skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a self-proclaimed 'newbie' when it comes to understanding energy, astronomy, and physics in general, but I have a few questions and any answers or opinions would be appreciated:

1.) Why in the world does the 'Light / Laser Beamer' need to be physically located on earth? Why not in space?

2.) Is building 'check-points' for both data and power atop the planets not a possibility? (Solar, chemical, etc).
Yeah, but then we'd be on the Moon. Again.
How could you store enough power in orbit to fire it?
"We should reinstate the draft."

No, we should not.
Biodiversity loss: An existential risk comparable to climate change
Well, that's not by all accounts. That's by one account: direct deaths, which isn't the worst part of a nuclear catastrophe.

Only 31 people died during the Chernobyl meltdown, according to its wiki page.

The nice thing about an earthquake or tsunami is that they kill and then go away.
Back in 2009, Google Talk toyed with a similar idea of realtime chat as a platform for other applications to build on. [0] The demos were very neat at the time, but it turned out to be a brief detour along a road that ended with Google stripping out extensibility and interoperation from Google Talk and building it into the service we now know as Google Hangouts.

I love the idea of chat as a platform, but Facebook will need to convince developers it won't close the door on them down the road.

[0] - http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2009/05/attention-nerds-new-g...
We would love to have Apple and Microsoft on board. If anyone works for them and wants to help get them to sponsor we'd appreciate it!

Email sponsor@letsencrypt.org to coordinate.
Having no law at all and all unisex bathrooms is certainly a possible solution. It would be consistent but it would require people to get over certain hangups they may have.
Yup, agree completely, anyone voting you down is ignorant of the issues.

I was excited to use this, kept up with the news for over a year then when it launched there were no really practical to use windows clients and after fighting with it for a while we decided it was cheaper and easier to just renew our paid cert instead of wasting time with it any longer.

I hope there is a viable automated windows client for this before we have to renew again next year but everything is pointing to this being more of a non-windows thing so far.
this is the stance of the legislators. the point is to show they're fully in the "good intentions paving the road to hell" mode. they didn't want dudes in the ladies' room, so now they have dudes in the ladies' room.
> healthy primary income provided by the synergy between them and their community

Definitely interested in this.
You don't have to change anything.
This is one of those "Therefore, what?" points... (although you may not have intended anything more than sharing some very interesting and relevant information).

But I can see a "therefore, we should not dismiss nuclear power due to some shoddy planning". And, I can see a "therefore, we can expect some degree of shoddy planning in any engineering project, given that it happened even with a nuclear plant, where the risks were well-known ahead of time."
No, it doesn't. https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...
This is a wonderful idea. PicVidShare has been used in 83 countries in first month. This is important traction because being international is essential to really big success. Press Release The Future of Mobile Commerce fhttp://buff.ly/1TPfqEk Will Apply Y Combinator using Hacker News.
Anyone know what stack FB uses for their messaging platform? I know WhatsApp uses Erlang...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2394
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2871

But I think between these two concepts:
http://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pd...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory...

there might be an implied purpose to the "universe".
> "It's just an empty statement. A dead millionaire has a lower life expectancy than a living welfare recipient. True, but irrelevant - the fact that you choose to add details to even things out means that you had some cause in your perception of their relative baselines to decide on the direction of your adjustments."

I'm making that extra distinction to make it clear that it's about the lifestyle, not the money per se. The perception is that wealthier people in the US have a healthier lifestyle on average than poor people in the US. However, by looking at the issue globally you can see that people who live in cultures that are healthier than the US do not necessarily have more money than the US, nor is there such a pronounced difference between the health of the richest and the health of the poorest in those healthier cultures. With that in mind, you can see that it's not the money making the difference, but rather the cultural norms. If you want to get more specific, compare the diets of the various countries with the best life expectancy, and look at the affordability to the locals for such a diet.

> "You're mixing possibility and probability, and the entire point is that it is unlikely.

edit: I feel like I have to be very explicit here, because this is very basic: A particular result of a comparison being unlikely to be true for any pair of individuals does not mean that if you find a single example of a comparison going the other way, you've proved something. People are very unlikely to be on an airplane at any particular time. That doesn't mean that no one is on an airplane, or that anyone anywhere being on an airplane is an uncommon event."

Look at what the countries with the longest life expectancy do to achieve that. Now ask yourself how much it would cost other countries to achieve similar results.
Hm, I wish my package manager understood pip. I always forget to upgrade pip along with my distro packages.
Facebook and WhatsApp already have vastly different feature sets, and don't even work similarly (with regard to devices, etc.). That's by design.
Here’s where the top 10 VCs invest in Asia
I think the value of the name is in making it easy to talk about that particular type of vulnerability as an atomic concept, just like naming everywhere else in computers. I'm not sure there needs to be a bright line on impact for that--if it's impactful enough to talk about, giving it a name makes sense.

The hype comes from people not understanding the impact, pure and simple, and overinflating it as it gets passed around. The name just makes it easier to pass around in the process.

A good solution would attack the understanding of impact part of it--maybe a severity rating system like we have for tornados, earthquakes, or other catastrophic disasters?--not so much the naming. Making it easy to talk about is great, as long as we make it easy to talk about accurately.
Run x86 applications on ARM-based devices
Everyone I know uses Messenger for group conversations.

Anecdotes can go both ways. As far as I've been able to tell, WhatsApp is most popular outside of the US.
[4] is the Microsoft version of the same protocol bug (aka. "badlock" - don't blame us for the name...).

So yeah, it's high impact.
This is area-specific. For example, in Florida (where I've bought/sold 4 houses over the years) property taxes tend to be reassessed to very close to purchase price upon sale, because due to homestead exemptions the taxes haven't kept up with home price inflation. I believe similar happens in California.
Mark Zuckerberg demos new VR tech at annual event, and makes Trump dig
Call 1:
"Hey, we just got a new credit card, can you put it on our account?"

Call 2:
"I just locked myself out of the account, can you reset it for me."
> for whole regions to become uninhabitable

Chernobyl has a 30km exclusion zone, and that's unnecessarily large.

> Same with Fukushima

Literally nobody died in Fukushima. It was just a memorable piece of destruction caused by a natural disaster that killed 16,000 people.
This is fantastic. I'm about to turn 30 and I'm really feeling the lack of long-term goals and drives.
Could not disagree more. They are a CA with a very short expiring time frame and without the proper client software to automate that it's not practical to use at all.
This is why I think a manual disable is the best bet.

I backup my 2FA tokens using TiBu (encrypted locally and uploaded straight to cloud services). I'm 99.9% sure I'm never going to lose them.

I want an option in my panel that says "do not let me use support without providing a 2fa token".
Yo! You guessed right man.

On a serious note:
My app was rejected because it plays YouTube videos in the background, but there are others apps like ListenOnRepeat(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youtuberep...) which also do the same.

I did not get any satisfactory reply from google about what in particular I was doing wrong, even after asking multiple times.
I tried to call a few times and unfortunately kept getting disconnected from my VoIP line. I ended up using their live chat and the person I spoke to was very quick in recognizing it as a social engineering attack and worked with me to reset all my information.

Following up I had to reset my passwords a few more times to ensure the attacker's session was properly terminated. They identified the IPs accessing my account but they were all proxy IPs from Europe and Israel so not much could be done.

I still have the support tickets the attacker made, and I feel their support staff should have recognized it as a compromised account (they changed the name to "John Smith", bad spelling / grammar, asking to reset the root password, accidentally "lost" their private key and need password logins and root SSH enabling, etc).

Aside from this incident though I've been pretty happy there, the hardware is competitive, uptime is good and the network is solid which is all I really ask for with a server provider.
Well, considering solar is only available during the day, and wind only when there is sufficient wind, you're making a flawed comparison. You would have to add storage for those sources to compete with nuclear. Now you've got a much lower bar to meet, since we don't really have mass energy storage yet, outside of limited areas where pumped water storage is possible. I expect the cost of using current battery tech to balance solar/wind day to day throughout a typical/ideal month would be huge, let alone however much you would need to cover the possibility of a stretch of overcast days and calm winds. Using nuclear to provide a baseline, and other renewable sources to provide peak power seems to be the way to go for the foreseeable future. I'm not sure how long it will be before we can get to a point where we can use purely non-nuclear renewable sources and storage to cover the baseline power draw, but I don't like the idea of sticking with carbon until then.
Typically beta/stable is about stability, not about features or platform support.
Going back to the F-150 again, it's a status symbol for some people. I could probably go down to a dealer today and grab one with with most/all of what I want, or wait a little bit and get what I want.

A deposit isn't needed. It's a silly comparison anyway as the Tesla is an entirely new thing, vs already established.

A better comparison would be if 5 years from Tesla announced a new major revision of the model 3 (similar to what ford did with the F-150 this last year) and got 200k orders immediately.

now all this being said, if Ford announced a brand new electric vehicle tomorrow with similar specs/price as the Tesla I really doubt they could get preorders like this.
I personally think this is probably intended to be just a funny tradition (and hopefully taken in that spirit by most students, of either gender). However, I think is fair to wonder about possible side-effects. The fact that the question gets downvoted here makes me, if anything, more likely to believe someone raising the issue within MIT, or choosing to send something like "unspecified"/"E_NO_ANSWER" to the mailing list,might receive, at best, an unkind response.
>No it isn't, it provides encapsulation,

The extensive use of getters()/setters() is a common misunderstanding of "encapsulation". It's an example of following the "letter of the law but not the spirit of the law".

Let's separate the idea of "encapsulation" into 2 categories:

(1) syntax encapsulation: private int x; public getX(); public SetX(); // letter of the law

(2) conceptual/semantic encapsulation: Object.DoSomething() that works on x internally // spirit of the law

It's the idea presented in (2) that follows the ideals of OOP design and helps reduce cognitive load. The common coding practice of (1) doesn't really provide "encapsulation" that helps make large scale programs more understandable. I also think (1) was exacerbated by codegen tools such as ORMs and GUI data binding frameworks. Therefore, inexperienced programmers thought that having a ton of gets()/sets() in their own manually handcrafted classes was "correct OOP".
Why the Gig Economy Is Sputtering
If you're using an editor to automatically pair your parens/brackets/braces/quotes, you now have to find and navigate to the end of the expression, which could be lines away if you're creating objects and arrays, or calling functions with complex arguments.

When coding, my cursor is rarely just "at the end of a statement" on its own. The only way it typically gets there is by me intentionally placing it there.

Refactoring is a bigger hassle as well. You may want to use the return of your statement as an argument to some new function. Now the semi has to be removed and added elsewhere.

It's not the end of the world, but it's a hassle.
From the article: "Others pretend to be “Download” or “Play” buttons, as if clicking them would provide access to the video content or stream the user had wanted. "

These are actively being served through Google Adsense, right now.

Here's a few example, live sites, where I see "Download" buttons in an ad, in a context that would be confusing.

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

http://downloads.tomsguide.com/PaintNET,0301-4883.html

http://filehippo.com/download_paint.net/
The offer of a free year of hosting is nonetheless a paltry joke. The high road here is to acknowledge that customer may choose never to host with you again and still go above and beyond in attempting to make it right to them, e.g. by offering a full refund for the last year of hosting they'd paid for or the like.
> the fallout of which is still measurable around here

The radioactivity of granite mined decades ago and used to build buildings is still measurable using modern sensing devices. "Measurable" is a pretty bad threshold to use.

> contaminates dozens of forests to the point that mushrooms and game from there is considered inedible

"Considered" by whom? What are the actual levels? How do they compare to the radioactivity of other foods?

From what I can tell, the vast majority of the damage from nuclear accidents is not caused by the accident itself but the radiation-paranoid overreaction to it.
Seems like my google-fu is a little rusty, because I didn't find this kind of companies that I assumed that existed.

This looks like real competition, what is good to validate that a market exists.

Thanks for the tip! I would look into them with more detail tonight
> We should reinstate the draft.

Not even our own military wants to reinstate the draft. They prefer the quality of relatively few dedicated volunteers over a quantity of people who don't want to be there.
I'm going to go ahead and say that he used an email service which does not offer 2FA since every email service that does support 2FA probably has a good brute force protection.
> How are financial people even calculating that kind of rarity?

They don't properly, and that is the problem. A lot of it had to do with creating models that do not reflect reality. They worked fine until extraordinary circumstances occur under which they break down. A well known mistake is assuming a normal distribution for financial returns. In reality this greatly underestimates the likelihood and magnitude of extreme moves that can cause catastrophic losses. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "The Black Swan" discusses this in great detail. The bottom line is essentially that a move more extreme than what you anticipated is going to happen eventually.

LTCM made the mistake of neglecting the impact of changing correlations. The thought they had outsmarted the market by eliminating risk from their portfolio. But in times of financial turmoil, correlations of risky assets tend to increase. If your carefully constructed and hedged portfolio does not take this into account, you may be exposed to much more risk than you intended. This is precisely what happend to them. The fund was bailed out by a group of large banks, and their bets did eventually pay off, but the temporary losses were far beyond what their models had anticipated.
I have the same amount of knowledge of the internal workings of either company: none!

But I do know that if I wanted to get into the auto industry, I'd rather go with the one that has 100 years experience instead of the one just getting started.

It depends on what you mean by "auto-related stuff." In-Vehicle entertainment? I'd go to Apple. Powertrain management (the stuff that I'm more interested in)? Ford, no question.
Freeman's speech was interesting in that regard. He doesn't think Alpha Centauri is a reasonable target for this project and according to him it should not be advertised as such. But he does think that using this technology to send probes in very deep space could both tell us more about what there is over there and help us improve the technology to go beyond and thus to the actual stars.
lets focus on getting to the moon first
So find one of the places that does favor dense. There are clearly issues of public policy where majority shouldn't rule. However, I'm mostly uncomfortable with arguments along the lines of: the residents/voters in an area have a different opinion from me, I can't seem to get them to change their minds, so someone ought to take actions that ignores those preferences.
No, it's nothing to do with NTLM.

There are some additional NTLM m-i-t-m bugs being fixed in Samba at the same time, but the main bug is authentication independent.
I think that's because of WhatsApp's availability as a Java phone applet that was cheaper than texting in a number of places.
Goldman Sachs Finally Admits It Defrauded Investors During the Financial Crisis
> hydroelectric affects fish (and poorly-maintained dams can destroy cities and regions …).

Moreso than that, things that affect fish, inevitably affect people. The flooding caused by dams increases mercury in the water which works its way up the food chain.

In British Columbia they are currently investigating whether or not they've poisoned an entire river system that people depend on for food.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-hydr...
I like bots and everything but I wonder if chat's popularity stems from there being a human at the other end?
While that can be true, greedy idiots are going to use the hype machine to increase their revenue.

I have a vuln I was considering naming, but after BadLock I'm strongly reconsidering it.
Do you take issue with this sentence?

"...the reality is that five years later, radiobiological consequences of Fukushima are practically negligible - no one has died from the event, and is it extraordinarily unlikely that anyone will do so in future."

Because if not, it doesn't seem like Fukushima is really a disaster you can point to and say, "This is why nuclear is bad."
Tesla recalls 2,700 Model X SUVs
Magento Announces Enterprise Cloud Edition Based on Platform.sh Container PaaS
Note: hit the "web" link to get to the Google search results with the headline if you run into FT's paywall.

Here's the graf with the 2015 numbers:

> The company, known for its lists, irreverent content and fast-growing editorial operation, had projected about $250m in revenues for 2015 but generated less than $170m, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.
In fact they allow 99 or 100 or so domain names per certificate, which should be enough for most personal/side projects :-)
Just found out about it... Why not just Google Drive, or Dropbox?
It's not SMB. It's nothing to do with SMB. Please read the vulnerability disclosures.
Superbugs are on track to kill 10M people by 2050 if things don’t change
This is correct, however, the exchange of phone number has to be parsed through the text exchanges on the app (regex dashes and 10-11 digits....simple yet creepy), validated with an actual person (no fake numbers!), and Facebook needs permission from tinder to process such information.

As developers this isn't hard to implement, but it is a bit extreme.

There is also the question of business contacts, whom I have only had connection with via Voice Call and Text message (no external app and permissions given), showing up in my feed. Of course, this could be permission given on THEIR side that is reciprocating on my end, but again, this implementation is also extreme (ly possible).
Wow, you're absolutely right. I should have said that is no SIMD instruction for integer division (which is what I needed for the ranged random numbers), and somehow I got the idea that they didn't exist for floating point either. The 64-bit division timing I quoted was after looking at IDIV on Haswell:

IDIV | r64 | 59 | 59 | p0p1p5 p6 | 39-103 | 24-81

http://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf

This is saying that it takes 59 µops spread across Ports 0, 1, 5, and 6 to a signed integer division. That latency for a single operation will be between 39 and 103, but if you are doing many signed integer divisions in a row you'll finish a division once every 24 to 81 cycles.

For DIVPD on Haswell we have:

VDIVPD | y,y,y | 3 | 3 | 2p0 p15 | 19-35 | 16-28

Here it takes only 3 µops (2 on Port 0, one on Port 1 or 5), has a single instruction latency of 19 to 35 cycles, and if doing many in a row we can finish one vector's worth of divisions every 16 to 28 cycles. Since a 256-bit YMM register holds 4 doubles, this is about 6 cycles per double precision division.

Performance on Skylake is dramatically improved:

VDIVPD | y,y,y | 1 | 1 | p0 | 13-14 | 8

Only one µop (on Port 0), a latency of 13-14 cycles, and an inverse throughput of just 8 cycles. Thus the best case double precision requires only 2 cycles per division!

By contrast, double precision addition on Skylake is 1 µop on Port 0 or Port 1, 4 cycles of latency, and optimally we can complete 2 of these operations per cycle (inverse throughput of .5). At 4 doubles per YMM vector, this means we can do 8 double precision additions per cycle, or 16 every two cycles.

So on the most recent Intel processors, in the best optimized case, double precision division should be 16 times slower than double precision addition --- much closer to your 10x estimate than my 100x. I think my numbers are still about right for 64-bit integer division, but I appreciate the pushback.
rsync?
This is why I set all my security question answers to a single answer for low security stuff and random pronounceable strings (in case I ever need to read them to a support person) stored in KeePass for high security stuff.
And it's not like IIS is a minor player. IIS is fully 30% of the market, according to this recent Netcraft report: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/01/26/january-2016-we...
So if I get you right,

return
"something";

is parsed as

return;
"something";

??? That's just braindead.
The 'real' question is how can we build an alternative platform that doesn't require you to try to 'win' by effectively screwing the people who actually use the stuff you build.