skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that would explain that.

I was impressed by how small the barge looked compared with the F9 it's clever that the F9 can autonomously target such a small area. If they keep targeting 'Just Read the Instructions' by the time land based landings come to be it will be nailed. Awesome stuff!
In general, burning while you descend is a terrible waste of fuel, because you have to generate 1G of acceleration just to keep your speed constant. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_drag.) That's fine if you're not fuel limited (like the grasshopper tests) but if you want to land with minimal use of propellants, you want to use as high acceleration as possible. So the idea is to let the rocket drop freely and then light the engines just early enough that you can stop before hitting the ground.
Here's a variant of the last solution the author presented, using a Counter of each word, instead a sorted list of words' chars, as normalization.

cnt=Counter(tuple(Counter(w).iteritems()) for w in words)
print [w for w in words if cnt[tuple(Counter(w).iteritems())] > 1]

This is just code golfing, I don't even think it's clear. The last solution of the author is nice, though.
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You're the one who brought politics into this.
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Well, obviously. Even a slightly generous reading of the GP's question would indicate that pretending he asked about an algorithm "such that, for subregions a and b of equal volume, P[a]/P[b] approaches 1 as the subregions' volume approaches 0" would give him the answer he was intuitively searching for.
The GPL in practice hasn't always resulted in more freedom compared to other licenses. For example, GCC is purposefully designed to be non-modular, to prevent people from developing proprietary front ends. You may agree or disagree with the trade-off, but observe the LLVM project: you have the freedom to manipulate IR outside the compiler. With GCC, you have permission to manipulate IR outside the compiler, but they've gone out of their way to make it difficult for you, so you might as well give up. LLVM's license makes the idea of impeding proprietary front ends a non-starter.
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A drogue chute strong enough to avoid shredding at these speeds would be too heavy.
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Is this article only available in a visual format? No audio version?
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Perhaps they don't want people to use it on mobiles, if they want to encourage longer comments and more in depth articles perhaps.
The fastest bikes in the world aren't uprights, they're recumbents with streamlined fairings. The world-record holder is this one (although for a distance of 200 meters rather than a time of 1 hour): http://www.gizmag.com/human-powered-speed-record-2013/29103/

The UCI bans recumbents in all racing competitions however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recumbent_bicycle
I don't need the karma, I'd much rather have the discussion! :-)

Rent-seeking is probably a better description than tax, in that while it certainly costs a lot to build and maintain these systems, and they do provide some measure of value, the goal here is to build scale, build monopoly, and then extract profit.

The alternative is building the technology in a open / decentralized fashion which doesn't grant any level of centralized control. Open source software provides such incredible economy of scale that I do think such a system could one day reasonably compete with the best a multi-billion-dollar corporation could offer.
Seems odd that they did not provide a counter example. My suspicion there is an incorrect assumption for non fractal structures.

PS: This is really one of those cases where a paper does not mean much. You really need to dig through http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2354 and find the flaw as there is no peer review. Though it supposedly is going to show up in Journal of the AMS so it's not junk and probably worth diging into.
They're called grid fins:

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

I believe they are less to "keep it upright", but for better accuracy. The rocket doesn't really having a hard time staying upright because all of the weight is on the bottom where the engines are.
Very helpful list! reminds me of the book Clean Code
Ah, but it's not IIS, this is something less than IIS called HTTP.sys which is used by SSRS in sql 2008 or 2012. It's also used by some other windows services, so chances are you wouldn't even know you are running http.sys unless your software specifically mentioned it.
Not quite as seminal as one of his previous papers [0], but based only on taking his operating systems class, I have huge respect for Mazieres's competence.

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
> There's no reason for a book like this to even acknowledge it's existence.

That's not right; of course there's are reasons, though you're welcome to debate how much weight those reasons have.

I don't know what percentage of sites have a business need to support old IE versions.

I know we do -- our site is used by medical staff in hospitals where the PCs are locked-down, upgrades are hugely expensive and difficult (the silent auto-upgrade approach just isn't safe), and so even though no one likes IE7 there are still plenty of hospitals who haven't yet succeeded in upgrading.

There are other industries besides healthcare that suffer from this effect as well -- think especially of cases where companies have paid serious money for custom-developed systems that were cutting-edge in 1999, and thus were fully-browser-based and used the leading browser technology at the time, which was IE 5 with a ton of ActiveX (or Java applets?). If they still fill the business need perfectly well, the options around upgrading are not at all clear-cut.

I'm not sure how big this need is; I'm obviously biased because it affects me directly.
Interesting approach. Thanks and congratulations on your release!
Why do you use empty functions instead of a number or a string?
I use Kawa Scheme on the JVM for scripting on Windows. Powershell is forbidden where I work. For some reason, it seems to start up faster than Clojure.
Yeah, because I look at my own comments page, and wouldn't have noticed you posted a reply unless I came back to the OP.

Regarding OP - Did you give notice at your last job? If so, and this falls through, you learned a valuable lesson.

1. Don't give notice at your last job until your offer is confirmed and all the details are sorted out. For example, they might have an overly broad non-compete you want to negotiate (matters in NYC), and you won't know til you get the contract. I saw one non-compete clause that said "You can't work any financial software job in NYC.", which I refused as overly broad.

2. If you're concerned about the offer being revoked, ask for a signing bonus or for them to guarantee the first 1-3 months' salary, so you don't get screwed when they flake on you.

3. I've had several job offers that included options in the verbal offer, but they never came though with a formal option grant letter. You need to get that sorted out if it matters to you. Fortunately, those startups failed, so it didn't matter that I got no options.

I had one offer revoked because their financing round fell though, and they had to do layoffs instead of hiring.
I personally don't even apply to jobs if I know they're going to have a daily standup. This because I prefer to work at night; by the time the standup occurs, I want to be home in bed.

I don't have a problem making a weekly meeting, no matter what time it is.

Keep an eye on code checkins, how many bugs are marked resolved and by who, as well as how many really end up closed by QA. Some managers don't do this with the result that when coders are running into trouble, and either are unwilling or don't know to ask for help, it's way too late by the time management finds out.

Have a look at the Portland Patter Repository at http://c2.com/

I recommend the Team Software Project book, I think it's by Watts Humphreys of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.
just the fact they can hit a barge after falling back from space impresses me. I wonder if there are any islands they could use instead, surely they had to have looked for one. Would a stationary oil platform work better?
how about security .. any chances you are saving faces on your server ?
Nothing comes to mind but perhaps you could find inspiration from the competition section of kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/competitions). At the moment there are 170 including completed ones.
Haven't hacked on PyPy before. Would be interesting to do someday :)
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I have never heard that. It sounds like B.S. to me. I figure that all that power from birth would completely warp a mind, not to talk of the inbreeding.
You piqued my interest. Was this [1] /. comment all he had to say about it?

[1] http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7252569&cid=494676...
I really find it very hard to believe that a company like Facebook with (probably) so many intelligent people on-board will launch such a project without considering the serious downsides and the available better ideas (like the ones mentioned below in comments about free capped internet) etc. I don't want to, but the more I think about it, the more it seems that they just want their own profit with this.
This is one of those cases where 0 != 0+. If every point had zero probably then the sum of all of them adds up to zero.
Most of the jobs you're listing here are hourly jobs with 40 hour workweeks; or they're at least paid overtime.

The salaried workers doing 60-70 hour weeks every week are not doing anything related to providing food or beverages. They're programmers, advertisers, sales, lawyers, etc. Not exactly life giving jobs.

I'm sure some Coca Cola, Nabisco, and McDonalds employees work 60+ hour weeks but they're not serving food, they're maximizing profits for the company.

We could all be well fed and hydrated without a single person working 60+ hours a week.
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Which comparison shopping engine do you find most useful?
How about simply being able to better monitor/measure changes in the body?
> Finding a way to prevent an explosion if it falls over after landing seems worthwhile.

They probably are spending more effort into not letting it fall over.
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It brings your dopamine production up towards normal levels, letting your neurons connect to each other properly.

The effect is that it doesn't improve concentration so much as it allows concentration in the first place.
How do we handle alcohol? You tell people that modifying yourself isn't an excuse for committing crimes. And follow up and enforce that. Making it a crime to use chemicals on your own mind is absurd.

With heroin, the biggest risk is the fact it's illegal, thus preventing you from obtaining clean, known-quantity medication. If Tylenol was sold on the streets, with pills ranging from 100mg to 1000mg, we'd have a LOT more liver toxicity cases than we do. It's not like using opiates in a correct manner leads to death on a routine basis.
Partitions are not rare. A partition simply means that one node is not available to another, which does not have to be caused by a network failure. For example, a stop the world GC is equivalent to a network failure - the node is unreacheable at this time. So is a deployment with downtime (e.g. a 10 second restart per-node).

Also, while you can't access the partitioned area, you might have nodes outside that area. The question is whether the non-partitioned nodes become useless to you or not.

http://kellabyte.com/2013/11/04/the-network-partitions-are-r...

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D3htez...
Thanks for your note. Paddy G here again.

The team are really sorry that there was a misunderstanding between us and the author of the blog article Lenny Teytelman over the cost of coming to Collision and taking part in our Collide track for startups.

We really try to be as transparent as possible about the costs of attending our events. We believe that we offer great value for money for all attendees, whether they are startups, investors, speakers or general attendees. At our flagship event, Web Summit in Dublin, the numbers of those attending have doubled every year - which we feel shows that many people agree that we provide a great networking experience. Some on this thread have mentioned this.

To be clear, in our call with Lenny there seems to have been a misunderstanding over costs. We followed up the conversation a week later with an extensive email setting out the costs and the benefits of attending in the hope that he and his exciting startup could come along.

I've checked with the team here and from the email correspondence he told us: “I misunderstood you during the Skype call. I thought you are waving the attendance fee of $1450, instead of reducing the price to that.” Which is fair enough and we apologise if we were unclear on the call in any way. He then declined to take us up on the offer and we left it there.

As I have mentioned earlier, our Startups page on the website collisionconf.com clearly states that while exhibiting for selected startups is free, there is a cost for attending. To quote:

'Each week we selected 25 early stage startups from around the world to exhibit for free as part of our Collide Program. The bigger tech companies pay $9,950 to exhibit, meaning exciting, disruptive, early-stage startups can afford to attend no matter what. All they will pay is a discounted price for tickets and Collide registration, and we’ll give them a free exhibition stand.'

Really sorry if Lenny feels we wasted his time. We were genuinely excited about the possibility of him attending Collision but as mentioned previously, we do need to make the effort to screen applications so that we present the very best experience for startups and investors at our events.

We are a technology startup ourselves and of course we can always improve what we do. We are working hard right now to make Collision in Las Vegas on May 5-6 a success for the hundreds of startups across 14 industry areas who are attending. The networking at our events has been called “legendary” and we try hard to live up to that tag.

We are reaching out to Lenny to offer our apologies for any misunderstanding and we hope that those on this thread who are attending Collision will report back on their experience.

Happy to answer any more questions. Feel free to drop me a line at Patrick.griffith@collisionconf.com.
Interesting. The page you linked actually seems to suggest they are removing /usr/bin/python or symlinking it to python3. It's part of the scope section. As far as I understand, whatever /usr/bin/python points to is "the default", so I'm not sure how you could switch "the default" and still have /usr/bin/python point to 2.x. So anyway, if Fedora goes to python3 in 2 years (23 release?) then it would probably be at least 5 years before we see RHEL pick up those changes, especially if it includes a change to the package manager and Anaconda (the os installer), both of which are central to RHEL. My guess is that Red Hat are going to be very careful pulling these changes in for enterprise.
Ok, but the problem with your previous comment wasn't your view, but the rudeness. It's possible to express your view without rudeness; you just did. That's what we're going for here.
Monarchs don't have all that power from birth. Usually they get it when their parent dies. Why would power warp a mind more than powerlessness, or two decades in a government operated school?
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If it's a matter of control then all it needs is just a bit more fine tuning. My money is on success next time they try it.
Most of the examples of the brevity of the old style seem to be quite unconcerned with actual formatting. Honestly I just do simple print "Hello: " + a when I'm not too picky, and use .format when I actually want a nice output; the time of the few extra chars in format is unimportant compared to the time it takes to choose good field widths for the first time anyway, and I find the old syntax more cryptic.
Craigslist is an interesting example. It shows how absolutely little you need to provide real value to a lot of people, but it certainly seems like they aren't even trying to make it better. I think if it was open source you would actually see a lot more interesting and useful features continuously being added. I mean, how long did it take for them to add a map to their rental listings?

The software will eventually exist to properly format the meta-data automatically for the vast majority of cases. Also things like providing pluggable viewports / templates so it doesn't have to be one-size fits all.

There's nothing to prevent add-on services being used in a decentralized market. For example, payment escrow is absolutely essential for many purchases, and payment escrow services themselves would be discovered and ranked through the same code base. But if you don't need it, you shouldn't have to pay for it. Discovery, search, storage, connectivity, etc. is all done using the local compute and storage resources and leveraging network neutrality.

This is an absolutely huge problem space, I've been thinking about it for years, and am hoping to start working on it at least part time later this year. For example, my dad had to move a car last month. He didn't know at the time, but the guy he hired was actually a broker who took 30% of the cost as a finder fee. "Car Transport" is just a simple category in a vast field of services, but you can imagine the interface to collect leads is trivial, and the interface to select vendors, agree on a contract, and commit to the service would be mostly common platform code.

Obviously the biggest problem is getting people to use it. The advantage of an open source and distributed p2p approach is the burn rate is basically zero. I can afford to work on it pretty much for the rest of my life at this point, and it would be reward enough to see people using it and benefiting it. Well, we'll see how it goes. :-)
That's tricky stuff.

What was the intention behind not doing a water landing, like with the Space Shuttle boosters/tank?
Anybody who pays the $99/year to be an OS X developer and hasn't subsequently had their cert revoked for distributing malware.
Well, then he is a loon...because the people running the local air defense system weren't going to take a survey prior to engaging a possible hostile target when they have only moments to make a decision.
I personally prefer the old style still, and I still don't see the value of deprecating it in favor of the new style. I started Python in 2008 (p3k was brand new), and I used new style formatting for about 2 years. After realizing that I was the only one using new style I switched and now I cannot imagines going back.
looks like someone reposted the video from a non-spaceX channel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9384013
Here is the actual paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.2354v4.pdf. It looks like this is their family of counter examples:

A specific non-orientable five-dimensional manifold M5 with Sq1 ∆(M) ̸= 0 is constructed in [25]. Hence M5 is non-triangulable. To get non-orientable examples of non-triangulable manifolds in dimensions n > 5 we can take the product of M5 with the torus Tn−5. To get an orientable example in dimension 6 we can consider the non-orientable S1-bundle over M given by M ̃ ×Z/2 S1, where M ̃ → M is the oriented double cover; the total space of this bundle is orientable. To get orientable examples in dimensions n > 6, we can then take products with Tn−6.
> I figure that all that power from birth would completely warp a mind.

I don't see why. There are many children born to powerful people who end up with a proper sense of duty. It's all about the education and the heir's response. That's why monarchies are quite fallible. But it is not preordained that every monarch will become mentally warped.
Indeed, Intel is still actively producing new 32-bit CPUs with their Quark line [1], and quite a few consumer products that people would easily recognize have shipped [2] in the last few years with 32-bit Atom SoC's.

The PC Engines ALIX [3] series (with a 32-bit AMD Geode LX onboard), is also pretty widely used as a firewall/router, and is actively supported by pfSense and several other software distributions.

[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/family/79047

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(system_on_chip)

[3] http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm
This is not a black and white scenario as you have characterized or how Mark Z has characterized.

As more and more people come out of poverty, they will be able to access basic services such as water, electricity and data plans. There is no reason why data plans is the only service among the three services that needs to be free. If it is free, it is the government that should provide it rather than private corporations whose single interest is profit.

Now, people who are super poor may not be able to pay for electricity let alone will access free internet.

Either way, FB and bunch of other companies want to profit out of the people who are uninformed and these people may end up buying only services and products from those limited free websites that they get from free internet.

It also looks like the telecom services might take advantage of this and partner with some companies provide selective access to some websites and the biggest losers of this kind of partnership could be companies that dont have enough capital to pay each of the telecom providers to be in their "basic package"
I was thinking the same, seems that it would be the easiest way to stabilize the rocket. I'm curious what were the reasons for not using this idea - for sure they though about it, but concluded that the current way is better.
Are you debating whether say Adderall has any noticeable effects?
Windows code signing is performed using a certificate available from the usual certificate authorities (Verisign, Thawte, etc, etc) that you pay to verify your identity and issue you a signing certificate.

Apple is the only one that enables OSX signing and it's done in conjunction with your Apple ID that you pay Apple a yearly fee to enable developer abilities on.
I never talk others out of their subjective preferences. I don't try to talk my friend out of drinking cheap instant coffee because I dislike the taste of it. That is my whole point; taste is subjective.
I think the plan is to eventually land it somewhere that it can be checked, refueled, and sent straight back to space.

The barge, I suspect, is simply for safety/liability at this point ;)

(Even if I'm dead wrong, and they want to land it on a barge forever: seawater is some nasty, corrosive shit that I wouldn't want my rocket dunked into! :)
No, what he's doing is providing free Facebook so that his user base increases, so he has more people's privacy to exploit, mine for data, and then sell to the highest bidder.
Buzzfeed is disrupting the news/entertainment industry and has found an extremely effective way to entice readers and promote virility among its stories and videos. In any other context people would champion this sort of strategy. Extreme growth hacking coupled with a psychological approach to user acquisition.

I am not a regular buzzfeed reader, but I have tried to become less cynical about the company. They really are the best at what they do. Hopefully with Dixon's $50mm investment via AH, the company will focus a little more on content.
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Maybe deteriorating mental health shouldn't be equated to "going bonkers", and then we won't be discouraging people from talking about something so common.