skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the collection of all nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers anyone has ever used gives you a good starting point to find a 1/10000 curve flaw, but I'm not advocating for allowing cos(1), sqrt(2), 1/pi, &c. I'm saying: "use the leading digits of pi, or the first N digits that pass some security function if you need to be picky".
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>I wish there was a startup in this space.
I have so much house maintenance stuff. For example, I only really need a ladder once a year. But I keep it around forever because when you need a ladder, you need a ladder.
I would love to not have to store and maintain all this stuff and to just request it on demand. Can someone solve that for me?

Actually there is a sorta famous example of a startup that tried to do just that -- or close, they tried to build a social site for people to easily borrow whatever (ladder, chainsaw, etc) from other people in their area.

Turns out, most people said it was a great idea and encouraged them, and they even got lots of signups, but people really don't like dealing with strangers for such things, and nobody used the service in practice.

A, found it:

>There was just one problem. As Adam Berk, the founder of Neighborrow, puts it: "Everything made sense except that nobody gives a shit. They go buy [a drill]. Or they just bang a screwdriver through the wall."

http://www.fastcompany.com/3050775/the-sharing-economy-is-de...

and

http://entrepreneurship.org/resource-center/lessons-from-fai...
It's almost as if humans are primates, and so are inclined to pursue markers of social status all out of proportion to actual utility in a civilized setting.
The component constants of α = e^2/4πεħc have dimensions, so depend on what units you use to measure them in. Their combination comprising the electromagnetic fine structure constant is, however, dimensionless, and is satisfactorily explained.

The Anthropic Principle is usually invoked to explain why two very large dimensionless numbers, i.e. the inverse gravitational "fine structure constant" (which is assumed to be constant), and the age of the universe measured in atomic units (which increases with time), are both very close to 10^40. It is suggested that, for intelligent life to evolve and measure them, the two numbers must be roughly equal, and other dimensionless numbers, such as the electromagnetic fine structure constant, must similarly have values within a narrow range. And this in turn has led some people to believe it's the deliberate action of a creator, or that there are numerous other universes whose constants have different values, and almost all are devoid of life.

Fine-tuned Universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe

However, if we apply this Anthropic Principle to planetary orbits, we could conclude that planetary orbits are roughly circular because, if they were (for example) very long rectangles (or some other random shape), we wouldn't be around to observe their shape.

Of course, no one believes that. It is accepted that Celestial Mechanics, based on Newton's Law of Gravity, (which can be derived from the more accurate General Theory of Relativity), adequately explains why planetary orbits are roughly circular.

An alternative explanation is that we simply haven't worked out all the physical laws. For example, the force of gravity could become weaker as the universe gets older or less dense (or, expressed in different units, gravity remains constant but elementary particles get lighter). Dirac, and later a few others including myself, modified Einstein's equations in an attempt to explain this coincidence.

Dirac large numbers hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis

Another argument against fine tuning is the Inverse gambler's fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_gambler's_fallacy
This is an interesting thought to consider. I'd note that there are people who aren't very happy about the present state of SWAT team usage, prosecuting folks in such a way to require plea deals, and other excesses in the state's exercising of it's powers.

On a specific line:

> If your objection to this is [...] you are also arguing that strong encryption [...] should not be allowed for public use

This is a false equivalence: asking for restrictions on the state is not equivalent to asking for restrictions on the public.

Also in general, there is no requirement to make "digital violence" the same as "physical violence". The state's use of violence is restricted by law, I don't see a reason the forbidding of "digital violence" would fall outside the legal framework already established.
Too much complexity for a world that's moving to mobile clients that can't be active peers of the network.
That sounds like a rather niche problem. Most people do not have lots of money to burn and no free time.

Maybe you could hire an Uber or a Task Rabbit to go pick up your tool.
> and was originally built as a mall

It is a mall.
Isn’t it risky to move to competition's infrastructure?
Kind of. We all know that companies cut deals with providers in exchange for blog posts, tweets, and other sorts of promotion. I'm always wary of posts like these, especially when they lack detail or awareness of competing products.
Yes, I get that Sag A is pretty quiet. But there was an X-ray flash about 60 years ago, based on echos seen in Chandra images. Also, there is this: http://www.space.com/19748-hypervelocity-stars-milky-way.htm...

The impact description in Killing Star is similar to xkcd's, for what it's worth.
I'll disagree that the perks are almost useless. But they can be a bit subtle. In comparison to people's typical experience flying, as a United 1K:

When I call the 800 number, a real human being picks up right away and helps me.
If I'd like to catch an earlier or later flight, if it's within 24 hours, I can usually make the change with no charge. I use this perk dozens of times a year, and it even enables me to book cheaper flights because I'll usually be able to make adjustments on the day of travel.
If I end up on the standby list, I'm put at the top (because it goes in order of highest status before first come first served).
If I use miles to book a flight, I can cancel or change the flight at any time. This lets me speculatively book a vacation flight to Maui months ahead of time when availability is good, even if I'm not sure I'll be free then.
My entire family gets free bags and free extra legroom seats when they travel with me.
I get to sit in fancy lounges when traveling overseas.
And the first class upgrades are a nice bonus.
People always bring up the idea that they didn't have this capability until recently as if that bolsters your position. Since criminals didn't have this capability 15 years ago they couldn't use it to hide criminal activity. How does that make your case? "Regular old police work" has become less effective because it will find less evidence. If criminals are sufficiently on top of their shit, they can be very hard to catch indeed.

I mean, why draw the line here? Bugs and taps were new at one point. Why not say "police used to get things done without these newfangled spy devices, so why should we allow it now?" I would say a bug or tap is actually very invasive, but as long as a warrant is required, it doesn't seem so bad.
I generally Prefer HTML over PDF, especially on mobile, but I'm genuinely curious as to why someone would be cautious about opening PDFs.
It's a bad law, and not every state is the same on this particular issue.
In my opinion journalists need to stop using Twitter as a source altogether.
That is brilliant. Little things like being able to change the screen resolution and waste time on Solitaire - what more could one want!!! Works amazingly.

Also it is quite a historical artefact, things like Active Desktop were truly cool back in the day. Plus the simplicity of the Win98 UI is a joy to return to.

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Oh Bill, oh Melinda...

There is so much wrong with their thinking it's sad. Here's one example:

"If you’re an American, three out of four moms at your school have a job. Your father probably does at least some cooking. There’s a 35 percent chance you live with one parent"

She mentions these things in passing and goes on to claim how women do more 'unpaid' work and that that needs to change.

Really Melinda?

You think 'equality' is more important than not having the choice to stay at home and raise your children?

You think 'equality' is more important than the alarming number of single parents?

How many Americans are obese? Are they really happy with themselves? Not for long if they are. Where is that in your letter?

When you can't get the 'best country in the world' to stop eating itself to death, have failed marriages and constant fear of unemployment which causes financial ruin, not to mention absence of free education and health care - do you really think the priority is 'unpaid work' between men and women?

Unbelievable. Who raised these people? Rich people are so out of touch, even when they try to 'help', it's simply insulting to your average brethren.
"Buy two at half price" doesn't have the same zing as "buy one get one free".
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> I really hope Google adds Postgres to Cloud SQL at some point.

I too hope so.
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Quite the opposite.

Give me a "house improvement standard kit" and a well thought-out place to store it. A well-organized compartment, decent-quality tools that actually make sense, some extendability, and make it take up no space space at all whenever I don't need it. Charge $1000 (€1000) for it, and everybody will buy it along with their house once you've built a brand.
Hey, thanks, that's fun to watch, the way he talks out loud about what he's thinking about trying and stuff. "I wonder what shape this piece of roofing metal would make if I just bent it like this... hmm, let's see..."

I'm inclined to want to do things with less stuff rather than more stuff. Sure, I wouldn't mind a villa full of studio equipment and musical instruments, but I also love to make music with just a ukulele and my voice—that's good practice, too. And you don't even need the uke. These guys are doing pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SMJXf0jvRc

Maybe I'll sound pretentious but I like to make programs kind of the way that guy makes boats. Look at the fundamental tools available, see how to glue things together in the most efficient way. Use the aspiration to stay minimal as a source of inspiration and a way to get past analysis paralysis.
IIRC, Netflix predominantly hosted on AWS. It's definitely a consideration, but focusing on core competency isn't bad either.
How about an objective test for impairment, (motor skills and reaction time test)?
PDF's have been known to have exploits and IIRC how mobile treats downloaded pages (HTML) in a web sandbox, IIRC PDF's need to be downloaded to the device to view. Resulting it being a larger security risk than a web page:

See this for some known exploits:

http://www.malwaretracker.com/pdfthreat.php
Read the report and it was worth my time. Good reading for any systems person. Thanks for posting it.

Suggestion:

Please include a license if one was not (did not notice).

Publish an HTML version.
Minimalism in the sense of the web/hacker/milenial trend doesn't mean the same as minimalism in art or other domains. Not owning physical things is a big part of it.
>There was just one problem. As Adam Berk, the founder of Neighborrow, puts it: "Everything made sense except that nobody gives a shit.

Ah, the good old realities of consumer marketing.
Fair enough, although I saw them start a fire with a bow drill on an episode not too long ago. Report back when your Boy Scouts cause an earthquake with Tesla's oscillator.
In the past there have been numerous vulnerabilities in PDF rendering software.
Ask HN: Is Energous' Wireless Charging Legitimate?
There's obviously been a lot of buzz around wireless charging (see uBeam and Witricity). These guys have been addressed in years past on HN, but given rumors swirling around potential Apple integration would like an intelligent discussion around Energous' technology/patents.
It appears to me that they are utilizing the RF portion of the spectrum (as opposed to the sound waves that uBeam appears to be using). Witricity appears to be focused on charging pads/coils.

Finally, let's consider applications outside of cell phones: a 3mm square chip could create a lot of new Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Site: http://www.energous.com
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> This is still how web searching works. I have no idea
> why you would think otherwise

I imagine it would be days worth of experiencing success with such 'question searches'.
Yup. This risks my receiving cheap screwdrivers that get chewed up on first use. But hey, it's the thought that counts :)
How did you prove they were driving while stoned before if they could credibly claim to have been stoned a week beforehand?
NSA backdoor!

https://github.com/copy/v86/commit/159f565de4dd99bff9b46c45a...

Nope, Windows 98 undefined instruction.
"my wife and me"
I don't think anyone wants to discourage people from learning about, playing with, and trying to invent new crypto.

The usual problem here is that people new to crypto frequently don't treat their whizzy new supercool algorithm as a toy that has almost certainly been done, cracked, improved, cracked and eventually abandoned. For whatever reason, it is entirely too easy for people new to crypto to convince themselves they've made a really cool discovery. There's even a cliche for this: "Anyone can create an crypto algorithm that they themselves cannot crack."

Absolutely, learn, play, and try to make something great. But keep perspective. You wouldn't invite your loved ones to be the first to test your first attempt at a home-brew parachute; similarly, don't use your home-brew crypto to protect important things.
I'm starting to see a pattern
As Peter Thiel observed, in the "ideal state" of capitalism, profit is impossible. Perfect competition drives profits to zero. All profit in capitalist systems results from various forms of friction - imperfections in "perfect competition". Barriers to entry are an imperfection.

We're not in the startup world out of an ideological obsession with the perfectly spherical cows of economic fantasy. We're here to make money (among other things). We are trying to build high-growth sustainable business models. That means high profits, much higher than can be achieved in highly competitive industries.

Perhaps we shouldn't be saying "monopoly" so much as high demand, low competition, high barrier to entry.
Skiing doesn't take all that much stuff. Except for the skis, it can probably fit in a modest duffel, and skis are easy to stash.
>Humans don't breed, enslave and kill billions of starfish, crickets and worms.

But we do breed, enslave and kill trillions of carrots, apples, potatoes, tomatoes, etc

But again, you have made it clear you feel that some life is not as valuable, namely plant life - so it is morally acceptable from your view to kill plants but not animals because of the difference in the value of life.

Thats good for you but i am interested in hearing arguments from someone who doesn't just ignore uncomfortable facts.
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If the FBI simply wanted into this specific phone there exist companies that will do it, right now.

Even high-end hardware security modules are not rated against a competent attacker with unlimited resources, in physical control of the module, who can attack it destructively.

In fact, they must largely know there isn't any really important evidence on the phone so they have time to play these games.
Because by taking complete control of a suspects computer, with a software that's essentially a version of backorifice, you're mudding up all the evidence you might have found. A wiretap is completely passive. Sure one might fake that data as well, but in it's nature it's different from taking control of the whole computer, I would say.
Google Cloud has a managed Hadoop service called Dataproc: https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/
We should put this part of the thread to bed, because CryptoExperts is the real deal, and it's kind of silly to debate "homebrew crypto" on a thread about their research.
All I've seen is people asserting there is a slippery slope, or that a dangerous precedent will be set. It's on you, not me, to make a case. And you completely missed the point, which is that it's possible for smart well informed people to disagree with you. Maybe you should come up with a convincing reason I should fear this FBI request instead of jumping straight to "you must be ignorant".
It is not an either/or decision. You can still become wealthy with a control-oriented approach. While I have not become obscenely wealthy, I am well on track to achieving my personal wealth goal. More money would not make my life substantially better.
What Google Cloud needs is a better sales story. AWS consistently beats out Google in this respect. This story is welcomed and there should be more success stories published like this.

My business is a heavy GC user (AppEngine, Datastore, CloudStorage, BQ, ComputeEngine, ManagedVM) and I couldn't imagine achieving what we have achieved in such a short amount of time on any other platform.

We (myself and another guy) started at zero and shipped our product in 3 months on what is effectively an infinitely auto-scalable platform where we don't have to do any devops or carry a pager. I'd much rather work on features than chores. =) 4 months later and we've had profitable growth and zero downtime (knock on wood) and we're hiring.

Thanks Google!
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That is the only job governments are supposed to do. Protect freedom of its subjects from outsiders. You cant credit the Bank's security guard for the wealth that the bank builds.
>You've also not yet provided evidence for plants' sentience

So you dont care about the morality of ending life, you only care about the morality of ending sentient life - got it.
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On a long haul international flight ? I doubt it. It's hard to find even mile redemption availability.
You can also just enjoy the actual drug effects of alcohol without getting to the point of being actually drunk. I have no experience with marijuana, but I'm sure there are different degrees there as well.
There's a whole body of poverty work devoted to these kinds of issues, called Institutionalism. My own experience in poverty reduction was working in Microfinance (in Kenya, Uganda and Philippines). I got disillusioned when I realized that even when our loans helped someone make some additional income there was always some group above them in the food chain who would find some way to leach the additional profit from them. The issue wasn't access to loans, our entrepreneur's work ethic, intelligence or creativity - the issue was systemic corruption. Fixing that though wasn't something the free market or bottom up entrepreneurship can solve.
You don't need $1k to bake bread, but I think your parent is objecting to how much you are taking for granted. You didn't just use mixing bowls, you also used a sponge, dish soap, measuring cups, measuring spoons, a couple ingredients, bowls, fork/spoon/whisk, some kind of pan or tray... If we believe the author, he has none of those things.
You were not in control of the drug before you took it. You have no idea what you took. the sample size is one (or arguably two). Are you saying that in spite of this, your experiment has any meaningful results?

I have no idea why you're attempting to preserve the authenticity of your experiment when it had vanishingly few verifiable materials, effects, and samples. Your post has great value without attempting to draw results.
Your original post says, 'baking' and 'running' with no context. People's ideas of seemingly simple tasks evolves as they get into it.

If you are just baking bread sure, you could do that with minimal equipment. But if you want to bake a cake, you need a cake tin, scales etc. If you wanted a really fancy cake...

If you want to run around the park, sure, pair of sneakers. I know ultra marathoners. When they enter a race they are given a checklist that they must have on race day. They have all sorts of gear to help them train. Not to mention the travel gear they need to get to the location their race is in.
Simple colour harmonies can be picked from a hue circle using rules of various polygons. Why not just spin around with that until you find something that suits your application? Then you can tweak it as needed rather then using some predefined palettes.

Related: Built a tool for switching between hex and Munsell notation for OSX, https://github.com/germ/munsellScript
Ask HN: What's the word for 'doing things the same old way with a new tool'?
It's the word for 'doing things the same old way even when you have a new technology/tool with new capabilities' -- something that sounds like syroglephic, seiroglyphic.
My running theory is that the machine elves from Dimension 9 are actually a heavily modified perception of one's self. This is purely just based only on research done in my basement with DMT, so nothing approaching academic research, but I think those little people are actually our "mind's eye" perception of ourselves, just twisted by the DMT. Like when you imagine yourself walking through a hallway to go to lunch, as people sometimes do, you're "seeing" that image of yourself. I think this is what triggers most of the creature visions. Maybe I'm not making sense, but this is the first time I've tried to put that idea into words.
What makes them think they (Time Inc.) can run this business better than Yahoo?
>I'd like to see you make the same argument for fruit, for example.

Why is cow vs golden retriever so important, but golden retriever vs apple completely laughable? You are still ending life to nourish your body no matter what.

Oh and i doubt you will have that opinion if bees are eradicated worldwide due to pesticides and we all die off
I hope you didn't take offense to the question. I recognize Docker's contribution to the containerization landscape, but after doing tech for ~15 years, you see things come and go and you get tired of wasting your time on products or tooling that may or may not be around in 1-3 years.
I've already invested in the cameras and the cable runs, and I'd rather avoid Windows (although I see I can add a capture card to support my cameras.)

Any other suggestions?
> > If two theses conflict each other at least one of them (perhaps even both) must be wrong.

> This is too simplistic. They can be partially right as well as partially wrong. Is light a wave or a particle? Well, it depends.

In this case both statements (light is a wave and light is a particle) are simply wrong and as current scientific matters stand the description given by quantum physics seems to be the correct one (at least for about 70 years no experiment could be given that has disproved it).
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