skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But for a home storage server, ECC is no more critical than buying a UPS, shielded SATA cables, enterprise-grade drives, a high quality power supply, etc. etc. Together these upgrades will easily double the cost of the storage server. Since you'll want an off-site backup solution anyway in case of disaster, why bother paying for an expensive server that only reduces the chance of needing to restore from backup from 0.001% to 0.00001%?

Flipping it around: what's the point of backing up to a remote server if the data you're backing up is itself corrupted?

I don't think most of the upgrades you mentioned are really in the same bucket as ECC DRAM because only the ECC DRAM seems likely to prevent data corruption. Failing drives and cables and power loss, even failures that corrupt data, should be survivable events assuming drive redundancy, particularly given a filesystem like ZFS that will detect and repair the corruption.
I'll have to fix it after my vacation. There's now a conflict. I didn't see it because I'm subscribed to too many github repos.
Donor information is filed publicly with the FEC. These spreadsheets may include some additional information, such as e-mail addresses or donor gifts, but for the most part you can search the DNC's filings to see who has donated and how much they've donated.
Thanks for the write-up!
Am I reading this right. I could HIRE a container ship for $5500 a day? A whole ship! Does not seem right to me, crew costs would have to be more than that.

> Indeed, according to Alphaliner, there are about 40 panamax container vessels currently seeking employment on the spot market against an unfavourable backdrop of oversupply. It said that charter rates remained “stuck at rock-bottom levels” – typically at about just $5,000-$5,500 a day
Ha-ha
I think most news are just gratuitous verboseness, so I upvoted you.

However I still want an app that extracts only quotations and numerical information from the news and presents it on a table with a headline.
It's very possible the supposed hacker is a Clinton supporter and/or Trump opposer and when deciding which documents to publish they naturally tended toward documents which make Clinton look good and/or make Trump look bad.
Yes, I know that feeling too. =)

I get bored too. As soon as I know enough to start my own small project I do it. Even if it's not something I could ever put on the Internet, it is enough that it makes me interested again in understanding what I am learning.
Doesn't have to happen. If central banks would start targeting nominal GDP level, we would have bubbles bursting without economy wide recessions.

See eg http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/10/monetary...
I read the convincing CrowdStrike detailed and technical description of how the DNC server got hacked. CrowdStrike saw the tracks of two known Russian groups.

The published documents to me look real. The SECRET document from the State Department had the obviously secret item that the USA will not nuke terrorist training camps nor hideouts in Pakistan. Official US policy is that all tools are on the table.

Question is how did the SECRET document get on to the DNC server?

Regarding Guccifer 2.0, I believe this is Russia's obfuscation of their release of these damaging documents. They want to help Trump, but must not admit it for fear that Obama takes action now, Hillary takes action if she is elected, or even if Trump wins - Russians helping him might actually hurt him given the foreign interference in USA elections.
Serverless Architectures by Martin Fowler
Samsung is much more diversified than Nokia. They are a different beast than Apple Google msft. They are more like GE.
One of my favorite books as well. Every time I've gotten to the ending (especially the part where they discover the massive sculpture through trillions of universes) my mind is blown and I end up sitting and thinking about it for hours.

I have a similar reaction to Egan's Permutation City when the couple living in the simulation adjust the clock rate so the computer running them only executes one clock tick every second, every day, every year, every million years, every billion years, every trillion years, etc. Puts me in a contemplative mood.
No, he meant "sudo"

https://xkcd.com/149/

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/149
It reverts to a bus lock in this split transaction case, not cache line locking (thus stalling whole system).
WTF. The truck had a bicycle in it when stolen, and was returned empty.
Ask HN: What good books have you read in 2016?
Share the books, podcasts, videos or resources you interested in this month.
Know only 10 things to be dangerous in OpenSCAD (2013)
Everyone you know in infosec is also probably not highly motivated to work around politics. Those that do will be trying to work either directly for a campaign, or the DNC, or companies like NGP VAN, the largest tech contractor for Democratic campaigns. Those people are motivated to do their jobs well so their candidate/party will win.

That said, the CIA & NSA probably owned them all up well before, and whomever has them in their pocket will have an upper hand as well. It's not like blackhats and foreign states are the only interested parties.
I have a feeling those are BYOC - bring your own crew.
This is not as good as it sounds. First these are inexperienced devs that will not have a chance to work with other developers and learn things.

Secondly, this is then financed with their own money :)?!

I think they do this so they place all this graduates somewhere and give them some work, instead of finding them promised well paid jobs.

If I sound negative, I am losing faith in ability of these schools to produce quality.
Guccifer 2.0 is a psyop pumped by the DNC
> How does a house gain value?

To be more mathematical, your property is the house plus the land under it.

People will not pay more for the house than replacement value. If you keep it in good order, you can keep that value up.

The land can't be `replaced'. So for pricing we look at the whole future income stream discounted to today's dollars at some appropriate interest rates.

That income stream is, yes, basically what other people are willing to pay to use that piece of land.

What people can afford to pay for rent is basically what's left over after they paid other things. You can see it as an auction. That's why land values in silicon valley are so high. (Exacerbated by the fact that local regulation there makes it almost impossible to substitute capital for land, ie you can't build up.)
> but state sponsored is a
> huge stretch

Why?
One of the suggestions is to make sure your public key has the .pub extension, and they imply that if someone didn't include the extension they would be reprimanded - any reason for this in particular?
Ask HN: Books of Problem Sets
Hi all,

Considering going through some MOOC's to brush up on and learn some new math. One thing I'm looking for are books containing tons of problem sets so I can practice (maybe ones with answers in the back). Are textbooks my only option here?
Android Development Best Practices
sillysaurus3,

Thanks for the comments and advice. I like the idea of the landing page being the current day. However, I want to use the pop up to give the option of emailing the article and to give a bit of info about the article before going to the content.

I certainly want to incorporate filters.

Thanks again
Yes, that's where the energy for gravitational waves comes from. In fact, if you check the original LIGO paper, that black hole merger lost something like 3 solar masses of energy.
As far as I know, all of the Humble Bundles offer PDF, MOBI, and EPUB format. (DRM-free, of course.) The PDFs are all fully-formatted pages, the way the publisher intended.

One of the reasons I buy these. PDFs rock.
I remember using a StartSSL certificate. It wasn't linked to an account or anything sane, but instead installed a certificate in the browser which it used in place of login details. I happened to do this on my phone, which did not offer any way to access or export this certificate. When that phone died, my account was lost.

I'd warn against using anything from StartSSL, but I don't think anyone is going to in the first place.
Open news
So utilitarian... you know that "self defense" covers scenarios that involve more than one aggressor right? Are you proposing a more democratic form of self defense, where the mob is effectively always right? That is ignoring the moral dimension of the problem; from a purely practical perspective you can be outvoted in your self defense.
Still, it's got to beat those stupid luxury yachts.
I created this app using NYTimes API and the Guardian API. Select a calendar day and then search for news published that day. Still some design problems. For example, the calendar shows days in the future for which there is no news content.

But I got the email service to work, so when you click on an article, you can enter an address and send the article info, including link.

Appreciate some feedback.
Interactive Python coding challenges
Microsoft: Checked C
If an employer is asking me to opt out, they have already started off on the wrong foot with me, in which case I'm very pleased to have legal protections.
Thanks to This Startup, Mongolia’s Nomads Can Finally Get Their Mail
Minus all the fancy amenities
I very much doubt that a hacker hired by the Russian government would go and create a WordPress and dump documents.
ISRO Challenges Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
Hi @Arathorn, the battery drain of that experimental build is certainly noticeable, but not disastrous. In 18 hours on a new Nexus 6p, it's drained the battery 30%. Conversations.IM by comparison had only drained 1%. The next biggest battery drain on that device to Vector, had only taken 3%. I think it's still viable enough for an early release to FDroid for the time being, but with a warning. The fact that you can also turn its background sync on or off, means it's quite fine for the casual reading use case, without notifications one.
It's just amusing, that's all.

Prediction for the future:

1. Google implements auto-complete for one-line textareas

2. Web developers create textareas with 2 lines but hide the bottom line with CSS and disable the return key

3. Something so diabolical even I can't think of it
I want to ride that adorable little boat around all day.
Almost certainly referring to Discord, as Discourse doesn't have chat. Not that people haven't asked us to build it, but I think a good Slack integration is a far better choice, plus Slack is free (in terms of hosting costs, and ease of starting with just 2 or 3 people) in a way that is highly complimentary to what Discourse does.

I like to think of Discourse as the "long term memories" in Pixar's Inside Out. You ship stuff there as you need to. A mixture of mostly short term and sometimes long term memories is a sane and manageable arrangement for most humans.
Musings from 3 Months in Japan
ah, thanks. I look forward to smarter folks than me elucidating the nuanced differences.

I had a distinguished math professor who taught me that mathematics is the application of cheap tricks and bad jokes. He didn't take himself too seriously. When I learned about random forests I couldn't help having a good laugh, it's a cheap trick in the finest sense of the word.
I dunno, I can fit a lot of amenities in 5,000 teu...
> What are the implications of this on black hole entropy and temperature? Can black holes evaporate from gravitational radiation alone without Hawkins radiation?

No, gravitational waves are only generated when you have large masses moving. When two black holes merge, they become a single spinning mass which then becomes uniform very quickly. Once the mass is uniform, it doesn't generate gravitational waves from rotation.

I have yet to study cosmology (I did some research in astroseismology), so I can't answer general cosmology questions.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912615 and marked it off-topic.
Annotation to markup formats for suppressing errors from a proofreading tool
Its ancient now, but I built exactly this using Ruby and an LLVM wrapper.

https://github.com/jvoorhis/siren

I wouldn't expect this to run on the latest LLVM without a little hand holding (the most painful part was porting it to run on x86_64 after developing it on my white MacBook!) But it worked rather well and was a fun platform for experimenting with composition, synthesis and compilers!
These studies are nonsense. Please keep this stuff out of HN.
at best your customers won't care about the donations. they'll spread your app if it meets their needs, but not to give charity by proxy. at worst, they'll think you're lying. but i think your app looks very polished from the website.
The naming similarity is unfortunate, but they are both great English words that more or less accurately describe the respective products...
I am very glad that he referenced it, that talk was amazing and needs to be duplicated/replicated/spread 10x over.
> That's the online equivalent of bombing a church. Assholes.

Well that does align with ISIL modus operandi.
Wouldn't that be a good way to make it look like there wasn't Russian government involvement, then?
Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816
You could just visit them in a desktop and regenerate the certificate?
No mention of Intel, IOActive, Matasano, Rapid7, FireEye, CheckPoint, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Labs, UCF, JHU, APL, MITRE, and of course, NSA?

Sure, the ones you mentioned have the biggest paychecks. But they won't give you indemnity and extended resources to find weaknesses in critical infrastructure. Some people like breaking bigger toys.
aaaaand nobody cares
Saying human created DNA sequences shouldn't be copyrighted is like saying novels shouldn't be copyrighted because they use the words.

In the US at least, case law states that we can't patent natural genes, which is great. However, scientists are entitled to protections for their novel work.

CRISPR is no different from any other biologic in terms of patents, and in the long run, 20 years of protection is a drop in the bucket. Hell, by the time they figure out this CRISPR fiasco, it'll be close to out of patent.
even docked in a harbor, it would be a great novelty corporate event location. And cheaper than many other options.

Though I assume docking fees would be above the $5500 a day.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912460 and marked it off-topic.
i'm a bit sad because whenever i talk to someone who went in and out the US they claim to not have had issues with the tsa. it may well be a clustered problem that mostly doesnt appear but since people are sheep i guess they just go with the hassle, don't care and then say "nah, no problems.".

my proposal: don't change a damn thing about the tsa. but introduce a tsa-free line with simple metal detectors. no molesting, no cancer-inducing machinery.

sheep could be free again.
Slice and dice how you like. Your implication that "more guns" == "less crime" is, at best, unproven, and your citation of incorrect trends doesn't change that. Conversely, the rest of the large, highly industrialized, developed nations with liberal democracies have tight gun control laws and homicide rates a fraction of the US's.

Also, I have no idea what your "porn is to rape as guns are to murder" comparison attempts to illustrate. I don't know how to point porn at someone and..well, that's as far as that needs to go. As syllogisms go, that's pretty damned broken.
Posted on the previous HN post, uses chkconfig in the install script so basically RHEL flavours only despite saying x64 - couldn't be bothered after that
> How did you find this?

I found it extremely amazing as well! :p
The first one is not one property, but two pages of results with a wide range of different properties. I don't know which one you are getting first - the one I'm getting first does not match your description.

The second one is a one bedroom flat. The last picture is the bedroom, at the back of the house. I live down the road from that row of flats. They're not fantastic, but they're proper 1 bedroom flats of perfectly adequate quality.

> Both are in Croydon, so you get all the downsides of living in London, with virtually none of the upsides.

From that flat it'd take ~25 minutes to be at London Victoria. ~25-30 minutes to be at London Bridge. ~20 minutes to Clapham Junction. Having lived about as centrally as you can in London, yes, it takes you longer to get "to the centre". But if you are going somewhere specific, it's not at all given that you won't get there in the same amount of time.

> Neither property is remotely commensurate with a young professional earning £50k.

In London, they can choose between something like that, and have money to save and invest for the future, or they can spend all their money now, and screw themselves over. A "young professional" who can't deal with living like that for a few years does not have any sympathy from me - they are spoiled.
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Ok, we changed the title to a representative sentence from the article.
Thank you so much for taking the time to give a level-headed response to GP. While many seem to disapprove of their tone, I actually found GP's questions to be rather good ones, and was wondering the same things myself. And as I keep reading, rather than the usual name-calling I've come to expect from Web fora, I see nothing but very good, detailed answers in reply. Thank you for that.
Seems like a stretch of a joke.
Alright, someone who knows more about this topic tell me the catch to this.
The temptation to say "Toot toot!" and giggle like and idiot would be very strong.
Running you're own mail server is not a good idea if you hope to avoid ending up in spam folders.
IMF: The Internet of Trust
Excessive consumption of cannabis is probably not good for your health. Like alcohol. Or sugar, coffee, social media, or watching TV. Granted, people probably have different opinions on the definition of "excessive" in each of these cases.

Taken occasionally for recreation it becomes just another form of entertainment, and the health and societal impact is probably similar to alcohol or coffee.

Calling cannabis a "public evil" seems a bit over the top. There are plenty of other pastimes with potential health and societal risks that outweigh occasional use of cannabis. Should we stigmatise every activity that isn't work, exercise or healthy eating?

I think adults should be given room to make informed choices about their recreational activities without being judged, as long as their choices don't negatively impact others.
They wrote most of the laws they leveraged. When the OECD or other institution convinced the country they manipulated to revert their laws, they simply moved their clients to the next island country, got the same laws passed and often negotiated being the sole incorporation service (see their business in Nieu)

There was a time when I would have noticed what you did, and left it at that, but this is deeper
He made a hybrid with a Stirling engine, hence the 200-year-old technology part of the clickbaity headline. It looks fascinating. Unfortunately, the article is almost completely number and depth free.
I love a good ansible horror story. That said, why you delete the directory recursively? Why not just push the intended state and be done with it. This could happen with any configuration tool if you do a recursive delete. If you have some files you don't want just have a task that says you don't want the file to be there. Full disclosure I love ansible and use it all the time
Without knowing the test conditions, torque and other performance results, the lone number of fuel milage is worthless. Stirling engines are usually big, heavy suckers, better for fixed installation than vehicles.
The Rust team is indeed aware of this paper, and it was discussed extensively in the community last year. See

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rfc-and-paper-experiences-buil...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3nauhy/experiences_bu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3nbt2d/ownership_is_t...
It loads from the cache in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, and Edge for me.
Intrigued to see where this goes. It would be great if you could post status of the companies funded every 6 months or so.
Presumably the big different is that 200 years ago you did not have decent batteries and electric motors.
That book -- I tried reading it. It's ... well, hard to stay focused. Ended up just now getting "Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course," its student manual companion, in the hopes that I'll be able to follow both easier than just one alone. :)
I've bought them, can confirm the PDFs are print quality. Haven't checked the .epubs or .mobis yet but based on their file sizes they contain high-res images.
This is certainly something to consider, and for robots or exoskeletons the power density would make for a pretty compelling solution. I'd be curious to try out its low RPM torque, that was always a challenge on the RX-7, starting in first gear you spun up the engine to 2 - 3K RPM before you let the clutch out.
sure makes me glad all that (and so much more) happens in the first negative 10 minutes on any server I deploy.

If you are doing this after your server has launched you are doing it wrong.
ok, whatever you say boss hog
Oops! I found a different video that shows three spark plugs. I'm not sure what was going on with the first video I watched.
That was a lovely bed-time story. Unfortunately, that's all it was.
This recycling feature boosts the engine's efficiency to a whopping 50 percent. For comparison, a standard internal combustion engine operates only at 14 percent efficiency.

I don't know what a "standard internal combustion engine" is, but 14% is absurdly low. Maybe a Ford Model T would be around there? A glance at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_fuel_consumption_(sha...

shows efficiencies of ~30% for typical gasoline engines of the automotive type (which agrees with what I remember when I studied this stuff), and closer to 50% for large two-stroke diesels.
Not to mention with all the mpg test fraud going around these days.
please don't.. provision once and snapshot, and deploy the snapshot
BCrypt is apparently just fine in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11120528.
Japan student held for making Puzzle and Dragons hack
The source article is much better: http://www.khou.com/features/san-antonino-man-has-engine-tha...

The DigitalTrends rewrite omits a lot of details and doesn't add anything.
Microg is not an option as it requires signature spoofing, which requires security to broken in various ways. Forces rooting the device or running Xposed, or applying dodgy kernel hacks and prevents using verified boot, which is a sensible security requirement.

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...
The challenge with that comment from 2012, is that the go cart video from 2016 is pretty noisy. Easily 90 to 100db from the sound on the video. https://vimeo.com/170502635
Google did nothing of the sort. They opened only a single feature of chrome to this kind of inspection.

Do you have any idea what kind of data google collects from Android users and stores as part of their profile?

I thought not.
Exact strategy of Republicans, but differing statistics. Form a polarizing ideology of economic claptrap and a combination of phony religiousty and racism. Hone polarizing features. Find it suckers about 35% of the population. Much higher hit rate than the Nigerian scam but same principle.

The 35% is a big problem. So combine it with a tax structure that favors any non-employee and high wage employees. Hope for a majority,
I personally don't think Yahoo did anything much to Tumblr. Before the acquisition, Tumblr as running out of money and needed to either raise more, or get acquired. They hadn't generated much revenue or profit before that.

Tumblr's failure to generate revenue was its own. And the only person responsible for its flailing product and declining growth is its CEO David Karp, who has been leading since the beginning.