skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quote:

It’s been half a century since the United States finally dusted Russia in the space race, as NASA’s Gemini program ticked off an unprecedented series of long-duration flights, spacewalks, and in-space rendezvous to put America firmly on course to the Moon.

It's very questionable. USSR launched 2 Sputniks first, then the first man. Regarding Apollo mission: USSR didn't participate in manned lunar mission race.

Moreover the goal of the space race was not about a manned mission to the Moon, but about the supremacy in space, so things are more complicated.
Russians had Voskhod programme, US had Gemini. USSR more focused on Venus, US - on Mars, etc.
Sony, Microsoft and Valve need to push for their hardware because otherwise there will be no need for their platforms. Why would Bathesda create games for the PlayStation VM or Xbox VM if in the end the VMs are running on iOS or Android or whatever else OS? They'll directly create games for the App Store or Play Store instead. Nintendo makes enough first party games to consider doing what you're suggesting. Just what Sega did in the past. Valve had to work on their own hardware due to the threat of the Windows App Store.
> Still, "dormant" microbes will not be prevalent in the birth canal to ensure transmission to the next generation

It has always been my impression that much of the microbiome is transferred after birth through breast milk, not in utero. I don't have any authority at hand to verify whether this is true, or to what extent, though.
What I didn't like about twitter is that they uploaded my contact info on smart phone app without my consent. To date, they still have NOT erased those information and I still get email asking me if I know someone who just happen to be in my address book a few years ago.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539245 ?
There are two things that clue me in - attention to detail and the ability to follow directions. I give a test that has explicit instructions and it works every time. The test has both math and non-math problems but is mostly logical. The questions are more broad so that I can see their thought process.

I also weed candidates out immediately in the job description by throwing in a sentence in the middle that instructs them to send their resume with the subject line "entropy" or some other key word. When I get emails with resumes I simply delete those that don't have the key word.
Why I Joined HackerOne as CEO
I can only assume you're trolling, or an incredibly obsequious shill for federal power.

The only time an attorney will defend you without both a retainer and on-time payments is when your particular case is high enough profile to make pro-bono work worth it in terms of publicity. Your odds of this circumstance are less than one percent.

Federal prosecutors have extremely high conviction( or rather, plea )rates because they live and breathe by the extraordinarily asymmetrical power wielded over their victims. That you defend this asymmetry is sickening.

Ironically, with this case making the WaPo, she will likely find easy pro-bono work now. That vast majority of us? Probably not.
Most non-enterprise SSDs do not have an internal supercap or other power protection mechanism and they are not intended for a server use-case and shouldn't be used in such capacity.

An HDD will not hold data that is written to its write cache either so the SSDs are well within the spec.
Gerd Arntz Web Archive: http://www.gerdarntz.org/isotype
As best i recall, they come out of a misuse of Fragments elements.

The original idea of Google's Fragments framework was to produce something closer to desktop interfaces on tablets. But interfaces that could also "collapse" to fit the "card stack" thinking of earlier Android.

Meaning that what we now know as the hamburger menu was meant to show up as a sidebar in tablet layout, and as a first layer in phone layout.

Similarly, Fragments gave us the actionbar where earlier there was a dedicated menu button. The icon was for when the number of bar entries didn't fit the available screen space.

Again the thinking seemed to be that the bar would revert back to being the menu on phones.
This is a post of the DNSSEC microsite containing a bunch of information (not sure who the poster is, it's not someone from CloudFlare) whereas that's a link the announcement blog.
GIRASO CHAT Register
>platforms give real time feedback..

Unfortunately often it's not completely honest feedback about your content. It's feedback filtered / deformed by the fact that other people on the platform will see the likes, retweets, comments etc As a result it's not the best content that becomes popular. It's the one used to impress others.
If you use DuckDuckGo as your primary search engine, you can use a bang[1] !t [word]...kind of a default shortcut

1. https://duckduckgo.com/bang
How Insects Breathe
Completely OT: You know that phenomenon that when you hear a word for the first time in a long time or first time ever - and then you suddenly hear it again and again? Just happened to me with the word "Fungible". I happen to know what the word means, coming from a financial/trading background but don't recall hearing it for some time now. Then 2 completely unrelated Hacker News articles I read, almost in a row, had the word "Fungible" in them - neither of which had anything to do with finance/trading!

I know it is just random chance, but it feels really strange!
Let me ask jgrahamc, I'll get back to you ;)
I didn't say black hat. I said black market. I think its morally as wrong as selling an exploit on the black market. That money has blood on it now. I'm not saying the researchers are black hat hackers. I just think that ethivslly they're walking a very dangerous path.
I noticed that as well. Simple stick framing and flat joists. If I was paying 0.5 Billion dollars for a house, that thing better be built with carbon fiber, titanium alloys, and gorilla glass.
How is this in anyway related to the link?
If pressing a button will do nothing due to lack of content, it should either be visibly disabled or hidden
Is a CDN also a MITM attack?
I was trying to figure out if he/she is a CloudFlare employee; doesn't look like it.
Credit Card Basics – COLLEGEdata – College Buzz
Well that's socialism and look at how many people that killed.
97% vs how many that don't wear helmets at all? Also 97%, or 70%, or 50%? That's pretty important for understanding how much the risk increases.
This reads less like a genuine guide to a disrupting a forum, and more like an imitation of one, produced by a participant of such a conspiracy/anti-government forum or some such, in an attempt to convince others that such activity was happening. As if the author was upset at the typical properties and pathologies of such forums frustrating his attempts to push his own agenda, and decided they must be the result of a co-ordinated effort to disrupt it. Like fringe political groups that are obsessed by the bogeyman of establishment infiltrators, not realising their own true believers' lunacy and internecine tendencies is often far more disruptive to their efforts.
If you don't know for sure that that is a post by a cloudflare employee then I suggest you change the text or delete the comment.

When google rolls out a new feature there are 10's of submissions around the theme and surely not all of those are by google employees, why should cloudflare be any different?
Nice hack: Odisco pulls all music events from Facebook, displays them as a list
How Walter Murch Merged “Apocalypse Now” and “Ride of the Valkyries”
What makes you think it's a CloudFlare employee?
What would be something "divisive", in your opinion? I think some very divisive topics are discussed fairly regularly here, among them:

1. Gender politics

2. NSA/surveillance

3. Vim/Emacs

And I could name at least 2-3 regular commenters on HN who fall pretty cleanly into each of the opposing sides of these issues (ok, maybe not Emacs, but all the others).

Just because we're not degenerating into flame wars doesn't mean we don't discuss divisive topics.
The C&D doesn't say anything at all about moving, so you're right, it says nothing of the sort. You're just making shit up.
baader meinhof phenomenon
Good ole Baader Meinhof phenomenon. True story: I learned about it after hearing "Baader Meinhof" thrown around one too many times. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon#Freq...
Magination – A magnetic game
This is deeply true
I never knew about that, so thanks. This is a significant argument against the traditional cable model, at least for me.

Are there other genres (for want of a better term) where this applies?
Protect your code while using Webpack
> Video game consoles (and all set-top boxes) hearken back to an era where the average house only had one TV, and it was dumb.

I'm pretty sure the average TV is still dumb.
And here I was thinking "wait, most programming languages don't have words for smells[1] because they are abstract concepts, not concrete features..."

Then I saw the article. Oops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell
Sorry if that sounded like an attack. No offense was meant.

I guess I got your point wrong. Now I see. Yes, that makes sense. Even though I don't like, say, Mozilla (I have my reasons), with a popular after-market firmware they may fight for a way for everyone to flash anything - not just their firmware. Just hope this won't end up like it happened with UEFI Secure Boot, where everyone's who's unlucky to have firmware that doesn't support custom keys are stuck with Ubuntu-signed GRUB.
I think Android has surpassed iOS in terms of design and usability. I upgraded to a Android 5.0 recently (lightly modded by One Plus), and the design is really stunning. The icons have been redesigned to appear as though they they are made of actual flat material adding almost a hybrid 3d flat design that looks great. The colors are vibrant without being overwhelming. Messenger and Contacts applies a new color to your contacts which helps you keep in mind with whom you are speaking. All the Google apps exhibit similar colors and styles to add for consistency.

I'm not a designer and maybe its just personal preference, but I'm a long time Android user and this is the first time the stock Android has been pleasant to look at. I use other's iPhones and, despite the great display, the UI now appears rather dull in comparison.

https://design.google.com/
You still have to deal with trying to play games that were designed around a desk setting, with a keyboard and mouse, in a living room setting.
Agreed. Not enough obscure acronyms for a genuine government document, and insufficient count of the word "cyber".
> Good luck exchanging your fried RAID controller for a "comparable" model

If you are running Linux/*BSD/SmartOS, the best RAID controller is a JBOD controller, i.e. one that that exposes all connected disks as-is to the host OS, and than it would be in-kernel soft-RAID implementing the actual logic.

This approach gives you a more predictable system with no vendor-specific idiosyncrasies or extra cache level to worry about (BBU in OP's article); you end up running RAID code that is peer-reviewed, fully integrated into fsync() algorithm, and surprisingly, often gives you better performance too.

"True hardware RAID controllers", on the other hand, are nothing more than an application-specific computer with its own (non-upgradeable and often outdated) CPU, RAM, I/O and hard-to-upgrade proprietary software.

And if you buy into the view described above, than replacing a JBOD controller for RAID use is exactly the same thing as replacing JBOD controller for ZFS use, by definition.
I think the reason has a physiological basis.

The other senses go to the thalamus and then to the cortex

Vision - Lateral geniculate nucleus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_system#Lateral_genicula...

Hearing - Medial geniculate nucleus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_system#Medial_genicul...

Taste - Ventra posteromedial nucleus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventral_posteromedial_nucleus

Touch - Ventral posterior nucleus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventral_posterior_nucleus

Smell on the other hand goes first to the olfactory cortex, and is not routed through the thalamus.

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

One interesting consequence is how powerful an influence smell can have on us. The olfactory cortex is in the limbic system which is associated with emotion and memory. This might explain why certain smells (like the smell of something your mother used to cook) can instantly bring back memories and emotions.
Mapping your domain knowledge
Mine only ever see it in hotel rooms on vacation. The first time they experienced it, my son got very upset because we could pause it when he had to use the bathroom. The commercials irritated my wife & I so much we just turned it off entirely.
I am looking for something that can replace RPi2/Edison in my humanoid robot for real-time computer vision. Is Jetson TX1 a good candidate? Is it a drop-in replacement with a similar power envelope as RPi2/Edison, i.e. can be powered by a small LiPo battery?
No need to digitize. There are analog multiplier and squaring circuits.

http://www.analog.com/en/products/linear-products/rms-to-dc-...
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring a test engineer to help build self-driving cars
I ate oatmeal for breakfast nearly every morning for 13 years.
You mean your ISP tracking every move you make? Seriously?
I think it's important that those of you who haven't read up on DNSSEC understand how bad an idea it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539418

If DNSSEC had been deployed a few years back, Muammar Gadaffi could conceivably controlled BIT.LY's TLS keys. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, DNSSEC gives the NSA immense control over the TLS keys of sites in .COM, .ORG, .NET, .CO.UK, .IO, .COM.AU, and many more.
Securing Your Intel XDK HTML5 App
> you believe you'll be able to create more value for yourself by doing something else rather than seeing it through with a startup.

Just pointing out that there are other reasons to leave aside from rational economic thought about this individual's expected ability to produce higher output elsewhere. They may dislike the team, pivoted idea, or leadership decisions. But they may also want to keep hold of the equity in case it gets big (or they can sell it or a liquidity event occurs).
Sure. I think conditions vary from city to city, neighborhood to neighborhood even. That's why I don't support helmet laws. They impose inconvenience and reduce personal freedom. Holland happens to be entirely flat and suited for safe biking, so it's a good example for why helmet laws are not universally a good idea.
> The next genetic leaps in the next century are going to be stratospheric.

Agreed. I'm afraid your assumption may be completely true. The sad thing is that such a rapid market capture will preclude verification of cross-generational effects of our modifications. And we don't have a good track record for getting things right on the first try.

As a hypothetical example, how many generations do you think it will take to recognize if one particular gene splicing will make interbreeding between spliced vs non-spliced offspring impossible?
My girlfriend and I lived in our house for two years without even hooking up the roof antenna. Eventually I bothered to do it (not trivial, long story) because my girlfriend wanted to watch football. The idea of paying for network TV with ads is hilarious.
Sounds like a made up excuse.
> On what basis have you arrived to those conclusions?

> And don't mistake the food that you can eat in your local Chinese restaurant to what the Chinese are actually eating.

I live in Asia. My local Chinese restaurants are Chinese, and if I want Indonesian food I can eat it in Indonesia. I should have given a shout out to Thailand as well, where sugar is put in lots of things you wouldn't expect, like fresh fruit juice.

I suppose you can call Indonesian meals "plant based" when they largely consist of a heap of white rice, but I defy you to find the plants in the ever popular "bakso" and Indomie.
That's what it means to have a domain in Libya - you're subject to the jurisdiction of the officially recognized Libyan government. If you don't want to have to deal with the whims of a crazy dictator, don't register your business in his country.
A few observations from someone in the "Top 10" for 8 years now:

- You're never as good as your upvotes.
- You're never as bad as your downvotes.
- Karma ebbs & flows with the audience, which changes dramatically.
- I sense no correlation between karma & quality of real life.
- I sense little correlation between karma & quality of contribution.
- I sense heavy correlation between karma & volume of participation.
- I sense very heavy inverse correlation between karma & real work completed.

(Back to work)
Thanks, I'm looking at this now.
Is an SSL-terminating load balancer an MITM attack?
It's great to see this microsite (and the announcement yesterday) as this rollout by CloudFlare will do two major things to help move DNSSEC forward:

1. Simplify the process of setting up DNSSEC-signing for so many people; and

2. Advance the usage of stronger crypto through the used of ECDSA (DNSSEC algorithm 13).

The first point will help with getting many more domains signed. The second point will help those of us who want to see even stronger crypto used within DNSSEC.

On that last note, I'd also note that there is an Internet Draft submitted about adding Ed25519 as a new DNSSEC crypto algorithm. You can find it here:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sury-dnskey-ed25519-01

Support for this draft within the IETF working groups - and indeed in implementations - will help make this a reality.
So:
- We've had religious erosions to the First
- Continued assault against the Second
- The Third appears to be safe
- Fourth is largely gone with Forfeiture
- Fifth mostly safe
- Sixth now under attack
- Seventh also attacked by Forfeiture
- This ruling also takes a passing swipe at the Eighth if it goes through
- The Ninth and Tenth were finally destroyed by the Health Care Act
I've been trying to (unsuccessfully) research why OTA broadcasts of channels exist in the first place. Why do/would these networks provide their service for free? I thought transmissions were to be encrypted.

Am I missing something?
lol, these Slack bots give me a warm feeling.

IRC scripting (with mIRC) was the first real programming I did, back in 2002. I can vividly remember, that I didn't have a clue about arrays or functions. I simply skipped over them because they seemed obscure to me. Variables I got rather fast.

I wrote so many chat bots. Also one like this. !seen bots were rather popular back in the days.

A Card-game bot, that showed you your cards via direct messages and the "played" in the channel.

I was so proud of my news-bot that used sockets to connect to channel related websites and posted news every hour or so.
Well, not impossible. Just splice again. Nothing is irreversible.
Show HN: Online timesheets and project cost managing and rich 3rd party integrations
You think your ISP doesn't already know exactly where you're going on the Internet?
In other words, you are a perfect vector for advertising. If another guy wants to reach those girls, he might want to pay you his whole allowance.

Edit: to clarify my point, I say that Twitter not only is friends with the attractive guy, but is also funny and charming and interesting in his own right, and that this is a major value.
I think we can have it both ways. For a given rider, on a given trip, any fall will be safer if they are wearing a helmet. However, statistically, it is argued, many falls won't be much safer. And in fact, if they feel compelled to wear a helmet, the person won't ride at all. And many of the rides the don't take would be ones where the likeliest falls are likely to not be helped much by a helmet.

I subscribe to the above reasoning. A population may be healthier if not compelled to wear helmets when cycling. But for me, I never ride without one. Ever. Short trips, long trips, commutes to work. I have mine with me now.
Hey guys.

There are quite a bit of these around (fully aware of that), but we're trying to make a step ahead. Think of Cronforce as online timesheets meets vacation/absence scheduling meets project cost management for SMBs/startups. Real time tracking and rich 3rd party integrations to complete the picture.

The focus right now is bundling the software with segmented apps (think Google Apps, Jira, Basecamp, SAP, Trello). We're heavily relying on the Jira integration as it seems a lot of users are keen on it:

http://cronforce.com/integrations/jira-time-tracking.html

Would be glad to have your opinion on what works and what could be better!
Impacto: a wearable that simulates physical impact in VR
My wife, from eastern Asian descent (mixed, but her mother and primary influencer of her diet is from there), cannot understand eating raw foods. She eats almost no raw foods. She likes plenty of veggies, but cooked. She also gets most of her fruit cooked (things like chayote and pineapple cooked with meats and in stews, bananas fried, etc.). Interesting to hear it's a broader cultural thing.

I eat lots of raw food in contrast... salads, veggies with hummus, fruit, etc.
I think you need to be more precise about your definition of "socialism".
So a transmission time slot selector seeded by FM signals. I haven't read it yet, but is there a good summary for how it handles varying loads? As the number of users and packets go up, you have to select smaller timeslots from the same FM signal seed.
DNSCurve and DNSCrypt are the better solutions for slightly different problems that I think we should be pushing.
Mangrove Forests Are Being Starved of Mud
Too little, too late.
I've always been curious if one could discover the approximate working dimensionality of the nose by computing the number of principal components of a matrix of survey results of perceived similarity between many different smells.

Even better, if one gave names to the principal components, one can invent a suitable lexicon for describing smells.
I would hypothesize it's because smell is "Sparse". I believe we have so many receptors with such specificity that it's less useful to think in terms of "dense" parameters. In comparisson with other senses, for music we can locate a sound in a pitch spectrum since we have many receptors (millions?) with sensitivity across a single dimension (frequency). For color, we have just three receptors, lending perceived elements to be put in a nice three dimensional space. Now with smells, we have so many different and so specific receptors that there's neither a canonical order for the receptors to be put across a dimension (the case with sound) or a dense set within a few dimensions (vision, taste). So we just associate each receptor with the most common source.
Just what I needed, ads in my Steam and Steam games!
Yes, but it's a short list. At the moment. Considering that the first derivative is at least for the moment away from ads, I am cautiously optimistic. I'm hoping that once Hulu has the data on the people paying those $2/month that it will reveal that there's a statistically-significant relationship between those shows still having ads, and the $2/month customers watching less of them per capita.

(My wife recently wanted us back on Hulu for Seinfeld, and it was a big factor in our decision to go back that we could turn off the ads, except in a set of shows we don't much care about.)

My understanding of the economics is that $2/month is significantly more than they can hope to make in ads off me, so I'm hoping the money is enough to overcome any residual desire to advertise. (Once the ad addiction is broken, there's good reason to believe it'll stay broken. Nowadays it's easier to get people to just give you a buck rather than shave away pennies at a time through ads. Thirty years ago that wasn't true.)
Come work at CloudFlare! Let's get working on that.