skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Certainly it isn't in modern times, but when we were shaped as a species?

When discussing evolution and species, it's best to avoid the past tense. Evolution never ends, and nature is shaping us as we speak. 200,000 years ago, we wouldn't have recognized our forebears, and 200,000 years from now, we won't recognize our descendants.
I think the demand for tech lawyers is proportional to how large the tech industry is in your area.

You might be surprised to find that demand for people with programming + law isn't as great as the demand for people with just programming. I think the reason for this is that non-technical lawyers can handle almost all of the work that a technical person could do (e.g. you don't need to know how to code to incorporate a company). Feel free to send me an email if you want to follow up: addison@cameronhuff.com.
Why 2400 hours - that's 46 hours a week! Maybe a founder is working that much, but generally they over-work and it's proven more than the tenuous 7 hours of sleep a night thing that 45+ hours a week is bad. e.g. http://legacy.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-less... etc. I think it's totally reasonable to work 45+ hours a week in your first year or maybe even 2. But after 3 if you're working 45+ hours a week you have a major, major problem.

Most average people are expected to work 2080 or 2087 hours a year. Seems a little disingenuous to bump it all the way to 2400 - if you're working over 45 hours a week on average you're over-working, which is far worse for your health.

Even still, using the 17 hour mark and 2087 hours it's 33.6%.
> Only when being installed. When operating, the true cost per passenger mile is much lower than for interstate highways and cars. It's best to avoid misleading economic comparisons.

Well, the interstate highways are already installed.
Are you seriously equating the internet going out for a few hours to a nuclear meltdown?
Very nice visualization, but the conditions necessary for fossilization should also be considered when weighting the types of species and drawing conclusions.

The conditions for fossilization occur with lower frequency in terrestrial ecosystems compared to aquatic systems for example, so even though complex life originated in marine ecosystems, if there had been more terrestrial species than aquatic species, we would not necessarily expect to find this in fossilization as far as I know.

Plant evolution is something that is extremely interesting to me, and I liked that part of the graphic. The arms race in ecosystems (With the classic example being rainforests) driving biodiversity, and the evolution of plants from gymnosperms to angiosperms in response to this (among other factors) is fascinating!
Hiring becomes easier, i.e. do not have to screen for certain framework experience. Know JS? Good, that's all you need!

How is training someone on your custom framework any less arduous than training them on an existing framework?
Do infographic designers usually do their own research? : web_design
Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy
> Well, yes. From the article: "the FIA - restricts them to 60 staff members at the trackside, including engineers"

Does that include the people at the factory in the mission control? I don't think it does. McLaren's Mission Control (in the videos) already has about 20 people working.

I didn't even count the actual pit crew in my estimate of 50. There's around 20 people in the pit crew.
Well, the origins were far more benign than "borderline fraud" - my original role was doing product research in distributed database design and performance. I gave a lot of talks and wrote a couple of (non-acaddemic) papers on how to build widely distributed database systems, focusing on Oracle RAC.

My job evolved to be more of a business-focused role, but my title did not. The intention was never to mislead, and indeed, when asked, I never claimed to be an academic.

> Taking a title like that, while actually not doing it is a borderline fraud

That seems like a strong conclusion to draw. My title now is "Product Architect", but I'm not an architect, nor do I exclusively design products.

A quick skim through Crunchbase yields:

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-hammerbacher (bright guy, not an academic)

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bram-cohen (not an academic)

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-slowe (not really an academic)

And that's in the first 10 results. "Fraud" seems strong.
They're using deuterium, but the figure mentions that they're fusing it with helium. But helium-3 is very expensive, and I'd been under the impression that deuterium / helium-4 fusion required impractically high temperatures to work?
You see this with young, cocksure male drivers going like assholes down the highway, swerving between lanes and telling themselves they're really awesome. What they don't realize is that they haven't hit anything yet because the other drivers are all getting the hell out of their way.
Ashton Kutcher's A+ viral content site accused of plagiarism
My advice will likely be laughed at, but I chose to follow Jesus Christ. Start with the Book of John. I'm 45 now, and have been following him since age 20.

I have friends who are millionaires, and one who is close to a billionaire. I don't think they are any happier than I am, and in fact my relationships are much better than most of theirs. It's weird, but when you do finally have tonnes in the bank, and you've had your fill of partying and the good life, it becomes a bit tiring. Then the question becomes "now what?".

Also, what do you do with your guilt?

Once you get the meaning of life sorted, everything else makes sense. Whether you are rich or poor, healthy or sick, or

This is, of course, just my opinion. I respect a person's right to believe whatever they want, all I ask is they respect my right to believe whatever I want.
Hmm, do you know which spot in the video they discuss that (it's a long video)?

Seeing that they are using just controller cards instead of raid cards, and FreeBSD, it seems even if they were not using specific features of ZFS, the performance and other automatic things ZFS does to provide superior (compared to most (all?) other filesystems) data integrity and protection... they would be using it by default...
Interesting! I didn't realize so much of the NAT in place was full-cone. I thought it would all be symmetric.

Non-symmetric NAT seems like a major security vulnerability, though. Couldn't I hijack any application whose eAddr:Port I knew simply be replying faster than the actual server? My traffic would appear to the client as identical to traffic from the actual server, no?

Why do people deploy NAT that is not symmetric?

Also, why couldn't Skype and BitTorrent simply use those techniques rather than relying on certain users to serve all the firewalled traffic?

What is the demographic of your product where you're seeing a 90-95% success rate?
I believe they mean lossless energy conversion
>Never go into debt.

This is bad advice. Sure, don't go into debt that you can't properly service, but I've made some good money that started out as debt (large investments, etc).
Very interesting. There's "raging" debate over in some Destiny threads (which shares some MMO traits) regarding the lack of matchmaking for certain raids (the designers require you to form up your own band of friends, because it's intended to be a difficult challenge that a random lot could probably not take on) and whether or not things should be accessible to all or tailored for a more dedicated few. I saw several comparisons to how WoW had watered the experience down, and now I know more. Thanks!
I enabled the ability for my Mac to speak text to me. I highlight several paragraphs, use a keybinding to start it reading the text, and then follow along while it reads the words. It's amazingly helpful.
Actually bus is more expensive at cost per passenger mile. Math has been done numerous times lately.
> 10k active government contractors on GitHub

Fixed that for you.
Growth Hacker for The Muse (YC W12) going from 1.5M to 2M monthly UVs
It's interesting that you can justify this investment in at least four separate ways, independently:

1) Even if there is a low chance of success, it would be wildly profitable if successful, and investing early gets you a good share if it's successful.

2) Fusion power would make the world a better place; investing in this way, when you already have huge returns and it's someone else's money, is actually rational even if you think it's not the best financial investment.

3) This looks like an amazingly smart team; even if they fail at fusion, they might find something worthwhile in the process. Just handling magnetics and high power well could be a useful toolkit for other problems.

4) "Halo effect" -- both because it's awesome science/engineering and because it shows a willingness to take extreme risks -- boosts YC (which probably doesn't need it) and Mithril (which is maybe even more awesome than YC, but nowhere near as widely known). If it loses $1.5mm but makes it more likely the next Facebook comes to either of these funds, it's a win.
We are hoping three years, three decades is just too late to matter. Part of what was not mentioned are the years that we have put into this already. Fusion is definitely a tough problem, but one that is worth it to solve.
Particle physicists measure the spin contribution of the proton's antiquark
I am totally blind and am a Voiceover user. From my experiences with talking to sited iOS users while Voiceover is a great feature and makes an iPhone completely accessible it is still not as intuitive as using an iPhone with site. I was motivated to learn Voiceover because I had been using computers for my entire life. Even with being motivated it took me several weeks to get proficient. If someone has limited to no computer experience and doesn't feel like they need to learn Voiceover then the learning curve is going to most likely be to hard for them to become proficient.
Watching the U.S. Digital Services `WhiteHouse Playbook` repository has been interesting. Strange really.

In the recent post on Wired with Snowden's recording [1] about why he leaked information, there is a call that seems to be answerable by things like GitHub repository activity. It at least feels like the public and government are finding a way to leverage technology as a means of cooperating on development of our social structure.

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/playbook

There is a lot of activity, to the point where one begins to feel that government activity is actually just another use of git like any other task. Illusion or not, it is starting to feel like the government is interactive.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
With bank interest rates at < 1%, having $2 million in the bank earns < $20K/yr. He must be rich or ultra frugal.
My (now out of date) experience is that high speed trains are significantly more expensive than direct flights in Europe.

I did a quick search and it looks like FRA to AMS return is about $400 by train, $164 by plane.
And they're also shit compared to other countries due to poor maintenance.
Well, the business model is hard to get right. It's faster than plane and car on medium distances, but capital costs are enormous compared to either. As far as I know HSR can only be directly profitable with insane population density (Japan). I believe it can be a net economic win for society in general, but a certain kind of government and populace is required to consider that kind of argument.
Those "boring" traditional jobs can actually pay quite well and are a lot of fun. Give it a shot, 25 is not old age. It sounds like you have some entitlement issues honestly.
they try to do the same - pulsed inertial confinement. Pulse of some force upon a speck of fuel (or a small plasma cloud of the fuel). Similar to compression stroke in ICE, specifically - diesel. Whoever masters the 250TW (that's "terra", like burning of 1g of gasoline in under 0.1 nanosecond) of power pulse delivery - wins the race. My bet is on Sandia Z-machine though to break even first. DPF (that Helion seems to be a kind of) is the next best contender (and probably more practical/efficient approach for household scale fusion reactors when we will reach that stage) i think.
http://botmasterlabs.net/
This is the official site.
Heavy water (oxygen + deuterium) bonds slightly stronger then normal water (oxygen + hydrogen). So you cascade water over electrosis (pump voltage though water causing hydrogen and oxygen to separate). And you get a higher and higher percentage of deuterium with each stage.

This how the German's did it in WW2.
FreeBSD is pretty standard for most storage servers, be it CDN's, file hosting, etc. When they say "BSD powers the internet", it's not really that much of an exaggeration.
The New Yorker wrote an amazing article on ITER and the pursuit of nuclear fusion: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bot....
Good to hear! I'm still learning a lot my self, but love it so far!
Perhaps low cost (25L, ~$600) is relative, depending on the purity, but am unsure how much scale a project like this would use.
Off topic but the graph of trust in the government in Washington descending from 73% to 19% is striking. Now there's a system that looks like it could do with disrupting or fixing or something like that.
It is a framework for the semantic web. It allows on the fly setup of data structures which you can then instantly use. It comes with pre installed datatypes and visualisations (both 2d and 3d), but user made datatypes can also be shared with eachother. It also comes with a reasoning engine so you can do some AI stuff. I set out to make an interactive nonlineair book, and figured out I need and want to make this. It took a bit longer than anticipated, but the framework is getting pretty steady now, and I can soon make a lot more with it than just the book I made it for. Hoping to put it to use with some test projects in the next 12 months. Will post on show HN once something worthy comes out. Tnx for asking!
The hard drives used are listed here: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware

Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 3TB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB
Power grid management is of similar complexity and it's a 24/7 job. Everything from current temperature to when TV shows end impacts the grid. Add to that just how expencive peaking power is and the incentives for extremely accurate modeling become significant.
Further, that student has no ID and misspelled your name, but some how you still don't get to go to college.

Google just keeps creeping deeper into the shade ...
Which fraction of the population need to frequently travel to cities greater than 50 miles away?

How many people needed cellphones in the 1950s?

You can't measure how many people travel to cities greater than 50 miles away today and extrapolate that to a future with high-speed rail, because it may be that the reason they don't do it is: they don't have an affordable way to do it.
Excellent news, I can't wait to drive a Tesla powered by fusion power.
Later in the article it mentions three years. So I assume that first mention was a case of forgetting to type a word.
This is done during flight test of prototype aircraft (and probably spacecraft as well to some extent, I haven't done that) - the data acquisition system on a flight test plane is incredibly advanced, and the data gets beamed down in realtime to a group of (real) engineers on the ground in the flight test station who analyze the data and communicate back and forth to the pilots again in real time. All in real time, the test pilots will decide what/how maneuvers to do based on learnings captured/analyzed, change the configuration of the aircraft systems/surfaces, intentionally induce failure conditions and faults, ... It's a real ballet between the engineers on the ground and the pilots, when the team is working well together. As you said, post-event debriefing, detailed analysis, recommendations/reports, aircraft changes etc are started immediately when the aircraft lands, to prepare for the next flight. It's very intense, but also very rewarding and a lot of fun.
It's more of a crypto transaction system, which has obvious potential uses as a payment system or a stock. There is no objective "supposed to be" for the technology, but obviously the primary focus of the Bitcoin community is as a payment system.
UPDATED:

So this little article has travelled pretty far! There were a lot of good tips, comments and insights into the origin of [x] but none as good as this email that I received from Windows 95 team member Daniel Oran.

“Hi Lauren,

A friend forwarded me your Medium piece, “X to Close.” He remembered that I had worked on Windows 95 at Microsoft — I created the Start Button and Taskbar — and thought I’d be amused. I was! :-)

It’s fun to see how history gets written when you actually lived those long-ago events. I joined Microsoft in 1992 as a program manager for the user interface of “Chicago,” which was the code name for what eventually became Windows 95.

So, who was responsible for this last minute change? As far as I can tell, this person is responsible for the proliferation and widespread use of [x] in UI design today.

It wasn’t a last-minute change. During 1993, we considered many variations of the close-button design. And the source wasn’t Atari. It was NeXT, which had an X close button in the upper right, along with the grayscale faux-3D look that we borrowed for Windows 95.

I wanted to put the Windows X close button in the upper left, but that conflicted with the existing Windows Alt-spacebar menu and also a new program icon, which we borrowed fromOS/2, on which Microsoft had originally partnered with IBM.

Attached is the earliest Chicago bitmap I could find that includes an X close button. It’s dated 9/22/1993. (In attaching the file to this email, I just realized that it’s so old that it has only an eight-character name. Before Windows 95, that was the limit.)

Thanks for your very entertaining essay!

Best,

Danny”

I guess you could say case [x]ed.

Thanks again to everyone who helped track down earlier examples of GUIs and early text editors that used [x] to close as well. Fascinating!
we had a joke..if they can't get someone to take over you while you're on vacation then the problem is not big enough..
The lesser plans seem like an easier/cheaper way to kick the tires around, but yeah a trial would be nice.

That said, 0.75% transaction fee seems really cheap if that's the full credit card processing... Not sure if it is though. Anyone know what this really covers?
Nice! At first, it looked a lot like https://data.sparkfun.com/ which hosts a similar service. (Sparkfun made all the code available with an OSS license at https://github.com/sparkfun/phant.)

But it seems that Dweet.io adds subscriptions and alerts to the mix - actively pushing data out to subscribers or when certain conditions are met. That's a nice addition.
>Then the question becomes "now what?".

Well, if you are a billionaire you can pursue just about any answer to that question. If you are poor, all you can do is hope that the answer is within your reach.
Both GF and us (Helion) are attempting to dramatically shrink the size and cost of fusion reactors. We are doing that by compressing a fusion plasma repeatedly to generate energy, rather than trying to heat and confine it for long periods.
The main difference is that Helion uses high field pulsed magnets to compress the plasma, GF uses pistons to generate liquid metal shocks.
Macaw Themes – be great to see what others are making?
Silicon Valley has evolved – it’s not about startups anymore
I completely agree with you but also feel like the big problem is people tend to state it as a case of "why the country, as a whole, needs high speed rail" and as you point out the vast majority of country really doesn't. Or at least doesn't think they do. We'd benefit greatly if we instead looked at it as a case of "why [state/city] should have high speed rail".

High speed rail from NYC to LA, while it may be cool and might be a nice big engineering challenge, really just doesn't appeal to most people. But if I, in central NJ, could take a train into Manhattan in under 2 hours, that would actually be incredibly useful and I'd love to be able to. Right now the time and cost of me taking a train from here to DC is prohibitively high compared to driving or taking a flight. These regional cases are where high speed (or at least higher speed) rail would really shine in my opinion.
It seems like they only make sense with youth discounts. I tried to take a train from Barcelona to Paris this week, but a flight was $100 cheaper.
Former Zynga and Fortinet Executive Mark Vranesh Joins Homejoy as CFO
What is meant by eccentric science? Would you be specific?
The one thing missing from all the articles about OpenConnect is any way for Netflix subscribers to see which ISPs are participating.

I'd like to know if my ISP participates and, if not, be able to call in to suggest they do. If they still don't join in a reasonable time frame, then I'd at least have the option to switch providers to someone that participates.

A program like this will be more successful if they allow for consumers to pressure ISPs to participate.
> Stafford says this evolved from the same mental mechanism that helped our ancestors’ brains make micro adjustments when they were throwing spears.

I'm not going to lie: knowing this makes my hours spent daily in front of a keyboard feel just a little bit more badass.
While it's an interesting article, for some reason I cannot select any text in the page in Safari. Strange.
> Helion Energy [...] says it has a plan to build a fusion reactor [..], a challenge whose solution has been considered decades away for, well, decades. Helion CEO David Kirtley says that his company can do it in three.

Three decades? Either this is a very long-term investment, or a very confusingly written article.
I know the Kindle Fire has accessibility support and I hear it's actually quite good. I haven't personally used it though since the Kindle app on an iPhone is quite accessible.
But nowadays the only way your investment income will pay for your expenses is if you were rich to start with, or you take the risk of losing a big percentage of your money to earn more than 3% interest.
Than rail: Sometimes.

Than single-passenger automobile (the point above): Only if the bus is empty.
It could be like Viaweb, and be written in Lisp.
Any kind of government is a beast that feeds on the fears of the weak and the abilities of the strong. Pretending that it is simply a machine that produces an output based on the input signal of the voters is disingenuous.
> The following system was developed and first deployed at the end of 2011.

This is very out of date. Their latest OpenConnect appliances use SSD drives, have higher capacity, and use less power. They're heavier, too.
I would be surprised if Coverity was integrated into any open source project's build system. All due respect to the Coverity folks, and Coverity is a great tool, it's still closed source. To be honest, I suspect the Coverity folks are getting as much (or more) out of running their tool against these projects as the projects are. I would like to see the scan results opened up too, which would be in keeping with the open nature of these projects. I'm willing to bet there's paranoia about competition duplicating features from Coverity, so that would explain why they limit it to comitter access (and required signing an NDA last I checked).

EDIT: I stand corrected - Python has integrated Coverity into their builds:
https://docs.python.org/devguide/coverity.html

It still bothers me that the scan reports aren't open; it feels antithetical to the nature and spirit of open source software.