skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge amount of unproven (and possibly unprovable) assumption in that statement. There's no evidence the universe is actually continuous rather than discrete at Plank scales. No evidence in either direction, so far as I know. And given the nature of physics at Plank scales, it might be impossible to devise an experiment which could distinguish between them.

But if that's the case, it would mean it's not wrong (and not right, either) to declare that the universe is discrete, meaning all measure are in fact rational numbers.
Apache Con 2015 – More than a collection of open source software
"everyone good is similarly green"

Except that knowledge gained in one area or several areas over the course of many years is quite valuable in itself.
I absolutely get more done working from home. But after a couple of years of working by myself on project for business who I would communicate with once a week (if) I felt I was getting out of touch with the human race.

I went and got an office job, and it was so nice to get up and go be with other people. Even the office politics was amusing rather than annoying. Even the annoying people were interesting. Now, after nearly a year of that the novelty is wearing off and I'm wanting to be really productive and remove myself from foolish social games again.

My ideal situation would be 2 days a week in the office, 3 at home.
Maybe sociopath is a better label? Someone who doesn't waste energy on empathy, so can operate in situations that would cripple normals.
I moved house partly because I could work from home and spent 8 years, in a new town, without socialising or having anyone close to really socialise with. It didn't help that my work colleagues were on two different continents.

Not having a social life eventually killed it for me. I loved the freedom of choosing my own hours and working in an office I built Just For Me. I loved being there for my family. But at the end of the day I just wanted human contact with the people I was working with. I needed those subtle levels of communication that you simply can not get on a video call with 1-3 second lag.

I finally called time on it and started working among people again. I still like to work from home every now and then but mostly I like knowing, immediately, how I am perceived amongst my co-workers and being able to gripe and moan about <insert office bug bear of the week> over a beer or ten after a hard weeks work with people who know me and can relate to my experience.
Imagining OCAML without generics is fun though :). Also he did get that dynamic is only good for prototyping.
It is only an issue if you actually care about security. If all you want is a checkmark or the ability to show up in browser then that is more than good enough.
I misread the title and thought that Google has acquired CloudFlare.

And that made me a little uneasy.
> Why would Saudi Arabia be against ISIS, except as a rival?

"As a rival" is the main reason any government is opposed to any other government or would-be government, so the question is silly from the outset.
The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal
But they where waiting for the last minute for weather to clear, or was it that just then the no-go condition generated?
The problem with least significat bit approaches mentioned by others is that they don't survive through re-encoding very well. A much better way of watermarking IMHO would be to add features (could be patterns, even images or text) in Fourier space- imperceptible if done correctly, and guaranteed to survive through encodings.
>I'm not sure I quite expected to see this on HN

I think it belongs - What he is suggesting carries over to technical endeavours as well.

1. Learning to cut mercilessly improved clarity of my emails and documentation.

2. Learning to put my head down and carry on till a project is first draft complete, warts and all improved my ability to actually _complete_ things.

3. Peer review as a bullshit detector is good.

I'll take Poe or Lovecraft over King any day for entertainment, but I might just crack 'on writing' after reading this article. The man sounds pretty dialed in.
The point is that the library is generic - it can be used for a wide variety of difficult problems.
The biggest downside I see is that it would no longer be possible to host a simple website, without also having to publicly expose the vastly increased attack surface that the OpenSSL code base brings to the table.
> I doubt any extant or near-future forecasting system is able to tell you that a specific storm cell will be in a specific spot at an exact minute all that far in advance.

Well, this is exactly my plan, and I'm going to do it ASAP. Prototype should be done by summer. There are millions of little weather stations all over Florida that nobody is using (smartphones). By connecting those stations together and pulling the live sensor data into forecasts, I do in fact believe that these small thunderstorm cells should be very well-forecasted if we take in this dense dataset.

This forecast system doesn't exist yet, you're right. But it should exist in the next couple months/years, and when it does, it should be able to provide this kind of forecast.

BUT only if that is worth money to a group like SpaceX - is it? That's really my question. I know I can build the technology, but will anyone like SpaceX buy, and at what price?
0. You realize you need an HTTP server. You're presented with a dizzying variety of options and already lost. Are you supposed to get Apache, Navajo, NGINX, IIS, Jetty, lighttpd, heavytpd, httpd, or ApacheNavajoNGINXIISJettylighttpdheavytpdhttpd? Most newbies ask, "Why isn't there a simple [click here to get HTTP server] button?"

1. You get your server by wget, but you still can't install it directly. Your OS wants an executable file, so you Google "How do I create an executable file". The top 10 tutorials tell you to use some software called Eclipse, but that needs some kind of "JVM". What you received in the archive was some ".c" crap. You're lost, no tutorial is helping with what to do with .c files, in what order to concatenate them, and StackOverflow bans your question. You are not fit to operate a computer. (I made this story up too.)

The only way HTTP will gain popularity is if we can get rid of the different servers available and make it easy for newcomers. The majority of content creators unfortunately do not understand the basics of security nor can we expect them to have the patience to learn it.
HP: We're not leaving the public cloud after all
Any methodology in the wrong hands will be a terrible experience.

Let's face it. There is no methodology that will make all software development projects around the world go smoothly and fun to work on. If you work with, or for, a bunch of dicks, you won't enjoy what you will be doing all day. No methodology is going to change that.

I would like to go as far to say that "any" methodology used by great people will automatically result in great things.
How about we solve the "certificate" situation first?

I've just paid lots of money for "certificates". I quote the word, because they don't actually certify or even signify anything. The whole procedure for "domain-verification" is a joke, and many outfits are incompetently run (their "verification" e-mails bounced from my servers because they ended up in RBL, which nobody seemed fit to correct).

I see this as a scam, or extortion — pay up, or you won't be "certified". And pay up significant amounts of money, if you want a wildcard cert.

If we care about encryption just for the sake of encryption, let's change our browsers to allow self-signed certificates. Label them as such, but don't label them as "unsecure", because the padlock icon really isn't any more secure than a self-signed cert.
You can detect lightening using ground based detectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_storm_detection#Ligh...

This specific delay though was caused by convective clouds being too close to the launch. This was probably determined with either ground based radar, or visible/IR images from satellites.
Lots of anger, name calling, blaming, and posturing directed at nobody in particular with no discernible next steps toward resolution. Nothing good will come from this. There's no need to wage war, pick out enemies, and blast people toward a more fair world. If you try to pick a fight you'll get one because that's definitely something we can all do well.
See also Vi Hart's "Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant", starting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0 It covers how the Fibonacci is seen in more places than it actually exists, which is closely related to the golden ratio. (This point is made at the end of part 2 and part 3 is all about it.)
This is one of the problems I've had back in my teens when I was reading fiction. Especially authors of fantasy or science fiction novels seemed to be very keen to describe their worlds in the most intricate details possible. And as a result they became very strenuous to read to the point where I simply stopped reading them at all. I think (and this is entirely subjective) that if you need to describe your fictional world in such perfect detail then maybe a book is simply the wrong medium. Then you should maybe opt for drawing a comic, where you can put all the power of your imagination into actual pictures.
Wow amazing. That means that as new partners are brought on board if the pie doesn't increase or the benefit isn't there (to the rest) you in theory incumbents end up with less.

So now some follow up questions. What happens to partners if they don't add value after being added? Has that ever happened and what would be the game plan? And is there a road map and timeline that specifies in advance how many partners they may add? Do they all vote on the partners and are all votes likewise equal?
Using radio, presumably.

There is a considerable body of research on detecting the presence and range of lightning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_detection
The writing style of this article is antagonistic, childish, and generally offputting.

The concept is interesting, and I would love to learn more about this topic, but the person who wrote this article should consider carefully the tone in which he/she continues to write in the future.
telnet www.example.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
It should be regulated. I'm just not sure why tech majors should take this up for us... its not in their interest, or in the interest of their customers.

Regardless as to motive, nothing will change to the people who benefit from this...

I'm not sure what competition it will be stifling either. We seem to be assuming that this is already a fairly balanced industry without gigantic monopolies - which is just untrue.

I can see the philosophical argument, I just can't be in favour of it when all we want at the core is to do is hold something back that has benefit.
Unlike the SEC, the FCC has teeth and uses them.
Antennas, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_detection
Known (Flash on) Linux-related issue. Use the livestreamer ( http://docs.livestreamer.io/ ) tool instead.
Clearly didn't proofread enough...
Here's a link to a live Live lightning map: http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en
Former Nazi criticizes the Jewish state. Shocker.
Live lightning map
"Inspect and Adapt": maybe bong hits will fix my makefile

"Project Manager:" a job that no longer needs to exist in the astounding new world of Scrum. (Pay no attention to the project owners, product owners, story-writing users above you in the org chart or Scrum Masters behind the curtain.)

Blog version: http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/594955.html
Bitcoin is not a good consumer product
Correct. This all comes down to what the CAs order processing allows. Sometimes they can change things. Sometimes they cant. Somethings they say they cant because its a pain for them to change it.
We always ensure that our satellites are well below the
UN 25 year guideline, and we will never launch a satellite
into an orbit with a predicted lifetime greater than 25 years.

https://www.planet.com/pulse/keeping-space-clean-responsible...
Can someone translate to human language?
Lightning can be detected from thousands of miles away. See http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0.... Turn on "detectors" on the right to see the distances involved.

That site works by a using a network of cheap EMP detectors. It uses the timing differences from each sensor to trilaterate the position of the lightning strike.
I've worked on this kind of device. You can rarely use them directly anyway, you need some kind of reverse-proxy/caching to use them otherwise they will crash if to many people are connecting on it directly. Anyway, these kind of device are rarely connected to the outside world so on the worst case, HTTP is still not a problem on an internal network.
Query Parameters in Ember with Balint Erdi: Codmentor Office Office on 5/29
I see no reason not to blindly trust localhost - there is no way to MITM the connection anyway.
Stephen's theories aren't Joyce's theories, and the style in which Joyce writes is never Joyce's voice, in the sense that writers today are always prattling on about 'finding their voice' (the styles of Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, and the Wake accomplish very different things).

The tragedy of Portrait is that so many people read it as if it were simple autobiography. It isn't. Stephen is based on the young Joyce, yes, and in the original draft and notes (mostly destroyed, published as Stephen Hero) there's a saccharine sincerity that fits your sense of the book a little better.

But that's not the finished Portrait. In Portrait Joyce makes fun of himself. He's critical of his youthful exuberance. It's a hilarious book for anyone who's ever taken themselves too seriously, which, I think, is all of us.
Also the fact that processing information to control energy forms (light, sounds, emw, etc) is not the bottleneck anymore.
It will turn into a cloud of asteroids surrounding the earth intended to prevent the human race from unleashing whatever hell we create with those autonomous mining robots on the ISS (would be my guess, at least). Feel like the agent/patient distinction is pretty blunt foreshadowing against it being a survival/resilience story against and abstract antagonist like a random natural disaster.

edit: http://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-A-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0... gives a bit more detail and it is likely it will not become a ring. Probably a lot of highly energetic reentrant debris capable of generating a lot of atmospheric heat.

edit: @jaquesm - i'm allowing for creative license, and was making guess explaining what would happened based on my gut feel for the plot direction. you're probably correct on the physics.
How does your embarrassing comment add to the discussion we are having? I'm afraid the gentlemen on this forum could not care less for your childhood struggles. And just in case you're wondering, your math performance was probably hindered by your flagrant, insulting and imprecise use of language.
I think you're thinking about the problem the wrong way.

There is a cost to postponing the launch, but compared to having their rocket blown up by lightning on launch, it's nothing.

As far as I know, the budget for these launches already includes x number of retries - since scrubbing launches and retrying in another window is actually standard procedure - so they are not "loosing" as much money as you think. It's only if they exceed the # of retry attempts that they've budgeted for that a solution like yours becomes viable, and even then, you're not fighting against "the cost of getting things set up".

You're fighting against the cost of having their rocket blown up on launch because of bad or unforseen weather events. That's why they scrub - not because the weather is too bad to fly - it's because there could be an unforseen event happening because an anvil cloud (which has lightning in it) - merges with another large storm formation at 10 nm - basically, it's insurance against the rocket blowing up.

If you can insure your weather detection solution in the high hundreds of millions for a positive launch, then there would be a market for it.

And to be successful, your product will need to cut that 3 min downwards, not upwards.

So that mission control can have a better confidence of scrubbing a launch, say within 10-s of launch time vs 3 min.

You get what I mean? Better weather detection allows mission control to delay longer until the best guess estimate of when to hit the STOP button, not so that they can plan ahead to put a launch at xyz date/time because a weather prediction system says so.
Can you please not do this? Michael is a valuable member of this community, and while he subscribes to a certain narrative, I for one find his comments to be intelligent and insightful. If you're going to disagree, do so respectfully without taking cheap potshots. Thanks.
HBO renews Silicon Valley for third season
If I understand one part correctly, they opened the lottery on April 1st and filled up the entire year's allotment 6 days later.
Another question, with the same date set:

Albert: I don't know, but Bernard might.
Bernard: Then your birthday is in May!
Albert: Ha ha! I was lying about what I knew.
Bernard: So was I!
Cheryl: Then you both know my birthday now.

(May 15, 16, 19, June 17, 18, July 14, 16, August 14, 15, 17)
Right now I am using IPWorks WS client for C# and the simple 'ws' nodejs module, they are talking to each other just fine. Doesn't have the same capabilities as socket.io though (we have to handle reconnections a bit differently, no concept of channels, etc). Would SignalR talk to a nodejs socket.io server with these features?
Your YC application is a snapshot of your idea at the time you applied. The assumptions you make in that snapshot will be proven wrong and tossed out faster than the ink dries, and they have much less data to work from.

I don't think it would be very helpful for that reason, as well as a general inability to quantify success and failure even amongst the startups they do fund.
They received 233,000 applications for 85,000 work visas, and have randomly selected 85,000 of them. Everyone else can try next year.
4 times the yearly allotment.
Each year there are 20k work visas for people who graduated MSc in the US and 65k work visas for the rest of world.

That means if you got an offer to work from a startup or a big tech firm there are about 23% changes you'll get the visa.
This is especially bad on Firefox where the dialog to allow a self-signed cert isn't even very intuitive. At least on Chrome (last I checked, anyway) there is a clear "correct" thing to do if you want to allow the cert.
They still might have come up with glass for other reasons... porcelain windows?
There are more people asking for a spot than spots available. There are 65,000 spots available. If that sounds like a random and arbitrary number, you're right, that's exactly what it is.
Every year, this branch of the U.S. government gives out so many of these work visas to qualified applicants. This is one of the most common ways many foreign developers are able to apply and work for a U.S. company, by being "sponsored" by their company.

Well, they've run out of spots for 2016.
> with no discernible next steps toward resolution.

The next steps (expressed as fact statements rather than calls to action) are quite explicit in the last paragraph.

> There's no need to wage war, pick out enemies, and blast people toward a more fair world.

I don't see any war-waging, just an explanation for the motivations for a well-identified new strategy.
H1-B visas are used by US businesses wanting to hire non-american employees. There is an annual cap set on the number of visas (65,000 for people with bachelor's degrees, and an additional 20,000 for those with master's/phd).

This year there was an even more massive oversubscription, and the visas were allotted by lottery. Certain subcategories of visa are not subject to the cap (eg. those requested by non-profit research institutions and universities, including government labs.)
I've had clients who told me they never really had the money, when I sent them the invoice. I then started taking deposits as a principle with new clients. I used to not ask for a contract, but pinning down the scope is essential. Some clients would try and postpone payment as long as possible based on ambiguous scope. I guess after a while I started getting the hang of who I should and shouldn't be working with to avoid trouble.
Trello iOS 2.8 release notes
To cryptoz (can't reply, probably too deep?):
I was going to argue that it would be terrible difficult to build up that smartphone network. But then I saw that you do PressureNet (awesome tool btw!) and, oh well... looks like you've definitely got the network part done already.

OTOH, why not just ping @elonmusk on twitter?
In simple words, US Immigration system is quite messed up.
I actually think that the article's example using Dali's The Sacrament of the Last Supper sort of disproves itself.

Part of why the painting is so elegant is because of its balanced composition: the arms along the top of the golden spiral, the table edge along the top of the inner spiral, etc.
This is a recurring but stupid theme. Look people in the past/in other country/in other school know how to solve problems which are unfamiliar to us! We have no clue and they do it pretty easy. They must be very smart and learned?

Take aways:

- You never learned to solve problems, just apply familiar patterns. This is sad, you wasted youth.

- Those people probably didn't either, but they were given a different set of patterns. Doesn't make them smarter.

- Anyone with actual solving skill looks at all of you with amusement.
"Amazing 10X engineers could still pull off shipping a working product even with all the organizational handicaps I mentioned in my earlier post."

They could. They're also good enough that they could easily say, "Fuck that shit" and go work somewhere that doesn't have that toxicity. And unless you have a significant ownership stake in the company, I don't see why you wouldn't do just that. Life is too short to work shitty jobs if you have the option not to.
Just a different point of view, but when I finished high school I couldn't wait to get into university and start studying maths. I would have hated to have a gap year that would have delayed the amount of time before I start.

So not sure why you would take a gap year without knowing what to do. Makes it seem like you don't want to study computer science?

So maybe you can question why you are wanting to study? Is it your favourite subject? Do you code for fun? Is there another subject you'd rather be studying, but maybe isn't as 'acceptable' with the various pressures to conform?

Hope this doesn't sound to harsh, but it is worth thinking about what you really want. Maybe THAT is why you need the year out.

If so then I would suggest some kind of travel. Get away from the peer / teacher / parental pressures and enjoy yourself. You might get a feeling about what you really want to do.

If you go crazy from not being able to fire up your IDE and crank out code, you may find that CS is right for you after all :-)
I don't think the 6502 will ever die. It is too popular and was used in a lot of 8 bit computers and video game consoles.

http://www.cc65.org/ Is a C based 6502 compiler that people looking at this JIT compile might be interested in.
>Under no plausible circumstances did they visibly watermark a corner and hope for the best.

Corporate ineptitude.
I guess I belong to the "urban legend" category then.

I never introduced Boost into my projects, but when one of the co-developers on an open source project where I am the lead (FlameRobin.org) said it would be useful, and explained what problems it would solve, I just said "ok". IIRC, this was circa 2007.

All those complaining about compile times should learn about PCH (pre-compiled headers). It's fairly simple and makes sure headers are compiled only once (unless they change). AFAIK, all modern compilers support PCH (GCC, MSVC, even Borland's).