skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: I'm no astrophysicist, and this is just back of the napkin math

Uranus is the physically closest planet to Pluto at the minimum distance of 11AU (about 1,64 billion km). Pluto's escape velocity is about 1,2 km/s (putting the orbital velocity at about 0,7 km/s). So a naive brake on Uranus would need to put the craft such that it brakes down to less than 1 km/s. 1,65 billion km at 1 km/s is about 52 years. Which seems to be a like letting off the gas in a car while going up a hill to break, but then getting to the top and still needing to go 50 miles to your destination. So something else needs to be in place other than just relying on gravity assists/braking.
They've also lost and then regained their 501(c)(3) a few years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/569098/
This is my personal definition as a sole bread-winner and father to three children and a stay-at-home-mother.

Now you know what stress is.
There's also approximately a 90% chance that you'll have to split the prize. (estimates are that over 400 million tickets will be sold)
Sure, but those were very far from being mainstream.

Airbnb is actually still nuts. They probably aren't even to the half-way point in terms of where they need to be to be actually mainstream.
> There's not much room for "casual observer C development." For the rest of the world, that's why we have Erlang.

lmaoed at that one
From: https://wiki.gandi.net/en/contacts/troubleshooting/lost-hand...

"Since domains can be renewed from any handle, sometimes people create a new handle to renew a domain. (While this is not a problem in itself, it can create confusion, so it is only recommended as a last resort.)"

Basically you don't need access to the domain to renew it, you only need access if you want make changes. A random member of the public can renew a domain for you without contacting you.

Does it not work that way with Network Solutions? Can someone not just simply renew it for them?
> "which more or less force me to pay tribute to the rich"

> "I would not care if (hypothetically) there were people alive today who were biologically immortal cognitively enhanced cyberpunk demigods with control of wealth flows in excess of present-day US GDP"

The resources of the Earth are not infinite. If you lived in a world with super wealthy cyberpunk demigods, you're almost inevitably going to clash with them over resources, and as they have the upper hand you'd more than likely going to be paying tribute/rent to them.
Perhaps, but like I said, they're extremely jaded people. Nobody in politics has a rose-colored view of democracy, thinking it's a perfect form of governance. But at the same time, you can see the value it has and you can actually see change occur. Democracy isn't broken because getting involved actually has a tremendous affect on the inner workings of politics. Telling people democracy is broken actually works to break it, because people stay home and don't get involved, which is the lifeblood of democracy.
> with the recent political drama and institution of a code of conduct getting in the way of FreeBSD's meritocratic approach.

I missed this - any link you'd recommend to catch up on what happened?
Gravity gets double-negated when you reverse time. Its units are over seconds squared instead of just seconds.

A simple way to see this is to imagine taking a movie of a heavy back arcing upward through the air then back down. What do you see when you run the movie backwards? A ball arcing upward them downward. The acceleration still points in the same direction: down.
No one ever talks about a particular topic though when it comes to web crawling etc. How do you avoid all the "bad" sites as in, really bad shit? The stuff that your ISP could use as evidence against you when in fact it was just your code running and it happened to come across one of these sorts of sites. How do you deal with all that? That is the only thing stopping me from experimenting around with web crawling.
Or whole universe was in a hot dense state. Then, nearly 14 million years ago, expansion started. Wait ... The earth began to cool.
Then by his definition they would be considered 'childish' people.
The biggest problem I can see here is how limited using a browser as an API is. It has USB ports but there doesn't seem to be a way to add new functions to speak to them in the browser API. Likewise, there's no UART API, so using this to control an Arduino for any sort of real-time needs is going to be much more difficult. There are no event hooks for hardware, which means you have to fall back to polling the device for data. There is no sort of server API, so anything this device does to connect to the outside world will require pushing to an intermediary.

While I understand your desire to use javascript to program it, the API presented thus far is slipshod and half-assed. This is barely a tech demo, and is going to need a lot more structure and development for it to be compelling as an IoT device that's more than just a toy.
I said it above, but I'll reiterate here that Amazon KMS does not use HSMs; they don't provide a lot of detail to help you reason about what that implies for key security. (I agree that there's no reason to believe they're lying or that it's backdoored.) There's also not much discussion about where the authorization checks happen, and the security of key operations is only as secure as the entity to whom that is delegated.
This image removed any temptation for gambling once and for all, because after all, a 1:292,201,338 chance really isn't anything one can grasp easily:

A car goes from San Diego to New Orleans and the driver throws a quarter out of his window at some point in time.

Now you drive the same route. You get the chance to stop once on this route. If your front tire comes to a halt at the exact same spot of that quarter, you hit the jackpot.

How likely does that feel?
This is quite a nice library, I'll try it. Enhancement requests:

- Option to insert commas or underscores every three digits (for decimal) or four digits (hex/binary/octal).

- Option to print floating in engineering format (make exponent a multiple of 3).

- Option to print floating but with a specific given exponent.
But that core in Canada is basically the opening scene from The Sum of All Fears. Every other device was retrieved asap. This one .. who knows.
That seems like an aphorism, but it's just overly simplistic and naive. People in politics depend upon understanding the system. If they don't they then quickly get forced out of influential circles.
Probably because the detail you're hiring them for (looking at financials) is not the detail this thread is about: looking at email addresses.

The reality is people are not robots and tend to focus on only one thing at a time. That won't change.
Nicely written.
This is an honest question, how are we so certain time exists? Does anyone have a few quick references to books or articles that would explain it to the layman?

I always found the concept of time completely artificial, created by observation of cyclical systems.
I had been keeping T-Mobile because I wanted a GSM carrier in the US that wasn't AT&T. I get pretty terrible coverage in my semi-rural area, but I liked their policies. Now I'm less sure what to think.
PG could have saved us all some time if he led with #9 in his original post. Most of my family and friends are struggling to keep up with cost of living increases and these aren't considered poor people by government standards. If this trend of stagnant middle class wages continues long enough things will get ugly.

I am a supporter of redistributing wealth at the top for expanded education opportunities, which is why I do believe making the connection between income inequality and poverty is important. I don't understand why as a people we've accepted paying out of pocket for an education. We used to expect that public education provided everything you required to achieve a middle class lifestyle.
If you work in tech you know more than the average wall street trader about tech companies especially the one you work at.

If you work there, it means you're likely to have blind spots about what actually drives the stock price. Hint: it ain't necessarily the tech. Personal example: AAPL. I make most of my money these days working on Apple tech. The fact that I've made possibly a majority of my retirement money off AAPL has nothing to do with my knowledge of their tech. It has more to do with watching what makes it go up, what makes it go down, and a raft of other factors that have little to do with the technology.

Let's take a look at some of their tech that drove the price up. iPod: no wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame. Oh, we laugh now, but Cmdr Taco had a solid point. iPad: just a big iPod touch. I said the same thing until FedEx dropped it off. New iPhone comes out, people stand in line for hours or days, Apple can't keep up with demand. Stock price goes down. Less on the technical side, Apple crushes earnings; stock goes down (whisper numbers and all that).

A sibling comment said 99% of people shouldn't own individual stocks, a sentiment I agree with despite holding a majority of our money in individual stocks. Sometimes folks are too smart for their own good, and they even if they work at the company they ignore what really drives the price because of an intimate knowledge of irrelevant pieces, thinking knowledge of those irrelevant pieces gives them a leg up ("<I> know more than the average Wall Street trader." Not about trading stocks, you don't.)

(So why do I own so many individual stocks? Because I'm a special snowflake? No, because I'm an idiot who thinks previous success means I know what I'm doing. I really should start diverting to index funds.)
China Shows How Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
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23 Books That Fix 99% of PhD Problems
Because it has externalities that subsidize those who want it.
Root Certification Authority of the Republic of Kazakhstan (root.gov.kz)
Thanks for the vote; I've created a Github issue to track implementation of a streaming feature here: https://github.com/vektorlab/slackcat/issues/9
This is an argument PG uses, and one I keep seeing crop up in discussions about his post. It's malarkey! Wealth didn't just appear in Bill Gates bank account—it came from people less wealthy than him buying his company's products. It's indirect, but wealth accumulation at the top necessarily comes from those below them.
Called. Told them to turn it off. Other customers should do the same. It's not fair to prioritize traffic on the public internet. Small businesses suffer.
> A huge reason I've lost my faith in libertarian politics is that the 2008 bailouts convinced me it's a scam.

This is rediculous. Libertarians were leading the charge against the 2008 bailouts before they even happened, and it was liberals, (e.g. barney frank, paul krugman) who were among the chief architects of the bailouts.
How to design a robotics experiment
I agree. But it seems to happen less than in other languages. I'd say it's not part of the culture.
just learn model theory nigga
One way to train your model would be to allow people to tell you their current salary in exchange for the analysis. Then you get more accurate salary data. Of course people could lie, but that's probably no better than the glass door data anyway.
The things other than their holdings (Alibaba, Yahoo Japan, cash) have a substantial negative net worth. Literally if they shut everything else down, or spun it off, their market cap would go up by $12bn.

This creates friction with investors. They'd like access to the value of those holdings without them being used to fund what they see as a losing wager. That's why Yahoo in worth $12b less than the value of their assets.

By spinning off Yahoo, people who don't think it to be a losing bet could invest in it. They think that with time they could turn it around into a sellable asset worth considerably more than if they sold it today. But investors currently don't want to wait for that to happen because they don't like the management team and think they'll just hemorrhage money.
define pity

pit·y
ˈpidē/
noun
noun: pity
1.
the feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the suffering and misfortunes of others.

ok...downmods it is
This read to me as very disingenuous as well. Being able to dismiss a long-term decrease in new businesses by dismissing them as barbershops and whatnot (as if those kinds of small businesses don't matter) and then defining startups as "Whatever I need them to be today to make my point."
u down with zfc? yeah u know me
I really like that way of keeping a running tally.
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Craig mentions this in the piece, but I'll second it:

I fucking love CTE's for breaking apart ugly looking queries. They make everything significantly easy to read.
1: And it's a shame when people don't "believe in politics", because if one isn't a lunatic, then that individual, if involved, can and will make a difference. There's a saying that's especially true in politics - half the battle is just showing up. Well, it's commonly known that if one wants to be influential, it starts with staying later than the other people and stacking chairs, stuffing envelopes, and knocking on doors. Now, that's not sufficient to obtain success, but it is necessary. However, when we tell people that they can't make a difference because they don't have money, we're lying to citizens and suppressing their democratic influence. Can we criticize aspects of democracy? Absolutely. Should we say it's fundamentally broken? Absolutely not.

2: That's theorizing without experience or evidence.
Chrome gives a security warning upon visiting the site. They appear to be using SHA-1 still besides the "certificate is invalid" warning.
"I mean, elected political parties like Hezbollah in Lebanon have television channels like Al-Manar. When someone like Javed Iqbal in the US sets up receiver satellite cards so Americans can watch this channel - he was sent to prison for over six years. That's the "public conversation" in the USA."

Iqbal was imprisoned because he entered into a business relationship with Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, not because of the content of the broadcast. From the New York Times:

"But Judge Richard M. Berman of United States District Court rejected that view last year, ruling that the prosecution was based not on the content of speech but on conduct — allegations that the men provided material support to a foreign terrorist group.

In court on Tuesday, Mr. Iqbal admitted that his company, HDTV Ltd., received money for providing television services to Al Manar — “the beacon” in Arabic — which the United States Treasury Department has designated a global terrorist entity." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/nyregion/24plea.html

Terrorist attacks by Hezbollah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah#Alleged_suicide_and_...
Excuse the pedantry, but while that is very bad, the B-52 incident is probably worse. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash)

A bomb with 250 times the power of the bombs dropped over Japan was very very close to detonating in North Carolina.
In a sense this is the same dependency you have on a corporation and to some extent it's industry.
Does the professional body fr accounting not have anything to say - if a Medic is grossly incompetent they can get struck off for life - as can bankers if they realy screw up
Lotteries: America's $70B Shame (2015)
Felix Dennis made the same point. In his book "How to Get Rich", he said that even he didn't know how rich he was, and that for that reason he and his rich friends always had a good laugh at the idea of wealth lists.

That doesn't mean the Forbes team is doing poorly – the point is that it may not be possible to get better than "nonsense" as a result.
Alternatively: a double or nothing scheme.

Crowdsource ~$146 million and only buy half the lotto tickets. For each of the ~11 million combinations of regular numbers, buy 13 tickets covering half the possible powerball numbers.

Assume you win the $800 million jackpot and lose 50% to taxes, you have $400 million left over. You spend ~$292 million to double your investors money and have ~$107 million left over.

Assume you don't win the $800 million jackpot, you still have 13 $1 million tickets left over. You can either pay that back to your investors, or keep it for yourself and point to a clause in a contract they signed saying that you'd only pay out if you won the jackpot.

Somehow I doubt it's legal to do something like that, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Depending on where you go that Caesar salad can be wildly different and it probably is different from what you had in your mind... just saying...
You used to be able to renew Network Solutions domains without owning them. This didn't give the renewing party any rights; it just put money in. You can't do that online any more. But you might be able to do it over the phone.
You can automatically format C.

Python, not so much.
It's the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics[1]: if you interact with it, you inherit its evil, irrespective of your actual impact on the scenario.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855
Yeah, to be clear, I think such a thing would have value too. Just hard to get 100%, there are always gonna be caveats.
If AirBnb was such an obvious win, why didn't anyone want to invest? https://medium.com/@bchesky/7-rejections-7d894cbaa084

One of the challenges with this business is that our decisions look foolish at the time, and then obvious and easy with hindsight :)
As someone who considers himself very recently an adult, the quick and dirty and only-half-joking rule of thumb among my peers is whether someone is paying for their own cell phone plan.
And let us not forget the Tybee bomb, which still hasn't been located.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Bomb
> "If Uber drivers are being "exploited", why don't they quit?"

My impression is that driving a taxi is a useful side income for people, as they can fit it around other commitments. For example, if someone has a job as a waiter at a restaurant, but needs to make some extra money on the side to pay their rent/living expenses, then they could take a job with Uber to supplement their income.

However, a job that fills a financial necessity can still be exploitative. For example, when it comes to Uber, there's not much in the way of job security. Furthermore, whilst people could theoretically quit, a theoretical new job doesn't put food on the table.
Not to mention the old obsession with radiation in the 1900s. Like that Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste. Or the radioactive drinking water and skincare products from the same period. For all the chemicals in modern day products, at least we're not making everything radioactive under the guise of a cure everything drug.
It's not a direct reward, you're right.

But in many ways his life doesn't seem worse off than it was before he punched the guy. In some ways it might be better. And I see those enabling this and paying him more as somewhat complicit and scuzzy.
An interesting article, I'm working on a side project/long term project that will hold medical data, it will be self selected (i.e. people entering their own data rather than a gov dept etc) however security is #1 on my list since frankly the idea of leaking someones medical data (even if they opted in and agreed to the license) scares the living shit out of me.

All my side reading recently has been on writing high(er, I follow best practices with my other stuff) security systems across the entire stack, it still frightens me but I see a real need for the side project so I'm going to do everything I can to make it as secure as possible and take a shot.
Netflix's hidden and secret categories identified – Reddit
We do constrain the Drake equation when we know more. It's just that we don't know a lot.

We have come to know the number of stars around pretty well - at least in our galaxy. Thanks to Kepler and other exoplanet hunters, we know know alot more about the number of planets. These findings are used to constrain the Drake equation.

The rest of the parameters we don't know much about, yet.
They don't need to trademark (verb) X to get a trademark (noun). Registration is a good idea, but failure to register doesn't mean any joe can start using X.org. So long as the organization used the mark in trade (ie sold something and/or took donations) their basic trademark will be protected.
Do you have the suite published? The frequency of errors depends on how much memory and in which conditions it is being used. Datacenters, supercomputers, even personal workstations used for scientific calculations benefit from error correction. Check this out: http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/02/new-study-proves-that-ecc-m...
ezjail-admin update -i has always worked for me, binary upgrades should work as well. What "design" are you thinking of here?
Starting Out on Android
Here's some interesting insight into the random numbers behind this toy, if you're on Chrome: http://v8project.blogspot.com/2015/12/theres-mathrandom-and-...
I should have been more precise: right-libertarian and Reagan-style economic libertarian politics. I would still say though that libertarians of the more independent type have been played as political tools to push for one-sided policies that deregulate in ways that only benefit certain select groups of people.

I would also dispute that liberals (or at least only liberals) were architects of the bailouts, which mostly happened under the Bush administration.
It's deceptively simple.

It's probably easier to write CS101 prime-number or fibonacci programs in C.

Any nontrivial bit of software? You're going to have to learn about undefined behavior and deal with it. Rust forces you to learn this before getting started.

Plus Rust has a lot of higher-level (still zero cost) abstractions like Python which make a lot of patterns really easy to program. (And Python is _the_ teaching language these days)

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3mtwev/using_rust_wit...
Why Obama’s Smart Gun Push Will Misfire
It is characteristic of his role as a Heyoka, or sacred clown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka
I'm confused... the performance issue is with the > selector, right? What does nesting have to do with that?
If appearing obviously fearful is enough to significantly increase the chances of people hassling you it's a pretty good indicator that you're in a bad part of town.
>How much money Larry Page or Bill Gates has doesn't make your mother's life any better or worse.

I dislike egalitarianism but this is fundamentally not true, the whole point of economy is resource allocation and the more money you have the bigger the role you have in allocation - so "big players" like Bill Gates and Larry Page have a considerable impact on prices/availability of things to everyone else (even when considering economy isn't a zero sum game and new value is created to get rich).

It's plausible that a more egalitarian society would make basic things like housing more affordable say at the expense of R&D like developing new tech and medicine.
> When doing science, is it inappropriate to distinguish between the numbers 1000 and 1024?

Of course not! In computers, 'kilo-' means 1,024; everywhere else it means 1,000. This is a simple rule; network-device and hard-drive manufacturers are just wrong when they violate it.
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7 high-end virtual gaming instances on one machine
> Very weird, not sure if a bot puts these together or if there's human involvement.

It'd be easy enough to source a list of company names and owners of the companies then generate possible domains and possible email addresses for the owners but you ultimately need to know who should receive the email. This probably involves a human digging around on LinkedIn. I have no idea what's it like to scrape LinkedIn but presumably they make it difficult. The difference between using the correct email address for the CFO but incorrect one for the owner suggests it's a bit of both.