skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bill only imposes obligations to the extent the service provider offers the feature that makes information unintelligible. So it would not apply to encryption the customer uses themselves that aren't provided by the service.

And yes, courts regularly order banks to drill into their safe deposit boxes.
The "pentakis dodecahedron" logo is by Felix Koutchinski (as said in credits/links)
The case in question (Bernstein v. United States) is fascinating: https://epic.org/crypto/export_controls/bernstein_decision_9...
Various SpaceX execs have said they need to launch somewhere around 12 rockets/yr to be profitable in the long term (they likely have plenty of cash on hand right now, as most of their contracts pay quite a bit up front, and they have gotten a lot of funding from a couple NASA sponsored development programs).

So yes, the launches themselves are profitable.
With the caveat that I have only had this explained to me ...

The one location in the HIV genome that consistently doesn't mutate is the hexamer boundary of the viral capsid. Seems like that would make a better taerget sequence as a result.

Anyone here know why they chose the sequences that they did?
I've heard a lot of good things about it, including in this somehow fascinating talk about a complete teardown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8

tl;dr A guy who sells $500k reports of cars for competing manufacturers says the i3 is revolutionary (in materials and construction).
> Since when did being patriotic become offensive behavior?

Patriotism can have a hugely different emotional response depending on where you live. It can connote “home!” or “remember, we have weaponized drones hovering above your head”.

Imagine this video feed was from Iran, and ended in a patriotic arabic chant. Would you think, “it is good to see that they are Iranian and proud”?

It is not about being offended. It is about political undertone and tacit military implications.

(That said, I am proud, as a fellow human, of what was accomplished. Also, I live in a country pretty solidly allied with the US.)
That blog post is from January and Firefox Dev Edition 46 has since advanced to Beta. The insecure login warning will ship to the Firefox release channel on April 26. :)
The client can't be trusted.
Interesting.

You couldn't spend more than 3 minutes on the site, yet I'm sure you spent plenty of time coming up with your (in your mind) witty comment adding no substance whatsoever to the conversation.
Thank you for bringing up more highly relevant questions for our company! Our idea does indeed face a chicken-and-egg problem. The following strategies will be implemented to address concerns mentioned above -

i) We will aggressively market toward a niched group to find early power users. This group can be college students. A higher proportion of all college students are likely to resonate to Agora/Dais. This will be enormously valuable for the company during the early stage to a) fight off "ghost town" issues, b) gain feedback for iteration.

ii) Early employees, all with equity stake in the company, will be encouraged to regularly participate in the social network. We hope to make debating a part of company culture. This will also fight off "ghost town" problem.

iii) We aim to funnel the constructive and creative energies currently visibly abundant yet mostly wasted across social sites, blogs, comment sections, and discussion forums. We are similar to hacker news in this sense, that it is the first and most uniquely designed forum for hackers (in the broader meaning of the word). Agora/Dais aims to be such a thing for debaters of sociopolitoeconomic issues.

iv) Effective marketing of our values will help us find users who share the spirit of debating. Our challenge is to show that Agora/Dais can add value to the user's life by being able to talk about issues that affect them directly, and by being able to share in each other's knowledge on specific topics. Our "north star", the thing that gives value to our users, is each time a user gets a response. This is our metric of interest.
So annoyed my alarm didn't wake me this morning to watch this live, glad it didn't explode this time and made an awesome landing. Huge congratulations to SpaceX!
...and PayPal integration.
Ironically, these still show up even if you block all cookies from being set in your browser. Worse, some terrible implementations use cookies to store your consent... so if you block all cookies, the popups keep coming.
I personally prefer that iTerm is open source and run by the community. I trust the software more, and I trust that the community will direct efforts into the features people want the most.

Speaking of features of iTerm, iTerm actually supports doing this natively with gifs, as opposed to first converting the image to ascii art:

https://www.iterm2.com/features.html#inline-images

Cool project nonetheless!
I'm not sure what method this system uses for definite integration, but it is likely one of Simpsons, Gaussian, and Clenshaw-Curtis. These are numerical methods that, for the best accuracy, require lots of steps of evaluation. Depending on the error bounds you want, it could take a while.

Edit: also the nonlinear square root term may cause difficulty.

People might find this interesting: Maple uses Clenshaw Curtis as the default, but will switch dynamically to Gaussian if singularities are detected.
Those institutions already have extensive access to my information. I trust my bank with my life savings; I trust the government with my retirement and old age medical care. I can certainly trust them with my text messages. Sure there are vulnerabilities, but that's what insurance is for.
The FSF isn't a different culture though, not in the sense that you're talking about. They live in the exact same culture as the people around them.

It's alienating because asking people reasonable questions and getting lectured about not phrasing the questions using their approved terminology* instead of getting a reasonable answer to those reasonable questions is rather alienating.

* And their terminology is based on what always seemed like an intentional strategy of attaching very specific and nonintuitive definitions to commonly used words with dozens of dictionary definitions already. So if anyone has given up their privilege to lecture people about misusing terminology, it's them, because they created the confusion in the first place by overloading common terms instead of creating new terms to represent their (very unique and complicated) ideals.
And this one ! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuc6rtWkrM )
I'm not sure NoSQL is any more complex than SQL. It all depends on how well the database matches your needs.

In my experience, NoSQL is great if you cannot know your schema beforehand, such as where the user can effectively drive the database schema. It also makes for a good place to store random UI state across user sessions.

SQL is good if you need to slice, dice and mix your data for making fancy charts and any analytics you need to do.

There is no reason why you cannot use both. The application I currently work on uses both. For the part where the user can drive the DB schema or a persistent scratch pad is needed, NoSQL is used. For the reporting and analytic side of the application, SQL is used. The downside is that the application needs two DB engines to work, but with the upside that one doesn't have to force one DB engine to behave like the other.
$24/hour to drive and $18/hour to park, and that's promotional pricing. Though it does cap at $110/day, so if you use it for five hours you might as well have fun with it until the next day.
From a business perspective, he needn't worry. There likely aren't many Uber customers who use the service but dislike it enough to switch. So, Chariot's growth will come from people who don't use ride share, which means if it succeeds, it'll expand the market. People become less afraid as they become more familiar, so a percentage of Chariot customers will start riding Uber as well since they see Uber drivers are very similar to Chariot drivers. In the long run, Uber could have more customers because of Chariot and possibly purchase the company outright.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Adblock is going to cause ads to become MORE invasive, not less. Native ads, native content, and other "partnerships" are going to drive revenue-all of which are much worse that what we have now, privacy-wise. Adblock is only fueling an arms race between consumer and publisher.

In the future, we might see a viable micropayment solution but there are some fundamental problems with this approach.
I am wondering how they know these mutations were not present to begin with. Also, how many cells were there before the CRISPR treatment vs after? What was the rate at which they divide under these conditions? Perhaps they just killed off enough of the cells with the CRISPR/cas-9 treatment and it took a few days for them to recover to the point of producing detectable CA-p24 (an indicator of HIV) levels.
I'd love for someone to try and put this into real hardware.

Computers have advanced but calculators haven't.

Calculators are only focused on school kids, not on people who really need to get things done.

I'd love to have octave or scipy on a piece of dedicated hardware.
i have read some very good creative commons novels and fanfiction, so for writing at least free has proven to be high quality. likewise for webcomics; i've seen strips that are every bit as entertaining as the professional strips that run in the newspapers.

for other media, such as music, video and animation, one of the problems is that there is a barrier to creating casual content with decent production values. likewise, something like a play or a movie requires a longer-term and more coordinated effort than just someone sitting in their bedroom writing a story. but i believe that if the means of production were more accesssible, people would put in the effort for the sheer joy of creation. (doctorow's "pirate cinema" is a good read in that regard; the protagonist's art form was creating movies stitched together from clips of other movies. a true creative commons would make that a perfectly viable art form.)

note that history has plenty of examples of really good writers and painters dying in poverty. they were moved to keep creating nonetheless; it's a very powerful human drive.

the one bleak aspect to all of this is that the ability to produce art for free is biased towards people who already have another means of support, and one that leaves them both comfortably-well-off and with free time and energy. yet another way in which a basic income would enrich the world.

edit: i also feel that money-as-a-reward has a deeper problem than the fact that it's currently shackled to ads. once you bring in money (and the implicit idea that the better and more popular your work is, the more money you'll make from it), your incentive is to impose access controls on it, because if there's a way to access something either by paying for it or for free, most people will go the free route. that adds an antagonistic note to the relationship between the producer and the consumer, as well as triggering a spiral of overreach with respect to "intellectual property rights".
I wanted to do something with the Instagram API few weeks ago and it kinda surprised me how restrictive it is. You cannot do nearly anything without authentication and everything else is restricted by the TOS.
Just because WP and Drupal could be breached doesn't necessarily mean that all those emails that were leaked would be similarly accessible, right? So the main vulnerability is in this specific plugin?

> MF are running the WP SMTP plugin which gives you the ability to send mail from your website via a mail server. This plugin stores email server address and login information in plain text in the WordPress database. The login information stored is a mail server SMTP login for sending email.

This appears to be that plugin's homepage:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smtp/

It hasn't been updated in a couple of years but it seems quite popular (60,000+ active installs)...but how it stores the email server credentials can't be best practice...right? Or is saving the server credentials as plaintext considered OK because the plugin assumes (or rather, hopes) that your WordPress install won't be compromised? I guess there's a certain logic to that, since wp-config.php itself is plaintext...but...losing WP probably shouldn't mean automatically losing everything peripherally connected to the site. At least in the HBGary hacking case, in which a front-end site had a SQL injection, the hackers had to use a bit of social engineering to get to the company's main server.
> Where's the call to action? Who designed the page?

Assuming that that wasn't tongue in cheek...

Their target audience is "people who want to launch something into orbit". They don't need a call to action, they already have a rather well-defined need.

> I would think these things are negotiated over expensive dinners.

That sort of shit is exactly what Musk has been complaining about every time he talks about how fucked-up the existing space delivery industry is.

Think of it this way: You don't negotiate the price of delivery for something you're gonna ship via FedEx over a dinner.

One of the goals of SpaceX is to make the space delivery industry as much like every other delivery industry as is humanly possible.
How I increased sign-ups 20,730% (by Not A/B testing)
I don't think you would run such a site on a shared or managed hosting, unless they're also placed in Panama and there is no other jurisdictions that could require them to hand over to any government. Granted, off-shoring is not something which is illegal in most countries but a judge could still order them to hand over their data to investigate of their hosting company were placed in any other country.

There are also rumors that some some of the accounts were used for drug trafficking, so the FBI might be interested in it.

The best thing to do is probably not to run Wordpress at all and go with your in house solutions. It will most likely have more vulnerabilities but they is no unpatched version and finding these vulnerabilities would be a lot harder assuming that have the right people do the job (and I don't think money would be a problem here but judging how the operated their infrastructure, they did not have the right people).
Given that San Francisco's parking situation is not like most cities, what makes you think this was a mistake? As opposed to a reasonable choice you just happen to disagree with.

As far as I can tell, they were asking for permission to park anywhere. Maybe there's a general-case problem there to solve for, but I'm not sure why "by-the-minute car rental for rich people" is a pressing problem for the city government to solve given the long list of other possible priorities.

The city has certainly been very supportive of car sharing in general; I've been a user in SF for more than a decade and the city has done a lot to push it forward.
Interesting, although paying and deciding which article to pay for seems tedious. I think a subscription model with an "eat as much as you can" model would be much more attractive.
Sam Hinkie on how to think and his resignation from GM of the 76er's [pdf]
I have to build these on occasion when working with UK clients. How do you suggest a better implementation to not ask again? If you click "don't store my cookies" and I don't store your cookies how do I know not to alert you again? If you clear your own cookies - how do I know you've visited before? My cookie isn't there anymore.

Is it terrible UX? Sure. But law is law and it's a law with the "right idea" (some people are unaware they are being tracked online through cookies!) but "wrong way to go around it". More frustrating than privacy focused as it only serves to irritate those who care about their privacy.
This is really interesting stuff! One of the potential applications they call out is long-term data storage. How do you know that the stored data will actually last hundreds of years?
Squarespace already allows this for non-custom domains, but if you have a custom domain then you can't use https.

I hope this move by Wordpress will push Squarespace to support https for custom domains as it's a very frequently requested feature.
agreed. another problem with the ad industry is that it has almost universally succumbed to the lure of tracking. tracking and targeting ads has a very high return on investment, but i have to wonder if it will ultimately be a case of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
I would imagine many of the employees come from the aerospace industry, meaning defense contractors. South of LA down to Orange County is a bit of a red patch in a blue state. Just an observation.
Well, GNU Project had written a whole userspace stack (glibc, bash, gcc, ...). Most of this was before Linux, they started in '84, while Linux was only born in '91. However, GNU Project had no kernel for their OS, so they took Linux (which wasn't/isn't a part of GNU Project) while they had worked on their kernel (HURD, started in '90). But sadly - some may argue - HURD had never really happened.

So, isn't it fair to give GNU Project some attribution for the OS that they made, that no one dares to call by its name but calls it by the kernel's name instead?

It's somewhat like as everyone would've called "Dropbox" as "Amazon" because they've used EC2 and S3 as an important parts of their infrastructure (I know, I know, they've moved, doesn't really matter).
Thanks!

We're working on adding individual word lookup right now, we should be rolling it out soon.
I'm not that clear as to the severity of the issue, but are you saying that "yes, it is severe, but there nothing you can do about it"? Because thats the price we pay in getting a more secure browsing experience?

Just wonderding about the metaphor of "growing pains". In humans its somethng that happens and for some its painful but has to happen, for others it isn't painful, but the process that makes the pain happens goes on regardless. Is this an accurate metaphor in this example?
Small bathrooms will be built separately from the house itself. For example, the first nest’s bathroom has been built in the backyard, and it was quite affordable to do as well. Anything related to the nest will require no entry to the house itself, as we want it to be a completely independent space.

When it comes to encouraging the home owner to repurpose their garage, a lot of it will have to do with how our first nest does. If I assume a 50% occupancy rate for our first nest which is open 12 hours a day (fairly conservative in my opinion), that would yield over $120 of revenue per square foot, which would more than pique people’s interest to do something with a garage that’s just collecting dust. I also plan on splitting the costs of the reservation with the home-owner (specific %s have not been figured out yet), and also sharing the revenue with them as well. The cost of renovating a garage is actually not as high as you would think because it’s not a functional living space (for example, the cement floor of a garage can be left as is); I predict the average cost of a renovation would be < $8k.

The current price point is at $20-25 hour for the space, which would make it the most affordable, private creative space you can currently find in Los Angeles (that is also inspiring and beautiful as well!).
PHP because I know it very well and it has a lot of good libraries available for web stuff (yes I'm aware of it's detractors, no I don't care and maybe just maybe we can avoid the pointless language war, I chose it for good reasons so lets not waste each others time).

Python for everything that isn't web stuff (automation, deployment, testing all that good stuff).

Only one on your list I've really used is Python, I'm aware of the others but don't know enough to give you a competent opinion.
KB SSL Enforcer allows you to automatically build your own enforced HTTPS list.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kb-ssl-enforcer/fl...
The last few years have certainly taught us that spending lots of money, and even hiring good engineers, are no guarantee against being hackable.

(And Steam's front-end designers are not great to begin with. Have you used their UI much?)
A human achievement. Competition among teams is good though, team USA is ahead. Hopefully team <your country> can push themselves to move forward.
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Maybe that's the point?

BMW wouldn't want to cannibalize their primary source of revenue (selling luxury cars). One way to maintain the value of owning a BMW is to lower the status of their rental cars. Keeps owners happy and likely doesn't bother renters.
No point in spending big on small optimizations like that while they are still working on the part of the process that contains 99% of the difficulty. So far the recovered rocket parts probably have little more value to SpaceX than a very interesting log file. Even if they already send this one up again, it will be more to show off (which is perfectly fine) than for direct monetary reasons.

Once they have an economically meaningful recovery rate, advanced landing pad features might still become a tool to get some margin of error or to reduce the rocket mass overhead necessary for landing. But right now, just tipping over instead of dropping like a meteor (or stopping in mid-air like a cartoon animal, then dropping) is still the goal, not the most pressing danger.
Yeah, I can't see this succeeding anymore than a hypothetical "Uber for white people who are afraid of black drivers".
(Disclosure: I write full-time for Wired, but I'll try to leave my feeling about our content aside here)

Even if you pay for a subscription to The Economist, you're still going to see ads, both on their website and in their apps. Even though I'm a subscriber and logged in, Ublock Origin is showing over 100 blocked requests on an article I just pulled up there, some of them coming from the same third party ad networks everyone else uses. And my $1 a week subscription only buys me access to three articles a week.

So while, as the OP points out, The Economist's Tom Standage [1] believes that ad revenue isn't a futureproof business model, they still appear to be heavily reliant on it.

I don't know anything about the Economist's overhead, but the reason subscribers are still subjected to ads is very likely that subscription fees come nowhere near covering their costs. The truism in newspaper publishing is that subscriptions don't even cover the cost of printing and delivering the paper to a subscriber.

Subscription-only business models have historically been tough.

A lot of people ask "why can't all advertising be like The Deck," but the trouble there is that The Deck probably doesn't bring in enough revenue for publishers to operate a large newsroom [2]

Personally (not speaking for my employers) I like Brave browser's idea, but they're already facing legal threats. And while they're promising publishers 70 percent of their ad revenue, but even if that's a larger percentage I don't know if that will work out to more than publishers get through the third party networks they use now.

[1] http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/04/the-economists-tom-standage...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-content-producers-who-are-...
Steam has proper QA. What they didn't have was proper web security.
You are using way too many words to say "the emperor has no clothes".

:)
Thanks for the feedback, we will be adding logos for sure.
Bug report, sort of: in search, this submission says "2 days ago".

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20I%20got%20a%20game%20on%...

https://archive.is/ZJG4x

Not sure what could cause an older timestamp. Was this somehow flagged and readded or something?
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