skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article touches on the "backdoors" used to help customers unbrick their phones, which provide access to more information than is really necessary.
...with bubble sort.

Might want to mention that in the title.
There are a lot of cool things about this, but here are two that caught my attention:

>> Exotic high-energy states that are hard to generate in the laboratory at positive temperatures become stable at negative absolute temperatures

and

>> ... whereas clouds of atoms would normally be pulled downwards by gravity, if part of the cloud is at a negative absolute temperature, some atoms will move upwards, apparently defying gravity
I saw a cloud chamber in operation at a German university, very impressive.
What you refer to as a bad attitude from Adobe is actually the biggest antitrust and corporate bullying scam in the entire history of the Internet, courtesy Steve Jobs. If you are really interested in figuring what happened, I invite you to check this Facebook page https:www.facebook.com/OccupyHTML5.

If you want my personal insider opinion on the facts, and what is wrong with both Adobe and Apple, check this posts and all its comments: https://www.facebook.com/occupyhtml5/posts/10151861946595679.

If you want to know what Jobs was scared of, and why he took such extreme measure to exterminate competition to iTunes and AppStore by killing the web, despite threat of international antitrust investigation by both FTC and EU Commission, check this Facebook note: https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephane-beladaci/one-code-an..., and this post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152254219025679.
By the description it seems like they have reduced the energy so that not only intermolecular energy is reduced (or somehow stop), but also it reduces interatomic energy some how. Is this possible? It´s there another atomic absolute zero still to be discovered beyond 0K?

I´m have no idea about physics, so surely what I say doesn´t make sense.
The section titles are for classification, not the facilitation of linkbait. (usuallly)
I hope this article gets some attention. I have felt a lot better from high intensity training. Much much better than half hour long slogs on the treadmill.

I really believe it is the best for general cardiovascular fitness.
So, US government can order any private company to suspend working with any list of companies, just like that?

I'm not defending nor attacking anyone here, just honestly inquiring, as I haven't had a reason to think about such issues before.
That assumes customers do not eat all the computation gains. That's an incorrect assumption, cloud customers will always eat all computation gains. Every unit of extra power a customer can get at zero additional cost, they will consume. It's a corollary to Moore's Law, and it's why customers bother to upgrade processors each generation.

In the time Amazon's cost for 10 Ghz went down by half, the demand for processing doubled.
That kind of offshoring is definitely bad, IMO. We aren't talking about outsourced PHP web development sweatshops, but incredibly high-tech research. As one poster below mentioned, you are losing institutional knowledge & traditions. That has to have a negative long term effect on your economy.
I've been thinking about why this idea of cyclicality is so powerful and persistent in the absence of any evidence, and it's probably not only inspired by notions of "spirituality" but also because everything on Earth seems to be cyclical during the normal course of human experience. Maybe we're tuned to expect things to always work that way, even though not even the conditions on our home planet are really cyclical when you look at longer time spans.

Still, I find it interesting. Recently a hypothesis was floating around that after the universe reaches maximum entropy this would somehow reproduce the conditions where a quantum fluctuation could produce another universe. It's irrational on several levels to just postulate that without any concrete reason, and all the more astonishing since even if it were plausible, no living thing would be in existence at that point, and not even the building blocks of matter would "survive" such an event.

Even if the universe worked that way, there would be absolutely no reason to feel comforted by it.

I get that people are looking for cosmic harmony or maybe a sense of meaning when they postulate these cyclicalities, but in fact over superhuman time spans almost nothing in the universe is actually recurring. We're all just ephemeral patterns helplessly sliding down the big hill of entropy. Our universe is incompatible with the notion of permanence, even if it's introduced through the back door in the form of eternal cycles.
Beane doesn't have much utility in a franchise with a big budget
I don't see how the algorithm is relevant here.
Do you have examples of where people have been extradited from other countries due to NSA collected data? I'm also curious about the drone part. I know they have been used in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq to kill. Have there been cases where they've picked off people in London, etc?
Thanks. I've never tried it out and was curious if anyone knew.
I believe the author's argument is that the Red Sox could have achieved more and/or spent less money with Beane as manager. I find the argument plausible, but (like many things on 538 of the same nature), it seems like they oversell the case: I also find it plausible that Beane would not have achieved similar results either due to sabermetrics not performing well in winning championships or his particularly advantages/idiosyncrasies not working as well when applied to higher paid players.
It was meant to be hotels in a single country, it's still operational at http://bookinbulgaria.com

In this business, the big competitors all reserve a bunch of rooms in the hotels and manage their booking themselves. The hotel is then not allowed to touch these rooms.

The model here was to give the hotels a reception-desk piece of software and have them use it to maintain availability. A lot of the hotels that signed up had nothing like this, so it was definitely a win for them. Armed with exact availability, you can have a much better booking system (and of course, if the hotel only wanted to give you a chunk of their rooms, they're perfectly capable of doing that).

Hotels can sign up on their own (including local bank details, etc) and just need to be reviewed before showing up on the site. It supports i18n, scheduled payments, lots of bells and whistles.

The fact of the matter is that this failed because of market reasons (too small a market, dominated by big players, primarily) but it may have a niche somewhere else on this planet. :)
That sounds like a problem with your government rather than the US. If they are agreeing to extradite people who haven't committed a serious crime, you should be voting to change that.
Needs 2013 tag, this is old news.
Faster trials in China because the government already has all of the data it needs.
this is true, but if you are going enterprise-grade you at least will sign an x-years support contract. If there are lots of end users for desktop software then it should in theory be profitable for a company to keep making it, rather than being dependent on volunteers to stay interested.
Probably a safe bet. It seems...unlikely...that Liverpool will do better this year having sold Suarez. Though, obviously, Henry may place a different value on profitability/championships in the MLB than in the EPL.
Cool thanks for taking the feedback. And careful with the "because google" line of reasoning, whats right for them is very often not right for non-drowning-in-cash/monopoly-holders.
It is far from necessary, and Vancouver has a good enough community of start-ups and industry people that you can probably get much of the aid you need/want without going the incubator route.

If you're looking to bootstrap, you may not be an ideal candidate for an incubator. Their 10% equity is based on the idea that you likely want to bring in investors and sell your company for 100x total investments.

Incubators and accelerators are very good at getting you ready to take investment. That's what they're all about. Sure, there is some stuff in there about helping you make a product, but I think you'll find a lot of that direction is often about "it will show investor x,y,z".

If you aren't thinking about bringing on investors in the first two years of the company, I'd say you don't want to do it. If you want to bring in investors, then I'd say incubators are an option.

I know the guys at Mover.io went through GrowLabs after Start-up Chile. Great bunch of really smart guys, and Mike Edwards (GrowLabs Founder & Principal) is also a great guy. They've got a solid team in there, so if you're going with anybody in the neighbourhood, they're the right ones to pitch.
Shut Up and Tell Everybody
More importantly, it has managed to replicate the entire hosted rack experience without requiring a company employ staff to manage it. Rackspace is nice but they use OpenStack, which still struggles behind the plethora of networking options and protections AWS has - including VPCs, load balancers, firewalls, subnets both private and public, and so on.

There's very little I can't virtualize in AWS that I might find in a typical rack at a co-lo facility, and in that, AWS has no competitors.

(There are other offerings with varying degrees of awesomeness - Softlayer comes to mind - but bang-for-buck, my company still bets on AWS. My only gripe is I/O and the need for local-SSD-fast disk access for clustered KV database stores, which may finally cause us to start looking elsewhere.)
Why it isn't called "Game of Squares" is beyond me
Wow, this is awesome! I agree the CMS form builder would be an great product just in its own.

Is there any way (currently) to populate fields in a CMS form based on live data (like entering multiple choice answers and then picking the correct answer)?
Ah yes, the well known "topple enemy leaders by restricting their access to Linux tech support" strategy. Gets them every time.
> as [AWS] matures to the size of a company like VMware

LOL. VMware has never been able to hold a candle to what AWS is doing. To draw an equivalency between the two is misleading.

The true danger to AWS is not coming from any of their competitors (Azure is a long way from not sucking, and the Google challenge, while serious, only supercharged Amazon's growth).

Their true danger lies in the fact that Amazon doesn't treat their engineering/product employees well enough. The AWS products will suffer from high turnover and poaching if they don't address this.
A modular IRC client some friends and I wrote/use:

https://github.com/iibot-irc/core

Based on ii (a file-system-based IRC client from suckless) with cron for regular tasks, inotify for responding to things etc.

(Not actually intended for other people to use, although its been abstracted enough that at least one other person has.)
Do postdocs ever end in your field, or can you build an entire forty-year career out of a succession of three-year postdoctoral appointments?

If you can work as a postdoc forever, can you do this with confidence? Which is to say, what are the odds that you'll wind up washed up at age 34, or 44, or 54, driving the mid-21st-century equivalent of a taxicab, after your PI's grants dry up and you can't find any other PIs who need your possibly-quite-esoteric research skills?

Tenure would help, of course. What's the ratio of assistant-professor openings to Ph.D.-level graduates in your field?

Getting your own grants might help. In your field, do people who have done, say, five postdocs in a row routinely get awarded grants in their own names?

(Full disclosure: I did a postdoc for fun, once. It was fun. There are many worse ways to spend three years of your life. But it was an expensive detour from my eventual career.)
Amazon may be going after Square with a credit card reader of its own
The first time I went to Mexico, I was excited to get a fresh coconut, a hole cut in the top with a machete and a straw inserted. It was much less refreshing than I expected, so I don't understand this trend.
US can do it as an economical sanction. In this case it doesn't seem to be effective though.
I've always enjoyed ii. And anything from suckless for that matter. I was a heavy dwm user until I switched to xmonad.
> If the government decided to fund maths PhDs directly, they'd need a ready-made corpus of people who could decide who gets funding. They'd need people who have published and who have proved that they know what they're talking about.

Government research grants already fund maths PhDs and this process (a corpus of people who decide who gets funding) is how NSF, DARPA, IARPA, etc hand out grant money.

One problem is that the university takes a 60% cut off the the top of government grant awards. What for? I dunno, many places, the football team, padding the endowment, building new B-school buildings, hiring an army of mid-level administrators. It certainly isn't to pay for researcher (professor and postdoc) salaries, they are paid from other grants, again, from the government. It isn't to help with the grant award process, professors (and their students) write all their own grants.

The Academic tradition is alive, but the University has become a bloated beast siphoning life from the researchers and the government. What was a support infrastructure has a life of its own. It needs to be stopped.
It's always a bit of a shame when software provides no affordances for the colourblind. It's not nearly as uncommon as some people think it to be. Games and visualisation software tend to be particularly bad culprits in this.

(Also, you want the one on the left)
That, too, isn't the issue. But I can't answer a comment criticizing my impression of Paris without referring to Paris, can I? Also, please refer to my first comment, I was trying to make a more general case you might agree with.
That's a cute strawman of what people in the industry do. It's similar to saying that all post-docs do is resubmit the same paper to conferences/journals for an entire year until one barely accepts it, at which point they are so disgusted with their own work that they hate to even talk about it.
5 rapid pushups and 30 seconds of plank followed by 5 squats. Tune to fit of course, but a really good micro exercise.
The American government kidnapping people to torture at Gitmo or bombing people's homes into rubble over Google searches isn't something that actually happens. So, it's not something choosing another search engine can reliably protect against.
There is a large variability in the water for fresh coconut. You have to pick it at the right point.
If you want to run this can of experimentation on your own, you can easily get these data points from the command line using iStats[1].

[1] https://github.com/Chris911/iStats
> Sidenote, I'm sometimes a little befuddled that we would be afraid of putting radioactive material in the ground. The ground is already full of the stuff, and we don't spend much time worrying about an earthquake spitting up a boulder of yellow cake in our backyards. Ok, the concentration is different, but sometimes it seems like worrying about putting salt in the oceans.

Not only is the concentration different, but also the composition. I haven't heard of plutonium occurring in nature.
I love having postdocs too, but what after that? I run out of postdocs. At some point people are going to stop considering you for math postdocs because you've been out of the PhD too long. And while it's great to make 40-50K and think about math all the time, the cost in stability of moving a family around every two years is ridiculous and unsustainable. Ok, now you've moved your family around for 6 years or done the long-distance thing and no one will hire you for a postdoc anymore and no one will hire you for a faculty job. What then? Perma-adjuncthood. Now you get to go back to 30k a year and still have no job security, and less time for research. So what was the point of that sacrifice?

If you want to do research in a field like math and you can't get a professorship, you need to have an outside income that still allows 30 hours a week to think. If you want to do research in math and you can get a professorship, you need to protect your time fiercely even if you're at a research school and you're close to doomed if you are teaching 3-3 or 4-4. (I've seen some people do it.) So that dream of working on things that interest you with very little oversight is temporary pretty much no matter what.
Great headline. Repeated bursts of ~6 seconds (aka interval training) is what they're talking about here, not 6 seconds total.
In the costal areas of India there are considerable amounts of coconut trees. Its not uncommon for a family with a moderate lot to have dozens of coconut trees.
Having used the Baidu Android software, it's really really nice. I'd love to see a version in English.
This video shows off how easy it is to manage, pretty impressive (I don't work for Aerospike by the way, I'm just happy to share about it)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF83TmR-NME
IDA Pro is available on Linux, but I think you were looking for a free option. Although the shareware version of IDA Pro works very well under WINE (the shareware version is an old release that is missing some features and is before they added Linux support)
I think in a lot of environments, it was fed to animals. So, its kind of brilliant to repackage it for humans to eat directly.
"To give some idea of speed"

Purported speed. Please, we've all seen enough wildly hyped NoSQL databases now to remain a little cynical, haven't we?
I was thinking along the same lines, a startup devop is a completely different person than the person who customizes Lotus Notes or SAP for a blue chip company.

I recently interviewed, and the guy was frightened when I told them I would probably not be at the same company in 5 years. Nope, I work night and day, but I'm burnt after 3 years on the same project, that's how it works. But in those 3 years, I bring the dev team from interns to a professional state, get a new UI out, and take some funding (well, at least I did it twice), and try to spread some values I deem good in the team.
That's not true at all. Amazon charges sales tax in lots of places and it hasn't really affected them much at all.
"just look at the cost savings"

Purported cost savings.
The Sox had not won a World Series since 1918(!), and hadn't appeared in one since 1986. The offer was made in 2002. They made him an offer, thinking that he would lead them to a Win after an 84-year drought. Despite his refusal, they were still able to win 3 championships.

Maybe this shows that while Beane can get you wins, his method may not work in building a Championship-winning team?
From my own experience, endurance and strength come from either faster reps, or more weighted reps. Essentially, if the power wattage output of your body is high, you'll benefit immensely.
While software should be designed with accessibility in mind, ideally this could be managed by the display, allowing applications to be agnostic to the needs of colour blind users. Would it be possible for displays to insert a colour-transformation layer to shift all colours to different palettes which are more distinct for each type of colour blindness? This might only work for partial colour blindness, but does anybody have an idea of accessibility software like this?
How much money went into its development if you care to share?
Not meaning to offend you, but... what's the point of this submission?

Webworkers have been here for a while now...
I have heard lots of good about interval training. I remember Freakonomics podcast mentioning it being the most effective exercise versus time spent.
MLB playoffs are a crapshoot. You can construct a team that consistently performs well over the 162 game regular season but once you reach the postseason it often comes down to luck and which teams are hot at the right time. Billy Beane has been very unlucky there.
I don't quite get the article...

I understand that the shrinking of the black hole will cease, if underlying space/time is discrete. And I understand that that will happen quickly from POV inside the black hole, and slowly outside.

What I don't get is why once the newly formed white hole begins to spit out stuff, it will continue to do so. Why won't gravity pull it together agian?
^ Wow is all I have to say. Solving PHP's grammatical syntax issues alone is a big thing, I commend efforts like this, it seems to work pretty well too (based on playing around with it for a few minutes).
Well, Facebook made one (HipHop) and ended up with 1GB executables.
Iceland. Its unique situation gives it a lot of geothermal, but there's quite a bit of hydro as well. Of course most of us are in much bigger countries, often with higher population densities, and not sitting on such convenient geography, but it was more the different mindset that I noticed than any specific technology.

Try and put up a new onshore wind farm anywhere in the UK, and every NIMBY and countryside group for a hundred miles will turn up to complain. Propose a new nuclear power station, and it'll be 200 miles, even though not far away in continental Europe there are nuclear power stations that could pose just as big a threat here if anything catastrophic happened. No doubt the same people will be the first to complain if they can't afford a guaranteed 100% electricity supply and have to put up with rolling blackouts in a decade or two. (If you're in the UK, I encourage you to do the maths and consider the geopolitical situation; that isn't as implausible a future as we'd all like to believe.)

Meanwhile, it looks like Wikipedia has several whole articles about the remarkable achievements of the Icelandic in this area (though I think the figures we heard while there were actually slightly better than even what is cited there):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Iceland
Is it possible to pivot into another market sector.

For example, holiday home rentals? bed & breakfast? car rentals? I think there is a lot of potential in the car rental market... e.g. allow private vehicle owners to rent out their vehicles. There are probably a few insurance details to work out, otherwise it sounds like you have 80% of that sort of system built already.
The reason that negative temperatures are hard to explain is that the definition of temperature in the sense used by physicists is not very accessible.

It has to do with how much a certain property of a system (object) changes when you add a certain quantity of heat energy.

In certain edge cases adding energy makes this quantity change in the opposite to usual way and therefore the temperature is negative.
"You gave me an example of someone with a bank account on both sides"

Wrong. I was assuming one side would purchase Bitcoin cheaply on an exchange (eg. the migrant worker in Italy) and the other side (eg. China) would sell on a Bitcoin ATM. So 1% (or less) + 5% of fees which is still less than the 8.5% average of remittances. This is more evidence (again!) that Bitcoin can and does make it cheaper.

"No they don't."

Even banks would disagree with you. Running an ATM (even staffed by one guy sitting next to it) is cheaper than a branch office (which needs employees too). The office has higher costs on all aspects: rent (more square footage), employees (likely more than 1), other utilities, etc.

You look very silly, and alone, to argue that Bitcoin cannot make remittances cheaper. Virtually everybody would disagree with you.

Overstock: come back after they have done 1 year of sales, we will see.
So I tried to find a more recent picture after reading the article. I stumbled upon this Gizmodo article which indicates that the left side of his face hasn't wrinkled since the accident, due to the paralysis caused by the beam. You wouldn't guess that he was struck by a proton beam based on the picture in the article...

http://gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-you-stick-your-head-int...
Self-fulfilling correlations