skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's different this time (yeah, I know, I know) is that, if what they and EMC2 are separately claiming is true, it's gone from being a fundamental physics problem to relatively tractable engineering, with well-understood risks and timelines.

Compare this with ITER, where they still don't know what material some fairly critical components can even be theoretically made of. It's just night and day.
We've chatted with the Bitwage guys. Good guys. We respect what they're doing.

Well there are a few differences currently, and even more coming over the next month - 2 months. But the ones that are currently available:

1. Interface. If you use the two product side by side, I think you'll see the difference.

2. Automation. Currently Bitwage (as I understand it. I could be wrong) handles ACH and Bitcoin transactions manually. Our platform is a little further along. Although they did get their MVP out before ours because of this so props to them!

3. Employee control. Our platform relies on employees to control the majority of their information which provides several benefits but mostly ease of use for the employer and freedom for the employee to update their settings and how they're paid right up to the moment that the distribution daemon fires up.

4. Wage splitting. Employees can get their paycheck into several checking accounts, savings accounts, investment accounts, and Bitcoin wallets.

5. Reporting. Our reporting for both an employer and employee is a bit more robust in our minds and takes into account that people getting paid in BTC will now have capital gains considerations.
I guess I fail to see what would differentiate between a father/mother. Like why does any option make a difference?
Then the dilemma becomes: Does the USA share this with other countries? Or do we keep our clean, plentiful power for ourselves, become energy independent, have clean skies, and keep (exploit?) this technological advantage over the rest of the developed world for the next 20-30 years?
Yep. For example, the empty set or the entire real number line.
That's why I said "part of meritocracy". Which words did I use that made you think that I believed that was most or all of it? I just added a stat to my original comment-- about half of the top venture backed startups have immigrants on the founding team, and 75% in key positions.
Artist crunches rap music text to make 3D-printed grillz
You probably also meant Diaspora. :) (That's where I got it from - I don't remember it being in Permutation City.)
Flashback: CP/M and the beginning of the microcomputer era
VoxelJS is really cool, but not quite really suited to building something like Voxatron. You could however probably use straight ThreeJS, or go lib-less and roll your own WebGL system.

These games are all compiled from native languages to asm.js.
Not sure what gives you an impression that there is some minimum amount for a trade finance deal. Bank guarantees are a form of trade finance, and you have other simple instruments. A google search brings up 2 or 3 providers who would do an online quote for amounts starting at $10k.

Structured trade finance is a whole other matter, that is where you have bespoke instruments and teams working on deals - usually with businesses that see $50M+ p.a in deal flow.

In either case I mentioned in my post that having a lawyer do a terms of trade or supply agreement is cheaper at the low end.
Snapshot.debian.org
"The early reactors will be designed to generate around 100 MW and fit into transportable units measuring 23 X 43 ft."[0]

These reactors will be similar to the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and potentially only require refueling every 25 years through a process known as ROH.[1]

100MW capacity in the size of an international shipping container? The implications of this are massive if this technology can be brought to scale, and that is the key term - SCALE.

The cost of solar is plummeting and by the time fusion technology can produce 10% of our energy demand the cost of solar will be heading to $1/Watt, battery storage will be competitive and that is hard to beat even if the footprint is only a fraction of a solar farm.

[0] http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compa...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier#...
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Jeff Berwick, one of the founders of the project withdrew from it back in May 2013.

https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/5/2/my-official-wi...
I wrote a slightly more practically-minded follow-up: http://brownsofa.org/blog/2014/08/03/debugging-in-clojure-to...
Create an on-demand VPN connection programmatically in iOS 8
Excuse the ignorance, since I'm fairly new to Docker. I'm excited about what Docker allows for during development. Will this partnership eventually lead to being able to run containers on my Windows workstation without needing Ubuntu running in a VM?
> While frustrating, the SD card situation is very different.

Not really - ordinary users lost access to features they were using but power users still had access, albeit locked behind a terminal screen.

The only additional step on Android is you have to jump through whatever hoops was required for your device to get root, while Chromebooks have a 'get root' mechanism baked-in.

In both cases, Google's devs in certain departments aren't being pushed hard enough to put away the ping-pong paddles and stop playing foos-ball long enough to write some difficult code with a UI that has more than 3 steps. (Thanks Apple for dumbing everything down.)
I was under the impression[1] the signup fee rises in a linear fashion (going up from around ~9.50$ when I signed up to ~10.50$ now) - so you might be mistaken or it was adjusted.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302547
Take a look at the footprint of ITER. It surprised me how massive the thing is planned to be. That's the competition.
You're right. We should probably put our profiles up. We get busy with product(s) and we tend to not focus on talking about ourselves as much as we probably should. We're admittedly not the best at marketing or PR. We'll put some stuff up soon.

RE security - we don't actually hold any bitcoin and our ACH provider handles transactions; we're trying to steer clear of all major security issues by avoidance. We've put a lot of effort into securing any data we do have, though, and we've also got a great compliance and legal team working with us for the finance issues
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8446232

A major drawback here is that it's incompatible with password managers which are a better, more generally-applicable solution. Relying on email means that if your email delivery is high latency or having an outage or an aggressive spam filter then your account access in impacted. Keep in mind not everyone gets their email right away -- many people (my mom) are on >10 minute pull intervals.
I've helped work on Project Skyhook, which is a $1000 Bitcoin ATM: http://projectskyhook.com

Orders ship within 2-3 weeks. Shipping to Canada is no problem, customs is no problem. Assembly is in Portland, Oregon, so it's a quick ship to Vancouver. We've shipped hundreds of units.

Setup is completely on the owner's end. Owners don't need the company to configure the unit, and the company doesn't need to run servers for them. Skyhook ATMs use blockchain.com for the wallets (using accounts the owner creates independently), and the exchange price source is the owner's choice, all controlled through the interface. This isn't to avoid having a setup phase - it's to allow owners to have complete control over their money, because then it's a trustless system (the source code to the ATMs is open and auditable: https://github.com/projectskyhook).

I'm astounded at the prices on some of these ATMs. For $25,000 they could have ordered 24 Skyhooks (a little padding for shipping, which I believe can be palleted to save money). Bitcoin ATMs shouldn't cost the down payment on a house, IMHO.

Skyhook is also completely bootstrapped by the founders (no VCs) and a result of that (and careful burn rate management) is now profitable, despite the low price point. The cofounders have been using some of the money (and their free time) to help clean up and build out a new hacker/makerspace in Portland that's going to be awesome. Easily the best group of people I've ever had the privilege to work with.

I wish more people approached startups this way. There's a real pride to making companies on your terms that you control, and succeeding at it. Startups shouldn't be about overvaluing your company and having Kid Rock do a rock concert in your back yard.
Moto X 2nd Gen review: Same same but different
Testing the new and improved Moto X brings to mind the Southeast Asian saying: same same but different. It means look for the subtle differences. Bigger, faster, with a denser brighter display, the new Moto X 2nd Gen is created from the same DNA as the Moto X 1st Gen introduced last year. Like its predecessor, a unique user interface UI and the consumer’s choice of exterior colors, accents and materials with the company’s online Moto Maker website set the new Moto X apart.
Who Killed the Nokia Phone?
Whoops, looks like I did misread that! My bad, it was late.
What I really want to know is does this affect LibreSSL?

That would be an interesting comparison.
REALM.io?
Hi,

Any of you has already used REALM.io ?

Can you please if the program brings something for server & mobile app and if you think it is a good choice ? DO you know alternatives ?
It's dangerous to read the market's mind, but my guess is that there isn't enough information for anyone to believe that this is anything more than a PR puff piece.

As much as I want to believe it I can't find any evidence myself, either. At this point I'm pretty much at the "show me the over-unity reactor" phase. There's so many research paths to fusion right now that are all "promising", but until one of them actually builds something that works in the real world I'm not personally interested in hearing any more vague promises.

By all means fund them and keep working on them! I'm just not interested in the PR pieces any more. Give me a report about how it's working.
Misuse of Drop Down Menus (2013)
A great exposition, and worth it just for the introduction to "schrödinbug". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug#Related_terms
From the Aviation Week article that flexie linked:
"The team acknowledges that the project is in its earliest stages, and many key challenges remain before a viable prototype can be built."

They don't actually say it, but it sounds like they've only got computer models to work with at this point. Not very likely that they've actually cracked it.
Within a rebooted AMS2 droplet

$ curl http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 169.254.169.254 port 80: Network is unreachable
After 3 years and 9 startups built, here is what we’ve learned
No, not in the slightest, though you've made me laugh like a maniac in front of my co-workers. So there's that, you fiend.

It was more of a general butt-covering sort of thing. People like to take offense to things on the internet.
Your memory is probably confusing the price of an archiving account ($25/year) with the one-time signup fee, which increases slowly over time and never goes down.
How it is different from sites like Quora, Ask etc.,? What is the value Arima providing which none of the above providing?
Last year it was $20-25 to join. I'm not sure what happened. Maybe people left and the price dropped.
2nd Dallas worker tests positive for Ebola
Most likely algorithms trading on technical indicators, nothing to do with this news. Short term price movements are almost total noise.
HBO to launch Internet-only service next year
> have clean skies

You can't have clean skies if everyone else is polluting. That is what makes pollution such a hard problem to solve. Even if USA cuts its pollution to zero, China alone can make up the difference.

But yeah, having access to this technology for everyone would be a serious game changer.
Never heard of her before. Why is she so famous to elicit such an extreme reaction ?
Digital media is not the Messiah
I find the kind of people/relationships which turn into cofounders to be fairly rare. It requires mutual trust and respect, as well as passion for a shared goal. I've only met 6 in the last 22 years, so I'm no expert on how to meet one, but what has worked for me are two things: exposure (that is, spending time with people, preferably doing something that might garner respect and trust) and sharing your passions (talk about your ideas, and see who thinks they are cool).

If you are introverted, getting exposure might be difficult. Make sure you spend time around or working with people who might make good cofounders. Doing similar work to what your ideas are raises the level of technical trust (e.g. if your ideas involve web programming, work together to show each other that you can do that well), and if you are a trustworthy person, given enough time that will show through as well. Some kind of 'forced' social interaction (such as school, day job, roommate, family) is helpful if you are very introverted.

Sharing passionate ideas usually isn't a problem, at least for me. It's getting me to shut up about them ;). This annoys many people, but it makes it very easy to pick out the few people who are interested in them too.

I think that if you are feeling that working alone is non-optimal, you are probably right. I know I am much more productive as part of a team. The hard part is that you really do need to be picky about who is on your team if it's a real project. On the other hand, if you have a few 'what if' ideas you are willing to throw away if it doesn't work out, you can take a few risks with possible cofounders to see if there is chemistry there.
For the cynic in all of us...

https://twitter.com/SavedYouAClick
What dilemma? Its a no brainer we use it for free and have the rest of the world use it at a $profit$, while getting to enjoy that very same clean(er) air. But as history has shown it is probably too good to be true. Fusion that is.

Edit: We are all riding the same spaceship... Its a serious flaw in thinking 'us vs them' when we are beginning to experiene some of the results in climate change.
I was wondering the same thing. People have claimed to have working fusion reactors just in a few years if they only could have some more funding for so long that anyone who claims to offer a production capable fusion reactor loses their credibility completely until they actually produce one.

Skunkworks have as an organization an amazing engineering track record of implementing ground breaking technologies. I wonder what their current status is. Anyone have an inside scoop whether their game is still as sharp?
The sign up page isn't even HTTPS.

Really guys? C'mon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropes_vs._Women_in_Video_Games
Just in case someone skipped out on the relevant day of middle school science, it should be 'fission'.

The difference is that fission is taking heavy elements, breaking them apart and using the released energy. Radioactivity, Thorium, Uranium, Plutonium, all the yucky stuff. Research has been going on for decades into making these reactors safer, and with breeder reactors and modern conventional designs that appears to have been achieved. Nevertheless, they appear on their way out anyway.

Fusion fuses together light isotopes and uses the energy thus released - they basically do what the sun does. And are clean. For various definitions of clean.

And if you're wondering how they are the complete opposite yet both work, it all pivots around iron. Copying from Wikipedia on iron:

> Its abundance in rocky planets like Earth is due to its abundant production by fusion in high-mass stars, where the production of nickel-56 (which decays to the most common isotope of iron) is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic.

And yes, that means that everything in this universe will one gigayear end up right at the pivot between fission and fusion, ever onwards oscillating further towards it. Our universe is ever tending tiwards irony. A pivot that we're probably going to see humanity go through too, but in a different way. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
AsyncDisplayKit – iOS framework that keeps complex user interfaces responsive
She talks a lot about gender roles in gaming. Sadly it seems it's the only needed reason for heavy harrassment these days.
I probably watch too many shows, but wouldn't that kind of threat (real or manufactured) actually push the speaker further into the limelight? So if this an actual threat (most likely) the 'bully' is really playing into her hands, so to speak. If this threat is manufactured, well this would indeed be quite a Machiavellian PR stunt ...
Hugo Chavez is dead, but I agree with the rest of what you say.
I would be interested in seeing this also emphasize skills beyond "languages". For me, I know a lot of my skills are more around design and soft skills -- I would love to be able to advice a developer on how to handle a problematic product manager, or how to design a system. I tried to put that in my profile, I'll see if I get a bite ;]
IMO, its not just about what useful programs you can write. Its also about how much of the type system you need to learn to get the program to compile. For example:

function foo(f){
return [f(["1", "2", "3"]), f([1,2,3])];
}

function length(xs){
return xs.length;
}

foo(length);

Anyone can see what this Javascript program doing but to write the Haskell equivalent you would need to understand higher-rank-types and enable the corresponding language extension, which gets in the way of beginners.
She runs a show called 'Feminist Frequency', dedicated to calling out sexist tropes in video games (amongst other things). She appears to have become one of the enemies of the movement known as "#GamerGate". Proponents of the movement will tell you it's about ethics in game journalism, but in reality it seems to have largely become corrupted by misogyny and the like. Several female game developers and journalists have received death threats; it's all rather ugly.

This is the first time I've seen the movement appear on the front page of HN. I hope the discussion can be kept as civil as things normally are on here.
"Why are you counting these as part of meritocracy, rather than deviations from it?"

Because hiring, sales, pr, marketing, bizdev and fundraising are all part of startup success... Building and cultivating a good network is hugely valuable for all of that, no?
While Wiktionary has "A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat" as one definition, other dictionaries all include the ability to regulate/control/sustain a nuclear reaction. I'm inclined to agree with them.
committed the "sin" of pointing out misogyny in the video gaming products and community, it seems. It riled up a few folks in 4chan and apparently Adam Baldwin who are taking malicious glee in some astroturfing campaign to essentially ruin her life.
The whole of 'GamerGate' feels almost like a PR stunt to turn the world's media against gamers. The irony is almost palpable.
You said "You need to expand your view of meritocracy beyond just product/code. Expanding who you know, how much they like/admire you, and how much they want to work with you is part of meritocracy."

So yes, you may as well be championing gender, race and background, since you've already redefined 'merit' (in a rather perverse way, imho).

Edit: I see others have also commented on this and the Wikipedia link from another comment is interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
It was reported by LibreSSL.
> If this threat is manufactured, well this would indeed be quite a Machiavellian PR stunt ...

That's a common accusation by the GamerGate folks, but given the number of other women in the gaming arena receiving similar harassment it's pretty believable that these are real.
I wish there was a story to tell! Once in a blue moon I get a tweet threatening to report me to HR or my boss. They must think I'm a summer intern who has found the company Twitter account unattended. Next time I'll think to document it.
I think that's a bit cynical. The guardian story has some more detail[0]. Basically after the threat she asked "will there be guns allowed at this talk?" and the school answered "Well of course, this is Utah".

(mildly paraphrasing of course)

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/15/anita-sark...
It's part of the ongoing Gamergate issue; Wikipedia is probably a good starting point for that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian and currently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy.
Jordan Kelley has since deleted his original response but you can still view it at http://i.imgur.com/WXyGPM3.png
Jordan provided his email on the reddit comment (jordan@robocoin.com) and encouraged people to contact him if they want to engage further.

After spending so much time reading the materials and forming an opinion, I emailed him. I suspect he thought not many people would actually email.

I'll make sure to comment if I get more details beyond these materials or even get a response.
Get someone to look at your code
Vertigo – A blog in Go
You don't have to be famous to elicit an extreme reaction, just well known to the right group of extremists.

In short, she has created a series of web videos discussing feminism in computer games, and how female characters are portrayed. This has led to her being target number one amongst a very odd "gamer" community that will seemingly stop at nothing to preserve their culture.
Mothers breastfeed. Companies need to have places for mothers to breast feed children, of for mothers to pump breast milk.

Mothers sometimes have complications during birth. This can cause considerable physical difficulty in the following months. Here's some advice about recovery after c-section. http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Caesarean-section/Pages/Recover...

This post was written by a female parent. We call those "mothers". If it had been written by a male parent it would have used the word "father".

There is currently a gender imbalance and so posts from people who are not male have some interest.
I was the one who mentioned HerWay. In fact, men can initiate contact to any woman whose profile they can see. Think about what it would take for a site centered on the idea of taking power from men and giving it to women to make that product move.

The guy basically data-mined OKC and gamed the matching system. Then suddenly the site began working for him, since he looked like The Perfect Match to a sizable number of people.
What happens to tech policy if Republicans take the Senate?
Apology letter from Jordan:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jakg4/the_great_ro...
More like massive promotion for about:home page :)
I wrote about this when the project was first revealed, in March 2013: http://lee-phillips.org/LockheedFusion/

I didn't find much to inspire confidence.
It's the sort of presumption you feel you can afford when you have hundreds of people messaging you.
Why Inequality Matters, by Bill Gates
Her video series, which you can see on YouTube, is actually quite good and well-researched. You might disagree with her conclusions (I agree with them) but even if you disagree, you have to admit she's done a lot of legwork.
Notice I did not accuse her of anything, simply stating two facts. Why the down votes? All I am saying is that whoever made the threats clearly doesn't want the issue to go away ...
Come on guys!