skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These people know how crypto works, at least at a high level.

I respectfully disagree.

I believe they think they know how crypto works, and that they may even have excellent advisors who know exactly how crypto works. But I believe that they cling to the notion that the underlying math can somehow be compromised with a back door (that only the government knows), and yet still remain secure.

I absolutely understand that this is a power-play, but the senators would frame it as technology companies being "uncompromising," implying that there is some sort of gray area where the math is concerned. This suggests either they are ignorant, or they're lying to gain position, or both.

Given that the FBI is claiming they can be trusted with secrets (escrow keys, privileged source, etc.) while apparently having their private networks play host to a variety of hackers, unnoticed for years--would you rather believe your leadership is lying or ignorant?
Yeah... I should've been more clear. I mean to say that the poster I responded to is focused more on money rather than, "Holy shit, we landed a fucking rocket from the sky on a fucking barge in middle of the ocean. Fuck yeah!"

p&l is a silly goal when it comes to "Fuck yeah, progress!"
And land it where? It's easier to just use a boat.
I see him as a moderm Edison (without Menlo Park).

Maybe his company will become the biggest in the world like GE. A small posthumous revenge for Nikola Tesla.
How long did it take to jump to the last new platform? How long for the last new API, last new language, framework, library?

If you had historical data on how things went the last time you did these things, you'd be better positioned to estimate how long it will take this time.
Not even close. Impressive nonetheless.
It's not price segmentation. You can encrypt X hosts with a wildcard cert, and X can be any number. So you basically buy encryption at a flat price, which can save you a LOT of money.
why did you walk away from the dual gpu machine if you use cuda. did the dual gpu machine not use nvidia gpus?
If you haven't read the book, Jane Jacob's Life and Death of Great American Cities digs deeply into this, and really nails the prescriptivist design philosophy that contributed to this whole mess.

It's not necessarily that commercial activity was rejected - it was often accepted but only in spaces designated by the designers, which in turn bore no resemblance to where people actually wanted to shop, eat, entertain, etc. And so businesses failed to populate these spaces, and they became wastelands, with crime and decay following shortly after.

This philosophy extended beyond commercial spaces - these communities inevitably had spaces set aside for children to play, adults to entertain, etc, and deeply restricted the use of these spaces to these things, and these things only. There's a deep, controlling, Big Brother-esque undercurrent to that entire branch of urban planning.

And through all of this those same urban planners seemed to blame residents to failing to uphold their utopian urban vision than realize that a reasonable bit of laissez-faire is fundamental to functional cities.
>We call these extensions "high availability" because this approach means that re-indexing a production system can happen much faster, reducing downtime for our users.

Agree with their use of the term or not, they give you their reasoning at the end of the article.
then someone hotlinking to your site were the least of your worries then ;)
Ask HN: Mobile Citizen Journalism App - Market Survey
Hi Hacker News!

I'm conducting a market research survey to gauge interest in a citizen and pro-am journalism app based around op-ed and article submissions. I would greatly appreciate any responses to the following 5 questions:

1. How do you currently share your news stories, opinions, and thoughts online? (e.g. smartphone/computer, websites/apps)

2. In your opinion, what are the major pros and cons of
online journalism?

3. How likely are you to engage in online meaningful discussions around news stories? and why?

4. What do you love and hate most about online discussions?

5. What would make online discussions easier and more enjoyable?

6. In an online group discussion, how many words or sentences do you typically like to type on your smartphone/computer in one shot?

Thanks!
One possible reason is dynamic linking and ABI stability. Go and Rust like to statically link everything, which doesn't work so well with big GUI frameworks. ABI stability and resilience is on the roadmap for Swift 3.0: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/README....
that's why I mentioned it in the "PS". To take a corny line from the Steve Jobs movie, Elon Musk is the conductor. Without him, none of this is possible. Look at Apple after Steve Jobs. Still got the same hard-working people there. Do we still have the same inspirational products coming out? Not even close.
Erm... Not necessarily. The only way to travel quickly between 2 cities is a direct flight, but there isn't a direct flight between any 2 cities, because the cost of having such a flight didn't yet drop to the point where it's economical. So it will be with many types of custom hw.
100% torque at zero RPM means even a Leaf is zippy from 0-20mph. After that it transforms back to an underpowered compact car. I3 had more horsepower and torque, so I imagine that it's even more fun. Spirited driving does take its toll on range, though.
Yes and English education in France used to mostly focus on writing to the detriment of oral communication. A lot of French people are unable to speak English and are very self conscious about it.
No link, but an experimental drug that moderately lowers LDL and dramatically raises HDL was recently abandoned after clinical trials showed no health benefits.

EDIT: H => L. hrrmm...
On the other hand, if encryption is the default then there is no obscurity in not using it.
The part that's landing is the stage 1 rocket, which pushes the payload through max atmospheric pressure and near the edge of the atmosphere. By the time it's done doing its thing, it's going really fast away from its launch position. To land back where it started, it needs to reverse its (horizontal) velocity, which takes fuel. Some launch profiles leave it enough fuel to fly all the way back home, but some don't. I believe it's expected that the heavy launcher (basically three stage1's side-by-side) will always have to land the central stage at sea, because the center stage will keep pushing after the side stages are done, and it will be going way too fast to come back again.

Not an expert, but that's my understanding of things.
Drone breaks through office window into guy's head
The civil liberties crowd scored a good point in calling the UK's version the "snooper's charter."
Lead is just one of many toxins in water...
I don't think anybody in here agrees. It's a very good introduction into the platforms.
if you are using MSSQL or maybe other XML supported RDBMS, I highly suggest xml subqueries instead of joins. You can actually return whole object graph in one row, it is impossible with traditional sql. It is not too complicated either.
After a decade and a half of wars and general malaise at home, this kind of thing reminds me that we're still moving forward as a country and a society and that we still have the capacity do really hard things. I'm so proud of the SpaceX team for representing America like that.

Way to go, anyone at SpaceX who's reading this.
Google's Blogger is moving to https too, over time, my dashboard shows.
There are a number of reasons which I'm sure others will go into, but one point to mention is that FedEx and UPS can charge what they like and ship where they like. USPS must deliver to every address and, to my knowledge, isn't allowed to charge more to deliver to some addresses than to others.

So FedEx and UPS can make money by doing a large volume of deliveries in cities, and not delivering to rural areas (or charging through the nose to do so). USPS doesn't have the same freedom. In practice, this means that shippers go with UPS or FedEx unless those places don't go to the address, in which case USPS gets saddled with the unprofitable business.
I find it much more amusing when some kid with 3 years of experience in
programming in Node.js, Ruby, WTFOnTracks, or some other PHP du jour thinks he will
be as good as a seasoned sysadmin. Or better yet, he's not replacing
a sysadmin, but a system programmer.
(Manoj Bhargava being best known for "5-Hour Energy" and pledging 99% of his wealth to philanthropic causes)
Something is broken here. Feinstein is so off base and so unaware of the implications of her proposal, she's forwarded a proposal that basically breaks the entire internet. (Over time, all data security would degrade.) Especially considering that she has a history of doing this with legislation involving technical stuff. Dunning-Kruger with literally global downside. (Knee-jerk emotionally motivated legislation that's horribly broken.)
I almost see what you see. In our large enterprise Android is not really even a player. Macs do kind of suck especially for some of our multifactor security requirements(CAC/PIV cards). Windows rules the desktop and iOS is the preferred mobile platform.
That was also a bit irritating for me. I am from Germany and celebrating Germany became a bit frowned upon for obvious reasons. Besides during the World Cup, of course. Nonetheless it seems a bit strange to me, the country has really not too much to do with this success notwithstanding that, to some extend, it provided the environment that enabled this success. Shouting »SpaceX!« would seem more appropriate to me but probably still feel a bit strange. And last but not least the first thing that I associated with this were the celebrations after the death of Osama bin Laden which I think were pretty inappropriate.
lexical closures over const values are pure
This is about custom domains, not subdomains of wordpress.com (they're using a wildcard cert for that, and have been for years).

Rate limits aren't much of an issue in that scenario unless someone has more than 20 separate subdomains set up as a WordPress.com blog under the same domain. Even then, you could theoretically get 20 * 100 subdomains covered every week if you're smart about which domains you combine on a single SAN certificate.
A Better Way to Organize Swift Classes
That's so freakin' cool!

Does anyone know how the rocket meets the drone surface at landing so precisely especially when the drone is pitching and rolling? Is it processing on the rocket or some other mechanism?
The question is simple:

You have deep learning, what would you build with Yahoo's data?
It's not just chilling, it's insane.

A crypto-secured digital communication should be analogous to sending an untampered with letter, or having a private conversation in a secure location.

Just because the medium being communicated over changes, doesn't mean we should adopt wildly regressive policies.

By proposing that all this 'cryptographically secured'[0] communication can be accessed at a later date, they're basically saying that the contents of all snail mail letters should be photo copied, and all private conversations should be recorded.

[0] If there is a possibility of 'technical assistance,' then it is not cryptographically secure.
And they actually explained that in the video: https://youtu.be/7pUAydjne5M?t=23m37s
yeah, there's definitely a bit of marketing hype there, but still incredibly impressive.
Can you not turn off the auto-connect to open wifi, which I just can't see why you would ever want to do that.
That's crazy misleading. This is just a post saying, "hey, this is a way to sync data faster." Awesome! Much kudos.

But stale data isn't "downtime." This is tech marketing at like, MongoDB level.
Displacing CPUs is not the issue (the CPU occupies less than half the area of a modern application processor chip for instance), the problem is displacing CMOS. I don't know much about the alternatives, but I trust Colwell's skepticism.
Well, I do the same. I won’t destroy any of their dataset, or even have a measurable impact – but in turn, I won’t have a measurable impact in positive direction either.

If they want to make a profit from me, they should pay me, or they can license correct CAPTCHA results from me under GPL.
Wework.io Hiring Remote Developers. Lot's of Listings
New article by RMS: When free software depends on non-free
It came down at quite the angle.
I'm pretty sure the launches are actually profitable, so more than cover their costs.
That was so cool. If you feel like launching one yourself, they have a user's guide: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/falcon_9_users_guid...

And pricing information: http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

(edit: added pricing info which might be helpful)
Discussion on the original source of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11451093
Accessible, but proprietary. SSD upgrades depend on third-parties producing the hardware -- that can mean waiting a while, if not forever.
Here's a video of the landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M&feature=youtu.be...
http://shaderfrog.com/ is cool too, neat to visualize it right in the browser
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That and he is investing a lot of money into projects that will have a real world impact using technology we have now to solve problems.

For example a state of the art desalination plant that can be mass manufactured.
Considering all the fuss Apple made about the new design of the Mac Pro it is strange they have not kept it top of the line. I guess they care more about the 5K iMac and MacBook being super thin and pretty.
Looked intentionally parabolic to me.
It happens pretty much real time. While using cURL or the .NET client it doesn't return a response until the indexing is finished. You can verify this by querying your index for some basic info. For example you could even just put the following in the browser:

http://hostname:9200/_cat/indices

The 6th column gives you the number of records indexed. Send your request and refresh the browser.
Then what exactly is the point to testing? Prove it for once and for all!
If you can find a way to innovate in a manner that isn't easily copyable I think you can win. Sorry if that isn't much help. The Chinese are experts at copying but it doesn't work for everything at any single point in time.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11457263.
A covered entity includes "any person who provides ... a method to facilitate a communication or the processing or storage of data." FOSS encryption libraries could be considered a method of processing data.

If signed into law, this could compel maintainers to design libraries with gov't decryption in mind.
>and so unaware of the implications of her proposal

I suggest you check your premises.
interesting fact about car2go: car2go is no longer active in Ulm(Germany) which was the first pilot project
Both del.icio.us and delicio.us forward to http://www.delicious.com/ now
At least GOG have proper QA.
We already have Google spreadsheets and many more such apps/web apps. Why would someone jump to this?

I think you need to clarify more about your USP. Becoming more specific about your functionalities such as what kind of security or what kind of user permissions, etc. might help you gain more attention.

People already have such apps/web apps available. So, you need that one wow factor to make the users jump from one service and come and use yours. Try to think more from an user's perspective and try to redesign the way your web app is going to work or help companies/individuals in handling spreadsheets with ease. Good luck! :)
Sounds plausible, but why not even release an upgrade to the outdated GPUs or the CPU?

The current 15'' rMBP is faster in single core operations...
Because of ITAR the vast majority of SpaceX employees are citizens or at least permanent residents. I'm sure he'd love to be able to hire outside of the US, but ITAR isn't going to change anytime soon.
Which is why I'm surprised there is so much 'USA' chanting in the video?
Oh yes, Stallman tends to think of Linux as mostly GNU and he likes to forget
about non-GNU parts, which are as essential (X11 anyone? KDE, LXDE? systemd?
Vim? etc.) Nothing to be excited about.
In addition to offline use, YouTube videos frequently get taken down due to bogus copyright claims (see: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/internet-creators-pressuring-...) or even nuked by their creator (like the "InternetAristocrat" did).

I frequently backup entire channels using youtube-dl just to avoid the chance of that content getting destroyed.
I'll probably get downvoted to coach for this, but I strongly disagree here. It's written in long-form journalism format, where the story unapologetically takes a backseat to the author's experience of the facts and environment. The journalist is aware of any logical fallacies or biases native to such an approach, and therefore peppers the piece with a lot of statistics.

So definitely not TLDR-friendly format we see here , but it actually becomes a pretty nuanced, powerful, well-researched portrait of EYN and if you make it to the end.
Hunt: “The only error handler you need” joke
Hi HN!

I remember seeing a joke image on Twitter about the only error handler you need, which was a try catch statement which simply uploaded the error to StackOverflow. Pretty sure it was PHP, but might be mistaken.

Any ideas who did this/where I can find it?
Thanks for posting that. Amazing!
Can you provide a link to the sketch or anything showing what you've done so far?
Very impressive with the ocean swells tossing the drone ship around as well.

Also, I liked the running commentary between the various reporters. It almost felt like a sporting event.
Watched this in public with my coworkers, so I controlled myself. Had I been alone I would have wept with joy. This is so incredible.
>Ironically, the beefy windows machine was cheaper

That's logical, since Apple focuses on all other aspects of a machine than raw specs first (construction, size, weight, battery life, trackpad, screen, etc).
A rocket lands like it's done it 1000 times from space, and my company can't even code a simple microservice or use containers.
> Also, French people are often shy of speaking English.

I think it's more pride than shyness mostly because of history and the rivalry with England. It's unconscious too.
Even well fitting doesn't matter when you feel like you were born to wear hoodies, shorts, and sneakers. I currently work for a startup and that's something I place a lot of value in. I would turn down a job at my current salary + $10k if it required business casual attire every day (of course that implies further cultural differences too).
I don't understand this German mentality (my heritage is German). It is like German's are ashamed to be German. WWII was a long time ago, it is ok to be patriotic and proud of your collective country.
There are a number of tools built to extract the content from those kinds of pages, did the author try any or just start YOLOing Python scripts?
Mt. Rainier looming in the background. Judging...
Chanting USA demeans and marginalizes other countries. Its quite offensive to people to support one country over another.

/s
That's fair. I think it makes more sense to write a function you know is functional and then test for expected output. I'm not sure under what circumstances you wouldn't be sure if your code was functional.
It's really strange. A lot of effort was put into that Mac Pro and it's components. Maybe sales were not as high as Apple expected?
I agree spending hour(s) scanning or tapping is not the solution. Be fair we will be lazy to do so.

First I wanted to know if the idea got traction before investing time on it.

I was thinking about image recognition but still we have to spend time to store all the data.

I was more thinking approaching providers/supermarket to add this information on the receipt so you have just to scan it to get all needed information but this doable is worth to ask.
https://twitter.com/divineomega/status/695744177557106688
We added that timestamp to the URL above. Thanks!
> the country has really not too much to do with this success

Yes, it does. The country has a lot to do with it. Particularly our values, culture, etc. that enabled this to be possible here and nowhere else.
Reminds me of one of the most inspirational interviews by him after three failed Falcon 1 launches: http://www.wired.com/2008/08/musk-qa/

> Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
Thanks for the feedback, I've opened it to Public Domain.
The magic is called "preemptive multitasking".
I'm convinced Feinstein's office doesn't understand how bad this proposal is for American businesses. It would force business communications vendors to maintain a way to decrypt customers' trade secrets. Those vendors would become incredibly high-value targets overnight.

She just passed a bill to legally protect American companies' trade secrets (https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/717387073804767233), so it's not like she doesn't care about intellectual property. I think if she understood the implications, she wouldn't back this.

Give her a call or write a letter, especially if you're in her constituency: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/state-offic...
I've got some OpenGL links on Github. There's a small section on Shaders. I added the above links: https://github.com/melling/ComputerGraphics/blob/master/open...
That was a memorable night. I remember feeling like I was going to pay for it in the morning, but it was worth every bit.
My favorite part of the article:

> Relaxing the rules and allowing accessing other pure functions or constant values is fine, as long as the function is still consistent.
I'm Australian but FWIW some friends and I were talking about this over breakfast. I personally think that while it's a bit jarring from the outside, Americans celebrating the rebuilding of American spaceflight capabilities makes a lot of sense.

Also, it would probably be worse to have official communication policy restricting what people could chant on livestreams.
It's not clearly advertised on their landing page, but it looks like the lifetime registration fee is being waived for a limited time, so if you're interested at all you should consider signing up now.
You've got to know the Chinese trademark office exists, and you have to do it before your Chinese competitor does. There is a cottage industry in China of Chinese companies squatting in popular western trade marks via the trademark office. If the publicity is extra bad, you might get relief from the government, but there is no legal basis for that relief. (Incidentally, their was an article yesterday in Chinese investment firms taking well known international brands and using the name with a Chinese city pretended, like Shenzhen Blackrock...).

A small startup usually won't register trademarks in markets they don't operate in. This wasn't a problem before since those markets weren't interested anyways. But given the whole Internet industry in China is basically built around shanzhai-style copying (much safer than doing original design and developing original IP), we are gong to see a lot more of is in the future.