skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand and had that idea when I heard it needed sudo initially. It makes sense for a reference-ish implementation to make it quick and easy for the large userbase to adopt. If I had to trust an org to run their code as sudo on my rig, EFF would probably be it. HTTPS needs to be adopted universally first and foremost.

I just chose Acme-tiny because it was tiny and didn't have many of the bells and whistles like wrapping revocation or a DNS verification that I didn't need. Neat and nifty features for certain, but I try to keep it stupid simple. I wanted something with a small footprint I could understand and domesticate.

Thanks for all your work, the EFF is awesome and so is Certbot. Letsencrypt has been a lifesaver. Keep up the good work!
I really wish someone would come up with a really nice web-based parametric modeler, that has javascript as its primary language.

Imagine being able to use npm to share and install parametric parts as easy as:

var Bracket = require('some-bracket');

var L = new Bracket({ ... });
If you want this you can use https://about.gitlab.com/githost-io/

But the problem is this is expensive (we have 100k+ users) and people can't collaborate easily (you need a new account for each server).
Why exclude legal? Understanding a commit graph isn't too technical.

As far as I know, passing docx files back and forth is more similar to working with git than a google doc, so the workflow also wouldn't be dramatically different.
Phew. "secret"!
I mostly agree with that. Hence, my saying people should do business elsewhere for this. ;) That said, Lavabit case is special as that's not why they were forced to close down. They had to close down because the arrogant prick with "banking grade security" chose to protect all user accounts via one SSL key. Usually, they can just use one tap/query or one set of keys for the users they target. In his case, he had to compromise all of them to comply with the request due to his own bad design.
Ask HN: Is there an container based alternative to virtualbox/vmware player?
I am trying to virtualize ubuntu on ubuntu and vmware player/virtualBox seems overkill. Is there any container based full OS virtualization system out there?
> What doesn't work particularly well is encoding external knowledge explicitly. Having a semantic resource that tells you explicitly that "fork" and "spoon" are members of class "cutlery". This has been tried by many people, and it produces small or no benefit.

I rarely do this, but … citation(s) please? Who has tried it, can you point too their results? Why hasn't it worked, seems like totally the obvious solution for the next 7% gap. Why on earth wouldn't it work?
There is a spectrum of "Its not possible", generally from not feasible with current tech to fundamental laws of physics say no. Things on the "not possible with current tech" side are open for someone finding a nifty trick, things leaning towards the fundamental physics side, are not.

For this specific piece of tech its in the middle ground of the "its not possible" spectrum as human/animal safety and the air we breathe are the limiting factors, so if someone figures out how to very tightly generate the beam with no reflections/spillage and can detect when someone or a pet wanders into the beam, then its possible with high losses due to air.

All forms of wireless power suffer from effectively the same limitations of safety and air. Magnetic/RF have problems with unwanted heating of nearby metallic objects, RF spectrum rights and beam size issues (and at high freqs, air losses), optical have mild-moderate air resistance issues and issues with reflections (very small amounts of reflection=blind people), ultrasonic have severe air loss issues and beam power limitations for safety. Physics doesn't say no to wireless power, but it does say "Only if humans are not nearby or you want small amounts of power (<1w)".

Also, the best way to prove that you have conquered the limitations with a tech is to demonstrate to the world at large that it works in a practical enough manor. None of these "It's not possible" startups that I've seen have demonstrated a working prototype that people can wander up to an look at.

Disclaimer: I have worked for a company that does industrial optical wireless power.
It stops being satire when they start asking people for money.
"Aging" is what costs you flexibility and speed. If you reverse aging, you'll maintain your flexibility and speed.

Moreover, aren't you assuming that we couldn't possibly manage loss of flexibility? Even if most people are inflexible because they've aged, this doesn't prohibit them from having a base level of flexibility and thus find a workaround for whatever limitation you're imagining this imposes.
Impossible meaning "we aren't sure how to build this today" and impossible meaning "this grossly violates our understanding of the basic physical laws of the universe" are two different sorts of impossible.
You're right, I had to google it.

Apparently only 51% of the state said they would disapprove of accepting Syrian refugees into Texas even with a security clearance process in place

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/25/uttt-poll-bar-muslim...
This is close to my strategy, but I mostly read reviews of 2-stars, 3-stars, 4-stars. I sort by usefulness, and read about 10 of each star-rating by usefulness, then recency. I've been thinking about packaging that 'workflow' into a browser extension, but I'm not sure how often Amazon changes the structure of their review content.
Effectively, we have two economies - the two modes ( really, complete Pareto distributions ) that seem to have come unmoored to each other.

The "upper" mode is much more ephemeral and paper-based than is the "lower" mode. It's a frothy stew of bubbly paper goodness. But it's effect on the "lower" mode is not as we would like it to be.

So we treat the "lower" mode as its own ( not quite independent but not fully coupled ) distribution, raise inflation and wait.

And although the "upper" mode does have real effects, it being more fictional than the "lower" mode means it's much more volatile and less ... real.
Negative net migration is a thing. Texas has been at the top of domestic migration numbers for a while now, and the north east has been suffering negative figures. The north east would have to be pulling a lot of international migration in order to break even.
Came in ready to denounce Suster, but after reading his post, he handled the situation pretty tactfully. The engineer's blog on the other hand, is pure drivel. He may be correct, but his blog posts are awful and not helping him at all.
There's some rather odd terminology use with this one. A "microbe" is any living organism too small to be seen with the naked eye; so mostly single cell eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Prokaryotes don't have mitochondria. But to read this article one would think it's amazing that any microbe lacks mitochondria. What's interesting here is that they've apparently found a eukaryote which lacks mitochondria, ("microbe" need not have been mentioned).

I wish they'd also at least hint at endosymbiotic theory[1], which states that eukaryotic organelles, like mitochondria, may have at one time been separate organisms and became internal symbiotes later. Then it becomes somewhat easier to be surprised at an eukaryote, an aggregate organism, lacking a critical component.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis
> There would be no more income-driven involuntary homelessness.

Well, I strongly doubt that a UBI that could actually achieve that is actually sustainable in the near term, especially absent a concrete policy that prevents zoning and other related policies from being used to prevent adequate housing affordable to those made more theoretically able to afford it by the UBI from being produced.

And I'm kind of an enthusiastic backer of UBI as a general concept after spending considerable time looking into it and thinking about how to make it work; I suspect that a lot of the working class is going to be even more skeptical of "free money" promises to start with.
This seems to date from 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080904080055/http://www.webaim...
Well, actually, Fortran is for making your next climate model (see e.g. the MITgcm at http://mitgcm.org/public/source_code.html).
I don't know. A lot of people agree with you, that creating superintelligent humans is necessary.

I'm scared of being replaced. I'm also worried such humans would be so different than us, they wouldn't identify with us. Maybe even come to despise us. They would form their own ingroup and view us as enemies even.

I've met someone that had high IQ, and identified with high IQ like some people identify with their country. He legitimately hated low IQ people, was ok with exterminating them, and said he would prefer to die or commit suicide than lose his intelligence. It was such an alien way of looking at the world to me.
This a probably true as a matter of status quo, but it is not necessitated by anything. Science advances because it is designed to advance. It just advances faster when social power cycles regularly.
ES2015 boilerplate for creating libraries with Rollup and Angular / Angular 2
TL; DR: share management is built on a pile of electronic and legal hacks implemented over several decades. One layer misfired, and people (think they) lost money. Maybe we should rebuild it all but it's such a huge clusterfuck and involves so many entities, it will probably never happen.
I was waiting for someone to mention ChoreMonster. That's the first thing I thought of http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/choremonster-an-app-to-get-...
"They ate the pizza with friends looking on in disgust"
IQ is not a linearly meaningful variable. Once you go over 160, IQ deltas stop meaning much of anything.
The example for Go looks pretty straight-forward:

https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/

Not an expert on these things by far but I remembered painless use of C in that language and it's GC'd. Thoughts?
That seems pretty backwards. In my opinion, an enterprise, at a minimum, should be asking for source code escrow, if not outright source code access (either FOSS or under NDA).
It depends on what you're looking for. Do your homework. They're kind of like investors. Get an intro if possible. Cold emailing someone to say, "Hey, I'd like you to be my mentor" may not be the best approach.

Have a game plan.

Make sure you're clear about what you're looking for and what you'd like help with. The reason these people are successful is because they don't waste their time on stuff.

Don't expect it to be a one way street. Offer something in return even if it's just time.

Listen more than you talk.

That's about it. Good luck!
So basically Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner is going from scifi to a WIP.
The laws of physics just don't allow for recharging a smart phone battery from across the room given the current constraints.
Using Postgres window functions to link data across many sources
LXD
Can't I just put a lens above the surface to concentrate it? I think you picked a poor example.
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Can it be used to virtualize app with gui/X11 ?
This was discovered in 2007 and thought to be a dwarf planet even then. The new information here is a more accurate estimate of it's size that moves it from 5th largest to 3rd largest dwarf planet. The title is click bait.
Yeah, right! He used Spotify popularity, but nearly half of the songs cannot be listened to!
article about the topic currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11693184
Thanks for asking, I tried to explain this better on our website after reading your questions: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/836c494f...
R is ranked lower year-on-year, but if you click into the actual rating time series you can see that R is on a tear into new highs of popularity. For that matter so is MATLAB. Julia is still buried in the next 50 list.

BTW i'm a julia proponent, I'm just starting into it but I like a lot about it.
Does Certbot have the ability to only output the signed certs to a specified directory and nothing more?
I mean it's not terrible if you really like small animals, tiny hills, tiny rivers, tiny lakes, short mountains and trees that are barely shrubs; even the weather is pretty half assed.

But then I guess not all of us can grow up in places that have some scale to them.
And that's why I wonder why he doesn't push to us on the dev channel to test for a bit before pushing as stable. Yeah, it would be different packaging than the /3dev build, but does it matter? As long as he can get feedback and keep us on the last version, it works for me!
Ok, we changed the title to a representative phrase from the article.
Love the idea of doing my homework first.
They are probably doing the same thing a lot of "AI" startups are doing now, which is starting with just that -- a conventional travel agency sitting behind a shiny mobile app -- and then trying to build the AI on top of the data they collect from human interactions.
>Calling a website that happens to host static content in the same repo as its PHP source a "release of a software project" really seems like a stretch.

It is not even a string too.
If the naming gets crowdsourced we all know how that ends. Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to present Rocky McPlanetFace.
In which category would we place the needless repetition of trite sayings?
> One explanation for that is a contracting economy, but another one is simply that income is becoming more concentrated in the upper end of the distribution.

Which is the correct explanation. See, for instance, the income distribution chart [0], from the national-level study that preceded the metro-level study referenced in the NYTimes article.

From 1970 to 2014:
The share of aggregate income received by the cohort below the middle (middle, again, is 2/3 to double the median income) has gone from 10% to 9% of all income

The share received by the middle has gone from 62% to 43% of all income.

The share received by the segment above the middle has gone from 29% to 49% of all income.

[0] bottom of the two here: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...
>This article reads like the goofy cliches New Yorkers spout after spending their first week in Los Angeles.

> I only spent about four days there.

Ok... what would we call your strong opinions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682740
How can that be? That sounds like the most uncontroversial example of fair use.
So is Lua.
I still don't understand myself. I was 39, and my girlfriend was 27, but she still got mistaken for 14 sometimes. (Back then, I was getting mistaken for my 20's.) They didn't explain, just refused to serve us.
Ok, we added 2008 to the title.
Genetic Analysis of 250 Burgers Reveals Some Unsavory Surprises
Presumably if you ssh -Y into the container.
Warren Buffett backs Gilbert's Yahoo bid – sources
Watchdog: 18F caused a 'data breach' using Slack
>I'm scared of being replaced. I'm also worried such humans would be so different than us, they wouldn't identify with us. Maybe even come to despise us. They would form their own ingroup and view us as enemies even.

You're on Hacker News and you're afraid of nerds? Come on. We're right here. Ask us what we think of you.

>I've met someone that had high IQ, and identified with high IQ like some people identify with their country. He legitimately hated low IQ people, was ok with exterminating them, and said he would prefer to die or commit suicide than lose his intelligence. It was such an alien way of looking at the world to me.

To be honest, he probably went through a lot of pain and maltreatment to acquire that kind of point-of-view. He's not an alien! He's a person. Just because his cognition has less noise in it and he needs fewer samples to reach the same inferences doesn't make him some fundamentally different kind of creature: all the algorithms are the same, only their free parameters are different.

Smart people have empathy and feelings too, and in fact, most of the time the most genuinely hurtful thing we experience (speaking as someone who is too often told that he's the "smart guy" in the group, even among nerdy, intelligent people) is precisely the Straw Vulcan stereotype about intelligence. We're not cold-hearted, we're not aliens, we're just people. Putting us in gifted programs as kids is a great idea. Forcing us to compose prodigal concertos at age 12 is probably a bad idea. Treating us with respect and fellowship works best.
Ugh. That's just disgusting, and something to be ashamed of.
I was responding to the assertion that no one was investing in solar thermal -- I'm not defending the investment.
But it'd be part of the sharing economy. Must disrupt!
Nope GDP per capita grew between 2000 and 2014, (GDP per capita should roughly parallel mean income, but median income can go down when the mean is going up if a greater share ends up at the top of the distribution.)
This is great, I often wondered why the user agent strings are so the same between different browsers.
It is a scam. The only difference between other scams is that they managed to take a bite of larger investors than usual.

There are always people who want to believe. Some months ago there was a man who claimed that he could create hydrogen from water by bombarding the water with radio waves. The electricity needed for the radio waves was neglible to the energy we could get by burning the hydrogen.

I tried to explain with physics, maths, equations, I pointed to esteemed professors' materials. Nothing. For the people who wanted to believe, even if they had a nobel laureate explain them the “inventor's” fallacies, they wouldn't budge.
You are vastly underestimating the cost and complexity of running this system at an affordable cost. You would end up with Tesla running the majority of your facility (by cost), and consequently would not be a competitive plant.

Let's do some simple math:

An average natural gas plant seems to be around 800MW, and we might assume that they are running somewhere around 1/2 capacity when there is not much solar irradiation (evening and night), giving us an average power level of 400MW. Wikipedia says that Lithium Ion cells have a specific energy of about 100-240 W.h/kg, and I'll assume that Tesla uses some good 200W.h/kg cells. If the plant has to run with no irradiation for 10 hours at half capacity, it needs 4000 MW.h of energy in batteries, which is 4000M/200 = 20Mkg of batteries not including any losses during discharge or wasted energy for cooling. 20 million kilograms of batteries would be very expensive to store and maintain; they would also take up a lot of containers. A 20' container is usually maxed out at about 20 tons, so you would need a thousand of them.

The basic problem is that unlike molten salt, there are no economies of scale to be had with batteries or photovoltaic panels.
Restrooms solution is too easy
If you have a flesh-based tallyhwacker, you use the male bathroom.
If you do not currently posses a flesh-based tallywacker,
you use the girls room.

Done, simple and nothing to argue about.
Unemployment is down. Gas prices are low. Why isn’t America shopping?
I find it terrifying because regardless of their IQ in their nature they would still be humans that are shaped as much by their environment as any other toddler child tween teen adult.

The day we're able to make batman a reality someone will also make The Joker a reality.
Also, Koreans can flip to the extreme opposite corner sometimes.
Not stuck, empowered
Founder came from Bank Simple, not Stripe. (I'm pretty sure you knew that already and made a simple mistake, but I wanted to clarify for others who may comment.)
Hilarious.

To me the similarity to evolutional processes is striking. I mean, didn't biological evolution also give rise to sometimes bizarr creatures? They somehow coevolved with the other inhabitants in their niche.

Still they live their (sometimes not so) happy lifes.

What a weird world this is.
The reality is we still don't have good definitions for these objects.

> They can't, as one of the defining characteristics of a planet is having enough mass to be rounded under it's own gravity.

The problem here is that "rounded" simply means "roughly spheroid". It's an imprecise term with no rules governing how far from a sphere the objects can deviate and still be considered planets or dwarf planets.

> Dwarf planets have no such restriction.

It is that restriction that separates dwarf planets from large asteroids.

The distinction between planet and dwarf planet has to do with whether or not the object has cleared its orbit of other debris.
I understand.

Have you done this during interviews with applicants? Have you received feedback from applicants?
One former employer tested prospective hires by handing them a print-out of a script, nothing too fancy, just some shell script, and ask them to explain what the script did and if there were any errors.

If one can read the language, and know what it does, the errors are pretty obvious. If the prospect doesn't know it, they're not able to talk to it, and the bullshit meter goes off pretty quick if they try faking it.
I just realized I botched the link. Corrected: http://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Digital-Weight-Bathroom-Scale...

Shows most recent verified purchases.
Can you please explain why that is a joke? (I am assuming you are saying the LE verification isn't secure)
You could write the exact same post about any random IndieGogo scam. This kind of interchangeability is a common feature of comments who make no attempt at all of discussing the subject matter at hand.

You can not exactly discuss uBeam when ignoring the entire body of work done on the feasibility of the concept.
I have used nitrokeys and FST-01, the FST-01 beats the nitrokey in speed and in freedom, i currently use two of them, one with rsa 4096 and one with 25519 (for decryption you need libgcrypt 1.7). The nitrokey beats the FST-01 in the case, it's by default more weareable without need to make your own one.

It seems there is a big plus when you use a board made by the person who makes gnuk which is the same person who makes the smartcard gnupg code.
No. Your lens is the collection surface area.

Trivia: According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Solar_constant
The sun puts out approximately 1.361 kW/m²
A nefarious, diabolically clever government wants to compromise this device and then telegraphs that intent to the world by forcing the software to go closed source - that is absolutely an irrational and silly conspiracy theory. To believe that you have to believe that the government is both nefarious, diabolically clever and cartoonishly inept.
Ah, I didn't see that comment.

What I thought was "odd" was reacting to community feedback that OS involvement was so prized by closing the issue (and therefore discussion) without explaining why this decision was made.

Perhaps more seriously concerning is that it took people rooting through the code and issues to discover that this was the case.

Many would say that security companies have something of a duty to be open-source; I think they at least ought to announce that they've deprecated the open-source versions of their code!
The lens wouldn't be "somewhere near the earth".
No you can't, because you're increasing the surface are of the collector so the 1.366kWh / square meter still stands.

From Wikipedia:

Average annual solar radiation arriving at the top of the Earth's atmosphere is roughly 1366 W/m2. The Sun's rays are attenuated as they pass through the Atmosphere, leaving maximum normal surface irradiance at approximately 1000 W /m2 at sea level on a clear day.[1]

Therefore it is impossible to get more than about 1kW / m2 from any solar panel. Until such times as something fairly fundamental changes, like a loss of atmosphere or an increase in energy output from the sun.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolation
People are already different in terms of capabilities. Yet they are equals in terms of rights, and there is no reason that should change, even with this kind of things.
Trolling is a nart.