skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2011 there was a Popular Science blurb on General Fusion and Jeff Bezos' investment in them. I looked through papers and news reports about them and was reminded of the comment in the movie "National Treasure" by Jon Voight discussing this potentially mythical treasure, "... another clue, and then another clue after that, its nothing but clues!" So much of the 'upstart' fusion research is just that, pure research trying to learn enough so that you can begin to answer questions like "Exactly how would we get energy out of this in useful way?" The numbers are small, $10M here, $15M there, $3-4M over there. But there is so much risk stacked on top of risk that the only funds available are literally funds that the owner expects about as much return as they would get by making a bonfire out of them, with the exception the bonfire would keep them warm for one night.

I was hoping Google's R<C effort would help with this but was disappointed in how that fund was managed with regard to new science. Perhaps its going to require Elon Musk to get involved :-)

[1] http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-05/jeff-bezos-inv...
looks great, love the simple design
The idea of bisect is that you only need to do log_2(n) steps to find a bug in "n" commits. Even if you have to do manual testing, it's still normally pretty fast, unless you have hundreds and hundreds of commits.
Back when I was hacking on DF ~4 years ago I believe it was actually the item tracking that was ruining performance in big forts. The main loop had to touch every item in the game every frame, including things like every rock mined by your dwarves. You can usually get significant speedup in big forts just by destroying all the spare rocks (I think the best way to do this in-game was put them under a bridge and then close it on top of them).

I ended up having more fun hacking on DF than playing it, but it is an interesting game.
I posted this a few days ago, but I will repost it here:

If they are terrorists (criminals) and the government is not prosecuting them, the government is breaking the law.

If they are innocent of wrongdoing (not terrorists) and the government is depriving them of rights afforded to others, the government is breaking the law.
> It looks like the drives are not hot-swappable,

That's correct.

> so I'd guess Netflix is able to remotely track loss of redundancy and will just send out an entire replacement unit when needed.

Exactly. If a drive dies, the capacity of that box is just reduced. Once enough drives die, the box gets an RMA.
Your single anectodal evidence of single non-updated driver does not really prove anything about "going backwards" or tell anything about the merit of new audio stack.
I made a career move from dentistry to programming. And I would say that anything I've used pre-clojure is a good approximation of pulling teeth. But even pulling teeth has the benefits of knowing when you're finished and the direct customer feedback is usually good.
While this is another 'Well, works for me" kind of response, I've never had a problem printing from a laptop with OS X. Windows, yes. But OS X generally just finds the printer and goes, with no configuration necessary at all.

Aren't most Linux distributions still using CUPS, the system OS X uses under the hood?

(More on topic for the actual post here, the last couple of times I've tried to install Linux on a laptop getting wifi going has been a bit finicky, but usually so has getting things like booting into a GUI. I've attributed that less to Linux than to me trying to stick it on obsolete Apple hardware, though.)
The way you make money with open-source is by not trying to sell the open-source product. Apple releases lots of stuff as open-source, but it's not a problem because they don't want to sell you Clang. Similarly, Red Hat aims to sell big corporate contracts, not licenses to their open-source software.
The market pressures faced by firms (which, I'm assuming, are responsible for anything you might view as "firm efficiency") are similar to evolutionary pressures faced by any living creature. Evolution doesn't create "perfect" or "efficient" creatures, but predominantly creatures that are just "good enough." If you can live long enough to reproduce and pass on your genes, you're in the club.

An animal with no natural predators, for instance, may get bigger and less adept at fighting off potential threats (after some generations,) which is kind of similar to the stagnation of a monopoly.
Yes, but ultimately the old farts won't admit that code is overrated when it comes to writing real share. Not to mention how most the tools he rails against are certainly code in any real sense.
For a startup? If you are poor at networking and going to events and such I think you will get value out of it in growing your network.
Other opportunities: Depends. I think its a great idea for people who are mid level accountants, finance folk in big firms like Cisco or Google (classmates of mine) who need this to get anywhere.
For engineering, not too sure.
> businesses ultimately don't care about how easy it is to integrate but how much it costs.

For many large-scale businesses, the ongoing cost of a higher rate will overwhelm the startup costs of building it and you will be correct.

But that is not the only sort of business in the world. For many tiny businesses the startup costs exceed their available funds -- they would pay ANY rate so long as the profit from the new customers it brings exceeds the cost to existing customers.

For some startup companies, the savings in integration (both of dollars and more significantly savings of time) is a short-term cost to be minimized even if it means a larger cost in processing fees to be shouldered next month or next year. After all, if we don't get a demo out the door there won't BE a next month or next year.

And 2.9% + 0.30 really isn't all that high. It's high enough to hurt, but not high enough to drive away customers. For some, this amount really makes a difference and they can do better, but don't fall into the trap of assuming that EVERYONE is like that.
Where did you find that the check-in rate is low? The only numbers I could find state that it's in the millions per day.
Link to the original pdf http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1227228/2013-watchlist...
Ethiopia Becomes China’s China in Global Search for Cheap Labor
I think whether this is good or bad actually depends on the WebGL implementation. In Chrome for instance, the actual GL rendering already happens in a separate process, and the main thread only writes to a command buffer, which is already as cheap as it gets (but may increase latency).

As for the shader compilation, I guess there's just as many argument for as against a DirectX-style byte code model, and the situation in the GL world is more complicated because GPU vendors have more freedom (to introduce their own GLSL extensions for instance). GL implementations already do a lot of under-the-hood magic to hide the parsing and compilation overhead, like caching compiled shaders, deferring shader compilation, and compiling shaders in a separate thread (not necessarily WebGL implementations, but they're free to). I'm not saying this is perfect, or preferable over a byte code model, but it's not 'broken'.
Announcing reddit live (YC S05)
Did those unlimited international calls also include to international cell phones? Cell phones are usually excluded because the termination rates are so much higher as my calling card screenshot showed.

Edit: I looked up free - a well known French ISP. Guess what - they have free calls all over the world to landlines, but charge for mobile - http://www.free.fr/adsl/telephone.html
what would be a safe assumption?
I'd hook up my PGP key. Or X.509 certificate. Or old good username and password pair. Something I can truly own and handle. Why do I need some third party to have an identity?

Then I'd enlist accounts with any imaginable third parties (email addresses, Facebook, VKontakte, Google+, BitCoin addresses, GitHub, BitBucket, StackOverflow and so on and so on) as something I have at the moment.
I tried setting proxy configuration so that apt-get would work with my employer's proxy. I put my (plain-text) username and password into a dozen different configuration files before it finally worked. Then I changed my password, and couldn't remember where all I had put my credentials in. I ended up having to reinstall the whole OS because I couldn't figure out how to undo the proxy settings that took me forever to figure out in the first place. Skipping over the fact that I had to put the password in plain text.

So yes, I agree.
>I think the reason they don't say Namecoin explicitly is because at the end of the day, it doesn't particularly matter which *coin's blockchain gets used.

I disagree. It matters a lot how much hashpower a given Blockchain has, else it can be easily destroyed (through forking) and/or interfered with (50% attacks). So Bitcoin has by far the most secure blockchain.
It doesn't show any of the BTC I purchased from coinbase, only the $20 worth I got via TinkerCoin
Yes, but ultimately the old farts won't admit that code is overrated when it comes to writing real software. The old "programmer" job died years ago. Not to mention how most the tools he rails against are certainly code in any real sense.
Ha, true. Or maybe http://www.whorepresents.com ?
Rule #3: anyone reading about anyone reading about someone with the rulebo--. Screw it, a few more rules and we can approximate this whole mess by using the 'degrees of separation' theory:

EVERYONE'S A TERRORIST.
Food provides energy and when it isn't burned turns into fat.
ONS is using Namecoin. Namecoin isn't free to use, is it? I'm curious to know what is the business model behind this and onename.io, since they must pay to add entries to the Namecoin blockchain.
Sure, but when you set up the project, wherever you host it, you're going to have to choose an SCM before you have any community. If you want to provide the least friction for potential contributors, you'll want to to use the SCM most commonly used today in open source, namely Git.

Add'l note: Other hosts, BitBucket, Google Code, etc. also offer Git hosting. So, yes, choose whatever host you want, but choose and SCM that will make it easy for folks to contribute.
Prefund-A virtual incubator for early stage startups.
It generally isn't clear (or discoverable) which release(s) of AppScale correspond to (compatibility with) which release(s) of GAE. Is there a changelog or roadmap document I missed?
Naming projects without any collisions is really hard to do, unless you like names like 'e31239'.
OpenSSL and LibreSSL PRNG, what’s different?
If this was a commercial product I'd be interested in buying one. The formfactor (yes, yes, no internal batteries) is impressive for what essentially amounts to a full PC.

Although myself, much like the OP, would almost certainly run RetroPi off of it.

There are a few emulation stations kicking around (you can find them on Amazon) but nothing near this compact or with this good of controls.
Six people indicted in StubHub fraud ring
Maybe I'm a bit paranoid but, even though afaik no proper research has found evidence of it, maybe putting a device that is constantly using wifi right next to your brain for the entire night might not be the best idea healthwise?
Better URL too IMO.
But..., but..., it's FOR THE CHILDREN!
Help NASA with telecom relay to Mars [pdf]
OP here. I'm helping out w/ a lot of the BLE and mobile architecture. I'd love to hear what sorts of things the HN crowd would like out of a home automation platform like this. For example, we're considering developer SDK's, RESTful API's and all that good jazz. We've event tossed around the idea of using these as iBeacons. Let me know what you think and some hacker use cases you'd like to build would be great as well.
I've successfully used "git bisect" in situations in which, as part of every test, I had to "git stash pop" some local changes, then do the test, then remember to "git stash save" them before continuing to bisect. (Alternatively, "git apply" the stash, then "git reset --hard" to blow away the changes.) That's how you can handle situations where test code has to be added to the program to demonstrate the problem, and that test code doesn't exist in old versions.
If you aren't blessed with luck, one might say that PulseAudio still requires you to be a hacker to get sound. Over and over again. Every time you think it's fixed for good, it'll prove you wrong.
British inventor is going to FART AT FRANCE with a GIANT MECHANICAL ARSE
I've been actively checking into places for around 4 years. Several of my friends do as well.
Ah, interesting. I barely move my Thinkpad, too, so it's not that big of a deal, but it's very sad all the situation. Someone mentioned here a github user was maintaining a driver for the card he was using, so I decided to check out if someone had a patched version of the Realtek I have on my computer, and it seems that there is: https://github.com/FreedomBen/rtl8188ce-linux-driver

You might want to check out https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes
and https://github.com/dz0ny/rt8192cu
A family member was lost to SIDS so I understand your worry. Hopefully the peace of mind far outweighed any stress.
hey, it's been great listening to your talks online at microconf! any chance you could detail this some more? do you end up asking for their mailchimp credentials? what if they want to make changes to the page?
It would be great if you could pay an additional $10 and get a video confirmation of the destruction (they could start with a closeup zoom on the serial number).
This is one of the many negative effects of social media and everyone being so connected.

With all of the mob Internet justice I've seen lately, I don't blame her for being afraid.
Um, Lucene? It's been ported to C#. http://lucenenet.apache.org/
I think that "get screwed" is a bit harsh. Mobile operators in Europe (and in Ireland, specifically, where I have the most experience) cheerfully sell you unlimited voice and SMS bundles, just like in the States. I have a Meteor number ("area code" 085) that can call any other mobile Irish number for exactly 0.00EUR/minute and it costs me 20EUR/month, or 10EUR if all I want to do is talk and use pay-per-use rates for data and text. Heck, 30EUR will get me all of the above for a zero-rate.

It all comes down to the system you're used to. I'm used to the US system so it seems "odd" that I pay to make a call in Europe. Then again, with a mobile phone in the States that doesn't have unlimited SMS or voice, I pay to originate the voice or text contact all the same, _and_ the recipient pays, too. Know what numbers plumbers advertise on the side of their vans in Ireland? Mobile numbers, readily identified when starting with 083-089.

Number portability is, simply, what it is. Initially, number portability in the States was only allowed between wireless numbers until years later when WLNP was allowed. Even then, you could only port numbers between carriers with facilities in the same area/local code. It's only been in the past six years or so that nationwide, wireless number porting has been a reliable thing and only really because cellular systems in the States have grown so large with so many regional ratecenter connections. Landline number porting still takes almost two weeks with some carriers, if it even works.
No: you would cherry pick the change needed to bring in the test code, run the test and decide whether it is "good" or "bad". Then before running "git bisect good/bad" you would eliminate the cherry-picked change with "git reset --hard HEAD^".
f.lux is the only reason I have a jailbroken iPhone. I can no longer stare into other people's phones at night without f.lux
If you guys are interested in getting these costs down, my company KnoxPayments.com could help. Without credit card fees, it's easier to charge way less and still have a solid system.
God, I love this post so so much. "What good are statistics? At first, I didn't think statistics were all that important. All we'd lose is most modern improvements in automobile safety, comfort and fuel efficience, the FREAKING TRANSISTOR, and possibly even Allied victory in World War 2. But then I thought about it some more, and realized that statistics really are important, not just because otherwise we'd all be driving crappy cars without modern electronics and being governed by the Nazis, but because of how it teaches us to look at the world!"

Thanks, guy.
This is part of why the Linux kernel needs a kernel debugger. I've worked with other kernels where we can actually observe what is going on using tools (DTrace on Illumos), and problems like this become something that can be tackled directly, without having to go through all this nonsense.
Millions compared to what? Their historical peak check-in rate? Number of active users? Number of total users?

Everything I've seen anecdotally points to Foursquare having a small core of highly active users (people who check in multiple times a day), with a very, very, very long tail of infrequent/never users.

I have no inside information on this, but I'm also willing to bet that their current daily check-in rate is lower than what it was at their peak. The whole checkin phenomenon came and went, and while it's not gone entirely, it's simply no longer relevant to the mass market. "Millions" of checkins a day is, frankly, very low for a consumer tech product that has existed for 5 years and taken $160mm in funding.
Putting African Startups on the World Map
Is it possible you have more than one account/wallet on Coinbase? We currently only pull 1 account from Coinbase (whichever one is your first). We are working on making it pull all your accounts.
At least 3) is adressed with Chocolat, an other text editor for Mac OS.

I've came to like it while pondering dropping 70$ on ST when i got Chocolat for free in some kind of software bundle (can't recall which), so there's that..
>> Obama hoped that his response to the “underwear bomber” would be a turning point. In 2010, he gave increased powers and responsibilities to the agencies that nominate individuals to the lists, placing pressure on them to add names.

That part bothers me the most. By telling agencies to add names to the list, you don't automatically get more bad guys, you're just going to get more people on the list. A fair question would be "how much do we need to expand our scope to where we would have listed a certain person known to be a bad guy that slipped through?" And of course one data point isn't really terribly relevant, but the answer to the question may be enlightening - or not.
What color space does this use? Is it HSV? You should consider moving to something more perceptually based; all these look slightly off to me.
Isn't this just a CDN? ISPs quite happily host Akamai and Google nodes -- are they being paid for maintenance of those? Empirically, from an old job, the answer is no (in fact, we had to petition for quite a while to get some Google boxen), but that's in a country at the tail end of a long, long pipe. Is it different in the US?
Some ludicrous statistics:
"In a recent court filing, the government disclosed that there were 468,749 KST nominations in 2013"

The government is saying that there are ~1,500 known or suspected terrorists per million population. Or in other words, the city of San Francisco is home to ~1,250 known or suspected terrorists. or to put it another way. That there are 1 known or suspected terrorists every 3 city blocks in San Francisco 468749/313.9e6837442/(46.87/(636.5581/52802))
Be warned that, despite the name, the Reasoned Schemer is only tangentially about scheme; it focuses on miniKanren, a somewhere-in-the-Prolog-ballpark logic programming language created by one of Friedman's students, that is implemented as an extension to the Scheme language proper (among other languages, most notably as the clojure core.logic library).

Also Friedman and Byrd did show up to a few clojure talks and seemed, from the online videos, to be highly entertaining - I remember their using miniKanren to automatically generate scheme programs that evaluated to 6 being particularly fun.
As I mentioned, it has less to do with the underlying technology than the effort it takes to tie them together.

Setting up HP WiFi printers is not seamless. In know how to do it (using hp-plugin), but things could have been packaged to work seamlessly.
You're not considering the time it takes to manually test.

* How much time does it take to do a clean build?
* How much time does it take to do a deploy?
* How much time does it take to reproduce the issue manually?

Add those together and multiply them by the number of commits bisect makes you check. It can add up.
This will only further the ambitious goals of DACs (Distributed Autonomous Corporations).

This is all kind of amusing. 1) Government architects Internet in a decentralized fashion so that it survives damage from a nuclear attack. 2) Government tries to control Internet and fails because Internet, being decentralized, routes around control because it is seen as damage. 3) Bitcoin is pure Internet money.

The math isn't that hard here. This should be interesting...
Since uptight school district frowns upon explosive, I think we're going with lasers.

I've also considered helping my son learn the math to do something most of the judges wouldn't be able to follow.
Yeah, not a bad method. And I suppose if I've already commited my unit test, I could use a "git reset --soft" to put the test in a stash. Next time I use bisect, I'll try to do this. Thanks
Learn how to be a CTO (work in proggress)
No, seriously there is no physics to be done without statistics. Even in classical mechanics you need to repeat measures and then average, propagate the error and so on.

I understand this is all some rhetorical device, but basically all of the facts he quotes about the domains I know are wrong.
And this is why I am getting a Macbook.
I also run a time tracking service (http://www.spiketime.net <- sorry, I had to ;-)) and just tried Tiempo.

I really like the idea of instant invoices and the approval process (just the fee is a little bit high, I think).

Some random thoughts:
- What's the difference between an employee and contractor - is it just the label or do they have different rights in your app?

- When you start the mobile app for the first time without using the website before you don't know the meaning of the icons for draft, submitted and approved (I thought the icon for approved was the save-button).

- When using the timer I can't select a customer/service when the timer runs as you do this when you click stop timer. Also it isn't possible to make any notes on a running timer
This. Also exactly why each ecosystem has their own trust mechanisms built right in.
Now that I created something, how do I spread it
I derisively referred to my own suggestion as a "conspiracy theory" because I think this conversation is kind of bogus.
If they're willing to pay $400 to get that $10k in they really ought to be bothered to spend 5 man minutes creating an invoice the old fashioned way, and maybe another 5 man minutes chasing the payment if it's not made on schedule.
> The way you make money with open-source is by not trying to sell the open-source product. Apple releases lots of stuff as open-source, but it's not a problem because they don't want to sell you Clang.

In other words, the way you make money with open source is by not making money with open source. The downside of this is that you don't make money with open source.

Unless you count using open source (as it contributes to the development and monetization of the non-open-source software you make money with). But then you could say everyone is using open source to make money, which I think misses the point the article is trying to make.
Funny timing

How to get on the government watchlist? How to get followed on Twitter by @the_intercept?

there was a story about the latter posted on Hacker news earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8075384 )
I am reminded of a few simple words of wisdom from Michael Pollan - "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."