skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear engineer here. Definitely not in the software industry, but still do a bit of coding, albeit mostly in Fortran because (most) reactor design software stays pretty far from the bleeding edge.

I come to HN for the startup culture discussions. Even though my field is pretty far from the software/tech field, it's pretty amazing how much of the startup experience remains the same.

For those interested, my startup, Transatomic, is developing a molten salt reactor that's cheaper than coal and (hopefully) as cheap as natural gas, just without the greenhouse gas emissions.

We just closed our first round of VC funding from Peter Thiel and Founders Fund a few days ago. More details here:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/08/05/nuclear-waste-start...
70 Years Ago – Formal Presentation
Watching Schrödinger's Cat Die
Can you help me better understand your post? What I got out of it was "so long as the readers understand it's not actually true, it's ok" but I'm not convinced this is the intended interpretation.
Anecdata, I suppose, but while I never cared for guns myself (until somewhat recently, I've become a convert), until I moved to Hawai'i, I honestly don't believe I'd been in a single home that didn't have a firearm in it. To be fair, I grew up in the South, Virginia and Tennessee, but never rural south, and, to be even fairer, my father was military, so a lot of the homes I'm speaking of were Marines.

That said, even outside of military homes, everybody I knew had a firearm of some sort.

Beyond that, as I said, I've always been a staunch civil rights advocate, but I'm a recent convert to firearms. I never had any experience with them or opinion of them whatsoever, and always believed that, hey, this is America, if I ever need a firearm, I'll go get one. It wasn't until my current home state attempted to ban a variety of firearms that I got interested in the history of the second amendment, and came to the conclusion that the bans they were enacting were unconstitutional.

Since then, in addition to the protests for marriage equality, against NSA surveillance, etc., I've begun attending firearms rallies. In my experience there, I've met many gun owners, many of whom have been asked to self identify as to whether or not they own firearms over the years, and overwhelmingly, the response is 'Nope.'

So, the long and short of it is that while I believe the 33% number is too low, I don't have any idea how low it is. Of course, having seen outright, provably false statistics in use by gun control advocates (and again, to be fair, the gun rights advocates aren't always forthcoming with statistics, but I have found their side to be more truthful), and provably wrong exaggerations (e.g., 40% of firearms were purchased without going through a background check), that leads me to believe that the variance is higher than just a couple of points.

Admittedly, I can't prove (nor am I trying to) that it's 50% or greater, but while the census puts 'urban' populations as comprising ~80% of America, most of those urban centers aren't big cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and outside of areas with heavy gun control, gun ownership rates skyrocket.
You should seriously consider consulting an attorney. There are clear contradictions in your statement, "Further, the code is in the public domain under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3"; code that is under the public domain does not need a license. The GPL requires that you have a copyright so that you can license the software under its terms.
Umm, you do realize that laws are made by men and can be changed, right?
I'd like users to be able to customize the controls and hide options that make no sense for the function of the game they're playing. Perhaps a scriptable user control interface that allows plugins for different game types would be a more optimal solution. Granted, I haven't messed with Vassal in a while, but the last time I used it, it was just a mess that would take longer to explain how to use than it would to explain the rules of a brand new game.
I am 32 and in Software Sales. I am busting my butt to get into the software industry through coursera, edx, udacity, books and side projects. I come here for learning resources that are often posted and to keep my ear to the ground on what is happening in the tech/start up space.
As I said,

> This will better incentivize more writing and good writing.
$324.5 is just a wild number or is there a math behind it?
Wow, excellent, incredible stories and writing. Thanks for sharing those.
I've been making "tea water" for a while now as a supplement to plain water, as I rarely drink any soda or juices. 1-2 teabags in a 2L pitcher goes in the fridge, cold brew for at least a couple hours. Same thing for fruit/herb infusions.

It gives me a hint of the flavor of tea, and it is very diluted compared to regular iced/hot tea preparations. I don't have any qualms about drinking a lot of it. 1 teabag for black/stronger teas, 2 for the lighter greens/weirder teas (like Korean/Asian roasted barley or corn tea).
Will I be able to view this on my phone? I might not have a computer handy live unfortunately!
Thanks for the 4 downvotes so far. I have a formal education in biology and my points were correct. Sorry about the tone. I guess we're valuing style over substance now.
It's not arbitrary. Hiring agreements (collusion) do not involve force or fraud. Do you truly not distinguish between bashing someone over the head for my stuff from agreeing to exchange something for it? The latter is voluntary and the former is forced.
Civilians in an abandoned McDonalds seize control of wandering space satellite
I don't agree with GP's argument, but presumably in such a hypothetical new entrants to the market could get the best engineers by paying slightly more than the collusion wage. This phenomenon would tend to raise wages, but we shouldn't imagine that it would raise them back to a "fair" level.
Oh yeah I need to tweak some stuff in the style after some other changes, thanks!

edit. Finally got off my ass and did what turned out to be a pretty trivial fix, looks fine for me on safari/ff/chrome now. Thanks for the nudge to deal with it.
> Take the argument to the extreme, is it OK for every employer in every industry to agree on wages and no-poach?

Why isn't it? Those agreements don't restrict or infringe on the freedom of others to form different agreements, or avoid forming them.

> What about colluding on prices?

Same exact situation. Price agreements don't restrict the freedom of other parties to set prices contrary to that agreement.

> Aren't these all the same infringement?

Without getting into specifics... Yes.

> The truth is sometimes society has to take away the rights of the few for the sake of the many.

I truly commend you for your honesty about what these laws are.

> The fact is rules like this almost certainly make our economy more productive as a whole.

I don't see where that's been demonstrated here. They certainly aren't productive for the firms who are punished for, or prevented from, forming such agreements. I would argue that the fact that firms do form such agreements when free to do so, means that they are productive for the economy as a whole by definition.
"... Our suspicions were unfounded. Later on the transit home, in the hour of nothing but straight and level fight, we discussed this within our two man crew. The running could have been kids playing as they are wont to do around campfires everywhere. How do you balance the benign with the threatening? ..."

Respect.
haha thanks! I got cons coming up if you're west coast and want to say hi in the flesh: Rose City, Rainfurrest, Emerald City. I was hoping to do a couple more but I missed some table application deadlines.
Climbshare is wonderful! I've resorted to the Android Photosphere function for capturing entire boulders, but a true 3d model is infinitely better.

I'd love to know if you're doing this with LIDAR, or reconstruction from 2d images.

How would I go about submitting climb data (mostly boulder problems) to your site? What data do you need,and in what formats?
Yes! I am also quite excited for FHIR!
Same, but English literature PhD student keeping an eye on being employable in the future if tenure disappears. Generally find myself writing Python as a hobby or for my dissertation.
It was a needlessly pedantic dissection of a stupid joke, one which itself should be downvoted to -4.
"Sponsored by Mailchimp" is absolutely a revenue-generating aspect.
Oh wait crap actually I am thinking about Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness. Those two titles occupy the same hash bucket in my brain.
Americans Are Bad at Math, but It’s Not Too Late to Fix
I am really quite surprised at the number of downvotes to this has received.

From +3 to now -4.
Interesting. I'll have to give that a try.
I see. I'm glad I asked here. Thanks.
It is not a free exchange when multiple employers have an agreement to keep salaries low.
More specifically, don't drink more than 1L of Earl Grey per day. Although they probably vary in bergamot content from brand to brand, so YMMV.
Anything obvious I could do to increase conversions?
How is this productive for the economy as a whole. This was done to keep salaries low, so a handful of people could make more money. How does that benefit the economy as a whole?
There seems to be a lack of dithering in the resulting images on the test page that makes the banding in smooth gradient regions very noticeable. But other than that, amazing job! Maybe it is just a settings issue.
*96
Not sure where you get that figure, the nearest star is only 4.24 light years away.
1/3 of the population and likely 2/3 or 3/4 of the regulations. The big states have WAY more regulations than the smaller ones.
Sure, let's consider it.

Let's say all companies form an agreement to not hire from any other company. They're now in a situation where either they must terminate the agreement in order to hire, or bid against other companies for labor that is not currently working for any of the firms. Companies bidding over labor drives wages upwards... not downwards.
Last Christmas I used Lob.com to easily create an app that converts email into physical mail for a relative who has no email access. Between Lob, Mailgun, and some open source PDF software it was a fun 24-hour project. The Lob API is head and shoulders above the competing mailers.

The code: https://github.com/wanderingstan/email2post

I first heard about them when they hired me to do some tight-deadline code contracting last fall. Leore was great to work with so I'm not surprised they've attracted a good team. Congrats guys!
Haha. Fancy seeing your post again :)
Announcement on planned withdrawal from exodus
Protip: accusing someone of sounding like a shill rarely leads to productive discussion.
Gurps' labour lost (1998)
Hotspot JVM Options – The complete reference (2012)
Do you agree with what Michael O'Church says about MBA culture? I've read a whole lot of his side of the argument but very little from somebody 'in the center of the MBAs'.
A bit late to the party on this one. Check out cpu "c states" and things like intels "speedstep." Modern cpus can reduce/shutdown power to individual packages and cores. This can reduce power consumption from a hundred tdp to tens of tdp.

The downside is latency associated with changing state. Depending on the change it can be hundreds or thousands of micros to go through these states. On a server workload this can introduce huge latency outliers as a request blocks on a core to wake up.
They're not text. They'd be better as text.
Your BMI is 29.2; unless you're a body builder with a ton of muscle you're not in "quite good shape." No offense.
Have you seen AWS? Elastic Beanstalk and RDS are pretty affordable solutions that our startup is using to allow us to scale when we need to.
That the word "boondock" comes from Tagalog, and likely entered the English lexicon in the early 20th century as a result of the Spanish-American war.

(I'm not sure what aspect of learning you're curious about).
"By eight months, the foetus spends an estimated 25 per cent of its daily protein intake on manufacturing these hormonal messages to its mother" That's a lot of energy. Further, human mothers have a high chance of death from natural childbirth compared to most mammals.

Further the energy costs, pain, and suffering from monthy periods has a lot to do with the conflict, wolves for example don't suffer nearly as much.

Realistically it's at best a local optima, but robustness and adaptability are hindered but such inefficiency.
Somewhat of an old headline: June 26, 2014
I almost took a position doing something similar. There are some fascinating projects going on at the DOE labs.
It was an era where you could "feel" things like a few CPU Mhz or a 32KB cache upgrade. And you had to pay hundreds or thousands for those little upgrades, so it had to be worth it.

I stuck with a IIfx until Windows 95 came out, and learned that the little things (e.g. disk and video) to some extent matter more than the big things.
Just because it's a crappy, outdated format doesn't mean a gif.js isn't useful.

That said, please don't use gifs. Use hosts like https://mediacru.sh/ that convert them to videos.

Please.
"Do you think it's right to continue work on a project that the majority of people dislike for a variety of very legitimate reasons?"

Almost certainly yes. How else can you find new, previously unknown products and ideas of value? Don't you ever just brainstorm crazy ideas because you don't know where an idea will take you? You know... think different... here's to the crazy one's.

Didn't sama just publish a blog post about that: http://blog.samaltman.com/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world

Also, "majority of people" might need to be edited to say "majority of a subset of people who are HN readers/commenters and who are so interested in browsers that they watch nearly 10 minutes of video on the topic."
Another PhD student, in computational neuroscience (modeling of thalamocortical circuits). The difference between the level of code-sharing and code community between general purpose software and scientific software is just astounding. In computational neuro-modeling at least (as opposed to very intensive bio-analysis like genomics), there's incredibly little sharing of code or interchangeability, outside of [ModelDB](http://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/), although I've heard systems biology-modeling (like with CellML) is in a better state.

I love this site for many reasons, e.g. searching "site:ycombinator.com <search term>" is one of the best sources of finding modern opinions on languages, libraries, the state of coding in certain places, and most of all some of the best opinions on what can act as good introductory materials on anything software/langs (in addition to stackoverflow).

It's nice to have a finger on different tech scenes and where people, sometimes, are willing to call each other on BS. Oppositely, it's cool to see posts about a product/service and see that the actual company actively responds to comments here in a lively fashion.

One of the biggest reasons for me has been seeing whenever's the occasional open academia article or movement starting to spawn, whether it be open access, open data (e.g. [dat](http://dat-data.com/)), or my favorite, open code. There's an unbelievable amount of reinventing the software wheel that goes on with a ton of PhDs, and the FOSS community proves that doesn't have to be the case. Trying to take the lessons it's learned to the sphere of science is something that an increasing amount of people are thankfully interested in, and this site is one of the only ways I've heard about initiatives in that regard - most notably, [Mozilla Science Lab](http://mozillascience.org/)
NYC DA subpoenas Twitter over parody BicycleLobby account
Thanks! This was a team effort, not just me :)

We like the idea of "purpose driven" templates, and that's why we've designed that way. Who thinks "I want a 3 column email template"? Most people think "I need to send a notification email". That's what we tried to design for.
Something having biological effects proves absolutely nothing.

Non-ionizing radiation has biological effects. Magnetic fields have biological effects. This is not controversial!

So?

Also, if you are worried that spending a lot of time "exposed" to a light breeze is going to give you skin disease, you might want to read about hypochondria because you have it.
It's a powerful thing, anonymity. Use it wisely!
Does Wireshark pose a threat when installed on a server in the DMZ?
Hotmail has a dedicated abuse team, why not try getting in touch? There's no reason a legitimate invoice email shouldn't be getting through!
I'm a fan of economic professors.
Turning off the computer?
It depends on your goals, but if they include simplicity I would strongly advise against rails. Coming from .NET, you may be looking for the breath of fresh air feeling ruby can provide, that I can now do things in 1 line that took 5 before and understand every part of my system -- if that is the case, Sinatra or another microframework might be the thing for you. It's also nice to be able to learn and start using something in a matter of hours rather than "working through a book"
I'm a 16 year old kid in Sydney who's just finishing school. The extend of my "Hacking" is a few small Java/C programs that I write when I need to do something, and don't want to do it by hand.
Not everyone lives in a densely populated area where it's a problem. Or where rabies is a problem for that matter.

Although I don't really see the issue. Cats are really harmless and tend to stay close to home. They have been roaming free around human settlements for thousands of years.
4. Hitting 'enter' after editing only sometimes gets you out of editing mode; seemingly only if your expression is well-formed?

5. 'Clear' clears some lines but not all. It usually seems to clear all but the top two lines for me.

Chrome v.36 in Ubuntu
Cyber Dust
The problem with libertarianism is that it starts with a tiny set of axioms, and then attempts to derive how the world should be. Any deviations from that are then taken as evidence that the world is wrong, unjust, etc. In reality, humans are hierarchical social creatures with complex dynamics, and you kind of have to play by the rules that other people set for you. In this case, a group of people broke the rules and some other people think they should be punished, and I think most of the people here have no problem with that.
Ask HN: What is this user saying in German?
Marc Cuban is tweeting the hell out of this right now, thought it would be worth showing here.
> How does that benefit the economy as a whole?

By allowing those firms to make more money. They are the economy too. The economy does not exist for one persons or class of persons benefit.

> This was done to keep salaries low, so a handful of people could make more money.

People cooperated to reduce their expenses without restricting the right of anyone else to cooperate. Just because people make money doesn't make it wrong. Conversely, a handful of people (the defendants) colluded to make more money by keeping salaries high, except they did it by restricting the rights of everyone else.
But in a dogfight a drone would have one big advantage: ability to withstand much higher G-forces. For now manned fighter pilots have the edge, but I would be surprised if that's still true in 20 years.
I'm interested in all things biology (tho I have no background in it). What exactly do you need the database specialist to do? what are the problems you are facing?

Contact me at downwindabeam at gmail dot com
they have 60 days?

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-03-07-en

Instances when the requested change of Registrar may not be denied include, but are not limited to:

Nonpayment for a pending or future registration period
No response from the Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact.
Domain name in Registrar Lock Status, unless the Registered Name Holder is provided with the reasonable opportunity and ability to unlock the domain name prior to the Transfer Request.
Domain name registration period time constraints, other than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar transfer.
General payment defaults between Registrar and business partners / affiliates in cases where the Registered Name Holder for the domain in question has paid for the registration.
To be slightly more specific, MSFT had a market cap of $23 billion and had just shipped Windows 3.1. It was so much in the zeitgeist that Doug Copeland would set a novel there a few years later.

In any case, there wasn't any reason not to see microkernels as the only viable way forward, especially given the multitude of competing Unix variants that had grown to unwieldy, multi-mega-SLOC monsters. The future seemed to be with lightweight, microkernel OSes like QNX, the UNICOS update, HURD (seriously, it was a thing back then!) and improved Mach and Chorus versions. The idea of writing a Unix-like as anything other than a toy seemed absurd.

History is a very hard thing to predict in advance.
Binary fuzzing strategies: what works, what doesn't
This has nothing to do with AGI, period. Watson is certainly not going to rebel against you. Nor is it intended to be significant progress towards human level AI.

I also find it funny you think the secret sauce to AGI is "a sense of curiosity". Yes, as if that was the only thing holding computers back. If only someone had thought of that before.
> Beyond that, as I said, I've always been a staunch civil rights advocate, but I'm a recent convert to firearms.

I always like to see this. I've always viewed arms possession as a civil right, and I sense that there is something of a paradigm shift in that direction happening.

> to be fair, the gun rights advocates aren't always forthcoming with statistics, but I have found their side to be more truthful

Part of the problem is that data is extremely hard to come by anything resembling unbiased data on the topic.

One of my personal pet peeves is when someone writes about "10,000 kids are murdered in gun violence every year", only to find upon further investigation that for the dataset they used, "kids" refers to all persons age 25 and under and "murdered" really meant "killed by". Counting a 24-year-old gang member who is shot by police as a "child murdered by gun violence" is absurd.

I'm not familiar with any similar criticisms going the other direction. The closest thing I've seen would be a handful of academics dismissing the work of John Lott out-of-hand without giving a specific reason for doing so. Asserting that a peer-reviewed paper is "widely discredited" has no meaning when one cannot point to a single published criticism of the work.
> In this case, a group of people broke the rules and some other people think they should be punished, and I think most of the people here have no problem with that.

The percentage of people who agree with what I've asserted here has no bearing on the validity of my arguments. And attacking my argument for being libertarian is argumentum ad hominem. Shooting the messenger does not address the message.
This will be a cool demo once the kinks get worked out. It lets you see first-hand that you can choose which redex to beta-expand first. Haskell is an excellent choice for this because -- unlike almost every other language -- it does not matter the order you evaluate subexpressions in. I feel like this could be useful to show someone when teaching them to program.

The language in the function editor on the right looks like Haskell. I'm confused as to what the language you run is supposed to be, though. It doesn't seem to have Haskell syntax or semantics. The lists aren't comma-separated, and the main expression seems to require parenthesis? And what is this program doing?

(map (plus 1) [12])
(( 1) : (map (plus 1) [2]))
(( 1) : (( 2) : (map (plus 1) [])))
(( 1) : (( 2) : []))
(( 1) : [( 2)])
[( 1)( 2)]

vs. in Haskell

Prelude> map (+ 1) [1, 2]
[2,3]