skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that since the dawn of our Republic when our current system of checks and balances was put into place, the intelligence apparatus has grown much larger and more powerful than I think anybody really could have ever expected. And because of their secrecy and vagueness, it has become impossible to actually get a sense of the real benefit of our intelligence operation.

If it's a choice between the unknown benefit/cost of compromising the NSA's operations (through greater transparency) and the current situation (our civil liberties being threatened more and more every day), I would choose the former.

The system of accountability is completely outdated and unbalanced in favor of the intelligence apparatus.
The new heart animation of Twitter looks like something that could've been done this way.
Is this the same functionality as Facebook's new 360 videos?
If the owners association is anything like a condo board or a homeowners association in the US, they should have more than enough authority to enact whatever rules they want in their building. If they don't, maybe they can amend their bylaws so that they do.

I do think that most bad behavior is already covered by existing laws. Yes, the guests might not care, but the owner ultimately has to own the place and answer to the local authorities and the owners association or whatnot. If there are constant complaints about your property, you're going to be held accountable for it, whether you live there or not.
Thanks very much for the notes! Read it all the way through, time to get the book.
Sonny Jim, welcome to America, where paternity leave is not guaranteed and rarely granted.

Mark Zuckerberg taking two full months of paternity leave is actually pretty progressive for us. Learn how to context, guy.
That's an estimate based on engineering analysis and statistics, just like any estimate of reliability.
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Toilets and bidets are two separate items, I don't believe an automated thingy will ever provide the same hygiene levels. Plus, bidets have many other use cases not mentioned.
GPS receivers have US-government mandated speed and altitude cutoffs to prevent this scenario. A nice writeup on bypassing them is here: http://www.wired.com/2013/09/bypassin-us-gps-limits-for-acti...
That used to be the case, but Netflix started building out their own CDN a few years ago and they've migrated away from their legacy providers. Netflix is now serving about a third of US peak time internet traffic from FreeBSD.
where do you create that checksum? If its on a computer without ECC, you will just checksum the data including the error, then write that data including the error to disk.

What happens to the data after you have read it to memory and successfully verified the checksum? You probably process it in memory, and have no idea afterwards if the changes are due to your code, or because of errors.

Of course you can now propose to also checksum and check the data while it is in memory. Which is basically what ECC does, in hardware, for cheap, requiring no CPU cycles.
I haven't yet figured out exactly how much to offer, but something like 10GB is what I'm thinking.
FYI you can probably take 12 weeks unpaid leave, as guaranteed by FMLA. I'm guessing your employer would exercise the option to pay out vacation time concurrently. To take FMLA requires nothing more than telling your boss you need time off to take care of a newborn (or any other valid reason), so it's not too late. They can make you fill out paperwork but denying the leave if it's valid is illegal. You're guaranteed to have your job when you come back.

(Edit: note to others reading this who work at startups--employers with < 50 employees don't need to follow FMLA)
Well and think about planes. Planes are already safer than cars, but we demand very high reliability. If 30% more planes crashed and it cut ticket prices by 30%.. some people would make that trade. People do it when buying smaller less safe cars... but we don't like the thought of plane or shuttle crashes.
I mean, isn't that precisely what protesting something is

I'd say that it's generally considered better form to protest ideas over events and to protest events over people.

Protesting individuals is intolerant and petty. Engaging with and debating their ideas (when they are promoting them) is a more reasonable solution.
That's... very WW2 of them.

Look, I'm not going to complain about Russia showing some form of sympathy for a NATO country, but this smacks of revenge fantasy to me.

We should cleanly and without emotion remove the enemies of humanity. No torture, no joy in the killing. Just perfect, methodical culling of undesirable elements.
Good point.

I also forgot that the people being occupied by ISIS could use that same ISP to save themselves and their loved ones. They could use it also to help the fight against the terrorists.
> the timing of this article seems particularly like sponsored content

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The tutorial section is broken as hell, unfortunately.
The gold did not cease to exist, any more than did the ashes from the burned ship.

But, the Nobel medals did cease to exist, as did the ship.

The gold could be refashioned into more medals. But, they would not be the same medals. The gold could also be fashioned into a necklace, or two necklaces.

If this were not so, then the statement "state and identity are not the same" would be meaningless, because there would be no need for the word "identity" in any case.
That is great to hear, thank you for educating my stupid sarcastic ass.
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"10 years from now, Facebook will be forgotten" (2008)
I would call that an ad hominem justification and a poor use of financial resources (a reasonable thing to object to).

What matters is what this individual (regardless of which of the many labels that apply to them you want to focus on will talk about).

For an example, check out the Curtis Yarvin Strangeloop situation: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/cur...

Furthermore, your argument is a strawman. Where is the line drawn? How about a neocon? A communist? A socialist? A fascist? A liberal? Lots of people have ideas that are objectionable to someone. If they are talking about something unrelated to those ideas you find objectionable, what's the problem?
It's part of an OMB push to use HTTPS on all federal websites.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-...
This shouldn't be flagged. It is a viable solution. The mechanics of which can be debated, but you do get a valid cert.
I get six weeks and I can't actually imagine the full six weeks being approved.
I'm not sure what your math is because you're not showing us any. But it sure doesn't agree with mine.

Math is done with numbers, so let me give you actual numbers. You can double-check these against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_speed#Tangential_veloc....

Standing on the surface of the Earth your potential energy relative to infinity is −62.6 MJ/kg. If you were standing still 160 km up, you've added roughly 1.6 MJ/kg. (You climbed 160,000 meters against a force of 9.8 Newtons per meter.)

To then go into orbit you have to add a sideways velocity of about 7800 m/s. Apply the famous kinetic energy = 0.5mv^2 and going into orbit requires 30.4 MJ/kg of energy. That's 19x more energy than is required to get to altitude!

But it gets worse! If you're going to go into orbit, you need to think about getting down. Going up we go straight up out of the air and then add sideways velocity. Going down we let the atmosphere do most of the work of slowing us down. But in order to survive that you need a much more rugged device with a heavy heat shield. You're now both doing more work per mass lifted AND you're lifting more mass!

But we're not done with the bad news. A fundamental fact about rockets is that you have to lift the fuel you use later in the launch. That means that as you're increasing the final velocity you're getting an ever-decreasing ratio of energy expended to useful kinetic energy for your payload.

Put it all together and actual rocket scientists have told me that it is about 100x easier to get to orbital altitude than it is to actually get into orbit.

That said, LEO is the half-way point. Getting into LEO takes about as much energy as it does to launch from LEO entirely out of Earth's orbit.
You'd be surprised. These are extremely efficient - the bidet parts are mechanized so it works great (go Japan!). After using one of these once, you feel like a barbarian using any standard toilet.
So, for websites that do not charge -- it is zero ? (ex. wikipedia)

If so, almost sounds like the reason to use it on free websites, so paid for ones do not steal your images
Just to re-iterate the value of your insightful comment, it seems likely the "sponsorship" is a combination of lazy journalism and talented PR firms.

A.K.A. How media works.
If the point is to abort, you can't rely on the engines being throttled down to the accel limit -- you have to be able to successfully get out of any reasonable scenario and the engines running away does not seem unreasonable. (I don't know exactly what the abort requirements are, but the point is just that it's not easy.)

Also, during an abort scenario, the aero drag is pushing Dragon back onto the launch vehicle, so you actually need more thrust to overcome that, too. (Although that obviously depends very strongly on the dynamic pressure at which you abort.)
About 17% of Americans live in states with family/paternity leave. Zuckerberg's state of California being the first at 6 weeks leave.

It's not that progressive. You'll find more and more states passing family leave laws in the next decade (though I would much prefer something at the federal level besides unpaid job protection).
Oh, so that's what the 300gb limit is for. I guess they've been market testing it before rolling it out everywhere to create this "perk"
FWIW, at Facebook you still have to deal with some ugly B2B system to report your leave. "Matrix e-systems". Apparently the nest of laws that cover leave is complicated enough that you basically have to hire someone to handle compliance. Everyone (male or female) gets 4 months though, which is quite nice and makes it worth navigating through this janky form-filling.
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Very efficient, as long as they aren't next door to you!
I hate to be negative, but that code base is a complete mess. I looked into helping out on the project a few months ago, but stopped almost immediately when I saw the code. I'm a little sad that a release is being announced and the code is still a mess.

For example, in the src/core directory there are about a million files, of types .txt, .cc, .cxml, .xml, .old, .py, .sh, .prototype, .csc, .pdb, .moe, .grep, *.fbp, etc., and many of them have mysterious names like "tf.csc" or "v.txt". And a lot of the files seem to have nothing to do with common lisp or C++, and contain mysterious 1 or 2 line code snippets or shell one liners.

Honestly, it's just a terrible first impression. Are there any plans to clean it up and make it usable by other people?

Edit: And perhaps more worrying, there are things like this https://github.com/drmeister/clasp/blob/master/src/clbind/cl..., where there's a copyright notice, and then immediately below it an older copyright notice to somebody else.
Bidets? No thanks. Heated seats? Don't need 'em. I think the smartest element on Japanese toilets is that some of them have a little faucet and sink on the lid of the tank; the water that fills the tank actually goes through that faucet first, then drains through the tank lid into the tank, so you can just wash your hands in that water rather than turning on the separate sink. An easy way to save water!

Granted, that water is damn cold in the winter…
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So, basically: the NSA lets (say) GCHQ collect data on Americans, and taps into it; conversely, NSA collects data on Brits and lets GCHQ tap into it. Voila! Both have satisfied their "legal" obligations, and yet have all the data they need.
Do you know the modern evil?
Landing won't be the hardest part - any Earth-rated capsule with rockets like the human-rated Dragon can do the last leg provided you are leaving Martian orbit with some rocket to slow you down. You may need parachutes to slow the craft to the point the rockets can make their part. Curiosity was complicated because they didn't want to touchdown on rockets.

Now, accelerating a Mir-sized craft towards Mars and decelerating it to orbit while keeping the crew alive for a year outside the Earth's benevolent magnetic field and having enough fuel to accelerate back to Earth (even assuming we'll throw out the interplanetary craft and get to Earth on a capsule) is quite an impressive engineering feat. I'm inclined to suggest that, instead of building a vehicle like that we build one or more cyclers that will orbit the Earth-Mars-Sun system periodically and astronauts would only need to reach them in order to get back and forth. This way we pack all shielding for the long-duration trip into the cyclers and astronauts only need to carry the consumables they'll use. Since reaching them would be time-critical (they won't stop), I would suggest building a similar one that could be stationed in Martian orbit to serve as a fallback plan in case a crew misses the one cycler and has to wait a couple months for the next bus home. These two spacecraft are, essentially, space stations with clever orbits we could maintain with regular resupply missions just as we do with the ISS, but we'd need beefier rockets because the delta-v is the same as a craft going to Mars (because that's what it's doing). Luckily, we'd only need to accelerate the resupply craft - living space is "free" after the first burn.

I am uncertain if these craft are more or less complicated than building and landing the Mars ascent vehicle (much worse than landing a crew capsule, for sure). This sounds very complicated to me.
No, there's really a cult following. The moment I buy my own place I'll be installing one of these. There's nothing better.

It's difficult to install a separate bidet - need a bathroom with lots of extra space, then run new plumbing... Even then, you're using two stations when one will suffice.
People who are averse to bidets are dumb. Just going to throw that out there.

What if instead of washing their hands, people just rubbed their dry hands on some paper towel and called it good?

Bidets + Squatting to defecate... I wonder how many less hemorrhoids Americans would have... Reminds me, I need to go order a Squatty-Potty stool thing.
As an Icelander; Bravo to Mr. Zuckerberg, he's got the right idea. Hope the rest of America picks up soon.
As always with front-end libraries these days, my first question is: Does it play nice with React?
All the letters are painted from the inside; what, then, is special about the ampersand?
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That's flat out not true. Take a look at the list of Atlas D launched and look at the failures. The first time they strapped a Mercury capsule to an Atlas D is failed. There was an Atlas D failure in February 1962, and Scott Carpenter rode it for the first manned flight only 3 months later in May 1962.

The day before Walter Schirra launched there was an Atlas D failure.

Two months before Gordon Cooper launched there was an Atlas D failure.

What I don't know is how much they were pushing the limits on the other tests vs the manned flights, or how much more QA they were putting into the manned rockets, but it is certainly not the case that NASA only flew on rockets with high success rates at that time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlas_launches_(1960%E...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlas_launches_(1957%E...
> I'm not sure you understand how anything works.

Based on my previous conversations with this guy, this seems to be a recurring pattern. I do hope that he's using these conversations to recognize and fill in the holes in his knowledge. :)
This is probably the first real test of the "Unconventional" car maker. Tesla scoffs at the Dealership model, hates Gas stations and champions disruption in general.

Now a somewhat massive issue forces a recall...Traditional Car Makers have fixed ways (with well known issues) to deal with stuff like this. I am genuinely curious if Tesla can "innovate" again.
If by small business you mean get-rich-quick schemes to con greedy / desperate investors, then tremendous damage has been done. If by small business, you mean a small group of individuals (or just one person) who have an idea and several free weekends / week-nights to implement that idea into a product then put it in front of potential users via sites like HN (if some sort of developer-centric product) or on a market-place like amazon or Taobao (if some sort of real product), then none at all.

The monetary cost of delivering most new products to users is pretty much at most $100 (the time cost hasn't changed though; it still takes forever to get really good at doing something). Which means, for the majority of small businesses, millions of investors dollars is next to useless to the expert owner when he or she can bootstrap him/herself to profitability without them. Sure, it might take 2 or 3 years longer, but the small business owner is also under no sleep-depriving pressure to go fast, and when one's runway is effectively infinite, one doesn't run out of it.

So to the DIY owner with plenty of professional skill, discipline, and patience, investor money (and the associated risk and burnout) just isn't attractive. Which leaves the venture investment field largely populated by impatient hot-shots peddling get-rich-quick schemes. And, having been burned time and time again, perhaps these investors would have learned by now.
Why only 3 years? Perhaps the corporation should have to pay for all 18 years while the child is being reared.

Shame on Germany for not valuing the kids!
This comment makes no sense to me.
I thought we were already under the assumption that this was what FVEY's was doing.
One huge peice of evidence that we can actually trust the government is that the Bush era DOJ threw a fit when the workers thought Bush's NSA went to far. Then we had a national debate about it.

Plus even if you didn't trust the government not to go fascist they could recreate a NSA within a few months anyway.
"Real-world clients often support non-elliptic "DHE" along with, or instead of, elliptic "ECDHE". It would be interesting to trace the reasons for this: for example, were people worried about ECC patents?"

DHE was in the original SSLv3 spec, but not commonly used before NSS added support for DHE_RSA in the early 2000s I think. ECDHE did not come until much later.
That sort of thing will be their downfall, it won't prevent much of anything other than maybe temporary.
"With income inequality continuing to widen, high-end malls are thriving, even as stolid retail chains like Sears, Kmart and J. C. Penney falter, taking the middle- and working-class malls they anchored with them."

This has become a standard refuge of the press whenever businesses that target middle-income customers decline. Must be income inequality. Never occurs to them that maybe the failing retailers aren't delivering the value that their customers expect. Malls are a pain. Drive to it, park far away, walk all over the place, try to find sales help, stores are overpriced, have limited selection, and the hours are limited.

Think of many of the products that used to be sold in malls: appliances. Electronics. Fast food. Apparel. Many of these have other retail options available that are less of a pain than the mall. Heck, Walmart is less of a pain than the mall--and it has better hours. The mall closes at 6 or 7 on Sunday and doesn't open until 10.

So no, "income inequality" has little to do with the decline of an expensive, inconvenient retail format.
How is this hypocritical? They'd get the raw request one way or another.
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Oh my god! He can recognize them! :)

I hope this is not a PR piece. But if it is, then it works really well because the first thing I did after reading was to look up the prices of the Toto washlets one more time.
Oh great, I can stop getting paid just as I have a kid. That sounds wonderful.
what if said company spends millions applying political pressure to oppose that?
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Bitcoin transactions are much harder to censor than conventional fiat transfers, but the transaction graph is completely transparent.

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Whatever the mechanics the US and UK effectively removed Prime Minister Mosaddegh from power and gave it to, and supported the Shah (Reza). Is that not correct?
Also, to add to your comment, I don't see how you're "stuck" with owning any more than renting. Moving is a hassle no matter what. But if you're moving out of a place which you own, you have flexibility about dates. You can set things up so that you have a comfortable week to move.

With rentals, you typically have to hand over the old place on the same day you get the new place. All the renters play a a ridiculous round of "musical suites" at the end of the month.

Only if you're lucky, the place you're moving to is already vacant, and the new landlord is kind enough to give you the key in advance, or the old landlord doesn't have anyone moving in right away and lets you have access to the old place for a couple of days.
Considering his wealth, Zuckerberg could leave the company and dedicate his life to his child. In that light, is the 4 vs 2 months really relevant? Aren't both choices failing to uphold the principle you've stated?
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Hahaha UTM-Mangler...
I got a bidet seat (Bio) from Costco, really great, only $349; very easy to install. can't live without it.
> the compiler now detects this situation and tries to explain what's going on.

Oh really? That's great news! I remember having that problem earlier this year and thinking that it wasn't the greatest from a usability standpoint.
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Zuck could take the rest of his life off work. And when he's an old man he will wish that he had. But in the mean time the share holders can benefit from his keen.
"Landing with parachute on Mars, where there is no atmosphere ?"

In fact, they were really forward-thinking, as it turned out 30+ years later.

Also, this strangely omitted one of the most infamous and most valuable: the inverted Curtis Jenny.
Only comes in non-stick? That's no bueno.
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Stellar has a consensus protocol?

Last I checked, there's a single blessed node dishing out verifiable data. It's nicer than having a remote API that just hands you a trusted number, but it's a far cry from Nakamoto Consensus.
Works fine for me in Chrome.
The speech recognition is a bit spotty, and I wouldn't trust a third party with this on all the time, but it's pretty neat and really fun to see excerpts from what I'm saying and stats on my vocabulary.