skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a 'complex crater' involves a certain degree of subsidence of the uplifted outer rim, and the forces involved in this subsidence, spreading the underlying rock, combine at the center to push material upwards into a small solitary peak. I always assumed this happened due to a continuous pressure of magma or something in volcanoes, but it turns out the effect happens regardless of and in addition to any underlying geothermal activity: it's a feature of gravity and long-term settling of annular structures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_crater#mediaviewer/File...

It looks like this is a crater which has ice(water ice? CO2 ice?) underlying a thick, mobile dust layer. When Ceres suffered an impact at some point in the past, it excavated a crater in the ice and dust, then the dust settled back down, covering everything. Over the following millennia / eons, the crater rim subsided and the center entered a long period of slow uplift, pushing through the dust layer and exposing the ice.

It's possible something more novel could be at work here involving phase changes and maybe cyclical patterns; Unpredicted seasonal geysers have been observed on Mars, as an example. A complex crater filled with dust over underlying ice, though, is probably the default assumption.
You make a good point, and the reality is that both have to be true. A good marketer will figure out at what price a device could reasonably be sold for. A good hardware designer could then tell you how close you could come to that, given the desired price point. A number of time folks have come to me with a "really great idea" but when priced out it didn't make sense. People just wouldn't buy it for what it would cost to make it, and "betting on the come" which is to say making 100,000 to get the price down on the hope that after you've sold 10,000 or so you will be able to sell another 90,000 is a risky business indeed.

This though is part of the "nice thing" about Kickstarter. Which is you can set your price point for the quantity of units you offer on KS. Don't get funded? Couldn't make the market work, get more than you needed? Might be able to add a couple of points of margin to the bottom line. Danger of course is that if you get waaay more than you needed you'll be tempted to build V2 right away. Don't do that. Ship V1, pocket the margin and use that to design V2 with less risk after you've shipped V1.

I'm curious about your bluetooth experience. I've got a project I'm advising and any previous experience is always good experience in my book. The BT vendor (TI in this case) has offered to help with EMC certification although the project already has a bid for that from a local lab at a cost of about $50,000.
This is a good idea and I've thought about it, but it's not easy getting a part time job around here (Sydney). But I'll look into it.
My crazy theory: naturally formed nuclear reactor.
Google+ split into Photos and Streams products
Maybe as they develop and become bigger... But kids out of uni are more or less still 'getting away' from the adults. And empty-nesters probably would have a different tolerance for noise and active hours.
I would be interested to see a tracking of the change of new car prices during that time. New car prices today are extraordinarily expensive, and from anecdotal experience, most consumers will only buy new cars through a loan. Surely, it wasn't always that way.
Some of it has to do with the people who would be interested in an arrangement like this. I saw nothing about couples, for example.
The piece of paper with words on it was created by a bunch of highly paid lawyers to get their attention. If it was a typical demand letter, it probably demand not only that they cease and desist from use of the infringing mark, but that they turn over any and all material employing the infringing mark for destruction, as well as a complete accounting of their financial interest in said mark. I imagine Triggertrap's legal bill was about 10% for the time to explain 'they're right, you're wrong, give it up already' and 90% for the drafting of a reply letter and compliance sufficient to get the injured party to call the matter closed.

Now, that's a lot to ask for in a letter - usually a Trademark C&D goes along the lines of 'stop or I'll sue' - but in the context of a money-raising campaign, and given the fact that Red Camera company had historically and famously employed the pre-order launch strategy themselves, I think it would have been appropriate to come down on Triggertrap like a ton of bricks. Don't forget that trademark law works on a 'defend it or lose it' basis - if you don't vigorously contest infringement of the mark, then some later infringer can raise a defense of constructive abandonment.

Not a lawyer, but I've long been interested in this subfield of law. Monitoring and defending the mark against potential infringers isn't cost-free either.
This is a common explanation to the "deja vu" moments we sometimes experience.

Although this does not at all explain the times where I wake up a few seconds/minutes before my alarm goes off and proceed to disable it before it does :)
Here in New Zealand all goods sold to a consumer have to have a 'reasonable' life-span, with repair or replacement at the merchant's expense. Reasonable depends on the appliance and is determined by a magistrate. Things like lengths of extended warranty offered can be used to determine that.

It works pretty well. Of course the retailers like to avoid their obligations and people chime up with the "that's why prices are high" argument. If you're located at the bottom of the world everything's expensive anyway!
#MeetAMuslimFamily Campaign Aims to 'Bridge the Gap of Fear into Love'
Curious for a reference on fusion bombs. If you are referring to laser inertial, that takes buildings full of lasers.
If you're an ugly middle aged man and you're willing to date ugly middle aged women there's no need for a dating site. Women have lost most of their power in the dating market by that point.
Maybe they did :-/
Reminds me of how 'The Real World' TV show started out as a whole bunch of different people living together in SF then as the show progressed season after season it just became a 20 something mono culture.
Jason Huggins: Fixing HealthCare.gov, One Test at a Time
For those who don't know Jason, he's the author of Selenium, founder of Sauce Labs, and was part of the "tech surge" to fix healthcare.gov.
Would be great if they standardised on 'price per year of use' like they do now in australia where food always has to have the $/100g or $/100ml in addition to the unit price.

(Many supermarkets were basically rorting people by charging more for the 'bulk' items but labelling them as best value)
While on the surface this might sound good by evoking ideas of more sustainability and less and lower velocity of consumerism, we need to consider the goods in question.

For example, let's take a washing machine from 20 years ago and compare the efficiency of a modern washing machine -and subtract the added manufacturing input into the new machine. Or incandescent bulbs and LED lights. Or for that matter older cars and modern cars. I hope they take those things into account. Just because something will last long doesn't mean it's best in the long run.

Still, it's not a bad idea to consider. And then we could at least know how often we might have to buy phones ---but then someone will redefine what a functional mobile phone is "it can make a regular voice call and the battery will last 10 minutes by the 3rd year." The other measure, how long will it keep the same level of utility as it was when it was new? That'd be trickier.
Isn't F# a ripoff of OCAML?
I agree the article is favorable to Yahoo, but it strikes me as likely that the author conducted interviews, reviewed the facts, and wrote what he thought was the truth. Some folks on this thread may disagree with his conclusions, but that by itself does not make it bad journalism.

Disclaimer: Steven is a friend, occasionally a competitor (before I left to found Recent.io), and someone who once approached me to work with him.
I concur - just set up a couple of sites (written in go) and use Supervisor - its a nice tool and pretty intuitive. Using conf file to specify run app as particular user, set environment variables, logs, autostart etc.. - good to have in one place.
I don't think you'd get much from a spectrum. It's all (likely) reflected sunlight. It's not emitting light, so there are no emission lines, and it's not absorbing light, since there's no atmosphere.
You have to wonder just how stupid the advertisers are. They, and not the site's users, are the ones who are really being played for suckers.
Still not very useful. $135,000 on "staff costs" doesn't say much - did one guy just pay himself $100k for the hell of it? $5,000 on travel expenses, did they expense all their gas for commuting and take a business trip to hawaii? $7,000 for "kickstarter campaign" - what are they possibly spending $7k on? This is a separate amount from the fee that KS takes. The lack of transparency is dumb.
Flagged.

I've had college projects longer than your tenure as a startup CEO.

Also, on ArtSpot:

The front page signup lightbox is broken--it isn't sized properly and the signup button is moved wrong. You need to remove the "btn-block" class, or at least disable display:block on the element. Also, the lightbox shows up over the header--it should probably just occupy the main pane.

The footer on the front page could probably stand to be a proper navbar.

The background color of the typeform is slightly darker than the rest of the page background on the "Own a venue?" page. In fact, why use typeform at all? Just embed a Google Form and save me the trouble of having to sign up for anything. That'll also save some annoying and ugly display scrolling display behavior. Ditto for the "Collectors" page.
It might seem like a good idea on the surface, but think about the impact this might have on people who can least afford it (consider why people might be using old phones or old operating systems, and what impact lack of access to their bank could have on them for even a day if it's the wrong day), in the name of protecting them from something theoretical.
This hardly started in the 90s. Both Honda and Toyota were way ahead of American companies long before the 90s began. They were already using statistical process control, the Taguchi method, concurrent engineering and the five whys long.
While other VCs seek Unicorns, Indie.vc is all about cashflow
Back when Google was paying for Chrome to be bundled with installers for Flash, the installer would silently switch your default browser to Chrome. Do you consider Google to be a reputable internet company?
> A better approach might be for governments to utilize their vast resources [...] in a safe and moral fashion.

Serious question—you’re joking, right? Based on history and sober common sense, do you really think what governments in general are doing (and have always done) can be described as safe and moral in anything but the most cynical way?
Does playing video games make you smarter?
Charlie's law
As an online discussion about cryptography grows longer, the probability someone will mention the NSA tends toward infinity.
What to Expect When You're Expecting (A New Kitty)
Eleven to go?
Remapping default key commands is a fraught problem. Doing so acclimates the user to a custom environment which is not strictly a superset of the default environment. This makes it very difficult to switch to other environments and remain productive.

Defaults enjoy privileged status.
As a mid-career professional, this strikes me as the kind of thing that might have appealed to me when I was 19-23, but even then I hung out with 40 somethings. Perhaps I'm just not the target audience. Cool idea, nonetheless.
Ask HN: Where do I invest?
Where do you personally invest your money: savings account / fixed deposit / 401k, ESPP, bonds, mutual funds, Betterment / Wealthfront, individual stocks, personal algorithmic trading / Quantopian, real estate / own a house, lending marketplace, angel investor, founded a company with savings, or other.
Looking for HN's opinion around the best place to invest one's savings with recommendations for allocation percentages of net worth across investment options (more than one of these options most likely). If you could also provide an approximate of number of years in the industry that would be helpful (1-4 years, 5-10 years, 10+ years)

Example:
1-5 years in industry
Savings/Fd/401k 50%
ESPP 30%
Betterment / Wealthfront 10%
Individual stocks 10%
Wow, just wow. I note you joined 25 days ago. Why are you even on HN? Don't answer.
Hey there--

Thanks for your feedback. I've had college projects last much longer too. I have another co that's doing ~$500k /year, but that's not the focus of this blog post.

Moving on... the design needs a lot of love, right now it's sub- bootstrap quality.

How is the lightbox broken? It loads center-top for me, and buttons in the right spot. Not saying it's pretty, but not broken either.

RE footer, for sure. Spent no time on that (yet), but could definitely be improved.

Agree re TypeForm too. I like the feature of sending Typeform straight to Mailchimp, bypassing double opt-in, etc and didn't want to set up API connection for G Apps to Spreadsheet to Mailchimp. So kinda being lazy there, but yes this needs a refresh. Perhaps I can open up the page template so the scrolling bar disappears on its own, for the time being.

BTW, Typeform(s) on site are for info gathering. Signing up as an artist (via 'Get Started') is instant auth, other 2 spots on site are for manual outreach or Mailchimp signup.

Thanks again!

BTW, what do you mean by 'flagged?'
They concluded some of the mineralogy of the asteroid Vesta using spectroscopy ... http://solarviews.com/eng/vesta.htm
You don't need an HMAC to verify a key or other blob of data, and isn't fingerprint a less technical term for hash?
Yale CS students say the school has 'ceded the battle' to Harvard and Stanford
Car Loan with No Credit History No Cosigner
I agree. It was very poor project planning. The multiple radio modules doesn't make sense for starters and in fact all but laser could easily be built into the current design for little cost (PIR, Light intensity, sound intensity).

As for the mold (and this is just an exercise at this point) I considered that the window would just be built into the mold and would be parallel to the parting line. The buttons could easily be cap sense buttons, and not membrane. It would only need an inexpensive pad printing operation, which they're doing anyways for branding.
Downside of freelancing online
What are the negatives of freelancing, consulting online? Working for clients in different time-zones, managing multiple invoices, not having in-person communication with clients, etc.?
Grab Them by the Eyes (Flash)
I always had a wacky idea that the universe is a loop, in many different respects. Imagine atoms are actually galaxies or even universes. You keep zooming in or out you end up seeing yourself again. Could be the same with time. Which is why there isn't a beginning or an end.
Signed images are good. Choice in signed images is better.
>The piece of paper with words on it was created by a bunch of highly paid lawyers to get their attention.

You do know the difference between speculation and knowledge, right? I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I want to point out how much you're reading into this situation. Consider the possibilities: what if that letter was a fake, crafted by an early stage competitor just to waste their valuable time and money? An effective hack, because it's probably not even illegal.
Good luck on your quest for a "purely subjective read". Every good book out there has its critics. I suggest you read this one and make up your own mind.
Good to know, thanks. I was tempted to look up why they would be growing tomatoes in the desert.
Re clustering of scholars, prosperity is probably important, but Bloom's two sigma problem[0] probably contributes also. Would Aristotle have been anywhere near as profound without Socrates and Plato as predecessors?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem
i just updated by linux box using apt-get and it reported: "Fetched 47.0MB in 2m3s (381kB/s)".

Thats 3Mbps. This kind of speeds happen from time to time but long downloads or streams are usually capped at around 300kbps( around 40kBps).

The speed is decent enough during normal web surfing.
I don't have a "security administrators" of my computer except for me.

If you mean a security administrator of a large company - it's their computer, not yours.
here the result: https://smellfear.typeform.com/report/zybwNe/cJLY
Every client thinks they're your only client. Firedrills become commonplace. Nobody pays on time because they never see you in person, therefore they don't humanize you as worthy of punctual compensation. ETC.
As someone that doesn't go to a school that's Yale by any means, this petition is kind of hilarious.
The trouble comes because they measured the age using metric-expansion redshift.

But if there is something else affecting the redshift - for example a huge galaxy in between with a strong gravitational pull then the galaxy will appear more redshifted than it would otherwise, and is not actually as old as it appears.
Location: Jamaica

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python (Django), Java, C#, Objective-C, GIT, PostgreSQL (PostGIS), HTML, CSS (LESS, Sass), Javascript (CoffeeScript)

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n7mzrblhkaqtr71/AAAoVQFSrhl2FvwHO...

Email: jeanrick@gmail.com
In the past 12 months:

-Building a house (w/ shipping containers) in the mountains. Very inexpensive but slow process. Hope to flip it.

-Saved $30k cash, not "intelligent investing" but great for peace of mind

-Some stocks via Robinhood, Schwab, Tradeking (< $5k total invested any given time)

-IRA

-Acorns (petty cash, fun to watch it increase)

In general if you can save 20%+ of net income you're doing better than most. Some months (good months, I freelance) I can save 2x more than I spend, which is nice. But those months I keep it liquid.
What you quote here is in no way in disagreement with what fchollet quoted. I strictly agree with this. No one is denying the need to not create a raving super-intelligent psychopath. The problem with this fear mongering is that it's not based on any fact, namely, implying that AGI (or SMI, whatever) would by default (naturally even!) be hostile or negligently indifferent to biological life. It could very well be that it would naturally tend to be very friendly, or at least benevolently indifferent. Why would such an entity try to destroy humans?

Not only that, the proposal is to get governments, the US government especially—an organization which in total has not been waging war for only a few decades during it's entire existence—in explicit and tight control of this powerful technology. Doesn't quite seem to be the best idea around, frankly.
I doubt planned obsolescence is common. Think about the reaction of the consumer to something breaking down. Do they go "that was a great product, pity it broke, better buy the new version" or do they say "that was a shit product, I'm getting a different brand". And what about people figuring out which products break early from Amazon reviews?

I think this law is probably heavy handed and unnecessary. Especially in an age where most people spend their money on items like phones and laptops, which are reparable and become obsolete very fast anyway.
Abusing the C preprocessor for better variadic function arguments
No, these are not on highways in NYC. These are on roads directly in front of schools, as per state law. (I guess.)

Some of these roads are called highways ("The West Side Highway" is a surface street), some feel like highways (Queens Boulevard) but they differ from highways in that people cross them to get to school.

For highways, drive 90, I don't care.
Same versions, same profiles, same # of bookmarks (hundreds), same # of plugins (adblock, ghostery, a few others).

Pages render a lot snappier and there's no scrolling lag in Waterfox vs Firefox. This is great.
> Anything that gives customers more accurate information should lead to better-functioning markets.

Not if the information is vague or subjective or manipulable (as I think "expected lifespan" would be), or if that information is very costly for the manufacturer to estimate, or for the government to verify.

Sometimes its better to let the market work on its own, e.g. through product reviews.
I know how encryption works. My question was rather design wise. I.e. Which keys are used to encrypt messages on WhisperSystems servers (my public key? Or sender's?). But I'll have a look on the link below describing modified OTR protocol.
I used to pay for UE4 and they have now provided me a 30$ coupon to use in the marketplace. 👍 Epic thinks through everything nowadays.
That's why many projects use a bunch of non-product rewards where the costs are unpredictable, like t-shirts, stickers, and other stuff whose costs are completely predictable and which serves a sort-of marketing function, without being dependent on the core technology.

Then every dollar from those rewards can go into development before getting to the manufacturing stage. Those lower-value rewards can easily be fulfilled, and if you realize there's some sort of fundamental problem with the project you have the possibility to shut it down and refund device payments before that pledge money is spent.

I realize that this is a very idealized approach and that in many cases the amount raised from ancillaries isn't that much, the bulk of funds come from potential buyers for the device. But perhaps that's part of the problem. I'm considering doing a crowdfund project myself later this year (for a film) and although I'm months away from making any decisions I am trying to think through contingency situations now.
I believe whether the universe wraps around, or is infinite is still a matter of some debate. I know some researchers are currently trying to determine the size and shape of the universe by trying to see all the way to the other side and back to our side, for example.
In some cases with things in physics and cosmology, lets say dealing with 4 or 11 spatial dimensions you've just got to accept that our minds are not designed to be able to visualize some concepts, though we can understand and make progress by understanding the math.
Heres a random article introducing some ideas about the geometry and topology of the universe.
http://io9.com/5811706/if-you-keep-going-around-the-universe...
Hammy Go Round Hack Tool  No Survey 2015
Boo on all who downvoted this bit of snark.
The song is really good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaN2w6rcgk
Hi! I've heard good things about Habari Node[1], and Angania[2] is a startup working on Nairobi-based hosting. That said, I and most developers I know in the region host internationally. As others have mentioned latency is usually a bigger problem than bandwidth. Happy to take a look at your site if helpful (just add it to the form).

[1] (http://www.habari.co.tz/)
[2] (https://angani.co/)
Malaysian-spiced noodles with tofu
I was able to order some from India to Australia with only a credit card, our countries are very similar in terms of customs if you wish to try it I used one of the larger Indian drug sites. Had a friend test it against a local brand and results came back fine.
Not far-fetched at all. There's precedent right here on our home planet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor