skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are those really competing though? Celery rocks for some background image processing. Not for multinode analytics of huge data sets.
Thanks! We're open to improvements but the default view will probably stay the same. If you want you can change the default project view http://i.imgur.com/mlkPInw.png
It seems to me that the accuracy required to aim an unguided projectile anywhere near the target stars will be impossible. They'll fly by pretty far. At what distance to Alpha Centauri does an iPhone quality camera outmatch the Hubble's photos?
Apple Bug Exposed Chat History with a Single Click
"That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not eyeball it!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIk-vUtLBs
Here's the Google cache version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZKTmHGz...

I didn't read closely but it seems to be mostly MITM
Web Automation for People and Robots
If you're writing idiomatic modern javascript you're using modules -- we no longer have the issue of two JS files being concatenated together in a shared lexical scope. The only rules you need to be familiar with are the 2 I mentioned. In my work, I've never thought about it as "imperceptible" time savings: I worked on a codebase without semi-colons, and then didn't want to go back. It was easier code to work with and write, and the feared downsides never materialized.

I still use them to conform with existing code bases or linters that require them, of course, but given the preference..
Ok, so it's not as open to attack as I thought. Thanks for explaining.
> But the likelihood that Microsoft would ever fully disallow third party install on Windows is nonexistent.

Unless you can predict the future for as long as Microsoft exists, you can't say that.

I'm pretty sure that before the iPhone there were people saying Nokia was too big to fail, same for IBM before Windows probably.

I'm still on the fence about car companies. I sure have heard people very convincingly say that oil is a risk-free investment, that there never will be a time when oil isn't needed anymore. I have good reasons to disagree with that today.

Then again, Nokia still exists today, so I suppose a pedant could get technical about oil still filling a much diminished market in the future.
One thing to note is the reported mindset of the program. It doesn't really talk about their expectations around plausability of this, but rather that they seem to be targeting success through large numbers even at low probabilities. They might not care to anticipate/correct anomalous "course deviations" but rather write those off as a loss completely, hoping that just a few of many initially accelerated succeed.
Tapping in to a homes equity requires a loan, and yes, those loans will be transferred to their children.

EDIT: Yes I meant the loans stay with the estate which services the debtors. The house that is typically handed down to the next generation is now sold to make whole the debt.
Zuck to fund interstellar travel w/in decades? 2040 Breaking News: Alpha Centauri Rejects Facebook's 'Free' Internet
> anything where a seemingly remote cascade event can wipe out life on the planet.

Seriously? This ludicrous hyperbole does not belong in a thread where others are discussing the issue in good faith.
Cloud Based Intrusion Detection Systems
This is bland dad rock? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gemlal7T-PY&nohtml5=False
Have you ever tried to take a picture from a moving car? They never turn out.
Oh come on, it's not that creepy. At UCLA, we had yearly undie runs[1]. You sound repressed. Plus, underwear color could just've been made up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoaP9CdbvD4
Didn't Cloudflare just launch a domain registration service for its high profile clients which can't afford downtime due to a support worker making a mistake like this?
Even at $50/yr, what are the options for locally-controlled encrypted backups? Tarsnap, but it has a less friendly UI.
That's why they renamed the client: https://letsencrypt.org/2016/03/09/le-client-new-home.html So, they want competition. Creating the competition is up to others ;-) (and should be relatively easy compared to what LE has already done)
> Have the customer provide an SSH/GPG public key, and store it with the account.

Doesn't this just move the problem from "I forgot my password" to "I lost my private key"?
Have we ever trid asking a private insurance for a coverage? We often have the problem that the state tries to play the insurance role, whereas if every damage were to be paid for by an insurance, they'd "gide us" through respecting the procedures. Like we personally press charges and bankrupt you for life if you don't shut down the plant for every indicator that goes mildly not-green on this panel. Then we'd know the real cost of insuring for nuclear. Our problem is that the state is trying to make the nuclear investment itself.
A Definitive List of the 10 Worst LinkedIn Memes
I like your response! If only for the fact that I'm seeing people taking apart the real CIOs response like it's code because it's in a numbered list.
This seems naive. There's only so much land in urban areas, and everyone wants to live there.

As population expands, isn't there some kind of mathematical constraint on total possible hoising within a circular area? City centres radiate outwards roughly circularly.

More NYC like areas would help, but we can't seem to build those anymore. When existing cities grow they just sort of spread outwards.

Edit: Per my comment below, my argument is that as long as we build the way we do, we can't really build our way out of this. Even our "dense" construction isn't really dense once you consider total land use including businesses, offices, etc
Blossom: Project tracking for distributed companies
Don't know whether I'm grand-fathered into a different terms but I've just pulled some files from a back-up on a machine that was last active 5.4 years ago.
The other day I was listening to some random pop song (maybe Demi Lovato, not sure) and it was sounding eerily Max Martinesque. I go to look it up, and there he was in the credits. There is just something there that stands out; I don't know if it can be trained into an AI, but my money is on no.
It is petty to list it as #1.

However, it's relevant to the story because there's a huge difference between sending a password reset to the email already listed on an account vs. resetting it for any random person who starts a chat.

This doesn't excuse their other issues, but it makes the customer support rep's behavior a bit less awful, even if they still violated protocol.
Let's Encrypt is actually an implementation of the ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) specification, developed by the IETF[1]. The goal is to get other CAs to adopt the standard as well.

In the meantime, other CAs are starting to offer free DV certs (Symantec being the most recent example), although there's no word yet on ACME compatibility.
Their speed isn't particularly relevant, what matters more is their energy. As big as that number is to us, it's still pretty insignificant; there's a lot of objects already traveling around with us in our own solar system with 70kT (per PaulHoule in other comments) of energy. A looooooot of objects. In the grand scheme of things, this is a rounding error on a rounding error. We are small.
Mozilla on this: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/04/12/mozilla-supported-l...
erm, firstly, by silly symlinks I meant in the context of managing dotfiles. A lot of exiting tools do that and IMHO, it is silly. Of course in yours it might make perfect sense. Secondly, erm -- git submodules are nasty and dangerous ? ...for managing vim files ? How am I to use pathogen (or all the hipsters to use oh-my-<whatever>)). I didn't say this is what you use on your production servers. This is how I manage my dotfiles on my personal boxes and find it easier to use than any specific purpose tool.
Inside the Deal: Tikhon Bernstam’s Investment in Cruise
Thrill Kill is an interesting example of this. The game was basically finished, but received an Adults Only rating, and then wasn't released. The devs supposedly leaked a copy of it, and it became one of the most widely pirated PS1 games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrill_Kill

Played a lot of it in college. Fairly decent four player fighter.
There are at least two such services in Germany WebID[1] and PostID[1] (not to be confused with the older PostIdent that requires identification at a post office).

I haven't used PostID yet but with WebID you basically have a Skype video call where you show them your ID.

[1]: https://www.webid-solutions.de/en/
[2]: https://www.deutschepost.de/de/p/postid.html
Show HN: Grocery store price comparisons and in-store navigation
There was huge, massive outrage about that.
>https://matt.sh/howto-c

I think Keith Thompson's (not related to Ken Thompson) critique of the link you posted is an even better read: https://github.com/Keith-S-Thompson/how-to-c-response
My gaming of the system was putting a display ad with multiple phone numbers representing different areas of the city. Worked very well. Learned that by observing what other businesses did (in entirely different areas I might add) and figuring that must be the reason (since I knew they didn't have all of those locations). Yellow pages, at least for what I did (was a "well developed category") was instant business and paid off very well. I increased the ad size every year. In some cases ran a small and large ad after being told (correctly) that some people liked to deal with a small company and some a large company. I landed a big contract once with the larger ad when only 3 companies were asked to bid.

All this was well before the internet when there wasn't step by step guides and/or blog posts and things like this were never taught you either figured them out on your old or someone you knew was nice enough to tell you. (In the old days it wasn't typical to share info and secrets like it is today..)
Solar sails seems more feasible to me.
The problem with last.fm (and almost all similar music services) is that a lot of the similarity they encapsulate is chronological and social similarity, rather than musical similarity. For example, a search for Nirvana pulls up Hole (social similarity, the Courtney Love connection) and Pearl Jam (social & chronological similarity) quite high on the list, even though neither really sounds that much like Nirvana. On the other hand, The Pixies, which are musically much closer to Nirvana aren't even on the list.
If someone speaks as an authority about Tor but never even visited the official site to read the FAQ, they deserve some criticism...
All the Features Mashed into This Micro-Apartment
The ACC is implicated in many, many, many things, but it always seems to rear its head when error-monitoring of some sort is involved. Any time you want to respond to a mis-prediction, an error of judgement, or some sort of high-level mismatch, you're pretty much guaranteed to see ACC involvement.

The theory goes that beyond some differential threshold, the ACC detects the mismatch between the perception (the tiger in my example) and the sensation (the actual input into the system) and then "does something".

We're not sure what that "something" is: it could -- to proceed by computational analogy -- raise an exception and signal some other process to regulate the system, or it may directly inhibit certain early visual neurons in an attempt to downplay percept.

This theory could also be completely wrong.
> More NYC like areas would help, but we can't seem to build those anymore.

That seems like a policy problem. I don't think we're nearly at the point where physics or math is a constraint on how densely we can build.
On-demand startups are now shamelessly catering to the wealthy elite
I dunno how much of it was by accident.

I get the feel it was the aim of Netscape from the virtually the beginning.

After all, the browser war was a proxy war for the server market and the intranet concept. As in using internet technology for the corporate LAN, with the web as the GUI for corporate servers.
Right, but at least you can up to 100 subdomains as SANs on the same certificate.
> Unfortunately the QR code might be an improvement over Windows 8 and 8.1 if the QR code contains more detailed information.

The QR code shown in the example screenshot is just a link to http://windows.com/stopcode - hopefully they'll improve it to at least include the bug check code.

(QR code decoder output: https://zxing.org/w/decode?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.arstechnica.ne...)
... "Joe likes to be funny" ...

Besides this idea of taking a label away from something you don't like is also a good strategy in general. He obviously doesn't think Erlang should do multiple inheritance. He just points out languages that have been calling themselves OO these years have been impostors.

Also not sure if I mentioned, Joe like to make witty jokes. So don't take it too seriously.
I might be wrong, but I doubt that's how SpaceX started... But of course, they are not in the same exact business. SpaceX is disrupting the already established space launch business, whereas DIS is in a completely new field in itself.
Report: US Didn't Find Trouble at College Before It Failed
Our country as a whole woefully underutilizes our military. It was the Army Corps of Engineers after all that built the roads and bridges which laid the foundation for America's breakneck growth in the 19th century.

We should reinstate the draft. Not everybody has to fight, but everyone should serve their country. And, for example, perhaps a few years doing cyber defense for the Air Force will be seen as a more efficient pipeline into tech jobs than college or coding boot camps.
Similarly, coal-burning power plants put more radioactive materials into the atmosphere in a year than nuclear power plants have in their entire history, but nobody worries about that because coal power is old and we're all used to it.

Ironically, the people opposing the construction of new nuclear plants are implicitly encouraging the construction/refurbishment of coal plants, and thus increasing the amount of radiation in the atmosphere.
A Purely Functional Conference
Oh, there's nothing new about that. Startups have identified and entered the space long ago, and the survivors have grown.

So KYC as a service is certainly a thing, and I know of two: Tracesmart & Onfido.
I would say that basic economics should have predicted this. I mean, if there's an area where your children can escape poverty with a higher chance, isn't that area more desireable to live? And if so, wouldn't you pay a premium to allow your children the opportunity?

I would. My parents did. I'm a child of the lowest 25% who now am a developer living in the highest 25%.
Cloudcraft dev here. I just found out it's on HN when seeing the influx of traffic :) Wasn't planning on posting it again, but thank you original poster.
Not hundreds. Millions!
That is a good question. The Voyager spacecraft send out detectable signals with a ~20 Watt signal. This is larger than the ~3 W signal that a smartphone sends, but by less than an order of magnitude.

Voyager is at ~130 AU. Alpha Centauri is at ~275,000 AU. With the 1/r^2 decrease in signal, that means the signal from earth will be smaller by a factor of ~3 x 10^6. Now, supposing we have ~1000 of these smartphone probes, this means that their combined signal will be weaker than the Voyager signal by a factor of ~3000. We might imagine that they are somewhat more optimized to send a stronger signal than an ordinary smartphone. Let's say they have a 30 W radio instead of 3 W. This means that they will have a weaker signal by a factor of ~300. This is a lot, but if they manage to build a detector that has a larger effective diameter than the Deep Space Network by a factor of ~15. Given the budget of the project, and the fact that they have 20 years of time to prepare after the launch, this could be feasible.

Looking at the project's website, though, it looks like they are taking the approach of using a laser onboard the probe instead of using a traditional radio transmitter [1]. This would increase the efficiency of the transmission by several orders of magnitude. It might even be possible to detect the signal from a single probe with this approach.

[1]: http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/index.php?controller=Foru...
Right, I was just illustrating that your hypothetical had a recent, concrete example.
From the issue log :

"Profiling a simple speed of light topology, shows that a good chunk of time of the SpoutOutputCollector.emit()
is spent in the clojure reduce() function.. which is part of the ACK-ing logic. Re-implementing this reduce() logic in java gives a big performance boost in both in the Spout.nextTuple() and Bolt.execute()"

[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-1539
Construction costs are only part of the story.

Construction, Mining/fuel processing, Operation, Decommissioning, Fuel Storage / reprocessing, Disaster Insurance. Sure, we can hand wave R&D as a sunk cost, but many of these costs only show up after the fact.
We have around 18 different microservices each with their own configuration and repos. Setting them all up, keeping them up to date and managing them locally is a pain (and also turns my laptop into an inferno). Our staging environment is on Runnable which spins up all 18 of these in an isolated stack so I do no have to worry about configs or management.
Arms Control Groups Urge Human Control of Robot Weaponry
A laser capable of propelling an interstellar probe is also a mighty space weapon. Some people proposed constructing that on the far side of the Moon so that it hass less of a chance of being used as against Earth targets (intentionally or by accident).
What makes that the fairest interpretation? There are trans people who look and act just like the gender they identify with. Letting them use the bathroom of the gender they identify with makes the most sense to me, not only for them, but for everyone else. Saying that genetics are what really matter and you have to use the bathroom determined by your chromosomes just seem lazy, not fair.
The blog post mentions, that starting a line with [ or ( can be dangerous too.

But till hat example I didn't even know why this would make sense in the first place.

I only use excessive parenthesis for math and store arrays, like the example, in constants that describe their purpose, so I guess I dodged a bullet there :)
Yup, really like the whole approach Rust takes to things.

Also as an aside, the more I work with Rust's iterators the more I really like them. Being able to specify move semantics by replacing iter() with into_iter() is just sublime.

As I spend time in C++'s <algorithm> the more I wish for Rust to take over the world.
In a sense the OP is making a point about which paths are paved in most OOP languages. That said, one of the problems I often see in user interfaces is "runaway metaphors". The "objects" and "messages" in question are _metaphors_ and it's important not to let a concept be taken hostage by the metaphors used to describe it.

The main reason controllers exist isn't (or shouldn't be) because of a failure of OOP as a concept, but because of efficiency or complexity. Going back to the baseball example, while it might make intuitive sense for the player to send a "running to first" message, simulating a team's reaction to that event by having player objects communicate purely by messages is horribly complex, whereas a fairly decent simulation can be quickly created by "cheating" with a team controller object (or game controller or whatever).

Even in a "pure" implementation, objects will want to examine each other ("how fast can that player run? Where is she right now? Now? Now? Where's the ball? Who has it? How good an arm do they have?")

If anything, the baseball metaphor shows how complex things can get, and quickly reveals cases where almost any programmer would choose to violate encapsulation to make things work.
In a sense the OP is making a point about which paths are paved in most OOP languages. That said, one of the problems I often see in user interfaces is "runaway metaphors". The "objects" and "message Saying" in question are _metaphors_ and it's important not to let a concept be taken hostage by the metaphors used to describe it.

The main reason controllers exist isn't (or shouldn't be) because of a failure of OOP as a concept, but because of efficiency or complexity. Going back to the baseball example, while it might make intuitive sense for the player to send a "running to first" message, simulating a team's reaction to that event by having player objects communicate by pure message is horrible complex, whereas a fairly decent simulation can be quickly created by "cheating" with a team controller object (or game controller or whatever).

Even in a "pure" implementation, objects will want to examine each other ("how fast can that player run? Where is she right now? Now? Now? Where's the ball? Who has it? How good an arm do they have?")

If anything, the baseball metaphor shows how complex things can get, and quickly reveals cases where almost any programmer would choose to violate encapsulation to make things work.
There's always grad school. I didn't get in undergrad, and I probably wouldn't have been ready had I.
Apply HN: utiliz.co – revolutionizing how consumers buy electricity
Electricity deregulation is awesome, boring, confusing and hard. Over the last decade 14 states have deregulated utilities so consumers get a choice of suppliers. Power comes from the same place, down the same lines, on the same bill, but a wholesale supplier can buy from the utility at low prices and markup the price to the consumer.

The problem is the consumer must then search for the best price, decide how long to commit, figure out if the fees are worth it, is the energy green enough, will the rate be better next month etc. It gets complicated fast. They must also remember to switch before the term ends to avoid sticker shock as the rate spikes at expiry. No wonder only half of eligible consumers switch from their incumbent supplier—the system is biased towards big energy.

Utiliz fixes all this. Customers simply send us a picture of their bill and we take it from there. We track the market daily, find the best plans and times to switch our customers’ suppliers, and do so automatically as often as needed. As the best plans are short term we can save customers a lot of money through frequent switching, something that would be difficult, time-consuming and annoying to do themselves. We work transparently in the background; our customers never have to think about where they’re getting their electricity and have peace of mind knowing they’re always on the best plan. As our user base grows we’ll be able to negotiate even better rates with suppliers and pass all of the savings on ensuring our users stay with us.

Unlike traditional energy brokers we’ll never take money from a power company or add a spread over supplier prices. We’ll be paid a transparent, fair, flat annual fee by our customers.

The opportunity is huge: potential customers include all retail electricity consumers in deregulated states. Eventually we’ll leverage our scale and technology to also serve the commercial electricity and natural gas markets.

utiliz.co Save your energy℠
True, the universe is generally a pretty unfriendly place that tries to kill you in any possible way.
And/or establish a chain of these spanning the distance between here and Alpha Centauri. They don't need to actually stop, but if enough are traveling at lower speeds or depart sufficiently late in the program then they'll be in position to act as repeaters. Possibly larger probes (which would travel slower) that have more power available for reception and retransmission.