skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SpaceX is COTS welfare for LEO launches to the soon to be retired ISS. It is not on track for Mars colonization.

That's a very cynical view based on... I don't even know exactly. NASA is not the only customer of SpaceX, LEO doesn't end with ISS, and the path towards Mars was laid more-less explicitly since day one. They're on track, even if behind the schedule.

> The article paints Musk fairly, as an out of touch dreamer with crazy ideas. He steps over homeless people to rush to television producers to spout off the same canned futurism we've been hearing for decades. His version is slightly more plausible, but it, of course, ignores all social issues; issues that will only follow us into space. The same way futurists predicted a moon landing but never imagine women would get to vote, for example.

That smells strongly of copenhagen interpretation of ethics[0]. So Musk is trying to solve a problem (or three problems) for humanity, and suddenly he has to be responsible for all the problems? Why aren't we criticizing Bill Gates here for helping Africans fight malaria instead of helping Americans fight homelesness at home? Also; SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City are creating jobs. Which counts for doing something towards the problem. What exactly are people criticizing Musk here doing themselves for the homeless?

[0] - http://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethi...
That's true, but I think in general if we had someone else making our decisions for us (obviously this is completely undesirable) they'd mostly be correct. Emotion plays a huge role in what we do, many times a negative role.
nginx is driving very fast down the road to firefox.
I Will Never Let You Go, an Interactive WebGL Experiment
Not just GM/Cadillac, but GM/Chevrolet/Buick/GMC/Opel/Vauxhall/Holden/Cadillac
The problem is the law doesn't specify how well the unsubscribe (opt-outs) have to work.

You could literally leave unsubscribe instructions to snail mail your email address to some location, and as long as you stopped emailing them 10 days after getting the mail you're okay.
Well, yeah.
Prejudice against left-handedness is not a scientific view, but it is still a prevalent secular view. For instance, consider skateboarding, where skating left-footed is called "goofy." Or consider the multitude of left-handed children who were (and still are) being forced to write right-handed in the United States and other parts of the world. Also consider the Soviet Union where left-handers were also frowned upon despite atheism being the official view of the state.

Prejudice against the left-handed existed before Christianity. Christianity did not invent the link between left-handedness and evil. Left-handedness did not become evil because the Devil is left-handed. The Devil is left-handed because left-handedness was considered evil.
Are the RSS feeds more accurate than the status page?
So, how many on HN are going to admit to buying up VW stock right now?
No. But broadly, a CEO is responsible for everything that happens on their watch. And they are specifically responsible for designing their organizations in such a way that the organization behaves responsibly.

Ignorance cannot be an excuse for bad management. If we allow that, then executives can set things up so that they always appear ignorant. E.g., imagine a CEO says, "I don't care how you dispose of that toxic waste, just make sure that it's cheap. And of course it has to be safe [wink, wink]. Just don't bother me with details [wink, wink]." Any employee will know the real message.
Modern IT: How enterprises can take advantage of composable monitoring
New software development practices for the Internet of Things (IoT)
I have been playing around with Lua in Openresty for the last few nights. I haven't had any Lua experience before but it seems to be a good language for Nginx, and it has been fun to learn.
What the “Dropbox economy” teaches us about securing data in the cloud
>that secures them the copyright until the end of its term

Practically, once you are granted copyright it's secured until Disney goes out of business thanks to the Mickey Mouse Protection Act[1] and inevitable future Disney lobbying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Ah of course, that was silly of me. I guess I meant suspended cable travel.
| Exactly what upside is there to an individual to do so?

It's the ethical thing to do.

| Much better to just start looking for a better job

Not mutually exclusive.
I believe it's actually because iOS9 automatically prefers IPv6 to IPv4: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/07/11/os-x-10-11-and-ios-9-... I actually highly doubt the majority of iOS9 users even know what IPv6 is, let alone if they're using it or not.

Your explanation is also flawed, iOS adoption does not follow other software. It's already got a ridiculous number of users: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ios-9-adoption-rate-day-... and Apple is even more in your face with this update than past ones; there's a few regular popups, and they even let you schedule it for the night when you aren't using your phone.
Two quick answers:

1. Could it?

Depends what you mean by "cable technology like this". I haven't seen Robots, but this kind of constrained, multiple-degree-of-freedom movement would not be possible in an "open world" -- you have to have existing infrastructure, and for something like cables (which "operate" in tension only), that infrastructure has to surround the entire "vehicle". And cables have an effective practical length limit before you run into a number of physics barriers. Now, you could have something that operates by a cable pulling a car along a predefined route, but it would be a simple linear movement. Not only can you, we already do this: most ski lifts work this way. So do, for example, the SF cable cars.

2. Even if you could, should you?

The tl;dr here is that in the vast majority of modern cases, other technology is better. If you're going to expend a whole bunch of money on infrastructure, which is necessary for public transportation in general, why not make it something higher capacity? Lightrail, or high-speed bus, or really almost any other form of public transportation is more effective. Where the ski lift approach shines is in low-volume, low-speed transport across terrain that would be very, very difficult (read: expensive) to lay tracks or road across, like mountains. Similarly, the cable car approach shines in situations where rails offer questionable traction in adverse conditions, and a positive connection with something is hugely beneficial (like a very steep hill). There are always niche applications, but I wouldn't hold my breath for widespread use.
Does Google's Kubernetes 1.0 make containers ready for prime time?
He said social democracy, which has nothing to do with communism.
Interesting! How much heat are we talking about here? When an engine is just running in normal operation it generates a fair amount of heat naturally. I guess that's not enough?
The 500ppm to 15 ppm is Sulfur not particulates and Europe is now trying to move away from diesel because of their air pollution problems. Paris wants to ban them altogether by 2020. Biodiesel does not have the same problems.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11878435/E...
State of mobile development: Where do we go from here?
I applaud the effort but it does not address the elephant in the room: openssl engines are synchronous. If you use openssl in an event-loop style server (coincidentally, OP's own web server h2o appears to be event-loop based), this means that the whole server blocks if the RSA operation blocks.

For a hardware accelerator that may not be so bad but if you are trying to separate the HSM via the network, to minimize what an attacker can do after compromising the httpd, then every packet loss or an outage or network delay (or, more generally, any latency) would block the whole httpd.

Cloudflare proclaimed a while ago that they had a way to do essentially this (with nginx+openssl) and they said their solution was non-blocking, but they did not publish the code as far as I can tell.

I think if one wanted to solve this problem properly, larger architectural changes to openssl would be necessary. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

EDIT: Also, if you move out the RSA operation, ideally you'd want to distribute the work over more than one CPU core. If the operation is synchronous, you can't really do that.
Seriously? Just in France, diesel emissions kill 42,000 persons every year [0]. In California, they kill at 1,500 to 2,400 people a year [1].

It might be possible that these estimations rely on measurements communicated by the manufacturers (i.e underestimated by 40x)!

[0] http://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2013/03/02/diesel-42000-...

[1] http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/diesel/diesel-health.htm
> How do you boycott all those bastards at the same time?

Use free-as-in-speech and open technology. Then, you can know what it's doing and modify it if you don't like it.
would be fun little project to create an app that generates the puzzles. input a word like "rain", use word2vec, or something even simpler, to identify associated words and order the words. next challenge would be to sort the generated puzzles by difficulty. i could see it being a very addictive mobile game, with very challenging puzzles being great for multiplayer or sharing with others via SMS, FB to help solve.
Let's be friends! I did a lot of C++ back in the late 90s/early 2000s, and it kind of sat on the shelf for me for a while. I've recently come back and am discovering all of the joys of modern C++(11/14). I'm really really impressed. The first project was a cross-platform library on top of libusb. With all of the great concurrency things built-in now (std::thread/mutex/lock, etc), I managed to write the whole library without a single #ifdef! Generates Linux .so, OS X .dylib, and Windows DLLs. Amazing!
There are 7+ billion people sharing that air. It's interesting that you'd consider 100 lives worth more than a resource we all require to exist, but not really a stance I can consider agreeable.
Research says that infrequent and severe punishment results in an increase of the punishable behavior; it's quick, clear and consistent, but not severe, punishment that actually curbs the punishable behavior.

I wish downvotes here could be only cast with a comment explaining the reason, to improve clarity.
EventGrid API v2.0
Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food (2013)
That's a question that probably won't be answerable for at least a decade.
To play devil's advocate (not that OP is an devil), you want a CDN serving up static assets anyway, and maybe take care of SSL termination and security depending on your sensitivity needs; haproxy is great for load balancing and centralized logging; vulcand to handle reverse-proxying; and at that point, all you're left with is compression, which a reasonable web server should be able handle. Now you've got a suite of specialized tools that will do their jobs well, and you probably have most of them in your stack anyway.

Granted, it's more complexity, but nginx certainly isn't the must-have that it used to be.
I did read what you wrote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10255578

>I don't see how pharma is not a free market in this case.

It's a monopoly because it has government-granted monopolistic power. Generics can go through the approval process and be granted similar power, making a duopoly.

That doesn't change the fact that it is a monopoly right now and definitely not a free market. Seems like someone has a case of confirmation bias.
Ubuntu? Only if you choose to. And there is a difference between calling home / checking for upgrades and calling home / sending user activity data.
The emissions would have led to premature deaths of far more than 100 people.
> And the fact that black-box UEFI is built in

UEFI isn't any more black-box than BIOS in general. Sure, I'd rather run entirely FOSS firmware, but in the absence of that, UEFI doesn't make things any worse. If anything, it allows quite a bit more introspection and extensibility. And its core is FOSS (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2), just not the versions shipped by board/system vendors.
> Euro standards are backwards; they have stricter CO2 emissions regulations, but are lax on NOx.

In Europe, people don't commute as much, and as long hours, in cars, so I would guess NOx levels in city air don't get as high as in the US cities. So maybe there is no need to have as strict NOx emission limits for cars in Europe.
What I would like to see in C++ is to have very detailed control over
language features and enforce coding guidelines in my own code base.

Clang/LLVM are meant for this. I haven't personally written anything that parses the AST yet, but there are tools that do (clang-modernize, clang-format, YCM, etc...).

What I think some people are overlooking is the practicality of C++. From a language standpoint, there are various inconsistencies, multiple ways to do things, arguably dubious design choices, etc..., but there isn't a genuine reason those can't be avoided.

I personally would probably prefer writing all my code in Haskell, but C/C++ is still vastly more productive.
Exactly. I feel like it's not worth arguing with someone taking this dogmatic approach, but a company that really wants to be in litigation with you will do what it can to convince lawyers and judges (who don't really know how the details of technology work) that you still had access to things and could steal or change them.

A great example is not removing you from cloud services - this makes them look bad but also makes you look capable of theft. It's more important that it remain possible you committed theft than not. Another is if you used a personal computer for work, as most people I know in startups do these days. If they won't supervise a deletion of the code off your computer YOU CAN NOT DELETE IT! If you are sued, you've now deleted things - what if you turn out to be the only person who had it? That's the real theft, and this has come up in real life cases I've seen - it became critical that the code WASN'T deleted.

The statement to never leave with code, email accounts, etc. is just not practical. It requires cooperation from your employer that will not exist in a situation where they're planning to try to bury you in litigation. It's a fools errand to try to pretend like there are reasonable steps the defendants should have taken - they took many reasonable steps and the plaintiffs can always find more that should have been taken.
> mistake [...] thinking they could get away with it and come out with more money

Oh, you're funny!
Is nitrous oxide a major component of the nitrogen oxides from car exhaust? I thought it was mostly nitrogen dioxide (NO2)and dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4).

I haven't heard of nitrous oxide (N2O) being much of a concern.
You're surprised with this? I'm surprised that it took so long for Chelsea Manning to come out when literally hundreds of thousands of people had access to the same information. Snowden also had access to stuff tens or hundreds of thousands had access to, although in his case he also had access to stuff much fewer people had access to. I know they were working for intelligence services, but there must be thousands of others that were disgusted by what they were seeing in the files...
It's here: http://hg.nginx.org/njs/
I genuinely can't tell whether you're joking.
For anyone interested, it looks like it's available as a module on http://hg.nginx.org/njs/
Plus: Anyone who is "top talent" is probably well aware of the negative effect of liquidation preferences on employee common stock value in an acquisition (the topic of the article). So $1B valuations with heavy liquidation preferences are not a good thing to these folks.
https://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html
Well, you can bet a pretty sum that some legal firm is rushing to test every single car currently on the road. So there will at least be enforcement, albeit private. (And for all the whiners about law firms making money off this, that's inevitable when you neuter public law enforcement and rely on private enforcement of laws. Unless the ultimate goal is no enforcement of environmental law... naw, couldn't be.)
I do not like the methodology. I was subjected to it 3 times in '09 during the recession when nobody was hiring.
I went to the next level of interviews in all the cases -- but did not get those jobs at the time.

Hope will never need to waste my time on that again.

It does not test the speed and quality with which a candidate can absorb new methodologies/ways.

Therefore it is perhaps, reasonable if the job assignment to maintain an existing code base in XYZ tool chain, or participate in a larger team where the architecture/design approach is done by somebody else.
How is it possible that the real emission is 40x the allowed limit? Wouldn't you see VW being the only manufacturer under the limit, and everyone else unable to get the car approved? Or alternatively, everyone is cheating? Because you can imagine a world where some firms cheat to get 10-20-30% less than rated, so that they're in line with the industry.

But if VW's normal car is 40x worse than advertised, and most cars were close to the correct standard, wouldn't they just hire a guy who knew how to fix their cars? Did VW's internal testing test competitors' cars?

Is this going to explode across the industry?

Also, this isn't the only kind of test that a car goes through. There's crash tests, MPG tests, and all sorts of things that I wouldn't know about. If you can game an emissions test, you can game the crash test and the MPG test, which are probably both things people care about a fair bit more than emissions.
N02 not N20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide
Programmers are susceptible to venality just like anybody else.

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/09/22/software-worth-bill...
Can you outline how bcc translates that req->rq_disk->disk_name expression to bytecode? AIUI, there are no pointer-dereferencing bytecodes. Is it using the BPF_FUNC_probe_read?
The thing to remember is that hybrids and electrics tend to moderately trade off emissions for an increase in toxic waste from production. Neodymium for motors, tantalum for capacitors, lithium for batteries - all of those are bad news bears for the environment. Even stuff like copper isn't particularly awesome to produce. All other things being equal (mileage, emissions, etc), you should prefer the vehicle with a simple aluminum frame and engine over the high-tech wundercar because the impact of producing and disposing of it is lower.

To the actual question - yeah, diesels running on biodiesel actually produce less GHG emissions than even hybrids. Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel is pretty close but just a bit above hybrids. The National Academy of Sciences published a study back in 2010 on the topic. The report itself is paywalled but there's a copy on the Arkansas state website. I snapped an image of the chart for ease of viewing.

Note that ULSD was only introduced in the US in 2010 (2006 for Cali). The Euros have had it for quite a bit longer. So when you're reading studies, if it predates 2010 and it doesn't specifically say ULSD or Biodiesel then you should disregard it, because the new fuels are vastly cleaner and the playing field has shifted dramatically as a result. Biodiesel is often notated as something like B100, B85, or BD20 denoting the percentage of biodiesel in a mixture with fossil diesel. Pure B100 has a fairly high gel point and can cause problems starting in cold areas, so these mixtures include a fraction of ULSD to lower the gel point.

http://imgur.com/FEOo1zB

http://1.usa.gov/1gO9jPL
I'm in huge agreement. Even if it's a drop-down to select off topic, abusive, etc, it would be so much better than the smug silence of an unexplained downvote.
Looking for Shirts to Match Your Jordans?
Hyp: An open-source toolkit for optimizing hypergraphs [pdf]
IANAL but that doesn't sound true.

"You can’t ... make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request." [1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
Agreed.

I haven't been following the story at all closely, but if VW was able to get (wildly?) better figures than competing companies, I would have thought those other companies would be buying VWs and testing them and/or pulling them apart to figure out how they were doing it... And at some point much earlier than today those other companies would have realized the numbers didn't add up.
Agreed, I always look in those two places for the best discussion of news and advice on projects.
I used a spam-only email and a google voice number to sign up for all my wedding planning-related needs. It would be unbearable otherwise. It's been two years and I still get spam _every day_ despite unsubscribing (and when available, reporting them as unsolicited). Sadly I wish I could do the same for facebook - I still get wedding planning and egg donation ads.

I think a close second place goes to real estate agents. I'll inquire about something once and I end up with newsletters about seminars and houses I don't care for.

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I've gotten any spam from porn websites I've signed up for, at least...
Things like this reaffirm my old guy decision to do as little in the browser as humanly possible.

EDIT: Warranted a downvote. Wow.
Bingo and Beyond
Last I checked Javascript implementations were slower than LuaJIT. Cost of implementing Lua tables, meta-tables, co-routines, etc. in Javascript will be rather high. Anywhere between 2-50x. If native Lua engine is removed, you can just forget about it then.

So what you're saying doesn't make any sense for anything remotely performance sensitive.
FluentInterface (2005)
Sounds like a good candidate for foo+wedding@gmail type addresses so you know exactly who did what and then not do business there...

Or at least, use a mailinator address.
Honestly, I'm not sure it's worth the effort for them. They're already attracting a lot of hate for being a VC-fueled company that undercut an established business and employing mostly white dudes. What value can they expect to gain from showering money on a community already hellbent on hating them?
Author's caveat: "And I recognize just how far my envelope-math is from a real model of health outcome risk difference"
We sent out the emails at 10am PT today. If you haven't received an email, shoot a note to info at ycombinator.
Looks a lot like University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator NADS-1 [1]. NADS-1 has an entire dome on tracks, hydraulics and a bunch of other cool stuff going on. I guess it's used mostly for research.

[1] https://www.nads-sc.uiowa.edu/sim_nads1.php
Sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_lift or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondola_lift
The missing bit is that that first dense housing signals unmet demand. The real keys are:

1. is to keep on going with the dense housing to saturate.

2. a city council that insists on below-market-rate housing be included with the development

3. layer cake development: bottom floor is retail, middle is office, top floors are apartments/hotels + below market rate

This prevents developers from cherry-picking the highest demand usage for their building at the expense of the total needs of the community.
Fuel economy improves at higher temperatures, but NOx production increases dramatically then. Conventional catalytic systems cannot keep-up so either a selective catalyst (expensive) or improved egr system (performance sapping) must be used.
I too am curious on how it really happen.

If one burn 1 gallon of diesel get x amount of NOx, wouldn't 40x NOx need to burn 40x amount of diesel?

What does the SW do that? Dial down the power of the engine to 1/40th of "normal operations" during the testing?
C++ vs. OCaml: Ray tracer comparison (2005)
Maybe look at glassdoor: http://www.glassdoor.com/ ?