skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in the opposite situation and I couldn't disagree more. But I will say this, it's always possible to take an RDBMS model and de-normalize it and use it like a NoSQL database (like reddit does, for example) but it's not possible to go the other way.
amazing story, dude!
The US military has many use cases for GPS far beyond weapon guidance and navigation. Many of these use cases cannot be served by INS and are both high value and done primarily in peace time i.e. the loss of the GPS constellation in a war won't affect the military utility of having the GPS constellation generally. Spoofing these use cases is still a giant nuisance.

There are a couple things that people forget about US military INS:

US military INS actually operates as a giant swarm of INS computers with other sensor inputs that compare notes -- wisdom of crowds -- to correct accuracy. If one INS computer drifts too much, the other INS computers will notice and correct it. Even without the swarm, many larger military systems will have multiple INS computers distributed throughout the platform that can compare notes.

The US military has been at the forefront of inventing exotic INS technology since the 1960s, and the details of their INS capabilities are a closely guarded secret. It is used ubiquitously in almost every combat system they produce. What is known is that even in the 1990s the accuracy of INS significantly exceeded design requirements, and there are current military research programs that suggest they know how to build INS that exceeds current GPS accuracy over long temporal baselines.

Given that they already have a GPS constellation that they use for a wide variety of other cases, GPS-corrected INS guidance is a very cheap way to squeeze some additional precision out of weapons that were already pretty precise in the first place. It allows them to build a dirt cheap and reliable guidance package that is also highly precise in environments where GPS spoofing is not a credible problem. Remember, these particular guidance packages tend to be modular and swappable: use the cheap stuff that leans on GPS more for low tech enemies, use more sophisticated and expensive INS for the high tech enemies.
nc -vv -l 27017 > /dev/null

That and some round robin dns entries should be good enough for prod use, yeah?

('course it's not webscale ready till it's deploayble as a docker container which contains critical nodejs code with a dependancy on leftpad.js...)
Satellite warfare adaptability simulation?
It is only useful if you don't publish open source software.a new, underfunded open source project is not the best place to find top-notch security. All the code is published so there is no obscurity, either. It takes a long time for security to be worked out, and in the meantime, systems can be compromised by dedicated hackers.
I meant people working directly or indirectly for the government.
> This will be highly subjective but you need to get over the "postgresql has the longest feature list so why don't you use it".

I think if you re-read it, you might see that at no point did the post that you're replying to imply that Postgres was preferred because it had a longer list of features. They're speaking entirely about the strong guarantees that an ACID system gets you.

Document stores are only mentioned because this is one of the (incorrectly) perceived advantages that Mongo has over Postgres and other databases.
Traditional transponders aren't going away and they would still work with secondary radar.
"just last month I found MySQL, heck even SQLite supports triggers with code inlined into the trigger body but PostgreSQL mandates writing a separate function for the trigger"

The right response, as a postgres developer, is to agree that you describe a useful feature, and perhaps implement it to help other users.

But my advice to you is to be willing to put up with some short-term annoyances. Sometimes the best choices are a little annoying, and if you refuse to consider them, it will cost you (or your employer) much more later.
Yeah I've seen the instructions online for building your own flow hood, that whole subculture is pretty nuts. If you haven't read Hamilton Morris's story about the guy who created the Penis Envy psilocybe strain, it's pretty interesting both because of the content but also because it involves a lot of folks you probably know or at least know of if you're into the amateur mycology thing.

http://harpers.org/archive/2013/07/blood-spore/
I was about to say, "not that many apps, all I can think of is Atom and VS Code", but I was surprised by the size of this list: http://electron.atom.io/apps/

I've never used it, but it sounds potentially great for people who do a lot of web development. It's a frictionless way for them to share code and other assets between native(isher) desktop apps and web projects. For web developers who don't do desktop development at all, it's also a relatively frictionless way to ship a desktop app.

If you don't need a cross-platform UI toolkit, and/or don't need to (or want to) use web technologies in a desktop app, it wouldn't be a net positive. Obviously there are downsides in terms of performance and not having a native UI. The upsides depend on your requirements, which range from 0 to >= the downsides.
There is little doubt these bags are dangerous and pose a known threat to passenger safety. But to call these car bombs is irresponsible. They are not purposely armed with the intent to inflict damage to people. Yes, they have design flaws which have resulted in deadly injuries. But while technically these are explosives to aid in deploying the safety mechanism, they are not bombs as most people understand things.

This is as unjust as calling people who get arrested "disappeared" with all the connotations that word has (i.e. secret summary executions). This has the same approach, a bombastic approach to headline writing. For shame!
there are plenty of arab-jewish businesses. in israel, though. arabs are pretty prominent in israeli STEM and medicine
Most of the grain and corn is used to feed livestock. So if you just turned those corn/grain fields into grazing land you wouldn't need the combine(as cool as it is.)
If you study the backend JavaScript ecosystem you'll see no Rails-like all-in-one framework has ever succeeded. They're just not part of the culture. The only Rails-like thing in the JS ecosystem that's popular and great is Ember but that's only frontend.
> " We showed specifically that we can identify 5% to 15% of cases, while preserving extremely low false-positive rates (0.00001 to 0.0001)."

Back several years ago Google Flu Trend also claimed to have 97% accuracy compared to CDC data. But later on it just found to be way off to the real data. Did the author compare their study to the Google Trend.

Also it's not clear how they achieve the conclusion of low FP. Did they randomize their sample pool and run their predictability model several round?
It's great on HN when people present things they've made for others to play with, and it's fine for such things to be toys, learning projects, and so on. Some of us are decades out from "learning javascript/programming/graphics for the first time" and still take pleasure in seeing projects like this.

What's not ok is to grouse about it. If you know more than others, share some of what you know. Superciliousness is a degrading spirit, and if you don't want to see HN degrade, that's the kind of thing you should help us cut back on.
Self-employed jobs are still jobs.
Clippy? Remember Clippy? "Hi, it looks like you're trying to write a letter."
That does not equal a "monopoly" anymore than the sole coffee shop in a small town is a monopoly. When we make these equivalences, words lose their meanings.
University of Calgary paid $20K in ransomware attack
It's fun when people share their work in a way others can play with and give feedback on. This is a classic Show HN—it's fine for such projects to be trinkets. Not everything, lord help us, must be an original contribution to computer science.

And the discussion upthread is superb, so this was an excellent post for HN in every way.
How much could I expect to harvest using this method. Does this translate to a signification reduction in cost?
I am a member of an informal dilettante multilingual poetry group here in China and have been asked to translate quite a few Chinese poems and even write some myself, as well as to read translated poems at performances. I feel this article doesn't really raise many interesting points, rather it glosses over the broadly accepted realities and imperfections of the translation of any subject, not just poetry.
Become an artist is not hard
A Queer History of Computing: Part Four (2013)
Can't one already run ad campaigns based on a users search history? What if a cancer foundation or similar organisation ran a targeted ad campaign?
These days all the cool kids use LPaaS on http://left-pad.io/, it scales much better than running leftpad on a local machine.
With the ease of services like AWS, we never installed a database server. Pick a database flavor, version, click, click and you're up. I suppose designing the schema take a little effort, but I find it much easier than properly architecting software.
Perhaps coincidentally, this from today's Wall St. Journal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11854989
Your comment reminded me of Banksy's recent short film (spoof advert) on Gaza: "Make this the year YOU discover a new destination"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2dShY8jIo
Interesting. That sounds expensive actually? $0.60US for 20 hours of gaming just for the machine? 60 and 38 cent kWh sounds extremely high. This was my last power bill. As you can see it might average out to $0.05/kWh once you add in the taxes and regulatory fines.

Tier 1 first 500 kWh at $0.018 per kWh (winter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9.00

Tier 2 next 25 kWh at $0.056 per kWh (winter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1.40

Regulatory Charges 525 kWh at $0.01414 per kWh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7.42

Community Benefit Charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2.91

Power Supply Adjustment 525 kWh at $0.02783 per kWh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14.61

Residential Sales Tax

Taxable Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$45.34

City Sales Tax 1% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$0.45

TOTAL CURRENT CHARGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$45.79
If they showed their hand, it'd just become a race to utter chaos. People would use the recipe for lousy sites. And then Google would have to redefine things over and over and over (this is allowable and that's not, and that's no longer allowable, except like this and that, except when this...

This slows down the evolution rate significantly. And gives them plausible deniability.
And if you use Tor, keep an eye on the drama that is going in that project now.
Perhaps Wells Fargo should finish implementing their website first. They’re missing basic services like letting you make a wire transfer online. Our company is in the middle of switching banks because dealing with them is such a hassle.
ComicSans.conf, or: fonts have settings too
> they should always go see their doctor

GPs often do not catch rare conditions or determine the underlying cause of milder symptoms.
Appelbaum's response:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1soorlp

Obviously this topic needs to be treated with extreme care, as assuming innocence would be just as damaging as assuming guilt.

Though it is rather interesting that Appelbaum would receive such similar accusations as Assange - especially given his history of gender advocacy and related activism.
> The rest of your points are true. Austin has done a good job of trying resist growth by not investing in infrastructure or transit. Then people come here anyway and getting around is a mess. Ridesharing is essential in Austin. The new ridesharing apps that have cropped up have not filled the void.

This isn't deliberate. Austin has experimented with a number of public transportation options. But whenever any plans are put up for a vote, it gets shot down as too expensive.

Also, the city isn't that dense (yet) for most common forms of effective public transportation, like subways. This might change in the future, but currently growth is not focused on Austin city proper (Travis County) but also many of the suburbs around it.
Bryan Cantrill is very passionate in the talk recorded in this video. Now I learned something about illumos.
Sounds like it. Take into account the impending fine, all the lawsuits in many countries, the family control of the firm... Takata at this point could well be worth nothing at all.
Yeah, the uncertainties about their future must weigh heavily on their value. If they fail to meet commitments set by the US they're liable for another 130mm in fines. That doesn't address the possibility of future lawsuits either.
Insurance companies would just love this data...
I'm not sure that this is a good way to demonstrate data mining skills. The survival rate for pancreatic cancer is abyssal:

> While five-year survival rates for pancreatic cancer are extremely low, early detection of the disease can prolong life in a very small percentage of cases. The study suggests that early screening can increase the five-year survival rate of pancreatic patients to 5 to 7 percent, from just 3 percent.

WP claims 20%[1] though a glance at the referenced source suggests that the WP summary is bogus.

So the only ones who benefit from this data mining would be health insurances who could get rid of people who'll incur very high treatment cost with low expectancy of success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer
That seems unlikely, since that transition happened multiple time along multiple pathways, and we observe that just on the single planet we know to have life.
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Please don't post nasty dismissive comments to HN, especially in response to new work.
"and we did not want to be in a position that we had exhausted the option to get people's potential life work back in the future if they came today and said, 'I'm encrypted, I can't get my files,'" said Dalgetty. "We did that solely so we could protect the quality and the nature of the information we generate at the university."

Maybe your dumb asses should protect things by having offline backups instead?
One or two bedroom apartments don't decrease the value of single family homes.

More jobs and more population density increases the overall value of a city. New grads and singles moving into a city need a place to live, and rental units provide it.

Think about it this way - if you demolished all the apartment buildings in San Francisco or New York, would the value of single family homes go up or down? Would brownstones in New York be worth more if there were no apartment buildings Harlem or Queens? If you walled off and burned down the Tenderloin and Point Richmond, would that mean that houses in the sunset would be worth more? I doubt it, since the city overall would be a less desirable place to live with fewer opportunities to work, and lower density means that fewer bars, restaurants, retail establishments, museums etc.. could be supported.
Even if your Uber/Lyft driver is new to the area and knows very little of the language or local area, the app tells them where to go and makes sure they're taking you on an efficient route. If anything, it makes recent immigrant/ESL drivers more appealing.
Instead of using this cnc-like machine with tracks and stuff like that, wouldn't it be more cheap and simple to use a radial design like many large crop fields already use? It might remove the weed pulling feature in early iterations, but it seems much easier for just watering/nutrition.
That's one option.

However the issue with that is if you have multiple environments (e.g. three test environments, staging and production) and you want to have the code in a state of continuous deployment, then you use your branch for your feature, merge it in with this feature switch and when it gets to staging and you realise there's a bug, you can simply switch the feature off without it causing an issue rather than having to remove code from a merge.
A great longform article, one of the best indepth overviews of a company's culture and current controversies that I've read in awhile...and a pretty egregious controversy at that.
On the one hand, you can't see the piles of human feces[1]. On the other hand, you can't see the piles of human feces. Decisions, decisions...

[1] http://sfist.com/2015/01/15/lets_stop_talking_shit_about_sfs...
OP here. This is part 4 of a 5 part series I stumbled across exploring Queer figures in the history of computer science. Parts 3, 4 and 5 are particularly interesting because they explore Queer history within CS beyond just Turing and Wittgenstein (discussed in parts 1 & 2).

Landin is a particularly interesting figure to study - he's one of the fathers of functional programming and the author of the much beloved paper "The next 700 programming languages" [1] where he coined the term "syntactic sugar"

[1] http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/iswim/next700.pdf
I wonder if it affected his mood at all. I mean is the heart pumping of anxiety or anger a symptom or part of a feedback loop?
> Most people don't know civil forfeiture

Most people don't care about X (civil forfeiture, whistleblowers, Controversial invocations of the Patriot Act, etc.)

> Pay more attention to the election and government processes.

Yes but this completely ignores the fact that most Americans are apathetic to these issues.

What I learned this year was that (as another poster put it) "Gerrymandering, fraud, bribery, voter suppression" were visible, they would also be tolerated.

Also, if you're under investigation by the FBI for espionage, most Americans will STILL vote for you. And the other major half will vote for someone who is clearly racist and (imho) dumb as nails.
China's VR industry is white hot, but it could be headed towards a wall
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Schools district boundaries are distinct from municipal boundaries in California because school districts are separate from municipalities. A school district need not fall within a single county either. Often, you'll hear mayoral candidates campaigning in a platform of fixing schools; they are either misinformed or disingenuous, mayors in California have no official influence on schools.
How does that work?

If you need to preserve data between the application versions then you still get all the headaches with MongoDb (either migrating the data or supporting multiple schema versions when you read the data, oh the fun!).

If you don't need to preserve data between the versions then you don't need to write migrations scripts in SQL, just scrape everything and pretend it's the first version of application.
Electron based app takes way too long to start up. Yes, I like visual studio code etc. But I hate its startup time so for quick changes I just use sublime text or vim.
I do not believe that drone crashing was am accident, wasn't there already a release of info showing that is how stuxnet was originally released?
The insight gleaned into user health from this is phenomenal, the question is how does a search engine provide helpful feedback in a non alarming (with all the interpretations of that) manner in order to help the user seek professional help in a purely disinterested way (healthful with well being in mind rather than commercial interest, even if incidental).
As an aside: I do not like the idea behind the Hemingway app. Editing prose is not the same as debugging code. Removing adverbs will not make you a good writer. And the whole idea of having some bot making automated comments on my text as I write it sounds distracting at best.

If you want to write better, write more. And let people read your writing. Hear what they have to say. Style handbooks like "Writing with Style" or "The Elements of Style" are great, but you should attempt to understand the reasons they behind their recommendations, not just use them as a mindless checklist.

Craft your own voice.
http://i.imgur.com/k7CQTim.png

Seems fine to me? ;)

(hit start, start searching for something, gear on the left.)
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> Usually React+Redux project min + gz will come in around 200-300KB for a relatively simple app... If you go with preact, and are really judicious in what you bring in, you can hit half that.

What stuff are you bringing in? Preact is 3kb, Redux + bindings for Preact probably bring it around 10kb or less (compressed). Unless you mean images and stuff.
The article mentions Honda's efforts to track down owners of cars with defective airbags. Why can't state motor vehicle registries cooperate in recalls like this?
"It has nothing to do with efficiency of operation."

To nit-pick, I think normalisation improves the efficiency of updates, as you only have to modify the one place where the piece of data lies.
Thanks for the heads up guys!

We spent a good amount of time compressing our blocking bundle size (html, JS, CSS), which actually is JS for the entire app, not just that page. Certainly have more work to do, but given the amount of code, our JS/CSS is pretty low.

I just compressed the large image and it dropped to ~430KB.

Meanwhile, the other large asset is the animated GIF, which I suppose we could switch to a looping webm/mp4. Was hard to reduce the GIF further and keep the same quality...

Where's Pied Piper when you need them?
Sorry, I guess I should clarify. Who would be behind this plan, and what votes would they be looking to suppress?
Google has some fairly specific style guides for all languages used: https://github.com/google/styleguide/blob/gh-pages/README.md

Go to me feels like they implemented the Google Java and C++ style guides as a language.
I remember hearing about the 1990 BOC single handed Round The World Race - where the competitors all noticed the CEP on their GPSes dropping way down, indicating SA had been switched off - and being amongst the first civilians to have noticed the Gulf War had started...
Depending where you live and draw energy from it could very well be 90%+ renewable energy (such as a few European countries and most of Ontario/Quebec from hydro).

The IEA/OCED world energy production sources for 2015 [1]J:

41.3% Coal
21.7% Natural gas
16.3% Hydro
10.6% Nuclear
5.7% Other
4.4% Oil

And given the improvements in batteries and solar these numbers will continue to shift away from coal.

Additionally, you could also invest in a solar setup at your own house and Tesla is working on converting Supercharger stations to solar [2].

[1] http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication...

[2] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1096926_teslas-first-sol...
Reminds me of when I lived in southeast PA by Kennett Square, a town with a lot of mushroom farms. I was curious as to why they were in that area. Turns out you need hay and horse urine to grow mushrooms. That area has a lot of hay farms and a lot of horse farms.

Riding a bicycle by the farms when they were changing over a grow house on a humid summer morning is an olfactory experience I won't forget.
It isn't just a question of that one comment. Even so, the amount of name-calling and froth in there qualifies it for rant status in my book. YMMV of course.

I would hate to think that too, and we try our best to apply the rules evenly across political divides. Comments need to be civil and substantive; this one was neither, and our tolerance for someone breaking the guidelines goes down as the pattern of breaking them goes up. Users who feel that we misread their intention and genuinely want to post civil, substantive comments don't typically have a hard time persuading us to unban them.