skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't see re-launching withing hours any time in the foreseeable future. Even once they're proven reusable each booster will need significant inspection and likely maintenance before being ready to re-launch.
Don't forget the ether! I hear the ether is posed to make a comeback, big time!!
Seems like it would save money in the interim though, and they'd still have the data of whether it fell or not.
Yup. This is the "dirty little secret" of the Android ecosystem IMHO.

Personally, I use Nexus devices... however, I still don't trust these devices enough for very sensitive stuff -- fixes for known escalation bugs can still take a while to get patched. :-/
> So you make a low-ish spec phone that can do everything this generation of the OS demands

If only. Actual low-ish spec phones can barely even lift the OS! By "do everything the OS demands" OEMs generally mean "sort of do it by hanging up in the process and requiring battery-removal powercycling". Source: spent three years using such a phone.
I had just read the C++ Hints post from last Friday ("Use nullptr instead of NULL from now on"[0]) and expecting that the link to go there.

[0]: http://cpphints.com/hints/44
It is disingenuous to continually change the subject from the gender imbalance in tech, particularly when we're talking about an article by someone who has first hand experience about why that imbalance has developed.
I was having problems even cloning using hg-git + ssh.
I just want to say you also need to consider business fit.
If your business can't afford to train a bootstrap grad properly(whether is time deadlines or money), don't hire them. I've seen two great guys just completely burnout because not only was our app complex, they just weren't familiar enough with some of fundamentals you get in a cs undergrad for our timelines. They tried their hardest though.
"It’s harder to read code than to write it."

I think this really depends on the context. If I'm looking at the source code for openssh/encryption libraries, it's much easier for me to read it, then come up with some of code on my own.

If I'm trying to wade through some 10-year old spaghetti code, it would be much easier for me to re-write it.

I think the main issue isn't that programmers "can't read code". It's that most programmers don't write code with the intention of having it read by other programmers.

I've been a developer for 15+ years and I can't tell you how many times I've worked on these sorts of nightmarish code bases.
They have a limited number of launch sites available to them, and the landing site is based on trajectory and fuel. Depending on the mass being launched, there will often not be enough fuel to turn around, and if you keep going, there's not much but ocean for a long way. Also, not any land will do. You need a pretty big, purpose-built space to land a rocket. With a barge, they can put that space where they need it.
We're using Ansible which means we use ansible-vault to store secrets. We store the encrypted files in S3 and decrypt them on deploy as needed.
Is Valkyrie tied into the EVE MMORPG the way that Dust 514 was going to be, or is it a strictly standalone game? I see no mention either way.
Widow says Apple told her to get court order to secure dead husband's password
I've noticed that too. Does someone flagging the story work against the story's points? Either 1-to-1 point reduction, or apply some sort of fractional multiplier to the point value of upvotes, perhaps?
21 Bitcoin Community Holds First Hackathon; Develops Bounty Project Git Money
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
http://urbit.org/docs/theory/whitepaper
Yeah I saw that. I'm brute forcing it now...
perl is a bit too slow for 12-16 chars, so I'm rewriting it in pony. I assume a known plaintext of a popular player who should be in the top 4.
And I'm assuming the spelling from the ATP rankins.
Ask HN: Tips for making the entrepreneur-to-job jump
I’m 29. For over 10 years, I’ve managed to “eat what I kill” as an entrepreneur and occasional contractor. Now I want to jump into Product Management or be Head of Product at a startup.

But perhaps hiring managers won’t know what to make of my resume, and so I risk being undervalued. How do entrepreneurs get properly valued by the job market?

I’ve had a startup sell huge contracts to Fortune 500s, I’ve employed teams ranging from three to fifteen people. As I software freelancer, I pulled in $130k / year. I started a charity that helped hundreds of families. But I’ve also lost most of my savings on many failed startups, and took a year off to meditate and travel.

So!

Have any of you made a similar jump? Have any hiring managers encountered this situation? Any advice?

I have the technical chops to get a dev job, but I love people and product. It would seem hiring product managers is more subjective. I’m used to six-figure income, but hilariously this will be the first real job I’ve had since high school. I still have money left. Should I hire a career consultant? Should I offer to work under a Product Management titan as his or her apprentice? (I have some opportunities with friends, but not in the city I’d like to live in.)

Thanks for your love and advice. Cheers.

-----

TL;DR How do entrepreneurs get properly valued by the job market? How to avoid starting from zero when you've had an unconventional career?
Haha... Made me think the Olympics. What if they had a rocket landing event.
"It's not clear why failed applicants would automatically leap to the theory that they didn't get in because of affirmative action, rather than just assuming they weren't good enough."

Why wouldn't they? People generally look for an explanation of bad events that doesn't put the blame on themselves. Even better, if it defines a specific culprit and paints them as a villain. "I didn't get into X because they discriminated against me, those racist bastards" is therefore a very appealing narrative.
Price Comparison Site – A Comprehensive Online Search to Buy Products
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The site allows customers to search a wide variety of products online. One can even search for mobile phone accessories such as Samsung Galaxy edge chargers, cables, mobile phone holders, car chargers and microSD memory cards and Apple accessories and can rest assured of finding the best products at the best bargains. The site has a dedicated sports and outdoor section for customers to find best quality sports and outdoor accessories and discounted products listed there. One can find a variety of baby clothes available at the best prices. From jumpers, baby clothes, womens clothes and pushchairs to Baby's Dresses, Pink/Blue, one can get high quality clothing for babies at a single place.

The site also has a comprehensive range of electronic items, ranging digital camera, tripod and iPod, LCD & LED TVs, Laptops and computers, mobile phones and other items. Besides, they also have health and beauty products and also hotel and airline deals for travelers. One can simply compare prices of any of these products online and can rest assured of finding the best deals at the click of the mouse.

Source: http://www.smartpricecompare.co.uk
Pretty sure this has more to do with the college major gender split. Women account for less than 20% of CS and Engineering degree graduates [1]. Since these days most companies recruit early career hires out of those majors specifically (no one wants to train from scratch), it leads to massive gender weighting in full time developer positions.

[1] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor...
Telegram is actually not open, they just throw some sources to github or as zip files at their's langing page.
That's why i quit Telegram and built open source "Telegram" - https://actor.im and replaced spagetti-encryption with enhanced version of Signal's one.
David Bowie's 75 favorite books (2013)
Would have been more fun if they had put it where Silicon Valley California is indicated on Google Maps.
So if you potentially need to roll a secret you would just run your deployment playbook limited to the secrets task?
Apple asked widow for court order when she sought late husband’s password
I would be thrilled if they provided an update, but Benchling's CRISPR search is what originally got me excited about Lambda. It's an incredibly compelling use case, as it enabled one second searches at any level of demand. And, their hosting costs dropped from thousands of dollars on EC2 to $60 on Lambda.

http://benchling.engineering/crispr-aws-lambda/
For this kind of questions, it's better to email dang ( hn@ycombinator.com ) directly to get a faster answer, sometimes the thread like this are unnoticed.
I know, made it more clear in the post.
I think it will get a lot of apps, especially apps that integrate and interact with other iOS devices.
Probabilistic programming might interest you.

e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00996
Also, if your using wifi, that just exacerbates the problem. My camera would work without my wifi, and my wifi would work without the camera. Replaced the power-cable, and all was well.
I occasionally hear news about development for Apple TV and the new tvOS but I've never seen it/used it. So I went to the Apple website to check it out. First thing I noticed was this weird copy:

Apps are the future of television. Think about it. On your mobile devices and computers, you already use apps such as Netflix, Hulu, WatchESPN, and iTunes to watch TV shows. And that’s exactly where TV in the living room is headed. Apps have liberated television. They allow you to make individual choices about what you want to watch. And when and where you want to watch it. With the new Apple TV and its powerful new tvOS, developers are creating experiences that will change what you expect from your big screen, making your TV feel as personal as your iPhone or iPad.

Has Apple copy always been written like an eager tech blog post? Doesn't fit with the sleek, modern, sophisticated, enigmatic brand. Or at least, what used to be my perception the brand.

As for the actual device itself: why would I buy it with the remote, subscriptions, dongles, etc. when I could buy an HDMI cable and use my laptop's "apps" instead? Is Apple trying to create an app ecosystem with the TV/Siri Remote as the form factor instead of the iPhone/finger Macbook/trackpad/mouse? That makes absolutely no sense to me.
Very true. With the low Canadian dollar, investment dollar will go way, way farther. Like probably 50% farther, given lower wages compounded by the lower dollar.
The Air Force Gives Up Its Plan to Retire the A-10
Honestly, this argument appears to be a complete tautology (successful people are successful).

Also, what is with the fatalism?

>Or put another way, I've always felt that by 25 you are who you will be.

>There will always be outliers who finds a reason to turn his/her life around but almost all the successful people I know had an impressive track record of accomplishments before their big success happened.

You likely know a tiny fraction of 'successful people'.
I came here to recommend Manber's book also. It emphasizes developing algorithms and their correctness proofs together -- a great technique. The design and the proof naturally inform each other. This approach ought to be better known.
Is "Revenge of the Nerds" (1984) a symptom of many women avoiding tech or is it one of the causes? The characters were nerdy, into tech, and generally despised by their peers (most notably women and athletes). The only girls who would associate with them were Omega Mu, who were a lot like the Tri-Lams. I don't think anyone would want to be a Tri-Lam or an Omega Mu in real life[1] (they are, after all, comically nerdy). I don't find it impossible that a generation of women thought "You know, I'd rather have an Alpha Beta, not a Tri-Lam. How do I avoid getting a Tri-Lam? Don't be an Omega Mu."

I don't think it's possible to know one way or the other. It's much more likely that RotN and things like it caused or were caused by deeply rooted stigmas against tech that made women shy away from it before even getting to the point of being exposed to 'frat-like' conditions in the workplace.

1: http://i.imgur.com/Pf35A0D.png
Childrens and baby clothes upto half price
In NL the consumers rights organization has sued Samsung to force them to provide updates. Really curious how that will play out.
Maybe you can be a consultant who builds startup prototypes for people who hire you and pay you just as well, if not better. That way you could combine what you love to do (build startups) with being paid reliably and well.
Thanks again. Both of my children are now on it and I actually find it quite addictive too! We really had fun with it this weekend, so appreciate it.
Same here.

I have two phone numbers (one in the US and one in Austria) and also spend a considerable amount of time in both countries each year. I'm usually reachable on both numbers (and usually only give the local number to people in each country), with one number forwarding to the other number.

With WhatsApp I can't link both numbers at the same time. Even worse, according to the FAQ there's a limit on how often you can change the phone number linked to the account, so it's not even an option to just always change it to the "local" number.
Well, Bay Area salaries have gotten way out of hand in the past few years, mostly due to the cost of living there, but that is besides the point.

Since we are a remote company we have the luxury to be able to hire amazing engineers from all over the world. Paying 1 Dev salary in the Bay Area is almost the same as paying 2 salaries in Europe, or even 5 in Latin America. Talented people can be found everywhere, not just the bay area.

And having a global workforce also allows us to have the best people with a vast variety of backgrounds, which also contributes to our culture.
So it's a project, not a business.
Launches which send the payload beyond low earth orbit require too much velocity for the first stage to then turn around and make it all the way back to the launch site.

They put the barge downrange so less fuel will be needed to turn around and land, enabling first stage landings on beyond-low-earth-orbit launches.
In any society that has a strong bias towards inequality by inheritance, most people are already by the age of .. 15 who they will be (take smaller numbers to make it even more ridiculously obvious).
Effects of Cobalt-60 Exposure on Health of Taiwan Residents
Just spent more time than I would like to admit making those voices say all matter of inappropriate things and giggling to myself.
Looking at hardware trends on servers, in the next ten years I expect more pure functional programming on the CPU (implicitly concurrent, write-once data structures) and more data-parallel array operations being offloaded to GPUs. The CPU language of 2025 is probably something very much like Haskell with a cleaned-up base library, but I'm not sure what the GPU component will look like to the programmer.
This is basically a followup-problem of P vs. NP.

If you can't show that P!=NP then all attempts to prove the security of a public key crypto algorithm are pointless.

Or in other words: The science of provable lower bounds of crypto systems will only start once you solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. All we have today (and likely for a very long time) is problems we think are hard.
Tesla: We're not at Detroit auto show because we can't sell our cars in Michigan
Really insightful essay.

For men (speaking as a man myself), threatened by competition, criticism is often a competitive sport.

This essay made me think of my own blind spots, and I hope I'm better for having read it.
Fascebook
They have an interesting way of donating: 'BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS.'

You donate bitcoins to a pool. Everyone can commit to their repository. Every merged pull request gets 2% of the pool. Currently you get 26.98 USD per merged pull request.

Source: https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/
Monkey Server v1.6.8 is out
Is Dropbox really consumer tech? I would have thought businesses would make up the vast majority of their revenue.
Queens (participation in warfare study) [pdf]
> if you want news, netflix, youtube, etc.. on your TV, then there are many alternatives that are better and more powerful. Say buying a $200 desktop with a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Lots of users want simplicity on their TVs, not power. The Apple TV is easier to set up and use than a PC. (When I looked a number of years ago, it was also quieter and drew less power, but PCs have probably caught up.) The experience of using a keyboard and mouse is also awful from a couch without weird trays or additional furniture. A $150 Apple TV is also cheaper than a $200 PC + keyboard + mouse.

For an appliance that plays YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, streaming music, media from an iTunes library, and can stream audio and video from your phone and computer, the Apple TV works pretty dang well.

That said, I have a fourth generation Apple TV after previously having owned a third gen. The fourth gen has a lot of potential, but has not yet pushed TV forward. I've used the App Store mostly to get new sources of audio and video to stream. I haven't yet found any killer app interactive experiences that are more compelling than they would be on other screens. Maybe that will end up being games, but it will probably be something nobody's thought of. (Personally, I really hope, maybe Apple, figures out a great web browsing UX for the TV, but I'm not counting on it.)
Ziprecruiter sort of already does this? I was actually shocked when a prestigious company contacted me after seeing my resume on there. I actually had previously thought Ziprecruiter was very scammy but ended up getting a great position through it. If anyone else has used them I'd love to hear your experience to see if mine was a one-off.
There are 2 types of text-to-speech system:

- The "bank" one referenced above: this is made of short recordings of a real person saying the words or phrases, cut up and then concatenated. For some messages they sound exactly like a real person (because all it does is play a single recording), but when numbers are inserted, the above characterization is quite accurate. There is no effort to make the inflection fit properly in a sentence or have it sound natural.

- ivona.com and OS X `say`. These generate audio in real time, and may have a few samples but are generally created on-the-fly according to what is around the text. This is where the research is at right now, but the main problem is the CPU required to generate these. Your car, or Madden 2015, or the bank might not want to use up too much CPU time to make their audio sound like that.
a) Yes the copy has always been like that.

b) The remote/dongles come with the AppleTV.

c) I don't know if you are this sheltered but most people aren't connecting their computer to their TV. Even if they wanted to, which they don't, most would struggle to get it working. AppleTV, Chromecast, Amazon TV and similar devices fill this gap and are pretty popular.

d) Yes Apple is trying to create an app ecosystem with the TV/Siri Remote.
> I can't remember which issue this was on, but it seemed like there was some discussion on their GitHub project about making pluggable secrets backends (HashiCorp's Vault was mentioned).

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/10439#issuec...
Hey, I guess we had the same itch to scratch :) what were your scripts going to do?
Do you write in ruby or what?

Cheers
Alessio
"Organic farming, Nichols tells me, is really about the health of the soil and the ecosystems producing our food. Nichols wants to show me the difference between soil from conventional agriculture, which uses chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and soil from what Rodale calls regenerative organic agriculture, which uses natural pest management, extensive cover crops, and natural fertilizer like manure."

Okay, if we are going to cut out most of our animal consumption, there goes most of our manure, no?

And if we stick to natural fertilizer, that cuts our potential crop yields by a huge amount. We just don't have a natural means to get enough nitrogen into the soil without the Haber-Bosch process.

Combine those two items alone and I guess we will lose at least 2/3 of our fertilizer supply.

So the first step needs to be, if I'm reading right - get rid of a few billion people?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10925826

May be of interest to you.
OK, that clears that up for me. Cheers!
Pony Patterns: Waiting
Show HN: DigWall
Google has retired all of their useful Search APIs. They used to allow for free full text search through their APIs.

Back in the mid-2000s we used to use those for a previous iteration of our http://friskr.com visual search engine.

We are now forced to use Bing API.
For anyone unsure if they would like spacemacs from the "Vi" camp, consider spacemacs as a super-set of Vi but now imagine that you have modal-control in "normal" mode of quite a large bit of user-interface and applications without degrading to an Ex-style "command line" (where you type commands for changing editor state like ':set number' or ':set nonumber')---since spacemacs displays the available keys with help at each level, you won't have to leave the editor to "lookup" a command, typing the commands is one and the same. Just considering this I learned that there is a SPC t "layer" (layer is spacemacs terminology for a configuration between the keyboard and some feature) for toggling numbering, whitespace, syntax checking and indentation guides.

Using spacemacs in day-to-day use is much easier for newcomers than learning Vim or Emacs alone. If you assumed just three keys (0-9A-Za-z) after the leader (SPC) you can navigate over 195K commands. In practice spacemacs is navigating more than that with symbols like quotes, brackets, commas and so on.
Yeah my Hisense smarttv is android 4.2 and it will never get upgraded. I am pi$$ed - mainly because it didnt occur to me, I had it in my head that I could upgrade it or their might be a community scene but not for something this obscure.
That's just the sign of a bad assistant, not a problem with the role itself. Competent assistants have full knowledge of their boss's schedule and will make the appointment without their involvement.
Just to be clear, I meant "fix" from the perspective of a hypothetical startup with the "we're going to fix email" motto/mindset.
Rockets are more fragile than one might think, but even assuming that would work, it's significantly more useful to be able to land just about anywhere that's flat.

Also, we don't have giant posts and nets waiting for us on Mars.
Babbage Difference Engine No.2 at CHM Going Off Line
Just bought the app from these recommendations. It is beautifully made. Nice work :)
Interesting. Do you have experience with this, or have someone in mind I can look to as an example?

I'm not sure I know what a startup consultant does, and I haven't ever met one. I see you're in MVP development. One reason I'm looking for a project job is to work with others. So far my experience as a consultant/freelancer has felt lonely.

Please though, if you have an example in mind, I'd love to hear. You've got my mind turning.