skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lydia launches a good old plastic card to go beyond the p2p payment space
A Hardware Learning Demonstration with Organic Memristor Nanodevices
How a Facebook impostor created multiple fake profiles and destroyed a man's life
For anyone interested in how this robot is getting around the ocean...

>> Wave energy is greatest at the water’s surface, decreasing rapidly with increasing depth. The Wave Glider’s unique two-part architecture exploits this difference in energy to provide forward propulsion.

http://www.liquid-robotics.com/platform/how-it-works/
Ouch, right in the feels. Got me smiling though.
Google went from 'do no evil' to 'do no support'. It feels like talking to a refrigerator when you desperately need support for a service you are paying for. Been there, done that I will never rely on google for anything remotely useful again (apart from www searches).
Browsers used to just embed OS X's built-in PDF reader, which is excellent and incredibly fast and smooth. At some point, they decided to write their own (in JavaScript, I guess), which scroll and perform terribly.
Right. But if you were randomly spawned somewhere, you'd be 10 times more likely to be in the 10GB than the 1GB.
> Wow did you really look at that page and say, "This is going to be easier and more secure than using /dev/urandom?". Reading the rest of the info on the page, http://www.protego.se/trnsup.htm, does not give me a lot of confidence in the product. The explanation page of how it works is just a bunch of scare info against using a software solution.

While the page doesn't look as cool as your average SV hardware startup, and their white paper is more or less blank, don't dismiss them that easily. According to linkedin the guy beyond the company has been involved in ASIC TRNG designs at some large companies.

Also, from what I have heard there are multiple open source hardware entropy generator designs that together with minimal software processing can generate pretty good random. Now, this is not NSA-proof randomness but probably better than anything you can get from /dev/random and more than enough for, say, gift cards.
Really? I'd guess that the part of it on the Piedmont would work as bunkers, but the part downtown is awfully shallow.
Does this only configure Wifi or can you also setup Wired (eth0) connections and is static IP address support (wifi and wired) baked in or only DHCP?
Both.

You learn programming by programming, and this is not something you learn ex cathedra: you have to do it yourself.

On the other hand, it's nice to go to the university to have some human contact with teachers and students. There are also a few things, some know-how knowledge that's best learned amongst peers, than by experimenting alone or from the books.

Then there's yet another option nowadays: MOOCs. There you have almost all the positive sides:
- you learn alone,
- you have a teacher giving ex cathedra lectures,
- you have also some contact with other students thru forums.

And for some of the know-how transmission, some programmers post videos on youtube of their development process; it's not entirely perfect, but it's a step.

One thing for which it can help to learn in the same room as a teacher and students, is to debug your learning process, or to detect the errors in know-how you may have learned: somebody may notice you're doing something wrong and tell you.
With self-learning, or with remote learning (MOOC), it's easy to check whether the result you obtain is right or wrong, but if you obtain the result doing the wrong thing, it's harder to detect and to correct. Then it's up to you to experiment a lot and to hope to find a good local extremum of know-how.
The website needs a name and email address to proceed but there is no authentication - so a temporary email address will do. The article is long to read at around 20 mins but worth it
Your point would be valid if the author hadn't pointed out that the same issue was resolved properly by Apple within three days (by renaming to "Cleaner - for Facebook"). My understanding is that Apple is bound by the same laws as Google when it comes to trademarks and IP.

So you do not have to pretend here: If Google had developer support that would be as good as Apple's (which I believe is a very low bar considering all the anger Apple is getting about how they treat developers), the extension would still be in the Chrome App Store and doing just fine.
This is the German Tank problem applied to simulated universes. What is the maximum likelihood state space of the simulating universe, given that the simulated universe has a state space of X?
I guess the confusion comes from insurance will pay for a drug screening to diagnose a disease.
Bound to / enforced by whom?

FB ToS do not exist in a vacuum, which is why they always include "if a section is invalid others remain" or some such. Not sure about which jurisdiction the user / you are in, but in most areas signing up for a service does not obligate one to watch the ads (e.g., on TV one can turn away, turn off sound, blank screen, etc.).

I very much doubt that FB wants to fight, in courts, the person's ability to block ads on his personally owned display (both for bad PR and for uncertain outcome), thus their preferred response seems to be technological (make it harder or disable account they dislike) rather than legal.
I have a 20-year-old swedish car that I wouldn't mind keeping in mint condition for another twenty years. But how do I do that (while still keeping it in service)? Rust in particular seems to be a big killer. It doesn't help that the manufacturer is no longer around and spares are likely to become hard to obtain. Did the North Koreans buy spares for their Volvos?
Sorry to say, but don't get your hopes up... It seems like Google doesn't care about ever updating the fonts they distribute.

The author of Crimson Text, a very popular free web font, complains about it on his Github readme [1]:

"While you are looking at the new, improved version, Google Fonts continues to offer the clumsy-looking original and has not heeded the repeated pleas for an upgrade."

[1] https://github.com/skosch/Crimson
The refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden in 2013 in Hong Kong
I have had to call a couple times on different email related issues with Google Apps and have to say my experience has been nothing less than impressed. They were responsive, extremely helpful, and continued to follow-up to make sure the issue was resolved and we were not experiencing any more problems.

I've also had issues with Adsense and have access to their support, and have had the same experience there. Helpful, responsive, and followed up long after the problem was resolved to make sure we didn't have any more problems.

Overall, I went in thinking their support would suck and ended up impressed.
There's a caveat... it's the old, pre-2000s Toyota Hilux cars that are durable and easy to repair. A newer Hilux isn't as simple and reliable as the old ones, and the old ones are in short supply.

Although the new Hilux cars seem to be quite popular in Africa and Middle East too. Perhaps it's the brand, or perhaps there are some similarities (or even interchangeable parts) that make it desirable.
I'm just used to it, there's no good reason.
First, I had a desktop, then bought a laptop, kept the desktop in front of me, the laptop on the left. At some point the desktop left my desk and I only had a laptop, then after many minor changes over time [skipping a lot] I found myself in front of two desktops.

But it doubles the power! Isn't it how this work?
Recommended, general strategies to start block-cipher design and/or analysis
Interesting points to think about:

- It's just a wordpress website. You don't need nothing fancy to be successful.

- Unknown niche market instead of 'going with the flow'.

- A 16 year old is capable of making a 'good enough' algorithm for a new market.

- Her (amateur?) pricing strategy/conversion funnel seems more balanced than some made by professionals.
I was talking about the new code being written so if a similar situation happens in the future we don't need to go through another rewrite of gmane.
But in the contemporary case, there is not enough demand

This is a strong assertion to be made, especially in general like that. There is not enough demand of what, specifically? I agree that current interventionist economic policies are restricting growth, but to conclude from this that "there's not enough demand" is incorrect in my opinion.

machines are beating a large (and ever increasing) proportion of human labour

Just like the cotton-spinning machinery did in the past. We could not compete with it either, and yet the result has been more productivity, hence more jobs, better wages and the ability to support a larger world population.

I think a big part of this misunderstanding comes from the idea that we are competing with the machines when we are in fact making use of them.
If the "Swedish official" you refereed to is Peter Fallenius, he was sentenced to three years in jail in a lower court and this was upheld by the supreme court (basically his appeal was rejected because he didn't turn up[1]).

[1]: http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/fallenius-far-avtjana-straff/
In my (limited) understanding of economics, all industries coalesce from numerous small players into a small number of big players.
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Because anything unexpected that is deployed to a network will (not may) eventually become a security and/or support nightmare for someone. Better to keep users to a minimum set of features necessary to do their job.

Yes, that sucks from a user perspective. But they don't have to fix the goddamn network at 3am because Al the Alcoholic in Accounting can't quit sending pix of his pickled junk to Betty in Brazil.
BigBang --> GRUB v12039.0.0-beta
Why Does Everybody Want to Be an Uber for X?
The DEATH of the Consumer Camera
This is awesome !
My Galaxy Note 7 exploded, first case in Australia
I live in Ethiopia. The import tax for a car is about 150%. So a second hand Toyota Corolla ends up costing about $35K.
"When did the messenger become more important than the message?"

About five minutes before complaining about how the message isn't important any more became more important than the message.
Your extension should have gotten pulled... you are stealing from the developers who put ads on their products. Ad blockers are evil. You as a developer should understand this
Some things are subtly broken in different (current) browsers, and Safari 9 (the most recent wide-release version) doesn't support it at all. Check out the feature compatibility table: http://iswebrtcreadyyet.com
And the amount of HTML, CSS, and JS it loads is disproportionate to the content, making me dread anytime I have to use it to read a thread. The asynchronous loading of content induces a painful delay in the workflow.
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> Never mind that their job involves typing letters into a text file, something you could have done on CP/M back in '78. Gotta have that 40" monitor, it's essential, can't work without it. To insult a new hire by providing only a single 4:3 monitor? I can't work like this.

I had a boss once that thought programmers just typed away for hours, how hard could it be? This portion is like that.

Programming, well software engineering, is much more than that. I have a half-dozen spec documents to pull in from. I have databases to look at. I have log files to parse through. I have code to read and write.

Yes, this is all primarily text. But it's not just typing.

Using a single 15" 4:3 monitor is like trying to steer a submarine with the only knowledge coming in through the periscope. But you have to turn the whole sub to rotate the periscope.

It's the extra monitors, or let me print off 5000 pages or so of text and bind them and keep them on my desk at all times. Probably more, I'm on several projects. And the bindings won't last. I need to see content on page 100 and 712 at the same time. Oh, and then I'll have to print out each revision unless they're provided with a good diff. Or don't let me do either, require me to keep way too much information in my head and let me fuck up the project.

EDIT: That said, his other points may be valid. But I've never met the people that fit his description. I've "programmers" who don't program. I've worked with them. Well, I've worked, they've hung out. But the cafe stuffs and other things, I've never seen anyone that cared. Chairs, maybe, but he had a bad back so that was a valid concern.

> Some of the best programmers I've ever worked with don't have twitter accounts. It's almost unthinkable, isn't it? How can they possibly be one of the top programmers in the world, building the most successful projects out there, without being seen to be doing it? You can write beautiful code, the best code in the world, but it doesn't mean a damn today if you didn't blog about your new standing desk.

I also find this a little ironic, reading this metaprogrammers blog deriding metaprogrammers with a "follow me on twitter" link at the bottom.
I have friends named Dolphin, Fish and Shadow and they know perfectly well that their names are funny. I'm certain that Pancake does too. Having an English name is a bit unreal for them just as it would be for you and me getting a Chinese name, so why not get a funny one?

Also, naming in another language is difficult. Microsoft knows that, as "Bing" means disease in mandarin.
Loneliness is a consequence of your beliefs. If you believe that your beliefs cannot be changed, then you certainly won't be able to change. Why you would want to stay unhappy is beyond me, though.

I can tell you from my personal experience, I was lonely in the past, I'm not lonely anymore, and if anything I've become more isolated over time. My total interaction time with other people is on the order of about 2 hours a week. I'm crazy happy, I literally love my life and am excited for every new day. The difference is in my beliefs.
A little off-topic, but I was just talking about that Twitter idea the other day with someone. He had asked if I thought Twitter would go private or sell off. I said that Twitter should look at ways to monetize their stream outside of ads. Like you, I would gladly pay a couple bucks a month to customize my feed how I want it.
As far as I can tell, this is just a rehash of the Boltzmann Brain paradox. Instead of random fluctuations in the heat death, it's intentional simulations run by our descendants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
If this universe is designed to be efficient in terms of the ratio of living matter to inert matter, I'd hate to see what the parent universe looks like. Also, the matter in the parent universe running the simulation has got to be active matter using energy somehow, so why not construct native life forms? The simulator itself is a device for maintaining information, if you want to create intelligent life, (or any other life), it's always more efficient to just create an AI than a virtual universe with an AI in it.
I have a friend like this. I've been in bands in the past and worked in (even built my own) studios. I seen and partaken the 24/96 vs. 16/48 debate (spoiler: that only matters in the studio). I've worked with high end mics, pres, dacs, boards, tape, etc.

The big thing we tangle on is always digital vs. analog. Oh boy.... Zzzzz... I've cut tape and editing on analog sucks. Noise on analog is not ideal. Compression and 'natural' bottom end warmth are nice. But that's where it stops. Most of (all of?) these things can now be simulated by plugins. We don't even have to say digital has won because it's so obvious. Analog is there for the minority purists.

This debate has between us has taken many hours over many years. Oh yah, let's not forget vinyl too!..

I've had to recently redirect the argument to musicianmanship, which I feel is really where the rubber meets the road. It all starts at the source. If your source sucks, then you'll have some work to do to fix it. Stuff like autotune, sample triggers, etc. In this way, analog is better as it will demand more of the musician's performance. Hard to swap out the kick drum on analog.

All in all, I personally don't think any non-studio experienced audiophiles would know if something was recorded digitally vs. analog. There are so many things you can do now and unless you know those studio 'tricks', you can't even tell. This has already been the case since the 90's I think. Everything can pretty much be simulated, processed, filtered, chopped, moved, etc.

One great resource for all this is Ken Andrews. Look him up. He's got a lot of great stories and insight on recording.

My advice to my friend: learn the tools and use what make sense artistically. But debate for theory's sake is pointless in my mind.
Systems blindness and how we deal with it
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>There's no evidence

It's also an unfalsifiable claim, since there is no way to prove we are or are not. As such, it's a waste of time to think about, since it doesn't matter.
Yes! Thank you, The Mozilla Foundation.
Iceland could become colder and even less habitable with increased global warming.
Yes! And the state space of the simulating universe must be at least as large as the state space of all the simulated universes in it.
Show HN: Moving your WordPress blog to HTTPS
Except that around 90% or more of the time I find myself having to open PDFs using a real native PDF reader because pdf.js is too slow, or it improperly renders the PDF, or it won't allow me to fill out forms the way I want, or some other issue like that.

So even with pdf.js present, I end up using a proprietary reader most of the time. The added hassle or reopening PDFs in a separate reader most of the time exceeds the supposed convenience of the reader being built in.
;-) Both Beau and Jessup are far more common names in England than the US (249th vs 1580th for Beau).
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Neumann is definitely the last true polymath, and in my opinion the greatest scientist of the 20th century. Coincidentally, I named my new PC at the university "vneumann" yesterday.

Don't forget Gauss - he has more contributions than any you've listed, and contributed to a vast number of fields. His 'known for' section is a separate Wikipedia page ;)
Also a good place to store cash and MiniDisc.
In general, no you can't. That's a fact and I encourage you to do some research if you don't understand why. It's for the same reason that there are strings of data which cannot be compressed by any form of data compression.
Another very interesting aircraft is the experimental Su-47, with only one ever being built. Its forward-swept wing design make it a treat for the eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-47
Contributor is only for sites that use Google's ad products. I don't think it works in Search.

Essentially, it's a way for a site's users to bid for its ad spots. If you bid more than the advertisers, you don't have to see the ads.

It's quite a clever idea really, but I don't think it has much uptake from publishers.
In terms of marketshare Firefox is in the single digits now. Regardless of what is the better browser Firefox is, relative to Chrome and IE, not that widely used.
Global warming is worsened with Biofuels (by 7%)[0] and local cancerigen pollution is only reduced (by 6.6%), not eliminated.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/20/corn-bio...
in place where such an evil thing as alcohol is legal and widely accepted, there is no good enough excuse to have psychedelics banned by state.

I am not saying everybody should do them, far from it, but people shouldn't be banned from access on their free will under threat of destroying the life by jail time - that's beyond ridiculous.
It reads like a bad soap opera! The best strategy for them would have been to just ignore it.
Sadly not. Getting support for anything that isn't Adwords from Google is hopeless.
The first and only feedback I can give you is that I can't find a link on your homepage that actually shows me what your product looks like, or even how it works. Consider adding an intro video or having a demo that doesn't require me to log in and give you my personal information.
I would recommend this [1]. That is a curated list of engineering blogs. You can find the .opml file there, so you can import it to your RSS feed.

Side note: you can also contribute to this list.

[1]: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
It's kind of a problem. I knew a Chinese girl who chose the English name "Squirrel." When I told her it wasn't a real name, she didn't quite understand.
There have been active, species targeted field trials:

http://www.oxitec.com/faqs/

So just fucking do it is gaining some traction.
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But the simulation doesn't have to be 1:1 in regard of time. They could have started the system just an hour ago. Hence blue screen of death is still a dreadful possibility.
That's magical thinking. I was referring to the total simulated state space, which does not depend on the number of dimensions or any other parameter of the simulation.
World Sex Map: A story of drinkers, genocide and unborn girls
Submitted many times, some of which have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12441608 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12440870

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12434777

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12434348 (1 comment)

Those who say they've read it say it's worth it.
> Flat is a collaborative platform for composing and editing music scores.
Agreed. At least on other corporate eco systems (Microsoft, Oracle, etc.), if you are a paying customer, you have great support.
Ask HN: How do you deploy your software in multiple countries?
Hello!

We are moving our architecture to use containers instead of simple JARs. One step of our deployment process consists in copy the artifacts from a S3 bucket in Ireland to another one located in Sao Paulo.

The problem comes when we have to move containers. They are huge compared to the simple JARs.

We have two options
- Build the containers in both environments so we only have to transfer the JAR
- Transfer the full container $$$

We are going to have a base container which is going to be updated almost daily so we have to transfer the entire container, not just the differences.

We are trying to avoid building the container more than once in the different environments but if we build it just in one environment we will hace to transfer a ton of data. We are expecting about 6-10 GB per deployment.

How do you deploy your systems in multiple countries? Distributed "replicated" builds? Move all the data arround?

Thanks in advance!
I had to look that up :)

http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
If only the full 'background' was mentioned:

http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/li...
I love that the Japanese sent it back to Russia with a bill for shipping and the damage to the airfield.
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It did make me do a double-take the first time I found out that Chthonic's blood-soaked bassist was called Doris. Taiwanese band, not Chinese, but this particular cultural quirk does seem to carry over. There's a Freddy, Zac and of course Doris herself just in Chthonic.
It doesn't get as many views as a rant about how entitled we are.
Back when OpenDNS started doing it, most browsers couldn't do it.

Hacking NXDOMAIN was a workaround that also happened to pay their bills. It was never a particularly good decision, but we need to evaluate it from the point of view of what was or wasn't feasible 10 years ago.