skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, a little bit of "gedankenexperiment" would show that, if glass really did flow, the panes would not end up so uniformly thin at the top, and so uniformly thick at the bottom, with a smooth transition in between.

Rather, they would sag and warp, eventually becoming non-flat if there was any small deviation from verticality. They would remain thicker for longer around the edges (assuming the pane is embedded solidly in a frame) and any support elements that hold it firmly. The top edge would sag more quickly in the middle. Heck, prevailing winds, if any, would slowly push the pane inwards, like a soap bubble.

The neat shallow wedge shape simply cannot be obtained via regular viscous flow in a near-vertical pane.

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Also, if mere gravity could change the shape that much, any load-bearing glass element supporting a heavy item would sag visibly in a much shorter time. I'm thinking of the glass table supporting my very large, very heavy plasma TV.
This is great news. NASA looks to start building a real space industry, not just to use a few prototype ships to ferry supplies to the ISS.

I wonder if NASA's role will shift to more of an administrative and supervisory agency over private space companies, sort of like the DOD's relationship with military contractors, or the SEC's role with banks.
Yup. From what I can tell/guess Amazon trucks things into the USPS distribution center around here.
Team up or undercut? Amazon doesn't need to make any margin from delivery. The end game here is pretty clear. You don't go to retail stores for commodity items any more. This is bad news for Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS.

Apparel will remain safe as long as consumers buy clothing that doesn't fit perfectly.
That was poor communication on my part.

I should have been explicit with the open content I was referring to. Specifically, I meant the content from Khan Academy, CK12, and the like. Not the for profit companies.
Is the common idea currently that our solar system's formation was atypical? Or do you just mean "we just need to be sure that's the case" out of due diligence?
2nd disk or a single SSD.

Depends on workload of course, but for most VMs they read a lot more than they write so an SSD can handle quite a few before you notice any IO-related latency (3-4 small web-apps, 1-2 medium, 1 database VM).

The OP also put his two drives into RAID 1 so they won't get any benefit of having two drives.
Oh I see what you're saying.

My point is that those wages Soothe pays probably won't be as high as a typical tip-based wage one could earn without Soothe, because Soothe will want to minimize its costs as much as possible. Why pay high tips if it doesn't have to? You're not okay with that? Well fine, you can leave, because in this environment, there are plenty of other people who will work for less generous tips.

Not only does it probably degrade the client experience (the provider doesn't need to go above and beyond because it's not his brand being impacted by his service), but it commoditizes an otherwise vibrant and special service into a dull, grey blob of robots all doing the same thing.

That's my expectation for the long term.

In the short-term, I'm sure their rates will be appealing enough to attract good massage therapists, and I'm sure Soothe will do what it can to make sure its clients feel special. That's what venture capital is for.
Would you rather edit a messy dataset in pandas or in Excel? What about automatically generating reports? Going to give managers your ipython printout?
You know what's funny is that I already see this happening in lot of startups in Vancouver. It's not only just startups, but video game studios too. Most often is that founders or executives burn cash for the sake of short term gains without investing in the future. The future where Google suddenly open sources the app you been charging six digits for, the future where your competitors end up with most of your clients. Not pretty but it's a cutthroat environment when you decide to be a pig in a Wall Street sense, not as a derogatory term. Pigs get slaughtered, always, in any market.

As soon as someone with an excel spreadsheet says the risk far outweigh the rewards, they close shop and blame the ruling party or the local tech labor market as being 'too expensive'.

I can imagine what the impact would seeing that happen in large numbers in SV, that would have a ripple effect.
A microwave link is much lower bandwidth than the optical fiber that already exists to connect the two points (you can't rely solely on microwave, you need fiber to back it up when it rains or is cloudy, etc.).

Also, depending on the market, you're only trading 8 or so hours a day. You can just send the pad during the 16 hours of the day while the link is otherwise unused.
Is that a 1% drop every year? I don't know. I do know that interest rates on savings have stayed near zero.
Interesting, didn't know they were into manufacturing techniques, maybe they license to their own exclusive fab contracts:

FABRICATING AND INTEGRATING DECOUPLING CAPACITORS
PATENT NO.: 7,297,613
This technology provides a method of fabrication and
integration for high quality decoupling capacitors with
high capacitance values, low parasitic losses, good
yield, and long-term reliability. This method enables
high-yielding capacitors and other passive elements to
be placed very close to the processor or other
integrated circuit design and provides improved signal integrity. VALUE

[Value:]
Reduced signal loss and footprint
Reduced cost and increased yields for RF systems
Was the original article ever posted? Couldn't find it in search: http://www.linleygroup.com/mpr/article.php?pub=1&id=11267
> Fortunately, there is a way to protect yourself that has worked since the beginning of time. Create a scalable business that produces both revenue and profits, even during its growth phase. One that actually creates value both for customers and shareholders. Like magic, you'll still have a fantastic business while reading about how horrible things are for everyone else.

This is less foolproof than you think. Cisco and Sun both had a business like you describe going into the bubble. They had tons of revenue and profit during the bubble. But when it popped, all the funny money that had been flowing to them through startups went away and their businesses took a huge hit. You have to make sure that not only do you have a stable business, but also that the majority of your customers are stable too. I would be very worried right now if I was any company that startups rely on. The obvious one is AWS and the other cloud providers, but they're not the only ones. If there's disruption to startups, there will be a ripple effect that will hit a lot of the tech world.
The Case for Open Instruction Sets
It's not a question of being a bot, but of comments from brand new accounts that look like astroturf. Those are not ok here, especially when they coincide with suspicious votes trying to push the story up.

All: please don't try to promote your (or anyone else's) work this way. It's not in your interests: it will probably get both the submission and the accounts penalized, your fellow users will complain, and it's usually obvious anyway.
I reject the idea that one should have to pay to license technology developed by a (taxpayer funded) federal agency. If tax dollars funded it, it belongs to all of us anyway.

I believe I'm going to write my Congressional reps later today and suggest pushing for the elimination of licensing fees for tech from NSA, NASA, DOD, etc. I'm sure it won't go anywhere, but what can ya do?
COLLISION FREE HASHING FOR NEAR MATCH INPUTS on page 14 looks interesting. http://www.google.com/patents/US8355501

This could help improve performance for data stores in general.
I'm still not sure there's another skywalker. I stopped [ab]using VBA in 2012 and unfortunately I can't recall the name yet.
Presently Anticipating Experiencing Considerable Precipitation
> _Oh yeah, did I mention I also wanted a beefier machine at home so I could manipulate large virtual machine images?_

I think he's looking to create a setup where he can spin up and destroy networked VMs, which would indeed make the project count as a cloud. From your Wikipedia link:

> The main enabling technology for cloud computing is virtualization. Virtualization software allows a physical computing device to be electronically separated into one or more "virtual" devices, each of which can be easily used and managed to perform computing tasks. With operating system–level virtualization essentially creating a scalable system of multiple independent computing devices, idle computing resources can be allocated and used more efficiently. Virtualization provides the agility required to speed up IT operations, and reduces cost by increasing infrastructure utilization. Autonomic computing automates the process through which the user can provision resources on-demand. By minimizing user involvement, automation speeds up the process, reduces labor costs and reduces the possibility of human errors.[27]

Admittedly, it depends on what he wants to do with this that would determine whether it's "really" a cloud or not.
This sounds like the idea that without someone wielding a big stick you'll end up in fragmented hell.

Have to admit history would support that.
HA! I hear this all the time and it certainly didn't apply to me. This has a lot of assumptions baked into it.

1) You actually socialize with classmates (I didn't).
2) You either went to a top ranked school or stayed in the area where those graduates generally migrate to. (I didn't)
3) You did activities outside of class (I did (mainly embedded or MS talks), but were outside where I'm actually doing, so I'd call this a wash too)

Only as a grad student in math (but not computer science) did I feel I got the kind of interaction that makes in person classes, lectures, interaction more valuable.

Honestly I don't think I got much out of university that I couldn't have gotten online.

Where I learned the most was my first three months in the industry. I learned VCS, scripting, bug tracking, code review, and about meet-ups/user groups. Basically everything important that wasn't programming.
Great idea, will definitively check it out.

Where are you incorporated, if? The terms says nothing about it. Who is my contract party when I signup?
Erm what? Can you elaborate a bit on this?
Closest I could find was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242999, which might not be the exact same article.
The noisiest system I've ever owned was a Sun T1000 1U server. Here's some examples. I tried to mute it a bit by putting it in a huge tupperware-like under-bed storage box, but even that didn't help one bit.

http://www.mrbill.net/t1k/noise/
Show HN: RestCommander - Fast Parallel Async HTTP client as a Service
An earlier point in the lecture was that you shouldn't hire until you have traction and really, really need the employee to keep up with growth. So if you're following all the advice in the lecture, you will not be in the position of "1-10 employees with maybe limited traction", you'll be in the position of "2-3 founders with clear traction". This is a much more attractive proposition to the first employee, as they can at least be sure that their work won't be in vain, and probably will make out pretty well on stock options.

IMHO the advice about not hiring before you have traction is far, far more important than the advice about what sort of person you want to hire. The former is strategy; the latter is tactics. You can swap out the latter based on what your needs are and what sort of company you want to build, but the former seems to be universal.
Affinity Designer Launches October 2nd
Won't somebody please think of the children? That entitlement goes both ways. Who's to say you are entitled to the business model of serving content with ads? Technically, a web client requests files, and if there's something I'm not interested in it makes perfect sense not to request and consume it.
Raising $1M from 5 Sharks: Charles Yim shares insights
Maybe I'm missing something, why not just use a cloud VM? On and off as like and pricing turns off. Surely that would be less than $300, wouldn't be in your house blowing air, and would be (more) easily accessible anywhere.
Just so we are clear you would be talking about an unattended dist-upgrade from lenny to squeeze? Have you done this?

Please explain how your automated Debian administration system that has been in place since Lenny[^1] handles unattended dist-upgrades without the use of preseeding the debconf database for questions with a priority of high or critical?

[^1]: Squeeze was February 2011, any new stable installation since squeeze defaulted to dash as /bin/sh

EDIT: Nevermind, I answered my own question, unattended dist-upgrades from Lenny to squeeze is not something you have any experience with: "I'm now using Debian Wheezy, after primarily using Windows environments my entire life." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6564610#up_6565766
Another interesting one, I won't post any more. Can anyone think of a current consumer use of a technique like this? Those Garmin GPS/Radios that track each other is the closest I can think of:

DETERMINE RANGE AND VELOCITY OF AN OBJECT
PATENT NOS.: 7,755,536 AND 7,545,325

This method provides the ability to determine the
position and velocity of a transmitter over a wide
range of bandwidths. The second invention models
the Doppler process as a time shift and change of
scale of the original signal. In this process, the
received signal is delayed in time and dilated. In this
invention, the method of performing the resampling function is to
apply a forward Fourier transform of one length to the zero-padded
signal and apply an inverse Fourier transform of a different length to
the results of the first transform. This pair of operations results in a
resampling of the signal at a rational multiple of the original sample
rate. The scale correlation is then computed as the normal
correlation of the transmitted signal and the resampled signal.

VALUE
Accurate model of Doppler process
Rational signal resampling
Yes, it helps, thanks!

And the post below which shows the contents of the RH patches should help, if I knew how to read it. :)

But... it seems to me that if this doesn't work:

env ls='() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c ls

...then some scripts are now broken. Sorry, I don't know which ones. Needless to say, most bash scripts in existence don't take input from the wild wire. A sad day for those innocuous scripts.
The fact that the primary purpose is for varying computing tasks on demand makes makes the "cloud" term appropriate in my opinion.
Also http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-technology-transfer-pro..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373728.
Not really, he still want the structured learning with video lectures that has a clear path, he just wants to be able to take it and run rather than being forced to crawl/walk though the material.
Another option is to match orders with frequent batch auctions (instead of continuous double).[1]

1. http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fre...
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life.
You should google it before asking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude).
Microtransactions (Delivering on Bitcoin's promises)
> An online education service I'd like to see is not teaching but certification.

You appear to be describing essentially the model used by Western Governors University, http://www.wgu.edu (their "certification" is traditional degrees, and doesn't have an expiration date, but the educational model of focusing on demonstrated competence with the institution combining assessment with assistance in the form of recommended learning resources seems to be nearly exactly what you are describing.)
I did skim the examples. The one you quoted isn't damning either. Its not illegal for M&A professionals to have conflicts of interest. That's the rule in the business world. The exceptions (e.g. fiduciary duties of corporate officers) are provided by law.
Agreed, it's interesting that they do this. I don't have time to dig in, but I wonder if the $$ goes back to NSA R&D budgets, or to the US's general fund.
Well, we could test it. Put lead into a funnel, suspend the funnel above a beaker, and wait for a drop. Assuming the scale is linear, you should only have to wait around 80 to 130 years based on pitch experiments:

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

More seriously, there's possibly a viscosity at which gravity is no longer enough acceleration to overcome whatever mechanisms are holding the atoms together. If we assume that metallic lead does not exhibit any flow on Earth, then we can estimate this as being between 10^10 and 10^11P at g.
how is this a cloud server? that's like calling every picture a "selfie"...
People who get paid for it?
Sysadmin here. Agreed. 1 or 2U servers for home use is fairly ridiculous. In fact, its kinda ridiculous for some business use now. We're probably only a few years away from a mainstream and popular form-factor that's a fraction of the size, with tiny SSDs instead of giant spinning drives and power-sipping x86 or ARM chips. Imagine something the size of a stack of 4 or 5 ipads replacing the typical 19" racked server.

For small and perhaps even medium business, this could be a good fit. The 19" rack really is something from a past era. Soon people will look at it the same way I look at old mainframes and minicomputers.

As far as the article goes, $300 is impressive, but the costs of wasted electricity will eat up the savings eventually compared to just dropping some cash on a new Synology NAS, and you get a warranty.
s/vulnerable/working/

Fixed that for you. :)
The Undress- Change clothes in public without getting naked
Apple’s iPhone Software Snafu Has Links to Flawed Maps
Patent 7,945,947

lol, they patented a privilege escalation rootkit
As I understand it, the Feds actually have certain metrics like unemployment that they're trying to achieve. The big announcement from last week was that they're starting to hit their numbers and so they'll shift away from using QE (which is somewhat of an emergency tool) back to their main tool, setting short-term interest rates.
It's pretty ironic that public representatives in Congress have been working so hard to shut down the USPS under the assumption that private business can do a better job while private business has been taking advantage of the USPS's efficiency.
I hate to break it to you, but Galileo was not a fraud.
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Unless you need ECC memory for some reason, next time, do your ears and your wallet a favor and just buy regular x86 consumer hardware. It's half as loud (those 10k RPM fans must be killing your ears) and half the price and will consume half the energy.
Apparel isn't safe when you get free shipping both ways. Or even free shipping one way. I know several women who purchase much more online and return half of it than they do in a store. One of them says going to a store is pointless, because they often don't stock plus sizes anyway, but have them online.
Flexport is hiring a senior back-end engineer
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Our mission is to bring the world free trade through technology.

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We are now building out the core of our engineering team here in San Francisco. This role is for our back-end lead (engineer #5) who will report to our CTO, Amos Elliston, who previously co-founded Geni (sold to MyHeritage), where he built and spun out Yammer (sold to Microsoft).

This is a high impact and high ownership opportunity with competitive salary, solid benefits and considerable equity.

If you’re a talented back-end engineer interested in solving real-world problems, we may be the perfect place for you to come and do the best work of your life.

You would be tasked with creating tools to make it easier for companies of all sizes to participate in global trade.

If this sounds interesting, come and talk with us about the chance to do your life’s work as a founding engineer in an atmosphere that encourages personal freedom and responsibility.

Please email jobs@flexport.com to learn more or apply.
While I agree completely with you on some of the differences, one of the best things about Uber (in my opinions) is that the transaction is cashless and centralized. I don't have to know or find the number for a cab, I use the app. Even if the driver is a good one, I may not use him next time because I don't want to pay him a new way. Massages are more personal and I'm still skeptical of the service, but I think the model has more benefits for other services than some people are implying.
As someone who was forced to have a 1U server with a tiny 12k RPM fan on his desk for a week while doing some forensics on it: i agree.
If glass did flow at room temperature, telescopes would be a mess.

All the error you're allowed when making the mirror of a reflecting telescope for visible light is 0.1 microns, or 100 nm. That's the top limit; a good telescope needs to push that down at least 2x or 3x, if not more. The mirror must remain within that limit for the entire lifetime of the instrument.

Now picture this big hunk of glass, resting on 3, 9, or 27 support points (or much more than that for the large professional scopes). It's not sitting on a flat table; it's sitting only on a few narrow points on the back, with weight distributed equally among all points. It is so thick so as to prevent it from sagging under its own weight and distorting the active surface via elastic deformation.

If glass was a "liquid" to the extent that cathedral windows would thicken noticeably at the bottom over centuries, how long would a telescope mirror remain within 100nm? A few minutes before it got irreversibly warped like icecream in the summer? Yet there are many telescopes still in use after more than 100 years - and the optics are just as good now as they were in the beginning.

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Before anyone tries to respond with a counter-argument: first try and realize what 100 nm really is. If you take one strand of human hair and cut it in two, and look with a microscope at the fresh section - if the surface of that fresh cut was the size of the rug in your living room, 100 nm would be the size of a large coin on that rug.

Think about that.

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(I make telescope mirrors and I've lost track how many times I've told this argument whenever there's a discussion about "glass is a liquid".)
Does OS Really Matter for PHP Development?
RAID1 does get you faster random IOPS, so it's not like there's no benefit...
Ask HN: How do you do your RESTful API automated testing?
Bonus points if your tool, advice, or method applies well to Hypermedia APIs as well as simpler CRUD APIs.
Cisco is a big place. The Nexus series is Linux-based.
25 tools every new developer needs
"up to"

The article in unclear, but I am guessing that more professional looking cameras require the more expensive permit.