skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main uses for satellites are observation and communication. Both are appealing markets for HAPS. Hovering drones could act as relays for telephone calls and internet traffic in places that do not have good enough infrastructure on the ground. And there is never a shortage of customers who would like to snoop on various parts of the Earth’s surface, whether for commercial or military reasons.(fta)
where else you'd find such a pearl?

brazilian government FML! I mean, FTW!
> I mean, who cares of those little differences?
> When I edit a comment or something, I just hit
> the preview button (or see the preview real time).

That's actually a common example of when those little differences matter: when the client-side markdown implementation (preview button) doesn't line up with the server-side implementation (render).

There's nothing to lose by having a standard. Most markdown libraries I've used let you configure between various flavors of markdown. I'd love to enable "Standard Markdown mode" on two different implementations that need to produce the same output and be done with it.
Translators should know both the source and target language well enough to know the rules for the different plural forms. Using a name here is probably just to have a key for them (and frankly, better than gettext's approach). The correct name apparently would be singular, plural, genitive plural, if I'm reading Wikipedia right, but that's a bit cumbersome to type every time.
This is fairly common. For example, allrecipes.com: http://allrecipes.com/search/default.aspx?ms=1&origin=Home%2...
I was actually wishing we had something like this for our lego league team (team 2600 ftw!) It would be great for that sort of language. I just don't see hanging a $7500 display in my garage.

However, if MSFT/PPI would like to donate one, we would surely find a place for them on our team shirt!
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Nice! It's part of the Kindle library, so I'm able to borrow it for free via Kindle unlimited. Will definitely buy a hard copy if it's as good as it seems to be.
By design, Quora I suppose does seem like a better place to post a question like this. But I really don't think Quora's community is anywhere near the caliber of that of Mathoverflow. I guess I haven't been active on MO in a few years so maybe things have changed, but when I last actively read it the site was frequented by quite a few very illustrious names and countless young prodigies and miscellaneous professors.
There's the opposite already: http://www.jobrapp.com/
You could just use magit, right?
I've thought of this too and there seem to be a few companies trying something like it. The difficult part seems to be keeping your stock up to date. You'd basically have to update it after every meal.

Maybe a smart refrigerator will figure it out some day or Amazon with their automated service/scanner combo. It certainly could prevent food waste.
sadly, this won't stop them, as I'd wager more than a few of them know that the abstract has no legal weight, but are always up for an excuse to bash their particular company/individual of choice who files software patents.
Hacker News is well on its way to turning into a closed-minded circlejerk just like reddit. Do you know of any alternatives?
Ask HN: Is there a way to read/highlight new/unread comments?
Sometimes I want to check a post again and read from where I left, but seems it's impossible since the comments are not ranked on time. Am I missing something? or is there a plugin sorting the comments based on time? I'd like to make one if not.
I would focus on building (or buying if you have the resources available to you) a couple properties with decent traction (enough traffic/downloads that you can run timely experiments with statistically significant sample sizes).

Once you're running a reasonably popular site (or app) every ad company, and their minions, will come after you and tell you why their platform is the hottest/best way for you to earn ad revs. You can learn a lot during this process (how their businesses work, who the key players are, etc). While this is happening you can also build and refine your adTech product and use the data from your site/app to prove why your new solution is the best thing going.

So in other words, BE the customer for awhile, the rest will fall into place.
Deep sea 'mushroom' may be new branch of life
> Google will absorb UC Santa Barbara’s quantum computing group

What's the market price for a quantum computing group acquihire? D-Wave investors spent more than $100M on R&D. How much did UCSB spend?
Might be something here - the design of most fitness apps leaves something to be desired for the geek crowd. The only well done one I've ever found is Stronglifts.
The definitive treatment is Paul Starr's Social Transformation of American Medicine

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142863.The_Social_Transfo...

Tl;dr: adverse selection is one of many reasons we are where we are.
My iPhone 4 when I received it would constantly shut down at 50% battery. That started two months after I bought it. Granted, I got it repaired, etc. but damn near every consumer electronic product runs into issues for someone. I never owned a Pre, but I always wanted to. Always had a soft-spot for Palm, mainly because of my lovely Sony Clie PDA back in the day.
<em>Markdown is a popular language with an ambiguous, poorly specified spec and buggy default implementation...</em>

That never hurt Perl... :-) Sorry, couldn't resist.

Your sentiments are well-taken.

No one "owns" Markdown, and quibbling over words is unproductive.

There is a concept: "a simple in-line markup language that is easy to write and maps clearly to HTML". One instance of that concept is a specific, buggy, ill-defined language called "Markdown".

"Standard Markdown" is another instance of the same concept. This is the way English works: adding modifiers to words that designate one instance of a concept to designate other instances of the same concept.

Getting to an EBNF grammar from the spec would be awesome, but the spec is a great place to start. All spec generation is tendentious, and it is common to have multiple people highly invested in the generation of different specs for the same nominal standard. Politics, as Aristotle tells us, is the master art. This is why.
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Bitbucket has been advancing in many areas. Did a recent evaluation of Github and Bitbucket for an upcoming project.

Github's issue management is optimal for small projects. But Bitbucket shines at issue management for large projects: priorities, voting, watching, components, issue workflow.

Bitbucket also has a responsive and fluid design that utilizes screen real-estate better.

All-in-all, I am seriously considering Bitbucket for larger projects.
AWS has this for video encoding: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder

I asked some commercial video friends about this once and they didn't seem too interested. Their company invested in a private network for their office and a lot of CPU muscle.
Just bought a copy, and am looking forward to reading it! Where I work is looking at spinning off a piece of software as a "startup" of types, and this will be a great help. Thanks!
How cool would this be for controlling a synthesizer/sequencer? Totally killer for arranging music visually.
Playing? How?
I've been obsessed with Langton's ant for a good solid decade now. My latest creation is a few years old now, but occasionally I go back and add new commands. It's inspired by Langton's ant, but it operates in 45 degree increments, has the ability to fork, conditionally execute instructions, has colors, and a bunch of other interesting things. You can see it in action at http://demoseen.com/langton/#.FP$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ and there's a simple instruction listing at the bottom of the page.

It's quite a departure from the original, but you can make absolutely gorgeous images with some simple instructions.
It's interesting to see this mentioned. My roommate is a process engineer at Chevron and is on the 9/80 schedule.

Keep in mind that I do not work in oil and gas and my knowledge is very limited, but his schedule seems to be very relaxed, more so than almost anybody else I know. I don't think I've ever seen him work on his Fridays off, and actually he frequently comes back early on the Fridays that he doesn't have off too. He also doesn't seem to work 9 hour days for the rest of the week either even though technically that's part of the 9/80 schedule.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...
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So someone's vaporware is claiming to be better than a shipping system?

<yawn>

The article seemed to be very unbalanced. Normally you would expect at least a quote from the Dwave side.
I don't see how the two situations are similar at all.

Google didn't appropriate the syntax or standard for the original Go, they just used the same (extremely common) two letter word.

And I don't really see the problem there, there are a multitude of hobby and dead languages with names that may be duplicated in the future.
Heroku for queue jobs. Pay by the minute.

Basically I hate maintaining an AWS instance that is idle most of the time. And Heroku will only get you so far.

It would probably be difficult to make profits on because you'd be charging slices of a penny at a time...
The SE mods truly baffle me sometimes.

Organic discussion following a tangent that many readers and contributors found interesting and valuable as evidenced by their posts and upvotes? KILL THAT FILTH BEFORE IT SPREADS!

There's nothing so frustrating as getting an exact hit to your question only to find SE filled with "just google it" responses and "closed because duplicate" moderator actions, complete with a link to a vaguely similar post that usually differs in at least one subtle but critical or aggravatingly inconvenient way. Then you're left to hope that a generous contributor has managed to slip an answer in before the hammer fell, because despite the "assurances" from all the "google it" posters, the other google hits always seem to be composed primarily of completely irrelevant SE posts, out of date forum discussions from 2003, Expert Exchange paywalls, and answers.com galleryspam.

At least with the spam sites I can recognize that they will be useless from the URL alone :/
Exactly my point here

"The Beginning of Big Twitter" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8262519
We don't know that. In any case, the example is too simplistic anytime there is a lucrative market in organs, there will be middlemen who coerce victims into donating. That will / does kill people, no doubt.

Whenever you're thinking about human systems, you need to think about how humans will game the system. Essentially, you're not facing a static adversary, but an adaptive, motivated one.
Sadly this seems to be the state of the higher level discussions on the various Stack Overflow sites that get shared through Y Combinator. Fundamental questions are closed off because they're out of scope of the site they're asked on.
Hu? Can you elaborate on what you mean by this (app-v, and other windows sandbox/package tools) not being as complete as docker?

Because from what I've seen of the current state of docker, non trivial linux applications seem to have issues in docker as well because they depend on specific things which are not being namespaced well (say /sys manipulations for example, ioctls, or even use filesystem specific APIs).

Docker seems to work well as long as one stays close to web server functionality. (aka LAMP like stacks which tend to only manipulate network sockets and traditional files).
Most hedge funds these days use tools to trawl news and social media sites so they can react quicker to news. I'm sure old school investment firms aren't far behind.
More permissive open source licensing will help your community grow faster
That's a very fair question.
The primary reason is the underlying population of borrowers is completely different, so your claim that the risks are much higher on WeFinance is not well founded. Collections agencies on services like Lending Club fail to successfully collect a large share of the time, and when they do collect successfully they still charge a large fee. Borrowers on Lending Club are in general higher risk individuals to begin with for a variety of reasons (which led those debts to have much higher original interest than the WeFinance debts, such as large credit card balances). If WeFinance lenders are many times less likely to default than Lending Club lenders, they would be lower risk even if we didn't help resolve defaults at all. (In practice, we're committed to helping lenders and borrowers resolved problems, and that plus the social ties between lenders and borrowers we believe will help lower defaults in the first place and resolve them effectively when defaults do occur.) We've also individually interviewed each borrower and are confident on the identity verification front, and in fact, for friends-of-friends lending, having 20 Facebook friends in common with someone seems like a pretty good verification to me that they are a legitimate person.

Lending club clearly offers higher interest rates. We believe the risks are also much larger and in particular are tough for casual investors to navigate well; this is borne out by the fact that most money invested in Lending Club comes from institutions, not people.

We think WeFinance is a great fit for lenders who like higher simplicity and lower risk, and who get some value out of lending to people they are connected to or who have compelling stories.
Mighty Spring is trying to do it for tech.
For a project that aims to replace a fluffy specification with a real specification, this is not very good at all.
The important thing is that you managed to feel superior to both camps, that's what matters. Criticism is criticism, take it for it's merit, not because it hurts people's feelings.
Of course there are steps between (A) and (B) - you can choose to purchase two or three Single Dev licenses. If you need four Single Dev licenses, you are better off buying the 5 dev package.
I think it's more Chinese and Japanese sites, because their words take up far less characters.
Reclam Verlag may be the best example of beauty coming out of minimalistic, well designed book covers:

http://sprachkreis-deutsch.ch/2013/06/30/reclam-verlag-folgt...

http://www.phantasienreisen.de/2012/02/19/reclam-klassiker-i...

Book wall: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reclam_Universalbibli...
I'm not sure that is true. Beside App-v, windows has a number of mature 3rd party application virtualization/sandbox/container products as well.

What does docker do, that app-v can't?
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Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse
What is the actual law that tesla is supposedly violating?
Simple.com does this too!
Wow! A suggestion: Adding some sort of inertia calculation. It might lead to very complex and yet smooth looking images.
Millikelvin _is_ quite cold. 2 mK is the limit of dilution refrigeration technologies (achieved by mixing the liquids Helium-3 and Helium-4), so 20 mK is about the best you can do continuously. Since they want to operate a device for an unspecified amount of time, this is probably what they're going with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator

That said, if you're willing to consider non-continuous cooling methods such as laser cooling, then you can get quite a bit colder.

Back in 1995, the first Bose Einstein Condensate was created in a laboratory by achieving a temperature at about 1 microkelvin.

http://cua.mit.edu/ketterle_group/Projects_1995/Pub_95/davi9...

(that's the paper that summarizes the results that won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics)

However, in 2003, the coldest temperature of a full system was achieved when a group at MIT cooled a BEC down to 500 picoKelvin (half a billionth of a Kelvin).

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/301/5639/1513.abstract

That said, if you're willing to cut some hairs and only count _part_ of a thermal system (say, the nuclear spins of rhodium atoms), then you can count Tauno Knuuttila's achievement of 100 picokelvin.

http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2000/isbn9512252147/
That's exactly what I'd like to do with it (although since I have a lot of hardware, I would also like Microsoft to fix its appalling Windows MIDI drivers, for God's sake). I don't see this being that affordable in the short term but I would absolutely love to work with something like this for both audio and video.

I think there'll be plenty of demand if they can bring it in at a competitive price and it's sufficiently responsive. Of course it will be in niche markets at first but I have no problem thinking of use cases. My day job is recording and editing sound for film and when your timeline runs to a couple of hours with maybe 40 active tracks (and that's on a small project) then even the best control surface has trouble keeping up, you keep having to switch channels or pages to deal with all the virtualized mixer controls, plugins and whatnot - not to mention that that amount of dedicated hardware costs a fortune. A table-sized work surface with a good haptic grammar would make that jobs vastly easier. I imagine the same is true for anyone working in VFX with its similarly elaborate pipelines.
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I didn't downvote you. I'm not sure you realize this but you can't downvote anyone in the same thread as you - at least I can't.
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That may have been true 4-6 years ago. In 2014, that's no longer true.
But as long as the correct HTML is output it doesn't matter how it looks. I mean that's the whole idea of separating structure from representation, right?
I don't know what: CE, DLNA, and BOM mean. I think Airplay is some Apple streaming thing?
This is one of the many reasons that the Ambition (YC) team is in Chattanooga. I am from Tennessee myself. Chattanooga is a nice place. You can literally buy a home (http://bit.ly/1tvb9ta) for what folks in SF send on rent for one year (~24k). That being said I still choose to live in SF.
But what happened to Langton himself? After leaving SFI and the Swarm corp he seems to have disappeared. I met him once - about 12 years ago - and he was the most charming, kind guy who spent three hours and a lunch with me just because I said I don't understand something he said. Then he warned me not to become too much of a generalist and specialise more. He was right, but I didn't listen to him, I was in my 20s and thought I can be a polymath :)
I think the more relevant news in there for most is the support for dynamic/runtime loading. The title here makes it sound like it's just for dynamic linking but I read the article to article to be sure and was pleasantly surprised :)
I would prefer this feature on a file-by-file basis. I usually prefer the unified diff, but for some changes, the diff is so bad that it becomes useless; that's where I would use a split diff.

Another diff-related improvement I'd love to see is useful whitespace removal. I know you can do it with a URL flag (`&w=1`), but then you can't make comments, meaning you have to switch back and forth to use it.
Already using it :) Thanks for a great tool!
Using a combo of two of those 55" PP displays at a MSFT meeting the other day was amazing.
Drawing with the pens and being able to touch-interact with the screens as giant whiteboards, then click a button and emailing a pdf of the whole thing to everyone, while having PPT and Lync video conference on the other was simply awesome. I need that whiteboard capability. It's so much less 'janky' than smart boards and stuff (mostly because of the pixel density, the multi-interaction (pen is different than finger, etc.), and no projection required. It just feels natural/right - everybody loved it.
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I have informally (and, of course, wildly unscientifically) asked my programmer co-workers throughout the years if they'd be willing to take a 20% pay cut in exchange for a 4-day work week. It's not a very popular idea, in my experience, especially among older workers who have a mortgage, some kids, and a couple new cars (people who are maxing out their lifestyle as it is).
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aianus you appear to be hellbanned. Looking at your post history it isn't clear to me why, but your post is dead anyway. Seems it was recent?

Kinda ironic considering the subject at hand. FWIW, to answer your question, reddit with a good list of subscribed subreddits, still does the trick IMO. Good enough, anyway.
An insurance company who's policy covers anything you own against any kind of loss for any reason. House, car, boat, bike etc for flood, fire, theft etc. Basically, if you buy insurance you should simply be insured. Period. No fine print.

Yes, it would probably be more expensive than people's current policies.
That's the generic label on the post, the real reason is usually it's "off topic".

The bigger problem is that moderators close questions that re ask 5 year old questions, irrespective of how much programming has changed. They built mechanisms to deal with this but the karma limits to use them are so high that no new user can so stack exchange are now suffering from the same kind of reverse feedback mechanism Wikipedia has.

New user arrives, asks simple question/fixes a typo, mods shut question down as dupe/bot reverts edit, user comments saying old question isn't accurate anymore because language X has change in way Y and he wants an answer for how it works in language X now/user fixes it again, mods don't care having moved on to other posts/bot reverts it again, user leaves in disgust.

It's unfortunate and very difficult, but it's worse for stack exchange because they want the selective pressure against "bad" questions but the community are currently suffocating the churn required to keep the questions relevant to current.
This is supposed to be much bigger than the Target breach. If this doesn't give the move to the more secure EMV chip and pin method in the US, nothing will.
I can't help but think about http://xkcd.com/774/ when I read this comment
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I agree. The Anandtech reader in me is sorry to see him go. But he's around my age, and if he was my brother, I'd tell him to go for it.
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> How often are you going to be typing on a tablet and a PC at roughly the same time?

Very frequently.

A lot of my social communication happens through my phone, SMS and a plethora of mobile only communication platforms means that I am very frequently switching between my laptop and phone all day long.

> I don't doubt that the switching is quicker, but it's not that much quicker

Turning a knob is much faster than going into the settings menu on a phone (or on a computer!) and re-pairing. Repairing on a laptop can easily take 10+ seconds end to end from opening up the proper setting screen to BT scanning to actually finishing the pairing process.

Compare that to less than a second for turning a knob.

And again, this is something that I might be doing multiple times per minute.
That should be the very first one as it has no GC overhead whatsoever. But I guess that was obvious from the beginning.
I agree with your point on mispricing risk - I build credit risk models for a living, though not for US banks and have limited understanding of the US market.

On a broader note, even the sub-prime business was highly profitable and attractive to investors till the GFC. Only time will tell if these companies have a sustainable business model.
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The article doesn't say anything about whether it can learn it, just that it can represent it.
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