skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the shorting current calculation on that battery in the pic elsewhere in this thread. The fuse was there for decorative purposes only, at those currents everything is a fuse, the one Ththing you really have to hope for is that it will douse fast enough and that there will be no air/fuel or H2/O2 mixture nearby. That's the main reason I built this pack into a little building (underground bunker really) of its own near the house but not so near that it would be a problem if it would break down.

The inverters were housed in the second half of that bunker so as far as the house was concerned nothing changed.

The whole system was capable of producing 11KW, two tandem 5.5KW inverters ganged to produce 240 V for well pumps and other large consumers (welder, plasmacutter).

It worked super good but you really had to keep an eye on the charge level when running big tools, the plasmacutter would drain the battery in about an hour.

But running the plasmacutter was the exception, not the rule so most of the time it was just powering a very low level of loads compared to most houses.

I really miss the system, and the farm it sat on.
What is being discussed in those links is commonly called complex systems theory[0] which is a mathematical/scientific/philosophical field concerned with how complexity (in the natural language sense of the world) arises from what appear to be simple natural laws. For example, how chaotic dynamics arise from deterministic systems, how biology arises from chemistry, or how consciousness arises from neural activity. It is connected to chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics and systems theory.

It is completely different to computational complexity[1] which is what is being discussed in Aaronson's article.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory
It's not intelligence, but motivation that line units lack, in my experience. People who volunteer for the front line are more interested in solving problems with firepower than more peaceful interactions.

This sort of observation led to a suggestion that the American military should be divided into a Leviathan part and a System Administrator part, an idea I think is worth considering. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon's_New_Map for more.
As an American, "tabling" to mean suspending has always seemed backwards! We say "on the table" to describe possibilities we are considering and "off the table" to describe options which have been rejected, so I don't understand why people say "tabling" to mean "removing it from consideration".
I won't be surprised if many new discoveries come out of the dataset uBiome is constructing simply because no one has ever collected such a dataset before. And at this scale.
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It has more to with U.S. imperialism through it's ally, NATO, than anything else. The larger the reach, the more influence they have to turn economic flows their way.

In a post-nuclear world, there are a lot of puppet wars backed by superpowers. China vs. U.S. (Korea), U.S. vs. Russia (Iran/Israel), etc. Recently Syria has become a U.S. (rebels) vs. Russia (Assad) affair, probably to stop the Iran-Irag-Syria pipeline, which would benefit Russia.

Russia has grabbed Crimea from Ukraine, partly because of the resources there but also because Ukraine is not a member of NATO or EU (even though it was moving in that direction).
Has the ISO 27018 process suffered from the same issues seen in the OOXML discussion?

Additionally, is the ISO 27018 not worth implementing because Microsoft seems to have implemented it (allegedly)?
There's not a residential standard, but 48VDC is very standard across the telco & datacenter world. Power over ethernet also runs at 48VDC.
My mistake, I meant it as a basis for incorporating computational complexity. The original article posted shows how computational complexity is applicable to non-linear systems, which I think are philosophically more interesting. Deleuze's work would provide some good groundwork for seeing how those kinds of ideas can be applied in a philosophical context.
There won't always be a proof. If there always was, you could programmatically find it via brute-force search and solve the halting problem.
I think the only reason there would be to not learn the language and culture is that it would humanize the opponent and garner empathy which would lead to inefficiencies in combat.
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Well, there were attempts, but they were extremely half-assed attempts. Often, the militia that made up the bulk of the U.S. army at that time would refuse to cross outside their state lines, which aborted several planned campaigns to attack into upper and lower Canada.

The whole affair isn't much more than a weird side-show of the Napoleonic wars, although you'd never know that from the way it is presented in most U.S. history textbooks.
Microsoft Office isn't exactly perfection. It's main selling point is the file format (OOXML) - which Microsoft managed to get standardized (read manipulated ISO by buying members) despite it's obvious tie-in to proprietary code in various versions of Office.
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Web Development and Its Discontents
You're right that inexperienced people need a place to ask their questions, but as people get more experienced they tend to be less interested in answering novice questions, so there ends up being an upper limit on the difficulty of questions that can get answered as they will simply be above the level of the people who are wading through questions.
I do agree in part. I don't know if it's a American way of doing things--Clint Eastwood style, or we are just Thick? I have felt for a long time we need to change the way we train our military, and even our local police forces. I know it all goes out the window once someone is killed, but there has to be a happy medium?

I know these orders come from above, along with just how much
you can get away with. What I am trying to say is besides a
little common sense thrown into boot camp and military intelligence(yea, it's ironic, and I feel weird putting the words together-); we need to get rid
of the bad Apples. We all know that guy who shouldn't be holding a gun, or promoted to ridiculously high ranks, but it
just goes on and on?

No--I don't want an army/force of Stewart Smalliey's. I am just tired of people in authority who are just too eager to kill someone, or make someone's life miserable--just because they can? And I have witnessed that plus 95% of the people will push that button towards death--in real life and the Millgram experiment. I have found very few people will stand up for the right thing--if standing up affects their future? (Please--don't respond with we produce results. All I see is we alienated another generation of people who are angry--and not just abroad. It's funny, I am hesitant on
posting this, but because I know poeple are leaching off my IP they would have to take out at least three homes? Paranoid--a little?)
What is the point of inserting a "◊" before each link? It looks ridiculous and distracts from reading the article.
Are there any Florida "Factors" that are directly contradictory of the IRS's 3 Common Law categories?
> I hate how Linux distributions require you to install a thousand "-dev" or "-devel" packages.

Except Archlinux (and Gentoo, probably).
Even if it is, bandwidth isn't particularly cheap.
Should you join a union? The research says yes
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I never understood why some countries insist to write currency type before the amount. It is weird and inconsistent among multiple currencies. Would be way better to write every numeric value before its type like in physics, though I suspect physics also may have some strange rules somewhere :) .
Why not to give away these dollars to the workers then, but without building weapons? Just make sure that workers are not sitting idle and attend gym during work hours.

End result is the same, whether bombs are in the storage or are not in the storage - all we see is a locked storage door anyway.

As a bonus - no one gets killed by the bombs.

Sigh... This Keynesian story never ends...
Snapchat doesn't have revenue, but it has a lot of _potential_ revenue in the form of users.
Using your logic you have to send me all your passwords. I'll take them by email please.

(And don't bother to PGP encrypt them as you can't trust the Debian GnuPG maintainer either.)
The solution to collectivism is individualism.
> Sure, they may have a lot of users, but so does the company that makes the paper I wipe my ass with.

If you use Charmin to wipe your ass, they are owned by P&G, which has a market cap of $230B.
It would not surprise me if there are other bits of unique info on the template VM that need to be cleared before freezing the image, e.g. hostnames.

This is a solved problem in Windows. The sysprep tool wipes out the hostname, security keys, user accounts and a bunch of other things one can configure, so the image initializes properly the first time it's booted.

I am curious if there are similar tools for Linux & Unix that the image builders simply failed to use here, or if this points to an opportunity to build a useful tool.
Ha. I had a debate a couple years back with 3 of my coworkers about the value of constraints in our new hire developer test. The argument was akin to, "We want to see how creative the developers can be.". My rebuttal was, "If you want to see how creative somebody is, give them only one tool and see what they can accomplish.".

Alas, constraint wins - https://siteanalytics.compete.com/medium.com/
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This emulator version does not work very well. Not really worth the effort.

One can buy an official version of Open Genera at:

http://www.symbolics-dks.com
Meditation says to focus on the present.Life may be more meaningful if you don’t
That's nice in theory, but the problem is nobody has any idea how to quantify those externalities.
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I don’t use Snapchat. Never really figured it out. But I hope Snapchat becomes the competitor that Facebook needs.

Props to the founders for not selling out.
A friend and I were discussing the use of Agile development and TDD at our workplace. He made a comment that some times it may not fit because what you want to make is a car. A tire, steering column, or drive shaft won't be that useful on there own. The comparison continued for a little longer. It made me want to google for making a car using Agile and here we are.
So basically rent-seeking by the defense industry?
Undone by the .pcap question
I think you're referring to a very vague conception of "content" and an equally vague conception of "niche market". Those buzzwords are pretty meaningless.

Basically, you're saying that "content" aka "tradable_object" (service or otherwise), must always have "market_value", if it is to be successful in a "niche market" aka "market".

Did you go to business school?
How is it a lot different? If I click the misleading "Get app" button, it shunts me down to the email capture which says that even the early subscribers won't get anything for three months.

I don't think the fact that the founder is commenting is relevant. I could chat with people about a theoretical or in-progress product quite easily.

I've flagged this submission. However much work has gone into it, GP is correct in saying that it's an email sign-up. Better for OP to wait until there is a product for people to use.
Why word2vec works
Wish I had taken a photo: Birmingham UK, chap with a private hire car (you can't hail these, you have to pre book) with an Uber car door sticker and a car door sticker for a well known local radio car company.

He isn't tied to one platform at all, and good luck to him (nice large Merk as well).
Didn't Snapchat close a round 6 weeks ago for $500M @ $10B. How does this make any sense? Surely $500M buys enough runway to not need to do this.
Okay, if we're only considering active health checks, then I'm not sure any load balancer considers a 5xx a success by default, let alone a "production" load balancer.

For a non-healthcheck 5xx response, it almost never is clear that this host in itself is responsible for the 5xx response. 5xx is the correct response when there is an error on the server side (ie, not an error on the client side, not a correct response), but it doesn't mean the server is a problem - it just means that the server experienced a problem in serving the request. That failure itself may be from one of many RPCs that server made to other services. As such, all web servers behind the load balancer for that request type will exhibit the 5xx response (at some rate, and depending on any state in connection sharing/reuse between the server and their upstream service), and all would subsequently be removed. Which isn't the correct response at all.

As someone who has had the job title "Systems Administrator" and the job title "Software Engineer", and currently has neither but still does exactly what he's always done - solving problems by understanding systems and, among other things, by writing code - I wouldn't consider load balancing and failure domains/types/handling as the sole or even primary purview of a systems administrator - especially in the case of large installations.
Where in this project do you see any myths being propagated? I followed the project all last year, and it is extremely reasonable and not in any way based on any myth I'm aware of.
They are asking–and getting (allegedly)–$750K a day from big brands for ads.

Smells like revenue to me.

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/snapchat-asks-brands-7...
I could come up with a story that explains why technical work would more readily admit of sexism, e.g. less opportunity to learn to see coworkers and customers as people rather than gender-based caricatures. I don't think this is a big factor either way, though...
>You even seem certain that a stranger on the Internet is part of the problem.

> I myself have been a disgusting example of a male engineer at times.
It's entirely possible that a lot of people don't know what -CURRENT really means if they're new to FreeBSD. They could be on 10.1 and think that that means that they're on -CURRENT, and thus affected by this bug, but they're not.
> Think about how analytically you are viewing what she wrote about her experience vs. how uncritically you might view articles from PG (especially the earlier ones unassociated with YC).

Wow, way to go! I read HN so I must be a PG cheerleader and ergo I'm definitely sexist!

PG makes some good points and some of them are a lot less tenable. I don't switch off my brain because I'm reading PG (though I do occasionally read his articles) any more than I turn it up extra high because a woman is saying critical stuff about men.

What I do try and do, though, is look at the kinds of psychological errors that people tend to make and see if that's influenced them at all. And misattribution is a big one. When a person has many attributes visible to anyone they interact with, any one of them could be the cause.

For example she complains that wearing dresses caused her grief. Should anyone be able to wear anything to any job without any consequence? If it should be OK for her to wear a dress, what about a man? If it's OK for girls to wear short-shorts can boys too? Can I ride my bike and continue to wear sweaty, smelly cycling gear and clippity-cloppity shoes instead of taking a shower and changing? Could a dude wear just a speedo? A girl a bikini? In the other direction, a suit? A three piece? A Matrix-style leather full-length leather jacket? Full on ski gear?

Yes these examples quickly go from maybe reasonable to clearly unreasonable. But just where EXACTLY should the line get drawn? It's not clear to me that there are absolute, definite answers that have narrow applicability, nevermind broad applicability.

What's appropriate for one job is terrible for another. Nurses and doctors (of both sexes in both professions) tend to wear scrubs to work, and it's appropriate. If I tried to wear scrubs to a construction site, or to a machine shop, I would rightly get told to go home. Coveralls, steel toes, and a hard hat are just right if I'm out on an oil rig but entirely inappropriate when I'm at the office and that's for a single job description! I have no less than four different kinds of clothing that I might need to wear when I go to work.

The point that I'm trying to make is that if it's possible for men to not get taken seriously (or worse sent home!) based on what they wear at the office then it's POSSIBLE though not necessarily DEFINITE that women might have the same thing happen to them AND that it's not sexism.

TL;DR

Please realize that there's a difference between saying "it might not be sexism" and "it's definitely not sexism" and that I'm trying to very cautiously propose the former, not the latter.
Procter and Gamble produces a whole lot more than toilet paper. They're one of the three or so megacorps that makes almost all of the consumer household goods sold in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Procter_%26_Gamble_bra...

Comparing them to Amazon might be a bit more accurate.
What would solve the problem is if these "bad questions" were simply invisible to crawling.

Rude comments and inappropriate downvotes sounds like a community issue - why are those not punished or otherwise dis-incentivized?

Maybe they need a metamod function.
Perhaps the market is in for equilibrium on the other side? Both Snapchat and toilet paper serve useful temporal utility, disappear almost immediately, and rarely contain anything but shit. Kimberly Clark (the maker of some of the most popular toilet paper brands) is currently worth $40bn according to the public markets.[1] Given that Snapchat is only worth $19bn, I wonder if perhaps Kimberly Clark is in for a deep correction.

[1]http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=KMB
The military strategist Thomas Barnett has an interesting (and entertaining) TED talk where he described two different functions the US military needs to fulfill. It responds well to the criticisms presented in this article.

The first: the Leviathan force. This is the military as we know it. Go in an break stuff quickly and thoroughly. Staffed by slightly pissed off, gung-ho young Americans. We're already pretty good at this.

The second: the Systems Administrator. Go into a broken country (by us or otherwise) and 'wage peace'. Help build governments, keep peace, develop social services, etc. Staffed by older, more experienced individuals from a variety of fields who are not (primarily) front-line soldiers. We don't know how to do this.

Link:www.ted.com/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_new_map_for_peace
Hey, thanks for your critique - I really appreciate you taking the time to check out the code. I wanted to be able to validate requests from a mobile application (or similar), rather than building an entire OAuth flow. I'm hoping this will offer a useful starting point to newcomers like myself who want to get something simple off the ground.
Everything Gladwell is anecdotal.
SHA2 is believed to be highly secure for the present.
When you compare them to space shuttles, sure. But when you compare them with WhatsApps, it's actually somewhat reasonable to value them at around 1 WhatsApp.

I blame Zuckerberg for screwing up the WhatsApp to dollars exchange rate, not others for extrapolating. Given Facebook's previous attempts to purchase them, I can easily see them selling to Facebook for above that $19B valuation.

Once you remove Facebook from the equation, the valuation becomes just as absurd as you make it out to be.
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> we came up against the 65536 rows limit

At which point you have a database and would be better served with a different product designed to work with large data sets or moving data to external ODBC sources that Excel can query.
> generated on first boot of the deployed template!

I've always been uncomfortable about that. How much boot time entropy can a VM have?
Does it matter if it’s a 5 y’o or 19 y’o?

Does it matter if its only 3 years old?

All that matters is the TAM and growth rate.
That might work, if units weren't on 6-12 month rotations. If anything, our "professional" military is probably not professional enough. If we were actually going to attempt to garrison these places and build relations with the natives, you'd need to commit to leaving units in place for years, and allow officers and men to develop the intimate local knowledge and relationships to succeed.
I'm not sure why revenue is relevant. No revenue doesn't imply an improper valuation nor a bubble. Those things might or might not be true, but if they are, it's not related to revenue.

Startup valuation is not determined in a vacuum. Don't ask how the company is going to serve its future self, ask how it's going to serve the free market that wants to own its assets (engaged users).

You think there aren't a ton of companies who wouldn't mind 200 million users? How they monetize them can be their own problem. Snapchat's value prop, at present, lies in the grip it has on the population. Rarely can a company just go out and buy that. They have to invest in products and services and will probably fail.

They may monetize it in the future, which would just be gravy. It's still incredibly valuable to a few companies who can afford it.
Hacker News faced some of the same issues when people complained about excessive down-voting.

I remember some of the solutions proposed were a higher threshold for downvotes as the site grew, and the requirement that an actual explanation be typed in with every anonymous downvote or deletion.
EDIT: my napkin math turns out to have been closer to "toilet paper math" because it was completely wrong. See child comment for details.

Interestingly, Charmin as a brand has revenue around ~2.5B[1], which when multiplied by P&G's P/E ratio of ~25[2] gives you a rough idea of the brand's value as part of the parent company's market cap: 60B.

So, the paper you wipe your ass with is worth about 3 snapchats.

[1]: http://www.statista.com/statistics/188710/top-toilet-tissue-...
[2]: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3APG&ei=t77jVOC5DMeoiQ...
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There is a skill that makes stock picking work, Warren Buffett & Benjamin Graham have written all about it.
So systemd is not a system of separable utilities then. Remove journald and systemd doesn't work.
Libre = free (spanish) - so you pronounce it like you would in spanish. LEE - breh
Another implications of this is that if a security flaw is found in this re-used image, it's trvial to write a worm, as it can very easily seek out and find vulnerable hosts.

Ooops.
> [Robert Reich:] "You and I and everybody else, if the present trends continue, will be selling what we do to the highest bidder."

He'd prefer that we sell our services to a lower bidder?