skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two points. There was a non-rich mom in my batch in 2008 (one of the hardest fundraising climates in the last decade). She and her co-founder kicked ass and raised more money than most of the batch.

Point #2: 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. Imagine it as a multiplier to product merit and,as a founder, you NEED to imagine it as part of your job. In a failure scenario, it absolutely helps turn a zero into a one. But it also helps you hire, sell products, raise money, get press, do bizdev deals, sell companies, etc.

All sorts of other nits I could pick with your comment. Strawmen (really? Does anyone go into YC thinking advice at dinners is the primary value they offer?) and ad hominem attacks (what does Sam's previous company have to do with the merits of his "polemics"?).

Some stats to challenge the "rich white dudes raining gold on each other" theory:

52% of founding teams in the Valley have 1st generation immigrants on them. Just shy of half of the top-ranked venture companies (in case you think all of these immigrant-heavy startups are floundering while rich white guys are winning). Does anyone believe that a meaningful percentage of this group is rich and white? The same study also found that immigrants were key members of the product or management teams in more than 75% of those companies.
Compartmentalization is key to stopping an epidemic.

1.)

Quarantine health workers caring for ebola patients in high risk setting (contact to patient, infectious material)

like a tour of duty in the military:

you take the assignment and move into combined quarantine & work, no family contact, no contact to general population.

after your tour ends you stay in post-action quarantine until your incubation period has passed and you get the all clear.

Very important:

taking are of an ebola victim even in 1st world top tier medical facilities is - as shown by the cases which have developed in america and europe - still a high risk operation. Anyone willing to knowingly take that risk is brave. Imposing a quarantine on them still is the sane thing to do to curb secondary infections from the care givers to their families and the general population.

there is no place for talking down care providers on tv or media that they "breached protocol", e.g. they did something wrong and they are to blame. Just find out what went wrong, publish it, correct it. Help the victim. no blaming.

There would be no need for panic since you quarantine the heros giving care to the ebola victims thus stopping tertiar infections to get R_0 (spread of infection) down.

2.)
research if ebola survivors carry an immunity to ebola. If they do, they are the most useful group at the frontline of care. Train the survivors and let them (with reduced risk to themselves) help.

3.) Anyone with contact to a victim into quarantine, not let them stay in the house in the rooms where the ebola victim lived. Extract them to proper facility. Desinfect the places where the victim stayed.

4.)
get a Vaccine

5.) get a treatment
I guess that's somewhat game-changing. This, however, would be much more game-changing (if we can get confirmation once and for all whether it's real or not):

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reacto...
From the aviationweek.com [0] article, it seems it is a concept, and they don't even have a prototype. They are trying to get some fundings to build the PoC. What makes the announcement a bit strange is that they have very concrete claims "it will fit in a truck" without much substance.

[0] http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compa...
Especially given that you can't reasonably enforce the rigor of your test suite by way of your language.
I know there are some very smart people at skunk works who've done incredible things in the past but humans have cried wolf so many times on fusion it's sort of hard to just accept until they've actually built a working reactor, shown it and had it independently verified.
"Ultra-dense deuterium is an isotope of Hydrogen" (1) ultra-dense?, (2) and tritium which is denser (but hardly ultra-dense) and also an isotope of hydrogen.

Ah science reporting.
Typical rates may be right. With more experience you can exceed it quite a bit.

Fully agree with your "go-to person" comment.

If you're not well known in a niche, at least network so you're well known to a reasonable group of people with hiring/contracting budgets. Even if you're not seen as a leading expert in your field, being consider a high quality person in your field that your contacts know and trust will deliver also adds quite a bit to what you can bill.

I know guys that'll happily pay twice the amount to someone they know well than to some random developer that they have to take a chance on. Especially for short term contracts. "Losing" a month on a 3 month contract to an unknown quantity, for example, will very easily cause any savings to evaporate.
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Might also be worth it to emphasize the "intended paths."

Of course, that is probably just saying that there should be documentation.
... and produced some shitty software in the process.
Two of their patents were published few days ago:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0301518.html

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0301519.html

Both have publication date 10/09/2014. Maybe connected with the press release?
The room appears to be filled with a lot of interesting personal effects, but it's hardly "unchanged." Looks more like a museum exhibit than a room someone would actually live in.
It can be very costly to achieve 100% test coverage and static verification can reduce this cost by giving you some tests "for free". For example, you never need to write a test to check for null-pointer-exceptions if you code in Haskell.

Static types also help in situations other than testing. For example, you can use "guardrail programming" to be much more liberal when refactoring things: want to change a function signature? Just change it and the compiler will point out what other parts of the code need to be updated. This is even if you haven't written a test suite yet or are doing big changes that invalidate the old test suite.

That said, I think the perfect world would be one that lets you mix dynamic and static typing in a single program (some things are hard to verify statically, but would be nice if we could at least express them as types) but I think we are still a way off that being a practical alternative.
Autonomous drones with facial recognition and laser weapons, rather.
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Hey! Cody from Incoin here. It would be rad and it's in our roadmap. Employers currently do fund payroll in USD, but we're working on adding the ability to fund payroll in BTC. And you're absolutely correct. We would save in fees in a number of places, namely avoiding using our ACH provider.
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So Windows will be able to run Docker containers built using a Linux image, and Linux will be able to run Docker containers built using a Windows image?
This appears to be further development of the novel nuclear reactor approach described by Charles Chase at Solve in 2013 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAsRFVbcyUY. The video provides a basic overview of fusion reactor designs and their breakthrough.
For me charging 25% to the contractor for the live of the contract is completely unjustifiable just for posting a job in some site and some emails and phone calls.
I am pretty sure that manufacturer of ATM used XP as a base and Robocoin did not really have a choice. They could have chosen different ATM company, but it's not like manufactures are fallen over themselves to sell 70 ATM machines to new start up.
I wonder how this will impact spoon.net, since they recently launched their windows container tech.
It certainly wouldn't produce a runaway fusion reaction, if that's what you mean. A hot plasma would dissipate pretty quickly once confinement fails, so the only energy would be that in the plasma itself. Might be bad for whoever is in the room, but probably not the county.
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From the article:

"Until now, the majority of fusion reactor systems have used a plasma control device called a tokamak, invented in the 1950s by physicists in the Soviet Union. The tokamak uses a magnetic field to hold the plasma in the shape of a torus, or ring, and maintains the reaction by inducing a current inside the plasma itself with a second set of electromagnets. The challenge with this approach is that the resulting energy generated is almost the same as the amount required to maintain the self-sustaining fusion reaction."
Yeah that is primarily London, i live in Edinburgh where theres next to no work but typically work in London. Although i've had the odd contract up here or remote for decent money. I'm flexible down to £350 a day if its an interesting project to me.
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Yes, definitely. XPrivacy can fake data, so that works even better than AppOps, but is harder to set up.

I also miss the possibility to give slightly fuzzed/offset values for certain things, like GPS granularity (Do you need to know my exact location, or just my country?) There's however an eternal struggle between the API devs wanting to make the permission system simpler, and the APP devs wanting it smarter and more refined.
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Even if Go added exceptions or generics, people would still complain because something would be different from how they expected generics or exceptions to be.

If you want a specific language, then just use that one, but don't try to impose your expectations on other languages.
If you want the facts, tldrlegal looks like a terrible source (except for the original license texts), and will no doubt contribute to the confusion with its vague, misleading and incomplete tl;drs.
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We have good tools for this. A Googler can create a patch that upgrades a library and run tests for all projects to see what breaks. The project owners review the changes. Of course, some upgrades are easier than others.

In some ways this is similar to what Linux distros do, but sharing common source control, build system, and test runner makes it easier.
We are running a fairly old version (two years old, haven't upgraded yet) and I would wholeheartedly recommend it!
Just how open should the connected home be?
At my company we've been using this technique for years. Users have always hated it and after waiting a long time for people to come around, we are now transitioning back to traditional login mechanisms.

The basic reasons users hated it was that a login mechanism needs to be reliable. In particular, we make business software, so if the user was ever unable to get into the system it was a big problem.

While it may seem that you "always" have access to your email, or sms. Not all users (especially non-technical users) always have access to these things. Meaning, even if they have access 98% of the time, that other 2% of the time infuriates them.

It was also a usability nightmare among non-technical users. Traditional login mechanisms dont necessarily mean a more usable experience, but its a pattern that everyone knows.

I think login mechanisms on the web can be improved, but not like this. As someone who has a lot of experience with this, I strongly recommend against it.
You might say that the septic is free, but in practice the installation is fairly costly, and it does need maintenance. It also requires less dense housing, so there is an implied cost there (i.e. you need probably 1/2 an acre of land). After the initial cost, it is still probably cheaper than a sewer; but excavating the field will run thousands of dollars.

I have septic and am perfectly fine with it, total cost has probably been about $1800 over 8 years (4 x $300 pumpings + 1 x $600 jetting to clear out roots that grew into a line).

The well also requires maintenance, an initial setup, and probably doesn't have as much capacity as a municipal water supply. I'm happier having town water, which requires no electricity or maintenance (on my part).
Maybe. But 9/10, we get a hate mob fueled by a one-sided story by someone who feels "offended".

There isn't enough punishment when it's all based on false information. In fact, there's none. If I was the target, I would be personally ruining the lives of the people that started it. It would be my moral imperative.

look at what happened with notch and minecraft. Silly children that couldn't get their own way decided to get the masses sending him shitty and hateful messages, which eventually led to his quitting/selling to microsoft.
I have the link to xkcd 678 "Researcher Translation" bookmarked for those occasions. Quoting the appropriate row here:

If a researcher says a cool new technology should be
available to consumers in... -> what they mean is...
[...]
ten years -> "we haven't finished inventing it yet,
but when we do, it'll be awesome."
As an off question, I remember pinboard costing +$20 something to join - why is the price back down around $10?
To expand on that perspective, words signify small, almost atomic, concepts which are relatively easy to learn - optimal elements with which to express less universal and more complex concepts.
Each word can be viewed as a shorthand to a already previously defined expression.

In that context, letters would be to words what pixels are to bitmaps.

Make words more complex (also longer) and the set of those elements will be able to encompass a wider, more versatile set of "elementary" concepts (akin to a wide tree structure), but this will also be harder to learn within a reasonable amount of time. In case of pixels this is comparable to higher bit-depth.

Yes, nobody knows the full vocabulary of any natural language, but we still understand each other due to knowing a common subset of words, having redundancy within and between sentences passages etc.

Make words less complex and they will encompass a narrower set of concepts, but the whole set of them are easier to learn. You will usually have to use more of them to express concepts (deeper tree structure) though. Similarily, one would need to use a larger amount of pixels with low bit-depth to express intermediate colors.

This is comparable to having well named functions in program code - partition the program into functions well enough and you will have created a set of relatively universal concepts, which the another person might understand without delving too much into the body of the implementing function each time.

Similar relationships can be perceived on the word-sentence and sentence-paragraph level, of course. Therefore the difference between pictures and text has more to do with partitioning information between abstraction levels than with some fundamental difference.

The optimal way of partitioning data varies depending on content.

For example, concepts of left and right are inherently connected with our visual and spacial perception of the world and are therefore better expressed by invoking our spacial recognition (a two dimensional image). That is because definitions for these atomic concepts are practically hardwired and require no learning.

Therefore, finding the best way to express information for humans and computers alike is akin to finding the optimal point between two extremes of reduced set of simple concepts and a larger set of complex concepts, that are easy enough to parse by both.

In the case of humans, the physical medium will always most likely be eyes for read mode due to built-in parallel processing and high bandwidth, and a subset of our muscles (currently fingers) for write mode.
I'm not sure how fast can we successfully parse audio signals, and brain-to-computer interfaces are still too slow.

As for the partitioning of information - who knows? Physically we have colors, brightness, shapes, sounds, temperature, touch, and more at our disposal. But the best way depends on our brain, and what size of information units it is best equipped to process.

And that is definitely not 8 bytes.
Even granting Poe's Law, when somebody says something so dumb you can't believe it, it's often worth actually not believing it.
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> You can find the text file at: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.24.4

This is org-mode syntax, so you can browse it with org-mode.
This wouldn't be the only company selling Bitcoin related hardware that probably should not be in business:

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/09/ftcs-r...

(Butterfly Labs)
CFR compact fusion reactor (http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compa...)
size: 23 X 43 ft.
power: 100 MW

Energy use of the US (2011): 25,484 TWh
Power needed: 2,900 GW = 25,484 TWh / 365 / 24 h * 1000
Number of 100 MW CFRs: 29,000

Civilian use will happen. The benefits are just much to great. There will be regulation and oversight for them. But you won't need one in every truck. It's overkill. As you can see from the above calculation 29 thousand CFRs could cover all the US energy needs. So there will be hundreds of thousands worldwide. It will be hard to keep all of them under control
But this would basically solve all of humanities energy problems and decrease CO2 production, and destruction of the environment from mining immensely.

Having large amounts of energy available enables new weapon systems to become feasible: high powered lasers, coil guns and rail guns. They can be added to any air, land, or sea vehicle that's above the size of a small truck.

Ships are pretty large anyway and aren't as restricted as land or air vehicles when carrying big machinery. Aircraft carriers won't change so much. You can build them a little smaller and their defensive weapons might improve. Nuclear submarines otoh could be built as small as modern diesel powered subs like the Dolphin class.

You could build a drone with an extremely long loitering time. If it uses a laser or rail gun, it will also have lots of ammunition. Instead of carrying a couple of hellfire rockets and having to refuel after several hours it could stay in an area for months.
That isn't true in the part of the US I live in. We recognize the contribution of the French. Maybe ignorant people here don't know this, but then there are a lot of those everywhere.
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What's the incentive?

People can and do build things without dollar signs in their eyes.
Plotting a "Year vs Years away" graph would then give us a good estimation on when we can expect to meet that expectation.
> Point #2: 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.

This is why I also include skin color, culture, gender, and how rich my parents are in my definition of merit. This allows me to honestly believe that all my success is based on merit.

Because nothing says, "merit", like being connected to a small group of very wealthy, very insular people who have the ability to magically bestow success on whoever they please.
Well I meant that in the sense that you can't run a windows app on Linux and you can't run a Linux app on windows. Even if it is the same hub, you'd want to filter "by windows" or "by linux" containers is what I meant.

Running boot2docker on windows is sort of cheating in that it is a virtual machine running docker apps and this effort appears to be a native dockerd running on Windows. Thoughts?
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In addition, in the step before where the heat is transferred away from the reactor walls to the turbines, a heat flux is needed of 100MJ/s. Assuming a contact surface of 100m2, that is 1MJ/s per m2. That sounds like a huge flux and I am not sure if there is any medium that could do this.

Or are my assumptions way off?
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from reading the other replies in this read (and the above) it seems that the next windows server release will have ability to run both linux and windows containers.

that sounds promising...
> I have the feeling that Jordan knows exactly what he's doing.

Not to excuse him, but this sounds exactly like a business noob who doesn't know what he's doing. He started on dreams and bluster, somehow got people to send him lots of money up front, and now is discovering that starting a company is actually hard.

The first test most businesses face is being able to talk a good line. But that's not the last test, so it's pretty easy for fast talkers with no real skills to get in over their heads. And I think they really don't know what idiots they are, because they've grown up being able to talk their way out of their problems. Turns out actual customers (and the Reddit rabble) are not as forgiving as their moms.
Why do you say Rust has exceptions? We have fail!(), which does roughly the same thing as Go's panic(). So much so that we decided to rename it to panic!().
Several variables to consider-- How's your relationship with the true economic buyer? That's the guy who will sign-off on your contract. How receptive are they to working with remote contractors? If this is new territory for them, pitch the idea as a 3-6 month pilot project subject to review.

More ideas on ramping-up a freelancer business, recommend checking out Alan Weiss-- author of several books on consulting practices> http://www.summitconsulting.com/
One does have a much better chance if one is born in a developed country--but it's still a small chance.

Also, a "pool of CS graduates from good universities" is already biased toward people who were born into (relative) privilege. Have you considered that you "haven't seen any evidence" because you are effectively excluding from your analysis a large quantity of the data?

Look, I'm not saying it's pointless for those who were born into poor or middle class (or even many upper-middle class) families without connections to try. I'm saying it's disingenuous to pretend that a system that self-selects against those very people is somehow a meritocracy or that it is not, in fact, self-selecting against people who aren't, essentially "born lucky."
The link just shows a blank page. Zero frames per second here.
I did a quick read of the above link. Does it imply, for this bundle, that users have to be connected to play these games (due to the larger sizes and also to use the game save function)? To put it in other words, can users do a one-off download and play these games offline wherever and whenever they want to?
They're a for-profit company.
Using a VM, yes. But nothing fundamentally changes about their ability to execute cross platform natively.
Civilian power reactors need refueling at about that pace, but Nimitz-class carriers "are capable of operating continuously for over 20 years without refueling"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier#P...
The recommended way of doing this is to use Hyper-V and multiple VMs. Windows VMs start very fast on Hyper-V.

That gives you virtual LAN bandwidth control, "Storage QoS" (IOPS limits), partitioning, affinity and CPU limits. Not only that you have virtual SAN and network fabric. It's pretty awesome!

If you utilise it by deploying your app to a .wim file and then use wim2vhd and fart it at a Hyper-V host, docker already exists on Windows so I'm not sure what all the fuss is.

Yes we do this.