skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole single-purpose type solution that seems to consistently be proposed here bothers me. I mean, yes, I understand that one has to start somewhere, and that the conditions one would need to meet on other bodies would be radically different - but as an engineer "niche" solutions bother me, and type solutions are almost universally better.

I fear that for as long as we un-necessarily bind ourselves to limited and massive chemical propellants, rocketry will remain forever an inefficient and expensive business. I fear our dreams of our future in space died with nuclear propulsion.

Thermal nuclear rockets would be compact and could fuel up with pretty much any old crap, be it hydrogen, methane, co2, so long as it can be made cryonic and heated by fission to blast out of a nozzle. Irradiation can be made a not-huge problem by using shielded heat-exchangers. Adds mass, but not as much mass as solid or liquid fuels and oxidisers.

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a more controversial proposition as it typically involves significantly irradiating wherever you go, but if you're dealing with non-atmospheric bodies, or bodies so utterly inhospitable that irradiating them isn't going to make a jot of difference, again, why not?

Well, the why not commonly given is that if you lose a chemical rocket carrying a nuclear reactor you have a scope for fallout on earth, but then again, we fly RTGs, and if there aren't spaceborne nuclear launch platforms I'll eat my hat.

Anyway. I really wish we would be brave enough to experiment with new tech, rather than incrementally improving existing tech. The horse is better than it was, to be sure, but it's still a horse.

Some articles on this stuff if anyone fancies getting lost in a wiki-hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto (holy nuclear ramjet, batman)

Progression of nuclear thermal rockets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rover

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Timberwind
Typically the tradeoff is balance. I'm curious to see how well it balances on a lap.
I don't see how this can claim to prevent phishing attacks. A fake site can still just steal your username and password as usual, and then go to the real site and log in with them.

Am I missing something?

Obviously there is still a benefit to not sending your password to the real site, but their anti-phishing claims seem… phishy.
I was surprised to see that the most prevalent "myth" about Autism -- that is is caused by early childhood vaccinations -- wasn't mentioned. Especially since that myth is making the rounds again after Donald Trump stated it as fact during the last Republican Presidential Debate.

EDIT: I was mistaken, it was mentioned. Bad reading on my part :-)
Very few other languages give a comparable sense of playfulness

There's an argument that modern software used in production environments shouldn't be imbued with a sense of playfulness just because it's fun.

If your choice is between tcl and Python, use Python. If your situation is "I can use waterer I want, tcl sounds fun," still use Python. Nobody wants to maintain sprawling tcl code today, much less in the future after projects get abandoned by their original creators.
My thought exactly. I'm not sure if it's the color or the text or both.
The end result may become a Balkanized internet - you can't share anything outside your country's borders or access them from outside. Each country winds up as a China, a government's dream situation. In the end though we all lose.
Have you considered that in a world with eugenics, your brother (either as you knew him, or maybe all-together) would have never existed. With that in mind, I think you have to ask yourself, would you give up the time you had with him? Would your parents give up that time? Would your brother choose not to have lived at all over having lived the life that he had?
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Destiny had microtransations now
Rackspace to Provide ‘Fanatical Support’ for Amazon’s Cloud
> Challenge response schemes generally require the server to have the password in a recoverable format so that both sides can generate identical hashes.

Do they? Doesn't the server just need to share the salt and algorithm parameters it stores anyway?
Here's how I have understood QC and it's current state of engineering: A 2-qbit gate can do 2-qbit problems. A pair of 2-qbit gates can do 2 2-qbit problems at a time, not a 4-qbit problem. For Shor's Algorithm, you need n-qbit gates, where n is the size of your problem. Even if the claims of the paper are true, making n-qbit gates out of silicone is just as hard as making n-qbit gates the way they are done in physics labs.

Is my understanding of the phenomena largely within reality?
I just mean that the surviving Stasi records are incomplete. The Stasi parallels to our own surveillance state are indeed eerie.
Nuclear Power Plant Rule #1: Do not put nuclear power plant online.

Nuclear Power Plant Rule #2: Whomever put nuclear power plant on-line is to be fired immediately.
I think that's about right. Heck we are actually running gitlab already for a limited set of projects and I could see how I could sell this easier.

Also don't discount how much might be bound up in a system like perforce already so this let's devs get git workflow that they want without being totally separate from all the other codebases.
Not sure many would agree but I would have liked to see a kickstand on the back of the Surface Book screen. I can see a desire to stand it up without needing the full keyboard. Other than that I think that may be my next device purchase.
Gains in Antarctic ice might offset losses
It is a scary vision. However, the scary part seems to come not so much from the increasing data availability, but rather from the increased likelihood of discriminatory uses of such data. Enforcing non-discriminatory uses of data sounds like a hard problem to tackle, especially if we realize how diverse is the space of possible missuses (e.g., in law enforcements, business, and politics) and that this problem affects both humans and computer systems. As hard as this problem sounds, the article provides a great motivation for research that defines computationally what "discriminatory" means, as well as for the research aiming to design systems (both human and computer) that are privacy-protecting and non-discriminatory.
I'm curious how this works in practice? I have a laptop with AMD integrated + dedicated graphics, and AMD's implementation with dual-graphics resulted in herky-jerky framerates (it seemed to alternate between the GPUs, so frames rendered with the integrated one took slightly longer than the dedicated one). I ended up telling the driver not to do that and just use the dedicated GPU (and splitting the work didn't really result in observable improvements anyway).
True, yeah. It seems theres a lot of batteries under the keyboard so it might be ok.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201...

"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”

Which indicates that he won it for work resulting from the SNO experiment.
It's an inconvenience though.
A part of me hopes (read: dreams) that the keyboard/gpu is all interfaced to-spec as Thunderbolt 3.1 (spec supports bidi power, and external GPUs).

And that the TB3.1 spec is "bullshit free" (unlike DisplayLink).
This is only a tiny improvement. Any password cracker can figure out your password just from the hash anyway. What we really need is industry support for and general acceptance of two-factor passwords. I want to generate one-time passwords from my smartwatch, have them sent to my keyboard or computer directly, and be able to log in to gmail and through ssh alike.

Is it just me, or does the current way we handle passwords feel archaic, even while we still use them?
> Here. Extremely enjoyable to code in and easy to integrate with C which makes integrating with arbitrary libraries and syscalls simple.

This is definitely a sweet-spot for TCL. It's not surprising that TCL doesn't get more attention when this use case has been so stable for so long.
beer is just an analogy. I interpreted it as him saying there is greed in all markets.

Is there something inherently wrong with marking up cash advances for those who are otherwise seen as too risky to take on? Any market that has little to no competition has the opportunity to run the same course.

The recent drug price increase of 5000% comes to mind.
Java and the Shadow of Sun
> Although hydrogen isn’t heavy, it requires large tanks for storage that would take up a lot of precious space.

Is that the only problem? What about boil off? They don't touch that at all.

EDIT: They do talk about boil off while being manufactured on mars, but not in transit.
That's one theological approach to some of the more difficult problems in religion (especially modern Christianity). Is it really widely held though?

It's a natural interpretation for anyone familiar with the Euthyphro, but most people have not read Plato.

I haven't generally seen strong evidence that adherents have actually adopted the beliefs professed by apologists. Surveys routinely find adherents generally fall closer to literalists.

Gallup found that 70% of Americans believed in the Devil, similar numbers for hell.[0]

It might be tempting to wash this and say, "no, all those people just meant a metaphorical devil." But if you step back, it strains credulity a bit to argue that people, when asked if something existed, would respond "yes" to mean "not really, only in an allegorical sense."

Mostly though, of all the rationalizations offered for odd religious views, I just haven't yet seen any good evidence that most adherents have actually adopted these more nuanced views.

[0] http://www.gallup.com/poll/27877/Americans-More-Likely-Belie...
Few Source Code Editors for Developers
How to Be a Good Office Slave
The gas generator is pretty standard in rocket engines, but yeah, it's hard to wrap your head around an engine with a 55,000 horsepower fuel pump.
Stuxnet was designed to attack airgapped control systems.
I don't know. The EU's own website[1] on data protection refers to your name and photographs as private information that is subject to privacy protection laws.

Relevant quote:

> Individuals regularly disclose personal information such as their names, photographs, telephone numbers, birth date and address while engaged in a whole range of everyday activities.This personal data may be collected and processed for a wide variety of legitimate purposes such as business transactions, joining clubs, applying for a job, and so on.

> Nonetheless, the privacy rights of individuals supplying their personal data must be respected by anyone collecting and processing that data.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/data-collection/...
The main problem this project is trying to mitigate is the password reuse. If user A uses the same password for a lot of sites, a malicious person B is able to convince A to join a new service, like a cat photo sharing app or something like that. If A uses his/her same usual password, B automatically gets access to all A's accounts.

The way this project tries to solve the problem is by hashing the password from the client side so that sites never get the real password, but a hash instead. As other commenters have pointed out, this is not entirely effective because the attacker still can crack the hash. It just makes the problem more difficult depending on the size of the original password.

The real solution to this problem is to stop sharing password at all. Use a password manager for that purpose.
Sad that The Redditor didn't work out: http://www.theredditor.com/
> work­ing as a [professional] for the past three years

That doesn't seem like a great deal of experience to me.

Off the top of my head I can only think of one or two professors with distinguished professional careers who are principally focused on engineering, rather than computer science. Maybe there's a list somewhere?
I'm not sure we can afford to wait a generation if we want to have a say how things change. With increased regulation, economic down-turn and/or competition from China/India change is coming one way or the other.
I feel that this can disincentivize commenting. I am probably going to be a user of Upvoted, taking me out of Reddit where I comment when a story compels me to do it. If there is more people like me, you will reduce your commenting user base.
A good hash like scrypt makes the password very, very hard to crack unless it's a very poor password.

The real problem with this is that it'd never be feasible to convert enough sites and apps to using it to make it safe to reuse passwords
Probably apple's next move is not to add touch to os x but to release an iOS laptop to replace the MacBook air, they could call it an iBook. It's pretty clear OS X is legacy tech and on the roadmap for being phased out.
How is this any different than every other "hash a bunch of shit and throw in a salt" half-baked encryption idea people continually invent?
Hardware cost (and size/power) was the big issue. VITA-2 was literally a 9m+ bus and was jammed full of equipment. It surely wasn't a limit of brilliance (but like anything, hard and well-directed work is a crucial ingredient).

I believe that you could directly trace some of the lab work our group did to Distronic (adaptive cruise control) and Parktronic (parking assist) in Mercedes road cars over the years. I doubt any of my personal work can be directly traced to a shipping feature in a production car, but I still learned a ton (and I believe contributed a lot as well).

I'd love to learn more about auto firmware, especially as I've gotten into hardware and electronics a bit more as a hobbyist, but my sense is that the auto industry cares deeply about COGS and that probably drives a lot of their seemingly inefficient decision-making. (Firmware writing is NRE, module and ECU production is COGS and if you sell enough units, COGS dominates.)

I don't know you can extrapolate from anyone's career path, due to the insane amount of randomness in outcomes and choices, but if you're "good with computers", there's probably never been a better time to be in the field, especially since I'd basically do it for free (given what I do for hobbies).

"The grass is always greener" is a very real thing, so don't be in a huge hurry to jump fields/sub-fields/companies assuming that it's just your particular company that has flaws. They all do. ;)
Nope, I don't agree.

Total tax revenue does not need to equal total expenditures in the long run. Fiat currencies are created when the government spends money, and it's a choice (based on monetary schools of economics) to have them correlated with revenue. It is not a requirement. The government prints money.

The IMF is tasked with countering global inflation; anti-inflation policies disproportionately benefit those with cash and harm those with debts. In practice, structural adjustment has led to reductions in all sorts of public goods around the world, including education. Hence my inclusion of the IMF on a list with other government programs that increase, rather than reduce, wealth inequality.
Myth #4: We’re just over-diagnosing quirky kids with a trendy disorder.

I'm sorry but this is true. I know plenty of (diagnosed) autistic people and they seem to cope okayish with their daily lives. The real deal - and I've read heartbreaking articles about it - is when the (even grown up) autist cannot take a shower on his own, and when he is asked a question he is merely capable of repeating fragments of things he heard before, over and over again. No normal communication is possible. A severe disability. Mental disorders are massively overdiagnosed these days, it's a business with little backing of solid science, and I ask anyone who claims the opposite to show me solid evidence and research papers.
This is probably not going to be a very popular position but I'm going to say it anyway: there is no rational reason to bring a human back from Mars. In fact, there are precious few rational reasons to send a human to Mars to begin with. Robot technology has advanced to the point where they can do all the science better than we can. The only reason to send humans to Mars is to colonize, and if we're going to think seriously about colonizing Mars, we ought to think seriously about colonizing the arctic and antarctic first. Those are a whole lot more hospitable than Mars, and will continue to be a whole lot more hospitable than Mars even under worst-case climate change scenarios. In fact, maybe we ought to figure out how to get this planet to a sustainable steady-state before we start going around destroying another one. But either way, if you're going to land 18 tons of stuff on the surface it makes a whole lot more sense to make it 18 tons worth of permanent infrastructure than a one-time-use vehicle to get a handful of humans back to the home planet. Indulging our emotional need to not leave people behind gets awfully, awfully expensive.
To which I say "give me any two numbers".

>It's equivalent to a literary critic saying "you can make a computer do anything"; while computers are incredibly powerful, any knowledgable programmer understands that that is not true.

There's physical constraints and constraints on our own knowledge. What someone means behind a statement and their motivations behind that statement are a lot more within human constraints. There are no limitations on interpretation. Linguistic interpretation is a lot more open-ended than that and when I say people can make up whatever they like, as long as they have some strands of logic to prop up behind it, I mean it.

How many different interpretations of Romeo and Juliet do you think can be found within each scene? Each interpretation will be colored by the observer's experiences. If they are pre-determined to find a certain message, they'll find it.

I know this for a fact. Humans see connections, patterns, and meanings that aren't really there. As an example, the puzzle Masqurerade has already been solved. Yet there are people who are so certain that their solution is the correct one. They see patterns that aren't really there, and readily convince themselves of the truth of their solution. Many of the solutions are quite logical, some even give a close answer. The problem is that the puzzle has already been solved.

[0] http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-dr...
Data isn't encrypted on the client side only the "password" is.
So are there specs for the Book anywhere? If I can replace my notebook + wacom intuos setup with one of those, It'd be wonderful. A helluva lot more travel-friendly.
Both this and your other link are nice summaries of the problem. Thanks.
Is this Reddit trying to take itself more seriously? It's almost like a mask layer to obfuscate the hive mind. I'm curious how the content is created, how something is featured, etc.
The End of History? (1989)
The+Worst+Advice+We've+Heard+About+Princess
Using the Wolfram Language in the Classroom: English
Panos was an obnoxious douche, the products and "One more thing" reveal deserved a much better presenter.
Anybody have any idea about memory? How much gigs of RAM it compromises ?
No.

This only comes into effect if the data is at any time stored within EU jurisdiction.
> Would it be possible for the 3d model to fall back to wireframe when rotating if necessary?
- Yes, that would be a nice addition for slow machines. It is possible, just not in the current build.

> Some buttons to jump to standard views would also be nice, especially for slow machines. (Plan view, isometric views.)
- Yes, that would make for a nice user experience to default to some standard views.

Thanks for the feedback.
The New Microsoft Surface Book (YouTube)
Unfortunately, they chose to support 99.9(999?)% of existing USB cables instead.
It is a wonderful, thoughtful project, but it's an art project.

While that's great, I don't come to Hacker News for the latest interesting art project.

I think like many people that clicked the link and scrolled through the images, we made the assumption that these were put together using some algorithm that mined Google's 'visually similar' search and then somehow found the best results in order to create a set of images that 'flowed'.

It's a little disappointing to learn otherwise, but it's now kicked off a train of thought about how I might automate something similar. :-)
The Visual Field is way less than what they marketed at E3... Avoid HoloLens 1.0
Especially because it actually was mentioned in the article :)

EDIT: Hehe, no problem. I lost count of how many times I overlooked things in articles that I skimmed.
That's the idea behind it. Though Buzzfeed actually have a news branch with actual journalists behind it based in west-coast & east-coast. I was interviewed by a couple of them and it was a pleasant experience. I don't know if upvoted is planning on hiring journalists on staff. May be Alexis can tell us more here.
I'm very curious how well the trackpad on the Surface Book works. I've had MacBooks and the HP Spectre; the Sprectre is awesome but the trackpad...I mean holy shit it's just absolutely awful to the point where I've pretty much stopped using it.

So how good is this trackpad and does it work like a MacBook's where two fingers = right click versus this weird obsession PC vendors seem to have about dividing a single trackpad into invisible click zones?
I have to wonder how much this was influenced by Snowden's revelations about the extent to which the NSA was vacuuming up data.

It must have been on the EU courts mind.
I'm working on the same problem, and there's a working prototype https://github.com/sakurity/truefactor

The problem is bigger than that - we should stop making users type password at all. There should be an authentication module any website could use to store and retrieve credentials from. Check out Truefactor.
As a Surface Pro 3 user, who saves a Macbook Pro for heavy lifting (like video) at home, I can safely say the MB is getting replaced with the Surface Book. Depending on in-person use, it might also replace the Surface Pro 3. I typically watch Apple's and Google's product launches, have to to say this event was concise and unveiled products in a great forward moving momentum. Solid work Msoft marketing team!
You also probably know plenty of depressed people who cope with their daily lives; that there are people who suffer from catatonic depression does not invalidate their depression.

I don't think you know what you're talking about, which is confusing because you have expressed a very strong opinion about the subject.
Space elevators and lowered tethers await (nano-carbon?) materials of super tensile strength for a gravity well as deep as Earth's, but what materials are possible for 38% of that gravity on Mars? And/or, a partial 'rope trick' involving a lift balloon to raise a one person pod as high up as possible to where a hook could be lowered from an orbital vehicle to haul them up the rest of the way. It just seems that wenches are generally going to beat massively expended rocket fuel.