skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick 30s scan of the webhooks docs looks like that is correct; if you used e.g. 12345 as your secret, you would be susceptible to a dictionary attack from anybody who was able to record a message, on the order of 10s of billions of keys per second can be tested with a multi-GPU setup.

I suspect that the web hooks typically run over TLS, so recording the plaintext of a request would be a challenge in and of itself.
Try explaining to someone an easy to understand version of your life's work, it probably comes out pretty easy. Same thing here. The impressive part is Elons explanation about the science is not typical CEO material
There are legitimate health risks associated with shunning modern technology in favor of organic food:

>"Contrary to popular wisdom, organic produce is not pesticide-free. Instead, it’s grown with primitive pesticides that can be significantly more hazardous to humans and to the environment. Organic agriculture also lacks the benefits of the many crops genetically improved with modern molecular techniques, like Bt-corn, which reduces the population of insects that allow toxic molds to infest corn. (Organic corn has higher levels of the toxins produced by these molds.)"

>"Chipotle rejects modern synthetic fertilizers in favor of suppliers who use manure on their crops. This approach may be “all natural” and “organic” and make some customers feel warm and fuzzy, but it should not come as a surprise that applying stool, feces and excrement to growing fruits and vegetables significantly raises the risk of spreading disease. Bruce M. Chassy, food science professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana scoured U.S. Food and Drug Administration data to conclude that organic food is four to eight times more likely to be recalled over safety concerns than conventionally grown products."

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/12/14/chipotle-...
Wouldn't it be great if we could produce fertilizer out of air? Wouldn't it be great if we could get energy by just digging in the ground? Wouldn't it be great if we could just prevent polio with a simple injection? Wouldn't it be great if we could travel by just flying over the ocean?
Keybase.io invite
Does anyone have a keybase.io invite that they could share with me? Would love to get my hands on one. If so <kam dot kudla at gmail>
Discussion: Video channel for HN
Just wanted to throw this idea, would it be useful to have something like video.news.ycombinator in addition to news.yc?

Basic principles on sharing the Videos can be same as for news.yc.

Place where one can watch the collection for the day as per her / his interest.
If someone wants to take you down they'll just bombard you with traffic, and this won't help you there. Having been the victim of several DDoS attacks over the years, almost all of them haven't been on the application layer.
Why do you hate america so much?!?!
Agreed. I just signed up to try out GitLab and went to browse GitLab's own source code to see what they were using. First thing: Rails, clearly. Second thing: Holy crap, I have to scroll this much on my laptop to browse their project? The amount of whitespace is bonkers. A bit of googling tells me that they made this change a few months ago with GitLab 8.0, but the bug report about the whitespace seems to have been ignored.

I really like what GitLab is doing, but I also really like a powerful web-based repository browser (search tool included). Hopefully they just went a bit wild with the UI and they'll rein it in. (I also checked Preferences and they have a switch for fixed vs. fluid layout, so maybe they've been responsive to UI-change revolt in the past?)
The people making the decision aren't the ones paying the bill, and they have no skin in the game. If they lose the case, nothing happens to them.
The average salary of a plumber in the San Fransisco area would appear to be $74,000/year.

(http://www.simplyhired.com/salaries-k-plumber-l-san-francisc...)
8 Industries in the firing line for digital disruption
SpaceX own the first stage.

You pay to get your payload delivered to a specified orbit. You don't actually buy the rocket.

It's like flying, you buy a ticket, not the plane.
In general it is an interesting subject and worthwhile investigating, but in this particular case it is a scam.

I was just saying that some topics somehow attract scammers more than others. It is easier to sell "we have cold fusion", "or we have batteries with super long life" to a lottery winner than say some nano technology or genetic breakthrough. Everyone thinks they understand energy and batteries.

Now the article talks about the feedback effect of this and that is if anyone tries to do legitimate research in these areas, they will have an upstream battle to fight to be accepted in the mainstream science community, specifically because of all these other charlatans.
I have only one laptop, so I just use local git repository and then backblaze for backup.
Just a source or an argument.
The thing I like about that video is how he re-creates scenes from the Konami game.
I think you're right that the consoles missed a chance to upgrade the medium. Since disc access is so terribly slow, the disk is a sneaker-net. If the disk was a small fast SSD (which is a nice stable operating mode) or even like CompactFlash at least it would provide some physical value.

The problem is it's a cost center. And downloading will always be more convenient. Connections are easily fast enough to transfer the static data.
I'd recommend "The Joy of x" by Steven Strogatz. It's full of that sort of story.
> despite not being a physicist/rocket engineer

The article's description of newtonian mechanics of orbits and energy is freshman physics stuff, and every engineer should know it.

Nevertheless, Musk is an astonishing man and I suspect he'll go down in history as one of the greatest engineers. I wish I could buy a few shares of SpaceX and own a tiny morsel of the dream :-)
oh fuck off. You're just trolling now.

That's not the issue here.

People commit crimes in every country. They should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No one is arguing that.

The issue is that you're suggesting that everyone should obey american law, which has been shown to be corrupt and driven entirely by campaign donations; while the locals are arguing that, perhaps, their own government should say...

...use its own laws, to prosecute its own citizens, rather than the laws from another country.

Do you think women should be punished in America for not wearing a hijab in public? That the tenants of Sharia law should be upheld in your country, because they are the laws of another country?

No? Right then, like I said...
> Kim Dotcom, in contrast, basically tried to thumb his nose at several hundred years of intellectual property law shared among the former members of the British Empire. That's not going to win you any friends among those who enforce those laws.

You would think not existing in the jurisdiction would be enough. Apparently not.
That's a problem with your university, not "contact us" pricing.
He is exaggerating. You just use Astrill or ExpressVPN or one of the other VPN providers that specialize in getting around the GFW. Other than the one week of the year, around a certain anniversary, when the GFW decides to shit on everything you don't really notice it.
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The analogy of the membrane with weights placed on it is pretty standard, I encountered it in the 1970's, and have seen it on episodes of Nova.
The people who break copyright laws are heros, not criminals. The whole reason the industry is moving forward is because of people like him, the pirate bay, and nabster.

If it weren't for rampant copyright infringement, the industry would still be stuck in the dark ages.
The US is already a safe haven for ill-gotten funds from Africa and China, parked in California, Texas, and New York City real estate. I'm supposed to be upset about Kim Dot Com? Hardly.
If this is satire it's good enough that I hope it makes it into the HBO show Silicon Valley. If not...
Yet Obj-C seems to get by quite fine, and everything is super-dynamic there.

Being able to dynamically hack behavior is a huge boon when coding against a closed-source, 3rd party platform.

Doesn't matter so much in an open-source context, where you can just modify code and ship your own version of the library if necessary.
Discussing the more thoughtful sub-Reddits with a friend. HN came into the discussion.
Why should racketeering and money laundering be more serious than the underlying crimes?

Those charges seem serious because they're associated with organized crime, but that's not the case here.
shouldn't your build tool do that? If your build creates artifacts, I'd imagine you'd want to store them in an artifact manager (Nexus, Artifactory, etc) or deploy them.
When you control all the source, being dynamic is stupid.

When you're coding against a closed-source, external, 3rd party platform, being dynamic is really helpful.

Simple as that, IMO.

(From a distance, Swift sure does have a strong C++ vibe.)
I have the same use case; been using Spectacle for years now.
Nope. They just slapped a pretty UI on everything. That's nothing new
It will make headphones more expensive. My son's cat chewed my original headphones and I bought a cheap pair for $5 from a dollar store because I couldn't afford the original brand. I chose Android but my son has an iPhone and a friend stole his headphones so he had to make do with a cheaper set as well.

This will be a hardship on people on a limited income to buy a replacement set of headphones as they will cost more and require a license from Apple in order to make them.
Google (youtube) profits from "piracy", and yet they still are there.

In fact, you could "pirate" anything and use cloud services to store illegal content. But no one is blaming the companies that provide "cloud" services for this piracy...

All of this is what people call "hypocrisy".
Organic food is overall a net negative for the environment. Due to higher crop loss, more land is used for agriculture, even when taking fertilizer-related energy use into account. Many pesticides target genes only found in the disease vector (easy to establish this via genomics) and have no impact on humans.
WOW.

I did not know they did this. But that is awesome. When trying to buy things even with a substantial budget in research, "contact us" was the most irritating thing - I don't need the damn up sell, but I do need to know whether you're thinking 10k or 50k.
Fair enough, that might actually be a counterexample; C++ has a lot of rules, which aren't quite so easy to look up as you need them compared to API calls.
You dont own the podcast material, and you'd be taking away revenue from the owners. Not a suggested idea.

I've personally thought about a paid platform where users subscribe to the podcasts they like best and get the perk of avoiding ads since they're contributing to the podcasts creators
I don't really understand your point. You blame our politicians for the fact that Latin American countries refuse to extradite criminals?
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First impression is that this is really awesome work. Being able to get the chat up and running and see live updates in such a short amount of time is seriously cool and a huge improvement on the original getting started run through with React Native.

Curious about how you guy see it moving forward in terms of the pricing plans and whatnot. Building and testing apps will always be free, so what are the plans for the premium offering?
Depends on language; what languages are used in your company?
Or perhaps that New Zealand believes in prosecuting criminals while the Latin American countries with known narcoterrorists aren't that bothered?
I remember a teacher asking us to get down on our knees as a punishment for not writing homework or something. We had to stand on knees infront of the class.

Fortunately for us, that teacher left the school next year and from what I have heard he have gone to US. (God save the kids in the US)
Independently of whether he's a savoury character or not (and I'm pretty firmly in the not camp), what's your opinion of him being extradited to the US despite: not being a US citizen, never having visited the US, not having had the offending servers or the company in question in the US and generally the whole case seeming to have nothing at all to do with the US at all? Except that Hollywood is based there, of course. I'm really struggling to see how the US has any jurisdiction here.
It is very minimalistic. There are only 8 datatypes: 4 immutable (nil, number, string, boolean), 3 mutable (table, coroutine, function) and userdata which is used for arbitrary opaque "exterior references". The standard library is fairly small. There is a small amount of "metaprogramming" possible that lets you overload operators and do some basic prototype-based OOP, but the whole thing is very approachable. Personally, I think it is one of the better options for a learning language because of how simple it is.
The biggest problem of that is that it only works if you can assume everyone in your contact list uses iOS. How do you deal with that problem? (I'm just curious...)
[Rossi] "created" a system for turning toxic waste into oil, but this turned out to be just dumping the waste into the environment

Wow, he is literally the villian Captain Planet fought in every single episode.
Use Vagrant 1.8's new ansible_local provisioner for Ansible provisioning
Sure. It's a heuristic, not a logical proof.

And, I mean, we can't get energy just by digging in the ground. We didn't just poof, start flying over the ocean. We don't produce fertilizer just poof out of the air.

Also: we knew before the Wright brothers that heavier-than-air flight was possible (birds). We didn't go from nothing to oil-fired modern powerplants in one step. If someone had claimed to generate electricity from something random in the ground -- even inefficiently -- without piggybacking on centuries of preexisting power generation technology, I'd probably have been skeptical. And my skepticism would probably have been justified.
If Swift changes the default, do you think they'll Audit all of UIKit and AppKit to fix it? They're still transitioning things over to Swift piece by piece still. I imagine they'll let defaults work the way it is unless there is a good reason not to.
What framework did you use instead?
Everyone in my immediate family, as well as my colleagues and my immediate friends have iPhones. Network effects I guess.

I only have two or three friends without iPhones. We simply text or call back and forth.
Just beautiful. I have a friend who does incredible marquetry and builds pipe organs but I don't think he's combined the two.

http://schurchwoodwork.com/
A fun thing to look at is where those happened. Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee. I did a quick search on each of these states, and they all have very liberal firearms rules. What are the odds that most of these were quite innocent mistakes? E.g. you always carry, and you forgot to leave it at home locked up.

I'm Canadian, but I have a similar story. I was travelling with my mother, and my backpack was swabbed and X-Rayed at security. No problems. It wasn't until I got home and was unpacking that I realized I had a bottle of aerosol nitroglycerine (!) in my carry-on! My mother's got a heart condition and I was carrying around a spare canister just in case something happened.
(That was assuredly a rhetorical question, and while this article shows that one person did, it almost demonstrates the point more than refutes it...)
What i love about Podcast Addict is that it lets you listen to the episodes on fast forward. I'm subscribed to 127 podcasts currently and theres no way i can keep up to date with all of them, but the ones i do keep up to date with i can do so by listening to them at 2x speed.

Sometimes i can even get away with listening to them at 3x speed, depending on how fast the host talks.
I doubt this has is particularly related to "Internet"...

It has a lot to do with american imperialism, the kind of imperialism that they will always deny. You see, even before Internet, the US extradited some people based on bullshit arguments, while conveniently ignoring the very same crimes committed by their own friends. It's rather obvious that they are showing off their power.
Right. Modern agriculture wasn't invented because people were bored or stupid, it was because pre-modern agriculture made lots of people either sick or malnourished.
The US-New Zealand extradition treaty (1970) doesn't include copyright infringement, racketeering or money laundering as extraditable offenses.

The only extraditable offense that seems remotely close is:

> Receiving and transporting any money, valuable securities or other property knowing the same to have been unlawfully obtained.
Apple is a sacred cow on HN. You'll probably get modded down. By definition, fashion electronics must require you to spend more.
Pirate Bay co-founder builds a perpetual piracy machine
Did you read the Sentencing Act? I think parent post is closer to reality.
Urgh logwatching actively pains me these days. So much waste string parsing what was originally binary data anyway.

I'm starting to think that we need some agreement where instead of logs, we just get apps to emit a stream of protocol buffers and a format string for the messages and data.

Which does make me wonder if you couldn't LD_PRELOAD something which replaced fprintf and the like...
> Cold fusion IS theoretically impossible

I think that's a bit strong. Nuclear theory does not say the energy isn't there (as the subject article of this comment thread points out). It also does not say it is impossible for the potential barrier between the nuclei (which is what makes it necessary to have high temperatures for conventional fusion to work) to be lowered somehow; someone upthread posted a reference to a conversation with Edward Teller where he basically said that's how he would explain cold fusion if it turned out to be true--the nuclear analogue of a chemical catalyst, lowering the activation energy required. It only says we don't currently know of any mechanism for lowering the potential barrier.
Cloudflare, for example, is good at preventing non-application-layer DDOS attacks but for application-layer they can't help much.

This blog post is a good starting point for the kinds of strategies you need to fill that gap in protection.
I was looking at online tutorials and hacker news was one of the tabs in the browser.
The Guy Who Taught AI to ‘Remember’ Is Launching a Startup
So your argument is, a bunch of guys got away because of a shortcomings in the law, so we should let this guy get away too?
The jet engines on the Me-262 jet fighter were only good for 10 hours. (The airframe didn't last much longer, and so the Germans didn't bother with things like corrosion protection.)

Even so, a lot of expensive parts on the rocket likely have much longer service lives.
SpaceX Successfully Lands It’s Rocket Back on Earth After Launching 11Satellites
Maybe the statement could be a bit hyperbolic, but it could be tested. I tested large complex flows locally, 59 steps, within JUnit. These test ran with every build. So the whole build took 6 minutes for 75 fraud models, but I cold easily focus on just my unit in Eclipse.

I haven't tried PigUnit for a while, but last time I did, it didn't support macros and took minutes for how has would take seconds in Cascading.

It's this difference that's cemented in my mind that Cascading is for repeatable processes while Pig is for probe ring and experimentation. This is not to say you can't reuse Pig scripts. I mean that I have greater confidence in the things I can create repeated tests for.
A bunch of guys in the US brought the economy to its knees, and walked away (do you need to extridate from New York City? Or can't you just drive down the street? I'll even hail the Uber for you).

A guy in New Zealand who infringed copyright, and whom the US has zero jurisdiction over, has had more legal work put into his case.

That's my argument. Complicated? I don't think so.

I'm not fond of the gentleman, but the US justice department is clearly overreaching and should be punished accordingly.
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781610.
U.S. Says Hacker Stole IDs and Unreleased Scripts from Host of Celebrities
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781843 and marked it off-topic.
TSA Announces It Will Decide Who Goes Through the Body Scanner, Thank You
Anybody and everybody on the internet has learned to whine, err "speak the truth", about nearly everything. That doesn't mean they accomplish much.
>"The question has arisen whether a telecom operator should be allowed to have differential pricing for different kinds of content. "

I though this issue was resolved?
Brace yourselves: people who know nothing about food production are about to give their informed opinions.
Oh I'm not a subject matter expert on video compression. I just know the difference between using a general-purpose CPU and the ASIC version of decoders is huge. It's why you have all these weak, low-power SOC's that can do 720/1080p etc. That's the hardware acceleration.

I doubt it's designed for the random access I'm describing, though. So, one for that might solve the problem. Might also need to be integrated with a good, storage subsystem if that causes any difficulties. Cool, though, that yours lets people jump around at will. :)
Surprised irradiation wasn't mentioned in the article. Irradiating food can give you the best of both worlds: retain the quality of raw food with none of the u-organisms. They could keep a slab of Cobalt-60 in the back of every restaurant!
Discussion on NZ news article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781610
Your Life in Weeks
To take one example, nitrogen was discovered in 1772. Haber process (which converts nitrogen gas to ammonia) was discovered in 1909, and was successfully industrialized in 1913.[1]

In other words, when Haber process was discovered, the question was NOT "wouldn't it be great if we could produce fertilizer out of air?". The question was, "We know the air is full of substance that makes fertilizer. How can we make that happen?"

Or, alternatively, when nitrogen was discovered, nobody said "We paved road for making fertilizer out of air!" It was probably something like "How weird, air is full of this strange stuff that makes animals suffocate." And apparently its discoverer went on to call it "noxious air".

Honestly, I can't think of any important scientific discovery that was accompanied by "This is great! Think what it could do for civilization!"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Haber_process
> Since most other programming languages are really just implemented in C, wouldn't that mean that either ALL programming languages aren't Turing complete, or that C is?

No: it means that the imperfect emulation of those programming languages, as implemented in C, will fail to be Turing complete. Put another way, there are programs that are valid Haskell programs that can be proved by the rules of Haskell to halt on certain inputs and generate particular results, which will not be able to execute as the C emulator will run out of state in which to perform the simulation. The interesting point to make here is that it isn't just that C is being limited by the real world constraints of hardware, but that C is itself limited as if it were hardware. That said, this was always an obvious result to anyone who ever bothered asking the question and understands the formalisms, so I am not certain of the contribution of this paper ;P.