skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, several of these points are not as simple as regulation, but are issues requiring fundamental research.

NASA is about much more than space, and possesses cutting edge domain expertise in aerospace, which they are leveraging here. And the products of these investigations are more broadly available than if a similar result was captured by Boeing or Airbus, for example, where it would likely be a trade secret.
Unless I'm crazy, wave 6 requires align-self on the individual items, which is not mentioned in the help boxes, ever.

Or am I missing something, and not adjusting individual items would still work there?

Edit: Yeah, I'm missing something. /headdesk :)
What a total straw man of the core Republican values.
A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck
Fun fact. If you read the book The Victorian Internet, there's an interesting anecdote where a pioneer of the telegraph had a flawed theory that the thinner the cross-Atlantic copper wire, the better the transmission signal.
This is a gold mine. My profession life is half programmer / half jazz musician. Every musician I've forwarded this link to has been blown away.

The commentary accompanying the clips I've sampled is just great. It reminds me of why I still purchase CDs after all these years - namely, the liner notes. I will never be okay with downloading/streaming an album without having even basic information such as who the lineup is. Liner notes for jazz recordings are such a fundamental part of the overall package and really can increase one's appreciation of the work. There's nothing better than hearing a Nat Hentoff or a Stanley Crouch give a sweeping overview of the scene while introducing you to a recording. Better yet are those rare artists like Brad Mehldau who are themselves amazing critics of their own artistic worlds.
Enhanced Training Through Neurostimulation Like Neo in Matrix
FBI is LEO not PSO...

Heck, their acronym expands to Investigation not mall cop public safety...
Spanish: visteme despacio que tengo prisa

Or: visteme despacio que ando apurado
I take the stance of my Jewish friends, when they say never again. That's what history is suppose to teach us, NEVER AGAIN! Yet we still have not worked out how to make that happen for all these government based power plays. All power needs to be distributed far and wide so that no one has power. That's a very good way to ensure people can't bring harm to others at every level of society/.
geo-political crap, few are equipped to discuss this, but it deserves to be up there
So true and yet so sad.
Does a carbon tax work?  Ask British Columbia
I had the same quibble, was going to write my own but found and now use bat.

https://github.com/astaxie/bat/blob/master/README.md

I don't use Windows but I also dislike python dependencies if I can get away with just needing libc.
Everyone is so terrified of nuclear waste, because it lasts "hundreds of years", which seems like a really long time. Why is almost no one terrified of chemical waste, which lasts literally forever, or at least until after the Sun burns out?

Global production last year:

Arsenic (arsenic trioxide): 44,000 metric tons

Mercury: 1,900 metric tons

Selenium: ~3,000 metric tons

Beryllium: 400 metric tons

Lead: 4,000,000 metric tons

Cadmium: 23,000 metric tons

All of this stuff will last literally forever, and is more-or-less impossible to destroy. This doesn't include all the fun chemicals (eg. cyanide) which are possible to destroy, but get dumped into the environment before disposal and so are floating around anyway.
vim configs are often different per-platform anyway. I have an if mac/else block in my gvimrc, since gfn, for example, requires "Font:hSize" on OS X and another type of font selector on Linux-based systems. Things like that are not really new.
Is that definitely the way it works? I don't think I've ever configured anything on HN and I see dead comments. I also think it's really nice - as grandparent said, it's a very clear indicator that I'm dealing with something I probably want to ignore.
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Steve Ballmer famously only drives Ford vehicles out of some sense of loyalty (his dad worked for Ford).
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Package-manageme...

Git for Windows uses this project.
You can also wet your hand and dip your fingers into sufficiently hot lead, and again, the leidenfrost effect will protect you (as long as you don't keep your fingers in there for too long).
This is silly. That stuff is simply being refined, it was always there on the planet somewhere. The question is where that stuff goes and how we control its movement. The same is the case for nuclear waste, but if we can spend trillions of dollars on war we can send that stuff to outer space, not very far from that technology being feasible. Space elevators and whatnot. Sooner or later we will have nuclear fusion which will solve the problem of waste altogether.

List of ways of getting rid of nuclear waste:

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...
align-items: center;
justify-content: space-between;

seems to work.

and align-self is mentioned on wave 10.
Browser War: Chrome May Beat IE+Edge in May of 2016
Interesting.

> There is a low level radiation hazard area clearly marked on the bottom of the capsule

Whats this?
You can send an email to jobs at faradayfuture dot com. We have an internship program that will start soon.
How are these numbers calculated though? I want to know how what percentage of these companies' total workforce is outsourced to contractors that are not included when coming up with the above figures. A company may be off loading a large chunk of the work to third parties while getting sweet gains and producing relatively higher per employee revenues.
The Cryptographer's Panel from the 2016 RSA Conference
I use the Babun Shell [0] on Windows desktops to provide an environment for tools more typically found and used in a Unix-like environment.

I know it's not the same as installing a tool natively, but it lets me a) use some tools pretty much in the way I prefer to do so and b) check out stuff that I see on HN (and elsewhere) without a PITA install.

Installing was a one line deal if pip is installed (pip install --upgrade httpie), which in turn was a one line installation (wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O - | python)

That's pretty close to one line.

[0] https://babun.github.io/
Ritualized behavior? Chimps all throw rocks at the same tree
AdBlock and NoScript stops http://foo.bar/#1'-alert(1)-'"-alert(1)-" on every site that I've tested :)
When you preview a thread we get that data directly from the Gmail API on our servers. This means that if your email is properly configured with SPF and DKIM, it shouldn't be possible for someone else to spoof your email before we retrieve it.

Once we have a copy of your email, we then take a hash of the messages before sending the text to the users. When we get the text back from the users (who can make highlights or redactions), we compare the text we receive back with the hash of the original message and throw an exception if the hashes don't match. We then delete the hash from our database, and store an encrypted copy of the message. The message remains encrypted until each of the message contributors gives permission. If this doesn't happen then the encrypted thread is deleted from our servers.

So yeah, we were pretty OCD about making sure that if something shows up in everyone's newsfeed that it was actually both written by you and approved for publication by you.
There are in more well-defined industries (e.g, media) and salespeople understand and value them- they would definitely consider this important to their overall package.
There's more of an issue when the industry isn't well defined (like this "new benefits" industry is not), or salespeople don't have experience to know any better or ability to impact the retention of a client.
I like Wget's option to continue a file download if it gets interrupted. I believe you can achieve the same thing in curl but its not as simple as just setting a flag (-c).
Not to mention it's a terrible idea from a privacy and security perspective. It doesn't matter how good your encryption is or how reliable and low latency your network connection is if the service provider has shoddy VTech style security. The only way to keep your data safe is to not give copies of it to third parties. ("Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead" and all that.)
> I think thats the most i should say about the quality of the stack vm specification or its semantics

As someone who spends a lot of time with Ethereum, I'd love to hear more. Honestly, I almost never deal with the stack level language (only the higher level Solidity). Isn't it possible to write whatever language you like on top of that stack based language?
Steve Jobs and (I would hope) Elon Musk.
> Fuel is the biggest single cost driver in commercial aviation, and aircraft use more fuel per unit distance

> the faster they go. This is why passenger jets are slower today than they were in 1965.

True, but this is misleading: the fuel economy of planes today are enormously improved over their 1960s progenitors and this is only in part because of reduced speeds. Computational fluid dynamics, improved engine design, superior material properties, etc. have resulted in significant improvements in aircraft design and efficiency. All of these factors have resulted in massively cheaper and safer travel (which lower costs through risk-adjustment).

> make supersonic aircraft for important government officials (cost being no object when tax dollars are used)

The unit cost of a new Gulfstream G650 is $64.5 million. Sounds as if cost is no object for more than just government officials.
to this very day they still have all those extra U's and -re's instead of -er's. ;_;

can't say i'm all that romantic about notions of empire, though.
I know people who aren't excessively wealthy that do that. I think its a tax thing for them, plus they put a lot of miles on the car each year.
Or even compared to the 8 million tons of plastic dumped into the ocean each year, which will never truly degrade. I understand plutonium has a half life of 25,000 years without anything aiding it.
The waste issue has already been solved. You turn it into glass then store it somewhere geologically stable, such as Yucca Mountain. See http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter11.html
Ask HN: Can anyone review my resume and provide feedback?
I am trying for new job at top notch companies such as Goog/FB/NetFlix/Amazon/LinkedIn.
In the past I have received no reply at all.

Can anyone senior enough or working as lead / manager at these companies review my resume ?

A bit about me - I am not software engineer anymore. I do code on daily basis but it's more data /ETL vs writing core engineering applications. I have about 9 years of experience by now in data/analytics field. I work for a well known company but there are quite a bit of hurdles at my current job.

I really appreciate if anyone is willing to do so. Also, I request you to maintain confidentiality if you are going to review my resume.
The DoD has a surprisingly positive history with having outsiders on influential boards like this. I say this from experience: I've served on a few. The DoD knows that it needs ideas that come from outside, and so it runs a variety of external advisory boards. Some of this helps, e.g., DARPA explore very-early-stage research options. And in my experience, they tend to listen.

Schmidt knows what he's doing in this context. He already serves as one of the members of PCAST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President%27s_Co... , which exists to advise the President in a non-partisan way on matters of science and technology. The members of PCAST have serious chops, and serve a very useful function in helping get sane science and technology policies formulated.

(And I use the phrase "serves" very carefully: This is not a path to fame and power; chairing PCAST working groups is a pretty non-trivial amount of work, for no real reward. Most of the people I know who've been involved in the process do it because they feel like it's a way to have a positive impact in the U.S. and in their fields.)
This is such a complex way to do what's built into RethinkDB. I just love how useful the activity streaming is.
Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1m people
IIRC, it's a sensor that uses reflected gamma rays to measure the distance to the ground. When the ground is close enough, braking rockets are fired to reduce the touchdown velocity, making a land-landing more pleasant.
Health Data Manifesto
This is pretty cool! I switched from a similar extension purely because I prefer the location on the left of the comment rather than the right.

I've tried a lot of these and one thing I haven't seen is a similar feature to RES that remembers collapsed threads. Any ideas if this is something that HN's design somehow precludes or is it just a matter of someone sitting down and writing the code?
Everyone assumes the tree is the innocent one.
bentbasket.com
Thanks but I'm not qualified for anything in NYC ... At least from the responses I've gotten so far
Struggles of famous scientists may help students succeed in science
So am I understanding this correctly, but this is not a compatibility layer where we can run native linux applications on windows, instead it's like cygwin where we can run ported applications, only this one uses pacman for distribution of packages?
>is there a better way to convey the mental model of a software system?

There is UML but that's mainly to explain stuff to non-engineers and turned out to be a total waste of time in 90% of cases. Documentation becomes rapidly outdated and costs money to maintain. Do you want someone updating stupid arrows and boxes in a visio file for $200 an hour? Engineers develop an intuition of why things don't work the way you expect just as a mechanic develops an intuition about why your car doesn't run the way you expect.
Verdun: A Diabolical Inferno
Here's a recent discussion on the topic, along with some links to other previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10879529
Most Drivers Think Self-Driving Cars Are Unsafe
Clearly "memset" != "daurnimator" so yeah Q.E.D.
Easy targets, too, if (or when) FBI/NSA/CIA allies with some party in domestic political struggle.

I think part of this might be that members of Congress remember the news breaking that the NSA and CIA were spying even on American allies like Chancellor Angela Merkel and got a taste of "is nothing safe?" in their mouths.

So yeah, I'm with you on that nugget.
Another famous example of losing the manufacturing process and tools is FOGBANK -- a classified component used in nuclear weapons:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK :

It was soon realized that the FOGBANK material was a
potential source of problems for the program, as few
records of its manufacturing process had been retained
when it was originally manufactured in the 1980s, and
nearly all staff members who had expertise in its
production had either retired or left the agency.
Documentation First
The one-sentence summary quote: "... the GOP, by positioning itself as the party of traditional values and law and order, had unknowingly attracted what would turn out to be a vast and previously bipartisan population of Americans with authoritarian tendencies."

Good article. The wave is what's fascinating this year, not the surfer (Trump).
This article is a paid ad.
About 50 tracking, remarketing and generally privacy invasive scripts are executed on your browser [0] when visiting Forbes via their "Ad Light" experience.

Allowing all that scripting to run still didn't let me access the article. I can live without ever going to Forbes.

https://i.imgur.com/W6tYjHF.png
Huh. I've always thought of them as the opposite - wget is the full featured spidering tool, curl is the easy to run one when I need a command line thing or to bang web stuff into a janky copy and paste workflow.
i can really appreciate how you explain every little detail to the reader here . i remember when I was new to infrastructure and every article i read seemed to assume i had 10 years experience.
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There was a time (around Blender 2.70) when we did provide Blender packages and it did compile (of course, since all our software is built from source) but then llvm dropped JIT around version 3.5 and it became incompatible with OpenShadingLanguage.

We made a choice that we'd rather forge ahead with modern LLVM and Clang (for Rust, Clang-GCC and Julia) than hang back to support Blender. Given our very limited resources, this was still probably the right decision, however, we might have made a choice to create a special llvm35 package at that point, but we had no idea that OpenShadingLanguage would take so long to adapt to MCJIT, which the still haven't done to this day, as far as I know.

The important point here is that MSYS2 is a very open-source, limited resources project. We aren't experts in all packages, so if you are knowledgeable about llvm, OpenShadingLanguage and Blender and are interested to do so, then please help out.

For Blender, getting CUDA support into MSYS2 is probably high up on the priority list too.
They're usually not very secret, and you probably just have to search around a bit. Here's the cable bin on an unidentified ship: http://imgur.com/Oc24DNN
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see how it is done on hnhiring.me, where there is a "-" OR "+" sign for each posting.

Instead of that, you have an x-box to 'delete' job postings from the main view.

In that way, I am only left with the jobs I am interested in, in a main view (no need to click on each job to see it).
I think it's totally fair game to coerce me into turning off my ad blocker. That's how they monetize. That's how I'm supposed to "pay" for the content.

I choose to use a blocker because I don't like ads. But if someone wants say "hey, the deal is ads or nothing" I think it's a pretty fair bargain.

Currently the ad blockers (my self included) are free loading off the system. The internet only works because most people are willing to suck it up and watch the ads in my stead.
Correct. The title is definitely misleading. The linked website doesn't even mention Arch Linux at all.
Show HN: Writing a mock server for APNS stress testing in GO
Audiophile world it's an expensive and I would risk to say hard-to-justify/define one.

I do like to hear music and after buying several more and more expensive earphones/headphones you come to see it's just about certain signature on the music... or in layman terms... EQ.

I used to research more and more in forums like head-fi but suddenly you realize there is no way to translate, measure or get an agreement on what things mean, e.g.

>good texture and detail, not particular sweet in tone but good in vocal. Treble is decently crisp and clean, but rolls just a tiny bit off on the very top of the spectrum, over the 16kHz region. Bass extends decently low, but slowly rolls off in the sub-bass region

With that said, I find hard to believe digital "always the same" encoded music is inferior to this analog-vinil-trend...
Please read the links on the linked to page. MSYS2 is a rolling software distribution providing software built with the mingw-w64 compilers.

Some of the software is Cygwin-like, but not much, only enough to distribute (and build) the native (mingw-w64) software and provide a shell.
... but doesn't include pacman
Nice, I was there last week :)
I worked on the Domesday project as a 12-year-old. It enlisted schools, with the help of geography teachers and their classes, to assist with data gathering around the country. I never saw the finished thing, and I'm sad it was never properly preserved. I look forward to the work of archivists!
The cost to "make good" the sea floor is much cheaper than the cost to "make good" sidewalks, roadways, lobby community groups and pay contractors to pull fibre. Plus the cost to BP is likely worth it for the reliability over VSAT, vs. what might be a marginal improvement to the ARPU for Comcast.
Excellent extension, been using it for years.
What does Sensenbrenner even mean by "you aren't going to like what we come up with". It sounds like he was pissed off that Apple didn't come with a bill to hand him to do his job for him. And his last part sounds quite like a threat.
Agreed. At the time I was with Symantec it was bandied about that the cost of having him on the box was becoming a pain point. They had been trying to phase his image out for years.
I always make this point too. It's very weird. My guess is that when you name a timeframe for the danger, like "a million years," people start thinking about waiting it out. And waiting a million years for toxic waste to be safe sounds really tough! With more mundane sorts of toxic waste, it's not even an option, so people are forced to think about it differently.
Ask HN: how to effectively open source remote pet treat dispenser
I'm new to software and hardware. How do I effectively open source this remote treat dispenser that I built my girlfriend? Full background is here: www.playwithpickles.com

The dispenser works by emailing a specific address, which triggers the treat machine to dispense treats, take a video and send it back.

It got a really good reception from all of our friends and I've built 4-5 more for friends. I want to share more broadly. What's the right way of doing this and building an active community? How do I appropriately credit the people who wrote the code that helped me get my code in place?

My goals include jump starting people who want to build their own machines, to improve the code reliability, and to see what other accessories people build using this.

See the code on github (https://github.com/bigchewy/PicklesTreatMachine) and more background at http://playwithpickles.com

Thanks
It looks like he received a free press sample, but beyond that I don't think he received any inducements. I'd call it more a product review plus a description of what it's like to be colorblind.

> EnChroma is not a new product, nor is it the only set of glasses aiming at colorblindness (see 2AI Labs, for instance). ... EnChroma even offers a "Product Testing Program," where would-be wearers can apply to earn a free pair through participating in certain company initiatives (like talking to the media).

And although he clearly likes them, it's not a breathless endorsement. More a reflection on the impact of sense deficits and their technological aids.

> I can certainly live without the EnChroma glasses, of course. At 30, I've spent three full decades viewing the world in my own peculiar fashion, and I've been just fine. But then I think about 6-year-old me, staring in disbelief at the purple ocean, and believing it to be blue. And I think about all the confusion and trouble it could have caused had I not been identified as colorblind.

I liked the article because of its depth and reflection, even as a non-colorblind reader.
Since aria2 was only passingly mentioned, let me list some of its features:

- Supports splitting and parallelising downloads. Super handy if you're on a not-so-good internet connection.

- Supports bittorrent.

- Can act as a server and has a really nice XML/JSON RPC interface over HTTP or WebSocket (I have a Chrome plugin that integrates with this pretty nicely).

They're not super important features sure but I stick with it because it's typically the fastest tool and I hate waiting.
Often lost in the Peter Norton mystique was the efforts of Brad Kingsbury who wrote many of the utilities as Peter's first programmer.