skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can the type information be consumed by a compiler like nuitka to produce fast binaries?
Baldwin's speeches are often of very high quality and really stand up all these years later. Such a beautiful voice, and cadence. And so perceptive and honest. (E.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAeYKwlIU08)
I don't think astronauts would land on the droneship, as that's just for the first stage. When the Crew Dragon lands, it would be coming in from orbit, so I imagine they would just target the landing platform at the Cape as part of their de-orbiting plan.

That being said, would you want to be in the nearby path of the rockets if they were going to be ditched?
Don't confuse "public good" with "special interest good for a small subpopulation's lifestyle choice".
I think what he's talking about (not bothering to re-read) is the power required to magnetize the alternator components in the first place, so the alternator works at all. They use electromagnets rather than permanent magnets, because electromagnets are much cheaper, especially at that size. This is a fixed power requirement, so if the alternator can't generate more than that fixed power need to operate, there's no point in running.
A 90 year old has lived through and benefited from a period of amazing upwards mobility. Their financial position now is most likely unrecognisable from that of their youth - even if they don't seem that well-off. But a 25 year old has virtually no mobility to look forwards to, household incomes have been stagnant since the 1970s and social mobility (which is, let's face it, closely tied) has similarly flatlined.

Abundant cheap housing and the GI bill were a pretty sweet deal - despite the hardships that it took to get there.
I didn't realize that to be concerned about something, their extinction had to be on the line. Then again if that is your standard, I can see why you keep talking about birds, instead of bats.
While protecting visitors' information from malicious eavesdroppers doesn't change the fact that the site they are visiting may willingly be sending such data to a third party, it does prevent malicious eavesdroppers.

There are several levels of trust involved. HTTPS goes a great length to ensure that the link between the client and the server is not compromised. That the service may be malicious itself or unconcerned with privacy is a different problem that you have to solve in some other way. That doesn't make secure connections any less of a problem.
“that some call ‘white petroleum’”

stop trying to make “fetch” happen
Ok, I see, in that case it makes sense.
The fact that burbs are the most desirable places to live in STL

Says who? I'd rather live on this street than anywhere in the County:

http://limitlessplanetstl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Laf...

More:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lafayette+square&espv=2&biw=...
How do you even see downvotes?
For a two blade system, could that vibration problem be addressed by extending the support up beyond the nacelle, so that both blades cross slower wind spots at the same time?
Don't use assert! Most "release modes" (I was aware of cmake's but looks like VS as well) entirely remove statements if NDEBUG is defined! Thus you're doing a calculation and not using the result, so it looks to the compiler like the calculation can be skipped if there's no other side effects.
Punch through the deck. Which we already know can happen, the SES-9 landing attempt punched a nice hole in the deck. But you'd need to punch all the way through the hull to even think about sinking the barge, and of course the barge is built with compartments so even that wouldn't do it.
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How to hack Telegram and WhatsApp
Here's how you price & sell this. I figure the long term cost structure of all/most gene therapies diminish rapidly with each additional cure. i.e. The first two are prohibitively expensive to develop. The next two will be less, potentially a TON less. What a big pharma like GSK does is spread their cost of R&D across all future incomes of future genetic treatments. Then develop genetic treatments for anything and everything that can be treated genetically. So you start with the rare things, like here. Then you go for the cancers and things that have many more patients. Over time you wind up with, say, cures for things like male pattern baldness. Things where there are millions of highly willing to pay individuals. In the longer term they're suddenly selling a product multiple times to nearly everyone. Suddenly they're not selling the cure for a rare condition, but selling a gene 'vehicle' - possibly at used or new car prices.
On the same note, I'd put nginx high up there. Aside from the occasional config funkiness (which I can forgive them for) it's an amazingly useful, versatile and efficient tool. Can't complain too much about it. I think nginx and redis are my two favorite often used pieces stack.
Are they working through a backlog? The OSX article mentions 10.8.2 as being the most recent release...
http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript1292.html

WATTENBERG:
I got to think a lot of illegals add a lot of value to the United States. You have been quoted as saying that you are nauseatingly pro American.

MUSK:
Yes, that’s true.

WATTENBERG:
What do you mean?

MUSK:
Well, I mean, I think the United States is the greatest country that’s ever existed on earth. And I think that it will be difficult to argue on objective grounds that it is not. I think the facts really point in that direction. It’s the greatest force for good of any country that’s ever been.
There would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States. We’re obviously falling in the recent few occasions -- maybe three separate occasions in the Twentieth Century -- democracy would have fallen with World War 1, World War 2 and the Cold War, but for the United States.

WATTENBERG:
And perhaps the threat of terrorism would be much greater if it were not for the United States.

MUSK:
Yeah, absolutely. I think it would be a mistake to say the United States is perfect, it certainly is not. There have been many foolish things the United States has done and bad things the United States has done.
But when historians look at these things on balance and measure the good with the bad -- and I think if you do that and -- on a rational basis and make a fair assessment -- I think it’s hard to [unintelligible] that the United States -- is there anything better [speaking over each other]

WATTENBERG:
I have a reputation of interrupting my guests. But when they say exactly what I believe, I just let them talk and talk. I think you’re 100 percent right.

MUSK:
And -- you know I wasn’t born in America -- I got here as fast as I could.
Heh, I was actually agreeing with you. To your last question, I have no idea.
For good reason. Smaller towns are more livable then ever. With uber you can do without a car even in small towns and distant suburbs. With high speed internet and delivery, you rarely have to go shopping into a city center. With wikipedia, github, and youtube, education from advanced topics to daily diy projects is available to villagers. With tinder, there is a singles scene where there wasn't one before...
Check out the history of the person you're replying to. That person doesn't get stoked about anything. It's a shame, really.
Wind power is still largely a greenfield industry. There's no point in putting expensive (and risky) effort into suboptimal sites when so many optimal sites are still unexploited.

Cringely's assumption that new designs aren't being tried because the industry is stupid is almost certainly wrong. More likely, they're still going after the low hanging fruit, and will start optimizing design for suboptimal locations once they've fully exploited the optimal ones. But there's a lot less profit in using more expensive turbines to harvest less wind.
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I haven't used it years unfortunetly. Fractals where fun in logo. Making coastlines was always fun too.
> 1. Like every enterprise build system I've ever gotten to use, I wish Cargo would manage the compiler version as well.

With rustup.rs becoming official, it's a much better way to handle compiler versions since it handles cargo versions as well and allows the two to be coupled together. This allows for tighter integration between cargo and rustc as well as making testing of new versions of cargo significantly easier (i.e. there's no permutation matrix of whether cargo A.B.C works flawlessly with rustc X.Y.Z)
And Windows can operate as a server running all sorts of things like Active Directory, Exchange, etc. - that's because Microsoft bundles the software with it to allow it to do this, but the underlying operating system remains the same.

How is that any different to OS X? And how are you defining what is and isn't a "server operating system"? Perhaps I'm taking you too literally, but I guess I consider an operating system that allows or is designed to act as a server to be such a thing.

Of course, it might not be the best way of running a server, but it's still an operating system running software listening on a port that serves the requests from clients.

I seem to remember when people said Linux wasn't a "server OS", yet it very much was...
If they aren't paying me for the time, I'm not going to do 2-4 hours of work for them for free.
> And the cats are just trying to help fertilize your garden!

Yes, that wonderful, fertile cat shit full of Toxoplasma and other parasites. What a great addition to my garden! Not to mention that wonderful feeling and smell when your sink your hands into cat shit while prepping a garden bed.

Your other point, in regards to keeping populations under control, is way off the mark. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n1/full/ncomms2380.h...

Keep your cats indoors, people! They're great pals to have, but inside.
It's fascinating to read some of the other related articles on the Internet. There's a lot investment analysis going into whether the EV market will cause a "Peak Lithium" like "Peak Oil".

It could happen, however given how Tesla has already made moves to create a giga-factory to avoid "Peak Battery" pricing they likely already have a supply solution in mind.
It's a big deal to run (takes lots of hardware), but I really like nominatim. I've played with them all and it's the one I've settled on. Helps that I run it on a pair of OSM tile rendering and routing servers. Only downside to nominatim is the space requirement (~ 700gb), and the fact that it takes forever to build the database (24 - 36 hours on 256gb ram machines w/ SSDs....)
A (small) introduction to Boosting
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Or because there are very good reasons to not have online voting, like vote buying and voter intimidation could become a thing again:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY

Not that I don't think there is way to get the best of both worlds. I'm sure there's a way for us to vote without having our votes be made public, so things like vote buying and voter intimidation can't happen, especially with blockchain technology. Or perhaps those factors won't matter as much any more, and are actually acceptable factors when compared to voter suppression through poorly placed and managed polling locations. Either way, it's not as simple as it may seem.
This doesn't address the issue, as that still leaves the vulnerable git binary on your system. It just takes one call to /usr/bin/git instead of /usr/local/bin/git to fall victim.
Ah. Sorry about that. I need to learn not to read tone in written text (especially a tone that isn't there)! And also get some sleep and get off HN :-)
Sodium ion might be a good option in the future. Energy density will probably never be as good as lithium ion, but cost is significantly lower, and it has the great advantage of being similar enough to lithium ion that it can be built with only small modifications to existing lithium ion manufacturing equipment.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/a-firs...
Primary motivation is to create a comunity wehere programmers can develop their coding skills in a fun and engaging way. We also make it possible for university's to easily host an AI competition privatly for educatinal purposes e.g. pub.theaigames.com. You can check www.riddles.io for more info.
Probably not a safe assumption. Most people without a pension that are retired are living off some sort of retirement fund (IRA, 401k) that still technically gets returns. They just are taking out instead of paying in. Their returns are likely to be a little less than inflation, but they are withdrawing $XX,000 a year for the rest of their life ("Fixed income")
That's a distinction without a difference considering that, in most democratic countries, the government is nothing but a segment of the overall population appointed as their legitimate representatives.

It is the government responsibility, in their mandate as representatives, to address the problems perceived as important by the citizens (as, for instance, the problem mentioned in the quote).

Now, if the government is unable or unwilling to use the power it was given "by the consent of the governed" to address such important issues then __that__ become "one of the defining issues of our time", not income inequality or any other problem derived from that.
For those who check the comments before going to an article:

It's a song parodying the number of frameworks set to Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire.

It made me happier than it should have.
Why a perpetual learner will beat a fancy CV anyday
More specifically, the OSM project Nominatim does Address->Lat,Lon

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
i just made a sweet sunn o))) cover, cool project.
Wow, thanks for the update -- the internet can be damn cool sometimes.
Intermediate nodes can cache http traffic, but not https.

Also intermediate nodes could compress or shrink images or do similar types of things.
This thread makes me feel old.
Yeah, but that's a bit of a long bow... That's not a C ABI :-)
I was probably too terse. My point was that the GP was talking about talent, not income, and however you define talent, it's probably roughly normally distributed like IQ.
And yet... why no American names in the leaks? Funny that.
To clarify generational labels, if you were born in the 70s, you were likely the child of a baby boomer, not one yourself. You were most likely part of Generation X.
That's kind of what mobile sites do. They shrink the size of the site making it simpler and smaller.
Second stage recovery is a whole different beast. Recovering the first stage on a flight like this is a delicate dance because margins are so small, so everything has to go exactly right. The previous attempt (SES-9) didn't quite go exactly right, and made a big boom, perhaps because the engine burns were slightly mistimed.

Recovering the second stage is difficult because it's coming in from a much higher speed. The first stage came in doing about 2km/s. The second stage would come in doing 8km/s or more. That means 16x more kinetic energy to deal with and 64x more heating. You need a proper heat shield, not just clever engine burns. There's much less extra margin to play with as well. The second stage does most of the work but is much lighter, and one pound on the second stage is worth ten pounds on the first stage.

SpaceX definitely believes second stage recovery to be feasible at some point, but not on the current Falcon 9.
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Aristotle put it this way:

Science is the knowing of things by their causes. Science is the putting into knowledge what is in reality.

Engineering [which he would call techne, from which we get the word 'technology'] is the art of putting ideas into reality. It is putting what is in our knowledge into the real world.

Thus they are perfectly complementary things, one bringing the world into ideas, the other ideas into the world.
Thank you.
I didn't know that already exsist section for share project only.
The Ekmans' Atlas of Emotions
Also older folks are much more likely to have wealth to live off of than young people. But we don't like to talk about wealth in America really, only income.
Facebook sued over facial recognition
Giovanni's room
I'm pretty new to the web side of things so I decided to check out .net core to see if I could reuse my small asp.net knowledge but sadly I ran into the wall of missing libraries.

In the end I moved to node.js simply because of the huge library of libraries but I'm definitely going back to .net core when it will actually be released
>Because it is a drug, and I think the FDA should regulate all drugs.

It might be a drug by some definition, but it's not by law and, by the same law, FDA cannot regulate all drugs but only new ones.

>One, do you support the FDA regulating drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen?

In general, I do not support FDA at all and think this agency has long overstepped it's mandate and in need of serious regulations for itself. In particular, I do not see how giving aspirin to FDA is going to do any good. It's not like children never got poisoned by FDA-approved drugs.

>Third, are you ideologically opposed to all food and drug regulation?

No, only pragmatically. If you can show a regulation improving life of anybody other than people administering it on expense of general public then I am all for it.
Downvoting to express disagreement is sort of officially correct, though:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

Not that I agree with that at all.
It takes approximately 2^64 attempts to find a 128-bit collision. The Bitcoin network as a whole--with custom ASICs--computes 2^61 SHA256 compression function calls per second and consumes 150 MW, so it would take it 8 seconds. Or it would take 160 000 secs/44 hours with a single dense rack (7.5 kW) of custom ASICs.

So yeah if you care about the security of a crypto currency, this 2^64 collision attack is very doable and unacceptable. The rule of thumb in crypto is to aim at making attacks cost at least 2^128.
The world is a complicated place, and the US government is a highly decentralized organization. (And in the case of the executive and legislative branches, decentralized very much by design.)
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Updating Command Line Tools is enough:

$ xcode-select --print-path
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

$ git --version
git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66)
Even at the time it seems the success of "Ballad of the Green Berets" was pretty self-conscious, a counter-counter-cultural statement by record buyers.
Thank you! Looking forward to see your new games, especially since you support Rust ;)
Benevolent dictator for life
Phishing and malware injection are obvious - but how would that give you (any more) leverage to perform CSRF? (since well, the backend validates the token).

XSS for sure (which is probably what you meant by malware injection) and that sort of can enable CSRF if the vulnerability was already there - but I don't think it can cause it.
Good job, this is really cool
I expect the hull is thinner than the deck: it isn't designed to hold up to a rocket blowtorching and landing. But good point about compartments: the barge may well be able to survive a rocket-sized hole punched through it!
Can someone please explain to me how the falcon orients itself during this total process??

Does it use fins, or simply engines and whatever those little jets are that, say, the space shuttle had around its nose...

How does the falcon manage to physically orient its body?

Also, is that process completely autonomous? Is there a remote flight engineer steering this to the barge - or is it completely self-guided
The average user doesn't have the HTTPS Everywhere plugin, and I assume most that do have it installed are used to dealing with this kind of bad configuration.
I thought this was pretty common knowledge too. I read the article waiting in anticipation for the surprise, and at the end it was basically "I used a macro that is off in release builds, and the compiler did what it was told."
Additionally the enclosed space is useful. Inside the wind tower is a lot of equipment. There is the electronics for converting the power and monitoring the wind tower. There is a lift for ease of access to the nacelle. Current wind towers are 80m tall, next generation wind towers are more than 100m to access more reliable higher strength winds.
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Academic CV of failures [pdf]
The late 70s to mid 80s always felt like the musical equivalent to the early 1900s in Modern art. A lot of breaking down of old styles and habits, introduction of new tools, collaborating and stealing ideas from each other. New Wave, Hip Hop, etc.
You however do not have to talk to the police. Ever.

You shouldn't either. They are not your friend.
Insider trading law doesn't wait for a magic piece of paper to cast a spell on you.

My guess is the insider canary would be secondary to the fact that you established a protocol for making use of one in the first place.
But most of all, the legal profession has failed. Democratic governance depends upon responsible individuals throughout the entire system who understand and uphold the law, not who understand and exploit it.

Sigh. One of the most puzzling questions I have to deal with in my mind. Why is there so little moral left in this world?
The DC area isn't necessarily under any more scrutiny than the rest of the country. It contains more than its share of physically secure compounds under armed guard, and some important people with bodyguards at home, but other than the increased likelihood of being spotted by a CIA analyst at the grocery store I'm not sured how they'd have an easier time finding someone there.
They think they will be ready.

Note that the manned Dragon has an abort capability. If the launcher blows up that doesn't necessarily spell doom for the astronauts.
I use gitlab for the free private repos, the only bad part is that most third party services target github first
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There's a lot to parse in that statement, but the call for whistleblower protections seems to be the single most important (and achievable) item. Most people are aware of Snowden and Manning, but it really surprises me that these haven't been reported more:

"Bradley Birkenfeld was awarded millions for his information concerning Swiss bank UBS—and was still given a prison sentence by the Justice Department. Antoine Deltour is presently on trial for providing journalists with information about how Luxembourg granted secret “sweetheart” tax deals to multi-national corporations, effectively stealing billions in tax revenues from its neighbour countries."

Law enforcement agencies don't have the resources or knowledge to go after much of the corruption and wrongdoing inside governments and large companies. If insiders with integrity don't have a safe way of stepping forward there will never be a way to keep wealthy/powerful/connected individuals from abusing the system.
> he's being downvoted both because HN users disagree

Which is probably the usual reason people downvote. And it's a shit reason.

Downvoting (ie, trying to bury or hide a post) because someone says sumfing u don't wike is pathetic and childish; if you disagree either argue against it or move on.

Downvotes (if they have to exist) should be reserved for posts that are objectively non-constructive (as in posts that don't make any argument, whether you agree with it or not, or add anything to a discussion).
> The workflow to get to the same end result (viewing HN) doesn't seem immediately clear to me with GNS/GNUnet. I'm assuming I'd either have to track down YC's public key (where?) to add them as a petname, or transitively reach them via some other user that I trust.

Presumably you'd type something like `news.ycombinator.com.network-solutions.gnu`, since right now you are (ultimately) trusting Network Solutions to Do the Right Thing.
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