skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the time of the Hiroshima bombing, the U.S. was out of military targets and running out of civilian targets that hadn't already been thoroughly pulverized by saturation bombing. The impact of the first atomic bomb drops were therefore largely psychological.

Consider the Japanese perspective. Pretty much every military target and major urban center is already in ruins, and suddenly the enemy starts dropping an entirely new kind of bomb? The Japanese weren't scared of the handful of nuclear bombs the U.S. had managed to build. They were scared of the idea that the U.S. would start saturation nuking the entire country, even if the U.S.'s nuclear stockpile was purely symbolic at that stage.

As for bat bombs, given that the conventional bombing of Japan was so successful that nuclear weapons were a purely psychological threat, it's not surprising that "bat bombs" were deemed superfluous.

Interestingly enough, the "bat bomb" idea might be due for renewed consideration. Nuclear weapons are now considered last resort. Cluster bombs are banned by many nations and considered rather despicable to use due to the fact that the duds remain a threat to civilians long after the conflict is over (Note: The U.S. has not signed the ban and still uses cluster bombs). A "bat bomb" full of mini-drones might provide superior coverage and accuracy to cluster bombs. One such bomb could cover a larger area and target specific structures. Drones could fly their payloads directly inside buildings to structural weak-points, greatly multiplying the impact of their munitions. There would still be duds of course, but, by reducing the amount of ordinance needed to hit all targets in a given area, the impact of unexploded duds on civilians would hopefully be reduced.
EPG (electronic program guide) aquisition can work using low-bandwidth methods if the box can stay on all the time. This low-bandwidth method could be a broadcast to all boxes constantly. So if your goal is a two-week EPG the box has to stay on for quite a while until it has seen all two weeks' data, and to process that you need to store it on the HDD. Such a box is going to be running close to its normal power requirement while doing these things.
I currently use the Samsung Chromebook 2 with Ubuntu via Crouton, and it runs nicely. But it's not the same as running a full GNU+Linux system with free software and hardware, and the on-board 16 gigs of storage is rather limiting. I would be all over this if the motherboard were made available.
> The subreddit has become a recommended resource for anyone listening to the podcast. It boasts 5,638 subscribers as of this writing, but its readers are probably far more numerous. A lot of journalists, I can testify, are watching it closely.

The traffic stats for /r/SerialPodcast are public, and yes, the number of readers is many multiples of the subscriber count.

http://www.reddit.com/r/serialpodcast/about/traffic

Amazing that they have 100k+ monthly uniques vs. ~7k registered subscribers. The former number tends to be bigger than the latter for subreddits, but not by a factor of ten!
Re Handoff in Yosemite... there are hacked kexts that make it work just fine in older (non BT LE/4) Macs (with regular BT) making it fairly clear that an artificial limitation was introduced.
A part of the problem is that something truly secure will equally be useful for legitimate and illegitimate uses. There's no way to make a safe that only keeps honestly earned money. Any solution with a backdoor added exclusively for use against bad guys is inherently unsafe, and this will bite good guys sooner or later.

This article explains this in greater detail: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/tools-for-treason/
Right, because having somebody else manage your money isn't as profitable as managing it yourself. You would agree with that I'm sure?
> A painting is a form of language, but can a painting be said?

I suppose if you use a very broad definition of language, that might be true, but in the sense of natural languages, paintings are not generally a form of language. They may be a form of symbolic expression, but that doesn't make them a language.
Keep in mind that that's the maximum input while it's in use... I don't think there's any way to figure out how much it would use when off without plugging it into a kill-a-watt.
I absolutely understand your reaction, but, believe me or not, I remember myself wondering as a child why it is opposite. That time it seemed to me completely intuitive and natural that 1 should be "false" and 0 — "true".

However, years later I was introduced to boolean algebra, where 1 should be true and 0 — false, if we want multiplication to be "and" and addition "or". And it feels right, because intersection of two sets is (intuitively) multiplication, and joining — addition.

So, yeah, it doesn't seem like a good idea to me as well after all these years.
$50 to find out anything meaningful. Nope.
If you acquired the software legally, what then do you think?

Now ask yourself this question if you legally purchased Oracle or MSSQL, and were evaluating for an application, testing, etc - and now I inform you that that's unauthorized, and Oracle's license forbids you from doing any form of benchmarking related to the database. Do you feel that you are being immoral to test your application?
Submit a pull request to fix it.
Could you describe you LED bulb setup? How many bulbs and rooms, why keep them on late into the night, etc.?
You make it sound like a business arrangement, in which your wife has to provide some 'benefit' or else its not worth it. I can't imagine marrying someone with that type of a relationship.
Well, someone's mining rig was disrupted
If your definition of support is the ability to "moan at [the vendor] if nothing else", is it really worthwhile to consider as an alternative? Your hardware is still warrantied by the respective vendors.
Yeah, was amused by the "six months" figure.

Two systems in my apartment:

02:02:44 up 753 days, 5:19, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 (my router)

18:02:43 up 649 days, 20:51, 0 users, load average: 0.09, 0.43, 0.56 (my fileserver)

I've heard of Solaris systems going over ten years without a reboot.
My first startup failed after a couple years. My co-founder and I were pretty worn out, and I had some medical issues. After a month of recovery (both from the biz and med stuff) I started contracting at two promising startups half-time. I went full-time at the beginning of this year, only to have a side project take off. Currently running that with the same co-founder and a new one.
I know my WDTV was 5W when I measured it with the KaW and the interesting thing was it didn't really change much when I was watching something with it.
To the couch for 2 months.

And then back to another startup. ;)
Had a startup (rather, small company that was established in the hosting space), sold it when I was 19. Took that money, paid out employees, and tried to start something new and fresh.

That failed. Had a co-founder that wasn't dedicated. Had some tech that I could sell and did sell, but I still considered it a failure because I never hit the mark I wanted.

Consulted, took some jobs with startups here and there. Those startups failed for some reason or another so I went back to consulting.

I'm now consulting and lending myself out to people/businesses with ideas, usually spending about 30 hours a week doing so. I spend another 10 volunteering and tutoring, and another 20 whipping up ideas of my own and seeing if I can find something that I'm confident enough to run with.

My plan is to keep on trying. I have a book of ideas that I want to execute. I'm mostly just waiting for the right idea and the right front-end guy. I'll usually crank out an MVP and never release it because I fear it failing (and I'm not a popularizer); sooner or later, though, I'm confident something will stick when I find the right people to execute with (or they find me)
It would be quite the glowing recommendation for a young, growing company to list Apple as one of their clients. It's not difficult to understand why a company like GT might underbid much bigger rivals on a competitive contract just for the impact it would have on their future business. It is therefore very possible that Apple acted in good faith but GT was simply unable to honor the contract they agreed to. It's not dissimilar to young engineers, IT professionals, etc. who are willing to work for Cupertino at wages well below industry standard just to pad their resumes. Such people often burn out very quickly.

GT's bankruptcy may cause problems in Apple's supply chain that wind up costing Apple a pretty penny. Likewise staff who burn out just as they're trained up to a productive level suck resources out of Apple as well. Apple would do well to carefully examine bids and make sure their suppliers can comfortably do what they promis to do, just as they should avoid taking advantage of new employees willing to work long hours at low wages. Reaping the benefits of fame at the expense of the star-struck sounds great at first, but doing so can cost substantially more in the long run.
I'd argue the point of giving the OS away for free was nothing to do with buying new devices. It was probably to make sure people upgraded sooner, rather than being put off by having to buy the new version. Better for the whole ecosystem.
Arrays are indexed starting at 1. I asked about this and Jeff said it just depends which types of problems end up having to use +1 or -1. I said anything mod n is now going to have the +1 and he actually paused for quite a while. I know it's an unsolvable debate, but I thought indexing from 1 went out with Fortran. I also would have thought the math folks would prefer to start at zero.
No astroturf votes or comments on HN, please.
> The port was basically a straight port of matlab code making only the necessary syntax changes to make the code run.

Then it is not surprising at all that you do not get any speed benefit. I would expect a serious slowdown.

Idiomatic MATLAB and Numpy has lots of vectorized expressions because they are so crappy at loops. However, in vanilla Julia those vectorized expressions cannot be JIT'ed. Now if you were to write them out as explicit loops then JIT will take a stab at making things faster.

I do like the economy of words of vectorized expressions a whole lot, this is the reason why I am so excited about https://github.com/lindahua/Devectorize.jl
If you can articulate exactly why it's "terrible advice" i'll eat my hat.

Here's my advice: If you invest the time to learn how to use derivatives, you can be far more profitable than investing only in stocks (whether companies or index funds). And I've made a lot of money, not by making gambles but by trading a large number of small positions over a long timeline, selling option premium and earnings a fantastic return.

It's a fact that retail investors have under performed as a class. And I didn't invent any of the strategies i'm using, nor did TastyTrade (though they do a great job advocating for and researching them). And I absolutely am delighted to spread the word, even if it means debating people like yourself. Your motivation is, I suppose, an innate certainty in your own correctness. It doesn't seem to matter to you that we're debating a subject that I clearly have a lot more passion about and experience with. And your message to anybody reading is "I can't tell you exactly why this is all bad advice, I'm just sure that it is."

I'm certain that options or futures trading isn't for everybody. But you're certain that it's not right for anybody and you and others here have taken a "shout him down" approach that is very un-HN imho...
There are no stats in this article to justify the claim that it's the 2nd largest consumer in your home. The architect seeing the 500 watt rating on the back of one is immediately followed by "A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power".

In fact, at 35 watts, according to this chart[1] it wouldn't even come close to being the second largest consumer.

[1]: https://www.efficiencyvermont.com/For-My-Home/ways-to-save-a...
Don't Talk to Police (2008)
I'd totally try this!
I did something similar too. This is actually very bad for Apple - because I've now had the same Macbook Pro for 5.25 years, and it's remaining serviceable thanks to RAM upgrades and a modern high-capacity SSD. I'm sure it will end up lasting 5.5 years and it seems like there's a fair chance it will (Apple software support and wobbly ports permitting...) last for 6.

But if they'd forced me to pay for all the upgrades up front, I'd probably still have bought the same spec (the 8GB RAM option was eye-wateringly expensive at the time, and the SSDs were comically pricey) - and then I'd have had to buy a whole new one after 2 years. Which probably wouldn't have had an SSD, because they were still expensive back then. So I'd probably be buying another one round about now, if not before, and Apple would have had 3 purchases out of me rather than just one.
I read partway through and began to worry that maybe old age has finally caught up to me at 25.
After 4 years of working to build a big VC fundable startups (3 different products), I was pretty burnt out. I am continuing the last product, but now my focus is on building lifestyle startups which brings about $1m revenue every year.

Joined a job on the side, which would help pay my bills and help my family settle down. In the meanwhile, I would be chipping along to build my small revenue generating startup.
It's worth noting that this site, TonyMacx86, isn't well-liked by some of the Hackintosh community, because they plagiarise and rebrand software and drivers helpful or necessary in Hackintosh setup. The guide may be useful, but please get your setup tools from the original sources.

My main source for this is conversations I've had in IRC, but it's also been noted elsewhere.[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Also, apparently they have weird anti-piracy measures on their software... software which they stole from others![9]

If you want Hackintosh install software which isn't stolen, I suggest myHack: http://myhack.sojugarden.com/ (I'm unaffiliated with it, but I've used it and I've had it recommended to me.) Unfortunately, myHack is now proprietary, because the author has had their code stolen in the past. It is, however, freeware.

[0] http://prasys.info/2011/01/tonymac-seriously/

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/17cb3x/have_any_...

[2] http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/gigabyte-uefi-bi...

[3] http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/626-d620-help/

[4] http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3...

[5] http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?32906-ASUS-UEFI-vBI...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8468789 (HN post, turn on showdead)

[7] https://twitter.com/Zackehh9lives/status/337548817513717760

[8] http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/3593-myhack-vs...

[9] https://web.archive.org/web/20130215124559/http://tkware.inf...
It doesn't apply to STBs, but there are mandatory standards for many appliance categories:

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

http://energy.gov/node/773531/index.html

That is going to meet some definitions of "remotely similar" (and fail others).

Energy Star usually benchmarks off of those standards. There are also adjustments, so Energy Star products from some time ago might not meet current mandatory standards (but I haven't looked to find an actual case of this, just pointing out that it could be).
The text in Russian talks about burning piece of sulfur-soaked oakum.
> It's what we were designed to do.

No, we weren't 'designed' to do anything. Evolution hard-wires us to have sex, by making sex pleasurable. Kids are just a by-product. The parental instinct varies from person to person, just like some people are gay, and some people have 0 parental instincts, like me.

> people mistakenly feel they'll have a happier life without them, but in a certain sense it's an empty life.

That's your opinion. My opinion is, my life would be empty if I didn't achieve anything significant because I was too busy looking after kids / paying for them, etc.
My bad, I thought it was obvious from having separate operator for concatenation that '+' operator also has only one intent. So in your case it will parse an integer from a string if operand is a string.
It's a M004U (AKA CN60). I should also have mentioned that I bumped the RAM to 6G (though 4 would have been fine). CPU is a Celeron 2955U, 1.8GHz dual core.

Fan's moderately loud. It seems to only come on when the GPU is stressed, rather than the CPU (playing 3D games, essentially). Doesn't come on when I'm playing movies or compiling code.

I run Arch with XFCE as my desktop, which I admit isn't very demanding - but it's zippy. Can't say what it'd be like under Gnome/KDE, but if I had to bet I'd say it'd be fine.

Installing Linux isn't for the faint of heart, but there's some good guides and it doesn't take long.
They disrupted the problem? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Sorry for the stupid question but does that mean you can't write C code in Windows that calls fork()?
According to Wikipedia, USA signed part of "Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons" which bans white phosphorus in incendiary weapons in 2009 under Obama administration.
Counting in inflation aside, I think I remember hearing something about a bubble...
Thiomersal is a mercury compound. Mercury is know to be bad for you. The research only tells us that the compound is out of the blood stream in X hours, it does not tell us that all the mercury is gone - i.e. the compound could break down and the mercury stored away. This is not certain, but given there are alternative we may as well use them - that was my point and it has nothing to do with autism.
Poll: What's more annoying?
Protip.
Your wrong.
I, for one...
You insensitive clod.
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One measure: It's the #1 podcast in iTunes, despite only being around for less than 2 months.
Interesting article. Behind paywall:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/traffic-engineers-say-slowing...

^Link is full article.
For those whose startups failed and ended up working as an engineer at another company, what would you say is the main difference between the company you work at now and your failed startup? Basically, what lacked in your startup that ultimately led to it's failure?
I consulted for a couple years, joined someone else's startup, consulted again, and am currently very much enjoying a real 9-5 job with a great salary, decent benefits, excellent coworkers, and the best work-life balance I've ever enjoyed.

I may not have won the startup lottery, but I've never been happier.
Is it really lock-in if the upgrade is a completely separate install?
It's more of a mythos than a documentary. In reality they could've used more conventional incendiary weapons of the time to burn down Korosten, then historians may have made a nice-sounding legend.
Noticed the same thing. I had a media PC that though it was very convenient to have on all the time, I figured I'd save enough to turn it off and on that it'd be worth it. I measured that it ran idle (which it often is) at @ 60W, so even leaving it on 24/7 365 will only cost me @$40 a year. The only light bulbs I swapped out for LEDs are ones that are on a lot where it might make more sense.
I have seen (and thus heard!) set top boxes with fans. They are usually pretty quiet, but they're there.
Why We’re in a New Gilded Age
Doesn't take a traffic engineer to figure this out. If you've ever observed a "ghost" traffic jam the source of the problem is very obvious - any one person who stops short will cause the person behind them to stop short, and so on. The problem was never discovering the solution, it's been distribution of the solution.

I'd love to see more rigorous testing done on potential drivers to ensure they are able to drive not only safely, but efficiently. This could mean having a simulator that takes you through a traffic jam. The intent of course being to teach you, not to fail you as soon as possible because you didn't check your mirrors frequently enough.

I think the underlying problem though, is with the instant gratification associated with filling a gap in traffic flow. People feel that because they've filled the gap they've somehow saved a bit of time, when in reality the time saved is negligible for most trips (say 3 seconds in a 30 minute commute or something.) Good luck teaching people that going slower is faster.

Edit: Here's a good explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goVjVVaLe10
The choice of 0 for true and 1 for false is _wrong:_ On the Curry-Howard correspondence (and above) a type corresponds to a false sentence when it is not inhabited, like 0, and to a true sentence when it is. The Curry-Howard correspondence is fundamental, and so that is the. correct way to go, absent evidence in the other direction. I don't know whether Nock is a better foundation for a programming language than the Lambda Calculus, but it is at least as elegant—I'm glad someone is seeing where it leads I'm a fan of internet freedom, which often requires anonymity, and so I have my doubts about an OS that preserves exerything as a feature of the design.
I think Apple doesn't worry too much, their best customers, aren't techies. They may get a hackintosh up, but if there’s any frustration they probably will just go and get an all-apple product, which will "just work". And that's the attraction of Macs.
Heating or AC (or both) are more likely.

With modern refrigerators, hot water could also be a bigger fraction.
Ok, forget TSLA: Why is it less risky to buy 100 shares of SPY (at around the same $20k as TSLA) vs a $300 call spread on SPY? How can it POSSIBLY be riskier to spend $300 vs $20,000?

I'm sorry man, you don't get it, but you're sure that you do, and you're so sure that you can't be wrong that you dismiss things you clearly don't really understand. You disagree that retail investors should use options? Make an argument aside from "it doesn't work" because I have years of returns -- and you can watch HUNDREDS of hours of studies on TastyTrade and others -- that makes a far better case than your abject dismissal.

I write about option strategies because I'm certain that it's good for individual investors to see serious, experienced people talk about it. I know, I know, you're certain I can't possibly be right (for some reason) and I guess you think I'm just making it all up out of some 4chan like desire to ruin people. Whatever, man. The only traffic to this page now is you and me and other existing commenters.

What's crazy is, TastyTrade, it's a startup! They took VC money and have a dozen data scientists producing meaningful research -- the same stuff hedge funds and prop firms do -- and they release it all publicly. They have a market theory, and they've built fantastic free trading software (first Think Or Swim, now Dough.com) to give investors tools to implement their strategies. These are the good guys, empowering people to not get screwed by some shitty store front financial advisor. They had a 1/2 billion dollar exit with ThinkOrSwim and they give everything TastyTrade does away for free. There's an app you can subscribe to if you want to, but there's no obligation, it's real altruism.

Now, feel free to have the last word. If you're up to it, I'd love your take on the question I asked somebody else:

Wouldn't you agree that it would be a bad idea for a retail investor to invest in OTM options hoping the stock price will move in their direction? It's an awful strategy, with a low probability of success. Almost certainly those options you bought will expire worthless. So why on earth are you advocating so strongly against taking the OTHER SIDE of that trade? Here's a good answer: If you just do not have any time to invest, if you can't put in 15 mins each morning, then fine. But you must feel pretty strongly, so please, explain why you wouldn't want somebody to make that trade.