skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60M is possibly double the population there ever was, and that was a time when far, far more land was devoted to them. The only way to have that many now would be an extremely concentrated population (with its methane output) plus all the other outputs of humanity.

There is no single answer about what we're "supposed to" do, but it is clear that cattle are driving the increase of methane production and that methane is a far, far more potent greenhouse gas than C02. A plant-based replacement wins hands-down in any ecological analysis.
(Sigh ... accidental down vote. And I wasn't even trying to click a vote arrow.)
Imagine waking up in a strange facility. There's a tray in front of you with a pill and a label that says "eat me."

In World A, the drug causes amnesia--after 12 hours, you'll fall asleep, and completely forget the preceding 12 hours.

In World B, the drug is a suicide pill--after 12 hours, you will fall asleep and die painlessly. However, just before you woke up, a "backup" was uploaded. And upon your death, this backup will be restored.

It seems to me that the subjective experience(s) in both cases would be the same. But we consider the latter "death" and the former "too much to drink."

(http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/is-forgotten-party-dea... got me thinking in these terms--it's by Robin Hanson, who is one of the examples from the article.)
You could spend 1B on the product and still have 25B for user acquisition. Microsoft already has an email list larger than LinkedIn.
Introducing mLab Private Environments
This is usually part of an introductory undergrad course in algebra. What you're looking for is called "ring theory".

Michael Artin's Algebra is a good, concrete book with tons of motivation and zero prerequisites. Wanna try it? ;)
Some further insight here:
https://www.inverse.com/article/15728-can-cryonics-save-the-...
[...] InMobi collected nearby basic service set identification addresses, which act as unique serial numbers for wireless access points. The company [...] then fed each BSSID into a "geocorder" database to infer the phone user's latitude and longitude

The author of this article might need a new technical advisor.
This is pretty cool, though I've seen similar utilities already (there are several active BBS groups on Facebook, and a few of us relatively old timers out there.

To me, a big part of the nostalgia of ANSI as it was through the 80's/90's was the skill it took to get something to look like anything with the block/shading characters, 16 foreground and 8 background colors. Even getting the color pallet right in modern apps is pretty off compared to original DOS, which was based on 252,252,252 being white, from there, the offsets are proper.

It's an interesting time we live in... UHD monitors, with more room than I could have imagined in front of me over 20 years ago, when 640x480 was typical, and 1024x768 was cutting edge... let alone a big color range.
The project is solid technically, but, IMHO, lacks performance compared to mainstream search engines, and suffers from very poor UX/design (too many knobs).

A few years ago, I did setup a node at home to help the network but gave up a few months later, the computations/network crawls being too intensive.
I have less of an issue with the analog headphone port being gone and more with it being replaced by a proprietary/closed format that nobody else but Apple uses.
A triumph of ignorance and fear-mongering.
This is rather surprising, and also not. On one hand, it makes sense that a European (see: Rich and believes in climate change) country wouldn't want to frack under their own soil (I'm not against fracking but I am also happy it is banned here in New York) but fracking can certainly be done safely effectively if the right regulations are in place and enforced.

The only reason we see so many bad cases of fracking effects like earthquakes and so on is because the states that allow fracking also don't bother to regulate it. So it's just a matter of extra cost and engineering, which can decrease that relative cost over time.

Besides, if anyone can engineer themselves out of a problem, it's the Germans.
> excel-like development environment

Not to be confused with the Space themed excel-simulator that is Eve Online.
Flame thrower. It's more reliable and cost-effective tech.
Generate reports from your django apps
Its great to see the regular updates om Eve now. I hope these posts get enough exposure as they used to get when Chris Granger posted them to hacker news himself
It's in TFA, 20 - 30 minutes, although they mention one with a hybrid engine that can use gasoline, presumably to recharge the battery.
It was not the first. It was after Allan Chumak made it to the TV. And after lots of other absurdity like teachings of Helena Roerich was thrown in to blow Soviet people's minds. Actually Kuryokhin was making fun of all of this, it's rather a parody than a genuine hoax.
A Quick Demo of Apache Beam with Docker
Ok. What I'm saying is that the ability to accept and relinquish an automated security deposit does not require a decentralized technology such as ethereum or even bitcoin.

A machine (like the one I linked above) can accept money and dispense money at the discretion of the business rules that determine the appropriate criteria for these operations (via car sensors or whatever).
I'm surprised Wittgenstein hasn't been mentioned here. He thought and wrote extensively about the foundation of mathematics. In fact, the write-ups of a series of his lectures features discussions between him and Turing (and other luminaries) about what maths is about (and W tends to come over stronger on the subject):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wittgensteins-Lectures-Foundations-...

It's great fun to read.
They already are tacked on to a budget bill. From TFA:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced the amendment as an add-on to the commerce, justice, and science appropriations bill earlier this week
BuiltWithMeteor Weekly: A vr education platform for electronic music and more
Is there any alternative to ssl and tls out there? Sshttp anyone?
Ugh, tcl. As an EE, I run into it everyday, and despise it. I really haven't given guile much thought, but if the vendors were to drop tcl for guile I would be in heaven.
Yes I can see how the moons and planets could be confusing. They have a bigger range of examples now and also the ui has changed a lot As well
Why exactly? It says that the company was inferring location based on nearby wireless networks. Does your quote not accurately reflect that?
Is Fabric an alternative to React? I am unable to understand what is this app for.
Belgium routinely gets convicted and fined for its incredibly poor treatment of prisoners. In fact, it's been convicted TWENTY TWO times for locking up mentally ill prisoners in regular (overcrowded) prisons without treatment.
Something like this?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CqhL-BDT8lg
For those who are curious, we explain a bit more how it works here:
http://blink.am/help
Social Media: People Still Use Pathetic Passwords
Arguably, if the situation is the one described, I'm not sure what "the best maintainer" is. :(

Changing name and leaving the old project eventually die or be subsumed by the fork (like egcs did with gcc) would have probably been a better choice.
Yea, I don't think even Heartbleed is a household name. Maybe among nerd households. I didn't even hear about Stagefright.
Let me try to explain with an example outside of mathematics:

All swans are white.

For centuries (possibly millennia, as Juvenal thought it, too), that was obvious (in western Europe) to anyone studying nature. Then, Willem de Vlamingh returns from a journey to Australia with some dead black swans.

Now, there are various options. Some of them are:

- You can drop your claim that all swans are white.
- You state these aren’t swans because they aren’t white.

Both have merit, but even if you choose the latter, it is hard to keep claiming that it is obvious that all swans are white.

This is somewhat similar. Smart men have studied numbers for centuries, and have thought hard about what it means to be a number. They came up with a set of properties and laws that they thought was necessary and sufficient for a set of objects to behave like numbers. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic was not in that list, as it was thought one could derive it from simpler laws, or, possibly, nobody even thought of doing that, as they thought it to be obvious (I do not know enough of the history of mathematics to know which is true)

Suddenly, somebody comes up with a set of objects that abides by those laws, but for that set, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic does _not_ hold.

Now, you can claim that set of objects isn’t a set of numbers, but you can no longer claim that the fundamental theorem of arithmetic is obvious.
Noted how you skipped the muslim ban completely in your response. We disagree. I guess I can't know if he really is racist or not, however it seems clear to me that racists identify with him and IMO he seems to pander to them.
Get a power strip and a electrical enclosure from the hardware store or you can get a replacement appliance cord+wall outlet+electrical box. Also get a outlet wiring tester to make sure you wired it correctly (eg: didn't get hot/neutral/ground mixed up)

Make sure to put a 10A fuse in series, use wire rated for 10A and pass the ground wire through.
After years of not launching new products that they have been working on such as an out door camera, security system and more, it seems under the reign of the ceo, they are going to come at it from a different direction of focusing on their core products and be more of a gateway to other products like Wink.

Seems more and more less likely they will ever support Homekit, so most likely all apple customers were slowly continue to move from the beautiful nest products. Really too bad that Nest is continuing to try to be a hub for all products rather than being just a product, even when Apple is clearly going to take over that space, as well as Google. Pretty bad that even Google didn't think their Nest should be the center of the home and instead building their own.
People don't want to read it, otherwise the front page of HN would be carpeted with astroturfed 5 star reviews of bad products. (See also: most Amazon reviews)
Yeah, I just keep forgetting to get one that's thin enough...
firefox has a plugin that works fine from what i've heard from the others. i still rely by default on totp for generic dual factor auth, since i can provide already working solutions from web to ssh authentication. however, yes for web applications, some clients went the u2f options, and the users overwhelmingly prefer it. since u2f is getting very quickly traction in products (case in point, gitlab) and the user experience is so simpler for a similar level of security, it'll probably become my go to in the near future.
Where have all the iOS games gone?
Wouldn't Mr. Kay say that it is education that builds the continuity of the entirety of human understanding? Greek philosophy and astronomy survived in the Muslim world and not in the European, though both possessed plenty of texts, because only the former had an education system that could bootstrap a mind to think in a way capable of understanding and adding to the data. Ultimately, every piece of data is reliant on each generation of humans equipping enough of their children with the mindset capable to use it intelligently.

The value of data is determined by the intelligence of those interpreting it, not those who recorded it.

Of course, this dynamic is sometimes positive. The Babylonians kept excellent astronomical records though apparently making little theoretical advance in understanding them. Greeks with an excellent grasp of geometry put that data to much better use very quickly. But if they had had to wait to gather the data themselves, one can imagine them waiting a long time.
Revenue based fines aren't necessarily always going to be fair because some companies focus on revenue more than others, and it's not fair to penalize them for that.

My guess as to why they lowered the fine is because the FTC doesn't want to appear as though they are deliberately bankrupting companies in efforts to simply make them go away. Things could get way too political at that point, and people could start trying to influence the FTC to bankrupt their competition.
Anyone see my pocket fish ?
Waiting for the reworded provision that excludes members of congress's personal machines in 5,4...
IP radar: get latency data and pingable IPs for any subnet on the Internet
https://xkcd.com/793/
Do you honestly think it was on the order of half a cent per, or close enough that this penalty has teeth?

Several months ago, Verizon was fined $1.3m for their UIDH "super cookies". That worked out to half a minute of their revenue for 2015 — for a program that had been in place since 2012. These penalties are meaningless. They're press release fodder for the company paying them, to be able to say to people, "Gosh, I guess we were naughty. We're really, really sorry. See how contrite we are? You can totally still trust us!"

The lawyer who negotiated that settlement for Vz probably got a bigger bonus than the fine the company paid.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11956304.
I am tried for charging all my devices and I am not keen to add another device to my charging list.

Floppy disk died due to better and more capacity substitute.

Bluetooth headset is an alternative to wired headphones.
That depends on having an SSH keypair. I just want a token for internal only projects.
Well, two answers to that.

The first is that the linked post answers a lot of points, but not the ones I made. It makes Dotty sounds really exciting, which it is. It makes it sound as if everybody working on Dotty believes it to be the future of Scala, and I believe that to be true, too. What it does not do (that I could see) is give reassurance that Dotty and Scala will not drift appart and become two similar but incompatible languages. I felt it'd be rude to point this out, since there really is no way to provide such guarantees (just like there really is no way for me to back up my worries with anything concrete).

The second part is, I'm not casting doubts, but expressing worries. I'm not saying it will happen, I fear it might. I'm sorry if this offends - I really am, my goal is not to insult anyone or demean anyone's work. I have no hidden agenda, and I'm not trying to be one of these anti-Scala trolls that sometime crop up. I love Scala. Look at my github profile, most of my public work is in Scala, and some of my libraries represent a lot of work (which obviously does not mean they're actually any good). I really, really hope everything works out the way people mean it to - as I said, Dotty sounds really exciting. I've seen too many "let's rewrite this from scratch and then make it backward compatible, it'll be amazing" projects to be able to believe it blindly, though.
I couldn't find your email. How should I contact you?
Autorotation doesn't involve the rotor rotating in reverse. It involves changing the pitch of the blades so that an upward airflow keeps them moving while they generate some lift.

It's like a wing in the sense that it resembles the operation of an autogyro, which has an unpowered rotary wing.
> some developers have dropped iOS and OSX as a legitimate platform, and develop for Android and/or Windows only.

Hopefully they enjoy it. Android-only contracting is a successful niche since it is much more difficult (it has gotten better but Android Studio/the Android community still lags Xcode/the iOS developer community) to develop a beautiful and functional app.
Ruby on Rails 5 RC2 released
Great write up. There needs to be more mobile development writeups like this, they aren't popular compared to, say, developing something functional in a backend language such as Go, Node or Python that HN seems to love.
Do you have any favorites or recommendations? I love iOS Dev weekly (https://iosdevweekly.com)
But... what if the DRM-encumbered digital jack has an officially authorized analog adapter? That doesn't fix the DRM problem, but it does allow for the same uses as before, particularly if it also supports mini-TOSLINK for S/PDIF. Note that since S/PDIF doesn't have a compatible DRM, it's possible it would be disabled even if a jack were still present.
Yes, you could use it for DRM audio, if we suddenly start seeing phones and corresponding headphones actually supporting it. That'd also be possible with existing headphone jacks.

It seems like baseless scaremongering to me. Especially since jackless phones could still potentially use analogue audio (USB-C sideband pins).
Rails 5.0.0.rc2
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It sounds like you are doing something serious enough that Let's Encrypt might not meet your needs in other ways. Pay up for a wildcard cert or refactor subdomains out of your architecture.
The article is full of excuses, like the ones you mention. But that's not the point, at all. The point is still copyright infringement and superstars somehow dictating what is and isn't acceptable.

Times change. People have cameras in their pockets. They use and abuse them pretty much 24/7. I agree that it's a dickish thing to do at a concert, but that's not the point entirely. That's a societal debate. Not one artist's decision.

Smoking has been banned in concert halls for nearly as long as I can remember. No one has ever searched people for cigarettes or forced them to put their tobacco in magical pouches. Unlike being a dick with your phone, smoking in enclosed spaces is all sorts of nasty (you know the drill, fire hazard, health hazard etc).

Depending on where you are, you might get fined. But no one cares enough to actually enforce that on any kind of regular basis. But somehow, for some reason, here we have a bunch of people who are apparently willing and able to force concert-goers to put their phones away. That smells like an industry agenda to me.
Does it matter? Penalties rarely line up to the profit made from illegal decisions. That's why we see stuff like financial fraud happening constantly. The cost savings/profits are in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, the penalties merely in millions.
In Wisconsin, a Backlash Against Using Data to Foretell Defendants’ Futures
Can we design sociotechnical systems that don’t suck
RPL1 and such are genes for ribosomal proteins. I'm talking about the genes that encode the ribosomal RNA subunits. These genes are used to infer the evolutionary relationships of the tree of life, so presumably they are shared across all known organisms, or else it would not be possible to infer a phylogenetic tree.
Even when correctly manufactured they do have crappy lifespans, relative to most other things they share the board with. I wouldn't count on most wet capacitors lasting more than 10 years, even when handled with kid gloves. I've got plenty of things running with capacitors well beyond that age, but they were demoted from production to testing or nice-to-haves.
I think everyone here agrees that this is a terrible correlation for people to make. Just because these tragedies occur does not mean that our liberty is no longer sacred. We need to figure out a way to translate that value to the average American - They need to understand what's really at stake and we have not done a good job explaining that.
> How can it be "not obviously illegal" if you're not checking. Side note, piracy is illegal in a lot of countries.

How could something be obvious if you have to check? Lots of stuff you can do in an appartment is illegal, too. That's still no reason for a landlord to install cameras to check. It's just none of their damn business.

It's obvious if a potential customer asks whether your service is good for warez hosting, or if a potential tenant ask whether your appartment is well-suited for getting rid of bodies. Anything where you have to violate their privacy in order to find out just is not obvious, and it's not your job to monitor people's private lives for possible illegal activity (and it is highly unethical to do so--it's what totalitarian regimes do, read up on the GDR's Stasi if you want to know what living in such a society is like).

> If my account was accessed from 20 different countries in a day you can be damn well sure I'd want to be given a heads up too, as it's likely my account has been compromised.

If you want to monitor your own account (or want to have someone, like the hoster, monitor it for you), feel free. It's still none of the hoster's business to investigate it any further without your explicit instruction to do so.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11949278
Falkirk Wheel
> even after everyone read the article.

<courtroom drama>
Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence.
</courtroom drama>
Introducing Firebase Authentication
> Just append '?share=1' at the end of every quora link in your browser(I admit its easier to append on my computer than on my mobile), and it should remove the modal registration window that prevents you from seeing the content.

Just making a copy of this for when you delete your account/messages. Thanks!
We're working toward some IoT developer products designed to allow global p2p connectivity for IoT devices over networks the user can control: https://www.zerotier.com/

ZeroTier already runs fine on embedded Linux, which is a large subset of IoT, and we've researched a lightweight port to FreeRTOS.
> The downside is that they may insist on over-fitting the solution to their particular needs.

This cannot be restated enough. In certain fields--especially healthcare EMR--this can kill you.
I'd like to get people's opinions on how Baqqer can integrate some traditional funding / sponsorship / support on the resources we're getting to makers, inventors, and developers.

We already have crowdfunding options for both individuals and projects, pre-orders for products, but are now considering how to offer even more through larger funding options for people and startups -- specifically thinking about how we can merge these two models that makes sense for the community.
What's the reason to single out robots and not other means of production / capital though? There's no real distinction between a robot and a drilling machine, car, accounting software or anything that improves productivity.
Not many people rub me the wrong way like John Gruber can.

Enjoy yet another Apple Tax, asshole.