skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a stupid reason for having an outcry.

What about "Let's add risk to strangers' lives so we can look at a comet slightly longer"?. Throw in that 'one in one million' is a number pulled from the air to represent an opinion, not calculated mathematically, and that launching probes happens multiple times, not as a once-off event. Let's keep things in perspective here.

What happens if that burnup happens over a country like Russia or China?

And if you're going to make the "well, only 5000 people would die" argument, then you've lost already. Out of the global population that live and work in buildings, the World Trade Center attacks killed fewer than 5000 people. Overzealous police shooting people in the streets? Bah, it's hardly anyone, by the numbers. Wildfire sweeps through the state, killing 50 people? Drop in the ocean compared to car deaths, why is anyone concerned? "They were going to die anyway" is a pretty callous argument that can be used against anything.

I mean, if we're arguing for science here, then we should also be pointing out the flaws in the quoted paragraph - it doesn't matter how many other deaths are attributable to cancer (and doubly so because cancer isn't a single thing anyway). Mentioning that statistic in this context is purely political and poor science.

I say all this because the process of cutting edge science is necessarily political. You see it in academia, you see it in industry, and you see it in government funding.
> increasingly interdependent world where European nation-states are decreasingly relevant.

I find this (fairly common) statement pretty opaque. I'd appreciate someone explaining what he means and why it's a good argument.
Condensed somewhat: "Dear British voters: Give up. Your objectionable government renders you people unwelcome in our club, and I want you out."

Condensed further: "Dear British voters: Screw yourselves. Literally."

Either way, this piece propounds a deeply and unnecessarily divisive opinion. We are not our government, and it saddens me greatly to be reminded that the exclusionist prejudices half the Commons are currently busy whipping up into a frothing idiocy here are just as present on the continent.
But... what if there's none?
I have a friend whose family doctor developed his own Electronic Medical Record system :)
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The choice is really for British people not Euro mainlanders. The western European nations, particularly the French do not like the UK in the EU.

There's a lot to be gained from being in the EU. As a startup having the possibility to 'passport' into the EU is one of the most magnificent things, one license 28+ countries. This includes banking & finance (FCA) licenses. It is enviable to do this even in the US where 50 separate licenses are needed in some cases.
I arrived to the comments section before the C vs Rust flame war
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In the context that the large corporations are a net negative for members of the local economy on average at least (wages, jobs). When said economy no longer becomes justifies the operating cost, the large company leaves and those left behind have few options on how the fill the void. <insert Walmart under-cutting small biz example here>
Ask HN: Any opinions on ergonomic mechanical keyboards?
Hi HN, I love my Microsoft ergonomic keyboards but really miss the tactile click of a mechanical key like the Razer or (the holy grail) IBM Model M. I've seen a few combinations flying around (such as the Kinesis) but I was wondering if anyone had strong opinions or recommendations. Thanks!
Check out Genomeweb - bioinformatics startups are being acquired all the time.
I'm not sure that's worse than living in Seattle and for 8 months a year going two week stretches without seeing any blue sky.
How Kayne West crashed our startup
The part about not deleting organisms, is a small caveat that I omitted in most of the discussion since it makes the algorithm just a bit harder to understand. To clarify that point, since you asked, the organisms can be popped from the front of the container if we provide a maximum population size. If we do not provide a maximum population size, we do not delete the organisms. Older organisms do however lie dormant due to the non-uniform distribution, thereby providing the same advantage as selection while preserving a greater degree of genetic diversity. If there is anything else that is not clear to you then I am open to any questions you might have. I will help where I can to clarify things.

With regard to the fitness function, I think I agree with you that checking if the offspring matches a password will fall in the category of a fitness function albeit a binary one. I will update my description to include that, thanks.

With regard to if it is useful, I will let it stand or fall on its own merits. If people are going to use it to find bad passwords, then I would say yes it is. It might be pertinent to mention that I am interested in genetic algorithms in general and this is a good practical way of exploring my own theoretical ideas.

Yes, "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" really is a password. Have a look at the rock_you list of passwords and sort them by length. There are some extremely long but silly passwords in there.
> This is not the regulation-free utopia everyone was sold on over the past few years.

Coercion in the Bitcoin community comes from free-market forces and not a state monopoly on violence, correct? What other definition of "regulation free utopia" would there be?
There was "fair notice" given last week (and front page'd here on HN) about an upcoming release patching "several" vulnerabilities: https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2016-Febr...

However, they're scheduled for release on Monday the 1st of March - so we might be seeing a few more bugs in the next couple of days.

EDIT: I've spent all morning teasing a friend whose birthday is today about "what if it were tomorrow" (I'm sure they get it every year from every single person they meet), only to then come here and forget all about it in my tally. Go figure. Yes, the 1st of March is Tuesday. Sorry!
We drive nuclear missiles on public roads, with enough security anything is doable.
Don't bother, they haven't learned about writing secure code since Extended Algol (1961), Mesa (early 70's), Modula-2 (1978), Cedar (early 80's), Ada (1983), Oberon (1991),... anyway.
Websites can access your location in Mobile Safari. For example, Google Maps does this.
We (the computing industry) did the single-address thing for many years. It was terrible. Virtual memory was a major development in the robustness of computer systems because it allowed unrelated components to be isolated into separate fault domains. We (as an industry) adopted it universally, despite performance costs that were much greater than they are today.

You could argue that unikernels are by definition one component, so it's fine to share one fault domain. That's easy when they're missing all the facilities that even the OP admits still need to be built. If you're going to have something like a network, a filesystem, and so on, you need tools for understanding them. It seems like you'll want an interactive environment for using those tools, along with common facilities for filtering and otherwise processing that output. And we're back where we started -- with several discrete components that are better off in separate fault domains.

You can argue that the isolation is better provided by the language, and the article claims that "it’s easier to create quality tooling for something written in a single language with a decent type system that lives in a single address space". That's only true if you allow these components to be tightly coupled. But neither removing direct access to memory nor providing a rich type system magically eliminates the possibility for a bug in one part of a program to affect a different part of the program. And why should all these components be tightly coupled anyway? And besides all that, this is an argument for monoculture -- everything must use the same language and runtime environment. But different languages are better suited to different tasks.

The author also claims a false dichotomy between code reuse and multiple address spaces. But it's completely possible to build common facilities for instrumentation and reporting and still have them be loosely coupled.

All of this typifies a lot of my issues with unikernels: they represent a complete rejection of major advances in modern systems and software design without addressing the underlying problems that those advances were built to solve. There's some baggage in modern operating systems, but many (most?) of the major architectural decisions are the results of thoughtful incremental improvement by engineers looking at concrete problems. Let's not throw all of that away.
I disagree with some other comments. I think it is totally possible that Apple removes Uber from their Store. That's the danger of all the "closed" and "restricted" app stores.

1- Uber has a web app that works on all platforms that can run a modern browser (pretty much all in fact). Right after the app is taken down, they would publicly push all iPhone users to use the web app.

2- People would buy other devices where it run natively (Android, smartwatches, etc.).

3- I bet Uber is already working on a plan B to mitigate that. Like building their own device, integrating with car manufacturers, etc. They could be even working on creating an alternative mobile OS.
Having Uber natively integrated in a mobile OS could be a huge opportunity to grow with other features and become the next generation iPhone. It would also be a differentiator to the iPhone.

The mapping API they use could also be taken down or blocked. Same risks there and that's why they are working on their own mapping technology. They tried to buy HERE maps but it failed.
What a stupid headline.

They use Alluxio (formerly named Tachyon). People who know anything about Spark will already know what that means. For everyone else it is an out of JVM memory layer that allows Spark to keep more data in memory instead of disk.

The key quote is that it is 100x than Spark alone. It isn't instead of Spark SQL, it's as well as.
I saw a fair bit of anti-British thinking in the European deputies. I sense France and Germany would be able to go through with a few things that previously they couldn't. It's hard to say if this would actually benefit Europe. It all depends if the UK's contribution to European debates is actually productive.

It's almost certain Britain's trading position would be weakened outside the EU. But I'm unsure if the EU would benefit from Britain's exit. It depends if the UK is blocking things would be positive for the EU, something I've seen no evidence of yet.
The perfect patch (2006)
> The choice is really for British people not Euro mainlanders

Perhaps then should be a referendum to ask the "Euro mainlanders" if they want a UK with the privileges they have

> There's a lot to be gained from being in the EU

Yes, but with the same rules than all the other countries, not like now that they cherry pick what they want.
Nope. Any web app may request your location. It is up to you to allow it or not.
And also - the price that employees pay for stock options is the common share price which is appreciably different (2x - 20x) from the preferred price. The preferred share price is what the investors paid, and it is that higher valuation the ms is writing down. There's a much longer drop before employee share are underwater in a pre-public company.
Trust isn't binary, and verification does not require individual verification, but community or ecosystem verification.

If 3rd parties can audit software (including analysis of binary-only software), and can observe the software's behavior, and can watch the software's network traffic, then the chance of being caught violating user trust will generally be high enough to make the liability of being caught a genuine concern.

However, if updates are automatic, encrypted, and platform DRM prevents 3rd-party audit/analysis, the chance of being caught starts to dwindle down towards zero. That entire trust ecosystem disappears, and what we're left with is absolute trust in a corruptible third party, and no mechanism with which to verify.

The latter is exactly what Apple has built. They have a backdoor: the means to push absolutely trusted software while preventing all third-party audit and analysis.
The openSSL project committed the fix and description to their public repo 3 days ago (no clue if intentionally or not, but they didn't remove them). Not much to hide anymore.
I'm sure. :) I detest hot weather and after 30+ years of living with it I was ready for a change. "Hot" in Seattle is a handful of days above 90. "Hot" where I'm from is the local news declaring that this is the 10th-consecutive day of highs over 100. Besides, the two-weeks-no-sun thing seems to be more local myth than actual reality in Seattle. Even in the dead of winter there are still sunny days. The days are really short in November and December, but the sun exists.

I can work around cloudy days--which I genuinely love--by sitting in front of a Happy Light for an hour or so. That's an acceptable tradeoff, for me, to escape not being able to be outside for more than a few minutes without being drenched in sweat.
Also: When searching for packages, I recommend http://npmsearch.com. It scores search results by popularity, which usually correlates with quality and maturity.
A Million Marbles
> Perhaps then should be a referendum to ask the "Euro mainlanders" if they want a UK with the privileges they have.

The EU mainlander area's elected representatives forged this deal.

The privileges the UK sought like the 'red card' system apply to the whole of the EU.

There's nothing stopping an EU country from getting the same terms on the integration bit, indeed some countries have done that to varying degrees - Switzerland (EEC), Iceland (EEC), Denmark (own currency), Norway (EEC with EU laws) & Sweden (own currency) & Turkey (customs union)

If you're a Spaniard don't you have to worry about Catalonia?

The EU allows states to 'minitiarize' and devolve down once the trivialities of sovereignty and the '3 basics' EEC principles are sorted out
> The value increases. It's just gathered as taxes.

In other words, from the perspective of the land owner, the land value doesn't increase because the added value goes to the tax collector instead of the land owner. Which is true for both the owner/seller and prospective buyers of the land, so the value (meaning market value) of the land doesn't go up. Assuming the tax is perfectly calibrated and the land value estimate is correct before the existence of the tax reduces the market value of the land.

Here's the problem right now. Rents are too damn high and people can't afford to live in the city. You pass the land value tax and land market values decrease accordingly because property buyers won't pay as much for land they can't collect as much rent from. But the rents are still too damn high, they're just going to the tax collector instead of the land owner. And people can't build new housing to alleviate the high rents for the same reason they don't already, because zoning regulations prohibit it.

Suppose instead we change zoning regulations to allow builders to build several dozen new 50 story skyscrapers full of residential housing in the city. Supply goes up, price goes down. So property values go down and rents go down and now people can afford housing. How is that not better? It gives the "rents" to the tenants instead of the tax collector.
Not all system calls imply a context switch either. Linux has had a vDSO mechanism for some time.
> special treatment as granted by the other EU member states. It did not adopt the Euro, it does not participate in Schengen, and it can pick and choose from within the areas of security, justice and police cooperation as it pleases

All of the european north is not in the Euro, other countries (e.g bulgaria) are not in Shengen, and every other country has the same options too choose (with consequences). There is nothing special about the UK in the EU, as much as Cameron wants to claim the opposite. Despite political gestures, the UK has no other option than to stay in the EU, the opposite would be inane. As the author himself suggests, if they left, they would soon find themselves wanting back, for purely practical reasons. They are not even a barrier to a closer union, there are other more important issues.
2. No one would switch to Android just because of that.

Because of losing Uber? No.

Because they don't trust Apple not to remove other apps? Absolutely.

Consistency, stability and trust are quite important to maintaining a brand. Apple arbitrarily removing apps would definitely harm their brand image, especially as they're positioning themselves as a market leader in fighting for their customers privacy and trust at the moment.
Is the European voice fading? When was "political Europe" ever a thing? Each crisis sees individual European governments (or at best, regional blocks) go in their own direction. You can even watch the farce unfold right now, with the attitude towards Greece, where the neighbouring countries are basically saying "that's not our problem". And let's not even talk about the "European voice" on the topic of EU foreign policy, because there is no such thing.

And I don't see that changing. Due to a combination between structural issues, different interests between North, West, East and South and the crisis-related rise of right-wing populism across many European countries (to various degrees, not every country has turned into Hungary), it's getting worse. And I don't see what's going to change that.

I used to be in favour of an EU "federal state". Now, I'm not so sure. Political union makes sense for countries with similar culture and economic interests. But as it is, I see regional blocks, not political Europe. Maybe dropping the common currency and splitting the EU into "mini-EUs" would be a better approach?
I think this open question should lead many founders to overthink risks which comes by working with any app store, and always keeping an alternative option like Uber did with their web-app which all users can use.
> Perhaps then should be a referendum to ask the "Euro
> mainlanders" if they want a UK with the privileges
> they have

The exact same sentiment (and it's an ugly one, I might add) was floated by less savoury corners of political discourse in England in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum. It's not helpful; please don't stoop to it.
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In real time as you are moving? Use case: drunk girls summon Uber while in the club, the walk across the street to where it is less crowded to wait for their ride.
Why are you comparing a 30 character word with a 6 word passphrase?

You need to look at bits of entropy.

A 6 word passphrase is about the same as a 12 character password if you use any printable ASCII character.
I am sorry, but if YOU, the author, will ship MY GPLed library with YOUR application, then YOU are FORCED to open YOUR code under MY terms. Understand?

Don't steal my code, please. Don't bundle it with your proprietary app without my written permission.
Don't steal my code, please. Don't bundle my open library with your proprietary app without my written permission.
> Yes, but with the same rules than all the other countries

Plenty (if not all) EU countries have negotiated exception to various treaties. It's the nature of these "exceptions" which matter (like the UK wanting a voice in the Euro policy, despite not being part of the Eurozone, and doing everything they can to prevent reforms of their bloated and dangerous banking sector).
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Do you know of a previous case that's similar to what you're describing here? Because I'm having a hard time understand this. Unless Apple entered into an agreement with Uber, I don't see how Uber would have an expectation that their relationship with the App Store would continue in its same form into perpetuity. And I'm almost positive there is some condition in the apple developer agreement that says "We reserve the right to terminate without notice or reason" or something similar.

What you're saying is reasonable, and I could see how a judge might agree with the arguments you've made. But it also seems like Apple could say, "We don't like the CEO of Uber's haircut", which is as valid as any other reason to terminate a non-contractual relationship. If Uber wanted protection for the billions they invested, they should have negotiated a proper agreement. Maybe I just don't understand how the law works.
I was in Korea for awhile and never really noticed too much of a problem with GMaps. Do you know if Naver Maps is better?
didn't see that point. it's true, but I think consumers would take more than 1 app (even if it as big as Uber) to change. If the behaviour stars repeating of course people would.

But Apple would be required by users to give an explanation for those actions.

Still, all this post is kinda nonsense because it would never happen. It's more a karma bait lol
I don't understand how breaking a private organisation's terms of service makes you a criminal. As a taxpayer I don't give a shit what any business's TOS are, and I don't think a penny of my money should be spent enforcing them. Enforce them technically or stfu; it's not my problem and none of my concern. Someone gets too many free vouchers from some retarded dot-bubble startup's shitty software and suddenly I'm forking out for the cops and judges to get involved? I don't fucking think so! Get me on a jury for one of those cases please!
The last few paragraphs make it clear it's mostly a satyrical take: the author wouldn't vote for brexit if he were British, because there is nothing to gain for the average guy, and even Farage would end up without the only parliament he managed to get elected to.

But below the satyrical level, there is a point. The British government has long been unpopular in European circles. British politicians insist in interpreting the EU as a trade zone rather than a long-term federalist project, and this is at odd with pretty much everyone else. Also, the EU got too big too fast, and if it is to ever make real progress again, it will have to slim down and lose troublesome countries (UK but also some of the Eastern bloc and maybe Greece). In that sense, Brexit might be a belated step forward for the Union, and it would likely hit only the British themselves (well, maybe some French companies too).
I suggest reading the HN FAQ and what they say about reposts.
17 years ago it was "Let's rewrite Unix in Perl" ...
http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/02/28/1639216/unix-in-perl

I do wish them the best luck, though.
DBox is giving out RSUs now, rather than options.

The tax implications on a markdown after the first block of vesting completes is something I don't want to think about...
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As someone who spent 20 or more years believing Britain should leave the EEC/EU for the last decade or so I've been an increasingly enthusiastic European. Not because I believe in the institution as such, but because it has become the only real check on our ever more broken democracy.

Dear letter writer, the view from London counts for nothing, you should try a view from the minor colonies (UK outside London and the home counties).
I really appreciate your enthusiasm. It is one of the core concepts and passwords seemed to be a good way to explore my FIFO idea in a practical manner. It might well have been done before, but from preliminary searches I could not find anything on it(not that I searched really hard). Due to its simplicity, I suspect it will lend itself to some pretty efficient implementations.

I would be interested to hear what other kinds of problems you see it being used for.
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