skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An "amorphous blackbody" source, from anything reasonably distant, just looks like a smaller star. There are a bunch of if's and unknowns involved, but it could be maybe possible to detect a Dyson sphere. This[1] article talks about it. The upshot is that it is nowhere near blindingly obvious, and we don't currently have the ability to differentiate between a natural or artificial infrared source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Search_for_extra-...
My father once complained about the hot weather making his work at the naval shipyard unbearable.

But dont you have air conditioning my mother asked.

The federal regulations specify the temperature in which AC is permitted he replied. Washington DC is the coolest place that permits air conditioning.
I personally have used http://syncplay.pl/

It seems to be similar in concept :)
I met a guy in his 50's who was a retired Sgt. Major from the Army and was working as a flight attendant. He used to get questions from his female coworkers on what it was like to be a gay man in the military. (He wasn't gay)

Male nurses (again, this is anecdote from my sister) are handed the most troublesome and aggravating patients with the assumption that they are willing to be "rough" with them (and the implied threat to the patient is that if they are nice, they get the pretty nurses to come back). They are given the jobs that require heavy lifting (like moving patients) in a medical setting and are subjected to vicious gossip campaigns about their sex lives.

I've worked in an all-female IT department. Six women, one guy. Believe me I've got stories. Not all internet gender-memes are universal. All experiences are valid and inform the debate. Even those that don't conform to the proffered agenda.

We need to be a little more empathic all-around. It's not a contest to see who can be more outraged or oppressed.
This is actually a pretty good analysis of the sociopolitical situation in Russia.
Of course, the headline is wrong. Walmart is worth about $50 billion more than Amazon. Compare their enterprise value, not their market cap.
Here are the 10 most profitable companies (also according to F500 (http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/03/news/companies/mostprofitabl...) of 2005:

1. Exxon Mobil (2005 price: 61.05, 2015 price: 79.95)

2. Wal-Mart (2005 price: 51.60, 2015 price: 71.58)

3. GM (Went into bankruptcy, I don't really understand what happened to its stockholders, which thank god I was not)

4. Chevron (2005: 61.71, 2015 price: 90.62)

5. Ford	(2005: 12.40, 2015: 14.39)

6. ConocoPhillips (2005: 42.38, 2015: 52.08)

7. GE (2005: 36.12, 2015: 25.76)

8. Citigroup (2005: 497.80, 2015: 58.72)

9. AIG (2005: 1317.20, 2015: 63.64)

10. IBM (2005: 94.10, 2015: 159.76)

S&P500: 2005: 1191.17, 2015: 2079.65
Let's say there is a low chance of death from doing this: 1:10:000.

Arguably that's about the same as sending someone to jail for 1:10,000th their life. Which is about 2 and 1/2 days which is not ‘horrific’. Still, I would hope sending a random person to prison for a few days to stage a story seems unacceptable.

On the other hand vaccinations are both lower risks and a higher benefit so it’s not really comparable.
Which everyone in the US knows. Even very uneducated people.
> e.g. He was supposedly an idiot for selling books online.

By whom? Everyone I know who first used Amazon back in the 90s thought it was a great idea.

I think it's weird how we've fetishized the idea that "everyone else thought that business plan was crazy except for the visionary founders."

If anything, I'd argue these founders are "geniuses" because they executed better than anyone else at the time, not that everyone else thought the idea was crazy.
sure thing: http://lwn.net/Articles/219983/
Yes, I think the author was correct and I was wrong. However as I mentioned in another reply I don't know what the net is on the power usage.
Thanks for taking the criticism so well! If you're looking for an easy solution where you don't have to worry about design but still want a nice, modern site, I'd recommend looking into purchasing a Bootstrap or Wordpress theme that you can just plug your content into.

Good luck with your business!
So despite the huge uproar at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921557, it turns out the end did justify the means.
“Follow your passion” is not really great advice, right?
What do you mean by intent? If you want some sort of probabilistic lie detector, there isn't any reliable one out there, and the unreliable ones are proprietary. Also, none that I'm aware of would work on long speeches or something, voice stress analyzers work by trying to detect changes in vocalization when someone is asked a question they'd rather not answer or somesuch. Evidence for their efficacy is sketchy at best.
Was Chris Froome Doping? A Data-Driven Perspective
Other (undocumented) values this method returns:

"perhaps" - There is, of course, a chance the codec is supported. Or not.

"why bother" - Everyone will die anyway, browser support is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

"ask again later" - Computer needs to be shaken vigorously and restarted. This value is returned with annoying frequency.
WalMart revenue: $482bn.

Amazon revenue: $89bn.

Amazon is only worth its current market cap if it can increase sales by at least 5x. Which it probably can, but it will take some years.

Wal-Mart is expanding into grocery stores, with their "Neighborhood Markets". (They mean big supermarkets, not convenience stores. Typical size is 45,000 square feet.) Wal-Mart has 40 square miles of floor space worldwide.
Your comments are fine in my book. They reflect an uncomfortable reality that many don't want to accept. And yes, the link isn't the best of sources, their owner courts controversy and has made some terrible mistakes recently.
The New American Slavery: Invited to the US, Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare
My understanding is that it's not compatible with modern processors, and new hardware would be required to efficiently execute it.

It seems to be a superset of floating point (and fixed point?) though, so maybe LAPACK could still work? I may be misreading or misunderstanding this however.
Clearly Tao's problem stems from having a singular mind. I have three of four that I warm-swap overnight depending on what I need to do the next day. This is only problematic when I get called into unexpected long meetings when I'd loaded my Creative Mind the night before as opposed to the one that deals with Unending Boredom.

Tao needs to expand his repertoire.
before they be drafted, they actaully have to be able to serve in combat roles.. which they now can. This is a recent development in the US.
Are there any more details on unums available online (i.e. without purchasing his book)? The presentation is quite heavy on promotion, but a bit sparse on details.

I also note that he dedicates a page on his website to "Gustafson's law".
http://johngustafson.net/glaw.html
I personally know over a hundred male programmers who all started programming as children, at their own accord. They all did it because it was FUN for them. They wrote computer games and tinkered with BASIC. Some of them wrote actual video games for their graphing calculators. They were fascinated by the world of computers, and they didn't CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THOUGHT. That's why many of them were giant nerds and social rejects. They did it because they enjoyed it, period.

I know a couple of women who did the same thing. They were totally awkward nerds during their childhood and teen years, but as adults, they are highly respected software engineers.

If you don't enjoy programming and you start with the premise of thinking of it as "work", and you are so worried about what other people think of you, and you are worried about how much more work you are going to have to do compared to your peers or blah blah blah, you won't go far in the field.

Software engineering isn't a field where you can "complain your way to the top". Your work will speak for itself, and your peers will judge you by that work. Sure, there might be a couple of bad apples spoiling the bunch, but that hasn't been my personal experience. Every competent female programmer I've met has been idolized and welcomed into the community like a rare and extremely valuable unicorn.
The Ultimate Guide to Forms in Angular 2
Then let them die.
Buyers anticipate the stock price will rise, and that they can sell it to someone else for more money in the future. More specifically, they're predicting the return on this investment will be greater than the interest they'd earn in the bank. They might be wrong, we'll see.
That only holds if there were no better means that could have achieved the same ends.
And Amazon has pretty much 0, and is valued more.

Thats more the market saying that the overhead of having stores, of having staff maintaining them, of maintaining a supply chain to stock them, and all the bureaucracy around that is not worth it. That just having a website and good distribution centers is enough, and Walmart thus has a lot of unnecessary overhead, especially when they have both the stores and their website.

There are still a lot of things Amazon does a poor job supplying, and having to pay $200 a year to get quick shipping is a severe stain on their practical use as a walmart surrogate for many people.
NOW TELL US WHAT YOU THINK OF THE JEWS.
Finally, a child prodigy that actually continues with their talents into adulthood, and also is socially adept, based on his education skills.
Good to know before I reserve time in one. Thanks.
Are there screenshots of the interface somewhere? I don't see any, and it's not clear if signing up without paying would let you see the interface.

Today, I use Anveo.com for this sort of thing. It also suffers from a relatively stodgy web presence, but the call flow builder, used to route incoming calls, is pretty much a full fledged IVR...really nice. Screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/54aJqGn.png
Only if it can be shown that performing the test on a dangerous section of a public highway was instrumental in getting the recall to happen. I believe they could have performed the test on a closed auto track and it would have been just as effective.
The issue is that the 1% are the loudest ones. They drown out the more reasonable ones and are the ones that seem to be more outspoken on Twitter and Tumblr where they receive a wider audience than they deserve.

I have no issue with claiming that "feminazis" are a minority of feminists, as I'm sure they are. But to pretend they don't exist or that they aren't the most outspoken is being in denial of reality. Any memorable contact I've had with feminists has been with that nasty, confrontational "1%".

I'm not alone with these poor interactions - as people are quickly referring to that 1% group as "feminists". Representative of the entire group as a whole, which is a bad image for the more reasonable feminists to hold and why many feminists refuse to call themselves a feminist. They might be mistaken for "that kind" of feminist.

The "fight" has become so polarized by extremists from both sides (MRA and feminist, to clarify) that as an egalitarian I get called a "man-hating feminist" by many MRA and a "disgusting misogynist pig" by many feminists. I find this funny - but also very depressing.
AT&T’s $48.5B DirecTV purchase has been approved by the FCC
If you are not in HPC, you may not have heard about Gustafson's law, but it is a legit and important thing... His 1988 paper is still a very worthy read (And winner of the first Gordon Bell award for showing a 1000x speedup, which was previously thought impossible)
It's possible, but can you cite another example of when a news article caused a recall to be issued a couple days later? It seems unlikely - usually takes months if anything happens at all.
I was pretty disappointed when they ditched that feature, my friends and I used it pretty extensively as we were all attending different colleges, but still loved to play games and chat online. It was buggy for sure, especially when you added in disparities in lag (which was very common back then).

IIRC Microsoft maintained this functionality however and not Netflix, which is probably why it was eventually discontinued and as far as I can tell Netflix has expressed no interest in making their own similar feature.
I'm not really sure if that's the case- I'd have to do a lot more research to know if my instincts are anywhere near accurate here, but I suspect that while most people these days have access to more luxury goods than people in the 50's, it's mostly because the cost of luxury goods relative to essential goods has decreased drastically. I think that food and housing are far less affordable for people these days.
I was referring to "Japanese-style entrepreneurship" being korean instead. I was not addressing him in my first sentence. Then i have just said that he is korean. In no way i said that him being a korean is a wrong thing.

And in my previous comments on HN i have never ever expressed negative feelings towards Korea or koreans.

I stated facts.

I do despise china for being arrogant, filthy, communist country of thieves who do not respect intellectual properties. Yet I do not consider myself racist as what i have said is proven and it's simply a fact.

I am not japanese and i am well aware of japanese sentiment towards koreans even the ones living in Japan.
Creative Destruction is nothing new.
This is very exciting, and inevitable. This sort of infrastructure will lead to a lot of innovation because it alleviates many of the questions about operating drones in shared spaces.
Thanks for the article, I'm about to update my OpenBSD server and switch from nginx myself.

Seems like you forgot to redirect www or non-www: you have both serving the site, search engines don't like duplicate content like that.
More natural resources wasted! We must preserve the limited orbital energy that our solar system has!
Fish shell does a lot of stuff, I know it's pretty good but I personally don't want it, I do really like this particular feature.

I don't know if I'm a very narrow intersection but I'm really happy with this script!
It’s like seeing a person you love getting cancer, putting her on a life-supporting machine and eventually pulling the plug.

Probably not.
Reminds me of Ricci flow [1], though done in reverse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_flow
Amazon doesn't treat software devs very nicely either. I mean, it's certainly better than warehouse employees, but devs are treated as highly disposable cogs.
White chocolate mousse
That's great feedback. Thank you. I hope you can come try it for yourself but I'm glad you liked the video. We're open to suggestions regarding selection. We've already replaced several less popular ingredients and will continue to listen to our customers.
No plans for a home unit yet, but we let you order your favourite blends online to enjoy at home.
Excellent point about allowing the venue to select ingredients. We have allowed them to create a house blend, but no venue has requested ingredients yet.
This reminds me of when my wife and first started dating long distance - Skype screen sharing movies was our jam
That's a good use for formal software proving. While proving the safety of the entire codebase might be currently out of bridge, it would be quite feasible to prove the safety of a message bridge.
'and now seek to prevent others from doing the same' certainly reads tome as a claim that they couldn't, and some else in this discussion interpreted as a fact. I'm not endorsing Disney's general copyright policy, just correcting a possible misunderstanding about a specific claim.
Which is obvious ? Do not paint them as victims because not all of them are.

They have the money to buy iPhones but not your average 0.99$ app ?
Well there is a couple of things to consider there, one of which is that WalMart has everyone on its payroll between you and the product. Amazon does not. In particular Amazon doesn't count vendors who just selling through their platform, (they would be part of buyers/stockers at WallMart) Amazon doesn't count any of the delivery personnel for things like OnTrak etc. And at one point I thought the warehouse workers were actually subcontracted through another firm but I may be mis-remembering that.

Thus from a business perspective you get rewarded by keeping workers off your payroll, but I don't think it means people aren't working for you. The poster child for this is the 'sharing/gig/slaving' economy type places.

Because of that I am not convinced there is actually less human capital in moving the goods through Amazon or Walmart, but I do agree its accounted for differently. And that means I really can't agree with it as evidence to support the claim that humans should work fewer hours.

It would make for a great paper, maybe even a nice book, on comparing how many hours of labor are invested and how many people in getting a product from manufacturing to your hands using the two different product flows (and doing that for a representative sample of all products offered).
Fair enough: a pity he doesn't explain what it is though.
I would, honestly not be able to treat it as lottery tickets and would rationalize it into the compensation at a higher rate than it is probably worth. Just being real.
Congrats

Couple of points - I had to dig back to your blog to find anything about you personally. It was odd to read about the book but not the author - especially for something like this where personal expertise counts. I suggest a small about me section on the landing page.

Good luck
Is this OSS? If not, are there any plans to add Plex to it?
Hey, Thanks for the feedback.

I have a couple of people helping me out with the proofreading. I will make sure to double check that kind of formatting issues.
I really meant pull it from the ocean then to a desert where land is cheap and sun is plentiful.
Even knowing a lot about FP, I still found this worth skimming for the esoteric Python syntax. When it comes to constructing dictionaries with list comprehensions, I would always do something like this:

dict([n, 2 ** n] for n in range(5))

But they pointed out an actual "dict comprehension" that I didn't even realize existed:

{ n: n ** 2 for n in range(5) }

And there is a similar "set comprehension":

{ n ** 2 for n in range(5) }

Always amazes me how you can use Python for so many years and still encounter new features in the language.
Wow, this is a popular story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943296 - 4 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942564 - 5 hours ago
The NSS stuff? And something else?

There's some specific things that are supposed to be modular library-wise.
Thank you! Will add one over the weekend.
You're commenting on an article within America's oldest literary journal. A literary journal pontificates, deviates, muses on subjects. Taking time to frame a subject - partly for enjoyment of the process - is par for the course.
Arguably the majority of investment is not rational, but speculative.
The water management situation in California is very complex. It really bugs me that desal is the most popular drum to beat, along with "California is a desert" and "California is irresponsible".

California's per capita water usage is roughly in the neighborhood of other western states (http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/planetpolicy/posts/2014/10/di..., scroll down), and although there's certainly room for improvement, it's really not bad considering the massive amount of agriculture in California.

Not mentioned in the article -- unless I missed it -- is that the Carlsbad plant is being built at a cost of around $950 million, and I wouldn't be surprised if it crossed the magic $1 billion line by the time it was operational. That's a huge amount of money for just one plant; it could take around 50 plants of that size to completely offset the effects of an extended drought, and there would still be significant costs in then moving all of that water into the central valley areas where it's needed for agriculture.

Everything that I've read recently is suggesting that what we're experiencing now is likely to be the new normal for California. This is because the Sierra snowpack has become nearly nonexistent in recent years, and it previously accounted for around 30 percent of California's total water storage, and it provided that water year-round. That's a 30 percent haircut right off the top.

Even when we get wet seasons, it's not expected that they will be cold wet seasons, which means we'll see less snow in the mountains. And, since most of the rain that falls west of Sacramento gets funneled directly to the Bay, wet seasons won't even be helpful in the long term.

So what's happening is California is experiencing some of the effects of climate change. (I know HN at large doesn't believe AGW is real, but that's not really what this comment is about.) That means there's going to have to be a lot of adaptation, and not just in one area.

California's environmentalists -- and I usually count myself among them -- are going to have to get used to the idea of more dams and more reservoirs. California needs to make up for that missing 30% somehow. It also needs to start adopting water conservation the way that energy conservation has been seeing adoption; we should be seeing affordable greywater systems that move water from your bathroom sink into your toilet tank, for example, and residential water storage systems for landscape use should become more common.

We're going to have to figure out how to handle the agricultural industry. They're adapting too. They should get more help and encouragement, with access to more resources for water conservation. California is one of the most technologically advanced states in the US; it should be possible to dedicate some of that technological expertise to new forms of irrigation.

Storm runoff has to be handled better. It should be captured and treated and stored, diverted into marshes and other wetland areas.

Of all of these various things that need to be done, desalination is one of the most expensive per-gallon solutions.
“Why are you releasing a full exploit just minutes after the patch is released?”
More dirty coding tricks from game developers
Regardless if it is representing number, ranges, or a mix of both, there are still 2^n maximum possible representations for n bits. Perhaps you could create a mix of numbers and ranges equal to (2^n)-2 and then add one range that is from the lowest number represented to negative infinity and add another that does the same for positives. But I can do that system with -, 0, +, NAN. See, I just represented all numbers. It isn't as useful, but boy are there savings on storage, cost, and computation time.

Unums shouldn't be seen as better than ints, longs, floats, or doubles anymore than a double is seen as better than an int. They have different uses and strengths, and there are problems where none are a good choice. Perhaps unums are the best choice for some problems. Perhaps they are clearly and significantly better in some areas. But they should be thought of as an alternative to the existing formats and not a superior replacement.
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell[1] has some interesting ideas in this vein

[1] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Ask HN: Why can't we have our own AMAs, like Reddit?
Tech focused, startup focused AMAs.
Their recommendations feel to me like the recommendation engine is still more or less the one they had when they were mainly an online bookstore. So they assume you want things similar to the item you bought: other novels in the same genre, nonfiction books on similar subjects etc. Works fine for books, less well for coffee tables.
My argument, at least, is that profitability is good for a company and a stock, but isn't the only thing that's good for a company and a stock.

Which, honestly, everyone already knows.
Heh, I had the same idea for a while, but using HTML5 and streaming it to friends directly via P2P. But I was too lazy to implement it and afraid of getting into troubles with the MAFIAA.

Just using netflix is definitly suitable for the masses too :)