skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would need to import a lot of water for that.
There's one gaping hole in the idea though: where are we going to get water?

One other interesting possibility is colonizing Mercury. It turns out to not be as crazy an idea as it seems at first. Mercury does have water, there's plenty of solar energy, and it's not too hot at the poles. The trickiest part would really be getting there. As deep as it is in the sun's gravity well, it would take 6 years to get there!
Until they draft it, I'm not sure I'd want to hazard a guess.
Lead Front-End Designer/Engineer – Toronto, ON
Your main responsibility will be to create user interface for our clients to administer their promotional offers and online sampling strategies. They will rely on Sampler’s UI to make important decisions regarding the objective and design of their campaign. Sampler’s UI will need to be beautifully designed and easy to navigate. We hope to find someone who is passionate about design and ready to take on this exciting challenge with us.

You will be the architect of that system component. You will start planning and wireframing the new UI in cooperation with the product & sales team. With support from the backend team, you will design and build an easy to use, understandable and extendable UI. The current front-end is built with Extjs but we are open minded to use other frameworks that might better suited for the job.

Further down the road, you will help us to extend the front-end dev team and participate in design and code reviews.

Requirements:

- 3-5 years experience in Front-End development
- Good knowledge of JavaScript + jQuery, CSS3 and HTML5
- Familiar with MV* patterns and with at least one front-end JS framework (ExtJS, Meteor.js, AngularJS, backbone.js, …)
- Product ownership: you are passionate about your design and your code
- Goal oriented: you have experience working with strict timelines
- Team Player: you love to discuss different solutions with your team

Preferred:

- Mobile / responsive design knowledge
- Experience in UX design
- Project management knowledge

Perks:

- Use the environment you like (Mac/Windows/Linux)
- IDE of your choice
- Negotiable salary based on experience
- Employee stock options
This is not a accusing comment, but more of a request for more information:

"Passphrases shorter than 20 characters are usually considered weak if they only consist of lower case Latin characters."

This goes against the concept of diceware generated passwords of 4-6 short words doesn't it? Where in this equation am I getting it wrong? I've been approaching passwords like this for a while now.
Full-Stack Developer – PHP/Zend and Facebook SDK – Toronto, ON
As architect and owner of this important system component, you will be responsible for extending our back-end system, used by:
(a) our account managers to administer promotional offers and online sampling strategies, and
(b) consumers to send and receive coupons and physical samples via Sampler's Facebook Pages Tab(s).

Our account managers rely on Sampler’s system to deliver customized client marketing campaigns, and to capture raw usage data -- all within a high-speed server environment. We hope to find someone who is passionate about software design and ready to take on this important challenge.

You will start planning and storyboarding any new UI and capabilities in cooperation with the product, sales and software teams. Eventually you will guide the transition of the system to other platforms, as well as participate in the exciting new expansion to a full SaaS solution.

Requirements:

- 3 years minimum experience in Full Stack development
- Extensive experience with PHP, Zend, and Doctrine over MySQL
- Very experienced with Facebook SDK/API, and creating Facebook Page Tab apps
- Great knowledge of JavaScript + jQuery, CSS3 and HTML5
- Familiar with MV* patterns, and with at least one front-end framework -- especially ExtJS
- Product ownership: you are passionate about your design and your code
- Goal oriented: you have experience dealing with strict timelines
- Team Player: you love to discuss different solutions with your team

Preferred:

- Mobile / responsive design knowledge
- Knowledge of AWS, nginx, New Relic
- Phpunit experience
- Project management knowledge
- Love to play with modern toolset such as Trello and Git

Perks:

- Use the environment you like (Mac/Windows/Linux)
- IDE of your choice
- Negotiable salary based on experience
- Employee stock options
But only for the same reason, so that they wouldn't be sued for hosting copyrighted material. The DMCA simply gives an official way to not have liability. The problem of overzealous litigation would still be there without the DMCA, unless we tackle that, then content providers are going to be quick to take things down so as to not be liable for hosting the content in the first place.

What I'm saying is that no, they won't do it to not harm their business relationship, they'll do it because otherwise, they'd be potentially sued for hosting copyrighted material without authorization.
This. We are already living in a post-scarcity world, but we keep pretending that we aren't. Eventually the number of unemployed people will be so large that we won't be able to ignore the problem of excess labor.
I agree, but I wouldn't put that much of blame on scientist themselves - what I think did most of the damage is science reporting, which is yet another case of audacious journalist lies. Most people do not learn "what science says" from research papers, they read about it in lifestyle magazines, on news sites, and now on Facebook. It is there where "coffee possibly linked to cancer (p < 0.1) (study on 100 people)" gets turned into "Your Morning Coffee Will Give You Cancer" (and cue in articles with opposite conclusions next week).

I don't get why people have such tolerance for being lied to. People should be fired from their jobs for spewing such nonsense and misrepresenting facts. Of course news sites and marketers have zero incentive to say the truth, but I hoped that at least the recipients would care. Apparently, most of them don't.

As a side note:

> "Fine then... if you're going to cancel visionary projects so we can have more war and tax breaks for the financial industry, then I'm going to deny that you ever did it in the first place to spite you."

Well, I recently learned that US Congress basically got fed up with all those "visionary projects" and preemptively shut down the space race. From [0]:

"Wernher von Braun also proposed a manned Mars mission using NERVA and a spinning donut-shaped spacecraft to simulate gravity. Many of the NASA plans for Mars in the 1960s and early 1970s used the NERVA rocket specifically, see list of manned Mars mission plans in the 20th century.

The Mars mission became NERVA's downfall. Members of Congress in both political parties judged that a manned mission to Mars would be a tacit commitment for the United States to decades more of the expensive Space Race. Manned Mars missions were enabled by nuclear rockets; therefore, if NERVA could be discontinued the Space Race might wind down and the budget would be saved."

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
To be fair though, Japan is two-thirds the size of Texas and South Korea is two-thirds the size of New York state.
Open CV could easily help in that area. Servo controlled stylus for input, OpenCV based watchdog against pre-programmed motions. Maybe mechanical turk or something to generate the reviews.

Perhaps you could fight it by doing statistical analysis on review patterns. If the device is only ever giving great and/or crappy ratings and the same group of devices rates the same group of apps the same way, you could detect this.

Edit: Of course, they could fight detection by having a queue of apps to review and an array of devices. Randomize the matrix and periodically retire a device to prevent it from gaining too much history. Since it's running in a machine it would likely be in pristine condition and capable of being resold as new. Heck, they could buy one, use it for a period of time then return it.
Tangent: I was just watching the new Cosmos and it pointed out ice was the most reflective surface on earth and water the least. But sea ice is near the poles, where the sun's angle of incidence is shallow and water presumably becomes more reflective--how close is the sea's albedo to snow and ice at the poles on average (different seasons have different angles of incidence, waves probably have an effect, the sun isn't always shining directly but sometimes comes through (or reflects off the water back onto) clouds, etc.).
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Do you know whether such techniques are also used for researching other planets than earth?
This is a paradox rooted in capitalism itself, as Karl Marx pointed out in 1858:

"Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as sole measure and source of wealth."
yes, since it was an overflow checker that caused the problem, it's a philosophical issue too.

Let's take a hypothetical:
You're flying a rocket on a one-time mission. The rocket is not reusable and there are no redundant engines or any way to abort the mission in an intact way. You then detect an overflow in your control algorithm.

In practice, it almost never makes sense to do anything to these errors. If the error was spurious, the best course was to not do anything. If it was for real, the mission will be lost anyway so it doesn't make sense to spend effort to pay attention to the error.

Your only abort criteria might be if your rocket starts venturing to a path that will cause it to fly out of its designated safety zones.

However, if you have redundancy, then doing stuff like shutting down engines starts making sense (Like on Saturn V or the Space Shuttle).
There is nothing wrong with science persé, the problem is the people working in science, a lot of them are corrupt.
Not often by birth are they corrupt but mostly due to pressure by the ones handing science money, and it does not matter if the donaters are government or private parties.
Most donaters give money to serve their goal and not to get neutral answers about how things work.
In other words, we the people should look into the mirror closly to get the answer about why science is so corrupt.
I don't know of anyone that has ever experienced any kind of technical problem with their landline telephone or cable TV services. Rather, you pretty much need a cell phone and (to a much lesser extent) a home internet connection to participate in society today, and the marginal utility from having a separate home line or a cable TV service in addition to those services is not enough to justify the cost for most people.
Pure OpenGL 4.0. It allowed me to do Tessellation and use Deferred rendering. This is the key - rendering the lights in a separate pass is crucial to performance, and like I've said - it allows you to have thousands of dynamic lights in the same scene. Neither Doom 3 nor Alan Wake could use this technique. I mostly work on consoles nowadays, so I use none of these APIs. On PS3/PS4 you have to do everything manually, instead of using nice OpenGL API to bind and send vertex buffer object,you have to allocate memory for it yourself and copy it over manually to the address that you want. That's where the speed lies. I have done some Xbox One programming but that's mostly regular DirectX at the moment, I haven't had a chance to play with the DX12 stuff.

There is a quite a good explanation on how deferred rendering works:
http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/forward-renderi...
In terms of human habitation, the big advantages of Venus' atmosphere are:

1. It has essentially Earth-normal gravity. Zero-G long-term is a death sentence for humans. The long term effects of Martian gravity are unknown. It seems safe to assume that Venus gravity is fine.

2. It is protected from impact and radiation by an atmosphere in a way that Mars or asteroids never will be.

3. It has an essentially limitless supply of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur available to it.

4. It is reasonably well-positioned for solar power.

5. It is relatively temperate.

6. Low pressure differential between inside a habitat and outside of one means that leaks are less severe and containment breaches are easier to react to.

But there is at least one huge disadvantage:

1. Everything besides carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur needs to be imported, either from a fantastically hostile surface, or down through reentry into an atmosphere in a deep gravity well and rendezvousing with an aerostat.

That disadvantage is a pretty goddamn significant one for human habitation.

But it's not a disadvantage for long-term robot probes, and it's... less... of a disadvantage for a minimal-population scientific base.
No, shaders and deferred rendering fixed this. Shaders mean you could design anything you imagined and not use the old deprecated fixed function OpenGL that only supported 4 lights.

Someone figured out deferred rendering which was a new technique that allows lots of lights. Lots of games use it. I believe one of the first was Killzone

http://www.slideshare.net/guerrillagames/the-rendering-techn...

Here's a live demo of deferred rendering

http://threejs.org/examples/webgldeferred_pointlights.html

It's using only OpenGL 2.1 features (which is all that's needed to emulate OpenGL ES 2.0 which WebGL is based on). To do deferred rendering efficiently all you really need is support for multiple render targets.
Heh heh. Economists would have the crown for being wrong the most often if not for nutritionists.
rephrase: "As long as we aren't giving everyone the option of being paid a decent wage to follow their passion of basket-weaving, then a boring job is the next best thing"?
Those are all valid points. I'm definitely not a designer or a developer. The goal was more to create something myself, using tools that I'd mostly found on Product Hunt, and just get it out there: more of a doodle than a work of art :) I haven't had much to do with HTML since my 1998 Smashing Pumpkins Angelfire tribute page (imagine lots of Billy Corgan and glitter GIFs). This was a good refresher trying to get Tumblr and SquareSpace to do the fidgety things I wanted. I'm also a big fan of Product Hunt and thought it would make for a quirky homage to what they're trying to create. Is it useful? Dunno. Did it make a couple of people smile? I hope so. That was as far as I got in the planning. Don't get me wrong, I love self-serving as much as the next person, but my intention was certainly not to offend. Thanks for taking the time to give feedback, I hope the backstory is somewhat insightful.
Yup! So important I repeated it.
Pay for use for water and electricity is good because the resources are finite, and you want to conserve them. The advantage of unlimited internet use is it promotes the creation of services that need more bandwidth.
To be honest, this is why I got out of the startup scene. The freedom was great; the need to have a quarterly discussion about what we were actually doing and constantly rotate the type of software I was writing as we pivoted over and over was nauseating.

My work these days isn't exactly predictable, but it has a far less uncertain future. And there's still a deep-seated part of my psyche that would be very happy working a predictable piece work job.
I was surprised by how similar Sivers' advice is to the Budha's teachings.
Try that in Slackware.

Not all distributions have apt-get.
Why not simply allocate social resources such that people who are not needed for work simply don't have to work?

There's been quite some hand wringing over this issue in the UK in recent years with people on long term sickness welfare or other long term welfare programs.

The populist view is that these people "should" be working and don't "deserve" to be subsidized full time because they haven't "contributed" to the system. But if they are genuinely of as little use to the workforce as it seems, does such a stigma to not working really make any sense?
The gravity is what makes Venus appealing. Mars' gravity is so weak, and studies so far show that is a big problem on the human body.
I've always been surprised that NASA hasn't gone for a blimp type 'probe' for Venus. Something which floated above the clouds and allowed us to do long term observation from that point.

We think in terms of "flying" through the atmosphere, but once it gets dense enough you can make the equivalent of fish to "swim" through it. With internal bouyancy compensation bladders, and a skin impervious to the atmosphere. Smaller probes swimming down into the clouds to collect data about the surface and other conditions.

If nothing else it would be completely different than exploring Mars :-)
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I have no doubt. I was just trying to clarify what the original author may have been intending to say.
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Contact me directly at sahil_lmn@yahoo.com.

I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread, and I hired 2 people through these threads. These things do work!
Does Mercury offer any protection from the solar wind? I (naively) expect the solar wind intensity to go as the inverse-square of distance, and I know that surviving the solar wind on Mars is a big challenge, given the lack of a magnetosphere there. I expect the difficulty would be worse by many orders of magnitude on Mercury? Not to mention that you have to survive six years with no protection just to get there; just surviving the trip to Mars is a challenge.
I think the problem could be water. The fraction of water vapor on Venus' atmosphere is ~200 times lower, although I don't know if that should factor that Venus' atmosphere would have many times Earth's mass.
> New entrants are trying to compete in the market place. One proven effective way to gain a foothold in a market with entrenched players is to offer a loss leader.

We could more than make up for this hypothetical disadvantage by regulating the big players to share their last mile infrastructure like we've done with cell towers and land lines. A MUCH bigger issue than ISPs startups is that the next Facebook, Twitter, or Netflix will never even get their chance because they can't compete on an Internet that doesn't offer net neutrality. Netflix paid off Comcast for their "high speed track". But no small startup could have afforded this extortion.

> The thing with regulation is that it is pernicious

Yes, regulations and big government suck. I get it. But how do you propose to fix the deeper problem that we're mostly all living under a monopoly? How long will this take?

> You aren't upset because Comcast offers _a_ plan that throttles Netflix, rather you are upset that you did not choose that plan.

Yes, I don't have a choice. Thanks again for the reminder. So what's you solution again? You remind me of my family in Florida calling to today to tell me how bad the snowstorm is outside my house. Wouldn't it be so much better if we all lived in Florida with multiple broadband ISPs to choice from?
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Succinct and accurate summary.
IANAL either but I think the part about modifications by third parties means that you don't get a license to an additional Facebook patent you might infringe by modifying it.

So if you change React to add some functionality that infringes on a patent Facebook holds you don't automatically get a license to that patent.
Wri.tt be to Windows what iA Writer be to OS X
The real solution to all this is more competition. Stop the states from suing cities to prevent them from implementing municipal fiber. Open up the field to companies like Google to come in and partner with cities who can provide the last mile, competing with businesses. Even libertarians should say, "well, a city is a large organization and a giant corporation is a large organization, and both are kind of monopolies at this point..."
My Life Goals:
1. Learn the language of the surfers.
2. Learn to surf.
It's not that he's incorrect. It's that his observation is generalized to the point of being a useless distraction from this particular conversation. Had he indicated how the potentially destructive power of taxation is actually being used destructively and deliberately in this particular case, he'd have said something knowledgeable and interesting. But of course, that's not what happened.
I didn't say it would be easy, but it's definitely doable, and I know plenty of people who have done it (including myself).
They may be changing a little bit, slowly. They're not used to this sort of thing, at all.

This is actually a big step: this wasn't just SoC repurposed for the Pi, this SoC was created for the Pi2.

There are a lot of details missing about the VC4, that's true. They could still publish a lot more of those than they have. We should be given enough to start the ARMs, warm the caches, talk to the devices and manage, start a kernel, even without video. The architecture means that the GPU plays the host role, however, so Linux is pretty much postboxing things to it asking it to do things when it comes to the devices - this complicates things, because that means the GPU firmware is probably going to have to be a bit more than a simple shim to get by. They can't just open-source all their side of the firmware either - it's based on a commercial RTOS, ThreadX. That's why they hired a guy to do a rewrite.

Arguably still better than NVIDIA. <g> Also better than MediaTek and the like - the usual way you get anything out of them is someone steals it (back).
As cheap as S3 is, I'd suspect that it'd be cost-effective to just render the core HTML (i.e., that stuff minus the date, time, user-specific bits) of a page once, throw it there and forget about it. I can't get a good read on it from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20150112/ ('cause I'm too lazy), but it looks like it probably would be pretty cheap, given what those files probably expand to.
I'm not dismissing this line of thought, but realize this probably already exists, and has existed for 100+ years.

When I graduated college I started out as a mechanical engineer, sometimes going down to the factory to work on new design issues. There was a constant source of friction between the 22 year old mechanical engineers and the 50+ year old factory workers. Here are a bunch of skilled guys that have been building the product for 30+ years, and they in essence often have to report to kids half their age right out of college that don't know a thing. There was a pathway up through the factory, but there was no pathway across to engineering without getting a degree.

If you were a smart engineer, you realized that these guys had an enormous amount of knowledge - more than you could ever hope to get out of a simple degree - and that they were worth listening to. If you were a cocky, dumb, engineer you ignored their opinion.

The solution in the past to this problem has been unions. The startups are moving a bit too fast for the unions to catch up, but in all of these recent 'What happens when everything is Uber?' posts written by engineers the role of unions, politicians, and large masses of affected people seem to be ignored.