skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that the context? In the sense of the intersection between Javascript and JSON, trailing commas have pretty much always worked in C, which is something all of us who write code that generates C rely on, like a lot.
This!

This analogy perfectly captures why in software, the second best thing always wins :-) [1]

The utopian 'ideal' systems that can only be built slowly and methodically get crowded out by the systems that start with some scruffy code just keep moving.

[1] UNIX vs Multics, Windows vs OS/2, MongoDB vs ?
So... They found that the number of stars is autoregressive? What's the punchline?
Again, I'm not saying to REQUIRE any of those things, simply make them not illegal. If developers build an oversupply housing that people do not deem acceptable at any price, then people will not buy/rent them and they will be removed. If people are renting them, then people find it an acceptable tradeoff. Sweatshop jobs have been more attractive than rural poverty since the Industrial Revolution began, and small, "substandard" apartments are a choice that many people would choose over longer more expensive commutes, health care, better nutrition, working one job instead of two, or any thing else that can be purchased with money.
> move too fast for their docs to keep up

That's not a matter of moving too fast, it's a matter of broken processes. A user-visible change that does not update the docs ought to be rejected during review. If they don't have these basic development processes nailed down, that does not instill confidence in me regarding the quality of their shipped code. And that, of course, fits nicely with the reports of buggy .0 releases.
My prediction: This too will be gamed just like the rest of the immigrant worker visa systems (H-1B, OPT, O-1, EB-5, etc). That big fat vague 3rd criteria will see to it. A whole cottage industry of immigration attorneys who specialize in this visa will crop up to prey on unsuspected foreigners and collude with the knowing and corrupted ones.

The fact of the matter is most foreigners complaining about not being able to start businesses in the US don't have profitable or well funded businesses. The ones that do have profitable and well funded business can easily set up shop on US soil and don't need to immigrate here and can use L1 visas when they do need to come state side.

To me the most interesting aspect to this visa is it takes away the talking point from the H-1B proponents that immigrant workers are job creators because immigrants start companies that employ citizens.
"Dark matter" just means "stuff we can't detect except by gravity" so that covers your first case.

There's a theory that "dark matter" isn't matter at all, but some modification to the currently accepted laws of physics. Wikipedia lists some of these ideas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Alternative_theori...

Ultimately, it's generally assumed to be some sort of actual matter because that's what best fits the observations. No alternative explanation has been raised that better fits the observations than the explanation that it's some unknown form of matter that doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation very much, but still participates in gravity.

As for what those observations are, galaxies are observed to rotate much differently than if they only had the mass that was visible, galaxies cluster as if there was more mass than can be seen, gravitational lensing indicates that galaxies mass more than what's observed with light, the cosmic microwave background spectrum is different from what you'd expect from only the stuff we can see, and a fair bit more mentioned on that Wikipedia page.

Keep in mind that any alternative explanation needs to not only explain the fact that these things are different, but also the exact quantity by which they are different. So far, "dark matter" is the best explanation anyone's come up with.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't ask for support here. I think this issue is interesting because CF's decision(s) are experimental and they do not check if a server supports ECDSA prior to issuing the cert, which resulted in any links to https://mysite.com erroring out "this site isn't secure" and a 525, until I paused CF, and have since deleted the domain from CF, use a different (compatible) SSL cert, updated DNS records to not point CF's nameservers, etc. Perhaps CF will implement a change to check to see if the customer's server supports an algo before signing a cert with it.
Replied here, to the first time I saw you write this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12368022
Some of this is diminishing returns and NASA takes a small chunk of science funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_policy_of_the_United_S... But, overall I agree and suspect NASA's budget has more to do with Science Fiction than utility.
Open Source Software and the Department of Defense [pdf]
Does that explain why Barak Obama hasn't changed the schedule of marijuana? Because he wants to keep down blacks and hippies?
Before claiming free speech, one should define what it means. Because nowadays free speech is often used as an excuse for openly discriminatory positions. Speech, just like any other action, is impactful, so just like any other action, it should be limited, and its limits should be drawn according to ethical and practical principles. Or maybe does he mean that you're allowed to write papers without citing the works of your peers, and write bullshit and still be published/get a good grade as well ? And that one could shout hateful speech in a megaphone in the amphitheatre without being bothered ?
Serious question: ignoring issues with O3 toxicity, could you strap a plasma wind generator to the front of a car to create downforce and reduce air resistance?

Thinking through it I suspect the numbers don't line up for it to be feasible/economic but I've often wondered how we could displace the air in front of a vehicle without impeding the vehicles travel in doing so.
Spotify Said to Retaliate Against Artists with Apple Exclusives
Likely, BYU grads doing the hacking, considering the odds.
Just make sure you know what you're getting into. The type of coaching you describe is something people typically get training for. It goes past simple project management skills since you're dealing 1:1 with their personalities and other life considerations as well.

Even if you don't bring those into the conversation they'll play hell with the results--that may mean it's unavoidable to bring them into the conversation as "blockers" or "risks" and that potentially opens a can of worms.

One suggestion I'd throw out is to do the market research to figure out how many people have severe enough procrastination issues to benefit from your services, but who are otherwise sufficiently well-adjusted to not be more than you could handle. How many people out there really do just need another pair of eyes and a nudge, but are sufficiently isolated that they would have to turn to this kind of service to get them?

Otherwise you might find yourself in a non-existent niche between people who just needed a todo program and people who actually need serious help. If you don't screen out that second type somehow, assuming you're not set up to handle them, they'll potentially confound your scaling calculations by being exceedingly high maintenance and they'll have a bad experience as well.
im pretty sure this isnt true - if any of those things were massive enough to substitute for the gravitational effects that have been observed they would emit infrared radiation at least.
The motivation for this article is the Epi-pen, so let's look at that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector

Made in Good Old USA, based of USA Army prototypes.

"But she also acknowledged that high retail prices of EpiPens in the United States effectively subsidize the cost of the devices when they are sold in Europe, at just $100 or $150. Many of the countries there have government-run health-care systems that limit drug prices charged by manufacturers, unlike the U.S."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/25/mylan-expands-epipen-cost-cut...

Oh, look at that, looks like the rest of the world -is- taking advantage.
Bidirectional file synchronization. It makes any single replica not that important.

Don't concentrate your resources into a single "invincible" box.
Yeah, I meant figure out the municipal finance thing. Local rule of land use has directly led to underbuilding, limiting rental housing, and high prices. If that changed and the market for housing was allowed to correct, it would create the municipal funding problem, and that's what I said that Americans are smart enough to figure out a solution to.
This could work on HN too. A simple list of combinations of keywords (such as "Node.js" and "shit") detected in a comment submission could trigger a confirmation dialog: "Are you sure this is a meaningful contribution?"
Remember that status quo is the sane default. Much more important to fix bugs and add docs than to add features.
> npm verifies the SSL cert on its connection to the registry. pip does the same thing. Neither verifies signatures on the packages, or anything else.

The top result from Google: https://pypi.python.org/security

> Both of which are better than C build scripts that involve downloading tarballs from SourceForge and running `make install`.

True, but I thought you were the one who wanted to limit our conversation to competent installations?

> Sure. Babel didn't break when left-pad happened. A certain way of installing Babel did. I have no idea how you keep conflating a method of installing packages (that isn't even what serious production users use) with code. So, "all of them."

Really? So how do you install Babel the first time in order to shrinkwrap it?

> I can give you countless examples of mature libraries and software packages in C, Python, or many other languages where `./build.sh` or equivalent, that wgets some crap from SourceForge, stopped working in the same way.

Okay, give me countless examples.
You could make an app that pretends to be a payment terminal so you hold your phone near someone else's and trick them into paying you as they try to unlock their phone with TouchID.

Or (and this seems REALLY probable) people make apps to 'help' you pay or track you spending and pay/etc. But they now have very sensitive banking data so that's insecure.

How about CurrenC or Walmart or some other company makes their own NFC payment thing on a different standard that isn't compatible with standard terminals. Now anyone who uses that new payment system is vulnerable to any bugs in that implementation as opposed to a very well tested system like the current NFC stuff (which I'm sure has shortcomings, but at least is well understood).
Why if instead of spending money researching the diseases that mosquitos could transmit to humans on the future we spend all that money into figuring out a way to exterminate all mosquitos from the surface of earth once and for all?

As someone who lives on a tropical country and had have both Dengue and Chikungunya I can attest mosquitos are pure evil, and there are several researchs suggesting they serve no purpose on keeping the enviromental equilibrium (if they are gone, they won't be missed, the enviroment will be fine...)

On a side note, reading "U.S. Army Medical Research" , "Infectious Diseases", "new virus" and "mosquitos" in the same article makes no good to my paranoia...
Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – Simplified examples of many common data structures
wow, thanks for the vid! can anyone explain why this happens?
KFC Accidentally Revealed the Top-Secret Recipe for Its Fried Chicken
Your UN is dark
The Toxic Effects of Latency in Analytical Applications
Sabu of Lulzsec was working with/for the FBI.

might as well consider them government provocateurs.
this seems nonsequitur. is this a "it's not racist to abuse white people because white privilege" post?
Full disclosure: I'm a new user of mailbox.org, but not otherwise affiliated.

I find its approach to useable security features interesting, especially considering the entry-level price points.

edit: typo
That page is dynamic, so everyone sees something different. By the time a candidate gets that page, they've already talked to 1-2 members of the team. Of course there's no "own a laptop" requirement.
I guess. For the kinds of clients who would want this device, this would just be like making it so that you're only a little bit pregnant. You either prevent the eavesdropping or you don't. The only safe tactic is not bring the device anywhere you don't want to be tracked or recorded. Or to technologically prevent it from operating somehow in a way that doesn't rely on verification -- such as taking the battery out, if you can, or putting it in a verified faraday cage that you keep in a soundproof box if you can't. And if you're the kind of person with a life so interesting they need to worry about about phone implants, maybe take battery removability into consideration when you buy the device.
I recently worked at a "no vacation policy" aka unlimited vacation company. Anecdote is not data, but here are my experiences:

- Like many startups, people did not take much vacation.

- It was probably cheaper and certainly easier for them not to reimburse you for unused vacation.

- When in my second year I proposed taking a second trip (two weeks off total) I could sense the disapproval. I'm a reasonably senior person and taking two weeks off a year does not seem like that much to me.

- Vacation was sometimes the precursor to giving notice. People knew they were leaving, so it became safe to take a vacation and then give notice at the end of it.

I would avoid companies with this policy.
One might also argue that giving a violent prisoner left-handed scissors will slow them down and is therefore a marginal improvement.
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Agreed - however, I wrote 'model' considering the binary separation that was suggested.
I think Blackphone is taking a fundamentally wrong approach to security. If it is a #1 concern, then it shouldn't be a phone at all. It should be more of an iPod Touch type device. It's pretty disingenuous to promise security when you don't even know how the baseband works.
There was a recent idea that small, primordial black holes might be related to dark matter http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-sugg...

Basically the idea that theyre smaller and more common than previously expected - it would be really hard to observe them if they weren't in-between us and something else or snacking on something.
For those looking to get a much more comprehensive look at this proposed rule from USCIS, read the advance version of the notice to be published in the Federal Register:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Article... (PDF, 649 KB, 155 pages)

The sections most relevant to those who wish to apply under this rule would be:

IV. Proposed Changes

A. Overview of Parole for Entrepreneurs (pages 30 - 32)

B. Criteria for Initial Parole (pages 32 - 52)

1. Recent Formation of a Start-Up Entity
2. Applicant is an Entrepreneur Who is Well-Positioned to Advance the Entity’s Business
3. Capital Investment or Government Funding Criteria

C. Application Requirements for Initial Period of Parole (pages 53 - 61)

1. Filing the Application for Entrepreneur Parole (Form I-941)
2. Requirement to Appear for Submission of Biometric Information
3. Income-Related Condition on Parole
4. Adjudication of Applications
5. Limitation on Number of Entrepreneur Parolees Per Start-Up Entity
6. Authorized Period for Initial Grant of Entrepreneur Parole

D. Employment Authorization (pages 61 - 66)

1. Employment Authorization Incident to Parole with a Specific Employer
2. Employment Authorization Eligibility for Spouses
3. Documentation for Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9)

F. Re-Parole (pages 67 - 84)

1. Criteria for Re-Parole
2. Application Requirements for Re-Parole
3. Ensuring Continuous Employment Authorization
4. Technical Changes

G. Termination of Parole (pages 84 - 87)

1. Automatic Termination
2. Termination on Notice

H. Automatic Adjustment of Investment and Revenue Amount Requirements (pages 87 - 88)

V. Statutory and Regulatory Requirements

C. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563

3. Population of Entrepreneurs Potentially Eligible (pages 103 - 116)
Read the reviews. Multiple users report cell phones working perfectly fine while inside the bag.

As noted by dnh44, these are almost certainly bog-standard antistatic bags, which are not intended to provide any kind of RF shielding.
I work for Google Cloud (though my opinions are my own).

If people want to run Swarm or Nomad or Rancher on Compute Engine, then more power to them!

In fact, I even open sourced deployment templates to run Swarm on GCE and hopefully will add autoscaling and load balancing soon: https://github.com/thesandlord/google-cloud-swarm
A crucial question for fast execution of the BEAM-machine on multiple cores is how expensive message copying between cores is. With that many cores, there's probably no shared memory between all cores. How do the remaining cores communicate? Can the BEAM machine's optimisations take into account communication cost?
(PhD student in astrophysics answering here.)

This is a great question! You're addressing the idea (roughly along the lines of Occam's razor) that if there's any way to explain the "extra mass" without invoking a new form of matter, it should be preferred.

Most of these other possibilities have been largely ruled out via careful observations, which are detailed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Composition

One of these possibilities, for example, is that the missing matter is actually contained in a great many small, dark, massive objects scattered throughout galaxies -- such as failed stars, planets, or even black holes -- rather than in a diffuse, invisible material. This possibility has actually been largely ruled out through a number of statistical "microlensing" surveys that are sensitive specifically to the presence of massive, dark bodies (via their gravitational lensing of background stars -- a rare event, but measurable statistically).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object#De...

I think the wikipedia Dark Matter article is actually super well written and should address these issues, too!
This is fantastic news!

The blog post doesn't mention iOS. Does anybody here know whether iOS Safari 10 will also support Webdriver?
Unit Tests with Python
I definitely agree with your premise, that OSS can more easily be reviewed.

In reality, do you think/know that happens? (I'm genuinely intrigued). I know almost all major software shops generally have some kind of formalized process for internal and external security review; and often have automated tooling to also support that process. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's there, and catches a lot of bugs.

Running with PFSense as our example, do they have regular codebase-wide and change-specific code reviews and security assessments? I'd be delighted to know they do, but haven't seen much about it.
Are Index Funds Eating the World?
So go ahead and observe this all-too-obvious infrared, that exoplanets must surely emit.

Meanwhile, their gravity is now well known to induce wobble on their parent stars, which are much more luminous, and probably outshines any exoplanet in the infrared.
I'm hispanic.
India's GoZoomo shuts shop, returns VC money
Book recommendation: Specifying Systems: The TLA+ Language and Tools for Hardware and Software Engineers [0]. I did read it, but unfortunately I can't say I actually understood it as in to be able to use it day-to-day.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Specifying-Systems-Language-Hardware-E...
There are fairly cheap little faraday cage forensic bags that LEOs often purchase in bulk. Power off phone, slip phone in, it's not transmitting any more.
It is interesting the extent to which leftists seem to believe they can control people's thinking by controlling their expression. As though I will cease to be racist if you don't let me post racist comments on your website. Doesn't it actually work the other way around? Changing people's thinking changes their behavior.
A racist crime report will have real world consequences though - it's not just thoughts in someones head.

It will involve other people and potentially the police.
"Corke and his team reported that the wind tunnel test item, which used “new actuators that developed 20 times more thrust while consuming 100 times less power, produced a 65% drag reduction.” The Notre Dame researchers have found that introducing a small oscillation whose waves move perpendicular to the air flow path can halt the onset of the so-called near-surface flow instabilities that lead to turbulence."

Sounds like it's already a real breakthrough. After this it may just be a problem of imagining where to put this stuff.
Replace 4 to 7 with a single "kubectl rolling-update".
Part of me is thrilled by anything that makes validation easier. Part of me is frightened by the expansion of the attack surface of the browser, particularly given how Apple has been losing their quality edge of late.
The fear is the "bargaining power" that will be used is "give it to us or we invalidate your patent." And the fear is valid, because that's how most other countries' governments negotiate.
What is with those awful blurry figures?
Usually if you're distributing a Makefile with a project, it's for portability. Insisting that your Linux users of a C/C++ library install Visual Studio or Xcode is a complete non-starter. It's different at a company - every company I've been at had its own proprietary wrapper around make - but then you need to be able to integrate all the open source libs you're depending on.

At least there's autotools, which has its own set of problems, but you can be reasonably confident it'll generate a portable Makefile.
No recommendations, just feedback; this is really great! Thanks.
There's a pretty wide gap between "1k" and "20k".

Also I don't have any GIS tools handy but I started poking around with google maps and 200 miles is a long way even in the west, It looks like all of Nebraska is within 200 miles of a 20k city, and so is almost all of Texas except maybe down by Big Bend.
"Give me your tired, your overworked, your entrepreneurs yearning to innovate."
I don't think that's the concept. It's a solid wing with no moving parts and lift is modified solely by the plasma emitters. The entire wing's surface is still a solid material, it's just the plasma is modifying how the air behaves around it causing change in lift.
News publishers could charge search engines for story extracts
Nextdoor isn't especially unique compared to other social media platforms. What does appear unique is its traction among highly localized user groups (i.e. neighborhoods). Both myself and friends found Nextdoor actually extremely useful in the course of recent home purchases, to get to know the target neighborhood and seek inexpensive repair/contractor services.

Given Nextdoor's very localized character, there can be unwritten context to users' posts not always present in other platforms like FB. Eg. very easy to imply "I know where you live" in a way the intended recipient may grasp, but group moderators do not. As another commenter said, having users click through some questions before committing a hot-headed posts seems wise. It would mirror a face-to-face interaction, i.e. "Did you really mean what you said?"

No idea, tho, on the justification for Nextdoor's metrics for reducing abuse.