skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People chose to select their truths and ignore any which do not fall within the bounds of (what they believe to be) an acceptable life narrative. When someone makes a truth a person is not fond of apparent to them, they receive it as though it were an insult instead of an entirely accurate observation.

If the truth hurts so much that a person takes offence, then they should take action to change so that the observation no longer holds true. If the truth is in regards to something they are incapable of changing, then it should not be a truth they can be held accountable to as it is not within their power to change it.

Knuth's blunt honesty may seem rude to some, however the same result is reached if he provides that truth in (what is considered by most) a polite fashion, or (what is considered by most) a rude fashion. The only ultimate difference between the two is that the 'rude' version reaches its conclusion much faster, saving time and effort for any involved parties.
Do you plan to add a GUI editor?
You should fix that, then. 'Executed' is very different from 'accidentally electrocuted'.
A search of French language sources for "Yaya Toure" did not produce relevant results. The English language did.

What is the technology behind Aylien?
> Good practice would recommend adding /v1/ to your API url. The state of the boolean ecosystem is moving so fast that we have no idea what booleans will look like in 5 years!

Nah; need to move fast and break things.
The ones on the rocket.
Steps you should take to fix a Java SE security risk on your computer
Haha never considered using it for that.
Human or bot?
To avoid confusion, I think that a better title is "Aggregator of APPLY HN (repost)"
Minimum Viable Resources
The Blue State Model: How the Democrats Created a "Liberalism of the Rich"
I typically buy older Lenovo laptops that I can put LibreBoot on, an open-source BIOS replacement. Then I open it up and disconnect the speakers, microphone, and camera. When I close the laptop back up, I usually place tamper-resistant seals over several locations.

For an OS, I run Whonix and have it configured so the system wipes the memory and shuts down immediately if anything foreign is attached or removed from USB.

Since I don't use any eSata or Firewire devices, if those ports exist I epoxy over them. There are too many ways to dump memory with direct DMA access.

If you were serious about a custom run of security-focused laptops, I think you would have a market for them. Dell and Lenovo just subcontract with manufacturers in China and it wouldn't be too difficult to contact one and give them the specs and do a custom run of laptops. Considering putting actual hardware switches for both the Wifi and Bluetooth.

I would certainly buy one!
I remember watching that channel at my grandmother's house. Every summer I used to stay there for a month or so. I'd always hit the "channel scan" option on the TV menu to see if they had any new channels that they didn't have from the last time I was there. I remember this channel popping up on like channel 97 on Time Warner or something.
emacs org-mode.

I've seen a few of these ask HN's and have payed very close attention.

I like workflowy [0] but dislike that is is cloud based. I wanted to host whatever I use.

after giving org-mode [1] a a few hours of tinkering, I am now completely in love. I host it from an ssh server and manage it from a terminal and can honestly say ythe few hours of tinkering were completely worth it. try it out. I typically use lists/todo's and tables.

[0] https://workflowy.com/
[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/
My opinion is that we need a What every programmer should know about compilers essay.

I could take that document more seriously if it didn't make compiler writers out to be evil.
This makes so much sense to me. I came from a single parent home and watched my Mom work two jobs just to ensure my Brother and I didn't feel like we were poor, but we both knew we didn't have money.

When I graduated high school I joined the Navy to get college money. I believe that through the journey of going through adversity, it has taught me to appreciate everything I've worked for. It also drives and motivates me to build a foundation for my kids so they can have a childhood they look back on fondly.

We're all products of our environment. Whether it's rising above it to be better or working to build a lasting legacy, we all want to look back in 40 years and appreciate the things we've accomplished in our lives.

Sorry if that got all soapbox-y, but this is a huge thing for me. I wasn't born into money and never had a network of rich friends. And that's ok with me. Because looking back in my nearly 40 years I don't regret any of it. It's led me to what I'm doing today and I take nothing for granted.
While it isn't smart to assume that if its encrypted in transit, it can't be viewed by someone else on the other end, it is still necessary to have encryption in transit. You want to minimize the amount of places the data can be accessed by a third party.
These are all really nice looking, but the android radio buttons seem very user-unfriendly. I'm usually pretty good at sorting out indecipherable buttons and whatnot but they've got me stumped.
It's ok, we could use more competition in the BaaS space.
Sure saving the 128 bit (even longer when encoded) UUID for one value is so much better then saving 1 bit!

Now seriously how is this any good since you can only save one bit. MongoDB as a service is probably what you're looking for...
> 'After Facebook' would likely be on new hardware that gets adopted, such as AR/VR in the next 10 years.

Which is why Facebook bought Oculus.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419837
So, how is it going?
A Solar Cell That Is Triggered by Sun and Rain
I agree 100%. After reading "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" I was really blown away by what kinds of problems the engineers at spaceX deal with. It makes my job as software engineer seem like a monkey with a typewriter could do it. It's many levels of magnitude more complex and there are no frameworks to just download and leverage. you're pretty much constantly inventing new stuff.

edit, one example of the kind of problems they deal with: initial rocket testing was done on an island near Hawaii, so the engineers had to build their own living space and stay there full time rolling out this big heavy rocket onto an open field for testing and then rolling it back into it's hangar every day in grueling heat. they'd work 15 hr days which was pretty much expected and thankless. when there was component failure Elon would use his Jet to get parts at radio shack in a different state and fly it over to CA for testing, and then straight to the island speed up the work. Something that would take NASA months would take SpaceX days or weeks since they didn't need "space grade" components but instead used common parts. They'd just ensure that those parts passed enough tests that they could be confident of the quality.
You're saving yourself really some time when using digitalocean, they work without a problem and you know exactly how much you're paying at the end.

When you're a student you can get even 50$ credit through Github https://education.github.com/pack.

In my opinion it's worth it.
I don't think it misses the point of Erlang/Elixir at all.

1) Docker is a popular project for running applications in containers. This is a familiar deployment pattern for many devs(ops) people, so it's yet another option someone has.

2) Most people using Phoenix are probably not using bare-metal, which is the only real scenario I can think of that lets you easily say "we don't need anything except for Erlang's hot code reloading".

All cloud-y offerings will be potentially transient, hell, so will bare-metal. Most people will have infrastructure/tooling to provision new capacity easily, and to handle capacity being lost to failure. They almost certainly have, already, patterns for replacing containers in and out of their load balancers, etc, to avoid the need for hot code reload. I think Erlang's system for doing it can be great, but if you already have a system to run a single command that replaces your app/web/whatever fleet with a new code version, then you're not inherently ignoring the benefits/features of Erlang/Elixir, you're just doing something else you're already comfortable with.

Erlang has its own "docker", but Erlang runs on an OS, not the bare-metal host, so you still have to deal with getting it there and running it.
What to do: former PhD student accidentally plagiarised part of thesis?
As a starting point, I've written a library for storing strings: https://gist.github.com/andreparames/c19f87fbe48ee8819f9ef09...

Usage:

>>> ids = storestr('Hello, world!')
>>> print getstr(ids)
'Hello, world!'

In my tests, the compression rate is approximately -36x.
A lot of these kids in Baltimore have home lives where having parents home after school is a negative, not a positive.
I personally do enjoy sometimes doing written math. I manually matrix-multiplied the three axis rotation functions (see the three one-axis rotation functions, and the result of multiplying them) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_formalisms_in_three_d...)
But of course these days I just let the computer do rotations for me.

I think the interesting product idea here would be something I've never seen: a canvas on a tablet that acts like pencil and paper (drawing) but also "helps" by recognizing what you write, converting it to a formal language, and validating/verifying it. sort of the mathematica notebook, but more like a notepad
You mean ad-tech platforms.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Change the Windows of a program on mouse wheel up/down on Mac Dock
I really like the idea!

It would be nice to have features like the one in ReadLang where I can click on multiple words and get them translated. I like the part where I can listen the sentences.

Are you going to apply this to any article on the web?
What will be the business model of your service?

Good luck!!

(P.S: In Norway, we have a similar site that translate the news. Here it is an example and hope it can be useful to you: http://www.klartale.no/kultur/kunne-aldri-v%C3%A6rt-forfatte...)
We agree this would be handy. A "label" field.
Pretty inspiring to read, I want to throw my phone off a damn bridge most of the time.
But that has nothing to do with the question he is responding to; regarding Java's suitability as a multithreaded JIT
Symbolic manipulation. That's the only reason Mathematica is used in academia. If you're in the academia and want to do numeric computations you would use something like R or Matlab.
After reading his biography, I came to realize Musk loves video games and books of all sorts. He thought about going into video game development when he was younger but didn't think he could have as much of an impact on the world in that line of work. He was featured in a gamer magazine around age 12 for a scifi game he developed. He brings the term work hard play harder to a new level!
So do I understand this right: Doorman could be used to rate-limit access to a website by integrating it with the sites proxy server, the result being individual clients would only get a certain number of requests per minute based on available server side resources?
Mathematica is a very complex piece of software. As an ex-physicist there's no way I would trust this completely unknown open source alternative.
Can you share your stack.

Also as an innovative idea, how are you planning to deal with the surge of clones to follow, any patents in the works?
Looks nice, but most of these show significant frame drops on my phone (Galaxy S6).
VR Cameras
Does anybody have recommendations for Virtual Reality Cameras?
Prototype, prototype, prototype. Break the whole system of launch vehicles down into parts. Perfect each part. One of those parts, a soft landing, is very dangerous to surrounding environs. So perfect the process out at sea. Once you gain confidence, land the rockets back at the processing facility.
To be real for a second...yeah there might be something there.
Macro Arment's interview with Computerphile
Macbook 2014, Chrome and it's super slow.
I think it already is pretty overcrowded and this has become a problem that NASA/ESA and others are thinking about. Here is a good ESA video on space debris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_CvGJKMOs
Sure, once there's authentication.
Guys, make /v2/ with namespaces. Global is good, but your clients have to think about uniqueness. Make namespaces for clients, this will help a lot.
I just need to store that 128-bit id to reach my 1-bit value. Well...
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This API seems woefully incomplete. It really should include operations on booleans, not just storage and retrieval. I'd much rather use a tested, well written, and efficient AND operation on your server than risk writing my own and potentially screw it up.
In my opinion, I think it has to do with their up bringing. If they were raised to have everything handed to them it's easy for them to give up when faced with adversity. I wasn't raised in a home of wealth, but I certainly saw kids growing up who did and could see their attitude towards things were certainly different than my own.

If you've never had to struggle, how do you know how to handle it when you are struggling?
The latency is too high for an enterprise application. I'd suggest a supervised classification algorithm for those who need in-house booleans.
Macbook 2012, Safari an it's super slow too ;-(
> Many jobs will disappear without replacement

Citation needed
He's old, and he's notable enough that people put up with his eccentricities.
i believe the phrase is "software is only free if your time is worthless". There are plenty of counterexamples to this (where there is free software that greatly increases the productivity of the user, without a great deal of time spent moving up the learning curve).

In the case of Mathematica there is a ton that is "locked away behind institution barriers". Mathematica contains millions of lines of code dedicated to implementing clever algorithms for making their root finder and other things work really, really well. but those are all internal source code lines within the company.

I've seen this play out across multiple industries. A good example is SAS and R. There are certain parts of FDA new drug applications that require, specifically, the SAS implementation of a statistical routine, and you can't use R because it doesn't implement the routine in a bit-identical manner. However, a spokesperson from SAS once said, "You'd never fly in an airplane designed by open source software" to which Boeing responded "we use open source software to design our airplanes"
The Sally-Anne fallacy
So why is Linux everywhere? Is it only because it's free?
8 Great ways to come up with a startup idea
"Performant" :P
> pretty easy to create a virus or something

Step 1: Find someone using encryption

Step 2: ???? pretty easy to create a virus or something ????

Step 3: Access encrypted information.

Why dig a well when water evaporates into the air? Because pragmatically the amount of water over time matters and what could be described in an incredibly naive way as an absolute suddenly becomes a very different scenario when looking at reality.

The NSA has tapped fiber backbones, encryption would stop them from getting information from that source.

If you think there is already no privacy, post your full name, address and a picture of yourself in the shower, I'll leave it up to you whether you want to encrypt it or not.

(Also the fact that anyone is able to store crypto-currencies pokes an immediate hole in your theory)
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Unlike other social apps similar to Tinder, Hinge, and more, Let’s takes a focus on activities. On Let’s users create activities for which they would enjoy having company and specify certain preferences regarding the type of partner they would enjoy joining them. Eg.) The partners age, gender, etc.

Users can also choose to seek activities nearby to join in which case they are shown the listed activities and can show interest in joining those users by swiping left or right.

With Let's we believe we can facilitate fun and easy real life meets in short time frames that can result in networking, relationships, social enjoyment and overall fun.

Let's is currently in development and we aim to launch this summer. Ask anything, we enjoy questions, challenges and any constructive feedback. Thanks!
who provides good webrtc-based call center in asia?
A missile historically has been anything that was thrown or launched. Nowadays it usually means a self-propelled weapon.

A rocket is just something with a rocket engine. Note that missiles do not need to use rocket engines and rockets don't need to carry warheads.
I enjoy the design of it, but it is worth bearing in mind that:

> The clock is entirely accurate only once every five minutes. The rest of the time, the pendulum may seem to catch or stop, and the lights may lag or, then, race to get ahead. According to Taylor, this erratic motion reflects life's "irregularity".
And not with MD5 either, I'm sure.
>You should include your own time in calculating the cost of a VPS host.

Thanks, good point. I had just started to think, after posting the question, that maybe I shouldn't bother about $5 vs. $2.5 or $3, and instead look at the reliability of the host. As you say, if more of my own time is needed with the cheaper option, it would actually be more expensive.
I'm currently reading Sunni Brown's "Doodle Revolution", which goes into detail on how drawing-writing notes is really helpful. Just moving a pencil in circles helps people concentrate on the information! Taking notes using dramatic fonts and diagrams helps the user understand and process information.

She also has a brief TED talk on the subject. https://www.ted.com/talks/sunni_brown?language=en
Either way, it's orthogonal to the point I'm trying to make.
Oh interesting. First time hearing about this book.

Amazon link for anyone interested: http://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/0...
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Visit most places where a factory or trade died...

This sometimes can include whole countries where nothing else came to replace the lost jobs...
The idea of Mathics is great - open-source, in-the-browser Mathematica clone - unfortunately the implementation is still sorely lacking. Last time I tried it (admittedly fairly long ago), even simple stuff just didn't work: https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/issues/260
We think this API is world-class, built on military grade encryption and a robust distributed cloud infrastructure.
Crazy doomsday people have claimed all kinds of ridiculous signs of end times. It isn't very relevant to reality.
Why not ask your accountant?

If they haven't dealt with Paypal at this point, it may be time to find another one.
I read the Chinese room argument, it seems really naive. It's like saying "my neurons aren't conscious therefore I am not conscious", which is clearly not the case.

We're made of matter, computers are made of matter, where is the difference?
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I guess I still don't grasp how this aspect of LVT is any different or better than property taxes, as currently designed. If you own undeveloped land, you still have to pay the standard property tax rate on that land, according to its assessed value.
Everybody and their grandmother seems to be building/using their own x-header field. It's just a matter of time before an x-header or combination of x-headers becomes a real threat vector. I think there should be some level of additional 'standard' headers (yea, cue XKCD "and now we have 16 standards".

Our inspection firewall logs and dumps unknown x-'s like yours does. We meet once a month to go through them and either deny or clear them. Like your admins, if someone says "Astroscript" isn't working someone will dig into it.

X-headers are not the way to do data passing. There are other ways to make that happen other than creating new headers.
From Knuth's 1998 news page:

"The End of An Era

On September 30, members of Stanford's Computer Science Department gathered to bid farewell to Phyllis Astrid Benson Winkler, on the occasion of her retirement after 32 years of service. During those years she was one of the key reasons for our department's successes; thus she indirectly had a substantial influence on the progress of computer science as a whole. We appreciated her intelligence, her efficiency, her world-class expertise at producing beautiful technical documents, her team spirit, her willingness to go the extra mile, and her contagious laughter.

I was fortunate to have had Phyllis as my secretary and essential co-pilot during the past 28 years; without her I could not have accomplished nearly as much. She typed more than 200 of my papers, most of which required several rounds of revisions. She buffered all of my mail and telephone messages. She administered the editorial work of more than a dozen technical journals, and helped out with numerous research projects. She made online indexes of all the correspondence in our files. She did all of the initial keyboarding for the new editions of The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1 and 3 (see below) --- amounting to more than 1500 printed pages of what printers used to call ``penalty copy'' because it is so hard to do. And so on and so on; what a team we made! And she was simultaneously also serving as secretary for several other faculty members.

When I originally wrote the TeX typesetting system, I intended it to be a tool just for Phyllis and me, but mostly for Phyllis. Soon other people decided to use it too, but Phyllis's influence on the TeX project has nevertheless been enormous. One of the events at her retirement party was the reading of a resolution recently passed by the board of directors of the TeX Users Group, expressing their appreciation for all of her contributions during the past 20 years. I'm sure people all over the world are sad that they will no longer be communicating with her at Stanford, yet wishing her happiness as she changes to a life of voluntary community service.

I can't express in words the enormous debt of gratitude I feel, but I have tried to do that in part by dedicating the book Literate Programming to her. I certainly wish her a long and productive life in retirement."
My advice is to not sweat it. If you feel like you need to spend $8000/year to cure your imposter syndrome I have news for you: it won't go away. It has nothing to do with your credentials.
>might end up in an unsavory ip address range

What is that? you mean, like, bots are run from such a range?
We have our best and brightest working around the clock to deliver <50ms latency at peak load.
Imagine I was running a small company and I heard about your product but I'm skeptical of the value I'll get from using it. How can you convince me that spending money on gifts for my customers is worth it? What evidence do you have that sending a gift will net me more income in the long run?

How big is this market? In the $10 to $100 MM range? How do you grow past that?
There's got to be a way to configure this firewall to prevent the removal of the headers. It sounds like someone in your IT dept. just configured it in an aggressive manner (perhaps the default). I have no specific experience with Watchguard, but this is almost certainly the case. How big of a company are we talking about?
Cash is far more private than Bitcoin.
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> Can you elaborate just a smidge? Is WordPress.com, for example, not encrypting content when it's requested by iTunes? (Thanks!)

Yes, we have some targeted exceptions for incompatible clients.