skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some broadcoms are decent, with blobs in the kernel. But it's pathetic they never implement power saving. Same tends to apply to Intel, sadly.

The result is that my system uses 1.5W more than if I ran OS X. Otherwise, I have very good power consumption, so it doesn't have an impact on overall battery range. But very annoying.
It's worth noting that JIT compilation techniques are also an extremely advanced form of self-modifying code.
Why shouldn't an ISP charge Netflix to host a box in their datacenter? I'd charge you a fee if you wanted to store your DVDs in my house, even if you let me watch them.
I have a better idea: why don't we all start paying these people large sums of money rather than merely thanking them for sacrificing their lives while we don't have to?

We'd be less likely to send people into battle if we actually had to pay our soldiers what they're actually risking.
Fourthly we don't live in a fantasy novel where knowing someone's name means something.

It doesn't do much for the dead person, but the names we chose to celebrate shows the traits we value. We make people heroes to celebrate what they did, because we dream of a world in which anyone would be willing to make the same sacrifices for other people.
That is a bit simplistic and is missing a bunch of things.

First the numerous C++ and Java backend services that do most of the heavy lifting like producing the feed, doing searches (of various types, both from what people type in, and internal ones), sending and receiving messages, spam and fake account detection, &c. The PHP portion acts as a front-end to these services.

TAO is the graph caching system that has largely replaced memcache at Facebook.

Just on the traffic side, there is the global traffic management system (for dynamic and for static content), different types of load balancers, CDN-specific caching software, image and video transcoding/encoding, &c.

And that's just the stuff involved in the production path - there are all sorts of behind-the-scenes things that do async work of various types - either as soon as possible (video encoding, updating) or on a daily or whatever cadence to update infrequently-changing things.
Nevermind! The emotive clap trap is much easier on my taxes. I'd hate to actually have to pony up for things like VA hospitals. Better to just give them nice parking spots and Veteran's day parades.
Same applies to all other CDNs that ISPs host?

Although this makes a fairly rich target of concentrated content ;)
is there any discount you can provide for a non-profit idea?
Microsoft does support their back catalog, but it is hardly their focus. They focus primarily on current and future offerings of their various products. GoG on the other hand came about as a back catalog company. That is what they did. It's in their name. We all understand that they have branched out and offer new games as well, thus the article about how they are no longer just a back catalog company. I don't understand your hangup about this.
I don't see the relationship between Turing-completness and dynamic memory allocation.

Even in a classic Turing machine I interpret the tape as a single pre-allocated array (of infinite size).

When talking about Turing-complete programming languages, a relaxed definition with finite-size memory is assumed, and to me it seems that it's just hair splitting whether program hits that limit via malloc() call or by advancing a pointer in an internal fixed-size array. Dynamic memory allocation is just a name for a bunch of bookkeeping done on a fixed-size memory.

In practice asm.js programs are not allowed to dynamically allocate any memory from the browser: a fixed-size array is created before the asm.js program starts. From the point of the VM programs are just shuffling bytes within a fixed-size array, and yet, we can run "Turing-complete" programs in asm.js.
This. Wifi is the #1 reason by far that I ditched my $800 thinkpad to switch to a $3500 MPB. (to still be in a unix environment)

On my thinkpad, with one of the known, supported wifi chipsets, wifi would work about 8-9/10 times.

But because I'm doing web dev stuff, those 1 or 2 times would basically brick the laptop for doing any kind of productive work. And that's not worth any kind of savings or effort....

afaik it's a driver problem first, before a linux wifi problem, but really I have no idea why it was working or not working.

But if anyone is out there listening, this is how much the problem is worth to me- roughly $2500...
Airline booking? Now it's an "Uncubator" http://www.aviato.com/
What I learned at the HopeX Hacker Conference
I would be interested in looking at applications with applied electric/optical fields.

Could you shape the plasma after it was created, shaping the waveguide?
You can also promote your startup on my "Internet Startups" Google+ community, posting (only once) under the "Introduce your startup" category:

https://plus.google.com/communities/100445483815501942968
I'm confused by the picture in the article... I thought anyone dealing with ebola was wearing a positive pressure "spacesuit" ...

The picture shows someone in the most primitive surgical gown, covered in blood, with exposed skin.

Is that just a stock photo ? It seems awfully cavalier...
It's not the same. If I want Verizon to host my server, they have nothing to gain, but I do. So, yes, they should charge me. If instead they host a CDN server for a big content provider, they save money on routing content within their network.
Way easier and more secure to simply use scripting to do this locally.
LIDAR -- that's related to driverless vehicles. I wonder if this might have implications in that space?
I wonder if contracting other diseases along the way had somehow contributed toward his resistance, as long as the immune system has recovered since. The plague stopped rather abruptly in the Middle Ages either due to sudden herd immunity of the survivors' immune systems or other unfavorable circumstances to its propagation.

I imagine there exist a portion of the population with a genetic mutation that is resistant to Ebola, considering it may have existed in the wild for a much longer period than its first description in the mid 70's.
Thanks for your feedback. GBrowser is to cut down on tab clutter. You can browse a number of sites in the GBrowser tab.
Saying that "Everyone should know these doctors' names. We need to make international heroes of these people." is unproductive masturbatory semi-self-congratulatory fluff doesn't also imply that the story itself isn't something that should be reported in the news.
Perhaps someone could explain to me in simple terms why FB's stock has been surging for the past week (and is currently $75 in after-hours). Did people have an "inkling" about the financials?
I thought ANSI C had that roughly around 1990? I remember having to forward declare functions when I took C at University in around 1991 or so.
Thanks for the detailed response, just noticed you are co-host on the Stratechery Podcast :)

There is so much to explore in this topic. A recent article on Pinterest said that Buzzfeed made a change on their social sharing buttons to increase the size of Pin button, only for traffic which originated on Pinterest. It resulted in a large increase in re-pins of the article.

Star Citizen seems to have done a reasonable job of providing people with a choice of in-game enhancements. Apparently, some have willingly spent thousands.

Could pay-what-you-like museums and/or libraries make use of these techniques?

Another topic is non-DRM online content which have "Donate" buttons. Are there techniques like the Buzzfeed/Pinterest one, where the Donation Pitch is customized based on data about the traffic origin of previous donations?
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'Epistemology - we've heard of it.'

Are you saying that science should never be used to guide policy, because scientific conclusions are always debatable?

As it happens they are - for varying values of 'debatable.'

When you get a reasonable level of informed consensus - preferably one that has a reasonable chance of being undistorted by commercial interests - the debatability stops being interesting or relevant.

The problem isn't that conclusions aren't certain.

The problem is that political decision makers believe their personal opinions about policy and outcomes are at least as valid as those of full-time PhD-qualified professional researchers.

And voters believe them. Because rhetoric.

You don't need to know who Thomas Bayes was to understand how this leads to policy disasters.

You don't even need to believe that experts are always right. You just need to understand that they're more likely to be right than an amateur with a sharp suit, a financial sponsor, and a strong opinion.
2nd edit - removed the post completely, I was being far too offensive.
The two cultures of robocars
It should be fixed now. Note to self: host images on imgur not dropbox.
This reminds me of the "bowling pins" strategy.
Have you ever seen the famous quote from Herb Simon?

Suppose that it (the visitor I'll avoid the question of its sex) approaches the Earth from space, equipped with a telescope that reveals social structures. The firms reveal themselves, say, as solid green areas with faint interior contours marking out divisions and departments. Market transactions show as red lines connecting firms, forming a network in the spaces between them. Within firms (and perhaps even between them) the approaching visitor also sees pale blue lines, the lines of authority connecting bosses with various levels of workers. As our visitor looked more carefully at the scene beneath, it might see one of the green masses divide, as a firm divested itself of one of its divisions. Or it might see one green object gobble up another. At this distance, the departing golden parachutes would probably not be visible.

No matter whether our visitor approached the United States or the Soviet Union, urban China or the European Community, the greater part of the space below it would be within the green areas, for almost all of the inhabitants would be employees, hence inside the firm boundaries. Organizations would be the dominant feature of the landscape. A message sent back home, describing the scene, would speak of "large green areas interconnected by red lines." It would not likely speak of "a network of red lines connecting green spots.
>No one (but you) is saying that a group of unmanaged freelancers (i.e., ANARCHY) should be compared to good management.

I'm not saying anarchy. Some of the freelancers could be "managers" of other freelancers. That's what today's film director is. He's a freelance manager (hired by the producer) of other freelancers (actors, stuntment, etc,). Movies used to be made almost top to bottom by "employees"[1] of a movie studio. That has changed. In today's freelance system, they lost some efficiencies (movies cranked out quickly) but also gained some (hire desired actors directly without dealing with other studios that have them under contract to "borrow" them.) Maybe the world's internet and government reforms could evolve and remove so much transactional friction that a legitimate high-volume freelance model could beat the corporate firm (at least in some industries.)

>All of the items in the list are things that can be changed in a traditional organization;

Many of those items are accumulated side effects of human foibles. They also exist at a family owned restaurant. Every mature company has those issues. Yes, those items can be improved but I contend they cannot be completely eliminated. Human beings are imperfect.

>... Microsoft isn't as good as a company that size could be. And that's his point.

But that's describing almost every mature company in existence (not HN startups). We already know all that (see Dilbert cartoons). Therefore, his laundry list is not interesting. What would be interesting is if he was making a case against Theory of Firm[2] with his thought experiments. He made a minor attempt with a hypothetical government oversight/regulation. There just isn't much substance to his essay.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm#Transaction_...
Well at least once they pick some open source project, they contribute back the incremental iterations they do.. at least is better than companies that use and do not contribute back..

I think Xnu is a mix of the CMU kernel + Freebsd kernel stuff + apple specific things like graphical drivers interfaces, etc..

They keep it open the things they borrow and even improve.. im sure X11 improved a lot after apple started using it..

But it still debatable to defend the OS as open source..
just to elaborate a little bit more on my point
They do. This broke Viscosity VPN software for me between DP3 and DP4, and the Viscosity guys say they are waiting for their key to be signed before they can release a new beta.

This also broke AT&T AllAccess (software for my LTE USB modem).
Anyone checked out pydio? it was formerly called ajaxexplorer.
http://pyd.io/
I was thinking the same thing with .NET, though not 2 weeks. Let me know if you ever do it, would like to hear how it goes.
i don't think he was deriding it. he just doesn't understand that 260M people speak it and that, given that, it was a bad example.

French (74M) or Italian (60M) would have been a better examples.
Two more esoteric Lisp interpreters:

Lisp in BrainFuck:

http://code.google.com/p/zozotez/

Lisp in Befunge:

https://github.com/shinh/beflisp
The videos from the early days of Ebola and Marburg are quite remarkable. There is one that I recall of a group of young doctors wearing face masks and purple nitrile gloves, and being very delicate removing those nitrile gloves.

I don't know if that would pass JCAHO muster, much less protect one from Ebola. Cavalier is one way to put it, but I think the biggest issue is resource constraint.
It's not clear to me in what ways this is different than Trello apart from the flatter UI -- care to clarify?
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Wouldn't a simple USB WLAN solve your problems in the 2/10 case ? These things cost a couple of $ and are smaller than a USB stick.
Little or none. LIDAR for road driving applications is hardly limited by range or resolution at this point. The problems are cost (which this does nothing to help with - it requires MORE lasers), and dealing with rain/snow/dust, which this also does nothing about.
The photo is real.

> Health workers take blood samples for Ebola virus testing at a screening tent in the local government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, June 30, 2014.

Ebola is generally transferred through bodily fluids so being careful and covering skin is good enough most of the time. Keep in mind that a lot of these outbreaks happen in poor rural Africa. Some of the earlier outbreaks were made worse by the clinics being so low budget and reusing needles.
Same here, I'm running btsync across multiple machines / servers, would love to give OwnCloud a go but the Android / Windows offerings for the syncing of files was terribly lacking.
Our engineers talk about lots of things (including how the architecture scales) on https://code.facebook.com/posts/
I am looking for the inverse of this. I will pay $5000 for a salesperson to find my first 10 paying customers. If the development cycle can be shrunk to 2 weeks, can the sales cycle?

Edit: I am serious. Please message me if you have any leads.
My macbook pro (running linux) has a strange issue where I have to run setpci -v -H1 -s 00:01.00 BRIDGE_CONTROL=0 before the backlight works (when using official NVIDIA drivers, nouveau works fine).

My T410 thinkpad required some XOrg.conf setting get the backlight working. It really is strange how bad the NVIDIA drivers are with this backlight stuff.
Here is, in my opinion, a better version of this proposition: $2,500 to design and build your MVP, with co-founder equity.

Explanation: If $X is standard pay for a developer, you are asking for $X/2, in return for founder equity. This gives both parties a stake in the success of the company.

The developer is motivated to prioritize good ideas and the product person has some assurance that the engineering is invested in the idea.
> That's a non-issue. Call forwarding exists outside the US too(!). You can buy generic numbers, or a landline that forwards to your cellphone (or rings at both)

How does that work from the caller's point of view in caller-pays systems? Does the caller pay the landline rate (because he called a landline), and then the owner of the landline pays the cellphone rate for the forwarding from the landline to the cellphone?
The sarcastic side of me would like to say that facebooks success is due to the recent increase in embedded video links in the news feeds. The videos are annoying. But FBs reach is increasingly impressive. Surely that's the driver.
Yes I know HN isn't literally for hackers its just that I was hoping maybe some security people are on HN...

If not on HN then I have no idea where to find someone except maybe g+
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It's possible, but not much of a discount given the already low price point. Shoot me an email with the idea and we can discuss.
At the moment, not a lot I must confess :) We're still in MVP, and learning a lot as we go on what features are important.

Currently planned: Integrations with source control (GitHub, BitBucket etc), the ability to pull in contextual data from third party apps (Sentry, HoneyBadger), the ability to escalate tickets from support to the dev team from Zendesk, Uservoice etc. Plus support for more dev focussed workflows, planning, reporting etc
It actually really shocks me that a lot of invoicing tools that support time tracking still only allow for $rate * $hours invoice creation. I invoice weekly, and end up needing to piece together invoices by hand.

(I run a product, Planscope, which supports daily/weekly billing for budget tracking, but we don't have invoicing... yet.)
The definition of malware in that article is quite broad, and includes apps which are just 'collecting and sending GPS coordinates'.

Even if one of the apps I've installed from Google Play is malware (by the definition in the article) it doesn't mean my phone is 'owned'. An attacker can't run arbitrary code on the device or get copies of my data or send texts pretending to be me.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-fin...
So far I've been very underwhelmed by btsync; I couldn't seem to get it to actually start syncing between my devices. I've gotten it to sync test data and the like just fine, but as soon as I ask it to sync large folders of real data, it fails to connect, and it doesn't have any real logging or debugging features, nor any 'force' buttons, so there doesn't seem to be anything to be done about it.
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The world bank includes a very small number of possible remittance services and basically ignores any of the small grey networks most people actually use.

http://www.cabel.it/media/documents/cemla_slides.pdf has an example of a remittance service that offers fees of 1.15%(See page 7).

So that service would cost 1.61 EUR.

With bitcoin the process would be:

Transfer money to BTC-E which is 1% + the payment source fee so we're already over and we haven't even gotten our bitcoin yet.

ok lets try another one since that didn't work out and I'm sure we can find cheaper.

Kraken is free for SEPA deposits. I can't find any example fees for SEPA transfers from Italy to Germany but lets say 0.10.

Trading fee: 0.28
Withdraw fee is in btc(0.00050) so hard to say but currently around 0.31 then there is the bitcoin fee to deposit on the chinese side in okcoin which is another 0.06 then luckily its free to trade at ok coin and only 0.4% to withdraw in CNY which is 0.56

Total cost: 1.31

So assuming no slippage(which there would be since any country receiving a lot of remittances like this would be a buyers market) you can go through 3 extra transfers and save yourself 0.30 EUR on your 140EUR transfer. This also assumes my SEPA fee is right which I think it might be quite low for reality. Italian banks tend to have very high transfer fees even nationally.
You should she them just to find out why :P
Btw, now that you don't care, can you please tell which company this is.
If you feel the need to ask for better evidence that you wouldn't be wasting your money, then this product isn't for you--you're clearly already smart enough ;-)
Should WebSocket Server API Be Event Based?
Show HN: Database insights made easy
I do the same thing with regex one-liners.
Most of the items in their list have links to research. For example[1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3899677
What about support for estimating stories? That's a big part of the reason why we don't use Trello where I work.
@op, we're using phabricator's board view like trello right now since we can't really use trello well as a dev team. i would love to use this once you guys are integrated with things like github.
Dr McKenna at Notre Dame does research in this area [1].

Apparently the biggest risks (from what I recall) is the typical 'western' bed contains a lot of obstructions and places to get trapped: headboards, blankets and sheets, etc. Japan has one of the lower SIDS rates, and co-sleeping is very common there -- but beds are low to the ground, and I guess heavy bedding is uncommon.

http://cosleeping.nd.edu
The BMW 550i[1] has very similar size, peak power, and peak torque ratings compared to the Tesla[2][3], so let's use that as a comparison.

Obviously, torque availability at 0 rpm with a flat curve is the notable difference, but remember that launch control in the BMW will also occur at peak power RPMs with a clutch or torque converter taking up the difference in road "RPMs", so it's not that dissimilar a comparison at least in regard to the strength of gearboxes, half-shafts, differentials, axles, CV joints, et cetera. (Consider too that the BMW has changeable gears, not a fixed ratio; the complexity should give Tesla a nod for transmission strength)

BMW 550i (base) vs Tesla Model S P85
Cost: $63,900 vs $87,070
Curb Weight: 4277 vs 4647 lbs
Peak Power: 445 vs 416
Peak Torque: 480 vs 443 lb-ft
0-60 mph: 4.5 vs 4.2 seconds
Top Speed: 130 mph for both

So I think my point stands; I suspect a software update in the Tesla could likely alleviate strain to the gearbox, without much tangible sacrifice in specs.

I'm curious what "to the wheel" power looks like after the final differential ratio, but have to leave :)

1 http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Content/Vehicles/2014/5/550iS...

2 http://www.teslamotors.com/models/specs

3 http://www.teslamotors.com/models/features#/battery
>i don't think he was deriding it. he just doesn't understand that 260M people speak it

Right, I wasn't deriding anything. It was just an analogy comparing something quantitative. I know Portuguese is spoken by many millions but it's still much less than 1 billion Chinese or English. I probably chose Portuguese at random instead of Swedish or Swahili because of the recent World Cup.

In any case, my point is that measuring economic reach of Portuguese in isolation as "inefficient" is absurd because there are other efficiencies of parenting (unrelated to whatever language they happen to speak) that wasn't counted.
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Yeah definitely, we used Pivotal Tracker for a long time ourselves. There's a lot to be gained, particularly from a scheduling and reporting perspective, by having estimates but without the strict sprints of Pivotal.