skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. When you go to the webpage linked above and hit "getting started", there's not even a hint that their system works in OSes other than Linux.

Possible there is support for Windows and IIS, but their own website strongly suggests otherwise.

EDIT: if they consider their client and their CA as two different products, well, right now the website conflates the two badly. And there's absolutely nothing there to suggest it supports Windows/IIS.
To be fair it's not unreasonable that every language has its own approach.

In "the old days" some systems had system-wide calling conventions. For example VMS had a standard calling convention all languages were supposed to use. Sounds good -- tools and subroutines can interoperate, right? Actually not really: object representation differed, for example. Plus new features (such as exceptions) that hadn't been thought up when the calling convention was developed couldn't be supported.

SVR4 attempted to make a common set of calling conventions, and to some degree succeeded, but really didn't help that much for the same reasons above.

As with so many problems in computing, the problem can possibly be solved by adding a layer of indirection: add a special ELF section with special entry points that support unwinding and examining frames. As long as you compile all your code with one compiler you should be OK...but what happens when new language features are added?
I would just like to point out that this is major release 5 and they're just now adding threading and consumption of filesystem events.

That's _great_ from the standpoint of launching a product. Putting off adding this complexity probably let them get to market sooner.

If I were releasing something like Arq, I would have to fight myself very, very hard to not add these to the 0.1 release. I don't know this space very well, but maybe there are several Arq-alikes who started earlier, but didn't release until later because it wasn't "done" yet, and they missed their chance.
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Breakthrough Starshot: Mission to Alpha Centauri
Show HN: Subtitles for theatre
It's not about captioning recorded show, what matters is live subtitles for live theatre show.

Imagine you're director of theatre show that's made in german - you're going to france. With german actors. You need to caption the play in french. You need to translate the lines and adjust screening of french subtitles.

That's the problem this app solves.

It's been made in collaboration with multiple theatre professionals.

Link to website: http://www.subtitlesfortheatre.com/

Direct link to AppStore: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=1098298120&mt=12
If I ever run a company that screws up I'm calling you.
I would attach many adjectives to Xcode, but "high quality" is not one of them...

(only sort of kidding)
Ask HN: Is My Career Over?
I was laid off from a defunct startup a month ago and have been unsuccessfully looking for work ever since. I live in a large tech center in the US and have applied to many places in town (small to large, not just startups); I’ve gotten around five in person interviews but none have turned into offers. The interviews I’ve been to mostly amount to whiteboard/brainteaser sessions that I am profusely bad at, or CS test questions (I never finished college). Some were completely “culture fit” type interviews where I thought I did very well. The feedback I’ve gotten is that I’m proficient technically but wouldn’t “fit their culture” or that they’re “moving forward with other candidates”. I like to think I’m a personable individual who just wants to get things done and make a living. I have experience in the industry, and I keep my skills up to date. I’ve worked on different platforms as the need arose. I’ve even led small teams. None of this has gotten me anywhere because I am not a 10x top 1% engineer who loves whiteboard coding sessions and brainteasers and wants to change the world by working 80 hours a week, rather a (slightly above) average one who can get things done in an editor and just wants to earn a living doing what I’m good at.

Everyone likes to say that you aren’t your job. But I am an engineer. Now I can’t find anyone who will give me a chance, even with my history of success. I have often seen the claim that “there aren’t enough software engineers!”, but now that I’m in a position to verify that claim I can tell you it’s false.

I don’t know why I’m posting this here. My former coworkers in the industry are trying to help and have been getting me introductions, but I’m running out of people I know and their connections, and feel the hammer falling on my head.

Does anyone here have any experience like this? Any advice? Anything at all to tell me not to give up?
Full list of sponsors here:
https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/

Good to see most of them using HTTPS for their homepage. Though Cisco and Gemalto don't yet.
Their own "getting started" page mentions nothing about Windows/IIS.

Maybe you're right, but how would a potential user know it?
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char argv) {

const int *b = 9;

b = 10;

printf("%d",b);

}

what does (should) this print? (It compiles with warnings on llvm 7.3 / clang703 OSX)
VM Guest escape sounds a lot more critical and exciting than this badlock bug. Whoa!
You could argue the same for the App Store, Play store, etc. This is the reality: you can reach these vast numbers of users on these platforms through these stores. Facebook isn't forcing anyone to do this, but they are providing an opportunity. If you don't want to be part of this then thats your choice.
Paul Graham Keynote at OPT412 on Pittsburgh as a Tech Centre
The real question is can you get in, win, and get out before any of that matters.

If you 'rode the facebook apps' wave you probably made decent money unless you stayed in too long.

Another strategy is to build an integration to messenger to get exposure for your totally independant app.

For example If i made some pizza ordering ai, i could hook it up to messenger as an additional channel.
Total spin. No basis in reality.

I know the person who got permission from Ford leadership to open and lead their Silicon Valley lab in 2012. They gave him funding to select a building, and select furniture, but somehow neglected to authorize any meaningful hiring for over a year, except a few interns. He sat in a virtually empty office.

When he finally left this situation behind, Ford didn't hire a new lab head for nearly a year after that.

Press coverage for Ford's new presence in Silicon Valley continued unabated during this entire period. When you read these articles, you should picture very expensive office space in Palo Alto, sitting empty.
I use it often via gflags to start on process startup, because WinDbg startup is a lot faster than letting the process crash, windows showing the error dialog, and then clicking in the visual studio version selector to select Visual Studio.
It seems like a general principle that the less important something is, the better the security probably is. Steam, for example, is really paranoid, constantly asking for verification whenever it thinks I'm logging in from a new computer, bugging me nonstop to set up 2FA, e-mailing me with alerts, etc. Meanwhile my bank does straightforward username/password authentication, with the bonus that the password is case insensitive and silently truncated to eight characters.
I could barely restrain my excitement when I first saw the Social Network. I think that movie did a particularly good job of showing real-world hacking.
No, the boot ROM supports from booting an SD card. Though not in the sense of booting any OS like Linux, but booting a board-specific second stage bootloader like U-Boot.
Aren't there a lot of legal hurdles to this?
I used to work with former Navy nukes, almost all submariners. Nuke training qualified them for very good jobs in the semiconductor industry. I agree it's too bad they couldn't continue to work on civilian reactors.
Can someone explain why emergency mode is the most fuel-intensive despite being the lowest powered?
How about 5 random questions, 5 random answers and record all of these in your password manager?
This is more about preventing the social engineering attacks. The example you're replying to is where the actual user logged in 20 minutes ago, while the attacker is trying to claim to customer service that they forgot the password. If customer service were looking at login attempts, they would see that it doesn't make sense for the user to not know their password, when clearly they provided it to the site just 20 minutes ago.
The omegas are a bit too much! And what Omega-3s exactly - you can't generalize as there's big difference.
Bucket versioning should help with this. I don't use Arq and don't know if it supports s3 bucket versioning, so it might not be convenient but the data would still exist.

Although if an attacker has control writing to your s3 bucket, they could rack up a big bill.
Does that mean that the US will be the winning civilization?
This was submitted nine hours ago by someone else, but it didn't take.

I'm submitting again because it was a very interesting speech.

Also, I meant to add [video] to the title, it should probably be amended. The mobile interface doesn't allow scrolling to the end of the title to do that.
Two things about your observation: First, I don't actually own any books with large illustrations or photographs, and second, I would argue that my iPad Pro is actually a better device for viewing documents with large illustrations or photographs.
The real problem here is customer support not following established procedures. Maybe simulated social engineering attacks to test compliance should be part of SOP, like some companies do simulated phishing attacks.
The sun is 8 light minutes away from earth. These babies would span that distance in 40 minutes. If the plan is to take planetary images I would call that basically crawling speed in terms of angular velocity (unless they are on actual collision course).
Storm is actually few years earlier. Its the first real-time processing framework before other projects showed up.
Travelling at 20% of the speed of light, I think it'll probably bend..
I've posted it there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481783
Agreed on the extreme skepticism warranted.

I am imagining these "solar sails" to be essentially spherical, both for structural reasons and so that their response to applied laser power does not depend on orientation. The electronics in precision guided mortars in the US army survive 50,000g.

http://proceedings.ndia.org/C347/Davis.pdf

(This is only for the fraction of a second when they are fired, and I don't know how it generalizes for longer durations.)

I conjecture that the laser profile will be "shaped", if at all possible, so the trajectory of the projectile is somewhat self-correcting: if the projectile starts to get ahead of the planned trajectory, the acceleration will decrease, while if it lags the acceleration will increase. This wouldn't require any realtime feedback by the laser emitter.

With many projectiles and a massive investment in a laser array, there will be some ability to repeatedly attempt this and iterate.

Still, this is extremely aggressive even many decades in the future.

EDIT: Their proposal confirms that the beam will need to be shaped for feedback. ("By modulating the beam modes, get greater uniformity could be attained, and feedback between the nanocrafts and the beamer array would allow real-time adjustments.") No details though.

http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/index.php?controller=Foru...

Rather than the spherical shape a supposed above, they propose a thin sail with some undefined graphene skeleton. No idea how that is supposed to survive 2-minute long explosive accelerations.

http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/index.php?controller=Foru...
This seems kinda disappointing in capability compared with what you see in WeChat. I was expecting you'd be able to build apps that run from inside messenger, instead of toggle back and forth between native apps, possibly using something like ExponentJS/Reactive-Native, but maybe Apple would disapprove.

The WeChat SDK allows apps to run JS from inside WeChat itself. You see this in action in China where you can actually do complex stuff like book a taxi via Didi Dache without necessarily having to switch back and forth between heavyweight apps.
“Badlock” Details Have Been Released
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Introduce process only as a last resort
More coming in the roadmap. We are also working performance improvements around internal queuing.
Try Buffalo's Serenade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01WeCge6T1U

If you don't like it, we'll have to agree to disagree. :-)
Facebook seems to slowly be building out the feature set that WeChat (https://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/ ) has had for ages.

It seems like Facebook first set out to capture the whole market, and are now slowly monetizing it fully. WeChat has achieved incredible ARPU (>$7/user/year) through a combination of chat APIs, 3rd party bots and integrated payments Facebook. If Facebook can achieve a similar number, it would greatly increase their worldwide ARPU. (http://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average-...).
In advertising there is a concept called effective frequency which is, essentially, how many times someone needs to be exposed to your ad before they make a purchase. This is tied pretty directly to the complexity of your message. The more complex your message, the higher the effective frequency and the more times people need to be exposed to your ad before they buy your product. Hence the tendency towards easily assimilated ideas like you mention.
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Install iOS 9.3.2 cydia for iOS 9.3.1,
It’s the criminal economy, stupid
Agreed, and before LetsEncrypt that was insanely expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I sincerely hope that paying through the nose for Certs becomes something only Enterprise Orgs do, just for the backend support service.
The San Francisco Bay Area in the Second Gilded Age
I do not agree with that. When I produce music of coarse I feel good with what I did and of coarse I enjoy listening to it. The art is what makes me happy. But god I would have loved to make money with my passion. Some people are passionated by numbers, some by art. In the end it's a product and if you want to make money with it it is fine.
NearlyFreeSpeech seems pretty serious about this sort of thing: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#LostEverything
Any plans to make the official client based on Go? I wasn't too happy about having to download a bunch of Python stuff on my server just to get an SSL cert. Reminded me of the days of yore when you had to fiddle with Perl modules just to run basic scripts.
Wouldn't it be wise for Facebook to just replace Messenger with WhatsApp and offer that as a platform?
Hundreds of years isn't a long time.
Subsidiaries are better than the mothership, but it's very hard for subsidiaries to get things done. (Lots of great ideas at Xerox/PARC, but they struggled to bring any to market) The Ford subsidiaries are forbidden from selling outside of Ford. That limits the customer base. Meanwhile, there won't be much in the way of equity, so hiring/retaining will be tough.
There is no monetary incentive to rack up the bill, but there is an incentive to kill backups - ransom demands are a lot more persuasive when the victim has no backup.
Most people don't realize that Google's "Safe Browser" sends via Chrome & Firefox the URL of ever single URL you visit to Google; as far as I'm able to tell.
>[Update: Google published this news today on its corporate blog, but this was previously announced earlier this year. We’ve asked Google to clarify why it was republished, if that was in error, or if it represents any changes since the first announcement.]

This was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032270.
But if those students are useful idiots, then someone's about power...
I think that the drop-downs are trying to prevent people from mistyping things and locking themselves out because "Accordien" doesn't match "accordion".
Why stop there? When a site contains the offending ads, push them down to page four of the results. The ads will disappear in a matter of days.
Though I'm not sure if it meets critical acclaim standards, Tom Scholz basically recorded the debut Boston album in his basement[1] and that thing sold 25 million.

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

Also I grew up playing with his Rockman device and it was sincerely one of the coolest guitar innovations a kid could have access to early on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockman_%28amplifier%29
This happens because people don't use the tools properly.
Thanks for that. I didn't really expect to get in this time around but figured I could try to get traction and reapply.
Hold on, isn't it true that for every type of protest the protesters have to explain what they're protesting against? If you're correct then every protest should backfire because of the Streisand Effect.

In reality, people protest because it works, even though they have to draw attention to the behavior they want to put an end to. The hope is to persuade the majority that they are righteous and the other side is in the wrong. That's how you get change. Sometimes the protesters mess up and end up looking bad. Then they lose credibility. That's OK, because then a different group of activists will stand up and continue pushing forward.

Safe spaces, micro-aggression theory, and other progressive concepts are quickly becoming mainstream, and they're definitely here to stay.
I created a development tool for dynamically mocking API endpoints
I recommend reading this

http://www.communitybuildingguide.com/
seems like a faulty comparison.
Part of "white privilege" is not having to give a shit about race. Race isn't a problem for white people, and there's nothing to be gained (but potentially much to lose) from them engaging in pre-loaded conversations about it. Live life, be happy, and shut the fuck up when your input isn't wanted.
"It's not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats from my T-16 back home."

It's a serious point though. Perhaps the gravity of the star will be enough to help them right?
>Without context, anybody could say the same thing about anything. Care to share more?

Sure! Gandi received an abuse report regarding someone using one of my domains to scan for open dns resolvers. I informed Gandi that there was nothing I could do about this and expected that to be the end of it. Instead, they suspended my domain and started demanding that I send them ID proof.

As I needed the domain back I sent them a redacted photo of my id card, after which they demanded to see the full id. I decided to terminate my relationship with them.

I feel that this was absolutely unacceptable and likely unlawful behaviour from them as they had absolutely no need for that information. This wasn't a whois dispute.
There are some pretty far out concepts here 300 GW for 30 minutes, that's the output of 300 nuclear power reactors or the energy equivalent of a 100 kT nuclear explosion. Focussed onto a sail that's 100's of atoms thick to generate an acceleration of 60000 g. I can imagine a sail that thin but I doubt it could withstand the forces exerted by the slightest inhomegenity in the beam, not to mention that the slightest speck of dust or deviation from near perfect reflectivity would vaporise it instantly.

Exciting idea though that we could even think about sending a probe to another star within the life span of current generations.
I agree, actually. But it's a deep policy problem. Since cars, we've built no cities that are both dense and desirable. And very few areas dense, period, especially when you consider that stores + offices are usually separate from dense residential towers. So those separate areas need to be accounted for in the total footprint.

The pre car areas tend to be dense and also have shops in the areas. I live in such an area in Montreal. Low rise but very dense.
Or just in orbit. Way easier, no need to overcome moon's gravity.
"civilization"? You mean like when Ghandi was (allegedly) asked what he thought of Western Civilization, and replied, "I think it would be a good idea!"
Crazy. I have trouble figuring out how you'd even program it that way. Is it not obvious that security notifications belong in the authentication layer that everything uses, and not in platform-specific front-end code?
It is far easier to have a healthy diet if you can afford:

- fridge space for fresh ingredients that you don't have to split with roommates

- An apartment a short distance to a grocer

- pantry space for cooking tools and dry ingredients that you don't have to split with roommates

- the cooking tools themselves

- the time and mental energy to teach yourself a new skill

- money to spend on take-out when you mess up a recipe
> A laser capable of propelling an interstellar probe is also a mighty space weapon.

Yes, but maybe it could also give us the technology to quickly deflect perilous asteroids... ?
Yev from Backblaze -> We're working on a few APIs and some should be aligned with what ARQ is looking for. We're hoping that they do integrate with us, giving folks an inexpensive alternative!
There is a fare amount of twisting of words going on. Modern approaches have vastly increased passive safety. Then again Chernobyl would have been fine if they did do several things that looking back where really dumb. Modern designs are still dangerous, expensive, beasts they are simply vastly less temperamental.

If we had no better options then sure they are workable. I would even say there great idea for power at a Mars base. But, we generally do have other options.

PS: I wonder what you think could happen at a wind farm to force a large scale evacuation for years?
Sure, the documentation isn't perfect yet. The client is being split from the CA in the near-future (as well as renamed), so this aspect of the documentation will need to be reworked anyway.

That being said, I sincerely hope that anyone responsible for TLS deployment knows how to use a search engine and enter "letsencrypt windows".
The project estimates are completely off. Building a 1gigawatt power plant costs 10billion. Let alone building 100 of them. Also making the laser array. Also you can't have reflection without absorption. Also we don't have solar sails that fit the bill.

This project is barely physically and economically plausible. Its not a question of scaling, or engineering. The physics just don't work.

We have a way to get a space craft to 20% of C. Its called Project Orion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...
>it's just a matter of building more housing

Not really. It's a matter of building more housing, more schools, more infrastructure to move people around (by whatever combination of public transit and cars), etc. You can't just pop a few big towers of apartment buildings down and call it a day.
I'm confused about this as well. Why are they choosing to compete with themselves?
No Apple or Microsoft. Are they opposed to this initiative? Do they think it's not important?
Maybe, but to an outsider who doesn't follow all the countless discussions, this just looks like yet-another-SaaS waving around its codpiece.

And what a pricey codpiece it is? $50/mo for the solo plan? To make diagrams? Seriously?