skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of that Neal Stephenson book, Anathema, that had a space ship that was propelled by setting off nuclear bombs just outside its hull.
We find it to be pretty competitive for our needs (PCR, genotyping, long-term storage).

PCR is something like ~$1.50/rxn with our standard genotyping protocol, which works out to ~$0.30-0.40 more than the same reaction run in house. If I recall correctly, the cost per rxn goes down if you run more in parallel, because they share the same instrument time.

Setting up that reaction might take me ~0.5 hours base, and 0.05 hours for each subsequent reaction prepared in parallel.

Grad students are cheap, but even valuing my skilled labor at minimum wage, it's cheaper to use Transcriptic.
It's a mix of both. There are judges that don't care about the technical details -- that's wrong. But there are also people who think they won't be convicted of a crime because of an irrelevant technical detail. The fact that you disclosed the existence of a secret warrant by removing your warrant canary, for example, is highly unlikely to make a judge think you did nothing wrong.

The argument that the Swedish judges and prosecution make is that, though ThePirateBay does not necessarily host the pirated content, the site causes pirated content to be disseminated massively, and it exists solely to facilitate piracy. I don't personally agree with this, but I can't deny it's pretty hard to refute this claim when you literally named your website "The Pirate Bay."
"The average recoil force of the GAU-8/A is 10,000 pounds-force (45 kN), which is slightly more than the output of one of the A-10's two TF34 engines (9,065 lbf / 40.3 kN each). While this recoil force is significant, in practice a cannon fire burst only slows the aircraft a few miles per hour in level flight"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
As an FYI, donations to the EFF are being matched right now:
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Linked to directly from the article:

1. http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#overall

2. http://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technica...
I watched a lot of SC2 during WOL and I recently went to IEM San Jose. I was reminded of why I stopped watching. Koreans are completely impersonal. You can't even force yourself to become partial to them on any level other than their in game skills. As a foreigner, all the Koreans might as well be clones of each other. The language barrier is simply too much and it makes for a really boring spectator environment.
So this is like the GPL for patents?
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I've got this on my bookshelf right next to "The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells" and "The Science Fractal Images". Hope more old books like this get digital releases for free/modest cost.
The more code I write, the more I fully write out namespace names (thus answering the question "where does this function get defined"), so the code starts to look like prefix based naming anyway.

(Not that I am against namespacing - I think being able to have namespaced packages is a really good idea).
Why require the "sit down" part? As the article states, you can do math without sitting down, too.

Let them estimate how many steps a walk from A to B takes, or what distance is larger and check it by walking, ask them to count how many tiles cover a square (multiplication as a fast way of counting every tile), to estimate the number of beans in a jar and from it the weight of a single bean (combine that with Archimedes' law and let them predict whether it floats), the height of buildings (3 to 3.5 meters per floor, but also a trigonometry exercise when combined with measuring the length of its shade) etc.
In reality what you want to do is get a lot of clamp force which will then allow you to use the friction between the two members to carry a lot of the load as well. Handily in that case the load is transferred over a large area meaning that the joint could be as strong as the wood on either side of it.

Here's a nice reference for torque vs clamp force for a range of fasteners:

http://www.spaenaur.com/pdf/sectionD/D48.pdf

If you use a 1/2-13 fastener and torque to 75 ft-lbs it'll provide nearly 5 tons of clamp force (provided that said clamp force doesn't cause the wood to get squished). Now standard friction equation applies:

F = u * n

And wood-on-wood is between 0.25 and 0.5 so let's be conservative and use 0.25.

9000 lbs * 0.25 = 2250 lbs of frictional force keeping the one wooden member from sliding down the other one.

http://www.physlink.com/Reference/FrictionCoefficients.cfm

Here you can see the shear strength of a variety of bolts. You'll want to look at the second page under "single shear" as that's the application we're talking about.

https://nucor-fastener.com/Files/PDFs/TechDataSheets/TDS_013...

If you look here a 2x6 as a vertical column is only good to support about 900lbs so basically all of these equations and speculations are a joke. Grade 2, 1/4" bolts would have 2000lbs of shear strength each, so the only reason to go bigger is for a better interface to the lumber. But that can be largely negated so long as you have a decent amount of clamp force, for 900lbs you would need 3600lbs of clamp force at most. Which you can get with a single 5/16" fastener, and probably a pair of large washers to spread the force out to prevent crushing the wood.

https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/arch264/calculators/example7...
If you're into reading plans for pie-in-the-sky projects that will never [1] happen, you can read about it here. http://www.interbering.com/

$134 billion price tag and apply the usual multiples including not only the tunnel but lots of connecting rail through what I imagine is pretty difficult-to-build territory. (UPDATE: Of which it seems about 4,000 miles worth is needed.)

Fun read though.

[1] for interesting timeframes to contemplate
Why exactly do we need (to bypass) DRM on a coffee machine?
Good to hear that, I hope this police issue will be resolved soon.
Alternatively, we could stop wasting so much packaging and take 5 minutes to make a pot of coffee.
Maybe, but I don't think it was done actively. I remember when I was still at a certain military institution and the Dean was periodically pulling in all of the cadets in small groups during "Dean's hour", a period immediately following lunch, to remind us that torture is something that flies in the face of everything we were about to stand for, especially as we were about to graduate and head off to Iraq/Afghanistan. He even tried to get the folks running 24 to quit showing it so prominently [1]. I think it was really just about making money - torture has shock value just like anything else that pushes the established boundaries of violence for television. So I don't think there's some broader conspiracy, I think the people running Fox are really just assholes and capitalized on people's fears.

There's something to be said for the post-9/11 zeitgeist that it gonna take us a really, really long time to get over. We see it in super hero movies (if I have to watch Manhattan get pulverized one more time...) and in a more evolved and complex form with Homeland. I think it'll be years before we come to terms with how we've responded as a society and with what we've done.

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9876686
I think that part was sarcastic. Everyone hates that guy who reads five sentences from Wikipedia and is convinced you have an especially bad case of the Bajoran flu.
> in reality, everything is excused when it is against the enemy.

This is meaningless if you get to define any innocent/held-without-charge person as 'enemy'.
They won. They won when the US gave itself the license to enter into a perpetual state of universal war, three days after 9/11.

Look at what the US has done. Really, look at all the things it has done -- the surveillance, the drone strikes, the infiltration of civil protests, the use of military equipment by the police force, the lies to justify the war in Iraq, the lies to justify the torture, the violations of international human rights, the targeted killings of "enemy" US citizens, the re-definition of every single one of these words -- and then tell me how the US has upheld its values against terrorism.

Then look at countries like Iceland where the nation apologizes over a single justified death at the hands of a police officer, or Norway where after a killing spree and bomb attacks the first consideration by government officials is not about how to punish the murderer, but how to guarantee due process for someone evidently guilty of such heinous crimes.

The United States are not the good guys. I'm sorry, but you're not. No matter how much you want it to be true.
In the U.S., you have strict evidentiary rules and the opportunity to get expert testimony into the record. If the judge doesn't know HTTP from UDP, you get a Stanford PhD expert witness to explain it. If your opponent mischaracterizes the distinction, you comb over the transcripts and get your expert to submit a declaration picking apart each instance of mischaracterization. Everything goes in a voluminous record that is dissected on appeal.[1]

In my opinion, in the U.S., courts rarely get technology straight-up wrong. What technologists call "not understanding technology" is usually more an artifact of judges not sharing the same values. I.e. just because a judge understands the difference between a torrent and the actual file doesn't mean they're going to be sympathetic to an "information wants to be free" attitude towards copyright.

[1] Of course, this is one reason litigation in the U.S. is so expensive and time-consuming.
My friend just took a train journey from London to Hong Kong.. They obviously switched trains a few times, but essentially, the entire trip was on trains. He said it was amazing
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Another solution is to not buy Keurig machines.
The video explained that clearly. New Keurig coffee machines, in order to bolster their own coffee sales, refuse to operate on non-Keurig cups. By bypassing it, consumers can buy equipment then put whatever they want in it, returning control to the consumer.
What kind of engineers keep building these anti-consumer, anti-competition DRM systems? Someone should call them out publicly, by name. The world doesn't need more DRM systems.
I think Alliance will be fine. There was a really good interview with Loda at the Summit where he said that he has a plan/vision but Chessie's medical problems were a big blow to them (remember they were beating VG and Mushi's Team Malaysia 2-0 in China just 2 months ago). That's why Bulldog is also on a break, they don't want to play with standins.
I think the key phrase here is "in the long run".

Nothing that you said suggests that there's something going on besides an honest rookie mistake. And if you are not willing to loose some dime because a rookie did something that in retrospective sounded stupid... well, it doesn't seem you will enjoy Venture Capitalism very much.

If and when these guys try to make a business model out of it, and there is a track of investor's money dilapidated in building technically sound products with zero market value... well, word can spread out pretty fast.
I created an account just so I could say that as a legally blind person, I cannot use some websites without being able to zoom in. It is extremely frustrating when I encounter a site that has disabled zoom. Please don't do it!
Justin Wong is playing for twitch now. Didn't expect that.
A great website for this would be http://ocean.ink - They have an awesome community of designers that will give you feedback on your designs.
Make things organized.

Take care of all the messy details of my life. Bills, big events (like a wedding), group traveling. Would pay compared with a 3rd party's service fee.
Are ships still cheaper if one considers the time and expense of loading/unloading the ship, plus taking containers off and putting them back on rail cars? It seems like the switching of modes could contribute non-negligible overhead. I suppose the impact of the overhead depends on the distance though. China – US might be far enough that the overheads do not matter.
It's an amusing video, but note that that same barcode is also what provides coffee/tea-specific brewing parameters to the machine. Using the same barcode for all cups breaks that. (Using a barcode from one coffee on another seems unlikely to seriously affect the results, though.)
It's not, but depending on the country not every judicial system has the same weird regulations as the US one. For example hearsay, evidence without a clear chain of custody, and many other things that would be thrown out of a US court are accepted in most other western countries.
The Judges know how to deal with that evidence and under which circumstances except it or not, some one lost a tag on an evidence bag doesn't really scares them, the evidence came from an "unofficial" source, as long as it's credible they'll take it in and so on.
Ironically enough, sub-second music IP rights swap between the shell corps, so as to dodge any lawsuits getting anything out of them.

Worked great too, unless you discount the whole "convert the earth into computronium" in later chapters implying it's origin from the same subsystems.
I'll start:

Keurig
Sharp point. If the only relationship we had with Spotify was the one dictated by their public API TOS, then yes, we wouldn't be in accord.

However, thankfully we have agreements and relationships in place with all the music services that enable us to do what we do. This is because we serve as a marketing channel for the music services, helping them acquire new subscribers in ways they can't do easily themselves.

EDIT: Applies to all of our partnered music services.
When I was 7, my dad introduced me to my first programming concept ever. While having a walk in the forest, he asked me to look at fern and made me inquire about its structure. He proceeded to tell me about recursivity and a very long conversation ensued. Needless to say, my mind was absolutely blown.

Over the years, we had many discussions like that first one, relating programming concepts to real-life principles. My dad was never (and still isn't) a "hardcore" programmer, but as far as understanding and explaining logic go, I'm still to find somebody capable of explaining things so simply and beautifully.

Quite a few years later at University, my teacher with two PhDs failed to explain the basics of OOP to my class in a 4 hours span, entangling himself and everybody in lingo and concepts that even confused me, who already knew OOP. Academics would sometimes do well to relate to the real world and deflate their egos.
I think someone could have a hit building a flappy-bird clone off this concept.
Maybe, the alternative perl, "Perlb"? I'd also agree with the "perpetual playground" comment, and note that Perl6 originated not as something needed, but as a way to keep the developer band together.

Plus, I've always noticed a tendency in Perl in the last few years to be interesting/entertaining... sort of like it was designed by science fiction writers.
What's cool about it is that from an engineering perspective, it's not even hard. We easily have the tech to build it right now, it's more a question of economics.

I believe the price tag has been revised a few times too, as a Japanese company seriously underbid the competition to dig the actually tunnel. This article [1] lists the tunnel as only $10 to $12 billion.

(I live in the Yukon, right near Alaska)

Unfortunately, it likely won't happen until there are very good high-speed trains from that part of Alaska down to the lower 48, and from that part of Siberia over to Moscow, otherwise you'd have an awesome tunnel that goes literally from nowhere to nowhere.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0bsM...
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A start would be to stop looking to someone else to show you the way. What have you tried?

Working in groups is what makes it so damn easy to discredit, re-brand and dilute movements. Protesting? C'mon, we're way past the useful application of protesting.
I expect you'll get to Portland eventually, I think you would do well here.

I have a special challenge for you.

I'm the guy who wrote "Living with Schizoaffective Disorder":

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

For quite a long time I was quite certain I would never find love, as a result of my mental illness. Actually that turned out not to be the case, many women are completely cool with it.
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The kind of engineers who want to supply people with a $140 machine instead of a $500 machine, I'm guessing.

Don't like it? Don't buy a Keurig. There are hundreds of other ways to brew coffee at home.
your priorities are shown to be out of whack by the idea that you believe all of the people receiving these treatments are 'terrorists'.
No, I mean the individual engineers.
Sure, it worked great during the Inquisition. Evidently they killed a lot of Satanists, witches and wizards. It must've worked -- there don't seem to be any around.
I teach high school right now. I ask students in each class what their math experiences have been; I give them space to vent, and make it okay to say, "I hate math." In every class I've had, there's also been someone who says, "I love math." We then talk about what has worked for people and what hasn't. I explain much of what I wrote in the comment above; many students have been blaming themselves for years of failure, and have never realized that weren't offered a way back into math. On the other hand, some students have blamed everyone but themselves and they need to start taking responsibility for themselves, and we have that honest conversation.

Everyone needs motivation to learn anything meaningful. Motivation for students can come from a desire to earn credit and graduate, a desire to be able to do a certain job, or a desire to catch up on things they haven't understood for a long time.

I connect each student's math learning plan with their job and career goals. Most of my students are at an age where that can work, if they can see the connection. This isn't just a utilitarian approach; we also talk on a regular basis about the wonders of math, and how there are efficient strategies but there are no math "tricks". I break their work into the smallest possible chunks they can earn credit for, so they get to see academic success as soon as possible.

I'm happy to share more specific thoughts here or through email, if you have a particular situation you're trying to sort out.
HA, someone noticed! ;)
Thanks, tried those but only work if you have an android phone (for your first link); and for your second like it works either on desktop (through the android emulator), or on mobile, but not on both. :(
It's on the roadmap!
The kind of engineers who get told by their bosses that the new product needs to have DRM so that they can profit from cups. The razor and blades business model looks great to corporate execs.
Thanks for the love :) Be sure to share it with friends!
I was thinking of a sort of violent version of _Up_, in which Carl launches his house by shooting an assortment of machine guns attached to the bottom his house to propel it upwards instead of using balloons.
This article [1] has the tunnel at only $10 to $12 billion, and the whole rail interconnect at around $65 billion.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0bsM...
I don't believe it is, but maybe I should go about getting it into Bower. I have no idea how I would go about that, but one of the Bower creators coming over to play smash bros...will ask him.
It depends.
Why would you use Ruby instead of Perl 5?
Not really; it centers on providing access to material that it's users want (except certain categories, e.g. child pornography). The fact that it's mostly pirated content stems mostly from the fact that it's prohibited almost everywhere else on the internet.

But, your point is very important in a legal sense - a simple, but effective way to build a better TPB would be to center it around some other cause, and have it accidentally be used for piracy.
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I really doubt the engineers are the ones who said, "Wouldn't it be great if we made this product decision that would impact revenue positively?"
Cross-origin could be an HTTP server itself serving content from a different origin via a push channel (which it could do either because the different origins share servers -- which can occur -- or by having, e.g., prefetched the data itself from the foreign server and pushing it.)

HTTP/2, I'm pretty sure, doesn't allow this (and there are all kinds of reasons it wouldn't be a good idea), but it wouldn't necessarily require forcing the other server to push the content.
> Then why do you think you have the wherewithal to pronounce that quantum mechanics is fundamentally incorrect?

I didn't; I wrote that I suspect that it is.

As another notes, the inability to merge quantum theory and relativity indicates that there's something we're not accounting for. Given how comprehensive both of those theories are, I suspect that the fix which accounts for all the observed evidence will be something else entirely.

Ptolemaic epicycles looked iron-clad for centuries; the successfully predicted observed reality for quite a long time, and (IIRC) even when folks started supposing that they might need tweaking, it looked like still more epicycles might save the day.

And then they were replaced with a better theory.
These look gorgeous, I searched ebay for the boards, ;)

Drum memory might be a nice touch.
Don't forget the oil, water, electricity and data lines that would also be in the tunnel.
> It appears that just because PHP has been used a lot more than most languages it gets compared to, its warts are known about a lot more which makes it a much easier target.

Yeah, that's not the reason why people complain about it.
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To be fair, it's a lot easier to just rationalize what you're doing than to admit you've been doing unspeakable things to humans for no real benefit.
People DO vote with their wallet by straight up not paying for the material, or did you forget what thread you were in?
It is written on this article that the article was inspired by the XKCD post.
Unfortunately, I think code signing requires organization validation, unlike SSL certificates. Though I agree that resellers being involved makes the process more complex.
A simple matter of programming :-)

It's easy to lose track of the distances in that area of the world. According to the site, there would be something like 4,000 miles of track required to connect to existing conventional rail. I doubt the whole project would be "easy" but economics is a showstopper in any case. Any any rate, Russia would need to be a much larger trading partner and--even if they were--it's not clear that easier routes from eastern Russia to the US would be a big win.
This isn't radical. PHP apologism is incredibly widespread. And it almost always takes the same poor form you chose here, of pretending everyone is just conflating preference with quality. No, supporting octal constants only by accident, and doing so incorrectly because it was an accident is not a valid design decision and simply a difference of opinion. Plenty of other languages have been used as much or more than PHP, without the same level of criticism. Consider the very real possibility that some of that criticism is valid and try reading it instead of dismissing it.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/21/jetpack_speeding.png

Best part.
Maybe they didn't have the option of protesting a design decision from higher up in the company and possibly being out of a job. It may be a crappy thing to do from a consumer perspective, but it's not illegal and arguably not immoral.
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Thanks for reading the post. :)