skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow:

Total number of operating satellites: 1,381 (includes launches through 12/31/15)[1]

Wasn't aware that the +15,000 satellites (loosely defined) currently orbiting the Earth (according to SATCAT) are mostly junk...

But one other really interesting thing I found once in this data was that a huge percentage of all earth orbiting satellites are debris from China's Fengyun 1C sat, which they blew up into currently over 5000 pieces to test a missile [2]. I just think it's funny that China did this, and now we have to track every single piece indefinitely. :)

[1] http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengyun
I remember in SimCity placing a handful of nuclear power plants per city. We never even made it close to that did we. Still missing a replacement for coal power.
I would argue strongly that such users do not have those abilities even with https. A valid cert is a valid cert. My supporting point would be the major browser vendors recent backpedal on throwing mixed-content errors, demonstrating that a smooth ride for the user is far more important than safety to them.

Actually I called shutterfly.com on the phone about that mixed content issue. I emailed them screenshots of the error from 6 different operating system and browser combinations, from 3 other users even. They claimed nothing was wrong. They were serving javascript via http on an https page and told me I was wrong and needed to update java, for weeks, on the phone, in chat, and in email, and declined to send the report to their webmaster. Even those wanting to be trusted are incapable of using these tools, from what I have seen. The whole thing is broken.
My guess is that he means something more like what's discussed in this essay, "The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck": http://blog.capwatkins.com/the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-fuc...
Note that Wu's article is in Scientific Reports, not Nature. SR is far lower in the "prestige rank" of physics journals, and it's far easier to get papers accepted there, so omissions are more likely. On the other hand, Meessen's paper appears to be unpublished (or according to google scholar, maybe published in a predatory open access journal) --- and it raises some red flags that the author didn't want to / couldn't get it published via standard channels. Not planning to read it, but critical eye may be warranted.
I don't think so. Floppy died because new storage media offered what people desperately needed: storage space.

Usb-c is more likely going to offer what people don't really need for a price that they are very unlikely to agree spending.

Plus, if I sum up all of the euros I've spent on headsets... Well, a large part of that sum has been spent on sub-10 € headset.

Good luck making a good profit margin on that market segment.
My favorite proofs of these basic number theory facts are in Apostols, Intro to Analytic Number Theory. At best the FTA using the proof there is only slightly less than obvious (of course obviousness probably varies widely based on mathematical background / maturity).
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.
I had some Asus laptop which had a switch to physically close webcam: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images2500x2500/ASUS_N73S...

If you're paranoid, it could be transparent for IR or something though.
the cellular genome size of RGD3.0, the organism with a 473 genome, is 531kbp according to the paper. this means that the genome encompasses ~531,000 nucleotides (base-pairs). for reference, the human genome encompasses approximately 3.3-billion base-pairs.

you can download the human genome from here http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/hg38.... (it is recommended to use ftp, see: http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/). it is an ~800mb download.

if it takes 800 mb to store 3.3 billion bases, i would assume it takes (531k / 3.3b) * 800 mb = 0.141 mb to store this genome.
This is all basic stuff. Think deeper.

You go to sleep every night. When you wake up the next day, how do you know you're the same person as yesterday? What does that mean?

Now consider if you didn't have memories of the past. What would make you "you"? The body would be the same but your amnesia would change things, eh?

Now what if you knew next week you would lose your memories for sure, but this week you can go on an amazing vacation. Does it matter where you go? It matters to your current self but to your future self.

Now think about sacrificing pleasure now so you can live a longer life. Or feel good about your life at 80.

Now think about the afterlife. What if you are reincarnated with no memories of the past? We already kind of established that "reincarnated you" wouldn't care about current you. But will current you care about reincarnated you?

Consider this: if a "future you" doesn't remember being "current you" how are they really different than a random person with a similar body who also has amnesia?

In short, long term, is it all about the memories?

What is the self preservation instinct about?

Finally the big one... if there were no conscious observers at all, in what sense would anything exist? That is, if I described to you a universe that you can never detect or deduce must exist from any observations in this one, how would saying "that universe EXISTS be different than saying it DOESN'T EXIST? It seems the word itself requires concious observers. Thus, the concept of consciousness and existence may be two sides of the same amazing conundrum.
It's different if you live in an area where everyone comes to or through on Monday morning.
C-SPAN uses Periscope to stream from House after official cameras go dark
Cartful, startup for fashion brand discovery, launches
Spanish here: It's exactly like you described, and shameful. To add to the idiocy, it happened right after Germany enacted a similar law, the difference being the German version let news organizations negotiate collective agreements with search engines. Obviously, in less than 1 second, they had an agreement with Google to index for free, because they wanted the traffic more than a fee. So the Spanish government thought they could outsmart the Germans and made a version in which payment was compulsory for all search engines. Everybody saw it coming, except the government.
While this entire thread is probably not considered relevant, "pika pika" or "pika-pi" are common quotes from Pikachu[1], arguably the most popular Pokemon.

The grandparent's comment is "relevant" because a pikachu is an Electric-type Pokemon. It can attract/store large quantities of electrons, and also repel/release large quantities of electrons.

While pikachus do eat other food, fruits/Poke-food/etc, it is unclear if they need a source of electrons to sustain themselves. They may just pull the needed electrons out of the their surroundings. However, I seem to recall an episode where Pikachu was sick due to a prolonged lack of access to a large current source.

[1] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu_(Pok%C3%A9mon...
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Maybe get in touch with hn@ycombinator.com
Probably not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu
> Just as coffee "beans" are actually seeds.

All beans are seeds. Except "sea beans", which aren't beans, either.
We updated the submission link from http://www.infodocket.com/2016/06/22/privacy-ftc-says-mobile..., which just quoted the FTC's press release.
I've successfully made my MacBook listening-proof without any effort. Some gunk gradually got into the microphone holes and now I can't Skype.
I think it's reasonable to argue that continuing to show up to work shows a lack of understanding at some level, either of their own commitment to doing Good or of how their continued employment assists Bad.
Chatbots starting a new era of the internet
Top 5 apps that do not exist in the Google Play Store
If I'm a factory worker that gets replaced by a robot, I want a cut. :) But I can't think of how to structure the law so that the company has to lease the robot through the employee they are replacing.
IP addresses are not in certificates. Only hostnames. Not a rule, but I've set up hundreds and seen thousands, and never seen a single purchased cert that contained an IP.
Show HN: Find relevant emojis from text on the command-line
My cynical opinion is that the provisions of this bill will be quietly tacked onto a budget bill and passed without debate.
That's not a problem of browsers having a difficulty determining if they're talking to something on a local network or not, just because you're in a local network doesn't means you can't be victim of a MiTM.
I noticed censorship and manipulation of viewership data on YouTube in 2008:

http://lee-phillips.org/youtube/

The article touches on this in its mention of Pakistan's influence on YouTube policy.

The implications are rather chilling: Google allows the Pakistani government to have a say in what Americans are allowed to see on the internet.

And this article, while it brings up important issues, would be far more credible if it didn't make claims about "blocking the entire internet" and wonder who "gave" Google the "right" to block whatever sites they wish to.
> Ask your waitress for a bowl of oatmeal with berries and they bring tomatoes, you will be upset.

Right, because if you ask your waitress, you expect culinary rather than biological definitions to be used.

Then again, you'd usually ask for something more specific than "berries".
I guess the question is, how much value did InMobi get per customer from those acts of illegal tracking?
Dropbox Adds Document Scanning, Creation Tools in Corporate Push
Blackberry 10 browser refuses to recognize Lets Encrypt certs :(
Some Comments on the Security of ECIES with Secp256k1
The Volocopter has a ballistic rescue parachute. A failure of a few of the 18 rotors/engines is not a problem and can be compensated; complete electrical failure (or failure of more than a few) would require deployment of the parachute.

On the other hand, mechanically a multicopter is much simpler than your average heli (rigid rotors, i.e. no collective/cyclic/swashplate/articulation, no anti-torque, no gearbox, etc.) - so I'm wondering what the relative safety turns out to be.
"Nobody"? Google monitors for their domains. So does Facebook. I'll bet a lot of other high value sites are monitoring too but haven't said so publicly.

As for everyone else, give it some time. The ecosystem is still very young and we're still developing tooling.
It's a fairly new project (in "internet standard/security technology" years), first introduced in 2013. CT Monitoring/Auditing is basically a group effort, being most effective when everyone from domain owners, browser vendors to CAs use it. There are usually no easy and instant solutions to complex problems, but it's getting there.
Libretto 50ct. If 301s from http:// to https:// didn't exist, then I wouldn't have anything to complain about.
We're working in Antarctica and the South Pole team is involved in the GOES decommissioning. Pretty interesting stuff.
I'd argue that these guys are actually supplying. Just firewall it out to a specific network segment for these devices, have one box that interacts with it and modify it to your own liking, you have root on it afterall.

They're dirt cheap, they work, and you get root so it's completely upgradable and hackable.

Can't beat that really if you have decent security practices outside of the device.

It's definitely an investment in terms of time to beat it into shape, but it sounds like a fun weekend project to me.
Which link? I am curious.
Please see the FAQ about job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11955703
People (like for example Joerg Schilling) have re-licensed their work in the past not to be under the GPL any more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrtools#License_compatibility...

From the article, but this is also common knowledge:

As is common with the GPL and other open source licenses, very little case law exists to provide guidance to users and provide a definitive answer on whether binary versions are distributable.

And further:

Joerg Schilling continues to develop his version of cdrtools under the CDDL and GPL (mkisofs) licenses, whereas the cdrkit fork has received next to no updates since.

Good for him.
Now it's "Well I saw someone Facebook say that ... "taken as 100% truth.
I knew what he meant. I was pointing out a similar sounding phenomenon which includes the consumption of "metal (metallophagia); stones (lithophagia) or earth (geophagia);". It was just a play on words, which I had hoped the ";)" would reflect
Here is a PR to fix this issue: https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live/pull/238 .
Thanks. We are the speed of GitLab.com is below the line. As you see in the post we're working hard to make it better. Performance of single tenant GitLab installations should be good already.
It's less a fallacy than a fantasy. It's a bizarre universalist solipsism: A perception that all people are is what is important for you to consider, carried to the most absurd conclusion of thinking that what you are is only what is important for others to consider.

Therefore, if you duplicate a process, delete the old and copy the new one in its place, it's the same process.

This is totally acceptable to me if there is a proof somewhere that there is no such thing as subjective experience, but then it makes no sense to talk about "consciousnesses" as separable anyway, and the entire discussion is pointless.

edit: If Peapod suddenly goes out of business and Amazon seamlessly picks up my grocery deliveries, is Amazon Peapod?
Ah the "Lenin Grib" story- tv announcers taken too seriously apparently...
ICMP packet with a negative round trip time?
The Volocopter VC200 was displayed at the AERO Friedrichshafen 2016, just after its maiden (manned) flight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC9YWvKX0lY
Exactly, it is for files that can't be merged because they are binary instead of text based.
How to Hack Your Next Tech Event
The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck
Does decommissioning mean that they will be dropping it out of orbit? Will it be visible?
> Is this the basis of your statement?

No, the basis of my statement is the lengthy sections of the article describing Gray's political power and obstructionism which was causing the district to decay and how his death lead to a vacuum in which the gentrification could happen. Describing it as execution was just gallows humor. They could also be bought off with grants.
Here's the post/thread that caught on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11954780
I though Australians were British. Seems I am wrong though. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Ok, so there are instances, which throw exceptions, fine, we're in Java land after all, where anything can happen. But why is Tree[Nothing] more useful than Tree[Unit]? Both contain the same amount of information (both Nothing and Unit convey zero bits of information), but one throws an exception while the other is safe at runtime.
Robot rights make sense to prepare for a time when there is rough intellectual parity between humans and robots and the possibility of an adversarial relationship arises. I think it's unlikely, but still important, given the impact such a relationship would have. Giving robots human rights now would be like giving an ant human rights, but it makes sense to give rights in accordance with some measure of intelligence I think.
Movies and science are - at least to me - in different aesthetic compartments.
2 + 2 = S(S(0)) + S(1) = S(S(S(0)) + 1) = S(S(S(0)) + S(0)) - S(S(S(S(0 + 0)))) = S(S(S(S(0)))) = 4

Definiton of Successor (S) and addition. It's trivial.
I once called the police in London, because there was a group of men in masks using angle grinders on the door of a bank while the alarm was going off, and the operator said 'well if they're doing it in broad daylight I doubt they're up to no good'. Fine.
Sure, to a mathematician, these things become old hat, but note that Apostols spends several pages developing properties of the GCD that aren't generally considered "obvious"; in particular, he argues for Theorem 1.2 (that any two integers a and b have a common divisor of the form ax + by, which is in turn therefore divisible by all their other common divisors) by tracing out the steps to recursively compute this combination-as-GCD (i.e., the Euclidean algorithm), recast as an inductive proof. I don't think the layperson would find this obvious at all (in the way they might have claimed FTA to be obvious), or even be aware of this fact, though it plays a key role in building up to the eventual proof of the FTA.
Thanks for your kind words. We indeed want to be the one-stop-shop from idea to production. For the complete scope see https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#scope
Bluetooth?
Well, someday we might inevitably need to discuss robot rights, but that'd be somewhere past the point where we can declare a robot a sentient being. ;)
I think the fact that the original is kept around (and asked a question) might be complicating things.

For example, what if you were taken apart, your molecules were sent to Mars, and then you were reassembled exactly as they were? Would that be continuous consciousness?

If so, how is that different from the cloning option if your clone were assembled on Mars and the original were completely destroyed at the very same instant? (Or maybe the original were destroyed just an instant earlier.)
Germany does not yet have any electric car mandate - the 2030 thing was misreported.

Norway, where more than 25% of new vehicles are already electric (and the electricity grid is 100% renewable) is likely to be the first country to achieve a ban on new combustion vehicles.

Germany does have impressive carbon reduction goals, and will need to switch a large portion of their vehicle fleet to zero-emission in order to achieve them.
Oh I didn't mean to imply fault, other than my own. David is awesome, and on a completely different plane than me, so I struggle with things that are obvious to him.
If that's true, the professor is an asshole.
A pin should be able to clear that out.
Learning the Basics About Redux
Thanks for your thoughtful response. Some things that came to mind:

> 1. as far as I know, the jack takes up quite a bit of volume, it's a long and empty space, that could be used for battery, heatsink etc.

This is a good idea in theory, but in this particular case, what is being said now is that the phone will be thinner by 1mm. I'm very, very much for more battery – even with a Plus I don't have enough – but Apple tends not to handle these tradeoffs with an eye toward functional improvements. What I worry about is being able to shave off a millimeter off the thickness of the phone, but then having to carry around an adapter or two that will easily outweigh the space savings. As you say, in stationary situations like car/office, it's not a big deal, but in those situations, neither is the thickness of the phone or battery life, really.

> 3. ... There's suddenly a forced market demand when the port drops, which opens up industry incentives to push wireless price/performance ratio improvements which I feel are around the corner (and partially announced already).

Unfortunately I can only speculate as to what will happen. The plausible explanation is that the market will be able to generate excellent alternatives that become the gold standard, but as my sibling commenter says, this has been said of Bluetooth for a long time. I'm not confident that Bluetooth will be able to catch up soon enough, given its history and how far it lags behind today in sound quality, cost, and reliability. With that said, this will certainly be a big shock that may cause the desired shift, or Apple might have new wireless audio technology up their sleeves (though I shudder at the thought of another closed A/V standard) – and the 90% of people who don't care too much for audio quality will probably be unaffected on this dimension.
Fraudulent is not usually a term that's referring to legal assessments when talking about the CA system. Various browsers and root programs are (to keep the comparison) both the executive and judiciary branch of the CA system, and if certificates are issued in a way that's not allowed in those policies (which would certainly be the case in this scenario), it would be considered fraudulent and could lead to root removal.
The author's "fallacy" isn't so much a fallacy as much as it is one particular (and rather unsurprising) opinion on how to answer the questions that Aaronson and Hanson have asked.

In this sense, the author fundamentally misses the point of what Aaronson and Hanson have written. Aaronson and Hanson seem to be primarily interested in identifying questions and exploring the problems that arise when trying to give simple answers to those questions.

The fact that the author is able to quickly and cleanly resolve his personal belief about how these questions should be answered doesn't indicate that the questions are easy to answer or even that there is an obviously correct answer. At least any more than a Christian's belief in God cleanly settles the question of whether God exists.
it used to be, a long time ago
I misread that as "daft plan", and actually, it's still accurate.
There would supposedly (IIRC) be certain rules against allowing the extradition of citizens of the commonwealth?
> I think we can do better than Monads to achieve this.

(slide 52)

Looking forward to their solution.
Perhaps Mark doest not want FB staff to listen his conversations with HR :)

"Facebook says...it doesn’t record conversations, but that it does use the audio to identify what is happening. ... The claims come after Belgian police warned citizens not to use Facebook's Reactions tool."
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3079412/security/facebo...
At which point you might as well just buy out the business and establish proper collective ownership over a "business" that now consists of a few people operating a lot of robots.
Industrial robot sales for 2015 set new record, despite troubles in China
Apparently this is kind of a hard thing to handle. I battle with this and PS4 Remote Play -- about 80% of the time, RP will give up looking on my local network and go out to the internet to find my PS4... which is right here on the same network. If I cancel it and retry a few times it always ends up seeing it but man what a pain.
Free offerings make people devalue what they get. Better to make it cost $99 or something but make it easy to get a free trial.
Wildcard certs are also a huge need for platforms like Sandstorm.io which opens documents on arbitrary/randomly-generated subdomains. And as someone who hosts a lot of things on various subdomains in general, the idea of having a bunch of different certs is far less appealing than a wildcard cert.

But unfortunately it doesn't seem like Let's Encrypt currently has any plans to add wildcard certs any time soon.
New partnership looks to strengthen European robot industry
The possibility to have a fully-fledged programming language under the hood gives Scribble definitely an edge.
Btw, the same is basically true for Luatex. But I think the expressiveness of Scheme might be more suitable for documentation purposes than that of Lua.
World's first robotic 3D printing system
I agree this since private equity investments and buyouts seem to be accelerating and it is important to understand their motivations.

I thought this post covered the differences versus VCs, angels, etc well: https://medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners/what-happens-...
The fact that the original is kept around is the entire point.

Let's say your molecules were taken apart... and that's it.

That's called "dying".
It's the scripting language for Blender and Maya as well, in the 3D space.
Go Elixir. You'll be able to do more, and you'll end up learning Erlang anyway. ;)