skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be more interesting to see this ranking weighted by the "desirability" or size of the countries you can visit, or some other useful metric. If I can visit 177 countries, but those 177 are "all of the countries except the ones in the EU" my passport might have far and away the highest power rank, but I certainly wouldn't want it.

In this case, the power ranking might involve some sort of Google search type of algorithm, where the "desirability" of the country is weighted by how many countries its passport holders can visit (we're assuming that the countries enter these sorts of visitation agreements based on political stability, trade agreements, tourism motivations, etc)

In addition, you'd probably want to factor in a more detailed breakdown of visa restrictions, difficulties to obtain visas to various countries, etc.
I've heard them claiming that it could indeed drive you from home to work using public roads and that it is capable of finding you and driving the car to you when you call for it (aka. "Batmobile mode").
So in your world, nothing grows organically unless it's about a big company?

Definitely not what I said, cause this isn't about "growth" or product. Internal accounting and salary changes at small tech companies don't find their way into all the major tech papers organically - especially not with accompanying video etc...
Sure, for severe cases studies have shown that depression medication helps, but that is not what the parent said:

...to treat any malady of the mind, and they have been proven to be barely more effective than placebo treatments

Which is also shown by studies[1][2]

1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7945737

2: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18303940
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We'll add that to the backlog.
There is a reason, but the audience is the one who choices it's popularity and for what reason they personally use it.

Twitch.tv is exactly this BUT they show the screen and a webcam of the person. You can see both the face and screen of a person. Mostly this is used for people streaming games but others use it while they program and talk to people how they are coding. Others use it for podcasting.

These apps can answer a need, but so often we can't tell the future of what sticks with a group of people. That is why the company that is doing Meerkat is planning to create many apps and fail often to find the app that fits a need that they don't know about currently.
Anyone know how this flight termination system works? Obviously it self-destructs. But, under what parameters? Does Mission Control send the signal, or does the rocket determine this on its own?
Classic maps was usable and feature rich. New maps is terrible on both fronts.
> In a later response, iRobot added that NRAO observatories usually are surrounded by desert or forests, not environments where residential lawn equipment is used—a claim the NRAO called “silly.”

I don't get what's silly about this. Astronomers are already well known for hating nearby human residences, because they give off visible light that makes it difficult to see the sky. Radio communications are the exact same thing at a different frequency.

But we've got a strong system going of "astronomers can suck it, and if they want to look at the sky without our light getting in the way they can live up on a remote mountaintop where nobody else ever goes". And that's what they do, because imagine if someone could build a telescope near your house and then get laws passed saying you were prohibited from using electric lighting... ever. We like being able to see at night. Maybe we also like having automatic lawn maintenance. Why should astronomers get to stop us?
Poor kid. Glad the ordeal is over.

Mind/body. It's one system. Of course issues with one impact the other.

However--Not all mental disease is caused by infection. Schizophrenia, for example, is associated with a number of abnormalities in brain structure.
I've been involved in a micro acquisition. From my experience, this is not true. Both the timeline, cost and effort from term sheet to closing was small (in comparison to larger acquisitions)
Yeah I suspected it was a typo or something, but I kind of like it...
To me, the most fascinating detail: "There is no evidence that the article made a splash at the time. It may or may not have been widely read, but it was not especially cited or republished."
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Keeps asking me where I live.. wtf.
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> The writer's goal/task was probably something like "create content" in the broad sense.

Yeah, in the so-called "content marketing" sense of the word, i.e. create whatever random stuff that will get people interested enough that we can monetize them (or get paid by whoever hired us to do the content marketing).

Source: I interact personally with content marketers on a daily basis.
Yup. Ever since then, Gregory Kohs has been on a scarily obsessive mission to not just criticize Wikipedia, but harass individual Wikipedians. He's been banned from almost all the Wikipedia projects, and in the days when Yahoo Answers was a thing, he got banned from there for using it as a way to SEO-associate hateful words with various Wikipedians and Wikimedia staff. As far as I can tell he still devotes many hours a week to his anti-Wikipedia mission -- pretty much every article anyone writes about Wikipedia, he jumps into the comment threads with ludicrously tendential assertions and distortions, often with multiple sockpuppets.

People don't like to talk about him because it feeds the troll, but after five years of solid effort the guy is now scoring mainstream press hits.

Wikipedia's (lack of) resistance to hoaxes is an issue for concern, and the WMF needs criticism, but Kohs is deranged.
You can stream zips if you don't use compression, and you can use compression on files small enough to hold in memory. I work at Barracuda Networks, and we actually do this every day.[1]

[1] https://github.com/barracudanetworks/ArchiveStream-php
It really bugs me when people talk about Big Pharma pushing pills, cause really, 8-9 times out of 10, it's patients begging for pills. Are pharmaceutical companies angels? Fuck no, neither are doctors, but if nobody was buying, they wouldn't be selling.

There's a great post on reddit from a doctor who wrote about a typical patient-doctor interaction (which I'm too lazy to find right now):

Patient comes in with elevated blood pressure, about 30 lb overweight, sedentary lifestyle. Doctors talks about blood pressure, possible future issues with it, recommends patient start getting some exercise, portion control, lose some weight, maybe a dietary consult.

Patient comes in a month or three later for a follow up visit. No weight loss, no drop in blood pressure. Doctor writes a script.

Hell, when I was checking out doctor review sites for a podiatrist, one of the negative opinions he had said, "He didn't even prescribe me anything!
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I agree, but I think right now, even more important, is getting the model for private space flight/exploration right. Currently, the majority of SpaceX's revenue is through government contracts. Cost savings through reuse-ability should be the number one focus, not the technology on how to land on another planet through adverse and unpredictable conditions. The ASDS is really cool and all, and could definitely be something interesting down the road...like a spaceport sitting right off the coast of a major city, ready to take you to the moon hotel...or the other side of the world in under an hour.

But I think achieving major cost savings by landing the rocket in such a way that it could be launched the next day, that should be our first goal right now.

Which is why it makes sense to now attempt an over land landing. They had to make sure it wouldn't miss and accidental land in the middle of Miami or something.
I just want to say that contributing can sound daunting, but its honestly as simple as proof reading docs or filing bugs. No coding required.
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Sure, but without a source this is just baseless cynicism.

HN is supposed to be a place for intelligent discussion: giving unsourced cynicism equal weight as evidence is creating an echo chamber for pseudo-intellectuals to parrot their beliefs.
I find the Pharo UI boring. Looks like ancient with its old windows and controls of some dead Microsoft era. emulated other interfaces of Pharo always have this slightly off feeling to it... Just from the look&feel - not even thinking about all this non-standard half-baked UI, which is a strange mix of Xerox/Smalltalk, Morphic, Windows, and other UIs...
> Total Request from Subpoenas, Court Orders, and Search Warrants = 10
> Percentage where information was disclosed 70%
> Percentage where users were informed of the request 43%

EDIT: I am not smart. I didn't think of that percentage that received information on the disclosure of information and was thinking in terms of total subpoenas.

How is it not 40% or 4 users and we get 43%? One person only got 1/3 of the information?
What axis do you pick? Kids can be brilliant in one subject but terrible in another. They can have behavioral problems but vary between low and high achievers.

The reality of it is that we group kids by age and geolocation and put them under the same teacher. It works out mostly ok, improving that will be a hard problem.

Even defining an improvement is not trivial as well. While you ask if students can be grouped by ability, some schools prefer to split these students up, with the thinking that there is more to be gained by having children helping each other out in the same room.
Exactly. What makes the 6Ghz spectrum so attractive to iRobot? If they are asking the FCC for an exception anyway, isn't there another frequency they could use with the same method of location finding?
The number of browser exploits requiring JS compared to the number of browser exploits not requiring browser JS disagree with your assertion.

The distinction is that JS is a complex and turing-complete language that browsers put a lot of effort into making fast and memory-efficient.

And as a result JS doesn't exactly have the best security record.
The server seems to be overloaded right now.

Anyway, disable HTTPS Everywhere if you have it, since if you don't do it there will be no difference. :-)
Interesting! Other than JS, what else runs on the backend?
I have written vulnerability testers in Powershell and C# varieties:

https://gist.github.com/Zagrophyte/ea086087e6fd7ca579ef (Powershell)

https://gist.github.com/Zagrophyte/0fa7a8e2e507fac2b59d (C#)
Recent research is showing a link forming between Schizophrenia and Toxoplasmosis infections.

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/11/03-0143_article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
What in assembly would allow freedom from false retention is that we know exactly what is in every register and memory location (because we put it there). We know where the GC has to look for root references and where it doesn't have to look.

In C, if we have a pointer p which is the last reference to some object, and is not used any more, and add the line "p = NULL", hoping to drop a reference so the object can be reclaimed, there is no guarantee that the compiler actually generates the code which does the assignment. Since the variable has no next use, and the compiler doesn't know anything about garbage collection, the assignment looks like wasteful, dead code that should be optimized away. Even if the scope finishes executing, the compiler can leave behind a memory location which still references the object.

Here is something else, not related to GC. In assembly language, we can make ourselves a calling convention for variadic functions which know how many arguments they have. As we build up the higher level language, it will have nicely featured variadic functions.

In C, we are stuck with <stdarg.h> which doesn't have a mechanism for the callee to know where the arguments end. The language has no flexibility to add this --- without resorting to approaches which will basically involve assembly language.
I am talking about my day-to-day workstation and laptop running (x)ubuntu. Pulse may not be great, but nowadays I get to use Skype, watch videos, and listen to music all day using Pulse... why should I go through all the trouble of removing it if it works for the most common tasks?

About the interface. I doubt that was the problem. When I got jack to work, I was getting 2-3ms latency between input and processed output. I did get the guitar effect application to work, I just thought it was too inconvenient to be forced to be aware of "what-application-uses-what-sound-system-and-when-I-need-to-flip-the-switches".

In any case, my goal was to have a alternative that could be (a) cheap and (b) convenient if I wanted to play with my guitar and have some DAW tools, not to see how low I could bring down latency in a linux system. The lesson learned is that it can be cheap, but not convenient.

Ps: did you go to Unicamp?
We're solving problems all the time

Energy storage efficiency is growing

Homeowners are selling power to their utility during the day and buying it back during the night

People are refraining from buying cars so they can buy flats downtown, and a few good bikes.

DIY-ers with did-it-themselves electric japanese subcompacts are blowing people's mind at drag racing strips

Freeways are being torn down

People are growing food in their backyards

A company with a stated goal of sending people to Mars are landing rockets on barges named after _Culture_ ships

The future is a nice place
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This is one of the more exciting parts for me.

At Udemy ~90% of our visitors have SPDY3 or better (tech-savvy audience). Our JS needs an overhaul and the timing is great for a rethink on how we deliver it.

We're looking at optimising for those users and no longer bundling our JS and CSS. We need to test it further because we can't simply flick a switch and flick it back if it doesn't work out, we'll need to move away from Fastly to somewhere that has SPDY first.
As someone who has actually done a good amount of soft-real-time audio programming, I can tell that you probably haven't. Everything you are saying about CPU speeds is made-up nonsense. Look into how these things are done on systems where folks actually care about latency (for example, commercial audio hardware, game consoles, etc).
Travis graduated from UCLA, not stanford.
Seems to be having trouble with the all TLS handshakes from HN. Plaintext http connection works for me (but it's not http/2)
It's a good thing that all headers are now compressed and many are only sent once. So I'm not sure more headers is what could hurt.

I'm curious as to how javascript engines perform with one hundred files multiplexed VS one giant file.
Because RF spectrum is big and there is really nothing forcing iRobot to use the same band radio astronomers need (who need that particular band because physics) - they're probably either too lazy to pick a different radio chip for their product or looking for a clever way to avoid the good solutions we have since like 70s, so they could patent something here.
0.43 ~= 3/7 => 3 people were informed.
> Two major factors in the market base($$) are - the value of uses of computing, and how much of that value chip manufacturers extract.

You are defining the market as the entire market for chips, while the GP is talking about the market for next generation chips only.

Your definition is useless for a company deciding if they invest in R&D for improving their chips or not. The GP definition is the one Moore's law depends upon.
7/10 in which info was disclosed
of which:

4/7 users were not informed = 57%

3/7 users were informed = 43%

But left over:
3/10 in which info was not disclosed

I agree, the infographic was not 100% clear (no pun intended)
I don't know that it was every common to blow them up. There's a news report from the '70s, widely watched on YouTube, of a whale carcass exploded by dynamite in Oregon. It didn't go well for them.
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Here's a much better quality video of the previous attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzwuEmZcmE
Jon, I enjoyed your contributions to the tribe and your book "Inside the Machine". Any plans to release an updated edition or it wasn't worth your time? I'd back it on Kickstarter if you were to do that.
Germs also don't have cell walls. That's the point.
Site appears to be having performance issues. Never good PR for a new IO framework.
Wow, some of the user feedback in that thread is brutal.
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That thrust vectoring!
Having skipped Instagram, Snapchat and such, I'm surprised to find myself incredibly enthusiastic about Periscope and Meerkat. I really think they're onto something here.

I've watched a number of streams of people showing things they're working on, streams of events people are at, etc. It's incredible - you feel like you're there, participating even. Live streaming has existed for years, but it has never been this easy to create streams and view streams. Just hit a button and you're showing what you're seeing to your Twitter followers. Or, if you're browsing Twitter, tap a link and you're seeing what they're seeing.

I'm especially looking forward to events such as WWDC, Google I/O, CES, etc: will be fascinating to get realtime access.
from here, with 1sec delay, 3 attempts, avg values, empty cache each time.. 38.7s vs 58.3s
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What's important is that they are increasing by a smaller ratio every generation; generations are taking longer and longer; and price/transistor is increasing steadily.

In other words, Moore's Law is dead already.
Im pretty sure an oil rig with a completely flat deck would be an ideal platform, at least for sea landings. However they are extremely expensive.
I don't think any of the engineers of these chip companies meant that "progress will end" when they said "Moore's Law will soon be at the end". I think they were specifically referring to the fact that you won't be able to shrink transistors anymore after a certain size (close enough to the silicon atom level). Therefore you won't be able to put twice as many transistors on the same die size anymore (which is what Moore's Law was originally referring to).

But of course computing progress won't end. That was silly to believe in the first place. There are many alternatives already to silicon transistors, but just like with solar panels, before they become useful and practical for the mass market you need to invest many billions in them to make cheap enough solar panels happen. When the silicon transistor and the current way of building chips is dead and buried, chip companies will put their billions into something else.

It does bother me slightly that this "computing progress" will continue to be called Moore's Law though. Why not the Law of Accelerated Returns? Might be a bit longer, but it also more generic and can encompass more than one progress-related idea.
I am curious if this will affect maps built using the API. I have a few sites and apps using the API that were created a number of years ago.

Haven't been able to find any comments that mention the API, so I'm hopeful it will be a transparent switch.
Wow you guys read a lot into a few words. Lets reset. He burned out on pitching several times a day, took a break of a few weeks, moved up the food chain to more qualified investors (> $200K) so he didn't have to pitch but once or twice a day. Doing fine now.

Lots of people burn out on lots of things. Its not always a complete mental meltdown. Sometimes its just "I can't do this any more; lets find a new way"
this settles it!
When I lived in the New Mexico in the early 90's people started overhauling their grass yards with rock landscaping (with a few plants dotted in). The results tended to look great. I'm surprised this hasn't taken off in more places across the country.
On top of that, they are trying to do it with the main engines, combined with the light weight of the almost empty stage..the power can only be reduced so much. They can't hover and stabilize. They literally have to have a landing burn that makes the velocity at height 0... = 0. Which is incredibly hard enough on stable ground, even more on water. Maybe they'll figure out how to cut off engines as the stage slows down so that the acceleration change isn't so drastic and it could actually have a miniature 'abort' land. Where it would go back up slightly to re position itself in the event of weather, wind, rough waters, etc.
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OK that may be the long term goal, but what is the short term goal?

What is the goal of landing this rocket stage on earth?

Is it to use this model to land on another planet, or is it to use this model to reduce costs and reuse the first stage of the rocket?
From the sources I'm seeing, poaching is generally defined as "illegal hunting". One of the major points of the top level comment is that using the word poaching carries the connotation of illegality. I agree, and I think it primes the reader for what to expect from the article before they've read it (or in the cases where someone only sees the headline, sets their expectations unless corrected).
This is great. Found a bug:

Fatal error: Call to a member function xpath() on a non-object in /home/ericlevan/public_html/acuman.us/chatscript.php on line 325
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It really bugs me when people talk about Big Pharma pushing pills, cause really, 8-9 times out of 10, it's patients begging for pills. Are pharmaceutical companies angels? Fuck no, neither are doctors, but if nobody was buying, they wouldn't be selling.

In this trio, I blame the doctors far more than anyone. Patients have no clue, they just want to be cured. It's the responsibility of the doctors to only prescribe what is necessary.

Every time I hear my father say he got antibiotics for his cold I cringe, and wonder WTF the Dr. he saw was thinking. I think the count is up to a dozen times he's received them in the last 10 years.
Between the constant TV ads shouting "BUG YOUR DOCTOR FOR PILLS!" and the vacations, free samples, and outright cash bribes lavished on doctors, I can't see how you can characterize what's going on as anything but pill-pushing by Big Pharma.
Compare with for example this Lisp application:

http://opusmodus.com/user-interface.html

A new UI, but using tons of native elements...
I wonder how well will a reverse http/2-proxy, in front of a http/1-server will behave
Like Twitter, it's a not-especially-good idea that's one major celebrity thinking it's cool or a couple of major livestreamed incidents away from being potentially pretty big. Integration with existing social networks is going to be the key bit for regular users though, as the average person wants to passively showcase the cool thing they're doing to their friends rather than random members of the public.

It's not a hugely novel idea though; a couple of days ago we had an article on the first girl to lifestream her life, in 1996.
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>Jason 3 is a scientific Earth observation satellite designed to monitor and precisely measure the world’s oceans. Falcon 9 will attempt to land back at SLC-4W, marking the first land landing.

http://spacexstats.com/upcoming.php