skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After watching the California attempt where they came really close, it occurred to me that if the booster falls over, even after its landed, it explodes. So even if they stick the landing and have it sitting there on the platform, what prevents the rolling ocean waves from tipping it over on the drone ship?

I suppose once they are at 0,0 and "landed" they could just vent the LOX in an attempt to mitigate the explosion threat.
Specifically: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/ilVXr6BF7iAU/v4/-1x-1.png
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

- (Extremely liberal paraphrase of) Tacitus
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
This reminds me of a great documentary I watched a few months ago, about this guy named Frédéric Bourdin who managed to impersonate (from a jail cell in Spain) a boy who had gone missing in Texas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imposter_(2012_film)

These guys are creepy, for sure, but also fascinating for their ability to assume new personas at the drop of a hat.
Android phone users may find it useful to know that Firefox for Android works great with uBlock Origin. No more app store popups, audio ads, or sucking down your mobile data.
I'd recommend one of the open source players, like video.js[1]. Unless you are doing some really advanced things it should cover your needs.

[1] http://videojs.com/
Surely you could make the same point without baseless personal attacks.
To put "humane" slaughter in a good perspective.

"My life experience has given me a better understanding of what is happening, and what a mistake it is to believe there is anything called "humane" slaughter. Animals have families and feelings, and to think that kindness before killing them is an answer is totally wrong. ...

There is always fear in their eyes. They know exactly what is going to happen. So for anyone to claim there is such a thing as humane slaughter, well, that's the greatest oxymoron in the world." - Howard Lyman, former rancher

I also like this story:

I meet a woman in a club, buy her drinks, make her laugh, dance with her, she's having the time of her life, we go to my place, I make her favorite dish, she drinks the best wine, music is playing, she feels absolutely great, sitting on couch, watching her favorite movie, meanwhile, she's sipping that drink, that has date rape drug in it. She passes out, I rape her. Humanely. Next morning she feels a bit drowsy, she thinks it's the alcholol, she smiles, says she felt perfect although she can't remember the rest of the evening. I was gentle, she doesn't feel raped. John Doe, humane rapist

It is absolutely irrational to call slaughter humane. This rationalizing to make things morally right is the common mistake people make. It is a mistake in deduction and reasoning.

Some philosophers would probably say I'm a deontologist, and they would say that consequences of a deed make a deed wrong not that the deed itself is wrong - which is my opinion. Are there no consequences to massive animal slaughter and flesh consumption? Is waste of tax-payer's money a consequence big enough, maybe climate change, massive pollution?

Any rational process, any non-laughable branch of philosophy will say that slaughter is immoral and that there's nothing humane about it - and that humane is an adjective that cannot stand by it.

I have no problem with people eating meat, but people who rationalize it through appeal to nature, through skewing morals, that's what I have a problem with.
Some of those sites use an open source player (I forgot the name). They actually changed the default priority order and put Flash first, so if Flash is installed (not necessarily enabled!) it will use Flash in favor of HTML5.

Firefox used to have an option that overwrites the list of plugins reported to JavaScript. Sadly it was disabled a few versions back.

Edit: The player is Projekktor [0], the FF setting was plugins.enumerable_names [1]. There's a new option coming that hides plugins when set to click-to-play [2]

0: https://github.com/frankyghost/projekktor

1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1169945

2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186948
I don't think I really gained a good understanding of contracts until my first employer out of university sent me on a 3 day course on contracts.

The fact that a contract is very much a legally binding document that you can't easily walk away from is not given nearly enough emphasis in the UK school system.
Was hoping someone would say this. This should be the only thing they focus on this year until it's done. I see that they POST to a secure endpoint when logging in but that doesn't make a difference once the session cookies are transmitted in the clear.
By virtue of not pursuing something that doesn't efficiently get basic necessities to everyone, I don't need evidence as you're doing the work for me.

Great, but they could have added more if they abandoned space altogether and used all those billions on aid.

There is quite literally no point in wasting money on manned interplanetary missions. It's futile because we can't move at light speed, so even if we did find something it'd prompt an "oh, ok, cool" and everyone would move on. And we'd still have slavery and poverty and starvation.
My bank introduced a flash-based internet banking half a year ago. Really. (only the login requires flash)
Meta comment : it's always surprising to see how different is the destiny of a submission based on timing and randomness.
For example, my previous submission of this link got only one vote. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11052575)
Can you elaborate on this? At work we have a HTML video player that works with files, YouTube, and Vimeo all with the same skin, and we're easily able to do things like save state across sessions. I will say that the transcoding aspect can be complicated. What limitations have you hit?
I don't think coercion is necessarily limited to phoning home.
Signed distance fields have been used in VFX since the mid-1990s. One of the first paper formalizing its editing techniques was by Ken Museth in 2002:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/frey/applications/Museth%20K...

My contribution to the field (in collaboration with Ken, the author of the above) is making these scalar volumetric representations more scalable via using a recursive hierarchical sparse representation:

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/tr/2006/Batty_HRLE/

Ken Museth is now the head of R&D at Dreamworks Animation and picked up a Sci Tech Oscar two years for his level set work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FwOc4OSOR0
Crosswise to the shaft, not endwise.
Distributed to what level - block, township, city, county, state? SCTY and others are already experimenting with "community storage" http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Lesson-Learned-F...
Also, while a child has little chances dealing with an adult, it's also true that an adult layman has little chances against an adult professional.
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casual philandering with space exploration

Pure research is such a critical part of scientific advancement. Where would we be today without all of the work done by military rocketry and civilian space programs? Without various nations' space programs, scientists working on diseases including malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis would not have had access over the last twenty years to high-bandwidth communications services via communications satellites at hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and schools scattered across some of the most remote areas of the African continent---to name just one region with which I have direct involvement. I cannot even begin to stress how important that kind of access is even in this modern age of relatively good 2G/3G coverage (there are still plenty of locations in which we work to cure disease where satellite communications are still a necessity). It made it possible for our scientists to not only train their colleagues in country and raise up new generations of skilled doctors, nurses, and scientists, but also to access the sum total of scientific knowledge from places where good people frequently suffer and die from the kinds of endemic disease rarely seen in the West. Maybe searching web sites or holding conference calls seems droll and ordinary to you, but to our scientists and their colleagues, getting Internet access via satellite in the middle of sub-Saharan Africa during the late 90s and early 00s was revolutionary. So much good work---the fruit of which we see bearing now, like not just one but several effective malaria vaccines as well as mosquito population control programs---became possible, all because fifty years ago, people started "philandering" with space exploration.

How much hubris do you need to think that you alone know how best to allocate not only the scarce resources of this planet but also the lives of every single human being on this planet, and to sit in judgment of what work is worthy and what isn't? To transcend the current boundaries of human knowledge and engineering skill has a direct impact on our (collective) lives, and for the better. This world is not zero-sum; it is not in thermodynamic equilibrium. For some people to work in space for the eventual benefit of mankind as a whole does not require other people to suffer and die of want and neglect (quite the opposite, in fact).
Oh I wasn't saying it would all be Amazon. I'm saying it will all be 3rd party clouds. The number of providers is up for grabs.
> Since, due to physics, electricity is very hard to store and there are already transmission lines,

You're going to have to actually argue "due to physics" on this one, it's far more like "due to technology and engineering.

Transmission lines are hugely expensive, involve stringing valuable materials for miles. The cost is going to vary widely throughout the grid, but the EIA estimates an average of ~$0.04/kWh across the entire US [1].

Most storage costs are somewhat easier to estimate, as batteries costs are well known. Current prices on new lithium ion batteries put the cost at ~$0.15-$0.20/kWh. This is probably not the most cost effective storage model, vanadium redox flow batteries, or hydro storage, or used car lithium ion batteries will drive this down substantially. Also, storage costs are dropping dramatically, while transmission costs are unlikely to change much.

For many locations, it may make far more sense to pay $0.20/kWh than to build out the grid to that location. And this is definitely true for many locations, even in California, that are only a few miles away from grid-connected homes. It's all a matter of the costs of current technology, discount rates for the cost of up-front capital investments, and the expected tech curve.

Long-distance transmission does have the potential to hugely improve the cost-effectiveness of intermittent renewables. A recent study tried to optimize costs using high-voltage DC interties between US grids to distribute renewable energy across the country, and found that storage was not necessary, even when transitioning a huge percentage of the power source to renewables. [2]

>There are going to be factories that probably can't realistically be supported by batteries

This again is all a matter of cost. I do think that transmission can help a ton here. But I think there's going to be both time shifting (storage) and distance shifting (transmission) in the future.

I think that people underestimate the rate at which storage will get cheap, just as they did with wind and solar, but that's just my humble opinion.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/tbla8.pdf

[2] http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/making-a-single-us-el...
Yeah, I realize that many non-competes don't get enforced, but the fact is that those companies will continue to demand them because the non-compete protects them in a small percentage of cases (regardless of its impact on their employees). The companies have zero downside from the NC but it can significantly affect workers who may feel they have no choice but to sign it if they want a job. Hell, many of the non-competes are likely unenforceable, but so few people ever push back on them their legality is never tested.
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It reminds me of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court after the Interdict came down and stopped all that progress.
Our Interdict is the PUC, regulation, lobbyists and corrupt political decisions, then subsidies and more counter subsidies. No, rooftop solar is not a no brainer anywhere.
Try to figure in the cost of energy storage which is still astronomical in price. Or jump into 100 years of utility regulation fights when all we need is power generation that should be just based on common law rights etc and competitive capitalism only.
Properly, the --foo stuff is a Custom Property. You can use its value as a variable, with var(), but it's not the only use custom properties have. That's why the spec's full name is "CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables". But that's a horrible mouthful, so "CSS Variables" is what it's usually called. (Plus that's the shortname in the url.)

(There's also a large focus, in v1 here, on the variables use-case, because that's what I needed to sell it to the group at the time. The CSS Houdini Task Force is now expanding Custom Properties properly, so they can actually be used for random JS things without a ton of hackery.)
i certainly hope so. amazon is looking to be the next microsoft of the 90s.

i think most people are just too young to remember how horrendously bad it is when one company owns most of the market.
Darkroom hacks: Solarization
You can still track users just fine without Flash - the VPAID spec calls for allowing cross-domain "Friendly" scripting access, which is horrible for users.[1]

The only problem with Javascript adoption was the availability of Javascript based ads and support for this VPAID style tracking.

[1] http://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/VPAID_2_0_Fina... - VPAID 2.0 spec, section 8.1.3: "The VPAID ad unit is rendered within a friendly IFRAME (FIF) and can access the DOM of the page in which the player is rendered."
What I found most heartening about the article was that it spent several paragraphs describing why they initially had to use Flash, and how they managed to get rid of it, but not a single sentence saying _why_ they decided to get rid of Flash. We've come a long way! (Also, thanks Steve Jobs!!!)
> People wasting time on things that have an extremely low probability is still a waste of time at the expense of everyone else currently living on the planet.

If your views were policy, we would have no modern medicine or agriculture, people would have an average lifetime of 30 years, and ignorance would be the norm In other words, we would live in the world that actually existed when your views were policy.

> ... that when he wins big we'll have all the bread in the world. He never won, then he died.

He didn't win because he didn't understand probability, like most lottery players today. He would have been better off spending his limited resources on feeding and educating his children.

I'm sure he loved his children and was a valuable person, but the story might have had a nicer outcome if he had had an education -- an education with roots in science.
That is the one hiccup I foresee happening. The best current workaround I could think of would be to setup your datastore as a micro service the other parts of the app could interact with. That does lock your datastore into a single provider, but gives you flexibility with the rest of the app.
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>They are almost always paid by the selling party and still even have non-aligned incentives even for that party

I would say they're always paid by the buyer. No matter who pays for it in the contract, the buyer is the one bringing money to the deal.
Just watched that the other night. Had never heard of the case previously, but it was interesting to see how far he was able to get with such ease. It goes to show emotions can weaken your senses of reality.
> He's the guy who wasted a decade writing an ASCII-art based "template layout module"[1], which he was never able to persuade a single browser vendor to implement. It eventually got demoted from a working draft to a "note", which is the W3C's polite term for standards fanfiction.

This is because it was absorbed into the larger and more fleshed-out Grid specification, which is nearly release-ready in multiple browsers. The ASCII art is actually really useful!
Why are there so few women programmers in the software industry? (2015)
Your analogy assumes that - as a species - we're spending all or most of our resources on this endeavor when we're actually spending next to nothing on it.

And if alien life will end us, perhaps we should discover them before they discover us.
Aha... so do you have a typo in your answer?

> Solar production peaks midday

should have been

> Solar consumption peaks midday

?
I really don't like this image, and I think it's pretty misleading. Where's the seller's agent pictured? Where's 'Buyer 1' agreeing to sell to 'Buyer 2' and so on...?

This is simply 3 rapid sales compressed into a single closing to save on the transfer taxes. Literally everyone wins.

How is this different from, for example, complaining that it's unfair for a stock to continue going up after you sell it?
Thanks for catching that. It is still worrisome that there is activity after disabling the 15 options (3 pages) and maybe more worrisome that you don't get that option in enterprise edition without a custom install. Working in biotech, pharma companies do not take well to external network connections. Although most will have whitelist firewalls, I would have expected the default in enterprise would be to not phone home.
Facebook has found this odd niche that involves being utterly creepy and obnoxious but very hard to get rid of. It's like the corporate version of a crazy manipulative codependent "friend" who you can't get out of your life because your friends are into them.
Was Black Friday a DiSaaSter or Simply Reversion to the Mean?
I hate when people avoid clarity in titles and such.

For mere mortals, ES2015 (or ES6) is the latest version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript, a Javascript specification.

(now I am expecting a lot of down flags, just because of my tone. Perhaps deserved. You judge).
That was the top result for him, but the problem was it didn't say "VLC" right up front. I believe he grabbed what looks to be the 12th link when I use a private browser, but who knows what search personalization he'd picked up along the way, since he had logged into Google. I know it was at least half-way down.
MVC Podcast Ep.17: Yahoo anti-male lawsuit; tech company struggles; internships
I'd buy that for 1945. Not for 1960.

A conscious decision was made that the value of convenient testing outweighed public welfare. IMO, secrecy leads to a lack of accountability which leads to bad behavior -- a pattern seen time and again with nuclear weaponry and supporting industry.
A salesperson's or financial adviser's Rolodex is not a trade secret in most circumstances and a public list of a firm's past/current clients never is (by definition), but all can be very valuable for a warm-introduction/client-poaching scenario.
> Throughout the second half of 2015, Chrome, Firefox and Safari also began blocking the Flash plugin from automatically loading content unless users gave their permission. In order to continue providing a quality video experience for our viewers, switching exclusively to HTML5 video became necessary.
In this episode, Marty and Victoria discuss an anti-male discrimination lawsuit at Yahoo, Twitter banning ISIS accounts, and various tech stock tumbles. They then discuss a listener question on tech internships: how to prepare, how to choose, and how to make the most of them.
This really wasn't a Steve Jobs contribution in the least, it was Adobe.

Flash on mobile was terrible, Steve Jobs may have been the messenger for that but he wasn't the decision maker.
Student doubles as male escort, gay porn star
My main concern is the security angle, as the "Big 3" are all pushing for a barrier across country lines. I'd prefer any of the data I store in the cloud to stay in a US cloud.
Thanks a ton. These points are clear and informative. I will try my best to abide by this.
But people did stick around and take pictures of the hoverboard fires.
Only for iPlayer, not for example on BBC News video clips, and not even 100% of iPlayer content yet. Still progress I suppose.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly uploads images of the superbowl from space
There's Beam [0], it's quite new but I've been quite amazed by their work. They invented some sort of own protocol built on web standards [1]. Also, their streams are actually live (i.e. minimal delay), it's all HTTPS and a lot of their work is open source. [2]

I hope this is going to be a thing.

0: https://beam.pro

1: http://forums.beam.pro/topic/168/where-we-re-at-with-html5-v...

2: https://github.com/watchbeam
I can't help but feeling a bit sad for this tree. It's been living there, alone, with no other comrades, for thousands of years, silently giving us oxygen without asking for anything in return. Maybe people should plant a few trees of its kind around it, so that this fellow can belong to a social network. [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest...
Another Vancouver sw eng here. Only got here 3 years ago. Have to rent, impossible to buy unless I move outside the core. Then why bother living here if I have to live in Surrey? Unhappy with the fact I have to raise my first kid in a 500sqft apartment. Not sure what I'm going to do if I have another. Hoping the market crashes so I can keep living here...
The fairest – and funniest – way to split a restaurant bill
I wonder how they decide which article have such animation. Is it the journalists that ask for an animation or a graphic designer that looks at all articles and propose to add animations to some of them ?
I would be interested in a compilation step if it gives me something like PureScript, that is, real, serious benefits from the compiler: algebraic data types, type checking, type classes, and so on.

But ES2015 is just a bunch of syntax sugar. Nice syntax sugar, but still. Okay, async/await is significantly useful... but you still have to understand how the promises work under the hood... and I can live with raw promise coding.
there is also http://clappr.io
A review of the EFF secure messaging scorecard
It doesn't get mentioned quite as frequently, but one major benefit of using their mobile site is the capability to use iOS share and content blocking extensions. Find something interesting? Just open it in a new tab so that you don't lose your position in the feed.
For those in New England, they are having a two day workshop: "Welcome to Do-it-Yourself Bioengineering!" as part of the 2016 Cambridge Science Festival in April, tickets on Eventbrite.
>excellent products like Avast

Isn't this claim somewhat refuted by the very article you are posting against? There are other comments in this thread that explain why this doesn't make any sense eg pilif's above[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11058688
>Learn synthetic biology

That term doesn't mean what you think it means.

>Poorly constructed, sealed chambers

This thing will work once, and then be contaminated forever.

>Talk about DNA programs

Replacing standard terminology with non-standard patronizing terms are a key to proper education, right?

>Random name drop of Obama, and biology "Threads"

I think you mean "threats". But hey obvious typos on your frontpage really showcase your commitment to quality, right?

>800 dollars

Good fucking lord.
Unlike the US, India's Neutrality Rules Clearly Ban Zero Rating
And yet it still doesn't use HTTPS. Wasn't it supposed to get it by the end of last year?
Fast-Paced Multiplayer – Lag, Client-Side Prediction and Server Reconciliation
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11056509