skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Brain Preservation Foundation Small Mammal Prize Has Been Won
> I tell them that Republicans have no room for moderates.

Consider that the Democrats want no restrictions on ultra-late-term abortions. I think there's plenty of blame to go around here.
If you're interested in running one from another place, do it and let us know...
He might count as a Fabian, so I don't think the "socialist" label is necessarily inaccurate. It's a very diverse set of ideas.
Something similar: http://bandhub.com - there are more than 100,000 multitrack collabs (containing virtually all recorded music), where you can isolate (or mute) drums or any other instrument.
Google Cloud Functions (AWS Lambda Equivalent)
Indeed. A lot of people reading HN surely have some sort of business interest that uses Stripe, so if they are really in such a fragile position then that would be a significant risk for many here. And yet this is the first suggestion I've seen of it at all, never mind the huge burn rate claimed.
I just found Hammerspoon two days ago, and already it's become indispensable. Defeating paste-blockers on websites? Yes please!
Don't get me wrong here, I host a Gitlab server myself and pull other projects into that instead of relying on Github, I'm just saying that it IS a problem that Github is so central at the moment and it will have consequences if it goes down or start to charge for FOSS.

Of course Open Source have been around and will continue to be around, I'm talking about those FOSS projects that have only a single or a few developers with no company backing it. It takes effort and time to even share a project and if it is not easy and free - some might not consider open sourcing their projects at all.

I'm looking forward to a new P2P layer that works like the web, but is more transparent and encrypted. Perhaps using tech like WebRTC? Webtorrent that is built on it is already impressive - The only issue is that it loads the whole file in RAM for both seeders and leechers.

One especially interesting project is:
https://matrix.org/blog/home/
You are correct, and what I should have said was something closer to

"You're depending on the answers from 1018 people to be statistically relevant, and they may not be because by the end of the survery people just hurriedly say whatever to get the survey over with, and I'd bet that 50% of the answers should probably be discounted, so you're depending on what may not be a statistically relevant survery, since America is a big, big country, to drive your thinking on that country."
Anarchism is anti-capitalist… but RMS is neither an anarchist nor strictly anti-capitalist
Oh one other thought. It's been a while since I've been on a deep-dive with this material so I'm considering the possibility that perhaps the updates to the clocks that the engineer spoke of are some ground storage of corrected time.

Let's presume that we're both right but I've misinterpreted where the corrections are kept. Then I could totally see how the clocks could have drifted many minutes over their lifetimes but the actual "time" number sent is an abstraction and some central corrective facility keeps up with the correction for each clock.

So then the daily drift updates are on the ground and done to the central system and it's corrective notation.

It's effectively the same but technically different. I'll have to look into this possibility. I'm not sure how individual devices would then access this central repository of corrections.
It wasn't (for me) a year ago when I did an upgrade. I basically had to go through the docs and start from scratch. :(
Google Alerts has brought this conversation to my attention. If you haven't read our recent thoughts on the issue, I invite you to do so. You can find them here:

https://sosv.com/why-pembient-is-confident-in-synthetic-rhin...

As for IndieBio and the prospects of its class members, I'm sure it is too early to tell. We're flattered, though, to be included in this discussion.
AWS autoscaling is service that can be used to scale applications based on different metrics, one being CPU load and another is ELB traffic. I'm sure there is probably more options but the idea is it scales up and down depending on the policies put in place. It'll launch either VMs or containers, which is really how you design the autoscaling configuration.
High-Fat Diet Causes Impairment in Memory and Sex-Dependent Metabolism Alterations
Norway to Force Accused Criminal to Unlock His iPhone with Touch ID
Part of the American heritage going back to Nixon, maybe.
It's likely because we're seasoned advertisees. After all, America pioneered advertising. We're the most skeptical, targeted population on the planet, so of course when you come over here you're going to get a bit of culture shock when you see just how pervasive they are. But to us they're all just background noise.
Those are servers run by our community. I'd be interested to know if you have any alternative ideas: we don't want to pick one any one instance, but we want to give new users a thing to try.

Do we just flip through a big list and show one per page load?
I think if you step back and think about this you'll see there isn't really a paradox here.

SpaceX makes revenue on launches, if we assume that they make a profit on launches, then more launches means more money. None of that requires that their rockets are re-usable.

When they they are "Category 3" certified[1], other customers treat that like a reason to trust them with more valuable payloads and so more business will come their way as well.

So SpaceX works on growing and investing without re-usability. And when when you add resuable boosters to the supply, its like kicking on the after burner of profitability. You can now launch something for half the cost and make more margin, or at the same cost and make huuuge margins. If you get to that point, then you have a really strong competitive advantage against older competitors.

[1] http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/05/15/spacex-gets-certified-t...
the 16th amendment creates the apportioned requirement at the federal level.

Also the expansion of the commerce clause "the switch in time that saved 9" also contributed when used in concert with the 16th amendment see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Show HN: open source lib (OS X, iOS, Linux) for tree-like documents and tries
RMS is on record saying "I am not an anarchist. In fact, I have a pro-state gland"
JavaScript based desktop widgets for OS X
Well, the Falcon Heavy doesn't use heavy lift engines. It just uses 27 medium-sized engines, 9 per core.
The OPM breach exposing personal data of all cleared individuals (and their friends & families) for the past ~25 years points to management as being grossly incompetent.
>> many Americans would be deeply upset if their child were to marry someone of the opposite political party.

I's not a political problem , it's a societal one. Even in Israel , where there's has been no consensus and there has been quite a bit of political polarization ,most people don't take it that personal.
Whatever helps you queue up at Wal Mart, I guess.
no-profits can engage in for-profit activities. They just need to use the profits to achieve their goal. Otherwise no non-profit could be organizing a conference since selling tickets is a for-profit activity.
> They say that the Danes are the happiest people in the world because they nave notoriously low expectations.

According to my alarm clock app, they also get the most sleep of any nation on Earth.
I don't disagree with the math, but wouldn't it be the case that it's easier to get a biased sample from 1000/100M people than 1000/1M people?

For instance, maybe your sampling ignored a particular region of the country or socioeconomic strata etc.
Curious why this has been downvoted?

It is clearly someone expressing their opinion/reasons why they are angry.

Whether or not you agree with all the listed items is another matter?
> Since init is the first process that runs, you can't use an interpreted language like ruby

Sure you can, you can even use a shell script: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_Initramfs#Init
> Young children are essentially genderless.

Children know what gender they are and learn gender norms from a young age, in fact.

> If they express gender issues, work on it using therapy to find what the cause is. I don't see the need to make them crossdress etc. at such a young age.

Nobody is being forced to "cross dress" (I put this in quotes, since I would argue the term doesn't really fit in the context of trans children). This is something kids do for themselves, along with expressing such thoughts as what gender they are, what toys they prefer to play with, what other kids they like playing with.

And then people like Zucker tell them they mustn't, because it puts them "at risk of homosexuality or transsexuality" (this is me paraphrasing, but it's very close to what he's said), instruct their parents to force them not to, and they end up with psychological issues for the rest of their life.
You can make your life as a programmer easier in exchange for making your life as an operator harder. :) Locks are brittle and hurt reliability.
Weren't British (or at least their ancestors) generally dissatisfied with their lot in the first place and that's why they wrote the Magna Carta?

I don't know that dissatisfaction and mistrust is genetic but I'm guessing it probably gets passed on culturally, at least to some extent.
UK pollsters called the UK election completely wrong last year - far outside any reasonable margin of error.

Questions were asked, but there were no answers beyond "We asked the wrong people."
you'd prefer #yesnazis ? ;)
To an extent, you are right. On the other hand, those are usually (and correctly) regarded as government failures rather than as how things are supposed to work.

Reflexive secrecy is antithetical to democratic government, but that's a completely different issue.
Would the World Be Better If Everyone Were a Do-Gooder?
When bluemix started out on day one, I didn't know what the heck was going on. When I look at that list now, I'm impressed with the cohesion of the services presented. I see bluemix, Twitter insights, weather insights, and a lot of other services that fit into the narrative IBM has pushed through the media. The services appear relevant, and I'd trust ibm to support and grow them instead of using the public as its sandbox.
I remember the introduction to Nightfall by Isaac Asimov, which explains (or perhaps defends) the familiar names of not just alien characters, but their measures and objects:

> Kalgash is an alien world and it is not our intention to have you think that it is identical to Earth, even though we depict its people as speaking a language that you can understand, and using terms that are familiar to you. Those words should be understood as mere equivalents of alien terms-that is, a conventional set of equivalents of the same sort that a writer of novels uses when he has foreign characters speaking with each other in their own language but nevertheless transcribes their words in the language of the reader. So when the people of Kalgash speak of "miles," or "hands," or "cars," or "computers," they mean their own units of distance, their own grasping-organs, their own ground-transportation devices, their own information-processing machines, etc. The computers used on Kalgash are not necessarily compatible with the ones used in New York or London or Stockholm, and the "mile" that we use in this book is not necessarily the American unit of 5,280 feet. But it seemed simpler and more desirable to use these familiar terms in describing events on this wholly alien world than it would have been to invent a long series of wholly Kalgashian terms.

> In other words, we could have told you that one of our characters paused to strap on his quonglishes before setting out on a walk of seven vorks along the main gleebish of his native znoob, and everything might have seemed ever so much more thoroughly alien. But it would also have been ever so much more difficult to make sense out of what we were saying, and that did not seem useful. The essence of this story doesn't lie in the quantity of bizarre terms we might have invented; it lies, rather, in the reaction of a group of people somewhat like ourselves, living on a world that is somewhat like ours in all but one highly significant detail, as they react to a challenging situation that is completely different from anything the people of Earth have ever had to deal with. Under the circumstances, it seemed to us better to tell you that someone put on his hiking boots before setting out on a seven-mile walk than to clutter the book with quonglishes, vorks, and gleebishes.

> If you prefer, you can imagine that the text reads "vorks" wherever it says "miles," "gliizbiiz" wherever it says "hours," and "sleshtraps" where it says "eyes." Or you can make up your own terms. Vorks or miles, it will make no difference when the Stars come out.

... Granted, this only works because they never meet other characters whose "miles" or "gliizbiiz" need to be disambiguated.
Where and why I'm still using Rails
are you asking why RabbitMQ exists?
> All the time Martin says that “the system clock jumps” I assume that we covered this by not poking with the system time in a way that is a problem for the algorithm, or for the sake of simplicity by using the monotonic time API. So:

> About claim 1: This is not an issue, we assumed that we can count time approximately at the same speed, unless there is any actual argument against it.

https://aphyr.com/posts/299-the-trouble-with-timestamps

> Timestamps, as implemented in Riak, Cassandra, et al, are fundamentally unsafe ordering constructs. In order to guarantee consistency you, the user, must ensure locally monotonic and, to some extent, globally monotonic clocks. This is a hard problem, and NTP does not solve it for you. When wall clocks are not properly coupled to the operations in the system, causal constraints can be violated. To ensure safety properties hold all the time, rather than probabilistically, you need logical clocks.

> A somewhat less safe but reasonable option is to use NTP rigorously on your machines, and sync it to TAI or GPS instead of POSIX time or UTC. Make sure you measure your clock skew: everyone I know who says they run NTP has discovered, at one point or another, that a node was way out of sync. If you want rough correspondence to POSIX time, you can still ensure monotonicity by running your own NTP pool and slurring leap seconds over longer time frames.

Clock skew is a very real problem and virtually impossible to avoid 100% of the time. Particularly when you have things like leap seconds where the fundamental concept of how many seconds in a day get changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

System clocks are fundamentally unsafe if you just use NTP. That isn't to say you can never do it. Some use cases it is "safe enough" [e.g. Analytics, Metrics] where the occasional fuck up isn't substantial but Antirez isn't making that argument with Redlock as far as I can tell.

> “Okay, so maybe you think that a clock jump is unrealistic, because you’re very confident in having correctly configured NTP to only ever slew the clock.” (Yep we agree here ;-) he continues and says…)

That still isn't reliably safe because there is no guarantee all nodes will perform the slew identically.
It'd be even better if they did whatever they were doing peacefully, without guns. That armed refuge occupation here in Oregon is costing a ton of money.
Blocking a significant chunk of their audience that doesn't pay for the content they produce, in any way, while expending their resources is of little concern to sites that make their money from advertising.
C'mon.
The number one point was stagnant median income for last 35 years.
Do all the projection of your ideological biases and deconstruct the article to fit your views that you want to.

Bottom line is change hasn't helped the middle class wallet. It's no wonder people are backing Trump and Sanders. The establishment just doesn't get it.
A Slashdot comment (to this link) provided good context why the current console sucks:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=367...

That's from a ReactOS developer.
As someone who's done DoD contracting for many years working for different agencies... I have to agree with parent. The amount of competent people I ran into, on the government and contractor side, could be counted on a single hand. I've reported and seen so many security holes that were never fixed it's ridiculous. I'd like to imagine the work done by our group was top notch but even if it objectively is it's rare to work on any DoD project without 10+ contractors all with varying levels of competence.
Decentralized, no ads, no tracking, free software.
> Secondly, Antirez's argument that you can use a compare & swap in a transactional storage layer is also wrong. This is not possible to write safely.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm not sure I'm as pessimistic as you on this one point.
ssh certificates are not x.509, though they are designed around a PKI.
load webserver.nlm

(a reference for the old-timers here)

Seems an odd feature for 1.9.11, why not wait for 2.0?
'Absurdonym' is my favorite new word. It will come in handy when discussing startup names.
So how will that affect the smaller sites (content , etc)? or they have already adapted to most such effects and there will be no change ?
That's not how tax brackets work. You would "only" keep 27% of your income over $10MM, but you would keep a much higher percentage of that first $10MM.

> would you put in a million dollars of effort to net a quarter of that in return?

Even if I was paying 27% on the first $10MM, putting in $1MM worth of effort would get me a return of 170% per year.
Probably you are able to interact civilly because you want to maintain a positive relationship. So you don't dismiss the other without a fair hearing and exchange of perspective. Fundamentally, you respect each other.

I think the primary source of Americans' anger is the disrespect for other peoples' opinions that's spoon fed into us 24x7 by the mass media, who cares much less for civil discourse than a good fistfight that attracts more viewers.

The rise in America's anti-populism starts with the rise of broadcast hate speech, IMHO.
There's some interesting assumptions in berniecare.org buried in variables.

Would be nice if they exposed the assumptions instead of burying it in JS.

http://berniecare.org/dist/bundle.js
All you need is fork(), exec(), and signal handling. You could even write one in PHP.
Ask HN: Do CAs disclose domain details of all issued certificates?
I recently used letsencrypt for the first time and thought I'd have a certificate for each of multiple subdomains, where subdomains include e.g. dev. and staging.

Just about to launch a new website, googled the main domain to see if it'd been indexed, and discovered, to my horror, that each subdomain is shown as a result on a certificate details website, with the subdomain as the page title.

The subdomains are all 403 with an IP whitelist, with some basic authentication on top, but even having these subs listed exposes more info than I'd like.

Has anyone else experienced this? Could this be a feature peculiar to letsencrypt?

Any tips on preventing this happening again without resorting to wildcard certificates or dedicated development domains, and perhaps on removing references to subdomains from search engines?

Thanks
Cloud Functions / Lambda are great for setting up things such as serverless architecture but they lack a few things necessary for typical "fast data" or stream processing tasks. One could do significantly more with these if they had a method for saving state in a thread-safe manner. I know you can call out to dynamo or the like but an in-memory solution is necessary for any sort of reasonable request rate.

With some state one could implement bloom filters, top-n, cardinality estimations, etc...
> Isn't it a good thing that people see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires?

No, it's not. Because that's what helps the current millionaires to single them out and make them act in a way that's contrary to their interest.
No, it's not.

Not everyone will become a cosmonaut... Or a rock star. That's just a fact. The problem isn't the dreaming - the problem is acting against your own best interests, and spending your political power on chasing lottery tickets.

See: The 2008 election's obsession with Joe the Plumber, and his concern for taxes on people making over $250,000/year. He didn't make anywhere close to $250,000...

And never will.
I think you should put some time and effort into researching who in America works for a minimum wage, how long they work for minimum wage, what economists think about minimum wage. I typically find that if I find something 'crazy', and can't believe that 'the other side' would have such an ignorant view, it just means I don't understand the problem.
I'm not dismissing your points, but note that much of humanity still would like to come here for:

1) No warfare destroying their homes

2) Low corruption in day-to-day needs

3) Plenty of food and clean water

4) Children able to grow up without disease

5) Warm shelter

etc

And our ancestors would be impressed too.
100% agree with your description. I came there almost by an accident and stayed for 6 weeks in Quito and Amazon.
I think for me personally it was the country with best ratio of expectations (they were low because I knew almost nothing before) and impressions (very high, easily my favorite country I visited so far).
Isn't that part of growing up though? Why have a life savings if you're only temporarily poor. You know you're going to be rich eventually, right?

I think there's a implicit understanding with this quote that Americans not only have that "American dream", but we also don't expect to work for it. If it was merely a matter of Americans dreaming big and working towards it, then great! But it's not, imo. It's Americans dreaming big, and working their low end 9 to 5, expecting the dream to come true. It's more Dream than Reality. It's a daydream.

Part of dreaming big is understanding that you have to work towards it, or it won't happen. I don't feel like this is happening in America. (As an American)
> I'm not even going to touch his argument that using system clocks in a distributed locking algorithm is safe...

Please do
The article is indeed biased. A good example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064927

It claims there is "strong evidence", but doesn't point to it, and dismisses most of the evidence against Zucker.
Thomas Pynchon is a great inventor of names. From "The Crying of Lot 49" alone, we have:

Oedipa Maas

Wendell "Mucho" Maas

John Nefastis

Stanley Koteks

Mike Fallopian

...and so forth. Granted, the humour in "Lot 49" is a little more juvenile than, say, "Against the Day".
Sticking with the explosives analogy I'd liken it more to rocket science than gunpowder. Sure, you might understand and be able to somewhat predictably control the output of the reactants but in order to use them effectively you are going to introduce an infrastructure for which there will be a tolerance for failure.

This broad generalization elides any discussion of the stakes or acceptable tolerances under which we might use these algorithms that simulate life to produce an effect.

Further you might plausibly posit that a structuralist approach to biological systems, information, and habitat is not only sisyphean but antithetical to an embodied understanding of our world and ourselves.