skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That can work, but ideally, a CI server would actually run all of those, leaving only a handful of things that require human judgment in the checklist.
In light-water reactors, the highly radioactive part of the system is very simple. It's a core of metal fuel rods and support structure, some control rods, and water. All the plumbing complexity is external, and it's on water, which isn't hard to handle.

Most of the alternative reactor designs have more going on in the radioactive part of the system, or more difficult working fluids. This usually leads to trouble. Sodium-cooled reactors have sodium fires. Helium-cooled reactors have helium leaks. Pebble bed reactors have pebble jams. (The one in Germany is so jammed it can't be decommissioned.) Molten salt reactors have to pump radioactive molten salt around and run it through a chemical processing plant. In some designs that salt is a fluorine compound. Now you have all the headaches of operating a radioactive chemical plant.

Most power utilities don't want to operate a radioactive chemical plant.
"Fellow computer audio enthusiast (and Naim PR person) Stephen Harris and I launched into some preliminary listening tests, to establish under reasonably controlled conditions if audible, repeatable differences could really be heard. We readily confirmed that the final sound quality is influenced not only by the choice of network player, DAC, digital cables, or indeed many other long-recognized factors, but additionally — and quite markedly — by the manner in which we now store large quantities of our music at home."

First, the nature of the tests conducted is not adequately described. Were they double blind ABX? Second, they confirmed a sound difference between digital cables, which many others have utterly failed to do in double-blind ABX tests. This suggests to me that their testing methodology is deeply flawed and the author should be disregarded unless he posts more details.
I thought the reason to soak the beans was not for texture or flavor, but to make the easier to digest. Ya know, that whole 'beans beans are good for your heart' thing?
Finally someone caught on to this problem.

140 years ago my great-grandfather dug a palladium mine anticipating exactly these problems with internal disk drive components causing imperfections in audio playback. The steers grazing the grass above the mines were fed gold putty so as to increase the conductivity of their excrement. Over the years this has resulted in superconductive minerals in the earth beneath my house.

As a result, for most of my life I have enjoyed unmolested audio, because we store our files on handmade disk drives whose internal components were hewn of this superconductive mineral. There was one time in 1994 when a cousin, who'd briefly slipped the bonds of his reeducation room, tried to use copper solder from RadioShack to fix a transistor to a PCB for use inside one of my drives. We haven't had any issues with imperfect sound once we killed him.

Sometimes we can hear a train whistle from down the road, though. That's annoying.
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POSIX has lot of methods, i did not found a more HTTP-compliant way to deal with it. If you have ideas feel free to expose them, i would be really happy to simplify the specs.

Regarding 9P, SpockFS is a fork of the 9spock project (unfortunately my company still did not released the sources, albeit the github repository is opened), and personally i think 9p is the currently best protocol available for sharing filesystems. Unfortunately the linux client is a bit weak as it does not manage disconnections/reconnections (once you lose the connection with the server you have to remount it)
did you look at the source, that was written by a mathematician, he took careful care to calculate out every pixel of padding and space. Probably for his specific monitor :)
Is there a service that creates these google redirects?
Wow. Anyone remembers Rust pre-0.1? When it had typestate, ML syntax, garbage collection, etc.? So nice to see how the language slowly evolved and was molded to fit as best as possible the problem they were trying to solve.
Yeah, classifying math aspects and creating relations between different proofs is probably one of the thornier issues I'd guess. It does feel however that mathematics is a domain where an AI should be able to train itself in some way
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I think you misunderstood something somewhere. This alpha definitely has generics. For example:

enum Option<T> { Some{value: T}, None }
I loved science as a child, genetics was my hobby. The more I read, the more I learned, and the more I learned that to make a difference would require a monumental effort. To learn about the world, the understand the world, these are fun things. To unlock the secrets of the world puts you in a completely different category, and you need a certain drive and focus that not many have.

My view of STEM and liberal arts have begun to merge. To excel academically in either requires devotion, and you have to learn 10 years to have the base knowledge enough to even start making headway into new territory. The idea of a 10,000 hour expert doesn't work through college education.

Going to college used to be an affair for the intellectual elite, something that you did when you had family that could already cover living expenses for their children. The pursuit of knowledge was because you wanted to, and there wasn't often jobs connected to degrees. That is different now, thanks to available credit and a golden carrot people from all corners can sit in university, and get an education. The costs are deferred, hidden, for their future selves to contend with.

Knowing what you know now, would you again go into Life Sciences with the thought of making a living in it? Would you go again perhaps because you love Life Sciences, that is your hobby, your passion, but do it on the side and get a 'regular job'. Maybe you could finish getting your PhD, decide that the joy of discovery was worth the time and cost, but then go into a more lucrative but perhaps unrelated field.

Whatever happens, the price, the time of learning everything I assume you have learned has value. I took a different path, but I loved my 2 years of community college that I did as a hobby, learning about history, art, geology has all brought richness to my life.

You're on HN, you have a hacker mind I assume, you see the startups. You have a valuable asset in your knowledge that most (top 20% easy) don't have. Look at the world, find a problem, solve it, do it on the side like programmers bootstrap. You can make the future what you want, but an education is very valuable, and a really cool thing to have done.
High speed camera view of the actual shot simulated in the OP:

http://www.billiards.colostate.edu/high_speed_videos/HSV7-6....

Looks pretty similar--nice work!
Mirasol, the new generation epaper screens are better than traditional ones
Ask HN: Why do you disable HTML form autocomplete?
I've been noticing that Chrome's autocomplete does not work on significantly more sites than it does. Each time I've been inspecting the HTML and sometimes its caused by unsemantic form field names, but more often it's forcefully disabled with `autocomplete="off"`. Why are people doing this? It's cumbersome and error prone to fill in the same monotonous information over and over, please let my browser do it for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204155
The issue with law is that it while it requires a bit less time investment, it requires a substantially larger investment of money.

PhD programs pay you, not a lot, but at least 20-40k a year.

A top legal program (the only kind that will realistically get you a decent legal job) costs about 75k a year in non dischargable loans. There is some merit aid, but it requires you to trade down to a worse school. A good bet if you can get into the elite schools and trade down to a good school (like from Harvard down to Cornell or UMich). But if you can just barely get into Cornell or UMich, you don't really want to trade down to GWU or WUSTL.

I'd rather spend another 5-6 years in grad school / post docs than have huge student loans.

Worse, law keeps weeding people out well past the bar exam. A lot of lawyers spend 7 years in school and 3 years in practice and just leave the industry, often with well over 100k in debt.

Legal salary statistics are a bit skewed by sample bias. NALP relies on reported salaries.

Also legal jobs tend to be in high cost of living areas, while a lot of PhD employers are colleges in bumfuck.
You can read up here: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/generics.html, as well about "output" generics here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0195-asso..., and explore usage in collections here: http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/collections/.
Its not a hard cap, its a cap of number of residencies that will be supported by federal funding through Medicare:

http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2012/08/30/why-reside...

A large majority of residencies are funded this way due to the very high cost of residency. As a result, many private institutions won't increase residency numbers on their own due to funding.

The main issue is the cost of residency is massive and is prohibitive for private money to fund anyone's residency.
Rule of thumb: when discussion of vanishingly small effects as they regard human perception (especially when applied to mere entertainment) devolve to requiring analysis "quantifiable with the right equipment", we've pretty much left the realm of human perception and the cost to obtain further improvements are pure waste.
> I think Python and Go are two examples where the standard library has very much proven invaluable.

C#. The amount of time I've wasted in Java programming teams while arguing over things like which of three quirky XML parsing implmentations[1] was the One To Use while the .net team powered off and built useful functionality...

[1] This was a few years ago, obviously.
"The average frequency of the in the most recent 10 SOTU addresses (2004-2013) was 47,458 per million words; in the first 10 addresses (1790-1799, all delivered as speeches to Congress) it was 93,201 per million words, almost double the frequency. And the decline during the 20th-century era of oral addresses seems to have been a gradual one."

I'm a bit disturbed by number of significant figures reported there, since the total number of words of all state of the union addresses to date is only 1.8 million, and he seems to be giving 1 word per million accuracy for 9 or 10 speeches.
Well, it's very convenient to start a discussion and then say you are not interested any longer. We are having a civilised discussion - so let's discuss. And North Korea is interesting because going there is really not an option for 99.99% of us - so we have to rely on reports. And like I've said - things like food shortages or media censorship are reported by literally every journalist who has been to North Korea - doesn't matter if they are Polish, British, German, American or Russian. If you are starting from the point of view that CIA controls media worldwide, then there is literally no point in reading any news what so ever. But at the moment I do not even know what sort of point you are trying to make - that NK does not have censorship, or that computers connected to the Internet are not monitored by government agents? We have several sources that say they are - and what is your counter argument? That we cannot trust these sources? That would be a very interesting allegation to make, but unless you provide some rationale for your argument that's all they are going to remain - allegations.

Also - you are linking an article that uses RT as its only source? RT being so pro-Russian and pro-Russian propaganda it's not even funny - and that's the only source?
But I am not sure how saying it is a 100 year study really changes that? Sure it might be better than a 5 year study, but is it better than one that is simply ongoing? Or how about opening a specialized department focused on this type of thing? 100 seems like an arbitrary number that was only chosen to make this seem important. "Stanford to host ongoing study on artificial intelligence" is just a less interesting headline.
Your missing the forest for the trees. Don't get hung up on one example I quoted because I found it interesting.
Yes I have. I butted heads with them over this a while back. In their defense I probably could have handled myself better, I wasn't using bad language or all caps but few of us are at our best in the midst of an emotional argument.

It was a while ago, I think I called out some feminist bias in a thread (not the Barbie thread from above) and a few of my comments were deleted which I didn't think was called for. When I messaged the mods my concerns weren't addressed and I was stonewalled. When I was unhappy about being stonewalled I was threatened with the banhammer.

It's worth noting I've spent far more time in r/askscience and I have zero complaints there or in any of the other science/engineering subs.

On the plus side I have a better understanding for the complaints creationists and quantum mystics have about dealing with people who study science, which helps in dealing with friends and family.
We're running the Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) stack with the recommended approach i.e.:

logstash client
\
logstash client --> redis -> logstash "server" process -> elasticsearch <- kibana
/
logstash client

We have a high logging load (we log every request) due largely to IRS requirements. I've been really happy with it over the past 6 months but something that cannot be overstated is that you'll really need to become familiar with each one of the technologies used as each requires it's own setup and configuration. Not being familiar with any of them, it took me a solid 3 days to get to where the whole thing was usable and performant. Troubleshooting it is a breeze, and the whole system scales really easily, but a lot of that time was invested up front.
To be fair, there were _some_ languages and frameworks which did not have generics on the 1.0 release. It is a bit strange to assert that a new language should.
I don't believe Calculus is a prerequisite to Linear Algebra. Constructing proofs is something that's used in all branches of math as far as I know. If proofs are the only thing stopping you then I'd recommend just trying your hand at a few to get the hang of them. I can't imagine they'd be taught in a Calculus course either.
Here's something else I've always been curious about. It's a little bit unrelated to my first question, but I may as well ask. It's kind of a fun thought experiment.

In order to answer the first question about living inside a blackhole, one could imagine dangling one's legs into an event horizon and then pulling them back out. If you can do that, then there's no firewall, and it's possible to live inside a black hole. This is obviously impossible, since nothing can come back out of an event horizon by definition.

But now imagine slingshotting around a blackhole while dangling your legs toward it. Since nothing can escape an event horizon, your legs (or whatever you're dangling) would be ripped away as soon as they cross the event horizon, right? However, imagine getting very close to the horizon, but not actually crossing it.

So, the question is: How fast would you need to be slingshotting around a blackhole in order to dangle something near the event horizon while still being able to retrieve it? Do you need to be going exponentially closer to the speed of light, with respect to how close you want to approach the horizon?

Imagine a spacecraft with an extremely long pole sticking out of it. The spacecraft slingshots around the blackhole while dangling the pole towards it. What would happen if the tip of the pole crosses the horizon? Would it cause the whole spacecraft to get pulled in, or would the pole break away?

This is probably a basic physics question, but sadly I'm not a basic physicist, as I've shown with my original confusion.

It's quite interesting to realize no one will ever know whether it's possible to live inside a blackhole without jumping fully into one, at which point you'll never be able to tell anyone else.
> Imagine if your health insurance provider had access to your emails, search history and web queries before deciding if they wanted to provide you with insurance or not......

I'm fine with this. With the Affordable Care Act, insurers aren't able to decline you due to preexisting conditions. And previously, they would be able to cancel your policy for medical issues you hid from them. Its already illegal for insurers to discriminate against you based on your genetic profile.

What's the concern?
The opposite is true: store all your passwords in your web browser. And use random 20 character passwords for each website differently.

But don't forget to encrypt your hard disk, or at least your $HOME or your profile (Windoze).

For your login password, use one like these: https://xkcd.com/936/
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Don't know about that. You already had Clay and Calhoun as leaders of the House, and a big demographic shift towards the west. And if you want a counter-factual, think about the news from Ghent getting there a little faster, since the battle was fought after peace had been signed.

"he might have festered in the backcountry, pursuing a career out of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, clearing the landscape of Native Americans."

Probably he did that more efficiently from the White House.
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> Self-driving cars are far, far off, leaving billions of retail dollars on the table between now and then.

5-7 years is far, far off?
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I use one of these under my laptop and my code compiles faster and runs a lot quicker!
From the article:

> As it prepares to go public, the Palo Alto, Calif., company will seek to show investors it has reined in costs without sacrificing too much growth.

> Box spent 97 cents on sales and marketing for each dollar of revenue it made in the three months ended Oct. 31, down from a ratio of $1.38 to every dollar of revenue when it first filed for an IPO in March of last year. The company’s loss narrowed to $45.4 million in the latest quarter from $51.4 million a year earlier.
People are passing this off as silly, but there's a valid concern here - whether the lossless compression algorithms can actually infect the source material based off of how it interacts with the hardware. I've noticed this myself while coding - late at night, my software works great when it is all uncompressed and spread out in my IDE, but after I commit it (undoubtedly to remote hard drives that compress my code), it's pulled by others, and sometimes those other people experience bugs. The bug didn't happen for me when it was uncompressed in my IDE. But after the compression/decompression cycle of committing/pulling, it's obvious that the code sometimes gets infected by the hard drives themselves. If you're in a silent room when you push to github, you can actually hear the alterations if you listen really, really hard.
What could possibly be the point of putting a key field in the protocol? Why have a key at all of you already entirely depend on a higher level wrapper like TLS to protect it? It seems like the only purpose is increasing the incidence of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to your feet. It's not security. It's not even obscurity. It's just complexity!

The only thing I can think of is establishing the key over TLS so you can then drop TLS later for devices that don't support it but continue the encrypted session using a simpler bare cipher. If the goal is to strip away TLS complexity, cipher suite negotiation, resumption, etc. functionality to just have a basic fixed cipher, this sounds stupendously more complex than just doing a DH key exchange in the first place, e.g. spiped.
By the book, the procedure for "bailing out" a bank is to seize it (what's worth nothing, since it's bankrupt), pay enough of the debit so it gets some market value, and auction it back to the private economy.
They know the meaning, and actively argue against it:

http://www.stereophile.com/content/listening-143

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/forums/threads/13/
Ok, I was wondering if it wasn't a rendering bug that was somehow caused by the CSS, which would have been bad.
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I made approximately $30k as a grad student (5 yrs) and ~$50k as a post-doc (2.5 yrs). I probably could've made more in a different industry, but it was plenty to live on at the time. It would've been a different story if I'd had kids sooner... anyway, I didn't go into science for the money, I went into it because I like science. I don't disagree with many of the conclusions in the original post, I just wanted to add my anecdotal experience which has been relatively happy and sufficiently-compensated.
Yeah, looking through the early commits is really eye-opening.
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If I was Cloudflare I wouldn't go cutting my customers until I had a court order or an official reason to.
We keep the last 30 days and also send it out to Rollbar for notifications and analysis. It's working great!
I assume Microsoft itself has access to the keys in the Key Vault?
Derek Lowe has his usual great analysis of this paper and the antibiotic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862148
we were talking about insentives for innovation, not insentives for boring work. I agree that boring work should be insentivised by money.
> ThorCon can produce reliable, carbon free, electricity at between 3 and 5 cents per kWh depending on scale.

How does this compare to traditional nuclear power and other forms of power generation?
It's really worth jailbreaking it, if only for the sake of installing google play.
Molten salt is way less corrosive than water.
And of course, there's an emacs command to do that.
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> If you are extremely introverted, you might prefer to work as a computer programmer.

??? Really?
They can have their own problems. The THTR-300 for instance is one of the few commercial HTGR we had. They had several operational problems like water leaking into the primary circuit (which could lead to hydrogen and oxygen buildups at that temperature). The decommissioning currently is a huge mess. Sadly the English wikipedia doesn't have as much information as the German one about it.
Anyone interested in helping with this project?
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I suppose my point is that it's not as though having some people be more capable than others is unique to science; it does not seem to be much of an excuse to pay scientists less.
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I don't know the researchers in question but Turing's paper [0] was surprisingly predictive in 1936, decades before any of this came to light. It's not out of the question that they could set the direction of research for a decade or two in the future.

I agree, 100 as a number is a marketing ploy. But I like the idea of a sustainable long term mission, rather than the funding rat race and trend chasing you tend to see.

[0] http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.php
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