skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largest power station in Europe is partially converting from burning coal to wood (or biomass) much of which apparently is supplied from the southern US.

It's a bit complex as to whether this is a good thing or not. The main worry is the source of the wood. They claim it's mostly leftovers from sawmills which would be fine if true, but some have thrown doubt on that claim.
I'm not sure if "ripoff" is the best way to think of those designs. They were likely conciously constructed with those elements with the intent of portraying a believable future descended from our present.
Dnsteal: DNS Exfiltration tool for stealthily sending files over DNS requests
Zero based indexing counts offsets. Literally in C, you are saying "add n times sizeof(T) to the base pointer and dereference it". It rather implies arrays are contiguous in storage and lack any "holes". It's a crude but close-to-the-metal approach. C arrays are not general, they are one specific structure. An array could be implemented as a tree, but C doesn't have built-in support for that.

One based indexing counts, or labels boxes. Counting implies no "holes", but abandons any implication about how they are laid out in storage. Labelling allows treating numerical arrays as sparse hash tables, with as many "holes" as needed. It's a high level view, suited to mathy ways of thinking about data.
Totally different typical usage patterns. Taking substrings and throwing away the original string is the norm for text. Taking a column of a matrix and throwing away the original matrix is not. Different domains call for different design tradeoffs – this change stems from extensive practical experience with writing numerical algorithms.
Checklist for Your New Open Source JavaScript Project
Is it really the case that porn has been prevalent in Japan for longer than in e.g. the U.S.? I imagined they are about the same.
When they started talking about the changes that were coming to F1 in 2014 the regulations initially called for inline four engines[1], but that had nothing to do with the engines that Ferrari manufactured, so they compromised with V6 turbo hybrids.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_engines#2014.E2.80...
The stereotypical family morning used to involve the father reading the newspaper while eating breakfast. Eating and reading with others is a tradition long predating smartphones.

We're in a golden age of text, with dramatically higher engagement due to an unprecedented access to more useful, interesting and relevant information than has ever been available before.

The title uses a new fancy word, but it might as well say "Stop reading. Let's talk."
I wasn't talking about punishing them for deeds in the past. Anyway, punishing heads of state of democratic countries is a bit weird anyway. We're not punishing Bush or Blair for the mess in Iraq either.
Can confirm, $5 a year for a 1Gb RAM VPS (with NAT IPv4) and something like $10 for one with a dedicated IP. Search for deals, they are out there.
Subbscribe has released a new web app
I work in numerical relativity and our group produces many, many gravitational waveforms. I even visited LIGO this past summer. If Lawrence Krauss isn't bullshitting (and I have no reason to doubt he would be) then this is absolutely huge news. Nobel Prize worthy discovery no question.
What's wrong with actual DNS?
Industry 4.0 is factories running on IoT
The Skarp Laser Razor: 21st Century Shaving
If you're interested in javascript, follow the blogs of gurus listed here: http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/33-developers-you-must-sub...
But the reason is nobody is seriously using Bing search in China. After they got the laptop, they will change it to Baidu themselves anyway.
I completely disagree with "easier to use". GCE's webui is vastly superior, their gcloud cli is a pleasure to use. I like their networking/projects a lot better than vpc/security groups.

AWS does seem to have less problems (excluding this past week), and they do offer more (and sometimes better) services.
To put this in perspective: for the decades before 2005 when performance per price matched 1:1 with transistor price, speeds increased roughly 100x per decade. That's 2^(10/1.5) ~= 102 for an 18 month doubling period.

So between 2005 and 1015, they only increased 2081/832 ~= 2.5. Single-thread performance increase at a given price is effectively dead (for now).

The sad thing about this (that I've been ranting about since around 2000) is that increasing parallel performance is so trivial that small companies like 3dfx were doing it with Voodoo cards back in the mid 90s. It’s only gotten easier since, so now it’s so streamlined that video card companies just keep doubling the number of cores with little deep insight into how to generalize what they are doing. Their monopolization has hurt research into things like using FPGAs for general-purpose parallel computing, and what’s stung perhaps even more than that is being locked into narrow-focus approaches like CUDA and OpenCL.

Increasing serial performance is relatively straightforward. If companies hadn't doubled down on things like caching in the race for more speed, we could have moved to small/exotic chips using rather well-understood materials like Gallium Arsenide. Probably the easiest way to go about this is to reject relying on the clout of big companies. I’d like to see an architecture like MIPS with say a 4-8 stage branch-predicting pipeline and well-understood engineering tradeoffs implemented in a SiGe or graphene processor with on the order of 10,000-100,000 transistors, running above 10 GHz. This isn’t likely to happen anytime soon, because so much has been invested in status quo fabs, but I keep hoping that some of the older fabs might throw their hands up and try retooling with some of this 90s technology rather than going out of business.
Haskell and floppy disks in Norwegian government
Hackathon prize suggestions?
What are the best prizes for hackathons? http://hackcancer.co our hack is for charity and so we want to keep expenditure as low as possible :)
This is exactly why I'm not so worried about overpopulation or even immortality. In fact, it's going to get a lot "worse" when you know you're immortal. Why would you have kids by 30 or 40 then? Heck, why have kids by your 1,000th anniversary?
What Is Michael Rabin's Mantra – Randomization?
What is Michael Rabin's mantra - Randomization? It is mentioned in the wiki article on the Morris Worm :

The critical error that transformed the worm from a potentially harmless intellectual exercise into a virulent denial of service attack was in the spreading mechanism. The worm could have determined whether to invade a new computer by asking whether there was already a copy running. But just doing this would have made it trivially easy to kill: everyone could just run a process that would answer "yes" when asked whether there was already a copy, and the worm would stay away. The defense against this was inspired by <b>Michael Rabin's mantra "Randomization"</b>. To compensate for this possibility, Morris directed the worm to copy itself even if the response is "yes" 1 out of 7 times.[3] This level of replication proved excessive, and the worm spread rapidly, infecting some computers multiple times. Rabin said that Morris "should have tried it on a simulator first."
> The relentless moralizing about sexuality and pornography

There is no moralizing in this article, just people trying to understand the impact of online pornography.

Why is this disgusting?
Um, liquidation preferences for one seems like the easy answer.
I feel the same - I have also found myself apologizing before hand if I absolutely must use my phone or answer a message quickly.
For some reason I thought he had given it again, but I think I was mistaken.
If you look at Speaker O'Neil's history, the Democrats did not control both houses during some of those shutdowns. He did shutdown big parts of Reagan's agenda in the first years of Reagan's presidency.

The difference today is other people have audiences. So, instead of becoming the bastions of accuracy and fact checking, the NY Times, ABC, NBC, etc. have continued to be pundits. Washington hasn't changed one bit since the 1800 election, its the fourth estate that tries to influence instead of inform.
How Robots will transform these industries
This is why I support a SAG-AFTRA strike authorization for video games
Climate Politics and the Volkswagen Scandal
I'm a little surprised they didn't go with a 4 cylinder boxer engine since vibration was such a problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_engine#Porsche
China isn't involved in the TPP.
I wonder if we're seeing this due to AMD's inability to write good drivers. In certain benchmarks, the performance of cards that cost way less than nVidia's shot up to match theirs. "If the driver is the problem, then no driver is no problem", I guess. It's overall a very welcome development, but I have to wonder what level of incompetence goes on at AMD to get to this point.
Microsoft Has a Google Cardboard Competitor Called VR Kit
There is a great recent Omega Tau episode on the reasons why mega projects often fail: http://omegataupodcast.net/2015/09/181-why-megaprojects-fail...
I tried both Google Container Engine and Amazon EC2 Container Service recently for a docker deployment. Google was the clear winner: they have support for private registries (Amazon requires you to use a third party or set it all up yourself), Google gives you a preconfigured, Debian-based base image so you don't have to do any setup or maintenance (with keys already exchanged that allow login with the gcloud command, no work required), and Kubernetes itself (which Google Container Engine uses for orchestration) is really nice. Also Google cloud logging (currently free) just works out of the box with their container engine and streams your container's stdout to their logs. Kubernetes itself is open source so you always have the option to move on your own metal if your deployment grows to that size. Would highly recommend Google Container Engine.
System Administration Screencasts
From:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexiad

"The Alexiad (original Greek title: Ἀλεξιάς, Alexias) is a (...) historical and biographical text written around the year 1148 by the Byzantine historian and princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexius I."
> And after all, if I get fed up with bein' old ... I could > hook Joe in long enough to ask: "How can a old guy not
> stay old?" Joe'll be able to find out. An' he'll tell me.

Should anyone reading this have such an opportunity, for the sake of my curiosity do not wait for senescence to ask this question.

> That couldn't be allowed out general, of course. You
> gotta make room for kids to grow up. But it's a pretty
> good world, now Joe's turned off. Maybe I'll turn him on
> long enough to learn how to stay in it. But on the other hand, maybe—

How unfortunate for this story's universe that our salt of the Earth narrator is so limited in his view of the potential scope of human flourishing. How useful as a negative example for our universe.
Now let me tell you my side of the story:

I'm a 19 year old male and I'm completly incapable of connecting with others on an emotional level. However, that wasn't always the case,
I clearly remember having "feeling" (what ever that is supposed to mean now) when I was about 12 or 13 but it has slowly withered away. I realized this when
one of my teachers in high school mentioned that I'm a very hard person to excite, that is even given "exciting" news I would just shrug it away as being nice, but inside I felt empty -- even now I feel absolutely nothing, like being drunk.

Now, its not that I'm anti-social, no, I can "talk" to people and intrigue them (a by product of my pseudo-isolation is that it allowed me to get quite good in some areas) but this is something that I learned to fake:
how to behave and what to say when someone is feeling sad, or happy, or whatever -- but in reality I don't care about you or your problems or how you feel, I'll just manipulate the situation and person into a favourable state to benefit me later on and that means that I have to through
certain social rituals (comforting someone, compliments, etc) and manipulating truth (lying) comes naturally (not naturally enough however; I got called out on it once. Once.).

Recently however I realized that no matter what I do, I'll never be able to connect with someone on an intimate level because I always put myself first (and I have a few rationalization of that, e.g. living in a capitalist society etc.) and I know for a fact that when people get "close" to me they see through me (I have a few friends that see me for what I am and cautiously accept that, with an occasional confrontation here and there).
So how am I supposed to achieve a sexual release without pornograpy? Sure, I've gotten black out drunk and had sex, but that is the same thing, if not worse than pornograpy, because no real intimacy happens there either, and getting super drunk is not something I want either (it just makes the fake social interactions even faker as me on alcohol is not me).
Also check out Joyent, you can launch containers natively from your laptop on their cloud bare metal, no underlying instances for you to manage are required. Plus their 128m size container is only .003c/hr and is billed by the minute.
"Of late, Far Westerners have focused their anger on the federal government, rather than their corporate masters."

The whole Far West part is a bunch of bunk and actually ignores quite a bit of history and settlement waves, but this line is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. Our corporate masters? I get the feeling the folks in "The Left Coast" have to deal with corporate masters a whole lot more than anyone in "The Far West". The thought that anti-federal feelings are anything new is just foolish, heck there have been historical articles posted on HN that point to the exact opposite.
I don't think they are. His comments are childlike in comparison. Get your head out of your ass.
Couples have been hiring themselves for a while now :-)

A lot of couples don't mind publishing their intimate scenes for the world to see. I'd rather young people watch other people in action than professional videos which seem to have gone so plastic/mechanical/unrealistic.
The dangers of trusting your brain
Plenty of countries in Europe don't have 'replacement' birth rates, yet porn is accessible there as well.
The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh
I can. The Azure Data Factory is broken in design, UX, documentation and functionality. In a couple hours of evaluation, I wrote up two pages of issues.
I'm not sure what you're saying. There are a number of other videos on Youtube showing water tests of the 6s.

The depth is a major issue. Water pressure is the real devil for water resistance. I'd like to see someone test the 6s in a pool.
"Teachers won an end to the use of student standardized test scores to evaluate them"

So teachers can get this by using strike? Why don't they just explicitly say they don't want get any evaluation at all?
Coding: the new Latin (2011)
The games industry too is notorious for sucking in young talent and burning them out, there's always the next batch of naive graduates.
I'm not entirely certain the guidelines should be the same, since the purpose of questions is to generate answers, not discussions. Otherwise, what's the point of having a separate section for questions?

I agree, CaiGengYang's questions are pretty basic, but this question has one comment which answers it and an entire subthread discussing its relevance. Simply allowing it to be addressed by whomever wanted to address it then leaving it alone to sink into the mire would have caused less of a disturbance to HN than trying to enforce a cultural norm that not everyone agrees on.

>If everyone posted questions like that, nobody would want to read HN anymore.

Well, everyone already can post questions like that, yet almost no one does. I don't really see a credible slippery slope argument here.
You bring up good points. The big advantage I see is the ability to fallback to standard tools if you don't want to use SRV. If I want to debug something I can just type "dig SRV myservice.mydomain" and see the results. I can also just use standard DNS libraries to do just regular A lookups if you don't care about priorities. For anyone else that does, we've released a bunch of libraries so they don't have to do anything to start using it.

I also wouldn't say that SRV records are proprietary, they're an official record-type (that many DNS providers support).

Personally, I just don't see why anyone should be creating their own format when some other established and compatible one exists. DNS is already widely used for domain/website discovery, why should that not be extended to inter-datacenter discovery? That's obviously rhetorical for this conversation, but that's what we asked ourselves.
To nostrademons: Yepp, it would appear that any mention of expert-luring, possibly with some kind of fuzzy match, triggers the auto-kill sequence.

Wonder if synonyms of a homonym are acceptable?
What animals are micro VCs hunting?
>Apple getting 50% of market's profit

92% has been reported recently

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-share-of-smartphone-indus...
I'm not sure what you mean about "actual DNS" but I'm going to assume you mean A records and not SRV records. A records are available for all services as well with this set up we just preferred to use SRV so we can get port information as well as weighting. If you want to stick to just A records that's definitely an option.
Failed services are automatically removed when the associated service "dies" or closes its connection with skyapi. If you're using holdingpattern then it's removed whenever the service stops. This is only because we wanted the removal to be quick and automatic.
Can't help but to think about Google Machine Learning 'Art' they showed not long ago.
see: any article which uses the word "millenials".
Do you have any major contributors that might be willing to take over? Other than that, publicly declare that you intend to not continue work on it and are looking for someone to take over. You'll probably need some time to transfer it to make sure you give it to an appropriate person.

> fair to the people who are relying on it for their organization?

If there are large-ish organisations that need it, they could take it over or pay you for further development if you are interested in doing that.
Show HN: OS X Dope Login
With all due respect, Linus doesn't know everything. Lately he's been abusing his cult of personality to ultracrepidate on topics such as machine learning https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ciqkl/linux_c... and now provable security.
The y-axis is labeled "Unique Visitors".
Highway Will Recharge Your Batteries as You Drive
In general, if publishers are automatically sharing to Facebook without some kind of delay, people will just stay on Facebook. Also consider the private groups on Facebook, they could be sharing paid subscriptions and who would know?

The idea isn't just about Facebook, but publishing anything to get more subscribers. If your posts are time-sensitive and people can get your info through social media (without delay) then you're probably losing traffic, because people are busy, lazy, whatever--they're often already on Facebook and need a reason to go somewhere else.

Paid subscriptions aren't as common, and I almost deleted that part of my comment, but people do pay for time-sensitive info. As far as the "paid tier" I was thinking out loud, in terms of building a general purpose SAS app for publishers. I haven't nailed down exactly how it would work, to delay posts to social media. Obviously it would need compelling case studies where people increased traffic and subscribers, and revenue. I can think of a couple of markets to start with, but not getting more specific than that.

Another aspect of this is the notifications. I think email notifications are good to start with because they show up on your phone, and if those notifications are customizable and targeted, that's convenient. But I think there's more you could do with notifications, so that people aren't annoyed that they have to go to your website to find the (timely) information they want. If you can do better notifications than social media (more specific, less annoying) then I think people will more likely go to your website vs. consume your content through social media which sends less-useful notifications.
Perhaps a better analogy would be, do you believe that matter exists beyond the observable universe?

Because of the expansion of the universe, it is theoretically possible for me to get in a space ship and travel away from you at such a high speed that we would never be able to meet again, even if at some point we both decided to head back toward each other as fast as possible, and even if we were both immortal. Our light cones would no longer intersect.

Probably you would assume that I continue to exist, despite that for all intents and purposes I cannot affect your life in anyway and therefore "don't" exist.

Similarly if I crossed the event horizon of a black hole.

I believe that a qubit is in superposition (i.e. exists in multiple miniature "universes"), because that theory produces results that are consistent with experiment. When the qubit's universes de-cohere with mine, such that for all intents and purposes I can now only ever observe the qubit in one particular state, why should I assume that the other universes have ceased to exist? Decoherence is a continuous process, just like traveling outside of a light cone, so why treat them any differently. It's rather arbitrary to say that increased distance in space preserves existence, while increased distance in phase space does not.
You could get a cheap Raspberry Pi and use that.
Andromeda Galaxy with various cameras
Ah, you're right — for some reason I was under the impression that the format of a SRV record was specific to the protocol, but apparently it isn't. My thinking was confused by the fact that SkyDNS apparently doesn't use the standard name format, as specified by the RFC:

_Service._Proto.Name TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2782
I don't think I agree. I think that autocomplete is just a better UI for what you're trying to accomplish with tab completion, and also happens to be discoverable
No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. This goes to the heart of why efforts like this get funding in the first place. The funding committees get blinded by the bright light of the potential payoff, and the money gets wasted instead of going to fund and actualy deliver valuable projects that aren't as glitzy. But at least you would have ended up with a real actual benefit.
i didn't see a link to the github on the site, so for those wondering: https://github.com/cvondrick/vatic/.
It seems to me that if the SAG wants to play hardball with video game studios, they'll quickly find that the studios aren't as beholden to them as the TV and movie studios are.

If studios wound up having to use entirely non-union actors it would lower quality, but it would be survivable. Certainly there's a lot of old-school games done by very amateur actors, tolerably.
They were already doing it secretly and lying about it. Why wouldn't they just sign the treaty, win their political points and votes, and go right back to doing it secretly and lying about it?
Sunday's 'Supermoon' Total Lunar Eclipse: When and Where to See It