skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fencing models modern" dueling, typically a contest that ends with first blood. From that perspective it does apretty good job of staying close to its roots. That said, i prefer epee for just that reason.
any chance you'd mind comparing to enyo.js?
I first encountered these checkpoints in New Mexico and Texas this summer. They're really kind of interesting. It looks like a truck weigh station, except the interstate lanes are closed and everyone is forced to exit. They stop everyone at the checkpoint. They have some kind of terminal under a hood, but the officer (C&BP) looked at the terminal, asked me what country I'm from (USA) and sent me on my way (I'm white, and so were all of my passengers). The license reader cameras were obvious and about 4 car lengths from the terminal/stop sign. There's a separate line for trucks and busses. I was stunned the first time I saw one driving from Albuquerque to Las Cruces south on I-25/US-85. It was only on the northbound side, about 40 miles north of Las Cruces. It was obvious what it was. I encountered others on US-70 and I-10 in TX. Same drill at every one. I was never stopped by the officer for more than 15 seconds.
This reminds me of neighborhood networks of late 90s in post-Soviet era countries like Belarus and Ukraine that were created for somewhat different reasons but for pretty much exactly the same purpose. One time we used ancient ARCNet over the regular TV coax cable with whopping 2.5mbit throughput on a good day.
Perhaps you could come up with counterpoints to the examples I showed rather than throwing a fit?
Pixelapse looks similar to what Drew described in his YC application, responding to the question "If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, feel free to list them. One may be something we've been waiting for.":

His response:
..."a wiki with version-controlled drawing canvases that let you draw diagrams or mock up UIs (Thinkature is kind of related, but this is more text with canvases interspersed than a shared whiteboard) to help teams get on the same page and spec things out better (we use Visio and Powerpoint at Bit9, which sucks)"
I'd like the movies (and tv) become less fictional. I'm actually a fan of sci fi, BUT:

I can't stand vampires, ghosts and family. I don't like hyperspace drivers, wormholes, drive-by time travels, light sabers, spells, fate architectures, prophecies, ones, ancient and powerful beings, much more complex DNAs, 10% brain usage overflow, sound in space and losing the orbit just because the engine doesn't work.

I don't like superheros that don't obbey basic physics laws and which powers come from some ridiculous explanation.

So yes, it seems I'm a "hard" sci fi fan and would love to se a movie or, better, a series that try to simply show 2065 as we really think it will be. Of course we'll be wrong anyway, but alas.

Space minery, first colonies, gravitational dimorphism, migration politics, robots... there are plenty of current tech that will be veeery interesting in 50 years.

Instead studios keep on showing year 3000 with societies almost identical to present or, much worse, past.
Yes, we're principally using a k-mer based approach. Happy to chat further offline. Email is above or in my profile.
So, we need more storage on the grid.

Currently, as I understand, practically all residential PV coming online is grid-interactive without battery backup. The power companies actively oppose homeowners installing battery backup systems, because they're concerned about people charging their batteries using cheap power at night, and then selling that power back to the utility during the day. In some cases they have refused to approve PV installations with battery backup for this reason.

As a homeowner, I would find a system with battery backup to be more attractive than one that's useless in a power outage (though, granted, significantly more expensive, depending on capacity). While I understand the utilities' concern, I think there has to be a solution. Doesn't it stand to reason that with all this PV coming online, power prices in the middle of the day should drop, even below nighttime prices? And the prices should be highest on summer evenings? And that such a pricing pattern would supply the correct incentives to owners of PV systems with battery backup?
But its not just about "open and honest" communication, its about them also tracking behaviour, who gets to judge what is "open and honest" behaviour. Do you want somebody trawling through your search and browsing history?
Snowzilla vs. Winter's Fury
Interesting, I always wondered if there were differences like that. The way I'd think of that if I were translating it to circuitry would be to say that the mammalian brains operate at saturation of a transistor (fully on, or fully off). And that C. elegans would then be operating in the linear region of the transistor; assuming that you could represent each neuron as a transistor of course. I wonder if the change in structure happened roughly for the same reason that we're changing much of our circuitry from analog to digital (or at least avoiding analog as much as possible) because we can get better noise response and simpler circuit design. Makes me wonder then if something like epilepsy could be caused by some neurons operating the wrong way and not giving clear signals down the chain which could lead to feedback and/or noise that ends up detrimental.
Um, I really don't think it's at East German Stasi-levels. Known dissidents were gaslighted, had objects in their homes moved around, and had informants reporting on them in their apartment buildings/family/workplace.

It's bad, it's dystopian, but it doesn't seem to be THAT bad yet.
> And the CDC disagrees with that assessment.

We're talking about the organization that was forbidden from spending money on firearms injury research, right?

> That’s 308,745,538. Of those 308 million people, only 600 were accidentally killed with a firearm.

Ah, clever. Take a discussion of homicide/suicide and start presenting stats on accidental deaths as if it were at all relevant.

To return to the actual point, if you have a gun in the house, it's far more likely to be used by your kid to kill themselves as you are to be confronted by a machete wielding lunatic. On a non-anedoctal level, the stats just don't work.
In a former life, I was an expert.

HTTP proxy is not a SOCKS4 is not a SOCKS5. :)

What they'll do is buy from a proxy shop " " - usually someone(s) with a botnet and a lot of clients on that botnet - so the IPs are residentials. vip72.com is a popular one. They do provide a client which will allow you to tunnel your entire system through the proxy, but it's not required for use (and some people are wary of it)
You know what, upon pondering it further and reading your rather excellent case-in-point from your last post, you have totally convinced me.

Fuck subsidies. I believe solar/Nuclear/fusion(heh) will rule the future with or without them. Subsidies tilt the market to and fro without a care about reality, often supporting the wrong ticket.
Snowzilla. Snowtron. Love it.
Sh you'll ruin my startup!!!!!!!

;)
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Just to be superclear, my problem isn't Chris's thesis, but that somehow learning programming is "learning how to code", which, given any decent computer science education, is definitely not the case (maybe a few weeks in an intro CS class, that's it).

So with that in mind, I don't get how they are going to shortcut 2 or 3 years of intensive specialized training with this realization, given that we already base our education on this anyways?

He also brings up something like Sherry Turkle's* software bricolage argument, which I also totally agree with. HCI was also founded on these premises (starting as a fork of the PL community focusing on VPLs). Obviously there is not much new under the sun, it's all in the execution, and I hope they succeed with that.

* not surprising since...MIT
As a former Tampa Bay Mutiney fan, no bacon just piles disappointment upon disappointment. This story would be hippos in World Cup wigs cooler if the Carlos "Still the best player ever to play in the MLS" Valderramma had, in post footballing retirement, become a veterinarian managing Escobar's legacy.
Biomass electric generation primary uses wood and crop byproducts (so for electric, it's primarily the left overs of cane and sorghum that are used, not the crop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagasse ). Sugar mills wouldn't power themselves with it if it was a crapfest.
> The right thing to do (long term) is to treat those feeding power back into the grid as commercial customers/producers, where they're compensated and charged based on current market rates. Anything else distorts the incentives significantly.

Yes. As pleased as I am to see solar taking off, I see net metering as an incentive to build the industry and bring prices down -- which it is doing -- but one that has to come to an end at some point, maybe not too far in the future.
My comment was limited to data collection only. Apologies if I appear to have one overstated my case. My hair caught on fire for a minute there.
> There's no real "timing" the pasta during cooking. "Heat noodles through". Done.

You've still got to cook them if they're pre-soaked, and avoid both undercooking them and having tough noodles and overcooking them into a starchy sludge.

Either way, you'll either be going off a timer or by checking every few minutes for doneness. I don't find pressing a single button on my phone and saying "11 minute timer" to be so onerous that I'd look into soaking noodles hours in advance just to have to check them to make sure they're al dente anyways.
Based on the description of effects I believe "cutting" would be a sliding motion meant to leave a long, shallow cut while "slashing" would be more of a chopping motion with the blade side.
Remote and Junior typically not a great combo
+1, I totally agree. Easier said than done though.
Big Skies and Silly Birds in Peninsula Valdes
> All that said, it's useless to search by album color.

Thank goodness we have you here to share these revelatory insights.
And they are quite expensive to replace, often more then the cost of the tire themselves. Also most insurance carriers don't reimburse for them, hence it is a separate coverage item.
Lodash is amazing and fwiw, I consider it essential for any js script > 100 lines.
Redis pub/sub is ephemeral. If you aren't connected and listening, you missed it.
If the 2008 United States Presidential election taught us anything, it's that you need to grossly outspend your opponent to win.
I have used Qubes, and I highly recommend it. But mostly I use VirtualBox in Debian. If you search my handle, you'll find how-to guides and articles. Basically, I use local networks of gateway VMs to route traffic through nested chains of VPNs, JonDonym and Tor. I mostly use pfSense VMs, because they're so easy to secure. But Whonix is the best solution for using Tor.

One could do the same in Qubes, more elegantly. And indeed, I got the idea of workspace and gateway VMs from Joanna Rutkowska's early posts about the Qubes project.
See The Chess Variants Pages (http://www.chessvariants.org) for other historic chess variants, such as chaturanga (the original), Tamerlane chess (like shatranj with extra pieces and a larger board), and Byzantine chess (played on a cicular board!).
Cool. You might want to try a san serif font; serif fonts aren't really in fashion right now :)
I was implying they result in the exact same outcome, which means for all intents and purposes they are the same thing, when done correctly.
I agree with you that the fight for privacy seems insurmountable, and the sacrifices (that you mentioned) far too great. But I think the solution lies not in sacrificing the conveniences, but in creating enough isolation between each service to reduce/remove any correlating.
This is why I personally don't like using an ad-blocker.

If I have ads blocked, then I'm blind to the problems that the average internet user faces. I end up viewing, reading, tweeting, talking about sites that are flat out reader-abusive in their advertising. As a web developer, my sense of the state of the internet is warped.

With ads turned on, I end up avoiding those sites and seeking quieter places. I have a better understanding of what normal people see.
so like, are you one of those aspies who's proud of it, or are you just not aware when you sound like a robot
Jeff Atwood created Discus. The poster is explicitly looking for alternatives.
Friends Don't Let Friends Be Entrepreneurs
Waiting for Superman is not written by Iron and Wine, it's written by the Flaming Lips and is from one of the greatest albums of all time - "The Soft Bulletin". I correct this not because I like correcting things but because any opportunity to introduce people to TSB is one worth taking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitin%27_for_a_Superman
Just last night I watched an older episode of Jay Leno's Garage and they brought in a few of California Highway Patrol (CHP) cars to show off. The officer explains that new cars are equipped with a license plate scanner find wanted people.
In the same vein: "Bugs Bunny, greatest banned player ever"

http://www.ussmariner.com/2006/03/12/bugs-bunny-greatest-ban...
What would be a better word? "Creative professionals" comes to mind, but then that seems to exclude hobbyists, who could still derive a lot of value from a program like this.
In principle it could be reversed politically by the government just saying no. In practice no one seems that bothered though.
Ah. . . . gotcha. Yeah, all of the things I've seen on alkaline noodles are in relation to asian noodles. I'll have to give the pre-soak a shot sometime if I ever end up stuck with dry noodles. How much difference in flavor is there from fresh pasta?
Or has he been traveling in different time lines?
> Ultimately this is moot as you can't get around your font & rendering fingerprints that can be extracted from a hidden canvas element, but hey. Still better than serving it up in a platter.

This has some work to be done still, but it's a start in regard to blocking hidden canvas elements:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker
IBM dismisses Forbes report of massive layoffs
Show HN: Interview with Sean Wycliffe, CEO of Dealflicks on Entrepreneurship
My father started with IBM in 1963 and work in Cape Canaveral building the radio systems that eventually put the first man on the moon and all the Apollos. When the Space Program closed down he was transferred to Fishkill NY and then to Boca Raton a year later where he worked on the Robotics. He was a brilliant man. In 1993 at the age of 59 he took the package and went back to school and got his Masters. He taught high level math. And yes, they did hire him back as a contractor. He used to brag about IBM. I think he was disappointed when the layoffs came. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-02-01/news/9801310114_...
You are seeking a solution to a non-existing problem.

People seem quite content using shitty-looking forums.

Measure ease-of-use as 1 of the key elements.

No point making a great UI/UX when nobody knows where the login is.
Modes of Existence
I meant in terms of the design of the framework and the emphasis from day 1 on making everything modular and interoperable with the rest of the JavaScript ecosystem, e.g. jQuery, Knockout.js, etc.
Band will make her dance
What Older S/W Devs Know Now That They Wished They Had Known Earlier?
Some things the public should not be able to spy on. Using the example of the DEA, we can't have cartels knowing the identities of the DEA's informers, or when and where they're planning to make a bust. We can't have our citizens' tax records getting out of the IRS. And public relations would break down if we can't keep our allies secrets, either. Our military's plans shouldn't be made known to the enemy, of course. Many secrets are kept for good reason—letting it all out indiscriminately just doesn't make sense.
You've read that wrong (I did, too, the first time). OP was saying "passion of someone in their early/mid 20's." which is just a comparison, not an age requirement.
Trickle down effect doesn't work.
This is very cool. Doesn't quite provide the hundreds of gigabits/second of capacity that cloudflare does.

I also wouldn't undervalue the global reputation data they have from servicing so many websites.

But still, this is cool :).
Does this mean that one neuron can carry a signal that is more dense in data than a 0/1 binary spiking signal? Like a single neuron can transmit a complex feeling instead of just if it's touching something or not?
Interesting. We check to see if Javascript timezone matches GeoIP and/or billing/shipping address. Also Canvas fingerprinting works well. Lastly measuring latency is another good one since you can't cheat the speed light.
I mean, this is the best.

Here's my random tip: I have this copy/pasted into an e-mail so that I can forward to friends and random people when it comes up - easy way to share such an insanely valuable read.
Ok, that's interesting: I hadn't recognized that you could use the pre-soaked pasta directly in fat (without further boiling in water/broth/whatever). I'm now more intrigued; thanks!
Apple has failed itself more times than you remember. They did it with the Lisa, they did it when they tried to launch a PDA (Newton), and I'm pretty sure they'll crash and burn when they try to release an MP3 player or a smartphone. Apple is as volatile as they come. When it was business computing, they made the Apple III, and when it was USB, they made a mouse.

How is Apple doing these days?
Well, it is a fake problem. There's nothing preventing a developer from hosting a binary on a server and sending the download link to a potential reviewer or user, other than the simple matter of implementing license checks and demo timeouts. It's the same now as it was 20 years ago.

It's telling that many App Store developers, even very successful ones, no longer bother with that crap. It's just so much easier for both the developer and user to send out a promo code in an email.
Designers design. Artists create art.

Almost every job requires creativity.
Catalogo Andrea Mexico
Avoidance speech
My favorite part:

>Even if we consider that this demonstration is the only time this happens, it still raises other questions:
1. How is this possible?

It is an excellent question.
America has a gum problem, we can all agree.

That said, I feel like the right to bare arms was included specifically for overthrowing oppressive governments (and in case the British came back?).

At what point does a government become sufficiently oppressive as to be overthrown by the people? Without defining that, I feel like government can just keep employing the "but terrorists" excuse and the overton window to keep stripping us of more and more of our privacy and rights.
Nice website.

Bad idea.

Bad - because you've provided no structured info about CR(Costa Rica).

Have you researched the place yourself? No point pitching up to live in Villa le Paradise but there is no ADSL/Fibre to run your business.

Go the other way around, let your interns hustle remotely.

Being able to work remotely (as "digital nomads") means they should first show they are capable of such a thing.

Make Costa Rica the onboarding-phase for fulltime hires (basically, a team-building exercise).

Note, my suggestions merely add to your strategy. I still don't quite get what you are attempting by doing this, and would on a broader-scale, suggest you don't.
And because the AAMN doesn't consist of a bunch of bloggers and click-bait artists attacking female nurses with a bunch of rude stereotypes.
Super cool! It would be awesome to see something like this for books and movies, too!
The rise of the medical humanities
So Cringely guessed incorrectly, but forced IBM's hand in announcing more accurate information.

Well played, I say.
COMSEC: Beyond Encryption [pdf]
Google Lunar XPRIZE Milestone Prizes Awarded
For the applications I've dealt with, it's an upside that a workers distributed across a number of servers can process messages from producers distributed across a number of servers, with no user-defined partitioning. Kafka, I think, requires you to define partitions to have multiple workers consume a stream. In the NSQ case, if you need more throughput, just spin it up.

Somewhat on a tangent, one of the goals of the design was to avoid any servers in the middle of the "workers" (consumers) and producers, and making it such that any consuming or producing server dieing or experiencing a network partition doesn't slow down any producers or consumers who can still reach each other.

You're right, this isn't really focused on replacing map-reduce thing like some other message streaming systems are. For one, I can't imagine a "sorting" step using nsq. It's still used for somewhat hefty data-processing tasks, in multiple stages. Each stage has as many servers spun up as needed, consuming messages directly from the previous stage, and publishing to nsqd on localhost. They might consume and acknowledge multiple messages to produce one new message.

For reduced inter-server hops before hitting the database, you can run workers on the same host as producers. So you might have a X hosts producing messages (and running their own nsqd locally, of course), and have Y consumers on each host, configured to consume messages from localhost instead of using nsqlookupd to find all sources, and those consumers would make direct requests to the appropriate database host. With this setup you can still use nsqadmin to monitor the queue levels on all producer hosts, and you can still be archiving messages to disk on some other remote hosts.
Do they have websites I can take a look?
Police urge Google to turn off 'stalking' feature on mobile app for drivers
An apology would restore credibility?

He's long had some sort of issue with IBM, I'm not sure what the source of it is, but regularly he publishes sensational articles about them with little or no basis in reality.

It this is far enough off base to warrant their response, I'd say the only way he'd gain any credibility is to list his sources and also make his investments clear. Is he buying puts on ibm?

What it looks like to me is that he heard a rumor about some cuts, not unusual and it sounds accurate. He elaborated it into a gigantic story of his creation. I expect better from Forbes.
I'm dividing by 0.3 to account for the efficiency of natural gas turbines. (In reality they're higher at around 35-45%)

If you assume a 100% efficient natural gas plant the cost is $0.00983/kWh (100% efficiency is of course nonsense though).

At 30% efficiency the marginal cost is $0.0327/kWh, distribution usually costs around $0.01-0.02/kWh.

This leads to a grand total margin cost of $0.0427-0.0527/kWh.

DoE estimates from 2012 show $0.0189/kWh in fixed costs.

So a combined grand total of $0.06-0.07/kWh.
It can be surprisingly difficult. Funnily enough moving from svn git in one project I know of probably did a lot of the necessary work to achieve this, by having to remove reliance on $SVN tags and pre/post-"build commits" which used to be a part of the release process.

It's an interesting use-case for Docker as well: you can ship the build environment (or its Dockerfile describing it) for people to run builds under the same env as the official released build.
Let's see... they bought PeepCode, Digital-Tutors, TekPub, and now Code School. I wonder who will be next?
I agree that it can't even get near 100% of economic value (though I don't have a clue how to make 'near' precise). I was being handwavy about how much, and could've been clearer.
Security through obscurity? No doubt a great deal would need to change, but we've tried the method of giving a select group of individuals an immense amount of power and hoping for the best. It hasn't worked out that well. So I'd recommend that you consider the present situation, because the prospect of you knowing my tax information, by comparison, doesn't seem so bad.