skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://pastebin.com/raw/YuU6931t

"We have a confiscation order for the disks of your server, but we were allowed to leave one of them installed, due to the fact that you have a Raid1 setup."
No we don't. Where can I buy a self-driving car? The vision systems are performing on a statistical basis that is admittedly impressive, but they are not "outperforming humans at vision" in any way that I understand.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk
https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack
More than that; we ended up with a crippled Emacs. What could and should be a full-featured IDE built into a self-documenting programmable Lisp-derivative virtual machine is instead a continuation of the "good-enough" conglomeration of regexp-driven hacks that continues to drive new engineers to real and productive solutions produced by the likes of Microsoft.

https://lwn.net/Articles/629259/
Prediction: this is the most important milestone in the development of the Earth's IP network since I was born in the early 80s.

I can't wait for this to fuck over Comcast and every other last-mile monopoly acting like jerks to their customers.
If landlords are making huge profits off people who are renting in the cities rather than buying in the suburbs, then those tenants have an arbitrage opportunity to buy condos or coops.
OP specifically asked if it was pursuant to an MLAT obligation. That alone makes it clear they were asking in earnest.
You'd love to live downtown in (I'm assuming) an urban area that is in extremely high demand. There are tons of downtown cores that are less expensive but presumably you don't want to live in those and the jobs aren't available there. It's not so much about perverse incentives as that high demand areas are expensive because a lot of people have the same preferences as you do.
If those numbers are indeed out of date (I'm not taking an Uber spokesperson's word for it), I would be inclined to believe they are losing even more than $470M/period, given their extremely aggressive expansion and extremely aggressive fundraising.
>My guess is that the fact this guy ran the operation from his bedroom, and they weren't sure whether he would co-operate or not, was the reason they seized the disk rather than just subpoena him. Presumably if it was hotmail or gmail this wouldn't have happened.

Is this somehow supposed to be acceptable? "We weren't sure you would come down to the station and answer some questions, so we arrested you (without charge) and held you for a day."
So is there any plausible reason for using Dual_EC besides "the NSA is paying us off" and "we heard its security is based on the ECDLP so it maybe is harder to break"? From what I understand, it's slower and gives poorer randomness than most other well-established CSPRNGs.

Because, from here, it looks an awful lot like Juniper put their own backdoor in, and the hacker just changed it to let them use it instead. The use of Dual_EC alone, maybe, could be overlooked... but with an implementation bug that just so happens to reveal Dual_EC output directly... something's fishy.
I see this as a serious gap in most places. They are building loads of apartments near me- all one or two bedrooms. It's very rare to see a three bedroom, and almost never four.
Some context for those who haven't followed this in the past week:

1. There was a controversial Medium post 6 days ago accusing Product Hunt's ranking system of being unfair amongst other things.

> How Product Hunt really works (medium.com)

687 points by brw12 6 days ago | 222 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875

2. Then the same day someone started a signup sheet to build an open version.

> Let's Create a Better Product Hunt (docs.google.com)

222 points by BetterLaunch 6 days ago | 98 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741827

3. Then someone built and launched it.

> Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt (openhunt.co)

1072 points by mhurwi 3 days ago | 176 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759879

For most of the day on Friday, Open Hunt sat at the #1 spot on Product Hunt, and Ryan Hoover was a good sport about it.

https://www.producthunt.com/tech/open-hunt
I watched it with my four year old daughter on my lap, and then we made a rocket out of a paper towel roll. So it's good outreach and great to see a variety of faces of people who put such an amazing accomplishment together.
It's more like $35-50 per day in cities like SF, New York, DC, and Boston.
We've been running OpenTSDB at a very large scale (~100k writes/s) for the past year and a half and have been pretty happy with it. It's not as reliable on the read side as something like ganglia and the query options aren't as powerful as InfluxDB, but it can scale better than any other option I know of.

The ability to look back into the past and get full-resolution metrics is a huge deal. With Ganglia or Graphite (which aggressively downsample old data) there's a lot of squinting to try to make out patterns past a week or so.

That said, we also use HBase as our main data store, so we have a lot of experience with operating it. I'm not sure I could recommend OpenTSDB to an organization that lacks that expertise.
I've been ticketed in Atlanta for walking on a patch of grass by a road because that section of the road did not have a sidewalk. (The grass was well away from the road so there was no danger of distracting cars or anything and this was public property).

The only bus that actually crossed that section of the road to get to my internship location stopped running at 8am, so the days I had classes in the morning and was working in the afternoon I had to travel 1 1/2 hrs by public transport and then walk 35 mins to reach work, as opposed to a 1 HR 15 min public transport ride (also a 20 min drive by car).
Well if the programmer was internal and regardless of whether acting on his own or for a state would be subject to both criminal and civil liability. I am not a lawyer but it has been done before in other companies.

The US government wouldn't protect this individual likely, as they want deniability. They may assist in trying to reduce his criminal charges but even that is remote.

If it is found that the person actively engaged in selling access to the exploits it also changes what charges could be brought from my understanding. And if they were paid by another government it could get even worse if they are found.
yeah.. the beauty of the rocket cost asymmetry means they only need to do it 'sometimes' and not all the time to drastically reduce launch costs. (75% of cost is in the first stage, fuel costs are 0.3%)
Finding SQL Server performance issues just got easier
Elon Musk posted an article "BACKGROUND ON TONIGHT'S LAUNCH" on SpaceX's website 15 minutes before the launch.

Link : http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/12/21/background-tonights-la...
Will OpenCL help displace GPGPU? (2012)
I see this is the perfect example of the cross disciplinary nature of data science.

I do graph work, and I find myself regularly reading papers in math, epidemiology, computational social science and natural language processing. Often the problems are almost exactly the same, and approaches are very similar.
Soyez has been flying nearly 50 years. It's the dump truck of space, with 1700 launches to date. Compare that to the much more elaborate Shuttle's 135. Elon would rather have the dump truck than the Ferrari.
AS sfackler points out, mining of precious metals has continued (though, like bitcoin, with diminishing returns over time).

They will choose an inflationary currency if they have any debt. Debt with deflation is very bad, and it's incredibly stupid to offer credit with deflation.
nope, you're upvoted b/c i also appreciate source-level userfriendliness of pocoo projects
As simple as possible, with as little magic as necessary. Practically no more than a router, basic response handling functions, a plugin API and some kind of package management. Don't even ship it with a templating language or an ORM - everything else should be up to the developer and available libraries. Let the community do the rest.

And the package management shouldn't depend on any particular server or repository. I should be able to mix git and svn, local and remote and it should just work. As little of the code should be specific to that framework as possible, in order to make migration to another framework easier.

Granted, this might not be the most fun or gratifying framework to build, but I think it would be more future-proof and tolerant than one that just codifies the arbitrary preferences of a Benevolent Dictator.
Yep - college undergrads are the white mice of psychology, just not as cute (usually).
He managed it from his bedroom.
Russian, Chinese, Israeli or US government?
That said, whoever inserted this may have used a stealthy method so no tracks can be found, although one would expect version backups will leave some tracks - UNLESS THOSE TRACKS WERE ERASED.
I would expect exhaustive real time backups, off site, might be in use, so any tracks get frozen in time,,,.and can not be erased.

Some sort of detailed search must be underway as we speak...
Why don't they put a smaller engine in the centre for landings?
The lithium battery in it is super expensive too, I would be surprised if it cost less than $5 to make.
Ubuntu 16.04 to Replace Software Center with Gnome Software
> You paid $200 for a flagship, or nothing for a clunker,

Nope. I paid $170 for a Moto G a few years back and it was a great choice. I got a fairly modern phone. Not too big, I don't like big phones. I got updates at a pretty good rate. And the best thing, I don't have a contract. And if I sit on the phone and break it, I'll go and try to buy another one. If I bought a $600 and sat on it and broke it, I would be rather upset.

That's happened with a previous phone. And a family member said, "Well why don't you buy insurance for it". I noped on that and set a new benchmark for my mobile phone -- if I am too upset if it gets destroyed or broken then I need to buy a cheaper model, I can't afford the expensive model. $200 is about that price point currently.
It's gotten so bad that I actually suspect competitors have planted sabetours in the company ranks.
To clarify, an example of a non-MVC compiler would be something that expects to read a list of files from argv and expects to write to stdout.

An example of a MVC compiler would be something that abstracts the act of compiling bytes into bytes from how it obtains those bytes or puts them out.

I think gcc works like the former and clang like the latter? I'm not familiar with either.

An example I am familiar with is the TypeScript transpiler - a "Compiler" class with a pluggable "Host" interface. There is one implementation of that host for each environment it can run in (in-memory, node.js, cscript.exe) that knows how to read files and write output. The compiler class would call host.writeFile(filename, contents) and it's up to the host whether to write that to a file, or a textarea in a web page, or pipe the string to another transpiler, or whatever. It's up to the view to decide whether to colorize output or not, whether to show an underline that the user can click to jump to the error or not, etc.

Basically the view is independent of the model, and provides functionality local only to its interaction context that the model shouldn't need to care about. As a bonus it's pluggable and thus easy to write new views.
Well, consensus between whom? How would you do distributed, anyone can participate at any time, byzantine consensus but still prevent Sybil attacks?
Extensive discussion 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10082517
Seriously, GCC is a belief, not a compiler.
MVVM is useful when I develop a big project with complex logic. But I do not use any MV* framework when I develop a mobile web app. I want to make it simple, so, there is only some basic class like AjaxList and SessionManager, no view or controller at all.
You guessed right with the lighter payload. They could afford the fuel to burn all the way back rather than landing downrange on the barge.
For me, the most interesting feature would be making it easy to expose actions from the command line.
What changed that made this cost-effective?

1) The companies pursuing this, SpaceX, Blue Orgin, etc., can't be the first to think of it. If the first stage accounts for 75% of the cost of a launch, as one article I read says, I'm sure many have considered, going back to the first launches decades ago, how to reuse it.

2) The technology to land rockets vertically has existed for a long time, going back to the lunar lander at least.
Given the mean IQ of the participants with GAD was 119 in this study this hypothesis has certainly not been excluded.

It is like 99% of these studies - of limited applicability and almost certainly unable to be replicated in a larger study. There is a name for these sort of studies, but I am trying to be charitable.
Don't pretend you don't know that "How, exactly did X happen" doesn't indicate that you disapprove of X.
i had this problem a week ago- ended up building an ultra-low-frills low-dependency one in an afternoon just a few weeks ago. Seems silly - i am pretty sure with sufficient time investment i am better off learning how to use popular frameworks (because learning how to use frameworks will make me better at learning how to use frameworks).
What struck me from the HN thread on the article this is responding to was the vitriol directed towards Ryan. The general consensus seemed to be that he was a terrible person who was using Product Hunt to perpetuate the "Old Boys Club" in tech. From my experience dealing with him, that seems like the polar opposite from the truth. I don't know him well, but he appears to be a genuinely nice guy who loves discovering new technology and wants to enable people to share their creations with a wider audience. I do believe the OC made a number of valid points, and Product Hunt needs to evolve so that insiders have less influence. Still, it saddens me that HN's reaction was to make personal attacks and accusations. (most of the evidence given was anecdotal, too) I think Ryan's response clears up the reasoning behind why Product Hunt is structured the way it is. I hope that in the future members of the HN community stop and think before they make personal attacks based on a one-sided Medium article.
Isn't it normal for police to seize evidence in cases like this? Your comparison doesn't seem very helpful, as there is a big difference between holding someone at a police station vs seizing evidence.
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I see consumers not paying the true economic price as a form of stimulus. They're receiving more value than they are paying for, and so they presumably are living better lives and will be able to spend that saved money elsewhere (movies, food, etc). Similarly, if drivers are at less than full capacity that means there are more drivers than there would be without the funding, and thus more drivers getting paid.

No arguing against the environmental impact of course, other than the hope that cheap ride-sharing reduces the likelihood of car ownership.
I think the thing to consider is why a private company chose to include this in what looks like a carefully planned marketing presentation.

It's a commercial. What are they selling?
UFO’s Seen Everywhere During Soyuz Docking on NASA Ustream
One of the problems that happens is that businesses who choose city centers in cities without good public transport end up excluding more experienced employees with families from working there. Those people will more likely live outside of the city in a house and will need to drive in and park, but parking usually isn't available in necessary quantities in city centers.

The solution of course is to build more robust mass transport systems, but that seems to be getting harder and harder.
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Well I suppose if I listened to new music I would consider it then, but the majority of albums I listen to were released in the 70s, 80s and early 90s and I already have them.
IIRC the 104% was additional performance they enabled through upgrades and design improvements beyond the original design not over-driving them.
Realtime Chatroom Using RethinkDB ( Node.js / Express / Socket.io )
AWS ECS Private Registry Announced
What? You mean you didn't read the article?

> Cock.li was reportedly used last week to send a bogus bomb threat e-mail from "madbomber@cock.li"

Of course they are going to take records (and from the files of how very unlike-the-US-can-the-germans-be) leaving the system running and intact. If you didn't read the US news about the trouble it caused, go back to skimming headlines.
Right from the beginning "EV cert". What is EV? When you write article and it's the first time you use acronym, please define it.
Don't forget that the intent to declare bankruptcy makes it fraud... but intent is hard to prove if you don't tell the internet about it.
Android on the desktop
Ok, that's fine. It's still within the range I mentioned above. But, I'll just note for the record that you rounded $587k down to $500k, and $840k down to $800k.

> But these studies are all flawed because they are based on historical data when 4-year degrees were scarcer. In an era when many graduates can't get a job or end up with one that does not require a degree (i.e. barista) it's obvious that their ROI prospects are grim.

I don't think that's at all obvious. We are rapidly approaching the moment [1] when over half of the U.S. population has some sort of college degree, and already 2/3rds have at least "some college" education.

Applying to a front-line retail job with a Bachelor's degree no longer marks you as desperate and over-qualified. You are assuming that an employer will hire a person with only a high school diploma when she can just as easily hire a person with an associate's or bachelor's for the same wage. That will put downward pressure on wages for those without a college degree.

It may very well be the case that sending "everyone" to college does nothing more than depress the wages of those with only a high school education. However, that is not an argument against the positive ROI of college. Spending $100k to avoid $200k in lost wages is still a positive return.

Finding a job with a B.A. or B.Sc. may be difficult, but finding a job with only a high school diploma is even more so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
In most markets outside the US, the carrier contract model hasn't been dominant. Some people choose to get a flagship for "free", others choose a mid-tier phone in exchange for lower monthly fees, still others use budget phones on a prepaid tariff or a cheap monthly deal.

I think it's notable that T-Mobile introduced diversity into the US cell service market - they're the only truly global carrier operating in the US.
Let’s continue to build Product Hunt
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774865.
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I just noticed how crappy my post looks ... so sorry
I will double check the permissions thanks for letting me know
We will have in-app purchase items soon
Only certain types of attacks are based on hashing at a rate which is a significant percentage of the network hash rate. Many other types of attacks have nothing to do with hashing, for example, the transaction malleability attacks.
NetApp purchases startup Solidfire for $870M
I think it's really impressive how SpaceX continues to iterate on the engine and rocket designs. This is the third major revision of the Falcon 9 engine since 2010, each time increasing the thrust and payload to orbit significantly even while operating a commercial launch service. I feel that this kind of willingness to continuously improve and push the envelope is what really sets SpaceX apart from the incumbents. Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration and all that.

It's quite interesting that their biggest competitor ULA is having to rely on tiny Blue Origin to develop a replacement for the Russian RD-180 that ULA uses on their big money maker Atlas V.
so sorry, I just realized how bad my post looked ... yeah the website is http://paralign.me
only on hacker news would someone spell "pivot", but pronounce it "sell out".

I'll bask in the downvotes that comes with telling the harsh truth. I got karma to burn, folks.
I've compiled lots of resources for moving to HTTPS:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EJKAoa4Hxc4AyH0znuA_AApl...
"New-space" aerospace companies are operating on a different funding framework from the old aerospace juggernauts. Instead of cost-plus funding that came almost solely from the government and which allowed rockets like ULA's Delta IV and Atlas V to stay competitive in the $300-400 million range without having to find ways to cut costs. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Orbital Sciences, as well as other new companies, have to innovate in order to make their businesses feasible.

Additionally, Blue Origin and SpaceX have different goals from traditional aerospace firms that requires them to drive costs down below what a government would require. Blue Origin want to offer rides to space to tourists; for that, their costs need to be low enough for a person to buy a ticket. SpaceX wants to land their rockets on Mars, and then take off again. Being able to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 allows them to perfect the landing and reuse of rockets on Earth, before taking that knowledge to Mars.
I understand that gas turbines can produce that kind of power, in fact I used to work on some pretty large turbines and turbo generators in the 500-1000MW range. However they aren't used as backup generators where they have to be online in a minute.
These are the types of generators I was referring to, https://powergen.gepower.com/products/reciprocating-engines/...
Is scientific peer review a “sacred cow” ready to be slaughtered?
>Cars require maintenance the expectation of which greatly influences our purchasing decisions (e.g. "Toyota tax").

There is a thriving phone repair industry patronized by people that can't afford to throw away expensive electronics every few years. When the most common "failures" are cracked screens and dead batteries, both of which are fairly easily replaced, it makes sense if you don't "need" the absolute latest and greatest to signal.

>People generally don't buy used phones.

Used iPhones retain their value pretty well.

>Phones don't come in mutually exclusive form factors (2dr coupe, airport van, cab and chassis, everything in-between). They're all touchscreen slabs with one or more buttons at the bottom.

I dunno, the difference between a regular smartphone and a "phablet" is pretty striking to me.

>You also won't get fired from your job if you break your phone and your bosses call goes to voicemail. If you don't show up for work because your car is broken you'll probably be fired.

Where the heck do you work?
And yet OP also asked how California had jurisdiction in Germany, which implies that the question was more of a passive-aggressive disapproval. Even if it was MLAT, California still wouldn't have jurisdiction in Germany. OP seems to be implying "fuck off California, you have no jurisdiction in Germany".

The whole thing seems to be more about shared moral responsibility rather than MLAT, which is what
s73v3r was getting it.
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