skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia tells me the company is valued somewhere between 1 and 7 trillion but has $30+ trillion is assets. I'm not a business person, shouldn't it be valued at more simply by the fact that is has a huge amount of assets?
What is an Exponential Technology?
To anyone who might adopt "centireading" as a neologism, just want to point out that the correct SI prefix for 100x is "hecto." "Centi" is a hundredth of something, not a hundred something. Tons of people are "centi"-readers; they make it through four pages of a four-hundred-page book.
I'm not an oil or gas expert, but the low valuation vs assets might be because many of those assets are underground in hard to reach places. Reserves may be proven but not economically viable to access at the current price of oil, for example.
I looked at it due it's consolidation of weather records with fields. Not totally impressed with the implementation but there could be significant value in analysis of larger areas, catching disease spread early or tracking pest migration.
In “Chinatown” Conflict Resolution, the Dust Clears
Re Node.js Foundation: Trade Associations Are Never Neutral
/s/cloud-based services to agriculture/cloud-based services
> The premise of Adderall is exciting: pop a pill and plug in, and to that end, it’s been shown to be quite effective. The problem is that casual, non-prescription users are faced with a false choice: 0 or 100. There is no in between, no widely available supplement that works, that’s available over the counter, that’s not illegal and harmful.

As a user of both Vyvanse (a successor to Adderall) and non-prescription nootropics, I've found that to simply not be true.

I do in fact have ADHD. Vyvanse is a godsend 80% of the time, allowing me to function when without it I would be unable to keep cognitive focus long enough to figure out how long it's going to take me to get to work, much less sit down and write code. I take it most of the time before work, and it's very effective.

On days when I need to work late to meet a deadline, I could take a second Vyvanse. That would be against my doctor's orders, but it would work. I'd also not be able to sleep for an addition 6-8 hours, and over time could develop a number of health issues from both lack of sleep and elevated metabolism.

So.. I take racetams. I started with piracetam several years ago, and found that it allowed me to better absorb the structure of code that was difficult to understand. Piracetam only lasts about 2 hours though, and I have to take four capsules to get that much. It's bothersome, and I don't particularly want to be the guy that's always popping pills at his desk.

Aniracetam seems about as effective for me, and lasts 4-6 hours. It doesn't increase my heartrate or blood pressure like an amphetamine would, so it's perfect for when I need a few extra hours of productivity that day.

Racetams have been fairly extensively studied, and are available over the counter and as prescriptions elsewhere in the world. They're classified as supplements in the US, and are pretty much unregulated.
Sure. This doesn't seem so surprising to me; after all, the number of possible answers you may choose from for the question "Which bit do you want to flip?" is precisely the same as the number of possible answers you may choose from for the question "Which book do you want to specify?". (That's not a proof of sufficiency, mind you (the proof is the construction of the appropriate Hamming code). It's just reason to not find the result particularly counterintuitive.)
I just released Sails v0.11
Does intellij / pycharm work ?
I just can't see how any of that is realistic or very useful. More energy needs to be spent on preventing breaches, not silly password requirements.
So what would you do here? Disallow "mickael" from the password? That's pretty user-hostile and almost completely pointless.
Drew Houston applied as a single founder with no product or traction, so yes :)
Just released v0.11, the latest stable version of Sails.js. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll answer em if I can.
Then just throw floss at them. (Or any other similar thin thread / line - preferably with something tied at the end to make it easier to throw)
How is FreeBSD compared to Gentoo is terms of minimalism?
Oh man, it's a small thing, I love how well the back button works. Feels totally like a native iOS app. (Though not so much if you use the swipe from left gesture, sadly.)
Pardon my ignorance, but could someone explain the parity aspect of this puzzle to a less enlightened mind?
Flex was ahead of its time with Spark.

It was behind its times with mxmlc. mxmlc made it painfully clear, even with incremental compile, that you were building a client-server application in a web age.

Once you wanted to build custom UIs, you lost the "WYSIWYG" GUI rapid development environment that was the whole selling point that Adobe came in with.

The data synchronization system worked but it was opaque and how (at the time) they made their money.

Flex lost to the open web.
Thank you, I suppose you could draw a strong parallel to the completely unrevolutionary changing of the guard when the baby boomers took over.
One of JetBrains primary products is Resharper. It's a must have add on for Visual Studio. If we're going to be subjective I'd say no other IDE gets close to the combination of Visual Studio and Resharper.
Wouldn't it be better to simply memorise a book rather than reread it so many times? I absolutely gain a greater appreciation for poetry after I memorise it, I'm sure it is not so different to the experience he's talking about.
It comes from protestant tradition which rejects indulgence but values hard work. Good drugs facilitate the latter.
Laser cutters and telepresence things, about 80%, my website and a few resellers. http://www.robots-everywhere.com
That's for textured surfaces only.
I would definitively read your blog, thanks for posting
Any links to such research? It's hardly presented in a scientifically rigorous way, but take this for example: http://bakadesuyo.com/2012/08/whats-the-most-addictive-drug/. It supports the notion the delivery significantly impacts behaviour, but it also cites highly variable addiction rates - not a consistent 90%. Still Googling for better research, but suffice it to say I'm a bit skeptical of the claims...
Is Cat-V.org an Official Subsidiary of Bell Labs' Plan 9 Project?
[shrug]
So you just paid $400 for the right to sue someone. Still gotta pay the lawyers.
It just connects to the cell phone network like any other mobile device you have and then sends the SMS using the standard infrastructure.
When I was younger I was very lucky to have a great dog. He was my best friend. He's been gone a long time, but I still admire him and try to be more like him.

He did everything with complete devotion. When he was tired, he slept. When it was time to eat, he ate. Wake him up in the middle of the night to go out into the freezing cold, nude, to run through the woods and kill an animal? No problem. He'd be ready in seconds, and would kill the possum or whatever unfortunate creature with awe-inspiring brutality. But he was also so smart that if he wanted to sleep in my bed, he'd sleep with his back to me so his toenails wouldn't scratch me.

I still have a lot to learn from dogs about how to live.
A TEDx talk he gave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRRWaEPRlb4
A lot of the web's wounds are self-inflicted.

I know I usually prefer apps to the web not because of lack of fancy graphical effects at 60 FPS, but because web pages are so larded up w/ ads and other crap, it's hard to actually read the content. Or they try to do tricky things which somehow break on an iPhone's screen. Etc.
"the most transparent administration in history" https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=the+most+transparent+administ...
Prototype-based programming
> Hitler used to take crystal meth daily, he was reported to have taken nine shots during his last days in the bunker

Not exactly a glowing endorsement of taking the drug.
Any chance Boston Dynamics will adopt a don't be evil policy?

They are owned by Google now. But let's not pretend Google's don't be evil policy makes a big difference these days.
How do you measure the market cap of a non publicly traded company? It makes no sense.
Yeah the game theory of Tinder is pretty interesting. In my single days, any group shots were always left swipes. There was a pretty good piece on Medium[1] a while ago about how simple you can think about it. tldr is that it costs you nothing to swipe right, every time.

[1] https://medium.com/@errkk/dont-hate-the-game-theory-hate-the...
Several years ago when there were less applications and he got turned down initially...
Thanks! I knew about Blockly but the community around Scratch seems fantastic.
What's the 3rd party hardware/software support for this like?
Yup, that is all it will take. Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes for someone with a pen and paper.
I don't think this is true at all which is why you have more startups. Also you can have multiple startups doing the same thing across say different geographies.
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Laws can only be applied retroactively. That's how laws work. That's why courts exist.
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It's kind of like when a kid has something taken away for being an asshole, the apologies and promises come quick and fast but you know they are disingenous.

I can't imagine Joyent doing anything in good-faith, they are scared of losing relevancy and are looking to protect their interests, they don't give a flying cow about anything else but themselves.

This would not have happened if io.js was not on the scene, call me cynical but I don't trust them.

They bought Node on the off-chance it would be as big a cultural phenomenon as Rails, and they would own it and have control, rather than losing their golden blessing to Engine Yard back in the day.
Cool to see tech creeping its way into agriculture.

My in-laws run a vineyard & winery. For many years, I was convinced I would build a sensor-net and on-premises app with some automation capability (toggling servos for irrigation, "fertigation" type system, tanks, timers, etc).
Never really made it out of idea stage as my priorities took a different turn, but glad to see some other folks tackling the problems.

Seems like the super low cost of sensors now makes this really attractive (heck, a small farm of couple acres could be wired up to a handful of strategically placed rasberyPi's in a weatherproof case).
Many writers used substances to create. How many geniuses did the same ? Erdos took amphetamines for instance.

Surely drug may increase creativity and/or intellectual bandwidth (in both good and bad ways).
So? Does it change the value of this recently published article because of previous bad behaviour? Keep your logical fallacies to yourself.
Hopefully .NET native will play an important role here.
It also makes you look a bit better to the sort of people who care about patents (The problem with lawyers is that they quickly get more expensive than siege engines, so their usefulness is limited).
Ask HN: (JavaScript): How often have you needed instanceOf and/or isProtoTypeOf?
I'm not questioning the utility of these, I'm just curious how often in day-to-day practice folks end up needing them.
I'm glad you've never had anyone in your life with a drug addiction. It is clearly something from which you have been withdrawn. Try your best to empathize with the people who match the clinical description of substance addiction as defined by the DSM. This isn't something about which people are simply exaggerating.
WPF is very heavily tied into DirectX and other Windows-only APIs.

Open Sourcing it is one thing, converting that into an engine that can do layout and rendering identically across multiple platforms is non-trivially difficult. Talk to the browser folks on how hard they had to work on that, and they wern't dealing with 3D stuff.
Recent patio11 Twilio presentation?
It was a container manifesto that got deleted in the commit you've mentioned. I don't see any spec there.
> Consider the question of why someone would want to teach you this subject, when you are combative at every turn.

i do not post opinions as invitations or expectations to lecture. only to discuss.

if i disagree with you, it is a mistake to interpret that as combative.

> I did not assert corporations are moral agents.

my OP was saying that companies have no morals. your initial response was to tell me i'm ignorant of the field of business ethics (a statement not entirely without merit, i concede). i did not interpret that as an agreement, just a rude disagreement. and if you disagree with the statement "corporations are not moral agents" this implies (to me) that you are asserting the opposite, i.e, they are.

> This is not a debate beyond an invitation to adopt intellectual humility on this subject, about which you do not claim to know anything.

at the risk of sounding rude (and i have no intention of sounding that way), you're suggesting i adopt intellectual humility - i have already claimed to know little, all i have asked is that you justify why you disagree with what i am saying. if you are suggesting that you are a field expert, and that i should agree with you for that reason alone, well, that's essentially a "proof" by authority[1].

[1] - http://staffhome.ecm.uwa.edu.au/~00043886/humour/invalid.pro...
I use HTCondor every day. I find it to be rock solid with top notch documentation. It is cross-platform today as well, so I'm not sure where you're coming from on this.
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You put an interesting spin on reality.

I don't know the exact history of node-forward, but node-forward/node was only a piece of the node-forward repository. Early on it was my impression was that node-forward was just about collecting pain points in the node ecosystem and working towards those pain points (technical or not). The fork came later.

The fork threats you mention don't seem to have anything to do with node-forward. In addition, the article clearly states that "Roth told VentureBeat his company does not intend to fork Node" so these fork threats were not reality.

As for why they didn't rename node-forward/node? Well the previously linked article explains it quite well "We agreed to make the repository private in order to show our commitment to working with Joyent on improving Node.js."
Diggin it :)
A better example of useful drug dependence would be Paul Erdős.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
I wonder what criteria were used for joining the club - too bad it's gone...sounds like something I might have enjoyed...
This is the most terrible and cruel story I've read all day :(
Hi, does Ultra work with Midje[1]?

[1] https://github.com/marick/Midje
Are those availables with at least two network interfaces? I'm planning to use OpenBSD as a home router.
A great read on how a small, ultimately pointless feature (satellite view of your own house) drew users with its "wow" factor.
Paid apps I bought recently
I'm using Korora with Cinnamon, but I've been playing with i3 window manager lately to replace the desktop.
OK, the penny just dropped for me. This is the same Yanis who wrote a masterful analysis of destruction and the Eve economy. The same guy who's an expert in game theory. The guy who is now finance minister of Greece.
I had a reply written but after reading yours just deleted it! Great suggestion, A+ in diplomacy and persuasion. Hat tip to your years of marriage. ;D
> Any links to such research?

Not sure about primary sources, but the professor talks about the routes of administration in the Drugs and Behavior class that's available on iTunes. In terms of addiction rates, this is something that Carl Hart researches and has been talking a lot about recently. He has written a bunch of articles and given some TED talks on the topic.

In terms of quoted figures for the addictiveness of various substances, you need to look at whether the studies you're looking at correct for the characteristics of the users. E.g. people who use heroin are much more likely to become addicted to drugs, which makes heroin look more addictive than it actually is. There certainly is some variance between drugs, but it's relatively small... like 9% vs 13%, but not like 2% vs 90%.
I'd never heard of this rule, so I can't say it was planned but I've just done the maths on our startup (http://macropod.com) and we're exactly on 40%.

I certainly didn't use this equation, but our monthly expenditure is controlled quite heavily by our growth rate. So maybe there's something in that....I think I'll go work out whether this hold true for various growth rates using our method...

FWIW:

- I have a spreadsheet which maps out our revenue and expenses over the past 2 years.

- It estimates our future growth

- It combines that with our bank balance and our expenses to work out an "optimum burn rate".

- We use this number as a guide to how much we should be spending.

The "optimum burn rate" is the spend that will see us use as much of our cash as possible without us dropping below a certain threshold (which at the moment 3x our monthly burn).
Do you administer the clusters, or has somebody set everything up for you? Do you use it entirely on linux, or have you made the mistake of trying to get it to work on Windows? Which universe do you use: java, vanilla, or standard? I can imagine a perception that it's rock solid in a particular configuration and usage pattern, especially one where somebody else went through the pain of setting it up.
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You're quite active in spreading FUD in this thread. Please stop.

Node 0.12 was released and ships with v8 3.28.73. Most (if not all) of the bug reports you cite refer to needing NAN 1.5 which fixes issues with v8 > 3.28. NAN is used by both io.js modules AND node.js modules.

Both io.js and node.js 0.12 have a v8 > 3.28. All those modules are also broken in Node 0.12 because the underlying v8 API changed.

As pointed out by others, the node.js tests are only passing because some last minute shenanigans so they could claim all their tests were passing "but io.js' tests are not."
One of the 4 founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital was addicted to both cocaine and morphine and was able to remain functional while addicted for the rest of his life.

I think it's easy to mix up the effects of the illegality of certain drugs with the effects of the drugs themselves. Impurities and poor injection hygiene are probably a large part of the health effects of these two drugs currently, and they are a result of their black market status.

I'm not saying you should go out and pick up an opiate or coke addiction, just that the difference in effect is sometimes more a result of the war on drugs and less a result of the drug itself. Bathtub gin made people blind during Prohibition too.

I think the addictive potential of those drugs are overstated as well - most people who try heroin or coke do not wind up becoming addicted, just like having your two glasses of wine don't make you into a raging alcoholic. There appears to be a subset of people who are predisposed to becoming addicted to drugs, but that does not translate into "try heroin, become a junkie."

The basis of the drug war is not rooted in any sort of rational division of drugs by harm. Anti-opiate laws were enacted to target Chinese immigrants, anti-cocaine and marijuana laws targeted blacks and Mexicans, anti-everything else laws were enacted in the 60's in response to anti-hippie hysteria. If we really based things on harm, psychedelics and marijuana would be legal, and alcohol would be illegal - alcohol being a cause of more than twice the deaths in the US than all other substances combined, and is a factor in a huge number of violent crimes.
Does anyone have a simple example of how this would work? I can't wrap my head around code evolving during runtime for any arbitrary binary change.
... for 3 minutes, until the batteries give out and they all need to be charged for 5-6 hours.

(But actually, what is the battery life on these things? You still have the problem of heavier battery = more drain on battery. I wonder where the break-even point is?)
Sure, but our food is $2, not $20, and we have completely different restaurant economics from Australia (or anywhere in the "Western" world).

Also, what's wrong with drones? We have a great tech industry, and the people building those systems actually know what they're doing + are solving real world business problems. If it develops the tech/hardware industry further, I have no problem with that.
I don't understand the argument. I'm pretty sure no illegal drugs taste good either, so what is the argument he was trying to make?
Seems about right... Exxon has about 1/12th the proven reserves and (taking the 7t est for aramco) 1/20th the market cap (380b)

http://news.exxonmobil.com/press-release/exxon-mobil-corpora...
Hi..are you free on Thursday morning I can meet up at your choice of place and work through with you..
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Very useful. Thanks Dropbox for the effort of making life easier.
> You can drink two glasses of red wine every day of your life and if you are healthy adult male of average weight, this will likely extend your life and improve your health.

FWIW, I've never had alcohol, but after reading advice like this in the popular press, I asked both my cardiologist and GP whether this would be a good addition to my life.

Both said there probably wasn't any harm in it if I was already doing it, but that they would not recommend starting, and that of all the things I could do that might improve my health, improving my diet and regular exercise were better choices (and less likely to have negative side effects).

(A urologist I saw actively advised against alcohol consumption, but that advice seemed limited to easing specific conditions).

YMMV, and doctors don't know everything.
When did 'animals do it' become a justification for anything? Animals are violent, self-centered, racist, misogynistic assholes.
Many "Unlimited" providers would be unhappy if you were sending 10s of messages per second for sustained periods of times.

Ting charges $6/device plus $0.0025 per message.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy was completely independent, it had nothing to do with the UN (unfortunately).
I played with this a bit today and it is quite cool. Lots of games to play around with and source to browse (Ctrl-C to break). Still pretty 0.1-ish though...would love to have more docs and a better feel for where they're going with this.
What problems have you had? We're using a similar setup but SkyDNS has been pretty trouble-free so far.
No disclosure of inspiration from Manta https://github.com/joyent/manta?

Also, why yet another DFS that makes excuses for shitty local filesystems instead of leveraging ZFS? Use ZFS as the base for integrity, snapshots, send/receive and make a small service on top for managing cluster metadata.