skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they are much simpler than everyone believes they are and the tutorials are the result of people overcomplicating them.
Jesus Christ, I know you're "joking", but can y'all just drop the pretense and start a religion dedicated to worshiping Musk already?
I've only been exposed to this in oil & gas, but there is a problem that non-destructive testing of drill stems does not test for all failure modes

Edit: i.e. NDT'd pieces are not immune from failure (but other factors such as age and in-service time/rotations/re-thread/re-collar runs etc. can provide additional context to NDT results and should correlate more or less with actual failure patterns).

In a single-use part, non-destructive testing mightn't be a complete picture of how the part will perform.
I for one think companies need to be taught a lesson for giving paycheck advances and calling it a bonus. You have been given an interest free, unsecured loan with no minimum payment and unspecified term. So, just pay it back at your leisure. One dollar per year.
Most patches inherently reveal the vulnerability they fix. Patches not being controlled would be a loophole big enough to fit a whole planet through.

And private patches are a thing. Vendors often distribute an early version of the patch to major customers for validation testing.

Or if you like, substitute "patch" for vulnerability information that enables a workaround. You can defeat Heartbleed by turning off TLS heartbeat support but that information is enough to quickly reverse engineer the vulnerability.
It's only a problem if you're wrong. If you're right, you become the manager.
That would be very draggy. Given enough power it could work, but I suspect any mass savings would be eaten up by the drag. And since you're tied to substantial ground infrastructure anyhow, the work to source and compress the hydrogen prior to launch pretty much comes free.
People opposed to abortion have a particularly virulent fervor in their opposition, but we're currently seeing Planned Parenthood see off a smear campaign. People want legal abortion even if they can't admit it. If Planned Parenthood got hacked... then what?
Thank you for your reply.

No, I am not harmed when two people (Pa and Pb) are married, and Pa cheats on Pb. The reason I'd oppose AM is because it normalizes and helps the harmful behaviour of Pa towards Pb. I am quite sure that there is some marginal contribution of AM to the number of cheatings and broken marriages. I think we can objectively say that AM contributes to needless suffering. Do you agree?
Now i've got N+1 'simple' explanations which I can use to confuse me [wink]. "bind" and "return" you say? so they're quite like a socket library?
Though I find this game to be lots of fun, I do think that most people are probably better off with a cashback card. Actually, most people probably shouldn't have a credit card to begin with (it pains me to say that given the differences in fraud protection but CC debt is something most are better off avoiding).
They tend to react poorly to being ignored, though. And as a rule, they're not the ones that fare badly in such a conflict.
I'm glad I have Pinboard to save this article to [1]. And hopefully it will still be at the same url in 8 years [2].

[1] The author of the article runs Pinboard.in

[2] From the article, "What I've learned is, about 5% of this disappears every year, at a pretty steady rate. A customer of mine just posted how 90% of what he saved in 1997 is gone."
I think the issue here is more one of externalities. We all know that fuel prices are not at the true cost which prices in all the pollution, geopolitical turmoil, military interventions, global warming, government subsidies etc, and that fuel is one of the largest costs airlines have. So when this guy and his followers hop on planes and fly millions of miles, often for no reason other than to game some tiny loophole in airlines' marketing for their own amusement, it's no different than if they had taken a bunch of oil tankers and lit them on fire and danced by the flickering light - in the end, they've killed some time, and a lot of valuable resources have been consumed to do so. Couldn't they have found productive jobs and just played Xbox on their time off or something? Did this really have to be their hobby/profession?
The /r/spacex automoderator was set to report KSP references... https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3dyvta/rspacex_crs7...
Trade your free time and (temporary) credit score rating for miles- flights, hotel stays.
If the assumption that the ratio of births is 50/50, then no. However, a rule requiring parents to have children until they have a boy could lead to evolutionary pressure increasing the ratio of girls born. That is, if the Smiths have 4 girls and one boy their genes will be 4 times more common than those of the Jones with their one boy.
Lisp fan?
The Matter with Chrome Web Store
When the Google Chrome Web Store came out I was hopeful. Finally, a real reason to code JavaScript all day and to be able to determine my financial future writing desktop apps that also work in the browser.

Fast forward to today and I'm not sure if it has momentum. This article does a great job of highlighting the reasons I've observed the past few years:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3044119/app-economy/its-time-for-google-to-clean-up-chromes-web-store
I've used it often to solve IBM's Ponder This puzzles. A dirty way to solve a puzzle is often to get a few values manually. These often are fractions, so there is a bit of an art in adjusting numerator and denominator so that the numerator sequence and denominator sequence both look somewhat regular. Then you look up those sequences in OEIS.
As opposed to the small local/regional newspapers who were represented? This was a media call, not a customer one.
Tips for a better Vagrant-based development workflow
It's not a GUI [1]. While in the abstract a machine could just click a mouse a few times, a human has a read, interpret, click, wait cycle attached to each click. GUI's require users to work in whatever some designer thought was a good language.

There's friction against changing such languages because GUI elements have spatial dependencies that are unrelated to the user's needs (e.g. the size of the screen, the length of labels, etc.). Adding an option can require adjusting unrelated items. It's no accident Google has focused their user interface on developing better "intellisense" - they can improve the code and let the interface remain familiar.

[1] A counter example supporting the evitability of GUI's.
I don't believe this was intentional. Wassenaar is an arms control agreement - the intention was probably to regulate the sales of weaponised exploits, not basic research. It's an overreach.
My problem with Feedly is UI/UX. Web is.. fine, but the app have really weird interactions and is clunky.

I use Digg Reader. Web is awesome, love the simplicity, the app need some love but is way more better than Feddly. The thing I don't like about Digg Reader is the Digg part, I only want my lovely curated RSS feeds.

Also try NewsBlur, Feedreader, The Old Reader and Newsvibe but Digg Reader was the best for my needs.
If anyone is looking for another person for their team or wants to join a team, consider me! If you're interested in discussing further after reading this, send me a message and we'll talk.

I am currently self-employed as a startup consultant and freelance web developer. I have extensive Computer Science, Sales, Account Management, and Customer Success experience and have successfully started 2 small businesses in the past with revenues of a half-a-million dollars combined. The last company I worked at had 14 people and negligible market saturation when I joined. I was instrumental in growing it to the #1 most used software system in its industry, with over 200 employees and a valuation increase of 20x (2000%) over 3 years.

I am comfortable working in both a programming/product role or on the business end of things—whatever will best serve the team. I have two ideas for which I have already done market validation, but I'm perfectly happy to go with your idea instead if you can sell me on it.

If you think I'd be valuable to your team, or if you think you'd be a valuable partner or member of my team, send me a message. Let's talk. Cheers
The faster-than-exponential growth phenomenon (I prefer to avoid the term "singularity", which makes no physical or mathematical sense) goes back billions of years. It took 2.5 billion years for life to get to sexual reproduction, another 700 million to the Cambrian explosion, and so on with each phase getting shorter and the growth rate getting much faster. In human history, we've seen typical economic growth go from less than 0.001% per year (paleolithic) to 0.1% per year (urbanization, agrarian life) to 1% (early to mid-industrial) to ~6% per year in the 1960s. (We've slowed down to about 4-5%, globally, and the developed world is stagnant. That's another topic.) I don't know what will happen in the next 10 years regarding Moore's Law, but I don't see any reason to doubt that the faster-than-exponential growth can carry on for a while. It would surprise me not to see 10% world economic growth by the end of my life.

The OP does a great job of explaining why Silicon Valley won't be involved in much of a meaningful way. I think that the biggest problem is that the balance of power between connections guys and talent has fallen into a state of irreversible moral calamity. In their time, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were approximate equals. The business partner wasn't innately taken to be superior to the engineering partner. That changed somewhere between 1995 and 2005. Now, the connections guys are the only people who really matter and engineers (even up to the CTO level) are largely viewed as interchangeable. And they probably are interchangeable given that these businesses are all built to be dumped on a buyer inside of 3 years, and the consequences of mediocre engineering generally don't have business-macroscopic effects (beyond "throw more money at it" problems) until 5 or 6 years have passed.

I don't know where, when, or how the positive-sum mentality of the old Silicon Valley will reconstitute itself. I do think that it will be at least 500 miles away from the current one, because the current tech hub has "Future Detroit, But With Less Architectural Character" written all over it.
Any sites in particular?
Please share your write up if you get a chance.

I was being a bit playful with 2001: A Space Odyssey
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This whole thread looks like tempest in a teapot. They provide emergency physicians on call for nursing homes (and maybe other facilities) that already have nurses and other healthcare providers in them. So any analogy to 911 is beside the point.

Their 911 claims (and the people who attack them on HN) - all this could easily be just viral marketing. :)
> What's the big deal?

Oh exactly. Who cares what someone else thinks? You are only causing a brief delay for the people behind you.
No quotes necessary, that was a joke.
Greetings! In the spirit of assuming the power cord and/or laptop battery is plugged in, you are running 64-bit Windows v8.1, correct?

And in the spirit of being helpful, you can run the following command to verify the above and see if Windows Update already auto-installed this KB (if so, it will be listed):

systeminfo | findstr /ic:"os name" /c:"system type" /c:"3079904"
Being number one out of two means you're the majority. Being number one out of over a hundred does not. You claimed that because the US is number one (with 15.6% of world GDP), the other >100 countries (with 84.4% of world GDP) have "zero weight".

"The rest of the world is irrelevant" doesn't go over well and gets downvoted because it's obviously false.
_Urn Burial_ really is an amazing work of prose. It's a bit sad to read Browne's biography and realize the truth of Nietzsche's dictum: "Behind a remarkable scholar one often finds a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist, often, a remarkable man."
Seems totally plausible to me. And it goes well with this paragraph from a recent Jon Ronson interview[1]:

"I once interviewed a prison psychiatrist, James Gilligan, who told me that every murderer he treated was harbouring a central secret – which was that they felt humiliated. 'I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed,' he said. His conclusion: 'All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.'"

It's things like this that make it really obvious that we're primates, hardwired for status. Not that we can't overcome it, of course. But it takes work.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/18/katie-hopkins-j...
Are SpaceX famous for COTS though? My impression was that they manufacture a ridiculous amount of stuff in-house for ... well pretty much this exact reason.

I'd argue that the likely result here is Elon Musk will continue his campaign of "hell with it, we'll build our own".
Is it truly a religion if it's a belief based on results? I'll see Elon walk on Mars before I see "Christ" return.

Although, I'm fine with churches keeping their tax deductions if I can get deductions for donating to SpaceX or Tesla.
This is great. Doing YC remotely sounds like a good plan for founders with children and a job that won't allow them to take time off.
I don't find it morally questionable at all. The airlines setup a program and you find the best way to use it.

I do find the "mileage runs" a bit odd. You spend a day or two just flying and hanging out at airports? I guess it's all cost/benefit, but that would be a little to much for me.

That said, whatever floats you boat. Looks like a lot of people are really maximizing the points programs. Good for them!
Facebook poised to buy Israeli Pebbles
Heh, yeah basically you can create an asg, but ecs has no trigger to scale it based on the number of task containers you attempt to launch on the cluster....

There is a workaround, apparently, which is to create a custom metric but aws says this has not been tested to their knowledge... So any asg will be "static" implicitly...
Never really expected to see LaTech mentioned on HN … I graduated from there back in 95.
As a partner at YC for over 10 batches now, I've worked with lots of great founders who have come from all over the country, and many make having families work. The cofounders of MongoHQ both moved to Mountain View with their families (with kids) during YC, and it was a crowded house but a productive one too. It can be done.

There's also nothing that says you absolutely have to stay in the Bay Area afterwards. Many founders head back to where they come from if that's the right thing for the business.
Nice. I didn't know about this quote.
That's the tradeoff that you make here is that it's not just about the money is it? I don't think YC has ever been about the money for a startup- even at $100K or whatever it is. It's about "access"...into the SV network, which gives you instant credibility to parlay that name into other funding, recruiting, partnerships, etc. So if you are a savvy entrepreneur you can leverage the fellowship in almost the same way as the YC batch.

Maybe this is also a way for YC to sort of draw a line in the sand between wantrepreneurs and the real deal. If you have an idea that keeps you up at night and you have decided to go all in, then this will give you a chance to prove it. no?
How much is actually being burned though? How much fuel does it take to transport 200lbs on a transpacific flight?
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Museum seeks to save Neil Armstrong's spacesuit with $500,000 Kickstarter
Trove got tons of new items and use style saver
I'm thinking out loud. A problem I am interested in has a much stronger assumption of a GUI than something like airline search. It is hard and to think about the solution space without that assumption and productive because it moves the underlying class of problems to a higher level of abstraction that offers the possibility of substantial innovation. GUI's are the conventional wisdom. But maybe it is worth asking if forty year old assumptions about computer users are worth revisiting.
What is stopping you from riding the bus?
People who harass people online are losers, sure, but doing your study on XBox Live is a bit like going to the Dead Sea to test oceanic salinity levels.
One more thing: asset ownership is heavily concentrated in the hands of the 1%.So out of 100 students, 1 can pay many times over, the next 9 too, with more pain. At least 50 students are penniless and with the job market paying what it is paying, they may never pay back their student loans - what could possibly go wrong?
Good question!

If you're talking to average people, yes, your way of wording it would be more efficient.

However in certain domains accuracy is key, so one tries to communicate with as much detail as possible. In order to achieve this without being hyper-verbose, one uses an established set of vocabulary, whose subtle and detailed meaning is well-understood and common in that industry. That may make it sound strange to outsiders, but minimizes the risk for misunderstandings and lack of clarity amongst peers.
Around 2012 I worked with a team migrating some content from a very large static HTML site dating back to 1992. We scoffed at the awful ad-hoc nature of it all, just a pile of static hand-coded HTML pages.

But the 2002-2005 stuff had aged much worse. At some point there was fancy site generator that had used javascript for everything, and the javascript apparently only worked properly in IE6. So most of the navigation was busted in a modern browser, and needed special scrapers to parse out what should have been plain old <a href...> tags.

Now, I regularly think back to that crusty old HTML3 static site that had sat there for 15-20 years and think: I wonder if my AngularJS/D3.js/jqGrid/etc. single-page app will even load in a browser 20 years from now, let alone perform as originally intended...
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You should read the whole story before commenting; this is about foreign trade in exploits.
And when Mexico (or China or Russia or Venezuela or Iran) tells you to piss off?
In the quest to inspire, one may find that fudging details makes for a more compelling narrative.
Greece’s Lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran
A suggestion. Your comment reads as though you wrote your own press release to then take issue with. Mis-quoting them with hyperbole for emphasis is less persuasive than directly addressing what they actually wrote.
ha well it's more like a burrito that has two operations
I was able to "join" the course for free and all of the videos are available.
And what do you do with the $5000 of gift cards?
Might not be the answer you want to hear, but it's the truth. If you can not deal with the ambiguity of not being covered for long term illness by insurance, entrepreneurship is likely not for you.
That graph looks questionable.
I'm a backend infrastructure guy rather than a product guy so I'll do my best but please take it all with a large grain of salt. I was privy to some of the higher-level discussions, but I spend most of my days down in the guts of the system. I don't spend much time debating the finer points of product direction or user experience (and the world is probably a better place because of that!)

Conceptually, Google Photos is very much a V1 product. It might sound a little weird since the team is experienced and a lot of the technology it is built on has been through multiple iterations.

But from a _product perspective_ Google Photos is a new product.

The product team was really focused on a few key aspects of the user experience (I'm not going to try to enumerate them here. The main reason is that I would certainly do a poor job of explaining them. The other reasons are that I can't remember how much of the strategy has been talked about publicly and it doesn't really matter for the point I'm trying to make).

Being focused meant saying no to things - at least for the initial launch.

So the first answer to your question is that for most of the mentioned features the answer is that they simply didn't make the cut for V1. I can't comment on which features will or won't make it to future versions.

Date picker is an interesting one. Really, the only reason it existed was to work around how painful it was access older pictures in Google+ Photos, Date picker was added to (somewhat) ease that pain.

In building a new product, there was a desire to make things like date-picker unnecessary. Make finding older photos so fast and painless that you don't even need it. Try grabbing the scroll bar in the new web-app - you can scroll to any time you want in seconds. On mobile, it's easy to zoom out, scroll and zoom back in.

There is also search, which often means you don't even _need_ to scroll through your photos to find what you want. Just this morning my wife wanted me to find a picture of a tatoo from six years ago. I was able to find it by searching for tatoo. It was awesome! In Google+ Photos I would have spent a long time trying to figure out the right date range and then searching around.

If you really want to jump to a date, just type it in search - I just tried "September 2012" and "9/23/2012" and they both worked great.

So I would argue that date-picker just flat out isn't needed any more, because the team focused on some core user experience flows.
I think that the strategy there was make a new product (Inbox) to test how to reinvent Gmail. Gmail needs a redesign but have a very large user base to take the risk of make mistakes. With Inbox they are free to innovate and try to fix the email problem without carrying a giant on they shoulders. I think even Google don't know yet what's is going to do after.
Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, 28, found dead
Sorry that can't be true. Even my lowly MileagePlus Explorer card allows me to book an award seat on any flight with availability.
People who waste their time and energy on obvious, pointless studies and cite arbitrary Halo data in their research are losers.
How Microsoft Almost Won Digital Advertising
> (1) They narrowed down the source of the failure using "acoustic triangulation", which, I think, is essentially using sound sensors (accelerometers?) located at various locations to pinpoint the location of the failure in 3D space.

An accelerometer is a poor device for doing acoustic measurement. At best, it can measure how the surface the accel is attached to responds to the acoustic environment (and that's only if the accel has a very high frequency response and is conditioned and sampled appropriately). For this kind of work they probably wanted to measure dynamic pressures within the tank, which they would most likely do with microphones. Other than that you have exactly the right idea.
Shift work also gives you cancer at higher rates. I'd imagine time zones changes also.

It doesn't mention if this is accounted for.
Companies Supporting Two Factor Authentication
Halo 3 on XBox Live is absolutely representative of every person on the internet. I don't see how you could even question that.
Silicon Valley companies side against Apple in Samsung patent case
I've slept in a sensory deprivation tank several times. It's pretty trippy...you spend a lot more time in REM state and your dreams dance the line between dreams and hallucinations as a result.