skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is why I personally feel we should have harsher and stricter law concerning what is considered a non-for-profit and also all their financials should be made public in an easy to digest manner that public can keep an eye on.

I don't get how its taken this long to see what these companies were spending their donations on and what they were paying out. Why can't this information be on a government website that lists this information in a grid so someone like me, who isn't an accountant by any means, can view and understand the information.
I always went with this:

Principle of physics is that Light and Electricity are the SAME THING. Electricity is just Light guided along wires. [http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2910]

Than the following link shows that electricity moves about 1/100 the speed of light in wires:

Light travels through empty space at 186,000 miles per second. The electricity which flows through the wires in your homes and appliances travels much slower: only about 1/100 th the speed of light. Part of the reason is that light is massless; it has no weight, whereas the electricity flowing in the wires is made up of a stream of electrons, all of which have some small amount of weight. In addition, the electrons flowing through the wires constantly bump into the atoms of the wire, which slows them down considerably. If you were to take the electrons out of the wire and make them flow through space (which is essentially what you do when you make a spark), they can move faster, but no matter what, they cannot move as fast light. [Light travels through empty space at 186,000 miles per second. The electricity which flows through the wires in your homes and appliances travels much slower: only about 1/100 th the speed of light. Part of the reason is that light is massless; it has no weight, whereas the electricity flowing in the wires is made up of a stream of electrons, all of which have some small amount of weight. In addition, the electrons flowing through the wires constantly bump into the atoms of the wire, which slows them down considerably. If you were to take the electrons out of the wire and make them flow through space (which is essentially what you do when you make a spark), they can move faster, but no matter what, they cannot move as fast light. [Light travels through empty space at 186,000 miles per second. The electricity which flows through the wires in your homes and appliances travels much slower: only about 1/100 th the speed of light. Part of the reason is that light is massless; it has no weight, whereas the electricity flowing in the wires is made up of a stream of electrons, all of which have some small amount of weight. In addition, the electrons flowing through the wires constantly bump into the atoms of the wire, which slows them down considerably. If you were to take the electrons out of the wire and make them flow through space (which is essentially what you do when you make a spark), they can move faster, but no matter what, they cannot move as fast light.[http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2910]]
Right, I stand corrected. However, do keep in mind that NVIDIA had similar performance issues during the Tomb Raider launch - and instead of complaining about it NVIDIA stepped in and, as I've been saying, helped the game developer improve TessFx compatibility with their cards.
I always wanted some tripwire feature on wordpress hosts. You'd see quite fast who managed to poke to your install.
Reduce busy work. Increase luck surface area
Toronto has Enwave which does district heating with steam. The same company also does cooling by piping in cold water from the bottom of Lake Ontario.
Are you saying the employee has the right to refuse to work overtime or the employer has the right to refuse to pay for overtime?

As people have said, if the employer refuses to pay an hourly worker overtime when they've worked the overtime hours then there are labor law issues (which means that the employee must be paid overtime). But I do know employers can ask/assert that an hourly employee is not to exceed a certain amount of hours per week. If an employer refuses to pay a salaried employee overtime then that's where this article comes in and what people are discussing in the other comments.

If an employee refuses to work overtime then that mostly deals with workplace culture, pleasing your boss/your personal decision/getting your work done. There's a big difference between why or how an hourly employee can or would refuse to work overtime vs a salaried employee as explained by the way they're paid. An hourly employee mostly deals with not getting paid more money whereas a salaried employee most likely worries about a bad relationship with the boss/company.

I suppose everyone has the right to refuse overtime (not sure if there are legal foundations for this) but since the US has a work-as-much-as-possible kind of mindset it's difficult to simply refuse overtime.
"Here’s Carlos Slim, the world’s second richest man: “We should be working only 3 days a week.”"

Why does everyone omit the number of hours Carlos is suggesting? Hint: it's not 8-9 hours.

Anyway, it's all cool, as long as he doesn't want to use any of the tax-payer funded public services.
is this a satire?
You're talking about reverse engineering. This is unfair competition, plain and simple. Depending on how you view their market (general purpose devices versus gaming), Nvidia has a majority marketshare, with over 75% of the market for gamers. That qualifies it for a monopoly status and given this story, we could easily be talking about them violating the antitrust laws.

Of course, I may be exaggerating and government interventions are rarely any good for consumers. It would be better if we, as consumers or developers, would acknowledge such abuse and punish such companies with our thoughts and wallets.

So no, AMD not having access to that source-code is not OK, plus AMD shouldn't have to patch their drivers for that game, because such a practice has far reaching consequences, affecting indie game developers (Nvidia won't patch their drivers for indie games that aren't as popular as Witcher 3), or any operating system that isn't number 1 (which on the desktop means anything non-Windows).
Yes. This probably the best meditation book for secular beginners.
The analogy doesn't completely work. If the data shows your hypothesis is false, or doesn't support its truth then it doesn't matter if you're the best experimenter in your field nor if you worked most competently the world is what it is (barring poor experiment design!).

An hypothesis isn't a product, falsifying your hypothesis is success - you've increased the pool of human knowledge (or increased the support for an element of it).

In business good and bad products can both lead to profit and can both lead to losses. Profit and loss can both be considered success and failure.

On your last sentence - I don't think it's as self-evident as it seems. We tend to like the successes that profit us but in general I'm not sure we humans are that congratulatory of other's success. Schadenfreude seems very popular.
The fact that this made it to the front page is concerning.
Note that the source of TressFX is fully available in the DX samples. This cannot be said about whatever Nvidia does which cannot be disclosed to IHVs.
I fail to see the 2 form factor but here's something I found inside the documentation an application can request the last 3 digits of a user phone number + valid email to allow a successful login.

http://unloq.readme.io/v1/docs/authenticate

DIGITS_REQUIRED

Please provide the last 3 digits of your profile's phone number. (Only when application has its authentication type set to email and digits
My favorite guide to meditation is:
Being nobody Going nowhere
by ayya khema

This subject also highlights how irrational i am. I still remember how beneficial meditation was for me when I practiced it. But getting back into the practice ..... sigh
fantastic ui.

we barely use elasticsearch for searches but for statistics and data analytics, will these features also be added?
"When the assignments came, tentative at first, they paid a fraction of a full-time wage for someone of my age and training. But I was grateful. Material progress gives us the choice to trade our earning ability for more consumption, or more time. I had made mine, and found enormous joy in every day."

He takes lower paying assignments and has adjusted his lifestyle accordingly.
Yeah that's much more interesting. There's a limited need to do these things locally. Not just data centres btw, factories, too, actually mainly.

But that requires heat pipes throughout cities, basically next to your electricity, internet, water & sewage, you now want additional heat pipes running through every home. That requires huge infrastructure investments, which makes sense for new real estate, but is probably not worth it for existing homes.

Lower hanging fruit is actually other factories. The infrastructure to connect these two is much more trivial in scale, as well as in execution (laying a pipe in sandy industrial land isn't as big a deal as under paved residential areas). For non-factory buildings like swimming pools, this works great, too. So in the Netherlands for example there's one milk factory which heats and cleanses swimming pool water. (the pool was built with this in mind though, not retrofitted). And one large elderly home is heated by waste heat from a sewage cleaning facility. Another entire industrial area of factories is supplied with the heat from a waste burning facility. All of this is much easier than tackling homes, for now.
Partly it might be due to needing "-10" at the end rather than -1 (I think I may have corrected it to -11 by mistake).

However, larger is the difference in how division works.

Python2: 3 / 2 => 1

Python3: 3 / 2 => 1.5
Let me quote "Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time":

"Energy is conserved, but it can change forms. If you have energy in a low-entropy form, you can do useful work with it. You can lift something up, drive a car, or fly an airplane. If you convert that energy into a high-entropy form, it becomes useless.

A low-entropy concentration of energy is called fuel. We have fossil fuels sitting in the ground with energy in them in a concentrated form. We can extract the energy because the entropy of the fuel is low. Once we burn the fuel, we cannot go back. You can heat a room in your house by burning wood, but you cannot cool off a room in your house by unburning fuel and turning it into wood."
It is instantaneous.

But if you want any information to travel, you'll need to use a mechanism named "feed-forward", which is limited by the speed of light.
I've read those books. I have a lot of respect for the authors, and they have a lot of good advice.

But Exceptional C++ made me not want to deal with C++ exceptions, ever. If getting C++ code correct in the face of exceptions is that bloody hard, then the language is broken. I'm convinced that cobbling up an "int" equivalent type that is exception safe is a pyrrhic endeavor that will be a continual source of fragility in production code.

Alexandrescu's Modern C++ Design made me want to forget that templates ever existed. The entire second half of that book I kept saying to myself, "If I'm on a project with someone actually checking stuff like that in, one of us is going to have to leave." Fortunately I've yet to run into those kinds of template metaprogramming games in the wild. Good programmers seem to abhor them.

[Edit: Actually, I remember a bunch of stuff in Modern COM that used templates very heavily. Essentially impervious to debugging; that stuff sucked hard]

More recent C++ design decisions are better than the ones the committees made in the 90s and early 2000s. But the successful teams I've seen all practice restraint and keep things debuggable by limiting the amount of magic going on under the hood, regardless of what the committees have been pushing.

The Google C++ standards (and others that were independently created and haven't been seen much outside their own development cultures) may be "dated", but they remain an indictment of the design of C++.
Isn't that an old Charles Atlas ad?
This method isn't secure unless both the website and phone display a code (e.g. a short hash over a Diffie-Hellman, or other, shared secret and the session id) so you can determine which session you're authenticating. Otherwise, anyone who can determine that you're logging in (traffic analysis is possible even if it's encrypted) can initiate a timing attack.

I've also only glanced over the API docs, but it looks like the app just provides a secret to the server with each authentication request. So this is still essentially password authentication, you're just relying on your phone being more secure than a potentially key-logged terminal.
OK, I didn't say the source should be searchable with multiple criteria...
There's a slide deck[1] that explains it rather well.

Basically, Tachyon acts as a distributed, reliable, in memory file system.

To generalise enormously, programs have problems sharing data in RAM. Tachyon lets you share data between (say) your Spark jobs and your Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs at RAM speed, even across machines (it understands data-locality, so will attempt to keep data close to where it is being used).

[1] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~haoyuan/talks/Tachyon_2014-10-16...
3 days for 12-14 hours a day would be nice - does he think those should be M/W/F or T/W/Th ?
>> Are media our 'thinking tools' or something else, like our 'communicate to others what I'm thinking tool'?

Interesting. Media are definitely enablers of better understanding, in my experience. There are often occasions where writing it down, or drawing a picture/graph have aided my thinking drastically. It's a method for channelling and organising thoughts so that my brain suggests the right next step, rather than getting hung up on peripheral matters, dinner, etc.

Having said that I can get similar epiphanies by also explaining the problem to someone else. That might suggest the benefit is less media, more a form of communication, as you suggest.

Personally though, I think the message is that structuring thought can yield great benefits and that's what these guys are aiming for as far as I can figure out. Great stuff.
Maybe the key to this market is to view it partially as charitable gift to your favorite research project, SETI, protein folding etc. This data is not particularly sensitive and can run with little network activity.
Cool! These are the same guys behind CreateJS. Amazing work as well.
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I believe that to solve this problem, metros in paris have two strategies:

-1 a train that has a train too close before it will idle between stations to restore a reasonable space between trains (problem: all trains go as slow as the "first" train)

-2 a train that has train too close after it will ask all travelers to step out at a station to wait for the next train, then skip a couple of stations to restore a good space between trains (problem: people in the "scarified" train get a big delay)
Where is the value in this article? The author tells us he likes to relax and so doesn't work full-time, therefore no one should.

Beyond stating the obvious of having more free time, he never really states any benefits of working part time. And he doesn't mention the hardships the undoubtedly come with it like lower salary and how they might be abated.

Overall, just feels like a brag about how great he is.
From the article I understood they guy lived 6 years in Himalayas without any money?
Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware
I guess if the phone has a pin/pattern unlock... that could be argued as the "something you know" part.
BRB telling my boss I'm not working full time anymore
Yeah. That'd be the bus driver. The guy responsible for driving the bus on time.
Apartments: Supply and demand
You can get a Kinect pretty cheap. Microsoft sells them, and even provides some software libraries.
I feel that concurrency is something used by far more than 1% of programmers. That it will be built-in the language itself, rather than through libraries, is pretty important in terms of delivering simpler code.

The Python 2/3 divide isn't that big of a deal anymore. This is not 2010. Almost all of the important libraries support Python 3; thinking especially to scientific computing. More and more distros are offering Python 3 by default. Big projects, like Red Hat's package manager, have switched to Python 3 (in Yum's case, by its replacement DNF).

It's only a matter of time before Python 2 isn't something that will be encountered in mainstream projects, only legacy systems. Which is nothing new (there's still lots of Fortran projects out there.) For them, the old version still exists. It will always exist. Should they want to make the jump to Python 3, the resources required are much less as compared to making the jump to another language.

Python 3 fixes fundamental flaws collected over the first twenty years of its inception. For those that cannot use a newer version of the language at this time, the old version is available.
As opposed to 10*100GiB that can be uploaded over a 56.6K modem, right? ;)
Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior
CodeBuddies – Peer-to-peer organized Google Hangouts for studying together
Why we don't use WordPress anymore
Disclaimer: I'm only speaking of my own perspective and goals.

Meditation has been about a lot more than just feeling relaxed. It's been about gaining insight into how my mind works and gaining some measure of control over my thoughts. That awareness and control (mindfulness) extends to the rest of my non-meditating life - whether I'm on a tennis court or at my computer.

Because of meditation, I feel more in the present and less caught up in thoughts that would typically trap me thinking about the past or daydreaming about the future.

Despite the benefits I've seen from it, I know I have only scratched the surface. For example, I haven't experienced a strong "loss of self" that some meditation gurus describe.
I switched to using Safari because of this feature. It even syncs the visited status between devices.
Our need for information kills innovation
Seriously. I have very similar feelings as him- that as a father I want to be home with my wife and kids as much as possible. Right now my work week is pretty close to 40 hours, and I consider that a big success compared to most people I know. But my career goal is working towards more flexible working hours, and hopefully less total hours with higher profitability. But it's a dream, and I'm not sure how realistic a dream it is.

"No one is stopping you from living in the mountains!" sounds like it's trying to be empowering, but how do you afford it? Then how do you come back into the job market ~5 years later and look attractive to potential employers?
Untrue about the speed of R. R and Python are always around the same speed, but there are always other options specially with R, where there is always more than one way to do anything.

We have data.tables and dplyr which data.tables is maybe on average 50% faster and on some points multiple faster than Python [http://datascience.la/dplyr-and-a-very-basic-benchmark/]
>Can you seriously compare PuTTY with even the most lacklustre terminal available on OS X or Linux?

Yes, I can compare. PuTTY is superior than the default xubuntu terminal, whatever it is.

1. I can configure it to connect to specific server automatically, including setting up all required SSH tunnels. On Linux I have to write shell scripts.

2. It allows to automatically set up a SOCKS proxy that sends my traffic through the remote server.

3. Selecting text copies it straight to clipboard. Copying to middle-click buffer is much less convenient, because I often want to replace other selected text with what I selected in terminal.
Do keep in mind that NVIDIA received the code for the game so they could optimize their driver for it [1].

There is no chance of the same happening with AMD and TW3, since at least at the beginning of 2014:

According to Nvidia, developers can, under certain licensing circumstances,
gain access to (and optimize) the GameWorks code, but cannot share
that code with AMD for optimization purposes.

See [2] for the source of that statement.

The situation is really that different.

[1] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-07-nvidia-apologis...

[2] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173511-nvidias-gameworks-...
And an unspoken brag about how much money he must have besides his job.

Maybe we should mail him and ask for a job.
Yes, someone pointed that out on reddit. I'm going to make that and a few other changes to it this weekend.
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It's like exercise. The benefits are pretty obvious and enjoyable when you're doing it, but putting forth the effort isn't always easy.

I actually try to combine the two practices. I have an exercise bike and I meditate while I'm riding it.
I completely agree, but the "serious" developers who create the frameworks don't seem to see it this way. I had exactly this discussion with the Symfony community when Symfony2 was released, but got no traction or support for a RAD-framework on top of the Symfony 'framework'.

If you ever see one, in any language, please let me know!
Not to mention their disgraceful Tor captchas.
Show HN: StrudelPy – Easy email library for Python
Looks closer to siege[1] than ab.

https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/
Zebra simple java objects mapping framework
How did he become the 2nd richest man? By figuring out how to take a larger share of productivity than the people working for him. And many of them are working 3 days a week, often different and unpredictable days, and they'd probably like to work more, because of that productivity asymmetry.
How is it any worse than cash?
That's the very reason for heating water instead of space, hot water is wanted year-round.

It's used for washing both people and things; Swimming pools are normally heated, even just a little, above the cold water mains temperature. Hammams need hot water, even in the height of summer.

Hot water can be stored, out of the way, in an insulated tank, for when it is required.

Instead of providing fully-hot water to a few very nearby households, it can be used as a warm-water input to domestic boilers for a larger number of households over a larger area.

Even in a self-contained domestic system, it would be better to pre-heat water going into the boiler, than to just be a radiator that heats the outside in summer.
>If you have a single table containing many terabytes of data, Hadoop might be a good option for running full table scans on it.

The author mentions this at the end almost as a footnote but in my experience, this is usually the motivating reason for IT to use Hadoop. It's about processing throughput and not just absolute data size. A lot of processing jobs can't use indexes (except for lookup tables) so a PostgreSQL 4TB db with a schema for OLTP workloads doesn't solve the issue.

A 4tb harddrive might be cheap for $150 but at 100MB/sec, it takes 11+ hours to read. However, a big data cluster with 10 nodes can each scan their local 400GB shard and the batch job gets done in 1 hour. Even newer 10TB mechanical harddrives with 150MB/sec (and multi disks RAID to saturate a SATA3 interface) isn't going to fundamentally alter this throughput equation. On the other hand, a potential 4TB SSD with 1GB/sec might be the sweet spot if the processing is not cpu-constrained. But then again, new technology enables the goal posts to move[1], and people will invent new workloads that require a 100-node cluster each having a 10TB SSD to solve bigger problems.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
I think Regulex actually has a nicer visualizer, but it lacks all the other features of debuggex and regexr.

https://jex.im/regulex/