skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be more efficient to simply drive all our electronics equipment directly off DC? Almost all electronics devices now days run off 5VDC (USB) or 12VDC, Solar panels put out 12VDC, all those conversions seem like a waste of energy. What if you just run our big appliances off 120VAC and run all our small stuff off of Solar directly along with a battery back up. It seems like if a new wiring standard were developed that had both AC and DC distribution it would greatly reduce the cost of installing Solar. In fact, I believe it would be possible to put a DC bias on top of the AC (similar to the way old time phone lines work). Just a thought, rather than shrinking the inverter, think outside the box and get rid of the inverter all together.
> There are plenty of things that work in the real world that would fail in KSP.

Do you have an example for that?

> edit - and for the same reason there are also things that would work in KSP that would fail in the real world.

That's what I wanted to say with 'the opposite doesn't hold true'.
I know that it is a long history which is generally misconstrued deliberately by Western and Israeli media.

Israel is not fighting for its life. Israel mostly won, and is now terrorizing civilian Palestinians and killing them in order to finish taking over the area again (which they previously controlled).

I'm not saying the rockets aren't a real threat, the threat is just overhyped and used as an excuse to abuse the Palestinians.
Well you'd also be hard-pressed to get ahold of a can of Coke in North Korea but it's still "something international" ;)
It is terrorism by definition, because they have no targeting, however the reason they have no targeting is obviously due to technological availability rather than an intent to have no targeting. It usually helps if you can aim.

On the other hand, the Israeli forces have state of the art targeting systems - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/21/hospita...
Lasers have been regarded as the most promising option for the past decade. MTHEL on a humvee for example, was once a hoped for potential solution. Then there's this:

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2013/ma...
How do you "listen to clicks"?
"Jokes" are commonly used as evidence in employment lawsuits:

http://www.boardmanclark.com/reading-room/it-was-just-a-joke...

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161026

http://www.fox19.com/story/26069939/wings-with-a-side-of-rac...

Please note that the vast majority of employment lawsuits settle before they ever go to trial.
Using gdb: Memory Layout And The Stack
An interview at NPR with Theodore Postol where he discusses this topic:

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/09/330183774/the-rockets-from-ham...

I guess the Iron Dome missiles have to intercept the rockets head on to have any chance.
Interesting stories that follow with great discussions.

I find most stories have a particular slant and the discussions usually will give you a better all over perspective of the subject.

Without interesting stories the discussions would be same-ol same-ol. And without good discussions the politics of the stories would tent to be one-sided.
"Brushless DC" motors seem to be taking over due to switching electronics dropping in price, no? And while those are technically AC motors, it's not the kind of AC that comes right off the line.

Motors that run on constant 60Hz seem to be a historical shortcut, whose demand is fading as the control benefits of variable frequency drive are available for less and less. And if HVDC transmission is gaining popularity, then how long are utilities going to keep doing the conversion to AC "for free" ?

It seems to me that if we were in a bizarro world where common end-user power had always been DC, every motor would just be paired up with an appropriate driver circuit, even designed around the specific inductance of the motor. With solid state circuitry, all house fans would be infinitely variable, etc.

Of course there's a huge installed base of a few types of items that would need 60Hz backwards compatibility. I get a good chuckle from thinking about legacy clocks requiring an inverter that contains a high-accuracy crystal - maybe that inverter could even run ntpd.
So someone turned Docker into an online service. Interesting. It seems promising, though not yet mature. For every day computing the cost still seems high however, and I worry about security. Still, it smacks of the future.
Israeli death toll: 25 soldiers, 2 civilians.

Palestinian death toll: Nearing 600, over 150 children killed.
Once you use label terrorist to supress a majority of innocent people it losses all meaning. You might as well as call them crepe makers.

I just wonder what integrity US has when it lets its allies get away with murder.
I like the contracts in this book

http://www.nolo.com/products/contracts-ctrct.html

These cover most of the situations you'll end up in with business. You can probably do better if you hire a lawyer, but more than once I've talked with a judge about a contract written by a lawyer that had non-sequitors in it.
Can you name open allocation companies that aren't operating with massive free cashflow? Because you always bring up Valve when raising your theory that open allocation is the magical escape hatch from economics, and it always seems to me that's the only major example you have.

Google and Microsoft also have massive free cashflow and they don't use open allocation. So perhaps the magic of Valve's "open allocation" is that they're just sitting on a cash fountain and it doesn't matter that much how they spend it.
You're on a site that is heavily about sharing views and opinions. I can't imagine what value your anger contributes here, given the supposed low quality of the opinions here according to your response (after all, how many people on HN could possibly know anything about the Middle East per your rant, thus nearly all opinions here are disqualified).

Conflicts are not solved there, they never have been. That's the problem.
Apache HTTPd – description of the CVE-2014-0117
Bill Ackman Still Not an Herbalife Fan
This is a valid question. From first hand experience, at least in the short term - gadgets above $400 would remain niche in third-world countries.

Unless... get its hands dirty by taking control of its refurbished and older generation products for developing markets.
I don't mind redirectors while in a browser as it's essentially invisible, but I don't understand why so many of these services use them in their own apps. The client can very easily report clicks without having to detract from the UX with a redirected link.

Not only is it slow, but it kills the back-button functionality in Android, where I now have to hit the back button twice to get back to the originating app. Not life-or-death, obviously, but if people had to tap the "buy" button twice in your app to buy something, it would be considered a bug and be fixed immediately. Redirected links are just as much of an annoyance.
I thought it was downloaded, but there is no evidence of it anywhere that I even got the file. Great program.
Ask HN: How do normal people find jobs?
We software engineers get job offers thrown at us every single day. But what about normal people with a college education - outside of tech? A lot of these job sites are noisy, have low-quality posts and often have unreasonable demands (5 yr+ experience for everything). There's no transparency in salary either.

How do normal people find (and get) jobs? I truly don't know.
"Well, that's the beauty of the game. It only takes one player to opt in, because once someone starts playing, everybody is going in -- and they are going in hard."

As per Frans de Waal's, this is true even for chimps ;)
webgl webgl, webgl! webgl? webgl.
Oh, you can definitely break the game with the wrong combination of cards in the same game. When we were starting to play, I did just that... I could essentially cycle through my entire deck on a single turn. But here you can always choose which cards to include or exclude, so the overall game is mostly not breakable unless you choose to or luck into it.
The 12" screen and the better digitizing pen. My application is much more notes/sketch focused. I've got several different stylii for the iPad, none of them is as nice as the Note's pen. I like the larger size so that I can see more of the sketch even while zoomed, I don't care about having it in my pocket. The contenders were something like a Yoga 2 pro, the Note pro, or something from Apple. They don't have anything in that space so for that reason, they're out.
Twitter also had link shorteners to deal with, a quirk of their platform. Not only were they not collecting usage data, but they were giving a big chunk of it to bitly for nothing.
Pressing 'up' scrolls up (on Safari/OSX, at least), making the game far more impossible… :(
The problem is that when Israel does not allow building materials into Gaza it is presented as collective punishment (or siege). But if Israel allows those in then they are used to build tunnels and bunkers. In Gaza it's Hamas that is responsible for the condition of the civilians. They also have a border with Egypt so it's impossible for Israel to impose a siege on them. Unfortunately, when you're a bad neighbour you can't expect other countries to keep an open border.

When Israel had more open borders with the West Bank and allowed for free movement of Palestinians there were suicide bombings, stabbings, shooting and bus explosions. When Israel puts road blocks and builds walls to prevent those (successfully) it is collective punishment (which, honestly, is true).

At any rate, this situation doesn't lend itself to simplistic interpretations or explanations. Whenever one is offered there is surely a political agenda behind it. Not every problem has a 140 character description or solution.
Saying Israel is at war with Gaza to take Gaza strip is like saying the American military went to war with Afghanistan to colonize Kabul.

It doesn't matter who "won" in the bigger scheme of things, what matters is that Israel, like any other country, is obliged to provide its citizens with the maximal level of personal safety. Having rockets and mortars shot at, teenagers kidnapped and executed and - last but not least - tunnels spanning kilometers that go underneath its borders and allow dozens of Jihadists to emerge in the middle of a neighborhood, contradicts the safety the government is entrusted to provide its citizens (of which 20% are Arabs, by the way - not that it matters).
Something such as the onclick event which calls a javascript function before requesting the href.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEvent...
I read something on Reddit the other day which goes some way towards capturing my expectation about NMS. It's not particularly succinct.

http://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/28cddf/im_worrie...

That is, procedurally-generated worlds are one thing, but an engaging environment (Minecraft) or story or purpose are other things entirely.

I have a flat game concept involving procedurally-generated concept but just can't think of what might tip it over into super-engaging territory.
True, both approaches are equally valid and being used. Every once in a while some gfx haxors also spend baffling amounts of effort on humorously "benchmarking" both approaches against each other.. ;)
Painful mobile experience. Have very little idea what the site does. Seems to maybe scrape meta data of random pictures and transpose them on maps using geolocation data.
This is a screenshot of your landing page viewed on ios http://imgur.com/eBfi0KJ. The social icons and kickstarter pledge cover the nav bar, and the text has no contrast. If you want to have an immersive experience that throws the user in, you need to clear the nav bar so they can atleast go to the about page after the initial novelty has worn off. Also, I think it would be nice if you had some fading text on page load like "the data of 1 million cats visualized" something to clue you in to what you are looking at. Haven't had the chance to view on pc yet, but if I was a potential user, I never would.
The devs are going to make a shit ton of money.
I've often thought about doing this. But I always end up coming back to the question: do I want to spend a month (or more) writing a blogging engine, or do I instead want to focus on my actual writing? And what will a custom engine actually give me, aside from sleepless nights and headaches?

Jekyll is a great answer in this regard. You don't have to reinvent the wheel (pagination, RSS, categories, dates, etc.), but you can still customize it with great ease. (Kind of like the Backbone.js of blogging engines, I guess.)
Of course it isn't. If it were working there would be no need for more money, would there.
Ripple ledger browser
PS4 only, really? Why can't developers release cross platform games these days? Releasing it for one platform prevents a significant amount of potential users from even trying the game.

I'd play it when they'll release a Linux version.
I don't think it is an automated process. Rather, when there's an outbreak, twitter uses their control over t.co to contain it.
forgive me if this is totally naive;

Woud you say that there is a way where a truly distributed content-centric system could be build, sort-of around this whereby the following wouldd be true:

Assume there is a commonly massive shared set of content. Users have resource pools (money, storage, bandwidth, whatever) -- all apply some slice of their resource pool into the system and then all users are contributing to the servicing of content that is globally accessed by the group as a whole.

All "static" or mundanely common assets are served from this resource pool.

The regular pinning and seeding applies to all other "niche" content.

as more users access/gain interest into that niche content, the more resource units it receives?
This is similar to GNUnet[1] in many ways. GNUnet, besides offering anonymity and infinite application-building possibilities, comes with an interesting incentive mechanism for making nodes keep others' files.

There is a project to port GNUnet to the browser going on here[3]: https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web

[1]: https://gnunet.org/

[2]: https://unhosted.org/decentralize/26/Decentralized-reputatio...

[3]: https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web
ZenPayroll is hiring Rails, Backbone Software Engineers
The oDesk terms of service do have clauses which give you ownership of the work done. Realistically, though, what are you going to do if he's in Asia? It's hard enough just suing someone in a different US state.

(not legal advice)
As a technologist, you know that the worst thing that you can do is over-constrain the problem before you start. You'll kill creativity and prevent yourself from getting a truly great outcome.

Perhaps "artificially constrain" is the real problem. Constraints that are rooted in real world limitations lead to the elegant design that others are commenting on here. Constraints that are kind of made up BS can, in fact, mess things up pretty badly, just as the author suggests.

I mean, if there is solid logic behind the constraints, it helps foster good problem-solving and good design. But constraints that lack that solid logic can very definitely cause things to go awry.
I don't see this panning out well. Between the wonky incentive scheme, the lack of usefulness, and the mishaps with broken hash algorithms and stuff, there is not a lot of promising stuff going on here.

Is there something I'm missing? Does Ethereum actually let us do anything new, or better than we can do it now?
I generally think that pre-mined cryptocurrencies are bad, just a lottery for a small group of insiders.

And this ethereum sale is pre-pre-mined ... pay now for the chance to get pre-mined currency later.

I'm intrigued by the concept, though. Decentralized storage, compute, scripting and secure exchange is an ideal platform for autonomous corporations.
Is this the same technology used in the glasses.com iPad app? I remember using something exactly like this a couple years ago.
I wonder if it can dial 911 or other emergency numbers. If it was installed on a large number of phones then activated all at once and played one of several pre-recorded emergency type audio files, that seems like it could put serious pressure on emergency response teams.
> So now they use any and all excuses to try to finish the job and completely take over the West Bank and other Palestinian areas despite the war supposedly being over.

Israel removed its last remaining settlements in Gaza in 2005. Israel gave up control of parts of the West Bank even earlier. There's a grain of truth to what you're saying, in that Israel wants to hang on to parts of the west bank that are strategically valuable and have large Jewish settlements, however, even the right-wing Israeli government has no interest in a long-term occupation of Gaza or of much of the West Bank. The costs are too high and the benefits are very limited. The path that the Israeli government formally supports is a two-state solution which would involve a Palestinian state comprising Gaza and the West Bank, with Israel trading some land inside Israeli borders for certain settlement blocks.
Woke up, fell out of bed

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup

And looking up I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in seconds flat

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke

And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Xiaomi announces $13 Mi Band wearable and first LTE phone
Even without those conditions, it's a problem. If I have too many tabs open in mobile Chrome, t.co will flat out not work. As soon as I "close all tabs", it starts working again. I have no explanation for this.
Great post! I find this very helpful!
Massdrop Helps Manufacturers Meet Customer Demand
Facebook's Corrupt Personalization
I think the key mechanic that makes games like Minecraft fun is simply the creative element. Once players are given the opportunity to not only experience a dynamic world, but also shape it, that's when they feel that it's truly not static. Otherwise, the "procedurally generated" aspect is just eye-candy, as the reddit post mentioned.
> Also, please note that before the release of the Genesis Block in the winter of 2014/2015, ether will not be usable in any way, in fact it won’t technically be created until that point in time.

This doesn't exactly instill confidence. Buyers are purchasing an IOU, which is the opposite of a trustless, distributed system. (At least they're up-front about it.)
I think it would be nice if more serialization formats could at least support timezone-aware date/times and deltas, as they are used really really frequently and it's a total pain to have to do a second parse to deserialize them.
That sounds like the Roton by Rotary Rocket:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Rocket
My first real experience on a computer with an operating system (that didn't just boot basic) was using CP/M on Z80-based computers. The CPU portion of the computer was huge by today's standards, but since the predominant floppy drives were all eight inches across (and only 180KB) you needed a lot of space.
Sixth-Grader Surprises Conservationists with Invasive Lionfish Project
Really big citation needed.
Maybe you know someone who wants a studio in the Tenderloin?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/4551822399.html

I had to break my lease on this when I got fired as part of an acquisition, yay. If someone doesn't rent it soon I'm going to have to pay another month. I thought it was a good place. Jones street is central and it's a top floor unit with lots of storage space. There is a cool marble counter top that makes a nice bar area as well. Gets good sun, check it out, pass it along. Anything really I'm desperate.
I loved watching Kildall co-host Computer Chronicles. It's a shame he died so young.
All programming jobs vary widely, from scenes straight out of Dilbert to ones from The Social Network.

That said, here's a typical day of a regular programming job:

9:30am - show up (10:30am in California)

9:30-10:15am - read last night's emails. Emails topics include group messages from executives, vague questions from sales/marketing/QA, help questions from other developers, plans and deadlines from your manager, and about 300 automated messages from dev bots you'll never read.

10:15-11am - reply to some emails and fix misc issues in code and build systems.

11am-11:30am - team meeting to discuss goals and deadlines.

11:30am-12:30pm - read the news and rally the troops to eat lunch.

12:30pm-1:45pm - lunch

1:45-2:00pm - read the news

2:00pm-6pm - actual work (including programming some new features, fixing bugs, setting up builds/releases, testing, researching issues on the web, reading/writing wiki pages). Special note: if your job is bad, this time will never be available to you and you'll be in meetings or filling out forms for IT/accounting.
I've been working on combating this problem for a few years now. I'm working on a game called Spire (http://hitboxteam.tumblr.com/), which is a mix of Quake and Roguelikes. Every procedural dungeon creator I've seen so far seems to just use pre-made rooms or chunks of rooms, and shuffles them around. It never feels like you're in a new world each time, it just feels like you're in the same world jumbled up.

For the past few years, I've been working on an alternate system, which is to use a goal-oriented design based around the player experience. Each element in the world is placed purposefully, instead of randomly.
I do this by emulating the traditional level design process. I think about every action and intention that goes in creating a level manually, and reduce it to rules for my system. The goal is that the end result feels crafted to guide the player through an experience, rather than to rely on the player to create a experience for themselves.

Examples of the generation behavior:

- Lights are placed in areas to guide the players attention towards the primary path, or treasures and dangers.

- Geometric features are generated based on spatial aesthetic rules (eg. a pleasing amount of symmetry and repetition), as well as gameplay rules (eg. jump distances based on player capabilities, corridor widths based on desired feeling of claustrophobia and combat difficulty).

- Unique color palette for each seed.

- Parameters of room construction have emotional analogues (high density -> claustrophobia; harsh angles -> tension; high symmetry -> order; sweeping vistas -> a moment to take a break; gradually lowering elevation -> an unsettling descent).

- The curve of emotional parameters over time have varying mathematical relationships to other parameters' curves, so every seed feels like there is a unique consistency to it.
I mean still run and maintained by only that one person who started it.
Ethereum is truly innovative; the first genuine stab at a post-Bitcoin blockchain.

It's also going to take many, many years to work the kinks out. The scripting language is so much more sophisticated that it'll be quite some time before the ins and outs of attack vectors will be reasonably understood.

I'll save comments on the mining for another time; I'm not totally up to date with their current plans. One thing any mining strategy needs to have a solution for is the popularity / security dichotomy: Bitcoin has provably much more compute than you securing the network. This makes you want to tag on to Bitcoin, with, say the side-chain proposal.

On the other hand, if you do that, pre-mining becomes harder, and you will be dealing with ASIC cartel economics. If you go the other way and build a 'non-ASIC-able' proof of work, you probably don't want to accidentally get on the ASIC bandwagon when you've promised your customers that they won't be on it.
Docker is not a VM and should not be treated as such.
Just because my dog is called Napoleon doesn't mean he's the king of France. What kind of ridiculous name is that?