skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So make something small and simple, but original, and market it a bit. I have a few small tools that get a few thousand visitors a month, which brings in enough revenue to buy me a few dinners.

I think the startup crowd tries to make every weekend project into something big. But it doesn't have to be - small, but original work, when targeted to niche audiences, is easy to monetize ethically by giving very targeted ads in which they have a legitimate interest.

I won't get rich with my work of this nature - but my tools pay for their own infrastructure, with small/tiny (3 digit!) profits, so they are in the black. It is more than many startups can claim.
But who would use it? As far as I know, the banks are pretty happy with this system. And while it's possible to be "that guy" with paper stocks, it's a pain in the butt since you can basically only trade them with people you find on Craigslist. A single centrally managed monopoly seems to be exactly what everybody wants.
There is an edited and expanded edition with an introduction Richard Rhodes available in hard copy
http://www.amazon.com/Los-Alamos-Primer-Lectures-Atomic/dp/0...

For the fusion bomb side, recently a book has been written
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9269
There was some recent controversy regarding what material should be published, the author published it anyway
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/science/hydrogen-bomb-phys...
The physical holding of a stock certificate is a dangerous thing. If you are an investor in a company that gets sold or goes public (and you have to surrender your shares) and misplace them, it is an expensive mess, even in Delaware.
I am curious why you say "The FFT is one cycle of a DFT", since the FFT is quite literally a DFT, only an algorithm in a better complexity class.
Ask HN: Who do you follow on Twitter?
Who (individuals, not organizations) do you follow on Twitter? Why would you recommend them?
Increases dramatically to what? I don't think there have ever been any cases of people being made ill due to drinking water from the taps in a public bathroom anywhere.

Interestingly, the water from the kitchen cold tap in a house is cleaner and safer than bottled water - according to a harm reduction leaflet for IV drug use in the UK, may be different in other countries, admittedly.
There's a solution to this. Know that the best stuff will stay written longer than you will remain a reader, and expect that the stuff you read will mention it eventually.
Some people put down Marcus as just the lucky guy and POF as an ugly undeserving website. The reality is that running even a semi-successful dating website for 12 years straight is a huge huge achievement. Dating websites have almost 30% customer churn each year which means you constantly have to figure out how to get new customers. This problem becomes much harder because entry in the market is easy enough that any one can one-up you anytime. There is not much stickyness or virality like FB. All these makes dating business very difficult to run successfully with large margins.

The thing is that Marcus has conveniently downplayed the required effort in playing this game. He has projected image that he just worked few hours a week to check servers and then going back to other things in his life. I would bet reality wasn't exactly like that. To ensure new customer acquisition, you must make sure your website constantly pops up high on Google for most popular dating queries. This means lot of SEO+marketing work. My guess is that Marcus purposely made his story very attractive for newspapers to report without paying for any PR which gave him links and boosted his ranking. His competitors are known to spend massive fortune and efforts on marketing just to stay relevant.

Now that deal is done, it would be good time for Marcus to actually disclose the true story :).
I don't know about reproducing statuses, but between the KASA pack and the Real Solar System mod, I'm sure one could have a blast recreating quite a few real missions (though I think KASA focuses more on manned missions than unmanned).
That was what happened to a friend of mine. And I reproduced it reliably, with data loss.
Don't forget that Google is also an anti-shareholder company. They have several times introduced their own tricks to remove power from shareholders and give it to upper management. Paying shareholders a dividend seems to be last thing they would want to do.
A Very Old Version of the PlentyOfFish Architecture
Plugins allow you to more easily experiment with different distribution methods, languages, etc. Flash, Unity, the JVM, etc, all have areas that they're much better at, such as tooling support, language support, etc. Sticking everything in a monoculture is a terrible idea.
A stark contrast from the days when Lee Smolin (author of The Trouble With Physics[1]) lamented that your career in physics is essentially dead unless you went into string theory, and pursuing quantum gravity could lead to conflict with pro-string peers. And I don't think he was imagining it. Here's one reviewer:

"In the context of string theory, he literally floods the pages of his book with undefendable speculations about some basic results of string theory. Because these statements are of mathematical nature, we are sure that Lee is wrong even in the absence of any experiments." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Physics

[2] http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/10/lee-smolin-trouble-with-ph...
“We Are Visual Animals, Driven by Images”Science of Creative Visualization(2014)
They weren't introduced to solve a problem.

Monads were definitely introduced to Haskell as a way to solve the problem of I/O -- see Section 7 of http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dbg/readings/haskell-history.pd... for more details.

It's true that monads existed as a concept in category theory before they were used in programming languages, but they didn't really catch on until their use in Haskell. Certainly you don't see articles about applying other esoteric category theory concepts to Swift programs.
Sadly, I think there are some confounding factors to the lack of success in this story. If this is the same manner in which the author communicates a scientific theory to the community, it's not exactly surprising it hasn't been received well.

Perhaps it should be that science is entirely disconnected from how it's presented and who by; but in reality, it is still a human pursuit, and in order to be successful at it, you need to appeal to other humans, and you need to do it well. This is true of basically all pursuits involving social groups.

This is, of course, highly critical after reading only a single data point, but it's probably a contributing factor to the frustration here.
Cisco is a leading networking, IT and software provider with annual revenues of $50 billion. We build innovative products that change how people work, live, play and learn.

We are building a complex Distributed Real-Time system that would run on 25K+ servers spanning the globe; running over a million concurrent applications and will form the bedrock of Cisco’s manufacturing process.
It would control Intellectual Property and security of our products and gather telemetry data throughout the life cycle of a product for real-time analytics to facilitate optimization/process-control.

The software stack is built on Linux, using Python, Java, C++ and Cassandra. UI. and Analytics dashboards are developed using a mix of Backbone.js, React.js, JQuery and HTML5.

We are a very small, agile team within Cisco’s Supply Chain Division and we are looking for new university grads to join the team at our San Jose HQ.
You will have an opportunity to work on the cutting edge of the technology stack in a fast-paced environment.

We do offer excellent compensation, benefits and relocation assistance.

The ideal candidate will have:

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•	Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

This would be an excellent opportunity to work with an amazing and a fun team. The team is spread across North America and Asia, has a highly innovative posture and a casual-friendly working culture.

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You don't. Kong (gateway) + AWS/DigitalOcean (the servers).
I really hope to see in my lifetime a move back to user owned data and a distributed internet again. This whole centralization and proprietary nature of things is really not to my taste. If anyone is going to lose my stuff, I want it to be me or at the very least allow me to back up all my own data to my own backup.

Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I just don't like this whole move to cloud computing and centralized data store.
Same here, somehow I was picturing a realization (that strings are wrong) so large that even the HuffPost would write about it.
Certainly a two stage fitness process would work, or as mentioned using additional controls on the simulation to avoid idiosyncrasies. It isn't that hard to build a small genetic 'evolver' (my favorites are some of the 'walking' ones which race blob things). But you can evolve all sorts of complex things if you are willing to wait long enough and don't care if you understand the result or not. I built one to evolve a response packet to ssh clients to kill them (I got tired of botnets trying to brute force passwords on a server I ran for a while), all you need is a fitness function, a mutate function, and time :-).
Those intuitions do not generalize correctly.

It's better for people new to the concepts to realize that they don't understand than to incorrectly believe they understand (based on mediocre collection-oriented analogies).
> everything south of Mexico is generally considered "Central America" by everyone else

Define "everyone else", because I certainly don't. "Central" America is part of North America; the dividing line is between Panama and Colombia.

Claiming that Central America isn't really North America is like claiming that the Middle East isn't really Asia. It's a geographically-ignorant statement.
I feel like there's something there - updating the training process, making it "cool". Flying yourself is viable if you can afford it, and not as expensive and some might think when the costs are shared. Plus, a modern plane, such as a Cirrus, feels kind of like a jet with the screens, autopilot, etc. New pilots love it. I've observed that if you can get a group of professional instructors together who know what they're doing, with nice planes to train in, flying becomes a lot more attractive to "normal" people. How traditional flight schools in the Bay Area are received is something I've been wondering about. Flying is a good fit for the engineer/programmer personality, but there's this gap where the industry can't seem to relate to the real world.

Edit: By the way, here's a cool startup that seems to be helping to close that gap: https://openairplane.com/. Just got a round of funding I believe.
A Beautiful Algorithm? The Risks of Automating Online Transactions
Ah, thanks. I was assuming that material "49" was plutonium. One interesting thing in the notes that I didn't know was the extent to which the role of the "tamper" material was already well-understood. Would it be correct to say that the sphere of inward-facing explosive charges that produced the zone of high pressure in which the reaction occurred was a sort of "active" tamper? Was that the big breakthrough necessary to get the reaction to the critical stage?
The motls blog claims that Smolin made provable mathematical errors in his book. Do you disagree?
Old inside joke at Google, you know your project is "important" with two or three other groups are working on exactly the same thing. When I was there, it was debated whether or not this selected for the right attributes (it tends to reward groups that execute fast versus ones that execute well). It did not help that some times when they didn't do that (just let one group build it) they didn't always get the result they wanted either.
Yinyang K-Means: A Replacement for Classic K-Means with Consistent Speedup
Sencha ExtJs 6 pricing is a killer for single developers or startups
What kind of information would you want to display ?
> Do you ever see US immigration politics talking about anything else than Mexico?

As a Californian: all the damn time. Mexico is the target of immigration debates because it's the U.S.'s immediate neighbor; most immigrants (legal or otherwise) from South and Central America either go through Mexico or take a boat.

North America differs from Europe only in the linear arrangement of nodes in a migration graph. In terms of origins, I reckon you're significantly downplaying the similarities.
Have you found a programming job elsewhere?
This article on theoretical physics misspells "Nobel Prize" three times.
> I get the feeling that proposing something bold and wrong in physics results in a 'crackpot' label,
> So if you want a career, stay away from making bold predictions.

Or you could avoid making bold predictions, and instead do science: Run experiments, report results.
One song at a time, one day at a time
Anecdotally, I've seen it quite a bit in mainstream news. It was ~ the first or second teased story on NBC nightly news, and they spent some time on it yesterday, as well.
I recently spent some time learning how backpropagation works and wound up putting together this step by step tutorial that you might find helpful: http://mattmazur.com/2015/03/17/a-step-by-step-backpropagati...
Punk CSS – A new approach to web design
There was no ancient Greece nation. I suspect you mean it as a placeholder for the Hellenic era, or perhaps the kingdom Macedonia.

But as to the issue, I recently listened to a lecture about the process of deciding what the European nations would be after the First World War. The different nations had wildly different ideas of how to decide what was their national territory and people. The people of Alsace speak German, but the French said (and I paraphrase) "look at their love of wine and joie de vivre - they are French, but were forced to speak German".

Or of a farmer in central Europe, when asked "what are you?" answered "farmer", and then "where are you from?" brought the name of the local town. When asked more insistently, he said "Catholic". The concept of nation made no sense to him.

The concept of nationhood is quite complicated. Is Scotland a nation? India during the British Empire? It's more complicated than I want to get into. But in the context of the tgcordell comment, which tries to connect species imperatives with national competition, I mean to point out that the concept of 'nation' is too new to really have an evolutionary component. (And if it does, it's built on cooperation.)

I don't deny that proxy conflict can be healthy, though proxy conflict in Korea wasn't all that healthy for those involved. Is it possible to determine the healthy conflict beforehand, or is it something that's mostly done after the fact?
Interesting quantification of Option. Mapping Boolean logic to binary arithmetic somehow ?

It's also impressive how much complexity arise from that notion of multiplicity.
Just because some genres were revived doesn't mean you can predict which genres to dump money into. Also, what some consider revived others consider still dead.
If you don't understand the difference, read this sentence again.
I initially didn't expect Who Wants To Be Hired to be useful. It seemed like a big spammy list, but I put up a quick summary of myself and got contacted by more than a handful of good companies (many of which I'd heard of before, so not obscure companies either). I decided to only pursue an interview with one of them (I received an offer, but ultimately decided on another company I'd been introduced to by a friend).
NASA Manned Mission Transcript Archives
The Intel and Altera combination is especially exciting. The first time I got to see the real potential of FPGA's in practice was when SGI added them to NUMA machines. The onboard memory and interconnect meant no huge slowdown for going through PCI bottleneck. A FPGA fabric as a layer of a high-end, Intel chip with software & FPGA cooperation using on-chip interconnect would kill everything else in performance.

The only thing better might be one of the POWER chips with a FPGA. Maybe IBM should buy Xilinx or Achronix... mwahahaha. I'll probably be able to afford Intel's, though, unlike IBM's. ;)
LHC discovered pentaquark
We aren't. Most programming languages do not expose CPU registers to the programmer (because they are not semantically important), and most programmers do not think in terms of moving bits in and out of registers (and typically don't have much to gain from doing so). CPU registers are just an accident of implementation. Programming as a general activity is not inherently tied to a register-based CPU. In fact, programmers are often happy to have compilers/machines remove some put-bits-into-register activities.
No, but to be fair I have not been looking. I am continuing my education: going for my MS in mathematics likely followed by a PhD beginning this fall.
Hmm, not sure how this reaches 1 on HN. It's a pretty clickbait article with lackluster content.

tl;dr Rosemary might improve your ability to remember reminders. They say the results were 'measurable but modest' and was enough to continue researching.
I noticed about 8 other typos as well.

I guess Huffington Post doesn't have copy editors?
Article from 2014 - "Oct 17, 2014 5:00am PDT"
Then put a sarcasm tag on it or write it such a way that it is obvious it is a joke. The fact you received a few downvotes for it implies that there were others who took it more as a snark than a joke. Keep in mind, this is HN, people come here for serious discussions (although subjectable), so it is hard to get away with a joke, especially a one that adds little or none to the discussion.
This is so old! (from the author :)
Your observation is spot-on and I agree that it's important not to misread this data set, but I think it still has some valuable uses. While I would rather see more detail, I am interested to see how different industries impact overall employment in the economy even if I can't bucket all the individual jobs under one heading.

With that said, given that a lot of companies contract out for non-core work (e.g. janitorial, kitchen/food-preparation in cafeterias, etc), I wonder how that is handled in this dataset? In particular, what location would be associated with a given contract worker. Would it be their employer's address or the address where they provide services?
I know they incorporated under a different name (Amazin' Software), but they changed it in 1983 -- only a year later. I'm not sure they ever released anything before the name change. They came out of the gate in 1983 with Archon, M.U.L.E., Pinball Construction Set and One on One, all of which were not only games but arguably historically significant.

I agree that Hawkins wasn't a great businessman, but I think you're a bit off on both how quickly EA became EA and how invested they were in entertainment software from the start.
e2d: Canvas Rendering Inspired by React
... Isn't grammatically correct. Pedantic, I know.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylized_fact
Clover on iOS.
Definitely agree with this. It can be hard to get started and/or stay with doing the learning when you're doing it on your own. Some people just do better when learning in the context of a group/class or with a pair/mentor. It's really easy to spend time and find yourself just reading/browsing the coding sites instead of doing the work, i.e., writing code, so either try and set small, achievable goals, or find someone you can learn with.
This is amazing stuff. Just want more!
I think mobile is a big problem for them. The average iPhone user (and even Android users) doesn't visit web sites anymore, since almost all relevant sites have apps with better user interface. In that situation, the app stores are now the starting point of navigation, not web search. And Apple is covering increasingly more space with siri and spotlight. In a few years web search may just become a legacy technology.
I love to see good articles on color. Thanks for the submission.
How Much Damage Can the OPM Hackers Do with a Million Fingerprints?
To be more specific:

> Albert Einstein first broached the possibility of stimulated emission in a 1917 paper

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200508/history.cfm
Cargill is still owned by the family.
Same here, when we were looking for a new office last year, I knew about 42 floors but the limited information I knew about the ceo and the company was enough for us to steer clear of them.
Im still not sure what great service they actually offer, its basically Craigslist for offices, not any different than Craigslist itself.

We've had great luck finding both our offices on CL and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for office space then have to stroke this guys ego anymore.
> No, it's not fair to say that. Israel was created as the result of jews struggling for around 70 years to found a homeland.

Why did the Palestenians have to pay the price and get kicked out of their homes then? If anything, Germany should have offered them a home given what the Nazi regime did to them.
Perhaps one might wish there were more, but I have seen numerous stories in the mainstream press. In fact, I missed my subway stop this morning reading a very good article about NH in the New York Times.
Funny the things you stumble across when reading through user comments. Love what you're doing.

In your 'travels', have you come across the need to integrate your services with the TechnologyOne line of products?

Information insight is a problem the company I work for struggles with immensely.
The worst offenders were probably workflow / pipelining systems; just about everyone needed to write sequences of mapreduces, and thought that the existing solutions weren't a perfect fit. IIRC there were at one point over a dozen different workflow systems in use and advertised to at least some degree to other groups, which made picking one even harder due to the paradox of choice. The solution was of course to write a new one.
react for colaborative editing
Recently he was annoyed that they were taking longer than he'd like to process the paperwork for his newly purchased car. Other than that I don't recall any specifics.
My server logs tell me that a whole bunch of people who are in a position to fix this problem just read my essay.

The draft I presently have is quite half-baked. It's hard for me to write not because the topic is so painful but because I have persistent insomnia; the insomnia causes bad headaches.

But I am very determined.
Interesting. Where did you hear about this site?
Cassette Revolution: Why '80s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Digital World
A bit more documentation would be nice...
Impossible to eliminate the effect of the tester being aware of the environment they were testing in. This was only single-blind, not double-blind.
Well that was pleasantly easy to find - a copy of the original is at http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/6.pdf .

I personally don't think there's creativity in this expression.

If there is, then the flip side is that I change the format even slightly then it's also creative, and the underlying facts are not covered under copyright.
Don't you do experiments to test hypotheses? An infinite number of experiments are possible, so you have to pick one. A novel prediction made by a theory is a good place to start.
This is the most incredible picture I have ever seen. In May, the best picture of Pluto was a couple blown up pixels. Now, it looks like a render from a Pixar movie.

https://twitter.com/tothur/status/620601134651166720/photo/1