skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that it's wrong to want to make money off of art. I'm happy for those who can.

I'm saying that if money is the dominant motivating factor in producing art, expect to be disappointed. Technology has reduced many costs of artistic production and has led to an oversupply of "content." To the cold, uncaring marketplace, you're effectively being compensated by those good feelings involved in the process of imagining, producing, and sharing art.

Even so, I draw and record music for my own enjoyment, and to collaborate with friends.
It bothers me to see nickle-and-diming people to death becoming so commonplace
A World Without Passwords: Windows Hello in Microosft Edge
Could be, but based on the tax assessment history we can see on Zillow I would hope it's not going to be reassessed to 50k or more above last year's assessment.
You Could Do Almost Anything Part 1
Pay What You Want for 12,000+ Design Assets
If you have any question, ask.
Twilio Now Has Facebook Messenger and Viber Integration
The labels that didn't come out ahead don't exist any more.

Just one point of clarification, when I wrote “the labels,” I meant the big three major labels and their subsidiaries. As both a life long musician and avid music fan, I don't count truly independent labels as part of the "industry."
James Gosling Interviewed by Leo Laporte
Hired's State of Wage Inequality
Comcast's password recovery is pretty weak. I just did it last night. They ask for your zip code and your favorite sports team. If I have a Boston zip code there are likely only 4 options for favorite sports team.
Google partners with these other networks (like Advertising.com and AppNexus). In the end it is their DFP .js code that invokes malicious ads/redirects. I blame the last in the chain, and I do not think that is unfair.

Not all ads on adSense are reviewed. Or, if they are, the reviewers are doing a poor job. Locally, and on mobile devices, I get adSense ads like: "Your device has a virus. Click here to download our anti-virus software for 4.99$." Then the page shows the "404 broken robot"-graphic (it is an ad on adSense network, which spoofs Google, and scares you into downloading a paid, probably worthless, virus-scanner).

I've reported numerous ads to Google over the years: Some competitors who were not playing by the rules, but also redirects to porn websites and the (locally) infamous: Your Whatsapp has expired! Enter your phone number, so we can mine that, and charge you weekly for a fake app.

> I suppose they might block sites that use DFP to serve ads from other networks they can't vet and don't go through good review and were detected to contain bad Ads.

Likely, but this seems weird (fix/penalize DFP partner networks first, don't penalize your users for using your own product). Also from a competitor sense: I am all for protection of users (use an adblocker!), but it does not feel right that a company with the resources of Google, finally manages to rid their own network of these malicious ads (let's say for sake of argument they have), then immediately puts the ban-hammer on their less resourceful competitor networks. Perhaps that is a side-effect of owning both analytics, the ad networks, and the browser people use to view those ads.
Still in the realm of desktop software, where you pay ONCE
Fundamentally misunderstood. Your property is not yours because the state allows it. It is yours from the beginning, by "natural right". If the state, or anyone else, takes it against your will it's theft.
How do you create a 'middle class' when there is no money left in the industry for smaller artists? Pandora pays the superstars well and if you aren't getting millions of plays, you aren't making enough to even provide for yourself.

This all started with file sharing 15 years ago. Everyone thought they were helping out the independent artists, but in reality, it made it so they could no longer compete without a huge corporation backing them. File sharing has only helped big labels by increasing the barrier to entry.

I know so many independent artists that were making a decent living (not rich, but enough to support themselves instead of having to get a job) selling music online. File sharing changed all of this. The value of music (CD/MP3s) slowly approached 0 and now that we have streaming, copyright infringement still hasn't gotten any better, it's worse.

Live shows, the profit model so many people tried to use as justification for sharing, don't really pay much unless you are doing huge venues and have big label connections. A small gig might get you a couple hundred bucks in a night. With gas, time, and splitting it with everyone in the band, there isn't much to be passed around.

This also puts many of these artists in completely desperate situations, where they will sign pretty much any contract. The big labels know this and use it to their full advantage.

The big corporations with tons of cash reserves will always be able to survive the slaughtering of an industry's profits...and we still have all of the major music labels. What we don't have is many of the independent artists and labels.
The only hiccup I've run into is that if you run too many tests during automation setup then they start denying further requests from you for weeks or longer under "too many certificates issued for that domain".
NASA Kepler’s Tally of Planets
There are separate rate limits for FQDNs and domain names. The former is 5, the latter is 20.
It's based on the late '50s-early '60s F-5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-5 and supersonic capability was a must by then. We bought a bunch of T-38s as, I gather, the default supersonic trainer aircraft, the Thunderbirds switched to them after the first oil shock (and the Blue Angels to A-4s, although an attack aircraft that's not carrying any ordinance is pretty hot...), and full circle, I recall reading the Pakistanis armed some for one of the wars with India, and they did pretty well as long as they were able to stay low.
Socialism as a bootstrap for the American lottery dream, eh ?
This is the first time I recall hearing about SerNet. What is this, some kind of sell-out or hostile takeover? I always thought samba was created by "that rsync guy" and a team of nice open source maintainers. I had no idea.
On procrastination
Article says it needs to be better than 99.999%
Chernobyl happened because a government bureaucracy was lax and cocky. Love Canal happened because multiple government bureaucracies were lazy and didn't give a shit. Maybe we just can't leave these kind of things in the hands of big, disconnected bureaucracies at all.
The Mysterious Death of the First Man in Space
Top rated questions on the new prediction website metaculus
Luckily they are raising the rate limit now when they are out of beta.
Ok, so let me try this again: "who gives a fuck what's in the pants of the person in the next stall?"

The person in the next stall can be man, woman or whoever. But it actually does not matter who is in the next stall.

What matters is who was before you in the stall or who wants to (forcefully) get along with you into the stall.

If unisex toilets would increase the risks for people with woman physiology then I would be wary about forcing them into unisex toilets. The question of the feelings of the transgender people would be a secondary mater in this case.

Now if there would be no risks then I am all for the unisex toilets as combined floor area would make them more practical.
We should reinstate the draft. Not everybody has to fight, but everyone should serve their country.

We have a word for it: conscription. Along with that comes a bunch of people making a bunch of money, little of which goes into my pocket. I'm going to pass on that generous offer, thanks.
As for #1 it's just a matter of logistics. It would actually be a little easier to do from space because you don't have to worry about the effects of the atmosphere, but it would be a pretty massive piece of infrastructure and it's likely that within this time frame it would be vastly simpler and cheaper to build it on earth.
I'm fascinated by the idea of a "correct fallacy." How could such a thing ever make sense? Are you saying that you use this fallacy to reach a conclusion that you believe correct for other reasons? If so, why not state those other reasons and not use your fallacious reasoning? If not, how could your fallacy be correct?
Why Jet Engines Keep Getting Bigger
so if I'm reading it correctly it's a downgrade attack where the attacker can MitM a connection?

If so, I'm struggling to not agree that this has been overhyped a lot.
Let's Encrypt is, primarily, a CA. CAs don't "support" web servers or operating systems. They provide certificates, which are trusted by (most) clients.

Traditional CAs leave the actual configuration of said certificates completely up to you. Let's Encrypt, in addition to having a protocol that's based on an IETF specification, offers a client which tries to completely automate this part, as well as renewal. Right now, this only works for apache (and, experimentally, nginx) with the official client. Note that just this alone is significantly more than what you'd get from a traditional CA. In addition to that, you also have a number of third-party clients, many of which do this for IIS as well.

The stability or "feature-completeness" of the CA Let's Encrypt is completely independent from the client ecosystem. Let's Encrypt provides certificates, and those certificates work on Windows - that's pretty much it. That's why the beta label was removed.
This is fantastic, I think a lot of tech and music interested people would be wise to give this a listen. It's a personal perspective of history, sure, but I think he's got the credentials to have the position of authority.

He goes into depth about the market and business nature of the music industry. It's solid. Whether as an intro or review, it's a quality piece. Thanks for posting this, it's very relevant.
Well, I'm not sure of the legalities of such a thing. I'm sure I signed something somewhere that stated I must not do that. I can see lots of pages referencing the fact it existed, but I only saw one screenshot that looked like it came from the game.

It's all alpha quality stuff so it's not super interesting.
I believe part of what I'm seeing is a facebook bug. Namely, they are supposed to see me show up on Facebook, having given FB permission to peruse their contacts, but I'm not supposed to see them, if that makes any sense (permissions granted, and what not).
theoretically.... it is possible to never act out of integrity. emphasis on theoretically.
Do they call your ISP and try to have them take you off the internet?
Isn't wind mainly "cheaper" because the government pays for it with the Production Tax Credit? Or is my information outdated?
B2C and small organizations. The problem is that some people don't like to pay, or change their mind. And some people promise things that they can't deliver. Similar to problems that Kickstart has.
Sorry to see you down. For an approximation of the CHANT software by IRCAM, see the FOF opcode in Csound:

http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/fof.html
My problem is that I don't trust my own sense of morality.
Cool stuff, kind of a like a speed reader approach.
If the risk/reward calculus of nuclear power is really favorable, then the industry should accept full liability for damages. Repeal Price-Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...). Let them bear the market price of insuring against civil liability.
Facebook launches a bot platform for Messenger
I work in a company that does several deployments a day, and has a giant database. The short answer is you design around it. If you can do something without majorly changing your data you do it. Another common thing is to deploy the code, but then to add a "feature toggle" so you just turn the code on when the data is ready. Basically, figure out how you can refuel while in the air.
Yep.

"Use a material with better than 99.999% reflectivity. Usually, highly reflective surfaces are dielectric mirrors, which are composed of ‘sandwiches’ of material, with each layer reflecting back a modest fraction of the total. Each layer needs to be at least a quarter of a wavelength thick. The weight can be reduced by using a monolayer with high reflectivity at the correct wavelength. Based on recent research, this could be achieved by a ‘hole-pocked’ layer, highly reflective for very specific angles where reflectivity caustics arise. (These caustics occur for wavelengths of light that are actually longer than the sheet thickness.)"

http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/index.php?controller=Foru...
It is trivial to generate a .deb from nearly any pip module...

sudo apt-get install devscripts python-all-dev python-stdeb; cd path~to~pip; python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
Only in expensive compute boards. No GPUs yet.
you can create a layout in any DOM element, just pass it as the second argument to the constructor `new GoldenLayout( config, element)` - getting it to work well with reacts component-lifecycle might be a bit more of a challenge though
How is such thing able to communicate back with earth? Doesn't it require a lot of energy to create signal that we will be able to receive on earth (or satelite)?
I regularly see ads during Youtube videos for what I would assume to be malware -- "driver updates" and the ilk. It would be nice if Google would get their own house in order.
I've used Flyway for db migrations and it works well.

https://flywaydb.org/
Unofficial back-ports are being attached to the bug report all the way back to 3.0.x. Red Hat, SuSE and others have donated engineering time and resources to review and create these back ports. All vendors will be preparing patches for all supported versions. Microsoft is also patching the same vulnerability.

This is a large coordinated effort. Expect patches from other non-Samba using vendors shortly.
Here's a hypothetical: housing prices stagnate at 30% higher than they are now and don't move much for decades once they reach that. You'll spend quite a bit of money waiting for a correction that never comes.

Timing the market is a losing strategy. So is banking on the cost of housing appreciating during the period of time you own a home.

Buy a house when you want to buy a house. Anything more complicated than that is a waste of time.
I wish their client had first class support for other operating systems like FreeBSD. Current client is too debian/ubuntu specific.
> They don't and they end up raising awareness of speakers and ideas they are scared of

It's true that a lot of people are only hearing about this because of the protest, and that some of the public reaction is negative, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they would have been better served staying quiet.

Maybe hate groups are perfectly capable of getting the attention of their targets and supporters already, and getting the public's attention is the best way changing the status quo and reducing silent acceptance.
It's rendered a rather wide section of Japan a ghost town and I'm not really convinced it is so "extraordinarily unlikely" or that the numbers aren't being fudged considering the scandals about lead in geiger meters of cleanup workers and so on.
Facebook unveils “Surround 360” open source VR camera
This is the blog in question: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/

Honestly, I can't make heads or tails of it. There's some racist lingo, but more than anything this guy seems unhinged, like the kind of person I wouldn't want to be in a room with, let alone have a conversation with.
Yep. :)

I liked the photos from Rio!
The T-38 was an offshoot of the N-156F lightweight supersonic fighter ( F-5 to the USA and its allies ) and basically underwrote that project.

They've been in service since 1961, which means they've lived through a lot of history. Here is Werner von Braun stepping-out of one of NASA's T-38Ns:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/my_public_domain_photos/700014...

For a while the Portuguese flew the T-38 as a trainer which was faster than their front-line combat aircraft, the A-7!
>No, it is never okay to compromise security just because "it's good when you forget your password".

No one is arguing that.
The version of pancreatic cancer he had was actually the one that was very curable. For all of his intelligence, he chose poorly, and paid for it with his life.
But Utah is not on the coast, therefore "nothing happens there" and you can't advance your career (supposedly).

The mega-prestige city where you "must be" phenomenon is a major driver here. It's really exploded since roughly 2000.

Edit: I think the best way of seeing it is to look at where early PCs came from:

MITS Altair: Albuquerque, NM

Commodore 64: Philadelphia (metro), PA

IBM PC: Miami / Boca Raton, FL

CompuColor II (first color home PC): Norcross, GA

TRS-80: Fort Worth, TX

Apple II: Cupertino, CA

Today every single one of those would be from San Francisco or Silicon Valley, because that's where You Have To Be. Seattle I suppose gets an honorary mention, but the rest of the world doesn't exist.

The same thing has happened to varying degrees in other industries. Everything has super-concentrated in a handful of super-expensive mostly coastal cities. The rest of the country is a backwater falling into permanent depression.
Realistically the big reason the draft went away is it engenders serious resistance to foreign wars
I'm not saying writing this kind of piece is bad. I want to read them, and they are a good reminder that sometimes we get caught up in our little rituals and take it way too seriously.

The fact that I was annoyed was exactly the point. I have my own days where I feel like all I am doing is meaningless, and in those days reading a post like this actually inspires me because I know I'm not alone in this feeling.

Maybe I didn't express myself correctly on the previous comment, but in no way telling you to shut up. Just saying that today you are the one feeling like this. Tomorrow, it will be me.
Follow up with your interviewers and ask for some detailed feedback. Keep the conversation cordial and professional. If they're willing, and provide some feedback, you might see some areas where you can tweak your process or shore up some skillsets.

Good luck, and don't give up!
The horror.
Why should Google get it's house in order? The best part about being a monopoly is everyone has to deal with you whether they like it or not. ;)

And they can punish other people's websites for having malicious ads, including Google-sourced malicious ads, because that totally solves the problem!

This comment was thick with sarcasm.
You are putting out 100 gigawatts for 2 minutes. One does not need 100 one gigawatt powerplants, just some way to store and release a lot of energy really fast.

Second, we have mirrors that can reflect up to 99.999% of a single wavelength of light(such as that emitted by a laser)[0]. There is a detailed analysis of the concept in [0] and the Breakthrough Foundation has a detailed list of challenges associated with this project at [1].

Getting the laser out of the atmosphere is probably one of the biggest challenges with this.

[0] http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A-R...
[1] http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Challenges/3
I didn't even know that there are ads that don't involve social engineering.
Yes, but unfortunately you can't go back in time and fix it.

What we really need is for an analog of "use strict" (e.g. "use strict semicolons" that either (a) eliminates semicolon insertion from Javascript (and just starts throwing errors) or (imho better) (b) eliminates the semicolon altogether (aside from inside for()). Since a huge proportion of production js is being linted using tools that force semicolon insertion, the first option would be pretty painless.

Option b — making newline the semantic replacement for ';' would actually be better, since it prevents atrocities like:

function wtf(x){
console.log('wtf', x);
} /* newline here; strictly correct js */
("hello world")
Fukushima had a meltdown because all reactors of the General Electric Mark I reactor design will melt down if they lose cooling pump power for 12-18 hours. They have an undersized containment vessel. This was known as early as 1972. Peach Bottom, in Pennsylvania, has the same reactor design, as do some other US reactors.

We also need to stop storing used fuel rods at reactor sites. Yucca Mountain may not be perfect, but it's so isolated that even if something goes badly wrong, there's nobody around to be affected. The area was previously used for outdoor nuclear weapons testing, after all.

Even if everybody evacuates after a disaster and it doesn't kill many people, you don't get your city back.
“fearful voices talking about building walls”.

Funny, coming from a guy that is close with the leaders of China. China has more walls and restrictions than any other country.

I might take Mark more seriously if he actually fought for freedom of speech in China rather than embrace tyranny and government control.

The book he wanted his employees to read about getting a different 'perspective' was filled with so much propaganda, I had to stop reading it after a few pages.

I believe he also started his non-profit, so he can avoid the taxes of whatever new government that comes into power during the next election.
How about the %save magic for ipython?

For example "%save mycode.py 1-10" saves the code input on lines 1 through 10 of the session to the file "mycode.py".
I think it will be highly dependent on how you structure your queries. Some will be absolutely I/O limited while others will be barely faster than on the CPU. Piping the data out to the GPU is definitely going to be an issue too unless your database is small enough to fit in GPU memory (in which case the whole approach is probably overkill anyway).
If you're using the payment method as auth, you should be locking it out as an auth method for X days after a change has been made, and emailing/SMSing the contact regarding the change.
Another problem to consider is that the interstellar medium is noisier and interferes with the signal to a greater extent. Voyager is only just reaching that region, but this signal would have to travel through that for several lightyears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium#Radiowave_...

Not to mention there is also additional cosmic radiation outside the heliosphere. Something the size of a chip is going to be extremely vulnerable. Slower rad-hard electronics are going to be the order of the day, but even with thousands of these things, it's going to take a toll.
Ads are not bad, they allow more content to be available, its one thing to see my ads on every site like a virus or spam but if you enjoy visiting my site the least you can do is allow the ads so I get a profit out of it. Also Free content is not better, and it makes easier for people with money and an agenda to fill the space of people who tries to make a living HONESTLY with ads.
First browsers became OS's, now you want messenger apps to become OS's?

How many layers of cruft do we need?
Over-hyped. Nobody in their right mind would expose a SMB share to the public net which mitigates the exploits a bit, and for #1 SMB servers have a long history with MITM issues.

Yes they are bad and people should patch, but did it really need such a build up, and how did the build up help?
Facebook Surround 360: An Open 3D-360 video capture system
I'm ambivalent towards the hype.

The web site is nothing to do with the Samba Team. Having said that, this is an important enough bug that lots of vendors need to patch immediately, and the website really helped let them know that they needed to address this as soon as possible.

Could it have been handled better ? Maybe, but you get back to me after you've coordinated security disclosure for 15+ major product vendors and give me some tips :-).
Of course it was a fellow Randomite who put this together. :)

Also, of course it was Senior Haus which had the highest prevalence of black underwear.