skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Change the question and time. Ask people if the government should be able to ban the desecration of the US flag. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Desecration_Amendment , about 1/2 of Americans would agree, even after the Supreme Court said it was protected free speech.

Ask if the government should be able to ban blasphemy or speech which insults a religion. (For more fun, name specific religions and see the differences in responses.)

Ask if the government should be able to punish people falsely claim they were awarded a military medal.

Or to go back 100 years, to prevent people from protesting the draft.

To be even more contentious, ask if businesses have a right to free speech, and if the government can regulate 'purely commercial advertising' or their views on Citizens United.

I think you'll find that this isn't some sort of special political correctness issue, but a long history of people thinking "The Government Should Do Something" about things they think are wrong, including for many things which are far from PC.

That doesn't mean it's a good history, only that I think you're highlighting the wrong thing.
I believe you, but the name of the city could still be included in the title, at least.
Perhaps this is the validating proof that commerce on the Internet has finally matured. There is a disruptive technology (ad-blocking) that is an existential threat to some of the largest companies on the web (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, et al.), and their reaction to date, by and large, has been to try to kill the technology. The kind of move a stodgy corporation would make.
I don't think so. Israel is an important historical ally. Oil or not, Israel's importance in US politics isn't going away.
It's no doubt the exception for AirBnB guests as well. Most people, even when they're staying out of town, don't throw wild parties in the middle of the night.

> Yes, except that if your 'neighbors' change every 24 hours they don't give a damn about their reputation they will just do it until the police shows up and then do it somewhere else the next day.

Really? Are we positing that there are roving bands of assholes who travel from one AirBnB to the next, throwing wild parties every night? Is there something to back that up? If such people exist, I doubt they'd find a lack of AirBnB sufficient motivation to be a respectful neighbor.

Living around other human beings means that sometimes someone does something that annoys you. Yeah, it sucks if there's a party and you have to call the police one night. It happens. That's part of the cost of living in a society. There's a lot of benefits too.
From Wikipedia:

> AquAdvantage salmon are triploid (having three chromosomes instead of just two) female Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), with a single copy of the opAFP-GHc2 construct, which codes for a promoter from ocean pout and a growth hormone from Chinook salmon., 8 These transferred genes allow the genetically modified fish to achieve accelerated growth rates, which confer longer survival and reproductive success.

At what point do we stop calling it salmon? Reminds me of the Ship of Theseus:

> The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.

— Plutarch, Theseus

Plutarch thus questions whether the ship would remain the same if it were entirely replaced, piece by piece.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- It's complicated to create a door lock

- It's somewhat complicated to install it on your door

- Government can kick your door down

- It takes time to turn the key to open the door

- Friendly neighbors can't just hop in whenever they like

- Confusion if door is locked or unlocked by looking at it

Hmm, let's keep our doors without locks then?
I was wrong about the revenue they make on bookings, thanks for pointing that out. That's closer to reality, but the numbers still feel aggressive. Along with the earlier $1 billion, they need to turn that into $24 billion in revenue.
That was an excellent demonstration, and the static firings seem to have gone as expected as well. I would guess that the in flight ejection is mostly about being able to maintain both an escape route and the capability to execute it during an unplanned orientation divergence and rapid disassembly :-). Given the low cargo capacity (100kg) it seems like the 'trunk' is dedicated to the eject capability.

As for finding a space tourism company, I'd be interested if anyone had approached SpaceX with that as a business plan. I would certainly consider investing in something like that given the right team and opportunity.
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No truly good idea will ever escape ridicule.
It's absolutely what will happen (see wind, solar energy or anything that has ever caused market shifts) - in fact, it's pretty incredible that the article doesn't acknowledge this. If the argument was about whether or not prices would drop fast enough, that would have been cogent.
My concern, oddly enough, would be copyright. Suppose the AquAdvantage Salmon escapes into the wild, reproduced, and flourishes. Suppose that it flourishes so well that it displaces the native population of salmon. Then, finally, suppose that Aqua Bounty starts suing everyone and everything who attempts to fish, catch, or farm these salmon, which are now the only thing left.

Such behavior would not be unheard of. See similar accusations against Monsanto:
http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/gm-seed-accidentally...
Data points 1 and 3 suggest that some tech investors have over-valued some startups, relative to later or public investors. That doesn't directly suggest there's a recession coming, though a lot of people losing a lot of money in a bubble bursting is never good. 2 is related, in that loose money in tech drives up the cost of some supply-limited items, especially in SF/SV. I'm not sure how these conditions are supposed to predict a coming recession.
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HTTP 1.1 does allow absolute URIs though they probably aren't used as much.
Although if you count F9-4 as a failure, you should also count the STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit as a failure, which brings it to 3/135.
"Several hundred other domains" is factually inaccurate. At most, there are ~40 other zones on the certificate (typically, far fewer).

The challenge here is IPv4 address space; we don't require SNI for paid plans -- cert will be returned even if server_name is omitted from the TLS ClientHello -- so we must assign these customers dedicated IP pools. We're actually in the progress of migrating all paid customers to their own certificates, so this issue will go away soon.
Is it feasible to prove the correctness of all existing LLVM passes this way?

What about the backends and Clang and Rust frontends?
>disruptive

“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma#Impa...
Is the Internet really in crisis?
you may not be familiar with how healthcare works. There is, generally, almost no price pressure. In fact, consumers of healthcare, because they aren't paying for it, often equate higher price with higher quality so I wouldn't bet on the prices going down
Arguably many users who signup for a free email service do so at the recommendation of one or more peers. Therefore even users who block ads may lead to other user signups of which some will not block ads.
It's really not as hard as you think off, an ill behaved rocket won't be like a balloon flying around in "random" directions, even if there is loss of vector control at the nozzle the existing inertia of the rocket would keep it flying relatively quite straight.

Considering that the capsule still has the inertia from the main engine at the time where the separation/landing boosters fire it doesn't need that much to outrun the existing rocket since it pretty much just needs to get out of it's way.

In-Flight Abort is nice, but this is the 1st and only human piloted craft that has it, even if it will have quite a bit of risk attached to it it's still better than the competition.
Nonsense. US is completely pwned by Israel.
Yeah, I hate the vernacular definition of the word too but, it would have required more words to say it the other, better way.

Slash. Have read the book.
My concern, oddly enough, would be copyright.

You mean patent infringement.
If you're not one of the people who makes it their mission to post political stories to the front page --- and those people definitely exist --- then never apologize for submitting things. It's the disproportionate upvotes that are the problem.
"regulate the behavior"

what if the behavior is already regulated, but is difficult to enforce?
Facebook's React Native ported to build OS X apps (WIP)
This doesn't reinvent HTTP caching: you should still set far-future expires headers on your JS and CSS. What HTTP caching doesn't solve for is caching markup in dynamic pages: HTTP caching is entire-file or nothing.

With Service Workers you can cache the static parts of your templates (e.g the UI chrome) and render them immediately via JS rather than waiting for the initial document load. You then grab the rest of the dynamic content via an AJAX call. This leads to improved perceived performance, since you can immediately begin painting rather than showing a blank screen waiting for the document load.

Even with great HTTP caching, skipping the initial document load will always be faster (assuming that the document is dynamic, and thus can't be cached via HTTP caching). For plain static pages, of course, the existing web works super well, since that's what it was designed for.
With polygamy being legal, they take underage Muslim girls from cities like Hyderabad on their return journey to Middle East after "buying" them from their parents.
If you don't want content-neutral time-manner-place restriction, and you don't want any of the existing limitations on commercial free speech, then I can assure you that you are in a very small minority.
Those liking this will probably like the work below. They did a verified validator for micro-optimizations (around 400) in LLVM's instruction combine pass.

http://rosaec.snu.ac.kr/publish/2014/techmemo/ROSAEC-2014-00...

Another for translation validation:

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~lerner/papers/cav2011.pdf
While in Drupal, you'll get a white-screen-of-death that can be hard to back out of...
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First of all, it would be patent protections, not copyright. Huge difference. Second, I highly doubt anyone would succeed with such a dubious legal strategy. Catching fish in the wild with your patented genes in them is not a violation of your patent rights - who is the violator? The fish?
nice, relaunchd looks interesting and I was not aware of svc from DragonFlyBSD https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=svc&section...
Few things that are worth doing are risk-free.
The ship is not the same as what happens to it. The river is not just the water that's streaming in the channel. You are not just what happens to you. State is not identity, if it were, the past would always change and there would be no history. State is not identity, in programming and in real life.
The first failure was a secondary payload. The Falcon 9 had less spare fuel than expected because one of the first stage engines failed.[1] The primary (NASA) mission went fine. The secondary mission had a 95% chance of success, but NASA vetoed it.

The second failure was a second stage exploding. Had the payload been a crewed Dragon V2, those inside would have survived. Even without a launch escape system, the Dragon V1 was fine[2]:

> The Dragon CRS-7 capsule was ejected from the exploding launch vehicle and continued transmitting data until impact with the ocean. SpaceX officials stated that it could have been recovered if the parachutes deployed, however the software in the capsule did not include any provisions for parachute deployment in this situation.

Overall, it's a much safer design than the Shuttle. The crew vehicle is on top of the stack instead of along side it. If anything goes wrong, the capsule can GTFO and land with parachutes.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-1

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-7
Curious if you know that or just think that? They did 10 rounds of funding according to CrunchBase and at first glance I did not see any where the founders took money off the table for themselves.
To be part of the team that sends humanity to Mars? Sign me up!
IMO, the most important section from the article:

But some scientists have dismissed these concerns. William Muir, a professor of animal sciences at Purdue University, said the fish posed no risk to the environment. “In contrast, the current practice of using wild caught salmon as a food source is not sustainable; our oceans are overfished,” he said in a statement. “This development provides a safe and sustainable alternative.”
Agreed. I thought there would be an interesting proposition for how to fix, but instead it said "We should really think about it."
While we often make announcements there, Twitter isn't an official support channel. Requests should be filed at https://support.cloudflare.com where they can be tracked and responded to directly.
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What happens when you sell the fish?
The words 'material' and 'immaterial' when referring to business costs are usually financial jargon. I presume they described it as an immaterial cost because the expense is small enough that will not have a noticeable impact on their overall financial situation.

> An item is considered material, according to the American Accounting Association, when the knowledge of it would influence the decision of informed investor.

http://simplestudies.com/what-are-the-exceptions-to-basic-ac...
if you read zerohedge you would think we are always in recession.
Seems like we should expect the real economy to slow in many (but not all) ways as sustainability becomes a more primary goal for many individuals and companies. I believe this may be a big part of the global recession.

Mining and shipping large quantities of coal and iron large distances is just an inherently unsustainable practice.

Economic indicators as well as other fundamental aspects of the economic era may need to be replaced with more up-to-date concepts.
It's sad, but the first thing I think of now when I see or read about a new IoT technology is "what extra data about me does this expose to bulk collection programs and advertisers?"

Disney has some really amazing tech where a smartwatch device can detect what dumb object you are holding, be it a pair of scissors, your refrigerator handle, hand tools, etc. This kind of tech would be absolutely game changing for many people on a fundamental level, but when you think about what could be learned about you from mining that data, and then you realise it would be foolish to think that you can somehow keep that data private.... Gah, it just pisses me off that we have to assume any new info we create about ourselves digitally will likely be abused.

On the other hand, maybe once tech enables governments to know every detail of your life down to the most private level people will get fed up and things will change. Phone calls and email are one thing, but IoT means every moment of your life, every activity, every preference, every habit could be exposed catalogued and stored.
Saying "two failures" is awfully misleading. There was one catastrophic failure and one minor failure. In a hypothetical manned mission, the minor failure probably wouldn't have even prevented the mission from going forward, let alone endangered the crew.

The catastrophic failure is obviously a problem. However, for a manned mission, there is an abort system which is supposed to save the lives of the crew in an event like this. This is not like the Shuttle where if anything goes wrong on launch, everybody is doomed.

To state it more precisely, out of 25 launches, there has been one problem which wouldn't have been a threat, one catastrophic failure which would be survivable, and zero failures which would have killed anybody if they had been manned.
I specifically made keeping the original markdown text. The parser will improve. For instance, I plan to make a @mention and #hashtags. Like a twitter. With email notification when you mentioned.
Look through AngeLlist and few other places on the interwebs. Do some sleuthing....
ISIS has a help desk
"Why in the first place would you want to connect every object in your physical surrounding to the internet?"

The great unanswered question of IoT.
With a civilian body count far higher than ISIS's, the Assad regime is surely the largest producer of terrorists. I wonder if put to a vote on whether the US should withdraw its support of the rebels, how would most Syrians vote?
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it's kind of what a steam machine link device and the new xbox one streaming are. You are able to run games on a less powerful system as long as the wifi or hard wired network are pretty robust.
A ready HTML stored in a database, to avoid wasting CPU time for parsing each time the page is viewed.
So you are looking for a device that contains a laptop body, screen, keyboard, touchpad, speakers, battery, battery charger, RF antennas, and enough processing power to decode and display the video stream arriving over radio?

My guess is that this would cost at least 80% of a similar quality laptop that also includes "computer parts" and works as an actual computer. Hell, the current HDMI video streaming dongles like Chromecast have more processing power built in than my first actual laptop.
Humans are a dime a billion. We have no problem slaughtering humans daily in contrived conflict but somehow losing a few furthering scientific understanding is unacceptable.
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Unfortunately, I couldn't decipher the significance of this from the first paragraph. What does this mean for LLVM? How does it make working with LLVM better?
Speculating here: by polling this often they will know exactly when you added a contact. Because they are owned by Facebook they can then message back saying that these two people are connected and then maybe show better ads.

They can also use it as a gauge to see how their advertising for whatsapp gets used.
Probably STS-93 too.
So the program is written in boustrophedon, sort of.[1]

That may make things a little harder for small children. OTOH, it forces them to look at the instruction blocks from the point of view of an agent following the path on the board, rather than from their own point of view, so it trains a useful capability.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
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But this is space flight, not sex with some celebrity. It's worth far more risk.
Good luck scaling vultr beyond 30 servers. My company is using vultr for over 1 year and we were running about 40-50 servers during peak load. Here problems start to appear very often:

- We nearly failed our launch due to failure to increase server capacity during peak traffic, Vultr didn't have any more instances in that datacenter. This happened a lot of times and support always answered "We don't know when we will add more capacity".

- Periodic network partitions. In the last two months we experienced a lot of network partitions both on public and private network, some of them lasting for about 2-3 days, our fleet beeing totally partitioned in 2-3 distinct blocks. Even new instances started had private network down (100% packet loss).

- Technical support. We opened a few support tickets asking when private network will be fixed. Usually they respond that everything is fine and I have a configuration issue. I reply with ping/mtr logs and finally they agree there is a problem (which can be easy tested by themselves anyway). Then, they fix the issue after 1-2 days. Good luck fixing this yourself when your external load balancers have no public network connection, and new provisioned instances don't have it, too :)

- They changed instance types. The instances started months ago have a powerful CPU at 3.6Ghz which is shown in all their advertised benchmarks against DO/AWS/etc. Now they are offering 2.4Ghz CPU which is about 60% slower. When I told them about this I received an predefined template response like: "Thanks for your inquiry, we are constantly revising our hardware to meet customer needs".

- They increased pricing. First, the instance pricing was 20% lower than on DO. Then, they changed the price as beeing the same as DO and added a 20% discount. Then, they removed this discount, just telling everybody that they ended the discount period, nothing about the price increase :).

So, we are in the process of migrating everything to Google Cloud. We've been testing it on a staging cluster of 10 nodes and everything works smoothly, so we are in the process of moving the production cluster too. Be aware of small instance types (f1-micro and g1-small), they have very small CPU capacity for production load.

Also, Google offers us a lot of hosted stuff we don't need to manage anymore: DNS, Mysql, Datastore, Object store, etc. We were using Amazon S3 before, but peering from other datacenters (eg Vultr Datacenter, DO) sucks, constantly getting network timeouts, increased latency, etc.
My room used a 100 watt light until last year, I can deal with it.
but with medical tourism becoming more reliable and trusted, as well as companies hq'd in countries unencumbered by our insistence on patents for biology, it's likely this is where another country takes the "top" spot from the US. China, Brazil, and India all seems like good potentials.
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I could have never imagined
Unbelievable. I didn't think this was true, but you are right. There are 100s of stories of how Women in Hyderabad are being sold to Arab Sheiks. Very disturbing. Found a news item of a Gang busted too => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0eNGDcBoGM
What amateur rockets can put payload into LEO?
Nothing makes them irrelevant like expanding radioactive deserts, huge clouds of fallout, and festering zones of bacterial contamination.

I don't think we want a large scale war. Technology benefited a lot from previous wars - without WWII and the Cold War computing and telecoms would be a few decades behind - but technology has changed the risk/benefit profile to make war unfeasibly destructive.

The irony is there's a lot that could be done. We need clean energy, more support for small businesses of all kinds, desalination, infrastructure replacement, and possibly a hugely increased space program.

But current economic models are fiscally constipated - possibly terminally - and improvements are unlikely until they're replaced.