skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no reason whatsoever to allow remote access to USB devices.

Unless you want to connect your local USB device to some VM in the cloud. Which is the direct use case that came up when this came up in discussion with Reilly Grant when we were both at VMware. It comes up surprisingly often as a requested feature, as IT organizations get increasingly lazy/less funded/laid off and don't want to have to install clients or anything on local machines, just pop open a browser, point it at the VM and connect up the device.

Not that I'm advocating for this in any way... I thought it was pretty out there (along with WebMIDI), but hey, why not, the Web Browser is the One True Platform and everyone and their parent company and sister company has nearly quit doing native application development on any OS (as sad as that makes me).
>At what point does this become so scary that something happens to increase the taxes on fossil fuels so that consumption will go down?

You're jumping to conclusions on the actual solution to the problem.

I suggest unpacking this problem a bit more. Given the time scales, and potential delay between addition of CO2 into the atmosphere and consequence, I imagine that we should also be thinking "How do we adjust to our new climate?". "Taxes, now" is short sighted.
Or versioning. File's been corrupted? Cool, just use an earlier version.
It would be more natural to add a new IP-over-USB device class and let products opt in to bring an IoT experience without invading the entire legacy stack and exposing all its security holes.
As weird as it sounds Scheme may be too, uh, unaccessible to certain kind of folk who grew up around, say, Java tradition of doing things. I personally spent some time on the other side of the extreme - couldn't be bothered to touch anything C-like with a 10 foot pole. Now that I am starting to warm up to more "traditional/public/common" languages like Python, I think this book will be very valuable to me.
It's hard to react fairly to the analogy, because I know you're not literally suggesting that David's literal roof is any way anyone's problem except David's. (In the 1% of cases where you're literally arguing that, my response isn't much longer than "that's 100% David's problem". The house-owning David is so far ahead of the average American and few would reasonably suggest that free roof repair is a basic human right or governmentally subsidized/funded activity.)

If the analogy instead is meant to apply to general basic income topics, provided we're willing to remove more than 95% of the other enormous governmental support programs (replace, not augment), then I'm inclined to give cash and let the Davids figure it out.

I believe it's more wasteful to society and intrusive/insulting to the Davids to propose that "we know better than you" and erect even more governmental "choosing for the population" administrations. Is ketchup a vegetable? Is eating meat morally wrong? Is eating meat calorically efficient? Yes, there are Davids out there who will make poor choices with the money, but I believe there's more value in letting the individual decide than in me deciding for them (directly or via proxy).

> There's a LOT of factors that going into making the "right" decision, if there even is one.

100% agree and the second-order application of that is exactly why I favor giving cash. Because what's "right" for David-1234567 is different from David-1234568 and I'd much rather have them decide, even if it means that David-1234569 makes choices that he later regrets. (If he doesn't regret it, but we regret it on his behalf, then there is no problem other than our own over-reaching and over-controlling of others tendencies.)
Telepathic chat support
"Hope you don't mind giving up seafood" alarmed.
Syringomyelia often doesn't cause any pain and isn't progressive. Just because it shows up on the MRI doesn't mean it is the reason for the pain, or that it is progressive. I certainly think it's worth exploring other possible causes for the pain.

>I'm aware of him but what I have isn't well known or something that is amenable to normal physiotherapy.

He doesn't practice or recommend physiotherapy.
Which is why black holes makes no sense.

Nothing can ever fall into them, so they can't ever form, or grow. (Obviously speaking from the POV of Earth.)

Since they can't form, and can't grow, how can you see a "supermassive one"?
Chrome Apps already have USB access: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_usb
"a labor market without basic income or some other kind of safety net is not a free market at all"

No, you're just redefining "freedom". It does not mean "freedom from consequence from choices". It means "lack of compulsion to make particular choices".
I have a Leuchterm notebook with Whitelines. It's not bad, the app works reasonably well. It's just doing fiducial detection and some perspective undistortion, pretty much out of the box OpenCV.
Plus one for the air-cooled VW. We just bought a 1981 VW Westfalia, which has the same 2.0 liter engine as the Porsche 914 I owned thirty years ago. It's like coming home again. Dead simple, and the instructions for dropping the engine don't cover even two pages. I've always considered the Bosch fuel injection of VWs and Audis, no matter what version, to be problematic and a general pain in the ass, but it mostly works most of the time and is the only potential sticky part for a newbie.

Parts are still readily available, though anything that moves under its own power is likely to sell for more than it did new (which wasn't much in today's dollars). But you'll get smiles and waves anywhere you go whether you end up in a Bug or a Bus.
I commented meaning to address plastic pollution and its direct affect on the biosphere. China's pollution may destroy 98% of foo species, America's plastic may push foo to extinction.

I agree that focus are many times misdirected and ineffective, but that's no reason not to try.
Amazing technology, but we are finding it a little limiting in production. True and False values are good, but we're finding that often the data value is in an in between state.
We believe that a quinary operator would give significant advantages over the current binary booleans (TRUE/FALSE). Is it possible to implement a quinary boolean along the lines of TRUE/FALSE/MAYBE/MOSTLY/KINDA.

for example earth_harmless:FALSE is not quite true, whereas earth_harmless:MOSTLY is exactly what we need.
Good article, I got so annoyed with all the churn in build tools for client side I eschewed them all and just use Python with Envoy to run them as command line tools.

NPM brings in the packages and I use browserify for handling require but again from the cli not via grunt/gulp

It gives me near endless flexibility, the python code is often clearer and I can pull in just about anything I need if I need it.

./front.py js --debug
./front.py css --debug
./front.py deploy

I also like that the python code to handle tasks is largely self-documenting if you know python.

Since they are just python files I can setup filewatchers in intellij and call them when something changes giving me a high degree of automation.
Ask HN: Best resources to get started with WebGL for VR?
I've been interested in learning WebGL for some time to leverage for VR applications. Given the specific use case of WebGL for VR, what resources / tutorials would you suggest a beginner start with?
I don't understand hawking radiation. People say it would eventually evaporate the black hole, but wouldn't the particle falling in increase its mass, whilst the emitted anti-particle would have no effect?
Designing More Efficient Forms (UX)
The flexplate has very little mass to provide momentum. The fact that the flexplate is bolted to the (heavier) torque converter is what's really going to provide the momentum.
A good and cool slave to make repetitive codes for you
Surely there is a limited number of versions that are kept. What if the ransomware does a bunch of repeated writes to push out the good version?
>Watching this get upvoted onto the front page is...

It takes a little while to read up and see the flaws. Guess people vote first. I was just reading the osmotic pressure for seawater is about 1000 psi so the resistance of the membrane is probably going to be pretty small in comparison.
Perhaps I'm saying this because I only experienced jet lag on holidays but I love it. I flew several times from Europe to Asia. I couldn't get much sleep on the plane and was very tired so managed to sleep easily and the next days were a bit hazy but fun.

On the way back it's the best part. I always end up going to bed early and waking up early. I love it. I normally can't sleep that easily or wake up so fresh early in the morning. I feel very productive working in the early hours of the morning (only on jet lag). Maybe I'm odd, but I wish I could stretch my jet lag even further, rather than get rid of it.
I see a lot of down-vote worthy responses to OP, and more downvotes. But in this case, I honestly don't see it: why is this not a fair question? I mean, in a genuinely neutral sense; isn't he right?
A CLI tool to remove all your tweets at once
What "better jobs" are you thinking of that a typical truck driver could be realistically trained for? It reminds me of when the US steel mills closed in the 1970s and 1980s and people said -- "we can just retrain these workers for a lucrative computer career!". Didn't really happen. The elimination of unskilled/low-skilled labor through automation is major problem for society that is only going to get worse.
I agree on the melatonin front. I prefer a couple of whiskeys and a benadryl for long flights.
And there's the dystopian generic food of Repo Man [1].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/w6ODNaQ.png
>Washington is too tainted by vested interests

One could say this about both sides of this issue. Clean tech has utilized an enormous amount of lobbying and been given substantial subsidies as a result - despite the lack of appreciable results.
Imagine if the government did its job and protected labor instead of capital. What a world we could live in in the "richest" country in the world.
All Prior Art: Algorithmically generated prior art
Ransomware demands money. The electronic money transfer services are amongst the most surveilled and spied-upon of all electronic services. So why doesn't law enforcement follow the money and arrest the culprits? (Unfortunately I think I know the answer: because they've got their priorities wrong)
This works excellent.

Another reason to love it is they provide their app for free as well as downloadable and printable pdfs of their special paper.

Seems they make money on the convenience of buying ready-made stacks of this paper as well as whiteboard magnet kits that allows you to use normal whiteboards with their app.

(And yes, I love it and have occasionally used it but I am otherwise unaffiliated.)
Cows produce a lot of methane, which is far worse than carbon dioxide.

Additionally, something has to ship all that food to the cows.
A Strange Ecosystem in the Sea: Dead Whales
How much formal logic does he use?
Economists Adding Up at Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google
I thought the question was about radiation emitted by the black hole itself, i.e. Hawking radiation, not radiation emitted by matter outside but near the black hole, i.e. accretion disk radiation. It's not really contradictory that stuff outside the event horizon can still escape.
What kind of physical sensor are you proposing that would give you data like that? I think most ambient light sensors in laptops are just LDRs, which are only capable of giving you a 1D number.
Smaller without being obfuscated:

sub nextq {
my $sz=8;
(print("@_\n"),return) if @_ == $sz;
o: foreach my $col(0..$sz-1) {
my($u,$d)=(scalar(@_),scalar(@_));
for (@_) {next o if($_==$col or $_==$col-$u-- or $_==$col+$d--)}
nextq(@_,$col);
}
}
nextq();
I've seen that before and I am so disappointed in the slow motion part. I wish I could see those bullets going one behind the other in a perfect 8 pattern.
Off-topic query: The above linked aeon.co article has these opening lines:

After you die, your body’s atoms will disperse and find new venues, making their way into oceans, trees and other bodies. But according to the laws of quantum mechanics, all of the information about your body’s build and function will prevail. The relations between the atoms, the uncountable particulars that made you you, will remain forever preserved, albeit in unrecognisably scrambled form – lost in practice, but immortal in principle.

Can anyone point me to the article or wiki of this theory/phenomenon? I would like to read up more about it.
The benefit of inflation is punishing unproductive investments and keep capital in play. Which is why economists want 2-3% not 0. As such low long term capital gains taxes are a bad idea economically. Ideally the tax rate should increase for every year an asset is held. Such that there is no bias for liquidating new assets instead of old ones.

Which is effectivly the same as paying capital gains each year. On the flip side the annual rate could be set as low as 5% or capital gains = 1 - (0.95^(number of years)). Which is actually rather close to inflation targets.
Solving the wrong problem. Moleskine is losing market share to companies like Leuchtterm because the quality of their products (especially the paper) has been in steady decline. People who care about writing in journals care a lot. They buy bottles of imported fountain pen ink. They have long conversations about paper acidity and copperplate vs. roundhand. They will not buy your cludgy pen or limit themselves to an expensive journal that doesn't care about any of that. The "new feature" you're advertising is already available to anyone with a camera-equipped smartphone. Your only potential customers have already tried the dozens of cheap high-quality software solutions for digitizing, analyzing, cleaning up, and distributing photographs and other digital representations of what they write or draw in their own journals with their own pens. And they're definitely saavy enough not to tie themselves to an expensive low-quality replacement that'll be discontinued in two years when Moleskin decides they're going to try to compete in the presentation whiteboard space instead.
Don't you need to ship all those builtin lua plugins around with your deployment of heka though? That was what turned me off - most of the other options can be used with a binary + config file.
Improved Bonferroni correction factors for multiple pairwise comparisons
Jet lag isn't about feeling tired after being awake for 24 hours straight, and defeating it wouldn't mean that you arrive at your destination wide awake despite having had no sleep for a full day. Jet lag is the persistent desync between your body's internal clock and the sun's actual position, which lasts for several days after a rapid trip across many time zones. It's not about getting to your destination feeling refreshed, but waking up the next morning without feeling like it's time for bed.
Ransomware typically uses Bitcoin, which is rather hard to track if you do it properly.

And it's not like solving a $1K ransom is a high priority case for LE, so you are partially right.

Like the saying goes, there is a lot of bike stealing because LE doesn't really care about stolen bikes.
Working at various tech companies, I've observed a major shift towards the fine art of bullshit. Employees constantly have to prove their worth and put a fresh spin on how valuable they are to the company.

Talent and merit and work ethic is falling by the wayside. The top salaries go to people who make themselves sound talented and worthy, while the shove the actual work down the line. I've seen projects outsourced on nine levels. Everyone wants their cut.
Agriculture is most certainly not carbon-neutral by nature, even with your exclusions. CH4 is persistent and not readily available for photosynthesis.
That would be a good first step. It would have to be a subset of CSP. Don't allow inline scripts or eval.. Only on https is another step I see as very important.
Carbon dioxide is captured from the air, by plants, and then eaten by cows. So you're saying that any greenhouse gas from cows is that which has been previously captured.

But you're missing the fact that some of the CO2 captured by the grass is farted by the cows as methane, CH4.

About 1% of the CO2 is released as CH4.

CH4 is about 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas. It's one of the most potent greenhouse gases.

Luckily methane has a half life of 7 years in the atmosphere, so anything we do to reduce methane emissions is likely to be helpful.
From my experience, there are 3 kinds of traveller:
1. People who know where they are going for a stipulated period of time
2. People who know which region they are going to over a long period of time
3. People who have taken a sabbatical or couple of years off or have decided that they are going to be on road for a long period of time.

For #1 - hotel and flight deals matter the most
For #2 - they figure out most of the stuff while on the move and do not want to plan much. they pretty much buy to-fro tickets from their base and figure out everything else on the move.

Monetizing the idea of 'where should i go' looks pretty tough to me. My pals tried a venture wherein based on the region of interest the website would come up with an itinerary, they couldnt do well and had to fold.

Travel industry needs technology and some disruption; it hasn't seen anything 'interesting' other than the known Skyscanner, TripAdvisor, Agoda etc for a long period of time now.
Driving -> biking and pushing for better electric-based transit are your two best ways to help the climate.
Yes. Great idea. I think you're totally right that travel websites make the mistake of assuming you know exactly where you want to go.
Information Theory: Entropy
Comic Sans was perfect for Microsoft Comic Chat [1], described in David Kurlander's SIGGRAPH paper [2] and published by Microsoft for Internet Explorer in 1996. It was used to publish a synchronized streaming audio, text and comic strip version of NPR’s CarTalk show [3], and in 1998 to produce a web comic named Jerk City [4]. Jim Woodring drew some of the Comic Chat characters and background artwork! [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

[2] http://kurlander.net/DJ/Pubs/SIGGRAPH96.pdf

[3] http://kurlander.net/DJ/Videos/CarTalkComicChatVideo.shtml

[4] https://www.jerkcity.com/

[5] http://alchetron.com/Jim-Woodring-913512-W
Two intro CS courses were provided: 61A, in Python, and 61AS (cs61as.org), which was self-paced and taught in both Racket and stk Scheme. Unfortunately there wasn't enough student interest or available TAs to continue providing 61AS. I was fortunate enough to take it the last time the full 4 unit course was offered.
I'm saying when apps are written to duplicate what is already free. The comparison to laborers is fallacious.

I'm referring to innovators in computer science who say they innovate when they simply recreate. It's a waste of efforts
I'm not going to disagree with you :-) However I do also have a sort of compromise, which is my Nexus 9 with the folio keyboard. It folds up into something similar to the size and weight of a paperback book. It's not-so-bad for ssh (I wouldn't really want to program with it), one thing missing would be good key mappings to deal with my odd choice of 'screen' settings.

Photo here: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/nexus-9-ssh-on-the-go/...
If you're going to be rude, at least be correct. All cryptography is not in fact based on factoring; in fact, most public-key crypto isn't.
Or it's just a message to his friends and colleagues that's not intended for wider distribution. Just a little public blip of "hey, I'm not at this company anymore, but I still exist and I'm doing something new".

Hacker News does this all the time: take something that's on a person's personal website/blog that might be intended for a limited or self-selecting audience, or meant as a joke or off-the-cuff remark and blow it way out of proportion.
Silent Technical Privilege (2014)
>in a genuinely neutral sense

Asking if someone supports politicians that claim to be eco-conscious while raising campaign money, who are almost universally left-leaning, is far from "neutral". There are places on the Internet to espouse political support for either side. This, however, is not one of them.
This was the funniest thing to me, CERN released the Higgs boson finding in Comic Sans http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-com...
Wikipedia has 777 on order, so I guess it's not a typo. Two others sources give 764 [1] and 780 [2] orders, respectively.

Given that Air France recently converted outstanding orders for the A380 to three A350, that would make 777 as of last month consistent with 780 as of today.

This 780 figure is also including two orders for a total of 16 A350-800, which will never be built. So it is consistent with the 764 figure that do not include these A350-800.

Conclusion: not a typo.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/a350xwbproduction/orders

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tSkBafqSz-xEdM1VLbQy...

Edit: added the AF recent order, and the A350-800 adjustment.
PlayCanvas has a WebVR integration. You get a Unity-esque editing environment coupled to an open source engine that's built specifically for the web/WebGL. http://blog.playcanvas.com/easy-cardboard-vr-in-webgl/
On x86 the shift only looks at the leftmost 5 bits, so 1<<33 is 2. Whereas elsewhere 1<<33 may be 0. It wouldn't be strange if a platform decided to have 1<<33 throw an overflow fault. The key is that this choice should really be up to the platform, not the compiler
Biggest impact livestock has is on the forests leveled for grazing. Such as Amazon in Brazil mostly used for livestock when it was a good carbon store previously.
I highly recommend the Full Stack Redux Tutorial:

http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial...

Learning Redux from the get go means you can skip a lot of React's internal state management / lifecycle methods.

The tutorial also covers a bunch of relevant topics like TDD with React, immutable.js, and socket.io.
You scrape as an alternative to browsing in some cases? That's interesting, is it to avoid advertising / tracking / poor UI / something else?
This is a well known application of graphene, the challenge is in working out the manufacturing processes to get the cost down whilst still retaining the material uniformity. It will be revolutionary when its available. Does anyone have any news of recent progress in graphene manufacturing?
yes, sorry for the double post for those who will notice, I wanted to make a smaller post description
How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell
The context being a deliberate effort to make it compact. You can abuse features in most languages and make it hard to read.
Javascript anyone?

!function r(y,a,z,b,x){for(x=y--?-1:print(a);++x<n;z&c|b&d||r(y,a+1?a+' '+x:x,z|c,b|d))c=(1|1<<y+9)<<x,d=1<<9+x-y}(n=readline())

http://golf.shinh.org/reveal.rb?N+Queens/murky-satyr_1217229...
The 3DS is higher stakes than virtually any other cryptosystem. Nintendo spends billions bringing it to market. Game consoles live or die based on third party developer support, and one of the important promises console developers make to entice developers to their platforms is that they will carefully steward those developers IP.

What's more interesting to me is that the 3DS system is nonrenewable. As the author of this post correctly points out, all DRM systems inevitably fall, but they accomplish their commercial purpose as long as that fall happens far enough into the future that the developers make their money. Smart systems trying to employ DRM this way build, from the beginning, mechanisms to refresh and re-complicate their DRM systems on a title-by-title basis.

I actually agree with you "in the large" about RSA (factoring doesn't seem like a hard enough problem anymore), but in the particulars, nobody is breaking RSA-2048 any time soon. Unlike strong curves, though, it seems plausible that RSA-2048 (and beyond) could fall before quantum computing.