skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dug up the number for Shuttle missions for comparison: Out of 135 total missions, 2 shuttles were destroyed in accidents [0].

While it is certainly great to aim for 100% success, it's helpful to remember that astronauts are willing to take measured risks in order to perform their missions, and that we must select rockets/etc from the options available, not from the options we might wish to have.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Space_Shuttle_missions
Or even further back to the time when CIA destroyed the democracy in Iran, and hasn't stopped interfering since ...
This is a relic of the CA/B Forum (https://cabforum.org/) delegating review of brand/trademark checks to the CAs. We (CloudFlare) send hostnames to the CA for issuance and they check against internal lists, holding up anything for manual review that may violate another's trademark or be used for phishing (e.g., "pavpal" with a 'v' rather than a 'y'), etc.

Each CA has their procedures but most look at data sources like the Alexa Top 1000, and specific requests from high value targets like Microsoft, Google, etc. In some cases, e.g., Microsoft, the CAs must actually reach out to specific contacts at those firms before they can issue. In other cases, they manually review and release to us.
As far as I know neither of those failures would have resulted in loss of crew. One was a partial failure where due to a partial engine failure they didn't make their secondary orbital insertion, and the other was a loss of vehicle that would have been covered by either the crew escape system, or the dragon capsule parachuting to safety.
Agreed. There's abstraction and then there's abstraction. I might have been in the camp of Go enthusiasts if my experience with abstraction only included C++ or Java. But once I discovered Standard ML and OCaml I found out how wonderful abstraction can be.
The Rule of 3 and 10
Long term college tenants as a rule are extremely well behaved, mostly because they value quiet as much as the next person (or even more) on account of their studies. They may have a few more parties than any other household but as a rule they don't generate too much of a problem because they are in there for the longer term and so have to be on good terms with the rest of the neighborhood.

And I would not blame AirBNB in that case because they have absolutely nothing to do with that.
That's it. And I run Drupal on my personal site as well as you noted. I have a handful of other Drupal sites and a couple WordPress sites I help with, too. I'll probably upgrade my personal site first and my internal test sites running on local server instances to play with.
The problem is that once you allow that crack in the wall, articles that generate outrage and comments and clicks all flood through. For example, on the front page right now is this article about pharma pricing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10595041. Is it likely to draw measured, informative comments about how your business should approach pricing and PR, or is it likely to draw yet another tedious flamewar about health care policy?

I think it's reasonable that knowing macroeconomics news is important to running a business, but it's not the case that everything that's important to running a business has to be on HN. It's hard to run a business if you are constantly fighting with your spouse/partner/whatever, but that shouldn't mean flooding the front page with relationship advice.
https://www.coinjar.com/ does the job but only in Australia.
It's weird there is NFC payments on banks and bitcoin credit card here for a while now but everywhere else it seems new.
Ask HN: Are we headed into another recession?
A lot of the news coming out recently seems to be pointing in the direction that we are headed into another recession.

1) (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-18/dead-unicorn-walking-square-ipos-9-well-below-expected-range)

2) (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/san-francisco-real-estate-looking-like-it-did-before-dotcom-crash-in-2000-2015-11-20?dist=countdown)

3) (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/technology/livingsocial-once-a-unicorn-is-losing-its-magic.html)

4) (https://gcaptain.com/baltic-dry-falls-below-500-for-first-time-ever/)
Who Turned My Blue State Red?
I'm not the gp, but I think I can explain. Emoji isn't your prototypical "what you learn in school" language, but there is a huge amount of language that you don't learn in school. Emoji is kind of like non-verbal communication, which is language. Also some emoji is certainly more language-y than others. Here's why:

1. Emoji only typically exists in the written form, but that isn't really a strike against it: paragraphs, capital letters, and (to some extent) word-breaks only exist in the written form too.

2. They have a conceptual existence, and communicative force, that is separate from any particular representation. You can't copy-write the smiley grapheme. You could copy-write a particular smiley image (or "graph"), much like you could copy-write a glyph, but that's it.
Emoji isn't used to express complex arguments. It is most often used to express emotions in text. Because people are hardwired to recognize emotions in other people's faces an emjoi activates different parts of the brain than text expressing the same feeling. This can make a conversion using text more like a conversation face to face which is important for lots of casual conversion that now happens via the internet.

Finally emoji is important for many young children in Japan and China, (I'm not an expert on this). The issue is learning all the characters needed to express yourself is pretty hard and takes years longer than learning the latin alphabet. Further learning how to input characters on a computer takes even longer. However kids still want to communicate with each other and as a result use a lot of emoji to speed up the process for them. For them emjoi is how they want to express themselves.
Was this complexity needed?

It's just a few lines in bash

#!/bin/bash
wget "http://adaway.org/hosts.txt" -O- > hosts
wget "http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt" -O- >> hosts
wget "http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt" -O- >> hosts
wget "http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts" -O- >> hosts
wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/data/StevenBlack/hosts" -O- >> hosts
wget "http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&mimetype=plaintext&useip=0.0.0.0" -O- >> hosts

mv hosts /etc/hosts

# Flush DNS cache as per your OS
# Mac OS X
# dscacheutil -flushcache
# Linux
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart
# Linux with systemd:
# systemctl restart network.service
# Fedora Linux
# systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

Or in a windows batch file

wget "http://adaway.org/hosts.txt" -O- > hosts
wget "http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt" -O- >> hosts
wget "http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt" -O- >> hosts
wget "http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts" -O- >> hosts
wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/data/StevenBlack/hosts" -O- >> hosts
wget "http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&mimetype=plaintext&useip=0.0.0.0" -O- >> hosts
move hosts %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
ipconfig /flushdns
The ambient sound recorder is disabled by default, but is no different than any other option that does the same.

As for the keylogger, stop spreading FUD. Cortana is nearly identical to every other search including Apple's spotlight. Proxy your traffic and watch each keystroke. Ubuntu's search also does this.

Or were you under the impression that your Siri voice snippets or OK Google or Firefox awesome bar was magically not phoning to a cloud service?
With the addition of the crew escape system plus nailing down the causes of their last failure, very much safer than any other manned launcher the US has had in service.
Ooshma here. Loving the new website. Was a crazy experience to open up with Colleen on the inaugural Q&A. Thanks Colleen for an incredible interview, and congrats Colleen, Kevin, and YC on a successful launch!
1) This is a press release from a PR person in the company. There is no "person familiar with the matter" who is willing to risk their reputation and career to leak internal metrics of the company.

2) This is a follow-on to their last round of funding, not a separate capital raise. The valuation did not change. They likely had an interested party that missed the boat, got nervous about being left out, and agree to the same terms. Little distraction for the company + money at known terms + small stake (.4%) + press = #yes.

3) AirBnB takes a 15% cut on bookings. A stable company might have a price/earnings ratio of 5x. So for them to have a $25 billion valuation, that's $5 billion in revenue or $33 billion in bookings. That means they would need to grow ~24.5x their current size (either without raising again or raising at the same valuation) to justify this.

According to an industry association[1], sales in 2013 for all lodging in the US was $163 billion. Yes international, but that's for the largest GDP in the world and there are non-zero costs in marketing/sales/regulation/data security to entering other markets.

[1]: https://www.ahla.com/content.aspx?id=36332

EDIT - I was wrong about the fee, thank you richiezc!
For that matter why bother having a text encoding at all? We could just send pictures of text to each other right?
> restaurant

Supper clubs are a thing. People invite others over and cook for them. Some are so popular that money probably changes hands. Do we need to regulate that?

> crèche

I had to look this up, but it sounds like a daycare. People do childcare/babysitting in their homes. That's not unusual. Children are usually cared for in a home.

> laundry

If you're talking about installing a full laundromat in your house, yeah you might run into problems. If you want to charge someone a couple bucks to use your washer and dryer, I don't see how that's going to run into any problems. There are no laws restricting how frequently you're allowed to do laundry within your own home that I know of (other than maybe noise complaints that might happen if you're doing laundry in the middle of the night in some apartment complexes).
Oh, just maybe it has something to do with the extremely pacifist agenda of the US and Saudi Arabia in the region ...
> ...and significantly hurt the handling of foreign language characters.

How so? Emojis are far simpler than much of Unicode used for various languages (no combining marks or complicated grapheme rules). If your program doesn't shred code points outside the BMP, then it handles Emojis just fine.

> What annoys me is that the standard for emoji has been mashed into the standard for characters as if they are the same thing.

So you think it would be better to create an alternative encoding to UTF-8/16/32 that allows mixing Unicode codepoints and Emoji codepoints, then get all platforms to support it, then also completely restructure all the text-shaping libraries which assume everything is a Unicode codepoint. Instead of focusing on things like better RTL support, while just assigning some codepoints to emoji which require no big changes in encoding or display.

> Mashing the two standards together means that people who only want to support characters or only want to support emoji have no guidelines for doing so.

They have the same guidelines that every font creator has been using for the entirety of the existence of Unicode; only provide glyphs for the code points you expect to be used, provide a nice box character for the rest. Most fonts have a few thousand glyphs, while Unicode has assigned hundreds of thousands of code points. Emoji are just a drop in that ocean.

> If you don't understand why this is bad, it's probably because you don't understand type systems and the fact that emoji and characters are different types.

Mathematical symbols and characters are "different types". However, the excellent Unicode support for math symbols has been instrumental in screenreader support for mathematical expressions, since they are often next to regular text. And as far as distinguishing between different kinds of characters, that's what the whole concept of formally defined Unicode character properties[1] is for.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property
Stage 1 is at the cape: https://twitter.com/Marc944Marc/status/667708558235066368
I disagree with your judgement about the grammatically of the utterance. And if you've ever written comments about anything, for example, someone's writing or pictures, you'll probably say things like
"me in Peru" or "needs revising" or "word is inappropriate"
77 blue-collar Chinese migrants that Kenya is calling “cyber-hackers”
Windows turns 30
It's hard to tell in this study if it's a generational behavior or if it's just something people learn as they age.

This is certainly an interesting question to ask periodically so we could do such an analysis.
The founders and early execs of Living Social did very well! All of them walked away with millions.
Checked and responded! Cheers Nick.
n=2 and anyone else who regularly shops for groceries in North America. Wealthy silicon valley types who post here are almost comically out of touch with the real world sometimes.
Once they start to recover the first stage, they'll get a lot more information about how their systems really performed, as opposed to how they think they performed from the telemetry. You can do all sorts of testing on all the returned components, figure out how much of the margin of safety was actually used, and look for fatigue cracks that weren't quite bad enough to result in failure this time round. In principle at least, this could greatly increase the safety of future launches, at least as far as the first stage is concerned.
Internet of Things computer? Hmm. What u think?
It appears that you are abusing HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Cloudrail&sort=byPopularity&pr...
There are 283 sites with a /now page listed at http://nownownow.com/ .
I'm surprised they would do this while the previous launch was still a failure and SpaceX has not shown a series of unmanned flights with a reliability as good as what the Russians offered. That would seem to be the benchmark for manned flights.
You're not wrong; every title on that page is crying out for a video! The images in the papers seem to have been taken from animated models too :( Plus it would give a lot more context to the reader and really display how good the algorithm is.
Unfortunately, the book I usually point people to [1] when they ask a question like that is not yet updated for Drupal 8. Frankly, we're probably going to be in that awkward state where supply for learning resources for D8 is greatly overwhelmed by demand for a little while at least. But it's OSS; if all else fails, you can trace the source code, assuming you've got the PHP chops.

1: http://www.drupalbook.com
In the context of manned missions, it's unsurvivable failures that are unacceptable.
Mercury was flown on Redstone rockets for suborbital flights and Atlas rockets for orbital flights.

Redstone had a success rate of 5/6. [1]
Atlas had a success rate of 13/24. [2]

It was certainly a different time, but spaceflight has always been really risky. There has also always been more attention paid to human rated flights during the manufacturing & testing process. I also imagine SpaceX will not be doing first flights of new Falcon 9 variations with humans aboard.

That's not to say it is low risk, but 23/25 considering these are unmanned and largely R&D flights is not bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_Launch_Vehicl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas#Atlas-D_deployment
2) Agree, this is likely the case

3) From the article: "Airbnb generates revenue by taking a 3% cut of each booking along with a 6% to 12% service fee from guests. Based on the third-quarter numbers, it appears the company is collecting a maximum fee from guests, with revenue running at about 15% of bookings."
I had no idea that KYC now has such onerous proof of income requirements. It's mind boggling.
merchant fees are significantly lower given that we're talking of a debit card not a credit card
LEO by far isn't the most difficult part, not if you are aiming for moon/inter-planetary transport.
LEO is ridiculously easy to get too, The ISS is at 340KM, GEO orbit is 35,000 you can put payload in LEO with "amateur" rockets, GEO/HEO is a completely different story, it's extremely hard and you need a heck of a rocket to do it with any substantial payload.

Now from GEO/HEO to anywhere else it's quite easy to get because you are pretty much near the escape velocity so it takes almost no delta-v to get pretty much anywhere you want in the solar system, at least as far as getting to a higher solar orbit goes as the closer you get the faster your solar orbital velocity is so using that speed to get even to the edges of the solar system takes very little energy.
If we talk about say a mars shot then most of the energy in that trip goes to 2 things, getting to high earth orbit, and then slowing down for a mars capture the amount of fuel needed to do the martian orbit transfer is almost negligible.
LEO is the most expensive part, but we know how to do it pretty well at this point. Landing something big enough to carry humans on Mars, on the other hand, is a problem we haven't solved yet.
I don't understand. What would they need that kind of money for at this point? Surely they are raking in lots of revenue?
I don't know what I'm supposed to be scared of here. The concept of genetically engineered food doesn't put me off in the least, and the risk of these salmon escaping to the wild doesn't sound particularly dangerous to me. I know there're lots of "unknown unknowns" when it comes to messing with the natural order, but if for some reason they wind up thriving and supplanting the existing salmon population then, what, we wind up with faster-growing wild salmon? I'm sure the local fishermen won't mind.
Huh, didn't know you can iframe a whole web page...

At first I thought this page just ripped all the Wikipedia stylesheets and html but its just all one big iframe.
Postgres Containment Operators: Part 2 – Performance Comparison with MongoDB
Not quite sure what the difference is between 1 access and 23 709 accesses.
I have long-standing gripes with design decisions taken in npm too, but I don't think its quality as a package manager is affected one way or the other by its contributors tweeting in a way you appear to dislike.
Nothing says walls can't be built inside the stores
I think the right not to be interfered with is important too. This includes property rights, but I wouldn't necessarily put it at the very top of the list morally. They're pretty important economically.

In any case, I think it's interesting you said "freedom to smoke pot in one's home." Many aspects of liberalism/libertarianism are fairly incompatible with fundamentalism, though people try. Once you accept that a little taxation is necessary to fund police or something, you give up on a fundamentalist purity. Once you put in a caveat that you're freedoms end where they diminish another's you end up with grey areas.

The grey area here is that what you do with your property affects your neighbours. If you have a rock garden or an unkempt mess (or a wrong coloured door if you're in the Netherlands) the neighbourhood is different. Everything we do affects other people and we need some lines. AirBnB built an entire society in the grey area. The whiter sections are renting a couch to travellers. A darker shad might be a setup that rents out 4 apartments in a 10 unit building with appeal to a noisier or more disruptive market segment.
That's a hope though, not a fact...
It is exactly as privileged as going to the website http://192.168.100.1 and clicking HW/FW versions, which proudly displays the complete serial for you. There is no authentication of any sort and it is not encrypted at any point.
Can you recommend something better?
Can anyone in this comment section recommend a better service?

I'm an artist who wants to use bitcoins for nearly an identical reason. However, there have been two big limiting factors, which have prevented my supporters and artist peers from using bitcoin.

1) It isn't clear how they get money into and out of the system.
- The artists don't want a bunch of 'bitcoins' that they don't know what to do with
- The supporters don't own any bitcoins, and don't know where to get them.
2) They are afraid that bitcoin will crash and they will lose all their money.

It's easy enough to dissuade the fears about the second point by 'cashing out' right away. But what are the best options out there to allow the average user to put their money into bitcoin, and to allow not-so-technical users to get money out of bitcoin and into their bank? Coinbase is the only service I've found to 'easily' do this, so far. Even at the cost of my anonymity. :(
Is any chanse that Apple speedup appstore review proccess? 7-8 days is painfully slow.
> This year, Airbnb expects an operating loss of about $150 million
Nice interview. Plenty of good details. I mean, there was this slip:

"The languages... are either long gone (PL/1) "

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/plicompfami

http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/mainfr...

http://www.iron-spring.com/about.html

Next he's going to be telling you COBOL is gone, too. Big time writers' definition of dead/gone in IT has always seemed different than general usage. ;)
Gene therapies may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or more than $1 million, for one-time treatments. Companies are pouring resources into developing more such drugs, with no real thought to who will pay for them, or how, and no acknowledgement that the current pricing model can't expand infinitely.

I wonder if it's reasonable to expect something like Moore's Law for gene therapy?

A 1980s Cray supercomputer cost over $1 million. Today the same amount of computing power is available in the cheapest Android phone you can find.

If the same trajectory applies for gene therapy, it won't be about finding more million-dollar payers. Only those with the most serious chronic diseases will pay for it now, but in 30 years, all of us will have gene therapy for what today would seem like trivial alterations.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603360 (291 points, 2 hours ago, 175 comments)
Well at that point where there is demand for travel into space create a destination station for them to stay at and get more for their millions.
"Every new release introduces vast swaths of new terminology (often used in ways slightly unlike the rest of the industry use the term)."

This has bothered me for a long time. I don't see the need to make up new words, unless the new technology/feature absolutely requires a new word.

I'm greatful for Drupal though.
I deeply regret posting this article. Somehow I thought it was interesting and in tune with many other articles we've discussed this week but seeing what happened here, oh my... I'm really sorry, won't happen again.
I really enjoy Steve Losh's blog. I found his post[0] on returning to Vim during a formative part of my own career, and it really influenced my adoption of vim. He's got a great guide[1] on getting mutt set up on OS X for command-line email. And the minimalistic design suits my personal aesthetic. He wrote a post[2] on the design of it, like using the ratios of the dominant 7th chord, implementation of print accessibility/context headers, and even credits his inspirations.

[0]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/

[1]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/

[2]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/making-my-site-sing/