skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about fusion. It seems that the breakthrough they're talking about is that reactors are ~10x smaller. Why is this a big deal? Square footage is plentiful. I thought the problems are safety and how much energy it could produce.
From the article ?
> would you be happy if somebody distrubutes a better version of your product because he's allowed to build upon its source?

If it weren't for projects that make better versions by building upon others' source, I wouldn't be here. Hopefully in the future someone will also find my code good enough to build something upon.
> Lockheed shares fell 0.6 percent to $175.02 amid a broad
> market selloff.

Doh.
Hacker's Sandbox
So, on-and-off for a long period of years, I've been creating this kind of hacker game. I have two versions, but only released one of them about a year ago. It's sort of like a simulation of Unix hacking. I tried to make this thing customizable, so that anyone could write their own mission packs using Lua; and I tried to make the default mission pack be sort of an example of some of the things you can do with it. At this point, I'm looking for criticism and feedback on the game and the API (for anyone looking to write their own MPs). I have a few people who have been really excited to use this as a "learning tool" as well, so suggestions/feature requests on that would also be welcome.

I have downloads on flyingmonkeyarmy.com available for Linux, OSX, and Windows, as well as a PDF of the API for scripting (I feel like the docs need a little work, however. But all the relevant info should at least be in them).

Right now, I only have 64-bit builds up, but I can easily make 32-bit builds for anyone interested. Which I guess leads me to another question, does anyone actually care about getting 32-bit builds?
Rather than having this tied to my employer, and requiring reconfiguring if I ever leave them, wouldn't it be a better idea to just get the money in one lump sum from my employer, and handle this kind of detail myself?
> Expanding who you know, how much they like/admire you, and how much they want to work with you is part of meritocracy. Imagine it as a multiplier to product merit and,as a founder, you NEED to imagine it as part of your job.

Why are you counting these as part of meritocracy, rather than deviations from it?

(If they're sufficiently small deviations, you could still call the overall ecosystem a meritocracy. But then you have a meritocracy with deviations, and enshrining the deviations as part of meritocracy seems like a mistake.)

(I could also see an argument that "meritocracy plus it matters how likeable you are" would be preferable in many ways to just pure meritocracy. But "meritocracy plus it matters who you know" seems like a bad direction to go in.)
The reality is that $25k contract is a very small one and nobody will do bank finance on a one off deal like that. If they bought 20+ ATMs it would have been different but not for one.
Streamline SDLC with Docker and VisualOps
Profit and good of the world need not be opposites. In fact they tend to go together if the company is going for the long run.
My word, I'd have to do some studying to get through that!

Thanks for everyone's input. I think I have a clear understanding of the open/closed paradigm now.
> We need a scala minus implicits.

I don't find the idea of programming without typeclasses appealing – at all.
I am sure MS want $ for this. How are they taking care of licensing issue?

Office 365 client only?
So is this like http://wagepoint.com/ that does bitcoin too?
Oracle Forms 10g Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (CVE-2014-4278)
I was curious about detail when I saw the news, Thanks for sharing!
I should have added that I'm a .NET developer who's recently returned working with in an open source shop. The problem I see is not that they don't have good tools or relevant solutions for real world problems. The problem I see is I'm in my late thirties and I find myself to be one of the younger developers when I go out to MS related user groups and events.

Spending time in the open source world with younger developers, it's clear the only value they get from Microsoft is for their gaming machines at home. While a number of them respect the development tools, it doesn't matter because Microsoft has done a great job tying it to the Windows titanic.

I recall interviewing with a number of companies in the mid 90's and talking with the programmers who worked with DEC based tools. The ones I talked to had nothing but good things to say about their tools and systems and how they had real implementations of various systems that PC's were trying to implement at the time. I can't help but look back and find myself in the same position on a course towards becoming irrelevant in 10-20 years.

I guess what I was trying to get at is Microsoft is going to have to make a considerable effort to focus on luring the generation they lost if they want to remain relevant. That generation of developers isn't simply going to pony up for slightly better tools. They demand having access to software when it's available so they can download it immediately with one of twenty different package managers.

I'm not predicting Microsoft's doom, but I am saying that Microsoft is facing an incredible number of challenges that will make "do everything" a bad strategy. On too many fronts they're faced with competition that ranges any from inferior to superior, but free. In development tools, they're up against a huge community of open source tools with some of them funded by huge companies whose revenues don't depend on the sale of software. MS Office's share is eroding, not just to direct competition, but to indirect alternatives that posit that complicated word processors and spreadsheets are the wrong answer.

I also don't think Microsoft can do everything because software is going through a Cambrian type of explosion where you're seeing all sorts of manifestations of species and hybrids. Sure a lot of these species will die out, but as we witness new species of databases and operating systems it will be difficult for a large company like Microsoft to predict which ideas it needs to pay attention to and which to ignore. Adapting the complicated markets is an incredible challenge, but there are companies that have done a remarkable job staying on top.
I'll tell you what I hope this can be:

I and co-workers often need domain-specific help, usually with annoying or complex tools. I could spend a few hours doing the research, or I could pay a chunk of money for 30 min. of someone's time to walk me through.

Example: I need someone to help me fix some build config problems in Xcode. I'll pay for an Xcode expert to spend 30 min. and walk me through fixing it over Hangouts.

Example 2: I have a lot of experience with autotools[0]. I'd be happy to sign up as an autotools expert and either help people get started with autotools or get people unstuck on autotools problems for a bit of cash. Ideally I'd just set a price, add some tools to my profile, and have money start rolling in.

askadev.com seems close, but right now it feels like it's focused on fuzzier mentoring help between junior and senior devs instead of trading domain-specific knowledge. It might be as simple as just marketing towards that a little more.

[0] I know nothing about autotools, actually.
Must be early. A few people didn't get your joke/sarcasm.
What kind of Windows server/kernel features does Docker need/want/like from MS?
> The lack of a universal idea about what == means is pretty dangerous IMO.

There is an universal idea what == means, it's quite simple and more consistent then the mess Java has.

It's just that the JVM's idea cannot be brought in line with it consistently.

If you look at the history of Scala, you'd see that they tried to make Arrays work this way for 5+ years.

The blood being shed just wasn't worth the quirks it caused in other parts and in the end trying to fix the JVM's idea of arrays was abandoned.
That's an excellent point! Perhaps they intend the truck to be sitting at the bottom of a fast moving river.

But what gets me is that they are burying the lead. No fusion reactor of any size has reached sustainability...so why is the story here talking about size at all? Small size would be a very nice added bonus; fusion reactors that don't consume more energy than they produce are earth-changing.
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Because these relatively small reactors can be made to tie in with existing gas turbine power plants. They can ship these replacement fusion plants all over the world. http://aviationweek.com/blog/high-hopes-can-compact-fusion-u...
>Expanding who you know, how much they like/admire you, and how much they want to work with you is part of meritocracy

This is a lot like the original definition of meritocracy. A very negative one.[1] If merit is determined solely by the people already in places of power like A16Z on the arbitrary measure of "how much they like/admire you" then it is exactly like and by definition Cronyism.[2] I'm not making a value judgement, but if it quacks like a duck...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Early_definitions
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronyism#Concept
This title makes me engery
What if there's an error in a text box or select box?
If the only motivation is cheap and clean energy for the entire world, expensive research never gets funded.
I agree with what you say about Google, but I disagree with how great Amazon is.

Amazon has weaknesses. I have had increasing problems with counterfeit products to the point some things I just will not buy from Amazon anymore. There is a huge problem with terrible quality products ranking highly in Amazon's results, especially when it comes to household goods. Whether the reviews are fake, the items been swapped (counterfeiting), or people are just that stupid it isn't clear. Some reviews give adequate warnings and they are very scary. Exploding cast iron cookware? Check.

Generally Amazon's support is pretty good, but once you are buying through third party sellers it becomes a little more iffy. Where does the liability sit if I or someone I know is hurt by a shady product that would never make it in to Wal Mart? The line is not so clear.

Google certainly has the ability to take some market share away if they focus really hard on Amazon's weak points. However, I also suspect those weak points are where some of their hidden margins reside.
I think he took Stephen Kell's post as a direct response to their talk when in fact Stephen Kell's post was about the entire culture around static typing and their talk is only one small piece of it.
How is this different than Bitwage.co?
Right, I meant catastrophic for the reactor. Definitely not worried about blowing up the country. Probably shouldn't have typed that phrase. NSA is probably all over me now.
Sim-free iphone? Don't insert an EE sim card
Winklevoss Bitcoin Index App Launches
Teen Pirates Pay for Movies More Often Than Non-Pirates
I learned it one way in Middle School and the other in High School. What's perplexing is that the schools were literally next door to each other, and in the same school system too.
Apparently, the web server doesn't share the speed gain. Switching to the cached version...
This is another strawman argument. Of course there's cronyism, racism, sexism, ageism, etc. And of course we should discourage that. Was I championing any of those things you're attacking?

I'm going to add some stats to my OP.
Is this the "embrace" step of "embrace, extend, extinguish"?
Everything is always a decade away.

(And then it rarely happens)
Rustful – A RESTful web framework for Rust
If I'm a true VC-- why would I want to see a pitch that everyone else is privy to? I find the real deal opportunities where others aren't looking.

Incidentally, highly recommend Oren Klaff's book Pitch Anything! > http://pitchanything.com/book/
This is definitely what AirPair is trying to build. Check that out. (Not affiliated, but have used them before.)
You're right, but it was a joke pointing out an error in the article. They originally said the carriers run on fusion reactors, but it's been fixed.
How did I know I'd find you here by typing "[Ctrl] + [F] jvehent [Enter]" ?
From the article: Lockheed shares fell 0.6 percent to $175.02 amid a broad market selloff.

Shouldn't the market be a little more excited about this?
The "or not" link:
http://news.newenergytimes.net/2014/10/12/rossi-handles-samp...
We had exactly the same thought. We're working on a new feature so you can sign up independently from your employer, too. It's not quite ready and there's more legal matters to consider, though it's in the pipeline.
Can you comment at this point about what containerization on Windows will look like. A tree of processes, a lighter, file-based HyperV, or something else? What effect will this have on the filesystem layout? Will native ACLs be supported or mapping to Unix permissions?
Has a timeline for initial code in github been announced?
Diversity in Tech: Hire Me for My Skill, Not Because I’m Black
Cassandra Error Handling Done Right
Ready Steady (govt) Grant!

"Partners in industry and goverment". Translation: 10 years to product (but hey, prototype in 5) so please give us lots of dough. It's the technology of the future and always has been.
HBO is finally going to let you watch its shows without cable
This type of experience is why I don't understand "No Chargeback" or "Replace the credit card" type marketing.

If I purchase this with my credit card and don't get the product before the price goes down, I have the option to cancel the order or get the lower price. If the product gets stuck in RMA or support is not as promised, I can chargeback.

The 'advantage' of bitcoin is that now I have to deal directly with the vendor, who is not my advocate.
Along with "This X is/will..." and "You'll never believe..." and other buzzfeedisms.

I've just made it a personal policy to not click headlines that don't actually tell me what the story is about.
Apple tries to keep bankruptcy case secret
It does have some similarities, but we put the majority of the control in the employees' hands. This not only makes the employer's lives easier, but also allows the employee to update how their paid at any point in time.

This is of course empty until it's fulfilled, but for what it's worth - we have a lot in our roadmap that will also set this apart in a lot of ways.
It was amusing to see that the modern startup trick of creating a launch page or a broken link to gauge interest in an idea has actually been around for centuries:

Publishers in the 17th and 18th centuries often sold books by “subscription”, which meant that consumers would agree in advance to buy a book after seeing a prospectus. It acted as a market test. If not enough people were interested, the project could be dropped.
This is a fair point considering the use scenario that you describe. For other website this might look very different: Think of all those small websites for which you had to create logins but that you rarely use. They are a huge risk due to people's tendency to reuse passwords across important & unimportant sites.

For those smaller sites people might not even recognize this system as a traditional login: They simply come back to the site, are asked for their email address if they want to get back to their information, and shortly thereafter they have a link in their inbox to their details/comments/favorites/...
It is somewhat mind blowing that the original version of the demo game was done with ridiculously rudimentary logic gates. If you haven't read the history of how Wozniak did this with little over 40 chips, you should look it up.

And yes, I realize the graphics are different. Probably even the game play.
Netperf-wrapper
The distribution sounds like a genuinely cool feature so I don't want to take away from that... but it seems one must buy payroll as a complete package. We couldn't even consider a solution that isn't able to do all our taxes and bonus payments.
Interview with the founder Sridhar Vembu, where he talks more about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt5EMnATY_Q
Actually your https://github.com/justincormack/rumpuser-xen was the original inspiration for me :-)

Back when I started (sometime in May), rump did not run on "bare metal" yet, so I decided to reinvent a bicycle of my own.

Also, looks like it's running in 32-bit mode ?
10 ways to ...

{Stuff} they don't want you to know!
It's simple but easy to overlook when buried in all the other open-source pleasantries, CLAs exist explicitly for the purpose of changing the ownership of an open source project.

Aside from the few token counter examples (most of which presuppose the FSF or poison pill clauses), there is almost no possible way to exercise that power in a way that benefits the project's contributors or users.
Using emacs in a terminal is for newbies? I don't want to launch another program just to do my job! I'm already IN tmux running in Terminal.app, for nearly everything else.
There are Bitcoin related startups which are run by people with no experience in either finance, cryptography, or security. Hopefully you guys are very strong in this background. I don't see any personal profiles on the site. Codelitt Incubator has no names either which is even more concerning.
WiFi Sharing Community Instabridge Wants to Become Your Phone’s WiFi Manager
Trade finance isn't a transparent market. The costs are higher because the way it works atm is you work with your favorite bank or call 2 or 3 others. There is no real price discovery. There are also high costs in settlement, and a barrier of entry for financing that wouldn't have to exist if you could sell tranches in a distributed way online - similar to kickstarter.

An m-of-n transaction with a decent and trusted intermediary (or multiple less trusted intermediaries) could also replace bank guarantees, which is the simplest form of trade finance. There are also other opportunities in using bitcoin as proof of ownership or proof that you hold a product.
Great lecture, Kevin.

What is your opinion on using platforms such as oDesk.com for tracking remote workers?
Does this change one of the fundamental tenets of docker, namely that docker images are portable (thanks to the linux kernel providing a very high degree of backwards compatibility).

In order words, will there now be Windows images and Linux images, and Windows images will run on Windows hosts and Linux images on Linux hosts?
This has been coming for a while, because it screams common sense..however with Microsofts previous I'm still a little surprised.

I wonder if Steven Sinofsky would have been game for this?

A lot of Windows developers use commercial Windows for development (i.e. Win7) with these features I anticipate more developers using (the more expensive) Windows Server.

If your build output could be a container (VS build process?) that you can ship, or as in a lot of "enterprise" organisations pass on to QA / UAT then this is a big deal and a massive huge step.
Feminist video-games talk pulled after massacre threat
I guess Windows Server already has some kind of "containerization" [1].

Will Docker be shipped as a part of a Windows Component & a paid service from MSFT?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-a...
Britain is the only G7 country with rise in inequality
How to convert an old washing machine into a water powered generator
> Jordan's got the upper hand here.

Not if someone breaks his hand first with a baseball bat.
25 years for current aircraft carriers [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refueling_and_Overhaul
Fusion physicists I know are very sceptical that this design can work. It's a variant on a known design with a known problem: the plasma leaks out of the ends of the magnetic containment. It's also unclear why Lockheed would be publicising it this way at this point, unless it's a naked ploy for more funding from the DoD, and an attempt to bring in money (and possibly pressure) from non-classified sources.

That being said, if they've genuinely cracked it, the game changes so much as to be unrecognisable.
Can you recommend some even-handed reading on the opposing views here?
Also, get the FED ID for the wire. This will make tracing it far easier and faster for your bank to find out what is going on. I just had to do this, but the other way, where we wired someone money and they didn't receive it as expected. Using the FED ID and Wire Transaction ID their bank was able to find and fix the issue very quickly, to both our relief.

If it wasn't a wire and instead was an ACH, then get the batch ID for the ACH and give that to your bank and see if it helps any. ACH is traceable but from my limited knowledge is a little tougher to trace than a wire is.
Oddly, you could, in a way. Just treat your language and compiler as a tool in the toolchain. Add in a testing segment and you can set rules on it.
The bulk of people in the consulting industry are undergrads right out of college. Source: in consulting
The talk he's defending was tiresome and dripping with condescension (I agree with Stephen Diehl: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/519160854517149696). Typed-language folks don't need advocates who waste breath talking about "incompetent Ruby developers moving to Clojure" and whatnot. There's enough positive stuff to talk about! I think the folks who gave that talk need to read Gershom Bazerman's (a person who has no trouble giving talks filled with excitement about type- and category-theoretic concepts with no condescension) excellent post here: http://comonad.com/reader/2014/letter-to-a-young-haskell-ent...
Canonical Desktop Team Manager on Unity 8 Desktop
Thanks, much, much better than the original article.
Or this is 'embrace' step from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
[Facepalm] Variables declared with var cannot be deleted
Version 3 Preview of the AWS SDK for PHP
spindritf said "make any changes"

coldpie seemed to assume s/he meant "any changes", not "any changes to the license"
Is the course your teaching going be a MOOC or will the assignments be posted publicly? I'd love to try that assignment myself.
Startup devises a simple code to solve India’s complex address problem
We have working reactors they just don't output more energy than they consume.

We should be throwing more money at this...
If it's 10x smaller it is available for portable applications. Like boats/planes/space ships. It would also presumably be easier to air drop in developing regions to bypass building a giant energy grid (similar to cell phone deployment).
Intelligence is, largely, not about friendship. It's about exploiting the assets available to you.
So Focus Fusion wasn't such a bonkers idea after all (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/focus-fusion-empowerthewo...)
This bothers me immensely. Clearly, neither the author nor the editor for a "Scientific American" article (for pete's sake, science is in the name!) know the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

This article is the cognitive equivalent of parrots squawking, because they don't even understand why the news actually is news.

People calling this a "typo" are giving too much credit. It could be a mistake, but the whole point of having an editor is to catch typos and mistakes! And it's a simple, short article!
I personally had situations where people mix up mentoring with do my work. I helped lot of people, out of those only one really worked as mentor-mentee, all others are like please have access to my computer and do it for me. I think your website will address that issue, where I can simply say, this is how it works, go and try.

But, if it is FREE service, users may misuse (or) mentors may not spend enough time. There should be some benefit structure. When I say benefit, it doesn't mean monetary, it could be anything else. Look at StackOverflow, no monetary benefit, but people go there because "reputation", which in-directly helps in lot of ways. Good luck!
Can someone provide details on pricing?