skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stuff costs money to maintain and upgrade.

I wonder if our whole culture's commitment to taking care of infrastructure has been eroded by the computer industry. We can just shut off the power on our old racks of servers, hand over their carcasses to the steel-recycling guys, and move their workload to AWS or someplace, for a net savings.

It doesn't work that way with bridges or railroads. It doesn't seem to work that way with air traffic control systems. Those things have to last at least a century, and have to be repaired in place, while still in use.

But when pols propose asking us to pay for that stuff, we refuse and vote them out of office. There's always some perfectly good excuse to say no: government waste, crooked contractors, expensive labor, you name it. Bottom line: we behave like the economic version of Moore's Law applies to highways. It doesn't.
probably because the original guy submitted it to the media
All due respect, but I think op is accurate... I say this as an immunocompromised individual fully understanding the weight of your analogy.

Many of the recently enacted regulations are driven by fear and hyperbole, with very little understanding of the technologies and real risks involved. This is in fact the very same position from which the anti-vax crowd pleads their cause.

Further, drones are very capable of saving lives, and many recently enacted regulations are actively preventing their involvement in life-saving activities that would otherwise have been both safe and legal.

I could go on for paragraphs about how the current regulations in the US in particular are a complete joke that do absolutely nothing to improve the safety of drone operations - and in some cases actually encourage riskier ones.
I agree. Far more fits the "Alien" bill than a flipping (no pun intended) mammal.
Here we go: https://www.pitt-pladdy.com/blog/_20091125-185551_0000_Linux...
> blue doesn't appear much in nature

As long as you don't look up during the daytime.
Building scientific experiments with F# by Anton Tcholakov [video]
Hi, me and a few others in the Rust community kinda hashed out an plan of how you would do safe code un- and reloading Rust. Its nothing official, and has no implementation or official RFC/proposal yet, but the idea goes something like this:

- Rust as-is assumes program code/static memory is always valid/has the 'static lifetime. This assumption is implicit in the sense of function pointers, trait object vtables, static variables etc all having no lifetime bounds on something else than 'static, which means unloading their backing memory would cause unsafety.

- Thus, in order to make safe code unloading safe there would have to be a new, optional compile mode in which the compiler would treat "static" things like function pointers, trait objects, statics etc as non-'static, eg by giving them the new concrete lifetime "'crate". So if you have a "static FOO: T;" in a unloadable crate, you could only get a "&'crate T" to it, and you could only coerce to trait objects with a "+ 'crate" lifetime bound.

- 'crate would be similar to 'static in that it represents memory valid for the lifetime of the crate, but unlike 'static would not imply being always valid, and as such the borrow checker would prevent a bunch of operations for it like subtyping with any other lifetime, or usage with API's that want 'static bounds like thread spawning.

- Because 'crate is distinct from 'static, mixing unloadable and loadable code would be safe since the regular lifetime checking would ensure correct interaction between both. It means unloadable crates need to be explicitly written as such though.

- There are some major complications with generics and other compiler-generated glue code like vtables that are not fully hashed out yet: The issue there is that machine code corresponding to an upstream dependency gets compiled into the binary of the current crate, which means you would have code that typechecked with the assumptions of living in one binary be generated in another. Solutions here include banning generics and trait objects to types from extern crates, re-checking generics at instantiation location similar to C++ templates, or adding a new feature for instantiating generics outside the current crate, similar to "extern template" in C++.
Unity was all about desktop/mobile convergence. GNOME 3 was not.
you can get around the login wall with http://bugmenot.com/
edit: rewriting the service and switching languages. We'll be back up later this week and will keep you updated on progress.
Someone read Douglas Adams?
(if not, you probably should)

Anyway, I would argue, that wanting to allways remain in the same state of being, is not very smart, since the enviroment is going to change anyway ... so you got to evolve to adopt to new enviroment changes (ultimately the collapying of our sun)
All I have to do is read the tablets of your financial gods, cited daily here, to understand how utterly lost you all really are. It's an honest shame that so many brilliant, educated people with bright and positive outlooks have been so thoughtlessly coopted, with their own consent, into routine and pointless profit-seeking under the guise of "changing the world." Let's be clear: SV "startups" are pointless capital ventures that reasonable conscientious people would never support or pursue except for the sole purpose of personal profit-seeking. As you get older, I think you'll see, as a smart person, the curtain will pull back and the difference between substantive pursuits and what you're all doing will be truly revealed.

I don't say this to be mean or for any gain whatsoever. I am truly sad about the second internet boom, having seen a bit of the first one. I am just a lamenting academic with no horses in your race. I would only like to see the world truly changed, and I wish all our society's best education were put to use actually doing it.
May I suggest adding "my users are in the same time zone as I am". Automated tests are often written with this implicit assumption too.

I recently fixed a bug for a local hire service I use frequently. I'd made the booking in Seattle, and they were 18 hours late when I got back to Melbourne...
The fire in the video looks kind of wimpy against a jet engine that burns a litre a second or so of jet fuel. The heat from the fuel is probably 1000x that from the battery
His money was made in 2014.

This is not reproducible with the current App Store environment, IMHO.
I'll add one: "But surely each place only has one DST each year…"

Nope. Troll Station in Antarctica has four different settings through the year.

Personally since there are only 40 people there I think they should just suck it up and pick two. They are probably causing a lot of software bugs. I know they cost me a couple hours.

Edit: Oh crum, I see Morocco suspends DST during Ramadan, so they have four settings too… and 33 million people. I can't ask that many people to change, it would take too long.
We have a very good idea of what is going on in the heads of at least one worm species: C. Elegans. It has 302 neurons and we have mapped how they are connected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans#Researc...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/c-elegans-connecto...
I think the title is a parody of those titles.
(I fat fingered and accidentally downvoted you -- I completely agree with your comment though.)

For [3], just curious if you have tried group yoga classes? I like a lot of the concepts and ideas around yoga, but each time I've tried a class it's been extremely anxiety inducing due to either feeling claustrophobic or struggling to keep up from not knowing the positions (and deductive reasoning leads to frustration from looking around to find everyone else doing the position a little different, yet somehow acting like they either don't notice or aren't concerned with the nuances). I want to like it, but it has stressed me out each time.

My current solution is 15-30 minute cardio sessions on an elliptical, but having a gym 20 minutes from where I work is far enough I'll often skip it or find going midday impractical.
Great you have a dynamic language with a good compiler, you at least need to have: Strict coding guidelines to ensure performance, tools to get back what is lost without static typing.

No tool is perfect. Don't knock solutions to problems you don't have.
Note that there are downsides with this method:

- the startup time increases

- if you run several instances of an app, they consume more memory because code uses anon mapping instead of file mapping

- the whole executable file is loaded to memory at startup
It's also interesting how many of them reported exactly the same "saucer" as the original publicized sighting, despite that sighting not necessarily involving a saucer shape!
Just curious re: the findWith() example, how would you find the last number in a list that is greater than the min while still being lazy?
https://archive.org/details/International_Journal_of_PoC_201...
There is a massive difference in tax treatment.

No self employment tax on distributions from an S Corp.
Haskell's laziness can also be a notorious source of "space leaks": an algorithm that appears O(1) in space, such as summing up a list of numbers, can actually use O(n) space by accumulating unevaluated invocations of (+) in memory. With more complex data structures, the proportion of expected memory usage to actual memory usage can get even worse.

In larger Haskell programs, I've found that the most challenging issue to debug: "why does my program use way too much memory?".
Doesn't using function* make laziness part of the type system, thereby allowing us to detect when we're mixing lazy and eager in functions in the same way we might detect mixing integer and floating-point math in variables?
Yeah, the original post should be edited to reflect actual tax paid.
The Linux community is like an atom. All the heavy stuff is in a small core of contributors, and the rest is a fuzzy shell flying around screaming into the aether. And there are lots of distros that are fully community driven, and they didn't get us Steam or pre-installed Linux computers, or whatever else.

It's valuable to have one that is stubborn, and it's valuable for that stubborn one to be big enough that it can survive its stubbornness.

The community, after all, pushed back on 3D-acceleration-by-default, on a store, on systemd, on pulseaudio, even on what-was-once-called-jockey.
> The MVP / market analysis process is different for biotech, but still should happen. It's pretty fascinating!

Right. I think we're all violently agreeing.

Biotech companies do need MVPs and market analysis. My observation is just:

1) The idea of testing product-market fit by building a complete product and putting it out there in uncontrolled settings doesn't really work for a lot of biotech companies. Especially anything that's going to need regulators' approval.

2) Compared with IT startups, Biotech companies are more likely to fail due to having the wrong answer for "but can we make it work?" rather than "is there a market?". So the MVPs optimize for testing former question, which usually means controlled experiments in a lab. There are counter-examples on both sides, I'm sure, just in general.
I just had a similar experience on blahtherapy just now. My chat ended in them asking, "r u female".

I don't think this sort of thing can work, at least not with the free aspect. It appeals to the lowest common denominator.
> So failing to conform to Zipf's law doesn't prove a signal is not meaningful, but [conforming] to it is likely to be very strong evidence that a signal is a form of communication.

Then again, Zipf's law is known to describe many non-communicative, "natural" distributions like the sizes of grains of sand, the sizes of asteroids, and the populations of cities (one of Herbert Zipf's original objects of study). And conversely, many levels of representation of human communication have non-Zipfian distributions, like phoneme distributions. (See my comment history for references.)
I couldn't agree more - to boot, DST going away solves like half of the edge cases with one quick fix.
In most EU countries they would be jailed.
I always wondered how that works. Good article.
Kind of like the mystery airships that were plaguing us at the end of the 19th century? But I think the OP was talking more about normal, mortal, earthbound humans having some garage-built technology that got classified as UFOs. Those would necessarily have to be made with the technology of the day.
Where does it end? When the only people allowed to venture outdoors are those who pass a full military background check and submit to general anesthesia and a comprehensive cavity search, will that be excessive? After all-- anyone could explode at any moment, yes? No price can be too high.

That's clearly absurd. But it became absurd well before then. If we are willing to grit our teeth and do the math, almost any cost is too high to prevent the statistical non-event of a fatal terrorist attack.

In my country, good, innocent people, people with families and careers and dreams for the future, die every single day in senseless traffic accidents that could have been avoided if our incredibly safe public transportation were a little bit cheaper, or just a little less stressful. Every day, someone's son or daughter or mother or fiancee doesn't come home, ever again, because... "Anyone could be a terrorist."

Sorry, I'm not buying any of this "that one time out of ten" bullshit. If the security forces are indeed tasked with helping us to feel safe, they are doing an admirably shit job of it.
Because that is heresy.
A lot of modern UAV platforms have a 'failsafe' mode if they lose the transmitter signal.
I'm not sure I understand the comparison. openssl s_client creates a TLS connection, but doesn't drive the HTTP protocol; it's a generic bidirectional encrypted transport. Lots of chat protocols use TLS in exactly this manner.

But I'm going a step further: I think even if you're stuck with HTTPS/HTTP/2, you're still better off tunneling your application protocol over that than SSH.
Wish the walls wrapped around, would be interesting :)
Thank you, reading up on this!
Any modern clients you use for this?
If you change direction twice very quickly, you can go back through your own tail.
This is one of the best explanations of an ML topic that I've read in a long time. It strikes a great balance of being approachable for non-experts and being in-depth enough to give a reader a feeling that they understand how things work.
Yes, based on all the aliens, this checks out.
Amazing work. :) Love the start screen!
Susieq said "their efficacy and communication is faultless and their compassion is real." I can vouch for that! Their mission is to get affordable generic medicines that cure hepatitis C to those who need them. I was one of those people. They are so committed to what they do. In a world driven by greed and exploitation, Monkmed are one of the good guys.
Sci-Fi Vlog Tells an Anatomically Strange Story of Body Parts
The US is the most protectionist nation
Cf. http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/charts/2015/where-did-...
Beans, rice, and tortillas are all calorie-dense low-nutrient foods. They don’t really make a complete or balanced diet; for that you meed to add a lot of vegetables. It’s obviously better than eating just ramen and soda, but that’s a low bar.

Rural peasants in Mexico, whose diet is mostly tortillas, have short stature and relatively low life expectancy, like rural peasants in most parts of the world, who also get most calories from starchy staple foods.
Much of the world lives outside of the bay, and isn't backed by lavish VC funding. You gotta do what you have to in order to survive. Many exciting innovations have come from the duck-tape and bailing wire community.
But make sure you read up on the problems with `set -e` before you rely on it!

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
I should have said "touch-enabled mobile experience." That's where Gnome is going :

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-4.0...
Honest question - mathematically, how can something be 7x smaller if x is not pre-defined? I always find it weird that anything can be more that 100% less than anything else because, you know, zero.

Am I way, way off base? Should I perhaps retake high school?

Edit: the smaller number is assumed 1x. Got it. Still feels weird.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515106
A bigger downside: various virus scanners flag UPX-packed executables as suspicious.
Why not? This is both good long term for the environment and good long term for their investments' potential growth. As Coal gets less favored status more coal companies will feel pressure on their stocks. Sort term they may lose out on some growth markets like India and China, but even those markets will surely shift toward renewables in years to come leaving coal and companies tied to it depressed.
I hate to add "me too" replies, but it is important to get the message out there that lots of really smart folks consider DNSSEC an absolute failure of such epic proportions that you shouldn't even joke about building something real on top of it.

The only thing DNSSEC has given us is widespread DDoS amplification.
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That's a great story, and it looks like a good game.

Could you elaborate on Steam sales? Non-steam? Thanks!
mm hmm. and when "real" americans do it, it's called prepping.
Re: pair programming

The Pragmatic Bookshelf published a neat related book that's a light ~100-page read called Remote Pairing: Collaborative Tools for Distributed Development [0]. It also mentions a few companies that do pair programming exclusively. Pivotal Labs is one that comes to mind.

0: https://pragprog.com/book/jkrp/remote-pairing
But she's just like one of us. Except we aren't criminals. That's one difference.
It's a good move, that nevertheless retains a healthy dose of irony given the fund was developed almost entirely on the back of petroleum.
Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System [pdf]
"this hoax is not real. While we could imagine it's possible"

Having done rm -fr / on a box before, I think it should stay. The incident was fake, the problem is real, it elicited real responses and has value.
TIS-100 isn't even the most hardcore Zach Barth programming puzzle came. That would be KOHCTPYKTOP (actually a circuit-design puzzle game).
why? It's not illegal to speak for a fee in any country of the EU as far as I know.
There are definitely a lot of hypotheticals here, but many of those goals are desired in their own right and aren't specific to web assembly.

Interestingly, there's a slow-but-steady effort underway to implement a generic BLAS and LAPACK in Julia itself, since this allows for computations with custom datatypes that aren't supported by the Fortran libraries. For example, you can now do QR factorizations and solves with any numeric type, including Rationals and Quaterions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20985783/rational-matrix-...

Julia's dispatch system allows for these kinds of layered algorithms very nicely, and they could just as well live in separate external packages.
> In most EU countries they would be jailed.

I'm sorry, but I read TFA and I'm not sure what you could be referring to... is it illegal in most EU countries for an event organizer to pay an honorarium to their invited speakers? Or to pay for speech in general? Consider that many make an honest and honorable living in this way... For example, Stephen King has earned tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars for his speech.
It's not well-defined nomenclature. Generally what people mean when they say 7x less is 1/7 as much.
> Republicans have been less willing to support it, especially when it goes toward things like public transit.

I always thought that aspect of their modus operandi rather tricky and good. To demonstrate how government programs fail, they strangle them (cut their funds), then those programs start failing, and they later point out how government managed <whatever> is clearly a failure and it should be handed over to <somebigcorp>. Whether you agree or not with spending and the core idea, gotta give to the devil what is owed to the devil -- it is a pretty good PR strategy.
"Regulated" can mean anything from "enforcement of reasonable precaution" to "banned on the basis of irrational fear." Existing regulations already meet the former standard IMO -- it's not like the drone operator was operating legally and will get away scott-free even if caught.

> A Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman said it was "totally unacceptable" to fly drones close to airports, and anyone flouting the rules can face "severe penalties, including imprisonment"

Calls to "regulate" are then actually calls to increase bureaucratic barriers and harshen penalties, which will likely have a disproportionately large impact on legitimate applications of the technology and a disproportionately small impact on those who choose, as this drone operator did, to break the rules.
>We recently had our first huge sale to a single customer.

in general terms can you talk about the size we're talking about (how many figures)? This is actually missing from a lot of stories in this thread but I think would be useful.
Let Them Be Frank – Will Authentic Scarcity Be Replaced by Artificial Scarcity?
I like to include a bit of "watch someone use your product".

And I mean doing so with their permission, and at your request, but without any prior instruction, and you're not allowed to intervene or supply hints.
Part of the appeal of the ssh chat server from the article is that you can connect to the server using an existing console tool. It's not necessary to have a purpose-built client. So I've been trying to think: how could you get that convenience, but using HTTPS instead of SSH. [based on your example above]

In an update above I've talked about socat. That's less convenient than ssh, because socat is obscure vs ssh.

A hassle I've had trying to get a SSL server going in this last hour - it seems like you need to be signed by a recognised authority. ssh is convenient in that you get solid encryption, but you only need a fingerprint, not an authority sig.
Why is there always one attention-seeking person among the computer-using community that insists on evaluating those outside over things they say?
Totally agree. Re: #3, I can imagine with the proliferation of SDKs, that could be a source of security risks.

Or it could just be like the heartbleed bug, the NSA has known about it for a while and has exploited it before to hack into other countries. Could be the same here once they find a way in. They could just throw a bunch of redherrings out there if they were actually smart.
If a file is 100kb and is compressed to 50kb, that's 2x smaller. 50kb is still over zero.
You're white, so nice American liberals don't give a sht about your plight.

Now if you were Bosnian, they'd care more :)
I always thought that consciousness doesn't really exist (eliminative materialism?). So I don't understand what this article is trying to say.
Really? For the speeches and conflict of interest? Or something else?

You rarely see an EU politician charged, let alone gaoled, especially those so high in the establishment hierarchy so I'm not overly convinced.
coal is in the process of consolidation/deleveraging/bankruptcy and they would be making this decision anyways. congrats on extracting social justice points from your business decision.
Right, none of the published MD5 attacks allow you to generate data to match a specific hash value. It's certainly a good idea to avoid MD5, but it's not easily exploitable in most situations.
PM Trudeau's explanation of Quantum Computers should raise our expectations