildly fluctuating exchange rate.

This is true right now due to the fact that the whole bitcoin economy is worth only a few billion dollars, but if bitcoin succeeds in becoming the world's currency it will most likely fluctuate less than any other currency.