skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you project the future of computing by looking at serious hackers, perhaps project the future of reading by looking at the habits of serious readers.

I think the magazine form factor is here to stay. I definitely prefer reading journal articles in PDF or paper over html, and in PDF form, I prefer my iPad to my phone or my daughter's iPad mini. I was just at a friend's house yesterday. He had a similar problem with his smaller droid tablet, and he was showing me his 12" droid that he recently bought to solve this exact same problem of reading journal articles.
You steep the grains in your brew pot for an hour and then sparge by using an additional pot and a large colander. Brooklyn Brew Shop sells one gallon brew kits, but if you already have brewing supplies, the only thing you would need to add is a one gallon carboy (I buy the gallon jugs of wine at the supermarket, and then just re-use the jugs).

I brew both 5 gallon batches and 1 gallon batches (mostly for experimentation). TO keep the costs down on the gallon batches, I use washed yeast and hops leftover from other recipes. The cool thing about the gallon batches is you can squeeze in an all-grain brew in an evening on a weekday, but the obvious downside is it only yields ~9 beers, which I find to be too small a yield for the amount of effort. Also, if you already have a wort chiller, you won't save that much time compared to a 5 gallon extract brew.

If you are dead set on all grain, others on this thread have mentioned the brew-in-the-bag method. It looks like you just steep the grains (using a really big mesh bag). It looks like this method gets you about 3 gallons, but if you already have a bunch of equipment, you could probably adapt this method to 5 gallons.
I'm not sure offhand how well this will work, but it is good to see real innovation in car engines, in a time when most manufacturers seem content to punch out the same stuff with a few percent more efficiency.
Zuckerberg sues lawyers who represented man claiming half of Facebook
In the third semester at university in Germany there was a course "Introduction to technical computer science", where one would learn about things like Karnaugh Diagrams, compression algorithms, D-Latches and so on and built a 16bit optionally pipelined RISC CPU in lab assignments. The professor teaching the course had developed custom signal processors for the LHC, so that was pretty cool aswell.
Time to start owning your chunk of the cloud?
Mitochondria for example are (mostly?) independent of your DNA.
I've never used this in any practical way, but would any of the techniques from Compressed Sensing help at all? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing
Yes they did: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/26/google-deepmind/
It sounds like they actually have a conventional supercharger in addition to 2 turbochargers. It'll probably be tricky to keep it all under control, but it could result in impressive performance.
Too much bullshit not enough substantive information.

Microsoft already give away Hyper-V with Server 2008/R2 and 2012. You can already spin up and down instances remotely, manage them remotely, and do a whole host of things "Azure" allows you to do.

What is this article trying to announce? Can an engineer tell us, the marketers have clearly got too wrapped up in their bullshit buzzword nonsense.
Break the Rules Part 1
I wish the subtitles were available via this api. That would be super useful for a project I'm working on right now. There are a few other subtitle services out there with APIs but so far all either have a broken sign up process or have not sent me my API key after requesting one.
Apple worked it out with Visa/Mastercard they they get a cut of the interchange fees, so the retailer pays no extra fees from what they would normally pay.
There's some kind of paradox here. You say it's mostly a lisp interpreter, but then, also, mostly editor functionality written in lisp. I'm not sure you can have it both ways...
Ali Rayl on scaling support ops during massive growth period at Slack
A three-stage compressor for reciprocating engines. The "turbo lag" is why we don't use turbines in cars.
This is similar to selecta[0] and peco[1] except it can be used in places those can't because it uses a GUI, so you could use it in program, even if the program doesn't directly let you use its stdin or even have any other UI.

I'm going to see if I can make it work with vim, although my VimL is really awful.

[0]: https://github.com/garybernhardt/selecta

[1]: https://github.com/peco/peco
I added myself to the mailing list. I hope you get enough projects to open up the site soon.
Seems like she's providing another example of the easiest way to make $1M in the real estate market: start with $10M...
> At 2am it looks pretty different (which is an odd default right?)

Not so odd—especially on a Saturday, I imagine it's right when a lot of people are tipsy or drunk and just want to get home safely, cost be damned.
Because sometimes it's a small task with a small time estimate that balloons out of proportion. You look sillier when your one day task balloons to five days, rather than your 10 day bundle of tasks balloons to 15, because a third-party library is poorly document and doesn't do what it claims to do in your specific context. Splitting the tasks doesn't make then go by faster.
I was joking, of course—there are no secret handshakes.* I had a great time at Harvard and have always been grateful to have the chance to attend. I also did plenty of networking while I was there. Finally, don't underestimate the value of learning alongside some of the great minds of your generation. (For example, my classmate Manjul Bhargava just won the Fields Medal.) Having top classmates inspires you to up your game.

By the way, Harvard charges no price premium vs. other private schools, and with financial aid it cost me and my parents the same as a state school.

*Actually, there probably are some secret handshakes, but they're not taught to people who merely "network". If there are such handshakes, they exist at the so-called final [sic] clubs, which most people in my circle of friends either knew nothing about or openly disdained.
Learning Swift is definitely much easier in my opinion. There are some oddities though that come from the world of Objective-C, but I believe it's pretty easy to understand regardless.

Also something you need to keep in mind is that there is a lot of server-side infrastructure that handles these Social Media apps. The apps just serve up the content for the most part. The server-side aspect of things is doing all the interesting work.
Ah, you're right. I saw that the enclosure was the same (or at least nearly the same) as the old Mac mini and assumed you could replace the RAM yourself, but I was wrong. That's a shame.
Why not just nnmm.nl or sprunge?
I wonder if diapers.com had been an Andreessen investment if his take on Amazon would be the same?
This isn't about energy per unit of fuel, but max output per unit of engine weight. It's more exciting, but less important, really.

Anyway, I really hope every car manufacturer out there has CAD drawings and plans ready for the moment we get a breakthrough in battery technology. Teslas are nice, but the batteries are holding them back. Once they get good batteries, though, they will walk over every other kind of car. The BMW i3 is sad but it's the closest competitor.
Actually, IAPs needs to be hosted and served by developers (contrary to standard app distribution). If the app sells virtual credits, it's not a problem; but if it sells data (e.g.: offline maps) then it might be one. Apple is not providing help there, they're only handling the financial transaction, and storing receipts of past purchases (so that apps can offer a button to reactivate past purchases).
Eating fat the correct way is important. When possible I try to not cook with fats (except for coconut and rice bran oils that are not badly damaged by heat). Rather, after a meal is cooked and the heat is off, then I add a little flax, olive, etc. oils.

Not too far off topic: I have a cooking web site (http://cookingspace.com) that provides useful nutrition information on recipes: not just a breakdown of micronutrients, but information of which food ingredients contribute how much to micronutrients. Preparing and eating food is a major hobby :-)
No doubt a result of all those Saab engineers finally infecting Volvo.
Paul Graham has an essay discussing what he calls the "Blub paradox." http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html. Perhaps the discussion there isn't immediately applicable to your question, but I think some aspects of PG's discussion are abstractable and applicable.

Ultimately, if you don't know what the other options are and their strengths and weaknesses, you will only ever have a hammer. And you won't even know that your only tool is a hammer. And you'll be trying to eat with it and sew with it, thinking that it's your only option.

If your life depends on manipulating bits. You should learn all the ways to manipulating bits. Because you will then know the best way to manipulate a bit in any given situation. Maybe you should be focused more on one than the others, but that doesn't mean you should ignore everything else.
> The technology component of the company is completely solid

But the technology component is only ~2/10ths of a company.
I'm not the author, but it seems like you're certainly right. Here's an example from the wiki page about how a single-pixel camera utilized notions of compressed sensing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing#Photography

I guess applying compressed sensing techniques would mean making assumptions about your image which allow you to fill in some of the blanks created by the incomplete angle and position coverage (i.e. the fact that the system is underdetermined). If you could somehow assume a certain redundancy, you could probably make guesses about what goes in the spots that didn't get well-covered.
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It seems Debian may stay init-system flexible at least. So there may be an option there.

But consider FreeBSD, it may seem extreme, but if you're willing to make that move then their philosophy may be more in line with yours anyways. Their rc system is great and includes vastly simplified scripts using rc.subr, while still keeping everything as shell scripts. No bloated dbus or similar nonsense required.
Lots of Australian home brewers (me included) will do brew in a bag then no chill. Saves time, equipment and water and still makes a cracking beer.
...did nobody stop and think "maybe we shouldn't put the source code for a massively lethal virus on the Internet" before uploading that to GitHub?
Nate Silver Develops Films to Demystify Data on ESPN Site
> I've always found the idea of diversification as a rule, or for its own sake to be troubling.

I agree with you in general, but sometimes you get bit there too.

Back in 2007, I felt that the US economy was in trouble. So I thought I'd be smart and went the full diversification route in my Fidelity retirement portfolio: split it among market funds for different economies around the world. Eastern Europe seemed to be poised for growth, so some $$ there; China was ticking up, so that got some; same for Latin America, Canada and Asia.

But then guess what happened? US got jolted and recovered. But my diversified funds? Most of them are still below what I bought them for in 2007. Especially that f*cker "Mathews China Fund" ($MCHFX). FML.
you can't be real !!! If you are, then ... I don't have words to explain ...
> Krugman is one of the most important writers and the world, and nearly always gets it right.

I stopped reading right there.
It's not clear what all the motivations were in adopting 5.56 mm and the AR-15/M16, besides their being totally political.

The unit of the Army responsible for this, which had done a good job up through WWII, was utterly corrupt by the '50s and sabotaged the copies of other designs, allowing the M14 to win, which was an inferior battle rifle, but not all that bad. (Hmmm, and if they did the M60 GPMG, they managed to field the absolutely worse modern GPMG in history; of course, by then we'd long sacrificed our normal means of developing machine guns on the altar of gun control.)

But it was rather heavy for Vietnam, and assault rifles were of course getting a lot of attention after the Nazis invented them and the USSR adopted one, which was also more reliable (the M1 and M14 designs leave way too much of the action out in the open).

And the "space age" AR-10/AR-15 got a lot attention (the Armalight subsidiary of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation was set up explicitly to use aircraft type materials in weapons, e.g. aluminum and plastic, which are just fine if done right, which was the case with these two guns). The Air Force bought a bunch to defend their planes (rather lighter duty than infantry in the jungle), and McNamara, justifiably in terms of the Army's corruption, but displaying his usual total stupidity, e.g. in actually testing the weapon and cartridge, forced it on the Army.

Getting back to your point, as best I know, it was not thought the AR-15/M16 was bad at killing, in fact, one early very informal field trial ascribed miraculous wounding power to it. Which didn't turn out to be the case, but this was most certainly a minor consideration in its adoption, somewhere down there with it being reliable.

If you're familiar with McNamara's other decisions when he was the Secretary of the DoD, well, you can imagine he and his wizz kids might have thought such a thing, but their thoughts would likely be completely independent of any check on their reality. Heck, it wasn't until the 1980s that Martin Fackler figured out how 5.56 mm rounds actually behave, not that the Army gives a damn about that (the Marines are not surprisingly another story).
> At the most fundamental level, you want the bullets to dump their energy in the target body. "Regular", as in Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) bullets are smooth and slippery, and more readily pass through a body (and are more likely to cause greater harm to anyone behind).

When I served in the military, it was common understanding that Hague convention required use of "ball ammunition" was desirable because you want to inflict casualties on your opposition, not necessarily to kill them.

From what I was told, a soldier wounded in service to a proper enemy army is useful to you because it takes a lot of people and effort to rescue, resuscitate and rehabilitate the wounded soldier than one you simply kill. Also having a screaming squad-mate does impact morale downwards too.

Of course, all that reasoning could break down when dealing with irregulars and guerrilla warfare, but possibly not.

In no way is it "Absolutely and totally false."
I'm not really interested in dueling anecdotes. Do you have something concrete?
One of the things which also bothers me about systemd is that it sort of "hides" things though layers of abstraction, compared to the shell scripts at least. For example, it is not immediately clear to me what effect "Type=forking" will have. It might not be so bad in this example, but it seems like this can wind up being quite complicated in some cases.

FreeBSD has a somewhat better simplification in my opinion using a common rc.subr file, which is included in many init scripts and can easily be reviewed by anyone editing an init script.
The time part of the equation is fuzzy. I happen to enjoy the act of homebrewing, so I slot it under "pleasant Sunday afternoon activities", which makes me not perceive the opportunity cost so much. I have friends who are unemployed and getting in to the hobby, and again, this is a country where a 6 pack of any halfway decent beer can easily be €15-€20, so brewing 25 litres of beer for about 5 hours of time and maybe €20 in grain, hops, yeast, and electricity is a pretty appealing notion.
It does not sound like a 'conventional' supercharger since it is not powered by the engine's crankshaft, but rather by electricity.
I mean cool story bro but wat about the more-than-less-than-lethal weapons manufacturers?
BIAB does have lower efficiency, but having less stuff around the apartment makes it worthwhile. Using some extra grain is a bummer, but not a terrible tradeoff.
>It's fascinating to me that the iPad is flat and being effectively cannibalized by the iPhone

iPad sales were flat or dropping even before the bigger iPhones landed.

http://hyderabadjunction.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iPho...

And over the past few quarters, PC sales either stopped declining or are actually increasing or flat. So the post-PC trend doesn't seem to be in full swing.
Ask HN: Establishing an open source project organization
We are a start-up who makes extensive use of an open source library. This library is somewhat new, and is not yet established.

We would like to assist with the ongoing development of the project through both financial and engineering resources; we are unsure how to do so, given the lack of a formal organization.

We do not mind setting up a "non-profit" or other type of structure, but are unsure of how these legal entities look. Can someone suggest a good framework or a similar project we can look to for inspiration?
You're looking purely at the market caps and revenues, while the economy is also a function of employment and political influence. Heavily regulated segments might have fewer players (at first), but those are regulated and their power is curtailed. And like another commenter said, unregulated markets (and historical examples are aplenty, especially in the US), quickly see consolidation and concentration of power in the hands of a few corporations (even if they happen to be nominal competitors), and little regulation means their power (which is not the same as their revenue or market cap) can grow unhindered.

In as much as SV companies "disrupt" old industries, they usually consolidate power. Uber may not be big yet, but it's bigger than any single taxi company, and it wants to be a lot bigger still. How Uber transfers risk to its workers and pretends its nothing but a "marketplace" has the potential to change work relations and job security. It's just that Amazon's business practices look more similar to the ones we know from the gilded age, while what Google and Uber do is new, but not any less exploitative.

Opting-in and choice has little relevance here. A modern democracy must ensure that no unelected entity (and even elected bodies have checks and balances) gains too much control over people's lives even if people seem to want it.
I always find it amusing when someone snipes at someone else's writing and still comes off second best.
A bit offtopic, but a necessary interpretation from my perspective is how the so-called "corporate culture" with all its dresscodes and formal manners doesn't promote the ascent of new ideas - Asimov even goes on to suggest they could actually come from an informal dinner, etc.

I'll be sure to save this one to read periodically. Thanks for the submission.
Great job! I really like the new brower: eww, and develop a plugin for dictionary in Emacs.
Incapacitation is hard. The common belief that when you get shot you quickly go down and either pass out or are in too much pain or shock from the injury to do anything is pretty much a myth from movies.

There's some great information on this in the book "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach [1]. Even getting shot through the heart often leaves the person several seconds where they are conscious and able to act, giving them enough time to shoot back or shoot hostages.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/dp/...
Having driven a Tesla, IMO if this engine still burns fossil fuels, it has no future (edit, folks, where "future" is the "5 to 10 years" noted in this article). Tesla should be proving that the combustion engine [will within the next 5-10 years, note this article is titled "Volvo bets its future"] no longer have a legitimate reason to exist for passenger cars.
The lag is there because turbines are powered by exhaust gases and theres no increase in exhaust without increase in intake, and the turbine is responsible for increasing the air intake but it can't because there's not enough exhaust - a hen and egg problem...
But Volvo did something interesting - they used an electric turbine that doesn't have to wait for the exhaust to increase, it can be spinned almost instantly when you press the pedal, so there should be no lag
Spot on. Building networks is key. A software developers role tend to involve a lot of time alone, and this counts against long term career development. In particular, meeting time is often treated as bad time while writing code is valued. In reality, a programmer needs to divide time between executing and saving up some human capital for the future.

I have been going around doing interviews because I did not network enough and my contracting/freelancing work dried up. What they are looking for in a senior developer is the ability to lead teams, improve collaboration, code quality. I'm in my 40s and I can absolutely believe that 50+ people can have serious difficulties securing the right position.
I'm not sure why position is "r", but F for force, m for mass, w for world (in a short function), N for, well, N - doesn't seem too bad. Math looks much worse if you spell everything out.
Take a look at multiple cursor mode for this.
Building with a new SDK makes the app opt in to new behaviors even when targeting older iOS versions. This can be quite a hassle. Your perfectly working app - even when deployed on an iOS 8 device - will suddenly break in many fun ways merely from recompiling with a newer SDK: touch handling differs, margins may be weird, table headers vanish because various new methods aren't implemented, screen rotation suddenly gets enabled where you didn't expect, new keyboard metrics mess up your layout, etcetc. This happens because when the runtime detects that an app is built with an older SDK, it enables a bunch of compability behaviors that newly built apps cannot opt in to.
>When you publish through a publishing house, they assume the financial risk.

Of what? The cost of the books? Because advances have gone basically to zero. I was offered none.

As far as your other questions: Books won't sell unless you curate an audience prior to writing it. And if you do that, the need for a publisher disappears quickly.
Since this Asimov essay is about groups functioning in a space, Brett Victor's seeing spaces talk also seems rather relevant. Give people new ways to think about things, and great places for them to think together.
Yes. Turbos make sense but if Volvo is betting on them they are only joining VW, BMW, and Subaru.

Your remark about the i3 is due to its range? Otherwise it is a good car. Tesla's products are very attractive partly because of Tesla's commitment to supercharger networks (which are no cost to use) and other recharging infrastructure. BMW's story seems weak by comparison but their EVs are good so far.
"This underestimate caused me to underestimate my ability to accomplish my goals"

I think the second "underestimate" is supposed to be "overestimate".
Douglas Crockford speaking about the new good parts of modern JavaScript
> I contend that the denotation JS syntax->build script is no easier, and is perhaps more difficult, to learn than the denotation build syntax->build script, as it is, by definition, confusingly similar to the syntax for JS code!)

Really? gulp build step dependencies look almost exactly like AMD dependencies.

Edit: my wife has also asked me to ask you "will it scale?"
Yes. The commits are recorded in an independent repo, so you can have both a per-file history of changes and a global history.